In the latest episode of our podcast "Of the People," we discuss some of the new protections the ACLU of Colorado and its partners are working on during this year's legislative session. We're also talking about how the laws we help pass in Colorado can affect the rest of our country. It is a crucial time in our nation's history that Colorado acts as part of the firewall against the civil rights attacks that we expect, and are already seeing, coming from the new presidential administration.

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Episode 13 - 2025 Legislative Session Pt. 1

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Prevent scheme targets dissenting children

Our reaction to the 2022 protests against the Police, Crime, Sentencing & Courts Bill. Peaceful protest is a human right, but one under threat from governments still claiming to police by consent of the public. So if protest gets you nothing but pepper spray and truncheons, then bide your time. Be cool and watchful, like the panther. The time to act will come. And it helps to sniff on the missing beats. Try it.

The Gorilla Shouts, the Panther waits

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Dan Astin-Gregory discusses the struggle against global tyranny and "cultural totalitarianism" which includes the rollout of digital dictatorship and the evisceration of our civil liberties.

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Dan ensures the conversations are impactful, engaging, and driven by a deep exploration of ideas that matter.

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Dan Astin-Gregory: We're Facing a Global Cultural Totalitarianism #514

The Soviet Union collapsed at the end of 1991, taking down with it the threat of international communism, right? Today's guest says no, writing that, "Far from dead, Communism as a governing template seems only to be getting started." Sean McMeekin is a historian at Bard College and the author of the mesmerizing book To Overthrow the World: The Rise and Fall and Rise of Communism. Reason's Nick Gillespie talks with him about the history of communism, how its focus on forced equality is inherently violent, and how Josef Stalin, Mao Zedong, Fidel Castro, and others each brought particular flourishes and horrors to its practice.

Gillespie and McMeekin talk about why communism has enduring and resurgent appeal in the West despite its history of violence and economic disaster. "We dodged a certain bullet" with the election of Trump, McMeekin says, but he argues that "whatever party is in power in Washington, I think we always have to jealously guard our civil liberties and we have to just constantly remind ourselves of what our values are and are supposed to be."

1:41 — The enduring appeal of communism
3:55 — The "whitewashing" of Karl Marx's appetite for violence
7:02 — How Vladimir Lenin changed communism
16:38 — American attitudes toward communism
23:44 — Leon Trotsky's idea of "permanent revolution" and Lenin's legacy
28:35 — Violence didn't deter communism's appeal to many
33:33 — The left's flip-flopping on interventionism in World War II
36:54 — Mao, Khmer Rouge, and communism in Asia
45:22 — Western radicals and Maoism
50:27 — Black intellectuals' engagement with communism
57:51 — Is communism making a comeback?
1:06:20 — Does communism still appeal to the young?
1:11:19 — How does Donald Trump map onto all this?
1:16:43 — The politicization of the means of communication

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Sean McMeekin: Don’t Whitewash the History of Communism

Today's guest is Columbia University linguist and New York Times columnist John McWhorter. In 2021, he published Woke Racism: How a New Religion Has Betrayed Black America, which argued that politically correct "antiracism" was not only a new religion but a dangerous form of illiberalism that quashed free expression, individual liberty, and social progress.

McWhorter talks with Reason's Nick Gillespie about how far we've come since 2021—and whether we are entering a new era of open debate and cultural possibilities. They also discuss the apparent end of diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) programs, McWhorter's own experience with affirmative action over his decades in academia, and his forthcoming book Pronoun Trouble: The Story of Us in Seven Little Words, which comes out in April.

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John McWhorter: Is 'Wokeness' Finally Dead?

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Gaza Ceasefire 16-02-2025

https://thecommunists.org/2025/03/10/news/david-miller-british-counter-terrorism-police-detained-heathrow-zionism/

David Miller detained by British counter-terrorism police at Heathrow

https://thecommunists.org/2025/03/21/news/london-metropolitan-police-review-of-harpal-brars-book-on-zionism/

London Metropolitan police review of Harpal Brar’s book on zionism

This week on the Global Research News Hour we focus the spotlight on long time friend and colleague James Corbett, host of the Corbett Report on the arrival of his brand new book, Reportage: Essays on the New World Order, a book that explores the podcasters journey through the many topics that should concern listeners but that is ignored and suppressed in mainstream media, including the false flag theory of the 9/11 attacks, the control by elites of both the Left and the Right, the capture of science and environmental concerns and much, much more. 

GRN 479 June 27

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