Podcasts about eesha pandit

This show is made possible by you!  To become a sustaining member go to LauraFlanders.org/donate  Thank you for your continued support!What kind of country do we want as Americans? Gerrymandered Red by the Republican minority, Texas is a testing ground for restrictive policies and ideologies that export themselves to the rest of the country. We follow up on our episode from last year, “Forget Everything You Know About Texas,” to mark the one-year anniversary of the Dobbs decision that overturned Roe v. Wade and opened the door for states to ban or severely restrict the availability of abortion care. For this episode, we've reconvened a panel of organizers and activists in Texas to discuss what has (or hasn't) changed on the abortion, trans and voting rights fronts, and the ongoing impact on women, girls, LGBTQ lives and democracy across the country. Our guests say that Texas may just be a predictor of how 21st-century change happens when people organize differently. They also acknowledge that the backlash has grown and are finding creative strategies to push back. Caroline Duble is the political director of Avow: Unapologetic Abortion Advocacy; Eesha Pandit is co-founder of the Center for Advancing Innovative Policy (CAIP) and Emmett Schelling is the director of the Transgender Education Network of Texas (TENT). This July 4, we discuss whose rights are in the crosshairs, and what Texas can teach us all about movement strategy. Plus, a commentary from Laura.“In order for these bans on healthcare to be enforced, they require policing and surveillance and criminalization. We need to look to the leadership of Black advocates, of people who have been fighting the carceral state for decades. They were warning us about the dangers of criminalization and over-policing and surveillance long before this abortion ban existed.” - Caroline Duble “The legal and legislative responses are vital. They are however, in a state like Texas, harm reduction approaches . . . We're trying to protect people's rights, and that often looks like stemming a legislative tide rather than enacting proactive things that will actually protect us and our families and our vision for our state.” - Eesha Pandit“This was horrifically bad. We saw a record number of Texans come out in full opposition, to oppose seeing medical care rolled back and families targeted, physicians targeted, especially in a post-pandemic world that we still live in.” - Emmett SchellingGuests:Caroline Duble: Political Director, Avow: Unapologetic Abortion AdvocacyEesha Pandit: Co-founder, Center for Advancing Innovative Policy (CAIP)Emmett Schelling: Executive Director, Transgender Education Network of Texas (TENT) Full Episode Notes are located HERE.  They include related episodes, articles, and more to dive deeper. Music In the Middle:  “State of the Nation” by Bokani Dyer featuring Damani Nkosi from his album ‘Sechaba' released on Brownswood Records.   FOLLOW The Laura Flanders ShowTwitter: twitter.com/thelfshow Facebook: facebook.com/theLFshow Instagram: instagram.com/thelfshow/YouTube:  youtube.com/@thelfshow ACCESSIBILITY - This episode is available with closed captioned by clicking here for our YouTube Channel 

Description:  Red, Republican, anti abortion, anti trans — Texas has certainly been a testing ground for backlash policies and politicians, and that could be what's happening now, but could it also be a bellwether of a different sort? Why is the reactionary backlash and the resistance to it that's happening in Texas vital for the rest of the country? Our guests today say that their state could be a predictor of how 21st century change happens, when people organize differently. What do people who don't live there have wrong about Texas and what do Texans see as the path to "reclaiming" their state?“This is about love. Abortion is about love for yourself. It's about love for the family that you want to create. One of the most important things that we can do right now to change the trajectory of abortion rights is to just unapologetically declare how pro-abortion we are.” - Aimee Arrambide, Executive Director, AVOW“This isn't a state of overwhelmingly reactionary people. It's a state where overwhelmingly reactionary people have run the show for so long that most folks say, you know, I just don't want to participate anymore.” - Greg Casar, Texas Congressional Democratic nominee“The story of Texans fighting for their own civic self-determination in the face of some pretty horrifying gerrymandered odds is, I think, the story of Texas. And I think it's the story of the South too.” - Eesha Pandit, Co-founder, Center for Advancing Innovative Policy (CAIP)“One point of frustration for me is when people are like, well, forget Texas, right? And then you have the same progressives saying trans lives matter. Texas has the second highest population of transgender people in this country. So if you say trans lives matter, then that includes the trans lives in the state.” - Emmett Schelling, Executive Director, Transgender Education Network of Texas (TENT)Guests:Aimee Arrambide, Executive Director, AVOWGreg Casar, Texas Congressional Democratic nomineeEesha Pandit, Co-founder, Center for Advancing Innovative Policy (CAIP)Emmett Schelling, Executive Director, Transgender Education Network of Texas (TENT) Full research and reading list to further delve into the conversation is available here at https://Patreon.com/theLFShow

