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Living the Dream episodes

  • Living the Dream whilst Organising in Your Workplace

    In this episode of Living The Dream, Dave (@withsobersenses ) chats with Carmen about the Workplace Organising 101 training she recently provided in Brisbane. Carmen talks about the purpose and structure of this training, its relationship to anarcho-syndicalism and reflects critically on the contribution it can play to developing our collective power and overcoming capitalism.

    Organisations mentioned include:

    Brisbane IWW

    Freie Arbeiterinnen- und Arbeiter-Union (FAU)

     

    Music by Dolly Parton and Marianne Faithful

    52 min
  • Living the Dream has an #altright time in Melbourne

    In this episode of Living the Dream Dave (@withsobersenses) chats with Kieran (@Kieran Bennett) about a recent Melbourne counter-rally to a Trump celebration rally  ostensibly organised by #altright types and attended by local fascists and neo-Nazis. From here Kieran lets us know who is who in the fascist zoo in Australia, the social phenomena behind the far-right and we discuss what a relevant anti-capitalist practice might be that can defeat the fascists and offer a genuine emancipatory alternative to the issues that we all face.

    Kieran blogs at Kieran’s Review and is a member (of the perhaps soon to be rebranded) Anarchist Affinity

    Articles and things  we refer to include:

    Angry Workers of the World

    Ghassan Hage – Recalling Anti-racism

    Ben Hillier –  ‘All that is holy was profaned’: the year that was, and the politics we need (Ben recommends you also read ‘Post-truth politics’ isn’t peak populism, it’s peak liberal capitalism and suggests that my read of his argument is wrong.)

    Campaign Against Racism and Fascism

    1 hr 6 min
  • Do We Need To Talk About Donald? Living the Dream on the US Election

    In this

    episode of Living The Dream Jon (@jonpiccini) and Dave (@withsobersenses) talk
    about the US Election and the phenomenon of Donald Trump. We aren’t interest so
    much is speculations about what is going on in the US but rather what the
    different ways Trump and Clinton are talked about in Australia tells us about
    what is going on in Australia.

     

    Articles we

    refer to include:

     

    Debating

    Deplorables: How the Left Can (and Cannot) Win Trump Voters

     

     Sympathy for the Devil?

     

    Theses

    on the New European Fascism

     

    Time

    to hail Hillary Clinton – and face down the testosterone left

     

    How the

    working class became white

    1 hr 14 min
  • Queer Kids for Full Communism: Living the Dream with the Queer Liberation Front
    In this episode of Living the Dream Dave (@withsobersenses) chats with Angus from the Queer Liberation Front. Angus lets us know what the QLF are all about, what they have been doing and what they are up to. Angus talks about the QLF's praxis and how this collective of young queer people are attempting to generate a radical anticapitalist politics, how hegemony and aesthetics fit together and how this all relates to the current "Brisbane Moment' that is going on. And then we finish it all off with a track from Los Crudos
    34 min
  • On dissolving the people: Living the Dream on #ausvotes2016

    In this episode of LivingThe Dream Jon (@jonpiccini) and Dave (@withsobersenses) have a chat aboutthe recent election. It isn’t a chat about if the result is ‘good’ or ‘bad’but rather how does it fit into, and what does it tell us, about the current momentin capitalism in Australia and class struggle?We also try to work out therelationship between the electoral return of Pauline Hanson and the deepcurrent of racism in Australia. 

    These articles are some we either mention or are on topic

     

    TheElection That Solved Nothing – Tad Tietze

     

    TheAnti–Industrial Relations Club – Frank Bongiorno

     

    The Greens are aparty of the affluent middle classes – Ben Hillier

     

    Howwe stopped Pauline Hanson last time – Tess Lee Ack

     

    TheyDon’t Represent Us: The Populist Moment – Richard Seymour

     

    Crisisand the Return to the Nation: Dismantling the Right Ecology in Germany –Ben L

     

    Fourwomen arrested in WestConnex protest – Wendy Bacon

     

    Watch Ask Sarkar's The Unbearable Whiteness of Brexit - Race, class & the EU Referendum on the streets of Barking.

     

    Colgan, Paul. 2016. Australian Voters Just Put The EntirePolitical Establishment On Notice. Business Insider [cited 14th July 2016].Available from http://www.businessinsider.com.au/australian-election-result-voters-put-political-establishment-on-notice-2016-7.

    Phillips, Ben. 2016. Trends in Household Living Standards in Australia: 1990 to 2016.ANU Centre for Social Research and Methods [cited 14th July 2016]. Availablefrom http://rsss.anu.edu.au/sites/default/files/Living_Standards_Mar_2016.pdf.

     

    59 min
  • #SandersofSthBrisbane ? Council elections, social movements & the #RighttotheCity

    In this episode of Living the Dream Jon (@JonPiccini ) andDave (@withsobersenses) chat with Anna – all-round good egg and comrade pivotalto Radio Reversal and Brisbane Free University –about the successful Brisbane City Council election campaign of Jonathan Sri , the opposition to the WestVillage development and the emergence of struggles around the Right to theCity. What’s going on, how do all these pieces fit together and what do theytell us about struggles within-against-and-beyond capitalism for lives ofdignity?

     

    Related Reading

    David Harvey – The Rightto The City

    The Economics ofWest Village

    45 min
  • Living the Dream - Last Drinks in (the workers) Paradise?

