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Florida as Abortion Ground Zero, Plus Rachel Kushner on Creation Lake

On this episode of Start Making Sense, Amy Littlefield reports on the battle for reproductive rights, and Rachel Kushner talks about her new novel.

Jon Wiener

September 4, 2024

Cynthia Fardella of Fort Lauderdale, Florida, shows her support during an event for women’s reproductive rights, on June 24, 2024.(Carline Jean / South Florida Sun Sentinel / Tribune News Service via Getty Images)

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Abortion Ground Zero: Florida; plus Rachel Kushner on “Creation Lake” | Start Making Sense
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Donald Trump announced Friday that he would be voting against a abortion rights ballot measure in his home state of Florida. Amy Littlefield reports on the crucial battle in the state that had been the South’s last refuge for abortion access.

Plus: Rachel Kushner talks about the informant and provacateur who infiltrates an anarchist eco-commune in rural France – the central character in her new novel, “Creation Lake.”

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Donald Trump announced Friday that he would be voting against a abortion rights ballot measure in his home state of Florida. Amy Littlefield is on the podcast this week to report on the crucial referendum in the state that had been the South’s last refuge for abortion access.Also on this episode of Start Making Sense: Rachel Kushner talks about an informant and provocateur who infiltrates an anarchist eco-commune in rural France—the central character in her new novel, Creation Lake.

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Trump Voters for Abortion; and Learning from John Lewis | Start Making Sense
byThe Nation Magazine

A lot of people who voted for abortion rights referenda this year also voted for Trump. What were they thinking? How do they understand politics? Amy Littlefield spent election day in Amarillo, Texas, trying to find out.

Also: John Lewis, who died in 2020, challenged injustice from the sit-ins of 1960 to the Age of Trump. Historian David Greenberg talks about what we can learn from his example. Greenberg’s new book is “John Lewis: A Life.”

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Jon WienerTwitterJon Wiener is a contributing editor of The Nation and co-author (with Mike Davis) of Set the Night on Fire: L.A. in the Sixties.


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