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    Episode 31: 25 Years After The Zapatista Uprising with Alejo Stark

    Episode 31: 25 Years After The Zapatista Uprising with Alejo Stark

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    Episode 31: 25 Years After The Zapatista Uprising with Alejo Stark

    FromMillennials Are Killing Capitalism

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    60 minutes
    Released:
    Feb 20, 2019
    Format:
    Podcast episode

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    In this episode we talk to Alejo Stark. Alejo is an organizer with Michigan Abolition and Prisoner Solidarity (MAPS) and a co-producer of Rustbelt Abolition Radio (RAR). Between 2008 and 2013, he was an undocumented student organizer with the migrant justice movement, fighting against deportations in South Florida and Rhode Island. Alejo has a PhD in Astronomy and Astrophysics. In this episode we take a high level view of the Zapatista movement, 25 years after the uprising of 1994. Alejo shares history of theoretical and practical contributions of Zapatismo, and discusses his time in Chiapas at The Zapatistas and ConSciences for Humanity conference. Alejo also discusses the women’s revolutionary law, key touch points and transitions in the Zapatismo struggle, the tension that exists between Zapatismo and state centric politicians like AMLO, and poses challenging questions for people looking for a way forward through a state centric project as the capitalist hydra brings about an unparalleled climate catastrophe. Music by Televangel, formerly of Blue Sky Black Death
    Released:
    Feb 20, 2019
    Format:
    Podcast episode

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    We created this podcast in recognition that there are a number of podcasts for the American “left,” but many of them focus heavily on the organizing of social democrats, progressives, and liberal democrats. Aside from that, on the left we are always fighting a war of ideas and if we do not continue to build platforms to share those ideas and the stories of their implementation from a leftist perspective, they will continue to be ignored, misrepresented, and dismissed by the capitalist media and as a result by the general public. Our goal is to provide a platform for communists, anti-imperialists, Black Liberation movements, ancoms, left libertarians, LBGTQ activists, feminists, immigration activists, and abolitionists to discuss radical politics, radical organizing and share their visions for a better world. Our goal is to center organizers who represent and work with marginalized communities building survival programs, defense programs, political education, and counterpower. We also plan to bring in perspectives on and from the global south to highlight anti-capitalist struggles outside the imperial core. We view solidarity with decolonization, indigenous, anti-imperialist, environmentalist, socialist, and anarchist movements across the world as necessary steps toward meaningful liberation for all people. Too often within the imperial core we focus on our own struggles without taking the time to understand those fighting for freedom from beneath the empire’s thumb. It is important to highlight these struggles, learn what we can from them, offer solidarity, and support with action when we can. It is not enough to Fight For $15 an hour and Single-Payer within the core, while the US actively fights against the self-determination of the people of the global economically and militarily. We recognize that except for the extremely wealthy and privileged, our fates and struggles are intrinsically connected. We hope that our podcast becomes a meaningful platform for organizers and activists fighting for social change to connect their local movements to broader movements centered around the fight to end imperialism, capitalism, racism, discrimination based on gender identity or sexuality, sexism, and ableism. If you like our work please support us at www.patreon.com/millennialsarekillingcapitalism