In part two of our interview with Alexander Aviña we discuss cartels, paramilitaries, and how state violence in service of taking control of the drug trade and suppressing peasant organizers built them,   Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.comSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Guerillas, Cartels, and Dirty Wars in Mexico, Part 2

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It Could Happen Here Weekly 128

Mia and James are joined by Talia Jane to discuss the campus occupation at the University of Columbia and how it’s been misrepresented in legacy media. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

What's Really Going On At the Columbia Palestine Encampment

James talks to Meghan Bodette of the Kurdish Peace institute about the recent elections in Turkey, the Van uprising, and aggression against Kurdish people in Europe and in Kurdistan. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

What Turkey’s Elections Can Teach Us about Defending Democracy

Mia discusses Trump's Agenda 47 trade policy, why it probably won't happen, and how anti-free trade organizing built the modern left and right alike. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Trade Wars? Mia Snores: The Rogue Agenda 47 Episode

Andrew walks Mia through the oft forgotten history of anarchism is South Africa. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Guerillas, Cartels, and Dirty Wars in Mexico, Part 2

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