Podcasts about Popular democracy

Popular Democracy in Action's Analilia Mejia: Overwhelming Opposition to Trump-GOP's Extreme Medicaid, SNAP Budget CutsDemocracy for the Arab World's Raed Jarrar: Trump Visit to Oil-Rich Gulf Monarchies Produces Mixed OutcomeDemocratic Constitution Blog's Luke Pickrell: Repairing the Constitution's Democracy Deficit Key to Challenging Trump Authoritarian Power GrabBob Nixon's Under-reported News SummarySouth Sudan conflict escalatesNew policies criminalize homelessnessUnique labor organization organizes ex-convictsVisit our website at BTLonline.org for more information, in-depth interviews, related links, transcripts and subscribe to our BTL Weekly Summary and/or podcasts. New episodes every Wednesday at 12 noon ET, website updated Wednesdays after 4 p.m. ETProduced by Squeaky Wheel Productions: Scott Harris, Melinda Tuhus, Bob Nixon, Anna Manzo, Susan Bramhall, Jeff Yates and Mary Hunt. Theme music by Richard Hill and Mikata.

Popular Democracy in Action's Analilia Mejia: Overwhelming Opposition to Trump-GOP's Extreme Medicaid, SNAP Budget CutsDemocracy for the Arab World's Raed Jarrar: Trump Visit to Oil-Rich Gulf Monarchies Produces Mixed OutcomeDemocratic Constitution Blog's Luke Pickrell: Repairing the Constitution's Democracy Deficit Key to Challenging Trump Authoritarian Power GrabBob Nixon's Under-reported News SummarySouth Sudan conflict escalatesNew policies criminalize homelessnessUnique labor organization organizes ex-convictsVisit our website at BTLonline.org for more information, in-depth interviews, related links and transcripts and to sign up for our BTL Weekly Summary. New episodes every Wednesday at 12 noon ET, website updated Wednesdays after 4 p.m. ETProduced by Squeaky Wheel Productions: Scott Harris, Melinda Tuhus, Bob Nixon, Anna Manzo, Susan Bramhall, Jeff Yates and Mary Hunt. Theme music by Richard Hill and Mikata.

Part 1:We talk with Analilia Meijia, Co=Executive Director of the Center for Popular Democracy.We discuss the actions of Trump, essentially gutting most government service for people who are not wealthy. For example, 40% of all children in the US are covered by Medicaid, as are a large percentage of people in nursing homes. This constitutes a wealth transfer from the poor to the rich, who stand to gain through tax cuts they do not need. What should be done?Part 2:We talk with Laura Belin, Editor and Publisher of 'Bleeding Heartland' which is based in Iowa.We discuss the Iowa legislature voting to rescind civil rights for transgender and homosexual people in Iowa. So far, Iowa is the only state to do this. But the way the bill is written, the can apply to other groups as well. There has not been any pushback from the business community, as had been in the past. We also discuss how school vouchers will affect public schools in Iowa, and how this will affect rural economies there.Music: From David Rovics, “The Richest Man in the World Says So”, 2025

Preview: Adrian Wooldridge Explores How Meritocratic Elites Historically Distrusted Both Popular Democracy and Hereditary Aristocracy, Favoring Rule by the Most Talented. More Later.    1845 

Featuring Hilary Goodfriend and Jorge Cuéllar in the final installment of a three-part series on Central America. This episode picks up with Nayib Bukele's authoritarian crypto enthusiasm in El Salvador; Daniel Ortega's perversion of Sandinismo's revolutionary legacy in Nicaragua; anti-mining movements in Panama; Honduras and Guatemala, where popular social movements have elected left presidents to confront entrenched power structures. We conclude by discussing mass migration from the region that's taken on a mystified form in US politics as the MAGA far right's principal scapegoat. Support The Dig at Patreon.com/TheDig Share Thawra with a friend thedigradio.com/Thawra Check out nacla.org for in-depth coverage of Latin America and the Caribbean Buy Defund: Conversations Toward Abolition at haymarketbooks.com

Featuring Hilary Goodfriend and Jorge Cuéllar in the final installment of a three-part series on Central America. This episode picks up with Nayib Bukele's authoritarian crypto enthusiasm in El Salvador; Daniel Ortega's perversion of Sandinismo's revolutionary legacy in Nicaragua; anti-mining movements in Panama; Honduras and Guatemala, where popular social movements have elected left presidents to confront entrenched power structures. We conclude by discussing mass migration from the region that's taken on a mystified form in US politics as the MAGA far right's principal scapegoat.Support The Dig at Patreon.com/TheDigShare Thawra with a friend thedigradio.com/ThawraCheck out nacla.org for in-depth coverage of Latin America and the Caribbean Buy Defund: Conversations Toward Abolition at haymarketbooks.com Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Part 1: We talk with Mel Goodman, Senior Fellow at the Center for International Policy and Professor of Government at Johns Hopkins University, former CIA Analyst.We discuss Israel's actions in Gaza and Lebanon. What are Israel's goals? What are Netanyahu's goals? How are those goals compatible with the US goals for the Middle East? How can the US pressure Israel to meet US goals? Part 2:We speak with Amee Chew, senior research analyst at Popular Democracy.We discuss the disruption of the housing market by billionaire investors. we look at the number of vacant homes, and the number of unhoused people, and how this situation has been aggravated by investors in real estate. WNHNFM.ORG  productionMusic: David Rovics, "Time to Act", for Will Von Sproson

Bruce Newman (Marketing professor, Driehaus College of Business at DePaul University; @DePaulBusiness) David Layman (Political contributor, Rhode Island PBS; @dlayman) Aleks Ksiazkiewicz (Political science professor, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign; @genopolitics) Analilia Mejia (Co-executive director, Center for Popular Democracy; @popdemoc) Rich Eberwein (Reporter, Heartland Signal)

The climate movement faces mounting pressure in 2024. Record-setting temperatures and extreme weather disasters continue to devastate over a turbulent summer. Prominent plans to roll back environmental regulations and stiffle climate mitigation and adaptation initiatives have movement leaders pushing back on attacks. Is the climate movement able to handle the pressure at this critical moment?  Few people are as equipped to answer that question as Rev. Lennox Yearwood Jr. Over his decades of climate and progressive leadership, Rev. Yearwood has advanced climate solutions with policymaking, culture change, direct action, and more. And he's part of a new initiative to educate people on critical issues like climate change during this transmorative year.  The “2024 & Beyond: Creating Our Shared Future” campaign is reaching out with open town halls to educate and debate on key political issues and building a network of experts and organizations like Center for Climate Justice, Center for Popular Democracy, Hip Hop Caucus, Greenpeace, and Center for Oil and Gas Organizing.   Rev. Yearwood Jr. joins the show this week to discuss his life and work, how change actually happens in the climate movement, why the climate movement needs to address its own weaknesses, and what strategies will be most effective in advancing progress and fighting off attacks.  Rev. Yearwood Jr. is the President & CEO of Hip Hop Caucus. He is the host of the award-winning climate and environmental justice podcast The Coolest Show, Senior Advisor of Bloomberg Philanthropies Beyond Petrochemicals Campaign, and one of the most innovative advocates and strategists for racial justice and climate justice. He is a White House Champion of Change for Climate leadership and according to Rolling Stone he is a “New Green Hero.” Related Links: 2024 & Beyond: Creating Our Shared Future Hip Hop Caucus As always, follow us @climatepod on Twitter and email us at theclimatepod@gmail.com. Our music is "Gotta Get Up" by The Passion Hifi, check out his music at thepassionhifi.com. Rate, review and subscribe to this podcast on iTunes, Spotify, Stitcher, and more! Subscribe to our YouTube channel! Join our Facebook group.

Since 2020, L.A.'s 10th council district has had a revolving cast of councilmembers, both elected and appointed. Now, voters finally get to choose a permanent, voting representative on the council.There is a big and impressive field of candidates   – and on this episode I talk with Aura Vasquez.Aura Vasquez is an Afro-Latina Colombian immigrant, community leader, fearless environmental justice advocate, and renewable energy advisor.  She served as a mayoral appointee to the Board of Water and Power Commissioners from 2017 to 2020.  She has served as the  Climate Justice Director for the Center for Popular Democracy. Prior to that, she advocated for state and federal immigrant rights with the PICO Network, fought for the the largest rooftop solar program in the country, and pushed for clean energy as an organizer with the Sierra Club's Beyond Coal Campaign.  She was elected to the Wilshire Center Koreatown Neighborhood Council (WCKNC) in 2012, where she became the only Latina and only non-Korean American on the board. You can find out more about her at her campaign website: https://www.auraforthepeople.com/

Miranda Massie (she/her) is the Climate Museum's director and founder. In 2014, she left a career in social justice law to start laying the groundwork for the Museum. As a civil rights impact litigator, her multiple honors include a Harvard Law School Wasserstein Public Interest Fellowship and a Mentorship-in-Residence at Yale Law School. Her board service has included a Head Start organization for migrant farm families and the Center for Popular Democracy. Miranda holds a J.D. from New York University, an M.A. from Yale University, and B.A. from Cornell University. Her favorite luxury is live theater and she will never say no to charades.  

This week on the Beacon podcast, two interviews highlight the range and depth of organizing. Ben Chin interviews Analilia Mejia, co-director of the Center for Popular Democracy and former political director for Bernie Sanders, among many other roles, while Esther Pew sits down with two Maine activists, Scott Harriman and Gracia Bintu, after they had… The post Podcast: Creating change, from the grassroots to the halls of power first appeared on Maine Beacon.

