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PREVIEW: Real Poly Hours™ Jan 14, 2019

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We leave it to our patrons to guess what picante takes we have on polyamory. Is it bourgeois decadence that serves only to aggrandize our tech bro overlords? Or is it a totally normal and fine life choice that haters should stfu about?

Article: https://qz.com/1501725/polyamorous-sex-is-the-most-quietly-revolutionary-political-weapon-in-the-united-states/?utm_source=reddit.com

*PREVIEW* BONUS: Real Crimethinc/Jamie Peck GOVERNMENT SHUTDOWN Hours Jan 07, 2019

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The government: we all hate it. But what happens if it just decides to go away? Recently Jamie joked on the Majority Report that it would be cool. Others, like the anarchist collective Crimethinc, have argued this point in earnest. We read their article and point out some flaws in their reasoning. While we agree with their vision of a self-organized, stateless society, we have a long way to go.

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Read the full article here: https://crimethinc.com/2018/01/19/anarchists-government-shutdown-doesnt-go-far-enough-make-the-shutdown-comprehensive-and-permanent

Closing music: Zegota - Laika https://crimethinc.bandcamp.com/album/movement-in-the-music

Episode 33: Insurgent Geographies w/ Nerve Macaspac Dec 26, 2018

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We're joined by geographer and filmmaker Dr. Nerve V. Macaspac to talk about the history of the Philippines, its Maoist insurgency, and the rise of Rodrigo Duterte. We also talk Amazon, red-lining, Marxist geography, and Presidential foot fetishism. The last part of the episode is a discussion of Nerve's work on autonomous territories in Colombia, Mexico, and the Philippines that have earned some form of autonomy after decades of brutal armed struggle.

A long episode just too good to cut down! A 50th Anniversary of the foundation of the Filipino Communist Party spectacular!

Read Nerve's essay on "Insurgent Peace" https://www.tandfonline.com/eprint/KFRJSbvZkwAfB2sKpxGn/full

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Closing music is Namatay Sa Ingay - Panimula and Berdugo https://namataysaingay.bandcamp.com/ (all sales of this album go to victims of the drug war)

BONUS PREVIEW: SJW Youtube Fail w/ Alex Ptak Dec 24, 2018

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The AntiFaPDA (That's Antifada + Pod Damn America, not a new anti-masturbation campaign) continues with our guest Alex Ptak and a deep dive into the depths of SJW Youtuber Marla Mae Fish! We defend Tim Burton and his goth babe characters from her bad liberal takes. Is this the foundation of an Internationalist Dark Web?

Enjoy Mary Mae Fish's YT account here: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UChBD4NpITiW2CzIz5GwppDA Then watch some Contrapoints instead

Episode 32 - Two Minutes Chait w/ Alex Ptak Dec 19, 2018

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Comedian Alex Ptak (@ptakjokes) of Ballin' Out Super and fam-cast Pod Damn America popped into the studio for a free-wheeling exchange of ideas.

We confronted the most pressing issues of the day: How many radicalized Wine Moms will it take to bring on the rev? Now that Teen Vogue is anarchist and Penthouse is fash, which basic-ass mag will be the next to pivot? Why did Amazon think they could bring their subsidized helipad HQ to NYC with no consequences when this is a GODDAMN union town? And is Jonathan Chait the scabbiest scab who ever scabbed?

All this and an update on merch!

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Get your dose of Ptak: http://alexptak.com https://soundcloud.com/ballin-out-super https://soundcloud.com/user-423070290

Outro: Redskins - Go Get Organized https://youtu.be/sBquv9EcVWk

Episode 31: There is No Left Case Against Open Borders w/ Justin Akers Chacón Dec 12, 2018

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Justin Akers Chacón, a person who actually knows what he's talking about, joins us to discuss the left case for actually knowing that the hell you're talking about.

After some opening thoughts on the 'Yellow Vest' movement in France (which Sean mistakenly calls the 'Yellow Jackets' at least 4 times bc he clearly has some unresolved childhood bee issues) we dive into the migration maelstrom.

Are borders good for unions? Has appealing to state repression been totally awesome for the labor movement? Does creating a criminalized minority of precarious workers help to bring the socialism? Can we trust Hillary Clinton, Emmanuel Macron and Tony Blair to triangulate us out of this mess we're in? Will the transnational working class ever be able to organize in an era of racial fear-mongering, militarized borders and the unfettered flow of capital?

