This a list of media that has come up in our discussions or we have found valuable.
last updated Apr. 2022
Articles & A/V
Emma Kinema, Game Workers Unite on labor organizing – XOXO Festival 2019
WOBCAST #2: Proof of Concept, podcast episode on the Stardust restaurant organizing campaign in NYC, a “proof of concept” of the solidarity unionism model developed by the IWW
Spadework
What it is to organize by Alyssa Battistoni, N+1
How Civilization Broke Our Brains
What can hunter-gatherer societies teach us about work, time, and happiness? by Derek Thompson, The Atlantic
Books & Films
Bullshit Jobs by David Graeber, 2018
Small is Beautiful: Economics As If People Mattered by E.F. Schumacher, 1973
summary & notes
Capital in the Twenty-First Century, 2020 (film trailer)
Entreprecariat by Silvio Lorusso, 2019
summary & notes
Acid Communism (in progress) by Mark Fisher, 2016
Mark Fisher’s lecture on Designer Communism, transcripts of his final lectures on Postcapitalist Desire, and the unfinished intro to his unwritten book.
No Shortcuts by Jane McAlevey
Emergent Strategy by adrienne marie brown, 2017
Publications & Podcasts
in Los Angeles
The LAnd Mag
local mag produced by the self-organized workers from the original LA Weekly staff
Llano del Rio Guides
aims to expand cultural, social, and political imagination of Los Angeles
LA Podcast, LAist, LA TACO
podcast and blogs on local news, politics, events and food
and Beyond
Organizing Work
a website and podcast about the nuts and bolts of organizing centering worker perspectives and rooted in the IWW model of solidarity unionism
Team Human
media theorist Douglas Rushkoff’s podcast where he interviews the inspiring fellow members of Team Human playing for people and against capitalism, competitive individualism and tech dystopia
Know Your Enemy
podcast of super insightful examination of current and past strains of thought on the right (and left)
Random
Clementine Morrigan (instagram)
on cancel culture on the left
mixtapes
(hope to be able to use Resonate or Ampled for this one day)