LUMPENPROLETARIAT—[Saturday, 11 MAR 2023] Here are some of today’s media/press notes to help us track and make sense of this plandemic dystopia we all find ourselves living through in the 2020s, including inverted totalitarianism, medical authoritarianism, medical apartheid, police state, post-COVID-19 controlled demolition of the global economy, looming food crisis, the rise of neo-feudalism, houseless encampments of the neo-peasantry, nuclear danger, creeping WWIII provoked by US/NATO/AUKUS imperialism against the BRICS nations and the global south, military pollution, petrol pollution, corporate pollution, chemical pollution, geoengineering, chemical cloud seeding, endocrine disrupting chemicals in the food and water, a worsening global fertility crisis, and industry-induced climate change leading to a climate crisis of melting ice caps, record heatwaves, tornadoes, floods, drought, drying rivers, and other extreme weather events, which threaten life on Earth.
Let’s learn together and find solutions together. Let’s build working class solidarity. Let’s build human solidarity. Let’s form groups and “act for justice”. “[There’s] power anywhere where there’s people,” as Fred Hampton said. Siempre hay esperanza. (Please see below for samples of today’s news cycle.)
“Randall Wray – Why Our Economy Keeps Crashing” by Wellbeing Economics Brighton [via YouTube], 11 MAR 2023. [2hrs 24min 57sec]
If you can only watch one video about the current, ongoing banking crisis and potential US and/or global economic meltdown (i.e., human history’s latest failure of capitalism), this is it.
If your author had his druthers, he would have continued with graduate school, somehow, and continued studying under Prof. L. Randall Wray because, apart from Wray’s then-colleagues at the heterodox economics department at UMKC, your author thought Prof. Wray was the best; he made the most sense when it comes to understanding modern monetary systems, understanding modern money, and understanding macroeconomics.
Anyway, your author hasn’t even finished watching this video yet (as the screenshot above indicates). But he can’t wait to share it with you, fellow readers. Prof. Wray always provides the best, most cogent, most plausible explanations of macroeconomics from a historical, comprehensive perspective.
Prof. Wray, as some of you know, was a student of the famous Hyman P. Minsky, whose contributions to the field of economics include the famous Financial Instability Hypothesis and the Minsky Moment, which some people, perhaps more accurately call it, the Minsky Century. And Prof. Hyman Minsky’s doctoral advisors included the famous economists Joseph Schumpeter and Wassily Leontief. So, we see an important throughline in the history of economic thought/theory culminating with the work of Prof. Wray. There are many amazing and brilliant economists out there today; but Prof. Wray is by far and away one of your author’s favorites.
So, we’ve gotten a number of really good explanations of what’s going on with this ongoing banking crisis looking at a small window of time, whether the last few days, weeks, months, or even years. Some have made the connection to the Global Financial Crisis of 2007/08. But we would do well to zoom out even further, to get a bigger picture and, hopefully, not miss the forest for the trees.
This banking crisis, which made major headlines with the collapse of Silvergate Bank (8 MAR 2023) and Silicon Valley Bank (10 MAR 2023), is best understood as part of the endless boom and bust pattern of capitalism. The collapse of Silicon Valley Bank is the second-largest bank failure in U.S. history. So, we can confidently anticipate global contagion and probably another Global Financial Crisis, which always means economic pain for the working class, as the power elite largely go unscathed and capitalist social relations continue to destroy the environment’s capacity to sustain life on Earth. Neoclassical types call this “the business cycle.” But heterodox economics looks at all of this much more cogently, in my opinion, starting from the frameworks of Hyman Minsky’s Financial Instability Hypothesis, Keynes’ Marginal Efficiency of Investment, the Cambridge Capital Controversies, Marxian analysis, and so on. This is the foundation, in my humble opinion.
