1 00:00:05,400 --> 00:00:10,280 Speaker 1: Welcome, so it could happen here. I'm Andrew of the 2 00:00:10,320 --> 00:00:17,919 Speaker 1: YouTube channel andrews Um and I'm here with Oh it's me, 3 00:00:18,160 --> 00:00:22,160 Speaker 1: it's Christopher. Yeah, we're doing what we're doing another episode 4 00:00:22,280 --> 00:00:25,960 Speaker 1: of Bead and Andrew. We've seized the pod once again. 5 00:00:26,480 --> 00:00:29,560 Speaker 1: It is too early in the morning for anyone else 6 00:00:29,560 --> 00:00:32,879 Speaker 1: to be here, which gives us ultimate power. Part too 7 00:00:32,920 --> 00:00:35,640 Speaker 1: early in the morning, by the way, it's it's eleven 8 00:00:35,720 --> 00:00:40,560 Speaker 1: specific time. But yeah, there's there. There is no prayer 9 00:00:40,600 --> 00:00:43,239 Speaker 1: of anyone else being around for this, So we are 10 00:00:43,240 --> 00:00:48,720 Speaker 1: now in control here. Ha ha ha ha. Yes, we're go. 11 00:00:48,840 --> 00:00:52,600 Speaker 1: We're We're doing We're We're doing the maniacal laughs, We're 12 00:00:52,640 --> 00:00:58,520 Speaker 1: doing the podcast. We're doing the podcast. Welcome, Welcome. We 13 00:00:58,560 --> 00:01:02,840 Speaker 1: want to finish the story, the soldiers story that is 14 00:01:03,360 --> 00:01:08,199 Speaker 1: Quasi Bo Lagoon's life and legacy UM. When we last 15 00:01:08,280 --> 00:01:12,440 Speaker 1: left off as part of the New York's City Panther 16 00:01:12,600 --> 00:01:17,039 Speaker 1: twenty one trials, Kuasi was put in jail UM. At 17 00:01:17,040 --> 00:01:21,800 Speaker 1: the same time, he was also developing his political um 18 00:01:22,480 --> 00:01:27,960 Speaker 1: identity in a way and recognizing some of the issues 19 00:01:28,040 --> 00:01:31,000 Speaker 1: he was having with the Black Panther Party and particularly 20 00:01:31,520 --> 00:01:34,400 Speaker 1: after the East Coast West coast split that it could 21 00:01:35,920 --> 00:01:40,280 Speaker 1: Quasi as We, as we covered last time, was born 22 00:01:40,360 --> 00:01:44,319 Speaker 1: Donald Reems but took on the identity of Quasi Blagoon 23 00:01:45,120 --> 00:01:49,120 Speaker 1: due to his recognition of his African nous of himself 24 00:01:50,040 --> 00:01:53,360 Speaker 1: um through his experience in the army, through his experience 25 00:01:53,400 --> 00:01:56,720 Speaker 1: in London connecting with the Black aspora, and through his 26 00:01:56,760 --> 00:02:01,880 Speaker 1: connections with the Ruba Temple and so Balagoon. There alongside 27 00:02:01,880 --> 00:02:05,160 Speaker 1: that that personal recognition and political recognition of his antitheater 28 00:02:05,280 --> 00:02:09,600 Speaker 1: in politics, also comes to see himself as someone who 29 00:02:09,720 --> 00:02:15,320 Speaker 1: is at war with the state, and as such, once 30 00:02:15,360 --> 00:02:19,280 Speaker 1: in jail, he sees himself as a political prisoner, as 31 00:02:19,320 --> 00:02:24,280 Speaker 1: a prisoner of war. While in prison, the Panther twenty 32 00:02:24,360 --> 00:02:27,440 Speaker 1: one were incarcerated in a variety of jails in different 33 00:02:27,440 --> 00:02:32,040 Speaker 1: boroughs of New York City, but b Lagoon, Blue member 34 00:02:32,120 --> 00:02:37,160 Speaker 1: Shaker and another defendant quand Looking at Kinshasa. They were 35 00:02:37,160 --> 00:02:40,880 Speaker 1: all incarcerated the Queen's Housed attention and they organize an 36 00:02:40,960 --> 00:02:46,639 Speaker 1: uprising that took seven hostages, including a captain, five correctional officers, 37 00:02:46,720 --> 00:02:50,160 Speaker 1: and a black cook, pulling them from October one fifth. 38 00:02:52,080 --> 00:02:56,160 Speaker 1: The slogan of the multi ethnic takeover, which by the way. 39 00:02:56,160 --> 00:03:00,120 Speaker 1: It's pretty unhood of in prisons where black, Latino and 40 00:03:00,360 --> 00:03:05,640 Speaker 1: white inmates come together. Um, their slogan was all power 41 00:03:05,840 --> 00:03:09,200 Speaker 1: to the people, free all oppressed people, and so their 42 00:03:09,200 --> 00:03:15,800 Speaker 1: primary demand was for speedier trials. And in this process, Balgoon, 43 00:03:15,880 --> 00:03:20,720 Speaker 1: again developing his antithritarian politics solely you know, crewing towards 44 00:03:20,760 --> 00:03:25,160 Speaker 1: what he would come to define himself as, decided not 45 00:03:25,240 --> 00:03:29,280 Speaker 1: to play a vanguard rule in this decision making process. 46 00:03:29,400 --> 00:03:36,000 Speaker 1: In this uprising, even before he formally declared his commitment 47 00:03:36,040 --> 00:03:40,560 Speaker 1: to anti authoritarian politics, his primary concern was consensus for 48 00:03:40,680 --> 00:03:43,880 Speaker 1: all inmates and decision making, including access to food being 49 00:03:43,880 --> 00:03:47,280 Speaker 1: brought from the outside, and so that sort of consensus 50 00:03:47,280 --> 00:03:51,520 Speaker 1: process also helped build his identity the prisoners. They formed 51 00:03:51,560 --> 00:03:55,560 Speaker 1: committees to coordinate their uprisings and they agreed to release 52 00:03:55,640 --> 00:03:57,920 Speaker 1: two hostages, the black cook and one of the prison 53 00:03:58,000 --> 00:04:01,000 Speaker 1: guards as a sign of good faith. Eventually they had 54 00:04:01,040 --> 00:04:03,840 Speaker 1: to release all the hostages and they also suffered abuse 55 00:04:03,920 --> 00:04:07,840 Speaker 1: and charges from the uprising. It was sort of a failure, 56 00:04:08,800 --> 00:04:12,000 Speaker 1: but of course he didn't see that way. While he 57 00:04:12,080 --> 00:04:14,480 Speaker 1: was disappointed by the outcome, he believed that the power 58 00:04:14,880 --> 00:04:18,479 Speaker 1: the inmates felt by holding the state to be for that, 59 00:04:18,600 --> 00:04:21,600 Speaker 1: you know, limited moment was a valuable experience. It was 60 00:04:21,600 --> 00:04:25,120 Speaker 1: a learning experience as an organizing sow the uprising as 61 00:04:25,320 --> 00:04:29,480 Speaker 1: growing pains to those who believe that oppressed people would 62 00:04:29,560 --> 00:04:32,320 Speaker 1: rise up and seek justice, because we can see that 63 00:04:32,360 --> 00:04:36,040 Speaker 1: even with losses, their lessons to be learned. And this 64 00:04:36,080 --> 00:04:41,200 Speaker 1: isn't unique to just this one moment in history. In fact, 65 00:04:41,240 --> 00:04:44,120 Speaker 1: we can apply it to more recent events, such as 66 00:04:44,160 --> 00:04:49,760 Speaker 1: with the George Floyd Uprising. It's easy to be nihilistic. 