Kennedy Bartley's guest appearances

Kennedy Bartley

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The Ben Joravsky Show

This Is Your Afterlife

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Over the weekend, Mayors Johnson and Rahm fell in love, metaphorically speaking. Ben riffs. Kennedy Bartley, newly appointed executive director of United Working Families, talks about the future of lefty politics in Chicago. What’s on the agenda for the next few years? Who and what are the obstacles? And a word or two about capitalistic gravediggers. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Over the weekend, Mayors Johnson and Rahm fell in love, metaphorically speaking. Ben riffs. Kennedy Bartley, newly appointed executive director of United Working Families, talks about the future of lefty politics in Chicago. What’s on the agenda for the next few years? Who and what are the obstacles? And a word or two about capitalistic gravediggers. See Privacy Policy at <a href="https://art19.com/privacy" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" target="_blank">https://art19.com/privacy</a> and California Privacy Notice at <a href="https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" target="_blank">https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info</a>.

Kennedy Bartley—Lefty Agenda

Through the Portal is a podcast from the Social Justice Portal Project, a national collaborative think tank hosted by the Social Justice Initiative at the University of Illinois Chicago. Each month, grassroots activists and radical scholars will give voice to community struggles, national strategies and sustainable alternatives for the future. The guest speakers, who are also Portal Project participants, explore what it means to walk through the portal of the current moment by centering racial and social justice issues.This episode's guest, Kennedy Bartley, is a Chicago-based organizer and thinker who until recently served as the Legislative Director of United Working Families Chicago and has been a central force behind the Defund CPD campaign. Kennedy breaks down the radical potential of contesting the electoral space, the value of participatory democracy, and how contested coalition with elected officials can be a pathway to tangible, liberatory change.SHOW NOTESUWF Chicago - https://www.unitedworkingfamilies.org/Defund CPD - https://linktr.ee/defundcpdLearn more about the Portal Project: http://sjiportalproject.com/

Through the Portal is a podcast from the Social Justice Portal Project, a national collaborative think tank hosted by the Social Justice Initiative at the University of Illinois Chicago. Each month, grassroots activists and radical scholars will give voice to community struggles, national strategies and sustainable alternatives for the future. The guest speakers, who are also Portal Project participants, explore what it means to walk through the portal of the current moment by centering racial and social justice issues. This episode's guest, Kennedy Bartley, is a Chicago-based organizer and thinker who until recently served as the Legislative Director of United Working Families Chicago and has been a central force behind the Defund CPD campaign. Kennedy breaks down the radical potential of contesting the electoral space, the value of participatory democracy, and how contested coalition with elected officials can be a pathway to tangible, liberatory change. SHOW NOTES UWF Chicago - <a href="https://www.unitedworkingfamilies.org/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.unitedworkingfamilies.org/</a> Defund CPD - <a href="https://linktr.ee/defundcpd" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://linktr.ee/defundcpd</a> Learn more about the Portal Project: <a href="http://sjiportalproject.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">http://sjiportalproject.com/</a>

Through the Portal Episode 4 - Grassroots Organizing with Kennedy Bartley

Kennedy Bartley (Legislative Director, United Working Families) went from thinking about her movement work in terms of "I'll die for this" to "I want to live for this." We talk about building the personal and professional infrastructure to support abolition and liberation in the long-term, what qualifies someone as a "comrade," and which slang I can get away with incorporating into my post-quarantine vocabulary.Check out Kennedy's extended episode at patreon.com/davemaher, which includes extra intro talk and her "Paint Your Hell" segment.Follow Kennedy on IG: @kbartley_Follow United Working Families on Instagram and TwitterJoin the Defund CPD campaign!Transcript: This Is Your Afterlife on PodscribeTo continue the conversation, subscribe to my weekly newsletter, Hella Immaculate, at thisisdavemaher.com.Follow me @thisisdavemaher on Instagram and Twitter.

Kennedy Bartley (Legislative Director, United Working Families) went from thinking about her movement work in terms of "I'll die for this" to "I want to live for this." We talk about building the personal and professional infrastructure to support abolition and liberation in the long-term, what qualifies someone as a "comrade," and which slang I can get away with incorporating into my post-quarantine vocabulary.Check out Kennedy's extended episode at <a href="https://www.patreon.com/davemaher" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" target="_blank">patreon.com/davemaher</a>, which includes extra intro talk and her "Paint Your Hell" segment.Follow Kennedy on IG: <a href="https://www.instagram.com/kbartley_/" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" target="_blank">@kbartley_</a>Follow United Working Families on <a href="https://www.instagram.com/uwfillinois/" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" target="_blank">Instagram</a> and <a href="https://twitter.com/UWFIllinois" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" target="_blank">Twitter</a>Join the <a href="https://actionnetwork.org/forms/sign-on-to-demand-defunding-of-the-chicago-police-department" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" target="_blank">Defund CPD</a> campaign!Transcript: <a href="https://app.podscribe.ai/series/1246109" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" target="_blank">This Is Your Afterlife on Podscribe</a>To continue the conversation, subscribe to my weekly newsletter, Hella Immaculate, at <a href="http://thisisdavemaher.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" target="_blank">thisisdavemaher.com</a>.Follow me @thisisdavemaher on <a href="https://www.instagram.com/thisisdavemaher/" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" target="_blank">Instagram</a> and <a href="https://twitter.com/ThisIsDaveMaher" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" target="_blank">Twitter</a>.