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The Katie Halper Show

Ben Jealous on running for MD Governor & Winnie Wong on The People's Summit

The Katie Halper Show

Katie Halper

News

4.61.5K Ratings

🗓️ 9 June 2017

⏱️ 33 minutes

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Summary

Ben Jealous, the former president of NAACP, and Bernie Sanders surrogate returns to the show to talk running for governor of MD. He also reflects on the connection between racial and economic (in)justice and the false dichotomy of one or the other. Then we talk to Winnie Wong about the People's Summit people like Ben Jealous and Bernie Sanders as well as countless organizers will be gathering... Stay tuned for more from there.

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0:14.4

Hello and welcome to the Katie Helper show I'm your host Katie Helper we have such a great show for you today we will be talking to Winnie Wong a founder of the people for Bernie and one of the main organizers of the People Summit which will be happening this weekend in Chicago. And I'll feature speakers including Bernie Sanders.

0:17.8

And we speak to someone else who will be speaking at the People's Summit,

0:21.3

but he's so much more than just a speaker.

0:23.4

He's Ben Jealous.

0:24.6

Ben Jealous was the youngest president ever of the NWACP,

0:28.2

and he came on the Katie Halper show.

0:30.0

It was a great guest.

0:30.9

He predicted that Trump would win on the Katie helper show just hours before it happened.

0:36.5

Ben Jealous was also a surrogate for Bernie Sanders during the 2016 presidential campaign and we talked to him

0:42.2

on this episode about his

0:43.5

decision to run for governor of Maryland and guys if you're in Chicago I'll be

0:48.2

there so look out follow me on Twitter letter K letter T H-A-L-P-S, that's K-T-Helps.

0:54.5

I'll be live tweeting and live periscoping, that's videoing,

0:58.0

I'll be doing some Facebook live, so make sure you go to Facebook.

1:02.2

com slash Katie Helper Show Show and you'll see me

1:04.8

reporting live from there. Whatever you do, do not forget to donate to WBAI

1:10.0

so you can get tickets to that great show that we're doing June 14th at the Brooklyn Commons.

1:14.6

That's Wednesday, June 14th at the Brooklyn Commons at 388 Atlantic Avenue.

1:19.4

Go to Facebook.com slash the Katie helper show and you will see a pin status that lets you

1:24.8

click on a link which brings you to a WBI link and there you will see a show and

1:30.0

you just donate ten dollars and you get to come to that show and the guests will be Freddie de Boer and Angela Nagel and then stand up in storytelling from Marie Faustin, Gabe Pacheco, Michelle Carlo, and more. And then wrap it all up with some karaoke.

1:47.6

Honestly, what could be better? So we're so excited to be talking to Winnie Wong, a kick-ass organizer, a founder of People for Bernie,

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