Red, Republican, anti abortion, anti trans — Texas has certainly been a testing ground for backlash policies and politicians, and that could be what's happening now, but could it also be a bellwether of a different sort? Why is the reactionary backlash and the resistance to it that's happening in Texas vital for the rest of the country? Our guests today say that their state could be a predictor of how 21st century change happens, when people organize differently. What do people who don't live there have wrong about Texas and what do Texans see as the path to "reclaiming" their state?“This is about love. Abortion is about love for yourself. It's about love for the family that you want to create. One of the most important things that we can do right now to change the trajectory of abortion rights is to just unapologetically declare how pro-abortion we are.” - Aimee Arrambide, Executive Director, AVOW“This isn't a state of overwhelmingly reactionary people. It's a state where overwhelmingly reactionary people have run the show for so long that most folks say, you know, I just don't want to participate anymore.” - Greg Casar, Texas Congressional Democratic nominee“The story of Texans fighting for their own civic self-determination in the face of some pretty horrifying gerrymandered odds is, I think, the story of Texas. And I think it's the story of the South too.” - Eesha Pandit, Co-founder, Center for Advancing Innovative Policy (CAIP) “One point of frustration for me is when people are like, well, forget Texas, right? And then you have the same progressives saying trans lives matter. Texas has the second highest population of transgender people in this country. So if you say trans lives matter, then that includes the trans lives in the state.” - Emmett Schelling, Executive Director, Transgender Education Network of Texas (TENT)Guests:Aimee Arrambide, Executive Director, AVOWGreg Casar, Texas Congressional Democratic nomineeEesha Pandit, Co-founder, Center for Advancing Innovative Policy (CAIP)Emmett Schelling, Executive Director, Transgender Education Network of Texas (TENT) Full episode notes including related articles and LFShow episodes to watch and/or listen to are posted at https://Patreon.com/theLFShow. Patreon Members receive access to the FULL UNCUT CONVERSATION featured in this podcast.  Please become a Patreon Supporter and support independent media as we kick off our 3rd season on Public Television with a reach of over 3 million households across the U.S.

University of Alabama Holle Endowed Chair of Communication Arts Dr. Robin Boylorn and Co-founder and Managing Partner of The Center for Advocating Innovative Policy Eesha Pandit join Justin this week to talk about presenting the keynote at the 2022 SIU Conference on Women. They talk about being an advocate and ally, the Crunk Feminist Collective, becoming a feminist, the stress of being both highly visible and invisible in the workplace, the lack of attention to missing minorities, and more!

On Monday's Houston Matters: HISD students return to in-person classes. And we get an update on COVID-19. Also this hour: How much information does a government owe its citizens? We elect many of our leaders, but is there a reasonable limit to the amount of knowledge we should have about those leaders — like their state of health, for instance? Then, local activist Eesha Pandit talks about how women have used their voices in politics... Read More

Activist, writer, and advocate Eesha Pandit and professor of English Paula Moya discuss the relationship between feminist scholarship and feminist activism, and how feminist activists and scholars can best support one another's work. What makes a good ally? How can we build systems of accountability among and between scholars and activists? How can we most productively use identity as the basis for organizing action? The conversation is facilitated by Signs editorial board chair Carla Kaplan and Signs editor in chief Suzanna Walters. Recorded live at the National Women's Studies Association Conference.

This week we talk with activist, writer, and feminist leader Eesha Pandit, the co-founder and managing partner at The Center for Advancing Innovative Policy. She talks about the interlocking issues that affect frontline communities, and how her organization connects those narratives to policy change. Our call to action this week focuses on the #RefugeeCaravan and the need for progress on their request for asylum, and the Golden Pantsuit goes to a comedian who speaks truth to power. Listen and subscribe!

