It Can Be Done

This was a presentation Phil and Sloce gave about organizing with Richmond City Workers and SEIU 512 on 06/08/2022.  Thank you to The Virginia Worker for organizing this event.

Please plan to come to City Hall on Monday, June 27th, at 5:30 pm to meet and rally with Richmond City Workers and community supporters before we go to the City Council Meeting.

There is an opportunity for Richmond City Workers to make history and WIN Collective Bargaining Rights! We need a STRONG showing to keep our movement for our union alive. There's a role for everyone, from speaking in public comment or cheerleading our crew to wearing a t-shirt or holding a sign--it's all hands on deck!

We are listenening to Faith No More ranking our favorite Richmond mascots, and going over some recent news in Virginia. 

Songs:

Faith No More - RV

John Zorn - Naked City

Danny Brown - Scrap or Die

Faith No More - Easy

Articles:

Bill to make catalytic converter thefts a felony passes Virginia House

Virginia lawmakers OK lifting ban on facial technology use

Our guest this episode is Mike Davis. Scholar, author, organizer, activist, and once upon a time "the last living socialist in America", best known for his works City of Quartz, Late Victorian Holocausts, and many others.  We talked about the exurbs, rural america, the challenges that lay ahead, organizing around them, and why the left shouldn't cede anger at the state of things.

We are joined by our good comrade Meadow to discuss the booklet “Killing and Transforming the Dominant Man” by the Andrea Wolf Institute.  This text combines the ideology of the Kurdish Freedom Movement with other work on critical masculinity. This was a wonderful and enlightening conversation, and I think it is an excellent follow up to our episode on Friedrich Engels’s The Origin of the Family, Private Property, and the State. 

Outro: Feminazgûl - In the Shadow of Dead Gods

Intro: The Redskins  - It Can Be Done

Outro: Despise You - Fear's Song

Get your jokes in: we talked Trotsky. We welcome back Big Dave (@BoomGoesTheDave) from Communist League of Richmond (@RVACommunists) to talk about Leon Trotsky's Theory of Permanent Revolution. We read 1905's Results and Prospects and 1931 Permanent Revolution and talk about it's implications for organizing today in a thoughtful way that isn't dogmatic. In fact, you should retweet all of our episodes with that exact phrase. Do it. We need a win.

In this It Can Be Done classic episode, the boys discuss Chapter 1 of Pierre-Joseph Proudhon's What Is Property? What value does Proudhon's work have for today's leftists?  What would it be like if Proudhon were in our house right now? 

Outro: Property Is Theft by T.S.O.L.

We are joined by our comrade and friend Katherine Donnally (@kbdonnally) from @DSARichmond to discuss Friedrich Engles's The Origin of the Family, Private Property, and the State and more specifically the origin of patriarchy.

Outro: I'm Civilized by Menace