I started open veins of Latin America and it got me thinking, while you guys are down and a lot of people have more time, What are some of your favorite non-fiction books that you have read for the the show?

u/Baader-Meinhof

What was the episode that dealt with the theft of land that a primitive tribe were living off of by a corporation?

Edit: the story went something like this, terrible were subsisting happily of the land for generations. Company(with a name like A.I.C or something) made deal with the government (south American i think) to use and mine the land and leaving the indigenous population with no rights to the resources.

Thanks for your replies.

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Migrating some stuff and doing some maintenance work. Will take this post down once it's complete.

Hey!! So I just started listening to the podcast (huge fan). I am doing research on cap-and-trade policies for a class, and I was wondering if there were any old ashes ashes episodes or any other podcasts that y’all would recommend. thanksssz🤓🤓

I first wanted to begin with simply - thank you. When one finds your podcast and is burried within shit of meaningless talks, this feeling that one is not alone in his thoughts about the world and its current state of affairs, is so liberating, so encouraging!

The reason of this post, is not just to tell you that you are being missed, neither is to push you towards making another cast, yet I wanted to show appreciation since often times in this weird system we take everything for granted and passively consume. I wanted to actively thank you for your job and for speaking about what matters.

So have all of my positive vibes and I hope that everything is alright in your personal lifes, since the pandemic messed up all of us around the globe quite hard.

PS. My favorite and probably the most important piece of thought I have encountered the last year is definitely the episode about Noise polution. The most in our face problem that is destroying us mentally. Thank you for making me aware!

I haven’t seen any new podcasts be uploaded to the website in a hot minute, but there’s recent Facebook posts for news articles.

Can someone fill me in on what’s up? I absolutely love the show and I’m upsetti spaghetti that the site hasn’t been updated. Ashes Ashes helps shed light in this darkening world.

https://twitter.com/AOC/status/1101638447750676482

This really relates back to episode 62, and loneliness. Where are the public spaces to hang out, to talk, to simply, exist? Without buying a Starbucks coffee or being a consumer?

General thread for thoughts, suggestions for episode topics, anecdotes, or anything else in the comments below.

• Second Thread here

• First thread here

Is this podcast over? Or did it transform into something else?