This week we talk with activist, writer, and feminist leader Eesha Pandit, the co-founder and managing partner at The Center for Advancing Innovative Policy. She talks about the interlocking issues that affect frontline communities, and how her organization connects those narratives to policy change. Our call to action this week focuses on the #RefugeeCaravan and the need for progress on their request for asylum, and the Golden Pantsuit goes to a comedian who speaks truth to power. Listen and subscribe!

On today's episode of Loud & Clear, Brian Becker and John Kiriakou are joined by Dean Baker, the co-director of the Center for Economic Policy and Research.The stock market plunged again losing more than one thousand points at the same time as Congress raced to avert another government shutdown. Instability within the government and in the larger economy has become a hallmark of the crises looming in the United States.In this segment, “Underreported America,” the hosts look at some of the less widely covered stories from around the country. A few days ago, a livery driver in New York City committed suicide in front of City Hall, apparently as a result of his inability to make a living under current taxi and livery regulations. The hosts look at regulations and the advent of ride-sharing. Johnice Earle, a business agent with the Washington DC Taxicab Association, a part of Teamsters Local #922, and the President and Secretary of the DC Taxicab Association, join the show.Today is another installment of “Criminal Injustice,” where the hosts talk about the most egregious conduct of our courts and prosecutors and how justice is denied to so many people in this country. Brian and John speak with Kevin Gosztola, a writer for Shadowproof.com and co-host of the podcast Unauthorized Disclosure, and Paul Wright, the founder and Executive Director of the Human Rights Defense Center and editor of Prison Legal News.The US and its allies struck Syrian government forces with air and artillery fire last night, killing more than 100 Syrians. This is the deadliest confrontation in Syria so far that involved the US military. Ambassador Peter Ford, the former UK Ambassador to Syria, joins the show.Negotiations between the Venezuelan government and opposition in the Dominican Republic were indefinitely suspended, as the opposition meets today to decide whether to participate in a controversial presidential election in April, despite the barring of its two strongest candidates. Lucas Koerner, an activist and writer for VenezuelAnalysis.com, joins Brian and John.A federal judge in Oklahoma recently gave a woman guilty of passing bad checks and possessing drugs a choice: Be sterilized or go to prison for a longer stretch. She was sterilized. Eesha Pandit, a writer, activist, and co-founder and managing partner at The Center for Advancing Innovative Policy, joins the show.House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi spoke for eight hours on the floor of the House yesterday about the Dreamers, the longest House speech in American history. Regardless, they still will not be protected in the proposed bipartisan budget deal. Meanwhile, White House Chief of Staff John Kelly said that most Dreamers never got their citizenship because they were “lazy.” Brian and John speak with Isabel Garcia, co-founder of Coalición de Derechos Humanos.The Department of Homeland Security’s Cyberwarfare chief said unequivocally yesterday that Russia hacked into the election systems of a number of US states in 2016. The state election commissions, however, said that was simply not true and there was no evidence of any hacking, from Russia or from anywhere else. Joe Lauria, a journalist, political commentator, and author of the book "How I Lost, By Hillary Clinton," joins the show.

Dr Nikki's speaks truth to power in conversation with Eesha Pandit, Houston based writer and activist.

Supposedly, the far right have won. So what now? We ask our guests this week the same question, taking from a mixed pot of loss and success. Whether it's about the fight for reproductive justice in the South, or a movement for rural agency in progressive work, our guests offer some wisdom on what's happening now, and what's next as we head into the new administration.  The Facing Race conference, coordinated by Race Forward this November in Atlanta, brought together some of the most noteworthy names in progressive organizing right now. This week on the show, we have a special compilation of interviews from the conference with these very activists.  On this Holiday Special for the Laura Flanders Show Podcast, Laura speaks with Cara Shufelt and Jessica Campbell, of the Rural Organizing Project, on supporting rural mobilization; and Esha Pandit, from the Center for Advancing Innovative Policy, on reproductive justice victories in Texas.

Thats So Raven, But I'd Really Rather Be Shopping With Oprah by Eesha Pandit & Susana Morris

The Weirdest Summer Ever by Eesha Pandit & Susana Morris

On Trayvon and What it Means to be in the US Right Now by Eesha Pandit & Susana Morris