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2 episodes with Company town
2 episodes with Company town
2 episodes with Company town
2 episodes with Company town
3 episodes with Company town
Hello Interactors,I was in Santa Barbara recently having dinner on a friend's deck when a rocket's contrail streaked the sky. “Another one from Vandenberg,” he said. “Wait a couple minutes — you'll hear it.” And we did. “They've gotten really annoying,” he added. He's not wrong. In early 2024, SpaceX launched seven times more tonnage into space than the rest of the world combined, much of it from Vandenberg Space Force Base (renamed from Air Force Base in 2021). They've already been approved to fly 12,000 Starlink satellites, with filings for 30,000 more.This isn't just future space junk — it's infrastructure. And it's not just in orbit. What Musk is doing in the sky is tied to what he's building on the ground. Not in Vandenberg, where regulation still exists, but in Starbase, Texas, where the law doesn't resist — it assists. There, Musk is testing how much sovereignty one man can claim under the banner of “innovation” — and how little we'll do to stop him.TOWNS TO THRUST AND THRONEMusk isn't just defying gravity — he's defying law. In South Texas, a place called Starbase has taken shape along the Gulf Coast, hugging the edge of SpaceX's rocket launch site. What looks like a town is really something else: a launchpad not just for spacecraft, but for a new form of privatized sovereignty.VIDEO: Time compresses at the edge of Starbase: a slow-built frontier where launch infrastructure rises faster than oversight. Source: Google EarthThis isn't unprecedented. The United States has a long lineage of company towns — places where corporations controlled land, housing, labor, and local government. Pullman, Illinois is the most famous. But while labor historians and economic geographers have documented their economic and social impact, few have examined them as legal structures of power.That's the gap legal scholar Brian Highsmith identifies in Governing the Company Town. That omission matters — because these places aren't just undemocratic. They often function as quasi-sovereign legal shells, designed to serve capital, not people.Incorporation is the trick. In Texas, any area with at least 201 residents can petition to become a general-law municipality. That's exactly what Musk has done. In a recent vote (212 to 6) residents approved the creation of an official town — Starbase. Most of those residents are SpaceX employees living on company-owned land…with a Tesla in the driveway. The result is a legally recognized town, politically constructed. SpaceX controls the housing, the workforce, and now, the electorate. Even the mayor is a SpaceX affiliate. With zoning powers and taxing authority, Musk now holds tools usually reserved for public governments — and he's using them to build for rockets, not residents…unless they're employees.VIDEO: Starbase expands frame by frame, not just as a company town, but as a legal experiment — where land, labor, and law are reassembled to serve orbit over ordinance. Source: Google EarthQuinn Slobodian, a historian of neoliberalism and global capitalism, shows how powerful companies and individuals increasingly use legal tools to redesign borders and jurisdictions to their advantage. In his book, Cracked Up Capitalism, he shows how jurisdiction becomes the secret weapon of the capitalist state around the world. I wrote about a techno-optimist fantasy state on the island of Roatán, part of the Bay Islands in Honduras a couple years ago. It isn't new. Disney used the same playbook in 1967 with Florida's Reedy Creek District — deeding slivers of land to employees to meet incorporation rules, then governing without real opposition. Highsmith draws a straight line to Musk: both use municipal law not to serve the public, but to avoid it. In Texas, beach access is often blocked near Starbase — even when rockets aren't launching. A proposed bill would make ignoring an evacuation order a Class B misdemeanor, punishable by jail.Even if Starbase never fully resembles a traditional town, that's beside the point. What Musk is really revealing isn't some urban design oasis but how municipal frameworks can still be weaponized for private control. Through zoning laws, incorporation statutes, and infrastructure deals, corporations can shape legal entities that resemble cities but function more like logistical regimes.And yet, this tactic draws little sustained scrutiny. As Highsmith reminds us, legal scholarship has largely ignored how municipal tools are deployed to consolidate corporate power. That silence matters — because what looks like a sleepy launch site in Texas may be something much larger: a new form of rule disguised as infrastructure.ABOVE THE LAW, BELOW THE LANDElon Musk isn't just shaping towns — he's engineering systems. His tunnels, satellites, and rockets stretch across and beyond traditional borders. These aren't just feats of engineering. They're tools of control designed to bypass civic oversight and relocate governance into private hands. He doesn't need to overthrow the state to escape regulation. He simply builds around it…and in the case of Texas, with it.Architect and theorist Keller Easterling, whose work examines how infrastructure quietly shapes political life, argues that these systems are not just supports for power — they are power. Infrastructure itself is a kind of operating system for shaping the city, states, countries…and now space.Starlink, SpaceX's satellite constellation, provides internet access to users around the world. In Ukraine, it became a vital communications network after Russian attacks on local infrastructure. Musk enabled access — then later restricted it. He made decisions with real geopolitical consequences. No president. No Congress. Just a private executive shaping war from orbit.And it's not just Ukraine. Starlink is now active in dozens of countries, often without formal agreements from national regulators. It bypasses local telecom laws, surveillance rules, and data protections. For authoritarian regimes, that makes it dangerous. But for democracies, it raises a deeper question: who governs the sky?Right now, the answer is: no one. The Outer Space Treaty of 1967 assumes that nation-states, not corporations, are the primary actors in orbit. But Starlink functions in a legal grey zone, using low Earth orbit as a loophole in international law…aided and abetted by the U.S. defense department.VIDEO: Thousands of Starlink satellites, visualized in low Earth orbit, encircle the planet like a privatized exosphere—reshaping global communication while raising questions of governance, visibility, and control. Source: StarlinkThe result is a telecom empire without borders. Musk commands a growing share of orbital infrastructure but answers to no global regulator. The International Telecommunication Union can coordinate satellite spectrum, but it can't enforce ethical or geopolitical standards. Musk alone decides whether Starlink aids governments, rebels, or armies. As Quinn Slobodian might put it, this is exception-making on a planetary scale.Now let's go underground. The Boring Company digs high-speed tunnels beneath cities like Las Vegas, sidestepping standard planning processes. These projects often exclude transit agencies and ignore public engagement. They're built for select users, not the public at large. Local governments, eager for tech-driven investment, offer permits and partnerships — even if it means circumventing democratic procedures.Taken together — Starlink above, Boring Company below, Tesla charging networks on the ground — Musk's empire moves through multiple layers of infrastructure, each reshaping civic life without formal accountability. His systems carry people, data, and energy — but not through the public channels meant to regulate them. They're not overseen by voters. They're not authorized by democratic mandate. Yet they profoundly shape how people move, communicate, and live.Geographer Deborah Cowen, whose research focuses on the global logistics industry, argues that infrastructure like ports, fiber-optic cables, and pipelines have become tools of geopolitical strategy. Logistics as a form of war by other means. Brian Highsmith argues this is a form of “functional fragmentation” — breaking governance into layers and loopholes that allow corporations to sidestep collective control. These aren't mere workarounds. They signal a deeper shift in how power is organized — not just across space, but through it.This kind of sovereignty is easy to miss because it doesn't always resemble government. But when a private actor controls transit systems, communication networks, and even military connectivity — across borders, beneath cities, and in orbit — we're not just dealing with infrastructure. We're dealing with rule.And, just like with company towns, the legal scholarship is struggling to catch up. These layered, mobile, and non-territorial regimes challenge our categories of law and space alike. What these fantastical projects inspire is often awe. But what they should require is law.AMNESIA AIDS THE AMBITIOUSElon Musk may dazzle with dreams full-blown, but the roots of his power are not his own. The United States has a long tradition of private actors ruling like governments — with public blessing. These aren't outliers. They're part of a national pattern, deeply embedded in our legal geography: public authority outsourced to private ambition.The details vary, but the logic repeats. Whether it's early colonial charters, speculative land empires, company towns, or special districts carved for tech campuses, American history is full of projects where law becomes a scaffold for private sovereignty. Rather than recount every episode, let's just say from John Winthrop to George Washington to Walt Disney to Elon Musk, America has always made room for men who rule through charters, not elections.Yet despite the frequency of these arrangements, the scholarship has been oddly selective.According to Highsmith, legal academia has largely ignored the institutional architecture that makes company towns possible in the first place: incorporation laws, zoning frameworks, municipal codes, and districting rules. These aren't neutral bureaucratic instruments. They're jurisdictional design tools, capable of reshaping sovereignty at the micro-scale. And when used strategically, they can be wielded by corporations to create functional states-within-a-state — governing without elections, taxing without consent, and shaping public life through private vision.From a critical geography perspective, the problem is just as stark. Scholars have long studied the uneven production of space — how capital reshapes landscapes to serve accumulation. But here, space isn't just produced — it's governed. And it's governed through techniques of legal enclosure, where a patch of land becomes a jurisdictional exception, and a logistics hub or tech campus becomes a mini-regime.Starbase, Snailbrook, Reedy Creek, and even Google's Sidewalk Labs are not just spatial projects — they're sovereign experiments in spatial governance, where control is layered through contracts, tax breaks, and municipal proxies.But these arrangements don't arise in a vacuum. Cities often aren't choosing between public and private control — they're choosing between austerity and access to cash. In the United States, local governments are revenue-starved by design. Most lack control over income taxes or resource royalties, and depend heavily on sales taxes, property taxes, and development fees. This creates a perverse incentive: to treat corporations not as entities to regulate, but as lifelines to recruit and appease.Desperate for jobs and investment, cities offer zoning concessions, infrastructure deals, and tax abatements, even when they come with little democratic oversight or long-term guarantees. Corporate actors understand this imbalance — and exploit it. The result is a form of urban hostage-taking, where governance is bartered