Talkin' Socialism

Talkin' Socialism episodes:

• 04.26.2017

  Episode 74 04.19.2017 May Day in Chicago

  Tom Broderick discusses May Day 2017 with Artemio Arreola (ICIRR), Robert Reiter (CFL) and Susan Hurley (CJwJ).

  
• 03.21.2017

  Episode 73 03.10.2017 Boycott the Braids

  An interview of Lupe Gonzalo, member and leader of Coalition of Immokalee Workers about Fair Food and the Wendy's boycott.

  
• 02.28.2017

  Episode 72 05.23.2011 Planned Inequality

  Ralph Martire argues the crisis of government and economy is a consequence of an intentional massive upward redistribution of wealth.

  
• 12.14.2016

  Episode 71, 05.08.2015, Only One Thing Can Save Us

  Labor lawyer, author and activist Tom Geoghegan argues that even as the U.S. labor movement crumbles, a revived but different labor movement is crucial to building a democratic society.

  
• 11.11.2016

  Episode 70, 11.03.2016, The Emancipation of Cecily McMillan

  Cecily McMillan in conversation with Aaron Armitage about her memoir and the intersection of the personal and the political.

  
• 10.23.2016

  Episode 69, 1971, Michael Harrington on Socialism

  Michael Harrington on socialism, its relation to liberalism, and why socialism must be global..

  
• 09.26.2016

  Talkin' Socialism: Episode 68, Recorded 08.25.2016

  Chicago DSA's Tom Broderick in conversation with Robert McKay and Paul Sakol on Rev. Edward Pinkney, Benton Harbor, St. Joseph, class, race, and human rights.

  
• 08.17.2016

  Talkin' Socialism: Episode 67, Recorded 08.13.2016

  Chicago DSA's Alex McLeese interviews Adam Olson from Oxfam America about efforts to modernize American food aid policies.

  
• 07.20.2016

  Talkin' Socialism: Episode 66, Recorded 07.20.2016

  Bill Barclay in conversation with author Rachel Weber about the political economy of urban development and her new book, From Boom to Bubble.

  
• 06.19.2016

  Talkin' Socialism: Episode 65, Recorded 06.19.2016

  Tom Broderick in conversation with Vicki Cervantes and Celeste Larkin about human rights in Honduras and the assassination of Berta Caceres.

  
• 05.27.2016

  Talkin' Socialism: Episode 64, Recorded 05.14.2016

  Tom Broderick interviews Ciera Walker, Congregational Organizer at the Community Renewal Society, and Rev. Christopher Griffin, an activist with the Community Renewal Society, about the Society's proposed FAIR COPS ordinance and about their report Who Watches the Watchmen?

  
• 04.26.2016

  Talkin' Socialism: Episode 63, Recorded 04.26.2016

  Tom Broderick interviews David Kraft, director of the Nuclear Energy Information Service, about the state of the nuclear energy industry in Illinois and the state of "Clean Jobs" legislation

  
• 03.29.2016

  Talkin' Socialism: Episode 62, Recorded 03.12.2016

  Tom Broderick interviews Suzanne Akhras Sahloul, founder and Executive Director of the Syrian Community Network, about the dimensions of the problem and about the work of the Syrian Community Network

  
• 02.17.2016

  Talkin' Socialism: Episode 61, Recorded 02.06.2016

  Bunnie Johnson, AFSCME Local 2858, and Fran Tobin, Alliance for Community Services, on what happens when the State pretends there is no money and when government is run like a business

  
• 01.25.2016

  Talkin' Socialism: Episode 60, Recorded 01.09.2016

  Ron Baiman and Bill Barclay, members of the Chicago Political Economy Group, review the political economy of 2015 and speculate on 2016

  
• 12.26.2015

  Talkin' Socialism: Episode 59, Recorded 12.12.2015

  Peg Strobel interviews three activists from the Chicago Abortion Fund (CAF): Brittany Mostiller-Keith, the Fund’s Executive Director, and CAF board members Lindsay Budzinski and Sekile Nzinga-Johnson.

  
• 11.26.2015

  Talkin' Socialism: Episode 58, Recorded 11.21.2015

  Peg Strobel in conversation with Margaret Power about the New Deal planned community of Norvelt, Pennsylvania, its history and politics.

  
• 10.23.2015

  Talkin' Socialism: Episode 57, Recorded 10.08.2015

  Richard Pokorny interviews Bellissima Opera Artistic Director Christine Steyer about The Transcendence Triptych, an opera celebrating people who transcend racial and political divides.

  
• 09.29.2015

  Talkin' Socialism: Episode 56, Recorded 09.12.2015

  Martin Macias, community activist and journalist, interviews Kiera Bouton and Jeff Uehlinger, members of USAS local 15 at the University of Illinois ­ Chicago. Bouton and Uehlinger discuss the international campaign to End Deathtraps and their personal experiences fighting the...

