Let's Get Critical with Dr. Heather Gautney
Hello Somebody
The Black Effect Podcast Network and iHeartPodcasts
4.8 • 768 Ratings
🗓️ 24 June 2021
⏱️ 38 minutes
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Summary
It is business as usual with Senator Turner and Dr. Heather Gautney (aka Dr. G) in this episode of #HELLOSOMEBODY. A Professor of Sociology at Fordham University and Senior Advisor for the Bernie 2020 campaign, Dr G and SNT exemplify why progressive politics is not just a “job”, but a vocation. They examine, dissect and disseminate so much critical knowledge in this episode; get a pen and get ready!
LINKS:
Crashing the Party: From the Bernie Sanders Campaign to a Progressive Movement by Heather Gautney
https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/557137/crashing-the-party-by-heather-gautney/
Hate Inc.: How, and Why, the Press Makes Us Hate One Another by Matt Taibbi
(preface with Noam Chomsky)
https://taibbi.substack.com/p/preface-an-interview-with-noam-chomsky-the-fairway
Unbound: How Inequality Constricts Our Economy and What We Can Do about It by Heather Boushey
https://www.amazon.com/Unbound-Inequality-Constricts-Economy-about/dp/0674919319
Democracy in Chains: The Deep History of the Radical Right's Stealth Plan for America by Nancy Maclean
https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/533763/democracy-in-chains-by-nancy-maclean/
Keynesian Economics
https://www.investopedia.com/terms/k/keynesianeconomics.asp
Yemen Crisis
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-29319423
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yemeni_Civil_War_(2014%E2%80%93present)
https://euobserver.com/world/152134
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Hello Somebody, a production of the Black Effect Podcast Network and I Heart Media. |
| 0:10.6 | Before we begin, I want to give a special shout out to my team. |
| 0:14.8 | Thank you, Sim, Tiffany, Sam, and the team over at Good Juju Studios, Erica, England, Pepper Chambers, the Hot One, and my social media team. Hello somebody. How's everybody doing? We are back. I am so excited about the guest that we have this |
| 0:55.6 | week. She is one of my sister-girlfriends. We work side by side at Our Revolution. She was my |
| 1:02.3 | executive director while I was the president of that wonderful organization. And we worked on |
| 1:08.3 | Senator Bernie Sanders 2020 presidential campaign together. |
| 1:13.0 | Dr. Heather Gartney, who I finally call Dr. G., is an associate professor of sociology at Fordham University. |
| 1:20.8 | She has authored academic books and articles on American politics and social movements. |
| 1:27.5 | She has opinion essays for news outlets like The Washington Post and CNN. |
| 1:32.6 | And currently she is writing a book titled The New Power Elite, a remake of C. |
| 1:40.1 | Wright Nils's classic text. |
| 1:42.9 | She also wrote a book about The Revolution in 2016, title Crashing the Party. |
| 1:48.9 | Baby, if you have not read that book, you need to read it. |
| 1:52.1 | It is about the phenomenon that was the 2016 presidential campaign of Senator Bernie Sanders |
| 1:58.8 | and how that campaign, baby, shook the world, winning 13 million |
| 2:03.5 | votes in that primary 22 contest. It is a beautiful walk down memory lane. So come on with me. |
| 2:13.7 | Let's go in and talk to Dr. G so good doctor how are you doing today I'm doing |
| 2:23.3 | really well thank you so happy to be with you oh my god I am so happy to be with you to the |
| 2:29.9 | hello somebody family I am with the one and only Dr. Heather Gautney. |
| 2:37.5 | She and I have been on this freedom fighters journey, revolution together. |
| 2:44.8 | One of the blessings to me after the 2016 election cycle was to be able to go and run the national organization that |
| 2:53.8 | was created or founded by Senator Bernie Sanders. And that brought so many good people together. |
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