The Nation
Los Angeles Protests: Past and Present with Mike Davis and Jon Wiener
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- Los Angeles Protests: Past and Present with Mike Davis and Jon Wiener
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- 4 years ago
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- The first big uprising against police violence in Los Angeles came in 1965 in Watts. Today's Black Lives Matter protests are far broader, but the challenges are no less daunting. In their widely-anticipated new history of 1960s Los Angeles, "Set the Night on Fire," award-winning radical historian of Southern California Mike Davis and Nation contributing writer Jon Wiener trace the city's turbulent era of rebellion and police brutality and show how it connects us to the present moment with people out in the streets again.
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- John Nichols: The Fight for the Soul of the Democratic Party
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- 4 years ago
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- Nation National Affairs Correspondent John Nichols joins Katrina vanden Heuvel and had a vital conversation about the future of the fight for equality and justice.
Nation National Affairs Correspondent John Nichols offers possible answers in his hotly anticipated new book The Fight for the Soul of the Democratic Party.Democrats once dreamed the biggest dreams: of thwarting the politics of hatred and defeating the threat of American fascism, of achieving economic and social and racial justice and peace and prosperity. This is history. But it need not be history alone. Could something like the New Deal be done again? Could it be done better? Could talk of a Green New Deal move from a speaker’s platform to the program of government and then to the reality of a nation?
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- Chris Hayes: America on the Brink
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- 4 years ago
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- Chris Hayes joins Nation Editorial Director and Publisher Katrina vanden Heuvel for an exclusive conversation about the state of American politics in the midst of a pandemic, widespread unrest, and a presidential election.
Hayes is an Editor-at-Large of The Nation, and host of “All In with Chris Hayes” on MSNBC. The author of two books, A Colony in a Nation and Twilight of the Elites: America After Meritocracy, Hayes has written on a wide variety of political and social issues, from union organizing and economic democracy, to the intersection of politics and technology.
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- Rep. Katie Porter: Putting Working People First
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- 4 years ago
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- Rep. Katie Porter leads an urgent conversation about the critical policies needed to help American workers in the wake of COVID-19. As the representative of the 45th Congressional District and a member of the House Financial Services Committee, she's asked tough questions of bank CEOs and administration officials to hold them accountable to the American people. She has also been a key supporter of legislation to reduce the influence of dark money in politics and restore ethics to Washington, and in this fraught moment, has been fighting for federal money to reopen schools safely.
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- Dorian Warren: Mobilizing During the Pandemic
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- 4 years ago
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- Dorian Warren, President of the Center for Community Change, and Nation editorial board member joins director and publisher Katrina vanden Heuvel for a stirring discussion about harnessing the power of the people most marginalized by injustice.
A progressive scholar, media personality, and dynamic speaker, Warren has worked to advance racial, economic and social justice for over two decades. He previously taught for over a decade at the University of Chicago and Columbia University, where he was Co-Director of the Columbia University Program on Labor Law and Policy. As a commentator on public affairs, Warren has appeared regularly on television and radio and has written for a wide array of magazines and newspapers.
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- Joan Walsh: Voting Amid a Pandemic
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- 4 years ago
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- Award-winning political reporter Joan Walsh joins Nation Editorial Director Katrina vanden Heuvel for a vital discussion about voting in November as the pandemic stretches on. Walsh is a regular guest on CNN’s The Lead with Jake Tapper Out Front with Erin Burnett, and has appeared on many other national shows including Real Time with Bill Maher and on PBS. Salon’s first news editor, Walsh served as editor-in-chief for six years. She’s written for The New York Times, The Washington Post, the Los Angeles Times, and the San Francisco Chronicle, among many other publications. An avid baseball fan, she is the co-author of Splash Hit: The Pacific Bell Park Story, about the building of the San Francisco Giants legendary waterfront stadium.
