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Kenzo Shibata is an educator and activist in Chicago. He is launching a podcast because he has words for you people.

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    This is Revolution/Bitter Lake's Jason Myles chats with Kenzo about the music of 1984

    Play Episode Listen Later Apr 10, 2024 54:27


    Mental Health Discourse and Neoliberalism

    Play Episode Listen Later Nov 10, 2023 12:05


    Our Culture of Narcissism

    Play Episode Listen Later Oct 31, 2023 18:56


    Class Time Reboot --Failure to Communicate

    Play Episode Listen Later Oct 30, 2023 9:38


    Summertime...and the living's easy

    Play Episode Listen Later Jun 5, 2023 40:00


    Rayyvana, Forrest, and Kenzo talk about all the crap that's fit to talk about.                 

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    Red Flag: Anti-Creep Action

    Play Episode Listen Later May 15, 2023 52:26


    Forrest, Rayyvanna, and Kenzo discuss the dangers of Discord and men behaving terribly.   

    Red Flag: Mouths on Mics

    Play Episode Listen Later Apr 7, 2023 56:57


    Twitters: @timeforjaya @AlwaysFlacko @RayyvanaTTV @DoctorMILFie @KenzoShibata

    Buttholes and Budgets

    Play Episode Listen Later Mar 30, 2023 68:35


    Twitters: @timeforjaya @AlwaysFlacko @RayyvanaTTV @DoctorMILFie @KenzoShibata

    Red Flag: Red Flag 20: War pigs Vs. Paypigs

    Play Episode Listen Later Mar 27, 2023 56:27


    It's the 20th anniversary of the invasion of Iraq and we forgot to buy a gift!    Gab, Rayy, Jaya, Forrest and Kenzo scramble to find the perfect piece of China to commemorate an illegal, endless war!    Twitters: @timeforjaya @AlwaysFlacko @RayyvanaTTV @DoctorMILFie @KenzoShibata Twitters: @timeforjaya @AlwaysFlacko @RayyvanaTTV @DoctorMILFie @KenzoShibata

    Red Flag: Dating Podcast Bros and Chicago's Mayor's Race

    Play Episode Listen Later Mar 17, 2023 65:14


    This is the first ep produced by Jaya Rajamani (https://jayatime.substack.com/) who will soon be joining us as a co-host. The usual suspects (Gab, Rayyvana, Forrest, and Kenzo) break down the NYT's take on dating "podcast bros" and we talk about Chicago's strange race for a successor to noted Mayoral Leprechaun Lori Lightfoot. Twitters: @timeforjaya @AlwaysFlacko @RayyvanaTTV @DoctorMILFie @KenzoShibata

    Red Flag Episode 8

    Play Episode Listen Later Aug 12, 2022 66:48


    Preview of Red Flag Podcast! w/ Kenzo, Rayyvana, Gab, and Forrest! 

    My Gender is a Weapon

    Play Episode Listen Later Oct 16, 2021 70:23


    Recorded before I got canceled.

    Talking Palestine with Rabbi Brant Rosen

    Play Episode Listen Later Sep 29, 2021 51:59


    Here's my conversation with my Rabbi about Palestine, Jewish identity, and more! 

    Chicago‘s Beef Country Podcast and Midwest Socialist‘s Ali Cassity

    Play Episode Listen Later Sep 29, 2021 60:45


    Twitter - @Beefcountrypod Patreon.com/Beefcountrypod  Twitch: Twitch.tv/classtime Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/kenzoshibat...​TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@kenzoshibata?​​​​Free Newsletter: https://classtime.substack.com/​​​​Discord: Class-time.com YouTube: Classtime.gg Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/TheKenzoShow​​​​Twitter: @Kenzo_Pod     Produced by Ali Cassity 

    Unforgiven 2: How the Social Justice Industrial Complex grinds us down

    Play Episode Listen Later Sep 29, 2021 68:44


    Catherine Liu and I discuss the PMC and Moral Panic

    Play Episode Listen Later Mar 30, 2021 97:34


    Catherine Liu is the author of Virtue Hoarders: The Case Against the Professional Managerial Class published by the University of Minnesota Press in 2021 and The American Idyll: Academic Anti-Elitism as Cultural Critique was published by the University of Iowa Press in 2011. She works on Critical Theory of the old fashioned kind and is engaged in a long term critique of Professional Managerial Class driven liberal politics. She has written an unpublished memoir called Panda Gifts. She tweets at @bureaucatliu and her views do not reflect those of her employer

