Act Out! podcast
148 episodes - English - Latest episode: over 2 years ago - ★★★★★ - 61 ratingsA nerderific podcast that wanders through questions big and small, deep and shallow, from the philosophical to the political to the cultural. Step inside the nerdery...
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Act Out Update!
July 30, 2021 16:44 - 2 minutes - 6.15 MBA quick announcement for y'all about Act Out! Get/stay in touch at artkillingapathy.com
Episode 278 - Understanding Backwards & Sometimes Boundaries Don't Work
July 16, 2021 16:00 - 28 minutes - 65.8 MBFollowing a relatively sheisty July, Eleanor ruminates on her emotional and mental boundaries, and whether or not it's possible to always respect them. And how does this differ or diverge depending on who you're interacting with - i.e. dear friends & family or a casual comrade. artkillingapathy.com
Episode 277 - We're Walking Blind & Orwell Told Us So
June 25, 2021 17:36 - 29 minutes - 67.9 MB“The most effective way to destroy people is to deny and obliterate their own understanding of their history.” - George Orwell Without history, we wander through our present and build our future - totally blind. As racists foam at the mouth and shriek about "critical race theory," it seems an apt time to highlight the importance not only of learning history, but in HOW we learn that history... artkillingapathy.com
Episode 276 - The Racist Imperialism Lurking in Your Body Image
June 11, 2021 16:00 - 26 minutes - 60.9 MBA seldom considered connection is the one between genocidal imperialism and body image. But as we sift through history and into the shallow dumbshittery of eugenics, we find not only the drive to mass murder "inferior races," but to define beauty along those very same genocidal lines. Pulling from Sven Lindqvist's work, "Exterminate All the Brutes," this foray into the nerdery follows nefarious threads to the roots of self hatred based on the creation of "inferior races." artkillinga...
Episode 275 - The Multitudes Within For The Multitudes Without
May 28, 2021 16:00 - 27 minutes - 63.1 MBMultiple things can be true at the same time. Our very existence proves that. We exist as multitudes, holding multiple truths not only about ourselves but about the world around us. For instance, the rise in anti-Jewish violence must be condemned AND we must continue to demand an end to the oppression of Palestinians. By embracing these multiple truths, these manifold selves, we resist the rigid monoculture paradigm of a system that demands one way of doing things, one truth, one allegianc...
Episode 274 - Be the Plantain. Finding Place Far From Home
May 14, 2021 16:00 - 31 minutes - 71.7 MBIf you're like me - a white person with a background that criss-crosses borders from Europe to the Middle East, you may struggle with the word "home." It might feel hopeless digging into a deep past, before colonialism, to find when our people lived with the land, not just off it. Pulling from Braiding Sweetgrass, I dig in - literally and figuratively - to the earth beneath us, far from "home," and how we can be good neighbors and family members regardless of where on earth we land. Supp...
Episode 273 - On Prepping for Police, Infighting and Infiltrators
April 30, 2021 16:00 - 28 minutes - 65.7 MBShit happens - especially when you're trying to topple the largest empire the world has ever seen. Preparation is therefore key. Preparation that reminds us of our goals and centers those most targeted by the state is vital, so that we avoid white saviourism, replicating harm and derailing our work. Help me create radical art! https://bit.ly/332bt97 artkillingapathy.com
Episode 272 - Square Pegs, Courage & Cowardice
April 16, 2021 16:00 - 32 minutes - 74.3 MBAre you square pegging it just like me - rounding your edges to appease? A musing on not fitting in, on latching on to boulders sinking with the weight of a cowardly resolve - and on courage, the radical world-building kind. artkillinagapathy.com
Episode 271 - Spoken Word, Insidious Systems, Science & Magic
April 02, 2021 16:00 - 29 minutes - 67.7 MBComing off a particularly vicious bout of food poisoning, I thank you all for the inspiration that brewed up a new spoken word piece for this episode! Meanwhile, let's talk about who profits from our programmed feelings of self-worthlessness, and the insidious nature of this programming. Plus a look at the harshly cut borders between science and magic - may they be blasted through with finely tuned lasers wielded by unicorns ;) artkillingapathy.com