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- Keeping the Fight for Racial Justice Alive
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- 4 years ago
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- Journalist Melissa Harris-Perry, Nation Justice Correspondent Elie Mystal, and Working Families Party National Director Maurice Mitchell join Nation Editorial Board Member and President of the Center for Community Change Dorian Warren for an urgent discussion on the historic Black Lives Matter protests and the ongoing fight for racial justice.
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- OppArt: Close to Zero
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- 4 years ago
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- By Dee Hood 2020
Audio: Jiveroo (public domain) Harry Day and Della
Voice: Donald Trump
Video: Here Comes the Circus (public Domain) Castle Films
Videezy, Video Blocks, Prelinger Archives
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- Naomi Klein: This Crisis Has Made Our Interdependence More Visible Than Ever Before
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- 4 years ago
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- Naomi Klein explains how the coronavirus crisis has forced us to slow down and recognize that the people who work in meat processing, the people who care for our old and sick, the people who work in Amazon warehouses, in short, the most vulnerable people in our society are the people we need to stand in solidarity with the most.
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- Naomi Klein: We May Not Survive a Second Trump Term
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- 4 years ago
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- As a country, and as a planet, another four years of Trump would be disastrous.
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- Chase Iron Eyes, Tokata Iron Eyes, and Madonna Thunder Hawk: Native America and Covid-19
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- 4 years ago
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- Three leaders of the Lakota Sioux—Chase Iron Eyes, Tokata Iron Eyes, and Madonna Thunder Hawk—join Nation contributor Zoë Carpenter to discuss how Native America is coping with the outsized impact of Covid-19 and how the pandemic has exacerbated the social, economic, and health disparities of Native American life.
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- Naomi Klein: Don’t Let Digital Learning Privatize Our Future
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- 4 years ago
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- Naomi Klein begins this video with a story: "One of my students said something that's really haunted me. She said that what she found most disturbing about lockdown is how little she had to change her life. That she realized that she was already so isolated that she was already doing so much on technology. She said, it's just actually not that much of a change." The technology giants want to move whole facets of human experience online, which can serve as a backdoor to further privatizing education, healthcare, and much more.
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- Rep. Ro Khanna: This Movement Moment
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- 4 years ago
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- Rep. Ro Khanna joins Nation Editorial Director and Publisher Katrina vanden Heuvel for a critical conversation about how we can transform the energy of this movement moment into meaningful legislative action.
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- Naomi Klein: This Pandemic Is Not a War
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- 4 years ago
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- When you look around the world, the countries that are suffering the worst are those lead by macho, dominance-obsessed bullies, from Bolsonaro’s Brazil to Modi’s India to Trump’s United States. Curbing the virus and healing our environment will take much more nuanced, redistributive and restorative tactics than these leaders can muster.
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- Naomi Klein: Why We Need a Global Green New Deal
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- 4 years ago
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- Naomi Klein lays out the blueprint for averting climate catastrophe: Take money out of the military infrastructure, keep the oil and gas in the ground, and invest heavily in the green economy and mobilize hundreds of billions of dollars of international aid to allow developing countries to leapfrog to green energy. The catch: All of this is only possible with a widespread, grassroots movement demanding it happen.
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- OppArt: Games of Chance
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- 4 years ago
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- Climate change is real.
Video by Felipe Galindo-Feggo.
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- OppArt: Burning Planet
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- 4 years ago
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- By Alessandra Mondolfi.
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- OppArt: Trump Dreams
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- 4 years ago
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- By Ruth Lingford.
Check out all installments in the OppArt series: https://www.thenation.com/admin-taxonomy/oppart/
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- Naomi Klein: Big Tech's Pandemic Shock Doctrine
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- 4 years ago
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- Award-winning author and activist Naomi Klein leads a discussion on protesting amid a pandemic and how to oppose the billionaires looking to build a high-tech dystopia in a socially distanced corona future.