    MTL: Luisa Diez (Why You Mad), David Story (Valley Labor Report), Leftist Lorax (Left Flank Vets)

    Play Episode Listen Later Mar 22, 2021 85:03


    #Podcast​​​: Patreon.com/kenzoshibata Twitch: Twitch.tv/classtime Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/kenzoshibat...​TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@kenzoshibata?​​​Free Newsletter: https://classtime.substack.com/​​​Discord: Class-time.com YouTube: Classtime.gg Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/TheKenzoShow​​​Twitter: @Kenzo_Pod

    Teaching in the COVID Crisis w/ Chicago Teachers Union members Alison, Kim, Mike, and Mary

    Play Episode Listen Later Feb 10, 2021 80:33


    Weekly Leftist Discussion stream Stream produced by Dan Simpson Edited by Kenzo Shibata Twitter and IG: @kenzoshibata #Twitch​​: twitch.tv/classtime Discord class-time.com classtime.substack.com playthepromisedland.com Powered by Restream https://restream.io/ 

    Socialist Chicago Alderman Daniel La Spata and candidate for MPLS City Council Aisha Chughtai

    Play Episode Listen Later Jan 18, 2021 69:06


    Teaching Under COVID with Tess Raser, Greg Michie, Robert LeVertis Bell, and Annie Tan

    Play Episode Listen Later Jan 18, 2021 96:44


    Release the Krashen: Dr. Stephen Krashen on bilingual education, language acquisition, and what schools get wrong

    Play Episode Listen Later Dec 23, 2020 53:56


    Stephen Krashen is Emeritus Professor of Education at the University of Southern California. He is best known for his work in establishing a general theory of second language acquisition, as the cofounder of the Natural Approach, and as the inventor of sheltered subject matter teaching.

    Jake Flores (Pod Damn America), Dahlia St. Knives + Cole James Cash (Ghetto News on Means TV) on Horror Films and BIPOC representation

    Play Episode Listen Later Dec 21, 2020 98:42


    Dahlia, Cole, Jake and I talk about horror films and #BIPOC, #LGBTQIA+, and #class representation in those films.   Twitters: @saintknives @feraljokes @whyyousleepin   Stream produced by Dan Simpson Edited by Kenzo Shibata  Twitter and IG: @kenzoshibata #Twitch: twitch.tv/classtime Discord class-time.com

    PTI: David Sirota The Majority Report's Jamie Peck , Pod Damn America 's Anders Lee

    Play Episode Listen Later Dec 17, 2020 97:17


    PTI: David Sirota The Majority Report's Jamie Peck , Pod Damn America 's Anders Lee

    Abolish the Police! f/ Alex Vitale (The End of Policing), Kswiftly, Freddy Martinez and Jalen Kobayashi of Good Kids Mad City.

    Play Episode Listen Later Dec 17, 2020 83:16


    f/ Alex Vitale (The End of Policing), Kswiftly, Freddy Martinez and Jalen Kobayashi of Good Kids Mad City.  We're talking police abolition!  . Twitter and IG: @kenzoshibata #Twitch: twitch.tv/classtime Discord class-time.com

    Pardon the Ignorance: Marcus from Left Flank Vets, Daniel Krouse, and Matt Tapia

    Play Episode Listen Later Dec 15, 2020 111:16


    Pardon the Ignorance: Marcus from Left Flank Vets, Daniel Krouse, and Matt Tapia

    Pardon the Ignorance: Ald. Rossana Rodriguez Sanchez, Brandyn Buchanan, Matt Tapia

    Play Episode Listen Later Dec 15, 2020 98:38


    Pardon the Ignorance: Ald. Rossana Rodriguez Sanchez, Brandyn Buchanan, Matt Tapia

    Pardon the Ignorance: Brandyn Buchanan (Not Safe for Wonks), Matt Tapia(Midwest Socialist), Will Bloom (Chicago DSA Labor)

    Play Episode Listen Later Dec 15, 2020 91:26


    Pardon the Ignorance: Brandyn Buchanan (Not Safe for Wonks), Matt Tapia(Midwest Socialist), Will Bloom (Chicago DSA Labor)

    Comradesgiving! Thanksgiving with Chicago DSA and guests!

