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Lisa Fithian: Shut It Down, Monday
12/30/19 8pm, Thurs. 1pm, Sat. Morning 12am on SCM
Lisa Fithian has shut down the CIA. She
has occupied Wall Street, disrupted the World Trade Organization, and
stood her ground in Tahrir Square. She has walked in solidarity with
tribal leaders at Standing Rock and defended communities in the wake of
Hurricane Katrina. Described by Mother Jones as “the
nation’s best-known protest consultant,” Fithian has been
involved in nearly every major protest event for the past four decades.
She is living proof that the best way to radically and rapidly
transform the ills of our society is through nonviolent direct action
grounded in strong beliefs, creativity, and sheer, unwavering courage.
Her new memoir, filled with instruction, inspiration, and no shortage
of wisdom, argues that civil disobedience is much more than an act of
resistance. It’s a spiritual pursuit that allows us to reclaim
our humanity and protect what we love.
Lisa Fithian is an anti-racist organizer who has worked for justice
since the 1970s. Using creative, strategic nonviolent direct action and
civil disobedience, she has won many battles and trained tens of
thousands of activists while participating in a range of movements and
mobilizations, including Occupy Wall Street, anti-WTO and corporate
globalization protests all over the world, the climate justice
movement, and more. Lisa enjoys walking, playing with children,
gardening, cooking great food, being in the wild, and raising up new
generations to be agents of change. She is grateful to play her part in
manifesting a world rooted in respect, justice, and liberation.
Thanks to Third Place Books
Recorded 12/3/19
For most of
America’s history, we did not lock people up for migrating here.
Yet over the last thirty years, our country’s federal and state
governments have increasingly incarcerated people accused of violating
immigration laws. Now almost 400,000 people annually spend time locked
up pending the result of a civil or criminal immigration proceeding.
Leading scholar César Cuauhtémoc García
Hernández joins us to take a hard look at the immigration prison
system’s origin and operation with insight from his book
Migrating to Prison.
He tackles the emergence of immigration imprisonment in the mid-1980s,
highlighting how enforcement resources were deployed disproportionately
against Latinos. Hernández calls out the expansion of private
prisons and decries disingenuous links drawn by the political right
attempting to connect immigration imprisonment with national security
risks and threats to the rule of law. Through powerful stories of
individuals caught up in the immigration imprisonment industry,
Hernández makes an urgent call for the abolition of immigration
prisons and a radical reimagining of the way we determine who belongs
in the United States.
César Cuauhtémoc García Hernández is an
immigration lawyer and a professor of law at the University of Denver.
He runs the blog Crimmigration.com and regularly speaks on immigration
law and policy issues. He has appeared in the New York Times, the Wall
Street Journal, NPR, and many others.
Thanks to Town Hall Seattle.& Elliott Bay Books, Recorded 12/9/19
Web Exclusives WTO+20
Lisa Fithian: Escalating Resistance Mass Rebellion Training
As Pirate TV winds
down to the final broadcast of the year, I can't think of a more
fitting way to end it than with Lisa Fithian. A 58 minute version
of her book talk will broadcast nationally beginning Dec. 30th.
You can read up about her in the text of that video {Shut It
Down}. I’m posting these two videos at the same time.
Looking ahead at the new year, it's very clear that time is running
out. The Oil-igarchy that rules us have made it painfully clear
that they are determined to keep on with business as usual until they
kill us all. The are not going to let anything stop them.
And once we're all gone, the corporations will still be here.
They will be in a safe somewhere at the bottom of the sea.
Anyone at this point who is betting on electoral politics to save us is
little more than delusional. Even if a miracle was to happen and
Bernie was to win with a Democratic majority in the House and Senate,
it wouldn’t be near enough. It never has and never will
be. The only way we are going to survive is by shutting the
Oil-igarchs down for good. –Just like we shut down the
WTO. We don’t have a choice. That means we need to be
united and not only get out in the streets, but stay there. There
are few people who know more about how to do this than Lisa Fithian.
I had the honor of taping WTO+20 events marking 20 years since the
Seattle rebellion that stopped the WTO for good. I was lucky to
be right in the middle of all that rebellion. I have been
broadcasting what I can throughout this month and posting the rest as
web exclusives. I saved the best for last. This two and a
half hour Mass Rebellion Training session tells what we need to do and
how to do it. There were many old friends and veterans of
countless campaigns that filled the room at this workshop. There needed
to be a million more. You can help by watching this and sharing
it far and wide. For this is essential knowledge.
Thanks to the Community Alliance for Global Justice & Town Hall Seattle. Recorded 11/30/19
See icons of the continuing struggle for Fair Trade and learn about the horrific NAFTA 2.0 just passed by the Democratic controlled House.
1 MC Hillary Haden, Executive Director of the Washington Fair Trade Coalition
2 Lori Wallach, Director of Public Citizen Global Trade Watch 2:47
3 Robin Everett, Organizing Manager,
Sierra Club
Ahmed Gaya National Field Director for the Sunrise Movement 8:28
4 Rhonda Ramiro, Chair of BAYAN USA -Bagong Alyansang Makabayan (New Patriotic Alliance) 17:33
5 Jim Page, Musician 26:53
6 Manuel Pérez-Rocha, Associate Fellow, Institute for Policy Studies 32:31
7 Larry Brown President of the Washington State Labor Council, AFL-CIO 39:54
8 Tefere Gebre, Executive Vice President of the AF L-CIO 42:20
Thanks to Washington Fair Trade Coalition, recorded 12/7/19
This is the welcome segment of the Dec.
7th afternoon workshops featuring an introduction by Hillary Haden,
Executive Director of the WashingtonFair Trade Coalition and a short
address by Arthur Stamoulis, Executive Director of Citizens Trade
Campaign (CTC).
Thanks to the Washington Fair Trade Coalition & Town Hall Seattle
WTO+20 Environmental Issues and Trade Workshop
We recorded two workshops from the Dec.
7th WTO 20th Anniversary event. This one features Selden Prentice from
350 Seattle with Manuel Pérez Rocha of the Institute for Policy Studies
and includes a short video address by Bill McKibben. Selden Prentice is
an Environmental Lawyer, and 350 Seattle Policy & Economics
Workgroup facilitator who worked for the EPA. Manuel Pérez Rocha is an
Associate Fellow of the Institute for Policy Studies in Washington and
an Associate of the Transnational Institute (TNI) in Amsterdam. Bill
McKibben is an author, environmentalist, and activist and a co-founder
and Senior Advisor at 350.org. In 1988 he wrote The End of Nature, the
first book for a common audience about global warming.
This workshop focuses on the horrors of the Investor State Dispute
Settlement process, the transnational kangaroo court system established
in multilateral trade agreements which enables foreign investors and
multinational corporations to sue governments for lost profits when
they protect the environmental, labor, farmers, or human rights.
Prentice is an expert on what's called the Alternative Dispute
Resolution system.
Thanks to the Washington Fair Trade Coalition & Town Hall Seattle
We recorded two workshops from the Dec.
7th WTO 20th Anniversary event. This one features Karen Hansen-Kuhn,
International Program Director at the Institute for Agriculture and
Trade Policy, Heather Day Executive Director of Community Alliance for
Global Justice and Manuel Pérez Rocha of the Institute for Policy
Studies.
Karen Hansen-Kuhn is an expert on trade and economic
justice, which she has been working on since the beginning of the NAFTA
debate and is a prolific writer.
This workshop focuses on the effect that multilateral “free-trade”
agreements have on farmers, food production, commodity dumping, and how
over production causes scarcity.
Thanks to the Washington Fair Trade Coalition & Town Hall Seattle
Recorded 12/7/19
Joseph Stiglitz with Lori Wallach Keynote
After a brief action orientation with Lori Wallach (Director, Public Citizen’s Global Trade Watch), Nobel laureate Joseph Stiglitz dove into strategies for managing globalization while addressing countries’ markedly different social and political frameworks.
Thanks to Washington Fair Trade Coalition Recorded 12/7/19
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Another World is Possible!
WTO+20, Monday 12/16/19 8pm, Thurs. 1pm, Sat. Morning 12am on SCM
[This the entire morning session taped Saturday 11/30/19 at Town Hall. As
promised we have made a :58 min broadcast version which will be broadcast
starting 12/16.]
Today in Seattle, and around the world, social movements are taking to the streets, striking, locking down, and engaging in multiple forms of direct action. These tactics build collective power to transform the intersecting crises of our times into opportunities for equity, healing, and sustainability.
In 1919 over 65,000 workers with held their labor during the Seattle General Strike; in 1999 over 50,000 people took to the streets of Seattle, and shut down the World Trade Organization’s conference.
In 2019 we gather to honor this history, and the power of non-violent direct action, through story-telling, trainings, and movement-building workshops, to make another world possible.
Activists who were part of the mobilization shared stories and lessons learned from the people’s movement which made history by successfully preventing the WTO - one of capitalism’s most powerful global institutions - from further consolidating its power.
In this video of the morning opening dialogue we hear from leaders of today’s movements for justice, from Washington farmworkers to global alliances.
