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guests kali akuno talk to you all about what is the build and fight formula of", "confidence": -0.0927566841467103 }, { "start_time": 234.32, "end_time": 243.36, "text": "cooperation jackson thank you so much kali always a pleasure tandy to be here especially honored", "confidence": -0.0927566841467103 }, { "start_time": 243.36, "end_time": 251.5, "text": "to be here tonight to start off this this kind of educational series we are planning on doing this", "confidence": -0.0927566841467103 }, { "start_time": 252.22, "end_time": 260.62, "text": "this was the second tuesday of every month so please be advised let your friends know your", "confidence": -0.0714871563128571 }, { "start_time": 260.62, "end_time": 268.76, "text": "family know you know your your fellow cooperators and comrades to join us tune in and as we go along", "confidence": -0.0714871563128571 }, { "start_time": 268.76, "end_time": 276.04, "text": "you know we we're going to be asking questions we're going to be looking 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is trying is unleashing on on this society believe me it ain't all worked out right", "confidence": -0.11252508430837471 }, { "start_time": 903.54, "end_time": 910.48, "text": "and they are you know shooting darts everywhere trying to see what sticks trying to see what holds", "confidence": -0.11252508430837471 }, { "start_time": 910.74, "end_time": 917.56, "text": "but the difference between us and them is they have command over the state apparatus and a command", "confidence": -0.08197980660658616 }, { "start_time": 917.56, "end_time": 923.78, "text": "over you know all the institutions and instrument of capital at their disposal to kind of shoot", "confidence": -0.08197980660658616 }, { "start_time": 923.78, "end_time": 928.56, "text": "and fail and then pick up whereas we there's more you know we have to more get it right", "confidence": -0.08197980660658616 }, { "start_time": 929.18, "end_time": 934.18, "text": "kind of the first time in order for the transformation to take place 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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,", "confidence": -0.30415711195572565 }, { "start_time": 1912.22, "end_time": 1917.9, "text": "wearing things, you know, time out or break very calculated in intention.", "confidence": -0.30415711195572565 }, { "start_time": 1917.98, "end_time": 1919.58, "text": "My car, my laptop.", "confidence": -0.30415711195572565 }, { "start_time": 1921.22, "end_time": 1929.1399999999999, "text": "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.", "confidence": -0.08184145375301963 }, { "start_time": 1929.34, "end_time": 1947.92, "text": "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", "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. So that's what we are trying to aim with here.", "confidence": -0.10791444116168553 }, { "start_time": 2090.58, "end_time": 2099.18, "text": "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", "confidence": -0.10791444116168553 }, { "start_time": 2100.22, "end_time": 2119.26, "text": "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", "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. That's not what we at.", "confidence": -0.2211909477527325 }, { "start_time": 2214.76, "end_time": 2215.2799999999997, "text": "Right.", "confidence": -0.2211909477527325 }, { "start_time": 2215.2799999999997, "end_time": 2232.4, "text": "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", "confidence": -0.12123731909127071 }, { "start_time": 2232.4, "end_time": 2245.6, "text": "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.", "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. Can all the urban agriculture projects in New York City feed the city.", "confidence": -0.16273667414983115 }, { "start_time": 3600.18, "end_time": 3601.76, "text": "Is that the best way to feed the city?", "confidence": -0.19793738135995792 }, { "start_time": 3602.14, "end_time": 3603.86, "text": "If there's an uprising in New York City,", "confidence": -0.19793738135995792 }, { "start_time": 3604.12, "end_time": 3606.6, "text": "will surrounding farmers and producers come to our rescue?", "confidence": -0.19793738135995792 }, { "start_time": 3607.9, "end_time": 3610.02, "text": "In short, the