Analilia Mejia, the Co-Director of the Center for Popular Democracy Action, provided a clinique on activism. She made it clear that the BIPOC community must engage and demand more from politicians seeking their votes. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/politicsdoneright/message Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/politicsdoneright/support

From Netroots Nation Today guests: - Carolyne Spear, Exec. Dir. Climate Cabinet Action - W. Mondale Robinson, Founding Principle of Black Male Voters - Fred Tsao, Policy Dir. a IL. Coalition for Immigrants and Refugee - Luis Suarez, Panel Moderator and Field Advocacy manager for Detention Watch Network - Alderman Matt Martin, 47th Ward - Analilia Mejia and DaMareo Cooper, Co-Executive Directors Center for Popular Democracy & Center for Popular Democracy - Exec. Dir. Mike Pfohl, Empower Project - Patti Vasquez, Comedian/Actress/Host & Executive Producer of Driving It Home With Patti Vasquez on WCPT

Analilia Mejia is currently the co-ED of The Center for Popular Democracy...and prior to that she was Bernie Sanders 2020 Presidential Campaign Political Director with stints in the Biden Administration, with the Working Families Party, & deep roots in union organizing. In this conversation, she talks being raised in working class Elizabeth, NJ as a daughter of immigrants, the life-changing role that a union job meant for her family, and the through line of empowering people that has run through her entire career in and around politics.IN THIS EPISODEAnalilia talks growing up in a working poor household in Elizabeth, NJ as the daughter of immigrants...Analilia's "political awakening" in 1988...Analilia cuts her teeth in politics as a union organizer in Chicago...Analilia explains the role of the Working Families Party, whom she led in New Jersey...Analilia on her path to becoming Bernie Sanders '20 Political Director & how she tackled the job...Analilia on why she continues to identify as a "Bernie Bro"...The role Analilia played in bringing Bernie voters into the Biden coalition...How Analilia joined the Biden Administration and why she left it to work again on the outside...Analilia on her role as Co-Executive Director of the Center for Popular Democracy & the role CPD is playing...Analilia weighs in on how progressive orgs should be cognizant of communicating smartly to voters...Analilia's career advice to young operatives...AND AOC, Saul Alinsky, analogies, Ana Maria Archila, Sarah Badawi, Ella Baker, Build Back Better, George HW Bush, Wendy Chun-Hoon, Detroit Action, Michael Dukakis, finding a full humanity, George Floyd, fireworks, food insecurity, Jeff Flake, the free clinic, gummy bears, Fannie Lou Hamer, The Highlander School, Pramila Jayapal, jiu-jitsu, Arianna Jones, John Kerry, LUCHA Arizona, The Montgomery Bus Boycotts, Vivek Murphy, the New Georgia Project, people chess, radical transparency, Chuck Rocha, Jane Sanders, Faiz Shakir, Singer sewing machines, strep throat, Donald Trump, Nina Turner, the US Constitution, Jeff Weaver...& more!

This episode is brought to you by McDonald'sOn this episode, Rachel La Loca chats with Analilia Mejia, co-executive director of the Center for Popular Democracy — the nation's largest multiracial organizing network. Analilia Mejia is an Afro-Latina grassroots organizer focused on helping Black and Latinx working families. She previously served as the U.S. Department of Labor Women's Bureau Deputy Director and Political Director on Bernie Sanders' 2020 campaign.Analilia and Rachel keep it real around the fight for womens' reproductive rights and how it impacts Latinx communities.  Analilia recently shared her abortion story here and in an op-ed in Essence.   This episode is supported by Top Chico Hard Seltzer 

When kids turn two or three years old, they learn to tell what is called a “primary lie,” which is lying without much sophistication or awareness of how the listener will perceive the lie (hint: you completely failed to fool your parents). But when we turn four, we learn to tell “secondary lies,” which take into account the listener's likely reaction, and are more plausible. When we turn seven or eight we learn to tell “tertiary lies,” where we also make sure our lie is consistent with surrounding facts. But not until you've asked your legislator to support Medicare for All have you experienced the apex of deception: you walk out knowing they didn't agree with you, but you're not sure if they disagree with you, or whether you've learned anything about their position on the issue! So today we are here to talk about “legislative pushback,” or evasion, or avoidance - basically the whole playbook of tactics that legislators employ to land between “yes” and “no.” We are joined by Eagan Kemp and Vinay Krishnan today. Eagan is the Health Care Policy Advocate at Public Citizen. He is an expert in health care policy, including single-payer systems, and he previously served as a senior policy analyst at the U.S. Government Accountability Office. Vinay Krishnan is the National Field Organizer for the Center for Popular Democracy. We know him as an organizer, but he's also a writer of fiction and non-fiction, and an attorney based in Brooklyn, NY. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N2-A6ubjVII Show Notes Medicare for All bills have not yet been introduced in the 118th Congress, the session that began in January 2023. Healthcare-NOW and our allies are starting our drive to gather co-sponsors BEFORE those bills are introduced. We expect the Medicare for All Act to be reintroduced before June in the House, and hopefully around the same time in the Senate. We aren't as dumb as Fox News conservatives like to make us seem, so we know that there isn't a great chance to pass M4A this session, but it's important to keep the momentum going by getting new cosponsors on the bill. Our past success in gaining co-sponsors has been due in large part to citizen lobbyists asking, pressuring and demanding their elected officials sign on. If you've never called your Senator or member of Congress, we have a guide! https://www.healthcare-now.org/makethecall. Some calls will be easy if you're lucky enough to be represented by die-hards like Senator Bernie Sanders (I-VT) and Representative Pramila Jayapal (D-WA-7), the chief sponsors of the bills. But for many of the rest of us, our elected officials are wishy-washy, or even reluctant to sign on to M4A, so our guests give us some strategies for these conversations. Before we get into the objections, we want you to know you don't need to be a policy or health economics expert to talk to your elected officials. If you've been victimized by the American healthcare industry, you're an expert. While we've heard some wild reasons for not supporting M4A, most objections fall into a few basic categories: Downplaying the importance of co-sponsoring the bill "Medicare for All is just a slogan that's not going anywhere so I don't need to engage" "I'm not on a committee of jurisdiction so I can't co-sponsor" "I'm on a committee of jurisdictino so I can't co-sponsor" "I'm in leadership so I don't co-sponsor bills" Strategy: these answers tell you that the suffering of people in their district isn't important enough for them to take action. Help them understand why healthcare for all is so important for their constituents. Bring personal stories; stories can help break down initial barriers and make way for a real conversation. Next time bring even more people and more stories. "I support M4A but I won't co-sponsor" Strategy: consistent follow-up, so they continually feel the pressure. Allow them to ask questions and follow up with information.

On this episode of Justice Above All, TMI Senior Fellow and former Secretary of Housing and Urban Development Julián Castro walks listeners through the rise of the corporate landlord and their preying upon Black neighborhoods, starting with America's history of state-sponsored segregation, exploring the impact of the Great Recession, and ending with the state of today's housing market.  This episode features Jennifer Holmes, LDF Senior Counsel, Katie Goldstein, Director of Housing and Healthcare Campaigns at the Center for Popular Democracy, and Christina Livingston, Executive Director of the Alliance of Californians for Community Empowerment Institute. Produced by Keecee DeVenny and Jackie O'Neil. 

It's a heavy week as we bury another Black person murdered by law enforcement. Say it with us, “It's not bad apples, it's a system of oppression.” So this week, the Feminist Buzzkills are breaking down how justice is also NOT being served for violence committed against abortion providers and patients. From a 72-year-old clinic escort being assaulted by an anti-abortion, misogynistic henchman who was found NOT GUILTY (shocker!) to toxic trans vaginal probes and vending machines with morning-after pills, we're spilling ALL THE ABOBO TEA.  As always, we're joined by fellow badasses who are tearing the patriarchy apart and protecting uteruses around the world on the daily! Diana Parker Kafka, executive director of Midwest Access Coalition (and Marie's boss, shhh don't tell her, this is her annual performance review!). Since the Dobbs decision has decimated abortion access, we will hear how one Midwest abortion fund has had to become a resource for abortion patients nationwide. Diana's here to drop all these facts and chat about how they are navigating their work in this critical time.  PLUS! Hi-larious comedian, Kenice Mobley, is supplying the laughs. Fresh from her appearance on “The Tonight Show,” she's blabbing it up with us about her new comedy album “Follow Up Question,” how she really feels about the stank, steaming hot BULLSH*T that's been going down in the world, cumming in jars, why we should all take up baking bread, and the life and death experience that changed her forever. The world is heavy. So, take a deep breath and fill your ear holes with the ONLY weekly podcast hosted and produced by activists who work in the abortion movement!  OPERATION SAVE ABORTION: In case you missed out on the training day we've been blabbing about nonstop, you can still join the 10,000+ womb warriors fighting the patriarchy by listening to our five-part OpSave pod series clicking HERE for your toolkit, marching orders, and more. HOSTS: Lizz Winstead @LizzWinstead Moji Alawode-El @MojiLocks Marie Khan @MjKhan  SPECIAL GUESTS:  Diana Parker-Kafka IG: @midwest_access_coalition / TW: @midwestaccess / TikTok: @midwestaccesscoalition Kenice Mobley IG/TW: @KeniceMobley THE BAD SHIT: Iowa Republicans file legislation making it a felony to manufacture, prescribe abortion drug Scenes outside pharmacies could foreshadow next phase in U.S. abortion battle  Tennessee Republicans back bills to add exceptions to abortion ban ‘It's a public health risk': nurse decries infection control at US anti-abortion crisis center Anti-abortion activist accused of pushing 72-year-old volunteer found not guilty THE GOOD SHIT: George Washington University installs emergency contraception vending machine  ​GUEST LINKS: Midwest Access Coalition Website GoFundMe: Valley Abortion Group will be the first BIOPOC led & employee-owned all-trimester clinic in New Mexico Kenice Mobley's Website Kenice's Comedy Album “Follow Up Question” Creative Change Retreat EPISODE LINKS: 2/7 SIGN UP: AAF & Center for Popular Democracy's Birddogging Webinar 2/9 SIGN UP: AAF & Center for Popular Democracy's Birddogging Webinar MONTHLY VIRTUAL ACTION: Expose Fake Clinics  AAF's Abortion-Themed Rage Playlist FOLLOW US: Listen to us ~ FBK Podcast Instagram ~ @AbortionFront Twitter ~ @AbortionFront TikTok ~ AbortionAF Facebook ~ @AbortionFront YouTube ~ @AbortionAccessFront PATREON HERE! Support our work, get exclusive merch and more!  DONATE TO AAF HERE! ACTIVIST CALENDAR HERE! VOLUNTEER WITH US HERE! ADOPT-A-CLINIC HERE! EXPOSE FAKE CLINICS HERE! FIND AN ABORTION PROVIDER NEAR YOU HERE! When BS is poppin', we pop off! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Julia Peter of the Center for Popular Democracy offers her solutions to restore the legitimacy of the nation's highest court.

