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87 - Media Gets Lula's Win Wrong & The Problem With NGOs w/ Brian Mier, Ben Fong, & Melissa Naschek

87 - Media Gets Lula's Win Wrong & The Problem With NGOs w/ Brian Mier, Ben Fong, & Melissa Naschek

FromLeft Reckoning


87 - Media Gets Lula's Win Wrong & The Problem With NGOs w/ Brian Mier, Ben Fong, & Melissa Naschek

FromLeft Reckoning

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Length:
124 minutes
Released:
Oct 4, 2022
Format:
Podcast episode

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support the show at patreon.com/leftreckoning to get the postgame and Sunday showsPacked show! First up Matt talks to David about his new piece in Jacobin, When Texas Cowboys Fought Private Property: https://jacobin.com/2022/10/texas-fence-cutting-wars-enclosures-cowboys  Then Brian Mier (@BrianMteleSUR) joins us to break down the results of the Brazil's 1st Round Presidential elections, and how the media has gotten the results wrong. Read Brian's piece in BrasilWire here:  https://www.brasilwire.com/media-spins-lula-victory-as-defeat/  And then Ben Fong & Melissa Naschek join David to talk about the problems with NGOs and the Left, and what we can do about it. Read their piece in Catalyst here:  https://catalyst-journal.com/2021/05/ngoism-the-politics-of-the-third-sector  Benjamin Fong has a new book coming out next year printed by Verso "Drugs in American Capitalism"  https://www.versobooks.com/books/4176-drugs-in-american-capitalism
Released:
Oct 4, 2022
Format:
Podcast episode

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Fmr. The Michael Brooks Show crew Matt Lech & David Griscom work to cover & build a strong, popular, working-class rooted, no BS Socialist Left. With a special focus on the international struggle and Texas, the South, & the West. The weekly show is live on Youtube @ 7 Central with Griscom streams on Tuesday afternoon.