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Bad Faith

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

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Bad Faith

News, Comedy, Politics

4.52.8K 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.

0:04.8

It is morally wrong.

0:06.5

And it breaks international law.

0:08.9

And the United States of America is complicit here.

0:13.2

We are the ones who can say to our ally, Israel, we need to ceasefire.

0:17.5

But instead of that, they do the opposite.

0:57.1

Thank you. to cease fire, but instead of Turner, you know her as one of the four co-chairs of the Bernie Sanders campaign.

1:12.6

And also, we covered extensively her runs for office, which I got to say in Ohio's 11th District, have been back in the news again as people are having increased scrutiny at the role that APEC and DMFFI are playing in local elections because of the geopolitical circumstances. So I'm so glad to have you back here, Senator Turner.

1:17.7

Glad to be back with you, Bree, Joey. All right. So the subject of today's conversation is

1:23.0

mostly going to be on this new organization that you launched earlier this month to support

1:28.1

striking workers. Tell us why you chose to start this org. Well, Greene Joy, the needs are so

1:34.7

great. And as we see all across this country, we could even say internationally, but I want to

1:38.5

focus on this country. Workers are rising up from various sectors to be very clear that they are

1:43.5

not making living wages,

1:44.8

that it is not okay, and that they need better wages, better benefits, and better work

1:49.0

conditions. And that's from nurses to other medical personnel. We know that Kaiser, for example,

1:53.7

right now, the biggest strike of health care workers in the country so far to the UAW,

1:59.2

the Teamsters actually settled before they had to go full-fledged,

2:02.9

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

2:13.4

have been many she rose 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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