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Episode 177: The Winnipeg General Strike of 1919
This week: how the idea of One Big Union brought the city of Winnipeg together in solidarity and also bike lessons and church! What happens when cops join your movement? How many rich people does it
Episode 176: Shootin’ the Shit - Back of the Napkin Cosmology
We talk about religion and death for some reason. Aliens too, along with contract law, video game pricing, movies, and retirement home scams.Check us out on social media:Merch: https://www.teepubl
Episode 175: Surveillance Capitalism, Pt. 2
Were back to talk about nasty, nasty tech trends, namely how big tech wants to mine the human experience our emotions, our psychology, our physical bodies into data and profit. Lovely stuff!Ch
Episode 174: Shootin’ the Shit: The Big One
This week: Israel updates, labor actions (teachers, actors, UAW), and how modern history is taught.Links mentioned in the show:A day in the life in PalestinePalestine Action USList of funds for
Episode 173: Surveillance Capitalism, Pt. 1
In part one of Christines book report, they tell us about the basic theory of surveillance capitalism, aka how companies use our data to make money. We learn about the early days of Google, the prese
Episode 172: Shootin’ the Shit - Bring Back Hecklers
This week: more Israel stuff, including TXs boycott on speaking out against it and its worrying campaign to funnel money into more war crimes. Plus, accidental hate group hangs, facial recognition fo
Episode 171: Democratic Centralism - The Antis
Okay so what about people who arent into the State? Is individualism all its cracked up to be? What about democracy? Discipline? We read some works by Rosa Luxemburg and Emma Goldman to get some add
Episode 170: A Rainbow of Scabs
We start off with a brief look into Palestine, followed by labor updates, football clubs, an update to the UAW strike, teeth, broken internet brains, and liberal pet projects.Check us out on social
Episode 169: Democratic Centralism - The Pros
On todays episode, we take a look at some readings from Mao and Castro on that ole organizing theory of Democratic Centralism. What is it? Is it cool? Is it mean? Find out!Reading 1 | Reading 2 |
Episode 168: Shootin’ the Shit - Little Red Classroom
We chat about Cuba, boy history, and lots of different labor actions. Is Christines anti-intellectual? Plus, secret communist schools. Check out how you can support your local UAW strikers here: http