  
• 08.14.2015

  Talkin' Socialism: Episode 55, Recorded 08.08.2015

  Lady Law never stands so tall as when she stands on someone's hand. Darrell Cannon is interviewed by Bill Barclay about Chicago Police torture and the reparations ordinance passed by the Chicago City Council.

  
• 07.30.2015

  Talkin' Socialism: Episode 54, Recorded 07.25.2015

  It's a free country. Here we have the best health care only money can buy. And if you're sick and without money, you're free to die. Dr. Anne Scheetz interviews actor and playwright Michael Milligan about his one-man play, Mercy...

  
• 06.30.2015

  Talkin' Socialism: Episode 53, Recorded 06.27.2015

  Dan Hamilton, Chicago DSA's Political Education Director, interviews Professor William A. Pelz on the occasion of the recent release of the second edition of the "Eugene V. Debs Reader: Socialism and the Class Struggle."

  
• 05.18.2015

  Talkin' Socialism: Episode 52, Recorded 04.27.2015

  According to West Virginia district attorney Reese Blizzard, that would be Mary Harris Jones, aka "Mother Jones." And just who was Mother Jones and why was she so dangerous? Peg Strobel interviews Rosemary Feurer, Associate Professor of History at Northern...

  
• 04.20.2015

  Talkin' Socialism: Episode 51, Recorded 04.11.2015

  Tom Broderick interviews Carson Starkey, the Director of the Illinois Fair Trade Coalition, about the pending "Fast Track" legislation in Congress, intended to speed passage of the yet-to-be-disclosed Trans-Pacific Partnership free trade agreement.

  
• 03.31.2015

  Talkin' Socialism: Episode 50, Recorded 03.14.2015

  Jorge Mujica, recent candidate for Alderman of Chicago's 25th Ward, and the manager of his campaign, Mario Cardenas. Interviewed by Chicago DSA's Bill Barclay (Barclay was on the campaign steering committee), they discuss what went right with the campaign and...

  
• 02.27.2015

  Talkin' Socialism: Episode 49, Recorded 02.23.2015

  Sandra Shimon and Joyce Champelli tell the story leading up to the passage in Oak Park of an advisory referendum advocating universal background checks for firearm sales and transfers, beginning with an Oak Park group, Gun Rights and Responsibilities Committee)...

  
• 01.19.2015

  Talkin' Socialism: Episode 48, Recorded 01.10.2015

  Chicago DSA members and Chicago Political Economy Group founding members Ron Baiman and Bill Barclay do their annual review of the economy of the previous year and look ahead to the coming year.

  
• 12.11.2014

  Talkin' Socialism: Episode 47, Recorded 12.03.2014

  This episode explores the intersectionality of gardening, ethnic and family traditions, environmental sustainability, cultural diversity and social justice, as experienced through the University of Illinois at Chicago's Heritage Garden Intership Program. DSA's Peg Strobel interviews UIC Latino Cultural Center Director...

  
• 11.24.2014

  Talkin' Socialism: Episode 46, Recorded 11.08.2014

  Ray Parrish talks about his decades as a counsellor to military veterans, the post-military challenges faced especially by combat veterans, and the ways in which a less than honorable discharge can put a veteran on the wrong side of the...

  
• 10.21.2014

  Talkin' Socialism: Episode 45, Recorded 10.11.2014

  Just in time for National Domestic Violence Awareness Month, DSA's Peg Strobel interviews Dr. Stephanie Riger about the complicated relationship between domestic violence, poverty, and gender roles, about the services available people in abusive domestic situations, and how this has...

  
• 09.22.2014

  Talkin' Socialism: Episode 44, Recorded 09.13.2014

  Dr. Kim Scipes, Associate Professor of Sociology at Purdue University North Central, is interviewed by Greater Oak Park DSA's Tom Broderick. What is the measure of poverty in America? While a few Americans are doing very well indeed, is there...

  
• 08.16.2014

  Talkin' Socialism: Episode 43, Recorded 08.09.2014

  Ruth McBeth, an Assistant Public Defender for Cook County and an activist with The Next Movement, and Anthony Lowery, Director of Policy and Advocacy for the Safer Foundation, discuss the vicious feedback cycle of poverty and crime and incarceration, with...

  
• 07.22.2014

  Talkin' Socialism: Episode 42, Recorded 07.12.2014

  Dr. Angela Odoms-Young, Assistant Professor of Kinesiology and Nutrition at the University of Illinois at Chicago, and Ted Lucore, a volunteer with the Greater Chicago Food Depository, explore the dimensions and consequences of hunger in America.

