Coffee with Comrades

Get ready for a spooky, jam-packed episode of Coffee with Comrades. Bree is back! What’s more, we have our comrade Nestor on the show from Black Banner Magic to talk about witchcraft, the devil’s night, and the secret history of Halloween. But first, some current events:

• The so-called “MAGA Bomber” is Florida man Cesar Sayoc, who sent a total of 14 mail bombs to the Clintons, Obamas, CNN, and event Robert De Niro.
• Meanwhile, a white supremacist opened fire at a Kroger store in Kentucky this week.
• White supremacist Robert Bowers walked into a synagogue in Philadelphia and opened fire, killing eleven people.
• Over the propaganda of “migrant caravans,” Trump is ratcheting up his attempts to “secure the border” by sending the literal fucking U.S. military to border states.
• History shows us the violence Central Americans are fleeing was stoked by the U.S.
• Jair Bolsonaro, the out-and-out, bona fide fascist, is President-elect of Brazil.
• One in six Americans are far-right. But white supremacy is a structural, systemic flaw of the United States.

Nestor from the Black Banner Magic podcast joins us on the show to talk about Halloween’s roots in Gaelic paganism, the rebellious mischief that the holiday foments, the Great Rebellion of Detroit and the ensuing string of Devil’s Night arsons, and American capitalists’ taming of the festivities into a tepid celebration of consumerism and excess. To find out more about the Devil's Night, read this stellar essay on the subject from Mask magazine. Please consider supporting Black Banner Magic on Patreon, where ⅔ of every dollar raised goes to the Omaha Freedom Fund!

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Intro: “I Ain’t Got no Home in this World” by Woody Guthrie

Outro: “Devil’s Night” by Motionless in White

On this week's episode of Coffee with Comrades, Sam joins Pearson once again for a discussion of current events before Pearson hosts an interview with a comrade from EngSciMath and Exiled Consensus.

Current Events:

• Mutual Aid relief efforts in the Florida panhandle are ongoing.
• Panama City landlords are finishing what Hurricane Michael started.
• Meanwhile, the Oath Keepers got arrested in Mexico Beach, FL while "patrolling" out past curfew.
• Amazon is still garbage.
• The Trump administration's war on our transgender comrades continues.
• Elizabeth Warren decided it would be a good idea to do a DNA test to "prove" her indigenous ancestry.

Support Mutual Aid Disaster Relief & Autonomous Relief Efforts:

• Mutual Aid Disaster Relief Donation Page
• Tallahassee DSA Fund
• Florida People's Advocacy Center
• Wish-list for the FL Panhandle

Today's edition of the show focuses on science, technology, engineering, and math majors and the intersections these fields have with radical left politics. A comrade from EngSciMath and Exiled Consensus join Pearson for a discussion of education, the university, and critical inquiry to envision a future divorced of capitalist schemes where emancipated free-thinkers are empowered to work for a world of justice and equality in community with one another.

You can follow EngSciMath on Twitter.

Get involved with the EngSciMath Slack: [email protected].

Visit Exiled Consensus's website and give him a follow on Twitter.

Check out Sam's website.

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

Interlude: "Yomilo" by Milo

Outro: "Royal Beggars" by Architects

On this week’s episode of Coffee with Comrades, Sam joins Pearson once again for a discussion of current events before Pearson hosts an interview with Brendan from EngSciMath and Exiled Consensus.

Current Events:

• Mutual Aid relief efforts in the Florida panhandle are ongoing.
• Panama City landlords are finishing what Hurricane Michael started.
• Meanwhile, the Oath Keepers got arrested in Mexico Beach, FL while “patrolling” out past curfew.
• Amazon is still garbage.
• The Trump administration’s war on our transgender comrades continues.
• Elizabeth Warren decided it would be a good idea to do a DNA test to “prove” her indigenous ancestry.

Support Mutual Aid Disaster Relief & Autonomous Relief Efforts:

• Mutual Aid Disaster Relief Donation Page
• Tallahassee DSA Fund
• Florida People’s Advocacy Center
• Wish-list for the FL Panhandle

Today’s edition of the show focuses on science, technology, engineering, and math majors and the intersections these fields have with radical left politics. Brendan from EngSciMath and Exiled Consensus join Pearson for a discussion of education, the university, and critical inquiry to envision a future divorced of capitalist schemes where emancipated free-thinkers are empowered to work for a world of justice and equality in community with one another.

You can follow Brendan and EngSciMath on Twitter.

Email Brendan to get involved with the EngSciMath Slack: [email protected].  

Visit Exiled Consensus’s website and give him a follow on Twitter.

Check out Sam’s website.

