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Solidarity Live

50 episodes - English - Latest episode: about 2 years ago - ★★★★★ - 1 rating

Hosts Alex Lawson, Executive Director of Social Security Works, and Jocelyn Macurdy Keatts, Washington Correspondent for act.tv, details the week's news with a focus on taking on Big Pharma and corporate greed through solidarity.

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Episodes

Remembering the life of Dr. Paul Farmer

February 28, 2022 14:24 - 58 minutes - 80.8 MB

PARTNER TO THE POOR: REMEMBERING THE LIFE AND LEGACY OF DR. PAUL FARMER - Today we mourn Dr. Paul Farmer, the man who would cure the world. Founder of Partners in Health, Dr. Paul started clinics all over the world, and spearheaded the movement for health care justice throughout several pandemics. Join Alex and Jocelyn as we remember his legacy.

Anne E Tazewell on A Good Spy Leaves No Trace

February 04, 2022 17:38 - 56 minutes - 78.2 MB

Big Oil, CIA Secrets, and a Spy Daughter’s Reckoning! In Anne Tazewell, the personal becomes political. A woman who gave her life to the fight for environmental justice slowly unravels the dark secrets of her father’s life, leading her to the heart of America’s oil soaked thirst for war.

Laura Packard of CareTalk

January 28, 2022 17:43 - 55 minutes - 76.5 MB

What's next for the Supreme Court, Build Back Better, and Health Care in America? Laura Packard host of #CareTalk and executive director of Health Care Voter joins Alex and Jocelyn Macurdy Keatts to discuss!

Build Back Better Vote Approaches

November 05, 2021 16:42 - 58 minutes - 80.9 MB

Jocelyn and Alex discuss the Build Back Better vote, gubernatorial elections, and voting rights.

Dr. America on Health Care & Build Back Better

October 22, 2021 16:39 - 58 minutes - 79.8 MB

Dr. America, aka Sanjeev Sriram, MD, MPH, joins Solidarity Live to talk health care and the fate of Biden's Build Back Better plan.

It's Time for Congress to Deliver on Health Care

October 15, 2021 17:23 - 58 minutes - 79.9 MB

It's time for Congress to deliver on their promises to build back better. Jocelyn speaks with Rebecca Wood, experienced healthcare organizer, about her activism around this historic time in legislative history.

Natalie Shure on how Big Pharma is imperiling democracy

October 08, 2021 16:55 - 58 minutes - 80.7 MB

BIG PHARMA’S REVOLVING DOOR IS IMPERILING DEMOCRACY. Alex and Jocelyn are live to discuss the dangers of drug monopolies with an expert from The New Republic, Natalie Shure

Kayaktivism in DC

October 01, 2021 16:46 - 1 hour - 82.6 MB

KAYAKTIVISTS TAKE ON JOE MANCHIN BY BOAT, with Jocelyn on board! Jocelyn Macurdy Keatts and Alex discuss the progressive armada, and what's next for Build Back Better

Phuck Pharma

September 20, 2021 16:29 - 57 minutes - 79.1 MB

Today on Solidarity Live Jocelyn and Alex discuss everything you need to know about the evils of Big Pharma, and what’s next in the fight for justice.

Just Say No to DC's Hunger Games

September 10, 2021 18:43 - 58 minutes - 80.5 MB

Today on Solidarity Live Jocelyn Macurdy Keatts and Alex Lawson discuss the most progressive legislative goals in a generation, and what’s next for Budget Reconciliation on Capitol Hill.

Jay Ponti on Occupy Wall Street 10 years later

September 03, 2021 17:23 - 50 minutes - 69.8 MB

Today on Solidarity Live @JocelynMacurdyKeatts speaks with author and organizer Jay Ponti about the 10 year anniversary of Occupy Wall Street! It's been an incredibly eventful decade for progressives in America, and Jay tells us where he thinks we're headed next.

Can We End the Forever Wars?

August 20, 2021 16:40 - 49 minutes - 67.9 MB

Afghanistan has been yet another tragedy of endless war. Alex and Jocelyn are joined by Stephen Miles from Win Without War, as they discuss what’s next, and how we can work for peace.

