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Jacobin Radio: Joel Jordan and Constance Penley on Schools Reopening Jul 17, 2020

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Suzi talks to Joel Jordan and Constance Penley who make the case against school reopening for K-12 and the Universities. JoelJordan,retired LAUSD teacher and former UTLA strategist, is helping to coordinate a coalition of the largest teacher unions in California who are leading the fight by teachers, parents, and students against school reopening at the K-12 level. The teachers and their allies have won an initial victory -- Los Angeles and San Diego counties have just announced they will not open in the Fall. The resurgence of the deadly pandemic in the region underscores the danger of going back to school until the curve is flattened and the disease brought under control, giving the unions a temporary breathing space. The Trump administration, along with its corporate and political allies, have made reopening the economy the only priority and are stepping up the pressure to reopen so parents can be freed from childcare responsibilities and go back to work. Joel Jordan fills us in on the class-wide counter-organizing that is taking place.Constance Penley, President of the Council of UC Faculty Associations and Professor at UC Santa Barbara discusses the rush to bring students back to campuses at the university level in some form this fall. The issues are somewhat different for higher education than for K-12, but faculties across the board have questioned their institutions, who have presented an ever changing series of plans, rationales and procedures for bringing people back to campus without explaining why this is the right approach -- and more importantly, have left faculty input out of the equation in making the decisions that will affect their livelihood and health security. Constance Penley and the Council of UC Faculty Associations are also fighting the Trump administration’s efforts to force in-person classes by threatening to expel international students who don’t attend physical classrooms. We get her take on what is behind this push and the fight to prevent putting everyone’s health at risk.

The Dig: Young Lords with Johanna Fernández Jul 17, 2020

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This is an incredible moment to learn about the Young Lords from historian Johanna Fernández, the author of The Young Lords: A Radical History.

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Weekends: July 11, 2020 (ft. Nomi Prins) Jul 13, 2020

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Every Saturday starting at 1 PM ET, Ana Kasparian and Michael Brooks broadcast live from the Jacobin YouTube channel. On this episode, Michael is on break and Nando Vila is filling in. Ana and Nando speak with Nomi Prins, Journalist and author of Collusion: How Central Bankers Rigged the World.

Weekends on YouTube https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLxlNhP2f0kULVe45TbPaF-uLuMQYMJcLk

Brooks on Twitter https://twitter.com/_michaelbrooks

Kasparian on Twitter https://twitter.com/AnaKasparian

The Dig: Read This, Not White Fragility. With Jared Loggins and Wendi Muse. Jul 10, 2020

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Dan talks to @loggins__ and @MuseWendi about why people are reading White Fragility and ten books about racism, capitalism, and Black radicalism that you should read instead.

Check out Left POCket Project @LeftPOC

Blacks In and Out of the Left by Michael C Dawson

Dig interview with Michael Dawson

Democracy Remixed by Cathy Cohen

Dig interview with Cathy Cohen, Jasson Perez, Malaika Jabali

Mapping Diaspora: African American Roots Tourism in Brazil by Patricia de Santana Pinho

Racecraft: The Soul of Inequality in American Life by Karen E. Fields and Barbara J. Fields

Dig interview with the Fields sisters

Thick by Tressie McMillan Cottom

Jackson Rising: The Struggle for Economic Democracy and Black Self-Determination in Jackson, Mississippi by Kali Akuno and Ajamu Nangwaya

Out of the House of Bondage: The Transformation of the Plantation Household

We Will Shoot Back: Armed Resistance in the Mississippi Freedom Movement by Akinyele Omowale Umoja

The Meaning of Freedom by Angela Davis

Golden Gulag: Prisons, Surplus, Crisis, and Opposition in Globalizing California by Ruth Wilson Gilmore

Vast Majority: An Actual Socialist Win with Nikil Saval Jul 07, 2020

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Things have been pretty bleak across the US lately, so Meagan Day and Micah Uetricht were eager to talk to a socialist who actually won something recently: Nikil Saval, a democratic socialist who recently won the Democratic Primary for a state senate seat in Pennsylvania's first district. A profile of Nikil: https://www.jacobinmag.com/2020/05/pennsylvania-nikil-saval-rick-krajewski-reclaim-philadelphia Nikil's 2016 article about Bernie: https://nplusonemag.com/issue-26/the-intellectual-situation/canvassing/

Casualties of History: "Thrust Beyond the Bounds of the Constitution" Jul 06, 2020

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In this episode, Gabe talks with Gavin Mueller about Luddism. (Alex's internet died, so she's not part of this one.) What can an insurrection of machine breaking tell us about how solidarity develops? How should we relate to technology, and what role does technology — and opposition to it — play in the development of solidarity? Secondary readings: Eric Hobsbawm, "The Machine Breakers," https://www.jstor.org/stable/649989 Sophie Lewis, Full Surrogacy Now (https://www.versobooks.com/books/2951-full-surrogacy-now) Salar Mohandesi, "Class Consciousness or Class Composition?" https://guilfordjournals.com/doi/abs/10.1521/siso.2013.77.1.72 Online library of Johnson-Forest Tendency writings: https://libcom.org/tags/johnson%E2%80%93forest-tendency

The Dig: Nativist Carceral State, Aziz Rana interviews Dan Denvir Jul 04, 2020

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Aziz Rana interviews Dan Denvir on how policing and mass incarceration became core features of the war on immigrants and on his book All-American Nativism: How the Bipartisan War on Immigrants Explains Politics as We Know It.

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Buy Dan's book at versobooks.com/books/2858-all-american-nativism

Jacobin Radio: Robert Brenner on Coronavirus Jul 02, 2020

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Suzi talks toRobert Brenner,who has just published “Escalating Plunder” in New Left Review 123, about the federal response to the shutdown of the economy in the wake of the coronavirus. The punchline is that the COVID-19 bailout, or Cares Act, not only escalates plunder, it is predation on steroids in a stalled economy in worsening decline. In other words, the bipartisan establishment has concluded that they can only intervene — and call it rescue — by underwriting the rip-off already in motion, bailing out the top 0.1 percent in the face of plunging production, employment, and profits. Brenner calls out predation. We get his analysis.

The Vast Majority: Dirty Break with Eric Blanc and Kim Moody Jun 30, 2020

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Debating a "dirty break" from the Democrats, with Kim Moody, Eric Blanc, and co-hosted by Meagan Day.

You can read Eric’s article about the Minnesota Farmer-Labor party and dirty break strategy here: https://www.jacobinmag.com/2017/12/democratic-party-minnesota-farmer-labor-floyd-olson

Read Kim Moody’s rebuttal here: https://newpol.org/dirty-break-for-independent-political-action-or-a-way-to-stay-stuck-in-the-mud/

Weekends: June 27, 2020 (ft. Julia Salazar) Jun 30, 2020

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Every Saturday starting at 1 PM ET, Ana Kasparian and Michael Brooks broadcast live from the Jacobin YouTube channel. This week, June 27, 2020, New York State Senator Julia Salazar joins the show to discuss democratic socialists' recent election wins as well as movements outside the electoral arena.

Weekends on YouTube https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLxlNhP2f0kULVe45TbPaF-uLuMQYMJcLk

Brooks on Twitter https://twitter.com/_michaelbrooks

Kasparian on Twitter https://twitter.com/AnaKasparian

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