Talkin' Socialism: Episode 13, Recorded 02.11.2012
Chicago DSA's Ron Baiman interviews Loyola University Philosophy Professor David Schweickart on "economic democracy" and "market socialism."
View ArticleTalkin' Socialism: Episode 14, Recorded 03.10.2012
Chicago DSA's Michael Baker interviews John D'Emilio, professor of history and women's and gender studies at the University of Illinois at Chicago, about the life and legacy of Bayard Rustin.
View ArticleTalkin' Socialism: Episode 15, Recorded 05.12.2012
Chicago DSA's Tom Broderick interviews Melinda Power, sole proprietor of West Town Law Office, about protest and civil rights with a special focus on the current NATO protests.
View ArticleTalkin' Socialism: Episode 18, Recorded 08.11.2012
Bill Barclay interviews Leone Jose Bicchieri, Executive Director of the Chicago Workers Collaborative, about activism, organizing, and the work of the Chicago Workers Collaborative.
View ArticleTalkin' Socialism: Episode 19, Recorded 07.14.2012
Chicago DSA's Bill Barclay and National Nurses United's Jan Rodolpho talk the about Financial Transactions Tax: What it is, what it is not, how it would work, why America needs one, and what difference...
View ArticleTalkin' Socialism: Episode 22, Recorded 12.08.2012
Holly Graff, Professor of Philosophy at Oakton Community College and Senator in the Illinois Education Association chapter at the college, and Joe Persky, Professor of Economics at University of...
View ArticleTalkin' Socialism: Episode 23, Recorded 01.12.2013
Peg Strobel, former director of the Jane Addams Hull-House Museum at the University of Illinois at Chicago, interviews Louise (Lucy) W. Knight, author of Citizen: Jane Addams and the Struggle for...
View ArticleTalkin' Socialism: Episode 25, Recorded 03.09.2013
Colleen Dille and Michael Gosch from the Interfaith Committee for Detained Immigrants discuss how migrants and refugees released from Federal custody have often lost everything while finding themselves...
View ArticleTalkin' Socialism: Episode 26, Recorded 04.13.2013
Leah Fried of the United Electrical Workers and Stephen Yokich of Cornfield and Feldman discuss so-called "right-to-work" laws: the consequences for organizing and maintaining unions, how the spread of...
View ArticleTalkin' Socialism: Episode 27, Recorded 05.11.2013
Emily Rosenberg and Bob Breving discuss labor education. In particular, they talk about the DePaul Labor Education Program that has some unique and some nearly unique features, including a program for...
View ArticleTalkin' Socialism: Episode 39, Recorded 05.10.2014
With the new Pope Francis, how has this changed the conversation about poverty and social justice? What has changed in the Catholic Church, and what has stayed the same? Our guests for this program are...
View ArticleTalkin' Socialism: Episode 40, Recorded 06.14.2014
Disability rights activists Tom Wilson, Rene David Luna, and Susan Aarup explore the relation between disability and poverty. They touch on the issues of independent living, poverty programs that place...
View ArticleTalkin' Socialism: Episode 41, Recorded 06.29.2014
Liz Henderson, chair of DSA's Drop Student Debt Campaign and co-chair of Greater Philadelphia DSA, is interviewed by Chicago DSA co-chair Bill Barclay. Just what is the magnitude of the problem, who...
View ArticleTalkin' Socialism: Episode 42, Recorded 07.12.2014
Dr. Angela Odoms-Young, Assistant Professor of Kinesiology and Nutrition at the University of Illinois at Chicago, and Ted Lucore, a volunteer with the Greater Chicago Food Depository, explore the...
View ArticleTalkin' Socialism: Episode 43, Recorded 08.09.2014
Ruth McBeth, an Assistant Public Defender for Cook County and an activist with The Next Movement, and Anthony Lowery, Director of Policy and Advocacy for the Safer Foundation, discuss the vicious...
