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Nicholas Shillingford
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Ongoing News from the fight against misogyny, racism, homophobia, cuts in public services, restrictions on democracy as well as their root cause which is capitalism. Speeches, interviews, history, culture, and music from those struggling for a better world. Regular Episodes with news, art and perspectives posted the third Thursday of the month with Special Reports and Interviews on the other weeks of the month. All content produced by Urban Cabin Studios in South Minneapolis, MN USA.

  1. 6d ago

    SNV Special Interview: The Flamingo Revolution

    Special Interview Recorded (8/31/2026) and Uploaded Here (9/3/2026) (NOTE - You can watch a video of this interview from URBAN CABIN STUDIOS YouTube here: https://youtu.be/dJhd21Bg1MI?si=u1n-U9gnNrKxg4n- ) In this special we speak with Xhiorxhina Roci, Armela Mamani and Jurgen from The Flamingo Revolution in Albania (https://theflamingorevolution.com/). You can read the Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flamingo_Revolution) for a brief background overview of this movement. But there is much misinformation out there so even more importantly please listen to the interview to learn about the current situation in Albania and The Flamingo Revolution that has developed there. Xhiorxhina Roci talks about books at jovetem.libra on Insta: https://www.instagram.com/jovetem.libra/ You can find Jurgen at thatsjurgen on Insta: https://www.instagram.com/thatsjurgen/?hl=en Armela's Journal is at muza.jehone on Insta: https://www.instagram.com/muza.jehone/ Musine Kokalari published "under the moniker Muza (the Muse)" according to Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Musine_Kokalari Armela Mamani speaks of Kokalari briefly in this interview. Armela Mamani also has a Substack: https://armelamamani.substack.com/ Jurgen was wearing an Avni Rustemi (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Avni_Rustemi) shirt during this discussion. Here are additional articles covering some topics discussed in the interview: In Trump's footsteps: Kushner's controversial Balkans deals (4/02/2024): https://www.dw.com/en/in-trumps-footsteps-kushners-controversial-balkans-deals/a-68689404 Why is Trump’s son-in-law allowed to build in Europe’s first wild river national park delta? (5/18/2024): https://www.euronews.com/2024/05/18/why-is-trumps-son-in-law-allowed-to-build-in-europes-first-wild-river-national-park-delta Albania is destroying a protected wild coast for President Trump’s son-in-law – and lying to parliament about it (6/2/2026): https://www.birdlife.org/news/2026/06/02/albania-is-destroying-a-protected-wild-coast-for-president-trumps-son-in-law-and-lying-to-parliament-about-it/ The Flamingo Revolution — How Albania’s Civic Protest Exposes Lack of Transparency and Media Capture (6/05/2026): https://www.biepag.eu/op-ed/the-flamingo-revolution-how-albanias-civic-protest-exposes-lack-of-transparency-and-media-capture The One-Page Law That Legalized the Sale of Albania’s Coast (6/8/2026): https://albaniavoice.com/ligji-21-2024-albania-protected-areas/ Critics Slam Albania’s Emergency Bailout of Kanye West Concert as a $5 Million Smoke Screen (7/11/2026): https://www.occrp.org/en/news/critics-slam-albanias-emergency-bailout-of-kanye-west-concert-as-a-5-million-smoke-screen YOU CAN ALSO READ SOME BLOG POSTS FROM MINNESOTAN ANNE WINKLER-MOREY'S (annewinklermorey.com) TIME IN ALBANIA IN 2024 BELOW: Berat, Albania, Opens Windows to the Sky and Doors to the Stranger: https://annewinklermorey.com/berat-albania-city-that-opens-windows-to-the-sky-and-doors-to-the-stranger/ Five Questions about the Economy and Politics of Tirana, Albania: https://annewinklermorey.com/five-questions-about-the-economy-and-politics-of-tirana-albania/

