Machete y Mate

With better audio and internet, the fam talks about the struggle the Portland comrades are facing. LeRoy updates on the COVID sitch in Australia, its history of human rights abuses against Refugees and contradictions of its Labor history. Austin fills us in on the panel he did with MORENA from Mexico and this apparently dope ass Argentinian dude who was on it, which somehow leads to a convo on cat...

The second installment of our series on the constitution of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela. From Simón Bolívar to Hugo Chávez himself, we discuss and analyze the almost 200 year material history of the region that lead to the the drafting and ratification of this dope document. 

With terrible audio and internet connections, the homies shoot the shit about the latest Plague news from Australia, DSA stuff, Puerto Rican Party Politics, Pathetic Latinx Nazis, and Building the Commune.

The first edition of Machete Y Mate's weekly informal current events episodes. Here they talk about the Victorian government's racist, carceral response to Covid-19 cases in 9 public housing buildings in Melbourne, the feudal overlords at Disney, and the grip the Confederacy still has on Richmond's identity.

The second part of the homies talking about the constitution of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela, including the dickhead of the day: Juan Guaidó. Don't forget to check out the first part for the whole conversation.

The homies discuss some of their favorite parts of the governing document of the (hot take) most successful democratic socialist project, Part 1. Look out for part 2 to hear the whole convo!

T and Austin update us on what's been going on in VA and the US since we last met. LeRoy talks about his experiences at the Melbourne Demonstration, almost throwing down with a cop, and trying not to extinguish a MAGA hat wearing, off duty riot cop on the train home. Special new segment as well: Machete y Mate's Dickhead of the day! Enjoy and Solidarity!

We put this together as a response in full solidarity to the mass unrest and in rejection of the Police violence. LeRoy talks about the Australian reaction, the brothers detail their first hand accounts about the protests in Richmond, VA, and a whole bunch of analysis thrown. We also make fun of His Majesty Louis XX.

Imagine feeling alien in your land that you've inhabited for 80,000 years. Here we discuss the establishment of the Aboriginal Tent Embassy by Aboriginal Australians as a rallying point for the struggle for land rights.

The compas LeRoy, Austin, and T discuss identity and language as a colonial and decolonial tool and their experience navigating multilingualism (English, Spanish, ASL).  Pa'lante!