Growing up in Washington D.C. during the legendary early years of the scene, Bobby learned a lot about community and cooperation from luminaries like Ian MacKaye, H.R. from Bad Brains and his brother Mark. His first band, Lunch Meat, later morphed into the iconic Dischord band Soulside, and he found himself touring the world while learning more about politics, injustice and Rastafari. In our conversation with Bobby, we discuss his introduction to punk rock and how political activism led to his immersion in food co-ops and cooperative economics, his work with prisoners in Western North Carolina and his recent book Revolutionary Threads. Bobby’s enthusiasm for his work is infectious, and we may have bent our ‘no back in the day’ stories rule for some great anecdotes about the D.C. scene in the 80’s. For Full Length Episodes And Merchandise Go To https://www.patreon.com/killedbydesk Follow: Killed By Desk Insta: @killedbydeskpodcast Twitter: @killedbydesk Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/killedbydesk LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/killedbydesk
Links:
Bobby’s Book: Revolutionary Threads
French Broad Co+Op
About Us – French Broad Food Co+Op
Food Justice
Food Justice Movement - Wikipedia
Food Not Bombs
Chocolate Cow
https://i.pinimg.com/originals/bb/3e/b5/bb3eb5697e8ce0f0c7dca22ac0cb792e.jpg
Worker vs Consumer Coops
Pirate Governance
Governance in 18th-century piracy - Wikipedia
Bill’s Pirate Reads
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/41962953-pirates
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/281693.Empire_of_Blue_Water
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/41880091-the-last-pirate-of-new-york
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/295.Treasure_Island
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/169961.The_Buccaneers_of_America
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/23164968-pirate-hunters
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6428887-pirate-latitudes
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/442239.The_Republic_of_Pirates
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/143718.The_Pirate_Hunter
Best anti-punk leadership lesson
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/368772.The_Caine_Mutiny
Equal Exchange
Equal Exchange | Fairly Traded Coffee, Tea & Chocolate
Dr. Bronners
Dr Bronner's Moral ABCs - YouTube
Frontier Co-Op
Frontier CoOp Homepage | Frontier Coop
Yo! Baby, Yogurt
Danone to Sell Stonyfield Yogurt to Become U.S. Dairy Mega Brand - Organic Authority
Is Bob a jerk!? Or is he just not into being fancy?
https://youtu.be/mNd3RBZQrxA?t=28
National CoOp Grocers
Board of Directors | National Co+op Grocers (ncg.coop)
CoOps in US
Facts about Cooperatives (iwdc.coop)
Food Condominium
Vegetable Gardening for Beginners: The Basics of Planting & Growing | The Old Farmer's Almanac
Ron Reagan?
COMMIES RATED RON TOO DIM TO BE A RED STAR :BUDDY SAYS REAGAN WAS REJECTED BY THE PARTY (nypost.com)
Local Yugo promotes lost cause
https://photos.app.goo.gl/igHbmAHoVKBVisoJ8
Zastava Koral
Zastava - Zastava Koral (1980-2008) (motor-car.net)
Soulside Live
https://youtu.be/Kt4Qs02t7AU?t=888
Howard Zinn
Howard Zinn in his own words - YouTube
1896
Plessy v. Ferguson - Wikipedia
Prisoner CoOps
Shit Sandwich
The Shit Sandwich and Other Terrible Ways to Give Feedback (idonethis.com)
Aaron Cometbus
Aaron Cometbus biography | Last.fm
Y2K
Y2K End of the world - YouTube
Best Tim Kerr
https://youtu.be/PBgU_7GAqcA?t=4
Worst Tim Kerr
Gogo
https://youtu.be/XmLHDXrxO6A?t=619
Rare Essence
https://youtu.be/Vz2k_rwmAgI?t=1411
???? Roto-toms?
https://youtu.be/9Kz81XdhPps?t=240
Burning Down The Haus
BURNING DOWN THE HAUS: Punk Rock and the Fall of the Berlin Wall - YouTube
HG Wells and Free Love
HG Wells: prophet of free love | HG Wells | The Guardian
Dischord
$5 gigs, not $10m deals: the story of US punk label Dischord Records | Punk | The Guardian
Waiting Room Video
https://youtu.be/SGJFWirQ3ks?t=7
Best Fear Set
