By Any Means Necessary

In this episode of By Any Means Necessary, host Sean Blackmon is joined by Esther Iverem, artist, author and independent journalist, host and producer of “On The Ground: Voices of Resistance from the Nation’s Capital” on Pacifica Radio, to discuss the sentencing of now-former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin to 22.5 years for his murder of George Floyd, why the latest ‘police lynching’ reinvigorated protests movements throughout Washington, D.C., and how police violence throughout the United States has its roots in the capitalist economic system which impacts so much of our lives.In the second segment, Sean is joined by Sohrob Aslamy, a doctoral student at Syracuse University in the department of Geography and the environment, to discuss the “overwhelming uncertainty” in Afghanistan as the Taliban take over wide swathes of the country amid the ongoing US military withdrawal, the deadly impacts of two decades of US and NATO occupation on the besieged Afghani populace, and how the Covid pandemic contrib