Cocktails & Capitalism
Cocktails & Capitalism is a podcast that pairs crafted beverages with stories distilled from our capitalist hellscape. This is more than a true corporate crime show — our episodes uplift the activists and organizers who are working to oppose the destructive forces of capitalism and begin creating a better reality.
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Our crafted cocktails help us tap into the gallows humor necessary for surviving late stage capitalism. Some of these stories can get pretty dark, so get ready and grab a drink! You can even make the custom cocktail or mocktail crafted by our resident bartender, Jesse Torres. (Find the recipes in our episode notes!)
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We are committed to making this show free and accessible for everyone. Since we don’t want to engage in capitalist advertising practices to fund this project, we’ve decided to make this a listener-supported show. You can help us sustain this anticapitalist independent media project by signing up on Patreon for any monthly amount.
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Huge thanks to the amazing anticapitalists who are supporting this project! Cheers & solidarity forever!
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Cocktails & Capitalism
Target's Mass Surveillance Police Partnership: A Deep Dive with Marjaan Sirdar
Don’t miss this deep dive into Target's dystopian mass surveillance police partnership. I spoke with South Minneapolis activist and freelance journalist Marjaan Sirdar about his astounding findings after completing a 12-part investigative series titled 21st Century Jim Crow in the North Star City: How Target Corp., the City of Minneapolis, and Hennepin County Created a Domestic Spy Program that Rolled Back Civil Rights on its Black Population.
We discuss Target’s high-tech forensics labs, its broad surveillance of anyone who even enters its stores or parking lots, and its partnership with law enforcement to surveil and police Black and homeless youth and adults around their stores. We also dive into Target's role in the wrongful conviction of 15-year-old Madhi Ali, who has already spent half his life in prison for a triple homicide he did not commit.
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21st Century Jim Crow in the North Star City
CALLS TO ACTION:
-PROTECT YOUR DATA, AVOID TARGET AND DELETE TARGET APP
-PUSH FOR EXPANDED DEMANDS FOR THE TARGET BOYCOTT:
-Divest from policing
-Divest from funding prosecutors & city attorneys
-Transparency regarding uses of customer data
-Divest from its massive surveillance apparatus
-Call for exoneration of Madhi Ali
-Expunge Downtown 100 + the geo-restriction lists
-PUT PRESSURE ON TARGET TO MEET ABOVE DEMANDS
-CONTACT HENNEPIN CO ATTORNEY’S OFFICE (612)348-5550 citizeninfo@hennepin.us Request review of cases Target has touched
-PETITION: Target, stop funding police!
-WRITE TO MADHI ALI, j-pay: OID #236437
Cocktails & Capitalism is an anticapitalist labor of love, but we could use your help to make this project sustainable. If you can support with even a dollar a month, that would really help us continue to educate, agitate, and amplify the voices of those who are working to dismantle capitalism and create a better world.
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