Full episode transcript HERE. Arkansas, Texas, Florida - oh my! The conservative lawmakers and fetus fetishists in these states took PURE EVIL to another level these past couple of weeks and the Feminist Buzzkills are spilling the tea on all of it. PLUS, we even have some bright spots and wins for uteruses, YAY! Last week was the anniversary of Roe v. Wade (RIP), so what better way to remind folks what we lost than with some outrageous AAF shenanigans that answers the questions on everybody's minds: “if you show up at your state legislature in an exam gown and start asking anti-abortion politicians for gynecological care, would they warm up the speculum?- Or would they be as careless and cruel as they are when they pass shitty laws?” AAF Programs Director Max Carwile and Community Engagement Coordinator Kristin Hady showed up at the statehouse in OH and TN looking for a pap smear and join us to tell us all about what went down.  PLUS! The HILARIOUS comedian, Liz Miele is in the house to deliver a much needed serotonin boost! We're blabbing about all things cats, therapy, and toxic positivity. This week's show is jam-packed, so buckle up and get ready for “Feminist Buzzkills Live!,” the ONLY weekly hour-long podcast hosted and produced by activists who work in the abortion movement!  OPERATION SAVE ABORTION: In case you missed out on the training day we've been blabbing about nonstop, you can still join the 10,000+ womb warriors fighting the patriarchy by listening to our five-part OpSave pod series clicking HERE for your toolkit, marching orders, and more. HOSTS: Lizz Winstead @LizzWinstead Moji Alawode-El @MojiLocks Marie Khan @MjKhan  SPECIAL GUESTS:  Liz Miele @LizMiele Max Carwile @MaxineCarwile Kristin Hady THE BAD SHIT: 2 Charged by DOJ for Targeting Anti-abortion Clinics in Florida Abortion Equals Murder Under a Proposed Arkansas Law TX Trump Judge Could Effectively Ban the Abortion Pill THE GOOD SHIT: Biden to Issue Memorandum to Protect Access to Abortion Pills FL Supreme Court Agrees to Hear Challenge to 15 Week Abortion Law NM AG Raúl Torrez Sues State Counties, Cities Over Abortion Ordinances CA Enacts New Abortion Laws, Expecting Copycats ​GUEST LINKS: Join AAF's Send in the Gowns action: Email Kristin & Max at programs@aafront.org Liz Miele Website Watch Liz Miele's Comedy Special: The Ghost of Academic Future EPISODE LINKS: 2/7 SIGN UP: AAF & Center for Popular Democracy's Birddogging Webinar 2/9 SIGN UP: AAF & Center for Popular Democracy's Birddogging Webinar MONTHLY VIRTUAL ACTION: Expose Fake Clinics  Midwest Access Coalition / @midwest_access_coalition (IG) @MidwestAccess (TW) AAF's Abortion-Themed Rage Playlist FOLLOW US: Listen to us ~ FBK Podcast Instagram ~ @AbortionFront Twitter ~ @AbortionFront TikTok ~ AbortionAF Facebook ~ @AbortionFront YouTube ~ @AbortionAccessFront PATREON HERE! Support our work, get exclusive merch and more!  DONATE TO AAF HERE! ACTIVIST CALENDAR HERE! VOLUNTEER WITH US HERE! ADOPT-A-CLINIC HERE! EXPOSE FAKE CLINICS HERE! FIND AN ABORTION PROVIDER NEAR YOU HERE! When BS is poppin', we pop off! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Our host, Kanya Bennett, is joined by Paige Fernandez, the National Organizing Manager at the Center for Popular Democracy, and Tanya Clay House, Executive Vice President of Campaigns and Advocacy at the Hip Hop Caucus to discuss what advocacy and accountability look like to keep advancing civil rights, post-election.

Today's headlines: The Biden administration has launched its online application for student loan borrowers to claim loan relief this week, while Covid officials scramble to plan for the Omicron subvariant threat. The nonprofit Center for Popular Democracy has found that US pharmaceutical companies have been responsible for significant EPA violations in Puerto Rico. Kanye West has offered to buy the right-wing social media network Parler, while the DOJ is recommending that Steve Bannon be sentenced to 6 months in prison. Finally for today, the Trump Organization charged the secret service 5-6 times the market rate to stay at his properties while they were on his protection detail. Resources/Articles mentioned this episode: AP News: Student loan forgiveness application website goes live Politico: Biden Covid officials scramble to plan for Omicron subvariant threat Mother Jones: Big Pharma Is Flooding Puerto Rico With Toxic Waste AP News: Kanye West to buy conservative social media platform Parler NPR: DOJ calls for six-month sentence for Trump ally Steve Bannon Washington Post: Trump charged Secret Service ‘exorbitant' rates at his hotels, records show   Host: Sami Sage Morning Announcements is produced by Sami Sage alongside Amanda Duberman and Bridget Schwartz Original Music and Editing by Brandon Lee Bjornson

Listeners, we're back this week with Analilia Mejia.Analilia Mejia is one of the foremost national political leaders in the progressive movement and is the Co-Executive Director of the Center for Popular Democracy, the nation's largest multiracial organizing network on the left. Prior, she served as the U.S. Department of Labor Women's Bureau Deputy Director. Previously, Mejia built on her experience of running victorious issue advocacy campaigns to serve as Political Director on Bernie Sanders' 2020 campaign, which built a massive rank-and-file union support program and galvanized Latino groups across the country. Analilia is a proud Afro-Latina, Jersey girl, and mom of two. During this episode we talked about:04:40 - Growing up working class05:27 - Thrive and not just survive08:46 - A union job changed everything14:56 - Privileges17:28 - Types of organizations and being a power-building org18:15 - All actions are worthy21:45 - Being afrolatina31:08 - Education36:27 - Her work journey38:04 - Pressures and power41:28 - History of violenceY tu abuela dónde está? Poem This episode is brought to you by Cox.com, Gold Peak and First Republic Bank. Follow Analilia on all things social:TwitterWebsiteCPD Action TwitterFollow Cafe con Pam on all things socialInstagramFacebookhttp://cafeconpam.com/Join the FREE Cafe con Pam ChallengeJoin our Discord  space and let's keep the conversation going! If you are a business owner, join us for Aligned Collective MastermindLearn about PowerSisters Subscribe, rate, review, and share this episode with someone you love!And don't ever forget to Stay Shining! 

When Hurricane Fiona recently hit Puerto Rico, the storm brought wind, water and major flooding to the island. Local authorities are still assessing the damage, but so far we know that some people died, others lost their homes and just about everyone lost electricity. Unfortunately, we’ve been here before. After Hurricane Maria in 2017, billions of federal dollars went to Puerto Rico, a U.S. territory. Marketplace’s Kimberly Adams speaks with Julio López Varona, co-chief of campaigns at the advocacy group Center for Popular Democracy, about whether that technology investment did anything.

When Hurricane Fiona recently hit Puerto Rico, the storm brought wind, water and major flooding to the island. Local authorities are still assessing the damage, but so far we know that some people died, others lost their homes and just about everyone lost electricity. Unfortunately, we’ve been here before. After Hurricane Maria in 2017, billions of federal dollars went to Puerto Rico, a U.S. territory. Marketplace’s Kimberly Adams speaks with Julio López Varona, co-chief of campaigns at the advocacy group Center for Popular Democracy, about whether that technology investment did anything.

In this week's show, Host John Tarleton takes us through an election-night special edition as voters cast ballots in Democratic and Republican primaries for all statewide offices and all 150 seats in the NY State Assembly. In a heavily Democratic state like New York, the primary is often the race that determines the winner in the general election in November. In this segment, we speak with Ana María Archila, Working Families Party nominee for Lt. Governor who some observers think could pull off the biggest upset of the night. She's a longtime social movement leader with Make the Road New York and the Center for Popular Democracy, which she co-founded. She vowed to make the Lt Gov's office a hub for organizing and pushing the Governor to take more pro-working class positions.

Being unemployed in the United States is bad for you.  It's bad for your mental, physical and emotional health. Bad for your family stability. Bad for your ability to survive.  It's just bad news, period. The research shows that 83 percent of laid-off workers develop a serious stress-related condition. And as we look at the future of work, that's a problem for the American economy. Because one of the big questions about the American workplace is:What if, in the a future, we actually have less work … and more unemployment? Guests Kiarica Shields, hospice nurse in Georgia who lost her job early in the pandemic, and eventually lost her home and her car. Her unemployment insurance stopped inexplicably, and after she her appeal, she was told she was ineligible for coverage because she worked a single day on another job.  Mark Attico  - furloughed at the start of the pandemic in his job planning business travel. Was on unemployment for months, and with the pandemic supplement his income was actually enough to pay his bills, and gave him time to reconnect with his teenage son - and hold out for a better job that fit his skills and paid well. Dorian Warren, co-president of Community Change. Sarah Damaske, author of The Tolls of Uncertainty: How Privilege and the Guilt Gap Shape Unemployment in America. Resources Reforming Unemployment Insurance: Stabilizing a system in crisis and laying the foundation for equity, A joint project of Center for American Progress, Center for Popular Democracy, Economic Policy Institute, Groundwork Collaborative, National Employment Law Project, National Women's Law Center, and Washington Center for Equitable Growth, June, 2021 A Playbook for Improving Unemployment Insurance Delivery, New America New Practice Lab, 2021 A Plan to Reform the Unemployment Insurance System in the United States, Arindrajit Dube, The Hamilton Project, April 2021  How Does Employment, or Unemployment, Affect Health, RWJF, 2013  Single transitions and persistence of unemployment are associated with poor health outcomes, Herber et al, 2019 The Toll of job loss, Stephanie Pappas, American Psychological Association, 2020