Everything else is just looking at symptoms, whilst ignoring the causes, dooming us all to endless repetition of booms and busts, as money and power gets concentrated in fewer and fewer hands, and labor is increasingly subordinated to the whims of capricious capital, and we all trash the planet, willingly or unwillingly.
But, then, your author is an absolute beginner. Maybe I’m missing something. If so, please advise.
Peace be unto you.
#WorkingClassSolidarity ✊🏽✊🏼✊🏿✊
“Absolute Beginners” by David Bowie (1986)
I think our priority should not be electoral politics. I think our priority should be building disciplined, organized, militant popular movements. And electoral politics can be part of that movement, but shouldn’t be the primary focus. We have to rebuild those organizations because the only strength we have is in our numbers. And, if we use those numbers correctly, we can pit power against power. But that requires organization.
Chris Hedges (quoted from a 2021 talk at Brooklyn College)
OTHER SALIENT OBSERVATIONS:
- “Randall Wray – Why Our Economy Keeps Crashing” by Wellbeing Economics Brighton [via YouTube], 11 MAR 2023. [2hrs 25min 37sec] (Additional notes on this presentation below.)
- “The dollar system’s contradictions after de-linking from gold, with Radhika Desai and Michael Hudson” by Geopolitical Economy Report [via YouTube], 11 MAR 2023. [1hr 39min 08sec] QUOTATION FROM VIDEO DESCRIPTION: “Economists Radhika Desai and Michael Hudson discuss the evolution of the US dollar system after it was taken off the gold standard in 1971. […]” | NOTES: [T] … (c. 3min 40sec) Dr. Michael Hudson: ‘…the irony and internal contradiction is…’ …
- “China: It’s Life Or Death With U.S. As An “Attacking Wolf”” by Kim Iversen [via YouTube], 11 MAR 2023. [13:57 PST] (Additional notes on this discussion below.)
- “More Bank Failures Are Imminent as Liquidity Crisis Exposes Major Problems With the Banks” by Steven Van Metre [via YouTube], 11 MAR 2023. [14min 24sec] | NOTES: This is the first time your author has encountered this YouTuber, Steven Van Metre. He provides an interesting, quite technical perspective with data to support his fact-claims. This is slightly beyond your author’s level of understanding about finance and the monetary system. But his arguments seem to make sense. Your author is looking forward to learning more, going back to the textbooks, and hearing more from Mr. Van Metre.
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MEDIA/PRESS NOTES, NEWS, VIEWS, WORKING CLASS BLUES, INFORMATION, INSPIRATION, PERSPIRATION, AND AGITATION FROM A WORKING CLASS PERSPECTIVE*
[Ideally, your author would have included links to all programs listed below. Programs listed without an embeded link or listener notes are based on past scheduling and have not yet been verified. Please check relevant websites for actual programming. / Notes will be modified/edited/updated as time and labor constraints allow. Working class solidarity. ✊🏽✊🏼✊🏿✊]
Saturday, 11 March 2023
This book is still relevant to help wake the folk up…
*The opinions expressed by the hosts, guests, journalists, authors, and other speakers in today’s sampling of news and information are not necessarily the views of Lumpenproletariat.
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“Randall Wray – Why Our Economy Keeps Crashing” by Wellbeing Economics Brighton [via YouTube], 11 MAR 2023. [2hrs 25min 37sec]
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COMMENTS: Absolutely brilliant… In a saner world, this would be front-page news around the world. And Prof. L. Randall Wray would be a household name.
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QUOTATIONS FROM RADIO ARCHIVE DESCRIPTION: “IWD 3:00 AM – 4:00 AM Robert Raymond: Abortion Access and Reproductive Justice in a Post-Roe Landscape” |
In this episode of The Response, “Abortion Access and Reproductive Justice in a Post-Roe Landscape,” we take a deep dive into how communities are responding to the growing abortion access crisis in the United States, sharing the stories of those impacted and highlighting a number of radical grassroots, mutual aid, and solidaristic efforts aimed at helping people access abortion in the places where it’s currently outlawed or restricted.
