Dig: Morbid Symptoms w/ Amna Akbar, Gabe Winant, Thea Riofrancos
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🗓️ 10 September 2024
⏱️ 96 minutes
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Featuring Amna Akbar, Gabe Winant, and Thea Riofrancos on the American political conjuncture: the centrality of Palestine, the contradictions of left electoralism, renewed liberal militarism, the return of Obama-ism, the state of the labor and climate movements—and more. Recorded live at Socialism 2024 in Chicago.
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| 0:00.0 | This episode of the Dig is brought to you by our listeners who support us at patreon.com and by haymarket books which has loads of great left-wing titles perfect for dig listeners like you. |
| 0:12.0 | One that you might like is |
| 0:13.5 | unbuild walls why immigrant justice needs abolition by silky shaw. Drawing on |
| 0:20.3 | over 20 years of activism silky sh Shah dives into US immigration policy in its |
| 0:26.1 | relationship to mass incarceration over the last 40 years. |
| 0:30.9 | Showing how the prison industrial complex and immigration enforcement are intertwined systems of repression. |
| 0:38.0 | Incorporating historical and legal analysis and strategic reflections based on Shah's experience as an organizer, as well as stories of resistance to detention and deportation. |
| 0:48.0 | Unbuild walls bridges the gaps between movements for immigrant rights, racial justice, and prison abolition. |
| 0:55.6 | As Dean Spade puts it, anyone interested in social change and in the most pressing questions |
| 1:01.0 | about social movement tactics needs to read this book. |
| 1:05.0 | Find unbuild walls by Silky Shah at haymarketbooks.org |
| 1:10.0 | where all paperback books are 20% off every day. Welcome to the dig, a podcast from Jacobin magazine. My name is Daniel |
| 1:27.1 | Denfer and I'm broadcasting this introduction from Providence, Rhode Island. |
| 1:31.2 | But this episode it was not recorded in Providence, Rhode Island. But this episode, it was not recorded in Providence, Rhode |
| 1:34.8 | Island. It's a live recording of the Dig from the Socialism 2024 conference, a truly |
| 1:40.8 | excellent conference organized by Haymarket Books held every year in Chicago. |
| 1:46.1 | For this episode, I reunited our conjunctural analysis crew. |
| 1:51.6 | Amna Akbar, Gabe Wienin, and Theoirofrancoes. |
| 1:55.5 | I brought them back together to analyze pretty much everything about the present American |
| 1:59.4 | moment, everything that we could cover in an hour and a half, a tight hour and a half. |
| 2:04.4 | The dig, as you know, is not used to operating with time limits. |
| 2:08.0 | The four of us last spoke just over a year ago in August 2023. A lot has changed since. Just briefly, my purpose with this sort of analysis isn't to be didactic. In fact, what I'm most hoping that listeners pick up on is just the very basic necessity and methodology of doing strategic conjunctural analysis. |
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