RevolutionZ

By Michael AlbertSociety & Culture Social Sciences

RevolutionZ episodes

December 10, 2023 Ep 259 Ellen David Friedman on Labor Organizing
Episode 259 of RevolutionZ discusses with Ellen David Friedman from the board of Labor Notes and based on her decades of labor organizing the current surge and prospects of U.S. labor organizing. How can unions best navigate the complexities of race, gender, class, and climate struggles for change.. How can organizers generate long-term commitment and avoid distractions from and obstacles to a relentless struggle for dignity, efficacy, and control within workplaces and throughout society.

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1 hr 14 min
December 03, 2023 Ep 258 Parecon and the Rest of Society, Agreements and Disagreements
Episode 258 of RevolutionZ continues the multi-episode discussions of economic vision this time considering relations between participatory economics and vision for other key areas of life including polity, kinship, culture, ecology, and artistic endeavors and including disagreements about wages for housework, issues of ecological necessity, art as work or work as art, and more.
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1 hr
November 26, 2023 Ep 257 Mazin Qumsiyeh On the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict
Episode 257 of RevolutionZ addresses the unfolding conflict in Gaza and beyond to the West Bank, the roles of Israel, Hamas, and the U.S. including not only the civilian and social impact and choices, but also the mindset and motives of different constituencies and actors as well as the role of writers/speakers and protestors about these matters, including ourselves.
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1 hr 6 min
November 19, 2023 Ep. 256 What Is Solidarity Economy with Guest Emily Kawano
Episode 256 of RevolutionZ features Emily Kawano from Solidarity Economy to discuss Solidarity economy's origins, range, and definition including its guiding values and its approach to ownership, equity, markets, and pluralism, all in pursuit of post capitalist practice in the present.

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43 min
November 12, 2023 Ep 255 The Media, Culture, and Changing Terrain of Resistance with Cayden Mak
Episode 255 of RevolutionZ has as guest Cayden Mak, the publisher of Convergence Magazine. It addresses media aims, Convergence's concepts of a multiracial democracy and a radically democratic economy, intersectionality, obstacles to left unity, left culture, right wing dangers, and more.
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1 hr 11 min
November 05, 2023 Ep 254 Movement Culture, Union Strategy, novels, and mindsets with Bill Fletcher Jr
Episode 254 of RevolutionZ is a deep dive conversation about history, fiction and non fiction, the internet, tv, movement culture, winning and losing attitudes, labor strategy, and much more with Bill Fletcher Jr.
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1 hr 9 min
October 29, 2023 Ep 253 Who Likes Participatory Planning Pt. 3 Final Complexities
Episode 253 is our third and last in a sequence addressing allocation after markets. With the basics of participatory planning in hand, we consider how to deal with collective goods, externalities, allotting income, and undertaking investments.
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55 min
October 22, 2023 Ep 252 Stephen Shalom on Palestine/Israel context, motives, and prospects
Episode 252 of RevoutionZ has as guest Stephen Shalom to assess the current unfolding crisis in Palestine including the history, current context, recent and on-going events, possible motives, and possible prospects for all parties involved including the U.S.
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1 hr 12 min
October 15, 2023 Ep 251 The UAW Strike's Enormous Potentials with Guest, Jeremy Brecher
Episode 251 of RevolutionZ discusses with Jeremy Brecher how the United Auto Workers strike could significantly shift the balance of power and inspire a new wave of labor activism. Brecher, a renowned writer, historian, and activist, provides in-depth insights on the UAW's demands for 40 percent wage increase, improved working conditions, and the eradication of wage tiers to help us understand not just the strike's impact on the auto industry NS Labor more broadly, but t also its implications for other sectors, including climate activism.

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1 hr 7 min
October 08, 2023 Ep 250 Who Likes Participatory Planning Part 2
Episode 250 of RevolutionZ is the second of what will be three episodes presenting participatory planning as a proposed replacement for markets and central planning for allocation in a new economy. Ep 250 continues describing participatory planning's features as earlier described in the book No Bosses, as well as offering spontaneous critical or hopefully helpful side comments on the material two years after I wrote it. The material is demanding but to say we want a new economy beyond capitalism but not be able to explain why it would be viable and worthy will not sway people who think there is no alternative.
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56 min