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Sunday Mar 21, 2021

THIS IS REVOLUTION>podcast Ep. 118: From 1619 to 1776 Reckoning With the Culture War w/ Professor John Gram

Sunday Mar 21, 2021

Is the 1619 Project, centring the birth of the United States around Slavery ahistorical? Was the 1776 project not just a response to the 1619 project but more backlash from the "Great Awokening"?

An excerpt from John Gram's essay on these projects:

In the last few years, the project has certainly sparked its fair share of controversy, especially because of efforts to implement it in K-12 classrooms. One manifestation of the opposition to the claims and methods of The 1619 Project is the first (and only) report of the now defunct 1776 Commission authorized by former president Donald Trump. The 1776 Commission's Report directly targets not only the claims 1619 Project, but also a broad range of perceived social ills that the report's authors believe are threatening the health of the nation. In doings, it challenges The 1619 Project's claims about the origins of the United States. The Commission explains its purpose thus: "The Commission's first responsibility is to produce a report summarizing the principles of the American founding and how those principles have shaped our country. That can only be done by truthfully recounting the aspirations and actions of the men and women who sought to build America as a shining "city on a hill" -- an exemplary nation, one that protects the safety and promotes the happiness of its peoples, as an example to be admired and emulated by nations of the world that wish to steer their government towards greater liberty and justice."

You can read the entire entry and more here: https://johnrgram.blogspot.com/2021/0...

About Professor Gram: Dr. Gram’s research and teaching interests focus on the political, social, and cultural consequences of US expansion during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. His current research agenda examines the process of indigenous identity formation under the pressures of settler colonialism, as well as the processes by which the United States incorporated frontier and borderland regions.

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Wednesday Mar 17, 2021

THIS IS REVOLUTION>podcast Ep. 117: The Capitalist Realism of White Fragility w/Charles and Seth

Wednesday Mar 17, 2021

In this episode we take a deep into Robin DiAngelo's "White Fragility" and implicit bias training. Who does it work for? Is it simply a way for not threaten workplace power structures by reinforcing white identity? I discuss it with two young writers.

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Since the death of George Floyd in May of this year, a new wave of anti-racist consciousness has entered into the national conversation again. To feed this new wave, anti-racist reading lists have popped up and new books have been published to meet the demand. One such book that tops many of these lists is Robin DiAngelo’s White Fragility. Written in 2018 and now back on the New York Times Bestseller List, White Fragility has become the unofficial guidebook for white liberals to come to terms with their “fragile” and “privileged selves”. Robin DiAngelo’s work is race essentialism masked as milquetoast, self-help, anti-racism that, instead of solving systemic inequality, inverts anti-racist action onto the individual. In doing so, DiAngelo’s work reaffirms the concepts of White Fragility she is supposedly fighting against. Her work is circular in nature, designed to monetize on the anti-racist moment and to expand its marketplace. The double bind her ideas place on the subject of her work (who may be well meaning participants) gaslights them and puts them in the Vampire Castle designed for those who worship at the altar of DiAngelo’s anti-racism, where the only book you will be reading is White Fragility.

In 2013, Mark Fisher wrote a now infamous essay for the website The North Star entitled “Exiting The Vampire Castle”, which was a critique of identity politics and the lack of universality in the current left. In the essay, FIsher describes the Vampire Castle:

“The Vampires’ Castle specialises in propagating guilt. It is driven by a priest’s desire to excommunicate and condemn, an academic-pedant’s desire to be the first to be seen to spot a mistake, and a hipster’s desire to be one of the in-crowd. The danger in attacking the Vampires’ Castle is that it can look as if – and it will do everything it can to reinforce this thought – that one is also attacking the struggles against racism, sexism, heterosexism. But, far from being the only legitimate expression of such struggles, the Vampires’ Castle is best understood as a bourgeois-liberal perversion and appropriation of the energy of these movements. The Vampires’ Castle was born the moment when the struggle not to be defined by identitarian categories became the quest to have ‘identities’ recognised by a bourgeois big Other.

