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Rrrrn and Tiberius sit down with local anti-ableist organizer Garrett Winters to discuss issues within both the left and society in general as they relate to how we treat the disabled among us and how we can overcome this. For those who want to learn more about what we discussed and take that and run with it, here's Garrett's list of links and further readings as well as their PayPal support link: ------------------------------------ Personal page An Articulate Autistic (https://www.facebook.com/articulateautistic/) Platform for marginalized voices to be heard which is always recruiting (tell people to contact the page for details) The Outcast (https://www.facebook.com/TheOutcastPost/) and the accompanying blog The Outcast Post (https://theoutcast.info/) The Revolution Needs All Kinds of Minds: on Slacktivism and Ableism (https://theoutcast.info/the-revolution-needs-all-kinds-of-minds-on-slacktivism-and-ableism-2/) is a key post related to stuff I mentioned in the podcast and in the beginning are (https://www.autistichoya.com/2013/08/critiquing-temple-grandin.html), (https://ballastexistenz.wordpress.com/2006/04/27/temple-grandin-devalues-us-again-in-print-this-time/), and (https://ballastexistenz.wordpress.com/2006/01/08/temple-grandin-displaying-near-textbook-hfaas-elitism/) about Temple Grandin Ally's Guide for Autism Acceptance Month (https://theoutcast.info/autism-acceptance-month-guide/) is something I made before I left to help allies help autistics by taking direct action regarding Autism $peaks, A Red Rage #RedInstead (https://theoutcast.info/a-red-rage-redinstead/) was my Autism Acceptance article from a couple years back and is one of my favorite articles, my other is You're Not As Important As You Think: on "Being Divisive" (https://theoutcast.info/youre-not-as-important-as-you-think-on-being-divisive/) Autistic Self-Advocacy Network (https://autisticadvocacy.networkforgood.com/projects/23616-your-gift-will-help-empower-the-autistic-community) and Autistic Women and Nonbinary Network (https://awnnetwork.org/donate-to-awn/) are both good orgs also if people want to support me it's...very hard to find a job that's not overloading and I have been searching for a long time so here's my Paypal (https://www.paypal.me/GarrettWinters)"

Time for some Inside Baseball, comrades, as Sauce and Tiberius are joined by guest Valerie Sinclair (https://twitter.com/maruchan1312) to discuss the recent DSA West Coast Regional Convention in LA and generally dive into the internal challenges and structural issues within the DSA. Stick around at the end (at about 49m 28s)to hear why both Sauce and Valerie are running to be on the NPC themselves!

Tiberius apologizes for missing the "end" of the shutdown, but comrades Mack and Sauce had a great discussion about the shutdown, TSA peeping our junk, and how much NPR sucks with Matt and Anna from the Breadline Podcast (https://twitter.com/thebreadlinepod)

Emily (@snarlsdegaulle) talks to Sauce (@communalsauce) and Mack (@incarcountry) about the Gilet Jaunes protests and the political situation in France. Vive la Commune de Paris!

For something a little different, comrade Tiberius recently recorded a talk given by Geographer Richard Walker of UC Berkeley as part of his speaking tour for his latest book, Pictures of a Gone City, about the stunning growth of wealth and the concomitant explosion of inequality in the Greater Bay Area, a region infamous as perhaps the beating heart and crown jewel of modern global capitalism. The audience for this talk was a left liberal/progressive crowd, however both the talk and the book are well worth paying attention to for those of us on the socialist left.

Returning from hiatus, comrade Tiberius sits down with Peter Coffin to discuss their book Custom Reality and You. Subscribe to their YouTube channel (https://www.youtube.com/user/petercoffin) for some fantastic video essays, and get the book in e-book or dead tree format at https://amzn.com/1521741042

In what turned out to be unsurprisingly a fantastic discussion, Sauce and Tiberius speak with Breht Ó Séaghdha of Rev Left Radio (https://revolutionaryleftradio.libsyn.com/) and the Guillotine (https://theguillotinepodcast.libsyn.com/) about political education for revolutionary socialists, how they developed their politics, and how theory and practice interrelate. Please support the show at https://patreon.com/leftcoastmedia if you're able, and follow Breht and his work on twitter at twitter.com/DeadIrishRebel, twitter.com/RevLeftRadio, twitter.com/GuillotinePod, and you can find this and the work of many more comrades at https://www.critmediations.com/

