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An entire radical history of Los Angeles in the 1960s that rarely gets mentioned can be found in Mike Davis and Jon Wiener's brilliant book Set The Night on Fire: LA in the Sixties. This episode explores in brief the emergence of an independent radical press in the city in the guise of the LA Free Press or 'Freep', and explores reactions of the Freep and the reactionary LA Times to the Watts Riots of 1965.Help the podcast to continue bringing you history each weekIf you enjoy the Explaining History podcast and its many years of content and would like to help the show continue, please consider supporting it in the following ways:If you want to go ad-free, you can take out a membership hereOrYou can support the podcast via Patreon hereOr you can just say some nice things about it here Become a member at https://plus.acast.com/s/explaininghistory. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Israel's war in Gaza has been going on now for three months, and the IDF said over the weekend they plan to keep the war going for another year. Amy Wilentz talks about Netanhayu's use of the war to hold on to power.Also: the lies that protect profit, power and wealth in America: they are documented, and dealt with, in a wonderful new book co-authored by Joan Walsh. It's called Corporate Bullsh*t.Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Hope is different from optimism – it's an embrace of uncertainty, and a basis for action. The polls look bad for Joe Biden, but Democrats' chances are much brighter in the House, and perhaps the Senate. John Nichols talks about reasons for hope in 2024, starting in the tipping point state of 2020, Wisconsin.Also: Bill Gates is now the 6th richest man in the world, with 104 billion dollars. He's spent the last 20 years giving away some of his money--the Gates Foundation gave away $7 billion in 2022. But with the money comes a host of problems. Tim Schwab will explain; his new book has a great title: “The Bill Gates Problem: Reckoning with the Myth of the Good Billionaire.”Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Our holiday giving list: Katha Pollitt presents her list of groups that need—and deserve—our support: Gaza aid, abortion assistance, and organizing against Trump.Also: Bob Dylan fans have been puzzled and troubled by his Christmas album ever since he released it in 2009. To help figure out what Dylan was doing, we turned to Sean Wilentz. He's the official historian at BobDylan.com, and he also teaches history at Princeton.Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Why have American feminist groups been slow to condemn rapes of Israeli women and girls by Hamas? that's the question posed by Katha Pollitt, The Nation's award-winning columnist.Also: They call it “the parents' rights movement.” we call it a culture war against public education. It failed as a Republican election strategy in 2023, but what about 2024? Randi Weingarten has our analysis – she's president of the AFT.Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Joe Biden has historic achievements as president, but polls show him to be the candidate least able to defeat Donald Trump in the 2024 election. Democrats need someone else to run and an open primary. Harold Meyerson is editor-at-large of The American Prospect, and he joins the show to make the case for Biden to not run again.Also on this episode: What conditions are needed for an end to Israel's occupation of the West Bank? David Myers – professor of Jewish history at UCLA and contributor to the LA Times, the Forward, and the Atlantic – is on the podcast to comment on what it would take to get to Palestinian self-determination.Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Randi Weingarten, president of the AFT, spent Thanksgiving weekend in Israel; she reports on meetings with shared society groups and peace movement leaders, and on the role of the US in bringing not just peace but equality and justice to Palestinians.Also: Who was Bayard Rustin before the 1963 March on Washington? Gary Younge comments on the remarkable life of a gay Black pacifist and former communist, the subject of a new biopic on Netflix, ‘Rustin.' Gary wrote “The Speech: The Story Behind Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s Dream.”Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

People with very different visions of what a just peace between Israel and the Palestinians might look like must work together to stop the war: That's what D.D. Guttenplan argues.  He's Editor of The Nation.Also:Also: “Slow Horses,” the British spy series based on the books by Mick Herron, is starting its season 3 this week.  John Powers has our review.Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

What comes after Israel's war on Hamas? The Israeli government seems incapable of thinking about that. Now, the ideas of Israel's left-wing, pro-peace camp are needed more than ever. Dahlia Scheindlin, a political scientist based in Tel Aviv, is on the podcast to explain.Also on this episode of Start Making Sense: “California has always been a place to write home about.” David Kipen reads letters and diary entries from Charles Mingus, Vita Sackville-West, Marilyn Monroe, Susan Sontag, Thomas Pynchon, and Mike Davis – David's new book is Dear California: The Golden State in Letters and Diaries.Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

For this week's Start Making Sense podcast we have two archival segments about Palestinians; neither is about the current war. In 2016, Rachel Kushner visited Shuafat, the only Palestinian refugee camp inside Jerusalem. She went alongside a community organizer as he tried to solve massive problems. Her report, published originally in the New York Times Magazine, appears in her 2021 book of nonfiction, The Hard Crowd.Also on this episode, Adam Shatz talks about Edward Said, the leading voice of Palestinians in the US before he died in 2003. Said was also The Nation's classical music critic, and Adam Shatz, now an editor for the London Review of Books, was The Nation‘s literary editor. His work included editing Edward Said's pieces for the magazine.(This show was first broadcast in May, 2021)Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Tuesday's vote tested the potency of abortion rights as an issue for Democrats, with a referendum in Ohio and the election of a new state legislature in Virginia. John Nichols has our analysis of those elections, and some others.Also on this episode of Start Making Sense: What is Israel's endgame in its war with Hamas? Over the past 50 years they've tried two radically different strategies in Gaza, and neither succeeded. Fintan O'Toole explains that history. He teaches at Princeton and is an advising editor at the New York Review of Books, where he's been writing about Israel, Hamas, and Gaza.Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

In response to Hamas's attack on Oct. 7, Adam Shatz says Israel's disregard for Palestinian life has never been more callous or more flagrant. But Israel can't extinguish Palestinian resistance by violence any more than the Palestinians can win an Algerian-style liberation war. The only thing that can save the people of Israel and Palestine is a political solution that recognizes both as equal citizens. Shatz is the former literary editor of The Nation and now US editor of the London Review of Books, where he wrote about Israel and Gaza.Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

