Working Class Advocates: Recent Episodes
Jesse Austin
Here is my best attempt to summarize everything I've learned about Israeli apartheid and how I came to support Palestinian resistance. Youtube link with graphics: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ies7oQexvN0Sources:https://www.aa.com.tr/en/middle-east/despite-refutations-from-israeli-military-headlines-that-hamas-beheaded-babies-persist/3016167https://www.passblue.com/2023/12/03/un-women-bowing-to-pressure-condemns-hamas-and-calls-for-investigating-alleged-sex-abuse/https://mondoweiss.net/2023/12/cnn-report-claiming-sexual-violence-on-october-7-relied-on-non-credible-witnesses-some-with-undisclosed-ties-to-israeli-govt/https://twitter.com/giladerdan1/status/1730284375105819003https://www.nytimes.com/2023/11/30/world/middleeast/israel-hamas-attack-intelligence.htmlhttps://www.timesofisrael.com/for-years-netanyahu-propped-up-hamas-now-its-blown-up-in-our-faces/https://www.timesofisrael.com/mossad-chief-top-general-visited-qatar-begged-it-to-pay-hamas-liberman-says/https://www.timesofisrael.com/11-un-staff-30-pupils-at-un-schools-killed-in-gaza-says-spokesperson/https://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/news/2023/10/damning-evidence-of-war-crimes-as-israeli-attacks-wipe-out-entire-families-in-gaza/https://www.reuters.com/world/us-vice-president-harris-urges-israel-do-more-protect-palestinian-civilians-2023-12-02/https://www.jpost.com/international/article-776386https://www.aa.com.tr/en/middle-east/there-are-no-un-designated-safe-zones-in-gaza-un/3074103https://www.taghribnews.com/en/news/617147/no-safe-zones-in-gaza-as-israel-intensifies-bombingshttps://www.aljazeera.com/gallery/2023/12/9/photos-israel-bombs-gaza-areas-it-called-safe-zones-for-palestinianshttps://www.taghribnews.com/en/news/617019/unrwa-warns-of-1-9-m-palestinians-displaced-due-to-israeli-war-machinehttps://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/2023-11-12/ty-article/israeli-security-cabinet-member-calls-north-gaza-evacuation-nakba-2023/0000018b-c2be-dea2-a9bf-d2be7b670000https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/nakba-fact-sheethttps://twitter.com/ytirawi/status/1732777278420000821https://www.reddit.com/r/socialism/comments/17xeq74/israeli_soldier_films_himself_invading_an/https://www.al-monitor.com/originals/2023/06/israeli-settlers-burn-palestinian-crops-hebron-pahttps://www.middleeastmonitor.com/20230821-west-bank-illegal-israeli-settlers-destroy-crops-in-masafer-yatta/https://www.middleeastmonitor.com/20231002-israeli-settlers-destroy-whole-crop-of-olive-trees-and-burn-palestinian-farm/https://www.hrw.org/news/2023/10/12/israel-white-phosphorus-used-gaza-lebanonhttps://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/news/2023/10/lebanon-evidence-of-israels-unlawful-use-of-white-phosphorus-in-southern-lebanon-as-cross-border-hostilities-escalate/https://www.instagram.com/p/Cy53Uc9LplG/https://www.opensecrets.org/industries/summary.php?ind=q05&cycle=All&recipdetail=S&mem=Y‘https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=86Nrv5izaTshttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hvcKnI0kMy4https://www.arabnews.com/node/2407151/middle-easthttps://www.btselem.org/freedom_of_movementhttps://jewishcurrents.org/iron-dome-is-not-a-defensive-systemhttps://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/why-robert-mcnamara-came-regret-war-he-escalated-180961231/https://theintercept.com/2023/11/21/al-shifa-hospital-hamas-israel/https://www.omct.org/en/resources/urgent-interventions/israel-opt-13-year-old-boy-used-as-human-shield-and-seven-children-killed-by-israeli-forceshttps://www.refworld.org/docid/4988063ac.htmlhttps://reliefweb.int/report/occupied-palestinian-territory/israeli-forces-use-palestinian-child-human-shield-gazahttps://www.hrw.org/news/2010/11/26/israel-soldiers-punishment-using-boy-human-shield-inadequate
Fuel crisis in Lebanon is a smoking gun for imperialist US sanctions, global capitalism and the fossil fuel industry at large. Antifascists foil proud boys' "summer of peace" rally. Unity workers are blowing the whistle on GovTech contracts for the military industrial complex.
A few corrections: "privatize" (nationalization of resources is what we would support) "Stock" exchange (we meant to say "stonk exchange") & WOW the "fortnite sweepstakes" the US Army did weren't even real, they were literally just links redirecting gamers to enlist: https://win.gg/news/twitch-requires-us-army-to-remove-fake-sweepstakes-promotions/
Bonus Content: Dr. Gabor Mate tries to make Tucker Carlson understand addiction: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=97zzc_nuZgc
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Sources:
- https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/least-20-killed-lebanon-fuel-tank-explosion-mtv-news-2021-08-15/
- https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2021/8/23/official-iran-is-ready-to-ship-more-fuel-to-lebanon-if-needed
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QLyv8TV7fsA
- https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2021/aug/23/portland-oregon-clashes-protests-proud-boys-antifascist
- https://www.vice.com/en/article/y3d4jy/unity-workers-question-company-ethics-as-it-expands-from-video-games-to-war
- https://thebanter.substack.com/p/the-dangerous-gamification-of-war
- https://www.wired.com/2008/07/wargames/
Working Class Advocates welcomes Rainer Shea onto the show for a discussion about class struggle in Colombia, right-wing propaganda & revolution worldwide. Thank you so much for joining us!