67 00:04:50,240 --> 00:04:55,440 Speaker 1: Nihilistic probably isn't best used to say cynical and say that, oh, well, 68 00:04:55,560 --> 00:04:58,160 Speaker 1: the uprising was a failure. Millions of people got up 69 00:04:58,160 --> 00:05:01,920 Speaker 1: and protested and nothing came out of it, really, And 70 00:05:02,000 --> 00:05:06,640 Speaker 1: yet that, in combination with the coronavirus pandemic, brought people 71 00:05:06,680 --> 00:05:14,039 Speaker 1: together two establish programs of mutual aid, to get involved 72 00:05:14,200 --> 00:05:19,200 Speaker 1: in organizations in their local situation, to connect with people, 73 00:05:19,320 --> 00:05:23,200 Speaker 1: to radicalize themselves and radicalize others. It was not a loss, 74 00:05:24,040 --> 00:05:27,960 Speaker 1: you know. Yeah, I mean, I think there's there's an 75 00:05:28,000 --> 00:05:31,839 Speaker 1: extent to which, even if it's extremely hard to tell 76 00:05:32,040 --> 00:05:34,800 Speaker 1: in the moment, there's there's this way in which like 77 00:05:34,839 --> 00:05:37,360 Speaker 1: participating something like that just sort of permanently changes you. 78 00:05:38,240 --> 00:05:40,520 Speaker 1: And and I mean thing I think also in the 79 00:05:40,520 --> 00:05:42,400 Speaker 1: sort of context of the prison uprisings, right, like this 80 00:05:42,480 --> 00:05:47,480 Speaker 1: is like this is by no means like the last 81 00:05:47,520 --> 00:05:50,320 Speaker 1: prison uprising that's going to happen in this era. And 82 00:05:50,360 --> 00:05:53,360 Speaker 1: so I think, like, I don't know, it seems like 83 00:05:53,360 --> 00:05:55,920 Speaker 1: one of those moments where it's like in the moment, 84 00:05:56,000 --> 00:05:59,000 Speaker 1: it's like, oh, we failed, things look bad, but like 85 00:05:59,760 --> 00:06:02,600 Speaker 1: when in this sort of like broader historical sweep, it's like, no, 86 00:06:02,800 --> 00:06:06,919 Speaker 1: this was like an early uprising in a period that 87 00:06:07,040 --> 00:06:12,040 Speaker 1: is going to be sort of like an early dominou Yeah. Yeah, 88 00:06:12,320 --> 00:06:14,120 Speaker 1: And I think that's something that can be really hard 89 00:06:14,160 --> 00:06:17,840 Speaker 1: to like, like, especially in the moment, it can be 90 00:06:17,880 --> 00:06:21,760 Speaker 1: really hard to sort of like see that because it's 91 00:06:21,760 --> 00:06:25,960 Speaker 1: really easy to sort of like looking narrowly at what 92 00:06:26,400 --> 00:06:29,880 Speaker 1: you're one struggle is doing and then you know, but yeah, 93 00:06:29,920 --> 00:06:32,880 Speaker 1: if you have this sort of like you know, if 94 00:06:32,920 --> 00:06:34,560 Speaker 1: if you have the ability to sort of like see 95 00:06:34,600 --> 00:06:38,479 Speaker 1: back through history, you can watch how stuff like this 96 00:06:38,680 --> 00:06:42,080 Speaker 1: just sort of like has this massive effect on consciousness 97 00:06:42,080 --> 00:06:44,320 Speaker 1: in a way that the people in it even have 98 00:06:44,400 --> 00:06:49,479 Speaker 1: a lot of a hard time seeing. Yeah. So that's why, 99 00:06:49,680 --> 00:06:54,479 Speaker 1: like I'm emphasizing the foostpot. It's really important to developed 100 00:06:54,520 --> 00:06:57,400 Speaker 1: this perspective and to study our history, you know, a 101 00:06:57,520 --> 00:07:02,040 Speaker 1: radical history, so we could loose um could both you know, 102 00:07:02,520 --> 00:07:04,960 Speaker 1: put things into focus, into the perspective and also look 103 00:07:04,960 --> 00:07:10,520 Speaker 1: at the specifics of how things played out. So after 104 00:07:10,560 --> 00:07:14,200 Speaker 1: Bagoon's experience in the Panther Party and the oppression of 105 00:07:14,240 --> 00:07:17,680 Speaker 1: the New York Chapter, he realized that the party was 106 00:07:18,080 --> 00:07:21,600 Speaker 1: being turned away from its grassroots organizing of the black 107 00:07:21,640 --> 00:07:24,440 Speaker 1: masses and the issues that affects the most, the daily 108 00:07:24,480 --> 00:07:28,640 Speaker 1: survival the house and the education police abuse. You realized 109 00:07:28,640 --> 00:07:34,000 Speaker 1: the state was using it's in costural system as a 110 00:07:34,080 --> 00:07:38,400 Speaker 1: tactic by rounding up these organizers, by infiltrating the party, 111 00:07:38,520 --> 00:07:42,640 Speaker 1: by charging people these high bails and such. It turned 112 00:07:42,720 --> 00:07:46,280 Speaker 1: the party focus away from liberation to fundraise and for 113 00:07:46,440 --> 00:07:50,640 Speaker 1: legal defense. And so he realized he could not continue 114 00:07:51,360 --> 00:07:53,560 Speaker 1: the fight, could not continue on this front, that he 115 00:07:53,600 --> 00:07:58,480 Speaker 1: needed to survive and contribute underground to build a Black 116 00:07:58,600 --> 00:08:04,720 Speaker 1: liberation army as a clandestine freedom