Intro: “I Ain’t Got No Home in this World” by Woody Guthrie

Interlude: “Yomilo” by Milo

Outro: “Royal Beggars” by Architects

Sam is back for another episode of Coffee with Comrades to discuss the Anthropocene with Pearson. But first, some news:

• Kavanaugh was confirmed. Let's organize to smash the patriarchy.
• The fascist presidential candidate Jair Bolsonaro won 48% of the vote in Brazil, which has implications for politics all across the globe.
• Amazon's wage-theft continues.
• Major Climate Report Describes a Strong Risk of Crisis as Early as 2040.
• Only 100 companies are to blame for 71% of emissions.

The Anthropocene is our current climate epoch, one marked by a measurable influence from humankind. Most of us know that climate change is bad--really bad. But the science is absolutely damning. As our planet is rocked by one catastrophe after another, Sam unpacks the science behind anthropogenic climate change. Together, Sam and Pearson take a sobering look at the consequences of global warming. Below are a number of sources Sam compiled for folks who are interested in fact-checking or just finding out more about this dilemma.

Check out Sam's shit-posts on Twitter.

Take a gander at Sam's website.

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

Outro: "Don't Let the World Rot" by Northlane

Extinction, biodiversity collapse

• http://www.pnas.org/content/early/2017/07/05/1704949114.full
• http://advances.sciencemag.org/content/1/5/e1400253?ijkey=75be8629689d630dc6b8492a3f51b89d0a73276e&keytype2=tf_ipsecsha
• http://www.pnas.org/content/112/25/7761?ijkey=3631ac556f47977df2a85ab80c0c4b620860569e&keytype2=tf_ipsecsha
• http://www.pnas.org/content/105/Supplement_1/11466?ijkey=c34cee1e03df1bef68884e5901ef8d46fad741be&keytype2=tf_ipsecsha
• https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/cobi.12380
• http://www.pnas.org/content/115/25/6506
• https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11538-015-0126-0
• https://www.nature.com/articles/nclimate2722
• https://www.annualreviews.org/doi/abs/10.1146/annurev.marine.010908.163855
• http://science.sciencemag.org/content/348/6231/229
• http://science.sciencemag.org/content/321/5891/926

Oceans, ice

• http://www.pnas.org/content/114/23/5946
• https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-018-0501-8

Heat

• http://web.science.unsw.edu.au/~stevensherwood/wetbulb.html
• https://ksi.uconn.edu/prevention/wet-bulb-globe-temperature-monitoring/
• https://www.nature.com/articles/s41561-018-0146-0
• http://www.pnas.org/content/107/21/9552 ; http://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1748-9326/aaa00e

Food

• https://www.nature.com/articles/nature16467
• http://www.pnas.org/content/114/35/9326 ]
• https://knowledge.unccd.int/glo#the-bokk ]
• https://elifesciences.org/articles/02245
• https://www.nature.com/articles/nature13179
• https://ehp.niehs.nih.gov/doi/10.1289/EHP41

Weather

• https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1029/2012GL053002
• https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1029/2018EF000825

Sam is back for another episode of Coffee with Comrades to discuss the Anthropocene with Pearson. But first, some news:

• Kavanaugh was confirmed. Let’s organize to smash the patriarchy.
• The fascist presidential candidate Jair Bolsonaro won 48% of the vote in Brazil, which has implications for politics all across the globe.
• Amazon’s wage-theft continues.
• Major Climate Report Describes a Strong Risk of Crisis as Early as 2040.
• Only 100 companies are to blame for 71% of emissions.

The Anthropocene is our current climate epoch, one marked by a measurable influence from humankind. Most of us know that climate change is bad--really bad. But the science is absolutely damning. As our planet is rocked by one catastrophe after another, Sam unpacks the science behind anthropogenic climate change. Together, Sam and Pearson take a sobering look at the consequences of global warming. Below are a number of sources Sam compiled for folks who are interested in fact-checking or just finding out more about this dilemma.

Check out Sam’s shit-posts on Twitter.

Take a gander at Sam’s website.

Intro: “I Ain’t Got No Home in this World” by Woody Guthrie

Outro: “Don’t Let the World Rot” by Northlane

Extinction, biodiversity collapse

• http://www.pnas.org/content/early/2017/07/05/1704949114.full
• http://advances.sciencemag.org/content/1/5/e1400253?ijkey=75be8629689d630dc6b8492a3f51b89d0a73276e&keytype2=tf_ipsecsha
• http://www.pnas.org/content/112/25/7761?ijkey=3631ac556f47977df2a85ab80c0c4b620860569e&keytype2=tf_ipsecsha
• http://www.pnas.org/content/105/Supplement_1/11466?ijkey=c34cee1e03df1bef68884e5901ef8d46fad741be&keytype2=tf_ipsecsha
• https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/cobi.12380
• http://www.pnas.org/content/115/25/6506
• https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11538-015-0126-0
• https://www.nature.com/articles/nclimate2722
• https://www.annualreviews.org/doi/abs/10.1146/annurev.marine.010908.163855
• http://science.sciencemag.org/content/348/6231/229
• http://science.sciencemag.org/content/321/5891/926