piecemeal in exchange for the promise of economic survival.A more democratized fiscal structure — one that empowers cities through equitable revenue-sharing, progressive taxation, or greater control over land value capture — might reduce this dependency. It would make it possible for municipalities to plan with their citizens instead of negotiating against them. It would weaken the grip of corporate actors who leverage scarcity into sovereignty. But until then, as long as cities are backed into a fiscal corner, we shouldn't be surprised when they sell off their power — one plot or parking lot at a time.Highsmith argues that these structures demand scrutiny — not just for their economic impact, but for their democratic consequences. These aren't just quirks of local law. They are the fault lines of American federalism — where localism becomes a loophole, and fragmentation becomes a formula for private rule.And yet, these systems persist with minimal legal friction and even less public awareness. Because they don't always look like sovereignty. Sometimes they look like a housing deal. A fast-tracked zoning change. A development district with deferred taxes. A campus with private shuttles and subsidized utilities. They don't announce themselves as secessions — but they function that way.We've been trained to see these projects as innovation, not governance. As entrepreneurship, not policy. But when a company owns the homes, builds the roads, controls the data, and sets the rules, it's not just offering services — it's exercising control. As political theorist Wendy Brown has argued, neoliberalism reshapes civic life around the image of the entrepreneur, replacing democratic participation with market performance.That shift plays out everywhere: universities run like corporations, cities managed like startups. Musk isn't the exception — he's the clearest expression of a culture that mistakes private ambition for public good. Musk once tweeted, “If you must know, I am a utopian anarchist of the kind best described by Iain Banks.” In a New York Times article, Jill Lepore quoted Banks as saying his science fiction books were about “'hippy commies with hyper-weapons and a deep distrust of both Marketolatry and Greedism.' He also expressed astonishment that anyone could read his books as promoting free-market libertarianism, asking, ‘Which bit of not having private property and the absence of money in the Culture novels have these people missed?'”The issue isn't just that we've allowed these takeovers — it's that we've ignored the tools enabling them: incorporation, annexation, zoning, and special districts. As Brian Highsmith notes, this quiet shift in power might not have surprised one of our constitution authors, James Madison, but it would have troubled him. In Federalist No. 10, Madison warned not of monarchs, but of factions — small, organized interests capturing government for their own ends. His solution was restraint through scaling oppositional voices. “The inference to which we are brought is, that the causes of faction cannot be removed...and that relief is only to be sought in the means of controlling its effects.”— James Madison, Federalist No. 10 (1787)Today, the structure meant to restrain factions has become their playbook. These actors don't run for office — they arrive with charters, contracts, and capital. They govern not in the name of the people, but of “efficiency” and “innovation.” And they don't need to control a nation when a zoning board will do.Unchecked, we risk mistaking corporate control for civic order — and repeating a pattern we've barely begun to name.We were told, sold, and promised a universe of shared governance — political, spatial, even orbital. But Madison didn't trust promises. He trusted structure. He feared what happens when small governments fall to powerful interests — when law becomes a lever for private gain. That fear now lives in legal districts, rocket towns, and infrastructure built to rule. Thousands of satellites orbit the Earth, not launched by publics, but by one man with tools once reserved for states. What was once called infrastructure now governs. What was once geography now obeys.Our maps may still show roads and rails and pipes and ports — but not the fictions beneath them, or the factions they support.References:Brown, W. (2015). Undoing the demos: Neoliberalism's stealth revolution. Zone Books.Cowen, D. (2014). The deadly life of logistics: Mapping violence in global trade. University of Minnesota Press.Easterling, K. (2014). Extrastatecraft: The power of infrastructure space. Verso Books.Highsmith, B. (2022). Governing the company town: How employers use local government to seize political power. Yale Law Journal.Madison, J. (1787). Federalist No. 10. In A. Hamilton, J. Madison, & J. Jay, The Federalist Papers. Bantam Books (2003 edition).Slobodian, Q. (2023). Crack-Up Capitalism: Market radicals and the dream of a world without democracy. Metropolitan Books. This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit interplace.io
Residents of Boca Chica, Texas, have voted to turn their community into a new official city called Starbase. This new municipality is tightly controlled by SpaceX leadership and most residents are SpaceX employees, which has raised concerns about the reemergence of company towns. In this Upzoned episode, Abby is joined by our Chief Technical Advisor Edward Erfurt to discuss the Strong Towns perspective on this story. ADDITIONAL SHOW NOTES “Elon Musk's company town: SpaceX employees vote to create ‘Starbase'” by Nick Robins-Early, The Guardian (May 2025). Abby Newsham (X/Twitter). Theme Music by Kemet the Phantom.
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The little company town was located smack in the middle of the country's most productive tree-growing land; so, in the 1980s, the company drained its lake, bulldozed it into a pile, torched it, and replanted it with trees. (Valsetz, Polk County; 1920s, 1950s, 1980s) (For text and pictures, see https://offbeatoregon.com/1611c.valsetz-company-ghost-town-418.html)
First, Elon Musk's company town Starbase—governed by his head of security. The history of company towns, explain why these exploitative models have long been problematic, and speculate on why Musk is reviving this outdated concept to further his corporate ambitions. Next, the CIA's handling of JFK documents. Then we're joined by Jefferson Morley (@jeffersonmorley), writer of the JFK Facts Substack, re Trump's plans to release more JFK files and revisit lingering questions about the JFK assassination. https://jfkfacts.org/https://jfkfacts.org/
The world's richest man is developing a company town outside Austin, Texas. Like the industrialists who came before him, Elon Musk may learn it's hard to create (and sustain) a utopia. This episode was produced by Victoria Chamberlin, edited by Matt Collette, fact-checked by Laura Bullard, engineered by Patrick Boyd and Andrea Kristinsdottir, and hosted by Noel King. Transcript at vox.com/today-explained-podcast Support Today, Explained by becoming a Vox Member today: http://www.vox.com/members An aerial view of Elon Musk's Snailbrook community in Bastrop County, Texas. Photo by Brandon Bell/Getty Images. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
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In this episode: Orlando Sentinel columnist Scott Maxwell joins the podcast to talk about Florida's 2024 elections — including some stunning local results in which voters in Orlando chose a pair of grassroots activists over tourism- and developer-backed alternatives who had outspent them by as much as 8-to-1. It's the dawning of a new day in what has historically been one of the nation's biggest company towns. And it further established Orlando as a blue island in a statewide sea of red. Show notes: For more about Florida's elections — both in Orlando and across the state — make sure to read Scott's most recent column in the Sentinel. And check out more of his work here.To understand what made these Orlando races so important, and why they will have statewide repercussions, see these pieces from Seeking Rents: Voters in Orlando have a chance to loosen the tourism industry's grip on taxpayer money Candidates in Orlando split over new rules to save rural land from suburban sprawl Questions or comments? Send ‘em to Garcia.JasonR@gmail.comListen to the show: Apple | SpotifyWatch the show: YouTube Get full access to Seeking Rents at jasongarcia.substack.com/subscribe
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Smart "Village" Comes to USA in Form of TechnofeudalismEven Corporations are Spying on You & CANCELLING You FROM SPACEGovernment Outsources BigBrother to a Corporation — FLOCKRanked Choice Voting — Good or Bad?David Icke Exposes Tucker Carlson & His "Big Daddy" ComplexThe Elephant in the GOP Room — COVID VaxINTERVIEW G Edward GriffinTOPICS by TIMECODE(2:00) Trick or Treat — Laws Against Adult Chaperones Even Sneaking a Piece of Candy (10:09) Smart "Village" Comes to USA in Form of Technofeudalism$7 BILLION "City Within a City" — a giant factory town - in PhoenixHolland's "15-Minute Cages", the push for Smart Cities escalatesTWILIGHT ZONE — the remaining elderly in a Japanese village with NO young people make child puppets to keep them company. A picture of the population collapse in Japan(35:52) Even Corporations are Spying on You & CANCELLING You FROM SPACEInsurance company uses satellite surveillance to cancel a couple's homeowner insurance after 20 yrs, based on FALSE ASSUMPTIONS. The insurance company refuses to reconsider(40:03) Government Outsources BigBrother to a Corporation — FLOCK"Incredibly intimate details" in the Flock public/private partnership for warrantless surveillanceIn the same way government pretended social media censorship was not directed by government (although it WAS), a massive national & international surveillance network is rapidly being funded by government that pretends it's not warrantless surveillanceEven small rural towns are being flooded with 100's of surveillance camerasHow the information being used and abusedHow you can personally opt outHow you can minimize Flock in your community even if you can't stop it(1:01:15) Ranked Choice Voting — Good or Bad? What is Ranked Choice Voting (RCV) and why are political parties demonizing it? (1:05:48) David Icke Exposes Tucker's "Big Daddy" ComplexDemocrats offer us the Nanny State. The MAGA audience cheers when Tucker offers a vision of President Trump as Big DaddyAre we children?Is government our family?Does Big Brother/Mother/Daddy love us?(1:18:18) The Elephant in the GOP Room — COVID VaxThe George W Bush family proudly displays the UNI-PARTY. YouTube soft-censors Rogan/Trump while Rogan SELF-CENSORED and MAGA wants to hear no evil, see no evil, speak no evil about Trump's pandemic measuresmRNA vax DEVASTATES livestock with death and illness(1:44:33) INTERVIEW G Edward Griffin Author and documentary filmmaker, G Edward Griffin joinsHow did he get into documentary filmmakingWhat caused him to change his mind about the UNWhat does the author of "The Creature from Jekyll Island" think about the future of money?Now that we've seen how BigPharma & the FDA have acted during the "pandemic" are we ready to learn about alternative cancer treatment from his book "A World Without Cancer"The free online Red Pill Expo coming up at RedPillExpo.orgIf you would like to support the show and our family please consider subscribing monthly here: SubscribeStar https://www.subscribestar.com/the-david-knight-showOr you can send a donation throughMail: David Knight POB 994 Kodak, TN 37764Zelle: @DavidKnightShow@protonmail.comCash App at: $davidknightshowBTC to: bc1qkuec29hkuye4xse9unh7nptvu3y9qmv24vanh7Money should have intrinsic value AND transactional privacy: Go to DavidKnight.gold for great deals on physical gold/silverFor 10% off Gerald Celente's prescient Trends Journal, go to TrendsJournal.com and enter the code KNIGHTBecome a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/the-real-david-knight-show--5282736/support.
