Hello and welcome to Mapping Fortlines, a show by Newsclick where we look at major issues between countries, between around borders and their geo-strategic importance. Today, we are going to be talking about the recent issues between India and China which have been going on for nearly two months now. There's been a lot of uncertainty, a lot of confusion around it. There were violent incidents in the past one week but we're also going to be looking at the larger geopolitical and strategic role relevance of these issues. We have with us Prabir Burkhaistar of Newsclick. Thank you Prabir so much for joining us. So over the past few days, there's been clearly a lot of talks going on to de-escalate the situation to make sure that the conflict does not escalate. But can we first start by looking at the specific region itself and what is the geo-strategic significance of this region in the Ladakh area for India? These are areas where there's not much human habitation, areas where there's weather is very extreme. So what exactly is the key role of these eight regions? Well you know, of course this as you have already said was in the process of disengagement after a standoff and it's unfortunate that whatever may have been the reason that process of disengagement should also have led to a engagement. So to say and even if it was the scuffle, hand stones, bricks, staves, whatever it is. But it has led to the death of 20 Indian soldiers. So this is something really unfortunate and I think that's really cause for concern. Indian side of course but also the Chinese side because the Chinese have said that they do not want to disclose the casualties but they seem to indicate they also have had casualties. So that this should have happened at all during the process of disengagement shows that either the process of disengagement was not worked out in detail enough for such a thing to have happened or at least during the process of disengagement if there are differences they should have had at least a status quo before referring to other authorities and resolving the issue. It's unfortunate that such an incident should have taken place during this phase itself. What has been called also accepted by both sides of the phase of disengagement. We also have the Prime Minister statement that there is no territory under occupation and we've got all our soldiers back, there is nobody who's missing. So I hope now that India and China can work out via media at least for the short term but what you're asking is why are such issues creeping up at all and I think for that we have to look at what are the Chinese and the Indian sensibilities and it won't happen unless we also recognize there are sensibilities on both sides. For Indian side of course this has been the issue that the CPP corridor, the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor which is from Khajigarh to Gwadar Port in Pakistan really passes through what we call as the Pakistan Occupied Kashmir and if that is so then of course this is something which India would like then to take cognizance of and also for Pakistan and China who want to bring the two economies closer together and also for China in which Gwadar would be really a port, warm water port directly into the Indian Ocean and from that it could then go over to Africa shortens distance significantly for the Belt Road Initiative. Therefore CPP for both Pakistan and China are extremely important. So this is one strategic part that we have to take into account. The other part and I think that's also important for India to understand is of course Jingyang Tibet Road which at that time is to call it Sinkiang, the Sinkiang Tibet Road which was built in 1957 which is completed in 1957 by China which was a pebble kind of road. It was really not an asphalt road. It's now an asphalt road. So it's an important highway that they have built. It links Tibet to Sinkiang. So that's something that is extremely important for China and they are not going to of course be quiet if that is certain. If we see the areas where we seem to be clashing with the Chinese over the last few months then you will see we have already talked about Pangmong saw in the papers that's an area we seem to have having differences. The Galwan River of course with the main clash has taken place and also the Dipsong Plains, Shaiok River. These are all areas if you see that have come into some kind of tension on the other. Now what are the disputed territory? What are the lines we love going to? But we all know that between the United Kingdom, Britain at that time, the Great Britain and China there was really no agreed border that was there. This was border on which both sides had claims, both sides had lines and this is therefore an undefined border that has been there for a very long time. The difference as you have said that these are uninhabited areas so as the countries have become more powerful, more developed they have pushed the their definition of the border leading as we know the in the earlier 1962 war where Akshayi Chin which India claims the part of India has been under occupation by China but more important than that there is also the issue and you can see that this is the part that is the basically seem to be a part of India which is under occupation by China. Now here the problem that is there is that Akshayi Chin if this is really something that India claims and the point is if it is going to severe their highway that that is something which I don't think China is going to agree to partly because it's never been a border which is defined between UK Britain and China. So I don't think India's expectation that China will hand over Akshayi Chin is ever going to really happen. I don't think these were actually even issues for a long time. India opened the Donald Big Oldie Airport about 10 years back in 2008 or so and made it enough so that even big helicopters could land there carrying a lot of goods. So we have been actually building that access to the border by strengthening the roads, strengthening airports and making that something that India could actively engage with if China also wanted to encroach further or there was any difference of opinion which leads to a clash is on the ground. So both sides and this is true for China as well. Both sides have been strengthening their infrastructure close to the border. But in the last year particularly when India talked about the Indian parliament about taking back Pakistan occupied Kashmir we also talked about taking back Akshayi Chin. This is the Home Minister's statement and we also did talk about taking it ambiguous. Of course we could argue that part of Akshayi Chin which has been ceded by Pakistan to China or did it mean the whole of Akshayi Chin but the threat that India would could take over these parts meant both the CPAP corridor was at risk as far as China is concerned as well as the Sinkyan, Tibet highway or the Xinjiang, Tibet highway both of these would be at risk. So this buildup for China seems to represent for them at least in their understanding a threat and I think a part of the problem that India has got is that it has taken all of these individual incidents as a matter of Chinese encroachments, Chinese trying to set new boundaries but they have not understood the strategic threat that they think India poses to their two major projects. One can argue that the Chinese reaction was certainly not well timed it was not diplomatic much more efforts should have been made to see that this does not go out of hand but at the same time it is very difficult for us to conclude who at that height of 14,000 feet cast the first stone so to say which led to this kind of clashes all we can say is this has been building up for quite some time why is it that we did not try and see that these issues are resolved in a different way instead of leading finally to what we see as a Galwan river clash and all that too in the process of disengagement. Indian diplomacy should have been harnessed to the task much sooner than leaving it to left-wing generals, major generals to sort out what has seen to be a border issue and not seem to be a much larger geo-strategic issue as you have raised and not understanding the geo-strategic importance that China was giving to this kind of issues I think what we have done is therefore let tactic determine our