KMUD Global Stuff on The Formula for Progressive Electoral Success

10/15/24 • 57 min

This podcast of Global Stuff was recorded on September 23, 2024. Jimmy talks
with Robert Creamer, longtime activist and political organizer, about his latest
book: Nuts and Bolts: The Formula for Progressive Electoral Success. Robert takes
his several decades’ long experience in running successful election campaigns to
outline a clear, precise, time-tested methodology for how to motivate progressive
voters and win at the ballot box. In these times of concern about the future of our
democracy, Creamer provides an uplifting vision of how to make the political
process for most Americans, not just those at the top.
Robert Creamer is an American political consultant, community organizer, and
author. He is the husband of congresswoman Jan Schakowsky, the Representative
for Illinois's 9th congressional district. His firm, Democracy Partners, works with
progressive electoral and issue campaigns and has 34 partners located
throughout the United States.
Creamer has been a progressive strategist and political organizer for over 50
years, beginning during the Civil Rights and anti-Vietnam War movements of the
1960s. He worked as an organizer with Saul Alinsky's last major project in Chicago.
Later he founded and then led Illinois's largest coalition of progressive
organizations and unions for twenty-three years. Creamer became a political
consultant in 1997, and served as a consultant to the Democratic National
Committee during the 2008, 2012, and 2016 Presidential election campaigns. In
2005, Creamer was one of the architects and organizers of the successful
campaign to defeat the privatization of Social Security. He has also been a
consultant to the campaigns to end the war in Iraq, increase the minimum wage,
and pass progressive budget priorities, pass and defend the Affordable Care Act,
oppose right wing judicial nominees, and pass comprehensive immigration
reform.
Jimmy Durchslag has been the host of “Global Stuff”, a monthly guest driven talk
show for over 20 years. He has a long experience as a manager of several for
profit and non-profit organizations. He is one of the founders of Redwood
Community Radio, the parent organization for KMUD. He recently served as the Director of the Mainstream Media Project, a nonprofit organization that
scheduled expert guests for interviews on talk shows both nationally and
internationally.

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Global Stuff with Jeff Cohen and Andra Watkins

This podcast of Global Stuff features two guests. In the first half, Jeff
Cohen, media critic, writer and journalism professor who led the
Rootsaction.org campaign, “Don’t Run Joe” to convince Joe Biden to
drop out of the presidential race, discusses the impact of his exit. He
also provides a perspective on the challenges facing Kamela Harris and
the dynamics of the upcoming election. In the second half, Andra
Watkins journalist and author of the substack newsletter, “How Project
2025 Will Ruin Your Life” clarifies the extreme threat posed by the far
Christian Right nationalist agenda represented by Project 25. As a
woman who was raised in the South in a Christian fundamentalist
culture, Andra knows firsthand what their plans mean for individual
rights and freedoms.

Jeff Cohen, media critic and lecturer, was founding director of the Park
Center for Independent Media at Ithaca College, where he was an
associate professor of journalism. He founded the media watch
group FAIR in 1986, and cofounded the online activist
group RootsAction.org in 2011. Cohen has coproduced documentary
movies, including “The Corporate Coup D’Etat” and “All Governments
Lie: Truth, Deception and the Spirit of I.F. Stone.” He is the author
of Cable News Confidential: My Misadventures in Corporate Media. He
has been a TV commentator at CNN, Fox News and MSNBC, and was
senior producer of MSNBC’s Phil Donahue primetime show until it was
terminated three weeks before the Iraq invasion. His columns have been published online at such websites as HuffPost, CommonDreams
and Truthout—and in dozens of dailies, including USA
Today, Washington Post, Los Angeles Times, Boston Globe, Atlanta
Constitution, and Miami Herald.
Andra Watkins is the author of the Substack newsletter “How Project
2025 Will Ruin Your Life.” She is the author of five books (and counting)
including the NY Times bestseller, Not Without My Father: One
Woman’s 444-Mile Walk of the Natchez Trace, 2015 National Book
Award nominee. More information at andrawatkins.comand
project2025istheocracy.substack.com

Jimmy Durchslag has been the host of “Global Stuff”, a monthly guest
driven talk show for over 20 years. He has interviewed many prominent
scholars and leaders who clarify complex issues and provide
suggestions for positive change. He has a long experience as a manager
of several for profit and non-profit organizations. He is one of the
founders of Redwood Community Radio, the parent organization for
KMUD. He recently served as the Director of the Mainstream Media
Project, a nonprofit organization that scheduled expert guests for
interviews on talk shows both nationally and internationally.

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KMUD Global Stuff on the impacts of the elections

This podcast of Global Stuff was recorded on October 25, 2024. In the first half,
host Jimmy Durchslag talks with Teddy Wilson, a journalist, researcher, and
consultant on the U.S. radical right. Teddy exposes the America First Legal
Foundation’s plans to undermine the election if Trump loses. AFLF advances a
legal theory that would allow judges to throw out results over “failures or
irregularities” by local officials. In the Second Half, Norman Solomon, co-founder
and national coordinator of RootsAction.org and author of several books, returns
to discuss the potential impact of the elections and what is at stake. His recent
book, War Made Invisible, provides a context for how the war in Gaza is
influencing voters in the United States.
Teddy Wilson is a journalist and researcher with more than a decade of
experience covering the U.S. Radical Right, and for the past several years has been
tracking and investigating far right extremists movements. He was previously the
U.S. Investigations Editor at Open Democracy, Staff Analyst at Political Research
Associates, and Staff Reporter at Rewire News Group. You can read his blog and
articles at RadicalReports.org on Substack.
Norman Solomon is IPA’s executive director (accuracy.org). He is the author of
twelve books, including War Made Easy: How Presidents and Pundits Keep
Spinning Us to Death, and with Reese Ehrlich, Target Iraq: What the News Media
Didn’t Tell You. Also co-founder and national coordinator of RootsAction.org.
Solomon is a nationally syndicated columnist on media and politics. His articles
have appeared in the New York Times, Washington Post, USA Today, Los Angeles
Times, Boston Globe, and many other newspapers. A frequent guest on television
and radio, he was featured in Bill Moyers’ recent documentary Buying the War
and a full-length film adaptation of War Made Easy produced by the Media
Education Foundation. Solomon is a recipient of the George Orwell Award, which
honors distinguished contributions to honesty and clarity in public language.
Jimmy Durchslag has been the host of “Global Stuff”, a monthly guest driven talk
show for over 20 years. He has a long experience as a manager of several for
profit and non-profit organizations. He is one of the founders of Redwood
Community Radio, the parent organization for KMUD. He recently served as the
Director of the Mainstream Media Project, a nonprofit organization that