Special Interview Recorded (11/28/2024) and Uploaded (12/5/2024)

(NOTE: You can watch a video of this interview from Urban Cabin Studios here: https://youtu.be/Xy10bs-b5io?si=BRULBWtFqn_Q1Mqh)

In this special we speak with the recently elected Mayor of Yarra (a suburb of Melbourne) Australia, Stephen Jolly. He is a construction worker, member of the Yarra City Council since 2004 and longtime international socialist activists and organizer.

Yarra City Council's new Mayor and Deputy Mayor elected for 2025: https://www.yarracity.vic.gov.au/about-us/news-and-media/yarra-city-councils-new-mayor-and-deputy-mayor-elected-2025

You can find Stephen Jolly on Social Media below:

https://www.instagram.com/stephenjollyyarracouncillor/?hl=en

https://x.com/stephenjolly99?lang=en

Jolly was also covered in Jacobin in 2020 -- Having Socialist Elected Officials Makes a Difference for Working-Class People: https://jacobin.com/2020/09/socialist-elected-officials-melbourne-australia-yarra-council

Special Interview Recorded (11/24/2024) and Uploaded (11/28/2024)

(NOTE: You can watch a video version of this interview here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i3Bzj-GA4Mw)

In this special we continue our discussion with Anthony, a union organizer, Palestine solidarity and antiwar organizer and member of Minnesota Workers United (https://www.instagram.com/mnworkersunited/) about the ongoing project of settler colonialism. Anthony also has a degree in American Indian Studies from the University of Minnesota, he is a descendent of the Menominee Nation and Lac Courte Oreilles Ojibwe. You can see our previous discussion on the history of settler colonialism here: https://soundcloud.com/socialistnewsandviews/snv-special-interview-a-short-history-of-settler-colonialism there you can also and find some additional links to important analysis.

NEWS + MUSIC + "CANCEL CULTURE" PERSPECTIVES

NEWS:

Kid Friendly Rally for Climate, NOT for War!: https://www.facebook.com/events/1098480028433294

Minneapolis families continue the fight: ‘Money for climate, not for war!': https://fightbacknews.org/articles/minneapolis-families-continue-the-fight-money-for-climate-not-for-war

More than 200 children killed in Lebanon amid Israeli bombardment: UN: https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/11/19/more-than-200-children-killed-in-lebanon-amid-israeli-bombardment-unhttps://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/11/19/more-than-200-children-killed-in-lebanon-amid-israeli-bombardment-un

Emissions from Israel’s war in Gaza have ‘immense’ effect on climate catastrophe (FROM JANUARY 2024): https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/jan/09/emissions-gaza-israel-hamas-war-climate-change

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MUSIC:

Are we done with lesser evil now? by Deep Roots Jessica: https://deeprootsjessica.bandcamp.com/track/are-we-done-with-lesser-evil-now

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"CANCEL CULTURE" PERSPECTIVES:

Perspective 2 (VIDEO from Urban Cabin Studios): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=40yf-mJGl2k

Perspective 3 (VIDEO from Urban Cabin Studios): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1XwUbNHAK38

Special Report (11/14/24)

Donald Trump has again been elected President of the United States.

ELECTIONS RESULTS: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-interactive/2024/nov/06/us-election-results-map-2024-live-donald-trump-kamala-harris-president

According to the Final Results on The Guardian Trump received 75,609,700 votes or 312 Electoral College Votes and Harris received 72,469,604 votes or 226 Electoral College Votes. Not only did Trump win the popular vote by millions more than Harris, and receive the over 270 Electoral College Votes needed to secure the Presidency but Republicans will control the House and Senate at the start of the new administration.

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Links to other items covered in the special:

Build the movement against Trump! Make the U.S. ungovernable!: https://fightbacknews.org/articles/build-the-movement-against-trump-make-the-u-s-ungovernable

Exit Right: https://www.dissentmagazine.org/online_articles/exit-right/

The Trump White House and how to fight it: https://workersvoiceus.org/2024/11/10/the-trump-white-house-and-how-to-fight-it/

Israel’s far-right government celebrates Trump win, plans West Bank annexation: https://peoplesworld.org/article/israels-far-right-government-celebrates-trump-win-plans-west-bank-annexation/

Liberal Arrogance and Hatred on Display After Trump Victory: https://www.blackagendareport.com/liberal-arrogance-and-hatred-display-after-trump-victory

Kid Friendly Rally for CLIMATE, NOT for WAR: https://www.facebook.com/events/1098480028433294

Special Report (11/7/2024)

This special report is on Police and Public Safety. We divide the report into three sections:

1.History - Thoughts from Mary Benrud Gachie about the increased militarization of the Minneapolis police from the 1980s to the 1990s. The audio was cut from this interview she did with her family called The People's Family: https://soundcloud.com/socialistnewsandviews/the-peoples-family-socialist-news-and-views-episode-50-8172023

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2. My Speech. I originally wrote a speech on Police and Public Safety for a potential Twin Cities Democratic Socialists of America debate/discussion in February 2023 but it got cancelled so here I read that short speech in its entirety.