On this week's podcast, we're going more local than we've ever gone before, discussing the pleasures and perils of the company town. Here to be our local guide through this topic, and discussing his forthcoming paper, “Governing the Company Town” is Brian Highsmith — a former student of David's, Ph.D. candidate in Government and Social Policy at Harvard University, an academic fellow in law and political economy at Harvard Law School, and an affiliated senior researcher at Yale Law School's Arthur Liman Center for Public Interest Law. We begin this conversation by discussing what the company town was and what it wasn't, legally and historically. Highsmith proposes that Madison's theory of factions is the best conceptual framework to understand company towns, while Sam pushes back on company towns as being uniquely subject to private power. After we engage in a bit of democratic theory, David presses Highsmith on whether the answer to bad localism is good localism, and how we might regulate the municipal race to the bottom. Give the pod a listen and find out. This podcast is generously supported by Themis Bar Review. Referenced Readings Federalist 10 by James Madison Crack-Up Capitalism: Market Radicals and the Dream of a World Without Democracy by Quinn Slobodian “The For-Profit City That Might Come Crashing Down” by Rachel Corbett “Regulating Location Incentives” by Brian Highsmith “Worthwhile Canadian Initiative” by Flora Lewis
After World War II, uranium became one of the most sought-after elements in the world — and in the sparse canyons of the four-corners region, uranium company towns began to spring up and sell the ore to the U.S. Government. The 1950s were the golden years, when rich “uraniumaires” bought private jets and anybody could go from country rags to riches. But before long, the uranium rush would come crashing down. And one town, named Uravan, would disappear entirely. Find referenced studies and stories, along with photos, at www.aleccowan.com/boomtown In this episode: Howard and Caren Stephens, former Union Carbide employees and residents of Uravan Bill Barnes Jr., former Union Carbide mill worker and resident of Uravan Eva Fernandez, former Uravan resident Bob Ince, a one-time uranium miner whose family operated mines in Gateway, CO Michael Amundson, professor of history at Northern Arizona University
Rerun. Hersheypark was created as a recreation ground for the workers and families who staffed the Hershey chocolate factory in Pennsylvania when it opened on 30th May, 1906. But visitors from across the State soon came to marvel at its playgrounds, boating lake and band-stand… and, before long, the environs began to morph into the chocolate-themed amusement park it remains to this day. Its success exemplifies the ‘Company Town' phenomenon: at one point, 3% of the USA's entire population lived in a town that was owned and run by the company that they worked for. In this episode, Arion, Rebecca and Olly explain how caramel, not chocolate, first paved the way to Hershey's success; debate whether Hersheypark was a philanthropic gift to his employees, or a cynical bid to keep them from leaving; and explain to Americans why Brits would prefer an attraction with less butyric acid… Further Reading: • ‘More Than 110 Years of Hersheypark Happy' (Hershey, 2022): https://www.hersheypa.com/about-hershey/history/hersheypark-history.php • Milton Hershey, The Man Who Built A Chocolate Empire (All That's Interesting, 2022): https://allthatsinteresting.com/milton-hershey • ‘From Sweet To Sweeter: The Legacy of Hersheypark' (Hersheypark Enthusiast, 2021): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZIJlIYlPo38 ‘Why am I hearing a rerun?' Each Thursday and Friday we repeat stories from our archive of 800+ episodes, so we can maintain the quality of our independent podcast and bring you fresh, free content every Monday-Wednesday… … But
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Join us for another week of laughter, TV shows, streaming, movies and all things entertainment. THIS WEEK WE'RE TALKING TV Shows The Morning Show (S1) Mayor of Kingston (S1 & S2) Movies RoboCop 3 (1993) Transformers: Rise of the Beasts MOVIE OF THE WEEK & PEAK PERFORMANCE Transformers: Rise of the Beasts. Staring: Anthony Ramos, Dominique Fishback, Dean Scott Vazquez, Tobe Nwigwe, Sarah Stiles, Peter Cullen, Liza Koshy, Ron Pearlman, Michelle Yeoh, Peter Dinklage & Pete Davidson. Directed by Steven Caple Jr. And finally our Peak Performance nominations are in for Ryan Reynolds. EPISODE TITLE This weeks episode title is dedicated to the cast and crew of Mayor of Kingstown, catch S1 & S2 on Prime Video before S3 drops in early 2024. RUNNING ORDER 02m40s | What we've been watching 30m28s | Movie of the week: Transformers: Rise of the Beasts 48m20s | News & Mailbag 01h05m22s | Peak Performance: Ryan Reynolds GET IN TOUCH Support us at Patreon Follow us on Instagram Post (Tweet) us @HalfMeasuresPod Talk to us on Discord Follow us on Facebook Visit our website halfmeasurespodcast.com This episode of the Half Measures Podcast is brought to you by our Patreon Producers: Samara Whiting-King, Diana Knauer, Tricia Brady & Michael Chalmers.
Pauline describes the Company Town structure and gives examples of the good, the bad, and the massacre. Find the show on Twitter or Instagram or Tumblr. Send requests to be a guest expert or enthusiast to QuickBitesPod@gmail.com
Sean and Glenn catch up on exciting things happening in Austin and the unique challenges stemming from the city's recent growth. Glenn is the Director for Business Development at Broaddus Construction and also hosts the BoomATX podcast. Glenn shares his take on accommodating Austin's growth and how the city should heed the influence of people like Elon Musk. To Glenn, most of it comes down to supply and demand: the question is if Austin can allow companies to provide the supply. Timecoded Guide: [00:00] Start of episode [10:18] Housing Prices in Austin [14:05] Elon Musk in Austin [16:09] The “Company Town” [21:36] The Future of Housing in Austin [25:24] The Robin Hood Recapture Is Elon Musk making a positive development in this market? Glen thinks that Musk has already positively contributed to Austin's development. With his speed to the market in Tesla's manufacturing and plans to expedite downtown Austin transportation infrastructure, Glen thinks that the city should continue to allow Musk to build and develop in and around Austin. “We should be encouraging it and allowing him to do it. For some reason, the city and public entities are all for all options until it's not their option.” What do you see as the future of housing in Austin? Glenn says that, as developers have no incentive to discount their costs, they can provide as much housing as the city allows but can only sell at the market rate. Meanwhile, there is no shortage of people moving to Austin, Glenn says that Austin simply needs more housing of all types. The challenge in meeting the demand and providing more supply are things like zoning, permitting, and city approvals, Glenn says. “What has been able to get approved and zoned and under construction is such a long runway that's built into the limited supply we have, and, like I said, there's just no shortage of people wanting to move to Austin.” What are your thoughts on the Robin Hood Recapture? The Robin Hood Recapture Law is a Texas House bill that aims to recapture excess local property tax from wealthier school districts and supply other school districts with funds needed to reach state entitlement. Glenn says that a lot of money collected from property taxes in wealthier districts does not go back into education. He says that while it may not be easy, Robin Hood Recapture is the simplest way to address affordability in Austin. “We're paying two times as much to educate our kids in Austin, that we're getting services going out for the local area, that's a good chunk of money, that doesn't put more money into the pool to fund education across the state.” ---------- Links: Keep up with Glenn on LinkedIn. Tune in to the BoomATX podcast. Visit Broaddus Construction at their website. If you enjoyed this podcast, check out more episodes on Audible, iHeart, and Youtube. Learn more about the Bukowski Law Firm and the Greater Texas Podcast on our website and Youtube channel.
This week we look at Krystal talking to music expert Anthony Fantano @TheNeedleDrop about how AI created a Drake song that went viral, the FBI accidentally kidnaping the wrong man at a hotel, a CNBC reporter who hosts a show called "Capital Connection" caught on camera with a billionaire in her room, Max Alvarez from The Art of Class War, Jordan Chariton reports on the scene in Kalamazoo, Michigan where a paper mill dumps toxic air, James Li looks into Elon Musk's new company town, and Spencer Snyder gives us 3 Reasons Why Buzzfeed Closed. To become a Breaking Points Premium Member and watch/listen to the show uncut and 1 hour early visit: https://breakingpoints.supercast.com/ To listen to Breaking Points as a podcast, check them out on Apple and Spotify Apple: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/breaking-points-with-krystal-and-saagar/id1570045623 Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/4Kbsy61zJSzPxNZZ3PKbXl Merch: https://breaking-points.myshopify.com/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
This week we look at Krystal talking to music expert Anthony Fantano @TheNeedleDrop about how AI created a Drake song that went viral, the FBI accidentally kidnaping the wrong man at a hotel, a CNBC reporter who hosts a show called "Capital Connection" caught on camera with a billionaire in her room, Max Alvarez from The Art of Class War, Jordan Chariton reports on the scene in Kalamazoo, Michigan where a paper mill dumps toxic air, James Li looks into Elon Musk's new company town, and Spencer Snyder gives us 3 Reasons Why Buzzfeed Closed.To become a Breaking Points Premium Member and watch/listen to the show uncut and 1 hour early visit: https://breakingpoints.supercast.com/To listen to Breaking Points as a podcast, check them out on Apple and SpotifyApple: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/breaking-points-with-krystal-and-saagar/id1570045623 Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/4Kbsy61zJSzPxNZZ3PKbXl Merch: https://breaking-points.myshopify.com/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoicesSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
https://thinkfuture.com | In this thought-provoking episode of "ThinkFuture," host Chris Kalaboukis delves into the contentious topic of whether corporations should provide free housing, food, and healthcare for their employees, as was once common in "company towns." As the landscape of employee welfare and corporate responsibility evolves, Chris explores the historical context, modern examples, and the potential implications of this concept. He discusses the pros and cons of company towns, examining the impact on employee well-being, work-life balance, and community development. Chris also addresses potential drawbacks such as the concentration of power, economic dependency, and the risk of exploitation. He investigates how some modern corporations have adopted or adapted these practices, and considers the potential for a resurgence of company towns in the 21st century. Join Chris in this stimulating episode as he navigates the complex debate surrounding company towns and their role in shaping the future of work and employee welfare. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/thinkfuture/message Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/thinkfuture/support
Elon Musk plans to set up a company town; The Rick Smith Show reminds us of the dark history of company towns. Then, on America's Workforce Radio, Tim Burga, President of the Ohio AFL-CIO, tells us about new legislation to improve safety on the railroads. Next we go to Brazil, for a report on 39 workers rescued from modern slavery on the Solidarity Center Podcast. From the FairWork podcast, a discussion with Heather Berg about how the internet has changed sex work. Our final segment today is from the new season of the America Works podcast, which introduces us to Jude Bejarano, a cement plant worker in Evansville, Pennsylvania Please help us build sonic solidarity by clicking on the share button below. Highlights from labor radio and podcast shows around the country, part of the national Labor Radio Podcast Network of shows focusing on working people's issues and concerns. #LaborRadioPod @AFLCIO @RickSmithShow @AWFUnionPodcast @SolidarityCntr @TowardsFairWork @librarycongress Edited/produced by Chris Garlock; social media guru Mr. Harold Phillips.
