Is colonialism driving the climate, food and health crises? Raj Patel's latest book, Inflamed, posits that colonialism and colonial systems that remain in place in a post-colonial world are what really has led the world to a point of crisis.

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Why Durban Burned in 2021: https://youtu.be/yDKVkEHkFzk
Capitalism is making us sick: https://youtu.be/F7GmlceOzoE
Anti racist organizing in the UK: https://youtu.be/Na_hEh0FpVI

Links:
INFLAMED - https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/54785505-inflamed
ANTS AND GRASSHOPPER: http://antsandgrasshopper.org/

Organizing against the odds. Most of us at some point believed the illusion that our government was on our side or perhaps that it was neutral. But when governments clearly back the forces of white supremacist capital against labor, then we are organizing against the odds. Bill Fletcher Jr shares lessons from his life and work organizing for justice.

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Why Durban Burned in 2021: https://youtu.be/yDKVkEHkFzk
Capitalism is making us sick: https://youtu.be/F7GmlceOzoE
Anti racist organizing in the UK: https://youtu.be/Na_hEh0FpVI

Time stamps:
00:00 - Destroying the IWW
00:32 - Intro
02:00 - Early years
05:53 - Unions are not monolithic
08:55 - Black Power Movement
13:29 - Working, Welding and Learning
18:38 - Industrial Decline and the War on Workers
27:36 - Organizing, Law, Teaching and Obstacles
32:25 - A Socialist Working in a Capitalist World
40:19 - The Violence of Anti-Unionism
45:20 - Infiltration and Suspicion of US Internationalism
49:50 - Internationalism, Apartheid and TransAfrica
59:13 - "Unapologetic Marxist"
1:09:45 - Advice to Future Generations

Do we need capitalism before socialism? The origins of this debate go back a long time, but in the South African context they were taking place in the 1980s, when Trevor Ngwane was an organizer working for the end of apartheid along with millions of other South Africans. Capitalism and socialism are perhaps misunderstood by the current forces controling South Africa.

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Why Durban Burned in 2021: https://youtu.be/yDKVkEHkFzk
Capitalism is making us sick: https://youtu.be/F7GmlceOzoE
Anti racist organizing in the UK: https://youtu.be/Na_hEh0FpVI

Time Stamps:
00:00 - "Just call me Margaret Thatcher"
01:40 - Introduction
03:09 - Growing up in KZN
04:51 - Buthelezi's role
07:05 - Trevor's parents and liberation theology
13:25 - Early life under apartheid
17:24 - student organising
22:41 - Joburg, Marxism and the Group Areas Act
27:26 - Final years of Apartheid
33:22 - Worker-led or two stages struggle?
40:25 - Berlin Wall, SACP and ANC
45:00 - Contradictions of the revolution
48:27 - Revolutionary Neoliberalism?
54:30 - ANC as Apartheid's partner and adversary
1:01:15 - Privatisation Undermining Development
1:15:54 - ESKOM example
1:20:05 - Bourgeois ANC, Political alternatives, the struggle continues

Understanding why riots happen is not a straightforward matter. In the case of the riots in KZN in July 2021, we're still understanding the "why" and whether they really were spontaneous riots or whether they were orchestrated by a faction of the ANC. Rohan Persad joins me to go deeper.

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Mental Health and Mass Shootings: https://youtu.be/HBK3DImpIyI
Growing up Trans and Black: https://youtu.be/U-Aqwuge3vk
Solidarity as a Career: https://youtu.be/ghQpAtd1N2w

Time Stamps:

0:00 - Neoliberalism and Neofascism
0:54 - Intro
2:18 - Indians in KZN
4:00 - Early life and family history
10:20 - Conscientisation
16:05 - University Organising
18:59 - War in ZKN in the 1980s
23:00 - Conflict between Africans and Indians
26:41 - Need for discussion on race relations
28:28 - Anti-African racism in the Indian community
31:30 - 1994 era
37:40 - Culture of violence in KZN
39:48 - July 2021 violence
51:46 - Advice to young organisers

For Steve Daigneault, the heteronormativity of his communities was a form of torture. In a world that had no place for queer people, his struggles with his sexual identity led him to join a cult, attempt suicide and to use drugs as a way to escape from the torture of heteronormativity.

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Mental Health and Mass Shootings: https://youtu.be/HBK3DImpIyI
Growing up Trans and Black: https://youtu.be/U-Aqwuge3vk
Solidarity as a Career: https://youtu.be/ghQpAtd1N2w

Time Stamps:

0:00 - Faking Straightness and Smashing the Moment
0:46 - Intro
2:12 - Growing up on the road
4:42 - An outsider
7:56 - Steve coming to terms with his sexuality
10:25 - Heteronormativity at school
13:31 - Early drug use
15:31 - Steve joins a cult
24:49 - Leaving the cult and coming out
28:48 - Drugs as an escape
30:50 - Moving to DC and harder drugs
35:04 - Balancing work and addiction
39:27 - Rehab, 12 steps, and cults
45:15 - Acceptance is the key
47:41 - What would you say to your younger self?

