Coffee with Comrades

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.

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Visit Sole’s Website.

On this week's show, Bree and Pearson are temporarily ditching the theory section to deliver you an episode entirely centered around current events. Tread carefully, this edition of Coffee with Comrades is a whirlwind tour of the past week's highs and lows. Let's dig in:

• Hurricane Florence is barreling towards the Carolinas. Mutual Aid Disaster Relief offers a vision of resilient, community-centered response.
• September 9 marked the ostensible end of the Prison Strike but the fight for abolition continues.
• The Florida DOC is taking away inmates MP3 players...because profit.
• The UN's efforts to broker peace talks in Yemen between the Houthis rebels and the U.S.-backed Saudi/UAE coalition have collapsed. In response, the coalition began bombing the port of Hodeida, which is responsible for 70% of the imports to Yemen (including international humanitarian aid.)
• Elon Musk is smoking weed while millions of black folks are locked in prisons for the same offense.
• Nike cynically exploits Kaepernick to sell sneakers.
• A cowardly Trump official hid behind anonymity in the New York Times opinion page. The Intercept's Mendhi Hasan took the op-ed writer to task.
• Obama disses Trump, accidentally self-owns.
• Amazon has patented a system that would put workers in a cage, on top of a robot. Seriously.
• An Ohio police officer used a taser on an eleven-year-old girl suspected of shop-lifting.
• Brett Kavanaugh, a milquetoast Republican, is likely to be the new supreme court justice.
• Teen VogueT is officially left of Jacobin. Check out Kim Kelly's kick-ass intro to anarchism.

Follow Coffee with Comrades on Twitter or at our website.

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

Outro: "The End's Beginning" & "Pissed Off" by Fit For A King

On this week’s show, Bree and Pearson are temporarily ditching the theory section to deliver you an episode entirely centered around current events. Tread carefully, this edition of Coffee with Comrades is a whirlwind tour of the past week’s highs and lows. Let’s dig in:

• Hurricane Florence is barreling towards the Carolinas. Mutual Aid Disaster Relief offers a vision of resilient, community-centered response.
• September 9 marked the ostensible end of the Prison Strike but the fight for abolition continues.
• The Florida DOC is taking away inmates MP3 players...because profit.
• The UN’s efforts to broker peace talks in Yemen between the Houthis rebels and the U.S.-backed Saudi/UAE coalition have collapsed. In response, the coalition began bombing the port of Hodeida, which is responsible for 70% of the imports to Yemen (including international humanitarian aid.)
• Elon Musk is smoking weed while millions of black folks are locked in prisons for the same offense.
• Nike cynically exploits Kaepernick to sell sneakers.
• A cowardly Trump official hid behind anonymity in the New York Times opinion page. The Intercept’s Mendhi Hasan took the op-ed writer to task.
• Obama disses Trump, accidentally self-owns.
• Amazon has patented a system that would put workers in a cage, on top of a robot. Seriously.
• An Ohio police officer used a taser on an eleven-year-old girl suspected of shop-lifting.
• Brett Kavanaugh, a milquetoast Republican, is likely to be the new supreme court justice.
• Teen VogueT is officially left of Jacobin. Check out Kim Kelly’s kick-ass intro to anarchism.

Follow Coffee with Comrades on Twitter or at our website.

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

Outro: “The End’s Beginning” & “Pissed Off” by Fit For A King

In this week's show, Bree and Pearson dive into one of their favorite topics: food. But, before that, some current events:

• A new update from IWOC has surfaced discussing the August 21-September 9 prison strike.
• The U.N. accuses U.S.-backed Saudi-led coalition of war crimes in Yemen.
• 150,000 people are thought to have starved to death in Yemen last year, with one child dying of starvation or preventable diseases every ten minutes, and another falling into extreme malnutrition every two minutes.
• Nazis are marching openly in the streets of German.
• A 5-year-old girl in ICE detention almost died from a ruptured appendix

The bulk of today's episode offers a deep dive into food: how it's produced and consumed, how economic class and corporate power limit our dietary options, and the gendered and patriarchal role of food advertisements. Bree and Pearson chat briefly about their dietary history growing up as well as the ingenious and sustainable visions of agriculture championed by indigenous peoples, then dive into a discussion of plant-based diets and the intersections our food has with global climate change. Finally, the show closes with some recipe advice from Bree and Pearson paints a vision of fully-automated, luxury, queer anarcho-communism.

