Crawdads and Taters: Red State Rebels

5. What is Neoliberalism?

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Crawdads and Taters have an impromptu discussion on the definition of Neoliberalism, a few ways it has played out in the US and global economy, and how it paves the way for modern-day fascism.

Episode Notes

Border Deaths

  • Operation Gatekeeper and the Birth of Border Militarization
  • From 1994-2014, over 10,000 refugees have died attempting to cross the border. Crossing Over: Enrique Morales, Founder of Border Angels Talks the on Border Crisis and How We Can Stop It, 2014.
  • How U.S. Policy Turned the Sonoran Desert Into a Graveyard for Migrants, New York Times, 2020.
  • In Juarez, women just disappear, 2011
  • Death in the Sands: The Horror of the US-Mexico Border


    • Stop Enbridge Line 3

    • Stop Line 3 Chronicles
    • Line 3- Indigenous Environmental Network


      • Neoliberal Trade Deals fueling the “immigration crisis”

      • NAFTA (North American Free Trade Agreement), 1994
      • TPP (Trans Pacific Partnership), (2016, but defeated by global grassroots movements)
      • PPP (Plan Puebla Panama), 2001
      • CAFTA (Central American Free Trade Agreement), 2005


        • Reagan and privatization

        • Reagan Plan to Privatize Government Is Gaining Support From Democrats, 1988
        • The History of Privatization: How an Ideological and Political Attack on Government Became a Corporate Grab for Gold
        • Key word of new budget: 'Privatization'
        • Privatization is at the Core of Fascism
        • Bipartisan Senate Infrastructure Plan Is a Stalking Horse for Privatization

          • Germany and Forced Labor

          • Ford and GM Scrutinized for Alleged Nazi Collaboration, 1998
          • Ford sued over slave labor 

            • Biden and Deportation

            • United We Dream: Stop Deportations Now
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