Punk Rock Pariah with Grendel & Greg

Hosted by law professor and award-winning disc jockey Grendel and world-renowned musician, speaker, and humanitarian Greg Bennick, Punk Rock Pariah is Seattle's longest running punk rock show. Whether playing music or talking about current events, PRP is a show that sits at the intersection of politics, pop culture, and punk.

Episode 131 - Interview with 'The Sea Was Never Blue' Director Adam Assad 05/19/2023

Episode 130 - Benefits of Therapy, Pictures with Santa, and the Death of the (American) Dream 12/27/2022

Episode 129 - Mira from Ukraine 06/23/2022

Episode 128 - Sam J. Miller 06/21/2022

Episode 127 - Mariner Moose, COVID Strikes Back, and the Eiffel Tower 04/11/2022

Episode 126 - Unionizing at Amazon, Russian Atrocities, and Bananas 04/11/2022

Episode 125 - The Why and How of Mutual Aid 03/15/2022

Episode 124 - Formula 1, Chalino Sánchez, & Greg's Revenge 03/15/2022

Episode 123 - Ukraine, Color Blindness, & What Would You Do to Defend Your Neighbors? 03/15/2022

Episode 122 - Parents Getting COVID, War in Ukraine, & Patriotism 03/02/2022

Episode 121 - Punk Rock Pariah Returns 02/07/2022

Episode 120 - 2020 Presidential Election Preview 11/02/2020

Black Lives Matter 11/02/2020

Black Lives Matter BLACK LIVES MATTER. PERIOD. This is an unparalleled time in modern history where the masses are standing up against the systemic racism and white supremacy upon which our country has been built. The question we must all ask ourselves is whether we are part of the solution or part of the problem. We must be consistently listening, learning, educating ourselves, and acting upon what we have learned. In her book Why Are All the Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria?, Beverly Daniel Tatum says, "[A] genuine commitment to interrupting racism is a long-term commitment...We all need community to give us energy, to strengthen our voices, and to offer constructive criticism when we stray off course." So we call upon all of our listeners to be that energy. The best way to work towards being that energy is to start by educating ourselves. Even the most learned among us must be constantly evolving, which is part of the "lifelong commitment" that Beverly Daniel Tatum mentions above. In light of this, we wanted to share some of our favorite resources we have come across: 1) Resources are available ; 2) The 2020 Teaching Curriculum Resource guide for teaching K-12 is available ; and 3) The has put together a list of films, books, and resources that you can access We also wish to share a few book recommendations of our own. Below this message are six of our favorites for learning about being anti-racist and/or a better understanding about the conditions against which the Black Lives Matters Movement is currently fighting. Please try to seek out a black-owned bookstore to purchase them. We recommend , located right here in Seattle, or take a look at put together by the . In the words of Ibram X. Kendi, from his book How to Be an Antiracist, "One either allows racial inequities to persevere, as a racist, or confronts racial inequities, as an antiracist. There is no in-between safe space of “not racist.” The claim of “not racist” neutrality is a mask for racism." Freedom is a Constant Struggle by Angela Y. Davis "In these newly collected essays, interviews, and speeches, world-renowned activist & scholar Angela Y. Davis illuminates the connections between struggles against state violence and oppression throughout history and around the world. Reflecting on the importance of black feminism, intersectionality, and prison abolitionism for today's struggles, Davis discusses the legacies of previous liberation struggles, from the Black Freedom Movement to the South African anti-Apartheid movement. She highlights connections and analyzes today's struggles against state terror, from Ferguson to Palestine." How To Be an Antiracist by Ibram X. Kendi "In his memoir, Kendi weaves together an electrifying combination of ethics, history, law, and science--including the story of his own awakening to antiracism--bringing it all together in a cogent, accessible form. He begins by helping us rethink our most deeply held, if implicit, beliefs and our most intimate personal relationships (including beliefs about race and IQ and interracial social relations) and reexamines the policies and larger social arrangements we support. How to Be an Antiracist promises to become an essential book for anyone who wants to go beyond an awareness of racism to the next step of contributing to the formation of a truly just and equitable society." So You Want to Talk About Race by Ijeoma Oluo "In So You Want to Talk About Race, Ijeoma Oluo guides readers of all races through subjects ranging from intersectionality and affirmative action to “model minorities” in an attempt to make the seemingly impossible possible: honest conversations about race and racism, and how they infect almost every aspect of American life." From #BlackLivesMatter to Black Liberation by Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor "In this stirring and insightful analysis, activist and scholar Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor surveys the historical and contemporary ravages of racism and persistence of structural inequality such as mass incarceration and Black unemployment. In this context, she argues that this new struggle against police violence holds the potential to reignite a broader push for Black liberation." White By Law 10th Anniversary Edition by Ian Haney López "In the first edition of White by Law, Haney López traced the reasoning employed by the courts in their efforts to justify the whiteness of some and the non-whiteness of others, and revealed the criteria that were used, often arbitrarily, to determine whiteness, and thus citizenship: skin color, facial features, national origin, language, culture, ancestry, scientific opinion, and, most importantly, popular opinion. Ten years later, Haney López revisits the legal construction of race, and argues that current race law has spawned a troubling racial ideology that perpetuates inequality under a new guise: colorblind white dominance. In a new, original essay written specifically for the 10th anniversary edition, he explores this racial paradigm and explains how it contributes to a system of white racial privilege socially and legally defended by restrictive definitions of what counts as race and as racism, and what doesn't, in the eyes of the law. " Pedagogy of the Oppressed: 50th Anniversary Edition by Paulo Freire "First published in Portuguese in 1968, Pedagogy of the Oppressed was translated and published in English in 1970. The methodology of the late Paulo Freire has helped to empower countless impoverished and illiterate people throughout the world. Freire's work has taken on especial urgency in the United States and Western Europe, where the creation of a permanent underclass among the underprivileged and minorities in cities and urban centers is increasingly accepted as the norm." /episode/index/show/punkrockpariah/id/16644098

