Holiday Special Report (12/25/2025)
Links to items covered in this Holiday Special Report:
Progressive Labor Party: https://www.plp.org/
Italian Hall disaster: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Italian_Hall_disaster
Mourn for him, boys PLP-LP rewrites Joe Hill: https://www.marxists.org/history/erol/ca.firstwave/cpl-plp-lp.htm
Winona ROAR: https://www.facebook.com/RoarWinona/
Lynching of Olli Kinkkonen: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lynching_of_Olli_Kinkkonen
Jesus of Montreal: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hiBBl4bNINM
Mon Oncle Antoine: https://tubitv.com/movies/100042948/mon-oncle-antoine?start=true&tracking=google-feed&utm_source=google-feed
small-batch eggnog: https://smittenkitchen.com/2020/12/small-batch-eggnog/
Roy Brown: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roy_Brown_(blues_musician)
The Happy Prince: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zmZIpux9etc
MUSIC (PLP - AWTW): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-dxBc5TKKzk
NEWS + MUSIC + INTERVIEW - FREE BOOKS .
In the interview my brother Jamie and I discuss the FREE BOOKS table. We curate books of all genres we think could be helpful to the movement and set up a table with Free Books at protests and other events in Minneapolis (and sometimes other places). If you want information about books in general and occasional notices about where the table will be set up join the FR3E BOOKS group on Facebook (Here: https://www.facebook.com/groups/1080026443593248).
NEWS:
Minneapolis stands with Somali community against Trump's racist attacks: https://fightbacknews.org/articles/minneapolis-stands-with-somali-community-against-trumps-racist-attacks
SNV Special Report: Minnesota Stands With The Somali Community!: https://soundcloud.com/socialistnewsandviews/snv-special-report-minnesota-stands-with-the-somali-community
Postal Workers Demand ICE Off Postal Property Rally and March: https://www.instagram.com/p/DSRIig1DCJe/
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MUSIC: https://youtu.be/HwhRB_vwGdw?si=nqdPPEO7aizXlS5Z
Dhofar rebellion: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dhofar_rebellion
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INTERVIEW - FREE BOOKS:
Links to items covered the FREE BOOKS interview:
FREE BIBLES AT PRIDE: https://www.cbsnews.com/minnesota/news/appeals-court-man-can-distribute-bibles-at-pride-fest/
FREE COMMUNIST MANIFESTOS IN ILLINOIS: https://thesouthern.com/news/local/born-again-labor-museum-offers-free-communist-manifestos/article_941818f5-fd31-5660-881d-ab8424df48d9.html
FREE THE PRISONERS SO THEY CAN READ BANNED BOOKS: https://floridaphoenix.com/2018/12/04/the-strange-world-of-banned-books-in-florida-prisons/
FREE SUPPLIES AND MORE AT LIBRARIES: https://www.mprnews.org/story/2024/05/31/minneapolis-central-library-homelessness
You can join this group (FR3E BOOKS: https://www.facebook.com/groups/1080026443593248) to get information on books and find out where the FREE BOOKS table will be out and about.
Special Report (12/11/2025)
After Trump attacks the Somali community...Minneapolis, Minnesota, and this podcast stand strongly with the Somali people against racist and xenophobic attacks by this regime's secret police.
