Giving the Mic to the Wrong Person

Doug Lain returns to the show! Here to tell his side of the story of what happened to Zero Books and the reviving of Diet Soap Media as a podcast/youtube channel/publishing house. Hear all the hot goss about what went down with the purchase of Zero Books, what's coming next, and what Doug _really_ thinks about Dune. - Diet Soap on Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/c/douglain - Diet Soap Media: https://www.dietsoap.net/ Support the Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/dietsoap/ - Help us make the show! Supporters of our Patreon heard this episode in its entirety early! www.patreon.com/givingthemic - Find us on Twitter: www.twitter.com/givingthemic - Questions/comments/suggestions for great local Korean food: givingthemic@gmail.com - facebook.com/givingthemic/ - - Main theme by The Mysterious Breakfast'r Cereal on SoundCloud @chiptheme - - All items trademarked and copyright their respective owners. Please don't sue. Please don't sue. Please don't sue.

Part 2 of our discussion with educators about what's been learnt in the past year plus about teaching kids(and ESL students) both online and in-person. In this part, we get into how much more stressful the return to in-person teaching has been. We're joined by Derick Varn, Melisa Crosby, and my sister Beth Salmon. - Check out Derick Varn at VarnVlog: https://www.youtube.com/c/CDerickVarnVlog - Other resources mentioned: The Change Agent: https://changeagent.nelrc.org/ - EdWeek: https://www.edweek.org/ - Chronicle of Higher Education: https://www.chronicle.com/ - Help us make the show! Supporters of our Patreon heard this episode in its entirety early! www.patreon.com/givingthemic - Find us on Twitter: www.twitter.com/givingthemic - Questions/comments/suggestions for great local Korean food: givingthemic@gmail.com - facebook.com/givingthemic/ - - Main theme by The Mysterious Breakfast'r Cereal on SoundCloud @chiptheme - - All items trademarked and copyright their respective owners. Please don't sue. Please don't sue. Please don't sue.

Part 1 of this talk, the whole ep is available now on Patreon at Http://www.patreon.com/givingthemic. - We revisit our episode from early pandemic, talking to grade school and community college educators about what we've learned(if anything) about teaching kids and ESL since then. Derick Varn, Melisa Crosby, and my sister Beth Salmon have a stimulating conversation about educator burnout, where online teaching worked well, and more. - Check out Derick Varn at VarnVlog: https://www.youtube.com/c/CDerickVarnVlog - Help us make the show! www.patreon.com/givingthemic - Find us on Twitter: www.twitter.com/givingthemic - Questions/comments/suggestions for great local Korean food: givingthemic@gmail.com - facebook.com/givingthemic/ - - Main theme by The Mysterious Breakfast'r Cereal on SoundCloud @chiptheme - - All items trademarked and copyright their respective owners. Please don't sue. Please don't sue. Please don't sue.

Part 2 of our review of Mark Levin's American Marxism. It doesn't get better than Part 1. - Check out Andrew Hartman's book, _A War For The Soul Of America: A History Of The Culture Wars_ - Help us make the show! www.patreon.com/givingthemic - Find us on Twitter: www.twitter.com/givingthemic - Questions/comments/suggestions for great local Korean food: givingthemic@gmail.com - facebook.com/givingthemic/ - - Main theme by The Mysterious Breakfast'r Cereal on SoundCloud @chiptheme - - All items trademarked and copyright their respective owners. Please don't sue. Please don't sue. Please don't sue.

Part 1 of 2-parter, the whole conversation is already available for patrons at http://Patreon.com/givingthemic. Part 1! Mark Levin's American Marxism book! It's a best-seller! Burning up the charts! It's really dumb and has no real idea what it's talking about, but that ain't going to let it stop from being yet another salvo in the Culture War! We welcome back Prof. Andrew Hartman(from ep. 81) and Jason(from ep. 38?) to go over this book. Thrill to discussions of why Mark Levin thinks that Marcuse was a member of "The Franklin School", how he's doing some sorta where Nietzschean thing with morality, and other heady concepts. - Check out Andrew Hartman's book, _A War For The Soul Of America: A History Of The Culture Wars_ - Help us make the show! www.patreon.com/givingthemic - Find us on Twitter: www.twitter.com/givingthemic - Questions/comments/suggestions for great local Korean food: givingthemic@gmail.com - facebook.com/givingthemic/ - - Main theme by The Mysterious Breakfast'r Cereal on SoundCloud @chiptheme - - All items trademarked and copyright their respective owners. Please don't sue. Please don't sue. Please don't sue.

[FIXED AUDIO - this is corrected from the original upload]. A panel of leftist veterans and DSA members(ft. Mitch, Spencer, Marcos, and James) joins us to talk about serving in American imperial war, the Afghanistan withdrawal, the "hero worship" that American culture has pushed for 20 years, and what all this actually does to a person. Good words here for veterans, active duty servicepeople, and civilians. This episode gets emotionally heavy with talk of heavy topics like trauma and suicide, so take care. - If you need this number, the number for the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline is 1-800-273-TALK (1-800-273-8255) - About Face: Veterans Against the War - https://aboutfaceveterans.org/ The DSA Veterans Working Groups - https://www.dsausa.org/working-groups/veterans-working-group/ Combat Obscura - a documentary assembled from Marine-shot footage in Afghanistan - http://combatobscura.oscilloscope.net/ -- Pod recs: - Eyes Left - https://soundcloud.com/eyesleft @eyesleft What A Hell of a Way to Die - https://soundcloud.com/hellofawaytodie - @hellofawaytodie - Help us make the show! www.patreon.com/givingthemic - Find us on Twitter: www.twitter.com/givingthemic - Questions/comments/suggestions for great local Korean food: givingthemic@gmail.com - facebook.com/givingthemic/ - - Main theme by The Mysterious Breakfast'r Cereal on SoundCloud @chiptheme - - All items trademarked and copyright their respective owners. Please don't sue. Please don't sue. Please don't sue.

[FIXED AUDIO]. A panel of leftist veterans and DSA members(ft. Mitch, Spencer, Marcos, and James) joins us to talk about serving in American imperial war, the Afghanistan withdrawal, the "hero worship" that American culture has pushed for 20 years, and what all this actually does to a person. Good words here for veterans, active duty servicepeople, and civilians. This episode gets emotionally heavy with talk of heavy topics like trauma and suicide, so take care. - If you need this number, the number for the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline is 1-800-273-TALK (1-800-273-8255) - About Face: Veterans Against the War - https://aboutfaceveterans.org/ The DSA Veterans Working Groups - https://www.dsausa.org/working-groups/veterans-working-group/ Combat Obscura - a documentary assembled from Marine-shot footage in Afghanistan - http://combatobscura.oscilloscope.net/ -- Pod recs: - Eyes Left - https://soundcloud.com/eyesleft @eyesleft What A Hell of a Way to Die - https://soundcloud.com/hellofawaytodie - @hellofawaytodie - Help us make the show! www.patreon.com/givingthemic - Find us on Twitter: www.twitter.com/givingthemic - Questions/comments/suggestions for great local Korean food: givingthemic@gmail.com - facebook.com/givingthemic/ - - Main theme by The Mysterious Breakfast'r Cereal on SoundCloud @chiptheme - - All items trademarked and copyright their respective owners. Please don't sue. Please don't sue. Please don't sue.

