Coffee with Comrades

Holy shit, y'all. We made it. 100 Episodes. Kinda mind-boggling.

This week, we're joined by Abdul Y. Malik to talk about the NBA Wildcat Strike. We also answer questions sent in by comrades who listen to the show! Stick around 'til the very end for bloopers.

• Read Abdul's piece on the NBA Wildcat Strike and follow him on Twitter.
• Check out Kino Lefter wherever you get your podcasts.
• Support Coffee with Comrades on Patreon, follow us on Twitter and Instagram, and visit our website.
• Coffee with Comrades is a proud affiliate of the Channel Zero Network.
• Coffee with Comrades is a proud part of the Rev Left Radio Federation.
• Our logo was designed by Sydney Landis. Support her work, buy some art.

Music

- Intro: "I Ain't Got No Home in this World" by Woody Guthrie

- Interlude: "I Wrote This To Start a Fire" by Time

- Interlude: "Where Do We Go When We Die" by Thornhill

- Outro: "Whatever Happened to Man's Best Friend" by Good Tiger

This week, Ruth Kinna joins Pearson to talk about her forthcoming book, Great Anarchists. Ruth is an anarchist and professor at Loughborough University where she teaches Political Theory. Ruth is also the editor of Anarchist Studies, a biannual academic journal on anarchism.

• Check out Dog Section Press and Anarchist Studies.
• Read issues of Great Anarchists online right now!
• Support Coffee with Comrades on Patreon, follow us on Twitter and Instagram, and visit our website.
• Coffee with Comrades is a proud affiliate of the Channel Zero Network.
• Coffee with Comrades is a proud part of the Rev Left Radio Federation.
• Our logo was designed by Sydney Landis. Support her work, buy some art.

Music

- Intro: "I Ain't Got No Home in this World" by Woody Guthrie

- Interlude: "Baby, I'm An Anarchist" by Against Me!

- Outro: "A Match Made in Heaven" by Architects

This week, we share a special collaborative edition of Coffee with Comrades brought to you in collaboration with the Center for Participant Education and Florida State University's Graduate Assistants United by presenting a brief primer on U.S. Labor History. We explore the Haymarket Affair, discuss the I.W.W., examine the death of the labor movement at the hands of neoliberalism, and discuss new terrains of struggle in the modern era.

• Check out FSU CPE on Instagram
• Scope FSU GAU's website and follow them on Twitter and Instagram.
• Support Coffee with Comrades on Patreon, follow us on Twitter and Instagram, and visit our website.
• Coffee with Comrades is a proud affiliate of the Channel Zero Network.
• Coffee with Comrades is a proud part of the Rev Left Radio Federation.
• Our logo was designed by Sydney Landis. Support her work, buy some art.

Music:

- Intro: "I Ain't Got No Home in this World" by Woody Guthrie

- Interlude: "Company Time" by MC Sole & DJ Pain 1

- Outro: "Solidarity" by Enter Shikari

This week, we're joined by Ozy from Xozypedia to discuss their open-source, all access hub for information! As their website reads, "Xozypedia is a site that houses it all. We firmly believe that information of all kinds can and should be spread and shared amongst us all, as it helps humanity grow and learn." We also talk about the hegemony of academia, the legacy of Aaron Swartz, and the explore the idea of intellectual property.

• Check out Xozypedia's website and follow them on Twitter and Instagram.
• Support Coffee with Comrades on Patreon, follow us on Twitter and Instagram, and visit our website.
• Coffee with Comrades is a proud affiliate of the Channel Zero Network.
• Coffee with Comrades is a proud part of the Rev Left Radio Federation.
• Our logo was designed by Sydney Landis. Support her work, buy some art.

Music:

- Intro: "I Ain't Got No Home in this World" by Woody Guthrie

- Interlude: "Mastermind" by Deltron 3030

- Outro: "Self-Destruct" by Kublai Khan

This week, our friend Chris--better known as the hip-hop artist, Time--joins us to talk about revolutionary hip-hop and hardcore music. Chris and I create a mixtape of ten songs: 5 hip-hop tracks, 5 hardcore singles. We push them all together and create a meditation on sonic revolution, DIY practice and ethos, and reflect on the assembled songs' themes and ideas. This episode was a blast to record and we hope you really enjoy it.

You can also listen to the mixtape as a playlist on Spotify and YouTube!

• Follow Time on Twitter and check out his Bandcamp!
• Support Coffee with Comrades on Patreon, follow us on Twitter and Instagram, and visit our website.
• Coffee with Comrades is a proud affiliate of the Channel Zero Network.
• Coffee with Comrades is a proud part of the Rev Left Radio Federation.
• Our logo was designed by Sydney Landis. Support her work, buy some art.

On this special bonus edition of Coffee with Comrades, I sit down with journalist Shane Burley, author of Fascism Today: What It Is and How to End It, to talk about his recent coverage of the Portland Uprisings. Check out Shane's coverage of the PDX Rebellion below!

• Inside the battle for Portland with the independent journalists on the streets.
• Portland is Trump's testing ground for authoritarian rule.
• Trump's sending in the Feds. Here's what happened to us in Portland.
• Follow Shane on Twitter to stay up-to-date with the PDX Uprisings.
• Support Coffee with Comrades on Patreon, follow us on Twitter and Instagram, and visit our website.
• Coffee with Comrades is a proud affiliate of the Channel Zero Network.
• Coffee with Comrades is a proud part of the Rev Left Radio Federation.
• Our logo was designed by Sydney Landis. Support her work, buy some art.

