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What's happening in Florida to education under fascist governor Ron DeSantis, and how are students responding and resisting? Featuring interviews with: Rafael Kadaris, a correspondent on the Revolution Nothing Less Show. Articles and resources he mentions can be found at Revcom.us. Ben and Stephanie are student organizers with Stand For Freedom Florida (on Instagram at @standforfreedomfl). Support their efforts: https://www.gofundme.com/f/protect-educational-freedoms-in-florida Recommended reading: For more on HB 999, read Michelle Goldberg’s recent piece for the NYT: Florida Could Start Looking a Lot Like Hungary Take action: Find a Rise Up 4 Abortion Rights International Women's Day Action Refuse Fascism is more than a podcast! You can get involved at RefuseFascism.org. We're still on Twitter (@RefuseFascism) and other social platforms including the newest addition: mastodon.world/@refusefascism Send  your comments to samanthagoldman@refusefascism.org or @SamBGoldman. Connect with the movement at RefuseFascism.org and support: · paypal.me/refusefascism · donate.refusefascism.org · patreon.com/refusefascism Music for this episode: Penny the Snitch by Ikebe Shakedown

Sam talks to Dr. Carrie Baker, Professor at Smith College and contributing editor of Ms. magazine about the lawsuit that could be decided in the coming days which would potentially eliminate access to medication induced abortions in the US. Follow her work at Ms. magazine here and follow her on Twitter at @CarrieNBaker. Also see:  Fascist Judges: Keep Your Hands Off Abortion Medication! (RiseUp4AbortionRights.org) Mentioned in the episode: Episode 124: Talking Forced-Birth in Victorian Times and Now With Kate Manning ‘It’s a war’: the doctor who wants Americans to get abortion pills before it’s too late by Poppy Noor Refuse Fascism is more than a podcast! You can get involved at RefuseFascism.org. We're still on Twitter (@RefuseFascism) and other social platforms including the newest addition: mastodon.world/@refusefascism Send  your comments to samanthagoldman@refusefascism.org or @SamBGoldman. Connect with the movement at RefuseFascism.org and support: · paypal.me/refusefascism · donate.refusefascism.org · patreon.com/refusefascism Music for this episode: Penny the Snitch by Ikebe Shakedown

Sam interviews Adam Tritt, teacher and founder of Foundation 451, an organization formed in response to the bans on books in Florida schools. Find out more at their website foundation451.org and donate to support their free banned books campaign here. Recommended reading:  Biden’s Abortion Aside by Jessica Valenti Refuse Fascism is more than a podcast! You can get involved at RefuseFascism.org. We're still on Twitter (@RefuseFascism) and other social platforms including the newest addition: mastodon.world/@refusefascism Send  your comments to samanthagoldman@refusefascism.org or @SamBGoldman. Connect with the movement at RefuseFascism.org and support: · paypal.me/refusefascism · donate.refusefascism.org Music for this episode: Penny the Snitch by Ikebe Shakedown

Sam talks with Werner Lange, retired educator and pastor, Chair of the Ohio Peace Council and author of Onward Christian Soldiers: the MAGA March toward a Fascist America about the historical and modern day fascist movement. Read his recent piece, "A Lesson for America 90 Years After Hitler's Ascension to Power" in Common Dreams where he writes, "the House Freedom Caucus is the functional equivalent of the NSDAP." Then, we re-share a clip from an interview with Andrea Chalupa from Season 1 in October 2020, due to its continuing relevance: Taking to the Streets Challenges the Dictator's Legitimacy. Mentioned in the show regarding the fascist suppression campaign in Florida against African American AP History: Open Letter In Defense of AP African American Studies OAH Statement on AP African American Studies Refuse Fascism is more than a podcast! You can get involved at RefuseFascism.org. We're still on Twitter (@RefuseFascism) and other social platforms including the newest addition: mastodon.world/@refusefascism Send  your comments to samanthagoldman@refusefascism.org or @SamBGoldman. Connect with the movement at RefuseFascism.org and support: · paypal.me/refusefascism · donate.refusefascism.org Music for this episode: Penny the Snitch by Ikebe Shakedown

