Crawdads and Taters: Red State Rebels

Crawdads and Taters: Red State Rebels

By Erin McCarley and Birrion SondahlNewsPolitics
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Crawdads and Taters: Red State Rebels episodes

  • 2. HR1's Poison Pills and the Ratcheting of the Overton Window with Boss Tweed and Reagan Democrats

    We look at how Democratic bills like HR-1, while purporting to rescue “democracy” from Republican attacks on voting rights, simultaneously increase the corporate funding of our elections, shifting more power to the ruling-class and further eliminating the chances of third parties to meaningfully participate in the US electoral system. We also talk about the Ratchet effect and the Overton Window, using HR-1 as an example of how these rightward political shifts are constantly happening in real time.

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    Related Reading:

    Defense Captain Mark Clark

    Stop the HR1 Poison Pills That Suppress Voter Choice

    HR 1’s Campaign Finance Program: A Reform that Doesn’t Reform

    What Happens When Politicians Who Oversee Elections Are Also the Candidates?

    Boss Tweed Overview

    Reagan’s Real Legacy

    ‘A Racist Narrative’: Biden Warned of Welfare Moms Driving Luxury Cars

    44 min
  • 1. What the Ruling Class doesn't want us to remember about the Black Panthers

    Crawdads & Taters briefly review the new film Judas and the Black Messiah, as well as recent news revelations about Fred Hampton's assassination. With so much media coverage around the Black Panthers lately, why do we never hear about the Panthers' founding ideology as a Marxist, socialist organization? Fifty-plus years after Hampton's murder, why is it still taboo to tell the truth about who the Black Panthers actually were? What is the role of these corporate media omissions in obfuscating US social movement history? And what might our current political movements stand to gain, if we revealed and thoroughly discussed the class-based analysis that the Panthers utilized? Could an honest telling of this radical social movement history become a guide and an anchor for leftist social movements today?

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    Related Reading: 

    ‘Judas and the Black Messiah’ delivers justice for Fred Hampton. Thank those he left behind by By Sonaiya Kelley

    Ruling Class Counteroffensive in the Works: It's Capitalism, Stupid by William I. Robinson

    New Documents Suggest J. Edgar Hoover Was Involved in Fred Hampton’s Murder by Flint Taylor & Jeff Haas

    Fred Hampton: Black Panther and red revolutionary by Sean Ledwith

    Seize the Time: The Story of the Black Panthers by Bobby Seale

    Primary Source: The Black Panther Party Platform (1966)

    Huey P. Newton (1942-1989) by Craig Collisson

    31 min
  • 0. Welcome to Crawdads and Taters

    Your Crawdads and Taters hosts interview each other to answer the question: Why this podcast, and why now?

    Erin McCarley is an independent photographer, journalist and filmmaker, based in the foothills outside Denver, Colorado. With a master’s degree in photojournalism from UT Austin, her still photography, videos and writing have been published by Common Dreams, CounterPunch, Dissident Voice, Due Dissidence, Yes! Magazine, the Denver Westword, TeleSUR, Free Speech TV in Boulder, CO, KLRU TV in Austin, TX, The Christian Science Monitor, the MIT Press, the Ford Foundation, Science Daily, The Daily Texan, the University of Texas, and various non-profit organizations. Bilingual in English and Spanish, she has worked as a freelance reporter in Mexico, Guatemala and Venezuela. 

    Birrion Sondahl is a former Bernie 2020 super volunteer, canvasser, text sweeper, and national delegate. He was also the campaign coordinator for Arn Menconi's 2020 State Senate primary. He is an activist currently living in Dillon, Colorado. He has a bachelor's degree in Military History from American Military University and has been published in Military History Online, Due Dissidence, Dissident Voice, and Real Progressives. He currently writes a column with Real Progressives.

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    35 min

About Crawdads and Taters: Red State Rebels

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We are writers, activists, and leftists who come from two of the reddest states in the country, Oklahoma and Idaho. Red, in this sense, may refer to the indigenous, socialist, and labor histories of these states, as well as the right-wing fascism that they’re known for today. As rebels, we use a class-based, leftist lens to analyze current events and political issues. We talk about the many ways neoliberalism provides a breeding ground for fascism, and we examine revolutionary frameworks and movements that support our collective survival.