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Zen and the Art of Decolonization w/ Peter Coyote (Part 2) Oct 24, 2021

Show notes

In the second part of our first episode of Armed Love, Peter Coyote discusses his interest in Zen, how it came to be so influential to the beatniks and hippies, and his background with indigenous solidarity, particularly the campaign to free Leonard Peltier.

Coyote recommends Peter Matthiessen's In the Spirit of Crazy Horse regarding Peltier, and The New Buddhism by David Brazier and How the Swans came to the Lake by Rick Fields about Zen Buddhism.

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Opening song: Pink Fairies - Do it

Closing song - John Trudell - Look at Us / Peltier / Aim Song

Armed Love - The Diggers w/ Peter Coyote (Part 1) Oct 20, 2021

Show notes

We begin our new series on the revolutionary counterculture of the sixties by interviewing Peter Coyote, founding member of the Diggers -- an anarchist group from San Francisco whose free stores, tie-died shirts, free concerts, and activist street theater opened the gates of the Haight to tens of thousands of dropouts and helped define the sixties aesthetic. But by '67, the Diggers were already trying to escape the hippie movement by forming a network of revolutionary communes.

Joining Andy for the interview is Sean Lovitt, researcher sixties revolutionary groups and author of Mimeo Insurrection: The Sixties Underground Press and Long Hot Summer of Riots

Topics discussed include: The SF Mime Troop and their controversial minstrel show, the formation of the Diggers, the alleged insurrectionary activities, the Hells Angels, psychedelic drug culture and conspiracies, and the movements against war and for racial justice then and now.

For Part 2 of the series visit Patreon.com/TheAntifada

Check out Peter Coyote's books Sleeping Where I fall and Rainman’s Third Cure

And Diane di Prima's Revolutionary Letters

Intro song: Patti Smith - Citizen Ship

Outro Song - My Chemical Romance - Desolation Row

Ep 162 - TFW No Supply Chain w/ Paul Channelstrip Oct 13, 2021

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Jamie and Sean are joined by superproducer Paul Channelstrip (@aufhebenkultur) (Antifada twitch channel, Everybody Loves Communism, many more) for a laid back episode about the zoo, a high profile bird murder, and the tendency of the rate of treats to fall over time. Why is the supply chain having a normal one and what does it mean for the current phase of capitalism?

You can watch this trio shoot the shit from 3pm-5pm ET every Wednesday and Friday at Twitch.tv/TheAntifada!

Check out Paul's many projects:

Everybody Loves Communism <--Jamie's new history and theory pod

Mortal Science

Varn Vlog

Reel Abstractions

closing song: Berner - Status

Ep 161: Whither the Limeys? w/ Riley Quinn and Nate Bethea Oct 06, 2021

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The madlads from TrashFuture are back! Sean is joined by Riley (@raaleh) and Nate (@inthesedeserts) to discuss the very public meltdown of, well, you know, the entire British civilization. As it turns out, things in the UK are even more bleak than they appear from across the pond: supply chains breaking down, petrol stations empty, services being cut, etc. But even more dire, and darkly funny, is the reaction of the British ruling class' which absolutely refuses to rule. Put on your schadenfreude caps before queuing up for this one.

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Good writers on the UK mentioned by Nate:

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6372431-when-the-lights-went-out

https://tribunemag.co.uk/author/owen-hatherley

Outro: Stormzy - Disapointed

Ep 160 - Occupy Turns Ten w/ Natasha Lennard Sep 29, 2021

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Jamie and Andy are joined by Natasha Lennard (@NatashaLennard), contributing writer at The Intercept and author of "Being Numerous: Essays on Non-Fascist Life," to commemorate Occupy Wall Street's ten-year anniversary. What are people erasing when they remember Occupy solely as something that "changed the conversation" around wealth inequality? How did the occupiers demonstrate anarchist politics in action? And what lessons can we carry into the future as we fight not merely to shore up the system, but to overthrow it?

