RevolutionZ
Episodes
392 episodes
Ep 386 WCF Planting Seeds of the Future Plus A Mayday Message
Ep 386 starts by addressing Mayday Strong strike plans. A one day strike can feel bold but without follow up change little. This episode starts by asking about Mayday’s call for “no work, no school, no shopping”: Can the plan pull people from s...
Ep 385 - WCF Self Definition plus Resist or Order Pizza?
Episode 385 of RevolutionZ features our 28th excerpt from The Wind Cries Freedom, an oral history imagining and reporting from the next American Revolution. This excerpt follows organizers inside RPS as they build a second national convention w...
Ep 384 - Rachel Donald On Effective Resistance and Journalism
Episode 384 of RevolutionZ has as guest Rachel Donald, a journalist at the site Planet Critical. Rachel suggests that war propaganda thrives on simple stories, and shows how the left sometimes helps that along without meaning to. She then consi...
Ep 383 WCF: Tactics Matter plus No Kings Direction, and Trump's Dissolution
Episode 383 of RevolutionZ starts with No Kings. Nine million people can take to the streets and still walk away wondering if anything changed. How can that be? How is it that turnout can grow in rural towns and new venues while longtime partic...
Ep 382 Book Burning, AI, and WCF Beyond Capitalism
Episode 382 of RevolutionZ continues our sequence of chapters from the soon forthcoming book, The Wind Cries Freedom: An Oral History of the Next American Revolution. This chapter's title is "Beyond Capitalism, Classlessness." But, bef...
Ep 381 WCF Win Intercommunalism, Scams, Sad Chris Hedges Plus Ridiculous Sixties Story
Episode 381 of RevolutionZ starts with my email inbox. “Oprah wants your book, No Bosses.” It sounds like a dumb joke until you realize how convincing modern AI scams have become. A flood of smart, personalized emails targets authors with flatt...
Ep 380 - WCF End Misogyny and Trump Too
Episode 380 of RevolutionZ, titled WCF End Misogyny and Trump Too, begins with some reactions to our current times. The world is on fire, and we keep producing explanations like they’re water. They aren't. This episode opens with a ...
Ep 379 Iran, What to Resist and WCF Educate and Economize
Episode 379 of RevolutionZ starts with some discussion of the savaging of the Iranian people before returning to our sequence of chapter excerpts from the forthcoming book, The Wind Cries Freedom to discuss experiences of education and...
Ep 378 WCF Transcend Media Madness
Episode 378 of RevolutionZ, Transcend Media Madness, continues our presentation of chapters from the forthcoming book The Wind Cries Freedom. What turns a sea of handmade signs into a movement that can’t be ignored? Partly it is inf...
Ep 377 - Some AI, Dancing Robots and WCF Legal Upheavals, Prisons, Police, Courts and RPS
Episode 377 of RevolutionZ starts with a brief segment that describes some major robot and AI innovations as warm up for more related commentary to come in the future. When AI can imitate any face and voice, what anchors truth? Who decides what...
Ep 376 - WCF Religious Renovation and Choosing A Path To Life After Donald
Episode 376 of RevolutionZ, like other recent episodes, has two main themes, not one. First, what happens after Trump and how do we fight Trump in a way that prepares to continue to struggle after his end? There is a fork in the road—either rem...
Ep 375 Kathy Kelly On War, Media, Complicity and Resistance
Episode 375 of RevolutionZ has as guest Kathy Kelly. When journalists are barred and killed, doctors are targeted, and mountainous rubble hides unexploded ordnance, a society is violated twice—physically and narratively. Our guest, Kathy Kelly,...
Ep 374 Snow and ICE Plus WCF Athletes Revolt
Episode 374 of RevolutionZ starts with a snowfall and notices forecast overshoot. Then it asks why so many reporting, predicting, and evaluating “mistakes” lean the same way? It unpacks one‑sided errors—how weather hype, skewed invoices, and me...
Ep 373 - WCF: Actors, Movies, Art, Beauty and Revolutionary Change
Episode 373 of RevolutionZ hears about people trained to perform deciding to build power. Celia Crowley—actor, organizer, and then California’s governor but later to become Vice President—to unpacks how a quiet coalition inside Hollywood traded...
Ep 372 Three Strategic Issues: What to Say or Write?, What to Do?, and Who to Do it With? Plus Taylor, Steph, and Caitlin…
Episode 372 of RevolutionZ urges that every activist choice we make—what to say, what to do, and who to do it with and for—can be usefully guided by one clear calculation: will this or that option grow the movement’s numbers, deepen members' co...
Ep 371 Greg Wilpert Discusses Trump’s Attack On Venezuela
Episode 371 of Revolution Z has as guest Greg Wilpert, founder of Venezuela Analysis, who discusses the role of oil, power, Trump, Maduro, and which way Venezuela. Wilpert tracks the quiet recalibration of demands coming from Washington—curbs o...
Ep 370 Comments "Chomsky Reassessed" plus WCF 16: More RPS Ideas, Values, and Motives
Episode 370 of RevolutionZ mainly continues our sequence of excerpts from the forthcoming The Wind Cries Freedom's Oral History of the Next American Revolution. However, before doing so, it takes up various reactions I encountere...
Ep 369 WCF 16: Lydia Lawrence On Race, Class, Gender, Roles and Institutions
Episode 369 of RevolutionZ has Miguel Guevara questioning Lydia Lawrence about her journey from the Sixties to RPS. After anger and solidarity fuel a movement’s start what decides whether it survives? Lydia Lawrence—feminist, organizer, media w...
Ep 368 Bhaskar Sunkara on Socialism and Us
Episode 368 of RevolutionZ has as its guest Bhaskar Sunkara of Jacobin and more recently The Nation and author of The Socialist Manifesto. Our topic isn’t a kinder capitalism; it’s a post capitalist vision and practice where private ow...
Ep 367 No Kings Enlarged plus Right to the City, and Winning Time
Episode 367 of RevolutionZ starts out by discussing why I am offering up chapters of the forthcoming The Wind Cries Freedom Oral History as a sequence of episodes. Then it addresses No Kings to ask how can its future help connect...
Ep 366 Trumpisms, Socialisms, and WCF Health Gets Personal
Episode 366 of RevolutionZ starts by considering a phrase frequently borrowed, nowadays, the phrase "like never before," and then moves on to a word nowadays being used more frequently and positively than in quite some time, the word "socialism...
EP 365 Duvernay and WCF: Health and Class
Episode 365 of RevolutionZ presents an essay by film director Ava Duvernay about the difficulty of writing in unimaginably chaotic times. Her's is a sentiment I share but that she expresses more eloquently. Simply put, it’s hard to write to a c...
Ep 364 Epstein and WCF: Post Convention Vision
Episode 364 of RevolutionZ begins with a brief discussion of the Epstein phenomenon. How do elites manufacture loyalty and impose silence? How did Epstein (and Trump too) get constituencies that not only ought to have known better, but literall...
Ep 363 WCF: Chapters Are Essential
Episode 363 of RevolutionZ as its main focus continues with another excerpt from the Oral History titled The Wind Cries Freedom. The episode opens, however, with a comment on our place and our times following on Mamdani's remarkable vi...
Ep 362 WCF: Convene and Transcend
Episode 362 of RevolutionZ continues the oral history recounting by Miguel Guevara and his interviewees. It delves further with the motives, aims, and mechanics of a successful future revolution. This time, it asks, what if the hardest part of ...