A show that brings light to the doom and gloom of the everyday dystopia that we are living in, but never shies away the hard reality. Two brothers striving to thrive, build community and stay connected.
Episodes
Monday Jun 01, 2020
Monday Jun 01, 2020
This was a hard show this week. On the one hand, we felt like what do two white guys have to say on the topics of white supremacy and police brutality? On the other hand, we didn’t want to ignore the world around us. We certainly do not have any answers. Check our references for more useful people to listen to and read. If you do listen, please give us feedback. Thanks to Joe Schine for Art, and Drake Stafford and Cullah for music.
Local activists discuss Why Does This Keep on Happening in Minneapolis?
Background on how riots work and How Nonviolence Ain’t What it Used to Be
To learn more about prison and police abolition, see this great article.
Keannga Yemahtta-Taylor on defunding the police.
How Non-Violence Protects the State and Pacifism as Pathology as references for where pacifism has let social movements down
Robin Kelley’s idea of “shelter in revolution” on this podcast
Democracy Now, The Root, Last Week Tonight, and The Daily Show for news
The New Abnormal by the Strokes
Mistborn Trilogy and the way of Kings trilogy by Brandon Sanderson
Email: davepeachtree@gmail.com
Twitter: @BMaze19
Tuesday May 26, 2020
Tuesday May 26, 2020
A deep dive into radical publishing and anarchist literature, as well as a book that has been a big influence for us over the past months Joyful Militancy. This one is a heavy hitter!
There are a few people to thank. Joe Schine for the amazing art. Drake Stafford for the intro song, and Cullah for the outro song. Really we are just so excited that this is happening and can't wait to go on the journey with you all. Below are the show notes from the third episode. Thanks for the listen.
New York Times front page on 100,000 U.S. COVID deaths
Jeremiah Johnson’s epic beard. Dave’s beard is on its way.
The idea of Haunting and Avery Gordon’s work on it. “Whiteness is haunted by the trauma that created it.”
Whiteness as a social and political category and control of imagination. An excellent essay by Claudia Rankine.
Parable of the Sower and Parable of the Talents and Octavia Butler’s prophetic voice.
N.K. Jemisin’s Broken Earth Trilogy is not to be missed.
AK Press’s website. They have great sales right now. Including 50% of Joyful Militancy.
How to Survive the End of the World podcast with adrienne maree brown and Autumn Brown.
“The Boys” on Amazon Prime.
The Marble Olympics on youtube.
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Monday May 25, 2020
Monday May 25, 2020
We talk about food in our lives, the world, and in dystopias. Plus we start a new segment called tuned in.
There are a few people to thank. Joe Schine for the amazing art. Drake Stafford for the intro song, and Cullah for the outro song. Really we are just so excited that this is happening and can't wait to go on the journey with you all. Below are the show notes from the second episode. Thanks for the listen.
If you like us and rate us that helps out a lot. Also here is how to contact us.
Bob at BMaze19 @twitter
Dave at Davepeachtree@gmail.com
We talked about 4 dystopias on the show today. They were: Hunger Games, Idiocracy
Demolition Man, and Wall E.
Examples of utopias are: green utopia and scientific utopia.
Cloud City on Tibanna is the planet that Lando’s from.
The long lines for food pantries are captured here in pictures.
In intersecting systems of extraction, 45 keeps meat plants open. Dave claimed 20% of virus spreads in meat packing plants. That could very much be the case. This article says 1 in 6 COVID cases are meat packers.
Cuba has been dealing with food insecurity for decades. They have been a leader in urban and low-resource gardening. This doc changed the way we see the world: Cuba and local food
“To change everything, start anywhere.” Direct action changes our lives and Crimethinc knows it.
Monday May 25, 2020
Monday May 25, 2020
Welcome to the first episode. There are a few people to thank. Joe Schine for the amazing art. Drake Stafford for the intro song, and Cullah for the outro song. Really we are just so excited that this is happening and can't wait to go on the journey with you all. Below are the show notes from the first episode. Thanks for the listen.
If you like us and rate us that helps out a lot. Also here is how to contact us.
Bob at BMaze19 @twitter
Dave at Davepeachtree@gmail.com
Four people killed and 13 shot at at Kent State University in Ohio on May 4, 1970.
Star Wars Day started in 2011. “May the Fourth” be with you.
Hay Market Riots started with a bomb that was thrown into a crowd on May 4 in Hay Market Square in Chicago in 1886. It was never determined who threw the bomb, but 9 labor organizers/anarchists were executed for plotting a riot. There is evidence that the bomb was thrown by the police.
Dave and Al married April, 19th 2014
The name of the class that Dave took at CU was a writing course called “Topics in Writing: Dystopias” taught by the great Jim “Jam” Miller.
“Crazy” is an ableist word. I’m sorry I used it.
Children of Men. Is a dystopian movie directed by Alfonso Cuaron, staring Clive Owen and Julianne Moore. The plot takes place in 2027 after 2 decades of human infertility.
1984 by George Orwell. This is Orwell’s last and perhaps greatest book.
Back to the Future came out in 1985.
COLA struggle at UCSC. The struggle started in Fall quarter of 2019 with a grading strike. It escalated to a full strike with a large picket in Winter quarter. The university used militarized police, surveillance, and extreme punishment to break the strike. The university faces a unfair labor practice lawsuit in the wake of this repression.
Japanese Knotweed is a prolific plant.
Emergent Strategy and biomimicry. Emergent Strategy is a book by adrienne maree brown, who has a podcast called How to Survive the End of the World. We will return to her work in episode 3.
Beyond Survival by Ejeris Dixon and Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha focuses on alternatives to retributive justice and the prison system for communities in struggle.