GLAMMUMP - Generic Leftist APIA Music and Media of the Upper Midwest Podcast

Recorded Sept 24th 2021. Learn more about Nick Kor's city council candidacy campaign here!

Definitely not Libra szn anymore. (Nick and I both have our Scorpio solar returns forthcoming, but as a Nov 22nd cusp I lean more into my strong Sag stellium.)

Plus: what will be the municipal election season outcomes for Minneapolis be?? (We don't know tbh; we kinda didn't talk about that part much lol.)

Nick and Tri talk about attending the same local Twin Cities alma mater 7 years apart from each other, learning Chinese through swiping on dating apps in the Sinosphere, rallying our communities to have a stake in political involvement, and the messy dilemma of defining ideological terms in our fear-mongering political eco(n)systems.

Want Tri to add more detailed show notes to this episode, or past GLAMMUMP episodes? Venmo @tritactoe or PayPal tri.m.vo4@gmail.com $5 or more with the note "GLAMMUMP show notes [insert episode here]." Thank you in advance for supporting the labor, vision, and love poured into this show.

Two episodes recorded in May 2021 forthcoming in Dec or Jan. This solo podcast biz is a thrill.

In/outro music is "Stereotype" by Twin Cities local Korean-Minnesotan musician, Mayda. 

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For Twin Citizens: 

• Tri's Puppet Show Summer '21 Driveway Tour Dates + beautiful puppeteer faces.
• SEA Echoes Through Rivers info website.
• The SEAD Project; my current part-time day job. Our reach goes within and beyond the Midwest, so check us out wherever on planet Earth you're at.

Coming up:

• Dr. Rose Brewer, Left Political Economies and Black Radical Traditions.
• Cella Sum, Southeast Asians, Punk Music, and All That Junk.
• maybe?? Viet roundtable on Viet-Hoa relations in relation to Chinese-u.$ relations.
• Nominate ideas and guests! DM me on insta @tritactoe, or email glammump@gmail.com.

Music by Mayda, "Stereotype"; sfx by Anchor.

Sorry for wobbly audio- I just found out that setting 3 I set my brother's unused Blue Mic to is meant for conferences and not solo podcasts. I'll keep that in mind, and my Blue to 1, for the future.

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Show notes links thru this Anchor page of the episode.

Recorded May 14th. Show notes forthcoming. Email Dr. Jonathan Tran at Jonathan_Tran@baylor.edu. Pre-order Dr. Tran's forthcoming book, Asian Americans and the Spirit of Racial Capitalism, to be released in October 2021.

Find out and support Robin's path-making campaign at robinformpls.com.

Robin's podcast, Robin's Nest, is available on the campaign website and on all major audio streaming apps.

Facebook: Robin for Minneapolis

Twitter and Instagram: @robin4mpls

Donate | Volunteer | Learn about Robin and Robin's Campaign

Read: Robin's Op-Ed on USA Today on eradicating the blue line and its ideological base

TakeAction MN Star Tribune Op-ed endorsing Robin's campaign

We talk the police apparatus in both the u.$ and Israeli-occupied Palestine, Robin's formative years in Chicago and at her undergrad that became the backbone of her pro-working class political commitments, and Tri and Adnan riff on the value of members of the labor aristocracy/petit bourgeois/professional and creative classes being principled in their commitment to class traitor-ship as necessary to formations of international working class struggle.

Adnan, here. Here are the citations, for what I was talking about when it comes to the Palestinian situation: 

https://www.mediafire.com/file/6flw9miaym1h52o/Podcast_Notes.pdf/file

Tri's puppet show he's performing in: The Amazing Cowboat, by Open Eye Theater in Mpls, MN

Anchor page for this episode, in case links for corresponding texts aren't on.

Also hey hey Dr. Charisse Burden-Stelly, we'd love to have you join us in conversation with Robin and other guests on our podcast. Would be so cool to feature you :)))))

Music, as always, sampled from Mayda's "Stereotype".

Learn about An's book, Meditations on the Mother Tongue (C&R Press, 2017), on his website at an-tran.com. It looks damn cool, so grab a copy(s)!

A is for All Power to All the (Neo)Colonized Peoples on Continents starting with the letter A(frica, Americas, Asia, Australia, and Anarcho-Commie Penguins in Antarctica).

Music courtesy of Mni Sota Makoce local Korean-u.$ musician, Mayda. 

Material support, direct relief aid: Cam's Legal Defense Fund Media Toolkit + Cam's GoFundMe

"Cam Trần is a Vietnamese mother of two young children, who first immigrated to the U.S. in 2009. She was deported in 2019 for an act of self-defense against her abuser. Like over 90% of incarcerated women, Cam is a survivor of domestic and sexual violence and, like many Southeast Asian immigrants and refugees, her deportation was an act of anti-Asian violence.

Cam has an opportunity to return home, but we need to fundraise $10,000 by December 2021 ($1,250 each month) to pay for her legal representation for post-conviction relief. We hope your community support will bring her one step closer to reuniting with her children. 

Please donate, share this fundraiser and toolkit, and sign up for updates/more ways to be involved!"

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Recorded April 16th, 2021. Part 1 of 2 part convo. Welcoming An, a Californi(An) comrade.

