This Wreckage

Brandon Sutton (@prettybadlefty), host of The Discourse podcast (@Th3Discourse), returns to discuss the important matters of the day, like Yeezy 2020 and Cats vs Hamilton. We also discuss the rebellion for black lives, radicalizing the libs, and why the DSA should have more game nights.

Outro music: Kanye West - Black Skinhead

Our guest this week is Nick Estes, citizen of the Lower Brule Sioux Tribe, Assistant Professor of American Studies at University of New Mexico, host of the Red Nation Podcast, and author of Our History is the Future: Standing Rock Versus the Dakota Access Pipeline, and the Long Tradition of Indigenous Resistance.

We discuss the link between indigenous and black struggles in the context of the no-DAPL blockade at Standing Rock and Black Lives Matter, statue removals and vandalism in New Mexico and in New York at #OccupyCityHall, whether attacking statues of Lincoln and Grant are "justified," and the final boss: Mt. Rushmore. Finally we chat about the tensions and intersections between decolonization and revolutionary communism.

Please support some of the political prisoners we discussed in the episode:

https://nodaplpoliticalprisoners.org/

Red Dawn Fallis: https://www.standwithredfawn.org/

Justice for Clifton White: https://www.dailylobo.com/article/2020/06/clifton-white-remains-incarcerated-as-calls-for-release-gain-momentum

Justice for Scott Williams: https://www.kob.com/albuquerque-news/family-of-shooting-victim-comments-on-protest-apdrsquos-response/5762130/

Show notes:

NYT "Free Land" program: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/12/realestate/homesteading-free-land-programs.html

Trump's Mt. Rushmore event: https://www.argusleader.com/story/news/politics/2020/06/25/mount-rushmore-oglala-sioux-president-removal-president-trump/3198922001/

Standing With Standing Rock book

Closing song: Stand Up Standing Rock https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Onyk7guvHK8

In this edition of Vampire Castle, Jamie and Leslie discuss two coming-of-ageless films: Tomas Alfredson's Let The Right One In (2008) and Neil Jordan's Byzantium (2012) aka Ladybird II. If you are turned as a teen, do you stay an asshole forever or do you eventually grow up? How is Sweden so lovely yet so terrifying? And why do vamps always say they can't be friends with you right before they fall in love with you for all eternity? Listen on for answers to these and other bloodsucking questions.

Theme music: Intellectual Darkwave

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While the most riotous moments of the George Floyd Uprising have past, in parts of the country renewed attention to police tyranny continues to lead to clashes. LA Podcast co-host Scott Frazier joins us to talk about the struggle in Los Angeles, specifically against its massive Sheriff's Dept (LASD) now in the spotlight for horrific acts of violence following the discovery of Robert Fuller, a black man dead from hanging, in Palmdale California.

After immediately ruling the death a suicide with no evidence, LASD killed Fuller's half brother Terron Boone. And last week they inexplicably killed 18 year old Andres Guardado, a security guard working out of their jurisdiction. Then they removed the cameras.

We talk about the history of LASD and the broader context of riots and political struggle and racism in Los Angeles. We also tell some fun LA Stories!

Show notes:

Man found hanging in Manhattan park:

https://gothamist.com/news/nypd-investigating-suicide-black-man-found-hanging-tree-manhattan-park

LASD gangs:

https://www.vox.com/identities/2019/10/11/20910315/banditos-los-angeles-sheriff-department-lawsuit-gangshttps://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/salvadorhernandez/la-county-sheriffs-department-deputy-cliques

LASD prisons and COVID:

https://losangeles.cbslocal.com/2020/06/18/lasd-inmates-employees-positive-covid-19/

Garcetti's anti-homeless street sweeps:

https://laist.com/2019/08/02/homeless_garcetti_sweep_sanitation.php