answer to that, no.", "confidence": -0.19793738135995792 }, { "start_time": 3611.14, "end_time": 3611.4, "text": "No.", "confidence": -0.19793738135995792 }, { "start_time": 3612.38, "end_time": 3615.72, "text": "Can it alleviate some of the stress and strain?", "confidence": -0.19793738135995792 }, { "start_time": 3616.06, "end_time": 3616.22, "text": "Yes.", "confidence": -0.19793738135995792 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3633.32, "text": "With a network of farmers outside of the city", "confidence": -0.17386873378310091 }, { "start_time": 3633.32, "end_time": 3636.18, "text": "and to an extended and intentional value chain", "confidence": -0.17386873378310091 }, { "start_time": 3636.18, "end_time": 3639.36, "text": "as following this particular program in politics,", "confidence": -0.17386873378310091 }, { "start_time": 3640.02, "end_time": 3642.16, "text": "then you just be set up for failure.", "confidence": -0.17386873378310091 }, { "start_time": 3643.0, "end_time": 3647.6, "text": "So, a large part of this is not just urban, right?", "confidence": -0.17386873378310091 }, { "start_time": 3648.18, "end_time": 3651.9, "text": "We have to figure out how to do a very integrated piece.", "confidence": -0.17386873378310091 }, { "start_time": 3651.9, "end_time": 3660.3, "text": "And I would argue that the more rural areas", "confidence": -0.18466650567403653 }, { "start_time": 3660.3, "end_time": 3661.76, "text": "are actually far more right", "confidence": -0.18466650567403653 }, { "start_time": 3661.76, "end_time": 3665.18, "text": "and will become more right for a particular program like this,", "confidence": -0.18466650567403653 }, { "start_time": 3665.5, "end_time": 3667.08, "text": "I think in the days going forward", "confidence": -0.18466650567403653 }, { "start_time": 3667.08, "end_time": 3670.92, "text": "as Trump unleashes more contradictions along this field.", "confidence": -0.18466650567403653 }, { "start_time": 3671.32, "end_time": 3674.2, "text": "And let's go back to just remember, just briefly,", "confidence": -0.18466650567403653 }, { "start_time": 3674.72, "end_time": 3678.72, "text": "let's go back to remember when Trump hit China", "confidence": -0.18466650567403653 }, { "start_time": 3678.72, "end_time": 3681.54, "text": "with some tariffs back in 2017, 2018,", "confidence": -0.1390056155976795 }, { "start_time": 3682.28, "end_time": 3684.62, "text": "the quick 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right?", "confidence": -0.21573556045006062 }, { "start_time": 3708.28, "end_time": 3708.86, "text": "And support them.", "confidence": -0.21573556045006062 }, { "start_time": 3708.98, "end_time": 3710.58, "text": "If y'all don't wanna play, we'll do that way.", "confidence": -0.21573556045006062 }, { "start_time": 3711.16, "end_time": 3713.04, "text": "Well, that's created a bunch of contradictions", "confidence": -0.21573556045006062 }, { "start_time": 3713.96, "end_time": 3716.66, "text": "in the heartland that we, I think,", "confidence": -0.21573556045006062 }, { "start_time": 3716.86, "end_time": 3718.7, "text": "that as the left have not found a full way", "confidence": -0.21573556045006062 }, { "start_time": 3718.7, "end_time": 3721.52, "text": "to kind of engage or exploit.", "confidence": -0.21573556045006062 }, { "start_time": 3721.82, "end_time": 3723.56, "text": "Hey, we don't have the relationships", "confidence": -0.21573556045006062 }, { "start_time": 3723.56, 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"text": "And you saw that a lot of our mutual aid work,", "confidence": -0.15654604775565012 }, { "start_time": 3814.1, "end_time": 3816.18, "text": "the explosion of it, particularly in parts of the South,", "confidence": -0.15654604775565012 }, { "start_time": 3816.98, "end_time": 3823.82, "text": "parts of Pennsylvania, Ohio and over into the Midwest,", "confidence": -0.1229642459324428 }, { "start_time": 3824.36, "end_time": 3827.2, "text": "there was a mass explosion of farmers,", "confidence": -0.1229642459324428 }, { "start_time": 3827.32, "end_time": 3829.1, "text": "particularly mid-sized and small farmers,", "confidence": -0.1229642459324428 }, { "start_time": 3829.32, "end_time": 3831.82, "text": "who took their product directly to communities", "confidence": -0.1229642459324428 }, { "start_time": 