Anna Galland Talks to Evan Osnos About the Future of Liberal Activism
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🗓️ 2 January 2017
⏱️ 14 minutes
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Summary
Many Democrats and progressives—having lost control of the White House, Congress, the majority of state governments, and a shot at a Supreme Court seat—feel lost in the wilderness. Anna Galland is the executive director of Moveon.org and is helping to organize the resistance to Trump’s Administration. Even if Trump might garner Democratic support for something like an infrastructure bill, Galland’s opposition is absolute: she refuses to “play footsie with a white supremacist.” The New Yorker’s Evan Osnos asks her how she intends to put liberals back into power.
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| 1:18.9 | Osnos talks to Anna Galland, the executive director of MoveOn.org. Galland and her organization |
| 1:25.3 | are gearing up to oppose the Trump administration, even as they're beginning to plan for the 2020 election. |
| 1:34.3 | Now, having lost the White House, both houses of Congress, and the chance for a Supreme Court justice, the Democrats have quite a task ahead if they're going to matter in Washington at all. |
| 1:45.8 | And meanwhile, a lot of liberal voters are feeling confused, angry, and adrift. |
| 1:51.9 | One of the people who has to lead this effort is Anna Galland, the executive director of moveon.org. |
| 1:58.2 | Move On is a civic action group you've probably seen there, petitions for progressive |
| 2:01.6 | causes popping up on social media all the time. It was one of the very first groups to recognize |
| 2:07.2 | the possibility of online activism, starting by email back in 1998. Anna Gallen spoke with the New |
| 2:14.3 | Yorkers, Evanos, about where the left goes from here and how. |
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