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Rrrrn and Tiberius sit down with local anti-ableist organizer Garrett Winters to discuss issues within both the left and society in general as they relate to how we treat the disabled among us and how we can overcome this. For those who want to learn more about what we discussed and take that and run with it, here's Garrett's list of links and further readings as well as their PayPal support link: ------------------------------------ Personal page An Articulate Autistic (https://www.facebook.com/articulateautistic/) Platform for marginalized voices to be heard which is always recruiting (tell people to contact the page for details) The Outcast (https://www.facebook.com/TheOutcastPost/) and the accompanying blog The Outcast Post (https://theoutcast.info/) The Revolution Needs All Kinds of Minds: on Slacktivism and Ableism (https://theoutcast.info/the-revolution-needs-all-kinds-of-minds-on-slacktivism-and-ableism-2/) is a key post related to stuff I mentioned in the podcast and in the beginning are (https://www.autistichoya.com/2013/08/critiquing-temple-grandin.html), (https://ballastexistenz.wordpress.com/2006/04/27/temple-grandin-devalues-us-again-in-print-this-time/), and (https://ballastexistenz.wordpress.com/2006/01/08/temple-grandin-displaying-near-textbook-hfaas-elitism/) about Temple Grandin Ally's Guide for Autism Acceptance Month (https://theoutcast.info/autism-acceptance-month-guide/) is something I made before I left to help allies help autistics by taking direct action regarding Autism $peaks, A Red Rage #RedInstead (https://theoutcast.info/a-red-rage-redinstead/) was my Autism Acceptance article from a couple years back and is one of my favorite articles, my other is You're Not As Important As You Think: on "Being Divisive" (https://theoutcast.info/youre-not-as-important-as-you-think-on-being-divisive/) Autistic Self-Advocacy Network (https://autisticadvocacy.networkforgood.com/projects/23616-your-gift-will-help-empower-the-autistic-community) and Autistic Women and Nonbinary Network (https://awnnetwork.org/donate-to-awn/) are both good orgs also if people want to support me it's...very hard to find a job that's not overloading and I have been searching for a long time so here's my Paypal (https://www.paypal.me/GarrettWinters)"

Time for some Inside Baseball, comrades, as Sauce and Tiberius are joined by guest Valerie Sinclair (https://twitter.com/maruchan1312) to discuss the recent DSA West Coast Regional Convention in LA and generally dive into the internal challenges and structural issues within the DSA. Stick around at the end (at about 49m 28s)to hear why both Sauce and Valerie are running to be on the NPC themselves!

Tiberius apologizes for missing the "end" of the shutdown, but comrades Mack and Sauce had a great discussion about the shutdown, TSA peeping our junk, and how much NPR sucks with Matt and Anna from the Breadline Podcast (https://twitter.com/thebreadlinepod)

Emily (@snarlsdegaulle) talks to Sauce (@communalsauce) and Mack (@incarcountry) about the Gilet Jaunes protests and the political situation in France. Vive la Commune de Paris!

For something a little different, comrade Tiberius recently recorded a talk given by Geographer Richard Walker of UC Berkeley as part of his speaking tour for his latest book, Pictures of a Gone City, about the stunning growth of wealth and the concomitant explosion of inequality in the Greater Bay Area, a region infamous as perhaps the beating heart and crown jewel of modern global capitalism. The audience for this talk was a left liberal/progressive crowd, however both the talk and the book are well worth paying attention to for those of us on the socialist left.

Returning from hiatus, comrade Tiberius sits down with Peter Coffin to discuss their book Custom Reality and You. Subscribe to their YouTube channel (https://www.youtube.com/user/petercoffin) for some fantastic video essays, and get the book in e-book or dead tree format at https://amzn.com/1521741042

Host Tiberius Gracchus is joined by Andy (of the mildly infamous incident wherein he castigated the bootlickers of the Seattle City Hall) to discuss issues surrounding left coordination and organizing, how he became and anarchist, and the contentious relationship between veterans and the broader revolutionary left. You can follow Andy at twitter.com/anarchovet to keep abreast of leftist events in the SeaTac area. You can support our work at https://patreon.com/leftcoastmedia and find us at our new https://podcast.leftcoastmedia.net site and at https://critmediations.com