Poverty, Income Inequality, and Violent Crime: A Meta-Analysis of Recent Aggregate Data Studies: https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/073401689301800203?journalCode=cjra

The FBI’s Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program: https://ucr.fbi.gov/crime-in-the-u.s/2019/crime-in-the-u.s.-2019/topic-pages/expanded-homicide

What the data says (and doesn’t say) about crime in the United States: https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2020/11/20/facts-about-crime-in-the-u-s/

One in 20 US homicides are committed by police – and the numbers aren’t falling: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/feb/15/us-homicides-committed-by-police-gun-violence

Mapping Police Violence: https://mappingpoliceviolence.us/

FBI Clearance stats 2017: https://ucr.fbi.gov/crime-in-the-u.s/2017/crime-in-the-u.s.-2017/topic-pages/clearances

National Institute of Corrections (part of the Dept of Justice): https://nicic.gov/what-caused-crime-decline

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3. Chauntyll Allen, a leader with Black Lives Matter Twin Cities (https://www.facebook.com/Blacklivesmattertwincities/?locale=pt_PT&_rdr)speaks at an October 29th Press Conference about St. Paul Police shooting a man and demands the city release the bodycam footage immediately. Here are more audio/images from that Press Conference on The Urban Cabin Studios YouTube: https://youtu.be/00NS3oV_jTQ?si=6QXkirCedjrpphlz

Police have identified the man who was shot as 40-year-old Earl Bennett but have not released the body camera footage: https://kfgo.com/2024/10/30/man-shot-by-st-paul-police-wanted-in-minneapolis-in-connection-to-two-other-shootings/

Special Recorded (10/10/2024) and Uploaded (10/31/2024)

(PHOTO: Minneapolis International Worker's Day March 2021)

(NOTE: A Video of this Interview is available from Urban Cabin Studios on YouTube: https://youtu.be/hNiO4LPKVGk?si=Y4eKPlD5TRskcHxY)

In this Special Interview we speak with Anthony DePice who works at the Warehouse Workers Resource Center (https://www.youtube.com/@WarehouseWorkerResourceCenter/videos) and is a Digital Organizer with the Cocktails and Capitalism Podcast (https://www.youtube.com/@cocktailsandcapitalism/videos). We discuss a number of movements as well as the importance of building relationships and ultimately the importance of building the social movements if we want to be effective at fighting for liberation and a better future for working people.

Anthony also interviewed me previously on the Indigenous Nightmare Network's Proper Villains Podcast: https://www.youtube.com/live/oWi1zXP5udY?si=urxdfMK8uIu7zyq_

Special Interview Recorded (10/22/2024) and Uploaded (10/24/2024)

(NOTE: You can watch a video version of this interview on the YouTube for Urban Cabin Studios Here----->(https://youtu.be/CSHaTnd0DXo?si=CIQF6DvUEjyl9KgP)

In this special we speak with Ryan Sorrell, Founder and Executive Editor of The Kansas City Defender (https://kansascitydefender.com/), a radical, Black, and abolitionist non-profit digital news and community media organization out of Kansas City Missouri. I first met Sorrell at Socialism 2024 (https://socialismconference.org/) in Chicago in August/September of this year.

Links to items related to the discussion in this special:

When KC Cops Murder Black People, Local Media Are Co-Conspirators: https://kansascitydefender.com/kansas-city/when-kc-cops-murder-black-people-local-media-are-co-conspirators/

Attorney General William P. Barr Announces Launch of Operation Relentless Pursuit: https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/attorney-general-william-p-barr-announces-launch-operation-relentless-pursuit

Why Are Mayors Inviting Trump’s Federal Agents Into Their Cities?: https://www.thenation.com/article/society/operation-relentless-pursuit/

“Camouflaged Goon Squads”: Outrage, Legal Challenges in Portland as Federal Agents Snatch Protesters: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J30j2h45r3U

Why police violence is a media problem: https://blogs.lse.ac.uk/medialse/2020/06/09/why-police-violence-is-a-media-problem/

Kansas City Bishop Says Black Women Being Killed & Missing from Prospect Avenue: https://youtu.be/Mf-RZCBxWY0?si=IscqqjDOQU-7mTjk

