Not Quite Communist
By Gerald Farinas
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Welcome to Not Quite Communist podcast. I am Gerald Farinas and I talk about social justice, empire and colonialism, and current events from the perspective of a Hawaii-born Ilocano Presbyterian Church (USA) elder commissioner here in the Edgewater neighborhood of Chicago, Illinois. Find me IRL at GeraldFarinas.com.
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Podcast: Anti-trans attacks come from Catholic bishops and new bill in Congress
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Dec 17, 2025 |
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Podcast: If we don't uphold due process, precedent could take away due process for all
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Dec 13, 2025 |
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Podcast: 'Why can't we have nice' immigrants, President asks
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Dec 13, 2025 |
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Podcast: The comedy of cringe, reclaiming the Asian American narrative
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Dec 12, 2025 |
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Podcast: Immigrant poet Carlos Bulosan's words remain true 69 years after death
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Dec 01, 2025 |
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Podcast: Administration demands ‘remigration’; another word for ethnic cleansing
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Nov 30, 2025 |
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Podcast: The real cost of Black Friday
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Nov 28, 2025 |
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Podcast: The Thanksgiving table is not overwhelmingly turkey and mashed potatoes
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Nov 27, 2025 |
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Podcast: Hateful rhetoric fans the flames, leads to violence; all of it has to stop
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Nov 27, 2025 |
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Podcast: When doing good is called fake, performative, virtue signaling
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Nov 21, 2025 |
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Podcast: Making Native American policy without Native American input
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Nov 19, 2025 |
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Podcast: The tragic betrayal of Americans against King Kalakaua and Hawaii
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Nov 06, 2025 |
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Podcast: The tragic betrayal of America against Chief Seattle
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Nov 04, 2025 |
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Podcast: The sandhill cranes arrived in Chicago today; a powerful spiritual symbol
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Nov 04, 2025 |
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Podcast: SNAP beneficiaries aren't lazy people who won't get a job; let's break down the numbers
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Nov 03, 2025 |
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Podcast: Solidarity not charity; mutual aid emerges when the system fails
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Nov 02, 2025 |
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Podcast: What’s the deal with all those European political parties with ‘Christian’ in their names?
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Oct 30, 2025 |
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Podcast: Shutting down ‘DEI’ programs in schools, colleges is degrading the intellectual rigor that built our nation
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Oct 30, 2025 |
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Podcast: The Penny Auctions of the Great Depression and resistance in Chicago today
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Oct 29, 2025 |
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Podcast: It’s time we feed every child at no cost up front; invest in human capital
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Oct 26, 2025 |
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Podcast: Evanston Nouveau Rotary Club thanks you for supporting Purple Pinkie beer, polio campaign
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Oct 26, 2025 |
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Podcast: Doubling down on Asian American Pacific Islander posts
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Oct 24, 2025 |
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Podcast: Eric Trump says they're saving God; amazingly, their followers agree
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Oct 24, 2025 |
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Podcast: Chicago Public Schools lunchroom workers deserve wages that can feed their own children
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Oct 22, 2025 |
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Podcast: They tried to intimidate, flash guns at Ill. Rep. Hoan Huynh
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Oct 21, 2025 |
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Podcast: Indigenous and Two-Spirit communities can be classified as 'terrorists' in new national security rule
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Oct 21, 2025 |
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The eternal Pietà
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Oct 21, 2025 |
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Podcast: Blaming Democrats for SNAP benefits running out is insane after years of GOP gutting program
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Oct 18, 2025 |
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Podcast: Striking, killing Venezuelans on boats is extrajudicial murder; raising risk of war with South America
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Oct 16, 2025 |
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Podcast: Leaked texts show tsunami of hate speech by Young Republicans arm of official GOP
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Oct 15, 2025 |
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Podcast: Cubs' David Ross talks about when his adopted parents abandoned him
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Oct 15, 2025 |
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Podcast: ICE agents are guilty of stolen valor
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Oct 13, 2025 |
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Podcast: Mental Illness Awareness Week
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Oct 12, 2025 |
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Podcast: Kindred Spirits, Choctaw trail of tears and the Irish famine
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Oct 11, 2025 |
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Podcast: WGN video producer detained; just one of many press takedowns by ICE
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Oct 10, 2025 |
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Podcast: Waiting for his Reichstag Fire moment
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Oct 10, 2025 |
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Podcast: Supreme Court heard conversion therapy arguments and they sound skeptical
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Oct 10, 2025 |
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Podcast: They blamed immigrants for the Great Chicago Fire; we're scapegoating them again today
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Oct 09, 2025 |
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Podcast: LGBTQ wary as Texas troops arrive in Chicago; Oct. 8 protest planned for downtown Chicago
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Oct 08, 2025 |
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Podcast: Hawaiian Night Marchers meet immigrants brought by the colonizers
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Oct 07, 2025 |
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Podcast: When America tried to expel all Filipinos in the U.S.
