Latest California politics Podcast Episodes
Echo Park Rising- Where are they now?
District 34 Podcast - May 29, 2021 22:54 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 19 ratingsOn March 25th, Mitch O'Farrell sent police in riot gear toting less-lethals to Echo Park Lake to clear the homeless encampment. This week the park re-opened and the displaced unhoused returned for a press conference. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/district34/message Support th...
The Anti-Masker Movement and Public Health
District 34 Podcast - May 19, 2021 21:45 - 51 minutes ★★★★★ - 19 ratingsI spoke with public health expert, Dr. Blaine Pope, on the anti masker movement that has risen from the remnants of the Trump years in Los Angeles. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/district34/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/district34/support
May Day
District 34 Podcast - May 07, 2021 23:28 - 43 minutes ★★★★★ - 19 ratingsMay Day is a historic celebration of workers and workers rights. In this weeks episode we look at two ongoing workers rights issues- One at Kroger Grocery stores, and another at Amazon. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/district34/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/d...
Brook Hines on Troll Farms, Think Tanks and Buying Influence
District 34 Podcast - April 27, 2021 21:35 - 49 minutes ★★★★★ - 19 ratingsTina-Desiree Berg interviews Brook Hines on her recent research into how fake sock puppet accounts work with organizations and individuals to sway public opinion. You can follow Brook here --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/district34/message Support this podcast: https://anchor....
Crazy for Hrezi- Meet Muad Hrezi, Congressional Primary Candidate in Connecticut
District 34 Podcast - April 06, 2021 16:15 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 19 ratingsMuad Hrezi is running for election to the U.S. House to represent CD 1 in Connecticut, for the Democratic primary in 2022. He is an educator, track coach, and former US Senate staffer for Chris Murphy. We discuss his Libyan background, foreign policy, and his other ideas and policy positions. -...
Intersectional Imperialism with Alex Rubinstein
District 34 Podcast - March 29, 2021 23:14 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 19 ratingsAlex Rubinstein is an independent journalist who has shared live coverage of social movements in the United States including Black Lives Matter, Standing Rock, Charlottesville, the inauguration protests against Pres. Trump, and from inside the besieged Venezuelan Embassy in Washington, DC. H...
Interview with CD 42 Candidate Liam O'Mara
District 34 Podcast - March 22, 2021 00:39 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 19 ratingsLiam O'Mara is running for election to the U.S. House to represent California's 42nd Congressional District. Liam earned a bachelor's degree from Chapman University in 2006 and master's and Ph.D. degrees from the Univerity of California, Irvine, in 2008 and 2017, respectively. His career experi...
Kamala Harris Has a History of Passing the Buck on Police Killings with Walker Bragman
District 34 Podcast - March 19, 2021 22:19 - 29 minutes ★★★★★ - 19 ratingsWalker Bragman is a journalist and JD whose work has been featured in Paste Magazine, the Intercept, HuffPost, the Independent, Salon, Truthout, and the Hill. He discusses he latest piece in Jacobin on how Kamala Harris failed to investigate bad police shootings in Anaheim when she was AG in Cal...
The ICC, Palestine and Israel with Dr. James Zogby
District 34 Podcast - March 15, 2021 22:21 - 33 minutes ★★★★★ - 19 ratingsDr. Zogby is the founder and president of the Arab American Institute, a Washington, D.C.–based organization that serves as a political and policy research arm of the Arab-American community. He is also a Fellow at the Sanders Institute. We discuss the current situation with the ICC and Pales...
DSA and Left Caucus Sweep the Nevada Democratic Party Leadership Elections with Dan Rolle
District 34 Podcast - March 11, 2021 00:26 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 19 ratingsA coalition of progressive candidates backed by the local chapter of the Democratic Socialists of America took over the leadership of the Nevada Democratic Party on March 6 and swept all five party leadership positions in a contested election. Judith Whitmer was elected chair. The establishment ...
