What's Left To Do?

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If she were a Catholic saint, which is hilarious because she's a staunch atheist, we would call her Our Lady of Labor. Alex Press is a staff writer at Jacobin Magazine, covering working class politics, with a particular focus on labor and unions, amidst the current spate of labor strikes ongoing in the US. She brings an interesting lens to her coverage as someone who has had to navigate both standing up and sitting down jobs, as a teen and adult. Oh, and she actually was a union organizer at one point.

But before all of that, she was an elite gymnast.

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Julian LaRosa is a public banking activist, an oft overlooked area of contestation for the left. But before he became a Numbers Guy on the left, he was pretty apolitical in a family of conservative Republicans. He became politicized during his time in the military, when he was deployed to Iraq (he became an anti-war, Ron Paul guy). His journey left continued in college, as he began to study economics as a way to engineer society.

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Thomas Frank is one of the most preeminent writers on the left, and heavy is the head that wears that particular crown. We get in to how he rises above being bitter about being boxed out of American media in Part 2.

But Part 1 starts off with a fascinating history of healthcare and populism, which he researched for the new afterword in the paperback run of his latest book, "The People, No!". Then, we take it back to his days growing up in Kansas where one of the ways he was able to explore life outside of his squeaky clean suburban life was through bbq!

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This week we have 1/4 of The Trillbilly Workers Party, with Aaron Thorpe, who is, ironically, originally a yankee.

The son of Jamaican immigrants growing up in NYC was pretty apolitical until he began sneering at the denizens of Zuccotti Park during Occupy as a high minded employee of the DNC (!!), believe it or not. He picked up his sister's copy of The Communist Manifesto shortly after, and...well...you know the rest 😉

You can find him on Twitter at @paradoomer (for now)

You can also find he and the rest of the Trillbillies on Twitter at @thetrillbillies

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There is absolutely no introduction needed for this episode's guest. Briahna is an attorney turned journalist, who became the National Press Secretary for Bernie's 2020 campaign.

Both Parts 1 & 2 are pretty lengthy, because ya girl has a lot to say (that we should closely listen to).

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Second in the lineup of the September of Sanders Staffers is none other than Phil 'With These Hands' Agnew. As you probably already have seen or heard, Phil is a force on the campaign trail. And if you know his history, you know he REALLY comes alive as an organizer, activist and artist. I was surprised that we almost missed out on the Phil who developed into an organizer at college. But thank God that almost doesn't count 😉

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To my surprise and delight, David was very candid during our interview about quite a bit 👀, particularly in part 2 of his interview. But part 1 is all about his idyllic childhood, just outside of Philly, where he was a sports nut who has always asked tough questions of everyone around him. It wasn't until high school that he got the itch for politics, after taking an elections class.

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Such a pleasure to be able to sit down with one of the left's most vocal media critics. Interestingly enough, his early life was shaped by the burgeoning worldview(s) of conservative talk radio deep in the heart of Texas.

You can find Adam's podcast @citationsneeded

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Gee is a photographer turned activist from Southern California who never dreamed he would end up being an activist, and certainly not one who would be a part of an effort to shut down an ICE facility. But he narrowly escaped becoming a casualty of gang life in his teens, and has been linking up with people serious about seeking justice for the marginalized ever since.

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If you've ever read Jacobin Magazine, chances are you've seen Micah's handiwork as Deputy Editor. But before he linked up with Bhaskar at everyone's favorite socialist magazine (working for $4/hr in his underwear at home), he was a PK from the midwest. He was first introduced to radical politics through the punk scene, where his ideology was expressed through veganism and dumpster diving (among other things). After moving on from punk, he *thought* academia would be his calling - and thank God attending one academic conference changed all that.