Connecting the Dots Kevin
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To enhance our collective and individual consciousness is to raise our political potential. Developing consciousness is the first step towards creating radical change for our intense, enduring, and interrelated social issues. But political consciousness is not given, it is claimed. So, I ask you to claim it. May this podcast, these books, these articles, these authors, these songs, and these resources merely serve as a step towards your proclamation.
It is my belief that society can transform itself if the people can transcend themselves.
Nothing changes, if we as a people do not first change
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Earth's Mightiest Heroes
If you're a Marvel/Disney fan, this episode may piss you off.
If you glorify the military/empire, this episode may piss you off.
If you love propaganda, this episode may piss you off.
PROTEST SONG RECOMMENDATIONS: Dead Prez- Propaganda https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FIhIsHEAM8w
Immortal Technique- Freedom of Speech https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nAEbWSSo9AQ
BOOK RECOMMENDATIONS:
Edward Bernays- Propaganda https://www.thriftbooks.com/w/propaganda_edward-l-bernays/271440/?resultid=bf3aa14a-7371-4e7f-81d0-9e0a3bb7ab54#edition=14599611&idiq=46473416
Noam Chomsky- Manufacturing Consent https://www.thriftbooks.com/w/manufacturing-consent-the-political-economy-of-the-mass-media_noam-chomsky_edward-s-herman/250546/?resultid=a5ad3ad5-f38f-40c7-b5a9-c89f5e80fe1e#edition=3389416&idiq=10196061
Paulo Freire- Education for Critical Consciousness https://www.thriftbooks.com/w/education-for-critical-consciousness_paulo-freire/285357/?resultid=63ba8060-c876-49e5-8ebc-10dbf7c9cae8#edition=4382559&idiq=4611527
ARTICLES:
https://therealnews.com/cop-land-is-still-one-of-the-best-hollywood-depictions-of-police-corruption
https://www.yipinstitute.com/article/how-do-the-marvel-movies-promote-the-us-military
https://responsiblestatecraft.org/2021/11/05/new-marvel-film-puts-spotlight-on-hollywoods-military-ties/ https://mronline.org/2022/02/08/the-pentagon-and-cia-have-shaped-thousands-of-hollywood-movies-into-super-effective-propaganda/
https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/features/the-great-war-master-of-american-propaganda/ https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2021/mar/09/wandavision-pentagon-propaganda-marvel-disney-fbi
https://www.liveabout.com/pentagon-support-for-war-films-3438458
https://www.newsweek.com/captain-marvel-superhero-movies-air-force-comic-book-military-promotion-1348486 https://www.blackagendareport.com/wakanda-must-fall
https://www.military.com/daily-news/2020/01/05/captain-marvel-effect-air-force-academy-sees-most-female-applicants-5-years.html
THEATERS OF WAR LINK:
https://vimeo.com/ondemand/theatersofwar
LINK FOR THE INTRO/OUTRO:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ML3qYHWRIZk
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iAykOz1gWi4&t=50s
GO FUND ME LINK:
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Revelations
Just some thoughts for thought.
BOOK RECOMMENDATIONS: Bruce Lee- Striking Thoughts https://www.thriftbooks.com/w/striking-thoughts-bruce-lees-wisdom-for-daily-living-the-bruce-lee-library_bruce-lee/296561/?resultid=4dd9bac5-0ba2-47e4-93bc-3296be88a015#edition=3673054&idiq=4467350
Marcus Aurelius- Meditations https://www.thriftbooks.com/w/marcus-aurelius---meditations-adapted-for-the-contemporary-reader_marcus-aurelius/27292127/?resultid=b43aaddd-1bb9-468e-868f-528b5d64bc5d#edition=14781957&idiq=28997502
Ichiro Kishimi & Fumitake Koga- The Courage to be Disliked https://www.thriftbooks.com/w/kirawareru-yuki_-_ichiro-kishimi/10893847/?resultid=7e6a22ce-69e4-47d2-9a67-4f274229aa92#edition=19865634&idiq=30126954
PROTEST SONG RECOMMENDATION: U2- Rejoice https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2JxRGvzwzxc
GO FUND ME LINK:
Please consider donating (if you can) to my friends daughter who is currently battling stage 3 cancer.
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Release
This episode is meant to tie together our two worlds, the internal & the external. It emphasizes how the political, economical, and social issues of this country are capable of inducing mass trauma & mental suffering. I want to acknowledge how this affects us as individuals and as a society when we internalize it. More importantly, as a result of this reality, I want to emphasize the necessity for radical change and societal/personal RELEASE.
BOOK RECOMMENDATIONS:
The Body Keeps the Score by Bessel Van Der Kolk
Waking the Tiger by Peter Levine Transforming Trauma With Jiu Jitsu by Jamie Marich & Anna Pirkl
Health Justice Now by Timothy Faust
What Happened Here: Bush Chronicles by Eliot Weinberger https://www.thriftbooks.com/
PROTEST SONG RECOMMENDATIONS:
Fort Minor- Kenji
Muse- Psycho https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UW09k8P0zTc
Pearl Jam- Release Pearl Jam - Release (Official Audio)
The Rolling Stones- Doom and Gloom https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rPFGWVKXxm0
U2- Bad https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LCdltGg4EzM
LINK TO THE SPEECH: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QN8ej4k2ilc
RESOURCES:
https://www.verywellmind.com/effects-of-collective-trauma-5071346
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6095989/ https://www.healthsystemtracker.org/chart-collection/mortality-rates-u-s-compare-countries/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6603306/ https://oie.duke.edu/inter-generational-trauma-6-ways-it-affects-families https://www.childhelp.org/child-abuse-statistics/ https://www.apa.org/news/podcasts/speaking-of-psychology/9-11-twenty-years https://www.aclu.org/other/surveillance-under-usapatriot-act https://www.cato.org/commentary/make-america-safer-shut-down-department-homeland-security
GO FUND ME LINK:
Please consider donating (if you can) to my friends daughter who is currently battling stage 3 cancer.
