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It Could Happen Here

It Could Happen Here started as an exploration of the possibility of a new civil war. Now a daily show, it’s evolved into a chronicle of collapse as it happens, and an exploration of how we might build a better future. Every day Robert Evans, Garrison Davis, Mia Wong, and James Stout take you on a jaunty walk through the burning ruins of the old world and towards a better one that lays just on the horizon.

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How Strikes Build Democratic Workplaces Apr 17, 2025

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Mia and Spencer Jordan of the Urban Ore Workers Union discuss the workplace as a microcosm of the authoritarianism currently sweeping the American political system and how their strike is fighting back.

https://gofund.me/9ce38160

https://www.instagram.com/urban_ore_workers/

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Trump's Concentration Camps in El Salvador Apr 16, 2025

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Gare and James discuss a meeting between Trump and El Salvador President Nayib Bukele on expanding CECOT style prisons to hold US citizens and immigrants.

Sources:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ogLw7I2BWO0

https://www.politico.com/news/2025/04/14/el-salvador-president-return-wrongly-deported-trump-00289234

https://documentedny.com/2025/04/14/ice-bukele-cecot-tren-de-aragua-el-salvador-new-york-deported/

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Behind Myanmar's Devastating Earthquake Apr 15, 2025

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James and Gare discuss the terrible impact of the earthquake that hit Sagaing in late March, how the Junta has blocked aid workers, and how the revolution has responded. We also talk about how you can help.

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Sources:
https://www.irrawaddy.com/news/burma/up-to-700-myanmar-muslims-killed-in-quake-hit-mosques-weakened-by-neglect.html

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/30/world/asia/myanmar-earthquake-aftershocks-airstrikes.html

https://myanmar-now.org/en/news/myanmar-juntas-aerial-attacks-continue-despite-post-quake-ceasefire/

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/myanmar-junta-shoots-chinese-earthquake-aid-convoy-rcna199233

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/07/world/asia/myanmar-earthquake-aid.html

https://www.reuters.com/article/economy/myanmar-lashes-out-at-quotchocolate-barquot-foreign-aid-idUSSP172535/

https://www.irrawaddy.com/news/burma/lives-updates-quake-death-toll-rises-to-3600-junta-suspends-tourist-visa-after-quake-private-us-field-hospital-in-naypyitaw-and-more.html

https://www.irrawaddy.com/opinion/guest-column/global-response-to-myanmar-earthquake-shines-light-on-strategic-rivalries.html

https://www.irrawaddy.com/news/burma/live-updates-death-toll-exceeds-3500-hundreds-in-urgent-need-of-quake-aid-juntas-airstrikes-still-rage-on-and-more.html

https://www.irrawaddy.com/news/world/live-updates-death-toll-rises-to-3471-quake-relief-teams-must-obey-junta-us-pledges-additional-7-million-in-quake-relief-and-more.html

https://myanmar-now.org/en/news/resistance-forces-capture-indaw-town-after-months-of-fighting/?sfnsn=scwspmo

https://www.irrawaddy.com/news/war-against-the-junta/myanmar-junta-airstrikes-kill-over-30.html

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When Care Workers Organize Apr 14, 2025

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Mia talks with Jess and Jesus from Friends PDX Union Network about their work mentoring underprivileged youth at Friends of the Children and their unionization efforts.

https://www.instagram.com/friendspdxunionnetwork/

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CZM Book Club: The Barrow Will Send What it May, Chapter Four Apr 13, 2025

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Margaret reads another chapter from the second book in her Danielle Cain series.

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It Could Happen Here Weekly 177 Apr 12, 2025

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All of this week's episodes of It Could Happen Here put together in one large file.

Behind the Scenes of That Teen Vogue Article on Vivian Wilson, Elon Musk's Daughter
Why Watching Actors Get Maimed By Big Cats Gives Me Hope For The Future
How ICE Kidnapped A Farmworker Union Organizer
Esperanto with Andrew
Executive Disorder: White House Weekly #11

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Sources/Links:

Behind the Scenes of that Teen Vogue Article on Vivian Wilson, Elon Musk's Daughter

https://www.teenvogue.com/story/vivian-jenna-wilson-elon-musk-trans-youth

Executive Disorder: White House Weekly #11

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/07/us/politics/trump-administration-immigrant-detention-facilities-services.html?unlocked_article_code=1.-E4.PL6V.gJR0OQEOJP8G&smid=url-share

https://ucsdguardian.org/2025/04/07/5-ucsd-students-face-sudden-f-1-visa-terminations-a-6th-deported-at-the-border-no-apparent-pattern-among-students-targeted/

https://www.universityofcalifornia.edu/press-room/university-california-statement-international-students-visa-status-terminations

https://bsky.app/profile/reichlinmelnick.bsky.social/post/3lmcxoqk2ts24

https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.dcd.278147/gov.uscourts.dcd.278147.30.1_1.pdf

https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/24pdf/24a931_2c83.pdf

https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/25881144-24a949/

https://bsky.app/profile/khuddleston.bsky.social/post/3lmaiaxi7f226

https://www.houstonpublicmedia.org/articles/news/politics/immigration/2025/03/18/516185/hpd-says-their-stance-on-immigration-enforcement-hasnt-changed-despite-recent-turnover-to-ice/

https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefings-statements/2025/04/cea-chairman-steve-miran-hudson-institute-event-remarks/

https://apnews.com/article/china-response-us-tariffs-104-d40d497f6e07ee4163d88443cb75ab3f

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Executive Disorder: White House Weekly #11 Apr 11, 2025

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The gang discuss tariff chaos, the IRS handing over data to ICE, student visa cancellations, “lethality” in the military, and the Supreme Court.

Sources:

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/07/us/politics/trump-administration-immigrant-detention-facilities-services.html?unlocked_article_code=1.-E4.PL6V.gJR0OQEOJP8G&smid=url-share

https://ucsdguardian.org/2025/04/07/5-ucsd-students-face-sudden-f-1-visa-terminations-a-6th-deported-at-the-border-no-apparent-pattern-among-students-targeted/

https://www.universityofcalifornia.edu/press-room/university-california-statement-international-students-visa-status-terminations

https://bsky.app/profile/reichlinmelnick.bsky.social/post/3lmcxoqk2ts24

https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.dcd.278147/gov.uscourts.dcd.278147.30.1_1.pdf

https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/24pdf/24a931_2c83.pdf

https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/25881144-24a949/

https://bsky.app/profile/khuddleston.bsky.social/post/3lmaiaxi7f226

https://www.houstonpublicmedia.org/articles/news/politics/immigration/2025/03/18/516185/hpd-says-their-stance-on-immigration-enforcement-hasnt-changed-despite-recent-turnover-to-ice/

https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefings-statements/2025/04/cea-chairman-steve-miran-hudson-institute-event-remarks/

https://apnews.com/article/china-response-us-tariffs-104-d40d497f6e07ee4163d88443cb75ab3f

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Esperanto with Andrew Apr 10, 2025

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Andrew is joined by James to discuss the history and practice of Esperanto, the global language.

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How ICE Kidnapped A Farmworker Union Organizer Apr 09, 2025

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Mia talks with Coalition of Independent Unions organizer Mark Medina about ICE's kidnapping of Familias Unidas por la Justicia organizer Alfredo “Lelo” Juarez, Lelo's work, and the April 12th rally at Portland City Hall to free him.

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Why Watching Actors Get Maimed By Big Cats Gives Me Hope For The Future Apr 08, 2025

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Robert explains why he repeatedly returns to Roar, a movie where the cast and crew are repeatedly for-real maimed by giant cats, when he needs to feel optimistic about the future of the human race.

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