The Great Battlefield

Andy Stern joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about his career, being the President of the SEIU, fighting for workers rights and now a fellow at the Economic Security Project where they're advocating for a universal basic income.

Steve Rosenthal joins The Great Battlefield to talk about his experience in progressive politics over the past 40 years, including building labor's political infrastructure at the AFL-CIO; founding ACT massive voter mobilization project in 2004, starting the Atlas Project a research hub, and his new effort, the Worker's News Network

Michael Podhorzer joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about his career in the labor movement, the use of data and analytics and recently stepping down as Political Director at the AFL-CIO.

On this episode Host, Nathaniel Pearlman shares his thoughts about The Great Battlefield podcast after producing 900 episodes and temporary changes to the podcast going forward.

Pollsters Ed Goeas and Celinda Lake join The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about their book "A Question of Respect: Bringing Us Together in a Deeply Divided Nation".

Rakim Brooks joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about his leadership story and his current role as President of the Alliance for Justice, a national association of progressive organizations advocating for a fair and independent justice system.

Melody Oliphant, Myla Williams and Harrison Tran join The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about their roles at GYJC, a coalition of students ages 14-22 working to build power from the classroom to the capitol.

Zack Exley joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about the use of the internet in political organizing and fundraising, including on several Democratic presidential campaigns and at Wikipedia as well as founding Justice Democrats and now New Consensus, a think tank that works to achieve economic renewal and transformation.

Elias Crim joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about his career and founding Solidarity Hall, a podcast, publishing project and community of people with interests in localism, municipalism and the solidarity economy.

Michael Thatcher joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about his career and becoming CEO of Charity Navigator, where they evaluate and rate nonprofits and help donors align with the causes they care about.