The Katie Halper Show

I talk to Ava farkas, executive director of Met Life on Housing, and Terry Roethlein of Reclaim Pride. Ava talks about how she and her organization and countless tenants helped pass the strongest tenant protections in over a quarter of a century, what the news laws mean for New Yorkers, housing as a human right. Terry talks about queer liberation and the reclaim pride coalition and Sunday's march. Plus Ava and I come out about our struggle with punctuality.

My piece on Sydney Ember https://fair.org/home/sidney-embers-secret-sources/ Carl's paper: https://www.peoplespolicyproject.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/GlobalGreenNewDeal.pdf I chat with Carl Beijer about his new paper, published by the People's Policy Project, on how to pay for the Global Green New Deal, why Third Way, the radical centrist think tank which says it will support any Dem but Bernie and works to cut social security and medicare, is so bad, the media's anti Bernie Bias and why Bernie should run as a socialist. I include clips of Sanders' speech on democratic socialism and Jim Kessler (of Third Way, ) bragging about working with Claire McCaskill (who lost her latest election), compromising on abortion, making abortion puns (the legislation had been "still born" "in gestation"), urging the Dems to focus less on climate change and minimum wage. I also include Third Way's Matt Bennett refusing to say how much money Third Way gets from Wall Street.

Full ep: https://www.patreon.com/posts/youtubes-left-27583829 Rolling Stone's Matt Taibbi talks about the alternative and Left content creators who have been targeted by Youtube, people who identify as liberals but support war & don't care about civil liberties, how the media gets us into war and Jonathan Chait.

Bonus: Matt Taibbi on Youtube & Facebook purges: https://www.patreon.com/posts/27583829 Francesca Fiorentini and Esha Krishnaswamy and I talk Crowder, Youtube, censorship, sex work, George Carlin and the Palins.

(re)-educating Jonathan Chait & Sydney Ember with Greg Grandin: or how reporters like Chait & Ember regurgitate psyops disinformation & Reagan administration talking points to sanitize death squads & imperialism or in defense of Bernie Sanders' radical opposition to genocide

Here's a preview of two patreon-only eps: Matt Taibbi, Struggle Session, Jamie Peck & Jake Flores live https://www.patreon.com/posts/neolib-or-neocon-26990464 ; Alice Speri on criminal justice. https://www.patreon.com/posts/212-vanilla-with-27145199

patreon only: The Intercept's criminal justice journalist Alice Speri https://www.patreon.com/posts/27145199 Kraig Lewis was living in Connecticut about to get his MBA when police showed up, took him away and indicted him and 119 other young black and latino men from the Bronx neighborhood he grew up in during what was hailed as the biggest gang raid in New York history. The problem was that most of the people arrested weren't even charged with being gang members. Alex VItale is a professor of sociology at Brooklyn College and the author of "The End of Policing." They're both part of a network of researchers and advocates working to end large gang conspiracy cases. And I spoke with them about the Bronx 120 and why policing doesn't work and won't be saved by body cams or more training.

Marcie Smith, and adjunct lecturer in economics at Jon Jay (CUNY) questions the sanctification of Gene Sharp, who has been called the "Machiavelli of nonviolence," and portrayed as apolitical. Smith talks to me about her recent piece, published on NonSite called "Change Agent: Gene Sharp's Noeliberal Nonviolence", which looks at Sharp's noeliberal ideology and his role as a defense state intellectual and Cold War champion. This I play the audio of a book talk I attended by Max Blumenthal about his latest book The Management of Savagery How America's National Security State Fueled the Rise of Al Qaeda, ISIS, and Donald Trump.

Full ep: https://www.patreon.com/posts/26658137 Live show! https://www.facebook.com/events/355195211781069/ We talk to Street Fight Radio's Brett & Bryan about how fun their live show with me and Leslie Lee and Chapo was and how fun the Katie Halper Show & Struggle Session live show with Matt Taibbi, Jamie Peck and Jake Flores will be. Plus we talk about Joe Biden, Matt McGorry, Brett and Bryan's families, Bryan's father in law and how fatherhood politicized them.

We talk to Johann Hari about his excellent book "Lost Connections: Uncovering the Real Causes of Depression – and the Unexpected Solutions." He discusses the way neoliberalism contributes to depression, the way different cultures and countries deal with it and his own battle with depression. Really important discussion. Trigger Warning: we briefly discuss Ayn Rand's sex life.

I speak to Tiffany Caban, a public defender running for DA in Queens about why she's running, how she wants to decarcerate communities, and why the incarcerated deserve the right to vote. But first, I speak to Leslie Lee III and Jack Allison from Struggle session about how bad Meghan McCain is. Find out more about Tiffany here https://www.cabanforqueens.com

To hear the full interview go to https://www.patreon.com/posts/being-censored-26205426

bonus: Zaid Jilani on being low key censored by Center for American Progress https://www.patreon.com/posts/being-censored-26205426 First I talk to Ben Armbruster & Zaid Jilani, two former employees of Think Progress and Center for American Progress about the editorial independence of the blog from the think tank. They explain the beef between them and Bernie Sanders. Then I speak to Rebecca Vilkomerson of Jewish Voice for Peace and a student organizer named Sarah about BDS.

In this free bonus (because it's such an important story), Intercept reporter Ryan Grim talks about interviewing Julian Assange and what his arrest means for journalism. Plus we go over the worst tweets about Assange and are especially impressed by a certain MSNBC correspondent's hot takes.

I talk to Karina Moreno, a professor and writer focusing on immigration, and Daniel Denvir, the host of the Jacobin Podcast the Dig, about immigration and Bernie's comments on the border and how he can do better. Also, we try, once again, to get Mother Jones to correct a mistake it made about Sanders' voting record.