1 00:00:04,120 --> 00:00:06,240 Speaker 1: It's been three months since you and your co workers 2 00:00:06,240 --> 00:00:09,479 Speaker 1: took control of the hospital. Things aren't back to normal yet. 3 00:00:10,240 --> 00:00:13,159 Speaker 1: You're not even really sure what normal is anymore, but 4 00:00:13,280 --> 00:00:16,480 Speaker 1: the days have fallen into a kind of routine. It's Thursday, 5 00:00:16,520 --> 00:00:18,400 Speaker 1: which means it's your turn to go report back to 6 00:00:18,480 --> 00:00:21,000 Speaker 1: what a friend jokingly referred to as the Endless Meeting 7 00:00:21,040 --> 00:00:23,800 Speaker 1: Assembly was now forever known as the e m A. 8 00:00:24,280 --> 00:00:26,520 Speaker 1: The e m A is technically the closest thing left 9 00:00:26,560 --> 00:00:29,080 Speaker 1: to a central government in Seattle. It was formed as 10 00:00:29,080 --> 00:00:32,400 Speaker 1: a sort of coordinating council between the various organizations and 11 00:00:32,440 --> 00:00:35,600 Speaker 1: workers councils that had emerged or simply emerged from the 12 00:00:35,600 --> 00:00:38,440 Speaker 1: woodworks in the wake of the collapse of the police. 13 00:00:38,760 --> 00:00:42,680 Speaker 1: Two things have become clear very quickly. One, there was 14 00:00:42,800 --> 00:00:45,320 Speaker 1: need for some kind of coordinating committee between the different 15 00:00:45,320 --> 00:00:48,680 Speaker 1: bodies to The only people who had any idea what 16 00:00:48,760 --> 00:00:50,760 Speaker 1: was going on in their portion of the city or 17 00:00:50,800 --> 00:00:53,479 Speaker 1: in their workplace were the members of the local council, 18 00:00:53,840 --> 00:00:55,800 Speaker 1: which meant there was no way in hell any kind 19 00:00:55,840 --> 00:00:58,520 Speaker 1: of central apparatus could dictate to them what actually needed 20 00:00:58,560 --> 00:01:00,800 Speaker 1: to be done. They're just wasn't a way to move 21 00:01:00,800 --> 00:01:04,560 Speaker 1: the information around the solution had been decentralization. Let the 22 00:01:04,600 --> 00:01:07,119 Speaker 1: councils do their work, let them work out who they 23 00:01:07,120 --> 00:01:09,360 Speaker 1: needed to talk to, but make sure there was some 24 00:01:09,440 --> 00:01:11,400 Speaker 1: kind of daily council that people could show up to. 25 00:01:11,640 --> 00:01:13,800 Speaker 1: Were the various groups we do report backs and what 26 00:01:13,840 --> 00:01:16,559 Speaker 1: they were doing and what they needed. The structure was messy, 27 00:01:16,840 --> 00:01:19,520 Speaker 1: but it mostly worked, and at least someone had had 28 00:01:19,560 --> 00:01:21,760 Speaker 1: the idea to make sure if the delegate to the 29 00:01:21,800 --> 00:01:25,360 Speaker 1: e m A rotated so one person wasn't stuck spending 30 00:01:25,360 --> 00:01:29,200 Speaker 1: after life showing up every day. The problem really was 31 00:01:29,240 --> 00:01:31,759 Speaker 1: the same problem you've been dealing with for months now. 32 00:01:32,480 --> 00:01:35,560 Speaker 1: Even with the pooling of resources and people donating their 33 00:01:35,640 --> 00:01:39,679 Speaker 1: last precious American dollars to paying people to import more supplies, 34 00:01:39,959 --> 00:01:43,000 Speaker 1: the blockade was taking its toll. Nobody wanted to try 35 00:01:43,000 --> 00:01:45,759 Speaker 1: to force their way through the blockades and the cascades. 