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!
Tackling the important questions, such as “why hasn’t Worcester seen a data center proposal yet?” “what’s this guy’s deal?” and “why do people on the Worcester subreddit have such bad taste in sandwiches?”
Far as news goes, it’s a light week. We spend considerable time working through a rough editorial by Massterlist’s Jon Keller about why Jim McGovern doesn’t get many challengers. It’s a trip. Some of the worst writing I’ve ever seen.
Maybe there’s a clue in that most rare phenomenon, a member of Congress facing absolutely no competition for reelection. No Democratic primary challengers. No Republican general election foe. Not even a stray independent or third-party wingnut who flits onto the ballot like a fly seeking purchase on a dog’s leavings, pending certain disposal by the voters.
(Hey it’s Chris, up top I talk about the Benn Jordan data center noise study thing. Here’s Benn’s full channel, he’s a foundational always-watch YouTube guy for me. I keep thinking about how we all kind of live in an oil field now? Most of Benn’s contemporary work is focused on surveillance-state/Big Tech-state resistance and avoidance, but I originally got into him through this mind-blowing video he made about how Aphex Twin sounds like Aphex Twin and why kind of no one else ever has or can.)
The Russell quote can be found in the last written Worcester Sucks post: “There will be no going off script.”
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