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Jacobin Radio w/ Suzi Weissman: How Should We Engage the Democratic Party?

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🗓️ 19 June 2017

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Summary

Joining Suzi are Maria Svart, National Director of the Democratic Socialists of America, and Becky Bond, co-founder of the Knock on Every Door campaign and former advisor on the 2016 Bernie Sanders campaign. They will review the recent People's Summit conference as well as take a deep look at the Democratic Party. Specifically, they'll explore how the party can and should be engaged as well as the party leadership and its hostility to the pro-Sander's contingent.

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0:00.0

Welcome to Jacobin Radio, I'm Susie Weisman Radio. I'm Susie Weisman.

0:10.0

On this episode, we look at organizing to win ideas and projects coming from the Chicago People's Summit.

0:18.0

Maria Sfart National Director of the Democratic Socialist of America recently spoke at the People's Summit about why we're here.

0:25.5

Her organizing mantra is to fight for reforms that empower working people and for an economy that

0:30.8

works for all of us instead of a few. We'll get her take on the strategic issue

0:35.0

of how to deal with the Democratic Party, its leadership, and their hostility to ProSander's

0:39.8

forces, and steps ahead to continue the fight to win.

0:43.8

And Becky Bond joins the conversation.

0:46.3

Becky is president of the Big Organizing Project, co-author of Rules for

0:50.2

Revolutionaries, former senior Advisor to Bernie 2016, and co-founder of the

0:56.0

Knock Every Door campaign.

0:58.2

We'll ask Becky about the organizing project she's working on, how to organize to win inside and outside the Democratic Party

1:06.3

and how to organize in the Trump era. Welcome to Jacovine Radio. I am Suzy Weisman. I am Suzy Weisman. I'm very

1:20.9

pleased to have here for the first time Maria Spart. She is the national

1:25.4

director of the Democratic Socialist of America, otherwise known as DSA, and she recently

1:30.8

spoke at the Chicago People Summit about why we're here.

1:34.8

Her organizing mantra is to fight for reforms that empower working people,

1:39.6

to take control of what we produce, and for an economy that works for us all instead of the few.

1:44.7

And I've invited her on to get her take on the strategic issue of how to deal with the Democratic

1:49.7

Party, its leadership, their hostility to ProSander's forces, and the steps ahead to continue the fight to win.

1:57.0

Maria Smart...

1:59.0

Hello, thanks for having me.

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