Ben Burgis returns to the show to talk about his new book _Canceling Comedians While the World Burns_ with Jacob & I. We get into the pathologies of powerlessness, better ways to handle online disagreement, and more. Check out Ben's show "Give Them An Argument" here: https://www.youtube.com/user/benburgis1 - Help us make the show! http://www.patreon.com/givingthemic - Find us on Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/givingthemic - Questions/comments/suggestions for great local Korean food: givingthemic@gmail.com - http://facebook.com/givingthemic/ - - Main theme by The Mysterious Breakfast'r Cereal on SoundCloud @chiptheme - - All items trademarked and copyright their respective owners. Please don't sue. Please don't sue. Please don't sue.

July 24th, 2021! The March for Medicare for All will start across many cities, so we chatted with members of the Portland coalition putting it on. Join us on that Saturday down on the waterfront at 10:30am. Rally starts at the Shemanski Park at 12:00. https://m4m4all.org/

Regular guest C. Derick Varn was gracious enough to invite me on his youtube show/podcast VarnVlog, back in early July. We cover everything from how people's rhetoric gets a lot more heated as the stake argued over decline, the limits on our current horizon for political change, a bunch of Q&A, and a lot more. Subscribe to the VarnVlog here: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCMuZYE1Q9yNpzn4dzsPtmcQ https://varnvlogvoice.buzzsprout.com/

Relief checks! Stimulus Funds! Biden Bucks! How to get them to the most at-risk communities like local houseless folks. We talk with Steve from the 1040Bloc, a project out of Portland DSA, which works on filing basic tax forms so folks can get some relief funds. We also go thru the step-by-step process if you want to start your own project. For more info, check here: https://www.facebook.com/1040bloc https://twitter.com/pdx1040bloc - See Jacob play Red Dead Redemption 2 on Twitch: https://www.twitch.tv/jacobmercy - Help us make the show! http://www.patreon.com/givingthemic - Find us on Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/givingthemic - Questions/comments/suggestions for great local Korean food: givingthemic@gmail.com - http://facebook.com/givingthemic/ - - Main theme by The Mysterious Breakfast'r Cereal on SoundCloud @chiptheme - - All items trademarked and copyright their respective owners. Please don't sue. Please don't sue. Please don't sue.

Arun Gupta returns to the show and This is Revolution's Jason Myles joins me to start talking about "cultural nationalism" and Portland cultural food trends, but expands to talk about the food and culture of the hinterlands, as both Jason and Arun have been chefs. What's the difference between cooking on an oil rig on the Gulf Coast vs cooking for a fracking town up in North Dakota? Tune in and find out! We also learn the history of fish & chips and tater tots, so hang on! - Check out This is Revolution: -podcast: https://bitterlake.podbean.com/ -Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCG9WtLyoP9QU8sxuIfxk3eg - Help us make the show! http://www.patreon.com/givingthemic - Find us on Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/givingthemic - Questions/comments/suggestions for great local Korean food: givingthemic@gmail.com - http://facebook.com/givingthemic/ - - Main theme by The Mysterious Breakfast'r Cereal on SoundCloud @chiptheme - - All items trademarked and copyright their respective owners. Please don't sue. Please don't sue. Please don't sue.

Since the 1960s, a constant feature in American life have been the culture wars. We talk with Professor Andrew Hartman about his work documenting the history of the culture wars, how they crossover with moral panics, and his upcoming book on Marx in America. - Hartman's book is War for the Soul of America A History of the Culture Wars, available here: https://www.powells.com/book/war-for-the-soul-of-america-a-history-of-the-culture-wars-9780226254500 - Find Prof Hartman on twitter here: https://twitter.com/HartmanAndrew Recs: Raymond Williams - Culture and Society Sven-Eric Liedman - A World to Win: The Life and Works of Karl Marx Mary Gabriel - Love and Capital: Karl and Jenny Marx and the Birth of a Revolution Louis Malle's Atlantic City The Criterion Channel The Leibniz–Clarke Correspondence The Mitchells vs the Machines Karl Mannheim - Ideology And Utopia: An Introduction to the Sociology of Knowledge - Help us make the show! http://www.patreon.com/givingthemic - Find us on Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/givingthemic - Questions/comments/suggestions for great local Korean food: givingthemic@gmail.com - http://facebook.com/givingthemic/ - - Main theme by The Mysterious Breakfast'r Cereal on SoundCloud @chiptheme - - All items trademarked and copyright their respective owners. Please don't sue. Please don't sue. Please don't sue.

Budtenders and weed distros, organize! Savina & Jess from the Cannabis Workers Coalition join us to talk about providing a critical resource to a new industry! - Check out their worker's resources here: https://www.cannabisworkerscoalition.org/ - Recs: The new Dinosaur Jr album Shadow & Bone Londrelle's _Stay Free_, https://soundcloud.com/londrelle/sets/stay-free and more! --- Help us make the show! http://www.patreon.com/givingthemic - Find us on Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/givingthemic - Questions/comments/suggestions for great local Korean food: givingthemic@gmail.com - http://facebook.com/givingthemic/ - - Main theme by The Mysterious Breakfast'r Cereal on SoundCloud @chiptheme - - All items trademarked and copyright their respective owners. Please don't sue. Please don't sue. Please don't sue.

J. Posadas! Juan Peron! Leon Trotsky! We come back to the topic of Posadism, only this time we talk to the guy who wrote the book. A.M. Gittlitz (a.k.a. AP Andy from the Antifada) joins us to talk about his book _I Want to Believe: Posadism, UFOs, and Apocalypse Communism_ We discuss J. Posadas, Juan Peron and Lopez Rega, cults, and what does a revolutionary look like now? Pick up Andy's book here: https://redemmas.org/titles/34691-i-want-to-believe--posadism-and-leftwing-ufology Check out Andy's substack here: https://gittlitz.substack.com/ Listen to the Antifada! https://podtail.com/en/podcast/the-antifada/ --- Help us make the show! http://www.patreon.com/givingthemic - Find us on Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/givingthemic - Questions/comments/suggestions for great local Korean food: givingthemic@gmail.com - http://facebook.com/givingthemic/ - - Main theme by The Mysterious Breakfast'r Cereal on SoundCloud @chiptheme - - All items trademarked and copyright their respective owners. Please don't sue. Please don't sue. Please don't sue.

