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Manufacturing Dissent since 1996
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Feb 7, 2022 • 1h 9min
Dirty energy politics in Ohio / Nathanael Johnson
Writer Nathanael Johnson on his report "How a $60 million bribery scandal helped Ohio pass the ‘worst energy policy in the country’" for Grist.
https://grist.org/politics/how-a-60-million-bribery-scandal-helped-ohio-pass-the-worst-energy-policy-in-the-country/

Feb 3, 2022 • 1h 25min
The state, the unhoused and performative productivity / Deyanira Nevárez Martínez
Urban planning scholar Deyanira Nevárez Martínez on her paper "Homelessness in Southern California: Street-Level Encounters with the State and the Structural Violence of Performative Productivity" for Radical Housing Journal, and in a Moment of Truth, Jeff Dorchen takes sides in the Werewolf vs Vampire war.
https://radicalhousingjournal.org/2021/homelessness-in-southern-california/

Feb 1, 2022 • 1h 22min
Crop diversity and agricultural crisis / Helen Anne Curry
Historian Helen Anne Curry on her book "Endangered Maize: Industrial Agriculture and the Crisis of Extinction" from University of California Press.
https://www.ucpress.edu/book/9780520307698/endangered-maize

Jan 31, 2022 • 1h 18min
Neoliberalism and the Sturgis Motorcycle Rally / Catherine McNicol Stock
Historian Catherine McNicol Stock on her article “Is the rally really worth it?” The Sturgis Motorcycle Rally and the Costs of Neoliberalism" for OSU Origins.
https://origins.osu.edu/index.php/read/south-dakota-sturgis-motorcycle-rally-neoliberalism

Jan 27, 2022 • 1h 22min
Vaccine apartheid politics / Kevin Klyman
Kevin Klyman on his article "Vaccine Apartheid Has Reinforced US Empire" for Jacobin, and in a Moment of Truth, Jeff Dorchen continues to try to spread positivity.
https://www.jacobinmag.com/2022/01/vaccine-apartheid-us-empire-diplomacy-china-cold-war

Jan 26, 2022 • 1h 28min
Protecting rainforest protectors / Ashwin Ravikumar
Environmental studies scholar Ashwin Ravikumar on his article "To Save the Rainforests, Provide Healthcare, Education and Services for Those Who Protect Them" for The Trouble.
https://www.the-trouble.com/content/2022/1/17/to-save-the-rainforests-provide-healthcare-education-and-services-for-those-who-protect-them

Jan 24, 2022 • 1h 17min
When the rich take space / Corey Pein
Writer Corey Pein on his article "Dawn of the Space Lords" for The Baffler.
https://thebaffler.com/salvos/dawn-of-the-space-lords-pein

Jan 20, 2022 • 1h 27min
Kazakhstan's Oyan protest movement / Paolo Sorbello
Journalist Paolo Sorbello on his article "‘Our activism won't stop': The Oyan movement recounts the January protests in Kazakhstan" for Global Voices, and in a Moment of Truth, Jeff Dorchen tangles with all-pervasive networks.
https://globalvoices.org/2022/01/14/our-activism-wont-stop-the-oyan-movement-recounts-the-january-protests-in-kazakhstan/

Jan 19, 2022 • 1h 21min
Psychedelic inequality / Roberto Lovato
Writer Roberto Lovato on his article "The Gentrification of Consciousness" for Alta Journal.
https://www.altaonline.com/dispatches/a38326035/psychedelic-drugs-gentrification-roberto-lovato/

Jan 18, 2022 • 1h 22min
Today's militia movement / Amy Cooter
Sociologist Amy Cooter on her article "Citizen Militias in the U.S. Are Moving toward More Violent Extremism" for Scientific American.
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/citizen-militias-in-the-u-s-are-moving-toward-more-violent-extremism/