Comrade Cover-Up w/ Jacob

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🗓️ 29 December 2021

⏱️ 44 minutes

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Summary

Jacob is a socialist community organizer living in Philadelphia. He helps run the Community Action Relief Project (CARP), a mutual aid organization committed to sharing resources and redistributing wealth throughout the Kensington neighborhood and broader Philadelphia. In addition to hosting political reading groups and building relationships with neighborhood groups for CARP, his creative pursuits include poetry, comedy, and ASMR videos. Jacob joined Rachel not to denounce or advocate for any broad political ideology but to warn potential recruits to the specific group he was involved with (PSL) by sharing his own personal experience. In this second part of Rachel's two-part conversation with Jacob, he shares the experience that led him to see clearly the group's manipulative and cult-like tactics of control. Jacob details how the PSL's national leadership conspired to cover up the sexual assault of his friend by an influential member of the organization. Throughout Jacob's story, Rachel compares the manipulations and reactionary defensiveness of PSL to that of cults who take aggressive and retaliatory action towards all accusers and critics. Before You Go: Rachel examines the fraudulent nature of internal investigations within high control groups by relating a personal story about dealing with a disingenuous property manager. She advises how to see through the theater of begrudging leaders feigning attempts at problem resolution. Learn more about Jacob's experience and the experiences of many other former PSL members here: medium.com/@jacobscb/documenta…ior-in-6afa65b8072e Find Rachel's book "Now I Know, Kids Talking To Kids About Divorce..." here: www.amazon.com/Now-I-Know-Rachel…ein/dp/1620867893 Thanks to our newest Patreon supporter Terry Horne! To help support the show monthly and sign up for cool Indoctrination shirts and tote bags, please visit: www.patreon.com/indoctrination Want to support the IndoctriNation show with a one-time donation? Use this link: www.paypal.me/indoctriNATION You can help the show for free by leaving a review on Spotify or Apple/ iTunes. It really helps the visibility of the show! Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands

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0:00.0	Welcome to indoctrination, a weekly conversation series about protecting yourself from systems of control.
0:11.1	I'm your host, Rachel Bernstein.
0:13.4	Hi, everybody. Today, you get to hear the second part of my conversation with Jacob.
0:18.6	Jacob is a socialist community organizer living in Philadelphia,
0:22.1	and he helps run the Community Action Relief Project, CARP, or CARP. The Mutual Aid Organization
0:29.9	committed to sharing resources and redistributing wealth throughout the Kensington neighborhood
0:35.3	and broader Philadelphia.
0:42.5	CARP distributes food, hygiene supplies, safe drug use kits, and literature,
0:48.0	and host political reading groups while building relationships with groups in the neighborhood,
0:52.8	fighting for the empowerment of houseless people and sex workers.
0:58.0	He also creates poetry, comedy, and ASMR videos. And today, he is going to continue the conversation
1:03.0	about an organization that he was in for quite some time
1:07.0	called the PSL, the Party for Socialism and Liberation, where, as he describes it,
1:16.5	there is his own and others documentation of corruption, institutional bigotry, and that it is a
1:26.7	high control group that has cult-like behavior.
1:30.8	And it's important to know that this can happen within organizations that say that they
1:37.8	are trying to foster people's liberation. In fact, that's in the title.
1:45.1	But once you get involved, as Jacob talks about,
1:49.4	your liberation, your freedom, suddenly gets pulled away from you
1:55.2	without really your knowledge or without your consent.
2:06.3	Here is the continuation of my conversation with Jacob. So go ahead. So I'm curious just to hear about the story that you were going to share.
2:26.2	Yeah. So I'll get into the story. There was a member who came from New York City to my branch just a few months after I joined.
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