THIS IS REVOLUTION ＞podcast
789 episodes - English - Latest episode: 3 days ago - ★★★★★ - 172 ratingsA podcast about music, and politics as told by musicians who sing about politics
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THIS IS REVOLUTION>podcast Ep. 135: The Turkish Question w/ Cihan Tugal
May 23, 2021 14:00 - 1 hour - 87.8 MBFor the last two decades, Turkey has been ruled by the Justice and Development Party (better known by its Turkish acronym AKP), a political party with its origins in the country’s Islamist movement. The rise of the AKP was a profound shock for the secular nationalist elite that had dominated Turkish political life since the foundation of the Republic of Turkey in the early 1920s. Initially, the AKP - under the leadership of Recep Tayyip Erdogan - postured as a liberalizing force in Turkish p...
THIS IS REVOLUTION>podcast Ep. 134: McCarthyism and the Civil Rights Movement w/ Paul Heideman
May 19, 2021 14:00 - 1 hour - 89.8 MBThe traditional narrative of the Civil Rights Movement centered on Martin Luther King and the N.A.A.C.P is often repeated to highlight liberal reform to the Jim Crow racial order that gripped America at that time. However, few Americans are aware of how much radical Black labor activists challenging the domination of capitalism were integral demanding solutions rooted in political economy as a means to address the conditions of Blacks in the United States. In this episode we will discuss how...
THIS IS REVOLUTION>podcast Ep. 133: Palestine Fights to Exist w/ Nora Barrows Friedman
May 16, 2021 14:00 - 1 hour - 89.3 MBMany of us have seen the devastating footage of thousands of far-right flag waving Zionist Israelis cheering the burning of a large cypress tree outside of historic Al Aqsa Mosque in Palestine. They were celebrating "Jerusalem Day" the day in 1967 where Israel took control of the city. Another shocking scene making its way around the internet is that of a Palestinian woman begging an Israeli settler to not steal her house! A claim that sounds absurd to the average American, but a precario...
THIS IS REVOLUTION>podcast Ep. 132: The Scramble for Africa w/ Milton Allimadi
May 12, 2021 14:00 - 1 hour - 81 MBThroughout the Obama Administration America's military footprint on the African continent expanded greatly through the development of Africom. China has been developing infrastructure on the African continent since the 90s. Now the Russians are showing a presence in Sudan, and even Turkey is playing a role in Somalia. Are we witnessing a 21st Century Scramble for Africa? Will Africa be the next flashpoint for military conflict for competing global Empires? We will ask this question and...
THIS IS REVOLUTION>podcast Ep. 131: Live Music in the COVID Era w/ Conan Neutron, Rick Valentin, Pascual Romero
May 09, 2021 07:07 - 1 hour - 119 MBMusic for me like many others can feel like the last vestige of freedom in a world of work, work, consume. The advances in home recording, simple online distribution have made creating and releasing music extremely accessible. But, with the ubiquitous nature of music, 10.000’s of albums at one’s fingertips with the aid of a smartphone and a streaming app, what value does music have for the masses that consume it? Before the pandemic music venues were shuttering at a rapid rate. This has be...
THIS IS REVOLUTION>podcast Ep. 130: Art as a Weapon w/ Dwayne Mr. Fish Booth and the Saturday Crüe
May 05, 2021 14:00 - 2 hours - 168 MBCan art still be used as a weapon against neoliberalism and capitalism? Or has the commodification of subversive art neutered it's dangerous ideas/themes? About Mr. Fish: Dwayne Booth (a.k.a. Mr. Fish) is a cartoonist and freelance writer whose work can most regularly be seen on ScheerPost.com. He has been a cartoonist and freelance writer for 20 years, publishing under both his own name and the pen name of Mr. Fish with many of the nation’s most reputable and prestigious magazines, jo...
THIS IS REVOLUTION>podcast 129: Organizing a Left in the Age of COVID and Automation w/Jamie Peck and Dr. Asatar Bair
May 02, 2021 14:00 - 1 hour - 86.3 MBTonight's guest Jamie Peck has been a voice in left media for several years. We will ask her about the pitfalls of organizing a true left politics when so much of the left is online, especially in the wake of Covid 19 and the rise automation and the threat of labor displacement. We'll also be joined by our favorite Marxist economist Dr. Asatar Bair! About Jamie: Jamie Elizabeth Peck is a writer, podcaster, and model who previously produced and contributed to The Majority Report with Sa...
