The Katie Halper Show

Patreon-only full interview here https://www.patreon.com/posts/67069775 Journalist Branko Marcetic (https://twitter.com/BMarchetich) talks to Katie about mass shootings, what people don't get about guns in his native New Zealand, online censorship and why Mayo Pete is so OK with babies being hungry. Branko is a writer at Jacobin, the co-host of the 1 of 200 podcast and the author of "Yesterday's Man: the Case Against Joe Biden" relevant articles Progressives Need to Resist the Domestic “War on Terror” (https://www.jacobinmag.com/2022/05/domestic-terrorism-prevention-act-biden-house-squad) Pete Buttigieg: Hungry Babies, Regrettably, Are Just the Price of the Free Market (https://www.jacobinmag.com/2022/05/pete-buttigieg-free-market-hungry-baby-formula-capitalism) The Buffalo Attack Is a Reminder That Mass Surveillance Doesn’t Protect Us (https://www.jacobinmag.com/2022/05/buffalo-attack-mass-surveillance-terrorist-security-state-protection)

***Please support The Katie Halper Show *** For extra content and to help make this program possible, please join us on Patreon at: https://www.patreon.com/thekatiehalpershow Follow Katie on Twitter: https://twitter.com/kthalps See Brittany talk about her striptease against the Military Industrial Complex here. https://www.patreon.com/posts/66569687 Christian Smalls, President of Amazon Labor, the 1st Independent worker-lead Union in America for Amazon workers, talks about his victory against the corporation, how it happened, testifying in front of Congress, what's next for the Labor Movement and beyond. Plus Brittany Ramos DeBarros talks about being an antiwar veteran running for congress against a major Israel hawk. https://twitter.com/Shut_downAmazon https://twitter.com/britt4congress

Nina Turner talks about her latest congressional race, which she lost, where the Congressional Progressives Caucus was, & what's next for her. Amy Vilela talks about her own congressional race for Nevada's First District. https://twitter.com/amy4thepeople https://twitter.com/ninaturner Amy Vilela grew up in poverty, relying on programs like WIC & SNAP in order to make ends meet as a single-mother. She took classes at night while working multiple jobs to become the first in her family to earn a degree. She became a national advocate for Medicare for All after her daughter Shalynne died at the hands of our nation’s profit-driven healthcare system. After working her way up to become a CFO, Amy has since retooled her professional experience to provide vital campaign services to other progressive candidates. In 2020, serving as a State Co-chair, Amy led the charge for Bernie Sanders’ landslide victory in the Nevada caucuses. The Vilelas first moved to Nevada when her husband, Major David Vilela, was transferred to Creech Air Force Base. If elected, she would be the first ever active duty military spouse to serve in Congress. In addition to Congresswoman Cori Bush & Senator Nina Turner, Amy’s campaign has attracted national attention and has been endorsed by Brand New Congress, Sunrise Movement Las Vegas, the Center for Biological Diversity & more. Nina Turner, the oldest of seven children, grew up in a working-class family in Cleveland’s Lee-Harvard community. Her Mother was a nurse’s aide & her Father was a truck driver. Experiencing the impact of income inequality firsthand, Turner took her first job at age 14 to help support her siblings & keep the family afloat. Turner’s Mother battled high blood pressure her entire life & died at age 42. This experience exposed to Turner the serious problems with our health care system, especially for Black & lower-income families. After working her way through college and graduate school (she earned an Associate’s Degree from Cuyahoga Community College & a Bachelor’s and Master’s from Cleveland State University), she started a career dedicated to keeping Ohio working families afloat too. Turner made history in 2005 as the first African American woman to represent Ward One on the Cleveland City Council, & again in 2008 as the first African American woman to serve as a State Senator in Ohio’s 25th District. In the legislature, Turner repeatedly defended against attacks on women’s health care freedom & partnered with working families & organized labor to protect collective bargaining rights. As a champion for criminal justice reform, she led the effort to create Ohio’s first task force on police & community relations in the wake of tragic police killings in Ohio & across the country. Turner went on to serve as the Chair of Party Engagement for the Ohio Democratic Party, leading the effort to build a more robust & inclusive organizing infrastructure & support for local Democratic candidates across the State. Turner took her record of accomplishment & commitment to justice nationwide when she became a national surrogate for Bernie Sanders’ 2016 Presidential campaign & National Co-Chair for Bernie 2020. In those roles, she traveled coast to coast building support for progressive values such as a $15 living wage, free education from kindergarten through college & health care as a human right in the form of Medicare for All. Between those two campaigns, Turner also served as the President of the national grassroots political organization “Our Revolution.” Nina Turner is a wife, mother & proud grandmother. A former Assistant Professor of History at her alma mater Cuyahoga Community College, she is also the current host of the “Hello Somebody” podcast on iHeartRadio. ***Please support The Katie Halper Show *** On Patreon https://www.patreon.com/thekatiehalpershow Follow Katie on Twitter: https://twitter.com/kthalps Callin link: https://www.callin.com/episode/nina-turner-amy-vilela-qsJgTwzHDK