fighter. As a miracle 117 00:08:04,760 --> 00:08:08,560 Speaker 1: from the previous episode, Balgoon was severed from the case 118 00:08:08,640 --> 00:08:11,080 Speaker 1: of thirteen of those who have been arrested originally to 119 00:08:11,160 --> 00:08:13,920 Speaker 1: face charges in New Jersey, and after the acquittal of 120 00:08:14,000 --> 00:08:17,560 Speaker 1: most of his comrades, Balagon Queen pleaded guilty to the 121 00:08:17,680 --> 00:08:21,080 Speaker 1: charge that he, an unidentified person, did attempt to shoot 122 00:08:21,120 --> 00:08:23,920 Speaker 1: police officers, making him the only one of the twenty 123 00:08:23,920 --> 00:08:29,000 Speaker 1: one original defendants to be convicted. However, in September twelfth, 124 00:08:29,040 --> 00:08:34,520 Speaker 1: ninete three, Balagoon would escape from the New Jersey's Railway prison, 125 00:08:35,040 --> 00:08:37,560 Speaker 1: shortly after his conviction for arm robbery in New Jersey, 126 00:08:38,000 --> 00:08:40,760 Speaker 1: and then eight months after his escape, on May fifth, 127 00:08:42,440 --> 00:08:45,959 Speaker 1: he was again captured trying to assist a fellow Panther 128 00:08:46,040 --> 00:08:51,360 Speaker 1: Party member and defendant, Richard Harris, from escaping custody. They 129 00:08:51,400 --> 00:08:53,880 Speaker 1: were both apprehended after being wounded in a gun battle 130 00:08:54,000 --> 00:08:58,720 Speaker 1: with correctional and police officers. And so what I find 131 00:08:58,720 --> 00:09:01,560 Speaker 1: interesting about that he risked being recaptured so he could 132 00:09:01,600 --> 00:09:05,640 Speaker 1: free Harris. And that's solidarity right there. He was so 133 00:09:05,760 --> 00:09:11,960 Speaker 1: willing to sacrifice himself to help his comrades. That's admirable 134 00:09:12,040 --> 00:09:19,080 Speaker 1: levels of commitment. And even though he was imprisoned and 135 00:09:20,200 --> 00:09:24,520 Speaker 1: was disillusion with the Panther Party, it never discourages involvement 136 00:09:24,600 --> 00:09:29,720 Speaker 1: or commitment to revolution. While Incostrator began to explore anarchist politics. 137 00:09:30,120 --> 00:09:33,200 Speaker 1: He received and studied literature from solidarity groups like the 138 00:09:33,200 --> 00:09:36,719 Speaker 1: Anarchist Black Cross, which is an anti authority and organization 139 00:09:36,840 --> 00:09:41,200 Speaker 1: that provides material and legal support to political prisoners. And 140 00:09:41,640 --> 00:09:44,720 Speaker 1: and I was reading this, I recognized that name Anarchist 141 00:09:44,760 --> 00:09:48,480 Speaker 1: Black Cross, the a VC. I know that because they 142 00:09:48,559 --> 00:09:51,800 Speaker 1: also helped Loren Too Humble Urban to be released from jail. 143 00:09:52,400 --> 00:09:57,240 Speaker 1: They also provided him materials when he was incarcerated, and 144 00:09:57,360 --> 00:10:00,840 Speaker 1: so incrudous to them for that, you know, helping too 145 00:10:02,360 --> 00:10:06,400 Speaker 1: connect these people and connect these ideas. Yeah, and the 146 00:10:06,520 --> 00:10:09,360 Speaker 1: and the Anarchist Black Cross. If I'm remembering my history right, 147 00:10:09,440 --> 00:10:12,520 Speaker 1: like has a really really long history of doing this, 148 00:10:12,640 --> 00:10:17,120 Speaker 1: going back to like I mean, I know, I know 149 00:10:17,240 --> 00:10:20,880 Speaker 1: they were negotiating like the releases of like political prisoners 150 00:10:20,880 --> 00:10:25,079 Speaker 1: in the Bolsheviks went down. I didn't know they went 151 00:10:25,120 --> 00:10:30,280 Speaker 1: that about that found Yeah, I'm pretty sure. Yeah, if 152 00:10:30,320 --> 00:10:33,680 Speaker 1: I'm if I'm remembering, And that just goes to show 153 00:10:33,760 --> 00:10:36,600 Speaker 1: you might not see yourself as doing anything that meaningful. Well, 154 00:10:36,640 --> 00:10:41,080 Speaker 1: I'm just sending books to prisoners. In reality, you building 155 00:10:41,160 --> 00:10:44,640 Speaker 1: foundations you and you know the people who you influence 156 00:10:45,160 --> 00:10:51,280 Speaker 1: can go on to influence so many more so many others. 157 00:10:54,760 --> 00:10:59,120 Speaker 1: So anarchism ended up providing Balagon with a great analytical 158 00:10:59,280 --> 00:11:01,800 Speaker 1: lens to start up his critique of his experiences in 159 00:11:01,840 --> 00:11:04,320 Speaker 1: the Panther Party. When he looked at, you know, the 160 00:11:04,360 --> 00:11:07,199 Speaker 1: works of like Emma Goldman and others and apply them 161 00:11:07,200 --> 00:11:10,560 Speaker 1: to the Black Liberations struggle, he began to ask questions 162 00:11:10,600 --> 00:11:15,000 Speaker 1: about how his comrades are going about revolution. How by 163 00:11:15,000 --> 00:11:19,600 Speaker 1: allowing these hierarchies to develop in their organizations, they weakened 164 00:11:20,280 --> 00:11:26,360 Speaker 1: their resolve in their fights and capacity. It's like, as 165 00:11:26,360 --> 00:11:30,880 Speaker 1: he says, um the cauldrire accepted their command regardless of 166 00:11:30,880 --> 00:11:34,000 Speaker 1: what their intellects had or had not made clear to them. 167 00:11:34,120 --> 00:11:37,320 Speaker 1: The true democratic process which they were willing to die 168 00:11:37,400 --> 00:11:39,760 Speaker 1: for for the sake of their children, they would not 169 00:11:39,800 --> 00:11:43,120 Speaker 1: claim for themselves. And so what about good wanted was 170 00:11:43,160 --> 00:11:46,760 Speaker 1: a democratic process that would be established from today, not 171 00:11:47,080 --> 00:11:49,640 Speaker 1: that you would have a certain system now and then 172 00:11:49,640 --> 00:11:52,040 Speaker 1: you would wait until after the revolution to set up 173 00:11:52,040 --> 00:11:55,520 Speaker 1: a different system. It's like that whole connection of means 174 00:11:55,559 --> 00:11:57,840 Speaker 1: and ends that you know anarchists keep going on about. 