Links To Items Covered In This Special:
Trump, ICE target Somalis in Minneapolis; city leaders respond (12/2/2025): https://www.fox9.com/news/trump-administration-targeting-twin-cities-somali-community
Mayor Frey speaks to Somali community amid ICE focus: 'We love you, we stand with you': https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OFmBoAeuwkQ&list=RDNSOFmBoAeuwkQ&start_radio=1
Trump lashes out at Somalis again as Minneapolis stands behind community (12/4/2025): https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/dec/04/trump-somalis-minneapolis-ice
Minnesota’s immigrant advocates organize and deploy as Trump ramps up ICE enforcement (12/5/2025): https://www.minnpost.com/metro/2025/12/minnesotas-immigrant-advocates-organize-and-deploy-as-trump-ramps-up-ice-enforcement/
ICE Targets Somali Community in Minneapolis: https://unicornriot.ninja/2025/ice-targets-somali-community-in-minneapolis/
Most Somali people in America and Minnesota are citizens (12/5/2025): https://minnesotareformer.com/briefs/most-somali-people-in-america-and-minnesota-are-citizens/
Hundreds protest in Mogadishu against Trump's reference to Somali immigrants as "garbage" (12/6/2025): https://www.africanews.com/2025/12/06/hundreds-protest-in-mogadishu-against-us-president-trumps-comments-about-somali-immigrants/
AFRICOM Announces Seven More Airstrikes in Somalia as Trump Continues Record-Shattering Bombing Campaign: https://news.antiwar.com/2025/12/07/africom-announces-seven-more-airstrikes-in-somalia-as-trump-continues-record-shattering-bombing-campaign/
Homan to Newsmax: Deep Dive Underway on Somali Visas (12/8/2025): https://www.newsmax.com/newsmax-tv/tom-homan-trump-administration-somalis/2025/12/08/id/1237573/
Community sounds alarm after apparent ICE arrest in Rochester (12/8/2025): https://www.mprnews.org/story/2025/12/08/rochester-apparent-ice-arrest-sounds-alarm-somali-community
Somali Americans are throwing Trump's 'garbage' back at him | Opinion (12/8/2025): https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/columnist/2025/12/08/trump-somali-immigrants-ice-minnesota-omar/87610604007/
Somali Americans confront Trump’s attacks by trolling MAGA (12/8/2025): https://www.salon.com/2025/12/08/somali-americans-confront-trumps-attacks-by-trolling-maga/
Moorhead City Council unanimously approves resolution supporting Somali community members (12/8/2025): https://www.inforum.com/news/moorhead/moorhead-city-council-unanimously-approves-resolution-supporting-somali-community-members
Protesters condemn ICE for targeting the Somali community (12/9/2025):
Hodan Hassan: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hodan_Hassan
Special Interview Recorded (11/23/2025) and Uploaded (12/4/2025)
In this special we speak with Jason. Jason self-identifies as a redneck and has been a communist for 25 years. He has founded a number of local chapters of leftist organizations primarily in Alabama; such as the Socialist Party USA (SPUSA: https://www.socialistpartyusa.net/) and Communist Party USA (CPUSA: https://www.cpusa.org/) chapters, the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW: https://www.iww.org/), Workers Power - League for the 5th International (https://arbeiterinnenstandpunkt.net/), and Socialist Alternative (https://www.socialistalternative.org/) (a note: some of these organizations no longer exist in the same form due to splits/reformation etc but links are provided to current sites). Jason has also been the founder of a number paramiIitary and community defense organizations such as the Redneck Revolt (https://www.redneckrevolt.org/), John Brown Gun Club (https://mutualaiddisasterrelief.org/co-conspirators/john-brown-gun-club-redneck-revolt/), Sawgrass Community Defense Group (https://www.instagram.com/p/Cm3SjZ6rXEW/?hl=en&img_index=1), Coalition of Armed Labor (COAL) and Armed Workers Front.
Jason says "I'm in regular social communication with just about every type of person you can imagine from MAGA Conservatives to Drag Queens and I get along with all of them."
Special Interview Recorded (11/20/2025) and Uploaded (11/27/2025)
In the middle of 2023 we spoke with Eliza Blum from General Strike US (find that interview here: https://soundcloud.com/socialistnewsandviews/snv-special-interview-general-strike-us)
In this special we speak with Laura Fredrickson-Gosewisch, who is a regenerative vegetable farmer, market vegetable grower, and manager of a Farmers Market on the West Side of St. Paul (https://westsidefarmersmarket.net). Fredrickson-Gosewisch is passionate about supporting farmers, is a member of the Farmers Union (https://mfu.org/), and does educational self-care events for farmers. Also Fredrickson-Gosewisch is involved with GROWS (https://www.wsco.org/grows) and in the leadership of Metro Food Justice Network (https://mfjn.org/). In this special we discuss a recent panel (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v4uwPVrW8mQ) that Fredrickson-Gosewisch participated in (as a member of General Strike MN), the idea of the General Strike, and a bit about self-care and balace in life.
