Socialist News and Views

Special Interview recorded (1/2/2024) and Uploaded (4/25/2024) (Photo is from the September 20, 2019 Youth Climate Strike in St. Paul.) In this special I speak with Abu Nayeem, who is a first generation American born in Dhaka Bangladesh, raised in New York and who has lived in St. Paul Minnesota for 10 years. Nayeem is a community organizer, entrepreneur and data scientist. You can find Abu Nayeem...

NEWS + MUSIC + INTERVIEW with Choo Chon Kai (https://partisosialis.org/member/choo-chon-kai/) - Central Committee of the Socialist Party of Malaysia (PSM) NEWS: Report: Minnesota salaries aren’t keeping up with housing costs, racial disparities persist in homeownership: https://sahanjournal.com/housing/minnesota-housing-rental-report-costs-increasing/ Uber and Lyft Drivers Deserve a Living Wage: h...

Recorded (3/16/24) and Uploaded (4/11/24) In this interview we speak with Brad Sigal from the Minnesota Immigrant Rights Action Committee: MIRAC (https://www.miracmn.com/). We speak about the Legalization for all Network (https://www.facebook.com/LegalizationForAll) delegation to the US-Mexico border in Eagle Pass & Piedras Negras that Sigal was a part of in February. You can watch a video version...

(sorry we were late with posting because of technical issues) FROM THE ARCHIVE - Recorded (4/17/2022) and Uploaded (4/4/2024) This is narration from our April 2022 visit to the Mother Jones Monument and Union Miners Cemetery in Mt. Olive, Illinois. You can see the video version of this narration on the Urban Cabin Studios YouTube here----->(https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8HLIYAi9FoI&t=5s)

Special Interview Recorded (3/14/2024) and Uploaded (3/28/2024) In this special we speak with Mike Mitchell who is a member of Labour International ((https://www.labourinternational.net/)) and Branch Secretary of the Labour Party International of the Americans - the international section of the UK Labour Party in the Americas. We first met at the event Race Class & the Labor Movement: https://www....

NEWS + MUSIC + ZIONISM as a colonial project contribution from Sana Wazwaz from American Muslims for Palestine (https://www.ampalestine.org/) at Minnesota to Palestine: Teach-In and Panel Discussion (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uVbZXRMpWTk&t=3883s) NEWS: In major victory for rideshare drivers, Minneapolis Council overrides mayor’s veto on minimum pay: https://sahanjournal.com/business-work/may...

Special Interview Recorded (3/5/2024) and Uploaded (3/14/2024) In this special we speak with two amazing long-time community organizers. Dr. Rose Brewer (https://cla.umn.edu/about/directory/profile/brewe001) is a professor, activist, scholar and organizer. Brewer got involved in political organizing in the late 60s and early 70s at the height of the black liberation movement. We also speak with Ri...

The title of this Special Report is Fighting Times. The majority of the report is a book talk given by Jon Melrod (https://www.jonathanmelrod.com/) at May Day Books (https://maydaybookstore.org/) on September 30, 2023 about his book Fighting Times: Organizing on the Front Lines of the Class War (https://pmpress.org/index.php?l=product_detail&p=1289). The summary for the book says in part "Containi...

Special Interview Recorded (2/22/2024) and Uploaded (2/29/2024) In this interview I speak with Raphi Rechitsky, who was born in Kharkiv, Ukraine and has lived in Minneapolis for over a decade, he studies refugees and migration in Eastern Europe and in Ukraine especially. During the interview we discuss the Russian artist Jailed for 7 years (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QUaOm2_OEPk) after postin...

Special Interview Recorded (2/6/2024) and Uploaded (2/22/2024) In this special we speak with Bill Stodden and Stephanie Cholensky who are the Socialist Party USA candidates for President and Vice President in 2024. You can find a video of this interview with closed captions here------>(https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7cB-e2_gb78&t=7s) You can find more from Stodden/Choldensky 2024 at the following...

SPUSA Statement on Freedom of Information Access: https://www.socialistpartyusa.net/single-post/spusa-statement-on-freedom-of-information-access

NEWS + POEM + INTERVIEW with Shane from Twin Cities Democratic Socialist of America on the new Minnesota Flag. NEWS: Georgia Fort: media professional’s star keeps rising: https://spokesman-recorder.com/2024/02/09/georgia-fort-media-professionals-star-keeps-rising/ Minneapolis City Council will consider safe outdoor spaces, public health response to homeless encampments: https://sahanjournal.com/ho...

Special Interview Recorded (1/4/2024) and Uploaded (2/8/2024) (image: Albrecht Dürer, Peasant Couple Dancing, 1514, engraving) In this special we speak with Maki Ashe Van Steenwyk (she/her) (https://www.makiashe.com/) who is the Director for the Center for Prophetic Imagination in Minneapolis. Ashe is the author of A Wolf at the Gate, unKingdom, and That Holy Anarchist. Ashe also does speaking and...