36 00:01:46,280 --> 00:01:48,160 Speaker 1: There's been some attempts to get in touch with groups 37 00:01:48,160 --> 00:01:51,120 Speaker 1: in Portland, but the control map was so ugly there 38 00:01:51,200 --> 00:01:54,720 Speaker 1: was no real chance of getting any assistance. Besides, the 39 00:01:54,800 --> 00:01:58,600 Speaker 1: real problem was the port. When the cops had fled, 40 00:01:58,640 --> 00:02:02,040 Speaker 1: the ships should simply stopped coming. They routed further south, 41 00:02:02,600 --> 00:02:05,560 Speaker 1: many of them to Oakland, or so you'd heard. The 42 00:02:05,600 --> 00:02:08,400 Speaker 1: logistics lines were collapsing faster than anyone could piece them 43 00:02:08,400 --> 00:02:11,480 Speaker 1: back together. What the long term consequences would be no 44 00:02:11,520 --> 00:02:14,400 Speaker 1: one knew, but something was going to have to change. 45 00:02:14,560 --> 00:02:17,560 Speaker 1: The calls to start engaging in piracy were only half oaks. Now. 46 00:02:18,320 --> 00:02:22,640 Speaker 1: A week later, an answer of sorts arrived. It wasn't 47 00:02:22,639 --> 00:02:26,560 Speaker 1: precisely what anyone had been expecting. You'd heard about negotiations 48 00:02:26,600 --> 00:02:31,120 Speaker 1: between workers councils, shipping companies, and a couple of governments 49 00:02:31,639 --> 00:02:33,959 Speaker 1: to try to prevent a bloodbath the docks with the 50 00:02:34,040 --> 00:02:36,799 Speaker 1: porter to Seattle already at a commission, no one could 51 00:02:36,840 --> 00:02:39,760 Speaker 1: afford another stoppage. You hadn't really been sure what to 52 00:02:39,800 --> 00:02:42,880 Speaker 1: make of it, but the representatives were here now. What 53 00:02:43,000 --> 00:02:45,720 Speaker 1: they proposed in front of the largest assembly you'd ever 54 00:02:45,760 --> 00:02:49,280 Speaker 1: seen was a kind of under the table deal. In essence, 55 00:02:49,360 --> 00:02:51,399 Speaker 1: the port workers would go back to work in both 56 00:02:51,400 --> 00:02:54,680 Speaker 1: Oakland and Seattle in exchange for seeding part of Oakland 57 00:02:54,680 --> 00:02:57,560 Speaker 1: itself to a newly formed federation. No one was sure 58 00:02:57,600 --> 00:02:59,800 Speaker 1: how any of this was actually supposed to work, but 59 00:02:59,840 --> 00:03:01,639 Speaker 1: it was the first chance you'd seen in months to 60 00:03:01,639 --> 00:03:04,880 Speaker 1: start solving the supply problem. That didn't mean everyone else 61 00:03:04,880 --> 00:03:08,440 Speaker 1: would agree to it. Democracy is still democracy, after all, 62 00:03:08,840 --> 00:03:12,840 Speaker 1: But maybe, just maybe, with a toe hold in Oaklands, 63 00:03:12,960 --> 00:03:15,560 Speaker 1: the Council's would start to spread, and that so called 64 00:03:15,600 --> 00:03:20,000 Speaker 1: government in California was looking shakier every day. Who knew, 65 00:03:20,720 --> 00:03:28,840 Speaker 1: maybe next time you wouldn't be negotiating at all. In 66 00:03:28,919 --> 00:03:32,440 Speaker 1: March or two thousand four, American occupation forces in Iraq 67 00:03:32,520 --> 00:03:35,520 Speaker 1: attempted to shut down the newspaper of a Shiite cleric 68 00:03:35,600 --> 00:03:39,360 Speaker 1: named Matada el Solder. The Americans had expected Sodder to 69 00:03:39,400 --> 00:03:43,400 Speaker 1: simply fold under the weight of the coalition's pressure. Instead, 70 00:03:43,720 --> 00:03:46,840 Speaker 1: they triggered mass protest that quickly turned into an armed uprising. 71 00:03:47,240 --> 00:03:49,960 Speaker 1: This was a new force at a Rock. The American 72 00:03:50,000 --> 00:03:53,440 Speaker 1: occupation Force, who've been expecting to be fighting al Quaeda 73 00:03:53,840 --> 00:03:57,240 Speaker 1: and maybe the rump of the remaining Baptists, were stunned 74 00:03:57,360 --> 00:04:00,360 Speaker 1: to suddenly be facing a working class uprising among a 75 00:04:00,440 --> 00:04:04,840 Speaker 1: rock a population. This new body Army, as it began 76 00:04:04,880 --> 00:04:08,760 Speaker 1: to call itself, was extremely well