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This exclusive interview with an A15 comrade explores the historic global economic blockade that took place on April 15th in solidarity with Palestine. Recognizing the global economy’s complicity in genocide, folks in 82 cities across 19 countries took action to block the arteries of capitalism. These protestors targeted major economic choke points to maximize impact, resulting in millions if not billions of dollars in lost profits for the capitalist class.
As forces mobilized to attack Rafah, the A15 call to escalate resonated with so many people. This global coordinated economic blockade was a complete departure from symbolic acts of protest, as A15 activists directly impacted the material economic system that profits off of genocide.  

Listen to gain a better understanding of what made this historic international action so successful!


a15action.com
Initial proposal 
Solidarity agreements
Wrap up video on A15


CALLS TO ACTION:

–Follow @a15actions on Instagram, Twitter, FB, YouTube

–A15 BAIL FUND

–Boost actions & support requests from A15 cities & encampments

–Watch for calls re: arrestees. Make calls to demand their charges be dropped


THE A15 INTIFADA COCKTAIL
30ml   Mezcal
30ml   Campari or red aperitivo
30ml   Red Italian-style Vermouth 
2 dash Chocolate Bitters (optional)
2 Jalapeño slices 
Add mezcal & jalapeño slices to a mixing tin & muddle. Add the rest of the ingredients & stir with cubed ice for about ten seconds until drink is properly chilled and diluted. Strain into your favorite glass filled with cubed ice. Garnish with a jalapeño slice.

Crafted by bartender Jesse Torres.
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This show is sponsored by Beautiful Trouble — an international network of organizers, artists, and trainers working to equip grassroots movements with the tools to become more creative, effective, and irresistible.

“Beautiful Trouble was birthed by seasoned organizers who really wanted to document not only social movement successes…but really dig into what makes an action work.”

In this episode, I speak with trainer and organizer Rae Abileah about Beautiful Trouble – a global network of organizers, artists, and trainers helping to equip activists and social movements with the strategic tools to become more effective and irresistible. 


Rae explains the diverse ways that Beautiful Trouble has been helping activists in the field, from mentoring and trainings to offering hands-on campaign strategy and direct action planning. We discuss the Beautiful Trouble toolbox of tactics, stories, theories, etc., which is available online, as a book, and as a deck of strategy cards.

Rae Abileah is the former co-director of Code Pink.  Her facilitation work through The Nature Conservancy’s Agility Lab supports teams  working on freshwater protection and climate adaptation.  She also runs her own creative strategy consultancy, CreateWell. 



LINKS & CALLS TO ACTION:
-Beautiful Trouble website beautifultrouble.org and toolbox: beautifultrouble.org/toolbox
-Follow on Instagram, FB, Twitter
-Send in your action ideas to Bt
- GRANTS FOR ACTIONS!  The Get Up Rise Up Direct Action Fund provides small grants to creative, beautiful actions calling for ceasefire, and those targeting the fossil fuel industry and its infrastructure. Grants of up to $1,000 are awarded
There is a monthly deadline for submitting applications: https://beautifultrouble.org/directaction


Beautiful Sunrise Cocktail 


22ml   Mezcal fr
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“For me, dismantling the fossil fuel industry is a form of mental healthcare” – Tori Tsui  This week on Cocktails & Capitalism, I speak with the UK-based climate justice activist, researcher, speaker, and writer Tori Tsui. We discuss the relationship between mental health and the climate crisis, breaking down some of the core concepts that are illuminated in Tori's recent book, It's Not Just You: How to Navigate Eco-Anxiety and the Climate Crisis.

The episode explores common misperceptions about eco-anxiety, the Eurocentric nature of the concept, and why it’s so problematic to call eco-anxiety a mental illness. 


Calls to Action:
-Follow Tori Tsui on Instagram and Twitter

-Read Tori Tsui’s book Its Not Just You: How to Navigate Eco-Anxiety and the Climate Crisis which can be purchased here.
-Support the StopRosebank campaign to halt the development of the largest undeveloped oil field in the North Sea. StopCambo LinkTree. StopCombo.org
-Follow  @stopcambo on IG


It’s Not Just You Cocktail 
45ml  Three Spirit Livener NA Spirit 
45ml  Blood Orange juice
22ml   Lime Juice
22ml   Rose Tea Syrup
1 dash Rose water (optional)
60ml  Sparkling Mineral Water


Combine all ingredients except sparkling water in a mixing tin and shake with cubed ice until diluted and chilled. Add sparkling water to the mixing tin and strain into a Collins glass filled with cubed ice and rimmed with salt. Garnish with a grapefruit slice and a rose petal.



