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China has shifted its sourcing of key commodities like propane, crude oil, liquefied natural gas (LNG), and coal from U.S. suppliers to alternative sources such as Brazil, Russia, Iran, and the Middle East. This shift has led to significant price collapses and revenue losses for American exporters, with U.S. exports to China in these areas dropping to near zero by mid-2025. The analysis highlights that China's diversification and the rise of the BRICS trading bloc have reduced its dependency on Western systems, challenging previous assumptions about China's reliance on U.S. supplies. 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The speaker introduces the subject by stating 'here we are, one of the elephants,' indicating a direct encounter or viewing. The core of the content emphasizes the notable feature of elephants having 'really, really, really long trunks,' which is described as 'cool.' 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Be good.", - "confidence": -0.21658969647956616 - }, - { - "start_time": 368.64000000000004, - "end_time": 370.2, - "text": "Do you want others?", - "confidence": -0.8290854744289232 - }, - { - "start_time": 370.66, - "end_time": 372.82, - "text": "Do you want others to be in the picture?", - "confidence": -0.8290854744289232 - }, - { - "start_time": 376.42, - "end_time": 379.08, - "text": "Storm up yourself, treasure your heaven.", - "confidence": -0.8290854744289232 - }, - { - "start_time": 380.90000000000003, - "end_time": 382.22, - "text": "But where are your treasures?", - "confidence": -0.8290854744289232 - }, - { - "start_time": 383.14, - "end_time": 383.88, - "text": "There are where you are.", - "confidence": -0.8290854744289232 - } -] \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/video_storage/transcripts/DCquejfz04A.txt b/video_storage/transcripts/DCquejfz04A.txt deleted file mode 100644 index cf06602..0000000 --- a/video_storage/transcripts/DCquejfz04A.txt +++ /dev/null @@ -1,50 +0,0 @@ -[1.5s - 8.3s] Good morning. China has decoupled from the United States for agricultural products, which -[8.3s - 15.3s] is herding American farmers who were dependent on exports to China, but who is now well supplied -[15.3s - 22.5s] by Brazil and Russia. We're seeing the same decoupling in energy, and China has developed -[22.5s - 29.1s] new sources of supply from Russia and Iran. That's what we believe anyway. This is from -[29.1s - 36.4s] April. Propane is liquefied petroleum gas, and China used to be one of the biggest buyers of -[36.4s - 46.7s] U.S. propane after Japan. Suddenly, China stopped buying it, and the price collapsed by over 30% -[46.7s - 55.1s] in a single month. This had been an important export for American energy producers, especially in -[55.4s - 62.8s] the tailpatch. And China was a huge buyer of propane and other LPG, especially for its plastics -[62.8s - 73.5s] industry. The bilateral trade in LPG was running about $1 billion a month, and 60% of China's LPG -[73.5s - 81.0s] was U.S. sourced. But then the tariffs came from both sides. At the time, the retaliatory tariffs -[81.0s - 89.4s] on U.S. exports to China were 125%. Those did not last long, but it was long enough. -[90.1s - 95.6s] Chinese buyers rushed to find other sources, and they found them. They found other suppliers -[95.6s - 105.6s] elsewhere. Chinese plants stood to lose $770 a ton on American propane, but by switching to -[105.6s - 112.2s] Middle East suppliers, they could stay in business. So much of the trade today between China and its -[112.2s - 119.4s] trading partners is outside Western systems. And so we can only guess how China's demand is being -[119.4s - 127.2s] met and by whom and at what prices. We do know that the U.S. was China's biggest supplier of propane, -[127.8s - 134.8s] then suddenly China wasn't buying any at all. We can safely assume that Iran stepped up, -[134.8s - 142.0s] because the April-May period earlier this year saw liquefied propane as Tehran's largest -[142.0s - 150.2s] non-oil export. American policymakers also assume that and have taken massive action -[150.2s - 158.7s] against Iranian sales of LPG after the collapse in U.S. exports. The goal of those efforts is to -[158.7s - 162.7s] exert pressure on a sector involved in significant exports to China. -[164.4s - 171.2s] These are the press releases from state and treasury, but analysts are skeptical the shippers -[171.2s - 178.4s] can even be sanctioned at all, let alone that the new trade routes from Iran to China will be disrupted. -[180.2s - 187.2s] That's propane and other LPG, liquefied petroleum gas. Now bad news is hitting -[187.2s - 195.5s] other energy market sectors. Crude oil, liquefied natural gas, and coal exports from the United -[195.5s - 203.5s] States to China went basically to zero in June. China's tariffs on these products were lower -[203.5s - 210.7s] than for LPG, just 10 to 15 percent, but those were high enough to push Chinese buyers to source -[210.7s - 219.2s] from elsewhere. China is the world's biggest buyer of crude oil, and in June 2024 China bought -[219.2s - 229.9s] $800 million of crude from U.S. suppliers. In June 2025 that number is zero. Last month U.S. sales -[229.9s - 237.2s] to China for gas was zero for the fourth month in a row. In June of last year China bought -[237.2s - 246.4s] $90 million worth of U.S. coal. Now it's next to nothing there. China has diversified its commodities -[246.4s - 253.7s] imports. Russia and Saudi are big players for crude, and Russia again for natural gas. -[255.3s - 261.4s] The trade wars have done a lot of damage in a short time to American farms and our -[261.4s - 269.7s] exporters of soybeans and corn. Now the same is happening in energy, a decoupling of American -[269.7s - 277.5s] suppliers from Chinese demand. We assumed very wrongly that because China had always bought -[277.5s - 284.6s] our soybeans and our energy that they always would. This chart is almost impossible to believe. -[285.8s - 293.1s] October 2024 wasn't that long ago, and we probably assumed that China was dependent on us -[293.1s - 302.6s] for their supplies of coal, crude, and LNG. We thought they needed our LPG, or their plastics -[302.6s - 310.1s] industry would go out of business. So our political leadership needs a new perspective and fast on -[310.1s - 316.9s] this BRICS trading block. These are natural resource economies and their producer economies. -[317.5s - 323.8s] Taken together, the countries on this map pull easily enough energy out of the ground to keep -[323.8s - 329.9s] their lights on and their cars moving. They easily grow enough food to keep everyone fed. -[331.2s - 336.7s] China is the world's biggest manufacturer by far, and the BRICS countries pull enough -[336.7s - 341.0s] ores and metals out of the ground to send to China who can build everything they need. -[344.1s - 347.0s] This is Shaoxing. Be good. -[368.6s - 370.2s] Do you want others? -[370.7s - 372.8s] Do you want others to be in the picture? -[376.4s - 379.1s] Storm up yourself, treasure your heaven. -[380.9s - 382.2s] But where are your treasures? -[383.1s - 383.9s] There are where you are. \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/video_storage/transcripts/QFA7urzNwt8.json b/video_storage/transcripts/QFA7urzNwt8.json deleted file mode 100644 index 9b1ac39..0000000 --- a/video_storage/transcripts/QFA7urzNwt8.json +++ /dev/null @@ -1,4928 +0,0 @@ -[ - { - "start_time": 25.8, - "end_time": 27.2, - "text": "You", - "confidence": -0.7895227074623108 - }, - { - "start_time": 46.08, - "end_time": 47.48, - "text": "You", - "confidence": -0.9484637975692749 - }, - { - "start_time": 88.58, - "end_time": 89.98, - "text": "You", - "confidence": -1.8141307830810547 - }, - { - "start_time": 89.98, - "end_time": 96.78, - "text": "enemy doing that thing I want to but I can't because I'm on camera now how y'all doing greetings", - "confidence": -0.21825617009943182 - 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"text": "um you know I want to just to just lay out off the top like this is premise on a notion that", - "confidence": -0.11700514279879057 - }, - { - "start_time": 524.86, - "end_time": 530.84, - "text": "concretely y'all we don't have much time to enact a radical transformation that we need", - "confidence": -0.11700514279879057 - }, - { - "start_time": 530.84, - "end_time": 540.08, - "text": "on this planet right the the capitalist system is killing this planet and killing it rapidly", - "confidence": -0.11700514279879057 - }, - { - "start_time": 540.88, - "end_time": 547.56, - "text": "and so we are going to have to get rid of it before it gets rid of us so I want to state that", - "confidence": -0.061116481095217584 - }, - { - "start_time": 547.56, - "end_time": 554.84, - "text": "very clearly now that's in some respects many respects most respects easier said than done", - "confidence": -0.061116481095217584 - }, - { - "start_time": 555.36, - "end_time": 561.54, - "text": "but one of the critical shortcomings is that it's you know most people have gotten to the point", - 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And what we're arguing for is that if we take what millions of people are already doing and the engagement of certain key solidarity practices that we can create our own, you know, kind of value change that", - "confidence": -0.08184145375301963 - }, - { - "start_time": 1947.92, - "end_time": 1964.92, - "text": "we can then up in this and move us towards production towards values in our communities, and that we would argue we have enough critical mass already that we could be major catalyst for this for the development of", - "confidence": -0.185630278153853 - }, - { - "start_time": 1995.36, - "end_time": 2006.4, - "text": "the economy. With all the excess production of just food alone that there should be any human being on this planet who goes hungry shouldn't be not one, not one, not one.", - "confidence": -0.2036746597290039 - }, - { - "start_time": 2006.58, - "end_time": 2015.22, - "text": "That is a problem. Not only of distribution to some people will leave it at that that's that's one dimension of the problem as it presently exists.", - "confidence": -0.2036746597290039 - }, - { - "start_time": 2015.22, - "end_time": 2030.78, - "text": "But ultimately we have to figure out how to socialize the means of production and put all of us in a democratic practice of being able to access common goods, so that we can meet our common needs from the collective pool of what humanity has produced.", - "confidence": -0.10263963981910988 - }, - { - "start_time": 2030.78, - "end_time": 2047.22, - "text": "And the solidarity practice of the solidarity economy are the anchors to that that is the argument and then what we present as the formula are steps, a set of steps, you know what we call the kind of the practice of position in the practices of maneuver.", - "confidence": -0.22245093754359654 - }, - { - "start_time": 2047.22, - "end_time": 2060.98, - "text": "And the first part will go through the practices of position and that's taken from Gromshee very intentionally and deliberately so folks Antonio Gromshee present notebooks for those who've never read it or don't understand, you know, what I know what the sources go back and look at that.", - "confidence": -0.19008951338510666 - }, - { - "start_time": 2061.76, - "end_time": 2079.86, - "text": "This particular piece and that's about how you deal with hegemonic encounter hegemonic dominant and non dominant forces and how the non dominant forces can organize themselves to form a new both cultural view worldview and practice that distills kind of an anti systemic practice to", - "confidence": -0.18121584530534415 - }, - { - "start_time": 2081.18, - "end_time": 2090.1, - "text": "underscore undercut and ultimately destroy the dominant kind of perpetuation of ruling class ideology and practice. 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How do you practice mutual aid and how does mutual aid and social reproduction lead to gathering enough information about the concrete needs that then we can then leverage that and connected to doing a concerted level of planning around", - "confidence": -0.15670643181636415 - }, - { - "start_time": 2119.26, - "end_time": 2132.46, - "text": "autonomous food production through a scale of program of meeting all the different community, small scale farms to large scale farms of independent farmers and producers tied them together to meet particular needs.", - "confidence": -0.1654621406837746 - }, - { - "start_time": 2132.62, - "end_time": 2149.24, - "text": "But then we also have to figure out how the massive workers into appropriate basically the means of productive turn it into to cooperative enterprises and link with each other to put all of the tools and all of the", - "confidence": -0.1654621406837746 - }, - { - "start_time": 2149.24, - "end_time": 2164.42, - "text": "collective property into a pool that we could use to meet our collective needs. That's what the worker self organization pieces come in and we're going to talk about within that how we take the cooperative side to trade union side, the workers in the side of what is", - "confidence": -0.16040917660327667 - }, - { - "start_time": 2164.42, - "end_time": 2172.38, - "text": "concretely going on now, how to better kind of link that together in a strategic way to utilize as much power and we'll break all of those down individually that way.", - "confidence": -0.16040917660327667 - }, - { - "start_time": 2172.38, - "end_time": 2189.36, - "text": "Let me jump in real quick not to. I don't want to take you off your, your, your focus too much but this building fight for the practices of position practices maneuver. This is going to be done in conjunction in partnership with other organizations correct.", - "confidence": -0.19999057906014578 - }, - { - "start_time": 2189.36, - "end_time": 2203.0, - "text": "Oh, absolutely. None of none of this is what we're talking about is a is could be done by one organization. Okay, none of this, you know, and why we say we're starting part of the making the argument of starting with people are doing.", - "confidence": -0.19538539031456256 - }, - { - "start_time": 2203.0, - "end_time": 2214.26, - "text": "Right, because we don't have let's be clear what the large part of this argument underscore. We don't have the political parties of the 1930s or even in 1960s. 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And we'll talk about how that kind of relates but in our kind of US context, you know, we don't have political parties that can move tens of thousands if not millions of people into a concerted program.", - "confidence": -0.11650025972756006 - }, - { - "start_time": 2246.02, - "end_time": 2247.26, - "text": "But what we do have.", - "confidence": -0.11650025972756006 - }, - { - "start_time": 2247.86, - "end_time": 2257.7, - "text": "Right, we have millions of people who are involved in projects where they're doing, you know, farming in their communities of various scales.", - "confidence": -0.11650025972756006 - }, - { - "start_time": 2257.7, - "end_time": 2282.1, - "text": "It's not coordinated right is not being planned to meet the basic caloric needs of our community so most of us done, you know, to meet kind of personal needs or small scale needs. And I would say like even in cooperation Jackson we're doing, you know, trying to do a level of scale to reach about 25,000 people, but Jackson is a city of 160,000 to 180,000 people give or take.", - "confidence": -0.2225355272707732 - }, - { - "start_time": 2282.1, - "end_time": 2294.56, - "text": "So, you know, we have to figure out the coordinated with other folks in Jackson, how to scale up production and that doesn't mean cooperation Jackson want to do this. Our role is to just be a catalyst to say hey if we do this.", - "confidence": -0.13019771575927735 - }, - { - "start_time": 2294.96, - "end_time": 2296.34, - "text": "This is what it can lead to.", - "confidence": -0.13019771575927735 - }, - { - "start_time": 2296.7799999999997, - "end_time": 2311.16, - "text": "Right. We can move from food security, ultimately towards an element or aspect of food sovereignty, at least on a local level, so that we can meet the caloric needs and we could end food as a weapon but did more importantly.", - "confidence": -0.13019771575927735 - }, - { - "start_time": 2311.16, - "end_time": 2314.84, - "text": "Right. We could free up more people's time.", - "confidence": -0.16169657026018416 - }, - { - "start_time": 2315.78, - "end_time": 2326.76, - "text": "Right from having to pursue the endeavor of wage labor wage employment, so they have more free time to do more of what they want to do, and you can kind of reduce folks wheels now.", - "confidence": -0.16169657026018416 - }, - { - "start_time": 2326.76, - "end_time": 2334.08, - "text": "There's a system that has to go and that's what this this formula is saying that these practices have to be coordinated in conjunction with each other.", - "confidence": -0.1300537373759959 - }, - { - "start_time": 2334.44, - "end_time": 2340.56, - "text": "Otherwise they just kind of isolated endeavors that may make some things of our of our lives a little bit easier.", - "confidence": -0.1300537373759959 - }, - { - "start_time": 2340.84, - "end_time": 2354.64, - "text": "But if we don't deal per se with with the broader dimension of like land decommodification and the collective stewardship of land which is an anchor of what we need to go for towards food sovereignty.", - "confidence": -0.1300537373759959 - }, - { - "start_time": 2354.64, - "end_time": 2358.06, - "text": "We don't deal with that and deal with kind of collective housing solutions.", - "confidence": -0.119492670384849 - }, - { - "start_time": 2358.52, - "end_time": 2367.38, - "text": "Right. You're still leaving folks subject to all the predatory things of the market in the need for a ways to meet the market kind of necessity.", - "confidence": -0.119492670384849 - }, - { - "start_time": 2368.2200000000003, - "end_time": 2370.26, - "text": "That's been structured within the capital system.", - "confidence": -0.119492670384849 - }, - { - "start_time": 2370.6, - "end_time": 2375.9, - "text": "So it's trying to be comprehensive within the framework of what people are already doing.", - "confidence": -0.119492670384849 - }, - { - "start_time": 2375.9, - "end_time": 2386.6, - "text": "And what I mean by in and in this deficit, you know, peace is that if you take the the the whole of all the different organizing efforts that are taking place just in the United States alone.", - "confidence": -0.1958119278654046 - }, - { - "start_time": 2387.0, - "end_time": 2388.48, - "text": "I get an housing arena.", - "confidence": -0.1958119278654046 - }, - { - "start_time": 2388.92, - "end_time": 2394.44, - "text": "Right for for health and reproductive justice right for workers rights.", - "confidence": -0.1958119278654046 - }, - { - "start_time": 2395.76, - "end_time": 2397.7200000000003, - "text": "If you aggregate that all together.", - "confidence": -0.1958119278654046 - }, - { - "start_time": 2398.2799999999997, - "end_time": 2400.96, - "text": "There's a lot of people working on a lot of stuff.", - "confidence": -0.1958119278654046 - }, - { - "start_time": 2401.32, - "end_time": 2405.64, - "text": "Yes, a lot of people millions of people working on stuff every single day.", - "confidence": -0.1958119278654046 - }, - { - "start_time": 2405.64, - "end_time": 2410.2200000000003, - "text": "But because we don't have a framework to unite it coherently.", - "confidence": -0.15407540526571153 - }, - { - "start_time": 2410.92, - "end_time": 2411.02, - "text": "Right.", - "confidence": -0.15407540526571153 - }, - { - "start_time": 2411.88, - "end_time": 2413.74, - "text": "And one that's co constructed.", - "confidence": -0.15407540526571153 - }, - { - "start_time": 2414.52, - "end_time": 2425.44, - "text": "Right. And so this is an argument for co construction not one to just kind of impose something from from above, because we've we've seen, you know, time and time again that has advantages but more disadvantages than advantage.", - "confidence": -0.15407540526571153 - }, - { - "start_time": 2425.44, - "end_time": 2445.42, - "text": "So a cold production of how do we get people to plan and coordinate with each other to aggregate power. Right, but to also transform the system by getting out of those, you know, that cycle of MCM right money commodities money that is premised, the capitalist society is", - "confidence": -0.24511249860127768 - }, - { - "start_time": 2445.42, - "end_time": 2459.92, - "text": "premised on which forces us all to be, you know, chase chase is of a wage or another old way of saying to be way slaves and be dependent upon that to earn our livelihood is either that if we don't build an alternative be thrown out in the streets or go hungry.", - "confidence": -0.17810010447085484 - }, - { - "start_time": 2460.3, - "end_time": 2472.96, - "text": "Right. And remember, this is in the society which produces an over abundance or world system that produces an over abundance of all the material goods that are necessary for all of humanity to live well.", - "confidence": -0.17810010447085484 - }, - { - "start_time": 2474.46, - "end_time": 2477.08, - "text": "I'm seeing a couple of questions in the chat.", - "confidence": -0.12555166570151724 - }, - { - "start_time": 2478.08, - "end_time": 2488.36, - "text": "Let me just a quick reminder, if you come here to play or not serious you will be booted out of this chat. Now y'all know I'm tech spicy tech divergent.", - "confidence": -0.12555166570151724 - }, - { - "start_time": 2488.92, - "end_time": 2496.98, - "text": "It might accidentally hit ban user, as opposed to just deleting your comments so be careful what you put in the chat.", - "confidence": -0.12555166570151724 - }, - { - "start_time": 2497.76, - "end_time": 2508.64, - "text": "One of the questions that we do have here. If you want to tackle it now because we are at 442. And you did say you wanted to keep it to an hour I'm sure folks wouldn't mind hanging out but let's see what we can do.", - "confidence": -0.18547369752611434 - }, - { - "start_time": 2509.06, - "end_time": 2516.7, - "text": "Michael new Janice what about these arguments about techno feudalism, or that capitalism is in terminal decline I've been hearing that for 40 years.", - "confidence": -0.18547369752611434 - }, - { - "start_time": 2517.0, - "end_time": 2522.9, - "text": "Are these changes legit, and do they change how we fight who the revolutionary subject is your thoughts.", - "confidence": -0.18547369752611434 - }, - { - "start_time": 2522.9, - "end_time": 2524.66, - "text": "Great question. Great question.", - "confidence": -0.15491909858507988 - }, - { - "start_time": 2526.06, - "end_time": 2532.32, - "text": "And I've been thinking about doing a particular set of serious just upon this from from from my vantage point.", - "confidence": -0.15491909858507988 - }, - { - "start_time": 2534.92, - "end_time": 2545.7799999999997, - "text": "And let me riff off a comment that you just said, Tony, right, that you've been hearing that for 40 years. Well it takes that long for the system to actually if not longer to collapse.", - "confidence": -0.15491909858507988 - }, - { - "start_time": 2545.7799999999997, - "end_time": 2554.12, - "text": "Right. So, if we go into some of the works of say, again, citing sources I want people to read it you don't have to agree with all of it.", - "confidence": -0.2053105265823836 - }, - { - "start_time": 2554.2, - "end_time": 2564.54, - "text": "But if you look at some of the world, the works of like Emmanuel Wallerstein or undergrinder Frank in their, you know, particular assessment of the capitalist world system.", - "confidence": -0.2053105265823836 - }, - { - "start_time": 2564.82, - "end_time": 2571.44, - "text": "We see that things take roughly 50 to 60 years to sink in and transform.", - "confidence": -0.2053105265823836 - }, - { - "start_time": 2571.44, - "end_time": 2580.62, - "text": "Okay, so if you're thinking about it within, and this is part of a level of consciousness that we have to kind of ascribe to.", - "confidence": -0.10736792764545959 - }, - { - "start_time": 2580.84, - "end_time": 2590.7799999999997, - "text": "So within within the context of our own lifetime, you might dismiss certain arguments but if you look at it in the context of several generations.", - "confidence": -0.10736792764545959 - }, - { - "start_time": 2591.7, - "end_time": 2596.0, - "text": "You'll see that yes, this system is in a very terminal decline.", - "confidence": -0.10736792764545959 - }, - { - "start_time": 2596.0, - "end_time": 2605.8, - "text": "And I would argue that techno feudalism is not just a symptom of the decline. Right.", - "confidence": -0.11904394122916208 - }, - { - "start_time": 2606.94, - "end_time": 2610.08, - "text": "But it is something that is going to hasten and speed it up.", - "confidence": -0.11904394122916208 - }, - { - "start_time": 2610.7200000000003, - "end_time": 2617.8, - "text": "And for me I've been arguing before and for folks who again the site of source, if it hasn't been put in the chat.", - "confidence": -0.11904394122916208 - }, - { - "start_time": 2618.74, - "end_time": 2627.4, - "text": "One of the main framers I think they leave framework of this techno feudalism argument is Janis Berri Falkus look up his book on techno feudalism.", - "confidence": -0.3769967791060327 - }, - { - "start_time": 2629.3, - "end_time": 2630.7799999999997, - "text": "The brother from Greece.", - "confidence": -0.3769967791060327 - }, - { - "start_time": 2631.62, - "end_time": 2635.58, - "text": "That's a brother from Greece, the Conrad from Greece, you know, who all started the movement.", - "confidence": -0.3769967791060327 - }, - { - "start_time": 2636.48, - "end_time": 2658.58, - "text": "The post was in the series of government which, in my view, wind up making a class of portrayal of the people, leading them down a dead impact part of what I was arguing against around, you know, why the work type of concessions we can get, you know, from capital rather than making a clean, or", - "confidence": -0.30684521463182235 - }, - { - "start_time": 2658.58, - "end_time": 2676.34, - "text": "you know, a dirty break and going it alone, at least in regards to them switching out of being part of the EU and going back into kind of their own currency