Left on Red

Susan Kang, Stylianos Karolidis

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How We Stopped It Ep 0: Trailer

How We Stopped It Ep 0: Trailer

How We Stopped It is a three-part audio documentary that tells the story of how a small group of people came together to prevent an $8 billion corporation from building a fracked-gas peaker plant in Astoria, Queens. It is an all-too-uncommon story of victory in the fight against air pollution and climate change told from the perspectives of the people on the front lines of that fight.Ep 1: Asthma Alley will be released at 4pm est on Saturday, July 22ndEp 2: Action will be released at 4pm est on Saturday, July 29thEp 3: A Drop In Astoria will be released at 4pm est on Saturday, August 5th*Not officially affiliated with the Democratic Socialists of America*How We Stopped It is produced with original music by Noah Teachey. Special thanks to Jeffrey Dupont and endless gratitude to interviewees Sebastian Baez, Afnan Haq, Charlie Heller, Stylianos (Scott) Karolidis, Erica Landau, Thomas Niles, Elaine O'Brien, Shay O'Reilly, Nolen Phya, and Katie Talay.Original Soundtrack: https://noahteachey.bandcamp.com/album/how-we-stopped-it-original-soundtrack

Ep 71: Protests in Solidarity with Palestine

Ep 71: Protests in Solidarity with Palestine

Scott and Susan discuss the magnitude of the global protest movement in solidarity with Palestine, how it ties in with 2020, and the mobilizing inspiration we can draw from the ANC and anti-Apartheid action, historically. Join DSA: https://act.dsausa.org/donate/membership/Hosted by Susan Kang and Stylianos KarolidisProduced by Noah TeacheyNot officially affiliated with the Democratic Socialists of America>>>https://sites.google.com/view/leftonred(leave us a message!)

Ep 70: Radicalize Your Friends and Family at the Thanksgiving Dinner Table

Ep 70: Radicalize Your Friends and Family at the Thanksgiving Dinner Table

And here's how.Join DSA: https://act.dsausa.org/donate/membership/Hosted by Susan Kang and Stylianos KarolidisProduced by Noah TeacheyNot officially affiliated with the Democratic Socialists of America>>>https://sites.google.com/view/leftonred(leave us a message!)

Ep 69: Episode Sixty-Nine, feat. Dennis Meaney

Ep 69: Episode Sixty-Nine, feat. Dennis Meaney

Dennis Meaney is back and the team is talking about sex.Join DSA: https://act.dsausa.org/donate/membership/Hosted by Susan Kang and Stylianos KarolidisProduced by Noah TeacheyNot officially affiliated with the Democratic Socialists of America>>>https://sites.google.com/view/leftonred(leave us a message!)

Ep 68: How to Recruit Long Island Bros, feat. Dennis Meaney

Ep 68: How to Recruit Long Island Bros, feat. Dennis Meaney

Dennis Meaney is an authentic Irish-Italian Long Island native living in Brooklyn AND a DSA member and organizer. He's here with Scott and Susan to talk about masculinity, history, the politics of supposedly apolitical Long Islanders, and how to recruit his particular brand of LIB (Long Island Bro).Join DSA: https://act.dsausa.org/donate/membership/Hosted by Susan Kang and Stylianos KarolidisProduced by Noah TeacheyNot officially affiliated with the Democratic Socialists of America>>>https://sites.google.com/view/leftonred(leave us a message!)

Ep 67: Comms War, ft. Brandon Tizol

Ep 67: Comms War, ft. Brandon Tizol

Brandon Tizol is back to talk about the comms war unfolding at present and coffee.Join DSA: https://act.dsausa.org/donate/membership/Hosted by Susan Kang and Stylianos KarolidisProduced by Noah TeacheyNot officially affiliated with the Democratic Socialists of America>>>https://sites.google.com/view/leftonred(leave us a message!)

