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Ongoing News from the fight against misogyny, racism, homophobia, cuts in public services, restrictions on democracy as well as their root cause which is capitalism. Speeches, interviews, history, culture, and music from those struggling for a better world. Regular Episodes with news, art and perspectives posted the third Thursday of the month with Special Reports and Interviews on the other weeks of the month. All content produced by Urban Cabin Studios in South Minneapolis, MN USA.

Socialist News and Views is a news podcast hosted by Nicholas Shillingford, with 197 episodes on record and a Required Pod Score of 80.

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  SNV Special Interview: Book Spine Universe

  Oct 1, 202627 min

  Special Interview Recorded (9/28/2026) and Uploaded Here (10/1/2026) In this special we speak Sinazo Zoe Ngxabani of Kosmik Konversations ( https://www.youtube.com/@TheBookSpineUniverse ) and The Book Spine Universe ( https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=61589514692444 ) and with Lucas Alan Dietsche, Author, Artist, Historian and recent edition to the Central Ecosystem of Book Spine Universe. Ngxabani in South Africa and Dietsche in Minneapolis. We talk about all things Book Spine Universe and all things Book Spine Universe related. You can reach out to Book Spine Universe at the following emails: thebookspineuniverse(at symbol)gmail.com passthebooksa(at symbol)gmail.com ---- Links to other items discussed in this podcast: Book Spine Universe on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=61589514692444 Kosmik Konversations with Zoe (Powered by The Book Spine Universe): https://www.youtube.com/@TheBookSpineUniverse Ylang-Ylang Socialism: Ali Soilihi, Maoism, and Socialist Comoros 1975-1978: https://iaintyourmarionettepress.com/products/ylang-ylang-socialism-ali-soilihi-maoism-and-socialist-comoros-1975-1978 Kosmik Konversations with Zoe powered by the Book Spine Universe with Author Lucas Alan Dietsche: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AZQKXQyrwcI Marten Hoyle: The Spectral Marionette (on iaintyourmarionette Press): https://www.iaintyourmarionette.com/our-authors/marten-hoyle A Glimpse Beyond the Veil by Rick Powell: https://iaintyourmarionettepress.com/products/a-glimpse-beyond-the-veil Rafik Romdhani: The tell-tale heart of Marionette's (on iaintyourmarionette Press): https://www.iaintyourmarionette.com/our-authors/rafik-romdhani Varshnee Joseph (Author of the Week/The Brave Pencil): https://www.facebook.com/groups/1441198871384843/posts/1539036898267706/ Back a Buddy - Pass The Book SA Initiative: https://www.facebook.com/61589337253740/posts/we-have-launched-a-back-a-buddy-campaign-to-raise-funds-to-purchase-books-to-don/122107052085311241/ From Urban Cabin Studios: https://www.instagram.com/urbancabinstudios/ For Socialist News And Views: https://soundcloud.com/socialistnewsandviews

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  SNV Special Report: Carbondale, IL Part 4

  Sep 24, 202627 min

  Special Report (9/24/2026) Coal Kitchen plays in Carbondale in 1972. May Day Fest, a music festival set to take place in 1970 never happens. And a whole bunch of cool musicians, some better known than others, pass through the area around Southern Illinois University in the 50s, 60s, 70s and even today. Links to items covered in this special: 1972: Coal Kitchen band, part 1: https://youtu.be/O2UwIY6FQaM?si=vyJN4pbt-iFOtYO_ 1972, Coal Kitchen, part 2: https://youtu.be/wTc_2pHfFus?si=SoqmPvlgurUaAALE Coal Kitchen, 1972, part 3: https://youtu.be/5QRxvf2f-k0?si=gzNEY4NNijzu71Kr Coal Kitchen (The Metro St. Louis Live Music Historical Society): https://www.stlmusicyesterdays.com/Coal%20Kitchen.htm Women’s Music (The New Yorker By Ellen Willis June 17, 1974): https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/1974/06/24/womens-music Rock Festival in Illinois, Like Many Others Now, Meets Bitter Community Hostility ( The New York Times by J. Anthony Lukas April 27, 1970): https://www.nytimes.com/1970/04/27/archives/rock-festival-in-illinois-like-many-others-now-meets-bitter.html Coal Kitchen-Got Your Love For Good.mp3: https://www.stlmusicyesterdays.com/Coal%20Kitchen-Got%20Your%20Love%20for%20Good.mp3 REO Speedwagon on Carbonale PBS in the fall of 1971: https://www.facebook.com/GaryRichrathGuitarLegend/videos/500725908849790 Frankie Trumbauer - Between The Devil And The Deep Blue See (1946): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WFF8E0AXcxs&list=RDWFF8E0AXcxs&start_radio=1 Music Video: Big Twist "300 Pounds of Heavenly Joy" 1983: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=whgbBxuT9wo&list=RDwhgbBxuT9wo&start_radio=1 Music Historicity | Carbondale linked to musicians who have gone far in the industry (Sept 15, 2021): https://thesouthern.com/life-entertainment/music/music-historicity-carbondale-linked-to-musicians-who-have-gone-far-in-the-industry/article_bc6f91e0-6e13-5ade-bd0b-a6effaca711b.html Coal Kitchen - Bumpin' In The Kitchen [Sunday, 1975]: https://youtu.be/xUkxHtcXvbw?si=jde_CcAsUi3oliXC

