Socialist News and Views

HOLIDAY Special Report (12/29/22) (Picture: A mosaic along the Surrey Diggers Trail, Cobham UK) Did Oliver Cromwell ban Christmas? In this Special Report we touch on a number of events from England in the 1640s. These events include the English Civil War, the ban on Christmas festivities and the True Levelers digging up St. George's Hill. Links to items discussed in this Holiday Special Report: Di...

Recorded (12/15/2022) and Uploaded (12/22/2022) In this Special we have a chat with Danielle Gilbert who has been on the podcast before. Gilbert is a nurse at Methodist Hospital in the Post Anesthesia Care Unit (PACU), Pre-op and Operating Room (OR). We discuss the recent ratification of contracts by 15K Minnesota Nurses Association (MNA) member nurses across Minnesota, which happened shortly befo...

NEWS + POEM + AUDIO ESSAY - "Leftist Fundamentalism" and Liberal Performativity audio from queer mystic, liberationist educator and creator of things M. Ashe Van Steeenwyk's Youtube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-OdPx6K0eVY&t=3s ------ NEWS: MSP Airport Workers Participate in National Day of Action -- clip from this show provided by Urban Cabin Studios US COVID death toll surges in thir...

Recorded (12/5/2022) and Uploaded (12/8/2022) In this Special Interview we speak with Adam Robbins about his book Plagueworld Chronicles: Day by Day Through the 2020 Pandemic with an American Locked Down in China which came out last year. You can purchase your own copy of the book here: https://www.blurb.com/b/10555804-plagueworld-chronicles Here we discuss the process of creating the book, the ex...

(Recorded 11/11/2022) and (Uploaded 12/1/2022) When you have multiple police agencies; local, state and federal coordinating to surveil reporters and find new ways to spy on activits you want to know about it. So we spoke with Sam Richards who covers Police and Technology. Sam is known as @MinneapoliSam on Twitter----->FOLLOW HERE: https://twitter.com/MinneapoliSam?s=20&t=y0K1TwTdIuYTnImMsG8tcw In...

Special (recorded on 11/11/22 and 11/17/22) and (Uploaded on 11/24/22) In this Special Report we cover an action by Minneapolis United for Rent Control that briefly interupted the meeting of the Housing/Rent Stabalization Work Group. We hear a short speech from Jessica Garraway (member of MFT 59) at that action. Then we connect with Jake Virden (host of Money. Power. Land.and. Solidarity podcast)...

(NOTE: This podcast is explicitly anti-fascist. The intention of this episode is to explore perspectives of a rise of this right-wing authoritarian ideology in the US so we can be prepared) NEWS HEADLINES + MUSIC + US Fascism Perspectives NEWS: PSL Statement — Midterm elections: The people reject the program of the right: https://www.liberationnews.org/psl-statement-midterm-elections-the-people-re...

Special Report (Recorded 11/9/2022) and (Uploaded 11/10/2022) With no red wave or blue wave to speak of and more eligible voters sitting out the election than voting for either capitalist party it is clear it is way past time to build a party that truly represents working people and can be controlled by them and in their class interest. But it wont be enough to just build such a party. And it won'...

Recorded (11/2/2022) and Uploaded (11/3/2022) I spoke with "Fritz" Edler, a 40+ year railroader out of Washington DC, after attending a panel discussion of railroad workers that was hosted by HayMarket Books which you can watch here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7gU-Vj_-IqY We discuss working conditions for railroad workers, the likelyhood of a strike in the railroad sector and the need to brin...

(Recorded 10/22/2022) and (Uploaded 10/27/2022) PICTURE: taken by Akičita Šuŋka-Wakaŋ Ska for Unicorn Riot In this Special Interview we speak with Saturn Willmeng about the Student Occupation of the Davis Center during the MFT 59 Mineapolis Teachers Strike. The occupation was covered in detail here by Unicorn Riot: https://unicornriot.ninja/2022/students-occupy-minneapolis-public-schools-admin-bui...

NEWS + MUSIC + Stories from a group of May Day Books Volunteers The second half of this episode was recorded on Sunday August 28th at May Day Books. The original recording includes Chris Shillock / Craig Palmer / Kristin Dooley / Mike Whalen / C.G. Gibbs. Here is a link to the original raw video on Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yaTjjc1HwPw&t=1889s Here is information on the Black Commun...

EXTRA (Action Recorded 10/10/2022) and (Uploaded 10/15/2022) #StopTheSweeps #NoEvictionsOnStolenLand #NativeLivesMatter This is Samantha Pree-Stinson's(President of Board of Estimate and Taxation) speech from the 10/10/2022 Emergency Action - Stop the Sweeps/No Evictions on Stolen Land that took place in front of Minneapolis City Hall. (This speech was not included in our Special Report and is ava...