Being unemployed in the United States is bad for you.  It's bad for your mental, physical and emotional health. Bad for your family stability. Bad for your ability to survive.  It's just bad news, period. The research shows that 83 percent of laid-off workers develop a serious stress-related condition. And as we look at the future of work, that's a problem for the American economy. Because one of the big questions about the American workplace is:What if, in the a future, we actually have less work … and more unemployment? Guests Kiarica Shields, hospice nurse in Georgia who lost her job early in the pandemic, and eventually lost her home and her car. Her unemployment insurance stopped inexplicably, and after she her appeal, she was told she was ineligible for coverage because she worked a single day on another job.  Mark Attico  - furloughed at the start of the pandemic in his job planning business travel. Was on unemployment for months, and with the pandemic supplement his income was actually enough to pay his bills, and gave him time to reconnect with his teenage son - and hold out for a better job that fit his skills and paid well. Dorian Warren, co-president of Community Change. Sarah Damaske, author of The Tolls of Uncertainty: How Privilege and the Guilt Gap Shape Unemployment in America. Resources Reforming Unemployment Insurance: Stabilizing a system in crisis and laying the foundation for equity, A joint project of Center for American Progress, Center for Popular Democracy, Economic Policy Institute, Groundwork Collaborative, National Employment Law Project, National Women's Law Center, and Washington Center for Equitable Growth, June, 2021 A Playbook for Improving Unemployment Insurance Delivery, New America New Practice Lab, 2021 A Plan to Reform the Unemployment Insurance System in the United States, Arindrajit Dube, The Hamilton Project, April 2021  How Does Employment, or Unemployment, Affect Health, RWJF, 2013  Single transitions and persistence of unemployment are associated with poor health outcomes, Herber et al, 2019 The Toll of job loss, Stephanie Pappas, American Psychological Association, 2020 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Though petroleum oligarchs like Joe Manchin sabotaged Build Back Better, activists call on Biden for action through any means possible to save the planet. Thom is joined for Earth Day by Senior National Organizer for Climate Justice, Center for Popular Democracy, Betamia Coronel for a national day of action. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Ana Maria Archila is a longtime immigrant rights leader and Co-Executive Director of the Center for Popular Democracy, one of the largest community organizing networks in the country, with 54 affiliate organizations in 32 states and Puerto Rico. She is running for Lt. Gov. in the June 28 Democratic primary with NYC Public Advocate Jumaane Williams who is running for Governor. The Lt. Governor's race was blown wide open last week when now-former Lt. Gov Brian Benjamin resigned following his indictment on federal corruption charges. Under New York election law, there's only a slim chance that Gov. Kathy Hochul can have Benjamin removed from the ballot and replaced with someone more to her liking. This unexpected turn of events has brought a surge of endorsements to Archila in the past week and greatly increased the chances of an unabashedly left candidate winning statewide office in New York for the first time in decades, if ever. __________ Nerdeen Kiswani is a is the founder and chair of the NYC-based group, Within Our Lifetime - United for Palestine, a community organization revitalizing the revolutionary spirit of the Palestinians in exile in pursuit of liberation. Through WOL, Nerdeen has organized around the Palestinian cause nationwide and worldwide, building solidarity with oppressed peoples fighting for liberation. Nerdeen is in her third year at CUNY school of Law, where she is the president of Students for Justice in Palestine. Updates on what has been going on recently in Gaza with amped up attacks on the holy Al-Aqsa mosque as well as with the NYC Palestinian community as Nakba day approaches.

Ana Maria Archila is a longtime immigrant rights leader and Co-Executive Director of the Center for Popular Democracy, one of the largest community organizing networks in the country, with 54 affiliate organizations in 32 states and Puerto Rico. She is running for Lt. Gov. in the June 28 Democratic primary with NYC Public Advocate Jumaane Williams who is running for Governor. The Lt. Governor's race was blown wide open last week when now-former Lt. Gov Brian Benjamin resigned following his indictment on federal corruption charges. Under New York election law, there's only a slim chance that Gov. Kathy Hochul can have Benjamin removed from the ballot and replaced with someone more to her liking. This unexpected turn of events has brought a surge of endorsements to Archila in the past week and greatly increased the chances of an unabashedly left candidate winning statewide office in New York for the first time in decades, if ever.

The Center for Popular Democracy, along with a number of other social justice organizations, has released a new report demanding what it calls, “Social Housing for All.”

Julio and guest co-host Jamilah King, deputy inequality editor at BuzzFeed News, discuss the Russian invasion of Ukraine, and critique Western media coverage of the war. And, they talk about the ongoing January 6th trials. We also hear from Analilia Mejia, co-executive director of the Center for Popular Democracy, on policing and President Biden's State of the Union address. ITT Staff Picks: Western media has shown a double standard in its coverage of the ongoing war in Ukraine, writes Ishmael N. Daro in The Nation. For BuzzFeed News, Zoe Tillman reports on the first January 6 trial, beginning with defendant Guy Reffitt who is facing five felony counts for his participation in the attack. “When politicians promote policing as a solution to crime, they fail to reckon with the real roots of policing and its impact on the most affected communities,” writes Lexi McMenamin for Teen Vogue on President Biden's State of the Union address. Photo credit: Shawn Thew/Pool via AP

COVID-19 has shed a new light on why workers are essential for our everyday life. They kept going to work for the rest of society not to completely collapse. Today, there seems to be a shortage of job seekers which creates a situation in which workers may have their say on how work should be organized on the workplace. My guests are Lisa Berkman (Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health), Francisco Diez (Center for Popular Democracy), Ashley Gates (United for Respect), and Marcy Goldstein-Gelb(National Council for Occupational Safety and Health). There is a video version of the podcast here: https://am.ajph.link/VIDEO_October2021

You're receiving my Tuesday podcast because you're a paying subscriber of Maybe Baby. Thank you! To listen in your preferred app, click “Listen in podcast app.” Then it should automatically populate there every week.Hi!Welcome back to Pop Quiz, my semi-regular pop culture roundup, this time with returning expert Avi Bonnerjee and perfect human Michelle Uranowitz (maybe you remember her from this ep about spiraling on Instagram). This week we discuss everything from Lorde's rebrand to John Mulaney's PR disaster to my latest Instagram follow. And so much more! Although sadly we recorded this before the VMAs or the Met Gala like idiots…. Some links to things we mention:Celebrity Memoir Book Club podcastChristy Carlson Romano's YouTube channelLorde's “Solar Power” music videoClairo on Fallon“Twitter Has a Parasocial Relationship With the Word Parasocial,” by Sarah Hagi for GawkerJohn Mulaney's weird Seth Myers appearanceThe Housewife & the Hustler on Hulu“The Reality of Reality Television,” by Mark Grief for N+1Salon.com on (of course) Mike Lindell@regret_counter_Hunter S. Thompson's morning routineI'm sure I'm missing some but anyway hope you enjoy!Thanks for listening,HaleyThis month a portion of subscriber proceeds will be redistributed to Center for Popular Democracy, a pro-worker, pro-immigrant advocacy group and network of over 50 community organizations working in low-income communities across the United States. They're currently focused on the eviction crisis.Give me feedback • Subscribe • Request a free subscription • Ask Dear Baby a question This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit haleynahman.substack.com/subscribe

Join us to discuss  local voting rights policy with Matthew Duffy & Ría Thompson-Washington from The Center for Popular Democracy. 

Join Law for Black Lives, Amna Akbar and Derecka Purnell for a discussion about what it means for lawyers to build the power of the law. Law for Black Lives is a national community of radical lawyers and legal workers committed to transforming the law and building the power of organizing to defend, protect and advance Black Liberation across the globe. ---------------------------------------------------- Speakers: Amna Akbar is a professor of law at The Ohio State University Moritz College of Law. She writes about policing and social movements, with a focus on grassroots demands for social change. Derecka Purnell is is a human rights lawyer, writer, and organizer. Since graduating from Harvard Law School, she has worked to end police and prison violence nationwide by providing legal assistance, research, and trainings to community based organizations through an abolitionist framework. Derecka is currently a columnist at The Guardian and Deputy Director of Spirit of Justice Center. She is the author for the forthcoming book Becoming Abolitionists: Police, Protests, and the Pursuit of Freedom. Marbre Stahly-Butts, Executive Director of Law for Black Lives works closely with organizers and communities across the country to advance and actualize radical policy. Marbre is currently a member of the Advisory Committee for National Bail Out Collective, the group behind Black Mama's Day Bail Out. She currently serves on the Leadership Team of the Movement For Black Lives Policy Table and helped develop the Vision for Black Lives Policy Platform. Since graduating from Yale Law School in 2013, Marbre has supported local and national organizations from across the country in their policy development and advocacy. She joined the Center for Popular Democracy as a Soros Justice Fellow in Fall 2013. Her Soros Justice work focused on organizing and working with families affected by aggressive policing and criminal justice policies in New York City in order to develop meaningful bottom up policy reforms. While in law school, Marbre focused on the intersection of criminal justice and civil rights and gained legal experience with the Bronx Defenders, the Equal Justice Initiative and the Prison Policy Initiative. Before law school Marbre received her Masters in African Studies from Oxford University and worked in Zimbabwe organizing communities impacted by violence and then in South Africa teaching at Nelson Mandela's alma mater. Marbre graduated from Columbia University, with a BA in African-American History and Human Rights. ---------------------------------------------------- This event is co-sponsored by Haymarket Books and Law for Black Lives. Watch the live event recording: https://youtu.be/Jxvem9THmsc Buy books from Haymarket: www.haymarketbooks.org Follow us on Soundcloud: soundcloud.com/haymarketbooks

A conversation about public money, its connections to racial justice and how we can organize to demand it serves our interests. ———————————————— Money impacts everything. We live and feel the reality of money and for many of us, money problems are the source of great physical and emotional strain. This webinar focuses on a crucial aspect of the money we've got to work with: Public finance––the role of government(s) in the economy. Specifically, we look at public money, what it is and more importantly, why we deserve to have it. We consider public money as part of racial justice work in regards to the federal government's real fiscal capacity unmatched by its terrible response to the COVID-19 pandemic, budgets as political and moral documents, divest-invest campaigns calling to #DefundThePolice and #DefundICE, and police brutality bonds. We also look at social justice organizing involving public money demands. #PublicMoneyRacialJustice ———————————————— Participants: Raúl Carrillo is the Deputy Director of the Law and Political Economy (LPE) Project and an Associate Research Scholar at Yale Law School. Prior to joining the LPE Project, Raúl practiced law for five years, focusing on consumer finance and financial technology. He is the Chair of the Board of Directors of the Modern Money Network, an Executive Committee member of the National Jobs For All Network, and an Advisory Council member of Our Money. Rev. Delman Coates is the Senior Pastor of Mt. Ennon Baptist Church in Clinton, Maryland and founder of Our Money Campaign, an economic justice campaign that seeks to solve some of our nation's greatest social and economic challenges. He also founded the Black Church Center for Justice and Equality to address the social and spiritual challenges of the African American faith community. He is a board member of the Parents Television Council and the National Action Network and also a member of the Society of Biblical Literature, the Morehouse College Board of Preachers, and the NAACP. Alyx Goodwin is a senior organizer at Action Center on Race and the Economy (ACRE), organizing with BYP100 Chicago, and a co-founder and writer with LEFT OUT Magazine. Her writing and activism are centered around the momentum and challenges of building Black power and self-determination. Her work at ACRE currently focuses on the relationships between the finance industry, policing, and tech, and how these things exacerbate oppressions. Tamara K. Nopper is a sociologist, writer, editor, and data artist. A Fellow at Data for Progress and an Affiliate of The Center for Critical Race and Digital Studies, she recently researched and wrote several data stories for Colin Kaepernick's Abolition for the People series and is the editor of We Do This 'Til We Free Us: Abolitionist Organizing and Transforming Justice, a book of Mariame Kaba's writing and interviews, which will be published by Haymarket Books in February 2021. Shawn Sebastian is the Senior Strategist for Rural People and Planet First Campaigns at People's Action. In 2019 Shawn served as the Iowa Organizing Director of the Working Families Party and Movement Politics Organizer for Iowa Citizens for Community Improvement Action Fund. Shawn was the director of the Fed Up Campaign at the Center for Popular Democracy, organizing working class people of color to demand full employment monetary policy at the Federal Reserve. Watch the live event recording: https://youtu.be/b73IIo76K8Q Buy books from Haymarket: www.haymarketbooks.org Follow us on Soundcloud: soundcloud.com/haymarketbooks

