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COVID: A Case Study with Life & Death Stakes: Science, Epistemology, Conspiracy & Fascism

COVID: A Case Study with Life & Death Stakes: Science, Epistemology, Conspiracy & Fascism

FromRefuse Fascism


COVID: A Case Study with Life & Death Stakes: Science, Epistemology, Conspiracy & Fascism

FromRefuse Fascism

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Length:
61 minutes
Released:
Dec 20, 2020
Format:
Podcast episode

Description

A panel discussion presented by Refuse Fascism and The RNL – Revolution, Nothing Less! – Show, originally streamed live Wednesday, December 16.
The Situation:
Nearly 300,000 people in this country have died from COVID under a science-hating, genocidally racist, lunatic fascist regime, with the virus now out of control and thousands more projected to die before Trump leaves office. The Trump/Pence regime, the Republi-fascists, and their rabid base spread COVID as a matter of “liberty” – the liberty to infect and kill others. Trump recovers from COVID with the best healthcare in the world and then tells his overwhelmingly white followers at a campaign rally in Minnesota that they have “good genes.” The regime’s COVID response concentrates many of the features of this fascist program – white supremacy, xenophobia, Christian fascism, and unhinged conspiracy theories.
Some Questions:
How did we get to this point?
Why have we tolerated a regime that has facilitated the deaths of 300,000 people, disproportionately Black and brown people?
Is this deliberate mass murder or “collateral damage” in service of a fascist or fundamentalist worldview?
How do we wage a society-wide struggle for truth, science, and evidence-based epistemology?
Panelists:
Coco Das, Editorial Board of RefuseFascism.org
Dr. Phil Rice, Emergency Medicine Physician, Salem, Massachusetts
Paul Street, historian and writer, author of Hollow Resistance: Obama, Trump, and the Politics of Appeasement, member of the editorial board of RefuseFascism.org
Andy Zee, host of The RNL – Revolution Nothing Less – Show; co-initiator of RefuseFascism.org; spokesperson for Revolution Books.
RefuseFascism.org is a movement of people coming from diverse perspectives, united in our recognition that the Trump/Pence Regime poses a catastrophic danger to humanity and the planet, and that it is our responsibility to drive them from power through non-violent protests that grow every day until our demand is met.
The RNL -- Revolution, Nothing Less -- Show is a multidimensional YouTube show about making revolution and emancipating humanity. It's about the world and for a radically different world, bringing alive the need for revolution and the new communism developed by the revolutionary leader Bob Avakian.
Previously in this series:
November 24: What Just Happened?
December 8: Why did 74 million people vote for Trump? 
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Music for this episode: Penny the Snitch by Ikebe Shakedown.


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Released:
Dec 20, 2020
Format:
Podcast episode

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The Refuse Fascism podcast is an essential tool for understanding and uniting to defeat the American fascist movement that imperils all of humanity. Each week host Sam Goldman provides commentary and analysis alongside in-depth interviews with scholars and activists from diverse perspectives on the very real threat of fascism coming to power in the United States. Produced by volunteers with RefuseFascism.org.