We are back in the studio this week for a wide ranging conversation with musician and comrade, Justin Pines. We talk about everything from his musical influences and the revolutionary capacity of hip hop, his organizing work to close Rikers Island, the costs of revolution, and what he sees as the keys to community building towards liberty.

We then move into the topics of the week including a Black Texas high school student losing a legal dispute over the school district’s racist hairstyle policy, Another Shooting In the NYC Subway and the continuing inadequacies of the police response, the leak of ShotSpotter device locations and how it reaffirms racists policing policy, the beating death of a nonbinary student in Oklahoma named Nex Benedict, Relly’s response to the moon landing, and the artist formerly known as Rachel Dolezal once again ma ...