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The Plague
by L. M. Bogad
Welcome to The Plague, the podcast where we look, not just at the ongoing coronavirus pandemic, but at our nation’s home-made plagues, plagues created by human socioeconomic systems, that make the coronavirus more virulent and dangerous. The coronavirus infects the human body, but what illnesses in our body politic make us more vulnerable to it? Economic inequality? Environmental devastation? Labor precarity? Alienation? We pick a different societal plague each week and talk with an expert about how that plague makes the coronavirus deadlier. We then move on to discuss “treatments” or even “cures” for that plague: what kinds of political or cultural action we can take to “cure” it. Since many of our guest experts are also artists, they are invited to share a creative work on the topic—a song, poem, monologue—of their own creation or choosing. Guests include poet and Friends of the Earth organizer Jeff Conant, Dr. Rupa Marya of the
Episodes
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Episode 9: The Plague of "Burn It Down" Partisanship with Princeton professor Julian Zelizer
Our current President and his party seem to be more interested in slandering their political opponents, propagating conspiracy theories, and fomenting division and distraction in our society, than in organizing a coherent response to the pandemic, the economic crisis, and other urgent problems…
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Episode 8: The Plague of "There Is No Alternative" with Stephen Duncombe of the Center for Artistic Activism
We are in the middle of the biggest protest moment in the United States since 1968, and are confronted with the greatest wave of repressive violence in response from the authorities. What is the role of the radical imagination, and the idea of Utopia, for social movements at this major turning...
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Episode 7: The Plague of Worker Expendability with Sabiha Basrai and Ricardo Nuñez
In this episode, we speak with guests Sabiha Basrai and Ricardo Nuñez about the plague of worker expendability in our current economy, and how worker owned-cooperatives are the cure. The coronavirus has only put into starker relief a problem we have always had--that the lives and well-being of…
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Episode 6: The Plague of Lie Machines with Oxford professor Philip N. Howard
Artificially intelligent “bot” accounts attack politicians and public figures on social media. Conspiracy theorists publish junk news sites to promote their outlandish beliefs. Campaigners create fake dating profiles to attract young voters. We live in a world of technologies that misdirect our...
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Episode 5: The Plague of Orwellian Fear, Division, and Denial of Data and Science, with Michael Gene Sullivan
In this episode, Michael Gene Sullivan, playwright and performer, collective member of the San Francisco Mime Troupe, and author of a celebrated dramatic adaptation of George Orwell's 1984, talks about the culture of anti-intellectualism, class domination, distraction, and defeatism, and…
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Episode 4: The Plague of Ecomatricide, with Annie Sprinkle and Beth Stephens
In this episode we talk with artist-activists Annie Sprinkle and Beth Stephens about the plague of ecomatricide, and how the cure is ecosexuality. What happens when we think of the Earth, not as our mother, but as our lover? Host and Editor: L.M. Bogad: www.lmbogad.com Music: Jason Montero...
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Episode 3: The Plague of the Profit-Based Biomedical Research System, with Merith Basey of Universities Allied for Essential Medicines
Our third podcast of the Plague features an interview with Merith Basey of Universities Allied for Essential Medicines. Merith explains to us how the corporate, profit-based biomedical research system is a plague that distorts the research and development process for life-saving medicines and...
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Epsode 2: The Plague of Racism and Colonialism with Dr. Rupa Marya of the Do No Harm Coalition and Rupa and the April Fishes
Our second episode of the Plague features an interview with Dr. Rupa Marya of the Do No Harm Coalition, and the band Rupa and the April Fishes. Dr. Marya explains how the racism and colonialism in daily life, the grocery store, the workplace (including the hospital she works in), and in global...
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Episode 1: The Plague of Rainforest Destruction, with Jeff Conant of Friends of the Earth
The launch of the Plague podcast is timed thematically during the holiday of Passover, which recounts how a series of plagues destabilized an authoritarian regime severely enough that its most persecuted immigrant minority was liberated. Our first podcast of the Plague features an interview with...
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ABOUT THIS SHOW
Welcome to The Plague, the podcast where we look, not just at the ongoing coronavirus pandemic, but at our nation’s home-made plagues, plagues created by human socioeconomic systems, that make the coronavirus more virulent and dangerous.
The coronavirus infects the human body, but what illnesses in our body politic make us more vulnerable to it?
Economic inequality? Environmental devastation? Labor precarity? Alienation? We pick a different societal plague each week and talk with an expert about how that plague makes the coronavirus deadlier.
We then move on to discuss “treatments” or even “cures” for that plague: what kinds of political or cultural action we can take to “cure” it. Since many of our guest experts are also artists, they are invited to share a creative work on the topic—a song, poem, monologue—of their own creation or choosing.
Guests include poet and Friends of the Earth organizer Jeff Conant, Dr. Rupa Marya of the
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L. M. Bogad
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Welcome to The Plague, the podcast where we look, not just at the ongoing coronavirus pandemic, but at our nation’s home-made plagues, plagues created by human socioeconomic systems, that make the coronavirus more virulent and dangerous. The coronavirus infects the human body, but what illnesses in...
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