Best Savitri D Podcasts (2024)

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Boeing is Guilty: Ohio anti-genocide activists take action. w/ the co-hosts of the Dugout (G&R 310) 20:37

41m ago20:37

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In March, dozens of anti-genocide activists took action at the Boeing facility in Heath, OH. Five were arrested and are being prosecuted for their non-violent action. Boeing is the second largest weapons manufacturer in the world. They’ve been a top manufacturer of missiles and munitions delivered to Israel in its ongoing genocide against Palestini…

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127. History Slows Down and Waits for Change 29:00

1h ago29:00

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The Sunday "Earthchxrch" services remain so fulfilling, the soaring voices with their justice lyrics delivered with the 200 mph wind of recent storms. The choir sings I Go The Mountain and I'm Filled with the Fabulous Unknown from our new album. And we celebrate in this Earth Riot some of our greatest "necessary interruptions": Sister Rosetta Tharp…

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126. Consumerism Has Disabled Our “What’s Important?” Gene 29:00

3h ago29:00

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Today’s Importance Exercise: What’s more important? Atmospheric rivers over the Pacific, or artificial intelligence in Silicon Valley? The rise in carbon units per million, or crypto currency market rates? Suicides among young native Americans or celebrities-on-the-cover-of-PEOPLE who got sober and remarried? The trillions in profits from toxins by…

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09 - Suns Fire 1:30

1d ago1:30

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Songs from Earthchxrch, 36 Loisaida Ave, NYCBy The Church of Stop Shopping

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01 - Because 2:02

1d ago2:02

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Songs from Earthchxrch, 36 Loisaida Ave, NYCBy The Church of Stop Shopping

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02 - Machines 6:37

5d ago6:37

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Songs from Earthchxrch, 36 Loisaida Ave, NYCBy The Church of Stop Shopping

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03 - Not The Only One 3:45

1d ago3:45

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Songs from Earthchxrch, 36 Loisaida Ave, NYCBy The Church of Stop Shopping

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04 - Where Do I Go 2:04

4d ago2:04

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Songs from Earthchxrch, 36 Loisaida Ave, NYCBy The Church of Stop Shopping

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08 - There Is A Wall 4:20

9d ago4:20

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Songs from Earthchxrch, 36 Loisaida Ave, NYCBy The Church of Stop Shopping

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07 - The Now Bird 2:51

1d ago2:51

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Songs from Earthchxrch, 36 Loisaida Ave, NYCBy The Church of Stop Shopping

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06 - Fabulous Unknown 4:24

1d ago4:24

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Songs from Earthchxrch, 36 Loisaida Ave, NYCBy The Church of Stop Shopping

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05 - I Go To The Mountain 2:26

1d ago2:26

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Songs from Earthchxrch, 36 Loisaida Ave, NYCBy The Church of Stop Shopping

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125 The Post-Religious Church of the Fabulous Unknown 29:00

4d ago29:00

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Since the Earth's crisis gives us months or maybe years, gradualism is a faster kind of suicide. Every one of our prayers needs to be like an ambulance, flooring it right at the emergency. Scientists say that most of reality is a whirlwind of subatomic particles called Dark Energy. So, we are stranded on a desperate little human island, while Dark …

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The Bloody History Behind Chiquita’s Big Loss w/ Guillermo Mosquera and Dr. Rodrigo Acuna (G&R 309) 41:25

7d ago41:25

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In a landmark case in Florida, a federal jury has ordered Chiquita Brands International to pay over $38 million in damages to the families of eight Colombian men who were killed by paramilitaries the banana giant funded. This is part of a long bloody history that goes beyond this one incident or Chiquita itself. In our latest episode, Scott talks w…

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124. A Village of Convicted Activists asks Neil Young 29:00