organized and were initially 77 00:04:08,760 --> 00:04:11,600 Speaker 1: able to route coalition forces. So what was this body 78 00:04:11,680 --> 00:04:14,280 Speaker 1: army that had so thoroughly rewritten the rules of Rock? 79 00:04:14,840 --> 00:04:17,320 Speaker 1: Shortly after the US to posted on musse in two 80 00:04:17,360 --> 00:04:21,320 Speaker 1: thousand and three Booktato Sauder, the son of another famous 81 00:04:21,480 --> 00:04:24,520 Speaker 1: Rocky shi At religious figure. Both Sauders had been famous 82 00:04:24,520 --> 00:04:27,800 Speaker 1: for this support and care for the poor. So when 83 00:04:27,800 --> 00:04:30,520 Speaker 1: Sauder returned to a Rock, he began to build a 84 00:04:30,520 --> 00:04:35,159 Speaker 1: political base among the Rocks working class, particularly in Solder City, 85 00:04:35,400 --> 00:04:38,360 Speaker 1: a working class suburb of Baghdad. He used his organization 86 00:04:38,400 --> 00:04:42,760 Speaker 1: to redistribute wealth, providing form of welfare states in an 87 00:04:42,760 --> 00:04:45,880 Speaker 1: almost completely shattered country, but are In his allies also 88 00:04:45,960 --> 00:04:48,200 Speaker 1: began to set up a network of freak clinics for 89 00:04:48,279 --> 00:04:52,280 Speaker 1: pregnant and nursing mothers. They used these clinics, which were 90 00:04:52,320 --> 00:04:55,159 Speaker 1: enormously popular, to build a base of support. It is, 91 00:04:55,279 --> 00:04:59,279 Speaker 1: after all, extremely difficult, no matter what your ideological or 92 00:04:59,320 --> 00:05:02,760 Speaker 1: political agreements with the group, to attack them when they're 93 00:05:02,800 --> 00:05:06,359 Speaker 1: running free clinics for pregnant mothers. They protected these clinics 94 00:05:06,360 --> 00:05:10,600 Speaker 1: with militias, which allowed them to transform the community organizations 95 00:05:10,640 --> 00:05:12,920 Speaker 1: and good will that they had gained from the clinic 96 00:05:13,279 --> 00:05:16,680 Speaker 1: into the military power necessary for self governance and eventually 97 00:05:16,720 --> 00:05:21,600 Speaker 1: for resistance against the American occupation. Strategy proved enormously successful. 98 00:05:22,000 --> 00:05:24,719 Speaker 1: Mattato Sauder is still today one of the most important 99 00:05:24,720 --> 00:05:29,160 Speaker 1: political figures in Iraq despite sustained coalition and occupation force 100 00:05:29,240 --> 00:05:32,000 Speaker 1: attempts to stamp them out. But for all their working 101 00:05:32,000 --> 00:05:36,520 Speaker 1: class support, the Solderists were by no means leftists. In 102 00:05:36,600 --> 00:05:40,760 Speaker 1: late twenty nineteen, massive anti asterity, anti imperialists, and anti 103 00:05:40,839 --> 00:05:43,719 Speaker 1: sectarian protests erupted in Iraq as a reaction to the 104 00:05:43,760 --> 00:05:48,520 Speaker 1: murderous incompetence of the Iraqi government, who, among other crimes, 105 00:05:48,960 --> 00:05:51,599 Speaker 1: managed to poison a hundred and eighteen thousand people in 106 00:05:51,680 --> 00:05:55,320 Speaker 1: Bosra through the mismanagement and subsequent contamination of the water supply. 107 00:05:56,920 --> 00:06:00,120 Speaker 1: Also are initially backed the protest, but turned on them 108 00:06:00,120 --> 00:06:03,760 Speaker 1: in early at which point soteristm militias begin to carry 109 00:06:03,760 --> 00:06:06,760 Speaker 1: out a brutal campaign of repression against the protest camps 110 00:06:07,960 --> 00:06:12,719 Speaker 1: that culminated in outrent massacres of protesters. These massacres became 111 00:06:12,760 --> 00:06:17,200 Speaker 1: semi regular features of soterist mass mobilizations, and alongside state 112 00:06:17,240 --> 00:06:22,520 Speaker 1: and paramilitary disappearances of activists, the attacks essentially crushed the uprising. 