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Worker-owned Cooperatives! Cooperative board games! Garrett and I talk to Brian Van Slyke, one of the co-founders and game designers from the TESA Collective. We cover how to do a leftist board game, publishing a game during Covid/Uprising/wildfires, life in a worker co-op, and far more! Has Professor Richard Wolff played this game yet? Check it out, and check out TESA's games: https://www.tesacollective.com/#works Check out their video "Own The Change: Building Economic Democracy One Worker Co-op at a Time" at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8G1-SYMatNc -- Music in the episode: Defiance, Ohio's "This Feels Better", No Idea Records --- Help us make the show! http://www.patreon.com/givingthemic - Find us on Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/givingthemic - Questions/comments/suggestions for great local Korean food: givingthemic@gmail.com - http://facebook.com/givingthemic/ - - Main theme by The Mysterious Breakfast'r Cereal on SoundCloud @chiptheme - - All items trademarked and copyright their respective owners. Please don't sue. Please don't sue. Please don't sue.

We attempt to talk about the year 2020 (recorded at before Jan 1), and sorta fail, but we talk about Cyberpunk a lot. And Billy Idol. Lots of clips from the Billy Idol album, too. - Help us make the show! http://www.patreon.com/givingthemic - Find us on Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/givingthemic - Questions/comments/suggestions for great local Korean food: givingthemic@gmail.com - http://facebook.com/givingthemic/ - - Main theme by The Mysterious Breakfast'r Cereal on SoundCloud @chiptheme - - All items trademarked and copyright their respective owners. Please don't sue. Please don't sue. Please don't sue.

Sean and Venu from the Portland Unemployed Workers Union join us to talk about the history of unemployed people organizing, starting a UWC in Portland, and give tips on how you can help start one, too. Plus we talk about Adbusters magazine for like 30 minutes for some reason. Not sure why on that one. --- - Help us make the show! http://www.patreon.com/givingthemic - Find us on Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/givingthemic - Questions/comments/suggestions for great local Korean food: givingthemic@gmail.com - http://facebook.com/givingthemic/ - - Main theme by The Mysterious Breakfast'r Cereal on SoundCloud @chiptheme - - All items trademarked and copyright their respective owners. Please don't sue. Please don't sue. Please don't sue.

Organize your building! Remember all that Rent Strike talk early on during Quarantine? Curious about how you'd even begin to organize for something like that? Mario & Rebekah from the North Portland Tenants Collection and Cici from DontEvictPDX join us to talk about the history of tenant unions, how the NPTC got started, and even give Jacob some tips on how to begin. - Check out the North Portland Tenants Collective here: https://www.nopotenants.org/ - Follow DontEvictPDX here: https://twitter.com/DontEvictPDX - "KC Tenants chain themselves to Jackson County Courthouse" from KCTV5 News: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mRA2eVr69z - Support the protestor bail funds in your city: https://bailfunds.github.io/ - Help us make the show! http://www.patreon.com/givingthemic - Find us on Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/givingthemic - Questions/comments/suggestions for great local Korean food: givingthemic@gmail.com - http://facebook.com/givingthemic/ - - Main theme by The Mysterious Breakfast'r Cereal on SoundCloud @chiptheme - - All items trademarked and copyright their respective owners. Please don't sue. Please don't sue. Please don't sue.

Part three of the interviews of Portland delegates to the 2019 DSA National Convention. This time we talk with Ben from the Libertarian Socialist Caucus. The 2021 National Convention is being planned now, happening all online. These interviews will hopefully help inform that process by giving a glimpse of what folks who survived that weekend in August 2019 thought about it. - Part 1 is available here: https://soundcloud.com/givingthemic/73-snapshot-of-a-movement-2019-dsa-natl-conv-part-1 - Support the protestor bail funds in your city: https://bailfunds.github.io/ - If you're curious about Portland DSA, find out more here: https://portlanddsa.org/ - Help us make the show! http://www.patreon.com/givingthemic - Find us on Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/givingthemic - Questions/comments/suggestions for great local Korean food: givingthemic@gmail.com - http://facebook.com/givingthemic/ - - Main theme by The Mysterious Breakfast'r Cereal on SoundCloud @chiptheme - - All items trademarked and copyright their respective owners. Please don't sue. Please don't sue. Please don't sue.

This is the second of three episodes of conversations recorded at the end of the 2019 National Convention of the Democratic Socialists of America, held in Atlanta that August. The 2021 National Convention is being planned now, happening all online. These interviews will hopefully help inform that process by giving a glimpse of what folks who survived that weekend in August 2019 thought about it. - This episode features Elizabeth and Sadie from the Libertarian-Socialist Caucus of the Portland DSA chapter. They helped plan the group travel and served as chapter representatives. - Part 1 is available here: https://soundcloud.com/givingthemic/73-snapshot-of-a-movement-2019-dsa-natl-conv-part-1 - The final Part 3 coming soon. - Support the protestor bail funds in your city: https://bailfunds.github.io/ - If you're curious about Portland DSA, find out more here: https://portlanddsa.org/ - Help us make the show! http://www.patreon.com/givingthemic - Find us on Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/givingthemic - Questions/comments/suggestions for great local Korean food: givingthemic@gmail.com - http://facebook.com/givingthemic/ - - Main theme by The Mysterious Breakfast'r Cereal on SoundCloud @chiptheme - - All items trademarked and copyright their respective owners. Please don't sue. Please don't sue. Please don't sue.

This is the first of three episodes of conversations recorded at the end of the 2019 National Convention of the Democratic Socialists of America, held in Atlanta that August. The 2021 National Convention is being planned now, happening all online. These interviews will hopefully help inform that process by giving a glimpse of what folks who survived that weekend in August 2019 thought about it. - Voices featured are Abi from NYC, Natasha and Laura from Portland, Mags from MetroDC, and the Washington Post's Dave Weigel. (He's the one who talks about covering political events and his favorite Peter Gabriel-era Genesis album.) - Part 2 and 3, coming soon. - Support the protestor bail funds in your city: https://bailfunds.github.io/ - Help us make the show! http://www.patreon.com/givingthemic - Find us on Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/givingthemic - Questions/comments/suggestions for great local Korean food: givingthemic@gmail.com - http://facebook.com/givingthemic/ - - Main theme by The Mysterious Breakfast'r Cereal on SoundCloud @chiptheme - - All items trademarked and copyright their respective owners. Please don't sue. Please don't sue. Please don't sue.

