another podcast, just launched -
http://butterflystorycollective.libsyn.com/
― illegal economic migration (Tracer Hand), Wednesday, 22 November 2017 23:31 (six years ago) link
one thing I find interesting with the Novara people is the tension between anarchists and what for want of better terms I tend to think of as 'radical democrats' or 'democratic utopians' on the one hand, and traditional state socialsts plus fully-blown state communists on the other.
At points it has been ugly to watch. Both sides actually managed to converge amicably (so far) over at New Socialist:
https://newsocialist.org.uk/
― xyzzzz__, Wednesday, 22 November 2017 23:50 (six years ago) link
I love the brakelight clinics so much
― Simon H., Thursday, 23 November 2017 00:09 (six years ago) link
I don't agree that the US is more progressive on aboriginal issues. Afaict, these barely even register as an issue on the national level in the US.
― No purposes. Sounds. (Sund4r), Thursday, November 9, 2017 4:19 PM (one week ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
ya what's up with this? is it just that they historically killed a larger % of them?
― flopson, Thursday, 23 November 2017 01:52 (six years ago) link
Plenty of good arguments here
http://www.macleans.ca/news/canada/out-of-sight-out-of-mind-2/
― Simon H., Thursday, 23 November 2017 01:54 (six years ago) link
talking US first nations though
anyways this is not the thread
― flopson, Thursday, 23 November 2017 02:14 (six years ago) link
Yeah, that Maclean's thing makes no sense to me. If we really need to compare the situation of Canada's aboriginal population to a US equivalent, I would think that it should be the US aboriginal population ("Native Americans"), not the African-American population. And, like I said, I'm not a US politics expert but the only Presidential candidate I observed even mentioning FN issues was Bernie Sanders, who afaict didn't do more than pay lip service in passing.
― No purposes. Sounds. (Sund4r), Thursday, 23 November 2017 04:08 (six years ago) link
This might be the UK-version of Chapo btw:
https://twitter.com/reel_politcast
I don't listen to podcasts so this is all bits of educated guesswork.
― xyzzzz__, Thursday, 23 November 2017 10:08 (six years ago) link
promising new Left Coast on youth organizing in the US, starting in on it now
https://soundcloud.com/leftcoastpodcast/north-bae-004-the-dictatorship-of-the-teen#t=0:00
― Simon H., Thursday, 23 November 2017 15:54 (six years ago) link
Meanwhile, Alex Jones is posting Rosa Luxemburg quotes. Happy American Thanksgiving!
pic.twitter.com/N18dkYTqMd— Alex Jones (@RealAlexJones) January 14, 2017
― Google Murray Blockchain (kingfish), Thursday, 23 November 2017 21:58 (six years ago) link
Ha, leftie pods are popping up quick enough to start stepping on each other’s names
Left Coast: @leftcoastpodpodcast about leftism for west coast idiots by los angeles trash comedians @shutupandrosky and @heysarajune. new ep every wednesday, DMs open
http://leftcoastpod.libsyn.com/
Left Coast Media: @LeftPodInterviewing leftists from the best coast and beyond. Follow @chekainformant, @communalsauce, and @rrrrn.
https://m.soundcloud.com/leftcoastpodcast
Beast Coast Podcast:
@BeastCoastPodEast coast is the beast coast. A #leftpod covering culture and philosophy from @the_admo, @lostcosmonaut84, @rayagun19, and @garthotronbeastcoastpodcast.com
― Google Murray Blockchain (kingfish), Friday, 24 November 2017 03:04 (six years ago) link
Jeeze
― .oO (silby), Friday, 24 November 2017 03:23 (six years ago) link
Somebody elsewhere mentioned about how leftie folks are taking to podcasts like RW schmucks did to YT
― Google Murray Blockchain (kingfish), Friday, 24 November 2017 05:52 (six years ago) link
This is probly of heavy relevance:
Both Verso & Haymarket are now running half-off sales til year’s end, with bundled ebooks where available
https://www.versobooks.com/blogs/3495-50-off-all-our-books
https://www.haymarketbooks.org/blogs/55-50-off-holiday-gifts-for-the-red-on-your-list
I’m currently reading this: https://www.versobooks.com/books/2062-the-s-word
― Google Murray Blockchain (kingfish), Friday, 24 November 2017 20:49 (six years ago) link
Last Verso I read:https://www.versobooks.com/books/2465-humankind
― .oO (silby), Friday, 24 November 2017 20:59 (six years ago) link
Is anybody on Tim Faust’s health justice email list? He sent out an update today, and I had to laugh due to two things:
1. He sent it out from “T-Bone Faust,” which is a rare nickname that works for both Coen Bros collaborator and Coen Bros character
2. The opener is almost word-for-word matching a certain Onion columnist:
Hello friends,This one's long. It’s been a minute since I got to last speak with you.