12d ago29:00

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Asks Neil to please name his band after the mystic who met George Armstrong Custer at Little BigHorn, and Neil, open your set with Cortez the Killer. Let in the Earth radicals from where? Who are they? … let the unknown arrestees take the stage to shout for the Earth’s life. Ask dazzling Daryl Hannah, can she please produce the harmonizing tree-hug…

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Stop Cop City Defendants Still Facing Terror Charges w/ Priscilla Grim (G&R 308) 52:59

13d ago52:59

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Cop City still remains an ongoing struggle. After the 2023 assassination of forest defender Tortuguita by the Georgia police, environmental and social justice organizers began to campaign hard on the issue. The state responded with a harsh backlash that has resulted in a multitude of charges that includes domestic terrorism and at least 61 people b…

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New College of Florida Destroys Tree Preserve Amid Local Resistance (G&R 307) 15:31

18d ago15:31

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A cherished coastal preserve is under attack by the campus administration that was appointed last year by Governor DeSantis in the right-wing takeover underway at New College of Florida. The new administration wants to tear down this small tree preserve, home to Osprey and other wildlife, supposedly for a sports facility. Local resistance has been …

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123. What Has Trash, Blacktop, Cars, and Unnatural Heat. And - the Earth! 29:00

19d ago29:00

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Yet our neighborhoods continue to drift toward a great mono-culture, deadly to play and resistance. The physical characteristics of the city are against the body, against the poor and people of color. We are more aware of the attack on us by the rich since Black Lives Matter, Standing Rock, and Occupy Wall Street. These are the great freedom rides …

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Lisa Sachs on How Global Elites Extract Billions From Governments w/ Trade Agreements and Litigation (G&R 306) 57:14

24d ago57:14

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Within the past four decades, we’ve seen the rise of neo-liberalism, or so-called "Free Trade," free trade agreements and various other treaties and agreements that reduce and eliminate barriers and regulation for capital to invest in different nation states. While there has been some resistance, capital and investments march on. Corporations and i…

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122 Animals Teach Us the Song of Power 29:00

26d ago29:00

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Dreams of liberation and laughter, freedom and love. When we get up our dreams turn into music and the more-than-human creatures sing in passionate harmonies, preparing to pull our dreams into action in broad daylight. The melody and beats that dreamily echo in our bodies make a common song shared by all living things as we march on the fossil pois…

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Noam Chomsky: An Appreciation . . . and what he's taught us (G&R 305) 1:23:28

26d ago1:23:28

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With the recent news about Noam Chomsky's condition and absence from public life, and the outpouring of respect and admiration from so many people who have learned so much from him (along with the typical haters), we got together to discuss what he's mean and what he's contributed to us on the Left. We discussed his contributions in the fields of l…

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Israel's Wider Aggression in Lebanon and Iran, w/ Profs Nate George and Eskander Sadeghi-Boroujerdi (G&R 304) 1:34:55

1M ago1:34:55

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Israel's slaughters in Palestine may be horrific and well-covered, but there's more going on in the region than that! Israel has also been acting aggressively throughout the region--especially in Lebanon and Iran. Here Bob talked with two great professors who study the region, Nate George of SOAS and Eskandar Sadeghi of the University of York, abou…

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121. Modern Life Was Supposed To Be This Dazzling, Shiny Thing. 29:00

1M ago29:00

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The Earth's every measurement, every single set of numbers we can give to the sky-rocketing heat, the sea-rise and wind-speed of storms and Iowa tornadoes and drowned polynesian islands... all the mass death of wild-life as well as the mass war of humans... it is all deadly-looking. But look we must, and the first thing we see is that many others, …

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Disabled Ecologies: Lessons from Tucson’s Poisoned Aquifer w/ Prof. Sunaura Taylor (G&R 303) 52:20

1M ago52:20

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In Tucson, Arizona, Cold War era war profiteer Hughes Aircraft polluted an aquifer with chemical waste from a manufacturing facility that poisoned the largely Mexican-American community and desert ecosystem living above. The community responded with one of the first environmental justice campaigns in the United States. In our latest, we talk with P…

