Interviews for Resistance

Interviews for Resistance hosted by Sarah Jaffe

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Work requirements for Medicaid and other stealth attempts at dismantling healthcare, with Rebecca Vallas

Posted January 24, 2018

Children's healthcare was a bargaining chip in the latest showdown in Congress, but with the government shutdown over for now, Republicans are planning...

Self-determined governance and electoral justice, with Jessica Byrd and Ash-Lee Woodard Henderson

Posted January 17, 2018

2018 is a midterm election year, and that means the news cycle and a lot of the political energy (and funding) will be running to electoral politics....

Permanent protections instead of temporary status, with Jaime Contreras

Posted January 10, 2018

Trump has now revoked temporary protected status (TPS) for immigrants from four countries, the latest being El Salvador. Some 200,000 Salvadorans have...

Building rural power with Down Home North Carolina

Posted January 3, 2018

Brigid Flaherty moved home to rural North Carolina after the election of Donald Trump to put her years of organizing experience to work "down home,"...

Launching the new Poor People's Campaign with Rev. Emily McNeill

Posted December 24, 2017

When Martin Luther King Jr. died, he was in the middle of building the Poor People's Campaign--a multiracial endeavor challenging America's persistent...