(2013/07/22) The verdict is in(just) (Zimmerman Trail)
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🗓️ 22 July 2013
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Edition #738
The verdict is in(just)
Ch. 1: Intro - Theme: A Fond Farewell, Elliott Smith
Ch. 2: Act 1: Zimmerman Verdict: Unequal Justice - The Progressive Magazine - Air Date: 7-15-13
Ch. 3: Song 1: Trayvon - Jasiri X
Ch. 4: Act 2: Why People Should Be Outraged at Zimmerman's 'Not Guilty' Verdict - Young Turks - Air Date: 07-15-13
Ch. 5: Song 2: Only a pawn in their game - Bob Dylan
Ch. 6: Act 3: Voices from the streets of New York after the verdict - Democracy Now! - Air Date: 7-15-13
Ch. 7: Song 3: No justice, no peace - Wackiavelli
Ch. 8: Act 4: Juror B37 is a product of America - This week in blackness - Air Date: 7-16-13
Ch. 9: Song 4: People get ready - The Impressions
Ch. 10: Act 5: Why are Trayvon & Zimmerman Held to Different Standards of Justice? - Thom Hartmann - Air Date: 07-17-13
Ch. 11: Song 5: I shall not be moved - Reverend Peytons Big Damn Band
Ch. 12: Act 6: Trayvon Martin Proves The System Working As Intended - Majority Report - Air Date: 07-17-13
Ch. 13: Song 6: We shall overcome - Pete Seeger
Ch. 14: Act 7: Black boys robbed of the right to be young - Radio Dispatch - Air Date: 7-18-13
Ch. 15: Song 7: A change is gonna come - Sam Cooke
Ch. 16: Act 8: The prosecution apologizes as badly as they presented their case - Jimmy Dore Show - Air Date: 7-18-13
Ch. 17: Song 8: The Revolution Will Not Be Televised - Gil Scott-Heron
Ch. 18: Act 9: After The Verdict - On the Media - Air Date: 7-19-13
Ch. 19: Song 9: Stand by me - Playing for change
Ch. 20: Act 10: Trayvon Martin Could Have Been Me - President Obama - The Young Turks - Air Date: 07-20-13
Ch. 21: Song 10: Blowin' in the wind - Bob Dylan
Ch. 22: Act 11: 50th Anniversary, March on Washington - UnFuck it Up Project
Ch. 23: Song 11: I didn't fuck it up - Katie Goodman
Ch. 24: Act 12: Michael Denzel Smith discusses the verdict - Radio Dispatch - Air Date: 7-16-13
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Ch. 25: No final comments today
Activism:
http://50thanniversarymarchonwashington.com
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Information for this segment can be found at:
http://thisweekinblackness.com/2013/07/12/zimmerman-trial-jury-instructions/
http://www.aljazeera.com/indepth/opinion/2012/03/2012325113935746134.html
http://usnews.nbcnews.com/_news/2013/07/20/19581408-trayvon-martins-parents-speak-amid-day-of-post-verdict-vigils?lite
http://thegrio.com/2013/07/21/op-ed-white-america-the-george-zimmerman-trial-and-the-power-of-denial/
http://www.timwise.org/2013/07/clip-4-tim-wise-on-msnbc-with-melissa-harris-perry-the-racial-implications-of-stand-your-ground-laws-72013/
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| 0:00.0 | This program is made possible by the members and donors to the show. |
| 0:07.6 | For details visit the membership tab at bestofleft.com and are looking to the award-winning Best |
| 0:12.4 | of the Left Podcasts with Cups today from the Progressive Magazine, the Young Turks, |
| 0:16.0 | Democracy Now, This Week in Blackness, the Tom Hartman Program, the Majority Report, |
| 0:20.4 | Radio Dispatch, the Jimmy Doors Show, On the Media, and Activism from the Unfucked Up |
| 0:25.1 | Project. |
| 0:27.1 | Welcome to America, where we don't have freedom and justice for all. |
| 0:34.1 | That's the only conclusion you can draw from the awful verdict in the George Zimmerman |
| 0:38.4 | trial. |
| 0:39.4 | The evidence pointed to manslaughter, and maybe the prosecutor's aired by not charging |
| 0:43.8 | Zimmerman just with that, but the jury said not guilty, even on that, and Zimmerman |
| 0:48.8 | now walks free. |
| 0:50.4 | Had the roles been reversed, had an adult black man pursued and then killed a white teenager |
| 0:55.2 | in the street, you can bet a million dollars that the verdict would have been different. |
| 0:59.5 | The simple fact is, we don't have equal justice in America today, 50 years after the March |
| 1:04.8 | on Washington. |
| 1:05.8 | Well, we have, instead, as a system of justice that is racist to the core, racist and who |
| 1:11.6 | gets arrested, racist and who gets charged, racist and who gets convicted. |
| 1:17.4 | You might think that Zimmerman got away only because of Florida's Stanger Ground Law, |
| 1:21.3 | which is a license for vigilanteism, but consider the case of a black woman named Marissa |
| 1:26.4 | Alexander, also in Florida, who fired warning shots into her wall to try to fend off her |
| 1:32.3 | allegedly abusive husband. |
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