What's Left?

We discuss the hype around the Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s Green New Deal Committee proposal. For background on this check out these two links. Naomi Klein article on Green New Deal: Green New Deal: What’s Left? Website: Podcasts: iTunes: Googleplaymusic: stitcher: Additional Links: Fallacies of “Green Growth” Greenwashing South Korean Greenwashing The Scary Truth on the 2008 Bailout Some Background on the New Deal The Sunrise Movement

“People should not be afraid of their governments, governments should be afraid of their people.” -V for Vendetta What’s Left? Website: Podcasts: iTunes: Googleplaymusic: stitcher: Additional Links: 47 Demands of the Yellow Jackets Who are the gilets jaunes and what do they want? This Woman Pays Drug Users Not To Have Kids (HBO)

In light of workers and their children being tear-gassed at the border while struggle takes place in parts of Europe (and even some in SF), and movements in Europe around Brexit, in this episode, we take up the question of nationalism. What’s Left? Website: Podcasts: iTunes: Googleplaymusic: stitcher: Additional Links: https://socialistworker.org/2018/11/27/the-case-against-the-case-against-open-borders Previous What’s Left Episodes worth checking out: Honduran Episode White Privilege episode

We discuss some of the issues that come up for both of us when we think more deeply about the Thanksgiving holiday. What does it say about the real legacy of the United States? What is the holiday really about? What was the fate of both pilgrims and Native Americans and where are they at today? What are the lessons can we take away from this most famous of US holidays? What’s Left? Website: Podcasts: iTunes: Googleplaymusic: stitcher:

California is on fire! Why is this happening? How did these fires start? Why do the fires seem to be getting worse each year? Can we do anything about it? We both learned a lot in preparing for this episode so make sure to check out the links provided with it. Also, this episode has more images included in it to compliment the audio, so you might want to check out the video version as well. What’s Left? Website: Podcasts: iTunes: Googleplaymusic: stitcher: Additional Links: Air Quality Index Indicator How fighting wildfires makes them worse Power lines are burning the West Management vs Suppression MIT study on Forest Management

A week after the U.S. midterm elections, we discuss what happened to the projected ‘blue wave’ that was supposed to sweep the political landscape in Washington. Well, there was no blue wave? Why not? What was significant about these elections? What did it accomplish? What comes next? 2020 elections?!?! Really!?!?! What’s Left? Website: Podcasts: iTunes: Googleplaymusic: stitcher: Additional Links: We watched hackers break into voting machines Def Con hackers made quick work of electronic voting machines

It’s only one more day before the U.S. mid-term election, and we thought it would be a good opportunity to discuss our differing opinions on the merits of voting in bourgeois elections. Things get a little heated, but in the end we come out buddies even if we have to agree to disagree on some issues. What’s Left? Website: Podcasts: iTunes: Googleplaymusic: stitcher:

Eduardo and Andy discuss the migrant caravan that is making its way from Honduras to the US border. What are the reasons for the caravan? How the immigrant plight is being used by US politicians and why open borders and a giant “Bienvenidos!” Is the only sensible attitude to have to their treacherous but heroic journey. What’s Left? Website: Podcasts: iTunes: Googleplaymusic: stitcher: Additional Links: Their courageous caravan needs our solidarity US Threatens Military Response on Border How US Policy in Honduras Set Stage for Migration US Role in Honduran Coup Immigrants and Violent Crime MS-13: Born in the USA Stats on Immigration Do Immigrants Steal Jobs? Why US is Losing Manufacturing Jobs Gentrification is Internal Immigration

Eduardo and Andy discuss the brutal assassination of Jamal Khashoggi. Who was he? and what happened to him? Who is responsible? And what are the machinations behind all the changing stories coming from Donald Trump and the Saudi regime in Riyadh?  What’s Left? Website:  Podcasts: iTunes:  Googleplaymusic:  stitcher:  Additional Links:  Jamal Khashoggi's Career Profile Who Was Jamal Khashoggi? A Saudi Insider Who Became an Exiled Critic  Jamal Khashoggi was a journalist, not a jihadist  Reformist impulse in Saudi Arabia suffers setbackA journalist who questioned the power of the Saudi religious establishment is fired  Crocodile Tears from the US establishment 

Apologies for the audio trouble.  We are still working out the kinks of our sound for interviews. This week, we interview Bruce Neuberger.  A 60's radical, who unlike many of his generation, has stayed radical all his life.  He is a Maoist who still exposes and fights Capitalism and all the inequality that comes with it. He has also written a book on his time organizing in the fields of Salinas CA in an excellent book, entitled "Lettuce Wars". Here Bruce shares his thoughts about struggle of the 60s and today as well as his conception of Socialism.  What's Left? Website:  Podcasts: iTunes:    Googleplaymusic:  stitcher: Readings/links recommended by Bruce. There's a new video just out by Avakian called Why We Need An Actual Revolution and How We Can Make Revolution I'd like to draw attention to. The one title I can think of would be in the beginning with my name, Author of Lettuce Wars, Ten Years of Work and Struggle in the Fields of California.  The New Communism by Bob Avakian    Science and Revolution An interview with Ardea Skybreak   The Half Has Never Been Told: Slavery and the Making of American Capitalism. By Edward E. Baptist. New York: Basic Books, 2014. Pp. xxvii, 498  A People's History of the United States by Howard Zinn BIRDS CANNOT GIVE BIRTH TO CROCODILES, BUT HUMANITY CAN SOAR BEYOND THE HORIZON PART 1: REVOLUTION AND THE STATE   BIRDS CANNOT GIVE BIRTH TO CROCODILES, BUT HUMANITY CAN SOAR BEYOND THE HORIZON Part 2: BUILDING THE MOVEMENT FOR REVOLUTION   The Unknown Cultural Revolution by Dong Ping Han Monthly Review Press 2009  The Battle for China’s Past by Mobo Gao Pluto Press, 2008