The UAW won a historic victory in their strike against GM—an agreement that EV workers will be covered by the union contract. Harold Meyerson explains, and also comments on Israel's war against Hamas.Also: Elon Musk has been a leader in the transition to renewable energy, and has made Twitter into a threat to democracy. He has become the face of 21st-century capitalism. David Nasaw has our analysis.Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

For this special May Day episode of Conjuncture, we air one of Mike Davis' final public talks, a reading from his unfinished manuscript, Star Spangled Leviathan: An Economic History of American Nationalism. The talk was originally recorded for the Trinity Social Justice Initiative on May Day in 2022. Conjuncture is a web series and podcast curated and co-produced by Jordan T. Camp and Christina Heatherton for the Trinity Social Justice Initiative. It features interviews with activists, artists, scholars, and public intellectuals. Taking its title from Antonio Gramsci and Stuart Hall's conceptualization, it highlights the struggles over the meaning and memory of particular historical moments. Mike Davis (1946-2022) was a preeminent writer, editor, activist, and radical public intellectual. He was the author more than 20 influential books, including City of Quartz: Excavating the Future in Los Angeles (Verso) and Set the Night on Fire: L.A. in the Sixties (Verso) with Jon Wiener.

Today Suzi brings part two of our tribute to Mike Davis, who died on October 25. Mike was a prolific writer, historian, political activist, urban theorist, and author of dozens of books, many featured here on this podcast.We begin with an interview from July 1986 just after Mike completed his first book, Prisoners of the American Dream, published on the centenary of May Day 1886. Mike discusses the political economy of Reaganism, or Reaganomics, which began with a frontal attack on organized labor. He also explains what makes the American working class different. The second interview, from February 1988, coincided with the Justice for Janitors campaign. David Diaz joins Mike in the discussion on Los Angeles politics, looking at what redevelopment in the city had wrought. LA, like the rest of the country, was switching from a manufacturing to a service economy, though manufacturing continued using very low-wage immigrant labor. Non-union workers could not afford the cost of housing, and the lack of affordable rents fed the growing homeless crisis. We get a preview of Mike's lifelong concerns about LA and workers fighting for a life with dignity and livable wages. We follow with a newer interview with Mike Davis and co-author Jon Wiener discussing their compelling 2020 history of LA in the 1960s, a hotbed of political, social and cultural upheaval and rebellion, Set the Night on Fire.Jacobin Radio with Suzi Weissman features conversations with leading thinkers and activists, with a focus on labor, the economy, protest movements. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

In the first half of the show, Kate Wolf and Eric Newman are joined by LARB contributing editor Jon Wiener to remember the historian Mike Davis, who died last week at 76 years old. Jon and Mike were longtime friends and together they wrote Set the Night on Fire: L.A. in the Sixties, Davis's final book. Then Kate speaks with the writer Constance Debré about her novel, Love Me Tender, the first of her books to be translated in English. It follows a woman, who like Debré was once a lawyer, but has quit her job, and vacated the comforts of her former life to devote herself to her writing. She has a son from her marriage named Paul. After telling her husband, who she's separated from, that she has decided to be with women, the narrator's ex starts to turn Paul against her and prevents her from seeing him. The novel takes place over the span of a glacial court case that will decide the narrator's fate with her son—all the while asking critical questions about the fearsome nature of unconditional love and attachment, the roles of gender and motherhood, and the unassailability of the truth.

In the first half of the show, Kate Wolf and Eric Newman are joined by LARB contributing editor Jon Wiener to remember the historian Mike Davis, who died last week at 76 years old. Jon and Mike were longtime friends and together they wrote Set the Night on Fire: L.A. in the Sixties, Davis's final book. Then Kate speaks with the writer Constance Debré about her novel, Love Me Tender, the first of her books to be translated in English. It follows a woman, who like Debré was once a lawyer, but has quit her job, and vacated the comforts of her former life to devote herself to her writing. She has a son from her marriage named Paul. After telling her husband, who she's separated from, that she has decided to be with women, the narrator's ex starts to turn Paul against her and prevents her from seeing him. The novel takes place over the span of a glacial court case that will decide the narrator's fate with her son—all the while asking critical questions about the fearsome nature of unconditional love and attachment, the roles of gender and motherhood, and the unassailability of the truth.

O brilhante repórter radical tinha o olhar de um romancista e a memória de um historiador. Faleceu a 25 de outubro. O seu colega e amigo Jon Wiener recorda-o neste artigo lido por Carlos Carujo.

“Living in the USA” with Jon Wiener: talking about politics, thinking about the Left.

“Living in the USA” with Jon Wiener: talking about politics, thinking about the Left.

“Living in the USA” with Jon Wiener: talking about politics, thinking about the Left.

“Living in the USA” with Jon Wiener: talking about politics, thinking about the Left.

“Living in the USA” with Jon Wiener: talking about politics, thinking about the Left.

Scott Rowley is Content Director of Future's Music division, with brands including Classic Rock, Guitar World, Metal Hammer, Guitarist, Prog and Louder. Hosted by Tim Tucker. * The article from the Atlantic that Scott mentions: https://www.theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/2017/11/i-am-the-walrus-50-years-later/546698/* The references to Shakespeare: https://www.sparknotes.com/nofear/shakespeare/lear/page_252/* The book Come Together - John Lennon In His Time by Jon Wiener:https://jonwiener.com/come-together-john-lennon-in-his-time/* The 20 Million Club podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/the-20-million-club/id1524039134

