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ClassOrganizing the Workplace With EWOC, Pt. 2Send us a textThis is Class, the official podcast of the Democratic Socialists of America’s National Political Education Committee. My name is Luke Pickrell. This is part one of our conversation with Daphna Thier about the Emergency Workplace Organizing Committee (EWOC)Daphna is an organizer and educator at EWOC. In the last couple of years, she's trained a few hundred workers on the basics of workplace organizing. She is also a contributing writer and the editor of Unite and Win: the Workplace Organizer's Handbook. She's a DSA member based in Brooklyn, New York. In...2024-11-1324 minClassOrganizing the Workplace With EWOC, Pt. 1Send us a textThis is Class, the official podcast of the Democratic Socialists of America’s National Political Education Committee. My name is Luke Pickrell. This is part one of our conversation with Daphna Thier about the Emergency Workplace Organizing Committee (EWOC)Daphna is an organizer and educator at EWOC. In the last couple of years, she's trained a few hundred workers on the basics of workplace organizing. She is also a contributing writer and the editor of Unite and Win: the Workplace Organizer's Handbook. She's a DSA member based in Brooklyn, New York. In...2024-10-2121 min
Listen to New Audiobooks in Non-Fiction, Current Affairs, Law, & PoliticsPalestine: A Socialist Introduction by Brian Bean, Sumaya AwadPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/802276 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Palestine: A Socialist Introduction Author: Brian Bean, Sumaya Awad Narrator: Jeed Saddy Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 10 minutes Release date: October 15, 2024 Genres: Current Affairs, Law, & Politics Publisher's Summary: Palestine: A Socialist Introduction systematically tackles a number of important aspects of the Palestinian struggle for liberation, contextualizing it in an increasingly polarized world and offering a socialist perspective on how full liberation can be won. Through an internationalist, anti-imperialist lens, this book explores the links between the struggle for freedom in the United States and that in Palestine, and...2024-10-1530 minClassUnderstanding the Israeli-Palestinian Colonial ConflictSend us a textNPEC Presents: "Understanding the Israeli–Palestinian Colonial Conflict,” with featured speakers: Moshé Machover and Sumaya Awad.How should we understand what is taking place in Gaza and across occupied Palestine? What history do we need to know to understand and interpret the present? What can we do in the present to shape the future? Moshé Machover and Sumaya Awad will help us answer these questions.Moshé Machover, born in Tel Aviv in 1936, is a mathematician and socialist activist who has been active in and written...2023-12-231h 27ClassPalestine and SocialismSend us a textOctober 7, 2023 Hamas executed a surprise attack on military and civilian Israeli targets, killing over 1200 people and taking around 200 hostages. Israel’s response to Hamas’s horrific actions has once again been disproportionate and genocidal. We demand a ceasefire and condemn any attacks on civilians. In recent years DSA has made solidarity with Palestine a priority. We already had plans to do an episode on Palestine soon, but due to recent events we wanted to provide historical context as soon as possible, context that is rarely provided by the mainstream media in Ameri...2023-10-2328 minClassWhy The Working Class? Pt 1Send us a textIf you’ve been listening to this podcast for very long you probably already know the answer to the question “why the working class?” In some ways this question is the reason for existence for the podcast. We want to raise class consciousness. As members of the working class we have interests that do not align with the large business owners and investors. Only by coming together can we serve our interests: to live and flourish on this planet with each other sustainably. This episode will be the first in a se...2023-08-1024 minClassWhat is Socialism? Pt.1 Meagan Day's Democratic Socialism, Explained by a Democratic SocialistSend us a textMeagan Day, a DSA member and staff writer for Jacobin, wrote an essay in Vox to explain the goals of democratic socialism and respond to common misconceptions about democratic socialists. Since 2016, the mass support for self-declared democratic socialist Bernie Sanders for president and the election of Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez to Congress brought democratic socialism into the limelight of mainstream political commentary. However, there are many misconceptions about the goals of rapidly growing organizations like DSA.Day distinguishes between socialists and those who just want to reform capitalism. She points out...2023-05-0424 minClassEmergency Workplace Organizing Committee: Reviving the American Labor Movement, Pt 2Send us a textThis episode features a panel discussion from the Socialism 2022 Conference in Chicago, moderated by Daphna Thier and discussing the Emergency Workplace Organizing Committee. Panelists include