Where I refer to Daunte Wright (R.I.P) as Richard Wright for a half-moment and say nothing of it for the rest of the chat. In this call:

• Liberal vs Marxist and Laboring Poor Hegemonies
• Are cops the way to radicalize liberals?
• How to pronounce our ethnic names, lmao
• Guns, state monopoly on violence, and taking back firearm literacy from Rightists
  • Socialist Rifle Association, and safe survival literacy spaces for minoritized peoples
• (Bourgeoise) theory-laundering and radicalization via direct experience
• Structuralism, Post-structuralism, and Marxism. A lil' Antonio Gramsci
• Creating lines of communication based in love and compassion as we rage
• Fully preparing our peoples through tactic-abundance as things continue to "get really bad" politically, environmentally, and so forth
• "Scratch a liberal, a fascist bleeds."

Music is "Stereotype" by Mayda, local to Mni Sota Makoce.

For non-Viet folx, please find thoughtful ways to be a loving resource and friend for the Viet folx in your life who may be feeling deeply distressing feelings this week. I am grateful for the abundant financial support directed to Shane Nguyen's family GoFundMe. Please consider acts of love and kindness to Viet peoples this week that may include money gifts to families directly afflicted.

Peace.

Biden Flips Out at Civil Rights Leaders (Secular Talk)

Has Alexey Navalny moved on from his nationalist past? (Al Jazeera)

Tibet, China, and the Violent Reaction of a Wealthy Elite (Historic.ly)

Friendly Feudalism: The Tibet Myth (Michael Parenti, Swans)

In/outro sampled from Mayda's "Stereotype"

Instagram link: details to support Chyna, mother of Daunte Wright Jr.

Cashapp: $hubby98

Venmo: Chyna-w-1

Paypal: janeyhill@yahoo.com

Chyna's Amazon Wishlist: chyna.whitaker.17@yahoo.com

Donate to ongoing needs of Logan Park Sanctuary Residents in Minneapolis, MN

Follow @DocumentingMN for Black MN Residents-driven reporting and media 

Read Unicorn Riot report on housing crisis of Minneapolis park residents

UR coverage of recent Near North encampment raids and struggles of camp residents

Part 1 of a planned 2-part conversation.

Tri and Adnan speak to the murder of 20 year old son, father, and young adult Daunte Wright by firmly reinforcing the platform for why police reform is ruling class re-commodification of safety that sells itself as a universal good, yet persists in protecting only the quality of life of class-ascendant, exceedingly White-bodied peoples. In Minnesota, police reforms only spell the repackaged and prolonged dispossession of life and community-oriented protection and care of low-income, neocolonized peoples like Wright, Dolal Idd, Isak Aden, Fong Lee, Jamar Clark, Philando Castile, George Floyd, to only name a few of many people killed by the foot soldiers of MN state-sanctioned police violence.

Adnan is online at @RealBashiMusic

A few of many things mentioned:

Proud Boys Leader Enriquo Tarrio was an FBI Informant

Patrice Khan-Cullors, a co-founder of the national Black Lives Matter organization, buys $1.4+ million house

Yahoo News coverage of Khan-Cullors many, many lavish properties

Targets long history of funding the MPD (Minneapolis Police Department)

Tamir Rice’s Mother Criticizes Tamika Mallory After Lil Baby’s Grammys Performance

"Girl Meets World" cellphone clip of "getting real about Communism in class" segment

Email glammump@gmail.com if you want the name of that anti-Left libertard children's cartoon that Tri mentioned and remembered after the podcast.

In/outro music sampled from "Stereotype" by Mayda

Website: http://grownewcity.church/ 
Facebook: facebook.com/GrowNewCity

Instagram: @grownewcity

Watch the statement here. 

Statement: 

New City Church is horrified by the mass shooting in Georgia. We grieve with the families of the victims and all who mourn their loss. Park Soon Chung, Hyun Jung Grant, Kim Suncha, Yue Yong Ae, Xiaojie Tan (谭小杰）, Daoyou Feng, Delaina Ashley Yaun, Paul Andre Michels.

Six of the eight people killed were Asian. Seven were women.

This attack is part of a long pattern of anti-Asian racism, xenophobia, racialized misogyny, toxic masculinity, exotification, and fetishization. Before the Chinese Exclusion Act in 1882, Chinese women were specifically targeted with the Page Act, which barred them from entering the country on the grounds that these “immoral Chinese women” would become sex workers.

Abroad, U.S. imperialism in Asia has created and perpetuated a racialized, misogynist narrative of Asian women as objects of military conquest.

In the past year there has been a marked rise in anti-Asian violence that disproportionately targets women and the elderly. The shooting in Georgia is the most egregious example of a larger and longer history of violence.

Likewise, the continued cultural stigma and hatred against sex workers, particularly female and trans sex workers, continues to drive violence against all women, whether they are sex workers or not. We also recognize the systemic violence that is done to migrant workers, including sex workers, by criminalization and deportation.

At New City Church, we denounce in no uncertain terms the white supremacy, purity culture, racialized misogyny, toxic masculinity, and gun culture that converged in this murderous event. We believe that all of these are examples of Empire, which is what Jesus came to dismantle. We remember that throughout the Bible, God chose marginalized people to move through the world.

God chose women (like Anna), and outsiders (like Ruth), and sex workers (like Rahab) to show the world that we must center marginalized voices if we are to love God--and indeed, if we are to survive at all.

And so, we are committed to ongoing and prayerful work to dismantle these logics of harm in our systems, our church, and ourselves. With God’s help, we will continue to practice collective liberation on earth as it is in heaven.

Permission to re-upload granted by Rev Tyler H Sit.

• Further Means Testing of the Stimulus Will Be Disastrous for Suffering Americans, by Andrew Perez and Walter Bergman
• On the Minimum Wage, Joe Biden Chose Failure, by Branko Marcetic
• U.S. Airstrikes in Syria Target Iran-Backed Militias That Rocketed American Troops in Iraq

Recorded March 7th.

Edited by Andrew.