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An ongoing call to action for movement work and mutual aid efforts around the country. Kelly Hayes connects with activists, journalists and others on the front lines to break down what’s happening in various struggles and what listeners can do to help.
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The core idea of this podcast comes from David Graeber, who wrote that our everyday life is mostly run on anarchism, and at the same time people believe that anarchism doesn’t work. One of these is wrong. I hope to illuminate how our communities already depend on Mutual Aid, in big and small ways. I'll do that by excavating the historical events and cultural trends you already know about, but have never thought about in terms of anarchism. Find me at https://www.everydayanarchism.com
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International Conference of Secular Alcoholics Anonymous - atheists & agnostic in AA stories, panels, speakers, meetings... This is the podcast page for ICSAA recovery #addiction #recovery #atheism #ICSAA #secular #secularAA #alcohol #self-help #mutual-aid
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Regeneration Nation Costa Rica explores who's doing what to bring CR toward environmental & social wellbeing.Join us as we share stories, strategies, and insights from ecologically & socially beneficial projects contributing to the change we need to see more of in the world.These stories provide businesses and landowners everywhere access to unique ideas for how they can design their own business models for regenerative success and impact.In the end, we hope to see more people succeed in the ...
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White Bird Clinic is a nationally recognized, people-centered non-profit organization providing trauma-informed healthcare and social services in Eugene, Oregon for over 50 years. Host Hana Francis speaks with employees and volunteers of White Bird Clinic and other community-centered organizations about how they work, why they matter, and how you can get involved. Hosted, written and edited by Hana Francis. Theme music by Eugene local musician Kiki Soda. For more information about White Bird ...
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Art.coop invites listeners to Remember the Future together by listening to the stories of artists and culture bearers who know that the practices of the Solidarity Economy are not some new technology, but actually are ways of being in relationship with people and planet that are as old as time. They are our ancestral practices. In this 7 episode narrative pilot, listeners learn: You don’t have to be a starving artist or a sell out. You can find work where you joyfully live your values and pa ...
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Big Soy Naturals is the only podcast by people who can gaze into the abyss without fear. The abyss never gazes back at us, out of respect. Esteemed public intellectual Virgil Masters and disgraced e-celebrity Kendall Kennedy explore the labyrinth of cyberspace with incisive eyes, quick wits and 300 IQ brains. It takes proprietary magic, thorough research and the immortal science to peer behind the veil of the negaverse, and we do it with ease. Join us as we unearth truths and triumph over ev ...
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Welcome to the Drunk Wives Club, a captivating show where we dive deep into relatable topics about marriage, life, work, and everything in between! Explore every aspect of being in a relationship, from the sanest to the most extraordinary encounters. This show offers valuable advice and resources to aid you on your journey through marriage and everyday life. Jess and Shannon, friends of over 15 years, offer a delightful glimpse into their married lives, sharing unique anecdotes that intertwi ...
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140. Graeber's Hidden Truth of the World -- Shawn from SRSLY Wrong
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Shawn Vulliez from SRSLY Wrong joins me to discuss the new collection of David Graeber essays, The Ultimate Hidden Truth of the World. Shawn and I talk about the tyranny of economics and how Graeber gave us permission to reveal that the emperor of economics has no clothes. Warning: Contains discussion of the recent election. Stay away if you just c…
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ICSAA 2024 The Young Faces of AA: Stories of Early Entry and Ongoing Recovery
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Embarking on the path to sobriety at a young age and continuing the journey into later years presents a rich tapestry of experiences, challenges, and triumphs. This presentation brings together the stories of individuals who have embraced Alcoholics Anonymous (AA) at various stages of life. From the fresh perspectives of youth to the wisdom of olde…
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Secular AA Global Speaker Tour - Beyond Belief of Ottawa, ON - Nov 3, 2024 (Traducción Española)
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Traducción Española November 2024: Secular AA's monthly world-tour of speaker meetings is hosted by Beyond Belief from Ottawa, Ontario. Our speakers this month are: Andy M Nick D Stacy C ..with Michel D as emcee. Following these talks is sharing from around our agnostic/atheist/freethinkers AA world. This is an open and welcoming meeting inviting o…
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Secular AA Global Speaker Tour - Beyond Belief of Ottawa, ON - Nov 3, 2024
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November 2024: Secular AA's monthly world-tour of speaker meetings is hosted by Beyond Belief from Ottawa, Ontario. Our speakers this month are: Andy M Nick D Stacy C ..with Michel D as emcee. Following these talks is sharing from around our agnostic/atheist/freethinkers AA world. This is an open and welcoming meeting inviting others to share their…
