It Could Happen Here

All of this week's episodes of It Could Happen Here put together in one large file:
The Decline and Fall of the International Workers Movement
How To Print Your Own Money: The Case for Local Currencies
How the ‘Delivery Protection Act’ Takes on Amazon
Attacking Palestinian Health
Executive Disorder: French Student Protests, Flavio Bolsonaro, ‘Third Country’ Deportations
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Sources/Links:
The Decline and Fall of the International Workers Movement
https://www.endnotes.org.uk/issues/issue-4/endnotes-a-history-of-separation-preface
https://libcom.org/article/utopia-rules-technology-stupidity-and-secret-joys-bureaucracy-david-graeber
https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/maurice-brinton-the-bolsheviks-and-workers-control
https://www.marxists.org/archive/lenin/works/1918/mar/x03.htm
https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/david-graeber-bullshit-jobs
https://www.marxists.org/portugues/hughes/1946/mes/90.htm
How To Print Your Own Money: The Case for Local Currencies
BerkShares Program https://berkshares.org/
Bob Dunning's Newsletter: https://www.thewaryone.com/
https://centerforneweconomics.org/people/peter-larochelle/
https://centerforneweconomics.org
https://centerforneweconomics.org/publications/local-currencies-in-the-21st-century-understanding-money-building-local-economies-renewing-community/
https://www.sciencedirect.com/topics/economics-econometrics-and-finance/alternativecurrency
https://www.collaborativefinance.org/mutual-credit/local-currency/
https://sustainableandjust.org/initiatives/our-economy/alternative-economies/alternative-currencies/
https://www.theselc.org/california-community-currencies-act
https://reasonstobecheerful.world/towns-invent-community-currencies/
https://www.paulglover.org/hours.html
https://www.paulglover.org/hourcurrency.html
https://www.paulglover.org/atwood.html
https://localwiki.org/davis/Davis_Dollars
https://www.opb.org/artsandlife/series/history/myrtlewood-money-north-bend-oregon-great-depression/
https://www.davisenterprise.com/users/profile/bob%20dunning/
How the ‘Delivery Protection Act’ Takes on Amazon
https://act.socialists.nyc/dpa-letter
https://actionnetwork.org/events/rally-to-pass-the-delivery-protection-act-3
https://www.instagram.com/nycdsa/
https://www.instagram.com/nycdsalabor/
https://www.nyc.gov/site/dca/workers/workersrights/Delivery-Workers.page
https://www.nyc.gov/mayors-office/news/2026/08/mayor-mamdani-backs--delivery-protection-act--to-rein-in-amazon-
https://www.nyc.gov/mayors-office/news/2026/09/mayor-mamdani-wins-record--131-5-million-from-doordash-for-deliv
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2026-06-02/amazon-trump-settlement-win-showed-just-how-tough-delivery-drivers-have-it
https://hearinghearings.nyc/hearings/committee-on-consumer-and-worker-protection-requiring-the-licensing-of-last-mile-facilities/
https://teamster.org/2026/08/amazon-teamsters-and-allies-picket-city-hall-for-the-delivery-protection-act/
https://teamster.org/2025/09/amazon-teamsters-rally-after-attack-on-workers-in-queens/
https://teamster.org/2026/08/teamsters-allies-release-report-on-amazon-violations-of-new-york-warn-act/
https://teamster.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/10424UPSNATIONALMASTERFINAL.pdf
https://comptroller.nyc.gov/reports/fast-shipping-slow-justice-traffic-worker-and-climate-hazards-in-last-mile-delivery/
https://www.staffingindustry.com/news/global-daily-news/nycs-delivery-protection-act-would-make-last-mile-delivery-workers-employees
https://www.wsj.com/business/new-jersey-sues-amazon-alleging-delivery-network-illegally-suppresses-wages-f6d6faa7
https://www.aboutamazon.com/news/policy-news-views/amazon-testimony-delivery-protection-act-new-york-city
https://www.forbes.com/sites/pamdanziger/2026/08/15/delivery-protection-act-pits-nyc-mayor-mamdani-and-the-teamsters-against-amazon/
https://nysfocus.com/2026/07/23/amazon-new-york-last-mile-delivery-bill
Attacking Palestinian Health
https://arabcenterdc.org/resource/sexual-violence-as-a-tool-of-domination-and-displacement-in-palestine/
https://arabcenterdc.org/resource/israeli-settler-violence-a-strategy-to-displace-palestinians-from-their-land/
https://arabcenterdc.org/resource/israels-restrictions-on-medical-evacuations-from-gaza-and-the-west-bank/
https://arabcenterdc.org/resource/another-step-in-the-weaponization-of-aid-israel-bans-humanitarian-agencies-in-gaza/
https://www.hudassalon.movie/
Executive Disorder: French Student Protests, Flavio Bolsonaro, ‘Third Country’ Deportations
https://austinkocher.substack.com/p/julian-curo-churata-is-the-37th-person
https://www.biologicaldiversity.org/programs/government-affairs/pdfs/ORDER%20GRANTING%2034%20Motion%20for%20Preliminary%20Injunction%20Signed%20by%20Judge%20Kathleen%20Cardone.pdf
https://acampada26s.net/
https://www.wfla.com/news/florida/crocodile-dies-of-lead-poisoning-first-time-in-florida-fwc/
