#1171 Debt, profit and modern-day slavery (Injustice System)
Best of the Left - Leftist Perspectives on Progressive Politics, News, Culture, Economics and Democracy
Jay Tomlinson
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🗓️ 16 March 2018
⏱️ 81 minutes
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Summary
Air Date: 3/16/2018
Today we take a look at the catastrophic point where cutting taxes, racism, capitalism, immigration policy and our punitive-rather-than-rehabilitative criminal justice system all meet
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Show Notes
Ch. 1: Opening Theme: Loving Acoustic Instrumental by John Douglas Orr
Ch. 2: Act 1: Targeting minority communities as sources of revenue through law enforcement - Leid Stories - Air Date 8-25-15
Ch. 3: Song 1: Lord Weasel - Molerider
Ch. 4: Act 2: The costs of incarceration for those least able to pay - CounterSpin (@FAIRmediawatch) - Air Date 9-30-16
Ch. 5: Song 2: One Little Triumph - Piano Mover
Ch. 6: Act 3: Lauren Brooke, author of Inside Private Prisons - Off Kilter - Air Date 11-9-17
Ch. 7: Song 3: Dirtbike Lovers - Desert Orchard
Ch. 8: Act 4: Revenge or Reform: The Penal Challenge - Progressive Faith Sermons w @RevDrRay - Air Date 6-11-17
Ch. 9: Song 4: Neil Takes Two - Studio J
Ch. 10: Act 5: What They Won't Tell You About The Fires In California - @RedactedTonight with @LeeCamp - Air Date 10-18-17
Ch. 11: Song 5: Donder - Darby
Ch. 12: Act 6: LA Sheriff Whines Because 'Good' Prison Laborers Are Getting Released - Majority Report (@MajorityFM) - Air Date: 10-14-17
Ch. 13: Song 6: Heather - Migration
Ch. 14: Act 7: Slave labor in our prisons - Off Kilter - Air Date 10-20-17
Ch. 15: Song 7: A Burst of Light - Delray
Ch. 16: Act 8: Support #OperationPUSH & Join Juneteenth 2018 Call to End Prison Slavery via @IWW_IWOC - Best of the Left Activism
Voicemails
Ch. 17: Disputing the horseshoe fallacy - Eduardo
Voicemail Music: Low Key Lost Feeling Electro by Alex Stinnent
Ch. 18: Final comments on DACA, immigration policy, Japanese internment, prison labor and agribusiness
Sarah Taber's Twitter thread on Dreamers & the Agricultural History of Japanese Internment Camps
BONUS CLIP: Hard times (still) in the fields - Jim @HightowerNews - Air Date 3-14-18
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Closing Music: Upbeat Laid Back Indie Rock by Alex Stinnent
(Additional music from Blue Dot Sessions)
Activism:
TAKE ACTION
Support Operation PUSH - Incarcerated Worker’s Organizing Committee
Support Juneteenth 2018 Call to End Prison Slavery - Fight Toxic Prisons
Other Resources:
Check out Free Alabama Movement’s “ALABAMA'S EDUCATION, REHABILITATION, AND RE-ENTRY PREPAREDNESS BILL"
Check out ACLU New Jersey’s “A Vision to End Mass Incarceration in New Jersey”
EDUCATE YOURSELF
Prisoner Rights Advocates Rally Against Visitation Cutbacks In Florida Prisons (WUFT)
Both Red and Blue States Rely on Prison Labor (via The American Prospect)
Prison labour is a billion-dollar industry, with uncertain returns for inmates (The Economist)
The NCAA Says Student-Athletes Shouldn’t Be Paid Because the 13th Amendment Allows Unpaid Prison Labor (The Intercept)
Florida is afraid of its prison system. Here’s what lawmakers want to do about it. (Tampa Bay Times)
Florida Prisoners Prepare To Strike, Demanding an End to Unpaid Labor and Brutal Conditions (The Intercept)
Enlisting Prison Labor to Close Budget Gaps (via The New York Times, 2011)
4 Reasons to End Prison Labor Immediately (Care2)
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| 0:51.6 | learn about the catastrophic point where cutting taxes, racism, capitalism, immigration |
| 0:58.6 | policy and our punitive rather than rehabilitative criminal justice system all meet. |
| 1:04.8 | Our clips today come from lead stories, counter spin, off-kilter, a portion of a progressive |
| 1:10.5 | faith sermon from Dr. Roger Ray, redacted tonight and the majority report. |
| 1:18.4 | Five months after the U.S. Department of Justice skewered the police department and criminal |
| 1:35.2 | justice system in Ferguson, Missouri for targeting blacks and treating them largely as a source |
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