THIS IS REVOLUTION>podcast Ep. 128: America's Most Cancelled w/ Norman Finkelstein
April 28, 2021 14:00 - 3 hours - 256 MBPolitical scientist Norman Finkelstein has been an active critique of how the Holocaust is used to protect the abuses of the state of Israel. His work and advocacy have made him perhaps one of the most cancelled intellectuals in recent American history. Finklestein in fact is currently writing a book on the cancel culture phenomenon. We will ask Finkelstein about how criticism of Israel gets one cancelled in America and how the nature of ruling class discourse helps facilitate that Ab...
THIS IS REVOLUTION>podcast Ep. 127: The Obama Mythology w/ Daniel Bessner
April 25, 2021 14:00 - 1 hour - 90.8 MBDaniel Bessner did many a favor by reading the recent Obama biography so we wouldn't have too. He published a review of the article in Jacobin Magazine entitled: The Barack Obama Memoir: Don't Trust this process. Today we will discuss with Bessner the particular utility of Obama to the ruling class and why the Obama project is so important to protect for the liberal power elite in America. About Daniel Bessner: Daniel Bessner currently holds the Joff Hanauer Honors Professorship in Western...
THIS IS REVOLUTION>podcast Ep. 126: The Myth of the Humane Canada w/
April 21, 2021 14:00 - 1 hour - 96.3 MBEver since Michael Moore painted Canada as violent crime free, healthcare having utopia. It's almost as if we look to our neighbors to the north as having an ideal society. Many Americans often clamor whenever political administrations they find distasteful come to power that they''ll, "just move to Canada." For many reasons, Canada has been perceived as a tranquil nation lacking the social dysfunction and international bloodlust ascribed to the United States. Today we will actually look ...
THIS IS REVOLUTION>podcast Ep. 125: Can Black Capitalism Lead to Black Liberation w/Jared Ball
April 18, 2021 14:00 - 1 hour - 86.1 MBWith large investments (Goldman Sachs One MIllion Black Women) in programs designed to create lessen the often talked about racial wealth gap can an emphasis on connecting Black entrepreneurs to large amounts of capital close that gap? Or will it simply enrich a burgeoning bourgeoisie class ? We discuss this and more with Professor and host of the iMixWhatiLike podcast Jared Ball. About Professor Ball: Jared A. Ball is a father and husband. After that, he is a Professor of Communicatio...
THIS IS REVOLUTION>podcast Ep. 124: Why Don't Black Politics Work for Black People w/ Adolph Reed, Jr.
April 14, 2021 14:00 - 1 hour - 89.4 MBPolitical Scientist Adolph Reed, Jr. has been writing about Black politics and Black political thought for over four decades. Having been an activist in the 60s as well as a long time labor organizer, his scholarship has persistently challenged orthodox thinking regarding Black political activity. Some of his classic works such as "Class Notes: Posing as Politics and Other Thoughts on the American Scene," and "Stirrings in the Jug: Black Politics in the Post Segregation Era," have set the st...
THIS IS REVOLUTION>podcast Ep. 123: Black Girl Magic for Empire w/ Angela Walker and the Saturday Crüe
April 07, 2021 14:00 - 3 hours - 218 MBIs the liberal establishment cynically using Black women's empowerment as a way to support American Empire? Is woke capitalism in the wake of the George Floyd protests the neutralizing force to a real uprising? From Hood Communist writer Onyesonwu Chatoyer: "The hot new trend in the US empire is pushing African women to the front in order to make us the faces of the same old capitalist-imperialist violence. We are positioned as woke ladies with agency— kicking ass and taking names, br...