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- Alicia Garza: Political Organizing Amid the Pandemic
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- 4 years ago
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- The co-founder of Black Lives Matter will join The Nation Justice Correspondent Elie Mystal to discuss the recent wave of protests, political organizing in a pandemic, and what's next for the fight for racial justice
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- Ilyse Hogue: The Reality of Roe in the Age of Corona
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- 4 years ago
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- President of NARAL Pro-Choice America Ilyse Hogue and Nation Editorial Director and Publisher Katrina vanden Heuvel discuss the fight for reproductive rights throughout the Covid-19 crisis.
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- Tributes to Breonna Taylor Around the Country
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- 4 years ago
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- Breonna Taylor, a 26-year-old African-American EMT murdered by Louisville Police officers.
All artworks based on a drawing by Andrea Arroyo, originally published in OppArt, The Nation on June 2, 2020.
Author: Andrea Arroyo
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- Eric Foner: The Legacy of Jim Crow
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- 4 years ago
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- Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Eric Foner and Nation Editorial Director and Publisher Katrina vanden Heuvel talk about the legacy of Jim Crow and how it continues to affect our politics and society today.
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- Confronting the Living History of the Civil Rights Struggle
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- 4 years ago
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- To visit the town where Emmett Till was brutally murdered is to bear witness to our ongoing struggle for justice.
We offer this piece as a chance to witness our uncovered history and as a plea to sustain our moment of reckoning into a movement that propels us forward, defined by progress. A longer version of the documentary THE ROAD TO JUSTICE will be shared in spring 2021. Stay tuned.
Learn more about the film: https://www.RoadToJusticeFilm.com.
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- Dave Zirin: The Intersection of Sports and Politics
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- 4 years ago
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- Dave Zirin, sports editor for The Nation, talks about the intersection of sports and politics as the coronavirus spreads throughout the United States.
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- Change is Needed
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- 4 years ago
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- Normal was not working for most people.
Artist: Andrea Arroyo
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- Elie Mystal: Justice and the Courts
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- 4 years ago
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- Elie Mystal, Justice Correspondent for The Nation, explains how we must be vigilant about protecting our rights during the corona emergency, how Republicans are taking advantage of this moment to target abortion access, and how critical the 2020 election is to taking back the courts. (He even threatens to address parenting without murdering your children or getting fired from your job!)
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- Israel’s Mizrahi Activists Are Fighting the Racist Nation State Law
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- 4 years ago
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- Echoing the country’s Black Panther movement of the early 1970s, they’re challenging the false binary of Arab vs. Jew, which the law strengthens.
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- Running Outfits
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- 4 years ago
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- Covid-19 Edition
Artist: John Rego
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- Ai-jen Poo: Organizing During a Pandemic
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- 4 years ago
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- Ai-jen Poo, cofounder and executive director of the National Domestic Workers Alliance, joins The Nation to talk about protecting workers and labor organizing during the pandemic.
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- Robert Reich: Dismantling the Rigged Economic System
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- 4 years ago
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- Robert Reich, former labor secretary under President Bill Clinton and UC Berkeley professor, joins The Nation to talk about our rigged economic and political system—who rigged it and how we can fix it.
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- Zephyr Teachout: Fighting For Our Democracy
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- 4 years ago
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- Zephyr Teachout joined Nation editorial director and publisher Katrina vanden Heuvel in conversation on Wednesday, May 13, to talk about the toll Covid-19 has taken on our elections and the attempt by the New York State Board of Elections to cancel New York’s Democratic presidential primary.
To find out our next Conversation With the Nation, visit https://www.thenation.com/events/
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- Bill McKibben: Coronavirus and Climate Change
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- 4 years ago
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- Bill McKibben joins Nation editor D.D. Guttenplan to talk about climate change, and why now is the time to demand that investors stop funding fossil fuel companies.
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- Jamie Raskin: Protecting our Constitutional Democracy
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- 4 years ago
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- Representative Jamie Raskin joins Nation editorial director and publisher Katrina vanden Heuvel and national affairs correspondent John Nichols to discuss the state of our democracy during the coronavirus pandemic.
