6 - Emerald City Party of One

It’s the American Dream: “Available” to all, accessible by some, denied to many, indifferent to the consequences — just the way the good lord intended it to be! The productive forces have given us so much stuff, but the endless extraction, manufacture and commodification of planetary and human resources is leading us down a path we won’t be able to recover from. Just how close are we to the breaking point? And what happens next if we don’t rethink how we roll? 
Special thanks to guests Andrew Constantino, Kshama Sawant, and Vijay Prashad.
From Maffick Podcasts, Party of One. Written, hosted, and produced by Amanda Getty and Gregory Haddock. Theme song by Jonathan Hurley. Production assistance by Eilís O’Neill and Ryan Wentz.
Notes:
https://independentmediainstitute.org/fellows/vijay-prashad/
https://www.seattle.gov/council/sawant
https://www.statista.com/chart/6949/the-us-cities-with-the-most-homeless-people/
https://policyadvice.net/insurance/insights/homelessness-statistics/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Government_and_politics_of_Seattle
https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2014/01/29/inequality-poverty-divide-republicans-more-than-democrats/
https://www.washingtonpost.com/video/politics/spanberger-criticizes-democrats-strategy-in-caucus-call/2020/11/05/6ec2b368-258a-4061-9738-d83ee8971c3c_video.html
https://today.yougov.com/topics/politics/articles-reports/2019/07/08/government-responsibility-homeless-partisan
https://www.bnnbloomberg.ca/unprecedented-spike-in-u-s-evictions-looming-as-ban-expires-1.1632958
https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/news/jeff-bezos-and-elon-musk-increased-their-wealth-by-dollar217-billion-in-2020-for-this-amount-over-100-million-americans-could-get-dollar2000-checks/ar-BB1cq7c2
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/11/05/us/texas-election-results.html
https://www.kiro7.com/news/local/report-shows-seattle-area-has-largest-rent-increase-nation-over-past-decade/3C4CAHGUYZFLZOOI4MRDZRG6UY/
https://www.feedingamerica.org/research
https://www.american.edu/cas/news/the-growing-hunger-crisis-in-america.cfm
https://dowbor.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/14Thomas-Piketty.pdf
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i0VFfv_Ku6I
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1LbAuobvbEk
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-IqCtSHbrxY
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kc6R1z5ih2w
https://www.businessinsider.com/florida-minimum-wage-rise-vote-amendment-15-tipped-employees-workers-2020-11
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wmSPyocMRyw
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NFNUvS7UioE