or their own transactional relationships, and then using that to foster the dynamic growth of the solidarity", - "confidence": -0.1704632608514083 - }, - { - "start_time": 2676.34, - "end_time": 2694.2, - "text": "economy because Greece had that at the time, and then one definitely emerging in the midst of their crisis, following the financial collapse of 2007 2008 2009, that there was a profound social movement that they wind up basically kind of betraying and gave space to the current right", - "confidence": -0.1905362982498972 - }, - { - "start_time": 2694.2, - "end_time": 2696.98, - "text": "government which is now in place in Greece.", - "confidence": -0.21738334754844765 - }, - { - "start_time": 2697.7200000000003, - "end_time": 2720.3, - "text": "But I think, you know, this move this terminal decline has led to the rise of all of these neo fascist forces or these are right wing authoritarian forces in the likes of again outside Modi in India, you know, Erdogan in Turkey, you know, we go on Erdogan and hungry", - "confidence": -0.21738334754844765 - }, - { - "start_time": 2720.3, - "end_time": 2735.76, - "text": "Malay in Argentina, and the list goes on and unfortunately we'll probably have, you know, a right wing government in Germany, and in France, soon as a result, but this is just legit.", - "confidence": -0.24420939700704225 - }, - { - "start_time": 2736.2, - "end_time": 2736.82, - "text": "I go together.", - "confidence": -0.24420939700704225 - }, - { - "start_time": 2737.12, - "end_time": 2741.92, - "text": "Are these changes legit and do they change how we fight who the revolutionary subject is.", - "confidence": -0.24420939700704225 - }, - { - "start_time": 2743.8199999999997, - "end_time": 2744.7799999999997, - "text": "Uh, legit.", - "confidence": -0.17849023463362354 - }, - { - "start_time": 2746.48, - "end_time": 2760.68, - "text": "If the answer is is is is the system moving in that direction, I would say if that's what is meant by legit. Clearly, that is what's going on. I mean, and we can just look at what Trump has enabled.", - "confidence": -0.17849023463362354 - }, - { - "start_time": 2761.68, - "end_time": 2769.84, - "text": "In terms of the cabinet and like what he's done with with Doge and Elon Musk basically kind of making him his co president.", - "confidence": -0.1829951854234331 - }, - { - "start_time": 2770.2, - "end_time": 2787.3, - "text": "But it's not just him right it's all the text of feudal lords, you know, which have made a very clear and conscious decision to ally themselves with Trump and the maga movement on a very deliberate nature, and why they are very much invested in a deep", - "confidence": -0.1829951854234331 - }, - { - "start_time": 2787.3, - "end_time": 2805.3199999999997, - "text": "race for over AI artificial intelligence and this global competition to who's going to get there first from between themselves being the United States and China and why JD Vance in real time is over in Europe now threatening the Europeans that they either get on board with the United States", - "confidence": -0.1492704993800113 - }, - { - "start_time": 2805.3199999999997, - "end_time": 2814.66, - "text": "and open up all of their markets towards the US domination of AI and work with them or they're going to be punished now you don't normally talk to your friends like that.", - "confidence": -0.1492704993800113 - }, - { - "start_time": 2814.66, - "end_time": 2823.76, - "text": "No, you don't mean I suppose you know that speaks to a different time a different order that is not just about Trump's personality folks need to understand that.", - "confidence": -0.200750606576192 - }, - { - "start_time": 2824.2, - "end_time": 2841.74, - "text": "This is about capital's deep restructuring and trying to get to a particular place, right so that the West will maintain its hedge money control over the earth, over its peoples and all of his resources, so that a certain group of people continue to benefit at the expense of others.", - "confidence": -0.200750606576192 - }, - { - "start_time": 2841.74, - "end_time": 2853.8, - "text": "So that race is still going on that is why Elon Musk, who you know, who's supposed to be running part of the government now is trying to issue a hostile takeover of open AI.", - "confidence": -0.18061421134255148 - }, - { - "start_time": 2854.78, - "end_time": 2863.1800000000003, - "text": "Right put these things in perspective to understand what a techno feudalism piece in the argument why it's legit. Does that change how we we fight.", - "confidence": -0.18061421134255148 - }, - { - "start_time": 2864.54, - "end_time": 2873.06, - "text": "I would argue and we'll go through it in some ways profoundly yes, and in some ways at least in terms of what we are articulating. No.", - "confidence": -0.1703350617713535 - }, - { - "start_time": 2873.7, - "end_time": 2876.6400000000003, - "text": "Right now what we need to be be clear on.", - "confidence": -0.1703350617713535 - }, - { - "start_time": 2877.1800000000003, - "end_time": 2892.6, - "text": "I think in terms of kind of like what principles and program, the piece that will get to what we talked specifically about social digital infrastructure that deals with how we in community production within this formula that deals with how we are arguing.", - "confidence": -0.1703350617713535 - }, - { - "start_time": 2892.6, - "end_time": 2909.0, - "text": "That we should be engaging in these kind of new technologies, but not engaging them on capital's term, but to the greatest extent possible, appropriating them at the scale that they could be utilized to open source to create our own means.", - "confidence": -0.1464040887122061 - }, - { - "start_time": 2909.3599999999997, - "end_time": 2922.2200000000003, - "text": "And that is why just to say, you can get back to this. That is why I want folks to go back and look at was it was I'm forgetting the name deep, deep seek whatever the AI piece that China put together.", - "confidence": -0.1464040887122061 - }, - { - "start_time": 2922.2200000000003, - "end_time": 2924.12, - "text": "That was a profound move y'all.", - "confidence": -0.14266461871919178 - }, - { - "start_time": 2924.84, - "end_time": 2937.66, - "text": "And I'm not saying that to like praise, you know, China but that was a pretty concerted move that opened up a tremendous amount of space. And what they fundamentally did by making that open source.", - "confidence": -0.14266461871919178 - }, - { - "start_time": 2938.02, - "end_time": 2951.6400000000003, - "text": "They made it so that folks in Nigeria can take some elements of their code and work on it without having to deal with the proprietorship ownership, or me and you can learn how to code and be involved in that and help.", - "confidence": -0.14266461871919178 - }, - { - "start_time": 2951.6400000000003, - "end_time": 2967.3, - "text": "And so I'm just taking out a role in function and ensure it actually functions to serve human need and not further right the private appropriation capture and social control that the capitalists are aiming towards very explicitly if you don't believe me listen to what Peter Tills said about two weeks", - "confidence": -0.33550783954089203 - }, - { - "start_time": 2968.02, - "end_time": 2971.46, - "text": "So this can be done through our labor unions right or is that idealistic.", - "confidence": -0.33550783954089203 - }, - { - "start_time": 2972.4, - "end_time": 2974.94, - "text": "It's going to have to be done through them and beyond them.", - "confidence": -0.14188604938740634 - }, - { - "start_time": 2976.06, - "end_time": 2984.06, - "text": "Right and be clear like we need those institutions to, you know, be transformed from the inside.", - "confidence": -0.14188604938740634 - }, - { - "start_time": 2984.7, - "end_time": 2987.3599999999997, - "text": "And we need them in particular to jettison.", - "confidence": -0.14188604938740634 - }, - { - "start_time": 2988.24, - "end_time": 3000.12, - "text": "You know, the agreements that have confined them and that folks kind of adhere to, you know, for the greater part of what about 70 years and what am I specifically relating to in terms of the United States.", - "confidence": -0.14188604938740634 - }, - { - "start_time": 3000.12, - "end_time": 3007.6400000000003, - "text": "Right, like we, we have fundamentally and I've been part of the trade union movement still part of the trade union movement.", - "confidence": -0.2242149640155095 - }, - { - "start_time": 3007.9, - "end_time": 3024.1800000000003, - "text": "But you've kind of hamstrung ourselves and accepting the national labor relations acting in this framework that comes out of right which keeps us from acting in politically or acting in solidarity in a number of fundamental ways, and then how that supported by the right to work regime structure by the tab artly law.", - "confidence": -0.2242149640155095 - }, - { - "start_time": 3025.1800000000003, - "end_time": 3026.42, - "text": "We have to go beyond that.", - "confidence": -0.13061448660763827 - }, - { - "start_time": 3026.98, - "end_time": 3029.88, - "text": "And we should have been going beyond that alone time ago.", - "confidence": -0.13061448660763827 - }, - { - "start_time": 3030.6800000000003, - "end_time": 3046.38, - "text": "Right. And so we now have to, you know, be very clear that to the to the degree that the MAGA movement is very intentional about destroying all of the liberal bourgeois protections that supposedly are enshrined in the Constitution.", - "confidence": -0.13061448660763827 - }, - { - "start_time": 3046.9, - "end_time": 3048.7, - "text": "We ain't got no need to uphold it either.", - "confidence": -0.13061448660763827 - }, - { - "start_time": 3048.7, - "end_time": 3071.62, - "text": "Right. This is where our minds and space has to open up and seize the opportunities that exists amongst the contradictions that they are creating. So if they're not going to necessarily play by the rules, there's no reason why we should either have to step out of that to now figure out how do we engage in a broad union kind of co-op initiative to like fund each other, support", - "confidence": -0.19126351674397787 - }, - { - "start_time": 3071.62, - "end_time": 3080.8199999999997, - "text": "each other, build our collective strength. How do we start now move in a concerted level to like organize one to link it to the previous questions.", - "confidence": -0.1631544351577759 - }, - { - "start_time": 3081.4, - "end_time": 3099.06, - "text": "How do we get all of the major unions that are part of the AFL-CIO to now step full heartedly, wholeheartedly, into supporting the workers at Amazon, right, to unionize.", - "confidence": -0.1631544351577759 - }, - { - "start_time": 3099.06, - "end_time": 3109.9, - "text": "And then not only to unionize, I would press it. And this is part of what, you know, one of the times I was able to kind of sit down with Chris. We had a brief conversation, a presentation. Chris Mars is one of them.", - "confidence": -0.28540648584780487 - }, - { - "start_time": 3109.94, - "end_time": 3120.1, - "text": "We're referring to, he said, don't just settle for unionization, right, press for social control, right, co-operate the space.", - "confidence": -0.28540648584780487 - }, - { - "start_time": 3120.64, - "end_time": 3129.7, - "text": "That is how Amazon basically should be run basically either as a public utility or as a collective own cooperative.", - "confidence": -0.14786818592818743 - }, - { - "start_time": 3130.52, - "end_time": 3138.84, - "text": "So open our imagination towards the appropriating. We have to, you know, go back to be very clear about we're trying to expropriate from these appropriators.", - "confidence": -0.14786818592818743 - }, - { - "start_time": 3139.24, - "end_time": 3145.8599999999997, - "text": "That is a fundamental task that is still before us. It's just the means by which we have to do it and the instruments we have to do it by.", - "confidence": -0.14786818592818743 - }, - { - "start_time": 3145.8599999999997, - "end_time": 3161.7799999999997, - "text": "Some of them have to be reinvented by like the trade unions and then some things we just going to have to create a new, right, basically somewhat from scratch, but starting from where people are already engaged in the millions in social activities that speak towards a broader transformational project.", - "confidence": -0.10904854276905888 - }, - { - "start_time": 3162.34, - "end_time": 3171.58, - "text": "How much of lack of coordination is due to lack of physical infrastructure versus lack of network relationships across difference. Where is best to put our energy?", - "confidence": -0.10904854276905888 - }, - { - "start_time": 3171.58, - "end_time": 3173.52, - "text": "That's a damn good question.", - "confidence": -0.2641345262527466 - }, - { - "start_time": 3173.6800000000003, - "end_time": 3175.38, - "text": "I'm glad it was that.", - "confidence": -0.2641345262527466 - }, - { - "start_time": 3175.38, - "end_time": 3182.24, - "text": "Real quick, real quick, the graphic we put up that circle. Where is there a link to that or that's in a book?", - "confidence": -0.2641345262527466 - }, - { - "start_time": 3183.86, - "end_time": 3195.3, - "text": "Folks, there's a series. David Harvey has been doing a series about a capital for years now where he breaks down capital by one.", - "confidence": -0.2641345262527466 - }, - { - "start_time": 3196.12, - "end_time": 3203.8199999999997, - "text": "There's a series of lectures that you can go to his YouTube page or you can go to him, look at David Harvey, you know, and you can get an analysis.", - "confidence": -0.27178794796727285 - }, - { - "start_time": 3204.06, - "end_time": 3207.8199999999997, - "text": "Now, I have some nuance with David's read of capital.", - "confidence": -0.27178794796727285 - }, - { - "start_time": 3208.1, - "end_time": 3211.9, - "text": "We asked him to graphic bro. Where can we get the graphic?", - "confidence": -0.27178794796727285 - }, - { - "start_time": 3212.58, - "end_time": 3213.6400000000003, - "text": "You'll find it there.", - "confidence": -0.27178794796727285 - }, - { - "start_time": 3214.02, - "end_time": 3214.3199999999997, - "text": "Okay.", - "confidence": -0.27178794796727285 - }, - { - "start_time": 3215.0, - "end_time": 3218.2200000000003, - "text": "Or you'll find it in his book, The Companion to I Think Capital.", - "confidence": -0.27178794796727285 - }, - { - "start_time": 3220.88, - "end_time": 3224.58, - "text": "Okay, got you. Lack of coordination versus lack of network relationships.", - "confidence": -0.27178794796727285 - }, - { - "start_time": 3224.58, - "end_time": 3225.6, - "text": "It's both.", - "confidence": -0.18014448483784992 - }, - { - "start_time": 3226.8, - "end_time": 3226.8199999999997, - "text": "Okay.", - "confidence": -0.18014448483784992 - }, - { - "start_time": 3226.9, - "end_time": 3243.76, - "text": "And, you know, the capital is always, you know, fostered and facilitated uneven development. And so this is part of, you know, part of the legacy of capital only building things that serve this particular needs.", - "confidence": -0.18014448483784992 - }, - { - "start_time": 3243.76, - "end_time": 3251.3, - "text": "And so that means certain sectors, certain people, certain groups are left out or certain folks wind up being incorporated into basically sacrifice zone.", - "confidence": -0.1033999892486923 - }, - { - "start_time": 3251.54, - "end_time": 3259.44, - "text": "Like I was saying, Jackson fundamentally, you know, has become in essence a sacrifice on at least most of it, you know, to capital.", - "confidence": -0.1033999892486923 - }, - { - "start_time": 3259.76, - "end_time": 3263.8199999999997, - "text": "And so, you know, a lot of part of what we're struggling with is the lack of infrastructure.", - "confidence": -0.1033999892486923 - }, - { - "start_time": 3265.54, - "end_time": 3273.02, - "text": "But the lack of infrastructure is an obstacle. It's a barrier that I think the deeper one is a lack of coordinated relationships.", - "confidence": -0.12889173295762804 - }, - { - "start_time": 3273.4, - "end_time": 3283.02, - "text": "And that requires organizing and that we have to, you know, look, we got to like bicycle to find ways to connect with each other or walk a couple of miles to connect with each other.", - "confidence": -0.12889173295762804 - }, - { - "start_time": 3283.02, - "end_time": 3293.26, - "text": "And so, you know, the necessity should demand that we do so to overcome the infrastructure limitations. You know, and this is fundamentally what we want to have to get to I think if we're serious about transforming the system.", - "confidence": -0.22117185592651367 - }, - { - "start_time": 3293.7200000000003, - "end_time": 3304.58, - "text": "And trust me, I'm citing things that people do in the real world all over the globe, maybe not in the West, not here now, but these are practices that people do so don't think it's impossible or it's insurmountable.", - "confidence": -0.22117185592651367 - }, - { - "start_time": 3306.46, - "end_time": 3311.16, - "text": "Well, we have a spreadsheet and a calendar for coordinating or what.", - "confidence": -0.14732629912240164 - }, - { - "start_time": 3312.3999999999996, - "end_time": 3326.9, - "text": "Well, this is again, this is what we mean by social digital infrastructure. Right. And we'll probably come up with a better, you know, tool for that and I know some comrades that we're working with you know outside to that if folks want to look up some of the work that they're doing.", - "confidence": -0.14732629912240164 - }, - { - "start_time": 3326.9, - "end_time": 3350.74, - "text": "You know, one is grassroots economics. They just came out with a book on how they're utilizing basic elements of kind of, you know, cell phone technology to be able to do complex transactions within, you know, community and Kalefi community and Kalefi Kenya and beyond to help coordinate and do the type of planning that I'm suggesting is going to be necessary.", - "confidence": -0.18094213008880616 - }, - { - "start_time": 3350.74, - "end_time": 3368.04, - "text": "And this is low grid low tech. Then there's more, you know, kind of advanced versions that are being worked on by like the one project in particular a piece of their kind of, you know, working on that we've been somewhat, you know, at least on the advisory end up that I would cite that people should look at.", - "confidence": -0.13110390224972288 - }, - { - "start_time": 3368.04, - "end_time": 3397.6400000000003, - "text": "But, you know, if you want to look at a forgetting the name of the book, I will I will cite it in some notes and make sure to bring it further along. But I think the best example of even a low tech system or version of what we're trying to go to deal with some of the complex problems of, you know, like some of the socialist experience like the calculation problem that many of the projects.", - "confidence": -0.1674658911568778 - }, - { - "start_time": 3397.6400000000003, - "end_time": 3414.48, - "text": "that you know suffered from and moved through in the 20th century. We now have the computing power, you know, on cell phones to deal with a lot of things that they just did not have the capacity to actually to grab information in the, you know, quick instance of a fraction of a section.", - "confidence": -0.19791857401529947 - }, - { - "start_time": 3414.48, - "end_time": 3441.88, - "text": "We now have that at our disposal. We're not utilizing in this means, right, because it's only control that data is now a new form of capital on being used and, you know, kind of colonize if you would, by detecting a few of the laws but there is still enough time and enough know how that we can redirect our skill and techniques to do the kind of level of appropriate technology to develop, you know, programs that enable us to coordinate and some of this stuff is already out there, you know,", - "confidence": -0.17463957296835408 - }, - { - "start_time": 3441.88, - "end_time": 3459.26, - "text": "not that spreadsheets can help but to aggregate moving from like a time bank, you know, has like 200 people to try to move something, you know, say on the scale of Jackson where again is between the city's 180,000 people, we're going to need far more sophisticated tools to aggregate and plan that out.", - "confidence": -0.18681579317365374 - }, - { - "start_time": 3459.26, - "end_time": 3472.9, - "text": "And we argue that those are basically kind of at our disposal doesn't mean that we don't need to tweak them or work them or to learn more. But we need the intentionality in the political direction and in agreement around a program like this, that there's a necessity to do so.", - "confidence": -0.12928174018859864 - }, - { - "start_time": 3473.26, - "end_time": 3475.06, - "text": "That is is is is required.", - "confidence": -0.12928174018859864 - }, - { - "start_time": 3475.96, - "end_time": 3486.2799999999997, - "text": "As someone who focuses on affordable housing land stewardship I'm very interested in the overlap between food sovereignty and land stewardship in that context.", - "confidence": -0.12928174018859864 - }, - { - "start_time": 3487.82, - "end_time": 3505.52, - "text": "Well, that will be the second I'm speeding some of this along definitely will take all of the the the questions and everything in the comments. So please keep them coming or to send them to us, you know, on the YouTube link on the Jackson rising or on root work.", - "confidence": -0.19923020972580205 - }, - { - "start_time": 3507.72, - "end_time": 3521.08, - "text": "You know, we'll pick them up there are black liberation media the different places that this is going to be rebroadcast, where people kind of going through that to kind of tease these out and make sure that we incorporate these questions in the presentations that we do, you know, they are", - "confidence": -0.13905780626379927 - }, - { - "start_time": 3521.08, - "end_time": 3532.2200000000003, - "text": "sharpening things up. And y'all have already, you know, touched upon the critical things that I think a couple of these questions, the technical feudalism the infrastructure question all of these have been very very helpful so keep them coming.", - "confidence": -0.13905780626379927 - }, - { - "start_time": 3532.2200000000003, - "end_time": 3537.74, - "text": "But we'll definitely tackle that particular question around that intersection. Right.", - "confidence": -0.21469139099121093 - }, - { - "start_time": 3538.26, - "end_time": 3556.1800000000003, - "text": "In the third session, which is going to be about food sovereignty and land decommodification. And then there's a deeper component of which we actually ultimately have to need to argue for both which is somewhat specific to settler colonial societies but there's a deep element of", - "confidence": -0.21469139099121093 - }, - { - "start_time": 3556.1800000000003, - "end_time": 3572.06, - "text": "decolonization that that program has to be matched with. It's not true everywhere. So that's why we kind of left that out but for articulation of what we need here in the United States this settler colonial project and the need for is dismantling will be dealing with that during that section.", - "confidence": -0.1889209747314453 - }, - { - "start_time": 3574.04, - "end_time": 3584.3, - "text": "I am devils the David Harvey graphic. I keep seeing more questions later on for you people who came in late asking about that graphic.", - "confidence": -0.1942778378725052 - }, - { - "start_time": 3588.8599999999997, - "end_time": 3599.76, - "text": "And, well, I did see what hold on. I don't know if that's rhetorical or not but here's a question for you. 