3831.82, "end_time": 3835.6, "text": "and distributed fundamentally based upon need, right?", "confidence": -0.1229642459324428 }, { "start_time": 3835.74, "end_time": 3837.48, "text": "Not based upon a profit or exchange", "confidence": -0.1229642459324428 }, { "start_time": 3837.48, "end_time": 3839.76, "text": "and they came up with mutual ways of doing it.", "confidence": -0.1229642459324428 }, { "start_time": 3839.92, "end_time": 3841.92, "text": "That happened within our living experience.", "confidence": -0.1229642459324428 }, { "start_time": 3842.26, "end_time": 3845.0, "text": "And that is something we need to be intentional about", "confidence": -0.1229642459324428 }, { "start_time": 3845.0, "end_time": 3847.6, "text": "not only picking up learning from replicating", "confidence": -0.1533125298363822 }, { "start_time": 3847.6, "end_time": 3849.94, "text": "but extending into a broader network.", "confidence": -0.1533125298363822 }, { "start_time": 3850.58, "end_time": 3853.64, "text": "But is New York gonna feed New York?", "confidence": -0.1533125298363822 }, { "start_time": 3854.0, "end_time": 3857.48, "text": "No, you just don't have enough land 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"How do we do this?", "confidence": -0.1858217014985926 }, { "start_time": 4111.14, "end_time": 4111.74, "text": "How do we do that?", "confidence": -0.1858217014985926 }, { "start_time": 4112.08, "end_time": 4114.26, "text": "And we wanna at least share from our experience", "confidence": -0.1858217014985926 }, { "start_time": 4114.26, "end_time": 4116.34, "text": "of what we've been doing on how to do these things", "confidence": -0.1858217014985926 }, { "start_time": 4116.34, "end_time": 4118.5599999999995, "text": "and then collectively draw from everybody", "confidence": -0.1858217014985926 }, { "start_time": 4118.5599999999995, "end_time": 4119.9400000000005, "text": "to then put that out.", "confidence": -0.1858217014985926 }, { "start_time": 4120.76, "end_time": 4122.6, "text": "That's what we mean by the cold construction.", "confidence": -0.1858217014985926 }, { "start_time": 4126.7, "end_time": 4128.78, "text": "Just going through a couple of comments real quick.", 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4158.16, "text": "There is no safeguard of stopping liberals", "confidence": -0.22942113876342773 }, { "start_time": 4158.16, "end_time": 4160.16, "text": "or even reactionaries from coming in", "confidence": -0.17361453374226887 }, { "start_time": 4160.16, "end_time": 4162.66, "text": "and appropriating some of these frameworks.", "confidence": -0.17361453374226887 }, { "start_time": 4163.7, "end_time": 4166.22, "text": "That is going to retail political struggle.", "confidence": -0.17361453374226887 }, { "start_time": 4167.48, "end_time": 4169.62, "text": "And so there are a certain set of principles", "confidence": -0.17361453374226887 }, { "start_time": 4169.62, "end_time": 4173.76, "text": "that we are encouraging folks that have to be a colliery", "confidence": -0.17361453374226887 }, { "start_time": 4173.76, "end_time": 4177.16, "text": "to this particular framework, right?", "confidence": -0.17361453374226887 }, { "start_time": 4177.36, "end_time": 4180.48, "text": "And the 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struggle with people who come in", "confidence": -0.18982811433723173 }, { "start_time": 4212.12, "end_time": 4215.04, "text": "with ideas that may not be affirming", "confidence": -0.15605248345269096 }, { "start_time": 4215.04, "end_time": 4216.24, "text": "of everybody's humanity.", "confidence": -0.15605248345269096 }, { "start_time": 4216.36, "end_time": 4217.26, "text": "We're gonna have to do that.", "confidence": -0.15605248345269096 }, { "start_time": 4217.48, "end_time": 4219.54, "text": "That's just where our people are at.", "confidence": -0.15605248345269096 }, { "start_time": 4220.0599999999995, "end_time": 4222.04, "text": "How we embrace people in their difference", "confidence": -0.15605248345269096 }, { "start_time": 4222.68, "end_time": 4225.46, "text": "and be clear about at what point do you just say,", "confidence": -0.15605248345269096 }, { "start_time": 4225.68, "end_time": 4230.5599999999995, "text": "hey, that's not something that could live in this space", "confidence": -0.15605248345269096 }, { "start_time": 