Ep 66: Is Being Honest Good Comms? feat. Brandon Tizol

Ep 66: Is Being Honest Good Comms? feat. Brandon Tizol

Brandon Tizol is a NYC DSA organizer who spent many years in the Ecosocialist WG on the Public Power campaign--he also served as co-chair of the Comms Committee and has made some of the best video content you have seen coming out of the NYC DSA. Brandon joins Scott and Susan to talk about comms.Join DSA: https://act.dsausa.org/donate/membership/Hosted by Susan Kang and Stylianos KarolidisProduced by Noah TeacheyNot officially affiliated with the Democratic Socialists of America>>>https://sites.google.com/view/leftonred(leave us a message!)

Ep 65: Socialist Case For A One State Solution

Ep 65: Socialist Case For A One State Solution

Susan and Scott are back to continue their conversaion about current events in Gaza.Join DSA: https://act.dsausa.org/donate/membership/Hosted by Susan Kang and Stylianos KarolidisProduced by Noah TeacheyNot officially affiliated with the Democratic Socialists of America>>>https://sites.google.com/view/leftonred(leave us a message!)

Ep 64: We Are All Here Because of American Empire

Ep 64: We Are All Here Because of American Empire

Here's a serious one. Susan and Scott dive into a brief overview of the historical context behind the humanitarian crisis in Gaza and the role of the US in bringing it about.Rally for Gaza today at 5pm in NYCJoin DSA: https://act.dsausa.org/donate/membership/Hosted by Susan Kang and Stylianos KarolidisProduced by Noah TeacheyNot officially affiliated with the Democratic Socialists of America>>>https://sites.google.com/view/leftonred(leave us a message!)

Ep 63: Labor Notes - Make Unions Great Again, feat. Jenny Brown

Ep 63: Labor Notes - Make Unions Great Again, feat. Jenny Brown

DSA member and Assistant Editor of Labor Notes Jenny Brown is back to talk to Scott and Susan about labor notes, unions, and democracy.Join DSA: https://act.dsausa.org/donate/membership/Hosted by Susan Kang and Stylianos KarolidisProduced by Noah TeacheyNot officially affiliated with the Democratic Socialists of America>>>https://sites.google.com/view/leftonred(leave us a message!)

Ep 62: Why's it So Hard to Have Kids? feat. Jenny Brown

Ep 62: Why's it So Hard to Have Kids? feat. Jenny Brown

DSA member and Assistant Editor of Labor Notes Jenny Brown joins Scott and Susan to talk about her book, Birth Strike: The Hidden Fight over Women’s Work (PM Press, 2019) and answers the question on so many people's minds: "why can't I afford to have kids and why is the government so interested in making it difficult for me to avoid having kids?"Join DSA: https://act.dsausa.org/donate/membership/Hosted by Susan Kang and Stylianos KarolidisProduced by Noah TeacheyNot officially affiliated with the Democratic Socialists of America>>>https://sites.google.com/view/leftonred(leave us a message!)

Ep 61: Tale of Two Erics, feat. Eric Thor

Ep 61: Tale of Two Erics, feat. Eric Thor

Eroc Thor is back and the topic of conversation is Eric Adams as a motivator for organizing. There's also a little Left on Red After Dark so maybe don't use this episode to try and organize your most easily scandalized friends.Join DSA: https://act.dsausa.org/donate/membership/Hosted by Susan Kang and Stylianos KarolidisProduced by Noah TeacheyNot officially affiliated with the Democratic Socialists of America>>>https://sites.google.com/view/leftonred(leave us a message!)

Ep 60: The Vibez of Eric Thor

Ep 60: The Vibez of Eric Thor

Queens DSA Organizer Eric Thor is here to curate the vibez and share the story of how he came to socialism.Join DSA: https://act.dsausa.org/donate/membership/Hosted by Susan Kang and Stylianos KarolidisProduced by Noah TeacheyNot officially affiliated with the Democratic Socialists of America>>>https://sites.google.com/view/leftonred(leave us a message!)

Ep 59: Take Measures?

Ep 59: Take Measures?