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260.6s] this was the second tuesday of every month so please be advised let your friends know your -[260.6s - 268.8s] family know you know your your fellow cooperators and comrades to join us tune in and as we go along -[268.8s - 276.0s] you know we we're going to be asking questions we're going to be looking for feedback push back -[277.0s - 284.3s] because what we are going to go through we make no pretension that it is the answer -[285.1s - 293.4s] we think it is part of an answer and it helps to kind of maybe ground some of where we need to go -[293.4s - 299.7s] particularly in these perilous times hold on you want some pushback you want some smoke oh yeah we -[299.7s - 305.5s] want we want the smoke we want the smoke you know because look -[308.7s - 316.8s] it's not smoke for criticism's sake let me be clear about that right we want to construct a new -[316.8s - 324.3s] world and we have to struggle with each other to get it right to do that right so you know -[324.3s - 331.6s] correct theory should lead us to better practice well we have to sharpen up our tools and and we -[331.6s - 337.2s] have blind spots you know we don't see or hear everything it's not possible for one individual -[337.2s - 344.2s] one human being one organization to do that so that's why we want feedback to sharpen things up -[344.2s - 349.1s] that's how we've kind of come to this and arrived at this in a number of different things and it's -[349.1s - 355.9s] what you're going to you know hear from me is quite literally born as as much failure as it has -[355.9s - 361.8s] been the little bit of success that we've been able to go right but it's learning from every -[361.8s - 367.1s] mistake learning the best possible anyway learning from mistake learning from every failure -[367.1s - 373.7s] and trying to iterate at each point how to do better right and doing intense criticism self -[373.7s - 379.1s] criticism and deep reflection on you know these are the things that we need to do so this is what -[379.1s - 385.2s] this is all based off so yeah we we definitely want and appreciate you know feedback doesn't -[385.2s - 391.4s] mean we can get all to it respond to every point we'll be able to get to it you know at every -[392.0s - 397.7s] you know immediate instance but believe me we take it all in a reflect because this is part of -[397.7s - 404.2s] the study practice study process that we have to be involved in so definitely get us up you know -[404.2s - 410.0s] and begin to look out and believe me you know the the feedback we get will inform what we're going -[410.0s - 414.3s] to be doing throughout the rest of the year right that is how we've been building this and we've been -[414.3s - 421.6s] working towards this you know for for a minute so we're going to try to keep this to an hour each -[421.6s - 430.2s] time okay any of y'all heard me speak sometimes that could be a challenge so my comrade tanya's -[430.2s - 439.0s] gonna keep keep me on point as much as possible so today we're gonna go through you know a few -[439.0s - 445.7s] kind of early points to just kind of articulate a framework it's just i'm gonna focus to know -[445.7s - 453.1s] you know kind of the the basic outline is of this intro is really trying to make a case building -[453.1s - 462.0s] an argument on why this particular set of practices principles and positions could lead to a revolutionary -[462.0s - 469.5s] transformation okay and why it's particularly we argue grounded in the history of this moment going -[469.5s - 475.9s] forward based upon the concrete conditions that that we are facing and based upon what people -[475.9s - 483.0s] are already doing in the millions right because we have to to start we argue with where people are at -[483.0s - 488.7s] and then build upon that but then try to fill in gaps but also to make some arguments right that -[488.7s - 494.2s] need to be made to push us all further along the road and ask you know gives us to really think -[494.2s - 499.4s] critically why are we doing what we're doing how could it be better how could it lead and aggregate -[499.4s - 504.6s] to us building in a massing more power us us ending certain social kind of relationships -[504.6s - 509.0s] between particularly those of exploitation how could it lead to all those different things so -[509.0s - 515.8s] okay so what so what is the building right for me so yeah so first to lay out the argument -[516.5s - 524.9s] um you know I want to just to just lay out off the top like this is premise on a notion that -[524.9s - 530.8s] concretely y'all we don't have much time to enact a radical transformation that we need -[530.8s - 540.1s] on this planet right the the capitalist system is killing this planet and killing it rapidly -[540.9s - 547.6s] and so we are going to have to get rid of it before it gets rid of us so I want to state that -[547.6s - 554.8s] very clearly now that's in some respects many respects most respects easier said than done -[555.4s - 561.5s] but one of the critical shortcomings is that it's you know most people have gotten to the point -[561.5s - 567.1s] particularly over the last 40 years where it's easier to envision the end of the world than it -[567.1s - 574.2s] is to envision the end of capitalism so we want to challenge that like up front we want to challenge -[574.2s - 579.3s] that and we have to challenge that okay and the first kind of premise of the argument is that -[580.1s - 587.0s] profound radical transformation is possible and we want to back that up you say well you know -[587.0s - 593.6s] prove it to them we want to back that up with the critical analysis of the last like 15 years but the -[593.8s - 600.3s] last five years in particular and to really highlight to folks that we've already lived through -[600.3s - 607.2s] some profound transformation now it wasn't necessarily sustained it wasn't always consciously -[607.2s - 613.1s] you know directed meaning something that we in our in the masses agreed to and deliberately -[613.1s - 619.0s] wanted to do that it was somewhat spontaneous in relationship to the conditions but we've seen -[619.8s - 623.9s] a great deal of transformation now what up what do I mean -[626.3s - 636.4s] I'll go back to basically you know let's go back to 2011 okay okay now we can go back earlier -[636.4s - 643.1s] but I'm picking that as a kind of an arbitrary date and one of the one of the things people asked me to -[643.1s - 651.8s] to cite in this is some of the sources and so one I'll mention here I want folks to check out a -[651.8s - 662.4s] book called if we burn right which is an analysis of the the 2010s and why all of the social -[662.4s - 667.6s] revolution the social upheavals I should say that occurred during that decade did not lead to a -[667.6s - 673.7s] revolution and transformation in many respects wind up installing the exact opposite so if you -[673.7s - 680.2s] look at Egypt if you look at Syria if you look at Tunisia etc you know what happened with the -[680.2s - 684.9s] the Arab Spring but then also if you bring forth you know what happened here in the United States -[684.9s - 691.5s] was part of that same motion right from what happened in ita here square to to the end agnados -[691.5s - 699.0s] to to occupy right that wind up leading you can make a clear kind of case and follow in history -[699.0s - 705.2s] that wind up leading to the mass uprising that we saw at least the former character that it took -[705.2s - 713.1s] at a George Floyd rebellion that happened in 2020 but also the response which is now kind of -[713.3s - 719.9s] born out by Donald Trump and the rise of the maga movement if we learn by this it's -[721.0s - 729.3s] blemins that's right the lv ins check it out or or check out some of their videos and it's not -[729.3s - 734.7s] unnecessarily that you have to agree with all of their analysis I certainly don't but it's an excellent -[734.7s - 740.4s] kind of just documentation of moving through that decade so you see how these events pick up on each -[740.4s - 746.2s] other how folks are learning from each other you know the internet through social media right -[746.2s - 752.2s] through the mass communications channels how they accelerated time how folks try to copy each other -[752.2s - 757.1s] and what they were doing you know sometimes to great effect you know sometimes to ill effect -[757.6s - 763.0s] right and then how the distortion of the media I think he cites a well good case in terms of -[763.0s - 767.1s] Hong Kong and some of the protests that happen there trying to you know that what they call the -[767.1s - 772.0s] pro-democracy movement we can argue if that's what it was or not but you know in terms of the -[772.0s - 778.3s] tactics that they employed right under things I think he does a good job of highlighting both -[778.3s - 784.3s] in his speeches and in the book is how they at a certain period of time the somebody key actors -[784.3s - 791.4s] pivoted towards acting to to elicit the greatest response from western media and abandon what their -[791.4s - 796.7s] people had already gravitated towards and so they became more isolated and more small as a result -[796.7s - 802.5s] so critical learning but some of the tactics that they wind up developing there and how to avoid -[802.5s - 809.5s] gas you know how to use gas masks how to deal with some of that we wind up incorporating some of the -[810.1s - 814.7s] what's for rebellion here from folks making direct connections also folks making direct -[814.7s - 820.5s] connections you know what happened like with Ferguson some years before from the Gallup Indians -[820.5s - 826.5s] right to just bring this home in this methodology but critical piece I just want to say real -[826.5s - 834.4s] quick and then move through is that if we look at the profound the nature of how those uprisings -[834.4s - 841.1s] transform society polarized it if nothing else that is a profound transformation that we are -[841.1s - 847.7s] living through that means more space is actually open for us to experiment with and we need to -[847.7s - 853.7s] recognize that and be cognizant of that because the ruling class forces in and now the last -[853.7s - 860.1s] during this period we need to be clear they do not have concrete answers this is not like -[860.1s - 865.2s] the end of world war two where they laid out the britain woods you know program that wind -[865.2s - 868.6s] up restructuring the world the steel structure is a large part of the world that we live in -[868.6s - 875.3s] but that was based upon a clear vision plan right and and a clear understanding of they had control -[875.3s - 880.7s] of the various organized forces that they could deploy to enact their program they don't have -[880.7s - 885.0s] that now they're trying to institute that now i'm just particularly citing the united states -[885.9s - 892.3s] they're trying to do with project 2025 so they try to develop a level of cadre but they don't -[892.3s - 897.6s] believe me they don't have that all worked out it's not all crystal clear despite the chaos -[898.3s - 903.5s] that trump is trying is unleashing on on this society believe me it ain't all worked out right -[903.5s - 910.5s] and they are you know shooting darts everywhere trying to see what sticks trying to see what holds -[910.7s - 917.6s] but the difference between us and them is they have command over the state apparatus and a command -[917.6s - 923.8s] over you know all the institutions and instrument of capital at their disposal to kind of shoot -[923.8s - 928.6s] and fail and then pick up whereas we there's more you know we have to more get it right -[929.2s - 934.2s] kind of the first time in order for the transformation to take place and we we need a -[934.2s - 940.5s] bunch of luck you know so the critical piece is to understand that the space is open and then -[940.5s - 945.1s] there's a second part of this i want folks to kind of understand in terms of this argument around -[945.1s - 949.8s] the possibility of you know radical transformation being possible and potentially being on the -[949.8s - 954.6s] agenda now that is really going to depend upon us and that's what we're going to get into but i -[954.6s - 961.4s] want folks to just go back to another episode in 2020 right which is the beginning of the pandemic -[962.0s - 969.3s] and this one i i tried to say that i'll reiterate it here you know i'll go back to to make a connection -[969.3s - 977.1s] and in 1992 you know there was the real summit so the first big international climate change summit -[978.1s - 983.7s] and this occurred right after the collapse of the soviet union and the eastern block right -[983.7s - 988.9s] what most folks our age you know we're called kind of the core of the the socialist world the socialist -[988.9s - 996.8s] experiment and it collapsed leaving only china you know in the main cuba vietnam to a lesser degree -[996.8s - 1002.3s] being kind of the last major kind of socialist projects you know uh operating under that vein -[1003.0s - 1010.3s] well we were told on the heels of this conference on the world scale that yes climate change was a -[1010.3s - 1018.2s] serious issue but that the global economy was too complex for there to be any immediate -[1019.0s - 1026.2s] you know answers to the crisis of carbon emissions that it was too complicated that the -[1026.2s - 1035.9s] scale was significant right that's a lot yeah fast forward to 2020 and uh the political necessity -[1036.4s - 1041.9s] of grinding the the global economy and global trade to a halt comes into play on the account -[1041.9s - 1046.1s] of the covid pandemic and dealing with something that they didn't quite understand -[1046.9s - 1052.3s] but knew that it was spreading like wildfire and they had no ability or no means that the -[1052.3s - 1059.2s] at the early stages to fundamentally contain it without containing the flow of goods and of humans -[1059.2s - 1064.7s] migrating or moving from place to place so they were strict to travel they they were you know -[1064.7s - 1070.2s] basically said we're only going to allow uh essential services the essential workers to come -[1070.2s - 1078.8s] the essential services to be open they basically ground global commerce to a halt and guess what y'all -[1080.0s - 1087.2s] know climate emissions methane emissions drop dramatically in the course of months so much -[1087.2s - 1092.7s] so that we saw nature within the course of just two or three months things rebounding deer coming -[1092.7s - 1098.8s] back to the and coyotes and stuff you like in san francisco and la you know the animals -[1098.8s - 1105.9s] were just coming back to spaces and places that they had long since vacated right uh on account of -[1106.4s - 1112.7s] you know the human interaction there right and guess what they stopped this right you know -[1112.7s - 1118.7s] it wasn't for a long period of time they stopped it and the world system didn't collapse right -[1118.7s - 1125.0s] that the sky didn't fall right what what we learn from that and what we have to deduce from that is -[1125.9s - 1132.9s] radical transformation can take place if there is sufficient political will to do so and for -[1132.9s - 1138.6s] that very brief moment in time i say it lasted about six months at max there was sufficient -[1138.6s - 1144.3s] political will now there was a reactionary move against it and we were still living in part with -[1144.3s - 1151.8s] that reaction right but it demonstrated and this is just one of many examples it demonstrated -[1151.8s - 1158.0s] that change can happen it can happen in a profound way and it can happen quickly so i want folks to -[1158.0s - 1164.7s] just move from that and saying if if we what we witnessed in our own lifetimes should open up our -[1164.7s - 1170.8s] imagination to envision the possibility of capitalism coming to an end and it coming to an -[1170.8s - 1181.3s] end on account of our organized activities and deliberate and consequential action so the critical -[1181.3s - 1189.0s] thing uh uh the moving from there is that we also didn't have to to to kind of deal with the next -[1189.0s - 1195.6s] piece we have to deal with uh kind of understanding some of the dynamics of the system itself this -[1195.6s - 1201.9s] is the second critical piece of this argument okay and there's a there's an article again citing a -[1201.9s - 1209.3s] source there's an article that myself uh two of my comrades Doug Norbert Brian Drolet we wrote in 2001 -[1209.3s - 1216.0s] called shifting focus and that's an underscoring argument here right and that was you know organizing -[1216.0s - 1223.6s] for revolution not for crisis avoidance subtitle so i want everybody if you haven't read that to -[1223.6s - 1228.4s] pick that up and look at it because it's it's a subtext to many much of what is going to be laid -[1228.4s - 1233.5s] out throughout the course of this series but i'll just summarize it in a couple of critical points -[1233.9s - 1237.3s] here for this one i'm actually just going to read to make it quick you know y'all know i hate -[1237.3s - 1241.9s] for those of you know me i hate doing that and i hate power points but i think it's important right -[1243.3s - 1249.9s] so just start with this notion that that we need to be clear that we need to be organizing building -[1249.9s - 1256.7s] for a revolution not reform and crisis avoidance just as the piece said this is fundamental now -[1256.7s - 1263.4s] what does that mean let's get into that there's a point two right the the deepening crisis humanity -[1263.4s - 1269.2s] faces is not rooted in human nature as many will argue right most of these arguments are based upon -[1269.2s - 1275.4s] that right in the economic and social systems humans have created and have you know developed and -[1275.4s - 1281.6s] have evolved over time relationship that distinguishes the different types of economic system that -[1281.6s - 1287.0s] have structured most of you know human history uh is that between producers and the appropriations -[1287.0s - 1296.0s] of surplus labor uh which you know in his monetized form is surplus value now what i'm describing here -[1296.0s - 1303.4s] is the evolution of class-based societies just to be clear and how they've always had these kind of -[1303.4s - 1311.2s] distinctions right between like landowner and surf right lord and peasant and in our area the -[1311.2s - 1322.8s] dominant one being between employer and employee right boss in work uh and that and uh uh the last -[1323.8s - 1329.2s] version of this the capitalist version or is the former producer and appropriative of surplus -[1329.2s - 1336.8s] value right we'll be clear about that uh and that we need to be clear that we need to to from a -[1337.0s - 1342.9s] evolutionary perspective that we need to reject all of these different forms of hierarchy and domination -[1342.9s - 1350.2s] that's a that's a peaceful piece that we need to be be clear upon and where that leads is -[1350.2s - 1357.9s] understanding that dynamic in that relationship in present era you know between capital and -[1357.9s - 1362.5s] workers is another way of putting between employer employee between boss and worker right between -[1362.5s - 1369.8s] capital and and workers in in the main dominant piece we need to to be clear and it's the third -[1369.8s - 1374.8s] point i think perhaps the most critical point for this particular era in purpose in this argument -[1375.8s - 1382.1s] what we've fundamentally been been getting trapped by time and time again i would argue -[1382.1s - 1389.9s] basically since the great depression is an argument primarily amongst the left over -[1390.7s - 1398.5s] which form of capitalist rule we should be fighting for primarily because we don't believe -[1398.5s - 1404.3s] the radical transformation i was speaking to earlier is the immediate horizon or is possible -[1404.3s - 1413.2s] yeah and so we wind up getting into a bunch of arguments about can the capitalist system be -[1414.0s - 1419.8s] reformed and can we help to usher in those reforms right without -[1420.7s - 1427.7s] critically you know making a distinction that number one you know and we're trying to put -[1427.7s - 1432.9s] this in a global perspective we want folks to understand very clearly because then it helps -[1432.9s - 1437.8s] to arm us in different ways in terms of fighting back i want us to be clear about that -[1437.8s - 1442.9s] but there's this notion sometimes like that fascism is something different -[1443.4s - 1447.8s] than what we understand is bourgeois democracy and i'm not saying that they are the same -[1447.8s - 1456.1s] but they sprung from they spring from the same root and that root is capitalism okay and capitalism -[1456.1s - 1463.7s] will employ based upon various conditions right it will employ different forms of governance in -[1463.7s - 1470.8s] order to replicate itself and reproduce itself right and to protect itself in order for it to -[1470.8s - 1476.7s] sustain so there's some periods in time right that that we are we're kind of coming to the tail -[1476.7s - 1482.8s] end of that me and you it's probably a good chunk of our audience you know uh uh we're born in the -[1482.8s - 1489.8s] 1960s and 70s and we caught the tail end of what one could call social democracy right or like the -[1489.8s - 1495.5s] welfare state now the neoliberal order that they ushered in in the the 1980s is largely -[1495.5s - 1500.5s] abysserated most of it not completely gone i mean they're working on that now so when you hear this -[1500.5s - 1505.3s] argument about the republicans talking about they're going to destroy the department of education -[1505.3s - 1510.2s] or they're going to destroy ultimately you know social security they're trying to complete that -[1510.2s - 1517.0s] neoliberal revolution of privatizing everything right but just keep in mind that those things -[1517.0s - 1523.0s] that they existed were still within the capitalist framework right so security and all those benefits -[1523.0s - 1528.9s] they still allowed the appropriation of our surplus value they just tacked a certain amount and then -[1528.9s - 1534.7s] distributed a certain amount but it left the rulers in place right they didn't go anywhere -[1535.2s - 1542.5s] and the rulers never completely agreed with that program of being taxed right of being regulated -[1542.5s - 1546.3s] and they had fought back and in this recent iteration if you look at -[1546.3s - 1551.3s] trump or urban or bodhi or you can put it on the global scale they fought back -[1551.3s - 1555.5s] reposition themselves at least in the current era where they are now calling the shots and -[1555.5s - 1560.8s] dismantling this old era and they're ushering a new phase kind of a neo-fascist phase where -[1560.8s - 1567.0s] neo-fascism is just another variant of the capitalist system now i'm saying that because -[1567.0s - 1573.3s] you know we we need to get past fighting about with each other particularly forces on the left -[1573.3s - 1578.3s] fighting with each other over which variant is going to be better than the other because we now -[1578.8s - 1585.1s] i think safely can save in the last century and a half live through enough variations of this to -[1585.1s - 1592.1s] know that if we don't kill it that the other form its opposite form will just re-emerge so that if -[1592.1s - 1598.3s] social democracy doesn't actually move towards the abolition of capital and in its undermine -[1598.3s - 1604.1s] then it inevitably leaves the capitalist class and its enablers and supporters in place to build a -[1604.1s - 1610.7s] reaction reactionary movement that over 10 20 30 years will come back right and move itself and usher -[1610.7s - 1616.1s] itself in the power and that is where we at so we have to figure out how to end this thing now -[1616.9s - 1622.3s] the critical piece of what we first are articulating this is the kind of the third point -[1623.5s - 1636.0s] is that starting with where folks are at right we have to end this deficit kind of -[1636.8s - 1643.2s] mindset that we have an analysis that we have and what do i mean by that please we are we are -[1643.2s - 1650.6s] constantly are you know in this notion that we do not have enough forces we do not have enough people -[1651.6s - 1657.9s] and if you mean enough people who are clearly in line with a particular -[1659.0s - 1665.2s] politics program or worldview you are absolutely correct you're thinking about it -[1665.2s - 1672.2s] just strictly in kind of the a vanguardist way of moving social revolution then you are correct -[1673.1s - 1679.9s] however if you look at what people are engaged in that has the potential of transforming social -[1679.9s - 1686.1s] relationships in a non-capitalist way we see that there are millions of people just in the united -[1686.1s - 1693.0s] states alone but i would say even more outside who are engaged in practices that if sufficiently -[1694.5s - 1700.5s] coordinated right could lead to a radical transformation and what i mean by a radical -[1700.5s - 1707.5s] transformation like this is this is the piece we'll get into later but there within the the -[1707.5s - 1712.7s] cycle of capital and if you can probably bring bring that one up the one that says uh david harvey -[1712.7s - 1719.2s] you know just to the go to to give people to understand uh tundas tundasies were a little bit -[1719.2s - 1726.4s] and this is a cycle of cycle of capitalism david harvey that one i'm not seeing that -[1727.2s - 1732.1s] which is a little it's a graphic no i know that but which one is it i have -[1732.8s - 1739.9s] i think it's just david harvey in the in the in the thing itself or harvey is in the the title -[1742.8s - 1750.2s] while tundy is pulling it up comrades the the just a little kind of one-on-one so there's -[1752.5s - 1760.9s] use exchange and commodity exchange no not that one that uh is run by david harvey but -[1760.9s - 1767.5s] what i'm getting to that is that there's the the dominant typical form of how we understand -[1768.4s - 1775.5s] capitalism to move is a circulation that there it is okay but okay but uh -[1776.7s - 1785.7s] you know this this circulation without going into deep because we're already at the 30-minute -[1785.7s - 1795.1s] mark yes sir we are trying to up in this particular uh valuation of surplus labor and surplus value -[1795.9s - 1799.7s] and we're going to go through a part of this so folks throughout this course understand -[1809.2s - 1827.3s] As a basic means to integrate a way to move past this and to get to a spot where in that we aim our collective endeavors towards the production of exchange values use values, right, not commodities. -[1828.0s - 1838.2s] And that we now possess the technical means and capacity to move in ways that previous generations could only, you know, dream of. -[1838.8s - 1842.2s] And this is the folks understand that the computing capacity. -[1842.2s - 1852.2s] How capital wants to use it as you listen to Peter till capital wants to use it to basically subject labor to total domination and control. -[1852.4s - 1867.5s] There's another version of this, where we could utilize all of this is this kind of the wealth of human ingenuity and the accumulated kind of expression of humanities intellectual growth. -[1867.5s - 1897.5s] So we could use it to transform society within our means to make our labors and endeavors easier with the context of appropriate technology what I mean by appropriate things that are socially appropriate that don't require a great deal of waste or excess production too much extraction from from the earth, and then -[1897.5s - 1912.0s] we can use it to make sure that their producers want. And so they find a different ways to dispose of them, or they do, you know, plant obsolescence, instead of making things that could be durable for a generation, they make them to make sure that they fit a cycle of consumerism, -[1912.2s - 1917.9s] wearing things, you know, time out or break very calculated in intention. -[1918.0s - 1919.6s] My car, my laptop. -[1921.2s - 1929.1s] All these different things they can make them a lot durable they can make them a lot better. There are certain dynamics of the market where they choose not to. -[1929.3s - 1947.9s] So this is part of the cycle of what we're going to up in. And what we're arguing for is that if we take what millions of people are already doing and the engagement of certain key solidarity practices that we can create our own, you know, kind of value change that -[1947.9s - 1964.9s] we can then up in this and move us towards production towards values in our communities, and that we would argue we have enough critical mass already that we could be major catalyst for this for the development of -[1995.4s - 2006.4s] the economy. With all the excess production of just food alone that there should be any human being on this planet who goes hungry shouldn't be not one, not one, not one. -[2006.6s - 2015.2s] That is a problem. Not only of distribution to some people will leave it at that that's that's one dimension of the problem as it presently exists. -[2015.2s - 2030.8s] But ultimately we have to figure out how to socialize the means of production and put all of us in a democratic practice of being able to access common