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The Dig: Winning Providence w/ Ben Shana...

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Featuring Ben Shanahan, the architect of socialist David Morales’ victorious campaign to be the Democratic nominee for mayor of Providence, Rhode Island. The Providence left ran a slate of left-wing candidates that not only elected Morales but also swept every single contested city council seat on a platform of capping the rent and building social housing.

Read Dennis Hogan’s essays on the Providence win in n+1 and Dissent:

nplusonemag.com/online-only/online-only/the-hi-neighbor-mayor/

dissentmagazine.org/online_articles/david-morales-providence-municipal-socialism/

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