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Catherine Liu is the author of Virtue Hoarders: The Case Against the Professional Managerial Class published by the University of Minnesota Press in 2021 and The American Idyll: Academic Anti-Elitism as Cultural Critique was published by the University of Iowa Press in 2011. She works on Critical Theory of the old fashioned kind and is engaged in a long term critique of Professional Managerial Class driven liberal politics. She has written an unpublished memoir called Panda Gifts. She tweets at @bureaucatliu and her views do not reflect those of her employer
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Stephen Krashen is Emeritus Professor of Education at the University of Southern California. He is best known for his work in establishing a general theory of second language acquisition, as the cofounder of the Natural Approach, and as the inventor of sheltered subject matter teaching.
Dahlia, Cole, Jake and I talk about horror films and #BIPOC, #LGBTQIA+, and #class representation in those films. Twitters: @saintknives @feraljokes @whyyousleepin Stream produced by Dan Simpson Edited by Kenzo Shibata Twitter and IG: @kenzoshibata #Twitch: twitch.tv/classtime Discord class-time.com
f/ Alex Vitale (The End of Policing), Kswiftly, Freddy Martinez and Jalen Kobayashi of Good Kids Mad City.
We're talking police abolition! . Twitter and IG: @kenzoshibata #Twitch: twitch.tv/classtime Discord class-time.com
Pardon the Ignorance: Brandyn Buchanan (Not Safe for Wonks), Matt Tapia(Midwest Socialist), Will Bloom (Chicago DSA Labor)
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We discussed building a workers party, Obama's socialist dalliances, Jewish cuisine and more! We also make fun of Birthright Isreal, so that'll get us cancelled. Twitter and IG: @kenzoshibata #Twitch: twitch.tv/classtime Discord class-time.com #HellTrapNightmare #Antifada #DSA
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Twitter and IG: @kenzoshibata Twitch: twitch.tv/classtime Discord link available upon request One chapter of Racecraft was titled "Individuality and the intellectuals: an imaginary conversation between Emile Durkheim and W.E.B. Du Bois." Dr. Planey gives this session background on Durkheim and DuBois and why they make for compelling contrasts. Dr. Planey is an economic development specialist and educator at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill (Postdoctoral Fellow). His research interests focus on the economic geography of regional governance: How coordination around infrastructure and economic change creates new pressures and policy needs for North American city-regions.
Are we the baddies? Chicago based activist and communicator H. Kapp-Klote gives us a preview of a podcast.
We all know that Lori Lightfoot is is destroying Chicago. What this pod pre-supposes: What if she isn't?
f/ Abby, Laura, and Molly, DSA members fighting for socialism at work and in their communities.
I talked to 48th Ward Neighbors for Justice members Kelly Garcia, Emily Mikhail, and Antonio Rodriguez. They are fighting a machine alderman for police accountability, getting cops out of schools, and much more.
Mike Ehrenreich talks about Leon Trotsky and I tell a storytime on how different streams of politics within the labor movement can clash.
I talked about the politics of moral panics on Ben Burke's Prairie Fire podcast. You should follow him on Twitter and subscribe to his great pod on Leftist politics!
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I talked to Asaid Haider, author of Mistaken Identity about the politics of identity and a little about thrash metal.
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It's good to be back! Double episode with Chicago Socialist organizer Ramsin Canon on the need for socialists to slow down and think before the next big move.
I then talked to Chicago Public School Teachers and CTU Executive Board members Alison Eichhorn and Xian Franziger Barrett and Raise Your Hand Executive Director Jianan Shi about the CPS' terrible and unsafe plan to open schools in the fall.
