Episode 12: "Welcome to Hell's Carnival"

Sep 11, 2018

On this week’s show, Bree and Pearson are temporarily ditching the theory section to deliver you an episode entirely centered around current events. Tread carefully, this edition of Coffee with Comrades is a whirlwind tour of the past week’s highs and lows. Let’s dig in:

• Hurricane Florence is barreling towards the Carolinas. Mutual Aid Disaster Relief offers a vision of resilient, community-centered response.
• September 9 marked the ostensible end of the Prison Strike but the fight for abolition continues.
• The Florida DOC is taking away inmates MP3 players...because profit.
• The UN’s efforts to broker peace talks in Yemen between the Houthis rebels and the U.S.-backed Saudi/UAE coalition have collapsed. In response, the coalition began bombing the port of Hodeida, which is responsible for 70% of the imports to Yemen (including international humanitarian aid.)
• Elon Musk is smoking weed while millions of black folks are locked in prisons for the same offense.
• Nike cynically exploits Kaepernick to sell sneakers.
• A cowardly Trump official hid behind anonymity in the New York Times opinion page. The Intercept’s Mendhi Hasan took the op-ed writer to task.
• Obama disses Trump, accidentally self-owns.
• Amazon has patented a system that would put workers in a cage, on top of a robot. Seriously.
• An Ohio police officer used a taser on an eleven-year-old girl suspected of shop-lifting.
• Brett Kavanaugh, a milquetoast Republican, is likely to be the new supreme court justice.
• Teen VogueT is officially left of Jacobin. Check out Kim Kelly’s kick-ass intro to anarchism.

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Intro: “I Ain’t Got No Home in this World” by Woody Guthrie

Outro: “The End’s Beginning” & “Pissed Off” by Fit For A King