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Radicalize Me
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"Blog section and a mailing list so you can stay in touch with fans plans start at just $12 a month and if you use my linked to show notes you'll be supporting the show while you build up your own. You've got nothing to lose. Give it a shot with a free trial and you'll see what I mean once again that spot page, and use my link in the show notes down back to the show where would you say you guys fault. I'm kind of the bathroom we fall myself. Oh go ahead man. Now go ahead ask me to actually join National wage brother right and I believe in the overthrow of capitalism and socialism and.
Radicalize Me
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"What mood of booze motivates them. You get your ego in check around people you know because you don't like the the ball or playing ball going to have cats playing ball to get some flyer or muscle me in about this knack age. Sometimes you know they tried to be nice to you. Would you tell giving you the highs today. China like balanced that ball and then get back into the game. But that's part of your work is because like you said like you never know who you go snatch up at day. Who's just show up at that meeting two weeks later because you did all that kind of work and just back to do like let these flyers and these numbers these ways of contact you again. It is meant something in terms of the personal touch And so that. yes you know. It's admitted to be like me. You don't want to talk to me still walking. I'm talking to you. I used to walk into going fishing. You might catch him and you might. The fish does Yeah yeah. I mean it's it's a not for everyone i guess What what are some ways like you know. Let's say that Someone is really sensitive to that or they're like not as able bodied like what are other ways. Because i think people sort of vaguely know that like the. There's things i can do. You know on the internet on the phone. Whatever like what what are you. What would you say that like could do instead of where you sit in. You know what. I mean like work for everybody. Right is everybody. Don't gotta be defiant person Like you i mean just make the flyers these days people who may even for an incident stuff people who wrote the social media folks who make phone calls is like a thousand different activities around organizing Most of which are not so glamorous of sexy at all right which is probably one reason that a lot of times people started and can give it up. Because i think people have this notion that you know they're gonna be. It's gonna be like the panthers in five minutes ago and added water than five minutes. Later is like the revolution and it looks like. It's rest by how it works. That's even that's not. Even what's out of panthers obviously every now in might be some spark of something that gets attention to your organization. But you guys out
Radicalize Me
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"Anything dealing with. You know our survival as a as a whole you know so basic human rights to to sum it up right so a lot of what You know many of us were just figuring out Last summer you guys have been into in in in touch with that for a long time. Because i think for us. Although it's great to see folks get out in the streets and stuff like that. And it's like this mixture like dan enthusiasm. I always beautiful to see now but then you also have folks who feel like they have done it. Started police brutality movement or album. Start before they had avenue. And so. that's always interesting on tool of like you know watching younger folks. Do take the lead Movement happen also expressing you know. Don't get over excited because you know even notices a sort of great rallying crying numbers of fantastic Know that this work has been folks lay down So pass for you like. They lay down pass for us to continue doing this. Work and so So yeah so it's exciting to see Folks get activated in the streets man osa exciting and somewhat frustrating time because We we didn't come from the social media media era so it's like a whole different type. Thing is the gift and the curse for lack of better words. I think that We come from the era where you actually had to have propaganda and you had to have flyers and you had to tap next it. Hey we're definitely. I showed her still hurt to this day carrying backpacks medicine bags in all right so Definitely a and studying. I think that The difference now is folks. Can google something that took us hours and years to You know to figure out right now so you know they become instant expert so you know while we We salute you know All the folks who are against imperialism capitalism and oppression in i think did on our thing is kind of get an idea of what went on before you got it right So would you guys say that that