    SNV Special Interview: The Flamingo Revolution

  2. Aug 27

    SNV Special Interview: Liberating The Productive Forces by Pat Byrne

    Special Interview Recorded (8/25/2026) and Uploaded Here (8/27/2026) NOTE - You can watch a video of this interview on the YouTube of Urban Cabin Studios here: https://youtu.be/EKVVU2OyaOg?si=EGCSd0gh7g_ecQds ) In this special we speak with Pat Byrne who says in his new book Liberating the Productive Forces "Most socialists have not properly studied Lenin's News Economic Policy and how it worked in Russia. Instead they have been supplied with a few brief quotations that have satisfied the factional disputes." The book is Volume 1 in a series titled Understanding the China Puzzle. Byrne also quotes one of Deng Xiaoping's biographers as saying "The theory of reform and opening that Deng developed several years after Mao's death, in the late 1970s and early 1980s, did not originate with him. It was rooted in...Bukharin's interpretation of Lenin's New Economic Policy aimed at developing a market economy under the control of the Communist Party." Here we talk about the collapse of the Soviet Union, the pivots and periods in China and how those were influenced by the Soviet Union and then we also discuss China's continued unprecedented growth today. You can hear Byrne's previous interview from a couple years ago here on SoundCloud: https://soundcloud.com/socialistnewsandviews/snv-special-interview-china-brics-and-the-global-economy You can buy a copy of the book here: https://www.walmart.com/ip/Solving-China-Puzzle-Liberating-Productive-Forces-two-revolutions-shaped-world-one-survived-thrived-Book-1-Paperback-9798996124213/20290601803

    SNV Special Interview: Liberating The Productive Forces by Pat Byrne

  3. Aug 20

    Critique of Zohran Mamdani and Tyranny Is The Central Word: Socialist News And Views Episode # 85

    NEWS + MUSIC + CRITIQUE of ZOHRAN MAMDANI & TYRANNY IS THE CENTRAL WORD (https://regimechange.substack.com/p/tyranny-is-the-central-word) - two essays from Independent Crowd Revolution Researcher Matt Hoke. ---- NEWS: Madison streets shut down to get justice for Corey Ruiz (7/26/2026): https://fightbacknews.org/articles/madsion-streets-shut-down-to-get-justice-for-corey-ruiz South St. Paul teen balances graduation, new responsibilities after dad’s deportation to Laos (7/27/2026): https://sahanjournal.com/immigration/hmong-deportation-south-st-paul-teen-minnesota-yang-taken/ A Young Immigrant’s Deportation Nightmare (8/14/2026): https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2026/08/trump-deferred-action-special-immigrant-juvenile-status-deportations-ice-detention/ If Trump Has His Way, 20,000 Kids Could Face Immigration Court Without Lawyers (8/14/2026): https://truthout.org/articles/if-trump-has-his-way-20000-kids-could-face-immigration-court-without-lawyers/ Racist Policies End TPS and Criminalize Haitian Immigrants (8/14/2026): https://www.blackagendareport.com/racist-policies-end-tps-and-criminalize-haitian-immigrants Interview: Emmett Doyle, One of the Minnesota 15 (8/6/2026): https://communistusa.org/interview-emmett-doyle-one-of-the-minnesota-15/ Authoritarians will target effective legal organizing, Minnesota defendant warns (8/13/2026): https://therealnews.com/authoritarian-target-legal-organizing-minnesota Massive government spying operation uncovered in Minnesota (8/14/2026): https://peoplesworld.org/article/massive-government-spying-operation-uncovered-in-minnesota/ Federal Spies Hunt Minnesota Unions in Search of Conspiracy, But Find Solidarity (8/14/2026): https://labornotes.org/2026/08/federal-spies-hunt-minnesota-unions-search-conspiracy-find-solidarity Documents Reveal the Federal Government’s Vast Minnesota Surveillance Dragnet (8/14/2026): https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2026/08/documents-reveal-the-federal-governments-vast-minnesota-surveillance-dragnet/ Post Modern Times: Post Mortem (8/13/2026): https://crimethinc.com/2026/08/13/post-modern-times-evaluating-an-economic-experiment-in-minneapolis-from-a-revolutionary-perspective CIA Involved in Covert Strikes on Ecuadorian Boats, Report Says (8/13/2026): https://truthout.org/articles/cia-involved-in-covert-strikes-on-ecuadorian-boats-report-says/ The Fight Against Google’s Minnesota Data Centers (8/13/2026): https://unicornriot.ninja/2026/the-fight-against-googles-minnesota-data-centers/ ---- MUSIC: https://youtu.be/WHLjyKfA304?si=0oeMVeHre5QE0T8C by Dock Boggs: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dock_Boggs ---- CRITIQUE of ZOHRAN MAMDANI -and- TYRANNY IS THE CENTRAL WORD (RC: https://regimechange.substack.com/p/tyranny-is-the-central-word) - two essays from Independent Crowd Revolution Researcher - Matt Hoke.

