Rocky Mountain Worker's Party

RMWP hits the streets in Jackson Hole to take the pulse of the protesters (and one street "preacher").

Joni is a Teton County based activist and organizer. She had her birth as an organizer in response to the October 7th attacks.

We unpack her youth attending a Jewish Zionist school, sustainability with activism, Flock, and how she maintains hope that the class-based method of change can work in Wyoming.

Works cited:

Parable of the Sewer

PERSON, NOT CITIZEN by Christine Stebbins Dahl

RMWP correspondent Erik is on the ground at a Teton County protest.

Leeroy pops in to talk about Minneapolis.

Benn Jordan - Intro to Flock

Benn Jordan - the latest on Flock

Leeroy talks about stickers (hateful and otherwise).

Sources:

Unicorn Riot - Patriot Front

Head Weird Little Guy

Cheyenne woman fights local Active Club hate group with a paint scraper

What are 'active clubs,' the right-wing extremist gangs growing across the U.S.?

Dad, what's a 'Fasces'?

Neat: Task Force Butler

Leeroy talks about the Rock Springs Massacre.

PS - had a tighter deadline this week, so no sound effects. Sad.

Sources:

The Rock Springs Massacre - Wyohistory.org

The Coal Business in Wyoming

Chinese Massacre - Main Street, Wyoming

Rock Springs Massacre - Wikipedia

Rock Springs Massacre - History.com

History of the Union Pacific Railroad

Los Angeles Chinese massacre of 1871

Asian America: Chinese and Japanese in the United State since 1850 - Roger Daniels - Pages 60-63. Accessed via Archive.org

Rock Springs Massacre Victims Plead for Justice

"To This We Dissented": The Rock Springs Riot

Additional reading:

Tacoma riot of 1885

1907 Bellingham race riot

Leeroy talks 'bout guns.

Sources:

Why Cars Big Now

Federalist 46

Federalist 29

Not direct sources, but interesting:

Margaret Killjoy's Cool People Who Did Cool Stuff: The Armed Nonviolent Civil Rights Movement pt 1

Re: The Constitution

The Constitution and the American Left

The Constitution - a Reactionary Document

Big Teddy R and the case for a Popular Constitution

Leeroy talks about how where worker's rights goes, violence often follows. In this episode, he covers The Haymarket Incident.

Sources:

Guns in America

Haymarket Affair

NYT - May 5, 1886

Chicago PD History (according to the Chicago PD)

International Workers' Day

History of Anarchism

Collectivist Anarchism v Anarcho Communism

Anarchist Jokes

The forgotten violence that helped India break free from colonial rule

3.5% Rule

Audio used from "Occupy Wall Street 1 May general strike march on Broadway"

Thanks to French Keys aka Benjamin Soudan for use of their piano cover of La Marseillaise

What is a Community Action Network? Leeroy provides some examples.

Sources:

The Emerald Triangle

June 10, 1964 - angry retirees

Humboldt County Fire Response

Emerald Triangle: The Legends That Remain

Emerald Triangle Cannabis Economy Pushed to the Brink

Meet Johnny Casali

War on Drugs

C.A.M.P

CAAs

Lincoln Heights Safety and Watch

It's not just the Nazis. Lincoln Heights' struggles began long before racist march

Leeroy covers Wyoming's rebellious youth and a time when the Mountain West was unafraid to chart it's own course.

Sources Cited:

“Then I breathed freely:” Black Women Vote in Wyoming, 1870

Sex, Suffrage, and State Constitutional Law: Women's Legal Right to Hold Public Office

How the American West Led the Way for Women in Politics

Why did Western women gain voting rights earlier than the rest of the nation? You may be surprised

A Brief History of Civil Rights in the United States: The Removal Era (1820 - 1850)

Performance of select third-party or independent candidates in U.S. presidential elections from 1892 to 2020

Image of the 1887 Continental Railroads

More general sources (if you're inclined to go down Wikipedia rabbit holes:)

Wanna Move to West Virginia?

Wyoming History

1892 US Presidential Election

1892 US Presidential Election in Wyoming

1896 US Presidential Election

Fourth Party System

James B Weaver

People's Party

Haymarket Affair

Women's suffrage in the US