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"We're back with another episode talking about activism and the activists who do it. and how you can do it too. really amazing guests today. Two of the hosts of the renegade culture podcast Kolanji changa and kamau franklin. These guys are the real deal and they've been doing the big work for many years. So we're all gonna learn a lot today. I mentioned this later on as well, But i highly recommend their podcast renegade culture. If you're looking for a high quality political show that is activism focused and genuinely fun to listen to. Kolanji and Kamau have a lot to say about racism which you'll hear in a minute and i think it's really important stuff to listen to even if you feel like you have a pretty good idea of what racism and systemic Racism are and where they come from. you can find out more about their show and the guys at renegade culture dot org. Racism is not something that i've really experienced but it is something that especially over the past year I have tried to learn about and understand as much as i can. And before we get into the show I just want to briefly Explain something here now. I don't exactly do a an up to the minute News cast here. It's not a daily or even a weekly show at this point so it's not like something happens and then you hear about it later on the radicalize me show. There's plenty of that out there. So i hope you'll forgive me if i backtrack a couple of weeks to something My favorite dumdum baby shit Boy ben shapiro said and Just use it as a jumping off point then had some thoughts on the new voting laws. Georgia passed recently so he got on his mic and flapped his dumb little mouth until this fell out. Jim crow explicitly created a separate system of law for black americans and treated them as inferior. There's nothing in the law like that. Now this is an argument. That ben loves if you look them up on youtube and watch a few clips which i firmly recommend against. You'll probably hear him say something similar a few times claims of systemic Racism are dishonest Because no one can point to a specifically racist law on the books in the us today. This is one of these nefarious right wing talking points. That is technically true. At least i think it is the nothing surprises me anymore. So i wouldn't stake my life on it. But in all likelihood you wouldn't find such a law today if you looked but what blimp safari doesn't understand or pretends not to understand. Is that blatantly. Racist laws are not the be all end all of systemic racism. Take his jim. Crow comment for instance. The federal government justified. Jim crow laws through the separate but equal doctrine. Which said that racial segregation did not necessarily violate the fourteenth amendment. That's the equal protection under the law amendment. As long as the facilities and services available to each race involved were equal were black and white people actually treated equally in practice of course not but the stated intention of the drafters of the separate but equal doctrine and the congress people voted for it and that supreme court justices upheld it in plus versus ferguson. Had nothing to do with black people being inferior or wanting black people to suffer. So what does this tell us. I it tells us that the actual intentions of the people i just listed probably different from their stated intentions but even more evidently it tells us that the racial disparity that was the outcome of the jim. Crow era came from the way in which the system carried out the doctrine. This means that when it came time. For say i don't know the georgia legislature to fund white schools. They went all out then. When it was time to fund black schools they started whining about budgets and deficits kind of like. They do now anytime. They don't like a policy but have no real argument against it. I'm definitely not a historian. But that seems like a fairly likely scenario. I guarantee you if ben had been around one hundred years ago. He'd be making the same arguments about jim crow through no racist laws. It's called separate but equal idiot now to be fair to buck. Stromboli explicitly racist laws are not unheard of and we have had those before for instance the the black codes and the chinese exclusion act. Were certainly directly racist in name context and intent but history still mostly proves ben wrong. Not only was the separate but equal doctrine portrayed as a racial equality law the fucking the three fifths compromise and the constitution actually never mention race neither of those even mentioned slavery the horrors and the abuse were hidden behind eighteenth century legalese. Red lining was not explicitly racist at least most of the time the laws that enabled redlining didn't say give less to black neighborhoods on the surface. Redlining was only about property value. Starting in one thousand nine hundred eighty five when the home owners loan corporation a government sponsored corporation created what we're called residential security maps which would show how secure real estate investments were in various parts of a given city. Well who lived in the poor areas largely private organizations of course ran with the idea of redlining and all this led to decades of denied mortgages and home
Radicalize Me