On episode 26 of LatinX Point of View Podcast we discuss "Effects of Covid-19 on Minority Communities." On this episode joining us is Hector Vaca, Immigrant Justice Director for Action NC. In 30 minutes we look at how minority communities have been impacted by Covid-19, why these communities and policy recommendations. Hector shares with us a bit about an impact study that was conducted by Action NC and The Center for Popular Democracy. For more information and to stay connected with Hector, you can find email him Hector@actionnc.org or call 704-625-4050. You can also connect with Action NC on Facebook: @actionnc , Instagram: @action.nc and Twitter: @action_nc .Follow and interact with the LatinX Point of View podcast on Twitter @LatinXPOV and remember to like and subscribe on your favorite podcast platform. Music: Bengo Latino by Jimmy Fontanez/Media Right Productions Creative Commons — Attribution 3.0 Unported— CC BY 3.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/... Music provided by FreeMusic109 https://youtube.com/FreeMusic109

Episode 10 featuring Vinay Krishnan On growing up with a mental illness in America, a friendship with Daniel Berrigan, and ableism. You can find more of Vinay here and check out some of his writing here and here. You can find out more about the Center for Popular Democracy and their work here. Connect with us at @whatradicalizedyou on Instagram or email us at whatradicalizedyou@gmail.com

*The Inadequacies of the COVID Relief Bill Pressures Biden to Target aid to the Most Vulnerable; Julio Lopez, the Center for Popular Democracy's Co-Director for Community Dignity Campaigns; Producer: Scott Harris. *Buttigieg’s Appointment as Transportation Secretary Betrays Biden’s Pledge to Name Competent, Experienced Officials; Max Moran, research asst w The Revolving Door Project at the Center for Economic and Policy Research; Producer: Melinda Tuhus. *Postcards To Voters: A Progressive Electoral Success Story; Tony The Democrat, founder of Post Cards to Voters; Producer: Scott Harris

Center for Popular Democracy's Julio Lopez: Inadequate COVID Relief Bill Pressures Biden to Target Aid to Most VulnerableCenter for Economic and Policy Research's Mark Moran: Buttigieg’s Appointment as Transportation Secretary Betrays Biden’s Pledge to Name Competent, Experienced OfficialsPost Cards to Voters's Tony the Democrat: A Progressive Electoral Success StoryBob Nixon's Under-reported News Summary- Women in Mexico reckon with high cost of migration- Africa's Kariba Dam faces disastrous hydroelectric power collapse- Big Tech's gig economy foreshadows Uber-like troubleFor more information, related links, in-depth interviews and transcripts, visit our BTLonline.org, updated Wednesdays by 4 p.m. ET

Center for Popular Democracy's Julio Lopez: Inadequate COVID Relief Bill Pressures Biden to Target Aid to Most VulnerableCenter for Economic and Policy Research's Mark Moran: Buttigieg’s Appointment as Transportation Secretary Betrays Biden’s Pledge to Name Competent, Experienced OfficialsPost Cards to Voters's Tony the Democrat: A Progressive Electoral Success StoryBob Nixon's Under-reported News Summary- Women in Mexico reckon with high cost of migration- Africa's Kariba Dam faces disastrous hydroelectric power collapse- Big Tech's gig economy foreshadows Uber-like troubleFor more information, related links, in-depth interviews and transcripts, visit our BTLonline.org. The website is updated Wednesdays by 4 p.m. ET

Today we're celebrating the birthday of Ady Barkan, an American lawyer and activist who has been called “the most powerful activist in America.” An organizer for the Center for Popular Democracy, Ady's emotional and inspiring story was one that we had to celebrate. Happy birthday, Ady!  If YOU want a birthday shoutout, email us with your name, and a little bit of information about you, at TheNameDayProject@gmail.com

This episode we welcome Mike Bocian who is a founding partner at GBAO, one of the leading Democratic polling firms in the country. He has conducted quantitative or qualitative research in all 50 states and worked on many of the major issues of our time – health care, climate change, education, immigration, foreign policy, criminal justice reform, reproductive health care and others.In addition to his work with candidates, Bocian research and strategic guidance to a variety of progressive organizations the House Majority PAC, Senate Majority PAC, NRDC, NEA, SEIU, AFSCME, ACLU, the Partnership for Safety and Justice, YouthFirst Initiative, the Center for American Progress, and the Center for Popular Democracy, among others.Bocian is one of the leading experts on ballot initiative campaigns and has directed the polling for several successful ballot initiative campaigns on issues including taxes, education, renewable energy, the minimum wage, paid sick leave and workers’ rights.Mike received his Master’s in Public Policy from Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government and his Bachelor of Arts from Princeton University. If you have guest ideas, as always, send them to cr@fio360.com

Wisconsin Watch presents a recording of our Nov. 12, 2020 webinar — part of the 'Speakeasy: Casual conversations, serious issues' series. Wisconsin Watch reporters and guest panelist Jennifer Epps-Addison hosted a spirited discussion breaking down what happened in Wisconsin during the 2020 presidential election, including how voter turnout compared to the 2016 presidential election and the effect of rampant misinformation about voter fraud on social media. Wisconsin Watch Managing Editor Dee J. Hall was joined by Jennifer Epps-Addison, president and co-executive director of The Center for Popular Democracy, Wisconsin Watch reporter Vanessa Swales, and Wisconsin Watch/Vote Beat reporters Nora Eckert and Anya van Wagtendonk. Wisconsin Watch is the news outlet of the Wisconsin Center for Investigative Journalism, a nonpartisan and nonprofit organization covering issues impacting quality of life in Wisconsin. We produce fact-checked reporting guided by three values: Protect the vulnerable. Expose wrongdoing. Explore solutions. Stay current on our future events and investigations by signing up for our email newsletter at WisconsinWatch.org/subscribe, or following @WisconsinWatch on social media (Facebook, Twitter and Instagram).

'Alicia Garza, a co-founder of the Black Lives Matter movement, says Joe Biden is “far away” from the change that the voters want to see.' 'Activists have pointed out that over the past month, as thousands took to the streets in hundreds of cities, Biden’s policy platforms on criminal justice and policing have not changed on his website. In a letter to Biden’s campaign last week, more than 50 progressive groups criticized his response to the mass protests, calling on him to incorporate policies crafted by the Movement for Black Lives.' '“Joe Biden doesn’t have to be a revolutionary,” said Jennifer Epps-Addison, president of the Center for Popular Democracy. “But he has to agree to actually bring folks who have been marginalized both by the Democratic and Republican Party to the table, and have a conversation about how we are going to ensure that we break down these systems of racial- and economic- and gender-based inequity in our country.”' 'Last July, as part of his criminal justice platform, Biden proposed injecting $300 million into the Community Oriented Policing Services program, which was created by the now-controversial 1994 crime bill and has had questionable success. To the dismay of many activists, Biden has stood by his COPS funding plan.' 'The mightiest blow Joe Biden can strike for racial justice is to evict Donald Trump from the White House. It is Trump who has replaced racial dog whistles with a foghorn; who has stirred white grievance and licensed public bigotry by his own example; and who with a smirk has encouraged the police to rough up citizens and governors to “dominate” protesters and rioters.' 'Black Lives Matter should keep agitating for change in U.S policing. But ballots matter too, and their differences with Joe Biden are small compared with what’s at stake in this year’s elections."' --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/chrisabraham/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/chrisabraham/support

Catherine is joined by Jennifer Epps-Addison, the President and Co-Executive Director of the Center for Popular Democracy, a national organization that works to create equity, opportunity and a dynamic democracy in partnership with high-impact, grassroots organizations across the nation. Jennifer shares her own path to activism, as well as the Center for Popular Democracy's philosophy of how we create community change. Don't miss this conversation if you're wondering what the 2020 election means for creating social impact, both in the immediate and long-range views.

What will Americans do to stop the confirmation of Amy Coney Barrett? What CAN we do? Ana Maria Archila knows a thing or two about confirmation hearings -- you might remember her from the moment she called out Senator Jeff Flake at the confirmation hearing for accused sexual assailant and now Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh. She's also the Co-Executive Director at the Center for Popular Democracy, and she has some ideas on what we can do to protect the confirmation process, especially with the Affordable Care Act hearing coming up on November 10th.Executive Producer: Adell ColemanProducer: Brittany TempleDistributor: DCP EntertainmentFor additional content: makeitplain.com See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

As Congress works on another round of COVID-19 relief, many are looking for them to extend unemployment benefits. But there's a spate of other issues that workers should keep an eye on. On Today's Show:Millions of Americans are unemployed and waiting for the federal government to come to an agreement on the next coronavirus relief bill. Rashad Robinson, president of Color of Change, and Ana María Archila, co-executive director of the Center for Popular Democracy, talks about where lawmakers are on negotiating this deal, and what they'd like to see come through for workers.

In this podcast we discuss the work of Murray Bookchin, relating it to the experiences and debates around municipalism and wider left political practices and theory. With our guests (Blair, Hilary and Kate) we focus the discussion on the recent edited collection of Bookchin's work: The Next Revolution: Popular Assemblies and the Promise of Direct Democracy (Verso), edited by Debbie Bookchin and Blair Taylor. Reflecting, but going beyond, the broad range of topics addressed by Bookchin in the book, we cover a lot of ground, such as the role of the state in left politics, sources of transformative change, 'reason', 'knowledge' and politics, popular democracy, the new municipalism in Barcelona and municipal socialism in 1980s London. **Blair Taylor** Program director of the Institute for Social Ecology, a popular education center for ecological scholarship and advocacy founded in 1974. He holds a PhD in Political Science from the New School for Social Research, and has written on U.S. social movements, contemporary far-right politics, political ecology, and the history of the left. His work has been featured in Les Temps Modernes, American Studies, and City: analysis of urban trends, culture, theory, policy, action. He is co-editor of the Murray Bookchin anthology The Next Revolution: Popular Assemblies and the Promise of Direct Democracy (Verso, 2014). He lives outside Seattle, Washington, and is active with West Sound Democratic Socialists of America. **Hilary Wainwright** Co-editor, Red Pepper: www.redpepper.org.uk (if you don't yet subscribe why not look at the RED PEPPER PAY-AS-YOU-FEEL SUBSCRIPTION? go to the website and click 'subscribe' for an unmissable offer) Fellow, Transnational Institute:www.tni.org