175 00:12:00,520 --> 00:12:03,280 Speaker 1: He realized that the neededest democratic process to unleash the 176 00:12:03,280 --> 00:12:07,400 Speaker 1: revolutionary potentially masses and not make them pray to new oppressors. 177 00:12:07,840 --> 00:12:11,000 Speaker 1: The only way to make a dictatorship of the proletariat 178 00:12:11,480 --> 00:12:15,800 Speaker 1: is to elevate everyone to defleet all the advantages of power. 179 00:12:17,880 --> 00:12:25,280 Speaker 1: An ardent anarchist revolution has that on this agenda. One 180 00:12:25,320 --> 00:12:30,520 Speaker 1: of his inspirations was a fellow clandestine freedom fighter, that 181 00:12:30,720 --> 00:12:36,640 Speaker 1: being Italian anarchists Erico Mala Tester, who exhorted that revolutionary 182 00:12:36,640 --> 00:12:42,040 Speaker 1: struggle consists more of deeds than woods. You had a 183 00:12:42,080 --> 00:12:46,480 Speaker 1: lot of different political figures and radical anarchists, but especially 184 00:12:46,480 --> 00:12:50,280 Speaker 1: those involved in insurrection, especially those like Erical Artester, who's 185 00:12:50,320 --> 00:12:52,719 Speaker 1: also one of my personal favorites. When reading that, I 186 00:12:52,800 --> 00:12:58,320 Speaker 1: found that to be a fun connection. Yeah he's so cool. Yeah, yeah, 187 00:12:58,400 --> 00:13:01,679 Speaker 1: he really is. I see why why Zoe Baker likes 188 00:13:01,720 --> 00:13:07,480 Speaker 1: him so much. Yeah. Another influence of his first Spanish revolutionary, 189 00:13:07,559 --> 00:13:13,040 Speaker 1: Joseventa Domage, who organized the anarchist grilling movement. Los g 190 00:13:13,160 --> 00:13:19,160 Speaker 1: Sterros the Avengering once like their name, Sirius were thought 191 00:13:19,160 --> 00:13:23,000 Speaker 1: to be involved in political assassinations against you know, repression 192 00:13:23,120 --> 00:13:26,960 Speaker 1: and driller raids on the military forces of the Spanish dictatorship. 193 00:13:28,000 --> 00:13:32,679 Speaker 1: So people like Italian exiles Severan Severino di Giovanni and 194 00:13:34,320 --> 00:13:39,839 Speaker 1: other anarchists like Sacco and Vincenti so Di. Giovanni was 195 00:13:39,880 --> 00:13:43,080 Speaker 1: known for his campaign of bombing as armed propaganda and 196 00:13:43,080 --> 00:13:48,040 Speaker 1: soldarity with executed anarchists. Sacco and Vanti and Giovanni both 197 00:13:48,080 --> 00:13:51,280 Speaker 1: engaged in exppropriation of capitalist institutions as a means of 198 00:13:51,320 --> 00:13:55,480 Speaker 1: support in the revolutionary movement. And keep that point point 199 00:13:55,520 --> 00:13:59,760 Speaker 1: in mind, expropriation of capitalist institutions. To quote Mickey Mouse, 200 00:13:59,800 --> 00:14:05,959 Speaker 1: it's surprise, too little help us later, all right. Another 201 00:14:06,000 --> 00:14:08,920 Speaker 1: influence was, of course, I'm a Goldman, who was another 202 00:14:08,960 --> 00:14:13,840 Speaker 1: advocate of revolutionary arm struggle who supported her comrade Alexander 203 00:14:13,880 --> 00:14:21,400 Speaker 1: Bookman's assassinated wealthy industrialist who believed in free love, which 204 00:14:21,440 --> 00:14:24,480 Speaker 1: really resonated with Ballagoon because I'm not sure if I 205 00:14:24,560 --> 00:14:27,760 Speaker 1: mentioned it in the previous part or not, but Ballagoon 206 00:14:27,960 --> 00:14:33,600 Speaker 1: was an openly bisexual man in the nineteen seventies, nineteen sixties, 207 00:14:33,640 --> 00:14:37,640 Speaker 1: and nineteen seventies, and so that equipment of free love 208 00:14:37,760 --> 00:14:41,920 Speaker 1: that m A Gooldman had really resonates with him. Balagun 209 00:14:42,040 --> 00:14:46,360 Speaker 1: also recognized and continues to recognize that black people in 210 00:14:46,400 --> 00:14:49,480 Speaker 1: the United States were an internal colony of the US 211 00:14:49,560 --> 00:14:52,480 Speaker 1: and so the Black Liberations struggle as a national liberation 212 00:14:52,520 --> 00:14:56,480 Speaker 1: movement so began to identify with the New African independence movement. 213 00:14:57,360 --> 00:15:01,600 Speaker 1: The Provisional Government of the Republic of New Africa they PGRNA, 214 00:15:02,160 --> 00:15:04,960 Speaker 1: was founded in nineteen sixty eight March nineteen sixty eight 215 00:15:05,080 --> 00:15:08,520 Speaker 1: at a conference of five hundred black nationalists who declared 216 00:15:08,520 --> 00:15:11,840 Speaker 1: that independence from the US and demanded five states in 217 00:15:11,840 --> 00:15:16,240 Speaker 1: the deep South South Carolina, Georgia, Alabama, Mississippi, and Louisiana 218 00:15:16,680 --> 00:15:20,560 Speaker 1: as reparations for the enslavement and racial oppression of black people. 