THIS IS REVOLUTION>podcast Ep.122: The Rise and Fall of Bolsonaro w/ Brian Meir of Brasil Wire
April 04, 2021 14:00 - 1 hour - 84.3 MBWith Lula freed and cleared of all charges against him, does this mark the end of Bolsonaro's reign in Brazil? We discuss this and more with Brasil Wire's Brian Meir. About Brian: Brian Mier is a native Chicagoan who has lived in Brazil for 25 years. He is co-editor of Brasil Wire and Brazil correspondent for TeleSur English’s TV news program, From the South. Follow Brian on Brasil Wire here: https://www.brasilwire.com/ Follow Brian on Telesur here: https://www.telesurenglish....
THIS IS REVOLUTION>podcast 121: The Struggle for Black Educational Autonomy w/ Professor Marlin Barber
March 31, 2021 14:00 - 1 hour - 83.6 MBAbout Professor Barber: A Sr. Instructor at Missouri State University. Dr. Barber has been teaching here since 2012. His specialties are early U.S. history, Black American history (emphasis on enslavement), and Missouri history. Professor Barber has written on Black American education post-Reconstruction and Alcohol and culture in Missouri. He's currently working on a project that looks at Black Educational institutions and community from the period of enslavement through turn of the 20th c...
THIS IS REVOLUTION>podcast Ep. 120: Talking Black Politics w/ Ben Dixon and the Saturday Crüe
March 28, 2021 14:00 - 2 hours - 166 MBPascal always asks the question if black politics are the politics of containment. Is the Democratic party trying to create the next Barack Obama? They tried with Buttigieg, they're still trying with Kamala Harris and this candidates have been milquetoast at best. Can a true left movement happen within the Democratic Party? We ask these questions and few more. The Ben Dixon Show www.youtube.com/channel/UCMCi... Left Flank Vets www.twitch.tv/leftflankvets Jacobin YouTube C...
THIS IS REVOLUTION>podcast Ep. 119: Can Asian American Politics Earn a Place in Black Freedom Struggle w/Dr. Sora Han
March 24, 2021 14:00 - 1 hour - 107 MBAs we've seen everything from the random punching of a 75 year old Asian woman in the face in San Francisco, to the murder of 8 (6 Asian women)in Atlanta. How do we on the left view what is a just outcome for these perpetrators of violence? In the aftermath of the George Floyd protests of the summer do we actually need more law enforcement to help stop these horrible acts from occurring? Will the backlash we see after this incident in Atlanta be similar to what we saw in Los Angeles in t...
THIS IS REVOLUTION>podcast Ep. 118: From 1619 to 1776 Reckoning With the Culture War w/ Professor John Gram
March 21, 2021 14:00 - 1 hour - 104 MBIs the 1619 Project, centring the birth of the United States around Slavery ahistorical? Was the 1776 project not just a response to the 1619 project but more backlash from the "Great Awokening"? An excerpt from John Gram's essay on these projects: In the last few years, the project has certainly sparked its fair share of controversy, especially because of efforts to implement it in K-12 classrooms. One manifestation of the opposition to the claims and methods of The 1619 Project is the fi...
THIS IS REVOLUTION>podcast Ep. 117: The Capitalist Realism of White Fragility w/Charles and Seth
March 17, 2021 14:00 - 1 hour - 76.4 MBIn this episode we take a deep into Robin DiAngelo's "White Fragility" and implicit bias training. Who does it work for? Is it simply a way for not threaten workplace power structures by reinforcing white identity? I discuss it with two young writers. From the essay: Since the death of George Floyd in May of this year, a new wave of anti-racist consciousness has entered into the national conversation again. To feed this new wave, anti-racist reading lists have popped up and new books hav...
THIS IS REVOLUTION>podcast Ep. 116: Black Class Conflict and Jim Crow Housing w/ Preston Smith II
March 14, 2021 14:00 - 1 hour - 109 MBHow class division amongst Black America facilitated housing descrimination. We will be joined by professor Preston Smith, II About Dr. Smith: Postwar black politics with an emphasis on housing and class. Inner-city neighborhood revitalization including economic development, affordable housing, quality public education, and equal and adequate delivery of municipal services Preston Smith's research interests in urban studies and postwar black politics are reflected in his many publications a...
