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- #03 - Getting Ready to PartyIn which we challenge some of the ways leftists look at the Democratic Party and fantasize alternatives.Music credit: John Lennon - "Working Class Hero"32 min
- Bonus Interview: Heather BoothHeather Booth is a legendary progressive organizer with a half century of often astonishing achievement—a pioneer in the starting of feminist activism, key organizer in Illinois for the candidacies of insurgent African American candidates Harold Washington and Carol Mosely Braun, founder of the Midwest Academy which has trained thousands of organizers, in charge of national mobilizations for universal healthcare and financial reform to name a few of her efforts. We talked with Heather a few days after she became director of Progressive and Senior outreach for the Biden campaign. It was inspiring.Want to enjoy more ongoing bonus content? Become a patron! We thank you for your support: patreon.com/tsmh22 min
- #02 - What do we mean when we talk about the Democratic Party?In which we take something of a deep dive into the fluid morass of the DP, to encourage efforts to map the party in order to formulate strategies to remake it. And we start to identify potential targets for change in dialog with Mattias Lehman, one of the leaders of the Sunrise Movement.46 min
- #01 - Hitchhiker's Guide to the Democratic PartyIn which we talk about how we each came to see the need for progressive activism within the Democratic Party and sketch key moments in the struggle for its soul. Each episode starts with voices coming from that history: Fannie Lou Hamer in 1964; Ted Kennedy in 1980; Bernie Sanders in 2016; AOC now.39 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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