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"For overdose. No good idea. Yeah that's that he Put that seed in my head. I was like yeah ever. Everyone should have so. Yeah you know. I imagine that it's as bad in virginia's the addiction and everything well it's by zip code and directly correlated to the poverty rate right you even within my district. My district is very very compact. It's almost all townhouses right And i have to zip codes where where people live. Ninety percent of my constituents are in either to along with l. Which is the city of manassas or two zero one. Three six which is bristowe. Bristow is far more affluent than the city of manassas bristowe opioid death. Rate is like eleven hundred thousand. Last time i looked the city of manassas. It's like sixty. Yeah and we're talking to distance of two miles in between them. Yeah right and so. It is very much dependent on where you are. I mean even down to which neighborhood you're in You know here. In the fiftieth district you can go like even within the city of manassas you can go four blocks and you can go from a neighborhood where you know the emt's are there every night dealing with someone who overdosed you go four blocks and they haven't seen an ambulance six months right. Yeah that's something. I noticed when i lived in philly. It's like the. It is a matter of blocks a lot of the time or it's run down and forgotten and then got a bunch of luxury condos sits crazy as well I had a great time talking to appreciate so much. You being on the show. Of course thank you so much for having me. yeah so i i wish you luck i i. I hope you've become governor of virginia. And if you want to tell the listeners where they can find you how they can help your campaign go for it. Yeah so you can find more information about me at carter. Virginia dot com. That's all spelled out. All one word carter for virginia f. o. r. virginia all spelled out dot com There's donate biden in the top right. There's a volunteer button top center my campaign. We're the only ones in this democratic primary who i've never taken a single dime from fossil fuel corporations at all four by competitors have. I've never taken a single dime from big banks all four of my competitors have. I've never taken a single dime from organiz police all four by competitors have. I've never taken a single die from big tobacco three of my four competitors. Have right so We are entirely funded by people. I've never taken a single dime from any for profit corporation or industry interest group. I never have never will So for those of you. That are really big. On virginia political history. The old slogan henry howell. Don't nothing to nobody I keep this on my desk at all times to remind me that. I can't o anything to anybody. Other than the people of virginia. So i would love to. Have you get involved. This is very much a team effort. I'm not going to be able to do this allowance so Or start rollin. All right awesome. Well good luck to you and have a good one. Thank you so much art. That was my talk with. Lee carter
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"How how will you this bad at this right. Yeah i mean. I i think that yeah reducing their their role just seems better for everybody involved but This kind of goes along with guns. And i'm curious about your stance on guns because you know the you are pretty pro. Gun pro pro. Second amendment is. I'm not mistaken and that's not a common in the democratic party. I think democrats seem to have like very good intentions about gun legislation but seem to have no idea how to approach it and come up with some really bad idea. There are some good ideas and things that i voted for universal background. Check is a pretty good idea. Safe storage requirements. So that you don't have toddlers getting pistols as pretty good idea right But then there are some very very terrible ideas like like assault weapons debts rent because you know if you look at the moment that were in their periods throughout history where political violence is more likely right words a bigger threat than at other times. This is one of those times. It's kind of hard to argue against that after fascist sack the us capitol right right so you know. the democrat. Leadership tends to look at the issue of the armed radical writing and say we need to disarm them right. We need to take away. The guns problem with that is if you know if you're trying to pass an assault weapons ban. There are literally only two ways to do it. The first is confiscation and the second is a grandfather clause right if you go with confiscation. Then that's going to trigger a civil war. They've been the the the the extreme-right has been telling themselves that they will kick off an active civil war and start murdering people in large numbers when the government tries to take their guns away. So maybe don't do that right. And the the only alternative is a grandfather clause which means that the only people that are going to have these big weapons are the people who are preparing themselves for a civil war that are on the other side of it from you right. no no. i'm not gonna do either of those things. I i am not going to do. The thing that they've been saying they will trigger a civil war for and also not going to mandate that. They're the only ones that have gone. People need to be able to defend themselves. Read so my position. Is that anyone that nazis would wanna murder should be able to stop nazis for murdering the. Yeah that's not position either direction right and yet both parties. Hate me for it. You know. I get assassination threats from the gun. The gun people bright because they hear the word socialist and they're convinced that that means that i'm gonna take away their guns. It's like i kind of want to give people a free rifle when they join a union like also get all sorts of hate from democrats who see rightly hooton like see firearms as just this evil thing that needs to be purged from society.