    Play Episode Listen Later Dec 8, 2020 174:11


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    Pardon the Ignorance Episode 5: Mike Zapata, Marvin Benjamin, and Sveta Stoytcheva

    Play Episode Listen Later Dec 8, 2020 99:26


    Pardon the Ignorance Episode 5: Mike Zapata, Marvin Benjamin, and Sveta Stoytcheva

    Pardon the Ignorance: Bhaskar Sunkara (Jacobin), Natalie Shure (Adam Ruins Everything), and David Griscom (The Michael Brooks Show)

    Play Episode Listen Later Dec 8, 2020 90:06


    Produced by Dan Simpson  Twitter and IG: @kenzoshibata #Twitch: twitch.tv/classtime Discord class-time.com  Live streamed on 11/15/2020

    Pardon the Ignorance with Sarah Squim, Jamie Peck, and David Duhalde

    Play Episode Listen Later Dec 8, 2020 100:55


    We discussed building a workers party, Obama's socialist dalliances, Jewish cuisine and more! We also make fun of Birthright Isreal, so that'll get us cancelled.    Twitter and IG: @kenzoshibata #Twitch: twitch.tv/classtime Discord class-time.com  #HellTrapNightmare #Antifada #DSA 

    Pardon the Ignorance Ep 4: Micah Uetricht (Jacobin), Doug Henwood (Behind the News) and Kennedy Cooper (Not Safe for Wonks Pod)

    Play Episode Listen Later Oct 27, 2020 52:21


    Technology and Capitalism with Lyle Evans and Anand Mallik

    Play Episode Listen Later Oct 27, 2020 56:54


    Ep 1: Pardon the Ignorance(debate show)w/ Aaron Thorpe, Rara Imler, and AWKWORD

    Play Episode Listen Later Oct 9, 2020 86:47


    Produced by Dan Simpson Twitter and IG: @kenzoshibata #Twitch: twitch.tv/classtime Discord: class-time.com Aaron: Twitter - @posadist_trapgd pod - @atom_pod Rara: https://patreon.com/islandgoth twitter.com/islandgoth twitch.tv/xrayisland AWKWORD: Tenforjustice.com thisisawkword.com @AWKWORDrap Live streamed on 10/4/2020

    Josie Q. Vasquez on incels, mass shooters, moral panic, and what all these means for socialism

    Play Episode Listen Later Oct 7, 2020 50:46


    Twitter and IG: @kenzoshibata #Twitch: twitch.tv/classtime Discord link available upon request

    Former Teamsters Activist Joe Allen on UPS and the rank-and-file strategy

    Play Episode Listen Later Oct 2, 2020 42:30


    Dr. Donald Planey on W.E.B. DuBois and Emile Durkeim from the Class Time Racecraft Book Club

    Play Episode Listen Later Sep 17, 2020 26:20


    Twitter and IG: @kenzoshibata Twitch: twitch.tv/classtime Discord link available upon request One chapter of Racecraft was titled "Individuality and the intellectuals: an imaginary conversation between Emile Durkheim and W.E.B. Du Bois." Dr. Planey gives this session background on Durkheim and DuBois and why they make for compelling contrasts. Dr. Planey is an economic development specialist and educator at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill (Postdoctoral Fellow). His research interests focus on the economic geography of regional governance: How coordination around infrastructure and economic change creates new pressures and policy needs for North American city-regions.

    Preview: Guest Pod: H. Kapp-Klote on Lori Lightfoot Vs. The Chicago Supervillains

    Play Episode Listen Later Sep 17, 2020 3:11


    Are we the baddies? Chicago based activist and communicator H. Kapp-Klote gives us a preview of a podcast. We all know that Lori Lightfoot is is destroying Chicago. What this pod pre-supposes: What if she isn't? 

    What is the Rank-and-file Strategy? We Ask a Nurse, a Teacher, and a Carpenter

    Play Episode Listen Later Sep 11, 2020 56:21


    f/ Abby, Laura, and Molly, DSA members fighting for socialism at work and in their communities. 

    48th Ward Neighbors for Justice are organizing their neighborhoods to get cops out of schools and you should too

    Play Episode Listen Later Sep 3, 2020 48:29


    I talked to 48th Ward Neighbors for Justice members Kelly Garcia, Emily Mikhail, and Antonio Rodriguez. They are fighting a machine alderman for police accountability, getting cops out of schools, and much more. 

