#1174 Renewed and repackaged racism (Drug War)
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Jay Tomlinson
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🗓️ 27 March 2018
⏱️ 69 minutes
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Summary
Air Date: 3/27/2018
Today we take a look at the blossoming of the renewed efforts of the conservative drug warriors
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Show Notes
Ch. 1: Opening Theme: Loving Acoustic Instrumental by John Douglas Orr
Ch. 2: Act 1: Michelle Alexander We Must Respond Forcefully & Challenge Jeff Sessions's New War on Drugs - @DemocracyNow - Air Date 05-19-17
Ch. 3: Song 1: Waterbourne - Algea Fields
Ch. 4: Act 2: Race, drugs and prisons - Progressive Faith Sermons w @RevDrRay - Air Date 9-10-17
Ch. 5: Song 2: Gullwing Sailor - Migration
Ch. 6: Act 3: Art Way on Pot Recriminalization - CounterSpin (@FAIRmediawatch) - Air Date 1-12-18
Ch. 7: Song 3: Inessential - Bayou Birds
Ch. 8: Act 4: Understanding the repeal of the Cole memo - Off Kilter - Air Date 1-26-18
Ch. 9: Song 4: Astrisx - Bodytonic
Ch. 10: Act 5: Tell Congress: Punitive Drug Policies Don’t Work. Harm-Reduction Does. via @DrugPolicyOrg - Best of the Left Activism
Ch. 11: Song 5: Streamer - Arc and Crecent
Ch. 12: Act 6: Death to Drug Dealers Trump Threatens to Ramp Up Drug War, Praising Efforts in Philippines & China - @DemocracyNow - Air Date 03-12-18
Voicemails
Ch. 13: The barbary wars were justified - Anonymous
Ch. 14: Breaking free from the car - Joe from Chicago
Voicemail Music: Low Key Lost Feeling Electro by Alex Stinnent
Ch. 15: Final comments on the benefits of electric-assist bikes and the militaristic history of the US
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Closing Music: Upbeat Laid Back Indie Rock by Alex Stinnent
(Additional music from Blue Dot Sessions)
Activism:
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Tell Congress: Stand Against Harsh Drug Penalties via Drug Policy Alliance
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EDUCATE YOURSELF
An Overdose Death Is Not Murder: Why Drug-Induced Homicide Laws Are Counterproductive and Inhumane (Drug Policy Alliance)
Experts React to Trump’s Plan to Escalate Drug War and Impose Death Penalty for Drug Offenses (Drug Policy Alliance)
Read: Jeff Sessions’s memo asking federal prosecutors to seek the death penalty for drug traffickers (Vox)
Eleven countries studied, one inescapable conclusion – the drug laws don’t work (The Guardian, 2014)
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| 0:33.3 | of the award-winning best of a left podcast in which we shall learn about the Trump and Sessions |
| 0:38.4 | led resurgence of the war on drugs and Trump's plan to take it to new heights of cruelty and |
| 0:44.6 | barbarism. Our clips today come from Democracy Now, a progressive faith sermon from Dr. Roger Ray, |
| 0:50.4 | Counter-Spin and Off-Kilter and stick around to the end for a voicemail defending the |
| 0:55.4 | Barbarian Wars. Another with thoughts on my analogy on oppressive headwinds and my responses to them. |
| 1:06.3 | What I asked Michelle Alexander, there appeared to be some hope in the last few years that the |
| 1:12.4 | country was finally beginning to turn away from mass incarceration, especially when it came |
| 1:16.8 | to drugs and now we're seeing under the new Trump administration. We heard what some of the |
| 1:21.1 | stuff that the new Attorney General Jeff Session says, your reaction to where the country appeared |
| 1:27.3 | to be heading and where now the turn that it's now taking. Well, I think it's clear by the |
| 1:33.8 | rhetoric coming out of the Justice Department today that they are committed to reviving a war-like |
| 1:42.4 | mentality towards poor people and people of color. I think we need to respond forcefully |
| 1:53.6 | with as much courage and compassion as we can muster in these times. A few decades ago, |
| 2:03.1 | politicians were banging the podium, calling for a law and order and get tough and declaring war |
| 2:10.9 | and our television sets were filled with images of crack mothers, crack babies, and a literal war |
| 2:20.3 | was unleashed on communities, war that devastated the lives of people like Susan and families |
| 2:29.6 | and communities of color nationwide. Well, today, the enemy has been defined as those brown-skinned |
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