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Reckoning
MAYDAY!!!
Protest Song Recommendations:
Paolo Nutini- Iron Sky, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AF_PkvMm9_c
Bob Marley- Work, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NKHdvDkDAHk
U2- Red Hill Mining Town, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yafHtWzWx0s
Jefferson Airplane- Volunteers, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xaw--HWHecg
Pete Seeger- Solidarity Forever, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZW_1hP0SHSQ
Book Recommendations: Labor’s Untold Story, by Richard O' Boyer, https://www.thriftbooks.com/w/labors-untold-story_richard-o-boyer_herbert-m-morais/264902/?resultid=c56b445e-fff8-4237-962b-4fe946c22c1b#edition=724864&idiq=5115529
Fight Like Hell, by Kim Kelly, https://www.thriftbooks.com/w/fight-like-hell-the-untold-history-of-american-labor_kim-kelly/29057042/?resultid=2f141869-e5c8-4ee4-9d56-d0fae834ff4c#edition=60148856&idiq=47185332
The Meritocracy Trap, by Daniel Markovits
Beyond Outrage, by Robert Reich
The People's History of the United States, by Howard Zinn
Articles:
https://www.americanprogress.org/article/its-a-good-jobs-shortage-the-real-reason-so-many-workers-are-quitting/ https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-10-15/u-s-labor-unions-are-having-a-moment https://www.nytimes.com/2022/03/07/business/economy/treasury-competition-report.html
https://www.usnews.com/news/economy/articles/2021-10-07/the-labor-market-is-undergoing-a-seismic-shift-as-markets-await-septembers-jobs-report https://theconversation.com/union-battles-at-amazon-and-starbucks-are-hot-news-which-can-only-be-good-for-the-labor-movement-172932 https://www.encyclopedia.com/economics/encyclopedias-almanacs-transcripts-and-maps/san-francisco-general-strike-1934 https://archive.iww.org/history/library/misc/origins_of_mayday/ http://www.illinoislaborhistory.org/the-haymarket-affair http://www.let.rug.nl/usa/outlines/economy-1991/labor-in-america-the-trade-unions-role/current-labor-issues.php https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/06/us/police-unions-minneapolis-kroll.html https://www.huffpost.com/entry/amazon-anti-union-consultants_n_62606f2ce4b041ee26501ca2
GO FUND ME LINK:
Please consider donating (if you can) to my friends daughter who is currently battling stage 3 cancer.
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all about love
LINK FOR THE BOOK: https://www.thriftbooks.com/w/all-about-love-new-visions-bell-hooks-love-trilogy_bell-hooks/248913/?resultid=595b688d-e936-4181-b121-65b31be6db0b#edition=2337244&idiq=10183064
PROTEST SONG RECOMMENDATION: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Enmitbt3yAs
LINK TO THE SPEECH: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U0uEVTh0ios
GO FUND ME LINK:
Please consider donating (if you can) to my friends daughter who is currently battling stage 3 cancer.
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Decadence
BOOK RECOMMENDATIONS:
1) Sorrows of Empire by Chalmers Johnson https://www.thriftbooks.com/w/the-sorrows-of-empire-militarism-secrecy-and-the-end-of-the-republic-the-american-empire-project_james-carroll_chalmers-johnson/257596/?resultid=fb0f7e1f-fa69-44cd-8991-f7fa1b27c13d#edition=3677168&idiq=2963848
2) Imperial Ambitions by Noam Chomsky https://www.thriftbooks.com/w/imperial-ambitions-conversations-on-the-post-911-world_noam-chomsky_david-barsamian/383572/?resultid=7f48e7ee-1619-4d3c-a16c-756b49659170#edition=3781570&idiq=672750
3) The One Percent Doctrine by Ron Suskind https://www.thriftbooks.com/w/the-one-percent-doctrine-deep-inside-americas-pursuit-of-its-enemies-since-911_ron-suskind/431152/?resultid=b3d2eeb8-23fc-462e-bfaf-44cfb067e957#edition=3511383&idiq=5851242
PROTEST SONG RECOMMENDATION:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3IKOVG8hitk
LINK TO THE SPEECH: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qGRcgSz-jqI&t=11s
LINK TO THE ARTICLES:
https://theintercept.com/drone-papers/the-assassination-complex/
https://www.ogj.com/pipelines-transportation/pipelines/article/14188746/tapi-pipeline-afghanistan-construction-to-start-in-herat https://www.upstreamonline.com/production/taliban-tapi-gas-pipeline-is-a-priority-project/2-1-1053761
https://www.history.com/topics/21st-century/afghanistan-war https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/asia-jan-june11-timeline-afghanistan
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