Just Sauce and Tiberius this week, and a discussion we thought would only fill about 15 minutes. Check out the Nice Things podcast at @nicethingscast and https://nicethingscast.buzzsprout.com/ If you like this show, please rate and review us on iTunes, and consider becoming a patreon at patreon.com/leftcoastmedia

Communal Sauce takes the reigns in Tiberius' absence to dive into burnout -- what it is, how to spot it, and what to do about it -- with Leslie and Meagan (twitter.com/garbage_hime and twitter.com/MemeVVitch). Catch Meagan's podcast at https://soundcloud.com/naughty-by-nurture, and please help out the show by supporting us on patreon.com/leftcoastmedia.

Comrades Sauce and Tiberius discuss unconditional basic income with Rachel (twitter.com/nyhcmaven84)

This is it, the Big Book™ of Marxism: Capital Volume 1. Tiberius Gracchus, Outer Siberia and Empress "Rosa Luxemburg" Trixana tackle sections 1 thru 3 of chapter 1, covering the labor theory of value, commodities, and money. To join the discussion tweet at the show at twitter.com/leftpod with the hashtag #MarxHeadroom, or join the discord server. If you want to support our work and help us afford transcripts for the show go to patreon.com/leftcoastmedia and kick us a few bucks a month--anything you can afford is appreciated.

Comrades Tiberius and Sauce chat with Molly (twitter.com/socialistdogmom) about why she's sitting in on so many city council meetings, and how hyperlocal electoral politics is a tool in the socialist arsenal. Follow her, twitter.com/cvilledsa, and twitter.com/mikesigner1 for such threads as https://twitter.com/socialistdogmom/status/948342648343064578 https://twitter.com/socialistdogmom/status/956574990488481792 https://twitter.com/socialistdogmom/status/938099348470161408 and https://youtu.be/Kfr29BAedz8

Part 2 of Marx's Value, Price, and Profit wherein comrades Pope, Tiberius, and Sibby cover the back half of the text, covering how what Marx has taught so far means for the worker's struggle in his time and now. Follow this episode's hosts respectively at twitter.com/antifa_pope, twitter.com/chekainformant, and twitter.com/outersiberia and join the conversation with your feedback in the discord or with the hashtag #MarxHeadroom

This week comrades Sauce and Tiberius are very pleased to discuss the BDS movement with the ever lovely Kumars Salehi of Delete Your Account fame

The second of Tiberius's conversations with the Mendocino Voice comrades about why the left needs its own news organizations and how activists need to interact with reporters

Comrades Outer Siberia, Tiberius Gracchus, and Dan start digging into Marxism proper with Value, Price, and Profit. Find the text on the Marxist archive at https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1865/value-price-profit/ and find the hosts of this discussion on twitter at https://twitter.com/OuterSiberius, https://twitter.com/chekainformant, and https://twitter.com/anarchoposadist respectively. Join our discord server or hit up https://twitter.com/leftpod with #MarxHeadroom to ask questions or provide critique of our understanding of the work.

Comrade Sauce (twitter.com/communalsauce) speaks with the DSA Street Medic Collective's John, Eli, and Logan about the challenges and necessities of street medic training for radical movements. Help them out by funding the Bay Area and Pacific Northwest's training on https://www.gofundme.com/dsa-medics-california-regional-agm-training and https://www.gofundme.com/dsa-pacific-northwest-affinity-group-medic-training-portland You can find DSA Medics (twitter.com/DSAMedics), John (twitter.com/parsonshanged), and Chicago Action Medical (twitter.com/ChiStreetMedics) on Twitter

The first of our book club series! This episode discusses Rebecca Solnit's Hope in the Dark and is hosted by comrades Communal Sauce (twitter.com/communalsauce) Outer Siberia (twitter.com/OuterSiberia) and Rosa

Local comrades and reporters Kate Maxwell and Adrian Fernandez-Baumann from The Mendocino Voice sit down with Tiberius for part one of two episodes on local journalism and leftism. This week examines the news from an insider's perspective. Follow their paper on https://twitter.com/TheMendoVoice and support their work at https://www.mendovoice.com/membership/ (the death toll from the fires was 42 http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-ln-fires-20171018-story.html)