In episode 1438, Jack and guest co-host super producer Becca Ramos are joined by hosts of Endless Thread, Amory Sivertson and Ben Brock Johnson, to discuss… Elon Musk Wants To Build A Utopian Company Town... What Could Go Wrong? The Most Divisive Political Issue in America: Daylight Savings Time, R.I.P. Chewing Gum and more! Elon Musk Wants To Build A Utopian Company Town... What Could Go Wrong? Elon Musk Is Planning a Texas Utopia—His Own Town Residents of Elon Musk's ‘space city' say he destroyed quiet beach town The Most Divisive Political Issue in America: Daylight Savings Time Bill to Make Daylight Saving Permanent Re-Emerges From the Dark Clock runs out on efforts to make daylight saving time permanent The political war around daylight saving time takes a nasty turn R.I.P. Chewing Gum Bursting the bubble: how gum lost its cool LISTEN: Ninguém Dorme by TroyBoi, Tropkillaz, & MC LanSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Flush with cash from his sale of Zappos to Amazon, Tony Hsieh is writing big checks. He has some 350 million dollars to invest — and just a year into this bold experiment in social engineering, his efforts to transform downtown Vegas into the happiest place on earth seem to be well underway. Did his vision for a tech utopia really work wonders on this city? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
The little company town was located smack in the middle of the country's most productive tree-growing land; so, in the 1980s, the company drained its lake, bulldozed it into a pile, torched it, and replanted it with trees. (Valsetz, Polk County; 1920s, 1950s, 1980s) (For text and pictures, see https://offbeatoregon.com/1611c.valsetz-company-ghost-town-418.html)
“The great corporation which employed you lied to you, and lied to the whole country—from top to bottom it was nothing but one gigantic lie.”― Upton Sinclair, The JungleIn this bonus episode we hear from Matt, who was recently fired from an Amazon Warehouse in Campbellsville, KY for attempting to organize a union with his coworkers in response to brutal working conditions that involve walking more than 20 miles per shift, temperatures that can rise as high as 100* in workspaces, breaking bones, and more. The abuse of Amazon doesn't stop in the Warehouse though… this company is attempting to turn the whole country into one big company town from the sounds of it: Amazon Care health services? “Affordable housing” for workers who get evicted as soon as they aren't working for the company? Data ownership that links employee data with customer data and healthcare data? Clearance to GOVERN their own townships?---✊Make sure to support Matt by contributing to or sharing his retaliation fund: [https://www.zeffy.com/en-US/donation-form/1f94594f-a62a-4a3b-bf7f-88e92b69442a](https://www.zeffy.com/en-US/donation-form/1f94594f-a62a-4a3b-bf7f-88e92b69442a)
The Pella Corporation, manufacturer of windows and doors, is headquartered in a small town in Iowa. When a shortage of housing and amenities hindered its ability to hire and grow, the company decided to tackle some of these problems themselves. WSJ's Charity Scott tells the complicated tale of a modern company town. Further Reading: - Facing Labor Shortages, Pella Reinvents the Company Town in Rural Iowa Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
The classic black-and-white photos from early decades of the American West often fail to capture the diversity of the people who came here. Chinese migrants helped build the railroads and were big in gold mining. Basque people from Spain became known for sheep herding. The first Filipino cannery workers arrived around the turn of the last century. Now, Oregon archaeologists are on the surprising trail of Japanese families who lived in a now-vanished lumber company town.
(Jul 13, 2022) The area around Lake Placid, Keene, and Au Sable Forks is the heart of tourism in the Adirondacks. But one company shaped that landscape for nearly two centuries. The story of the J&J Rogers Company. Also: State officials have released police body camera footage of the deadly shooting in Saranac Lake last month.
Elizabeth Huff, Sugar Land, Texas director of economic development shares fascinating insights about how the town is propelling cool engaging community projects.
This episode features "Company Town" written by Aimee Ogden. Published in the June 2022 issue of Clarkesworld Magazine and read by Kate Baker. The text version of this story can be found at: https://clarkesworldmagazine.com/ogden_06_22 Support us on Patreon at https://www.patreon.com/join/clarkesworld?
Hersheypark was created as a recreation ground for the workers and families who staffed the Hershey chocolate factory in Pennsylvania when it opened on 30th May, 1906. But visitors from across the State soon came to marvel at its playgrounds, boating lake and band-stand… and, before long, the environs began to morph into the chocolate-themed amusement park it remains to this day. Its success exemplifies the ‘Company Town' phenomenon: at one point, 3% of the USA's entire population lived in a town that was owned and run by the company that they worked for. In this episode, Arion, Rebecca and Olly explain how caramel, not chocolate, first paved the way to Hershey's success; debate whether Hersheypark was a philanthropic gift to his employees, or a cynical bid to keep them from leaving; and explain to Americans why Brits would prefer an attraction with less butyric acid… Further Reading: • ‘More Than 110 Years of Hersheypark Happy' (Hershey, 2022): https://www.hersheypa.com/about-hershey/history/hersheypark-history.php • Milton Hershey, The Man Who Built A Chocolate Empire (All That's Interesting, 2022): https://allthatsinteresting.com/milton-hershey • ‘From Sweet To Sweeter: The Legacy of Hersheypark' (Hersheypark Enthusiast, 2021): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZIJlIYlPo38 For bonus material and to support the show, visit Patreon.com/Retrospectors We'll be back tomorrow! Follow us wherever you get your podcasts: podfollow.com/Retrospectors The Retrospectors are Olly Mann, Rebecca Messina & Arion McNicoll, with Matt Hill. Theme Music: Pass The Peas. Announcer: Bob Ravelli. Graphic Design: Terry Saunders. Edit Producer: Sophie King. Copyright: Rethink Audio / Olly Mann 2022. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
John and Chris shoot the shit, talk about NFTs on instagram, and then tackle an absolutely demented reading series about a marvel studios company town // outro: https://youtu.be/IeqtAB1WgEw // thanks so much for listening! pls rate and review us on apple podcasts, it really helps ppl find the show. hang out with us in midsposting on facebook www.facebook.com/groups/2185905738310960/ follow us on twitter @weedpod and instagram @beepbeepleaf love u, beep on
Author William Patrick is here to tell us about his new book, "Metrofix: The Combative Comeback of a Company Town." The book shows what went right and what went wrong when General Electric moved most of its businesses out of Schenectady, New York. Between 1960 and 2000, this company town would lose 30,000 residents, and like so many other cities in post-industrial America, faced overwhelming forces that pushed it toward imminent ruin. With historic photos, deeply-researched details, and portraits of some of its most dynamic citizens, "Metrofix" is an inspirational story that shows how hundreds of dedicated citizens pulled their city back from the brink of disaster and did, in fact, change their world.
Amazon says it has the perfect solution to the housing crisis: why not let them house their workers in affordable housing near their workplaces, allowing them to also help control costs by supplying transportation, food, and other needs? Why? Oh, we'll tell you, and the answer is to be found in the old classic "Sixteen Tons". Then, COVID-19's path of death has shifted its focus: as more of your centrist-to-leftward population in America has gotten vaccinated versus the conservative side, more US conservatives are finding themselves hospitalized by the "hoax", with no few of them dying of it. Finally, we look at how Trump is suing to try and keep White House records from January 6th, 2021 from investigators into the Capitol Attack. Nothing suspicious there. All that and much more on TMI with Aldous Tyler for Friday, October 1, 2021. Listen in for YOUR Cure for the Common Media!
Madeline Ashby is a futurist, writer, speaker and teacher. She is best known for her successful series of science-fiction novels, including the bestseller ‘Company Town,' the ‘Machine Dynasty' series, and a number of short stories. In 2020, Madeline co-authored her first non-fiction book, ‘How To Future: Leading and Sense-Making in an Age of Hyperchange' - and has worked in the futurism space for the World Health Organisation, the Ontario government and Intel Labs. In this conversation, Madeline recalls what attracted her to the world of futurism, including what the term means to her; discusses the impact the Covid-19 pandemic will have on business and technology; and explores the different possible landscapes of the future, explaining why it was so important to make understanding the possibilities, accessible to all.
While enjoying a lovely Southside cocktail, Shelley tells the not so lovely story of the Southside Strangler. Bekah explores George Pullman's vision of a utopian company town. Drinking: The Southside 1.5 oz. Gin infused with butterfly pea flower .75 oz. fresh lemon juice .75 oz. simple syrup 8-10 fresh mint leaves Muddle mint leaves gently in mixing glass. Add remaining ingredients and shake with ice. Strain into chilled cocktail glass. Garnish with mint sprig.
We're starting to think that the Scots did everything first. At least, that's how it feels when the ever-fascinating actor/writer Brian McCardie joins to teach us a little bit about New Lanark, a ‘Company Town' and proto-socialist utopia that was a century ahead of its time. The town may be in the “middle of nowhere” but it was also at the center of early labor reform and innovation. More on Brian: Brian McCardie is a Scottish actor and writer best known for...well...a lot of different things, his CV is a mile long. Listeners might recognize him recently from Jimmy McGovern's 3-part drama, Time, where he acted opposite Stephen Graham and Sean Bean. Or, less recently, from Line of Duty, Speed 2, Rob Roy and a whole host of others. SOURCES: to come SOCIALS: Follow Under The Kilt at @underthekiltpod on Twitter & Instagram CREDITS: Original Theme: Tyler Collins aka “Two Metre Man” Additional Music: Garreth Spinn Original Art: Sarah Cruz Producer: Kathleen Mueller Mason SPONSORS: Direct sponsorship inquiries and other questions to underthekiltpod@gmail.com
We're starting to think that the Scots did everything first. At least, that's how it feels when the ever-fascinating actor/writer Brian McCardie joins to teach us a little bit about New Lanark, a ‘Company Town' and proto-socialist utopia that was a century ahead of its time. The town may be in the “middle of nowhere” but it was also at the center of early labor reform and innovation.More on Brian:Brian McCardie is a Scottish actor and writer best known for...well...a lot of different things, his CV is a mile long. Listeners might recognize him recently from Jimmy McGovern's 3-part drama, Time, where he acted opposite Stephen Graham and Sean Bean. Or, less recently, from Line of Duty, Speed 2, Rob Roy and a whole host of others.SOURCES:to comeSOCIALS: Follow Under The Kilt at @underthekiltpod on Twitter & Instagram SUPPORT: Our network, Arcade Audio, is on Patreon. Support them and gain access to loads of bonus content from Shared History and all other Arcade podcasts: patreon.com/arcadeaudio CREDITS:Original Theme: Tyler Collins aka “Two Metre Man”Additional Music: Garreth SpinnOriginal Art: Sarah CruzProducer: Kathleen Mueller MasonSPONSORS: Direct sponsorship inquiries and other questions to underthekiltpod@gmail.com
In recent years, Nevada has drawn plenty of tech companies to the state, especially to Northern Nevada, which is close to both Silicon Valley and Lake Tahoe. Lawmakers now are looking at a new way to try to lure companies to the state. As Benjamin Payne reports, it is not without controversy.
In recent years, Nevada has drawn plenty of tech companies to the state, especially to Northern Nevada, which is close to both Silicon Valley and Lake Tahoe. Lawmakers now are looking at a new way to try to lure companies to the state. As Benjamin Payne reports, it is not without controversy.
In recent years, Nevada has drawn plenty of tech companies to the state, especially to Northern Nevada, which is close to both Silicon Valley and Lake Tahoe. Lawmakers now are looking at a new way to try to lure companies to the state. As Benjamin Payne reports, it is not without controversy.
In recent years, Nevada has drawn plenty of tech companies to the state, especially to Northern Nevada, which is close to both Silicon Valley and Lake Tahoe. Lawmakers now are looking at a new way to try to lure companies to the state. As Benjamin Payne reports, it is not without controversy.
Gabriel Scheare moved to Chile to fulfill his libertarian vision. Over the past several years, he developed Fort Galt, a community for those who want to live freely. Now amidst endless lockdowns and a rewriting of the Chilean constitution, he is returning to his native Saskatchewan to build community through a Company Town, Frenly Park. This episode offers insights on living truthfully and freely.
Sleepyhead manufacturer the Comfort Group has a grand plan to build a company town in a rural Waikato location. But is it really such a good idea?