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Sunday Mar 14, 2021

THIS IS REVOLUTION>podcast Ep. 116: Black Class Conflict and Jim Crow Housing w/ Preston Smith II

Sunday Mar 14, 2021

How class division amongst Black America facilitated housing descrimination. We will be joined by professor Preston Smith, II About Dr. Smith: Postwar black politics with an emphasis on housing and class. Inner-city neighborhood revitalization including economic development, affordable housing, quality public education, and equal and adequate delivery of municipal services Preston Smith's research interests in urban studies and postwar black politics are reflected in his many publications and presentations. He has been published in such journals as the Journal of Urban History and edited volumes such as Without Justice For All. He has made presentations at Social Science History Association meeting, Center for the Study of Race, Inequality and Politics, Institute for Social Policy Studies, at Yale University, and The Centennial of W.E.B. DuBois’s Souls of Black Folks symposium at Williams College. His most recent book, Racial Democracy and the Black Metropolis: Housing Policy in Postwar Chicago (Univ Of Minnesota Press, 2012) examines housing debates in Chicago that go beyond black and white politics, showing how class and factional conflicts among African Americans actually helped to reproduce stunning segregation along economic lines. Smith's commitment to urban studies led to his becoming Director of the Community-Based Learning (CBL) program at the Weissman Center for Leadership and the Liberal Arts. Smith's Involvement with CBL began with his development of an advanced seminar that utilized CBL pedagogy. In this class students interact with local communities through community-based research and service, allowing them to enhance their understanding of public concerns while fostering leadership and advocacy skills. Smith is part of group who developed a faculty seminar that examines Puerto Rican history and culture in Holyoke, Massachusetts, and on the island. The unique feature of this seminar is that it combines area college faculty and community leaders from Holyoke. It is targeted to faculty and community-based organizations that collaborate on community-university partnerships. Since many of the families living in Holyoke are Puerto Rican, the seminar focuses on educating CBL students on Puerto Rican history and culture. Smith believes that one of the ways to best teach politics is to be politically engaged. He is a member of the Interim National Council of the Labor Party, an independent political party that comes out of the labor movement. The Debs-Jones-Douglass Institute, which is the educational and cultural arm of the Labor Party, sponsors the Free Public Higher Education campaign. Smith is currently the co-chair of the Institute's national campaign, which asserts that higher education is a necessity in today’s economy and society and, therefore, should be paid for by the federal government. Modeled after the GI Bill®, the campaign would cost $34 billion if everyone currently enrolled at a public institution were to have free tuition and fees. Recuperating the tax cuts that have not benefited working families in this country could pay for this amount.

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Wednesday Mar 10, 2021

THIS IS REVOLUTION>podcast Ep. 115: What Happened to Sam Cooke w/ Journalist Albert Lanier

Wednesday Mar 10, 2021

If you have listened to this show for a while you know I'm a fan of true crime. Like..A BIG FAN. So when journalist Albert Lanier hit me up and asked if I wanted to talk about the mysteries surrounding untimely demise of soul singing great Sam Cooke I was game. While Cooke's death wasn't ruled a homicide, the facts around only lead to one conclusion. Was it murder? Was he set up by the mob? The record label? Who wanted Sam Cooke dead?

He was the sultry soulful voice of a generation. He actually owned his masters in an era where the majority didn't. Sam Cooke's death still remains a mystery. I speak with independent journalist Albert Lanier to try to unlock the mystery surrounding the death of the "King of Soul" Sam Cooke.

About Albert Lanier:

Albert Lanier has been a journalist and writer for more than 21 years. Lanier holds a BA from the University of Hawaii-West Oahu and has been a contributing writer for Pacific Business News and Honolulu Weekly. He has also freelanced for a variety of publications including Hawaii Magazine, Asian Week and Edible Hawaiian Islands.
His recent work has been featured on the news site Civil Beat as well as the business magazine Accelerate and the night life publication Metro HNL.
Lanier previously served as a staff writer for The Molokai Dispatch in 2008.

