Interviews for Resistance
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Interviews for Resistance
Welcome to Interviews for Resistance. In this series, we'll be talking with organizers, troublemakers, and thinkers who are working both to challenge the Trump administration and the circumstances that created it. It can be easy to despair, to feel like trends toward inequality are impossible to sto...
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20 episodes
Prison strikers building a movement for justice and decarceration, with Janos Marton
The nationwide prison strike that began August 21 is ongoing, and it comes at a moment when Americans are perhaps primed to hear demands from prisoner...
A new agenda for labor law, with Celine McNicholas
Labor law in the US has been broken down over the past several decades until it's nearly nonexistent. And yet a new wave of worker resistance and poli...
Continuing the teachers' fight in West Virginia, with Rebecca Diamond
The teachers in West Virginia kicked off a multi-state strike wave last winter when they shuttered every school in the state over their consistently l...
Contesting the Right's Designs on Public Space, with Prof. Jalane Schmidt
August 11 will be the first anniversary of the "Unite the Right" rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, where Heather Heyer was killed and several other...
Building the movement for Medicare for All, with Benjamin Day
This week saw the 53rd anniversary of Medicare, created, as Benjamin Day of Healthcare-NOW! points out, in the middle of the upheaval and social movem...
Pressing Amazon to stop cooperating with ICE, with Cata Santiago of Movimiento Cosecha
In this week’s episode we talk to Cata Santiago of Movimiento Cosecha, an immigrants rights organization that is spearheading a campaign against Amazo...
Keeping the pressure on Chuck Schumer and the Democrats, with Liat Olenick of Indivisible Nation BK
Democratic Senate Leader Chuck Schumer has been hearing from his constituents a lot lately, and they're demanding he stand up and fight. That's the me...
Occupy and abolish ICE, with George Ciccariello-Maher
Around the country, as the demand to abolish ICE spreads, occupations of its offices are springing up. In many of the cities where such occupations ex...
The Supreme Court and the corporate class, with Saqib Bhatti
The Supreme Court last week handed down decisions in Trump's Muslim ban case, in the public sector labor union case Janus v. AFSCME, and more, decisio...
Our immigration policy has always separated families, with Jess Morales Rocketto
When it comes to family separation, no one knows better than migrant domestic workers the myriad ways that US immigration policy has always kept peopl...
Charlottesville is a place, not an event, with Molly
Nearly a year after the white supremacist "Unite the Right" rally drew national headlines, Charlottesville, VA activists are still dealing with the fa...
A New Social Contract, with Cathy Albisa
It can be so easy to get bogged down in the unending horrors coming from the news every day. But while we get stuck watching the bad news, organizers...
Halting the bipartisan deregulate-a-palooza, with Alexis Goldstein
Donald Trump ran a faux-populist campaign for office, bashing Democrats for being too close to Wall Street. But in office, it's a different story. Alo...
Stopping family separation at the border, with Eve Stotland
There's been a lot of anger about the Trump administration's policies on immigration, and in particular lately, around the policy of family separation...
Defeating the attack on food assistance--for now, with Rebecca Vallas
A lot of things wind up embedded in the massive, regularly-renewed piece of legislation known as the "farm bill" each year, and one of the most import...
Making Private Equity Pay, with Debbie Beard and Carrie Gleason
When Debbie Beard found out the company she'd worked at for 29 years, Toys R Us, was closing down, she was shocked--she knew the company had been havi...
Finding healing justice with Cat Brooks
The Justice Teams Network is a new project aimed at challenging dominant narratives of police shootings and helping communities find healing. Building...
May Day Without Immigrants in Wisconsin, with Gabriel Quintero
As May Day comes around again, once again immigrant workers take to the streets in protest of continued criminalization. Having defeated the 287g prog...
The strike wave rolls on, with Noah Karvelis of Arizona Educators United
Arizona may well be the next state to see a massive teacher strike, as they voted last week for a Thursday strike deadline. Part of the wave of teache...
Repeal and replace the barriers to progress regardless of party, with Joe Dinkin
In a busy week for the Working Families Party, they announced a new director, found out that Paul Ryan was dropping out of his race against WFP member...