(2017/03/31) Progressives fighting on multiple fronts (The Resistance)
Best of the Left - Leftist Perspectives on Progressive Politics, News, Culture, Economics and Democracy
Jay Tomlinson
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🗓️ 31 March 2017
⏱️ 79 minutes
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Summary
Edition #1091
Today we look at the multi-front political battles being waged for the heart of the progressive movement, women’s movement, the Democratic party and the county as a whole
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Show Notes
Ch. 1: Opening Theme: A Fond Farewell - From a Basement On the Hill
Ch. 2: Act 1: A roundup of grassroots resistance groups - Start Making Sense from @TheNation - Air Date 3-8-17
Ch. 3: Song 1: A Lot of Work to Do - Friendly People
Ch. 4: Act 2: Intersectional feminism is looking to tear down the capitalism establishment - Off Kilter (@TalkPoverty) - Air Date 3-8-17
Ch. 5: Song 2: Intersectionality - Those American Girls
Ch. 6: Act 3: The Democratic party needs to debate it's differences - The Zero Hour w @RJEskow - Air Date 3-4-17
Ch. 7: Song 3: Keep On Moving Forward - Emma's Revolution
Ch. 8: Act 4: Why we can't abandon the red states - Belabored (@DissentMag) - Air Date 3-24-17
Ch. 9: Song 4: Immigrants (We Get the Job Done) - K'naan, Snow Tha Product, Riz MC & Residente
Ch. 10: Act 5: A coalition of movements arise under Trump - @theLFshow w @GRITlaura Flanders - Air Date 3-15-17
Ch. 11: Song 5: Workers of the World Unite! - The Last Internationale
Ch. 12: Act 6: Nancy Pelosi Has Super Secret Plan To Keep Losing - @theyoungturks - Air Date: 03-24-17
Ch. 13: Song 6: Master Plan - My Morning Jacket
Ch. 14: Act 7: The messaging of inevitability for the progressive movement - The Zero Hour w: @RJEskow - Air Date 3-4-17
Ch. 15: Song 7: Inevitable - Scissor Sisters
Ch. 16: Act 8: Tap Into the Tools for ‘The Resistance’ - Best of the Left Activism
Ch. 17: Song 8: Time for Action - Secret Affair
Ch. 18: Act 9: Women in the age of Trump and what the movement looks like - We the Podcast with Rep. @keithellison - Air Date 3-30-17
Voicemails
Ch. 19: We need to push for single payer - Zach from Atlanta, GA
Ch. 20: An update on conservatives in my community - V from Central New York
Voicemail Music: Loud Pipes - Classics
Ch. 21: Final comments on the progressive movement; past, present and future
Closing Music: Here We Are - Everyone's in Everyone
Activism:
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Use these websites and apps as part of your Resistance Plan:
READ: "Your Guide to the Sprawling New Anti-Trump Resistance Movement" (via The Nation)
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Produced by Jay! Tomlinson
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| 0:00.0 | The primary impediment that we have in our messaging, |
| 0:03.2 | it's not that people think that our ideas are wrong. |
| 0:06.3 | It's that they think our ideas are impossible. |
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| 0:21.7 | Now, welcome to the award-winning best of left podcast |
| 0:24.3 | with clips today from Start Making Sense |
| 0:26.5 | from the Nation magazine, Off-Kilter, The Zero Hour, |
| 0:30.1 | Delabored, The Lure Flanders Show, The Young Turks, |
| 0:33.3 | and We The Podcast with Representative Keith Ellison. |
| 0:39.7 | The biggest surprise of the season |
| 0:41.3 | is not that Donald Trump is so crazed, |
| 0:44.6 | but that so many people have joined grassroots resistance groups. |
| 0:47.8 | First, there were those women's marches |
| 0:49.8 | all over the place the day after the inauguration. |
| 0:52.2 | Something like five million people |
| 0:54.2 | marched that day in hundreds of cities and towns, |
| 0:56.9 | nothing like that had ever happened before. |
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