By Bob Hennelly

On this special episode of the Stuck Nation Labor Radio Hour from the Democratic National Convention, we get a comprehensive analysis of the DNC’s ongoing failure to confront the immorality of Israel’s war on Gaza’s civilian population from Linda Sarsour, a Palestinian-American-Muslim organizer from Brooklyn. Sarsour is the executive director and co-founder of MPower Action Fund, as well as the leader of the National My Muslim Vote Campaign, in addition to being a host on WBAI’s What’s Going On program.

NEW YORK’S SECRET SAUCE? Immigrants. On this episode, we also have a frank discussion with New York City Councilman Keith Powers at the Chicago DNC about the essential role played historically by the waves of  undocumented immigrants who have come to call New York City home. Powers describes how Democrats can combat GOP attempts to demagogue the potential wedge issue.

TURNING RURAL RED AMERICA BLUE? With the nomination of Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz as Vice President Harris’s number two, rural Democrats were optimistic at the DNC Rural Council in Chicago this week. We caught up with Ty Pinkins who is running as a Democrat in Mississippi for the U.S. Senate. The Georgetown University Law graduate had a distinguished career in the U.S. Army, including three combat tours in Iraq for which he was awarded the Bronze Star. He served for several years in the White House to presidents from both parties. He says historically, Republicans don’t win in rural red districts—“Democrats just don’t show up,” he says.

Pinkins further describes the heavy toll of rural poverty on his state, recounting  the recent tragic case of an expectant mother who lived in a Mississippi county without a hospital, who died in transit just five minutes shy from the hospital in a neighboring county.

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