Episode 117 - Punk Rock Pariah Presents Break Down the Walls No.3 - Amelia Noor-Oshiro, MPH 05/03/2020

Episode 116 - Punk Rock Pariah Presents Break Down the Walls No.2 - Corbin J. Standley 04/15/2020

Episode 115 - Punk Rock Pariah Presents Break Down the Walls No.1 - Jessica Foard 04/12/2020

Episode 114 - Johnny Crowder of Cope Notes 04/04/2020

Episode 113 - Taking Care of Ourselves & Others in the Time of Coronavirus 03/26/2020

Episode 112 - Live from the Epicenter of the American Coronavirus Outbreak 03/13/2020

Episode 111 - Elizabeth Warren Visits Seattle 03/01/2020

Episode 110 - Our Journey to find Bernie (Sanders) 03/01/2020

Episode 109 - MLK, Planned Obsolescence, and War with Iran 01/25/2020

Episode 108 - Grendel & Greg Interview Steel Fighters 01/20/2020

Episode 107 - Irish Accents, 2020 Democrats, & Voting Against Your Own Self-Interest 12/18/2019

Episode 106 - I Saw U, Wellness, & Faking Your Own Death 12/17/2019

Episode 105 - Booing Donald Trump, Halloween, & Conservative Scam Artists 12/10/2019

Episode 104 - Geronimo Ruiz 11/20/2019

Episode 104 - Geronimo Ruiz On episode 104 of Punk Rock Pariah, Greg and Grendel return to the topic of Chile and interview Geronimo Ruiz about what's happening on the ground in the country. They hit on the history of Chile, what sparked the current unrest, protesters being gravely injured and disappeared, and so much. This is an important listen for every American to get a better understanding of the develpoments in Chile. Along with this episode, Geronimo wrote an essay for our listeners to better explain the ongoings there. We present it to you in it's entirety here: Beforehand, I think is important to generate a political context of Chile in order to understand a little what is happening here. Chile is a South American country, the longest in the world, and with very varied climates, its capital is Santiago de Chile, it is in a valley in the central area of the country, basically it is the city where 80 percent of the population lives. Is country with an economy based on raw materials, mining, agriculture, services but industry destroyed over the past 30 years. A country where immigrants from different sides are conjugated, mostly descendants of Spanish and native people, with some important migratory waves, English, German, Italian and Croatian and new ones coming from the same American countries as Peru, Bolivia, Colombia, Haiti and Venezuela, who escaping from the their contingencies or looking for better life opportunities. Believing this is a kind of social-economic paradise but founding many problems and dichotomies of a neoliberal system where the basic needs of people are not met. Historically, had a dictatorship imposed in 1973 with the help of the administration of the United States shift and ended in 1990 through vote. This regime consisted of the overthrow of a legitimately elected socialist government imposing the foundations of what we know today as a neoliberal model. I have the impression of Chile; it was and potentially until today a field of experimentation and social laboratory for neoliberalism. So, from 1990 to date, we have had several governments with different political prisms that have only perpetuated the social differences between a political-economic class and the base and middle classes. While it is true throughout these years there have been concrete experiences of social improvements that can meet the basic demands of the people. Simultaneously and in parallel, the perpetuation of the benefit of a few over many is present, where we have millionaires to the German standard and poor to the Mongolian standard. Where the middle class lives to solve their problems through the capacity of indebtedness for life We have the worst statistics related to mental health, the highest rates of suicide in adults older people in the world, because they cannot pay their cost of living with the current pension system In summary, we have a constitution established in dictatorship in 1980 and the perpetuation of benefits to a privileged class supported by a benefactor state that does not make relevant investment in socially relevant sources of concern. Currently, as a result of a popular uprising that began with the demonstrations of secondary students who massively began to evade the payment of the subway ticket, It began a spark of a general social uprising, full of demonstrations that has spread by almost four weeks and that has a percentage of the population manifesting in the streets for different demands, but with a common denominator a system that for 30 years has failed to meet or meet the basic demands of the people: Quality Health, Decent Wages, corruption cases of the political class have real sanctions, the usurpation of natural resources, among others. --- For more amazing photos from Chile like the one above, visit GaryGo on Instagram at @garygophoto or click this link /episode/index/show/punkrockpariah/id/12102674

Episode 103 - Phillipe Arama of Remission on Chile 11/18/2019

Episode 102 - Halloween Season, the Emoluments Clause, & Why Words Matter 10/02/2019

Episode 101 - Anti-semitism, Homelessness, & American Breakfast Exceptionalism 09/30/2019

Punk Rock Pariah with Grendel & Greg

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