The second half of our talk with Pat & Ben from "I Learned Nothing", and we actually get round to talking Nietzsche this time! It's slightly less silly, but we do talk about ressentiment, the Last Man, could Marx and Nietzsche have tolerated each other, and much more. - Check out I Learned Nothing at https://www.bodytapeintl.com/i-learned-nothing - Support the protestor bail funds in your city: https://bailfunds.github.io/ - Find us on Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/givingthemic - Questions/comments/suggestions for great local Korean food: givingthemic@gmail.com - http://facebook.com/givingthemic/ - - Main theme by The Mysterious Breakfast'r Cereal on SoundCloud @chiptheme - - All items trademarked and copyright their respective owners. Please don't sue. Please don't sue. Please don't sue.

Ben and Pat from "I Learned Nothing: A Philosophy Podcast for Dullards" join Garrett and I for a very silly episode where we sort of attempt to talk about Nietzsche and fail miserably. BUT! We talk about many related things along the way, like Alan Moore comics, Disneyworld trying to open during Covid, Hellblazer, podcast cats, etc. It's well worth your time. Probably. - Check out I Learned Nothing at https://www.bodytapeintl.com/i-learned-nothing - Support the protestor bail funds in your city: https://bailfunds.github.io/ - Find us on Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/givingthemic - Questions/comments/suggestions for great local Korean food: givingthemic@gmail.com - http://facebook.com/givingthemic/ - - Main theme by The Mysterious Breakfast'r Cereal on SoundCloud @chiptheme - - All items trademarked and copyright their respective owners. Please don't sue. Please don't sue. Please don't sue.

Author/professor Tad Delay joins us to talk about his book/podcast _Against: What Does The White Evangelical Want?_, why a lot of Evangelicals seem to have trouble distinguishing Jesus from white supremacists, how hypocrisy is a hang-up for liberals but a pleasure for conservatives, and more. - Support the protestor bail funds in your city: https://bailfunds.github.io/ - Tad's Patreon is at https://www.patreon.com/taddelay - Check out Tad's book-in-podcast-form: https://podtail.com/en/podcast/tad-delay/ - Find us on Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/givingthemic - Questions/comments/suggestions for great local Korean food: givingthemic@gmail.com - http://facebook.com/givingthemic/ - - Main theme by The Mysterious Breakfast'r Cereal on SoundCloud @chiptheme - - All items trademarked and copyright their respective owners. Please don't sue. Please don't sue. Please don't sue.

What do you know--turns out getting millions of kids and other students to immediately switch to an all-online educational environment doesn't work so well. We're joined by Derick Varn, high school teacher in SLC, Melisa Crosby, community college teacher in Portland, and my sister Beth, middle school teacher in Raleigh, to share notes about what works and how most things don't when trying to communicate information thru screens. We also get into some education theory and studies about how online learning has an efficacy of maybe 40% of the best of times. - Our previous episode on college education during Covid: https://soundcloud.com/givingthemic/66-college-under-quarantine-ft-ami-sommariva-and-ben-burgis - A useful resource: https://oregonyouthline.org/ The Oregon Youthline gets calls from all over the country. It is ONLY for people 21 and younger. - Check out Derick Varn's podcasts Pop the Left and many more here: https://dietsoap.podomatic.com/ - Episode graphic from Kelly at the Onion: https://www.theonion.com/remote-possibilities-1843704145 - Find us on Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/givingthemic - Questions/comments/suggestions for great local Korean food: givingthemic@gmail.com - http://facebook.com/givingthemic/ - - Main theme by The Mysterious Breakfast'r Cereal on SoundCloud @chiptheme - - All items trademarked and copyright their respective owners. Please don't sue. Please don't sue. Please don't sue.

Checking in with our old friend and former co-host Nat who survived a case of the Covid. We talk about watching asian dramas, video games to survive the lockdown, and more. - Check out Nat's podcast: Metamashina at http://www.metamashina.com -

The 2nd part of our episode: Returning heterodox economists Erik and Mitch join us again to go over the anemic stimulus, how much private equity is a vampire squid, and what the hell Modern Monetary Theory actually is. We also touch on some historic bits too. - Part 1 is available here: https://soundcloud.com/givingthemic/67-stimulus-mmt-how-bad-private-equity-is-and-more-part-1 -- The whole conversation is available thru Patreon at Http://www.patreon.com/givingthemic - Find us on Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/givingthemic - Questions/comments/suggestions for great local Korean food: givingthemic@gmail.com - http://facebook.com/givingthemic/ - - Main theme by The Mysterious Breakfast'r Cereal on SoundCloud @chiptheme - - All items trademarked and copyright their respective owners. Please don't sue. Please don't sue. Please don't sue.

Part 1 of our new episode: Returning heterodox economists Erik and Mitch join us again to go over the anemic stimulus, how much private equity is a vampire squid, and what the hell Modern Monetary Theory actually is. We also touch on some historic bits too. Part 2 is available here: https://soundcloud.com/givingthemic/67-objections-to-mmt-keynes-the-new-deal-and-more-ft-erik-dean-and-mitch-green-part-2 -- The whole conversation is available thru Patreon at Http://www.patreon.com/givingthemic - Find us on Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/givingthemic - Questions/comments/suggestions for great local Korean food: givingthemic@gmail.com - http://facebook.com/givingthemic/ - - Main theme by The Mysterious Breakfast'r Cereal on SoundCloud @chiptheme - - All items trademarked and copyright their respective owners. Please don't sue. Please don't sue. Please don't sue.

Separate from all the grade school closures, how do you change all your classes online if you're teaching college students? Profs. Ami Sommariva from Portland State and Ben Burgis from Perimeter College at Georgia State join to talk about trying to adjust classes and curricula to fit the current moment. - Help us make the show! Get early access to episodes and on the cat pic mailing list at http://www.patreon.com/givingthemic - Find us on Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/givingthemic - Questions/comments/suggestions for great local Korean food: givingthemic@gmail.com - http://facebook.com/givingthemic/ - - Main theme by The Mysterious Breakfast'r Cereal on SoundCloud @chiptheme - - All items trademarked and copyright their respective owners. Please don't sue. Please don't sue. Please don't sue.

Jacob, Garrett, & I recorded a group chat from our respective bunkers last week to talk about the New Now. And we make more than a few references to the Mitchell & Webb "Quiz Broadcast" sketches, as shown here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4jJ203Q-lyk https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=22mt0cVyW5c Join up with a local mutual aid and community support network in your area if you can. Here's a national (American) document listing resources available right now. https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Rcan4C_e6OBFBI5bUn7MtYK74Ab-WarxyJmDvZUI_YA Your own countries should have similar networks forming. Please stay safe, stay home, stay sane, and wear a mask if you do have to go outdoors. Nat wasn't able to record with us this time, so you should check out her show at https://metamashina.com/ - Help us make the show! Get early access to episodes and on the cat pic mailing list at http://www.patreon.com/givingthemic - http://www.twitter.com/givingthemic - Questions/comments/suggestions for great local Korean food: givingthemic@gmail.com - http://facebook.com/givingthemic/ - - Main theme by The Mysterious Breakfast'r Cereal on SoundCloud @chiptheme - - All items trademarked and copyright their respective owners. Please don't sue. Please don't sue. Please don't sue.