strategy and therefore local low-level clashes now have escalated to the level where now both countries have hair-trigger alert, they're too nuclear to armed powers and this is not good for anybody in the world. In the aftermath of this clash there's been a lot of jingoism going about in the Indian media as usual hashtags late night debates all of it so but even among say certain experts in the strategy community there's been a call for a much more harsh approach and one of the strategies people are talking about is that does it make sense to move closer to the United States and its allies in the region although the fact that India is moving closer to the US or the Quad was maybe one of the reasons for China becoming a bit more varied. So how do we see this demand in this context? Well you know you've almost answered the question yourself that if we look at one of the aspects of the current clash it is also that China is much more wary of India now partly because of its attempts to build up all of this infrastructure in a very sensitive border area which is strategic significance not so much for India but certainly for Pakistan China CPP Corridor and for China in the Jinjiang Tibet highway so I think that that part of it is something that India is missing that if on top of that you are also getting very close to the United States and Australia and Japan and you are talking about how as a Quad you are now part of containment of China in the South China Sea now if you look at the South China Sea it's not really close to the India to close to India it is South China Sea after all neither India nor Australia nor in fact the United States is anywhere close to it so when they want to say that we are protecting South China Sea now that's power projection the US has been doing it but for India and Australia and Japan to join in US power projection doesn't really make too much sense as far as China is concerned it is seen to be a threat so the if you see our build up in that area coupled with our joining what you said the Quad then automatically the threat perception regarding India it becomes more for China and I think that's one again of the misunderstanding the Chinese have I'm saying it misunderstanding I do not believe that India poses a serious threat of war on China or trying to take over the CPP Corridor whatever various shall we say jingoistic late night experts on television might say so if you leave that out so I think this is signals being given which are either not fully intended or basically a kind of gamemanship which is also the problem now if we look at the United States well you know there has been somebody who has said I don't know who it is now who said that the you know it's a very big threat to be an enemy of the United States the only bigger threat it is actually becoming its friend so because these are the first thing the United States will do is betray its own friends Mr. Trump has said he wants to mediate between India and China so he's not saying that his interests lie with India his interests are in mediating between India and China that he can perhaps get more benefits regarding what China will concede in terms of trade to the United States in this trade war so if you see all of that the United States plays a very simple game what is of interest to be is all that matters to be everything else is secondary and therefore going in with a party who is who has that embedded in its genetic makeup so to say is I think extremely foolish for India because India has strategic autonomy has tried to preserve a strategic autonomy unfortunately under the previous UPA regime as well as the current India BJP led regime we have been slowly eroding the strategic autonomy and trying to close come close to much more to the United States this has been a progression from 1990 to today but we have discovered on various occasions that it backfires on us and we pull back to a more strategic autonomy position I think if we use a border clash of this kind both India China was in the process of disengagement and we take a strategic decision based on that I think it would be extremely foolish and certainly it's not an India's larger interest so I think tying strategically with the United States against China would be an extremely foolish mistake apart from the fact that as we know a huge part of India's trade and it's not only India's trade with China that's at stake but India's trade with other countries depend a lot on parts and manufactured items that we get from China as Rajiv Bajaj hence Bajaj Autos has said that you know we export 15,000 crores work of equipment motorcycles and two-wheelers from India 1,000 crores is what we import from China but without that we'd be endangering half 15,000 crores of export so one shouldn't see this kind of things without looking at the much larger picture and I think we are letting the shall we say the military view or shall we say the television military view of the world take over both our media and our good sense and I think this is time that we should assert our good sense and talk about peace it will not help our soldiers who have died by having a war with China in which both sides are going to lose and with India now in the grip of a COVID epidemic I think this is suicidal for India to engage in any of this kind of adventure as it has been called and it is also extremely foolish on India's path to align with the United States because in the process of disengagement we had a clash and our soldiers died that is not the larger view of the world we need to take today thank you so much for if you're talking to us that's all we have time for today keep watching news click


I try to start using technology from the very beginning of the school year, and a lot of kids, partly because they're first graders, haven't had a lot of experience with it. So we make a movie within the first two weeks about our student rights and responsibilities. So we take each of those rights and responsibilities, and we break it down and talk about what it means, and then they plan a picture to model that. And at that point, I take the pictures, but we dump them into PhotoStory and we record our understanding of these things, and we have a video then that we've made that we can watch. And as the year goes on, we continue to do that, and I turn more and more of the responsibility over to the students. So when they first hand the cameras to them, it's within our classroom in a pretty comfortable constrained setting, and they'll take pictures of things they've counted in math, or they'll take pictures of something that they've built so that if I don't get over to see it, there's a memory of it that I can look at later. They've used the flips to record each other's number stories in math, or to record what they understood about something else. So starting within the room in a small group using the cameras gets them comfortable with it. And by this point in the year, I'll send a small group of kids with a camera out into the building to do something, go take pictures of shapes, go take pictures, go record people talking about how they'll go to the office or to other teachers to record about past versus present. What was it like when you were a kid? How did you go to school? What did you do? How did you do your homework? You know, things that are different, but we've taken a long time to scaffold them to have that comfort level that they can do it more independently. I work really hard with first graders to have a lot of images for them because they are not strong readers and writers. Certainly at the beginning of the year, they're just emerging in their skills in writing, and they can't begin to share, they can't begin to take in knowledge in that way in really meaningful ways, and they can't share everything they understand in that way. And so giving them a camera and allowing them to record or giving them a video camera and allowing them to tell orally what they understand has opened up their ability to share. Looking at images, they're so much more observant than we are, the things that they notice in pictures. So to have them look at images that they've, pictures their friends have taken or that they have taken or that I have provided them with offers there's them a chance to really dig deeply into something that they couldn't do if it were text.


