radical politics

Imagine if we had a say in where your tax money goes. Jon Cooper from Counterpoints Politics thinks we should! In this juicy clip from the Talking with Tarashuk Podcast, Jon proposes an intriguing and radical idea - giving citizens direct control over a portion of the national budget. Could this be the future of democracy? Will this increase civic engagement and satisfaction with the government? Buckle up, because it's time to dive deep into these burning questions.

#directdemocracy  #taxation  #civicengagement  #governmentbudget 

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Kristina Wong does some pretty incredible things with her life energy and creativity - damn! 

• You can find Kristina Wong on:
  • Facebook: @ilovekristinawong
  • Insta: @mskristinawong
  • Twitter: @mskristinawong
  • Venmo: @givekristinawongmoney

In this episode we talked about several bodies of work she has created including:

• The Auntie Sewing Squad
  • The massive mutual-aid network of volunteers across the United States, sewing homemade masks for vulnerable communities - like asylum seekers on the border,  which Kristina started. In early 2022 they are still sewing and involve hundreds of Aunties, shipping thousands of masks to vulnerable communities across the US. 
• The Book = Auntie Sewing Squad: Mask Making, Radical Care, Racial Justice (released 2021) talks about America’s pursuit of global empire at the cost of its citizens, the significance of women of color performing a historically gendered and racialized invisible labor…
  • And was written with cool coauthor Rebecca Solnit
• Kristina Wong, Sweatshop Overlord
• Kristina Wong for Pubic Office
  • She’s actually an elected official at her neighborhood council in LA’s Korea Town
  • Legit check out her hand sewn props and if you have time, her interview on Sew and So is great! (and literally a sewing podcast.)
• Big Bad Chinese Mama.com a performance piece, her fake harem of brides - a “sophomoric” project that is still up!
• She’s been a guest on late night shows on NBC, Comedy Central, NFX…I watched ALL of these TV spots and you’ll enjoy them too!

Kristina references:

• Jose Luis Valenzuela and Teatro Campesino as well as Guillermo Gomez Pena as key artists of inspiration 
• Art to Action, as the generous fiscal sponsor for The Auntie Sewing Squad
• Wild Harvest Food Bank is an LA food bank, operates as a grocery store for all, and their CEO Glen Corrado, 
  • $50 p/month food challenge, where she survives on that budget every month!
• Upcoming Project? Kristina plans a concept called Food Bank Influencer working on perhaps a food bank performance space to benefit the Navajo Nation - a nation which she reports, has only 13 grocery stores spread across three states serving 300,000 tribal citizens.

A conversation with Geo Maher about his forthcoming book Anticolonial Eruptions: Racial Hubris and the Cunning of Resistance, which explores the history and political character of revolutionary action and its continuity with racial justice struggle in the contemporary moment.

Geo Maher teaches in the Department of Political Science at Vassar College in Poughkeepsie, NY. He is the author of numerous articles in academic venues, as well as popular and radical political media. He has written five books: ‘We Created Chavez’: A People’s History of the Bolivarian Revolution and Decolonizing Dialectics, both with Duke University Press, and with Verso he has published Building the Commune and A World Without Police. Anticolonial Eruptions is forthcoming with University of California Press in late-March 2022.

Anarchist thinkers, their ideas, and the extraordinary story of an often misunderstood strain of radical political thought. 

Matthew Adams is an historian of British intellectual history, with a special interest in the development of anarchism as a political tradition.

Hey everyone! My name is Miguel Garcia and I’m the host of the Sports As A Weapon Podcast…A working-class sports podcast on the entanglement of pro sports, radical politics, & working-class sports fan culture. We talk just sports too!

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Miguel Garcia produced this episode. The Sports As A Weapon Podcast is part of the @Anticonquista Media Collective. Subscribe to the ANTICONQUISTA Patreon and follow ANTICONQUISTA on YouTube, Instagram, Facebook, and Tik Tok!

