News and No Thanks: A Day of Mourning

11/27/20 • 57 min

News from "Indian Country," spoken word, and music. Song List: Joy Harjo, “This America” Black Lodge Singers, “Keeping it Flowing,” Album: My Family Snotty Nose Rez Kids, “Boujee Natives,” Album: Trapline John Trudell, “The Earth was the Mother,” Descendant Now Ancestor Raye Zaragoza, "They Say,” Woman in Color Alexis Raeana, “Keep My Memory” ft.Charly Lowry (Single) A Tribe Called Red, “R.E.D.” (Single) Joanne Shenandoah, “We Will Rise Up,” Album: Joanne Shenandoah Buffy Saint-Marie, “Carry It On,” Album: Power in the Blood John Trudell, “Spectator” and “Of Many Realities,” Album: Descendant Now Ancestor

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Part 2, The Global Police State, World Economy, and State Violence

The global police state uses a variety of methods of control, including mass incarceration, surveillance, police violence, US-led wars, the persecution of immigrant and refugees and the repression of activists. Robinson shows how the global police state, beyond control, is an immensely profitable enterprise that keeps the global capitalist economy afloat in the face of chronic stagnation, plus more. Guests: William Robinson, professor of sociology at the University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB), affiliated with the Latin American and Iberian Studies Program, and with the Global and International Studies Program at UCSB. William Robinson is the author of the books The Global Police State (2020), Global Capitalism and the Crises of Humanity (2014) and We Will Not Be Silenced (2017), the article: “Post-COVID Economy May Have More Robots, Fewer Jobs and Intensified Surveillance”, plus more.

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