In order of appearance:
Edward Wolcher: Curator of Lectures, Town Hall Seattle
Ken Workman: The great-great-great-great grandson of Chief Seattle; Duwamish Tribal Council Member 3:40
Music by Correo Aereo 14:45
Heather Day: Director of Community Alliance for Social Justice and
Kristen Beifus: Community Organizer at UFCW local 21 20:22
Nancy Haque: Labor/Direct Action Network organizer in ’99, Executive Director of Basic Rights Oregon 35:00
Vandana Shiva: Founder of Navdanya, Indian scholar, environmental activist, food sovereignty advocate, and anti-globalization author. Author of more than twenty books 45:55
Deborah James: WTO activist in '99, Coordinator of Our World Is Not For Sale network, Director of International Programs, Center for Economic and Policy Research 50:26
Lisa Fithian: Author of Shut It Down: Stories from a Fierce, Loving Resistance 1:04:37
Edgar Franks: Familias Unidas por la Justicia 1:10:10
Paul Cheoketen Wagner: Founder of Protectors of the Salish Sea 1:18:45
Presented by, Community Alliance for Social Justice, UFCW 21 & Town Hall Seattle. Co-Sponsors: Earth Care not Warfare, LELO, Puget Sound Sage, PSARA, Tools for Change, WA Fair Trade Coalition. Recorded 11/30/19
In 1921, facing one of the worst famines
in history, the new Soviet government under Vladimir Lenin invited the
American Relief Administration to save communist Russia from ruin.
Author Douglas Smith joins us with an account of how a small, daring
band of Americans fed more than ten million men, women, and children
across a million square miles of territory. Smith’s book The
Russian Job chronicles this endeavor—the largest humanitarian
operation in history, which saved countless lives, staved off social
unrest on a massive scale, and quite possibly prevented the collapse of
the communist state.
Smith brings us this story nearly a century later, after decades of the
Cold War and renewed tensions in the wake of Russian meddling in the
2016 election, in a time when cooperation between the United States and
Russia seems impossible to imagine. Smith resurrects the American
relief mission from obscurity, revealing a story filled with espionage,
violence, and political intrigue. Smith invites us to revive a
near-forgotten account of a US/Russia cooperative effort unmatched
before or since, and a striking memory of the world’s ability to
overcome ideological differences and confront international crises.
Douglas Smith is an award-winning historian and translator, and the
author of six books on Russia including Rasputin: Faith, Power, and the
Twilight of the Romanovs and Former People: The Final Days of the
Russian Aristocracy. Douglas has taught and lectured widely in the
United States, Britain, and Europe and has appeared in documentaries
for National Geographic, the BBC, and Netflix.
Thanks to Town Hall Seattle and Elliott Bay Books
Recorded 11/14/19
The struggle to pay for college is one
of the defining features of middle-class life in America today. Author
Caitlin Zaloom takes us into the homes of middle-class families
throughout the nation to highlight the hidden consequences of student
debt and the ways that financing college has transformed family life.
With insight from her new book Indebted: How Families Make College Work
at Any Cost, Zaloom shares interviews with parents and their
college-age children about stressful and intensely personal financial
matters.
Zaloom joins in conversation with KUOW’s Ross Reynolds to offer a
troubling portrait of an American middle class fettered by the
“student finance complex”—the bewildering labyrinth
of government-sponsored institutions, profit-seeking firms, and
university offices that collect information on household earnings and
assets, assess family needs, and decide who is eligible for aid and who
is not. Join Zaloom and Reynolds for a discussion that breaks through
the culture of silence surrounding the student debt crisis and reveals
the unspoken costs of sending our kids to college.
Caitlin Zaloom is associate professor of social and cultural analysis
at New York University. She is a founding editor of Public Books and
the author of Out of the Pits: Traders and Technology from Chicago to
London.
Ross Reynolds is the Executive Producer of Community Engagement at
KUOW. He is the former co-host of KUOW’s daily news magazine The
Record and KUOW’s award–winning daily news–talk
program The Conversation.
Thanks to Town Hall Seattle & Third Place Books
Recorded 11/20/19
In
nineteenth-century New Orleans and Charleston, many cosmopolitan
residents eluded the racial categories the rest of America takes for
granted. Before the Civil War, these free, openly mixed-race urbanites
enjoyed some rights of citizenship and the privileges of wealth and
social status. Journalist and author Daniel Brook joins us at Town Hall
with accounts from his book The Accident of Color, following this story
through Reconstruction and revisiting a crucial inflection point in
American history. He highlights a movement that formed to oppose the
black-white binary, where mixed-race elites made common cause with the
formerly enslaved and allies at the fringes of whiteness in a bid to
achieve political and social equality for all.
Brook chronicles this movement’s successes, and recalls how its
achievements were ultimately swept away by a violent political backlash
and expunged from the history books—culminating in the Jim Crow
laws that would legalize segregation for a half century and usher in
systems of racial binaries whose effects are still felt today. Brook
offers us an unflinching look at the birth of our nation’s narrow
racial system forged in the crucible of opposition to civil rights, and
illuminates the origins of the racial lies we live by.
Daniel Brook is a journalist and author whose writing has appeared in
Harper’s, the New York Times Magazine, and The Nation. His last
book, A History of Future Cities, was longlisted for the Lionel Gelber
Prize and was selected as one of the ten best books of the year by the
Washington Post.
Thanks to Town Hall Seattle, Recorded 11/17/19
Few
challenges are more daunting than feeding a global population projected
to reach 9.7 billion in 2050—especially at a time when climate
change is making it increasingly difficult to successfully grow crops.
To explore agricultural avenues open to us in the near future,
researcher Timothy A. Wise presents insight from his book Eating
Tomorrow, in conversation with sustainable agriculture activist Million
Belay. Together, Wise and Belay explore how in country after country
agribusiness and its well-heeled philanthropic promoters have hijacked
food policies to feed corporate interests.
Wise and Belay reveal how most of the world is fed by hundreds of
millions of small-scale farmers, people with few resources and simple
tools but a keen understanding of what to grow and how. They assert
that we must rely on these same farmers—who already grow more
than 70 percent of the food eaten in developing countries—to show
the way forward as the world warms and population increases. Listen in
with Wise and Belay for a deep dive into the present and future of
global agriculture.
Timothy A. Wise is a senior researcher at the Small Planet Institute,
and is a senior research fellow at Tufts University’s Global
Development and Environment Institute. He previously served as
executive director of the US-based aid agency Grassroots International.
Wise is also the author of Confronting Globalization: Economic
Integration and Popular Resistance in Mexico
Million Belay has worked for over two decades on intergenerational
learning of bio-cultural diversity, sustainable agriculture, and food
sovereignty and forest issues, first as founder of MELCA –
Ethiopia, an indigenous NGO and now as coordinator of AFSA-Alliance for
Food Sovereignty in Africa. AFSA advocates for agroecology, and
supporting the rights of local communities and indigenous peoples to
their land.
Thanks to Community Alliance for Global Justice, Town Hall Seattle and Third Place Books, Recorded 10/30/19
Rise and Resist—Activism in the Age of Trump
Armenian-American radio host David Barsamian was deported from India
due to his work on Kashmir and other revolts. He is still barred from
traveling to the world’s largest democracy. One of
America’s most tireless and wide-ranging investigative
journalists, Barsamian has altered the independent media landscape with
his weekly radio show Alternative Radio and his books with humanitarian
figures such as Noam Chomsky, Eqbal Ahmad, Howard Zinn, Tariq Ali,
Richard Wolff, Arundhati Roy, and Edward Said. Barsamian joins us at
Town Hall for a discussion on world affairs, imperialism, capitalism,
propaganda, the media, and global rebellions. Sit in for an
award-winning journalistic perspective on our modern political
landscape.
Thanks to Alternative Radio, Town Hall Seattle, and Elliott Bay Books
Recorded 10/22/19
Democracy In Decline
After Local Media Disappears, What Comes Next?
Americans are losing trust in journalism. With the widespread
consolidating and closing of American media outlets, many are worried
that democracy supported by a free press may be in danger. Civic
Ventures joins with Town Hall to present a panel of experts to examine
whether democracy as we know it can survive without a culture of
independent investigative journalism. They delve into the rise of media
conglomerates trafficking in partisan broadcasting, and explore
strategies for supporting and sustaining a local media that’s
relevant for 21st century America.
Matt Gertz is a senior fellow at Media Matters, which he joined in
2007. His work focuses on the relationship between Fox News and the
Trump administration, news coverage of politics and elections, and
media ethics.
Marcus Harrison Green is the former South King County Reporter for the
Seattle Times, the co-founder of the South Seattle Emerald, and a
former Reporting Fellow with YES! Magazine. He is a recipient of
Crosscut’s Courage Award for Culture.
Erica C. Barnett is a longtime Seattle journalist who worked as a
writer and editor for alternative weeklies in Austin and Seattle for a
decade before co-founding the website PubliCola in 2009. In 2015, she
started the local politics website The C Is for Crank.
Moderator David “Goldy” Goldstein is Senior Fellow at Civic
Ventures. He is the former host of KIRO radio’s The David
Goldstein Show and is the proprietor of HorsesAss.org, one of the most
widely read political blogs in Washington State.
Thanks to Civic Ventures and Town Hall Seattle
Recorded 10/8/19
Christof Spieler: Trains, Buses, People,
Monday 10/28, Thurs. 1pm, Sat. Morning 12am on SCM
In the US, the 25 largest metropolitan
areas have fixed guideway rail or bus transit systems. Nearly all of
them are talking about expanding—yet according to architecture
and engineering expert Christof Spieler, discussions about transit are
still remarkably unsophisticated. Spieler brings us his vision of some
of the most important discussion in transportation, encapsulated in his
book Trains, Buses, People: An Opinionated Atlas of US Transit. He
focuses the discussion on quality of service (not the technology that
delivers it), the role of surrounding infrastructure, the diversity of
riders, and the critical importance of ensuring transit systems access
the right places. Spieler contends that geography, politics, and
history have a tendency to complicate transit planning, and shows us
how unique circumstances in individual major cities have resulted in
the rise of very different transit systems nationwide. With accessible
viewpoints for citizens, professionals, and policymakers alike, Spieler
presents us with a comprehensive and understandable evaluation of our
nation’s transit networks—their history, their future, what
makes them effective, and how they can improve.