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"What they advertise with military Corporate interests right and geopolitical interests first and foremost Instead of actually helping people at like this unfortunately is not. It was a new revelation to me. But it's not a new revelation to the world right. One of one of the biggest superheroes of the marine corps is a guy named snugly butler. Yeah yeah they make you learn his aim at boot camp right that they drill it into you by wrote where the drill instructor will scream two marines medals of honor and everyone has to shout back sir to marine metals var. Dan dailey bentley. Right and smedley butler. After he got out of the marine corps he wrote a pamphlet called wars a racket. And it's only like fifteen pages. I encourage everyone to look it up. But he talks about how he spent thirty six years as a gangster for capitalism right Going out and subduing people in the interests of big business. And you know they actually. During the great depression of you're familiar with the bonus army and The business plot after these are aspects of american history that that don't get talked about in history class but there were a bunch of business leaders during the depression. The had this idea of there were a bunch of disgruntled veterans who were promised bonuses. They were world. War one veterans that were promised bonuses twenty years after the war and the economy tanked and they said all right now right and they were like camping out with weapons on the national mall and there was this business group that that came up with this idea to try to get smedley butler. This well respected hero. The marine corps to use the bonus army guys as essentially troops to fascist coup and. He refused right smedley. The refused to do that and he testified about it before congress. He named names and nobody went to jail. Nobody went to jail for right right and so that it's not a new story. I wish i could say that. I was the first i ever realized that when i'm not right i was. I was late to the party But that's because we have media that just toes the line right. We have a media. That's essentially an advertising agency for the us government as opposed to actually being adversarial and playing the road. They're supposed to play in a democracy and so that that pro military propaganda never gets challenged until you're actually on base right Yeah and that's interesting that they would emphasize smedley butler to troops. But i would imagine. They don't talk about his later life. He got the medal of honor twice in. That's right don't ask any more questions. That's so crazy. And i always like to remind people that the business plot included prescott bush father of george h w bush. And that was yeah. That was part of general butler's testimony prescott bush was one of the ringleaders of it There was no trial right. Nobody any consequences and so we can't say definitively that he was but what we can say that general butler testified that he was.
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"It's it's like a very intentional thing that most of it went to him and you know like they. They even brag about you know passive income right. You know you see these these advertisements for like a self help book of how to become a landlord Earn passive income. There is no such thing as passive income rose to work for that valley right and it may be passive for you. But that's because you've got the courts and the police enforcing that the money comes to you right. So there's there's absolutely no such thing as passive income in our society. And what i want is for everyone to get what they workforce right. That's it yeah And so You said before about the this worker co op that Taking the the label off of it and just explaining it is You know part of why it was successful With is that label socialism or human or. So i'm curious then why Why is it important to call yourself a socialist and your ideas socialist. Is it just different. Like when you're legislating than when you're a candidate or what when you're legislating like Legislators have to deal with just a text of what's in the bill right right and so you get to just describe what the system looks like Without any of the labels associated with now of course my name being at the top of it means that You know a lot of people are inherently skeptical. But when when you're going out and talking to the public it's important to actually talk about The vision for the future rights important to not only have immediate goals So you know things that. I've done where i've talked about. His immediate goals are like You know expanding medicaid so that we can get a half a million more people on health insurance capping copays on insulin. Fifty dollars a month right. Those are things that were immediate goals. But i've always when i'm doing those things always talking about. The ultimate goal right so in healthcare. The ultimate goal is not medicaid expansion. The ultimate goal is a healthcare system where everyone can see a doctor in the economy. The the goal is not allowing more people to unionize within a capitalist workplace. The ultimate goal is getting people out of capitalist workplaces entirely and into workplaces that they own and operate right. So it's this sort of Walking and chewing gum at the same time. Kind of thing where you gotta. You gotta work on things. That are immediately attainable. So that people know that you're not just this like crazy idealist that that has absolutely no idea how to implement anything. You've also got to educate people on what a better future looks like enhanced. Get there right and so. That's why i don't shy away from the socialist label and i don't describe myself as a democratic socialist Socialist period rob because if it ain't democratic. It can't be socialism right. Yeah so. I don't believe in backing down from what people call me. I don't believe in backing down from the description of what i'm fighting for But the strategy in those immediate near term fights is the just present a product without a label and so it's both yemen wolf. Yeah yeah that's an important point and Yeah we'll with the democratic socialist thing to. I'm you know it's it's kind of like what you said before. I think some of these national figures have. They've moved the overton window as we say but they've done a bit of a disservice by calling for democracy democratic socialism as if like democratic socialism is some other kind of socialism right and social democracy is capitalism with better services. Right which is that early back at the. Us