Back by popular demand! Sam talks with Dr. Thomas Zimmer, historian at Georgetown University and co-host of the podcast Is This Democracy? Follow him on Twitter at @tzimmer_history and subscribe to his substack at thomaszimmer.substack.com where you can read his latest commentary: "On the Murder of Tyre Nichols." They discuss just a handful of the latest attempts to shore up traditional hierarchies through aggressive fascist measures in a variety of arenas including the House of Representatives and state legislatures around the country, as well as how to understand the Republican Party today. Mentioned in the show: 'You want to ban the books? I’m giving them away.' Activists protest Florida book-ban law Refuse Fascism is more than a podcast! You can get involved at RefuseFascism.org. We're still on Twitter (@RefuseFascism) and other social platforms including the newest addition: mastodon.world/@refusefascism Send  your comments to samanthagoldman@refusefascism.org or @SamBGoldman. Connect with the movement at RefuseFascism.org and support: · paypal.me/refusefascism · donate.refusefascism.org Music for this episode: Penny the Snitch by Ikebe Shakedown

Coco Das reads the statement from Rise Up for Abortion Rights on the 50th anniversary of Roe. Follow Coco on Twitter at @Coco_Das and connect with Rise Up for Abortion Rights on all platforms at riseup4abortionrights.org.  Then, Sam interviews Julie F. Kay, human rights lawyer for gender equality & religious freedom and architect of the Irish abortion lawsuit ABC v. Ireland, co-author with Kathryn Kolbert of Controlling Women: What We Must Do Now to Save Reproductive Freedom. Follow her on Twitter @Msjuliekay and visit her website www.juliefkay.com.  Also! check out Walter Masterson trolling anti-abortion protesters: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6oG7s2idrgQ Links to reports/articles mentioned in the show: Jessica Valenti: Abortion, Every Day  The Gender Equity Project Institute The State of Reproductive Health in The United States  Vice News: I Helped an 11-Year-Old Rape Victim and Hundreds of Other People Get Abortions After Roe  Sunsara Taylor: Forced Motherhood Is Female Enslavement; Make Roe's Reversal a Rallying Cry for a Real Revolution! Refuse Fascism is more than a podcast! You can get involved at RefuseFascism.org. We're still on Twitter (@RefuseFascism) and other social platforms including the newest addition: mastodon.world/@refusefascism Send  your comments to samanthagoldman@refusefascism.org or @SamBGoldman. Connect with the movement at RefuseFascism.org and support: · paypal.me/refusefascism · donate.refusefascism.org Music for this episode: Penny the Snitch by Ikebe Shakedown

Sam Goldman, Paul Street and Anthony DiMaggio discuss the continuing impact of the Trump coup attempt that seemed to culminate with the physical assault on the Capitol on January 6, 2021. The House special committee's report was released in the final days of 2022 with the recommendation that the now Republican-controlled Congress bar Trump from ever holding office again, as well as be criminally prosecuted. Neither outcome is likely as the events of the first week back in session show the GOP is still completely in thrall to the cult of Trump, whether via supposed "moderates" like Marjorie Taylor Greene and Kevin McCarthy or "extremists" like Matt Gaetz and Lauren Boebert.  Anthony DiMaggio is an Associate Professor of political science at Lehigh University and author of Rising Fascism in America: It Can Happen Here. Read his writings at Counterpunch and Salon. Paul Street is on editorial board of RefuseFascism.org and the author of This Happened Here: Amerikaners, Neoliberals, and the Trumping of America. Read his latest writings on Substack including "Keep Down the Fascism Detectors: Elise Stefanik, the New York Times, and the Appeasement by Deletion of Fascism." Recommended reading: The shutdown caucus really wins: The House power grab was always bigger than Kevin McCarthy Refuse Fascism is more than a podcast! You can get involved at RefuseFascism.org. We're still on Twitter (@RefuseFascism) and other social platforms including the newest addition: mastodon.world/@refusefascism Send  your comments to samanthagoldman@refusefascism.org or @SamBGoldman. Connect with the movement at RefuseFascism.org and support: · paypal.me/refusefascism · donate.refusefascism.org Music for this episode: Penny the Snitch by Ikebe Shakedown