Christof Spieler has spent over a decade advocating for transit as a
writer, community leader, urban planner, transit board member, and
enthusiast. He is Vice President and Director of Planning at
Huitt-Zollars and a Lecturer in Architecture and Engineering at Rice
University. He was a member of the board of directors of Houston METRO
from 2010 to 2018.
Thanks to Town Hall Seattle and Third Place Books
Recorded 10/8/19
Peter Pomerantsev:
Adventures in the War on Reality,
Monday 10/21, Thurs. 1pm, Sat. Morning 12am on SCM
Perhaps the most important global trend
of the last few years has been the rise and transformation of
information warfare. Researcher of media and propaganda Peter
Pomerantsev asserts that in the digital age, real military engagement
matters less than how it is broadcast—resulting is a constant
deluge of lies, shock humor, absurdity, and fear-mongering designed to
disorient us and undermine our sense of truth.
Pomerantsev invites us to journey behind the enemy lines of the
endless, multinational information war, offering insight from his book
This Is Not Propaganda in order to explore the contours of this new
global order. He shares information learned from protesters in Serbia,
narco-warlords in Mexico, Fox News hosts in America, and the KGB
officer who forced his own family into exile. Join Pomerantsev for a
surreal envisioning of modern disinformation—and a critical
treatise for navigating our new reality.
Peter Pomerantsev is a Visiting Senior Fellow at the Institute of
Global Affairs at the London School of Economics, an author and TV
producer. He studies propaganda and media development, and has
testified on the challenges of information war to the US House Foreign
Affairs Committee, US Senate Foreign Relations Committee and the UK
Parliament Defense Select Committee.
Thanks to Town Hall Seattle & Third Place Books
Recorded 9/10/19
Jonathan Safran Foer: We Are the Weather,
Monday 10/14, Thurs. 1pm, Sat. Morning 12am on SCM
Will future generations distinguish
between those who didn’t believe in the science of climate change
and those who said they accepted the science but didn’t act? And
for those who do accept the reality of human-caused climate change,
what does immediate action look like? Author Jonathan Safran Foer takes
Town Hall’s stage to explore this central dilemma of our time in
a surprising, creative, and urgent new way. He’s joined onstage
in conversation with legendary Seattle journalist and radio host Steve
Scher to explore insight from Foer’s book We Are the Weather:
Saving the Planet Begins at Breakfast. Together, Foer and Scher discuss
the ways that humanity has turned our planet into a farm for growing
meat. They reckon with Foer’s assertion that catastrophic climate
change has resulted from this meat production, and consider how our
descendants will judge our actions at this crucial moment. Join Foer
and Scher for a discussion on collective action against climate change
that starts with what we eat—and don’t eat—for
breakfast and lunch.
Jonathan Safran Foer is the author of the novels Everything Is
Illuminated, Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close, and Here I Am, and of
the nonfiction book Eating Animals. His work has received numerous
awards and has been translated into thirty-six languages.
Steve Scher is a Seattle-based journalist and radio host. He served at
KUOW for 28 years on programs such as Weekday and The Record. He
currently hosts and produces the podcast At Length with Steve Scher,
and is the Chief Correspondent for Town Hall’s insider podcast In
The Moment.
Thanks to Town Hall Seattle and Ada's Technical Books
Recorded 9/25/19
Naomi Klein with Teresa Mosqueda: Winning a Green New Deal,
Monday 10/7, Thurs. 1pm, Sat. Morning 12am on SCM
[Note: This program will show on SCM in Seattle 10/7 and will air on Free Speech TV starting 9/30.]
For more than twenty years, Naomi Klein has
been the foremost chronicler of the economic war waged on both people and
planet—and an unapologetic champion of a sweeping environmental agenda
with justice at its center. Klein joins us at Town Hall with insight from
On Fire: The (Burning) Case for a Green New Deal, a report from the front
lines of contemporary natural disaster that offers prescient advisories
and dire warnings of what future awaits us if we refuse to act—as well
as hopeful glimpses of a far better future.
In conversation with Seattle City Councilmember Teresa Mosqueda, Klein
investigates our modern climate crisis not only as a profound political
challenge but as a spiritual and imaginative one. She delves into topics
ranging from the clash between ecological time and our culture of “perpetual
now,” to the soaring history of humans changing and evolving rapidly in
the face of grave threats, to rising white supremacy and fortressed
borders as a form of “climate barbarism.” Join Klein and Mosqueda for
an expansive, far-ranging exploration that sees the battle for a greener
world as indistinguishable from the fight for our lives, and a rousing
call to action for a planet on the brink.
Naomi Klein is an award-winning journalist, syndicated columnist and
author of the New York Times and international bestsellers, No is Not
Enough: Resisting Trump’s Shock Politics and Winning the World We Need,
This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs The Climate, The Shock Doctrine:
The Rise of Disaster Capitalism, and No Logo.
Teresa Mosqueda is the Position 8 representative on the Seattle City
Council in Washington. Mosqueda won a first term in the general election
on November 7, 2017. Mosqueda is a former consumer advocate for the
Washington Affordable Care Act Exchange Board. She has also worked for the
Children’s Alliance and the Washington State Labor Council.
Thanks to Town Hall Seattle & Elliott Bay Books Recorded 9/24/19
VFP Peace Videos: Making Waves & Walk the Walk, Monday 9/30, Thurs.
1pm, Sat. Morning 12am on SCM
[Note: This program will show on SCM in Seattle 9/30 and will air on Free Speech TV starting 10/7.]
Two videos from Veterans for Peace:
Making Waves: The Rebirth of the Golden Rule
This 25 minute documentary covers the history of the Golden Rule historic
anti-nuclear peace boat from her first voyage in 1958 through restoration from
2010 to 2015 and her current voyages. The film maker, James “Seamus” Knight
of Caneyhead Productions produced the film during the San Diego Fleet Week
protest on October 14, 2017 in conjunction with Veterans For Peace, San Diego
chapter.
Walking the Walk
In June of 2013 a group of peace activists set out for a walk across Iowa to
protest the Predator drone control center planned for the Iowa National Guard
Air Base in Des Moines. Beginning at the arms depot at Rock Island Illinois and
ending at the National Guard Air Base in Des Moines, the intimate journey of 25
peace pilgrims is documented in the film Walking the Walk: a March Against Drone
Warfare. For two weeks and one hundred ninety-five miles, the walkers discuss
their mission, their hopes, fears and outrage. Among the walkers are a man just
released from prison for attempting to deliver a letter to the commander of a
drone base, a businessman who has left a lucrative career to walk and witness
for peace, veterans who have witnessed war first hand and a lawyer and former
government official deeply concerned with the legality of the United States'
drone strike program. In discussions with locals they meet and public
presentations in libraries, parks and colleges we hear the issue of armed drone
strikes and assassinations discussed in all their ethical complexity. Medea
Benjamin, co-founder of the world-wide peace action organization Code Pink
called the film "Wonderful... Fantastic... Brilliant, it gets out so much
info in such a humanizing way. And so beautifully filmed."
Thanks to James “Seamus” Knight of Caneyhead Productions
Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor: Police Terror and Black Liberation, Monday
9/23, Thurs. 1pm, Sat. Morning 12am on SCM
The summer of 2019 marks the five-year
anniversary of the shooting of Michael Brown Jr. in Ferguson,
Missouri—an event that sparked tremendous protests, and which
stirred a massive rise in mobility and voice from the Black Lives
Matter movement. To reflect on five years of progress since this
landmark tragedy and explore the present and future of Black Lives
Matter, renowned political and social writer Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor
gave this talk at Town Hall Seattle in an event for a rising generation
of activists. She surveys the historical and contemporary ravages of
racism and persistence of structural inequality such as mass
incarceration and Black unemployment. Taylor invites us to recall the
triumphs and accomplishments of the people leading Black Lives Matter,
as well as the challenges the movement has faced and the ground still
left to cover. Join us for a stirring and insightful retrospective on
the nationwide movement to stand against police violence and push for
Black liberation.
Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor writes on Black politics, social movements, and
racial inequality in the United States. Her book From #BlackLivesMatter
to Black Liberation won the 2016 Lannan Cultural Freedom Award for an
Especially Notable Book. Her articles have been published in Souls: A
Critical Journal of Black Politics, Culture and Society, Jacobin, New
Politics, The Guardian, In These Times, Black Agenda Report, Ms.,
International Socialist Review, and other publications.
Thanks to Town Hall Seattle and Elliott Bay Books
Recorded 9/5/19
Robert Reich and Pramila Jayapal: Labor Day, Monday 9/16, Thurs. 1pm, Sat. Morning 12am on SCM
What steps can we take in order to
better our country by protecting the common interest of our workers?
Former U.S. Secretary of Labor Robert Reich along with
Washington’s 7th District Representative Pramila Jayapal gave
this talk to a sold out crowd at Seattle’s newly renovated Town
Hall for a Labor Day exploration of Reich’s latest book The
Common Good. They offer their perspective on the state of American
politics and the labor movement, and unpack Reich’s powerful case
for the expansion of America’s moral imagination. Rooting his
argument in common sense and everyday reality, Reich demonstrates that
a common good constitutes the very essence of any society or nation.
