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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

01:25:16

Race and space in America / Elijah Anderson

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2022/02/23

Sociologist Elijah Anderson on his book "Black in White Space: The Enduring Impact of Color in Everyday Life" from University of Chicago Press. https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/B/bo119245209.html

01:23:58

Fire and the modern world / Daniel Immerwahr

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2022/02/10

Historian Daniel Immerwahr on his Guardian article "‘A deranged pyroscape’: how fires across the world have grown weirder" and in a Moment of Truth, Jeff Dorchen bites the handbook that feeds. https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/feb/03/a-deranged-pyroscape-how-fires-across-the-world-have-grown-weirder

01:21:06

Maritime insurers and the US founding / Hannah Farber

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2022/02/08

Historian Hannah Farber on her book "Underwriters of the United States: How Insurance Shaped the American Founding" from the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture and the University of North Carolina Press. https://uncpress.org/book/9781469663630/underwriters-of-the-united-states/

01:08:32

Dirty energy politics in Ohio / Nathanael Johnson

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2022/02/07

Writer Nathanael Johnson on his report "How a $60 million bribery scandal helped Ohio pass the ‘worst energy policy in the country’" for Grist. https://grist.org/politics/how-a-60-million-bribery-scandal-helped-ohio-pass-the-worst-energy-policy-in-the-country/

01:25:00

The state, the unhoused and performative productivity...

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2022/02/03

Urban planning scholar Deyanira Nevárez Martínez on her paper "Homelessness in Southern California: Street-Level Encounters with the State and the Structural Violence of Performative Productivity" for Radical Housing Journal, and in a Moment of Truth, Jeff Dorchen takes sides in the Werewolf vs Vampire war. https://radicalhousingjournal.org/2021/homelessness-in-southern-california/

01:22:03

Crop diversity and agricultural crisis / Helen Anne...

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2022/02/01

Historian Helen Anne Curry on her book "Endangered Maize: Industrial Agriculture and the Crisis of Extinction" from University of California Press. https://www.ucpress.edu/book/9780520307698/endangered-maize

01:17:57

Neoliberalism and the Sturgis Motorcycle Rally /...

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2022/01/31

Historian Catherine McNicol Stock on her article “Is the rally really worth it?” The Sturgis Motorcycle Rally and the Costs of Neoliberalism" for OSU Origins. https://origins.osu.edu/index.php/read/south-dakota-sturgis-motorcycle-rally-neoliberalism

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