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Giving the Mic to the Wrong Pe
Socialism and Simpsons soundclips. Posadism and pro-wrestling.
A somewhat tri-weekly leftist podcast based in Portland, OR, talking with people about their cultural obsessions and offering plenty of our own recommendations. We try to make socialism more fun with pop culture refs, you could say.
Contact: @givingthemic on Twitter // Givingthemic@gmail.com // www.facebook.com/givingthemic/
Teachers Strikes! Mass Labor Action! We have on three union teacher organizers from Portland-/Vancouver-area public schools to help provide local context for the modern national wave of teacher actions, starting in Wisconsin in 2011 and continuing past when this episode will be posted. Candy, Jody, and Marj join us to talk about their own histories with how they got involved, the differing issues between Oregon and Washington education funding, how to expand union consciousness into political consciousness, and more!
Here's the WEA settlement map showing all the raises teachers won recently in Washington State: https://www.washingtonea.org/ourvoice/pay-benefits/2018-local-settlements/
If you'd like to know more or get involved, contact the Labor Working Group with Portland DSA at portlandDSAlabor@gmail.com
Upcoming Events
-"How to Organize a Union" - February 27th - https://www.facebook.com/events/393831731375140/ -"Socialist Job Fair" - Mar 27th - -"Portland Troublemakers School" by Labor Notes -?Apr 4th - https://www.facebook.com/events/388556451694610/ - Recs: - -Labor Notes - https://labornotes.org/ -NW Labor Press - https://nwlaborpress.org/ -Belabored - https://www.dissentmagazine.org/tag/belabored -Street Fight Radio - http://www.streetfightradio.com/ -Working Class History - https://workingclasshistory.com/ -Working History - https://soundcloud.com/southernlaborstudies -Maximilian Alvarez's Working People podcast - http://workingpeople.libsyn.com/ -Reveal, from the Center for Investigative Reporting - https://www.revealnews.org/episodes/ -Hands Off Venezuela PDX - https://www.facebook.com/Hands-Off-Venezuela-PDX-343200689611683/ - End Music: "Power in a Union" - John Darnielle / The Mountain Goats - https://vimeo.com/20862183 -- Contact: - -Candy at cherrera1314@gmail.com -Jody at jody.folkedahl@gmail.com -Marj at marj.hogan@gmail.com -- Follow Jacob on Twitch! http://www.twitch.tv/jacobmercy - Questions/comments/suggestions for great local Korean food: givingthemic@gmail.com - http://facebook.com/givingthemic/ - Help us make the show! http://www.patreon.com/givingthemic
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Part 2 of our talk with Arun Gupta(@arunindy) continues on dissecting "conspiracy" from "conspiracy theory."
We cover: Trump, conspiracy theory as campaign strategy, the Bundys in the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge, dealing with Trump supporters, Qanon as a source of power for the disconnected, how to handle high school reunions, explaining is not excusing, 9/11 Truthers and how Truther theories mutate, and what happens when Establishment media is compelled to do Cletus Safaris.
Check out Part 1 here: https://soundcloud.com/givingthemic/ep46-conspiracy-just-like-a-theory-part-1-feat-corey-pein-arun-gupta
Recs:
-Kim Moody's _From Welfare State to Real Estate_ -The Disinformation Guides -Lefttube (e.g. ContraPoints, HBomberguy, Philosophy Tube, Peter Coffin, Lindsay Ellis) -Octave pedals -Giovanni Arrighi & Beverly J Silver's _Chaos and Governance in the Modern World System_ -Giovanni Arrighi's _The Long Twentieth Century: Money, Power and the Origins of Our Times_ -Alex Rosenberg's _How History Gets Things Wrong: The Neuroscience of Our Addiction to Stories_
-Here's Corey's Baffler essay on conspiracy theorists as shitty detectives: https://thebaffler.com/magical-thinking/protocols-moron-pein
-Arun's examination of George HW Bush's role in Iran-Contra: https://theintercept.com/2018/12/07/george-h-w-bush-iran-contra/
-Corey's book: Live Work Work Work Die: A Journey to the Savage Heart of Silicon Valley http://liveworkworkworkdie.com/
-Contribute to Corey Pein's patreon and get his podcast News From Nowhere: https://www.patreon.com/newsfromnowhere
-Support independent journalism and Arun Gupta's patreon: https://www.patreon.com/arunguptareporter
Check out Nat's show Metamashina at https://metamashina.com/
Follow Jacob on Twitch! http://www.twitch.tv/jacobmercy
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Corey Pein(@coreypein) and Arun Gupta(@arunindy) return to the show in this first half of a two-part episode to help us suss out the difference between conspiracies and the social phenomenon of conspiracy theories, exactly how conspiracy theories work, and why we create them. What's the difference between investigative journalism and conspiracy theorizing? What happens when the people in power start believing the conspiracy theories? Qanon, the Pisstape, George HW Bush, Iran-Contra. We run the gamut with this one, folks. Part 2 is coming soon!
