Indivisible Chicago Podcast

95 Lauren Underwood and Indivisible Chicago’s Erika Bachner 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, MARCH 25, 2019 Opening: One thing is for certain: the future is coming. Tom discusses a recent Pew Research Center study that asked Americans what they think life will be like in 2050. It isn’t rosy. [pewrsr.ch/ICP_095] Segment 1: The freshman class of this congress is the most racially diverse and most female group ever elected, and this week’s guest, Congresswoman Lauren Underwood, is among that group. She discusses her questioning of Homeland Security Secretary Nielsen, the character of the 14th district, and even the dangers of vaping. Segment 2: Erika Bachner is a co-founder of the Indivisible Chicago Alliance, co-founder of Indivisible Oak Park Area, and is now a candidate for the River Forest Village Board.

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, MARCH 18, 2019 The attack in New Zealand this week amplifies the rise of white nationalism across the globe, and with it, the rise of authoritarianism. Tom considers the work of Karen Stenner, a behavioral economist, whose research suggests that authoritarianism is a psychological disposition that gets awakened from time to time. You can check out an interview with her on Slate’s The Good Fight podcast. Her book is The Authoritarian Dynamic [https://amzn.to/2ubNKSM], and she’s also featured in the essay collection, Can it Happen Here? [https://amzn.to/2ucCSnn] Indivisible Chicago’s Jeff Radue and Steve Held discuss three bills that are moving through the state legislature and what you can do to support them. Representative Celina Villanueva will be the Illinois House sponsor of the Tax Return Transparency Bill. She explains why that bill is so important.

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, MARCH 11, 2019 A new skyline, a new mayor, a new bill opening up prospects for rent control. Change is in the air. Chicago has hundreds of thousands of families that need affordable housing—and demand far outstrips supply. This week, I talk to State Representative Will Guzzardi about his a bill that would allow cities in Illinois to consider rent control ordinances. Seven words that could change the future. [http://ltbcoalition.org] Nick Kryczka is a member of Neighbors for Affordable Housing, and he joins to talk about the effort to expand affordable housing on the Northwest Side. Learn more from the Lift the Ban Coalition. [http://ltbcoalition.org/]

Episode 92: IL House Majority Leader Greg Harris; IC’s Marj Halperin on election results 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 EPISODE 92 Opening: The city election by the numbers: What can Preckwinkle and Lightfoot do to reach the one million registered voters who stayed home on Tuesday? Segment 1: State Representative Greg Harris was first elected to the legislature in 2006. In January, he was made Majority Leader of the House. He’s also chief budget negotiator, so in the wake of Governor Pritzker’s first budget speech, it seemed like a good time to sit down and talk money. Also, Indivisible Chicago Executive Committee member Marj Halperin joins to reflect on the city election. Segment 2: Indivisible Chicago Executive Committee member Marj Halperin joins to help breakdown the results of the city election.

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 Starting this week, in addition to being available wherever you find your podcast, the Indivisible Chicago Podcast will air on WCPT AM-820 Mondays at 7:00 p.m. Two great ways to listen! INDIVISIBLE CHICAGO PODCAST SHOW NOTES FOR MONDAY, FEBRUARY 25, 2019 Opening: What do winter weather, the Mueller investigation and Dante’s Inferno all have in common? Tom thinks about what it means to be in the middle of it all. Interview: Cook County Sheriff Tom Dart took office in 2009 at the crest of the housing crisis. He has surprised some by declining to run for mayor in the years since. This week, Sheriff Dart talks about how that office has changed over the past ten years and where things may be going from here.

INDIVISIBLE CHICAGO PODCAST SHOW NOTES FOR MONDAY, FEBRUARY 18, 2019 On Wednesday, February 13, Indivisible Chicago hosted Conversations with Chicago mayoral candidates Lori Lightfoot and Amara Enyia. A few hundred voters filled the Second Presbyterian Church on South Michigan where Tom and Marj Halperin co-moderated the event. While Indivisible Chicago is not making an endorsement in this race, we saw this as an opportunity to get the word out about a couple of candidates who address our Progressive Principles, but who haven’t had the resources to saturate the media markets with their messages. This week, the ICP presents those conversations in their entirety.

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, FEBRUARY 11, 2019 Opening: The history of voter suppression goes back to the beginning and runs through the North as well as the South. Tom highlights an essay in Talking Points Memo by Gregory Downs, which can be found here: bit.ly/ICP_Downs. Segment 1: Oren Jacobson calls himself a civic entrepreneur. He also recently completed a study analyzing the effects of strict photo identification laws. Segment 2: Indivisible Chicago executive director Darcey Regan joins the podcast to discuss the new Progressive Principles document. Find the document at indivisiblechicago.com. Also, plan to attend the Mayoral Forum on Tuesday at the Second Presbyterian Church, 1936 S. Michigan, Wednesday at 6:30. More information available at bit.ly/ICP_MayorConvo.

