Socialist News and Views

INTERVIEW Sammy's Attic, ADHD And Me (NOTE: This interview has been edited slightly for length. You can watch a FULL video version of this interview on The Urban Cabin YouTube channel here: https://youtu.be/z3ITtxB5wpk?si=vCBf_YuEUBYBjJz0 ) In this interview we speak with Ben Gallup (you can buy his art here: https://www.redbubble.com/people/Benjaminjgallup/shop?asc=u ) who wrote Sammy's Attic ( h...

Special Interview Recorded (3/4/25) and Uploaded (3/13/2025) (THUMBNAIL PHOTO: Paul D. Wellstone Federal Building in downtown Minneapolis provided by Urban Cabin Studios) In this special we speak with a Minnesota based worker who was recently fired from the federal government as part of the ongoing Trump/Musk/DOGE dismantling of federal unions and the federal workforce (https://prospect.org/labor/...

Special Interview Recorded (2/6/2025) and Uploaded (3/6/2025) (NOTE: A video version of this interview is available on the Urban Cabin Studios YouTube here:  www.youtube.com/watch?v=aioukNmxOQs&t=8s ) In this Socialist News And Views Special Interview we speak with Luke Pickrell of Democratic Constitution Blog ( https://democraticconstitutionblog.substack.com/ ) and Democratic Constitution Pod...

Special Interview Recorded (2/9/2025) and Uploaded (2/27/2025) #disabilityjustice #disabilityrights #law (Note: A video version of this interview is available on The Urban Cabin Studios YouTube channel here: https://youtu.be/BeOb1yps_eg?si=hrmSIZnon5am0oXd ) In this special we speak with Eleanor Frisch who is Of Counsel at Cohen Milstein Sellers & Toll a plaintiffs class action law firm. Frisc...

NEWS + LONGER REVOLUTIONARY OPTIMISM PERSPECTIVE + INTERVIEW All We Need Is a Little Enteignen In this special we speak with David Ackos about their article All We Need Is Enteignen for Socio-Technical Breakthroughs published on Streets MN ( https://streets.mn/2025/01/08/all-we-need-is-enteignen-for-socio-technical-breakthroughs/ ) and republished as All We Need Is a Little Enteignen on Twin Citie...

Special Interview Recorded (2/4/2025) and Uploaded (2/13/2025) In this special we speak with Whitney, who was born and raised in East Tennessee, and is currently a mom, delivery driver and socialist living in Upper Northeast Tennessee. Links to items mentioned in this special: State House passes hurricane relief bill as protesters oppose school vouchers, immigration bill: https://www.youtube.com/w...

A debate/discussion, about whether working people should support the Democratic Party, between 3 guests: Samuel Doten - A lifelong Minnesotan, who was an uncommitted delegate to the 2024 Democratic National Convention. Also a previous chair of Stonewall DFL and a founder of the Democratic Socialist Caucus of the DFL. Penelope Mace - A resident of Southeastern Minnesota and long time leftist activi...

Special Interview Recorded (1/9/2025) and Uploaded (1/30/2025) In this special we speak with Tom Goodkind long time Socialist and Labor Activist based in Boston. He is a member of Liberation Road and wrote the article, “Stop Talking About That” Working-class politics can’t avoid fighting white and male privilege, which appeared on Liberation Road Notes on Substack ( https://liberationroad.substack...

Special Interview Recorded (12/3/2024) and Uploaded (1/23/2025) In this special we speak with longtime South Minneapolis resident Matt Pogatshnik ( https://www.instagram.com/bozodeluxe/ ). "Matt Pogatshnik likes to walk." That is the first line of an article titled Where’s All the Good Garage Art in South Minneapolis? These Guys Know ( https://racketmn.com/wheres-all-the-good-garage-art-...

NEWS + REVOLUTIONARY OPTIMISM PERSPECTIVES + MUSIC NEWS: City invests nearly $18.5 million into affordable housing projects: https://www.longfellownokomismessenger.com/stories/city-invests-nearly-185-million-into-affordable-housing-projects,94203 Someone Thought this was a Good Idea: https://alleynews.org/2025/01/someone-thought-this-was-a-good-idea/ No injuries reported in 2 separate south Minnea...

(NOTE: A video version of this podcast is available on Urban Cabins Studios YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZW1Tfz0I6nA&t=3s ) Special Interview Recorded (1/2/2024) and Uploaded (1/9/2024) In this special interview we speak with: Hisham Arafat a Kurdish Syrian journalist from Rojava who has been covering the conflict in Iraq and Syria for over 10 years. In 2023 he was the winner of th...

(****UPCOMING EVENT: Healthcare Workers for Palestine - Twin Cities - Sick From Genocide - Monday January 6th from 10:30am-12pm at Stewart Park - 2700 12th Ave S - Across from Abbott Hospital) Special Report Recorded (12/27/2024) and Uploaded (1/2/2024) On November 20th 2024 I attended an online event titled Jubilee School: Fund Healthcare, Not Genocide with Debt Collective ( https://debtcollectiv...