THIS IS REVOLUTION>podcast Ep. 115: What Happened to Sam Cooke w/ Journalist Albert Lanier
March 10, 2021 15:00 - 1 hour - 122 MBIf you have listened to this show for a while you know I'm a fan of true crime. Like..A BIG FAN. So when journalist Albert Lanier hit me up and asked if I wanted to talk about the mysteries surrounding untimely demise of soul singing great Sam Cooke I was game. While Cooke's death wasn't ruled a homicide, the facts around only lead to one conclusion. Was it murder? Was he set up by the mob? The record label? Who wanted Sam Cooke dead? He was the sultry soulful voice of a generation. ...
THIS IS REVOLUTION>podcast 114: Eco Leninism w/ Andres Malm
March 07, 2021 15:00 - 1 hour - 73 MBIf you've listened to this show for a while you've heard me reference his book, "Corona, Climate, Chronic Emergency: War Communism for the 21st Century". So I FINALLY got to speak with the author and academic Andres Malm. From the Lund University: Why did our economy become so dependent on fossil fuels? What roles have they played in the historical development of capitalism? What are the forces perpetuating this dangerous thing we refer to as business-as-usual – and how can they be defe...
THIS IS REVOLUTION>podcast Ep. 113: Nomadland is Capitalist Propaganda Wrapped in American Exceptionalism w/ Lisha Brooks
March 03, 2021 15:00 - 1 hour - 107 MBThis is going to be the first of hopefully many more movie reviews with Lisha. We had a lengthy conversation a week ago about doing something together, and using pop culture to tell a more broad story is kinda my thing. Nomadland is the award winning 2020 film based on the non-fiction book of the same name by writer Jessica Bruder. Her book, a more telling and honest story of a new class of itinerant worker, the elderly. People displaced the financial tragedy of 2008 with no savings...
THIS IS REVOLUTION>podcast Ep. 112: Our Discussion w/ The Last Dope Intellectual Dr. Charisse Burden Stelly
February 28, 2021 15:00 - 1 hour - 82.8 MBIT'S FINALLY HERE! Our discussion with Dr. Charisse Burden Stelly. A little about Dr. Burden Stelly from here bio: Charisse Burden-Stelly is an Assistant Professor and Mellon Faculty Fellow of Africana Studies and Political Science at Carleton College. She is a scholar of radical Black critical and political theory, political economy, and intellectual history. She is currently working on two book projects. The first, W.E.B. Du Bois: A Life in American History co-authored with Gerald Horne,...
THIS IS REVOLUTION>podcast Ep. 111: Is Judas and the Black Messiah a Counter Revolutionary Film
February 24, 2021 15:00 - 1 hour - 93.7 MBMy co-host and I examine the new movie based on the life of FBI informant William O'Neal, "Judas and the Black Messiah". The film is being marketed as the story of Black Panther Chairman Fred Hampton told through the lens of the man who was responsible not just for spying on the man and the organization, but for his assassination. Thank you guys again for taking the time to check this out. We appreciate each and everyone of you. If you have the means, and you feel so inclined, BECOME ...
THIS IS REVOLUTION>podcast ep. 110: Confessions of a Drug Counselor
February 21, 2021 15:00 - 1 hour - 80.2 MBIf you've listened to the show for a while you know that I REALLY enjoy having people on that I've met online (or in real life) that I find interesting. Our guest is, who doesn't want to be named for fear that it might hurt her career in the field is someone I've had quite a bit of correspondence with online for a while. I finally convinced her to do this episode I knew it was going to be a good one. We take a deep dive into the world of drug counselling for the unhoused, and just servic...
THIS IS REVOLUTION>podcast Ep. 109: Rattling the Bars w/Former Black Panther Eddie Conway
February 17, 2021 15:00 - 1 hour - 108 MBToday we speak with former head of the Black Panther Party's Baltimore chapter Eddie Conway. Conway was wrongfully convicted and served 43 years in prison. While in prison Brother Conway started a labor union and several programs such as literacy and political awareness for the incarcerated men inside. Since his release Eddie is the author of The Greatest Threat, The Black Panther Party and COINTELPRO (iAMWE 2009) and co-author of Marshall Law, The Life and Times of a Baltimore Black Panther...
