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Episode 4: "Not Even Babies Get a Free Lunch"
Coffee with Comrades
English - July 17, 2018 04:00 - 1 hour - 95.5 MB - ★★★★★ - 163 ratingsNews Arts currentevents anarchy communism media news politics socialism theory Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
Previous Episode: Episode 3: “Kylo Ren was a School Shooter”
Next Episode: Episode 5: "I'm Literally a Communist, You Idiot"
On the latest episode of Coffee with Comrades, Bree and Pearson explore late-stage capitalism’s neoliberal paradigms.
Today’s News:
- Liberate Stonybrook Migrant Mothers in ICE detention facilities are staging hunger-strikes to demand calls with their separated children Standing Rock water protectors face jail time for civil disobedience
- J20 defendants fight back
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Anti-Antifascist Bill -
Alerta, alerta! Antifascista! Shut it down in DC -
Over a hundred thousand protesters in the UK mock Trump
So, what is neoliberalism? After providing a brief history of economics, Bree and Pearson unpack their definition:
neoliberalism (n): a twentieth century update of classic economics generally characterized by deregulation, open markets, privatization, globalization, financialization, and fiscal austerity.
Upcoming Actions:
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Love Has No Borders Benefit Show GoFundMe -
Shut it Down, DC: Fight back against the Alt-Right -
Mutual Aid Disaster Relief Workshop
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Poor yourself a cup of coffee and enjoy the episode!
Music:
- Intro: Woody Guthrie, “I Ain’t Got No Home in this World”
- Outro: Killer Mike, “Reagan”