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International students are being abducted and disappeared by ICE in broad daylight. Life-saving research projects across the academy are being halted or thrown into disarray by seismic cuts to federal grants. Dozens of universities are under federal investigation for their Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion programs, their allowance of trans athletes to compete in college sports, and their tolerance of constitutionally protected Palestine solidarity protests. In today's urgent episode of Working People, we get a harrowing, on-the-ground view of the Trump administration's all-out assault on institutions of higher education and the people who live, learn, and work there. TRNN Editor-in-Chief Maximillian Alvarez speaks with Todd Wolfson, President of the American Association of University Professors, Associate Professor of Journalism and Media Studies at Rutgers University, and co-director of the Media, Inequality and Change Center; and Chenjerai Kumanyika, Assistant Professor at the Arthur L. Carter Journalism Institute at New York University, AAUP Council Member, and Peabody-award winning host of Empire City: The Untold Origin Story of the NYPD. Additional links/info: April 17: Day of Action to Defend Higher Ed website American Association of University Professors (AAUP) website Federal Unionists Network website AAUP letter to college and university legal offices: “Institutions Should Not Provide Student and Faculty Info To Enable Deportations” Alan Blinder, The New York Times, “Trump Has Targeted These Universities. Why?” Oliver Laughland, The Guardian, “‘Detention Alley': inside the Ice centres in the US south where foreign students and undocumented migrants languish” Alice Speri, The Guardian, “‘A huge cudgel': alarm as Trump's war on universities could target accreditors” Joy Connolly, Chronicle Review, “Colleges must stand together to resist Trump” Collin Binkley, Associated Press, “More than 50 universities face federal investigations as part of Trump's anti-DEI campaign” Maximillian Alvarez, Working People / The Real News Network, “‘Kill these cuts before they kill us': Federally funded researchers warn DOGE cuts will be fatal” Permanent links below… Leave us a voicemail and we might play it on the show! Labor Radio / Podcast Network website, Facebook page, and Twitter page In These Times website, Facebook page, and Twitter page The Real News Network website, YouTube channel, podcast feeds, Facebook page, and Twitter page Featured Music… Jules Taylor, “Working People” Theme Song Studio Production: Maximillian Alvarez Post-Production: Jules Taylor
International students are being abducted and disappeared by ICE in broad daylight. Life-saving research projects across the academy are being halted or thrown into disarray by seismic cuts to federal grants. Dozens of universities are under federal investigation for their Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion programs, their allowance of trans athletes to compete in college sports, and their tolerance of constitutionally protected Palestine solidarity protests. In today's urgent episode of Working People, we get a harrowing, on-the-ground view of the Trump administration's all-out assault on institutions of higher education and the people who live, learn, and work there. TRNN Editor-in-Chief Maximillian Alvarez speaks with Todd Wolfson, President of the American Association of University Professors, Associate Professor of Journalism and Media Studies at Rutgers University, and co-director of the Media, Inequality and Change Center; and Chenjerai Kumanyika, Assistant Professor at the Arthur L. Carter Journalism Institute at New York University, AAUP Council Member, and Peabody-award winning host of Empire City: The Untold Origin Story of the NYPD.Additional links/info:April 17: Day of Action to Defend Higher Ed websiteAmerican Association of University Professors (AAUP) websiteFederal Unionists Network websiteAAUP letter to college and university legal offices: “Institutions Should Not Provide Student and Faculty Info To Enable Deportations”Alan Blinder, The New York Times, “Trump Has Targeted These Universities. Why?”Oliver Laughland, The Guardian, “‘Detention Alley': inside the Ice centres in the US south where foreign students and undocumented migrants languish”Alice Speri, The Guardian, “‘A huge cudgel': alarm as Trump's war on universities could target accreditors”Joy Connolly, Chronicle Review, “Colleges must stand together to resist Trump”Collin Binkley, Associated Press, “More than 50 universities face federal investigations as part of Trump's anti-DEI campaign”Maximillian Alvarez, Working People / The Real News Network, “‘Kill these cuts before they kill us': Federally funded researchers warn DOGE cuts will be fatal”Permanent links below…Leave us a voicemail and we might play it on the show!Labor Radio / Podcast Network website, Facebook page, and Twitter pageIn These Times website, Facebook page, and Twitter pageThe Real News Network website, YouTube channel, podcast feeds, Facebook page, and Twitter pageFeatured Music…Jules Taylor, “Working People” Theme SongStudio Production: Maximillian AlvarezPost-Production: Jules TaylorBecome a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/the-real-news-podcast--2952221/support.
In the two months since the Trump regime took power, it has worked feverishly to dismantle the higher educational apparatus in the United States. Grant money funding research in the billions of dollars has been stopped or held to use as leverage against researchers and institutions. At the same time, Trump and his cronies are working to suppress free speech on campuses, deporting faculty and graduate students who do not share the administration's views on the Israel-Gaza conflict. The effects of these actions are terrifying. To discuss, we've invited Todd Wolfson, President of the American Association of University Professors and an Associate Professor of Journalism and Media Studies at Rutgers University.
