TMBS ReAir 105 Reform & Revolution ft. Napoleon Da Legend, Bhaskar Sunkara & Keeanga Yamahtta Taylor

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🗓️ 26 June 2023

⏱️ 104 minutes

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TMBS 105 aired on September 10th, 2019

Episode summary:

The ongoing "slow-genocide" in West Papua Shoutout to Uruguay Broadfont coalition We are joined by Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor (@keeangayamhtta) joins us to talk about reform & revolution.

During the GEM, David breaks down the importance of having an international outlook in our fight against capitalism.

Napeleon Da Legend (@TeamNDL) joins us in the studio to talk about his music and his political awakening https://www.napoleondalegend.com/

Bhaskar Sunkara (@SunraySunray) author of The Socialist Manifesto joins us to talk Bernie's appeal.

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0:00.0	We're beginning in 1965, the military and paramilitary slaughtered up to a million Indonesians
0:19.8	after overthrowing the government.
0:22.0	That military was backed by the United States and led by General Suharto, who would rule
0:27.6	Indonesia for decades.
0:30.5	There's been no truth in reconciliation commission.
0:33.6	As the film says, Indonesia is a country where the killers are to this day celebrated as
0:39.3	heroes.
0:40.3	A key figure in the film is Anwar Kango, who killed hundreds if not a thousand people
0:48.0	with his own hands and is now revered as a founding father of an active right-wing
0:52.9	paramilitary organization.
0:55.9	Well, director Joshua Oppenheimer spent more than eight years interviewing the Indonesian
1:02.2	death squad leaders.
1:04.2	In the act of killing, he works with them to re-enact the real-life killings in the style
1:09.1	of American movies that then love to watch.
1:12.6	This includes classic Hollywood gangster movies and lavish musical numbers.
1:18.9	The film is remarkable.
1:22.0	The issue of the Indonesian military's brutality is no stranger to our democracy now audience.
1:28.2	In 1990 and 1991, I traveled to Indonesian occupied East Timor.
1:33.6	I went there with reporter Alan Nairn.
1:36.0	There we witnessed a massacre by the U.S.-backed Indonesian military.
1:41.2	That was the Indonesian military occupying a foreign land.
1:46.0	This film deals with the Indonesian military's murder of its own people.
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