Reflections on Occupy Wall Street w/ Marina Sitrin & Vanessa Zettler

We discussed the legacy and experiences of Occupy Wall Street with two movement participants Marina Sitrin and Vanessa Zettler, contributors to the recent title Pandemic Solidarity: Mutual Aid during the Covid-19 Crisis published by Pluto Press.

Our conversation touched on the ways to recover the real history of OWS and overcome "historical forgetting," the mechanics of OWS through forms of direct democracy such as assemblies and working groups, and the lessons learned from this movement including the need to better anticipate "the fist of the state."

In The Red Records, an independent music label based in Los Angeles, has provided Laborwave permission to use music from their artists on the show! This episode featured the following In The Red artists:

Tyvek- Real Estate and Finance, off their 2016 album "Origin of What"

Osees-Don't Blow Your Experiment, from their upcoming album "Panther Rotate" from Castle Face Records.

Links:

Pandemic Solidarity: Mutual Aid During Covid-19 Crisis published by Pluto Press

https://www.plutobooks.com/9780745343167/pandemic-solidarity/

They Can't Represent Us! Reinventing Democracy from Greece to Occupy published by Verso Books

https://www.versobooks.com/books/1433-they-can-t-represent-us

Highlights from Three Years of Laborwave

Laborwave Radio is celebrating it's three-year anniversary! In three years we've produced 50 episodes and had nearly as many guests, and we've reached more than 17,500 listeners!

To celebrate this milestone we've put together this highlight reel from our latest year featuring Jarrod Shanahan, Asad Haider, Boots Riley, Raj Patel, Holly Lewis, Micah Uetricht, Gianpaolo Baiocchi, Sarah Jaffe, Natasha Lennard, Liza Featherstone, Bill Fletcher Jr, Andrea Haverkamp, Shannon Ikebe & Tara Phillips, Nick Driedger, and Olúfẹ́mi Táíwò.

We also take a moment to reflect on our history and give a shoutout to all our patreon members! Lots of credit needs to be given to our frequent guest host Andrea Haverkamp for all her work dreaming up this podcast and helping sustain it, thank you comrade for your all-around friendship and radical spirit that gives me hope!

Thank you Rank-and-Filers, Committee Members, and Strike Captains that make up our patreon community! You help keep Laborwave running, and we greatly appreciate your contributions. Our patreon community includes: Nicholas Fisher, Jason Sarkozi-Forsinski, Caroline Hunter (my mom!), Tony Vogt, Michael Marchmann, Dawson Hughes, Molly Harney, Hazel Daniels, David DeHart, Shane Scopatz, Meera Petroff, Lucas Carpenter, Erica Mercier, Sam Drake, and Nicholas Driedger.

Also thanks to Jon Dwyer of Thee Oh Sees and Damaged Bug for allowing us to use his music on our show, and final gratitude goes to our resident artist, my wonderfully talented and lovely wife Kerry Hill for all the artwork that goes into our stickers, zines, and t-shirts!

Waste After The Revolution w/ Andrea Haverkamp

Laborwave Radio and Opening Space for the Radical Imagination present a podcast mini-series, After The Revolution. ​

After the Revolution is inspired by the desire to offer more than a diagnosis of what is wrong with today by focusing on what we might be able to bring about instead. Each episode within this series will begin by highlighting the importance of considering one particular feature of society, then imagining what it might look like after the revolution, and finally offering some ideas on how we get to this revolutionary society.

Our third episode is Waste After the Revolution featuring Andrea Haverkamp, president of the Coalition of Graduate Employees labor union, a Phd candidate in Environmental Engineering at Oregon State University, and frequent guest host on Laborwave Radio.

"We will, after the revolution, use our current landfills as the new goldmines. We put so much plastic and metals in landfills that will not go away for thousands of years and we can get them back out. We will no longer have our lives dominated by single use items. The rulers are beholden to the cups. The cups are actually not beholden to them. Under consumer capitalism we've created this runaway train and there's no single figure head that we can shut down like we can shut down a factory that will have the effect that we need."