113 00:06:22,880 --> 00:06:26,080 Speaker 1: The violent homophobia and sexism of the soderust may see 114 00:06:26,120 --> 00:06:29,440 Speaker 1: met odds with their anti imperialism and concern for the poor, 115 00:06:29,520 --> 00:06:34,680 Speaker 1: but right wing organizations have often adapted specific policies, positions, 116 00:06:34,800 --> 00:06:37,720 Speaker 1: and organizational structures from the left, and in this case 117 00:06:37,760 --> 00:06:42,159 Speaker 1: the Soderius mobilizations have been extremely effective. Indeed, writing organizations 118 00:06:42,160 --> 00:06:45,080 Speaker 1: are often more effective at utilizing dual power tactics and 119 00:06:45,200 --> 00:06:48,800 Speaker 1: organizations and leftist movements. This is partly because of a 120 00:06:48,839 --> 00:06:52,440 Speaker 1: fundamental asymmetry between the right and the left. Right wing 121 00:06:52,560 --> 00:06:55,960 Speaker 1: organizations can almost always pend on financial support from wealthy 122 00:06:55,960 --> 00:07:00,279 Speaker 1: political backers, who, when push comes to shove, can simply 123 00:07:00,400 --> 00:07:02,880 Speaker 1: create a movement with pure money, as the Cokes did 124 00:07:03,080 --> 00:07:06,880 Speaker 1: to create the Tea Party. Leftists the ravings of right 125 00:07:06,880 --> 00:07:21,280 Speaker 1: wing conspiracy theorists, notwithstanding, have no such backers. This funding 126 00:07:21,280 --> 00:07:23,440 Speaker 1: and support can go a long way towards explaining the 127 00:07:23,520 --> 00:07:26,760 Speaker 1: successive groups like Hezblah. It is certainly true that without 128 00:07:26,760 --> 00:07:29,720 Speaker 1: Iranian support, Hezbollah would not be the movement that it 129 00:07:29,800 --> 00:07:32,200 Speaker 1: is today, but a great deal of their success is 130 00:07:32,240 --> 00:07:36,000 Speaker 1: simply attributable to the tactics themselves. This does not escaped 131 00:07:36,040 --> 00:07:39,720 Speaker 1: the notice of the U. S. Army Joint Special Operations Universities. 132 00:07:40,320 --> 00:07:44,600 Speaker 1: Major James Love wrote a monograph entitled hes Bellah Social 133 00:07:44,600 --> 00:07:48,280 Speaker 1: Services a Source of Power. In it, he writes the 134 00:07:48,360 --> 00:07:51,520 Speaker 1: most important branch of the Hezbillah organization is a social 135 00:07:51,560 --> 00:07:54,920 Speaker 1: service section, which can be demonstrated by the allocation of 136 00:07:54,920 --> 00:07:59,840 Speaker 1: an estimated fifty of hesbla's two thousand seven budget service efforts. 137 00:08:00,520 --> 00:08:02,720 Speaker 1: It is through the work of the Social Service Section 138 00:08:03,200 --> 00:08:07,560 Speaker 1: that all party activities are possible. Hesbalah's Social Service Section 139 00:08:07,920 --> 00:08:12,040 Speaker 1: was designed to influence all aspects of Lebinezia society. The 140 00:08:12,080 --> 00:08:15,280 Speaker 1: original intent of providing needed services to an oppressed people 141 00:08:15,320 --> 00:08:17,920 Speaker 1: appears to have been manipulated by Hesbillah as a vehicle 142 00:08:17,960 --> 00:08:21,920 Speaker 1: to bolster its ranks, provide a humanitarian shield to the organization, 143 00:08:22,440 --> 00:08:25,840 Speaker 1: increased influence within the Lebanese government, and combat at Shia 144 00:08:25,960 --> 00:08:30,120 Speaker 1: arrival on Ball. The Social Service Section serves as an 145 00:08:30,120 --> 00:08:33,719 Speaker 1: equal arm within the organization and is used as much 146 00:08:33,760 --> 00:08:36,560 Speaker 1: as the military and political wing in terms of leverage. 