This Wreckage

Jamie and Andy are joined by Natasha Lennard (@NatashaLennard), contributing writer at The Intercept and author of "Being Numerous: Essays on Non-Fascist Life," to commemorate Occupy Wall Street's ten-year anniversary. What are people erasing when they remember Occupy solely as something that "changed the conversation" around wealth inequality? How did the occupiers demonstrate anarchist politics in action? And what lessons can we carry into the future as we fight not merely to shore up the system, but to overthrow it?

Natasha on OWS:

https://theintercept.com/2016/10/01/occupy-wall-street-brooklyn-bridge-five-years/

https://www.thenation.com/article/activism/occupy-socialist-anarchist/

Audio: Slavoj Zizek speaks at OWS: https://imposemagazine.com/bytes/slavoj-zizek-at-occupy-wall-street-transcript

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Closing song: Third Eye Blind - If There Ever Was a Time

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Sean is joined by special guest Adam H Johnson (@adamjohnsonnyc), writer and host of the excellent Citations Needed podcast, to discuss the political economy of mass media, how consent is manufactured and the myriad ways in which the capitalist press is complicit even in a declining US empire.

Then, with some extra time, Sean gives a briefing of several recent strikes and what they might mean for organized labor going forward.

Links:

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2021/09/13/the-other-afghan-women

https://labornotes.org/2021/09/ten-thousand-uaw-members-gear-strike-vote-john-deere

https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2021/09/13/pari-s13.html

https://www.wweek.com/news/2021/09/06/nabisco-owner-sends-cease-and-desist-to-bakers-union-pledging-legal-action/

https://labornotes.org/2021/09/after-voting-down-four-tentative-agreements-washington-carpenters-strike

Closing song: B.o.B. - Arena

The crew discuss some of the cultural changes that happened in New York City and the country following the attacks of September 11th through the lens of the biggest band of that era, The Strokes.

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We share our stories of 9/11 (some more harrowing than others) and commemorate some of the lesser known actions of the NYPD and FDNY with one of the anonymous members of Research and Destroy NYC

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Music: Bruce Springsteen - Into the Fire