Oceans, ice

• http://www.pnas.org/content/114/23/5946
• https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-018-0501-8

Heat

• http://web.science.unsw.edu.au/~stevensherwood/wetbulb.html
• https://ksi.uconn.edu/prevention/wet-bulb-globe-temperature-monitoring/
• https://www.nature.com/articles/s41561-018-0146-0
• http://www.pnas.org/content/107/21/9552 ; http://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1748-9326/aaa00e

Food

• https://www.nature.com/articles/nature16467
• http://www.pnas.org/content/114/35/9326 ]
• https://knowledge.unccd.int/glo#the-bokk ]
• https://elifesciences.org/articles/02245
• https://www.nature.com/articles/nature13179
• https://ehp.niehs.nih.gov/doi/10.1289/EHP41

Weather

• https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1029/2012GL053002
• https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1029/2018EF000825

In this early edition of Coffee with Comrades, Pearson sits down for a conversation with Jimmy Dunson of Mutual Aid Disaster Relief. But first, in the absence of our beloved Bree, Pearson invites friend-of-the-show and all-around-solid comrade, Sam, on for a discussion of current events:

• Brett Kavanaugh is not only a goblin-nosed ghoul, he's also a fucking liar.
• The Senate Judiciary Committee was an utter farce of partisan shit-slinging
• Lindsay Graham--that obnoxious, keebler-elf-looking motherfucker--was a particularly self-righteous and pompous ass
• Seriously, Kavanaugh lied. A lot.
• Let's organize to destroy the Supreme Court and smash the state while we're at it. Fuck Abuse, Kill Power.
• Meanwhile, under the fog of Kavanaugh, the House passes $3.8 trillion in tax cuts.
• The Trump Administration is targeting immigrants, yet again, through food-stamps and medicaid.
• The International Revolutionary People's Guerilla Forces (IRPGF) of Rojava submitted their final communique this week.
• A leaked video from Amazon shows their anti-union antics.
• Hurricane Florence released literal tons of coal ash into the Carolinas river systems. Now, the coal industry wants to be deregulated.

Jimmy and Pearson talk about Mutual Aid Disaster Relief, autonomous response in the wake of Hurricane Florence, how communities can organize and prepare for disasters both social and ecological, and how folks can build infrastructure and dual-power.

• Follow Mutual Aid Disaster Relief on Facebook and Twitter.
• Visit Mutual Aid Disaster Relief's website.
• Donate to support the vital work of Mutual Aid Disaster Relief.
• Follow Sam on Twitter.

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

Interlude: "Idioteque" by Radiohead

Outro: "Human Carrying Capacity" by Harm's Way

In this early edition of Coffee with Comrades, Pearson sits down for a conversation with Jimmy Dunson of Mutual Aid Disaster Relief. But first, in the absence of our beloved Bree, Pearson invites friend-of-the-show and all-around-solid comrade, Sam, on for a discussion of current events:

• Brett Kavanaugh is not only a goblin-nosed ghoul, he’s also a fucking liar.
• The Senate Judiciary Committee was an utter farce of partisan shit-slinging
• Lindsay Graham--that obnoxious, keebler-elf-looking motherfucker--was a particularly self-righteous and pompous ass
• Seriously, Kavanaugh lied. A lot.
• Let’s organize to destroy the Supreme Court and smash the state while we’re at it. Fuck Abuse, Kill Power.
• Meanwhile, under the fog of Kavanaugh, the House passes $3.8 trillion in tax cuts.
• The Trump Administration is targeting immigrants, yet again, through food-stamps and medicaid.
• The International Revolutionary People’s Guerilla Forces (IRPGF) of Rojava submitted their final communique this week.
• A leaked video from Amazon shows their anti-union antics.
• Hurricane Florence released literal tons of coal ash into the Carolinas river systems. Now, the coal industry wants to be deregulated.

Jimmy and Pearson talk about Mutual Aid Disaster Relief, autonomous response in the wake of Hurricane Florence, how communities can organize and prepare for disasters both social and ecological, and how folks can build infrastructure and dual-power.

• Follow Mutual Aid Disaster Relief on Facebook and Twitter.
• Visit Mutual Aid Disaster Relief’s website.
• Donate to support the vital work of Mutual Aid Disaster Relief.
• Follow Sam on Twitter.