147 00:08:37,480 --> 00:08:41,600 Speaker 1: Hesbilah's Deputy Secretary General describes the purpose and intent of 148 00:08:41,640 --> 00:08:45,520 Speaker 1: the Social Service Section and the following passage. Hesbalah paid 149 00:08:45,520 --> 00:08:49,400 Speaker 1: particular attention to social work. Not one aspect of aiding 150 00:08:49,440 --> 00:08:51,920 Speaker 1: the poor was neglected, as the party work towards achieving 151 00:08:52,000 --> 00:08:57,320 Speaker 1: joint social responsibility, answering their urgent needs, and introducing beneficial 152 00:08:57,360 --> 00:09:02,760 Speaker 1: programs such work was policy considered party duty and concentrated 153 00:09:02,760 --> 00:09:07,680 Speaker 1: effort towards raising funds and making available social service resources served. 154 00:09:07,720 --> 00:09:11,120 Speaker 1: Towards achieving these goals, the party worked the best of 155 00:09:11,160 --> 00:09:15,720 Speaker 1: its capacities, cooperating with official institutions to his bond societal needs. 156 00:09:16,480 --> 00:09:21,160 Speaker 1: Has Blah's provided medical aid, reconstruction assistance, education programs, and 157 00:09:21,200 --> 00:09:25,680 Speaker 1: particularly programs that take care of patrons and widows, which 158 00:09:25,720 --> 00:09:29,000 Speaker 1: have served to solidify their base. These organizations were critical 159 00:09:29,040 --> 00:09:32,520 Speaker 1: to has Belah's meteoric rise from a political nonentity to 160 00:09:32,640 --> 00:09:36,440 Speaker 1: arguably the most powerful factuated side of Lebanese politics. Has 161 00:09:36,440 --> 00:09:39,640 Speaker 1: Bela's state within a state, as it's become known, it's 162 00:09:39,679 --> 00:09:43,199 Speaker 1: capable of even resisting the Israeli Army. Major Love's frustration 163 00:09:43,280 --> 00:09:46,079 Speaker 1: with the inability of the American Army to either deny 164 00:09:46,160 --> 00:09:48,440 Speaker 1: has Blah's own aid efforts or replicate them in a 165 00:09:48,480 --> 00:09:52,080 Speaker 1: way that could strengthen American power are testaments the effectiveness 166 00:09:52,080 --> 00:09:55,080 Speaker 1: of such a technique and the dangers they posed to 167 00:09:55,080 --> 00:09:58,000 Speaker 1: the American imperial and state project. One of his Love's 168 00:09:58,000 --> 00:10:00,600 Speaker 1: major concerns is that American aid program ms are simply 169 00:10:00,640 --> 00:10:02,880 Speaker 1: caught up in red tape. They're unable to respond as 170 00:10:02,960 --> 00:10:06,640 Speaker 1: fast as community led efforts, which means that those efforts 171 00:10:06,679 --> 00:10:09,720 Speaker 1: will get off the ground faster, get to the scene faster, 172 00:10:10,920 --> 00:10:13,679 Speaker 1: and thus route the political benefits. When the state is 173 00:10:13,760 --> 00:10:16,920 Speaker 1: unwilling or unable to provide services, especially in the wake 174 00:10:16,960 --> 00:10:20,760 Speaker 1: of disasters, it leaves a power vacuum for organizations to exploit. 175 00:10:20,960 --> 00:10:23,640 Speaker 1: May not have heard of the RSS before. It's a 176 00:10:23,640 --> 00:10:27,280 Speaker 1: paramilitary group affiliated with India's ruling party, the b j P, 177 00:10:28,240 --> 00:10:32,840 Speaker 1: counts among its members India's Prime Minister Modi. It's also 178 00:10:32,880 --> 00:10:37,080 Speaker 1: probably the world's largest fascist organization. The RSS was founded 179 00:10:37,120 --> 00:10:42,480 Speaker 1: in a group nominally dedicated to protecting and promoting Hindu interests. 