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Wednesday Dec 16, 2020

THIS IS REVOLUTION>podcast Ep. 91: A History of Indigenous Struggle Against U.S. Imperialism w/ Dr. Giovanni Batz

Wednesday Dec 16, 2020

I saw Dr. B'atz on Democracy Now! a few weeks ago, and I KNEW I had to get this guy on the show. On this podcast you'll hear us listen to a clip of him on the show and you'll see why. He's doing some great work and exposing what's happening with Indigenous communities in Central America, with a focus on Guatemala. A little about Giovanni:

Dr. Batz is a social anthropologist whose research interests include: extractivist industries and megaprojects in Latin America; Central American and Maya migration, displacement and diaspora; Guatemalan history; indigenous social movements; and human rights.

Batz was a 2018-2019 Anne Ray Fellow at the School for Advanced Research in Santa Fe, New Mexico where he began working on his book project entitled “The Fourth Invasion: Decolonial Histories, Megaprojects and Ixil Resistance in Guatemala”. The book is based on research conducted in Cotzal, Guatemala since 2011, where the arrival of megaprojects is referred to as a “new” invasion. Batz has also worked with Guatemalan-Maya youth in Los Angeles, as well as serving as a Research Assistant for a National Science Foundation funded project that analyzes the migration and deportation of K’iche’-Maya from Almolonga, Quetzaltenango

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Sunday Dec 13, 2020

THIS IS REVOLUTION>podcast Ep. 90: Who Speaks for Black People w/ Pascal Robert

Sunday Dec 13, 2020

I met Pascal Robert through professor and author, Tourè Reed. Tourè warned me he's got some great takes on a lot of the things we like to discuss, like the Black misleadership class, and (as Pascal calls them) "Negroliberals", a pundit class of black neoliberals who are hoisted into the position of "The voice of the Black community" by the ruling class. If you didn't catch Pascal and Toure on the weekly Tuesday Night Livestream, you can peep that here:

So after that show, we of course stayed in contact and Pascal sent over this real interesting piece on the radio show shock jock turned alleged keeper of the Black vote, Charlamagne tha God. Here's a clip of Rachelle Hampton's piece:

Charlamagne is not the first radio personality that the Democratic political establishment has viewed as its main conduit to Black voters. Many politicians including Bill Clinton and Barack Obama visited the nationally syndicated Tom Joyner Morning Show. (“To some, you’re considered the voice of Black America,” one newspaper reporter said to Joyner in a 1999 interview.) Then came Tavis Smiley, who started out as a guest on Joyner’s show, before hosting The Tavis Smiley Show on NPR and Public Radio International. (He also had a PBS talk show until he was dismissed for alleged sexual misconduct.) Smiley interviewed political figures including Hillary Clinton, Bernie Sanders, and Obama, but his relationship to the Democratic establishment cooled after the president declined to appear at an event Smiley was hosting and Smiley became a vocal public critic of the administration.

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https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2020/11/charlamagne-tha-god-white-political-establishment-breakfast-club.html

Pascal Robert is a lawyer by trade that has written for Huffington Post, and he now writes for Black Agenda Report. You can read his work here:

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Wednesday Dec 09, 2020

THIS IS REVOLUTION>podcast Ep. 89: What's Next for the Left w/ Gloria La Riva and Dr. Asatar Bair

Wednesday Dec 09, 2020

This is from a livestream we did recently with Gloria La Riva and Dr. Asatar Bair.

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Sunday Dec 06, 2020

THIS IS REVOLUTION>podcast Ep. 88: Bound to the Fire w/Dr. Kelley Fanto Deetz

Sunday Dec 06, 2020

Once again, I get to call on one of my old classmates to come on the show. This time around we talk with professor and author Kelley Fanto Deetz. Kelley was an advisor on a great film (that didn't get the respect it deserved) "Birth of a Nation". Of course not the D.W. Griffith one from the turn of the century, but the amazing reimagining from 2016. Here's a bit about Kelley:

Dr. Kelley Fanto Deetz is a Research Associate at the James River Institute for Archaeology and Visiting Assistant Professor at Randolph College. She holds a B.A. from The College of William and Mary, and a M.A. and Ph.D. from U.C. Berkeley. She specializes in early African Diaspora cultural history, archaeology, slavery, visual and material culture, and public history. She has worked as a historical consultant for television, museums, and for the film The Birth of a Nation. Deetz partnered with National Geographic to produce the documentary film Rise Up: The Legacy of Nat Turner (National Geographic Channel), and authored the cover story for the National Geographic History Magazine entitled Nat Turner’s Bones: Reclaiming an American Rebel. Her new book Bound to the Fire: How Virginia’s Enslaved Cooks Helped Invent American Cuisine was named one of the top ten books on food of 2017 by the Smithsonian Magazine.