    Critique of Zohran Mamdani and Tyranny Is The Central Word: Socialist News And Views Episode # 85

  4. Aug 13

    SNV Special Interview: Soup Street by Keith McHenry

    Special Interview Recorded (8/11/2026) and Uploaded Here (8/13/2026) In this special we speak with Co-Founder of Food Not Bombs, Artist and Author Keith McHenry (https://keithmchenry.net/) about his new book Soup Street (https://foodnotbombs.net/soup%20street.pdf). You can buy a copy of the book here: https://www.paypal.com/instantcommerce/checkout/5U4RQXSNJCEDN #foodnotbombs #anarchism #soupstreet

    SNV Special Interview: Soup Street by Keith McHenry

  5. Aug 6

    SNV Special Interview: News Roundup with Nothing To Lose News

    Special Interview Recorded (8/2/2026) and Uploaded Here (8/6/2026) (NOTE: You can watch a video of this interview from Urban Cabin Studios on YouTube here: https://youtu.be/tYqwxZwIEag?si=gNTrnMApiJYbPIDG ) In this special we speak to Sophie Scholl and Addison Langhorst from Nothing To Lose News about a number of recent news items with a focus on Mass Protests in Serbia: https://nothingtolosenews.substack.com/p/2026-07-20-dictator-threatened-by Please check out Nothing To Lose News and their Substack and Podcast for more important news as well as discussion on how to fight back: https://nothingtolosenews.substack.com/ You can listen to their latest podcast here: https://nothingtolosenews.substack.com/p/2026-08-03-wisconsin-gov-primary

    SNV Special Interview: News Roundup with Nothing To Lose News

  6. Jul 30

    SNV Special Report: Cuba After...

