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Courtney, Bryan, & Rick host a (sometimes) weekly show about all things entertainment and pop-culture. We chat about all things movies, television, streaming, books, comics, and more! You may catch some cool guests along the way. Let’s chat!

Kristen R. Ghodsee reads and discusses 47 selections from the works of Alexandra Kollontai (1872-1952), a socialist women's activist who had radical ideas about the intersections of socialism and women's emancipation. Born into aristocratic privilege, the Ukrainian-Finnish Kollontai was initially a member of the Mensheviks before she joined Lenin and the Bolsheviks and became an important revolutionary figure during the 1917 Russian Revolution. Kollontai was a socialist theorist of women’s emancipation and a strident proponent of sexual relations freed from all economic considerations. After...

If the world does not envy the French enough already for their generous vacations, universal health care, and fine food and wine, the arrival of 2017 brings this: a newly created “right to disconnect.”

"‘Right to Disconnect’ From Work Email and Other Laws Go Into Effect in France" is from the January 02, 2017 World section of The New York Times. It was written by Alissa J. Rubin and narrated by Kristi Burns.

This is the VirtForce podcast, intentionally created to bring Active Duty Military Spouses and the extended Military Community access to virtual, remote, and location flexible career opportunities. VirtForce is a global online community of Active Duty Milspouses advocating for Virtual Employment. In this Podcast, we interview military friendly Career Providers, Military Influencers, and Resource Junkies to turn you on to the career advancement strategies you need to go remote. Use our resources to pursue a fully virtual career while following your service member around the world. Want more ...

THIS IS THE BOOK YOU NEED TO READ BEFORE YOU CAST YOUR VOTE ON 4 JULY. Why do some prime ministers manage to get things done, while others miserably fail? What is a 'special adviser' and how did they take over British political life? And why is the House of Lords more functional than most people...

There are many versions of this work in English, and it is included as a useful reflection once one has pondered Daoism’s key texts. The title is properly ‘'Sun Tzu's Military Method'. It was written at the time of the Dao and Zhuang Zi, several centuries before the Lieh Tzu. For fifteen hundred years, it was part of China’s canonical strategic anthology, which became known as the Seven Military Classics.

Lennina Ofori is a force of nature. A teen mother, a supportive older sister, a PhD student, a support system, a working woman, a survivor, above all, she is an Advocate. She has spent her life working for those who do not have a voice, for those relegated to the margins, and in this audiobook, she lends her voice to them. Starting with her own life story, from her beautiful family, to her hardest struggles, Ofori opens the door to intersections that are familiar to many: race, class and gender, and uses her expertise to explain and embolden listeners to make active change in their own lives.

Fields, Factories, and Workshops (1898) was one of Kropotkin's three most important texts (along with The Conquest of Bread and Mutual Aid - also available on Ukemi Audiobooks). Its subtitle - Industry Combined with Agriculture and Brain Work with Manual Work - indicates that although he starts from a Marxist standpoint, concerned with the exploitation of the wage-labourer and the inequality suffered by the majority of the social classes, he was equally concerned with the 'human needs of the individual’.

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"Assad’s Lesson From Aleppo: Force Works, With Few Consequences" is from the December 16, 2016 World section of The New York Times. It was written by Ben Hubbard and narrated by Barbara Benjamin-Creel.