Abortion access has always been limited here in the United States, but since Roe v. Wade was overturned in June of this year and the Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization decision held that the Constitution does not confer a right to abortion — things have gotten dramatically worse — especially in parts of the southern United States, the Great Plains, and parts of the midwest.
In the face of trigger laws banning and criminalizing abortion in many states — as well as state-sanctioned harassment and targeted campaigns against people seeking abortions — the centuries-old movement for reproductive rights and justice has only grown and strengthened.
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QUOTATIONS FROM RADIO ARCHIVE DESCRIPTION: “In this hour we will learn about the radical socialist herstory of International Women’s Day with two American scholars, Eillen Boris, Professor at U.C. Santa Barbara, and Professor Premilla Nadasen from Barnard College. While IWD doesn’t generate mass marches anymore in the U.S., Women’s Day is still an important day for protest and celebration in many places around the world. Host Lisa Dettmer talks to feminist activists around the world who speak about the importance of Women’s Day marches against gender violence and patriarchy in their countries.
Guests include Pregs Govender, South African Feminist human rights activist and author of Love and Courage, A Story of Insubordination ; Dr Tlaleng Mofokeng, United Nations Human Rights Council Special Rapporteur and medical doctor with expertise advocating for universal health access, HIV care, youth friendly services and family planning in South Africa; Karen Tanada, Executive Director of Gaston Z. Ortigas Peace Institute in the Philippines, and Lulu V Barrera, Feminist activist and human rights defender based in Mexico City. Lulú founded and currently leads Luchadoras, a Feminist NGO that explores the intersections between gender, technologies and human rights, and works for an Internet free of violence against women. She is part of the National Network of Women Human Right Defenders in Mexico and the Latinamerican Network of Political Innovation.
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QUOTATIONS FROM RADIO ARCHIVE DESCRIPTION: “IWD 9:00 AM – 10:00 AM Jamie Jackson: Women Working to End Israeli Occupation Bayan Shbib is a bilingual Palestinian actress, theatre director and writer. She holds a Master’s degree with distinction in Theatre Acting from the University of Essex, UK, and a Master’s degree in Comparative Literature from Al-Quds University in 2004; she has worked as an actress and storyteller since 1997. In 2005 she won the Best Young Storyteller Award at the International Storytelling Festival in Birmingham. For her monodrama “Safad-Shatilla” she was awarded the prize for best actress at the Cairo Experimental Theatre Festival 2006.
The Gaza Monologues was performed at the Ashtar Theatre in Ramallah. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IDsuLqFr6Zc
Noam Shuster performs her comedy in three languages as she promotes her vision of a peaceful community for all Israelis. The film Reckoning With Laughter documents her experience of communal life in a hotel for Israelis from all walks of life as they quarantined together in 2020. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SNO2QkAh-5s
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“China: It’s Life Or Death With U.S. As An “Attacking Wolf”” by Kim Iversen [via YouTube], 11 MAR 2023. [13:57 PST] [23min 31sec]
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COMMENTS: Your author appreciates both of these speakers for different reasons. Kim Iversen is an important critic of the totalitarian COVID-19 psyop, but she doesn’t seem to understand the fundamental contradictions of capitalism; and she is biased against socialism and communism because of her negative experiences with the socialist experiment in Vietnam, not the greatest example. Anti-communists or anti-socialists, like Kim Iversen must keep in mind the fact that socialism and communism are economic systems, which are not necessarily authoritarian or libertarian. The political system, or role of the state, is a separate dimension from a nation’s economic system. For example, capitalism can be just as authoritarian as socialism or communism, as she’s starting to see with the COVID-19 psyop in the western capitalist economic systems. Caleb Maupin is an important critic of capitalism, someone, who very clearly understands the fundamental contradictions of capitalism and very capable of articulating them; but he, unfortunately, seems rather disinterested in the dangerous threat facing the world with the COVID-19 psyop agenda. This discussion needed a third participant to help balance out their differing biases. Your author would’ve loved to see Robert F. Kennedy, Jr in this discussion. Another good interlocutor would’ve been Max Blumenthal, a strong critic of the COVID-19 psyop and a very fair observer. Of course, Max Blumenthal had little sympathy for the one or two people, who were waving Soviet flags at the Rage Against the War Machine rally, who he suggested may have been associated with Caleb Maupin’s people. Max Blumenthal seemed to think the ‘optics’ were so bad, such flag-waving was ill-advised. Your author didn’t think so, initially. But maybe Max Blumenthal had a point; he’s certainly much more experienced with press relations than most of us, who do not operate an important news outlet, like The Grayzone. Having said all that, this is still a good discussion between two important voices, two of the most honest voices in US media/press.