goods, so that we can meet our common needs from the collective pool of what humanity has produced. -[2030.8s - 2047.2s] And the solidarity practice of the solidarity economy are the anchors to that that is the argument and then what we present as the formula are steps, a set of steps, you know what we call the kind of the practice of position in the practices of maneuver. -[2047.2s - 2061.0s] And the first part will go through the practices of position and that's taken from Gromshee very intentionally and deliberately so folks Antonio Gromshee present notebooks for those who've never read it or don't understand, you know, what I know what the sources go back and look at that. -[2061.8s - 2079.9s] This particular piece and that's about how you deal with hegemonic encounter hegemonic dominant and non dominant forces and how the non dominant forces can organize themselves to form a new both cultural view worldview and practice that distills kind of an anti systemic practice to -[2081.2s - 2090.1s] underscore undercut and ultimately destroy the dominant kind of perpetuation of ruling class ideology and practice. So that's what we are trying to aim with here. -[2090.6s - 2099.2s] Right in these positions of maneuver and what we are articulating with that and then this is what with the next couple of pieces of go over is we're going to break down -[2100.2s - 2119.3s] in detail, you know, using PowerPoint all this different stuff. How do you practice mutual aid and how does mutual aid and social reproduction lead to gathering enough information about the concrete needs that then we can then leverage that and connected to doing a concerted level of planning around -[2119.3s - 2132.5s] autonomous food production through a scale of program of meeting all the different community, small scale farms to large scale farms of independent farmers and producers tied them together to meet particular needs. -[2132.6s - 2149.2s] But then we also have to figure out how the massive workers into appropriate basically the means of productive turn it into to cooperative enterprises and link with each other to put all of the tools and all of the -[2149.2s - 2164.4s] collective property into a pool that we could use to meet our collective needs. That's what the worker self organization pieces come in and we're going to talk about within that how we take the cooperative side to trade union side, the workers in the side of what is -[2164.4s - 2172.4s] concretely going on now, how to better kind of link that together in a strategic way to utilize as much power and we'll break all of those down individually that way. -[2172.4s - 2189.4s] Let me jump in real quick not to. I don't want to take you off your, your, your focus too much but this building fight for the practices of position practices maneuver. This is going to be done in conjunction in partnership with other organizations correct. -[2189.4s - 2203.0s] Oh, absolutely. None of none of this is what we're talking about is a is could be done by one organization. Okay, none of this, you know, and why we say we're starting part of the making the argument of starting with people are doing. -[2203.0s - 2214.3s] Right, because we don't have let's be clear what the large part of this argument underscore. We don't have the political parties of the 1930s or even in 1960s. That's not what we at. -[2214.8s - 2215.3s] Right. -[2215.3s - 2232.4s] And if we look at at least in United States in most of so called Western world is profoundly different in the global south, where in the global south you still have, you know, organized factions of the left in terms of political forces there, particularly in Latin America who -[2232.4s - 2245.6s] can and are moving on things. And we'll talk about how that kind of relates but in our kind of US context, you know, we don't have political parties that can move tens of thousands if not millions of people into a concerted program. -[2246.0s - 2247.3s] But what we do have. -[2247.9s - 2257.7s] Right, we have millions of people who are involved in projects where they're doing, you know, farming in their communities of various scales. -[2257.7s - 2282.1s] It's not coordinated right is not being planned to meet the basic caloric needs of our community so most of us done, you know, to meet kind of personal needs or small scale needs. And I would say like even in cooperation Jackson we're doing, you know, trying to do a level of scale to reach about 25,000 people, but Jackson is a city of 160,000 to 180,000 people give or take. -[2282.1s - 2294.6s] So, you know, we have to figure out the coordinated with other folks in Jackson, how to scale up production and that doesn't mean cooperation Jackson want to do this. Our role is to just be a catalyst to say hey if we do this. -[2295.0s - 2296.3s] This is what it can lead to. -[2296.8s - 2311.2s] Right. We can move from food security, ultimately towards an element or aspect of food sovereignty, at least on a local level, so that we can meet the caloric needs and we could end food as a weapon but did more importantly. -[2311.2s - 2314.8s] Right. We could free up more people's time. -[2315.8s - 2326.8s] Right from having to pursue the endeavor of wage labor wage employment, so they have more free time to do more of what they want to do, and you can kind of reduce folks wheels now. -[2326.8s - 2334.1s] There's a system that has to go and that's what this this formula is saying that these practices have to be coordinated in conjunction with each other. -[2334.4s - 2340.6s] Otherwise they just kind of isolated endeavors that may make some things of our of our lives a little bit easier. -[2340.8s - 2354.6s] But if we don't deal per se with with the broader dimension of like land decommodification and the collective stewardship of land which is an anchor of what we need to go for towards food sovereignty. -[2354.6s - 2358.1s] We don't deal with that and deal with kind of collective housing solutions. -[2358.5s - 2367.4s] Right. You're still leaving folks subject to all the predatory things of the market in the need for a ways to meet the market kind of necessity. -[2368.2s - 2370.3s] That's been structured within the capital system. -[2370.6s - 2375.9s] So it's trying to be comprehensive within the framework of what people are already doing. -[2375.9s - 2386.6s] And what I mean by in and in this deficit, you know, peace is that if you take the the the whole of all the different organizing efforts that are taking place just in the United States alone. -[2387.0s - 2388.5s] I get an housing arena. -[2388.9s - 2394.4s] Right for for health and reproductive justice right for workers rights. -[2395.8s - 2397.7s] If you aggregate that all together. -[2398.3s - 2401.0s] There's a lot of people working on a lot of stuff. -[2401.3s - 2405.6s] Yes, a lot of people millions of people working on stuff every single day. -[2405.6s - 2410.2s] But because we don't have a framework to unite it coherently. -[2410.9s - 2411.0s] Right. -[2411.9s - 2413.7s] And one that's co constructed. -[2414.5s - 2425.4s] Right. And so this is an argument for co construction not one to just kind of impose something from from above, because we've we've seen, you know, time and time again that has advantages but more disadvantages than advantage. -[2425.4s - 2445.4s] So a cold production of how do we get people to plan and coordinate with each other to aggregate power. Right, but to also transform the system by getting out of those, you know, that cycle of MCM right money commodities money that is premised, the capitalist society is -[2445.4s - 2459.9s] premised on which forces us all to be, you know, chase chase is of a wage or another old way of saying to be way slaves and be dependent upon that to earn our livelihood is either that if we don't build an alternative be thrown out in the streets or go hungry. -[2460.3s - 2473.0s] Right. And remember, this is in the society which produces an over abundance or world system that produces an over abundance of all the material goods that are necessary for all of humanity to live well. -[2474.5s - 2477.1s] I'm seeing a couple of questions in the chat. -[2478.1s - 2488.4s] Let me just a quick reminder, if you come here to play or not serious you will be booted out of this chat. Now y'all know I'm tech spicy tech divergent. -[2488.9s - 2497.0s] It might accidentally hit ban user, as opposed to just deleting your comments so be careful what you put in the chat. -[2497.8s - 2508.6s] One of the questions that we do have here. If you want to tackle it now because we are at 442. And you did say you wanted to keep it to an hour I'm sure folks wouldn't mind hanging out but let's see what we can do. -[2509.1s - 2516.7s] Michael new Janice what about these arguments about techno feudalism, or that capitalism is in terminal decline I've been hearing that for 40 years. -[2517.0s - 2522.9s] Are these changes legit, and do they change how we fight who the revolutionary subject is your thoughts. -[2522.9s - 2524.7s] Great question. Great question. -[2526.1s - 2532.3s] And I've been thinking about doing a particular set of serious just upon this from from from my vantage point. -[2534.9s - 2545.8s] And let me riff off a comment that you just said, Tony, right, that you've been hearing that for 40 years. Well it takes that long for the system to actually if not longer to collapse. -[2545.8s - 2554.1s] Right. So, if we go into some of the works of say, again, citing sources I want people to read it you don't have to agree with all of it. -[2554.2s - 2564.5s] But if you look at some of the world, the works of like Emmanuel Wallerstein or undergrinder Frank in their, you know, particular assessment of the capitalist world system. -[2564.8s - 2571.4s] We see that things take roughly 50 to 60 years to sink in and transform. -[2571.4s - 2580.6s] Okay, so if you're thinking about it within, and this is part of a level of consciousness that we have to kind of ascribe to. -[2580.8s - 2590.8s] So within within the context of our own lifetime, you might dismiss certain arguments but if you look at it in the context of several generations. -[2591.7s - 2596.0s] You'll see that yes, this system is in a very terminal decline. -[2596.0s - 2605.8s] And I would argue that techno feudalism is not just a symptom of the decline. Right. -[2606.9s - 2610.1s] But it is something that is going to hasten and speed it up. -[2610.7s - 2617.8s] And for me I've been arguing before and for folks who again the site of source, if it hasn't been put in the chat. -[2618.7s - 2627.4s] One of the main framers I think they leave framework of this techno feudalism argument is Janis Berri Falkus look up his book on techno feudalism. -[2629.3s - 2630.8s] The brother from Greece. -[2631.6s - 2635.6s] That's a brother from Greece, the Conrad from Greece, you know, who all started the movement. -[2636.5s - 2658.6s] The post was in the series of government which, in my view, wind up making a class of portrayal of the people, leading them down a dead impact part of what I was arguing against around, you know, why the work type of concessions we can get, you know, from capital rather than making a clean, or -[2658.6s - 2676.3s] you know, a dirty break and going it alone, at least in regards to them switching out of being part of the EU and going back into kind of their own currency or their own transactional relationships, and then using that to foster the dynamic growth of the solidarity -[2676.3s - 2694.2s] economy because Greece had that at the time, and then one definitely emerging in the midst of their crisis, following the financial collapse of 2007 2008 2009, that there was a profound social movement that they wind up basically kind of betraying and gave space to the current right -[2694.2s - 2697.0s] government which is now in place in Greece. -[2697.7s - 2720.3s] But I think, you know, this move this terminal decline has led to the rise of all of these neo fascist forces or these are right wing authoritarian forces in the likes of again outside Modi in India, you know, Erdogan in Turkey, you know, we go on Erdogan and hungry -[2720.3s - 2735.8s] Malay in Argentina, and the list goes on and unfortunately we'll probably have, you know, a right wing government in Germany, and in France, soon as a result, but this is just legit. -[2736.2s - 2736.8s] I go together. -[2737.1s - 2741.9s] Are these changes legit and do they change how we fight who the revolutionary subject is. -[2743.8s - 2744.8s] Uh, legit. -[2746.5s - 2760.7s] If the answer is is is is the system moving in that direction, I would say if that's what is meant by legit. Clearly, that is what's going on. I mean, and we can just look at what Trump has enabled. -[2761.7s - 2769.8s] In terms of the cabinet and like what he's done with with Doge and Elon Musk basically kind of making him his co president. -[2770.2s - 2787.3s] But it's not just him right it's all the text of feudal lords, you know, which have made a very clear and conscious decision to ally themselves with Trump and the maga movement on a very deliberate nature, and why they are very much invested in a deep -[2787.3s - 2805.3s] race for over AI artificial intelligence and this global competition to who's going to get there first from between themselves being the United States and China and why JD Vance in real time is over in Europe now threatening the Europeans that they either get on board with the United States -[2805.3s - 2814.7s] and open up all of their markets towards the US domination of AI and work with them or they're going to be punished now you don't normally talk to your friends like that. -[2814.7s - 2823.8s] No, you don't mean I suppose you know that speaks to a different time a different order that is not just about Trump's personality folks need to understand that. -[2824.2s - 2841.7s] This is about capital's deep restructuring and trying to get to a particular place, right so that the West will maintain its hedge money control over the earth, over its peoples and all of his resources, so that a certain group of people continue to benefit at the expense of others. -[2841.7s - 2853.8s] So that race is still going on that is why Elon Musk, who you know, who's supposed to be running part of the government now is trying to issue a hostile takeover of open AI. -[2854.8s - 2863.2s] Right put these things in perspective to understand what a techno feudalism piece in the argument why it's legit. Does that change how we we fight. -[2864.5s - 2873.1s] I would argue and we'll go through it in some ways profoundly yes, and in some ways at least in terms of what we are articulating. No. -[2873.7s - 2876.6s] Right now what we need to be be clear on. -[2877.2s - 2892.6s] I think in terms of kind of like what principles and program, the piece that will get to what we talked specifically about social digital infrastructure that deals with how we in community production within this formula that deals with how we are arguing. -[2892.6s - 2909.0s] That we should be engaging in these kind of new technologies, but not engaging them on capital's term, but to the greatest extent possible, appropriating them at the scale that they could be utilized to open source to create our own means. -[2909.4s - 2922.2s] And that is why just to say, you can get back to this. That is why I want folks to go back and look at was it was I'm forgetting the name deep, deep seek whatever the AI piece that China put together. -[2922.2s - 2924.1s] That was a profound move y'all. -[2924.8s - 2937.7s] And I'm not saying that to like praise, you know, China but that was a pretty concerted move that opened up a tremendous amount of space. And what they fundamentally did by making that open source. -[2938.0s - 2951.6s] They made it so that folks in Nigeria can take some elements of their code and work on it without having to deal with the proprietorship ownership, or me and you can learn how to code and be involved in that and help. -[2951.6s - 2967.3s] And so I'm just taking out a role in function and ensure it actually functions to serve human need and not further right the private appropriation capture and social control that the capitalists are aiming towards very explicitly if you don't believe me listen to what Peter Tills said about two weeks -[2968.0s - 2971.5s] So this can be done through our labor unions right or is that idealistic. -[2972.4s - 2974.9s] It's going to have to be done through them and beyond them. -[2976.1s - 2984.1s] Right and be clear like we need those institutions to, you know, be transformed from the inside. -[2984.7s - 2987.4s] And we need them in particular to jettison. -[2988.2s - 3000.1s] You know, the agreements that have confined them and that folks kind of adhere to, you know, for the greater part of what about 70 years and what am I specifically relating to in terms of the United States. -[3000.1s - 3007.6s] Right, like we, we have fundamentally and I've been part of the trade union movement still part of the trade union movement. -[3007.9s - 3024.2s] But you've kind of hamstrung ourselves and accepting the national labor relations acting in this framework that comes out of right which keeps us from acting in politically or acting in solidarity in a number of fundamental ways, and then how that supported by the right to work regime structure by the tab artly law. -[3025.2s - 3026.4s] We have to go beyond that. -[3027.0s - 3029.9s] And we should have been going beyond that alone time ago. -[3030.7s - 3046.4s] Right. And so we now have to, you know, be very clear that to the to the degree that the MAGA movement is very intentional about destroying all of the liberal bourgeois protections that supposedly are enshrined in the Constitution. -[3046.9s - 3048.7s] We ain't got no need to uphold it either. -[3048.7s - 3071.6s] Right. This is where our minds and space has to open up and seize the opportunities that exists amongst the contradictions that they are creating. So if they're not going to necessarily play by the rules, there's no reason why we should either have to step out of that to now figure out how do we engage in a broad union kind of co-op initiative to like fund each other, support -[3071.6s - 3080.8s] each other, build our collective strength. How do we start now move in a concerted level to like organize one to link it to the previous questions. -[3081.4s - 3099.1s] How do we get all of the major unions that are part of the AFL-CIO to now step full heartedly, wholeheartedly, into supporting the workers at Amazon, right, to unionize. -[3099.1s - 3109.9s] And then not only to unionize, I would press it. And this is part of what, you know, one of the times I was able to kind of sit down with Chris. We had a brief conversation, a presentation. Chris Mars is one of them. -[3109.9s - 3120.1s] We're referring to, he said, don't just settle for unionization, right, press for social control, right, co-operate the space. -[3120.6s - 3129.7s] That is how Amazon basically should be run basically either as a public utility or as a collective own cooperative. -[3130.5s - 3138.8s] So open our imagination towards the appropriating. We have to, you know, go back to be very clear about we're trying to expropriate from these appropriators. -[3139.2s - 3145.9s] That is a fundamental task that is still before us. It's just the means by which we have to do it and the instruments we have to do it by. -[3145.9s - 3161.8s] Some of them have to be reinvented by like the trade unions and then some things we just going to have to create a new, right, basically somewhat from scratch, but starting from where people are already engaged in the millions in social activities that speak towards a broader transformational project. -[3162.3s - 3171.6s] How much of lack of coordination is due to lack of physical infrastructure versus lack of network relationships across difference. Where is best to put our energy? -[3171.6s - 3173.5s] That's a damn good question. -[3173.7s - 3175.4s] I'm glad it was that. -[3175.4s - 3182.2s] Real quick, real quick, the graphic we put up that circle. Where is there a link to that or that's in a book? -[3183.9s - 3195.3s] Folks, there's a series. David Harvey has been doing a series about a capital for years now where he breaks down capital by one. -[3196.1s - 3203.8s] There's a series of lectures that you can go to his YouTube page or you can go to him, look at David Harvey, you know, and you can get an analysis. -[3204.1s - 3207.8s] Now, I have some nuance with David's read of capital. -[3208.1s - 3211.9s] We asked him to graphic bro. Where can we get the graphic? -[3212.6s - 3213.6s] You'll find it there. -[3214.0s - 3214.3s] Okay. -[3215.0s - 3218.2s] Or you'll find it in his book, The Companion to I Think Capital. -[3220.9s - 3224.6s] Okay, got you. Lack of coordination versus lack of network relationships. -[3224.6s - 3225.6s] It's both. -[3226.8s - 3226.8s] Okay. -[3226.9s - 3243.8s] And, you know, the capital is always, you know, fostered and facilitated uneven development. And so this is part of, you know, part of the legacy of capital only building things that serve this particular needs. -[3243.8s - 3251.3s] And so that means certain sectors, certain people, certain groups are left out or certain folks wind up being incorporated into basically sacrifice zone. -[3251.5s - 3259.4s] Like I was saying, Jackson fundamentally, you know, has become in essence a sacrifice on at least most of it, you know, to capital. -[3259.8s - 3263.8s] And so, you know, a lot of part of what we're struggling with is the lack of infrastructure. -[3265.5s - 3273.0s] But the lack of infrastructure is an obstacle. It's a barrier that I think the deeper one is a lack of coordinated relationships. -[3273.4s - 3283.0s] And that requires organizing and that we have to, you know, look, we got to like bicycle to find ways to connect with each other or walk a couple of miles to connect with each other. -[3283.0s - 3293.3s] And so, you know, the necessity should demand that we do so to overcome the infrastructure limitations. You know, and this is fundamentally what we want to have to get to I think if we're serious about transforming the system. -[3293.7s - 3304.6s] And trust me, I'm citing things that people do in the real world all over the globe, maybe not in the West, not here now, but these are practices that people do so don't think it's impossible or it's insurmountable. -[3306.5s - 3311.2s] Well, we have a spreadsheet and a calendar for coordinating or what. -[3312.4s - 3326.9s] Well, this is again, this is what we mean by social digital infrastructure. Right. And we'll probably come up with a better, you know, tool for that and I know some comrades that we're working with you know outside to that if folks want to look up some of the work that they're doing. -[3326.9s - 3350.7s] You know, one is grassroots economics. They just came out with a book on how they're utilizing basic elements of kind of, you know, cell phone technology to be able to do complex transactions within, you know, community and Kalefi community and Kalefi Kenya and beyond to help coordinate and do the type of planning that I'm suggesting is going to be necessary. -[3350.7s - 3368.0s] And this is low grid low tech. Then there's more, you know, kind of advanced versions that are being worked on by like the one project in particular a piece of their kind of, you know, working on that we've been somewhat, you know, at least on the advisory end up that I would cite that people should look at. -[3368.0s - 3397.6s] But, you know, if you want to look at a forgetting the name of the book, I will I will cite it in some notes and make sure to bring it further along. But I think the best example of even a low tech system or version of what we're trying to go to deal with some of the complex problems of, you know, like some of the socialist experience like the calculation problem that many of the projects. -[3397.6s - 3414.5s] that you know suffered from and moved through in the 20th century. We now have the computing power, you know, on cell phones to deal with a lot of things that they just did not have the capacity to actually to grab information in the, you know, quick instance of a fraction of a section. -[3414.5s - 3441.9s] We now have that at our disposal. We're not utilizing in this means, right, because it's only control that data is now a new form of capital on being used and, you know, kind of colonize if you would, by detecting a few of the laws but there is still enough time and enough know how that we can redirect our skill and techniques to do the kind of level of appropriate technology to develop, you know, programs that enable us to coordinate and some of this stuff is already out there, you know, -[3441.9s - 3459.3s] not that spreadsheets can help but to aggregate moving from like a time bank, you know, has like 200 people to try to move something, you know, say on the scale of Jackson where again is between the city's 180,000 people, we're going to need far more sophisticated tools to aggregate and plan that out. -[3459.3s - 3472.9s] And we argue that those are basically kind of at our disposal doesn't mean that we don't need to tweak them or work them or to learn more. But we need the intentionality in the political direction and in agreement around a program like this, that there's a necessity to do so. -[3473.3s - 3475.1s] That is is is is required. -[3476.0s - 3486.3s] As someone who focuses on affordable housing land stewardship I'm very interested in the overlap between food sovereignty and land stewardship in that context. -[3487.8s - 3505.5s] Well, that will be the second I'm speeding some of this along definitely will take all of the the the questions and everything in the comments. So please keep them coming or to send them to us, you know, on the YouTube link on the Jackson rising or on root work. -[3507.7s - 3521.1s] You know, we'll pick them up there are black liberation media the different places that this is going to be rebroadcast, where people kind of going through that to kind of tease these out and make sure that we incorporate these questions in the presentations that we do, you know, they are -[3521.1s - 3532.2s] sharpening things up. And y'all have already, you know, touched upon the critical things that I think a couple of these questions, the technical feudalism the infrastructure question all of these have been very very helpful so keep them coming. -[3532.2s - 3537.7s] But we'll definitely tackle that particular question around that intersection. Right. -[3538.3s - 