Letter From The Editor: We Will Not Be Silenced – Black Kansas Citians, We Got Yall’s Back: https://kansascitydefender.com/opinion/letter-from-the-editor-white-media-hypocrisy/

Kansas City Police Dismissed a Black News Site’s Reports of Missing Women. Then One Showed Up.: https://capitalbnews.org/kansas-city-kidnapped-woman-escape/

KCPD Said Missing Black Women Reports In KC Were “Completely Unfounded.” Less Than A Month Later, One Escaped After Being Kidnapped From Prospect & Tortured in a Basement For Over A Month: https://kansascitydefender.com/justice/black-woman-kidnapped-prospect-excelsior-springs-serial-killer/

A ‘media organizer’ built an abolitionist newsroom in Kansas City. Is he a journalist? He’s not yet sure.: https://www.poynter.org/business-work/2024/kansas-city-defender-radical-black-press-ryan-sorrell/

The ‘Mother’ of Notting Hill Carnival: Claudia Jones: https://www.bristol.ac.uk/history/public-engagement/blackhistory/snapshots/claudiajones/

Claudia Jones (Wikipedia): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Claudia_Jones

Claudia Jones’ Letter from Ellis Island (1950): https://oldestvocation.com/claudia-jones-letter-ellis-island/

How early U.S. newspapers brokered slavery: https://journalistsresource.org/race-and-gender/newspapers-brokered-slavery/

March 16, 1827: Freedom’s Journal Established: https://www.zinnedproject.org/news/tdih/freedoms-journal-established/

Ida B. Wells (Wikipedia): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ida_B._Wells

Exposing the “Thread-Bare Lie”: How Ida B. Wells Used Investigative Journalism to Uncover the Truth About Lynching: https://interactive.wttw.com/chicago-stories/ida-b-wells/exposing-the-thread-bare-lie-how-ida-b-wells-used-investigative-journalism-to-uncover-the-truth-about-lynching

KC Tenants: https://kctenants.org/

KC Tenants Makes Monumental Statement with First-Ever Rent Strike: https://kansascitydefender.com/justice/local-organization-makes-monumental-statement-with-first-ever-rent-strike/

KC Tenants Union continues the longest rental strike in city history: https://youtu.be/SLvaqm1I7b4?si=UJLXf3yLYCNevtpy

KC’s Latest Attempt to Build An $800 Million Human Caging Facility Must Be Stopped: https://kansascitydefender.com/justice/kc-council-approves-800-million-jail-amid-school-crisis/

NEWS + MUSIC + VOICES from the Twin Cities Really Really Free Market

In the second half of this episode we hear voices from the Twin Cities Really Really Free Market (https://www.facebook.com/TwinCitiesReallyReallyFreeMarket) that takes place at Whittier Park the first Saturday of every month March thru November from 1-4 PM.

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NEWS:

Green Party VP candidate Butch Ware (Recorded live) Green Party of Minnesota: https://www.facebook.com/watch/live/?ref=search&v=1072254447687706

Vance calls Minneapolis "A city in decline": https://www.willmarradio.com/news/vance-calls-minneapolis-a-city-in-decline/article_40bf4f9e-8af0-11ef-9b45-f3e49f39e1ab.html

Hurricane Helene: Catastrophic storm created by capitalists’ priorities: https://www.workers.org/2024/10/81225/

Hurricane Milton and the Terrifying Science of the Climate Crisis: https://www.leftvoice.org/hurricane-milton-and-the-terrifying-science-of-the-climate-crisis/

Two Words That Haunt So Many Hurricane Victims: “Claim Denied”: https://www.counterpunch.org/2024/10/15/two-words-that-haunt-so-many-hurricane-victims-claim-denied/

Harris-Trump Immigrant Bashing in US Election and US Imperialism’s Horrors in Haiti By Cristobal Cavazos: https://socialistaction.org/2024/10/12/harris-trump-immigrant-bashing-in-us-election-and-us-imperialisms-horrors-in-haiti-by-cristobal-cavazos/

A Letter from the Editors: Election and Widening War: https://solidarity-us.org/a-letter-from-the-editors-election-and-widening-war/

Labour backs Israel as it burns hospital patients alive in Gaza: https://socialistworker.co.uk/palestine-2023/labour-backs-israel-as-it-burns-hospital-patients-alive-in-gaza/

Biden (Finally) Threatens to Halt Arms to Israel Over Gaza Carnage: https://www.commondreams.org/news/us-sending-weapons-to-israel

The post-election challenge in France: https://tempestmag.org/2024/10/post-election-challenge-in-france/

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MUSIC: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JMqLBbko0OU

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VOICES from the Twin Cities Really Really Free Market: https://www.facebook.com/TwinCitiesReallyReallyFreeMarket

Special Interview Recorded (10/9/2024) and Uploaded (10/10/2024)

In this Special I speak with Anti-war Activist and Labor Organizer Anthony who recently MC'd a talk with author Nick Estes about the reissuing of his book Our History Is The Future ("Ancestors of the Future:" Nick Estes at May Day Books: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IH9BnMpRE-Y). Anthony and I discuss settler colonialism and the history and context as it applies to "Turtle Island."