Natasha on OWS:

https://theintercept.com/2016/10/01/occupy-wall-street-brooklyn-bridge-five-years/

https://www.thenation.com/article/activism/occupy-socialist-anarchist/

Audio: Slavoj Zizek speaks at OWS: https://imposemagazine.com/bytes/slavoj-zizek-at-occupy-wall-street-transcript

"Peanut butter man" is alive and well and asks that we support LES Food Not Bombs: tiktok.com/@lesfoodnotbombs, Instagram.com/lesfoodnotbombs

Closing song: Third Eye Blind - If There Ever Was a Time

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Ep 159 - Forever Wars and No Strike Clause w/ Adam H Johnson Sep 22, 2021

Show notes

Sean is joined by special guest Adam H Johnson (@adamjohnsonnyc), writer and host of the excellent Citations Needed podcast, to discuss the political economy of mass media, how consent is manufactured and the myriad ways in which the capitalist press is complicit even in a declining US empire.

Then, with some extra time, Sean gives a briefing of several recent strikes and what they might mean for organized labor going forward.

Links:

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2021/09/13/the-other-afghan-women

https://labornotes.org/2021/09/ten-thousand-uaw-members-gear-strike-vote-john-deere

https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2021/09/13/pari-s13.html

https://www.wweek.com/news/2021/09/06/nabisco-owner-sends-cease-and-desist-to-bakers-union-pledging-legal-action/

https://labornotes.org/2021/09/after-voting-down-four-tentative-agreements-washington-carpenters-strike

Closing song: B.o.B. - Arena

BONUS: The Strokes Did 9-11 (PREVIEW) Sep 17, 2021

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The crew discuss some of the cultural changes that happened in New York City and the country following the attacks of September 11th through the lens of the biggest band of that era, The Strokes.

Ep 158 - 9/11's Worst Responders w/ Research & Destroy Sep 15, 2021

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We share our stories of 9/11 (some more harrowing than others) and commemorate some of the lesser known actions of the NYPD and FDNY with one of the anonymous members of Research and Destroy NYC

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Download Research and Destroy's free zine New York's Worst Responders free: https://researchdestroy.com/new-yorks-worst-responders-nypd-and-9-11.pdf

Music: Bruce Springsteen - Into the Fire

BONUS: Memes Without Ends w/ Meg Williams (preview) Sep 10, 2021

Show notes

Meme Militant Meg and Andy read the essay Memes Without End by Adrian Wohlleben, in which he argues that elements of recent uprisings like the Yellow Vests of France, turnstile hopping of Chile, the umbrella-wielding frontliners of Hong Kong were memes that help them spread in a way that traditional social movements cannot.

Can we meme revolution into reality? Or is it impossible to force a meme? We discuss Richard Dawkins, Susan Blackmore, Darwin, and more!

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Ep 157 - Steel this Book w/ Zhana Kurti, Dave Ranney, Kingsley Clarke Sep 08, 2021

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The late Noel Ignatiev's comrades Zhana Kurti (from Hard Crackers) and Dave Ranney and Kingsley Clarke from the Sojourner Truth Organization discuss the release of Acceptable Men, a memoir of Noel's time in the '70s as militant worker in the larger US Steel Mill in Gary Indiana.

Buy Acceptable Men from Charles H. Kerr Books or AK Press

And follow Kerr Books on Twitter

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Show notes:

Dave Ranney's Living and Dying on the Factory Floor review:

https://www.angryworkers.org/2019/11/26/living-and-dying-on-the-factory-floor-by-dave-ranney/

Hard Crackers Journal:

https://hardcrackers.com/

Eulogy of Noel Ignatiev by Jarrod Shanahan:

https://communemag.com/noel-ignatiev-1940-2019/

Truth and Revolution: A history of the Sojourner Truth Organization: https://www.akpress.org/truthandrevolution.html

Song: Dave Dudley - Steel Worker Blues