Interview with Colin Kalmbacher, Editor at Law and Crime News
District 34 Podcast - March 06, 2021 22:27 - 46 minutes ★★★★★ - 19 ratingsColin Kalmbacher is an attorney and writer. He received his J.D. from Texas A&M School of Law and his LL.M. in International Law and Intellectual Property from Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law in Manhattan. He is an editor at legal news and analysis site Law & Crime News. We discuss recent eve...
Interview with Kitty Stryker on Leftist Movements and Journalism
District 34 Podcast - March 03, 2021 20:55 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 19 ratingsInterview with Kitty Stryker, published author whose work has appeared in Teen Vogue, Vice, Cosmopolitan and others- identifies as an anarchist activist, queer femme, Juggalo ethnographer and leftist doomsday prepper located in the San Francisco Bay Area --- Send in a voice message: https://a...
Interview with Awkword- Rapper and Activist
District 34 Podcast - March 03, 2021 20:54 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 19 ratingsLabeled “Antifa militant” by Andy Ngo and “quite profound” by Chuck D of Public Enemy, AWKWORD has fought for justice and equality through protest song, political organizing, digital strategy and street journalism for nearly a quarter century. He is a co-founder of TEN DEMANDS, co-creator of Ten...
Interview with Jailed BLM Activist Tatiana Turner
District 34 Podcast - March 03, 2021 20:53 - 37 minutes ★★★★★ - 19 ratingsTatiana Turner is currently i jail because she is unable to make an exorbitant one million dollar bail. Turner is a BLM activist that attended a rally in Yorba Linda last September. Trump supporters showed up in numbers that day and were quite hostile. At one point they surrounded Turners car a...
Interview with BLM Activist Tatiana Turner
District 34 Podcast - February 16, 2021 22:11 - 38 minutes ★★★★★ - 19 ratingsTatiana Turner is currently i jail because she is unable to make an exorbitant one million dollar bail. Turner is a BLM activist that attended a rally in Yorba Linda last September. Trump supporters showed up in numbers that day and were quite hostile. At one point they surrounded Turners car a...
Interview with BLM Activist Tatiana Turner
District 34 Podcast - February 16, 2021 22:11 - 38 minutes ★★★★★ - 19 ratingsTatiana Turner is currently i jail because she is unable to make an exorbitant one million dollar bail. Turner is a BLM activist that attended a rally in Yorba Linda last September. Trump supporters showed up in numbers that day and were quite hostile. At one point they surrounded Turners car a...
Interview with General Jeff, the "Mayor of Skid Row"
District 34 Podcast - February 05, 2021 18:31 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 19 ratingsWe spoke with activist General Jeff on the issues currently surrounding the unhoused in Los Angeles and recent events in Skid Row. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/district34/message Support this podcast: https://anchor...
Interview with Ken Mejia, Candidate for LA City Controller
District 34 Podcast - January 25, 2021 12:15 - 41 minutes ★★★★★ - 19 ratingsKen is a Certified Public Accountant (CPA) and housing justice activist, born and raised in LA, who has expertise as an auditor. He wants to focus on auditing the city’s finances in order to determine departmental effectiveness and identify wasteful spending that can be reallocated to other crit...
Interview with Rebecca Brown, legal fellow at Courtwatch Los Angeles
District 34 Podcast - January 20, 2021 23:03 - 30 minutes ★★★★★ - 19 ratingsSean Carmitchel's interview with Rebecca Brown of Courtwatch Los Angeles. Courtwatch is a volunteer court observation organization working to keep the criminal system transparent & accountable. Send tips & inquiries: [email protected] See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out i...
"It's Really Hell On Earth In The Hospitals Right Now" An Interview w/ Tracy Lazaro, RN, MSN, RND-C
District 34 Podcast - January 01, 2021 20:57 - 51 minutes ★★★★★ - 19 ratingsTracy is not only a nurse, but also is the Director of PPE Now LA- an organization dedicated to providing front-line healthcare workers, protestors and the unhoused with both hygiene and protective equipment during the Pandemic. Los Angeles has been experiencing record numbers of both cases and d...