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Author Matt Alt walks us through his new book "Pure Invention," especially as it relates to a democracy loving hamster, and all the times when MAGA actually stands for Man with Anime Girl Avatar.

Ollie recommends a river cruise simulator that lets you see turtles, all the way down. Bobby talks about the difference between paying passage and paying toll.

Topics discussed on this episode range from:

• The Japanese cultural artifacts that we grew up with
• How they shaped our ideas of what Japan was when we were little
• How the various iterations of Godzilla rank, as compared to the star power of Matthew Broderick
• How Japanese stuff took over the global fantasy sphere
• How subcultures operated pre-internet, and how they've evolved
• How and why Japan gets you before you know it
• Otaku hierarchy (Ollie, Bobby, Matt in ascending order)
• How, believe it or freaking not, the existence of the ORIGINAL BRIAN gives us street cred in Matt's eyes
• The difference between soft and hard power, and why it's silly for the Japanese government to try to leverage soft power
• NOT CORONA. NOPE. NOT THIS WEEK
• The pro-democracy protests in Thailand adopting the anime character Hamtaro as a mascot
• American versions of pop-culture being incorporated into political activism
• The rebellious storylines of anime like Evangelion resonating with protesters in Hong Kong
• The difference between progressive or anti-establishment messages in the production of anime/manga and the consumption of it
• Manga as activism in Japan in terms of content, and as a career choice
• Aso Taro's "I love manga" declaration and how earnest it really was
• The Abe administration's desperate scramble to deal with Trump's surprise win and quickly build a relationship by giving him his very own "Pen Pineapple Apple Pen"
• The difference between the affinity between the US and Japan between now and the 80s
• How we interact with Japan with characters
• Options for modern day Japanese villains
• Aggressive Retsuko as another example of political messaging in anime
• Retsuko as compared to her dai-dai-dai senpai, Hello Kitty
• WHY Hello Kitty has a mouth
• 2chan and 4chan and the overlap between anime fandom and radical rightwing conservative causes
• Which political philosophy, exactly, would GOKU align with?
• Getting angrier and more nationalistic as a built-in function of anonymous online forums 
• The tendency for Japanese people to personally identify with the reputation of Japanese things abroad

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Topics Discussed on the Extras:

• Tentacle Porn
• Tentacle Porn
• Tentacle Porn
• There's actual some REALLLLY interesting substance to the (20mins worth of) tentacle porn talk
• It's basically government endorsed fetish sex
• (the tentacle porn, I mean)
• Where the legendary Japanese genital mosaic comes from
• How porn creates social trends
• How fantasy is the first step into creating new realities
• Hokusai erotica
• The first x-rated cartoons, and the competition between them
• How cartoon erotica was initially received
• The instantaneous demand for availability of Japanese products translated into English, and vice versa and how it affects the quality
• Matt's take on Sub or Dub?
• Why his company doesn't have to worry about quality control re: translation timeline issues
• Fun examples of things that need to be changed during localization and how those decisions get made
• Western apprehension about ideas of Japanese dominance throughout modern history
• What they thought about the future being Japanese in the 80s
• Notice how Ollie totally disappears whenever the conversations turns to movies. He knows NOTHING about movies.
• Guys who protest a little TOO much about how sexy Dragonball Z is
• Why Trump talked about Japanese economic power during his campaign
• The Japanization of global fantasies and tastes

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BrownTown listens, learns, and again converses about electoral and radical politics with sitting 49th Ward Alderwoman Maria Hadden of Chicago. With a changing political landscape on the local, national, and global level, Maria and BrownTown discuss how and why Left and/or "progressive" policies are gaining more mainstream appeal, how movements are shaping platforms, and how to push elected officials to embrace a radical imagination for a more equitable future.

Following up from the first installment with activist Camille Williams, BrownTown listens, learns, and again converses about electoral and radical politics with sitting 49th Ward Alderwoman Maria Hadden of Chicago. With a changing political landscape on the local, national, and global level, Maria and BrownTown discuss how and why Left and/or "progressive" policies are gaining more mainstream appeal, how movements are shaping platforms, and how to push elected officials to embrace a radical imagination for a more equitable future.

