Weekends: What Michael Brooks Taught Us
Jacobin Radio
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🗓️ 20 July 2021
⏱️ 141 minutes
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Summary
One year after his passing, our friend and comrade Michael Brooks continues to influence the Left for the better. Lisha Brooks, Ben Burgis, and Danny Bessner join us for a tribute. We also cover the inhumane sanctions on Cuba, discuss what left foreign policy should look like, and review Obama's PR-friendly beach reads and mixtape.
Every Saturday at 1 PM ET, Ana Kasparian and Nando Vila broadcast live from the Jacobin YouTube channel. Weekends features free-flowing and humorous commentary on current events and political strategy. This is the podcast version of the show from July 17, 2021.
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| 0:00.0 | What's up, everyone? Welcome to Weekends and a Casparian and Nando Villa with you. Nando, |
| 0:21.4 | we've got a special show prepped for our audience today. You want to give them a little |
| 0:25.3 | taste. Yeah, it's been a year since our brother and comrade Michael Brooks passed away. And |
| 0:33.6 | you know, I got to say, you know, this was originally his show, his in-your-show. And |
| 0:40.4 | you know, I still feel, still feel like a guest in someone else's home in the best way possible. |
| 0:47.7 | So we thought we would, we would do a little remembrance. We're going to have on |
| 0:52.7 | Lisha Brooks, Mike's sister, to talk about what she's up to with the Michael Brooks legacy project. |
| 0:59.1 | We're going to have a couple guys in the Michael Brooks cinematic universe, Daniel Bessner, |
| 1:04.8 | and Ben Burgess to talk about, you know, the wider world of foreign policy, what they're up to, |
| 1:10.9 | the situation in Cuba, you know, Ben just wrote a piece in Jacob and reacting to the latest |
| 1:17.0 | rod of protests. So yeah, it's going to be, it's going to be a good show. |
| 1:22.0 | Yeah, definitely. And we're going to wrap the show today by sharing some of the videos that we |
| 1:30.3 | really appreciated from Michael. And you know, it's a very foreign policy heavy show today, |
| 1:36.8 | which I think makes a lot of sense while we honor Michael because, you know, in terms of left |
| 1:43.9 | media in the US, no one does it better than Michael does or did when it comes to foreign policy |
| 1:49.6 | related topics. So we're going to get into all of that a little later. But before we get to all |
| 1:54.8 | of that Nando, you know, it's another year, another opportunity for Obama to share very important |
| 2:02.8 | content with us in the form of his reading list, I guess, his recommended books and also his |
| 2:10.6 | mix tape. So why don't we talk about that a little bit? It always shocks me that people even care. |
| 2:16.8 | But I guess they do. Who knows? I mean, there's a reason why they keep doing this, right? But I |
| 2:21.9 | want to juxtapose that with something that Kale also brought to our attention. So let's get started. |
| 2:27.0 | Let's talk about it. So there's a new New York Times graphic that details economic inequality in |
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