You can look for and join or organize The General Strike in your area by starting from this list: https://generalstrikeus.com/chapters
Laura Fredrickson-Gosewisch also recommends everyone checking out this sustainable activism and self-care pamphlet from Amnesty International: https://www.amnesty.org.au/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/207-sustainable-activism-self-care.pdf
#generalstrikemn
Zohran Mamdani's Full Victory Speech, November 4th, 2025 (VIDEO/YOUTUBE): https://youtu.be/5cG4WD8uEwE?si=Ujw1KuGR7TETcyZ8
NEWS + THEORY OF REVOLUTION by Peter Maurin + AUDIO ESSAY - If Conservatives Are So Keen On Marriage, Why Are They So Bad At It? by Stephanie Cholensky.
(THUMBNAIL PHOTO: Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton and his wife Angela who are getting divorced)
NEWS:
RoseMarie Roberts LIVESTREAM (ICE/FBI/other Feds in St. Paul): https://www.facebook.com/share/v/1WfW1bBVn7/
Felony charges for local activist called ‘excessive’: https://spokesman-recorder.com/2025/10/10/isabella-lopez-federal-charges-minneapolis/
"Free the people, free the movement within ourselves… movement is migration" isavela_lopezz on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/p/DPiJk1qjU5u/
Twin Cities Labor Report 11/10 (MFE Tentative Agreement, New Contract at Toro plant, Allina Docs Strike): https://twincitieslaborreport.substack.com/p/twin-cities-labor-report-1110
Minneapolis teachers, school district discuss details of tentative agreement (KARE 11): https://youtube.com/shorts/coVeIUIcres?si=nKzOz-ueisH4CJjJ
Zohran Mamdani delivers victory speech: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9MfBp8xUR3Q
Justice Is Here Podcast (with special guest Dr. Cornel West): https://www.youtube.com/live/xcLgjFplM3s?si=eg60VNiRNXWg4E_K
Twin Cities Labor Report 11/17 (Starbucks workers begin strike, TA for Super One foods, unjust firing at MIA): https://twincitieslaborreport.substack.com/p/twin-cities-labor-report-1117
'No contracts, no coffee.' Starbucks workers kick off 65-store US strike on busy Red Cup Day: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/FFkSBaYX9ls
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EASY ESSAYS: THEORY OF REVOLUTION by Peter Maurin (in this link titled NOT A LIBERAL/NOT A CONSERVATIVE/and part of A RADICAL CHANGE): https://www.easyessays.org/when-christ-is-king/
Dorothy Day and Peter Maurin from "Time Without Measure" by The Chairman Dances: https://thechairmandances.bandcamp.com/track/dorothy-day-and-peter-maurin
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VIDEO of If Conservatives Are So Keen On Marriage, Why Are They So Bad At It? by Stephanie Cholensky: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ssADaVAxX2g
Special Report (11/13/2025)
In this special we start out speaking with Brian von Ahsen about a recent nightmare patient experience in the Hospital as a result of short staffing. Then we broaden our scope to look at a number of elements of US Capitalist Healthcare's decline.
