This Wreckage

Audio from June 27, 2026 ILC of NYC panel and town hall event for pride month on LGBTQ workers self-organizing, past and present.
Watch and subscribe on ILC's Youtube channel: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dVfkabZCR04&t=4s
With the increase in anti-LGBTQ (and especially anti-trans) sentiment among American legislators, the Independent Labor Club views it as pressing to host a public conversation on issues facing LGBTQ workers. We are inviting historians and organizers in order to discuss the history of autonomous struggles and what lessons can the working class at large learn from their efforts.
Featured Panelists:
Maggie Schreiner (CUNY Grad Center)
Garrison Davis (It Could Happen Here)
April M. (Reform and Revolution DSA)
Carla González (CUNY Grad Center)
Moderated by Matt Brim (College of Staten Island)

NEWS EP! Andy's reportback from Summer of Ludd! Sean on the 42nd Street building collapse and its YIMBY origins! Finally, the war's back on. But did it ever end?
For the full episode, support the show at https://www.patreon.com/c/thiswreckage
Brooklyn Public Library event Monday: https://www.bklynlibrary.org/calendar/am-gittlitz-discusses-central-library-dweck-20260713-0600pm
Our visit to the Verso Archive. Use WRECKAGE at checkout for 50% off the books we mention: https://www.versobooks.com/blogs/news/the-verso-archive-featuring-this-wreckage
Summer of Ludd schedule: https://buttondown.com/nycofftech/archive/summer-of-ludd-schedule/
Charming 42nd St man: https://x.com/thisismeryan13/status/2074530438035435827
Former Pfizer hq collapse: https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/28/business/midtown-development-pfizer-headquarters.html
https://www.nytimes.com/live/2026/07/08/nyregion/nyc-midtown-building-collapse
CIA-backed drone attacks target Russian energy: https://www.ft.com/content/d0f82c05-c35f-4e0f-b452-f61dc8a7e697?syn-25a6b1a6=1
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2025/12/30/world/europe/ukraine-war-us-russia.html
Song: The Ramones - 53rd and 3rd

A chat with Freddy G, @orangefreddyg on IG, a Leftist/Antizionist Jewish comic and Content Creator for @trackaipac
Check out Freddy and Anders' DSA-benefit comedy show: @paidprotestcomedy
Some of his vids:
Birthright https://www.instagram.com/reel/DaVtPlwiuC7/
Watermelon: https://www.instagram.com/p/DYU7Op2hYC1/
Pod Save America: https://www.instagram.com/p/DaNxxXahCbg/
Land Auction: https://www.instagram.com/p/DZIviHVtxnv/
With Jacob berger: https://www.instagram.com/p/DYSkspoRzUW/

Song: Yung Lean - Metallic Intuition

Devin Thomas O’Shea stops by to chat about his new book The Veiled Prophet: Secret Societies, White Supremacy, and the Struggle for St. Louis
Support the show at https://www.patreon.com/c/thiswreckage
Peter Thiel's Dialog leak: https://www.wired.com/story/leak-exposes-members-of-peter-thiels-secretive-dialog-society/

Song: Bryan Ferry - In Your Mind

Sean reports back on Labor Note drama!
In the fun half, we listen to some of Graham Platner's town hall in an effort to redeem the term ULTRA. Sign up at https://www.patreon.com/c/thiswreckage to hear it!
For a Fighting Workers Movement, A Militant Critique of Labor Notes panel: https://youtu.be/lt5X16UQ6bA?is=T_W0N0gkrCqkl9Dw
NYT piece on how ultra is a slur: https://www.nytimes.com/2026/06/11/magazine/ultraprocessed-food-insult.html
Check out geese: https://www.geesemag.com/articles/enter-daedalus-2028 https://www.geesemag.com/articles/the-direction-of-determination
Platner video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zjMLrU8mI9A
Minnesota 15 legal defense fund: https://chuffed.org/project/186570-minnesota-15-legal-defense-fund
Song: New Order - Ultraviolence