Episode 270 - Bogus Borders, State Of (In) Your Mind & What It Means To Be American
March 19, 2021 16:00 - 34 minutes - 79.2 MBCue the "this is so un-American" speeches. Anytime something horrible happens, it's immediately lambasted as being un-American when in reality, it's actually very VERY American. Eleanor dives into the arbitrary dividing lines of borders and nations, the struggle for the state(lessness) of your mind and taking pride in your culture - not your country. artkillingapathy.com
Episode 269 - The Gift, Creativity You Can’t Commodify & The Spectrum of Artists
March 05, 2021 17:00 - 38 minutes - 89.1 MBHow do artists and creatives think of their work in terms of dollars and cents? It feels wrong - because it inherently is. Art and creativity, the labor of creation - is the antithesis to a system based on destruction, on profit and quantifiable work over connections that can never be commodified. This week, we step into the multilayered nerdery of art and capitalism, with some help from dead French philosophers, vinyls, Robinson Crusoe and mixed metaphors. artkillingapathy.com
Episode 268 - Coloring Outside The Lines, Inside Each Other
February 19, 2021 17:00 - 30 minutes - 71 MBHuey P. Newton wrote that "we all belong to one society yet live in different worlds." The layers of self in these worlds, the infinite intersections, the myriad truths are all sources of power - when combined. When kept in sharp and separate boxes, our connections to each other and to our selves are amputated. In order to build, we must color outside the lines - into each other's existence. Texas Mutual Aid doc: http://bit.ly/2NzLGRk Our mailing list: http://bit.ly/ActOutNewsle...
Episode 267 - Failures, Focus and Boundaries
February 05, 2021 17:00 - 39 minutes - 90.8 MBAn anti-capitalist nerderific look at failure, focus and boundaries: Why do we have such a troubled relationship with failure? Why can't we feel the life in the ruins? Oh woe when we take our daily distracted energy into our movements spaces...what kind of worlds could we possibly hope to build? Finally, setting boundaries is anti-capitalist. And it's the only way to show up with fairness and care for yourself and your community. artkillingapathy.com
Episode 266 - That Idea's Not New, Team Human & Cyclical Rebirth
January 22, 2021 17:00 - 32 minutes - 75.6 MBCome into the nerdery and help me chew over some of the ideas from Douglas Rushkoff's book Team Human. How do linear belief systems fuck over the planet and ultimately of course, humans too? How can a cyclical perspective change the way we are in relationship with ourselves, each other and the planet? And can we let go of the need to 'own' ideas in favor of embracing ideas buried, silenced or ignored? artkillingapathy.com
Episode 265 - Needed A Radical Change, Can't Build By Burning Bridges
January 08, 2021 17:00 - 41 minutes - 95.9 MBThe institutionalization of activism - much like charity - depends on preserving the current capitalist system. So, it feels like an apt and vital time - for a radical change. At the same time, whatever you call it, if "it" means building for justice, grassroots autonomous power, we're on the same side - and we don't have time to burn bridges. Meanwhile, less than a week into 2021 and we've already got men dressed up as goats taking over the Capitol building...what a time to be alive! ...
Episode 264 - Reflection in the Dark, Weight Training & A Joyful Unbalance
December 26, 2020 13:29 - 35 minutes - 81.7 MBIt's remarkable how much more we can reflect on in the dark... A special solstice thinky-dink nerderific episode on accountability, jagged boundaries and the differences between not caring and self caring. artkillingapathy.com
Episode 263 - How Myths Warp Our Past & Endanger Our Future
November 27, 2020 17:00 - 33 minutes - 77 MBAs Karen Armstrong writes, "human beings have always been mythmakers." We seek meaning, we seek protection and comfort. But not all myths are created equal. Some myths are incredibly dangerous - they distort and cover up a harsh reality that unless faced, will destroy us. In this tour of the nerdery, Eleanor slides along the spectrum of dangerous myths and offers up some ideas on how we could use acculturation to face the facts and dig up the truth of our past, so that we might build a b...
