Mainline Presents: To the Left

In this special episode, Sylvia interviews Aja to learn more about what's next for The Mainline and various projects the publication is getting into this summer, including its brand new Patreon which is live as of today, June 1.Aja talks about life on the road since leaving Atlanta to work on her new book projects, including 'The Land of the Let Go: A documentation of the working c

Mainline contributor and researcher Sylvia Johnson speaks with fellow Mainline contributor and organizer AJ and community organizer Miriam Barcenas to begin to address the necessity for solidarity within communities, across racial and class intersections. The three discuss the fall-out from the March 16 Atlanta spa shootings, the insidiousness of white supremacist culture, what pol

In this week's episode, Aja & co-conspirator Ryan in Marketing are joined by event and music labor organizer Chris Tollack in Atlanta and Phillip Golub of the Musicians Workers Alliance in New York City. The four discuss what happened in Bessemer, the lengths corporations go with anti-union messaging, manufacturing consent, what the PRO Act does, and how it would empower musicians/

Last week, Aja co-hosted a panel about the PRO Act and Organizing in the South along with Nolan Huber-Rhoades, as presented by Atlanta DSA. Aja & Nolan interview labor organizers from Communication Workers of America, Kellie Morgan (Political Director, International Union of Painters and Allied Trades), and James Williams (President, Atlanta North Georgia Labor Council). This episo

Jess, Sylvia, and Aja break down the most recent events concerning the Rayshard Brooks, Messiah Young, Taniyah Pilgrim, and Vincent Truitt cases — the most publicly known police brutality cases pending in the state of Georgia. The updates evolve into a roundtable discussion of the ripple effects of police brutality, particularly in the state of Georgia. Police brutality is not an

Hypernormalisation, a term coined during the final days of the U.S.S.R., is explained as when politicians, corporations, and those in power give up on the complexities of the real world and create a simpler "fake world" through delivering a false narrative. This false narrative is created by corporations and institutions and delivered to the masses by politicians via institutional

This week, Aja and Jess talk with D.C. activist and artist AnaMarie King two days ahead of Inauguration Day in the midst of heightened tensions surrounding the Capitol following J6. The three discuss the fallout from the attack on the Capitol, calls for abolition and reimagining society, and healing through direct action, particularly in areas of gentrification and caring for unhou

Last week in America's never-ending saga of "What the Fuck Just Happened?", Trump supporters sieged the nation's Capitol, effectively disrupting government procedure in the certification of states' Electoral College votes for President-Elect Joe Biden. Incidentally, this occurred the day after Georgia elected its first Black and Jewish senators Raphael Warnock and Jon Ossoff — an

A postmortem of 2020 with founding editor Aja Arnold and contributors Jess Izard and Sylvia Johnson. This year has been a long road revealing the effects of systems that fail to continuously center marginalized voices in regards to issues that affect them most. As we enter the next phase and the possibility of transformative justice, what do media reparations look like? What needs

Republican infighting. Rampant election disinformation. Trump's bogus lawsuit against Georgia's election results. Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger comparing allegations of voter fraud to voter suppression. Trump's "victory rally" in Valdosta. Less than 30 days out from Georgia’s Senate runoff races, and there’s been no shortage of political foolery and manipulation as both