Featuring Stacy Davis Gates, Carlos Ramirez-Rosa, and Alex Han on how Chicago’s labor left took over City Hall. Brandon Johnson’s mayoral victory, the product of a decade-plus of social movement union struggle, is a model for the left everywhere in the United States. Guest hosted by Micah Uetricht.
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Folge vom 08.05.2023The Chicago Model w/ Stacy Davis Gates, Carlos Ramirez-Rosa, and Alex Han
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Folge vom 05.05.2023Philly’s Left Turn w/ Helen Gym & Nikil SavalFeaturing Nikil Saval and Helen Gym on how the history of Philadelphia social movements brought Nikil into the state senate and has made Helen, a long-time public education organizer, a frontrunner in the mayoral race. Support The Dig at Patreon.com/TheDig Subscribe to Dissent dissentmagazine.org/subscribe Buy Angela Davis: An Autobiography haymarketbooks.org/books/2001-angela-davis
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Folge vom 28.04.2023Superhighway!We have as many roads in the United States as we have streams and rivers. Produced by Caroline Kanner and Jackson Roach, with original music by Jackson Roach. Edited by Liza Yeager and Mitchell Johnson. Subscribe to The Dig Presents, and support The Dig at Patreon.com/TheDig. Bibliography (in order of appearance): A Field Guide to Roadside Wildflowers at Full Speed – Chris Helzer Car Country: An Environmental History – Christopher W. Wells On Trails: An Exploration – Robert Moor Snell-Rood Lab Crossings: How Road Ecology is Shaping the Future of Our Planet – Ben Goldfarb A Short History of the Blockade: Giant Beavers, Diplomacy, and Regeneration in Nishnaabewin – Leanne Betasamosake Simpson Who Belongs to the Land: An Essay on Camps, Blockades, and Indigenous Models of Remaking the World – Lou Cornum Further reading available here.
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Folge vom 23.04.2023Teach the Children Well w/ Jennifer Berkshire & Jack SchneiderFeaturing Jennifer Berkshire and Jack Schneider on the politics of public education. The authors of A Wolf at the Schoolhouse Door: The Dismantling of Education and the Future of School and co-hosts of the education policy podcast Have You Heard discuss everything from charters and vouchers to teacher social movement unionism and the right-wing cultural wars against “woke” educators. Support The Dig at Patreon.com/TheDig