Episode 262 - Loudly Losing (Layers Of) Illusions
November 13, 2020 17:00 - 36 minutes - 84.4 MBA cathartic step into the nerdery this week - spinning some spoken word, calling out the grating cheers for a war criminal racist sexist, a symphony requiem mass for the illusions we must lose - if we want to win anything. artkillingapathy.com
Episode 261 - Deception 2020 & The Solidarity of the Shaken
October 30, 2020 16:00 - 1 hour - 171 MBGot a special episode for y'all this week - featuring the voices of Deception 2020 - the series I've been doing in the lead-up to the election. Hear from Dan Kovalik, Nick Braña, Dr. Margaret Flowers, Mickey Huff, Eugene Puryear and Leonardo Flores on issues and angles you'd never hear from corporate media. And in all of this, through all of this - we are not alone, we are the solidarity of the shaken. artkillingapathy.com
Episode 260 - Danger! Fear! Let's Put the Elections in Context, Swap Vote Shaming for System Shaming
October 16, 2020 16:00 - 27 minutes - 63.6 MBFear is incredibly useful - until it's not. Here's a look at how fear is pushing people to make rash (and ultimately unhelpful) decisions in the face of actual systemic dangers. And this isn't about vote shaming - this is about system shaming. We have to be real about our place and time, the historical context of this election and the work that can't be done by checking a box on election day. artkillingapathy.com
Episode 259 - Breaking the Stalemate and Feeling Weird
October 02, 2020 16:00 - 34 minutes - 80.8 MBMovement spaces can feel uncomfortable at times - and at times, that's a good thing. But if rigid radicalism is at work, people and spaces will break under the weight of replicated oppression and narrow-mindedness. Embracing feeling weird, building space to acknowledge our continuing growth while holding ourselves and others accountable is in the DNA of powerful and radical spaces. Here, we can break the stalemate of inaction that so often hits people when they're so afraid to fuck up, so...
Episode 258 - The Problem With Equality, Rewriting the Future
September 18, 2020 16:00 - 31 minutes - 72.6 MBThis week's nerdery hang dissects the problem with equality in a system where people have unequal needs and access. Technology divides, it isolates, but it is not the inherent enemy. That is capitalism - and we don't have to look at a future written by a capitalist scribe. We can write our own, starting now. artkillingapathy.com
Episode 257 - Voting Doesn't Count, The Possibilities of Political Engagement
September 04, 2020 16:00 - 38 minutes - 88 MBIn so many ways, voting doesn't count. And for those who lift their heads from the sand every 4 years just to proselytize the virtues of voting for evil, y'all can fuck right off. Change won't come from voting or petitioning, it comes from mutual aid, community organizing and the myriad possibilities outside the voting booth - all the ways to engage they never talk about, because they know how powerful they can be. artkillingapathy.com
Episode 256 - Fuck Fate and The State, Many Worlds & Trawling for the Unconscious
August 21, 2020 16:00 - 29 minutes - 67.7 MBSometimes you get delicious fish, sometimes you get tires. Either way, to know and to deal with what's beyond the surface, you gotta dig. This isn't just for our selves but for global systems as well. Don't accept their painting of fate - and come to that, don't accept the state! On the other side are possibilities legion. Our work dreaming and building includes nurturing solidarity and making space for other dreams, tactics and emergent ideas. artkillingapathy.com
Episode 255 - No Nonsense Nuance + What Else We Can Do Now
July 24, 2020 16:00 - 32 minutes - 76.1 MBSome decisions are binary - yes or no, south or north, on or off. Some decisions include manifold options, backstories, possibilities. Organizing is hardly ever binary. Embracing some nuance - tho it might feel uncomfortable and icky at times - is vital for building power. So you've been to a protest, now what? Some thoughts on what folks can do now to not only fight, but build. artkillingapathy.com hardroadofhope.com