Another classic track from 2017. This is the episode that got us mentioned in the New Yorker. New episode is coming very soon. Stay safe, stay sane. - Help us make this show! http://www.patreon.com/givingthemic/ On this episode, Jacob(@jacobmercy) joins Natasha(@ashesforfoxes), Garrett(@comradegarrett), and I talk about information overload which merges into Watchmen, Overwatch, a mention of Comet the Superhorse & Walter Benjamin, and a buncha more dumb jokes. The name we’re trying to pronounce is “ Bill Sienkiewicz,” whom you can find at http://www.billsienkiewiczart.com/ Ep was recorded in mid-September. Show notes here: http://goo.gl/QCSXJZ

Hi all you folks stuck inside! We're re-posting our first chat that we did with C Derick Varn, way back in late 2017. There's plenty of timeless advice here and we'll think you'll enjoy it. ---- Check out Derick's new podcast Pop the Left! from the Zero Squared pod feed: http://dietsoap.podomatic.com - Help us make the show! http://www.patreon.com/givingthemic - http://www.twitter.com/givingthemic - Questions/comments/suggestions for great local Korean food: givingthemic@gmail.com - http://facebook.com/givingthemic/ - - Main theme by The Mysterious Breakfast'r Cereal on SoundCloud @chiptheme - - All items trademarked and copyright their respective owners. Please don't sue. Please don't sue. Please don't sue.

Albert Lee is the candidate for the Democratic Primary in Oregon's 3rd District, endorsed by the Portland DSA, Our Revolution, and many more local progressive(or better) groups. He joined us in late February to talk about why he decided to primary the incumbent Democrat, the politics of bikes lanes and trying to help houseless folks, and the importance of the Bernie Sanders campaign. Check out Albert's campaign at https://albertlee2020.com/ Upcoming event: Feb 29th at Kelly's Olympian with Albert Lee & Paige Kreisman in Downtown Portland, 8pm. Kshama Sawant at the Feb 17th Tacoma Dome event: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bM8OXfsR_WA Ending track: Killer Mike https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ikgh4JbAWUU Speech taken from the Bennett College Town Hall in Greensboro, NC - Sept 20, 2019 - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tW9V7eWbZbg - Also the book I'm referring to is Walter Karp's _Indispensible Enemies: The Politics of Misrule in America_ - https://www.powells.com/book/-9781879957138 Help us make the show! Get early access to episodes and on the cat pic mailing list at http://www.patreon.com/givingthemic - http://www.twitter.com/givingthemic - Questions/comments/suggestions for great local Korean food: givingthemic@gmail.com - http://facebook.com/givingthemic/ - - Main theme by The Mysterious Breakfast'r Cereal on SoundCloud @chiptheme - - All items trademarked and copyright their respective owners. Please don't sue. Please don't sue. Please don't sue.

Don't stare into the rightwing youtube abyss. Other things covered in Part 2 of Derick Varn on topics like why did 1968 did or why did all those national revolutions not go socialist. That any much more. - Ending music: Scritti Politti - Check out Derick Varn's Pop the Left! wherever finer podcasts are sold or at http://dietsoap.podomatic.com - Help us make the show! http://www.patreon.com/givingthemic - http://www.twitter.com/givingthemic - Questions/comments/suggestions for great local Korean food: givingthemic@gmail.com - http://facebook.com/givingthemic/ - - Main theme by The Mysterious Breakfast'r Cereal on SoundCloud @chiptheme - - All items trademarked and copyright their respective owners. Please don't sue. Please don't sue. Please don't sue.

Derick Varn returns for his semi-annual visit to talk about dealing with complicated old beliefs and why he restarted his podcast Pop the Left! with past guest Douglas Lain from Zero Books. - This is part 1 of the full conversation. The whole episode is available for Patrons so you can subscribe at Patreon.com/givingthemic - Check out Pop the Left! wherever finer podcasts are sold or at http://dietsoap.podomatic.com - Help us make the show! http://www.patreon.com/givingthemic - http://www.twitter.com/givingthemic - Questions/comments/suggestions for great local Korean food: givingthemic@gmail.com - http://facebook.com/givingthemic/ - - Main theme by The Mysterious Breakfast'r Cereal on SoundCloud @chiptheme - - All items trademarked and copyright their respective owners. Please don't sue. Please don't sue. Please don't sue.

Dante Douglas (Videodante) joined me to talk about the state of labor in games making today and the need for organizing, the potential of co-ops, Gameworkers Unite, etc. Check out Dante's games at https://videodante.itch.io/ and writing at http://dante.cool/ Recorded Sept 2019 at the XOXO Fest in Portland. - Mentioned in the episode: - Emma Kinema's talk at 2019 XOXO : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dHp_DwVm2EA Letter from an EA Spouse (Nov 2004) - https://boards.fool.com/letter-from-an-ea-spouse-long-21588406.aspx Jason Shreier's Inside Rockstar Games' Culture of Crunch (Oct 2018) - https://kotaku.com/inside-rockstar-games-culture-of-crunch-1829936466 Gameworkers Unite! - https://www.gameworkersunite.org/ The Independent Workers of Great Britain - https://iwgb.org.uk/ GDC 2019 - "Embracing the Co-Op Studio Model in Indie Games" - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-zxNfHl-xmM XOXO 2019's Arcade - https://xoxofest.com/2019/schedule/arcade ------ - Help us make the show! http://www.patreon.com/givingthemic - http://www.twitter.com/givingthemic - Questions/comments/suggestions for great local Korean food: givingthemic@gmail.com - http://facebook.com/givingthemic/ - - Main theme by The Mysterious Breakfast'r Cereal on SoundCloud @chiptheme - - All items trademarked and copyright their respective owners. Please don't sue. Please don't sue. Please don't sue.

As a bit of fun, I interviewed both my and my partner's nephews about their fave thing in the world, a game called the Fortnite. These recordings are the result. The audio gets a little noisy at times because you have over-energetic younglings tapping on handheld mics, but hopefully you'll make it past that bit. Happy Holidays! -- Help us make the show! http://www.patreon.com/givingthemic - http://www.twitter.com/givingthemic - Questions/comments/suggestions for great local Korean food: givingthemic@gmail.com - http://facebook.com/givingthemic/ - - Main theme by The Mysterious Breakfast'r Cereal on SoundCloud @chiptheme - - All items trademarked and copyright their respective owners. Please don't sue. Please don't sue. Please don't sue.

