The River and The Land

Ali, Bilal, and Travis discuss the CUPE Air Canada Component's badass defiance of the Canadian government's back-to-work order and how effective worker power is at getting the things we all need. We also tal about elite capture in unions, the Rand Formula, and the lockout of Windsor's Titan Tool & Die workers.

Ali, Bilal, and Travis attempt to decifer the neoliberal corporate-language-nightmare that is "sustainable development."

Links to the things we reference:

Perfect Victims - Mohammed El-Kurd

Elite Capture & Reconsidering Reparations - Olufemi O. Taiwo

The People's Republic of Walmart - Leigh Phillips & Michal Rozworski

UN 17 Goals for Sustainable Development

David Suzuki interview with iPolitics

Bilal, Kam, and Travis were joined by Ali, a local man of science, nature, and revolution to talk about Canada's recognizing "Palestinian statehood," Canada's lies about providing Israel with weapons, and Windsor's police deficit, which--shocker!--is apparently because of the Palestinians too!

We're back! This time for real! (maybe)

This is a catch-up episode, bordering on doomerism.

Trump, tariffs, organizing. You know the thing.

Travis is going to be on Sandy and Nora Talk Politics! This Sunday, July 27th at Water's Edge on Drouillard Rd. in Windsor. Get tickets here: https://thepointofsale.com/billets/q3e250625001

Bilal sits down with Emily, a harm reduction activist and law student, to talk about how homelessness is made illegal and why.

Bilal and Travis discuss the (re)election of Donald Trump, the "failure" of the Democrats, and how it relates to Canadian politics. Then they discuss Drew Dilkens' plan to use the long dick of the law to make sure homeless people never sleep.

Bilal, Kam, and Travis congregate at the new studio space! (Travis' dining room) and talk about Brampton mayor Patrick Brown's fascist new idea to deal with drug addicts and how Windsor's mayor thinks it's a swell idea!

In other news, Israel continues to do what it does and the University of Windsor's Board of Governors considers taking back the landmark deal struck with the Pro-Palestine student encampment.

Bilal, Kam, and Travis talk about the killing of Jason West, an Indigenous man shot and killed by police outside of The Beer Store in downtown Windsor last week. They also remember the killing of Matthew Mahoney less than a block away in 2018 and muse on the role of police in Windsor.

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Some articles referenced:

Everybody loved him - Windsor Star

He was always smiling - CBC

Bilal and Travis break down the victory at the Palestine encampment by the students at the University of Windsor. What was in the deal? What did we learn? And what of the backlash?

Bilal, Kam, and Travis discuss the student protests in the U.S. and Canada and how they expose the prime contradiction in Western liberal democracies. Then they delve into the news that H4 and The Downtown Mission, the two main homelessness and poverty outreach centres downtown, are moving to the edge of Ward 3 in a cataclysmically dumb move by the city.