Episodes
Thursday Jun 17, 2021
Thursday Jun 17, 2021
Sudip Bhattacharya (@ResistRun on Twitter) and Matt Stannard talk about Sudip's article "The Limits of Descriptive Representation" and the need for a new way to think about political diversity. Read that article at: https://www.currentaffairs.org/2021/02/the-limits-of-descriptive-representation
Also, Solidarity Collective hosts a discussion on replacing "A Fair Day's Wage for a Fair Day's Work" with "Abolition of the Wage System."
Tuesday Jun 08, 2021
Music, Vulnerability & Abolition with Hannah Rooth (Solidarity Segments 6/8/21)
Tuesday Jun 08, 2021
Tuesday Jun 08, 2021
Hannah Rooth visits Solidarity House, performs three songs including her recent technoproletarian song "Give Me that Gold," and talks with Matt about music, politics, and abolishing the prison-industrial complex. She is at wildhummusic.com and all over social media. Support her work at https://www.patreon.com/hannahroothmusic
Saturday Jun 05, 2021
Solidarity House #25 -- This Old Commune w/ Nina Crosby (6/5/21)
Saturday Jun 05, 2021
Saturday Jun 05, 2021
The commies fix the window wells. As more members move in, there's discussion of greenhouse ventilation, junk removal, and planting. Nina Crosby talks to Matt about alt-right social media influencers. And there's original music.
Saturday May 15, 2021
Saturday May 15, 2021
A special conversation with Twin Cities activist Briana Rose Lee on the aftermath of the Chauvin trial, continued police repression, and a LONG LIST of good people organizing and creating new political realities in Minneapolis. Follow Briana on Twitter at @BrianaRoseLee
Friday May 14, 2021
Solidarity Wyoming #25--The S Word in the WYO (5/14/21)
Friday May 14, 2021
Friday May 14, 2021
Donatellia Austin and Yana Ludwig discuss Yana's 2020 Senate campaign, running as an open socialist in Wyoming, how to market and graphically design a radical campaign, and what Wyoming identity is all about. Rihanna Kelver joins the Solidarity House crew to chat about current events in the state and read recent conservative Op-eds from local news sites. Support us at patreon.com/solidarityhouse
Friday Apr 30, 2021
Friday Apr 30, 2021
As communications and digital organizing manager for PICO California Project, Calvin Abbasi combines his imperatives for social and economic justice with practical legislative advocacy. We discuss current bills in California to decertify police officers. fund emergency non-police services, forgive rental debt, increase post-incarceration housing access, and guarantee legal aid for evictees. Support PICO at http://www.picocalifornia.org/.
Sunday Apr 25, 2021
Solidarity Wyoming #24 -- Landlords & Cops & Chuds Oh My! (4/25/21)
Sunday Apr 25, 2021
Sunday Apr 25, 2021
Part 2 of our interview with Laramie reporter Jeff Victor covers the relationship between a City Council member and Laramie's worst landlord. Members of the Solidarity House team discuss the highlights and follies of the 2021 Wyoming legislative season, including, among many other things, Rep. Jeremy Haroldson's comments on slavery and the Holocaust.
Jeff's key articles on a landlord and entangled city leader are here: https://www.wyomingnews.com/laramieboomerang/news/maximus-bossarei-the-artful-dodger/article_bf0304e2-3f7d-5058-b844-e7a506172e0a.html
...and here: https://laramienews.blogspot.com/2021/02/stalder-downplays-connection-to-maximus.html?spref=fb
Subscribe to his work at laramiereporter.substack.com
Tuesday Apr 20, 2021
Tuesday Apr 20, 2021
We talk with Russell Arben Fox of Wichita DSA and the Religion and Socialism Working Group about religious socialism in the past (including 19th Century Mormon communalism) and present, as well as the upcoming conference "Building the Religious Left" which takes place THIS Saturday April 24 and Sunday April 25. You can learn more and register here: https://www.dsausa.org/calendar/building-the-religious-left-dsa-religion-socialism-conference/
Monday Apr 12, 2021
Monday Apr 12, 2021
Derek and Matt discuss the Laramie City Council's police oversight working group. Then we hear part one of our interview with Jeff Victor, the Laramie-based independent journalist who broke the story on the unbelievably evil landlord Maximus Bossarei and the failure of the Albany County Sheriff's office to serve Bossarei the numerous times he's been sued.
Matt's post on the working group is here: https://cowboysonthecommons.org/2021/04/09/laramies-cautious-police-reform-moves-forward/
Jeff Victor's explosive story is here: https://www.wyomingnews.com/laramieboomerang/news/maximus-bossarei-the-artful-dodger/article_bf0304e2-3f7d-5058-b844-e7a506172e0a.html
Jeff's Substack is here: https://laramiereporter.substack.com/
Wednesday Mar 31, 2021
Issues in Socialism --J. Sakai's Settlers Part 2 (3/31/21)
Wednesday Mar 31, 2021
Wednesday Mar 31, 2021
Shawn and Derek of Solidarity House Cooperative discuss the second half of J. Sakai's important book Settlers: The Mythology of the White Proletariat, covering such issues as the tendency of white left groups to ignore indigenous land seizures, the weakness of colonial powers' communist and labor movements, and the need for socialists to embrace anti-colonialism. Part 1 of our discussion on this important book is at https://solidarityhouse.podbean.com/e/issues-in-socialism-trans-identity-and-socialist-history-an-introduction-to-j-sakais-settlers/
Settlers: The Mythology of the White Proletariat and many other resources are available at https://readsettlers.org/