Podcasts
“Friendship and Freedom”
The latest episode of “A Different Lens” features a conversation about love and struggle with artist, illustrator, community leader, and author Vernon T. Batman and the Liberation Center’s Organizational Relations Director, Derek Ford. The episode comes as Vernon’s struggle picks up steam after Congressman André D. Carson’s recent letter in support of Clemency for Vernon. The letter, which you can read here, also notes how the IDOC’s “punitively strict probation restrictions” against Vernon “severely limit his ability to work and make positive contributions to our community.” Sign and share the petition to exonerate Vernon at FreeVernon.org!
“Breaking Chains: Vernon’s Fight for Freedom”
This is the episode of Underdawg Talk Podcast featuring Vernon T. Bateman since his release in 2023.
“Understanding Marx’s Capital with Liberation School”
In this episode of Revolutionary Left Radio, Breht talks with Derek Ford about the Liberation School’s new podcast/online class “Reading Capital with Comrades.”
“Party Time with Derek Ford”
In this episode of The Magnificast, Matt and Dean talked with Derek R. Ford, author of Communist Study: Education For the Commons, about communism, party movements, and bridges between Christianity and leftism.
“The Actuality of Revolution: Marxist Education and the Commons”
What is the role of education within radical and revolutionary movements? Is the classroom a political space? How do traditions of Marxian thought and pedagogy frame those questions? In this episode of Nothing Never Happens, Derek R. Ford offers a crash orientation to the terrain of Marxist educational theory and practice, with a focus on its dynamic expressions in resistance movements, organizing campaigns, and more formal schooling contexts. Topics include Marxian traditions of education, dialogical pedagogy, practices of interpretation in a so-called “post-truth” era, and cultivating learning spaces where all people can experience the freedom and invitation to learn, question, explore, and build new ways of living and being.
Derek Ford is an organizer, author, and teacher with deep ties to Left movement spaces. Currently an Assistant Professor of Education Studies at DePauw University, their books include Teaching the Actuality of Revolution: Aesthetics, Pedagogy, and the Sensations of Struggle(2023), Communist Study: Education for the Commons(2022), Encountering Education: Elements for a Marxist Pedagogy (2022), Inhuman Educations: Jean-Francois Lyotard, Pedagogy, Thought(2021), and many edited books and articles on eco and urban pedagogies and politics. They are also an editor at Liberation School where they help to create the Reading Capital with Comrades podcast series.
Credits: Outro Music by Akrasis (Max Bowen, raps; Mark McKee, beats); audio editing by Aliyah Harris; production by Lucia Hulsether + Tina Pippin.