Laurie Mercier hosts this episode of the Old Mole which includes:
Rebuilding the Left in the US: Bill Resnick interviews Bhaskar Sunkara, the founder/editor of Jacobin, about what the left can do to push the Biden Administration over the next year to address working people’s needs, defeat Trumpism, cut greenhouse gas emissions, and establish universal health care.
Learning from the Left in Bolivia: Laurie Mercier talks with Nicole Fabricant, Associate Professor of Anthropology at Towson University and author of Mobilizing Bolivia’s Displaced: Indigenous Politics and the Struggle over Land, about the recent electoral successes of MAS, the Bolivian Socialist Movement.
Mobilizing Beyond Universal Preschool: In this follow-up to the successful passage of the Universal Preschool ballot measure in Multnomah County, Jan Haaken talks with organizers Emily Golden-Fields, Olivia Pace and Sahar Muranovic about next steps for the campaign in expanding access to childcare and the rights of child care workers, as well as their broader vision of reproductive labor and social justice.
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