The Michael Brooks Show

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A victory for Bolivia & the world

• https://twitter.com/camilateleSUR/status/1318071813809852416?s=20
• Intimidation the night before
  • https://twitter.com/ProgIntl/status/1317618526396518400?s=20
• Union leader Gutiérrez https://twitter.com/LaborOrganizer/status/1318216274082734083?s=20

https://twitter.com/camilateleSUR/status/1318208181261271040

Protest in Santa Cruz

https://twitter.com/kawsachunnews/status/1318684603964600322?s=21

Joshua Kahn Russell  What To Do If Trump refuses the results?

ChooseDemocracy.US

https://wagingnonviolence.org/2020/09/10-things-you-need-to-know-to-stop-a-coup/

Pitch

https://www.facebook.com/events/336490754249342

And the GEM plus a story from Nova Scotia on the attack on Mi’kmaq fishers.

             

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David on the many ways voting is suppressed in this country; Lisha and Kristen Ghodsee on Socialism, sex and more; executive control of the country; and the long fight vs Scotus.

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Matt Karp (@Karpmj) joins us to talk about his pieces:

How Abraham Lincoln Fought the Supreme Court Bernie Sanders’s Five-Year War

And Luke Mayville (@LukeMayville) on his piece in Commonweal:

How Progressives Win in Rural America

Also, the disastrous lack of relief from Covid.

 

David sits down with Seneca Savoie (@selfcrit) of Austin DSA to talk about how to win radical demands & how a large movement in Austin was able to win a massive reduction in the Austin police budget. #defundthepolice 

Watch here

https://youtu.be/jcjEam0YHWg

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David, Lisha, and Matt cover an absolute horror show.

             

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Commentary - 

SCOTUS Is Broken, Can We Fix It? 

 

Marshall Steinbaum, @Econ_Marshall, joins us to discuss gig work, Sectoral Bargaining and Harvard's "Clean Slate for Labor Power."

GEM 

https://twitter.com/DavidGriscom/status/1308421045175701511?s=20 

Lisha and Jeremy Johnson on Integral Theory and the Left. 

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Commentary - fighting climate change denial is not about ignorance but about power & profit.

Joshua Kahn Russell talks to us about the wildfires, indigenous resistance, the release of Red Dawn Ferris, and Joe Biden on climate change.

https://magazine.atavist.com/red-fawn-fallis-standing-rock-pipeline

Then, Ben Burgis joins us to discuss he latest in Jacobin, "So You're Still Being Publicly Shamed."

https://www.jacobinmag.com/2020/09/publicly-shamed-jon-ronson-cancel-culture

 

And in the GEM, David updates us on sailors stranded at sea.

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• Lavo Jato Documentary & Lula’s New Vision 

Milton Allimadi (@Allimadi) joins us once again to discuss Museveni's attacks on Bobi Wine, the useless coup in Mali, and why a lot media coverage of the African continent is bad.  Subscribe to Milton's new show: https://www.patreon.com/Africanhistoryclub GEM: JP Morgan admits unethical behavior in ppp  Segment on Assange 

• https://www.theguardian.com/media/2020/sep/08/julian-assange-rapped-by-judge-after-outburst-during-extradition-trial 

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Commentary 

• Why moralizing about capitalism is not enough - Capitalism Is A System Of Economic Relations 

Pitch 

 

Malaika 7:25  

• Kenosha and separately the importance of local politics 

 

Media coverage of Black lives Matter

https://twitter.com/DKThomp/status/1299368282122858496

 

Rittenhouse

 

at 3:07, the Daily Caller catches guys accusing Rittenhouse of threatening them with the gun earlier in the day, calling him a goon.

10:34

https://youtu.be/kYb7loD7RGg 

What happened to civilian control 

 

8:10 

No Olympics Interview 

 

GEM 

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/30/climate/oil-kenya-africa-plastics-trade.html?referringSource=articleShare

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Opening commentary: Let’s get real about symbolism 

Ana and Lisha on Michael's final Cancel Culture thoughts.

GEM: Lyft/Uber capital strikes