Part two of our talk about UK politics and life in scotland with True Life Scotsman Sean(http://twitter.com/worstfriendband). We discuss transphobia in the UK, the Time for Inclusive Education (TIE) campaign, why the Guardian is not a left-wing paper, what IRN BRU actually tastes like, the fun that is Buckfast, and openly insulting the Red Hot Chilli Pipers. -- Miss Part 1? Check it out here: https://soundcloud.com/givingthemic/ep60-the-true-scotsman-fallacy-part-1ft-sean-from-theworstfriend -- Help us make the show! http://www.patreon.com/givingthemic - http://www.twitter.com/givingthemic - Questions/comments/suggestions for great local Korean food: givingthemic@gmail.com - http://facebook.com/givingthemic/ - - Main theme by The Mysterious Breakfast'r Cereal on SoundCloud @chiptheme - - All items trademarked and copyright their respective owners. Please don't sue. Please don't sue. Please don't sue.

Giving us a now hilariously dated overview of UK and Scottish politics, Sean of The Worst Friend(https://twitter.com/worstfriendband) joined us back in the late summer. He's an organizer who moved to Portland from Glasgow and takes great pleasure in attempting to explain just WTF is going on over there. Topics also covered include Brexit, Scottish Independence, how the Labour Party screwed over Scottish Labour, Boris Johnson, certain Royals and their alleged connections to Jeffrey Epstein, etc. Check out Sean's band at https://theworstfriend.bandcamp.com/ Their latest tape is here: https://theworstfriend.bandcamp.com/merch/the-green-man-tape - Part 2 coming soon! -- Help us make the show! http://www.patreon.com/givingthemic - http://www.twitter.com/givingthemic - Questions/comments/suggestions for great local Korean food: givingthemic@gmail.com - http://facebook.com/givingthemic/ - - Main theme by The Mysterious Breakfast'r Cereal on SoundCloud @chiptheme - - All items trademarked and copyright their respective owners. Please don't sue. Please don't sue. Please don't sue.

BACK after a prolonged absence, we follow up on previous episodes by having back Dawn(@dorkvania) from our very first episode, Ben Burgis(@benburgis) from earlier this year, and Candy joining us once again to talk about their love(and critiques) of the X-files, Darin Morgan episodes, and memories of growing up in the 90s. Also, we get into how weirdly racist and transphobic the show could get. --- Ending tune: Bree Sharp's "David Duchovny" - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=upRhsDUIDSE --- (R.I.P Beto's campaign) --- Rec: --- Lizzo's new album - ContraPoints' vid on "The Darkness" - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qtj7LDYaufM -- Check out Ben's writing at Jacobin: https://jacobinmag.com/author/ben-burgis - Check out Dawn's photography work at https://dorkvania.com/ -- Are you listening to us from SE Asia or Eastern Europe? Drop us a line and let us know how the hell you possibly found the show. - Previous episodes of note: - Dawn's previous appearance and our very first episode: https://soundcloud.com/givingthemic/giving-the-mic-to-the-wrong-person-ep-1-smaller-file - Where Ben and Candy first mentioned wanting to talk about the Xfiles for a full episode: https://soundcloud.com/givingthemic/ep-53-part-1-arguing-with-ben-burgis ---- Help us make the show! http://www.patreon.com/givingthemic - http://www.twitter.com/givingthemic - Questions/comments/suggestions for great local Korean food: givingthemic@gmail.com - http://facebook.com/givingthemic/ - - Main theme by The Mysterious Breakfast'r Cereal on SoundCloud @chiptheme - - All items trademarked and copyright their respective owners. Please don't sue. Please don't sue. Please don't sue.

SEE TIM IN PORTLAND! Thursday(9/26) at 7:30 at Powells downtown. - Tim Faust(@crulge) returns to the show to do a properly roundtable discussion with local Portland healthcare activists and disability advocates to talk about his new book, Garrett & I are joined by Adam from the Portland DSA Medicare-for-All campaign, Betsy from Portland Jobs with Justice, and Nico from Real Choice Initiative here with Tim on the line. Topics we cover: the need for health justice beyond just healthcare, the need for disability and trans rights as part of any actual Single-Payer plan, problems with thinking of healthcare only in marketing terms, nursing homes acting like prisons, the successful efforts of Reclaim Idaho and the Maine People's Alliance. Tim's book: https://healthjusticenow.com/ _Health Justice Now: Single Payer and What Comes Next_ Available here at Powells, and support their union ILWU Local 5: https://www.powells.com/book/-9781612197166/?partnerID=35751 Check out Tim's booktour: He'll be in Seattle on Wednesday(9/25) https://twitter.com/crulge/status/1171989316761006080 --- If you're in Portland, come for the protest on Friday(9/24) at Senator Ron Wyden's office to call for Medicare For All: https://actionnetwork.org/events/picket-of-senator-wydens-health-care-of-the-future-event https://www.facebook.com/events/391221361560951/ --- Recs: --- R. Stevie Moore - https://rsteviemoore.bandcamp.com/ Rebel Galaxy: Outlaw Dogbreth - "When You Call My Name" Tommy Douglas - the "Mouseland" speech Mark Hill - The Antifa Comic Book: 100 Years of Fascism and Antifa Movements Octavia's Brood Frank Zappa & the Mothers of Invention - Freak Out Adolph Reed - "Marx, Race, and Neoliberalism" - https://libcom.org/files/Marx,%20Race%20and%20Neoliberalism%20-%20Adolph%20Reed.pdf Break: Kate Bush - "Cloudbursting" Ending: Tommy Douglas' "Mouseland" - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kdwySCMovHk National Nurses United's M4A campaigns - https://www.nationalnursesunited.org/medicare-for-all The National Single Payer Strategy 2019 Conference in Portland, Oct 18-29: https://www.healthcare-now.org/strategy-conference/2019-portland/ Real Choice Initiative - http://realchoiceoregon.com/ Join DSA - https://www.dsausa.org/ Our episode with Max Elbaum: https://soundcloud.com/givingthemic/56-max-elbaum-and-lessons-learned-from-the-new-communist-movement-and-the-sds --- Help us make the show! http://www.patreon.com/givingthemic - http://www.twitter.com/givingthemic - Questions/comments/suggestions for great local Korean food: givingthemic@gmail.com - http://facebook.com/givingthemic/ - - Main theme by The Mysterious Breakfast'r Cereal on SoundCloud @chiptheme - - All items trademarked and copyright their respective owners. Please don't sue. Please don't sue. Please don't sue.