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- The Rev. Dr. William J. Barber II: The Fissures In Our Society
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- 4 years ago
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- The reverend spoke with Nation readers about the severe social, economic, and political fissures the pandemic has worsened.
Read more at https://www.thenation.com/article/society/conversations-virtual-event-reverend-barber/
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- The Fight to Keep the Mediterranean Free of Oil Drilling
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- 4 years ago
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- Activists are winning important fights against hydrocarbon exploration in the Mediterranean—but so much is still at stake.
Produced by Eurydice Bersi, edited by Savvas Karmaniolas, motion graphics by Alexia Barakou.
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- Sanders or Warren: Time to Choose?
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- 4 years ago
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- Watch as Bhaskar Sunkara, Zephyr Teachout, Brad Lander, and Maurice Mitchell make the case for Sanders or Warren.
Elizabeth Warren or Bernie Sanders? Plenty of progressives like both candidates, but it’s time to choose. Watch The Nation’s Sanders or Warren debate featuring Zephyr Teachout and Bhaskar Sunkara debating Brad Lander and Maurice Mitchell over which candidate can best defeat Donald Trump and deliver fundamental progressive change. Recorded Monday, February 24 at The New School in New York City, moderated by D.D. Guttenplan, Editor, The Nation.
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- We All Deserve An Income Floor: Why the Bold Policy of Guaranteed Income Works
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- 4 years ago
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- How would a universal basic income open up the potential of all people in this country? Subscribe to More Than Enough to learn more.
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- Poverty Can Be Solved. Just Trust Poor People.
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- 4 years ago
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- Our current poverty alleviation programs just aren’t working the way they should. Is there a better way? Subscribe to More Than Enough to learn more.
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- Do We Deserve To Live Without Fear of Crushing Poverty?
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- 4 years ago
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- The first episode of our new podcast, More Than Enough, about guaranteed income, deservedness, and the country America can and should be, hosted by Mia Birdsong.
Subscribe to More Than Enough on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Google Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts.
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More Than Enough was developed by Next River Productions. Created and hosted by Mia Birdsong. Audio engineering and music by Nino Moschella. Script development and production by Allison Cook. The content of this podcast was informed by the stories of hundreds of people across the country, only some of whom you heard from. Thank you to everyone who took the time to speak with me and share their story.
Support for the production of More Than Enough was provided by a few generous folks and the Economic Security Project, an organization advancing cash-based interventions in the United States and reigning in corporate monopolies.
More Than Enough is a pr...
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- The Nation Live Stream
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- 5 years ago
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- OppArt: Gross-Word Puzzle
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- 5 years ago
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- Trump is not worth a thousand words. By Andrea Arroyo.
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- A General Strike Is Possible, But We Have to Work For It
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- 5 years ago
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- On May 9th, Nation strikes correspondent Jane McAlevey delivered the keynote address at the Winnipeg 1919 General Strike Centenary Conference, in Manitoba, Canada. The four day conference lifted up the history of Canada's largest general strike, and examined strategies for worker power. In her speech McAlevey lays out a plan to build towards a new round of general strikes, and weaves together the urgent need to address radical income and power inequality with the climate crisis. She discusses key aspects of the recent Los Angeles teachers strike as evidence that strikes where 100 percent of workers walk out, with deep community engagement, are crucial in this era of highly skewed politics.
Watch the full speech from the Winnipeg General Strike Centenary Conference here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fxJDYHT-0vE
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- Alicia Garza: Setting Ourselves Up to Win and Win Big
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- 5 years ago
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- Alicia Garza delivered these remarks on June 4, 2019 at St. Ann's Warehouse in Brooklyn as part of a Night with The Nation.
Thanks so much for having me tonight.
As we sit here tonight, the country is at the apex of a crisis.
In the last month, there have been no fewer than 7 black trans women who have been murdered. Nearly all of the protections that were passed for transgender people over the last 8 years have been rolled back in the two short and long years that Trump has been president.