Ralph welcomes journalist Chris Hedges to talk about his new book "A Genocide Foretold: Reporting on Survival and Resistance in Occupied Palestine." Then, Ralph speaks to David Swanson of World BEYOND War about what his organization is doing to resist this country's casual acceptance of being constantly at war. Finally, Ralph checks in with our resident constitutional scholar Bruce Fein.Chris Hedges is a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist, who spent nearly two decades as a foreign correspondent in Central America, the Middle East, Africa and the Balkans. He is the host of The Chris Hedges Report, and he is a prolific author— his latest book is A Genocide Foretold: Reporting on Survival and Resistance in Occupied Palestine.We not only blocked the effort by most countries on the globe to halt the genocide or at least censure Israel to the genocide, but of course have continued to sendbillions of dollars in weapons and to shut down critics within the United States… And that sends a very, very ominous message to the global south, especiallyas the climate breaks down, that these are the kind of draconian murderous measuresthat we will employ.Chris HedgesIt's a very, very ominous chapter in the history of historic Palestine. In some ways, far worse even than the 1948 Nakba (or “Catastrophe”) that saw massacres carried out against Palestinians in their villages and 750,000 Palestinians displaced. What we're watching now is probably the worst catastrophe to ever beset the Palestinian people.Chris HedgesIt's a bit like attacking somebody for writing about Auschwitz and not giving the SS guards enough play to voice their side. We're writing about a genocide and, frankly, there isn't a lot of nuance. There's a lot of context (which is in the book). But I expect either to be blanked out or attacked because lifting up the voices of Palestinians is something at this point within American society that is considered by the dominant media platforms and those within positions of power to be unacceptable.Chris HedgesIt eventually comes down to us, the American people. And it's not just the Middle East. It's a sprawling empire with hundreds of military bases, sapping the energy of our public budgets and of our ability to relate in an empathetic and humanitarian way to the rest of the world.Ralph NaderDavid Swanson is an author, activist, journalist, radio host and Nobel Peace Prize nominee. He is executive director of World BEYOND War and campaign coordinator for RootsAction. His books include War Is A Lie and When the World Outlawed War.The biggest scandal of the past two days in the United States is not government officials secretly discussing plans for mass killing, for war making, but how they did it on a group chat. You can imagine if they were talking about blowing up buildings in the United States, at least the victims would get a little mention in there.David SwansonThe Democrats are the least popular they've been. They're way less popular than the Republicans because some of the Republicans' supporters actually support the horrendous behavior they're engaged in. Whereas Democrats want somebody to try anything, anything at all, and you're not getting it.David SwansonYou know how many cases across the world across the decades in every hospital and health center there are of PTSD or any sort of injury from war deprivation? Not a one. Not a single one, ever. People survive just fine. And people do their damnedest to stay out of it, even in the most warmongering nations in the world. People try their very hardest to stay out of war personally, because it does great damage.David SwansonBruce Fein is a Constitutional scholar and an expert on international law. Mr. Fein was Associate Deputy Attorney General under Ronald Reagan and he is the author of Constitutional Peril: The Life and Death Struggle for Our Constitution and Democracy, and American Empire: Before the Fall.If there were really an attorney general who was independent, they would advise the President, “You can't make these threats. They are the equivalent of extortion.”Bruce FeinVigorous Public Interest Law DayApril 1, 2025 12:00 pm - 4:00 pm at Harvard Law School the Harvard Plaintiffs' Law Association is hosting Vigorous Public Interest Law Day with opening remarks by Ralph Nader. The program will feature highly relevant presentations and group discussions with some of the nation's most courageous public interest lawyers including Sam Levine, Bruce Fein, Robert Weissman, Joan Claybrook, and Pete Davis, to name a few. More information here.News 3/26/251. Starting off this week with some good news, Families for Safe Streets reports the Viriginia Assembly has passed HB2096, also known as the Stop Super Speeders bill. If enacted, this bill would allow would judges to “require drivers convicted of extreme speeding offenses to install Intelligent Speed Assistance (ISA) technology in their vehicles, automatically limiting their speed to the posted limit.” According to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration or NHTSA, established by Ralph Nader, speeding was responsible for 12,151 deaths in 2022 and is a contributing factor in the skyrocketing number of pedestrians killed by automobiles which hit a 40-year high in 2023, per NPR.2. In more troubling auto safety news AP reports NHTSA has ordered a new recall on nearly all Cybertrucks. This recall centers on an exterior panel that can “detach while driving, creating a dangerous road hazard for other drivers, [and] increasing the risk of a crash.” This panel, called a “cant rail assembly,” is attached with a glue that is vulnerable to “environmental embrittlement,” per NHTSA. This is the eighth recall of the vehicles since they hit the road just one year ago.3. At the same time, the Democratic-controlled Delaware state legislature has passed a bill to “award…Musk $56 billion, shield corporate executives from liability, and strip away voting power from shareholders,” reports the Lever. According to this report, written before the law passed, the bill would “set an extremely high bar for plaintiffs to obtain internal company documents, records, and communications — the core pieces of evidence needed to build a lawsuit against a company.” On the other hand, “Corporate executives and investors with a controlling stake in a firm would no longer be required to hold full shareholder votes on various transactions in which management has a direct conflict of interest.” As this piece notes, this bill was backed by a pressure campaign led by Musk and his lawyers that began with a Delaware Chancery Court ruling that jeopardized his $56 billion compensation package. In retaliation, Musk threatened to lead a mass exodus of corporations from the state. Instead of calling his bluff, the state legislature folded, likely beginning a race to the bottom among other corporate-friendly states that will strip anyone but the largest shareholders of any remaining influence on corporate decision making.4. Speaking of folding under pressure, Reuters reports Columbia University will “acquiesce” to the outrageous and unprecedented demands of the Trump administration. These include a new mask ban on campus, and placing the school's Middle Eastern, South Asian, and African Studies department – along with the Center for Palestine Studies –under academic receivership for at least five years. By caving to these demands, the University hopes the administration will unfreeze $400 million in NIH grants they threatened to withhold. Reuters quotes historian of education, Professor Jonathan Zimmerman, who decried this as “The government…using the money as a cudgel to micromanage a university,” and Todd Wolfson, president of the American Association of University Professors, who called the administration's demands “arguably the greatest incursion into academic freedom, freedom of speech and institutional autonomy that we've seen since the McCarthy era.”5. The authoritarianism creeping through higher education doesn't end there. Following the chilling disappearing of Mahmoud Khalil, the Trump administration has begun deploying the same tactic against more students for increasingly minor supposed offenses. First there was Georgetown post-doc student Badar Khan Suri, originally from India, who “had been living in Virginia for nearly three years when the police knocked on his door on the evening of 17 March and arrested him,” per the BBC. His crime? Being married to the daughter of a former advisor to Ismail Haniyeh, who in 2010 left the Gaza government and “started the House of Wisdom…to encourage peace and conflict resolution in Gaza.” A court has blocked Suri's deportation. Then there is Rumeysa Ozturk, a PhD student at Tufts who was on her way home from an Iftar dinner when she was surrounded and physically restrained by plainclothes agents on the street, CNN reports. Video of this incident has been shared widely. Secretary of State Marco Rubio supposedly “determined” that Ozturk's alleged activities would have “potentially serious adverse foreign policy consequences and would compromise a compelling U.S. foreign policy interest.” These activities? Co-writing a March 2024 op-ed in the school paper which stated “Credible accusations against Israel include accounts of deliberate starvation and indiscriminate slaughter of Palestinian civilians and plausible genocide.” The U.S. has long decried regimes that use secret police to suppress dissident speech. Now it seems it has become one.6. Yet the Trump administration is not only using deportations as a blunt object to punish pro-Palestine speech, it is also using it to go after labor rights activists. Seattle public radio station KUOW reports “Farmworker activist and union leader Alfredo Juarez Zeferino, known…as ‘Lelo,' was taken into custody by [ICE].” A farmworker and fellow activist Rosalinda Guillén is quoted saying “[Lelo] doesn't have a criminal record…they stopped him because of his leadership, because of his activism.” She added “I think that this is a political attack.” Simultaneously, the Washington Post reports “John Clark, a