Amped Up with Ryan Knight

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Ryan Knight chats with independent journalist Sabrina Salvati about the class divide in American politics. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/AmpedUp/support

Ryan Knight chats with revolutionary socialist Jose Cortes about his run for Congress under the Party for Socialism and Liberation and using electoral politics as a tool to educate the masses about the deepening crisis of capitalism and organize for the solution, which is the socialist transformation of society. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/AmpedUp/support

Ryan Knight chats with Stephen Semler about how the rhetoric and platitudes that Democrats use in their stump speeches while they are campaigning doesn’t match how they actually govern when they have power. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/AmpedUp/support

Ryan Knight chats with organizer and host of Action4Assange podcast Misty Winston about the United States continued unlawful persecution of journalist Julian Assange and why it must drop all the charges now. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/AmpedUp/support

Ryan Knight chats with March for Medicare for All organizers Shareef Snuggs, Tsukuru Fors, and Eric Curry about a new protest they are planning and how change in this country has to come from the people when the politicians are this corrupt. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/AmpedUp/support

Ryan Knight chats with Princess Blanding about her insurgent campaign for Governor of Virginia under the newly formed Liberation party and how both corporate parties engaged in voter suppression by refusing to allow her to participate in the debate. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/AmpedUp/support

Ryan Knight chats with Freedom Fighters DC organizer Afeni (@ReddIsAri) about the limits of working within the duopoly and the need to build movements that center people and policies, not politicians and parties. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/AmpedUp/support

Ryan Knight chats with American Small Business League President Lloyd Chapman about how both corporate parties continue to put Big Business and the Billionaire Class over Small Business and the Working Class and what we can do about it. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/AmpedUp/support

Ryan Knight chats with Justin Paglino about why he chose to run for Congress under the Green Party and why Ranked Choice Voting is a game changer to breaking the duopoly. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/AmpedUp/support

Ryan Knight chats with environmental and human rights lawyer Steven Donziger about his decades long battle with Chevron and why he is more determined than ever to hold one of the world’s biggest polluters accountable. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/AmpedUp/support

Ryan Knight chats with Green Party communications director Michael O’Neil about the urgent need to end Israeli apartheid and free Palestine, the growing movement for ranked-choice voting and proportional representation, and what the Green Party needs to do moving forward. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/AmpedUp/support

Ryan Knight chats with Pan-African political educator Jabir Asa about the illusion of bourgeois democracy and the necessity of revolutionary socialism. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/AmpedUp/support

Ryan Knight chats with Steve Cox about running for Congress as an Independent and fighting back against the “divide-and-conquer” tactics used by both corporate parties to protect their power and maintain their stranglehold over the American people. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/AmpedUp/support

Ryan Knight chats with progressive candidate Eva Putzova about her reaction to AOC sending grassroots donations to the corporate Democrat who she almost beat in 2020 and why it has inspired her to fight even harder. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/AmpedUp/support

Ryan Knight chats with Fred Hampton Leftist and podcaster Jackie Poles about why our policing and capitalist systems cannot be reformed and how the fight to move beyond these old decrepit systems, and toward justice and dignity for all people, will not be won inside of the right-wing Democratic party. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/AmpedUp/support

Ryan Knight chats with writer Eric London about his article in the World Socialist Web Site, which exposes how the Democratic party uses figures like AOC to present a “left” face in order to trap social opposition and prop up the capitalist order. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/AmpedUp/support

Ryan Knight chats with Virginia Delegate and socialist Lee Carter about running for Governor and rebuilding our economy in a way that is owned and operated by workers. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/AmpedUp/support

Ryan Knight chats with Tara Reade about her new book “Left Out: When the Truth Doesn’t Fit in” where she writes about the aftermath of coming forward against Joe Biden and how the Democratic party turns its back on survivors to protect powerful Democrats. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/AmpedUp/support

Ryan Knight chats with the co-founder of Fred Hampton Leftists Nick Cruse about how America’s racist policing system, two-party duopoly, and corporate media machine all work to protect the capitalist class and preserve our decrepit capitalist system. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/AmpedUp/support