Episodes
Monday Nov 28, 2016
Meditations and Molotovs - 11.28.16
Monday Nov 28, 2016
Monday Nov 28, 2016
On today's program, Vince speaks to one of the best organizers in Chicago, who also happens to be one of Vince's best friends - Roberto Jesus, otherwise known as "Joliet Jake," will be joining us for the hour. The conversation covers the anti-globalization movements of the 1990s, WTO protests, antiwar activism under Bush, Wisconsin, Occupy, Obama, and community organizing. This podcast is an excellent educational tool for organizing, especially for those who are just starting their political journey.
Roberto Clack is a community and labor organizer who lives in Chicago. Roberto was the primary organizer for Iraq Veterans Against the War (IVAW) - Chicago, from 2007-2013. He's a former organizer with the Metropolitan Tenants Organization (MTO) and the Restaurant Opportunities Center (ROC). He is currently the co-coordinator of the 25th Ward Independent Political Organization (IPO), which is located in the Pilsen neighborhood of Chicago.
Tuesday Nov 22, 2016
Meditations and Molotovs - 11.21.16
Tuesday Nov 22, 2016
Tuesday Nov 22, 2016
Today's program will cover a broad range of issues: local organizing, NDPL, Trump's appointments and why I think the vast majority of progressive political organizations and movements are not prepared - mentally, emotionally, physically, organizationally, politically - for Trump's reign as Il Duce.
Monday Nov 14, 2016
Meditations and Molotovs - 11.14.16
Monday Nov 14, 2016
Monday Nov 14, 2016
On today's program, Vince interviews his friend, activist and writer, Ramon Mejia (the baddest hombre this side of the Mississippi).
Ramon is from Dallas, Texas, and enlisted in the Marine Corps upon graduating high school in July 2001 out of economic necessity in order to support his wife and daughter. Ramon served in Supply Ops. and participated in the initial invasion of Iraq, deploying to Dhi Qar Province in 2003. After suffering from multiple seizures, Ramon was placed on med board and discharged from the Marines in Nov 04. As a result of his experience in Iraq, he converted to Islam in 2008.
Since then, Ramon has opposed the war and all US military expeditions around the world. He's been an active organizer over the last year or so in countering local manifestations of hate and racism by neo-Nazis and protest of mosques by a paramilitary group in the Dallas-Fort Worth metroplex. He currently resides in Biloxi, Mississippi.
Tuesday Nov 08, 2016
Meditations and Molotovs - 11.08.16
Tuesday Nov 08, 2016
Tuesday Nov 08, 2016
On today's program, Vince reflects on 18 months of electoral madness and what people should expect over the next four to eight years under a potential Clinton Presidency.
Tuesday Nov 01, 2016
Meditations and Molotovs - 10.31.16
Tuesday Nov 01, 2016
Tuesday Nov 01, 2016
On today's program, Vince interviews author and activist, Dr. Dahlia Wasfi.
Dr. Dahlia Wasfi was born in the United States in 1971 to an American Jewish mother and an Iraqi Muslim father. After graduating from Swarthmore College with a B.A. in Biology in 1993, she earned her medical degree from the University of Pennsylvania in 1997 but left medicine in 2002. Today, she works for social justice. Dr. Wasfi has made two trips to Iraq to visit her extended family since the 2003 "Shock and Awe" invasion, including a three month stay in Basrah in the spring of 2006. She is an activist in support of ending the US-led and US-funded occupations (military and economic) of Iraq, Afghanistan, and Palestine.
Dahlia is currently working on a book that humanizes the victims of American and Israeli policy “From the Nile to the Euphrates.” On Twitter, her username is @liberatethis