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The session in which we discuss Rape Culture and the March to End Rape Culture (MTERC) with our guest, Arika Gold. Arika is a dedicated activist and community organizer. The MTERC is an annual event to raise awareness for Philadelphians about the widespread issues related to rape culture and what is being done to end it.  Rape Culture is ... (listen to Amanda Spitfire's poem in our bonus episode!). Also, rape culture is ... teaching girls and women to take measures to prevent rape instead of telling boys and men not to rape, light sentencing for rapists, rape jokes and people defending them, not believing people who say they were raped, street harassment, certain lyrics in pop music, support for athletes and celebrities charged with rape, blaming victims for destroying a career, blaming victims... Surely you can add to this list! The March to End Rape Culture is a safe space for survivors and inclusive of all genders, sexual orientations, abilities, ages, and races.  This year's March to End Rape Culture is scheduled for Saturday, September 28, 2019, from 11:00 am - 2:30 pm.                                  Rain or Shine at Thomas Paine Plaza (across from Love Park).  mterc.org  

Mike, who makes better coffee than Larisa, and Larisa, who is better at math than Mike, are joined in the studio by David Dylan Thomas to talk about cognitive bias. ----more----   EPISODE LINKS  daviddylanthomas.com David on Twitter David on Medium Cognitive bias - Wikipedia Hawthorne effect - Wikipedia Clever Hans - Wikipedia Orchestrating Impartiality: The Impact of“Blind” Auditions on Female Musicians Rhyme-as-reason effect - Wikipedia Plain Language Act 18F When It Comes to Gorillas, Google Photos Remains Blind The Cognitive Bias podcast Think Company Letter from Birmingham Jail - Wikipedia The Lobster The Favorite Rizzo statue will remain at Thomas Paine Plaza for now      

In this Hotwire we share the anti-fascist call from Florida to oppose Richard Spencer in Gainesville on October 19. We discuss the upcoming J20 trials in which nearly 200 protesters are charged with conspiracy for protesting the inauguration, as well as the outcome of the burning cop car case that just concluded in Paris. Considering the bullshit repression and liberal lawsuits in the wake of #Charlottesville, we make the case about why anti-fascism must mean anti-statism. We also borrow part of a great interview with Puerto Rican anarchist Frank Lopez on mutual relief efforts in the wake of Hurricane Maria. Stay tuned until the end because we have some important calls to support political prisoners, calls to support forest defenders in Oregon, political prisoner birthdays, announcements for upcoming anarchist book fairs, and the repression roundup. {October 18, 2017}     -------SHOW NOTES------   Table of Contents: Introduction {0:00} Headlines {1:42} Puerto Rico: Mutual Aid vs. the State {11:35} Anti-Fascism means Anti-Statism {18:40} J20 Trials Start Soon {23:32} Next Week's News {27:30} TOMORROW: Anti-fascists in Florida are calling for anti-racists to oppose Richard Spencer, who will speak at the University of Florida in Gainesville on Thursday, October 19. Check out this call to mobilize against white supremacists in Shelbyville, TN on October 28. If you're in the Pacific Northwest, check out this tour of pipeline saboteurs coming to a city near you: October 18th – Phoenix, OR Phoenix Branch Library 510 W 1st St, Phoenix, OR 97535 6:30 – 9:30 pm October 20th – Portland, OR First Congregational Church 1126 SW Park Ave, Portland, OR 97205 7:00 – 9:00 pm Olympia, WA Date and Location TBD October 25th – Seattle, WA Pipsqueak Gallery 173 16th Ave, Seattle, WA 98122 6:30 – 8:30 PM Upcoming anarchist book fairs: The Los Angeles Anarchist Book Fair takes place October 28 and 29 at Leimert Park Plaza. The London Anarchist Book Fair also takes place on Saturday, October 28 at Park View School. Ongoing grassroots disaster relief efforts: Florida: Mutual Aid Disaster Relief Texas: Bayou Action Street