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ICSAA 2024 Our (Troublesome?) Relationship to AA Literature, Experience and Strategies for the Future
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Discuss our troublesome relationship to AA literature, including the current GSO controversy about changing "the founders" writings. Alternate steps and the problems they bring. Can the Big Book be rejected entirely and still be AA? Is new literature like "The God Word" being made available, and are other strategies necessary? And more! This record…
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To Transform Our Trauma, We Must Nurture Movements for Change
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“We really have a big opportunity right now to decide, within traumatic conditions and circumstances, how we are going to show up, again and again, for ourselves and each other,” says Tanuja Jageranauth. In this episode of “Movement Memos,” host Kelly Hayes talks with radical therapist Dorian Ortega and Healing Justice practitioners Tanuja Jagernau…
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139. Hill's The World Turned Upside Down -- Ann Hughes (English Revolution)
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A spectre is haunting the Everyday Anarchism series on the English revolution: the spectre of Christopher Hill's 1972 book The World Turned Upside Down. It turns out most of the ideas I've shared in this series came from Hill's book! Ann Hughes joins me to discuss the book, and we talk through the following questions: Did Hill invent the idea of th…
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This is a Q&A panel with long timers in sobriety sharing their secular experience strength and hope, including Penny, Dale, Marty, Dennis, and Joe with Mary C as emcee. This recording is from ICSAA 2024, Sunday 10:30 AM, September 22, 2024, in Orlando, Florida, led by Mary C. Secular AA is AA sobriety that is neither religious nor irreligious, focu…
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ICSAA 2024 Broken Anonymity and Gossip
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This workshop focused on the primary dangers of broken anonymity in 12 step fellowships. Topics include the dangers of privacy breaches and how this can expose individuals to judgment or harm from employers, family, or the public. This breach can deter participation, erode trust among members, and lead to legal or professional consequences for affe…
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ICSAA 2024 Relationships in Recovery: Platonic and Romantic
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Recovery from addiction significantly influences relationships, both romantic and platonic. No matter how we interact, relationships with others significantly impact our recovery. This panel will discuss how we engage with other people in recovery as well as dealing with interactions with other people who might not be in our recovery network. This …
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ICSAA 2024 Working Under Cover (or Exposed!)
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Many of us stay involved in "traditional" AA; in fact some of us only (or at least mainly) go to such meetings and are active in AA General service. Of these, some are "out there" as unbelievers, others not so much. Some see Secular AA as an attempt to evolve the culture of the fellowship we love from within rather than any kind of alternative. Man…
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ICSAA 2024 We’re Not All Egomaniacs: Adapting the Twelve Steps for Alcoholics with Low Self-Esteem
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Beth Aich is the author of We're Not All Egomaniacs: Adapting the Twelve Steps for Alcoholics with Low Self-Esteem. Some of us come to Alcoholics Anonymous feeling terrible about ourselves and are told, bewilderingly, that our problem is too much ego and a lack of humility. Bill W. described himself as an egomaniac. He put his own needs and wants a…
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138. Debt Discussion 10, Debt in the Middle Ages with Eleanor Janega
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Eleanor Janega, the very first guest on the Graeber's Debt series, comes back on the show to discuss what the middle ages were, how they were a global phenomenon, and why they weren't as bad as you've heardBy Graham Culbertson
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Secular AA Global Speaker Tour - We Agnostics of Tempe, AZ - Sep 1, 2024 (Traducción Española)
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Traducción Española September 2024: Secular AA's monthly world-tour of speaker meetings is hosted by We Agnostics from Tempe, Arizona. Our speakers this month are: Andrew N Gary S Diana E ..with Beth H as emcee. Following these talks is sharing from around our agnostic/atheist/freethinkers AA world. This is an open and welcoming meeting inviting ot…
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Poverty Is The New Black by A. Sivanandan
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From the Ashes: How Grief Shapes Our Struggles
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“The capitalist system also doesn't care if we die. So insisting on the value of human life, insisting on grieving, particularly grieving publicly and collectively, is a real statement against this entire death-making system,” says author Sarah Jaffe. In this episode, Kelly talks with Sarah about the lessons of Sarah’s latest book, From the Ashes: …
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137. Mao and Anarchism -- Karl Gerth
