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- "#41: Starting Season 4: 3R's for Trump Time
Daraka suggests a 3 R framework for organizing and action in the coming time: REFORM, REALIGNMENT, RESISTANCE--and in this episode we describe what each of these might involve. We promise from now on to strive to be 'Grunny". To find out what we're talking about, click on.. Give us your ideas, suggestions and feedback--and subscribe at: patreon.com/tsmh
Music: Kris Kristofferson passed away in 2024. He wrote quite a few politically engaged songs. One of these, written in the 1990's seems chillingly apt right now: "Don't Let the Bastards Get You Down'. "Mixed & Edited by Next Day Podcast
48 min - BONUS: Talking About Ethel Rosenberg with her son, Michael Meeropol
"BONUS: Talking About Ethel Rosenberg with her son, Michael Meeropol
For Dick interviewed Michael Meeropol for his weekly radio show 'Culture of Protest". triggered by new evidence that Ethel Rosenberg was executed along with Julius even though the government knew she was not guilty. President Biden is being petitioned to declare her exonerated before he leaves office. The conversation illuminates the case, and the sons' experience and development.. Listen and share this revelatory episode. The petition can be found at www.rfc.org.
Music: 'Julius & Ethel" by Bob Dylan. 'Strange Fruit" performed by Shirley Verrett55 min - BONUS: Jeremy Brecher talks about the Green New Deal From Below
Jeremy Brecher 's books on social change have changed how many activists think about labor and anti-globalization movements.
On Dick Flacks' long running radio show he etalksabout his just published book: THE GREEN NEW DEAL FROM BELOW., and we've added this conversation to our podcast series.
Do you know about the Liliput Strategy? To comment on this or other episodes, go to patreon.com/tsmh
music: Iris Dement, 'Working on a World"53 min - #40 Dick & Daraka Talk Post-Election
"n which Daraka and Dick talk about the most important things Left activists should learn from the election results and what we need to figure out. Can we imagine a Democratic Party that's intersectional and working class?
Music: 'What We Want" by Joe Hill (on the 109th anniversary of his execution) performed by the Shelby Bottom duoMixed & Edited by Next Day Podcast
44 min - #39 Talking About Democratic Prospects with Harold Meyerson
Harold Meyerson is editor at large of Americn Prospect, Formerly a columnist forrthe Washington Post and the LA Times, a much respected reporter on the labor movement, the Demoratic Partty and California politics.
He was one of the founders of DSA (Democratic Socialists of America) and we talk to him abut the Demoratic conventions of 2024, 1968 and 1980 (all of which he atttended) --and much else.
Music: Keb Mo, PUT A WOMAN IN CHARGE52 min - #38 Talking with Maurice Isserman: Learning from the Tragedy of American Communism
Historian Maurice Isserman’s new book: Reds: The Tragedy of American Communism helps us think about how the organized left ought to be organized. We talk about the past’s relevance to the present; Maurice, like us, is an activist, vitally concerned with building a Left that’s democratic and effective. The episode ends with the voice of Swedish singer-songwriter Molly Nilssen. It’s a track on her just released CD, Unamerican Activiities. The track is called “American Communist Party”
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59 min - #37 Talking with Phyllis Bennis
Phyllis Bennis is a unique left journalist, having dedicated her life's work to reporting from the UN and helping the antiwar movements understand international law and diplomacy. She's a long time activist for Palestinian justice, a fellow at the Institute for Policy 'studies, and international advisor for Jewish 'voice for Peace. And an alumna of UC Santa Barbara.
Muisc: David Rovics "This is Genocide"49 min - #36 Talking with Vlad and Matthew, leftwing zionists
Daraka & Dick engage with Vladidas Khaykin, anti-semitism specialist with the Anti-Defamation League (ADL), abd Matthew Finkelstein, co-founder, Progressive Zionists of California. They spell out their experience of leftwing anti-semitism and we all try to define a common ground for a just peace.
closing music: David Broza "Yiyeh Tov (It will be better)"Mixed & Edited by Next Day Podcast
1 hr 6 min - #35 Talking with Sherene Sekaily, Palestine Scholar
#35 Talking with Sherene Seikaly, Palestine Scholar
Daraka and Dick converse with one of the leading Palestinian intellectuals in academia. It was an enlightening and heart-wrenching encounter for us--and perhaps you'll feel that as well.
Music: Jerusalem Youth Choir: 'A Different Way"47 min - #34 Talking with Rosie, UCSB Protester
A conversation with Rosie, a media spokesperson for the Palestinian solidarity encampment at UC Santa Barbara. We talk about why and how she's engaged, the impact of the protest on campus, how participants respond to concerns about anti-semitism, and how she defines the movement's goals. We learned a lot.
Music: Phil Ochs: "I;m gonna say itn now" Declan Griffin is our producer.55 min
About Talking Strategy, Making History
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Each episode will focus on a different aspect or example of the general theme. Our kick-off frame is the awkward position that progressives find themselves in. It seems obvious, at least to a significant portion of Leftists, that “working within the Democratic Party” has to be part of any realistic strategy for making substantive, social democratic or radical change in the United States. What is far less clear is what this means practically, in terms of organization and elections. For many years, the slogan of the Left has been to work both “inside and outside” the Democratic Party. But what does that “inside” part actually look like?
The podcast project comes from our experience as progressive activists--and from the urgency of now. Dick Flacks taught sociology at UC Santa Barbara and Umiversity of Chicago for 60 years. He's of the founding generation of Students for a Democratic Society and helped write the Port Huron Statement (along with Tom Hayden and the big Lebowski). He and his late wife Mickey recntly published a memoir of their lives--political and personal. It's called MAKING HISTORY/MAKING BLINTZES: HOW TWO RED DIAPER BABIES FOUND EACH OTHER AND DISCOVERED AMERICA. He's written a lot about the American Left--most notably MAKING HISTORY: THE AMERICAN LEFT AND THE AMERICAN MIND. His weekly radio show called'The Culture of Protest' can be heard 6 pm Thursdays on www.kcsb.org.
Daraka Larimore-Hall is vice-chair of the Democratic Party of California and a political and organizational consultant working primarily for social democratic parties and trade unions abroad. A lifelong political activist, Daraka first met Dick when he was in Jr High School, and first getting involved in local progressive politics in Santa Barbara. Since then, Daraka has been a national leader and staffer for DSA, a board member of the International Union of Socialist Youth, an activist and elected officer of United Auto Workers Local 2865, as well as active in the Democratic Party at all levels. He received his PhD, supervised by Dr. Flacks, in 2013.
Per Hoel is the producer/director of our effort. Per helped found the DSA chapter in Santa Barbara in the aftermath of the Sanders campaign in 2016. He's a professional videographer and multimedia designer and works in instructional design.
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