At Your Expense
At Your Expense
At Your Expense
Both parties hate you but we're here to help. Laugh and cry with us as we celebrate the beauty of American bipartisanship, where politicians work across the aisle to serve corporate interests and invent costly distractions... all at your expense. See bonus content at patreon.com/atyourexpensepod Contact us and take action at linktr.ee/AtYourExpensePodcast
Ep 9: Comrade Cluck is a Scab Part II
Part II: Mike Woliansky and Sadrah Schadel were punk rockers with a vision to save the world one vegan meat product at a time. No Evil Foods is sold as an activist brand with a mission, but their socialist-themed branding and co-opting of leftist rhetoric can’t cover up their union busting and treatment of workers as disposable. So how did this “progressive” company come to exploit their employees just like any other cutthroat capitalists? In this episode we speak with union organizers and former No Evil Foods employees Jon, Meagan and Josh about their experiences with the company and its union busting tactics. Even further proving their contempt for their employees, just weeks after this episode was recorded No Evil Foods laid off their entire production staff without warning or severance. Content warning: Sexual harassment. See our Patreon, YouTube, Twitter, Instagram, email, and more at https://linktr.ee/AtYourExpensePodcast Learn more about the mistreatment of workers at No Evil Foods at ---MoEvilFoods.com ---@soevilfoods on Instagram ---@BirdieGregson on Twitter ---@MeaganS45494317 on Twitter ---Mo Evil Foods on Facebook Read Confessions of a Union Buster by Martin Jay Levitt recommended by Jon Read No Shortcuts: Organizing for Power in the New Gilded Age by Jane McAlevey recommended by Josh
Jul 21, 2021
1 hr 39 min
Ep 8: Comrade Cluck is a Scab Part I
Mike Woliansky and Sadrah Schadel were punk rockers with a vision to save the world one vegan meat product at a time. No Evil Foods is sold as an activist brand with a mission, but their socialist-themed branding and co-opting of leftist rhetoric can’t cover up their union busting and treatment of workers as disposable. So how did this “progressive” company come to exploit their employees just like any other cutthroat capitalists? In this episode we speak with union organizers and former No Evil Foods employees Jon, Meagan and Josh about their experiences with the company and its union busting tactics. Even further proving their contempt for their employees, just weeks after this episode was recorded No Evil Foods laid off their entire production staff without warning or severance. Content warning: Sexual harassment. See our Patreon, YouTube, Twitter, Instagram, email, and more at https://linktr.ee/AtYourExpensePodcast Learn more about the mistreatment of workers at No Evil Foods at ---MoEvilFoods.com ---@soevilfoods on Instagram ---@BirdieGregson on Twitter ---@MeaganS45494317 on Twitter ---Mo Evil Foods on Facebook Donate to the laid off No Evil workers Read Confessions of a Union Buster by Martin Jay Levitt recommended by Jon Read No Shortcuts: Organizing for Power in the New Gilded Age by Jane McAlevey recommended by Josh
Jun 30, 2021
1 hr 16 min
Ep 7: The For the People Act (HR-1): Actually Real Bad
The For the People Act (HR-1) is being sold to you as voting expansion, but with a catch: You can only ever vote Democrat or Republican from now on. We deep dive this federal bill and also check in on TX Senate Bill 7, the most Texan voter suppression bill y’all done seen yet. Update: TX Senate Bill 7 was Frankensteined with House Bill 6 then failed the Senate; now pending a Special Session. SIGN & SHARE THE PETITION See our Patreon, YouTube, Twitter, Instagram, email, and more at https://linktr.ee/AtYourExpensePodcast Govt. summary of HR-1 The Green Party on HR-1 opening the big, big corporate campaign floodgates Our current public financing system Howie Hawkins on HR-1’s scam to add public money to all the private money corporate incumbents can raise The Heritage Foundation telling people who have been manipulated to just vote the liars out Cruz saying HR-1 will keep Democrats in power for 100 years A literal State Representative telling CNN, “Everybody shouldn’t be voting" Never forget TX spent 22k hours looking for voter fraud and only found 16 people out of 17 MILLION with the wrong address
Jun 10, 2021
1 hr 6 min
Ep 6: Disrupt the Almighty Dollar Part II
PART II FINALE WITH ABOLITIONIST-ORGANIZER-JOURNALIST MIRINDA "That's like that Fred Hampton shit: He'd be like, 'White power to white people. Black power to Black people.' What I think he meant is, 'Look: The problematic of coalition is that coalition isn't something that emerges so that you can come help me, a maneuver that always gets traced back to your own interests. The coalition emerges out of your recognition that it's fucked up for you, in the same way that we've already recognized that it's fucked up for us. I don't need your help. I just need you to recognize that this shit is killing you, too, however much more softly, you stupid motherfucker, you know?'" - Fred Moten Mirinda organizes with Workers World Party, The Texas Death Penalty Abolition Movement (on Twitter and Facebook), and Fight for Im/migrants and Refugees Everywhere (Fight ICE with FIRE). They also co-edit