Act Out! Podcast

Movement spaces can feel uncomfortable at times - and at times, that's a good thing. But if rigid radicalism is at work, people and spaces will break under the weight of replicated oppression and narrow-mindedness.  Embracing feeling weird, building space to acknowledge our continuing growth while holding ourselves and others accountable is in the DNA of powerful and radical spaces. Here, we can break the stalemate of inaction that so often hits people when they're so afraid to fuck up, so afraid to misstep...   artkillingapathy.com

This week's nerdery hang dissects the problem with equality in a system where people have unequal needs and access. Technology divides, it isolates, but it is not the inherent enemy. That is capitalism - and we don't have to look at a future written by a capitalist scribe. We can write our own, starting now.   artkillingapathy.com

In so many ways, voting doesn't count. And for those who lift their heads from the sand every 4 years just to proselytize the virtues of voting for evil, y'all can fuck right off. Change won't come from voting or petitioning, it comes from mutual aid, community organizing and the myriad possibilities outside the voting booth - all the ways to engage they never talk about, because they know how powerful they can be. artkillingapathy.com

Sometimes you get delicious fish, sometimes you get tires. Either way, to know and to deal with what's beyond the surface, you gotta dig. This isn't just for our selves but for global systems as well. Don't accept their painting of fate - and come to that, don't accept the state! On the other side are possibilities legion. Our work dreaming and building includes nurturing solidarity and making space for other dreams, tactics and emergent ideas.   artkillingapathy.com

Some decisions are binary - yes or no, south or north, on or off. Some decisions include manifold options, backstories, possibilities. Organizing is hardly ever binary. Embracing some nuance - tho it might feel uncomfortable and icky at times - is vital for building power. So you've been to a protest, now what? Some thoughts on what folks can do now to not only fight, but build.   artkillingapathy.com hardroadofhope.com

Any capitalist answer to feelings of worthlessness is no answer at all – it is merely a momentary glaze on a chipping facade of programmed self-hatred and feelings of worthlessness. From body positivity to self-worth and monetary value, let's dive into this sticky and tangled web of life as commodity, consumer - and on the other side, human. artkillingapathy.com hardroadofhope.com

A somewhat trip back to the nerdery - this time it's about language. The power of words - or the lack of power, as it sometimes happens. How what we choose to say or write changes how we think about things. Like ally vs. accomplice, American vs. un-American.   artkillingapathy.com hardroadofhope.com

Step into the nerdery with me as I dig into the seemingly at-odds worlds of science and magic. Plus, I have a hypothesis on the origin of ghosts...no, really. PLUS... The out-of-touch take the pulse of a dying body politic and pronounce it America. Flags made in China flutter in a toxic breeze. Masked vigilantes demand our complicity - in the plot to kill us. The bottom line buckles, and the beast roars.   HardRoadofHope.com ArtKillingApathy.com

Oh what a tangled web! Feeling squirrely today on this release date of my first ever documentary. Either way, we're rolling with it! We're diving head first into the muddy waters of conflicting, contradicting emotions in order to marinate and toast despair, stop chasing happiness and more. Talking Viktor Frankl and obligations to life - and how that chafes against our programming in multiple ways. So...suit up and let's go for a swim.   hardroadofhope.com artkillingapathy.com

Curious instead of judgemental, like a kid with a rose...particularly in this hideous unknown, and this damned storm... it will polish the sky so the brilliance will blind – but I will never be the same PLUS, history on repeat and the multiple cities that exist in one - the stories that have been kept from us that will give us hope. With help from Anarchist Bandits in Belle Epoque Paris.   artkillingapathy.com hardroadofhope.com

May Day! This is crisis. Capitalism's a virus. May Day! Musings from the 134th anniversary of Haymarket. What are the effects of this amputated past? And how is this moment unique in fighting and building for the future? PLUS General Strike demands!   artkillingapathy.com

