Impeachment, Death Threats & Neoliberal Rot W/ Kshama Sawant & Corey Robin

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🗓️ 28 January 2021

⏱️ 93 minutes

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Summary

Kshama Sawant has served on the Seattle City Council since 2014. She is a member of the political party Socialist Alternative. Her most recent re-election campaign was in 2019 in which Amazon spent an unprecedented $1.5m to defeat her. She has been a consistent advocate of raising taxes on the wealthy, expanding city services for the city’s workers and for environmental rights and Palestinian human rights. She is facing a right wing recall in retaliation for spearheading victories like $15 minimum wage and the Amazon Tax and supporting Black Lives Matter. Corey Robin (https://twitter.com/CoreyRobin) talks about impeachment, The Democrats, Barack Obama, "ongoing neoliberal rot," why Margaret Thatcher said her greatest achievement was Tony Blair and what that means for us today. is a professor of political science at Brooklyn College and the CUNY Graduate Center, a journalist, a political theorist, a writer and an author of several political books, including The Reactionary Mind.

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0:00.0	Hello and thank you so much for listening to the Katie Helper Show, please rate and review the Katie Helper Show on iTunes.
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0:16.4	at patreon.com slash the Katie helper show again. That's patreon
0:19.3	com slash the Katie helper show. This podcast episode combines two live streams and I did. The first part of it is an interview that I did with Kisham Asawant.
0:30.0	Then I play an interview that I did with Corey Robin. If you prefer live video, please stop by our live streams. You can find those on YouTube. Thursdays and Sundays at 7 p.m. Or you can just on is a
0:55.0	struggle session podcast as well as the Jack AM to which screen.
0:56.0	Kishama Sawant is a Seattle City Council member,
1:01.0	a socialist, a member of Socialist Alternative and the AFT.
1:05.0	Hello everybody.
1:08.0	Hello, how's it going?
1:09.0	How are you all doing?
1:10.0	How are you all doing?
1:11.0	How are you?
1:12.0	Welcome to the Katie Helper show. Hello Jack Allison. How are you?
1:17.1	Katie? I'm good. I'm glad to be back. I'm glad to be no longer ailing spending the entire day. I won't bore your viewers, you know, in the
1:26.2	restroom, but you know, I'm glad to be back and not no longer in that situation.
1:30.7	Yeah, you were suffering from gastritis, right? I had a very bad... I had a very bad gastritis flare up, you know, and you know, I'll tell you what folks if you are diagnosed with gastritis don't eat pizza
1:45.2	don't drink lemonade it's not good for you you got to stay away from acid and I am
1:51.4	here to tell you you you that you really have to.
1:55.0	It's true.
1:56.0	So you learned it the hard way.
1:58.0	Oh, I did and I teach myself the hard way over and over again
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