RSH 105 -- Facebook Shut Down (10.8.2021)

Recorded October 6, 2021. Adam and Peter talk about a recent U.S. drone strike in Afghanistan that killed civilians, Facebook shutting down for a day and a Facebook whistleblower speaking out against the company's policies, a Hollywood union strike, an ACLU lawsuit against institutional racism at a Bay Area school district (Pittsburg Unified School District in Pittsburg, California), and Adam defines what the "Colonial Left" is -- a type of leftist who brushes aside issues of settler colonialism and white supremacy and shuns nationalism, decolonization, and self-determination for Black and Indigenous peoples.  

Links: 

• U.S. drone strike in Afghanistan: https://www.nytimes.com/2021/09/10/world/asia/us-air-strike-drone-kabul-afghanistan-isis.html
• Facebook whistleblower speaks out; Facebook shuts down for one day: https://apnews.com/article/facebook-whistleblower-frances-haugen-4a3640440769d9a241c47670facac213 ; https://www.npr.org/2021/10/05/1043377310/facebook-whistleblower-frances-haugen-congress ; https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2021/10/06/facebook-whistleblower-frances-haugen-senate-unity/ ; https://www.theverge.com/2021/10/5/22710963/facebook-dns-bgp-outage-backbone-maintenance ; https://www.npr.org/2021/10/05/1043211171/facebook-instagram-whatsapp-outage-business-impact; https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-10-04/zuckerberg-loses-7-billion-in-hours-as-facebook-plunges ; https://www.cnn.com/2021/10/06/tech/zuckerberg-whistleblower-response/index.html; https://www.nytimes.com/2021/10/04/technology/facebook-files.html 
• Hollywood union strike: https://www.nytimes.com/2021/10/04/business/media/hollywood-union-strike.html ; https://www.theverge.com/2021/10/6/22711567/iatse-strike-authorization-negotiations-resume-streaming-pay
• ACLU lawsuit against PUSD: https://edsource.org/2021/aclu-sues-bay-area-school-district-over-separate-unequal-and-illegal-special-education-program/661126 ; https://www.aclunc.org/news/black-english-learners-and-disabled-students-denied-constitutional-right-public-education ; https://truthout.org/articles/im-fighting-for-ethnic-studies-in-my-community-so-my-history-wont-be-erased/ (Adam's recent article) 
• NonCompete video explaining anti-patriotism: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mgtw2T5y2OA
• Luna Oi’s video on left-wing nationalism: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CkbSYIyzmF0 

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