Episode 9: From GFS to Gaza Strip, the Struggle for Land
Release Date: 05/22/2021
Episode 16: Investigating the Murders of Ahmed Badal & Jaden Blackmon Part 3
People Power Podcast
This is the last installment in my series about the murders of Ahmed Badal & Jaden Black mon that took place in South Minneapolis on April 12, 2021, just hours after Kim Potter murdered Daunte Wright, and just blocks from the 3rd precinct police station that was burned after Derek Chauvin murdered George Floyd. In this episode I share some statements from neighbors, including a phone interview I recorded April 23, 2021, more than a week after the double murders. Check out Part 2 here: Audio engineering by: Isaac Specktor Copy Right Free Music by: [No Copyright Sound] Sad [Hip Hop,...
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Episode 15: Seward Market Murders Revisited Featuring Michelle Gross
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Interview with Michelle Gross, President of Communities United Against Police Brutality, who discusses why she believes teenage convicted killer Mahdi Ali is innocent. On Jan 6, 2010, three people were murdered in cold blood during a robbery at the Seward Market. Mahdi Ali and Ahmed Ali were convicted. Mahdi was given 90 years for being the trigger man. Ahmed was released last summer. Mahdi has always maintained his innocence and Ahmed, who once accused Mahdi, is now saying he's innocent. What has never been disclosed in the case is Target's deep financial ties to the cops and the prosecution....
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Episode 14: Interview with Suzanne Medes, White Lady Who Exploited George Floyd
People Power Podcast
In the summer of 2022 I interviewed Suzanne Medes after she got famously dragged on Twitter for exploiting George Floyd's namesake and profiting without the family's consent. Episode #14 of the People Power Podcast is my unedited Q&A with Suzanne Medes. Music by Isaac Specktor. Story about Suzanne Medes published by Unicorn Riot
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Episode 13: Investigating the Murders of Ahmed Badal & Jaden Blackmon (part 2)
People Power Podcast
This episode features an old interview from May 2021 with Gaari Abdi, the widow of Ahmed Badal. She said after Ahmed was killed she was visited by suspicious group of young Somali men. One of them was injured from getting shot in the leg the night Ahmed was murdered. New charges have been filed in connection with the murder of Ahmed Badal and Jaden Blackmon from April 12, 2021. However, many of the new details are contradicted by our investigation, and one of the unidentified victims who is being protected by police and prosecutors, has been implicated in murder. Star Tribune article about new...
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Episode 12: Investigating the Murders of Ahmed Badal & Jaden Blackmon (part 1)
People Power Podcast
Investigation into the unsolved Minneapolis murders of Ahmed Badal & Jaden Blackmon, which happened just blocks from the 3rd precinct police station a few hours after Daunte Wright was murdered by Brooklyn Center police, implicate police involvement and a cover up. Read the story here: https://spokesman-recorder.com/2021/06/04/unsolved-shooting-deaths-leave-family-and-friends-distraught/ Sound engineering by Isaac Specktor Music: Alone by Geoxor https://soundcloud.com/geoxor_official Creative Commons — Attribution 3.0 Unported— CC BY 3.0 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/b......
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Episode 11: Public-Private Propaganda (New Season)
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Brand new season begins with an excerpt of my new mini documentary, Unscathed: How the Press Helps Hide Target's Harm (published by Unicorn Riot), examining the role of the mainstream media in denying the voices of Black youths and adults in Minneapolis. The press serves as an intermediary between the multinational retail giant Target Corp., who funds draconian policing and prosecution, and local government. Experts say this trifecta effectively hides the true nature of the downtown business community’s profit-driven agenda which is to weaponize surveillance technologies and police to get...
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Episode 10: The Tulsa Race Massacre 100 Years Later (BONUS)
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This story was originally published by Unicorn Riot Deep research into the Tulsa Race Massacre of 1921 unearthed astonishing evidence demonstrating that the public/private sectors conspired to ethnically cleanse the Black Greenwood community in Tulsa, OK, not because they were criminal but because they were prosperous. The story of Tulsa is a very American story. Lessons can be learned from 1921 to help us understand massacres of today. Cover art by Dan Feidt of Unicorn Riot.
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Episode 9: From GFS to Gaza Strip, the Struggle for Land
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The struggle in Minneapolis is much bigger than police brutality, it's one of land. Human rights violations against Black, brown and Native people have been carried out by Jacob Frey and the ruling class to control the land beneath their feet. In episode 9, we bring you a speech by Rep. Rashida Tlaib and ask you to make connections from Minneapolis to Palestine. And we are back with the People's Updates. Watch episode 9 on Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TqkvQgPMYlo Fundraiser for the family of Ahmed Badal: Sources: ...
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Episode 8: Tom Lyden, Increased Policing and Gentrification
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Episode 8 is a special podcast dedicated to Tom Lyden from Fox 9 news. I ran into Tom Lyden at GFS minutes after the guilty verdict was announced in the Chauvin murder trial. Check out my full exchange with Tom Lyden along with my recent conversation with DFL Minneapolis president Devin Hogan who reflected on a Lyndale Neighborhood community meeting where Lyden disrupted discussion on over-policing with his white male supremacist worldview. The struggle in the community where George Floyd was lynched is much bigger than police brutality. It is about the sophisticated system of violence...
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Episode 7: Minnesota's Operation Safety Net Examined
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With footage from independent local media and a recent interview with Niko Georgiades from Unicorn Riot, the People Power Podcast gives a critical examination of Operation Safety Net, and Niko asked the question: "Who are you keeping safe?" The key to OSN's success is fusion of services, sanctioned brutality, blurred leadership and zero accountability for officers to carryout their "duties". Sounds all too familiar. Support the family of Ahmed Badal: Watch episode 7 on Youtube: Sources:
info_outlineThe struggle in Minneapolis is much bigger than police brutality, it's one of land. Human rights violations against Black, brown and Native people have been carried out by Jacob Frey and the ruling class to control the land beneath their feet.
In episode 9, we bring you a speech by Rep. Rashida Tlaib and ask you to make connections from Minneapolis to Palestine. And we are back with the People's Updates.
Watch episode 9 on Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TqkvQgPMYlo
Fundraiser for the family of Ahmed Badal:
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https://www.democracynow.org/2021/5/14/rashida_tlaib_israel_palestine_gaza_war
https://unicornriot.ninja/21st-century-jim-crow-a-series/
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/opinion-hill-palestine-israel-myths_n_5afc8e8fe4b0a59b4e001d8e
https://spokesman-recorder.com/2020/08/12/cup-foods-good-neighbor-or-bad/
https://spokesman-recorder.com/2021/05/07/what-the-chauvin-murder-trial-revealed-about-the-u-s-justice-system/