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Andi King returns with a soulful, groove-laced mix that plays like a modern disco party – perfect for soundtracking your long weekend of relaxation this Easter bank holiday in the UK. Easter Weekend Gigs Andi King 26/04 – Roots & Grooves, Colchester with Mojo P, Baz and Miks Lauder 10/05 – Love Sensation in the 103 at Ministry of Sound, London (Bob Sinclar headlining) 17/05 – Funky Hat @ Truth, Colchester Sarah Jae 17/04 – 23 Paul Street, Shoreditch: 11pm–3am Good Friday – The Perception Bar, W Hotel, Leicester Square: 6–9pm 19/04 – Three Wise Monkeys, Ipswich: 7:30pm–late LYP 19/04 - Pavilion Track Listing The Shapeshifters feat. Billy Porter – Finally Ready (Dimitri From Paris Remix) The Thompson Project – Messin' With My Mind (Crackazat Remix) Flight Facilities – Forever in My Room ANOTR & Erik Bandt – How You Feel The Philly All-Stars – Love Is the Message (Eric Kupper Remix) Fonda Rae – Over Like a Fat Rat (Victor Simonelli Remix) Michael Gray feat. Tatiana Owens – Season High (Charlie P Remix) Alphonse Mouzon – I'm Glad That You're Here (MG Dub Mix) David Morales feat. Romina Johnson – Ain't Nobody The Ones – Flawless (Phunk Investigation Remix) Risk Assessment – Juicy Smollett Angelo Ferreri – Sunset Bar Infinity Ink – Infinity (Alan Dixon Remix) LISTEN & SUBSCRIBE Apple Podcasts Spotify Amazon YouTube Mixcloud FOLLOW HOUSE FINESSE Website Instagram Threads Mastodon Bluesky SUPPORT THE SHOW Donate or Subscribe Support House Finesse by contributing to their tip jar: https://tips.pinecast.com/jar/housefinesse Find out more at https://housefinesse.pinecast.co
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Today, we're joined by Aaron Paul, founder of Paul Street, to explore how top DTC brands are leveraging affiliate marketing to drive massive growth - and where many go wrong.Aaron shares his insights from working with leading brands like Onnit, Goli Nutrition, and HelloFresh. We discuss what's working in affiliate marketing today, why media-buying affiliates aren't always the right fit (and when they are), and how content-driven publishers now drive the majority of affiliate revenue. We also get into common pitfalls that cause programs to stall along with advice on how to sidestep these mistakes.If you have a question for the MOperators Hotline, click the link to be in with a chance of it being discussed on the show: https://forms.gle/1W7nKoNK5Zakm1Xv6Chapters00:00 Introduction10:07 The Evolution of Affiliate Marketing20:00 The Role of Affiliates in Brand Growth29:46 Current Trends in Affiliate Marketing40:02 Challenges and Best Practices in Affiliate Programs46:26 Navigating Affiliate Marketing Success51:50 Identifying and Combating Affiliate Fraud56:47 The Dynamics of Affiliate Payouts01:01:50 Building Trust with Affiliates01:06:56 The Future of Affiliate Marketing and Content CreationOperators Exclusive Slack: https://join.slack.com/t/9operators/shared_invite/zt-2tdfu426r-TepSHJP~evAyDfR29U2qUwPowered by:Motion.https://motionapp.com/pricing?utm_source=marketing-operators-podcast&utm_medium=paidsponsor&utm_campaign=march-2024-ad-readshttps://motionapp.com/creative-trendsPrescient AI.https://www.prescientai.com/operatorsRichpanel.https://www.richpanel.com/?utm_source=MO&utm_medium=podcast&utm_campaign=ytdescNorthbeam.https://www.northbeam.io/Subscribe to the 9 Operators Podcast here:https://www.youtube.com/@Operators9Sign up to the 9 Operators newsletter here: https://9operators.com/
Sam shares an excerpt from Refuse Fascism's Virtual Forum "Only The People Can Defeat Fascism" featuring commentary from Paul Street and Sunsara Taylor. You can view the entire forum here. She then interviews Sasha Abramsky, author of Chaos Comes Calling and Western Correspondent for The Nation. In this conversation, Sasha discusses the rapid ascent of fascism, emphasizing the dehumanization of vulnerable populations, the role of propaganda, and the transformation of government under the Trump Regime. He highlights the immediate consequences of slashing social programs, the global implications of U.S. policies, and the impact of paramilitary forces on the rule of law. Follow Sasha on Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/sashaabramsky.bsky.social.Then Sam interviews historian Thomas Zimmer, co-host of the "Is this Democracy" podcast, to discuss the qualitative transformation of the US government over the course of the last month, through constitutional crisis to the brink of categorically ending constitutional order. The conversation examines the deadly synergy between varied factions and key figures within the fascist movement, highlighting Russel Vought and Elon Musk. Read more from him by subscribing to his substack: http://thomaszimmer.substack.com/. Follow Thomas on Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/thomaszimmer.bsky.social.Monday, FEBRUARY 17 “Presidents Day…” Take To the Streets (click to find locations)Volunteer for Refuse Fascism >Resources: The Dehumanization Is the Point by Sasha Abramsky Trump's January 6 Pardons Were a Green Light to Far Right Paramilitaries by Sasha Abramsky Meet the Ideologue of the “Post-Constitutional” Right by Thomas Zimmer MAGA Feeding Frenzy Has Caused a Constitutional Crisis by Thomas ZimmerMerch:Sticker packsBeaniesPinsSend your comments to samanthagoldman@refusefascism.org or @SamBGoldman and find her on TikTok:@samgoldmanrf. Record a voice message for the show here. Connect with the movement at RefuseFascism.org and support:·patreon.com/refusefascism·paypal.me/refusefascism·donate.refusefascism.orgMusic for this episode: Penny the Snitch by Ikebe Shakedown
One week in, Sam talks with Chrissy Stroop, Senior Correspondent for Religion Dispatches, and co-founder of The Fly Trap. Subscribe to Chrissy's Substack: https://www.bugbeardispatch.com/. Wednesday, Jan. 29 at 8PM ET / 5PM PT, join us for a Patron-only Zoom discussion with historian Paul Street & host of the pod Sam Goldman, to discuss Trump's first 10 days and ways we can refuse fascism together. See link to register at our Patreon page: https://www.patreon.com/refusefascism. The Inauguration song by Jesse Welles on YouTube. Follow Jesse at wellesmusic.com. Resources: Refuse Fascism merch including stickers and beanies Refuse Fascism T-Shirts and Hoodies In the Name of Humanity We REFUSE to Accept a FASCIST America T-Shirts and Hoodies (white ink on colored options) In the Name of Humanity We REFUSE to Accept a FASCIST America T-Shirts and Hoodies (black ink on colored options) Signs & Banners Refuse Fascism Mission Statement Defend & Recruit Playbook Immigration Know Your Rights Resources Send your comments to samanthagoldman@refusefascism.org or @SamBGoldman and find her on TikTok: @samgoldmanrf. Record a voice message for the show here. Connect with the movement at RefuseFascism.org and support: · patreon.com/refusefascism · paypal.me/refusefascism · donate.refusefascism.org Music for this episode: Penny the Snitch by Ikebe Shakedown
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Post-election 2024, we're not telling you how to feel, we're just glad you're feeling something. Hang onto your humanity with us and pledge to refuse to accept a fascist America urgently and visibly in the coming weeks. Paul Street and Andy Zee joined Refuse Fascism host Sam Goldman for an online forum informed by listener questions on November 8, 2024 sponsored by Refuse Fascism in association with The RNL - Revolution Nothing Less - Show. We're sharing excerpts from the forum which can be watched in its entirety on YouTube. Follow Paul Street at paulstreet.substack.com. For resources mentioned by Andy Zee, see revcom.us and follow @therevcoms and @bobavakianofficial on social media. Resources to spread the message, "In The Name of Humanity, We Refuse To Accept a Fascist America": Sticker Pack Printable Poster in color Printable Poster in black and white Refuse Fascism Shop Refuse Fascism T-Shirts: Original New (with slogan above) Find out more about Refuse Fascism and get involved at RefuseFascism.org. Find us on all the socials: @RefuseFascism. Plus, Sam is on TikTok, check out @samgoldmanrf. Support the show at patreon.com/RefuseFascism Music for this episode: Penny the Snitch by Ikebe Shakedown
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Paul Street and Andy Zee joined Refuse Fascism host Sam Goldman for an online forum informed by listener questions on October 25, 2024 sponsored by Refuse Fascism and The RNL - Revolution Nothing Less - Show. We're sharing excerpts from the forum which can be watched in its entirety on YouTube. Follow Paul Street at paulstreet.substack.com. By popular demand! Get your Refuse Fascism T-Shirt here: bonfire.com/refuse-fascism-pod-shirt Find out more about Refuse Fascism and get involved at RefuseFascism.org. Find us on all the socials: @RefuseFascism. Plus, Sam is on TikTok, check out @samgoldmanrf. Support the show at patreon.com/RefuseFascism Music for this episode: Penny the Snitch by Ikebe Shakedown
Friday, 10/25 at 6pm PT / 9pm ET join us for a livestreamed forum with Paul Street, Andy Zee and Sam Goldman, The 2024 Elections: The Future Hangs In the Balance, sponsored by Refuse Fascism and The RNL - Revolution Nothing Less - Show. Follow @RefuseFascism on social media to tune in and send your questions ahead of time to samanthagoldman@refusefascism.org. This episode is in response to the (very belated) warnings coming from Democratic Party and military leaders that Trump is (in the words of Trump's former top general Mark Milley) "a fascist to the core." By popular demand! Get your Refuse Fascism T-Shirt here: bonfire.com/refuse-fascism-pod-shirt Find out more about Refuse Fascism and get involved at RefuseFascism.org. Find us on all the socials: @RefuseFascism. Plus, Sam is on TikTok, check out @samgoldmanrf. Support the show at patreon.com/RefuseFascism Music for this episode: Penny the Snitch by Ikebe Shakedown Featuring: Jeff Sharlet - Episode 31 (11/29/20) Jason Stanley - Episode 20 (10/4/20) Michael Coard - Episode 12 (8/9/20) Coco Das - Episode 54 (4/11/21) Walden Bello - Episode 61 (5/30/21) Thomas Zimmer - Episode 92 (1/2/22) Annika Brockschmidt - Episode 103 (3/20/22) Andy Zee - Episode 32 (12/10/20) Federico Finchelstein - Episode 49 (3/7/21) Jared Yates Sexton - Episode 6 (6/28/20) Henry Giroux - Episode 42 (1/24/21) Anthony DiMaggio - Episode 108 (4/24/22) Wajahat Ali - Episode 140 (12/31/22) Anthea Butler - Episode 91 (12/26/21) Bradley Onishi - Episode 140 (12/31/22) Dahlia Lithwick - Episode 91 (12/26/21) Ruth Ben Ghiat - Episode 3 (6/7/20) Umair Haque - Episode 48 (2/28/21) Jeff Sharlet - Episode 150 (3/26/23) Jared Yates Sexton - Episode 91 (12/26/21) Brynn Tannehill - Episode 57 (5/2/21) Thomas Zimmer - Episode 92 (1/2/22) Wendy Via - Episode 179 (11/19/23)
Sam recaps recent events and then talks with Paul Street about the GOP's unfolding plans to suppress the vote, intimidate their opposition (including by raiding extremely mainstream activists in Texas with LULAC [The League of Latin American Citizens] and sending police to the homes of people signing pro-abortion rights petitions in Florida), and unleash violence at multiple levels should Trump be declared the loser in November. In response to all this the Democrats are celebrating... the addition of Dick Cheney to their "big tent." Paul writes, "The nation is careening to some kind of constitutional crisis and potential major civil conflict after the next election. Anarchic US capitalism-imperialism has hatched a two-party system whose right-/Reich-most wing no longer accepts defeat through mere elections, no matter how tilted to the right the nation's electoral rules are... [and yet] There is liberating opportunity as well as eliminationist and authoritarian menace in the current perilous moment." Follow Paul Street's writings at paulstreet.substack.com. By popular demand! Get your Refuse Fascism T-Shirt here: bonfire.com/refuse-fascism-pod-shirt Mentioned In This Episode: Is Trump Building an Army of Modern Blackshirts? by Bob Dreyfuss Dispatch on American Political Dystopia by Paul Street Want to Call Trump an F-Word? by Paul Street Two Essays and One Interview by Paul Street Democracy Needs The Loser by Barbara F. Walter The Election Story Nobody Wants to Talk About Rick Perlstein Q&A With David Neiwert Revolution Number 78 by Bob Avakian Ep 187 of the Refuse Fascism Podcast: The White Power Movement in 2024 Ep 196 of the Refuse Fascism Podcast: Fascism On Trial With Anthony DiMaggio and Henry Giroux Ep 198 of the Refuse Fascism Podcast: Constitutional Sheriffs, Militias, and Other Local Fascist Initiatives Find out more about Refuse Fascism and get involved at RefuseFascism.org. Find us on all the socials: @RefuseFascism. Plus, Sam is on TikTok, check out @samgoldmanrf. Support the show at patreon.com/RefuseFascism Music for this episode: Penny the Snitch by Ikebe Shakedown
