Indivisible Chicago Podcast

Leah Greenberg and Ezra Levin Tom talks with Indivisible co-founders Ezra and Leah, and they cover a lot of ground including the origin of Indivisible, thoughts about how the primaries are playing out, and the veracity of the “democrats in disarray” media narrative. Spoiler: There is not as much disarray as some would like to believe. Find Indivisible at indivisible.org and on Twitter @indivisibleteam. Mentioned this week: Ohio 12 Indivisible https://www.facebook.com/groups/IndivisibleOH12/ @OhioDistrict12 Demos https://www.demos.org/ @demos Wimberly Texas Indivisible https://www.facebook.com/Wimberley-Indivisible-502536480146128/ Beto O’Rourke for Senate from Texas betofortexas.com @BetoORourke LISTEN, SUBSCRIBE, AND RATE Every week, Indivisible Chicago Podcast host Tom Moss talks to politicians, newsmakers, academics and activists about resisting the Trump agenda. The ICP is also a great way to keep up with what’s happening in Indivisible Chicago. Subscribe wherever you get your podcasts or listen online at IndivisibleChicago.com/podcast. Take a minute to rate us on iTunes. It helps us get the word out about the ICP. INDIVISIBLE CHICAGO PODCAST SHOW NOTES AND ACTIONS FOR AUGUST 13, 2018 An Evening with JB Pritzker: Indivisible Chicago will be hosting an event featuring JB Pritzker and other candidates. It’s an opportunity to present our views on issues that are important to us and hear what they have to say. Tom will be moderating, but the questions will all come from Indivisible Chicago membership. Submit your questions here. Details are being nailed down, so look for an email and social media announcement in a few days. Admission is free but space is limited so do keep an eye out in order to secure a spot. Join Indivisible Chicago and be part of our work shaping the agenda of state and local politics. Indivisible Chicago Presents An Evening with JB Pritzker Thursday August 30, 2018 6:30 - 8:30 Location and other details coming to your inbox soon.

INDIVISIBLE CHICAGO PODCAST SHOW NOTES AND ACTIONS FOR AUGUST 6, 2018 Segment 1 — Tom goes on the record with journalist and journalism professor Jeff Favre. They talk about the state of the news media in the age of Fake News, the security of journalists, and more. Segment 2 — Paul Kendrick has a lot of experience organizing people to get out the vote. This week, how you can get involved with one of the few actions we know for a fact works—knocking on doors and talking to voters. Get in touch with Paul directly at kendrick.paul@gmail.com. ----------- LISTEN, SUBSCRIBE, AND RATE Every week, Indivisible Chicago Podcast host Tom Moss talks to politicians, newsmakers, academics and activists about resisting the Trump agenda. The ICP is also a great way to keep up with what’s happening in Indivisible Chicago. Subscribe wherever you get your podcasts or listen online at indivisiblechicago.com/podcast. Take a minute to rate us on iTunes. It helps us get the word out about the ICP.

LISTEN, SUBSCRIBE, AND RATE Every week, Indivisible Chicago Podcast host Tom Moss talks to politicians, newsmakers, academics and activists about resisting the Trump agenda. The ICP is also a great way to keep up with what’s happening in Indivisible Chicago. Subscribe wherever you get your podcasts or listen online at indivisiblechicago.com/podcast. Take a minute to rate us on iTunes. It helps us get the word out about the ICP. INDIVISIBLE CHICAGO PODCAST SHOW NOTES AND ACTIONS FOR JULY 30, 2018 Segment 1 — This week, Tom talked to three women running for office in DuPage County for the first time. The men they are running against have run unopposed, but not this year. Find out how you can get involved in their campaigns. Laura Ellman is running for Illinois State Senate. Find out more about her campaign at ellmanforillinois.com. Val Montgomery is running for Illinois State Representative — valmontgomeryil41.org. Lynn LaPlante is running for DuPage County Board Chair — helplynnwin.org. Segment 2 — In June, a woman wearing a Puerto Rican flag t-shirt was accosted in Caldwell Woods on the Northwest side by a man who was subsequently charged with a felony hate crime. A video of the confrontation—including a Forest Preserve officer doing nothing to help—went viral. Neighbors are responding by organizing Peace in the Preserves, in the spot where the alleged hate crime occured—an event that calls for unity and is a celebration of cultural diversity and a rejection of racism. Engy Sutherland and Al Grippe from the Northwest Side Coalition against Racism and Hate join the podcast to discuss the event, which is happening on August 3. Details on Facebook.

Former prosecutor and current CNN commentator Renato Mariotti stays on top of the ever shifting landscape of Trumpworld. This week, Tom Moss sits down with Renato to try and make some sense of the president’s bizarre and tortured relationship with Russia. Also, Indivisible Chicago director Jason Rieger talks about the League of Writin’ Voters and how Postcard Posses are a piece of the puzzle as we take back the House in November. Subscribe wherever you get your podcasts or listen online at IndivisibleChicago.com/Podcast. Take a minute to rate us on iTunes. It helps us get the word out about the ICP.

