(2014/04/22) Incentives have consequences (Injustice system)
Best of the Left - Leftist Perspectives on Progressive Politics, News, Culture, Economics and Democracy
Jay Tomlinson
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🗓️ 22 April 2014
⏱️ 75 minutes
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Summary
Edition #819
Incentives have consequences
Today we look at the rotten underbelly of our 'corrections' system, who it victimizes and who it profits.
Ch. 1: Intro - Theme: A Fond Farewell, Elliott Smith
Ch. 2: Act 1: Kids for Cash - Official Trailer - kidsforcashthemovie - Air Date: 03-10-14
Ch. 3: Act 2: Documentary Exposes Corrupt "Kids For Cash" Judge In Pennsylvania - @theyoungturks - Air Date: 03-03-14
Ch. 4: Song 2: We're All in the Same Gang (feat. West Coast Rap All Stars) - West Coast Livin'
Ch. 5: Act 3: We're Being Robbed But The People Doing It Will Never Go To Prison - @bravenewfilms - Air Date: 11-05-13
Ch. 6: Song 3: Resurrection (space club mix) - PPK
Ch. 7: Act 4: Michelle Alexander: Locked Out of America - @billmoyersHQ - Air Date 12-20-13
Ch. 8: Song 4: Sweet dreams - The Eurythmics
Ch. 9: Act 5: Annual NYC Inmate Cost Higher Than 4 Years at Harvard - @davidpakmanshow - Air Date: 10-05-13
Ch. 10: Song 5: Circles - Soul Coughing
Ch. 11: Act 6: How Yoga Can Help In California's Overcrowded Prisons - TIME - Air Date: 12-19-13
Ch. 12: Song 6: Amends - Peasant
Ch. 13: Act 7: Unfree in America - Mumia Abu-Jamal - Air Date: 2-4-14
Ch. 14: Song 7: We never change - Coldplay
Ch. 15: Act 8: All out for CA prisoner hunger strike 2013 - CA Prisoner Hunger Strike Solidarity - Air Date: 07-08-13
Ch. 16: Song 8: My Favorite Mutiny - The Coup
Ch. 17: Act 9: Solitary Confinement - Marc Kilstein for @citizenradio - Air Date: 09-18-13
Ch. 18: Song 9: Creature fear - Bon Iver
Ch. 19: Act 10: Campaign to End Solitary Confinement via @Illinois_CAT - Best of the Left Activism
Ch. 20: Song 10: Activism - Shihan
Ch. 21: Act 11: Man Facing Execution Pens Chilling Letter Full Of Truths You Can't Deny - The Young Turks - Air Date: 03-08-14
Voicemails:
Ch. 22: Responding on self-identity - Katie from Philadelphia
Ch. 23: The importance of accuracy in labels - Grace from North Carolina
Ch. 24: The history of and thoughts on the word 'queer' - David in Los Angeles
Ch. 25: Men, stop calling yourselves women - Morgan from Chicago
Ch. 26: Re: Respectability Politics: Exactly, amen - Elka from Fort Wayne, IN
Leave a message at 202-999-3991
Voicemail Music:
Loud Pipes - Ratatat
Ch. 27: Final comments on recent bonus content and membership
Closing Music:
Here We Are - Patrick Park
ACTIVISM:
End Solitary Confinement In Illinois petition from CREDO and hard copy petition from Illinois CAT.
Printable info flier to circulate.
Sources/further reading:
"I-CAT is Launching a Campaign to End Solitary Confinement in Illinois Prisons”
"Funding Approved for Activation of ADX/USP Thomson, New Federal Supermax Prison” via Truthout
“Essential Prison Industrial Complex Reading List” from Prison Culture a blog everyone should read and a vital follow on Twitter.
"Chicago City Council Resolution to Make the City 'Torture Free’” via Illinois CAT
"Incarcerated Workers Launch Nonviolent Work Strike Against "New Jim Crow" Across Alabama Prisons” from Truthout
"Tennessee bill to bring back electric chair headed to governor”
"A Prisoner Says Farewell to Solitary Confinement – Writing by Lee Savage” via Prison Culture
Written by BOTL social media/activism director Katie Klabusich
Produced by:
Jay! Tomlinson
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| 0:00.0 | This program is made possible by the members and donors to show, for details visit the membership |
| 0:07.0 | tab at BestOfTheLif.com. |
| 0:08.8 | Welcome to the award-winning BestOfTheLifes podcast with Cupsidae from Kids for Cash |
| 0:12.8 | to the Movie, The Young Turks, Brave New Films, Moyers and Company, The Data Packment |
| 0:17.3 | Show, Time, Moomiya Abu Jamal, the California Prisoner Hungerstrike Solidarity, Mark Killstein |
| 0:23.4 | for Citizen Radio and Activism from BestOfTheLifes. |
| 0:31.0 | She was a good kid, she was happy. |
| 0:37.0 | I was known for being the joke-ster. |
| 0:39.0 | Eddie, he was always so fireball. |
| 0:42.0 | We were talking about how funny it would be if we made a fake MySpace page about my vice principal. |
| 0:49.0 | I was trying to stay out of trouble. |
| 0:51.0 | That's when everything started. |
| 0:53.0 | Whatever sin you have committed, you can't go back and undo it. |
| 0:58.0 | Chevrolet was a no-nonsense, zero-tolerant judge. |
| 1:01.0 | He always killed kids. |
| 1:03.0 | You are going to experience prison. |
| 1:05.0 | I'll be glad to put you there. |
| 1:06.0 | The way Chevrolet ran the courtroom. |
| 1:08.0 | You've got to have Anthony Bailey there and the kids would have gone away. |
| 1:11.0 | There's a mechanism that takes over that keeps kids in that system. |
| 1:15.0 | No one listened because they were kids. |
| 1:17.0 | There was never any instance of guilt or innocence they were locking him up. |
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