The Katie Halper Show

On this episode, we talk to former State Senator Nina Turner on why the Democrats need to apologize and confess their sins and how Democrats can actually win elections. She also tells us how the #DNCChair race will be a litmus test for whether the party want the reform it so desperately needs. Then we talk to former Sanders digital organizer Melissa Byrne on why she's running for DNC chair.Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

We talk to Nelini Stamp, organizer of #ResistTrumpTuesdays & Working Families Party national membership director and Sarah Jaffe, writer, journalist and author of "Necessary Trouble: Americans in Revolt."Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

On this very exciting episode of the Katie Halper Show, Gabe Pacheco and I talk about the Trump administration's decision to omit the words "Jews" and"antisemitism" from its Holocaust Memorial Day statement. While the administration seriously pretends they did so because they have an intersectional understand of the Holocaust and want to honor all victims, we're pretty sure it's because they're Nazi-courting. Then we talk to journalist Eoin Higgins about why he called for a general strike. We bring in journalists Natasha Lennard and Arun Gupta to debate the if, when, why and how of a general strike and what opposition to Trump can and will look like. Check out the bonus debate between Gupta and Lennard over the role of black block, violence and Nazi-punching in organizing against Trump. https://www.patreon.com/posts/7982160Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

On this episode of the Katie Halper, we talk Chelsea Manning, the fate of the planet, Judith Miller's tweets and sex with Bears (oh my!) We speak to journalist Ben Adler about what Trump can and can't do to ruin the planet and what states can do to try to save it. Ben and I get into a debate over Chelsea Manning being a litmus test for political orientation, which is funny because Ben doesn't cover that and doesn't know a lot about the case and neither did I, though that didn't stop either of us from arguing about it. To be fair, I'm the host and Ben was admitted upfront this wasn't his area of expertise. So, I then talk to Chase Madar, a lawyer, writer ad author of The Passion of Bradley Manning (written and published before Chelsea had come out as transgender and changed names)about the case, Judith Miller's tweets, and why journalists need to stop treating politicians the way Park Slope parents treat their enabled and coddled children. When it comes to criminal justice reform, "the time for positive reenforcement is past."Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Our latest episode, which is a great one, is coming ASAP! Sorry for delay. Got distracted by the whole Trump becoming president thing. But, speaking of the devil, pun maybe intended?, we have a great bonus ep about the Trump-inspired Women's March and we're making it available for errrbody, even if you're not a Patreon subscriber. We wanted to make sure you could hear it and also thought it would be medically irresponsible for us to induce withdrawal in our loyal listeners... So, here is the (only one hour) discussion I had with special guest Karina Moreno, a professor at LIU who writes and focuses on immigration and is herself a native of Monterey, Mexico. and with Reggie Johnson that was part of a three hour special covering the women's march.Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

We talk to Abby Martin and Mike Prysner, the host and producer of the Empire Files, about why the DNI intelligence report named Martin as responsible for helping Russia Putin hack the elections. Spoiler alert: she didn't. And we go over Trump's presser, the headlines, why the intelligence community needs better interns and more. We also bring up Nando Vila of Fusion and Sam Alcoff of DemocracyNow! and start a larger conversation about the media under Trump. In order to hear the rest of that conversation, which I really recommend, join our Patreon. https://www.patreon.com/posts/7760961Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

In this really, really good ep, if I do say so myself, Doug Henwood and go over the refusal of the DNC & the Clinton campaign to acknowledge or learn from their mistakes, even when their mistakes helped bring us Trump. Henwood points out that if you care about the people who will most suffer under Trump, you can't shield Clinton or the DNC. You have to actually look at what happened so it doesn't happen again. We also look at why the same liberals who loudly insist that all Trump voters are bigots have zero interest in actually coming up with any solutions to this problem. Their only solution seems to be to wait around for decades until the demography shifts. As a bonus we are offering a video of Doug and Liza Featherstone to everyone at Patreon. And we will have bonus content for our Patreon supporters. Make sure you come to our next live show! https://www.facebook.com/events/1190832977697158/Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Drexel professor George Ciccariello-Maher caused quite the controversy and white supremacist melt down when he tweeted on Christmas Eve, "all I want for Christmas is White Genocide," a satirical reference to a concept that Ciccariello-Maher describes as a "figment of the racist imagination." To clarify, to white supremacists, white genocide consists of things like interracial dating and biracial families. Ciccariello-Maher was responding to to the white supremacists backlash against an All State insurance add which deigned to feature a Black man proposing to a white woman. Ciccariello-Maher was immediately attacked by white supremacists and their publications like Breitbart, which knowingly distorted what he said into a literal call for the massacring of white people and the elimination of the (socially constructed)white race. Not only did Ciccariello-Maher get death threats but his employer, Drexel University threw him under the bus when it kinda sorta defended his right to free speech but condemned his comments, which they didn't bother to, like, google, as "utterly reprehensible, deeply disturbing." We talk to Ciccariello-Maher about his tweet, the response it provoked, how Drexel has come around, the role of violence, why the "massacre" of "whites during the Haitian revolution... was a good thing indeed," and how to resist Trumpism.Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

For the full extended interview, join our Patreon. https://www.patreon.com/posts/bonus-why-didnt-7564559 We talk to award winning journalist Suzi Weissman and historian Robert Brenner, the Beyonce & Jay Z of the left, about Hillary Clinton running against herself, why Bernie Sanders is the story of the century and why the media is so out of touch, it blames Trump's victory on the fight for the $15 minimum wage. Plus Suzi, a Sovietologist, sheds lights on the ridiculous claims about the Russian government. And we talk to to Leila Ben-Abdallah about her one-woman puppet-based show, Good Morning Zitounia, about the Arab Spring. Gabe reviews the film Allende.Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

In this live show show we talk to Zaid Jilani (The Intercept), Karina Moreno (LIU, Brooklyn), and Kazembe Balagun (Rosa-Luxemburg-Stiftung NYC) about how neoliberal centrists hide behind identity politics to push their awful agenda which, of course, hurts the very marginalized people they claim to be concerned with. Make sure you sign up as a patreon member so you can hear the full discussion and the Q&A, which features questions from former guests Brendan James & Freddie DeBoer. https://www.patreon.com/posts/7509838Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy