Interviews for Resistance
By Sarah Jaffe
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Welcome to Interviews for Resistance. In this series, we'll be talking with organizers, troublemakers, and thinkers who are working both to challenge the Trump administration and the circumstances that created it. It can be easy to despair, to feel like trends toward inequality are impossible to stop, to give in to fear over increased racist, sexist, and xenophobic violence. But around the country, people are doing the hard work of fighting back and coming together to plan for what comes next. This series will introduce you to some of them. There is an alternative to despair. Resistance is more than just sharing the scary news.
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CleanContinuing the teachers' fight in West Virginia, with Rebecca Diamond | The teachers in West Virginia kicked off a multi-state strike wave last winter when they shuttered every school in the state over their consistently low wages, lousy working conditions, and most importantly, | 8/15/2018 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanContesting the Right's Designs on Public Space, with Prof. Jalane Schmidt | August 11 will be the first anniversary of the "Unite the Right" rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, where Heather Heyer was killed and several other people injured when white nationalists and white supremacists from around the country rallied--and bro. | 8/8/2018 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanBuilding the movement for Medicare for All, with Benjamin Day | This week saw the 53rd anniversary of Medicare, created, as Benjamin Day of Healthcare-NOW! points out, in the middle of the upheaval and social movement agitation of the 1960s. Today we are in the middle of similar (and also very different) upheaval, | 8/1/2018 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanPressing Amazon to stop cooperating with ICE, with Cata Santiago of Movimiento Cosecha | In this week’s episode we talk to Cata Santiago of Movimiento Cosecha, an immigrants rights organization that is spearheading a campaign against Amazon for its cooperation with ICE and Trump’s deportation machine. The world’s biggest retailer, | 7/25/2018 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanKeeping the pressure on Chuck Schumer and the Democrats, with Liat Olenick of Indivisible Nation BK | Democratic Senate Leader Chuck Schumer has been hearing from his constituents a lot lately, and they're demanding he stand up and fight. That's the message brought by Indivisible Nation BK, which has held rallies outside of Schumer's Brooklyn home, | 7/18/2018 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanOccupy and abolish ICE, with George Ciccariello-Maher | Around the country, as the demand to abolish ICE spreads, occupations of its offices are springing up. In many of the cities where such occupations exist, they have heightened contradictions between the proclamations of "sanctuary" by elected officials. | 7/12/2018 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanThe Supreme Court and the corporate class, with Saqib Bhatti | The Supreme Court last week handed down decisions in Trump's Muslim ban case, in the public sector labor union case Janus v. AFSCME, and more, decisions that will harm working people, particularly people of color. | 7/4/2018 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanOur immigration policy has always separated families, with Jess Morales Rocketto | When it comes to family separation, no one knows better than migrant domestic workers the myriad ways that US immigration policy has always kept people away from their loved ones. Domestic workers have for decades been coming to the US to care for othe. | 6/27/2018 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanCharlottesville is a place, not an event, with Molly | Nearly a year after the white supremacist "Unite the Right" rally drew national headlines, Charlottesville, VA activists are still dealing with the fallout. The death of Heather Heyer at the vehicle of James Alex Fields, Jr. wasn't the only incident... | 6/20/2018 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanA New Social Contract, with Cathy Albisa | It can be so easy to get bogged down in the unending horrors coming from the news every day. But while we get stuck watching the bad news, organizers across the country have been engaged in creating solutions that democratize the economy, | 6/14/2018 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanHalting the bipartisan deregulate-a-palooza, with Alexis Goldstein | Donald Trump ran a faux-populist campaign for office, bashing Democrats for being too close to Wall Street. But in office, it's a different story. Alongside Congressional Republicans and a handful of Democrats, he's been busy deregulating the banks, | 6/6/2018 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanStopping family separation at the border, with Eve Stotland | There's been a lot of anger about the Trump administration's policies on immigration, and in particular lately, around the policy of family separation at the border. But what is actually happening, and what do families actually need? | 5/31/2018 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanDefeating the attack on food assistance--for now, with Rebecca Vallas | A lot of things wind up embedded in the massive, regularly-renewed piece of legislation known as the "farm bill" each year, and one of the most important--at least, to the 40 million Americans who rely on it--is the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Pr. | 5/23/2018 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanMaking Private Equity Pay, with Debbie Beard and Carrie Gleason | When Debbie Beard found out the company she'd worked at for 29 years, Toys R Us, was closing down, she was shocked--she knew the company had been having financial difficulties for a while, but didn't realize it was that bad. The more she learned, though | 5/16/2018 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanFinding healing justice with Cat Brooks | The Justice Teams Network is a new project aimed at challenging dominant narratives of police shootings and helping communities find healing. Building on models developed by the | 5/9/2018 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanMay Day Without Immigrants in Wisconsin, with Gabriel Quintero | As May Day comes around again, once again immigrant workers take to the streets in protest of continued criminalization. Having defeated the 287g program, which makes local law enforcement into an arm of immigration enforcement, in Milwaukee, | 5/1/2018 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanThe strike wave rolls on, with Noah Karvelis of Arizona Educators United | Arizona may well be the next state to see a massive teacher strike, as they voted last week for a Thursday strike deadline. Part of the wave of teacher militancy, the #RedForEd movement began through a Facebook page with support from existing unions, | 4/25/2018 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanRepeal and replace the barriers to progress regardless of party, with Joe Dinkin | In a busy week for the Working Families Party, they announced a new director, found out that Paul Ryan was dropping out of his race against WFP member Randy Bryce in Wisconsin, faced threats of defunding, held a political education training, | 4/18/2018 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanStriking Against Privatization and Charter Schools in Puerto Rico, with Mercedes Martinez and Liza Fournier | Puerto Rico's teachers are fighting a bill that would turn all their schools into charters, by any means necessary. While teacher strikes are roiling the mainland United States, teachers in Puerto Rico have gotten comparatively little public attention. | 4/11/2018 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanStriking against austerity and the Right, with Jane McAlevey | West Virginia's teachers proved that supermajority strikes can even beat a trifecta-red government, if they bring their community along, argues Jane McAlevey, organizer and author. Teachers, nurses, and other public sector workers, | 3/28/2018 | Free | View in iTunes |
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