Could fur farms be responsible for COVID-19? Why are people burning down Masonic lodges? And over in Texas, in turns out Tesla may be building a real-life company town to support SpaceX -- and, by hook or by crook, driving the existing residents out. All this and more in this week's listener mail segment. Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.com
Madeline Ashby is a science fiction writer, futurist, speaker, teacher, and immigrant living in Toronto. Madeline Ashby has worked with Intel Labs, the World Health Organization, the Institute for the Future, SciFutures, Nesta, Data & Society, The Atlantic Council, Changeist, and others. She has spoken at SXSW, FutureEverything, MozFest, and other events. Her essays have appeared at BoingBoing, io9, WorldChanging, The Atlantic, MISC Magazine, and FutureNow. Her fiction has appeared in Slate, MIT Technology Review, Clarkesworld, and multiple anthologies. She is a member of the XPRIZE Science Fiction Advisory Council and the AI Policy Futures Group at the ASU Center for Science and the Imagination. She is the author of the Machine Dynasty novels. Her novel Company Town was a Canada Reads finalist. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/shobhana-viswanathan/support
If you’ve read your John Steinbeck and listened to your Merle Haggard, or if you grew up in a farmworker family, you know that farm laborers in California have struggled to find decent housing for decades. Except in a few cases, growers have no legal obligation to house employees, and there’s not a lot of state and federal money earmarked for farmworker housing. In the Salinas Valley — the fifth- least-affordable place to live in the country — there’s just not enough decent housing for all the people needed to pick crops like lettuce and strawberries.
Did you think the world's richest entities were governments? Think again! 71 of the richest 100 organizations are corporations, not countries. Is a high-tech version of the old-tech company town in store for humans? This week is all about trying to answer what seems like a simple question - would you want to live in a town that's run by the government, or one that's run by a bright and shiny high-tech giant? Cyber-security expert Herb Lin joins us to talk about what that world might look like, and also sheds some light on what a corporate internet means for dwindling freedoms on the internet, the price that humans have to pay in return for security, and the difficulty of establishing consistent, robust standards for something as complex as the internet. In return for security, humans of the future might find themselves living in the tech generation's version of a company town. ªº¬˚∆≤≥≤≥ Join the mailing list http://eepurl.com/gRUCZL ≤≥≤≥∆˚¬ºª Join us on a journey to the inner workings of the human mind, the hidden appeal of incentive-driven reasoning, and a few suggestions for how to stay away from these cognitive traps. Stick around for part 2, where we speak with Dr. Christopher French, professor of Anomalistic Psychology at the University of London. ªº¬˚∆≤≥≤≥ Subscribe & Ring the bell to study the Secrets of the Universe ≤≥≤≥∆˚¬ºª EPISODE LINKS: Dr. Lin Website: https://cisac.fsi.stanford.edu/people/herbert_lin Dr. Lin Written Works: https://www.hoover.org/profiles/herbert-lin Dr. Lin Twitter: https://twitter.com/herblincyber?lang=en Episode notes on Youtube @ https://youtu.be/elO-cvIbijI We wrote and performed the music in this episode! Shilo Delay: https://soundcloud.com/laterisgone And everywhere else (Spotify, etc..) https://g.co/kgs/fc8WbA --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/demystifying-science/support
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Ryan Faughnder, film business reporter for the Los Angeles Times' Company Town, returns to Stuck at Home. Let's get down to business. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Cory Graham: Artist, Designer, Hillbilly; and he has the right to claim that last title. Yes he has been featured in the Outsider Art Magazine, and Artist Portfolio Magazine as well as at the Bauhaus Prairie Art Gallery, and even though there are some who would want him to be the stereotypicaly "hillbilly," respecting where he is from and those around him remains a primary driving force in much of what he does, including the art that he makes. Yes, he could have been half of the art craze coming out of the hills a while back known as rooster art, but know now that he’s not creating quaint, crafty pieces carved from sticks and stones gathered from his counryside. Those pieces are beautiful and they are made by beautiful people, but Cory’s work is different, unexpected, is largely digital, funny, politically charged, sometimes in your face and very much "Avant Appalachian." You will soon learn that Cory has utter respect for his community, it's history and its capacity to take care of itself, but you will also see just how insightful and witty he is as he shares on topics like bartering, the need to reject Tyler Childers, poverty porn and Hillbilly Ellegy. There is also some discussion of knee caps on stick people and you will hear how Cory met Tanya Harding and actually the answer to the question that almost everybody woul ask of her. NOTE: This episode has some explicit languageCory Graham's Website: http://www.cory-graham.com/Twitter: @corygrahamInstagram: @corygraham79Kites and Strings Website: https://www.kitesandstrings.com/Twitter: @KitesandstringsInstagram: @Kites_and_stringsFacebook: @kitesandstringspodcastReferenced in this episode: Ellen Dissanayake
What’s up Fellow Workers! The West Virginia IWW’s Chris & Dave kick back with returning guest, our buddy Bryn (@kinematografi) from the podcasts Beep Beep Lettuce and Generation Loss, Means TV's Left Trigger AND lastly her Twitch endeavor, Dullcare. For this spicy lil number, we talk about "conspiracy theories". What is conspiracy and how is the actual framing so different from the colloquial framing... Gonna give you a hint, it's the C!A. We also discuss a big "conspiracy theory" called the Great Reset, a huge western economic rollout by the World Economic Forum out of Davos, Switzerland. Welcome to the vision for the 21st Century Global Village's Company Town! :) Thanks so much for sitting down with us Bryn! This show really got us thinkin a bit. Also the WEF scary af. Bryn's projects here... There's a bunch of them: https://soundcloud.com/beepbeepleaf https://soundcloud.com/generationlosspod https://www.twitch.tv/dullcare https://means.tv/programs/lefttrigger Support BLM WV: secure.actblue.com/donate/blacklivesmatterwv *OFFICIAL POD OF THE WEST VIRGINIA IWW* www.westvirginiaiww.org wviww@protonmail.com
The "skills gap" is a lie and we've all been duped. Well, everyone with the exception of Suresh Naidu. Suresh is a professor of economics and international and public affairs at Columbia University as well as a fellow at the Roosevelt Institute, external faculty at the Santa Fe Institute, and a research fellow at the National Bureau of Economic Research, for starters. Needless to say, this interview is heady so prepare to take notes as we talk deep workforce economics, monopsony, market power, unions, and believe it or not the Company Town still exists. Na na na na na... Our podcast is smarter than yours! Seriously, this genius power is powered by the crazy amazing parsing and matching of Sovren. Sovren, software so human you'll want to take it to dinner.
From company towns to the 1893 World's Fair and the birth of the City Beautiful Movement, to the birth of the Garden City Movement in the book Tomorrow: A Peaceful Path to Real Reform, planning theory and ideology really started to take shape in the final decades of the 1800's. Pullman, Illinoishttp://www.pullmanil.org/town.htm#:~:text=The%20model%20industrial%20town%20of,of%20Pullman's%20Palace%20Car%20Companyhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pullman,_Chicagohttps://www.history.com/news/5-famous-company-townshttps://www.nps.gov/pull/learn/historyculture/a-brief-overview-of-the-pullman-story.htmhttps://www.chicagotribune.com/news/chi-from-factory-town-to-national-monument-brief-history-of-the-pullman-historic-district-20150218-htmlstory.html 1893 Chicago World's Fairhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniel_Burnhamhttp://www.architecture.org/learn/resources/architecture-dictionary/entry/worlds-columbian-exposition-of-1893/https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/features/chicago-worlds-columbian-exposition-1893/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World%27s_Columbian_Exposition City Beautifulhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/City_Beautiful_movementhttps://www.britannica.com/topic/City-Beautiful-movementhttps://www.nypap.org/preservation-history/city-beautiful-movement/ Tomorrow: A Peaceful Path to Real Reformhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Garden_Cities_of_To-morrowhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ebenezer_Howardhttps://www.theguardian.com/cities/2014/dec/05/ebenezer-howards-three-magnets
2015年，諾貝爾經濟學獎得主Joseph Stiglitz 回到故鄉開高中同學會。他已經離開了五十多年，離開這個叫做Garry的城市。Gary是當地最大鋼鐵工廠於1906創辦時創辦人的名字。感念之餘當地以他的名字命名：這裡也是美國傳統製造業繁榮時代典型的城市，Company Town。除非上大學，居民皆以工廠為家，認為自己高中畢業後，理所當然，就可以在這家鋼鐵工廠上班。 Joseph 後來去了Amherst及MIT 攻讀大學及博士，而他的許多同學們高中畢業後，面臨美國罷工運動及經濟衰退，本來理所當然的人生選擇，消失了。有些人參加軍隊，或是成為警察。 在這場五十年的同學會中，已經有些同學因為戰爭、及槍擊事件死亡。 有些人陷入貧困而且沒有健保，於是身體狀況非常糟。 那不是一場同學會，而是美國經濟史及社會制度史五十年的縮影。 Joseph Stiglitz 這本書談的是：什麼才是進步的資本主義，它的優先順序第一個是人民，其次權力屬於誰，最後才是追求利潤。 當許多人把美國的焦點只放在川普及反川普時，我特別想介紹這本書籍。因為美國如今的痛苦與不均衡發展，已經持續了半個世紀：當時的川普才二十歲。 美國的經濟停滯、斷層、危機、製造業的崩潰，不是川普的責任，也不是中國的責任。川普只是一個試圖回應這個現象的政治人物，他提出的方案有人贊成，有人反對。 Joseph Stiglitz 是民主黨人，反川普。我專訪他時提到這個同學會，他充滿感傷：但我也問他那是歐巴馬執政時期，歐巴馬是否過度輕忽了這些底層的危機，才導致川普上台？ 他回答是的，這是此書試圖提供的新方案：從政治到經濟體系。從民主到銀行可怕的遊説權力。 川普、拜登都只是收拾殘局的人物⋯⋯美國的千瘡百孔遠比政治人物提供的答案，複雜多了！
This week the Ding-Dong is Elon Reeve Musk, a famous business tycoon from South Africa who is building a company town in Texas on top of an existing community. As you might expect, he'd like the people there to leave. He also doesn't seem to be doing a fantastic job of building cars or launching rockets, unfortunately. Video of a Tesla Model Y's roof having just blown off: https://twitter.com/TheNastyNat/status/1312959549268094976 Music credit: Frogs Legs Rag by Kevin MacLeod License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