    In this episode of Living

    the Dream Jon (@JonPiccini) and Dave( @withsobersenses) talk about the
    meltdown of politics in Queensland and the failure of the ALP government to
    carry out a coherent plan to address the decline in capital accumulation and
    facilitate social reproduction.  Rob
    Pyne resigning from Labor(#corbynofcairns ?), candidates
    sending dicks pics and the shared
    anti-political language of both sides of the referendum campaign show a
    political class in freefall and deeply out of touch with the concerns of
    everyday people.

    Should we care? Or just point and laugh? What is the

    relationship of the political to capitalism on a whole and to our struggle against
    it? How much of this is this a broader and global phenomenon and what can it
    tell us about life in Queensland?

    Articles we refer to include:

    The State

    Infrastructure Plan

    Humphrey McQueen - Queensland:

    a state of mind

    Kathleen McLeod 

    -  “I
    Will Protect You With My Body” The Case For A Radical Sanctuary Movement To
    Protect Asylum Seekers In Australia

    Andy Paine - Rewriting

    the political script

    Chris O’Kane - State

    Violence, State Control: Marxist State Theory and the Critique of Political
    Economy

    Mario Tronti – The Political

    (1979)

    Left Flank and An Integral State

    46 min
  • Living the Dream - Last Drinks in (the workers) Paradise?


















    In this episode of Living
    the Dream Jon (@JonPiccini) and Dave( @withsobersenses) talk about the
    meltdown of politics in Queensland and the failure of the ALP government to
    carry out a coherent plan to address the decline in capital accumulation and
    facilitate social reproduction.  Rob
    Pyne resigning from Labor(#corbynofcairns ?), candidates
    sending dicks pics and the shared
    anti-political language of both sides of the referendum campaign show a
    political class in freefall and deeply out of touch with the concerns of
    everyday people.



    Should we care? Or just point and laugh? What is the
    relationship of the political to capitalism on a whole and to our struggle against
    it? How much of this is this a broader and global phenomenon and what can it
    tell us about life in Queensland?

    Articles we refer to include:

    The State
    Infrastructure Plan

    Humphrey McQueen - Queensland:
    a state of mind

    Kathleen McLeod 
    -  “I
    Will Protect You With My Body” The Case For A Radical Sanctuary Movement To
    Protect Asylum Seekers In Australia

    Andy Paine - Rewriting
    the political script

    Chris O’Kane - State
    Violence, State Control: Marxist State Theory and the Critique of Political
    Economy

    Mario Tronti – The Political
    (1979)



































    Left Flank and An Integral State


    46 min
  • Living The Dream 'Dominant Society Needs A Slap in the Face': Sovereignty Solidarity & Decolonisation

    In this

    episode of Living the Dream Dave (@withsobersenses) chats with
    Camilla and Eliza from Sovereignty Solidarity.

    Sovereignty Solidarity

    describes their Facebook page as follows:

    ‘We aim to

    support First Nations(FN) initiatives for self determination, sovereignty,
    treaties, and moving forward. We take action based on our understanding of
    these perspectives and aim to concretely support FN initiatives. We are a
    non-FN specific page because we believe non-FN  peoples have specific
    de-colonisation work that we need to do, and that the burden for this should be
    placed on FN peoples. We welcome input, criticism and support from FN people’

    Camilla and

    Eliza have provided the following relevant links:

    Decolonizing

    Solidarity

    First

    Nations

    brisbane aboriginal-sovereign embassy

    voices

    of the 3

    indigenousx

    black

    nations rising

     

    Non-First

    Nations

    not

    our call facebook

    allies decolonising

    unsettling

    minnesota

     

    Eliza would

    like the following qualification added to the title and the podcast: ‘sometimes
    dominant society needs a slap in the face, like on the 26th January, but
    sometimes dominant society needs a more gentle-gentle approach. Learning about
    the history of this country, the legacy of colonialism and our transplanted

    place on

    this land can be a hard journey and if people need empathy through this process
    it is other non FN people who should do this work.’

    22 min
  • Living The Dream ‘Dominant Society Needs A Slap in the Face’: Sovereignty Solidarity & Decolonisation
















    In this
    episode of Living the Dream Dave (@withsobersenses) chats with
    Camilla and Eliza from Sovereignty Solidarity.


    Sovereignty Solidarity
    describes their Facebook page as follows:


    ‘We aim to
    support First Nations(FN) initiatives for self determination, sovereignty,
    treaties, and moving forward. We take action based on our understanding of
    these perspectives and aim to concretely support FN initiatives. We are a
    non-FN specific page because we believe non-FN  peoples have specific
    de-colonisation work that we need to do, and that the burden for this should be
    placed on FN peoples. We welcome input, criticism and support from FN people’


    Camilla and
    Eliza have provided the following relevant links:


    Decolonizing
    Solidarity


    First
    Nations


    brisbane aboriginal-sovereign embassy


    voices
    of the 3


    indigenousx


    black
    nations rising


     


    Non-First
    Nations


    not
    our call facebook


    allies decolonising


    unsettling
    minnesota


     

    Eliza would
    like the following qualification added to the title and the podcast: ‘sometimes
    dominant society needs a slap in the face, like on the 26th January, but
    sometimes dominant society needs a more gentle-gentle approach. Learning about
    the history of this country, the legacy of colonialism and our transplanted


    place on
    this land can be a hard journey and if people need empathy through this process
    it is other non FN people who should do this work.’


    22 min

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