The Dig: These Primary Colors Don’t Run with Dave Weigel

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🗓️ 21 April 2018

⏱️ 87 minutes

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It's the latest installment in our series on the left and electoral politics. Dennis Kucinich is running a viable race for governor of Ohio; Cynthia Nixon, running with Working Families Party backing, has Cuomo truly freaked out in New York; and there are major primary fights underway in California. Most everywhere, it seems, some variant of the Left is on the move. But does the fact that a onetime business-aligned Democrat like Gavin Newsom is getting away with posing as the progressive in the California race for governor indicate that the Left hasn't yet built the institutional capacity to control the leftward surge among voters? Dan thinks so. These are among the topics he discusses with Dave Weigel, a political reporter at the Washington Post.

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0:00.0	This episode of The Dig is brought to you by our supporters on Patreon and by Verso Books,
0:06.4	which has loads of great left-wing titles, perfect for dig listeners like you.
0:12.8	One that you might like is Hara Hotel,
0:15.2	a tale of Syrian refugees in Greece by Theresa Thornhill.
0:20.0	This is a firsthand account of a Greek refugee camp and the stories of the refugees staying there.
0:26.6	Syrian Kurd, Juan Azad, left his home and family in Damascus in 2011 to flee military service under the al-Assad regime.
0:36.0	After several troubled years as a refugee in Turkey, he arrived in Greece by sea,
0:42.0	on the route taken by hundreds of thousands of his fellow
0:45.3	Syrians seeking a safe haven in Europe.
0:49.0	But as borders closed across the Balkans in early 2016,
0:52.8	Juan and his fellow Syrians found themselves blocked
0:55.8	from traveling any further.
0:58.3	Theresa Thornhill volunteered at Hara Hotel,
1:01.3	a makeshift camp on the Greece-Massidonia border.
1:05.3	An Arabic speaker, she met Syrians from all walks of life as she distributed clothing and
1:10.0	organized activities for children. One of the Syrians was Juan, who would later
1:15.3	walk through the mountains of Macedonia to safety in Austria. In Hara Hotel,
1:20.8	Thornhill interweaves a narrative of daily life at the camp with
1:24.7	Jawan's extraordinary story, the recent history of the revolution in Syria, and an account
1:31.0	of the ensuing Civil War, painting a vivid picture of the predicament of Syrians
1:35.9	trapped on Europe's borders.
1:38.6	Hara Hotel, a tale of Syrian refugees in Greece Greece by Theresa Thornhill.
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