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The Dig: Yellow Vests with Danièle Obono and Jerome Roos

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🗓️ 15 December 2018

⏱️ 73 minutes

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Summary

There has been no greater exemplar of zombie neoliberalism in power than French President Emanuel Macron's imperial technocracy. Now, with the rise of the Yellow Vest (Gilets jaunes) movement, there no clearer evidence that zombie neoliberalism is bound to fail. This crisis cannot be solved with the centrist policies and politics that caused it in the first place. But where will the movement head, and who will benefit politically?And what does this reveal about neoliberal approaches to the climate crisis? Dan's guests are Danièle Obono, a French member of parliament with the left-wing party la France Insoumise, or France Unbowed, and ROAR magazine editor Jerome Roos.

Read Jerome's article in ROAR: roarmag.org/essays/gilets-jaunes-blown-old-political-categories/

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This episode of The Dig is brought to you by our listeners who support us at patreon.com

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and by Verso Books, which has loads of great left-wing titles,

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perfect for Dig listeners like you.

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One that you might like is City of Segregation

0:16.0

100 years of struggle for housing in Los Angeles

0:20.0

by Andrea Gibbons.

0:22.0

City of Segregation documents 100 years of struggle against the enforced separation of racial groups

0:28.4

through property markets, constructions of community, and the growth of neoliberalism.

0:34.1

This movement history covers the decades of work to end legal support for segregation in

0:38.4

1948, the 1960 Civil Rights Movement and Corps effort to integrate L.A.'s white suburbs. And the 2006

0:46.4

victory, preserving 10,000 downtown residential hotel units from gentrification, enfolded with an ongoing resistance to the criminalization

0:55.6

and displacement of the homeless.

0:58.0

Andrea Gibbons reveals the shape and nature of the racist ideology that must be fought in Los Angeles and across the United States

1:06.9

if we hope to found just cities.

1:09.9

City of segregation, 100 years of struggle for housing in Los Angeles, by Andrea Gibbons,

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out now from Jacobin magazine. My name is Daniel Denver and

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I'm broadcasting from Providence, Rhode Island.

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There has been no greater exemplar of zombie neoliberalism in power

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than French president Emmanuel Macron.

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Now, with the rise of the Yellow Vest movement,

1:45.0

there is no clearer evidence that zombie neoliberalism is bound to fail.

1:50.0

And that's because this crisis cannot be solved with the policies and politics

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