Guest: Blase Bonpane, Harold MeyersonRemembering Blase Bonpane whose '''World Focus''' broadcast for fifty years on KPFK, much of it in this Sunday morning time slot. It is fitting that we remember him today on this program, in his time, for his audience. Mitch Jeserich interviewed Blase in 2013 on '''Letters to Washington,''' about Liberation Theology -- the credo by which Blase lived. We play Mitch Jeserich'''s interview.
Harold Meyerson on '''The Democrats play dirty, ' his LA Times piece exposing the DCCC'''s rule change that would blacklist consultants who aid democratic insurgents 'primarying' sitting centrist Dems, the way AOC did with the '''speaker-in-waiting''' Joe Crowley. Cheri Bustos, chair of the DCCC is responsible for the blacklist rule, attempting to stifle new voices and protect the centrist status quo in the Party and Congress. But can a rule stave off the new generation of left democratic activists entering the political arena? We'''ll get Harold'''s take on how not to deal with divisions in the party ''' in history and today ''' and how he thinks this will play out. Harold also remembers Gary Stewart, who died Friday night.