This podcast of Global Stuff was recorded on September 23, 2024. Jimmy talkswith Robert Creamer, longtime activist and political organizer, about his latestbook: Nuts and Bolts: The Formula for Progressive Electoral Success. Robert takeshis several decades’ long experience in running successful election campaigns tooutline a clear, precise, time-tested methodology for how to motivate progressivevoters and win at the ballot box. In these times of concern about the future of ourdemocracy, Creamer provides an uplifting vision of how to make the politicalprocess for most Americans, not just those at the top.Robert Creamer is an American political consultant, community organizer, andauthor. He is the husband of congresswoman Jan Schakowsky, the Representativefor Illinois's 9th congressional district. His firm, Democracy Partners, works withprogressive electoral and issue campaigns and has 34 partners locatedthroughout the United States.Creamer has been a progressive strategist and political organizer for over 50years, beginning during the Civil Rights and anti-Vietnam War movements of the1960s. He worked as an organizer with Saul Alinsky's last major project in Chicago.Later he founded and then led Illinois's largest coalition of progressiveorganizations and unions for twenty-three years. Creamer became a politicalconsultant in 1997, and served as a consultant to the Democratic NationalCommittee during the 2008, 2012, and 2016 Presidential election campaigns. In2005, Creamer was one of the architects and organizers of the successfulcampaign to defeat the privatization of Social Security. He has also been aconsultant to the campaigns to end the war in Iraq, increase the minimum wage,and pass progressive budget priorities, pass and defend the Affordable Care Act,oppose right wing judicial nominees, and pass comprehensive immigrationreform.Jimmy Durchslag has been the host of “Global Stuff”, a monthly guest driven talkshow for over 20 years. He has a long experience as a manager of several forprofit and non-profit organizations. He is one of the founders of RedwoodCommunity Radio, the parent organization for KMUD. He recently served as the Director of the Mainstream Media Project, a nonprofit organization thatscheduled expert guests for interviews on talk shows both nationally andinternationally.

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