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I'm joined by Karl Gerth, professor of modern Chinese history at the University of California, San Diego, to discuss the Chinese Communist Revolution and how Maoism attempted to avoid the mistakes of the USSR and yet largely repeated them.By Graham Culbertson
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ICSAA 2024 Gender, Sexuality, and Sobriety
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In this panel, speakers discussed the dual themes of 'tolerance and diversity', as well as the experience of a person who identifies as a sexual and/or gender minority within AA. Attendees were invited to share their diverse experiences within AA. This recording is from ICSAA 2024, Saturday 9AM, September 21, 2024, in Orlando, Florida, led by Chad …
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Constitutional Monarchy : An Anarchist Perspective
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136. Graeber's Debt Chapter 10: The Middle Ages
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In Graeber's middle ages, empires fell apart while temples and monasteries kept everything together with metaphysical debt. Oh, and Europe isn't very important. Eleanor Janega returns later this month to discuss the chapter in the next Debt discussion!By Graham Culbertson
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The Housing Crisis : An Anarchist Perspective
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ICSAA 2024 Emotional Sobriety in Relationships with Allen Berger
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Negotiating closeness and autonomy in a relationship, leaning into conflict and dealing with it--this is an introduction to Emotional Sobriety and Relationships with Dr. Allen Berger, clinical psychologist and author of 12 Essential Insights for Emotional Sobriety, day one of the 10th anniversary International Conference of Secular AA at the Double…
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Keeping Each Other Alive: Mental Health and Collective Survival
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“I've seen a lot of people lashing out at people horizontally, and my gut sense is that sometimes it happens because the folks who are lashing out are definitely super traumatized, in crisis, feel and are really powerless in a lot of ways,” says Disability Justice organizer Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha. In this episode, Kelly talks with Leah an…
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ICSAA 2024 Limitless Expansion through Practice of THESE Steps, a Lifelong Adventure
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Last month (August 2024), JEB celebrated 46 years of sobriety, and he is a retired Licensed Professional Counselor. In an interactive session, we will explore what has been for JEB the most important part of Step 12 practicing the Steps as a program of living, applying what we first learn as we clean up the wreckage of our past. In Step Twelve of T…
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"Who is Hank Parkhurst and his role in the founding of AA and why is he forgotten?" This recording is from ICSAA 2024, Saturday 10:30 AM, September 21, 2024, in Orlando, Florida, led by Geri B. The presentation slides can be found on www.aasecular.org/icsaa2024, direct link here. Secular AA is AA sobriety that is neither religious nor irreligious, …
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Secular AA's Biennial General Membership Meeting - Oct 6, 2024
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October 2024: This month's speaker tour is instead Secular AA's Biennial General Membership Meeting, held on Sunday October 6th, 2024. During this session, general membership votes were held on: the location of ICSAA 2026, nominated members to the Board of Secular AA, and ratification of Board-amended Bylaws. This is an open and welcoming meeting a…
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ICSAA 2024 Healing Our Relationships in Al-Anon
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Alcoholism is a family disease. If you have been impacted by another person's drinking, Al-Anon is for you, whether that person is still drinking or not. Come share the experience, strength and hope of panel members, who each have different relationships with the disease of alcoholism: some as parent, adult child, or spouse of alcoholics, and some …
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ICSAA 2024 Trauma & the 12 Steps with Dr. Jamie Marich
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What a great talk by Dr. Jamie Marich based on her studies, practice and lived experience with addiction, recovery, the 12 Steps and Trauma. Hosted/introduced by Zanner, Jamie tells the ICSAA 2024 Orlando crowd that they had their Dr. Jamie Marich dress and PowerPoint professional presentation upstairs; after sitting through day one's chill-vibe, s…
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From Politics To Life : Ridding Anarchy of the Leftist Millstone
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ICSAA 2024 Penny M Saturday Keynote Speaker
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Will-I-Am, chair of the Board of Secular AA, opens this keynote address and introduces Penny M., from Virginia, who found sobriety January 29th, 1968, at the age of 30. This recording was from the International Conference of Secular AA, Orlando, Florida, September 20th to 22nd, 2024, at the Universal Studios Hilton/Double Tree Hotel. Part of Alcoho…
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135. Graeber's Debt Chapter 9: The Axial Age
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Following on my discussion with John Weisweiler, more detail on Graeber's account of the Axial AgeBy Graham Culbertson
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ICSAA 2024 CHIME & Recovery Science by Joe C