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QUOTATIONS FROM RADIO ARCHIVE DESCRIPTION: “IWD 4:00 PM – 5:00 PM Debra Sloss: Reproductive Freedom – Essential for Mental Health” | STATE of MIND – Reproductive Freedom: Essential for Mental Health
Since the Supreme Court overturned the reproductive rights protected by the Roe V. Wade decision, the news has been filled with talk about laws restricting access to reproductive health services. This upheaval is not just about state legislatures, federal laws, or religious beliefs…it’s
about people and their tender experiences. This episode features a collection of nuanced and highly personal stories about reproductive decisions and how these choices impact mental health. How each person makes meaning of their experience varies greatly, but what’s common
to all of the stories is that carrying a pregnancy to term and giving birth is not a minor incident. It is a major event in one’s life: physically, hormonally, financially and often emotionally. Our feature story is by writer, teacher and poet Patrice Vecchione. Some of what you’ll hear may be difficult; these stories may challenge your beliefs or values, but we urge you to listen and challenge yourself to hold the complexity, the diversity, and the common humanity in each tale.
Joining me to listen, reflect on, and respond to these important reproductive health stories is Alissa Perrucci, PhD, the Counseling & Administrative Manager at the Women’s Options Center at San Francisco General Hospital who has worked in abortion counseling for nearly two decades. More information and resources can be found at http://www.stateofmindmedia.org.
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QUOTATIONS FROM RADIO ARCHIVE DESCRIPTION: “IWD 5:00 PM – 5:30 PM Sylvie Sturm: Coercive Control” |
Coercive control is domestic violence. When will judges adapt to the new law?
In the U.S., more than 1 in 3 women and 1 in 4 men will experience physical violence, rape or stalking by an intimate partner, according to the National Domestic Violence Hotline. Nevertheless, when victims turn to family court for protection from their abusers, they often face skeptical judges. And that’s especially true when the abuse doesn’t leave a mark. This is the first episode in a series about the way family courts adjudicate cases that involve a form of domestic abuse known as coercive control, and how advocates and lawmakers are trying to help victims and their children. Read the text article associated with this episode of “Civic” from the San Francisco Public Press: “Coercive Control Victims Face Skeptical Judges, Court Transcripts Show.”
Social Language:
- Coercive control is a type of domestic abuse that is hard to prove as it doesn’t leave physical marks. Victims are then retraumatized when they have to face their abusers in court, and again when the judges don’t believe them.
- Domestic abuse isn’t always physical violence. “Civic” talks to experts about coercive control and hears from victims about their experiences at home and in the courts.
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QUOTATIONS FROM RADIO ARCHIVE DESCRIPTION: “IWD 5:30 PM-6:00 PM Sylvie Sturm: When Judges Dismiss Claims of Domestic Abuse” | When judges dismiss claims of domestic abuse, children can pay the ultimate price
Family court judges sometimes decide that domestic abuse claims are not credible. But making the wrong call can end with children paying the ultimate price. Studies have shown in 20 to 30% of domestic homicide cases, there are no prior physical acts of violence. This is the second episode in a series about the way family courts adjudicate cases that involve a form of domestic abuse known as coercive control, and how advocates and lawmakers are trying to help victims and their children. Read the text article associated with this episode of “Civic” from the San Francisco Public Press: “When Judges Dismiss Claims of Domestic Abuse, Children Can Die.”
