Heidi Sloan is a member of the Democratic Socialists of America running for Congress in Texas's 25th district. She's challenging a Republican incumbent, used car salesman, and incredibly rich person Roger Williams.
Sloan recently sat down to talk about her story, her work with homeless people in Texas, how she came to join the DSA, her socialist political vision, and which corporate supervillain she would most like to grill as a member of the House of Representatives.
Read more about Heidi at her website: https://heidifor25.<wbr />com/
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Folge vom 29.08.2019The Vast Majority: "It's the Demand of the People That Creates Real Change" with Heidi Sloan
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Folge vom 28.08.2019The Dig: Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz on Indigenous HistoryGuest host Astra Taylor interviews Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz about Indigenous people's history to reexamine all of history, the present, and our possible futures.Thanks to Verso. Check out their huge selection of left-wing titles at www.versobooks.comPlease support this podcast with your money at Patreon.com/TheDig
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Folge vom 23.08.2019The Dig: Keywords of Capitalism with John Patrick LearyOrdinary language is the sound of hegemony; it is also an archive of the struggles to overturn it. Language is an institution and a constantly emergent field of struggle; it is the product of power relations and it is also itself power relations. Dan interviews John Patrick Leary, the author of Keywords: The New Language of Capitalism.Thanks to Verso. Check out their huge selection of left-wing titles at www.versobooks.comSupport this podcast with your money at Patreon.com/TheDig
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Folge vom 22.08.2019The Vast Majority: "What is the Rank-and-File Strategy, and Why Does It Matter?" with Barry EidlinThe question of how socialists should engage with the labor movement has always been a critical one. One proposal: the rank-and-file strategy, which the Democratic Socialists of America adopted in its recent convention. But what is it? Labor sociologist Barry Eidlin explains. Barry Eidlin is an assistant professor of sociology at McGill University in Montreal and the author of Labor and the Class Idea in the United States in Canada. Read Barry's short explainer on the rank-and-file strategy here: https://www.jacobinmag.<wbr />com/2019/03/rank-and-file-<wbr />strategy-union-organizing Read Barry and Micah's article on the "militant minority" here: https://journals.<wbr />sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/<wbr />0160449X19828470 (Behind an academic paywall, but message Barry or Micah on social media to get a PDF of it) Read Kim Moody's 2000 pamphlet on the strategy here: https://www.jacobinmag.<wbr />com/2018/08/unions-socialists-<wbr />rank-and-file-strategy-kim-<wbr />moody Buy Barry's excellent book here: https://www.indiebound.<wbr />org/book/9781107514416?aff=<wbr />TomLutz