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Oct 05, 2025 |
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Podcast: How U.S. industry hid native remains in Hawaii burial mound, pretended it was okay
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Oct 04, 2025 |
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Podcast: Banned Books Week is more apt now than before
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Oct 04, 2025 |
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Podcast: What happens after they're deported; Vietnam's grassroots Ba Lô can only help so many
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Oct 03, 2025 |
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Podcast: Receiving hate when posting ICIRR tips about ICE activity, locations, and hotline to report them
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Oct 02, 2025 |
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Podcast: GOP lies saying gov't shutdown is Dems' fault; scapegoats undocumented immigrants
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Oct 01, 2025 |
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Podcast: Hegseth 'War' speech was pure photo op; Trump angry at flag officers' silence during event
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Sep 30, 2025 |
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Podcast: Changing names, taking down statues isn't woke erasure of history
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Sep 30, 2025 |
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Podcast: Get your damn flu and COVID vax; here's why
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Sep 30, 2025 |
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Podcast: The global courage against the Holocaust
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Sep 29, 2025 |
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Podcast: No, DEI doesn't mean unqualified people get jobs at expense of others
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Sep 29, 2025 |
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Podcast: A lesson of wolves, Francis, and Ignatius
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Sep 27, 2025 |
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Podcast: How does the world hold the U.S. accountable if America does bad things?
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Sep 26, 2025 |
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Podcast: Colonialism, empire aren't just Western ideas; they're very human
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Sep 24, 2025 |
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Podcast: About that Nathan Hale statue on Michigan Ave. in downtown Chicago
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Sep 23, 2025 |
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Podcast: So the rapture's supposed to happen? Here's what I think
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Sep 23, 2025 |
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Podcast: 53 years since Marcos' Martial Law is warning to U.S. as authoritarianism strengthens
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Sep 21, 2025 |
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Podcast: LBJ said we can overcome national chaos, failure; create art as protest
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Sep 20, 2025 |
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Podcast: They say antifa are the real fascists, which is pure stupidity
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Sep 19, 2025 |
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Podcast: Comedians, artists are dangerous; that's why they're being silenced
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Sep 19, 2025 |
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The lines at Edgewater Mutual Aid, Care For Real, other food pantries are getting longer
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Sep 18, 2025 |
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Podcast: The Overview Effect and the shadows of empire
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Sep 18, 2025 |
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Podcast: The spirit of Mexican independence cannot be silenced even with raids, detention, rhetoric
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Sep 16, 2025 |
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Podcast: Remembering Ill. Gov. Jim Edgar, a Republican that Democrats trusted
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Sep 16, 2025 |
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Podcast: Let's go to Vietnam in 'She Weeps Each Time You're Born'
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Sep 15, 2025 |
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Podcast: Shadows of the Philippine-American War's Pulang Lupa in Gaza today
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Sep 13, 2025 |
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Podcast: San Patricios Martyrs of Mexico and Cavite Martyrs of the Philippines
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Sep 12, 2025 |
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Podcast: 9/11, Nepal, and Charlie Kirk
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Sep 11, 2025 |
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Sen. Mike Simmons remarks at ECRA Juneteenth Service, June 19, 2025
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Jun 20, 2025 |