All right, this is disclaimer. I didn't know he was recording today. I didn't know he was recording today I didn't know it was on film.  I'm happy This is I can say this is Well in Two days ago when we are three days ago when we plan this I felt really excited to record it this morning Not so much, but not because of the content just because that was days ago, you know, you know life changes different emotions different Three days for a little bit functioning anxiety. That's a That's a lifetime But as I'm reading the outline I am Re-excited if that's even a word. I am excited again.  I just woke up.  I need to throw a shirt on Thought a shirt on now. I'm over here That's why I had to give it disclaimer, but you know, I still look beautiful. Good job, Blake I want to give another disclaimer You know, there's that time of the year in the Bay Area where the pollen is flying through the air and the air is dry and it's windy And so my allergies have been tweaking For the last like six or seven days.  I mean, I just don't just be coughing and sniffing. I mean, I Know I'm just giving out disclaimer. I'm gonna try my best to To hold it and then Jack can do a good job of I'm pretty sure she wanted to she can make a blooper real of me coughing and sniffing today But she'll have that footage because she's gonna edit this out. Now you're giving her that idea I like laughing at my she's gonna say happy roller day and post it on Man, it's your birthday month, bro, are you feeling bro? used and abused Same way I feel every July in June and May and April and March and February Now I'm juice, bro. It's wild cuz I Was like brushing my teeth this morning. I'm glad you brush your teeth.    I think when she was 20 and so I remember doing shit like taking us to To school you feel me on the bus just us to I remember her like my mom like walking me and my sister like three blocks And then me and my sister walking the other four blocks and my grandma being on the porch waiting for us at like 5 30 in The morning you feel me in the dark I remember for me then my mom started going to like junior college when I was in elementary school through middle school and so like Cooking for myself, you know, I'm saying and then my great granny house.     I've been doing for a long time.  You feel me like that's Again, I'm trying to niggas be joking like grandpa. No, it's here. Pa pa We have to grow up hella fast. It's like bro. You had to grow up hella quick and have a hella responsibility.  Yeah, like We're gonna try to party as safely as possible, but I might have all my siblings In one spot.  You know, I often have PRA and people's programs in there. So like the niggas who I didn't nearly live for it's all about to be under one spot. So I'm just about that.  So Yeah, I'm juice, bro man 29 bro Roll a day You ain't the cancer you were Who knows at this point The niggas who I always tell you as a catcher than that. Nah, you a Leo for like 27 years The niggas who I trust with astrology though.  I say on twitter I say I feel that's about to be my birthday too. I feel like bro. I'm I really that's what I feel like It's all my people. It's a celebration for us all bro about to be turned up But you know, we got a good good episode in store. You feel me? This is I think Multitude of topics have been going on around Oakland versus, you know, charity versus political organizing You know, I'm saying it's a lot of good shit going on A lot of good things to talk about you feel me even this quote unquote budget that's happening in Oakland, which You know, if you're in Oakland, you probably heard about the quote unquote increasing of funds being framed as defunding by some people Um, so we're gonna get into that.  Yeah, I think two weeks ago three weeks ago You know, so for those who might have seen it go viral, um on the internet, you know talking about This was a win for the community Talk about the read quote unquote allocation of funds or whatever You know, some organizations acting like oh, this is a win for the defund the police movement Last time I checked if you increase the police budget by nine million dollars.  Um, so still state run violence prevention programs, which in itself sounds like a pretty big contradiction How is the state going to run some violence prevention programs when the state is a violent one to begin with if we being real You feel me if we having a real scientific analysis, you know But some people calling this saying it was you know a victory for activists and organizers who've been working to defund the police and as a nigger who work To defund and abolish the police. This was no win For a revolutionary nationalist for a pan-Africanist and the principles and ideologies that govern that Hey, that's why I just think language Like you gotta be careful with the language you use and you also have to be really objective So we can look at what's happening from a scientific point. You know, I'm saying like and so Hey, I'm I could get how people call it a win But it's like on what what is the what is the scale that we measuring here? What do we claim as a win? What do we claim as a victory? For me claiming a victory when the police is going to be funded even more than before while also giving quote-unquote these alternative services You strengthen in the state. You feel me. So if you do the math You feel me like from a quantitative from a quantitative standpoint, right? You get OPD whose budget is over 300 billion and now you have this What is what is 300 million, right? I thought it was doing. Yeah, doing in my back 337 million some like I think it's something like that. Yeah, I think I said billion my bad 337 million In comparison to what are they calling these services now violence prevention, which is now has 18 million dollars. Yeah, like 300 million in comparison to 18 million and we know those violence prevention office.  Yeah. What is that in comparison to 18 million? It's it's not much And so yeah, it's just it's not it's not fair to like for me. That's a misleading That's like misleading the people to make a statement like that It's misleading the people for sure and I think it could have just been framed another another way like we can acknowledge Two two things can exist.  You feel me?  Because you know you have people saying today city council gave much needed hope to the organizers mental health advocates Organizers faith leaders and working families across the city working to defund the police and invest in community I can tell you right now. OPD still having a 337 million dollar budget does not give me hope Which they increased from last year. Yeah, like that does not give me hope that don't give me hope That does not give me any hope at all and to provide the context they had It was 24 because opd got another seven million, right? They got an additional nine million and then so it was was 18 plus nine 27 Yeah, so it was like I'm trying to so it was like 27 It was like 27 million dollars that hadn't been allocated anywhere yet. That was yeah Gonna be increased that was gonna go to the police that was gonna go to the police And what they did was say okay now we'll give y'all nine so you get this increase in nine and we'll give 18 To the mental health services and that's that's what happened. That's the basic level That's just like not the semantics. Now people think what happened. There was 27 million extra dollars That was supposed to go to opd. They said no instead We'll give y'all we'll increase those shit by nine not the full 27 or the other 18 to mental health services That is not that by definitions that is not defunding It isn't defunding and that is that it's not defunding and some might make a straw man argument saying oh Blake and delincy Y'all want money more money to go to opd. It's like no, we're not saying that at all I don't want to get any of it like if we saw like okay, let's say we are advocating for defunding Then what I stand for means I don't want them to get any extra money Actually, I want them to lose money. That's what defund means defund doesn't mean you stay at zero It doesn't mean not like we just keep what we had last year. That's not defunding Defunding is not okay. We're not gonna get all this extra. We're gonna get this somewhere else No defunding is we pulling pulling resources from you and pumping them into the alternatives. Yeah, so no, I'm not gonna thank city council No city council didn't give me no goddamn hope Not even the quote-unquote progress today.  