Comrade Tiberius rides solo to catch up with James and fellow worker Ruth from the Kansas City IWW to discuss anti-prison activism and their current campaign to get adequate feminine hygiene supplies for those caged by the state. (Tiberius' recording was corrupted by state agents, but they're confident the quality of the content makes up for the resulting poor audio quality) To find out more and get involved: Facebook: https://facebook.com/kansascity.iww/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/gkciww Web: https://kciww.org/ IWOC: incarceratedworkers.org Email: greaterkciww@gmail.com

First up in our new Marxism study group show, we've got comrades Sibby (twitter.com/OuterSiberia), TIberius (twitter.com/chekainformant), Rosa (twitter.com/empress_trixana), and El Pope (twitter.com/antifa_pope) reading and discussing Marx's Critique of the Gotha Programme

North Bae: The Internationale Edition featuring hosts Tiberius and Sauce interviewing Lorena (twitter.com/godeepORgohome) about Brazilian politics and international solidarity between the imperial core and the global south.

To start 2018 off right, comrades Sauce and Tiberius talk about coastal elites and organizing in the south with Gene and Alex from the Kudzu Commune podcast. Also there's grits. Check them out, rate, and review over on itunes: https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/kudzu-commune/id1258843211

Just comrade Tiberius for this one, but a very important discussion about what sociocracy is and why it's important for us as radical and even reformist socialist with Jennifer Rau of sociocracyforall.org Read about the local democracy project in Kerala here: https://wikis.uit.tufts.edu/confluence/download/attachments/42666929/KeralaExperiment.pdf?version=1&modificationDate=1299688067000 And find the sociocracy training courses on http://www.sociocracyforall.org/training/ and https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCJhU0G6Hm2-Xk8T7BvpKhRw

The lovely Tina Philips joins comrades Tiberius and Sauce to discuss a left critique of antifa and the role violence plays in self-defense. Read her article about it on medium https://medium.com/@tinaphillips_57522/a-socialist-critique-of-the-antifa-in-post-trump-america-688c6583920b, and definitely check out the ContraPoints' video Tiberius mentions here https://youtu.be/lmsoVFCUN3Q

Comrades Sauce and Tiberius host an afternoon with Malloy from the Discourse Collective at the Vallejo public library for a discussion of the Dictatorship of the Teen and socialist youth organizing in the 21st c. Check them out on twitter @mmalloyboy and @DiscoCollective

Two thirds of the left coast comrades are joined by Roxy, a comrade in Florida who was involved with the antifascist #NoNazisAtUF rally. Also socialist feminism in organizing work.

Hosts and comrades chat it up with Commie Ned Flanders (@CommieFlanders on Twitter) to find out if Jesus was a revolutionary communist and why Christian socialism is good as heck

Hosts and comrades, Aaron, Sauce, and Tiberius are joined by local wobblies Maggie and Martin to talk about the Santa Rosa fire response and what comes next for the future

Comrade Sauce and Guests have an unfortunately timely discussion about radical consent, what it is and why it's important. CW for discussions of sexual assault, violence, and sex. Read about it and put it into practice so our comrades can be safer, please: http://www.conspireforchange.org/?p=132 http://www.incite-national.org/page/color-violence-incite-anthology https://www.phillyspissed.net/node/32

This is an emergency broadcast of the Left Coast Media Network. North Bay comrades Tiberius, Aaron, and Sauce are currently dealing with perhaps the worst fire in California's history and are calling on all comrades who can to help out. Email the show at leftcoastpodcast@gmail.com or submit a request to Mutual Aid for North Bay: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSe3DlUmxtAS1F4xw-6GNYsKbv5ySRjok4WTeZpVeSP86V8jmw/viewform The link for the North Bay IWW Fire Response Fund: generosity.com/fundraisers/northbay-iww-fire-relief-fund And for those who can make it, the Sebastopol Grange and Sonoma County Farmer's Guild recovery fundraiser is here: https://facebook.com/events/5825439186774

Our comrade comes in from @OuterSiberia to discuss the neoliberal destruction of post-Soviet Russia with comrades Aaron, Tiberius, and Sauce