I started this episode in a bit of a grumpy mood because rekordbox/ Mac issues meant that all of latest downloads that I was so looking forward to playing remained trapped on my Mac and not my USB. But I soon cheered up as I picked out some choice cuts from the 8,000 or so tracks that were on the stick. A mixed bag as always but keeping things more on the disco side of things for a lot of it… …and for good reason, as my guest this time was none other than Tatiana - part of The Disco Express. TDE are one of my favourite labels, and they should be one of your favourite labels too. And Tatiana is an expert selector, who put together a superb mix for your listening pleasure. Tatiana is a London-based DJ, audio producer, and music journalist. Her sound moves smoothly between disco, high-energy italo, and soulful house, all underpinned by funky basslines to keep you moving on the dance floor. She has played the likes of E1, 25 Paul Street, Colour Factory, Night Tales, Oslo Hackney, XOYO, and POW Brixton, and at festivals such as El Dorado, Queen's Yard Summer Party, Access The Festival, and Brixton Disco Festival, as well as regular gigs in Berlin at venues such as the iconic KitKatClub, Bulbul, Klunkerkranich, and Crack Bellmer. In 2024, she made her Paris debut at Les Bains, and has just returned from playing her first run of gigs in Tokyo in the spring. She is part of the team behind The Disco Express - an East London label & event series renowned for hosting the world's biggest names in disco. She's active behind the scenes booking line-ups, managing events, and helping with the day-to-day running of the label. Hue thanks to Tatiana for the mix, you know what to do! https://www.instagram.com/tanya.dudnikova/ https://soundcloud.com/tanya-dudnikova-212647695 HOUR 1 TRACKLIST 1 Late Night Workshop feat. Irena H. - How Much I feel (LNW Redux) 2 DJ Laurel - 4 More 3 Shola Ama - You're the One I Love (C&J Mix) 4 Snoop Dogg - Drop It Like It's Hot 5 Camille Yarbrough - Take Yo' Praise 6 The Brothers Johnson - Thunder Thumbs And Lightnin' Licks 7 The Soul Snatchers - Do You Wanna Get Down 8 Tasha Thomas - Hot Buttered Boogie 9 Unlimited Touch - Good Lovin 10 Bruni Pagan - Fantasy 11 Voilaaa - Manu Ecoute Ca 12 TEYMORI - Perspective is Everything Feat.Silentjay 13 Sweet Fruity Brunch - Paisible Fleuve 14 Disclosure - Ultimatum (feat. Fatoumata Diawara) 15 Takao - Mi Mosquito 16 Hi-Gloss - All Day, All Night 17 LV Premier - Hooked On This Feelin' (Dimitri From Brooklyn Edit) 18 Brother Julian - Kay Watt (Disco Mind Records) 19 Atlantic Starr - (Let's) Rock 'N' Roll
Sam discusses the pivotal decision from the fascist-dominated Supreme Court to grant Trump permission to commit crimes through the immunity ruling this past year with historian Paul Street, along with the slew of other terrible rulings. Of course while this ruling would seem to green-light the current president to act as a king unbound by any rule over his “official acts,” the Biden administration and Congressional Democrats did not announce any action in response to this chilling marker on the slide towards fascism. Read and listen to more from Paul Street at https://paulstreet.substack.com/ Then, she talks with HuffPost reporter Matt Shuham about his latest article, “Schedule F: The 'Chilling' Trump Plan That Could Pave The Way For Authoritarianism.” Schedule F is the mechanism referenced in Project 2025 that will allow the widescale replacement of civll servants with Trump loyalists throughout government. Follow Matt on Twitter/Threads/BlueSky/Mastodon at @mattshuham and read more of his work at https://www.huffpost.com/author/matt-shuham and https://gatheringstring.substack.com/ *This episode was recorded and uploaded prior to the second round of French elections. By popular demand! Get your Refuse Fascism T-Shirt here: https://www.bonfire.com/refuse-fascism-pod-shirt/ Mentioned In this episode: The Supreme Court Puts Trump Above the Law by Adam Serwer The Supreme Court Is Fully MAGA-Pilled. The Time for Action Is Now or Never. by Dahlia Lithwick and Mark Joseph Stern American Midnight: The Great War, a Violent Peace, and Democracy's Forgotten Crisis Illiberal America: A History by Steven Hahn Find out more about Refuse Fascism and get involved at RefuseFascism.org. Find us on all the socials: @RefuseFascism. Plus, Sam is on TikTok, check out @samgoldmanrf. You can also send your comments to samanthagoldman@refusefascism.org or @SamBGoldman. Record a voice message for the show here. Connect with the movement at RefuseFascism.org and support at patreon.com/RefuseFascism Music for this episode: Penny the Snitch by Ikebe Shakedown
American Indian Month is now underway. The American Indian Cultural Corridor in the Phillips neighborhood of south Minneapolis is hosting a large event Wednesday to kick off the month. And one of St. Paul's historic neighborhoods is again part of the official city streets. The city renamed a portion of Concordia Avenue as Rondo Avenue.This is an MPR News morning update, hosted by Elana See. Music by Gary Meister.Find more from these stories at MPRnews.org.Sign of the future: St. Paul officially brings back historic Rondo Avenue street nameRenovated Minneapolis American Indian Center reflects urban Indigenous identityRead the latest edition of the AM Update newsletter.Subscribe on Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, Spotify, YouTube or RSS.
Sam talks with historian, activist and RefuseFascism.org editorial board member Paul Street about the coming year and his take on all the wild things happening as well as to come. Follow Paul's work on Substack at paulstreet.substack.com. Find out more about Refuse Fascism and get involved at RefuseFascism.org. We're still on Twitter (@RefuseFascism) and other social platforms including Threads, Mastodon and Bluesky. Plus! Sam recently joined TikTok, check out @samgoldmanrf. You can also send your comments to samanthagoldman@refusefascism.org or @SamBGoldman. Record a voice message for the show here. Connect with the movement at RefuseFascism.org and support: · paypal.me/refusefascism · donate.refusefascism.org · patreon.com/refusefascism Music for this episode: Penny the Snitch by Ikebe Shakedown --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/refuse-fascism/message
Paul Street, member of the RefuseFascism.org Editorial Board shares reflections on January 6, three years later. Read his reflections: On January 6 Three Years Later: The Trump Republi-Fascist Menace is Alive and Well. Subscribe to the Paul Street Report to read and hear more from Paul. Then, Sam talks with Ian Millhiser, senior correspondent at Vox, about just some of the Trump trials, some attempts for accountability through the legal system and Trump's strategy to dodge it. He is the author of two books on the Supreme Court: Injustices: The Supreme Court's History of Comforting the Comfortable and Afflicting the Afflicted and The Agenda: How a Republican Supreme Court Is Reshaping America. Follow Ian on Threads at Ian.millhiser and read his articles on Vox here. Mentioned in This Episode: Deja Coup: Donald Trump and the Slow Civil War (Dahlia Lithwick interviews Jeff Sharlet on the latest episode of Amicus) CBS News poll on Jan. 6 attack 3 years later: Though most still condemn, Republican disapproval continues to wane A quarter of Americans believe FBI instigated Jan. 6, Post-UMD poll finds Find out more about Refuse Fascism and get involved at RefuseFascism.org. We're still on Twitter (@RefuseFascism) and other social platforms including Threads, Mastodon and Bluesky. Plus! Sam recently joined TikTok, check out @samgoldmanrf. Send your comments to samanthagoldman@refusefascism.org or @SamBGoldman. Record a voice message for the show here. Connect with the movement at RefuseFascism.org and support: · paypal.me/refusefascism · donate.refusefascism.org · patreon.com/refusefascism Music for this episode: Penny the Snitch by Ikebe Shakedown (Just Some) Related Episodes on the attempted Trump Coup: The Fantasy of the Reasonable Republican With Fred Wellman Jeff Sharlet- The Undertow: Scenes From a Slow Civil War The Continuing January 6 Coup Proud Boys and The New Era of American Fascism Bradley Onishi: The Extremist History of White Christian Nationalism and What Comes Next Elie Honig: The January 6th Insurrection Isn't Over Ruth Ben-Ghiat: The GOP is Now the Party of Autocracy Henry Giroux: Trump is not Trumpism and Trumpism is not Dead Sunsara Taylor Hosts Roundtable Discussion With Rosie O'Donnell, Jason Stanley, and Andy Zee: "Trump & the Whole Fascist Cabal Must Go Now!" Why Is Accountability Important? What Just Happened? "Trump Will Not Concede - Americans Need to be Vigilant" The First Few Days After A Coup Are Critical --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/refuse-fascism/message
As we close out the year and look towards 2024, members of the RefuseFascism.org Editorial Board answer questions submitted by supporters of the pod. You can become one of those supporters at patreon.com/refusefascism. Follow Coco Das at @Coco_Das, Paul Street at paulstreet.substack.com and Sam at @SamBGoldman on Twitter or @samgoldmanrf on TikTok. Mentioned in the Episode: The Supreme Court Just Took on Abortion Again. It Won't End Well.Jason Stanley on "undermining propaganda" with fascism: "Trump is robbing democracy of any meaning" How to help the show? Rate and review wherever you get your podcasts; share with your friends! Get involved at RefuseFascism.org. We're still on Twitter (@RefuseFascism) and other social platforms including Threads, Mastodon and Bluesky. Plus! Sam recently joined TikTok, check out @samgoldmanrf. Send your comments to samanthagoldman@refusefascism.org or @SamBGoldman. Record a voice message for the show here. Connect with the movement at RefuseFascism.org and support: · paypal.me/refusefascism · donate.refusefascism.org · patreon.com/refusefascism Music for this episode: Penny the Snitch by Ikebe Shakedown Related episodes: Project 2025: Roadmap to Fascist Consolidation The Fascist Attack on Medication Abortion Ruling Through The Courts When They Don't Have The Votes The Post-Dobbs Human Rights Emergency --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/refuse-fascism/message
Gareth talks to Noelle, who runs Sweetheart Sweetshop in Paul Street about the stress from anti-social and criminal gangs. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Hannah Wilson discusses innovation in financial education with 3 expert guests. Guests are Lisa Davis, Senior Policy and Propositions Manager at the Money and Pensions Service, Paul Street and Emma Mahon are financial education experts from the Just Finance Foundation. They all bring their knowledge and experience as teachers to deliver financial education programmes that support schools across the UK. Paul has been working on financial education with JFF since early 2020. Prior to this, he spent over 30 years working in primary education as a teacher, a school leader and headteacher in Hampshire. Paul now works with schools across the midlands, the East of England and Wales, helping them to implement financial education resources into the school curriculum. Emma has spent 11 years teaching in primary schools in London as a class teacher and middle leader including being a PSHE coordinator for 6 years. She currently lives in Surrey and joined the JFF team in Surrey supporting schools across London and the South East to establish financial education within their curriculum using the Lifesavers programme. Don't miss this great conversation and remember to check out the JFF at https://www.justfinancefoundation.org.uk/talk-money-week
Sam talks with writer and historian Paul Street (also on the RefuseFascism.org Editorial Board) about recent events including the fascist attempts to shut down the government, the ouster of Kevin McCarthy from the Speaker of the House, and the increasingly violent threats and promises of vengeance from current frontline candidate for president and as-yet unconvicted coup plotter Donald Trump. Follow Paul on his Substack and read his latest article, Nether the Fascist Trump Nor Imperialist Biden Mentioned in this episode: America needs to talk about the right's ‘Red Caesar' plan for U.S. dictatorship by Will Bunch Trump's Bloody Campaign Promises by David Remnick Related episodes: Fascism In America: Past and Present Trump Indicted and Media Complicity in the Rise of Fascism The Fantasy of the Reasonable Republican How to help the show? Rate and review wherever you get your podcasts; share with your friends! Get involved at RefuseFascism.org. We're still on Twitter (@RefuseFascism) and other social platforms including Threads, Mastodon and Bluesky. Send your comments to samanthagoldman@refusefascism.org or @SamBGoldman. Record a voice message for the show here. Connect with the movement at RefuseFascism.org and support: · paypal.me/refusefascism · donate.refusefascism.org · patreon.com/refusefascism Music for this episode: Penny the Snitch by Ikebe Shakedown --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/refuse-fascism/message