...This is just the beginning of our discussion and we will be scheduling another interview to discuss more on this topic and what an analysis of Settler Colonialism means for our collective Liberation movements in the future.

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Additional Readings:

(A note from Anthony: no text is perfect or infallible. Not all are written by Marxists. But the texts are good introductions to begin to form an understanding of the historical context which informs settler occupation and how it has, and continues to function.)

Settler colonialism and the elimination of the native by Patrick Wolfe: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/14623520601056240

Red Nation Rising: From Bordertown Violence to Native Liberation by Nick Estes, Melanie K. Yazzie, Jennifer Nez Denetdale, and David Correia: https://pmpress.org/index.php?l=product_detail&p=1143

Our History Is the Future: Standing Rock Versus the Dakota Access Pipeline, and the Long Tradition of Indigenous Resistance by Nick Estes: https://www.haymarketbooks.org/books/2280-our-history-is-the-future

Settler colonialism: An Introduction by Sai Englert: https://www.plutobooks.com/9780745344904/settler-colonialism/

Empire's Tracks: Indigenous Nations, Chinese Workers, and the Transcontinental Railroad by Manu Karuka: https://www.ucpress.edu/books/empires-tracks/paper

The Relentless Business of Treaties by Martin Case: https://shop.mnhs.org/products/relentless-business-treaties?srsltid=AfmBOorXbM0xyJkuFY5v0UYjRD1Kk6ahH9deEHKUnQwuOGCdoMLSml__

Special Report (10/3/2024)

This special report covers the devastation in the South East United States brought by Hurricane Helene and unchecked Climate Change as well as the devastation and destruction being caused by the terrorist state of Israel across the Middle East.

Links to items covered in this Special:

Hurricane Helene devastates southeastern US, millions without power: https://youtu.be/BNanDMnwbSE?si=FRLcXRWcpW5GZtoi

INTERVIEW: Yancey County resident speaks on the devastation Hurricane Helene brought: https://youtu.be/iv1YLrJ2a2U?si=jT0Mo0JAA69UuRcx

'People are on edge': N.C. communities face crisis in aftermath of flooding: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-nOdmjQCJDU

Hurricane Helene devastates a wide swath of southeastern United States: https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2024/09/28/emdy-s28.html

1,000 missing, at least 66 dead, as Hurricane Helene devastates southern Appalachia: https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2024/09/30/cgce-s30.html

Harris Ignores Climate Change As Hurricane Helene Devastates North Carolina: https://www.socialistalternative.org/2024/09/30/harris-ignores-climate-change-as-hurricane-helene-devastates-north-carolina/

A tiny town just got slammed by Helene. It could massively disrupt the tech industry: https://www.npr.org/2024/09/30/nx-s1-5133462/hurricane-helene-quartz-microchips-solar-panels-spruce-pine

‘Nowhere is safe’: shattered Asheville shows stunning reach of climate crisis: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/oct/01/hurricane-helene-asheville-climate-change-nowhere-safe

Pentagon Sends Additional Troops to the Middle East: https://www.nytimes.com/2024/09/30/us/politics/us-deploys-troops-middle-east.html

Escaping Beirut: Hundreds of Lebanese flee as airlines suspend flights: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_aDT0ALjaT8&list=PLzGHKb8i9vTwCVzhU5w13aV83sSKXx7K_&index=1

Israel says it plans more slaughter in Lebanon after Hassan Nasrallah: https://socialistworker.co.uk/international/israel-says-it-plans-more-slaughter-in-lebanon-after-hassan-nasrallah-assassination/

Israel launches ground invasion of Lebanon with US backing: https://socialistworker.co.uk/international/israel-launches-ground-invasion-of-lebanon-with-us-backing/

Israel launches ground operations in Lebanon amid ongoing air bombardment: https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2024/10/01/nhxr-o01.html

Climate Activists Shut Down Citibank HQ in NYC, Demand Halt to Fossil Fuel Investments: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ko9NU7C26ig

Minnesota stands with Lebanon: https://fightbacknews.org/articles/mn-stands-with-Lebanon