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Editorial Board — Crackdown Podcast:

Drug User Activism

Crackdown comes from the tradition of organized drug user activism.

In the ‘90s—activists in Vancouver, some who used drugs and some who didn’t, had an idea: they were going to start a union of drug users. The Vancouver Area Network of Drug Users (VANDU) was created in 1997.

Eventually VANDU got a couple of small grants. They used the money to rent a storefront. They spread the word that this space was going to be a kind of drop-in centre for drug users. They held revolutionary political reading groups there. They planned rallies. And they took care of people who needed help.

Crackdown’s Editorial Board consists of some of Vancouver’s most tenacious drug user activists, including members of VANDU, the BC Association of People on Opiate Maintenance (BCAPOM), and the Western Aboriginal Harm Reduction Society (WAHRS).

We have experience with heroin, crack and speed; homelessness and jail; of the Sixties Scoop, where Indigenous kids got taken away from their parents - which is still happening. But we also have experience testifying before parliamentary committees, or at the Supreme Court. We’ve lobbied prime ministers and international dignitaries.

No one else is coming to save us. We have to save ourselves.

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My podcast feed is looking pretty light these days. Looking for recommendations, especially if they have a leftist bent.

• Panama was a Colombian district until the USA, taking advantage of Colombia's internal strife, orchestrated it's separation in 1903 to facilitate construction of the Panama canal
• FARC, while officially distancing themselves from all tendencies, were closest to the Maoists in tactics by virtue of the largely agrarian nature of the Colombian economy
• the ELN, another armed revolutionary group, are largely Catholic and seem to practice some form of revolutionary theology (this one took me by surprise; I would've never associated Catholicism with revolutionary mindset)
• Yair Klein, an Israeli mercenary (seems redundant), played a major part in the training of right-wing death squads who were responsible for a wide variety of atrocities from assassinations to large-scale massacres (even academics/teachers were not spared since they formed such a large part of Colombia's unionized workforce)
• Book Recommendation: Full Spectrum Disorder: The Military in the New American Century; a US veteran's memoir with a critical view on the US's imperial ambitions that also covers their interests in Colombia

Some unrelated things that I found interesting:

• Alexei Nalvany, the Russian opposition leader and darling of liberals everywhere, was a key ally to Russia's anti-immigration and skinhead elements
• The American Civil War saw the use of IEDs in the form of booby-trapped artillery shells by the Confederates (this apparently made Sherman pretty mad)

Does anyone have an RSS feed for the premium that I can use in my podcast app?

We're joined by JT Chapman from the First Thought and Second Thought YouTube channels, and The Deprogram podcast, to recap the recent UAW strike, how the working class won big, and how this might lead to a general strike.

Plus: Elon is up to his usual union-busting antics, but this time he's up against nearly every union in Sweden. And the Cybertruck roll out hasn't gone as smoothly as he would've liked.

But first: JT's hotrod Volvo project.

Main topic at 54:13

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This page has easy to grab mp3 links - American Carnage • Podcast Addict

American Carnage

The United States has always prided itself in settling its differences civically — at the ballot box, in the courts, and in the halls of Congress. In American Carnage, reporter Jeff Stein examines key moments in our nation's past to figure out what drives political change, and if the price of progress is instead measured in blood.

The first season, “Old Man Brown,” is a five-part investigation of the life and times of Captain John Brown, the 19th Century radical abolitionist who helped spark the Civil War. Our story takes us from the frozen mountains of upstate New York, to the bloodied plains of Kansas, to the gilded mansions of New England, and, finally, to the woods of Appalachia, where Brown and his small army made their stand at Harper’s Ferry.

Along the way, we’ll ask the hard questions about Brown. Were his (sometimes shocking) acts of violence justified? Could slavery have been abolished without his interventions? What went wrong at Harper’s Ferry? And how far would you be willing to go to fight evil?

I don't know more about it because I haven't started listening to it yet.

And half the reception is "Great!" "Pragmatic"!

My country is entering the "just get a guy from the town to do it" prophecy from Trashfuture

SHOW NOTES

We kick off the new year by answering your questions from the TMK Discord! We talk about the video game industry, our writing / composing processes, advice for trying to break into critical tech journalism, plus more. And much more to come in part 2 over in the Patreon feed, where we keep going with the Q&A.

I am still fascinated with The Product, even if I have no intention of purchasing or playing it. Still listening, but some interesting tidbits so far are Braces reiteration that he isn't (legally) making any money on the game, and that one thing that inflated the cost of the game were the legal fees to have it reviewed to make sure it wouldn't be actionable in court. He also confirmed that courting negative media attention was 100% intentional and part of the game's marketing strategy.

The moonies and their involvement in the January 6th hog’s rebellion at the Capitol.

When an instrument of the deep state comes back to try to destroy the deep state. Another instance of blowback.

34#. Questions and Answers pt3. "Red Shamans of The Communist Kalpa" 22 DEC 2023 · THE RETURN OF THE REPRESSED. 01:39:42

In these dark times its difficult to find reason for making believe, this will all change once you hit play. Answering Reid for almost two hours I will do my outmost to lift you spirits to unknown heights. Counterintuitively by taking a deep dive in to Chinese secret societies, covering thousands of years, culminating in a communist community exorcism by the black and red Dao. We are talking apotropaic magic, the swallowing of protective charms, anti-fascist Kung Fu fighting, mystic mind-control and brain washing in the Tang dynasty, social tech of the Henan peasantry and the socialist Shaolin monks who would liberate Beijing from the compradors, the war and drug lords as well as imperialist invaders. God Jul to all followers, occasional listeners and foremost supportive patrons! As always if you like the thought-through homemade covers, the meticulously sampled music, the painstaking congenial research and the many hours of attempting to edit together esthetically pleasing, inspiring and educational content, then please give me a star on your app of choice, write a kind review if possible and why not — if you haven't already — become a paid member and gift me a small Christmas present on Patreon or Spotify. Once again God Jul and a happy New Year, sincerely hope you like this one!

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