View ArticleTalkin' Socialism: Episode 44, Recorded 09.13.2014
Dr. Kim Scipes, Associate Professor of Sociology at Purdue University North Central, is interviewed by Greater Oak Park DSA's Tom Broderick. What is the measure of poverty in America? While a few...
View ArticleTalkin' Socialism: Episode 45, Recorded 10.11.2014
Just in time for National Domestic Violence Awareness Month, DSA's Peg Strobel interviews Dr. Stephanie Riger about the complicated relationship between domestic violence, poverty, and gender roles,...
View ArticleTalkin' Socialism: Episode 46, Recorded 11.08.2014
Ray Parrish talks about his decades as a counsellor to military veterans, the post-military challenges faced especially by combat veterans, and the ways in which a less than honorable discharge can put...
View ArticleTalkin' Socialism: Episode 47, Recorded 12.03.2014
This episode explores the intersectionality of gardening, ethnic and family traditions, environmental sustainability, cultural diversity and social justice, as experienced through the University of...
View ArticleTalkin' Socialism: Episode 48, Recorded 01.10.2015
Chicago DSA members and Chicago Political Economy Group founding members Ron Baiman and Bill Barclay do their annual review of the economy of the previous year and look ahead to the coming year.
View ArticleTalkin' Socialism: Episode 49, Recorded 02.23.2015
Sandra Shimon and Joyce Champelli tell the story leading up to the passage in Oak Park of an advisory referendum advocating universal background checks for firearm sales and transfers, beginning with...
View ArticleTalkin' Socialism: Episode 50, Recorded 03.14.2015
Jorge Mujica, recent candidate for Alderman of Chicago's 25th Ward, and the manager of his campaign, Mario Cardenas. Interviewed by Chicago DSA's Bill Barclay (Barclay was on the campaign steering...
View ArticleTalkin' Socialism: Episode 51, Recorded 04.11.2015
Tom Broderick interviews Carson Starkey, the Director of the Illinois Fair Trade Coalition, about the pending "Fast Track" legislation in Congress, intended to speed passage of the yet-to-be-disclosed...
View ArticleTalkin' Socialism: Episode 52, Recorded 04.27.2015
According to West Virginia district attorney Reese Blizzard, that would be Mary Harris Jones, aka "Mother Jones." And just who was Mother Jones and why was she so dangerous? Peg Strobel interviews...
View ArticleTalkin' Socialism: Episode 53, Recorded 06.27.2015
Dan Hamilton, Chicago DSA's Political Education Director, interviews Professor William A. Pelz on the occasion of the recent release of the second edition of the "Eugene V. Debs Reader: Socialism and...
View ArticleTalkin' Socialism: Episode 54, Recorded 07.25.2015
It's a free country. Here we have the best health care only money can buy. And if you're sick and without money, you're free to die. Dr. Anne Scheetz interviews actor and playwright Michael Milligan...
View ArticleTalkin' Socialism: Episode 55, Recorded 08.08.2015
Lady Law never stands so tall as when she stands on someone's hand. Darrell Cannon is interviewed by Bill Barclay about Chicago Police torture and the reparations ordinance passed by the Chicago City...
View ArticleTalkin' Socialism: Episode 56, Recorded 09.12.2015
Martin Macias, community activist and journalist, interviews Kiera Bouton and Jeff Uehlinger, members of USAS local 15 at the University of Illinois  Chicago. Bouton and Uehlinger discuss the...
View ArticleTalkin' Socialism: Episode 57, Recorded 10.08.2015
Richard Pokorny interviews Bellissima Opera Artistic Director Christine Steyer about The Transcendence Triptych, an opera celebrating people who transcend racial and political divides.
View ArticleTalkin' Socialism: Episode 58, Recorded 11.21.2015
Peg Strobel in conversation with Margaret Power about the New Deal planned community of Norvelt, Pennsylvania, its history and politics.
View ArticleTalkin' Socialism: Episode 59, Recorded 12.12.2015
Peg Strobel interviews three activists from the Chicago Abortion Fund (CAF): Brittany Mostiller-Keith, the Fund’s Executive Director, and CAF board members Lindsay Budzinski and Sekile Nzinga-Johnson.
