Progressive Matters: Education Through Conversation

Political conversations that matter! Talking to guests about todays increasingly polarized political environment through a progressive lens.

Progressive Matters: Education Through Conversation is a news podcast hosted by JP, with 16 episodes on record and a Required Pod Score of 80. PitchCentric scores this show on Booking Probability, Listen Score, and live audience signals refreshed every 24 hours.

JP hosts Progressive Matters: Education Through Conversation, a news show with 16 episodes published.

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  Episode #6

  Disconnected: Call Center Workers Fight for Good Jobs in the Digital Age (Working Class in American History) An Interview with Debbie Goldman

  Jun 20, 202553 minS2

  <p>Send us a text</p><p>Buy the book:https://www.amazon.com/Disconnected-Workers-Digital-Working-American-ebook/dp/B0D96DLS3Z</p><p><br/></p><p>Call center employees once blended skill and emotional intelligence to solve customer problems while the workplace itself encouraged camaraderie and job satisfaction. Ten years after telecom industry deregulation, management had isolated the largely female workforce in cubicles, imposed quotas to sell products, and installed surveillance systems that tracked every call and keystroke.Debbie J. Goldman explores how call center employees and their union fought for good, humane jobs in the face of degraded working conditions...

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  Is AMERICA ABANDONING UKRAINE At The Worst Possible Time? An Interview With Greta Uehling Author of Decolonizing Ukraine The Indigenous People of Crimea and Pathways to Freedom.

  Apr 14, 20251h 1mS2

  <p>Send us a text</p><p>Russia's invasion of Ukraine and Donald Trumps willingness to sell out the Ukrainian people for it's resources has reached a breaking point. Join me as I interview Author and Professor Greta Uehling as we do a deep dive on what it means if America chooses to sit this fight out.<br/><br/>Buy the book: https://www.amazon.com/Decolonizing-Ukraine-Uehling/dp/B0DFP8ST71?source=ps-sl-shoppingads-lpcontext&ref_=fplfs&psc=1&smid=ATVPDKIKX0DER&gQT=0<br/><br/>In this ground-breaking book, distinguished anthropologist Greta Lynn Uehling illuminates the untold stories of Russia’s occupation of Cr...

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  Episode #4

  COVID Wars: Media Literacy, Conspiracy, Disinformation And The Battle For America's Future. An Interview With Ronald Gruner!

  Apr 3, 20251h 12mS2

  <p>Send us a text</p><p>Join me as I interview Author, Historian and former CEO Ronald Gruner about his book COVID Wars: America's struggle over public health and personal freedoms.<br/>#podcast #interview #ronaldgruner<br/><br/>Buy the book: https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/covid-wars-ronald-gruner/1146864333<br/><br/>We Americans take pride in our American Exceptionalism.<br/><br/>Yet the United States failed badly in its management of the COVID Pandemic. As Americans struggled over public health and personal freedom, the United States suffered more COVID deaths than during all its foreign wars, the largest employment loss since the...

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  Episode #3

  Is TRUMP Using MCCARTHYISM To DESTROY America? An Interview With The New York Times Clay Risen.

  Mar 21, 20251h 25mS2

  <p>Send us a text</p><p>During the red scare McCarthy used Americans paranoia of communism to create an insurmountable divide between the political parties. Today Donald Trump (Roy Cohns best friend) is using those same tactics to once again divide America. Join me and author Clay Risen of the New York times as we explore the parallels of the red scare and today's MAGA political movement.<br/><br/>Buy the book: https://www.amazon.com/Red-Scare-Blacklists-McCarthyism-America/dp/1982141808<br/><br/>As relevant as it is comprehensive, Red Scare tells the story of McCarthyism and the Red Scare—based in pa...

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  Episode #2

  How Housing Segregation DESTROYED Black Wealth: With Leah Rothstein.

  Feb 22, 202551 minS2

  <p>Send us a text</p><p>Housing segregations racist policies caused a generational wealth gap between black and white families. Join me as I interview Leah Rothstein author of "Just Action: How to Challenge Segregation Enacted Under the Color of Law" .<br/><br/>Watch the video version here: https://youtu.be/T71hCfK34dM<br/><br/>#endracism #blackhistorymonth #leahrothstein #housingjustice <br/>Support the show at: https://progressivematters.com/home#hosts <br/><br/>Join the new discord and help me form a community that makes a difference!<br/>https://discord.gg/CGWvTRjhxD</p>

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