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Listen to Gil Alderete of Catholic Men's Fellowship (CMF) of California talk to Adam Janke of St. Paul Street Evangelization talk about his life and work with his ministry.Listen live to Gil's show Men of Faith at https://www.spiritfilledevents.com/radio-podcast Monday -Friday at and 12:30pm Pacific Time. Podcast is available https://www.spiritfilledevents.com/men-of-faith and other podcast outlets.APPLE LINK FOR APPGOOGLE PLAY LINK FOR APP
Learn How to Evangelize Using St. Paul Street Evangelization: On this segment of Faith in Action, co-hosts Brigid Ayer and Jim Ganley are joined by Thomas Gallagher, Director of Evangelization, Family Life, Pastoral Ministries and Young Adult Ministry at Our Lady of Mt. Carmel to talk about a new ministry called St. Paul Street Evangelization. The national ministry is coming to the Carmel Deanery. The classes begin September 2023. For more information, the website for the St. Paul Street Evangelization is www.streetevangelization.com/parish-schools
Learn How to Evangelize using St. Paul Street Evangelization - On this segment of Faith in Action, co-hosts Brigid Ayer and Jim Ganley are joined by Thomas Gallagher, Director of Evangelization, Family Life, Pastoral Ministries and Young Adult Ministry at Our Lady of Mt. Carmel to talk about a new ministry called St. Paul Street Evangelization. The national ministry is coming to the Carmel Deanery. The classes begin September 2023. For more information, the website for the St. Paul Street Evangelization is www.streetevangelization.com/parish-schools
Sam talks to women in Iowa, where a new abortion ban was just signed into law, making essentially all abortion services unobtainable. Lyz Lenz ia a journalist based in Iowa and author of several books including Belabored: A Vindication of the Rights of Pregnant Women. Find her on Twitter https://twitter.com/lyzl or her website https://lyzlenz.com/. Allison Simpson founded We Won't Go Back - Dubuque Area and Bridgett Kearney is active with the group (which you can join if you are nearby, details on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/2868970886743644/) *No new episode next week but we are hosting a discussion for Patrons with editors of RefuseFascism.org Coco Das, Paul Street and Sam Goldman on Sunday July 23 at 4pm ET. Details / sign up for $5/month to join at https://www.patreon.com/refusefascism Refuse Fascism is more than a podcast! You can get involved at RefuseFascism.org. We're still on Twitter (@RefuseFascism) and other social platforms including Threads and Mastodon. Send your comments to samanthagoldman@refusefascism.org or @SamBGoldman. Record a voice message for the show here. Connect with the movement at RefuseFascism.org and support: · paypal.me/refusefascism · donate.refusefascism.org · patreon.com/refusefascism Music for this episode: Penny the Snitch by Ikebe Shakedown --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/refuse-fascism/message
Sam talks with Paul Street about the recent rulings from the Supreme Court including overturning affirmative action, legalizing discrimination against LGBTQ (and possibly other?) people, Moore v Harper (the "independent state legislature theory" case) and more. Follow Paul on Substack: https://substack.com/@paulstreet Also listen to episode 160: SCOTUS, The Shadow Docket, & The Fascist Assault on the Environment https://open.spotify.com/episode/1nddQh2o8s3Cpka64Dmm8s Mentioned in this episode: Homophobic businesses in the US have a powerful ally: the US supreme court by Moira Donegan https://www.theguardian.com/global/commentisfree/2023/jun/30/homophobic-businesses-ally-us-supreme-court The GOP Is Lining Up to Pay Homage to America's Newest Extremist Group, Moms for Liberty by David Gilbert https://www.vice.com/en/article/4a3a3w/moms-for-liberty-summit-ron-desantis-trump Refuse Fascism is more than a podcast! You can get involved at RefuseFascism.org. We're still on Twitter (@RefuseFascism) and other social platforms including the newest addition: mastodon.world/@refusefascism Send your comments to samanthagoldman@refusefascism.org or @SamBGoldman. Record a voice message for the show here. Connect with the movement at RefuseFascism.org and support: · paypal.me/refusefascism · donate.refusefascism.org · patreon.com/refusefascism Music for this episode: Penny the Snitch by Ikebe Shakedown --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/refuse-fascism/message
Learn How to Evangelize using St. Paul Street Evangelization - On this segment of Faith in Action, co-hosts Brigid Ayer and Jim Ganley are joined by Thomas Gallagher, Director of Evangelization, Family Life, Pastoral Ministries and Young Adult Ministry at Our Lady of Mt. Carmel to talk about a new ministry called St. Paul Street Evangelization. The national ministry is coming to the Carmel Deanery. The classes begin September 2023. For more information, the website for the St. Paul Street Evangelization is www.streetevangelization.com/parish-schools
The Resistance Roundtable panel speaks with Paul Street (www.paulstreet.org), independent progressive policy researcher, award-winning journalist, historian and author of many books including This Happened Here and They Rule: the 1% v. Democracy. Paul deconstructs the threat posed by Trump, the Republican Party and a craven corporate media as the nation staggers forward toward the 2024 election. Panel: Ruthanne Baumgartner, Scott Harris and Richard Hill, May 13, 2023.
Dr. Brett Salkeld is joined this week by Mark Hornbacher and Adam Jenke of St. Paul Street Evangelization ministries. In this part 2 of 2, they continue discussing their unique ministry work and sharing stories of their experiences in street evangelization. Show Snippet: "It's that universal call to holiness through the Second Vatican Council that rightly pointed out where we can't give what we don't have. And so if we are growing in holiness, and what do we mean by that, being set apart, uh, praying, going to mass, going to confession...spending time with God, going to adoration, If we're living out our vocations in our own life in such a way that we're continually growing in grace and God provides, in his wisdom through the Holy Spirit, charisms and wisdom to know what to say and when to say it." Learn more about St. Paul Street Evangelization at https://streetevangelization.com/
Author Paul Street joins the podcast to discuss his tenth book, "This Happened Here: Amerikaners, Neoloberals and the Trumping of America." Although those who warned that Trump would usher in an era of acceptable fascism were met with scorn or ridicule, Paul points out that they were correct. And may require a people-powered movement beyond the ballot box to ensure that Trump-branded fascism doesn't take a stronger hold.
Dr. Brett Salkeld is joined this week by Mark Hornbacher and Adam Jenke of St. Paul Street Evangelization ministries. In this part 1 of 2, they'll discuss their unique ministry work and stories of their experiences in street evangelization. Show Snippet: "A primary thing was listening to people, hearing their stories, telling your story, sharing the gospel, encouraging people to, to pray, praying with them, inviting them to check out the local parish, listening to their thoughts, their concerns about Christianity, and just having a real down to earth conversation." Learn more about St. Paul Street Evangelization at https://streetevangelization.com/
Sam Goldman, Paul Street and Anthony DiMaggio discuss the continuing impact of the Trump coup attempt that seemed to culminate with the physical assault on the Capitol on January 6, 2021. The House special committee's report was released in the final days of 2022 with the recommendation that the now Republican-controlled Congress bar Trump from ever holding office again, as well as be criminally prosecuted. Neither outcome is likely as the events of the first week back in session show the GOP is still completely in thrall to the cult of Trump, whether via supposed "moderates" like Marjorie Taylor Greene and Kevin McCarthy or "extremists" like Matt Gaetz and Lauren Boebert. Anthony DiMaggio is an Associate Professor of political science at Lehigh University and author of Rising Fascism in America: It Can Happen Here. Read his writings at Counterpunch and Salon. Paul Street is on editorial board of RefuseFascism.org and the author of This Happened Here: Amerikaners, Neoliberals, and the Trumping of America. Read his latest writings on Substack including "Keep Down the Fascism Detectors: Elise Stefanik, the New York Times, and the Appeasement by Deletion of Fascism." Recommended reading: The shutdown caucus really wins: The House power grab was always bigger than Kevin McCarthy Refuse Fascism is more than a podcast! You can get involved at RefuseFascism.org. We're still on Twitter (@RefuseFascism) and other social platforms including the newest addition: mastodon.world/@refusefascism Send your comments to samanthagoldman@refusefascism.org or @SamBGoldman. Connect with the movement at RefuseFascism.org and support: · paypal.me/refusefascism · donate.refusefascism.org Music for this episode: Penny the Snitch by Ikebe Shakedown --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/refuse-fascism/message
Chris Hedges is surprisingly cheery for someone who has, by his own admission, “a dark view of human nature.” When we met for this conversation at Substack's office in San Francisco, he was full of smiles and good humor—at least during the times we weren't discussing death and destruction. He had just come from the gym, a habit that borders on a fixation for him, since he works out as a way to deal with the trauma from years of covering war in some of the world's most dangerous conflict zones: the former Yugoslavia, El Salvador, and Iraq, to name a few. It has been 20 years since his groundbreaking book War Is a Force That Gives Us Meaning came out. Its force was so powerful that it was quoted at the start of Kathryn Bigelow's 2008 film The Hurt Locker: “The rush of battle is often a potent and lethal addiction, for war is a drug.” At the time, Chris was a bureau chief for the New York Times, covering the Middle East and the Balkans, but he quit that position following criticism of a speech he gave denouncing the U.S. invasion of Iraq. He has been publishing in independent media ever since, first at Truthdig and later with an interview show, On Contact, on Russia Today (RT). YouTube wiped out the archives to that show when it removed RT from the platform following Russia's invasion of Ukraine. “They're embracing censorship, let's be clear,” Chris says. In this conversation, we talk about why journalists like him keep getting drawn to war despite its dangers, why he sides with the suffering (including in his side role as a Presbyterian minister), and what he thinks is wrong with today's media.Chris recommends this post from Jonathan Cook's newsletter.Show notes* Subscribe to The Chris Hedges Report on Substack* Find Chris Hedges on Twitter (as explained in the episode, not run by him)* War Is a Force That Gives Us Meaning* Other writers on Substack Chris recommends: Matt Taibbi, Glenn Greenwald, Paul Street, Jonathan Cook* The Catullus poem Chris quotes* Eunice Wong's website* [02:05] Navigating war zones (and avoiding being killed)* [04:43] Being taken prisoner in Basra* [5:55] The mental stability of a war correspondent* [06:51] How Chris got into war reporting* [08:40] “You don't stay lucky forever”* [09:09] Becoming a recluse* [15:19] Writing a memoir * [21:03] The Presbyterian minister* [22:33] The ordination to journalism* [25:47] The state of today's journalism * [31:33] Why social media sound bites are “world without context”* [33:27] The problem with independent media* [34:06] Mainstream media and WikiLeaks * [36:37] What has happened to our institutions* [37:03] Is there hope? * [40:40] Meeting his wife, Eunice WongThe Active Voice is a podcast hosted by Hamish McKenzie, featuring weekly conversations with writers about how the internet is affecting the way they live and write. It is produced by Hanne Winarsky, with audio engineering by Seven Morris, content production by Hannah Ray, and production support from Bailey Richardson. All artwork is by Joro Chen, and music is by Phelps & Munro. This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit read.substack.com
