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Dig: Organizing DSA's PRO Act Campaign

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Socialism, History, News, Left, Jacobin, Alternative, Socialist, Politics

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🗓️ 31 May 2021

⏱️ 105 minutes

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Summary

How ecosocialists formed a powerful coalition with unions to fight for labor law reform and why we need a powerful labor movement to win a Green New Deal. An interview with four members of DSA's Green New Deal Campaign Committee: Ashik Siddique, Gustavo Gordillo, Sydney Ghazarian, and Thea Riofrancos. This is a collaborative episode with Bloc Party, a podcast from Justice Democrats.

Ryan Grim's post on breaking the filibuster: badnews.substack.com/p/how-the-filibuster-goes-down

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This episode of The Dig is brought to you by our listeners who support us at patreon.com

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1:06.8

Welcome to The Dig, a podcast from Jacobin magazine. My name is Daniel Denver and I'm broadcasting

1:22.4

from Providence, Rhode Island. This week's Dig is on DSA's Pro Act campaign and it's a two

1:29.2

interview collaboration with Block Party, the podcast from Justice Democrats, the organization

1:35.8

that helped bring you such members of Congress as AOC, Rashida Tlaib, Cory Busch, and Ilhan Omar.

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that's worked pretty well. Plus we've got left-wing books, mugs, tote bags to send you as a thank you.

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