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As we face a pandemic that has created a kind of general strike we need to think about organizing our lives differently. Today’s Interchange offers a class perspective to stand against the capitalism that offers only destruction for so many of us. *** We begin with exploitation and expropriation: Capitalism’s twin pillars of abuse and theft–and how this frames and …

This week, we continue to air urgent messages from people on the impact of the coronavirus on prisoners around the world and closer to home. We start off with a call from a prisoner at Waupun Correctional, in Wisconsin, where an outbreak of COVID-19 has been reported. We share a statement from someone in Brazil about the recent prison breaks, …

Happy and healthy spring to everyone everywhere

Today we look at the local effects of COVID-19 in and around the major cities of Italy and then we’ll widen our view to try to see the socio-political impacts of governmentality in the face of a crisis like a pandemic. Using both lenses we hope to find a focus that often escapes us when confronting the global and seemingly …

As the coronavirus pandemic continues to change life on the outside for people all over the world, the prison population stands to suffer immensely in these times. Last week, we spoke to someone in Italy, who described the riots and protests inside and outside the prisons in areas around that country. This week, we are sharing messages from people all …

Today we begin to take some kind of measure of the impacts of the so-called novel coronavirus or COVID-19 in our communities. Throughout, we’ll be accompanied by “Love” and “Compassion,” two tracks from John Coltrane’s last recordings with McCoy Tyner, Elvin Jones, Jimmy Garrison. Recorded on September 2, 1965 and released in 1977 on the album First Meditations, this has …

The entire country of Italy is now a “red zone,” not quite quarantined, but facing serious restrictions to movement and public gathering due to the coronavirus. Prisoners were told that they would lose all family visitation, even though the Justice Ministry was not taking any other steps to offer them medical care or prevent transmission in crowded conditions.  In response, …

The Research Institute sounds like an ambulance driving through a rave in slow motion, with influence from the Chicago underground electronic scene circa the late 2000s. See Bandcamp, via the Nashville label Cream Over Misery, “A Smile Through the Matrix.” Credits: Host: Spencer Heuring Engineers: Jim Lang and Lucas Fisher Producers: Spencer Heuring and Harrison Wagner Music Director: Jim Manion …

+ WFHB TOP ALBUMS 3.10.20 1. Khruangbin & Leon Bridges – Texas Sun 2. Sweet Lizzy Project – Technicolor 3. DJ Shadow – Our Pathetic Age 4. Rose Cousins – Bravado 5. Frazey Ford – U Kin B The Sun 6. Drive-By Truckers – The Unraveling 7. Lola Marsh – Someday Tomorrow Maybe 8. Della Mae – Headlight 9. The …

Over the past decade, academic labor has become increasingly precarious, with tenure track positions diminishing rapidly and the pool of adjunct lecturers growing intensely. Compensation for graduate students who double as Teaching Assistants (or TAs) has dropped significantly or stagnated while tuition and additional fees, as well as general class sizes and teaching responsibilities, have climbed steadily. The graduate students …