Societies, he says, undergo virtuous cycles that reinforce the common
good as well as vicious cycles that undermine it—one of which
America has been experiencing for the past five decades. This process,
Reich asserts, can and must be reversed. Join Reich and Jayapal for a
chance to weigh the moral obligations of citizenship and carefully
consider how we relate to labor, honor, shame, patriotism, truth, and
the meaning of leadership.
Robert B. Reich is Chancellor’s Professor of Public Policy at the
University of California at Berkeley and Senior Fellow at the Blum
Center for Developing Economies. He served as Secretary of Labor in the
Clinton administration, for which Time Magazine named him one of the
ten most effective cabinet secretaries of the twentieth century. He has
written fifteen books, including the bestsellers Aftershock, The Work
of Nations, and Beyond Outrage.
Congresswoman Pramila Jayapal represents Washington’s 7th
District, which encompasses most of Seattle and surrounding areas
including Shoreline, Vashon Island, Lake Forest Park, Edmonds and parts
of Burien and Normandy Park. Congresswoman Jayapal is committed to
ensuring that every resident of the district has economic opportunity;
fairness and equity; and safe and healthy communities.
Thanks to Town Hall Seattle and Elliott Bay Books.
Recorded 9/2/19
Mads Jacobsen and Matt Pless in Concert, Monday 9/9, Thurs. 1pm, Sat. Morning 12am on SCM
One of the great but relatively unknown
singer songwriters of our times, Matt Pless [https://www.mattpless.com]
was in Seattle and gave this extraordinary performance. On hand to open
the show was another great singer songwriter, Mads Jacobsen
[https://madsjacobsen.bandcamp.com].
Recorded 8/21/19 at University Heights Center in Seattle
Caroline Fredrickson: How Conservatives Rigged Democracy, Monday 8/26, Thurs. 1pm, Sat. Morning 12am on SCM
Despite representing a minority of the
American public, conservatives are in power in Washington, DC as well
as state capitols and courtrooms across the country. Caroline
Fredrickson—president of the American Constitution
Society—arrives at Town Hall to outline the process by which
these conservative representatives came into power. With insight from
her book The Democracy Fix, she contends that while progressives fought
to death over the nuances of policy and to bring attention to specific
issues, conservatives focused on simply gaining power by gaming our
democracy.
Now Fredrickson argues that it’s time for progressives to focus
on winning. She shows us how progressives can learn from the Right by
having the determination to focus on judicial elections, state power,
and voter laws without stooping to their dishonest, rule-breaking
tactics. Join Fredrickson for a conversation on how we can work to
change the rules of the game to regain power, expand the franchise, end
voter suppression, win judicial elections, and fight for transparency
and fairness in our political system.
Caroline Fredrickson is the president of the American Constitution
Society (ACS) and the author of Under the Bus: How Working Women Are
Being Run Over. She has been widely published on a range of legal and
constitutional issues and is a frequent guest on television and radio
shows. Fredrickson was chief of staff to Senator Maria Cantwell and
deputy chief of staff to then Senate democratic leader Tom Daschle.
During the Clinton administration, she served as special assistant to
the president for legislative affairs.
Thanks to Town Hall Seattle and Third Place Books
Recorded 6/18/19
David Swanson: Nukes- What Are They Good For?, Monday 8/26, Thurs. 1pm, Sat. Morning 12am on SCM
David Swanson gave this keynote address
to a gathering of peace activists at the annual Ground Zero
Hiroshima/Nagasaki Weekend marking the 74th Anniversary of Hiroshima
and Nagasaki Atomic Bombing. The Ground Zero Center for Nonviolent
Action in Poulsbo WA was established in 1977, just as the Bangor
Trident Submarine Base was being built, and sits on land directly
adjacent to the base. The actual keynote title was: “The Myths,
the Silence, and the Propaganda That Keep Nuclear Weapons in
Existence.”
The next morning on August 5th, 60 people were present at a flash mob
demonstration against Trident nuclear weapons at the Bangor submarine
base. The demonstration was in the roadway at the Main Gate during rush
hour traffic. To see flash mob performance and related videos:
https://www.facebook.com/groundzerocenter.
Over thirty flash mob dancers and supporters entered the roadway at
6:30 AM carrying peace flags and two large banners stating, “We
can all live without Trident” and “Abolish Nuclear
Weapons.” While traffic into the base was blocked, dancers
performed to a recording of War (What is it good for?) by Edwin Starr.
After the performance, dancers left the roadway and eleven
demonstrators remained. The eleven demonstrators were removed from the
roadway by the Washington State Patrol and cited with RCW 46.61.250,
Pedestrians on roadways.
About 30 minutes later, and after being cited, five of the eleven
demonstrators reentered the roadway carrying a banner with a quote by
Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., which stated, “When scientific power
outruns spiritual power, we end up with guided missiles and misguided
men.” The five were removed by the Washington State Patrol, cited
with RCW 9A.84.020, Failure to disperse, and released at the
scene.
In this talk, the noted author, activist, journalist, and radio host,
David Swanson of World Beyond War, presented the argument that war is
not good for anything and exposed some of the necessary myths and
propaganda that make war and nuclear weapons possible. He also took the
time to elaborate on the fear that power structures have of an aroused
public, why they depend on our complicity through silence, and what we
need to do about it. His books
include, When The World Outlawed War, War Is A Lie, and War Is Never Just.
Thanks to The Ground Zero Center for Nonviolent Action
Recorded 8/4/19
See also: www.gzcenter.org
Web Exclusive
Jennifer Dumpert: Liminal Dreaming
Liminal dreaming occurs at the
boundaries of consciousness between waking and sleep. To guide us in
harnessing one of the most unusual human experiences, Jennifer Dumpert
presents a comprehensive array of practical exercises for accessing and
lingering in our liminal dream states. She explores the brain states
which together create our experience of dreaming—hypnagogia, the
hallucinatory dream state through which we pass as we sink into sleep,
and hypnopompia, the mesmerizing dreams we experience as we surface
back into waking. Dumpert offers us techniques to harness the power of
hypnagogia and hypnopompia and engage our dreaming minds to help us
answer personal or intellectual questions or even, she says, encourage
the healing process. Join Dumpert to learn about the power of liminal
dream states to create an ideal circumstance for deep meditation,
provide altered consciousness experiences, and offer each of us insight
into the depths of our own psyche.
Jennifer Dumpert is a San Francisco-based writer and lecturer, and the
founder of the Oneironauticum, an international organization that
explores the phenomenological experience of dreams as a means of
experimenting with mind.
Thanks to Cascade Psychedelic Community and Town Hall Seattle
Recorded 8/14/19
David Nickles: Confronting Questions of Psychedelics, Monday 8/19, Thurs. 1pm, Sat. Morning 12am on SCM
Since their introduction to industrial
societies, psychedelics have been hailed as catalysts for personal and
societal change. Researcher David Nickles delves into recent
discoveries surrounding these compounds and the experiences they can
bring. He highlights friction around questions of who should control
access to these experiences and who gets to craft the social narratives
around them.
Nickles delves into the challenges of access, social control, and power
dynamics that have crystallized since the psychedelic revolution of the
1960’s. He highlights the ways which profit-motivated
corporations and advocates of psychedelic mainstreaming have exerted
control over public narratives about psychedelics under the pretense of
addressing mental health epidemics. He urges us to examine psychedelics
as tools for grappling with widespread social and political
maladies—declining global ecosystem, the #MeToo movement, and the
ongoing failures of late capitalism—rather than merely the next
chic self-improvement product. Join Nickles for a conversation about
fighting commodification and exploring culture through a psychedelic
lens.
David Nickels is an underground researcher and moderator for The
DMT-Nexus community. He has worked on numerous harm reduction projects
including KosmiCare, Check-In, TLConscious, DanceWize, and The Open
Hyperspace Traveler. He’s offered cultural critiques and
commentary on psychedelics and radical politics, as well as novel
phytochemical data for psychedelic preparations at venues around the
world.
Thanks to Cascadia Psychedelic Community & Town Hall Seattle
Recorded 7/24/19
Down With Work!, Monday 8/12, Thurs. 1pm, Sat. Morning 12am on SCM
This event is a panel discussion between
a number of leading scholars on the nature of work as part of Red May,
a month-long festival of radical art and thought. Their motto is: Take
a vacation from capitalism.
Many of us find ourselves frustrated with our 40-hour work weeks,
wondering about the purpose and practicality of our jobs, and even
whether or not work is necessary. We find ourselves questioning our
capitalist society’s conception of work—that it’s
normal and necessary to commit massive amounts of personal time and
emotional energy to our jobs.
To conduct an inquiry into the activity we least like doing, Kathi
Weeks, Michael Hardt, Peter Frase, and Charles Mudede come together for
a Red May panel discussion on the value of work in our society. They
conceptualize modern civilization without a population committed to
lives in the workforce, and weigh benefits and hurdles of alternative
models for our society. Sit in for a conversation on the possibility of
conceiving, creating, and sustaining a world without work.
Kathi Weeks is Associate Professor of Women’s Studies at Duke
University. Her primary interests are in the fields of political
theory, feminist theory, Marxist thought, and utopian studies. She is
the author of The Problem with Work: Feminism, Marxism, Antiwork
Politics, and Postwork Imaginaries; Constituting Feminist Subjects; and
a co-editor of The Jameson Reader.