*****NOTE: Please consider donating to two families evacuating Gaza----here---->(⁠https://gofund.me/0c7ac5f3 ⁠)**** Special Report (2/1/2024) The Majority of this Special is devoted to a speech from Tania Singh at the Healthcare Workers for Palestine Twin Cities Vigil for Healthcare Workers Killed in Gaza (https://www.instagram.com/p/C2YmcgTMMtB/?img_index=1). Singh was previously a staffer at Min...

Special Interview Recorded (1/18/2024) and Uploaded (1/25/2024) In this Interview we speak with Julia Doubleday, a progressive activist, climate advocate, and writer. She publishes The Gauntlet Substack (https://www.thegauntlet.news/) which discusses COVID and the Long COVID crisis. You can view a video version of this interview here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0bE3qPwgTvo Links to items disc...

NEWS + WORDS + SPEECH by Sherry Wolf from February 28, 2011 NEWS: Minneapolis city council moves forward Palestine resolution: https://fightbacknews.org/articles/minneapolis-city-council-moves-forward-palestine-resolution Genocide case exposes and humiliates Israeli state: https://socialistworker.co.uk/background-check/genocide-case-exposes-and-humiliates-israeli-state/# All This For A Myth: We Ha...

Special Interview Recorded (12/14/23) and Uploaded (1/11/24) In this special we speak with Alexis Zeigler, a Founder of Living Energy Farm (https://livingenergyfarm.org/) and Writer who published the book Integrated Activism - Applying the Hidden Connections Between Ecology, Economics, Politics, and Social Progress (Available here from North Atlantic Books: https://www.northatlanticbooks.com/shop/...

*****EVENT POSTPONED***** - Gertrude Brown Community Land Trust: https://www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=751399703685681&set=a.625066649652321 UPCOMING EVENT** Special Interview Recorded (9/21/2023) and Uploaded (1/4/2024) In this special we speak with Abigail and Manuel from the Gertrude Brown Community Land Trust (https://www.gbclt.org/). We discuss their tabling in the fall of 2023 and their first...

Holiday Special Report (12/28/2023) In this Holiday Special Report we share a recipe, conduct an interview about the basics of Islam, read an essay by Malcolm X and share a song. Link to items from the special: Kandil – five holy nights in the Islamic world: https://www.insideoutinistanbul.com/kandil/ Kandil (Wikipedia): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kandil LOKMA (TURKISH FRIED DOUGH): https://www...

NEWS + AUDIO FROM THE LOST 40 In THE LOST FORTY9th EPISODE we do something a little different. I thought we needed to get out in nature for awhile. This episode came about because of an error I made earlier this year. The astute listener to this podcast will notice that we went from Episode # 48 "Comedy is Torture" directly to Episode # 50 or "The People's Family." Like The Lost 40 which is a stan...

Special Report (12/14/2023) In this special we cover the myriad dangers presented by rail, play an interview from November 2nd, 2023 which we did with a Canadian Pacific whistleblower Mark Bretherton about the BC Field Hill wreck, and talk about the prospects for public ownership of railways both in North America and the United Kingdom. Links to items mentioned in this special: CP Train 301 Derail...

Special Report (12/7/2023) In this special we briefly discuss colonialism, and the anti-colonial struggles from Palestine to Africa. We also cover the recent coups in West Africa and requests by some African governments for the removal of European and UN troops. Also included is an interview of Rick Majumdar with the Progressive Student Union at the University of Texas at Arlington and the Nationa...

Special Report (11/30/2023) (*podcast thumbnail photo of the sculpture Think TANK! by Kyle Fokken displayed at Franconia Sculpture Park in Chisago Minnesota: https://www.franconia.org/kfokken/) We sit on the precipice of the end of a "pause" in the continued bombardment of The Gaza Strip by Israel which Western media propaganda has generously called "a war." Yet Euro-Med Human Rights Monitor says...

Special Interview Recorded (9/28/2023) and Uploaded (11/23/23) In this special we speak with Patrick Mazza about his Substack The Raven (https://theraven.substack.com/). And specifically a post from September called How to build the future in place which you can find here------>(https://theraven.substack.com/p/how-to-build-the-future-in-place) You can see a video version of this podcast on The Urb...

NEWS + MUSIC + MAKING POLITICS + ART AT THE END OF THE WORLD - Audio Essay by Adam Turl Sticker in Episode Thumbnail from the Born Again Labor Museum (B.A.L.M.)(https://www.bornagainlabor.com/) NEWS: In Ward 12 race: who gave money to candidates?: https://longfellownokomismessenger.com/stories/in-ward-12-race-who-gave-money-to-candidates,55475 2023 Elections – How we did, how MN did, how the US di...