Links to items covered in this special:
Hennepin Healthcare resident physicians file for union recognition (3/12/2025): https://minnesotareformer.com/2025/03/12/hennepin-healthcare-resident-physicians-file-for-union-election/
Staffing shortages at VA health systems: https://www.cbsnews.com/news/staffing-shortages-veterans-affairs-watchdog/
https://www.campussafetymagazine.com/news/va-medical-centers-face-staffing-crisis-as-shortages-surge-50/172836/
https://www.newsweek.com/va-medical-centers-severe-staffing-shortage-map-2114853
4 Nurses Say Hospital Forced Off-the-Clock Work and Unsafe Staffing, File Lawsuit (8/20/2025): https://nurse.org/news/nurses-sue-endeavor-health-wage-theft/
Minnesota hospitals, community clinics brace for impact of Medicaid cuts (9/25/2025): https://sahanjournal.com/health/minnesota-hospitals-clinics-brace-impact-medicaid-cuts/
Medicare staffing raises alarm with open enrollment underway: https://thehill.com/policy/healthcare/5577102-medicare-staffing-raises-alarm-with-open-enrollment-underway/
Private equity takeover of hospitals led to rise in Medicare emergency patient deaths, says study: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/oct/14/private-equity-hospitals-medicare-patient-deaths
5 Consequences of Private Equity’s Expansion in Health Care Services (10/30/2025): https://www.americanprogress.org/article/5-consequences-of-private-equitys-expansion-in-health-care-services/
All 50 states will vie for funds from $50 billion Rural Health Transformation Program (11/6/2025): https://minnesotareformer.com/briefs/all-50-states-will-vie-for-funds-from-50-billion-rural-health-transformation-program/
Allina providers strike across metro area clinics in historic first for Minnesota (11/5/2025): https://minnesotareformer.com/briefs/allina-providers-strike-across-metro-area-clinics-in-historic-first-for-minnesota/
Alberta hospital, nursing staff vote 98% in favor of striking ahead of mediation (11/5/2025): https://globalnews.ca/news/11512792/aupe-strike-vote-health-care-lpn/
Hospital Doctors and Health Workers Launch 48-Hour Strike Over Pay and Staffing Shortages (11/6/2025): https://greekcitytimes.com/2025/11/07/greek-hospital-doctors-strike/
Safe Nurse Staffing Saves Lives and Money Across the World: https://ldi.upenn.edu/our-work/research-updates/safe-nurse-staffing-saves-lives-and-money-across-the-world/
Causes and effects of hospital nursing shortages to consider potential feedback effects: an umbrella review (11/06/2025): https://human-resources-health.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s12960-025-01028-w
Flu cases in Japan exceed alert level, health ministry says: https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/11/07/japan/science-health/flu-cases-alert/
Healthcare Sees 224% Annual Increase in Attacks Targeting Mobile Devices: https://www.hipaajournal.com/healthcare-224-annual-increase-attacks-targeting-mobile-devices/
Every single GOP senator voted to make your health care more expensive: https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2025/11/11/2353239/-Every-single-GOP-senator-voted-to-make-your-health-care-more-expensive
Calls For Schumer to Step Down Grow as Democrats Cave on Healthcare & Help GOP Pass Funding Bill: https://www.democracynow.org/2025/11/11/shutdown
RESIGN CHUCK SCHUMER: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/-T0bFFhWOJ0
Chuck Schumer’s Family Is Getting Nice Work on Wall Street: https://jacobin.com/2022/08/chuck-schumer-family-son-in-law-blackstone-tech-finance-lobby
A discussion and debate with community members and organizers in the Midwest on guns and gun control in America.
(NOTE: A video version of this debate is available from Urban Cabin Studios on YouTube: https://youtu.be/9xJj7OfugSM?si=IBezFhZ71aQZh71H )
David Boehnke: An organizer and visionary, works with people in the prison system to transform the prison system, a High School Teacher and educator for 13 years who has been involved in various organizing spaces in Minneapolis.
Tracy Carson: Based in Indianapolis, IN in January she will be the State Chair for the Justice for All Party in Indiana. She is also currently focused on trying to get a group together to "Stop Braun" and remove the current governor of Indiana, Mike Braun.
Sam Collins: A midwife serving a 75 mile radius of the Twin Cities. A mother, raised in a house without guns as a child and currently lives in a house with guns as an adult.
Penelope Mace: No longer "working for money" now lives in Winona MN. Mace is a red diaper baby who was raised by "old commies" and has worked on many campaigns over the years including the Prisoners Solidarity Committee (which arose after the Attica Uprising.) She is trying to find other progressive people in Winona.
