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People's History Podcast: "Rent Strike" (S1E3) Dec 03, 2019

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Tenants take their growing dissatisfaction and aim it at their landlord, the Boston Housing Authority.

This is episode three of the first season of a people's history podcast! "The Point: Rebellion and Resistance in Boston Public Housing" traces a social history of Boston from the urban rebellions of the 1960s, through busing in the 70s, into the Clinton era.

We investigate these events from the lens of one community: Columbia Point, the largest public housing project in New England. Built on an isolated landfill site next to the Boston city dump, it was the site of major organizing, from welfare rights to a Free Breakfast for Children program. It was also the first public housing project to be sold off and redeveloped as private "mixed-income" development (and was a model for the federal policy "HOPE VI").

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The Dig: Coup in Bolivia with Jeff Webber Nov 28, 2019

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Political scientist Jeff Webber discusses the coup against Evo Morales and the recent history of Bolivia.

Read "The Eighteenth Brumaire of Macho Camacho" by Jeff Webber and Forrest Hylton www.versobooks.com/blogs/4493-the-eighteenth-brumaire-of-macho-camacho-jeffery-r-webber-with-forrest-hylton-on-the-coup-in-bolivia

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Jacobin Radio: Labour Manifesto, Netanyahu Indictments, and the Bolivian Coup Nov 26, 2019

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Suzi speaks with Kevin Ovenden about Jeremy Corbyn’s new Labour Party manifesto. The just-launched manifesto promotes a vision for the country with broad appeal that challenges and counteracts the politics of austerity, despair, and decline that have characterized the last several decades. Corbyn is campaigning for real change, and we get Ovenden’s analysis. Suzi then talks to Yoav Peled in Tel Aviv about what happens now that interim Prime Minister Bibi Netanyahu, Israel’s longest-serving PM, has been indicted on three counts of bribery, fraud, and breach of trust. Neither Netanyahu’s Likudnor Benny Gantz’s Blue and White Party have been able so far to form a government since Israel’s second election of 2019 in September, and the indictments put Israel in uncharted political territory. We get Peled's insights on what happens next. Finally, Suzi talks to political sociologist Gabriel Hetland about Bolivia, now caught in a spiral of horrors as the far-right regime of terror consolidates its rule after the ouster of Evo Morales on November 10.We also get Gabriel’s latest research into the conditions of the disputed elections that led to Evo Morales’s contested victory and forced resignation.

People's History Podcast: "Grove Hall" (S1E2) Nov 26, 2019

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<h4>As urban rebellions arise in cities, welfare rights advocates in Boston public housing use militant tactics to get services they are owed.</h4><h4>This is episode two of the first season of a people's history podcast! "The Point: Rebellion and Resistance in Boston Public Housing" traces a social history of Boston from the urban rebellions of the 1960s, through busing in the 70s, into the Clinton era.</h4>

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The Dig: World on Fire with Naomi Klein Nov 22, 2019

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Dan interviews Naomi Klein on her new essay collection On Fire: The Burning Case for a Green New Deal.

Thanks to University of California Press. Check out their huge selection of titles at ucpress.edu

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Behind the News: Ryan Grim, Jenny Brown Nov 22, 2019

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Ryan Grim, author of We’ve Got People, on the long fight between insurgents and establishment in the Democratic Party. Then, Jenny Brown, author of Without Apology, on the history and politics of abortion in the United States (check out National Women’s Liberation and Redstockings).

The Vast Majority: Ecological Politics for the Working Class with Matt Huber Nov 21, 2019

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The Green New Deal is on the political agenda in the United States, and thank God for that. Can you imagine how depressing it would be to hear all of these climate reports from scientists around the world without the sense of hope and optimism that the GND has brought discussions of climate change? But how we go about fighting for a GND is crucial. Matt Huber argues in a recent essay in Catalyst that we need a class-struggle approach to fighting climate change. Workers hold more power than any other social group in society; without putting the working class at the center of a GND strategy, we're bound to lose. Matt Huber is a professor of geography at Syracuse University, and the author of 'LifeBlood: Oil, Freedom, and the Forces of Capital,' as well as a forthcoming book on class and climate politics from Verso. His essay "Ecological Politics for the Working Class" appears in the Spring 2019 edition of Catalyst. Read it here: https://catalyst-<wbr />journal.com/vol3/no1/<wbr />ecological-politics-for-the-<wbr />working-class

People's History Podcast: "Placement" (S1E1) Nov 19, 2019

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<h4>At Columbia Point, a Boston public housing project built in 1954, mothers organize to try and close the city dump.</h4><h4>This is episode one of the first season of the people's history podcast! "The Point: Rebellion and Resistance in Boston Public Housing" traces a social history of Boston from the urban rebellions of the 1960s, through busing in the 70s, into the Clinton era.</h4><h4>We investigate these events from the lens of one community: Columbia Point, the largest public housing project in New England. Built on an isolated landfill site next to the Boston city dump, it was the site of major organizing, from welfare rights to a Free Breakfast for Children program. It was also the first public housing project to be sold off and redeveloped as private "mixed-income" development (and was a model for the federal policy "HOPE VI").</h4>

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The Dig: Colonialism in Puerto Rico with Yarimar Bonilla Nov 15, 2019

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Maria hit Puerto Rico as austerity dismantled its social and material infrastructure. But as Yarimar Bonilla explains, these years also taught Puerto Ricans about their own collective power, fueling the summer’s mass movement that overthrew Governor Ricardo Rosselló.

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People's History Podcast: Trailer Nov 15, 2019

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