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01:03:17

STAFF PICKS: Feminism Beyond Capitalism / Jessa Crispin

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2022/05/04

Writer Jessa Crispin rejects today's mainstreamed, neoliberal feminism, and calls for a return to feminism's radical promise: as a sharp-edged, outsider's social critique, as a challenge to the supremacy of capitalism, and as a path towards a radically reorganized society. https://www.mhpbooks.com/books/why-i-am-not-a-feminist/ https://abortionfunds.org/funds/

00:48:56

STAFF PICKS: Producing Art and Resistance under...

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2022/05/03

Producer Dan presents a 2018 interview Chuck conducted with the amazing multi talented artist Boots Riley prompted by the release of his movie "Sorry to Bother You." Also due to the current news surrounding the United States Supreme Court's impending overturning of Roe v. Wade and the coming outlawing of abortions, here is a link to the National Abortion Fund where you can find a local fund to contribute to. https://abortionfunds.org/about/abortion-funds-101/

00:54:35

STAFF PICKS: Asad Haider / Beyond identity politics.

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2022/05/02

Writer Asad Haider explains how today's reductive form of identity politics acts as an obstacle to understanding and confronting oppression. FIRST BROADCAST: June 2018.

01:21:40

STAFF PICKS: Cedric Johnson / Race, Class, and the...

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2022/04/28

Political scientist Cedric Johnson examines the collisions of race, class, policing and activism in the wake of George Floyd's murder, and explains why the Democratic Party and capital threaten to co-opt and re-direct the protest movement's energy unless it commits to a politics of redistribution and power for the working class. https://nonsite.org/the-triumph-of-black-lives-matter-and-neoliberal-redemption/

01:03:40

STAFF PICKS: James Doucet Battle / The Biopolitics of...

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2022/04/27

Anthropologist James Doucet-Battle on sugar, diabetes, racialized science and his book "Sweetness in the Blood: Race, Risk, and Type 2 Diabetes" from University of Minnesota Press. https://www.upress.umn.edu/book-division/books/sweetness-in-the-blood

01:41:45

STAFF PICKS: David Graeber / Bureaucracy and Bullshit...

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2022/04/26

Dan replays two interviews Chuck did with the late, great David Graeber, the first about his book on bureaucracy "The Utopia of Rules," the second on the book "Bullshit Jobs." https://www.mhpbooks.com/books/the-utopia-of-rules/ https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/Bullshit-Jobs/David-Graeber/9781501143335

01:04:36

STAFF PICKS: Panashe Chigumadzi / Black humanity,...

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2022/04/25

Alex replays Chuck's Oct 2021 conversation with writer Panashe Chigumadzi on her article "The Cry of Black Worldlessness" for Africa Is A Country. https://africasacountry.com/2021/10/the-cry-of-black-worldlessness

01:02:30

STAFF PICKS: The Power of Pleasure Activism /...

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2022/04/21

Writer adrienne maree brown explores the radical, liberatory potential of pleasure - to reclaim the self from the bounds of oppression, to restore our relationships with other people and the planet, and to imagine (and inhabit) the future worlds we hope to win with our activism. adrienne is author of the book Pleasure Activism: The Politics of Feeling Good from AK Press. https://www.akpress.org/pleasure-activism.html

00:54:59

STAFF PICKS: Sarah Ihmoud / Sheikh Jarrah and Beyond

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2022/04/20

Anthropologist Sarah Ihmoud on the dynamics of colonialist violence and domination against indigenous people in Palestine and across the globe, connecting those struggles across borders, and her article Sheikh Jarrah: The Question Before Us for Jadaliyya. https://www.jadaliyya.com/Details/42757/Sheikh-Jarrah-The-Question-Before-Us

01:19:25

STAFF PICKS: Ed Sutton & Natasha Lennard / Fascism -...

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2022/04/19

In another This is Limbo! episode, producer Sebastian muses about what drives fascism and presents two interviews, one with Antidote writer Ed Sutton and one with political analyst Natasha Lennard who both mused on these very questions themselves.

00:49:19

STAFF PICKS: Jodi Dean / The left and party politics.

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2022/04/18

Alex replays Chuck's interview with theorist Jodi Dean on her book "Crowds and Party" from Verso Books. [First broadcast January 23 2016]

01:19:49

STAFF PICKS: Trevor Griffey / Financialization and...

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2022/04/14

Sebastian replays Chuck's interview with historian Trevor Griffey on his article "A New Deal for College Teachers and Teaching" written with Mia McIver for the American Association of University Professors website, and in an ALL NEW Moment of Truth, Jeff Dorchen introduces The Other White Pride: Calcium. [Griffey interview first broadcast May 4, 2021] https://www.aaup.org/article/new-deal-college-teachers-and-teaching

01:12:40

STAFF PICKS: Gary Brecher + Mark Ames / Syria's war +...

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2022/04/13

Dan replays interviews with Gary Brecher (The War Nerd) and Mark Ames. [First broadcast Oct 20 2012 and April 30 2011]

00:59:16

STAFF PICKS: Cassie Thornton / Peer-to-peer feminist...

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2022/04/12

Lindsey replays artist Cassie Thornton explores the revolutionary potential of The Hologram - a peer-to-peer system of care between people as equals in an unequal society. [First broadcast August 4, 2020]

01:08:15

STAFF PICKS: Adofo Minka / Prison uprisings and self...

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2022/04/11

Chuck returns! Plus Producer Alex replays Assistant Public Defender Adofo Minka on prisoner uprisings in St. Louis and across the United States [First broadcast April 29, 2021]

01:31:30

Cryptocurrency Will Not Liberate Us / Hadas Thier

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2022/03/02

Writer and Activist Hadas Thier talks to Chuck about her Dollars & Sense Article "Cryptocurrency Will Not Liberate Us." Jeff Dorchen sees a phantom. Or was it a famine? Everyone wrestles with how to pronounce "paczki." http://dollarsandsense.org/archives/2022/0122thier.html

01:17:14

On cannabis corporatization / Mary Jane Gibson

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2022/03/02

Writer Mary Jane Gibson on her article "Inside California's Cannabis Crisis" for Rolling Stone. https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-features/california-weed-cannabis-crisis-emerald-triangle-1302545/

01:15:19

Capital's migration policy / Daniel Melo

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2022/03/01

Immigration lawyer Daniel Melo on his article "The Capitalist Imperative Driving Cruel and Bipartisan US Migration Policies" for Black Agenda Report. https://blackagendareport.com/capitalist-imperative-driving-cruel-and-bipartisan-us-migration-policies

01:23:45

Medical AI and automating mental healthcare / Os Keyes

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2022/02/25

Writer Os Keyes on their Real Life article "Condition Critical," and in a Moment of Truth, Jeff Dorchen flags your non-Jewish privilege. https://reallifemag.com/condition-critical/

01:15:37

On prison education / Daniel Fernandez

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2022/02/23

Writer Daniel Fernandez on his article "The Classroom and the Cell" for The Baffler. https://thebaffler.com/salvos/the-classroom-and-the-cell-fernandez

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