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 FEBRUARY 4, 2019 Opening: What has Tom missed while he’s been away for a few weeks? Also, meet New Zealand’s Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern, and learn about the “controversy” that rocked her in January. Interview:: Considering our current situation, many of us get a warm glow remembering the Obama years. Which makes the Obama Foundation's ham-fisted move to put the Obama Presidential Center in Jackson Park, with little public input, so frustrating for the Center’s potential neighbors. Jackson Park Watch co-president Margaret Schmid joins the podcast this week to discuss the situation. Learn more at jacksonparkwatch.org and protectourparks.org

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 AND ACTIONS FOR JANUARY 28, 2019 Opening: Poet and professor Kirk Robinson and his family lived for a few years in Northwest Indiana in the shadow of the US Steel plant. He joins to talk about that experience as well as share some thoughts about surfing and the sea. Interview: It may surprise you to learn that there is a surf scene in Chicago. It may not be as much of a surprise that US Steel plants on the Indiana coast are threatening the health of surfers—and water drinkers—with dangerous chemicals they’ve allegedly dumped into the waterways. Mitch McNeil from the Surfrider Foundation of Chicago joins the podcast to talk Great Lakes surfing and the lawsuit his organization has brought against US Steel. Just after the interview, there was a development in the case. On December 13, 2018 the court granted Surfrider Foundation's request to become a party in the EPA and Indiana Department of Environmental Management's enforcement action against U. S. Steel, over the company's Clean Water Act violations including illegal discharges of hexavalent chromium into a waterway emptying into Lake Michigan. The Court declined to grant the governments' requests to (1) defer ruling on the Motion until after the public comment review process for the proposed Consent Decree, and (2) to place conditions on how Surfrider could participate as an intervenor. Learn about the case it unfolds at www.surfrider.org. [bit.ly/ICP_Surfrider.]

Episode 86: Cam Davis, Metro Water Reclamation District Commissioner 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 JANUARY 21, 2019 Opening: While it has not always been so in baseball, when it comes to economic supremacy in the Midwest, Chicago beat St. Louis a long time ago, and water is a big part of that story. Interview: Cam Davis had an interesting year last year. He mounted a write-in campaign to win the primary for a vacant seat on the Metropolitan Water Reclamation District, which he won. Survived an attempt by Rauner to subvert that election. Then won his seat outright on the November ballot. In December, he was sworn in, and now, on to the vital work of protecting Chicago’s water supply.

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 JANUARY 14, 2019 This week, Tom presents three of his favorite interviews from the first year and a half of the Indivisible Chicago Podcast. Christian Picciolini, former leader in one of Chicago’s violent white power movements, and current activist working to help others find their way out. He’s the author of White American Youth: My Descent into America's Most Violent Hate Movement--and How I Got Out. This interview first appeared in episode 16 on September 11, 2017. bit.ly/ICP_016 David Orr’s name did not appear on the ballot in November for the first time since 1979. Last July, Tom spoke with Clerk Orr in his office for a wide ranging conversation about his days fighting the Democratic Machine and his role in protecting our right to vote. David Orr had a front row seat for the Council Wars of the 80s, and reflects on those times in this interview that first appeared in episode 61 on July 16, 2018. bit.ly/ICP_061 Those who thought abortion rights were safe under the so-called settled law of Roe v. Wade got a wake-up call this year as women’s rights were curtailed across a number of states and the spectacle of Brett Kavanaugh’s confirmation only punctuated the peril. Last fall, Tom spoke with Martha Scott, who, along with a number of colleagues, comprised Jane, an organization that helped women get safe abortions in the late sixties and early seventies. The interview first appeared in episode 72 on October 1, 2018. bit.ly/ICP_072

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 JANUARY 7, 2019 This week, a special episode! Each week, Tom opens the show with a short essay--a reflection on the week’s news, some historical context for the week’s main interview, or whatever. ICP producer and former co-host returns to host this week to share some of his favorite essays, including Tom’s evening watching the midterm returns at Little Fort bar, reclaiming the American flag from the right, and the history of fake news.

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 DECEMBER 31, 2018 With so much uncertainty in the world — a government shutdown, a burgeoning autocracy, kleptocracy, and idiocracy — there’s some comfort in the fact that time at least still ticks away at predictable intervals. This week, a look back at the year that was with a roundtable of Indivisible Chicago leaders: Executive Director Darcey Regan, Indivisible Lincoln Square leader Jessica Droeger, and founder Jason Rieger.

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 AND ACTIONS FOR MONDAY, DECEMBER 17, 2018. Opening: Despite an attempted coup by 16 congresspeople, including Bill Foster who represents parts of the Western Suburbs, Nancy Pelosi will almost certainly be Speaker of the House in January. Watching how she baited and schooled the president last week, that seems like a very good thing. An excellent profile of her can be found in the NY Times Magazine [https://nyti.ms/2zbQLVZ] Interview: The Illinois State Legislature gains a Democratic super-majority in January, but loses a member who has been a fixture for many years. Retiring Representative Barbara Flynn Currie, majority leader of the State House of Representatives, joins the podcast for a wide-ranging conversation about her years in Springfield.

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 AND ACTIONS FOR DECEMBER 10, 2018 This week, Ezra Levin, co-author of that original guide and co-founder and co-executive director of Indivisible National joins the Indivisible Chicago Podcast to talk about going on offense starting on January 3. During the interview, Ezra mentioned two podcasts worth checking out: Slow Burn from Slate [https://slate.com/slow-burn] and Bag Man from Rachel Maddow and MSNBC [https://www.msnbc.com/bagman].