In this interview Maggie focuses on "The Many Faces of Women's Liberation" starting in the early 1960's.  Set the Night on Fire: L.A. in the Sixties by Mike Davis and Jon WienerNow available in paperback. A magisterial, riveting movement history of Los Angeles in the SixtiesLos Angeles in the sixties was a hotbed of political and social upheaval. The city was a launchpad for Black Power—where Malcolm X and Angela Davis first came to prominence and the Watts uprising shook the nation. The city was home to the Chicano Blowouts and Chicano Moratorium, as well as being the birthplace of “Asian American” as a political identity. It was a locus of the antiwar movement, gay liberation movement, and women's movement, and, of course, the capital of California counterculture.Mike Davis and Jon Wiener provide the first comprehensive movement history of L.A. in the sixties, drawing on extensive archival research and dozens of interviews with principal figures, as well as the authors' storied personal histories as activists. Following on from Davis's awardwinning L.A. history, City of Quartz, Set the Night on Fire is a historical tour de force, delivered in scintillating and fiercely beautiful prose.Jon Wiener is a longtime Contributing Editor at the Nation and host and producer of Start Making Sense, the magazine's weekly podcast. He is an Emeritus Professor of US history at UC Irvine, and his books include Gimme Some Truth: The John Lennon FBI Files and How We Forgot the Cold War: A Historical Journey across America. He lives in Los Angeles.Source: https://www.versobooks.com/books/3752-set-the-night-on-fireSource: https://jonwiener.comThis episode is from an archive from the KPFK program Profiles adapted for podcast. Host Maggie LePique, a radio veteran since the 1980's at NPR in Kansas City Mo. She began her radio career in Los Angeles in the early 1990's and has worked for Pacifica station KPFK Radio in Los Angeles since 1994. Support the show

On this episode we visit with Patrick Robey, Head Baseball Coach at Madison Central High School in Madison, MS.  Madison Central is the consensus #1 ranked team in the state of MS currently with some publications having them ranked #1 nationally. In addition, we visit with Jon Wiener, multimedia journalist and digital anchor at KKTV11 News in Colorado Springs, Co, to talk all things The Masters.  The Coach's Challenge with the Judge features conversation about youth sports and the negative impacts of specialization and we welcome in my 8 year old to talk about being a COFFEE BEAN! 

We have a surprise bonus episode this week! Join us on a journey to 1st Century Judea with Life of Brian! We'll discuss stoning, Jesus as a revolutionary, Hava Nagila, and more! Sources: Jesus as a Revolutionary: Josephus, The Jewish War, trans. Martin Hammond, intro and notes by Martin Goodman, e-book (Oxford University Press, 2017). "Josephus" In Our Time (2015) https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/b05vfdzl Christopher Klein, "Why did Pontius Pilate Have Jesus Executed?" History https://www.history.com/news/why-pontius-pilate-executed-jesus Holland Lee Hendrix, L. Michael White, Paula Fredriksen, Eric Meyers "Jews and the Roman Empire," A Portrait of Jesus' World: From Jesus to Christ PBS (April 1998). https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/religion/portrait/jews.html L. Michael White, Allen D. Callahan, Shayne I.D. Cohen, John Dominic Crossan, Paula Fredriksen, "Arrest and Execution" From Jesus to Christ PBS (April 1998). https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/religion/jesus/arrest.html Jon Wiener, "Jesus the Revolutionary: A Q&A With Reza Aslan," The Nation (25 July 2013). https://www.thenation.com/article/archive/jesus-revolutionary-qa-reza-aslan/ "The Last Days of Jesus" PBS (2017) https://www.pbs.org/show/last-days-jesus/ "From Jesus to Christ: The First Christians, Part One" PBS Frontline (1998) https://youtu.be/JN8FM1NCOSk Tom O'Loughlin and Roland Deines, "Why Study the Pharisees with Professor Roland Deines" University of Nottingham (17 January 2012). https://youtu.be/waWu1ngrxGk "Matthew 5:1-7:29--The Sermon on the Mount" https://www.enterthebible.org/Controls/feature/tool_etb_resource_display/resourcebox.aspx?selected_rid=783&original_id=2 Luke Chapter 6 https://bible.usccb.org/bible/luke/6?37=#50006037 Matthew Chapter 5 https://bible.usccb.org/bible/matthew/5 Cast info: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0079470/ You're Nicked!: https://english.stackexchange.com/questions/435851/origin-of-youre-nicked-sunshine#:~:text=The%20word%20is%20used%20teasingly,a%20morose%20person.%20...&text=The%201806%20example%20of%20%22nicked,Journals%20for%201805%20(1806). John Stephen Farmer and William Ernest Henley, A Dictionary of Slang and Colloquial English: Abridged from the Seven-volume Work, Entitled: Slang and Its Analogues (Routledge & Sons, 1905) Princeton University Collection, Google E-Book. https://www.google.com/books/edition/A_Dictionary_of_Slang_and_Colloquial_Eng/VR1AAAAAYAAJ?hl=en&gbpv=0 "To nick," The English We Speak BBC (26 August 2011). https://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/learningenglish/language/theenglishwespeak/2011/08/110816_tews_32_to_nick_page.shtml Forrest Wickman, "When You've Been Nicked by the Bobbies: How being arrested in the U.K. differs from being arrested in the U.S." Slate (13 March 2012). https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2012/03/rebekah-brooks-arrested-how-is-being-arrested-different-in-britain.html Star Signs: "Constellations and the Calendar" NASA https://spaceplace.nasa.gov/starfinder2/en/ Olivia B. Waxman, "Where Do Zodiac Signs Come From? Here's the True History Behind Your Horoscope," Time (21 June 2018). https://time.com/5315377/are-zodiac-signs-real-astrology-history/ Stoning: The Talmud, Sanhedrin 45a, available at https://www.sefaria.org/Sanhedrin.44a.14?lang=bi NIV Study Bible. The Tanakh, full searchable text available at https://www.chabad.org/library/bible_cdo/aid/63255/jewish/The-Bible-with-Rashi.htm Roy A. Stewart, "Judicial Procedure in Biblical Times," Full text available at https://biblicalstudies.org.uk/pdf/eq/1975-2_094.pdf Hava Nagila: Harry Belafonte and Danny Kaye Performing Hava Nagila, available at https://youtu.be/t_L1RAVm4js James Loeffler, "Hava Nagila's Long, Strange Trip." My Jewish Learning. Available at https://www.myjewishlearning.com/article/hava-nagilas-long-strange-trip/ From Jesus to Christ: The First Christians, PBS. Available at https://youtu.be/JN8FM1NCOSk Background: "How We Made Monty Python's Life of Brian," The Guardian, available at https://www.theguardian.com/film/2019/apr/16/how-we-made-monty-python-life-of-brian-michael-palin-terry-gilliam Life of Brian Televised Debate, Friday Night, Saturday Morning, 1979. Full debate available at https://youtu.be/ZYMpObbt2rs