180 00:10:43,000 --> 00:10:45,719 Speaker 1: What this means in practice is that the RSS is 181 00:10:45,760 --> 00:10:48,840 Speaker 1: dedicated to creating a Hindu state and maintains and promotes 182 00:10:48,880 --> 00:10:52,920 Speaker 1: a violent hatred of Muslims. The results in RSS members 183 00:10:52,920 --> 00:10:55,880 Speaker 1: being at the forefront of anti Muslim programs. The r 184 00:10:56,040 --> 00:10:58,200 Speaker 1: s s is pre World War Two leaders were open 185 00:10:58,240 --> 00:11:01,800 Speaker 1: admirers of Hitler and Mussolini, and while they eventually abandoned 186 00:11:01,800 --> 00:11:04,520 Speaker 1: those positions at the start of World War Two, the 187 00:11:04,640 --> 00:11:08,679 Speaker 1: rsss politics have remained thoroughly fascist. In the intense communal 188 00:11:08,800 --> 00:11:11,800 Speaker 1: rioting that both preceded and followed the partition of India 189 00:11:11,800 --> 00:11:16,439 Speaker 1: and Pakistan. After independence, which saw mass population transfers of 190 00:11:16,520 --> 00:11:19,000 Speaker 1: Hindus and Muslims and the death of somewhere between two 191 00:11:19,080 --> 00:11:23,120 Speaker 1: hundred thousand and two million people, the RSS established itself 192 00:11:23,160 --> 00:11:26,680 Speaker 1: as a protector of Hindi refugees against Muslim violence, provided 193 00:11:26,720 --> 00:11:29,560 Speaker 1: protection and aid to those trying to survive the chaos. 194 00:11:30,320 --> 00:11:33,880 Speaker 1: The good will is generated, however, collapse After a former 195 00:11:33,960 --> 00:11:36,960 Speaker 1: RSS member did the singa most famous thing anyone associated 196 00:11:37,000 --> 00:11:42,120 Speaker 1: with the RSS has ever done, assassinated Gandhi. The RSS 197 00:11:42,240 --> 00:11:45,440 Speaker 1: was almost immediately banned, but in light of the terrible 198 00:11:45,480 --> 00:11:48,920 Speaker 1: pr you get when you're associated with killing Gandhi, the 199 00:11:49,040 --> 00:11:53,520 Speaker 1: RSS became increasingly involved with disaster relief. Over half a 200 00:11:53,559 --> 00:11:58,319 Speaker 1: century of painstaking organizing, it created schools and youth programs 201 00:11:58,320 --> 00:12:01,120 Speaker 1: to spread its influence and use them the fuel further 202 00:12:01,200 --> 00:12:05,280 Speaker 1: anti Muslim violence. In two thousand one, the organization gained 203 00:12:05,360 --> 00:12:08,559 Speaker 1: national acclaim for its response to a massive earthquake and Gunjarat. 204 00:12:09,400 --> 00:12:12,959 Speaker 1: The RSS heavily emphasized the non discriminatory nature of their 205 00:12:12,960 --> 00:12:16,720 Speaker 1: aid work in their propaganda, but in reality, many of 206 00:12:16,760 --> 00:12:20,400 Speaker 1: the villages the RS s had rebuilt after the devastation 207 00:12:21,520 --> 00:12:24,440 Speaker 1: had been transformed into miniature versions of the fabled Hindu 208 00:12:24,520 --> 00:12:28,920 Speaker 1: state that the RSS seeks to impose on all of India. Strategically, 209 00:12:29,360 --> 00:12:32,160 Speaker 1: this should look familiar to us now. It's essentially a 210 00:12:32,200 --> 00:12:36,720 Speaker 1: fascist form of prefigurative politics. The RSS used an earthquake 211 00:12:37,480 --> 00:12:39,840 Speaker 1: to build the structure of the new Hindu society in 212 00:12:39,840 --> 00:12:43,160 Speaker 1: the shell of the old. The BJP's dominance over Indian 213 00:12:43,200 --> 00:12:46,280 Speaker 1: politics while led by a member of the RSS, and 214 00:12:46,320 --> 00:12:50,120 Speaker 1: the brutal crackdowns body carried out in Kashmir our bloody 215 00:12:50,160 --> 00:12:54,920 Speaker 1: testament to the success of their strategy. Christian fundamentalist organizations 216 00:12:55,360 --> 00:12:58,360 Speaker 1: have also been extremely effective and utilizing their own form 217 00:12:58,400 --> 00:13:02,240 Speaker 1: of routing profigurative