Health, Greater Houston Grassroots Relief, World on My Shoulders, Austin Common Ground, the Black Women's Defense League, Redneck Revolt Houston, West Street Response Team, Houston Food Not Bombs California: Sonoma County IWW wildfire rebuilding fund Puerto Rico: Submedia's grassroots disaster relief support, Hurricane Maria Community Recovery Fund, Mutual Aid Disaster Relief: here and here. Also, check out Mutual Aid Disaster Relief's website for on-the-ground reports from Puerto Rico. Mexico: Oaxaca Earthquake Autonomous Solidarity Campaign There's a call to disrupt the International Association of Chiefs of Police conference in Philadelphia from October 21 to 24, including a march starting at Thomas Paine Plaza at 10 AM on October 21. Read the call to action here.. They also have set up a bail fund that you can donate to for anyone who gets arrested protesting the IACP. The Unist'ot'en camp in so-called British Columbia could use your help building houses in the path of planned pipelines. Support the Cascadia Forest Defenders website who are fighting against the logging of 2,500 acres of the Willamette National Forest. Fund an internationalist anti-fascist's return from fighting in Rojava. You can find the DropJ20 drop-the-charges call-in campaign here. Other anarchist podcast episodes mentioned in this Hotwire: Episodes 36 and 39 of The Ex-Worker delve deep into the revolution in Rojava. Hotwire #8 describes the police-facilitated photo-op that fascists enjoyed in Charlottesville last week. IGDcast's interview with Frank Lopez about Mutual Aid Disaster Relief and Puerto Rico. While not anarchist by any stretch of the imagination, The Gun Show episode of More Perfect has some good history on the origins of gun control as a tool for controlling black rebellion. CrimethInc. essays mentioned in this Hotwire: The Poetry of Flames: French Tales of Arson The 2018 Certain Days: Freedom for Political Prisoners calendar is now available! Your group can buy 10 or more at the rate of $10 each. Single issues are available from LeftWingBooks.net and AK Press. This year's theme is “Awakening Resistance,” and features art and writings by Jesus Barraza, Fight Toxic Prisons, Serena Tang, Andrea Ritchie, Roger Peet, Sophia Dawson, Rasmea Support Committee, EE Vera, Herman Bell, Fernando Marti, Alexandra Valiente, Billie Belo, Arlene Gallone Support Committee, Marius Mason, David Gilbert, UB Topia, April Rosenblum, Design Action Collective, Sundiata Acoli, CrimethInc, Annie Banks, Mutope Duguma, Xinachtli, Zola and more. You can sponsor copies for prisoners for only $8, postage included! Just be sure to specify their full legal name and prisoner number. Any questions can be sent to info@certaindays.org. Corrections & clarifications: In Hotwire #7 we stated that the Las Vegas shooting was the deadliest mass-shooting since the Wounded Knee Massacre of 1890. However, we discovered at least one other in the time since then. In 1898, white supremacists seized the city of Wilmington, North Carolina and massacred at least 60 black folks. Political prisoner support: Supporters of the anti-police brutality activist Reverend Joy Powell have organized a phone blast in support. Political Prisoner Seth Hayes is in urgent need of medical attention. His supporters are asking people to call the supervisor at Sullivan Correctional to demand that he be taken to Albany Medical Center as soon as possible. You can write Reverend Joy Powell at… Reverend Joy Powell 07G0632 Bedford Hills Correctional Facility P.O. Box 1000 Bedford Hills, NY 10507–2499 Here is the October 2017 Political Prisoner Birthday Poster, which you can use to organize a letter writing night. For a good introduction to writing prisoners, check out this guide from New York City Anarchist Black Cross. Political prisoner birthdays: Jalil Muntaqim (Anthony Jalil Bottom) #77-A–4283 Sullivan Correctional Facility Post Office Box 116 Fallsburg, New York 12733–0116 Address envelope to Anthony Bottom, address card to Jalil {October 18}  