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Kelley on the front page of the Washington Post:

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Wednesday Dec 02, 2020

THIS IS REVOLUTION>podcast Ep. 87: A Brief History of Neoliberalism w/ C. Derick Varn

Wednesday Dec 02, 2020

I came across C. Derick Varn sometime ago on a Zero Books show "Pop the Left". An intellectual dynamo, but also a person that truly understands his working class roots. Take a listen to our conversation, and Varn's deep dive into David Harvey's book, "A Brief History of Neoliberalism".

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C. Derick has written political and philosophical work for the (Dis)Loyal Opposition to Modernity and The North Star as well as various lost ‘zines in the 1990s and early 2000s, although he feels distant from this prior work on left-renewal, and while still in a some kind of a Marxist framework, he is very skeptical of what most people call “the left.” His other philosophical interests are virtue ethics, the philosophy of religion and secularity, and aesthetics. He was written for Unlikely Stories 2.0, and blogged irregularly for The Partially Examined Life blog. He co-hosted the Pop the Left podcast. with Douglas Lain from late 2012 to 2014 and has recently reappeared on supplements on both Diet Soap and Zero Squared. He also co-produces and co-hosts two other podcasts, Symptomatic Redness (on political economy, philosophy, and history), and Former People Speak (on culture and the arts). His poetry has appeared at Unlikely Stories 2.0, Full of Crows, Writing Disorder, Deuce Coupe, Rusty Truck, The Cartier Street Review, JMWW, Clutching at Straws, Union Station Magazine, Ann Arbor Review, Yes, Poetry, Xenith, Piriene’s Fountain, and elsewhere. C. Derick Varn has served as managing editor for the now defunct Milkwood Review, art editor for Unlikely Stories 2.o, managing editor for the The North Star, and was an editorial staffer for Arts and Letters: A Journal for Contemporary Culture in 2005-2006 and the Flannery O’Connor Review in 2005. He won the Frankeye Davis Mayes/Academy of American Poets Prize in 2003. He is the co-founder and currently the Poetry Editor and co-managing editor at Former People.

"I’ve always treated neoliberalism as a political project carried out by the corporate capitalist class as they felt intensely threatened both politically and economically towards the end of the 1960s into the 1970s. They desperately wanted to launch a political project that would curb the power of labor.

In many respects the project was a counterrevolutionary project. It would nip in the bud what, at that time, were revolutionary movements in much of the developing world — Mozambique, Angola, China etc. — but also a rising tide of communist influences in countries like Italy and France and, to a lesser degree, the threat of a revival of that in Spain.

Even in the United States, trade unions had produced a Democratic Congress that was quite radical in its intent. In the early 1970s they, along with other social movements, forced a slew of reforms and reformist initiatives which were anti-corporate: the Environmental Protection Agency, the Occupational Safety and Health Administration, consumer protections, and a whole set of things around empowering labor even more than it had been empowered before.

So in that situation there was, in effect, a global threat to the power of the corporate capitalist class and therefore the question was, “What to do?”. The ruling class wasn’t omniscient but they recognized that there were a number of fronts on which they had to struggle: the ideological front, the political front, and above all they had to struggle to curb the power of labor by whatever means possible. Out of this there emerged a political project which I would call neoliberalism."

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Sunday Nov 29, 2020

THIS IS REVOLUTION>podcast Ep. 86: The Revolution and Reagan; Grenada '83 w/ Milton J. Coy

Sunday Nov 29, 2020

It seems like a forgotten chapter in our history. The 1983 invasion of Grenada. It didn't last long and the casualties on the American side were small. 19 troops. But many more Grenadians perished, many due to an "accidental bombing" of a mental hospital. Reagan feared that Grenada was becoming another Cuba. The Marxist leader of Grenada was viewed as a threat to President Reagan. Maurice Bishop sought socio economic development, stressed education, and of course the liberation of his people from under the foot of Western Colonialism.

So it was AMAZING to have Milton J. Coy, journalist, activist, human rights advocate, and a man that was THERE! He was part of the Revolution, educating his people, and he was also there for the deadly, baseless invasion of 1983.

"There are those ... who believe that you cannot have a democracy unless there is a situation where every five years ... people are allowed to put an "X" next to some candidate's name, and ... they return to being non-people without the right to say anything to their government, without any right to be involved in running their country. ...Elections could be important, but for us the question is one of timing. ...We would much rather see elections come when the economy is more stable, when the Revolution is more consolidated. When more people have in fact had benefits brought to them. When more people are literate ...The right of freedom of expression can really only be relevant if people are not too hungry, or too tired to be able to express themselves. It can only be relevant if appropriate grassroots mechanisms rooted in the people exist, through which the people can effectively participate. ...We talk about the human rights that the majority has never been able to enjoy, ... a job, to decent housing, to a good meal. ...These human rights have been the human rights for a small minority over the years in the Caribbean and the time has come for the majority of the people to begin to receive those human rights for the first time."

