The Good Fight, with Ben Wikler

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Fri, 11 July 2014

UltraViolet co-founder Nita Chaudhary takes us behind the scenes in the insurgent, devastatingly effective campaign to make the anti-feminist backlash backfire. The strategy: using cutting-edge online advocacy to put a political and economic price on sexism. The good news: it's working. Hobby Lobby, watch out. Find background info, links to sources, and how to get involved here: http://tgf.fm/27

Direct download: 27_War_on_women_meet_the_resistance.mp3
Category:general -- posted at: 5:44pm EDT

Thu, 3 July 2014

Win Report: Hobby Lobby, Hillary, and the Beyonce voters

In this week's Win Report, the Supreme Court rules on Hobby Lobby blocking birth control and home-care workers' rights. Good news and bad news on climate change. Plus, marriage equality in Kentucky, a gay police chief in South Carolina, and more updates from around the country.

Direct download: Win_Report_07-03-2014.mp3
Category:general -- posted at: 3:48pm EDT

Tue, 1 July 2014

26: Pulitzer winner. Undocumented. American.

When Jose Antonio Vargas was 16, he discovered his green card was fake. At 26, he won journalism’s biggest prize. At 30, he outed himself as undocumented.

Vargas’s powerful new film, #Documented, tells his story—and it will change the way you think about immigration. He joins The Good Fight to discuss his life, how it felt to see his mother after 21 years, and what it’s like to be asked by journalists "Why don’t you just become legal?" More info: http://tgf.fm/26

Direct download: 26_Pulitzer_winner._Undocumented._American.mp3
Category:general -- posted at: 12:15pm EDT

Mon, 23 June 2014

25: Lawrence Lessig, Aaron Swartz, and the Super PAC to end Super PACs

What if you’re doing the wrong thing with your life? That’s what 20-year-old Aaron Swartz asked Lawrence Lessig. In response, Lessig transformed his career. Today, he’s got an insanely audacious plan to kick billionaires out of politics… with help from billionaires. Hear his story: http://tgf.fm/25

Direct download: 25_Lawrence_Lessig_Aaron_Swartz_and_the_Super_PAC_to_end_Super_PACs.mp3
Category:general -- posted at: 11:12pm EDT

Fri, 20 June 2014

Win Report: Rick Perry said what?!

A stand-alone Win Report! The latest victories and defeats in progressive fights throughout the country, including Gov. Rick Perry's stupid comment about homosexuality and Obama's recent and awesome executive orders. http://tgf.fm/WR0620

Direct download: Win_Report_06-20-2014.mp3
Category:general -- posted at: 6:42pm EDT

Wed, 11 June 2014

24: The 347 climate wins you've never heard of

Obama's new carbon pollution rules are the biggest step ever taken by the U.S. government to fight climate change—but they're not the biggest step taken by the country. The most important win is one that's taken place invisibly, in city by city battles over the last decade: a grassroots campaign that's blocked 90% of proposed coal-fired power plants (182 in all) and shut down a third of the existing coal plants in the nation—165 and counting.

It's a wave of unheralded victories that set the stage for surge in renewable energy, created the political space for the new Obama policies, and could open the door to a global climate treaty that seemed impossible just a few years ago.

This episode of The Good Fight brings you inside one of the most successful environmental fights in U.S. history, the Sierra Club's Beyond Coal campaign, as recounted by the people leading it. If you think the fossil fuel industry is unbeatable, put on some headphones and make sure you're sitting down.

Direct download: 24_The_347_climate_wins_youve_never_heard_of.mp3
Category:general -- posted at: 7:55pm EDT

Wed, 28 May 2014

23: The plot to bring democracy to America

The National Popular Vote campaign is on track to do the impossible: fix the broken, crazy, undemocratic way the USA picks its presidents. The New Yorker's Hendrik Hertzberg takes us inside the fight. Plus, a new Win Report.

Direct download: 23_The_plot_to_bring_democracy_to_America.mp3
Category:general -- posted at: 5:51pm EDT

Fri, 16 May 2014

22: You've got to hear this preacher

Rev. Jim Wallis left evangelical Christianity to fight for social justice—and then found his vocation by mixing them together. Now, he's a spiritual adviser to Obama, a force in immigration, and our guest. Plus: a new Win Report. http://tgf.fm/22

Direct download: 22_Meet_the_minister_Glenn_beck_hates.mp3
Category:general -- posted at: 2:47pm EDT

Mon, 5 May 2014

21: Beating the Koch brothers

The documentary Citizen Koch was almost crushed by the Koch brothers' power. But filmmakers Tia Lessin and Carl Deal fought back. Today, the story behind the movie America's ultra-conservative power brokers don't want you to see.

Direct download: 21_Beating_the_Koch_brothers.mp3
Category:general -- posted at: 10:19pm EDT

Thu, 24 April 2014

20: Minimum wage myths, busted

Opponents of raising the minimum wage like to claim that economists are on their side. They're wrong. In this episode: the truth about minimum wage economics, the fight in the field, and the reason the jobs debate is a sideshow. Learn more at http://thegoodfight.fm/20

Direct download: 2020Why20economists20want20a20higher20minimum20wage.mp3
Category:general -- posted at: 3:35pm EDT