Peter Findlay, Jerry Dias and Face2Face host David Peck talk about Company Town, collective strength and the labour movement, false expectations, betrayal, raw capital without a conscience and resilience and resistance.TrailerWatch it on CBC GEM.Synopsis:In 2018, workers at General Motors plant in Oshawa were rocked by a bombshell just weeks before the Christmas holidays. After 100 years of production, GM announced it would be shutting down operations at the end of 2019 - despite receiving a multi-billion-dollar government bailout as recently as 2009. What was once known as ‘The City That Moto-vates Canada’ was shaken to its core.Unifor - the powerful national union representing the autoworkers - immediately went on a war footing.Launching a massive anti-GM media campaign, and calling for a boycott of GM vehicles, Unifor soon found an unlikely ally in rock superstar Sting, who – while in Toronto to perform in The Last Ship, his play about union struggles in England in the 1980s – stepped up to perform a solidarity concert for the GM workers. Firebrand Unifor leader Jerry Dias was adamant there would be no plant closure.Only two months later, in the late spring of 2019, GM came to the table with a new offer of enhanced settlement packages for its departing workers - and an agreement to retro-fit the plant to make automotive parts, but with the promise of only 300 jobs. While keeping any production at the plant was a partial victory for the union, the reality was that 2,300 GM workers would still be walking out of the plant for the last time at the end of the year.Equally devastating, the shutdown of the plant would also wipe out another 2,500 union jobs through a network of supplier companies whose existence was tied directly to GM assembling vehicles.Told through the wrenching personal stories of rank-and-file members of Unifor Local 222 in Oshawa, Company Town takes the audience on a roller coaster ride of emotions as the clock ticks down to the closure of the plant. With exclusive access to Unifor President Jerry Dias and his senior negotiators, it’s the dramatic fight to the finish, with the fate of 5,000 workers and their families hanging in the balance.About Peter and Jerry:Peter D. Findlay is an award-winning filmmaker whose work has appeared on the CBC, CTV, Discovery Canada, TVO, ZDF-ARTE, History Canada, the National Geographic Channel and PBS, among others.A proponent of immersive, character-driven storytelling, Findlay is also a former staff producer at CBC’s The Fifth Estate and The National Magazine, as well as an alumnus of Columbia University’s Graduate School of Journalism.Since leaving the CBC in 2000, where he produced and directed a range of award-winning social issue and current affairs documentaries, Findlay has written and directed documentaries for virtually every major Canadian broadcaster, including Justin, a 1-hour profile of Prime Minister Justin Trudeau (W Five, CTV); The Life & Times of Maude Barlow, a biography of anti-globalization leader Maude Barlow (CBC); Who Do You Think You Are – Avi Lewis?, an investigative documentary on Avi Lewis and his family’s radical roots back in the Eastern Europe of the 1880s (CBC); and Raw Opium: Pain, Pleasure, Profits, a feature documentary on the failure of the war on drugs, shot in Vancouver, Washington, India, Tajikistan, and Portugal (TVO/ZDF-ARTE).Findlay has also directed a variety of documentaries in Southeast Asia, the Caribbean, Antarctica, and Scandinavia for Mighty Ships (Discovery Channel), traced the path of the Norsemen across Europe for The Real Vikings (History TV), and embedded in Istanbul’s Topkapi Palace to tell the story of the Ottoman Empire for Museum Secrets (Smithsonian Channel/History TV).A Gemini Award-winner for best sport documentary, the winner of three Remi Awards at Worldfest Houston, a Canadian Science Writers Award, and a finalist for best political/social documentary at HotDocs for The Paper King: The World of Conrad Black, Findlay’s film Raw Opium was also shown at the DOXO Documentary Film Festival and excerpted for broadcast on the PBS News Hour as part of the Economist Film Project.Jerry Dias is the Unifor National President, and is at the forefront of the fight for workers’ rights, equality and social justice.Jerry has been active in the labour movement since he started his work life at de Havilland Aircraft (now Bombardier Aerospace) where he served as President of Local 112. He went on to join the union’s national staff as aerospace sector coordinator and then became Assistant to the CAW National President. In 2013, he was elected as Unifor’s first National President at the union’s founding convention. Since then Unifor has grown to represent more than 315,000 workers in every sector of the Canadian economy. An effective negotiator, Jerry has taken on corporate giants to secure good jobs for members and create the economic basis for increased living standards and shared prosperity.Jerry assumed an active role in the USMCA as a consultant to the Canadian government and negotiating team where he consistently pushed to raise labour standards, maintain Canadian sovereignty and protect key domestic industries.A committed trade unionist, he has been vocal on emerging labour issues including precarious work, youth unemployment and underemployment, growing income inequality and lack of work-life balance while strongly advocating for LGBTQ rights, gender equality and the elimination of violence against women. Under his leadership, Unifor’s ground-breaking Woman’s Advocate Program has expanded into more than 350 workplaces.When he is not at the bargaining table, you can find him walking in a “Hope in High Heels” fundraiser for the Halton Women’s Place shelter or supporting a variety of local charities across the country.Called one of the most fearsome people in the country by Sun News, one of the most powerful by Maclean’s and Canada’s most influential union leader by Ottawa Life, Jerry has been named the Toronto Star Wheels’ 2016 Newsmaker of the Year and an Automotive News All Star for the past three years.Jerry’s mission is to strive to create progressive change for a better future.Image Copyright and Credit: Nomad Films and the CBC.F2F Music and Image Copyright: David Peck and Face2Face. Used with permission.For more information about David Peck’s podcasting, writing and public speaking please visit his site here.With thanks to Josh Snethlage and Mixed Media Sound. 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Reverend Edward Pinkney of Benton Harbor, Michigan and the Black Autonomy Network Community Organization (BANCO), struggles against the takeover of this Western Michigan community. In this 8 part series, Pinkney's fight magnifies the eternal struggle between labor, capital, race, and political economy. To learn more about Reverend Pinkney and his organization, visit: https://www.bhbanco.org This episode highlights... -The history of Whirlpool -African American unsolved murders -Class and racial divide in Benton Harbor and St. Joseph -Benton Harbor riots -Governor Granholm’s sellout
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On this week's Arm Cast: Dead Sexy Podcast, host Armand Rosamilia chats with Madeline Ashby She's a futurist and science fiction writer living in Toronto and the author of the Machine Dynasty series and the novel Company Town. She is also a co-writer of Orphan Black: The Next Chapter
Week 4 continues with Dan and Janice sitting in the back of Evangeline trying to figure out Marfa Texas. This is a town that, on paper, seems taylor made for the two of them: It's a small high desert town filled with beautiful, old adobe brick homes that also has a expansive art scene. Towns like this don't come around much and there's a lot about it that they love. And yet. This is the longest episode of The Hitch so far this season, because there's a lot to figure out. On this episode you get not just one but TWO analogies of places that Janice and Dan have lived and also extensive descriptions of the art, architecture, and feel of this very unique desert town. Join us in Marfa on today's episode of The Hitch! Follow along on Instagram @tincanevangeline Follow Dan on Twitter @dansinker Follow Janice on Twitter @janicedillard
Our guest this week is Madeline Ashby. Madeline is a futurist and science fiction writer living in Toronto. Her most recent novel, Company Town, is available from Tor Books. For show notes visit: https://kk.org/cooltools/madeline-ashby-science-fiction-writer
PATREON SUPPORT NOW STANDING AT 437 – LAST WEEK 437 HELP US GET TO 500 PATREON SUPPORTERS.Main Fiction: "Domestic Violence"Originally published in Slate.comMadeline Ashby is a futurist and science fiction writer living in Toronto. Her work has been published in Slate, MIT Technology Review, BoingBoing, McSweeney’s, Clarkesworld, and elsewhere. Her novel COMPANY TOWN was a finalist in the CBC Books Canada Reads competition, and won the Copper Cylinder Award. She has worked with organizations like Intel Labs, the Institute for the Future, SciFutures, Data & Society, Nesta, Changeist, and others. You can find her at madelineashby.com.Narrated by: Tatiana GreyTatiana is a critically acclaimed actress of stage, screen, and the audio booth. She has been nominated for dozens of fancy awards but hasn’t won a single damned thing. She went to NYU and lives in Brooklyn, New York. You can find her at tatianagrey.com. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.
By Beth Cato, from Issue #268 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online MagazineNarrated by Tina Connolly."Take a look. I have them here with me. Please, godling." The girl's fear seeped into the words—as did her faith that Dreya would make everything right again.More info »
December 3, 2018 / For many decades, everything in Camden County, included the criminal justice system, was influenced by the county's dominant industry -- the paper mill. [Image: The Gilman Paper Company paper mill in St. Marys, as shown on the "Company Town" episode of Sixty Minutes.] Episode scoring music by Blue Dot Sessions, Patrick Cortes, and Chris Zabriskie. This episode was sponsored by Boll and Branch, Stamps, FabFitFun, and Framebridge. www.BollandBranch.com use promo code UNDISCLOSED for $50 off www.Stamps.com click on microphone and enter UNDISCLOSED www.FabFitFun.com use promo code UNDISCLOSED to get $10 off www.Framebridge.com use promo code UNDISCLOSED to save 15% #undisclosed #freedennisperry Support the show.
Prompted by his recent visit to Apple Park, Horace examines the history of the company town, its job to be done and wonders who lives in them today in another special edition of The Critical Path.
Prompted by his recent visit to Apple Park, Horace examines the history of the company town, its job to be done and wonders who lives in them today in another special edition of The Critical Path.
Our heroes arrive in Copperton. A rally, a strike. Scabbing. A conspiracy of their own. Ruth completes the trio. Featuring the voices of Thomas Walden, Edgar Mason and Alex Yoffie. A Broken Hands Media production - brokenhandsmedia.com Additional Music provided by Emily Dolan Davies - https://www.emilydolandavies.com/
Episode 21: Deep State Communists, War with Mexico Goes From Drugs to PoliticoEconomics, the Social Media Company Town0:00:00 Intro0:00:39 Seg1: The Deep State is Secret Communists in US Governmental Office0:07:07 Seg2: Cold Drug War With Mexico Turning Hot Shooting War0:13:22 Seg3: Social Media is a Digital Company Town0:18:53 Wrap-up https://o4anews.com/trump-vows-end-social-medias-gestapo-level-censorship/https://www.oyez.org/cases/1940-1955/326us501https://petitions.whitehouse.gov/petition/congress-must-declare-social-media-platforms-be-digital-company-towns-prevent-censorshiphttps://o4anews.com/communist-mexico-moves-legalize-heroin/https://o4anews.com/mexicos-legalize-drugs-cartels-amnesty/https://www.drugabuse.gov/publications/research-reports/heroin/scope-heroin-use-in-united-stateshttps://o4anews.com/dear-saul-read-the-letters-hillary-clinton-wrote-her-radical-communist-mentor-o4a-hillaryclinton-trump/https://www.judicialwatch.org/blog/2015/06/communism-in-jarretts-family/https://www.cnn.com/2016/09/15/politics/john-brennan-cia-communist-vote/index.htmlhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VtlO39wIRWshttps://www.wsj.com/articles/SB920421328276427000https://o4anews.com/brennan-digs-treason-hole-deeper/
Turin is a city that has represented for Italy what Detroit has represented for the US: the national prototype of the Fordist city, the "One Company Town". It is a city whose industrial past has heavily conditioned its transformation process, because of the material (brownfield) and immaterial (socio-economic and cultural structures and dynamics) legacies. However, Turin is a city that has had - in the past 25 years - a peculiar trajectory in the Italian and European panoramas, since it paved its way out of different economic crisis thanks to a mix of innovative land-use and strategic plans, urban design experiences, and regeneration policies. In the current phase, the city seems to have lost much of the drive that has allowed recent changes and seems to be struggling to find a clear way out from post-Fordism, even if we may still witness different and interesting public and private initiatives. Marco Santangelo is a Professor of Geography at Politecnico di Torino, Interuniversity Department of Regional and Urban Studies and Planning (DIST). His visit at our Faculty is a part of the research project „Spatio-consumer behaviors of students and the development of postindustrial cities” led by Department of Regional Economics and Environment, and financed by National Science Centre, Poland.