-Here's Corey's Baffler essay on conspiracy theorists as shitty detectives: https://thebaffler.com/magical-thinking/protocols-moron-pein
-Arun's examination of George HW Bush's role in Iran-Contra: https://theintercept.com/2018/12/07/george-h-w-bush-iran-contra/
-Corey's book: Live Work Work Work Die: A Journey to the Savage Heart of Silicon Valley http://liveworkworkworkdie.com/
-Contribute to Corey Pein's patreon and get his podcast News From Nowhere: https://www.patreon.com/newsfromnowhere
-Support independent journalism and Arun Gupta's patreon: https://www.patreon.com/arunguptareporter
Check out Nat's show Metamashina at https://metamashina.com/
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This Saturday, January 19th, there's going to be a #MeToo Speak Out at Terry Schrunk Plaza in Portland, Oregon, starting at 10am.
We're joined by members of the Socialist-Feminist Caucus: Rosemary from Socialist Alternative, Camille from the International Socialist Organization, and Shannon from Democratic Socialists of America to talk about why the Portland chapters of their groups are joining together to host this event.
Also, we get into the original Portland Women's March, the demands and goals of the event, and why socialists need to be part of major national events to help organize them.
FB event link: https://www.facebook.com/events/198858817717576/
From the event description:
Where: Terry Schrunk Plaza When: 10 am, January 19th
The #MeToo Speak Out and Women's March is an opportunity for attendees to take the mic and share their personal experiences with sexual assault, bigotry, and gender-based oppression. This speak out will be an opportunity for collective healing and most importantly a way for us to link our personal traumas to building power to fight back.
This is an event that recognizes that although sexual assault happens to everyone, it disproportionately impacts women and gender minorities, including trans people. ALL survivors are encouraged to share their stories and ideas and we want to make sure this is an event where people from oppressed groups feel welcomed and encouraged to speak about their experiences.
WHAT WE CALL FOR:
-Take #MeToo to the streets and organize in the workplace to build a movement to fight gender oppression and sexual assault! -Black lives matter! End police brutality and mass incarceration -Healthcare is a human right! For trans-inclusive Medicare For All and free abortion on demand -Living wage union jobs, safe working conditions, and equal pay for equal work -Dignified living conditions for people with disabilities -Families belong together and no one is illegal on indigenous stolen land! End deportations, release detainees, and abolish ICE -Rent control, and end to no-cause evictions and sweeps of homeless camps, and publically run affordable housing for all -Build a socialist feminism that is sex worker and trans inclusive
News hits:
"Women Now Run the Military-Industrial Complex. That’s Nothing To Celebrate." - http://inthesetimes.com/article/21682/women-military-industrial-complex-gina-haspel-trump-feminism-lockheed-marti
On the Nasty Gal CEO firing pregnant employees: https://broadly.vice.com/en_us/article/qvdbyb/were-living-in-the-era-of-the-hypocritical-feminist-boss
Also check out the Reclaim MLK Annual Protest for Human Rights and Dignity on Sunday, January 20th, at Peninsula Park, 700 N. Rosa Parks Way, Portland, OR 97201
https://www.facebook.com/events/610926726033142/
Contact info:
Socialist Alternative at https://www.socialistalternative.org/
Portland ISO at http://www.socialistworker.org
Reach Shannon or another DSA mobilizer at mobilizepdx@gmail.com or mobilizepdx@protonmail.com - or Portland DSA at https://portlanddsa.org/
If you liked this and want to know more, check out the earlier talk Nat & I had with three members of DSA Feminist Caucus in our Socialist-Feminism 101 episode: https://soundcloud.com/givingthemic/socialist-feminism-101
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Garrett & I are joined by three heterodox economics professors to give a more Marxist view of economics from the usual neoclassical dross that gets proffered elsewhere.
