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This week on TL4T we've got Part 1 of our 2 part episode with No Olympics LA! We're talking with Steve Ducey and Johnny Coleman, both with DSA LA, and the No Olympics LA campaign.

From nolympicsla.com

"The Olympics puts the interests of the mega-rich and corporate brands above the interests of athletes, fans, and working people in the cities it commandeers. A Los Angeles Olympics (and Paralympics) would primarily service the corporate interests of the IOC and the state and national political ambitions of Mayor Eric Garcetti. Should LA host the Olympics, we will see wide-ranging human rights’ violations and the forfeiture of our city to the interests of contractors, developers, media corporations, and the special interests who designed the bid."

This week on TL4T we've got Part 1 of our 2 part episode with No Olympics LA! We're talking with Steve Ducey and Johnny Coleman, both with DSA LA, and the No Olympics LA campaign.

From nolympicsla.com

"The Olympics puts the interests of the mega-rich and corporate brands above the interests of athletes, fans, and working people in the cities it commandeers. A Los Angeles Olympics (and Paralympics) would primarily service the corporate interests of the IOC and the state and national political ambitions of Mayor Eric Garcetti. Should LA host the Olympics, we will see wide-ranging human rights’ violations and the forfeiture of our city to the interests of contractors, developers, media corporations, and the special interests who designed the bid."

In our latest episode of Too Long for Twitter, Kristen interviews Jacobin writer and editor Alex Press about unionizing graduate students, the challenges facing university workers, and how we fight neoliberal attacks on universities.

Opening monologue: Mario Savio, one of the leaders of the Free Speech Movement at UC Berkeley, speaking at an on-campus protest in September, 1964.

Music: "Me Gustan los Estudiantes" originally by Chilean songwriter Violeta Parra to pay tribute to student revolts in the 1960s, performed by Mercedes Sosa

Links:

The Mind of Clark Kerr by Hal Draper: https://www.marxists.org/archive/draper/1964/10/kerr.htm

Alex Press on labor organizing/education:

https://www.thenation.com/article/white-collar-unionization-is-good-for-everybody/

https://www.jacobinmag.com/2017/10/harvey-weinstein-sexual-harassment-women-union

https://www.thenation.com/article/silence-on-campus-contingent-work-and-free-speech/

Additional articles on student workers' unions:

https://www.jacobinmag.com/2017/08/unions-campus-higher-education-organizing-college-students

https://www.jacobinmag.com/2016/09/nlrb-graduate-workers-unions-universities-administration

In our latest episode of Too Long for Twitter, Kristen interviews Jacobin writer and editor Alex Press about unionizing graduate students, the challenges facing university workers, and how we fight neoliberal attacks on universities.

Opening monologue: Mario Savio, one of the leaders of the Free Speech Movement at UC Berkeley, speaking at an on-campus protest in September, 1964.

Music: "Me Gustan los Estudiantes" originally by Chilean songwriter Violeta Parra to pay tribute to student revolts in the 1960s, performed by Mercedes Sosa

Links:

The Mind of Clark Kerr by Hal Draper: https://www.marxists.org/archive/draper/1964/10/kerr.htm

Alex Press on labor organizing/education:

https://www.thenation.com/article/white-collar-unionization-is-good-for-everybody/

https://www.jacobinmag.com/2017/10/harvey-weinstein-sexual-harassment-women-union

https://www.thenation.com/article/silence-on-campus-contingent-work-and-free-speech/

Additional articles on student workers' unions:

https://www.jacobinmag.com/2017/08/unions-campus-higher-education-organizing-college-students

https://www.jacobinmag.com/2016/09/nlrb-graduate-workers-unions-universities-administration

This week on Too Long 4 Twitter, we're following up on last week's ep about feminism and taking a deeper dive into a theory of gender oppression and getting into social reproduction theory, aka: how we as worker's reproduce ourselves.

Social Reproduction Theory: Remapping Class, and Recentering Oppression. Edited by Tithi Bhattacharya. In this book, leading writers such as Lise Vogel, Nancy Fraser, David McNally and Susan Ferguson reveal the ways in which daily and generational reproductive labor, found in households, schools, hospitals and prisons, also sustains the drive for accumulation. https://www.plutobooks.com/9780745399881/social-reproduction-theory/

Tithi Bhattacharya on Doug Henwood's podcast Behind the News: https://www.blubrry.com/jacobin/30374357/behind-the-news-what-social-reproduction-theory-offers-us/

Women, Race, & Class by Angela Y. Davis

https://archive.org/details/WomenRaceClassAngelaDavis

Wages Against Housework by Silvia Federici

https://caringlabor.files.wordpress.com/2010/11/federici-wages-against-housework.pdf

Music by False Priest

@false_priest

This week on Too Long 4 Twitter, we're following up on last week's ep about feminism and taking a deeper dive into a theory of gender oppression and getting into social reproduction theory, aka: how we as worker's reproduce ourselves.