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  US Out of Africa Committee of WAMM: Socialist News And Views Episode # 86 (9/17/2026)

  Sep 17, 202640 min

  NEWS + MUSIC + INTERVIEW with Nicholas Tolliver from the new US Out of Africa Committee of W.A.M.M. (Women Against Military Madness: https://womenagainstmilitarymadness.org/ ). He is also a host of the Death Drive Dialectics YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/@deathdrivedialectics/featured (You can watch a video of the interview only on the YouTube for Urban Cabin Studios here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EZM7HO_zQ6s&t=43s ) ---- NEWS: Caretakers clean Alex Pretti memorial site after vandalism (9/11/2026): https://minnesotareformer.com/2026/09/11/caretakers-clean-alex-pretti-memorial-site-after-vandalism/ East Side businesses say summer of roadwork has slowed recovery after Metro Surge (9/9/2026): https://sahanjournal.com/business-work/st-paul-east-side-arcade-construction-immigrant-businesses/ Hennepin County secures grant renewal to expand youth mental health stabilization services (9/13/2026): https://spokesman-recorder.com/2026/09/13/hennepin-county-youth-mental-health-grant-renewal/ Twin Cities Labor Report 9/14: https://twincitieslaborreport.substack.com/p/twin-cities-labor-report-914 Federal report finds Rapidan Dam removal will have beneficial effects on Blue Earth River (9/13/2026): https://www.mprnews.org/story/2026/09/13/new-report-finds-rapidan-damn-removal-will-have-beneficial-effects-on-blue-earth-river Workers’ Voice newspaper: September – October edition: https://workersvoiceus.org/2026/08/24/workers-voice-newspaper-september-october-edition-2/ Internal conflict shakes up the Pentagon (9/8/2026): https://www.workers.org/2026/09/94710/ Wendell Berry’s life on Earth (9/9/2026): https://grist.org/culture/wendell-berry-life-on-earth-legacy-essay/ Over a Quarter of Voters Say They’re Supporters of DSA, Polling Finds (9/11/2026): https://truthout.org/articles/over-a-quarter-of-voters-say-theyre-supporters-of-dsa-polling-finds/ Son of 9/11 Victim Says ‘Please Stop’ Exploiting Tragedy to Spread Anti-Muslim Bigotry (9/11/2026): https://www.commondreams.org/news/9-11-anti-muslim-bigotry ‘Don’t Privatize Airport Security’ Say Screeners and Flight Attendants on 9/11 Anniversary (9/11/2026): https://labornotes.org/2026/09/dont-privatize-airport-security-say-screeners-and-flight-attendants-911-anniversary WHITE HOUSE VIDEO (attacking socialists/communists): https://www.whitehouse.gov/videos/america-will-never-be-a-communist-country/ London bus drivers show the power of strikes (9/11/2026): https://socialistworker.co.uk/trade-unions/london-bus-drives-shower-the-power-of-strikes/ Portsmouth anti-fascists stand firm against far right—but threat is growing (9/12/2026): https://socialistworker.co.uk/anti-racism/portsmouth-anti-facists-stand-firm-against-far-right-but-threat-is-growing/ In 1936, temperature in 48 states of U.S. peaked during deadly Dust Bowl, 90 years later climate experts sound red flag (9/13/2026): https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/international/us/science-news-in-1936-temperature-in-48-states-of-u-s-peaked-during-deadly-dust-bowl-90-years-later-climate-experts-sound-red-flag/articleshow/134229515.cms?utm_source=contentofinterest&utm_medium=text&utm_campaign=cppst August 2026 ties record for hottest month ever on Earth (9/10/2026): https://www.accuweather.com/en/climate/august-2026-ties-record-for-hottest-month-ever-on-earth/1932706 Kalam Weekly (Nepal) Articles: https://kalamweekly.substack.com/p/nepals-devastating-flash-flood https://kalamweekly.substack.com/p/i-escaped-the-flood-by-an-hour-like https://kalamweekly.substack.com/p/all-that-we-know-about-the-nepal https://kalamweekly.substack.com/p/when-the-world-stops-looking-at-nepal https://kalamweekly.substack.com/p/how-does-gen-z-feel-about-the-government ---- MUSIC: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4jRRUsVbbEM&list=RD4jRRUsVbbEM&start_radio=1 ---- INTERVIEW with Nicholas Tolliver from the new US Out of Africa Committee of W.A.M.M. https://youtu.be/EZM7HO_zQ6s?si=3OIPwrTsaBaG0vVg

