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This week I spoke with my friend Lily Eagla, who has just returned from Cuba after participating in the Nuestra América Flotilla which brought critical humanitarian Aid at a time where the United States Empire has placed an illegal brutal blockade on essential trade with Cuba, from oil which has led to blackouts in hospitals to critical medicine to food.
While this is a very serious issue, our conversation is quite late educative and informative, and I hope you can find some enjoyment in it and learn something. Lily is an activist based out of Chicago now (!!!) and you can find her on substack Lily Eagla and her instagram at lilyeagla, fantastic content, fantastic politics, fantastic person.
0:00 - Intro, Who is Lily
1:36 - What the Nuestra América Convoy Did
4:47 - Cuba's Government, Healthcare, and the Young Pioneers
8:44 - American Exceptionalism and the Cuba
13:11 - Trump, Empire, and the Leftist Theory of Change
17:16 - Democracy at Home, Genocide Abroad
19:39 - Lily's Conversation with a Cuban Who Wants Regime Change
24:52 - Imperial Contradictions and Siege Economies
28:17 - Diasporas, Right-Wing Global Coalitions, and Palestine
34:24 - Will Cuba Survive Trump?
37:09 - Gen Z, the Death of Liberal Shame, and Why Actual Leftism is the Only Option Left
41:53 - Leftist Coalition-Building
Brief editorial note: we talked for about 30 minutes after the end of this episode that were meant to be recorded but did not record, or rather is just me talking to myself so it is complete nonsense that I think I will send out to the paid subscribers so if you would like to deepen a pair of social relationship with me and pretend that you are the other side of that conversation, feel free to hop over to my paid subscription and I'll be releasing that within the next week.
In any case thank you so much for listening, I hope you enjoy, and I have a few more interviews and discussions coming out imminently so please do subscribe if you don't already and if you would like to consider becoming a paid subscriber you mainly become just notably cooler.