You’ve said the words, “Black Lives Matter.” You’ve put your money where your mouth is. You’ve shown up for the marches. What next? What exactly is the change we’re showing up for, and how exactly can we commit to making that change in our own communities? In this bonus episode, we’re passing the mic to Jaime Sunwoo (a Korean American interdisciplinary artist and former housing advocate) and Brandon West (a longtime Black organizer for democracy rights and racial justice). Jaime and Brandon’s experiences in community service, city budgeting, and organizing work clarify why and how today’s movement for racial justice is asking us to defund the police. Resources and Links Jaime Sunwoo (@jaimesunwoo) worked in homeless services from 2015-2017. She's a multidisciplinary artist and is developing Specially Processed American Me, a performance project on the significance of SPAM in the Asian diaspora. You can learn more about her at jaimesunwoo.com. Brandon West (@btwest) is a campaign manager for voting rights at the Center for Popular Democracy, and collaborates with a great many community organizers in Brooklyn. He’s also a candidate for New York City Council, which you can learn more about at westforcouncil.com (full disclosure: our Managing Producer James Boo is Brandon’s roommate, and volunteers for Brandon’s campaign). Both Jaime and Brandon support the work of Communities United for Police Reform, a coalition of community groups seeking to defund the New York Police Department and create greater accountability for police misconduct. Jaime worked as a housing advocate for Breaking Ground, a non-profit organization that provides housing and wraparound services to over 8,000 New Yorkers a year. The Brooklyn Liberation march for Black trans lives ended up attracting an estimated total of 15,000 people. Many organizers intersecting with that action support the repeal of “Walking While Trans” laws across the country. You read about the underlying issues here. If you’re still looking for ways to learn and donate in support of Black lives, then check out our latest newsletter for a curated list of some of our favorite works (almost all by or centering Black voices) and Black-led groups. Credits Produced by James Boo and Julia Shu Edited by Julia Shu, with assistance from Prerna Chaudhury Sound mix by Timothy Lou Ly Self Evident theme music by Dorian Love Thanks to Dolly Li of Plum Radio for helping us record some of the protest tape heard on this episode!

Guests: Erin Perrine, Principal Deputy Communications Director with the Trump 2020 campaign, Jennifer Epps-Addison, President and co-executive director at the Center for Popular Democracy, Gregory Korte, Bloomberg National Political reporter, and Adam Goodman, Republican media strategist, columnist and partner at Ballard Partners in Washington.

Guests: Erin Perrine, Principal Deputy Communications Director with the Trump 2020 campaign, Jennifer Epps-Addison, President and co-executive director at the Center for Popular Democracy, Gregory Korte, Bloomberg National Political reporter, and Adam Goodman, Republican media strategist, columnist and partner at Ballard Partners in Washington.

For more information on She the People, visit https://www.shethepeople.org/The Brown Girls Guide to Politics Podcast is all about amplifying the voices of women who are too often forgotten in media coverage. Host A'shanti Gholar leads conversations with women changing the face of politics. In the BGG to Politics blog, A'shanti created a space for women of color to learn about the current state of politics, to support others breaking into the political sphere, and to celebrate incredible women changing the course of the country. A'shanti founded the blog in 2018 and Wonder Media Network is thrilled to extend her platform to audio.Follow The BGG:WebsiteTwitterInstagramFollow Wonder Media Network:WebsiteTwitterInstagramFollow She the People:WebsiteTwitter InstagramSpecial thanks to ActBlue for its support of our show! ActBlue's powerful fundraising platform makes it easy for grassroots supporters to make their voices heard and helps thousands of Democratic campaigns, progressive organizations, and nonprofits build people-powered movements. Small-dollar donors are on track to give $4 billion via ActBlue this cycle, with an average contribution size of about $30. Visit secure.actblue.com/about to become a small dollar donor yourself.Center for Popular Democracy: https://populardemocracy.org/New Georgia Project: https://newgeorgiaproject.org/

Abdul dissects how politics is a part of public health—and how our federal political leadership has gotten in the way of every step of our public health response to COVID19. Then he speaks with Ana Maria Archila co-Executive Director of the Center for Popular Democracy about how COVID19 is impacted Undocumented Americans.

Harrie Farrow grew up in the Virgin Islands and graduated summa cum laude from San Francisco State with a BA in Psychology and a minor in Human Sexual Studies. A brief career in freelance writing in the Virgin Islands was followed by a move to the Ozarks, where she opened and operated a fine dining restaurant for 18 years. She became an investigative reporter after retiring from the restaurant business, but four slashed tires convinced her to quit that line of work and instead focus on publishing her bisexual themed novel, “Love, Sex, and Understanding the Universe.” Farrow is also a former board member of BiNet USA. She’s written a monthly bisexual column for The Gayly; written articles for Bi Women Quarterly, including a piece entitled “Solutions for Bisexual Mental Health Issues;” and was the exclusive writer on bisexual topics for the online LGBT news and entertainment site, Hornet, and wrote for the Bisexual Institute of America’s blog, and BiNet USA’s blog. Also, in 2016, Farrow was a nominated Change Maker to the White House Summit on the State of Women, and in conjunction, attended the Federal Justice Department’s symposium on violence against women. She was selected also that year to participate in the White House’s convening on Advancing Progress for Rural LGBT peoples. In 2016 as well, Farrow gave a workshop at the Bisexual Empowering Conference (BECAUSE) on bisexual specific mental health issues. Later that year, Farrow was given a scholarship to take part in Arkansas HRC’s LGBT competency training for medical and mental heath professionals. In 2017 Farrow got involved in resistance work, and became an Indivisible leader in her area. Working with the Center for Popular Democracy and other National advocacy/activism organizations, she participated in more than a dozen actions in Washington D.C including being arrested 9 times in civil disobedience actions, such as during the Kavanaugh hearing and the Senate vote on the GOP Tax bill. In 2018 Farrow was elected as Justice of the Peace in Carroll Country Arkansas, and is running for a second term. She is working on completing her second novel, “Finding Bonita.” Please contact Harrie Farrow for requests to speak, write, consult and/or educate about bisexuality, resistance activism, Twitter for activism/advocacy, or diversity and inclusivity.

The coronavirus pandemic is completely disrupting the way we work, and the way we live, That’s why the Better Life Lab is offering  Crisis Conversations - Live from Better Life Lab. With host Brigid Schulte working from her home office — recording into the cheap mic built into the cord of her earbuds — we're recording live Zoom sessions on Fridays. Our lead guest for this episode is Rachel Deutsch, supervising attorney for worker justice at the Center for Popular Democracy. We'll also hear front-line stories from four workers. They'll share their experiences of pandemic furloughs, and snafus with unemployment insurance — including one laid-off worker who has called hundreds of times, to try to file her claim. We want these sessions to be an intimate, interactive space for people to take a breath, and share stories. We'll reflect and gain some perspective and context, and think about what these changes could mean for the future of work, gender equity, health and social policy. If you'd like to attend our next live-recorded Zoom event — on Friday, April 17, about how coronavirus is upending the lives of frontline nurses and doctors. We'll hear directly from healthcare workers living in virtual quarantine to try to protect their own families. And if you'd like to join this week's live webinar taping of Crisis Conversations, follow this link: https://newamerica.zoom.us/webinar/register/3915864469789/WN_8WzNCXP3Ro-BoPqauYF75Q This live event — on Friday, April 17, 1 pm Eastern — focuses on how the coronavirus pandemic has upended the lives of the frontline healthcare workers exposed to the deadly virus, many of whom are living away from their families in order to keep them safe. More at: https://www.newamerica.org/events/

The coronavirus pandemic is completely disrupting the way we work, and the way we live, That’s why the Better Life Lab is offering  Crisis Conversations - Live from Better Life Lab. With host Brigid Schulte working from her home office — recording into the cheap mic built into the cord of her earbuds — we're recording live Zoom sessions on Fridays. Our lead guest for this episode is Rachel Deutsch, supervising attorney for worker justice at the Center for Popular Democracy. We'll also hear front-line stories from four workers. They'll share their experiences of pandemic furloughs, and snafus with unemployment insurance — including one laid-off worker who has called hundreds of times, to try to file her claim. We want these sessions to be an intimate, interactive space for people to take a breath, and share stories. We'll reflect and gain some perspective and context, and think about what these changes could mean for the future of work, gender equity, health and social policy. If you'd like to attend our next live-recorded Zoom event — on Friday, April 17, about how coronavirus is upending the lives of frontline nurses and doctors. We'll hear directly from healthcare workers living in virtual quarantine to try to protect their own families. More at: https://www.newamerica.org/events/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Jennifer Epps Addison is the President and Co-Executive Director of the Center for Popular Democracy and CPD Action, where they utilize a network of grassroots organizations across 34 states, Washington D.C., and Puerto Rico, in the fight to break up the status quo and reinvent the structures of our society. At CPD and CPDA, they believe in universal housing, fundamental transformations of immigration processes, and uprooting the legal system—and they also believe in electing Sen. Bernie Sanders to be the next president. This episode has the potential to get you fired up! Listen to hear about their incredibly thoughtful process of choosing to endorse Sen. Sanders, as well as a look inside all of the tireless work they do at the community level to change this country.Executive Producer: Adell ColemanProducer: Brittany TempleDistributor: DCP EntertainmentFor additional content: Subscribe to the Make It Plain LIVE Daily Call-in Show Mon-Fri 7-9a ET at makeitplain.com See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

0:08 – Donald Trump delivered a far-right-wing State of the Union address Tuesday night to the House of Representatives, and it was reminiscent of a game show. Mitch Jeserich, host of Letters and Politics, joins us to discuss. 0:34 – Carmen Maria Machado is the author of a new memoir bending genres and perspectives, about her experience with abuse during a same-sex relationship. It's called In the Dream House. 0:55 – A Bay Area lawmaker is introducing legislation aimed at creating a “seamless” mass transit system in the Bay Area. Assemblymember David Chiu's bill would move toward a rider-friendly system unifying fares, mapping and planning in order to boost transit use, slash commute times, and help California reach its climate goals. KPFA's Christopher Martinez reports. 1:08 – On Monday, San Francisco Senator Scott Wiener rolled out a bill proposing California use eminent domain to take over private utility Pacific Gas & Electric. We host a roundtable on the bill, SB 917, with Senator Scott Wiener (@Scott_Wiener), environmental justice advocate Mari Rose Taruc, who is coordinator of the “Reclaim Our Power” utility justice campaign with the Local Clean Energy Alliance, and Hunter Stern, assistant business manager at IBEW Local 1245, which represents more than 12,000 PG&E workers and opposes a state takeover of the utility. 1:34 – Progressive lawmakers in Congress, including “the Squad” and Reps. Chuy Garcia and Earl Blumenauer, have rolled out a 7-part People's Housing Platform to make massive reinvestments in public housing, address gentrification and displacement, strengthen renter protections and address the U.S. homelessness crisis. We talk about the plan with Dianne Enriquez (@Dianne283) of the Center for Popular Democracy, a network of grassroots community organizations that helped to develop the People's Housing Platform. The post Carmen Maria Machado breaks “archival silence” in her powerful new memoir of abuse; Plus, progressive lawmakers roll out massive “People's Housing Platform” to fight gentrification, displacement and homelessness appeared first on KPFA.

