Defeating Christo Fascists in Bolivia & The US W/ Ollie Vargas & Joshua Kahn Russell

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Katie Halper

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4.6 • 1.5K Ratings

🗓️ 27 October 2020

⏱️ 85 minutes

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Summary

Ollie Vargas (https://twitter.com/OVargas52), a Bolivian journalist with @KawsachunCoca @KawsachunNews talks about Bolivia's presidential election where Evo Morales' hand-picked candidate, Luis Arce, defeated Jeanine Añez, a right wing racist who came to power during a coup which illegally removed Morales. Organizer Joshua Kahn Russell, the Executive Director of The Wildfire Project, and facilitator with the Ruckus Society, talks about Choose Democracy, an effort to organize regular people to stop the 2020 election from being stolen. (https://choosedemocracy.us/)

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0:00.0	Hello and
0:12.8	today's episode I play a few interviews first I play an interview I did with
0:17.7	Ali Vargas a journalist based in Bolivia who writes for
0:21.0	Kossachun Koca and Kossachoon News.
0:24.4	Since interviewing Ali, it's been announced that Eba Morales will return to Bolivia on November 9th,
0:30.3	the day after Louis Arse is sworn in as president.
0:35.0	Then I interview Joshua Kahn Russell,
0:38.0	a social movement facilitator and the executive director of the Wildfire Project
0:42.0	and a nonviolent direct action
0:44.3	coordinator with the Ruckus Society. He's going to be talking to us about a project
0:48.4	he's involved in called Choose Democracy. Then Leslie Lee, the host of the Struggle Session
0:53.5	podcast, joins me and Josh for a bit. But you can hear the rest of my
0:57.6	chat with Leslie Lee, as well as my chat with Isha Kirschiswami at Patreon. That's Patreon.com
1:04.3	slash the Katie Helper Show. Again, Patreon.com
1:06.7	slash the Katie Helper Show. Please re-review the Kady Hel helper show.
1:18.0	So Ollie, thank you so much for coming out to the show. No, thanks for having me.
1:21.0	It's so good that there's media attention on this issue at a moment.
1:25.0	Yeah, no, I think that people are very excited about this.
1:29.0	I have so many questions to ask you.
1:31.0	Tell us what's been happening lately. You've been attacked, right? You were physically
1:37.0	attacked. Can you just set the scene in terms of how Bolivia got to the moment it's gotten to.
1:43.4	Sorry, not like starting with like colonialism, but I guess
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