The Dig: Bernie, Krasner, Keeanga, and Premal

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🗓️ 5 May 2018

⏱️ 81 minutes

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Dan just moderated a discussion in Philadelphia with Senator Sanders, along with Philadelphia District Attorney Larry Krasner, scholar and frequent Dig guest Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor, and veteran defense lawyer and advocate Premal Dharia. Bernie came to Philly because what's happening here is extraordinarily important: it's a city where for years cops have committed abuses and engaged in corruption with near impunity, and where prosecutors long looked the other way while feeding poor young black and brown men into the present-day peculiar institution of mass incarceration. Last year, Philadelphia elected Krasner, a long-time civil rights champion who pledged to fight the to end mass incarceration, as its district attorney. And that happened for the same reason that Bernie came out of nowhere and nearly ran away with the Democratic nomination in 2016: their message tapped into and was lifted up by massive grassroots movements, representing and speaking to an emerging majority that wants transformative change.

And so this is why Bernie Sanders came to Philly: to learn about what has gone so horribly wrong with the criminal justice system and how we can all organize and do the hard work to make it right.

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0:00.0	This episode of The Dig is brought to you by our supporters on Patreon.com and
0:05.1	Biverso Books which has books by loads of great left-wing authors perfect for
0:11.0	dig listeners like you. One book that you might like is
0:15.1	crashing the party from the Bernie Sanders campaign to a progressive movement by
0:20.1	Heather Gotney with an introduction from Adolfrey Jr.
0:25.0	Bernie Sanders shocked the political establishment by winning 13 million votes and a majority of
0:30.3	young voters in the 2016 Democratic primary.
0:33.4	Since that upset repeated polls have judged this Democratic
0:37.7	socialist to be the most popular politician in the United States.
0:41.6	What lessons can be drawn from his surprising and searching campaign?
0:46.0	Long-time author and activist Heather Gotney was a policy fellow in Sanders Washington DC office
0:52.0	and a volunteer researcher and organizer on his presidential campaign.
0:57.3	In reviewing what enabled Sanders to reach out to an unprecedented number with a socialist message and what stalled his progress.
1:05.2	She draws lessons on the prospects and perils of building a progressive movement in the United States.
1:11.3	Gotney's poignant account of the role that race and class played in the election cycle,
1:15.0	her anatomy of the conflicting dynamics of movement and electoral ambitions,
1:19.0	and her clear-eyed analysis of the Democratic position following Trump's victory will serve as a useful starting
1:25.6	point for many readers newly aware of the limitations of the Democratic Party in the
1:30.4	immensity of the challenges ahead.
1:33.0	Crashing the party from the Bernie Sanders campaign to a progressive movement
1:38.0	by Heather Gotney, out now from Verso Books.
1:42.0	This episode of The Dig is also brought to you by Jacobin
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