politics, so in a somewhat different way. 218 00:13:02,320 --> 00:13:05,600 Speaker 1: In the RSS, their new world is defined above all 219 00:13:05,679 --> 00:13:20,280 Speaker 1: by theocratic patriarchal authoritarianism. Like the radicals that occupy the 220 00:13:20,320 --> 00:13:23,120 Speaker 1: religious right was operating off the form of contagian theory, 221 00:13:23,480 --> 00:13:26,800 Speaker 1: theory that exposure to their social organizations and forms would 222 00:13:26,840 --> 00:13:30,400 Speaker 1: essentially be contagious and spread. But the Christian rights preferred 223 00:13:30,440 --> 00:13:35,320 Speaker 1: form as the patriarchal family, which serves as a microcosm 224 00:13:35,320 --> 00:13:39,680 Speaker 1: of the kind of hierarchy and patriarchal violence that dominate 225 00:13:39,920 --> 00:13:44,040 Speaker 1: their long dreamed of theocratic society. The Christian Right would 226 00:13:44,080 --> 00:13:46,439 Speaker 1: instill these values into their children and send them off 227 00:13:46,480 --> 00:13:50,000 Speaker 1: into the world to propagate their ideology. Ettinger, an expert 228 00:13:50,000 --> 00:13:52,800 Speaker 1: on the Christian Right, wrote this about the second phase 229 00:13:52,840 --> 00:13:57,719 Speaker 1: of the strategy. In several church leaders came up with 230 00:13:57,760 --> 00:14:01,400 Speaker 1: a new approach, identifying seven spheres of culture to focus 231 00:14:01,400 --> 00:14:04,120 Speaker 1: on one after another to try to bring about the 232 00:14:04,200 --> 00:14:07,679 Speaker 1: lasting change and have a significant impact on the superstructure 233 00:14:07,679 --> 00:14:12,439 Speaker 1: of American culture. Lauren Cunningham, founder of Youth with the Mission, 234 00:14:13,240 --> 00:14:16,920 Speaker 1: a Christian missionary group coordinating international and national mission church 235 00:14:17,040 --> 00:14:21,760 Speaker 1: for young Christians, describes these seven areas as such, these 236 00:14:21,800 --> 00:14:24,640 Speaker 1: are the areas you can go on as missionaries. Here 237 00:14:24,680 --> 00:14:28,320 Speaker 1: they are first, it's the institution set up by God. 238 00:14:28,400 --> 00:14:33,240 Speaker 1: First the family. After the family was the church or 239 00:14:33,280 --> 00:14:36,240 Speaker 1: the people of God. The third was the area of 240 00:14:36,280 --> 00:14:41,480 Speaker 1: school or education. The fourth was media public communication in 241 00:14:41,520 --> 00:14:45,000 Speaker 1: all forms printed in electronic. The fifth was what I 242 00:14:45,040 --> 00:14:49,920 Speaker 1: call celebration, the arts, entertainment, sports, where you celebrate within 243 00:14:49,960 --> 00:14:52,840 Speaker 1: a culture. The six would be the whole area of 244 00:14:52,880 --> 00:14:57,359 Speaker 1: the economy, which starts with innovation and science. And technology, productivity, 245 00:14:57,560 --> 00:15:02,160 Speaker 1: sales and service. The whole area. We often call it business, 246 00:15:03,120 --> 00:15:06,119 Speaker 1: but we leave out something. We leave out the scientific 247 00:15:06,160 --> 00:15:09,760 Speaker 1: part which actually raises the wealth of the world, anything 248 00:15:09,800 --> 00:15:13,000 Speaker 1: new like making sand and chips for a microchip that 249 00:15:13,080 --> 00:15:16,600 Speaker 1: increases wealth in the world. And then of course prediction, 250 00:15:16,680 --> 00:15:20,200 Speaker 1: sales and service helps to spread the wealth. And so 251 00:15:20,240 --> 00:15:24,600 Speaker 1: the last area was the area of government. This is 252 00:15:24,640 --> 00:15:28,440 Speaker 1: a need encapsulation of the rights p Refigurative politics start 253 00:15:28,480 --> 00:15:32,000 Speaker 1: first with the family, and then with the church. Then 254 00:15:32,120 --> 00:15:35,440 Speaker 1: reshaped school and education and mass media in their image, 255 00:15:35,600 --> 00:15:38,000 Speaker 1: and from there you can begin to take the entire economy. 