Nov 2023, Prime ads expected to “reach 115M viewers per month.”
Aral Balkan (Small Tech Foundation): “We didn’t lose control. It was stolen.”
Marjorie Kelly: Wealth Supremacy: How the Extractive Economy and Biased Rules of Capitalism Drive Today’s Crises. Marjorie with Laura Flanders (Dec 2023).
Toni Morrison’s “A Humanist View”, The Source of Self-Regard (Knopf, 2019). Transcript and audio.
Prof. Jeffrey Sachs at the United Nations Food Systems Pre-Summit, 2021.
The wealth of one billionaire compared to average US household income ($65K).
Techcrunch (June 2023): US intel confirms it purchases US citizens’ personal data.
Prof. Shoshana Zuboff (Harvard Business School) defines surveillance capitalism.
Wangari Maathai describes the Green Belt Movement in her 2004 Nobel Lecture.
How emotions shape our identities, cultures, and societies: “The Cultural Politics of Emotion” (Sara Ahmed).
“The Body Keeps The Score” (Bessel van der Kolk) educates on the impact of emotional pain and trauma on our physical bodies.
“Whitey On The Moon”: Gil Scott-Heron on The Revolution Begins.
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It’s 1996 in rural North Carolina, and an oddball crew makes history when they pull off America’s third largest cash heist. But it’s all downhill from there. Join host Johnny Knoxville as he unspools a wild and woolly tale about a group of regular ‘ol folks who risked it all for a chance at a better life. CrimeLess: Hillbilly Heist answers the question: what would you do with 17.3 million dollars? The answer includes diamond rings, mansions, velvet Elvis paintings, plus a run for the border, murder-for-hire-plots, and FBI busts.