Solidarity Live: Recent Episodes
Alex Lawson
Hosts Alex Lawson, Executive Director of Social Security Works, and Jocelyn Macurdy Keatts, Washington Correspondent for act.tv, details the week's news with a focus on taking on Big Pharma and corporate greed through solidarity.
PARTNER TO THE POOR: REMEMBERING THE LIFE AND LEGACY OF DR. PAUL FARMER - Today we mourn Dr. Paul Farmer, the man who would cure the world. Founder of Partners in Health, Dr. Paul started clinics all over the world, and spearheaded the movement for health care justice throughout several pandemics. Join Alex and Jocelyn as we remember his legacy.
Big Oil, CIA Secrets, and a Spy Daughter’s Reckoning! In Anne Tazewell, the personal becomes political. A woman who gave her life to the fight for environmental justice slowly unravels the dark secrets of her father’s life, leading her to the heart of America’s oil soaked thirst for war.
What's next for the Supreme Court, Build Back Better, and Health Care in America? Laura Packard host of #CareTalk and executive director of Health Care Voter joins Alex and Jocelyn Macurdy Keatts to discuss!
Jocelyn and Alex discuss the Build Back Better vote, gubernatorial elections, and voting rights.
Dr. America, aka Sanjeev Sriram, MD, MPH, joins Solidarity Live to talk health care and the fate of Biden's Build Back Better plan.
It's time for Congress to deliver on their promises to build back better. Jocelyn speaks with Rebecca Wood, experienced healthcare organizer, about her activism around this historic time in legislative history.
BIG PHARMA’S REVOLVING DOOR IS IMPERILING DEMOCRACY. Alex and Jocelyn are live to discuss the dangers of drug monopolies with an expert from The New Republic, Natalie Shure
KAYAKTIVISTS TAKE ON JOE MANCHIN BY BOAT, with Jocelyn on board! Jocelyn Macurdy Keatts and Alex discuss the progressive armada, and what's next for Build Back Better
Today on Solidarity Live Jocelyn and Alex discuss everything you need to know about the evils of Big Pharma, and what’s next in the fight for justice.
Today on Solidarity Live Jocelyn Macurdy Keatts and Alex Lawson discuss the most progressive legislative goals in a generation, and what’s next for Budget Reconciliation on Capitol Hill.
Today on Solidarity Live @JocelynMacurdyKeatts speaks with author and organizer Jay Ponti about the 10 year anniversary of Occupy Wall Street! It's been an incredibly eventful decade for progressives in America, and Jay tells us where he thinks we're headed next.
Afghanistan has been yet another tragedy of endless war. Alex and Jocelyn are joined by Stephen Miles from Win Without War, as they discuss what’s next, and how we can work for peace.
The Democrats have a golden opportunity to become really popular by just giving people nice things. Will they take it become winners? Or will they deny the people what they need and stay big losers? Jocelyn and Alex discuss!
Jocelyn and Linda discuss the Nina Turner race, Cori Bush's victory, and what's next for progressives as we race towards the August recess on Capitol Hill
Expanding Medicare, adding vision, hearing, dental and an out of pocket cap, lowering the Medicare age, expanding Medicaid and building a long term care system. Medicare negotiating lower drug prices for everyone. We are closer than ever before, BUT now comes the hard part.
ANDREW SAUL & DAVID BLACK FIRED! Joe Biden did what he should have done ages ago and fired Trump's saboteurs at Social Security! But the fight is far from over. Now we need a commissioner with a bold vision so Social Security can fulfill its promise. Social Security Works President Nancy Altman joins the show to discuss.
The fight for criminal justice reform continues! We are live with Justin Strekal, Political Director at NORML to discuss his work with the MORE Act and all his organizing efforts to decriminalize marijuana.
Voting Rights, the Filibuster and Healthcare justice! We’re here to discuss all of the above with act.tv's Digital Organizer Maia Rosenberg, and to get her updates on the future of the New York Health Act.
Obamacare Upheld! We're here with Laura Packard discussing the future of The Affordable Care Act, and the fight for healthcare justice in America.
The Power of Political Storytelling- Today we’re joined by author, Sarah Lazare, here to discuss her debut novel, Testimony, and the importance of leftist fiction in an era defined by imperialism and endless war. Order link: https://www.amazon.com/dp/1947492543/
AMERICA VS BIG PHARMA - Attorney Stephen Sheller, author of the book Big Pharma, Big Greed, is with us to discuss his billion-dollar showdown with Johnson and Johnson, the Opioid crisis, covid, and what’s next for protecting Americans from Corporate greed
Solidarity Live talks with Rebecca Vallas from The Century Foundation about why strengthening Supplemental Security Income (SSI) must be part of 'Building Back Better'
President Biden spoke a decent game in his address this week, but if we hope to have nice things, we need to pass them in Congress. So it's time we get work!
News reports suggest that President Biden is NOT going to take on pharma to deliver people lower drug prices or expand healthcare coverage at all. Activists and members of Congress across the ideological spectrum need to get organized and push back!