Will Democrats let the people have nice things?

August 16, 2021 17:22 - 59 minutes - 82.3 MB

The Democrats have a golden opportunity to become really popular by just giving people nice things. Will they take it become winners? Or will they deny the people what they need and stay big losers? Jocelyn and Alex discuss!

Cori Bush, Nina Turner, and Organizing in 2021

August 06, 2021 18:35 - 57 minutes - 79.5 MB

Jocelyn and Linda discuss the Nina Turner race, Cori Bush's victory, and what's next for progressives as we race towards the August recess on Capitol Hill

Medicare Expansion & Reconciliation

July 23, 2021 17:28 - 59 minutes - 81.4 MB

Expanding Medicare, adding vision, hearing, dental and an out of pocket cap, lowering the Medicare age, expanding Medicaid and building a long term care system. Medicare negotiating lower drug prices for everyone. We are closer than ever before, BUT now comes the hard part.

Nancy Altman on Saul & Black's Firing

July 16, 2021 17:05 - 59 minutes - 81.7 MB

ANDREW SAUL & DAVID BLACK FIRED! Joe Biden did what he should have done ages ago and fired Trump's saboteurs at Social Security! But the fight is far from over. Now we need a commissioner with a bold vision so Social Security can fulfill its promise. Social Security Works President Nancy Altman joins the show to discuss.

NORMLizing America's Drug Laws

July 09, 2021 18:44 - 1 hour - 82.6 MB

The fight for criminal justice reform continues! We are live with Justin Strekal, Political Director at NORML to discuss his work with the MORE Act and all his organizing efforts to decriminalize marijuana.

Maia Rosenberg on Health Care Activism

June 25, 2021 18:58 - 57 minutes - 79.1 MB

Voting Rights, the Filibuster and Healthcare justice! We’re here to discuss all of the above with act.tv's Digital Organizer Maia Rosenberg, and to get her updates on the future of the New York Health Act.

Laura Packard on Obamacare SCOTUS ruling

June 21, 2021 18:28 - 57 minutes - 78.5 MB

Obamacare Upheld! We're here with Laura Packard discussing the future of The Affordable Care Act, and the fight for healthcare justice in America.

Testimony by Sarah Lazare

June 11, 2021 17:25 - 57 minutes - 78.3 MB

The Power of Political Storytelling- Today we’re joined by author, Sarah Lazare, here to discuss her debut novel, Testimony, and the importance of leftist fiction in an era defined by imperialism and endless war. Order link: https://www.amazon.com/dp/1947492543/

Stephen Sheller on the Evils of Big Pharma

June 04, 2021 17:30 - 56 minutes - 77.4 MB

AMERICA VS BIG PHARMA - Attorney Stephen Sheller, author of the book Big Pharma, Big Greed, is with us to discuss his billion-dollar showdown with Johnson and Johnson, the Opioid crisis, covid, and what’s next for protecting Americans from Corporate greed

Rebecca Vallas - May 28, 2021

June 01, 2021 15:04 - 54 minutes - 75.5 MB

Solidarity Live talks with Rebecca Vallas from The Century Foundation about why strengthening Supplemental Security Income (SSI) must be part of 'Building Back Better'

The American Jobs Plan

April 30, 2021 18:04 - 58 minutes - 79.9 MB

President Biden spoke a decent game in his address this week, but if we hope to have nice things, we need to pass them in Congress. So it's time we get work!

Biden must deliver on health care

April 23, 2021 17:57 - 57 minutes - 78.7 MB

News reports suggest that President Biden is NOT going to take on pharma to deliver people lower drug prices or expand healthcare coverage at all. Activists and members of Congress across the ideological spectrum need to get organized and push back!

Melinda St Louis of Public Citizen

April 19, 2021 19:15 - 1 hour - 83.5 MB

Alex and Jocelyn talk with Melinda St. Louis, Director of the Medicare for All Campaign at Public Citizen, about why we're pushing for bold drug price reforms and the need to expand Medicare

Amazon Union Loss

April 09, 2021 18:46 - 57 minutes - 79.5 MB

Jocelyn & Alex discuss yesterday's setback in the fight for worker rights at Amazon and what Joe Biden must do to rebuild America. It's what progressives have been telling him to do: GO BIG.