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Friday September 20th: Keynote from the International Conference of Secular AA 2024 in Orlando... From research done and reported @ Rebellion Dogs Publishing, Joe C (Toronto Beyond Belief Agnostics & Freethinkers AA group) looks at the evolution of measuring efficacy of AA and other recovery from substance use disorder and a framework to measure re…
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Austerity And Why Claimants Are Not 'Lazy' Or 'Workshy'
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Breaking Down Sudan’s Struggle: What the World Is Missing
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“This war is not a civil war, it's a counter-revolutionary war against civilians. It's a war of military elites against the entire civilian population,” says Sudanese organizer Nisrin Elamin. Sudan is currently experiencing the largest mass displacement event in the world today. Thousands are dead and famine is “almost everywhere” in the country. I…
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ICSAA 2024 Dr Trysh Travis AA in the age of Polarization
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Trysh Travis is a professor of Women's Studies and History (U of Florida) who focuses on: gender popular cultures in the 20th-century United States the culture of addiction and recovery. Dr. Travis writes, and blogs about self-help, "mental hygiene," and alcoholic equalitarianism, and her current project is tentatively titled "Feminists on Drugs: A…
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ICSAA 2024 Loss, Change and Grief & the 12 Steps
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the Journey With Love® with Dr. Noeréna https://thejourneywithlove.com/ from the International Conference of Secular AA, Sunday, September 22, 2024, Orlando, Florida, "12 Steps through loss, change and grief." This recording is from ICSAA 2024, Sunday 10:30 AM, September 22, 2024, in Orlando, Florida, as Rady of Westside Agnostics (Cleveland, OH) i…
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ICSAA 2024 Zanner W from Sobriety to Recovery
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Welcome, this is the kick-off to the 2024 International Conference of Secular AA in Orlando, Florida, September 20-22 with Zanner W. Will-I-Am and Alcohol-Free Margarita offer opening comments and introduce Zanner W from Toronto, speaking about "from Sobriety to Recovery" followed by sharing. This is the tenth anniversary of ICSAA, with the first g…
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134. Debt Discussion 9, the Axial Age with John Weisweiler
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In this episode in my series on Graeber's Debt, I'm joined by John Weisweiler to discuss Chapter 9, "The Axial Age." John and I discuss Graeber's insights into the relationship between money, debt, and community, and the way that Graeber often got the ideas right even before the archaelogical record had gotten there.…
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Is Class Still Relevant? An Anarchist Perspective
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"Our Power Is Where We Choose One Another”: Abolitionists Discuss Our Moment
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“This is a moment that is going to be looked back on 50 years from now, 100 years from now, and what is going to be said of us is how we came out of this moment,” says M4BL organizer M Adams. In this episode, Kelly talks with Adams and community organizer Montague Simmons about the last decade of Black-led organizing, the state of movements against…
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133. 3rd Anniversary Episode! -- Ruth Kinna
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Ruth Kinna comes back on the show to celebrate 3 years of Everyday Anarchism. We talk about the relationship between anarchism and protest, and where everyday anarchism fits with capital-A Anarchism. Plus Occupy!By Graham Culbertson
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Secular AA Global Speaker Tour - We Agnostics of Tempe, AZ - Sep 1, 2024
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September 2024: Secular AA's monthly world-tour of speaker meetings is hosted by We Agnostics from Tempe, Arizona. Our speakers this month are: Andrew N Gary S Diana E ..with Beth H as emcee. Following these talks is sharing from around our agnostic/atheist/freethinkers AA world. This is an open and welcoming meeting inviting others to share their …
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132. Debt Discussion 8, Cycles of History with Luke Kemp
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Luke Kemp joins me to discuss Chapter 8 of Debt, asking the question: Is Graeber right when he says that history follows clear cycles? Sort of!By Graham Culbertson
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Remembering How to Care: Lessons from Deep Space Nine
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“The immediacy of the crisis that we're in demands a new society and not in some imagined future, but now,” says Rehearsals for Living co-author Robyn Maynard. In this episode, Kelly talks with Maynard and David K. Seitz, author of A Different Trek: Radical Geographies of Deep Space Nine, about the radical legacy of “Star Trek: Deep Space Nine” and…
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131. The Case Against Competition -- Alfie Kohn
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I'm joined by Alfie Kohn to discuss No Contest: The Case Against Competition, his 1986 book about how competition hurts rather than helps people do their best. We cover the problem with grades, the reason why excellence and competition are opposed, and whats wrong with rewards and what makes awards even worse. For more from Alfie, check out his web…
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Individualist Anarchism : A Brief Introduction
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