Alex and Jocelyn talk with Melinda St. Louis, Director of the Medicare for All Campaign at Public Citizen, about why we're pushing for bold drug price reforms and the need to expand Medicare
Jocelyn & Alex discuss yesterday's setback in the fight for worker rights at Amazon and what Joe Biden must do to rebuild America. It's what progressives have been telling him to do: GO BIG.
Mary Small, Legislative Director for Indivisible, joins the show to discuss how progressives will challenge Biden's agenda if he refuses to go big on infrastructure, Green New Deal, and drug prices
Solidarity Live! Hosts Alex and Jocelyn examine the fight to pass progressive legislation Democrats promised in 2020, like a liveable minimum wage. Will we need to end the filibuster? Or should we just end the Senate?
Today on Solidarity Live, Margarida Jorge of Lower Drug Prices Now joins the show to discuss why we need a People's Vaccine. Because until the world is vaccinated, no one really is.
Seniors delivered the presidency to Joe Biden. And now he owes seniors. It's time to end the nursing home crisis, implement a real vaccination program, and EXPAND SOCIAL SECURITY! And we laugh at Marjorie Taylor Greene (Q-GA). With Jon "Bowzer" Bauman, President of Social Security Works PAC
The GOP cannot and will not get past its embrace of Trump and the varoius extremist groups around him like neo-Nazis, Proud Boys, and QAnon. Acclaimed journalist and filmmaker David Holthouse talks with us about his background researching the extreme right wing and its impact on the Republican Party.
Joe Biden officially became President yesterday, and now it's time to #dosomething and make sure he is a president for all of us. Kymone Freeman, co-founder of We Act Radio joins us to discuss how we make him responsible to the people.
Ari Rabin-Havt, Bernie's former Deputy Campaign Manager, joins the show to discuss his harrowing experience inside the capitol office complex as a right-wing mob, organized by seditionists inside the Republican Party like Donald Trump, Josh Hawley, Ted Cruz, and Paul Gosar, attempted to execute members of Congress and Mike Pence.
Donald Trump supporting terrorists attempted a coup yesterday, hours before Joe Biden was confirmed as the next president. Quite a day! David Sirota of The Daily Poster & Jacobin magazine joins the show to discuss the fallout.
Americans paid for Big Pharma’s Covid vaccines. Now, we need to make sure everyday people receive the vaccine their tax dollars went toward developing. With 250,000 Americans dead from Covid-19 and almost 12 million cases since March, time is not on our side. We need to deliver a vaccine safely and swiftly to every single person free of charge. Solidarity Live with special guest Merith Basey of Free the Vaccine.
Today on Solidarity Live! Linda Benesch, communications director of Social Security Works, joins the show to discuss how Democrats won so we're guaranteed a progressive four years! Just kidding, they're already threatening us with austerity. So we need to KEEP FIGHTING. (Oh, and Trump is still a loser.)
Trump is now officially a one-term president, adding one more failure to his life-long string of failures. Now the hard part starts. Join hosts Alex Lawson & Jocelyn Macurdy Keatts as we break down WHAT IT ALL MEANS and laugh at the Loser In Chief on the way out.
It's the last Solidarity Live before the election! Kara Voght, DC bureau reporter for Mother Jones joins the show to break down how the pandemic forced Joe Biden to go big. And why is Facebook covering for Trump on Social Security?
Today on Solidarity Live! Daniel Marans, Reporter for HuffPost, joins the show to talk about how Donald Trump has governed as just another trickle-down Republican by signing off on "the Paul Ryan agenda."
Today on Solidarity Live! Bob Bland, cofounder of WomensMarch, joins us to discuss what's next in the Supreme Court fight and what it will mean for your health care #SCOTUS
Michael Lighty, Bernie 2020's Former Healthcare Constituency Director, joins Alex & Jocelyn to discuss how move forward to a better, fairer country post-Trump
Richard "RJ" Eskow, host of The Zero Hour, joins Jocelyn to discuss Trump's diagnosis with COVID-19 and what may (but really certainly will not) learn from it
Today on Solidarity Live, we speak with Public Citizen’s Zain Rizvi about how Trump can help us get COVID-19 medicine… but refuses
Today on Solidarity Live, we speak with Nancy Altman about how Trump has promised to DESTROY your Social Security if he’s re-elected
Today on Solidarity Live, we speak with Ironstache himself, Randy Bryce, about his work with Iron PAC and the 2020 election cycle
Today on Solidarity Live, we speak with Nolan Williams, Jr. about his work combining powerful art with meaningful activism, and we reflect on another wild week in politics
We talk with Peter Maybarduk of Public Citizen about Gilead Science outrageous profiteering on the COVID-19 drug Remdesivir
A discussion of art and the pandemic with Brock Butler of Perpetual Groove, why are Republicans working so hard to kill workers, plus Solidarity Forever live!
Ilyse Hogue, President of NARAL Pro-Choice America, joins Jocelyn & Alex to talk about her brand-new hit book The Lie That Binds which “traces the evolution of abortion from a non-partisan issue to the point of the spear for a right-wing movement bent on impeding social progress.”
Dr. America (aka, Sanjeev Sriram, M.D., M.P.H.) joins Jocelyn on the newly-relaunched show to discuss Medicare for All and the work of Masks for America