Old Mole Variety Hour for October 21, 2024

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Mon, 10/21/2024 - 9:00am to 10:00am
Archive rebroadcast from Against the Grain: Cats and Marxism

 

On this episode, the moles celebrate interspecies solidarity by rebroadcasting an interview with Leigh Claire La Berge about her 2023 book, Marx for Cats: A Radical Bestiary (Duke UP).

Cats and Marxism: Should Marxism be rooted in inter-species liberation? Or is it already, unbeknownst to most of us? Leigh Claire La Berge has delved into what she considers an unrecognized trove of evidence for Marxism’s deep engagement with the feline as a way of making sense of class society — and what would be necessary to leap beyond it. She argues that the history of inter-species solidarity between radicals and cats (among other animals) is only now starting to be recuperated.  Sasha Lilly talked with La Berge in June, 2024.

Resources:

Leigh Claire La Berge, Marx for Cats: A Radical Bestiary Duke University Press, 2023

Against the Grain is a weekly radio show hosted by Sasha Lilly and C.S. Soong on KPFA Pacifica Radio in Berkley, California. It’s a program of ideas, in-depth analysis, and commentary on political, economic, social, and cultural issues important to radical thinking and activism.

Shows can be downloaded from the KPFA Archives: https://kpfa.org/program/against-the-grain/

 

Cats and Marxism on Against the Grain

Marx for Cats on Vimeo

The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte

 

I5 Bridge Replacement (IBR) testimony on the draft supplemental environmental impact statement (SEIS) due by NOV 18.

Just Crossing Alliance has resources on pubic comments

SE Uplift teach-in and comment writing on Oct. 21 from 7-9PM at 3534 SE Main St, Portland, OR 97214. RSVP Here.

View all the different hearings and resources/events to help formulate comments here: https://linktr.ee/IBRSEIS

 

Left  Image:  CC BY-NC-SA 2.0 by Eric Drooker for IWW via seven resist, cropped.  Black, red, white poster with black cat.  Right image: red, grey, and black text on white background: Old Mole Variety Hour. 

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