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Global Vaccine Apartheid with Achal Prabhala Mar 20, 2021

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Astra Taylor interviews Achal Prabhala on emerging global vaccine apartheid: from the neoliberal turn handing the pharmaceutical industry global patents to today’s government-funded vaccines put under private pharma control.

Groups fighting global vaccine apartheid
Public Citizen: citizen.org/topic/safe-affordable-drugs-devices/global-access-to-medicines
MSF: msfaccess.org
Prep4All: prep4all.org
People’s Vaccine Alliance: peoplesvaccine.org

Recent work by Prabhala:
nytimes.com/2020/12/07/opinion/covid-vaccines-patents.html
nytimes.com/2021/02/05/opinion/covid-vaccines-china-russia.html
theguardian.com/commentisfree/2020/oct/15/peoples-vaccine-coronavirus-covid-wto

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We Need the PRO Act with Jimmy Williams Mar 13, 2021

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Why we need the PRO Act with Jimmy Williams, General Vice President of the International Union of Painters and Allied Trades.

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Join The Dig Book Club and discuss The Digital Party: Political Organisation and Online Democracy with Paolo Gerbaudo thedigradio.com/dig-book-club. Same to zoom with Astra Taylor and Erick Stoll on their doc You Are Not a Loan.

State of the Unions with Alex Press & Jonah Furman Mar 13, 2021

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Dan interviews Jacobin‘s Alex Press and organizer Jonah Furman on the state of the labor movement.

Read Alex Press’s interview with political scientist Michael Goldfield on the Amazon organizing drive in Bessemer jacobinmag.com/2021/02/amazon-unionize-alabama-operation-dixie-organizing-south

Subscribe to Jonah Furman’s newsletter whogetsthebird.substack.com

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Revisiting Racecraft with Barbara and Karen Fields Mar 05, 2021

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We’re taking a week off to play catch up and posting an early Dig episode from the archives that people keep returning to time and again: Barbara and Karen Fields on their book Racecraft: The Soul of Inequality in American Life (episode 75 from December 13, 2017). Peruse The Dig’s vast archives at thedigradio.com and we’ll be back with a new ep next week.

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Join The Dig Book Club and discuss The Digital Party: Political Organisation and Online Democracy with Paolo Gerbaudo thedigradio.com/dig-book-club. Same to zoom with Astra Taylor and Erick Stoll on their doc You Are Not a Loan.

Work Won’t Love You Back with Sarah Jaffe Feb 25, 2021

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Dan interviews Sarah Jaffe on her book Work Won’t Love You Back: How Devotion To Our Jobs Keeps Us Exploited, Exhausted and Alone.

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Join The Dig Book Club and discuss The Digital Party: Political Organisation and Online Democracy with Paolo Gerbaudo thedigradio.com/dig-book-club

Conservative Intelligentsia with Sam Adler-Bell & Matt Sitman Feb 19, 2021

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Dan interviews Sam Adler-Bell and Matt Sitman on the history and post-Trump trajectory of conservative intelligentsia.

Listen to Know Your Enemy, their really great podcast on the American Right, wherever you get your podcasts. Sign up on Patreon for bonus episodes: patreon.com/knowyourenemy

Recommended reading and listening:

“What’s left of liberalism? Why the left and right both seem to agree that liberalism has failed us.” By Sam Adler-Bell
“Know Your Enemy #13: What Happened to Norman? with David Klion”
“I Thought I Understood the American Right. Trump Proved Me Wrong.” By Rick Perlstein
“The dark history of Donald Trump’s rightwing revolt.” By Timothy Shenk
“The Year the Clock Broke.” By John Ganz
“Anti-’68ers and the Racist-Libertarian Alliance: How a Schism among Austrian School Neoliberals Helped Spawn the Alt Right.” By Quinn Slobodian
“Leaving Conservatism Behind: How I renounced the God-and-guns conservatism of my blue-collar roots and embraced class politics.” By Matt Sitman
Join the Dig Book Club and zoom with Astra Taylor and Erick Stoll at thedigradio.com/dig-book-club. Watch their doc You Are Not a Loan here.

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Empires Without Imperialism with Jeanne Morefield Feb 11, 2021

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Dan interviews Jeanne Morefield on her book Empires Without Imperialism: Anglo-American Decline and the Politics of Deflection and how the disavowed wars have come home on the American Right.

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Digital Party with Paolo Gerbaudo Feb 03, 2021

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Dan interviews sociologist Paolo Gerbaudo on his book The Digital Party: Political Organisation and Online Democracy. How does the promise of direct digital democracy obscure how leaders are made more powerful and less accountable? Examples from Italy (Five Star Movement) and Spain (Podemos). How does the failure to incorporate people into rooted forms of political organization undermine the left’s power, coherence, and durability? Example from the USA (the funhouse mirror-appeal of a certain YouTube comedian).

Related episodes from The Dig archives:
Hegemony How-To with Jonathan Matthew Smucker thedigradio.com/podcast/hegemony-how-to-with-jonathan-matthew-smucker
How Left Parties Neoliberalized with Stephanie Mudge thedigradio.com/podcast/how-left-parties-neoliberalized-with-stephanie-mudge

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Pakistan Hyperreality with Fatima Bhutto Jan 27, 2021

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Dan interviews author Fatima Bhutto on social media subjectivities; Pakistani history, politics, and identity; and her novel The Runaways.

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Resource Radicals with Thea Riofrancos Jan 20, 2021

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Dan interviews Thea Riofrancos on how Ecuador’s Pink Tide government was constrained by an unequal world system and on the conflict over mining that erupted between leftist President Rafael Correa and the Indigenous movement that laid the groundwork for his rise to power.

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