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Stacey Abrams: The Populist Authoritarian Playbook Is Well-Documented

Stacey Abrams: The Populist Authoritarian Playbook Is Well-Documented

FromAll Ears with Abigail Disney


Stacey Abrams: The Populist Authoritarian Playbook Is Well-Documented

FromAll Ears with Abigail Disney

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Length:
36 minutes
Released:
Nov 12, 2020
Format:
Podcast episode

Description

On the heels of historic voter turnout in Georgia, Abby revisits her interview with Stacey Abrams back in July. In that conversation, Stacey outlined her bold strategy to fight voter suppression and educate communities about voting. And her work bore fruit, with Georgia flipping blue for the first time in a presidential race since 1992. Recounting her upbringing in Mississippi, the former Georgia House of Representatives minority leader describes the powerful example of citizenship and activism her parents set for their six children, as activists and citizens, even as they had struggled their whole lives for fair access to education, employment opportunities, and the voting booth. Oh, and when Abrams isn’t saving our democracy, she’s got a side hustle as a romance novelist.EPISODE LINKSStacey’s book: Our Time Is NowFair Fight 2020 FairCount.orgStacey Abrams Says Fighting Voter Suppression Changed "The Trajectory Of The Nation"Make Way For Ducklings: The Art of Robert McCloskey (MFA Boston)Stacey Abrams: I Know Voting Feels Inadequate Right Now (NY Times)1,285 Proven Cases of Voter Fraud in America (Heritage Foundation)Stacey Abrams, Georgia Candidate For Governor, Has Strong Mississippi Roots (Hattiesburg American)Stacey Abrams on Twitter and Instagram: @staceyabrams
Released:
Nov 12, 2020
Format:
Podcast episode

Titles in the series (53)

Abigail has a new documentary, The American Dream and Other Fairy Tales, in which she examines the inequality crisis through the lens of the company her grandfather helped found, The Walt Disney Company. In the film, she asks how it is possible that so many workers at Disneyland, aka “the happiest place on earth,” can’t afford life's basic necessities, even when they work full time. For the fourth season of All Ears, Abigail poses that question to people who are doing the most Disney thing of all–using their imaginations–in this case to rethink capitalism. She talks with business leaders, union organizers, and economists to learn how they would fix our broken economy.