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Sociologist Ruth Milkman on the dynamics of immigration law and low-wage work, and her new book "Immigrant Labor and the New Precariat" for Polity Books. https://www.wiley.com/en-us/Immigrant+Labor+and+the+New+Precariat-p-9780745692012

Organizer Mariame Kaba on state violence, the possibilities of police and prison abolition, and her book "We Do This 'Til We Free Us: Abolitionist Organizing and Transforming Justice" from Haymarket Books. https://www.haymarketbooks.org/books/1664-we-do-this-til-we-free-us

Writer Ray Levy Uyeda on her article "A Bleak Future for Water" for The Baffler, and in a Moment of Truth, Jeff Dorchen hears the quiet part loud. https://thebaffler.com/latest/a-bleak-future-for-water-levy-uyeda

Journalist Nick Bowlin on public land management under the Trump administration, and his article "The Land Was Ours" for The Drift. https://www.thedriftmag.com/public-lands/

Historian Raquel Varela on a century of capital, worker struggle and left movements across Europe, and her book "A People's History of Europe From World War I to Today" from Pluto Press. https://www.plutobooks.com/9780745341347/a-peoples-history-of-europe/

Ohio River Valley Institute's Sean O'Leary on the economic impact of natural gas extraction across Pennsylvania, West Virginia and Ohio, and his report “Appalachia’s Natural Gas Counties: Contributing more to the U.S. economy and getting less in return” https://ohiorivervalleyinstitute.org/new-report-natural-gas-county-economies-suffered-as-production-boomed

Two conversations with American Indian Movement leader Vernon Bellecourt from the archives. Really love these interviews. Chuck is laid up with back problems, please send prayers and/or muscle relaxers.

Writer Erald Kolasi on his article "The Ecological State" for Monthly Review and in a Moment of Truth, Jeff Dorchen celebrates Fat History Month.

Cira Pascual Marquina and Chris Gilbert on the dynamics of Venezuelan society, struggles on the communal path towards socialism and their book "Venezuela, the Present as Struggle: Voices from the Bolivarian Revolution" via Monthly Review. https://monthlyreview.org/product/venezuela_the_present_as_struggle/

Historian Sabelo J. Ndlovu-Gatsheni on colonialism's legacy of dehumanization, the exclusionary nation-state and his article "Black Citizenship and the Problem of 'Coloniality'" for Black Agenda Report's Black Citizenship Forum. https://blackagendareport.com/black-citizenship-forum-black-citizenship-and-problem-coloniality

Journalists Alleen Brown and Akela Lacy on their report "State Legislatures Make “Unprecedented” Push on Anti-Protest Bills" for The Intercept, and in a Moment of Truth, Jeff Dorchen empathizes with savages and samurai.

Historian Elizabeth Catte on Virginia's forced sterilization campaign in the mid-20th century, the intersection of race, medicine and social control, and her book "Pure America: Eugenics and the Making of Modern Virginia" from Belt Publishing. https://beltpublishing.com/products/pure-america

Writer Keller Easterling on new ways of seeing the world and its possibilities, and her book "Medium Design: Knowing How to Work on the World" from Verso Books. https://www.versobooks.com/books/3245-medium-design

Cultural theorist Lynn Parramore on the deep social effects of economic precarity, and her article "Epidemic of Despair Could Haunt America Long After COVID" at the Institute for New Economic Thinking. https://www.ineteconomics.org/perspectives/blog/epidemic-of-despair-could-haunt-america-long-after-covid

Write Elliot Sperber on his essay "Four crises, one crisis (or the health of the people)" for Monthly Review, and in a Moment of Truth, Jeff Dorchen sees the up side of the down side of success. https://mronline.org/2021/01/26/four-crises-one-crisis-or-the-health-of-the-people/

Peter Bloom and Carl Rhodes on their article "Beware Corporate ‘Democracy Washing’: Twitter, Trump, and the Danger of Privatizing the Fight Against Fascism" for Common Dreams. https://www.commondreams.org/views/2021/01/23/beware-corporate-democracy-washing-twitter-trump-and-danger-privatizing-fight

Julian Brave NoiseCat on his article "Apocalypse Then and Now" for Columbia Journalism Review, and in a Moment of Truth, Jeff Dorchen watches the detectives. https://www.cjr.org/special_report/apocalypse-then-and-now.php

Journalist Anna Clark on her article "The Unfinished Business of Flint's Water Crisis" for ProPublica. https://www.propublica.org/article/the-unfinished-business-of-flints-water-crisis

Journalist Brian Mier on his documentary "Dismantling Brazil: Bolsonaro's Neoliberal Agenda" via redfish. https://youtu.be/_ToGVJ3Zk2I

Attorneys Flint Taylor and Jeff Haas on their report "New Documents Suggest J. Edgar Hoover Was Involved in Fred Hampton’s Murder" for Truthout. https://truthout.org/articles/new-documents-suggest-j-edgar-hoover-was-involved-in-fred-hamptons-murder/