Revolution Is the Family Business w/Tongo Eisen-Martin

Join host Ned Buskirk in conversation with San Francisco’s eighth poet laureate, movement worker, & educator, Tongo Eisen-Martin, while they talk about the wide-open-eyed work of revolution, the meditative practice of writing, & the murder of his cousin’s son at the hands of a white supremacist.

MORE IMPORTANTLY THAN ANYTHING
support Tongo’s cousin as she seeks justice for her son’s murder at the hands of a white supremacist: https://www.gofundme.com/f/please-help-a-mother-get-justice-for-her-son
Follow Tongo on IG: https://www.instagram.com/_tongogara_/
Tongo’s We Charge Genocide Again! Curriculum for Operation Ghetto Storm: a 2012 Annual Report on the extrajudicial killing of 313 Black people by police, security guards, & vigilantes: http://www.operationghettostorm.org/curriculum.html
Black Freighter Press [co-founded by Tongo]: https://www.blackfreighterpress.com/

Produced by Nick Jaina
Soundscaping by Nick Jaina
”Four Walls” by Tongo Eisen-Martin & scored by Nick Jaina
”YG2D Podcast Theme Song” Produced by Scott Ferreter & eO w/vocals by Jordan Edelheit, Morgan Bolender, Chelsea Coleman & Ned Buskirk

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