This one's long. It’s been a minute since I got to last speak with you.
― Google Murray Blockchain (kingfish), Monday, 27 November 2017 17:23 (six years ago) link
You can read his missive and sign up for the list here
― Google Murray Blockchain (kingfish), Monday, 27 November 2017 17:25 (six years ago) link
I earnestly love that dude so much
― Simon H., Monday, 27 November 2017 18:11 (six years ago) link
<3 beavis wallpaper
― brimstead, Monday, 27 November 2017 18:13 (six years ago) link
All eyes on Illinois
http://www.cnn.com/2017/11/28/politics/illinois-house-dsa-carlos-ramirez-rosa-chuy-garcia/index.html
― Simon H., Wednesday, 29 November 2017 01:21 (six years ago) link
^ strategically this makes no sense to me
― it me, Wednesday, 29 November 2017 05:26 (six years ago) link
because there's already a "progressive" running?
― Simon H., Wednesday, 29 November 2017 10:59 (six years ago) link
yes. why go after an early Sanders supporter who's an automatic yes vote on single-payer?
what is gained?
― it me, Wednesday, 29 November 2017 17:57 (six years ago) link
I would guess that they feel particularly strongly about Rosa's local popularity but otherwise I can't speak to the wisdom or lack thereof. Single payer isn't the only issue to be concerned about. (Then again, as yet, DSA has yet to officially endorse him AFAIK.)
― Simon H., Wednesday, 29 November 2017 18:25 (six years ago) link
What is the podcast equivalent for those of us who prefer music to podcasts and therefore never listen to podcasts? I mean, apart from hardcore punk lol
― imago, Wednesday, 29 November 2017 18:43 (six years ago) link
xp Garcia and Ramirez-Rosa are going to vote the same on practically every issue of consequence. What's the point of replacing a guy who's 95% left with a guy who's 100% left?
think you're right, there must be some local angle
― it me, Wednesday, 29 November 2017 19:07 (six years ago) link
What about Algiers and, uh, Downtown Boys(who are more post-hardcore, really)?
― Google Murray Blockchain (kingfish), Wednesday, 29 November 2017 20:10 (six years ago) link
If I understand correctly, I think imago is looking for short podcasts.
― Simon H., Wednesday, 29 November 2017 20:13 (six years ago) link
I doubt that
imago have u ever deep-listened to Crass' Penis Envy? That's my suggestion.
― sleeve, Wednesday, 29 November 2017 20:21 (six years ago) link
i was a big fan of motherfucker, aka m-f. episodes about 10 minutes long. it was the realest. they stopped doing it after about 10 episodes though. it was really hard to search for.
― illegal economic migration (Tracer Hand), Wednesday, 29 November 2017 22:34 (six years ago) link
I doubt the q is "what is music that I can listen to instead of podcasts and get the same political insight", or at least I hope it isn't, 'cause that's a crazy question.
― Daniel_Rf, Thursday, 30 November 2017 10:44 (six years ago) link
m-f feels (felt?) pretty punk rock. stripped down to the barest nub of honesty and humor and conversation and swearing. short eps. an ineffable sense of what the kids today call "moving the culture forward". it's not political in the way this thread is looking for in general though
https://itunes.apple.com/gb/podcast/m-f/id1241489297?mt=2
― illegal economic migration (Tracer Hand), Thursday, 30 November 2017 14:13 (six years ago) link
I was listening to Flux of Pink Indians yesterday and Rudimentary Peni today. I suppose it makes sense to listen to Crass next
― imago, Thursday, 30 November 2017 14:15 (six years ago) link
socialist economic darling/enfant terrible Matt Bruenig made an appearance (his first, I assume?) in the NYT today:
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/11/30/opinion/inequality-social-wealth-fund.html
― Simon H., Thursday, 30 November 2017 14:17 (six years ago) link
RE: DSA/Garcia/Rosa, I don’t think a DSA endorsement of Rosa would matter very much. Gutierrez has endorsed Garcia and that counts a lot. Gutierrez is overwhelmingly popular in IL-4 and hasn’t gotten less that 74% of the vote in the last two primaries. I can’t imagine his constituents going against anyone he anoints as a successor.