Just a few short weeks ago, restrictions on abortions were passed in several states throughout the Midwest and the South. The crisis of family separation has only increased, with babies and children turning up dead in detention camps, while fundraisers to extend the crisis through a border wall reach millions of dollars.
Meanwhile, this administration is not just ridiculous, they are not only murderous, they are hell bent on changing t...
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- Inside the Decades-Long Republican Campaign to Suppress the Vote
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- 5 years ago
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- Rigged: The Voter Suppression Playbook, a new film from American Issues Initiative, reveals for the first time and in frightening detail the dark, partisan genius behind the decades-long strategy to disenfranchise non-white voters.
The dangerous toll this strategy is taking on the sacred principle of "one person/one vote” is not lost on Rep. Elijah Cummings (D-MD) who says, “I fear that young people will not have the kind of democracy that I experienced.”
Ironically, the film’s key jumping off point is Barack Obama’s victory in 2008, when 25% of his vote came from African-Americans, Latinos, and Asian Americans. It sent a clarion call to Republicans that unless they took drastic action, they faced exile in the political wilderness and possible extinction as a party. Demographics were not on their side.
Republicans had two choices: (1) Develop new policies to appeal to the rising majority of minority voters; or, in the words of former Re...
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- Why Don’t We Treat Health Care as a Human Right?
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- 5 years ago
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- Why don’t we treat healthcare as a human right?
In 1965 we created Medicare and Medicaid to ensure healthcare for the elderly and the poor. Today, the government provides healthcare for over 100 million Americans—that's 38% of the country!
But these programs aren't good for health insurance and drug companies' profits. So they've fought against expanding public healthcare tooth and nail, leaving 41 million underinsured, and 27 million Americans without any insurance at all.
It gets worse: People without health insurance are 40% more likely to die than those who are covered, and healthcare costs remain the leading cause of bankruptcy in the US.
But now, we have a plan.
Medicare for All would expand public healthcare to all Americans. By taking the price-setting out of the hands of insurance companies, we can drastically reduce administrative overhead, and cut down on the cost of prescription drugs and hospital stays....
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- Jane McAlevey: The Only Way to Win Is to Strike
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- 5 years ago
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- From West Virginia to Oklahoma, Arizona to Kentucky, 2018 was the year of the strike—and we need to keep that going in 2019. Jane McAlevey, organizer and author of No Shortcuts: Organizing for Power in the New Gilded Age, says that labor organizing is the only way we can win real change this year.
The Supreme Court has a new conservative majority. Gerrymandering has made it harder than ever to win progressive victories in elections. So that leaves the economic arena, the one area in which ordinary Americans can make a real impact. Watch this video to hear from McAlevey why labor strikes are the way we can take back power from the corporations that control way too much of our economy and our political system.
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- OppArt: Trans Panic!
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- 5 years ago
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- Video by Chelsea Thompto. Check out all of the OppArt installments at thenation.com/oppart
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- Can We Make College Free Again?
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- 5 years ago
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- Can we make college free again? Up until the 1970s, tuition at many of America's public colleges was free. But since then, right-wingers have been waging war on public universities. They pressured states to slash funding for higher education, pushing public college tuition through the roof, and helping banks rake in hundreds of billions off college loans. No wonder student debt just hit $1.5 trillion.
It gets worse: Women hold two-thirds of that debt, and black college grads are five times more likely to default than white grads.
This is not an accident: The free marketeers who made us a nation of debtors had a plan. But now, so do we.
The College for All Act would cover tuition at public community colleges for all Americans, and tuition at public four year universities for families making less than $125,000.
We could pay for it right now with a small “Robin Hood” tax on Wall Street speculation, or by repealing Trump’s corporate...
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- OppArt: Don’t Believe Everything You Think
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- 5 years ago
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- Alternative Facts, on screen and off screen.
Credit: Dee Hood