Lorenzo Kom'boa Ervin

Excerpt from 11-24-25 - In this excerpt, DJ Broken Record interviews founding Black Anarchists JoNina Abron-Ervin and Lorenzo Kom'boa Ervin. Check out the Black Autonomy Podcast!

Full Episode 11-24-25 - In this episode, Eric joins us to discuss the release of his book. Then we interview founding Black Anarchists JoNina Abron-Ervin and Lorenzo Kom'boa Ervin. Check out the Black Autonomy Podcast!

Lorenzo Kom'boa Ervin is an American writer, activist and black anarchist. He is a former member of SNCC, the Black Panther Party and Concerned Citizens for Justice. Following an attempt to frame him on weapons charges and for threatening the life of a Ku Klux Klan leader, Ervin hijacked a plane to Cuba in February 1969. While in Cuba, and later Czechoslovakia, Ervin grew disillusioned with the authoritarianism of state socialism. Captured by the CIA in Eastern Europe, he was extradited to the US, put on trial and sentenced to life in prison in 1970. He was introduced to anarchism whilst in prison, inspiring him to write Anarchism and the Black Revolution in 1979. Released after 15 years, Ervin remains politically active. Lorenzo Kom'boa Ervin Sophie Bass

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 archive of scanned building parts for co-envisioning new worlds out of dismantled old ones, part of the “Views of Planet City” exhibition at the SCI-Arc Gallery (September 13, 2024 – February 14, 2025). You can watch the full video on Youtube with an introduction by John Cooper. Additionally, thanks to Theo Parrish for letting us use his track "Serengeti Echoes" in the show.

Lorenzo, Kom'boa Ervin, author of the seminal work Anarchism and The Black Revolution (purchase link below), community organizer and activist and Black anarchist joins the Forum to share several life-changing events that inspired him to learn about anarchism and create a template to establish Black anarchist communities. Ervin details the failures of statism which include electoral politics and police reform especially, and promotes ideas that can lead to a stateless, non-authoritarian, community-based society. The topics covered are limitless in this in-depth interview. Please subscribe for FREE to Kiko's Freethinker's Forum on this official YouTube channel and your podcast platform of choice! Ervin's book can be published here: https://www.plutobooks.com/9780745345819/anarchism-and-the-black-revolution/ #anarchism #state #community #revolution #blackanarchism #police --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/jerry-scruggs/support

This week on TFSR, we'll be airing a presentation by Diane Stevens, a member of the Jane Collective in Chicago in the 1960's. This presentation was recorded at the 2023 Another Carolina Anarchist Bookfair in so-called Asheville, NC. Transcript PDF (Unimposed) Zine (Imposed PDF) From the presentation description: The Abortion Counseling Service, now better known as Jane, started out as a referral service in Chicago in the late 1960s, providing counseling and support to women before and after their procedures. Members of the group learned to do the abortions and then were able to do the procedures for whatever the women could afford to pay. Seven women were arrested and charged with the felonies of abortion and conspiracy to commit abortion. These charges were ultimately dismissed. It is estimated that about 11 thousand abortions were preformed before the group disbanded in 1973. Diane Stevens was born in Chicago. She went to school in the suburbs before moving back into the city where she joined the Abortion Counseling Service. Following the Roe v Wade decision and dismissal of all the criminal charges, Diane went on to have a career in health care and worked as a nurse practitioner in a variety of settings. Her work for reproductive justice has resumed with joining the Reproductive Rights Coalition in Charlotte and being a clinic escort. You can hear another presentation we recorded from the ACABookfair 2023 in this week's IGD Podcast , which is sharing Lorenzo Kom'boa Ervin and JoNina Abron-Ervin in conversation with William C. Anderson. . ... . .. Featured Track: I Can See Clearly Now (Instrumental) by Trem One from Amateurs EP

This special issue of the Anarchist Essays podcast features a discussion between JoNina Ervin, Lorenzo Kom'boa Ervin, and William C. Anderson. It originally appeared on the Black Autonomy Podcast. In October 2021, Pluto published the definitive edition of Anarchism and the Black Revolution by Lorenzo Kom’boa Ervin. The book first connected Black radical thought to anarchist theory in 1979, and now amidst a rising tide of Black political organizing, this foundational classic has been republished with a wealth of original material, including forewords by William C. Anderson and Joy James. 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. Ervin and Anderson discuss the reasons for the continued relevance and increasing popularity of Black anarchism today, what an ‘ungovernable’ radical movement might look like, and the contradictions inherent to single-issue and state-orientated political projects from the left. They also discuss Black nationalism, and put Anderson's book The Nation on No Map in conversation with Anarchism and the Black Revolution . This episode of ‘Anarchist Essays’ was supported by a grant from The Lipman-Miliband Trust Anarchist Essays is brought to you by Loughborough University's Anarchism Research Group. Follow us on Twitter @arglboro Artwork by Sam G .

Well, it happened: Roe got overturned. Just like we knew it would. We have talked a lot about our revolutionary thinking on this show, and used this platform to document the major points of political radicalization we have had since the show started: for Isabel, it was when RBG died, for Deondre' it is now. We talk about what we think needs to change in American politics, mainly about the Supreme Court, and we discuss how our thinking has evolved on what strategies might be most effective in producing change going forward. We are still working through how we are going to be involved personally, and so if you have suggestions for organizations that are doing work with a real structural impact, please let us know! Links: Article from the New Yorker on "Roe's Final Hours in One of America's Largest Abortion Clinics": https://www.newyorker.com/news/dispatch/roes-final-hours-in-one-of-americas-largest-abortion-clinics Interview Deondre' mentions with Lorenzo Kom'boa Ervin on resistance strategies and how to become ungovernable: https://blackrosefed.org/ungovernable-interview-lorenzo-komboa-ervin-anderson/ Music is The Beauty of Maths by Meydän.