Contact the Show: ThatsWhatSheDidPodcast@gmail.com IG: @That'sWhatSheDidPodcast FB: That'sWhatSheDidPodcast Website: That'sWhatSheDidPodcast.com Featured Guest: Jazmin Chavez Jazmin Chavez is a Digital Principal at Kivvit and Digital lead for Hispanics in Philanthropy. As a digital strategist, she uses her passion for nonprofits, advocacy campaigns, narrative power analysis, civic tech and community organizing for social change. Jazmin has served as the Digital Director for the Center for Popular Democracy, where she led advocacy, rapid response, and fightback campaigns. As the former Deputy Director of Public Technology and Digital Strategy for Speaker Melissa Mark-Viverito and the New York City Council, Jazmin focused on access, inclusion, and innovation across platforms to advance the Speaker and Council’s work. Originally from Juarez, Chihuahua, Mexico, but raised in Denver, she has been a strong advocate and organizer for immigrant and impacted communities since she was a little girl.  In This Episode: How marketers use your digital data to build a relationship with you The power of digital storytelling to move people to action How to be a better storyteller The future of digital Follow Jazmin: Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jazminchavez/

0:08 – Ady Barkan is a social justice activist who has built three programs at The Center for Popular Democracy: the Be A Hero and Fed Up campaigns and the Local Progress network. He was a law clerk to the Hon. Shira A. Scheindlin in the Southern District of New York and prior to that he was a Liman Fellow with Make the Road New York, where he represented low-wage workers seeking to recover unpaid wages and obtain safe and dignified working conditions. He graduated from Yale Law School and Columbia College. He lives with his wife Rachael and their two young children in Santa Barbara, California. Eyes to the Wind is a memoir and his first book. 0:22 – Vivian Ho is a journalist who has written for the San Francisco Chronicle, the Guardian, Topic and the Boston Globe. Her first book is Those Who Wander: America's Lost Street Kids. 0:55 – KPFA's Richard Wolinsky reviews Pride and Prejudice now showing at Theatreworks Palo Alto through Saturday January 4th. 1:08 – Albert Woodfox – for the hour – served more than 40 years in solitary confinement in Angola State Prison in Louisiana – the longest period of solitary confinement in US prison history. In 2014, his conviction was overturned, and in 2016 he was released. He joins us now, to talk about his experience, and his new memoir Solitary. The post ‘No one should die for lack of care' Ady Barkan on the fight for universal healthcare; Plus: Albert Woodfox on more than 40 years in solitary appeared first on KPFA.

Jennifer Epps-Addison is the President and Co-Executive Director of the Center for Popular Democracy and her life’s work is advancing campaigns for economic and racial justice. She talks about how we can build lasting change, by supporting the organizations who are in the trenches of communities our political system often leaves behind.Interview at 15:06

Back from hiatus with the first of many conversations. Organizers with LIT take us through the newly released Youth Mandate for Presidential Candidates. The Youth Mandate was a collaborative effort of the Center for Popular Democracy and the Alliance for Educational Justice. Check out the  Youth Mandate here.Make sure you follow LITTwitterFacebookInstagram

As an undocumented immigrant from Mexico growing up in the US, Jazmin Chavez learned at a young age that she would need to work especially hard to achieve her goals. Here’s her story of how she did exactly that, while organizing to help others in the immigrant and undocumented community as well. Keep up with Jazmin at @ jazminchavez on Twitter. And check out the Center for Popular Democracy and sign up for their emails at populardemocracy.org. Find Art, Humanity & Action on Instagram (instagram.com/arthumanityaction), Facebook (facebook.com/arthumanityaction), Twitter (twitter.com/arthumanityact), and www.arthumanityaction.com OUR HOUSE Credits: Production and editing by Jeff Rose. Music by Audioblocks. Hosted by Nicole Ferraro. PR by PKPR.

Liberation in a Generation is a new organization that takes a fresh, laser-focused and unapologetic approach to breaking down systems that oppress people of color and building an economy that raises them up. It is co-directed by Jeremie Greer and Solana Rice, whose vision for change is informed by their collective experiences as community and political organizers, researchers and policy advocates on economic and wealth building issues in the national nonprofit arena. They are reimagining how policy change at the intersection of race and economics is made and opening the door to engage new partners in the journey. It starts by working directly with local organizing networks, including PICO, Faith in Action and Center for Popular Democracy, that build power in communities of color. Liberation in a Generation will work with them to identify the issues and policy solutions that communities are motivated to tackle and to advocate for with candidates and policy makers. They will support these networks in leveraging their power and influence including with the national nonprofits that are known leaders in the field. Jeremie and Solana are creating a sea-change in how to embolden and empower communities of color. They are asking all of us to challenge the elite systems, from corporations to academia to the media, that perpetuate institutionalized racism and create a new and more just system. And they are inviting philanthropy to invest in organizations led by people of color that are at the forefront of a movement for economic and racial justice.      

Zach speaks with Connie Razza, the author of ‘Break glass in case of emergency’, a strategy memo recently published by the Economic Policy Institute for winning a robust and just recovery from the next recession. Connie explains what policy proposals and political infrastructure will successfully orient our recovery from the next recession toward economic outcomes that reduce, rather than boost, wealth inequality around racial and gender lines.  Connie M. Razza is the Chief of Campaigns and Policy at the Center for Popular Democracy, where she oversees CPD’s broad-ranging campaigns for economic justice and a robust, inclusive democracy, as well as the organization’s research efforts. Connie was previously Vice President of Policy and Research at Demos, and she has worked for economic and racial justice for nearly a quarter century as a union activist, organizer, researcher, policy analyst, and strategist.  Twitter: @ConnieRazza https://www.epi.org/publication/break-glass-in-case-of-emergency-strategy-memo-for-winning-a-robust-and-just-recovery-from-the-next-recession/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Kumar Rao, senior staff attorney for racial justice at the Center for Popular Democracy, joins the podcast to share his work in the criminal and racial justice space as a trial attorney and policy advocate,...

Anoa chats with activist Saira Rao about her latest article, "When Being an Opponent of White Supremacy Means Being Not Nice". Very timely conversation in light of the ongoing attacks on Representative Ilhan Omar. Saira reflects on the struggle of dismantling White Supremacy in various spaces, and the expectation that BIPOC women must be "nice" and nonconfrontational in this work. The second half of the episode is a replay of a session during Rootscamp led by Anoa and Tracey Corder from the Center of Popular Democracy about dismantling white supremacy in progressive spaces. I'm A Brown Woman Who's Breaking Up With The Democratic Party When Being an Opponent of White Supremacy Means Being Not Nice

It was the best Mob movie I’ve seen in a long time. Michael Cohen testified before Congress and it was large-popcorn-bucket-worthy. Like we’ve been saying for a couple of years now, the best way to understand the Trump administration is to read it as an organized crime story. Now it looks like we’re going to get Trump’s accountant, Allen Weisselberg, to testify after all. Cohen’s closing statement warned that if Trump loses the 2020 election, he will not allow for a peaceful transfer of power. Trump got Kim Jong Un-ed in Vietnam. Pramila Jayapal drops a major Medicare for All bill that - wait for it - is better than the plan advocated for by Bernie Sanders. The bill was drafted with nurses, doctors, disability rights advocates, advocates for the elderly, and organizations such as Public Citizen and the Center for Popular Democracy. This past Tuesday was a great day for Chicago socialists as 4 of the 5 DSA endorsed candidates won their election to Chicago’s city council. At least two other progressives also ousted established Democratic Party Machine candidates. Washington Gov. Jay Inslee enters the presidential race with an unabashed commitment to address the climate crisis. CPAC is underway just outside DC. All the tensions with Trump are nowhere to be found as the right-wing political conference fully embraces MAGA. And if you wanted to know if progressive/left policies are moving the needle, look no further than right-wing ex-Senator Rick Santorum who went to CPAC calling for paid family leave. Charter Appeals Board??? Say what?  Imagine a state-controlled government panel that is specifically designed to overturn local school boards and favor charter schools. About 1,700 workers are on strike in Erie, PA as Wabtec, the new owners of the former GE locomotive plant, demanded up to 38% reduction in wages, mandatory overtime, expanded use of temps, and arbitrary scheduling. Bernie Sanders weighed in on the strike saying, "The American people are sick and tired of corporate America and their wealthy CEOs ripping off the working families of this country.” In These Times has called this the “biggest U.S. manufacturing strike in the Trump era.” Senator Bob Casey says he will be backing a $15/hour federal minimum wage bill, marking his continued political evolution. PA House GOP Candidate Frank Scavo is a Pizzagate conspiracy theorist who is running for an open house seat in Lackawanna County.  It’s been a Democratic stronghold for decades but voted for Trump in 2016. Big Pharma, Big Greed. A PA woman used to be able to get for free medication for a rare neuromuscular disease. But thanks to BioMarin Pharmaceutical who recently gained exclusive rights to see the drug, she is facing a $375,000/year bill. Her case is one of the thousands like it that has been the subject of hearings in DC. Elections have consequences. State Senator Vincent Hughes wants to "take a data-driven approach to public policy to ensure that lawmakers are fully informed of the potential impacts of legislation on people living in poverty before they vote." In today’s Last Call, Space X set to test its first-ever Crew Dragon Spacecraft tomorrow if the weather continues to cooperate. The Crew Dragon is designed to bring astronauts to the International Space Station. If all goes well, this will be the first “crew-capable orbital spacecraft” to launch from the U.S. since the Obama administration scrapped the space shuttle program in 2011 in favor of contracting out missions to the ISS. Boeing, the other company tapped by NASA to fly crewed missions to the ISS has its own test launch set for April. Canada is the first country to join up to support NASA’s lunar gateway project. The Lunar Orbital Platform Gateway program will be a human-tended facility in orbit around the moon, kind of like a sister station to the ISS. This Sunday, Free Will Brewing will be celebrating the “Spirit of Mardi Gras” with a barrel aged tap takeover at the main brewery in Perkasie. Plus, a double can release tomorrow: Fresh King Cake  - a No Boil White Ale brewed with 120 pounds of fresh ground pecans, orange, cinnamon, and vanilla. 7% ABV. Saturday can and draft release, March 2nd! 7 Course Red - just in time for St Patty's Day prep, it's Free Will's traditional Irish Red Ale, malt forward with notes of toffee, toasted bread, and dried fruit. Brewed with a touch of roasted barley and carared for additional color and a beautiful tan head.