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Cocktails & Capitalism is an anticapitalist labor of love, but we could use your help to make this project sustainable. If you can support with even a dollar a month, that would really help us continue to educate, agitate, and amplify the voices of those who are working to dismantle capitalism and create a better world.
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Osage scholar Jimmy Lee Beason II offers an Indigenous perspective on Killers of the Flower Moon and the history of the Osage murders that the book and film depict. In this Cocktails & Capitalism interview, we discuss the true history of the Reign of Terror–a horrific string of murders of Osage committed by white settlers pillaging Osage oil wealth. In addition to providing deeper context for the recent Martin Scorsese film, our conversation highlights some of the impact of this dark chapter on the lives of the Osage people.
A member of the Osage Nation, Jimmy Lee Beason II is a professor and writer who teaches in the Indigenous American Indian Studies Department at Haskell University. He was a guest on a prior episode about the residential school system — a system designed to remove Indigenous children from their communities and strip them of their culture. The university where Jimmy teaches was once the site of one of these residential schools. By teaching and mentoring Indigenous students, Jimmy works to combat the legacy of Indigenous erasure perpetuated by the residential school system.


Links and Calls to Action:
Follow @osage_scholar
Donate to the Osage Nation Foundation here
Advocate for oil headrights to go back to the Osage people

Contact Professor Jimmy Lee Beason II for speaking engagements: pahuska8@gmail.com


Mocktail Pairing: The Lily
(Crafted by Jesse Torres)

Jimmy chose to name this mocktail after Lily Gladstone to honor her representation of Indigenous perseverance and her historic accomplishment as the first Native American actor to win the Golden Globe Award for Best Actress in a Motion Picture.  
45ml  Apple Cider (or whiskey if you prefer)
15ml   Persimmon (or pear) syrup  (see below)
15ml   Elderflower syrup (or sweetened elderflower tea)
15ml   Lemon juice 
30ml  Ginger beer 
1 dash bitters 
Shake everything except ginger beer with ice and strain over fresh ice. Top with ginger beer


Persimmon (or pear) Syrup 
225g          Persimmons (or pears)
200ml        Honey
250ml      Water
Rinse, de-stem, and medium dice persimmons (or pears). Add to honey and water and bring to a boil. Lightly simmer for 20 minutes. Stir to thor
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Students at UC Davis just won an historic victory by passing a bill that divests all student funds from apartheid Israel. I spoke with three of the women who were instrumental in making this happen, including the political director, the president, and the social media coordinator for the UC Davis chapter of Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP). We discussed the magic moment when the bill passed, the work that went into this success, and how they are helping to empower students at other universities to achieve similar victories.

Already, students at many other UCs have followed suit, passing a similar divestment bills and resolutions. (UC Riverside,  UC Los Angeles, UC Santa Cruz, and UC San Diego). We hope this is just the beginning of an avalanche of university divestment victories like those that were vital to the end of South African apartheid

LINKS:
SJP at UCD Linktree
Follow @sjpatucd2 and @sjpatucd on Instagram!
Follow @sjpatucdavis on Twitter!

Shamouti Sour
(The name is a tribute to the Palestinian people and their connection to the fruits of their land, as Shamouti oranges originate from Yaffah -- an occupied city in Palestine)
      60ml   Orange juice (fresh if possible)
      22ml   Lemon juice 
      8ml     Simple syrup
      22ml   Olive brine 
Combine all ingredients in a shaker tin and shake briefly with ice. Strain into a glass filled with fresh ice. Garnish with a half orange slice and an olive.

Cocktail crafted by bartender Jesse Torres
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Jewish organizer and activist Max Geller joins me to talk about the birth of new Palestine Action chapters around the world in response to the intensified genocide that has been raging for 4 straight months.
As discussed in last year's episode featuring Jodie Jones, Palestine Action is a UK-based network of activists that has permanently shut down 2 arms factories and caused millions in damages to Israel’s arms dealers. The main target of this network is Elbit Systems, which Max describes as the “most evil company in the entire world." 


Calls to Action:
Follow Palestine action on Twitter and Instagram (UK, US, France, Italy, Scotland)
Take a Palestine Action direct action training
Help provide arrestee, court, and prison support
Donate to their Legal Defense Fund

Cocktail Pairing: The Direct Actionist
45ml  Rye Whiskey
22ml  Campari
15ml   Cynar or bitter amaro
8ml    Peaty Scotch (like Laphraig)
Combine all ingredients in a mixing glass and stir with plenty of cubed ice until drink is properly diluted and chilled. Strain into a chilled coupe glass. 
Cut an orange peel and flame the oils over the drink: Express the oils by squeezing the peel in half with one hand while using the other to hold a lighter or match. Release the orange oils into the flame over the drink so the flaming oils land on top of the drink. Discard orange peel and garnish with a fresh Bay Laurel leaf. 
Note: use any good Peaty Scotch available such as Laphraig, Ardbeg, Bruichladdich, Caol Ila, or Lagavulin.

Cocktail crafted by bartender
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Cocktails & Capitalism is an anticapitalist labor of love, but we could use your help to make this project sustainable. If you can support with even a dollar a month, that would really help us continue to educate, agitate, and amplify the voices of those who are working to dismantle capitalism and create a better world.
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This show is sponsored by Beautiful Trouble — an international network of organizers, artists, and trainers working to equip grassroots movements with the tools to become more creative, effective, and irresistible.