Rebuilding the City From the Bottom Up (Part II)
Black Autonomy Podcast
Listen to Lorenzo Kom'boa Ervin and JoNina Abron-Ervin speak with the Southern California Institute of Architecture (SCI-Arc), one of the nation's few independent architecture schools. They discuss urbanism, architecture, and planning in a rare speculative treat. In part two of this two-part episode, JoNina talks about the significance of urban rebellions, the Kerner Commission, spatial deconcentration, and the killing of Yulanda Ward. This event took place in front of the Mobile Architecture Platform Apparatus (MAPA), a bicycle-powered mobile archive of scanned building parts for...
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Rebuilding the City From the Bottom Up (Part I)
Black Autonomy Podcast
Listen to Lorenzo Kom'boa Ervin and JoNina Abron-Ervin speak with the Southern California Institute of Architecture (SCI-Arc), one of the nation's few independent architecture schools. They discuss urbanism, architecture, and planning in a rare speculative treat. In part one of this two-part episode about rebuilding the city, Lorenzo recounts some of his educational history with urbanism, city planning, and local struggles organizing with the Black Autonomy Federation in Atlanta. This event took place in front of the Mobile Architecture Platform Apparatus (MAPA), a bicycle-powered mobile...
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Students, Fight for Your Right To Protest!
Black Autonomy Podcast
On this episode, Lorenzo and JoNina reflect on the student protests in response to the ongoing genocide in Gaza. As veterans of many struggles prior, including the student and anti-war protests of the 1960s, they offer invaluable perspectives. Listen in as these movement elders discuss the history of the student movement, police brutality, counterviolence, and the limits of "rights."
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Live From Detroit: Black Anarchist Legacies Part 2
Black Autonomy Podcast
This episode was recorded live from the Institute for Social Ecology's 2023 Summer Intensive Course in Detroit. Lorenzo Kom'boa Ervin, JoNina Abron-Ervin, and Modibo Kadalie reflect on their personal histories in the Black Power movement, and how their experiences in hierarchical revolutionary organizations - such as the Black Panther Party and the League of Revolutionary Black Workers - led them to anarchist/anti-authoritarian politics. Facilitated by William C. Anderson. Discuss this episode with your friends and family and, as always, .
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Live From Detroit: Black Anarchist Legacies Part I
Black Autonomy Podcast
This episode was recorded live from the Institute for Social Ecology's 2023 Summer Intensive Course in Detroit. Lorenzo Kom'boa Ervin, JoNina Abron-Ervin, and Modibo Kadalie reflect on their personal histories in the Black Power movement, and how their experiences in hierarchical revolutionary organizations - such as the Black Panther Party and the League of Revolutionary Black Workers - led them to anarchist/anti-authoritarian politics. Facilitated by William C. Anderson. Discuss this episode with your friends and family and, as always, .
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Rent Is Theft! Housing Is Our Right!
Black Autonomy Podcast
In this episode Lorenzo and JoNina discuss how US capitalism oppresses us through the housing crisis. They reflect on what's rent and housing mean in the context on the broader society and reflect on past defense tactics. Discuss this episode with your friends and family and, as always, .
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Prison Abolition and Struggle Against Mass Imprisonment.
Black Autonomy Podcast
This episode is about the Black anarchist struggle against prisons and state slavery. Lorenzo and JoNina discuss the relevance of overturning the entirety of the state apparatus in the struggle for prison abolition rather than stopping at mere reforms.
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Love and Struggle
Black Autonomy Podcast
This special Valentine's Day episode is about Lorenzo and JoNina's relationship. Listen as they recount the story of their encounter and discuss how they relate to one another as partners, thinkers, and coconspirators. This episode covers topics like gender roles, dating, and conflict resolution.
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JoNina Speaks!
Black Autonomy Podcast
This episode covers the life of co-host JoNina Ervin. As an author and veteran activist, JoNina Ervin offers important insights from her life in an interview with Lorenzo Kom'boa Ervin. She was a member of the Black Panther Party for nearly a decade and was the last editor of the Black Panther newspaper. She was also a news correspondent at the 2001 U.N. World Conference Against Racism and was once the managing editor of Black Scholar magazine.
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Black Anarchism Across the Generations
Black Autonomy Podcast
This episode of Black Autonomy Podcast is brought to you in collaboration with the Pluto Press podcast 'Radicals in Conversation,' in which JoNina Ervin hosts a discussion between Lorenzo Kom’boa Ervin and William C. Anderson about Black anarchism across the generations.
info_outlineIn this episode Lorenzo and JoNina discuss how US capitalism oppresses us through the housing crisis. They reflect on what's rent and housing mean in the context on the broader society and reflect on past defense tactics. Discuss this episode with your friends and family and, as always, support Black Autonomy on Patreon.