4230.5599999999995, "end_time": 4236.5599999999995, "text": "because your behavior is oppressing other people, right?", "confidence": -0.15605248345269096 }, { "start_time": 4236.88, "end_time": 4239.0, "text": "Or limiting the life chances of somebody else.", "confidence": -0.15605248345269096 }, { "start_time": 4239.1, "end_time": 4239.62, "text": "Like that's real.", "confidence": -0.15605248345269096 }, { "start_time": 4239.62, "end_time": 4241.1, "text": "We got to be real about that.", "confidence": -0.18790291249752045 }, { "start_time": 4242.2, "end_time": 4245.7, "text": "Because fascism as it is really is the anti-life politics.", "confidence": -0.18790291249752045 }, { "start_time": 4246.62, "end_time": 4251.5599999999995, "text": "It is premised on death as a means of social control, right?", "confidence": -0.18790291249752045 }, { "start_time": 4251.68, "end_time": 4254.62, "text": "Or social death as a means of social control, right?", "confidence": -0.18790291249752045 }, { "start_time": 4254.74, "end_time": 4256.5, "text": "Both of them working in colliery with each other.", "confidence": -0.18790291249752045 }, { "start_time": 4256.54, "end_time": 4259.16, "text": "So there's some limits to what we can withstand,", "confidence": -0.18790291249752045 }, { "start_time": 4259.54, "end_time": 4261.4400000000005, "text": "but we have to be, I'm gonna be real.", "confidence": -0.18790291249752045 }, { "start_time": 4261.52, "end_time": 4263.62, "text": "We got to safeguard some elements", "confidence": -0.18790291249752045 }, { "start_time": 4263.62, "end_time": 4265.9400000000005, "text": "of what we are articulating from liberals.", "confidence": -0.18790291249752045 }, { "start_time": 4266.78, "end_time": 4268.58, "text": "Let's be real, right?", "confidence": -0.18790291249752045 }, { "start_time": 4268.58, "end_time": 4270.7, "text": "And their appropriation and within that,", "confidence": 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forces", "confidence": -0.20630044203538161 }, { "start_time": 4296.92, "end_time": 4299.48, "text": "in their particular strategic relationship", "confidence": -0.1982475613790845 }, { "start_time": 4299.48, "end_time": 4300.78, "text": "and dependency upon capital.", "confidence": -0.1982475613790845 }, { "start_time": 4301.5, "end_time": 4303.3, "text": "So we have to work outside of that.", "confidence": -0.1982475613790845 }, { "start_time": 4303.4, "end_time": 4306.38, "text": "And that does not mean we're gonna move this without capital.", "confidence": -0.1982475613790845 }, { "start_time": 4306.5599999999995, "end_time": 4309.66, "text": "The question is how do we do that, right?", "confidence": -0.1982475613790845 }, { "start_time": 4310.02, "end_time": 4311.64, "text": "Without being succumbed, without succumbing", "confidence": -0.1982475613790845 }, { "start_time": 4311.64, "end_time": 4312.62, "text": "to its dictatorship.", "confidence": -0.1982475613790845 }, { 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4335.1, "text": "And however you wanna translate that", "confidence": -0.205367700677169 }, { "start_time": 4335.1, "end_time": 4337.26, "text": "into your organization's work or community work,", "confidence": -0.205367700677169 }, { "start_time": 4337.84, "end_time": 4338.78, "text": "people feel free.", "confidence": -0.205367700677169 }, { "start_time": 4339.14, "end_time": 4341.3, "text": "But we are gonna make a strong argument", "confidence": -0.205367700677169 }, { "start_time": 4341.3, "end_time": 4345.52, "text": "around fighting against that reformism very concretely.", "confidence": -0.205367700677169 }, { "start_time": 4346.8, "end_time": 4351.26, "text": "So tonight was the introduction of the build and fight formula", "confidence": -0.205367700677169 }, { "start_time": 4352.0, "end_time": 4353.52, "text": "under practices of position.", "confidence": -0.205367700677169 }, { "start_time": 4354.4, "end_time": 4357.84, "text": "This is going to be monthly here on Black Liberation Media", "confidence": -0.189702639015772 }, { "start_time": 4358.6, "end_time": 4360.68, "text": "on Ritwork and on the cooperative", "confidence": -0.189702639015772 }, { "start_time": 4360.68, "end_time": 4365.04, "text": "Cooperation Jackson's YouTube channel, Jackson Rising.", "confidence": -0.189702639015772 }, { "start_time": 4365.72, "end_time": 4370.4400000000005, "text": "It'll also be working in conjunction with Rosa Clemente", "confidence": -0.189702639015772 }, { "start_time": 4370.4400000000005, "end_time": 4372.92, "text": "and her Disrupt the Chaos show", "confidence": -0.189702639015772 }, { "start_time": 4372.92, "end_time": 4374.86, "text": "available on her YouTube channel.", "confidence": -0.189702639015772 }, { "start_time": 4375.62, "end_time": 4377.26, "text": "The next session will be Tuesdays,", "confidence": -0.189702639015772 }, { "start_time": 4377.26, "end_time": 4379.98, "text": "these are gonna be Tuesdays for the rest of the year.", "confidence": -0.189702639015772 }, { "start_time": 4380.74, "end_time": 4382.96, "text": "March 11th, mutual aid and social reproduction.", "confidence": -0.14639107840401785 }, { "start_time": 4383.76, "end_time": 4387.1, "text": "April 8th, food sovereignty and land decod modification.", "confidence": -0.14639107840401785 }, { "start_time": 4387.98, "end_time": 4390.14, "text": "May 13th, worker self-organization.", "confidence": -0.14639107840401785 }, { "start_time": 4390.72, "end_time": 4392.48, "text": "June, community production.", "confidence": -0.14639107840401785 }, { "start_time": 4392.74, "end_time": 4395.2, "text": "July, social digital infrastructure.", "confidence": -0.14639107840401785 }, { "start_time": 4396.16, "end_time": 4397.4400000000005, "text": "August, self-defense.", "confidence": -0.14639107840401785 }, { "start_time": 4398.18, "end_time": 4401.52, "text": "September 2nd, people's assemblies and planning councils.", "confidence": -0.14639107840401785 }, { 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4426.42, "text": "Let's see here.", "confidence": -0.24779028770251152 }, { "start_time": 4429.96, "end_time": 4433.08, "text": "And I had asked you earlier also, you said that", "confidence": -0.24779028770251152 }, { "start_time": 4433.62, "end_time": 4436.8, "text": "this build and fight formula is being done", "confidence": -0.24779028770251152 }, { "start_time": 4436.8, "end_time": 4440.16, "text": "in partnership with other organizations", "confidence": -0.15006434640219046 }, { "start_time": 4440.16, "end_time": 4444.62, "text": "and those organizations are part of the people's network", "confidence": -0.15006434640219046 }, { "start_time": 4444.62, "end_time": 4446.08, "text": "for land and liberation.", "confidence": -0.15006434640219046 }, { "start_time": 4446.78, "end_time": 4450.78, "text": "And if I'm not mistaken, community movement builders", "confidence": -0.15006434640219046 }, { "start_time": 4451.8, "end_time": 4454.9, "text": "of which Kamau Franklin, a co-founder", "confidence": -0.15006434640219046 }, { "start_time": 4454.9, "end_time": 4457.98, "text": "of Black Liberation Media is a part", "confidence": -0.15006434640219046 }, { "start_time": 4458.64, "end_time": 4460.34, "text": "of that people's network for land and liberation.", "confidence": -0.15006434640219046 }, { "start_time": 4460.52, "end_time": 4460.9, "text": "Is that correct?", "confidence": -0.15006434640219046 }, { "start_time": 4461.5, "end_time": 4462.0599999999995, "text": "That is correct.", "confidence": -0.15006434640219046 }, { "start_time": 4462.8, "end_time": 4463.72, "text": "All right.", "confidence": -0.22518032113301387 }, { "start_time": 4465.02, "end_time": 4472.64, "text": "So it is 5.15, I believe, in trying to adhere to people's time,", "confidence": -0.22518032113301387 }, { "start_time": 4473.26, "end_time": 4477.26, "text": "be respectful of people's time, as much as I possibly can.", "confidence": -0.22518032113301387 }, { "start_time": 4478.02, "end_time": 4479.9400000000005, "text": "I know these folks in the chat would love", "confidence": -0.22518032113301387 }, { "start_time": 4479.9400000000005, "end_time": 4481.32, "text": "to hang out here all night.", "confidence": -0.22518032113301387 }, { "start_time": 4482.38, "end_time": 4483.64, "text": "That's by themselves anyway.", "confidence": -0.22518032113301387 }, { "start_time": 4484.12, "end_time": 4487.7, "text": "They would really love to hang out here with you all night.", "confidence": -0.22518032113301387 }, { "start_time": 4488.26, "end_time": 4489.68, "text": "I'm not gonna do that though.", "confidence": -0.22518032113301387 }, { "start_time": 