This is Jacobin Radio, I'm Susie Weissman.

We begin today's program with Alan Minsky, Executive Director of the Progressive Democrats

of America, on the historic infrastructure bill about to come up for a vote.

This is a $3.5 trillion infrastructure package and it represents a momentous change in our

polity, allowing Congress to reclaim its power to address the social ills in the country

through classical, welfareist, social democratic policy.

And as Alan says, that's why this fight is so momentous and consequential.

We then turn to the 10th anniversary of Occupy and talk to Arun Gupta, who traveled the

country visiting and writing about the many Occupy sites and the politics that emerged

about how Occupy shaped a decade of dramatic protests, looking at its legacy, significance

and relevance for today.

All this, when our program returns, in just a moment.

This is Jacobin Radio, I'm Susie Weissman, and we're going to start the show today with

the most important piece of legislation under consideration and its fate.

And Alan Minsky is joining us to discuss this.

This is the Biden infrastructure bill and what makes this bill and this moment historic.

As you all know, COVID has changed everything.

And though we've had the COVID relief or the CARES Act passed, Biden's infrastructure

bill is different because it creates a permanent and progressive public policy.

You could say that COVID provided the opportunity for Congress to finally and for the first

time since the 60s and 70s to reclaim its power to address the social ills of the United

States through classical, social democratic, welfareist policies.

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