Episode 34: Antifa Down Under w/ Sophie Weiner

The Antifada

Sean KB and AP Andy

Music, Arts

4.2 • 970 Ratings

🗓️ 9 January 2019

⏱️ 73 minutes

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Summary

Friend, comrade, ex-pat and editor at Splinter News @sophcw emerges from the bush to join the crew.

We talk about the hell of moving in NYC, the migrant crisis down under, woke-ness in the Southern Hemisphere, indigenous rights and Aussie Antifa. We break out every tired cliche, of course, because Americans can't help reference boomerangs, kangaroos and based racism.

We end with a strong stan of Donald Trump's adoption of the Brezhenev Doctrine with regard to proletarian internationalism in the face of counter-revolution within 1970s-80s Afghanistan. Tankies for Trump?

Donald Trump/Caleb Maupin 2020!

Christmas in Tornillo occupation: https://www.democracynow.org/2019/1/4/meet_the_activists_lawmakers_fighting_to Direct action gets... the goods!? https://news.vice.com/en_us/article/yw78vw/inside-the-teardown-of-trumps-infamous-tent-city-for-migrant-kids

More spicy bonus content with Sophie (Real Poly Hours) forthcoming.

Become a patron today at www.patreon.com/theantifada for premium content and the self-satisfaction that comes with supporting commies whose windows are boarded up with cardboard like junkies.

Closing song: Scientists - Solid Gold Hell

Transcript

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to the Antipada where unrest is best. I'm Jamie Peck.
0:12.0	Hi I'm Shalkaby and I'm Jamie Peck. I am Shaw Kirby.
0:13.0	And I'm AP Handy.
0:15.0	And we are here via Skype with a very special guest today.
0:20.0	Our friend Sophie Wiener.
0:22.0	She's an editor at Splinter and great, great writer and great friend.
0:28.0	Hey Sophie. Oh, so good, so well. We miss you, we miss you here in New York.
0:35.0	I know, I miss you guys too. I'm living on the other side of the world and it's, you know, it's okay,
0:42.0	but it can't compare to going out in Bushwick to all of our favorite
0:46.9	disgusting bars so on Crete jungle where dreams are made of. Are you saying
0:51.0	that Melbourne doesn't have like a
0:53.1	hipster district? They don't have an Alaska? Yeah, they don't have an Alaska.
0:56.4	They definitely don't have an Alaska. You guys would be very disappointed.
1:01.9	There is the drinks here are very weak and very disappointed. The drinks here are very weak and very expensive.
1:05.8	They're huge, right? Everything is bigger down there, right?
1:11.8	Yeah, it's not Texas. Everything is bigger down there, right?
1:14.0	Yeah, it's not Texas. I thought it was like a Texas was a continent.
1:18.0	That's what Australia is, you know?
1:20.0	Maybe.
1:22.0	We should say that Sophie was here for the lost first episode of the anti-fata
1:29.1	The abortive secret first episode that never released. Maybe someday if you guys are really nice to us and you know sign up for lots of
1:39.4	Patreon money we'll release it as a bonus for our patrons.
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