Coffee with Comrades

This week, Pearson is joined by Matt and Johnny from Woodbine, an experimental community hub in Ridgewood, Queens, to chat about moving from mutual aid to disaster confederalism. Matt and Johnny also talk about why base-building is essential to dual-power strategies and discuss Woodbine and Hungry Monk's ongoing community-organizing in the midst of COVID-19.

• Follow Woodbine on Twitter, Instagram, and Facebook and check out their website.
• Follow Hungry Monk on Instagram and Facebook and visit their website.
• Support Hungry Monk's fundraiser.
• The Commune Magazine article on Woodbine cited throughout this interview.
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Music:

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

• Interlude: "Revolution Has Come" by Rebel Diaz
• Outro: "Alone" by Being As An Ocean

Okay, so...

Is this the silliest edition of Coffee with Comrades ever made?

Is it the most wholesome AF content on the planet?

Or is this entire episode just one big shit-post?

Maybe all of the above??

Who know!?

Regardless, we made an episode about Animal Crossing: New Horizons. We hope you'll fuck with it.

Liz from Rebel Steps joined us to chat about the politics of AC:NH, the newest game from Nintendo's Animal Crossing franchise which is destined to go down in the history books as "the Quarantine Game." After offering a few critiques at the outset of the episode, Liz and Pearson spend the bulk of the discussion exploring the game's radical horizons: its themes of anti-work, urban planning, and post-scarcity, the game's DIY ethos, the setting's borderless society, and so much more.

So, is AC:NH a capitalist hellworld of landlords and stalk markets or a communist anti-anti-utopia of liberation and possibility? Stick around 'til the end of the episode to find out!

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References:

• Srsly Wrong's episode on Library Socialism and Usufruct.
• Polygon's article on the Stalk Market.
• Decolonize this Place Museum in ACNH.
• Tanuki's magic scrotum article.

Music:

• Intro: "I Ain't Got No Home in this World" by Woody Guthrie
• Interlude: "Island Broadcast: Isabelle" by Yasuaki Iwata, Yumi Takahashi, Shinobu Nagata, Sayako Doi, & Masato Ohashi
• Outro: "Animal Crossing: New Horizons Main Theme" by Yasuaki Iwata, Yumi Takahashi, Shinobu Nagata, Sayako Doi, & Masato Ohashi

We're back at it again with Doomer vs. Bloomer, our pals on the Channel Zero Network. At times like these, we have to learn how to grieve together and mourn collectively. We must also, simultaneously, dialectically, engage in the necessary work of community-organizing. So, what do we do? Franz and Kami join Pearson to (hopefully) offer some potential ideas.

• Check out Doomer vs. Bloomer on Twitter and support them on Patreon.
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• 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: "Souvenir" by boygenius
• Outro: "Aftermath" by the Ghost Inside

This week, Cindy Milstein sits down for a conversation with Pearson about her new edited anthology, Deciding For Ourselves: The Promise of Direct Democracy. In this episode, we chat about joy, grief, organizing in an era of COVID-19, direct democrac(ies), and the beautiful messiness of participatory praxis and collaborative decision-making.

• Pick up a copy of Deciding For Ourselves: The Promise of Direct Democracy from AK Press!
• Follow Cindy on Twitter and Instagram.
• Support Gainesville IWOC and Fight Toxic Prisons' direct action by donating to $FightToxicPrisons on CashApp or [email protected] on PayPal.
• 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: "No Justice" by Astonauts, etc.
• Outro: "Heavenly" by Adventures

This week, Eamon and I wrap up our dialogue on COVID-19, specifically with an eye toward what we can do to confront this crisis. We chat about the surge of mutual aid organizing and base-building, the wave of rent strikes hitting major urban centers, and community-organizing in a time of self-quarantining. Above all else, Eamon and I talk about how we can all live our lives so fucking brilliantly that even death will tremble to take us.

If this is your first time checking out Coffee with Comrades, we encourage you to check out Ep. 80: "The Virus is the Profit Motive," the first half of our two-part series on COVID-19.

We encourage you to get involved in Mutual Aid organizing in your neck-of-the-woods. Check out this round-up of mutual aid organizations all across the so-called United States.

