Ep. 15 - Cameron Watson Helps Us Decide Whether to be Exited About Labor's Big Win in Australia

06/18/22 • 64 min

Well, it's a month late and an (Australian) dollar short, but we are finally releasing a fascinating conversation with labour organizer (and Shadowfist player) Cameron Watson. From ranked ballot voting to whacky independents and democracray sausages, there's a lot to envy about Australia's political landscape. At the very least, you can't say it's boring (which is a lot more than we can say about Ontario's now-thankfully-over provincial election.
How the Australian Senate Works:
https://www.aec.gov.au/voting/counting/senate_count.htm
You're welcome:
https://letmegooglethat.com/?q=Engadine+Maccas

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Ep 14 - Does The Left Need a Populist Leader? An Interview with Simon Black

This week, Tim (all by himself) brings you a fascinating conversation about populism with political scientist Simon Black. Tim and Simon discuss how the rhetoric and "thin" political strategy of appealing to working people as a class has been so effective on the political right and what the left can do in response.
Find Simon on Twitter: https://twitter.com/_SimonBlack
What's The Matter With Kansas? by Thomas Frank
https://us.macmillan.com/books/9780805077742/whatsthematterwithkansas
Prisoners of the American Dream by Mike Davis
https://www.versobooks.com/books/2759-prisoners-of-the-american-dream
The Great Moving Right Show, an essay, by Stuart Hall
https://newint.org/features/1984/03/05/show
The Hard Road to Renewal by Stuart Hall
https://www.versobooks.com/books/3749-the-hard-road-to-renewal
David Moscrop, Fighting Populism by Understanding Perceptions
https://policyoptions.irpp.org/magazines/january-2017/fighting-populism-by-understanding-perceptions/
Emma Jackson, What The Left Can Learn From the "Freedom Convoy" by Emma Jackson
https://breachmedia.ca/what-the-left-can-learn-from-the-freedom-convoy/
For a Left Populism by Chantal Mouffe
https://www.versobooks.com/books/3097-for-a-left-populism

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Ep. 16 - Oh... Canada 🤦

This week, Tim and a very congested Steve are joined by indigenous activist and labour organizer Carissa Taylor. A recent transplant to the unceded traditional territories of the Musqueam, Squamish and Tsleil-Waututh Nations -- also known as Vancouver -- Carissa shares how she's navigated her work with indigenous peoples on the Western Coast and how she understands Canada Day through the lens of her own identity as a settler-passing Métis woman and an anti-colonial activist.
TL;DR: fuck the flag; they can have it.
Stavros Halkias "Canada is Stupid" (RE: Land Acklowledgements)
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/fHzrbskBTZQ
#Next150
https://next150.indianhorse.ca/
Indigenous Blue Jays Logo:
https://twitter.com/paintsbyparkin/status/1507043245561466880
Indigenous Jets Logo:
https://www.nhl.com/news/jets-indigenous-inspired-logo-profound-experience-for-artist/c-314090206
"The Dawn of Everything" Graeber and Rengrow:
https://us.macmillan.com/books/9780374157357/thedawnofeverything