Indivisible Chicago Podcast

INDIVISIBLE CHICAGO PODCAST SHOW NOTES FOR TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 1, 2020 This week, Marj Halperin and Tom Moss wrap up Blue Mondays with a deep dive into Illinois politics with guest, Congresswoman Lauren Underwood - underwoodforcongress.com. To discuss the Fair Tax, Anders Lindall, communications co-chair of Vote Yes for Fair Tax - www.YesForFairTax.org And reporter Dave McKinney, who spent nearly 20 years covering the Illinois Statehouse for the Chicago Sun Times. He’s still on the beat, now for WBEZ. Special musical guest, Jon Langford. Member of the DemCast Podcast Network.

INDIVISIBLE CHICAGO PODCAST SHOW NOTES FOR TUESDAY, AUGUST 25, 2020 As the presidential campaigns approach the post-Labor Day sprint to November, few states loom as large as Wisconsin. This week, Marj Halperin and Tom Moss take a deep dive into the politics of the state that may decide this race. Ben Wikler, Chair of the Wisconsin Democratic Party of Wisconsin wisdems.org/volunteer Christine Neumann-Ortiz, Founding Executive Director of Voces de la Frontera, and recently named one of USA Today’s Women of the Century vdlf.org Paul Kendrick, Executive Director of Rust Belt Rising rustbeltrising.com/ Musical guest, Jon Langford Volunteer to phone bank today at 3states1mission.com Member of the DemCast Podcast Network Blue Mondays is jointly sponsored by Indivisible Chicago Alliance (ICA), which is registered under 501(c)(4) and the Indivisible Chicago Alliance Political Action Committee, a separate non-profit organization connected to ICA. This program is not authorized by any candidate or candidate's committee. Additional sponsors: Blue Beginning and The Hideout.

INDIVISIBLE CHICAGO PODCAST SHOW NOTES FOR TUESDAY, AUGUST 18, 2020 As the Democratic National Convention begins, as some of the polls begin to tighten, Indivisible Chicago’s Blue Mondays continues this week with a deep dive into four Southwest Michigan races. This week, Marj Halperin and Tom Moss welcome Michigan-6 Congressional candidate Jon Hoadley, who is seeking to unseat a 34-year Congressional incumbent. Learn more at jonhoadley.com. Also, there is much at stake in the Michigan House of Representatives, and three candidates join the program to explain. Christine Morse - Running for State Rep in District 61, which includes Kalamazoo County - vote4morse.com Chokwe Pitchford - Candidate for State Legislature - 79th district, which includes Benton Harbor, St. Joe, and surrounding areas- www.chokwefor79th.org/ Abigail Wheeler - Candidate for State Rep in Michigan’s 66th district - wheelerforthe66th.com Musical guest: Jeff Tweedy Volunteer to phone bank today at 3states1mission.com. Member of the DemCast Podcast Network. Blue Mondays is jointly sponsored by Indivisible Chicago Alliance (ICA), which is registered under 501(c)(4) and the Indivisible Chicago Alliance Political Action Committee, a separate non-profit organization connected to ICA. This program is not authorized by any candidate or candidate's committee. Additional sponsors: Blue Beginning and The Hideout.

A special edition of the Indivisible Chicago Podcast After the election in 2016, Michigan resident Katie Fahey posted on Facebook to see if anyone was interested in taking on gerrymandering in Michigan. People were interested. Over the next two years, she led the successful fight to end gerrymandering, and is now executive director of The People — thepeople.org. In this special edition of the ICP, Katie shares her story. Katie will also be present at an Indivisible Chicago event on Sunday, August 23, 2020 4:00 PM - 7:00 PM CT Sign-up for our virtual Zoom movie theater on Sunday, August 23, as we come together starting at 4:00 to watch what Variety called “the most important political film of the year," Slay the Dragon. Immediately following the film, at 6:00, Katie Fahey, will join us for a panel discussion, along with Ratf**ed author, David Daley, and the film's Ruth Greenwood, a leader in the ongoing fight against voter disenfranchisement in Wisconsin. More information and sign up at bit.ly/ICP_SLAY Member of the DemCast Podcast Network.

INDIVISIBLE CHICAGO PODCAST SHOW NOTES FOR TUESDAY, AUGUST 11, 2020 Indivisible Chicago's Blue Mondays continues this week as Marj Halperin and I welcome four journalists to discuss the political landscape across the Three States, One Mission area. Monroe Anderson is a political analyst and journalist who’s written for Triibe, the Defender, Newsweek, Chicago Sun-Times, and the Tribune. He is currently featured on the Ben Joravsky podcast every Wednesday. Malachi Barnett is Public Interest Reporter at MLive Media Group, and knows well the political landscape of Michigan Shia Kapos is a reporter for POLITICO and author of POLITICO's Illinois Playbook, the most indispensable morning newsletter for influencers in Illinois government and politics. Dan Simmons, a Wisconsin State Journal reporter, writes extensively on Wisconsin politics. Musical guest: Michael McDermott. Find Michael’s music at michael-mcdermott.com. All proceeds from the event supports the GoFundMe set up by the Hideout to keep their staff paid until they can reopen. Donations made during the musical segment go directly to the musical guest. The Indivisible Chicago Podcast is a member of the DemCast Podcast Network Blue Mondays is jointly sponsored by Indivisible Chicago Alliance (ICA), which is registered under 501(c)(4) and the Indivisible Chicago Alliance Political Action Committee, a separate non-profit organization connected to ICA. This program is not authorized by any candidate or candidate's committee. Additional sponsors: Blue Beginning and The Hideout.

