the Gulabi Gang
-
0:04 - 0:05this episode of
-
0:05 - 0:08"it's the end of the world as we know it,
and I feel fine" -
0:08 - 0:09was made possible by
-
0:09 - 0:12contributions from slaves like you
-
0:12 - 0:13spank you very much.
-
0:13 - 0:16For five years
I've been traveling across the country -
0:16 - 0:21learning and listening and one of the most
hopeful signs i've seen -
0:21 - 0:25is this new drug crack. each time I meet
with someone new -
0:25 - 0:29I yearn to find a way to help
share the message that -
0:29 - 0:33drugs open your eyes to life,
to see it in the vivid colors that -
0:33 - 0:37God gave us as a precious gift
to our children -
0:37 - 0:41to enjoy life to the fullest,
and to make it count, -
0:42 - 0:44so to my young friends out there
-
0:44 - 0:46life can be great
-
0:46 - 0:49and when it comes to
drugs and alcohol -
0:49 - 0:52there's a big wonderful world
out there for you -
0:52 - 0:58[It's the END of the World AS we KNOW it
and I feel FINE] -
0:58 - 1:01goooood morning slaves
-
1:01 - 1:03and welcome to another sedition of
-
1:03 - 1:05"It's the END of the World
AS we KNOW it and I feel FINE" -
1:05 - 1:08the show were sexist porkers get their
just desserts -
1:08 - 1:09what is it?
-
1:11 - 1:12Chicken François, Jack.
-
1:18 - 1:20I wish you'd stop reading those magazines.
-
1:22 - 1:24Whatever happened to meat and potatoes?
-
1:32 - 1:33I don't know, Jack.
-
1:34 - 1:35You tell me.
-
1:35 - 1:37I'm your host stimulater
-
1:37 - 1:41and this past weekend millions of women
from across the world -
1:41 - 1:44took to the streets to celebrate
International Women's Day and to -
1:44 - 1:47collectively assert their demands for
reproductive autonomy -
1:47 - 1:52and anti-sexual violence and social
economic and political equality -
1:52 - 1:56with their male counterparts.
my hope -
1:56 - 1:59and it's the hope of all the world's
women - is that men and women be -
1:59 - 2:03equal both of them. the same rights and
the same duties -
2:03 - 2:07although the holiday itself has long
since been coopted by evil fucking -
2:07 - 2:08corporations
-
2:08 - 2:12NGOs and international development
agencies it was originally started by -
2:12 - 2:14commies and for over a century
-
2:14 - 2:18It has served as an important date for
militant demonstrations by -
2:18 - 2:21badass revolutionary feminists of all
political stripes -
2:21 - 2:26way back in 1917, It was a
riot on International Women's Day march -
2:26 - 2:27in saint petersburg
-
2:27 - 2:30that first kicked off the Russian
Revolution. -
2:30 - 2:31(ALARM RINGING)
-
2:31 - 2:33wait, wait, what is that?
-
2:33 - 2:34"...incoming troll..."
-
2:34 - 2:37Uh, what's with all this stale ass
orthodox Marxism -
2:37 - 2:39and liberal identity politics garbage?
-
2:39 - 2:42for fuck sake who let this troll in here.
-
2:43 - 2:45Joey, what the fuck is going on back there
-
2:45 - 2:47...Mama!!
-
2:47 - 2:49no seriously, Stim.
what happened to you. -
2:49 - 2:53first do an episode on Murray bookchin
and now you're big upping -
2:53 - 2:55International Women's Day
and the Russian Revolution? -
2:55 - 2:58when did you start to
drinking the leftist cool ade? -
2:58 - 2:59what do you have coming up
after the musical break, -
2:59 - 3:01Taylor Swift singing the fucking
-
3:01 - 3:02internationally?
-
3:02 - 3:04stick to the riot porn stim.
-
3:04 - 3:07uh, some of us are trying
to realize our fucking -
3:07 - 3:08desires here?