I had a bunch of notes planned - updates on travels and new projects that I was gonna share. Best laid plans... Welcome to the new era of Act Out! Talking through some of the craziness we're all feeling - not in a cheapened, let's om together kinda way - but in a deep, anti-capitalist way. Here we are - what does here look like, feel like - and what are folks doing, what can folks be doing - to create that light at the end of the tunnel, rather than wait for the powers-that-be to light their path with the flames of our hope? artkillingapathy.com hardroadofhope.com

The end of an era – a look back and a look ahead, to work that's been done, and all yet to come. It's been almost five years of Act Out! and while this chapter is ending, this book is far from written. We're gearing up for deeper dives – beyond surface headlines and rapid fire news cycles – and we want you to be a part of it. So here's to raised fists, to sit-ins and shut downs – and a lot more marching in the streets. See you on the front lines. **NOTE: Stay subscribed to the podcast! It will continue! We'll be back on April 17th with a new format. Got ideas or thoughts on what you'd like to hear? Sign up for our newsletter or visit the Art Killing Apathy site to get in touch!   http://bit.ly/ActOutNewsletter https://www.patreon.com/ActOut https://www.artkillingapathy.com/

Trans rights are human rights – because human rights are only valid if they include every person in their entirety. Next, mining on land is so 20th century – the new frontier of mining is just as deep and dark as it is terrifying and catastrophic. And finally, we hear from the Wet’suwet’en on their ongoing battle to preserve their ancestral homelands. http://unistoten.camp/

A special episode that looks at a grotesque statistic and asks the question – if you can judge a government by how they treat their most vulnerable and marginalized --- how more pointed is that judgement when you look at the hometown of that government? DC and the practice of condemning predominantly black mothers to death. https://www.1199seiu.org/ https://www.dcna.org/

Uncle Sam's manifest destiny is to become king of a global graveyard – how our economic warfare kills and tortures millions worldwide and how folks here and elsewhere are organizing to fight back against so-called sanctions. Next, updates on whistleblowers and publishers and finally a look at building thriving communities in the face of over-policing, prisons and detention. https://sanctionskill.org/ https://www.releasechelsea.com/ https://action4assange.com/ https://freedomtothrive.org/ https://www.patreon.com/ActOut

More than 16,000 quakes of varying sizes have hit Puerto Rico. But the real shocks come from capitalism and colonialism. In this FULL INTERVIEW, coordinators with the Mutual Help Center of Lares talk about the natural and unnatural disasters pummeling their home, and how folks are organizing to withstand them. PLUS it's so important that we connect all of our issues to war - to the giant black hole that's sucking resources, lives and our very futures away from us. https://www.facebook.com/camjibarolares

Thousands of calls to 9-1-1 don't need police. So what if an emergency call could bring out mental health and social workers instead? Enter White Bird Clinic. PLUS, some theories on theories just in time for the year of lip service.   https://whitebirdclinic.org/cahoots/

Caged for seeking freedom – migrants and refugees in the land of the free. Next, zooming out on the global refugee industry – because yes, that too – is a booming business. Finally, global droughts, and the fires of human folly; coal scare tactics leading Australia's climate policy and how grassroots climate activists are fighting a massive mining project in the midst of a firestorm. https://www.freedomforimmigrants.org/ https://frontlineaction.org/

Tho filmed before Iran's military reaction, we touch on some important information regarding Soleimani and the need for loud and resolute international antiwar responses. Updates on bad ass organizers, activists and whistleblowers. Next, what we really need in order to stop the empire and why we can't just lean on letters from the UN. War Fever is high and the propaganda machine is working overtime. Next, water woes in the world's largest fire storm, and what this has to do with an indigenous fight in Canada. Finally, Sunrise El Paso sits down to talk corporate takeovers of public utilities.   https://shutdownicenow.org https://defendembassyprotectors.org https://unistoten.camp sunriseelpaso.org