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Weekends: Eviction Crisis, Techno-Feudal Dystopia, and Medicare for All w/ David Sirota

Jacobin Radio

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🗓️ 22 December 2020

⏱️ 131 minutes

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Summary

Every Saturday at 1 PM ET, Ana Kasparian and Nando Vila broadcast live from the Jacobin YouTube channel. Weekends features free-flowing and humorous commentary on current events and political strategy. This is the podcast version of the show from December 19, 2020.

The guest today is David Sirota. David is editor-at-large at Jacobin. He edits the Daily Poster newsletter and previously served as a senior adviser and speechwriter on Bernie Sanders's 2020 presidential campaign.

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0:00.0

The What's up? What's up everyone? Welcome to weekends with Anna Kasparian and Nando Vila.

0:19.1

Nando what's going on? How are you? feeling fresh Saturday morning you know the people in the

0:25.4

East Coast it's like 1 PM we're fresh ready to go at 10 a.m. on a Saturday for you people

0:31.4

I'm feeling fresh is a strong word for me. I'm not feeling fresh at all. I'm so exhausted. It's been a crazy week. Yeah, I mean just you know, it's just like the daily grind and all the political news that comes along with it.

0:48.2

But as you know, I'm always excited to do this show and we have a massive

0:53.2

massive show plan for you guys today.

0:55.2

We're gonna have David Serota on to talk a little bit about strategy

1:00.0

and how progressives can you know get some concessions from corporate Democrats,

1:04.9

what's the best way to go about that.

1:07.5

Later in the show, I'll be talking about this looming eviction crisis

1:11.6

that doesn't even seem Congress plans to do anything real about

1:15.8

even in this you know relief bill back and forth what they're negotiating doesn't even come close to preventing millions of Americans

1:26.0

from being thrown out of their homes and the tech industry facing a little bit of prosecution

1:32.4

which I'm actually pretty surprised

1:33.8

about that's what Nandal will be talking about yeah yeah yeah very

1:37.7

very surprising developments in tech and I'm very excited to talk to David sort of

1:41.1

because I've long been a fan of his even before he became

1:44.8

kind of one of Bernie's top spokespeople and I think most people might be known in that role

1:51.6

you know from Twitter and just from being involved

1:54.7

in the Bernie campaign.

1:56.8

But Sarota has for a long, long time been one of this country's best investigative journalists. I mean in terms of sheer

2:05.2

production I just I have no I have no concept as to how he does it like how he produces so

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