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The extreme Texas Abortion Ban caught most people by surprise. Next  month, the Supreme Court is scheduled to hear a direct challenge to the  1973 landmark Roe v. Wade decision that legalized abortion. This round  table aims to sound the alarm on this assault on women’s fundamental  rights, deepen understanding of the stakes, arouse people’s fighting  spirit to not let this go down, and explore what kind of future is  possible and worth fighting for.

Hosted by Sunsara Taylor, writer for revcom.us, host and producer of We Only Want the World on WBAI and WPFW, and co-host of The RNL — Revolution, Nothing Less — Show.

The program includes:

A legal break-down by Dahlia Lithwick, who writes about the courts and the law for Slate and hosts the podcast Amicus.

A message from courageous abortion provider, Dr. Warren Hern.

A round-table between:

Saturday,  October 2 – March with Refuse Fascism at the Women’s Marches: Everyone!  Everywhere! Stop the Fascist Assault on Abortion Rights! Find a contingent and/or resources to print for your area here. Find a protest on October 2 at https://map.womensmarch.com/?source=website&eventType=oct-2-2021-march 

Ankush Khardori talks about the Merrick Garland DOJ and the (dim) prospects of real accountability for the Trump regime. Articles discussed include Merrick Garland's Moderation to Excess and Who Will Answer For this Cruelty? Read more of his writings at khardori.com.

Then, Tony Norman talks about his recent article Fugitive Slave Act Redux: On the run in Texas ... and America. Read more of his writings at the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette and follow him on Twitter at @Tony_NormanPG. 

LIVE FORUM: Tuesday September 21 7-9PM ET

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Anthropologist Dr. Nazia Kazi recently wrote What We Forget, a piece commemorating the global aftermath of 9/11 illustrated by Anuj Shrestha; Sam Goldman interviews Dr. Kazi about the US empire and related root causes of the fascist stew that is politics today. Follow Dr. Kazi on Twitter at @NaziaKaziTweets and read her book Islamophobia, Race, and Global Politics.

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A few days after the Supreme Court refused to block the extreme Texas abortion ban, Sam Goldman (@SamBGoldman), Coco Das (@Coco_Das) and Sunsara Taylor (@SunsaraTaylor) discuss the roots and ramifications of this dangerous new law. All abortions, without exception for rape or incest, are now illegal just two weeks after a first missed period; plus vigilantes are incentivized to hunt down not only those who seek abortions but anyone who assists, down to the taxi driver who may have given a woman a ride to the clinic.

Read Coco Das’s writings at RefuseFascism.org including her recent piece Genocidal and Deadly Serious: Dan Patrick, Texas Fascist Lunatic Scapegoats Black People for the Pandemic. Sunsara Taylor co-hosts The RNL Show on YouTube and We Only Want The World on WBAI and WPFW.

For more legal analysis of the law and the effect of the US Supreme Court in refusing to block this unconstitutional law that directly violates Roe V. Wade, listen to the recent episode of Amicus with Dahlia Lithwick: Abortion, Surveillance, and Vigilantism: An American Story

Watch the video of the Body Talk Dance Company's protest dance in front of the Austin Capitol on September 1.

*For Texans in need of abortion services and more resources, including information on who can help with funding:

Jane's Due Process 24/7 Hotline & Textline: 866-999-5263

needabortion.org

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Sam Goldman interviews Khaled Beydoun, law professor and author of American Islamophobia: Understanding the Roots and Rise of Fear. Order the book at khaledbeydoun.com and follow him on Twitter at @KhaledBeydoun. Then, Sam speaks to Coco Das about her latest article on RefuseFascism.org: Genocidal and Deadly Serious: Dan Patrick, Texas Fascist Lunatic Scapegoats Black People for the Pandemic. 

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Sam Goldman interviews Matthew Hoh, former Marine and State Department official who served in and then was the first to resign over the unjust war in Afghanistan all the way back in 2009. Then, we're sharing an interview with educator Tamara Anderson about the upcoming Teach Truth Days of Action, a project of the Zinn Education Project happening August 27 - 29.

Follow Matthew Hoh at matthewhoh.com and on Twitter at @MatthewPHoh. Follow Tamara on Twitter at @andersontamara. Get involved with the Teach Truth Days of Action at https://www.zinnedproject.org/news/aug-27-29-teach-truth-days-action/. For the numbers cited by Sam about the war in Afghanistan see the April 2021 Costs of War report from Brown University.

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Sam Goldman interviews writer Paul Mason about his new book: How To Stop Fascism: History, Ideology, Resistance. From the publisher: 

The far right is on the rise across the world. From Modi's  India to Bolsonaro's Brazil and Erdogan's Turkey, fascism is not a  horror that we have left in the past; it is a recurring nightmare that  is happening again - and we need to find a better way to fight it.

In How to Stop Fascism, Paul Mason offers a radical, hopeful  blueprint for resisting and defeating the new far right. The book is  both a chilling portrait of contemporary fascism, and a compelling  history of the fascist phenomenon: its psychological roots, political  theories and genocidal logic. Fascism, Mason powerfully argues, is a  symptom of capitalist failure, one that has haunted us throughout the  twentieth century and into the twenty-first.

History shows us the conditions that breed fascism, and how it can be  successfully overcome. But it is up to us in the present to challenge  it, and time is running out. From the ashes of Covid-19, we have an  opportunity to create a fairer, more equal society. To do so, we must  ask ourselves: what kind of world do we want to live in? And what are we  going to do about it?

Follow Paul Mason on Twitter at @paulmasonnews and read more of his writings at paulmasonnews.medium.com. Sunsara Taylor's remarks about the fascist pandemic can be seen in full at The RNL Show. Send  your comments about the Refuse Fascism podcast to to [email protected] or @SamBGoldman. Or leave a voicemail at 917-426-7582 or on https://anchor.fm/refuse-fascism/message.

*This episode was recorded before the breaking news that the Taliban have retaken Kabul. Our hearts go out to the people of Afghanistan who have suffered so much under US occupation and whose suffering will continue. Subscribe for updates as we'll cover this issue on upcoming shows soon.

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Coco Das (@Coco_Das) guest hosts; Sam Goldman interviews Wajahat Ali, author of the new book Go Back to Where You Came From. Pre-order the book at wajali.com. Read his columns for the Daily Beast here and follow him on Twitter at @WajahatAli.

Mentioned by Coco Das at the start of the episode: The Big Money Behind the Big Lie and Andy Zee on The RNL Show. Send  your comments to [email protected] or @SamBGoldman. Or leave a voicemail at 917-426-7582 or on https://anchor.fm/refuse-fascism/message.

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Trigger warning: this episode contains Capitol Police Officer Harry Dunn’s testimony regarding what he encountered as a Black officer defending the Capitol during the January 6 failed fascist coup attempt. His testimony contains racial slurs which he was subjected to that are disturbing/triggering.

Sam Goldman interviews Tim Wise, anti-racism educator and author of Dispatches from the Race War. Follow him on Twitter @timjacobwise and read more of his writings at timjwise.medium.com. The article by Jeff Sharlet that Sam quotes from can be read in full here: “They Sought to Convert Us”: Officers’ January 6 Testimony Reveals the Riot’s Dark Righteousness.

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Sam interviews Teri Kanefield, lawyer and author of multiple books and articles which you can read about at terikanefield.com. Follow Teri on Twitter at @Teri_Kanefield. Then, Sunsara Taylor interviews Derenda Hancock, abortion rights activist and defender of the one abortion clinic in the entire state of Mississippi (this interview originally aired on The RNL Show). 

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