Resources:

• Ventilator shortages expose the cruelty of neoliberal capitalism
• Democrats roll over for the Trump Administration's "stimulus package"
• Leaked documents expose how Amazon tried to frame warehouse strike organizer
• Neo-Nazis plot to bomb hospital amidst COVID-19 crisis
• White supremacists plan to cough on Jews if they contract COVID-19
• Mutual aid activity explodes across the so-called U.S.
• Organize a Rent Strike with these resources from IGD and CrimethInc. and Rebel Steps
• Expected 32% of U.S. workforce will be out of a job
• Coronavirus is a labor crisis: will a general strike follow?

Follow & Support:

• Follow Radical People on Twitter and donate to their Patreon.
• 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: "Mean Demeanor"
• Outro: "Alibi" by Hawk

This week, Eamon of the Radical People podcast joins us for the first half of a two-part series on COVID-19. We spend the first part of the discussion setting up the current state of affairs: where we're at presently, what the bourgeois response has been, and how ecofascists and reactionaries are using this crisis to foment nativist strains of racism.

But, it's not all bleak. Eamon offers a lot of insight into the crisis of late-stage capitalism from an ecological perspective and provides an invaluable lens we can use to assess the catastrophe of COVID-19 and move forward to a more liberatory future. Be sure to check back next week for part-two of our conversation.

We encourage you to get involved in Mutual Aid organizing in your neck-of-the-woods. Check out this round-up of mutual aid organizations all across the so-called United States.

Resources:

• Ventilator shortages expose the cruelty of neoliberal capitalism
• Democrats roll over for the Trump Administration's "stimulus package"
• Leaked documents expose how Amazon tried to frame warehouse strike organizer
• Neo-Nazis plot to bomb hospital amidst COVID-19 crisis
• White supremacists plan to cough on Jews if they contract COVID-19
• Mutual aid activity explodes across the so-called U.S.
• Organize a Rent Strike with these resources from IGD and CrimethInc. and Rebel Steps
• Expected 32% of U.S. workforce will be out of a job
• Coronavirus is a labor crisis: will a general strike follow?

Follow & Support:

• Follow Radical People on Twitter and donate to their Patreon.
• 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: "Unfuck the World" by Prophets of Rage
• Outro: "Firestorm" by Earth Crisis

This week's episode of Coffee with Comrades is jam-packed with ideas on education, feminism, decolonization, the academic industrial complex, identity (and its limitations,) and the ongoing struggle for collective liberation. Anjali Nath Upadhyay of Liberation Spring joins us for the hour to dive into these subjects and so much more. There's a lot of wisdom packed into this episode, so pour yourself a cup of coffee and buckle in!

• Check out Liberation Spring's website, follow them on Twitter, and support their work on Patreon!
• 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: "Capture the Flag" by War on Women
• Outro: "Carrion Flowers" by Chelsea Wolfe

This week, we finally got a chance to sit down with John and Gord from Little Red Schoolhouse and have a chat about burnout--what it is and how we fight it. We also chat about how Little Red Schoolhouse got started, the need for relationality in education, and the simple joys of being alive in a world whose beauty is utterly mesmerizing.

• Support Little Red Schoolhouse on Patreon, follow them on Twitter, and visit their website.
• 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 Anymore" by Woody Guthrie

- Interlude: "Presence is Strength" by Fever 333

- Outro: "Daylily" by Movements

Welcome back to another edition of Coffee with Comrades! This week, we share the second-half of a two-part special recorded with Serena Viola and Cosby Hayes on art, labor, and cultural production. If you haven't already, be sure to check out Ep. 76 of Coffee with Comrades, "Art(work." Today, we go global, looking beyond our local community here in Tallahassee at larger struggles and movements and the intercessions (and limitations) of cultural production. We chat about fine art versus street art, proletarian power, and the tensions of being an artist in a time of rising fascism, rabid nationalism, and climate catastrophe.

• Follow Serena on Twitter and Instagram.
• Follow Cosby on his personal Instagram and @SPHCwalls.
• 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: "Weather" by Tycho
• Outro: "Numb" by the Devil Wears Prada

In this week's edition of Coffee with Comrades, Serena Viola and Cosby Hayes join Pearson for a two-part special on art, labor, and cultural production.

In Pt. I, we talk about Serena and Cosby's art, who and what inspires their work, gentrification in Tallahassee, the state of the local art scene, and cultural production in our community.

• Follow Serena on Twitter and Instagram.
• Follow Cosby on his personal Instagram and @SPHCwalls.
• 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: "Cinnamon" by Hayley Williams
• Outro: "Maniac (R.O.D.)" by Four Year Strong