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Sunday Oct 18, 2020
Sunday Oct 18, 2020
For newly radicalized people that start to proclaim themselves Socialists/Communists/Marxist, the one thing that mainstream media indoctrinated family and friends throw at you is "VENEZUELA!" Right? "Oh you're a socialist huh? I guess you want the United States to become Venezuela?" Most don't understand the Bolivarian project, and the obstacles that Chavez faced until his death, and the issues that still plague the country.
I was able to get a hold of an expert on the subject, Dr. Gregory Wilpert, author of the book "Changing Venezuela by Taking Power: The History and Policies of the Chavez Government".
Dr. Wilpert has extensive experience in research and writing as a journalist and in the social sciences, as well as in progressive activism in the U.S. in the areas of global justice, economic policy, US Society, Latin America, labor, and environmental issues.
You can find his book here:
https://www.versobooks.com/books/117-changing-venezuela-by-taking-power
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Wednesday Oct 14, 2020
Wednesday Oct 14, 2020
He's my friend and political, pop culture artist Rob Israel. He definitely DOES NOT like libertarian/right wing grifters. Also, not a fan of Joe Rogan. Everyday this month Rob is drawing a caricature of some of these "chuds". Politicians, internet pundits, journalists, no one is safe from Rob's rath. We discuss...
Follow Rob Israel on Twitter:
@robisraelart
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@robisraelart
Listen Rob's Podcast on Patreon:
https://www.patreon.com/ysgoat/posts
Find Rob's Art Work at the following Sites:
https://www.teepublic.com/user/robisrael
https://society6.com/robisrael
https://www.etsy.com/market/rob_israel
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Wednesday Oct 14, 2020
Wednesday Oct 14, 2020
We were lucky enough to have Harvey J. Kaye on the livestream. He took several questions and we talked about everything from his love and ownership interest in the Green Bay Packers (lol)and why Donald Trump MUST be voted out of office. It was not just informative, but it was damn good time.
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Get his books here:
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“THESE are the times that try men's souls. The summer soldier and the sunshine patriot will, in this crisis, shrink from the service of their country; but he that stands by it now, deserves the love and thanks of man and woman. Tyranny, like hell, is not easily conquered; yet we have this consolation with us, that the harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph. What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly: it is dearness only that gives every thing its value. Heaven knows how to put a proper price upon its goods; and it would be strange indeed if so celestial an article as FREEDOM should not be highly rated”
― The Crisis
Sunday Oct 11, 2020
Sunday Oct 11, 2020
We all have fell victim to it. We've had the phone calls from bill collectors, some of us may have even had wage garnishments due to our debts. It always feels like you against a powerful machine that uses your hardship, or class as money machine.
I came across the Debt Collective and really believed in what they're doing. They're forming debtors unions to take the power away from these financial institutions and back into the hands of the people. From an article written by co-founder of Debt Collective Hannah Appel:
"Through the threat of collective nonpayment, debtors’ unions can leverage today’s mass indebtedness. And because so much of our lives have been financialized, this potential power goes far beyond an opportunity to reduce individual indebtedness. Debtors’ unions could demand mortgage write-downs, an end to racist lending practices, a cap on ballooning adjustable interest rates, student debt discharge, truly free public education, single-payer healthcare, or an end to money bail and extractive criminal justice fees. This is the provocation around which we organize at the Debt Collective."
I spoke with Hannah Appel, co-founder of Debt Collective about the different ways these institutions cripple us with debt and what we can do to collectively fight back and WIN!
Hannah Appel's piece in Dissent Magazine:
https://www.dissentmagazine.org/online_articles/there-is-power-in-a-debtors-union
Splinter Magazine Piece about Tim Geitner and Payday Loans:
https://splinternews.com/tim-geithner-is-living-his-best-post-obama-life-by-runn-1827285288
Can't Pay, Won't Pay: The Case for Economic Disobedience and Debt Abolition:
https://www.haymarketbooks.org/books/1520-can-t-pay-won-t-pay
Debt Collective:
https://debtcollective.org/
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Wednesday Oct 07, 2020
Wednesday Oct 07, 2020
I discovered Kristy Lovich on Twitter calling out the non-profit world and the local politicians in here native Los Angeles. We talk about working with the unhoused, the paternalistic approach to treating unhoused people, and the law enforcements over involvement with the mentally ill.