Youssef Khodaparast, Erik Dean, and Mitch Green are three PhD holders in Econ who help break down why we talk about economics as this mystical thing and hold economists and Alan Greenspan-types up as these High Priests of Modernity who can somehow divine reality for the rest of us.
(The photo is of Marley the Good Dog, who is why Youssef had to leave early.)
Check out Youssef's blog at https://myecopoli.blogspot.com/
Read Erik & Mitch's textbook _Principles of Microeconomics: Scarcity and Social Provisioning_ : http://openoregon.pressbooks.pub/socialprovisioning/
Contact Mitch via twitter: twitter.com/mitchgreennep
Recs:
Paul LeBlanc's _October Song_ Eyes Left Hell of a Way to Die DSA Veteran's Caucus Red Dead Redemption 2 Spielbergs Detroiters Cedric J Robinson's Black Marxism - The show got mentioned in the New Yorker: https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2018/11/19/how-podcasts-became-a-seductive-and-sometimes-slippery-mode-of-storytelling - Ending tune: "4AM" by Spielbergs - https://bythetimeitgetsdark.bandcamp.com/track/4am
Hear Garrett's band Late Shift at https://lateshiftcountry.bandcamp.com/
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THE RENT IS TOO DAMN HIGH, BUT YOU CAN DO SOMETHING ABOUT IT. LISTEN TO FIND OUT HOW.
Kim & Tabby from the Wimby Tenants Union join Margot from Portland Tenants United to talk Garrett & I about how they started a tenants union at Wimbledon Square Apartments to fight back against the horrible "management" company and what wasn't getting fixed. They started small and expanded into bringing demands directly about the landlords. We also go into how the popular discourse around renting can't really get into how plenty of people actually live and why they rent.
"I'm working on a theory that renters are the new proletariat."
More coverage:
"Tenants Organize Against Poor Living Conditions" - https://reedquest.org/articles/2018/12/7/war-at-the-wimbledons
"Tenants at SE Portland apartment complex call for rent abatement" - https://www.kptv.com/tenants-at-se-portland-apartment-complex-call-for-rent-abatement/video_02327c39-9fc9-5d36-979e-1c5816947e0c.html
Contact:
Portland Tenants United - info@pdxtu.org - https://www.facebook.com/portlandtenantsunited/
Wimby TU - wimbytu@gmail.com - Voicemail: 503-974-4011 - https://www.facebook.com/wimbytenantsunion/
Text "WIMBY" to 444-999 to get on the update list!
- Ending music: a certain Dead Kennedys track - The show got mentioned in the New Yorker: https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2018/11/19/how-podcasts-became-a-seductive-and-sometimes-slippery-mode-of-storytelling
Hear Garrett's band Late Shift at https://lateshiftcountry.bandcamp.com/
@comradegarrett @givingthemic - Questions/comments/suggestions for great local Korean food: givingthemic@gmail.com - http://facebook.com/givingthemic/ - Help us make the show! http://www.patreon.com/givingthemic
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David Cribb(@colestia3) joins us from far Canberra to talk about making radical leftist video games, the Situationists, EVE Online, unionizing Twitch streamers, and more. Cian, local games artist, joins us too. Jacob keeps asking if Assassin's Creed, Ready Player One, Eve Online, etc is socialist. They are not.
Check out David's work at https://colestia.itch.io/
We recommend Post/Capitalism: https://colestia.itch.io/postcapitalism
Here's a nice documentary on the Situationists from 1989: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ncH0-q9OXco
Music segments taken from various Colestia games
RECS:
Paulo Pedercini's games at http://www.molleindustria.org/
Donoteat's series with Cities: Skylines https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0lvUByM-fZk&list=PLwkSQD3vqK1S1NiHIxxF2g_Uy-LbbcR84
James Joyce
Tooth & Tail
Tom Sweterlitsch's The Gone World
Yakuza 0
Jody Pederson's Confessions of the Fox
Robert O. Paxton's _The Anatomy of Fascism_
Follow Jacob on Twitch! https://www.twitch.tv/jacobmercy
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For a change of pace, we cover one of the greatest worst of the Stephen King film adaptations, _Pet Sematary,_ a movie about how dire warnings from the dead and near-dead becoming the most compelling advice ever. The film is shot better and acted worse than you remember. Also, the main character is a complete jerk to cats for the entire movie and thus deserves what's coming to him.
