The Katie Halper Show

For bonus content, to support independent media and to help make this program possible, please join us on Patreon at: https://www.patreon.com/thekatiehalpershow Writer Freddie DeBoer, organizer Afeni, former lawyer current writer Molly Shah and Plan C Pills co-founder Amy Merrill discuss how the hell we can fight back against the Ascendant Right Wing, its Supreme Court and the Democrats who refuse to do anything about them. Freddie deBoer is a writer and academic and the author of The Cult of Smart. His writing has appeared in The New York Times Magazine, Harper’s Magazine, The Los Angeles Times, The New Republic, Politico. Find his work at https://freddiedeboer.substack.com/ Afeni (https://twitter.com/ReddIsAri) is a Black queer activist and core organizer with Freedom Fighters DC. During the George Floyd Uprisings Afeni saw first-hand how abusive the police are towards human rights protesters. Her advocacy and voice is lended to all marginalized people from our Palestinian cousins to protesters being brutalized in Nigeria, Afeni's voice knows no border. Afeni is passionate about equity, anti-racism and transformative mutual aid. Molly Shah (https://twitter.com/MollyOShah) is a contributing writer to The Real News and social media consultant based in Berlin. Prior to moving to Germany Molly was an activist, teacher and lawyer in Louisville, Kentucky. Amy Merrill is an artist and activist, and cofounder and digital director of abortion pill access campaign Plan C at plancpills.org (https://www.plancpills.org/). She also leads a web design and communications studio Eyes Open at eyesopendesign.com. Amy has a background in nonprofit management and social impact startups, choosing complex issues like voluntourism, human trafficking and gender inequality - which ultimately led her to focus on reproductive health equity and self-determination, and to cofounding Plan C.Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

For the rest of this discussion, to support independent media, receive bonus content and to make this program possible, please join us on Patreon at: https://www.patreon.com/thekatiehalpershow Direct link to the Patreon portion of this broadcast: https://www.patreon.com/posts/derek-davison-68134804 Link to post-broadcast Callin discussion: https://www.callin.com/room/russian-sanctions-brie-vs-cenk-tHboaWPyoB Journalist Derek Davison (https://twitter.com/dwdavison) discusses how Russian sanctions are backfiring, plus the latest elections in Colombia, France and Israel. Derek Davison began his journalistic career by covering the 2014 Ukraine crisis and the 2015 Iran nuclear deal talks for LobeLog, where he later served as editor. Around that time, he started a blog that eventually evolved into the Substack newsletter Foreign Exchanges (https://fx.substack.com/). He is the co-host of the American Prestige podcast. He has degrees in Middle East Studies and Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations from the University of Chicago.Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

For the entire discussion, to receive bonus content and to help make this program possible, please join us on Patreon at: https://www.patreon.com/thekatiehalpershow Direct link to the Patreon portion of this broadcast: https://www.patreon.com/posts/patreon-podcast-67992439 Briahna Joy Gray joins the show and responds to Cenk Uygur's video claiming she's "not a real leftist." Briahna Joy Gray is a journalist, the host of the Bad Faith podcast (https://www.patreon.com/badfaithpodcast), a co-host of The Hill's Rising, and Bernie Sanders' former press secretary.Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

For bonus content and to help make this program possible, please join us on Patreon at: https://patreon.com/thekatiehalpershow Anthropologist Jemima Pierre & Historian Peter James Hudson on the connection between imperialism & capitalism, what The NY Times gets wrong about Haiti, the Summit Of The Americas and more. Jemima Pierre is the Haiti/Americas Co-Coordinator with the Black Alliance for Peace; an editor at the Black Agenda Report; and a professor of Black Studies and Anthropology at UCLA She is the author of The Predicament of Blackness: Postcolonial Ghana and the Politics of Race. Her research and teaching interests are located in the overlaps between African Studies and African Diaspora Studies and engage three broad areas: race, racial formation theory, and political economy; culture and the history of anthropological theory; and transnationalism, globalization, and diaspora. She is currently completing a manuscript whose working title is “Racial Americanization: Conceptualizing African Immigrants in the U.S.,” and working on a project on the racialized political economy of multinational resource extraction in Ghana. Dr. Pierre’s essays on global racial formation, Ghana, immigration, and African diaspora theory and politics have appeared in a number of academic journals including, Cultural Anthropology, Feminist Review, Social Text, Identities, Cultural Dynamics, Transforming Anthropology, Journal of Haitian Studies, Latin American Perspective, American Anthropologist, and Philosophia Africana. Peter James Hudson is Associate Professor of African American Studies and History at UCLA. His research interests are in the history of capitalism, white supremacy, and U.S. imperialism; the intellectual and political-economic history of the Caribbean and the Black world; and the history of Black radicalism and global anti-imperialism. He is the author of Bankers and Empire: How Wall Street Colonized the Caribbean (University of Chicago Press, 2017).Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