Adrian Riskin of Michael Kohlhaas Org Discusses his FOIA Dumps
District 34 Podcast - December 30, 2020 02:54 - 18 minutes ★★★★★ - 19 ratingsAdrian Riskin of Michael Kohlhaas Org joins us to discuss his FOIA dumps on Los Angeles politicians and law enforcement. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/district34/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/distri...
Meet Eman Padilla- Arrested and Charged at a Protest Recently Released by Gascon
District 34 Podcast - December 20, 2020 23:10 - 54 minutes ★★★★★ - 19 ratingsThis week in the studio, Sean Beckner-Carmitchel joins Tina-Desiree Berg. Eman Padilla was arrested not far from a protest outside Sheriff Alex Villanueva's home in Los Angeles County on November 18, 2020. At that time, he was told there was a warrant for his arrest and charged with Attempted Tra...
MMT, China and Fiat Currency- Part Two with Dr. Asatar Bair
District 34 Podcast - December 03, 2020 00:31 - 45 minutes ★★★★★ - 19 ratingsIn part two of the discussion we discuss China, Keynesian theory and MMT. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/district34/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/district34/support
Marxist Economics with Dr Asatar Bair Part One
District 34 Podcast - November 19, 2020 18:28 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 19 ratingsDr Asatar Blair studied political economy under Dr Richard Wolff. He currently teaches at Riverside City College. He is also the author of Prison Labor in the United States: An Economic Analysis. Join us in conversation on political economy from a Marxist point of View. This is part one of a two...
Inside the Anti-Fascist Movement
District 34 Podcast - November 05, 2020 21:13 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 19 ratingsI spoke with local anti-fascist activist Erik Boyd about his recent experiences and why he has taken up the cause of fighting white supremacy. As a local of the Sunland-Tujana area in Los Angeles, he grew up in an area with neo-nazis and some Peckerwoods. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and o...
Interview with Paula Jean Swearengin- Senate Candidate, West Virginia
District 34 Podcast - October 13, 2020 21:28 - 19 minutes ★★★★★ - 19 ratingsPaula Jean is coal miner’s daughter and fierce advocate for environmental justice. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/district34/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/district34/support
Prop 22 and 15 with Konstantine Anthony- Candidate Burbank City Council
District 34 Podcast - October 11, 2020 17:59 - 32 minutes ★★★★★ - 19 ratingsI spoke with Konstantine Anthony on two important California state propositions facing voters in November. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/district34/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/district34/support
Interview with David Kim, Challenging Jimmy Gomez From the Left in CD 34
District 34 Podcast - September 04, 2020 20:18 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 19 ratingsDavid Kim is an immigration attorney, community organizer, and current neighborhood council board member. He has been endorsed by Andrew Yang and Marianne Williamson. We discuss the current issues facing LA and solutions like UBI and Medicare for All. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-o...
BONUS: Full Audio of PDA Plenary Session at DNC 2020
District 34 Podcast - August 22, 2020 20:57 - 2 hours ★★★★★ - 19 ratingsBuilding the Progressive Movement into a Winning Movement Host/Moderator – Alan Minsky, PDA Panelist – Susie Shannon, DNC Poverty Council; Michael Lighty, Bill Fletcher Jr, Senator Nina Turner, Jesse Jackson with John Nichols introduced by Steve Cobble, Thom Hartmann, Radio Host, Congressional Ca...
BONUS: Full Audio of the PDA Economy and Labor Panel at DNC 2020
District 34 Podcast - August 22, 2020 20:53 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 19 ratingsPanelists – Rep. Grijalva, AZ-3, Prof. Stephanie Kelton, Prof. William Darity, Jr., Joseph Geevarghese Our Revolution, Clem Balanoff Transit Workers Union, Carl Rosen Electrical Workers, Susie Shannon, DNC Poverty Council, Rep. Judy Chu CA-27 See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out inform...
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