Locust Radio Ep. 15 - Starbucks vs. Utopia

After the opening reading, a sketch based on an excerpt from the Stink Ape Resurrection Primer, Tish and Adam interview Ken LeBlanc, a rank-and-file member of the Main Street Carbondale, Illinois Starbucks union organizing committee. The Starbucks Workers United organizing effort went public in Carbondale in late May. LeBlanc discusses organizing, how to start a union, the grievances of her co-workers, making food for folks as an art, the Restaurant Organizing Project, how uncontested corporate power breeds unethical behavior, the grassroots organizing in Southern Illinois around abortion rights and reproductive justice, and speculates — at our request — on her idea of utopia.

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Locust Radio Ep 5.5 GameStop Never Happened (Preview)

For the second half of our show, available to SUBSCRIBERS ONLY, Alex reads a long excerpt from this massive essay in the newest issue of Salvage. Also, Tish, Adam and Alex talk about the aesthetics of the GameStop short squeeze…

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Locust Radio Ep 4.5 The Cookie Monster Who Flew Into Space from Peoria, Illinois

For the second half of our show, available to SUBSCRIBERS ONLY, Tish Markley and Adam Ray Adkins share more of their work. We also talk about Ilya and Emilia Kabakov and narrative conceptual art, and why the Peoria Cookie Monster mural is so much more interesting than those monoliths that have been appearing lately. If you want to hear this portion, and haven’t subscribed yet, do so now.

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Locust Radio Ep 3.5 Hugo Gernsback Gets Pounded in the Butt by His Own Apolitical Scientific Utopianism

For the second half of Locust Radio episode three, available to SUBSCRIBERS ONLY, we share some of our current writing and research, including a much-overlooked group of writers who tried to claim sci-fi for communism in the 1930s, and an overview of the work of Hugo-nominated fantasy writer Chuck Tingle.

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Episode 1 - Art, Poetry, + Boomer the Three-Legged Piss Hero

Locust Radio is Locust Review’s monthly podcast on the weird, the political, and where they intersect in fiction, art, poetry and creativity. Hosted by LR editors Tish Markley, Adam Turl and Alexander Billet, Locust Radio features discussions of the radical weird, history and current events, interviews with artists, writers, and musicians, and readings of conceptual art, poetry and fiction. Locust Radio is produced by Drew Franzblau. Music is by Omnia Sol.

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