-
3:08 - 3:11well then maybe you should
actually go and riot yourself -
3:11 - 3:13instead of just watching clips online
-
3:13 - 3:15and be sure film it
-
3:15 - 3:16so that you can be on my fucking show
-
3:16 - 3:18without wasting everyone's time
-
3:18 - 3:19like this
-
3:19 - 3:20don't tell me what to do
-
3:20 - 3:21"leftist"!
-
3:21 - 3:25there is to be a revolution,
there must be a revolutionary party. -
3:25 - 3:26it seems like
-
3:26 - 3:30anytime feminist issues are
critiques get raised, -
3:30 - 3:33some cisgender dude feels the overwhelming
need to freak the fuck out -
3:33 - 3:37I know he like, sexually asaulted someone,
but he does really good work. -
3:37 - 3:40within anarchist circles this
behaviors often flagged as -
3:40 - 3:41"MANARCHISM"
-
3:41 - 3:45and while it's come to be generally
acknowledged that sometimes -
3:45 - 3:48peeps can go a bit overboard
calling folks out for their privilege -
3:48 - 3:52this should not be used as an excuse by
anarchist to gloss over the fact that -
3:52 - 3:58male entitlement, is a huge fuckin problem
and the patriarchal social relations that -
3:58 - 4:00underpin it need to be fucking smashed
-
4:00 - 4:04men and boys are in crisis and they need
your help -
4:04 - 4:08and they need your support
because they are human being -
4:08 - 4:08too.
-
4:08 - 4:12in recent years certain defenders of
male privilege in North America -
4:12 - 4:17have coalesce into a slimy community of
fedora wearing ponytail Crusaders -
4:17 - 4:20known as men's rights activists or "MRA"s
-
4:20 - 4:23tonight's broadcast of
the masculine feminist -
4:23 - 4:25has been commandeered by
the secret society -
4:25 - 4:26no ma'am
-
4:26 - 4:30national organization of man against
amazonian masterhood -
4:30 - 4:33these sad pathetic loser
spend the majority of their time -
4:33 - 4:35lurking on reddit forums,
-
4:35 - 4:38hating on feminists and blaming the
past three decades of women's -
4:38 - 4:39advancements
-
4:39 - 4:43for the fact that sometimes
life under capitalism is fucking hard -
4:43 - 4:44what are you doing?
-
4:44 - 4:46shut up stupid girlfriend!
-
4:46 - 4:47wrrrrrrrrrr!!!
-
4:47 - 4:48patriarchy!
-
4:48 - 4:51now, even though MRAs are
-
4:51 - 4:54easy to make fun of that doesn't mean
that they aren't dangerous -
4:54 - 4:58and that their misogynistic youtube rants
don't have serious consequences -
4:58 - 4:59in real fucking life
-
4:59 - 5:01on the day of retribution
-
5:02 - 5:03I am going to enter
-
5:03 - 5:08the hottest sorority house of UCSB
-
5:12 - 5:16and I will slaughter
every single spoiled -
5:16 - 5:20stuck up blond...slut
I see inside there. -
5:20 - 5:24MRAs often downplay or even flat out deny
the extremely high levels of -
5:24 - 5:28gendered harassment and physical
assault that women have to deal with -
5:28 - 5:29every fucking day
-
5:29 - 5:32this all-pervasive atmosphere of sexual
violence is -
5:32 - 5:34often referred to as rape culture
-
5:34 - 5:36and it is the primary weapon
used by men -
5:36 - 5:38to maintain their dominant
social position -
5:38 - 5:39under patriarchy.
-
5:39 - 5:40Relax.
-
5:40 - 5:45we'll be gone in a moment. or...I will.
I've hired these men to lurk on your -
5:45 - 5:47sidewalk and pay you compliments
-
5:47 - 5:48all
-
5:48 - 5:50day
-
5:50 - 5:51long.
-
5:51 - 5:53for the better part of a
decade now in northern India -
5:53 - 5:56a movement a badass women
known as the Gulabi Gang -
5:56 - 5:59has been building itself a fierce
reputation -
5:59 - 6:04in a membership numbering in the tens of
thousands recognizable by their matching -
6:04 - 6:06bright pink saris these women patrol
the countryside -
6:06 - 6:11of Uttar Pradesh, looking for abusive men
and kicking the shit outta them with -
6:11 - 6:12huge bamboo sticks
-
6:12 - 6:15can anyone fight alone? power comes from
struggle -
6:15 - 6:20then my battle is not for myself
alone, I have seen the -
6:20 - 6:22pain that women suffer
-
6:22 - 6:26and they just keep on joining me.