Our guest this week is Madeline Ashby. Madeline is a science fiction writer and futurist living in Toronto. Her most recent novel, Company Town, was a finalist for the 2017 CBC Books Canada Reads prize. She has also developed science fiction prototypes for the Institute for the Future, SciFutures, Data & Society, Nesta, the Atlantic Council, NASA, and others. For show notes visit: http://kk.org/cooltools/madeline-ashby-sci-fi-writer
What happens when a company leaves a company town? We talk to an ethnographer who charts the story of a New Hampshire paper mill that closed, leaving hard feelings and few jobs behind. We also track water quality in two New England Bays, and examine the source of some of our water pollution problems — the lightly regulated residential septic system. Finally, we visit a Boston laboratory for creating new beats. Dryers on the Number 3 paper machine at the now-demolished paper mill in Groveton, Nh. From a 1955 Vanity Fair sales catalog. (Courtesy GREAT) State of the Bays Bangs Island Mussels worker Jon Gorman sets juvenile mussells onto rope that will be their home for the next year as they grow to market size. (Fred Bever/ Maine Public) When it comes to water quality, there's a lot that scientists have to monitor. Pollution, invasive species, and climate change are just a few of their concerns. And these problems are often linked together, so it can be hard to pinpoint the cause of unhealthy waterways. We go first to Maine's Casco Bay, where a new threat to New England’s shellfish industry seems to be establishing itself more firmly. Regulators are trying to stay ahead of potentially deadly blooms of toxic algae — blooms that may be driven by climate change. An unprecedented bloom in Casco Bay recently forced regulators to close off a large area to shellfish harvesting. Maine Public Radio's Fred Bever reports. New Hampshire’s Great Bay. (Annie Ropeik/NHPR) “Did you ever know anybody who looked really good, like, physically you just look at him or her and say, ‘Wow, they’re in real shape,’ and then you find out they’re struggling with a tough health problem? That’s our bay. Look how beautiful it is, right? Doesn’t it look great? Under the surface, there’s some issues.” – Kalle Matso, Coastal Science Program Manager, University of New Hampshire New Hampshire’s Great Bay and its estuary have suffered from nitrogen loading and other problems for years. And the latest data doesn’t show much improvement. But scientists say there’s still hope for the watershed. As New Hampshire Public Radio’s Annie Ropeik reports, they’re trying to hone in on things people can control. Septic system installation underway for a home on steep slopes. (Soil Science/Flickr) But New England is an especially difficult place to control the flow of nitrogen. That’s because half of homes here rely on septic systems — the highest proportion in the country. For decades, most conventional septic systems have done well removing pollutants and pathogens. But they’re not very good at removing nitrogen, which is in human waste. And too much nitrogen can wreak havoc on coastal ecosystems. As New England Public Radio’s Jill Kaufman reports, recent research indicates even the best septic equipment won’t do the job, if it’s ignored. Post-Industrial In a recent episode, we shared a series of stories from NHPR about the surge in off-road vehicle recreation in New Hampshire's woodsy North Country. State and local tourism officials there have made efforts to draw ATV riders to the area in hopes of boosting the economy — after the closure of paper mills that provided a livelihood for so many. Meanwhile, communities in northern Vermont and Maine are also trying to figure out an economic future without the paper industry. A new book, You Had a Job for Life: Story of a Company Town, chronicles the history of a mill that sustained the town of Groveton, New Hampshire through the 20th Century, and closed for good in 2007. The memories of the mill's workers and managers drive the narrative. Author Jamie Sayen is a writer and environmentalist who calls the North Country home. We’re also joined by Joan Breault, who worked at the Groveton mill for 43 years. Sharing Skis and Beats Rory Gawler stands in a storage room of a Lebanon, Nh. house he bought in a foreclosure sale. Without electricity, he uses a flashlight to illuminate the hundreds of skis he found inside. (Britta Greene/NHPR) This weekend's big snowstorm is good news for New England skiers. In New Hampshire, one man recently stumbled across an appropriately timed, ski-season mystery in the remains of an old, falling down house. NHPR's Britta Greene went to investigate. (Plus, the Valley News covered the story’s ending.) We finish off the episode with some sounds from Boston, where hip-hop producers are getting out of their bedroom studios, where they've got all the equipment to create their own beats — .but none of the community they need to make them better. From WBUR, Amelia Mason reports. Producers sit at Wonder Bar during October’s Stew Beat Showcase, a semi-monthly beats battle in Boston. (Courtesy Bryan Trench) About NEXT NEXT is produced at WNPR. Host: John Dankosky Producer: Andrea Muraskin Executive Producer: Catie Talarski Contributors to this episode: Fred Bever, Annie Ropeik, Jill Kaufman, Britta Greene, Amelia Mason, and Evan Sobol Music: Todd Merrell, “New England” by Goodnight Blue Moon. Get all the NEXT episodes. We appreciate your feedback! Send praise, critique, suggestions, questions, story leads, and fresh beats to next@wnpr.org.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
This week on "Rebel Hearts": Kristie speaks with Erica Sardarian (Co-Director/Writer/Producer), Natalie Kottke-Masocco (Director/Writer/Producer) and Edgar Sardarian (Producer/Editor/Cinematographer) of the documentary film “Company Town“. The film is a groundbreaking investigative documentary that tells the story of a modern day David vs. Goliath. Featured in “The New Yorker“, “The New York Times“, “The Guardian“, “The Hollywood Reporter“, and many more publications, this story is a rare look inside one hidden American town, where a company’s pollution and government neglect, inspires neighbors to stand up and fight for clean air and clean water. Six years ago while working on another documentary project, Natalie Kottke-Masocco found out about the situation in Crossett (Arkansas) where Pacific Georgia has been polluting land and air, dumping 45 million gallons of waste into the Ouchita River every day. Cancer has been on the rise and nothing has been done, neither by the company itself nor by any government agency, to protect the town’s inhabitants. Natalie, Erica and Edgar share their journey of creating this film, how it has impacted their own life as well as the life of the inhabitants of Crossest. Find out about the power of courage and people coming together, and what each single one of us can do to make this world a better place. We all have the power to create change!
Roko's Basilisk! We review and discuss "Company Town" by Madeline Ashby.
It’s Hugo time! 🐝 You can read a transcript of this episode. 🐝 HUGOS; 00:25 WE’RE 2017 HUGO FINALISTS!!!! The official ballot. Company Town by Madeline Ashby Poisoned Blade by Kate Elliott Everfair by Nisi Shawl This Savage Song by Victoria Schwab The Three-Body Problem by Cixin Liu Binti by Nnedi Okorafor Home by Nnedi […] The post Fangirl Happy Hour, Episode #81 – “2017 Hugo Awards” appeared first on Fangirl Happy Hour.
Popcorn Talk Network proudly presents The Unproduced Table Read, a weekly vodcast series featuring Hollywood's best unproduced pilot and movie scripts read by professional actors, accompanied exclusive writer interviews and insight! Today we explore race, gender, and sex against a backdrop of aggressive American capitalism. But here's the catch: our script takes place in the 1890s. COMPANY TOWN, an hour-long historical Drama by Samantha Levenshus, is a tense, elegantly-written pilot that feels like America's answer to Downton Abbey, and amazingly, the script feels as timely as ever. Enjoy! Make sure to subscribe to Popcorn Talk! - http://youtube.com/popcorntalknetwork HELPFUL LINKS: Website - http://popcorntalk.com Follow us on Twitter - https://twitter.com/thepopcorntalk Merch - http://shop.spreadshirt.com/PopcornTalk/ ABOUT POPCORN TALK: Popcorn Talk Network is the online broadcast network with programming de
Here's the extended edition of Kris Abel's interview with author Madeline Ashby about her latest science fiction novel Company Town For more info visit: http://madelineashby.com/ Company Town by Madeline Ashby https://www.kobo.com/ca/en/ebook/company-town-1 Madeline's eBook pick: Rasputin's Bastards by David Nickle https://www.kobo.com/ca/en/ebook/rasputin-s-bastards-1
Show #146 | Guests: Alan Snitow’s films include the award-winning “Between Two Worlds,” “Thirst”, “Secrets of Silicon Valley”, and “Blacks and Jews.” He was a producer at the top-rated KTVU-TV News, the Bay Area Fox affiliate, for 12 years. Before that, he was the News Director at Bay Area’s Pacifica Radio station, KPFA-FM, winning the Corporation for Public Broadcasting Gold Award for Best Local Newscast. Snitow served on the boards of the National Federation of Community Broadcasters, Film Arts Foundation, California Media Collaborative, Food and Water Watch, and as Board President of the San Francisco Jewish Film Festival. He is a member of SAG-AFTRA and a graduate of Cornell University. Deborah Kaufman’s films include the award-winning “Between Two Worlds,” “Thirst”, “Secrets of Silicon Valley”, and “Blacks and Jews.” She founded and for 13 years was Director of the San Francisco Jewish Film Festival, the first and largest independent Jewish film showcase in the world. Kaufman has been a Board member of the California Council for the Humanities, the New Israel Fund, and Amnesty International USA. She has been a consultant, programmer, lecturer, and activist with a variety of human rights, multicultural and media arts organizations. Kaufman is a graduate of University of California Hastings College of the Law and a member of the California Bar. | Show Summary: he once free-spirited city of San Francisco is now a “Company Town,” a playground for tech moguls of the “sharing economy.” Airbnb is the biggest hotel. Uber privatizes transit. And now these companies want political power as well. Meanwhile, middle class and ethnic communities are driven out by skyrocketing rents and evictions–sparking a grassroots backlash that challenges the oligarchy of tech. Is this the future of cities around the world? The feature-length documentary, “Company Town,” is the story of an intense election campaign to determine the fate of the city at the epicenter of the digital revolution. Produced and directed by Deborah Kaufman and Alan Snitow.
