Month: March 2021

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Time To Say Goodbye - Loving Guam, fighting empire with Julian Aguon

Hello from the imperial U.S.A.!

Our special guest this week is the CHamoru activist attorney and writer Julian Aguon. Julian calls in from Guam to talk about his new book, The Properties of Perpetual Light, which comes out at the end of the month. (Pre-order it for you and a friend!)

Julian reads from the book and talks about: 

* Developing his voice as a writer and mixing genres: from poetry to political commentary to personal essay; 

* Guam/CHamoru identity and attempts to build solidarity with other colonized and indigenous peoples across the world;

* His work as a lawyer with Blue Ocean Law;

* Guam as a hotspot of climate change and militarization;

* How Guam, as a U.S. colony, is often stuck in the old and ongoing U.S.-China conflict.

For more, check out:

* Julian’s 2017 piece (In These Times) on Guam in the crosshairs of U.S.-North Korean saber rattling;

* Julian’s recent book talk at American University;

* Reporting by Chris Gelardi and Sophia Perez (The Nation) on how people in Guam and the Northern Mariana Islands are fighting U.S. militarism.

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Life Raft - What If We Just…Made Our Houses Float?

With flood risk increasing and flood insurance rates likely following suit, it seems like there's got to be a better way to tackle the challenge.

For example: could we make our homes float when the water comes?

This week we talk to an architect who has devoted her professional life to that question, and we visit a Louisiana community where some people have decided that it makes more sense to temporarily float a house than to elevate it on stilts.

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The Intelligence from The Economist - Reconciled to it: America’s stimulus bill

Thanks to a parliamentary contortion called reconciliation, the $1.9trn covid-relief plan is likely to sail through—we examine what is in it and what its passage portends for lawmaking in the Biden era. Unrest is unusual in Senegal, but citizens are out in force; we ask about the roots of the protest mood. And what ever happened to bespoke ringtones?

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Everything Everywhere Daily - The Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum Heist

In the early hour of March 18, 1990, two police officers enter Boston’s Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum. The problem was, they weren’t police officers. They were thieves. In a little over an hour, they stole 13 valuable works of art which had a combined value of over $500 million dollars. It was the largest robbery in American history. Learn more about the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum heist on this episode of Everything Everywhere Daily.

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The Best One Yet - “If you could sell stock of The Crown” — AT&T’s alleged cheating. Discord’s maverick. Gatorade’s tech thingie.

The social media app du jour Discord hit a $7B valuation for doing the opposite of every other social media company. Pepsi’s Gatorade just made an unprecedented move in the beverage industry: It’s launching a FitTech gadget. And AT&T gets charged with cheating after telling employees to “work the analysts” in an insider information faux pas. $PEP $T Got a SnackFact? Tweet it @RobinhoodSnacks @JackKramer @NickOfNewYork Want a shoutout on the pod? Fill out this form: https://forms.gle/KhUAo31xmkSdeynD9 Got a SnackFact for the pod? We got a form for that too: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSe64VKtvMNDPGSncHDRF07W34cPMDO3N8Y4DpmNP_kweC58tw/viewform  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.
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What Next | Daily News and Analysis - Who Gets to Work on Capitol Hill?

The 117th U.S. Congress is the most diverse ever. But that distinction does not extend to senior staff on the Hill. How does the makeup of Congressional staff influence legislation?

Guest: Maya King, author of Politico’s Recast newsletter on how race and identity shape politics, policy, and power.  

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The NewsWorthy - CDC’s New Advice, Winter Olympics Boycott? & Malala Takes on TV- Tuesday, March 9th, 2021

The news to know for Tuesday, March 9th, 2021!

We have updates about:

  • the CDC's newest guidance explaining what you can and can't do once you've gotten your COVID-19 vaccines
  • a new surge at the border: what's happening with migrant children and the response to it
  • a push to boycott the Winter Olympics
  • how much the first-ever tweet could be sold for
  • the youngest Nobel Peace Prize winner teaming up with Apple

Those stories and more in just 10 minutes!

Head to www.theNewsWorthy.com or see sources below to read more about any of the stories mentioned today.

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Sources:

CDC Guidelines for Vaccinated People: AP, NPR, NY Times, CDC

More Migrant Children Detained: NY Times, CBS News, Reuters

Chauvin Trial Security & Protests: Minneapolis Star Tribune, WaPo, AP, USA Today

Another Senate Republican Retiring: Politico, Axios, WSJ, NBC News

Djokovic Breaks Tennis Record: AP, ESPN, Bleacher Report, Djokovic Tweet

Calls to Boycott 2022 Beijing Olympics: USA Today, AP, FOX News

Buy the First-Ever Tweet: CNBC, CNN, Reuters , Twitter

Malala Partners with Apple: Reuters, AP, CBS News, Apple

The Queen’s Gambit Musical: NY Times, Variety, Deadline

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NBN Book of the Day - Xiaoping Fang, “China’s Cholera Pandemic: Restructuring Society Under Mao” (U Pittsburgh Press, 2021)

Mao Zedong’s Great Leap Forward campaign organized millions of Chinese peasants into communes in a misguided attempt to rapidly collectivize agriculture with disastrous effects. Catastrophic famine lingered as the global cholera pandemic of the early 1960s spread rampantly through the infected waters of southeastern coastal China. Confronted with a political crisis and the seventh global cholera pandemic in recorded history, the communist government committed to social restructuring in order to affirm its legitimacy and prevent transmission of the disease. Focusing on the Wenzhou Prefecture in Zhejiang Province, the area most seriously stricken by cholera at the time, Xiaoping Fang demonstrates how China’s pandemic was far more than a health incident; it became a significant social and political influence during a dramatic transition for the People’s Republic.

China's Cholera Pandemic: Restructuring Society Under Mao (University of Pittsburgh Press, 2021) reveals how disease control and prevention, executed through the government’s large-scale, clandestine anticholera campaign, were integral components of its restructuring initiatives, aimed at restoring social order. The subsequent rise of an emergency disciplinary health state furthered these aims through quarantine and isolation, which profoundly impacted the social epidemiology of the region, dividing Chinese society and reinforcing hierarchies according to place, gender, and socioeconomic status.

Rachel Pagones is chair of the doctoral program in acupuncture and Chinese medicine at Pacific College of Health and Science in San Diego and a licensed acupuncturist.

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