Episode 50
Guest: Jasmine Banks
Host: Shimon Cohen, LCSW
Jasmine Banks, Executive Director of UnKoch My Campus, exposes how the Koch network influences education and policy through massive financial contributions and targeted campaigns. She explains how this network promotes agendas that suppress voting rights, deny climate change, attack workers' rights, and censor discussions of systemic racism, all while threatening multiracial democracy. Jasmine details how UnKoch My Campus works with students to organize against corporate influence in education and breaks down the consequences of unchecked political spending enabled by rulings like Citizens United. This conversation is a powerful call to follow the money, confront hidden systems of power, and take action for democratic accountability.
In this episode:
- What the Koch network is and how it uses financial influence to shape education and policy
- How the Koch agenda suppresses voting rights, denies climate change, and attacks workers' rights
- The Koch network's role in attacking critical race theory, the 1619 Project, and multiracial democracy
- How Citizens United enabled unchecked corporate financial influence over elections and legislation
- How UnKoch My Campus works with students to organize and challenge this agenda
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