David Orr is not running for re-election this year after serving as Cook County Clerk since 1990. On this week’s Indivisible Chicago Podcast, Clerk Orr discusses his career fighting the Democratic Machine and the future of elections security in Cook County. Also, Jen Dean and Ethan Ethos Viets-VanLear from chicagovotes.com discuss the prison voting bill and how you can encourage the Governor to sign it. Subscribe wherever you get your podcasts or listen online at indivisiblechicago.com/podcast. SHOW NOTES: Andries du Toit’s Twitter thread is here. https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1012121580401582082.html Sign the petition to ask the Governor to sign HB4469. https://campaigns.organizefor.org/petitions/support-voting-in-jail-eligible-voters-should-be-able-to-vote?just_launched=true Get involved with Chicago Votes at chicagovotes.com. Slate’s Virginia Heffernan’s interview with Andries du Toit — http://www.slate.com/articles/podcasts/trumpcast/2018/07/trump_s_republican_party_should_not_be_treated_as_a_glitch.html

Carol Ammons represents Champaign in the Illinois General Assembly, is one of three members of a panel to address anti-harrassment in the capital, and has been key in the #endcrosscheck movement. This week, she joins Tom Moss to talk about all of that and more on the Indivisible Chicago Podcast. Subscribe wherever you find podcasts or listen online at indivisiblechicago.com/podcast.

Alderman Ameya Pawar joins the Indivisible Chicago Podcast this week to discuss how his new media venture, One Illinois is working to unite Illinoisans around our common concerns and reject the destructive narratives promoted by our current governor. Also, Kate Monkus, a co-lead of Indivisible Lakeview-Lincoln Park, talks to Tom Moss about Martin Luther King’s "Letter from a Birmingham Jail," and how that 55-year-old letter still resonates today. Subscribe wherever you find your podcasts, or listen online at indivisiblechicago.com/podcast. Find King’s Letter from a Birmingham Jail here.

This week, the Indivisible Chicago Podcast examines the crisis on the border with a number of guests including Mony Ruiz Velasco, Executive Director of PASO Western Suburban Action Project, Congressman Mike Quigley, and Senator Dick Durbin. Subscribe to the Indivisible Chicago Podcast wherever you find your podcasts, or listen online at indivisiblechicago.com/podcast. Get involved with PASO at www.pasoaction.org or the Illinois Coalition for Immigrant and Refugee Rights at http://www.icirr.org.

This week, retired State Department official John Merrill joins the podcast to tell us what he thinks about last week’s summit in Singapore. Also, Adrienne Lever from Swing Left and Adu Sadar from Indivisible Chicago discuss efforts underway to Take Back the House in November. Subscribe wherever you get your podcasts or listen online at indivisiblechicago.com/podcast.

Betsy Dirksen Londrigan is challenging Republican congressman Rodney Davis in downstate Illinois 13, which stretches from the University of Illinois in Champaign Urbana to Southern Illinois University Edwardsville. She talks to Tom Moss on this week’s Indivisible Chicago Podcast about the district and how she plans to win. Subscribe everywhere you get podcasts or listen online at indivisiblechicago.com/podcast.

The Indivisible Chicago Podcast takes on the privatization of public education on this week’s episode. Tom Moss talks with Indiana University education professor and researcher Christopher Lubienski. His findings about the success rates of public schools may surprise you. Also, Cassie Creswell from Raise Your Hand for Action discusses what’s happening with public schools in Chicago and how you can get involved. Subscribe anywhere you get podcasts or listen online at indivisiblechicago.com/podcast.

This week, Daniel Biss returns to the Indivisible Chicago Podcast to talk to Tom Moss about his endorsement of JB Pritzker, to reflect on his campaign for governor, and share thoughts about his final week in the Senate. Also, Jessica Olson discusses Postcards for Choice [http://bit.ly/Post4Choice] and Logan Square Solidarity Sundays. Subscribe on iTunes or wherever you get your podcasts. Or listen online at indivisiblechicago.com/podcast.

The Indivisible Chicago Podcast this week welcomes registered nurse and Obama administration advisor Lauren Underwood. She’s taking on Republican Randy Hultgren for Congress in Illinois 14. Also, Better Government Association attorney Matt Topic talks to host Tom Moss about how citizens can become government watchdogs. Subscribe on iTunes or wherever you find your podcasts, or listen online at indivisiblechicago.com/podcast.

The Indivisible Chicago Podcast looks west this week, to Illinois 16 and the candidate who wants to flip that district blue. Immigration attorney Sara Dady joins to talk about her plans to unseat Adam Kinzinger. Also, Indivisible Lincoln Square leader Jessica Droeger discusses what’s happening in the neighborhood. Subscribe wherever you find your podcasts or listen online at indivisiblechicago.com/podcast.

The Indivisible Chicago Podcast explores the coming blue wave with Adrienne Lever from Swing Left and Catherine Vaughan from Flippable. Also, Jack McNeil, outgoing president of the College Democrats of Illinois, talks to host Tom Moss about political engagement on campus. Subscribe wherever you find podcasts or listen online at indivisiblechicago.com/podcast.