David Kipen speaks with Jon Wiener, author of the revised and newly timely Conspiracy in the Streets: The Extraordinary Trial of the Chicago Seven and host of radio’s Trump Watch -- recently re-christened, courtesy of Libros Schmibros’ expert naming service, Hey Joe.

Jon Wiener is an American historian and the author of a number of books on the 1960s and 1970s, including Conspiracy in the Streets: The Extraordinary Trial of the Chicago Seven. Jon returns to the Trap to talk with David and Danny about the Netflix film Trial of the Chicago 7, written and directed by Aaron Sorkin. From questionable casting choices to an outrageously ahistorical happy ending, how does Sorkin’s notoriously rosy, liberal take on American history color his depiction of 1960s radicalism?

President Barack Obama talks about birtherism and fake news, and reflects on what he misses most about being president — and why he still has faith in democracy. The first volume of his memoir about his presidency is 'A Promised Land.'Also, Justin Chang reviews 'Small Axe,' a series of five films by Steve McQueen. The Chicago 7 were anti-war activists who were charged with conspiracy to incite a riot at the 1968 Democratic National Convention. The trial is the subject of a new movie written and directed by Aaron Sorkin. We talk with author Jon Wiener about his book, 'Conspiracy in the Streets.'

President Barack Obama talks about birtherism and fake news, and reflects on what he misses most about being president — and why he still has faith in democracy. The first volume of his memoir about his presidency is 'A Promised Land.'Also, Justin Chang reviews 'Small Axe,' a series of five films by Steve McQueen. The Chicago 7 were anti-war activists who were charged with conspiracy to incite a riot at the 1968 Democratic National Convention. The trial is the subject of a new movie written and directed by Aaron Sorkin. We talk with author Jon Wiener about his book, 'Conspiracy in the Streets.'

The Chicago 7 were anti-war activists who were charged with conspiracy to incite a riot at the 1968 Democratic National Convention. The trial is the subject of a new movie written and directed by Aaron Sorkin. We talk with author Jon Wiener about his book, 'Conspiracy in the Streets.'Anthony Horowitz's novels about Alex Rider, a reluctant teen spy, have been adapted into a TV series for Amazon. Horowitz is also the author of 'Moonflower Murders,' a mystery for adults. He spoke with producer Sam Briger.

The Chicago 7 were anti-war activists who were charged with conspiracy to incite a riot at the 1968 Democratic National Convention. The trial is the subject of a new movie written and directed by Aaron Sorkin. We talk with author Jon Wiener about his book, 'Conspiracy in the Streets.'Anthony Horowitz's novels about Alex Rider, a reluctant teen spy, have been adapted into a TV series for Amazon. Horowitz is also the author of 'Moonflower Murders,' a mystery for adults. He spoke with producer Sam Briger.

JON WIENER'S 2006 book, CONSPIRACY IN THE STREETS: the Extraordinary Trial of the Chicago Eight has been re-released to sync with release of the film, The Trial of the Chicago Seven. Written and directed by Aaron Sorkin, with Sacha Baron Cohen, Eddie Redmayne, Frank Langella. Jon and I will talk about the film, the trial, and the deja vu. Mass protests, brutal retaliation and a compromised justice department doing the President’s bidding. What did we learn? Can we do better?

JON WIENER'S 2006 book, Conspiracy in the Streets: the Extraordinary Trial of the Chicago Eight has been re-released to sync with release of the film, The Trial of the Chicago Seven. Written and directed by Aaron Sorkin, its ensemble includes Sacha Baron Cohen as Abbie Hoffman, Eddie Redmayne as Tom Hayden, and Frank Langella as Judge Julius Hoffman. Jon and I will talk about the film. We'll talk about the Trial. We'll talk about the attitudes and excesses of Mayor Daley and the Nixon administration and the parallels with 2020. With mass protests and brutal retaliation. A compromised justice department doing the President’s bidding. We will talk about this moment - how different and how similar is it to the 60s? What did we learn? What can we do better?

Suzi looks at two historic trials, in different countries and different eras, beginning with Greece, where the extraordinary trial of the neo-fascist political party Golden Dawn has just ended after five and half years, resulting in convictions and prison sentences for its top leadership. Golden Dawn was at one point the third largest political party in Greece and is known for its violence and intimidation against its opponents, immigrants, and LGBTQ communities. Suzi spoke to Attorney Thanasis Kampagiannis, one of the lawyers who pursued this case, and journalist and analyst Kevin Ovenden to get their account and analysis of the trial and of Golden Dawn, a criminal organization that operated under the guise of being a democratically elected party. Since we spoke on October 15, the state prosecutor has proposed suspension of the sentencing until appeals hearings for all but one of the Nazi convicts, which could take years. Thanasis Kampagiannis has told the media that the state prosecutor is acting as a public defender for Golden Dawn. We get the continuing story. The second trial is the Chicago 8 (and then Chicago 7) Conspiracy Trial that riveted the world in 1969, lasting five months. Suzi speaks to historian Jon Wiener, whose 2006 book Conspiracy in the Streets: The extraordinary Trial of the Chicago 7 has been reissued to coincide with the release on Netflix this week of the Aaron Sorkin film called “The Trial of the Chicago 7”. The Chicago Conspiracy trial brought together Yippies, antiwar activists and Black Panthers to face conspiracy charges following massive protest at the 1968 Democratic Convention in Chicago. We’ll talk about the film and the actual history of the trial, noting the significance of that moment in history for our own.

