For The Win

In the latest episode of For The Win, Yochi Dreazen spoke with Dr. Serene Jones, president of Union Theological Seminary, about why the long alliance between Christian conservatives and the Republican Party is beginning to fray, why some progressives continue to look down at people of faith, and how to finally create a strong and lasting Religious Left.

In the latest episode of For the Win, Abby & Yochi spoke with Aaron Belkin, the director of Take Back the Court, about why a 6-3 conservative majority on the Supreme Court would put a Biden presidency in “handcuffs from day one” and how Democrats can add enough new justices to prevent the high court from simply becoming another arm of the Republican Party.

Achieving a clean environment can be challenging given that, for many communities around the world, access to basic necessities is compromised by systemic racism and discrimination. In partnership with The Raben Group’s “Road to Respite” series, Elliot talked to Ramon Cruz, the first ever Latino president of the Sierra Club to talk about environmental justice, the future of the environmental movement generally, and the Sierra Club’s own complicated history with racism and white supremacy.

From the toppling of confederate landmarks to the revolutionary push to defund the police, it's safe to say that we are experiencing one the most pivotal and transformational moments in America's history. But what happens next and where do we, as a country, go from here? In the newest episode, Yochi and NAACP's President, Derrick Johnson discuss  the current moment and the future he and other movement leaders are envisioning.

In the latest episode of For the Win’s series, Taking on Covid-19, Elliot speaks with Michelle Miller and Laila N. of coworker.org, about the social costs of reopening the economy -- what reopening means for workers, and how workers are mobilizing to protect themselves and their communities.

On the newest episode of For the Win, Pittsburgh Mayor Bill Peduto talks with Yochi about how police unions are slowing his efforts to reform the city’s police force in the aftermath of the George Floyd murder and Pittsburgh’s reasons for signing onto the 8 Can’t Wait campaign. 

Black communities have been ravaged by police violence. Now those communities are being ravaged by the COVID-19 pandemic — and both problems are getting worse. Amid the fallout from George Floyd's murder, Yochi spoke to Dr. Joia Crear Perry, President of the National Birth Equity Collaborative, and Daniel Dawes, a health policy expert at the Morehouse School of Medicine, about why police violence is exacerbating the impact of COVID-19 and how to keep the situation from spiraling even further out of control.

On a special COVID-19 episode of For the Win, Yochi talks with Shannon Watts, the founder of Moms Demand Action for Gun Sense in America, about how the coronavirus crisis is making America’s gun violence crisis even worse, why the fights that matter most are happening at the state level, and why the NRA is finally be on the ropes. 

In the latest episode of For the Win's series, Taking on Covid-19, Abby speaks with Iimay Ho and Yahya Alazrak of Resource Generation about how young people in the richest top 10% of the US are demonstrating solidarity during the pandemic by redistributing their wealth and demanding a people’s bailout.

In the latest episode of For the Win's series, Taking on Covid-19, Abby speaks with Vilissa Thompson, the Founder & CEO of Ramp Your Voice!, about how people with disabilities, many of whom are most endangered by the public health crisis, must be centered in any conversation about relief and the reopening of America.