https://x.com/UK_MTO/status/2107444098806546566?s=20
https://x.com/vvanwilgenburg/status/2107171768121311518?s=20
https://apnews.com/article/warner-bros-skydance-ellison-studio-hollywood-5f4326c083ca2fc084ff399c1b8aa035?utm_source=copy&utm_medium=share
https://www.supremecourt.gov/orders/courtorders/092926zr2_1a7d.pdf
https://www.thecityreporter.nyc/2026/10/05/third-country-deportations-ice-dhs-26-federal-plaza-west-africa/
https://www.thirdcountrydeportationwatch.org/eswatini
https://www.camp-oshad.org/
https://crimethinc.com/2026/10/06/french-youth-fight-against-a-bleak-future
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/10/2/protests-shutter-hundreds-of-french-schools-as-violence-flares?utm_source=bluesky&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=socialPulse
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/9/30/french-public-workers-strike-over-pay-as-student-protests-turn-violent
https://www.lemonde.fr/idees/article/2026/10/06/vincent-tiberj-politiste-la-reaction-du-gouvernement-a-la-mobilisation-lyceenne-en-dit-beaucoup-sur-la-facon-dont-une-partie-des-medias-et-des-politiques-considerent-la-jeunesse_6788833_3232.html
https://www.usnews.com/news/politics/articles/2026-10-05/former-us-house-speaker-dennis-hastert-dies-cbs-news-reports
https://www.yahoo.com/news/us/articles/fox-news-runs-memoriam-serial-233040454.html
https://apnews.com/article/dennis-hastert-dead-obituary-4a04ca4b4c0741a38f4b4a7e0f2bc78c
https://www.yahoo.com/news/us/articles/fox-news-runs-memoriam-serial-233040454.html
https://www.usnews.com/news/politics/articles/2026-10-05/former-us-house-speaker-dennis-hastert-dies-cbs-news-reports
https://www.reuters.com/world/americas/brazil-ex-president-bolsonaro-wins-big-without-his-name-ballot-2026-10-06/
https://archive.is/6j85h
https://archive.is/DqaJi
https://www.cnn.com/2026/10/04/world/video/worker-at-russian-plague-lab-dies-of-unknown-infection
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The gang discuss a tree-sit on the border, massive student protests in France, a Supreme Court ruling on rendition, the Brazilian election, a Russian researcher who was accidentally exposed to the pneumonic plague, and the death of former House Speaker and pedophile Dennis Hastert.
Sources:
https://austinkocher.substack.com/p/julian-curo-churata-is-the-37th-person
https://www.biologicaldiversity.org/programs/government-affairs/pdfs/ORDER%20GRANTING%2034%20Motion%20for%20Preliminary%20Injunction%20Signed%20by%20Judge%20Kathleen%20Cardone.pdf
https://acampada26s.net/
https://www.wfla.com/news/florida/crocodile-dies-of-lead-poisoning-first-time-in-florida-fwc/
https://x.com/UK_MTO/status/2107444098806546566?s=20
https://x.com/vvanwilgenburg/status/2107171768121311518?s=20
https://apnews.com/article/warner-bros-skydance-ellison-studio-hollywood-5f4326c083ca2fc084ff399c1b8aa035?utm_source=copy&utm_medium=share
https://www.supremecourt.gov/orders/courtorders/092926zr2_1a7d.pdf
https://www.thecityreporter.nyc/2026/10/05/third-country-deportations-ice-dhs-26-federal-plaza-west-africa/
https://www.thirdcountrydeportationwatch.org/eswatini
https://www.camp-oshad.org/
https://crimethinc.com/2026/10/06/french-youth-fight-against-a-bleak-future
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/10/2/protests-shutter-hundreds-of-french-schools-as-violence-flares?utm_source=bluesky&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=socialPulse
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/9/30/french-public-workers-strike-over-pay-as-student-protests-turn-violent
https://www.lemonde.fr/idees/article/2026/10/06/vincent-tiberj-politiste-la-reaction-du-gouvernement-a-la-mobilisation-lyceenne-en-dit-beaucoup-sur-la-facon-dont-une-partie-des-medias-et-des-politiques-considerent-la-jeunesse_6788833_3232.html
https://www.usnews.com/news/politics/articles/2026-10-05/former-us-house-speaker-dennis-hastert-dies-cbs-news-reports
https://www.yahoo.com/news/us/articles/fox-news-runs-memoriam-serial-233040454.html
https://apnews.com/article/dennis-hastert-dead-obituary-4a04ca4b4c0741a38f4b4a7e0f2bc78c
https://www.yahoo.com/news/us/articles/fox-news-runs-memoriam-serial-233040454.html
https://www.usnews.com/news/politics/articles/2026-10-05/former-us-house-speaker-dennis-hastert-dies-cbs-news-reports
https://www.reuters.com/world/americas/brazil-ex-president-bolsonaro-wins-big-without-his-name-ballot-2026-10-06/
https://archive.is/6j85h
https://archive.is/DqaJi
https://www.cnn.com/2026/10/04/world/video/worker-at-russian-plague-lab-dies-of-unknown-infection
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In this episode Dana El Kurd talks with Yara Asi, Palestinian scholar, author, and public health researcher studying how conflict, structural violence, and political systems shape health and human security. Yara describes the attacks on Palestinian health in Gaza and the West Bank, and the Israeli policies and objectives driving these attacks.

