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The Dig

Bigger Than Bernie with Meagan Day & Micah Uetricht

The Dig

Daniel Denvir

News, Politics

4.81.5K Ratings

🗓️ 23 April 2020

⏱️ 71 minutes

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Summary

Dan interviews Meagan Day and Micah Uetricht, the authors of Bigger Than Bernie: How We Go from the Sanders Campaign to Democratic Socialism, to assess the campaign and the way forward.

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This episode of The Dig is brought to you by our supporters at patreon.com and by Nplus1 magazine, which features some of the most urgent and exciting political writing, essays, fiction, and cultural criticism on the left today.

0:18.3

At Nplus1Mag.com, they've been publishing a ton of clarifying writing about the

0:24.5

pandemic that might be of interest to dig listeners like you. One that you might like is

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Kareem Saria Mids report from a New York emergency room, which Naomi Klein recently called

0:36.9

an extraordinary piece on the health

0:39.4

care crisis underlying this crisis.

0:43.7

Saraje Med, an ER doctor and organizer with Put People First PA, chronicles a dangerous

0:50.1

lack of personal protective equipment and discusses the efforts among workers to fight for safer

0:56.3

conditions for themselves and their patients.

1:00.8

It's a powerful call for solidarity between health care workers and the larger working class.

1:08.0

Sarimid writes, quote, gliding past people's individual needs and their desperation is the mandate of a profit-driven health system.

1:19.0

The direness of this situation will bring patients and health workers together almost by default, but the other thing that can unite working class people is clarity

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2:24.5

Welcome to The Dig, a podcast from Jacobin magazine.

2:30.2

My name is Daniel Denver, and I'm broadcasting from Providence, Rhode Island.

2:41.1

Today, I'm interviewing my Jacobin colleagues, Megan Day and Micah Eutrikt, to assess the Bernie campaign and ponder where we might go from here.

2:45.3

I want to make one thing clear before we get started.

2:48.8

We should no doubt assess why we didn't win.

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