  
• 07.09.2014

  Talkin' Socialism: Episode 41, Recorded 06.29.2014

  Liz Henderson, chair of DSA's Drop Student Debt Campaign and co-chair of Greater Philadelphia DSA, is interviewed by Chicago DSA co-chair Bill Barclay. Just what is the magnitude of the problem, who owes education debt, why is it a problem,...

  
• 06.21.2014

  Talkin' Socialism: Episode 40, Recorded 06.14.2014

  Disability rights activists Tom Wilson, Rene David Luna, and Susan Aarup explore the relation between disability and poverty. They touch on the issues of independent living, poverty programs that place barriers to employment, discrimination, the Americans with Disabilities Act, sub-minimum...

  
• 05.19.2014

  Talkin' Socialism: Episode 39, Recorded 05.10.2014

  With the new Pope Francis, how has this changed the conversation about poverty and social justice? What has changed in the Catholic Church, and what has stayed the same? Our guests for this program are Sisters Kathleen Desautels and Dorothy...

  
• 05.31.2013

  Talkin' Socialism: Episode 27, Recorded 05.11.2013

  Emily Rosenberg and Bob Breving discuss labor education. In particular, they talk about the DePaul Labor Education Program that has some unique and some nearly unique features, including a program for high schools.

  
• 04.22.2013

  Talkin' Socialism: Episode 26, Recorded 04.13.2013

  Leah Fried of the United Electrical Workers and Stephen Yokich of Cornfield and Feldman discuss so-called "right-to-work" laws: the consequences for organizing and maintaining unions, how the spread of these laws are a part of a broader attack on unions,...

  
• 03.19.2013

  Talkin' Socialism: Episode 25, Recorded 03.09.2013

  Colleen Dille and Michael Gosch from the Interfaith Committee for Detained Immigrants discuss how migrants and refugees released from Federal custody have often lost everything while finding themselves hundreds of miles from home. Volunteers from the Post-Detention Accompaniment Network are...

  
• 01.17.2013

  Talkin' Socialism: Episode 23, Recorded 01.12.2013

  Peg Strobel, former director of the Jane Addams Hull-House Museum at the University of Illinois at Chicago, interviews Louise (Lucy) W. Knight, author of Citizen: Jane Addams and the Struggle for Democracy (2005) and Jane Addams: Spirit in Action (2010).

  
• 12.14.2012

  Talkin' Socialism: Episode 22, Recorded 12.08.2012

  Holly Graff, Professor of Philosophy at Oakton Community College and Senator in the Illinois Education Association chapter at the college, and Joe Persky, Professor of Economics at University of Illinois at Chicago and President of United Faculty, affiliated with both...

  
• 09.13.2012

  Talkin' Socialism: Episode 19, Recorded 07.14.2012

  Chicago DSA's Bill Barclay and National Nurses United's Jan Rodolpho talk the about Financial Transactions Tax: What it is, what it is not, how it would work, why America needs one, and what difference would it make.

  
• 08.22.2012

  Talkin' Socialism: Episode 18, Recorded 08.11.2012

  Bill Barclay interviews Leone Jose Bicchieri, Executive Director of the Chicago Workers Collaborative, about activism, organizing, and the work of the Chicago Workers Collaborative.

  
• 05.21.2012

  Talkin' Socialism: Episode 15, Recorded 05.12.2012

  Chicago DSA's Tom Broderick interviews Melinda Power, sole proprietor of West Town Law Office, about protest and civil rights with a special focus on the current NATO protests.

  
• 04.13.2012

  Talkin' Socialism: Episode 14, Recorded 03.10.2012

  Chicago DSA's Michael Baker interviews John D'Emilio, professor of history and women's and gender studies at the University of Illinois at Chicago, about the life and legacy of Bayard Rustin.

  
• 02.25.2012

  Talkin' Socialism: Episode 13, Recorded 02.11.2012

  Chicago DSA's Ron Baiman interviews Loyola University Philosophy Professor David Schweickart on "economic democracy" and "market socialism."

  
• 01.19.2012

  Talkin' Socialism: Episode 12, Recorded 01.14.2012

  Progressive economists Ron Baiman and Bill Barclay meet again to discuss the economic crisis and how it should be addressed.

  
• 12.31.2011

  Talkin' Socialism: Episode 11, Recorded 12.10.2011

  Chicago DSA's Peg Strobel interviews Gaylon Alcaraz and Veronica Arreola about the Chicago Abortion Fund.

  
• 12.03.2011

  Talkin' Socialism: Episode 10, Recorded 11.19.2011

  Chicago DSA member Michael Aubry interviews Chicago DSA's Political Education Director, Bill Pelz, about his new biography of Karl Marx titled Karl Marx: A World to Win.