Micah speaks with historian Jon Wiener, coauthor with Mike Davis of the book Set the Night on Fire: L.A. in the Sixties. You can buy the book here: https://www.versobooks.com/books/3164-set-the-night-on-fire And you can listen to Jon's excellent podcast Nation magazine podcast Start Making Sense here: https://www.thenation.com/authors/start-making-sense/

Even folks who live here, as I have since 1975, may have little idea of the central role Los Angeles played in the culture and politics of the 1960s. Too often LA is portrayed as Gidget, Beach Boys, and the Sunset Strip. Wiener and co-author, Mike Davis (City of Quartz) offer a "movement history" featuring early Black Power, the Watts uprising, the Chicano Moratorium, and LA's star turn as a locus of the anti-war, gay lib, and women's movements, as well as a driver of the counterculture. Wiener and I both arrived here in 1969 and this conversation is a lot of fun.

Even folks who live here, as I have since 1975, may have little idea of the central role Los Angeles played in the culture and politics of the 1960s. Too often LA is portrayed as surfing, Hollywood, and gogo dancing - think Gidget, Beach Boys, 77 Sunset Strip. Wiener and co-author, Mike Davis (City of Quartz) offer a “movement history” featuring early Black Power, the Watts uprising, the Chicano Moratorium, and LA’s star turn as a locus of the anti-war, gay lib, and women’s movements, as well as a driving force of much of 60’s counterculture. Wiener and I both arrived here for the first time in 1969 and this conversation is a lot of fun. https://jonwiener.com/

Los Angeles in the sixties was a hotbed of political and social upheaval. The city was a launchpad for Black Power--where Malcolm X and Angela Davis first came to prominence and the Watts uprising shook the nation. The city was home to the Chicano Blowouts and Chicano Moratorium, as well as being the birthplace of "Asian American" as a political identity. It was a locus of the antiwar movement, gay liberation movement, and women's movement, and, of course, the capital of California counterculture. Mike Davis and Jon Wiener provide the first comprehensive movement history of L.A. in the sixties, drawing on extensive archival research and dozens of interviews with principal figures, as well as the authors' storied personal histories as activists. Following on from Davis's awardwinning L.A. history, City of Quartz, Set the Night on Fire is a historical tour de force, delivered in scintillating and fiercely beautiful prose. Davis and Wiener are in conversation with Erin Aubrey Kaplan and Danny Widener ________________________________________________ Produced by Maddie Gobbo & Michael Kowaleski Theme: "I Love All My Friends," a new, unreleased demo by Fragile Gang. Visit https://www.skylightbooks.com/event for future offerings from the Skylight Books Events team.

The movements of the sixties, which are captured in detail in Mike Davis and Jon Wiener’s new book Set the Night on Fire, are seen as wildly successful. Is it possible Black Lives Matter will be even more significant?

Jon Wiener is an American historian and co-author, along with Mike Davis, of the extraordinary book Set the Night on Fire: L.A. in the Sixties. In this conversation, Wiener explains why it’s so vital, particularly in 2020, to recover L.A.’s radical history, and explains the process behind communicating a complicated movement narrative to a broad audience. We also hear bits from Wiener’s incredible career as a writer and journalist, including his involvement with the groundbreaking progressive radio station KPFK, and his unbelievable legal battle with the FBI to declassify their records of surveilling and harassing John Lennon. 

The BellRinger is a podcast on all things Mississippi State. From The Daily Journal. With Bulldogs beat writer Dalton Middleton and Bash Brothers host Jon Wiener.

This episode features an interview with Jon Wiener regarding his new book, Set the Night on Fire: L.A. in the Sixties, which he co-authored with Mike Davis. The book provides a comprehensive history of the civil rights movement in Los Angeles during the 1960s. 

Guest: Mike Davis, renown radical scholar and writer.  He is the author of The Monster Enters: Covid-19, Avian Flu and the Plagues of Capitalism (The book is available exclusively from www.orbooks.com). Mike Davis is also co-author with Jon Wiener of Set the Night on Fire: L.A. in the Sixties. The post Mike Davis on Covid-19, Street Uprisings & the Failure of Government appeared first on KPFA.

They say podcasts don't last this long... We're back and for this special occasion we muse over the minutiae of our time, including our vast territory with unspecified "lack of space," graduations, stock market cultists, narcissism caused by capitalism, protestors without the facts on their side, keyboard activism, #blackouttuesday and the use of very poor history. To subscribe to the Mars on Life YouTube channel, head to: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCoV7notGRUL9z7sJgvasb0w To check out the new episode of The Jumpoff: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=glHCMuwl0to For the listeners who want to help out, Sebastian has an itemized document you can download or purchase called "Read Their Names." While you can freely download it as an ebook, you can also purchase a physical copy; all royalties will go to the Minnesota Freedom Fund: https://play.google.com/store/books/details?id=QATpDwAAQBAJ&rdid=book-QATpDwAAQBAJ&rdot=1&source=gbs_vpt_read&pcampaignid=books_booksearch_viewport Pick up Mike Davis and Jon Wiener's "Set the Night on Fire" for 40% off now: https://www.versobooks.com/books/3164-set-the-night-on-fire Social media: Mars on Life: @marsonlifeshow on Twitter and Instagram Sebastian Schug: @dr_sebby (Twitter) and @drsebby (Instagram) Ryan Mancini: @mancinira (Twitter) and @manciniryan (Instagram) Artwork by Zachary Erberich (@zacharyerberichart) "Space X-plorers" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/mars-on-life-show/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/mars-on-life-show/support

