COMMUNITY ORGANIZING AND POLITICAL ACTION
The Hartmann Report
Thom Hartmann
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🗓️ 8 February 2020
⏱️ 55 minutes
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Summary
Guest host, Jefferson Smith recaps the sobering recent events in Washington and beyond, encouraging listeners to call in with their own stories of hope and participation. Jeff recalls his own organizing of the Oregon Bus Project which later evolved into the Next Up action fund for mobilizing change.
Lee Fang of the Intercept joins Jefferson Smith to discuss the delayed vote results in Iowa, Bernie Sanders' near tie with Pete Buttigieg and the implications this brings up.
Book Club readings from "Walking Your Blues Away" by Thom Hartmann, "It Came from Something Awful" by Dale Beran, "Mindf*ck" by Christopher Wylie.
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| 0:00.0 | This is the Tom Hartman program. |
| 0:15.0 | We're talking about democracy. |
| 0:19.0 | We're talking about gratitude, |
| 0:22.0 | and we also want to talk about matters beyond the presidential campaign, which of course is |
| 0:28.0 | incredibly important. |
| 0:30.0 | Is it more important than state legislative races around the country? |
| 0:33.8 | If you could pick one thing to defeat Donald Trump or to have state legislatures |
| 0:39.2 | across the country that would draw district lines to a portion of Congress that were pro-democracy, |
| 0:45.0 | over the next 10 years what would matter more? |
| 0:49.0 | Pause for just a moment before you answer that question in your head. |
| 0:52.0 | For everybody who's been shouting against pause for just a moment before you answer that question in your head. |
| 0:52.8 | For everybody who's been shouting against Donald Trump, |
| 0:55.8 | it might just seem like such an easy answer. |
| 0:57.6 | If you think for a moment, it might land in the same place, |
| 1:00.4 | but it might not be that easy an answer. What would be more important? |
| 1:06.0 | Beating Donald Trump? Or maybe this, having your preferred candidate win the primary or having a different US Senate that |
| 1:18.0 | was willing to confirm pro-democracy judges. |
| 1:22.0 | As we think about how to spend our time when we try to channel our |
| 1:27.2 | rage into positive forward-moving energy as we look for places to channel that energy where should we be looking I want to say |
| 1:35.4 | some things we'll get back to some of our gratitude thank you so much for |
| 1:39.0 | calling in folks also for tweeting in. |
| 1:43.0 | Crash modem, |
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