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In this episode of The Dugout, we sit down with Valeriah Big Eagle and Wizipan Little Elk Garriot, organizers with NDN Collective, to discuss the ongoing struggle to protect the Black Hills and the sacred lands of the Oceti Sakowin.Valeriah and Wizipan share their personal journeys into organizing, the importance of kinship and Indigenous lifeways, and what it means to understand ourselves as relatives. They explain why the Black Hills are sacred and central to Lakota, Dakota, and Nakota history, culture, spirituality, and creation stories. After learning about the fight to protect Pe'sla we look toward the future: the campaign to return the Black Hills to the Oceti Sakowin, efforts toward a Black Hills mineral withdrawal, environmental restoration, and the importance of building relationships across Indigenous communities and movements.Learn more at https://ndncollective.org/https://dayonemovement.org/Chapters00:00 Intro06:10 What does kinship mean and how has it informed your organizing10:24 Where and what is Pe'sla14:00 Why is He Sapa under attack and by whom?16:25 how did action to protect Pe'sla come to be and what was that like on the ground25:53 what was it like to see those drills marched out and how was that connected to ceremony29:47 10 years after standing rock what are some lessons learns or shifts in movement31:47 What are some of the next steps for the protection of He Sapa?36:27 Closing remarks---------------------------------------------Stay connected with The Dugout! Follow us for updates, exclusive content, and more:🔗OUR WEBSITE: https://www.thedugoutpodcast.com/🔗 ⁠Instagram⁠: ⁠https://www.instagram.com/dugoutpodcast/⁠🔗 ⁠Substack⁠: ⁠https://tdugout.substack.com/⁠ 🔗⁠YouTube⁠: ⁠https://www.youtube.com/@thedugoutpod⁠🔗 ⁠Patreon⁠: ⁠https://www.patreon.com/TheDugoutPod⁠🔗 ⁠OUR LINKS⁠: ⁠https://bio.site/thedugoutpodcast⁠🔗 Watch Prince Shakur  on Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCMMgrSHWLLU4U_FnJ1u10Ug

What does it mean to develop discipline without reproducing authoritarianism? How can study become a form of preparation? How can remembering political prisoners change the way we understand incarceration happening around us now?This is Black August 2026: Part 2.-------------------------------Media Featured for Black August in this episodeArchival footage from Ellis Haizlip's Soul featuring Georgia Jackson, mother of George and Jonathan Jackson. | Watch more of SOUL! on this Youtube playlistA reading of Ya'Iyr Carter's "The Death of Jonathan Jackson," published through In the BellyEPISODE CHAPTERS00:00 Introducing the episode01:50 Jonathan Jackson and the origins of Black August15:00 Discipline without authoritarianism37:00 ICE and Electric shock gloves44:43 Legal support, jail support, and political education56:00 Georgia Jackson on Soul01:04:31 "The Death of Jonathan Jackson" by Ya'Iyr Carter------------------------------------More from this episodeGeorge Jackson: Soledad Brother, Blood in My EyeOther BooksAgainst the State — James Stout, Are Prisons Obsolete? — Angela Davis, Assata: An Autobiography — Assata Shakur, The Autobiography of Malcolm X, Negroes with Guns — Robert F. Williams, Black Reconstruction in America — W.E.B. Du Bois, Revolutionary Suicide — Huey P. NewtonRead from our Bookshop affiliate listStay connected with The Dugout! Follow us for updates, exclusive content, and more:🔗OUR WEBSITE: https://www.thedugoutpodcast.com/🔗 ⁠Instagram⁠: ⁠https://www.instagram.com/dugoutpodcast/⁠🔗 ⁠Substack⁠: ⁠https://tdugout.substack.com/⁠ 🔗⁠YouTube⁠: ⁠https://www.youtube.com/@thedugoutpod⁠🔗 ⁠Patreon⁠: ⁠https://www.patreon.com/TheDugoutPod⁠🔗 ⁠OUR LINKS⁠: ⁠https://bio.site/thedugoutpodcast⁠Black August, Black August 2026, prison liberation, Black anarchism, abolition, prison abolition, political prisoners, prison organizing, political education, revolutionary discipline, self sovereignty, autonomy, political memory, political grief, carcerality, carceral state, immigration enforcement, ICE Watch, ICE, surveillance, prison technology, electric shock gloves, legal support, jail support, prisoner support, movement infrastructure, investigative journalism, OSINT, political repression, state repression, revolutionary history, Black liberation, prison resistance, Black radical history, abolitionist organizing, revolutionary organizing, George Jackson, Jonathan Jackson, Georgia Jackson, Black August history, The Dugout, Black anarchist podcast