― Jeff, Thursday, 30 November 2017 16:37 (six years ago) link
I gotta say, while I agree (mostly) with their platform, I don't understand what the DSA is trying to do strategically.
The tea party template would seem to be the best approach—obtaining guarantees of support for single-payer, education debt reform and "no" votes on Near Eastern wars from center-left candidates under credible threat of a primary.
But this looks like typical progressive infighting.
― it me, Thursday, 30 November 2017 18:57 (six years ago) link
AFAICT they haven't run any candidates that have served to prevent Dem-identifying candidates from getting elected
― Simon H., Thursday, 30 November 2017 19:02 (six years ago) link
Any chance they can take to run someone and promote socialist ideals and proposals without getting republicans elected is fine by me
― Simon H., Thursday, 30 November 2017 19:03 (six years ago) link
Well, that's the thing—they don't actually run anyone. They just endorse them. So they should use *that* as a bargaining chip—in safe districts, obviously—to pull the libs further left.
It worked for the right.
― it me, Thursday, 30 November 2017 19:08 (six years ago) link
That was their old model, more or less, as I understand it. With the influx of new blood less interested in trying to "reform" or influence the Democratic party, that's changed somewhat. One of the major national slates discussed the difference between electoral strategy vs "electoralism" here https://www.dsamomentum.org/platform/
More broadly, the electoral plank is (again, this is based only on what I've read) just one thing they're interested in and not the principal focus.
― Simon H., Thursday, 30 November 2017 19:14 (six years ago) link
From that link:
Rather, we propose an approach that could be called building a “party beyond the party,” one that formulates a clear political program and develops, runs, and disciplines candidates in select campaigns.
Sounds like a Tea Party model to me. I also notice that Medicare For All is explicitly endorsed, not only as a policy (duh), but as a rallying cry:
Medicare for All has become a key working class demand and enjoys strong majority support across the country.
I would note it's a key middle class demand as well. So why go after Garcia, an automatic "yes" vote on Medicare for All? It would seem to make more sense to target the center-left, making it politically unacceptable for any Democrat to hold any other position.
― it me, Thursday, 30 November 2017 19:32 (six years ago) link
I agree that it's questionable, but a) I'm not sure it's indicative of a larger problem and b) it doesn't seem like it'll make much of a difference - Garcia seems like more or less a sure thing
― Simon H., Thursday, 30 November 2017 19:42 (six years ago) link
LanaDelRaytheon outed as harasser?
― louise ck (milo z), Friday, 1 December 2017 04:09 (six years ago) link
🤭
― .oO (silby), Friday, 1 December 2017 04:22 (six years ago) link
https://www.jacobinmag.com/author/lana-del-raytheon?page=20
― sleeve, Friday, 1 December 2017 04:24 (six years ago) link
matt breunig on sovereign wealth funds in the nyt today https://www.nytimes.com/2017/11/30/opinion/inequality-social-wealth-fund.html?_r=0
― flopson, Friday, 1 December 2017 07:01 (six years ago) link
I re-read the Harper’s Magazine excerpts of the jury selection from the Shkreli trial today.
https://harpers.org/archive/2017/09/public-enemy/
If we can’t convert this elemental anger into concrete political action, we don’t deserve to be called “the Left.”
― it me, Sunday, 3 December 2017 05:20 (six years ago) link
the wild part is of course that everything they're so angry about was perfectly legal
― Simon H., Sunday, 3 December 2017 05:36 (six years ago) link
Imagine passionately wanting to convict this guy of something and then, when handed the opportunity, so nonchalantly disqualifying yrself from doing so in the name of saying some snarky bullshit
― sleepingbag, Sunday, 3 December 2017 06:34 (six years ago) link
I've never been called for a jury before. are potential jurors under oath?
― Simon H., Sunday, 3 December 2017 06:55 (six years ago) link