Mary Small from Indivisible

April 02, 2021 17:48 - 57 minutes - 79.4 MB

Mary Small, Legislative Director for Indivisible, joins the show to discuss how progressives will challenge Biden's agenda if he refuses to go big on infrastructure, Green New Deal, and drug prices

Screw the Senate

March 05, 2021 19:37 - 1 hour - 56.9 MB

Solidarity Live! Hosts Alex and Jocelyn examine the fight to pass progressive legislation Democrats promised in 2020, like a liveable minimum wage. Will we need to end the filibuster? Or should we just end the Senate?

Margarida Jorge on the People's Vaccine

February 22, 2021 18:29 - 59 minutes - 81.3 MB

Today on Solidarity Live, Margarida Jorge of Lower Drug Prices Now joins the show to discuss why we need a People's Vaccine. Because until the world is vaccinated, no one really is.

Jon "Bowzer" Bauman on What Biden Owns Seniors

February 05, 2021 21:39 - 57 minutes - 52.3 MB

Seniors delivered the presidency to Joe Biden. And now he owes seniors. It's time to end the nursing home crisis, implement a real vaccination program, and EXPAND SOCIAL SECURITY! And we laugh at Marjorie Taylor Greene (Q-GA). With Jon "Bowzer" Bauman, President of Social Security Works PAC

David Holthouse on Right-Wing Extremism & the GOP

January 29, 2021 19:40 - 59 minutes - 54.1 MB

The GOP cannot and will not get past its embrace of Trump and the varoius extremist groups around him like neo-Nazis, Proud Boys, and QAnon. Acclaimed journalist and filmmaker David Holthouse talks with us about his background researching the extreme right wing and its impact on the Republican Party.

Kymone Freeman of We Act Radio

January 21, 2021 18:18 - 53 minutes - 49.2 MB

Joe Biden officially became President yesterday, and now it's time to #dosomething and make sure he is a president for all of us. Kymone Freeman, co-founder of We Act Radio joins us to discuss how we make him responsible to the people.

Solidarity Live: Inside the Capitol Attack with Ari Rabin-Havt

January 15, 2021 18:45 - 59 minutes - 54.7 MB

Ari Rabin-Havt, Bernie's former Deputy Campaign Manager, joins the show to discuss his harrowing experience inside the capitol office complex as a right-wing mob, organized by seditionists inside the Republican Party like Donald Trump, Josh Hawley, Ted Cruz, and Paul Gosar, attempted to execute members of Congress and Mike Pence.

David Sirota on the MAGA Coup - January 7, 2021

January 07, 2021 18:07 - 59 minutes - 81.8 MB

Donald Trump supporting terrorists attempted a coup yesterday, hours before Joe Biden was confirmed as the next president. Quite a day! David Sirota of The Daily Poster & Jacobin magazine joins the show to discuss the fallout.

Merith Basey of Free the Vaccine

November 20, 2020 18:27 - 1 hour - 82.4 MB

Americans paid for Big Pharma’s Covid vaccines. Now, we need to make sure everyday people receive the vaccine their tax dollars went toward developing. With 250,000 Americans dead from Covid-19 and almost 12 million cases since March, time is not on our side. We need to deliver a vaccine safely and swiftly to every single person free of charge. Solidarity Live with special guest Merith Basey of Free the Vaccine.

Linda Benesch of Social Security Works - November 13, 2020

November 17, 2020 18:09 - 57 minutes - 78.9 MB

Today on Solidarity Live! Linda Benesch, communications director of Social Security Works, joins the show to discuss how Democrats won so we're guaranteed a progressive four years! Just kidding, they're already threatening us with austerity. So we need to KEEP FIGHTING. (Oh, and Trump is still a loser.)