(That last one was a trick question. Justin gives us amazing examples of how transnational organizing can happen, has happened and is an absolute fucking necessity. Enjoy!)

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Good essay on Gilet Jaunes from Lundi Matin, translated by Ill Will Editions: http://ill-will-editions.tumblr.com/post/180774090884/next-stop-destitution-published-on-lundi-matin

Textual riot porn and analysis from Crimethinc: https://crimethinc.com/2018/12/06/the-movement-as-battleground-fighting-for-the-soul-of-the-yellow-vest-movement

Video of Paris Antifa running Action Francais out of Gilet Jaunes https://twitter.com/enough14/status/1071388684606418949

Check out Justin's work: Ownage https://socialistworker.org/2018/11/27/the-case-against-the-case-against-open-borders

'No One is Illegal' with Mike Davis https://www.haymarketbooks.org/books/1086-no-one-is-illegal-updated-edition

'Radicals in the Barrio: Magonistas, Socialists, Wobblies, and Communists in the Mexican-American Working Class' https://www.haymarketbooks.org/books/987-radicals-in-the-barrio

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Outro: Haircut - Gritona https://haircutva.bandcamp.com/

Episode 30: Mapache Guevara Dec 05, 2018

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Sean and Jamie are back from their magical Mexican vacation! We talk about why we love visiting Mexico, the legend of Trotsky's cookies, their Chiapas car calamity, La Chica Arana's summit with Corbyn and Amlo, a visit to Zapatista territory, Sean's run-in with a caravan of internally-displaced indigenous Mexicans, and, of course, doing acid on the beach.

Show notes: Did someone bake Trotsky's ashes into cookies? https://anarchistnews.org/content/trotskys-ashes-stolen-and-baked-cookies

The story of Chavajebal, a village abandoned by its residents in November after a paramilitary siege: https://mexiconewsdaily.com/news/3-dead-1500-displaced/

Oventic language school: https://schoolsforchiapas.org/advances/schools/oventic-language-school/

Info about mutual aid for the caravan in Tijuana: https://commotion.world/

Episode image by Erika Santiago https://www.instagram.com/little.eyes.alien

Closing music, Cremalleras - En Todos Lados https://cremalleras.bandcamp.com/

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UNLOCKED! - Real (?) Moist Hours w/ AP Andy, Jamie Peck & Sean KB Nov 28, 2018

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We've been on vacation for the last week and a half, so we've decided to unlock some premium content from a couple of months ago for our subscribers-slash-not-yet-patrons. Enjoy!

When the alleged 'Florida Communist Front' outlined a concrete proposal to begin, fight and win a Protracted People's War from the Everglades, Antifada just had to take a deep dive into this dialectical swamp.

How can revolutionary forces utilize mangrove trees and reptilian fauna to overthrown imperialism in the capitalist core? How do we apply praxis from the Maoist insurgency in 1920s-40s to the great state of Florida today? How will FCF unite with the DPRK to get the NUKES that can defeat the running dogs of the imperialist bourgeoisie?

All will be revealed within.. that is, if this entire document isn't some incredibly well-honed satire. Regardless, the crew had a lot of fun with it!

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Wob Damn America Nov 21, 2018

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Sean joins the DAMNED in an Antifada crossover episode with Pod Damn America for a special History is a Weapon about the Industrial Workers of the World, aka the wobblies. The anarchistic-Marxistic union organized hundreds of thousands of US workers with a goal of becoming "one big union" and abolishing class society. Jake Flores, Sean KB, and Alex Ptak recount some of their more dramatic adventures and how the economy of that era compares to the present moment. How can radicals of today learn lessons from the historical IWW without fetishizing them as simply badass soapbox militants with a snappy songbook?

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*BONUS episode preview* Audio Riot Porn Nov 19, 2018

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Pavlos stays after-hours to indulge our wildest fantasies with his illicit tales of sultry Syntagma street action. The Hellenic hunk's voyeuristic remembrances of battles with the police, the parliament, and the KKE, gets us too hot to last the full 30 minutes, and the last part of the episode we shamefully walk back from our fetishistic follies.

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