Season 1 Episode 1 - Radical Introductions

s1e5: Tactics for Worker Solidarity with Loren Branch

“To me, the Beloved Community is a realistic vision of an achievable society, one in which problems and conflict exist, but are resolved peacefully and without bitterness.” -Coretta Scott King In this episode of Radicals for Good, we discuss different tactics, like boycotting and strikes, we can use to build solidarity in the working class with Loren Branch (Nyerere Omowale), an organizer with the Party for Socialism and Liberation (PSL), writer, street drummer and popular political educator. Loren Branch (aka Nyerere Omawale) is a New Afrikan Revolutionary Socialist from the westside of Detroit, Joy Road to be exact. From Chicago to Detroit, Loren has been building independent working class power across liberation struggles including Black liberation, Palestine Solidarity movement, queer liberation, immigrant rights, police murder, anti-war, and more. Rooted in Marxism, the Black Radical tradition, and Pan-Africanism—Loren is a product of UAW Local 600 and the Republic of New Afrika. His ultimate life goals are to become a father and to build the world dignity and self-determination we need and deserve. To play a role in advancing the unfinished revolution of his ancestors and elders—ending capitalism and building a new socialist system run for and by The People. To see Detroit and the global working class liberated in our lifetime. Sources https://geezmagazine.org/magazine/article/waawiyatanong-land-acknowledgement [https://geezmagazine.org/magazine/article/waawiyatanong-land-acknowledgement] Socialist Reconstruction: A Better Future: https://1804books.com/products/socialist-reconstruction-a-better-future [https://1804books.com/products/socialist-reconstruction-a-better-future] Black Reconstruction in America, 1860-1880: https://1804books.com/products/black-reconstruction-in-america-1860-1880 [https://1804books.com/products/black-reconstruction-in-america-1860-1880] Assata: https://www.commabookstore.com/shop/p/assata-an-autobiography [https://www.commabookstore.com/shop/p/assata-an-autobiography] Motown and the Making of Working-Class Revolutionaries: The Story of the League of Revolutionary Black Workers: https://www.ugapress.org/9780820374307/motown-and-the-making-of-working-class-revolutionaries [https://www.ugapress.org/9780820374307/motown-and-the-making-of-working-class-revolutionaries] The Civil Rights Revolution & Montgomery Bus Boycott: https://liberationschool.org/civil-rights-and-the-u-s-revolution/ [https://liberationschool.org/civil-rights-and-the-u-s-revolution/] Debunking the myth that “we’re not ready” for a general strike in the U.S.: https://liberationnews.org/debunking-the-myth-that-were-not-ready-for-a-general-strike-in-the-u-s/ [https://liberationnews.org/debunking-the-myth-that-were-not-ready-for-a-general-strike-in-the-u-s/] Alkebu-lan Village & Inner City Sub Center: https://liberationnews.org/dc-to-detroit-30-years-later-million-man-march-black-liberation/ [https://liberationnews.org/dc-to-detroit-30-years-later-million-man-march-black-liberation/] The Republic of New Afrika: https://storymaps.arcgis.com/stories/521c580a15244ad0bee5e33f121c2bff [https://storymaps.arcgis.com/stories/521c580a15244ad0bee5e33f121c2bff] Peaches Anderson (my grandmother): https://www.congress.gov/114/crec/2016/06/09/162/91/CREC-2016-06-09-pt1-PgE867.pdf [https://www.congress.gov/114/crec/2016/06/09/162/91/CREC-2016-06-09-pt1-PgE867.pdf] Learn more about PSL and get involved in the socialist movement: https://www2.pslweb.org/action [https://www2.pslweb.org/action] PSL Detroit: https://www.instagram.com/psldetroit [https://www.instagram.com/psldetroit] https://liberationnews.org/07-11-20-revolutionary-optimism-socialist-html/?utm_source=ig&utm_medium=social&utm_content=link_in_bio&fbclid=PAZXh0bgNhZW0CMTEAc3J0YwZhcHBfaWQMMjU2MjgxMDQwNTU4AAGn-xR0Yw1QZiLgUtZJiAghqwsCjPObvdLxZMWzgAZBQoG1fTgdmf_SJcL_qe0_aem_EaFPq1Uqvl0IhHdwIw9A8g [https://liberationnews.org/07-11-20-revolutionary-optimism-socialist-html/?utm_source=ig&utm_medium=social&utm_content=link_in_bio&fbclid=PAZXh0bgNhZW0CMTEAc3J0YwZhcHBfaWQMMjU2MjgxMDQwNTU4AAGn-xR0Yw1QZiLgUtZJiAghqwsCjPObvdLxZMWzgAZBQoG1fTgdmf_SJcL_qe0_aem_EaFPq1Uqvl0IhHdwIw9A8g] https://radicalreads.com/black-panthers-favorite-books/ [https://radicalreads.com/black-panthers-favorite-books/] Photo by Claudio Schwarz [https://unsplash.com/@purzlbaum?utm_source=unsplash&utm_medium=referral&utm_content=creditCopyText] on Unsplash [https://unsplash.com/photos/gray-and-red-i-m-a-little-man-print-textile-gWTRInY5AAc?utm_source=unsplash&utm_medium=referral&utm_content=creditCopyText] Get full access to Radicals for Good at radicalspod.substack.com/subscribe [https://radicalspod.substack.com/subscribe?utm_medium=podcast&utm_campaign=CTA_4]