Episode 254 - Humans as Commodity and Consumer; Value and Worth Outside of Capitalism
July 10, 2020 16:00 - 44 minutes - 103 MBAny capitalist answer to feelings of worthlessness is no answer at all – it is merely a momentary glaze on a chipping facade of programmed self-hatred and feelings of worthlessness. From body positivity to self-worth and monetary value, let's dive into this sticky and tangled web of life as commodity, consumer - and on the other side, human. artkillingapathy.com hardroadofhope.com
Episode 253 - The Language of Action & Proud to Be un-American
June 26, 2020 16:00 - 33 minutes - 78 MBA somewhat trip back to the nerdery - this time it's about language. The power of words - or the lack of power, as it sometimes happens. How what we choose to say or write changes how we think about things. Like ally vs. accomplice, American vs. un-American. artkillingapathy.com hardroadofhope.com
Episode 252 - A Trip Into the Nerdery, The Origin of Ghosts & Calicified
June 12, 2020 16:00 - 28 minutes - 65.5 MBStep into the nerdery with me as I dig into the seemingly at-odds worlds of science and magic. Plus, I have a hypothesis on the origin of ghosts...no, really. PLUS... The out-of-touch take the pulse of a dying body politic and pronounce it America. Flags made in China flutter in a toxic breeze. Masked vigilantes demand our complicity - in the plot to kill us. The bottom line buckles, and the beast roars. HardRoadofHope.com ArtKillingApathy.com
Episode 251 - Clowns n Capitalism, Commodified Rebellion and Obligations to Life
May 29, 2020 16:00 - 33 minutes - 76.8 MBOh what a tangled web! Feeling squirrely today on this release date of my first ever documentary. Either way, we're rolling with it! We're diving head first into the muddy waters of conflicting, contradicting emotions in order to marinate and toast despair, stop chasing happiness and more. Talking Viktor Frankl and obligations to life - and how that chafes against our programming in multiple ways. So...suit up and let's go for a swim. hardroadofhope.com artkillingapathy.com
Episode 250 - Anarchist Bandits, Smelling Roses & Digging Up Stories
May 15, 2020 16:00 - 32 minutes - 74.5 MBCurious instead of judgemental, like a kid with a rose...particularly in this hideous unknown, and this damned storm... it will polish the sky so the brilliance will blind – but I will never be the same PLUS, history on repeat and the multiple cities that exist in one - the stories that have been kept from us that will give us hope. With help from Anarchist Bandits in Belle Epoque Paris. artkillingapathy.com hardroadofhope.com
Episode 249 - General Strike, The REAL Virus & May Day!
May 01, 2020 16:00 - 31 minutes - 72.1 MBMay Day! This is crisis. Capitalism's a virus. May Day! Musings from the 134th anniversary of Haymarket. What are the effects of this amputated past? And how is this moment unique in fighting and building for the future? PLUS General Strike demands! artkillingapathy.com
Act Out 248 - The Anti-Capitalist Therapy Hour (or half)
April 17, 2020 16:00 - 26 minutes - 62.3 MBI had a bunch of notes planned - updates on travels and new projects that I was gonna share. Best laid plans... Welcome to the new era of Act Out! Talking through some of the craziness we're all feeling - not in a cheapened, let's om together kinda way - but in a deep, anti-capitalist way. Here we are - what does here look like, feel like - and what are folks doing, what can folks be doing - to create that light at the end of the tunnel, rather than wait for the powers-that-be to light the...
Episode 247 - Keep Acting Out!
February 28, 2020 17:00 - 30 minutes - 69 MBThe end of an era – a look back and a look ahead, to work that's been done, and all yet to come. It's been almost five years of Act Out! and while this chapter is ending, this book is far from written. We're gearing up for deeper dives – beyond surface headlines and rapid fire news cycles – and we want you to be a part of it. So here's to raised fists, to sit-ins and shut downs – and a lot more marching in the streets. See you on the front lines. **NOTE: Stay subscribed to the podcast! It ...