the Prison Abolition section of the Workers World Newspaper titled, Tear Down the Walls - free to read here. See our Patreon, YouTube, Twitter, Instagram, email, and more at https://linktr.ee/AtYourExpensePodcast Capitalist-fueled Climate Crisis, ‘Nightmare Reality’ by Mirinda Support the Workers World Prisoner Subscription Program Golden Gulag: Prisons, Surplus, Crisis, and Opposition in Globalizing California by Ruth Wilson Gilmore Change Everything by Ruth Wilson Gilmore Prisons and Class Warfare: Interview with Ruth Wilson Gilmore Transformative Justice Creative Interventions Toolkit: A practical guide to stop interpersonal violence We Do This ‘till We Free Us: Abolitionist Organizing and Transforming Justice by Mariame Kaba Mobilization 4 Mumia Abu-Jamal Free Mumia Linktree Murder, Inc. by Mumia Abu-Jamal on imperalism Auto-Email to #ProtectPrisonMail SanctionsKill.org: Take action against sanctions and economic war Mirinda's Twitter Mirinda's Instagram
May 27, 2021
1 hr 23 min
Ep 5: Disrupt the Almighty Dollar Part I
Abolitionist and super-organizer Mirinda visits to talk everything capital and resistance, including their work with Workers World Party, The Texas Death Penalty Abolition Movement, and Fight for Im/migrants and Refugees Everywhere (Fight ICE with FIRE). They also co-edit the Prison Abolition section of the Workers World Newspaper titled, Tear Down the Walls - free to read here. Content warning: Infant death by police (26:35-26:50). See our Patreon, YouTube, Twitter, Instagram, email, and more at https://linktr.ee/AtYourExpensePodcast The Texas Death Penalty Abolition Movement on Twitter and Facebook Capitalist-fueled Climate Crisis, ‘Nightmare Reality’ by Mirinda Support the Workers World Prisoner Subscription Program Amazon's leaked union-busting training video Southern Workers School free union and organizing classes flyer and registration Map and archive of North American prison uprisings The MOVE Organization Local officials drop a bomb on the MOVE house video and article Golden Gulag: Prisons, Surplus, Crisis, and Opposition in Globalizing California by Ruth Wilson Gilmore Change Everything by Ruth Wilson Gilmore Prisons and Class Warfare: Interview with Ruth Wilson Gilmore Transformative Justice Creative Interventions Toolkit: A practical guide to stop interpersonal violence We Do This ‘till We Free Us: Abolitionist Organizing and Transforming Justice by Mariame Kaba Mobilization 4 Mumia Abu-Jamal Free Mumia Linktree Murder, Inc. by Mumia Abu-Jamal on imperalism Auto-Email to #ProtectPrisonMail SanctionsKill.org: Take action against sanctions and economic war Mirinda's Twitter Mirinda's Instagram
May 4, 2021
1 hr 13 min
Ep 4: To Protect and Serve (The Rich)
Shane of the Anarcho Rifle Association joins us to discuss cops and unions. We examine policing as a tool for repressing social movements, their increasing militarization, reform vs. abolition (alternatives to police as they operate now), and the absurd union busting tactics deployed against workers in Bessemer, Alabama in the recent vote to unionize their Amazon warehouse. See our Patreon, YouTube, Twitter, Instagram, email, and more at https://linktr.ee/AtYourExpensePodcast Chauvin trial witness testimony: https://tinyurl.com/xbb2uspt Reformist Reforms vs Abolitionist Steps in Policing: http://criticalresistance.org/resources/abolitionist-tools/ Broken Windows Theory: https://tinyurl.com/5p4uxbun Alternatives to police: https://tinyurl.com/ybfbxtj7 Houston's police budget: https://tinyurl.com/a49s9cs Biden’s pro-union address: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=50WwskG7q3A “An independent, radical publisher of books and media to educate, entertain, and inspire:” https://www.pmpress.org/ Shane’s Twitter: https://twitter.com/Disarmdisband12?s=20 --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app
Apr 17, 2021
1 hr 44 min
Ep 3: Cage Queen
We examine why Biden's child cages are supposedly more humane than Trump's, wonder how veterans are still being deported, and find out more about the real "Jim Eagle." See our Patreon, YouTube, Twitter, Instagram, email, and more at https://linktr.ee/AtYourExpensePodcast Order a handmade red beret for Medicare for All at https://wholewashington.org/ Kamala Harris: Border Cop C-Span brief: https://www.c-span.org/video/?510228-1/president-biden-taps-vice-president-harris-oversee-border-migration-response The MIA "Biden Plan to Keep Our Sacred Obligation to Our Veterans:" https://joebiden.com/veterans/ --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app
Apr 6, 2021
1 hr 5 min
Ep 2: ERCOT Blues
This episode was recorded Feb. 17th during the weeklong power outages in Texas. Manny from AllCap Podcast joins us to discuss. See our Patreon, YouTube, Twitter, Instagram, email, and more at https://linktr.ee/AtYourExpensePodcast --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app
Mar 11, 2021
59 min
Ep 1: The First Episode?
We talk about the Trump impeachment that went nowhere, rehash the Capitol riots, and discuss the future prospects of the People's Party. We have our friend Mal on as our first guest. See our Patreon, YouTube, Twitter, Instagram, email, and more at https://linktr.ee/AtYourExpensePodcast --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app
Feb 26, 2021
1 hr 17 min