Watch _Garth Marenghi's Darkplace_ here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8EkN8WtFTpE&list=PLC046BB28463E1459
MTV News coverage of the Ramones filming the vid for "Pet Sematary" - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VEDYG1tlezk
Recs:
Castle Rock
Horizon: Zero Dawn
Patriot
Sincere Engineer's "Rhombithian" - https://sincereengineer.bandcamp.com/album/rhombithian
- Check out Nat's podcast Metamashina: https://metamashina.com/ - Follow Jacob on Twitch! https://www.twitch.tv/jacobmercy - @ashesforfoxes @givingthemic - Questions/comments/suggestions for great local Korean food: givingthemic@gmail.com - http://facebook.com/givingthemic/ - Help us make the show! http://www.patreon.com/givingthemic
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Socialist Feminism in theory and practice! What makes it different from corporate feminism, or its even worse variant, carceral feminism? Shannon & Becca from the Feminist Caucus of Portland DSA along with Nykki from the Disability Art & Culture Project join Nat & Jeremy to lay out some basic theory, talk about projects that the SocFem Caucus has been working on like the NNAF Bowl-a-Thon to raise abortion access funds or exposing fake pregnancy resource centers, and we get into personal radicalization stories. What brings you to realize that there's more to do beyond just helping a few people break the glass ceiling?
Support the Holgate Manor Rent Strike! https://www.gofundme.com/holgate-manor-strike-fund - Next mtg of the Portland DSA Feminist Caucus: Sept 15 https://www.facebook.com/events/218964298975418/ - Upcoming panel event: Reproduction Health Justice for All Sept 19th - 6:30 pm - Multnomah Friends Meeting House 4312 SE Stark St. http://goo.gl/UatX2f - Opening talk: Angela Davis from Oct 2017 - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bzQkVfO9ToQ - The National Network of Abortion Funds: https://abortionfunds.org/ - Pittsburgh DSA's project on exposing fake clinics: https://www.exposefakeclinicspgh.com/ - The Disability Art & Culture Project - https://dacphome.org/ - Don't Shoot Portland - https://www.dontshootpdx.org/ - Portland Democratic Socialists of America: https://portlanddsa.org/ - Check out our first episode with members of Portland DSA from last fall: https://soundcloud.com/givingthemic/ep27-portland-dsa - Recs: - Zach Morris is Trash - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GtT3zbHGjFc - Go Bayside! - http://gobayside.tumblr.com/ - Jordy Rosenberg's _Confessions of the Fox - A Novel_ - http://www.powells.com/book/-9780399592270 - Frontline - Documenting Hate: Charlottesville - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4ATHN9sAu28 - Won't You Be My Neighbor? - Blackkklansman - Melissa Gira Grant's _Playing the Whore: The Work of Sex Work_ - Ending music: Downtown Boys - "Monstro" - Check out Nat's podcast Metamashina: https://metamashina.com/ - Contact us: schrecsn@gmail.com @beckerachi @ashesforfoxes @givingthemic - Questions/comments/suggestions for great local Korean food: givingthemic@gmail.com - http://facebook.com/givingthemic/ - Help us make the show! http://www.patreon.com/givingthemic
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Socialism! We deep-dive into it in this one, having done a pretty thorough examination of liberalism in the last part. Topics covered: Karl Marx, John Rawls, Bill Burr, Heterodoxy, Iceland, Boots Riley, Ash Sarkar, Michael Hardt, Astra Taylor's _Examined Life_.