For the entire discussion, to receive bonus content & to help make this program possible, please join us on Patreon at - https://www.patreon.com/thekatiehalpershow Direct link to this broadcast's Patreon segment - https://www.patreon.com/posts/truth-about-with-67549664 Organizers Illapa Sairitupac and Kristen Gonzalez talk about why they're running as Democratic Socialists in New York City. Then journalist Danny Haiphong talks about being locked out of Twitter over tweets on China. Illapa Sairitupac (https://twitter.com/illapa4NY) is a social worker, climate organizer, son of indigenous Peruvian immigrants and running for Assembly District 65. Kristen Gonzalez (https://twitter.com/Gonzalez4NY) is a tech worker, Queens native, DSA organizer running for the new State Senate District 59. Danny Haiphong (https://www.patreon.com/dannyhaiphong)(t.me/dannyhaiphong) is a journalist at Black Agenda Report (https://blackagendareport.com) and an editor of Friends Of Socialist China (https://socialistchina.org). Link to Danny's upcoming webinar: https://socialistchina.org/2022/05/21/webinar-the-empire-strikes-back-imperialisms-global-war-on-multipolarity/ Link to the following Callin discussion where members of the audience call in with questions! https://www.callin.com/room/danny-haiphong-on-being-censored-by-twitter-BJbDctbcHpAdvertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

To hear the entire discussion, receive bonus content & to help make this program possible, please join us on Patreon at: https://www.patreon.com/thekatiehalpershow Direct link to this broadcast's Patreon segment: https://www.patreon.com/posts/bidens-nato-to-67231464 Journalists Camila Escalante and Ollie Vargas talk about Colombia's surprising election between a Right wing self-avowed Hitler follower and a Leftist former guerilla member. Then we go to Texas for reactions to the shooting from community organizers Sema Hernandez, Ashton Woods and Claudia Zapata. Camila Escalante is the co-founder of Kawsachun News (https://twitter.com/KawsachunNews) in Bolivia and known for her reporting on TeleSUR. Ollie Vargas (https://twitter.com/OVargas52) is a Bolivian journalist and writer. He has contributed to teleSUR, Morning Star, and other media outlets and is part of Kawsachun News. Ashton Woods is the founder of Black Lives Matter Houston (https://twitter.com/AshtonPWoods). Claudia Zapata (https://twitter.com/PoderConClaudia) is a Democratic nominee for Congress in #TX21. Former legislative, workforce & budget analyst. Sema Hernandez (https://twitter.com/_SemaHernandez_) is a community and climate change organizer. Join us on Callin after the broadcast where Katie and panelists will answer your questions! https://www.callin.com/room/colombia-elections-texas-shooting-zNSOTWdXnd ***Please support The Katie Halper Show *** On Patreon https://www.patreon.com/thekatiehalpershow Follow Katie on Twitter: https://twitter.com/kthalpsAdvertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Patreon-only full interview here https://www.patreon.com/posts/67069775 Journalist Branko Marcetic (https://twitter.com/BMarchetich) talks to Katie about mass shootings, what people don't get about guns in his native New Zealand, online censorship and why Mayo Pete is so OK with babies being hungry. Branko is a writer at Jacobin, the co-host of the 1 of 200 podcast and the author of "Yesterday's Man: the Case Against Joe Biden" relevant articles Progressives Need to Resist the Domestic “War on Terror” (https://www.jacobinmag.com/2022/05/domestic-terrorism-prevention-act-biden-house-squad) Pete Buttigieg: Hungry Babies, Regrettably, Are Just the Price of the Free Market (https://www.jacobinmag.com/2022/05/pete-buttigieg-free-market-hungry-baby-formula-capitalism) The Buffalo Attack Is a Reminder That Mass Surveillance Doesn’t Protect Us (https://www.jacobinmag.com/2022/05/buffalo-attack-mass-surveillance-terrorist-security-state-protection)Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

