Thai Jones
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Thai Jones
@thai_jones
Scholar, journalist, and teacher, Thai Jones studies labor, environmental, and urban history, and the tradition of American radical movements.
NYC Katılım Kasım 2011
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Maybe this is only interesting for writers...
But HBO renewed it for season 2 in August 2021. That means they put the whole thing together in a year? So Mike White wrote 6 hour-long scripts in like 6 months? And directed them all? And they're this good? How?
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Thanks @Reinelaitiere! I know I'm biased, but she is indeed my personal hero. Working with people like Ella Baker and Mary Church Terrell, she was a brilliant movement builder. And her motto, "It takes a spectrum" is one that all Progressive activists can live by.
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Inflation woes, panic @ the pump, foreign wars, dissensus among progressive movements, environmental crises, a sense that the good days had come and gone - the late 1970s were a helluva time to be born into a tradition of revolutionary struggle. #MotherCountryRadicals @ZaydDohrn
Zayd Ayers Dohrn@ZaydDohrn
Chapter 8 features cameos from Mark Felt (AKA "Deep Throat"), @jeffjones23jeff, @EsteinEleanor, and my fellow Weather Kid @ThaiJones, who also happens to the historian on #MotherCountryRadicals Here's Thai with his dad. And me with my mom, while we were all underground:
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Interesting piece. It's worth recalling that the lies spouted (and believed) by the Jan. 6 insurrectionists are about their fears of losing white power to the rise of a pluralistic anti-authoritarian truly democratic polity.
Zayd Ayers Dohrn@ZaydDohrn
I have a piece in The Guardian today, about lessons we can learn from the left-wing underground in today's era of right-wing extremism (hint: the two things are not the same) theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2…
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Surprised? Why?!? The American public has an insatiable appetite for narrative nuance, complex character development, and critical self-reflection on historical injustices. Congrats to @ZaydDohrn @dustlight_co @CrookedMedia and the whole Mother Country Radicals team!
Zayd Ayers Dohrn@ZaydDohrn
I don't know what is happening... But apparently #MotherCountryRadicals is one of the Top 10 podcasts in the country right now. Thanks to everyone listening (episode 7 out today!)
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Mother Country Radicals ep 5 available today. Hear how the Weathermen built -- and nearly lost -- an underground network designed to overthrow the US Govt. @jeffjones23jeff @ZaydDohrn @CrookedMedia
crooked.com/podcast/chapte…
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@jkuszai Hey @jkuszai , as a Mets fan and co-writer of this podcast I urge you to give it a listen. Whether or not they actually were "at war" with the government, J. Edgar Hoover and Richard Nixon sure took them seriously as a security threat. @ZaydDohrn @Mets #BeattheCubs!
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At the '69 SDS convention - which began 53 years ago today - Weathermen chose to split SDS over support for the Black Power Movement. Many saw this as the start of the Bad '60s, but their choice to act as comrades to Black freedom fighters feels praiseworthy today. @CrookedMedia
Zayd Ayers Dohrn@ZaydDohrn
My mom as a 27-year-old…
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So thrilled that Mother Country Radicals was named the winner in audio storytelling at @Tribeca Film Festival '22! @AHAhistorians @The_OAH @CUHistoryDept
Jon Lovett@jonlovett
Huge win at @Tribeca for our new pod Mother Country Radicals. The show is FANTASTIC. You will be hooked. Subscribe wherever you listen.
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Mother Country #Radicals Episode 4 is now available. Hear how the Weather Underground tried to bring the War home and ended up almost destroying themselves in the process. @CrookedMedia @ZaydDohrn @wunderground podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/cha…
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So proud to have been involved with this project. Congrats to @ZaydDohrn and everyone else who made it happen!
Tribeca@Tribeca
The host’s willingness to take us along in his investigation of his parents’ radicalization make this an incredible listen. The winner of the Tribeca Podcast Award: Best Audio Storytelling in Nonfiction is “Mother Country Radicals” tribecafilm.com/films/mother-c…
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Thai Jones retweetledi
The host’s willingness to take us along in his investigation of his parents’ radicalization make this an incredible listen. The winner of the Tribeca Podcast Award: Best Audio Storytelling in Nonfiction is “Mother Country Radicals”
tribecafilm.com/films/mother-c…
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This is amazing. I definitely need one of those billboards for the #archives.
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The podcast looks again at 60s militancy from the experiences and lessons of today's movements -- especially the fight against racialized policing. Historians will find new insights and perspectives here. @The_OAH @AHAhistorians @ZaydDohrn @CUHistoryDept
CU History Department@CUHistoryDept
Mother Country Radicals, narrative podcast reexamining interconnected histories of white & Black 60s militants, dropped first 3 episodes. @thai_jones helped to write this, served as historian, & mined a vast range of archival sources for historical audio ow.ly/L6Ex50Jx1K4
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When does #revolution become the only option? When is inaction complicity? When and how do you fight back? Mother Country Radicals @CrookedMedia @jonfavs @ZaydDohrn
Jon Favreau@jonfavs
Great weekend listening: crooked.com/podcast-series…
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Episode 1 is a fascinating depiction of an everyday person turning herself into a badass revolutionary. #MotherCountryRadicals @CrookedMedia @Audacy
Zayd Ayers Dohrn@ZaydDohrn
#MotherCountryRadicals is out today! Chapter 1... How did my mom become the most dangerous woman in America?
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Historians and students of the Sixties take note. This new podcast from @CrookedMedia is going to be a fantastic teaching and learning resource for studying Sixties radicalism. @AHAhistorians
Jon Favreau@jonfavs
The trailer is out! This is one of my favorite podcasts I've ever worked on at Crooked
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Stumbled upon this destruction along the Chicago lakefront path while on a photo shoot South of the 49th Street Beach. 🤯All caused by high Lake Michigan levels, wind and big waves.
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Doing this interview reminded me once again of the amazing work done by the students over the years in the @Columbia & Slavery project.
Gotham Center for New York City History@GothamCenter
New on the blog! Editor @robbkh speaks with @thai_jones about the Columbia University and Slavery Project. A Long and Complex Legacy: An Interview with Thai Jones on the Columbia University and Slavery Project gothamcenter.org/blog/a-long-an… @Columbia
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Asheville, NC, just joined the short (but ever-growing) list of American cities to enact local #reparations laws.
npr.org/sections/live-…
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