219 00:15:22,160 --> 00:15:27,360 Speaker 1: New Africa was designated the name of this new free nation, 220 00:15:28,360 --> 00:15:36,280 Speaker 1: and at this time Balagun began to ideologically unite the 221 00:15:36,360 --> 00:15:41,720 Speaker 1: political objective of the PGRNA for independence um and and 222 00:15:41,760 --> 00:15:47,360 Speaker 1: took on New African as his national identity. As he says, 223 00:15:48,800 --> 00:15:51,800 Speaker 1: the US has no right to confine in New African 224 00:15:51,800 --> 00:15:55,200 Speaker 1: people to read line reservations, and we have a right 225 00:15:55,240 --> 00:15:57,440 Speaker 1: to live on our own terms, on our common land 226 00:15:58,040 --> 00:16:01,760 Speaker 1: and to govern ourselves free of occupational forces such as 227 00:16:01,840 --> 00:16:05,560 Speaker 1: the police, National Guard or GIS that have invaded our 228 00:16:05,600 --> 00:16:08,040 Speaker 1: colonies from time to time. We have a right to 229 00:16:08,080 --> 00:16:11,520 Speaker 1: control our own economy, print our own money, trade and 230 00:16:11,560 --> 00:16:14,200 Speaker 1: other nations trade with other nations. We have a right 231 00:16:14,240 --> 00:16:17,760 Speaker 1: to control our education institutions and systems where children will 232 00:16:17,800 --> 00:16:21,480 Speaker 1: not be indoctrinated by aliens to suffer the destructive designs 233 00:16:21,720 --> 00:16:26,360 Speaker 1: of the US government. His position for black self determination 234 00:16:26,920 --> 00:16:30,160 Speaker 1: was also combined with an anti capitalist perspective. The New 235 00:16:30,200 --> 00:16:34,160 Speaker 1: Africans would enter workforce within our excluded by design, and 236 00:16:34,200 --> 00:16:36,600 Speaker 1: we have the wages are not controlled by the ruling 237 00:16:36,640 --> 00:16:51,640 Speaker 1: class and their wealth. So I think this distinct self 238 00:16:51,680 --> 00:16:54,080 Speaker 1: expression is very important because there was a key aspect 239 00:16:54,120 --> 00:16:57,960 Speaker 1: of his political journey and how he saw myself. UM 240 00:16:58,000 --> 00:17:00,600 Speaker 1: the Afro futurest abolitionists to the amer because which is 241 00:17:00,640 --> 00:17:05,240 Speaker 1: a black an archaic radical collective based in the US. 242 00:17:05,680 --> 00:17:10,040 Speaker 1: UM they coined the term I believe black an archaic 243 00:17:10,200 --> 00:17:16,600 Speaker 1: radical in order to group and account for the different 244 00:17:17,880 --> 00:17:20,720 Speaker 1: an archaic identity is that that black people have have 245 00:17:20,800 --> 00:17:26,480 Speaker 1: identified us. So you have Anakata's, you have Black anarchists, 246 00:17:26,480 --> 00:17:29,720 Speaker 1: you have New African anarchists, and then people who just 247 00:17:29,760 --> 00:17:36,120 Speaker 1: go by bars and so at this time I think 248 00:17:36,520 --> 00:17:41,639 Speaker 1: UM as a New African anarchist. Calaguna was definitely ideologically 249 00:17:41,680 --> 00:17:45,480 Speaker 1: set apart from the Black Marxist leninists and revolutionary nationalists 250 00:17:45,480 --> 00:17:48,359 Speaker 1: of the time who wanted to see state power for 251 00:17:48,400 --> 00:17:51,800 Speaker 1: the from the white power structure of the US. And 252 00:17:51,920 --> 00:17:54,600 Speaker 1: he still desired, you know, a land for black people 253 00:17:54,600 --> 00:17:57,240 Speaker 1: to achieve self to termination. Even as an anarchist, you 254 00:17:57,240 --> 00:17:59,920 Speaker 1: wanted the space for Black people to build a society 255 00:18:00,400 --> 00:18:05,919 Speaker 1: based on anti fthoritarianism and freedom. I believe he was 256 00:18:05,960 --> 00:18:11,280 Speaker 1: really unique at that time and not for God. Like 257 00:18:11,359 --> 00:18:14,680 Speaker 1: other bars, he also recognized the importance of national liberation. 258 00:18:15,320 --> 00:18:20,840 Speaker 1: Like Ashanti Alliston, he began to recruit soldiers for the 259 00:18:20,880 --> 00:18:24,719 Speaker 1: Black Liberation Army and converts of anti authoritarian a New 260 00:18:24,760 --> 00:18:29,280 Speaker 1: African politics. While in Trenton State Prison and New Jersey, 261 00:18:29,880 --> 00:18:34,040 Speaker 1: he formed the Political Study Group with Black Liberation Army 262 00:18:34,080 --> 00:18:38,399 Speaker 1: members and Black Panther Party members and started to shift 263 00:18:38,640 --> 00:18:45,919 Speaker 1: their perspectives on antibibitarian politics and so that political education 264 00:18:45,960 --> 00:18:49,600 Speaker 1: behind bars became the main vehicle of recruitment into the 265 00:18:49,800 --> 00:18:54,119 Speaker 1: b l A. Another member of the b l A 266 00:18:55,440 --> 00:19:03,160 Speaker 1: was a Jewelry Utalu another fairly, I would say, somewhat obscure, 267 00:19:04,320 --> 00:19:08,560 Speaker 1: we're still iconic black anarchists. And when he was providing 268 00:19:08,560 --> 00:19:12,240 Speaker 1: his testimony concerning Blagoon's influence on his transition from Marxist 269 00:19:12,320 --> 00:19:18,480 Speaker 1: Leninism to anti authoritarian thinking. He said, I became disillusioned 270 00:19:18,520 --> 00:19:22,680 Speaker 1: with Marxism and became an anarchist thanks to Quasi Blagoon. 271 00:19:23,320 --> 00:19:27,800 Speaker 1: Due to the inactiveness and ineffectiveness is Marxist Leninism in community. 272 00:19:27,960 --> 00:19:31,160 Speaker 1: In our communities, along with the repressive bureaucracy that came 273 00:19:31,200 --> 00:19:33,560 Speaker 1: with it. People are not going to commit themselves to 274 00:19:33,600 --> 00:19:36,280 Speaker 1: a life and death struggle just because of grand ideas. 275 00:19:36,280 --> 00:19:38,920 Speaker 1: Someone might have flutes around their heads. A few people 276 00:19:39,040 --> 00:19:41,960 Speaker 1: commit themselves to a struggle if they can see progress 277 00:19:42,000 --> 00:19:44,680 Speaker 1: being made, similar to the progress of anarchist collectors in 278 00:19:44,720 --> 00:19:50,480 Speaker 1: Spain during the era of the Fascists. Like his teacher 279 00:19:50,640 --> 00:19:55,080 Speaker 1: and comrade, Jorg, Lutalo identified himself as a New African 280 00:19:55,160 --> 00:20:01,120 Speaker 1: anarchist prison of war balgon with a ski again from 281 00:20:01,320 --> 00:20:05,920 Speaker 1: Railway State Prison in New Jersey on and rejoined a 282 00:20:06,000 --> 00:20:09,399 Speaker 1: clandestine network of b l A soldiers in alliance with 283 00:20:09,440 --> 00:20:15,320 Speaker 1: white radicals in Soularities of Black Liberation Movement. This ideologically 284 00:20:15,320 --> 00:20:18,760 Speaker 1: diverse network of insurgent militants were known as the Revolution 285 00:20:19,119 --> 00:20:23,159 Speaker 1: Armed Task Force or our A t F, and so 286 00:20:23,200 --> 00:20:26,600 Speaker 1: it's a strategic alliance under leadership of the Black Liberation 287 00:20:26,720 --> 00:20:31,240 Speaker 1: Army that consisted of people of all sorts of different identities. 