(2017/02/10) Unnecessary, ineffective and un-American (Muslim Ban)
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Jay Tomlinson
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🗓️ 10 February 2017
⏱️ 73 minutes
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Summary
Edition #1078
Today we lay out the story so far of Trump’s attempt to make good on his campaign promise to ban muslims from entering the country
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Show Notes
Ch. 1: Opening Theme: A Fond Farewell - From a Basement On the Hill
Ch. 2: Act 1: Breaking down the fallout of the muslim ban - Bradcast from @TheBradBlog - Air Date 1-30-17
Ch. 3: Song 1: Backfire - MuteMath
Ch. 4: Act 2: The muslim ban is unnecessary and ineffective - Trumpcast from @Slate - Air Date 1-29-17
Ch. 5: Song 2: Land of Confusion - Genesis
Ch. 7: Song 3: Richard Nixon - Rod & The MSR Singers
Ch. 9: Song 4: Generator (First Floor) - Freelance Whales
Ch. 10: Act 5: Lena Masri on the religious loophole that targets muslims - Bradcast from @TheBradBlog - Air Date 1-30-17
Ch. 11: Song 5: Islamophobia - Genocide
Ch. 12: Act 6: Media's failures in addressing the muslim ban - CounterSpin (@FAIRmediawatch) - Air Date 2-3-17
Ch. 13: Song 6: Fear, Terror, and the Fear of Terror - Infinite Third
Ch. 15: Song 7: get real - the mountain firework company
Ch. 16: Act 8: Fight Trump’s Muslim Travel Ban via @theIRC @HIASrefugees and @ACLU - Best of the Left Activism
Ch. 17: Song 8: Right to Complain - Trombone Shorty & Marc Broussard
Ch. 18: Act 9: The steps along the path to the muslim ban - Intercepted (@theintercept) - Air Date 2-1-17
Voicemails
Ch. 19: Debating Trump supporters - Colin from Cleveland, OH
Ch. 20: Working toward finding common ground - Jenny
Voicemail Music: Loud Pipes - Classics
Ch. 21: Final comments on how to start any political discussion
Closing Music: Here We Are - Everyone's in Everyone
Activism:
TAKE ACTION
Call your Representatives and Senators to demand they denounce Trump's ban & thank those who have: 202-224-3121 (Capitol switchboard number)
Explore and donate to the many other organizations supporting refugees and immigrants
Find local groups near you committed to fighting the Trump agenda via Indivisible Guide
EDUCATE YOURSELF
Letter: National and Local Organizations Support the U.S. Refugee Resettlement Program and Oppose Legislation that Would Stop the Resettlement of Syrian Refugees (Refugees International)
How to Help Immigrant and Muslim Neighbors (BillMoyers.com)
10 Concrete Ways to Take Action Against the Muslim Ban (Huffington Post)
Trump's Muslim Ban is Cowardly and Dangerous (The New York Times Editorial Board)
Donald Trump's Muslim Ban Makes Us All Less American (Rolling Stone)
Is President Trump's Immigration Order a 'Muslim Ban'? (Yes, here's why) (The Atlantic)
Trump’s Muslim Ban Is Culmination of War on Terror Mentality but Still Uniquely Shameful (The Intercept)
This is the Beginning of Donald Trump's Muslim Ban (The Nation)
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| 0:36.6 | Now, welcome to the award-winning Best of Left podcast with clips today from the Bradcast, |
| 0:41.3 | the Trumpcast, Democracy Now, the Majority Report, Counter-Spin, and Intercepted. |
| 0:50.6 | Protests at airports and elsewhere around the country in response to Donald Trump's late Friday |
| 0:56.6 | executive order banning immigration and otherwise unlawful travel from seven majority Muslim countries |
| 1:05.4 | continues at this hour. The order which came as we finished up Friday's show, it has been |
| 1:12.6 | reverberating across the nation and the world ever since it began by invoking 9-11. It invoked 9-11 |
| 1:21.5 | three times this executive order did. Of course, the 9-11 hijackers were from Egypt, |
| 1:26.2 | Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates, and Lebanon. None of those countries are included in this |
| 1:33.2 | executive order ban that happened on Friday. So this ban said to be necessary because of 9-11, |
| 1:42.9 | actually none of the home countries of the 9-11 hijackers are included. |
| 1:47.9 | Moreover, none of the terror attacks or attempted terror attacks in the US since 9-11 and including |
| 1:55.2 | 9-11 were actually carried out by foreign nationals or those who were born or even visited any of the |
| 2:03.2 | countries listed in this ban. None of the, for example, none of the perpetrators of the Orlando |
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