As always, enjoy the show. If you like what you hear, please be sure to rate and review Coffee with Comrades on your podcasting platform of choice and recommend the show to your friends online!

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

Outro: "Birth of the Economic Hitman" by Circa Survive

In this week's show, Bree and Pearson dive into one of their favorite topics: food. But, before that, some current events:

• A new update from IWOC has surfaced discussing the August 21-September 9 prison strike.
• The U.N. accuses U.S.-backed Saudi-led coalition of war crimes in Yemen.
• 150,000 people are thought to have starved to death in Yemen last year, with one child dying of starvation or preventable diseases every ten minutes, and another falling into extreme malnutrition every two minutes.
• Nazis are marching openly in the streets of German.
• A 5-year-old girl in ICE detention almost died from a ruptured appendix

The bulk of today's episode offers a deep dive into food: how it's produced and consumed, how economic class and corporate power limit our dietary options, and the gendered and patriarchal role of food advertisements. Bree and Pearson chat briefly about their dietary history growing up as well as the ingenious and sustainable visions of agriculture championed by indigenous peoples, then dive into a discussion of plant-based diets and the intersections our food has with global climate change. Finally, the show closes with some recipe advice from Bree and Pearson paints a vision of fully-automated, luxury, queer anarcho-communism.

As always, enjoy the show. If you like what you hear, please be sure to rate and review Coffee with Comrades on your podcasting platform of choice and recommend the show to your friends online!

Coffee with Comrades on Twitter and Libsyn.

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

Outro: "Birth of the Economic Hitman" by Circa Survive

In this week's episode of Coffee with Comrades, Bree and Pearson sit down for a conversation with Syd and Austin, two community-organizers from Tampa who participated in Occupy ICE TPA. But first, some headlines:

• John McCain is dead, baby!
• Chapel Hill radicals tear down Silent Sam monument
• The August 21 Prison Strike has kicked off and the support has been widespread
• Virginia's first anti-protest law arrests targeted oil pipeline demonstrators
• Rest in power, Donna Castleberry. Defend sex workers!
• Manafort & Cohen = Bread & Circus
• The chief executives of America's top 350 companies earned 312 times more than their workers on average last year.

Syd and Austin offer a bit of advice on how to start your own Occupy ICE encampment (just do it!) and walk us through the strategic and symbolic significance of the occupation. Then, the former occupiers explain their motivations for taking direct action against ICE and the DHS. We close with a discussion of the future: where our new battles begin to burn as we fight for a future of abolition.

Follow Occupy ICE TPA on Twitter and Facebook and support the defendants in their struggles ahead!

Take direct action and tell Chuck Prather to terminate his lease with the DHS. Call (727)896-1080.

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

Outro: "FVCK I.C.E." by Rebel Diaz

In this week’s episode of Coffee with Comrades, Bree and Pearson sit down for a conversation with Syd and Austin, two community-organizers from Tampa who participated in Occupy ICE TPA. But first, some headlines:  

• John McCain is dead, baby!
• Chapel Hill radicals tear down Silent Sam monument
• The August 21 Prison Strike has kicked off and the support has been widespread
• Virginia’s first anti-protest law arrests targeted oil pipeline demonstrators
• Rest in power, Donna Castleberry. Defend sex workers!
• Manafort & Cohen = Bread & Circus
• The chief executives of America’s top 350 companies earned 312 times more than their workers on average last year.