Peter Frase is a writer and organizer in New York, studying topics
including technology, labor, and eco-socialism. He has written for
Jacobin, Commune, In These Times, and other publications. He is the
author of Four Futures.
Michael Hardt teaches at Duke University. With Antonio Negri he is
author of the Empire trilogy—Empire, Multitude, and
Commonwealth—as well as Declaration. Hardt and Negri’s new
book, Assembly, was published in September 2017.
Charles Mudede was born near a steel plant in Kwe Kwe, Zimbabwe. Mudede
is a filmmaker whose films have appeared at Sundance and Cannes, and he
has written for the New York Times, The Stranger, Cinema Scope, Ars
Electronica, and others.
Thanks to Red May and Town Hall Seattle, recorded 5/23/19
Doria Robinson: The Struggle for Food Justice,
Monday 8/5, Thurs. 1pm, Sat. Morning 12am on SCM
See also: Event
Intro
Recorded SAT July 13, 2019: CAGJ’s 13th Annual SLEE Dinner - Strengthening Local Economies Everywhere
Keynote: Doria Robinson, Executive Director of Urban Tilth, "For the
Love of Soil: Dismantling the Extractive Economy with Justice and Food
Sovereignty"
Doria Robinson is a leader in both the food sovereignty and climate
justice movements. Trained as a Watershed Restoration Ecologist, Doria
is the Executive Director of Urban Tilth, a community-based
organization rooted in Richmond, California dedicated to cultivating
urban agriculture to help the community build a more sustainable,
healthy, and just food system. CAGJ works closely with Urban Tilth as
members of the Western region of the US Food Sovereignty Alliance.
Community Alliance for Global Justice grew out of a mass people's
movement that shut down the World Trade Organization in 1999, and
continues to work toward transforming unjust trade and agricultural
practices. CAGJ’s 13th annual SLEE Dinner (Strengthening Local
Economies Everywhere) will highlight the role of food sovereignty and
agroecology in leading us to a Just Transition to address the climate
crisis.
Rachel Louise Snyder: No Visible Bruises, Monday 7/29, Thurs. 1pm, Sat. Morning 12am on SCM
Whether we call it domestic abuse,
private violence, or even intimate terrorism in America domestic
violence accounts for 15 percent of all violent crime. The World Health
Organization deemed it a “global epidemic,” and yet too
often it remains locked in silence, even as its tendrils reach unseen
into so many of our most pressing national issues.
Acclaimed journalist Rachel Louise Snyder takes the stage to deliver a
reckoning with this urgent and widespread problem with insight from her
powerful new book No Visible Bruises. She’s joined onstage by
KUOW’s Sydney Brownstone, and together these two journalists
reveal the scale of domestic violence in our country. They frame key
stories that demolish common myths—if things were bad enough,
victims would just leave; a violent person cannot become nonviolent;
shelter is an adequate response; and the insidious notion that violence
inside the home is a private matter. Through the stories of victims,
perpetrators, law enforcement, and reform movements from across the
country, Snyder and Brownstone take us on a sobering exploration of the
real roots of private violence, its far-reaching consequences for
society, and what it will take to truly address it.
Rachel Louise Snyder’s work has appeared in The New Yorker, The
New York Times Magazine, the Washington Post,the New Republic, and
elsewhere. Her books include Fugitive Denim: A Moving Story of People
and Pants in the Borderless World of Global Trade, and the novel What
We’ve Lost is Nothing. She has been the recipient of an Overseas
Press Award for her work on This American Life.
Sydney Brownstone is the online editor for KUOW, and a contributor to
The Stranger, Fast Company, Mother Jones, and Village Voice.
Brownstone’s writing covers topics of general news, the
environment, and sexual assault, and in 2017 her coverage of the
Seattle porn scammer Matt Hickey was nominated for a Pulitzer Prize.
Thanks to Town Hall Seattle and Third Place Books
Recorded 5/21/19
Senator Risa Hontiveros: Defending Democracy, Monday 7/22, Thurs. 1pm, Sat. Morning 12am on SCM
Philippine Senator Risa Hontiveros gave
this talk on the Seattle leg of her recent US tour. Hontiveros is a
prominent leader in the fight to defend democracy and oppose corruption
and impunity in government. She is a champion of women, LGBTQ,
children, disability, Indigenous, student, worker, farmer, and senior
citizen rights.
A former journalist, she served as the representative of the Akbayan
Citizens Action Party in the House of Representatives of the
Philippines from 2004-2010. In 2005, she was nominated for a Nobel
Prize for her efforts on peace, diplomacy, and dialogue. Hontiveros was
elected Senator in 2016. She is a key opposition figure against the
Philippines current controversial drug war and continues to fight for
social justice, reform and national progress through legislative work.
Senator Hontiveros toured the US to give an update on the recent
Philippines midterm elections (May 13). President Duterte's allies won
a sweeping victory, shutting out all opposition candidates. Known as
"the Punisher," Duterte is seen by many as a violent, macho-fascist
populist. He is widely condemned, locally and internationally, for a
drug policy which has lead to extrajudicial killings of over 12,000
people (or more), including 54 children in the first year. Currently
there are only four senators who oppose Duterte–including
Hontiveros–and all have been accused by the administration of
"crimes." Along with justice warriors like Hontiveros and her
colleagues, a Filipino youth-lead democratic mass movement is also on
the rise to block what is predicted as Duterte's move towards
dictatorship.
She warned Filipinos-Americans at packed community forums up and down
the U.S. west coast that the next three years will be tough for
Philippine democracy and “will get worse before it gets
better.”
Senator Hontiveros described the “hit-and-run” ramming of a
Filipino fishing boat in the Recto Bank as a “perfect metaphor
for the state of affairs in the Philippines” where President
Duterte and his allies ignore or harm the public interest with impunity.
Thanks to Akbayan USA and LELO (Legacy of Equality, Leadership and Organizing) Recorded 6/25/19
Lawrence Lessig: Fidelity & Constraint, Monday 7/15, Thurs. 1pm, Sat. Morning 12am on SCM
The immense age of our nation’s
Constitution presents a fundamental challenge for interpreters. After
so much time has passed, how do we read such an old document? Legal
scholar Lawrence Lessig arrives at Town Hall to explore one of the most
basic approaches to interpreting the Constitution—the process of
translation. With insight from his new book Fidelity & Constraint,
Lessig contends that some of the most significant shifts in
constitutional doctrine are products of the evolution of the
translation process over time. He describes how judges understand their
translations as instances of “interpretive fidelity,”
framing their judgements in the context of time. Lessig also highlights
what he calls “fidelity to role,” a practice by which
judges determine if old ways of interpreting the Constitution have
become illegitimate because they do not match up with the judge’s
perceived role. Lessig not only shows us how important the concept of
translation is to constitutional interpretation, but also exposes the
institutional limits on this practice. Sit in for a course on
constitutional and foundational theory by one of America’s
leading legal minds.
Lawrence Lessig is the Roy L. Furman Professor of Law and Leadership at
Harvard Law School. He is the author of many books, including: Code
2.0; Free Culture; Remix; Republic, Lost; and most recently America,
Compromised.
Thanks to Town Hall Seattle
Recorded 6/17/19
Nick Estes: Our History Is the Future, Monday 7/8, Thurs. 1pm, Sat. Morning 12am on SCM
Our History Is the Future: Standing Rock Versus the Dakota Access Pipeline
In a book that is history, memory, and manifesto, Nick Estes explains
how two centuries of Indigenous resistance created the movement
proclaiming, “Water is life.,” how a small protest
encampment established to block construction of the Dakota Access oil
pipeline grew to be the largest Indigenous protest movement in the
twenty-first century.
Thanks to Verso Books, Elliott Bay Books & Red May Seattle.
Recorded 5/7/19
Lee McIntyre: Defending Science from Denial and Fraud, Monday
7/1, Thurs. 1pm, Sat. Morning 12am on SCM
According to Lee McIntyre, attacks on
science have become commonplace. Claims that climate change isn’t
settled science, that evolution is “only a theory,” and
that scientists are conspiring to keep the truth about vaccines from
the public are staples of some politicians’ rhetorical
repertoire. McIntyre joins us to present The Scientific Attitude, a
treatise in defense of science’s processes, claims, and
discoveries. McIntyre argues that what makes science distinctive is its
emphasis on evidence and scientists’ willingness to change
theories on the basis of new evidence.
He explores the implications of scientific fraud; tracks the
transformation of medicine from its basis in hunches to its modern form
as an evidence-based practice; and studies the positions of
ideology-driven denialists, pseudoscientists, and
“skeptics” who reject scientific findings. Join McIntyre
for a look at how the scientific attitude—the grounding of
science in evidence—offers a uniquely powerful tool in the
defense of science.
Lee McIntyre is a Research Fellow at the Center for Philosophy and
History of Science at Boston University. He is the author of Dark Ages:
The Case for a Science of Human Behavior and Post-Truth, both published
by the MIT Press.
Thanks to Town Hall Seattle
Recorded 6/3/19
Annie Jacobsen: The Secret History of the CIA, Monday 6/24, Thurs. 1pm, Sat. Morning 12am on SCM
When diplomacy fails and war is unwise,
the president calls on the CIA’s Special Activities
Division—a highly-classified branch of the CIA and the most
effective black operations force in the world. Almost every American
president since World War II has asked the CIA to conduct sabotage,
subversion, and even assassination. To unveil the secret world of the
president’s guerrilla warfare corps, Pulitzer Prize finalist
Annie Jacobsen takes the stage with excerpts from Surprise, Kill,
Vanish, her thriller-like exposition of the world of paramilitary and
intelligence work.
