A Dem Socialist Insurgency in Los Angeles?
About this episode
The episode discusses Karen Bass's journey from a left-wing activist to the mayor of Los Angeles, highlighting her political career and the context of her election.
In the 1970s, as a young left wing activist seeking to upend capitalism, Karen Bass was a leader in the Venceremos Brigade, an organization that sends Americans to Cuba in support of the Cuban revolution. From those outsider beginnings Bass went on to become a progressive Speaker of the California State Assembly, and then chair of the Congressional Black Caucus in Congress, before defeating law-and-order former Republican mall developer Rick Caruso in 2022 to become Los Angeles’ 43rd mayor.&n...
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