There's also a question because we know hand in hand that the department of violence Standing toe in toe with opd and for us marching with opd. So what does that really mean?  I'm seeing a social service person come out And they have lights on like they a police officer So what does that mean when oh we're funding social services when the social services is also acting like the police I mean it was like a couple years ago, right when excuse me when it was all that Remember like the increases of Homelessness services and Oakland like that was on the ballot or whatever I mean, you got to the research of what that included It was like niggas for the you're like more police Uh eviction support and she liked that it was like niggas I'm not You know like let's what does this mean and let's define like so even okay now I want to know it as an organization like us or they just who believe in like programming Okay, like I want to see the what program is going to be laid out for this Because I know we had conversations with folks who are doing mental health services They are marketing them shits and they aren't even at this the standpoint of dispatching it It's like this is not an attack bro. We just making an analysis Like is that I'm not downplaying anybody's work But if if I'm talking to organizers who was like, yeah, you know This is our program and it's being marketed as a certain way, but this is like, okay Yeah, we people's breakfast Oakland, you know, we planned to do Like yeah, we're people we're people's breakfast Oakland. We're planning to do this. This is in this But you know, we ain't fair nobody yet Like well There ain't no alternative If people's breakfast Oakland just receive at the at the start of our shit if we receive millions of dollars without Having a plan of distribution or not. We've been marketing people's breakfast Oakland, but we have to distribute a single meal That's misleading the people in my in my opinion, bro. Like that's misleading. I've presented myself as something I've got y'all behind something, but I have yet to take the action yet And as niggas who believe in scientific socialism who believe in analyzing programs and analyzing steps based off based off both quantitative and qualitative data Like I just that just don't sit well I just I feel like that's misleading the people because also the people are entrusting like, okay If you presented this or acting like this you provided the service or the service exists Or acting like city council gave us hope to organizers. That is again In my opinion, that's misleading people Why would they give me hope when they're increasing the budget to the police? why And if we understand in krumah and we understand neocolonialism and we understand imperialism and we understand fascism and we understand the welfare state We know that the state will always give Give you some crumbs To appease you while also strengthening the state. This is a perfect example of that A perfect example that i'ma send jacks this little graphic that in krumah god. You feel me? It's like legit ads movements happen. The state will use funds from imperialism From colonizing the world To fund the welfare state at the expense of the global south to give us things like mental health services right To appease workers here So that we don't actually revolt and actually have revolution. That's why george jackson himself said reform What is reform as another word for fascism?  It ain't freedom. It ain't independence and it's not sovereignty And that's the analysis that we're having as revolutionary nationalists as pan africanists. We want freedom independence sovereignty self-governments to make political decisions over our lives and as new africans we build decolonization programs that offer up the alternative That is separate from the state That ain't fed by the state That ain't getting money by the state. You know what i'm saying? That is a clear alternative from the state That is building towards freeing the land from your own american control So it's again, this is when you have an analysis based on a politic and you put in a politic in command That ain't about no ego That's about what is the politic saying about what is happening right now in the city of oakland You feel me?  You got to abolish the plantation. That's a fact. That's a scientific fact You know, there ain't no argument. We've lived reform. Everything we've lived is reform That reformed the plantation into a prison.   They piggy bank And guess what that's gonna mean more funds to opd So we're talking about imperialism here We're talking about colonization.   Nigga ain't finna cosign.  That's what reform be reminding me and then you have a tractor Yeah, the united states tractor dumping more dirt into it At the same time. Yeah for the folks that's you know, it's gonna be people who Hear this and they're gonna get upset because they For them we attacking a person who and it's like we not attacking you as a we haven't we haven't named names We haven't named organizations. We just naming exactly what was said And I was again, I was naming exactly what would happen and what was said Reading quotes, you know I'm saying so that the people can make an informed decision and educate themselves based on what is happening in this city Or you can make a you can come back with an informed like or you will have to say well What I meant was this I can't go off what you mean. I can only go off what you said And so again, if you're pushing, this is a big win for this gives us hope This is a Step towards or this is defunding. It's not defunding 25 million 27 million was allocated They said now we're gonna give 18 over here. We're gonna increase this by nine Increasing and defunding cannot exist simultaneously.  So no opd was not defunded No, as niggas who organizing it does not give me hope They still exist. They still have 300 at least this is not including overtime. They have at least 337 million dollars at their disposal To do what they were designed to do protect property Mind you, we only talking about opd Niggas, do you know how many police departments actually run through oakland? We also talking about the chp niggas through alameda county sheriff niggas. We talking about oakland how the Housing authority bpd bpd be running through north oakland pulling niggas. Oh, like, what do we what do we really talking about? state police What's the tank to a hotline like that's what i've been trying to get niggas to understand You talk about hope like what's the tank to a hotline?  What's that? to Five dispatchers that's not even out right now That's what i'll judge it by like in theory. We're not going off. I can't judge a theory, bro Until i see it into practice all i can judge is what's been presented in front of me the practical With the objective material reality that exists And every day that i go out there on sundays I mean niggas still sleeping in tents. That's not giving me hope. I mean you should what's a five five six to a hotline We got to be we got to be This nigga ty got a piece he just wrote On like the power of language. You feel me like bruh niggas that we talk about this all the time as an organization we got to be Very conscious and careful of the words we use to not mislead the people words have meanings and we don't get to They of I guess from like a lexicon Lexicon was like a dictionary definition and I guess even just from a world like Material world right like words can shift based on context So we have to add we have to look the meaning can shift based on context We have to look at context But we can't just be saying things to make them mean what we feel they mean like not depending on the context This means this So no, you can't make defunding mean what you wanted to mean to make you feel good No, you can't make 337 in comparison to 18 million make you feel good. It's not it's not about what you feel breast about the objective material reality That's all we can that's what we go off of you don't if you don't like objective material realities Don't come to this podcast.  It's all this is an anti feelings podcast What we're seeing is just this rising class of quote-unquote abolitionists Who are actually reformists who are actually assimilationists who actually have ties to the democratic party And uh, I think it's money. God damn neoliberals Monday could come out.  