288 00:20:31,680 --> 00:20:36,159 Speaker 1: You had Muslims and revolutionary nationalists and anti imperialists and communists. 289 00:20:36,160 --> 00:20:40,479 Speaker 1: And Polagon was one of the few, if not the only, 290 00:20:40,800 --> 00:20:43,919 Speaker 1: anarchists in this whole organization. And so even though he 291 00:20:43,960 --> 00:20:47,200 Speaker 1: was critical of Marxism and nationalism, he decided to join 292 00:20:47,240 --> 00:20:50,600 Speaker 1: the comrades he loved and trusted in a common front 293 00:20:50,640 --> 00:20:56,840 Speaker 1: against white supremacy, capitalism, and imperialism. Me personally, um, and 294 00:20:56,920 --> 00:20:58,840 Speaker 1: I have a video of my YouTube channel about it. 295 00:20:59,800 --> 00:21:04,800 Speaker 1: I am not a left unity advocate, never have been. However, 296 00:21:06,440 --> 00:21:10,399 Speaker 1: like I said the video, um, you know there's still 297 00:21:10,520 --> 00:21:13,240 Speaker 1: solidarity to be had on certain topics and sidness use 298 00:21:13,880 --> 00:21:18,040 Speaker 1: and an important aspect, an important component of solidarity his 299 00:21:18,160 --> 00:21:21,680 Speaker 1: trust and to Bilagon clearly had trust in these comrades 300 00:21:21,720 --> 00:21:24,920 Speaker 1: in order to work with them. You know, it can't 301 00:21:24,960 --> 00:21:27,240 Speaker 1: just be this broad sweeping thing and say, oh, well's 302 00:21:27,520 --> 00:21:31,679 Speaker 1: unity soldarity, unity solidarity, and there's nothing to back it up. 303 00:21:31,720 --> 00:21:35,480 Speaker 1: There's no sort of connections or bonds to show for it. 304 00:21:36,960 --> 00:21:39,080 Speaker 1: And of course he did have, you know, political friction 305 00:21:39,200 --> 00:21:42,719 Speaker 1: while in the rt R, A t F his comrades, 306 00:21:43,720 --> 00:21:46,040 Speaker 1: He saw his comrades is a bit rigid, a bit 307 00:21:46,040 --> 00:21:48,439 Speaker 1: too rigid in their views, while he considered himself a 308 00:21:48,440 --> 00:21:53,159 Speaker 1: free spirit, and his comrades, despite the ideological differences and 309 00:21:53,160 --> 00:21:57,000 Speaker 1: his sexual orientation, still respected him because of his commitment 310 00:21:57,119 --> 00:22:02,159 Speaker 1: revolutionary struggle, because of his history of sacrif vices. And 311 00:22:02,240 --> 00:22:04,680 Speaker 1: so the Black Liberation Army and the r A t 312 00:22:04,880 --> 00:22:08,159 Speaker 1: F continue to carry out the condis signed work of 313 00:22:08,400 --> 00:22:13,720 Speaker 1: armed propaganda, of exportriations of resources for capitalists, financial institutions 314 00:22:14,240 --> 00:22:28,000 Speaker 1: for assisting comrades and escape and from incosceration. At this time, 315 00:22:28,040 --> 00:22:31,280 Speaker 1: there was an increase in white supremacist param military activity, 316 00:22:31,520 --> 00:22:39,760 Speaker 1: including the clots Lan, including the KKK, and so the 317 00:22:39,920 --> 00:22:43,119 Speaker 1: r A t F as an alliance helped to the 318 00:22:43,160 --> 00:22:47,240 Speaker 1: whites in that organization helped to gather intelligence on these 319 00:22:47,800 --> 00:22:51,280 Speaker 1: right wing white terms its activities and their connections with 320 00:22:51,320 --> 00:22:55,920 Speaker 1: the U. S. Military. While they also engaged in exporpriations 321 00:22:56,480 --> 00:22:59,040 Speaker 1: to obtain resources, they could build a capacity to resist 322 00:22:59,040 --> 00:23:03,440 Speaker 1: the white spremacist group. Because these violent acts that the 323 00:23:03,560 --> 00:23:05,919 Speaker 1: k K and these other riping groups are doing in 324 00:23:05,920 --> 00:23:09,440 Speaker 1: the late ninety seventies and early nineties, they were murdering 325 00:23:09,720 --> 00:23:13,440 Speaker 1: black children, black youth in Atlanta, black women in Boston, 326 00:23:13,960 --> 00:23:18,680 Speaker 1: and an Alabama, and so they were committed and organized 327 00:23:18,680 --> 00:23:22,280 Speaker 1: and doing something about it. Militant commit month to doing 328 00:23:22,280 --> 00:23:28,280 Speaker 1: something about it. The r t F also um we're 329 00:23:28,320 --> 00:23:31,280 Speaker 1: involved with the escape of a Stata Shaker, one of 330 00:23:31,320 --> 00:23:36,040 Speaker 1: the most iconic of the Panthers, and also the attempted 331 00:23:36,200 --> 00:23:41,959 Speaker 1: Brings expropriation in Nyack, New York. Shaker was wounded and 332 00:23:42,040 --> 00:23:45,080 Speaker 1: paralyzed from a shootout that they had with the New 333 00:23:45,160 --> 00:23:50,919 Speaker 1: Jersey State Troopers and had to escape the scene. And 334 00:23:50,960 --> 00:23:54,600 Speaker 1: as a someone considered the soul of the b l 335 00:23:54,680 --> 00:23:58,439 Speaker 1: A by the FBI, her capture was seen as a 336 00:23:58,520 --> 00:24:04,280 Speaker 1: very significant even and even though she never fired a gun, 337 00:24:04,400 --> 00:24:06,520 Speaker 1: even though she was paralyzed, she was convicted for the 338 00:24:06,600 --> 00:24:10,800 Speaker 1: murder of two state troopers who were killed in the shootout, 339 00:24:13,480 --> 