Radicalize Me
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"Or or cooperative is an existing business so that that really is to me what it means to be. A socialist legislator is to focus on creating those tools. So that working people can get out from under The you know the dicta to'real sort of top down workplace right That's work that. I can create the tools but i can't make the finished product for you right. So it's it's very much You know it's not something that i'm going to be implementing from the top down right. It's it's i can create these opportunities to do it for themselves to make it easier to organize an easier to to create this economic engine for our movement but You folks have got to do the hard work on their own right so that passed so. Yeah yeah that passed actually pretty overwhelmingly. Wow it was actually a bipartisan bill. Because it's it's really funny. You know once you take the label off of it and actually describe how ownership structure works and what it looks like for the people that own operate. That business It's it's pretty unambiguously good once. You have the label off of it right. And so there's there's a lot of propaganda that goes into scaring people about what socialism is. There's a lot of You know you've got essentially a hundred years of us government propaganda telling you that socialism is just you know government control and the government will control absolutely every aspect of your life and Death panels healthcare all that nonsense. But it's it's just about you know essentially being your will not even being your own boss getting rid of bosses in the workplace right not having a boss at all That's what it's about right. Yeah and that's the misconception. I think you know The lot of the countries that have called themselves socialists. Or that you know we have called socialist. are like a little authoritarian. And probably don't have this worker control aspect at least not like to the extent that you're talking about are you. Are you familiar with the the lauch i know the name okay. Yeah he he He has this idea that if we could sell socialism as super capitalism than people people would be more accepting of it. Like i'm so into private ownership. That i want every worker to be an owner. And if you like describe it that way and it sounds like that's You know obviously that's like a joke answer but like it. Sounds like what you're saying is if you explain it in this way that You know it's it's a benefit to everybody Well to not to put too fine a point on it. But i got the worker cooperative. Bill passed into law right so now it is. It is a legally recognized type of business. And i was thinking like okay. Getting getting preferential treatment for for state and local government contracts. What we hear in virginia called slam certification right getting that swam certification for worker. Cooperatives has got to be a you know a major uphill battle. It's gonna be a multi year fight and the very next year this year. We come back for
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"Alright. So my guest is lee carter house delegate for the virginia house sat right. That's correct and candidate for governor. Running right now is the primary and Thanks for being here. Of course thank you so much for having yes so and you are in manassas virginia. Yeah kind of an unlikely place for The only socialist into southern legislature but. Yeah i represents the fiftieth district which is the city of manassas and parts of western prince. William county okay. And what part of the state is that. So that's about forty five miles outside of dc. So if you're going in the middle of the night takes me about an hour but if you're going during rush hour it takes three or four. Yeah yeah i had a A girlfriend in college who lived in charlottesville. So i guess that's that's a little further south. Yeah but yeah so. I drove down there a few times. But yes so actually i wanted to ask you about that. Actually is it. Was it a bit of a surprise to win an election as a socialist in that area or is it. You know i i also think that There's probably a lot of misconceptions about the south about virginia That people have you know. Was it a surprise or was it something that could work there. Well when i started running. I didn't even realize that's what i was okay. I decided to run for office. After i got hurt at work in two thousand fifteen And you know twenty fifteen. Virginia as state level elections are an odd number years right so the twenty fifth elections were already underway at that point when i realized that there was nobody that was talking about workers. Comp those was willing to do anything about worker's comp The worker's comp system was broken right and i had considered myself kind of You know a democrat but dissatisfied with how they were in office. I would always think to myself like you know. They're better than the republicans. But why why are they like this. And i didn't really have an explanation for why they were like this until i started running for office and i made the decision not to take any corporate money. Because i said you know fighting to fix Workers competent and right make workplaces safer and like. How would i do that.