To receive bonus content & to help make this program possible, please join us on Patreon at: https://www.patreon.com/thekatiehalpershow In light of the leaked SCOTUS decision overturning Roe v Wade, Journalist Amy Littlefield, activist & Congressional candidate Rebecca Parson along with Constitutional lawyer Shahid Buttar discuss how the Democrats enabled the attack on reproductive rights and continue to do so literally as we speak. Amy Littlefield is The Nation's abortion access correspondent and a journalist who focuses on reproductive rights, health care, and religion. https://www.amylittlefield.com/ https://twitter.com/amylittlefield Rebecca Parson, a commissioner on the Tacoma Area Commission on Disabilities, an organizer with the Tacoma Tenants Organizing Committee and a congressional candidate for Washington's Sixth District. She’s the only candidate in the race supporting a $30 minimum wage, Medicare for All, the Green New Deal, and national rent control. https://www.rebeccaparson.com/ https://twitter.com/RebeccaforWA Shahid Buttar is a constitutional lawyer, national non-profit leader, and musical artist who won over 81,000 votes from San Franciscans in 2020 to replace the most powerful member of the House. https://shahidforchange.us/ https://twitter.com/ShahidForChange https://twitter.com/sheeyahshee

For the entire discussion, to receive bonus content & to help make this program possible, please join us on Patreon at: https://www.patreon.com/thekatiehalpershow Joing our Callin discussion on Friday April 29 at 1pm EST with Paul Paz y Miño! about suing the CIA over Pablo Escobar- https://www.callin.com/room/suing-the-cia-with-paul-paz-y-mio-mOpBqTeQrS Steven Donziger, is free at last, for now. What's next? Find out from Steven Donziger (the human rights and environmentalist lawyer who served a six month prison sentence for successfully suing Chevron for poisoning the water in the Ecuadorian Amazon) and Paul Pan y Miño of Amazon Watch. Steven Donziger, is free at last, for now. What's next? Find out from Steven Donziger (the human rights and environmentalist lawyer who served a six month prison sentence for successfully suing Chevron for poisoning the water in the Ecuadorian Amazon) and Paul Pan y Miño of Amazon Watch. https://substack.com/profile/7445653-steven-donziger The prosecution of Donziger, which has been condemned by the United Nations, Greenpeace, Amnesty International, Amazon Watch, and 64 Nobel Laureates, is a literal corporate prosecution. After the Southern District of New York refused to prosecute Donziger, the judge assigned a corporate firm which had represented Chevron to go after him. The judge also made the unusual move of handpicking the judge to oversee the case and chose a judge who is part of the Right Wing Federalist Society which gets funding from.... you guessed it... Chevron! Paul Paz y Miño, Associate Director at Amazon Watch, has overseen its Clean Up Ecuador campaign since 2007. He has been a professional human rights, corporate accountability and environmental justice advocate for over 25 years. He has been Colombia Country Specialist for Amnesty International USA since 1995, served on staff at Human Rights Watch/Americas in 1995-1996, and was the Guatemala/Chiapas Program Director at the Seva Foundation for seven years.

Listen to the patreon-only interview here: https://www.patreon.com/posts/prof-richard-65362957 Economist Richard Wolff talks about Ukraine, Russia, sanctions, and why this moment is similar to World War One. Richard Wolff is the host of #EconomicUpdate, Professor of Economics Emeritus at @UMassAmherst, visiting professor at The New School, founder of @democracyatwrk and the author of several books including Democracy at Work, Understanding Marxism, and Capitalism Hits the Fan: The Global Economic Meltdown and What to Do About It. He's been called "America's most prominent Marxist economist" by The New York Times.

