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The Montana DSA Podcast

Members of the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA) believe that both the economy and society should be democratically run to meet human needs, not to make profits for a few. Montana has hundred of members in several DSA chapters: Billings, Bozeman, Helena, and Western MT (Missoula). As the largest socialist organization in America since Eugene Debs ran for president, DSA members are building progressive movements for social change while establishing an openly democratic socialist presence in

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00:44:27

Stop The US Efforts to Extradite Incarcerated...

The Montana DSA Podcast ·

2023/09/02

Montana DSA Podcast Episode 31 (Sept 1, 2023), features eminent legal scholar and analyst/activist Marjorie Cohn (articles and commentaries and bio at https://marjoriecohn.com/) discussing the U.S, government's efforts to force the United Kingdom to extradite imprisoned WikiLeaks founder and publisher Julian Assange to the United States.Cohn describes these U.S. actions as ones that illegally threaten the First Amendment and Press Freedom. Cohn, a member of the Assange Defense advisory board

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01:07:47

Anne Hedges of the Montana Environmental Information...

The Montana DSA Podcast ·

2023/07/26

Anne Hedges, Director of Policy and Legislative Affairs for the Montana Environmental Information Center (MEIC, https://meic.org, https://www.facebook.com/MTEIC) is the featured guest in Montana DSA’s 30th podcast July 26, 2023. MEIC, founded in 1973, is Montana's premier environmental organization and is celebrating 50 years of work protecting Montana's environment). Hedges directs MEIC’s program work, including its legislative, policy, and legal activities. Anne received her B.S. in

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01:12:25

A conversation with Darrell Ehrlick editor-in-chief...

The Montana DSA Podcast ·

2023/06/17

This 29th episode of the Montana DSA (Democratic Socialists of America) Podcast series features a conversation with Darrell Ehrlick of Billings, the editor-in-chief of The Daily Montanan (TDM), https://dailymontanan.com/, founded in January 2021 as a nonprofit, independent, nonpartisan source for news, commentary and insight into statewide policy and politics beneath the Big Sky. TDM's guiding motto/maxim is "Truth. Transparency. Trust."Ehrlick is an award-winning journalist, author,

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00:58:12

Nick Engelfried: How Young Climate Activists Upended...

The Montana DSA Podcast ·

2023/06/14

Montana DSA Democratic Socialists of America) Podcast Episode 28 features Nick Engelfried (https://nickengelfried.com/about-nick/) -- environmental educator and climate activist since the early 2000s and author of Movement Makers: How Young Activists Upended the Politics of Climate Change (https://nickengelfried.com/movementmakers/), the first major book to comprehensively examine more than two decades of youth-led climate activism and organizing. In this podcast, Nick Engelfried and Helena

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01:07:29

Tootie Welker: Montana Feminist Socialist Grassroots...

The Montana DSA Podcast ·

2023/06/08

Veteran feminist social justice activist Tootie Welker of Hot Springs, Montana is featured in this June 7th conversation with DSA's Frank Kromkowski of Helena in Episode 27 of the 2023 Montana DSA (Democratic Socialists of America) Podcast Series. Welker describes herself as a "Radical socialist fighting for justice for all, dog, cat mom. Small business owner @mayarisingshop" -- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/twelker). Welker describes what she has learned in her more than 40 years

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01:03:48

Paul Edwards: Let Your Life Now Be a Friction to Stop...

The Montana DSA Podcast ·

2023/06/06

This Montana DSA Podcast (episode 26) features a conversation with screenwriter, filmmaker, essayist and long-time social and environmental justice and anti-capitalism, anti-war and anti-US imperialism activist Paul Edwards of Helena. A prolific essayist, writing in critical, alternative on-line journals such as CounterPunch and Information Clearing House, Edwards (with his long-time collaborator Lanny Cotler) has also created ClassWar Films. Edwards’ powerful, provocative 2012 film "Let Your

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01:02:41

Paul Lachapelle and Climate Smart Montana: Get...

The Montana DSA Podcast ·

2023/06/01

Montana DSA Podcast episode 25 (May 30) features a conversation with Paul Lachapelle of MSU in Bozeman, founder of Climate Smart Montana (⁠https://www.montana.edu/communitydevelopment/csm/⁠). scholar and climate activist, working for the last 16 years as a Professor in ⁠the ⁠Department of Political Science at Montana State University-Bozeman (⁠https://www.montana.edu/plachapelle/⁠). His teaching and research span many disciplines and practices including community climate change resiliency,

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00:53:11

How the 2023 Montana Legislature Deepened the...

The Montana DSA Podcast ·

2023/05/26

In Episode 24 of Montana DSA's 2023 Podcast Series on May 25, Rose Bender, Director of Research at the Montana Budget & Policy Center (MBPC, https://montanabudget.org/), analyzes the 2023 Legislature's actions in the areas of social and economic justice in tax policy/structure, the Montana affordable housing crisis, policies affecting Montana's Native American children and families and State-Tribal policies, health care provider rates, and childcare programs for low income

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01:08:50

United in Sustained Planning and Action to End the...

The Montana DSA Podcast ·

2023/05/20

The 23rd Montana DSA Podcast is a conversation with community development activist Jeff Buscher of Helena, Community Impact Coordinator for the United Way of the Lewis and Clark County Area (UWLCA). Buscher described the work of the new Helena affordable housing coalition and working teams he has created to address the affordable housing crisis (“Move the Dial on Housing” – United to Solve the Helena Housing Affordability Crisis) — and he invited all of to contact him at United Way Lewis and Clark

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01:13:11

Working for Gun Violence Prevention and Safety in...