They're oxymoronic.  I don't know what's happening. All I could do is go off feet. We do know what's happening.  Yeah Anytime you build a program that is separate from the state That's a real you feel me with a political objective That's how we define change There's a great marker for change. There's a great marker ideology behind it The practice behind it in the political objective What is it moving towards?   All right. What way can we improve this program? You feel me? How do we make this system work the best? You know i'm saying how are we how are we the most productive and i'm glad we talking about ideologies and political objectives and decolonization programs because You know, i'm sure this has been talked about in the podcast before but where are we at?  This is a result of it And here in oakland like it's so easy for the like there are there are non-profits that are doing the work that we do In terms of meal distribution and there are non-profits doing the work that we're aiming to do in terms of now What's having this mobile clinic there are non-profits doing what we do in terms of uh Community education right there are non-profits doing what we do in terms of bail funds, you know i'm saying But the political objective is what separates us and we do not want to be conflated and connected to Are misunderstood with any of these? organizations bro In groups just because we have a You see it the political ideology the political objective we pump down your throats every every chance we get Hey, i mean in a lot of times, it's you know, these non-profits Um, essentially it's trying to put a fucking bandaid on a gaping wound They ain't trying to heal the wound, you know i'm saying it's There's a cycle of funding this cycle of oftentimes state funding That ain't meant to solve the problem.    I think a community movement builders in Atlanta You know, they've done a good job of showing how you can use a non-profit for for good You know what i'm saying? The thing is about capitalism you don't get your feet wet in it. Anyway, you know, we at llc right now But how is she gonna fund them? How's she gonna like movements take funds? You think about the panthers and niggas was outside every day. She even think about the nation Don't party selling beanpots outside and it's it's hard it's hard and It's hard to raise money for showing and them grants be They are they are a huge resource and again, you think about the work that we sometimes grants be controlling people You know what i'm saying?  What does it look like to have your work monitored that way? Monitored by a NGO that is actually ran by the state department You know And that's if i'm lying i'm lying, but i ain't lying But then there are those ones that are just actually in the way. You know what i'm saying? Who are Strictly feel good work Doing it for themselves and i have have no desire to see the system that has forced them to exist To to abolish you know, i'm saying like i i want Food co-ops and i want free food programs and i want free clothes programs and i want community learning to exist I don't want the conditions that we are doing them now to still exist though I think it's be like talking liberation, but don't have you can't they have no analysis on capitalism You know, i'm saying they have no analysis on colonization.   Oh, you shouldn't call copper pig You know people be uh, you know Wanting to work with the houses, but we're not or came to advocate and serve the houses but have Never mentioned the capitalist imperialist conditions that have led to this And that's the easy way you can differentiate your work from charity Versus the actual political deal decolonization program working to free the land Because that charity ain't going point to capitalism That charity ain't going point to colonialism That charity ain't going to come for the democrats that is putting our people on the streets Charities do their minimum charities require no sacrifice, you know, i'm saying Philanthropy that's philanthropy. Yeah, like it's feel good. Make yourself feel good. Have your little dinner Most of the money not going to programming.  Yeah, like if you look at a lot of these, you know shoot BLM had what 90 million dollars I raised and what political programs do they have that are serving the people? How many meals have been fed you feel me how many clothes been put on people's backs? How many shoes been put on people's feet? And we mentioned, you know Charity being rooted in like kindness or whatever, but like Charity is just also an extension of capitalism. Yeah, you feel me? It's an extension of Oh, I exploited People through my job and now I need a tax deduction.  Motherfucker is a billionaire. He should not exist. He might even be a trillion. Who knows? I'm saying that should should not exist I think that's just a low bar because I feel like if you truly do love your people and truly do want to see People sustain and empower them free waiting you take those resources to dismantle again the systems and structures that led to them needing your help What what higher act of love can you give?  I know they're like one of the wealthiest families or whatever slavery slavery exploitation But yeah, I was gonna say something around like kindness, right? And I think you know nigga kindness exists in decolonization programs love exists in decolonization programs I yell my nigga. I love you. Here's a here's a resource I'm gonna share with you and at the same time I'm sharing these resources I'm actually I'm also working actively even when I'm not providing this meal for you To tear down the systems that again create the conditions for me to have to come out here and feed you While you on the street That's love. That's kindness Not let me do this bare minimum Every now and again. I'm gonna do this bare minimum I'm in real love real revolutionary love is decolonization programs because it's attempting to have political self-determination autonomy And independence from this capitalist state this racist state that oppresses us every single day That is the highest form of love So when you was building a nation and you're working a free nation those decolonization programs is an integral part You feel me you can't just be like anti this anti that's like what are you for what are you building? You know I'm saying we could talk about the man all we want But if we ain't gonna put in the work to build political autonomy We ain't ever gonna be free You know I'm saying and that's what decolonization programs are it has a political objective It is nation building in its highest form. We're acting as a nation We're doing this as a nation to free ourselves from this you're all american control At the end of the day, that's that's what we're doing is trying to free the land You feel me have real autonomy real self-determination people always want to talk about You know all these you know other countries in the world and like you know free palestine It's like all right. Yeah free palestine But nigga if you trying to work to free palestine work to get independence here in this country and destroy the imperial core Yep, you feel me don't just talk about it nigga be about that action, but again build programs That is actually alternatives that is rooted in revolutionary nationalism to free the land Otherwise, what is we doing? You know I'm saying and it it isn't We got a big enemy ahead of us, but what freedom is possible Freedom is possible folks just got to start doing the real work to connect the dots And we're living imperialism, you know, I'm saying we're a living example of what it means to start small We're still so small organization. We ain't huge very small very small. You feel me But if you're dedicated take the right steps reading Reflecting growing internal self-growth This shit is possible to feed 30,000 people You feel me to build a health clinic To have a bail program You know I'm saying to have a grocery program All these things are possible if you take those steps and do it outside of the state And creating in a way that allows the people to sustain themselves, bro Like I don't understand that's that charity should charity be Be pigeon free be buried feed motherfuckers Like no the the the complete goal isn't self sustainability and self determination It's like I'm trying to give you enough to keep surviving like no nigga. We trying to give niggas You know why we we can give you what you need to survive right now while simultaneously Niggas creating the creating the conditions for you to thrive and control your own destiny trying to bury for you nobody Come on That's what these niggas do.  