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About Raymond Nat Turner

Raymond Nat Turner is a former forklift driver/warehouse worker/janitor, poet in residence at Black Agenda Report, and founder/co-leader of the jazz-poetry ensemble UpSurge!NYC. You can vote for his work at: GoFundMe: https://www.gofundme.com/f/the-town-criers-big-tooth-fund PayPal: paypal.me/towncrierRNT
  • Lives lost too soon: Uvalde, Texas school shooting – The Hilltopper The Hilltopper Lives lost too soon: Uvalde, Texas school shooting.

    Reading, writing, ‘rithmetic of rifles (for Uvalde and other schools…)

    Raymond Nat Turner

    for Uvalde and other schools…

  • Fighting for Oak Flat/Chi Chil Bildagoteel

    Fighting for Oak Flat/Chi Chil Bildagoteel

    Originally published: Black Agenda Report on October 20, 2021 (more by Black Agenda Report)  |

    “Nobody made a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could only do little.” —Edmund Burke

  • Jack Hirschman - San Francisco Poet

    Ol’ Red Jack Hirschman: He weaponized words

    Raymond Nat Turner

    Jack Hirschman (December 13, 1933 – August 22, 2021) was an American poet and social activist who wrote more than 100 volumes of poetry and essays.

  • Glen Ford in Philadelphia on December 7, 2019

    …For Brother Glen

    Raymond Nat Turner

    A poem in remembrance of Glen Ford, whose untimely death on July 28, 2021, we deeply mourn.

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Money on the Left Episodes

  • Democracy Needs Public Media w/ Victor Pickard
    Raymond Nat Turner

    Victor Pickard returns to Money on the Left six years after his first appearance on the show to discuss the state of the U.S. media system under Trump 2.0. Pickard is C. Edwin Baker Professor of Media Policy and Political Economy at the University of Pennsylvania’s Annenberg School for Communication and Co-Director at the Media, […]

  • Public Employment & Training from the Great Society to the “End of Welfare as We Know It”
    Raymond Nat Turner

    This month, Scott Ferguson speaks with Mario Rendina about the politics of public employment and training in the United States as they shifted over the course of the late 20th century. Rendina brings over thirty years of hands-on experience working within municipal government in Tampa Bay, Florida—specifically within Hillsborough County. Grounded in his extensive career […]

  • The Public Banking Institute
    Raymond Nat Turner

    In this episode, we speak with Walt McRee (President) and Peter Winslow (Vice President) of the Public Banking Institute (PBI) about their past and ongoing advocacy for public banking. Founded in 2011 by author Ellen Brown and a core collective of advocates, PBI aims to break the monopoly of Wall Street’s private banking system by […]

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Monthly Review Essays

  • Parallel Universes
    Andy Merrifield

    Anybody who’s ever leafed through Finnegans Wake will quickly recognize that we’re not dealing here with a standard novel, just as anybody leafing through Marx’s Capital will know we’re not dealing with standard economics.

Lost & Found

  • The Rise and Fall of the United Farm Workers
    Michael D. Yates Cesar Chavez (center) marches with United Farm Workers members in Redondo Beach, California, July 9, 1975.

    Chavez could not abide the idea, much less the reality, that the farm workers themselves could and should run the union.

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