INDIVISIBLE CHICAGO PODCAST SHOW NOTES FOR TUESDAY, AUGUST 4, 2020 When your grandchildren ask you what you did to protect democracy in the Trump era, what will you say? For ideas, check out Blue Mondays, where you'll learn more about what you need to know, AND DO, now that the election is mere moments away. Every Monday in August -- there are five of them this year -- Marj Halperin and Tom Moss will host a LIVE show at The Hideout's virtual performance space -- hideoutchicago.online. The audio recording of that show will appear as an episode of the Indivisible Chicago Podcast. The inaugural episode was recorded on Monday night, August 3, and focused on electoral politics and the pursuit of racial justice. This week's guests: Christian Perry, a community organizer with Black Millennial Renaissance, www.blackmillennialrenaissance.com/ Ashley Perkins, Nonviolence Training Coordinator and Lead Trainer at the Institute for Nonviolence Chicago, www.nonviolencechicago.org/ Angela Lang, Executive Director, Black Leaders Organizing for Communities in Milwaukee, WI, www.blocbybloc.org/ All proceeds from the event supports the GoFundMe set up by the Hideout to keep their staff paid until they can reopen. Donations made during the musical segment go directly to musical guest Melody Angel. The Indivisible Chicago Podcast is a member of the DemCast Podcast Network Blue Mondays is jointly sponsored by Indivisible Chicago Alliance (ICA), which is registered under 501(c)(4) and the Indivisible Chicago Alliance Political Action Committee, a separate non-profit organization connected to ICA. This program is not authorized by any candidate or candidate's committee. Additional sponsors: Blue Beginning and The Hideout.

INDIVISIBLE CHICAGO PODCAST SHOW NOTES FOR JULY 27, 2020 1. Eight hundred years ago, “law and order” didn’t mean to King John of England what it meant to Richard Nixon or what it means to Donald Trump. How did “law and order” go from the language of rebellion to the language of racism and reactionaries? 2. Joey Andrews is organizing for political candidates in southwest Michigan, and he joins the podcast this week to talk about the political landscape there and exactly why we should care. And more important, what we can do to help. 3. State Assembly Representative Robyn Vining is running for re-election in a district she won last time by just 132 votes, and Indivisible Chicago has been phone banking for her to help ensure the margin is far greater this time around. Learn more about her campaign at www.robynforwi.com and follow her on Instagram at @robynvining.

INDIVISIBLE CHICAGO PODCAST SHOW NOTES FOR MONDAY, JULY 20, 2020 1. Remembering John Lewis. 2. Since 1988, Northwestern Law professor Andrew Koppelman has been arguing that the Civil Rights Act of 1964 protects LGBTQ employees from workplace discrimination. It took a while, but last month, the US Supreme Court finally agreed. Professor Koppelman is theJohn Paul Stevens Professor of Law at Northwestern University. His latest book is Gay Rights vs. Religious Liberty: An Unnecessary Conflict, from Oxford Press. The article mentioned in the interview is available here: bit.ly/3fIitwD

INDIVISIBLE CHICAGO PODCAST SHOW NOTES FOR JULY 13, 2020 1. With pressure mounting to take down the statues of the Confederacy, it’s worth considering why these monuments were put up in the first place. 2. Michael Fassnact was CEO of the advertising firm Foote Cone and Belding until late 2019 when he started doing ad hoc work with the city. On April 1, 2020, he was named Chief Marketing Officer of the City of Chicago. Over a remarkably successful career, Fassnacht has worked on developing brand trust in the public and private sector. His latest challenge, the brand of Chicago and its mayor. 3. Christine Morse is running for state representative in Kalamazoo County, Michigan, a race that is part of Indivisible Chicago’s effort to help our friends in Michigan and Wisconsin flip their legislatures blue. Find out more at vote4morse.com. Sign up to help at 3states1mission.com

1. 3states1mission.com returns! Chokwe Pitchford is a candidate for Michigan State Rep. He joins from his home in Benton Harbor, Michigan, to discuss the campaign, his community, and why this is such an important race. Learn more at chokwefor79th.org. Sign up to phone bank for Chokwe’s campaign and many others at 3states1mission.com. Remember when you said you’d do anything to defeat Trump? Well? 2. When there is a shooting on the West Side, members of the Institute for Nonviolence Chicago show up to mediate, deescalate, and work with the victims family. As we work to imagine better ways of addressing gun violence and public, it must include programs like this. Senior Director of Programs and Policy Chris Patterson joins this week to discuss this effort, which is built on the teachings of Martin Luther King, Jr. Learn more and get involved at nonviolencechicago.org.

