E12: The long road. With Rachel Himes

August 30, 2020 00:40:52
E12: The long road. With Rachel Himes
Socialism in the Time of Corona
E12: The long road. With Rachel Himes

Aug 30 2020 | 00:40:52

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Show Notes

Rachel Himes is an organizer with NYC-DSA who coordinated the chapter's Bernie campaign, worked on its recent, successful campaigns for state senate and assembly, and is active in the chapter's Defund NYPD campaign. Himes is beginning a PhD program in Columbia's Department of Art History and Archeology. Himes assesses the state of the movement in the city, differences between this summer’s protests against the police and earlier ones, and the role socialists should play in this struggle.

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