3556.2s] In the third session, which is going to be about food sovereignty and land decommodification. And then there's a deeper component of which we actually ultimately have to need to argue for both which is somewhat specific to settler colonial societies but there's a deep element of -[3556.2s - 3572.1s] decolonization that that program has to be matched with. It's not true everywhere. So that's why we kind of left that out but for articulation of what we need here in the United States this settler colonial project and the need for is dismantling will be dealing with that during that section. -[3574.0s - 3584.3s] I am devils the David Harvey graphic. I keep seeing more questions later on for you people who came in late asking about that graphic. -[3588.9s - 3599.8s] And, well, I did see what hold on. I don't know if that's rhetorical or not but here's a question for you. Can all the urban agriculture projects in New York City feed the city. -[3600.2s - 3601.8s] Is that the best way to feed the city? -[3602.1s - 3603.9s] If there's an uprising in New York City, -[3604.1s - 3606.6s] will surrounding farmers and producers come to our rescue? -[3607.9s - 3610.0s] In short, the answer to that, no. -[3611.1s - 3611.4s] No. -[3612.4s - 3615.7s] Can it alleviate some of the stress and strain? -[3616.1s - 3616.2s] Yes. -[3616.8s - 3619.8s] Can it put people in new relationships with each other -[3619.8s - 3620.8s] within the city context? -[3621.1s - 3621.3s] Yes. -[3622.1s - 3622.3s] Right. -[3622.7s - 3624.6s] Could it help free up some people's time, -[3624.7s - 3625.3s] labor, energy? -[3625.4s - 3625.8s] Absolutely. -[3626.7s - 3629.3s] But if it's not coordinated, right? -[3629.7s - 3633.3s] With a network of farmers outside of the city -[3633.3s - 3636.2s] and to an extended and intentional value chain -[3636.2s - 3639.4s] as following this particular program in politics, -[3640.0s - 3642.2s] then you just be set up for failure. -[3643.0s - 3647.6s] So, a large part of this is not just urban, right? -[3648.2s - 3651.9s] We have to figure out how to do a very integrated piece. -[3651.9s - 3660.3s] And I would argue that the more rural areas -[3660.3s - 3661.8s] are actually far more right -[3661.8s - 3665.2s] and will become more right for a particular program like this, -[3665.5s - 3667.1s] I think in the days going forward -[3667.1s - 3670.9s] as Trump unleashes more contradictions along this field. -[3671.3s - 3674.2s] And let's go back to just remember, just briefly, -[3674.7s - 3678.7s] let's go back to remember when Trump hit China -[3678.7s - 3681.5s] with some tariffs back in 2017, 2018, -[3682.3s - 3684.6s] the quick response of the Chinese government -[3685.5s - 3687.5s] and the surgical nature of their response, -[3687.6s - 3692.6s] which was targeting primarily red counties, -[3692.8s - 3694.0s] the counties that voted for Trump, -[3694.1s - 3697.0s] which were mostly rural and how it targeted farmers. -[3698.2s - 3702.7s] And most of that market basically never came back. -[3702.9s - 3705.6s] The soybeans, the Chinese just said, -[3705.6s - 3708.2s] we'll get our sourcing now from Brazil, right? -[3708.3s - 3708.9s] And support them. -[3709.0s - 3710.6s] If y'all don't wanna play, we'll do that way. -[3711.2s - 3713.0s] Well, that's created a bunch of contradictions -[3714.0s - 3716.7s] in the heartland that we, I think, -[3716.9s - 3718.7s] that as the left have not found a full way -[3718.7s - 3721.5s] to kind of engage or exploit. -[3721.8s - 3723.6s] Hey, we don't have the relationships -[3723.6s - 3725.8s] and haven't been intentional about creating the relationships. -[3726.7s - 3729.6s] I'm not saying uniformly, but I'm saying like in mass, -[3729.7s - 3730.8s] that's not a particular aim, -[3730.9s - 3733.0s] because most of us have written most of those folks off. -[3733.7s - 3734.8s] It's like, that's just magabase. -[3734.9s - 3738.5s] Well, magabase is not facing some major contradictions. -[3739.1s - 3742.5s] They are already facing some severe labor shortages -[3742.5s - 3745.4s] on account of shooting themselves -[3745.4s - 3746.8s] in the foot, those who supported them, -[3747.1s - 3748.4s] supporting the deportation, -[3748.5s - 3751.0s] but now no labor force to do that work -[3751.0s - 3752.9s] and they're not gonna force US citizens -[3752.9s - 3754.2s] quote unquote back into the fields, -[3754.3s - 3756.6s] paying them US wages, standard US wages, -[3756.6s - 3758.3s] without driving up inflation, -[3758.4s - 3759.7s] which will make it harder for them. -[3760.0s - 3760.9s] And then there's tariff, -[3760.9s - 3764.1s] what Canada and Mexico and other folks are gonna hit back, -[3764.2s - 3765.6s] is gonna make the life of those folks -[3765.6s - 3767.9s] very painful for a while. -[3768.5s - 3770.3s] And so, he's aimless to stimulate -[3770.3s - 3771.4s] more industrial production. -[3771.7s - 3773.1s] That's gonna take more than an ocean -[3773.1s - 3774.8s] and more than just simple investment to do. -[3775.4s - 3779.8s] We need to step in and through our mutual aid work, -[3779.9s - 3781.0s] which we'll go back into, -[3781.4s - 3784.1s] we need to step in, start building relationships -[3784.8s - 3787.3s] and start moving them towards being a part -[3787.3s - 3788.8s] of our kind of extended network -[3788.8s - 3792.8s] and meeting some of their principle need for resources -[3792.8s - 3794.7s] and then our principle need for food. -[3795.2s - 3796.6s] And that there's a relationship -[3796.6s - 3798.4s] that I don't think we should disconnect. -[3798.7s - 3804.2s] And I'll cite a critical piece of why that's not as impossible -[3804.2s - 3805.2s] as it may seem. -[3805.5s - 3809.5s] Again, go back to the early days of the COVID pandemic -[3809.5s - 3810.9s] in 2020. -[3811.3s - 3813.9s] And you saw that a lot of our mutual aid work, -[3814.1s - 3816.2s] the explosion of it, particularly in parts of the South, -[3817.0s - 3823.8s] parts of Pennsylvania, Ohio and over into the Midwest, -[3824.4s - 3827.2s] there was a mass explosion of farmers, -[3827.3s - 3829.1s] particularly mid-sized and small farmers, -[3829.3s - 3831.8s] who took their product directly to communities -[3831.8s - 3835.6s] and distributed fundamentally based upon need, right? -[3835.7s - 3837.5s] Not based upon a profit or exchange -[3837.5s - 3839.8s] and they came up with mutual ways of doing it. -[3839.9s - 3841.9s] That happened within our living experience. -[3842.3s - 3845.0s] And that is something we need to be intentional about -[3845.0s - 3847.6s] not only picking up learning from replicating -[3847.6s - 3849.9s] but extending into a broader network. -[3850.6s - 3853.6s] But is New York gonna feed New York? -[3854.0s - 3857.5s] No, you just don't have enough land to do that, -[3857.5s - 3858.7s] but you can build relationships -[3858.7s - 3860.6s] in your immediate environment to do so -[3860.6s - 3863.4s] because that's what already exists -[3863.4s - 3865.7s] up through the Hudson Valley and all that other kind of stuff. -[3865.9s - 3869.0s] But we need a re-articulation of its intentionality. -[3869.9s - 3873.8s] How do we combat racial capitalism's ideals -[3873.8s - 3877.0s] of individuality and encourage connection -[3877.0s - 3878.3s] and material resource sharing -[3879.0s - 3880.7s] and mutual aid across groups of people -[3881.4s - 3883.3s] and scarcity is socialized into us? -[3887.3s - 3892.6s] I wanna do a piece where that particular framework -[3892.6s - 3894.1s] is actually challenged. -[3894.4s - 3896.4s] And I mean racial capitalism. -[3899.0s - 3902.3s] So I'll put that in for another piece -[3903.2s - 3906.4s] because there's elements of that framework -[3907.2s - 3909.4s] coming from Cedric Robinson for those who don't know -[3911.3s - 3913.7s] largely born out of his book called Black Marxism -[3913.7s - 3916.5s] for Folks Against Sighted Sources to check out. -[3916.7s - 3918.4s] I got some profound disagreements with that brother -[3918.4s - 3921.6s] and his work, but that being said, -[3924.9s - 3928.3s] it's critical context that we make clear. -[3928.8s - 3931.1s] So not that he didn't make any contributions. -[3931.8s - 3934.7s] I'm not saying that by no stretch of the imagination, -[3935.4s - 3937.2s] but I think he also let us down. -[3937.3s - 3940.7s] He position leader bones brother, please. -[3941.2s - 3943.7s] Well, we also got to avoid the pitfalls and the traps, Tony. -[3943.9s - 3944.3s] That's why I'm saying. -[3944.3s - 3946.7s] He position leader bones for the level of access. -[3947.1s - 3949.4s] But in terms of the individuality -[3949.4s - 3951.1s] and courage connection, right? -[3954.1s - 3955.7s] That is a hard challenge. -[3956.7s - 3957.8s] One of the hardest, -[3958.7s - 3962.7s] I often argue that the most successful thing -[3962.7s - 3965.0s] about neoliberalism the last 40 years -[3965.0s - 3966.8s] is this actual cultural impact. -[3968.1s - 3971.4s] Even more so than the effort of privatizing everything. -[3971.5s - 3974.9s] Now those two go together, but it's cultural impact. -[3975.4s - 3978.8s] The creating, breaking down society where, -[3979.5s - 3981.8s] the prophecy, if you want to call it that, -[3982.0s - 3983.5s] Margaret Thatcher, where she said, -[3983.5s - 3984.9s] there is no such thing as society. -[3985.1s - 3987.1s] They're just individuals and families. -[3988.4s - 3990.0s] They've done a damn good job, -[3990.2s - 3991.6s] at least in large parts of the West, -[3992.1s - 3993.4s] in atomizing things. -[3993.5s - 3995.0s] And we have to be very intentional -[3995.0s - 3997.0s] about recreating collectors. -[3997.5s - 4000.8s] And it starts, it's very small, -[4001.0s - 4002.2s] but it has to start in aggregate. -[4003.0s - 4005.7s] And that is where the struggles to build, -[4007.6s - 4010.4s] let me put it this way, just in the interest of time. -[4010.7s - 4012.9s] There's a reason why we start with the mutual aid -[4012.9s - 4015.7s] in social reproduction that deals specifically -[4015.7s - 4017.2s] with your question grace. -[4017.8s - 4021.9s] Because we have to build trust amongst each other. -[4022.9s - 4025.0s] And we have to reconstruct the solidarity. -[4025.5s - 4026.3s] We build that. -[4026.8s - 4029.1s] And without that, you won't be able to build -[4029.1s - 4030.7s] no relationships and none of this other stuff -[4030.7s - 4032.0s] will even be remotely possible. -[4032.7s - 4037.2s] It may be necessitated by the circumstances, -[4037.9s - 4040.2s] but if folks don't see it and envision it -[4040.2s - 4043.0s] and then work with the intentionality -[4043.0s - 4044.8s] to create these types of relationships, -[4045.2s - 4046.2s] we're going to fall short. -[4046.2s - 4048.1s] And that is a critical piece. -[4048.5s - 4050.0s] So we'll take that up a little bit more. -[4050.3s - 4052.2s] I'm gonna just stop there on that question -[4052.2s - 4055.0s] in the interest of time, since it's past our hour. -[4055.3s - 4057.5s] But I could go on if you want us to, Tanya. -[4059.2s - 4062.8s] Well, I wanted to get to as many questions -[4062.8s - 4065.0s] as people had as possible. -[4065.8s - 4068.3s] And I may have, well, let's see, I've got that one. -[4069.9s - 4072.8s] Did you get to everything you wanted to get to tonight? -[4073.5s - 4074.3s] Of course not. -[4074.8s - 4076.9s] But that's why we're breaking this out -[4076.9s - 4078.2s] throughout the course of a series. -[4080.7s - 4083.3s] So we will work to get there. -[4086.1s - 4089.4s] And just tonight was just starting to frame some arguments, -[4089.7s - 4092.8s] but I wanna go into practical components. -[4093.1s - 4095.2s] That's what the meat of what I'm hoping to get -[4095.2s - 4098.9s] with all of y'all, encourage everybody to tune in -[4098.9s - 4102.9s] and to join us in this path and this course -[4102.9s - 4104.8s] throughout the year and help us sharpen it up -[4105.3s - 4106.3s] so we can get there. -[4106.4s - 4108.3s] But there are practical steps that I'm hearing people, -[4109.0s - 4110.1s] well, how do I do meat you? -[4110.2s - 4111.0s] How do we do this? -[4111.1s - 4111.7s] How do we do that? -[4112.1s - 4114.3s] And we wanna at least share from our experience -[4114.3s - 4116.3s] of what we've been doing on how to do these things -[4116.3s - 4118.6s] and then collectively draw from everybody -[4118.6s - 4119.9s] to then put that out. -[4120.8s - 4122.6s] That's what we mean by the cold construction. -[4126.7s - 4128.8s] Just going through a couple of comments real quick. -[4129.1s - 4130.2s] Oh, this is a good one. -[4130.2s - 4131.8s] So yeah, one of the critical pieces, -[4135.0s - 4136.8s] one of the things that didn't get to, -[4137.4s - 4139.1s] and I'll just stay in short here -[4139.1s - 4142.4s] that deals with this part of this question, right? -[4146.9s - 4150.0s] Not that we could stop necessarily -[4151.6s - 4154.4s] by doing things in a broad democratic manner. -[4155.7s - 4158.2s] There is no safeguard of stopping liberals -[4158.2s - 4160.2s] or even reactionaries from coming in -[4160.2s - 4162.7s] and appropriating some of these frameworks. -[4163.7s - 4166.2s] That is going to retail political struggle. -[4167.5s - 4169.6s] And so there are a certain set of principles -[4169.6s - 4173.8s] that we are encouraging folks that have to be a colliery -[4173.8s - 4177.2s] to this particular framework, right? -[4177.4s - 4180.5s] And the critical piece, it starts with -[4181.2s - 4185.3s] an anti-capitalist framework and upholding that. -[4185.3s - 4190.2s] And then you then have to build upon or scaffold upon -[4191.5s - 4195.7s] anti-racist, anti-sexist, anti-homophobic, -[4198.4s - 4201.7s] pro-queer, pro-trans, all those different things -[4201.7s - 4203.5s] that we have to be grounded upon. -[4204.1s - 4208.6s] And it's not to limit who could be involved -[4208.6s - 4211.6s] because we need to struggle with people who come in -[4212.1s - 4215.0s] with ideas that may not be affirming -[4215.0s - 4216.2s] of everybody's humanity. -[4216.4s - 4217.3s] We're gonna have to do that. -[4217.5s - 4219.5s] That's just where our people are at. -[4220.1s - 4222.0s] How we embrace people in their difference -[4222.7s - 4225.5s] and be clear about at what point do you just say, -[4225.7s - 4230.6s] hey, that's not something that could live in this space -[4230.6s - 4236.6s] because your behavior is oppressing other people, right? -[4236.9s - 4239.0s] Or limiting the life chances of somebody else. -[4239.1s - 4239.6s] Like that's real. -[4239.6s - 4241.1s] We got to be real about that. -[4242.2s - 4245.7s] Because fascism as it is really is the anti-life politics. -[4246.6s - 4251.6s] It is premised on death as a means of social control, right? -[4251.7s - 4254.6s] Or social death as a means of social control, right? -[4254.7s - 4256.5s] Both of them working in colliery with each other. -[4256.5s - 4259.2s] So there's some limits to what we can withstand, -[4259.5s - 4261.4s] but we have to be, I'm gonna be real. -[4261.5s - 4263.6s] We got to safeguard some elements -[4263.6s - 4265.9s] of what we are articulating from liberals. -[4266.8s - 4268.6s] Let's be real, right? -[4268.6s - 4270.7s] And their appropriation and within that, -[4271.6s - 4275.6s] there's a danger that we have about certain elements -[4275.6s - 4278.0s] of collaboration with social democratic forces -[4278.6s - 4283.2s] who want to tie this to like a certain types of vantage points -[4283.2s - 4284.8s] with the Democratic Party. -[4285.3s - 4288.6s] When this needs to be something that's totally independent -[4289.2s - 4292.7s] of either of the two, at least in the United States context, -[4293.0s - 4296.9s] independent of either of those political forces -[4296.9s - 4299.5s] in their particular strategic relationship -[4299.5s - 4300.8s] and dependency upon capital. -[4301.5s - 4303.3s] So we have to work outside of that. -[4303.4s - 4306.4s] And that does not mean we're gonna move this without capital. -[4306.6s - 4309.7s] The question is how do we do that, right? -[4310.0s - 4311.6s] Without being succumbed, without succumbing -[4311.6s - 4312.6s] to its dictatorship. -[4313.3s - 4315.0s] And that is a very real challenge. -[4315.1s - 4317.3s] And so we articulate that more -[4317.9s - 4321.0s] at the start of our next piece to outline that. -[4321.2s - 4323.8s] We're very clearly into put that in writing -[4323.8s - 4326.2s] and what we're gonna do with all of these -[4326.2s - 4328.7s] have little power punch from here going forward -[4328.7s - 4331.7s] to kind of break down some things that people can use and take. -[4332.3s - 4335.1s] And however you wanna translate that -[4335.1s - 4337.3s] into your organization's work or community work, -[4337.8s - 4338.8s] people feel free. -[4339.1s - 4341.3s] But we are gonna make a strong argument -[4341.3s - 4345.5s] around fighting against that reformism very concretely. -[4346.8s - 4351.3s] So tonight was the introduction of the build and fight formula -[4352.0s - 4353.5s] under practices of position. -[4354.4s - 4357.8s] This is going to be monthly here on Black Liberation Media -[4358.6s - 4360.7s] on Ritwork and on the cooperative -[4360.7s - 4365.0s] Cooperation Jackson's YouTube channel, Jackson Rising. -[4365.7s - 4370.4s] It'll also be working in conjunction with Rosa Clemente -[4370.4s - 4372.9s] and her Disrupt the Chaos show -[4372.9s - 4374.9s] available on her YouTube channel. -[4375.6s - 4377.3s] The next session will be Tuesdays, -[4377.3s - 4380.0s] these are gonna be Tuesdays for the rest of the year. -[4380.7s - 4383.0s] March 11th, mutual aid and social reproduction. -[4383.8s - 4387.1s] April 8th, food sovereignty and land decod modification. -[4388.0s - 4390.1s] May 13th, worker self-organization. -[4390.7s - 4392.5s] June, community production. -[4392.7s - 4395.2s] July, social digital infrastructure. -[4396.2s - 4397.4s] August, self-defense. -[4398.2s - 4401.5s] September 2nd, people's assemblies and planning councils. -[4401.7s - 4403.8s] That's under the practices of position -[4403.8s - 4406.6s] under practices of maneuver in October. -[4407.2s - 4408.9s] We'll be talking about general strike. -[4408.9s - 4413.0s] I saw someone in the comments asking about the UAW's call -[4413.0s - 4414.7s] for general strike in 2028. -[4416.4s - 4418.2s] Monetizing the economy in November -[4418.8s - 4423.5s] and finally in December dual power and freeing the land. -[4425.1s - 4426.4s] Let's see here. -[4430.0s - 4433.1s] And I had asked you earlier also, you said that -[4433.6s - 4436.8s] this build and fight formula is being done -[4436.8s - 4440.2s] in partnership with other organizations -[4440.2s - 4444.6s] and those organizations are part of the people's network -[4444.6s - 4446.1s] for land and liberation. -[4446.8s - 4450.8s] And if I'm not mistaken, community movement builders -[4451.8s - 4454.9s] of which Kamau Franklin, a co-founder -[4454.9s - 4458.0s] of Black Liberation Media is a part -[4458.6s - 4460.3s] of that people's network for land and liberation. -[4460.5s - 4460.9s] Is that correct? -[4461.5s - 4462.1s] That is correct. -[4462.8s - 4463.7s] All right. -[4465.0s - 4472.6s] So it is 5.15, I believe, in trying to adhere to people's time, -[4473.3s - 4477.3s] be respectful of people's time, as much as I possibly can. -[4478.0s - 4479.9s] I know these folks in the chat would love -[4479.9s - 4481.3s] to hang out here all night. -[4482.4s - 4483.6s] That's by themselves anyway. -[4484.1s - 4487.7s] They would really love to hang out here with you all night. -[4488.3s - 4489.7s] I'm not gonna do that though. -[4490.5s - 4494.0s] So any last words from you, Kali? -[4495.0s - 4502.9s] I just wanted to end with the critical piece -[4504.4s - 4507.5s] around less organized for revolution, -[4507.7s - 4509.0s] not crisis avoidance, y'all. -[4509.6s - 4513.1s] And give this some serious thought and consideration. -[4514.2s - 4516.3s] And I just wanna leave in part -[4516.3s - 4518.7s] with a little song of inspiration -[4518.7s - 4524.0s] to fight against reformism, right? -[4524.4s - 4528.0s] And the appeal towards moderation, -[4528.0s - 4532.6s] which definitely is not the call of the age, right? -[4532.9s - 4536.3s] And I wanna leave you with a song I play sometimes -[4536.3s - 4538.0s] for myself for inspiration. -[4538.3s - 4541.8s] This is The Wailers with Peter Tosh taking the lead. -[4542.5s - 4545.0s] It's called Burial and it's based upon his notion -[4545.0s - 4548.8s] that, you know, rosters don't go to no one barrel, -[4548.8s - 4549.9s] let the dead bury the dead. -[4550.2s - 4552.8s] So let's leave the capitalist system -[4552.8s - 4555.3s] that deliver to us on ruins and let's build -[4555.8s - 4560.0s] what we need to build together collectively, right? -[4560.6s - 4562.8s] With each other, we got a lot of, you know, -[4562.9s - 4564.6s] issues and struggles to navigate, -[4565.7s - 4567.6s] but we got to do it together. -[4567.7s - 4568.7s] There is no other way. -[4569.6s - 4571.8s] All right, so let's take a listen to this. -[4572.4s - 4574.5s] Bob Marley and the wailing wailer. -[4574.5s - 4576.4s] You know, as old as they say the wailing wailers. -[4576.7s - 4579.1s] This is with Peter Tosh and Bunny. -[4579.6s - 4580.3s] Is it Bunny Wailer? -[4580.5s - 4580.9s] Was that his name? -[4581.3s - 4582.2s] Bunny, that's right. -[4582.7s - 4583.8s] Bunny Living in my name. -[4584.2s - 4586.3s] Right, when they were all a part of the group. -[4586.4s - 4589.0s] So let's take a listen to these words real quick -[4589.0s - 4590.1s] and see what they're talking about. -[4593.0s - 4593.8s] ["The Wailers"] -[4599.5s - 4600.7s] Hopefully that's loud enough. -[4600.7s - 4600.7s] -[4603.6s - 4604.8s] You are me. -[4605.2s - 4607.1s] They go, my go, my funeral. -[4607.5s - 4608.1s] All right, young. -[4608.5s - 4609.9s] What's mean or go? -[4610.9s - 4613.4s] Go, I'm a fairy, I. -[4614.0s - 4616.1s] Yet you are me. -[4616.7s - 4618.2s] You are my go, my go, my funeral. -[4620.0s - 4621.7s] I never play a sin. -[4622.1s - 4624.3s] You're my legend, I. -[4627.8s - 4629.1s] Now we know the truth. -[4631.3s - 4635.1s] We find you where in the woods. -[4636.8s - 4640.8s] We'll make you free business on your head. -[4642.8s - 4645.8s] I just will you be dead. -[4646.9s - 4648.3s] You are still one. -[4648.9s - 4651.1s] Come on, come on, funeral. -[4652.2s - 4653.6s] But you need no go. -[4654.4s - 4657.3s] No, I'm a fairy, I. -[4657.8s - 4659.7s] Yet you are me. -[4660.3s - 4662.0s] Come on, come on, funeral. -[4663.0s - 4665.4s] The terror takes it. -[4665.7s - 4667.8s] You are my legend, I. -[4671.3s - 4672.4s] What the big disgrace? -[4674.7s - 4678.3s] The way you rub a little place. -[4681.3s - 4683.7s] Rubbing everything you can find. -[4686.3s - 4688.8s] You even rub the blind. -[4690.3s - 4692.5s] You must be one in me. -[4692.6s - 4694.4s] Come on, come on, funeral. -[4695.5s - 4697.2s] But you need no go. -[4697.7s - 4700.4s] No, I'm a fairy, I. -[4701.1s - 4702.8s] Yet you are me. -[4703.3s - 4705.1s] Come on, come on, funeral. -[4706.3s - 4708.0s] And I met the cancer. -[4708.7s - 4711.0s] You're my legend, I. -[4732.8s - 4734.8s] You are still one. -[4735.4s - 4737.6s] Come on, come on, funeral. -[4738.7s - 4740.4s] But you need no go. -[4741.1s - 4743.5s] No, I'm a fairy, I. -[4744.1s - 4746.6s] Yet you are me. -[4747.6s - 4748.3s] Come on, come on, funeral. -[4749.3s - 4749.7s] But you need no go. -[4749.7s - 4749.7s] -[4749.7s - 4749.7s] -[4749.7s - 4751.6s] My name is David. -[4751.6s - 4752.9s] You are my legend, I. -[4756.6s - 4759.1s] Now we know the truth. -[4761.1s - 4764.1s] Find you where you are. -[4766.2s - 4770.4s] Taking people's business on your head. -[4772.1s - 4775.4s] Might as well you will be dead. -[4775.9s - 4776.5s] Dead. -[4777.0s - 4778.3s] You are me. -[4778.8s - 4780.7s] Come on, come on, funeral. -[4781.7s - 4783.3s] But you need no go. -[4784.0s - 4786.8s] No, I'm a fairy, I. -[4787.4s - 4789.2s] Yet you are me. \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/video_storage/transcripts/dQw4w9WgXcQ.json b/video_storage/transcripts/dQw4w9WgXcQ.json deleted file mode 100644 index f014a9b..0000000 --- a/video_storage/transcripts/dQw4w9WgXcQ.json +++ /dev/null @@ -1,404 +0,0 @@ -[ - { - "start_time": 3.000000000000003, - "end_time": 3.98, - "text": "Music", - 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"confidence": -0.14752738659198467 - }, - { - "start_time": 4902.98, - "end_time": 4909.74, - "text": "kalia kuno of cooperation jackson thank you again for coming to black liberation media and to", - "confidence": -0.14752738659198467 - }, - { - "start_time": 4909.74, - "end_time": 4916.82, - "text": "root work to present this series thank you all for hanging with us for hanging in there watching", - "confidence": -0.14752738659198467 - }, - { - "start_time": 4918.12, - "end_time": 4926.22, - "text": "again if you have not done so please like share and subscribe there's a cash out going down on the", - "confidence": -0.10429049283266068 - }, - { - "start_time": 4926.22, - "end_time": 4932.78, - "text": "screen that's for uh supporting the work of cooperation jackson like share subscribe support", - "confidence": -0.10429049283266068 - }, - { - "start_time": 4932.78, - "end_time": 4940.58, - "text": "the work tell folks about the series and get organized the best way you can the best way you", - 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189.8s] fourth installment, I believe it's number four. -[191.0s - 199.3s] Anyway, it's the next installment of our series in conjunction with Cooperation Jackson, presenting -[199.3s - 206.9s] the build and fight formula with Kali Akuno, co-founder, co-director of Cooperation Jackson -[206.9s - 208.7s] based in Jackson, Mississippi. -[209.3s - 215.9s] This is the build and fight formula again coming to you on Tuesdays for the rest of the year, a radical -[215.9s - 218.8s] transformation for society. -[219.3s - 225.3s] This is the offering of Cooperation Jackson for activists, organizers, individuals who are -[225.3s - 233.2s] interested in what they can do to not only help free us, but to free the planet in order to save the planet. -[233.9s - 241.1s] So, because we have a lot of information to cover, I want to bring Kali Akuno up, but before we start talking to -[241.1s - 247.9s] Kali Akuno, let me remind you all, please like, share, subscribe, like, share and subscribe. -[248.2s - 250.7s] Like this video before it ends. -[250.7s - 252.1s] Share the link. -[252.7s - 257.7s] If you're not subscribed