Just in time for their PacNW stand-up tour, stars of comedy and pod and Means TV, Jake Flores(@feraljokes) and Sara June(www.heysarajune.com) join us for a chat! Topics covered: MeansTV, leftist podcasting, comedy stuff, "Everything's getting rebooted, even Mic Dicta," making culture as a part of leftist organizing, and how as a society will we be able to comprehend that dang JOKER movie?! Means TV - http://means.media and on youtube: https://www.youtube.com/user/saraj00n Help build Means TV: https://actionnetwork.org/fundraising/lets-build-means-tv https://twitter.com/means_tv https://www.instagram.com/means_tv/ https://www.facebook.com/meansTV/ Jake's podcasts: -Pod Damn America https://soundcloud.com/poddamnamerica and Why You Mad? https://soundcloud.com/whyyoumadpod Sara June's show: https://www.highpriestesscomedy.com/ Tour Dates: - Sept 11: Olympia, Vomity at Le Voyeur, 8pm. Sept 12: Seattle, The Gateway Show at Club Comedy, 8pm Sept 13: Portland, The Firebrand Collective Benefit for Anarres Infoshop at Social Justice Action Center(400 SE 12th), 7pm Sept 14: Portland, High Priestess at 21st Avenue Kitchen & Bar, 7:30pm Sept 14: Portland, The Gateway Show at Funhouse Lounge, 10pm - The Venezuela vid we reference: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2tBzNa3Pack - Jonah Ray's Weird Al covers album - _You Can't Call Me Al_ on Asian Man Records - https://asianmanrecords.bandcamp.com/album/you-cant-call-me-al - Recs: -Red Menace -Rev Left Radio -Houseboat -RVIVR -Megan Keester -Eddie Pepitone's "In Ruins" -Freida -Sun Ra -Ann Peebles -Lucinda Williams -Arash -Dogbreth -I Learned Nothing ---- Ending tune: Weird Al Yankovic - "Foil" - Help us make the show! http://www.patreon.com/givingthemic - Follow Jacob on Twitch! http://www.twitch.tv/jacobmercy - @jacobmercy @givingthemic - Questions/comments/suggestions for great local Korean food: givingthemic@gmail.com - http://facebook.com/givingthemic/ - - Main theme by The Mysterious Breakfast'r Cereal on SoundCloud @chiptheme - - All items trademarked and copyright their respective owners. Please don't sue. Please don't sue. Please don't sue.

Max Elbaum from Verso Books, author of _Revolution in the Air: Sixties Radicals Turn to Lenin, Mao and Che_, was in Portland last month and sat for an interview with myself and Kevin from Regrettable Century. Stay tuned for his story about the Weather Underground and Bob Avakian! Here’s the website for Max’s book: https://revolutionintheair.org Max's interview in Jacobin: "Learning from the New Communist Movement" https://www.jacobinmag.com/2018/09/max-elbaum-new-communist-movement-socialism-organizing Kevin's podcast: http://regrettablecentury.buzzsprout.com/ Max Elbaum's panel talk with members of Portland DSA's Red Caucus: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b_01IQn0MU8 Opening sound clip: "Communists on Campus: The Weather Underground" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tChf9wJKARA ------ Recs: -Panopticon -David Blight's _Frederick Douglass: Prophet of Freedom_ ---- Help us make the show! http://www.patreon.com/givingthemic - @givingthemic - Questions/comments/suggestions for great local Korean food: givingthemic@gmail.com - http://facebook.com/givingthemic/ - - Main theme by The Mysterious Breakfast'r Cereal on SoundCloud @chiptheme - - All items trademarked and copyright their respective owners. Please don't sue. Please don't sue. Please don't sue.

Candy & I spoke with author/organizer Eric Blanc in studio in mid-May 2019. Eric has published Red State Revolt: The Teachers’ Strike Wave and Working-Class Politics with Verso and Jacobin. Find the book here: https://www.versobooks.com/books/2955-red-state-revolt You can find out more what Eric's up to at https://ericblanc.org/ or follow him on the socials at https://twitter.com/_ericblanc Recs: - -Gilmore Girls -Superstore -I Think You Should Leave ---- -Ending theme: Doris Wilson's "Big Flame (Is Gonna Break My Heart in Two)" - Help us make the show! http://www.patreon.com/givingthemic - @givingthemic - Questions/comments/suggestions for great local Korean food: givingthemic@gmail.com - http://facebook.com/givingthemic/ - - Main theme by The Mysterious Breakfast'r Cereal on SoundCloud @chiptheme - - All items trademarked and copyright their respective owners. Please don't sue. Please don't sue. Please don't sue.

Paige Kreisman(https://twitter.com/PaigeKreisman) is a candidate running for Oregon House District 42. She's the first trans person to run for state-wide office in Oregon, the first candidate ever endorsed by Portland DSA, an Army veteran, and tenant organizer. Check out her campaign at http://www.paige2020.com Candy & I talked to her and Bryan from her campaign and the DSA Electoral Working Group about her work, how she wound in up Oregon after escaping small-town North Carolina, enlisting in combat infantry, witnessing U.S. imperialism and (pretty much) slave labor in Qatar. We also get into why you want to run socialist candidates for office, and the utility of the Bernie 2020 campaign for movement building. The Oregon primary vote is scheduled for May 19, 2020. CW: for suicide talk, just a heads up. - The first Portland DSA Brake Light Clinic is happening on Saturday, July 6th, from 11-4pm at 5020 NE MLK. Spread the word and help folks get their signal lights checked out for free! https://www.facebook.com/events/452421528874665/ - Recs: --- -Those Scoot scoots you see around town -Airtable -Bloodstained: Ritual of the Night -Outer Wilds - http://Twitter.com/givingthemic/ - Help us make the show! http://www.patreon.com/givingthemic - - Questions/comments/suggestions for great local Korean food: givingthemic@gmail.com - http://facebook.com/givingthemic/ - - Main theme by The Mysterious Breakfast'r Cereal on SoundCloud @chiptheme - - All items trademarked and copyright their respective owners. Please don't sue. Please don't sue. Please don't sue.

Part 2! Ben Burgis(Rutgers prof, Zero Books author, Ben Shapiro debunker/mocker) joins us(Candy, Jacob, and Jeremy) to talk about his new book from Zero Books, _Give Them an Argument: Logic for the Left_. Why do you actually need an argument versus just wanting to snark and dunk on or morally shame somebody? Listen and find out! Recorded in mid-April. Part 1: https://soundcloud.com/givingthemic/ep-53-part-1-arguing-with-ben-burgis Also covered: hockey as the One True Sport, Aaron Sorkin and why stirring speeches can't do much, university faculty organizing, and even a bit about the Xfiles. - Check out Ben's book here: https://www.johnhuntpublishing.com/zer0-books/our-books/give-them-an-argument Ben on Twitter: https://twitter.com/BenBurgis - Ben's is on the Michael Brooks Show every Tuesday for a weekly Debunk! https://michaelbrooksshow.libsyn.com/ - Check out Ben's Youtube channel! https://www.youtube.com/user/benburgis1 - Check out the Antifada podcast, especially if you're a fan of Jamie from Sam Seder's Majority Report. https://podtail.com/en/podcast/the-antifada/ - This is the 2nd part of a two-parter. The whole conversation is available now at our Patreon at http://www.patreon.com/givingthemic - Follow Jacob on Twitch! http://www.twitch.tv/jacobmercy - @jacobmercy @givingthemic - Questions/comments/suggestions for great local Korean food: givingthemic@gmail.com - http://facebook.com/givingthemic/ - - Main theme by The Mysterious Breakfast'r Cereal on SoundCloud @chiptheme - - All items trademarked and copyright their respective owners. Please don't sue. Please don't sue. Please don't sue.