THIS IS REVOLUTION>podcast Ep. 108: The Challenges for Unhoused Youth in the COVID era w/ Dr. Robin Petering
February 14, 2021 15:00 - 1 hour - 85.5 MBA subject that doesn't get much coverage in the era of bipartisan mainstream media is the plight of unhoused youth (or the unhoused for that matter.) I got a chance to speak with Dr. Robin Petering recently about the issue of vaccination rates for unhoused youth, and the unhoused in general. Dr. Petering is the founder of LENSCO LA an organization that does outreach work with unhoused youth in Los Angeles. https://www.lensco.la/about Dr. Petering also hosts the Hello Dogtown podcas...
THIS IS REVOLUTION>podcast Ep. 107: State and Revolution w/ Jeff Haas and Flint Taylor Lawyers for Slain Black Panther Fred Hampton
February 10, 2021 15:00 - 1 hour - 102 MBHe was the young charismatic leader of the Chicago chapter of the Black Panther Party who was gunned down by the Chicago Police Department at the behest of the F.B.I's COINTELLPRO program. Designed to neutralize the Black Panther Party and all other leftist movements that ran counter to the status quo of U.S. Imperialism and White Supremacy. Hampton a bold leader and organizer was reaching across racial boundaries to form what he would call a "Rainbow Coalition". Unfortunately he wouldn't li...
THIS IS REVOLUTION>podcast Ep. 106: The Whistleblower as Profit Jeff Canady and Eugenics
February 07, 2021 15:00 - 1 hour - 108 MBEugenics is described as is a social and political philosophy. It tries to influence the way people choose to mate and raise children, with the aim of improving the human species. Can we manipulate genes to create a better person? Are certain races predisposed to certain behaviors? Is this science inherently racist? Does eugenics justify forced sterilizations? We'll answer those questions and MORE w/ Jeff Canady. Washington Post Article about Jeff Canady and the Washington DC School Sy...
THIS IS REVOLUTION>podcast Ep. 105: Post WWI Kurdish History w/ Dr. Djene Bajalan
February 03, 2021 15:00 - 1 hour - 75.9 MBYou may see him as the game master on Zero Books Zeroquest RPGshow (that I'm on as Lieutenant Paxon Dickson!). He's also a professor of Middle Eastern History at Missouri State. We've talked about for a little bit, and I was able to get Djene on the show to do a quick history on the struggles of the Kurdish people. The 4th largest ethnic group in the Middle East without at nation state. In the early 20th Century, many Kurds began to consider the creation of a homeland - generally ref...
THIS IS REVOLUTION>podcast Ep. 104: Stay Alive Surviving Capitalisms Hunger Games w/ Dr. Michael Harris
January 31, 2021 15:00 - 1 hour - 94.4 MBThe Hunger Games isn’t just the brutally honest name of the annual fight-to-the-death competition organized by the Capitol, the city that dominates Panem. It’s the way that its elite controls the districts. Starvation, scarcity and minimal rewards doled out to subservient districts; the Capitol uses hunger as a weapon against the masses. It’s also a powerful metaphor for the economic system we live under today, so much so that “the Hunger Games” has now become shorthand for any especially br...
THIS IS REVOLUTION>podcast: Ep 103: Big Tech Monopoly and Social Media Censorship w/Conan Neutron
January 27, 2021 15:00 - 2 hours - 175 MBI have once again been deleted by the almighty social media platform Facebook. Again, I have no idea why. This will be the second time in less than 10 days. There's seems to have been a purging of left wing pages and people. This is from the World Wide Socialist Website: On Friday, Facebook carried out a purge of left-wing, antiwar and progressive pages and accounts, including leading members of the Socialist Equality Party. Facebook gave no explanation why the accounts were disabled ...
THIS IS REVOLUTION>podcast Ep. 102: Allstar Session w/ Dan Larson , C. Derrick Varn, Djene Bashlan
January 24, 2021 15:00 - 2 hours - 176 MBWell it’s been not a full week since the events of great storming of the Capital by a mix of QAnon conspires, MAGA heads, Proud Boys, and well, just a bunch of people that have bought into the current administration’s false claims about the election being stolen. Would these claims have had the same merit, the same effect on masses of people had not the Russiagate narrative be shoved down the throat of the American people ad nauseam by mainstream media? Twitter and Facebook, after the events...