Revolutionary comrade Argelio joins comrades Sauce, Aaron, and Tiberius to discuss the history and current events of los Brown Berets and the Autonomous faction of Sonoma County. Catch them on facebook at https://www.facebook.com/Ls-Autonomous-Brown-Berets-de-Sonoma-County-140143152695313/

Catching up on less-than-recent events with comrades Tiberius, Sauce, and Aaron. Go watch Contrapoint's video on decrypting the alt-right: https://youtu.be/Sx4BVGPkdzk, and listen to our discussion on institutional structure and liberal media analysis too: https://soundcloud.com/leftcoastpodcast/wherein-the-media-matters

Jen (@cruciverberella on twitter) joins the whole crew to hold the DSA NPC accountable, and we were so persuasive that Fetonte resigned before we even released this! DSA Accountability is still an important group in democratizing DSA National, so find them on twitter at @DSAAccntability, email them at dsa.acct.taskforce@gmail.com, or call them up at (650) 273-6230

Comrade Celery join Tiberius and Sauce for an Extremely Online™ episode about the rise of the fascist right online and its leaking out into the meatspace world. Go listen to the Discourse Collective https://soundcloud.com/discoursecollective for more Celery and the gang!

Comrades Tiberius and Sauce discuss what it means to live in the cultural and physical decay of gentrification and late capitalism with James (@localfanzine, check out his podcast! https://soundcloud.com/user-190443781). Listen to our previous IWOC show here: https://soundcloud.com/leftcoastpodcast/wherein-we-stand-with-the-incarcerated

Hosts Tiberius Gracchus and Communal Sauce use this minisode to discuss why comrade Sauce is running for DSA's NPC, and make one last pitch to the delegates and members attending the National Convention to remember that our solidarity must be with the community and workers at the grass roots level because our strength is inextricably bound to them. Read Sauce's candidacy statement here: https://oh-by-jove.tumblr.com/post/163569259503/npc

Jon DA @GrouchoMarxist joins hosts Communal Sauce and Tiberius Gracchus to dunk on libs who can't tell the difference between Harry Potter and real life. Also we talk about DSA LA and bottom-up institutions, but that's less interesting

Just in time for the DSA national convention, Tiberius, Sauce, and Aaron take on criticisms of the DSA itself along with @TwittersGoodGirl in the hopes of strengthening it and the socialist movement more broadly.

Tiberius may have been spirited away, but comrades rrrrn and sauce fill in easily with a discussion ranging from how society changes, to proposing actions to take as socialists, and questioning what class means in our current context.

Added a new conrad to the Left Coast Media Anarchic Collective, @rrrn on twitter! Other hosts are Tiberius (@leftpod) and Sauce (@communalsauce), and all three are OC and founding members of the @dsanorthbay local chapter. Talking about the oddities of the north bay and what that means in a socialist sense for those of us who live here. Episode music is Broken Windows by NVS, and you can find and download all their music at https://nvsmusic.bandcamp.com/

Interview with Brooke of the Oakland IWOC, with your hosts Tiberius Gracchus and Communal Sauce

Introducing our cohost and fellow DSA North Bay comrade @communalsauce by way of an interview about local, national, and personal politics Show notes and links: DSA Spring Platform -- https://dsaspringplatform.org/the-platform/ The International Antifa Defense Fund -- https://intlantifadefence.wordpress.com/ Tiny Houses for Humanity -- https://www.facebook.com/tinyhousesforhumanity/ And, very important for us personally, our first DSA NB Public Chapter Meeting! -- https://www.facebook.com/events/1929267843986632/ email: leftcoastpodcast@gmail.com twitter: https://twitter.com/leftpod and https://twitter.com/communalsauce reddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/leftcoast

A selection of interviews from the April 29th El pueblo unido People's March & Rally, which combined the Climate Justice march with May Day to bring together a truly intersectional coalition of community and activism, building a coalition for future work across a variety of interests. More information available on our Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/April29coalition/

Wherein We Let Our Femme Flag Fly by Left Coast Media

Just your two new favorite hosts introducing themselves, so we're light on links for this one -- just the meeting for the Peace and Freedom Movement's Black History Month (http://peaceandfreedom.org/home/index.php/feb-4-berkeley-black-history), and the California Socialist Party (https://socialistparty-california.org/) Twitter @LeftPod https://reddit.com/r/LeftCoast LeftCoastPodcast at Gmail dot Com