Ep 214 - 100 Strikes
Added 2023-05-15 13:38:59 +0000 UTCSTRIKE UPDATE! SEIU, WGA, AFL-CIO, PNWSU, MLBPA! Degrowth vs. workers' movement, WGA strike and culture production, the Player's Revolt against the National League, immanent critique of culture war, extinction rebellion as the zombie New Left, and much more!
APOLOGIES for the echoey/murmury audio stuff. I messed up and i won't do it again :(
AFL-CIO support Willow Project: -https://www.foxbusiness.com/energy/bidens-decision-massive-alaska-oil-project-determine-climate-future-labor-pres
WGA Updates: https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/business-news/los-angeles-hospitality-union-backs-writers-strike-1235483737/
https://www.vulture.com/2023/05/wga-2023-writers-strike-news-updates-day-10.html
Andrea Vetter clip discussed on Left Reckoning: https://twitter.com/LeftReckoning/status/1653101121429200901
Blue Bird EV buses unionize: https://www.nytimes.com/2023/05/12/us/politics/clean-energy-unions.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare
Robert B. Ross - The Great Players' Revolt
Song: 100 Gecs - Dumbest Girl Alive
Comments
Was chuffed to hear y'all talk about the drilling plans in Alaska. Since first hearing about the project moving towards development I've just taken it as granted that it will go thru, but would truly love to be surprised. Only hope i have is that it will bring some more money thru our town and liven things up for a couple of years, but that is a very slim hope.
Conicu Steele
2023-05-24 21:08:36 +0000 UTCSm28.org
The Antifada
2023-05-23 21:46:15 +0000 UTCWhat was the site Andy mentioned at the end re: reevaluating the George Floyd uprising?
Stephen CM
2023-05-23 16:48:19 +0000 UTCOk. Very interested to hear you mention prepperism. Would love if you guys did a deep dive into the prepper blogosphere and point your analytical eye to what is going on with those people. Is it just hyper individualistic reactionaries day dreaming about getting to kill refugees with their guns when they come for your stockpiled supplies?... Or is there something to the notion that the world will end and soon that is worth taking seriously? Would surviving in a post-collapse society even be worth it or would it be so horrible and traumatic that it's probably better to perish. Very interested to hear your take on these questions and more.
Will
2023-05-21 00:18:01 +0000 UTCTotal rookie question here, but how does the secular stagnation / long crisis of capital observation, where there's not enough profits to share with workers anymore, correlate with facts like CEO pay increasing by 1500% since 1978? Are these the results of two separate processes, one being a crisis of capital and the other the decline of workers' power?
Hans Netherwort
2023-05-20 01:32:24 +0000 UTCFuck, I totally hear the echo now, sorry AM, thought it was gone. Good ep in any case tho!
Baron
2023-05-18 18:31:37 +0000 UTCIf i may, I don't think we want to get rid of the new left, we just want to pick and choose more what in it. Like trying to link workplace and urban riot like the DRUM did in Detroit is interesting and their experience still valuable for that.
Francois xavier
2023-05-17 16:06:19 +0000 UTC100 gecks with the chopped and screwed papa roach riffs
M.R. Alchemist
2023-05-17 00:22:47 +0000 UTCBut “stupid horse” isn’t about a horse, it’s about cyclical bad luck within gambling. In contrast, “stupid horse (remix)” replaces betting on capital with taking a chance for love. To shag the jockey, to replace the “Porsche” with the “jeep.” They insert the alternative outcomes in the bridge, from 1), “Why am I never getting lucky?” to 2), “Why am I always so damn lucky?”
jcvd
2023-05-16 10:47:24 +0000 UTCOh shit, atom and his package reference
Adam
2023-05-16 07:49:48 +0000 UTCVedder sounds like another opinion-curating rad-lib; AS ineffective as the right soc-dems she's criticizing
M.R. Alchemist
2023-05-15 23:14:37 +0000 UTCY’all should check out King Gizzard! Their new album PetroDragonic Apocalypse; or, Dawn of Eternal Night: An Annihilation of Planet Earth and the Beginning of Merciless Damnation is dropping soon. And their album Infest The Rats Nest is about a world in which the rich have ruined earth and colonized Mars (the rat’s nest), then the poor people abandoned on earth end up going to Mars and fucking the rich people’s shit up
Andrew Rigney
2023-05-15 16:15:55 +0000 UTC