Special Interview Recorded (10/25/2025) and Uploaded (10/30/2025)
(NOTE: A video of this interview is available from Urban Cabin Studios on YouTube: https://youtu.be/0mm_dfnbQe4?si=WKcvoYt5XODv2ODc)
In this Special Interview we speak with Dan Engelhart (https://danengelhart.org/) who is running for Park Board District 1 in Minneapolis. Engelhart is a Labor and Community Organizer who has been a long time Business Agent in Minnesota Association of Professional Employees (MAPE) and has the endorsement of that union among many other political and labor endorsements.
#minneapoliselection #parkboard #minneapolisparks
Special Interview Recorded (9/30/2025) and Uploaded (10/23/2025)(NOTE: You can watch a video of this interview on YouTube from Urban Cabin Studios here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X3tunnaYG1o )In this special we speak with Kamana'okekai Lattig (She/He) who identifies as Māhū (native Hawai'ian gender identity) and is Kānaka Maoli ( which means “real people" and refers to people indigenous to Hawaiʻi.) Lattig is a PhD student at the University of Minnesota - Twin Cities.In this special we discuss an article that he wrote titled NA KEIKI PA LUA O KA HONUA: NAVIGATING DIASPORIC HAWAIIAN IDENTITY UNDER THE GAZE OF 21ST CENTURY TOURISM in which she conducted research on Hula (Traditional Hawaiian dance) and connections between Kānaka Maoli in the diaspora and on the islands and their connection to traditional identity.If you would be interested in reading the article please reach out to us on Social Media and we can share it with you.#kanakamaoli
(NOTE: You can watch a version of this as a video on the YouTube for Urban Cabin Studios, which includes some images and video of settler violence: https://youtu.be/BxxAnWZ0kWk?si=boqv728mT56QMRVR)
In this Interview we speak with Yolanda Roth.
Yolanda Roth is a Social Justice Activist, Singer, Songwriter and General Lover of Humanity. Originally from Wisconsin Roth has lived in the Twin Cities since 2008. Roth recently went to Israel to work with a Jewish NGO, Tazak Tzedeck and Rabbi Arik (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arik_Ascherman), as a protective presence activist in the Occupied West Bank.
NEWS + MUSIC + ASSATA SHAKUR SPEAKS (letter read by Shakur from 1998 on Pacifica Radio).
NEWS:
Wall Street’s Bid For Your Power (10/3/2025): https://www.levernews.com/wall-streets-bid-for-your-power/
Report From The Occupied West Bank: Interview For Socialist News And Views (URBAN CABIN STUDIOS YOUTUBE): https://youtu.be/BxxAnWZ0kWk?si=zRF9bdK_kpKwCyPv
Amid ceasefire, Minnesota Palestinians express hope and skepticism as families return to Gaza City (10/11/2025): https://sahanjournal.com/democracy-politics/minnesota-palestinians-allies-gaza-ceasefire/
12,000 acres of forest and wetlands in northeast Minnesota now public after land purchase (10/14/2025): https://www.mprnews.org/story/2025/10/14/public-forests-and-wetlands-increase-in-northeast-minnesota-after-land-purchase
Chicagoans mobilize to demand an end to the federal occupation (10/9/2025): https://fightbacknews.org/articles/chicagoans-mobilize-to-demand-an-end-to-the-federal-occupation
Chicago: ICE Raids Meet Mass Resistance (10/14/2025): https://www.internationaliststandpoint.org/chicago-ice-raids-meet-mass-resistance/
Morocco: The Gen Z 212 Uprising (10/13/2025): https://crimethinc.com/2025/10/13/morocco-the-gen-z-212-uprising-an-interview
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MUSIC: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OiVSTiPZWKs
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ASSATA SHAKUR SPEAKS:
Assata Shakur (in her own words) - Pacifica Radio: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UcLILLWef3E
An Open Letter From Assata Shakur written from Havana Cuba on October 5th 2013: https://hoodcommunist.org/2024/03/07/an-open-letter-from-assata-shakur/
Special Interview Recorded (10/07/2025) and Uploaded (10/09/2025)
In this special we speak with Jeff Roy and Arlys Herem from Veterans For Peace (https://www.veteransforpeace.org/) and their Save Our VA (https://www.veteransforpeace.org/take-action/stop-privatization-veterans-health-administration) campaign. We discuss the current situation with Veterans Healthcare and the Healthcare at the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA).
