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• Episode # 69: Socialism…Seriously with Danny Katch

  We’re in a five-alarm shit-storm of trouble to be sure, and the overlapping crises can feel overwhelming—racial reckoning, catastrophic capitalist climate collapse, a financial system that parodies a massive, out-of-control Ponzi scheme, a legislature impersonating a medieval auction block, and more. We meet up with Danny Katch to help us name this political moment. Danny…

  March 22, 2023

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  authors, danny katch, organizers, socialism, solidarity

• Episode 67: Of Borders and Dreams with Susan Mills

  A border can be “a story of identity” or “a wound…in the landscape.” It is sometimes a place to be feared, and other times a place to be honored. Borders can, of course, be metaphors: the boundary between boy and man, or girl and woman; the thin line between sanity and madness; the final frontier…

  February 23, 2023

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  authors, borders, freedom, immigration, justice, On the Wings of a Hummingbird, pilsen community books, solidarity, Susan Mills

• Episode 59: Anastasia Higginbotham

  Teach the Children Well: Ordinary Terrible Things We want our children to face the world fearlessly, but we also want them to be careful. We want them to embrace all the joy and ecstasy life has to offer them, and also to be aware of the unnecessary suffering human beings endure. We want our children…

  October 19, 2022

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  anastasiahigginbotham, artists, authors, book bans, childrensbooks, collage artist, dottirpress, freedom, lyndabarry, radicalism