Intro: “I Ain’t Got No Home in this World” by Woody Guthrie

Interlude: “Idioteque” by Radiohead

Outro: “Human Carrying Capacity” by Harm’s Way

**This episode of Coffee with Comrades is dedicated to Sydney Eastman. Rest in Power. May we fight to build a better world in your memory.**

On this week's edition of Coffee with Comrades, Pearson sits down for a conversation with Michael Laufer, one of the founding members of the Four Thieves Vinegar Collective, to talk about anarchy, big pharma, DIY medicine, personal autonomy, and information liberation. But first, Bree and Pearson discuss the news:

• Anarchists are literally flying supplies into Wilmington, NC
• You can donate to support Mutual Aid Disaster Relief and other solidarity efforts in the Carolinas
• Botham Jean update: Amber Guyger fired & charged with manslaughter. This is not enough.
• A CBP whistleblower shared some harrowing stories from his time in the agency with Intercept
• If you're visiting anyone in a Virginia prison, you can't wear tampons
• Yemenis are starving in UN refugee camps
• Looks like we might've spoke too soon here on Coffee with Comrades: it appears that Brett Kavanaugh may be a bigger creep than we initially anticipated.

Four Thieves Vinegar Collective is an anarchic, decentralized cadre of hackers, scientists, and engineers dedicated to putting healthcare back in the hands of human beings. 4TVC seeks to empower individual autonomy by equipping anyone and everyone with the tools needed to brew their own medicine. From epipencils to apothecary labs, 4TVC has it all! Healthcare is a human right, but 4TVC recognizes we can't wait on neoliberal politicians to pass medicare-for-all. Instead, 4TVC liberates information and gives that knowledge directly to people, championing personal autonomy in an age of isolation and alienation.

Follow Michael Laufer on Twitter.

Check out Four Thieves Vinegar Collective's website and get involved!

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

Interlude: "Toast to the Dead" by Immortal Technique

Outro: "Outbreak" by Stray From the Path

**This episode of Coffee with Comrades is dedicated to Sydney Eastman. Rest in Power. May we fight to build a better world in your memory.**

On this week’s edition of Coffee with Comrades, Pearson sits down for a conversation with Michael Laufer, one of the founding members of the Four Thieves Vinegar Collective, to talk about anarchy, big pharma, DIY medicine, personal autonomy, and information liberation. But first, Bree and Pearson discuss the news:

• Anarchists are literally flying supplies into Wilmington, NC
• You can donate to support Mutual Aid Disaster Relief and other solidarity efforts in the Carolinas
• Botham Jean update: Amber Guyger fired & charged with manslaughter. This is not enough.
• A CBP whistleblower shared some harrowing stories from his time in the agency with Intercept
• If you’re visiting anyone in a Virginia prison, you can’t wear tampons
• Yemenis are starving in UN refugee camps
• Looks like we might’ve spoke too soon here on Coffee with Comrades: it appears that Brett Kavanaugh may be a bigger creep than we initially anticipated.

Four Thieves Vinegar Collective is an anarchic, decentralized cadre of hackers, scientists, and engineers dedicated to putting healthcare back in the hands of human beings. 4TVC seeks to empower individual autonomy by equipping anyone and everyone with the tools needed to brew their own medicine. From epipencils to apothecary labs, 4TVC has it all! Healthcare is a human right, but 4TVC recognizes we can’t wait on neoliberal politicians to pass medicare-for-all. Instead, 4TVC liberates information and gives that knowledge directly to people, championing personal autonomy in an age of isolation and alienation.

Follow Michael Laufer on Twitter.

Check out Four Thieves Vinegar Collective’s website and get involved!

Intro: “I Ain’t Got No Home in this World” by Woody Guthrie

Interlude: “Toast to the Dead” by Immortal Technique

Outro: “Outbreak” by Stray From the Path

On this week's episode, Bree and Pearson sit down for coffee and a chat with the inimitable MC Sole to discuss his new mixtape of lyrical molotovs, Nuclear Winter 3. But first up, some news:

• Elon Musk, who once said, "I fucking hope he sues me," gets fucking sued.
• Hurricane Florence made landfall in NC and SC. Duke Energy is culpable.
• An equator full of hurricanes is a preview of the end times.
• Follow This is Mutual Aid, Wilmington online @MutualAid14 on Twitter. Support their GoFundMe.
• Trump denies the independently-reported death tolls in Puerto Rico.
• Incarcerated workers are battling raging fires in California for $1 an hour.
• Border Patrol Agent arrested for allegedly killing four women and abducting another.
• Rest in power, Botham Shem Jean. May we fight and struggle in your memory.

Bree, Pearson, and Sole explore the themes in Sole's new album, riff on liberals, try to define permaculture, and dissect dual-power.

Buy Nuclear Winter 3.

Support Sole on Patreon.

Listen to Sole's Podcast.

Follow Sole on Twitter.

Visit Sole's Website.