We Only Want The World

Tue, May 12, 2020 19:00 PM

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Hosts: Sunsara Taylor

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50th year anniversary of the massacre of students at Kent State and Jackson State Universities by National Guard and Mississippi Highway Patrol. A look back and lessons for today. -

Synopsis: On the 50 year anniversary of the massacre of students at Kent State and Jackson State Universities, Sunsara Taylor will talk with two veteran revolutionaries about their experience on the ground at that time. Lenny Wolf was a radical student leading protests against the Vietnam War and organizing support for the Black Panther Party. Hank Brown became radicalized through the Civil Rights Movement and then the Black Liberation Movement down in Alabama and Georgia. Both continued down the road of fighting for radical change, become revolutionary communists taking up the new communism forged by Bob Avakian. In this episode, they share what it felt like to live through those times and reflect on the lessons of those times for today.

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Lenny Wolf, revolutionary and follower of Bob Avakian who led student protest against the Vietnam War, organized support for the Black Panther Party, and led mass protest against the Kent State massacre. -
Hank Brown, member of the Chicago Revolution Club, grew up in Birmingham, Alabama across the street from the church where four Black girls were bombed. He got involved in the Civil Rights Movement at age 11 or 12, joined up with the more radical Student N -

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Que Queremos, by Outernational -

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The footage from the Jackson State murder and the wave of student protest that followed can be viewed here, on the full episode of The Revolution, Nothing Less Show: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z2OPiFUKCPg
Kent State, a look back: https://revcom.us/a/646/kent-state-en.html
Background interview with Hank Brown: https://revcom.us/a/376/from-bombingham-and-selma-to-2015-interview-with-veteran-revolutionary-en.html
BOB AVAKIAN RESPONDS TO MARK RUDD ON THE LESSONS OF THE 1960s AND THE NEED FOR AN ACTUAL REVOLUTION: https://revcom.us/a/639/bob-avakian-responds-to-mark-rudd-en.html

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