Dispatch from the Desert Planet Morgan Maxwell

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Broadcaster W. Coleman explores surveillance capitalism and Broadcaster  S. Cisneros gets to know a rebel musician. Featuring Leanne Thacker, Angela Barraza, and Edgar Ricaud. Stay tuned for updates regarding the release of Edgar's latest album.

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Cover Art by Jeremie Serrano 

The Age of Surveillance Capitalism by Shoshana Zuboff (affiliate link, purchasing on Bookshop helps support Dispatch from the Desert Planet but we don't care where you shop as long as the profit goes to independent bookstores.)

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The great outdoors (from space!) 

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Featuring Kent Overshown as Broadcaster K. Baldwin. Cover art by Jeremie Serrano and music by Sun Blood Stories.

Real-world Links:

Diversify Outdoors 

National Parks and Racial Equity

Nature and Health

Climate Change and Indigenous Activism

Standing Rock

Spotlight on Indigenous Activists 



Coffee Break featured Inca Lands by Hiram Bingham, reading courtesy of Librivox

This special non-fiction episode includes commentary about the attempted insurrection on January 6th, 2021 and extended reading/listening/watching resources. 

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Related to the complicity of Capitol police (be it active or passive) Aljazeera is reporting on the FBI’s warning US Law Enforcement before the attack. They also have live updates pertaining to the insurrection, Donald Trump, consequences, and lack thereof.

BBC News has an article called The 65 Days that Led to Chaos at the Capitol that helps track some of the key moments, predominately on social media, that led to Wednesday’s action as well as the evolution of the Stop the Steal quote, movement.

Unicorn Riot’s reporting on Proud Boy’s leader Henry Tarrio’s arrest. Tarrio was arrested before the attempted insurrection, upon arrival to DC, because in December of 2020 he carried out a hate crime against a Black church in the area. His arrest revealed two illegal high capacity firearms. I think this one is particularly important because it helps illustrate that Wednesday’s action was part of a steady violent escalation, very much reinforced by racism, rather than a spontaneous show of political ideology. 

PRX’s podcast Reveal’s most recent episode Democracy Under Siege dives into the attempted coup and explores a historical parallel

Politics and Prose Bookstore has lecture/reading from On Tyranny author Timothy Snyder free on YouTube. It’s a bit over an hour. The takeaway is, it can happen and it happens fast.

It Could Happen Here is Robert Evan’s podcast from 2019 that considers the possibility of a modern American civil war.

Speaking of imaginings of a modern US civil war, Omar El-Akkad’s American War is a work of speculative fiction that reads like historical fiction. As a former conflict journalist El-Akkad brings intense realism to his dystopia. (Affiliate link included, purchasing through Bookshop helps support DDP)

And, if you’re turning to SpecFic right now, obviously, read Octavia Butler’s Parable of the Sower. If it’s not an option for you right now due to funds. A teacher has done a very cool thing and shared a reading on Youtube to help get students through shelter in place. She also displays the PDF text. 

In June of last year Politico wrote about the current golden age of conspiracy theories. 

Reporter Jake Hanrahan’s podcasts Q Clearance delves into the origins of the Qanon conspiracy.

Also, check out our Bingo, Fascism card! It’s free, and terrifying.

Catch some of the 89.x1 crews evening announcements. Thank you to our donors, and sustaining Ko-fi/Patreon supporters for making Dispatch from the Desert Planet Possible. 

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Deepest gratitude Bean, Angela, Sarra, Sagrario, Leanne, Leanne, Matt, Berry, Justin, Tevanna, Mariah, Alyse, Lauren, Gina, Amber and the entire Sun Blood Stories team, Oliver, Oliver, Mara, Miki, Bobby, Michelle, Alyssa, Alyssa, Sophia, Jo, Eva, Connor, Cassidy, Kayla, Carolyn, Jordyn, Gabriella, Samantha, Samara, Melissa, Hedda, Sami, and Cindy.

Broadcaster C. Countee embraces life as a space pirate and takes some time to do a broadcast. 

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Morgan Wolski as Broadcaster C. Countee

Morgan Maxwell as Broadcaster J. June

Leanne Thacker as Broadcaster W. Coleman

Angela Barraza as Broadcaster S. Cisneros 

Kent Overshown as Broadcaster K. Baldwin

Dispatch from the Desert Planet is a work of fiction. For non-fiction learning we recommend starting with the following links. (None of the following people, resources, or organizations are affiliated with this podcast in any way.)

Prisons for profit: Concerns mount about Trousdale Turner Correctional Center, operator CoreCivic (article)

Today It Locks Up Immigrants. But CoreCivic’s Roots Lie in the Brutal Past of America’s Prisons (article)

CoreCivic (website for a diversified, government-solutions company with the scale and experience  needed to solve tough government challenges in cost-effective ways.)

Starting to consider yourself an abolitionist? Looking for more reading? Try:

Dereka Purnell's article How I Became an Abolitionist in the Atlantic

Thank you to Librivox for our poetry interlude. Ralph Chaplin's From Bars and Shadows. 

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Join Broadcasters W. Coleman, J. June, and L. Hughes for an epically un-fun game. 

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Broadcaster W. Coleman played by Leanne Thacker

Broadcaster. J. June played by Morgan Maxwell

Broadcaster L. Hughes played by Rhae-Dawn Royal

Cover Art By Jeremie Serrano

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The poetry interlude this episode was Langston Hughes' My Loves courtesy of LibriVox

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