2020 Electoral Debate: Aaron Mate, Shahid Buttar, Rania Khalek, Omar Baddar, Benjamin Studebaker

Tonight's livestream is at 8pm (NOT at usual 7pm time) & has an ALL-STAR LINEUP:

ON ELECTIONS: Aaron Maté, Rania Khalek, Eugene Puryear, Omar Baddar, and Benjamin Studebaker.

Aaron Maté () () is a journalist and broadcast personality for Pushback Show (), The Grayzone (). He also writes for “The Nation” () and Real Clear Investigations ().

Rania Khalek () is a journalist; a producer and host at Soapbox (); cohost at Unauthorized Disclosure (). Rania also occasionally writes for The Grayzone ().

Benjamin Studebaker () is a political theorist from the University of Cambridge. His essays on politics, economics, and international relations can be found at ().

Omar Baddar () () is a political analyst on matters relating to the U.S., Middle East, and Palestine/Israel. He identifies as a securalist. He’s the former Deputy Director of the Arab American Institute () and a former producer and presenter at Al Jazeera’s The Stream (). He has a YouTube channel at ().

Eugene Puryear () is an activist, author of “Shackled and ChainedMass Incarceration in Capitalist America” (), a cohost at BreakThrough News () () () and a host of the podcast The Punch Out for Breakthrough News.

NEXT!!!! Shahid Buttar On Our Legal Rights and Scott Parkin on Methods of Organizing

Shahid Buttar () (), who is running against Nancy Pelosi in CA12, joins the show once again to answer some of our legal questions about our rights.

Scott Parkin () joins the show to discuss organizing.He’s the cohost of GreenRedPodcast (), a show about radical environmental and anticapitalist politics; works with Diablo Rising Tide () in the Bay Area and Rising Tide NA ()two organizations fighting against the causes of climate change and working toward environmental justice.