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  SNV Special Report: H0PE

  Sep 10, 20261h 19m

  Special Report (9/11/2026) Links to items covered in this report: hope (Merriam-Webster): https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/hope Hope (Wikipedia): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hope The Oxford Handbook of Positive Psychology (3rd edn): https://academic.oup.com/edited-volume/34277/chapter-abstract/290626115?redirectedFrom=fulltext Hope (2026): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hope_(2026_film) Hope Teaser Trailer (2026): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P00bN5TAOCs Where Hope Thrives: Demographic Variation in Hope across 22 Countries: https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10902-025-00981-6 Characterizing Hope: An Interdisciplinary Overview of the Characteristics of Hope: https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11482-021-09967-x Harvey Milk - Hope Speech - San Francisco, California - 1978 (clips): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P7wpvL9q4fc Harvey Milk (Wikipedia - includes Dianne Feinstein quote - ): http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harvey_Milk Havey Milk - The Hope Speech a reading by Elizabeth George: https://www.mfa.org/video/amalia-pica/harvey-milk-hope-speech-reading Primary Source Set: Briggs initiative: https://www.glbthistory.org/primary-source-set-briggs-initiative Ernst Bloch (Wikipedia): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ernst_Bloch The Principle of Hope (Introduction): https://www.marxists.org/archive/bloch/hope/introduction.htm Introduction from The Principle of Hope (Vol. 1) by Ernst Bloch: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tKfdJquW_0Q There's Hope (India.Arie): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bClxgPvGqRg&list=RDbClxgPvGqRg&start_radio=1

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  SNV Special Interview: The Flamingo Revolution

  Sep 3, 20261h 9m

  Special Interview Recorded (8/31/2026) and Uploaded Here (9/3/2026) (NOTE - You can watch a video of this interview from URBAN CABIN STUDIOS YouTube here: https://youtu.be/dJhd21Bg1MI?si=u1n-U9gnNrKxg4n- ) In this special we speak with Xhiorxhina Roci, Armela Mamani and Jurgen from The Flamingo Revolution in Albania ( https://theflamingorevolution.com/ ). You can read the Wikipedia ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flamingo_Revolution ) for a brief background overview of this movement. But there is much misinformation out there so even more importantly please listen to the interview to learn about the current situation in Albania and The Flamingo Revolution that has developed there. Xhiorxhina Roci talks about books at jovetem.libra on Insta: https://www.instagram.com/jovetem.libra/ You can find Jurgen at thatsjurgen on Insta: https://www.instagram.com/thatsjurgen/?hl=en Armela's Journal is at muza.jehone on Insta: https://www.instagram.com/muza.jehone/ Musine Kokalari published "under the moniker Muza (the Muse)" according to Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Musine_Kokalari Armela Mamani speaks of Kokalari briefly in this interview. Armela Mamani also has a Substack: https://armelamamani.substack.com/ Jurgen was wearing an Avni Rustemi ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Avni_Rustemi ) shirt during this discussion. Here are additional articles covering some topics discussed in the interview: In Trump's footsteps: Kushner's controversial Balkans deals (4/02/2024): https://www.dw.com/en/in-trumps-footsteps-kushners-controversial-balkans-deals/a-68689404 Why is Trump’s son-in-law allowed to build in Europe’s first wild river national park delta? (5/18/2024): https://www.euronews.com/2024/05/18/why-is-trumps-son-in-law-allowed-to-build-in-europes-first-wild-river-national-park-delta Albania is destroying a protected wild coast for President Trump’s son-in-law – and lying to parliament about it (6/2/2026): https://www.birdlife.org/news/2026/06/02/albania-is-destroying-a-protected-wild-coast-for-president-trumps-son-in-law-and-lying-to-parliament-about-it/ The Flamingo Revolution — How Albania’s Civic Protest Exposes Lack of Transparency and Media Capture (6/05/2026): https://www.biepag.eu/op-ed/the-flamingo-revolution-how-albanias-civic-protest-exposes-lack-of-transparency-and-media-capture The One-Page Law That Legalized the Sale of Albania’s Coast (6/8/2026): https://albaniavoice.com/ligji-21-2024-albania-protected-areas/ Critics Slam Albania’s Emergency Bailout of Kanye West Concert as a $5 Million Smoke Screen (7/11/2026): https://www.occrp.org/en/news/critics-slam-albanias-emergency-bailout-of-kanye-west-concert-as-a-5-million-smoke-screen YOU CAN ALSO READ SOME BLOG POSTS FROM MINNESOTAN ANNE WINKLER-MOREY'S (annewinklermorey.com) TIME IN ALBANIA IN 2024 BELOW: Berat, Albania, Opens Windows to the Sky and Doors to the Stranger: https://annewinklermorey.com/berat-albania-city-that-opens-windows-to-the-sky-and-doors-to-the-stranger/ Five Questions about the Economy and Politics of Tirana, Albania: https://annewinklermorey.com/five-questions-about-the-economy-and-politics-of-tirana-albania/

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