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In this episode, Marine speaks with Zavi Kang Engles about eco-anxiety / climate despair and the impacts it has in their own lives, as well as on the wider society. They discuss how male gender norms play a key role in feeding climate denialism, as well as the dominant ideologies that must be challenged to save the planet. Marine and Zavi also explore ways of thinking that have helped them cope with their eco-anxiety, and discuss ideas that can facilitate the collective healing and mass action we desperately need.

Sources and Links

More from Zavi:

* Zavi’s website: zavizavizavi.com

* My Mother’s Tongue: https://therumpus.net/2019/04/my-mothers-tongue/?fbclid=IwAR12tURrveZ7zgrL6lVpz0nF_ah7v5tSxyqKpgpxpSePrbtarnDDb_0BboY

Videos on Marine’s channel:

* Vegans for Justice: Palestine and Israel: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ib3cjgO9ooE&list=PLHaC2LNxlU0kyzYtXqB9oxPVqdkJ4WzSL&index=11

* Why I Stopped Being “Vegan” as a Korean-American https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FOXuqBnqqn4&list=PLHaC2LNxlU0kyzYtXqB9oxPVqdkJ4WzSL&index=12

Resources from the Episode:

* adrienne maree brown’s blog: http://adriennemareebrown.net

* Une autre fin du monde est possible by Pablo Servigne, Raphael Stevens, and Gauthier Chapelle

* Lise van Susteren on Pre-Traumatic Stress Disorder and the imagination: https://www.robhopkins.net/2018/04/24/847/

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In this episode, Mexie and Marine argue that any revolutionary movement that replicates patriarchal ideology and values will not lead us to emancipation. We define patriarchy on a systemic level as well as in terms of a value system that we have internalized – one that codes powerfully important attributes such as humility, empathy, selflessness and nurturing as feminine and thus less-than. While patriarchy can exist, and has existed, without capitalism, we argue that capitalism could not exist without patriarchy. If capitalism is the logical extension of hundreds of years of patriarchal modes of thought and governance, then a pressing question for our time is how to tear down these modes of thought and governance, within ourselves as leftists and, eventually, within society more broadly.

Sources and Links

* bell hooks, The Will To Change: Men, Masculinity, and Love: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17601.The_Will_to_Change 

* bell hooks, All About Love: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17607.All_About_Love

* adrienne maree brown, Emergent Strategy: Shaping Change, Changing Worlds:  https://www.akpress.org/emergentstrategy.html

* adrienne maree brown, Pleasure Activism: https://www.akpress.org/pleasure-activism.html

* Rev Left Radio, Meditation, Materialism, and Marxism: https://revolutionaryleftradio.libsyn.com/meditation-materialism-and-marxism

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In this spooktacular crossover episode, Mexie and Marine are joined by Ash and Jon from the Horror Vanguard podcast to review Jordan Peele’s second think-piece, “Us”. We discuss a number of pertinent themes including class consciousness and revolution, the anxieties of the middle-class, the intersections race and class, duality, religion, colonialism, imperialism, and much, much more! As always, we would love to hear your spooky takes as well.

Sources and Links

* The Horror Vanguard Podcast: https://soundcloud.com/user-317910500 

* The Horror Vanguard Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/horrorvanguard

* Horror Vanguard on Twitter: https://twitter.com/HorrorVanguard

* Ash on Twitter: https://twitter.com/_ashhhh

* Jon on Twitter: https://twitter.com/TheLitCritGuy

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Rundown In this episode, Mexie interviews Greg from In The Roots Podcast about the role of our global financial institutions in the making (and re-making) of the Global South and in exacerbating the refugee crisis.

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In this episode, Mexie interviews radical activist and educator Alexis Fawn about the importance of arming students with critical thinking skills and class consciousness before they enter university. Inspired by Paulo Freire and his seminal text Pedagogy of the Oppressed, Alexis has developed a radical pedagogy for high school students along with various teaching techniques to enhance students’ critical thought and improve their media literacy. We discuss the many ways in which these techniques can help all leftists trying to spread class consciousness as we each have innumerable ‘teachable moments’ in our daily interactions with friends, family, co-workers, and strangers.