Social Language:
- In custody cases, family court judges make decisions that impact the children. And sometimes, in cases where claims of abuse are dismissed, children die. In this episode, we hear about 2 tragic cases and discuss efforts to prevent future deaths at the hands of abusers.
- When judges dismiss claims of domestic abuse, the results can be tragic, especially when children are involved. On this episode of “Civic,” survivors share their stories, and we discuss legislation to protect the most vulnerable.
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QUOTATIONS FROM RADIO ARCHIVE DESCRIPTION: “IWD Hour 19- 6pm Sunday News”
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QUOTATIONS FROM RADIO ARCHIVE DESCRIPTION: “IWD 7:00 PM – 7:30 PM Aileen Alfandary: Adieu Aileen Alfandary!” | “Adieu, Aileen Alfandary!
For International Women’s Day, we bring you Christina Aanestad in conversation with Aileen Alfandary, KPFA’s long time News Co-Director, who’s retiring the end of next month, after more than 40 years at the station. Aileen Alfandary’s voice has carried us through so many pivotal, defining moments of our times, and is truly the back bone on KPFA’s News Department, who with Mark Mericle, cultivated it into an award winning department with the only locally produced daily hour long evening news cast on Bay Area radio, Monday thru Friday on a fraction of a budget that many other stations enjoy. She’s trained dozens and dozens of radio professionals over the decades, who have gone on to even larger networks and to having fulfilling careers in the media, and time and time again, she been there for us, to share the important, under reported issues each and every day for some 45 years…”
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QUOTATIONS FROM RADIO ARCHIVE DESCRIPTION: “IWD 7:30 PM-8:00 PM Mickey Mayze: The X Factor” |
“KPFA, The X Factor” featured 4 women staffers at KPFA circa 2001. They were interviewed by pioneer broadcaster Jerri Lange about their journeys to the KPFA airwaves.
The participants were Andrea Lewis, Co-host and programmer of “The Morning Show”, Mary Berg, host and producer of “A Musical Offering”, Amelia Gonzales-Garcia, Director of the First Voice Apprenticeship Program, and Erica Bridgeman, who had recently graduated from the First Voice Program and was continuing at KPFA as a producer for “Radio Chronicles.”
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QUOTATIONS FROM RADIO ARCHIVE DESCRIPTION: “IWD 8:00 PM – 9:00 PM SWANA Radio – Transnational Feminism” | “Pacifica KPFK’s SWANA Region Radio is excited to partner with sister station, KPFA, in honor of International Women’s History Month.
In honor of International Women’s History Month, we are excited to share with listeners a special on women and feminist issues from the region including Palestine, Iran, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Kurdistan and Rojava. In our first show as part of this special programming, we discuss the role of women in revolution and feminist icons in Palestine, Iran, and Afghanistan. To explore this topic, we are joined by Jennifer Moghannam, Anila Daulatzai, and Alborz Ghandehari. In our second show, SWANA Region Radio collective member Nyma Ardalan explores Rojava and Occupied Afrin and how women are treated under the Turkish state’s rule as well as the role of women in the Iranian revolution with guest Sonia Karimi. While these shows are by no means a comprehensive overview of the important work on the ground in the region, this is an invitation to listeners to further engage with SWANA Region Radio, to follow us on Facebook and Instagram, and connect with our guests.
This special is brought to you by SWANA Region Radio collective members Rana Sharif, Nyma Ardalan, Ankine Antaram, David Lloyd, Hammoud Salhi, and Soraya Zarook.”