Music:

• Intro: "I Ain't Got No Home in this World" by Woody Guthrie
• Outro: "Pork & Beef" by The Coup

In this week's program, I sit down with some former employees of No Evil Foods—a company in Asheville that brands itself as a progressive vegan plant-based meat-maker—and talk about their efforts to unionize their workplace and the brand's crackdown on organized labor. We talk about performative wokeness, vegan lifestylism, intersectionality, and so much more.

Resources:

• No Evil Foods, a Faux-Leftist Vegan Meat Company, Busts Union Drive
• Mo' Evil Foods (this show's album artwork from this article in the Industrial Worker)
• The Double-Speak of No Evil Foods
• Workers at No Evil Foods say the Vegan Progressive Company Busted their Union Drive
• A Vegan Meat Company Purged Its Pro-Labor Employees
• Sign the Petition for NEF's Labor Union!
• Follow Mo Evil Foods on Twitter.
• Follow Birdie Gregson on Twitter.

Ways you can support Coffee with Comrades!

• Support Coffee with Comrades on Patreon, follow us on Twitter and Instagram, and visit our website.
• Coffee with Comrades is a proud affiliate of the Channel Zero Network.
• Coffee with Comrades is a proud part of the Rev Left Radio Federation.
• Our logo was designed by Sydney Landis. Support her work, buy some art.

Music:

• Intro: "I Ain't Got No Home in this World" by Woody Guthrie
• Interlude: "The Eco-Terrorist in Me" by Rise Against
• Outro: "Until Every Cage is Empty / Uproar" by Gouge Away

Hey, y'all!

We're back at it again with the second half of our two-part series on The Last of Us, Pt. II.

If you haven't already, I definitely recommend checking out Ep. 93 of Coffee with Comrades, "Endure and Survive," before listening to this episode. Otherwise, ya might be a bit lost. Also, spoilers are pretty damn pervasive in this episode, so if you wanna go into the game without any prior knowledge, this might be one to avoidv until you've played the game.

Regardless, in this episode we talk a lot about Nietzsche, discuss the queer characters in the game, explore the tensions between survival and horror, talk about the game's meta commentary on revenge narratives, and debate the cliffhanger ending.

• Check out Features of Fright and follow Jordan on Twitter.
• Check out Macabre Media Podcast and Simple Philosophy and follow Kaleb on Twitter.
• Support Coffee with Comrades on Patreon, follow us on Twitter and Instagram, and visit our website.
• Coffee with Comrades is a proud affiliate of the Channel Zero Network.
• Coffee with Comrades is a proud part of the Rev Left Radio Federation.
• Our logo was designed by Sydney Landis. Support her work, buy some art.

Music:

- Intro: "I Ain't Got No Home in this World" by Woody Guthrie

- Interlude: "Take on Me" as performed by Ashley Johnson

- Outro: "Wandering" as performed by Ashley Johnson and Troy Baker

This week, we're sharing the first half of a two-part series on Naughty Dog's magnum opus, The Last of Us, Pt. II. I've been looking forward to this game for, like, 7 years now and, since it finally arrived, the most auspicious way I could think to celebrate was by inviting a couple buds on the program to talk about its politics, its motifs, and its heart.

Probably goes without saying, but there are spoilers throughout this discussion. So, if you wanna go into the game clear-eyed and with no information given away, by all means: go listen to one of our other episodes in our back-catalogue or check out one of our sisters shows on the CZN and come back to this later.

In this first chunk of my conversation with Kaleb and Jordan, we talk about consent, bodily autonomy, cycles of violence, death, grief, rage, gameplay, and a whole lot more.

• Support Coffee with Comrades on Patreon, follow us on Twitter and Instagram, and visit our website.
• Coffee with Comrades is a proud affiliate of the Channel Zero Network.
• Coffee with Comrades is a proud part of the Rev Left Radio Federation.
• Our logo was designed by Sydney Landis. Support her work, buy some art.

Music:

- Intro: "I Ain't Got No Home in this World" by Woody Guthrie

- Interlude: "The Last of Us, Pt. II: Main Theme" by Gustavo Santaolalla

- Outro: "Future Days" from The Last of Us, Pt. II as performed by Troy Baker

We are back on our bullshit today with yet another edition of Coffee with Comrades. This week, we're sharing another collaboration with Capital City Mutual Aid and the Center for Participant Education. I facilitated a class on operational security and it was…well, it was a bit of a mess if I'm being perfectly honest. But, hey, it was fun, nonetheless, and I sincerely hope you get something out of it.

Fair warning: most of this episode is just me talking at you and I throw a lot of information out there. If that's your jam, sick. I hope you enjoy it. If not, I am not at all offended if you skip this episode or just check out the resources we've linked to in the show-notes.

Either way, I hope we all do our part to keep ourselves and our comrades safe and secure in the streets and on the internet.

Resources:

• Practice Safe Sec Powerpoint
• Support Coffee with Comrades on Patreon, follow us on Twitter and Instagram, and visit our website.
• Coffee with Comrades is a proud affiliate of the Channel Zero Network.
• Coffee with Comrades is a proud part of the Rev Left Radio Federation.
• Our logo was designed by Sydney Landis. Support her work, buy some art.

Music:

- Intro: "I Ain't Got No Home in this World" by Woody Guthrie

- Interlude: "Eavesdropper (ft. Rou Reynolds)" by Stray from the Path

- Outro: "Whistleblower" by Veil of Maya