The Dig: Julia Salazar Brings Socialist Insurgency to Brooklyn
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🗓️ 12 July 2018
⏱️ 38 minutes
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Summary
This week's super series on Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez's victory and the future of left politics continues with Julia Salazar, a DSA member running for a Brooklyn state Senate in New York's District 18. Salazar's campaign worked hard for Ocasio-Cortez; now, Ocasio-Cortez's team is returning the favor. Recently, The New York Daily News wondered if Salazar might be the new Ocasio-Cortez. Ocasio-Cortez responded: Salazar "isn’t the next me, she’s the first HER." Indeed, Salazar has her own story to tell. She immigrated from Colombia as a child, and came of age as a young activist by organizing a rent strike in her Harlem building. She describes herself as a democratic socialist, which she defines as recognizing "the capitalist system as being inherently oppressive and actively working to dismantle it and to empower the working class and the marginalized in our society."
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the dig, a podcast from Jacobin magazine. My name is Daniel Denver and I'm broadcasting |
| 0:14.9 | from Providence, Rhode Island. This week's super series on Alexandria |
| 0:20.3 | Acasio Cortez's victory in the future of left politics continues today with |
| 0:24.8 | Julia Salazar, a DSA member running for a Brooklyn State Senate seat in New York's |
| 0:29.7 | District 18. Salazar's campaign worked hard for Acasio Cortez, and now Acasio Cortez's team is returning the favor. |
| 0:38.0 | Recently, the New York Daily News wondered if Salazar might be the new Acasio-Cortez. |
| 0:44.6 | Acasio-Cortez responded that Salazar isn't the next me, she's the first her. |
| 0:50.6 | Indeed, Salazar has her own story to tell. |
| 0:53.9 | She immigrated from Colombia as a child and came of age as a young activist by organizing a rent |
| 0:59.0 | strike in her Harlem building. |
| 1:01.4 | She describes herself as a Democratic socialist, which she |
| 1:04.2 | defines as recognizing the capitalist system as being inherently oppressive and |
| 1:08.9 | actively working to dismantle it and to empower the working class and the marginalized in our |
| 1:14.8 | society sounds like a solid analysis and like a good plan too. Before we get |
| 1:20.3 | rolling I am only able to dedicate the time necessary to do things like putting |
| 1:24.7 | out seven interviews on Acasio Cortez in one week, thanks to support from listeners, people |
| 1:30.9 | like you walking around with me talking into your earbuds at |
| 1:35.0 | patreon.com slash the dig plus we have a weekly newsletter and lefty books to |
| 1:40.3 | send contributors so if you like what we do, please support us at P-A-T-R-E-O-N- |
| 1:49.2 | dot com slash the dig. We've already posted interviews with Acasio Cortez, Cynthia |
| 1:55.3 | Nixon, and Bernie Sanders. Next up tomorrow are Seth Ackerman and Kate Arunoff. |
| 2:00.5 | Okay, here's Julia Salazar, welcome to the dig. |
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