Whats Left In Albany/The 3 Lefts Show: Recent Episodes
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The 3 Lefts Show covers ongoing and present issues from a Radical Left perspective. Hosted by Dan Plaat who brings his activist experience and flexible perspective to tie various stories together to think critically and about the big picture. A political talk show with heart, passion and a drive to educate the people for a post-capitalist future.
I end my formal podcasting project with one more double length show. The first half is a summary of the systemic problems of our capitalist society. I use David Harvey’s […]
I finish the wrap up of the show with a retread about nonprofits and a tale of Christmas crime. I bust out an old story covering part of the aftermath […]
My wrap up episode to round out the series starts with a capstone to the saga of Trayvon Jackson of the South end Grocery. The I revisit 787 reconstruction and […]
Since the great society it’s been policy and goals for social programming and services to be managed by nonprofit enterprises for of and by the community, but also since that […]
Today I have a special guest, Canyon Ryan, the Executive Director of United Tenants of Albany. He joins me to give an in depth update on the state of housing […]
This time I return with an update as I catch up with events over the summer regarding the South End Grocery which has closed and pulled the Africa-American Cultural Center […]
In finish the first reading about Albany’s political machine in the 20th century, covering Dan O’Connell’s rules and what his friends said of him. As I process how the machine […]
I continue my reading series about Albany’s modern political machine with parts from Mayor Corning’s biography. This part covers the personal relationship between the party boss Dan O’Connell, and the […]
As one interview leads to another, I have on leaders from the local toastmasters. The century old organization that seeds clubs that provide an education in public speaking. Of course […]
Today I have on a mother daughter team who formed and developed a buterfly garden at the foot of Lincoln park. Called the South End Butterfly Sanctuary, a reclaimed vacant […]
This week is local resident whose activism focuses on Nuclear disarmament. He’s wrote several books and has been a writer/pundet since 9/11. I do a general interview, discuss his latest […]
Back and with guests from the Albany riverfront Collaborative, facilitated by architect Scott Townsend; and joined by County Legs McLoughlin and Eva Bass of Avillage. Rather that discuss the whats of the 787 reconstruction or removal, we cover the design […]
This time I cover a bit related to the issues of vacant properties, They all have owners, but few have the capital to do anything about them, even the government. A wrap up with a piece of #landback to the […]
Another Houge-pouge show for stories ranging from possible 787 road diet, The smoking of the eastern coast, A study on leadership being linked to talking more, and surviving malls in financial trouble.
I return with a more focused episode based on the reveal that HVCC seeks to replace the public housing project In Lincoln park with more adult education facilities. I discuss the local lack of support and the broader issue of […]
This time I cover the saga of the improvement of the inclusionary zoning law against the wishes of the mayor; is this a successful example of the standard ‘pass bad laws and fix them later’ line reformers give us or […]
Returning to the subjects of the bus station, Airnbs, land development, traffic calming and trains to Vermont. At first glance these are positive things, but within a system like capitalism become rather limited reactions to serious problems. I am also […]
Taking a break from urban Issues I read in full an op Ed tearing into the narrative that our brains are like computers, The writers concern is that it hold back neuroscience; I link it to larger political narratives about […]
This time I am Joined by two leaders, under the names Pheonix and Dex, of the local chapter of the Satanic Temple. A recently created non-theistic religion that has grown out of activism of opposing christian nationalists. We cover their […]
This week reverts to covering urban development stories in town, as well as bus news and a remembrance of pedestrian victims of car violence. There’s certainly more development in Albany, but its still all on civil society to pick up […]
This week I sit down with Center Square neighbor Janet who talks about her past in China as an executive go between to her Environmentalist projects and her current project of setting up a community centered art space on Hamilton. […]
This edition I interview an Under liner for the Berkshires DSA: She shares her background and what she’s done over the past few years and what see’s working on now as she drifts out of the Usual DSA activities of […]
Today I cover an Interview and results of the local Amazon Union vote; Walking in dangerous around here, and little is being done by current government, Homeless eviction In Saratoga, bigger budget ask by police review board. Sources Results of […]
In the 2nd episode of the New 1 Hr show; I cover stories about Housing affordability in law and practice; and then two transitions of property into community hands via pretty different means.. Sources: Inclusionary housing requirement almost left out […]
Episode A1: Bugs and BLM in Court; the Landlord lobby ; Developments in the Warehouse district;The New format begins with BLM response actions in city court and beyond. The rebranding of the area landlord lobby, Developments in the Warehouse district, […]
I finish this version of the program with a review and consideration via different sources of what a robust Left politics needs. I cover the end of the Marxist Center; A call to draw sides, and revisit a theory of […]
It’s said that if there’s any trend is that things are getting worse as things stay exactly the same. History moves but as the disconnections of late stage capitalism persist the Left seems stuck in place, weak if not nonexistent […]
Housing Wrap up Show! I explore once again the underlying issues in our built environment via anti-cpaitalism; then give responses from socialist and anarchist perspectives.
In this shorter episode I cover the last of my articles having to do with the war on cars and movements toward a cities for people and not machines. I read about the uselessness of the drivers test in ensuring […]
TERF’s: the ever present punching bag of the woke left that ruined Harry Potter. I finish my series on inter left conflict with the one revolving around Trans rights, but may touch at wider ideas about what makes a leftist […]
I return to Food issues and ecology to discuss the transition to plant based diets and intersections with reactionary politics overall. I cover the double-think of meat eating, kids confused about meat, and a deep dive into the weakness of […]
This episode is a wrap up for the series in which I explore various possibilities for ‘The Leftist Project’ with the goal of Revolution. I build and call back to a lot of the content of the past 100 episodes, […]
While Anti-work culture is on the rise; so are the possibilities and movement towards unionization, coops, and so on. Today’s I cover stories that link these things together with a general theme discussing the role of spectacle as being necessary, […]
Pulled from the middle of last year; I cover The largely forgotten documentary produced by Micheal Moore; Planet of the Humans. A film with flaws, but A premise that aligns with much of my previous ecology episodes. I begin with […]
This time I run through points of interest about social issues big and small. The first half covers abortion, sex work, the safety of gay bars, how romance usually starts with friendship, and aro-aces as queer. In the 2nd half […]