Last Born In The Wilderness Patrick Farnsworth

Okay everyone, as many of you well know, our dear friend Forrest Palmer passed away this month. Many of us online have expressed our love for him, the many ways he has impacted our lives, the friendships and connections we had with him, our respect for his intellect and commentary, and the incredible love he had for each of us. 

Michael, Colin, Bill, and I, along with Dan, recorded a final episode of Attack & Dethrone GodCast, a podcast Forrest co-hosted since we started it during the long year of 2020. It will be our last episode--episode 19. We paid our respects to Forrest, and we treated it as a way to remember him, and how he was so important to each of us.

As part of it, we listened to messages from Rob, a frequent collaborator and friend of the podcast, and Kenn, a friend and previous guest. Both gave heartfelt messages, contributing greatly to the purpose of the episode. Also, another friend of Forrest, Nate, submitted a message that I'll be including in the final episode.

All of this is to say that if you feel compelled, please do what Rob, Kenn, and Nate have done, and leave an audio or video message to express your thoughts and feeling about Forrest. I'll include the information you need to do that below.

I want to get this episode out by early July. So, get your messages in by June 30th. It will be released as both an audio-only episode, and as a video episode.

If you would like to leave a short voicemail (under three minutes in length), call the number: (208) 918-2837

If you would like to submit an audio or video file, you can submit it here: ⁠http://bit.ly/DROPMEALINE⁠

Author and journalist John Washington returns to the podcast to discuss The Case for Open Borders, the name and subject of his new book from Haymarket Press.

John Washington places the current political rhetoric and policy fixated on the "border crisis" many Western nations are seemingly facing, particularly the United States, within the historical and material context of what the modern nation-state actually is. Borders are as much about building the infrastructure to prohibit and deter migrants and refugees from entering a territory, as it is a rhetorical weapon deployed by cynical politicians and nativist settlers to reify artificial differences among the human species. Stripping down the hyperbolic and nativist language exemplified across political parties, John makes clear what borders really are, and the violent realities this ever expanding infrastructure imposes on human and non-human life.

John Washington is a staff writer at Arizona Luminaria, a community-focused media outlet where he writes about the border, climate change, democracy, and more. His latest book, The Case for Open Borders was published by Haymarket Books in 2024. He is also the author of The Dispossessed: A Story of Asylum at the U.S.-Mexico Border and Beyond, published in 2020 by Verso Books. Washington is also a translator, having co-translated, most recently, The Hollywood Kid by Óscar Martínez and Juan Martínez, and Blood Barrios by Alberto Arce, which won a PEN Translates Award.

Episode Notes:

- Purchase a copy of The Case for Open Borders from Bookshop: https://bookshop.org/a/24168/9798888900727

- Subscribe to his newsletter, Lit & Border News: https://johnwashington.substack.com

- Read his journalistic work for Arizona Luminaria: https://azluminaria.org/author/john-washington

- The song featured is “Deneb” by Nick Vander from the album Kodama (Nowaki’s Selection), used with permission by the artist. Listen and purchase at: https://nickvander.bandcamp.com

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Author and journalist John Washington returns to the podcast to discuss the case for open borders. He places the current political rhetoric and policy fixated on the "border crisis" many Western nations are facing, particularly the United States, within the historical and material context of what the modern nation-state actually is. Stripping down the hyperbolic and nativist language exemplified across political parties, John makes clear what borders really are, and the violent realities this ever expanding infrastructure imposes on human and non-human life. John is the author of The Case for Open Borders, published this year through Haymarket books.

Support the work and listen to the full interview: https://www.patreon.com/lastborninthewilderness

Writer and organizer Andrew Lee joins me to discuss their new book Defying Displacement: Urban Recomposition and Social War, published through AK Press and the Institute for Anarchist Studies.

Defying Displacement grounds itself in one of the main sites of contemporary class struggle: communities facing the multi-headed hydra of gentrification. Andrew Lee directs our attention to the on-the-ground realities of urban displacement, and in turn, provides a new theory of the state and capitalism in the 21st century.

“And all of a sudden, to maintain what we have—not improve, not get benefits. This isn’t the ‘60s. We aren’t talking about, give us ethnic studies and a health clinic. It’s much worse than that. It’s: don’t displace me. Let me keep paying rent to my landlord; let me keep paying property taxes on the family home; let me keep working a bad job; just don’t make my rent so high that my community is obliterated.

“And the people that brings us into conflict with aren’t just a local regional rich dude. More and more, they are global financial institutions and the entirety of the political system and civil society. In the places where we live, they’re bringing us into open conflict with the foundation of capitalist society, and that is what we need to navigate through. And if we can, we can win everything.”

Andrew Lee is a writer and organizer exploring the intersection between land, home, resistance, and popular power. Their work has been published in outlets including Teen Vogue, The New Inquiry, and YES! Magazine.

Episode Notes:

- Learn more about Andrew’s work: https://www.xandrewleex.com

- Purchase a copy of Defying Displacement from AK Press or Bookshop: https://bit.ly/3X2tO33 / https://www.akpress.org/defying-displacement.html

- Music produced by Epik The Dawn: https://epikbeats.net

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Writer and organizer Andrew Lee joins me to discuss their new book Defying Displacement: Urban Recomposition and Social War, published through AK Press and the Institute for Anarchist Studies.

Defying Displacement grounds itself in one of the main sites of contemporary class struggle: communities facing the multi-headed hydra of gentrification. Andrew Lee directs our attention to the on-the-ground realities of urban displacement, and in turn, provides a new theory of the state and capitalism in the 21st century.

Support the work and listen to the full interview: https://www.patreon.com/lastborninthewilderness

This is a segment of episode 363 of Last Born In The Wilderness, “The Jail is Everywhere: The Quiet Jail Boom & The Insidious Logic Of Carceral Humanism w/ Lydia Pelot-Hobbs & Jack Norton.” Listen to the full episode: https://www.lastborninthewilderness.com/episodes/pelothobbes-norton

Learn more about The Jail is Everywhere and purchase a copy from Verso Books or Bookshop: https://bit.ly/49YrCMS / https://bit.ly/4dsnTuf

Lydia Pelot-Hobbs and Jack Norton, co-editors of the collection The Jail is Everywhere, join me in this interview to discuss the “quiet jail boom” in numerous counties across the United States. They examine how the county jail has become the preeminent site of the adaptive, expansive, and shapeshifting carceral state, as well as the local and nationwide struggles to end it.

Lydia Pelot-Hobbs is an Assistant Professor of Geography and African American & Africana Studies at the University of Kentucky, and author of Prison Capital: Mass Incarceration and Struggles for Abolition Democracy in Louisiana.

Jack Norton is Assistant Professor of Criminal Justice at Governors State University, and was a senior research associate at the Vera Institute of Justice. He conducted research for the In Our Backyards initiative and investigated how counties across the United States use their local jails.

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