This week's episode provides context for the hysteria and misinformation passed around amid the Black Lives Matter protests continuing across the nation. As the riots have rescinded, community artwork reminiscent of the art following the Watts Rebellion or the AIDS quilt, respectively, has appeared from coast to coast, but is it enough for rooting out systemic racism in government? To read the Smithsonian magazine piece we discussed: https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/heres-how-artists-are-responding-killing-george-floyd-180975036/ And just when you thought it was safe to go back in the water...Los Angeles County and much of the United States has foregone stay-at-home orders to reawaken the economy, win some reelections and prepare everything for the Fourth of July. Phase 3 of reopenings began and cases are already beginning to skyrocket state to state. If you want more information from the LA Times article we touch on: https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2020-06-10/la-county-reopening-gyms-museums-hotels-day-camps-arena-sports-friday For the listeners who want to help out, Sebastian has an itemized document you can download or purchase called "Read Their Names." While you can freely download it as an ebook, you can also purchase a physical copy; all royalties will go to the Minnesota Freedom Fund: https://play.google.com/store/books/details?id=QATpDwAAQBAJ&rdid=book-QATpDwAAQBAJ&rdot=1&source=gbs_vpt_read&pcampaignid=books_booksearch_viewport Pick up Mike Davis and Jon Wiener's "Set the Night on Fire" for 40% off now: https://www.versobooks.com/books/3164-set-the-night-on-fire Social media: Mars on Life: @marsonlifeshow on Twitter and Instagram Sebastian Schug: @dr_sebby (Twitter) and @drsebby (Instagram) Ryan Mancini: @mancinira (Twitter) and @manciniryan (Instagram) Artwork by Zachary Erberich (@zacharyerberichart) "Space X-plorers" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/mars-on-life-show/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/mars-on-life-show/support

Suzi talks to historians Mike Davis and Jon Wiener, touching on some of the many intersecting stories they tell in their long awaited and absolutely compelling history, Set the Night on Fire: Los Angeles in the Sixties. Here we see Los Angeles as a hotbed of political, social and cultural upheaval — from the Watts rebellion to the Chicano Blowouts, the anti-war movement, youth protests and strikes, the women’s and gay movements, the cultural flowering and media expressions, including KPFK, the Los Angeles Free Press and the Ashgrove — as well as the ferocious, racist and violent police response at every turn. Their account of the ever increasing mass protests and the movements behind them convey that “special excitement that occurs when a group of people can see and visibly measure their potential power for the first time.”

Hello! We’re extremely excited about today’s episode, which includes a lengthy interview with Mike Davis, a friend of the international working class and the author of works such as Prisoners of the American Dream, City of Quartz, and Planet of Slums. We talk about “this moment,” and the need for dissent, street protest and the refusal of the false choice laid out in front of working people between risking their health and complete financial ruin. He also tells us about his rock collection.Mike has been writing and giving a lot of interviews during the pandemic, as many have discovered his prophetic 2005 book, The Monster at Our Door: The Global Threat of Avian Flu. And earlier this year, Mike and his friend, Jon Wiener, published Set the Night on Fire: L.A. in the Sixties, a stunning history of social movements—led by black, Chicano, and Asian Angelenos—that reads like a playbook for organizing against our terrible present. 1:20 - Mike describes his holed-up multigenerational homelife in San Diego—with his wife, the curator and professor Alessandra Montezuma, twin high-schoolers, and Alessandra’s aunt. Also: why working-class leftists should protest the false choice of lockdown or death; and why Biden should be more like AOC. “We cannot yield the street,” Mike tells us.18:08 - Central to the US Covid response has been the literal sacrifice of elders and disabled people in nursing homes. Mike tells us why this constitutes manslaughter, and predicts that Filipino/a health care workers may be among the top casualties of the pandemic. Plus: why food insecurity in Africa, South Asia, and South America should be everyone’s concern. 35:48 - “The Yellow Peril is back,” Mike says. He talks about Trump’s and Biden’s demonization of China, and their neglect of the risk of nuclear war. And he explains why “the world described in Karl Marx’s Capital is most true in China.” 55:00 - Mike is still in touch with white working-class pals from 1952 (some of them Trumpers). He describes multiculturalist thinking as “Janus-faced,” but praises young activists, including his twins, for their instinctively radical conceptions of race, class, and gender.1:08:43 - Can housing organizing be as powerful a vehicle for working-class movements as labor organizing? Mike offers a historical perspective. And a Time to Say Goodbye exclusive: Mike’s extensive rock collection. ABOUT USTime to Say Goodbye is a podcast—with your hosts, Jay Caspian Kang, Tammy Kim, and Andy Liu. We launched this thing because, like you, we’ve been sheltering in place and wanted an outlet for our thoughts on the coronavirus, Asia, geopolitics, and Asian Americans.A short introduction to your hosts:Jay Caspian Kang is a writer-at-large for the New York Times Magazine and the author of the forthcoming book The Loneliest Americans.E. Tammy Kim is a magazine reporter, a contributing opinion writer at the New York Times, and a retired lawyer. She co-edited the book Punk Ethnography.Andrew Liu is a historian of modern China. He wrote a book called Tea War, about the history of capitalism in Asia. He remains a huge Supersonics fan. Get on the email list at goodbye.substack.com

This podcast will definitely help us pay our rent. That's why people start podcasts right? Just kidding! This week, Jada & Kurtie discuss the assassinations of Marilyn Monroe & the Neutralization plan for John Lennon. Tune in next week to switch which store was a fake.  Sources:  Neutralization of John Lennon:  “John Lennon: The Life” by Philip Norman  Uncovering The 'Truth' Behind Lennon's FBI Files - NPR Interview with Jon Wiener, author of “Gimmie Some Truth” and ‘Fresh Air' stand in host David Bianculli https://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=130401193 (https://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=130401193) Assassination of Marilyn Monroe: LA Times, BBC, Wikapedia

Mike Davis is 76 year old writer, social commentator, urban theorist, historian, and political activist. He is best known for his investigations of power and social class in his native Southern California. He is the recipient of the MacArthur Fellowship and the Lannan Literary Award. His next book, Set the Night on Fire: L.A. in the Sixties, co-authored with Jon Wiener, comes out in April. He lives in San Diego. I really enjoyed this talk with him Check out all of his books Support the podcast   

The best new show in golf goes all-in on the U.S. Open Championship at Pebble Beach Golf Links. The toughest questions and conversations for the week plus history, games, picks & special guest Ryan Ballengee (Golf News Net). with Jon Wiener and 'The Gent' Stuart Conway + director Hackin' Hank and producer Joshua Klegg. Play it on your phone, in the car, on the course...just Play It Where It Lies!