4490.48, "end_time": 4494.0, "text": "So any last words from you, Kali?", "confidence": -0.23869665463765463 }, { "start_time": 4495.0, "end_time": 4502.9, "text": "I just wanted to end with the critical piece", "confidence": -0.23869665463765463 }, { "start_time": 4504.44, "end_time": 4507.48, "text": "around less organized for revolution,", "confidence": -0.23869665463765463 }, { "start_time": 4507.68, "end_time": 4509.04, "text": "not crisis avoidance, y'all.", "confidence": -0.23869665463765463 }, { "start_time": 4509.62, "end_time": 4513.0599999999995, "text": "And give this some serious thought and consideration.", "confidence": -0.23869665463765463 }, { "start_time": 4514.24, "end_time": 4516.32, "text": "And I just wanna leave in part", "confidence": -0.23869665463765463 }, { "start_time": 4516.32, "end_time": 4518.7, "text": "with a little song of inspiration", "confidence": -0.23869665463765463 }, { "start_time": 4518.7, "end_time": 4523.98, "text": "to fight against reformism, right?", "confidence": -0.18441987037658691 }, { "start_time": 4524.4400000000005, "end_time": 4528.02, "text": "And the appeal towards moderation,", "confidence": -0.18441987037658691 }, { "start_time": 4528.02, "end_time": 4532.64, "text": "which definitely is not the call of the age, right?", "confidence": -0.18441987037658691 }, { "start_time": 4532.9, "end_time": 4536.26, "text": "And I wanna leave you with a song I play sometimes", "confidence": -0.18441987037658691 }, { "start_time": 4536.26, "end_time": 4538.04, "text": "for myself for inspiration.", "confidence": -0.18441987037658691 }, { "start_time": 4538.34, "end_time": 4541.84, "text": "This is The Wailers with Peter Tosh taking the lead.", "confidence": -0.18441987037658691 }, { "start_time": 4542.48, "end_time": 4545.0, "text": "It's called Burial and it's based upon his notion", "confidence": -0.18441987037658691 }, { "start_time": 4545.0, "end_time": 4548.76, "text": "that, you know, rosters don't go to no one barrel,", "confidence": -0.24282065103220385 }, { "start_time": 4548.82, "end_time": 4549.9, "text": "let the dead bury the dead.", "confidence": -0.24282065103220385 }, { "start_time": 4550.2, "end_time": 4552.76, "text": "So let's leave the capitalist system", "confidence": -0.24282065103220385 }, { "start_time": 4552.76, "end_time": 4555.34, "text": "that deliver to us on ruins and let's build", "confidence": -0.24282065103220385 }, { "start_time": 4555.84, "end_time": 4560.0, "text": "what we need to build together collectively, right?", "confidence": -0.24282065103220385 }, { "start_time": 4560.6, "end_time": 4562.84, "text": "With each other, we got a lot of, you know,", "confidence": -0.24282065103220385 }, { "start_time": 4562.88, "end_time": 4564.6, "text": "issues and struggles to navigate,", "confidence": -0.24282065103220385 }, { "start_time": 4565.66, "end_time": 4567.58, "text": "but we got to do it together.", "confidence": -0.24282065103220385 }, { "start_time": 4567.68, "end_time": 4568.66, "text": "There is no other way.", "confidence": -0.24282065103220385 }, { "start_time": 4569.64, "end_time": 4571.82, "text": "All right, so let's take a listen to this.", "confidence": -0.24282065103220385 }, { "start_time": 4572.4400000000005, "end_time": 4574.52, "text": "Bob Marley and the wailing wailer.", "confidence": -0.24282065103220385 }, { "start_time": 4574.52, "end_time": 4576.4400000000005, "text": "You know, as old as they say the wailing wailers.", "confidence": -0.36053516553795856 }, { "start_time": 4576.72, "end_time": 4579.14, "text": "This is with Peter Tosh and Bunny.", "confidence": -0.36053516553795856 }, { "start_time": 4579.6, "end_time": 4580.3, "text": "Is it Bunny Wailer?", "confidence": -0.36053516553795856 }, { "start_time": 4580.46, "end_time": 4580.86, "text": "Was that his name?", "confidence": -0.36053516553795856 }, { "start_time": 4581.26, "end_time": 4582.18, "text": "Bunny, that's right.", "confidence": -0.36053516553795856 }, { "start_time": 4582.68, "end_time": 4583.82, "text": "Bunny Living in my name.", "confidence": -0.36053516553795856 }, { "start_time": 4584.22, "end_time": 4586.26, "text": "Right, when they were all a part of the group.", "confidence": -0.36053516553795856 }, { "start_time": 4586.36, "end_time": 4588.96, "text": 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