Class Time with Kenzo Shibata

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

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

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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

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

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

Recorded before I got canceled.

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

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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 She has written an unpublished memoir called Panda Gifts.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

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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.

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

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

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)

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

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

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 

Debate show

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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.

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? 

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

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. 

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

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    

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

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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

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   

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. 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.

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