s1e4: Technology in Movements with Tawana Petty

“It’s not our fault but it is our fight.” -Monica Lewis Patrick In this episode of Radicals for Good, we discuss utilizing technology in movement spaces and what digital justice could look like in Detroit with Tawana Petty, a mother, digital justice organizer, poet, and author. Tawana Petty, also known by her poetry stage name Honeycomb, is a mother, social justice organizer, poet, author, facilitator and keynote lecturer. Her work focuses on racial justice, equity, privacy, and consent. She is the founding Executive Director of Petty Propolis, Inc. [https://pettypropolis.org], an artist incubator, which leverages poetry, policy literacy and advocacy, anti-racism facilitation, political education and community-centered initiatives in pursuit of data and digital justice and racial and environmental justice. In 2024, Petty was named on Business Insider’s AI Power List for Policy and Ethics [https://www.businessinsider.com/tawana-petty-algorithmic-justice-league-ai-power-list-2024]. Sources: https://geezmagazine.org/magazine/article/waawiyatanong-land-acknowledgement [https://geezmagazine.org/magazine/article/waawiyatanong-land-acknowledgement] https://unsplash.com/photos/text-zO7VVw7Hxik https://www.bridgedetroit.com/detroiters-get-oversight-of-surveillance-technology-but-is-it-enough/ [https://www.bridgedetroit.com/detroiters-get-oversight-of-surveillance-technology-but-is-it-enough/] https://www.bridgedetroit.com/michigan-central-is-collecting-a-lot-of-data-can-we-trust-it/ [https://www.bridgedetroit.com/michigan-central-is-collecting-a-lot-of-data-can-we-trust-it/] https://open.substack.com/pub/tawanapetty/p/defending-detroit?r=7g7rur&utm_medium=ios [https://open.substack.com/pub/tawanapetty/p/defending-detroit?r=7g7rur&utm_medium=ios] https://tawanapetty.org/selected-media/f/defending-black-lives-means-banning-facial-recognition [https://tawanapetty.org/selected-media/f/defending-black-lives-means-banning-facial-recognition] https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2023/07/11/tsa-airport-security-facial-recognition/ [https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2023/07/11/tsa-airport-security-facial-recognition/] https://stoplapdspying.org/ [https://stoplapdspying.org/] https://voicesfromthegrassroots.org/lewis-patrick-monica/ [https://voicesfromthegrassroots.org/lewis-patrick-monica/] https://www.detroitk12.org/about-dpscd/initiatives/one-to-one-student-technology-iniiative [https://www.detroitk12.org/about-dpscd/initiatives/one-to-one-student-technology-iniiative] https://www.wxyz.com/news/coronavirus/detroit-police-to-enforce-ticket-people-not-following-stay-at-home-order [https://www.wxyz.com/news/coronavirus/detroit-police-to-enforce-ticket-people-not-following-stay-at-home-order] https://www.census.gov/quickfacts/fact/table/detroitcitymichigan/PST045224 [https://www.census.gov/quickfacts/fact/table/detroitcitymichigan/PST045224] https://storymaps.arcgis.com/stories/14dd97b35cbb4a4298786c75855f8080 [https://storymaps.arcgis.com/stories/14dd97b35cbb4a4298786c75855f8080] https://www.clickondetroit.com/news/local/2024/08/28/detroit-police-department-celebrates-1k-project-green-light-partners/ [https://www.clickondetroit.com/news/local/2024/08/28/detroit-police-department-celebrates-1k-project-green-light-partners/] https://www.weforum.org/stories/2021/09/detroit-bridges-internet-access-digital-divide/ [https://www.weforum.org/stories/2021/09/detroit-bridges-internet-access-digital-divide/] https://connectyourcommunity.org/cleveland-and-detroit-lead-worst-connected-large-cities-of-2023/ [https://connectyourcommunity.org/cleveland-and-detroit-lead-worst-connected-large-cities-of-2023/] https://www.clickondetroit.com/news/local/2025/10/07/grim-reality-more-than-half-of-detroit-children-are-now-living-in-poverty-census-bureau-data-shows/ [https://www.clickondetroit.com/news/local/2025/10/07/grim-reality-more-than-half-of-detroit-children-are-now-living-in-poverty-census-bureau-data-shows/] https://poverty.umich.edu/projects/detroit-partnership-on-economic-mobility/ [https://poverty.umich.edu/projects/detroit-partnership-on-economic-mobility/] https://www.epa.gov/mo/town-flood-and-superfund-looking-back-times-beach-disaster-nearly-40-years-later [https://www.epa.gov/mo/town-flood-and-superfund-looking-back-times-beach-disaster-nearly-40-years-later] AI and Assembly: Coming Together and Apart in a Datafied World by Toussaint Nothias and Lucy Bernholz Resisting Borders and Technologies of Violence by Mizue Aizeki, Matt Mahmoudi, and Colin Schupfer Get full access to Radicals for Good at radicalspod.substack.com/subscribe [https://radicalspod.substack.com/subscribe?utm_medium=podcast&utm_campaign=CTA_4]

