(2014/12/09) Breakdowns in the systems (Injustice System)
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Jay Tomlinson
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🗓️ 10 December 2014
⏱️ 76 minutes
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Summary
Edition #882
Today we take a look at the systemic failures, both institutional and psychological, that continue to make injustice the norm throughout our justice system
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Show Notes
Ch. 1: Opening Theme: A Fond Farewell - From a Basement On the Hill
Ch. 2: Act 1: How "Protect & Serve" Became "Search & Destroy" - @bravenewfilms - Air Date: 09-08-14
Ch. 3: Song 1: Unknown Song
Ch. 4: Act 2: And now to have secret trials - Le Show (@theharryshearer) - Air Date: 11-30-14
Ch. 5: Song 2: What Is Your Secret - The Weight Is a Gift
Ch. 6: Act 3: Botched grand jury instructions call Ferguson ruling into question - Rachel @Maddow Show - Air Date: 12-02-14
Ch. 7: Song 3: Just asking - Triangle Shirt Factory
Ch. 8: Act 4: Justice Scalia’s Grand Jury Rant Highlights Everything Wrong With Ferguson - @theyoungturks - Air Date: 11-30-14
Ch. 9: Song 4: Soon It Will Be Cold Enough to Build Fires - Soon It Will Be Cold Enough
Ch. 10: Act 5: Police body cameras are about more than the film they produce - @teamgoodfight - Air Date 9-15-14
Ch. 11: Song 5: Gobbledigook - Med sud i eyrum vid spilum endalaust
Ch. 12: Act 6: Officer's testimony cast Michael Brown as outsized threat - Rachel @Maddow Show - Air Date: 11-25-14
Ch. 13: Song 6: Fear is a villain - Theo Bard
Ch. 14: Act 7: The differing assumptions made about black children - @Radio_Dispatch - Air Date: 12-2-14
Ch. 15: Song 7: Mad World (feat. Gary Jules) - Trading Snakeoil for Wolftickets
Ch. 16: Act 8: #ThisStopsToday - Best of the Left Activism
Ch. 17: Song 8: Right to Complain - Backatown (Bonus Track Version)
Ch. 18: Act 9: Why police shoot black men - @TWiBnation - Air Date: 12-2-14
Voicemails
Ch. 19: Responding to Mark from Texas - Calling from Seattle
Ch. 20: Respectability politics has been tried and it doesn't work - Jadelle from NYC
Voicemail Music: Loud Pipes - Classics
Ch. 21: Final comments on respectability politics and a call for diversity in the voicemails
Closing Music: Here We Are - Everyone's in Everyone
SIGN ACLU petition: "Our communities are not war zones”
SIGN Change.org petition: Require Ferguson and St. Louis County and City police officers to wear body cameras
Demand the Department of Justice Secure Justice For Mike Brown through federal Civil Rights action
Demand the Department of Justice investigate and indict Officer Pantaleo on federal criminal charges for violating Eric Garner’s Civil Rights
Additional Activism/Resources:
#ThisStopsToday events are ongoing. Find/organize one in your city.
Follow Jamilah Lemieux’s #AliveWhileBlack thread.
Bookmark the Justice 4 Mike Brown Tumblr which is aggregating video/pics/posts from around the world in solidarity
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 the show. |
| 0:05.0 | For details, visit the membership tab at bestofaleth.com. |
| 0:08.0 | Now welcome to the award-winning Best of the Left podcast with Cups Today from Brave New |
| 0:12.0 | Films, La Show, The Rachel Maddo Show, The Young Turks, The Good Fight, Radio Dispatch, |
| 0:17.0 | and this week in Blackness. |
| 0:18.0 | And now that we are brimming with empathy for the Black Experience from the last episode, |
| 0:23.0 | we will dive into that sterile look at the structural failures that make these injustices so commonplace. |
| 0:30.0 | The Ferguson Missouri unarmed black teenager shot by a white cop. |
| 0:34.0 | A peaceful protest quickly evolved. |
| 0:37.0 | Between protesters and police in riot gear. |
| 0:39.0 | A small army on the street dressed in military-grade body armor carrying assault rifles, |
| 0:45.0 | rolling around in armored vehicles. |
| 0:48.0 | It's completely excessive. |
| 0:50.0 | Ferguson Missouri, population 21,000. |
| 0:54.0 | Why in the world do their police look like this? |
| 0:57.0 | Why are they driving a $300,000 armored vehicle through the suburbs? |
| 1:01.0 | And it's not just Ferguson. |
| 1:03.0 | Police are being militarized all over the country. |
| 1:06.0 | Does King New Hampshire, population 23,000, also need that ballistic engineered armored response counterattack truck? |
| 1:13.0 | How about Coleman County, Alabama, population 14,000? |
| 1:16.0 | Do they need a mine-resistant ambush protected vehicle? |
| 1:19.0 | Does Montgomery County Texas Sheriff's Department need a $300,000 drone? |
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