Jacobsen shares exclusive interviews with members of the CIA’s
Senior Intelligence Service (equivalent to the Pentagon’s
generals), its counterterrorism chiefs, targeting officers, and Special
Activities Division’s Ground Branch operators who conduct
today’s close-quarters killing operations around the world. And
every operation they report—however unsettling—is legal.
Join Jacobsen for a gripping dive into the complex world of individuals
working in treacherous environments populated with killers, connivers,
and saboteurs.
Annie Jacobsen is the author of the New York Times bestsellers Area 51
and Operation Paperclip and the Pulitzer Prize finalist The
Pentagon’s Brain. She was a contributing editor at the Los
Angeles Times Magazine.
Thanks to Town Hall Seattle and Elliott Bay Books
Recorded 5/28/19
Chuck Collins: Reversing Wealth Inequality, Monday 6/17, Thurs. 1pm, Sat. Morning 12am on SCM
We are living in a time of extreme
inequality, and few places are more unequal than the United States.
America’s 20 richest people now own more wealth than the bottom
half of the rest of the population combined. Scholar and activist Chuck
Collins argues that these inequalities have their roots in forty years
of the powerful and wealthy rigging the entire system in their favor.
He proposes a wide range of public policies to roll back decades of
accelerating inequality, analyzes the barriers to progress, and shows
how transformative local campaigns can be made into a national movement
for change.
Collins is a senior scholar at the Institute for Policy Studies where
he co-edits Inequality.org. He is author of, “Is Inequality in
America Irreversible?”; “Born on Third Base: A One
Percenter Makes the Case for Tackling Inequality”;
“Bringing Wealth Home, and Committing to the Common Good”;
and “99 to 1: How Wealth Inequality is Wrecking the World and
What We Can Do About It”.
Recorded at Straub Hall on the UO campus Oregon Humanities Center 4/17/19 by Todd Boyle
Thanks to the Tzedek Lecture in the Humanities series on The Common Good
Susan Anderson: Sustainable Cities- A Model for Success, Monday
6/10, Thurs. 1pm, Sat. Morning 12am on SCM
What would a Green New Deal look like?
When we think about the seemingly impossible but necessary task of
rapidly moving our federal government to address the climate emergency,
it might be helpful to know what most people don’t know. That is
that many local governments are already well on their way in
implementing their climate action plans. Chief among these is Portland
Oregon. They began implementing their "Carbon Dioxide Reduction
Strategy" in 1993 and have transformed Portland into one of the most
livable cities in the USA while they were at it. The one who
spearheaded this effort is none other than Susan Anderson, the former
director of Portland’s Bureau of Planning and Sustainability. As
Susan goes through her slide show you are going to realize that what
Portland has done is astonishing. It’s also interesting to note
how they did it. They didn’t sell it as addressing climate change
which few people, even now fully grasp, they sold it on making Portland
a better place to live by saving money for residents, government, and
business, creating jobs, addressing pollution and sprawl, improving
transportation, making the city more walk able and bike able, and
applying high-tech energy solutions.
This talk was taped at the second annual Cities Climate Summit
organized by People for Climate Action on May 11th 2019. I have posted
the whole conference here for YouTube viewers so that while you are at
it you can find out what Seattle is doing. You can watch the whole
thing or scroll to whichever presentation you like:
What is People for Climate Action? -Brian Emanuels
(from Mercer Island PCA)
3:48-- Why we are showcasing Portland --Claire Waltman
7:36-- Featured Speaker: Susan Anderson
1:07:52-- Q & A with Susan Anderson
1:24:44-- Citizens Climate Lobby presentation
by Gwen Hansen & Ian James
1:37:43-- Looking forward with Megan Smith & Court Olson
2:01:00-- Public officials Q &A with Susan Anderson
Extinction Rebellion: Confronting the Extinction Crisis parts 1&2, Monday
5/27 & 6/3, Thurs. 1pm, Sat. Morning 12am on SCM
An Emergency Forum Sponsored by Extinction Rebellion Seattle – featuring Dahr Jamail, climate change journalist and author of “The End of Ice,” Curtis Deutsch, Associate Professor at the School of Oceanography, University of Washington, and co-author of a new study on the role of global warming in causing the Permian mass extinction. Also featured are Shaylon Stolk and Ruth Oskolkoff from Extinction Rebellion Seattle. Moderated by Truthout reporter Curtis Johnson.
Pirate TV will broadcast this event in two parts.
Thanks to Extinction Rebellion Seattle and Plant for the Planet.
Recorded 4/25/19
Nancy MacLean: The Origins of Today’s Radical Right, Monday 5/20, Thurs. 1pm, Sat. Morning 12am on SCM
Nancy MacLean gave this keynote talk at
Fix Democracy First’s 2019 Annual dinner in which she outlined
the radical covert plan being implemented by the Koch network to change
the rules of our government to make “capitalism safe from
democracy” while we are distracted by Trump.
Fix Democracy First (fixdemocracyfirst.org) is a non-profit in the
state of Washington fighting to improve our Democratic processes. They
have been running initiatives and projects in support of public
financing of campaigns, fair elections, overturning Citizen’s
United, protecting voting rights and other similar efforts for almost
two decades and have recently merged with WAmend and continue to work
very closely with allies, partners, and volunteers towards the common
goal of getting money out of politics.
Nancy MacLean is the William H. Chafe Professor of History and Public
Policy at Duke University, and the award-winning author of several
books. Her most recent book, about which she will speak, is
“Democracy in Chains: The Deep History of the Radical Rights
Stealth Plan for America.” Booklist called it perhaps the best
explanation to date of the roots of the political divide that threatens
to irrevocably alter American government. The Guardian said: Its the
missing chapter: a key to understanding the politics of the past half
century. The Nation magazine named it the Most Valuable Book of the
year.
Thanks to Fix Democracy First
Recorded 5/4/19
Dana Frank: The Long Honduran Night, Monday 5/13, Thurs. 1pm, Sat. Morning 12am on SCM
Why are the migrants fleeing Honduras?
Dana Frank discusses her new book, “The Long Honduran Night:
Resistance, Terror, and the United States in the Aftermath of the
Coup”, which examines Honduras since the 2009 coup that deposed
democratically-elected President Manuel Zelaya. She interweaves her
personal experiences in post-coup Honduras and in the US Congress with
a larger analysis of the coup regime and its ongoing repression,
Honduran opposition movements, US policy in support of the regime, and
Congressional challenges to that policy. Dana Frank gives us the much
needed context to help understand the root causes of the immigrant
caravans of Hondurans leaving for the US, and the destructive impact of
US policy not found in US corporate media.
Dana Frank is Professor of History Emerita at the University of
California, Santa Cruz. Her books include “Bananeras: Women
Transforming the Banana Unions of Latin America”, which focuses
on Honduras, and “Buy American: The Untold Story of Economic
Nationalism”. Her writings on human rights and U.S. policy in
post-coup Honduras have appeared in the New York Times, Los Angeles
Times, Miami Herald, Houston Chronicle, The Nation, Foreign Affairs,
Foreign Policy, Politico Magazine, and many other publications, and she
has been interviewed by the Washington Post, New Yorker, New York
Times, National Public Radio, Univsion, Latino USA, regularly on
Democracy Now!, and on other outlets. Professor Frank has testified
about Honduras before the US House of Representatives, the California
Assembly, and the Canadian Parliament.
Thanks to
The University of Oregon CLLAS Research Series & the Knight Library
Recorded April 10, 2019 by Todd Boyle
Daniel Immerwahr: How to Hide an Empire, Monday 5/6, Thurs. 1pm, Sat. Morning 12am on SCM
Hear historian Daniel Immerwahr,
Associate Professor of History, Northwestern University, talk about
what happens to U.S. history when we include the territories
(Philippines, Puerto Rico, Hawai'i) as part of the story.
We are familiar with maps that outline all fifty states. And we are
also familiar with the idea that the United States is an
“empire,” exercising power around the world. But what about
the actual territories—the islands, atolls, and
archipelagos—this country has governed and inhabited?
Immerwahr, author of How to Hide an Empire, tells the fascinating story
of the United States outside the United States.
Recorded 4/23/19 at Kane Hall, University of Washington
Oliver Nachtwey: Social Decline in the Heart of Europe, Monday
4/29, Thurs. 1pm, Sat. Morning 12am on SCM
German sociologist Oliver Nachtwey and
German political scientist Niko Switek have a conversation on how
neoliberalism is causing a social crisis in Germany and the rest of
Europe. Upward social mobility represented a core promise of life under
the “old” West German welfare state, in which millions of
skilled workers upgraded their Volkswagens to Audis, bought their first
homes, and sent their children to university. Oliver Nachtwey analyses
the reasons for the political and social rupture in postwar German
society and investigates the rise in popularity of right-wing populism
throughout Europe. Oliver Nachtwey is Associate Professor of Social
Structure Analysis at the University of Basel, and a fellow at the
Institute for Social Research in Frankfurt. Niko Switek is DAAD
Visiting Assistant Professor for German Studies at the Henry M. Jackson
School for International Studies and the Department of Political
Science at the University of Washington.