(Action Recorded 10/10/2022) and (Uploaded 10/13/2022) #StopTheSweeps #NoEvictionsOnStolenLand #NativeLivesMatter Monday was Indigenous People's Day and World Homeless Day. It was also a day a number of groups in Minneapolis called an Emergency Action in response to multiple forced evictions of encampments of unhoused peoples in the city. Clips and Speeches in this Report: Melanie Groves (Minneapo...

Special (Recorded 9/28/2022) and (Uploaded 10/6/2022) On August 7th 2022 Gustavo Petro and Francia Márquez were sworn in as President and Vice President, respectively, of Colombia. Here is an article about the two leaders: https://theconversation.com/colombia-gustavo-petro-and-francia-marquez-have-achieved-a-historic-victory-for-the-left-so-who-are-they-186221 In a previous Special we spoke with G...

Special Interview (Recorded 9/27/2022) and (Uploaded 9/29/2022) Last week (here: https://soundcloud.com/socialistnewsandviews/snv-special-report-nurses-walk-out-and-speak-out) we briefly mentioned a speech from nurse Danielle Gilbert that was posted on Left Voice - Hear a Striking Minnesota Nurse Speak Out about the Exploitative Working Conditions Nurses Face: www.leftvoice.org/hear-a-striking-…on...

Special Report (Uploaded 9/22/2022) Last week 15,000 + nurses walked out of hospitals on a 3 day strike for safe staffing. Many articles quoted nurses about the healthcare crisis and dire staffing situation, some nurses stepped off the picket line to help others, and some criticized the strike as too short and "Just another delaying technique." Hear a Striking Minnesota Nurse Speak Out about the E...

NEWS + AUDIO ESSAY + INTERVIEW with Labor Organizer Emmett about problems on the US Left (interview was originally recorded on 1/2/2022) NEWS: ‘Never seen climate carnage’ like Pakistan floods, says UN chief: https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2022/9/10/never-seen-climate-carnage-like-in-pakistan-un-chief Twelve more die in floods near Pakistan's Manchar lake: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kMWxwMXT9...

Special Interview - Recorded (8/23/2022) and Uploaded (9/8/2022) I reached out to folks on Facebook to get some feedback about what topics to cover and I got directed to Tania Singh an organizer with my old union, the Minnesota Nurses Association. (NOTE: All opinions we discuss here are our own) Tania wanted to talk about NATO, The West and The Global South. We chat about that but also talk about...

Recorded (8/16/2022) Uploaded (9/1/2022) I wanted to talk about the intersection of military and climate so I reached out to the President of Veterans for Peace Local Chapter 27 (https://vfpchapter27.org/) - Dave. We spoke about militarism and climate, Ukraine, Cuba, and May Day Books (https://maydaybookstore.org/)

Recorded (8/16/2022) Uploaded (8/25/2022) I read a post about Christian Nationalism from Daniel Wolpert of - Micah: Minnesota Institute of Contemplation and Healing: (www.facebook.com/micahprays) and I wanted to talk. Here is Part 1 of that interview: https://soundcloud.com/socialistnewsandviews/snv-special-interview-christian-nationalism-part-1

Show # 37 August 2022 AUTHOR INTERVIEW with Anne Winkler-Morey who is the author of Allegiance to Winds and Waters: Bicycling the Political Divides of the United States. You can purchase the book from Anne here: http://annewinklermorey.com/product-category/books/allegiance-to-winds-and-waters/ Watch the video of this interview from Urban Cabin Studios on Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lw...

Recorded (8/4-5/2022) and Uploaded (8/11/2022) I saw Brian Hioe, one of the founding editors of New Bloom Magazine (https://newbloommag.net/) on Democracy Now! speaking from Taiwan. I wanted to reach out right away to talk about US and Chinese Imperialism and the visit by Nancy Pelosi as viewed from Taiwan.

Recorded (8/3/2022) Uploaded (8/4/2022) I read a post about Christian Nationalism from Daniel Wolpert of - Micah: Minnesota Institute of Contemplation and Healing: (https://www.facebook.com/micahprays) and I wanted to talk. Here is Part 1 of that interview. Part 2 coming in 3 weeks. (Check back next week for other additional Socialist News and Views content)

Special Report Uploaded (7/28/2022) We are seeing the fires caused by the ruling rich all over our planet. Workers need a fire of our own...A fire in our hearts! Links from the report: Global human-made mass exceeds all living biomass: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-020-3010-5 Forest fires rage across Europe as heatwave tightens its grip: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iExzgxmE9OE&t=40s A...

NEWS + MUSIC + Letter from Emma Goldman Letter from Stockholm 1922: https://repository.duke.edu/dc/goldmanemma/egpst003010 NEWS: A happy ending: https://southsidepride.com/2022/07/11/a-happy-ending/ Minneapolis police kill Black man having an apparent mental health crisis: https://spokesman-recorder.com/2022/07/16/minneapolis-police-kill-black-man-having-an-apparent-mental-health-crisis/ What the...