Episode 246 - Wet’suwet’en Strong: Unceded and Unwavering + Mining the Deep Ocean is Green
February 21, 2020 17:00 - 28 minutes - 39.5 MBTrans rights are human rights – because human rights are only valid if they include every person in their entirety. Next, mining on land is so 20th century – the new frontier of mining is just as deep and dark as it is terrifying and catastrophic. And finally, we hear from the Wet’suwet’en on their ongoing battle to preserve their ancestral homelands. http://unistoten.camp/
Episode 245 - When Motherhood Kills: The Effects of For-Profit Healthcare in Empire’s Capital
February 14, 2020 17:00 - 28 minutes - 39.2 MBA special episode that looks at a grotesque statistic and asks the question – if you can judge a government by how they treat their most vulnerable and marginalized --- how more pointed is that judgement when you look at the hometown of that government? DC and the practice of condemning predominantly black mothers to death. https://www.1199seiu.org/ https://www.dcna.org/
Episode 244 - Starve the Beast, Feed the Community + Kings of a Graveyard
February 07, 2020 17:00 - 28 minutes - 39.5 MBUncle Sam's manifest destiny is to become king of a global graveyard – how our economic warfare kills and tortures millions worldwide and how folks here and elsewhere are organizing to fight back against so-called sanctions. Next, updates on whistleblowers and publishers and finally a look at building thriving communities in the face of over-policing, prisons and detention. https://sanctionskill.org/ https://www.releasechelsea.com/ https://action4assange.com/ https://freedomtothrive.org...
Episode 243 - It's the Unnatural Disasters That Kill + War On the Home Front
January 31, 2020 17:00 - 1 hour - 91.3 MBMore than 16,000 quakes of varying sizes have hit Puerto Rico. But the real shocks come from capitalism and colonialism. In this FULL INTERVIEW, coordinators with the Mutual Help Center of Lares talk about the natural and unnatural disasters pummeling their home, and how folks are organizing to withstand them. PLUS it's so important that we connect all of our issues to war - to the giant black hole that's sucking resources, lives and our very futures away from us. https://www.facebook.co...
Episode 242 - Mental Health Alternatives to Police + Dangerous Talk
January 24, 2020 17:00 - 55 minutes - 76.4 MBThousands of calls to 9-1-1 don't need police. So what if an emergency call could bring out mental health and social workers instead? Enter White Bird Clinic. PLUS, some theories on theories just in time for the year of lip service. https://whitebirdclinic.org/cahoots/
Episode 241 - The Refugee Industry & Australia’s Still Burning - Coal
January 17, 2020 17:00 - 28 minutes - 39.7 MBCaged for seeking freedom – migrants and refugees in the land of the free. Next, zooming out on the global refugee industry – because yes, that too – is a booming business. Finally, global droughts, and the fires of human folly; coal scare tactics leading Australia's climate policy and how grassroots climate activists are fighting a massive mining project in the midst of a firestorm. https://www.freedomforimmigrants.org/ https://frontlineaction.org/
Episode 240 - How To Fight War Fever, Power Stand-Off + Fire & Water
January 10, 2020 17:00 - 28 minutes - 39.3 MBTho filmed before Iran's military reaction, we touch on some important information regarding Soleimani and the need for loud and resolute international antiwar responses. Updates on bad ass organizers, activists and whistleblowers. Next, what we really need in order to stop the empire and why we can't just lean on letters from the UN. War Fever is high and the propaganda machine is working overtime. Next, water woes in the world's largest fire storm, and what this has to do with an indigen...
