Solidarity House Cooperative

Kat Houghton of Community Roots discusses rights of nature laws, ordinances, and political strategies, and previews a Friday, March 19 workshop, which you can RSVP for at https://fb.me/e/467Bm4mMH

Briana Rose Lee joins Matt from Minneapolis to discuss the fight against approval of the Line 3 Pipeline extension. Yana Ludwig and members of her 2020 Senate campaign team reminisce about the challenges of campaigning from the left in Wyoming. Plus we have fragments of brand new, original music! More about the fight against Line 3 at https://mn350.org/ and https://www.stopline3.org/. 

Matt and Derek discuss Wyoming's Republicans' fossil fuel persecution complex including Rep. Chuck Gray's embarrassing comments blaming wind turbines for Texas's power outages, and the sweetheart deal between the Department of Interior and Eagle Specialty Minerals in the Blackjewel bankruptcy. 

Adam from Wyoming Red Star Coalition joins us to talk about the group's new reading series (which you should join--it starts today!). Yana talks about job-hunting under capitalism, from the dehumanization of the labor market to creating good practices in a terrible system. And, we announce our upcoming Solidarity Collective Winter Survival Auction. 

Wyoming Red Star Coalition (with info on the reading group) is here: https://www.facebook.com/wyoredcoalition

More info on our Winter Survival Auction coming soon! 

Activist, writer and communication professor Nina Marie Lozano talks to Matt about her book Not One More! Feminicidio on the Border, the politics of the border, and the effects of neoliberal capitalism on working class women in Juarez.

Dominique talks with Matt about trans identity and the mixed history of communist and socialist movements on gender and sexual liberation--and the role of indigenist and anti-colonialist thought in trans liberation. Shawn and Derek discuss J. Sakai's Settlers: The Mythology of the White Proletariat. Support us at patreon.com/solidarityhouse

Matt Stannard talks with Kelli Potter about how Marxism and dialectical materialism cohere with nonbinary realities of sex and gender, and the importance of socialist transgender activism. Kelli Potter is Associate Professor of Philosophy at Utah Valley University and an organizer with The Party for Socialism and Liberation. Her academic work focuses on the philosophy of religion and gender. Her most recent published article was "Trans and Mutable Bodies" in the Routledge Handbook on Mormonism and Gender.

Wyoming blogger Lindsey Hanlon joins Matt to discuss the January 4 pro-covid (anti-health measure) demonstration in Cheyenne. Please support Lindsey's patreon at https://www.patreon.com/TheFeministLipstique and check out her other fantastic work @thefeministlipstique on Tik Tok and https://thefeministlipstique.com/.

The coal industry is kaput in Wyoming. When Lynne Huskinson got laid off after 39 years as a coal miner, she decided to run for state House of Representatives on one of the most progressive, honest-about-energy platforms in the Wyoming election of 2020. Here's her story.