We take a look back at 2022 with the help of previous guests including:  Sussan Tahmasebi Jasmin Ramsey Marcela García Susana Chiarotti Sunsara Taylor Andrew Seidel Coco Das Bradley Onishi Samuel Perry Andrew Seidel Thomas Zimmer Wajahat Ali Paul Street Rachael Wachstein Danielle Moodie Henry Giroux Follow @RefuseFascism on all the socials now including mastodon.world/@refusefascism. Thank you to everyone who is donating during giving season! Don't forget to include your mailing address if you give more than $35 so we can mail you a warm winter Refuse Fascism beanie (ends December 31st!). Note: Venmo and Cashapp are currently not working, please use another method for the time being. Note: you can make a tax-deductible donation towards our educational work to our fiscal sponsor Alliance for Global Justice (AFGJ) by clicking here. Or send a check or money order to: RefuseFascism.org 2 East 28th Street #321 New York NY 10016-7402 If you wish a tax deduction, write the check to RefuseFascism.org/AFGJ Send  your comments to samanthagoldman@refusefascism.org or @SamBGoldman. Connect with the movement at RefuseFascism.org and support: · paypal.me/refusefascism · donate.refusefascism.org Music for this episode: Penny the Snitch by Ikebe Shakedown

Sam Goldman talks to Gwen Frisbie-Fulton, organizer and writer, about the recent attack on power stations in Moore County, North Carolina, and how the attacks on drag story hours are being used by the larger fascist movement. Read Was Moore County attack another antI-LGTBQ act? in the Greensboro News & Record and follow Gwen at @gwen_fulton. Then, we talk to drag performers about the joys and benefits of drag story hours, not just for the LGBTQ community but for everyone who wants to bring a little more empathy, creativity and fun into the world.  Learn more about youth activist and performer Desmond Napoles at desmondisamazing.com and learn more about drag story hours and get involved with Paradise's group, Drag Story Hour at dshnyc.org. Thank you to everyone who is donating during giving season! Don't forget to include your mailing address if you give more than $35 so we can mail you a warm winter Refuse Fascism beanie. Note: Venmo and Cashapp are currently not working, please use another method for the time being! Note: you can make a tax-deductible donation towards our educational work to our fiscal sponsor Alliance for Global Justice (AFGJ) by clicking here. Or send a check or money order to: RefuseFascism.org 2 East 28th Street #321 New York NY 10016-7402 If you wish a tax deduction, write the check to RefuseFascism.org/AFGJ Send  your comments to samanthagoldman@refusefascism.org or @SamBGoldman. Connect with the movement at RefuseFascism.org and support: · paypal.me/refusefascism · donate.refusefascism.org Music for this episode: Penny the Snitch by Ikebe Shakedown

Sam interviews Andy Campbell, author of the new book We Are Proud Boys: How a Right-Wing Street Gang Ushered in a New Era of American Extremism. Follow Andy on Twitter at @AndyBCampbell. Refuse Fascism is more than a podcast! You can get involved at RefuseFascism.org. We're still on Twitter (@RefuseFascism) and other social platforms including the newest addition: mastodon.world/@refusefascism Thank you to everyone who is donating during giving season! Don't forget to include your mailing address if you give more than $35 so we can mail you a warm winter Refuse Fascism beanie. Note: Venmo and Cashapp are currently not working, please use another method for the time being! Send  your comments to samanthagoldman@refusefascism.org or @SamBGoldman. Connect with the movement at RefuseFascism.org and support: · paypal.me/refusefascism · donate.refusefascism.org Music for this episode: Penny the Snitch by Ikebe Shakedown