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"Bad actually just you know they say they say they removed from the website. It might be like on the weekend. Whatever but i mean one premium one big thing about mastodon and they are still affronted with within the culture and the self. If we don't have that you know all the all on the platform is community. Aunt an ad free. That's in the first sentence on the website so they really read out up front with knocking for for profit. Mo- service like they die off pretty quick. You know but that doesn't mean that you know the necessity is not there. I mean new service bubble all the time you know you can just hop from from one another. That's like oh like how would society work if there was like some kind of like unstable situation like i mean new Sides can just spill up. You know if you have interest If people need housing and song people houses right yeah. It's it's it's wild that people think what we have now is more stable than that would be as like i mean wrong right the pandemic thing about oh and arm. Don't even get me. Started the biggest. You know as that kind of works within within psychology as i mentioned. I'm studying right now. Oh yeah i mean that's the whole thing within that. I think that that intuitively like freud in really did understand. I mean the thing about for it is like the unconscious you know. There is an invisible drive that actually like effects you. That's like the basic premise of sigmund freud. And the next step is that well. We tend to think about mental health. Like like a binary right. So you're healthy or you're unhealthy your normal you crazy If you wanna be more fancy your your functional or you have psychosis or something like that. So what freud did is no. They're not separate like entities. Actually like the psychosis is parts of the entire system. If we take into account you know the the the times that someone is unstable only by understanding the unstable parts weekend understand the stable price. We get understand it the the whole i think that's pretty much like the your basic like marks take that if you only take into account the cycles of depression i mean depression that that's just using that word implies that it's completely separate have like a thriving economy and sometimes something happens. Nobody really knows right. Because that's going to need. No-one cares but that only happens every once in awhile. Don't even worry about it if we if we put them both. If we put both into account we can then start to understand that. It's actually like a cycle right or flake. Depression and a thriving economy. Just i can't psychology no. It's
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"Dot com and alex. Miass that that master. That's a real instance signed my esteban. Yeah and so. You don't really if that does answer. The question i mean how would like decentralized like an artist society work now you can actually picture you know because in such a framework. You don't really after said well. Am i still gonna go. How can i get my groceries from walmart. You don't think of it like in a in a decentralized sending you tend to think of like of like production you know who on the local server gonna make the the the service that i'm looking for or if he's not at the local over the how can i communicate at some other like foreign server you know. How can i get what what i want. And some kind of like. So kinda like market rules laid. They tend to like but not in a like in a in a capitalist sense because like people are not like profiting each one another. It's it's more like a social currency. You know right. Wanna be nice. People want help out other people and it does work. I mean that's why. I mean wikipedia so gigantic i mean people tend to make fun of it but it truly is like it's it's a standing up even that a bunch of people would just rights like an super beta for free right. Yeah yeah which is wild. I mean that's always question. People have is like how would you pay for who's going to pay for it and mallet that even how would that even work like how would society work and it's like well you know there's a lot of there's a lot of details all these theories and it's like yes especially i know especially here in my country. People write these things off as like no. We tried that doesn't work and it's like well i mean that's how much did you shine. Whatever yeah how much did we really try. And it also like if already works. I mean the internet as just described. You know how can communicate with with yahoo when it comes to email that already works and and we as a society will even necessarily have to say But you know we as as like digital society. We actually do rely on decentralized