    The Last Trotskyist on Twitter @Mike_Hugs on Trotsky + Union Staff vs. Rank-and-file vs. Elected Leaders

    Play Episode Listen Later Aug 31, 2020 90:31


    Mike Ehrenreich talks about Leon Trotsky and I tell a storytime on how different streams of politics within the labor movement can clash. 

    Kenzo talks Moral Panics on Ben Burke's podcast Prairie Fire

    Play Episode Listen Later Aug 30, 2020 52:30


    I talked about the politics of moral panics on Ben Burke's Prairie Fire podcast. You should follow him on Twitter and subscribe to his great pod on Leftist politics!  Twitter:@bsb_tx@prairiefirepod Podcast: https://anchor.fm/ben-burke5?utm_source=listennotes.com&utm_campaign=Listen+Notes&utm_medium=website    

    Asad Haider on Class Reductionism, Identity Politics, and Racism (and metal)

    Play Episode Listen Later Aug 26, 2020 54:01


    I talked to Asaid Haider, author of Mistaken Identity about the politics of identity and a little about thrash metal.        

    Jamie Peck (Antifada, Majority Report) , Jake Flores (Pod Damn America, Why You Mad Pod), Ian Miller (East Bay DSA, Ex-Skankin' Pickle) Talk Punk Rock Politics

    Play Episode Listen Later Aug 18, 2020 56:42


    Jen Pan on White Fragility Vs. Racecraft and Waleeta Canon on Modern Monetary Theory

    Play Episode Listen Later Aug 15, 2020 66:39


     TWITTER: @KenzoShibata Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/ClassTimePod/ Patreon: Patreon.com/KenzoShibata

    COVID and School Re-openings + Do something-ism w/ Ramsin Canon, Alison Eichhorn, Jianan Shi, and Xian Franziger Barrett

    Play Episode Listen Later Aug 8, 2020 94:22


    It's good to be back! Double episode with Chicago Socialist organizer Ramsin Canon on the need for socialists to slow down and think before the next big move.  I then talked to Chicago Public School Teachers and CTU Executive Board members Alison Eichhorn and Xian Franziger Barrett and Raise Your Hand Executive Director Jianan Shi about the CPS' terrible and unsafe plan to open schools in the fall.  Join the Discord! https://discord.gg/9NTm974 Follow us on YouTube! https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCx4zh3sVbbbEuexW6LXCQXgTwitch Twitch.tv/classtime Twitter  and Instagram - @kenzoshibata

    Mukbanging, Parenting, and COVID with Street Fight's Brett Payne

    Play Episode Listen Later Aug 4, 2020 43:29


    ATL Democratic Socialists of America Chair Councilman khalid kamau ditches chapter, leaders respond

