Blocking the Right, Building the Base – Live from Socialism 2025
Jul 07, 2025•1 hr 28 min
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Episode description
This week on the show we are featuring the recording of a panel Convergence Magazine hosted July 4th at the Socialism 2025 conference in Chicago titled Blocking the Right, Building the Base - The Work of Building Left Unity. The panelists feature leaders from Liberation Road, North Star Socialist Organization, the Socialist Majority Caucus of the Democratic Socialists of America, Rising Majority, and Movement for Black Lives discussing how their work is aligned with the “Block and Build” strategic framework and the need for both building membership bases while developing functional cross-sector unity.
- Bennett Carpenter - Liberation Road
- David Duhalde - Socialist Majority Caucus (Democratic Socialists of America)
- Montague Simmons - Movement for Black Lives, The Rising Majority
- Jayanni Webster - North Star Socialist Organization
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