Settler Colonial Law & Sue the T. rex w/ the Leninist Lawyer
Guerrilla History
Henry
4.8 • 669 Ratings
🗓️ 8 December 2023
⏱️ 111 minutes
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Summary
In this episode of Guerrilla History, we bring on The Leninist Lawyer to discuss settler colonial law, and use the case study of Sue the T. rex, which was extracted from native lands, to help demonstrate how this works. A really interesting conversation, and while we are using a dinosaur fossil as the case study, this conversation is much more about settler colonial law generally, and therefore should be relevant for all of you regardless of whether you find dinosaurs interesting or not!
*Note, this episode was recorded before October 7, 2023, and has had its release delayed while we have been creating materials for understanding the history and ongoing conflict in Palestine*
The Leninist Lawyer is an anonymous lawyer from Georgia that specializes in tribal law and worker's compensation law. While we cannot provide more details than this about him, you should follow him on twitter @MarxistLaw and @LovelyLeninist!
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, guerrilla history listeners. This is co-host Henry with a small introduction to this episode |
| 0:05.5 | to explain the context in which this episode was recorded and the context in which it is being |
| 0:10.7 | released. This episode featuring the Leninist lawyer on the topic of settler colonial law |
| 0:16.5 | using the case study of Sue the T-Rex, and yes, listeners, these two topics are related, |
| 0:22.6 | and you will learn all about it in the episode. This conversation was recorded just before |
| 0:28.2 | October 7th, and as a result, you will not hear any references to the ongoing situation in |
| 0:33.7 | Gaza during the conversation. This episode was originally scheduled to come out on October 13th, but as a result of |
| 0:41.6 | the events that have taken place since October 7th and the ongoing genocidal bombardment |
| 0:46.9 | of Gaza, we had switched our release schedule to focus very heavily on the history of Palestine, |
| 0:56.7 | the history of the Palestinian resistance movement, the ongoing situation in Gaza, and more, as I'm sure you have seen if you've looked |
| 1:03.3 | at our feed. This episode, we've held on our Patreon until now. We're going to release it now, |
| 1:09.7 | as we feel it is unfair to the Leninist |
| 1:11.6 | lawyer to hold the episode for much longer as we continue to put out more Palestine content. |
| 1:17.1 | But listeners, do not worry. If you were looking for more Palestine-related content, we do |
| 1:23.1 | have more coming up very soon. And we have already several very important episodes that we've put |
| 1:29.1 | out on the topic that you can go back to and listen. These episodes feature guests like |
| 1:34.3 | Max Iyle and Patrick Higgins, Rabab Abdul Hadrian Ariel Salzman, Tara Alami, Karina Mullen, |
| 1:42.7 | and Ali Qadri. We also have more episodes planned to be coming out very |
| 1:48.0 | soon featuring, again, Ali Qadri, Rania Khalik, Alex Sivina, and much more. So be sure to |
| 1:56.6 | subscribe. Stay tuned if you are looking forward to more of that Palestine coverage. We certainly |
| 2:01.9 | have more coming out soon. This episode is a great episode though, and we do want to thank |
| 2:07.7 | the Leninist lawyer for being understanding in the necessity for us to hold the release of |
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