to Black Liberation Media already, please subscribe to Black Liberation Media. -[258.1s - 265.4s] Please subscribe to Cooperation Jackson's YouTube page, Jackson Rising, and please subscribe to my own page, Rootwork. -[265.8s - 268.6s] You can find all of those on YouTube. -[269.4s - 271.2s] So again, like, share and subscribe. -[271.9s - 275.7s] Hit some cash apps, hit some Venmo's, hit all of that stuff. -[276.3s - 278.6s] So Kali, I don't believe your mic is on. -[278.6s - 281.1s] Welcome to the show again. -[281.2s - 288.8s] Thank you again for putting together this series of shows detailing the building fight formula. -[289.0s - 289.4s] How you doing? -[289.8s - 291.2s] I'm doing good today. -[291.7s - 292.5s] Doing real good. -[293.4s - 297.1s] All right, so let's jump into it, shall we? -[297.2s - 299.5s] This is installment number four, I believe. -[300.1s - 300.5s] That's right. -[300.5s - 301.1s] Number four. -[302.5s - 313.6s] Today we are focusing on the need for worker, self-organization and self-management to get us where we ultimately want and need to go. -[313.9s - 316.5s] So that is going to be our focus today. -[317.6s - 329.8s] Let me say off the top, let me just offer some recognition to some critical figures who made some valuable contributions. -[329.8s - 334.0s] To my own personal political development. -[334.8s - 346.2s] And I think to the development of both the Black Liberation Movement and the organizing of the Broad multinational working class in this empire. -[346.9s - 355.5s] And that was brother Tim Schemmahorn, who passed, who was a leader of the real workers in New York City. -[355.5s - 366.8s] And matter of fact, he helped to under his stewardship, his leadership of the union led the last mass trans described strike that happened in New York City. -[367.8s - 383.3s] And he was a big supporter of cooperation Jackson and was always pushing us to kind of expand our practice in relating to the official kind of trade union movement, which we'll get into. -[383.3s - 406.3s] And he was always keen to kind of highlight both to us and to others that cooperatives of which, you know, we are more known for building that cooperatives are just one tool in the toolkit of the working class to employ, you know, to own and control the means of production and we'll be getting to that. -[406.3s - 415.2s] So I just want to, for the official record, you know, we, we forget too often are heroes and heroes. And so we want to lift them up. -[416.8s - 425.8s] Other being brother Salah D. Muhammad, with black workers for justice who also passed not too long ago. -[427.1s - 441.9s] You know, and it should be noted that, you know, both of these brothers or folks understand the history and the connection come out of a particular the black liberation movement and a tendency within that movement, which, you know, I myself, -[443.6s - 447.9s] by way of family tree, if you would come out of. -[448.6s - 451.8s] And that was the African people's part of the APP. -[451.8s - 472.7s] And so, you know, Salah Dean was instrumental in the black workers for justice which still exists operating in North Carolina and beyond, we're very instrumental, I think in raising the class consciousness of people like myself and I would say thousands of others who are trying to carry on this organizing work. -[472.7s - 490.4s] So I just wanted to give shout outs to those two brothers. So I missed gone but not forgotten. That's a critical piece. And then also just to give some depth to some folks who made some contributions to this particular piece in the here and now. -[491.4s - 501.1s] And that's a comrade of mine, leave call, who was working in the Iow the longshoremen. -[502.0s - 513.7s] Upon the West Coast, and to K. Doe Griffin, who works with teachers and adjunct professors up in New York City. -[515.6s - 543.5s] We have been working on papers and political positions for many, many years separately, you know, and called on them to both send some feedback on some on some old ideas and to get their sense of kind of where the what I'm a call your head me say this repeatedly official kind of trade union movement is in the United States at present. -[543.7s - 550.4s] And we're going into why I use that term a little bit later. But just to jump into it, a bit. -[552.2s - 558.3s] I want to encourage all of you who are watching or who may watch this in the near future. -[559.0s - 566.3s] We're not going to do a review today, but I just want to encourage everybody to go look at the first three episodes. -[566.9s - 580.1s] First was just kind of making the case the second one was about the critical need to start around building organic leaks links and solidarity to mutual aid and social reproductive and care work. -[580.3s - 595.7s] That was the first of the series the second was on the need around food sovereignty and we really focused that one in less so on the kind of the methods as we probably could have just given the limitation of time. -[595.7s - 609.7s] But more on how different communities could and should go about securing land so you can actually start engaging food production wherever you may be in the different ways, particularly here in the United States that can go about. -[610.4s - 618.7s] So go back and watch one two and three and spread the word I think that there are some useful tools and we're going to try to provide some again today. -[619.7s - 638.4s] Now, getting us started on this one. You know we call this this building fight formulas a scaffolding formula in that we want and need in order for this to really build the kind of social and political power is necessary to kind of transform the world. -[638.4s - 658.7s] So we need these to build upon each other. And so let me just start by saying, building on those first, you know, episodes two and three in the series that if you're engaged in mutual aid work and broad solidarity work in your community, you started to mobilize -[658.7s - 670.5s] some people and get them organized and starting to do the kind of necessary care work and other aspects of social reproduction that are needed to sustain an ongoing organized drive. -[671.7s - 684.3s] Critical thing and you mobilize and folks. The second piece is, you know, the we address the food sovereignty question on the backs of the mutual aid issue and the question because from doing that work. -[684.3s - 704.6s] Hopefully, we've done it in a manner where we may be that we have ascertained more of the concrete kind of caloric I food means that people in our community have we secured enough land we're engaged in collective production on a mass scale that we are both feeding those, you know, feeding -[704.6s - 724.5s] people what they need, making some aspects of their cost of living and expenses go down, improving their overall health by improving the diet is getting us out of this fast food process food over a kind of indulgence that we are basically forced into just given the nature -[724.5s - 737.5s] of our food and food networks and food production value chain and supply chains are captured by major corporations. You've gotten out of that. But in the course of where it leads to this gap for in the course of doing that. -[738.2s - 742.5s] You've largely organized people on a volunteer basis. -[743.5s - 750.2s] Because you can't really do anything like sell for market particularly around food production until you reach a particular level of scale. -[750.2s - 771.5s] But the real object for what we're trying to do is get to a place where we are engaging in these things for mutual exchange right labor, care work, exchange work, so that we can reduce overall cost of living and amplify, you know, the productive capacity that our little mother Earth brings to bear. -[771.5s - 781.9s] Now you've got people organizing in these in these fashions but the critical thing is, you aren't touching at this point, where they work. -[783.3s - 792.6s] Right to earn their living, given that most of us in this society, you know, roughly about 90%. And one form of fashion. -[793.6s - 811.0s] That is adults anyway have to work for a living right to earn some wages to earn some income to be able to pay into the system of exploitation was charges is rent which charges money for food for water for power. -[811.0s - 827.6s] Therefore, we have to now figure out how to organize folks to great to exert greater power where they work and I would argue, ultimately, how to control where they work. -[828.6s - 853.9s] And that is why we say in this particular dimension of the formula. It's about worker self organization and self management. So critical pieces as to what that means that means you're not being number one the self organization you're not relying on some outside force or government entity, or some charity organization to come in and -[853.9s - 871.9s] organize folks where you work. You're relying upon yourself and those who work at that place to do that organizing and to come up with the solutions that are necessary to exert power and ultimately to control the workplace and that's the working conditions, the wages, and -[871.9s - 881.7s] and even we'll get to what you do when you work like if you're producing certain items, I commodities for sale. -[882.9s - 889.5s] What types of things do you actually produce and why right and before folks think that this is somewhat absurd. -[891.9s - 904.7s] You know, I'll get to the point that there are places. This is where the coops side of coming with people will workers do make certain democratic conditions I eat within the confines of the market as it currently exists. -[904.7s - 928.9s] But one of the critical things that we are trying to aim to I just want to state it directly. Like one of the limitations of just doing cooperatives is that cooperatives can find better ways often to create better working conditions, oftentimes better wages, have, you know, better hours for workers to work at, and then they engage in the market but they don't change in and of -[928.9s - 947.2s] themselves. They don't change the market. We ultimately have to change the market and shifted so that is more responsive to human needs, rather than trying to fit a cycle of profitability and maximizing profits for a small group of property owners, -[975.8s - 977.2s] including the places that we work. So we're trying to get out of that. -[977.2s - 993.0s] So what are the things that we do to make our living better? Do we burden if you would these critical pieces of of where we need to go if we're going to have really any serious opportunity of transforming this society, because that is where the best majority -[993.0s - 1008.0s] of our, or given the nature of our capitalism has reorganized society that for us to make our living we have to make an earned wages, and then spend those wages to secure the goods in the products that we need what we want to change that. -[1009.0s - 1020.2s] But it starts with us changing us and being in control of that process. Now, we have an uphill battle to climb, particularly in a place like the United States. -[1021.3s - 1031.1s] And let's bring up Tandy a couple of graphics as to as to what type of challenges in the real we are confronting. -[1032.4s - 1049.2s] And while that's coming up, you know, we want to just we bring this up to just highlight that, you know, unions on a federal level have really only been kind of permissible and allowable. -[1050.2s - 1072.4s] Since 1935. Now there's exceptions to that rules and a number of different ways. But it was the National Labor Relations Act, or the Wagner Act of 1935, which allowed workers to form a body that could do collective bargaining form collective agreements and contracts. -[1072.4s - 1080.0s] So there's only 1935 where that really comes into play. And since that time, right. -[1081.4s - 1102.2s] Unions have tried to organize in the United States is different in different countries but today we're primarily going to deal with the United States have tried to organize, you know, the working class, primarily on a employment sector basis or employment base basis. -[1102.8s - 1121.1s] Or a trade basis, i.e. the trade union piece and the concentrate and build a membership and density around that. And that was a set of agreements that that the Wagner act kind of instructed that locked us into a framework that I'm going to say I was going to get to this later but I'll say it now. -[1121.6s - 1132.3s] Ultimately, in this day and age, we need to jettison we need to abandon we need to get rid of, because it's forming more of a limitation to our organization. -[1132.4s - 1142.6s] Abilities didn't is an enabling factor and we'll get into why a little bit later, but I want everybody to just you know take a good look at this map this from 2023. -[1171.2s - 1172.6s] And I deliberately chose one that did not. -[1174.6s - 1198.8s] Right, but physically, I their slash and burn is instrument where they particularly are just taking an axe to public sector workers and gutting those unions and we'll come back and talk about some of the deeper effects when we look at this but if you look at this you look at that the Hawaii, -[1198.8s - 1209.4s] which is one of the smallest states geographically in population why in the empire has the highest concentration of density. -[1210.3s - 1211.8s] And if you look there. -[1212.4s - 1226.0s] It only scratches 25% of the working class in Hawaii, which means that 75% are unorganized in an official capacity. -[1227.0s - 1234.4s] That is not leverages and does not constitute bargaining power, except for in small rare cases. -[1235.3s - 1254.2s] Where this often specialized work where workers have a degree of control and or a monopoly where they can kind of bring some demands to bear on their employers, because you know it takes them a while to train new electricians or new engineers. -[1257.5s - 1275.2s] New carriers to deal with the postal codes and things of that nature, you can't just, you know, pluck people into some of these jobs automatically and think they're going to be competent at doing they often take training and development right so that gives you a bit of leverage in -[1275.2s - 1277.7s] terms of negotiating kind of with your employer. -[1278.2s - 1300.5s] But as you can see, if you only doing 25% out of 100 you don't have much leverage, the 75% are actually going to limit the scale of what you can demand in terms of wages and other forms of compensation like healthcare or paternal maternal leave or childcare assistance those things wind up being very limited. -[1300.5s - 1314.4s] And if you look at this map it is not by accident that the places where the Republicans dominate the scene have the lowest concentration of union density. -[1315.2s - 1337.6s] That is not by accident is a long period of organization on behalf of the Republicans and their reactionary forces in those states, and even laws that they pass, you know, like the tab heart lead law which was passed in 1947, which which, you know, enable what we call the right to work regime that -[1337.6s - 1355.7s] enable states to kind of opt out of certain sections of the National Labor Relations Act, or conditioning in certain kind of ways to give more power to the states and therefore the employers and therefore the kind of you know historically the dominant elements of the way -[1355.7s - 1374.5s] the ruling class with the old plantation owners or old industrials, which is still fundamentally case. And if you look at the places that made state efforts to eliminate diversity equity and inclusion, it mirrors the same map. -[1374.5s - 1386.4s] So you're dealing with a systemic nature of waste racism and white domination in this society that we are trying to and have to work to undo. -[1387.2s - 1399.5s] So I want you to go to the next one, because I think it highlights a particular fact that we need to kind of continue with. And this is an important one so that top line. -[1400.5s - 1412.5s] Right. If you look at it is the total kind of density of union membership if you can buy year. So if you look at it the major spike. -[1413.5s - 1429.8s] And in the overall number of members of people in unions, it's fight between 1970 really the mid 1970s and 19 early 1980s and then it's been just on a steady decline since -[1431.5s - 1448.7s] the some of the last figures that I've looked at each successive year since 2019 has is organized labor has each year brings new catastrophic lows into the number of people who are in trade unions. -[1448.7s - 1462.6s] And if you look at the two bottom lines, what those track, right, the lighter color tracks organized forces in the private sector, right. -[1463.6s - 1478.1s] That would be in your today's, you know, Amazon or or Walmart, you know, the mega multinational corporations that that exists and work in the private sector. -[1479.1s - 1488.0s] That has been on a steady and rapid decline. And if you go through are in the public sector. -[1488.7s - 1496.3s] That has been a slow, but a somewhat steady increase in a kind of flattens out around 2020. -[1497.8s - 1521.1s] For a number of different factors the pandemic being one, but if you look at it as of just within the last, what three months, right February, March, April, just those in three months with the bullet in China shop kind of figures that Trump administration is done in terms of -[1521.1s - 1525.5s] getting federal employees, you would see a probably a mark drop. -[1526.7s - 1539.2s] And it's critical that in the private sector where most employment in the United States is kind of centered. Right. And just for the record, the United States. -[1539.2s - 1554.2s] And as much as the kind of capitalist propagandist want to talk about the private sector and the efficiency of the private sector and more things need to be within the private sector. -[1554.2s - 1569.3s] Almost all of these things are dependent in one form or fashion on government largest, I'm using their language, ie the tax base that me and you have to cough up every day every week every year. -[1569.3s - 1590.0s] In order to fund what should be public goods and services, which oftentimes go to these multinational corporations in the way of exclusive contracts or kickbacks, similar to what a lot of must is getting with his space X program with his, everything -[1590.0s - 1602.4s] I'm going to leave that alone but just we need to come to a particular point of understanding really how the US government in the US economy actually work and work to reinforce each other. -[1602.4s - 1613.3s] And why this this chair for this trade war that Trump is executing present such a challenge to the working class in particular and how much hurt. -[1613.3s - 1633.3s] It's, it's going to, to kind of a, you know, told it's going to be extracted on all of us. And why this building for a former, I think, comes at an opportune time of us setting ourselves in position to exploit the contradictions that these policies and practices kind of -[1634.3s - 1650.2s] force upon us to kind of take it more of our own hand to control the economic and social dynamics in our immediate communities into a federated sense, it didn't extract that that out to larger and larger kind of aggregates where we ultimately wind up controlling more -[1650.2s - 1661.5s] of the economy, but it depends on our ability to do this type of organizing. So if you go to the next one time I want to move just real quickly through a couple of these, we get to it. -[1662.3s - 1680.2s] And this kind of highlights some of the pieces that wanted folks to just really look at the, the, now this doesn't cover everything and it's broad sectors, but if you look at it, you know, the highest sector of union concentration right now. -[1680.2s - 1688.5s] Is in the public sector and if you notice there's a little asterisk by the end, you know, didn't get to see this form I will put it in the links. -[1689.0s - 1703.8s] But that asterisk notes that that includes police people, firemen, etc. Right in the public sector remind you those are public sector workers and that is why it is 33%. -[1703.8s - 1714.9s] Next are our teachers in our public schools 33.1%. So just slightly lower than the other one was around public safety, quote unquote. -[1715.5s - 1725.8s] And then the next highest is in utilities and most of those are also to a degree highly regulated if not controlled public utilities. -[1725.8s - 1737.4s] So the overwhelming part of the green is where the movement the official trade union movement is now very heavily concentrated in and around government employee. -[1738.6s - 1749.9s] And that is one of the reasons why Trump is taking the axe to to those because it's not like they are really saving any money, which is part of what their claim is. -[1750.9s - 1754.2s] It's not like they are finding any corruption. -[1755.6s - 1759.8s] And what they are calling corrupt are just things that they don't agree with. -[1760.4s - 1777.2s] I hope folks clear with that they don't agree with employing black people, they don't employ, they don't agree with the ploying Latinos, they don't agree with employing too many women, they do not agree with the ploying employing queer people. -[1777.2s - 1784.5s] And anybody who does employ them or somehow according to their logic engaged in corruption. -[1785.5s - 1787.3s] But the critical piece. -[1788.4s - 1798.1s] If you go to the next slide I want folks to really gather in on this union membership by sex and race. -[1800.7s - 1801.5s] Right? -[1803.2s - 1806.8s] The largest group of folks in this country -[1806.8s - 1812.2s] who are officially in the trade union movement -[1812.2s - 1813.9s] are black people. -[1816.2s - 1816.3s] Right? -[1817.5s - 1819.4s] And this is comparing two years. -[1819.9s - 1821.8s] And it is noting a drop, right? -[1822.6s - 1825.9s] In union dissidentity from the cuts that were being made -[1825.9s - 1827.9s] during the first Trump administration. -[1827.9s - 1832.3s] So in 2018, black union membership was 12.5 -[1832.3s - 1835.3s] according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics. -[1835.8s - 1839.8s] In 2019, the close of that year, it was 11.2. -[1840.1s - 1842.1s] So a full point and some change down. -[1843.7s - 1845.7s] And then if you look at the next large -[1845.7s - 1847.8s] in terms of rising, right? -[1848.3s - 1852.8s] By race is white and then Latino, -[1853.2s - 1855.6s] i.e. Hispanic within this chart. -[1856.9s - 1858.9s] None of these are that high. -[1859.3s - 1863.6s] None of these are that good by terms of standards -[1863.6s - 1869.7s] of what workers can extol in terms of higher wages -[1869.7s - 1871.9s] and better working conditions from being part -[1871.9s - 1875.2s] of National Labor Relations Act, -[1875.6s - 1878.0s] recognize entities, i.e. these units. -[1879.4s - 1882.8s] And it's only gotten worse and it's got intentionally worse. -[1882.8s - 1885.5s] But one of the critical things, just wanna highlight -[1886.5s - 1889.2s] about this particular piece. -[1889.4s - 1891.0s] And you go back and you look and you compare -[1891.8s - 1895.8s] where folks are primarily employed. -[1896.4s - 1898.3s] I want everybody to understand -[1899.9s - 1903.1s] that a large part of the federal government workforce, -[1904.9s - 1907.0s] that is the area where black people, -[1907.0s - 1910.0s] particularly black women are most heavily concentrated. -[1910.6s - 1914.2s] So this is not a race neutral program -[1914.2s - 1915.6s] that is being executed. -[1916.3s - 1920.6s] It is being executed for very clear political, -[1920.9s - 1923.5s] kind of historic lines to attack certain communities -[1924.1s - 1926.3s] and their political affiliation, -[1926.4s - 1929.1s] knowing that the vast majority of black women -[1929.1s - 1933.3s] in this country are supporters of the Democratic Party, -[1933.4s - 1935.7s] i.e. the opposition to Trump. -[1936.2s - 1938.0s] So this is a concerted program -[1938.0s - 1940.4s] to destroy his opposition -[1940.4s - 1942.8s] and destroy the organized force -[1943.6s - 1946.8s] that might have some power and capacity -[1947.5s - 1948.9s] to challenge their program, -[1949.3s - 1951.0s] particularly in a systemic basis -[1951.0s - 1953.2s] by not complying with certain orders -[1953.8s - 1956.8s] or slowing the machine down in their execution. -[1958.3s - 1960.2s] They were very crafty and very smart -[1960.2s - 1963.1s] in going after these particular sectors. -[1963.5s - 1967.2s] And be mindful that the Republicans -[1967.2s - 1969.3s] and even some Democrats never wanted -[1969.3s - 1973.0s] public sector employees ever unionized to begin with. -[1973.3s - 1975.9s] And there was a fight and it took a while -[1976.6s - 1978.2s] for that to even be recognized. -[1979.1s - 1980.3s] And if you read it, -[1980.6s - 1983.9s] the National Labor Relations Act in its original form -[1983.9s - 1987.3s] did not include public sector workers. -[1987.4s - 1989.2s] It was just those in the quote unquote, -[1989.4s - 1990.4s] the private sector, -[1990.4s - 1992.7s] which was always minimal within the United States. -[1993.6s - 1997.4s] So showing these figures is kind of showing -[1998.1s - 2000.6s] in some respects just the cold reality -[2000.6s - 2003.2s] of what we have to deal with. -[2003.8s - 2008.3s] And the main argument I want to bring to bear -[2008.3s - 2010.3s] and want everybody to grapple with. -[2010.8s - 2012.5s] And to many who might listen to this -[2012.5s - 2014.3s] or in the trade unions, -[2014.4s - 2021.1s] it might sound somewhat anathema to the logic -[2021.1s - 2025.9s] by which the movement kind of runs through -[2025.9s - 2029.3s] and that we need to appeal to the legality -[2029.3s - 2030.3s] of what we're doing. -[2030.8s - 2035.1s] But we have to remember both the age in which we are in -[2035.1s - 2041.0s] and we are confronting fascism on a global scale, -[2041.2s - 2042.8s] not just in the United States -[2042.8s - 2049.1s] and we're confronting it because of the deep shortcomings -[2049.1s - 2051.0s] and contradictions of the capitalist system -[2051.0s - 2052.2s] on a global scale, right? -[2052.2s - 2054.1s] It's inability to reproduce itself -[2054.1s - 2058.5s] and to secure the kind of profit margins that it wants -[2058.5s - 2061.3s] and ultimately that it really needs in order to survive -[2061.8s - 2063.0s] and keep the machine going -[2063.0s - 2065.4s] that has been running short now for decades. -[2065.9s - 2069.1s] And when a capital can't produce, -[2069.7s - 2070.9s] how it wants to produce, -[2071.0s - 2074.4s] when it