Thanks to Goethe Pop Up Seattle and Elliott Bay Books
Recorded 4/18/19
Lynn Fitz- Hugh: Food and Climate, Monday 4/22, Thurs. 1pm, Sat. Morning 12am on SCM
Food production alone conservatively
represents 9% of the US carbon foot print. All of us are consumers of
food and make food choices that impact our carbon foot print. Learn
about how eating an organic, local, plant-based diet and wasting less
food can help stop climate change. We will offer a series of choices
for you to examine. One third of all food in the US is wasted and the
book Drawdown lists eliminating food waste as the third most effective
solution to climate change, with the 4th being eating a plant-based
diet. We will also look at the social justice issues tied up in food
production.
Lynn Fitz-Hugh founded 350Seattle.org as well as Faith Action Climate
Team (FACT). She is also this year’s TCAT program chair for the
convention.
Recorded at the 2019 South Sound Climate Convention in Olympia Washington 4/13/19
See also: www.southsoundclimateconvention.org
Salmon People, Monday 4/15, Thurs. 1pm, Sat. Morning 12am on SCM
Northwest Native Opposition to Genetically Engineered Fish
What are the risks from genetically engineered fish to the people and
environments of the Pacific Northwest? New Canoe Media tackles this
question head-on with their new short film Salmon People. This program
documents an event organized by the Community Alliance for Global
Justice and features the film and a panel of indigenous and advocacy
activists working on Northwest Native food security and justice in the
Pacific Northwest. Hear voices from across the Pacific Northwest who
are speaking out about the risks of genetically engineered fish then
give your Senators a call to support S.282 the Genetically Engineered
Salmon Labeling Act.
Speakers include:
Heather Day, moderator, Executive Director and co-founder of Community Alliance for Global Justice.
Valerie Segrest, Muckleshoot Food Sovereignty Project
Alan Stay, Office of the Tribal Attorney, Muckleshoot Indian Tribe
Fawn Sharp, President of the Quinault Indian Nation
Dana Perls, Senior Food and Technology Policy Campaigner with Friends of the Earth
Links:
cagj.org/salmonpeople/
foe.org/gmo-salmon-bill
Community Partners: 350 Seattle, Central Co-op, Chinook Book, First
Nations at UW, Go Wild Campaign, Green Plate Special, Got Green, Health
Alliance International, Indigenous Peoples Institute, LGBTQ Allyship,
Loki Fish Company, NAMA-Northwest Atlantic Marine Alliance, Sierra Club
NW, Sno-Valley Tilth, Tilth Alliance, Tulalip News, UFCW Local 21, UW
American Indian Studies, UW Anthropology, UW Center for Human Rights,
UW Comparative History of Ideas, UW Geography, UW Nutritional Sciences,
UW Program of the Environment, Union Cultural Center, Washington State
Unitarian Universalist Voices for Justice
Presented by Town Hall Seattle, Community Alliance for Global Justice, Center for Food Safety, and Friends of the Earth. Recorded 4/9/19
Militarism Abroad / Militarism at Home, Monday 4/8, Thurs. 1pm, Sat. Morning 12am on SCM
The Urban Poverty Forum is an effort to
open a dialogue around the systemic issues surrounding urban poverty
and to unite a diverse community of care—including faith based
organizations, nonprofits, and concerned citizens in addressing
problems faced by the poorest among us. This video recorded at this
year’s 13th annual Urban Poverty Forum, presents Yessenia Medrano
from Northwest Immigrant Rights Project and Phoenix Johnson, president
of Veterans For Peace, Puget Sound Chapter 92.
These speakers come together to focus on the relationship between
militarism abroad and militarism at the U.S. border as two
manifestations of a moral crisis. Join us for a timely and urgent
conversation about imperialism, militarism, and our nation’s
evolving legacy of conflict.
Thanks to Town Hall Seattle, Real Change, Hugo House, and The Mahogany Project. Recorded 3/17/19
Dahr Jamail: The End of Ice, Monday 4/1, Thurs. 1pm, Sat. Morning 12am on SCM
After nearly a decade overseas,
acclaimed journalist Dahr Jamail returned to America to renew his
passion for mountaineering—only to find that the slopes he once
climbed have been irrevocably changed by climate disruption. He
embarked on a worldwide journey to see for himself the consequences of
climate change across the globe—from Alaska to Australia’s
Great Barrier Reef to the Amazon rainforest. Now returning to the Town
Hall stage, he presented his findings from his new book The End of Ice:
Bearing Witness and Finding Meaning in the Path of Climate Disruption.
Jamail reveals reporting from the front lines of this crisis,
accompanied by climate scientists and people whose families have a
centuries-long history of fishing, farming, and living in the areas he
visited and his renewed passion for the planet’s wild places. He
invites us to witness a one-of-a-kind account of the catastrophic
reality of our situation and the incalculable necessity of relishing
this vulnerable, fragile planet while we still can.
Dahr Jamail, a Truthout staff reporter, is the author of Beyond the
Green Zone: Dispatches from an Unembedded Journalist in Occupied Iraq.
Jamail has reported from the Middle East over the last ten years, and
he has won the Martha Gellhorn Prize for Journalism.
Thanks to Town Hall Seattle, Washington Physicians for Social Responsibility and Third Place Books. Recorded 3/26/19
Robert Tsai: Forging Justice In A Divided Nation, Monday 3/25, Thurs. 1pm, Sat. Morning 12am on SCM
A leading expert on constitutional law
talks about the intersection of law and society. Tracing challenges to
equality throughout American history beginning with Trumps recent ban
on Muslim travelers, Professor Tsai, author of “Practical
Equality: Forging Justice In A Divided Nation” discusses how
citizens, lawyers, officials, and others who care about equality can
and have used clever legal strategies to overcome injustice even though
the courts may be stacked against them.
Robert Tsai is joined in conversation with Megan Ming Francis, a UW political scientist.
Thanks to University Bookstore, recorded 3/7/19
Doug Selwyn: All Children Are All Our Children, Monday 3/18, Thurs. 1pm, Sat. Morning 12am on SCM
Once among the healthiest countries in
the world, the United States is now ranked twenty-ninth. Those who bear
the brunt of our worsening health are the poor, people of color, and,
most of all, our children. All Children Are All Our Children situates
our ongoing health crisis within the larger picture of inequality and
the complex interplay of systems in the U.S. based on class, privilege,
racism, sexism, and the ongoing tension between the ideals of democracy
and the realities of corporate capitalism. Caught in the middle of
those tensions is public education. All Children Are All Our Children
defines what we mean by health, looking at the many factors that
support or undermine it, and then identifies steps that can be taken
locally in our schools and in our communities to support the health and
well-being of our young people and their families, even as we work
towards necessary change at the state and national policy level so that
all children grow up healthy, happy, and successful–and not just
some of them.
Thanks to University Bookstore
Recorded 3/5/19
Oceania Rising: Peace Pivot to the Pacific, Monday 3/4 &
3/11, Thurs. 1pm, Sat. Morning 12am on SCM
This a two hour presentation that will be shown in 2
parts on TV but you can watch the whole thing here.
Three Indigenous women speakers from
Okinawa, Guam, and Hawai’i recently concluded a speaking tour of
the Pacific Northwest to discuss the growing movements against U.S.
military bases, and for a demilitarized, nuclear-free, and independent
Pacific. This video is from the last stop on the tour. The presentation
included talks by-
Kyle Kajihiro, PhD candidate in Geography, University of
Hawai’i-Manoa, board member for Hawaiʻi Peace and Justice,
founder of DMZ Hawai'i / Aloha 'Aina, formerly working with American
Friends Service Committee. Kyle gave the historical overview followed
by:
Tina Grandinetta, PhD Candidate
RMIT, Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology
WVWS Delegate, International Women’s Network Against Militarism
Biracial Uchinaanchu Okinawan woman from Hawai’i
Kisha Borja-Quichocho-Calvo, PhD Candidate
University of Hawai’i-Manoa, Political Sciences
Chamoru from Guahan Guam
Ruth Aloua
Mahi'ai (farmer), Malu 'Āina Center for Nonviolent Education and Action
Kia'i loko (fishpond guardian), Kaloko Fishpond
Kanaka Maoli from the Kona District, Hawai’i
In response to the growing list of global crisis there has been another
inspiring rise in voices of knowledge from matriarchs across indigenous
cultures. As they step forward, we have an opportunity to step up and
listen to the voices most impacted to co-create sustainable solutions
for a future we all deserve and for our future generations.
We welcome three speakers representing indigenous communities of
Okinawa, Guam and Hawai’i who can speak on a lesser discussed
topic regarding the militarization of communities and it’s
intersectional points with environmental, political, social, racial,
health and cultural impact. The growing concerns include radioactive
contamination, damage from test bombing, jet crashes, unexploded
ordnance, desecration of burials and other Indigenous sacred sites,
potential foreign attack, and high social costs such as homelessness
and sexual assault.
Thanks to Seattle Veterans for Peace, Zoltan Grossman, Evergreen State
College professor of Geography, and the Native American & World
Indigenous Peoples Studies for organizing this tour. Also,
Woman’s Voices, Woman Speak and the International Women’s
Network Against Militarism
Recorded 2/21/19
Double Feature pt 1: Christopher Noxon: Good Trouble, Monday 2/25, Thurs. 1pm, Sat. Morning 12am on SCM
Christopher Noxon gave this talk about his new book Good
Trouble,
a helpful antidote to all the pessimism and name-calling that permeates
today’s political and social dialogues. Revisiting episodes from
the civil rights movement of the 1950s and 60s, he highlights some
essential lessons that modern-day activists and the civically minded
can extract and embrace in order to move forward and create change.