00:24:18,320 Speaker 1: and so she was sentenced to life plus sixty five years. However, 340 00:24:19,359 --> 00:24:26,040 Speaker 1: odinga Blagoon and two white allies as a armed group 341 00:24:26,480 --> 00:24:30,119 Speaker 1: facility the escape of Sakura from Clinton Correctional Institution Wooman 342 00:24:30,359 --> 00:24:36,720 Speaker 1: in New Jersey on November n and I believe she's 343 00:24:36,840 --> 00:24:42,480 Speaker 1: still in Cuba to this day. At the same time, 344 00:24:43,000 --> 00:24:45,880 Speaker 1: the Vactorbrition Army was also trying to expropriate one point 345 00:24:45,960 --> 00:24:49,080 Speaker 1: six million dollars from a Brinx armed truck in New 346 00:24:49,119 --> 00:24:55,800 Speaker 1: York City on October and in the exchange of fire 347 00:24:55,920 --> 00:24:59,720 Speaker 1: that resulted from that attempt, one brings security gun to 348 00:25:00,000 --> 00:25:04,960 Speaker 1: The officers were killed and three white radicals and one 349 00:25:05,000 --> 00:25:11,640 Speaker 1: black man were also captured. Eventually, although he was laying 350 00:25:11,680 --> 00:25:14,960 Speaker 1: loo in New York City in the Manhattan Apartment, the 351 00:25:15,119 --> 00:25:21,159 Speaker 1: Joint Terrorist Task Force did eventually apprehend Baldagoon and so 352 00:25:21,720 --> 00:25:28,320 Speaker 1: once again he found himself in prison. But they did 353 00:25:28,960 --> 00:25:34,359 Speaker 1: managed to successfully expropriate some fronts from financial institutions going 354 00:25:34,359 --> 00:25:37,840 Speaker 1: back to the nine and those funds that they were 355 00:25:37,880 --> 00:25:40,600 Speaker 1: able to take were usually as to support the development 356 00:25:40,680 --> 00:25:44,440 Speaker 1: of an underground infrastructure, to support families to political prisoners, 357 00:25:44,760 --> 00:25:47,960 Speaker 1: to support political activities institutions with the Black Liberation movement 358 00:25:48,600 --> 00:25:54,359 Speaker 1: and general freedom struggles on the African continent, that is solidarity. 359 00:25:55,440 --> 00:25:58,560 Speaker 1: After his capture as a New African anarchist prisoner of 360 00:25:58,560 --> 00:26:02,879 Speaker 1: war for the the Good Time, who as he spoke 361 00:26:02,920 --> 00:26:07,840 Speaker 1: out to the movement for the first time again identify 362 00:26:07,920 --> 00:26:11,760 Speaker 1: himself as a New African anarchist, he spoke to the 363 00:26:11,800 --> 00:26:14,480 Speaker 1: public about his politics, and I wanted to make his 364 00:26:14,520 --> 00:26:19,239 Speaker 1: attentions clear. He acted as his own attorney in the 365 00:26:19,359 --> 00:26:21,360 Speaker 1: Rockland County trial where he was charged with the armed 366 00:26:21,440 --> 00:26:24,760 Speaker 1: robbery and the murders of the brins Garden police officers. 367 00:26:24,840 --> 00:26:27,320 Speaker 1: And so you want to make an opening statement, and 368 00:26:27,400 --> 00:26:31,680 Speaker 1: so it went as follows, I am a prisoner of war. 369 00:26:32,600 --> 00:26:35,040 Speaker 1: I attracted the crap about me being a defendant, and 370 00:26:35,040 --> 00:26:38,840 Speaker 1: I don't recognize legitimacy of this court. The term defendant 371 00:26:38,880 --> 00:26:42,240 Speaker 1: applies to someone involved in a criminal matter. It is 372 00:26:42,280 --> 00:26:44,200 Speaker 1: clear that I've been a part of the black liberation 373 00:26:44,200 --> 00:26:46,679 Speaker 1: movement all of my adult life, and I've been involved 374 00:26:46,680 --> 00:26:49,119 Speaker 1: in a war against the American imperialist You know, it's 375 00:26:49,119 --> 00:26:52,840 Speaker 1: a free New African people from its yoke. He wanted 376 00:26:52,880 --> 00:26:56,840 Speaker 1: it acknowledged that his armed action to a politically motivated 377 00:26:56,960 --> 00:27:01,520 Speaker 1: to win national liberation to eliminate capitalis some impualism and 378 00:27:01,560 --> 00:27:05,439 Speaker 1: ultimately authority and forms of government. And of course he 379 00:27:05,520 --> 00:27:09,639 Speaker 1: was sentenced to life imprisonment. Yeah. He continued to speak 380 00:27:09,680 --> 00:27:13,840 Speaker 1: to New African and Black liberation forces and two anarchists 381 00:27:13,840 --> 00:27:19,200 Speaker 1: gathering through public skate statements. He advocated continuously for the 382 00:27:19,200 --> 00:27:22,480 Speaker 1: building of an ensurgent movement, of building over tournaments, communities 383 00:27:24,760 --> 00:27:28,200 Speaker 1: at a hall and rally for imprison New African freedom writers, 384 00:27:28,200 --> 00:27:31,280 Speaker 1: the statement was read that we must build a revolutionary 385 00:27:31,320 --> 00:27:35,920 Speaker 1: political platform and a universal network of survival programs. In 386 00:27:35,960 --> 00:27:37,879 Speaker 1: another statement, he said, where we live and work, we 387 00:27:37,960 --> 00:27:41,000 Speaker 1: must organize on the ground level the landlords once we 388 00:27:41,040 --> 00:27:44,080 Speaker 1: contested through und strikes, and rather than develop strategies to 389 00:27:44,119 --> 00:27:46,880 Speaker 1: pay rent, we should develop strategies to take the buildings, 390 00:27:47,280 --> 00:27:51,200 Speaker 1: set up communes and abandoned buildings to vacant lots into gardens. 391 00:27:51,520 --> 00:27:53,080 Speaker 1: When our children grow out of clothes, we should have 392 00:27:53,160 --> 00:27:56,879 Speaker 1: places we can take them, clearly marked anarchists clothing exchanges. 