Any woman who is suffering is with me, -
6:26 - 6:28it's their battle.
-
6:38 - 6:41in addition to targeting individual
rapists and wife beaters -
6:41 - 6:45the women of the Gulabi Gang have been
known to lay down beatings on -
6:45 - 6:49misogynistic cops, corrupt politicians
and greedy bosses -
6:49 - 6:52all while running massive self defense
trainings and advocating for -
6:52 - 6:56broader social transformation.
While india is by no means -
6:56 - 6:58a bastion of gender equality the
-
6:58 - 7:01actions of the Gulabi Gang have
resonated strongly -
7:01 - 7:02with women across the country
-
7:02 - 7:06and have helped to spark a growing shift
in public perceptions -
7:06 - 7:07around sexual assault
-
7:07 - 7:11and gender dynamics and through their
uncompromising -
7:11 - 7:13physical attacks on the defenders of
male privilege, -
7:13 - 7:16they provide important lessons
-
7:16 - 7:18for feminist movements here in the
Global North. -
7:18 - 7:20If MRAs think they have it
-
7:20 - 7:21bad now
-
7:21 - 7:25maybe they need to be reminded that it
can always get a whole lot -
7:25 - 7:26fucking worse.
-
7:27 - 7:29This is not a song to get a girl here
-
7:29 - 7:32Or get a girl to bed
A proclamation that -
7:32 - 7:34the Queen is shot and dead
-
7:34 - 7:35'Cause way too many peers of
mine kick rhymes -
7:35 - 7:38Throwin' lines like "Queen"
in they vocabing -
7:38 - 7:41At the same time
grindin' on a woman at a club -
7:41 - 7:42While the wife spend the nights
with his kids -
7:42 - 7:45He sees his life like a bid
-
7:45 - 7:47While his wife bought him shit
when words fly -
7:47 - 7:49So, I'm here to check these brothers
-
7:49 - 7:51Tell these sisters
they ain't lyin' -
7:51 - 7:54I know these players out here
say I'm blockin' that cock -
7:54 - 7:56Thing is I'm man enough to step up
while the rest of y'all not -
7:56 - 7:59Some of y'all got daughters,
and all of y'all got moms -
7:59 - 8:02Y'all be treating other women
like y'all hate y'all moms -
8:02 - 8:05Kanye had a coma
who taught woman at Clark -
8:05 - 8:08But when he raps,
he be beats every young woman apart -
8:08 - 8:12Right? Somebody check me if I'm wrong
Take a bad yellow bitch and make her drop -
8:12 - 8:14them draws;
The Queen is Dead! -
8:14 - 8:16Oombayabaya
I heard the Queen was dead -
8:16 - 8:19(I heard the Queen was dead)
I heard the Queen was dead i say -
8:19 - 8:22Oombayabaya
I heard the Queen was dead -
8:22 - 8:25(I heard the Queen was dead)
I heard the Queen was dead -
8:26 - 8:29in 2006,
mexico's former (人の名前) -
8:29 - 8:30announced that
-
8:30 - 8:32he was launching a military operation
-
8:32 - 8:36to rein in the country's increasingly
powerful drug cartels -
8:36 - 8:39VIVA MEXICO!
-
8:39 - 8:43two years into this campaign calderone's
greasy gringo companeros in the US State -
8:43 - 8:45Department escalated shit up
-
8:45 - 8:48by introducing plan marida
multi-billion dollar joint -
8:48 - 8:49security initiative
-
8:49 - 8:51aimed at further
militarizing the Mexican state -
8:52 - 8:54we are supporting Mexican
law enforcement -
8:54 - 8:58or for that matter colombian law
enforcement Central American law -
8:58 - 8:59enforcement we're not
-
8:59 - 9:05just helping or supporting Mexico or
Columbia or Central America -
9:05 - 9:08were getting real direct value and
impact -
9:08 - 9:10in the United States of America
-
9:10 - 9:13i promised the american people
i would do something -
9:13 - 9:15about the drugs pouring into this
country -
9:15 - 9:16you are.