It's just like Jeff Bezos has the conditions to where niggas From the factory lines at amazon to the truck to the truck drivers could be making $30 an hour And you will see a huge increase in quality of life. And guess what? In capitalism don't even gotta be dismantled for that to happen like niggas won't even do the Like you talk about that's the come on Come on and so it's like what is what is Jeff Bezos giving, you know, five million dollars to To kids studying coding have to what is that a comparison when he has Thousands of workers.  Like I'm confused, bro You know what it is way more lives just increasing the The hourly hourly wage Of every worker he has and he do that. Guess what he's gonna do next Increase the prices of everything on amazon I'll give you niggas 30 dollars now everything costs and that's capitalism for you, right? And lower the quality of the product too But that's what I'm saying But you know, that's just if that's They'll give you any excuse for exploitation under capitalism.  You bought toilet paper.          It's really not and it's it's sad You know I'm saying like a nigga like that is apparently. I don't know.  I don't deserve uh joy joy A break time off from being a worker like I'm pretty sure the niggas who was in that show that worked for amazon would have would have preferred a higher wage in that punk As free show by a tolerated creator But again, man, that's why we can't keep turning to these niggas celebrity culture Death to celebrity culture on the left. These both voluntary involved in involuntary, uh agents of the state Known as celebrities influencers, whatever words you want to use I just don't get how niggas could constantly like disrespect your humanity They always shoving you get niggas who say tweets like oh if you judging a millionaire If you if you roasting a millionaire To the joke to the joke too like nigga money do not make you better than me money.   They're somehow smarter than us because they oppress us And again, that's refusing to look at context.  I'm doing the best I can what I got and I like nigga We also are holding these niggas to a higher standard. They claim to know so much and they have all the resources Why should why should a person with a million followers? um, however many thousands of dollars they make in every month and however much influence they have why should they be Compared to the average worker on terms of who's doing who was able to provide resources for the community The nigga who has more resources should be held to a higher standard I mean we wouldn't have to worry about fucking getting funds of all these black celebrities the multimillionaires gave 10 percent of their income back to the people And back to the movement at bare minimum 10 percent imagine that Keep wishing I have a dream i'm trying to find That one day Black celebrities will give us their money for the people our next shit the next the patreon question Yeah, can you fight?  Yeah, you're making a lot of sense, bro. I'm sleeping It was a question around like dedication I believe so I don't even know it's just showing all these people who took their pledges off or added new pledges This is a good time to remind you to subscribe to our patreon patreon.com slash yellowback plot how i'm supposed to trust everybody with about the revolution Ready, but like niggas won't even do the bare minimum Like go send this link to your partner and tell them to sign up for our patreon Come on, man. Do the bare minimum. I think this you don't even require no risk No risk or you want people to be educated Yeah, man, do the bare minimum bro pass some revolution niggas ain't doing this I don't think you can have another I don't think there's another platform That's talking this shit and then going on trying to put it in the practice and then coming back like a yo This work this didn't work and oh, yeah, we was wrong here, but they was wrong over there I don't think that's happening this type of reflection and intention All right, well, where do we go from here? I want you to white intern It's my white slave roach I think I remember though It was like a comment though, right? It was They wanted to hear us talk about something around like like how do you build the dedication to to the movement?   Yeah, right here boom Sacho sources Sacho sources, you know And all right here, you know From this rule people's breakfast Oakland revolutionary suicide birth people's breakfast Oakland I'll make the foundation for people's programs. Yeah, but this right here. We are all liberators This is what really lit a fire under niggas This is how this right here. Ooh I swear that limited I swear by this book right here But freedom laying here. Oh, I think it's this We'll love to hear y'all talk about personal discipline and how that looks like in the movement Thank you, angel Lopez our very valued patreon patron shout out to shout out to you So they sent that question And it made me think about lifestyle politics and I must have put the wrong page down.  I don't remember which doctor This is insane There's a I thought it was 139 You got page 139 on the notes. Yeah, that's what I'm saying lifestyle politics becoming new people who live by liberation oriented ideas I mean, yeah, this is a part of it, but I wanted to actually define and there's a section in the book that defines it and I sent you a note yesterday, right? And so I think it was there Yep, here you go. Boom. That's why I'd be writing in my books and shit Set right here definition Okay, so yeah that question from angel talks about Uh dedication, right and like what it looks like in terms of studying and organizing Is that like the basis of it? We'll love to hear y'all talk about personal discipline and how that looks like in a moment. So, yeah, um new Africans Like at the birth of the new african independence movement niggas, you know Making a shake out there in detroit They birth the ideology of new african lifestyle politics And so the definition of that is as the everyday practice of political ideology lifestyle politics involves the constant Interpretation negotiation and reproduction of ideas shared between activists allowing new africans to seek empowerment in the most quotidian aspects of their lives in the movement And then there's another note here in lifestyle politics is every day a section is uh Lifestyle politics as everyday assertions of self-determination and it also says becoming new people who live by Liberation oriented ideals I like this something that mean you just been talking about hella much over the last month, you know Or two after you got the book and they put me on to it, right?  I don't think you'll ever fully Live up to the politics.  You always you feel me but it's That's part of being human.  