Special Report (12/26/2024) In this special we discuss the 1984-85 UK Miners Strike ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1984%E2%80%931985_United_Kingdom_miners%27_strike ) which took place 40 years ago. That year was the year I was born. That winter my parents took me with them when they went to bring Christmas presents to the Miners children in Wales. This special gives an overview of some of the cov...

#syria #kurdistan #marxism In this interview we speak with Thomas Schmidinger, who is an Associated Professor at the University of Kurdistan Hewlêr (UKH) in Iraqi Kurdistan. He also teaches at the University of Vienna and he is a Political Scientist and a Social Anthropologist focused on Syria, Iraq, Kurdistan, religion & state, and religious extremism. He is also the author of several books i...

NEWS + ESSAY + SPEECH by Julius Nyerere - The Party Must Speak For The People. NEWS: ‘Frustrating and disappointing’: Internal emails reveal Minnesota Pollution Control scrambled to respond to Smith Foundry pollution, downplayed harm : https://sahanjournal.com/climate-environment/mpca-epa-smith-foundry-minneapolis-scrambled-response/ FBI raids Minnesota autism treatment centers for alleged fraud,...

Special Interview Recorded (12/3/2024) and Uploaded (12/12/2024) (NOTE: A video of this interview is available from Urban Cabin Studios here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R2PYfyuCKSc ) In this special we speak with Robbie Orr about his book that came out this year titled Crashing Into America: A Radical Passage From India. You can pick up a paperback or e-book of Crashing Into America: A Radica...

Special Interview Recorded (11/28/2024) and Uploaded (12/5/2024) (NOTE: You can watch a video of this interview from Urban Cabin Studios here: https://youtu.be/Xy10bs-b5io?si=BRULBWtFqn_Q1Mqh ) In this special we speak with the recently elected Mayor of Yarra (a suburb of Melbourne) Australia, Stephen Jolly. He is a construction worker, member of the Yarra City Council since 2004 and longtime inte...

Special Interview Recorded (11/24/2024) and Uploaded (11/28/2024) (NOTE: You can watch a video version of this interview here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i3Bzj-GA4Mw ) In this special we continue our discussion with Anthony, a union organizer, Palestine solidarity and antiwar organizer and member of Minnesota Workers United ( https://www.instagram.com/mnworkersunited/ ) about the ongoing proj...

NEWS + MUSIC + "CANCEL CULTURE" PERSPECTIVES NEWS: Kid Friendly Rally for Climate, NOT for War!: https://www.facebook.com/events/1098480028433294 Minneapolis families continue the fight: ‘Money for climate, not for war!': https://fightbacknews.org/articles/minneapolis-families-continue-the-fight-money-for-climate-not-for-war More than 200 children killed in Lebanon amid Israeli bombardment: UN: ht...

Special Report (11/14/24) Donald Trump has again been elected President of the United States. ELECTIONS RESULTS: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-interactive/2024/nov/06/us-election-results-map-2024-live-donald-trump-kamala-harris-president According to the Final Results on The Guardian Trump received 75,609,700 votes or 312 Electoral College Votes and Harris received 72,469,604 votes or 226...

Special Report (11/7/2024) This special report is on Police and Public Safety. We divide the report into three sections: 1.History - Thoughts from Mary Benrud Gachie about the increased militarization of the Minneapolis police from the 1980s to the 1990s. The audio was cut from this interview she did with her family called The People's Family: https://soundcloud.com/socialistnewsandviews/the-peopl...

Special Recorded (10/10/2024) and Uploaded (10/31/2024) (PHOTO: Minneapolis International Worker's Day March 2021) (NOTE: A Video of this Interview is available from Urban Cabin Studios on YouTube: https://youtu.be/hNiO4LPKVGk?si=Y4eKPlD5TRskcHxY ) In this Special Interview we speak with Anthony DePice who works at the Warehouse Workers Resource Center ( https://www.youtube.com/@WarehouseWorkerRes...

Special Interview Recorded (10/22/2024) and Uploaded (10/24/2024) (NOTE: You can watch a video version of this interview on the YouTube for Urban Cabin Studios Here----->( https://youtu.be/CSHaTnd0DXo?si=CIQF6DvUEjyl9KgP ) In this special we speak with Ryan Sorrell, Founder and Executive Editor of The Kansas City Defender ( https://kansascitydefender.com/ ), a radical, Black, and abolitionist n...

NEWS + MUSIC + VOICES from the Twin Cities Really Really Free Market In the second half of this episode we hear voices from the Twin Cities Really Really Free Market ( https://www.facebook.com/TwinCitiesReallyReallyFreeMarket ) that takes place at Whittier Park the first Saturday of every month March thru November from 1-4 PM. ---- NEWS: Green Party VP candidate Butch Ware (Recorded live) Green Pa...

Special Interview Recorded (10/9/2024) and Uploaded (10/10/2024) In this Special I speak with Anti-war Activist and Labor Organizer Anthony who recently MC'd a talk with author Nick Estes about the reissuing of his book Our History Is The Future ("Ancestors of the Future:" Nick Estes at May Day Books: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IH9BnMpRE-Y ). Anthony and I discuss settler colonialism and the...