What's Left To Do?

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Chigozie: Bringing The Fight To Brick City

December 23, 2022

If at first you don't succeed: try, try, try again!

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Brace: The Guy Who Goes With His Gut

December 8, 2022

Would you believe me if I told you he's a deeply sensitive artist trying to find ways to express himself to the world?

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Eugene: "It Doesn't Have To Be This Way"

November 22, 2022

A co-founder of Breakthrough News, whose politics broke through the old fashioned way (parents, organizing, etc.)

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Angelika: It's Us Who Did It

August 30, 2022

Amazon's biggest nightmare.

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Eric: Struck By Strike Power

August 9, 2022

A San Francisco public school kid, with union activist parents and former Sandinistas as teachers, would, of course, grow up to be someone I interview!

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Joe: Starbucks Workers Of The World, Unite!

May 31, 2022

A 19 year old labor organizer becomes a headache for Starbucks

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Walter: Challenging This World As He Passes Through It

May 13, 2022

You'd be hard pressed to find a better analysis anywhere else!

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Greg: For Aziza N 'Em ❤️

April 27, 2022

The future Mayor of Oakland, ladies and gentlemen!

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Jason: Left In The Wake of 2008

April 12, 2022

After losing it all, he gained a politic.

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Benjamin Norton: Metamorphosis Of A Multipolar Man

March 23, 2022

Yet another white guy who owes the nascent radicalization of his youth to punk music. Ha!

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Jamie: The Communist Comrade From Connecticut

March 10, 2022

We open season 2 with our Fairy Goth Mother and (Communist) party girl.

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Karthik: The People's Poet

December 31, 2021

Forget about class, let's talk caste!

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David Duhalde: Building The Playbook

December 23, 2021

OG, triple OG David Duhalde graces us with his presence.

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Corey: Critiquing The Cocoon

December 16, 2021

I guarantee you will never listen to another interview with him where he talks about learning the words to Rappers Delight.

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Ben: You Do Belong Here

December 10, 2021

From awful grades and academic failure to a PhD and left acclaim.

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Nomiki: Does It Light You Up?

December 2, 2021

The Hellenic hellraiser graces us with her presence!

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Aaron Maté: 'The Truth Is There'

November 18, 2021

Time to hate on Russiagate!

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Margaret: Lib To Left Because of Bush Election Theft!

November 11, 2021

Another one of The People's Editors! This time, of the Black Agenda.

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Carl: A Quietist Speaking The Truth For Its Own Sake

November 4, 2021

Finally! A Nader guy!

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Alex Press: Standing Up And Sitting Down Jobs

October 29, 2021

A person who covers labor, and has also been a labor organizer? Oh we likey!

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Julian: Whittling Away At Wall Street, One Public Bank At A Time

October 22, 2021

Finally! A Numbers Guy for the left!

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Thomas: The People Know!

October 13, 2021

Just a kid from Kansas who got transfixed by class and has been writing about it ever since.

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Aaron: Still Being Written

October 8, 2021

Talk about a transformation! My man went from working for the DNC to Socialist organizing in the South.

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Briahna: Simple Drink In A Fancy Glass

September 30, 2021

We were throwing back tequila cocktails for several hours BEFORE recording, so you know it's gonna be good.

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Phillip: With These Hands, We Will Build

September 22, 2021

Like most great orators, Phillip's faculty for speech was nurtured in the church. His extremely religious family wanted him to become a preacher, but Phillip developed plans of his own.

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David: Won't You Come With Me, And Think Differently?

September 15, 2021

Somehow he grew up during the very depoliticized era of the '80s and early '90s, to become a dogged journalist helping us to understand the issues we can and must face.

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Adam: Defending The Defenseless

September 8, 2021

The left's favorite media critic sits down for a quick interview about his early life deep in the heart of Texas, and what he would media he would create if money weren't an obstacle.

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Gee: The Effort Was There

September 1, 2021

He has cheated death more than once, by my count. So of course he's not afraid of confronting Naz*s (and lots more).

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Micah: "It's Not All About You!"

August 25, 2021

Micah, traversing the punk to academia to organizer to writer pipeline. Socialistly.

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Melech: 🎶All God's Children Have Shoes 🎶

August 18, 2021

Strap on in, heathens. You're gonna dig Rev. Melech Thomas and maybe feel a way about it 😉

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Chesa: I Made A Campaign Promise, If You Recall 😉

August 11, 2021

Staring down recalls, and reimagining public safety for everyone. All in a day's work.

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Dr. Joshua Myers: Dialectically Dismantling The University

August 4, 2021

A university professor interested in dismantling the university (in tandem with racism). Prepare your mind to be blown.

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Melissa: The Parking Lot Politics of Cancelling Student Debt (!!!)

July 28, 2021

Anyone interested in understanding how we might get student debt cancelled soon?! Well, this episode is for you (part 2 in particular).

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Dr. Jared Ball: Of Myths And Men

July 21, 2021

This one goes long, but you're gonna dig it. Dr. Ball has LIVED!

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Malaika: Always Bet on Black

July 13, 2021

Hers is a fascinating story of how her life began steeped in Black Christian Nationalism growing up attending The Shrine of The Black Madonna in Atlanta, which informed her future pursuits.

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Kenzo: Teach Them Well

July 6, 2021

I am over the moon to be releasing this episode with your favorite cherubic Mensch From The Midwest, a teacher's teacher: Kenzo Shibata!

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Lydia: Our Water Defender & Standing Rock

June 23, 2021

Lydia politely ignores my request for a detailed chronology of her life in exchange for a dynamic narrative on how her past and lineage influenced her arrival at being a water defender from SoCal to Standing Rock.

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Fayzan: Once Outcast in ATL to M4A Organizer

June 17, 2021

Fayzan is a no non-sense kind of guy when it comes to campaigns (which is probably why we did so well in The Bay). But outside of the hectic setting of a presidential primary, quite a bit of fun!

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Marco: The Uncredentialed Insider (Who Is Getting Kids Out Of Cages, Among Other Things)

June 8, 2021

I want you to look at the thumbnail picture for this episode and give me a break for assuming Marco was Black when we first met!

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Maricela: In Service of Food Service Workers 👩‍🍳🧑‍🍳

May 26, 2021

Let's build sectoral bargaining power for ALL service workers, shall we?

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Laksh: 🎵It's My House And I Live Here 🎵

May 20, 2021

Laksh is the Chair of the SF Berniecrats Housing Committee and helps us make sense of the history of housing in the nation, as well as the state of California.

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Assemblymember Ash Kalra: Standing Up Single-Payer in Sacramento!

May 13, 2021

We managed to nab an interview with California Assemblymember Ash Kalra for an interview where we discuss his life and how it has led him to being our champion in the statehouse!

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Brett: Up From (Mental) Slavery

May 7, 2021

Esteemed writer at Commondreams.org & Collective 20, and author. Brett has come a loooooong way, from being an ardent conservative (thank God).

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Joshua: The Once And Future Politico!

April 28, 2021

My man has the best hair in the game. He's also an up and comer, who I'm sure to be canvassing for one day ❤️

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Roz: So You Want To Inhabit A World Free Of Sexual Violence? #MeToo

April 22, 2021

Roz is an activist based in SoCal whose organizing work is primarily focused on sexual violence (she serves on the board of the Me Too Foundation) and menstrual freedom (which is a new term for me!).

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Alex: The Chancing Chamorro

April 14, 2021

Our dear Alex's early life was marked by being kinda different from other people he grew up with in Colorado Springs. His adolescent years were especially difficult due to a number of factors, and it is nothing short of a miracle that he made it out onto the other side ❤️

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Dan: The Jilted Jesuit

April 8, 2021

From good Catholic to hell raising leftist, Dan The Man traded in catechisms for canvassing.

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Kaylah: Labor Organizer, Campaign Manager, Flight Attendant, O My!

March 24, 2021

Try and outwork her, I dare you! I still don't know how she does it all, even though she literally explains how in part 2 😅

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Winnie: Love Child of The Left

March 16, 2021

My first badass union educator, who came of age as an immigrant during San Francisco's Summer of Love

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Brandon: The Visa of the Left (because he's everywhere you want to be 🥁)

March 9, 2021

One of the most active, knowledgeable leftists in The Bay. I would follow this man onto any field of battle!

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Claire: Pearl of the Left

March 2, 2021

Of course one of her parent's studied the French Revolution for their phD!Claire is an artist, activist and organizer extraordinaire.

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Matisse: My Main Man (of endless intrigue)!

February 24, 2021

Uh, Paul Castellano signed this man's paycheck at one point in his endlessly intriguing life. What else is there to say?

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Doreen: The OG 🥂Champagne 🥂Socialist, Who Had To Flee Her Native Fiji

February 16, 2021

Hers is a fascinating story of growing up mixed race in Fiji, becoming a political activist as a civil servant and union member. Oh, and uh, her activism is what led to her being exiled from her native Fiji.

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Rob: Haunted by The Fear of April

February 9, 2021

Early to join the union at Google, Rob is from a community that doesn't really exist in the popular imagination: poor, working class, white people living in Cape Cod, who are able to scratch out a living by morphing the Cape into a playground for the rich during the summer.

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