Rays Talk Show Episode 291: Host Ray Collazo is joined by activists Dwight Bullard of New Florida Majority, Natalia Salgado of Center for Popular Democracy and WPPM’s Vanessa Maria Graber to discuss what’s next for progressive movement. How did 2018 Election results impact progressive movement? What do Progressives do now? How is the #AOC effect impacting progressives? How do we organize in this current political environment? Collazo also shares his thoughts on what Democratic leaders missed with Pelosi’s clapback against Trump this week and the real stories behind Michael Cohen’s sentencing this week. The Presidential campaign kicked off this week with an accent on the “A.” Interviews on show were originally aired on WPPM 106.5FM Community Radio in Philadelphia. Support WPPM in Philly or anywhere on the TuneIn App.

In this episode, we speak with Xiomara Caro Díaz, Director of New Organizing Projects at the Center for Popular Democracy and Advisory Committee member of the Maria Fund. Hear how Díaz, a "community connector," works to support individuals and social movements struggling against broken systems and policies in Puerto Rico, pre- and post-Hurricane Maria. Visit MariaFund.org to learn how you can equitably support Puerto Ricans affected by Hurricane Maria.

This is the 2nd panel discussion with Dedrick, Dorian Warren, President of the Center for Community Change Action, Fellow at the Roosevelt Institute and Co-chair for the Economic Security Project, Anne Price, President of the Insight Center for Community Economic Development, & Shawn Sebastian, Co-Director of Fed Up Campaign at The Center for Popular Democracy. The topic is Getting Real About Racial Wealth Inequities by changing the narrative & building power.insightcced.org @InsightCCED @AnnePriceICCEDhttps://player.fm/series/hidden-truths-1403433PopularDemocracy.org @popdemoc @shawnsebastianwww.cccaction.org @CCCAction @dorianwarren ‏ ProsperityNow.org @prosperitynow @dedrickmDyalekt.com @dyalektraps

The steady pace of school massacres has revived calls to put more cops in school, with atrocities committed by white students exploited to make schools more like prisons, and ensure that the former remain a rapid-fire pipeline into the latter. Dan’s guests are Dakota Hall, the executive sirector of Leaders Igniting Transformation, a youth-of-color-led organization fighting the school-to-prison pipeline in Milwaukee; and Dmitri Holtzman, the director of education justice campaigns at the Center for Popular Democracy. Thanks to Verso Books. Check out Hara Hotel: A Tale of Syrian Refugees in Greece by Teresa Thornhill versobooks.com/books/2713-hara-hotel. And please make a contribution to support the long-run viability of this show and access our weekly newsletter at Patreon.com/TheDig!  

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, about the way the company had been looted by private equity firms Bain Capital and KKR, the more she determined that no one else should have to go through this. Debbie and other Toys R Us workers are organizing to demand severance pay from the company, and beyond that, organizing to stop the kind of leveraged buyouts that saddle viable companies with unsustainable debt. She joins me along with Carrie Gleason of the Fair Workweek Initiative at the Center for Popular Democracy to explain what can be done. CG: This has been going on for quite some time, and during the recession, about ten years ago now, retail companies started to turn to these private equity firms to help them with their financial struggles. Many retail companies were bought out through this process called a leveraged buyout. In the case of Toys R Us, what happened was in say 2005 the company only had 30% debt. Then, as soon as KKR and Bain Capital bought it out, that flipped and the company went to 70% debt and only 30% equity. The company had long paid back this debt, but then, as every year, they had to pay management fees and other kinds of, basically, fees to take care of Bain Capital from one year to the next, on top of interest, and it became financially unviable. Then, Amazon gets on the scene and all of these investors across all of these retail companies look at what is happening with Amazon. Last year, it became the second largest retail company in America. They thought, “Well, maybe we should get out now, it is going to take too much investment, capital investment, to make this company competitive. So let’s just close the doors.” The truth is that Toys R Us is a completely viable business. Many of these other retail companies that are closing doors, like Nine West, are completely viable businesses, but the problem is that the owners aren’t looking to run the business of retail. It is a big problem. Then, it is not just this private equity ownership. Big companies like Macy’s and Kohl’s have other kinds of debt that are really crippling them in this moment where they actually need to be changing their strategies for the new retail industry that is emerging. As a result, I will say, a lot of people are losing their jobs. A lot of hard-working women like Debbie are losing their jobs. And, this is a disaster, a financial crisis that could completely be avoided if we just regulate these Wall Street firms. DB: There are several single moms in my store. I get emotional about this. I am sorry. I have got a mom, Melissa, she has got three young boys under six trying to make a living because she is a single mom. Julie has a specific schedule because she is taking care of her mom. It is going to upset their whole lives. Julie, as a matter of fact, has been with this store for twenty-one years. She opened this store and now she is going to close it. Interviews for Resistance is a syndicated series of interviews with organizers, agitators and troublemakers, available twice weekly as text and podcast. You can now subscribe on iTunes! Previous interviews here.

Today's Dig is a very good and somewhat unusual Dig: Dan's got two interviews with two different people. First, journalist Eric Blanc on the teacher strike wave that he's been covering for Jacobin. Then comes the Center for Popular Democracy's Xiomara Caro Diaz on last week's May Day demonstrations against austerity in Puerto Rico. Thanks to Verso Books. Check Duty Free Art: Art in the Age of Planetary Civil War by Hito Steyerl versobooks.com/books/2553-duty-free-art. Also, check out the Socialism 2018 Conference at SocialismConference.org. And please make a contribution to support the long-run viability of this show at Patreon.com/TheDig!

This episode, we take a look at a campaign that focuses on the Federal Reserve System and its impact on working people and people of color. We take you to a rally in front of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York where we spoke with two protesters about how the Fed impacts their communities. Then, we sit down with the Director of the Center for Popular Democracy’s Fed Up! Campaign to hear about the fight to put working people and communities of color at the center of the Fed’s decision-making process. For more information: http://whatrecovery.org/ neweconomynyc.org/letsbereal

(Bloomberg)--Arthur Levitt, former chairman of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, interviews Jordan Haedtler, campaign manager for “Fed Up’” at the Center for Popular Democracy, on "A Closer Look With Arthur Levitt."

This Tuesday March 20 will be the six-month anniversary of Hurricane María devastating Puerto Rico. Julio López Varona of [The Center for Popular Democracy](https://populardemocracy.org/) joins us to discuss how the island has changed and why what happened last year can never be forgotten. Featured show image: Fajardo, Puerto Rico a few days after Hurricane María (Photo by Dennis Rivera Pichardo | Center for Investigative Journalism)

Today we’re talking health care, taxes, and activism with Ady Barkan.  Like me, you probably first became aware of Ady when a video of him confronting Jeff Flake went viral.  But that wasn’t Ady’s first stab at activism – far from it in fact. A graduate of Columbia and of Yale Law, he could have done anything he wanted. He could have made a whole bunch of money right out of school, but instead, he started representing low-wage workers in New York City in pursuit of everything from paid sick days to the unionization of the car wash industry.  Today, Ady is a Director at the Center for Popular Democracy, where he runs Local Progress and the Fed Up campaign.  Eighteen months ago, at the age of 33, Ady and his wife Rachel welcomed a son, Carl, and shortly thereafter, Ady was diagnosed with ALS – a terminal illness that paralyzes its victims over time. In a very short period of time, he’s gone from being an active runner and hiker to being in a wheelchair, unable to pick up his son. It’s a cruel and inexplicably random affliction, and after talking to Ady, I found myself in awe of his resilience and thankful for the way he’s continued to dedicate his life to fighting for what’s right.  Important Links: @AdyBarkan http://populardemocracy.org/ @Majority54 @JasonKander hellomajority54@gmail.com

The Center for Popular Democracy's Jennifer Epps-Addison joins the Great Battlefield to talk about CPD's work to generate momentum from the local level to ensure that the values of equity, opportunity and a dynamic democracy become national priorities | Episode 78

State Reppin' w/ Brostoff & Bowen had the honor to have so much #BlackGirlMagic in the station studio they could barely handle it! They had us the hosts of That's What She Said Tee & Von, aka Tracey and Shavonda, as well as Jenn Epps-Addison of Center for Popular Democracy and Angela Lang political extraordinaire of many hats including For Our Future! We talk Trump, Affordable Healthcare, Police involved shootings, education and making monumental not incremental change!

May 17th, 2014 marked the 60th Anniversary of Brown v. Board of Education, the landmark Supreme Court Decision that held state laws establishing separate public schools for black and white students as unconstitutional because they violate the Equal Protection Clause of the 14th Amendment. Today, some six decades later, many parents and teachers are still worried that America's children are not receiving equal access to education envisioned in that case. On this episode of Lawyer 2 Lawyer, hosts Bob Ambrogi and J. Craig Williams shed light on this issue with guests Christian D'Andrea from the MacIver Institute and Kyle Serrette from The Center for Popular Democracy. Together they discuss private schools, charter schools, and homeschooling vs. the community school model. Tune in to learn more about funding concerns, oversight issues, and the proper role of teachers unions in the school choice debate. Christian D'Andrea is an Education Policy Analyst with the John K. MacIver Institute for Public Policy in Madison, WI. He earned his Master's of Public Policy degree at Vanderbilt University and has previously worked for the Friedman Foundation for Educational Choice as a State Policy Director and Policy Analyst. He is the author of several studies that examine the fiscal and personal impacts of educational reform, and his work has been featured everywhere from the Huffington Post to EducationNext. Kyle Serrette is the Director of Education Justice Campaigns at The Center for Popular Democracy and works with their partner organizations to strengthen their public education coalitions, develop strategy to help close the opportunity gaps, and coordinates national and regional campaigns that work to bolster our public education system. Prior to joining The Center for Popular Democracy, Kyle spent over 10 years working on corporate campaigns with groups such as Service Employees International Union, Change to Win, and the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees. He was awarded the 2010 Joe Hill Organizing Achievement Award by the LA Fed and the Los Angeles Orange County Organize Committee. Special thanks to our sponsor, Clio.

Community organizer, Andrew Friedman talks with Ronnie Eldridge about the role of community organizations. Mr. Friedman now heads The Center for Popular Democracy (CPD) - providing the "connective tissue" enabling an exchange of ideas enabling success.