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The year 2020 has caused many white people to realize we live in a racist system. The Green New Deal is about systemic change for all, and deconstructing racism must be front and central in this agenda.
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Act Out! [168] - Crushing Colonialism: A Conversation with Jen Deerinwater
This week on Act Out!, we sit down with Jen Deerinwater to discuss the colonialist paradigm, anti-native behaviors in the everyday, and two-spirits in a singular world.
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Act Out! [166] - U.S. Empire's South American Toolkit
We sit down with Kevin Zeese who has recently returned from Venezuela to talk elections, economic warfare and media blockades, and we also take a look at Nicaragua which finds itself in the crosshairs.
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Act Out! [165] - Devaluing Survivors, Criminalizing Dissent & Creating Utopia
A backlog that's symptomatic of a patriarchal system that not only devalues women but devalues survivors of sexual assault.
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Act Out! [164] - Military Industrial Preschools, Corporate Slapps & Three Sisters vs. A Pipeline
The war machine is now branching out – into early childhood education. Meanwhile, Coke's bogus greenwashing, and how corporations use courts to SLAPP down their opponents.
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Act Out! [163] - How Corporate Media Protects Racists, Regulating Regulators & Fighting for Freedom After Slavery
This week on Act Out! When a regulatory institution doesn't regulate—but rather rubber stamps dirty energy projects for fossil fuel companies destroying our land, air and water—what tactics should you consider?
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Act Out! [162] - Inside the C.I.A., Facial UnRecognition & Bills for Blue Lives
Facial recognition is here, but far from being the slick Bond-style tech of tomorrow, it can't seem to recognize faces very well—and it's the hands of the untrained and apparently senile.
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Act Out! [161] - Grandmas in the Gutter, The Hidden Employment Stats & Puerto Rico’s Ongoing Disaster
This week on Act Out! UC workers strike but find a foe where the friendlies should be – an unfortunately familiar story.
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Act Out! [160] - Illegal Recycling, The Framing of Iran & The Woman at Starbucks You Didn’t Hear About
Water wars in the West are heating up – and did you know you could go to jail for more than a year for recycling? Next, Iran is on our shit list now more than ever, but why? And who actually deserves that prime spot?
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Act Out! [159] - How To Build a Direct Democracy + The Colonial Death Motto of Our Healthcare System
A grotesque and yet not altogether surprising admission from our for-profit-healthcare system. And the Trump administration has a new idea on how to further oppress and torture indigenous peoples.
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Act Out! [158] - May Day is American: Know Your History & Why May 1st Matters
A special episode dedicated to the past that built our present that'll dictate our future. We look at the upcoming bicentenary of Karl Marx's birthday, then dive deep into May 1st – International Workers' Day.
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By infecting three of the world’s most right-wing leaders, the coronavirus underscored not only the incompetence and irresponsibility of their governments – but the truth that their brand of populism doesn't keep people safe.
Corporations are not "too big to fail" and, when they commit crimes, they are not "too big to jail." As David Whyte writes in his new book, "Ecocide: Kill the Corporation Before It Kills Us," the moment is now to rein in out-of-control corporate power.
The world has lost an incredible thinker and doer. I have lost an amazing friend. A void exists where before it was filled with David's optimism, humour and joy.
Kevin fought to bring truth every day. We must not lose this struggle.
The year 2020 has caused many white people to realize we live in a racist system. The Green New Deal is about systemic change for all, and deconstructing racism must be front and central in this agenda.
By infecting three of the world’s most right-wing leaders, the coronavirus underscored not only the incompetence and irresponsibility of their governments – but the truth that their brand of populism doesn't keep people safe.
Corporations are not "too big to fail" and, when they commit crimes, they are not "too big to jail." As David Whyte writes in his new book, "Ecocide: Kill the Corporation Before It Kills Us," the moment is now to rein in out-of-control corporate power.
The world has lost an incredible thinker and doer. I have lost an amazing friend. A void exists where before it was filled with David's optimism, humour and joy.
Kevin fought to bring truth every day. We must not lose this struggle.