Sam Goldman chats with fellow RefuseFascism.org co-editors Coco Das and Paul Street about the aftermath of the 2022 midterms, Donald Trump declaring his 2024 candidacy and associated happenings this past week. Follow Coco on Twitter at @Coco_Das and subscribe to Paul on Substack at paulstreet.substack.com. Read Paul's book This Happened Here: Amerikaners, Neoliberals, and the Trumping of America . Thursday, Dec. 1 From RiseUp4AbortionRights.org: Manifest in green and protest nationwide at courthouses around the country on Thursday December 1, the one-year anniversary of when the Supreme Court heard oral arguments in the case that overturned abortion rights. Through speeches, dramatic bloody die-ins, and in other ways, the protests should make clear that we cannot rely on the courts and have to rely on ourselves to rise up to win legal abortion on demand and without apology everywhere. Find or host a protest here: https://riseup4abortionrights.org/nov-25-dec-1/ Refuse Fascism is more than a podcast! You can get involved at RefuseFascism.org. We're still on Twitter and other social platforms including the newest addition: mastodon.world/@refusefascism It's getting cold now, and you may be thinking about holiday giving. Refuse Fascism beanies are extra warm and a great way to proudly declare where you stand this winter. Volunteers are standing by to ship one or five or 20 to you, so order here! Send your comments to samanthagoldman@refusefascism.org or @SamBGoldman. Connect with the movement at RefuseFascism.org and support: · Venmo: @RefuseFascism · Cashapp: $RefuseFascism · paypal.me/refusefascism · donate.refusefascism.org Music for this episode: Penny the Snitch by Ikebe Shakedown --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/refuse-fascism/message
Sam talks to Paul Street and Anthony DiMaggio about Trump's open embrace of the fascist Qanon movement, the kidnapping of Venezuelan migrants by Florida governor Desantis, media and politicians' normalization of fascism and much more. Paul Street is an historian and member of the Refuse Fascism editorial board, author of This Happened Here: Amerikaners, Neoliberals, and the Trumping of America; follow Paul on Twitter @Streetwriter17 and at paulstreet.org. Anthony DiMaggio is a political scientist and author of Rising Fascism in America: It Can Happen Here. Follow his work on Counterpunch. Note, this conversation was recorded before the fascist Meloni victory in Italy. Salute to the courageous protesters fighting the theocracy in Iran this week! Must read: Iran's Feminist Revolution--Women, Life, Liberty by Mona Eltahawy. Wednesday, September 28 is International Safe Abortion Day In solidarity with women around the world, protest and publicly manifest: #Green4Abortion On September 28 Find out more at https://riseup4abortionrights.org/september-28/ Refuse Fascism is more than a podcast! You can get involved at RefuseFascism.org. Send your comments to samanthagoldman@refusefascism.org or @SamBGoldman. Connect with the movement at RefuseFascism.org and support: · Venmo: @RefuseFascism · Cashapp: $RefuseFascism · paypal.me/refusefascism · donate.refusefascism.org Music for this episode: Penny the Snitch by Ikebe Shakedown --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/refuse-fascism/message
On the occasion of our 125th episode, RefuseFascism.org editorial board members Coco Das and Paul Street share recollections on the mission and analysis of the organization. Follow Coco Das on Twitter @Coco_Das. Read the statement Coco co-authored which was published in The New York Times as a full page advertisement days after the 2020 electoral defeat of Donald Trump here. Get Paul's latest book, This Happened Here: Amerikaners, Neoliberals and the Trumping of America. Plus: Sam Goldman shares commentary on what some are calling Joe Biden's “1860 speech” and his recent use of the phrase “semi-fascist” to describe the Republican Party. Then, she interviews freelance journalist Laura Jedeed about the recent history of that fascist organization through the lens of CPAC (the Conservative Political Action Conference). Read Laura's recent article on CPAC for The New Republic here and follow her on Twitter @LauraJedeed and on Substack: laurajedeed.substack.com. Refuse Fascism is more than a podcast! You can get involved at RefuseFascism.org. Send your comments to samanthagoldman@refusefascism.org or @SamBGoldman. Connect with the movement at RefuseFascism.org and support: · Venmo: @RefuseFascism · Cashapp: $RefuseFascism · paypal.me/refusefascism · donate.refusefascism.org Music for this episode: Penny the Snitch by Ikebe Shakedown --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/refuse-fascism/message
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Éppen húszéves, de a YouTube-on Paul Street néven máris közel félmillió feliratkozóval büszkélkedhet, ugyanis 13-14 évesen mindenféle komoly szándék nélkül kezdett el elsősorban hátborzongató sztorikról videókat készíteni, így egyik pillanatról a másikra felkapott vlogger, azaz Youtuber lett. Aztán Baukó Attila dalszerzésbe, éneklésbe kezdett és az Azahriah művésznéven gyorsan népszerű zenésszé vált, akinek videoklipjei többmilliós nézettséget generálnak a YouTube-on. Tavaly a telt házas Budapest Parkban adta élete első nagyobb koncertjét, de novemberben fellépett az MTV EMA gálán a Hősök terén is, sőt ő lett az MTV EMA díjkiosztóján "A legjobb magyar előadó"-díj nyertese. Úgy gondoltuk, érdemes bemutatnunk őt saját közönségünknek is, már csak azért is, hogy kiderüljön, hogyan gondolkodik a mai húszas generáció egyik meghatározó alakja társadalmi jelenségekről, mit tart a tárgyi tudásról és tájékozottságról, mit gondol a zene feladatáról, közvetítő szerepéről, a népszerűségről, a tévés tehetségkutatókról, - és még sok minden másról. Baukó Attila a Facebookon: https://www.facebook.com/azahriah.official az Instagramon: https://www.instagram.com/azahriah_official Hogyan támogathatja a munkánkat? Legyen a patronálónk, és a támogatása mértékétől függően egyre több előnyhöz juthat: https://www.patreon.com/FriderikuszPodcast Egyszeri vagy rendszeres banki átutalással is segíthet. Ehhez a legfontosabb adatok: Név: TV Pictures Számlaszám: 10300002-10586134-00014904 Közlemény: Podcast-támogatás Ha külföldről utalna, nemzetközi számlaszámunk (IBAN - International Bank Account Number): HU94 1030 0002 1058 6134 0001 4904 BIC/SWIFT-kód: MKKB HU HB Akármilyen formában támogatja munkánkat, köszönjük! Kövessenek, kövessetek itt is: Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/FriderikuszPodcast YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/c/FriderikuszPodcast Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/friderikuszpodcast Spotify: https://spoti.fi/3blRo2g Google Podcasts: https://bit.ly/3fc7A7t ApplePodcasts: https://apple.co/3hm2vfi #FriderikuszPodcast
We share the presentation from a recent webinar held with historian and writer Paul Street, member of the Refuse Fascism editorial board. Paul's most recent book is This Happened Here: Amerikaners, Neoliberals, and the Trumping of America. Follow his work at paulstreet.org and @Streetwriter17. Read his recent article On Putin, the Ukraine War, the United States and Fascism on Counterpunch. If the US Supreme Court overturns or guts Roe v. Wade, 26 states are certain or likely to ban abortion. April 8: Wear #Green4Abortion April 9: March & Rally for Abortion Rights Find out more: riseup4abortionrights.org Refuse Fascism is more than just a podcast! You can get involved at RefuseFascism.org. Send your comments to samanthagoldman@refusefascism.org or @SamBGoldman. Connect with the movement at RefuseFascism.org and support: · Venmo: @RefuseFascism · Cashapp: $RefuseFascism · paypal.me/refusefascism · donate.refusefascism.org Music for this episode: Penny the Snitch by Ikebe Shakedown --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/refuse-fascism/message
Még nincs húszéves, de máris majdnem hétszázezer követője van. Ennek nagyobbik hányada az a mintegy félmillió YouTube-feliratkozó, akit Paul Street nevű csatornáján jegyez, a kisebbik pedig az az Instagram-bázis, amely néhány hónap alatt lépte át a kétszázezret. És akkor most ugorjunk vissza a legelejére: még nincs húszéves. Baukó Attila generációja egyik legfontosabb karaktere. Egy rendkívül sikeres videós karrier után-mellett villámsebességgel építette fel magát könnyűzenei előadóként. Ehhez képest egy végtelenül visszafogott és szerény srác, aki bár nem nyílik meg egykönnyen, de ha mégis (és a stúdióban igen), akkor világosan látszik, mennyire éretten gondolkodik bizonyos dolgokról. Beszélt arról, hogyan lett az egyik videója az iskolai zaklatás egyik fontos platformja, meddig terjed egy tartalomkészítő felelőssége, hogyan reagálnak az idősebb rockrajongók, amikor bevallja, hogy Pink Floydot hallgat – és arról is, mennyire kényelmetlen és ijesztő is tud lenni, ha a rajongók lenyomozzák a lakcímedet, hogy aztán közzétegyék és rendszeresen kövessenek hazáig. A mai adásban tehát: Baukó Attila, azaz Azahriah. Popfilter – Szűrjük a zajt!
Sam Goldman interviews Annika Brockschmidt, German freelance journalist and podcast host, author of America's Holy Warriors: How the Religious Rights Endangers Democracy. Follow Annika on Twitter at @ardenthistorian. If you speak German you will want to check out her podcast (co-hosted with recent Refuse Fascism podcast guest Thomas Zimmer), Kreuz und Flagge (Cross and Flag). Read her recent piece on Religion Dispatches: Don't Laugh at Rick Scott's ‘Plan to Rescue America' or Be Fooled by Reports of a ‘Backlash' — His Only Mistake Was Revealing the Truth of Today's GOP Then, we share a clip of a conversation with Andy Zee and Paul Street, members of the Refuse Fascism editorial board, from The RNL Show, discussing Russia's war of aggression against Ukraine, and what a US-enforced "no fly zone" actually means. Read Paul's recent article: Let Us Not Talk Falsely Now: Reflections on War, Peace, and Ukraine. Recommended Reading on Abortion Rights Emergency: Florida's Abortion Ban Will Obliterate Access in the South by Anna Eskamani Idaho's New Anti-Abortion Law Offers Cash Bounties to Rapists' Family Members by Dahlia Lithwick and Mark Joseph Stern The Pseudoscience That Could Kill Women by Sarah Jones Missouri's Proposed Anti-Abortion Law Has an Eerie Resemblance to the Fugitive Slave Act by Pema Levy RiseUp4AbortionRights.org is calling for more emergency mobilizations; find out more at riseup4abortionrights.org. Refuse Fascism is more than just a podcast! You can get involved at RefuseFascism.org. Send your comments to samanthagoldman@refusefascism.org or @SamBGoldman. Connect with the movement at RefuseFascism.org and support: · Venmo: @Refuse-Fascism · Cashapp: @RefuseFascism · paypal.me/refusefascism · donate.refusefascism.org Music for this episode: Penny the Snitch by Ikebe Shakedown --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/refuse-fascism/message
Welcome back to the Peaceful Political Revolution in America Podcast.It looks like we could make some very real improvements to our political system. It is becoming more and more obvious that after 233 years, our Constitution could be significantly upgraded. If we want to have an effective and democratic form of government we should probably be thinking about how to democratize our Constitution. Confronting this reality will not be easy for many. But perhaps we should begin by asking ourselves the following questions:What are the undemocratic features of our Constitution? What features would make it more democratic? And, can we as Americans amend, change or even replace our Constitution?But there is also another urgent and more immediate crisis to contend with. Paul Street is the author of over 8 books including, They Rule, Empire and Inequality, Hollow Resistance, and his most recent book, This Happened Here: Amerikaners, Neoliberals, and the Trumping of America.American-Canadian scholar and cultural critic Henry Giroux, a founding theorist of critical pedagogy in the United States writes, " His analysis of fascism in its post-Trump form and the Trump base is the best I have read. Street is a straight shooter and displays a courageousness and brilliance in the book that should be a model for every public intellectual in America, and a resource for every member of the public when it comes to holding truth to power. The book is an absolute necessary treasure for anyone concerned about the threats now facing the ideal and promise of American democracy."On Paul's book, They Rule, Cornel West, says “Paul Street is the most acute observer and insightful analyst of the 'Obama Phenomena.' This book gets beneath the political smoke and mirrors to reveal the pervasive rule of big money that drives the American Empire and global capitalist economy. Street's courageous truth-telling is the precondition for a massive radical democratic movement.”Paul Street knows a few things about the threats to our nation. He has a deep understanding of the people who control the levers of real power in Washington, and he is here to tell you why This Happened Here and how it is They Rule.