Some organizations that can use your support:
https://www.groundgamela.org/
The paper, prepared for The Square One Project’s Roundtable on Justice Policy, is part of the Institute’s ongoing research on racial banishment, the expulsion of Black, Brown, and Indigenous communities from our cities through criminalization, policing, and forced removal. With a focus on Los Angeles, the paper examines three regimes of racialized policing: the criminalization of the unhoused, nuisance abatement lawsuits (specifically the Citywide Nuisance Abatement Program, or CNAP), and the forfeiture of public housing. Since this is a paper written for a project concerned with the “social contract,” it concludes with a framework of rights, including “right to remain.” But as this national moment of reckoning in the United States has made vividly clear, such a right cannot be established without dismantling the role of racialized policing in maintaining propertied order. By bringing to light the many forms of spatial illegalization that are constitutive of racial banishment, the research presented in the paper makes a contribution to the ongoing work of housing justice.
Sunday Oct 04, 2020
Sunday Oct 04, 2020
He took on the richest man in the world in a fight for a just work environment. In the middle of a pandemic that spreading like wildfire. He was working in the epicenter of it. The conditions for their labor were, in a word, deadly. He tried to alert management about the dangers, and his voice for the most part went unheard, for they like most of us, are the casualties of capital. Collateral damage in a quest monopoly control and untold riches.
The man I speak of is Chris Smalls. The behemoth he faced off against was Jeff Bezos and Amazon. Here's a excerpt from the Guardian article that shows what happens you challenge capital power:
Chris Smalls, who had worked for Amazon for five years, was fired shortly after he helped organize a work stoppage at the company’s warehouse on Staten Island, New York, in protest over a lack of protective gear and hazard pay for employees. Amazon claims it fired Smalls for “violating social distancing guidelines and putting the safety of others at risk”.
Amazon’s general counsel, David Zapolsky, in notes from a meeting of top executives obtained by Vice, wrote: “He’s not smart, or articulate, and to the extent the press wants to focus on us versus him, we will be in a much stronger PR position than simply explaining for the umpteenth time how we’re trying to protect workers.”
“Freedom in capitalist society always remains about the same as it was in ancient Greek republics: Freedom for slave owners.”
―
Follow Chris on Twitter:
@Shut_downAmazon
Instagram:
@chris.smalls_
Read the Guardian article here:
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2020/apr/02/amazon-chris-smalls-smart-articulate-leaked-memo
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Wednesday Sep 30, 2020
Wednesday Sep 30, 2020
One thing about this show is, I'm always looking for people to talk too. Many of the guests on here, I'm a fan of their work, and some, I stumble across via the net. And some, like this show's guest, I came across through social media. Ramon is a college student studying abroad in Buenos Aires, and he's the politics editor of Creative Loafing Charlotte.
We had went back and forth for a while until we FINALLY were able to schedule some time to talk. This is kid a very sharp. I had to keep reminding myself he's only 19! He did turn the conversation on me a bit, and I wasn't 100% ready for the pivot a little over half way through, but this was a good time, good talk, the kids are gonna be alright.
Journalisms Gate Keeps By Tim Schwab:
https://www.cjr.org/criticism/gates-foundation-journalism-funding.php
Creative Loafing Charlotte
Danny Haiphong on China in Black Agenda Report:
https://www.blackagendareport.com/my-trip-china-exposed-shameful-lies-peddled-american-empire
Danny Haiphong on Uyghurs in China:
https://thegrayzone.com/2020/01/22/busting-pro-war-propaganda-what-china-is-really-like/
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Sunday Sep 27, 2020
Sunday Sep 27, 2020
This is from our first livestream together. We discuss everything from the election, police violence, to travesty of forced hysterectomies. Love these guys and everything they stand for. I tried as best I could, to edit out the all the technical difficulties we were having. We're going to be weekly livestreams, and if you miss them you'll be able to see them via YouTube.
You can see the stream here:
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Wednesday Sep 23, 2020
Wednesday Sep 23, 2020
https://open.spotify.com/episode/2fPiAlT0zpofskDd5yZ2QJ?si=gPIok2pvTCWt9AoYWV-ggQ
Sunday Sep 20, 2020
Sunday Sep 20, 2020
This is one I've been excited about for A WHILE! I think I booked Richard Rothstein about 3 months out. I read the book "The Color of Law" about 3 years ago and I LOVE IT! A great story of how the U.S. Government enacted racist policies that helped to widen a racial wealth gap that has has yet to be remedied.
“Today’s residential segregation in the North, South, Midwest, and West is not the unintended consequence of individual choices and of otherwise well-meaning law or regulation but of unhidden public policy that explicitly segregated every metropolitan area in the United States.”
― The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America
Read Richard Rothstein's New York Times Piece Here:
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/14/opinion/sunday/blm-residential-segregation.html
Get Richard Rothstein's "The Color of Law" Here:
Richard Rothstein and Te Nehisi Coates on YouTube:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Pb6y9rNKmo&t=1666s
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