Party of One

It’s the American Dream: “Available” to all, accessible by some, denied to many, indifferent to the consequences — just the way the good lord intended it to be! The productive forces have given us so much stuff, but the endless extraction, manufacture and commodification of planetary and human resources is leading us down a path we won’t be able to recover from. Just how close are we to the breaking point? And what happens next if we don’t rethink how we roll? 

Special thanks to guests Andrew Constantino, Kshama Sawant, and Vijay Prashad.

From Maffick Podcasts, Party of One. Written, hosted, and produced by Amanda Getty and Gregory Haddock. Theme song by Jonathan Hurley. Production assistance by Eilís O’Neill and Ryan Wentz.

Notes:

https://independentmediainstitute.org/fellows/vijay-prashad/

https://www.seattle.gov/council/sawant

https://www.statista.com/chart/6949/the-us-cities-with-the-most-homeless-people/

https://policyadvice.net/insurance/insights/homelessness-statistics/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Government_and_politics_of_Seattle

https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2014/01/29/inequality-poverty-divide-republicans-more-than-democrats/

https://www.washingtonpost.com/video/politics/spanberger-criticizes-democrats-strategy-in-caucus-call/2020/11/05/6ec2b368-258a-4061-9738-d83ee8971c3c_video.html

https://today.yougov.com/topics/politics/articles-reports/2019/07/08/government-responsibility-homeless-partisan

https://www.bnnbloomberg.ca/unprecedented-spike-in-u-s-evictions-looming-as-ban-expires-1.1632958

https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/news/jeff-bezos-and-elon-musk-increased-their-wealth-by-dollar217-billion-in-2020-for-this-amount-over-100-million-americans-could-get-dollar2000-checks/ar-BB1cq7c2

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/11/05/us/texas-election-results.html

https://www.kiro7.com/news/local/report-shows-seattle-area-has-largest-rent-increase-nation-over-past-decade/3C4CAHGUYZFLZOOI4MRDZRG6UY/

https://www.feedingamerica.org/research

https://www.american.edu/cas/news/the-growing-hunger-crisis-in-america.cfm

https://dowbor.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/14Thomas-Piketty.pdf

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i0VFfv_Ku6I

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1LbAuobvbEk

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-IqCtSHbrxY

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kc6R1z5ih2w

https://www.businessinsider.com/florida-minimum-wage-rise-vote-amendment-15-tipped-employees-workers-2020-11

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wmSPyocMRyw

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NFNUvS7UioE

War. What is it good for? Doesn’t really matter – because the wheels that keep the gears of the military industrial complex turning are spinning as furiously as ever. From comparing missile size to primal displays of brute force, the US has a big one, and we want (nay need) everyone to know it. Where’s the anti-war movement of our parents’ generation today? And why don’t our “progressive” members of Congress stand up to the hawks?

Endless war is just too profitable for shareholders to walk away, no matter the consequences, no matter the side of the aisle. And it goes beyond body count. It’s changed who we are as humans. 

Special thanks to guests Chris Hedges and Alice Slater.

From Maffick Podcasts, Party of One. Written, hosted, and produced by Amanda Getty and Gregory Haddock. Theme song by Jonathan Hurley. Production assistance by and Ryan Wentz.

Notes:

https://truthout.org/articles/military-metaphysics-how-militarism-mangles-the-mind/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zWWycdsJOpQ

https://www.thenation.com/authors/alice-slater/

https://www.un.org/disarmament/wmd/nuclear/tpnw/

https://www.commondreams.org/views/2021/02/09/time-negotiate-peace-space

https://treaties.un.org/doc/Treaties/2017/07/20170707%2003-42%20PM/Ch_XXVI_9.pdf

https://www.wagingpeace.org/about/people/associates/

http://www.nuclearban.us/staff/

https://scholarlycommons.law.wlu.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1000&context=powellmemo

https://tomdispatch.com/demilitarizing-our-democracy/

https://www.thenation.com/article/archive/democracy-breaks-out-at-the-un-as-122-nations-vote-to-ban-the-bomb/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zPOpRdUFu44

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DIOOt2T8JZ4

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7xAiWLtxb4M

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harry_S._Truman

https://www.codepink.org/bidensyria

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GIrHNuiQ6fQ

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eugene_McCarthy

https://www.usatoday.com/in-depth/news/world/2021/02/25/us-military-budget-what-can-global-bases-do-vs-covid-cyber-attacks/6419013002/

https://worldbeyondwar.org/alice-slater/

https://www.wagingpeace.org/author/alice-slater/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saddam_Hussein%27s_novels

https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2018/12/global-arms-sales-captured-in-4-charts/

What’s the real difference between dissent and disloyalty? Why is “subversion” so subjective? And why does advocating for workers rights, affordable housing and racial equity make you a monster? We’re talking political persecution the American way, with a deep dive into one of our darkest chapters as a nation: The House Un-American Activities Committee or HUAC left a body count multiple generations long, all to protect an exclusive money scheme just starting to show how lucrative it could be. Find out why the FBI’s the FBI no matter who’s running shit in Washington.