Trump-appointed Labor Department official, directed the agency's Bureau of International Labor Affairs…to end all of its grants.” These cuts are “expected to end 69 programs that have allocated more than $500 million to combat child labor, forced labor and human trafficking, and to enforce labor standards in more than 40 countries.”7. All of these moves by the Trump administration are despicable and largely unprecedented, but even they are not as brazen as the assault on the twin pillars of the American social welfare system: Social Security and Medicare. Social Security is bearing the brunt of the attacks at the moment. First, AP reported that Elon Musk's DOGE planned to cut up to 50% of the Social Security Administration staff. Then, the Washington Post reported that the administration planned to force millions of seniors to submit claims in person rather than via phone. Now the administration is announcing that they are shifting Social Security payments from paper checks to prepaid debit cards, per Axios. Nearly half a million seniors still receive their payments via physical checks. These massive disruptions in Social Security have roiled seniors across the nation, many of whom are Republican Trump supporters, and they are voicing their frustration to their Republican elected officials – who in turn are chafing at being cut out of the loop by Musk. NBC reports Sen. Chuck Grassley of Iowa, chairman of the Senate Finance subcommittee on Social Security, said “he had not been told ahead of time about DOGE's moves at the agency.” Senators Steve Daines and Bill Cassidy have echoed this sentiment. And, while Social Security takes center stage, Medicare is next in line. Drop Site is out with a new report on how Trump's nominee to oversee the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services – Dr. Oz – could shift millions of seniors from traditional Medicare to the insurer-controlled Medicare Advantage system. Medicare and Social Security have long been seen as the “third rail” of American politics, meaning politicians who try to tamper with those programs meet their political demise. This is the toughest test yet of whether that remains true.8. The impact of Oscar winning documentary No Other Land continues to reverberate, a testament to the power of its message. In Miami Beach, Mayor Steven Meiner issued a draft resolution calling for the city to terminate its lease agreement with O Cinema, located at Old City Hall, simply for screening the film. Deadline reports however that he was forced to back down. And just this week, co-director of the film Hamdan Ballal was reportedly “lynched” by Israeli settlers in his West Bank village, according to co-director Yuval Abraham, an anti-occupation Jewish Israeli journalist. The Guardian reports “the settlers beat him in front of his home and filmed the assault…he was held at an army base, blindfolded, for 24 hours and forced to sleep under a freezing air conditioner.” Another co-director, Basel Adra of Masafer Yatta, told the AP “We came back from the Oscars and every day since there is an attack on us…This might be their revenge on us for making the movie. It feels like a punishment.” Stunningly, it took days for the Academy of Motion Pictures to issue a statement decrying the violence and even then, the statement was remarkably tepid with no mention of Palestine at all, only condemning “harming or suppressing artists for their work or their viewpoints.”9. In some more positive news, Zohran Mamdani – the Democratic Socialist candidate for Mayor of New York City – has maxed out donations, per Gothamist. Mamdani says he has raised “more than $8 million with projected matching funds from about 18,000 donors citywide and has done so at a faster rate than any campaign in city history.” Having hit the public financing cap this early, Mamdani promised to not spend any more of the campaign raising money and instead plans to “build the single largest volunteer operation we've ever seen in the New York City's mayor's race.” Witnessing a politician asking supporters not to send more money is a truly one-of-a-kind moment. Recent polling shows Mamdani in second place, well behind disgraced former Governor Andrew Cuomo and well ahead of his other rivals, including incumbent Mayor Eric Adams, per CBS. However, Mamdani remains unknown to large numbers of New Yorkers, meaning his ceiling could be much higher. Plenty of time remains before the June mayoral election.10. Finally, in an extremely bizarre story, Columbia Professor Anthony Zenkus reports “Robert Ehrlich, millionaire founder of snack food giant Pirate's Booty…tried to take over the sleepy Long Island town of Sea Cliff.” Zenkus relays that Ehrlich waged a “last minute write-in campaign for mayor in which he only received 62 votes - then declared himself mayor anyway.” Though Ehrlich only received 5% of the vote, he “stormed the village hall with an entourage, declaring himself the duly-elected mayor, screaming that he was there to dissolve the entire town government and that he alone had the power to form a new government.” Ehrlich claimed the election was “rigged” and thus invalid, citing as evidence “One of my supporters voted three times. Another one voted four times…” which constitutes a confession to election fraud. Zenkus ends this story by noting that Ehrlich was “escorted out by police.” It's hard to make heads or tails of this story, but if nothing else it indicates that these petty robber barons are simply out of control – believing they can stage their own mini coup d'etats. And after all, why shouldn't they think so, when one of their ilk occupies perhaps the most powerful office in the history of the world. Bad omens all around.This has been Francesco DeSantis, with In Case You Haven't Heard. Get full access to Ralph Nader Radio Hour at www.ralphnaderradiohour.com/subscribe
I always find that horror fans have that same kind of loyalty as country music fans. Minus the hats, trains, dogs, and saloons. But, when they create something interesting in the horror genre, you KNOW it's got to be interesting. Such is the case, when I got to talk to Todd. This sounds like a movie that'll really be unique. So go see it in October of 2024! And thanks for coming on the show, Todd! Here's the link to Todd's trailer (to the movie, not that he's camping!) : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L6pBrpmBC_I ____________________________________ Interested in more Director interviews? Season 5: Steven Jay Rubin Season 9: Christy Crandall ______________________________________ Programming Note: "Sherpa Selects" airs on Saturdays. And I will take requests and mention your name!!! More thanks: Publicist Extraordinaire: Steven Joiner Music Credits/Voiceovers: Bruce Goldberg ( aka Lord Mr. Bruce); Other Voices: The Sherpa-lu Studio Players Communicate: sherpalution.com : All episodes and side projects, Merchandise, donations,Affiliate Shop, etc. YouTube: @sherpalution5000 @sherpalution : social media for FB, IG, X, & TikTok Link page: https://bio.link/jimthepo (Please share!) Email:jimthepodcastsherpa@gmail.com Support: Review the show on Apple Podcasts or Spotify (Enter the 100-Review Contest, and win podcast merch!) Podium is your tool for AI generated show notes, chapters, clips, transcripts, and more. Try it out today and get 3 free hours and 50% off your first month: https://hello.podium.page?via=sherpa --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/jim-the-podcast-sherpa/message
Todd Wolfson is the Boys' Basketball Head Coach at St. Francis High School in California. In this episode, Mike, Jason, and Todd discuss the positives, negatives and potential solutions to improve AAU Basketball for the betterment of the game.If you have a chance to leave us a 5 star rating and review on your favorite podcast app we would really appreciate it. Tell your friends in the coaching community about the show and make sure you're subscribed so you never miss an episode. Check out hoopheadspod.com where you can listen to every episode we've ever recorded and find out more about what drives our show. You can also sign up to receive our weekly newsletter to gain even more access to great content from our guests.If you're looking to improve your coaching please consider joining the Hoop Heads Mentorship Program. We believe that having a mentor is the best way to maximize your potential and become a transformational coach. By matching you up with one of our experienced mentors you'll develop a one on one relationship that will help your coaching, your team, your program, and your mindset. The Hoop Heads Mentorship Program delivers mentoring services to basketball coaches at all levels through our team of experienced Head Coaches. Find out more at hoopheadspod.com or shoot me an email directly mike@hoopheadspod.comGet ready to take some notes as you listen to this special AAU episode with Todd Wolfson from St. Francis High School in the state of California.Website – https://www.sfhs.net/apps/pages/index.jsp?uREC_ID=392005&type=dEmail - coachwolfson@gmail.comTwitter/X - @CoachWolfsonVisit our Sponsors!Dr. Dish BasketballOur friends at Dr. Dish Basketball are here to help you transform your team's training efforts this summer with exclusive offers of up to $4,000 OFF their Rebel+, All-Star+, and CT+ shooting machines. Unsure about budget? Dr. Dish offers schools-only financing to make getting new equipment easier than ever. Fast Model SportsFastModel Sports has the most compelling and intuitive basketball software out there! In addition to a great product, they also provide basketball coaching content and resources through their blog and playbank, which features over 8,000 free plays and drills from their online coaching community. For access to these plays and more information, visit fastmodelsports.com or follow them on Twitter @FastModel. Use Promo code HHP15 to save 15%GameChangerIntroducing GameChanger, a free app that provides you with data to make strategic coaching decisions and to deliver memorable moments to your team and its fans. Engage your players, empower your coaching...
