The Weed Out Podcast
A podcast by abolitionists for those who are in the mood to hear that discussion. We are Western Massachusetts based but hope to resonate everywhere. Discussions will focus on both local topics and events that impact us all on a broad level and could be applied to people all over the country. We will share ways to get involved with direct action, information on how to make records requests from public officials, and good news about our area and beyond! We hope you will listen and follow along with us as we weed out the nonsense in our town and maybe even yours too.
Episodes
Wednesday Oct 16, 2024
Wednesday Oct 16, 2024
Joanna and Spence hop in to break down the shoestring's reporting of the victim of Officer Reyes potentially getting a settlement due to the allegations brought against Ofc Reyes in a court of law.
We do not want to focus on Ofc. Reyes, but use this as an example of how these systems and institutions of law enforcement are not used to protect and serve. It is a corrupt institution from its founding and these stories are in every backyard, town, city and beyond. Weed out this bull shit.
link to main source within this article there are links to other sourcing of previous reporting.
thank you shoestring and dusty for digging on this.
solidarity to all workers
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Tuesday Oct 15, 2024
Tuesday Oct 15, 2024
On Friday Oct 11, 2024, Northampton PD and other local law enforcement forcibly swept Moose Camp from their Fitzgerald Lake camp in Northampton, MA. Please reach out to those organizing around Moose Camp if you can help. At the very least, call the Northampton Mayors and Police offices to demand better treatment of these folks.
Link to article here
https://theshoestring.org/2024/10/11/police-in-northampton-evict-outdoor-recovery-camp/
As this story unfolds we will continue to share what we hear on the ground.
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Thursday Oct 10, 2024
Thursday Oct 10, 2024
Laura Saylor and Spence react to the news from www.theshoestring.com reporting on documents pertaining to possible settlement payments for the former police officer who was alleged to have been harassed and abused by Officer Reyes (technically a Captain but we don't respect rank here)
link to story here
This story is important and we will break it down in further episodes. This story made the light of day because of committed folk in Holyokes community and those at places like the Shoestring who are weeding out the bull shit in our communities.
Jump in as Laura and I discuss and catch you up on the bull shit happening right here in our backyard
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Monday Oct 07, 2024
Monday Oct 07, 2024
UPDATE on the camp for unhoused in Northampton, known as Moose Camp, was set to be swept and cleared today 10/07/2024 but that did not happen. Solidarity to the community who showed up in numbers when the Northampton PD, HHS and Mayor's Office arrived. Reports from the ground said that no arrests were made and the sweep/eviction did not ultimately occur.
details here via the shoestring
We got word of this encampment being in danger of the violence of the state via instagram from this post.
If you have any questions, comments or thoughts please email us: theweedout@gmail.com
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Friday Sep 20, 2024
Friday Sep 20, 2024
Akil Vicks of On One joins us again to discuss the presidential ticket and the importance a comma makes. The fascists are weird but the liberals normalize it and help move the goal posts.
ghoulery & tomfoolery:
Mass State Trooper trainee dead at Academy "training"
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Monday Sep 09, 2024
Monday Sep 09, 2024
Laura Saylor joins us to update on sandra birchmore and the accused murderer, officer matthew farwell
this is far from over. this isn’t true crime. this is the weed out.
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Wednesday Aug 21, 2024
Wednesday Aug 21, 2024
This week, Laura Saylor joins us and we discuss the deadly police exchange of the IOF and USA policing. Have you heard of #copcity? Yeah, that's our DNC liberals wet dream of "training" and the program is built on an exchange of "ideas" between USA policing and IOF occupation.
GHOULERY AND TOMFOOLERY:
This week the Shoestring covers Holyoke PD in conjunction with other local ghouls they are harassing folk in lower ward apartment buildings, essentially arresting civilians for existing, which leads to collecting court feels all while patrolling private landlords property, subsidized by us! yay!!!
keep weeding out the bull shit,
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Tuesday Aug 06, 2024
Tuesday Aug 06, 2024
Join Akil Vicks of On One and Spencer Fox discuss Akil's piece on the VEEP sweepstakes in the 2024 Federal elections. Find his article here published to In These Times
We skipped Ghoulery and Tomfoolery™️ this week but we will bring it back next time. Too much ghoulishness in the main story with these elected officials to need a separate segment!
As always follow us on social media or www.theweedout.com
Wednesday Jul 31, 2024
Wednesday Jul 31, 2024
Andrew Quemere of The Mass Dump: A massive dump of Massachusetts public records
joins theweedout to share his investigation of public records in regards to the conviction of James Carver and the aftermath of a fire, multiple trials and ultimately 15 deceased in a fire. It's the same ol stuff, as far as the weedout and cops/the courts go.
FYI
some background regarding James Carver and his possible wrongful conviction: https://andrewqmr.substack.com/p/james-carver-elliott-chambers-fire
first follow up piece:
https://andrewqmr.substack.com/p/james-carver-eyewitness-identification
Subscribe to The Mass Dump to catch more in depth coverage from Andrew and his fantastic investigative work.
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Wednesday Jul 31, 2024
Wednesday Jul 31, 2024
this episode we welcome back former guests, Demilitarize Western Mass, to discuss their recent direct actions and what its like to be in the organizing spaces locally. Joey and Clara are just two of many in their collective and we are so happy to have them on to discuss action at L3Harris in Northampton.
If you wish to learn more about demilitarize wmass follow them on instagram and twitter
and as usual stick around for ghoulery annddddd tomfoolery at the end of the episode!
ps.
here's what corporate media entities have written up about Demilitarize Wmass. Clock what you may