The Montana DSA Podcast ·

2023/05/17

Our dialogue partner in episode 22 of the Montana DSA 2023 Podcast Series is Shani Henry of Helena, a statewide leader of two Montana groups working to prevent gun violence -- Montana Moms Demand Action for Gun Sense and the Montana Chapter of Giffords Gun Owners for Safety (MT-GOS), founded by former member of Congress Gabby Giffords of Arizona, a gun violence attack victim now committed to ending the gun violence epidemic. Convinced that gun deaths are preventable, these two Montana groups are

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00:35:17

Rep. Zooey Zephyr: Building a Movement for Social and...

The Montana DSA Podcast ·

2023/05/04

The Montana DSA Podcast’s 21st episode is a dialogue with Rep. Zooey Zephyr of Missoula -- a progressive, bisexual trans woman who fought for social and economic and environmental justice in the 2023 Montana Legislature, working tirelessly to defend our health care, our housing, our human rights, the rights of trans people and democracy itself. The GOP supermajority’s undemocratic censure of Rep. Zephyr kept her from her seat in the House for the last week of the session, unconstitutionally

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00:57:32

Transgender Persons and Attacks on Democracy and...

The Montana DSA Podcast ·

2023/05/03

In this May 2, 2023 Montana DSA Podcast interview with Keegan Medrano, a queer Indigenous (Mvskoke) mixed race person who joined the American Civil Liberties Union of Montana as Policy and Advocacy Director in June 2021, Medrano describes the important struggles of the ACLU of Montana during the 2023 Legislature -- combating the ideologically far right Supermajority GOP's multi-faceted activities suppressing basic democratic legislative processes and promoting horrendous violations and

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00:58:58

Montana Coalition to Solve Homelessness

The Montana DSA Podcast ·

2023/05/02

"Join Us in the Urgent Work of the Montana Coalition to Solve Homelessness": Montana DSA and Helena Progressive Action Network interview April 13th with Sam Fortsag of the Montana Coalition to Solve Homelessness, founded in fall 2022 to advocate for policies and resources to effectively and compassionately support people living without shelter in Montana. Forstag describes Montana's affordable housing crisis and efforts to address it in the 2023 Montana Legislature. Forstag :

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00:55:21

The State of the State's Environment Near the End of...

The Montana DSA Podcast ·

2023/04/25

The Montana Environmental Information Center (meic.org) has been one of the leading organizations lobbying the Montana Legislature to uphold our state's constitutional guarantee to a clean and healthful environment for current and future generations. Cari Kimball, MEIC's Executive Director, provides an overview of the bills the organization is focused on, while also advocating for the public in Northwestern Energy's rate cases currently before the Public Service Commission. Finally, Cari

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00:38:44

C. B. Pearson on the Chamber of Commerce Campaign to...

The Montana DSA Podcast ·

2023/04/06

HB 651, "Generally revise ballot initiative laws" passed by the Montana Legislature in the 2021 session, was just the beginning of the Montana Chamber of Commerce's campaign to end direct democracy in Montana. SB 93, "Generally revising ballot issues," again backed by the chamber and other business lobbies in the 2023 session, is designed to kill the ability of citizens to sidestep the legislature to pass laws that legislators cannot or will not. C. B. Pearson, perhaps the

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Mark Anderlik on the immediate and long-term...

The Montana DSA Podcast ·

2023/04/06

Mark Anderlik, co-chair of Western Montana DSA's Labor Committee, most recently was a union organizer and central labor council officer for a couple of decades in Missoula. In this episode of the Montana DSA Podcast, Mark talks about the support work that socialists and progressives can provide for a possible Teamsters Union strike against United Parcel Service this summer. Mark also briefly outlines the history of labor organizing in America--especially the class struggle organizing exemplified

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00:55:37

Justice Jim Nelson on the Majority Party/Freedom...

The Montana DSA Podcast ·

2023/03/22

Jim Nelson was an Associate Justice on the Montana Supreme Court from 1993 to 2012. Justice Nelson has perhaps most affected the State's privacy jurisprudence in the area of personal autonomy. As a result of cases like Armstrong v. State (on abortion rights) and Gryczan v. State (on marriage rights)—both Nelson-authored opinions—Montana's right to privacy now more fully encompasses personal autonomy and decision-making. Nelson most recently set the white Christian nationalist's hair on

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00:43:19

Jonathan Motl on the Republican strategy to give our...

The Montana DSA Podcast ·

2023/03/18

Jonathan Motl is Montana's senior public interest attorney. He's written nine ballot initiatives and was from 2013-2017 Montana's Commissioner of Political Practices. He talks with the Montana DSA Podcast host Frank Kromkowski about how Senate Bill 93, "Generally revising ballot issues," continues the corporate attack on our citizen initiative process, an attack that was passed in the 2021 session as House Bill 651 and is being waged again this Tuesday morning in the State

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00:55:08

Keeping Up the Good Fight: Danny Tenenbaum on...

The Montana DSA Podcast ·

2023/03/15

Danny Tenenbaum was a legislator in the 2021 session, representing a House district in the Missoula area. Now he serves as an Associate Justice on the Court of Appeals for the Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribes. He talks to Montana DSA Podcast host Frank Kromkowski about the importance of defending an independent judiciary, the Montana Indian Child Welfare Act, and bipartisan efforts to right the decades-long wrongs of exclusionary zoning that have helped exacerbate the affordable housing

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00:50:25

The Ugly, the Bad and the Good at the Legislature's...

The Montana DSA Podcast ·

2023/03/08

Mary Caferro, representing House District 82 and the longest-serving legislator in the Helena area, talks with Montana DSA Podcast host Frank Kromkowski about where progressive legislation stands as the Legislature breaks to transmit bills from one house to the other. While Republicans focus on lining the pockets of their wealthy donors and three-pieced-suited lobbyists, additional legislation may improve working-class Montanans' lives--but only if we keep up the pressure. The second half of the

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