This is False

Pam and Travis are guestless and poor. In this, the eleventh episode of This is False, police are stealing our Covid data, cat callers are Tik Tok-famous, poor tax is calculated, and of course, Ward 7-candidate Igor Dzaic is a transphobic, misogynistic, classist man who wants your vote.

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Plugs from the episode:

In this, the second part, of our conversation with Derrick Biso, we focus up and talk more directly about the often less-visible violence of white supremacy as it manifests itself through gentrification, language, and interpersonal conflict. We discuss the new city council initiative that seeks to name alleys in Windsor, causing harm as a white person and how to handle being called out for it, and the need for reciprocity within our communities.

Pam and Travis welcomed non-binary artist, activist, researcher, lover, and community organizer Derrick Biso to the podcast. They talked so much that we had to split it into two parts. In this, the first part, topics discussed include politics on the job, Viola Desmond, and the responsibility that white folks have to not just reflect upon their role in extraction-based colonial-capitalism, but to dismantle that project actively.

We plugged a lot of things in this episode, and here are the corresponding links:

- Sonya Renée Taylor 

- Insurgent Empire: Anticolonial Resistance and British Dissent by Pryamvada Gopal

- Viola Desmond: Her Life and Times by Graham Reynolds & Wanda Robson

- One Dish, One Mic

- CBC on Ostoro Petahtegoose

- The Chubby Goddess

- The Miracle of Mindfulness by Thich Nhat Hanh

Do you like listening to people with ADHD talk over each other? Well, folks, you’ve come to the right place! Pam and Travis welcome co-conspirator, artist, and activist/organizer Evelyn Irish to the pod for the first of what will be many episodes. FetLife, No Name canned ham, C-words, abortions, stories about coming out to family, and peeing on people for money; this episode had no plan and it was executed perfectly.

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RIP Justin Townes Earle.

Good swine vs. bad swine, "gentlefication" be classist too, and yelling at anti-maskers; just a typical episode of This is False. Pam and Travis are guestless and typically snarky. There are a few content warnings throughout the audio so be aware and take the proper precautions (discussions of sexual violence, assault, etc.).

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Pam and Travis interview a worker from a coffee chain about what they've experienced during the pandemic. It turns out, not every worker is psyched to be put in danger for a profit margin. Who knew? After the interview, we talk about the gaslighting of workers by politicians and business owners, small business fetishism, and the continuing COVID-19 outbreak in Windsor-Essex.

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A tornado tore through the West End of Windsor in the middle of the episode, but it only sort of derailed Pam and Travis as they discussed Emancipation Day, the police presence at the celebration, BLM graffiti, the Megahospital, and gentrification.

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Pam and Travis welcome local artist, poet, activist, founder of the Bloomfield House, and all-around mensch Teajai Travis to the podcast as the inaugural guest.

Teajai has been fighting the best fight for years in Windsor, and he joins the pod to talk about the Occupy movement and the recent history of left-wing activism in the city, Black Lives Matter and various ways of organizing a revolution, the Black history of Windsor that is too often ignored, and more.

Find Teajai’s work all over the internet by searching his name and his various projects:

- Born Enslaved

- Missing from History: Women of the Underground Railroad

- Growing UP “Mixed”: An American Nightmare

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In this, the third episode of This is False, Pam and Travis had a plan—and then they got distracted. What follows is a dive into some of the pro-police, tough-on-crime, asinine nonsense from our favourite city councilor Rino Bertalmins, discussions about liberal copaganda, light pollution, Harry Potter, and of course, government-funded gloryholes.

The outro music is “Gamerstep Bass Triplets” by Clinthammer, used under the Creative Commons Attribution license.

In the second episode of This is False, Pam and Travis discuss some of the bad apples in the Windsor Police. Don’t be confused: there are more than a few, but we didn’t want to make an 8-hour episode to discuss them all.

We talk about the tragic killing of Matthew Mahoney in a downtown McDonald’s parking lot in 2018; Constable Warren Braganza and his long history of questionable conduct, including the recent alleged attack on Brandyn Steinwender; former Detective David Van Buskirk and his conduct with Kim Elliot and Dr. Tyceer Abouhassan. And let’s not forget the $25,000 worth of cocaine that disappeared from evidence that one time. Last but not least, those hungry, hungry coppos that really wanted their Arby’s but were "stopped" by a couple of working class heroes.

Also, please sign this petition to have Kim Elliott’s case re-examined: http://chng.it/kLVdDkRfyH