This week we bring you a slew of reports from anti-Columbus Day actions across so-called North America. We also fill you in on an inspiring prison uprising that took over McCormick prison in South Carolina. Prisoners even got on the roof! The political crisis in Catalonia continues, this week with violent fascist and pro-Spanish reaction. White supremacists descended on Charlottesville again this weekend, and there are some upcoming calls to anti-fascist action in the south, so listen until the end. Plus, we got all of our regular features like political prisoner birthdays, announcements for upcoming anarchist book fairs, and the repression roundup. {October 11, 2017}   -------SHOW NOTES------   Table of Contents: Introduction {0:00} Headlines {1:53} #FuckColumbusDay {6:40} Charlottesville Anti-Fascism Interview {12:20} The Opioid Crisis and White Despair {15:58} Repression Roundup {20:55} Prisoner Birthdays {24:55} Next Week's News {25:47} Upcoming anarchist book fairs: The sixth annual anarchist book and propaganda gathering in Santiago, Chile will take place on October 14 and 15. The Los Angeles Anarchist Bookfair takes place October 28 and 29 at Leimert Park Plaza. The London Anarchist Bookfair also takes place on Saturday, October 28 at Park View School. Alerta! Alerta! Anti-fascists in Florida are calling for anti-racists to oppose Richard Spencer, who will speak at the University of Florida in Gainesville on October 19. Unicorn Riot reports that up to half a million dollars may be spent on security for Spencer's event, even though no one at the University of Florida has invited him to speak. Ongoing grassroots disaster relief efforts: Florida: Mutual Aid Disaster Relief Texas: Bayou Action Street Health, Greater Houston Grassroots Relief, World on My Shoulders, Austin Common Ground, the Black Women's Defense League, Redneck Revolt Houston, West Street Response Team, Houston Food Not Bombs Puerto Rico: Hurricane Maria Community Recovery Fund, Mutual Aid Disaster Relief: here and here. Mexico: Oaxaca Earthquake Autonomous Solidarity Campaign #FuckColumbusDay actions reportback found here. A must-read for this year's Columbus Day is this article by Indigenous Action Media about the limitations of Indigenous People's Day. Also check out the essay Resistance is Disaster Relief, published on Columbus Day by Mutual Aid Disaster Relief. Action items and reportback from the anti-fascists who opposed the white nationalist photo-op in Charlottesville, VA this weekend. Go here to donate to the bail and legal fund for those arrested in St. Louis after the no-guilty verdict for killer cop Jason Stockley. Go here for the bail fund for those arrested protesting the murder of queer anarchist Scout Schultz. We mention the new episode of Submedia's excellent show Trouble. This month's episode is on counter-insurgency. Submedia does great work, so throw them some taco money while they are fundraising this month. There's a call to disrupt the International Association of Chiefs of Police conference in Philadelphia from October 21 to 24, including a march starting at Thomas Paine Plaza at 10 AM on October 21. Read the call to action here.. You can find the DropJ20 drop-the-charges call-in campaign here. Freshet Collective is organizing legal support for the nearly 400 cases are still pending from Standing Rock. Natasha Lennard covers how 6 of the cases are nearly unprecedented federal charges faced by native activists. Other anarchist podcast episodes mentioned in this Hotwire: Episode 32 of The Ex-Worker, titled “White Supremacy and Capitalism, From 1492 to Ferguson.” Ex-Worker episode #56 about Charlottesville. Hotwire #4 has an interview with an anarchist DREAMer about how to support undocumented folks. Hotwire #5 covers the fatal police shooting of Scout Schultz, a queer anarchist Georgia Tech student. IGDcast's Audio Report From CVille: Media & Police Facilitate Nazi Photo Op. CrimethInc. essays mentioned in this Hotwire: How and Why to Organize Your Own Copwatch Group Green Scared? Preliminary Lessons of the Green Scare Catalunya: Facing Two Bad