Support the Holgate Manor Rent Strike! https://www.gofundme.com/holgate-manor-strike-fund - Recs: - Wolfgang Streeck's _How Will Capitalism End?_ - Asad Haider's _Mistaken Identity: Race & Class in the Trump Era_ - Night of the Hunter - David McLellan's _Karl Marx: A Biography_ - Radical America: https://library.brown.edu/cds/radicalamerica/ - Westworld - The Beths - _Future Me Hates Me_ - https://thebethsnz.bandcamp.com/album/future-me-hates-me - Sorry to Bother You - See Garrett's band at https://lateshiftcountry.bandcamp.com/ - Contact us: @givingthemic @comradegarrett @whichwayisleft - http://facebook.com/givingthemic/ - Help us make the show! http://www.patreon.com/givingthemic
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What, you mean that "liberal" doesn't actually mean "socialist?!" Jason Lawrence from Portland DSA joins Garrett & I to detail what the actual differences between "liberalism" and "socialism" are, breaks down some basic Marxist principles like the labor theory of value, we mention John Rawls yet again, and even talk about Prof Richard Wolff's work. And Dave Chappelle. And the Jerky Boys. And John Dewey. And Boots Riley's _Sorry to Bother You_
The text we refer to is Ball & Dagger's _Political Ideologies and the Democratic Ideal_
Dave Chappell on Crank Yankers: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sgE4yuPGmJU
Prof Richard Woff's lecture on Worker Co-ops: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a1WUKahMm1s
Mastodon - "Island"
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Audio from Tim Faust's talk in Portland on Friday, July 20, 2018. You also hear Riley from our Medicare-for-All episode, too.
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We talk to Riley Brann from the Portland DSA about Medicare4All, how to campaign for it, and why. Natasha & Garrett join in to bring their healthcare industry knowledge. We also get into the moral theory _why_ healthcare should not be a profit center at all, and John Rawls' Veil of Ignorance.
Later, Tim Faust calls in from his West Coast campaign speaking to crowds about Health Justice and how single-payer is just one way to get there. He updates from the road from the folks he's talked to, all about the backyard wrestling federation he helped start in Austin, and even gives a metal band you should check out.
See Tim's speaking tour!
7/19 - Eugene- Straub Rm 145, U of O - 7:00 PM
7/20 - Portland - Sunnyside Community House - 3520 SE Yamhill St, 6:30 PM
7/21 Olympia - 222 Columbia St NW - 12:00:00 PM
For show notes and further links: http://goo.gl/s47kxk
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Part 2 of our Organizing 101 episode! Shamus Cooke is back with Garrett & I. We talk about the #OccupyICEPDX camp, how to focus demands from an Occupy camp, when the Direct Action Alliance went to City Council, unions, DRUM & the League of Revolutionary Black Workers, and ol' George Meany. This one has me do a _lot_ of self-owns on mic and you all should enjoy that.
Go here to find out more info about the Portland OccupyICE camp: https://www.facebook.com/groups/occupyicepdx/
Show notes and links here: http://goo.gl/7r3P9g
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Organizing! It's the thing all those online leftists are talking about! Shamus Cooke from SEIU, Portland Tenants United, and the Portland DSA joins Garrett & I to give us an overview of organizing, mobilizing, strategy, agitation, and more. What's it like to canvass for tenants' rights? Part 2 coming soon!
Opening segment: Jane McAlevey at Harvard Law Forum, March 2018. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UoOZFEyxBBU
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Corey Pein returns home to Portland to talk about his new book, _Live Work Work Work Die: A Journey Into the Savage Heart of Silicon Valley_, and also regales us with tales about that podcast booktour life, shitty tech ideology, Alex Jones, Elon Musk, FitBits, and the value of podcasts.
Corey will be doing a reading at Powell's in Portland on Friday, June 8th, at 7:30pm.
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Ian Williams(@Brock_toon)from Jacobin/Vice joins us to talk how geek culture has degenerated into just nostalgia for '80s nostalgia, Witcher III as the superior Dad Game, Dusty Rhodes as working-class icon, the joys of miniatures war-gaming and Warhammer, Jesse Ventura, how you can learn about Trump from Vince McMahon(and vice versa), and Garfield.
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Arun Gupta joins us to regale everyone with tales of visiting factory farms, what New York City used to be like, and what happened when he went to cover the Bundy occupation at the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge.
Arun will be presenting at the Opening Space for the Radical Imagination event with a talk entitled "Policing, Property, and Protestantism" on Saturday, April 7th. More details here: https://www.oregonimagines.com/
https://arunkgupta.com/
More show notes/recs here: goo.gl/EfUTcX
Derick Varn(@skepoet) from our Baby Leftist Primer episode returns to talk to Jacob and I about teachers' union, workerism, DSA, Chapo Trap House, gun violence, what leftists keep getting wrong, and how to separate your personal moral purity from your political organizing. We cover a lot.
Derick Varn's previous appearance: http://goo.gl/RHtnGy
Varn's first collection of poetry _Apocalyptics_ will be out this summer from Unlikely Press.
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