Sources and Links

* Alexis’ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/alexisfawn/ and Email: [email protected]

* Bloom’s Taxonomy: https://cft.vanderbilt.edu/guides-sub-pages/blooms-taxonomy/

* Paulo Freire Pedagogy of the Oppressed PDF: https://commons.princeton.edu/inclusivepedagogy/wp-content/uploads/sites/17/2016/07/freire_pedagogy_of_the_oppresed_ch2-3.pdf

* bell hooks Teaching to Transgress PDF: https://academictrap.files.wordpress.com/2015/03/bell-hooks-teaching-to-transgress.pdf

* John Dewey Schools of Tomorrow (Full Text) : http://www.gutenberg.org/files/48906/48906-h/48906-h.htm

* Peter McLaren: Background Information: https://solidarity-us.org/atc/107/p516/

* Socratic Teaching Method: Background Information: https://www.criticalthinking.org/pages/socratic-teaching/606

* All Ontario Secondary School Curriculum Documents: http://www.edu.gov.on.ca/eng/curriculum/secondary/subjects.html

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In this episode, Mexie and Leslie from Mad Blender respond to a question from one of the listeners about whether taxing meat for the climate is a productive idea. We start by exploring the costs (financial, health-related, and environmental) of the animal agriculture industry and the reasons why meat taxes are being proposed by a variety of organizations, researchers, and governments. We then look at different approaches to the tax, including taxing the producers for the emissions they create or taxing the output (products) themselves, which is akin to taxing the consumers. We explore the counter-arguments and ultimately conclude that we need a radical overhaul of our political economic system as well as our agricultural system, and propose that a tax could be merely one part of this much broader effort.

Sources and Links

* Mad Blender on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCcStOVD6xZ54ky6hcZZcqig

* Mad Blender on Twitter: https://twitter.com/madblender

* Fiona Harvey and Bibi van der Zee, Caroline Lucas urges parliament to ‘seriously consider’ tax on meat: https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2019/jan/04/caroline-lucas-green-mp-meat-tax-oxford-farmers-conference-prioritise-sustainability

* Stefan Wirsenius, Fredrik Hedenus, and Kristina Mohlin, Greenhouse gas taxes on animal food products: Rationale, tax scheme and climate mitigation effects: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/225713228_Greenhouse_gas_taxes_on_animal_food_products_Rationale_tax_scheme_and_climate_mitigation_effects

* Prof Tim Lang, Prof Mike Rayner, and Caroline Lucas, A meat tax need not hit the poor: https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2019/jan/10/a-meat-tax-need-not-hit-the-poor

* Damian Carrington, Meat tax ‘inevitable’ to beat climate and health crises, says report: https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2017/dec/11/meat-tax-inevitable-to-beat-climate-and-health-crises-says-report

* Damian Carrington, Taxing meat would save many lives, research shows: https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2018/nov/06/taxing-red-meat-would-save-many-lives-research-shows

* Anna Dimoff, Taxing meat could help offset environmental, health problems, activists say: https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/meat-sin-tax-1.4472222

* Marco Springmann, Meat tax: why taxing sausages and bacon could save hundreds of thousands of lives every year: https://theconversation.com/meat-tax-why-taxing-sausages-and-bacon-could-save-hundreds-of-thousands-of-lives-every-year-106399

* Katherine Martinko, Taxing red meat would save lives and slow global warming: https://www.treehugger.com/health/taxing-red-meat-would-save-lives-and-slow-global-warming.html

* Barrie McKenna, Taxpayers oblivious to the cost of farm subsidies:

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In this episode, Mexie interviews Maria the Witch, a critical leftist YouTuber based in Brazil, about Bolsonaro’s election and his time so far in office. Maria explains what led up to the election, the campaign talking points that garnered the most support, and what he has been able to do thus far in office. We end with what comrades outside of Brazil can do to help support the struggle there, including potentially donating to the list of organizations below (note: please check out each organization thoroughly yourself to be sure you’d like to support).

