Politics as Activism (with Pramila Jayapal)
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Vox Media Podcast Network
4.8 • 32.4K Ratings
🗓️ 9 December 2021
⏱️ 64 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | From Cafe and the Vox Media Podcast Network, welcome to Stay Tuned. |
| 0:06.0 | I'm Pete Barara. |
| 0:08.0 | I thought the change happened from the outside, but what I realized is I was looking at it all wrong, |
| 0:13.0 | and that if I were to think about elected office as an organizing platform, |
| 0:18.0 | an ability to organize both in Congress and to bring kind of the movement, |
| 0:23.0 | the outside movement together in a coordinated strategy |
| 0:28.0 | to achieve the kind of change I wanted to see, then that was definitely worth it. |
| 0:37.0 | That's Congresswoman Pramela Jaiapal from Seattle. |
| 0:40.0 | In only her third term in Congress, she is emerged as a powerful progressive voice within the Democratic Party. |
| 0:46.0 | As chair of the Congressional Progressive Caucus, she helped broker the passage of both the bipartisan infrastructure package |
| 0:52.0 | and the Build Back Better Social Safety Net Bill. |
| 0:55.0 | Jaiapal joins me today to talk about her unusual path to Congress, |
| 0:59.0 | the role she played in negotiating the Build Back Better agenda, |
| 1:02.0 | and what it means to be a progressive in today's Democratic Party. |
| 1:06.0 | That's coming up. |
| 1:07.0 | Stay tuned. |
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