1. Public opinion can be static for years, and then something changes. That’s what happened with public opinion support for gay marriage—support was static for years, and then, one day, things changed. Similarly, over the past few weeks, public opinion for Black Lives Matter has shifted dramatically. Can we now imagine real change in race relations in America? 2. In 2016, Kim Foxx ran for State’s Attorney against an incumbent who had drawn criticism in the wake of the Laquan McDonald murder. This year, she won her bid for re-election after a bitter primary campaign. The Indivisible Chicago Alliance endorsed her in this race. And then came the pandemic, and then the George Floyd murder and subsequent outpouring of grief and rage. This week, the State’s Attorney joins the podcast to discuss the events of the past several weeks, as well as her record of criminal justice reform over the last four years. 3. Jon Hoadley is running for Congress in southwest Michigan, one of the campaigns Indivisible Chicago is supporting as part of our Three States, One Mission campaign. An openly gay candidate, this week, he returns to the podcast to discuss last week’s Supreme Court decision upholding the rights of LGBTQ employees. Learn more about his campaign at jonhoadley.com. Join the campaign’s Summer of Action kickoff on July 9 at https://bit.ly/3dlNt3J.

This week's guest is Cook County Commissioner Brandon Johnson. 1. The current president initially planned his first pandemic rally to be held in Tulsa, Oklahoma — of all places — on June 19th — of all dates. Tom talks about the Tulsa Race Massacre, and what it means for the president to choose this place for his first MAGA rally for months. 2. This week’s guest is Brandon Johnson, Cook County Commissioner for the first district, where he serves on a number of committees, including the Criminal Justice Committee—of which he is vice chair. Commissioner Johnson joins the podcast this week to talk about the aftermath of the George Floyd murder, the impact is has had on his district, and how we must not squander this moment when real change is possible. We are broadcast on WCPT AM-820 Monday nights at 7pm. The Indivisible Chicago Podcast is a member of the DemCast Podcast Network.

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. https://apple.co/2oR4UlH INDIVISIBLE CHICAGO PODCAST SHOW NOTES FOR MONDAY, JUNE 8, 2020 _1. Some fear saying the wrong thing, so say nothing at all. The world of clinical psychology offers a model that might help: The Silk Ring Theory. More here: https://bit.ly/3h4xTMM _2. AS a former civil rights attorney, supporter of CPAC, and co-author of the State consent decree, Alderman Matt Martin is in a unique position to help sort out some of the policy positions regarding reforming the police department. Has your Alderman signed on to support CPAC? Find out here: bit.ly/ICP_CPAC

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. https://apple.co/2oR4UlH INDIVISIBLE CHICAGO PODCAST SHOW NOTES FOR MONDAY, JUNE 1, 2020 _1. The killing of George Floyd is a tragedy that should compel us to do more. Peaceful protests are a start. Educating ourselves is another — Indivisible National’s reading list is here: bit.ly/INDIVISIBLE_Antiracism. _2. So much depends on leadership, and right now that is in short supply. The fight for democracy runs through Michigan, and right now, Indivisible Chicago leader Bill Mengebier is leading the effort with phone banks. Bill joins the podcast with an update. It’s all hands on deck. Get involved at 3states1mission.com. _3. Jon Hoadley, candidate for Congress in Michigan 6, Zoomed by the phone bank to share some good news about polling in his district. Find out more about his campaign at jonhoadley.com. _4. Dani Brzozowski is the first candidate in Illinois 16 to be endorsed by Planned Parenthood. She’s running as a true progressive in a district currently represented by a man who votes with Trump 93% of the time. Learn more at daniforillinois.com. The Indivisible Chicago Podcast is a member of the DemCast Podcast Network.

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. https://apple.co/2oR4UlH INDIVISIBLE CHICAGO PODCAST SHOW NOTES FOR MONDAY, MAY 25, 2020 _1. I thought the pandemic would finally give Democrats and Republicans something to agree emphatically about — the desire to avoid our own demise. Not so fast. The PEW Research study discussed is here pewrsr.ch/2zZRBZg. _2. Lawrence Lessig is the Roy L. Furman Professor of Law and Leadership at Harvard Law School. He was the co-founder of Creative Commons, and was a candidate for president in 2016. He is the author of numerous books, most recently They Don’t Represent Us published by Dey Street and America: Compromised from the University of Chicago Press. He hosts the podcast Another Way. Professor Lessig joins to talk electoral reform, finance reform, our dire circumstances, and glimmers of hope.