Hey folks. This week, we're sharing our 2020 chat with Keith Lamar aka Bomani Shakur who is facing execution on November 16th 2023. We hope you enjoy his insights and check out his support website, KeithLamar.Org and get involved in helping him fight for his life and for justice. Starting February 25, 2022 you can hear Keith, Albert Marquet and others performing " Freedom First " Lorenzo Transcript Bomani Transcript PDF (Unimposed) Zine (Imposed PDF) We'll have new content coming out next week. Bomani Shakur speaks to us from death row at OSP Youngstown in Ohio. Bomani is accused of crimes related to the 1993 Lucasville Uprising he claims innocence of and has an execution date set for November 16, 2023. For the hour we speak about his upbringing, his case, injustice in white supremacist and capitalist America, Bomani's politicization and struggle to find himself, defend his dignity and his life. To hear a longer, podcast version, check out this link on archive . This interview was originally recorded on April 29th, 2020. Thanks to Revolutionary Abolitionist Movement – NYC for hooking us up with the chat and helping coordinate the Month Of Solidarity. More on his case can be found at KeithLamar.Org , on the facebook page " Justice For Keith Lamar" and at the twitter account, @ FreeKeithLamar . On his website you can find a link to his book, Condemned, ways to donate to his phone fund, and a link to the excellent, 30 minute documentary on youtube about his case also named Condemned . Lorenzo Kom'boa Ervin Lorenzo Kom'boa Ervin is an author, black anarchist, organizer, former Black Panther and former political prisoner based in Kansas City, Missouri. In this segment, Lorenzo talks about prisoners organizing unions and other associations in the past, the thoughts of George Jackson and Martin Sostre and more. You can find a recently republished edition out from Pluto Press of Lorenzo Kom'boa Ervin's classic " Anarchism & the Black Revolution " plus a bunch of other essays. If you order this from Firestorm books here in Asheville, you'll get a 10% discount and we'll get a kickback, too! Otherwise, it's available at any number of renowned booksellers. And a quick note that the interview with Lorenzo was conducted by a member of True Leap Press. Since 2017, True Leap has provided free print political education

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.

In this episode we speak with veteran of the Black Panther Party, the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, and co-founder of the Black Autonomy Federation Lorenzo Kom'boa Ervin. A former long-time political prisoner, we talk to Ervin about the recent release of the definitive edition of his book Anarchism and the Black Revolution on Pluto Press. Anarchism and the Black Revolution was written during Ervin's political imprisonment, and is considered a foundational text for Black Anarchist traditions. We talk to Ervin about what he drew out of his experiences with SNCC and the Black Panther Party that contributes to his understandings of Black Anarchism or Black Autonomy. We ask about the circumstances that led to his political imprisonment, and critiques of state socialism. Ervin also shares reflections on his political mentor Martin Sostre. Ervin discusses the sit-in movement as a form of autonomous action taking up by the youth in the 60's, which he describes as oppositional to both the establishment and the politics of major civil rights organizations at the time. In conversation Ervin also pushes back against notions of chaos, disorganization, individualism, and nihilism that are often associated with anarchism, and which some folks identifying themselves as anarchists take up. In contrast Ervin provides concrete explanations of the types of mass organizing he believes Black Anarchists should be engaged in, in the development of their own struggle. Ervin discusses the subversive trap of electoral politics. We also ask about fascism, anti-fascism, dual power and problems with unaccountable leadership and celebrity as well as what differentiates a political revolution from a social revolution. If you've never read Anarchism and the Black Revolution or want this new definitive edition which includes new sections, a new introduction, a recent interview and new Forwards from Joy James and William C. Anderson, you can grab that on Plutobooks.com . If you would like to learn more about Black Autonomy from Lorenzo along with his partner Jo'Nina Ervin and William C. Anderson, check out their work at the Black Autonomy Podcast . This book is part of the Black Critique Series on Pluto Press. Black Autonomy Podcast has a patreon of its own which benefits Lorenzo and JoNina, we encourage folks to support them directly. And as always if you like what we do, and want to sustain our ability to continue to do this work please become a patron of our show on patreon if you are able to do so. You can do so for any amount, even $1 a month if that's what you can afford.

In dieser Sendungen möchen wir euch den anarchistischen BLACK AUTONOMY PODCAST vorstellen und wie geht das besser als gleich 2 Sendungen von diesem zu übernehmen! Einmal Episode 1: Vote For Me, I'll Set You Free: Black Politics and Elections in der es um die Wahlen, Demokratie & Selbstbestimmung geht & Episode 4: Black Anti-Fascism And Armed Self-Defense in der es um Gegenwart & Geschichte Schwarzer Selbstverteidigung und Antifaschismus geht. Aus der Selbstbeschreibung des Podcasts: The Black Autonomy Podcast is a series of discussions on anarchism and the relevance of its revolutionary ideals to the ongoing Black Liberation Movement. The show is hosted by JoNina Abron-Ervin and Lorenzo Kom’boa Ervin, two veteran organizers, former Black Panther Party members and co-founders of the Black Autonomy Federation. The show is produced by a collaboration between writer William C. Anderson (@williamcson) and the Black Autonomy Federation. JoNina Abron-Ervin is a former editor of The Black Panther newspaper, author of Driven by the Movement: Activists of the Black Power Era, and a co-founder of the Black Autonomy Federation. Lorenzo Kom'boa Ervin is the author of Anarchism and the Black Revolution, a co-founder of the Black Autonomy Federation, and a former member of the Black Panther Party. Links und Hinweise auf unserem Blog.