View ArticleTalkin' Socialism: Episode 60, Recorded 01.09.2016
Ron Baiman and Bill Barclay, members of the Chicago Political Economy Group, review the political economy of 2015 and speculate on 2016
View ArticleTalkin' Socialism: Episode 61, Recorded 02.06.2016
Bunnie Johnson, AFSCME Local 2858, and Fran Tobin, Alliance for Community Services, on what happens when the State pretends there is no money and when government is run like a business
View ArticleTalkin' Socialism: Episode 62, Recorded 03.12.2016
Tom Broderick interviews Suzanne Akhras Sahloul, founder and Executive Director of the Syrian Community Network, about the dimensions of the problem and about the work of the Syrian Community Network
View ArticleTalkin' Socialism: Episode 63, Recorded 04.26.2016
Tom Broderick interviews David Kraft, director of the Nuclear Energy Information Service, about the state of the nuclear energy industry in Illinois and the state of "Clean Jobs" legislation
View ArticleTalkin' Socialism: Episode 64, Recorded 05.14.2016
Tom Broderick interviews Ciera Walker, Congregational Organizer at the Community Renewal Society, and Rev. Christopher Griffin, an activist with the Community Renewal Society, about the Society's...
View ArticleTalkin' Socialism: Episode 65, Recorded 06.19.2016
Tom Broderick in conversation with Vicki Cervantes and Celeste Larkin about human rights in Honduras and the assassination of Berta Caceres.
View ArticleTalkin' Socialism: Episode 66, Recorded 07.20.2016
Bill Barclay in conversation with author Rachel Weber about the political economy of urban development and her new book, From Boom to Bubble.
View ArticleTalkin' Socialism: Episode 67, Recorded 08.13.2016
Chicago DSA's Alex McLeese interviews Adam Olson from Oxfam America about efforts to modernize American food aid policies.
View ArticleTalkin' Socialism: Episode 68, Recorded 08.25.2016
Chicago DSA's Tom Broderick in conversation with Robert McKay and Paul Sakol on Rev. Edward Pinkney, Benton Harbor, St. Joseph, class, race, and human rights.
View ArticleEpisode 69, 1971, Michael Harrington on Socialism
Michael Harrington on socialism, its relation to liberalism, and why socialism must be global.
View ArticleEpisode 70, 11.03.2016, The Emancipation of Cecily McMillan
Cecily McMillan in conversation with Aaron Armitage about her memoir and the intersection of the personal and the political.
View ArticleEpisode 71, 05.08.2015, Only One Thing Can Save Us
Labor lawyer, author and activist Tom Geoghegan argues that even as the U.S. labor movement crumbles, a revived but different labor movement is crucial to building a democratic society.
View ArticleEpisode 72 05.23.2011 Planned Inequality
Ralph Martire argues the crisis of government and economy is a consequence of an intentional massive upward redistribution of wealth.
View ArticleEpisode 73 03.10.2017 Boycott the Braids
An interview of Lupe Gonzalo, member and leader of Coalition of Immokalee Workers about Fair Food and the Wendy's boycott.
View ArticleEpisode 74 04.19.2017 May Day in Chicago
Tom Broderick discusses May Day 2017 with Artemio Arreola (ICIRR), Robert Reiter (CFL) and Susan Hurley (CJwJ).
View ArticleEpisode 75 04.15.2017 Friends Advocacy Teams
E. Garnet Fay and David Kelm discuss the Friends Committee on National Legislation and their advocacy teams.
View ArticleEpisode 76 07.17.2017
Betsy Schaack and Sheila Loop discuss the Illinois Choice Action Team and the ongoing struggle for reproductive justice.
View ArticleEpisode 77 07.19.2017
Rebekah Levin and Caren Van Slyke discuss efforts towards justice in Palestine.
View ArticleEpisode 78 09.08.2017
Claudia Lucero and Cinthya Rodriguez discuss the struggle for sanctuary in immigrant communities.
View Article