In Part 3 of our conversation with Todd Wolfson, the Head Varsity Boys Basketball Coach and Assistant Athletic Director at St. Francis High School just outside Pasadena, California, shares keys to building his program and his advice to youth sports parents. In Part 3 of our conversation with Todd Wolfson, the Head Varsity Boys Basketball Coach and Assistant Athletic Director at St. Francis High School just outside Pasadena, California, shares keys to building his program and his advice to youth sports parents. Winning Is Not Everything is a podcast aimed at bringing sanity back to youth sports with conversations with blue–chip athletes and coaches.
In Part 2 of our conversation with Todd Wolfson, the Head Varsity Boys Basketball Coach and Assistant Athletic Director at St. Francis High School just outside Pasadena, California, candidly shares why he so quickly shifted from playing to coaching, which featured him becoming a head basketball coach by 22 years old. In Part 2 of our conversation with Todd Wolfson, the Head Varsity Boys Basketball Coach and Assistant Athletic Director at St. Francis High School just outside Pasadena, California, candidly shares why he so quickly shifted from playing to coaching, which featured him becoming a head basketball coach by 22 years old. Winning Is Not Everything is a podcast aimed at bringing sanity back to youth sports with conversations with blue–chip athletes and coaches.
In Part 1 of our conversation with Todd Wolfson, the Head Varsity Boys Basketball Coach and Assistant Athletic Director at St. Francis High School in California, discusses his childhood passion for hoops and what compelled him so early to move from playing to coaching. In Part 1 of our conversation with Todd Wolfson, the Head Varsity Boys Basketball Coach and Assistant Athletic Director at St. Francis High School in California, discusses his childhood passion for hoops and what compelled him so early to move from playing to coaching. Winning Is Not Everything is a podcast aimed at bringing sanity back to youth sports with conversations with blue–chip athletes and coaches.
Our guest today, State Champion Head Coach of St. Francis High School Todd Wolfson. Tune in as we discuss what separates platers to be recruited at higher levels, how to be competitive in the mission league and how important it is for parents to understand the process to get their child recruited.
Not his episode we have the great Todd Wolfson. Todd speaks to us about the film industry and how he got into what he's doing today. Check it out and don't forget to show him some love!
At colleges and universities across the country, a heated battle is playing out right now over workers' right to organize and have a say over how the institutions they keep afloat with their labor are run. From graduate student-worker unionization efforts and strikes at Temple University, the University of California, Columbia University, Johns Hopkins, Northwestern University, Northeastern University, the University of Chicago, and Indiana University, to faculty strikes (and near-strikes) at the University of Illinois at Chicago, The New School, Howard University, etc., to workers across the higher ed sector striking in the UK, the academic labor movement is one of the most explosive sites of labor struggle right now. Meanwhile, the administrative class is working overtime to not only slow down this movement, but to squash it altogether. As we speak, full-time and adjunct faculty at Rutgers University are prepared to strike for the first time in school history after months and months of bad-faith bargaining and union-busting from the university administration; at the same time, the Duke University administration has not only refused to acknowledge its graduate student-workers' right to unionize, but it has vowed to go to the National Labor Relations Board in the hopes of stripping that right from graduates at all private universities. In this panel episode, we talk with worker-organizers from Duke and Rutgers about the struggles taking place at their institutions and across higher ed. Panelists include: Matt Thomas, a PhD student in the English Department at Duke University and co-chair of the Duke Graduate Student Union; Kristina Mensik, a PhD student in the Political Science Department at Duke University and a member of the Duke Graduate Student Union; Bryan Sacks, an adjunct professor of Religion and Philosophy at Rutgers and vice president of the Rutgers Adjunct Faculty Union (PTLFC-AAUP-AFT); Todd Wolfson, associate professor of Journalism and Media Studies at Rutgers and general vice president of Rutgers AAUP-AFT.Additional links/info below...Duke Graduate Student Union website, Facebook page, Twitter page, and InstagramRutgers Adjunct Faculty Union website and Twitter pageRutgers AAUP-AFT website, Facebook page, Twitter page, and InstagramHigher Ed Labor United (HELU) website, Facebook page, Twitter page, and InstagramMatt's Twitter pageKristina's website and Twitter pageTodd's faculty page and Twitter pageAlex Press, Jacobin, "Duke University Is Trying to Turn Back Time on Graduate Worker Unions"Deepa Kumar, Truthout, "One of US's Largest Public Universities Could See First Strike in Its 257 Years"Nancy Solomon, Gothamist, "With 94% Vote, Rutgers Faculty Tells Union Leaders They Can Call a Strike"Indigo Olivier, Teen Vogue, "Graduate Unions: Why Student Workers at University of California, Temple, More Are Striking"Dave Kamper, Labor Notes, "What's Fueling the Graduate Worker Union Upsurge?"Permanent links below...Leave us a voicemail and we might play it on the show!Labor Radio / Podcast Network website, Facebook page, and Twitter pageIn These Times website, Facebook page, and Twitter pageThe Real News Network website, YouTubechannel, podcast feeds, Facebook page, and Twitter pageFeatured Music (all songs sourced from the Free Music Archive:freemusicarchive.org)Jules Taylor, "Working People Theme SongHelp us continue producing radically independent news and in-depth analysis by following us and becoming a monthly sustainer: Donate: https://therealnews.com/donate-podSign up for our newsletter: https://therealnews.com/newsletter-podLike us on Facebook: https://facebook.com/therealnewsFollow us on Twitter: https://twitter.com/therealnews
