Dedicated to Ian (John) McLean - January 5, 1952 - June 17, 2025

A discussion about passing down working class consciousness through generations and what we choose to do with that knowledge.

To pay tribute Host Jessa McLean's late father we are resharing their interview together from 2023. He shares how he too was politicized at a young age, and how his involvement in the trade union movement shaped how he understood power structures, politics and his own purpose.

Together, they sound off on their own experiences with the NDP, which are unsurprisingly similar.

Jessa would like to thank the great healthcare workers at Sunnybrook Hospital in Toronto for their care and compassion, as well as the many comrades who have sent their condolences and shared their own memories of her father in the good fight.

Activists from StopGenAI.com provide a litany of reasons why they think we should be ridding ourselves of this pervasive technology altogether: Its environmental impact, privacy concerns, exploitation, and even detrimental impacts to our individual and collective abilities to think or create.

It is also replacing jobs at incredible rates, albeit inadequately. But this is of no concern to the technocrats pushing GenAI or the politicians prioritizing it.

This is where mutual aid comes in. Guests Kim Crawley and Neha share the creative ways they're also raising funds for folks most impacted by the expansion of GenAI.

Hosted by: Jessa McLean

Call to Action: StopGenAI Fundraising Initiatives

Previous Episodes with Kim Crawley:

• COVID Conscious Under Capitalism, looks at individual human behavior, the response of our governments and how the greed of our 'capitalist overlords' plays into it all.
• To Vote or Not to Vote, where Kim talks about her political transformation from libertarian to an NDP Convention delegate to someone disillusioned with the entire system.

More Resources:

• StopGenAI.com
• Book Review: Palo Alto – A history of California, capitalism, and the world - Northern California Section of the American Planning Association
• Stop Gen AI mutual aid charity bundle 1 - itch.io
• AI Job Crisis is Here by Brian Merchant

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Labour 4 Palestine Ontario Education Workers issued a scathing report in April 2025, on anti-Palestinian racism within the Province's school boards. The report, School Delegations for Palestine, documents and analyzes months of delegations given to Trustees across the Province that mostly went ignored.

Four Education Workers from various backgrounds talk about their personal experiences with suppression, weaponized antisemitism and other ways their workplaces are unwelcoming to any displays of humanity towards Palestine.

They also talk about the work being done to pressure school boards to cut ties with the problematic organizations that are largely responsible for fostering an environment of fear and anti-Palestinian racism.

Hosted by: Jessa McLean

Call to Action: Stay in Contact with Labour 4 Palestine

Related Episodes:

• A Space to Exist, a discussion with Toronto Palestinian Families and Toronto Jewish Families
• Our interview with Jews Say No to Genocide, on their work to dispel the Zionist narrative and advocate for a Free Palestine.
• Answering the Call: Labour for Palestine. A discussion with Anna Lippman on why this IS a Labour issue.

More Resources:

• VIDEOS: Watch various delegations and Board Updates
• Toronto school board to force educators to undergo mandatory re-education on ‘anti-Palestinian racism’ | The Post Millennial | thepostmillennial.com
• The Maple: A List Of Some People In Canada Fired For Pro-Palestine Views
• About — Labour 4 Palestine
• School Delegations Report (Revised).pdf - Google Drive

Intro Clip Source: Critiquing the TDSB Israel Proposal: A Jewish Perspective | TikTok

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All of our content is free - made possible by the generous sponsorships of our Patrons. If you would like to support our work through monthly contributions: Patreon