Ben Burgis(Rutgers prof, Zero Books author, Ben Shapiro debunker/mocker) joins us(Candy, Jacob, and Jeremy) to talk about his new book from Zero Books, _Give Them an Argument: Logic for the Left_. Why do you actually need an argument versus just wanting to snark and dunk on or morally shame somebody? Listen and find out! Check out Part 2 here: https://soundcloud.com/givingthemic/ep-53-part-2-arguing-with-ben-burgis Also covered: hockey as the One True Sport, Aaron Sorkin and why stirring speeches can't do much, university faculty organizing, and even a bit about the Xfiles. - Also, the only episode we've ever recorded to feature the phrase "universal basic bitcoin." - Check out Ben's book here: https://www.johnhuntpublishing.com/zer0-books/our-books/give-them-an-argument Ben on Twitter: https://twitter.com/BenBurgis - Ben's is on the Michael Brooks Show every Tuesday for a weekly Debunk! https://michaelbrooksshow.libsyn.com/ - This is the first part of a two-parter. The whole conversation is available now at our Patreon at http://www.patreon.com/givingthemic - Follow Jacob on Twitch! http://www.twitch.tv/jacobmercy - @jacobmercy @givingthemic - Questions/comments/suggestions for great local Korean food: givingthemic@gmail.com - http://facebook.com/givingthemic/ - - Main theme by The Mysterious Breakfast'r Cereal on SoundCloud @chiptheme - - All items trademarked and copyright their respective owners. Please don't sue. Please don't sue. Please don't sue.

Part 2! The 1st-ever NW Unity Conference for the Democratic Socialists of America was held in early April, 2019, in Portland, Oregon. - Check out Part 1 here: https://soundcloud.com/givingthemic/ep52-the-dsa-nw-unity-conference-part-1 - Members from chapters around the NW(from Anchorage to Billings to Eugene and more) converged on a cold rainy weekend to chat and plot and socialize. I talked to Ashley Gallagher, Portland organizer of the event, and members from the Seattle, Tacoma, and Whatcom County chapters. What are people working on? What are they excited about? Tenant organizing, ecosocialism, support local candidates, and all. We also talk comics, why Disney / Marvel seems to fetishize the military in its movies, and more. Mentioned: The Hellhole, Seattle DSA's newsletter -https://seattledsa.org/dispatches/hellhole/ Shaun Scott, campaigning for District 4 in Seattle: -https://twitter.com/ElectScott2019 -https://scott2019.com/ Chanan Suarez, campaigning for Bellingham City Council: -https://twitter.com/ChananSuarez The Tacoma Tenants Organizing Cmte: -https://www.facebook.com/TacomaTenants/ The Bellingham Tenants Union: -https://bellinghamtenantsunion.org/ Rightwing Uncle Sam on I-5 in Chehalis: -http://www.chronline.com/life/i--s-uncle-sam-billboard-years-and-still-ticked/article_0aa401c4-b8df-11e7-b2d8-034b8858abfb.html -https://www.roadsideamerica.com/tip/6002?offset=5 the Uncaged Antology -https://www.ashleywarrenwrites.com/uncaged D20 Dames - An all-ages D&D podcast handcrafted by witches. -https://twitter.com/d20Dames -https://d20dames.com/ DM of None - https://www.dmofnone.com/podcast/ - Special thanks to Roy Zhang for additional editing help. - Questions/comments/suggestions for great local Korean food: givingthemic@gmail.com - http://facebook.com/givingthemic/ - http://Twitter.com/givingthemic/ - Help us make the show! http://www.patreon.com/givingthemic - - - - Main theme by The Mysterious Breakfast'r Cereal on SoundCloud @chiptheme - - All items trademarked and copyright their respective owners. Please don't sue. Please don't sue. Please don't sue.

Check out part 2 here: https://soundcloud.com/givingthemic/ep52-part-2-the-dsa-nw-unity-conference -- The 1st-ever NW Unity Conference for the Democratic Socialists of America was held in early April, 2019, in Portland, Oregon. Members from chapters around the NW(from Anchorage to Billings to Eugene and more) converged on a cold rainy weekend to chat and plot and socialize. I talked to Ashley Gallagher, Portland organizer of the event, and members from the Seattle, Tacoma, and Whatcom County chapters. What are people working on? What are they excited about? Tenant organizing, ecosocialism, support local candidates, and all. This is the first 1/2 of the conversation. The 2nd part will be released later on, but you can hear the whole thing by supporting us on Patreon at http://www.patreon.com/givingthemic Mentioned: The Hellhole, Seattle DSA's newsletter -https://seattledsa.org/dispatches/hellhole/ Shaun Scott, campaigning for District 4 in Seattle: -https://twitter.com/ElectScott2019 -https://scott2019.com/ Chanan Suarez, campaigning for Bellingham City Council: -https://twitter.com/ChananSuarez The Tacoma Tenants Organizing Cmte: -https://www.facebook.com/TacomaTenants/ The Bellingham Tenants Union: -https://bellinghamtenantsunion.org/ Rightwing Uncle Sam on I-5 in Chehalis: -http://www.chronline.com/life/i--s-uncle-sam-billboard-years-and-still-ticked/article_0aa401c4-b8df-11e7-b2d8-034b8858abfb.html -https://www.roadsideamerica.com/tip/6002?offset=5 the Uncaged Antology -https://www.ashleywarrenwrites.com/uncaged D20 Dames - An all-ages D&D podcast handcrafted by witches. -https://twitter.com/d20Dames -https://d20dames.com/ DM of None - https://www.dmofnone.com/podcast/ - Special thanks to Roy Zhang for additional editing help. - Questions/comments/suggestions for great local Korean food: givingthemic@gmail.com - http://facebook.com/givingthemic/ - http://Twitter.com/givingthemic/ - Help us make the show! http://www.patreon.com/givingthemic - - - - Main theme by The Mysterious Breakfast'r Cereal on SoundCloud @chiptheme - - All items trademarked and copyright their respective owners. Please don't sue. Please don't sue. Please don't sue.