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2025-07-07 08:28 pm

#PodcastFriday special edition - The Dig - How Zohran Won w/ NYC DSA

The Dig - How Zohran Won w/ NYC DSA

If you're like me in the left, you're excited that Zohran Mamdani has won the NYC democratic nomination for mayor, esp. in light of the insane amount of vitriol and Big Money put against him. So Daniel Denvir decided to interview the co-chairs of his campaign. They discuss how this absolutely did not come out of nowhere, but is the culmination of years of running smaller campaigns and capacity city building on the part of NYC DSA. One of the top organizers there cut her teeth on the Obama 2008 campaign, so you could say that the seeds were first planted there.

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On a related note, I dislike the tag #PodcastFriday now because I do my write ups on most OTHER days. :P. I created this tag in the mold of #FollowFriday tag from Twitter's early days, but meh. :). Sometimes I bank them but this episode is totally exciting to listen to.
frandroid: camilo cienfuegos in a broad-rimmed hat (cuba)
2011-06-05 05:09 pm

Dear outraged Europeans

You are upset that your socialist governments have sold you out to global capital, so in protest you vote in right-wing governments? What do you think these guys would have done instead? Damn fools.
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2007-06-07 10:47 pm

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SOOOO weird. The Social Democratic Party of Austria (SPĂ–) has been putting on what's Europe's largest free music festival, Donauinselfest (literally, festival on the Danube Island) since 1984. Cool. What's funny to see is that it's mega-corporatized, with sponsors all over the place. Now I understand that you don't organize a free festival without some massive injection of cash from somewhere, and even publicly supported festivals in Canada have sponsors all over the place, but it's amusing that this is specifically coming from a social-democratic party.