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Pramila Jayapal: from Banker to Organizer; Eric Foner on the Right to Vote

Pramila Jayapal: from Banker to Organizer; Eric Foner on the Right to Vote

FromLiving in the USA


Pramila Jayapal: from Banker to Organizer; Eric Foner on the Right to Vote

FromLiving in the USA

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Length:
32 minutes
Released:
Aug 5, 2022
Format:
Podcast episode

Description

Pramila Jayapal is head of the Congressional Progressive Caucus and represents Seattle in the House. She will explain how, as a young immigrant from India, she went from being an investment banker to a lifelong organizer. Her book, “Use the Power You Have: A Brown Woman's Guide to Politics and Political Change,” is out now.

Also historian Eric Foner talks about about voting rights and voter suppression, about who gets to be a citizen, the rights of undocumented immigrants, and about the roots of mass incarceration -- --they all relate to the 13th, 14th and 15th Amendments, part of the country’s attempt to redefine citizenship after the end of slavery. His book, “The Second Founding: How the Civil War and Reconstruction Remade the Constitution,” is out now in paperback.
Released:
Aug 5, 2022
Format:
Podcast episode

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Talking about politics, thinking about the Left. Hosted by Jon Wiener, co-author of "Set the Night on Fire: L.A. in the Sixties," contributing editor at The Nation, and broadcast live at KPFK 90.7FM in LA Thursdays at 4.