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QUOTATIONS FROM RADIO ARCHIVE DESCRIPTION: “IWD 9:00 PM – 10:00 PM Christina Aanestad: Feisty Female Folktales” | “Feisty Female Folktales, an anthology of international children’s stories adapted by activist and performance artist Sherry Glaser with original music by David. M Brown and Johnny Qwest Hubel. “Unanana and the Elephant” is a Zulu folktale from South Africa. Voices featured are: Sheba Love. Joe Seta, Lavender Grace Cinnamon, Robert Permenter, Gabee Permenter &
Bridget Volk. “The Legend of Knockmany” is an Irish folktale from the mid 1800’s. Voices featured are: Sheba Love, Robert Permenter, & W. Dan Houck. “Kupti and Imani” is an Indian folk tail from the Punjab region. Voices include Sheba Love, Joe Seta, Ken Krouse, Andrea Shafir, Human Kind, Lavender Grace Cinnamon, & Marylyn MotherBear Scott. “Clever Manka” is a Czechoslovakian folktale, featuring the voices of Ken Krouse, W. Dan Houck, Toni Orans, Oasis Darryl Hasten, Isaak Youngblood, Sheba Love & Lavender Grace Cinnamon.”
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QUOTATIONS FROM RADIO ARCHIVE DESCRIPTION: “IWD 10:00 PM – 11:00 PM Robert Raymond: Against White Feminism” | “Feminism means different things to different people. KPFA re-aired our episode, Feminism for the 99 percent, last year, where we took a deep dive into this — unpacking how women’s issues intersect with class and race, what trickle-down feminism is, who’s included and precluded from certain forms of mainstream, American feminism, and why it’s important for feminism to be truly intersectional and inclusive.
In this Conversation, we take a deep dive into how the ideology of whiteness permeates mainstream, Western feminism, and how those on the peripheries are often left out — and even exploited by — feminism and certain feminists.
Rafia Zakaria is a columnist for Dawn in Pakistan and author, most recently, of Against White Feminism: Notes on Disruption, published by Norton and Company. Against White Feminism has made quite a splash since its publication in August, with a lot of positive reception, but also drawing the ire of many of those who it seeks to critique — namely, a certain cadre of feminists, often upper-middle class and white, who hold onto their very specific ideas about what feminism is, what it’s not, and perhaps most importantly — who gets to define it.
We explore how a certain liberal form of white-supremacy permeates much of mainstream feminism, how the white feminist savior complex and imperial feminism have been deployed throughout history — and well into our present times, such as in Afghanistan — to marginalize women of color and impose the “correct” form of feminism in non-consensual and harmful ways, what trickle-down or #girlboss feminism are, and more.”
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QUOTATIONS FROM RADIO ARCHIVE DESCRIPTION: “IWD 11:00 PM – 12:00 AM Robert Raymond: Socialist Perspective on Abortion |
Last year, the US Supreme Court overturned the landmark Roe v. Wade ruling on abortion rights which had set the precedent for almost 50 years. There has been a lot of media coverage on the Roe decision, of course, but much of it is lacking in its analysis — and that’s why we’ve brought on two guests to provide a much needed perspective. Diana Moreno is an immigrant rights activist and Democratic Socialists of America organizer in Queens, and Jenny Brown is an organizer in the women’s liberation movement and the author of several books on feminism, reproductive rights, and labor, including Without Apology: The Abortion Struggle Now and Birth Strike: The Hidden Fight Over Women’s Work. Both Diana and Jenny approach their feminism with a socialist analysis that provides a strong materialist grounding, a deep understanding of the dynamics around immigration, and an orientation that challenges traditional liberal and oftentimes white, heteronormative feminism that dominates most mainstream discussions.
In this Conversation we explore the history of abortion in the United States, a class analysis on abortion and reproductive justice, the ideologies of liberal versus socialist feminisms, the abject failure of the Democratic Party, possible paths forward, and much more.
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