Solidarity House Cooperative

Sudip Bhattacharya (@ResistRun on Twitter) and Matt Stannard talk about Sudip's article "The Limits of Descriptive Representation" and the need for a new way to think about political diversity. Read that article at: https://www.currentaffairs.org/2021/02/the-limits-of-descriptive-representation

Hannah Rooth visits Solidarity House, performs three songs including her recent technoproletarian song "Give Me that Gold," and talks with Matt about music, politics, and abolishing the prison-industrial complex. She is at wildhummusic.com and all over social media. Support her work at https://www.patreon.com/hannahroothmusic

The commies fix the window wells. As more members move in, there's discussion of greenhouse ventilation, junk removal, and planting. Nina Crosby talks to Matt about alt-right social media influencers. And there's original music. 

A special conversation with Twin Cities activist Briana Rose Lee on the aftermath of the Chauvin trial, continued police repression, and a LONG LIST of good people organizing and creating new political realities in Minneapolis. Follow Briana on Twitter at @BrianaRoseLee 

Donatellia Austin and Yana Ludwig discuss Yana's 2020 Senate campaign, running as an open socialist in Wyoming, how to market and graphically design a radical campaign, and what Wyoming identity is all about. Rihanna Kelver joins the Solidarity House crew to chat about current events in the state and read recent conservative Op-eds from local news sites. Support us at patreon.com/solidarityhouse

As communications and digital organizing manager for PICO California Project, Calvin Abbasi combines his imperatives for social and economic justice with practical legislative advocacy. We discuss current bills in California to decertify police officers. fund emergency non-police services, forgive rental debt, increase post-incarceration housing access, and guarantee legal aid for evictees. Support PICO at http://www.picocalifornia.org/.

Part 2 of our interview with Laramie reporter Jeff Victor covers the relationship between a City Council member and Laramie's worst landlord. Members of the Solidarity House team discuss the highlights and follies of the 2021 Wyoming legislative season, including, among many other things, Rep. Jeremy Haroldson's comments on slavery and the Holocaust.  

We talk with Russell Arben Fox of Wichita DSA and the Religion and Socialism Working Group about religious socialism in the past (including 19th Century Mormon communalism) and present, as well as the upcoming conference "Building the Religious Left" which takes place THIS Saturday April 24 and Sunday April 25. You can learn more and register here: https://www.dsausa.org/calendar/building-the-religious-left-dsa-religion-socialism-conference/

Derek and Matt discuss the Laramie City Council's police oversight working group. Then we hear part one of our interview with Jeff Victor, the Laramie-based independent journalist who broke the story on the unbelievably evil landlord Maximus Bossarei and the failure of the Albany County Sheriff's office to serve Bossarei the numerous times he's been sued. 

Shawn and Derek of Solidarity House Cooperative discuss the second half of J. Sakai's important book Settlers: The Mythology of the White Proletariat, covering such issues as the tendency of white left groups to ignore indigenous land seizures, the weakness of colonial powers' communist and labor movements, and the need for socialists to embrace anti-colonialism. Part 1 of our discussion on this important book is at https://solidarityhouse.podbean.com/e/issues-in-socialism-trans-identity-and-socialist-history-an-introduction-to-j-sakais-settlers/ 

Settlers: The Mythology of the White Proletariat and many other resources are available at https://readsettlers.org/