01/03/22Welcome back to the Peaceful Political Revolution in America Podcast.It looks like we could make some very real improvements to our political system. It is becoming more and more obvious that after 233 years, our Constitution could be significantly upgraded. If we want to have an effective and democratic form of government, we should probably be thinking about how to democratize our Constitution. Confronting this reality will not be easy for many. But perhaps we should begin by asking ourselves the following questions:What are the undemocratic features of our Constitution? What features would make it more democratic? And, can we as Americans amend, change or even replace our Constitution?But there is also another urgent and more immediate crisis to contend with. Paul Street is the author of over 8 books including, They Rule, Empire and Inequality, Hollow Resistance, and his most recent book, This Happened Here: Amerikaners, Neoliberals, and the Trumping of America.American-Canadian scholar and cultural critic Henry Giroux, a founding theorist of critical pedagogy in the United States writes, " His analysis of fascism in its post-Trump form and the Trump base is the best I have read. Street is a straight shooter and displays a courageousness and brilliance in the book that should be a model for every public intellectual in America, and a resource for every member of the public when it comes to holding truth to power. The book is an absolute necessary treasure for anyone concerned about the threats now facing the ideal and promise of American democracy."On Paul's book, They Rule, Cornel West, says “Paul Street is the most acute observer and insightful analyst of the 'Obama Phenomena.' This book gets beneath the political smoke and mirrors and reveals the pervasive rule of big money that drives the American Empire and global capitalist economy. Street's courageous truth-telling is the precondition for a massive radical democratic movement.”Paul Street knows a few things about the threats to our nation. He has a deep understanding of the people who control the levers of real power in Washington, and he is here to tell you why This Happened Here and how it is They Rule.
This is a segment of episode 310 of Last Born In The Wilderness “Vigilante Veneration: Fascistic Characteristics Of A Divided United States w/ Paul Street.” Listen to the full interview: https://www.lastborninthewilderness.com/episodes/paul-street Learn more about Paul Street's work: https://www.paulstreet.org Award-winning journalist, policy researcher, author, and historian Paul Street joins me to discuss the highly controversial and divisive Kyle Rittenhouse case and subsequent acquittal. Along with providing a substantive exploration of the broad sociopolitical context of this trial, we also touch on the case of the modern day lynching of Ahmaud Arbery and the recent conviction of the men that murdered him in Georgia, the concerted legislative push in Republican dominated states across the U.S. to impose harsher voter restrictions and roll back reproductive rights on the national level, and what these trends mean for the upcoming elections of 2022 and 2024, and electoral politics as a whole. On the state level, Republicans have passed scores of laws to undermine the rights of the LGBTQ+ community, attack voter rights, cripple public health measures, censure public school educators, and set the stage for Roe v. Wade to be overturned by the conservative majority Supreme Court. The dismal performance of the Democrats, a party that currently barely maintains a majority in Congress, and the maneuvers and long-term strategies employed by the Republicans, will lead, potentially, to a Republican majority in Congress and a Trump presidential win in 2024. The lame duck presidency of Joe Biden and an ineffective, self-defeating Democratic Party have been, seemingly, unable and unwilling to counter this on any fundamental level. It's not surprising, but must be noted. Paul Street is an independent progressive policy researcher, award-winning journalist, historian, author and speaker based in Iowa City, Iowa, and Chicago, Illinois. He is the author of ten books to date, and most recently 'Hollow Resistance: Obama, Trump, and the Politics of Appeasement,' and 'This Happened Here: Neoliberals, Amerikaners, and the Trumping of America.' Paul writes regularly for Counterpunch. WEBSITE: https://www.lastborninthewilderness.com PATREON: https://www.patreon.com/lastborninthewilderness DONATE: https://www.paypal.me/lastbornpodcast / https://venmo.com/LastBornPodcast BOOK LIST: https://bookshop.org/shop/lastbornpodcast EPISODE 300: https://lastborninthewilderness.bandcamp.com BOOK: http://bit.ly/ORBITgr ATTACK & DETHRONE: https://anchor.fm/adgodcast DROP ME A LINE: Call (208) 918-2837 or http://bit.ly/LBWfiledrop EVERYTHING ELSE: https://linktr.ee/patterns.of.behavior
[Intro: 7:46] Award-winning journalist, policy researcher, author, and historian Paul Street joins me to discuss the highly controversial and divisive Kyle Rittenhouse case and subsequent acquittal. Along with providing a substantive exploration of the broad sociopolitical context of this trial, we also touch on the case of the modern day lynching of Ahmaud Arbery and the recent conviction of the men that murdered him in Georgia, the concerted legislative push in Republican dominated states across the U.S. to impose harsher voter restrictions and roll back reproductive rights on the national level, and what these trends mean for the upcoming elections of 2022 and 2024, and electoral politics as a whole. In this interview, Paul Street and I don't so much as dwell on the gruesome, and often tedious, details of the trial of Rittenhouse (such as whether the act of shooting three protestors could be justified as self-defense or not), but rather the broader context these events fit within. Specifically, how the veneration of vigilantes and so-called vigilante justice, which Rittenhouse has been applauded for within conservative, right-leaning spaces, speaks to how utterly fascist the conservative right has become. Paul Street is an independent progressive policy researcher, award-winning journalist, historian, author and speaker based in Iowa City, Iowa, and Chicago, Illinois. He is the author of ten books to date, and most recently 'Hollow Resistance: Obama, Trump, and the Politics of Appeasement,' and 'This Happened Here: Neoliberals, Amerikaners, and the Trumping of America.' Paul writes regularly for Counterpunch. Episode Notes: - Learn more about Paul's work: https://www.paulstreet.org - Read his Counterpunch articles: https://www.counterpunch.org/author/paul-street - Purchase his books 'Hollow Resistance' and 'This Happened Here' on Bookshop: https://bit.ly/3Djg1YA / https://bit.ly/32U066l - Music by Epik The Dawn WEBSITE: https://www.lastborninthewilderness.com PATREON: https://www.patreon.com/lastborninthewilderness DONATE: https://www.paypal.me/lastbornpodcast / https://venmo.com/LastBornPodcast BOOK LIST: https://bookshop.org/shop/lastbornpodcast EPISODE 300: https://lastborninthewilderness.bandcamp.com BOOK: http://bit.ly/ORBITgr ATTACK & DETHRONE: https://anchor.fm/adgodcast DROP ME A LINE: Call (208) 918-2837 or http://bit.ly/LBWfiledrop EVERYTHING ELSE: https://linktr.ee/patterns.of.behavior
Coco Das (@Coco_Das) speaks to an activist who traveled to Washington DC this week to protest for abortion rights as the Supreme Court heard opening arguments in Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organization - the case which is primed to overturn Roe v. Wade and enable abortion bans in more than half the states in the US. Mentioned in this conversation: Will Supreme Court conservatives overturn Roe? Their casual contempt for women is not a good sign by Amanda Marcotte on Salon. Then, Coco talks to Paul Street about the state of fascism and the state of fascism denial as we near the close of 2021. Paul Street is the author of ten books including his latest, This Happened Here: Neoliberals, Amerikaners, and the Trumping of America, which is about to be published. Follow his work at paulstreet.org. We really can't overstate the importance of having a presence in the streets – in the public square – over the next few months. Much is made of the 8/10 Americans who support Roe v Wade. But it's meaningless to simply state that without backing it up. The history of fascism has shown us that dominating the public square and the public discourse – whether or not they have majority opinion on their side, goes a long way in determining whether fascism prevails or not. 8/10 obedient Americans are no obstacle to these Christian fascists. But 8/10 people in the streets – even 5/10 waging a sustained, non-violent struggle to say hell no, you're not slamming women back to the days of back alley abortions and forced pregnancy, this makes it known to the whole world who the majority is and what they're willing to put on the line. Send your comments to samanthagoldman@refusefascism.org or @SamBGoldman. Or leave a voicemail at 917-426-7582. Connect with the movement at RefuseFascism.org and support: Venmo: @Refuse-Fascism Cashapp: @RefuseFascism paypal.me/refusefascism donate.refusefascism.org Music for this episode: Penny the Snitch by Ikebe Shakedown. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/refuse-fascism/message
Vendégünk Azahriah, napjaink egyik legnépszerűbb hazai előadója. Beszélgettünk YouTube karrierjéről (Paul Street) , a magyar zenéről és az MTV EMA díjátadós élményeiről.
