Montana DSA Podcast
Starting with the 2023 Legislative Session, we are launching a new podcast!
Montana has several chapters affiliated with the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA): in Billings, Bozeman, Helena, and Western MT (Missoula). DSA members believe that both the economy and society should be democratically run to meet human needs, not to make profits for a few. 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 American communities and politics. The Montana DSA Podcast is hosted by Frank Kromkowski and produced by the Helena DSA chapter. For more information, please get in touch with us at helenamtdsa@gmail.com. To listen on line go to
https://anchor.fm/montana-dsa/episodes/350-Montana-Actions-You-Can-Take-Now-To-e1u9e9f.
Episode 5, 350 Montana: Actions You Can Take Now, Tuesday January 31. Representatives of 350 Montana Jeff Smith and Winona Rachel features actions Montanans can take (especially in the county of Missoula, the City of Missoula, Helena, and Bozeman, who together make up 55% of the NorthWestern Energy ratepayers in Montana) to support their local government plans to be energy efficient by 2030
Episode 4, NPRC is Organizing a Rally at the Capitol to Protect Our Constitution, Saturday January 28. Conversations with Joanie Kresich, Board Chair of the Northern Plains Resource Council, https://northernplains.org. Founded in 1972 originally to fight expanded coal mining on ranch land, NPRC is one of Montana's oldest and largest citizen action groups. It's also quite active at the Montana Legislature, fighting for priorities that its members identify.
Episode 3, Tenants as Brothers and Sisters: There's Solidarity in a Tenants Union, Monday January 23. Focus on the acute housing affordability crisis in Montana, and how a tenants union is a solution supported by democratic socialists in Montana. Our guest is Ken Grinde, a renter since age 12 and currently the Press Officer for the Missoula Tenants Union (MTU), the first tenant union in Montana, https://linktr.ee/missoulatenantsunion
As Ken says, tenants are working to pay the mortgages of landlords (especially out-of-state and corporate landlords). And that's not right in a society as rich as America that should guarantee housing as a human right.
Episode 2, State Senator Mary Ann Dunwell on Your Right To Know What Your Legislature Is Doing, Tuesday January 17. In the second episode of The Montana DSA Podcast, State Senator Mary Ann Dunwell (SD 42, Helena and East Helena) explains how the majority (as Republicans call themselves in the legislature) often thwart the will of Democratic Representatives and Senators simply because they have the power. Despite wielding that power anti-democratically, Senator Dunwell and others are moving legislation.
Episode 1, Abortion Rights and the Montana Legislature was released on January 2. It's well worth listening to. In the inaugural episode of The Montana DSA Podcast, Sandy Burch, Co-Chair of Western Montana DSA, tells us how Montana DSA's coordinated campaign to help defeat LR-131 on the November ballot evolved into a legislative campaign to protect abortion rights as well as address housing and labor issues in the legislative session which convened in Helena today.
https://anchor.fm/montana-dsa/episodes/350-Montana-Actions-You-Can-Take-Now-To-e1u9e9f.
Episode 5, 350 Montana: Actions You Can Take Now, Tuesday January 31. Representatives of 350 Montana Jeff Smith and Winona Rachel features actions Montanans can take (especially in the county of Missoula, the City of Missoula, Helena, and Bozeman, who together make up 55% of the NorthWestern Energy ratepayers in Montana) to support their local government plans to be energy efficient by 2030
Episode 4, NPRC is Organizing a Rally at the Capitol to Protect Our Constitution, Saturday January 28. Conversations with Joanie Kresich, Board Chair of the Northern Plains Resource Council, https://northernplains.org. Founded in 1972 originally to fight expanded coal mining on ranch land, NPRC is one of Montana's oldest and largest citizen action groups. It's also quite active at the Montana Legislature, fighting for priorities that its members identify.
Episode 3, Tenants as Brothers and Sisters: There's Solidarity in a Tenants Union, Monday January 23. Focus on the acute housing affordability crisis in Montana, and how a tenants union is a solution supported by democratic socialists in Montana. Our guest is Ken Grinde, a renter since age 12 and currently the Press Officer for the Missoula Tenants Union (MTU), the first tenant union in Montana, https://linktr.ee/missoulatenantsunion
As Ken says, tenants are working to pay the mortgages of landlords (especially out-of-state and corporate landlords). And that's not right in a society as rich as America that should guarantee housing as a human right.
Episode 2, State Senator Mary Ann Dunwell on Your Right To Know What Your Legislature Is Doing, Tuesday January 17. In the second episode of The Montana DSA Podcast, State Senator Mary Ann Dunwell (SD 42, Helena and East Helena) explains how the majority (as Republicans call themselves in the legislature) often thwart the will of Democratic Representatives and Senators simply because they have the power. Despite wielding that power anti-democratically, Senator Dunwell and others are moving legislation.
Episode 1, Abortion Rights and the Montana Legislature was released on January 2. It's well worth listening to. In the inaugural episode of The Montana DSA Podcast, Sandy Burch, Co-Chair of Western Montana DSA, tells us how Montana DSA's coordinated campaign to help defeat LR-131 on the November ballot evolved into a legislative campaign to protect abortion rights as well as address housing and labor issues in the legislative session which convened in Helena today.
- To listen on line go to Anchor FM.
- To subscribe to the podcast, search for "The Montana DSA Podcast" on your podcatcher app, or copy the RSS feed into your podcatcher:
https://anchor.fm/s/d893f8a4/podcast/rss
After the legislative session? According to Frank, if this first series goes well, we hope we can and will continue the project. That's up to democratic decisions by Montana DSA members.
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Speaking of Podcasts...
Check out Voice of the People: Radio By and For the 99%, produced by our very own Mark Anderlik. Join Mark, sound Soundman Jim, and Friends of the Show as we share and discuss local, national and international news of importance on the fight for democracy in politics, economics and culture, with weekly in-depth interviews, organizing pointers, and free-form conversation. Radio by and for the 99% out of Missoula, Montana, USA. On Missoula Community Radio, KFGM, 101.5 FM, 1015kfgm.org streaming. Saturdays 1 to 3 pm, Mountain Time.
To listen on line go to Anchor FM. Or use this RSS feed in your podcatcher to subscribe :
https://anchor.fm/s/36df6b74/podcast/rss.
To listen on line go to Anchor FM. Or use this RSS feed in your podcatcher to subscribe :
https://anchor.fm/s/36df6b74/podcast/rss.
Also Check Out Class, the NPEC Podcast, from DSA's National Political Education Committee. This podcast has been coming out every two weeks since August. "Class is a podcast where we ask socialists about why they are socialists, what socialism looks like, and how we, as the working class, can become the ruling class." Topics include What is Capitalism? Socialists in Defense of Abortion Rights, and The Crisis of American Politics.
To listen on line go to DSA USA. Or use this RSS feed in your podcatcher to subscribe :
https://feeds.buzzsprout.com/2021076.rss
https://feeds.buzzsprout.com/2021076.rss