Making Politics + Art At The End Of The World: Socialist News And Views Episode # 53 (11/16/2023)

NEWS + MUSIC + MAKING POLITICS + ART AT THE END OF THE WORLD - Audio Essay by Adam Turl Sticker in Episode Thumbnail from the Born Again Labor Museum (B.A.L.M.)(https://www.bornagainlabor.com/) NEWS: In Ward 12 race: who gave money to candidates?: https://longfellownokomismessenger.com/stories/in-ward-12-race-who-gave-money-to-candidates,55475 2023 Elections – How we did, how MN did, how the US did: https://twincitiesdsa.org/2023/11/2023-elections-how-we-did-how-mn-did-how-the-us-did/ Inside the attempt to charge Georgia’s ‘Cop City’ activists with racketeering: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/nov/10/cop-city-racketeering-atlanta-georgia Police Attack Protesters As Hundreds March Against Cop City In Atlanta, Halt Construction: https://itsgoingdown.org/police-attack-protesters-as-hundreds-march-against-cop-city-in-atlanta-halt-construction/ Ethnic cleansing in Gaza: Israel’s agriculture minister declares, “We’re Rolling Out Nakba 2023”: https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2023/11/13/nvub-n13.html Indonesians boycott McDonald’s, Starbucks over support for Israel: https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2023/11/14/indonesians-boycott-mcdonalds-starbucks-over-support-for-israel Fight Back! News (Minneapolis: 5000-plus march for Palestine, against Biden, Minnesota; St. Catherine University protest stands with Palestine; Minneapolis: Thousands march for Palestine in support of historic march in DC; Minnesota marches on Washington DC for a free Palestine; University of MN students hold demonstration to honor Palestinians martyred since October 7; 10,000 march on MN Capitol for Gaza): fightbacknews.org/ Full Video from the Twin Cities Families for Ceasefire (Urban Cabin Studios YouTube): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MfkBx5RA1wg ---- MUSIC: Jayanthi from Walker West Music Academy: https://walkerwest.org/ages-0-6/ ---- MAKING POLITICS + ART AT THE END OF THE WORLD - Audio Essay by Adam Turl Related links: Theodor W Adorno writings including Cultural Criticism and Society (1949) (PAGE 17): https://edisciplinas.usp.br/pluginfile.php/5798834/mod_resource/content/1/Theodor%20W.%20Adorno%20Prisms%20%28Studies%20in%20Contemporary%20German%20Social%20Thought%29.pdf The Work of Art in the Age of Its Technological Reproducibility, and Other Writings on Media by WALTER BENJAMIN: https://monoskop.org/images/6/6d/Benjamin_Walter_1936_2008_The_Work_of_Art_in_the_Age_of_Its_Technological_Reproducibility_Second_Version.pdf Capitalist realism: Is there no alternative? by Mark Fisher: https://files.libcom.org/files/Capitalist%20Realism_%20Is%20There%20No%20Alternat%20-%20Mark%20Fisher.pdf Capital - A Critique of Political Economy - Volume I by Karl Marx (Accumulate, accumulate! That is Moses and the prophets!): https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1867-c1/index.htm Transparent Gestures by Rodney Jones: https://bookshop.org/p/books/transparent-gestures-rodney-jones/11273255?ean=9780395510636 Barbenheimer: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barbenheimer White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre Has Made History—And Waves: https://www.vogue.com/article/karine-jean-pierre-profile-october-2023 Baited by Fox, White House Likens Palestinian Rights Protests to Charlottesville: https://www.democracynow.org/2023/11/1/headlines/baited_by_fox_white_house_likens_palestinian_rights_protests_to_charlottesville Why the Net is not a Public Sphere by Jodi Dean: https://means.at/media/pages/library/why-the-net-is-not-a-public-sphere/1a3c08f07a-1622174424/jodi-dean-why-the-net-is-not-a-public-sphere-1.pdf