Sources and Links

* Maria the Witch on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCrd-uibzFaauNlPB8-OJ_qQ

* Maria the Witch on Twitter: https://twitter.com/maria_thewitch

* No One Left Behind (international-oriented NGO fighting all sorts of discrimination in Brazil, created right after the Bolsonaro election): https://www.nooneleftbehind.org.br/

* XI Assembly of COIAB (one-time donation to crowdfund the Amazon’s Indigenous people’s assembly): https://www.vakinha.com.br/vaquinha/seja-um-apoiador-da-xi-assembleia-da-coiab

* MTST Brazil (monthly donations to support the Homeless Workers Movement, led by Guilherme Boulos & threatened to be classed as “terrorism”): https://www.catarse.me/colabore_mtst

* Redes da Maré (monthly donations for project/one time bank account deposit to support NGO in the favela that Marielle Franco was from in Rio): https://redesdamare.org.br/br/quemsomos/doeagora

* Benfeitoria: Casa 1 (monthly donations to support LGBT shelter in São Paulo): https://benfeitoria.com/casa1 

* Folha de S. Paulo (important daily news site): https://www1.folha.uol.com.br/internacional/en/

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In this episode, Mexie interviews Dr. Warren Bernauer about the relationship between what John Bellamy Foster terms ‘ecological imperialism’ and the criminalization of Indigenous resistance to extractive capital. We discuss Warren’s co-authored article called “From Wallmapu to Nunatsiavut: The Criminalization of Indigenous Resistance” (listed below) which highlights the cases of two Indigenous women jailed for defending their communities: Francisca Linconao in Chile and Beatrice Hunter in Canada. Warren explains the relationship between ecological imperialism and our colonial-capitalist economic system, and points to Canada’s use of unnecessary violent force at Unistoten Camp as a present day example of how criminalization is used to secure colonial-capitalist relations. We end by discussing how settlers can be allies and support land defenders across the Americas.

Sources and Links

* Warren Bernauer, Henry Heller, and Peter Kulchyski, 2018. From Wallmapu to Nunatsiavut: The Criminalization of Indigenous Resistance: https://monthlyreviewarchives.org/index.php/mr/article/view/MR-069-08-2018-01_3

* John Bellamy Foster and Brett Clark, 2004. Ecological Imperialism: The Curse of Capitalism: https://socialistregister.com/index.php/srv/article/view/5817

* DONATE to Unistoten Camp: http://unistoten.camp/support-us/donate/?fbclid=IwAR3A_20icvTAi913W2UKT8L2O_ZnZM-isQ1PSf-rrBzEegFt1XDktGiEDsI

* Unistoten Solidarity Requests: http://unistoten.camp/support-us/solidarity-work/?fbclid=IwAR2zTjK8eW6taAlU6v6UPzkk5U3m9GQuooGLh4vaauK44T7aH_AT9Sy_5KE

* Support Tiny House Warriors: http://tinyhousewarriors.com/

* Glen Coulthard, 2014. Red Skin, White Masks: https://www.upress.umn.edu/book-division/books/red-skin-white-masks

* Nick Estes (Forthcoming), Our History is Our Future: https://www.versobooks.com/books/2953-our-history-is-the-future?fbclid=IwAR1VYTix-kUiesE4O3yZkGz0ASgJyJC-caWzyKqT6aMjVVzWsXbqo0ECrUw

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Well, we gave it a shot! Following the advice of our beloved adrienne maree brown and Emergent Strategy, in this episode we put our energy towards dreaming the future we want to see. We each came up with headlines for the future, some in the near future (the next 10-20 years) when the transition to post-capitalism is taking place, and some for 50+ years from now when the changes we want to see in the world have come about. We kept our headlines secret from each other until we were on air together, so we react to each others dreams as well as to headlines that were submitted to us by listeners. This was a fun exercise! We hope to inspire you all to put your energies towards dreaming and building the future we want to see as what we don’t want continues to crumble down around us.