s1e3: Raising Revolutionaries with Alia Harvey-Quinn

Please donate to Alia's founding nonprofit, FORCE Detroit [https://givebutter.com/ForceForward]! Sources: https://geezmagazine.org/magazine/article/waawiyatanong-land-acknowledgement [https://geezmagazine.org/magazine/article/waawiyatanong-land-acknowledgement]  https://www.nokidhungry.org/blog/100-years-black-history-origins-anti-hunger-movement [https://www.nokidhungry.org/blog/100-years-black-history-origins-anti-hunger-movement]  https://www.freep.com/picture-gallery/news/local/michigan/2025/07/24/violence-intervention-leaders-gather-in-lansing-to-advocate-for-funding/85327767007/ [https://www.freep.com/picture-gallery/news/local/michigan/2025/07/24/violence-intervention-leaders-gather-in-lansing-to-advocate-for-funding/85327767007/] https://detroitmi.gov/news/mayor-sheffield-launches-mayors-office-neighborhood-and-community-safety-strengthen-violence [https://detroitmi.gov/news/mayor-sheffield-launches-mayors-office-neighborhood-and-community-safety-strengthen-violence] https://www.history.com/articles/free-school-breakfast-black-panther-party [https://www.history.com/articles/free-school-breakfast-black-panther-party] https://www.nokidhungry.org/blog/black-history-month-celebrating-origins-free-breakfast-and-food-justice-movement [https://www.nokidhungry.org/blog/black-history-month-celebrating-origins-free-breakfast-and-food-justice-movement] https://www.blkhlth.com/resources/racial-gaps-in-colorectal-cancer-tnt2y-9pegt [https://www.blkhlth.com/resources/racial-gaps-in-colorectal-cancer-tnt2y-9pegt] https://nmaahc.si.edu/explore/stories/black-panther-party-challenging-police-and-promoting-social-change [https://nmaahc.si.edu/explore/stories/black-panther-party-challenging-police-and-promoting-social-change]   The Next American Revolution by Grace Lee Boggs Living Resistance: An Indigenous Vision for Seeking Wholeness Every Day by Kaitlin B. Curtice Get full access to Radicals for Good at radicalspod.substack.com/subscribe [https://radicalspod.substack.com/subscribe?utm_medium=podcast&utm_campaign=CTA_4]

