The Young Jurks

Mike Crawford hosts a discussion of Mass Dem scandals (homophobia, misogyny,  and sex assaults) and the state rep campaign of Juan Jaramillo with guests, Calla Walsh, Dan Totten, and Juan Jaramillo.

Calla Walsh is a 16-year-old organizer from Cambridge, MA who has worked on issue-based advocacy work and political campaigns at the local, state,  and federal levels. She is currently a Regional Organizer for Act-On  Mass and is passionate about political education, youth civic engagement, and building a progressive State House.

Dan Totten is vice vice-chairchair of the Ward 3 Democrats within the Cambridge Democratic City Committee.

https://www.cambridgeday.com/.../homophobic-slur-during.../

Juan Jaramillo is running to represent the working people of Revere and  Winthrop in the Massachusetts State Legislature, he was just endorsed by  US Senator Bernie Sanders.

Mike Crawford, hosts a discussion on the dozen dispensaries that left the Commonwealth Dispensary Association (the CDA) this week over a delivery lawsuit that the CDA has since withdrawn. 

Shaleen Title is an Indian-American drug policy activist and attorney who served from 2017 through 2020 as one of five commissioners on the Massachusetts Cannabis Control Commission, the agency tasked with regulating legal and medical marijuana in the commonwealth. Described as “the people’s weed watchdog” in Boston Magazine’s 2019 Power List, she has won several awards for her advocacy work and her efforts to make the cannabis industry more fair and inclusive. 

Fabricio DaSilva is the Vice President of UFCW 1445, a local labor union representing cannabis dispensary employees at NETA, SIRA, Mayflower, and more. 

Aaron Goines is a graduate of Northeastern University, starting his entrepreneur career path with a decade of employment in the financial services industry, a Founder and Board Advisor to the Massachusetts Cannabis Association for Delivery and is the Co-Founder and CEO of The Emerald Turtle, a majority minority-owned cannabis venture. 

Devin Alexander is the CEO/Co-Founder of Rolling Releaf. 

Grant Smith, is a contributor with DigBoston, The Young Jurks and Midnight Mass, and President of MassCann.

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Calla  Walsh is a 16-year-old organizer from Cambridge, MA who has worked on  issue-based advocacy work and political campaigns at the local, state,  and federal levels. She is currently a Regional Organizer for Act On  Mass and is passionate about political education, youth civic  engagement, and building a progressive State House. 

We discuss the Boston Mayoral race, ranked choice voting, Governor Charlie Baker, the violent failed Trump Coup, the lack of transparency in state government, the new MA house speaker, sleazy twitter posts from a candidate for local office, Valentino Capobianco, and much more....We also read comments from a viewer of our livestream broadcast, Boston City Coucilor Julia Mejia. 

You can find Calla on Twitter, @CallaWalsh

Guest, Lisa Conine, a Om of Medicine dispensary worker in Michigan who was fired after organizing a union election at a 4front/Mission Dispensary

Rayla Campbell, Dianna Ploss, Mass Trumpers get violent with calls from Rod Webber, Lauren Pespisa and Steve Shaffer.  https://www.southcoasttoday.com/news/20201019/dartmouth-man-says-republican-congressional-candidate-rayla-campbell-threatened-him

Negligence is the failure to take proper care in doing something. There's no other way to describe Trump's mass spreader COVID-19 parties. Call ins from Ava Sue Pederson and Bay State Rock’s Carmelita! Bay State Rock podcast: https://open.spotify.com/show/5cMOGWlypVcO2KUan1oqCA

Nick Giannone for MA State Rep

Mike Crawford & Grant Smith open with an interview, Ashwawn Dabney-Small running for Boston City Council, and then are joined by three women candidates we have previously endorsed, Michelle Mullet and Nichole Mossalam for MA State Rep and Helena Fontes for MA Governors Council.

Mike Crawford interviews Chelsea City Councilor at Large Damali Vidot discussing her campaign for MA State Rep, she's running in all of Charlestown and a section of Chelsea. We also discuss her wish to bring transparency to the Massachusetts State House, an Exxon Mobile lawsuit she's a part of, cannabis, COVID19, her past, police and drug reform, safe injection sites, and much more. https://www.votedamali.org

Why did a MA State Rep candidate call the Middleton Police Department on us? MA State Rep candidate Robert May didn’t want to answer questions about blocking a veteran from opening RiverRun Gardens, LLC, a microgrow in a Newburyport business park. May  wouldn’t speak and then called the police? First time anybody has ever called the police on us for asking questions.

Bet his opponent Sally Kerans for State Representative won’t call the police on us for asking questions...

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