Social Reproduction Theory: Remapping Class, and Recentering Oppression. Edited by Tithi Bhattacharya. In this book, leading writers such as Lise Vogel, Nancy Fraser, David McNally and Susan Ferguson reveal the ways in which daily and generational reproductive labor, found in households, schools, hospitals and prisons, also sustains the drive for accumulation. https://www.plutobooks.com/9780745399881/social-reproduction-theory/

Tithi Bhattacharya on Doug Henwood's podcast Behind the News: https://www.blubrry.com/jacobin/30374357/behind-the-news-what-social-reproduction-theory-offers-us/

Women, Race, & Class by Angela Y. Davis

https://archive.org/details/WomenRaceClassAngelaDavis

Wages Against Housework by Silvia Federici

https://caringlabor.files.wordpress.com/2010/11/federici-wages-against-housework.pdf

Music by False Priest

@false_priest

This week on TL4T, we're digging into Marxist Feminism! What it is, what it isn't, and how we get free! This first ep in a 2-part series is covers past feminist movements. Next week, we'll dive into how women's oppression is useful to the capitalist bastards.

She's Beautiful When She's Angry: http://www.shesbeautifulwhenshesangry.com/

Teen Vogue: Erica Garner Deserved Better — All Black Women Do https://www.teenvogue.com/story/erica-garners-death-sheds-light-on-treatment-of-black-women-across-america

Sharon Smith Article - https://isreview.org/issue/93/womens-liberation-marxist-tradition

Sharon Smith Book - https://www.haymarketbooks.org/books/423-women-and-socialism-revised-and-updated-edition

Audre Lorde - https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/audre-lorde

As always, find us on Twitter @TooFuckingLong

Also follow Kristen and Erica @ars_machina and @pocketfights

Music by @FalsePriest and Tracy Chapman

This week on TL4T, we're digging into Marxist Feminism! What it is, what it isn't, and how we get free! This first ep in a 2-part series is covers past feminist movements. Next week, we'll dive into how women's oppression is useful to the capitalist bastards.

She's Beautiful When She's Angry: http://www.shesbeautifulwhenshesangry.com/

Teen Vogue: Erica Garner Deserved Better — All Black Women Do https://www.teenvogue.com/story/erica-garners-death-sheds-light-on-treatment-of-black-women-across-america

Sharon Smith Article - https://isreview.org/issue/93/womens-liberation-marxist-tradition

Sharon Smith Book - https://www.haymarketbooks.org/books/423-women-and-socialism-revised-and-updated-edition

Audre Lorde - https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/audre-lorde

As always, find us on Twitter @TooFuckingLong

Also follow Kristen and Erica @ars_machina and @pocketfights

Music by @FalsePriest and Tracy Chapman

This week on Too Long for Twitter, we're talking about radical Social Work! Jessica Hansen-Weaver joins Erica and producer Sarah Wheels to discuss how social workers are busy mending lives that capitalism is destroying.

A couple of places to dig in further:

Road Not Taken : A History of Radical Social Work in the United States by Michael Reisch, Janice Andrews

https://www.amazon.com/Road-Not-Taken-History-Radical/dp/0415933994

When the Welfare People Come: Race and Class in the US Child Protection System by Don Lash

https://www.haymarketbooks.org/books/1052-when-the-welfare-people-come

and Don Lash speaking at Socialism 2014 - Race and Class in the U.S. Child Welfare System

https://wearemany.org/a/2014/06/race-and-class-in-us-child-welfare-system

Music by False Priest

@false_priest

This week on Too Long for Twitter, we're talking about radical Social Work! Jessica Hansen-Weaver joins Erica and producer Sarah Wheels to discuss how social workers are busy mending lives that capitalism is destroying.

A couple of places to dig in further:

Road Not Taken : A History of Radical Social Work in the United States by Michael Reisch, Janice Andrews

https://www.amazon.com/Road-Not-Taken-History-Radical/dp/0415933994

When the Welfare People Come: Race and Class in the US Child Protection System by Don Lash

https://www.haymarketbooks.org/books/1052-when-the-welfare-people-come

and Don Lash speaking at Socialism 2014 - Race and Class in the U.S. Child Welfare System

https://wearemany.org/a/2014/06/race-and-class-in-us-child-welfare-system

Music by False Priest

@false_priest