ABOUT
BELLWETHER POD
Everything is political. Pop Culture, Art, Music, Sports and of course the business by which we run our country. Bellwether Pod covers it all in unsparing conversation - one on one interview style - with smart, compelling guests who will make you think. Come for the insight, stay for the laughs. We take everything and nothing too seriously.
I’m your host, Laura Fink. I’m a media maven who has worked in national, state and local politics. I’ve built a business helping people tell their stories both in the boardroom and at the ballot box. Really though I’m just a working class kid trying to make good who hails from a house politically divided. I came up in San Diego, in one of Southern California's most diverse communities. My politics are pragmatic blue and my sports teams - well I’m from San Diego - they’re always underdogs. I love Shakespeare, art, live music and great novels - and on the Bellwether pod, I want to talk about them all.
It’s 2019 and we are releasing our first season - BUT I recorded the interviews that comprise these episodes in 2016 - right after the election. I talked with three inspiring experts - College professor Candace Katungi, Labor Organizer and Author Jane McElevey, and the Leader of the California State Senate, Madame President Pro Tem - Toni Atkins. We talked about the seismic revelations that the 2016 election unveiled and I think you’ll find that the conversations we had were not only revealing, but are still relevant and instructive today.
Bibliography: Episode 1
Alyssa Milano reflects on #MeToo movement
Good Morning America
Published on Oct 15, 2018
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Et604XREU4&t=33s
Democracy Failed Georgia - Stacey Abrams
Washington Post
Published on Nov 16, 2018
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yqdyw4zWGDY&t=13s
Donald Trump Makes Lewd Remarks About Women On Video
NBC News
Published on Oct 7, 2016
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fYqKx1GuZGg
Former Radical Feminist Cassie Jaye explains why women aren't reaching their Potential
BlazeTV
Published on Oct 1, 2018
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UADVOpZD5Qg
Hate Rising: White Supremacy in America
CBS News
Published on Aug 21, 2017
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PLvY9bdXHfk&t=150s&has_verified=1
The Historic Firsts of the 116th Congress
MTP Daily, MSNBC
Published Jan 3, 2019
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vyWw33fXEXI
Kerry Washington reads Sojourner Truth
Voices of a People's History of the United States
Published on Jan 24, 2008
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yq3AYiRT4no&t=48s
Lauren Southern clashes with feminists at SlutWalk
Rebel Media
Published on Jun 9, 2015
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Qv-swaYWL0&t=6s
#MeToo floods social media with stories of sexual abuse, harassment
CBS This Morning
Published on Oct 17, 2017
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=izmQE_0Y09I&t=93s
Record number of women heading to Congress in 2019
CNN
Published on Nov 7, 2018
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ruh-09u07zM
Rev. Jesse Jackson On Black Voter Turnout: 'When We Vote We Change The Equation'
Roland S. Martin
Published on Dec 13, 2017
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AG8Gb-BPXFI&t=444s
Voices From Alabama: Black Women Who Voted for Doug Jones
The New York Times
Published on Dec 14, 2017
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WsgHOZ6dzW8&t=52s
Watch These Women Make History In The 2018 Midterms
VICE News
Published on Oct 3, 2018
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xe71YfWvae4
White nationalist rally turns violent in Charlottesville, VA
ABC News
Published on Aug 12, 2017
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IuI5kfSFAJc&t=30s
Women's March in Washington D.C.
ABC News
Published on Jan 24, 2017
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Whi8BBPzdYA
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https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/1065912917702499
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https://www.jstor.org/stable/2082435?seq=1#page_scan_tab_contents
https://www.nbcnews.com/card/how-key-group-white-women-college-degree-view-trump-gop-n857956