Interviews for Resistance

Interviews for Resistance


Latest Episodes

Work requirements for Medicaid and other stealth attempts at dismantling healthcare, with Rebecca Vallas
January 24, 2018

Children's healthcare was a bargaining chip in the latest showdown in Congress, but with the government shutdown over for now, Republicans are planning more healthcare cuts.

Self-determined governance and electoral justice, with Jessica Byrd and Ash-Lee Woodard Henderson
January 17, 2018

The Movement for Black Lives is launching its Electoral Justice Project in 2018--not to flip red seats "blue" but to work on transformative change by all possible means.

Permanent protections instead of temporary status, with Jaime Contreras
January 10, 2018

Trump has now revoked temporary protected status (TPS) for immigrants from four countries. What can unions do to fight back?

Building rural power with Down Home North Carolina
January 03, 2018

Rural "red" counties are thought of as Trump country, but Down Home North Carolina aims to build a multiracial working class organization in that space.

Launching the new Poor People's Campaign with Rev. Emily McNeill
December 24, 2017

There was a lot to fight against in 2017, and it was sometimes hard to think about building for the future. But a new campaign aims to change that in 2018.

Organizing one by one for DREAMers and system change, with Alfredo Pacheco
December 21, 2017

With Nobody Leaves Mid-Hudson, Alfredo Pacheco connects the dots between fighting deportations and for fair housing.

Down to the wire to stop the tax scam, with Sarah Chaisson-Warner and Jessica Juarez Scruggs
December 18, 2017

The Republicans think they have the votes to pass their massive tax cut package. But their constituents aren't done fighting.

Serve your constituents or grow your own wealth, with Campus Action for Democracy
December 14, 2017

Rep. Trey Hollingsworth dodged his constituents for eight hours as they sat in in his office asking for a meeting on the tax bill.

Trump is not on the side of the Jews, with Sarah Brammer-Shlay
December 12, 2017

Jewish organization IfNotNow protested Trump's decision to move the U.S. embassy in Israel to Jerusalem around the country, with more to come.

Taxing people out of higher education, with Tom DePaola
December 08, 2017

Graduate student employees get whacked in the House version of the GOP tax bill, and Tom DePaola and others went to see Paul Ryan about it.