[S11 E10] People to People: Horizontal Social Change On this week's show, Prof. Wolff presents updates on the Texas energy catastrophe, the 'Robinhood/Reddit' Wall Street incident, college workers organizing, Hollywood's dependency on China, and how New Zealand used total lockdown to beat Covid and support its economy. In the second half of the program, Wolff interviews Prof Marina Sitrin on pandemic solidarity and horizontal social action. **Economic Update with Richard D. Wolff is a@Democracy At Work production. We make it a point to provide the show free of ads. Please consider supporting our work. Donate one time or become a monthly donor by visiting us at democracyatwork.info/donate or become a patron of Economic Update on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/economicupdate. Your contributions help keep this content free and accessible to all. Now more than ever, sharing Prof. Wolff's message is critical. _________________________________________________________________________________________ About our guest: Marina Sitrin is an associate professor of sociology at SUNY Binghamton, working on, and participating in societies in movement and collective action. Her latest book, co-edited with Colectiva Sembrar, is Pandemic Solidarity. She has also written Horizontalism: Voices of Popular Power in Argentina; Everyday Revolutions: Horizontalism and Autonomy in Argentina and They Can't Represent Us!: Reinventing Democracy from Greece to Occupy. _________________________________________________________________________________________ Learn more about Prof Wolff's new book, "The Sickness is the System: When Capitalism Fails to Save Us from Pandemics or Itself" released in September 2020. Available as a paperback and now also as an eBook! www.democracyatwork.info/books "Richard Wolff in his new book examines frightening and anti-democratic configurations of corporate power, offering not only a blueprint for how we got here, but a plan for how we will rescue ourselves and create new models of economic and political justice.” - Chris Hedges Check out Prof. Wolff's other books "Understanding Socialism" and "Understanding Marxism" http://www.lulu.com/spotlight/democra... _________________________________________________________________________________________ Want to help us translate and transcribe our videos? Learn about joining our translation team: http://bit.ly/2J2uIHH Jump right in: http://bit.ly/2J3bEZR _________________________________________________________________________________________ Follow us ONLINE: Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/economicupdate Websites: http://www.democracyatwork.info/econo... http://www.rdwolff.com Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/EconomicUpdate http://www.facebook.com/RichardDWolff http://www.facebook.com/DemocracyatWrk Twitter: http://twitter.com/profwolff http://twitter.com/democracyatwrk Instagram: http://instagram.com/democracyatwrk Subscribe to our podcast: http://economicupdate.libsyn.com Shop our CO-OP made MERCH: https://democracy-at-work-shop.myshop... _________________________________________________________________________________________ Sources for show segments: 'Robinhood/Reddit' Wall Street incident: - https://www.vox.com/recode/22254270/r... - https://finance.yahoo.com/news/robinh... College workers organizing: - https://www.cnet.com/personal-finance... - https://www.washingtonpost.com/educat... - https://inequality.org/great-divide/p... - https://www.kold.com/2020/09/08/emplo... Hollywood's dependency on China: - https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articl... New Zealand lockdown: - https://nypost.com/2021/02/14/new-zea