Options, Choose the Third. On the Showdown between Spain and Catalunya Democracy, Red in Tooth and Claw. On the Catalan Referendum: The Old State, a New State, or No State at All? From 15M to Podemos: The Regeneration of Spanish Democracy and the Maligned Promise of Chaos The Opioid Crisis: White Despair and the Scapegoating of People of Color Scout Schultz: Remembering Means Fighting. Mourning a Queer Activist and Anarchist Murdered by the Police The 2018 Certain Days: Freedom for Political Prisoners calendar is now available for bulk pre-orders. Your group can buy 10 or more at the rate of $10 each. Single issues are available from LeftWingBooks.net and AK Press. This year's theme is “Awakening Resistance,” and features art and writings by Jesus Barraza, Fight Toxic Prisons, Serena Tang, Andrea Ritchie, Roger Peet, Sophia Dawson, Rasmea Support Committee, EE Vera, Herman Bell, Fernando Marti, Alexandra Valiente, Billie Belo, Arlene Gallone Support Committee, Marius Mason, David Gilbert, UB Topia, April Rosenblum, Design Action Collective, Sundiata Acoli, CrimethInc, Annie Banks, Mutope Duguma, Xinachtli, Zola and more. You can sponsor copies for prisoners for only $8, postage included! Just be sure to specify their full legal name and prisoner number. Any questions can be sent to info@certaindays.org. Video of the two baby piglets freed by Direct Action Everywhere this past summer. Corrections & clarifications: In our reporting on the neo-Nazi Nordic Resistance Movement's march in Gothenburg last week, we were ignorant of some pretty important details. Namely, the fact that they specifically chose to march on the Jewish holy day of Yom Kippur and that their originally proposed march route was chosen to pass by a synagogue, a clear act of intimidation, if not staging for an outright attack. Anti-Semitism is growing along with right-wing nationalism, and the targeting of Jewish sites and symbols is something anarchists should not ignore—not in the least because of the rich history of Jewish anarchism and anti-fascism! Check out this delightfully cheeky book review for a brief introduction to the history of Jewish anarchism. Here is the October 2017 Political Prisoner Birthday Poster, which you can use to organize a letter writing night. For a good introduction to writing prisoners, check out this guide from New York City Anarchist Black Cross. Political prisoner birthdays: Robert Seth Hayes #74-A–2280 Sullivan Correctional Facility Post Office Box 116 Fallsburg, New York 12733–0116 {October 15} Jermaine Parker #1185800 MECC 18701 Old Highway 66 Pacific, MO 63069 {October 15}      

This week we go on a bunch of rants. We rant about why no state is better than a new state in Catalonia. We rant about why anti-fascists should not allow the state to position itself as the principal force protecting people from Nazi violence. We rant about how mutual aid and community relief must mean opposition to capitalism and a redistribution of wealth. Rant rant rant! Rah rah rah! {October 4, 2017}   -------SHOW NOTES------   Table of Contents: Introduction {0:00} Headlines {1:42} Does Catalonian freedom mean a new state, or no state? {7:55} Is fascist violence terrorism, or just plain old fascism? {14:20} Mutual aid means abolishing capitalism {18:57} Repression Roundup {24:45} Anarchist Podcast Jingles {27:47} Prisoner Birthdays {29:42} Next Week's News {31:05} Upcoming anarchist bookfairs: The sixth annual anarchist book and propaganda gathering in Santiago, Chile will take place on October 14 and 15. Grassroots relief efforts: Florida: Mutual Aid Disaster Relief Texas: Bayou Action Street Health, Greater Houston Grassroots Relief, World on My Shoulders, Austin Common Ground, the Black Women's Defense League, Redneck Revolt Houston, West Street Response Team, Houston Food Not Bombs Puerto Rico: Hurricane Maria Community Recovery Fund, Mutual Aid Disaster Relief Mexico: Oaxaca Earthquake Autonomous Solidarity Campaign Go here. to donate to the bail and legal fund for those arrested in St. Louis after the no-guilty verdict