Trump is a Loser - November 6, 2020

November 17, 2020 18:00 - 1 hour - 55 MB

Trump is now officially a one-term president, adding one more failure to his life-long string of failures. Now the hard part starts. Join hosts Alex Lawson & Jocelyn Macurdy Keatts as we break down WHAT IT ALL MEANS and laugh at the Loser In Chief on the way out.

Kara Voght of Mother Jones - October 30, 2020

November 17, 2020 17:50 - 59 minutes - 54.4 MB

It's the last Solidarity Live before the election! Kara Voght, DC bureau reporter for Mother Jones joins the show to break down how the pandemic forced Joe Biden to go big. And why is Facebook covering for Trump on Social Security?

Daniel Marans of HuffPost - October 23, 2020

November 17, 2020 17:46 - 1 hour - 58.8 MB

Today on Solidarity Live! Daniel Marans, Reporter for HuffPost, joins the show to talk about how Donald Trump has governed as just another trickle-down Republican by signing off on "the Paul Ryan agenda."

Bob Bland on the Supreme Court fight - October 16, 2020

November 17, 2020 17:44 - 58 minutes - 53.5 MB

Today on Solidarity Live! Bob Bland, cofounder of WomensMarch, joins us to discuss what's next in the Supreme Court fight and what it will mean for your health care #SCOTUS

Michael Lighty on a post-Trump America - October 9, 2020

November 17, 2020 17:42 - 1 hour - 82.8 MB

Michael Lighty, Bernie 2020's Former Healthcare Constituency Director, joins Alex & Jocelyn to discuss how move forward to a better, fairer country post-Trump

RJ Eskow guest hosting

November 17, 2020 16:52 - 43 minutes - 39.8 MB

Richard "RJ" Eskow, host of The Zero Hour, joins Jocelyn to discuss Trump's diagnosis with COVID-19 and what may (but really certainly will not) learn from it

Zain Rizvi on Remdesivir - September 11, 2020

November 17, 2020 16:45 - 57 minutes - 53 MB

Today on Solidarity Live, we speak with Public Citizen’s Zain Rizvi about how Trump can help us get COVID-19 medicine… but refuses

Nancy Altman on the Future of Social Security - September 4, 2020

November 17, 2020 16:43 - 41 minutes - 38.4 MB

Today on Solidarity Live, we speak with Nancy Altman about how Trump has promised to DESTROY your Social Security if he’s re-elected

Ironstache on the 2020 Elections - August 28, 2020

November 16, 2020 21:18 - 59 minutes - 54.1 MB

Today on Solidarity Live, we speak with Ironstache himself, Randy Bryce, about his work with Iron PAC and the 2020 election cycle

The Power of Combining Art with Politics - August 21, 2020

November 16, 2020 21:15 - 58 minutes - 53.3 MB

Today on Solidarity Live, we speak with Nolan Williams, Jr. about his work combining powerful art with meaningful activism, and we reflect on another wild week in politics

Big Pharma COVID Price-Gouging - August 7, 2020

November 16, 2020 21:09 - 51 minutes - 71.2 MB

We talk with Peter Maybarduk of Public Citizen about Gilead Science outrageous profiteering on the COVID-19 drug Remdesivir

Solidarity Forever Live

November 16, 2020 20:30 - 58 minutes - 80.7 MB

A discussion of art and the pandemic with Brock Butler of Perpetual Groove, why are Republicans working so hard to kill workers, plus Solidarity Forever live!

Ilyse Hogue on The Lie That Binds

November 16, 2020 20:03 - 50 minutes - 46.5 MB

  Ilyse Hogue, President of NARAL Pro-Choice America, joins Jocelyn & Alex to talk about her brand-new hit book The Lie That Binds which “traces the evolution of abortion from a non-partisan issue to the point of the spear for a right-wing movement bent on impeding social progress.”

Solidarity Live: July 17, 2020

November 16, 2020 15:53 - 59 minutes - 54.7 MB

Dr. America (aka, Sanjeev Sriram, M.D., M.P.H.) joins Jocelyn on the newly-relaunched show to discuss Medicare for All and the work of Masks for America