Herem also recommends folks check out The Veterans Healthcare Policy Intitute: https://www.veteranspolicy.org/
LINKS to other items mentioned in this interview:
VA Retaliates Against AFGE and Other Unions By Terminating Workers’ Contract: https://www.afge.org/article/va-retaliates-against-afge-and-other-unions-by-terminating-workers-contract/
VHPI Special Reports: https://www.veteranspolicy.org/special-reports
US veterans’ final message from the Global Sumud Flotilla before being intercepted by Israel: https://therealnews.com/us-veterans-from-global-sumud-flotilla-israel-intercepted
32% of Mass Shooters Are Veterans. 0% of Media Outlets Will Say So: https://davidswanson.org/32-of-mass-shooters-are-veterans-0-of-media-outlets-will-say-so/
#veteransforpeace #saveourva #veteranshealthcare
Special Interview Recorded (9/25/2025) and Uploaded Here (10/2/2025)
(NOTE: You can watch a video version of this interview on the YouTube for Urban Cabin Studios here: https://youtu.be/AOCYmGkckgg?si=hf4uGFCU7Aty0U2H)
In this Special Interview we speak with Anthony DePice (https://www.instagram.com/j.anthony.depice/), originally from Philly who now works with 𝙒𝙖𝙧𝙚𝙝𝙤𝙪𝙨𝙚 𝙒𝙤𝙧𝙠𝙚𝙧 𝙍𝙚𝙨𝙤𝙪𝙧𝙘𝙚 𝘾𝙚𝙣𝙩𝙚𝙧 in Southern California. We also speak with Activist and Abolitionist, Lavish (https://www.tiktok.com/@lavishmack / https://www.instagram.com/lavishmack/) who grew up in Minneapolis "a couple blocks from where George Floyd was taken from the world."
You can hear a longer version of Lavish's story about his detention and questioning here: https://www.instagram.com/p/DMDpZaas8Ow/
#collectiveliberation #humanrights #freepalestine
Special Interview Recorded (9/11/2025) and Uploaded (9/25/25).
In this special we speak with the local author Elaine Klaassen about her book La Penultima: With A Rose In Its Eye (https://www.amazon.com/PENULTIMA-ROSE-ITS-EYE/dp/B0D92NTR9C). She has also written for the local newspaper SouthSide Pride (https://southsidepride.com/columnists/elaine-klaassen/) for many years. The author wished for the following words about socialism from Ricardo Levins Morales and Ed Felien to also be shared:
I felt like Ricardo and Ed sounded very similar in their views about socialism.
In my article about RLM (https://southsidepride.com/2025/09/03/the-land-knows-the-way-eco-social-insights-for-liberation/), here's the paragraph:
The words socialism and capitalism, often hot-button words, appear sparingly. In our interview he said that by socialism he means, “what’s good for people—every species needs safety, and real safety means safety for everyone, that is, equality … Socialism can encompass a range of social and economic arrangements. When a socialist system hurts people and the environment, it is betraying its mission.”
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Ed wrote these two paragraphs in his second article about the DFL convention, "State DFL declares war on Minneapolis." (https://southsidepride.com/2025/09/03/state-dfl-declares-war-on-minneapolis/):
"Frey’s people want you to believe socialists are somehow scary and different.
Socialists want a world based on love for your neighbor and hope for your community. Paul Wellstone used to say, “We all do better when we all do better.” And that means taking care of the least of us first. We must care for the homeless and the hungry because they are our brothers and our sisters.
Somehow, at some point, believing in loving thy neighbor as thyself became un-American. And, somehow, the people who fight mightily for the rich and powerful came to call themselves Christians."
In this Extra we hear the voice of Journalist Pranaya Rana from Nepal who has reported on recent Gen Z protests at Kalam Weekly (https://kalamweekly.substack.com/?utm_source=global-search).
You can watch a video version of this interview on the YouTube of Urban Cabin Studios: https://youtu.be/wk9kJnQx_gg?si=FlBQAgziYg2xxwHA
NEWS + MUSIC + PERSPECTIVES on Social Movements from listeners.
NEWS:
State DFL declares war on Minneapolis: https://southsidepride.com/2025/09/03/state-dfl-declares-war-on-minneapolis/
Educators RALLY AT DAVIS for Smaller Class Sizes and Safe Staffing! 9/9/2025 (FROM URBAN CABIN STUDIOS): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gPoiEgDuHGE
Teamster Strike Victory at the University of Minnesota: https://www.tdu.org/teamster_strike_victory_at_the_university_of_minnesota
Trump Reveals 'Major Investigation' After Kirk Death: https://www.newsweek.com/trump-reveals-major-investigation-after-kirk-death-2129947
Report those who celebrate Charlie Kirk death to employers, Vance says: https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cn0r5y33pj5o
Socialist News And Views Interview: Nepal - Two Days In September (FULL VIDEO): https://youtu.be/wk9kJnQx_gg?si=dSztUtQqr7k1W7lR
A primer for what is happening in Nepal: https://kalamweekly.substack.com/p/a-primer-for-what-is-happening-in
Gaza Doctor Pleads with World to Stop Israel's Genocide: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GqCQLpX8X5k
Protesters gather outside Broadview ICE facility amid Midway Blitz crackdown: https://abc7chicago.com/post/ice-operation-midway-blitz-protesters-gather-outside-broadview-facility-amid-trumps-chicago-immigration-crackdown/17799687/
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MUSIC: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MPtCU3mgs3I
The only recording... (https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/the-only-recording-of-woody-guthrie-singing-the-protest-song-deportee-has-been-released-for-the-first-time-180987084/)
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PERSPECTIVES on Social Movements from listeners. If you have additional thoughts. Reach us on social media.
Special Interview Recorded (9/9/2025) and Uploaded (9/11/2025)
(ILLUSTRATION: from Laws of Social Reproduction Twitter of the European Research Council.)
(NOTE: You can watch a video version of this interview on the Urban Cabin Studios YouTube here: https://youtu.be/nWMA2Te1kU4?si=15aowHByYVrqw7rx)
In this Special Interview we speak with James Radek, Revolutionary Socialist, Anti-Police and Ant-Fascist Activist and Founder of Firebrand Communists (https://firebrand.red/) and Denver Communists (https://denvercommunists.org/).
In this special we discuss an article that Radek wrote titled
Why Marxists Need to Understand Social Reproduction Theory: https://firebrand.red/2025/08/why-marxists-need-to-understand-social-reproduction-theory/
We also talk a bit about Inessa Armand: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inessa_Armand
Firebrand also has an upcoming Study Group on The Meaning of Marxism by Paul D’Amato starting Sept 15th which is open to the public. That means you! You can find out more here: https://www.facebook.com/firebrandcommies/posts/pfbid0nwvGNW3fCqn8hSCEK5HeyVHmTWb7JcdYra8VshR3NWk1eeyEjDnRCce8xh8se3AUl
Special Report Recorded (9/2/2025) and Uploaded (9/4/2025)
(PHOTO: Minnesota Historical Society (MNHS) Workers informational picket in St. Paul Winter 2022)
****(NOTE - IMPORTANT UPCOMING LABOR EVENT - RALLY AT DAVIS: Prioritize Lower Class Sizes and Safe Staffing! www.facebook.com/events/1114084400824142)
(****BONUS EVENT: Join Educators and their supporters at open bargaining session on Thursday, September 11th from 5-8pm at the MFE59 office (67 8th Avenue NE, MPLS). They will be heading into mediation soon and would love to see you all in-person.)
In this special we speak with Paul who is a labor activist and a member of the Executive Board of UFCW local 663 (https://www.ufcw663.org/). He also writes the Twin Cities Labor Report (https://twincitieslaborreport.substack.com/) on Substack.
During this interview we primarily discuss some of the recent wins and upcoming struggles in the Minneapolis Labor movement as well as touching briefly on national and international labor campaigns.