205 – Vienna Report Back

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205 - Vienna Report Back
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Nas is back from Austria! OK is back from Toronto and the WRATH autonomous zone! And these freaks are WORN OUT, but ready to gab up a storm about democrats, demon rats, democracy, the cops, and strategies. It’s really sick and gross to watch public institutions and services collapse. It’s disgusting to watch the pigs and other genocidal forces rake in our money. Doesn’t it make you wanna start slashing tires in a video game??

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195 – Institutions? More like Instant Two Shits!! w/ Nas

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195 - Institutions? More like Instant Two Shits!! w/ Nas
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The new era of Art and Labor cuntinues to shape up with Marshall and OK grooming holocaust, memory, and internet studies scholar Nas to become a new Nakama of the pod-ship. We ask them about so-called progressive Jewish institutions failing to recognize genocide or even twisting “never again” as a disgusting attempt to justify the slaughter of 40,000 Palestinians. We also discuss the demands of the campus protests, and potential strategies for coordination and escalation. Can we imagine a world without private institutions and media? Can we navigate increased violence, repression, and airborne toxins to free ourselves from further isolation? BONUS EP ON MORE VERBOTEN TOPICS HERE 😬

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https://illwill.com/columbia

https://naomiklein.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/12/Israel-Palestine-and-the-Doppelganger-Effect.pdf

thread of how student demonstrators in the 1960s were depicted in editorial cartoons: https://twitter.com/lawprofblawg/status/1782144133429154204?t=F4E67xQOMfzWtK1MMBVv7A&s=19

Ben Morea on Columbia in 68: https://twitter.com/bum_lung/status/1783255272556782074?t=YjzLsy366119ZYW0t1NThQ&s=19

John Berger’s The Nature of Mass Demonstrations: https://www.marxists.org/history/etol/newspape/isj/1968/no034/berger.htm

CUNY action from Nov: https://www.leftvoice.org/student-workers-stand-up-for-cuny-and-palestine/

That time IOF students did chemical warfare: https://twitter.com/ColumbiaSJP/status/1748729253770698944

194 – Physical Media

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194 - Physical Media
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Iconic bald guys Marshall and OK are back, and this week they rant poetic about physical media. Who is speaking with authority? Is it us? Is it Tavi Gevinson? Is it the New York Times? Is it whoever is telling the New York Times to censor certain words and whoever is telling Tavi to pay minions $25/hr to distro free sponcon for Taylor Swift? Is it Taylor Swift? If you’re a Swiftie you have to tell us. Hopefully we get some of that sweet new album SEO!

Solidarity with Columbia University Apartheid Divest (CUAD) https://twitter.com/taliaotg/status/1780995492832334317

https://thebaffler.com/latest/stealing-the-voice-of-authority-isack

https://truthout.org/articles/leaked-document-shows-nyt-censorship-of-words-like-genocide-in-gaza-coverage/

https://www.newsweek.com/anti-israel-protesters-confused-about-meaning-ceasefire-opinion-1891343

193 – Suck by Suck West

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Art and Labor 2 is back! We take a second to decompress and to welcome new cohost Marshall, who’s talking to us today about United Musicians and Allied Workers. The group recently had campaigns bringing attention to SXSW underpaying artists and taking money from the Department of Defense. We talk about building alternative spaces and the inefficiencies of the Armies official E-sports team. If you like us, please consider spreading the good word! Directly sharing our episodes with friends helps defeat the algorithm. And consider joining our patreon to help defeat our brokeness!

Cum 2 the gig!

You can read more about UMAW’s Fair Pay at SXSW campaign here: https://weareumaw.org/fair-pay-at-sxsw

https://www.jezebel.com/scores-of-musicians-who-dropped-out-of-sxsw-protest-for-palestine-in-austin

https://www.cbsnews.com/texas/news/dozens-of-artists-boycott-sxsw-over-military-sponsorship-israel-ties/

192 – Not in Our Name

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192 - Not in Our Name
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(sorry for bad mic this ep) OK and Sarah warm up the engine a little with a conversation leading from, and leading to, the ethnic cleansing going on in Gaza as we
speak. What is to be done? We weigh the options- mostly, do what you
can, some of which is going to involve the heavy and uncomfortable
work of shittalking a list comedians. how could we ever carry such a
burden! Are you favs on the good list or the bad list?

If you want to send money, there’s a million places, but we’ve donated
to Medical Aid for Palestinians: https://www.map.org.uk/donate/donate

We’re preaching to the choir here most likely, but please don’t be
afraid to speak out- there are lives to be saved

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Lucia post: https://www.instagram.com/p/CywmynnMI1M/

JVP DC mass arrest action: https://www.thenation.com/article/activism/jewish-voice-peace-protest-dc/