can't rule by force of persuasion, -[2074.6s - 2078.6s] it resorts to outright open coercion. -[2078.6s - 2081.2s] And that's what leads to them calling on the dogs -[2081.2s - 2084.4s] and that's the area in which we live now, right? -[2084.6s - 2085.9s] On a global scale. -[2086.6s - 2090.1s] And so we are going to have to really dig deep -[2090.1s - 2092.0s] as Tim would say into the toolkit -[2092.7s - 2096.8s] to figure out how we're going to fight back -[2097.3s - 2100.9s] against their political kind of machinations, if you would, -[2101.0s - 2102.4s] but also more importantly, -[2103.1s - 2105.1s] to engage in the broader dynamic -[2105.1s - 2108.6s] of where the system itself is running short -[2108.6s - 2110.9s] of meeting our fundamental needs. -[2112.3s - 2115.2s] And one of the critical things to note -[2116.1s - 2122.6s] that we should learn and must learn just as a class -[2124.0s - 2125.7s] coming from our recent experience -[2125.7s - 2128.7s] and I'm talking about the experience of the pandemic, right? -[2129.4s - 2133.3s] It is a problem when some critical items -[2134.0s - 2138.0s] are only produced in one or two countries -[2138.0s - 2141.0s] and those one or two countries are half the world away. -[2141.7s - 2146.0s] This is not China bashing by any stretch of the imagination. -[2146.6s - 2148.2s] I want folks to understand that, -[2148.3s - 2151.7s] but our little project cooperation Jackson -[2153.2s - 2156.5s] in the height of the pandemic in our community, -[2157.2s - 2158.8s] like in March and April, -[2159.0s - 2161.8s] when we first started feeling the real effects -[2162.4s - 2165.1s] of COVID-19 and we first started feeling those effects -[2165.7s - 2167.9s] with some of our members who were houseless, -[2168.5s - 2170.9s] just stopped showing up to our programs -[2170.9s - 2173.5s] and then later find out some weeks and months later -[2174.4s - 2177.8s] that due to inadequate sanitary conditions -[2177.8s - 2183.0s] due to the lack of personal protective PPE equipment -[2183.0s - 2184.9s] that they had, no masks, no gloves, -[2185.3s - 2190.8s] no hand sanitizer that they die from exposure to COVID-19 -[2191.7s - 2194.9s] and our community, like most of yours, -[2195.3s - 2196.9s] and those of you in the United States anyway, -[2197.5s - 2199.7s] you remember beginning in April, -[2200.3s - 2202.6s] that started to be shortage of the, -[2202.7s - 2206.9s] was it the M90 masks, right? -[2207.5s - 2207.5s] -[2207.9s - 2210.0s] M95 masks, why? -[2210.2s - 2213.6s] Because the vast majority of those are produced in China -[2214.4s - 2216.5s] and under the terms and conditions -[2216.5s - 2219.7s] to kind of halt the spread of the disease, -[2219.7s - 2221.7s] there were major initiatives, -[2222.0s - 2224.4s] largely agreed upon almost unanimously -[2224.4s - 2228.8s] by most governments of the world to suspend trade, -[2229.0s - 2232.4s] to suspend travel, so those ships just piled up -[2232.4s - 2235.4s] and but that meant that there was acute shortages -[2235.4s - 2237.1s] in communities such as ours, -[2237.5s - 2241.3s] you know, poor impoverished black working class communities -[2242.3s - 2243.8s] and folks were dying. -[2243.9s - 2247.7s] So we took it upon ourselves to start making masks -[2248.7s - 2252.0s] and wind up being in a capacity -[2252.0s - 2254.0s] to make a critical impact and saving, -[2254.8s - 2256.5s] you know, we'll never know the actual figures, -[2256.6s - 2259.4s] but the fact that we were able to give out thousands of masks -[2260.1s - 2261.6s] primarily to folks in our community, -[2261.7s - 2262.9s] particularly houseless folks, -[2263.5s - 2265.5s] we know we made a critical difference -[2265.5s - 2268.8s] in making an intervention just by the number of people -[2268.8s - 2271.7s] who did not die who were within our purview. -[2272.2s - 2275.4s] And so I'm highlighting this from a direct experience -[2275.9s - 2277.3s] on highlighting the need, -[2277.3s - 2278.9s] and this goes back to the community, -[2279.2s - 2280.9s] or goes to the community production piece, -[2281.0s - 2283.9s] which is our next one that was gonna do issue number five, -[2284.8s - 2287.4s] why we need to kind of read, -[2287.8s - 2290.3s] localize certain aspects of production -[2290.3s - 2293.5s] to not be dependent upon ultra-vernable -[2295.0s - 2297.7s] and over-extended, hyper-over-extended supply -[2297.7s - 2300.7s] and value change to meet our particular needs. -[2300.8s - 2303.9s] And let's understand, despite all the Trump being readered, -[2303.9s - 2306.3s] how those value chains got created -[2306.3s - 2312.9s] because he tells a story that the presidents before him -[2312.9s - 2317.4s] were stupid and that they allowed the United States -[2317.4s - 2321.1s] to be abused and to be exploited, et cetera. -[2323.0s - 2326.4s] Do not believe one word of that at all. -[2327.7s - 2330.5s] Please, anybody, particularly folks living in this, -[2331.0s - 2332.4s] because what happened was, -[2335.3s - 2338.1s] the corporations and the capitalists, -[2338.2s - 2339.7s] which run this economy, -[2340.6s - 2346.5s] decided to go to places like China or Vietnam, -[2348.5s - 2354.8s] you know, Taiwan or Mexico or Chile, Argentina, -[2355.3s - 2358.8s] because the labor costs were lower. -[2359.8s - 2362.9s] The environmental standards were lower, -[2363.8s - 2365.2s] or they didn't exist. -[2365.8s - 2370.3s] And so they found populations and or created situations -[2370.8s - 2373.8s] in various countries where they could better exploit -[2373.8s - 2378.4s] the labor that existed in these regions. -[2378.9s - 2380.8s] And they made these critical decisions, -[2380.8s - 2384.3s] beginning in the 1960s, to counter everything you saw -[2384.3s - 2387.0s] in those graphics and the curve in the upswing -[2387.0s - 2391.2s] of working class forces, getting better organized, -[2391.6s - 2393.4s] exerting more power, more influence, -[2393.9s - 2398.6s] and control to kind of inhibit or distort, if you would, -[2400.0s - 2403.4s] or shape the labor process, what got produced, -[2403.6s - 2405.6s] when, under what terms, under what conditions, -[2406.1s - 2407.9s] and then all that impacted profitability. -[2409.1s - 2412.4s] The capitalist system itself, Trump is making kind of -[2412.4s - 2416.3s] somewhat a deranged anti-capitalist argument -[2416.3s - 2418.3s] in what he's arguing. -[2418.6s - 2421.3s] It's an argument that is not fundamentally understanding -[2421.3s - 2423.3s] the overall relations of productions. -[2424.2s - 2428.0s] So Mafioso argument of just kind of extolling tribute -[2428.0s - 2430.4s] and extract, if you look at, in fact, -[2431.7s - 2433.5s] what he's doing right now in his trip -[2434.5s - 2439.3s] through Southwest Asia, in Saudi Arabia, in the Gulf States, -[2439.9s - 2443.4s] he's just extracting tribute, basically, right? -[2443.4s - 2447.3s] He even, he went there, he said to us all that he went there -[2447.3s - 2449.2s] because they were willing to pay. -[2450.5s - 2455.1s] And that was a condition of his foreign diplomacy, -[2455.4s - 2456.5s] and that they were willing to, -[2456.8s - 2458.3s] think in the case of Saudi Arabia, -[2458.4s - 2461.2s] buy a trillion dollars worth of U.S. -[2461.3s - 2466.3s] who was largely in the weapons arms trade, -[2467.7s - 2470.2s] which is one of the only areas where the United States, -[2470.2s - 2474.7s] probably that and their attainment are the only areas -[2474.7s - 2478.4s] where it kind of has a dominant kind of a positionality -[2479.1s - 2481.9s] within the overall productive relations -[2481.9s - 2484.2s] of productive cycles in the United States. -[2487.9s - 2493.3s] So not playing into the same rationality -[2493.3s - 2497.3s] or the same reasoning why he's trying to quote unquote, -[2497.3s - 2499.7s] bring production back to the United States. -[2499.7s - 2502.8s] Our logic and their logic, even though they may sound the same -[2502.8s - 2504.1s] on what folks to understand, -[2504.5s - 2505.7s] and why I went on this road, -[2506.2s - 2509.0s] that what the critical difference is. -[2509.7s - 2513.0s] We are trying to create a system wherein -[2513.5s - 2516.2s] the fundamental goods and services that we need -[2516.8s - 2519.5s] are not dependent upon a highly vulnerable -[2519.5s - 2522.0s] supply chains and value chains, -[2523.0s - 2528.6s] nor will they be contingent upon exploiting labor -[2528.6s - 2536.9s] in other countries under extremely severe conditions. -[2537.6s - 2539.7s] Knowing the other part of the story -[2539.7s - 2543.3s] about U.S. capital shipping their factories -[2544.2s - 2547.0s] over to China, Vietnam, Mexico, et cetera, -[2547.6s - 2552.1s] also had to do with them through the CIA -[2553.0s - 2556.4s] and other things, creating favorable regimes, -[2557.0s - 2560.7s] taking out the legitimate leftist governments, -[2561.0s - 2563.9s] if you want to call it the any nation state -[2563.9s - 2566.7s] of legitimate entity, but taking them out -[2567.9s - 2570.6s] and you can just look at the track record -[2570.6s - 2572.9s] of CIA interventions and assassinations -[2572.9s - 2576.5s] and regime change operations all over the world, -[2576.6s - 2580.5s] basically from the 1940s through the present. -[2581.5s - 2582.6s] It is deep, it's replete, -[2582.6s - 2584.9s] and covers almost every square inch of the planet. -[2586.4s - 2588.4s] That they created terms and conditions, -[2588.6s - 2591.3s] they created regimes which would basically subject -[2591.3s - 2594.8s] their workers to the most depraved, -[2594.9s - 2597.7s] depressed working standards and conditions. -[2597.9s - 2600.5s] It's not like folks chose to be cheap labor. -[2602.0s - 2605.6s] The conditions of capitalists through colonialism -[2605.6s - 2608.1s] and imperialism created these conditions -[2608.1s - 2609.7s] very intentionally and deliberately -[2609.7s - 2612.0s] and it's up to us to unchange that. -[2612.0s - 2616.1s] So we are making that argument, -[2617.5s - 2621.3s] number one, that in the here and now, -[2621.5s - 2625.6s] if we want to really advance and change the fortunes -[2625.6s - 2628.7s] of labor, that one of the critical things -[2628.7s - 2630.8s] in the United States that we have to do -[2631.5s - 2635.7s] is really organize outside of the narrow confines -[2636.4s - 2637.9s] of the National Labor Relations Act. -[2637.9s - 2641.9s] We need to jettison that and its logic entirely -[2641.9s - 2645.2s] and recognize the nature of the age that we are in -[2645.9s - 2649.4s] and what type of organization it requires, right? -[2649.5s - 2651.9s] Because it's not like capital, -[2652.7s - 2656.2s] these corporations are operating -[2656.2s - 2658.0s] within the confines of these law. -[2658.2s - 2659.9s] They've done everything within their power -[2661.1s - 2662.6s] to break the law, subvert the law, -[2662.6s - 2664.5s] and they have very successfully, -[2665.2s - 2669.1s] they've employed new forms of technology -[2669.1s - 2671.7s] to reorganize the entire productive process -[2672.3s - 2675.6s] that we at this point have to adapt to -[2675.6s - 2678.5s] and catch up with and create new forms of organization -[2678.5s - 2683.2s] that deals with how the productive process itself -[2683.2s - 2685.6s] is currently being run and operated. -[2686.3s - 2688.1s] And we don't just want to catch up, -[2688.4s - 2691.1s] we want to be ultimately in the driver's seat. -[2691.3s - 2692.8s] And so one of the critical things -[2693.5s - 2694.8s] that we want to bring together -[2696.0s - 2701.4s] is noting that we don't just want workers -[2701.4s - 2707.9s] to organize unions to just bargain -[2707.9s - 2710.2s] and barter for better conditions. -[2710.7s - 2712.1s] It's insufficient, folks. -[2712.9s - 2716.2s] We need to be thinking of how do we organize ourselves -[2716.2s - 2718.8s] in such a manner that ultimately, -[2720.1s - 2721.6s] we are trying to co-operatize -[2721.6s - 2724.6s] and socialize the entire productive process -[2724.6s - 2726.9s] starting with these particular enterprises -[2726.9s - 2729.7s] and turning them into worker-owned co-ops -[2729.7s - 2731.5s] that can then federate and change. -[2731.7s - 2732.9s] And that's a long way away. -[2733.0s - 2735.5s] We're speaking to kind of what would be. -[2737.4s - 2741.6s] But we have to recognize that the existing trade union -[2741.6s - 2743.8s] instruction is basically being destroyed, -[2744.9s - 2746.6s] although there were in a period -[2746.6s - 2749.8s] where there seems to be a small deal of revival, -[2749.8s - 2752.8s] but that revival at best is still only, -[2752.9s - 2756.2s] it's going to reach about in its current form -[2756.2s - 2760.5s] about 20 to 25% of the working class -[2760.5s - 2762.6s] that are in certain sectors that are being targeted -[2762.6s - 2764.2s] where folks think are organizing -[2764.9s - 2766.5s] or that can be organized. -[2767.0s - 2768.9s] So we have to go beyond that framework. -[2769.0s - 2772.3s] And we have to really look at organizing folks -[2773.1s - 2776.7s] on a new basis and organizing people -[2777.3s - 2779.4s] at the points of production where surplus value -[2779.4s - 2783.4s] is being made, but also at the various points of service, -[2784.2s - 2789.1s] where people are providing counseling -[2789.1s - 2792.1s] or healthcare work or aid work. -[2792.5s - 2794.3s] We have to go and to organize folks -[2794.3s - 2798.4s] in all of these different fashions in an hypocritical way -[2799.1s - 2803.7s] and organize them on a class-based basis, -[2803.8s - 2807.1s] not a sector-based basis, but a class-based basis. -[2807.8s - 2810.5s] This is not particularly what I'm arguing -[2810.5s - 2813.6s] when one folks to understand is not inherently new. -[2814.5s - 2818.2s] This is in the US history -[2818.2s - 2820.9s] and to an extent in global history, -[2822.9s - 2825.8s] aspects of what we're arguing for could be found -[2826.3s - 2828.0s] in the organizing kind of orientation -[2828.0s - 2831.0s] of the model of the industrial workers of the world, -[2831.1s - 2834.1s] the WAPIs, the IWW, and even before that, -[2834.3s - 2836.1s] in the United States at nights of labor, -[2836.1s - 2838.2s] a very class-based oriented, -[2838.5s - 2842.9s] not the kind of domper's specialized AFL, CIO, -[2843.8s - 2847.7s] which he was the president of, trade sector basis. -[2847.9s - 2849.3s] We have to move beyond that -[2850.0s - 2852.3s] if we're going to be able to be in a position -[2853.0s - 2856.7s] to really push capital and push the government -[2856.7s - 2858.7s] to go in a new direction. -[2859.3s - 2862.5s] And we want to argue, and we will perhaps -[2862.5s - 2864.7s] in some more detail we're running out of time now, -[2865.7s - 2869.7s] the need to start organizing on this basis, -[2869.7s - 2871.8s] starting with, again, that scaffolding. -[2871.9s - 2874.2s] So if we're doing the mutual aid work -[2874.2s - 2876.4s] and the food sovereignty work in our communities, -[2876.5s - 2878.9s] we started that level of organizing. -[2879.2s - 2882.2s] We want to organize in places where we live, -[2882.3s - 2883.4s] in a place like Jackson, -[2883.9s - 2887.5s] where we want to start by organizing all the, -[2887.7s - 2891.6s] everybody who has to earn a living to make a wage, -[2891.8s - 2894.3s] by making a wage, everybody within that. -[2894.7s - 2897.8s] Within one big union and create broad, -[2898.0s - 2899.6s] as a kind of a critical step, -[2900.0s - 2903.2s] create broad community-based union shops, -[2903.3s - 2908.2s] or organized shops that didn't collectively deal -[2909.8s - 2911.3s] with changing the terms and conditions -[2911.3s - 2913.2s] under which we labor and what we produce. -[2913.5s - 2918.0s] That is the critical model that we want to really put forward. -[2918.6s - 2920.4s] And the critical piece to this, -[2921.6s - 2923.0s] we would argue just in closing, -[2923.6s - 2928.4s] that we have to build the relationship in the here and now -[2928.4s - 2930.1s] to move on this in this direction, -[2930.4s - 2932.7s] where we're not just buying for better working conditions, -[2932.8s - 2937.3s] but trying to actually appropriate and then repurpose -[2937.3s - 2939.1s] such a socialized means of production -[2939.1s - 2942.1s] and getting those who are in the trade union movement -[2942.1s - 2944.1s] to work towards, like I said, -[2944.4s - 2945.4s] cooperatizing as the instance. -[2945.6s - 2947.4s] We have to form a partnership -[2947.4s - 2950.0s] that brings unions and co-op together. -[2950.0s - 2952.5s] We've been calling this our union co-op initiative. -[2953.3s - 2954.6s] It's been a major struggle, -[2954.9s - 2956.8s] but it's something we have to ultimately do -[2956.8s - 2959.4s] on a local level to get many of the trade unions -[2959.4s - 2960.7s] to kind of buy into it. -[2961.2s - 2963.7s] But it's a critical piece that we have to move -[2963.7s - 2966.5s] into the rearticulate the power -[2966.5s - 2967.9s] of the working class in this country. -[2968.1s - 2972.0s] And not view it as just kind of a small sector activity, -[2972.1s - 2975.9s] but a comprehensive activity that encompasses us all. -[2976.8s - 2978.1s] And for that to do that, -[2978.1s - 2981.1s] we'll be start and we'll share these tools. -[2981.3s - 2983.4s] We need to build class conscious cooperatives -[2983.4s - 2985.4s] as a critical base. -[2986.3s - 2988.3s] And we need to build class conscious unions -[2989.0s - 2991.6s] and have them work in a strategic framework. -[2992.5s - 2994.4s] First at the local level, -[2995.1s - 2997.7s] then at the county wide level. -[2997.7s - 3000.5s] And I'm going to abstain within the kind of a US framework -[3000.5s - 3003.0s] of logic, then at the state, -[3003.1s - 3005.7s] and then ultimately at a empire wide -[3005.7s - 3009.6s] or national wide level in building upon that piece. -[3010.2s - 3012.8s] This is the next critical piece in this scaffold -[3012.8s - 3015.1s] that we want to really highlight. -[3015.4s - 3018.1s] There's more details, which we will kind of outline -[3019.0s - 3020.7s] by sharing these tools and resources -[3020.7s - 3023.4s] and putting more resources up on our website -[3024.0s - 3025.9s] and social media in the coming days and weeks. -[3026.0s - 3028.7s] But just wanted to leave you all with this basic framework -[3028.7s - 3031.3s] as a starting point that we can build upon. -[3031.5s - 3033.9s] So I'll stop there, Tanya, and leave it open for questions. -[3039.9s - 3041.6s] Is this what you're talking about? -[3041.7s - 3042.3s] What's on the screen? -[3042.8s - 3043.4s] That's right. -[3044.2s - 3045.6s] Core element, right? -[3045.9s - 3046.8s] And there's two components. -[3046.9s - 3049.8s] There's the building class conscious cooperatives, -[3049.9s - 3052.4s] which we did some two years ago. -[3053.0s - 3056.4s] And even though we've been deeply involved -[3057.0s - 3061.1s] in our municipality, in our city, in our state, -[3061.8s - 3063.6s] and in the broader Southern region, -[3063.6s - 3066.2s] and in trying to make connections with various trade unions, -[3066.4s - 3068.1s] with varying degrees of success, -[3068.4s - 3072.1s] this has always been a core part of what we've articulated -[3072.1s - 3074.8s] is the building fight formula from the beginning. -[3075.4s - 3077.8s] And while you saw those who started in Mass Head, -[3078.2s - 3082.4s] while you saw one of the scenes of our May Day program. -[3083.1s - 3085.3s] And I just want to iterate to everybody. -[3086.0s - 3090.0s] It was not by accident that cooperation Jackson -[3090.0s - 3094.7s] was officially born on May Day 2014. -[3095.9s - 3097.0s] That was very intentional. -[3097.9s - 3099.9s] We've always had in mind that we want to bring -[3099.9s - 3105.1s] these two kind of fractured forms of organizing -[3105.1s - 3107.1s] amongst the working class together. -[3107.4s - 3110.5s] And to make it very clear that we've always viewed -[3110.5s - 3114.3s] our cooperative activity as just being a tool -[3114.3s - 3115.4s] within the two kids, -[3115.4s - 3119.8s] begin a barring from Brother Schemmahorn, from Tim, -[3120.8s - 3124.3s] that we always saw and aimed for us to be connected -[3124.3s - 3126.7s] on a broad class spaces. -[3126.8s - 3130.1s] But we started on our account in a place like Jackson -[3131.2s - 3133.1s] to organize sectors of the class, -[3133.5s - 3136.0s] which could not within the limited scope -[3136.0s - 3140.0s] of the economy as it exists and the lack of jobs. -[3140.1s - 3144.1s] We had to start where there are concrete needs -[3144.1s - 3149.4s] in our community to create the employment -[3150.3s - 3152.1s] that was needed and to create the conditions. -[3152.2s - 3154.0s] And we know these conditions exist -[3154.6s - 3158.1s] in almost every community that exists -[3158.1s - 3162.9s] within the United States because Jackson -[3162.9s - 3165.5s] and some other southern cities may be, -[3166.5s - 3168.9s] the problem may be more acute than say exists -[3168.9s - 3170.9s] in Los Angeles where you are telling -[3170.9s - 3173.5s] some other folks on the coastal cities -[3174.5s - 3176.8s] where the real unemployment around Jackson, -[3177.0s - 3179.6s] we would argue is probably around at any given day -[3179.6s - 3183.1s] somewhere between 30 and 50% far beyond -[3183.1s - 3186.3s] what the official labor statistics say -[3186.3s - 3189.6s] that it's only like seven or eight or 10 or 12 -[3189.6s - 3191.6s] for black people, whatever the situation is. -[3192.0s - 3195.7s] We know how they even count those figures -[3195.7s - 3199.4s] is grossly inaccurate because they only count folks -[3199.4s - 3201.6s] who are continuing to search for work -[3202.9s - 3206.0s] and not those who just decided to kind of give up -[3206.6s - 3211.0s] or make their living through the underground economy, -[3211.0s - 3213.3s] which is growing and has been growing -[3213.3s - 3217.0s] basically since the 1960s in this country. -[3218.1s - 3220.2s] So that was an intentional piece -[3220.2s - 3223.1s] that we want to kind of anchor on and look hopefully -[3223.1s - 3225.1s] at us as kind of a living model. -[3225.6s - 3230.2s] But it's some work trying to work with the trade unions -[3230.2s - 3234.5s] in their leadership to kind of see some things -[3234.5s - 3235.9s] in a different manner. -[3236.5s - 3239.6s] And despite sometimes being rejected -[3239.6s - 3242.0s] or not taken seriously because our numbers -[3242.0s - 3243.8s] are not similar to their numbers -[3243.8s - 3246.3s] in terms of scope and scale of work, -[3246.8s - 3249.3s] it's a quest that we cannot quit on -[3249.9s - 3251.8s] because at the end of the day we need each other. -[3251.8s - 3256.5s] And we are very clear that the model -[3256.5s - 3259.4s] that we have been employed has increasingly -[3259.4s - 3260.7s] has diminished in return. -[3260.9s - 3262.7s] And so the trade union model, -[3262.8s - 3265.0s] we have to think beyond the bounds of that. -[3265.5s - 3268.0s] And that's why we're pushing very clearly, -[3268.2s - 3270.1s] despite all the kind of the dangers -[3270.1s - 3273.0s] and the threats that may come with acting people -[3273.0s - 3275.3s] to abandon the National Labor Relations Acts -[3275.3s - 3277.0s] and all the kind of protections -[3277.0s - 3280.9s] that it somewhat affords to recognize -[3280.9s - 3283.8s] that that act is now antiquated -[3284.6s - 3287.4s] and does not meet in any fundamental way -[3287.4s - 3290.0s] the needs of work, what the class ultimately -[3290.9s - 3295.2s] has to have to exercise and exert any power and survive. -[3295.7s - 3297.5s] And let me just say this one thing -[3297.5s - 3299.3s] because it leads into the next one. -[3299.5s - 3301.2s] Just to leave a tease. -[3301.3s - 3306.3s] We now live in an era where if, -[3310.3s - 3321.5s] if the tech lords can really get their mass computing program, -[3321.7s - 3323.3s] which they call AI, right? -[3323.4s - 3325.3s] They're mass computational programs -[3326.8s - 3331.8s] to actually do some independent calculations -[3333.2s - 3336.4s] that lend them into a direction of what we would call -[3336.4s - 3338.5s] kind of thinking, making autonomous decisions. -[3339.2s - 3343.1s] And then they will be able to employ robotics -[3343.8s - 3346.7s] and the other different forms of automation -[3346.7s - 3348.6s] and deeply already been employed -[3349.2s - 3353.7s] to do labor replacement on a mass scale. -[3354.0s - 3358.6s] So we're dealing with the threat on a generational basis -[3358.6s - 3364.5s] that workers on a whole may become obsolete -[3364.5s - 3366.4s] in the next 15 to 20 years. -[3367.0s - 3370.4s] That is if these folks are allowed to determine -[3372.4s - 3376.8s] what direction this technology heads -[3376.8s - 3378.3s] and at whose interests it serve. -[3379.0s - 3382.3s] And I'm not anti-tech, nor is our argument. -[3382.7s - 3385.3s] And that's why we were arguing for community production. -[3386.0s - 3389.2s] But we need to be in control of that process -[3390.1s - 3394.0s] and make sure that artificial intelligence, -[3394.1s - 3395.6s] I'm gonna use their language in this case, -[3396.2s - 3399.3s] that if artificial intelligence is actually created -[3399.3s - 3402.8s] and employed, that is created and employed -[3403.7s - 3405.8s] by the logic of the broad socialization -[3405.8s - 3411.5s] that humanity needs to enlighten the burden of our laborers -[3411.5s - 3414.1s] as opposed to maximizing profit. -[3415.3s - 3419.3s] But we have to basically seize control of this process -[3419.3s - 3422.9s] in order to ensure that it heads in that direction -[3423.5s - 3425.2s] and not in the direction that is presently headed. -[3425.3s - 3428.8s] So we got a mighty task ahead of us. -[3429.3s - 3433.9s] But if you take just the basic evidence series, -[3434.3s - 3437.7s] you'll see that I'm not playing in that it is urgent. -[3438.0s - 3442.3s] It is dire that we get ahead of this in real time -[3443.1s - 3448.1s] before they just start eliminating large swaps of humanity, -[3448.1s - 3451.5s] which we need to be fully cognizant of, -[3451.8s - 3455.3s] is actually a large part of their thinking, -[3455.4s - 3459.2s] particularly what some people call the PayPal mafia -[3459.2s - 3463.9s] or the South African Troygill Peter Till -[3463.9s - 3466.4s] and Elon Musk and I forget the other one's name, -[3467.0s - 3470.0s] who was in the PayPal mafia, they come from South Africa. -[3472.3s - 3476.2s] They are all serious about planning and