IS PEOPLE POWER ENOUGH?
The Hartmann Report
Thom Hartmann
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🗓️ 3 May 2020
⏱️ 57 minutes
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Summary
How can we harness people-power to defend Democracy against the naked greed and lies of Trump and the Republicans? Ezra Levin of Indivisible joins Thom to talk Progressive strategy in the time of Covid.
And House Progressive Caucus leader Mark Pocan takes listener calls on questions ranging from the CARES-2 package... forgiving student loans... programs saving food from being dumped for food pantries... families with an immigrant denied the $1200 payments... Nancy Pelosi's love of ice cream and what she has already done for the common person... and Progressive legislative priorities for CARES-2-- when is it likely to be passed?
Plus - remembering the human cost of the 1918 pandemic... learning from history... rolling back workplace law... and training kids to be resilient.
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| 0:00.0 | This is the Tom Hartman Program. |
| 0:15.0 | And welcome back. |
| 0:18.0 | Tom Hartman here with you. |
| 0:19.0 | Ezra Levin is on the line with us. |
| 0:21.0 | He's the co-founder and co-executive director of Indivisible along with |
| 0:25.3 | his wife Leah Greenberg the website is Indivisible.org and his Twitter handle is |
| 0:30.5 | Ezra 11 EZ-R-A-L-E-L-E-V-I-N Ezra welcome to the program. is Ezra |
| 0:33.4 | welcome to the program. |
| 0:34.4 | Hey Tom, great to be here, thanks. |
| 0:35.8 | Great to have you with us. |
| 0:36.8 | I love your organization. |
| 0:38.3 | You are one of the really, in my mind, Premier Organization is one of the most effective, one of the most tightly |
| 0:43.7 | focused, you do just absolutely great work. Talk to us about continuing the |
| 0:48.0 | resistance from home. I really appreciate your words there and the praise for our |
| 0:52.4 | organization. I think that the thing that makes the organization unique is the movement behind it. |
| 0:57.5 | There are people all over this country in every single congressional district in this country who are part of the |
| 1:03.7 | individual movement and that's how we started in response to Trump to stand up |
| 1:07.0 | against the worst atrocities committed by this administration and by his |
| 1:11.1 | supporters in Congress and it was based on this one central idea |
| 1:15.3 | that your members of Congress wake up every single morning thinking how am I |
| 1:19.6 | going to get reelected and the answer to that question is they've got to prove to their |
| 1:23.6 | constituents back home that they're one of the good folks in Washington DC |
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