393 00:27:57,200 --> 00:28:00,240 Speaker 1: We must learn construction and we take back our lives. Yeas, 394 00:28:01,160 --> 00:28:03,880 Speaker 1: he wanted to challenge people to move from a theory 395 00:28:03,960 --> 00:28:09,399 Speaker 1: into practice, to define anarchy in the real will, to 396 00:28:09,480 --> 00:28:14,560 Speaker 1: show the masses models of delivering water oppressors and of 397 00:28:15,119 --> 00:28:20,560 Speaker 1: building a better way of life. Unfortunately, although he struggled 398 00:28:20,640 --> 00:28:24,760 Speaker 1: long in prison and continuously advocated for the Black liberation 399 00:28:24,800 --> 00:28:27,840 Speaker 1: movement for the anarchist movement, he died in prison on 400 00:28:28,040 --> 00:28:35,600 Speaker 1: December two due to complications related to AIDS. So although 401 00:28:35,600 --> 00:28:39,000 Speaker 1: he's not a main extreme discourse. He's still recognized and 402 00:28:39,080 --> 00:28:44,800 Speaker 1: respected in some blaque New African anarchists and queer anarchist 403 00:28:44,840 --> 00:28:50,400 Speaker 1: spaces um because of his efforts in that time, because 404 00:28:50,400 --> 00:28:54,840 Speaker 1: of his self identity in that time. I spoke about 405 00:28:54,920 --> 00:28:59,080 Speaker 1: him briefly in my video and Black Anarchism, the research 406 00:28:59,120 --> 00:29:00,960 Speaker 1: for videos how it is of him in the first place, 407 00:29:01,520 --> 00:29:04,120 Speaker 1: and I was surprised that he wasn't spoken about so much, 408 00:29:04,200 --> 00:29:11,440 Speaker 1: considering his influence and his efforts and his She was 409 00:29:11,480 --> 00:29:14,680 Speaker 1: almost like, and I hate to do this to history, 410 00:29:15,000 --> 00:29:17,800 Speaker 1: to do this kind of great man things history. But 411 00:29:17,840 --> 00:29:22,120 Speaker 1: the fan was like a main character. Yeah, Like he 412 00:29:22,280 --> 00:29:24,840 Speaker 1: was there for the New York Plant, the twenty one Trials, 413 00:29:24,880 --> 00:29:29,280 Speaker 1: he was like dropping rats and congress. He was facility 414 00:29:29,320 --> 00:29:31,960 Speaker 1: in the escape of a Sacha Shakur for crying out loud. 415 00:29:34,000 --> 00:29:39,760 Speaker 1: He did so much in his short boost of freedom, UM. 416 00:29:39,840 --> 00:29:44,040 Speaker 1: And I can't help but respect that he stood out 417 00:29:44,840 --> 00:29:49,000 Speaker 1: most places he went, and I can't help but admire that. 418 00:29:52,360 --> 00:29:56,000 Speaker 1: In two thousand five, the Malcolm X Grassroots Movement, which 419 00:29:56,000 --> 00:30:00,480 Speaker 1: is a New African activist organization, declared its annual Orcas 420 00:30:00,560 --> 00:30:06,000 Speaker 1: celebration dedicated to Quasi b Lagoon and they in that celebration, 421 00:30:06,040 --> 00:30:08,920 Speaker 1: they also highlighted the needful awareness of the AIDS virus 422 00:30:08,960 --> 00:30:13,240 Speaker 1: and Africa and among the African aspiral. A couple of 423 00:30:13,360 --> 00:30:16,600 Speaker 1: radical hip hop artists such as Dead Press Inside Malik 424 00:30:17,000 --> 00:30:19,680 Speaker 1: have also mentioned Bo Lagoon's name, but his name is 425 00:30:19,720 --> 00:30:23,920 Speaker 1: still not commonly used enough, not as much as other 426 00:30:23,920 --> 00:30:34,080 Speaker 1: Black revolutionaries like Hue and Shaker and Muttulu Shaker. Anarchist 427 00:30:34,080 --> 00:30:39,160 Speaker 1: collectives have also recognized him, have republished his works. Um 428 00:30:39,600 --> 00:30:43,160 Speaker 1: have you know, put his his his writings and newsletters 429 00:30:43,360 --> 00:30:50,240 Speaker 1: and his trial statements and tributes, and yet he's still 430 00:30:51,160 --> 00:30:56,600 Speaker 1: that well recognized. The Quebec collective solarity is you have 431 00:30:56,680 --> 00:31:00,680 Speaker 1: collected works of Balagoon's trial statements as his poetry and 432 00:31:00,720 --> 00:31:04,800 Speaker 1: acknowledgements from comrades titled a Soldier's Story, which you can 433 00:31:04,840 --> 00:31:12,200 Speaker 1: find on the Anarchists Library. And in fact that soldiers 434 00:31:12,200 --> 00:31:16,320 Speaker 1: story is where I drew from for uh the script 435 00:31:16,360 --> 00:31:27,560 Speaker 1: for this two part podcast episode. I think that his 436 00:31:27,640 --> 00:31:31,880 Speaker 1: efforts well and not even to mention his actual identity 437 00:31:31,920 --> 00:31:35,360 Speaker 1: being a vehicle to challenge homophobia within the broader black 438 00:31:35,400 --> 00:31:38,800 Speaker 1: liberation movement, because he showed himself to be committed to 439 00:31:38,840 --> 00:31:41,280 Speaker 1: the cause, and he exposed people who may not have 440 00:31:41,360 --> 00:31:46,440 Speaker 1: otherwise been exposed to it. You know, the validity and 441 00:31:46,480 --> 00:31:53,160 Speaker 1: the humanity in Aquare comrades. He will forever remain remembered 442 00:31:53,880 --> 00:31:58,840 Speaker 1: and saluted by certain revolutionary nationalists around clanarchists and qualiberation forces. 443 00:31:59,120 --> 00:32:02,760 Speaker 1: He will forever be seen to me as an iconic 444 00:32:03,680 --> 00:32:08,040 Speaker 1: roon and I only hope that this podcast helps his 445 00:32:08,920 --> 00:32:15,160 Speaker 1: legacy to live on and encourages and motivates and strengthens 446 00:32:15,160 --> 00:32:18,640 Speaker 1: the resolve of people too. Wogan. I suppressed people to 447 00:32:18,720 --> 00:32:23,280 Speaker 1: build a revolutionary program, to challenge capitalism, to challenge racism, 448 00:32:23,280 --> 00:32:28,320 Speaker 1: wherever they find themselves the master their circumstances. And that's 449 00:32:28,320 --> 00:32:34,520 Speaker 1: about it. This has been a soldier's story, the life 450 00:32:34,560 --> 00:32:39,120 Speaker 1: and legacy of Quasi b Lagoon. 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