Jon Wiener is joined by surprise guest host Hackin' Hank Bash Brothers Media pres & director Henry Wiener who's here to set the show straight! The brothers bring the heat on the United States Golf Association - USGA, Hank Haney's twist and the realities of the LPGA Tour. Fun continues in 'Play It, Drop It, Roll It?' and we help you beat the summer heat in 'Tough Lies.' Our weekly awards and punchouts like Mississippi State Women's Golf product Ally McDonald killing it again at the #USWO. PLUS a can't miss interview with SB Nation editor & lead golf writer Brendan Porath breaking down the big stories on the PGA TOUR!   Play it on your phone, in the car, or on the course. Just Play It Where It Lies! ⛳️▶️

This week on the Pop Off Pod we discuss Jon Wiener's trip to Starkville, Oxford, and Baton Rouge for College Baseball Regionals. A jam-packed weekend of exciting games and stories makes for some great conversation. Iso Joe predicted last week that the Raptors would take game one and the Warriors would win the next four. After game two things are on track for Iso Joe but Jon thinks this Raptors team can win a few more. Nationally, Anthony Joshua lost his fight to Anthony Ruiz Jr. in a shocking upset boxing match. What does this loss mean for Deontay Wilder and the boxing community? Liverpool came out on top of the Champions League this weekend. A huge accomplishment that has proven why they continue to be one of the best teams in Soccer. Tune in for all of this and more on the Pop Off Podcast. Listen to the Pop Off Podcast on all of your podcasting platforms and don't forget to subscribe like and rate us! Podcast Links: Spotify | Itunes | Stitcher | Podbean Social Media: Twitter | Facebook | Instagram | Youtube

This week on the Pop Off Podcast hosts Iso Joe and Jon Wiener go in-depth on the finish to Round Two of the NBA Playoffs. Kawhi Leonard hits a massive shot to send the Sixers packing, C.J. McCollum takes over for Portland, and the Warriors move on.  Mississippi State takes out the brooms on Mother's day to complete the sweep against Ole Miss. While the Bulldogs are getting hot at the right time, Mike Bianco might be in some hot water. We discuss Jon Wieners trip to Bethpage this weekend where he will be watching the PGA Tour. Find out who his winner is and the top stories to watch for this weekend. Last we hit Game of Thrones talk as we discuss Season 8 Episode 5. 

Hosts Iso Joe and Jon Wiener dissect Round Two of the NBA Playoffs. Mississippi's own Rodney Hood continues to light it up in Portland giving the Blazers a chance at the Western Conference finals. Kevin Durant goes down with a calf injury and will miss the rest of the series, eerily similar to the Chris Paul injury in the 2018 Rockets Warriors series. The Sixers wake back up and force a game seven and the Celtics and Kyrie will have a long off-season to figure out their future. Ole Miss has a lot on the line in their series with Mississippi State this weekend. However, mother nature does not seem to be cooperating and we might not get to see the rivals face off. Liverpool creates a story of their own with a great comeback against the powerhouse Barcelona this week. Things get heated as we talk about the best way to watch Game of Thrones. Listen to the Pop Off Podcast on all of your podcasting platforms and don't forget to subscribe like and rate us! Podcast Links: Spotify | Itunes | Stitcher | Podbean Social Media: Twitter | Facebook | Instagram | Youtube

This week on the Pop Off Podcast (POP) hosts Joe Simeone and Jon Wiener talk about Mississippi State Baseball getting swept by Arkansas and what questions this brings up about the team. We dive into some pre-NFL draft hype talking about the Mississippi Prospects as well as some of the big stories around the NFL. Round One of the NBA playoffs is coming to a conclusion, with no real upsets we talk about what to look forward to in the next round.  Here is a breakdown of the podcast: 1:00 - Mississippi State, Ole Miss, and Southern Miss baseball 5:30 - NFL Draft  13:20 - NBA Playoffs 20:15 - Game of Thrones Listen to the Pop Off Podcast on all of your podcasting platforms and don't forget to subscribe like and rate us!

Hosts Joe Simeone and Jon Wiener break down the glorious weekend in sports and television. HBO's flagship show 'Game of Thrones' is back and we could not be more excited about its long-awaited return. We break down the weekend that ended with a Tiger Woods win at The Masters. We hope you didn't miss it but if you do we have you covered! Mississippi State Baseball continues to climb the national rankings and flexed over Alabama this weekend with a sweep. We take a look at this powerhouse and breakdown what makes them so good. The NBA playoffs are here as well! There were some surprises from the weekend. Don't forget about spring football! We talk about some of the takeaways from the spring games played by State and Southern Miss this weekend. Pop on in and like, subscribe, and review our podcasts everywhere you listen to them.

It’s a Masters edition of Play It Where It Lies (#PIWIL)! Jon Wiener and The Gent Stuart Conway throw it down in a can’t-miss show on golf’s greatest week. What makes the #Masters special, and what has happened to its winners? Tee up the traditions, cliches, and key questions in ‘Play It, Drop It, Roll It.” Is exclusive Augusta National to be commended for growing the game? Jon & Stuart discuss in-depth in ‘Tough Lies.’ Special guest Shane Bacon (Fox Sports) joins the guys for the best inside analysis you’ll hear. We celebrate the #PIWIL approach with a look back at pivotal Masters shots from tough spots. And of course, a slew of picks for the week, from the winner to the dark horse to ride. This is the Masters show you’ve been waiting for. Just Play It Where It Lies!

