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Friday, May 31, 2019
10 - 11 AM - PDT
The Michael Slate Show

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This week:

The National Revolution Tour: Basta Ya! Revolution—Nothing Less!

We'll open the show with Noche Diaz from The Get Organized for an Actual Revolution Tour about big plans for the weekend of June 8 and 9 (See video below). The basic theme and sentiment is Enough! Basta Ya! We Need an Actual Revolution—A Better World IS Possible!

This is for those who feel Basta Ya!, who have just “had it” with what the system does… to Black and Brown people… to women and differently gendered people… to immigrants… to people around the world in its vicious wars… to the environment.

All of this is completely unnecessary, a radically different and far better world is possible… through Revolution—Nothing Less!

This, Revolution—Nothing Less!, is the message to the world, and we are organizing the thousands now, through revolutionary struggle and accumulating forces, hastening the time when it will be possible for millions to go all out for revolution and win. This message must reverberate across Los Angeles and inspire people nationwide.

This weekend is for ALL those who hate what this system does to people here and around the world, joining with others who feel like this—defiant, and looking for a whole different way the world could be.

ALL HANDS ON DECK for the Revolution Club Meeting
Saturday, June 1 @ 3 PM
Revolution Club Organizing Center
2716 S Vermont Ave, #8 (2nd Floor), LA

Jason Stanley and How Fascism Works

For this week's Fund Drive show, we'll be hearing a recent interview I did with Jason Stanley, about his book How Fascism Works.

Fascist politics are running rampant in the United States today—and spreading around the world. Jason Stanley identifies the ten pillars of fascist politics and charts their horrifying rise and deep history. The discussion will explore these issues and the implications for how we act today.

“By placing Trump in transnational and transhistorical perspective, Stanley sees patterns that others miss.... By calling Trump a ‘fascist’—a word that strikes many Americans as alien and extreme — Stanley is trying to spark public alarm. He doesn’t want Americans to respond to Trump’s racist, authoritarian offensives by moving their moral goal posts. The greater danger, he suggests, isn’t hyperbole, it’s normalization. And twenty months into Trump’s presidency, the evidence is mounting that he’s right.” —The New York Times Book Review (Editors’ Choice)

Jason Stanley teaches at Yale University. He is the author of five books, including How Propaganda Works, and writes about free speech, mass incarceration and authoritarianism for The New York Times and other publications.