(2014/01/08) Harassment in place of police work (Racism)
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🗓️ 9 January 2014
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Summary
Edition #788
Harassment in place of police work
Ch. 1: Intro - Theme: A Fond Farewell, Elliott Smith
Ch. 2: Act 1: Stop-and-Frisk: The High School Senior - Change the NYPD - Air Date: 7-29-13
Ch. 3: Song 1: Going home - Niklas Aman
Ch. 4: Act 2: What percentage of black people should we be afraid of? - Jimmy Dore Show - Air Date 7-27-13
Ch. 5: Song 2: Stop and frisk - MC Grizzz and Akil b STRANGe
Ch. 6: Act 3: Less Guns, Less Crime, This Is Bad How? - CounterSpin - Air Date 11-22-13
Ch. 7: Song 3: 10 Frisk Commandments (Remix) [feat. Jasiri X, Elon James White & Willie Evans Jr.] - This Week in Blackness
Ch. 8: Act 4: Don Lemon Endorses State Sanctioned Harassment - This Week in Blackness - Air Date 11-5-13
Ch. 9: Song 4: Stop and Frisk (The New Jim Crow) [feat. Paul Mabin] - Scientist & Ted Sirota's Heavyweight Dub
Ch. 10: Act 5: The Shocking Truth About Black People - Lee Camp - Air Date: 11-14-13
Ch. 11: Song 5: Stop and firsk - Vex Davortex
Ch. 12: Act 6: Michelle Alexander: Locked Out of America - Moyers And Company - Air Date: 12-20-13
Ch. 13: Song 6: It's the same old song - The Four Tops
Ch. 14: Act 7: Divest From Private Prisons - UnFuck it Up Project
Ch. 15: Song 7: Activism - Shihan
Ch. 16: Act 8: Judge Rules White Girl Will Be Tried As Black Adult - The Onion - Air Date: 01-24-11
Ch. 17: Song 8: Law and order - The International TV Orchestra
Ch. 18: Act 9: Law Professor Jodi Armour on poverty in the discussion of black crime - David Feldman Show - Air Date: 12-19-13
Ch. 19: Final comments on the definition of 'racism'
Voicemails:
Ch. 20: Defining racism - Elka from Fort Wayne, IN
Ch. 22: Bonus clip: Prejudice Is Not Racism - Radio Dispatch - Air Date 12-12-13
Leave a message at 202-999-3991
Closing Music:
Here We Are - Patrick Park
ACTIVISM:
http://act.colorofchange.org/sign/privateprison_divestment/?source=coc_website
Sources/further reading:
http://dreamdefenders.org/whoisysi/
https://www.tarbellnyc.com/discon/8
http://www.globalresearch.ca/the-prison-industry-in-the-united-states-big-business-or-a-new-form-of-slavery/8289
http://www.laborrights.org/creating-a-sweatfree-world/sweatshops/news/11147
http://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/the-school-to-prison-pipeline-a-nationwide-problem-for-equal-rights-20131107 h/t Molly Knefel https://twitter.com/mollyknefel
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| 0:14.0 | Now, welcome to the award-winning Best of the Left podcast with Cups Today from Change |
| 0:18.0 | the NYPD, The Jimmy Dorsho, Counter-Spin, This Week in Blackness, Comedian Lee Camp, Moyers |
| 0:24.0 | Company, Activism from the Unfucked Up Project, The Onion, and The David Felton Show. |
| 0:29.0 | I think people shouldn't have to live in fear. The point of police is not to still fear, |
| 0:34.0 | but I think the point of police is to protect people, to have them not feel like fear. |
| 0:44.0 | My name is Cassine Waters, I'm a senior in high school, and I'm from Flappish Brooklyn. |
| 0:54.0 | These Flappish is very diverse, many different people. You definitely have your crime, |
| 1:04.0 | you know, that's a part of it, but everybody's, you know, to everybody's together, |
| 1:08.0 | everybody's a unit. |
| 1:16.0 | The first time I was stopped in first, I was about 13 years old. |
| 1:21.0 | I was, of course, leaving my house on my way to school to pick up a friend. |
| 1:25.0 | My friend lives about maybe a block and a half away from me, |
| 1:30.0 | and I was walking up the block. I made the left on New York Avenue, I was just waiting outside, |
| 1:35.0 | and then the cops just pulled up and they were like, oh, what are you doing? |
| 1:39.0 | I was like, I'm waiting for my friend, and he lives here, and I was like, yeah. |
| 1:43.0 | They went to my book bag, to my stuff on the ground, and all that. |
| 1:47.0 | They were just asking me questions, being rough with me, telling me where I'm going to end up. |
| 1:51.0 | You want to end up in jail? And then they both became very aggressive. |
| 1:54.0 | I'm searching in my pockets, turning me around and pushing me, forcing my legs open, |
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