This week on the Pop Off Pod (POD) hosts Joe Simeone and Jon Wiener discuss the Final Four games and the tough losses for Bruce Pearl (Auburn) and Tom Izzo (Michigan State). Southern Miss, Ole Miss, and State combined for an 8-1 record in college baseball this weekend, with a few major milestones and some wild events. We break it down. Plus we look at spring football games across the state, with Ole Miss's directly behind us and the others coming this weekend. The NBA Playoffs are right around the corner: we debate which conference we are more excited to watch in Round One, and who can challenge the Warriors in the West? AND Masters week is here! We tell you the best parts to look forward to this week at Augusta National. Listen to the Pop Off Podcast on all of your podcasting platforms and don't forget to subscribe like and rate us!

This week on the Pop Off Podcast 'Iso' Joe Simeone and Jon Wiener breakdown Mississippi State Women's basketball loss to Oregon in the Elite Eight. The great Rick Cleveland joins us to tell us what it was like in Portland and what this loss means for the Bulldogs moving forward. Powerhouses UNC and Duke make early exits from the NCAA Tournament this past weekend and do not make the Final Four. On the other hand, Texas Tech and Auburn make their first ever Final Four appearances. Some exciting sweet 16 and Elite 8 games! We take you through the highlights and who we expect to make a push to the national championship. Joe spent the weekend in Oxford at then Starkville for Ole Miss Pro Day and the Miss. State v. LSU game, respectively. He shares his first impressions of each town, the inside scoop from Pro Day, and takeaways from yet another series loss to LSU for the Diamond Dogs.  Tune in to the Pop Off Podcast to get the important stories happening in Mississippi and national sports. 

Bash Brothers Media tees up a new online golf show and podcast: Play It Where It Lies (PIWIL) with Jon Wiener and Stuart “The Gent” Conway! The game puts you in tough spots. We Play It Where It Lies! In the first episode of PIWIL, Jon & The Gent discuss the opening of the season and the show, stories from the course and “re-tee” Dustin Johnson’s disappearance at The Valspar. Our feature game “Play It, Drop It, Roll It” asks hard questions of the guys about the big storylines on the PGA Tour. We get into ‘Tough Lies’ with a simple question: is President Donald Trump good for the game of golf? Plus a preview of the Champions Tour Rapiscan Systems Classic in Biloxi, Miss. and a lot more!

Jon Wiener from Bash Brothers Media discusses the collective efforts of himself and his brother Henry at telling the story of Mississippi Sports.

Author Elif Batuman joins Kate and Medaya to discuss her new semi-autobiographical novel, The Idiot, about a Turkish-American freshman at Harvard. Elif explains the book's unique genesis: she wrote it shortly after graduating, found it in a drawer many years later, and reworked it into its current form. Many Elifs contributed to this book - the Harvard freshman, the postgraduate author, the recent literary archaeologist, and the nonfiction author whose celebrated book The Possessed covers a similar time period as a work of “objective journalism.” And, yes, Kate, Medea, and Elif share their love for Dostoyevsky! Also, Melissa Febos, author of Abandon Me, returns to recommend a book of poetry, Donika Kelly's Bestiary. And we end by honoring Robert Silvers, legendary founder and editor of the New York Review of Books, who died at 87 in March. LARB contributor Jon Wiener spoke to Silvers in 2013.

Amy Wilentz and Jon Wiener debate Trump’s chances for victory in November: Jon says he won’t win; Amy says ‘don’t be so sure.’ Plus: John Nichols and D.D. Guttenplan analyze the candidate's speech and the aura of violence inside the convention hall, and George Zornick reports on the action in the streets and the conduct of the Cleveland police.

Independent investigative journalism, broadcasting, trouble-making and muckraking with Brad Friedman of BradBlog.com

Independent investigative journalism, broadcasting, trouble-making and muckraking with Brad Friedman of BradBlog.com

This week's show features historian and journalist Jon Wiener, who was among hundreds of writers who signed a letter of protest against The PEN American Center's recognition of Charlie Hebdo with the 2015 Freedom of Expression Courage Award on Tuesday night. Also, Tom interviews Laila Lalami, author of the Pulitzer Prize finalist The Moor's Account, and Tom, Laurie and Seth talk about the value of literary prizes in general.

This week on TBASH – Psychic Andy pours a few with Jon Wiener! Join them for the first TBASH "Blind Flight" taste test as they dig deep into the world of Milk Alternatives (Almond Milk, Rice Milk, Hemp Milk, Soy Milk, Coconut Milk). Other topics include: A new intern in town, The art of V60 Coffee Making, rats in Guinness Beer barrels, where to find vegan friendly beverages and much more. See the comments section TotallyLaime.com for Jon's V60 instructions and product links...

Jon Wiener (@CrayonWayans, Hey Teens podcast), Eric Gosselin (@ErockGasoline, Hey Teens podcast) and April Richardson watch the episode of Saved by the Bell where the Malibu Sands Beach Club closes up shop for the summer, and to celebrate the end of their summer jobs, the gang construct a physics-defying sand castle and party at a farewell luau.

Jon Wiener (@CrayonWayans, Hey Teens podcast), Eric Gosselin (@ErockGasoline, Hey Teens podcast) and April Richardson watch the episode of Saved by the Bell where the Malibu Sands Beach Club closes up shop for the summer, and to celebrate the end of their summer jobs, the gang construct a physics-defying sand castle and party at a farewell luau.

Jim and Craig welcome to the podcast Mr. Jon Wiener. He tells of his craziest day in LA and Craig tells of his biggest triumph... and lowest low at a retail job in high school.

Jim and Craig welcome to the podcast Mr. Jon Wiener. He tells of his craziest day in LA and Craig tells of his biggest triumph... and lowest low at a retail job in high school.