At colleges and universities across the country, a heated battle is playing out right now over workers' right to organize and have a say over how the institutions they keep afloat with their labor are run. From graduate student-worker unionization efforts and strikes at Temple University, the University of California, Columbia University, Johns Hopkins, Northwestern University, Northeastern University, the University of Chicago, and Indiana University, to faculty strikes (and near-strikes) at the University of Illinois at Chicago, The New School, Howard University, etc., to workers across the higher ed sector striking in the UK, the academic labor movement is one of the most explosive sites of labor struggle right now. Meanwhile, the administrative class is working overtime to not only slow down this movement, but to squash it altogether. As we speak, full-time and adjunct faculty at Rutgers University are prepared to strike for the first time in school history after months and months of bad-faith bargaining and union-busting from the university administration; at the same time, the Duke University administration has not only refused to acknowledge its graduate student-workers' right to unionize, but it has vowed to go to the National Labor Relations Board in the hopes of stripping that right from graduates at all private universities. In this panel episode, we talk with worker-organizers from Duke and Rutgers about the struggles taking place at their institutions and across higher ed. Panelists include: Matt Thomas, a PhD student in the English Department at Duke University and co-chair of the Duke Graduate Student Union; Kristina Mensik, a PhD student in the Political Science Department at Duke University and a member of the Duke Graduate Student Union; Bryan Sacks, an adjunct professor of Religion and Philosophy at Rutgers and vice president of the Rutgers Adjunct Faculty Union (PTLFC-AAUP-AFT); Todd Wolfson, associate professor of Journalism and Media Studies at Rutgers and general vice president of Rutgers AAUP-AFT Additional links/info below... Duke Graduate Student Union website, Facebook page, Twitter page, and Instagram Rutgers Adjunct Faculty Union website and Twitter page Rutgers AAUP-AFT website, Facebook page, Twitter page, and Instagram Higher Ed Labor United (HELU) website, Facebook page, Twitter page, and Instagram Kristina's website and Twitter page Todd's faculty page and Twitter page Alex Press, Jacobin, "Duke University Is Trying to Turn Back Time on Graduate Worker Unions" Deepa Kumar, Truthout, "One of US's Largest Public Universities Could See First Strike in Its 257 Years" Nancy Solomon, Gothamist, "With 94% Vote, Rutgers Faculty Tells Union Leaders They Can Call a Strike" Indigo Olivier, Teen Vogue, "Graduate Unions: Why Student Workers at University of California, Temple, More Are Striking" Dave Kamper, Labor Notes, "What's Fueling the Graduate Worker Union Upsurge?" Permanent links below... Working People Patreon page Leave us a voicemail and we might play it on the show! Labor Radio / Podcast Network website, Facebook page, and Twitter page In These Times website, Facebook page, and Twitter page The Real News Network website, YouTube channel, podcast feeds, Facebook page, and Twitter page Featured Music (all songs sourced from the Free Music Archive: freemusicarchive.org) Jules Taylor, "Working People Theme Song
The Kansas Reflector's Sherman Smith reports on extremism in Topeka on theHeartland Labor Forum. Donna Murch and Todd Wolfson discuss Rutgers workers' industrial unionism strategy on The Dig. The Oscars are this Sunday; actor and podcaster Harold Phillips highlights some of the more labor-focused movies and TV shows on Labor Goes To The Movies. After a 2-year hiatus, we're very pleased to welcome back the Working History podcast, which spotlights the work of leading labor historians, activists, and practitioners focusing especially on the U.S. and global South; today we'll hear Jefferson Cowie on his new book Freedom's Dominion: A Saga of White Resistance to Federal Power. We wrap up this week's show with The Radical Songbook podcast and a 1996 song about striking hospital workers that's still very relevant today. Please help us build sonic solidarity by clicking on the share button below. Highlights from labor radio and podcast shows around the country, part of the national Labor Radio Podcast Network of shows focusing on working people's issues and concerns. #LaborRadioPod @AFLCIO @Heartland_Labor @thedigradio @SouthernLaborSA @oliviacpaschal @AndersonDavidM Edited/produced by Chris Garlock; social media guru Mr. Harold Phillips.
Featuring Donna Murch and Todd Wolfson on Rutgers University workers' industrial unionism strategy. The second in a two-part series on the crisis in American higher education.Check out Dan's interview in The Nation: thenation.com/article/world/qa-daniel-denvir/Support The Dig at Patreon.com/TheDigCheck out The Dig's newsletters and vast archives at thedigradio.comBuy Haunted by Slavery: haymarketbooks.org/books/1557-haunted-by-slaveryBuy David Harvey's Companion to Marx's Grundrisse: versobooks.com/books/4145-a-companion-to-marx-s-grundrisse Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Featuring Donna Murch and Todd Wolfson on Rutgers University workers' industrial unionism strategy. The second in a two-part series on the crisis in American higher education. Check out Dan's interview in The Nation: thenation.com/article/world/qa-daniel-denvir/ Support The Dig at Patreon.com/TheDig Buy Haunted by Slavery: haymarketbooks.org/books/1557-haunted-by-slavery Buy David Harvey's Companion to Marx's Grundrisse: versobooks.com/books/4145-a-companion-to-marx-s-grundrisse
Featuring Dennis Hogan on the crisis in higher education. The first in a two-part series. Next up: Donna Murch and Todd Wolfson on how university workers can fight back through industrial unionism.Support The Dig at Patreon.com/TheDigCheck out our newsletters and vast archives at thedigradio.comBuy On Shedding an Obsolete Past: Bidding Farewell to the American Century by Andrew Bacevich haymarketbooks.org/books/1949-on-shedding-an-obsolete-past Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Featuring Dennis Hogan on the crisis in higher education. The first in a two-part series. Next up: Donna Murch and Todd Wolfson on how university workers can fight back through industrial unionism. Support The Dig at Patreon.com/TheDig Check out our newsletters and vast archives at thedigradio.com Buy On Shedding an Obsolete Past: Bidding Farewell to the American Century by Andrew Bacevich haymarketbooks.org/books/1949-on-shedding-an-obsolete-past
Join Dr Nirav Pandya and Dr. Brian Feeley as the sit down with St Francis High School basketball coach Todd Wolfson for a discussion about youth basketball, AAU, sports specialization, and player development.
We open up 2022 with Todd Wolfson, the Boys HC at St. Francis (Pasadena, CA) High School. As I record in a blizzard and he records a stone throw from the Rose Bowl, we discuss leaving one successful job for another, having a slow build over the season, having a great coaching staff, stats and what he looks for and creating a great family atmosphere and culture. This is a great pod to start off 2022!