THIS IS REVOLUTION>podcast Ep. 101: A Socialist Working Class Model for Empowerment w/ Kali Akuno from Cooperation Jackson
January 20, 2021 15:00 - 2 hours - 148 MBKali Akuno is a co-founder and co-director of Cooperation Jackson. Kali served as the Director of Special Projects and External Funding in the Mayoral Administration of the late Chokwe Lumumba of Jackson, MS. His focus in this role was supporting cooperative development, the introduction of eco-friendly and carbon reduction methods of operation, and the promotion of human rights and international relations for the city. Kali also served as the Co-Director of the US Human Rights Network, the...
THIS IS REVOLUTION>podcast Ep.100: NEVER GIVE UP THE STREET w/ Mike Davis
January 17, 2021 15:00 - 1 hour - 69 MBI can't lie, I discovered the work of Mike Davis late. I had heard the name before, but didn't really know his work. After hearing him on a podcast earlier in the year I got decided to buy his book "City of Quartz" and reading it, I was blown away by it's prescience. If you don't know Mike Davis, he's a social commentator, urban theorist, historian, and political activist. He is best known for his investigations of power and social class in his native Southern California. He is the recipi...
THIS IS REVOLUTION>podcast Ep. 99: White Reconstruction w/ Professor Dylan Rodríquez
January 13, 2021 08:07 - 1 hour - 78.6 MBIn this episode we speak with professor in the Department of Media and Cultural Studies at the University of California, Riverside, Dylan Rodríquez. I came across professor Rodríquez's work through a mutual friend and really appreciated a lot of what professor Dylan has to say to about state of things in this country. The role of empire and capitalism, and of course we discussed his current book "White Reconstruction: Domestic WArfare and the Logics of Genocide" and his previous work, "Sus...
THIS IS REVOLUTION>podcast Ep. 98: Can't Pay, Won't Pay The Power of Debtors Unions w/Hannah Appel of the Debt Collective
January 10, 2021 15:00 - 1 hour - 124 MB"Between 1980 and 2007, household debt doubled as a percentage of GDP, with most of the growth in residential mortgages, although auto, credit card, student loan, medical and criminal legal debt also grew precipitously. In the first months of 2020, as the pandemic took hold, household debt rose to $14.3 trillion, $1.6 trillion higher than the record set in the middle of the financial crisis. Today, more than 40 %of indebted households use credit cards to cover basic living costs, including re...
THIS IS REVOLUTION>podcast Ep. 97: The Power of Real Grass Roots Movements w/ Kelvin Martinez
January 06, 2021 15:00 - 1 hour - 69.3 MB"As of January 2019, California had an estimated 151,278 experiencing homelessness on any given day, as reported by Continuums of Care to the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD). Of that Total, 7,044 were family households, 10,980 were Veterans, 11,993 were unaccompanied young adults (aged 18-24), and 41,557 were individuals experiencing chronic homelessness. Public school data reported to the U.S. Department of Education during the 2017-2018 school year shows that an est...
THIS IS REVOLUTION>podcast Ep. 96: End of the Year Show w/ Touré Reed, Cedric Johnson, and Pascal Robert
January 03, 2021 15:00 - 2 hours - 192 MBWell, 2020 is almost over, and I feel comfortable saying that all of us, except for about 600+ billionaires can't wait to bring in the new year. 2020 will be forever known as the year of tragedy. COVID-19 ripping through the world killing over a million world wide, and over 330,000 in this country alone. Infecting 1 in 1,000 Americans t could there be hope on the horizon with breakthroughs in vaccines? While we were locked down to attempt tot flatten the curve of the pandemic we saw the count...