Special thanks to guests Dan Bessie and Chip Gibbons. 

From Maffick Podcasts, Party of One. Written, hosted, and produced by Amanda Getty and Gregory Haddock. Theme song by Jonathan Hurley. Production assistance by Frank Brody, Antonio Loya, and Ryan Wentz.

Notes:

https://archive.org/details/westernsectionof01unit/page/n9/mode/2up

https://archive.org/details/westernsectionof03unit/page/n11/mode/2up

https://muckrack.com/chip-gibbons/articles

https://rightsanddissent.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/Still-Spying-on-Dissent.pdf

https://www.rightsanddissent.org/2020-annual-report/

https://www.congress.gov/bill/116th-congress/house-bill/8452

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9qv3vdElwKM

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alvah_Bessie

https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Alvah_Bessie

http://www.ep.tc/realist/51/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/House_Un-American_Activities_Committee#Standing_Committee_(1945%E2%80%931975)

https://www.gracepresbytery.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/Letter-from-a-Birmingham-Jail-King.pdf

https://www.cato.org/multimedia/events/2019-cato-institute-surveillance-conference-afternoon-flash-talks

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PpYwX7cHk2c

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hG3tDZbilcI

https://www.law.cornell.edu/supremecourt/text/365/431

https://www.marxists.org/history/erol/1946-1956/wilkerson.pdf

https://search.archives.gov/search?utf8=%E2%9C%93&affiliate=national-archives&sort_by=&query=j+edgar+hoover+huac

https://guides.library.ucla.edu/c.php?g=746004&p=5350676

https://www.muckrock.com/news/archives/2018/aug/08/fbi-huac-protests/

https://sites.google.com/site/ushproject123/chapter-13-huac

http://www.writing.upenn.edu/~afilreis/50s/hoover.html

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wMAE8iun_RU

Try to imagine a world where corporations don't run Washington. We can't either.

Most Americans think money plays too big a role in US politics. So where's the bipartisan support for legislating a new path forward? And if the Dems and the GOP aren't going to fix this, how can we? When will cash take a back seat to real human voters? We’re dumpster diving deep into the pockets of one of the richest congresses in US history and finding out just how far both parties will go to ensure that sweet green speaks louder than you.

Special thanks to guests Peter Overby, Lawrence Lessig, and Ellen Moorhouse.

From Maffick Podcasts, Party of One. Written, hosted, and produced by Amanda Getty and Gregory Haddock. Theme song by Jonathan Hurley. Production assistance by Ryan Wentz.

Notes:

https://www.npr.org/2019/01/05/682286587/house-democrats-introduce-anti-corruption-bill-as-symbolic-first-act

https://www.npr.org/2019/03/07/701248576/democrats-election-reform-bill-takes-aim-at-dark-money

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2014/10/13/embrace-irony

https://www.opensecrets.org/news/2020/10/cost-of-2020-election-14billion-update/

https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2021/mar/01/ronna-mcdaniel/yes-aclu-has-criticized-hr-1-heres-why/

https://cha.house.gov/sites/democrats.cha.house.gov/files/documents/committee_docs/H.R.%201_Sarbanes_Section-by-Section_FINAL.pdf

https://act.represent.us/sign/money-politics-problem/

https://www.aclu.org/letter/aclu-letter-house-rules-committee-hr-1

https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2018/05/08/most-americans-want-to-limit-campaign-spending-say-big-donors-have-greater-political-influence/

https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=(title:26%20section:9033%20edition:prelim)

https://www.congress.gov/bill/117th-congress/house-bill/1/text?q=%7B%22search%22%3A%5B%22hr1%22%5D%7D&r=1&s=1#toc-H0C72CA940E684A0986583236950CC71E

https://truthout.org/articles/house-rejects-cori-bushs-amendment-on-voting-rights-for-incarcerated-people/

https://www.newsweek.com/which-countries-felons-vote-1405142

https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=(title:52%20section:30116%20edition:prelim)

