Episode 169 - When The Star[bucks] Align (w Kshama Sawant)

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🗓️ 21 April 2022

⏱️ 67 minutes

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This week, Briahna spoke to Seattle City Council member Kshama Sawant about the rash of Starbucks coffee locations unionizing around the country, why the Staten Island Amazon unionization effort was successful, the problem with some professional organizers, Chris Smalls' Tucker Carlson appearance, the difference between DSA and Socialist Alternative, how and why Kshama stays accountable to Socialist Alternative (and how the left could keep the squad accountable), whether the Congressional Progressive Caucus's endorsement of Shontel Brown was the final straw for leftists hoping to change the Democratic party from with in, Socialist Alternative's position on Russia/Ukraine, and more. It's a rich, deeply reflective conversation, and you're going to want to listen through to the end.

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Produced by Armand Aviram.

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0:00.0	all their good intentions die a painful death when they discover that,
0:04.9	oh, for me to be a genuinely working class elected representative who does not sell out means
0:10.9	I'm going to make these powerful people angry and they're going to make my daily life uncomfortable.
0:16.2	That's where all the good intentions die. So it's one day at a time. That is what I'm saying.
0:20.3	Lots of well intentioned people end up doing this. So that is why we cannot have just this
0:25.8	dead-end strategy of getting progressives elected in the Democratic Party. The working class needs
0:30.6	a party of its own where we can decide the agenda and really hold our elected figures accountable.
0:59.9	I'm so glad to be joined today by Seattle City Council of Insha'mas-Iwan,
1:03.9	no stranger to this podcast. Welcome back. Thank you for having me, Brianna.
1:08.0	So a lot has happened since your last year and I want the bulk of this conversation to be about
1:12.7	the unionizing efforts and successes by Starbucks employees, which you have been involved in
1:18.7	in talking a lot about. There was the first successful union campaign in on the West Coast in
1:24.8	Seattle just a couple of weeks ago and of course we've seen successful unionizing efforts in about
1:30.1	I think 20 chains across the country. But first so many of our listeners are so kind of inspired
1:37.1	and galvanized by the approach social and self-turnitive has taken to politics and your emphasis
1:43.0	in past interviews on the accountability between yourself as a member of social and the organization
1:49.9	and how the absence of that kind of accountability is part of what the issue is with squad members
1:56.0	and elected progressives who have disappointed so many on the left over the last few years.
2:00.6	So I wanted to get your read on what this latest dust stuff with Senator Nina Turner and the
2:06.2	congressional progressive caucus means to you. I've talked about it a great deal outside of the
2:10.2	context of bad faith, but for bad faith listeners who don't know the congressional progressive caucus
2:16.5	chose to endorse shantel brown, the moderate corporate funded candidate running for re-election
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