Sources:
https://arabcenterdc.org/resource/sexual-violence-as-a-tool-of-domination-and-displacement-in-palestine/
https://arabcenterdc.org/resource/israeli-settler-violence-a-strategy-to-displace-palestinians-from-their-land/
https://arabcenterdc.org/resource/israels-restrictions-on-medical-evacuations-from-gaza-and-the-west-bank/
https://arabcenterdc.org/resource/another-step-in-the-weaponization-of-aid-israel-bans-humanitarian-agencies-in-gaza/
https://www.hudassalon.movie/
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Garrison talks with Matt and Olivia from the NYC-DSA Labor Working Group about how Amazon uses subcontractors to exploit “last mile” delivery drivers and how a new bill could hold Amazon accountable and strengthen workers' ability to organize.


Sources:
https://act.socialists.nyc/dpa-letter
https://actionnetwork.org/events/rally-to-pass-the-delivery-protection-act-3
https://www.instagram.com/nycdsa/
https://www.instagram.com/nycdsalabor/
https://www.nyc.gov/site/dca/workers/workersrights/Delivery-Workers.page
https://www.nyc.gov/mayors-office/news/2026/08/mayor-mamdani-backs--delivery-protection-act--to-rein-in-amazon-
https://www.nyc.gov/mayors-office/news/2026/09/mayor-mamdani-wins-record--131-5-million-from-doordash-for-deliv
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2026-06-02/amazon-trump-settlement-win-showed-just-how-tough-delivery-drivers-have-it
https://hearinghearings.nyc/hearings/committee-on-consumer-and-worker-protection-requiring-the-licensing-of-last-mile-facilities/
https://teamster.org/2026/08/amazon-teamsters-and-allies-picket-city-hall-for-the-delivery-protection-act/
https://teamster.org/2025/09/amazon-teamsters-rally-after-attack-on-workers-in-queens/
https://teamster.org/2026/08/teamsters-allies-release-report-on-amazon-violations-of-new-york-warn-act/
https://teamster.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/10424UPSNATIONALMASTERFINAL.pdf
https://comptroller.nyc.gov/reports/fast-shipping-slow-justice-traffic-worker-and-climate-hazards-in-last-mile-delivery/
https://www.staffingindustry.com/news/global-daily-news/nycs-delivery-protection-act-would-make-last-mile-delivery-workers-employees
https://www.wsj.com/business/new-jersey-sues-amazon-alleging-delivery-network-illegally-suppresses-wages-f6d6faa7
https://www.aboutamazon.com/news/policy-news-views/amazon-testimony-delivery-protection-act-new-york-city
https://www.forbes.com/sites/pamdanziger/2026/08/15/delivery-protection-act-pits-nyc-mayor-mamdani-and-the-teamsters-against-amazon/
https://nysfocus.com/2026/07/23/amazon-new-york-last-mile-delivery-bill
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Guest host Zaron Burnett investigates the curious question: Can we print our own money? The short answer is: yes, yes we can. To consider the more nuanced aspects of that question, Burnett spoke with Peter LaRochelle from the Schumacher Center for a New Economics. LaRochelle administers a local currency called BerkShares, which is available in the tourist-friendly Berkshire region of western Massachusetts. The alternative currency was created 20 years ago and serves as a successful model for how to create your own local currency. LaRochelle spoke to the various challenges and benefits as well as the financial freedom a community enjoys once you start printing your own money.

Sources/Links:
BerkShares Program https://berkshares.org/
Bob Dunning's Newsletter: https://www.thewaryone.com/
https://centerforneweconomics.org/people/peter-larochelle/
https://centerforneweconomics.org
https://centerforneweconomics.org/publications/local-currencies-in-the-21st-century-understanding-money-building-local-economies-renewing-community/

https://www.sciencedirect.com/topics/economics-econometrics-and-finance/alternativecurrency
https://www.collaborativefinance.org/mutual-credit/local-currency/
https://sustainableandjust.org/initiatives/our-economy/alternative-economies/alternative-currencies/
https://www.theselc.org/california-community-currencies-act
https://reasonstobecheerful.world/towns-invent-community-currencies/
https://www.paulglover.org/hours.html
https://www.paulglover.org/hourcurrency.html
https://www.paulglover.org/atwood.html
https://localwiki.org/davis/Davis_Dollars
https://www.opb.org/artsandlife/series/history/myrtlewood-money-north-bend-oregon-great-depression/
https://www.davisenterprise.com/users/profile/bob%20dunning/
See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.