Elaine Brown

In Oakland, a federal lawsuit has been filed against San Francisco over a police raid at a West Oakland affordable housing complex with ties to the Black Panther Party.

The raid happened in May at the Black Panther Apartments, a building that provides housing for low-income and formerly incarcerated residents and is partly owned by former Black Panther leader Elaine Brown.

She told KTVU...

These are truly fascist tactics.

From Andrea Dworkin and Betty Friedan.

There's a viral video right now of Elaine Brown from the Black Panthers talking at Gloria Steinem.

Who? The Playboy Bunny CIA agent?

Trying

I get that.

But when Elaine Brown took over the Black Panthers, and I write this in my chapter on feminism, prior to her becoming the first chairwoman of the Black Panthers, the Panthers, for instance, compared abortion to genocide.

They say abortion was like genocide, trying to kill off the Black community.

She came in and said, no, abortion is needed for women to have true liberation.

The corporations were developing sovereignty first through nation states and then over them.

His comrade Elaine Brown noted something striking.

By the 1970s, corporations were already arguing something bold.

They control more wealth than most member states of the United Nations.

And in February of 1971, after Cleaver attacked him in a televised interview, Newton expelled it.

The section that carried the name of his greatest idea was the section that FBI's forgeries helped him cut loose.

Elaine Brown was in the room when Newton called Algeria to make the break.

she remembered him with tears in his eyes saying to cleaver i thought we had a party the split turned deadly within weeks panthers on opposite coasts began killing each other the party that had carried newton's ideas around the world never recovered the theory he had just finished building was orphaned almost on arrival born into a dying organization too abstract to fit on a poster never given a real chance to be tested in the world it was designed to describe And so revolutionary intercommunalism slipped into the gap between Newton, the icon, and Newton the thinker.

This is Season 10, where we're exploring where technology actually meets the messy reality of how people and organisations work.

My guest this episode is Elaine Brown, Chief Executive of the Edinburgh Remakery, which is a social enterprise and charity based in Leith in Edinburgh in Scotland.

They describe themselves as Scotland's leading social ITAD.

ITAD, in case you aren't familiar, stands for IT Asset Disposition, which involves taking the devices, laptops, phones and so on, that businesses no longer want, wiping them, refurbishing them and then giving them a second life, or recycling if there's no other option.

As always, the full show notes and links are at happyporchradio.com.

So here's Elaine.

Hello, I'm Elaine Brown.

I'm the Chief Executive of the Edinburgh Remakery, a fabulous award-winning social enterprise and charity based in Edinburgh in Leith.