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120. Mockingbirds and John Coltrane Will Save us 29:00

2M ago29:00

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Turn to the Earth for your leadership NOW. How is this possible? Wait for direction from what Russel Means called ‘The Great Mystery’. Decrypt the wild life. Presidents should always not be sure of their answers. The only special quality that nation-states have, which make them unique, is that they are weaponized. Disarm nations and start over with…

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Earthalujah! On Neil Young’s Earth Love Tour w/ Reverend Billy and Savitri D. (G&R 302) 42:50

2M ago42:50

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Reverend Billy and the Stop Shopping Choir is a radical performance community based in New York City. They have led campaigns against Starbucks and Disney over the companies' gentrification of New York City, against Wall Street banks such as JPMorgan Chase over its funding of oil, gas and coal, and many street actions against politicians and other …

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119. IS THIS APOCALYPSE FRIENDLY? 29:00

2M ago29:00

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The danger continues. The big boys are up there messing with mother nature while I'm brushing my teeth in the suburb with no name. And entire towns are disappearing in the downpours and fires... But one person's Nessun Dorma is another person's Screaming Mountain Gopher. One person's Thus Spake Zarathustra is another person's Go Away Bird. The shad…

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Scrappy Memorial Day | America Goes Abroad In Search of Monsters to Destroy (G&R 301) 53:55

2M ago53:55

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Memorial Day was created to pay respect to soldiers who died in the war, but it quickly took on another purpose--to promote "patriotism" and American militarism and foreign interventions. Here we debunk the myths of "democracy" and "Humanitarian intervention" that are so prevalent in the political class and media. We offer an abridged history of Am…

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Memory Against Forgetting: The Story of Judi Bari w/ Earth First!er Karen Pickett (G&R 300) 1:01:44

2M ago1:01:44

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On May 24, 1990, a car bomb ripped through environmental and labor organizer Judi Bari's car nearly killing her and her comrade Darryl Cherney. Bari and Cherney were part of Earth First's Headwaters campaign and had fought long and hard to stop clear-cutting redwood forests in Northern California by ravenous timber companies. They were organizing a…

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Labor Update w/ Payday Report: Post-mortem on the UAW vote; and, Is Shawn Fain's bubble bursting? (G&R 299) 23:26

2M ago23:26

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In this week's collaboration, Mike Elk of Payday Report and Bob Buzzanco of Green & Red Podcast discuss the failed union vote at a Mercedes plant in Alabama, and how this might affect the UAW president Shawn Fain's reputation going forward. ---------------------------------------------Outro Music: "They'll Never Keep Us Down," by Hazel DickensLinks…

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118. Proposal: We Take Back Our Insides 29:00

2M ago29:00

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The con-men and con-women look in at us and claim our insides. They introduce us to our own interior, our identity is their property. THIS ARRANGEMENT WILL KEEP US MODERATE, UNABLE TO CHALLENGE THE POISONERS. THE MASS EXTINCTION OF NATURAL LIFE AND ITS PARALLEL CRIME OUR EXTREME WEALTH AND EXTREME POVERTY…. THE MASS MORTALITY WILL ACCELERATE. Shopp…

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Labor Update w/ Payday Report and Green & Red: UAW elections, labor and Palestine, Unions on campus (G&R 298) 39:40

2M ago39:40

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In our weekly discussion of labor and unions, Mike Elk of Payday Report and Bob Buzzanco of Green & Red Podcast discussed the upcoming UAW vote at a Mercedes plant in Vance, Alabama, and the long-term organizing efforts there. We had a great conversation about Shawn Fain's veto of a bill for the UAW to divest from Israel and how Fain's actions migh…

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117. Loving the Earth in a Mudslide 29:00