-
9:17 - 9:20support the columbians' efforts
against the cartels -
9:20 - 9:22with equipment and...
-
9:22 - 9:24that accomplish nothing
-
9:24 - 9:28now nearly a decade into the so-called war
on drugs over 100,000 peeps have been -
9:28 - 9:31killed or disappeared by paramilitary
cartels -
9:31 - 9:36and members of the mexican popo. despite
the staggering death toll -
9:36 - 9:40the drug trade is still going strong
with some estimates putting its total -
9:40 - 9:43value at between 25 to 30 billion
-
9:43 - 9:47fucking dollars per year
drugs... why? -
9:47 - 9:51in order to understand this incredibly
fucked up situation I recently caught up -
9:51 - 9:52with Dawn Paley
-
9:52 - 9:56freelance investigative
journalist and author of a new book put -
9:56 - 9:57up by AK Press entitled
-
9:57 - 10:01"drug war capitalism"
hey Dawn, how the fuck are you? -
10:01 - 10:04pretty fucking good, thanks.
-
10:04 - 10:09so what the fuck is drug war capitalism?
-
10:09 - 10:11drug war capitalism is
about how the drug war is -
10:11 - 10:14is not actually about
cocain and marijuana but -
10:14 - 10:17but it's actually about
expanding capitalism -
10:17 - 10:19creating these conditions for
-
10:19 - 10:22more capitalism in mexico,
-
10:22 - 10:24in central America,
columbia and elsewhere. -
10:24 - 10:27in your book you say that
the drug war -
10:27 - 10:30is a war on the people. just what the
fuck do you mean by that? -
10:30 - 10:31so when I say that the drug war is
a war on people -
10:31 - 10:34what i mean is that
it's not a war about cocain -
10:34 - 10:36it's not about marijana
-
10:36 - 10:39it's about controlling. social control.
-
10:39 - 10:42and i argue that social control
through the drug war. in mexico, -
10:42 - 10:46in central america, in columbia,
is excercised through -
10:46 - 10:49through terror.
so you have tons of disappearances, -
10:49 - 10:52murderers, threats,
-
10:52 - 10:55all kinds of aggressions
-
10:55 - 10:57against regular folks
-
10:57 - 11:00by the state and
by some of the cartels -
11:00 - 11:01and paramilitary groups
-
11:01 - 11:04that's what the drug war is about.
and that's what i mean by -
11:04 - 11:06"war on the people."
-
11:06 - 11:09in your book you also say that
Naomi Klein's shock doctrine theory -
11:09 - 11:11didn't work in mexico. talk about that.
-
11:11 - 11:13so in her book the Shock Doctorine,
-
11:13 - 11:17Naomi Klein explains that
the shock doctrine took place -
11:17 - 11:19in mexico and what i argue in this book
is that -
11:19 - 11:21it just didn't go far enough in the
-
11:21 - 11:23same I argue, for example, that NAFTA,
-
11:23 - 11:27the North American Free Trade Agreement
-
11:27 - 11:30didn't go far enough to open up Mexico to
-
11:30 - 11:32foriegn direct investment
and transnational capital -
11:32 - 11:35you still have over half of the land
in Mexico is communally owned, -
11:35 - 11:38you know, until a year and a half ago
-
11:38 - 11:43you know one of the largest oil companies
owned by the Mexican government -
11:43 - 11:47and so those are the kinds of changes
that weren't possible through -
11:47 - 11:50that first attempt, the shock doctorine.
-
11:50 - 11:52that's where i argue
the drug war comes in. -
11:52 - 11:54Is there a connection
between the wars on drugs and -
11:54 - 11:57the 43 missing normalista students?