What do you do when nowhere is safe? Asad Rehman got hit with a cricket bat when he first entered school in the UK. Nowhere was safe for black and brown people - to find a safe place he had to organise. Throughout his life he has continued organising on issues of racism, human rights, and environmental justice.

Watch Next:
Building a career around solidarity: https://youtu.be/ghQpAtd1N2w
Believe what's denied: https://youtu.be/GpBCXpptsik
Gaza and Resistance: https://youtu.be/01JfnVtM1as

Time Stamps:
0:00 -Go to school, get hit with bat
1:17 - Intro
2:33 - Migration and the Labour Movement
15:31 - The lived reality of racism and resistance
24:33 - Internationalist Class Struggle
33:04 - NGOs and the Struggle
40:24 - Measuring Success
46:20 - Advice to the Next Generation

What does personal and political empowerment mean to you? For Mona Sherpa empowering herself on a personal level meant working with communities involved in political activism. Along the way she fought against patriarchy, her family's relative poverty, and political instability in Nepal.

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A Career of Solidarity: https://youtu.be/ghQpAtd1N2w
Gaza and Resistance: https://youtu.be/01JfnVtM1as

Time Stamps:
0:00 - Act more, Talk Less
0:46 - Intro
1:53 - Mona's background
5:50 - Growing up a Rebellious Overachiever
11:15 - Household Patriarchy
15:29 - Grandparents and Religion
20:44 - Uni and Work
23:07 - Marriage as Confinement
29:58 - Post-Marriage and Travels
37:10 - ActionAid University
45:28 - Community Empowerment and Political Change
53:05 - Citizenship, Patriarchy and India
59:50 - Post ActionAid Life
1:04:10 - Current humanitarian situation in Nepal
1:07:43 - Advice to 18-year-old Mona
1:10:28 - The next generation

arolyn St John Loder is a coach's coach. In this conversation we learn about how she was an early pioneer in the field of health coaching, why she thinks coaching is important, and what it takes to be a good health coach.

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Coaching v Teaching: https://youtu.be/p8inj_fNKl8
Veganism almost killed me: https://youtu.be/QwAJ54v7wOw
Midwifery: https://youtu.be/9VgElSI7iUk

TIME STAMPS:
0:00 - It's not your fault
0:22 - Introduction
2:17 - Tragedy
5:40 - Deciding to move forward
8:41 - Early self-discovery
12:20 - Coaching vs Counseling
13:52 - The Call to Coach
18:32 - Breakthroughs
20:56 - Technological challenges
22:50 - Limiting beliefs
26:57 - The power of a good question
30:45 - Carolyn's transition to health coaching
34:12 - Brain change?
38:16 - Pioneering Health Coaching
43:49 - Results beyond expectation
48:46 - We are no fixed thing

What are the lessons from the first 15 months of pandemic policies vs science? Was science the reason that we discarded lab origin theories before now exploring them? Were policies like lockdowns justified? And why aren't we paying more attention to anti viral therapies like Ivermectin during a pandemic? Why aren't we talking about the "syndemic" within the pandemic? I discuss these questions and more in this short podcast.

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COVID origins: https://youtu.be/GpBCXpptsik
Antiviral resilience: https://youtu.be/HBvUU_N4QMI
Our COVID experience: https://youtu.be/W3yOkXuF4Qw

Time stamps:
0:00 - Intro
1:19 - What is science?
3:00 - Where did COVID come from?
8:31 - Do lockdowns work?
18:28 - Argument by association
21:14 - Syndemic 1: Metabolic Disease
24:35 - Syndemic 2: Healthcare Apartheid
26:06 - Ivermectin
28:47 - Vaccines and scientific authority
32:00 - Vaccine safety
33:23 - Need for a #PeoplesVaccine


Notes:

Vaccines and Scientific Literacy: https://theanarcoach.com/diabetes-vaccines-and-scientific-literacy/

Longitudinal variability in mortality predicts Covid-19 deaths: https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.12.25.20248853v1

Peru grapples despite lockdowns: https://www.npr.org/2020/08/31/908031955/peru-grapples-with-the-pandemic-despite-an-early-and-tough-lockdown

Neil Ferguson's Devastating Software Mistake: https://analyticsindiamag.com/the-most-devastating-software-mistake-of-all-time-why-is-the-imperial-model-under-criticism/

CDC on co-morbidity: https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/nvss/vsrr/covid_weekly/index.htm#Comorbidities

Andrew Wakefield: https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-020-02989-9

What does it mean to be healing from colonialism? In this discussion with artist and activist Antonio Rafael, we talk about the harm colonialism can do and what it takes to heal from the trauma of centuries.

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Coaching v Teaching: https://youtu.be/p8inj_fNKl8
Gaza and Resistance: https://youtu.be/01JfnVtM1as
Ending White Privilege: https://youtu.be/n_oWs4twSzU

Time Stamps:
0:00 - Colonialism and ecology
1:14 - Intro
2:44 - Antonio's family history
6:05 - Colonialism and Detroit
22:50 - Colonial Trauma
27:50 - Creative organizing
37:30 - Other forms of struggle
47:00 - Lessons of the current moment
58:30 - Kindness, spirituality and nature