This podcast of Global Stuff was recorded on September 23, 2024. Jimmy talks
with Robert Creamer, longtime activist and political organizer, about his latest
book: Nuts and Bolts: The Formula for Progressive Electoral Success. Robert takes
his several decades’ long experience in running successful election campaigns to
outline a clear, precise, time-tested methodology for how to motivate progressive
voters and win at the ballot box. In these times of concern about the future of our
democracy, Creamer provides an uplifting vision of how to make the political
process for most Americans, not just those at the top.
Robert Creamer is an American political consultant, community organizer, and
author. He is the husband of congresswoman Jan Schakowsky, the Representative
for Illinois's 9th congressional district. His firm, Democracy Partners, works with
progressive electoral and issue campaigns and has 34 partners located
throughout the United States.
Creamer has been a progressive strategist and political organizer for over 50
years, beginning during the Civil Rights and anti-Vietnam War movements of the
1960s. 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 progressive
organizations and unions for twenty-three years. Creamer became a political
consultant in 1997, and served as a consultant to the Democratic National
Committee during the 2008, 2012, and 2016 Presidential election campaigns. In
2005, Creamer was one of the architects and organizers of the successful
campaign to defeat the privatization of Social Security. He has also been a
consultant 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 immigration
reform.
Jimmy Durchslag has been the host of “Global Stuff”, a monthly guest driven talk
show for over 20 years. He has a long experience as a manager of several for
profit and non-profit organizations. He is one of the founders of Redwood
Community Radio, the parent organization for KMUD. He recently served as the Director of the Mainstream Media Project, a nonprofit organization that
scheduled expert guests for interviews on talk shows both nationally and
internationally.