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/pelosi-s-hr1-bill-a-blatant-power-grab-for-democrats/ar-BB1ekEx0

https://www.usconstitution.net/xconst_A2Sec1.html

https://theintercept.com/2021/03/04/hr1-voting-reform-for-the-people-house/

https://www.gp.org/hr1

https://peoplesparty.org/response-hr1/

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/activists-want-to-save-voting-rights-bill-by-killing-the-filibuster/ar-BB1eh6Zj

https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/52/30116

https://www.fec.gov/help-candidates-and-committees/candidate-taking-receipts/contribution-limits/

https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/everyone-knows-money-influences-politics-except-scientists/

https://blogs.lse.ac.uk/usappblog/2013/10/25/lobbying-money-does-not-buy-policy/

https://ballotpedia.org/SpeechNOW.org_v._Federal_Election_Commission

https://www.npr.org/2019/05/07/720050070/democrats-want-to-end-dark-money-but-first-they-want-to-use-it

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2020-election/democrats-used-rail-against-dark-money-now-they-re-better-n1239830

https://www.opensecrets.org/elections-overview

What would happen if we stopped buying the line that asking for what we want is somehow bad? Republicans or Democrats not your thing? Then you’re a disruptive asshole spoiling it for everybody else. Is it an accident that things are like this? You know better than that. Listen to find out who’s really spoiled by this system, and why how we vote really does make a difference, even if it’s not how you might think. 

Special thanks to guests Angela Walker, Aaron Hamlin, and Lee Drutman.

From Maffick Podcasts, Party of One. Written, hosted, and produced by Amanda Getty and Gregory Haddock. Theme song by Jonathan Hurley. Production assistance by Charles Davis and Ryan Wentz.

Notes:

https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/pennsylvania-supreme-court-rules-green-party-states-2020/story?id=73076666

https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2020/01/two-party-system-broke-constitution/604213/

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/22/us/politics/green-party-republicans-hawkins.html

https://electionscience.org/

https://www.gp.org/oklahoma

https://www.voterstudygroup.org/publication/spoiler-alert

https://people.howstuffworks.com/10-third-party-presidential-candidates.htm#pt6

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-election/green-party-howie-hawkins-2020-us-election-trump-biden-a9591151.html

https://people.howstuffworks.com/third-party-candidate.htm

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yGc9LzOySJs

https://truthout.org/articles/tv-networks-should-open-up-the-presidential-debates/

https://www.rankedchoicevoting.org/

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-8755513/Kanye-West-spent-3-million-gather-signatures-make-presidential-ballot-15-states.html

Political debate -- remember when that was a thing? Characterized by intelligent, sophisticated argument, logic, and reasoning? Welp, not anymore. Especially if we’re talking about the US presidential debates. The Super Bowl of the US election cycle has become a train wreck: fewer moral maxims, more Mad Max-ims. What if we told you that wasn’t an accident?

Special thanks to guests Nancy Neuman, Vicky Harian Strella, and George Farah.

From Maffick Podcasts, Party of One. Written, hosted, and produced by Amanda Getty and Gregory Haddock. Theme song by Jonathan Hurley. Production assistance by Ryan Wentz.

Notes:

https://www.lwv.org/newsroom/press-releases/statement-nancy-m-neuman-president-league-women-voters

https://www.opendebates.org/

https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/213862/no-debate-by-george-farah/

Conservative, Liberal, Centrist: You gotta screw one, marry one, murder one. Introducing Party of One.

What's the real difference between a Republican and a Democrat? Still believe the game's red vs. blue in Washington? Here's something new for your ears. Party of One pushes past the political posturing and ramped-up rhetoric of division, to uncover a much scarier reality: It's business that's booming, and we're the one's losing. And the stakes couldn't be higher. Tune in for conversations with real reformers like Lawrence Lessig, Chris Hedges, Kshama Sawant, Alice Slater, Aaron Hamlin and more. Party of One is a six-part series that’ll explode everything you thought you knew about American politics. 

Coming July 4th with new episodes weekly. Happy Birthday, America.

From Maffick Podcasts. Produced by Amanda Getty and Gregory Haddock.

Conservative, Liberal, Centrist: You gotta screw one, marry one, murder one. Introducing Party of One.

What's the real difference between a Republican and a Democrat? Still believe the game's red vs. blue in Washington? Here's something new for your ears. Party of One pushes past the political posturing and ramped-up rhetoric of division, to uncover a much scarier reality: It's business that's booming, and we're the one's losing. And the stakes couldn't be higher. Tune in for conversations with real reformers like Lawrence Lessig, Chris Hedges, Kshama Sawant, Alice Slater, Aaron Hamlin and more. Party of One is a six-part series that’ll explode everything you thought you knew about American politics. 

Coming July 4th with new episodes weekly. Happy Birthday, America.

From Maffick Podcasts. Produced by Amanda Getty and Gregory Haddock.