Bitter Lake Presents Soundwaves Ep. 41: Black Socialism and 3rd Parites w/ Angela Walker

Today I had the privilege and honor of speaking with Green Party VP pick Angela Walker.  Organizer, activist, socialist, she's the soulful voice of the working class. Angela has been an activist since she was a teenager when she successfully organized students to get black history classes into the curriculum of her Bay View High School in Milwaukee. As a public transit bus driver and Legislative Director of her Amalgamated Transit Union (ATU) local in Milwaukee, Angela was a leader in the Winter-Spring 2011 Wisconsin Uprising against Gov. Scott Walker’s union-busting attack on the collective bargaining rights of public employees. In the Fall of 2011, Angela played a leading roles in Occupy Milwaukee and the Milwaukee chapter of Occupy the Hood, which sought to represent the interests of oppressed people and bring people of color into the Occupy Movement. In 2014, Angela ran as an independent socialist and Black Lives Matter activist for sheriff of Milwaukee County, Wisconsin. Her opponent was the incumbent David Clarke, the cowboy-hat-wearing conservative Fox News pundit who had been appointed sheriff by a Republican governor and re-elected three times as a Democrat. Angela won 20% of the vote with the message that the best way to cut street crime and violence was to fight poverty and economic frustration with living wages, affordable housing, grocery stores in food desserts, and good health care and public transit. She pledged no cooperation with ICE on the detention of immigrants without court-ordered warrants. Angela already has experience running for vice president. I was not at all surprised when the Socialist Party USA picked her as their vice presidential candidate in 2016.   Howie Hawkins/Angela Walker YouTube Channel   Donate to the Campaign   Thank you again for taking a listen to this show, if you'd like to support independent media, PLEASE BECOME A PATRON.  You'll get all the bonus content, music, merch, AND MUCH MORE!   Patreon   Facebook   Twitter   YouTube   Instagram