That's not feasible or something that should I be doing to myself Is being myself up in my mind And shit you grounded me a couple weeks ago and you was like nigga Jalil Told me don't look to him to be an example for perfect muslim, you know that really grounded me I'm like, all right like Niggas is gonna make mistakes and as well because we say all the time Like we learning and we unlearning in the process of learning and unlearning you're gonna mess up, right? But I think something that has helped us to get to the point Is constantly every day Grounding ourselves in ideology and that's something that we trying to do now in people's programs, right? Like before people's breakfast Oakland reminding people this is a decolonization program The purpose of this is not just to go out and although one of the purposes are is to you know Feed folks the end goal here is revolution and us having the practice Of sustaining a free meal program. Yeah Yeah, I think personal personal discipline is extremely important You feel me in terms of like building revolutionary culture, you know I'm saying I'm like I tell niggas all the time I can't trust you if you don't show up on time You know I'm saying if we make the bare minimum things that build trust within organizations It's shown up on time to meetings. It's come prepared to meetings Um for me personal discipline is reading, you know I'm saying uh in people's programs We have different political education cadres where we reading every week our core team is reading a book all the time You know I'm saying so we have different standards that we set. It's like, okay. My personal discipline is making sure I read Making sure that I'm reading to understand the practicality and how to implement something too not just reading to read But reading to fully understand um Shit another thing that helps me is just like Islamic shit really like fasting Ramadan that helped me move my personal discipline, you know what I'm saying and staying Disciplined to certain things so just changing habits, you know what I'm saying like Sometimes I'll just go vegetarian for a month Just to have that personal discipline within my mind, you know what I'm saying and really trying to uh Have full control, you know, I think that's one thing uh Raj talked about, you know, it's like People think discipline is a negative thing, you know, I'm saying or our understanding of discipline oftentimes is negative But it's like nah like to actually truly be free and you making every choice because you want to You have discipline, which means you have more freedom, you know what I'm saying um But it's really waking up every day and asking yourself for me That's something I really try to do every day. It's like, what is my purpose? I might be feeling tired I might be feeling drained, but like what is my purpose? What am I doing this for? You know, I'm saying like what am I like? What is my goal? You know and really asking yourself because if your goal is freedom independence and revolution and liberation of new african people You're going to try to live your life in accordance to that So that's gonna look different each day, right? Your best is gonna look different and it's training yourself.  So like how are you training yourself, you know?    So I plan sports at a high level So I feel like I've tried to take some of those lessons out of that and build that into This new thing or this, you know, this organizing shit Yeah, and I will say What What really pushes me to be To make consistent efforts that be dedicated and disciplined is really having a full understanding of these ideological texts that I've That I picked up right and like reading about Early new Africans reading about Jalil month of king in his life reading about QEP Newton in his life and in the panthers reading about Asada Shakur In her life, and it's just if I'm gonna be Claiming the ideologies and politics that I've You know that I've that I watched them live out if I'm gonna be claiming the Ideologies and politics of folks like terry of in of in krumah.   That's why yeah, it's it's a makes me emotional No, what people have fought for and I just can't play with that.   I just I just I just can't do that So that's what allows me to push. I'm like, bro I'm about to really study this shit because if I'm be invoking their names and invoking their spirits for the For the folks that have passed on if I'm be invoking their names for the people that still here for the for the folks That's behind bars who I'm constantly referring to what I just It's I don't know you talked about spiritual shit with yourself in islam There's something inside of me that like it be speaking through to me when I'm like, all right No, nigga, you need to get back on track or On the positive note when I can just feel it coming to me when I'm trying to write when we design a curriculum and stuff I'm like, oh, it's like these pages is jumping off the word to me Or these these words are jumping off the page to me And then I also think it's That kind of self Work is important because it is easy to get Lost behind group thinking and group work, you know, I'm saying and if you're not making those that's a huge thing an organization I would say is Or even teams going back to teams is like you always gonna have that Star player star players those captains, you know, I'm saying and then a person who ain't putting that Work, can you feel me get that champion? Oh, like yeah, what happens if Blake is in around to like push me what happened? You know, I'm saying it's like that gotta be inside of me even, you know, we read in revolutionary suicide He was talking about like And he was referring to like the police patrols that they would do right He was like we knew we couldn't patrol every single area of the east bay We knew we couldn't do that But it was just our job to we knew that that kind of Control will have to come from the entire community. We just went to the foundation and show them how to do it You know what I'm saying and so Yeah, he he he makes that point and so That's that's what I'm trying to be on is just I know I can't Do everything. I know I can't be perfect, but I can at least Set the best example that I possibly can I think something that you and I Talk about a lot is understanding the terrain is something that you and I talk about it Sometimes I talk a lot with Q is like understanding the terrain because we read these yeah We read We read these books And it's so easy to get to place yourself in that place your mind in that time where it's like bro This is 2021. We have never seen surveillance like this I don't even think the path is what it's all like post them with this Non-profit world will look like with this neoliberal world will look like with this propaganda machine will look like great And so we are not with social media and the ci operations on social media We're not living in those times like the terrain is different And so like I tell you all the time I get will not make sense for you To take certain actions for you to for you to run yourself into the ground if we talking about you need to be here For another 40 years in the name of you making yourself feel good Excuse me.  Like all right I'm wrong. I'm gonna I'm gonna go to every breakfast program. I'm gonna write every paper I'm gonna lead every political cadre. I'm gonna lead every meeting and it's just like all right Now you gonna run yourself in the ground for what just so Blake can say he felt good But that's not what the movement needed at all because you didn't have a scientific analysis of the current terrain You didn't have a objective reality of the current terrain. And so I think just again Really grounding yourself in ideologies that you believe in because those can give you simple guidances, right? Like, okay, I believe in revolutionary pan-Africanism. I believe in revolutionary nationalism I believe in the work of people's programs that is known a The new african independence movement that's gonna lead to sovereignty and self determination And then As time goes on as you continue to read and get more guidance as you continue to Practice and organize and implement these things. You'll start, you know, the the you'll be better You'll be better suit and better able from a knowledgeable standpoint to understand what it means to apply all this Shit to the current terrain because you know, it's 2021. It's not 1967 1966 with the panthers were founded, right? Uh But you I think the number one thing got to be that to get right back to whatever to get finally circle back to angel's point Right where we hit all these different shits along the way the number one thing got to come from self And understand I think the biggest point that you and I both are making Blake is like we just don't take the politics lightly, you know, I'm saying like you talk about When you when you say things you got to try your best when you ground yourself ideologies You got to try your best to bring them into into the material world Whatever that looks like and some of this is gonna be drawn out right in front of you like decolonization programs like reading and learning And some of it you're gonna have to dive a little deeper into It's a lot of internal work that you got to do A lot of internal work that you have to do and that comes from personal reflection I'm taking care of yourself mentally Understand that when you might be projecting on people, you know what I mean? um Because again, like we is a severely traumatized colonized People, you know, and a lot of times people show up into spaces into organizing spaces like that.