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Maria Hadden is the Alderwoman of the 49th Ward of Chicago. Maria is one of the first Black Aldermen on the North Side of the city as well as the first openly gay women of color on Chicago's City Council. In addition to the Progressive Caucus, Ald. Hadden sits on the Chicago Aldermanic Black Caucus, the Women's Caucus, and the LGBT Caucus.

Previously, Maria was the Executive Director of Our City Our Voice, a nonprofit organization supporting civic engagement processes for transformative social justice. Maria is a founding board member of the Participatory Budgeting Project and, from 2010-2018, led their technical assistance work in the Midwest and Southern United States.

She earned her B.A. in International Peace and Conflict Studies from The Ohio State University before moving to Illinois to serve as an AmeriCorps VISTA. Maria's interests in community voice and the role of civil society were the focus on her graduate studies at DePaul University, where she earned an M.S. in International Public Service Management. Maria serves on the board of directors for Voqal, and she lives with her partner and their two dogs in Chicago’s Rogers Park neighborhood.

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Follow Maria on Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter. Stay up to date with the ongoing of her office at 49thward.org and sign up for their newsletter! Campaign site here.

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CREDITS: Intro news clip sound bites layered onto song God Won't by Fiendsh. Outro song Juicy by Notorious B.I.G. Audio engineered by Genta Tamashiro. Recording session photos by Andrew Merz.

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Arianna Gil is the cofounder of Brujas, a Bronx-based skate crew and streetwear brand dedicated to radical political action. But the politics behind their clothes are often overlooked by mainstream gatekeepers and too radical for social media. How do they get their message out?

Store: Brujas
Recommended: 1971, F2L, The Attica Prison Riot

Host
Anshuman Iddamsetty

Producers
Michelle Macklem
Emma Fedderson
Anshuman Iddamsetty

Senior Supervising Producer
Tammi Downey

Engineer
Jason ‘Metal’ Donkersgoed

Musical Score
Jim Guthrie

This is the fourth Chicago Drill and Activism (AKA "Chi DNA") installment of Bourbon ’n BrownTown. Chi DNA is an ongoing documentary and multimedia project, which also features interviews, micro-documentaries, and editorial pieces on drill rap and the activist resurgence in Chicago.

GUEST
Camille Williams is a Chicago activist who believes in grassroots organizing to bridge the gap between cultures and communities, and utilizing restorative justice practices. She has organized with both local and national campaigns as well as advocated for legislation and policy. When she’s not organizing, she practices radical self care and love by utilizing the tools of mindfulness, yoga, and urban gardening. Camille lives by the mantra “know the truth, speak the truth, be the truth” as a way to acknowledge the divine within all people. With her experiences organizing for Black liberation with BYP100 (Black Youth Project) and working to create a more inclusive electoral democracy by putting power in the hands of new young leaders across the city with Chicago Votes, she offers a nuanced and multifaceted perspective on what's been deemed "radical" politics within electoral processes and state voting infrastructure.

CHI DNA
The Chicago Drill and Activism project explores the creation, meaning, perspectives, and connections between drill rap and the resurgence of grassroots activism since the early 2010s through the eyes of the people involved. It focuses on contemporary Chicago as an intentional place for the resurgence of these two formations of cultural and political resistance during relatively the same time period. It examines how authenticity, community, and other important values to the subjects are impacted and promoted via technology, social media, and a rejection of traditional means of movement politics and corporate structures. As told by activists and drill rappers alike, the project situates the the subjects’ experiences and actions into a broader theoretical and empirical history of systemic inequality and resistance in Chicago. Follow the ongoing project at Chi-DNA.com for more.

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CREDITS: Intro song F.U.B.U. by Solange ft. The-Dream and BJ the Chicago Kid. Outro song Django Jane by Janelle Monáe. Audio engineered by Genta Tamashiro.

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