s1e2: Generational Resistance

Please donate to Namira's neighborhood nonprofit, Dream of Detroit! https://dreamofdetroit.org/donate/ [https://dreamofdetroit.org/donate/] Sources: https://geezmagazine.org/magazine/article/waawiyatanong-land-acknowledgement [https://geezmagazine.org/magazine/article/waawiyatanong-land-acknowledgement]  https://medium.com/@niawrites/16-questions-i-wish-i-had-asked-my-immigrant-father-214570fe1e44 [https://medium.com/@niawrites/16-questions-i-wish-i-had-asked-my-immigrant-father-214570fe1e44] (please email hey@radicalsforgood.com [hey@radicalsforgood.com] for a friend link)   https://planetdetroit.org/2021/10/its-all-waawiyaatanong/ [https://planetdetroit.org/2021/10/its-all-waawiyaatanong/]  https://pixabay.com/photos/skyline-river-water-detroit-8061846/ [https://pixabay.com/photos/skyline-river-water-detroit-8061846/]  https://medium.com/dsa-detroit-newspaper/waawiyatanong-resists-43f4d7806c1c [https://medium.com/dsa-detroit-newspaper/waawiyatanong-resists-43f4d7806c1c] https://www.aljazeera.com/opinions/2018/12/19/how-britain-stole-45-trillion-from-india [https://www.aljazeera.com/opinions/2018/12/19/how-britain-stole-45-trillion-from-india] https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC8814474/ [https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC8814474/] https://planetdetroit.org/2021/01/detroits-battle-with-climate-change-flooding-asthma-and-infrastructure/ [https://planetdetroit.org/2021/01/detroits-battle-with-climate-change-flooding-asthma-and-infrastructure/] https://www.mindful.org/a-6-minute-loving-kindness-meditation-to-expand-your-awareness/ [https://www.mindful.org/a-6-minute-loving-kindness-meditation-to-expand-your-awareness/] https://www.nqa.org/what-is-qigong [https://www.nqa.org/what-is-qigong] https://www.monarchwatch.org/waystations/ [https://www.monarchwatch.org/waystations/]  https://www.pbs.org/newshour/show/scientists-use-new-technology-to-track-individual-monarch-butterfly-migrations [https://www.pbs.org/newshour/show/scientists-use-new-technology-to-track-individual-monarch-butterfly-migrations]  Video by SimplyArt4794: https://www.pexels.com/video/close-up-video-of-butterflies-7787029/ [https://www.pexels.com/video/close-up-video-of-butterflies-7787029/] https://www.ictinc.ca/blog/seventh-generation-principle [https://www.ictinc.ca/blog/seventh-generation-principle]  https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/articles/zx8sf82#zcyq2v4 [https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/articles/zx8sf82#zcyq2v4] Becoming Good Ancestors by David Ehrenfeld We Do This Until We Free Us by Mariame Kaba Love and Rage by Lama Rod Owens The Autobiography of Malcolm X by Alex Haley Get full access to Radicals for Good at radicalspod.substack.com/subscribe [https://radicalspod.substack.com/subscribe?utm_medium=podcast&utm_campaign=CTA_4]

Season 1 Episode 1 - Radical Introductions

On our very first episode of Radicals for Good, we give a radical introduction to our podcast and host. We discuss the history and current moment of Detroit and why we believe hosting this podcast in the most radical city in the United States is timely and necessary. And why we believe it’s important to share this podcast in this moment ‘on the clock of the world’. Sources: https://unsplash.com/photos/a-statue-of-a-fist-is-suspended-by-a-crane-xs1W9DoYEVs [https://unsplash.com/photos/a-statue-of-a-fist-is-suspended-by-a-crane-xs1W9DoYEVs] https://geezmagazine.org/magazine/article/waawiyatanong-land-acknowledgement [https://geezmagazine.org/magazine/article/waawiyatanong-land-acknowledgement] https://againstthecurrent.org/atc168/p4071/ [https://againstthecurrent.org/atc168/p4071/] https://www.detroithistorical.org/learn/online-research/encyclopedia-of-detroit/parks-rosa [https://www.detroithistorical.org/learn/online-research/encyclopedia-of-detroit/parks-rosa] https://the-spark.net/o_ford1941.html?utm_source=chatgpt.com [https://the-spark.net/o_ford1941.html?utm_source=chatgpt.com] https://www.detroithistorical.org/learn/online-research/encyclopedia-of-detroit/race-riot-1943 [https://www.detroithistorical.org/learn/online-research/encyclopedia-of-detroit/race-riot-1943] https://urbanhistory.willmackintosh.org/project/madelines-project/ [https://urbanhistory.willmackintosh.org/project/madelines-project/] https://time.com/4879062/detroit-1967-real-history/ [https://time.com/4879062/detroit-1967-real-history/] https://naacp.org/find-resources/history-explained/1963-march-washington [https://naacp.org/find-resources/history-explained/1963-march-washington] https://conversationsthatyouwillneverfinish.wordpress.com/2014/09/06/what-time-is-it-on-the-clock-of-the-world-by-grace-lee-boggs/ [https://conversationsthatyouwillneverfinish.wordpress.com/2014/09/06/what-time-is-it-on-the-clock-of-the-world-by-grace-lee-boggs/] Freedom is a constant Struggle by Angela Davis https://www.detroithistorical.org/learn/online-research/blog/remembering-mlks-influence-detroit [https://www.detroithistorical.org/learn/online-research/blog/remembering-mlks-influence-detroit] https://www.thehenryford.org/collections-and-research/digital-collections/artifact/362782#slide=gs-200036 [https://www.thehenryford.org/collections-and-research/digital-collections/artifact/362782#slide=gs-200036] https://unsplash.com/photos/dr-martin-luther-king-jr-and-mathew-ahmann-in-a-crowd-of-demonstrators-at-the-march-on-washington-bTF3gkd2L28 [https://unsplash.com/photos/dr-martin-luther-king-jr-and-mathew-ahmann-in-a-crowd-of-demonstrators-at-the-march-on-washington-bTF3gkd2L28] Get full access to Radicals for Good at radicalspod.substack.com/subscribe [https://radicalspod.substack.com/subscribe?utm_medium=podcast&utm_campaign=CTA_4]