for killer cop Jason Stockley. The Revolutionary Abolitionist Movement's call to deface Columbus Day on October 9 has a dope video here. We mention the new episode of Submedia's excellent show Trouble. This month's episode is on counter-insurgency. Submedia does great work, so throw them some taco money while they are fundraising this month. There's a call to disrupt the International Association of Chiefs of Police conference in Philadelphia from October 21 to 24., including a march starting at Thomas Paine Plaza at 10 AM on October 21. Read the call to action here.. Alerta! Alerta! Anti-fascists in Florida are calling for anti-racists to oppose Richard Spencer, who will speak at the University of Florida in Gainesville on October 19. You can find the DropJ20 drop-the-charges call-in campaign here. Donate to the Counter Repression Spokes Ride to support the nearly 200 people facing 8 or more felonies each after being mass-arrested at protests of the presidential inauguration. Keep up with the latest at defendj20resistance.org. Consider coming down to DC to pack the courtroom during the first trial at the end of November 2017. And don't forget to write a letter to political prisoner Dane Powell, the first of the J20 defendants to serve time. He recently wrote a call to moibilize support for the remaining 194 J20 defendants. Write Dane a letter: Dane Powell BOP Register number 82015007 Federal Correctional Institution – Low PO Box 1031 Colman, Florida 33521 Learn more about the difficult situation anarchists in Belarus are in through Anarchist Black Cross Belarus. Freshet Collective is organizing legal support for the 414 cases are still pending from Standing Rock. Natasha Lennard covers how 6 of the cases are nearly unprecedented federal charges faced by native activists. Go here to find out about the anti-nuclear camp in Bure, France happening on October 21 and 22. The video and reportback from the anarchist disruption of a fundamentalist Christian conference in Australia. Friends and family Black Panther Party political prisoner Herman Bell are asking for people to email the New York Department of Corrections after Herman was viciously beaten by guards. Comrade Malik is facing retaliation from prison staff for prisoner organizing, and is asking supporters to email the Texas Ombudsman to prevent any further action being taken against him. Video of badgers being liberated in the UK! ICYMI: So many police were concentrated in Catalonia that in Madrid, 86 migrants took advantage of the shortage of police and escaped from an immigrant detention center. As we go to press, 47 of them are still free! Other anarchist podcast episodes mentioned in this Hotwire: Ex-Worker episode #56 about Charlottesville. Hotwire #3 has an interview with an anarchist DREAMer about how to support undocumented folks. The anarchist podcast Bilda Kedjor (break the chains) out of Sweden has great stuff! Their podcast is in Swedish, but the interviews are in English. Definitely worth a listen. CrimethInc. essays mentioned in this Hotwire: Anarchists on the Catalan Referendum: Three Perspectives from the Streets The Rise of Neo-Fascism in Germany: Alternative für Deutschland Enters the Parliament After the Crest: What to Do while the Dust Is Settling Get your pre-orders in now for the 2018 Certain Days: Freedom for Political Prisoners calendar. This year's theme is “Awakening Resistance,” and features art and writings by Jesus Barraza, Fight Toxic Prisons, Serena Tang, Andrea Ritchie, Roger Peet, Sophia Dawson, Rasmea Support Committee, EE Vera, Herman Bell, Fernando Marti, Alexandra Valiente, Billie Belo, Arlene Gallone Support Committee, Marius Mason, David Gilbert, UB Topia, April Rosenblum, Design Action Collective, Sundiata Acoli, Crimethinc, Annie Banks, Mutope Duguma, Xinachtli, Zola and more. You can sponsor copies for prisoners for only $8, postage included! Just be sure to specify their full legal name and prisoner number. Single copies of the calendar will be available for purchase in a few weeks. Any questions can be