Susan and Scott dive into a month's-worth of rain in a matter of hours, Kathy Hochul's official response, and Dianne Feinstein's record--that's right y'all: it's a girlboss episode.Join DSA: https://act.dsausa.org/donate/membership/Hosted by Susan Kang and Stylianos KarolidisProduced by Noah TeacheyNot officially affiliated with the Democratic Socialists of America>>>https://sites.google.com/view/leftonred(leave us a message!)

Ep 58: Wet Labor Autumn

Ep 58: Wet Labor Autumn

How historic is the UAW strike? Scott and Susan talk about it.Join DSA: https://act.dsausa.org/donate/membership/Hosted by Susan Kang and Stylianos KarolidisProduced by Noah TeacheyNot officially affiliated with the Democratic Socialists of America>>>https://sites.google.com/view/leftonred(leave us a message!)

Ep 57: Building a Proto-party, with Aaron Fernando

Ep 57: Building a Proto-party, with Aaron Fernando

DSA Organizer Aaron Fernando is back to talk with Susan and Scott about the Socialists in Office Committee (of which all three have been a part) and its role in organizing DSA electeds and giving them room to agitate productively.Join DSA: https://act.dsausa.org/donate/membership/Hosted by Susan Kang and Stylianos KarolidisProduced by Noah TeacheyNot officially affiliated with the Democratic Socialists of America>>>https://sites.google.com/view/leftonred(leave us a message!)

Ep 56: The DSA Difference, with Aaron Fernando

Ep 56: The DSA Difference, with Aaron Fernando

Queens DSA's "just a guy with a spreadsheet," Aaron Fernando, joins Scott and Susan to talk about his journey to socialism, electoralism, and cop money.Join DSA: https://act.dsausa.org/donate/membership/Hosted by Susan Kang and Stylianos KarolidisProduced by Noah TeacheyNot officially affiliated with the Democratic Socialists of America>>>https://sites.google.com/view/leftonred(leave us a message!)

Ep 55: The Rank and File Strategy, ft. Emily Lemmerman

Ep 55: The Rank and File Strategy, ft. Emily Lemmerman

Emily Lemmerman, DSA organizer, is back to talk to Scott and Susan about the rank and file strategy, the UAW strike, and other relavent topics as Hot Labor Summer changes to Pumpkin Spice Labor Fall.Links from the episode:https://rfs.dsausa.org/https://rankandfileproject.com/https://teachers.dsausa.org/Join DSA: https://act.dsausa.org/donate/membership/Hosted by Susan Kang and Stylianos KarolidisProduced by Noah TeacheyNot officially affiliated with the Democratic Socialists of America>>>https://sites.google.com/view/leftonred(leave us a message!)

Ep 54: All About Emily Lemmerman

Ep 54: All About Emily Lemmerman

Scott and Susan talk with DSA organizer Emily Lemmerman about her journey to socialism.Join DSA: https://act.dsausa.org/donate/membership/Hosted by Susan Kang and Stylianos KarolidisProduced by Noah TeacheyNot officially affiliated with the Democratic Socialists of America>>>https://sites.google.com/view/leftonred(leave us a message!)

Ep 53: Academia is Good Actually

Ep 53: Academia is Good Actually

Scott and Susan make the case for why declining interest in higher education in the US is a problem from a socialist perspective.Join DSA: https://act.dsausa.org/donate/membership/Hosted by Susan Kang and Stylianos KarolidisProduced by Noah TeacheyNot officially affiliated with the Democratic Socialists of America>>>https://sites.google.com/view/leftonred(leave us a message!)

Ep 52: Capitalism from Cradle to Grave

Ep 52: Capitalism from Cradle to Grave

School has resumed so Scott and Susan are talking about that and Medicare, real book-end stuff.Join DSA: https://act.dsausa.org/donate/membership/Hosted by Susan Kang and Stylianos KarolidisProduced by Noah TeacheyNot officially affiliated with the Democratic Socialists of America>>>https://sites.google.com/view/leftonred(leave us a message!)