Podcasts about people's action

We've got a brand new, big ol' podcast for you packed to the brim with tenant organizers from across the United States. We're joined by Tara Raghuveer from the KC Tenants Union, who also serves as the coordinator for the Homes Guarantee campaign at People's Action. Learn more about KC Tenants Union here: https://kctenants.org/ Check out the amazing Homes Guarantee platform here: https://peoplesaction.org/2019/09/breaking-peoples-action-unveils-plan-to-win-a-national-homes-guarantee/ From the LA Tenants Union, we're also joined by organizer Tracy Jeanne Rosenthal. Learn more about how they're trying to bring tenant unions across the country together at www.latenantsunion.org. Finally, we're joined by a fellow Texan, Rudy, from the Houston Tenants Union. They've got some great material on their website, including a collection of letters that some particularly ghoulish landlords have sent to tenants in the wake of the Coronavirus pandemic and the ongoing economic collapse. Check 'em out at www.houstontenantsunion.org. If you enjoyed this podcast, please consider giving to us on Patreon: www.patreon.com/futureleft If you enjoyed this podcast but can't support us with money, consider helping us get the word out by sharing us on social media or recommending us to a friend.

A special episode about COVID-19, where Laura has a conversation with John Washington about the current global pandemic. John is a community organizer with People's Action and has been on the podcast before (Episodes 48 and 60). This conversation took place on March 30, 2020 in Buffalo, New York, USA.

George Goehl joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about how eating in and working in a soup kitchen led him to creating People's Action and how they're fighting for the rights of the poor and working class.

Housing, many believe, is a human right. In America, though, we have something called a rental broker, whose sole job it is to give you the phone number of the slumlord. That costs a month’s rent, because why not? So what hopes do tenants have for a more just and equitable approach to housing? Quite a bit, actually. We speak with Tara Raghuveer, a tenant organizer in Kansas City and the Housing Campaign Director at People's Action. We share a dim view of YIMBY's.   

This week Battleground Wisconsin takes to the road to dig into the question of how progressives can win back the industrial states lost to Donald Trump in 2016. We have a series of interviews of state and national leaders recorded live at the People's Action national convention in Washington, DC. First the iconic progressive leader Heather Booth, the focus of a major documentary film, gives us a road map to progressive victory. Next we talk to Michigan State Representative Lauri Pohutsky, a strong progressive candidate who won a purple district in 2018 with the assistance of Citizen Action's fellow People's Action affiliate, Michigan United. Finally we have an in-depth interview with one of the most respected African American organizers in the country, Ohio Organizing Collaborative Director DaMareo Cooper, who helps us dig into the need to win the industrial Midwest with a unified urban/rural/suburban strategy.

One year ago on 29 March 2018, PJ Thum went before the Singapore Parliamentary Select Committee for Deliberate Online Falsehoods, or “fake news”, to use the common shorthand. To his surprise, instead of speaking about his submission to the Committee, he was ambushed with a six-hour interrogation about a paper he published in 2013—or, to be more precise, about one paragraph in that paper, about Operation Coldstore, the 1963 arrest and detention without trial of over 112 opposition politicians, trade unionists, and activists. Why did the Minister for Law and Home Affairs torpedo the Select Committee, destroy its credibility, and waste all this public time and money over what he wrote? In this lecture at the University of California, Berkeley, he explains how historians understand Operation Coldstore and the historical evidence surrounding it, how this relates to the mechanisms of and justifications for social control in Singapore, and the hierarchy of priorities that influence decision making for the governing People’s Action Party leaders.

Pima County Public Defender Joel Feinman tells listeners how elected prosecutors "gave birth to mass incarceration" and why only elected prosecutors "can kill mass incarceration." And Brandon Sturdivant, the lead organizer of the Mass Liberation Project of People's Action, discusses how marginalized communities can "co-govern" with elected prosecutors to ensure the system is transformed.

Family Separation Issue - Excerpt from Battleground Wisconsin Episode #348 Citizen Action Organizing Cooperative member Erica Flynn, who is running for state assembly, discusses her trip to Texas this past weekend. Erica was part of Citizen Action of Wisconsin and People's Action delegation that attended a vigil at the Ursula Border Processing Center, where hundreds of children are still incarcerated in detention centers under Trump's brutal family separation policy.

Our panel analyzes in depth the latest MU Law poll that was released this week. We welcome Citizen Action Organizing Cooperative member Erica Flynn, who is running for state assembly, to discuss her trip to Texas this weekend. Erica was part of Citizen Action of Wisconsin and People's Action delegation that attended a vigil at the Ursula Border Processing Center, where hundreds of children are still incarcerated in detention centers under Trump's brutal family separation policy. We also review the Supreme Court gerrymandering decision and Robert talks about new disturbing UW research showing showing a 20% rise in Wisconsin child poverty last year, despite Walker's claim that the economy is doing great.

Independent investigative journalism, broadcasting, trouble-making and muckraking with Brad Friedman of BradBlog.com