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Sep 5 2017
Episode 968

 

Natasha Lennard

This is not a problem of ideas: Antifa and the real work of resisting fascism.

Writer Natasha Lennard examines the work of Antifa - as a self-organized network monitoring and resisting the tide of White supremacy and fascism, without (and often despite) liberal centrists, and rejects free speech critiques of Antifa's no-platforming of extremists as practically unhelpful in a fight we're all in, whether we're on the streets or not. 

Natasha wrote the In These Times piece Don't Give Fascism an Inch and Not Rights but Justice: It’s Time to Make Nazis Afraid Again for The Nation.

 

Jeff Dorchen

Welcome to the Drowned World: A guide to our underwater destiny.

In a Moment of Truth, Jeff Dorchen watches the tides of our future world come in, and over, our dumb landlocked bodies - swallowing our families, soggying our tacos, smearing our newspapers - and offering us nothing we won't get used to in the same way we get used to all the other calamities floating around us every day.

Read the transcript here