Brand New Podcast

In this episode of our joint podcast series with Millennial Politics on Venezuela, Brand New Congress Chief Policy Director Jordan Valerie Allen speaks with Miguel Tinker Salas, Leslie Farmer Professor of Latin American Studies at Pomona College and author of “Venezuela: What Everyone Needs to Know and The Enduring Legacy: Oil, Culture, and Society in Venezuela.” (Professor Miguel Tinker Salas is not affiliated with Brand New Congress and speaks only for himself as a guest on this podcast episode.)

In this episode of our joint podcast series with Millennial Politics on Venezuela, Brand New Congress Chief Policy Director Jordan Valerie Allen speaks with Akinyele Umoja, Associate Professor and Chair of the Department of African-American Studies at Georgia State University and founding member of the Malcolm X Grassroots Movement and the New Afrikan People's Organization, to discuss the history of Blackness in Venezuela, Afro-Venezuelan support for the Bolivarian Revolution, the racialization of Hugo Chávez, and more. (Professor Umoja is not affiliated with Brand New Congress and speaks only for himself as a guest on this podcast episode.)

In this episode of our joint podcast series with Millennial Politics on Venezuela, Brand New Congress Chief Policy Director Jordan Valerie Allen speaks with Daniel Kovalik, human rights and labor lawyer, former Senior Associate General Counsel of the United Steelworkers, AFL-CIO, author of The Plot to Control the World: How the U.S. Spent Billions to Change the Outcome of Elections Around the World, and observer of the 2013 and 2018 Venezuelan presidential elections to discuss oil, the Venezuelan electoral process, the history of U.S. intervention in Latin America, and more. (Daniel Kovalik is not affiliated with Brand New Congress and speaks only for himself as a guest on this podcast episode.)

In this episode of our joint podcast series with Millennial Politics on Venezuela, Brand New Congress Chief Policy Director Jordan Valerie Allen speaks with Dr. Timothy M. Gill, Assistant Professor of Sociology at UNC-Wilmington and author of “The State and Civil Society in Socialist Venezuela: The Case of U.S. Democracy Assistance, Venezuelan National Sovereignty, and International Cooperation Law,” to discuss "how Washington funded the counterrevolution in Venezuela," the prospect of U.S. military intervention, and more. (Dr. Tim Gill is not affiliated with Brand New Congress and speaks only for himself as a guest on this podcast episode.)

In this episode of our joint podcast series with Millennial Politics on Venezuela, Brand New Congress Chief Policy Director Jordan Valerie Allen speaks with Alexander Aviña, associate professor of Latin American history in the School of Historical, Philosophical and Religious Studies at Arizona State University and author of “Specters of Revolution: Peasant Guerrillas in the Cold War Mexican Countryside,” to discuss the failing right-wing coup in Venezuela and the history of U.S. imperialist intervention in Latin America. (Professor Alexander Aviña is not affiliated with Brand New Congress and speaks only for himself as a guest on this podcast episode.)

In the fourth episode of our joint podcast series with Millennial Politics on Venezuela, we speak with Gabriel Hetland, Assistant Professor of Latin American, Caribbean and U.S. Latino Studies at the University of Albany and author of “The Crooked Line: From Populist Mobilization to Participatory Democracy in Chávez-era Venezuela” and the forthcoming manuscript “Making Democracy Real: Participatory Governance in Urban Latin America,” to discuss the three principles that should guide our response to the crisis in Venezuela: non-interventionism, self-determination, and solidarity with the oppressed. (Gabriel Hetland is not affiliated with Brand New Congress and speaks only for himself as a guest on this podcast episode.)

In this episode of our joint podcast series with Millennial Politics on Venezuela, Brand New Congress Chief Policy Director Jordan Valerie Allen speaks with Professor Margaret Power, author of “Right-Wing Women in Chile: Feminine Power and the Struggle against Allende,” to contextualize what’s happening in Venezuela right now with the history of U.S. intervention in Latin America. (Professor Margaret Power is not affiliated with Brand New Congress and speaks only for herself as a guest on this podcast episode.)

In the third episode of our joint podcast series with Millennial Politics on Venezuela, we speak with Jorge Martin, International Secretary of the Hands Off Venezuela campaign, which was founded in light of the U.S.-sponsored 2002 coup in Venezuela that was swiftly defeated by mass mobilization of the Venezuelan people. (Jorge Martin is not affiliated with Brand New Congress and speaks only for Hands Off Venezuela as a guest on this podcast episode.)

In the second episode of our joint podcast series with Millennial Politics on Venezuela, we speak with Charlie Hardy, the 2014 nominee for U.S. Senate in Wyoming and author of “Cowboy in Caracas: A North American's Memoir of Venezuela's Democratic Revolution.” (Charlie Hardy is not affiliated with Brand New Congress and speaks only for himself as a guest on this podcast episode.)

In the first episode of our joint podcast series on Venezuela, Chief Policy Director Jordan Valerie Allen speaks with North American Congress on Latin America Executive Editor, NYU Gallatin Professor, and author of "Barrio Rising: Urban Popular Politics and the Making of Modern Venezuela" Alejandro Velasco and Visiting Scholar at the Hemispheric Institute in New York and the Institute of Social Research at the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México and author of "We Created Chávez" George Ciccariello-Maher. (Alejandro Velasco and George Ciccariello-Maher are not affiliated with Brand New Congress and speak only for themselves as guests on this podcast episode.)

Brand New Congress Chief Policy Director Jordan Valerie was joined by three members of the Brand New Congress slate – Mindi Messmer of New Hampshire, David Benac of Michigan, and Roza Calderon of California – for a discussion about the right to clean water and environmental justice.

In the third episode of the Brand New Podcast, Brand New Congress Chief Policy Strategist Jordan Valerie is joined by two undocumented artists, Yosimar Reyes and Helday de la Cruz, for a conversation centering the humanity of undocumented Americans and why we need to #AbolishICE. Music by Bensound.com. Make sure to follow Yosimar on Twitter @YoSoyYosi and Instagram @Yosirey and check out his website: Yosimar.Com. Make sure to follow Helday on Instagram @el.dye and @wethedreamers.pdx and check out his website: heldaydelacruz.com and wethedreamerspdx.org.

In the second episode of the Brand New Podcast, Brand New Congress Chief Policy Strategist Jordan Valerie discusses Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) abolition with candidates Chardo Richardson (FL-7), Rick Treviño (TX-23), and Marc Whitmire (TN-2).

In the very first episode of Brand New Congress' Brand New Podcast, Chief Policy Strategist Jordan Valerie interviews Executive Director Issy Allison, Social Media Director Suzanne Driscoll, and Communications Director Cory Archibald about how Brand New Congress started and the success of our candidates in the recent Texas primary. Music by Bensound.com.