Tristan Bock-Hughes, Olivia Prager, and Gabriel Winant.Tristan is an organizer with the Illinois Nurses Association and formerly one of two staff with the Emergency Workplace Organizing Committee. Through EWOC, other staff positions, and volunteer efforts he has worked with dozens of union locals and worker organizations throughout the country. He wants to organize himself out of a job.2023-02-2321 minClassEmergency Workplace Organizing Committee: Reviving the American Labor Movement, Pt 1Send us a textThis episode features a panel discussion from the Socialism 2022 Conference in Chicago, moderated by Daphna Thier and discussing the Emergency Workplace Organizing Committee. Panelists include Elce Redmond, Tristan Bock-Hughes, Gabriel Winant, Teagan Harris, and Olivia Prager.Elce Redmond is a muckraker who has been both a community and union organizer for the past 36 years. For the last two years he has served as a volunteer organizer with EWOC that has built a distributed remote model to support workers organizing in their workplace. Elce is proud to be an...2023-02-0922 minClassSocialists in the Labor Movement Pt. 2Send us a textThis is the second episode in a two-part series on the state of the labor movement in 2022 and what we expect in 2023, and why we as socialists care so much about the labor movement. Daphna Thier, a DSA member and longtime bartender based in Brooklyn, recently stepped down as the chair of DSA National Political Education Committee (NPEC) and is now the Labor Education Coordinator at EWOC. You can find her written work at Jacobin.com, and she contributed a chapter in the book Palestine: A Socialist Introduction. R...2023-01-2625 minClassSocialists in the Labor Movement Pt. 1Send us a textIn this episode Daphna Thier and Ryan Cowles ask a couple fellow labor organizers about the state of the labor movement, and why socialists care so much about labor.Daphna Thier is a DSA member and longtime bartender based in Brooklyn. She recently stepped down as the chair of DSA National Political Education Committee (NPEC), and is now the Labor Education Coordinator at EWOC. You can also find her written work at Jacobin.com, and a chapter she contributed in the book Palestine: A Socialist Introduction. Ryan Cowles is a...2023-01-0626 minClassWhat is Capitalism? Pt. 4 Keeanga-Yamahttah Taylor's #BlackLivesMatter to Black LiberationSend us a textFeaturing University of Massachusetts Amherst Sociologist Sanjiv Gupta and University of Massachusetts Amherst Economist David Kotz. This episode is a part of a 4-part series on “What is Capitalism?” This series is accompanying the DSA National Political Education Committee’s curriculum packet, which can find our curriculum at https://education.dsausa.org/resources/.This chapter, from a book published in 2016 at the time after the first Black Lives Matter protests, introduces the complex interactions between racism and capitalism in the U.S. Taylor reiterates CLR James’ assertion...2022-10-2718 minClassWhat is Capitalism? Pt. 3 Marx & Engels' "Bourgeois and Proletarians” from the Communist ManifestoSend us a textFeaturing University of Massachusetts Amherst Sociologist Sanjiv Gupta and University of Massachusetts Amherst Economist David Kotz. This is episode 3 of a 4-part series on “What is Capitalism?” This series is accompanying the DSA National Political Education Committee’s curriculum packet, which can find our curriculum at https://education.dsausa.org/resources/.This episode goes into classes and class struggle under capitalism. The discussion is in response to a chapter from the Communist Manifesto about us, the working class, and the capitalists class. The Communist Manifesto was written just as the...2022-10-1322 minClassWhat is Capitalism? Pt. 2 Vivek Chibber's Understanding CapitalismSend us a textFeaturing University of Massachusetts Amherst Sociologist Sanjiv Gupta and University of Massachusetts Amherst Economist David Kotz. This is episode 1 of a 4-part series on “What is Capitalism?” This series is accompanying the DSA National Political Education Committee’s curriculum packet, which can find our curriculum at https://education.dsausa.org/resources/.This episode covers a passage from “Understanding Capitalism” by Vivek Chibber, in which he goes into the history of how capitalism came into being and how capitalism works. Under capitalism people sell things on a market, no...2022-09-2917 minClassWhat is Capitalism? Pt. 1 Erik Olin Wright's But at Least Capitalism Is Free and Democratic, Right?Send us a textFeaturing University of Massachusetts Amherst Sociologist Sanjiv Gupta and University of Massachusetts Amherst Economist David Kotz. This is episode 1 of a 4-part series on “What is Capitalism?” This series is accompanying the DSA National Political Education Committee’s curriculum packet, which can find our curriculum at https://education.dsausa.org/resources/.This episode covers “But at Least Capitalism Is Free and Democratic, Right?” by Erik Olin Wright in which Olin Wright takes the common assumption that capitalism grants us freedom and lays out simply how that’s not the case. The wor...2022-08-1716 min