#1143 Strategies for a winning coalition (Progressive Movement)

Air Date: 11/03/2017

Today we look at the battle at the heart of the rift in the progressive movement over strategies on the proper direction to go from here. As is so often the case, the answer is not one or the other but both

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Show Notes

Ch. 1: Opening Theme: A Fond Farewell - From a Basement On the Hill

Ch. 2: Act 1: "Billion-Dollar Mistake" Democrats Neglect People of Color While Failing to Woo White Trump Voters - @DemocracyNow - Air Date 07-31-17

Ch. 3: Song 1:  Vibrant Canopy - Art Of Escapism

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Ch. 4: Act 2: Taking race and gender as seriously as class - Jacobin Radio (@jacobinmag) - Air Date 8-28-17

Ch. 5: Song 2:  Rotisserie Graveyard - Doctor Turtle

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Ch. 6: Act 3: Joan Williams on understanding the divide in how different groups are framed - Cape Up - Air Date 10-24-17

Ch. 7: Song 3:  Vibrant Canopy - Origami

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Ch. 8: Act 4: Alicia Garza on understanding that you can't support only some identity politics - #PoliticallyReactive with @wkamaubell and @harikondabolu - Air Date 10-5-17

Ch. 9: Song 4:  Celestial Navigation - Aeronaut

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Ch. 10: Act 5: Joan Williams with an economic-focused message that doesn't lose sight of cultural identity - The Zero Hour w: @RJEskow - Air Date 7-29-17

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Voicemails

Ch. 11: Guns, protection and the age of reason - David from Columbus, OH

Ch. 12: Calling a business a job-creator is like calling a car an exhaust-creator - Chris from Fairfax

Ch. 13: To boycott or not to boycott - Zach from Virginia Beach

Voicemail Music: Loud Pipes - Classics

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Ch. 14: Final comments on what the Clinton/DNC financial ties revelations may mean for how the party works to regain it’s legitimacy

Closing Music: Here We Are - Everyone's in Everyone

(Additional music from Blue Dot Sessions and Free Music Archive) 

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Produced by Jay! Tomlinson

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