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TWITTER: @KenzoShibata Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/ClassTimePod/ Patreon: Patreon.com/KenzoShibata Twitch: https://www.twitch.tv/classtime Reddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/classtime/ Via Brandyn Buchanan (MADSA DSA): Today, Councilman #khalidkamau resigned as chair of Metro Atlanta #DSA’s Executive Committee. In his resignation press release, khalid left out an incredible amount of information that people deserve to know. So we decided to take a few hours and lay out the details so people can make their own decisions about our collective character, and his. I’m writing this in my own voice, but this statement has the support of the entire Executive committee. The Background When we all came together in September, the press releases were really happy to note that we were the youngest and most diverse EC in the history of the chapter. Let’s just briefly talk about what that entails: It’s an EC of six people that featured two Black men (plus khalid, so three) and an indigenous woman. People of color are a voting majority here. We’re all working people on really low income, doing a tremendous amount of work to equip our members and comrades in Atlanta to fight racism, capitalism, and imperialism. So are we gonna do that with a bottom up democracy that listens to people, learns about their struggles and then engages in the fight with them? Or will it come from a “president” or “CEO” type that goes to nice dinners, makes political promises and then demands that the membership haul ass to make good on them? Councilman khalid is resigning from the chapter because he’s not getting his way on this central question of what we are: period. We are a member organization, not a PAC. Our over one thousand members are responsible for setting the political line of our organization. We’re happy to work with anybody with good will from across the political spectrum (obvious receipts to come), but people have to know what’s going on, know who we’re signing on with and give approval. When he discovered he couldn’t do all this in his style, by hisself, he jumped out. The Endorsement Process In his resignation statement, khalid makes a number of false statements about our endorsement process, and also levels an accusation that the EC blocked endorsements. Let’s dig into those. A member of the Local Electoral working group (and person of color!) submitted a resolution for our June general meeting agenda to reorient our electoral strategy towards #ClassStruggleElections. This resolution is cosponsored by over 40 members, including nearly every influential person of color in the organization. To give you some background, we currently have a two-meeting endorsement process, where candidates are expected to give a Q&A in one meeting and then members debate and vote whether to endorse in a second meeting. Read the rest here: https://medium.com/@heybrandyn/metro-... Councilman Kamau's initial post: https://medium.com/@khalidCares/black... The catalyst for this sad tale was me. I signed on to a mission that any undergraduate Sociology major with an understanding of the pathology of white supremacist thinking would have known was impossible. The Democratic Socialists of America (DSA) have long been criticized as a toxic environment for women and people of color. After an exodus of organizers of color from 2016–2018, local DSA chapters in cities like New York and Chicago underwent transformations worthy of the organization’s radical reputation, diversifying the complexion of their leadership, electoral organizing and other outreach. However, some local DSA chapters continued doing the same thing, expecting different results. The Metro Atlanta Democratic Socialists of America (MADSA) has been one such chapter. In 2019, I was asked to give the Opening Speech at DSA’s National Convention in Atlanta. At the time, I was one of only three elected officials in the State of Georgia that openly-identified as a Democratic Socialist. MADSA was on its third chair of color in less than one year. Two Black leaders had publicly split with the chapter, criticizing MADSA as both racist and sexist. I would like to pause here to apologize to those two women. My male privilege blinded me to the seriousness of their allegations, and I was lulled into thinking that my celebrity as an elected official would propel me over the institutional barriers that previous leaders of color had faced. I allowed myself to be convinced that I was a magical negro who could transform a troubled institution.
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Labor Journalist Sarah Jaffe (@sarahljaffe on Twitter and sarahljaffe.com) talks about the murder of George Floyd, the protests, mutual aid, carework, police abolition, racism, Phil Rizzo, Tucker Carlson, the Philly MOVE house protests, and more!
Sarah references the following pieces in the video:
https://www.hulu.com/movie/crime-puni...
https://youtu.be/_77w1DX-3yI
https://uncpress.org/book/97814696254...
Dr. Reed and I discuss his new book Toward Freedom (https://www.versobooks.com/). We also discuss Charles Bronson movies, heavy metal guitarists, and Bloomingon-Normal life. Touré F. Reed is an Associate Professor of 20th Century US and Afro-American History at Illinois State University. He has published in the Journal of American Ethnic History, LABOR, Nonsite.org, BlackAgendaReport, Jacobin and The New Republic. Dr. Reed is the author of Not Alms But Opportunity: The Urban League and the Politics of Racial Uplift, 1910-1950 (UNC Press). Toward Freedom: In the age of runaway inequality and Black Lives matter, there is an emerging consensus that our society has failed to redress racial disparities. But who is the culprit? For many progressives, racial identities are the engine of American history, and by extension, contemporary politics. They, in short, want to separate race from class. While policymakers and pundits find an almost metaphysical racism, or the survival of an ancient and primordial tribalism at the heart of American life, these inequities are better understood when traced to more comprehensible forces: to the contradictions in access to New Deal era welfare programs, to the blinders imposed by the Cold War, to Ronald Reagan’s neoliberal assault on the half-century long Keynesian consensus. As Touré Reed argues in this rigorously constructed book, the road to a more just society for African Americans and everyone else, the fate of poor and working-class African Americans is inextricably linked to that of other poor and working-class Americans.
Why does the media suck? The glib liberal voices on the left and the far right nutjobs have voice, but what about a voice for the militant working class?
The #Minneapolis police murdered George Floyd. I talk about the implications of #Biden choosing #Klobuchar as a running mate after her long history of #racism as a MN prosecutor. She could have prevented the murder years ago.
This is not a listen-along ep. It's commentary on Oz Season 1, episode 3. I convinced someone to do it with me, Adam Vilman from Southpaws Pod and Means TV Sports.
He's not just a jock, you see.
Voting Democrat makes you a POC. Sounds crazy? I break down here how Biden is merely staying on message and the roots of that message.
DSA Pro Skater Ryan Lay on Skaters for Bernie, Skating in Palestine, and After School Skate Programs.
Interviewed by Sean Baker (West Suburban IL DSA).
TWITTER: @KenzoShibata Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/ClassTimePod/ Patreon: Patreon.com/KenzoShibata Pro skater Ryan Lay (@ryyanlay on Twitter) talks about skating in Palestine (it wasn't easy to get in), his after school skating program for poor and working class youth, and organizing Skaters for Bernie. Ryan on Instagram: https://instagram.com/ryan_lay/ Skate After School Twitter: https://twitter.com/sk8afterschool Skate After School Instagram: https://instagram.com/skateafterschool/ skateafterschool.org Vent City Twitter: https://twitter.com/VentCityPod Vent City Instagram: https://instagram.com/vent.city/ Skaters for Bernie Twitter: https://twitter.com/skaters4bernie Skaters for Bernie Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/skatersforb...
Felix Biederman (Chapo Trap House), Ramsin Canon (Chicago DSA), Adrian @Blagojevism and I talk about the storied life of Illinois Governor Rod R. Blagojevich. Rod in many ways was the last of his generation, a white ethnic political scrapper who made his bones under the old Chicago political machine. When that machine turned neoliberal, he was offered as a sacrifice to show that corruption had finally ended in the Prairie State, making way for bloodless middle-managers like Rahm Emanuel.
Blago is a complicated character, rife with contradictions. To understand Blago is to understand the changing of the guard in Illinois politics.
Produced by Dan Black.
SNL is not funny and this is why f/ Sarah Squirm, Jake Flores, Patrick Winegar, Dylan Shearer, and Fred Stoller
Kate McKinnon as Hillary Clinton playing Leonard Cohen. SNL having Liz Warren do TikTok videos instead of creating a progressive coalition with Bernie to win. Jen Kirkman not telling a single joke in 4 years because Hillary lost.
Why do comics have such bad politics? Why isn't there solidarity within the comedy community?
Written by Dylan Shearer (dylanshearer.substack.com/p/never-vote…r-a-comedian) Hosted by Patrick Winegar Produced by Kenzo Shibata Guests: Sarah Squirm, Jake Flores, and Dylan Shearer, cameo by Fred Stoller (Seinfeld, Dumb and Dumber, Everybody Loves Raymond)
In this weeks' ep, Patrick Winegar (Chicago DSA, former improv comic) interviews Sarah Squirm AKA Sarah Sherman AKA The Old Swamp Hag (Helltrap Nightmare, Adult Swim), Jake Flores (Pod Damn America, Why You Mad Pod), and Dylan Shearer (Chicago DSA, writer, historian).
This episode balances political theory with a healthy amount of trash talking. If you're concerned we're talking about you, my Patreon is $5 a month.
Easter egg: hear my kid make a raspberry in the background at one point.
sarahsquirm.com/ www.feraljokes.com/ dylanshearer.substack.com/
So I watched one of my favorite shows of all time, Oz, and talk over it. You can listen to it here and queue up the show when I give the go in the episode.
THIS IS A BONUS EP I HOPE YOU LIKE IT BUT IF YOU DON'T A REAL EP IS COMING THURSDAY*
So I watched one of my favorite shows of all time, Oz, and talk over it. You can listen to it here and queue up the show when I give the go in the episode.
THIS IS A BONUS EP I HOPE YOU LIKE IT BUT IF YOU DON'T A REAL EP IS COMING THURSDAY*
Shahid Buttar is a civil liberties lawyer running to against Nancy Pelosi in CA's 12th District
Live Show at the Que4 Studios in Chicago February 16, 2020.
Hosts: Labiba Choudhry + Kenzo
Guests: Roxana Gonzalez, Susan Hurley, Katie Osgood, Paul DeNovi
Recorded by Peter Lyngso
Two brilliant people analyze the Bernie campaign and what it means for the left going forward. Also, Gwar's Jizmak the Gusha refutes claims by BoingBoing writer Xeni Jardin about his band, GWAR.
We watched the goddamn racist Biden ad and have some words about it! We also talked about being AAPI in the current political moment, including how the Dems used wokeness to clear the way for (alleged) rapist and (totally documented) racist Joe Biden. I'm joined by Jaya Sundaresh (@shutupjaya on twitter) and Sam Kao (Samuel D. Kao) of Current Affairs Magazine and NYC Teacher/activist, member of the MORE Caucus Annie Tan (AnnieTan.com and @annietangent on Twitter).
I spoke with six Bernie Sanders supporters who joined the Democratic Socialists of America the day Bernie Sanders dropped out of the Democratic primary. I also spoke with Alderman Rossana Rodriguez-Sanchez about the work she's doing in Chicago to pass the "Right to Recovery" package that will allow Chicagoans to not only survive through the current crisis, but thrive in the days ahead.
I interviewed Rara Imler (@islandgoth on twitter) about her role as Sex Work Policy Advisor to the Mike Gamms for Congress Campaign (NY-27). Rara is also on the executive committee of the Metro Atlanta chapter of the DSA and we talk about mutual aid projects in ATL during the coronavirus crisis.
Marla Martinez (@prolepeach on Twitter) is a sex work advocate who is currently out of work to observe social distancing during the Coronavirus pandemic. She explains the unique issues that sex workers face in a time when all work is precarious. Sex workers who are not in a position to stay home face harsher working conditions from customers, bosses, and law enforcement.
Marla, by not working, will owe her club "back rent" for simply being employed. Marla shares how she and her fellow sex workers are finding solidarity remotely in these uncertain times and how allies can help fight the stigma and push for policy reforms that will allow sex workers rights like all workers deserve.
I'm joined by fellow punk rock Chicago Public Schools teacher Mike where we talk about the failures of capitalism in meeting the needs of our communities, how punk rock got us involved in organizing, and what we should be listening to in our Corona camps.
I'm "joined" by DSA National Political Committee leaders Kristian Hernandez and Sean Estelle, Chicago DSA leaders Abby Agriesti, Anna Forsher, Leonard Pierce to talk about organizing during quarantine and how we got HOSED by the Billionaire Governor of Illinois, J.B. (Jowly Billionaire) Pritzker.
We aren't even halfway through the primary states. Bernie is just slightly behind. You need to talk to your friends and family why Joe Biden cannot beat Trump, and even if he did, we wouldn't be in better shape with Joe. We cover the SUPREME COURT, SEGREGATION, ELECTABILITY, AND MORE!
Branko is a staff writer for Jacobin Magazine and the Author of Yesterday's Man: The Cast Against Joe Biden. https://www.versobooks.com/books/3225-yesterday-s-man
Seriously, listen to this and talk to your people. We're gonna win.
I did a liberalism. I did a corncob. I did a bootlicker. I did a Daily Kos blog. I did a yellow fragility. I did a no growth. This makes it abundantly clear I don't even understand the intersectional nature of the multiplicity of my offenses.
The hit New Orleans socialist podcast Good Morning Comrade (https://goodmorningcomrade.podbean.com/) takes over the Class Time airwaves. GMC host Jeff Barrois sits down with Kenzo to talk about education, socialism, and the challenges ahead.
State Senator Robert Peters, Artist/Activist and Chicago DSA Executive Board member Vicko Alvarez, and Students for Bernie organizer Lyle Evans join the pod to talk about Bernie's working class, multiracial campaign for a better world.
Host of the hit podcast the Benjamin Dixon show joins me to talk about the dangers of a Mike Bloomberg presidency!
Does it seem like the old gatekeepers of the Liberal "Blogosphere" are losing their minds? Oh, the "blogosphere" was a media era where people posted their diaries on the internet about how much they hated George W. Bush. The individual diaries were called "blogs" short for "world wide web logs." You, know, like a "Captain's Log." Yes, I'm aware this is an Arby's but I shan't order until I finish what I'm saying....
TEASER: New premium episode with Matt Christman from Chapo Trap House and Liza Featherstone (Jacobin, The Nation) drops Tuesday where we discuss the death of the liberal blogosphere. Here is Matt and me doing our best Howard Dean impression. $2 + Donation Level will get you access. http://Patreon.com/KenzoShibata
Is it just me, or is the opposition to Bernie Sanders getting a little antisemitic in here?
Check out this panel discussion featuring Katie Halper (Katie Halper Show, Useful Idiots podcast, @kthalps), Eli Valley (Illustrator, Author of Diaspora Boy, @elivalley), and MY RABBI Brant Rosen (Tzedek Chicago, JVP, Author Wrestling in the Daylight, @rabbibrant).
Heidi Sloan is running for Congress in Texas' 25th District. She's a farmer, educator, and community organizer. Rachel Zibrat and I talk to her about breaking up Big Agriculture and her BIG ASS canvasses that bring out hundreds to knock doors.
This week I released two VLOGS! This episode is the audio from both. The first part is my rundown of the week of teaching when the students were fearful of a war with Iran. It was a rough week for educators, ending with Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot refusing to give veteran teachers their promised raises.
The second part, "WARREN, PEACE!" is about the recent lie Elizabeth Warren spread about Bernie Sanders and the hackneyed job of damage control that followed.
What I love about podcasting is that I basically have phone chats with my friends and release them for you all!
I spoke with my good friend Waleeta, socialist organizer and co-host of the socialist feminist podcast, Season of the Bitch.
www.seasonoftheb.com/
We talk about Bernie, the state of politics, and parenting in Hell World.
Enjoy!
Anthony is a high school teacher and nonprofit director running for Congress in the 7th District of Illinois.
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With the release of The Irishmen, there's much talk about the legacy of Jimmy Hoffa Sr. The Washington Post published an op-ed that praised the top-down, cutting corners style of Hoffa.
This got me thinking about how we beat the top-down bureaucrats in the Chicago Teachers Union in 2010. There are two choices unions have: be member-driven, or be leadership-driven.
Episode #2 is a banger [air horn].
Sara Nelson - President of AFA-CWA
Carlos Ramirez-Rosa - 35th Ward Alderman Chicago
Halsey Hazzard - Editor-in-Chief The Activist (YDSA)
On today's pod, I chop it up with UTLA activist Erika Alvarez, who talks about the LA teachers strike and the UTLA's recent endorsement of Bernie Sanders. Robert Levertis bell talks about the rank-and-file union movement in Louisville. Abby Agriesti talks about CTU strike support.
And of course, we talked about Bernie Sanders and unions and education.
I sat down with Ambria, a middle school social studies teacher in her first year. We talk about our classroom conditions, working conditions, and why we're on strike. I got the text while recording that CTU President Jesse Sharkey and Mayor Lori Lightfoot came to an agreement, suspending the strike.