***Please support The Katie Halper Show *** For extra content and to help make this program possible, please join us on Patreon at: https://www.patreon.com/thekatiehalpershow Follow Katie on Twitter: https://twitter.com/kthalps See Brittany talk about her striptease against the Military Industrial Complex here. https://www.patreon.com/posts/66569687 Christian Smalls, President of Amazon Labor, the 1st Independent worker-lead Union in America for Amazon workers, talks about his victory against the corporation, how it happened, testifying in front of Congress, what's next for the Labor Movement and beyond. Plus Brittany Ramos DeBarros talks about being an antiwar veteran running for congress against a major Israel hawk. https://twitter.com/Shut_downAmazon https://twitter.com/britt4congressAdvertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Nina Turner talks about her latest congressional race, which she lost, where the Congressional Progressives Caucus was, & what's next for her. Amy Vilela talks about her own congressional race for Nevada's First District. https://twitter.com/amy4thepeople https://twitter.com/ninaturner Amy Vilela grew up in poverty, relying on programs like WIC & SNAP in order to make ends meet as a single-mother. She took classes at night while working multiple jobs to become the first in her family to earn a degree. She became a national advocate for Medicare for All after her daughter Shalynne died at the hands of our nation’s profit-driven healthcare system. After working her way up to become a CFO, Amy has since retooled her professional experience to provide vital campaign services to other progressive candidates. In 2020, serving as a State Co-chair, Amy led the charge for Bernie Sanders’ landslide victory in the Nevada caucuses. The Vilelas first moved to Nevada when her husband, Major David Vilela, was transferred to Creech Air Force Base. If elected, she would be the first ever active duty military spouse to serve in Congress. In addition to Congresswoman Cori Bush & Senator Nina Turner, Amy’s campaign has attracted national attention and has been endorsed by Brand New Congress, Sunrise Movement Las Vegas, the Center for Biological Diversity & more. Nina Turner, the oldest of seven children, grew up in a working-class family in Cleveland’s Lee-Harvard community. Her Mother was a nurse’s aide & her Father was a truck driver. Experiencing the impact of income inequality firsthand, Turner took her first job at age 14 to help support her siblings & keep the family afloat. Turner’s Mother battled high blood pressure her entire life & died at age 42. This experience exposed to Turner the serious problems with our health care system, especially for Black & lower-income families. After working her way through college and graduate school (she earned an Associate’s Degree from Cuyahoga Community College & a Bachelor’s and Master’s from Cleveland State University), she started a career dedicated to keeping Ohio working families afloat too. Turner made history in 2005 as the first African American woman to represent Ward One on the Cleveland City Council, & again in 2008 as the first African American woman to serve as a State Senator in Ohio’s 25th District. In the legislature, Turner repeatedly defended against attacks on women’s health care freedom & partnered with working families & organized labor to protect collective bargaining rights. As a champion for criminal justice reform, she led the effort to create Ohio’s first task force on police & community relations in the wake of tragic police killings in Ohio & across the country. Turner went on to serve as the Chair of Party Engagement for the Ohio Democratic Party, leading the effort to build a more robust & inclusive organizing infrastructure & support for local Democratic candidates across the State. Turner took her record of accomplishment & commitment to justice nationwide when she became a national surrogate for Bernie Sanders’ 2016 Presidential campaign & National Co-Chair for Bernie 2020. In those roles, she traveled coast to coast building support for progressive values such as a $15 living wage, free education from kindergarten through college & health care as a human right in the form of Medicare for All. Between those two campaigns, Turner also served as the President of the national grassroots political organization “Our Revolution.” Nina Turner is a wife, mother & proud grandmother. A former Assistant Professor of History at her alma mater Cuyahoga Community College, she is also the current host of the “Hello Somebody” podcast on iHeartRadio. ***Please support The Katie Halper Show *** On Patreon https://www.patreon.com/thekatiehalpershow Follow Katie on Twitter: https://twitter.com/kthalps Callin link: https://www.callin.com/episode/nina-turner-amy-vilela-qsJgTwzHDKAdvertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

To receive bonus content & to help make this program possible, please join us on Patreon at: https://www.patreon.com/thekatiehalpershow In light of the leaked SCOTUS decision overturning Roe v Wade, Journalist Amy Littlefield, activist & Congressional candidate Rebecca Parson along with Constitutional lawyer Shahid Buttar discuss how the Democrats enabled the attack on reproductive rights and continue to do so literally as we speak. Amy Littlefield is The Nation's abortion access correspondent and a journalist who focuses on reproductive rights, health care, and religion. https://www.amylittlefield.com/ https://twitter.com/amylittlefield Rebecca Parson, a commissioner on the Tacoma Area Commission on Disabilities, an organizer with the Tacoma Tenants Organizing Committee and a congressional candidate for Washington's Sixth District. She’s the only candidate in the race supporting a $30 minimum wage, Medicare for All, the Green New Deal, and national rent control. https://www.rebeccaparson.com/ https://twitter.com/RebeccaforWA Shahid Buttar is a constitutional lawyer, national non-profit leader, and musical artist who won over 81,000 votes from San Franciscans in 2020 to replace the most powerful member of the House. https://shahidforchange.us/ https://twitter.com/ShahidForChange https://twitter.com/sheeyahsheeAdvertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy