Posts in The Cost of Capitalism
DEVRA L. DAVIS on 5G and the Cause for Concern /229

Dr. Davis explains why there is so much conflicting evidence when it comes to EMF and RF exposure, possible explanations for why colorectal cancer is increasing amongst young people, how electromagnetic radiation impacts migratory species, and what tree crowns are telling us about radio frequency radiation.

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Dr. CHANDA PRESCOD-WEINSTEIN on the Night Sky and Liberation Discourse /228

Dr. Prescod-Weinstein challenges us to not fixate on our fear of a perishing night sky, but instead, look at how the night sky can be a part of liberation discourse. Recognizing this value, Dr. Prescod-Weinstein outlines the right to the night sky and what comprehensive accessibility to know and love the night sky means.

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CAROLINA RUBIO MACWRIGHT on the Intersections of Immigration, Assimilation, and Earth Based Wisdom /226

We speak with artist, immigration lawyer, and activist Carolina Rubio MacWright on the ongoing travesty of family separations, the inherent trauma of U.S. detention centers, and how we can begin revamping our laws, values, policies, and systems when it comes to migration.

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Dr. CUTCHA RISLING BALDY on Land Return and Revitalization /219

Cutcha shares how she has witnessed the impossible become possible, the long term effects of the California Gold Rush, the future-making power of Indigenous feminism, and the inherent anti-apocalyptic nature of cultural revitalization.

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Dr. VANDANA SHIVA on Becoming Untameable /212

Dr. Vandana Shiva joins us to discuss how we are being set up to become accessories to the digital world and how we can reclaim our intellectual freedom and sovereignty from the hands of digital dictatorship– a powerful reminder that we are meant to live beautiful lives as sovereign beings, not as digital appendages.

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HARSHA WALIA on Dismantling Imagined, Militarized, and Colonial Borders /211

Harsha shares why it is imperative to rid the concept of legal/illegal personhood in movements for the climate and environment. Harsha leads us in the deeply regenerative work of political imagination as we think about what our communities and livelihoods look like without imposed borders.

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Dr. SAMUEL RAMSEY on Bee Population in Peril /210

Dr. Ramsey gives us an in-depth explanation as to what parasitic mites like Varroa destructor and Tropilaelaps mean for bee health, how climate change impacts the nutritional quality of pollen, and how human design and development has strengthened and spread parasitic mites to the disadvantage of bees globally.

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SII-AM HAMILTON on Respect-Based Futures /209

In this powerful conversation with land defender Sii-am Hamilton, we are invited to discuss futuristic ways forward in recognition that Indigenous communities have been practicing creative resistance against colonialism and capitalism for hundreds of years.

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CORRINA GOULD on Settler Responsibility and Reciprocity /208

Corrina reminds us that Ohlone territory still holds tremendous abundance and that the land can sustain us in a way that would provide for our wellbeing should we choose to really re-examine what it is we need to survive. We explore responsibility and reciprocity on stolen homelands by asking what it means to be in right relationship.

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ASTRA TAYLOR on Voting, Democracy, and People Power /206

In conversation with Astra, we explore the messy and difficult endeavor that is democracy, why voter suppression has become so rampant, the anti-democratic nature of debt, and how we can create more democratic spaces in our everyday lives.

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Dr. HELEN CALDICOTT on Nuclear Narcissism /203

Caldicott draws our attention to the realities of nuclear power reactors, proliferation and weapons, as well as the ways in which nuclearism has already wrought an unimaginable amount of havoc and trauma on our environment, culture and bodies.

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REBECCA BURGESS on Soil to Soil Fiber Systems /200

Rebecca begs the question; if much of our clothing originates from the soil, why don’t we interrogate the fashion industry the way we do the agricultural industry? In order to answer this question, we begin by exploring the rise of industrialized fashion and its global impact – when did we start to rampantly consume clothing?

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Dr. KATE STAFFORD on What the Whales Hear /198

Dr. Stafford has spent years listening to the sounds of climate change in the Arctic and learning how anthropogenic sounds, like ship propellers and oil and gas exploration, are changing marine mammals’ capacity to communicate.

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GINA RAE LA CERVA on Wild Foods and Our Web of Relations /197

Gina shares how colonization eradicated many wild foods, the status of wild foods in the global market, and how “feasting wild” not only awakens a central part of our being, but it is also an opportunity for foragers to leade the way in ecological restoration and conservation.

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FAITH GEMMILL & PRINCESS LUCAJ on an Arctic Untouched by Oil [ENCORE] /196

Join Faith Gemmill & Princess Lucaj in conversation around the fight to protect the life giving grounds of the Alaska’s Arctic National Wildlife Refuge that has been going on for decades and will continue to do so as the first leases to drill for oil and gas could be sold by the end of 2020.

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JACKIE WANG on Carceral Capitalism /189

Explore the pervasiveness of debt, our temporal and spatial understandings of prisons, and the technological dimensions of surveillance and incarceration. We ask how we can resist the accession of predictive policing and what can digital carceral infrastructure reveal about the state’s growing surveillance apparatus?

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MARIAME KABA on Moving Past Punishment [ENCORE] /187

Mariame joins us for an expansive conversation on Transformative Justice, community accountability, criminalization of survivors, and freedom on the horizon.

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TRICIA HERSEY on Rest as Resistance /185

With a historical analysis of slavery and plantation labor, Tricia’s work prompts us to consider what is stolen from those among us who cannot rest under capitalism, laying the groundwork for deep inquiry into the emergent possibilities of “DreamSpace.”

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CRAIG SANTOS PEREZ on Habitat Threshold /183

We discuss parenting and caring in the Anthropocene, the connection between tourism and militarism, Guåhan’s layered history and his most recent book of eco-poetry Habitat Threshold, which intimately explores ancestry, ecological collapse and the ongoing legacy of capitalism, imperialism and colonization.

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TEJU ADISA-FARRAR on Remapping Our World /177

Teju discusses how gentrification originates through the calculated and supremacist devaluation of place, its environmental impacts, and urbanization and urban futures in response to climate and economic migration and changes.

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