2M ago29:00

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It's tricky. When 10,000 products try to hardsell you every day, promising happiness, sex, wealth, health and beauty, but those products are secretly polluting the Earth creating impossible wind and waves, fire and floods... And the answer to this betrayal is to love the Earth and team up with the Earth against the product toxins, but then the Eart…

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Scrappy Mother's Day: Hillary's "Feminism,." Biden's Performative BS & Other US Meddling (G&R 297) 32:17

2M ago32:17

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In our latest, Bob and Scott celebrate a Scrappy Mother's Day with a little radical history of the holiday. We also delve into the week in radical history talking about the Hardhat Riot, the murder of two students at Jackson State, and sabotage of the Maryland Draft Center by the Catonsville 9. We also talk Hillary Clinton's disdain for genocide pr…

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Will Climate Shocks Lead to Climate Action? w/ Prof. Dana R. Fisher (G&R 296) 46:31

2M ago46:31

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The climate crisis is an existential threat that has led to an unraveling of our environmental and social fabric. Our political institutions continue to fail us in dealing with this crisis. As the shocks get worse, we've seen more confrontational climate action emerge to push these institutions. This comes in the form of mass marches, civil disobed…

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Payday Report's Mike Elk and Green & Red launch their Labor Update! (G&R 295) 21:20

2M ago21:20

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In this pilot episode, Mike Elk, founder and senior labor reporter on Payday Report, and Bob Buzzanco of Green & Red Podcast present their soon-to-be-regular podcast on Labor in the U.S. We'll dive into the general state of labor and unions in the U.S., organizing drives, strikes, and other developments relevant to working people as they emerge.In …

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War and the Liberals (G&R 294) 43:06

2M ago43:06

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In our latest episode, Scott and Bob discuss the repression on campuses against students protesting against U.S. support of the atrocities and ethnic cleansing in Gaza. We discussed the way Joe Biden is acting like Richard Nixon did in 1970, when he called students "bums" and led to campus upheavals which culminated in the deaths of 4 students at K…

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116. Freedom Fighting inside Neil Young's Songs 29:00

2M ago29:00

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The history of movements is felt deeply in Neil's songs, in "Four Dead in Ohio" and the cracking whip in "Southern Man", the vulnerability of "Comes a Time" and "Searching for a Heart of Gold" and the relentless rock of Crazy Horse when it breaks into "Hey Hey My My (out of the Blue and into the Black). In this Riot we select as an echo to our nigh…

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Best of G&R: May Day vs Labor Day. How the ruling class stops radical organizing. (G&R 293) 1:00:52

3M ago1:00:52

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Happy May Day Tender Comrades! Here is a repost of our May Day episode from 2021. In it, we talk about the history of May Day from pagan rituals to the Haymarket Affair to International Workers’ Day to Labor Day and Loyalty Day. And we discuss how the ruling class’s “war on the left” fits into the politics of May Day vs. Labor Day. Spend an hour of…

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115. On the Road with Neil Young 29:00

3M ago29:00

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The powerful thing about this experiment is that we are talking directly to people about the Earth’s crisis. It’s not graphics, mass mailings, or social media’s pixels. In the first three shows the choir and I played to 21,000 people. Our job is like an opening act, but also we are hosting the event of the LOVE EARTH tour. Neil and his partner Dary…

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Bringing the War Home.... Again. Campuses Erupt Over Palestine evoking memories of the 1960s (G&R 292) 1:13:18

3M ago1:13:18

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In a free-wheeling discussion Scott and Bob and friend and frequent G&R guest Clayton Lust, a professor of history as several Houston-area community colleges, talked about the campus protests of the 1960s, especially at Columbia in 1968, their meaning, their consequences and their tactics. All of us have written and/or taught about U.S. radical pro…

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Victories in Pittsburgh and Chattanooga w/ Mike Elk of Payday Report on Summer Lee and UAW (G&R 291) 19:28