Hey, everybody, it's Brian, and in this episode, we're going to talk about the algorithm QDeleteAll, which deletes all items in a range using the C++ delete operator. Now why do we need this? For example, let's say we want to work with a list of QObjects. Remember a QObject cannot be copied. So if we're going to put this in a container, we have to put a pointer to it in the container. Pointers, of course, come with the overhead that we manage the memory. QDeleteAll makes that super simple. Here's a great example. You can delete the entire container, and then you have to clear it out. The major caveat here is this will not remove the items, just free up that memory. For this example, I've already got some code written. We have just a simple test class as a constructor and a deconstructor. And if we switch over here, you can see we're just going to QInfo out, constructed and deconstructed so we can see that object's lifecycle. Let's dive in and take a look. First thing we're going to do here is get a list of pointers. So we've got that test class, and we're going to put that into a list. And because it's a QObject, we have to work with pointers. To make life super, super simple, I'm going to do a type def. If you're still new to C++, basically, this allows us to make some type of alias. So I'm going to say QList. And we want the test class, and we're going to be working with pointers. So we're just making a list of pointers. And we're going to call that test list. So basically, we're kind of like pseudo creating our own data type here. That being said, whenever we use test list, you guessed it, it's going to use this instead. Makes it super convenient so we don't have to type this out over and over again. Now from here, let's go ahead and say we want to make a function that's going to return our test list. And let's call it getList. Now inside of this, we're going to, you guessed it, make a test list, call it list. And let's just generate some pointers here. So I'm going to say four, and we'll hit i equals zero. i is less than, and I'm just going to arbitrarily pick a number five. And we're going to say i increment. So all we're going to do now is just append. So I'm going to say list.append. What we're going to add here is a new test class. Now just in case you skip the intro, our test class just simply has queue info in the constructor and deconstructors so we can see that object's lifecycle. That's really all we want to do is see when this is created and when it's destroyed. Now for convenience here, I'm going to say list.last. So we're going to get the last item in that list, the one we literally just added. And I'm going to set object name. That way when we print the object out, we can tell which one it actually is instead of just seeing a memory address. I'm going to say this is test. Now let's go ahead and make a queue string representation of our number. Now that we have that list, we simply need to return it. Special note, queue list is not a queue object. So we can simply return it and we're doing a copy here. We don't have to worry about that overhead that we have with queue object where we simply can't copy it. Now that we're able to generate a list of test classes, we want to really conveniently display it. So I'm just going to make a simple function. We're going to display a list of pointers here. So what we're going to do is say void display. And we want our test list type def there. Let's call this list. And we're just going to use the for each keyword. We're going to say for each test pointer. Let's call this item in our list. That's just going to go through each item in the list and then allow us to, you guessed it, just print it out. Super simple. Now we have a subtle problem here. Notice we're not testing to see if this pointer is even valid. We're just directly working with it. That could cause problems later as we're going to demonstrate. Now that we can get a list and display it, let's see this in action. So we are going to first things first, say test list, and we want a list here. And we're going to call our get list function, which is going to return that list. Now from here, we can go ahead and display it. So I'm just going to display our list. Notice there's a whole lot of copying going on. Generally in C++, I dislike copying, but I'm doing this for a reason, just to show you that we can copy that queue list without any problems whatsoever. So let's just go ahead and demonstrate that. And there we go. So we have a problem. You see how we've got all of these constructed. In case you're wondering what this object zero zero is, that's the parent in the background. It doesn't have a parent. So this will not follow the parent child relationship or that object tree, meaning we're not going to use queues built in automatic memory management. We have a memory leak. We've got these items that are just going to exist in memory until we destroy them. You can see here where we're displaying them, but they're not being deleted. Oh, okay, this is a problem, and this is a normal C++ problem. So let's look at a possible solution. First thing we're going to do is we're going to say queue info. And let's say we want to delete them. So we're going to use queue delete all. Now this is an algorithm baked right into queue. There is a little bit of a problem here. A lot of the algorithms are being deprecated, meaning you just really shouldn't use them. Why? Because a lot of the algorithms that are in queue didn't exist in the C++ standard library or dare I say the C++ standard library was subpar. That being said, a lot of that is really changing. So I put a link right here. Note that the standard template library functions starting with queue five are pretty much starting to be phased out with the exception of course, queue delete all. Now there is more than likely something out there and you can reimplement this very easily, but it's already baked into queue and it's ridiculously simple. So this method is going to do the entire list. Let's go ahead and just demonstrate that. Now you see we have the full object lifecycle. Our application is still running. You see this little cursor blinking, but we've demonstrated that we have using that algorithm destroyed those objects. But we have another issue that we have just created and this is unfortunate. Those items are not removed from our list. So if we try to use them again, we have a different issue. We have a bad pointer or what's called a dangling pointer, meaning that is a bad pointer and it will, of course, crash our application. And this gets a little bit well insane trying to figure out what just happened. In case you're curious, this is what's going on right here. We're not testing this pointer before we use it. We're just saying, hey, I'm trusting it and guess what? This is a bad pointer and program goes boom. So every time you use Q to lead all, you're going to want to clear that list. You may be asking, well, why doesn't the algorithm just do it for me? Well, there's a reason for that. You may not want that functionality and that may introduce other issues. So you as the programmer are expected to know what to do. So once we've now cleared that list, let's go ahead and save run and it should run perfectly fine. Ta-da! No crash and our objects have gone through their full life cycle. Now there is another way. So I'm going to comment this out. And when I do Q to lead all, you see we are at one of two. And the first one wants a container, the second one wants a forward iterator and beginning and an end. That's right, so you can do a chunk of a list if you wanted to. I'm just going to pretty much do the same thing we just did using this way. So I'm going to say LST dot, whoops, list dot begin and list dot end. So if you had special positions, you could go out and then start a custom beginning and custom ending and delete just a chunk of this list. But using this does basically the same thing as just clearing the entire container because we're starting at the beginning and then going to the end. Let's go ahead and demonstrate that. And there you go. It's really that simple. I'd love to have a long exhaustive conversation about this, but Q to lead all is just, well, very simple, very easy to use. I hope you enjoyed this video. You can find the source code out on github.com. If you need additional help, myself and thousands of other developers are hanging out in the Voidromes Facebook group. This is a large group with lots of developers. And we talk about everything technology related, not just the technology that you just watched. And if you want official training, I do develop courses out on udemy.com. This is official classroom style training. If you go out there and the course you're looking for is just simply not there. Drop me a note. I'm either working on it or I will actually develop it. I will put a link down below for all three of those. And as always, help me help you smash that like and subscribe button. The more popular these videos become, the more I'll create and publish out on YouTube. Thank you for watching.