-Maurice Bishop

Bishop raised the literacy rate, introduced free healthcare, and housing.

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Wednesday Nov 25, 2020

THIS IS REVOLUTION>podcast: Ep. 85: Toys, Cartoons, and Capitalism w/Toy Galaxy's Dan Larson

Wednesday Nov 25, 2020

It's a very serious time in this country, and I spend MOST OF MY TIME, reading, studying, or discussing it. Every so often I do get to indulge in non political media, and that's where I came across Toy Galaxy. Dan Larson, the show's host is the perfect combination of information, personality and levity. I reached out to Dan a while back, and he was kind enough to respond and agree to be a part of the show. Take a listen to this one, we DEFINITELY nerd out a bit. That being said, Dan's deep dives into the why certain toy lines "failed" is more an editorial on capitalism than it is just another homage to the 80's.

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Sunday Nov 22, 2020

THIS IS REVOLUTION>podcast Ep. 84: Fighting for a Just Society w/ Raha Jorjani

Sunday Nov 22, 2020

"Illegality is the flip of inequality. It serves to preserve the privileged spaces for those deemed citizens and justify their privilege by creating a legal apparatus to sustain it. Heightened panic about illegality coincides with growing global inequality and the dependence of the privileged on the labor of the excluded."

-Aviva Chomsky, UNDOCUMENTED: How Immigration Became Illegal

“Give justice to the weak and the fatherless; maintain the right of the afflicted and the destitute,” (Psalm 82:3). “Learn to do good; seek justice, correct oppression; bring justice to the fatherless, and please the widow's cause,” (Isaiah 1:17)

In this episode we speak with Public Defense Attorney and friend, Raha Jorjani. Raha reached out to me because she's dealing with a troubling case and she's looking to amplify the voice of her client. Walter Cruz Zavala. Walter came to this country from El Salvador when he was 14 fleeing the horrible conditions of his homeland. Sexual abuse, gang violence, El Salvador was no longer a safe haven for Walter. From the Alameda County Public Defender's Office:

"He came to the U.S. on his own and joined his father, who was already here. His mother, father, sister, and brother are all U.S. citizens or lawful permanent residents of the United States. He has not returned to El Salvador. Cruz-Zavala was recruited into MS 13 as a teenager in the United States. A U.S. government informant convinced him to get two gang-related tattoos; prosecutors then used the tattoos as evidence against him in a federal criminal case. Cruz-Zavala was acquitted of all charges by a federal jury but the tattoos continue to endanger his life. “An individual acting on the government’s behalf gave 18-year-old Walter the very tattoo that makes it likely he’ll be tortured in El Salvador, and now that same government will stop at nothing to deport him there,” Jorjani said. Immigration authorities detained Cruz-Zavala in July 2017 and tried to deport him back to El Salvador after he was convicted of five DUIs and one charge of carrying a concealed firearm. However, in May 2018, an immigration judge decided the government could not send CruzZavala back to El Salvador because he likely would be tortured and/or killed."

In this episode we talk about Walter's case, and the many more like Walter that sit in immigration prisons called "civil custody" for undefined amounts of time.

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Wednesday Nov 18, 2020

THIS IS REVOLUTION>podcast Ep. 83: Racism and Heavy Music w/ Joshua Kahn Russell, Pascual Romero, Paul Kott, & Jonathan Brown

Wednesday Nov 18, 2020

For those of you that have been listening to this show from early on, you know that it was once called "Bitter Lake Presents: Soundwaves". Bitter Lake, being the band that I front and write music for. All the music you hear on this show is Bitter Lake music. I LOVE HEAVY CHAOTIC MUSIC. Before the pandemic, I traveled all over yelling, screaming, diving, throwing instruments on a quest to liberate your mind and your body from the evils of capitalism and neoliberal malaise. Heavy music is my sanctuary. But the music that I feel called to play, and the scene it exists in hasn't always been a welcoming world for me.

I am unapologetically black in a genre where I am A VERY SMALL MINORITY. When the "you're cool for a black guy" comments come in, I don't let those roll off the shoulders like some sort complement that I should take pride in. When those statements are thrown my way, I try to explain it's problematic nature and remind those hurling the complementary slur that we are all a part of this heavy music family...right? Metal and Punk music connected to me in a way many other genres didn't as a young person. The abrasive vocals, ferocious riffing through a distorted guitar mirrored my frustrations at a society that was crumbling around me growing up in violent crack era Richmond, California. Double bass kicks, and rapid fire gunshots from drive bys. This is my music too. I'm going to amplify my voice, my message through the guttural howl of hardcore, punky, metal.

Alright, I don't want to go on too long, but the bottom line is, heavy music, which I thought was the soundtrack for the outcasts, might have some "implicit bias" issues. Some of us from the scene discussed it. Take a listen and PLEASE chime in on social media if you have an opinion or an experience.

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