Summary: The church in Corinth was going through an identity crisis, comprised of people going through their own identity crises. We too live in a culture that obsesses over identity. Who am I? How do I fit in this world? "Identity" language is the heart language of our culture. We base our identity on our sexuality, politics, dietary preferences, work out routine. We want to be known for our education, career accomplishments, where we live, what we own. The Apostle Paul addressed the Corinthians with relevant lessons for us as well.Audio Transcript: This media has been made available by Mosaic Boston Church. If you'd like to check out more resources, learn about Mosaic Boston and our neighborhood churches, or donate to this ministry, please visit Mosaicboston.com.Hello, welcome to Mosaic church. My name is Jan, I'm one of the pastors here at Mosaic. If you're new, if you're visiting, welcome. We're so glad you're here, and we'd love to connect with you if you'd like to connect with us. We do that officially through the connection card in the worship guide. If you fill it out legibly and then toss it into the offering basket after, we'll be sure to get in touch with you over the course of the week. Also, if you today for the very first time, respond to the gospel and choose to become a Christian, you can check that off and let us know. If you're interested in baptism, if you have any prayer requests, that's the place to do it.One announcement I will highlight, we have a members meeting today. If you are a member of Mosaic or becoming a member today and you've been notified by us, we have the meeting from 1:00 to 3:00 PM. If you had no idea, then you clearly haven't been listening for awhile.But still, glad you're here and you have time at the end of the service. It's a potluck, really important. You got to bring a meal. If you don't have one, you can run to Whole Foods. Five minute walk, rotisserie chickens, $7.99. If you choose, there's an organic version for $9.99 and people would really appreciate that. With that said, would you please pray with me over the preaching of God's word? Heavenly Father, I pray that you today remind us that if we are your children, if we are Christians, if we are blood-bought, sanctified, set apart for you, that you have given us your name, the name above all names, the name of Jesus Christ, that we carry Christ in our name, that we are Christians. I pray, Lord, that you remind us that though the world bombard us with ideas of who we are, who we should be, how we should live and try to form and shape our identity, I pray that you remind us that your voice is authoritative over all voices. Because we are yours. We are defined by you. You love us. Therefore, when you tell us how we are, to live who we are, it's because you want the best for us.I pray Holy Spirit, as we hear perhaps some hard truths, that we do wrestle instead of just rejecting it and perhaps walking out. I pray that we wrestle with these truth, and wrestle with the foundation what is truth? Whose truth is more authoritative than another's truth, and that all trues are not equal. I pray that you show us that your truth is above all truth, and that we are to walk in a manner worthy of the gospel of Jesus Christ. Holy Spirit, come prepare our hearts to hear, to think, to meditate, to ruminate, and to be transformed by your word. We pray this in Christ's name. Amen. So we're beginning a sermon series, which will take us through the end of the summer, in the epistle to the Corinthians, First Corinthians, and we are calling this series Prodigal Church. Why Prodigal Church, why that name? It's because the church in Corinth is a brand new church that Saint Paul had planted in the year 49 AD. His strategy was to go to city centers. He believed that if you reach the city center, which is most influential, you can actually transform not just the city, but all of society. As the city goes, so does the nation. So does the society, the culture. So he planted that church. Then he goes to Ephesus, spends three years in Ephesus. As he's in Ephesus, he hears that the church in Corinth isn't doing well. They have begun to capitulate to the culture. The voices of the culture have begun to become authoritative in the church. Instead of creating a new culture, and transforming and redeeming the culture from within, they're beginning to look like the culture. So he writes this letter. Just to set the context. Corinth, though millennia removed from us, is very similar to Boston. Why? Because though we have advanced in technology, education and medicine, the human heart has not changed. The human heart still has the same sinful tendencies and proclivities. Something about Corinth that we are to know, it's incredibly diverse, incredibly influential. It's thriving into world-class city. It's the center of education, of commerce, of educational and technological advancement. It's very sophisticated. It's a place of excellence, where people go, and because of the high level of competition, they need to up their game and level up. It's also a place of mobility and transients. People come and go. People coming from all over the world, and bringing new ideas that vie for the attention of the people that live there.One ancient visitor described the city of Corinth by saying, "The sordidness of the rich and the misery of the poor were extraordinary. Abounding in luxuries, but inhabited by an ungracious people." That sounds familiar. It's people from all over the Roman Empire, coming to make a name for themselves, to make a life for themselves. Like Boston, there's only a small percentage of Christians. It's largely a Godless city.It's a city that is, has been inundated with materialism and consumerism, worship of sports and entertainment. There's games very similar to the Olympic games. There's lots of competing religions and ideas. There's a postmodern pragmatism there, were universals don't matter. That truth doesn't matter, it's all relative as long as you make a living for yourself, make a name for yourself. When people have affluence, when they have money and they have margin in their life, what happens is, they sometimes are prone to substance abuse and drunkenness. We see that in this city, and even in the church itself. It's also a city that was largely dominated by sexual morality and all kinds of debauchery, sensuality of city life. There's a great temple of Aphrodite at the top of the Hill, where the priestesses were actually prostitutes. Below was a temple to Apollo that celebrated homosexuality. The word Corinthianize became a verb, to describe all kinds of perversion.So, the Christians are under immense pressure. "How do we live out our faith in this place? Do we leave? Do we move out?" Saint Paul says, "No, I want you to stay here. I want you to influence the city. But first of all, you need to be influenced by something other than the city, other than the voices around you. You need to be influenced by God's word. Let God's word shape you, transform you from the inside." So, today we're going to look at First Corinthians chapter one, verses one through nine. Would you look at the text with me?"Paul, called by the will of God to be an apostle of Christ Jesus, and our brother Sosthenes, to the church of God that is in Corinth, to those sanctified in Christ Jesus, called to be saints together with all those who in every place call upon the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, both our Lord and theirs:"Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ. I give thanks to my God always for you because of the grace of God that was given you in Christ Jesus, that in every way you were enriched in him in all speech and all knowledge. Even as the testimony about Christ was confirmed among you, so that you are not lacking in any gift, as you wait for the revealing of our Lord Jesus Christ, who will sustain you to the end, guiltless in the day of our Lord Jesus Christ. God is faithful, by whom you were called into the fellowship of his Son, Jesus Christ our Lord. " This is the reading of God's word, is inerrant, infallible, authoritative word. May He write these truths upon our hearts. We'll frame up our time with three points. We'll talk about an identity of received, not achieved. Then an identity received, not attained. And then finally, Identity received, but not alone. First, identity received, not achieved. We live in a culture that obsesses with identity. Identity language is the heart language of our society. We begin to look at desires within, and as we express those desires, begin to think that's who I am and take on a certain label. Be it our sexuality, our politics, dietary preferences, workout routine, straight, gay, bi, male, female, other, liberal, libertarian, environmentalist, vegetarian, vegan, carnivore, runner, CrossFitter, what have you.We want to be known for our education bumper sticker. We want to be known for our career. Check out my resume, the companies I work for or have worked for. Where we live, my zip code. What I own, the car, the brand that I drive. The brand name clothes that we wear. How many followers we have on social media. How big our cloud and our platform. After a while we become products of the names that we attached to ourselves. Like your neighbors Subaru, with all the bumper stickers on the back. You don't even know what half of them mean. They define us. We long not just to make a name for ourselves, we long to name ourselves. We long to define ourselves. Why? Where does that impulse come? It's from our culture. Our culture says, "Repudiate any oppressive voices that tell you who you are and how you should live. Reject all that you find your identity by looking deep inside of yourself. Construct your own identity." By the way, this starts really early. I've got four daughters and they watch the Disney movies. Sometimes you sit through them with a worldview analysis, and you're like, "Huh." Hey, look, every single one of these new Disney movies, the message is, "Don't listen to Mom and Dad, listen to yourself. Listen to the voices within. You do you. You become what you want to be." Frozen, Moana and et cetera, et cetera. "Don't listen to mom and dad. Listen to us, Disney. Buy more." That's really the goal. It doesn't matter what your community says. It doesn't matter what your loved one say. If you read stories and watch movies from even a couple of decades ago, the narrative of a heroic story, the heroic narrative was a person sacrifices themselves for a group of people, for family or a team or a community. Now the heroic narrative is, "I'm going to sacrifice my family, and my relationships and my community to be the person who I want to be to express myself."That's one of the reasons why families, communities and the country is eroding. In the past, people would have sex and make a lot of money in order to build a family in the community. Now you do in order to express yourself, at the expense of whatever. Be true to yourself, be your authentic self. What do you want to do? Who do you want to be? You do you, unless you're a serial killer. That's always the big unless, don't be that person. You can be anything you want to be. I used to listen to that in elementary school. I'm like, "Yeah, I'm going to be anything I want to be." Then I found out that to be president of the United States, you've gotta be born here. I was like, "What else is left?" Vice-president, can't do that either. I can't be Tom Brady. You cannot be anything you want to be, that's a lie. So we set out on a path to find ourselves, obeying our desires. I told my dad when I was in college, said, "Pop, I think I'm going to take a year off and go find myself in Europe. I'm going to backpack through Europe." My dad's super old school. He's from the Soviet union. His name's Vladimir. He said, "Find yourself? What you say? You right here, I found you and I save you the $30,000. Get back to work." That's my dad. My dad, Vlad, and I worked in Vlad's painting, his company. "If your house looks bad, don't get mad. Call Vlad."Here's the problem. The problem with finding yourselves by looking within, and looking at the desires within, "What do I want to do," is we have competing desires. Often contradictory, incompatible, they don't harmonize. On the one hand, you want to be married. On the other hand, you want to be single. On the one hand, you want to have kids. On the other hand, you want to travel the world. Those don't mesh together. If you have this pipe dream of traveling the world with your kids, I'll give you my youngest. Drive around with her around Brookline for 20 minutes. You'll come back and like, "No. No more contradictory desires. I only have one, not kids." I want to be fit. I also want to eat pizza. I want a six-pack and I want a six-pack of beer. Contradictory, they don't work together.Then also, our desires are not stable. They change with time. Who am I? Who am I now? Who do I want to be in five years? In 10 years? When I was 20, I would look back at myself when I was 15 in high school. There was this whole thing about being a skater or a rollerblader. Later the skaters wore JNCO jeans, the rollerbladers wore tighter jeans. I was like, "Yeah, I'm a rollerblader, that's the way it is." That's I look back, I'm like, "What an idiot. That's such a terrible idea."When I was in college, I looked back on myself when I was in high school. My high school senior picture, it's a picture of me with frosted tips, because that was all the rage. I look back and like, "What an idiot." When I was 25, I looked back at myself in college. I'm like, "No, what were you thinking?" Some of you, do that experience, you look back just five years. That keeps going. When you're 30, you look back at your time in college. I'm like, "Why did I major in art history? Why did I take on so much debt, et cetera, et cetera." That doesn't stop. You know what the common denominator in all of those is? It's you, and you're an idiot. You're your own problem. I'm my own problem. Therefore, we can't find the identity by looking within. You can't attain a stable identity.Here's what happens when we look to something for our identity, to answer the question, who am I? When we idolize an identity, it becomes an idol. You would get to sacrifice everything there is: time, money, health, relationships. In order to get that thing, attain that thing, it becomes a tyrant over your life. You're enslaved to it. Here's the problem. Problem is, if you get it, you realize it's dissatisfying. This is the whole midlife crisis. What's that all about? It's a lot of people, who have given themselves to pursue an idol that is an identity. when they get it, they realize it doesn't satisfy. "Now I need to upgrade my spouse, my car, my career." It doesn't satisfy. If we don't get it, then we are absolutely crushed, and we exchange one yoke for another. This is where the gospel of Jesus Christ comes in and says, "Your truest identity, who you are, can never be achieved. You can't do enough. It must be received as a gift by the grace of God. You can't name yourself. You're not autonomous. You're not an island unto yourself. You are derived. This is what 1 Corinthians 1:1 begins with. "Paul, called by the will of God to be an apostle."Who's Paul? Was that his birth name? No, his birth name was Saul. He used to be Saul of Tarsus, and he worked hard to build an identity in two cultures. He was a citizen of the Roman Empire, and then he was also a Hebrew of Hebrews, as he says. He was Jewish, and he pursued an identity through education. Ends up getting the highest form of PhD that you possibly can, studied under Professor Gamaliel in Jerusalem. He looked at culture for his identity, his nation, his achievements, his education. Philippians 3:4-6, he says, "Though I myself have reason for confidence in the flesh," I can look within to justify myself, to build an identity. He says, "If anyone else thinks he has reason for confidence in the flesh, I have more: circumcised on the eighth day," So, fulfilled all the laws, "Of the people of Israel, of the tribe of Benjamin, a Hebrew of Hebrews; as to the law, a Pharisee; as to zeal, a persecutor of the church; as to righteousness under the law, blameless." That's my identity. Then he persecutes Christians terrorizes the church. Jesus Christ meets him on the road to Damascus, saves him. Says, "You are mine." "Saul, Saul, why are you persecuting me?" Not just my church, but me. That's how intimately Jesus connects Himself to the church. Saves him. Blinds them for three days, so Saul has time to think and repent. Finally, gives him vision, both spiritually and physically. He named him and then he renamed him. This is what God does. Whom are we allowed to name? I can't just walk around to you guys and be like, "I got a new name for you. I got a nickname," to