Welcome to the sixth episode of The Coode Street Roundtable. The Roundtable is a monthly podcast from Coode Street Productions where panelists James Bradley, Ian Mond, and Jonathan Strahan, joined by occasional special guests, discuss a new or recently released science fiction or fantasy novel. Madeline Ashby's Company Town This month we discuss Company Town, the fourth novel from Madeline Ashby. It's a gripping near future thriller described by its publisher as follows: New Arcadia is a city-sized oil rig off the coast of the Canadian Maritimes, now owned by one very wealthy, powerful, byzantine family: Lynch Ltd. Hwa is of the few people in her community (which constitutes the whole rig) to forgo bio-engineered enhancements. As such, she's the last truly organic person left on the rig--making her doubly an outsider, as well as a neglected daughter and bodyguard extraordinaire. Still, her expertise in the arts of self-defense and her record as a fighter mean that her services are yet in high demand. When the youngest Lynch needs training and protection, the family turns to Hwa. But can even she protect against increasingly intense death threats seemingly coming from another timeline? Meanwhile, a series of interconnected murders threatens the city's stability and heightens the unease of a rig turning over. All signs point to a nearly invisible serial killer, but all of the murders seem to lead right back to Hwa's front door. Company Town has never been the safest place to be--but now, the danger is personal. A brilliant, twisted mystery, as one woman must evaluate saving the people of a town that can't be saved, or saving herself. If you're keen to avoid spoilers, we recommend reading the book before listening to the episode. If you don't already have a copy, Company Town can be ordered from: amazon.com amazon.com.au amazon.co.uk We encourage all of our listeners to leave comments here and we will do our best to respond as soon as possible. Next month The Coode Street Roundtable will return at the end of July with a discussion of Lavie Tidhar's Central Station.
Company Town author Madeline Ashby talks the future with us!
Company Town author Madeline Ashby talks the future with us!
Welcome to the fifth episode of The Coode Street Roundtable. The Roundtable is a monthly podcast from Coode Street Productions where panelists James Bradley, Ian Mond, and Jonathan Strahan, joined by occasional special guests, discuss a new or recently released science fiction or fantasy novel. Guy Gavriel Kay's Children of Earth and Sky This month we discuss Children of Earth and Sky, the latest novel from Guy Gavriel Kay. It's a rich, powerful historical fantasy described by its publisher as follows: From the small coastal town of Senjan, notorious for its pirates, a young woman sets out to find vengeance for her lost family. That same spring, from the wealthy city-state of Seressa, famous for its canals and lagoon, come two very different people: a young artist travelling to the dangerous east to paint the grand khalif at his request--and possibly to do more--and a fiercely intelligent, angry woman, posing as a doctor's wife, but sent by Seressa as a spy. The trading ship that carries them is commanded by the accomplished younger son of a merchant family, ambivalent about the life he's been born to live. And further east, a boy trains to become a soldier in the elite infantry of the khalif--to win glory in the war everyone knows is coming. As these lives entwine, their fates--and those of many others -- will hang in the balance, when the khalif sends his massive army to take the great fortress that is the gateway to the western world... If you're keen to avoid spoilers, we recommend reading the book before listening to the episode. If you don't already have a copy, Children of Earth and Sky can be ordered from: amazon.com amazon.com.au amazon.co.uk We encourage all of our listeners to leave comments here and we will do our best to respond as soon as possible. Next monthThe Coode Street Roundtable will return at the end of June with a discussion of Madeline Ashby's Company Town.
Welcome back to Midnight in Karachi, a weekly podcast about writers, publishers, editors, illustrators, their books and the worlds they create, hosted by Mahvesh Murad. This week, writer and futurist Madeline Ashby joins the podcast! Our conversation touches on avoiding exposition, finding inspiration in Korean dramas, futurism, and Ashby’s new novel, Company Town, available now […]
Returning to the big chair at the RTP this week is the astonishing Madeline Ashby – futurist and author of "Vn", "iD", and the soon-to-be-released "Company Town" – leveraging her storytelling mojo in a brainstorming session for a grimdark tale of political intrigue, entangled destinies, and ancient corruptions. The tale is offered by Guest Writer David de Burgh, the story of an diplomat caught between four nations, who must unravel the mystery of the current conflict and his own past in order to prevent a devastating war. We are joined once more by the eloquent (and efficient) Lauren “Scribe” Harris – podcaster, narrator, and author of the Millroad Academy Novels "Exorcising Aaron Nguyen" and "The Girl in Acid Park" – and together we have a truly memorable conversation exploring the qualities of an authentic matriarchy, balancing the number of POVs, and so much more. It's an incredible workshop fraught with Literary Gold... come get some for yourself!
Madeline Ashby – futurist and author of "Vn", "iD", and the soon-to-be-released "Company Town" – is most definitely ‘a danger to those who profit by the way things are.’ It says so right on the title of her blog (drawn from a quote by Ursula K. LeGuin) and she’s earned that appellation through her rigorous studies into diverse disciplines and her fearless expression of her discoveries and beliefs through her beautifully wrought prose. Joined by Lauren “Scribe” Harris – my podcast sister and author of the Millroad Academy Novels "Exorcising Aaron Nguyen" and "The Girl in Acid Park" – we indulge in (far more than) 20 minutes of writerly – and geeky – discourse with Madeline, exploring her perspective on the fundamental motivation of many writers, the spirit of fandom in relation to genre fiction, how to write a sterling first scene, and more. Bring your back-up brain... you’re gonna need it!
Guest: Alan Barenberg on Gulag Town, Company Town: Forced Labor and its Legacy in Vorkuta. The post Gulag Town, Company Town appeared first on SRB Podcast.
This week Gary and Jonathan, aware that the Festive Season and more are in front of us all, sit down with the most recent 'Forthcoming Books' issue of Locus and do their best to assemble a quick, on-the-fly list of books we're looking forward to from October through to May next year. As Gary and Jonathan both say on the podcast, the list has been quickly assembled and certainly misses many worthwhile books. Still, it's a start. Here's the list. These are books we'll be reading, discussing and possibly recommending in coming months. October 2014Bacigalupi, Paolo, The Doubt Factory, (Little, Brown, nvl-ya, hc) Bear, Greg, War Dogs, (Orbit US, hc) Carroll, Jonathan, Bathing the Lion, (St. Martin's, hc) Gibson, William, The Peripheral, (Penguin/Putnam, hc) Leckie, Ann, Ancillary Sword, (Orbit US, tp) Newman, Kim, The English Ghost Story, (Titan, tp) Nix, Garth, Clariel, (Hot Key Books, nvl-ya, hc) November 2014Baxter, Stephen, Ultima, (Orion/Gollancz, hc) Herbert, Frank, Frank Herbert: Collected Stories, (Tor, cln, hc) Sherman, Delia, Young Woman in a Garden, (Small Beer Press, cln, tp) Williams, Sean, Crashland, (HarperCollins/Balzer + Bray, hc) December 2014Ellison, Harlan, The Top of the Volcano: The Award-Winning Stories of Harlan Ellison, (Subterranean Press/Edgeworks Abbey, hc) January 2015 Morrow, James Galapagos Regained (St Martins, hc) Walton, Jo, The Just City, (Tor, hc) February 2015Abercrombie, Joe, Half the World, (Ballantine Del Rey, hc) Gaiman, Neil, Trigger Warning: Short Fictions and Discoveries •(HarperCollins/Morrow, cln, tp) Link, Kelly, Get in Trouble, (Random House, cln, hc) McAuley, Paul, Something Coming Through, (Orion/Gollancz, hc) Park, Paul, Other Stories, (PS Publishing, cln, hc) March 2015Robson, Justina, The Glorious Angels, (Orion/Gollancz, tp) Wilson, Robert Charles, The Affinities, (Tor, hc) April 2015Bacigalupi, Paolo, The Water Knife, (Little, Brown UK/Orbit, hc) Baxter, Stephen, Remembrance: A Xeelee Collection, (PS Publishing, cln, hc) Bray, Libba, Lair of Dreams, (Little, Brown UK/Atom, hc) Liu, Ken, The Grace of Kings (Dandelion Dynasty) (Saga, hc) McDonald, Ian, Mars Stories, (PS Publishing, cln, hc) McDonald, Ian, Only the Best of Ian McDonald, (PS Publishing, cln, hc) May 2015Ashby, Madeline, Company Town, (Angry Robot US, tp) Blaylock, James P., Beneath London, (Titan, tp) Okorafor, Nnedi, The Book of Phoenix, (DAW, hc) Rajaniemi, Hannu, Hannu Rajaniemi: Collected Fiction, (Tachyon Publications, cln, hc) Robinson, Kim Stanley, Aurora, (Little, Brown UK/Orbit, hc) Invitation: As Gary and Jonathan mention on the episode, please feel free to add your own recommendations in comments here or at jonathanstrahan.com.au/wp.
Mike is back. And he has a very serious conversation with Jessie and Dan about all the feelings introduced in the show last week. Then they make up and start ripping on Facebook because, hey, fish in a barrel full of stupid, right? --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/lets-make-mistakes/message
Hele industri- og krigshistorien på Rjukan kan bli det neste bidraget fra Norge på Unescos Verdensarvliste. Med turbinhallen og Industriarbeidermuseet, 16 kilometer jernbane, stasjoner, vogner og to ferger er dette Norges største teknisk-industrielle kulturminne. - Det er nok av kull- og dampdrevet industri på Verdensarvlisten, men her kan vi presentere Rjukan som Company Town i den industrielle revolusjon nummer 2 , med elektrisiteten som energikilde, sier direktør Jan-Anders Dam-Nielsen ved Norsk Industriarbeidermuseum. I MUSEUM møter vi også historiker Olav Njølstad som forteller om hjernen bak den vellykkede sabotasjeaksjonen mot Norsk Hydros tungtvannsanlegg den 27/2 1943 : Kjemiprofessor Leif Tronstad fra NTH. Sendt første gang lørdag 9.mars 2013
Hosted by Raymond McCullough, in Belfast, Northern Ireland: with music from: Mississippi Shakedown, (New South Wales, Australia) - 'One Door Shuts Another Door Slams', (The Blues Lives Here) Perpetual e-Motion, (Maine, USA) - 'Lilly', (Perpetual e-Motion) Madd Paddy, (Ontario, Canada) - 'Jesse James', (Arrived) Birch Creek Band, (Connecticut, USA) - 'Haste to the Wedding', (Celtic Enchantment) Tiniregor, (Scotland, UK) - 'Mary's Dream (My Man's Gone to Sea)', (Single) Dark Patrick, (UK/Ukraine) - 'Morfa'r Frenhines', (Fainne Gael An Lae) Rob McHale, (North Carolina, USA) - 'Company Town', (Company Town) James Higgins, (Washington State, USA) - 'The Altar and the Bar', (Neilston)
The Los Angeles Times fights to be the newspaper of record in our “company town.” Plus, the epic battle over the Star Wars-fan movie Fanboys.
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