Sources and Links

* adrienne maree brown, Emergent Strategy: https://www.akpress.org/emergentstrategy.html

* Ursula Le Guin, The Dispossessed: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13651.The_Dispossessed

* Mexie, Reclaiming Radical Creativity: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HIaFfhRB15s

* Walidah Imarisha, Re-writing the Future: Using Science Fiction to Re-envision Justice: https://www.bitchmedia.org/article/rewriting-the-future-prison-abolition-science-fiction

* Greta Thunberg, Speech at UN Climate Change COP24 Conference: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VFkQSGyeCWg

* “Man Enough” Series: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dVsbYas4tVo

* Pablo Servigne, Une Autre Fin Du Monde est Possible: https://www.amazon.fr/Une-autre-fin-monde-possible/dp/2021332586/ref=mp_s_a_1_1/262-3145776-3774944?__mk_fr_FR=%C3%85M%C3%85Z%C3%95%C3%91&qid=1546461302&sr=8-1&pi=AC_SX236_SY340_QL65&keywords=un+autre+monde+est+possible&dpPl=1&dpID=51UHxYSHfOL&ref=plSrch#

* Mediapart, Usul. « Gilets jaunes » : l’insurrection qui tient: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HnsxZLDDK14&feature=youtu.be

*  IPCC Report: https://www.ipcc.ch/sr15/

* The Truth and Reconciliation Commission Report: http://templatelab.com/truth-and-reconciliation-commission-calls-to-action/

* Arthur Manuel and Grand Chief Ronald M. Derrickson, Unsettling Canada: https://btlbooks.com/book/unsettling-canada

* Aph Ko, Aphro-ism: https://aphro-ism.com/

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In this episode, Mexie interviews renowned journalist and activist Abby Martin on the plight of Palestinians under Israeli occupation and on the recent and ongoing Great March of Return. Abby explains the history and brutality of Israeli occupation and exposes the horrors of life on the ground in Gaza and the West Bank. We discuss her coverage of the protests in Gaza, the geopolitics that allow this illegal occupation to continue, and the ultimate unfeasibility of a two-state solution. We end on a positive note with some of the successes of the BDS movement and what we can all do to fight for Palestinian rights.

Sources and Links

Videos

* The Empire Files, run by Abby Martin and Mike Prysner: http://theempirefiles.tv/

* The Empire Files on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCG29FnXZm4F5U8xpqs1cs1Q

* Abby Martin with Ahed Tamimi, A Spirit That Can’t be Jailed: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bca4FxNiuzQ

* Israelis Speak Candidly to Abby Martin About Palestinians: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1e_dbsVQrk4

* The Untold History of Palestine & Israel: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CUZaR3op1qw&feature=youtu.be

* Israeli Military Rule Jails All Activism in Palestine: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iSZ_qak5Aa8

* Israeli Soldier’s Explosive Tell-All: “Palestinians are Right to Resist”: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FkxJd88xkBU

* Inside the Hotbeds of Israeli Settler Terror: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AQGz2yM_6q8

* Israel Accelerates Land Theft & Home Demolitions: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JLEPdelcXoQ

* Touring Palestine’s Besieged Refugee Camps: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f3RypMScEMQ

Podcasts

* Media Roots Radio, hosted by Abby Martin and Robbie Martin: https://soundcloud.com/media-

* Abby Goes to Palestine: https://soundcloud.com/media-roots/abby-goes-to-palestine

* “Great March of Return” Massacre, Killing Gaza: Interview w/ Max Blumenthal & Dan Cohen: https://soundcloud.com/media-roots/great-march-of-return-killing-gaza-interview-w-max-blumenthal-dan-

Support Abby’s Work

* Media Roots Patreon Page: https://www.patreon.com/

* Empire Files Patreon Page: https://www.patreon.com/empirefiles

* Go Fund Me: Keep Empire Files Going: https://ca.gofundme.com/keep-empire-files-going

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