Mobilize

New episodes of Mobilize podcast coming soon! https://www.mobilizehere.com/podcast/2025-03-18-season-2-teaser/

Lady Republicans provide their justifications for why they support the overturn of Roe v. Wade. https://www.mobilizehere.com/podcast/2022-06-24-because-im-a-republican-2/

Lady Republicans provide their justifications for why they support the overturn of Roe v. Wade. https://www.mobilizehere.com/podcast/2022-06-24-because-im-a-republican-1/

With Roe v. Wade overturned, lady Republicans tell you their opinions on abortion. https://www.mobilizehere.com/podcast/2022-06-24-republicans-were-up-in-yours-2/

With Roe v. Wade overturned, lady Republicans tell you their opinions on abortion. https://www.mobilizehere.com/podcast/2022-06-24-republicans-were-up-in-yours-1/

Producer Betsy Nagler interviews Mallory McMorrow, the Michigan state senator who created a splash in April when her speech fighting back against an attack from a right wing colleague went viral. She talks about what it’s like to be a legislator in a swing state in our current polarized political climate, and how she thinks Democrats need to mobilize to win in the upcoming midterm elections. https...

A follow-up with the medical workers we first talked with in 2020 about how they’re continuing to weather the pandemic, and the future implications it has for society at large. https://www.mobilizehere.com/podcast/2022-05-24-what-weve-learned-from-covid-and-what-we-havent/

Producer Betsy Nagler sits down with Zealous Executive Director Scott Hechinger to talk about bringing together community organizations, public defenders and artists to rewrite the narrative on criminal justice in America. https://www.mobilizehere.com/podcast/2022-02-08-what-justice-can-and-should-look-like/

Mobilize Producer Betsy Nagler follows up with Catalina Cruz - whom we've been following since she first ran for New York State Assembly in 2018. They discuss how the COVID-19 pandemic and also the shocking news about former Governor Cuomo have affected her district and New York politics. https://www.mobilizehere.com/podcast/2021-10-06-an-update-with-catalina-cruz/

It's been 16 months since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic that shut down businesses and schools worldwide, forcing many to undertake drastic measures and switch to virtual and remote learning for the 2020 school year. But with the production of the COVID-19 vaccine completed, the 2021 school year coming into view, and with new regulations put out by the CDC, many wonder what schools will do for...

Producer Betsy Nagler speaks with Democratic activist and organizer, Lorie Honor, one of the founding members of Staten Island Women Who March, who's now running for Staten Island Borough President. They discuss how Lorie got involved in activism, what she seeks to accomplish as Borough President, and where she sees New York's most conservative borough heading now that we are (hopefully) in the Po...

Producer Betsy Nagler speaks with 2016 Bernie Sanders delegate and local Democratic party candidate Rachel Eve Stein about working within the Democratic Party while having progressive values. https://www.mobilizehere.com/podcast/2020-10-22-changing-the-party-from-within/

In this episode of Mobilize, producer Betsy Nagler speaks with State Senator Alessandra Biaggi and Assemblymember Catalina Cruz, two truly progressive leaders in New York who won their races against much more conservative opponents, to learn how the COVID-19 crisis has affected their districts, what they have been doing to help, and the implications for the political landscape moving forward. http...

Globally, we have reached nearly 5 million cases of COVID-19. The leader in that number is the United States, with over 1.5 million cases and almost 100,000 deaths -- or more because of under-reporting. In this episode of Mobilize, producer Betsy Nagler interviews three medical care workers on the frontlines of the pandemic about what they and their communities are going through, and what they thi...

Mobilize producer Cory Choy engages in a conversation with software developer/activist Justin Frankel about how one of his first programs Ninjam is facilitating remote collaborations between musicians. This episode was recorded using Ninjam. https://www.mobilizehere.com/podcast/2020-05-07-ninjam/

Mobilize producer Betsy Nagler caught up with NYS Assemblywoman & DREAMER Catalina Cruz to discuss some of the challenges she's faced in passing progressive legislation since winning the 2018 race for 39th District Assembly, and what unification of the Democratic Party means to her. https://www.mobilizehere.com/podcast/2020-04-17-catalina-cruz-after-the-win-comes-the-work/

Kristin Mink speaks with Mobilize producer Cory Choy about the Masks 4 America Initiative - a coalition of activists, medical professionals, and suppliers that have come together to get personal protective equipment (PPE) to the doctors, nurses, and first responders who are fighting to slow the spread of COVID 19. https://www.mobilizehere.com/podcast/2020-04-06-masks-4-america/

Kristin Mink revisited the studio with her little baby Nova. She speaks with Mobilize producer Betsy Nagler about her work as an activist, how her eventual split with Lights for Liberty exemplifies some of the challenges facing progressives in 2020 and her advice for people looking to combine political involvement in an election year with parenthood. https://www.mobilizehere.com/podcast/2020-02-27...

Alessandra Biaggi speaks with Mobilize producer Betsy Nagler about what it's like being in office as a progressive leader and actually legislating as opposed to running for office as a political upstart. https://www.mobilizehere.com/podcast/2019-12-12-alessandra-biaggi-doing-the-work/

Mobilize Producer Betsy Nagler wraps up Season 2 with an interview with her father, Stephen Nagler, who was executive director of the New Jersey ACLU and then the Migrant Legal Action program in D.C. Stephen spent a large portion of his life fighting for those who were being denied the protections of the Bill of Rights-- establishing the types of precedents that the Trump administration now seeks...

Professor and activist Eve Proper talks about the role the Independent Democratic Conference plays in the New York State Legislature and why the upcoming Democratic primaries are so important. Time to dismantle the IDC (for real this time). https://www.mobilizehere.com/podcast/mobilize---episode-18---eve-proper-the-idc-explained/

Matthew Hittle attends the Families Belong Together protest in New York City. https://www.mobilizehere.com/podcast/mobilize---families-belong-together-protest/

Mobilize producer Betsy Nagler interviews Catalina Cruz about her New York State Assembly campaign for District 39, a district she’s proud to call "rich in that immigrant soul." Cruz shares the inspiring story of how she went from being an undocumented Dreamer to a leader who fights for change in her community, and how she wants to be model of what it means to a public servant rather than a politi...

Dylan Keselman attends the rally of "Mayday" https://www.mobilizehere.com/podcast/mobilize---mayday-2018/

Mobilize producer Betsy Nagler interviews New York State Senate candidate Alessandra Biaggi about her campaign to unseat Jeff Klein, the former leader of the Independent Democratic Conference. While the IDC's eight members just made a deal to reunite with the mainline Senate Democrats, they have spent that past eight years caucusing with Senate Republicans and blocking progressive legislation in o...