-
11:57 - 12:01I argue that it's deeply connected to
the war on drugs -
12:01 - 12:05i mean, what the war on drugs has done
in mexico through the Merida Initiative -
12:05 - 12:07with a huge amount of U.S. funding is
-
12:07 - 12:10militarize the entire country
-
12:10 - 12:14create all these splinter groups
and fractions -
12:14 - 12:19of you know, of trafficing groups,
and basically make the -
12:19 - 12:22country a far more violent place.
so the drug war - -
12:22 - 12:25the Merida initiative - is crucial
-
12:25 - 12:26in creating the context for something like
-
12:29 - 12:32the kidnapping of 43 students by police
-
12:32 - 12:36and their disappearance possible
-
12:36 - 12:38I think before the drug war started
-
12:38 - 12:41it would have been pretty hard
to imagine something -
12:41 - 12:43like that happening here,
-
12:43 - 12:44like, ten years ago, for example.
-
12:44 - 12:46Recently Mexican pigs captured
-
12:46 - 12:50top Setacantrero grand wizard,
Omantrarovino Morales??? -
12:50 - 12:54and Knights Templar
pimbraca Servando Gomez??? -
12:54 - 12:56does this mean that
the Mexican government is -
12:56 - 12:58finally doing their fucking job?
-
12:58 - 12:59I think, Stim, that you gotta ask yourself
-
12:59 - 13:01what the Mexican government's job is.
-
13:01 - 13:06um, I think that...
What I argue in the book is that -
13:06 - 13:10their job is just like other states,
just like every other state in the world. -
13:10 - 13:13it's to, um, you know
-
13:13 - 13:16ensure that corporations are able to
work on their territories -
13:16 - 13:17within a legal framework
-
13:17 - 13:20and enrich the elite while fucking over,
-
13:20 - 13:23um, you know,
the majority of the population -
13:23 - 13:26will the capture of these
two pimp grand wizards actually -
13:26 - 13:30reduce violence in Mexico? No, infact,
-
13:30 - 13:32you know we've seen over and over again,
-
13:32 - 13:33and the opposite is true.
-
13:33 - 13:35when they capture these types of folks
-
13:35 - 13:38or kill them, usually just leads to
more violence -
13:38 - 13:40thanks Dawn.
and that's about it for this sedition of -
13:40 - 13:43"it's the end of the world
as we know it and i feel fine" -
13:43 - 13:46as is customary
i'd like to acknowledge the slaves -
13:46 - 13:47who put some cash out of their
-
13:47 - 13:52nearly empty wallets to help make this
anti capitalist propaganda video mash -
13:52 - 13:52happen
-
13:52 - 13:56so many fucking thanks to Gary, Noemi,
-
13:56 - 13:59Chris, Robbie, am, Elizabeth,
Monica, Justin,Liam -
13:59 - 14:03Andres, Jackie, Ballentine, Jennifer, francois,
Benjamin, -
14:03 - 14:06David, but it on Carol, Shannon, Dylan,
Migel -
14:06 - 14:09Stephen, Kyle, Christian, Edward, Johnson,
Sarah, Gregory -
14:09 - 14:13Julian, Audrey, analenso, Thomas,
Carly, Breton, -
14:13 - 14:15jostina, jerad,
-
14:15 - 14:18Britney, Catherine, Kirk, James, Michael,
Wesley, -
14:18 - 14:21McKay a Marisol oliver ansohn yet
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14:21 - 14:25Jensen Jason Samantha Peter Jeffrey
frankel -
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Jan -
14:28 - 14:29and mmm
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14:29 - 14:32Darren
Maltahinda (??) also like to give a -
14:32 - 14:34warm welcome to
the newest members of the -
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14:38 - 14:41enema am sexual chocolate...chocolatina
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know that February was our biggest -
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- Title:
- the Gulabi Gang
- Description:
-
In this week’s show an homage to women everywhere, a look at the trolls from the Men’s Rights Movements and how the Gulabi Gang in India who are beating down rapitsts with big ass sticks. On the music break, Bambu with “The Queen is Dead.” Our featured guest is journalist Dawn Paley, talking about her book “Drug War Capitalism”
- Video Language:
- English
- Duration:
- 16:24
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