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G&R Episode 34: From "Burn, Baby! Burn!" to Black Lives Matter--LA's Watts Uprising 55 Years Later
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This week, 55 years ago, the Watts Uprising in Los Angeles began amidst a traffic incident with a black motorist and the California Highway Patrol in the South Central neighborhood of the bustling city. By the end of the week, 34 had been killed, hundreds injured, over $40 million in property damaged and destroyed, 16,000 national guardsmen and police deployed to quell the uprising and a new chapter in black radicalism began. A popular saying after Watts and after similar uprisings in in Detroit and Newark, NJ in 1967 became popularized-- "Burn, baby! Burn!"
Green and Red dives into the Watts uprising and talks about parallels to 2020's summer uprisings.
Plus we take this moment for a couple of jabs on our favorite red-baiting neo-liberal ex-president Bill Clinton.
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Read more:
- Mike Davis and Jon Weiner, Set the Night on Fire: https://bit.ly/31M7koK
- Gerald Horne, Fire This Time: The Watts Uprising and the 1960s: https://bit.ly/2DRxFJS
- Guy Debord,The Decline and Fall of the Spectacle-Commodity Economy:https://bit.ly/2DJYxf1
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