(2015/09/18) The angels of our better nature are being tested (Syrian Refugee Crisis)
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Jay Tomlinson
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🗓️ 18 September 2015
⏱️ 71 minutes
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Summary
Edition #954
Show Notes
Ch. 1: Opening Theme: A Fond Farewell - From a Basement On the Hill
00:00:30 Ch. 2: Act 1: What a migrant crisis looks like - @allinwithchris Hayes - Air Date 8-28-15
Ch. 3: Song 1: Ennio - Silence Is Sexy
00:04:00 Ch. 4: Act 2: Kenneth Roth of Human Rights Watch on Refugee Crisis - @democracynow - Air Date: 08-31-15
Ch. 5: Song 2: Gangs - dustmotes
00:10:20 Ch. 6: Act 3: Leadership lacking as refugees flee to Europe and crisis grows - Rachel @Maddow - Air Date 9-2-15
Ch. 7: Song 3: Broken boiler - Plusplus
00:17:41 Ch. 8: Act 4: Billionaire Offers To Buy Island For Syrian Refugees - @theyoungturks - Air Date: 09-05-15
Ch. 9: Song 4: Clangour And Flutes (Live @ KEXP) - Sindri Már Sigfússon
00:26:08 Ch. 10: Act 5: A Deeper Understanding of Europe's Migration Crisis - @onthemedia - Air Date: 9-11-15
Ch. 11: Song 5: I Can Help (Exciting Live Performances) - Billy Swan
00:35:22 Ch. 12: Act 6: Help My People, Let More War Refugees Settle Here: A Syrian American’s Message to Washington - @democracynow - Air Date: 09-09-15
Ch. 13: Song 6: No-End Ave - Jahzzar
00:40:31 Ch. 14: Act 7: Obama turns to refugee crisis after Iran nuclear deal victory - Rachel @Maddow - Air Date: 9-10-15
Ch. 15: Song 7: Black Eyed Susan - Podington Bear
00:42:51 Ch. 16: Act 8: Why isn't the U.S. taking in more refugees? - @allinwithchris Hayes - Air Date 9-2-15
Ch. 17: Song 8: Cetology - Ben McElroy
00:45:15 Ch. 18: Act 9: #AmericaWelcomes #SyrianRefugees via @MoveOn & @thenation - Best of the Left Activism
Ch. 19: Song 9: This fickle world - Theo Bard
00:48:22 Ch. 20: Act 10: Cold-Blooded Fox News Demonizes Syrian Refugees - @theyoungturks - Air Date: 09-12-15
Voicemails
00:57:40 Ch. 21: Thoughts on the history of economic populism - V from Western New York
01:01:28 Ch. 22: Thoughts on the use of public and urban space - Ryan from Pheonix
Voicemail Music: Loud Pipes - Classics
01:05:59 Ch. 23: Final comments on how bad policies begin to sink into our collective psyche
Closing Music: Here We Are - Everyone's in Everyone
Activism: #AmericaWelcomes #SyrianRefugees via @MoveOn & @thenation
Take Action:
SIGN: Urge the U.S. government to accept more Syrian refugees via MoveOn.org & The Nation
Add your photo to the #AmericaWelcomes campaign on IG & Twitter through MoveOn.org
Sources/further reading:
“Tell the United States to Accept More Refugees and Asylum-Seekers From Syria” via The Nation
"Syrian Refugees: All You Need to Know” via Newsweek
"Turkey Has Spent Nearly $8 Billion Caring For 2.2 Million Syrian Refugees” via Huffington Post
“Syria’s War: Refugee Crisis” — full coverage from AlJazeera America
"Federal Spending: Where Does the Money Go” via the National Priorities Project
"Germany's economy will grow faster because of the million refugees it is helping, study finds” via The Independent
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 of the show. |
| 0:10.0 | To support the work we're doing, please visit the Contribute tab at BestOfAleft.com. |
| 0:14.0 | Now welcome to the award-winning BestOfAleft podcast with clips today from all in with Chris Hayes, |
| 0:19.0 | Democracy Now, The Rachel Maddo Show, The Young Turks, and on the media. |
| 0:30.0 | If you listen to Donald Trump or conservative talk radio or even the county sheriff we had on this program last night, |
| 0:35.0 | you might think this country is being absolutely overrun by immigrants, |
| 0:38.0 | most of them from Mexico bringing drugs and crimes along with them. |
| 0:41.0 | And this anti-immigrant hysteria is not particularly well grounded and it also seems particularly ridiculous at a time |
| 0:48.0 | when Europe is facing its biggest migrant and refugee crisis since World War II. |
| 0:54.0 | Hundreds of thousands of people this year have fled war and poverty in the Middle East and Africa, |
| 0:59.0 | many seeking to escape the ongoing horror or civil war in Syria. |
| 1:04.0 | Migrants and refugees are now filling up camps across Europe, while the death toll continues to climb. |
| 1:09.0 | Authorities today removing the bodies of 71 people from the back of a truck found abandoned on a highway in Austria. |
| 1:17.0 | Syrian travel documents were found among the dead, which included four children, the youngest, a two-year-old girl. |
| 1:23.0 | At least four people been arrested, believed in members of a human smuggling ring. |
| 1:28.0 | Across the Mediterranean, the bodies of as many as 150 people were brought ashore after both capsized off the coast of Libya. |
| 1:35.0 | At least 2500 people have died at sea this year alone making the desperate journey Europe. |
| 1:41.0 | And that does not include the victims of this latest tragedy. |
| 1:44.0 | This man and his daughter fleeing the war in Syria survived the journey and are being held at its tension center. |
| 1:50.0 | They call it the root of death. We're forced to take it. This Syrian man says, now we call it the grave of the Mediterranean. |
| 2:01.0 | Think about the situation you would be in if you undertook that journey with your child. |
| 2:05.0 | German Chancellor Angela Merkel noting the situation is a bigger test for the European Union than the Greek financial meltdown. |
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