sent to info@certaindays.org. Political prisoner birthdays: (For a good introduction to writing prisoners, check out this guide from New York City Anarchist Black Cross.) Jamil Al-Amin #99974–555 USP Tuscon Post Office Box 24550 Tuscon, Arizona 85734 {October 4} David Gilbert #83-A–6158 Wende Correctional Facility 3040 Wende Road Alden, New York 14004–1187 {October 6} Michael Davis Africa #AM–4973 SCI Graterford Post Office Box 244 Graterford, Pennsylvania 19426–0244 {October 6} Meral Smith* #16–024 Saguaro Correctional Center 1252 East Arica Road Eloy, Arizona 85131 *Address letter to Malik (Smith) {October 8}    

Matt Rader, President of Pennsylvania Horticultural Society (PHS), joins hosts Sandi Hunt and Nick Ashburn to discuss Urban Farming and PHS's awarded $300,000 grant to create a “Farm for the City” at Thomas Paine Plaza, across from City Hall in Philadelphia on Dollars and Change. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

The Democrats hated it before it even happened and now many Republicans have distanced themselves from the US President's proposals for an Obamacare replacement. So is Trumpcare already dead in the water? We speak to Professor John McDonough of Harvard University's Department of Health Policy & Management - who worked in the Senate on the passage of the Affordable Care Act. The US Department of Justice has fined the Chinese telecoms maker ZTE nearly $1.2 billion for selling banned American-made equipment to Iran and North Korea. We get analysis from Shawn Donnan, World Trade Editor of the Financial Times in Washington DC. The shipping industry is predominantly male and women who manage to get in complain of institutional harassment and sexism. Eldine Chilembo Gless, a One Young World Ambassador from Angola in south-west Africa outlines the extent of the problem. We cast the net a little wider to draw in some of the business headlines from elsewhere in the world and we cross to Sydney and the BBC's Phil Mercer. 36 years ago at the age of just 36 Bob Marley died but interest in the reggae star shows no sign of diminishing. In the UK, a new stage show called One Love: The Bob Marley Musical opens on Friday. It's written and directed by Kwame Kwei-Armah who's been talking to our Arts Correspondent Rebecca Jones. And we're joined throughout the programme by Mitchell Hartman of Marketplace who's is in Portland, Oregon and Jyoti Malhotra, President of South Asian Women in Media is in Delhi. Picture description: Protestors demonstrate during a health care rally at Thomas Paine Plaza on February 25, 2017 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Photo by Mark Makela/Getty Images

Conversation with Victor Tiffany, co-founder of the Bernie or Bust movement. Victor and I talk about - Exactly where the "Bernie or Bust" term came from, - How the movement began as a potential write in campaign for Bernie Sanders, and morphed into one where vote your conscience (and many are expected to vote Green), - How Bernie Sanders has never disrespected Bernie or Busters, despite endorsing and supporting Hillary Clinton, - Why Bernie or Busters do not deserve the blame for a potential Trump presidency, how the Democratic Party left them long ago, they did not leave the Democratic Party, - How the Democratic Party, through superdelegates, rubber stamp our corrupt system including all of the questionable things occurring throughout the primary, - "Hillary Clinton is the spoiler. - Victor's recommendations on voting all the way down the ballot in November, - "I see the green party winning the popular vote, and then getting robbed five machine who will elect of Hillary Clinton." - My views on not being a Bernie or Buster, but spending much of my time during the campaign with friends who are. Here is Victor's speech on the Sunday before the DNC, at Thomas Paine Plaza, directly across the street from City Hall, at the Bernie or Bust rally: https://youtu.be/IOxTXOF-2sA My full Bernie or Bust article: https://proudberniesandersdemocrat.wordpress.com/2016/08/24/jeffs-dnc-bernie-or-bust/