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Sunday Mar 07, 2021

THIS IS REVOLUTION>podcast 114: Eco Leninism w/ Andres Malm

Sunday Mar 07, 2021

If you've listened to this show for a while you've heard me reference his book, "Corona, Climate, Chronic Emergency: War Communism for the 21st Century". So I FINALLY got to speak with the author and academic Andres Malm.

From the Lund University:

Why did our economy become so dependent on fossil fuels? What roles have they played in the historical development of capitalism? What are the forces perpetuating this dangerous thing we refer to as business-as-usual – and how can they be defeated? These are, broadly, the issues I try to approach in my research. More specifically, I am looking at the rise of coal as a source of mechanical energy in industrial production and transportation in nineteenth-century Britain and its Empire. My PhD thesis, Fossil Capital: The Rise of Steam-Power in the British Cotton Industry, c. 1825-1848, and the Roots of Global Warming, defended in 2014, examines the transition from water-wheels to steam-engines in the cotton-mills of northern England and Scotland and draws some lessons for today: to make a very long story very short, capital required a source of energy amenable to concentration in space and acceleration in time. It still seems to do so. In 2016, Verso published my book Fossil Capital: The Rise of Steam Power and the Roots of Global Warming, based on the thesis. It received the Isaac and Tamara Deutscher Memorial Prize for that year.

I am working on a sequel, provisionally entitled Fossil Empire, on how Britain deployed steamboats, railroads and their shared foundations – mines and depots of coal – to subjugate and integrate the peripheries of the nineteenth-century world-economy. I focus on Egypt/the Levant, India, China and West Africa. As it happens, these regions hold some of the people most vulnerable to the impacts of global warming – particularly sea level rise – now and in the near future. I have recently made forays into environmental philosophy; in 2017, Verso will publish my The Progress of This Storm: Nature and Society in a Warming World, a theoretical essay on how to understand nature and society and their intertwinement in the light of climate change, criticising currents such as constructionism, hybridism, new materialism and post-humanism and advocating a more activist, dialectical alternative anchored in historical materialism. I have also worked a bit on ecocriticism; a recent paper in Forum for Modern Language Studies, which won the annual essay prize of that journal, proposes a new way of reading fossil fuel fiction. I have conducted research on the political ecology of vulnerability and adaption to sea level rise in the Nile Delta, as well as on solar-power in Morocco. I am working on a book about the politics of wilderness in a changing climate and involved in a collective project on geoengineering. I am, in short, interested in a wide range of aspects of the power relations of a rapidly warming world in urgent need of cooling down.

I am a member of the editorial board of the journal Historical Materialism. I manage the masters' programme in human ecology at Lund University, known as Culture, Power and Sustainability.

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Wednesday Mar 03, 2021

THIS IS REVOLUTION>podcast Ep. 113: Nomadland is Capitalist Propaganda Wrapped in American Exceptionalism w/ Lisha Brooks

Wednesday Mar 03, 2021

This is going to be the first of hopefully many more movie reviews with Lisha. We had a lengthy conversation a week ago about doing something together, and using pop culture to tell a more broad story is kinda my thing.

Nomadland is the award winning 2020 film based on the non-fiction book of the same name by writer Jessica Bruder. Her book, a more telling and honest story of a new class of itinerant worker, the elderly. People displaced the financial tragedy of 2008 with no savings and many underwater on their homes living in RV's and vans making up America's workforce.

While the book is a very honest portrayal and some great investigative journalism, the movie is almost Amazon propaganda. Not really showing the exploitation, but rather giving us a tale of the untamed West, an almost manifest destiny of the new millenium.

Chris Hedges Interview w/ Jessica Bruder:

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