Outdoor Cats Podcast
Outdoor Cats Podcast
Podcast Description
Weekly broadcasts from a city that punishes you for caring. Join Bill and Chris for leftist perspectives from Worcester, MA, an urban knife’s edge of gentrification and vulture capital. We discuss local current events, analyzing the ways in which these stories ripple outward from the city we call home. We’ll even talk some about what you can do to fight back! www.worcestersucks.email
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The podcast covers themes related to gentrification, labor rights, community resilience, and social justice. Episodes touch on specific local events, such as the resignation of controversial hospital administrators, city council debates on bigotry, and grassroots organizing efforts in response to policing issues. Recent topics also include the effects of real estate speculation on the city and critical discussions surrounding mutual aid.
Weekly broadcasts from a city that punishes you for caring. Join Bill and Chris for leftist perspectives from Worcester, MA, an urban knife’s edge of gentrification and vulture capital. We discuss local current events, analyzing the ways in which these stories ripple outward from the city we call home. We’ll even talk some about what you can do to fight back!
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Tough to coat this one with any sugar folks: Today we open with the news that our one competent city executive, Superintendent Rachel Monárrez, will be “going, going, back back to Cali” like Biggie Smalls come June. Read her statement here. You will be missed, Dr. Monárrez!
We then spend the rest of the episode digesting and discussing Tuesday’s meeting of the Standing Committee on Public Safety, and how it illustrated the true power dynamics of the city and the police department. (Folks, it’s not good!) In this meeting, Kate Toomey basically hands the police chief the floor to explain away the DOJ report, with conspiracies as wild as ‘radical students taking over the Department of Justice’ and ‘cop-impersonating rapists.’
Full transcript of the Tuesday public safety meeting
Chief’s initial response document from March 4, which he mostly reads off.
New police statement from Wednesday afternoon
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—Outro music by yours truly (Bill) / intro music: “Roaming The Cosmic Winds” by Mystic Realm, Worcester-based dungeon synth project by Kevin Fitzgerald. Check out the full album, Forsaken Kingdom, on the Mystic Realm Bandcamp.
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