Episode 4: "Not Even Babies Get a Free Lunch"

Jul 17, 2018

On the latest episode of Coffee with Comrades, Bree and Pearson explore late-stage capitalism’s neoliberal paradigms.

Today’s News:

• Liberate Stonybrook
• Migrant Mothers in ICE detention facilities are staging hunger-strikes to demand calls with their separated children
• Standing Rock water protectors face jail time for civil disobedience
• J20 defendants fight back
• Anti-Antifascist Bill
• Alerta, alerta! Antifascista! Shut it down in DC
• Over a hundred thousand protesters in the UK mock Trump

So, what is neoliberalism? After providing a brief history of economics, Bree and Pearson unpack their definition:

neoliberalism (n): a twentieth century update of classic economics generally characterized by deregulation, open markets, privatization, globalization, financialization, and fiscal austerity.

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Poor yourself a cup of coffee and enjoy the episode!

Music:

• Intro: Woody Guthrie, “I Ain’t Got No Home in this World”
• Outro: Killer Mike, “Reagan”