Episode 239 - 2019’s Front Line & Censored Stories
December 27, 2019 17:00 - 28 minutes - 39.3 MBFrom Iran to Venezuela to the forests of Southern Illinois to the borderlands. It’s been a full year of Acting Out! Here’s to many more. artkillingapathy.com
Episode 238 - Chile’s Warning to the World + The Untold Story of Fracking
December 20, 2019 17:00 - 29 minutes - 41 MBCOP 25 is over and the people have spoken – from Chile to Madrid, largely indigenous-led protests are highlighting the uselessness of these climate summits and the danger of falling for greenwashed false solutions in the age of climate chaos. Next, you've likely heard of fracking, but do you know about frac sand mining? Ted Auch from Frac Tracker takes us into this seldom-discussed world of environmental destruction. https://globaljusticeecology.org https://www.fractracker.org/
Episode 237 - Making Cents, Losing Sense: What It Pays to Starve the People + German Reflections
December 13, 2019 17:00 - 28 minutes - 39.2 MBThere's only so much you can take from someone. And with the recent plans to starve some 700,000 Americans, we may have reached that threshold. We dive to the bottom line to uncover the real impetus behind such legislation and the horrifying ways in which we spend money that could - and should – go to we the people. Next up, We don't shut up, we shut down – a message, parallels and lessons from a recent climate court case in Germany http://wedontshutup.org/en/
Episode 236 - Can Whales Save the Humans? + Prepping One Community at a Time
December 06, 2019 17:00 - 28 minutes - 39.5 MBA whale of a deal for the IMF and all those folks out there who wanna keep consuming but want someone else to deal with the fall out. Next up, the whole damn system is guilty as hell – and that's a heavy thought. And while starting the fight – and more so the build - in your own community might seem a small move to make, it may be the most powerful. https://carbondalespring.org/ https://thenexteclipse.wordpress.com/ https://www.symbiosis-revolution.org/
Episode 235 - Why We Consume, Trading in Trash & Setting a Decolonized Table
November 29, 2019 17:47 - 28 minutes - 39.5 MBThanksgiving is bullshit. But that doesn't mean that we can't bring some truth to the table while diving into issues such as indigenous foods, farming practices and food sovereignty. Plus, it's not just what we consume - indeed, it's not even our own personal consumption - but rather this global programming on consumption that's killing us. Once we start to question the programming, we'll see the horrors of the program - from cancer alley and beyond. From this space, we can work on dismant...
Episode 234 - DACA: Damned If They Do, Damned If They Don’t + Never Again Means Now
November 22, 2019 17:00 - 28 minutes - 39.4 MBDACA is in the supreme court. Far from being a legislative or constitutional battle for Trump's administration, this is fascist virtue signaling. The arguments over legality thinly veil the systemic truth: this is an overt ramping up of policies already in place with previous administrations. Next up, Never Again Action launches proactive and historically conscious activism, combining outreach with protest. https://www.neveragainaction.com/
Episode 233 - Chile, Bolivia and AFRICOM: Imperialism, Revolution & What We Must Ask Of Ourselves
November 15, 2019 17:00 - 43 minutes - 61.1 MBBolivia was too happy. Ideas that are but dreams here in the US are legislative realities in Bolivia, and that can not stand. Meanwhile, the echoes of US imperialism plays loudly in the streets of Chile. US residents asking when we're gonna reach that tipping point have some important questions to consider. PLUS some news on AFRICOM. Finally, Chairman Omali Yeshitela joins us to talk imperialism, class warfare, revolution and more. "You can not have your whiteness and socialism too. You...
Episode 232 - Open Wounds, Open Wars: Veterans and the Fight for Our Lives, Against Empire
November 08, 2019 17:00 - 44 minutes - 62.5 MBWe need to be open and honest about what the empire means and how we all suffer from it – and how these diverse but shared experiences can be our strength, not our fault lines. As we rattle thrones, we must build solidarity and heal – with veterans. Marine veteran and senior fellow at the center for international policy, Matthew Hoh sits down with us to talk about veteran health, suicide and recent news from the empire. https://www.internationalpolicy.org/ https://www.veteransforpeace.org/
Episode 231 - Grassroots from the Treetops
October 25, 2019 16:00 - 27 minutes - 39.3 MBTransformation NOT Reformation. From regenerative farming to revolutionary inclusion, these voices from the Forest Convergence tell it like it is, draw connections between our struggles and unapologetically demand real and direct action. Wherever you are, that is your frontline. Know that you have an army on your side. And we must continue to fight. And build. https://globaljusticeecology.org/ http://onamove.com/ https://www.biofuelwatch.org.uk/
Episode 230 - Meat is (Ecological) Murder, Greenwashed Deforestation & Fighting Toxic Prisons
October 18, 2019 16:00 - 32 minutes - 45.5 MBRecent reports suggest that eating meat isn't bad for you. But wait before you reach for that burger. Because this isn't just about you personal health - there's a planet at stake here. PLUS deforestation gets a greenwash AND Mei Azaad from Fight Toxic Prisons talks direct action in solidarity with prisoners, and the layers of literal and figurative toxicity driving our prison industrial complex. https://fighttoxicprisons.wordpress.com/