services at least on on the internet yesterday of how would this work. I mean how would these position. We're actually doing in right now. We're in assume call got sake right but is that does that. Get into dangerous territory were. It's not a very much removed. From like. You know having companies like google and yahoo or is it you know you take out the profit motive in that kind of when it comes to like these enters social men where such mess i mean if they are superb fronts if you're going to like maxim dot com i think dot net or dot org at i remember Let me just look good. But i mean if you go to their website. They pretty much a super found about like forgetting about the profit. Motive owens join methadone orgy
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"If i get arrested. I'll deal with it then. I'm going to help people who deserve to be held. There's a guy who's who's doing this work. Peter krykun and Scotland and he opened the first safe injection site in the country in a van because he got tired of. He's a former user himself. He got tired of watching his friends. Die and he said. I'm knocking await for the government. I'm gonna do this myself. And he's been arrested and he took his his fight to the the the political leaders and he got them to say to him. We're not gonna charge you. You know we'll let you go do your thing. He did this alone completely alone. Those are the people. I admire because yes it's easy to say. Let's keep voting was an all of that is important to but we cannot wait for elected leaders on this stuff. We have to do this ourselves. Yeah that's awesome Yeah i mean. That's that's why i started. This show is to say Yes vote but also do. Here's what we can do in the meantime So when it comes to like narcan training working people go if they want to get in on that great question so i would definitely reach out your local. You'll recall excuse me your local health department Now like i said earlier. I'm from cincinnati. Ohio Unfortunately because of where cincinnati is situated. It is one of the worst Areas for overdose in the country Because you get some drugs to go east west other ones go north south and in the mid west they meet in cincinnati so in cincinnati narcan is everywhere. You know there was a push a couple years ago to get it like defibrillators. Right you walk into a library and you see a defibrillator. Hang in there and and now in a lot of places you'll see are sitting right next to it so in those areas. Trainings are everywhere. You know researcher health department and cincinnati. At least you can walk in. And and if you're trained already they'll just give narcan if you're not trained. They'll recommend places to go so depending on your city. You may have something like that. Also reach out to places like Safe stop the addiction..
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"me" Discussed on Radicalize Me
"This show to inspire people to activism. I bring activists on and we probably have activists listening and I think that especially over this past year You know people have seen a lot of traumatic things many people firsthand because they were at protests or whatever it is what what would your advice be to activists dealing with the the sort of Horrors of of life in america today so i definitely know what you mean. I my wife. And i went to three black lives. Matter protests ourselves in the last year In that's unfortunately saying something because Down here in charleston south carolina There may have only been one or two more throughout the entire year. One of those. My wife and i organized because there wasn't one in our particular area of charleston And it's really. How side is it. I got called a radical for wanting to support black lives matter by a quote unquote liberal group. Like that's how This area is is that you know and sort the big picture of this country right the people that run hall progressives anywhere else in the world quite frankly are more on the left of center side but here in the us we call them radical whatever so so. That's the area. I'm living and that's one of the reasons we're leaving to go to philadelphia to be around more people that are like us so i definitely understand that question number one number two. I wish there was an easy answer to say. Here's how you take care of your mental health but it's an ongoing thing right. There's no success. it's not like physical health. Where if you break your leg. Here's what you do to have a non broken leg now. if you're thirty four like me. At some point i literally have an indentation in my hip from an injury. You just accept that. This is my life now right. It's not never going to be fully healed. That's kind of how it is mental health..