He's led two California high school basketball programs to their first-ever CIF championships (2014 at Chaminade, 2020 at St. Francis) while focusing relentlessly on building up young men of character. Off the court, he's become well-known for sharing some of his thoughts on coaching, leadership, student-athletes, and parents. In this conversation, he deep dives into what it means to be a self-reflective coach, how to make a lasting impact on players, and the importance of competition within teams. You can follow Coach Wolfson on Twitter. Join the High School Coaches Club as a FREE member! (This is the ONLY way to get the weekly newsletter delivered straight to your inbox every Wednesday!) You can send recommendations for future guests by clicking here. You can pick up a High School Coaches Club sticker here. Contact Max Price via Twitter or email: max@highschoolcoachesclub.com Follow High School Coaches Club on Twitter, Instagram, and Facebook. Visit highschoolcoachesclub.com for more. Powered by @nettingpros and Driveline PLUS. Get $25 off your first year as a new Driveline PLUS member by using coupon code HSCC when you check out.
This week we are recording at The Nerd Korner and we are joined by local independent film maker. we discuss his current projects and lots of horror movie talk, plus so much more
Coach Todd Wolfson is the varsity boy's basketball coach at St. Francis High School in La Cañada, California. Today we took some time to talk about why he coaches, the importance of trusting everyone in your program, doing things differently from others around you, and the importance of patience and understanding that we don't need to win the championship in the first 2-3 days of the season. Coach Wolfson can be reached via twitter at @SFHSHoops (https://twitter.com/SFHShoops?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Eauthor)
Todd Wolfson is the Head Varsity Boys Basketball Coach at Saint Francis High School in La Canada Flintridge, California, which sits just outside of Los Angeles.In addition to his coaching duties at Saint Francis, Coach Wolfson also helps develop youth basketball players at rising stars basketball.He not only led St. Francis to a State Championship in 2020, but he also led Chaminade College Prep school to a California State Championship in Division 3 and was named California D3 state coach of the year in 2014. In this episode, he explains what all coaches can learn by watching the movie "School of Rock" with Jack Black, the 6 attributes of all great culture athletes, and the four things every athlete needs to succeed. Twitter: @SFHShoopsTwitter Dave Grendzynski: @grizzer21 Twitter Courtside: @courtsidepod1
Todd Wolfson ( @SFHSHoops ) is a high school basketball coach in the LA area at St. Francis High School winning state championships in 2014 and 2020. Featured on ESPN and well known for his stance on the privatization of high school sports, Coach Wolfson's candor and authenticity is a refreshing listen. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/coachcahillshow/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/coachcahillshow/support
On the premier of Just Recruiting, Jonathan sounds off on why viewers and listeners of the show have a responsibility to share their thoughts and insights, especially when they disagree with him. Esteemed Head Coach Todd Wolfson of St. Francis High School (CA) - and 2020 CIF state champion - joins the show to discuss the current state of high school sports, recruiting during COVID times, and how coaches and athletes should approach the upcoming seasons in their sports.
Coach Goosen and Coach Escoto visit with St. Francis HS coach Todd Wolfson and Idaho St. Assistant Coach Chris McMillan
Creator and cohost of AirPlay and Determined Women, Coni’s works have been published and performed all over the globe.Tonight’s play “Josie in the Bardo” was conceived as a commission in 2019 for The Voire Dire Project at Cosmic Orchid Theatre and produced by Liz Amadio, Artistic Director. It’s most recent performance was at the Broadway Bound Festival on 42nd St, directed by GlenoraBlackshire.“Josie in the Bardo” looks deep into reincarnation trying to uncover its purpose and process.Our director and narrator tonight is :Byron C. Saunders - Arts Management Consultant / Actor / Director / Producer / Historian…working as an independent Arts Management Consultant…for over 40 years assisting artists and arts organizations with grants administration, fund development, marketing, public relations, event planning, capacity growth and development with extensive experience in managing and raising funds for an organization’s budget.My experiences have included CEO for professional theater companies, museums, and an arts council. I have also served on several arts panels for the NEA/Expansion Arts Program, NYC Department of Cultural Affairs/Theatre Panel, NY Foundation for the Arts/Theater, and the NY State Council on the Arts/SAS panel. In the State of Georgia, I served as the Executive Director for the DeKalb County Council for the Arts; Georgia Council for the Arts/Grassroots Arts Program Administrator; as a panel member for the Fulton County Arts Council/Museum; Cultural Affairs/City of Atlanta Theater panel, and Southern Arts Federation/Theater panels. In NYC, I was the Executive Director at the Queens Historical Society for 8 years preserving the history of Queens NYC, headquartered at the Kingsland Homestead (Flushing, NY). I also served for 3 years as General Manager for Black Spectrum Theater located in Jamaica, NYC. From 2009-2011, I was the Executive Director for the Wyckoff Farmhouse Association/Wyckoff Farmhouse Museum (NYC and NY State’s oldest historic landmark built in 1652 and one of the ten oldest wooden structures in the US located in East Flatbush, Brooklyn, NY).CASTIn the role of Josie IsLani Cerveris Cataldi is an actress and singer-songwriter/composer. Lani is co-founder and Creative Director of the Gemini Theater Company, Pittasburgh, PA. Lani has performed with Pittsburgh's CLO, regional theaters across the country, has appeared in motion pictures, TV films, industrials, commercials, and has done character voices for the McGraw-Hill Macmillan's national reading series. Some of her most notable roles include Aldonza (Man of La Mancha), Miss Hannigan (Annie), The Witch (Into the Woods) and The Gypsy (Tommy For the past 2 years Lani has been involved in various theatrical projects in NYC, including co-starring in After Life at the Theater for the New City and performing a one-woman show, The Shadow Dancer, at the Manhattan Repertory Theatre as well as composing and sound designing for several New York productions. Most recently, Lani co-starred in the indy film Turtle Island.Lani’s work can be heard and seen on stage and screen in NY and all over the world.Playing Josie’s Higher Self is Beth Griffith Beth Griffith singer/actor, graduates from The Bardo, 6/21, to Kingdom Comewith Coni- love it!This past year, Beth has performed with Clubbed Thumb, New Georges, Crossways Theater, Medicine Show Theatre, Theater For The New City, New York Workshop Theater, Ars Nova’s Makers Lab, Music We’d Like to Hear (London), Sachiyo Ito’s DanceJapan. Upcoming: Ten by Tennessee with Out Of The Box Theatre, Moravia Music in BrnoThe role of Freddie, Josie’s jealous ex lover, will beDavid Ogrodowski is an Award winning actor, writer, director, and producer, known for his work with Herrings the series, Bodyfarm the movie, Flickr the series, and hundreds of other films and shorts. He produces The Pittsburgh Uncut Film Festival, and has several other film projects.He began his film career performing in 48 hour film festivals, and other short film festivals, where he received several Best Actor awards. In 2016, he landed the lead role in Herrings the web series, produced by Keith Chamberlain, which has gone on to win several awards at international film festivals, including several best actor nominations, and is currently in production on season three. He can also be seen in Bodyfarm produced by Brandon Keenan and Nick LaMantia, Batshit produced by Todd Wolfson, and Flickr, produced by Tom Savini. Other works include hundreds of short films where he has played both lead and supporting roles. His stage career which begin with the Pittsburgh opera as a supernumerary, has expanded to local theaters where he has played both supporting and lead roles. He produces The Pittsburgh Uncut Film Festival and is currently working on several films to be released next year.
