(2013/07/19) How we treat those we are responsible for (Prison Nation)
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🗓️ 19 July 2013
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Summary
Edition #737
How we treat those we are responsible for
Ch. 1: Intro - Theme: A Fond Farewell, Elliott Smith
Ch. 2: Act 1: The Aryan Brotherhood's 'Jihadist' Murder Streak in the U.S. - The Young Turks - Air Date: 04-03-13
Ch. 3: Song 1: Sail - AWOL Nation
Ch. 4: Act 2: What to Think of Whenever You Hear "The Worst of the Worst" - Black Agenda Report - Air Date: 6-12-13
Ch. 5: Song 2: Folsom Prison Blues - Johnny Cash
Ch. 6: Act 3: Caller: Prisons Should Not be Privatized! - Thom Hartmann - Air Date: 06-13-13
Ch. 7: Song 3: Clint Eastwood - The Gorillaz
Ch. 8: Act 4: Judge Sentenced for Selling Kids to Prisons - David Pakman Show - Air Date: 05-25-13
Ch. 9: Song 4: Life in prison - Mitchell
Ch. 10: Act 5: Philadelphia 'Can't Afford' Schools, Buys $400 Million Prison - Young Turks - Air Date: 06-15-13
Ch. 11: Song 5: Opportunity - Pete Murray
Ch. 12: Act 6: Private Prisons: The Evil Side of Reaganomics - Thom Hartmann - Air Date: 06-22-13
Ch. 13: Song 6: Evil is alive and well - Jakob Dylan
Ch. 14: Act 7: Barbaric Sterilizations in California - The Progressive Magazine - Air Date: 7-9-13
Ch. 15: Song 7: 21st Century - Red Hot Chili Peppers
Ch. 16: Act 8: Forced Sterilization Of Women In American Prisons - Young Turks - Air Date: 07-13-13
Ch. 17: Song 8: The Undesirables - Lawrence Arabia
Ch. 18: Act 9: Texas County Sued for Running 'Rape Camp' at Jail - David Pakman Show - Air Date: 06-23-13
Ch. 19: Song 9: Nothing else matters - Scala & Kolacny Brothers
Ch. 20: Act 10: Solitary Watch - UnFuck it Up Project
Ch. 21: Song 10: I didn't fuck it up - Katie Goodman
Ch. 22: Act 11: Pelican Bay prisoners' hunger strike - Citizen Radio - Air Date: 07-11-13
Ch. 23: Song 11: Chain gang - Sam Cooke
Ch. 24: Act 12: Tens of Thousands of California Inmates Join Pelican Bay Hunger Strikers - Black Agenda Report - Air Date: 7-10-13
Voicemails:
Ch. 25: Rape jokes are not off limits - Peter from Chicago, IL
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Voicemail Music:
Loud Pipes - Ratatat
Ch. 26: Final comments on rape jokes
Lindy West's articles:
How to Make a Rape Joke - http://jezebel.com/5925186/how-to-make-a-rape-joke
If Comedy Has No Lady Problem, Why Am I Getting So Many Rape Threats? - http://jezebel.com/if-comedy-has-no-lady-problem-why-am-i-getting-so-many-511214385
Activism:
http://solitarywatch.com/action/
Information for this segment can be found at:
READ:
http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2012/10/solitary-confinement-shane-bauer
WATCH: http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2012/10/video-shane-bauer-solitary
STATE MAPS: http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2012/10/map-solitary-confinement-states
In depth critique of US prison system: http://www.newyorker.com/arts/critics/atlarge/2012/01/30/120130crat_atlarge_gopnik
Sponsored by the UnFuck it Up Project: https://www.facebook.com/pages/Unfuck-It-Up/196389490396988
Katie Goodman, creator: http://katiegoodman.com
Katie Klabusich, director: http://katiespeak.com
Produced by:
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| 0:00.0 | This program is made possible by the members and donors to the show. |
| 0:05.6 | For details, visit the membership tab at BestOfAleft.com. |
| 0:09.0 | Now, welcome to the award-winning BestOfAleft podcast with Cupsidae from the Young Turks, |
| 0:12.9 | the Black Agenda Report, the Tom Hartman program, the David Pakman show, the Progressive |
| 0:16.7 | Magazine, and Citizen Radio. |
| 0:18.9 | And a note on today's episode that if you just remember that prison and maintenance |
| 0:22.5 | aren't actually humans with mothers and families and whatnot, then it's a lot easier |
| 0:27.2 | to hear about how we treat them. |
| 0:29.9 | Aryan Brotherhood, totally out of control, it appears based on some recent crimes and |
| 0:35.6 | based on some reporting from inside the prisons. |
| 0:38.2 | Now, everybody knows Aryan Brotherhood exists already, right? |
| 0:41.9 | But they had not been this active in going after government officials in the outside world |
| 0:48.2 | at this level ever before. |
| 0:51.3 | So what are we talking about here? |
| 0:53.2 | Well, recently, Texas District Attorney Mike McClelland and his wife were killed. |
| 0:58.4 | And just as I was coming on air, there's a new report released that Mike McClelland |
| 1:02.4 | was shot 20 times. |
| 1:04.7 | So that is an execution, no question about it. |
| 1:07.7 | Same people who did the shootings only shot his wife once, so clearly sending a message. |
| 1:12.4 | Former Texas District Attorney Mark Hoss was killed just under three months ago, working |
| 1:19.3 | on the same cases in Diting, the Aryan Brotherhood of Texas. |
| 1:23.3 | Now in Colorado, a different group, apparently tired of the prison chief Tom Clements knocked |
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