"Sacrificing Everything" for Nike.

Eduardo and Andy discuss the recent shoe/apparel deal struck between Nike and Colin Kaepernick.  The ad campaign seems to lend support to Kaepernick's cause of fighting/highlighting racism and police brutality in the US with him featured prominently and a slogan saying "Believe in something. Even if it means sacrificing everything." Who and what benefits most from this controversial association? Kaepernick or Nike? The Cause or Capitalism?

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Article on Nike stocks

History of "American Football"

Prison Strike 2018!

Eduardo and Andy discuss the recent prison strike called by Incarcerated Workers Organizing Committee and Jailhouse Lawyers Speak.  We cover in detail each of the 10 demands of the strike, and talk about why they are important, and what they expose about the U.S prison system.

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Interview of IWOC member on prison strike

Mass Incarceration: 2018

IWOC

Prisoner Wages

Punishment Fails. Rehabilitation Works.

Brazil Museum Fires

Interview with a Pro-Capitalist Anarchist

Eduardo and Andy interview Jake Schmidt.  We do these interviews do give people another perspective on politics than the one they hear from us.  We also hope to highlight that the important views are the ones that regular people have, not politicians, not 'experts'. Its regular people who will change the world, so its those opinions and beliefs we'll be focusing on.

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https://bitcarbon.co/
Link referred to by Jake at the end of the video.  Check it out!

What's Left of Abortion Rights?

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Eduardo and Andy discuss recent decisions across the globe either restricting or expanding women's access to abortion rights.  We explain our differing reasons for supporting a woman's right to choose.

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Is the U.S. Turning to Fascism?

Eduardo and Andy talk about the anniversary of the Charlottesville demonstrations and discuss whether fascism in on the rise in the U.S..  We also talk about the tactics and politics of Antifa.

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Bobo doll experiment
https://www.britannica.com/event/Bobo-doll-experiment
https://www.simplypsychology.org/bobo-doll.html

Dr. Cornel West interview, "We would've been crushed like cockroaches"

Banning InfoWars: About Censorship or About Time?

Eduardo and Andy discuss the recent ban by Facebook, YouTube, Apple and Spotify on InfoWars (and others). Should these actions be supported or opposed?

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Obama’s use of Espionage Act

Treaty of Brest-Litovsk

Another point of view on Brest-Litovsk

The Smith Act (1940)

What’s Left? Socialism 101

Alexandra Kollantai

Her writings

Robert Mueller released his indictment alleging that 13 Russian nationals colluded to disrupt the 2016 elections. Who are these Russian nationals sowing discord? And who are these Americans that were manipulated??

•The Curious Case of the Russian Flash Mob at the West Palm Beach Cheesecake Factory

•Karl Popper: ”Less well known is the paradox of tolerance: Unlimited tolerance must lead to the disappearance of tolerance. If we extend unlimited tolerance even to those who are intolerant, if we are not prepared to defend a tolerant society against the onslaught of the intolerant, then the tolerant will be destroyed, and tolerance with them. — In this formulation, I do not imply, for instance, that we should always suppress the utterance of intolerant philosophies; as long as we can counter them by rational argument and keep them in check by public opinion, suppression would certainly be unwise. But we should claim the right to suppress them if necessary even by force; for it may easily turn out that they are not prepared to meet us on the level of rational argument, but begin by denouncing all argument; they may forbid their followers to listen to rational argument, because it is deceptive, and teach them to answer arguments by the use of their fists or pistols. We should therefore claim, in the name of tolerance, the right not to tolerate the intolerant.”

Popper, Karl, The Open Society and Its Enemies, volume 1, The Spell of Plato, 1945 (Routledge, United Kingdom)

•Correction: I stated Radio Lab had reported on the Alaskan immigration town debate. It was actually This American Life that had reported on it.

Episode 621/21 July 2017

Fear and Loathing in Homer and Rockville

Two towns where people got really upset about undocumented immigrants, even though in both places, that did not seem to be the most important thing happening at all. One of the towns, a small town in Alaska, has no undocumented immigrants at all, but the possibility of them arriving put the whole town at each other’s throats.
https://www.thisamericanlife.org/621/fear-and-loathing-in-homer-and-rockville

Racism, Capitalism and Privilege

Eduardo and Andy discuss racism. What is it? Where does it come from? Who benefits from it? What's Left? Website:

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The New Jim Crow The Roots of Racism On Primitive Communism https://www.theguardian.com/science/2015/may/14/early-men-women-equal-scientists
https://libcom.org/history/primitive-communism-barbarism-origins-class-society-lionel-sims US Civil War: the 2nd American Revolution http://www.counterfire.org/a-marxist-history-of-the-world/15405-the-american-civil-war-the-second-us-revolution https://www.jacobinmag.com/2015/08/second-american-revolution-civil-war-charleston-emancipation-lincoln-union Reconstruction and the African-American Odyssey