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Sources:
- Rainer Shea censored by Medium at the behest of Shane Bauer: https://www.greanvillepost.com/2019/08/31/the-lights-keep-going-out-medium-shuts-down-rainer-sheas-account-on-spurious-grounds/
- Medium generally censoring white helmet and anti-war critics: https://politicalfilm.wordpress.com/2019/09/01/now-medium-censoring-critics-of-white-helmets-terrorist-group/
- Colombia most dangerous place in the world to be a member of a trade union: https://justiceforcolombia.org/about-colombia/trade-unions/
- And workers cannot legally collectively bargain without one: https://knowledge.leglobal.org/trade-unions-and-employers-associations-in-colombia/
- Bill Nye's "sexual spectrum" episode regarded as anti-science propaganda for LGBT agenda by right-wingers: https://www.christianpost.com/news/bill-nye-manipulating-science-promote-transgenderism.html
- "Dissipated Molecular Revolution, Castro Chavism, Gender Ideology": https://digismak.com/the-dissipated-molecular-revolution-the-latest-strategy-of-alvaro-uribe-international/
- The Ghost of "Castro/Chavismo" Returns to Colombia: https://misionverdad.com/english/ghost-castrochavismo-returns-colombia
- Colombia is Rising up: https://youtu.be/WB2isJA1JdU
- Obama's drone strike of Abdulrahman al-Awlaki: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abdulrahman_al-Awlaki
- Segunda Marquetalia fighting back in Colombia: https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/f/return-war-and-rise-farc
- Transphobia: An Analysis by Abigail Thorn (Philosophy Tube): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yCxqdhZkxCo
- Is Nordic Socialism a Progressive Step? by Richard Wolff: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B-SixOZHteU
- Socialism or UBI?: https://www.marxist.ca/article/socialism-or-ubi
- Mercenaries in US 2020 protests: https://www.npr.org/2020/07/17/892277592/federal-officers-use-unmarked-vehicles-to-grab-protesters-in-portland
- Mercenaries in Colombia: https://www.nytimes.com/2021/08/07/world/americas/haiti-assassination-colombia-mercenaries.html
America is doomed unless it can create and foster communism. Democrats are controlled opposition and our government serves the ruling class.
Sources: How we built the ghettos: https://www.thedailybeast.com/how-we-built-the-ghettos Dakota Access Pipeline violates Fort Laramie Treaty: https://americanindian.si.edu/nk360/plains-treaties/dapl US Healthcare More Expensive but Less effective: https://grattan.edu.au/news/more-expensive-but-less-effective-the-us-healthcare-system-explained/ Socialist countries handling COVID 19 better: https://www.workers.org/2020/05/48848/ Targeted Eviction Ban: https://www.cnbc.com/2021/08/03/cdc-to-issue-new-eviction-ban-effective-through-october-3.html Cori Bush's Sleep-in at Capital Building: https://missouriindependent.com/2021/08/04/after-pressure-from-cori-bush-feds-order-eviction-ban-in-areas-with-high-covid-rate/ Amazon apologizes for falsely denying workers peed in bottles on the job (during the Alabama Amazon union campaign): https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-56628745#:~:text=Amazon%20has%20apologised%20to%20a,water%20bottles%22%20in%20a%20tweet. White supremacist terrorism on the rise: https://www.forbes.com/sites/carlieporterfield/2020/06/25/white-supremacist-terrorism-on-the-rise-and-spreading/?sh=3f5aa8515a0f Landlords "Struggling to Stay Afloat": https://www.npr.org/2021/03/17/977441157/landlords-struggling-to-stay-afloat-see-lifeline-in-covid-19-relief-for-renters
Bonus Video: https://fb.watch/7dkdZqIRIu/
The history of union-busting is one of denying safety and well-being to workers. We don't want a "right to work", we want our right to collective bargaining, and beyond that we want to live free of capital!
Sources: https://www.nrtw.org/right-to-work-frequently-asked-questions/ https://www.lhsfna.org/index.cfm/lifelines/august-2016/why-right-to-work-is-wrong-for-safety/
The first episode of Working Class Advocates in which I describe common barriers to autistic people in the workplace, share my story trying and failing to get a simple accommodation from an employer, and read an article by Jules Edwards from India Country Today.
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Sources: 1.https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-wales-49523283 2.https://www.vox.com/2018/5/3/17307098/workers-disabilities-minimum-wage-waiver-rock-river-valley-self-help 3.https://www.carautismroadmap.org/protections-against-employment-discrimination/ 4.https://www.marketwatch.com/story/most-college-grads-with-autism-cant-find-jobs-this-group-is-fixing-that-2017-04-10-5881421 5.https://indiancountrytoday.com/opinion/applied-behavior-analysis-is-abusive-to-native-children 6.https://www.carautismroadmap.org/the-right-to-accommodations-in-the-workplace/ 7.https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/news/human-rights-of-people-with-autism-not-being-met-leading-expert-tells-united-nations 8.https://blog.theautismsite.greatergood.com/infantilization-autism/ 9.https://www.spectrumnews.org/features/deep-dive/how-abuse-mars-the-lives-of-autistic-people/ 10.https://autisticmama.com/even-new-aba-is-problematic/ 11.https://www.edgehill.ac.uk/business/files/2016/11/36-Stream-proposal-CMS-2017-Ableism-in-management2c-organizations-and-employment-relations.pdf