Support our work via PAYPAL.me/zdroberts Become a Patron! Zach D Roberts and Aaron Cynic are back with a conversation about Occupy Wall Street, which turns 10 years old on Friday, September 17th. No OWS hasn’t been occupying Zuccotti Square for 10 years but the legacy OWS lives on in many forms. There’s no Bernie presidential…
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VisuNews Podcast – Catching Up on the Sh*t Show
We’re back! (Again). This week Aaron Cynic and I catch up and discuss the last years news… err I mean the last months news. We catch up on the January 6th marauders, our hopes for what the incoming administration will do and more. Support our Visu.News work on Paypal Become a Patron!
VisuNews Podcast – The 9/11 of Bad Takes, Fact Checking the Internet and Losing Mercy
VisuNews Podcast – The 9/11 of Bad Takes, Fact Checking the Internet and Losing Mercy
A Pandemic Might’ve Been Inevitable. How We Respond Can Help Ameliorate Future Crises
Monday night I peered out my window at the little Mexican restaurant across the street as the sunset in Chicago. There were a couple of kids hanging out on the corner in front of the place, but not a single soul inside. Like every other restaurant across Illinois, they shut the lights out later that…
Visu.News Podcast Ep. 27 – Abortion, Proud Boys and more
We’re back, don’t really have any excuses for not doing our usual every 2-week podcast except shit happens and we’re busy people (that’s a lie, Aaron’s busy and I’m a lazy SOB). This week Aaron Cynic and I discuss abortion politics, the 2020 campaign and white nationalists…. pretty sure there we talked about some other…
Episode 24: THIS IS FINE
Subscribe: Spotify, iTunes, Podbean Wherein Aaron Cynic and I chat about the madness of the week focusing on the massive purge of media jobs. As HuffPost and BuzzFeed shed staff, has the digital content bubble burst? https://www.theguardian.com/media/2019/jan/24/as-huffpost-and-buzzfeed-shed-staff-has-the-digital-content-bubble-burst The digital winter turns apocalyptic https://www.cjr.org/business_of_news/buzzfeed-verizon-layoffs.php How Chicago’s ‘J-school of the Streets’ Is Reinventing Local News https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2019/01/24/city-bureau-local-journalism-training-school-chicago-what-works-next-224114
Let Them Eat Wall
Frigid temperatures didn’t stop federal workers and others from showing up to Federal Plaza in Chicago on Thursday to protest the continuing shutdown of the government over President Donald Trump’s border wall. The shutdown, which began before Christmas, entered its 22nd day on Saturday, and is now the longest in American history. “Federal workers and…
VisuNews Ep. 22: Trump’s 8 Minutes in Border Wall Heaven
Subscribe: Spotify, iTunes, Podbean Well, the border wall speech is over and the country hasn’t been placed under martial law, and Trump didn’t resign. We’re not just left with the same old status, the media got played by letting Trump get 8mins (really? only 8mins?) of free airtime to spout racist bullshit and a continual…
Visu.News Podcast Ep. 15 – Aaron and Zach discuss #Resistance and Democrats
This is episode 15 of the Visu.News podcast. I’m here with my co-host, Aaron Cynic and this week we are discussing activism, the Democratic Party and voting. We are one year and one hundred and ninety three days into the Donald J Trump administration. If you like this and want to see us do more…
Chicago Anti-Violence Activists Shut Down Lake Shore Drive
Chicago anti-violence activists shut down Lake Shore Drive Thursday afternoon before marching to Wrigley Field to draw attention to gun violence, crime, and other issues afflicting resource-starved neighborhoods in the city. “There are too many killings in Chicago, there are too many police-involved killings in Chicago,” said Tio Hardiman, one of the demonstration’s organizers. “It’s…