Diving into the real stories behind the front lines of the Montgomery
bus boycott, the Greensboro lunch counter sit-ins and notable figures
such as Rosa Parks and Bayard Rustin, he explores the parallels between
the civil rights movement era and the present moment. This thoughtful,
fresh approach is sure to inspire conversation, action, and, most
importantly, hope.
Christopher Noxon is a journalist who has written for the New Yorker, the
New York Times Magazine, the Atlantic, Los Angeles
Magazine, and Salon. He splits his time between Los Angeles and New York City.
Thanks to University Bookstore
Recorded 1/23/19
Double Feature pt 2: Anya Kamenetz: Families and Digital Media
The newest generation of children is exposed to technology more than
any who have preceded them. For many, this technological interaction
begins at infancy. Does this ubiquity represent a wonderful opportunity
to connect around the world or the first step in creating a generation
that’s emotionally and socially dependent on screens? Education
and technology expert Anya Kamenetz offers us a refreshingly practical
look at the subject with her new book The Art of Screen Time: How Your Family Can Balance Digital Media and Real
Life.
She shares findings from hundreds of surveys of fellow parents on their
practices and ideas, cutting through inconclusive studies and overblown
claims. Kamenetz hones down to a simple message (a riff on Michael
Pollan’s well-known “food rules”): Enjoy Screens. Not
too much. Mostly with others. She invites us to discuss the backbone of
a philosophy for parents to adjust to the technology in their
children’s lives. Kamenetz outlines how a new doctrine of
sophisticated yet practical thinking is a necessary cure for an age of
anxiety—one that will help parents curb their panic and create
room for a happy, healthy family life.
Anya Kamenetz is the lead digital education correspondent for NPR,
and has won multiple awards for her reporting on education, technology,
and innovation. Previously she worked as a staff writer for Fast Company magazine, and has been a contributor to The New York
Times, Washington Post, New York Magazine, Slate, and others. She is the author of three books on education and technology,
Generation Debt, DIY U, and The Test.
Thanks to Town Hall Seattle, Phinney Neighborhood Association and Phinney Books Recorded 2/7/18
The Seattle General Strike Solidarity Centennial, Monday 2/18, Thurs. 1pm, Sat. Morning 12am on SCM
The
Seattle General Strike of February 1919 was the first twentieth century
solidarity strike in the United States to be proclaimed a
“general strike.” It led off a tumultuous era of post-World
War I labor conflict that saw massive strikes shut down the nation's
steel, coal, and other industries and threaten civil unrest in a dozen
cities.
This presentation was part of an annual event presented by the Labor
Archives of Washington and marks the 100th anniversary of the Seattle
General Strike. We hear from 3 presenters:
James Gregory a professor of history at the University of Washington
who recently coordinated the release of the new centennial edition of,
The Seattle General Strike by Robert L. Friedheim
Cal Winslow is a historian and author of Seattle General Strike: The
Forgotten History of America's Greatest General Strike and
Dana Frank, historian and author of Purchasing Power: Consumer
Organizing, Gender, and the Seattle Labor Movement, 1919-1929.
Thanks to The Labor Archives of Washington, The Harry Bridges Center for Labor Studies, and Seattle Labor Temple.
Recorded 2/9/19
Kate Pickett & Richard Wilkinson: The Psychology of Inequality, Monday
2/11, Thurs. 1pm, Sat. Morning 12am on SCM
The authors of ground breaking book, The Spirit Level: why greater equality makes societies
stronger, the 2009 book that highlighted the corrosive effects of income and wealth inequality, have a new companion volume,
The Inner Level: how more equal societies reduce stress, restore sanity and improve everybody's
well-being. This new book examines the psychological reasons why inequality is so harmful.
Join us and for a discussion with authors, Kate Pickett and Richard Wilkinson.
After the talk, there was a panel discussion with local public health leaders and clinicians, including:
Dr. Ben Danielson, Clinic Chief of Seattle Children’s Odessa Brown Clinic.
Dr. Hilary Godwin, Dean of the University of Washington’s School of Public Health.
Dr. Julian Perez, Family Physician with Sea Mar Community Health Centers.
Linn Gould, Executive Director, Just Health Action, a non-profit
organization that advocates for reducing health inequities.
Thanks to Washington Physicians for Social Responsibility
and the UW Department of Global Health, Recorded 1/31/19
Download Pickett and Wilkinson’s Spirit Level talk in Seattle from
2010 by going to the PirateTVSeattle.com website and doing an ‘F’ search for ‘Spirit Level’.
Jamie Susskind: Future Politics, Monday 2/4, Thurs. 1pm, Sat. Morning 12am on SCM
As
our technological capabilities expand, humanity finds ourselves
confronting one of the most important questions of our time: how will
digital technology transform our society? Author and speaker Jamie
Susskind steps up to Town Hall’s stage to address this pressing
question with perspectives from his book Future Politics: Living
Together in a World Transformed by Tech.
Susskind argues that rapid and relentless innovation in a range of
technologies—from artificial intelligence to virtual
reality—will increasingly control us if left unchecked, setting
the limits of our liberty and defining what is forbidden. He calls for
a fundamental change in the way we think about politics as informed by
inexorably advancing technologies (and their controllers) that will
come to hold great power over us. Some will gather data about our
lives, causing us to avoid conduct perceived as shameful, sinful, or
wrong.
Others will filter our perception of the world, choosing what we know,
affecting how we feel, and shaping what we think. Susskind calls us
together for a critical discussion of what it means for a political
system to be just or democratic under the shadow of a digital-first
era—and a meditation on the ways in which we can, and must,
regain control.
Thanks to Town Hall Seattle & Elliott Bay Books
Recorded 10/22/18
Jeremy Smith: A Hacker Called "Alien", Monday 1/28, Thurs. 1pm, Sat. Morning 12am on SCM
Think the guy who broke into your computer,
encrypted and ransomed your data is some teenager in a hoodie living in
his parents' basement? Think again. Hacking is big business. Modern day
hacking operations comprise large teams of high tech workers who might
have been trained at elite universities around the world such as
MIT.
Join us as Missoula based journalist Jeremy Smith, himself an MIT
graduate, gives us the rundown through the story of a cybersecurity
expert code named “Alien,” an MIT graduate with
considerable expertise with hacking (and trespassing) who now runs a
boutique hacking firm that protects some of the world’s biggest
banks, retailers and government agencies. Along the way, Jeremy gives
us some tips on how to protect ourselves. Jeremy’s new book is,
Breaking and Entering: The Extraordinary Story of a Hacker Called
"Alien".
Thanks to Elliott Bay Books
Recorded 1/18/19
Renee Linnell: The Burn Zone, Monday 1/21, Thurs. 1pm, Sat. Morning 12am on SCM
How
does a woman who graduates Magna Cum Laude with a double degree who has
traveled to nearly fifty countries alone before they turned
thirty-five, was a surf model, a professional Argentine Tango dancer,
had started five different companies and was getting an MBA from NYU
end up brainwashed in a cult?
If this could happen to a person that gifted and well educated who
could lose everything they own and end up broken and suicidal,
what’s that have to say about mind control and the real reasons
why people fall victim to it? What’s it have to say about human
psychology and cognition and what’s it have to do with
what’s currently going on in the most highly indoctrinated
country in the world? Most importantly, how does one get themselves or
loved ones out? What does it take to realize you've been brainwashed
and once you do how do you go about deprogramming yourself?
Thanks to East West Bookstore
Recorded 10/15/18
David Shields: Nobody Hates Trump More Than Trump, Monday 1/14, Thurs. 1pm, Sat. Morning 12am on SCM
Seattle writer and University of Washington
professor David Shields’s new book is one of the more novel takes
on the president who has been upon us for nearly two whole years now.
"Nobody Hates Trump More Than Trump" is David Shields’s novel
take on all of this—though it is not a novel.
Although Trump lost the popular vote, why would 50 million Americans
vote for such a seeming imbecile in the first place? No matter how
disastrous his actions or how increasingly obvious his prevarications,
what explains the seemingly endless devotion of his cult-like
following? Might there be a method to his madness? What are the
psychological underpinnings of this? What are the psychological
underpinnings of Trump?
David Shields is interviewed by KUOW's Ross Reynolds.
Thanks to Elliott Bay Bookstore
Recorded 1/7/19
Kai-Fu Lee: The Era of AI, Monday 1/7, Thurs. 1pm, Sat. Morning 12am on SCM
The United States has long been the global
leader in Artificial Intelligence. Dr. Kai-Fu Lee—one of the
world’s most respected experts on AI—reveals that China has
suddenly caught up to the US at an astonishingly rapid pace. He joins
us with insight from his provocative book AI Superpowers: China,
Silicon Valley, and the New World Order to envision China and the US
forming a powerful duopoly in AI—one that is based on each
nation’s unique and traditional cultural inclinations.
Dr. Lee predicts that Chinese and American AI will have a stunning
impact on traditional blue-collar industries—and a devastating
effect on white-collar professions. He outlines how millions of
suddenly displaced workers will need to find new ways to make their
lives meaningful, and how government policies will have to deal with
the unprecedented inequality between the haves and the have-nots. Join
Lee for a sobering prognosis on the future of global advances in AI and
the profound changes coming to our world sooner than we think.
Thanks to Town Hall Seattle, The World Affairs Council, and The Collective
Recorded 9/27/18
