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Territories of Extraction under Lake Capitalism by Martin Arboleda

Out now from Verso Books. Welcome to the Dig, a podcast from Jacobin magazine. My name is Daniel Denver and I'm

once again broadcasting from Providence, Rhode Island, though in a different studio because of course COVID-related

complications.

The organizing we do and the decisions we make now will in hindsight be incredibly

important. The test of a movement is precisely how we respond to difficult

moments and to crises.

as I've said in recent days, this is particularly true for a movement like ours, which has accomplished

so much in recent years, building a left politics in the United States that would have been

incomprehensible just five years ago. We have a lot of work to do, but the good news is

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