Journalism For Liberation and Combat

Host:   Jared A. Ball is a Professor of Communications and Africana Studies at Morgan State University in Baltimore, Maryland and author of The Myth and Propaganda of Black Buying Power (Palgrave, 2020). Ball is also host of the podcast "iMiXWHATiLiKE!", co-founder of Black Power Media , and his decades of journalism, media, writing, and political work can be found at imixwhatilike.org .  Description:   In this session, Dr. Ball will cover a summary of internal colonialism theory as context for emancipatory journalism. He will define and exemplify emancipatory journalism, and he will discuss the rise and current state of the media/journalism environment in the so-called US.

Hosts: Brooke Terpstra , member of 2018 National Prison Strike Media Team, currently organizes with Oakland Abolition and Solidarity - an autonomous crew dedicated to prisoner solidarity. Jared Ware is a co-host and producer of Millennials Are Killing Capitalism. He was a co-founder and former producer of the Beyond Prisons podcast. He was a member of the 2018 National Prison Strike and has written multiple articles on prisoner movements, repression and organizing. Description:   We'll be taking a look at the big picture, placing the practice of liberatory journalism within the larger framework of culture and movement building. While "hegemony" or "counter hegemony" can come off as stale academic terms, this realm is absolutely foundational to the fight before us. Nearly every revolutionary tendency or tradition touches upon it as part of "nation building", "counter hegemony", "autonomy", etc. In the first half we will be teasing o...

Host:  Too Black is a poet, member of Black Alliance For Peace, producer of The Last Dope Intellectual Podcast, and host of The Black Myths Podcast on Black Power Media. He is based in Indianapolis, IN and can be reached at tooblack8808 at gmail.com or @too_black_ on Twitter. Description :  On September 26th, 1968, Black Panther and Detroit-based Dodge Revolutionary Union Movement (DRUM) member, John Watson, took over as Editor-in-chief for The South End newspaper at Wayne State University. According to Watson, he took over “ with the intention of promoting the interests of impoverished, oppressed, exploited, and powerless victims of white, racist monopoly capitalism and imperialism.” Watson’s organization, DRUM, as well as FRUM (Ford Revolutionary Union Movement) and ELRUM (Eldon Avenue Revolutionary Union Movement), went on to form the League of Revolutionary Black Workers.  In this session, we will study the origins of this Black workers movement in relationship to th...

Host: Jared Ware is a co-host and producer of Millennials Are Killing Capitalism. He was a co-founder and former producer of the Beyond Prisons podcast. He was a member of the 2018 National Prison Strike and has written multiple articles on prisoner movements, repression and organizing. Description :  This panel will be a culminating discussion with journalists who form the bridge between social movements and media. Our panelists range on a spectrum from organizers who have created their own media platforms to uplift social movements and accessible revolutionary theory, to journalists who have navigated corporate, indy, and alt-weekly papers with an eye toward covering social movements or forces of repression. They have each encountered contradictions which necessitate liberatory approaches and done principled work to chart their own paths. We will draw on their experiences for insight on how to navigate typically inhospitable media spaces and still build towards revolutionary cult...

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