you. You'd be like, "You have no authority over me." We get to name dogs and children, that's about it. In the Bible God names people, and then He renames them. Abram, your Abraham. Sarai, you're Sarah, Jacob, you're Israel. Peter, you're no longer Simon. Now you're Peter. Saul, you are Paul. Which shows us that the most significant question when it comes to identity, is not, "Who am I?" but, "Who's am I? To whom do I belong?" John 10:3, Jesus said, "The sheep, my sheep, hear his voice. The voice of the good shepherd, and he calls his own sheep by name and leads them out." Our names matter to God. God knows our names. God says that our names, once we are his children, once we are saved by grace through faith, our names are graven on his hands with what? With nail marks. That our names are written in the Book of Life, in pencil? No, in the blood of Jesus Christ. He knows our names.He changes our identity when we come to Him. I can't wait in heaven to know when my real name is. I despise my name. It's Jan, spelled J-A-N. It's bad in any culture, it's so bad. I would go Dunkin donuts, they don't ask your name. But the coffee's terrible, so I got to keep going to Starbucks, and they keep butchering my name. The mobile ordering is really helping, but still.Scripture says that salvation and a rightful relationship with God, is allowing God to define you. It says, "I define you. I'm your Lord." Therefore, sin? Sin is when I defined myself. Søren Kierkegaard, the Danish theologian, he said this, that sin is building your identity, your fundamental identity, the core of who you are. You build it on anything, other than God. What it means is, you find your greatest meaning, significance, security, worth and value in something other than God. Your whole life revolves around that, and you're willing to sacrifice anything to get that. Scripture says when we come to God, we can throw off our functional saviors.We all have, and have had, functional health. A functional hell of joblessness. If I get this job, it becomes a functional savior. It becomes your ultimate. A functional hell of singleness. If I find a relationship, a spouse, then that's a functional savior. You can fill in the blank.God says, "Stop. Stop pursuing things that won't satisfy. Receive a name." When we come to Jesus Christ by grace through faith, we received the name above all names, an everlasting name, the name of Christ. We are now called Christians. When we're born again, we're adopted into the family of God. If you're adopted, whose family do you take? The family name. Jesus is the bridegroom, we are the bride. Whose name do we take? His name. We weren't a people. Now we become God's people. 1 Corinthians 1:2-3, he reminds them what happened to them. "To the church of God that is in Corinth, to those sanctified in Christ Jesus," and the word here for sanctified isn't referring to sanctification, progressive holiness. It's referring, to you've been set apart. Therefore, he calls them to be saints. "You're saints together with all those who in every place call upon the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, both their Lord and ours."So how our sins forgiven, how are we redeemed? How are we justified and sanctified? How does God atone for our sins? How does He make us his? Through the call upon Jesus Christ. "Call upon Christ, "he says. It doesn't take much work to call. He says, "Just look to Christ in prayer. Call out to him, ask for forgiveness, repent of sins. Then He gives you grace, and he gives you peace." And now we're saints.It used to take work to call people. You watch movies from the '50s and '60s, it took a lot of work to call people. I remember growing up with a rotary phone, with the little circle, and you hated the people with the zero in their phone number. Like, "Yeah, yeah." you gotta go all the way. Nowadays, you open your phone, you hit the app. Call, got it. He says, "Call." Look to the Lord Jesus Christ. This is how salvation happens. He redeems us from all our sins. Gives us a brand new heart. Once he gives us that new heart, then the next process comes at this point too: identity received, but attained. We can't achieve salvation. We can't redeem ourselves. We can't pay for our sins. He gives it to us by grace through faith. Scripture talks about the fact that we're born of a sinful nature, and apart from Jesus Christ, we have a rock of stone. It's numb toward God, desensitized toward God. When we come to Him, through repentance and faith, He gives us a brand new heart. He fills it with the Holy spirit. Then the rest of the teaching is, that we are to allow that heart to permeate, to transform every aspect of our being.The Psalmist says in Psalm 119:32, "I will run in all of your commandments, if you enlarge my heart." This is the next step. What's the basic human problem? What's wrong with us, basically? whatever. Whatever you think is fundamentally wrong with us, and it's absolutely clear that something is, then your solution is an answer to that question. If you think that the basic problem with us is intellectual, then the basic solution to that problem is education. If you think that the problem is psychological, then it's counseling or therapy that's the answer. If you believe that basic problem is physical, we need a prescription, we need some pills. If you believe that the basic problem is ethical, well, we need to teach people morality. If you think it's circumstantial, that it's a person circumstance that shapes who they are fundamentally, then we just change all of that.We just need a little TLC, a slap on a fresh coat of paint, change the law, fix the curb appeal. Scripture says from a biblical perspective, no, it's deeper. That our house, the house of our life, is rotten to the core. We don't just need a paint job. We need to be transformed from the inside out. We need to be gutted down to the studs. We need a rewiring from the very inside. We need a new heart.God gives us that new heart, and then He says, "Now allow it to take over. Fill it with the Holy Spirit. Fill it with God's word." How? How are we transformed? Biblically speaking, it's by knowing Christ, loving Christ, deepening our affections for Christ. That's ultimately what allows us to attain who we are, be who we are. How does St. Paul help the church in Corinth be who they are? Live out their new identity. If you read the epistle to Corinthians, and we will read it, there's some really crazy stuff that goes on. You're like, "I can't believe that's going on in the Bible." You get to chapter five, and a guy is sleeping with his mom. You get to chapter 11, and he says people are getting drunk at the communion table. What is going on in this church? St. Paul from the get-go, he doesn't start by giving them a list of how to fix themselves. He's not saying, "Cut it out. Stop it, period!" He says, "No." He says, "You haven't understood who you are. You haven't allowed the gospel to take root in your heart." I don't know if you noticed, in the first nine verses, he uses the name of Jesus Christ nine times.He flips it around every once in a while, so it's not too redundant. It's Jesus Christ, Christ Jesus, Lord Jesus Christ over and over. The first chapter, 21 times. Because, what's he saying? He's saying, "Your problems are within. Your solution is outside of you." We live in a therapeutic age, more so than any other age. I'm not knocking therapy. Therapy often is needed, and counseling is needed. But fundamentally, the solution to our problems is not within, no matter how complex, no matter how intractable. Sometimes our greatest need is to take our gaze off our needs, and we looked at Jesus Christ. So God's agenda in this book, is to strip out all the old tangled, confused wiring that the world has implanted. And rewire our spiritual systems entirely, with the clear truth of the gospel. Who was Christ? He is God. He's man. He's come down, lived the perfect life that we could not live, would not live. Then he goes to a cross to atone for our sins, comes back from the dead to verify that his atonement was accepted. When we realize that's what it took to save us from our sins, to save us from everything that's going on. And that God's willing to take it, his love fills our hearts, begins to melt away the hardness.What he's saying here in the very beginning is, it's pointing to their identity. "You've been sanctified. You are saints. You have called upon God, continue to call upon God. Therefore, dear Christian, you are not fundamentally a sinner. You are fundamentally a Saint." Martin Luther encapsulated by saying, "[foreign language 00:26:27]." You're simultaneously justified, though a sinner. He doesn't start with the center part. Fundamentally, our nature has changed. Now, be who you are. Before St. Paul gets into the criticism, he spends time just thanking God for them. Verse four, "I give thanks to my God always for you because of the grace of God that was given you in Christ Jesus, that in every way you were enriched in him in all speech and all..." He's giving thanks to God, even for the Christians who are not living like Christians. We'll get to them later. As I was preparing, I was like, is that like saying, "No offense," and then you proceed to say something really offensive. Or, "With all due respect," then, here's the insult. Or down South it's, "Bless your heart." Is that what he's doing? No, he starts off with saying, "Look, I thank God for you. I just want to recognize the work of God in you. I see God's fruit." Before the criticism comes.This is a huge lesson here. Every time after I preach, my wife comes up to me. She comes to the first day, comes up to me with a list. I'm like, "Baby, I know the list. I can tell you the list myself. I already..." She said, "It's great sermon." I'll take that. But before we go in with criticism, "I love you. I care about you. That's why I'm saying this." That's how God speaks into us. His love is not diametrically opposed to his truth. They're together, it's a loving truth and a true love. He begins by saying, "God saved you. The grace of God was given to you in Christ, in every way. You are enriched in Him. You're not lacking in any gift whatsoever." In verse eight, he says one of the most profound truths in all of Holy scripture. He says, "God will sustain you to the end. God will sustain you to the end, guiltless in the day of our Lord Jesus Christ." It's a doctrine of perseverance of the saints. Once you're saved, you're always persevering to the end. That God will not let you go. God, the Father, doesn't lose any children. Jesus Christ, the bridegroom, doesn't lose his bride. Even when she goes wayward, He continues to pursue.How does he do this? Well, he begins by saying in verse six, "The testimony about Christ was confirmed among you." What's the testimony about Christ? It's God's word. It's the gospel. It was confirmed among you, meaning it self-authenticates. So sometimes people ask, "How do you know that the Bible is God's word?" Well, if you read it with a receptive heart, the Holy Spirit speaks to you, self-authenticates. He confirms that among you. Then verse eight he says, "Who will sustain," the word confirm and sustain is the same word in the Greek. So what are you saying St. Paul? Paul is saying, the same word that God used to save you, is the same word that God uses to sustain you, to keep you in the faith. That's how faith came in, the implanted Word of God, and that's what sustains our faith. Jesus Christ said, "Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceeds from the mouth of God."In Roman Catholicism, what's at the center of the worship service? It's mass. Why? Because they believed that's what changes you, that's what transforms you. You go to a charismatic church, what's at the center of the worship service? It's worship song, after worship song after worship song, and then there's a 15 minute sermon, and then more worship. Why? Because they believe what transforms you is an ecstatic experience.At Mosaic, if you haven't noticed, and in like-minded churches, we believe that person is transformed by the living word of God. This is why we focus on the preaching of God's word. Holy Scripture says, this is the emphasis, God is at work by his word. Be transformed by the renewing of your mind. Jesus Christ said, "Sanctify them with the truth. Your word is truth."The Westminster Larger Catechism and point 155 says this, "The spirit of God makes the reading but especially the preaching of the word an effectual means of enlightening, convincing, and humbling sinners, of driving them out of themselves, drawing them into Christ, of conforming them to his image. Subduing them to his will, strengthening them against temptations and corruptions, of building them up in grace, establishing their hearts in holiness and comfort through faith unto salvation.He uses the word to save and to sustain. And, what's the basis for the promise that once you're a Christian, God will get you to the end. God is going to save us in the end. 1 Corinthians 1:9, "God is faithful, by whom you were called into the fellowship of his Son, Jesus Christ our Lord."Why is the faithfulness of God at stake in the perseverance of those whom he calls? If the call to Christ is an open invitation, like coming to a wedding, then God isn't obliged to keep you from leaving if you don't like it. He connects the call with God's faithfulness, because his call is the outworking of his choice that we should be brought to his glory. His call is an effectual call. When He calls you, we can't but respond. Because he has sovereignty over the call, he has sovereignty over sustaining us.This is Romans 8:29-30, "For those whom he foreknew he also predestined to be conformed to the image of his Son." Before the foundation of the world, Ephesians says. That God predestined us, He elected us, "In order that we might be the firstborn among many brothers. And those whom He predestined," past tense. "He also called," past tense. "Those whom He called the also justified," past tense. "And those whom he justified, he also glorified," past tense.When does glorification happen? It happens in heaven. Why is it used the past tense? Because he says it's that sure. When God saves us, he saves us for life and that's an incredible word of blessing. Jesus Christ is our Lord. He defines us. He owns us. He loves you. He knows you. He knows what's best for you. Therefore, when He speaks with an authoritative voice, it's a voice of a father. It's a voice of a father who has given everything, in order to pour out his love in you. How does God tell us what he wants? How does God help us attain who we are? By his Holy spirit, through his Holy scriptures? Case in point, verse one, 1 Corinthians 1:1, what does Paul begin with? And he doesn't begin every epistle like this. He says, "Paul called by the will of God to be an apostle of Christ Jesus, and our brother Sosthenes."First thing he begins with, is his credentials. He contrasts his credentials, "Called to be an apostle by the will of God," with a brother named Sosthenes. Meaning we're both Christians, on the same level as Christians, but God has different levels of authority. Why Paul, are you an apostle? Who made you an apostle? It's the will of God. He's saying, "God told me who's I am, who I am and what I am to do."What he's saying is that, "As I speak to you, my words are not equivalent to the words of just a friend in an email, where it's just an opinion." It's not a text message from a guy named Paul. What he's saying is, "I am a mouthpiece for God himself. Therefore, be careful in just rejecting it as an opinion. Rejecting it as an interpretation." I say this, because this is important. When I, when I get up to preach God's word and Boston, Massachusetts, 2019 I know that many of you do not agree with me. I know some of the first service people got up during the service. Now my question to you is, when you say, "I don't agree with what Pastor Jan said," was that pastor Jan's opinion, or was that from God's word? If it's from God's word, then we need to humbly submit that's the ultimate authority. If we don't want to submit, you're submitting to some other voices, the voices of the culture, we're all being discipled by some... There's actually a lot of churches, and I say this, there's a lot of Christians and there's a lot of so-called churches that that reject Paul's writings.Case in point, there's a church on St. Paul Street, called St. Paul's Episcopal Church. I know they reject Saint Paul's writings, because the Reverend, Reverend... I won't say names, you can Google it later. It says that the Reverend there and his husband live in Brookline. It's clear that that church rejected the writings of St. Paul, and instead has replaced it with authoritative voices from the culture, from society. So the