(2013/09/12) More stupid, racist policies (Drug War)
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Jay Tomlinson
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🗓️ 12 September 2013
⏱️ 73 minutes
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Edition #754
More stupid, racist policies
Ch. 1: Intro - Theme: A Fond Farewell, Elliott Smith
Ch. 2: Act 1: Racist War On Weed - New ACLU Report - The Young Turks - Air Date: 06-05-13
Ch. 3: Song 1: Jim Crow - John Mellencamp
Ch. 4: Act 2: Police Spend Millions Of Hours Arresting People For Low-Level Marijuana Possession - Lee Camp - Air Date: 3-26-13
Ch. 5: Song 2: Arrested - the Villains Trust
Ch. 6: Act 3: Smiling And Other Reasons Not To Legalize Marijuana - Jimmy Dore Show - Air Date 7-6-13
Ch. 7: Song 3: Killing for love - José González
Ch. 8: Act 4: Helen Redmond: End Drug War in Afghanistan - GRITtv - Air Date: 8-6-13
Ch. 9: Song 4: All the same - Sick Puppies
Ch. 10: Act 5: Trendsetter? Uruguay Votes to Legalize Marijuana - The Young Turks - Air Date: 08-03-13
Ch. 11: Song 5: Failure by design - Brand New
Ch. 12: Act 6: Hooray for Eric Holder! - The Progressive - Air Date: 8-12-13
Ch. 13: Song 6: Thank you too! - My Morning Jacket
Ch. 14: Act 7: Mandatory Minimum Sentences to End for Many Drug Offenders - David Pakman Show - Air Date: 08-17-13
Ch. 15: Song 7: Political prisoners - The Undercover Hippy
Ch. 16: Act 8: The Times They Are A Changin' - Rachel Maddow - Air Date- 08-28-13
Voicemails:
Ch. 17: Looking at the paradigm of racism - Prof. Rambo(?) from Georgia
Ch. 18: Thoughts on fast food wages - Jeff from Cleveland, OH
Ch. 19: Attending an LGBTQ rally in Berlin - Cat from Berlin, Germany
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| 0:12.6 | Now welcome to the award-winning Best of the Left podcast with Cups Today |
| 0:15.8 | from the young Turks, comedian Lee Camp, the Jimmy Dorsho, |
| 0:18.8 | great TV with Laura Flanders, the Progressive Magazine, |
| 0:21.6 | the David Pakman Show, and the Rachel Maddo Show. |
| 0:24.1 | And a quick note that again, this episode isn't meant to be about racism necessarily, |
| 0:27.8 | but I think I'm beginning to see a trend here. |
| 0:34.7 | Now the Warren Trunks has always been, so some degree or perhaps, so a large degree racist. |
| 0:39.5 | Now it was originally aimed at people crossing the southern border from South America, |
| 0:46.5 | Latin America, and specifically of course Mexico. And that's why they started referring to |
| 0:52.5 | the drug as marijuana and made it illegal in the first place. It used to be legal. |
| 0:56.8 | And they also made opium illegal in a way to target Chinese who had come over to work on |
| 1:02.5 | the railroads and other projects, right? So now, of course, if you ask people, I think a lot of |
| 1:08.8 | people in the country, and certainly almost everybody in Washington would say, oh, no, no, |
| 1:13.3 | maybe in the past, but we're past racism. We got a black president, so it has nothing to |
| 1:18.3 | erase whatsoever. Well, I'm going to give you those interesting stats on race in a little bit. |
| 1:23.1 | But first I want to tell you more broadly about the Warren Trunks, and this is all comes from |
| 1:26.5 | new federal data. It was analyzed by the New York Times and researchers at Stanford University |
| 1:33.2 | for a new report released by the American Civil Liberties Union. So first of all, drug arrests |
| 1:39.2 | in 2011. Half of them were on marijuana-related charges. Isn't that unbelievable? I mean, |
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