executing -[3476.9s - 3478.7s] for extinction level events. -[3479.7s - 3482.7s] And going to Mars is not just some fantasy -[3482.7s - 3484.2s] or fabrication in theirs, -[3484.6s - 3486.9s] something they actively thinking and constructing. -[3487.6s - 3490.2s] And we have to elevate our collective thinking -[3490.2s - 3493.9s] in a manner that's not just about countering -[3494.8s - 3495.5s] what they are doing. -[3495.7s - 3497.6s] That's one dimension of what's happening. -[3497.8s - 3500.3s] But we also have to really figure out, -[3500.9s - 3504.2s] how do we regenerate the productive capacity -[3504.2s - 3507.1s] of this little planet that we are all, right? -[3507.4s - 3508.4s] Because we don't know, -[3508.7s - 3511.5s] this comes from my comrade, Leif in particular, -[3512.4s - 3515.5s] because we're not engaging deep regenerative practices -[3515.5s - 3518.5s] in capital fundamental in the last 500 years -[3518.5s - 3521.4s] has not oriented this way or allowed it, -[3521.4s - 3522.2s] it's just extraction. -[3522.8s - 3524.8s] Because we haven't kind of tried to extend -[3525.5s - 3526.6s] the development of the biomass. -[3526.8s - 3529.5s] We're not really sure what all the earth can produce, -[3529.5s - 3531.9s] but we know they can produce a bounty -[3531.9s - 3535.2s] if the things are in right relationship -[3535.7s - 3537.8s] to regenerate themselves in terms of the soils, -[3538.2s - 3541.7s] in terms of the capacities of the ocean. -[3542.6s - 3545.4s] This planet probably produce a lot, lot more, -[3545.5s - 3547.0s] but we have to create the system -[3547.0s - 3548.7s] and the relations that will allow that. -[3551.1s - 3553.6s] Let's go through some of these briefly. -[3554.6s - 3556.4s] Let's go through some of these remaining slides -[3556.4s - 3557.5s] you've got, Kelly, okay? -[3562.1s - 3564.7s] Yeah, we will just put up folks, -[3565.0s - 3570.2s] we are this latest set of pieces that we put, -[3570.3s - 3573.8s] as I mentioned, we did the class conscious kind of cooperatives -[3573.8s - 3576.9s] and what that entails back in 2023. -[3577.3s - 3579.2s] We just produced these, -[3581.0s - 3582.7s] these class conscious kind of unionism -[3582.7s - 3586.3s] of kind of arguing what that really fundamentally entails -[3586.3s - 3587.4s] and what we need to do, -[3587.4s - 3588.8s] because there's some critical things -[3588.8s - 3592.6s] we got to be mindful of and why we are articulating this, right? -[3593.3s - 3596.7s] So let me just go by one way of an example. -[3598.0s - 3599.9s] Some of the different trade -[3602.6s - 3607.9s] some of the comments from Sean Fane who is the president of the United Auto Workers. -[3608.8s - 3616.9s] You know they've offered some mixed messages I would say relative to Trump's tariffs. -[3617.5s - 3623.1s] Some similar arguments to ours around the need to kind of relocalize in production which I think -[3623.8s - 3633.1s] we we should kind of get behind to a degree but being in favor of the tariffs to accomplish that -[3633.9s - 3638.7s] in somehow kind of aligning yourself with some dimension of the goals of the Trump administration -[3639.5s - 3644.1s] we need to be very mindful and I think push back on some of the organized some of the -[3644.1s - 3648.6s] sectors of organized labor for endorsing because we need to be very clear. -[3651.1s - 3657.3s] Trump can make arguments about reindustrializing the United States but the capitalist class that -[3657.3s - 3664.5s] he's relying upon to execute that should investment in production be redirected in that way rest -[3664.5s - 3671.0s] assured that is going to be automated. So it's not like they will be work you know hiring tens of -[3671.0s - 3677.4s] thousands of new workers they'll be employing tens of thousands of new machines. So it's not -[3677.4s - 3684.8s] in the current case it would not be a boom for U.S. workers it would be kind of a net effect -[3684.8s - 3690.8s] because we have been one at the point of production new terms and conditions and so that's what we -[3690.8s - 3698.1s] need to and what this kind of articulating is in the form as you read it you know why anyone -[3698.1s - 3705.5s] thinking of forming a developing a trade union from scratch which there's a lot of young activists -[3705.5s - 3710.4s] which I applaud particularly the folks in the DSA the Democratic Socialists of America -[3710.9s - 3718.1s] are aiming at direction if these things are not really built on a solid anti-imperialist basis -[3718.1s - 3725.6s] on a solid anti-racist basis on a solid you know anti-sexist basis anti-homophobic basis -[3726.3s - 3734.1s] that we are just leaving the door for various mechanisms of the employers you know of the -[3734.1s - 3739.1s] capitalists to come in and divide the working class and determine you know who eats who doesn't eat -[3739.1s - 3744.8s] who get a job who doesn't get a job and under work conditions so the we have to be in clear -[3744.8s - 3750.3s] solidarity with each other on all the basis of the diversity of which the class exists which is -[3750.3s - 3758.3s] you know not only multiracial multinational it is profoundly replete with different languages -[3758.3s - 3764.0s] different religions different sexual orientations that we have to be very mindful about embracing -[3764.1s - 3771.2s] all of that in this diversity otherwise we're just kind of sowing our own defeat so this kind of -[3771.2s - 3776.9s] outlines some of the logic and reasoning behind that so that we could pull ourselves together -[3776.9s - 3786.3s] and fight as effectively as possible and not be both blindsided by you know jingoism and American -[3786.3s - 3792.5s] nationalism or other forms of nationalism that often we divide you know the class and I just -[3792.5s - 3798.9s] want to say for folks to be clear I'm not a class reductionist by any stretch of the imagination -[3799.5s - 3808.4s] be very mindful of that when listening to me and in fact I'm one who who often articulates you -[3808.4s - 3816.2s] know we need to do the most to highlight and extend you and accentuate the various kind of -[3816.2s - 3824.5s] cultural differences that exist not they don't inherently divide anything that's not the problem -[3825.4s - 3833.6s] we have to recognize that our different cultures reflected different ways by which all of our -[3833.6s - 3838.6s] peoples historically have come to try to organize themselves on this little planet that survive -[3838.6s - 3843.8s] and I'm a ball from a merry baraca on this one you know all of our cultures have democratic -[3843.8s - 3848.8s] elements and all of them have reactionary elements right but to strive towards a broad -[3848.8s - 3854.1s] universe to bring in all these elements together we're trying to incorporate the full richness -[3854.1s - 3860.9s] and the full depth of the human experience and human knowledge and bring that to the table and the -[3861.6s - 3866.9s] you know like every time you we you know a language dies and I think there's something like 50 of them -[3866.9s - 3874.3s] die a day now on our planet you're eliminating or we are collectively to a degree are eliminating -[3874.3s - 3880.9s] whole branches of human knowledge and accumulated experience to disappear knowledge that could -[3880.9s - 3885.6s] help us in new medical fields new science fields that just we are allowed to disappear -[3886.7s - 3893.9s] that we don't we need to to make sure we capture and incorporate to enhance what we know right -[3893.9s - 3899.6s] and to expand what we know and what we're capable of so that's a different orientation in a reduction -[3899.6s - 3905.7s] is one which I do not deploy you know we need to to highlight and learn from our broad diversity -[3905.7s - 3910.6s] I think that's the critical way in which we need to go and how we have to orient ourselves in this -[3910.6s - 3916.9s] particular work okay what is this slide talking about well this is the practices up yeah that one -[3916.9s - 3922.4s] you know just would offer again and we've been offering this basically as a short form summary -[3922.4s - 3926.7s] for folks who kind of want good birds out of view on some of the critical things -[3926.7s - 3934.6s] that can and we will argue should be done in this period to not only you know fight back successfully -[3934.6s - 3940.4s] in place put ourselves in new position but ultimately to kind of lay the seeds of creating -[3940.4s - 3946.5s] kind of a new society and the aim is for these things to work again in conjunction with each other -[3946.5s - 3952.0s] not just in our situation and we do that not that every single not that everybody you know -[3952.0s - 3958.3s] is going to become some new master at farming you know or or some new master in technology -[3958.8s - 3964.4s] but we need to be in relationship with folks who are mastering those skills and to be working in -[3964.4s - 3970.6s] broad democratic fronts and practices to insinuate that to change how we relate as I was going back -[3970.6s - 3975.4s] to beginning how do we relate to the market like in ultimately how do we we dictate it -[3975.4s - 3983.2s] so profit is not driving you know what we need to to exchange the goods and services we all need to -[3983.2s - 3989.9s] to kind of you know live and drive by but that but that the principles of equity are driving -[3991.7s - 3997.8s] that that's a critical piece of what we're trying to get at in kind of the summary of these practices -[3998.4s - 4003.1s] position as we call it we haven't done uh and probably probably just to be clear -[4003.1s - 4008.0s] the other side of the building fight format which we're going to get to basically starting I think -[4008.0s - 4017.3s] in October it just pays highlights some of the different things that once we got to a broad kind -[4017.3s - 4023.8s] of mass level what could be done to reshift and what ultimately have to be done to reshift society so -[4023.8s - 4029.6s] you know how and under what term the conditions might we be able to employ for instance like a -[4029.6s - 4038.4s] general strike right to then bring about situations where there's a actual dual power crisis that we -[4038.4s - 4043.2s] create that we determine and then what do we ultimately want to do about research you know -[4043.2s - 4047.8s] reshaping society I would argue that the contradictions that are that are being unleashed -[4047.8s - 4054.5s] uh particularly at accelerated pace by uh by trump and the the forces of maga -[4054.5s - 4060.3s] offer us a profound more opportunity if we get our act together uh uh then then just posing as a -[4060.3s - 4065.8s] threat now if we don't get organized uh then they constitute you know an existential threat -[4065.8s - 4073.6s] without question which they they clearly aim to do you know but they they their logic does not work -[4074.4s - 4079.9s] to serve their their own membership base if you want to call it that their own movement right -[4080.5s - 4087.8s] and you see kind of the the twist in the logic uh on on the one hand uh trump for instance -[4090.9s - 4096.8s] signed some new executive order uh that people are still trying to understand around -[4096.8s - 4103.9s] uh uh law and medical costs right and saying that they I think one section of it said that -[4104.5s - 4110.3s] the cost of the drug would would have to be the law so wherever uh it is known at some states -[4110.9s - 4114.8s] giving taxes and other things pay more for certain medicines than others so he's trying to -[4114.8s - 4124.5s] standardize that now that's to a to a degree kind of a backhand nod towards creating universal -[4124.5s - 4131.9s] health care uh so he's trying to appeal uh one sector of his base the working class -[4131.9s - 4138.1s] sector of his base to make certain things cheaper but that means alienating the folks who -[4138.1s - 4144.9s] occupy the dais with him uh when he did his inauguration right uh because medicine is one -[4144.9s - 4150.6s] of the most big you know big pharma uh is one of the profitable industries within the united -[4150.6s - 4155.8s] states not profitable on the side of production because as we are learning right now most folks -[4155.8s - 4161.0s] are learning right now most of your core medicines are produced in china but the patterns on those -[4161.0s - 4166.7s] medicines is where the profit is being made or who can produce what like I myself independent upon -[4166.7s - 4173.3s] a medicine where there there is no generic form of it given how the the patent and the license -[4173.3s - 4180.9s] of it is and if I didn't qualify for a particular discounted rate I'd have to pay like 800 dollars -[4181.9s - 4191.4s] for 30 pills per month right uh and so that is where they make their their uh profits and believe -[4191.4s - 4196.8s] me uh they fully intend to make their profits you know that's why obama care is structured in -[4196.8s - 4203.3s] a way that it is because the democrats did not want to really fight big pharma in the end -[4204.0s - 4210.2s] and kind of break their stranglehold over our health care and so you had this you know -[4211.7s - 4216.0s] forcing you know initially trying to force everybody into a market like you would have -[4216.9s - 4220.9s] everybody's forced to to to basically come in have car insurance and other forms of insurance -[4220.9s - 4225.3s] to try to force us into that and saying that the market would provide well we know now -[4225.3s - 4231.7s] uh uh the insurance companies from what some eight eight or twelve years of that existing now -[4232.6s - 4238.3s] that most in a lot of states like mississippi most of the big insurance just opt out so the -[4238.3s - 4244.1s] only thing that's really available to you is the government program or a more uh uh pricey -[4244.7s - 4249.4s] private sector one if you can afford it so it winds up meaning a good chunk of people in mississippi -[4249.4s - 4255.7s] are actually now uh fully going without health care despite some some bill that was allegedly -[4255.7s - 4265.7s] created to universalize it so you know they're uh both for these parties are the the logic don't -[4265.7s - 4271.6s] add up and just leads to more contradiction we have to intervene in in that contradiction and -[4271.6s - 4277.1s] exploit people to come up with uh our own autonomous solutions that's what this overall -[4277.1s - 4286.5s] argumentation in in uh the formula is trying to provide all right i'm not seeing a lot of questions -[4286.5s - 4290.9s] i'm seeing a lot of comments but not a lot of questions in the chat so -[4293.6s - 4300.4s] any other graphics you want me to get to or let's just call i just want to just just uh -[4300.4s - 4308.0s] um right now no other graphics everybody no no uh thank everybody for just kind of -[4308.0s - 4315.9s] attending uh be on the lookout uh for more documents you know highlighting our particular -[4315.9s - 4320.4s] argument around this and framework the first one that will be up on our website cooperation -[4320.4s - 4327.6s] jackson.org will be this uh you know what it what we are arguing that it takes to build class conscious -[4328.6s - 4333.8s] unions but then the other piece is how these two things come together and must come together -[4334.6s - 4342.4s] but i want to just lay the groundwork and ask folks to join us next on uh uh june 10th -[4344.0s - 4350.8s] for a deeper examination around community production i will do my best that will be -[4350.8s - 4357.4s] be different than this one to do my best uh to get someone i consider to be you know uh my teacher -[4357.4s - 4365.3s] around this that's brother blair evans uh to join us in the conversation to really break down uh uh -[4365.3s - 4373.5s] how the tools and techniques of digital fabrication will enable us to do community production uh at -[4373.5s - 4379.4s] scale uh will highlight some of the things that uh his organization insight focus is doing -[4380.1s - 4385.3s] up in idawild in in uh up in detroit and what we've been trying to like copy and learn from -[4385.3s - 4394.2s] and iterate on uh uh in jackson so be on the lookout uh uh for that and the deeper kind of argument -[4394.2s - 4400.8s] on how and why we can relocalize uh production and do it through this techniques in a way which -[4400.8s - 4408.1s] is ecologically sound and becoming more so as we become more uh uh self-conscious and self-aware -[4408.1s - 4414.8s] and self-directed uh in directing this uh uh process and guiding where the technology can go and -[4414.8s - 4421.5s] should go and while we're encouraging everybody who's you know within our insh ear shot uh uh to -[4421.5s - 4429.0s] take this up and start adopting in in your community uh to get ahead of it so we wind up determining -[4429.6s - 4436.2s] how these new kind of technologies and productive forces can be used uh and i want everybody i want -[4436.2s - 4443.7s] there's a book on uh uh neil gershwin failed i may get the title wrong right now but -[4443.7s - 4452.8s] how to produce almost anything uh look it up uh i believe it's out of print but you can find -[4453.5s - 4458.5s] it's still really accessible in a number of different stores check that out as prep for -[4458.5s - 4464.6s] our next session because a lot of what will be going on whether just me by myself or me and Blair -[4465.2s - 4470.3s] will be based upon our work that's a that's a book that he also contributed to and it does a good -[4471.6s - 4476.9s] argumentation laying out the basis of someone i just argued for so check that out and be on -[4476.9s - 4483.5s] the lookout and join us on the 10th and meanwhile just to tell everybody you know make sure to pass -[4483.5s - 4489.8s] on the word about the series tell your friends to watch the video to like and subscribe to our -[4489.8s - 4495.9s] different channels uh and we'll go from there anything you want to do to close out tondi i saw -[4495.9s - 4501.7s] one quick well one question you answered earlier in terms of police unions there's another question -[4501.7s - 4506.5s] of are you going to be at the uh national black radical organizing conference coming up in india -[4506.5s - 4515.8s] i will be there one of the okay reaction is you know one of the the principal organizing forces of -[4515.8s - 4521.0s] it uh we're going to be you know making our argument there we're going to be presenting a lot of -[4521.0s - 4527.1s] materials that you have here to the summary form uh pieces to be uh in the handouts and we'll be -[4527.1s - 4533.8s] making you know our argument uh in particular that i'll just stated here because i'm gonna stated there -[4534.6s - 4539.4s] you know we want to move as many of the folks who are going to come there to become adherents of -[4539.4s - 4545.5s] promoting and practicing and implementing this build and fight formula in their community this is -[4545.5s - 4551.9s] a concrete thing that we want to take and get people to employ and iterate and do so we'll be -[4551.9s - 4555.8s] laying some of this out there when we get the opportunity you know we'll be one of the plenary -[4555.8s - 4563.9s] and some of the breakout groups so be on the look for us there um yeah at the program and if you -[4563.9s - 4571.2s] haven't registered register quickly uh we are basically i think pretty much at capacity may -[4571.2s - 4577.3s] be taking people registered we only be taking people from indianapolis at this point -[4578.1s - 4584.3s] local folks uh but one of the pieces that we are talking about you know not everything will be -[4584.8s - 4591.8s] shared live uh it doesn't need to be uh but the the pieces where there will be you know some -[4591.8s - 4597.7s] recordings or a live stream uh i'm going to be on one of the committees to ensure that that takes -[4597.7s - 4606.4s] place um so we can reach as many people as possible last question i think it's obvious but -[4606.4s - 4611.9s] i'm going to give the person the floor beyond today's focus on organizing labor do you consider -[4611.9s - 4617.1s] the possibility of us stopping to support the democratic party which takes us for granted and -[4617.1s - 4628.1s] building our own independent political force? Yes uh i'll reiterate again and again and thank you for -[4628.1s - 4638.6s] that mario uh the democratic party is the graveyard of social movements nothing that we have articulated -[4638.6s - 4647.0s] in any form or fashion uh calls on folks to be uh involved or be dependent upon the democratic -[4647.0s - 4654.6s] party this law needs to be organized outside of that vehicle and if i had more time if we had more -[4654.6s - 4663.3s] time uh would have made more of an argument uh that you know the the principle within this framework -[4663.3s - 4669.3s] around working class self-organization and self-management means that also the working class -[4669.3s - 4678.0s] has to engage in its own political autonomous political uh uh pursuits and and leadership which -[4678.0s - 4683.6s] means forming our own political instruments not becoming adjuncts of the democratic party -[4683.6s - 4691.0s] uh which most you know of the trade unions basically since the 1930s have been and that is a dead end -[4691.7s - 4696.8s] i would argue from the beginning it's been kind of a dead end piece but we have to if we're if we're -[4696.8s - 4703.3s] being real and we always need to be we need to understand that we are still living with some -[4703.3s - 4709.4s] of the dynamics of how the democratic party for both parties but it was bipartisan but to understand -[4709.4s - 4715.9s] the democratic party's role in purging the left from the organized trade union movement particularly -[4715.9s - 4725.1s] in the 1940s and 50s in the macArthur era where they went as socialists and and and communist party -[4725.1s - 4730.9s] in particular the different troskis formations that were deep in organized labor and basically -[4730.9s - 4738.6s] liquidated them out of the cio the congress of industrial organizations if you're not up on -[4738.6s - 4744.5s] that history i would definitely advise you to to to get into it and even look at how you know -[4745.1s - 4753.0s] some of the history of how now uh the iow the wobblies were attacked in an earlier generation -[4753.9s - 4762.0s] by both parties in eliminated so if we're going to do this and we have to do this we're going to -[4762.0s - 4769.0s] have to do this through our own political instruments just make that fundamentally clear and you know -[4769.0s - 4776.5s] to understand that historically groups like iow w they own they they executed and built their own -[4776.5s - 4782.4s] political parties on a local level and even the cio on this early days many of its unions -[4783.3s - 4787.8s] the working class engaged in independent political activity so this is not new it just hasn't been -[4787.8s - 4793.8s] carried through a substance but this is an argument that we are going to have to make that a company -[4793.8s - 4799.1s] is our argument with the the established and official trade unions and why they need to break -[4799.8s - 4806.2s] and join in a broader organizing process so just be clear uh of what i'm advocating for and what -[4806.2s - 4813.1s] cooperation jackson is advocating for is something wholly outside of the democratic party uh uh -[4813.1s - 4820.5s] completely no dependence on it no reliance on it and uh as you noted you know uh it does everything -[4820.5s - 4825.8s] it can at the end of the day to subvert us and it spends more of its time actually destroying -[4825.8s - 4831.0s] its left flank than it does even now actually destroying its left flank than it then it does -[4832.0s - 4839.8s] fighting uh it's more uh authoritarian and and uh uh racist cousins in the republican party -[4839.8s - 4848.4s] let me so much so that i saw so early on on uh social media today uh that the young uh the young guy -[4849.6s - 4856.0s] i forget his name unfortunately but the young guy who uh just kind of won office in the dnc was -[4856.0s - 4860.7s] part of the school shootings uh a victim of one of the school shooters in florida -[4861.3s - 4865.8s] uh was was trying to reorganize trying to make an effort to reorganize the dnc and challenging -[4865.8s - 4872.2s] well the dnc basically is is uh uh up ending and overturning his election -[4873.2s - 4880.6s] because they are they will not allow the forces of the left from reformers to revolution and they -[4880.6s - 4887.7s] will not allow them enough space to dictate the policy of that party point blank it is a neoliberal -[4887.7s - 4895.4s] party uh and anybody who doesn't ascribe to that um uh you will be brought in but you won't be heard -[4895.4s - 4900.5s] you won't be given a voice and you definitely would not be allowed to organize on your own terms -[4903.0s - 4909.7s] kalia kuno of cooperation jackson thank you again for coming to black liberation media and to -[4909.7s - 4916.8s] root work to present this series thank you all for hanging with us for hanging in there watching -[4918.1s - 4926.2s] again if you have not done so please like share and subscribe there's a cash out going down on the -[4926.2s - 4932.8s] screen that's for uh supporting the work of cooperation jackson like share subscribe support -[4932.8s - 4940.6s] the work tell folks about the series and get organized the best way you can the best way you -[4940.6s - 4948.1s] know if you can come to indiana with folk come on down so that's all indiana is a gathering -[4948.1s - 4956.0s] point in this process right one of the many so like uh um part of it is being mindful just so -[4956.0s - 4963.3s] folks understand uh trying to build on uh the legacy and extend the legacy of what happened in -[4963.3s - 4972.6s] gary in the end uh in 1972 so kind of building on that not forgetting that uh but also not being -[4973.4s - 4980.3s] uh uh prison to how that effort was subverted by the democratic party and by the congressional -[4980.3s - 4988.4s] black caucus so there's you know the past uh we have to learn from from the past so that's why -[4988.4s - 4993.4s] bringing that up because there's some key lessons there of how the national black -[4993.4s - 5000.9s] independent political party which some of our folks created uh was subverted uh in that process -[5000.9s - 5006.6s] and undermined and left us with the with the boy that we still tried to feel and we aim to feel -[5006.6s - 5013.9s] it this time around with best we can all right y'all that's it for now thank you again and we -[5013.9s - 5017.4s] will catch you on the next one peace -[5061.0s - 5062.4s] you -[5062.4s - 5062.4s] \ No newline at end of file