question, whatever sins you're wrestling with, be it same sex attraction or any kind of sin. When we talk about looking inside to develop your identity, to figure out who you are, if you are not taking God's word as authoritative to filter which desires are from God and which aren't, which desires are to be commended and followed, and which art to be repented of, than something else is more authoritative. This is why Saint Paul begins there. Then finally, an identity received, not alone. Here's what I mean. Sometimes we don't realize how much our culture has impacted us, because it happens unbeknownst to us. Our community affects our identity much more than we think. Sometimes we think that we develop our own identity, and we don't realize that we're actually influenced by the people around us. Since we have many desires, competing, contradictory, why are we choosing to express some and suppress others, and who gets to decide.Case in point, Tim Keller wrote this book recently called Preaching to a Skeptical Culture. He's got this example about how culture influences the desires that we pursue. He says, "Imagine a Viking in the year 800 AD living in a warrior honor-shame culture." Whenever I imagine Vikings, I imagine beautiful beards, flowing locks, walking around with a sword. "And he's got two contradictory impulses inside. One is aggression. The culture that he's in says, "Yes, that's who we are. We raid, we pillage, we're Vikings," Then he's got another desire and impulse, and it's same sex attraction. His culture says, "No, that's not who we are. We suppress that."Now imagine the same person in Boston, Massachusetts, 2019." Same beard, probably same outfit, same hairstyle, lumbersexual. "Imagine that person has the same two impulses, aggression on the one end and our culture says, 'No, that's wrong. You need therapy and counseling for that.' And same sex attraction on the other hand. The culture says, 'No, that's who you are.' And he says, 'That's who I am.'"We are not authoritative when we say, "This is who I am." Actually, when we looked into ourselves, we're influenced actually more by the culture and our peers. This is why peer groups, friend groups, often look very similar. Why? Because we're social beings. and our identity is shaped by our community. This is the irony. In an attempt to find our unique, authentic self, we begin looking like everybody else. We began thinking like everybody else. Thinking the same about sexuality, gender, politics, finances, et cetera, et cetera. Meaning, life and death. that's what happened with the church in Corinth, and that's why Saint Paul writes this letter, not to individuals. He writes the letter to a church and he's saying, "You have been individually influenced, and as a church you've been influenced by the culture. You've been influenced by the people around you, instead of helping one another be accountable to the teaching of Holy scripture." That's why in verse two, he says, "The church of God that is in Corinth, to those sanctified in Christ Jesus, called to be saints together with all those who in every place call upon the name of Jesus Christ." He talks about the church, universal. He says, "The church, all those who call on the Lord." This is all Christians that have ever existed, will ever exist and currently exist. But then he also says, "There's a church locally," express locally. He says it by saying, "That church of God in Corinth," in this particular city, "And the saints who are in every place." What he's trying to say is, that our identity needs to be shaped by the gospel and by one another. As Christians covenant together, they hold one another accountable to God's scriptures.So the question that's before us is, do we love God's church universally? But then also, in the local expression uses the word ecclesia. This is the assembly, this is the church. He doesn't say the church of St. Paul and Corinth, the church of the leaders in Corinth, the church of the members in Corinth. No, it's God's church. Therefore, God gets to set the agenda. And they're called to be Holy. Separately, yes, but also together. "You together call upon the name of grace." If some Christians believe that they were Christians in Corinth, and were not part of this congregation in a meaningful covenantal way, they would've missed God's word for themselves, would have missed this letter. The doctrine of the church is called ecclesiology. Many of us don't have a good ecclesiology because we actually don't even know what that word means. It's doctrine of the church. At Mosaic, we believe in teaching theology as we teach Holy scripture, and using hard words because you guys are wicked smart. Then, also, if Starbucks can teach you to order a frappuccino, then we can teach you some words like propitiation and ecclesiology. What does ecclesiology? It's the study of the church, and this is really important. Why should the church locally and universally be important to us? Because Jesus is important to us. What's important to Jesus, what Jesus loves, should be important to us. Jesus Christ, the scripture says, founded the church. Jesus Christ didn't just found the church, he marries the church.There's a lot of Christians who today say, "I love Jesus. I don't love his bride. I don't love his wife." Can you imagine anything more insulting? That's like saying, "Jesus, you're the man. Let's hang out. Your wife, what were you thinking? I know it seemed like a good idea at the time, but man, she's got personality issues. No." Jesus says, "I know, working on it."Purchased with his blood, it's intimately identified with him. "Saul, Saul, why are you persecuting my... no. Why are you persecuting me?" The church is the body of Christ. The church is the dwelling place of the spirit. It's the instrument to which God gets the gospel out, and glorifies him. Jesus prays for the church. He sacrifices himself for the church. He serves the church. He attends the church, Revelation says that he attends through the gospel ministry in every church, and he builds it up. Do you?Is the church as important to you, as it is to Jesus Christ? If I'm a child of God, then I have brothers and sisters who are different than me. Regardless of worldly status, gender, race, nationality. Christian formation cannot happen, apart from Christian community. If you're not growing in your faith, you say, "I'm really having a hard time." I'll ask you a couple questions. "Are you reading God's word on a regular basis, and are you plugged into a gospel proclaiming church?" Community isn't optional, it's essential. I've never met a healthy, maturing, strong Christian who cares nothing for God's church locally. I've never met that person. God gives us the church, in order to form our personal and corporate identity. One of the problems with talking about church, and talking about the identity that's formed corporately, the disservices from the English language when we read the gospels for the word you, there's only one word. You singular, you plural, it's one word. Other languages, Russian, the romance language, it's helpful, that differentiates. When you read the gospel, you're like, "Oh, God's talking to everybody." Other parts of the country are really helpful here. Here we have you, down South we've got all y'all. Other parts of the country, you've got yous guys. When St. Paul is writing this letter, it's plural you, plural you, plural you. If he wants to call someone out, he calls someone out by name, plural you. He's writing this letter to you who are being sanctified. To you, who together call upon the name of God. Jesus Christ said, "I will be with you in the great commission, when you together go baptizing, preaching the name of Jesus Christ." Christian proclamation makes the gospel audible. But the gospel community, the church makes it visible. I hear this, people come to Mosaic. You look around, you're like, "There are so many Christians, and they look sane. They look normal. They're not crazy. They're worshiping Jesus. Huh." It's one of the greatest apologetics, that we have in our culture. If you say, "Look, I'm just looking for a good church, I'm just shopping around." My question is always, "What do you mean by a good church?" Usually people mean a church without defects. Whenever I go into a church, I've got this problem and perhaps you do too. You go in, and you notice the defects immediately. If that defect is all that you focused on, obviously you're going to have to go somewhere else, and there's defects there too. You don't do this with human being. You don't go up to a human being, and there's a glaring defect. You're like, "Yeah, I don't like you because of that. When people go up to me after the service, and they say, "Oh Pastor Jan, can you pray for me?" Or, et cetera, et cetera. The very first thing that they noticed, and I can tell because they're staring at it, is my huge crooked nose. I've got a massive nose, and it's crooked because of rugby accident in college. It didn't look better before that. My youngest daughter has inherited the same nose, and my wife said, "Do not elaborate that theme, so I won't." But, that would be rude. In the same way, God knows our glaring faults. But God is a good God, and he's working on that.Finally, I'll ask the question, "What qualifies as a church?" Perhaps you're here in the city, your church shopping or you're gonna move somewhere else. What qualifies as a church? Kanye West, I don't know if you noticed recently, he's holding up pop-up church service experiences. He called it Sunday Service. He had one on Easter Sunday, the last day of the Coachella Music Festival. His wife Kim Kardashian describes it like this. "There's no praying, there's no sermon, there's no word. There's just music, and it's just a feeling." Obviously, he's promoting his new album. It's more promotion than piety. NPR had this thing on him, and this is what they said. "There's always the sense though, that he might worship God but never serve him. He always seemed like God in the end, would always serve him. He is the church. He is the text of the sermon. It's just his songs. He is the worship. He is creating a church in himself, and selling it."Selling Holy scripture gives us marks, of what a true church is. Does the church systematically preach God's word? Does the church attempt to live out God's word, not read it and say, "Yeah, we don't agree with that." Does the church practice the sacraments, baptism and the Lord's Supper? Does the church have qualified leadership? 1 Timothy 3, Titus 1.Hebrews 13:17 "Obey your leaders, submit to them, for they are keeping watch over your souls, as those who will have to give an account. Let them do this with joy and not with groaning, for that would be of no advantage to you." Now, he's not saying obey every spiritual authority. Because we've got to test the spirits, and discern if that authority is from God. But every Christian needs to be under spiritual authority, every single Christian. If you're not under spiritual authority, I would ask, why? Usually, when people don't want to commit to a church, and don't want to commit to a community of believers, it's because they know that their sin will be exposed. But that's God's grace, to expose our sin, and to give grace to help us repent and be transformed. Are you your own spiritual authority? If so, you've usurped God's authority, and you are speaking as God.Then finally, an objection that I hear often about joining a church and committing is, "I don't learn anything new. I don't learn anything from the people in the community group. I don't need them. I've grown past that point." Well, first of all, if you have grown in your maturity in the faith, the most important thing you could do is help someone else mature in the faith the most. You're like, "They're not meeting our needs." Sometimes our greatest needs is to lose focus, and stop being preoccupied with our needs.Then finally, we do need community. Every single one of us, no matter how mature you are. Hebrews 3:12-13, "Take care, brothers," he's talking about Christians, brethren. "Less there be in any of you an evil, unbelieving heart," Christians, "Leading you to fall away from the living God." How do we fight that evil, unbelieving heart? "Exhort one another every day, as long as it's called "today" that none of you may be hardened by the deceitfulness of sin."God knows where week, and in his grace, in his kindness, He says, "Well, you don't have to do it alone." So what's your next step in growing in greater community involvement, and perhaps at Mosaic. Now, Mosaic will help you find a great church here, or wherever you're moving. Perhaps it's regular attendance. We need God's word and we need fellowship with other Christians. Perhaps it's joining a community group, perhaps it's serving and perhaps it's membership. I'll close with this. John Calvin said, "Nearly all wisdom we possess, that is to say true and sound wisdom, consists of two parts. The knowledge of God, and the knowledge of ourselves." Some of us, we can't get over what's happened to us in our past, and our past is defining our present. Some of us willing to live in the present, and who we are, is who am I today? Then the future catches me off guard.The way that we establish a true, robust, solid, stable identity, is by knowing God, and knowing ourselves as we know God. He says, "I am who He says I am. 1 Corinthians 1:7, "So that you are not lacking in any gifts, as you wait for the revealing of our Lord Jesus Christ." Don't look to your past, don't look to your present. Look to your future, when Jesus Christ will be revealed. When he's revealed, we'll see him face-to-face, know himself perfectly and ourselves. But in the meantime, he's given us his Holy Spirit, his Holy scriptures and his Holy Church, for to know him and to know our selves. Amen. At this time, we're going to transition to celebrating Holy Communion. Holy communion, we celebrate once a month on the very first Sunday of the month. This is a celebration for Christians, to remind ourselves and commemorate that Christ died for our sins. His body was broken, symbolized by the bread. His blood was shed symbolized by the cup. If you are not a Christian, if you're not sure where you are on your relationship with God, call out to God today, and then you're welcome to partake. If you're not a Christian, we ask that you refrain from this part of the service. It'll do nothing for you. This isn't some kind of magic. We're saved by grace through faith, and this is a way we remind ourselves of what happened. When you receive the elements, please hold onto them. Then we'll partake together we pass out the elements through little dishes, trays. Once you get the tray, take the element and then pass it on to someone next to you. With that said, would you please pray with me over Holy Communion.Heavenly Father, we thank you for the reminder that we by grace through faith are yours, and that you empower us by the spirit through grace to live out the calling that you have upon us. Jesus, we thank you for dying a gruesome death, and bearing an infinite weight of God's wrath upon yourself to save us, to make us yours, to put your name upon each one of us.I pray that you bless our time in Holy communion, send us deep repentance for all of our sin. We're all sinners. We all need grace. We all need you. We pray this in Christ's name. Amen.
The Second Circle is taking part in Scarlet Ladies' #ITalkSex campaign this week as I'm joined by three of the campaign's ambassadors, Elly, Rudo, and Kit, to delve into why silence around sex can lead to abuse and what we can do to help each other be more open. We also chat about why women are more content than men to be single and whether there's such a thing as “boring” sex.LINKSWomen prefer being single according to this piece in the Telegraph and one of of the reasons is that relationships involve more work for women than they do for men. The subject of emotional labour is also discussed in this Psychologies article as well is this excellent piece in Harper's Bazaar.“Female sexuality is not a dirty secret. It's a part of who we are.” – That's the slogan for the #ITalkSex campaign and you can read the full manifesto here.Becoming by Laura Jane Williams is available from Amazon.To find out more about Scarlet Ladies upcoming events visit www.scarletladiestalk.comWith special thanks to 23 Paul Street, a boutique strip club in Shoreditch, London, who host Scarlet Ladies events and our recording location for this episode. See www.23paulstreet.comThe Second Circle is a sex and gender politics podcast hosted by Franki Cookney. Get in touch @The2ndCircle or via our contact page. If you enjoyed the show today, why not buy me a coffee?Support the show (https://ko-fi.com/frankicookney)
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