3M ago19:28

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Mike Elk spoke w/ Green & Red a couple weeks ago in anticipation of the union vote at the UAW vote in Chattanooga and, after the victory there, we talked about the reasons for that success and what was next for labor--especially an upcoming vote at a Mercedes plant in Alabama. We also talked about Summer Lee's primary victory in Pittsburgh and her …

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Abbott Cracks Down on Student Anti-Genocide Protests at University of Texas-Austin w/ Candice Bernd (G&R 290) 28:29

3M ago28:29

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On Wednesday, in Austin TX, hundreds of police converged on the University of Texas to attack a peaceful protest in solidarity with the victims of the Israeli genocide in Gaza. At least 57 students and protest participants were arrested. A Fox News cameraman and other journalists were assaulted and arrested. Texas Gov. Greg Abbott gloated in a vide…

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From Alcatraz to Standing Rock... How Indigenous Action Builds People Power w/ Marty Aranaydo (G&R 289) 1:10:13

3M ago1:10:13

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In our latest, we deep dive into Indigenous organizing with long time Native Oakland Native organizer and direct action trainer Marty Aranaydo (@williemaze). We discuss his direct action roots (going back before he was born!), organizing work in native communities around North America, the occupation of Alcatraz, his time at Standing Rock and Cop C…

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The Danger Imperative: How the “war on cops” shapes violent police culture w/ Michael Sierra-Arévalo (G&R 288) 1:00:55

3M ago1:00:55

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We talk with Prof. Michael Sierra-Arévalo (@michaelsierraa) about the "war on cops" and how it has shaped police culture and violence. We discuss the creation of this culture of police survival over public safety. Where and how it's created. How police see themselves as holding the line against agents of chaos. The institution's perception of race,…

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114. Malcolm, Sinéad, Bernie, 29:00

3M ago29:00

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Beatles, Panthers, Standing Rock, David Graeber, Act-Up, Earth First, XR. Today as we prepare to tour with Neil Young, we find ourselves wondering: Can a famous activist or group make change on the level that the Earth needs? Or is Consumer Society always pushing such people to depoliticize?By Reverend Billy and Savitri D

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Supreme Court Declines Case Against Organizer Facing Civil Damages w/ Movement Lawyer Maggie Ellinger-Locke (G&R 287) 22:40

3M ago22:40

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This week, the U.S. Supreme Court declined to hear McKesson v. Doe. The case involves a police officer injured during a Black Lives Matter protest after the police murder of Alton Sterling in Baton Rouge, La in 2016. The injured police officer sued the organizer DeRay McKesson for damages. Last year, the US Court of Appeals for the 5th Circuit side…

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"Forest Defense is Climate Defense"... Tree-Sit Staged in Southern Oregon to Resist Timber Sale (G&R 286) 25:41

3M ago25:41

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Forest defenders have launched a tree sit to stop old growth logging on federal Bureau of Land Management land in Southern Oregon. Community members are opposing the Poor Windy timber sale, which targets thousands of acres of mature and old growth forest. Scott gets an update from two forest defenders fighting the timber sale. They talk about the c…

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113. Government by Eco-Orgasm 29:00

3M ago29:00

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“There must be more to life!” was the cry as the new movement toward Earth-friendly Love took root in a White Christian Nationalist enclave of rural Texas. Worshippers were stranded with their Bibles as the mass of Trumpers seemed to veer off during a Pentecostal hymn that spun out of control. Senior church officials lamented “You could feel a happ…

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Scrappy Tax Day | Your Tax Dollars at Work. Lockheed Martin, "The Grapes of Wrath" and O.J.'s Legacy (G&R 285) 45:06

3M ago45:06

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In our scrappy Tax Day episode, we get right down to it. We get into the anniversary of the publishing of "The Grapes of Wrath" and its significance on America and the American Left.We discuss how your tax dollars are subsidizing war profiteers like Lockheed Martin and keeping the war effort in Gaza going while paying for healthcare and public educ…

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