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Episode 319 - We Are Somebody (w/ Nina Turner)

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Chapo, Bernie, Left, Leftism, Socialism, Socialist, Berniesanders, Comedy, Democrat, News, Politics

4.52.6K Ratings

🗓️ 2 November 2023

⏱️ 47 minutes

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Former Bernie 2020 co-chair, Ohio State Senator, and congressional candidate Nina Turner rejoins Bad Faith to talk about her new movement organization We Are Somebody. What does Turner hope to accomplish that's different than other advocacy orgs and how? Can lefty orgs regain the trust of the donor base after being disappointed by Bernie after the end of his campaigns? And how is she thinking about AIPAC as an obstacle to progressive candidacies and movements given what she went through running for Congress in OH-11, and given the political environment post-10/7?

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Produced by Armand Aviram.

Theme by Nick Thorburn (@nickfromislands).

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0:00.0

Taking retribution out on innocent people is not the way to go, it is morally wrong,

0:06.4

and it breaks international law. And the United States of America is complicit here.

0:13.2

We are the ones who can say to our ally, it is where we need to cease fire. But instead of that,

0:18.2

they do the opposite.

0:30.0

All right, I'm so glad to have returning to bad faith podcasts. Senator Nina Turner,

0:54.0

you know her as one of the four co-chairs of the Bernie Sanders campaign. And also, we covered

0:58.6

extensively her runs for office, which I got to say, and I'll hide 11th district, have been

1:04.2

back in the news again as people are having increased scrutiny at the role that APEC and DMFI

1:10.5

are playing in local elections because of the geopolitical circumstances. So I'm so glad to

1:15.8

have you back here, Senator Turner. Glad to be back with you, Drew Joey. All right, so the subject

1:21.1

of today's conversation is mostly going to be on this new organization that you launched earlier

1:26.5

this month to support tracking workers. Tell us why you chose to start this work.

1:32.8

Well, great joy to needs are so great. And as we see all across this country, we could even say

1:37.3

internationally, but I want to focus on this country. Workers are rising up from various sectors

1:41.6

to be very clear that they are not making living wages that is not okay and that they need better

1:46.7

wages, better benefits and better work conditions. And that's from nurses to other medical personnel.

1:52.4

We know that Kaiser, for example, right now, the biggest strike of healthcare workers in the

1:56.4

country so far to the UAW, the teamsters actually settled before they had to go full-fledged

2:02.8

Amazon Starbucks. You name it. Workers are rising up all over this country. And so part of the

2:08.0

start of we are somebody is based on the past, the present and the future, the past in that there

2:13.5

have been many she-roes and heroes who stood up for workers, the Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King,

2:18.0

Jr. As we know with the sanitation workers, although Mother Jones is not featured in my video,

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