    Play Episode Listen Later Jul 6, 2020 44:47


    TWITTER: @KenzoShibata Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/ClassTimePod/ Patreon: Patreon.com/KenzoShibata Twitch: https://www.twitch.tv/classtime Reddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/classtime/ Via Brandyn Buchanan (MADSA DSA): Today, Councilman #khalidkamau resigned as chair of Metro Atlanta #DSA’s Executive Committee. In his resignation press release, khalid left out an incredible amount of information that people deserve to know. So we decided to take a few hours and lay out the details so people can make their own decisions about our collective character, and his. I’m writing this in my own voice, but this statement has the support of the entire Executive committee. The Background When we all came together in September, the press releases were really happy to note that we were the youngest and most diverse EC in the history of the chapter. Let’s just briefly talk about what that entails: It’s an EC of six people that featured two Black men (plus khalid, so three) and an indigenous woman. People of color are a voting majority here. We’re all working people on really low income, doing a tremendous amount of work to equip our members and comrades in Atlanta to fight racism, capitalism, and imperialism. So are we gonna do that with a bottom up democracy that listens to people, learns about their struggles and then engages in the fight with them? Or will it come from a “president” or “CEO” type that goes to nice dinners, makes political promises and then demands that the membership haul ass to make good on them? Councilman khalid is resigning from the chapter because he’s not getting his way on this central question of what we are: period. We are a member organization, not a PAC. Our over one thousand members are responsible for setting the political line of our organization. We’re happy to work with anybody with good will from across the political spectrum (obvious receipts to come), but people have to know what’s going on, know who we’re signing on with and give approval. When he discovered he couldn’t do all this in his style, by hisself, he jumped out. The Endorsement Process In his resignation statement, khalid makes a number of false statements about our endorsement process, and also levels an accusation that the EC blocked endorsements. Let’s dig into those. A member of the Local Electoral working group (and person of color!) submitted a resolution for our June general meeting agenda to reorient our electoral strategy towards #ClassStruggleElections. This resolution is cosponsored by over 40 members, including nearly every influential person of color in the organization. To give you some background, we currently have a two-meeting endorsement process, where candidates are expected to give a Q&A in one meeting and then members debate and vote whether to endorse in a second meeting. Read the rest here: https://medium.com/@heybrandyn/metro-... Councilman Kamau's initial post: https://medium.com/@khalidCares/black... The catalyst for this sad tale was me. I signed on to a mission that any undergraduate Sociology major with an understanding of the pathology of white supremacist thinking would have known was impossible. The Democratic Socialists of America (DSA) have long been criticized as a toxic environment for women and people of color. After an exodus of organizers of color from 2016–2018, local DSA chapters in cities like New York and Chicago underwent transformations worthy of the organization’s radical reputation, diversifying the complexion of their leadership, electoral organizing and other outreach. However, some local DSA chapters continued doing the same thing, expecting different results. The Metro Atlanta Democratic Socialists of America (MADSA) has been one such chapter. In 2019, I was asked to give the Opening Speech at DSA’s National Convention in Atlanta. At the time, I was one of only three elected officials in the State of Georgia that openly-identified as a Democratic Socialist. MADSA was on its third chair of color in less than one year. Two Black leaders had publicly split with the chapter, criticizing MADSA as both racist and sexist. I would like to pause here to apologize to those two women. My male privilege blinded me to the seriousness of their allegations, and I was lulled into thinking that my celebrity as an elected official would propel me over the institutional barriers that previous leaders of color had faced. I allowed myself to be convinced that I was a magical negro who could transform a troubled institution.  SHOW LESS   

    Sarah Jaffe (Dissent, Nation, Necessary Trouble) on George Floyd, Protests, Unions, Defunding Police

    Play Episode Listen Later Jun 14, 2020 48:55


    Labor Journalist Sarah Jaffe (@sarahljaffe on Twitter and sarahljaffe.com) talks about the murder of George Floyd, the protests, mutual aid, carework, police abolition, racism, Phil Rizzo, Tucker Carlson, the Philly MOVE house protests, and more!  Sarah references the following pieces in the video: https://www.hulu.com/movie/crime-puni...https://youtu.be/_77w1DX-3yIhttps://uncpress.org/book/97814696254...

    Dr. Touré Reed (Illinois State University) Talks Amy Cooper, George Floyd, Race Reductionism + more!

    Play Episode Listen Later Jun 6, 2020 57:32


    Dr. Reed and I discuss his new book Toward Freedom (https://www.versobooks.com/). We also discuss Charles Bronson movies, heavy metal guitarists, and Bloomingon-Normal life. Touré F. Reed is an Associate Professor of 20th Century US and Afro-American History at Illinois State University. He has published in the Journal of American Ethnic History, LABOR, Nonsite.org, BlackAgendaReport, Jacobin and The New Republic. Dr. Reed is the author of Not Alms But Opportunity: The Urban League and the Politics of Racial Uplift, 1910-1950 (UNC Press). Toward Freedom: In the age of runaway inequality and Black Lives matter, there is an emerging consensus that our society has failed to redress racial disparities. But who is the culprit? For many progressives, racial identities are the engine of American history, and by extension, contemporary politics. They, in short, want to separate race from class. While policymakers and pundits find an almost metaphysical racism, or the survival of an ancient and primordial tribalism at the heart of American life, these inequities are better understood when traced to more comprehensible forces: to the contradictions in access to New Deal era welfare programs, to the blinders imposed by the Cold War, to Ronald Reagan’s neoliberal assault on the half-century long Keynesian consensus. As Touré Reed argues in this rigorously constructed book, the road to a more just society for African Americans and everyone else, the fate of poor and working-class African Americans is inextricably linked to that of other poor and working-class Americans.

    PRISON PLANET CARAVAN -- OZ EP 4 "Capital P"

    Play Episode Listen Later May 30, 2020 58:28


    It's a listen-along ep so cue up your Oz Box for this one. 

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