Ep 217 - Imagine a Burgerville w/ Luis Brennan and Amelia Cates

The Antifada

Sean KB and AP Andy

Music, Arts

4.2 • 970 Ratings

🗓️ 21 June 2023

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Summary

We're joined by Portland, Oregon organizers to talk about the revolutionary politics there over the last 25 years and related writings by Don Hamerquist of the Sojourner Truth Organization and Three Way Fight. Among other things we cover the IWW-initiated Burgerville Union, the battle of Longview, Occupy, massive black blocs following the 2020 George Floyd Uprising, state repression, and the mysterious George Sakai.

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Meet Luis and Amelia TODAY (6/21/23) at Word is Change bookstore for a discussion on the book with John Garvey and Mike Morgan from Hard Crackers Magazine

Burgerville stuff: https://labornotes.org/blogs/2023/01/viewpoint-burgerville-workers-lessons-independent-unionshttps://bvwu.iww.org/https://nwlaborpress.org/

Hamerquist stuff: Buy A Brilliant Read Thread: The Revolutionary Writings of Don Hamerquist https://theanarchistlibrary.org/category/author/don-hamerquist http://www.unityandstruggle.org/tag/don-hamerquist/

Song: Coach & Ref - Longview

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0:00.0	I got your name. Is this recording? Yeah, as everybody knows, every episode of the Antifada is
0:16.4	sponsored by another company and today it's for Zinn,
0:19.6	cinnamon nicotine vouchers. Another legal but should not be legal
0:23.6	concentration of a substance. So we usually do cratum or vape. Now we're doing
0:30.6	back in our day we had zenes now now it's been replaced
0:35.0	be a rack of zenes down at the bodega but now is a rack of zines right you used to
0:39.1	be able to go to any bodega from Rigo Park to the Bronx.
0:43.0	It had Comet Bus and Burn Collector and Max from Rock and Roll.
0:46.0	All your local zines.
0:48.0	Yeah, D'I-Y or Die, baby.
0:52.0	You want to try one of these zines no I'm okay thank you I had to break up a
0:59.0	Vapering at my school so okay a cup of vaporing yeah we had a 12 year old who thought it was a
1:07.0	really great idea to meet someone on the internet and take a bus across the
1:11.0	city and meet this guy under a bridge and buy really cheap
1:14.2	vates and then sell them to our kids.
1:15.8	Holy shit.
1:16.8	Oh no, man, the 12 year olds.
1:18.8	So it's not even, so it's an even sketchier vape than even the legal vape.
1:22.3	Yeah, absolutely.
1:23.9	I was like less concerned about the vape and more like,
1:26.5	wow, you met somebody weird at 12 on the internet.
1:28.8	Maybe that's a bad thing.
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