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Jacobin Radio episodes

June 30, 2020 Weekends: June 27, 2020 (ft. Julia Salazar)
Every Saturday starting at 1 PM ET, Ana Kasparian and Michael Brooks broadcast live from the Jacobin YouTube channel. This week, June 27, 2020, New York State Senator Julia Salazar joins the show to discuss democratic socialists' recent election wins as well as movements outside the electoral arena.
Weekends on YouTube https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLxlNhP2f0kULVe45TbPaF-uLuMQYMJcLk (https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLxlNhP2f0kULVe45TbPaF-uLuMQYMJcLk)
Brooks on Twitter https://twitter.com/_michaelbrooks (https://twitter.com/_michaelbrooks)
Kasparian on Twitter https://twitter.com/AnaKasparian (https://twitter.com/AnaKasparian)
1 hr 50 min
June 26, 2020 Dig: Mike Davis on Prisoners of the American Dream
Mike Davis on his classic book about why the US has long lacked strong socialist and labor politics. One recurrent answer: racism.
Read Dan's essay on the moment: jacobinmag.com/2020/06/donald-trump-war-american-democracy-riots-coronavirus
Not in the mood for a long, complex Dig interview? Check out Antibody, which is like commie This American Life: thedigradio.com/antibody
Support this podcast at Patreon.com/TheDig

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2 hr 12 min
June 26, 2020 Dig: Mike Davis on Prisoners of the American Dream
Mike Davis on his classic book about why the US has long lacked strong socialist and labor politics. One recurrent answer: racism.
Read Dan's essay on the moment: jacobinmag.com/2020/06/donald-trump-war-american-democracy-riots-coronavirus (jacobinmag.com/2020/06/donald-trump-war-american-democracy-riots-coronavirus)
Not in the mood for a long, complex Dig interview? Check out Antibody, which is like commie This American Life: thedigradio.com/antibody (thedigradio.com/antibody)
Support this podcast at Patreon.com/TheDig (Patreon.com/TheDig)
2 hr 12 min
June 25, 2020 Casualties of History: A Political Artisan
On this episode, we offer readers an extra week to read Chapter Fourteen. Instead, we speak with Labour MP John McDonnell about the coronavirus pandemic, economic crises, and how he's liking The Making of the English Working Class on this reading.
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58 min
June 25, 2020 Casualties of History: A Political Artisan
On this episode, we offer readers an extra week to read Chapter Fourteen. Instead, we speak with Labour MP John McDonnell about the coronavirus pandemic, economic crises, and how he's liking The Making of the English Working Class on this reading.
58 min
June 25, 2020 Jacobin Radio: Black Lives Matter LA; Geoffrey Berman
Suzi talks to two student activist/leaders of #StudentsDeserve, Sarah Djato at Dorsey high school, and Asia Bryant, who just graduated from Hamilton High, about their organizing, in partnership with Black Lives Matter LA, to defund school police and reallocate the money ($70 million of the LAUSD budget) to bring in counselors, services, and programs that serve black and brown youth as “students, not suspects.” That idea has now been endorsed by UTLA (United Teachers of Los Angeles), and will be taken up at the LAUSD School Board meeting this week.
Suzi then talks to Los Angeles Times legal affairs columnist, former US Attorney Harry Litman to discuss AG William Barr and President Trump against Manhattan US Attorney Geoffrey Berman. Friday night Barr announced Berman would resign, but Berman refused, and Saturday afternoon Trump fired Berman. But it doesn’t stop there, and Harry Litman helps us understand the dizzying array of legal and practical questions this raises. We also talk to Harry about the surprising decision on the Bostock v. Clayton Country Georgia case announced last week that saw our very conservative Supreme Court come to an unexpected rule, by a vote of 6-3 that says Title VII of the 1964 Civil Rights Act forbids discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation or transgender status — a hugely significant result.

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56 min
June 25, 2020 Jacobin Radio: Black Lives Matter LA; Geoffrey Berman
Suzi talks to two student activist/leaders of #StudentsDeserve, Sarah Djato at Dorsey high school, and Asia Bryant, who just graduated from Hamilton High, about their organizing, in partnership with Black Lives Matter LA, to defund school police and reallocate the money ($70 million of the LAUSD budget) to bring in counselors, services, and programs that serve black and brown youth as “students, not suspects.” That idea has now been endorsed by UTLA (United Teachers of Los Angeles), and will be taken up at the LAUSD School Board meeting this week.
Suzi then talks to Los Angeles Times legal affairs columnist, former US Attorney Harry Litman (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harry_Litman) to discuss AG William Barr and President Trump against Manhattan US Attorney Geoffrey Berman. Friday night Barr announced Berman would resign, but Berman refused, and Saturday afternoon Trump fired Berman. But it doesn’t stop there, and Harry Litman (https://www.latimes.com/opinion/story/2020-06-20/berman-barr-trump-firing-attorney) helps us understand the dizzying array of legal and practical questions this raises. We also talk to Harry (https://www.latimes.com/opinion/story/2020-06-19/neil-gorsuch-supreme-court-bostock-gay-transgender-civil-rights) about the surprising decision on the Bostock v. Clayton Country Georgia case announced last week that saw our very conservative Supreme Court come to an unexpected rule, by a vote of 6-3 that says Title VII of the 1964 Civil Rights Act forbids discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation or transgender status — a hugely significant result.
56 min
June 23, 2020 Behind the News: Eric Reinhart and Erin Hatton
Eric Reinhart on jails as COVID-19 spreaders (article here, AER article on pretrial detention here). Then, Erin Hatton on “coerced” workers, from prisoners to grad students.
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54 min
June 23, 2020 Behind the News: Eric Reinhart and Erin Hatton
Eric Reinhart on jails as COVID-19 spreaders (article here (https://www.healthaffairs.org/doi/full/10.1377/hlthaff.2020.00652), AER article on pretrial detention here (https://pubs.aeaweb.org/doi/pdfplus/10.1257/aer.20161503)). Then, Erin Hatton (https://www.erinhatton.com/) on “coerced (https://www.ucpress.edu/book/9780520305410/coerced)” workers, from prisoners to grad students.
54 min
June 22, 2020 Weekends: June 20, 2020 (ft. Sean Jacobs)
Every Saturday starting at 1 PM ET, Ana Kasparian and Michael Brooks broadcast live from the Jacobin YouTube channel. The episode from June 20, 2020, features Sean Jacobs, founder and editor of Africa is a Country and associate professor of international affairs at The New School, to discuss recent BLM protests and their links to protests in Africa.
Weekends on YouTube https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLxlNhP2f0kULVe45TbPaF-uLuMQYMJcLk
Brooks on Twitter https://twitter.com/_michaelbrooks
Kasparian on Twitter https://twitter.com/AnaKasparian

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1 hr 53 min

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