Cocktails & Capitalism

About Cocktails & Capitalism

Cocktails & Capitalism is a podcast that pairs crafted beverages with stories distilled from our capitalist hellscape. This is more than a true corporate crime show — our episodes uplift the activists and organizers who are working to oppose the destructive forces of capitalism and begin creating a better reality. . Our crafted cocktails help us tap into the gallows humor necessary for surviving late stage capitalism. Some of these stories can get pretty dark, so get ready and grab a drink! You can even make the custom cocktail or mocktail crafted by our resident bartender, Jesse Torres. (Find the recipes in our episode notes!) . We are committed to making this show free and accessible for everyone. Since we don’t want to engage in capitalist advertising practices to fund this project, we’ve decided to make this a listener-supported show. You can help us sustain this anticapitalist independent media project by signing up on Patreon for any monthly amount. . Huge thanks to the amazing anticapitalists who are supporting this project! Cheers & solidarity forever! https://www.patreon.com/cocktailsandcapitalism

Publisher

Cocktails & Capitalism

Category

education · government · society & culture

Language

en

Explicit

Yes

First episode

8 Sept 2020

Latest episode

26 Feb 2025

Latest episodes

95 episodes in the feed.

1. 

   26 Feb 2025

   Target's Mass Surveillance Police Partnership: A Deep Dive with Marjaan Sirdar

   Don’t miss this deep dive into Target's dystopian mass surveillance police partnership. I spoke with South Minneapolis activist and freelance journalist Marjaan Sirdar about his astounding findings after completing a 12-part investigative series titled 21st Century Jim Crow in the North Star City: How Target Corp., the City of Minneapolis, and Hennepin County Created a Domestic Spy Program that Rolled Back Civil Rights on its Black Population. We discuss Target’s high-tech forensics labs, its...

2. 

   1 Oct 2024

   Jenan Matari: Palestinian Roots & the Power of Social Media

   I had the honor of speaking with award-winning Palestinian-American producer, content creator, and storyteller Jenan Matari back in June. Jenan has been harnessing the power of her voice and her social media platform to shine light on Palestine’s history and present reality amidst this genocide. We spoke about the ways that social media has been used for Palestine -- from combating propaganda to raising funds for evacuations to mobilizing students and protestors across the world.In Jenan...

3. 

   16 Sept 2024

   Addressing Apple’s Complicity with Palestinian Writer Tariq Ra’ouf

   I’m joined by Tariq Ra’ouf, a Palestinian freelance journalist and advocate for diversity and inclusion who was recently fired by Apple after speaking out about the company’s complicity in and silence about the genocide in Gaza. After losing over a dozen family members, Tariq has been working with Palestinian and Congolese activists to organize an international day of action to demand that Apple break its silence about the genocides in Palestine and the Congo. TAKE PART IN THE DAY O...

Reach and audience

Public platform figures. Ratings count people who left a rating, not total listeners.

YouTube views

2,616,501

Score snapshot 15 Sept 2025

Apple Podcasts (US)

4.7 / 5

77 ratings

Spotify

4.8 / 5

152 ratings

Podcast Authority Score: 72 / 100

A composite of feed quality, social presence, YouTube performance and engagement. Read the methodology.

Quality

70

Social presence

0

YouTube

93

Engagement

95

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