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Dig: Inflamed w/ Raj Patel and Rupa Marya

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4.71.5K Ratings

🗓️ 11 February 2022

⏱️ 116 minutes

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Summary

Industrial capitalism and colonialism are literally making us sick. Raj Patel and Rupa Marya on Inflamed: Deep Medicine and the Anatomy of Injustice.


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This episode of The Dig is brought to you by our listeners who support us at patreon.com

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In revolutionary nonviolence, Michael K. Honey and Kent Wong reflect on Reverend Lawson's talks and dialogues

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from his speeches at the Nashville sit-in movement in 1960 to his lectures in the current UCLA curriculum.

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This volume demonstrates how we can overcome violence and oppression through organized direct action,

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presenting a powerful roadmap for a new generation of activists.

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Revolutionary nonviolence, organizing for freedom, out now from University of California Press.

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Welcome to the Dig, a podcast from Jacobin Magazine.

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My name is Daniel Denver, and I'm broadcasting from Providence, Rhode Island.

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You are likely sick and tired of industrial capitalism.

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It turns out that industrial capitalism is also quite literally making us and the planet quite sick.

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Our bodies are not the isolated abstractions imagined by liberal individualism.

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They exist within ecological and social webs as understood by indigenous cosmologies,

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materially rooted in relationships to the land and to non-human nature.

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There's no individualized medical treatment that can confront the toxic food system fueled by mass monoculture,

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the ingestion of microplastics that might even alter our gut biomes,

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or the life-shortening stresses caused by payday loans in racist policing.

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