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"me" Discussed on Radicalize Me
"First view things he's planning to do sound good Some of the executive orders. He's doing today or like reversing. Some trump's I think You know we seems like they. They actually got some concessions that of him. It's it's like it makes sense for bernie to be in the room you know Like yeah it's when people call bernie sell out and stuff. I'm like i don't know what you're expected. But like we're going to get more than we would have if he was like fuck. You biden them. I'm going green whatever. Yeah and also like in same thing can be said for. Because i don't know how much truth there is in you know biden saying i'd really considered tapping for labor secretary of like. I think you'll do much better. He who will be able to do much more as budget chairman because like if he was you know made labor secretary. Vermont has gop governors. And that would've really jeopardize the senate majority and we wouldn't really would've jeopardize anything like you know. Mcconnell would still be the majority leader. And so i think you'll be like he's doing more good simply by just staying in the senate and then like you'll be able to add onto that as budget chair right and it's also been very hilarious watching all these conservative assholes. Like lose their shit over the fact. That bernie is now the budget chair. Lindsey graham was like saying like oh if we lose georgia. He's going to be the budget share but wind georgia. I'm going to be the budget share so well that wasn't going to vote for warnock ossoff before i'm doing it now. Yes like ossoff at all. We're not we're not as cool. He seems okay. Yeah we're not. I kind of just kind of wrote off as a centrist early on but then like the more. I saw like his sermon videos. This guy guy ain't bad. I pretty much learned everything. I needed to know about him. In that one there is an interview in which he was asked like rapid fire. Questions like are you in favor of this stuff. Favorite medicare for now you in favor of green new deal now favoring defunding police. No that's all. I need to know that pissed me up. Yeah i he ran like a few years ago. I think it was twenty. Sixteen or something. He ran for One of the senate seats and like he just seemed so like maybe changed little this time back then he was very like republican lite to the point where all of his ads were him saying. Like i'm going to washington cut wasteful spending and what are talking about. This is insane. And i guess that sort of like the. Yeah the the like bill clinton style shift that took place in the democratic party where democrats started being like. Yeah no we're like reagan to we. We we wanna cut good spending. Yeah like we saw the same with the kentucky senate races well like Both with amy mcgrath and also the the race back
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"me" Discussed on Radicalize Me
"Yeah well since you brought it up Give us a little. Bit of insight into marty walsh because You know most of biden's cabinet picks. I've had plenty of issues with that. He's had a couple good ones here and they're like his. Hhs terry nominee is the current Attorney general california and he's for medicare for all pledge is in a terrible pick. I don't know much about her. But basically what i know about her she was one. She was one of the democrats in the house. That voted for that ten percent. Military budget cut like earlier in the spring. And so like she has some common sense right and He's had a few good ones so like. What is marty walsh light. Do you think he will do a good job as labor secretary because i know nothing about him other than he's the mayor of boston. Yeah i i don't know that much about him either honestly. I think boston's like a pretty like progressive city in terms of policy. I like i think there's a lot of racism and stuff here but in terms of like City policies like i. We have really good public transit He might have been a good choice for that and The state has one of the highest minimum wages. I think it's like twelve seventy five. Now yeah i. And i think like when it comes to like kovic which has been most of my experience with marty. Walsh is a mayor. Because i moved here two years ago. It's been i think better than most places There's still a lot of complaints that that i have because like everywhere in the. Us is like well we got you know. Keep some stuff open because because of money like so. It seems like a weird choice for labor. Honestly because he's not really known for that. I don't think but yeah we'll see. Maybe there's something that i've missed. Yeah and like that on the covert thing. Yeah it's weird because like we've had to keep some businesses open because of money and because you know for the entirety of the pandemic today and we can talk about that too. We've had a president who is not willing to mask mandate. He's not willing to do any of the things that you know. All the other developed countries have done to keep their people afloat. Germany fully nationalized wages until like the end of the until the end of the pandemic in japan managed to keep their death count under a thousand for a while by like closing minimal businesses. Like closing the ones in which you would have to take a mask off like restaurants but But like they had a mask mandate just like a giant mass mandate and they kept at a low death count for a while and there are some countries that i think your did both and yeah so and now we can. I guess we can talk about you. Know the fact that we now have a president biden as of today right and Did you watch the inauguration a little bit. Yeah yeah. I watched a little little before. Maybe like half an hour before they did the swearing in To a little bit after saw lady gaga on j. lo so who's it was what i expected. I guess i was a little worried that there would be some kind of attack but luckily there wasn't. Yeah there's always that. I considered it very unlikely because i heard because there's some new shows that i watch that are taped in washington. Dc like in studio and then a lot of those shows that had to be done. Like a virtual call because like dc is like odd lockdown. It's a fortress at the time and so the level security that went into it. I thought like probably won't be anything happening on this particular day if someone tries anything i don't think it will succeed but I saw joe biden speech. Nothing really memorable to the same platitude word salads that we've gotten from him you know. I saw thing on twitter just like what should the biden drinking game be right now. I take a shot every time. He says unity. He'll get shot every time he says restore shot every time he says. Here's the deal. Jack joe pop in here real quick until