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Introducing: Season 2 of How To Citizen with Baratunde

Mar 25, 20212 min
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Episode description

How do we wield our collective power for the many, not just the few, in order to live together even with our differences?

We feel the dangerous divisions within our democracy daily: the pandemic response, racial oppression, and political violence. In season two of How To Citizen with Baratunde, we focus on ground zero for these divisions: money, capitalism, and the economy. In a time of radical economic inequality, how do we citizen when we can’t pay the bills.

This season we explore the deep roots of wealth inequality in the US, learn how its historic levels impact democracy, and search across the nation for inspiring people working to find solutions. Their stories paint a powerful picture of a new, more inclusive economy that serves the many, strengthens local relationships, and gives people not just stability but the time to truly citizen.

Visit the show's homepage - howtocitizen.com - to sign up for news about the show, to learn about upcoming guests, live tapings, and more for your citizen journey.

Also sign up for Baratunde's weekly Recommentunde Newsletter and follow him on Instagram or join his Patreon. You can even text him, like right now at 202-894-8844.


CREDITS

How To Citizen with Baratunde is a production of iHeart Radio Podcasts and Dustlight Productions. Our executive producers are me, Baratunde Thurston, Elizabeth Stewart and Misha Euceph. Stephanie Cohn is our Senior Producer and Alie Kilts is our Producer. Kelly Prime is our editor. Original Music by Andrew Eapen. Valentino Rivera is our engineer. Sam Paulson is our apprentice. Special thanks to Joelle Smith from iHeartRadio. 

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Transcript

Speaker 1

Welcome the season two of How to Citizen with Baritune Day. Where we believe in citizen as a verb, where we show up, where we participate in our democracy, invest in our relationships, know our power. All that's really nice to say and so hard to do when we're as divided as we are, when folks are literally storming the US cabinet. So many ways we could talk about this division. Why can't Republicans and Democrats get along? Should we have a beer,

let's sing Kumbaya? We're not doing that. No, this season, we're going deeper. We're talking about the money because, to be real, it's hard to citizen when we can barely pay the bills. Volks are like, oh my god, you are going to give black woman money? What I like? Why not? Now I'm not an economist, but I do know that wealth inequality is tearing us apart, and it's preventing us from living in the democracy we all want. So where are the solutions. Who's creating wealth that isn't

powered by racism? It just felt like there was something terribly wrong with the way that politics was narrating the stories of the lives of the people around me. Who's making it easier for me not to give all my money to Jeff Bezos. We're gonna have a real fight on our hands about whether we live in a country where Amazon decides how our economy works, and who's making sure people aren't working three jobs just to pay rent getting dollars of dead canceled. It might as well be

fifty million. In this season of How the Citizen, we're gonna find out there are people out there building an economy that strengthens our democracy instead of weakening it. Together, we're gonna learn how we can invest in that economy so we can all citizen better m

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