 November was the month the United States dumped Donald Trump. Now it's fair to say, we at Navarra Media hadn't always been too complementary about now President-elect Joe Biden. However, after Trump's disastrous handling of the coronavirus pandemic, none of Biden's often unconvincing public outings were enough to stop him commanding a majority large enough to overcome America's crooked electoral system. That victory was in large part down to suburban voters abandoning the president. But Biden also relied on the energy of America's diverse working-class big city, something possible because he refrained from attacking the left. Take note, Kirstama. After the results were announced a few days after the election, we spoke to Nelini Stamp, organizer with the Working Families Party. She was speaking to us from Philadelphia, one of the cities which helped push Biden to victory. The mood on the ground is pretty great. I mean, I think that a lot of people are just trying to figure out what happens next. But the mood was joyous in a time of deep pain. I mean, Philadelphia was in the middle of an uprising here when Walter Wallace was shot and killed actually around the corner from the Working Families Party office two weeks ago, the week before the election. And there was so much talk of right wing intimidation at polling places, white supremacists. And through all of it, we actually use joy as a radical act because so many people were like, well, the left is going to do this and they're going to burn stuff down and this is going to happen. And we're the right wing and we're going to intimidate. And what was really beautiful is how Philadelphia came together. I mean, we organized joy to the polls concerts outside of polling places across the country because we have rampant voter suppression. And we had one video that has about almost 20 million views now of a voter dancing with us going into line when we found out that there was a concentrated effort of right wing folks going to the convention center earlier this week. We threw a big block party. And it was actually a radical act because so many people have been inside of their homes. We are in our second wave of COVID cases that already hit Philadelphia and the Northeast pretty hard. And so people just had a street party and we did it and we drowned out former attorney general of the state of Florida with Beyonce when she was trying to make a case to steal the election. So it feels pretty good that being here in Philadelphia, that Philadelphia set the tone for the world and that Pennsylvania ended up winning it for Joe Biden. That's interesting actually the fact that it does seem like cities in Pennsylvania, what you're seeing is parties in the street because there was a lot of concern that what you'd see is riots in the street. If Trump lost people were scared that there would be violence between his right wing supporters and left wing supporters of Biden or just, I suppose, more likely just anti-Trump activists. But it doesn't actually seem like there has been that much tension. Where are the, where are all the Trump supporters? Because presumably there are a lot of people who feel very put out and they're sort of buying into the Trump line that this election is being stolen. But are they visible on the streets of Philadelphia? Definitely there has been folks who have been out. I mean while we were at the convention center two people were arrested with AR-15s and taken out of their cars because they were potentially planning something. There was a bomb threat scare and there were hundreds of Trump protesters but there were hundreds more of us that were just actually trying to say count every vote. They wanted to stop the vote counting. They wanted to stop what they called the steal of the election because they are saying that mail-in voting is fraudulent. And they're still saying that to this day. There were people with guns in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. And so there are a lot of folks, sorry this has been a headquarters so there'll be people moving around. There have been lots of folks who are trying to carry the white supremacist and far-right wing banner. And they were just stopped and de-escalated with joy, with people saying not in my town, not in my city and not today. With playing music and playing like everything from old house hits to queer anthems to Latino music and speaking in Spanish and English. And so we saw that instead of our country being intimidated or people or in our movement being intimidated, we actually used our culture. Something that is really important especially to Black and Brown communities to say not today. What does this mean for the left and what happens next? Because I know that you as a representative for the Working Families Party you backed Warren then Bernie and then ended up of course campaigning for Joe Biden against Donald Trump. But you know as far as I understand Biden doesn't exactly share your politics but you've got an election I presume now to fight in Georgia to try and win the Senate for the Democrats. And then you've got to try and push Joe Biden to the left. So what are going to be your priorities in the weeks and months ahead? What should we be looking out for? What are going to be the flash points in terms of the left's attempt to make this Biden administration as progressive as it can be? You know the blue wave didn't happen as we wanted it to meaning down ballot. We are in a fight for the Senate right now in Georgia. Both races at the top of the ticket the Senate are in a runoff on January 5th. Early voting starts in a month on December 14th. And so I think that the priorities right now for the left is one is ensuring that any attempts to undermine the democratic process that happened on Tuesday that we push back for that because you know the president has a few steps to be elected and one is the electors vote in states across the country on December 14th. So we need to make sure that that's really important. So December 14th will be a very important date for everyone as we begin early voting in Georgia and as our electors meet because of the inadequate and undemocratic process of the electoral college that we still have the electors meet there can be some sideways moves done that day to try to submit alternate elector states. State legislators can do that. So we want to keep an eye on December 14th to make sure that they support the will of the people because the people decided and then it is going to be on for the first 100 days. The left has been organizing together in this united front that has been unprecedented that has been led by the movement for black lives working families party and the United we dream action and others to make sure that our issues are at the front and center of the first 100 days. We need to address climate change. We need to make sure that a Green New Deal becomes a reality. We need to make sure that housing is a human right and that we end the commodification of housing in our country because we are going to face a massive eviction crisis a massive crisis at the end of December and we need a real full and tried and true economic package that actually gives jobs to people that make sure that people are not struggling pay working paycheck to paycheck no longer in this country because of the needs that the pandemic has has has brought up to the surface. So there's actually you know a lot of us have been joking about how you know some of us have slept for a little bit but a lot of us have a lot of work to do to make sure that the first 100 days and the mandate is from the left that we want our jobs that we want a Green New Deal that we want the Breathe Act and everything that we've been fighting for for the last not just four years but decades as the left.