    Special Report (7/30/2026) (NOTE: You can watch a video of this interview from Urban Cabin Studios on YouTube here: https://youtu.be/NNjT2YVEAcI?si=ac6SXfQhKQ-U-bpp ) Cuba After Castro: The Island in the Crosshairs | Feature Documentary: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZIAApY3b_i4 Watching Abby Martin's ‘Cuba After Castro’ amidst CIA threats of 'liberating' the island nation (5/7/2026): https://openthemagazine.com/entertainment/watching-abby-martins-cuba-after-castro-amidst-cia-threats-of-liberating-the-island-nation 'Cuba After Castro': A Bold Documentary that Shows Díaz Canel's Positions Before the Current U.S. Crisis and Why Things Could Be Different - INTERVIEW (4/13/2026): https://www.latintimes.com/cuba-after-castro-bold-documentary-that-shows-diaz-canels-positions-before-current-us-596525 Four Days in Havana, Under Siege: Dispatches from an island in the crosshairs of U.S. imperialism. (5/24/2026): https://www.currentaffairs.org/news/four-days-in-havana-under-siege Cuba denounces US targeting island’s largest economic conglomerate (6/2/2026): https://www.aa.com.tr/en/americas/cuba-denounces-us-targeting-island-s-largest-economic-conglomerate/3954378 US charges Raúl Castro in 1996 plane shoot-down (5/21/2026): https://countervortex.org/blog/us-charges-raul-castro-in-1996-plane-shoot-down/ Russia and China condemn US over indictment of former Cuban leader (5/21/2026): https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/clype0x7pkgo U.S. officials work on creating pretexts to attack Cuba (5/19/2026): https://mronline.org/2026/05/19/u-s-officials-work-on-creating-pretexts-to-attack-cuba/ SCOTUS puts Cuban oil companies in crosshairs of Exxon lawsuit (6/23/2026): https://www.courthousenews.com/scotus-puts-cuban-oil-companies-in-crosshairs-of-exxon-lawsuit/ Cuba-Report: https://www.state.gov/wp-content/uploads/2026/07/Cuba-Report.pdf LavishMack on Insta : https://www.instagram.com/p/DbB5ukWRlt-/?hl=en Cuba Celebrates National Rebellion Day (7/27/2026): https://www.radioangulo.cu/en/2026/07/27/cuba-celebrates-national-rebellion-day/ Trump is sowing fear over Cuba, terrorism and the ‘radical left’. This is what could come next (7/27/2026): https://theconversation.com/trump-is-sowing-fear-over-cuba-terrorism-and-the-radical-left-this-is-what-could-come-next-288284 US Sanctions on Cuba: President Accuses Washington Of 'Genocidal Policy', Calls US 'Nazi Occupiers': https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4JIlsXMVSeI (CODEPINK) Cuba After Castro: Screenings Toolkit!: https://www.codepink.org/cubaaftercastro (CODEPINK) Tell the State Department: Your 100-Page Cuba Report is a joke but the blockade isn’t!: https://www.codepink.org/100cuba Taco Bell tied to Cyclospora outbreaks in 4 more states (7/27/2026): https://www.restaurantdive.com/news/taco-bell-cyclospora-linked-cdc-pennsylvania-illinois/826196/ Company at center of US cyclospora outbreak complained to White House, source says (7/28/2026): https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/international/business/company-at-center-of-us-cyclospora-outbreak-complained-to-white-house-source-says/articleshow/132675472.cms?utm_source=contentofinterest&utm_medium=text&utm_campaign=cppst SNV Special Report: The Built-In U.S. War Drive - Selection 1: https://soundcloud.com/socialistnewsandviews/snv-special-report-the-built Colombian president warns US against building an empire in Latin America (3/12/2026): https://www.politico.eu/article/gustavo-petro-colombian-president-us-donald-trump-latin-america-empire/ Colombian President Gustavo Petro Urges End to Sanctions on Venezuela and Cuba During UN Address (6/12/2026): https://www.leftviews.in/international-89167/cuba-51946/gustavo-petro-un-security-council-us-blockade-venezuela-cuba “Help Cuba, Don’t Bomb It!” – Petro BLASTS US Over Cuba Crisis | APT: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3wCdzkMeZrk #solidaritywithcuba

    SNV Special Report: Cuba After...

  7. Jul 23

    SNV Special Interview: Twin Cities Tenant Organizing Taking Off

    Special Interview Recorded (7/20/2026) and Uploaded Here (7/23/2026) (NOTE: You can watch a video of this interview on YouTube from Urban Cabin Studios here: https://youtu.be/RCfJOmHfmzs?si=33xUarsifCj9vEOx ) In this interview we speak with K. Dick Sando (substack.com/@kdicksando), who works with tenants organizing and Twin Cities Tenant Connection (TCTC: twincitiestenantconnection.org/). We discuss the soon full launch of the TCTC website and the ongoing tenant organizing expanding all across Minneapolis, St. Paul and beyond.

    SNV Special Interview: Twin Cities Tenant Organizing Taking Off

  8. Jul 17

    EXTRA: Stacey Gurian-Sherman - Full Remarks From 7/14/2026 Capitol Press Conference

    North Minneapolis Community Leader Stacey Gurian-Sherman - Full Remarks From 7/14/2026 Capitol Press Conference in response to Keith Ellison closing the Conviction Review Unit (CRU: https://www.ag.state.mn.us/Office/CRU/ ) #speech #fire #passion

    EXTRA: Stacey Gurian-Sherman - Full Remarks From 7/14/2026 Capitol Press Conference
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Ongoing News from the fight against misogyny, racism, homophobia, cuts in public services, restrictions on democracy as well as their root cause which is capitalism. Speeches, interviews, history, culture, and music from those struggling for a better world. Regular Episodes with news, art and perspectives posted the third Thursday of the month with Special Reports and Interviews on the other weeks of the month. All content produced by Urban Cabin Studios in South Minneapolis, MN USA.

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  • Creator
    Nicholas Shillingford
  • Years Active
    2023 - 2026
  • Episodes
    193
  • Rating
    Explicit
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    © Nicholas Shillingford
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