RSH 17 -- Towards a People's Party (4.17.2020)

The previous audio recording got messed up. It's fixed and the new one is up now and good to go!  Recorded April 15, 2020. Real Sankara Hours has its first guests! Adam and Peter talk to Kaitlin Sopoci-Belknap, National Director of Move to Amend, and Nick Brana, a former Bernie staffer who now works with Movement for a People's Party, about exiting the Democratic Party and the need for a third major political party.    Follow Kaitlin: @kaitlin_sb  Follow Nick: @nick_brana  Links:  Majority of Americans support having a third political party: https://news.gallup.com/poll/244094/majority-say-third-party-needed.aspx ;  Hard Times satire on Democrats working with Coronavirus: https://thehardtimes.net/culture/moderate-democrats-suggest-working-with-coronavirus-to-find-common-ground/ ; Bernie Sanders chides his supports to vote for Joe Biden: https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/492820-sanders-progressives-who-sit-on-their-hands-and-dont-support-biden-would?fbclid=IwAR19LhM3Z-YHPbKCXZQcj0NqmwQ1iEmYWRqqgcejjtSnC68lEpSe5V1FWHM ; nonvoters are mostly nonwhite, lower-income and hate the two major parties: https://theintercept.com/2020/04/09/nonvoters-are-not-privileged-they-are-largely-lower-income-non-white-and-dissatisfied-with-the-two-parties/ ; how Barack Obama pressured Democratic presidential candidates to support Joe Biden:  https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/14/us/politics/obama-biden-democratic-primary.html ; Sanders campaign staffers wish he was tougher on Biden: https://www.politico.com/news/2020/04/10/inside-bernies-sanders-campaign-nosedive-179576    Follow us on Twitter:  Adam Hudson -- @adamhudson5  Peter MGunn -- @MGunnPeter  Real Sankara Hours -- @sankarahours  Adam's SoundCloud -- https://soundcloud.com/adamhudson5  Get the RSS feed from our Podbean to stay up-to-date with new episodes: https://realsankarahours.podbean.com/