Solidarity House Cooperative

Skully escorts a lost cow home. While working in Bellingham, Washington, Yana explains income sharing. Some previous occupants of the house who'd asked to stay on for a couple of months left their apartment in a terrible state and the Solidarity Collective members grapple with their anger and the extra work from cleaning it up. Jibran and Matt discuss anarchism. Lots of music on this episode.

Rahm Emmanuel is leaving. Will he take neoliberalism with him? Mayoral candidate Amara Enyia wants a public bank “on day one” of her mayoral administration. Cooperative organizer Mike Strode wants to see a more sustainable, participatory, and cooperative Chicago.

Skully and Yana interview Shavaun Evans of the New Economy Coalition. Members of the collective discuss garbage, mattresses, garage sales, and money. Skully sings a song. Skully has also been taking care of an unexpected litter of kittens and so sometimes randomly meows.

Skully and Yana free a trapped skunk, and deal with mold in the basement. Jibran and Matt interview foreign policy scholar Stephen Zunes on Yemen and the suppression of nonviolent alternatives in the Middle East. Matt reads a post from Caitlin Myer. There is music.

Sabrina King, Policy Director of the Wyoming ACLU, discusses the 2019 state legislative agenda, the ongoing opposition to the construction of a private immigration detention center in the state, and myths about Wyoming politics. Erik Molvar, Executive Director of Western Watersheds Project, discusses the influence of the cattle industry over the state's politics and culture--and the harm cattle ranching causes Wyoming's ecosystems.

The members of Solidarity Collective are overwhelmed and energized when they acquire a large house built in 1878, three acres of land and several living units. Jibran talks about intentional communities and communes and his growing up in them. Skully and Matt talk to Rhiannon, a Kansas City teacher who got fed up with a confederate flag display and decided to fight back. Yana talks about climate change and her book Together Resilient: Building Community in the Age of Climate Disruption. Joyous and irreverent music ensues.