{"podcast":{"title":"THIS IS REVOLUTION ＞podcast","slug":"this-is-revolution-podcast-307699","podcast_index_feed_id":307699,"rss_url":"https://feed.podbean.com/bitterlake/feed.xml","website_url":"https://bitterlake.podbean.com","image_url":"https://pbcdn1.podbean.com/imglogo/image-logo/7018123/tir_icon_podbean.jpg","author":"bitterlake","episode_count":100,"summary":"A podcast about music, and politics as told by musicians who sing about politics and his lawyer/journalist best friend","last_synced_at":"2026-07-29T20:19:50.846424+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/this-is-revolution-podcast-307699"},"episode":{"title":"EP. 877: THE YELLOW VESTS AND THE BATTLE FOR DEMOCRACY ft. IDA SUSSER","slug":"ep-877-the-yellow-vests-and-the-battle-for-democracy-ft-ida-susser","published_at":"2026-05-07T10:00:00+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/this-is-revolution-podcast-307699/ep-877-the-yellow-vests-and-the-battle-for-democracy-ft-ida-susser","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/this-is-revolution-podcast-307699","url":"https://bitterlake.podbean.com/e/ep-877-the-yellow-vests-and-the-battle-for-democracy-ft-ida-susser/","audio_url":"https://mcdn.podbean.com/mf/web/cuq4jw4myjhyxhf8/THE_YELLOW_VESTS_THE_BATTLE_FOR_DEMOCRACY_ft_IDA_SUSSER643fa.mp3","summary":"Read Ida's book here: https://www.routledge.com/The.../Susser/p/book/9781032877938 Written under the shadow of growing authoritarianism in the U.S. and Europe, this book is an effort to understand resistance movements of the twenty-first century. It foregrounds the Yellow Vests to present an accurate and timely picture of a protest movement that baffled analysts and blurred the boundaries of left and right. Comprehensively exploring the meaning of “les Gilets Jaunes triompheront” (the yellow vests will win), written on the Arc de Triomphe in 2018, The Yellow Vests and the Battle for Democracy details how people of all ages, many from the provinces and the urban periphery, rushed through the Paris streets, breaking windows and braving tear gas, challenging the ruling class in extraordinary and unpredictable ways. Avoiding hierarchy and stable organization, and claiming a right to a territory or space that is between the private and the public, these protests imagined a different form of collectivity that is not commodified but established by the social practice of “commoning” – of momentarily linking protests in the streets and other spaces. An essential book for activists and researchers on contemporary protest movements, this book offers crucial insight into the formation of protests and popular resistance and how social movements generate their own political and ideological character. Check out our new bi-weekly series, \"The Crisis Papers\" here: https://www.patreon.com/bitterlakepresents/shop READ THE WEEKLY TIR NEWSLETTER HERE: https://www.patreon.com/collection/1853497 Thank you guys again for taking the time to check this out. We appreciate each and everyone of you. If you have the means, and you feel so inclined, BECOME A PATRON! We're creating patron only progra…","meta_description":"Read Ida's book here: https://www.routledge.com/The.../Susser/p/book/9781032877938 Written under the shadow of growing authoritarianism in the U.S. and Eu…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":3616,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/this-is-revolution-podcast-307699/episodes/ep-877-the-yellow-vests-and-the-battle-for-democracy-ft-ida-susser/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/this-is-revolution-podcast-307699/ep-877-the-yellow-vests-and-the-battle-for-democracy-ft-ida-susser.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}