Episode 18: “A People’s History of Halloween” feat. Nestor of Black Banner Magic

Get ready for a spooky, jam-packed episode of Coffee with Comrades. Bree is back! What’s more, we have our comrade Nestor on the show from Black Banner Magic to talk about witchcraft, the devil’s night, and the secret history of Halloween. But first, some current events: The so-called “MAGA Bomber” is Florida man Cesar Sayoc, who sent a total of 14 mail bombs to the Clintons, Obamas, CNN, and event Robert De Niro. Meanwhile, a white supremacist opened fire at a Kroger store in Kentucky this week. White supremacist Robert Bowers walked into a synagogue in Philadelphia and opened fire, killing eleven people. Over the propaganda of “migrant caravans,” Trump is ratcheting up his attempts to “secure the border” by sending the literal fucking U.S. military to border states. History shows us the violence Central Americans are fleeing was stoked by the U.S. Jair Bolsonaro, the out-and-out, bona fide fascist, is President-elect of Brazil. One in six Americans are far-right. But white supremacy is a structural, systemic flaw of the United States. Nestor from the Black Banner Magic podcast joins us on the show to talk about Halloween’s roots in Gaelic paganism, the rebellious mischief that the holiday foments, the Great Rebellion of Detroit and the ensuing string of Devil’s Night arsons, and American capitalists’ taming of the festivities into a tepid celebration of consumerism and excess. To find out more about the Devil’s Night, read this stellar essay on the subject from Mask magazine. Please consider supporting Black Banner Magic on Patreon, where ⅔ of every dollar raised goes to the Omaha Freedom Fund! Follow Black Banner Magic on Twitter. Support Black Banner Magic on Patreon. Listen to the Black Banner Magic Podcast. Intro: “I Ain’t Got no Home in this World” by Woody Guthrie Outro: “Devil’s Night” by Motionless in White

Episode 17: “All the World’s a School” feat. ESM & Exiled Consensus

On this week’s episode of Coffee with Comrades, Sam joins Pearson once again for a discussion of current events before Pearson hosts an interview with a comrade from EngSciMath and Exiled Consensus. Current Events: Mutual Aid relief efforts in the Florida panhandle are ongoing. Panama City landlords are finishing what Hurricane Michael started. Meanwhile, the Oath Keepers got arrested in Mexico Beach, FL while “patrolling” out past curfew. Amazon is still garbage. The Trump administration’s war on our transgender comrades continues. Elizabeth Warren decided it would be a good idea to do a DNA test to “prove” her indigenous ancestry. Support Mutual Aid Disaster Relief & Autonomous Relief Efforts: Mutual Aid Disaster Relief Donation Page Tallahassee DSA Fund Florida People’s Advocacy Center Wish-list for the FL Panhandle Today’s edition of the show focuses on science, technology, engineering, and math majors and the intersections these fields have with radical left politics. A comrade from EngSciMath and Exiled Consensus join Pearson for a discussion of education, the university, and critical inquiry to envision a future divorced of capitalist schemes where emancipated free-thinkers are empowered to work for a world of justice and equality in community with one another. You can follow EngSciMath on Twitter. Get involved with the EngSciMath Slack: engscimath@protonmail.com.   Visit Exiled Consensus’s website and give him a follow on Twitter. Check out Sam’s website. Intro: “I Ain’t Got No Home in this World” by Woody Guthrie Interlude: “Yomilo” by Milo Outro: “Royal Beggars” by Architects

Episode 16: “The Truth Hurts, But the Anthropocene Might Kill You”

Sam is back for another episode of Coffee with Comrades to discuss the Anthropocene with Pearson. But first, some news: Kavanaugh was confirmed. Let’s organize to smash the patriarchy. The fascist presidential candidate Jair Bolsonaro won 48% of the vote in Brazil, which has implications for politics all across the globe. Amazon’s wage-theft continues. Major Climate Report Describes a Strong Risk of Crisis as Early as 2040. Only 100 companies are to blame for 71% of emissions. The Anthropocene is our current climate epoch, one marked by a measurable influence from humankind. Most of us know that climate change is bad–really bad. But the science is absolutely damning. As our planet is rocked by one catastrophe after another, Sam unpacks the science behind anthropogenic climate change. Together, Sam and Pearson take a sobering look at the consequences of global warming. Below are a number of sources Sam compiled for folks who are interested in fact-checking or just finding out more about this dilemma. Check out Sam’s shit-posts on Twitter. Take a gander at Sam’s website. Intro: “I Ain’t Got No Home in this World” by Woody Guthrie Outro: “Don’t Let the World Rot” by Northlane Extinction, biodiversity collapse http://www.pnas.org/content/early/2017/07/05/1704949114.full http://advances.sciencemag.org/content/1/5/e1400253?ijkey=75be8629689d630dc6b8492a3f51b89d0a73276e&keytype2=tf_ipsecsha http://www.pnas.org/content/112/25/7761?ijkey=3631ac556f47977df2a85ab80c0c4b620860569e&keytype2=tf_ipsecsha http://www.pnas.org/content/105/Supplement_1/11466?ijkey=c34cee1e03df1bef68884e5901ef8d46fad741be&keytype2=tf_ipsecsha https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/cobi.12380 http://www.pnas.org/content/115/25/6506 https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11538-015-0126-0 https://www.nature.com/articles/nclimate2722 https://www.annualreviews.org/doi/abs/10.1146/annurev.marine.010908.163855 http://science.sciencemag.org/content/348/6231/229 http://science.sciencemag.org/content/321/5891/926 Oceans, ice http://www.pnas.org/content/114/23/5946 https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-018-0501-8 Heat http://web.science.unsw.edu.au/~stevensherwood/wetbulb.html https://ksi.uconn.edu/prevention/wet-bulb-globe-temperature-monitoring/ https://www.nature.com/articles/s41561-018-0146-0 http://www.pnas.org/content/107/21/9552 ; http://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1748-9326/aaa00e Food https://www.nature.com/articles/nature16467 http://www.pnas.org/content/114/35/9326 ] https://knowledge.unccd.int/glo#the-bokk ] https://elifesciences.org/articles/02245 https://www.nature.com/articles/nature13179 https://ehp.niehs.nih.gov/doi/10.1289/EHP41 Weather https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1029/2012GL053002 https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1029/2018EF000825