In what turned out to be unsurprisingly a fantastic discussion, Sauce and Tiberius speak with Breht Ó Séaghdha of Rev Left Radio (https://revolutionaryleftradio.libsyn.com/) and the Guillotine (https://theguillotinepodcast.libsyn.com/) about political education for revolutionary socialists, how they developed their politics, and how theory and practice interrelate. Please support the show at https://patreon.com/leftcoastmedia if you're able, and follow Breht and his work on twitter at twitter.com/DeadIrishRebel, twitter.com/RevLeftRadio, twitter.com/GuillotinePod, and you can find this and the work of many more comrades at https://www.critmediations.com/

Just Sauce and Tiberius this week, and a discussion we thought would only fill about 15 minutes. Check out the Nice Things podcast at @nicethingscast and https://nicethingscast.buzzsprout.com/ If you like this show, please rate and review us on iTunes, and consider becoming a patreon at patreon.com/leftcoastmedia

Communal Sauce takes the reigns in Tiberius' absence to dive into burnout -- what it is, how to spot it, and what to do about it -- with Leslie and Meagan (twitter.com/garbage_hime and twitter.com/MemeVVitch). Catch Meagan's podcast at https://soundcloud.com/naughty-by-nurture, and please help out the show by supporting us on patreon.com/leftcoastmedia.

Comrades Sauce and Tiberius discuss unconditional basic income with Rachel (twitter.com/nyhcmaven84)

This is it, the Big Book™ of Marxism: Capital Volume 1. Tiberius Gracchus, Outer Siberia and Empress "Rosa Luxemburg" Trixana tackle sections 1 thru 3 of chapter 1, covering the labor theory of value, commodities, and money. To join the discussion tweet at the show at twitter.com/leftpod with the hashtag #MarxHeadroom, or join the discord server. If you want to support our work and help us afford transcripts for the show go to patreon.com/leftcoastmedia and kick us a few bucks a month--anything you can afford is appreciated.

Comrades Tiberius and Sauce chat with Molly (twitter.com/socialistdogmom) about why she's sitting in on so many city council meetings, and how hyperlocal electoral politics is a tool in the socialist arsenal. Follow her, twitter.com/cvilledsa, and twitter.com/mikesigner1 for such threads as https://twitter.com/socialistdogmom/status/948342648343064578 https://twitter.com/socialistdogmom/status/956574990488481792 https://twitter.com/socialistdogmom/status/938099348470161408 and https://youtu.be/Kfr29BAedz8

Part 2 of Marx's Value, Price, and Profit wherein comrades Pope, Tiberius, and Sibby cover the back half of the text, covering how what Marx has taught so far means for the worker's struggle in his time and now. Follow this episode's hosts respectively at twitter.com/antifa_pope, twitter.com/chekainformant, and twitter.com/outersiberia and join the conversation with your feedback in the discord or with the hashtag #MarxHeadroom

This week comrades Sauce and Tiberius are very pleased to discuss the BDS movement with the ever lovely Kumars Salehi of Delete Your Account fame

The second of Tiberius's conversations with the Mendocino Voice comrades about why the left needs its own news organizations and how activists need to interact with reporters

Comrades Outer Siberia, Tiberius Gracchus, and Dan start digging into Marxism proper with Value, Price, and Profit. Find the text on the Marxist archive at https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1865/value-price-profit/ and find the hosts of this discussion on twitter at https://twitter.com/OuterSiberius, https://twitter.com/chekainformant, and https://twitter.com/anarchoposadist respectively. Join our discord server or hit up https://twitter.com/leftpod with #MarxHeadroom to ask questions or provide critique of our understanding of the work.

Comrade Sauce (twitter.com/communalsauce) speaks with the DSA Street Medic Collective's John, Eli, and Logan about the challenges and necessities of street medic training for radical movements. Help them out by funding the Bay Area and Pacific Northwest's training on https://www.gofundme.com/dsa-medics-california-regional-agm-training and https://www.gofundme.com/dsa-pacific-northwest-affinity-group-medic-training-portland You can find DSA Medics (twitter.com/DSAMedics), John (twitter.com/parsonshanged), and Chicago Action Medical (twitter.com/ChiStreetMedics) on Twitter

The first of our book club series! This episode discusses Rebecca Solnit's Hope in the Dark and is hosted by comrades Communal Sauce (twitter.com/communalsauce) Outer Siberia (twitter.com/OuterSiberia) and Rosa

Local comrades and reporters Kate Maxwell and Adrian Fernandez-Baumann from The Mendocino Voice sit down with Tiberius for part one of two episodes on local journalism and leftism. This week examines the news from an insider's perspective. Follow their paper on https://twitter.com/TheMendoVoice and support their work at https://www.mendovoice.com/membership/ (the death toll from the fires was 42 http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-ln-fires-20171018-story.html)