Creator and cohost of AirPlay and Determined Women, Coni’s works have been published and performed all over the globe.Tonight’s play “Josie in the Bardo” was conceived as a commission in 2019 for The Voire Dire Project at Cosmic Orchid Theatre and produced by Liz Amadio, Artistic Director. It’s most recent performance was at the Broadway Bound Festival on 42nd St, directed by GlenoraBlackshire.“Josie in the Bardo” looks deep into reincarnation trying to uncover its purpose and process.Our director and narrator tonight is :Byron C. Saunders - Arts Management Consultant / Actor / Director / Producer / Historian…working as an independent Arts Management Consultant…for over 40 years assisting artists and arts organizations with grants administration, fund development, marketing, public relations, event planning, capacity growth and development with extensive experience in managing and raising funds for an organization’s budget.My experiences have included CEO for professional theater companies, museums, and an arts council. I have also served on several arts panels for the NEA/Expansion Arts Program, NYC Department of Cultural Affairs/Theatre Panel, NY Foundation for the Arts/Theater, and the NY State Council on the Arts/SAS panel. In the State of Georgia, I served as the Executive Director for the DeKalb County Council for the Arts; Georgia Council for the Arts/Grassroots Arts Program Administrator; as a panel member for the Fulton County Arts Council/Museum; Cultural Affairs/City of Atlanta Theater panel, and Southern Arts Federation/Theater panels. In NYC, I was the Executive Director at the Queens Historical Society for 8 years preserving the history of Queens NYC, headquartered at the Kingsland Homestead (Flushing, NY). I also served for 3 years as General Manager for Black Spectrum Theater located in Jamaica, NYC. From 2009-2011, I was the Executive Director for the Wyckoff Farmhouse Association/Wyckoff Farmhouse Museum (NYC and NY State’s oldest historic landmark built in 1652 and one of the ten oldest wooden structures in the US located in East Flatbush, Brooklyn, NY).CASTIn the role of Josie IsLani Cerveris Cataldi is an actress and singer-songwriter/composer. Lani is co-founder and Creative Director of the Gemini Theater Company, Pittasburgh, PA. Lani has performed with Pittsburgh's CLO, regional theaters across the country, has appeared in motion pictures, TV films, industrials, commercials, and has done character voices for the McGraw-Hill Macmillan's national reading series. Some of her most notable roles include Aldonza (Man of La Mancha), Miss Hannigan (Annie), The Witch (Into the Woods) and The Gypsy (Tommy For the past 2 years Lani has been involved in various theatrical projects in NYC, including co-starring in After Life at the Theater for the New City and performing a one-woman show, The Shadow Dancer, at the Manhattan Repertory Theatre as well as composing and sound designing for several New York productions. Most recently, Lani co-starred in the indy film Turtle Island.Lani’s work can be heard and seen on stage and screen in NY and all over the world.Playing Josie’s Higher Self is Beth Griffith Beth Griffith singer/actor, graduates from The Bardo, 6/21, to Kingdom Comewith Coni- love it!This past year, Beth has performed with Clubbed Thumb, New Georges, Crossways Theater, Medicine Show Theatre, Theater For The New City, New York Workshop Theater, Ars Nova’s Makers Lab, Music We’d Like to Hear (London), Sachiyo Ito’s DanceJapan. Upcoming: Ten by Tennessee with Out Of The Box Theatre, Moravia Music in BrnoThe role of Freddie, Josie’s jealous ex lover, will beDavid Ogrodowski is an Award winning actor, writer, director, and producer, known for his work with Herrings the series, Bodyfarm the movie, Flickr the series, and hundreds of other films and shorts. He produces The Pittsburgh Uncut Film Festival, and has several other film projects.He began his film career performing in 48 hour film festivals, and other short film festivals, where he received several Best Actor awards. In 2016, he landed the lead role in Herrings the web series, produced by Keith Chamberlain, which has gone on to win several awards at international film festivals, including several best actor nominations, and is currently in production on season three. He can also be seen in Bodyfarm produced by Brandon Keenan and Nick LaMantia, Batshit produced by Todd Wolfson, and Flickr, produced by Tom Savini. Other works include hundreds of short films where he has played both lead and supporting roles. His stage career which begin with the Pittsburgh opera as a supernumerary, has expanded to local theaters where he has played both supporting and lead roles. He produces The Pittsburgh Uncut Film Festival and is currently working on several films to be released next year.
In our interview with Todd, we talk about the importance of networking, marketing for the indie filmmaker, and we talk about his first feature film "BatShit", among a bunch of other things...
In this week’s podcast, Scorebook Live California reporter Connor Morrissette speaks with St. Francis head basketball coach Todd Wolfson about how COVID-19 is affecting his basketball program, what he learned from his team's Southern Section Division 2AA championship defeat to Santa Clarita Christian, why this past season was his favorite year in coaching ever and much more.
In this week’s podcast, Scorebook Live California reporter Connor Morrissette speaks with St. Francis head basketball coach Todd Wolfson about how COVID-19 is affecting his basketball program, what he learned from his team's Southern Section Division 2AA championship defeat to Santa Clarita Christian, why this past season was his favorite year in coaching ever and much more.
Todd Wolfson is the Boys’ Head Varsity Basketball Coach at St. Francis High School in California. Growing up in the San Fernando Valley as a three year varsity player at El Camino Real High School in Woodland Hills, Todd always knew he wanted to become a high school coach. Wolfson attended UC Santa Barbara where he studied communications and his focus switched from playing to coaching. Wolfson began his coaching career at his alma mater spending two season at El Camino Real High School from 2005-2007. In 2007 Todd took over the program at Chaminade High School where in 2014 Coach Wolfson’s Eagles went 27-6 and won the first ever California State Championship in the history of the school. Todd was named CIF coach of the year in 2009, the youngest coach to ever receive that honor. Wolfson took over the St. Francis Golden Knights Basketball Team in 2015. By 2018 the team won 24 games and reached the 3rd round of the CIF playoffs and in 2019 the Golden Knights advanced to the CIF California State Championship game. Coach Wolfson’s philosophy always circles back to the question, "Is this putting my teammates before myself." If you have a chance to leave us a 5 star rating and review on your favorite podcast app we would really appreciate it. Tell your friends in the coaching community about the show and make sure you’re subscribed so you never miss an episode. Check out hoopheadspod.com where you can listen to every episode we’ve ever recorded and find out more about what drives our show. You can also sign up to receive our weekly newsletter to gain even more access to great content from our guests. Get ready to take some notes as you listen to this episode with Todd Wolfson from St. Francis High School in the state of California. Email - coachwolfson@gmail.com Twitter - @SFHShoops Support this podcast
With the NBA postponed for the time being, do the Lakers or Clippers benefit most? Arash Markazi joins the show. St. Francis head basketball coach, Todd Wolfson joins the show.