For the entire discussion, to receive bonus content, support independent media & to help make this program possible, please join us on Patreon at: https://www.patreon.com/thekatiehalpershow Direct link to this episode's Patreon segment: https://www.patreon.com/posts/vijay-prashad-on-65119033 Vijay Prashad discusses the latest fallout from the war in Ukraine and how it's impacting the rest of the world and his essay on Pan-Asianism. Plus the removal of Pakistan's Imran Khan: is it the will of the Pakistani people or Western-backed regime change, as Khan is claiming? Read Vijay's latest piece here (https://www.newsclick.in/is-asia-possible) Vijay Prashad (https://twitter.com/vijayprashad) is an Indian historian, editor and journalist. He is a writing fellow and chief correspondent at Globetrotter (https://independentmediainstitute.org...). He is the chief editor of LeftWord Books (https://mayday.leftword.com/) and the director of Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research (https://t.co/evQYuwZXRJ). He is a senior non-resident fellow at Chongyang Institute for Financial Studies, Renmin University of China (http://en.rdcy.org/). He has written more than 20 books, including The Darker Nations and The Poorer Nations. His latest book is Washington Bullets, with an introduction by Evo Morales Ayma.

To support independent media, receive bonus content and to help make this show possible, please join us at: https://www.patreon.com/thekatiehalpershow Rapper and campaigner Lowkey (https://twitter.com/Lowkey0nline) talks about the Israel Lobby's campaign to get Spotify to remove him from their platform. Sign the petition telling Spotify not to cave here (https://www.change.org/p/spotify-do-not-buckle-to-pressure-from-the-israel-lobby-to-deplatform-lowkey?utm_source=share_petition&utm_medium=custom_url&recruited_by_id=0ccb39d0-b020-11ec-b015-6f843b977d7f). Lowkey is a British-Iraqi hip hop artist, academic and political campaigner. He is a patron of Stop The War Coalition, Palestine Solidarity Campaign, the Racial Justice Network and The Peace and Justice Project founded by Jeremy Corbyn. He has a Masters in Middle Eastern Studies from SOAS university and is an advisor to the website Declassified which investigates the activities of the Ministry of Defence and British Intelligence Services. He has spoken and performed on platforms from the Oxford Union to the Royal Albert Hall and Glastonbury. His latest album Soundtrack To The Struggle 2 featured Noam Chomsky, Frankie Boyle and Ken Loach and has been streamed millions of times. He produces and hosts his own weekly podcast for Mintpress and has interviewed US Congresswoman Ilhan Omar, Roger Waters, Naom Chomsky, Naomi Klein, Ahed Tamimi, Ken Loach and Stella Moris (wife of Julian Assange). Lowkey has become the target of a coordinated smear campaign to demonize, defame and deplatform him. Earlier this month, organised groups forced the University of Cambridge Palestine Solidarity Society to postpone his lecture and were able to stop his appearance at the National Union of Students in Liverpool. Now, a campaign by lobby group "We Believe in Israel" is demanding that his content be removed from music streaming service Spotify. This is unacceptable censorship. The campaign against Lowkey is designed to silence Palestinians and their supporters. Anti-Palestinian censorship is now reaching into the artistic realm.

For bonus content & to help make the show possible, please join us on Patreon at: https://www.patreon.com/thekatiehalpershow Brian Becker talks about the latest in Ukraine, Biden's statements about Putin, and the history that got us here in the first place. Andrew Gold talks about his reporting on true crime as well as on exorcism. Brian Becker (https://mobile.twitter.com/BrianBeckerDC) is the host of The Socialist Program. He is the National Coordinator of the ANSWER Coalition and the author of Imperialism in the 21st Century. Andrew Gold (https://twitter.com/andrewgold_ok) is a journalist, documentary maker (HBO, BBC) and podcast host of On the Edge with Andrew Gold. He speaks five languages, and documents the world’s strangest and most controversial people, from true crime and paranormal to science and politics.

For the entire discussion, bonus content & to help make the show happen, please join us on Patreon at: https://www.patreon.com/thekatiehalpershow Direct link to this broadcast's Patreon podcast (patreon-only content begins at 29min09sec, start there to pick-up where you left off) Journalist and historian Vijay Prashad (https://twitter.com/vijayprashad) talks about the current conflict in Ukraine and the history that got us there, especially the role of NATO. He also discusses what the Left should be doing right now. Then join our callin where Katie will be taking some of your questions [https://www.callin.com/room/ukraine-what-should-the-left-do-about-it-hxuXjCtKXb] Vijay Prashad is an Indian historian, editor and journalist. He is a writing fellow and chief correspondent at Globetrotter (https://independentmediainstitute.org/globetrotter/). He is the chief editor of LeftWord Books (https://mayday.leftword.com/) and the director of Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research (https://t.co/evQYuwZXRJ). He is a senior non-resident fellow at Chongyang Institute for Financial Studies, Renmin University of China (http://en.rdcy.org/). He has written more than 20 books, including The Darker Nations and The Poorer Nations. His latest book is Washington Bullets, with an introduction by Evo Morales Ayma.