This episode features readings and discussion from the 2026 Black August issue of In the Belly, a prisoner-led abolitionist magazine. The hosts discuss pieces by Pierre "Polo" Pinson and Kevin “Rashid” Johnson, alongside poetry by Assata Shakur and a poem featured in Judas and the Black Messiah. Together, these works raise questions about revolution, religion, spirituality, negotiation, reproductive labor, political education, and what it means to build a liberated world rather than simply seek reforms within the existing one.This episode is an invitation to study history, question the promises of the present, and think seriously about what revolutionary practice can look like in our own lives.Contact Smart Communications/PA-DOCRandy Carter #HV2925SCI ChesterPO Box 33028St. Petersburg, FL 33733Kevin Rashid Johnson 1007485Keen Mountain Correctional Center 3402 Kennel Gap RdOakwood, VA 24631Chapters00:00 looong intro18:05 Rhinoceros Womane by Assata shakur21:07 What is itb24:06 Phantom of liberty by polo31:56 reflection 48:45 God Is Here by Kevin "Rashid" Johnson52:42 Reflection01:06:14 Poem from Judas and the Black Messiah, by actor Dominique Fishback as Akua Njeri01:07:50 Reflection and outro---------------------------------------------Stay connected with The Dugout! Follow us for updates, exclusive content, and more:🔗OUR WEBSITE: https://www.thedugoutpodcast.com/🔗 ⁠Instagram⁠: ⁠https://www.instagram.com/dugoutpodcast/⁠🔗 ⁠Substack⁠: ⁠https://tdugout.substack.com/⁠ 🔗⁠YouTube⁠: ⁠https://www.youtube.com/@thedugoutpod⁠🔗 ⁠Patreon⁠: ⁠https://www.patreon.com/TheDugoutPod⁠🔗 ⁠OUR LINKS⁠: ⁠https://bio.site/thedugoutpodcast⁠🔗 Watch Prince Shakur  on Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCMMgrSHWLLU4U_FnJ1u10Ug

A #RepressionWatch upload to The Dugout.For this RepressionWatch episode, I talk with organizer Sammie (they/them) about the 2024 Gaza solidarity encampment at the University of Michigan, the police raid that broke it up, and the lasting toll of being sprayed with a chemical agent called Deep Freeze. We get into the felony charges that followed, misogynoir in organizing spaces, and what it means to keep showing up for a movement after the state has already come for you.EPISODE CORRECTION: Sammie refers to a co-defendant as an "Arab person", but meant to say he's "Pakistani".GUEST: Sammie (they/them) is a Michigan-based community organizer whose work spans the George Floyd 2020 protests, housing organizing, and Palestine solidarity activism.Instagram: @inkanduprisingLinktree: https://www.linktr.ee/InkanduprisingSubstack: https://www.inkanduprising.substack.comWatch on Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mvkmlEmy8Z8--------------------------------Resources MentionedThe Guardian, Oct 2024 — "Michigan attorney general Dana Nessel pushed to prosecute campus Gaza protesters"The Guardian, May 2025 — "Michigan drops charges against pro-Palestinian protesters"The Guardian, Apr 2025 — "Lawyer's phone searched at US border" —The Guardian, Sep 2025 — "Teargas and menstruation: the health effects of protest policing"EFF (Electronic Frontier Foundation) — statement of material facts, Alasaad v. Mayorkas--------------------------------Stay connected with The Dugout! Follow us for updates, exclusive content, and more:🔗OUR WEBSITE: https://www.thedugoutpodcast.com/🔗 ⁠Instagram⁠: ⁠https://www.instagram.com/dugoutpodcast/⁠🔗 ⁠Substack⁠: ⁠https://tdugout.substack.com/⁠ 🔗⁠YouTube⁠: ⁠https://www.youtube.com/@thedugoutpod⁠🔗 ⁠Patreon⁠: ⁠https://www.patreon.com/TheDugoutPod⁠🔗 ⁠OUR LINKS⁠: ⁠https://bio.site/thedugoutpodcast⁠🔗 Watch Prince Shakur  on Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCMMgrSHWLLU4U_FnJ1u10Ug

In this episode of The Dugout, we speak with Lebanese anarchists about organizing and surviving through war, occupation, sectarianism, displacement, and economic crisis. We discuss what brought them to anarchism, how they understand Lebanon’s history, and why the experiences of South Lebanon and Beirut can look so different.We talk about the realities of Israel’s attacks, the conditions facing migrant and kafala workers, and the everyday needs people are confronting as communities are displaced and homes are destroyed. At the center of the conversation is a simple principle: abandon nobody.What does solidarity look like when people are already overwhelmed? How do you provide relief without becoming another NGO? And how can anarchists build relationships, share skills, and meet people’s needs without taking control away from the communities they are trying to support?Chapters00:00 Intro06:35 What motivated you to get into organizing13:11 How do you get to anarchism and what does anarchism mean to you?17:08 How would you introduce Lebanon to our listeners24:33 How is south Lebanon’s history been shaped differently?33:02 How is Beirut or the north different?36:51 How has the day to day changed in recent attacks by Israel41:05 How have condition changed for Migrant or Kafala workers?43:15 What are people in Lebanon worried about right now and what are people doing to address those needs?48:38 What are some misconception you see online about Lebanon?58:28 How do you fight against disenfranchisement01:05:36 What lessons or structures from previous uprising are at play today?01:09:39 Details on a Lebanese anarchist organizing project01:17:52 How are Lebanese anarchist working on relief efforts without becoming like typical NGO’s01:24:55 What are conversation of healing or justice sounding like right now?01:29:43 What solidarity efforts have you seen to be useful for your efforts01:41:23 Last thoughts---------------------------------------------Stay connected with The Dugout! Follow us for updates, exclusive content, and more:🔗OUR WEBSITE: https://www.thedugoutpodcast.com/🔗 ⁠Instagram⁠: ⁠https://www.instagram.com/dugoutpodcast/⁠🔗 ⁠Substack⁠: ⁠https://tdugout.substack.com/⁠ 🔗⁠YouTube⁠: ⁠https://www.youtube.com/@thedugoutpod⁠🔗 ⁠Patreon⁠: ⁠https://www.patreon.com/TheDugoutPod⁠🔗 ⁠OUR LINKS⁠: ⁠https://bio.site/thedugoutpodcast⁠🔗 Watch Prince Shakur on Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCMMgrSHWLLU4U_FnJ1u10Ug