256 00:15:38,200 --> 00:15:42,640 Speaker 1: Churches have also long used aid programs to proselytize and 257 00:15:42,680 --> 00:15:46,360 Speaker 1: also expand their control over the population, which becomes dependent 258 00:15:46,440 --> 00:15:48,720 Speaker 1: on their aid. In the places where the left has 259 00:15:48,720 --> 00:15:51,840 Speaker 1: failed to provide for their community, the far right has 260 00:15:51,880 --> 00:15:54,720 Speaker 1: stepped in and has been able to rapidly and effectively 261 00:15:54,800 --> 00:15:59,520 Speaker 1: reshape the political landscape. This does not mean, however, that 262 00:15:59,600 --> 00:16:02,920 Speaker 1: they can't be beaten. Cooperation Jackson has offered one of 263 00:16:02,920 --> 00:16:06,080 Speaker 1: the most powerful visions of dual power in the modern US. 264 00:16:07,040 --> 00:16:09,840 Speaker 1: A product of the New African People's Organization and the 265 00:16:09,880 --> 00:16:14,600 Speaker 1: Malcolm X grassroots movements Jackson Cush Plan Cooperation. Jackson has 266 00:16:14,640 --> 00:16:17,520 Speaker 1: put forward a radical and democratic bottle of dual power 267 00:16:17,560 --> 00:16:20,120 Speaker 1: with the aim of turning over control of the land 268 00:16:20,160 --> 00:16:22,840 Speaker 1: and the means of production into Jackson's black working class 269 00:16:22,840 --> 00:16:26,720 Speaker 1: and allowing it to achieve its own self determination corporation. 270 00:16:26,840 --> 00:16:30,400 Speaker 1: Jackson has formed mutual Aid Networks, started an incubated program 271 00:16:30,440 --> 00:16:33,240 Speaker 1: to help workers cooperatives get off the ground, and formed 272 00:16:33,240 --> 00:16:36,320 Speaker 1: a community land trust that purchases abandoned buildings in Jackson 273 00:16:36,320 --> 00:16:39,160 Speaker 1: and turns them over to the community. They've also somewhat 274 00:16:39,200 --> 00:16:42,640 Speaker 1: unusually wound up engaged in the electoral process after the 275 00:16:42,720 --> 00:16:46,239 Speaker 1: untimely death of Ally and Jackson Mayor Choqua la Boomba, 276 00:16:46,320 --> 00:16:48,800 Speaker 1: which led to the election of his son Choqua at 277 00:16:48,960 --> 00:16:52,400 Speaker 1: La Bomba, displaced the movement in a somewhat awkward position 278 00:16:52,400 --> 00:16:55,320 Speaker 1: of having allies, even if constrained by the realities of 279 00:16:55,360 --> 00:17:00,520 Speaker 1: state power in the state itself. But Paul Politics in 280 00:17:00,520 --> 00:17:03,040 Speaker 1: the real world is never as clean as the models 281 00:17:03,080 --> 00:17:06,199 Speaker 1: we create to describe it. It is only in our 282 00:17:06,240 --> 00:17:10,080 Speaker 1: ability to adapt the changing conditions of struggle while maintaining 283 00:17:10,080 --> 00:17:13,240 Speaker 1: our political principles that we can build the new world 284 00:17:13,320 --> 00:17:16,480 Speaker 1: in the shell of the old and we can build it. 285 00:17:17,560 --> 00:17:25,359 Speaker 1: The question simply, will we? It could Happen here as 286 00:17:25,400 --> 00:17:28,080 Speaker 1: a production of cool Zone Media or more podcasts from 287 00:17:28,119 --> 00:17:31,080 Speaker 1: cool Zone Media. Visit our website cool zone media dot com, 288 00:17:31,160 --> 00:17:32,920 Speaker 1: or check us out on the I Heart Radio app, 289 00:17:32,960 --> 00:17:36,320 Speaker 1: Apple Podcasts, or wherever you listen to podcasts. 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