Bitter Lake Presents Soundwaves Ep. 31: A New Hope Conversations w/ Congressional Candidate Shahid Buttar

  If you listen to this show, you've heard me mention this dude SO DAMN MUCH! But, Shahid Buttar  truly is a fresh, progressive voice running to unseat longtime corporate Dem, Nancy Pelosi in Congress.  A 20 year civil rights advocate and constitutional lawyer, Shahid is the passionate move left we need. A voice that shall be heard in hall of Congress, but his beliefs are a much needed refrain from the neoliberal policies that are rotting our nation.  Thank you for listening to this one where we talk police violence, green new deal, government military spending, medicare for all, and more!   To Donate to Shahid Click Here   As usual, thank you so much for checking this out, if you can, and we know times are hard, it would help so much if you could become a patron.  You'll free Bitter Lake merch, live shows, and so much extra content!   Patreon   Facebook   Twitter   Instagram   YouTube   "In Chicago, for instance, we’ve gotten a foretaste of the new breed of foundation-hatched black communitarian voices; one of them, a smooth Harvard lawyer with impeccable do-good credentials and vacuous-to-repressive neoliberal politics, has won a state senate seat on a base mainly in the liberal foundation and development worlds. His fundamentally bootstrap line was softened by a patina of the rhetoric of authentic community, talk about meeting in kitchens, small-scale solutions to social problems, and the predictable elevation of process over program—the point where identity politics converges with old-fashioned middle-class reform in favoring form over substance. I suspect that his ilk is the wave of the future in U.S. black politics, as in Haiti and wherever else the International Monetary Fund has sway." -Adolph Reed Jr. about Barak Obama in 1996