(2013/11/18) Another terrible pipeline (School-to-prison)
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Jay Tomlinson
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🗓️ 19 November 2013
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Edition #775
Another terrible pipeline
Ch. 1: Intro - Theme: A Fond Farewell, Elliott Smith
Ch. 2: Act 1: What to do with the Slaves When They are no Longer Needed? - Thom Hartmann - Air Date: 08-12-13
Ch. 3: Song 1: Profit - The Mammals
Ch. 4: Act 2: Crime Rates Fall, Private Prisons Still Make Millions - David Pakman Show - Air Date: 09-24-13
Ch. 5: Song 2: New paradigm - Belmontjam
Ch. 6: Act 3: Michelle Alexander on The New Jim Crow - GRITtv - Air Date: 10-20-13
Ch. 7: Song 3: Colorblind - The Counting Crows
Ch. 8: Act 4: Are You A Felon? California Bill Would Ban This Question From Job Apps - Young Turks - Air Date: 09-28-13
Ch. 9: Song 4: Generator (Second Floor) - Freelance Whales
Ch. 10: Act 5: Sesame Street Helping Kids Cope with Jailed Parents - Citizen Radio - Air Date: 6-13-13
Ch. 11: Song 5: The kids don't stand a chance - Vampire Weekend
Ch. 12: Act 6: Fla. School District Trying To Curb School-To-Prison Pipeline - NPR - Air Date: 11-6-13
Ch. 13: Song 6: School closed, prisons open - 4daLuvOfMoney
Ch. 14: Act 7: Turns Out Incarcerating Kids is a Bad Idea - The Young Turks - Air Date: 06-23-13
Ch. 15: Song 7: Problems - The Everly Brothers
Ch. 16: Act 8: School to prison pipeline and Stop and Frisk for kids - Radio Dispatch - Air Date: 11-11-13
Voicemails:
Ch. 17: First responders and the people they are there to help - Louis from Texas
Ch. 18: How to argue with conservatives - Chris the Carpenter
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Ch. 19: Final comments on the delicate interplay between legislation and culture
Closing Music:
Here We Are - Patrick Park
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| 0:00.0 | This program is made possible by the members and donors to the show. |
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| 0:08.2 | Now welcome to the award-winning BestOfTheLaf.com podcast with clips today. |
| 0:11.1 | From the Tom Hartman program, the David Pakman show, grit TV with horror flonders, the |
| 0:15.0 | young Turks, citizen radio, NPR and radio dispatch, and a note that it's getting harder |
| 0:19.4 | and harder to label each of these episodes as single categories because the deeper I get |
| 0:23.4 | into the details, the more the intersectionality of the issues come screaming through each segment. |
| 0:30.0 | What do you do as a society when you no longer need and to make this sound really harsh |
| 0:42.2 | when you no longer need your slaves? |
| 0:46.7 | Now I'm not literally talking about slaves in the term, you know, in like, you know, |
| 0:51.0 | black African slavery or for that matter, you know, white indenture, that kind of thing, |
| 0:56.6 | but I think that there's a big tinsure, a big piece of this to that. |
| 1:01.4 | If your society is organized in such a way that the decisions that are made by legislature |
| 1:06.5 | and the decisions that are made by business as a consequence of the rules of business |
| 1:10.3 | established by your legislature, by your government are to do things in the interest of the |
| 1:16.2 | general public to do what's best for the nation and its people, then what you do with your |
| 1:23.4 | surplus workers is you figure out a way to put them back to work. |
| 1:31.5 | This is not rocket science when there are, when there are, when there is less demand in |
| 1:40.2 | a society or when work has been, you know, vanishes for a variety of reasons back in 1929, |
| 1:47.4 | the work vanished because of a stock crash in the stock market and a crash in a huge burst |
| 1:55.3 | bubble in the housing market in 2728. |
| 1:59.4 | The outcome of that was that about a third of American workers were redundant, unnecessary, |
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