6 - Emerald City

It’s the American Dream: “Available” to all, accessible by some, denied to many, indifferent to the consequences — just the way the good lord intended it to be! The productive forces have given us so much stuff, but the endless extraction, manufacture and commodification of planetary and human resources is leading us down a path we won’t be able to recover from. Just how close are we to the breaking point? And what happens next if we don’t rethink how we roll? 

Special thanks to guests Andrew Constantino, Kshama Sawant, and Vijay Prashad.

From Maffick Podcasts, Party of One. Written, hosted, and produced by Amanda Getty and Gregory Haddock. Theme song by Jonathan Hurley. Production assistance by Eilís O’Neill and Ryan Wentz.

Notes:

https://independentmediainstitute.org/fellows/vijay-prashad/

https://www.seattle.gov/council/sawant

https://www.statista.com/chart/6949/the-us-cities-with-the-most-homeless-people/

https://policyadvice.net/insurance/insights/homelessness-statistics/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Government_and_politics_of_Seattle

https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2014/01/29/inequality-poverty-divide-republicans-more-than-democrats/

https://www.washingtonpost.com/video/politics/spanberger-criticizes-democrats-strategy-in-caucus-call/2020/11/05/6ec2b368-258a-4061-9738-d83ee8971c3c_video.html

https://today.yougov.com/topics/politics/articles-reports/2019/07/08/government-responsibility-homeless-partisan

https://www.bnnbloomberg.ca/unprecedented-spike-in-u-s-evictions-looming-as-ban-expires-1.1632958

https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/news/jeff-bezos-and-elon-musk-increased-their-wealth-by-dollar217-billion-in-2020-for-this-amount-over-100-million-americans-could-get-dollar2000-checks/ar-BB1cq7c2

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/11/05/us/texas-election-results.html

https://www.kiro7.com/news/local/report-shows-seattle-area-has-largest-rent-increase-nation-over-past-decade/3C4CAHGUYZFLZOOI4MRDZRG6UY/

https://www.feedingamerica.org/research

https://www.american.edu/cas/news/the-growing-hunger-crisis-in-america.cfm

https://dowbor.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/14Thomas-Piketty.pdf

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i0VFfv_Ku6I

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1LbAuobvbEk

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-IqCtSHbrxY

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kc6R1z5ih2w

https://www.businessinsider.com/florida-minimum-wage-rise-vote-amendment-15-tipped-employees-workers-2020-11

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wmSPyocMRyw

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NFNUvS7UioE