Syd and Austin offer a bit of advice on how to start your own Occupy ICE encampment (just do it!) and walk us through the strategic and symbolic significance of the occupation. Then, the former occupiers explain their motivations for taking direct action against ICE and the DHS. We close with a discussion of the future: where our new battles begin to burn as we fight for a future of abolition.

Follow Occupy ICE TPA on Twitter and Facebook and support the defendants in their struggles ahead!

Take direct action and tell Chuck Prather to terminate his lease with the DHS. Call (727)896-1080.

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

Outro: “FVCK I.C.E.” by Rebel Diaz

Coffee with Comrades is coming to you a little early this week. We're pleased to present our first podcast collaboration: an analysis of the film "V for Vendetta" with our pals in the Left Media Podcast.

In this episode, we discuss the motion picture's political themes, its lackluster portrayal of its female and LGBTQ+ characters, the problematic antics of its titular "hero," the process of radicalization, and so much more.

This episode's a bit of a long one, so you'll have to forgive us—Mike and Mitch are just too much fun to talk to! If you like this episode, we highly recommend you check out the Left Media Podcast on iTunes, Stitcher, Google Play, or wherever you get your podcasts!

So sit back, pour yourself a cup of coffee, and enjoy our discussion of "V for Vendetta."

Follow the Left Media Pod on Twitter.

Check out the Left Media Pod's website.

Intro/Outro music: "Memphis Was A Revolutionary" by Mike Hewlett and the Racket

Coffee with Comrades is coming to you a little early this week. We're pleased to present our first podcast collaboration: an analysis of the film "V for Vendetta" with our pals in the Left Media Podcast.

In this episode, we discuss the motion picture's political themes, its lackluster portrayal of its female and LGBTQ+ characters, the problematic antics of its titular "hero," the process of radicalization, and so much more.

This episode's a bit of a long one, so you'll have to forgive us—Mike and Mitch are just too much fun to talk to! If you like this episode, we highly recommend you check out the Left Media Podcast on iTunes, Stitcher, Google Play, or wherever you get your podcasts!

So sit back, pour yourself a cup of coffee, and enjoy our discussion of "V for Vendetta."

Follow the Left Media Pod on Twitter.

Check out the Left Media Pod's website.

Intro/Outro music: "Memphis Was A Revolutionary" by Mike Hewlett and the Racket

On Episode 8 of Coffee with Comrades, Bree and Pearson sit down for a conversation with Mark Bray and Rob Haworth to discuss their upcoming book, Anarchist Education and the Modern School: A Francisco Ferrer Reader.

But first, Pearson digs into some of his experiences at the Shut it Down DC demonstrations. While a broad coalition of anti-fascists successfully managed to deplatform the white supremacists who'd invaded the city for Unite the Right 2 and that victory ought to be widely celebrated, Pearson draws three major conclusions about the event:

1. Liberalism is failing us and making space for white supremacists, online and in the streets.
2. Militant anti-fascists must continue training to develop a more strategic approach to the black bloc. Militant anti-fascism works. We just need to be more organized.
3. If it wasn't for the police, the fascists would've never been safe to march in the streets. The state is complicit in white supremacy.

For a solid report that accurately captures what it felt like on the ground August 12, check out Brendan O'Connor's piece in The Nation.

Then, Mark Bray and Rob Haworth join our hosts for an engrossing discussion on Francisco Ferrer, the history and legacy of the Modern School, anarchist pedagogy and education, atheism, and so much more.

Follow Mark Bray on Twitter.

Check out Rob Haworth's PM Press page and his band, Second Letter.

Buy the Book: "Anarchist Education and the Modern School: A Francisco Ferrer Reader"

Music:

• Intro: "All You Fascists Bound to Lose" by Woody Guthrie
• Transition: "Nobody" by Stick to Your Guns
• Outro: "Painted Pictures" by Second Letter