THIS IS REVOLUTION>podcast Ep.95: Does Marxism Have Value for Black People w/ Dr. Asatar Bair
December 30, 2020 15:00 - 1 hour - 131 MBIn the midst of a deadly pandemic that to date has infected a total of 17,314,834[1] people and taken the lives of 311,150 U.S. citizens, we have a governing body that is too busy protecting the interests of capital and not that of its people. Of the 311,000+ dead, Black, Hispanic and Native populations are not just dying at a higher rate, but they are dying YOUNGER[2]. With the contagious virus ripping through cities at an unparalleled rate, a shut down of the economy was in order to tr...
THIS IS REVOLUTION>podcast Ep. 94: Jim Crow Joe Biden Screams on the Civil Rights Establishment
December 27, 2020 15:00 - 2 hours - 142 MBAudio AND VIDEO leaked of Joe Biden talking to various Civil Rights leaders in a meeting is making many of us look at the man that has vowed to "Restore the Soul of a Nation" with a serious side eye. I will be speaking with good friend and journalist Pascal Robert about this, and much more. Thank you guys again for taking the time to check this out. We appreciate each and everyone of you. If you have the means, and you feel so inclined, BECOME A PATRON! We're creating patron only program...
THIS IS REVOLUTION>podcast Ep. 93: Accidental Leftist Utopia of Chico Bon Bon w/Bob Boyle
December 23, 2020 15:00 - 1 hour - 72.8 MBMy 2 year old son is a HUGE fan of a show we found on Netflix on a while ago called, "Chico Bon Bon: Monkey with a Toolbelt". I usually try to push him to consume 80's animation, you know, so I can relive my childhood through the eyes of a toddler. It doesn't always work with this kid, so I just watch what he wants to see 9 times outta 10 (He LOVES the Mandalorian). Chico Bon Bon has become a show I'm enjoying as well, and in watching this show that teaches preschoolers about engineering ...
THIS IS REVOLUTION>podcast Ep. 92: Boyz N Tha Hood and the 1994 Crime Bill w/ Touré Reed and Pascal Robert
December 20, 2020 15:00 - 2 hours - 145 MBAfter my discussion a few weeks ago with professor and author Touré Reed, I found myself watching the movie Boyz N Tha Hood. In our discussion, we started to critique the politics of many Black leaders of the 90's that were proponents of the 1994 Crime Bill. Not even 5 minutes into the film, the viewer gets hit with the Black on Black crime troupe. The SAME THING I find myself fighting when we hear voices on the right defend state violence, is part of the messaging of this iconic film. ...
THIS IS REVOLUTION>podcast Ep. 91: A History of Indigenous Struggle Against U.S. Imperialism w/ Dr. Giovanni Batz
December 16, 2020 15:00 - 1 hour - 90.7 MBI 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...
THIS IS REVOLUTION>podcast Ep. 90: Who Speaks for Black People w/ Pascal Robert
December 13, 2020 15:00 - 59 minutes - 68.6 MBI 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: https://youtu.be/hSUfBIW0fak So ...
THIS IS REVOLUTION>podcast Ep. 89: What's Next for the Left w/ Gloria La Riva and Dr. Asatar Bair
December 09, 2020 15:00 - 2 hours - 193 MBThis is from a livestream we did recently with Gloria La Riva and Dr. Asatar Bair. Join PSL (Party for Socialism and Liberation)here: https://www.pslweb.org/ Follow Dr. Asatar Bair on Twitter: @asatarbair Subscribe to his YouTube Channel here: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UClF9hmi-NQ1VA06_Xs1qe2A Thank you guys again for taking the time to check this out. If you have the ability, and you'd like to see the show grow, become a patron. You get all the episodes early, there i...
THIS IS REVOLUTION>podcast Ep. 88: Bound to the Fire w/Dr. Kelley Fanto Deetz
December 06, 2020 15:00 - 1 hour - 83.1 MBOnce 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 Assi...
THIS IS REVOLUTION>podcast Ep. 87: A Brief History of Neoliberalism w/ C. Derick Varn
December 02, 2020 15:00 - 2 hours - 175 MBI 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". From C. Derick Varn Bio: 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,...
THIS IS REVOLUTION>podcast Ep. 86: The Revolution and Reagan; Grenada '83 w/ Milton J. Coy
November 29, 2020 15:00 - 1 hour - 95.1 MBIt 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 ...