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Sam Seder, Michael Brooks, Mike Elk Talking Impact of West Virginia’s Teacher Strike Is The Victory Lap The Left Has Been Dreaming Of. We Deserve A Win Once In A While.

Seeing Payday’s Mike Elk on the Majority Report Talking West Virginia Teacher’s Strike With Sam Seder And Michael Brooks Was All Caps Delight! How long has it been since we had a real win? Not performative loser’s strut nonsense singing “We Shall Overcome” while Rome burns.

This is a god damned tent revival, not a Dupont Circle consultant’s issue campaign. Democrats, Progressives, Liberals and the Left have been jonesing for a win. The loss of spirit was palpable, over a year into the Trump regime and we hadn’t had a real W. Take a whiff it’s just a small victory but it smells so good. It’s like banana bread had a wild night with Dior; it’s floral, light and addictive. Want more don’t you? Well if you want more of this jelly it’s time to learn about this victory and earn the next victory. You don’t work, you don’t eat. West Virginia carried the day. Appalachia’s back time for New York and DC to learn the trend.

If you are paying attention people-powered politics are the only thing that has been working. No analytics based voter sentiment dashboard is going to reflect that delta.

West Virginia was a victory for real material changes in the live’s of teachers, a victory for decency, and a victory over half measures. The organizers didn’t anticipate raising the bar nationally but the bar has been raised.  If you are a funder, a writer, an activist or just give a damn about our people and our country watch this, study this, and learn organically about this victory. The DC media processed news food complex will try to co-opt this into some sort of PR win for whatever cause they are pushing today but this is bigger than a slide deck at a think tank. 

After nearly two years of Trump, you are too smart not to know he is the symptom and not the disease. Now start acting like it. The energy of West Virginia is running in rivulets of solidarity across hill and dale, up the Monongahela, down the Mississippi, and across the southern Appalachians. Pennsylvania, Kentucky and old Oklahoma finding the holy spirit of labor fire down, down, down in their heart. The old religion is back. Not the old religion of snakes and sin but strike and win.

The pleasure of watching these guys get a win was a damned delight. Watch it!

Mike Elk On Majority Report

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Nomiki Konst on Labour’s People’s Momentum, Natalie Shure on #MedicareForAll, West Virginia Teacher’s Strike, North Korea Negotiations and more. Rundown of Tonight’s The Michael Brooks Show.

Wanted to give a little plug for the other show I produce The Michael Brooks Show that airs on the Majority Report w/Sam Seder network every Tuesday at 7PM.  Really excited about tonight's show and I recommend you check it out. Here's a rundown and background on some of the topics to be covered on tonight's show. 

Activist and writer Natalie Shure will be talking about #MedicareForAll and the Democrats.  In addition to being a great writer she is  a story producer for Adam Ruins Everything on TruTV and contributes to the new hilarious sketch show Happy Endings with Nando Vila.

Here's a hilarious clip from Happy Endings that sums up some of the problems corporate Dems like Joe Kennedy have with Medicare for All.

"Joe Kennedy III's Commitment to Health Care and His Campaign Donors"

Nomiki Konst of The Young Turks and the Democratic Unity Reform Commission on the lessons the Democrats can learn from Labour's  People's Momentum.

What is People's Momentum?

Momentum is a grassroots campaigning network of over 31,000 members, 200,000 supporters and 170 local groups that evolved out of Jeremy Corbyn’s 2015 election campaign. Momentum is mobilising the mass campaigning movement that we need to get Labour into government.

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Essentially People's Momentum is doing much of what organizations like Our Revolution are doing in the US. They are trying to push progressive left policies in the party, push candidates who support those policies and keep party leaders accountable to people not corporate interests.

There is a lot to learn from their tactics given they are dramatically changing the political landscape in the UK. Tune in to the episode to learn more about how that can be done in the United States. 

Here is Nomiki's fantastic interview with Labour Leader Jeremy Corbyn on TYT Politics:

Nomiki was also a Bernie Sander's appointee to the Democratic Unity Reform Commission  where she made waves with her famous take down the failure of the Democrats to present a budget and keep account of their spending on expensive lobbyists:

To learn more about what the Democratic Unity Reform Commission accomplished and to tell the DNC to adopt all the reforms click the button below!

Click Here to Sign the Petition!

For tonight's shout out segment Michael will be showing his respect for the West Virginia's Teacher's Strike. Here's a good background on the strike from Democracy Now! Featured in this video is past guest Mike Elk of Payday Report.

For the opining commentary Michael will be covering North Korea, imperialism and the nuclear negotiations it's going to be a great show!

Click here to check out the show!