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028: From Rebellion to Revolution

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On this episode, Jesse & Matt spin the radical salad by saying the quiet parts out-loud about how we go from the first manifestations of a rebellion—with the Floyd Uprisings—toward the massive euphoric heave of a revolution that must be made at a time when the Covid-Collapse is occurring in fast-break waves upon our no-job, no-rent lives. As organizers rattled through megaphones across America in July: “This is not a MOMENT; this is a MOVEMENT,” any successful revolution is one made up of a cross-stitching of other liberation movements: as seen in the work of Covid mutual aid units collaborating with BLM activists, while youth-led climate groups like Sunrise Movement have now hurled banners across freeways—not only to demand a #GreenNewDeal, but to #DefundThePolice and #CancelRent. Already, tens of millions of Americans have hit the streets to defend Black lives, while also identifying how the blood stains of police brutality connect to the patriarchal, colonial violence beating the drum of Capitalism’s deathwish. We are in the midst of a generation-defining, global, mass-death catastrophe, and so Kali Akuno’s call to “Unite and Fight, Build the General Strike” will need to have multiple connecting demands to Defund the Police; Care for the People; Cancel the Rent; Forgive the Debt and Build the Green New Deal. Anything less than this will mean the end of mass civilization, its past achievements becoming newspaper kindle to the fires of the post-apocalypse. Toni Morrison once said, “All paradises, all utopias are defined by who is not there, by the people not allowed in.” In fact, it’s the poisonous ideas and myths that exist inside them and us that should not be let in. So let’s start a very different kind of fire then.

Comprehensive Show Notes Can Be Found at thefutureisamixtape.com

Feel Free to Contact Jesse & Matt on the Following Spaces & Places:

thefutureisamixtape@gmail.com

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On this episode, Jesse & Matt spin the radical salad by saying the quiet parts out-loud about how we go from the first manifestations of a rebellion—with the Floyd Uprisings—toward the massive euphoric heave of a revolution that must be made at a time when the Covid-Collapse is occurring in fast-break waves upon our no-job, no-rent lives. As organizers rattled through megaphones across America in July: “This is not a MOMENT; this is a MOVEMENT,” any successful revolution is one made up of a cross-stitching of other liberation movements: as seen in the work of Covid mutual aid units collaborating with BLM activists, while youth-led climate groups like Sunrise Movement have now hurled banners across freeways—not only to demand a #GreenNewDeal, but to #DefundThePolice and #CancelRent. Already, tens of millions of Americans have hit the streets to defend Black lives, while also identifying how the blood stains of police brutality connect to the patriarchal, colonial violence beating the drum of Capitalism’s deathwish. We are in the midst of a generation-defining, global, mass-death catastrophe, and so Kali Akuno’s call to “Unite and Fight, Build the General Strike” will need to have multiple connecting demands to Defund the Police; Care for the People; Cancel the Rent; Forgive the Debt and Build the Green New Deal. Anything less than this will mean the end of mass civilization, its past achievements becoming newspaper kindle to the fires of the post-apocalypse. Toni Morrison once said, “All paradises, all utopias are defined by who is not there, by the people not allowed in.” In fact, it’s the poisonous ideas and myths that exist inside them and us that should not be let in. So let’s start a very different kind of fire then.

Comprehensive Show Notes Can Be Found at thefutureisamixtape.com

Feel Free to Contact Jesse & Matt on the Following Spaces & Places:

thefutureisamixtape@gmail.com

Facebook Twitter Instagram

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