Unruly Subjects
Unruly Subjects is Chenjerai Kumanyika’s podcast where he goes off script to make space to think through the week’s politics, culture, and struggles together with family, friends, and interesting people. The show is created in partnership with Rowhome Productions. Support Unruly Subjects at Patreon.com/UnrulySubjects
Unruly Subjects
Giving organizers of color power in electoral politics with Maya Meredith
This week - on the heels of Zohran Mamdani’s historic victory in NYC’s mayoral election - we’re featuring an interview with Maya Meredith, a Brooklyn-based leader in the New York City chapter of the Democratic Socialists of America’s Afrosocialists and Socialists of Color Caucus. Maya lets us know about some of DSA’s upcoming campaigns, talks about canvassing and organizing Black voters, and discusses fighting to create a more multiracial coalition within DSA.
Also in this episode: Chenjerai talks with Daniel Coates about resisting ICE with Hands Off NYC, and Brooklyn-based artist Lauren Kaelin - a longtime former ice cream worker - gives advice on how to transport ice cream cones around the city, and more…
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Further reading & sources from this episode
Maya was one of the authors of Will Zohran Mamdani Win Over Black New Yorkers?” in issue #8 of Hammer and Hope.
How the Black Panther’s free Breakfast Program both inspired and threatened the Government
https://www.history.com/articles/free-school-breakfast-black-panther-party
DSA Afrosocialist and Socialist of Color Caucus
https://www.dsausa.org/working-groups/afrosocialists-and-socialists-of-color-caucus/
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Unruly Subjects is created in partnership with Rowhome Productions