Happy 2020! A lot has changed in basketball over the past decade and I had a chance to talk about everything from Social Media to Steph Curry with St. Francis’ head coach Todd Wolfson. His motto “We’re not just collecting talent, we’re building a program” was definitely on display as the Golden Knights pulled out … Continued
Join me, Sam Fisch as I talk Batshit, horror, and movies with filmmaker Todd Wolfson live from Grossfest!!!!
Interview W/ Todd Wolfson Facebook Group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/1493771247363136/ Contact: grovershroyer13@yahoo.com Youtube Channels https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCSv3-HM0mqZ1ncm2dFNBJXw https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCZo6n_-PTWPRyErU1TvBbvw
Loved having La Canada St Francis High School Head Coach Todd Wolfson stops by the BCLE (Be Contagious Leadership Experience)! Todd coaches at the high school I attended many years ago and when he was named head coach I was pretty excited! He had won a championship with Chaminade high school and now he was given the chance to build the SF program! Whats really interesting is that I actually coached Todd in the Rockfish spring league when he was a freshman in high school! In this episode we talk about his leadership style and how coaching and leading young people is a skill that needs to be honed over time! You will love his energy and outlook on coaching! Sit back and enjoy the conversation! Twitter - @SFHShoops
Volume 3 Chapter 44 of the Necrocasticon is judging a book by its cover as we talk about the artists that catch our eye time and time again. From Drew Struzan to Richard Amsel and from HR Gieger to Derek Riggs and everyone else, we'll tell you why their art has become iconic. To help us out, coming back for her second appearance on The Necrocasticon is author Erin Kelly, who moonlights as art teacher Amy Baker when she's not working on her MOONLIGHT series of Urban Fantasy horror novels. Plus Tom kiss and tells on Veronica, Walt's brewing up some new Judas Priest in the smoker, and Tom got to talk to another previous guest on the Necrocasticon, indy film maker Todd Wolfson, the man behind 8 Bit Blood Bath is back with a new one – and he's going BATS(redacted for iTunes)T!
In this Episode of “This Song,” host Elizabeth McQueen sits down with singer-songwriter Laura Marling and photographer Todd Wolfson to talk about songs that gave them a greater understanding of freedom and transcendence. You can hear Laura Marling’s Studio 1A performance here. You can download Laura Marling’s cover of Towne’s Van Zandt’s “For the Sake of the […]
In this Episode of “This Song,” host Elizabeth McQueen sits down with singer-songwriter Laura Marling and photographer Todd Wolfson to talk about songs that gave them a greater understanding of freedom and transcendence. You can hear Laura Marling’s Studio 1A performance here. You can download Laura Marling’s cover of Towne’s Van Zandt’s “For the Sake of the […]
Todd Wolfson’s book, Digital Rebellion: The Birth of the Cyber Left (University of Illinois Press, 2014) examines the impact of new media and communication technologies on the spatial, strategic, and organizational fabric of social movements. Wolfson explores how aspects of the mid-1990s Zapatistas movement—network organizational structure, participatory democratic governance, and the use of communication tools as a binding agent—became essential parts of Indymedia and other Cyber Left organizations. From there he uses oral interviews and other rich ethnographic data to chart the media-based think tanks and experiments that continued the Cyber Left’s evolution through the Independent Media Center’s birth around the 1999 WTO protests in Seattle. Melding virtual and traditional ethnographic practice to explore the Cyber Left’s cultural logic, Wolfson maps the social, spatial and communicative structure of the Indymedia network and details its operations on the local, national and global level. He looks at the participatory democracy that governs global social movements and the ways democracy and decentralization have come into tension, and how “the switchboard of struggle” conducts stories from the hyper-local and disperses them worldwide. As he shows, understanding the intersection of Indymedia and the Global Social Justice Movement illuminates their foundational role in the Occupy struggle and other emergent movements that have re-energized radical politics. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Todd Wolfson’s book, Digital Rebellion: The Birth of the Cyber Left (University of Illinois Press, 2014) examines the impact of new media and communication technologies on the spatial, strategic, and organizational fabric of social movements. Wolfson explores how aspects of the mid-1990s Zapatistas movement—network organizational structure, participatory democratic governance, and the use of communication tools as a binding agent—became essential parts of Indymedia and other Cyber Left organizations. From there he uses oral interviews and other rich ethnographic data to chart the media-based think tanks and experiments that continued the Cyber Left’s evolution through the Independent Media Center’s birth around the 1999 WTO protests in Seattle. Melding virtual and traditional ethnographic practice to explore the Cyber Left’s cultural logic, Wolfson maps the social, spatial and communicative structure of the Indymedia network and details its operations on the local, national and global level. He looks at the participatory democracy that governs global social movements and the ways democracy and decentralization have come into tension, and how “the switchboard of struggle” conducts stories from the hyper-local and disperses them worldwide. As he shows, understanding the intersection of Indymedia and the Global Social Justice Movement illuminates their foundational role in the Occupy struggle and other emergent movements that have re-energized radical politics. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Todd Wolfson’s book, Digital Rebellion: The Birth of the Cyber Left (University of Illinois Press, 2014) examines the impact of new media and communication technologies on the spatial, strategic, and organizational fabric of social movements. Wolfson explores how aspects of the mid-1990s Zapatistas movement—network organizational structure, participatory democratic governance, and the use of communication tools as a binding agent—became essential parts of Indymedia and other Cyber Left organizations. From there he uses oral interviews and other rich ethnographic data to chart the media-based think tanks and experiments that continued the Cyber Left’s evolution through the Independent Media Center’s birth around the 1999 WTO protests in Seattle. Melding virtual and traditional ethnographic practice to explore the Cyber Left’s cultural logic, Wolfson maps the social, spatial and communicative structure of the Indymedia network and details its operations on the local, national and global level. He looks at the participatory democracy that governs global social movements and the ways democracy and decentralization have come into tension, and how “the switchboard of struggle” conducts stories from the hyper-local and disperses them worldwide. As he shows, understanding the intersection of Indymedia and the Global Social Justice Movement illuminates their foundational role in the Occupy struggle and other emergent movements that have re-energized radical politics. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices