Crypto leftism? With Alex Rivera

Hello from a blockchain!

This week, Jay and Tammy talk with Alex Rivera, a filmmaker, media artist, immigrant rights activist, and MacArthur genius, about crypto.

What is crypto currency? How does it work? And why is it often cast as a right-wing, libertarian, carbon-depleting project?

Can the left reclaim crypto for the people? How might decentralized financial networks power social movements? Post-national transactions? Worker cooperatives? Global decision-making?

For more, check out:

• The National Day Laborer Organizing Network (Donate and get yourself some merch!)

• Alex and Cristina Ibarra’s film, The Infiltrators

• Alex’s film, Sleep Dealer (pictured above)

• Jay and Aaron Lammer’s podcast, “CoinTalk”

• Jay on his toad NFT

• Alex on border technologies, via “Tech Won’t Save Us”

• Crypto Communism by Mark Alizart, translated by Robin Mackay

• Murtaza Hussain on crypto remittances

• Crypto POC economies

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