Adolph Reed on Black Lives Matter, Kshama Sawant On Vaccine Imperialism & Kate Willett

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🗓️ 2 May 2021

⏱️ 100 minutes

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Extended Reed interview here (https://www.patreon.com/posts/51203261) Seattle City Council woman Kshama Sawant (https://www.kshamasolidarity.org/) talks about her resolution calling on the Biden administration to support patent waivers for U.S.-produced vaccines that would allow facilities in other countries to begin manufacturing generic vaccines based on Pfizer and Moderna's formulas. Sawant also discusses the Right Wing recall campaign being launched against her. Dr. Adolph Reed, professor emeritus at the University of Pennsylvania, political scientist, and editor of Nonsite (https://nonsite.org/), talks about identity politics, the NGO-ization of Black Lives Matter, and the state of The Left. Reed is the author of "Class Notes: Posing As Politics and Other Thoughts on the American Scene," "W. E. B. Du Bois and American Political Thought: Fabianism and the Color Line," "The Jesse Jackson Phenomenon: The Crisis of Purpose in Afro-American Politics," "Stirrings in the Jug: Black Politics in the Post-Segregation Era." Sawant has served on the Seattle City Council since 2014. She is a member of the political party Socialist Alternative. Her most recent re-election campaign was in 2019 in which Amazon spent an unprecedented $1.5m to defeat her. She has been a consistent advocate of raising taxes on the wealthy, expanding city services for the city’s workers and for environmental rights and Palestinian human rights. She is facing a right wing recall in retaliation for spearheading victories like $15 minimum wage and the Amazon Tax and supporting Black Lives Matter.

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0:39.4	Look who's here, it's Kate Willett. It's a it's a double Catherine show. It's a Catherine
0:44.7	squared. Kate Willett is the co-host of the Reply Guys podcast. She's also the author of a very good
0:53.5	audible book, audible audio book called dirtbag anthropologist. And it's also a Catherine.
1:03.0	And she's also a Catherine. Is your name Rose? And similar vibes. Yeah, except one of us is
1:11.2	Jewish so it's kind of weird. Yeah, the blonde one though. I know. I guess the am blonde which
1:17.6	is also weird. Someone once accused me of stolen valor because I had blonde hair. It looks great.
1:22.7	Thanks. Honestly, it's perfect. Oh, we got a hater in the chat and let me tell you something
1:27.3	hater. Why don't you cough up some money? And I'll actually read your your your hate mail.
1:32.6	I don't know what your deal is. I'm not going to look at anymore. Just someone let me know if
1:35.7	it gets into super chat. And then we can talk to this guy. I get the sense that he's a dude. What
1:40.5	do I know? I don't want to typecast my trolls. They could be anything. Can I can I make fun of
1:45.5	one tiny piece of this comment or should I not reveal anything? Yeah, I think he meant to call
1:50.6	you a scatter brain, but he actually told you a scatter Brian. I mean, come on, man. If
1:58.2	you're going to call me, look, you have cause. I mean, I'm literally putting on one of my other
2:02.4	earrings right now. But you got to you can't really pull that you just lost all your cred
2:07.4	because you called someone scatterbrained, but you like for scatterbrained in your scatter Brian.
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