(2017/05/05) Free speech in an age of fascists
Best of the Left - Leftist Perspectives on Progressive Politics, News, Culture, Economics and Democracy
Jay Tomlinson
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🗓️ 5 May 2017
⏱️ 82 minutes
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Summary
Edition #1101
Today we look at some of the many layers of debate around freedom of speech, the freedom to protest, violent vs non-violent resistance and the fight against fascism
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Show Notes
Ch. 1: Opening Theme: A Fond Farewell - From a Basement On the Hill
Ch. 2: Act 1: Protest Rights Under Threat - On The Media - Air Date 2-7-17
Ch. 3: Song 1: Free and Equal Speech - Chris Priest
Ch. 5: Song 2: Pay Attention - Dilated Peoples
Ch. 6: Act 3: The history of violent and non-violent resistance movements - @CitizenRadio - Air Date 3-14-17
Ch. 7: Song 3: All You Fascists - Billy Bragg & Wilco
Ch. 8: Act 4: For Antifa, Not All Speech Should Be Free - On The Media - Air Date 2-7-17
Ch. 9: Song 4: Antifa - Outrage
Ch. 10: Act 5: Liberty and freedom as the Golden Rule - @dccommonsense w: Dan Carlin - Air Date 2-14-17
Ch. 11: Song 5: Freedom of Speech - John Mellencamp
Ch. 12: Act 6: Arizona's Fascist Attempt To Ban Protests - @theyoungturks - Air Date: 02-24-17
Voicemails
Voicemail Music: Loud Pipes - Classics
Ch. 14: Introduction to mini episode on progressive values of Americans
Mini Episode:
Ch. 15: Poll Results: America Fundamentally Progressive - @theyoungturks - Air Date: 05-23-12
Ch. 16: Poll: Americans Progressive On Key Issues - @theyoungturks - Air Date: 01-4-11
Ch. 17: Polls Prove America is Progressive - @theyoungturks - Air Date: 04-11-12
Ch. 18: Polls: Americans Are Progressive On Most Issues - @theyoungturks - Air Date: 07-23-10
Ch. 19: Final comments on how Fox News intentionally misleads without lying
Closing Music: Here We Are - Everyone's in Everyone
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| 0:00.0 | I think this is one of the worst laws I've ever seen in over 20 years of covering the |
| 0:04.2 | news. |
| 0:05.2 | And I don't even think it's borderline fascists. |
| 0:07.4 | I think it's totally fascist. |
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| 0:20.5 | visit the Contribute tab at bestofalleft.com. |
| 0:23.6 | Now welcome to the award-winning Best for Left Podcast with Cups Today from On the Media, |
| 0:28.0 | the Tom Hartman program, Citizen Radio, Common Sense with Dan Carlin, and The Young Turks. |
| 0:41.6 | You may have noticed there have been a lot of protests lately. |
| 0:45.1 | Take February 11th, for instance, plans for a candlelight walk against the Muslim ban in |
| 0:50.4 | DC, a resist Trump rally in San Francisco. |
| 0:54.4 | Colorado stands with Planned Parenthood in Denver, defund Planned Parenthood rallies across |
| 1:00.5 | the country, a smorgasbord of protests in New York City against Trump, mass incarceration, |
| 1:07.9 | and fur. |
| 1:09.5 | But some local and state governments have pushed back against such exuberant ubiquitous |
| 1:14.2 | political expression which of course has been mounting for months. |
| 1:18.3 | Protesters feel the streets in Milwaukee upset over Donald Trump's victory in the presidential |
| 1:22.5 | events. |
| 1:23.7 | The movement is demonstrated at the State House in Raleigh Friday as the outgoing Republican |
| 1:27.2 | governor, Pat McCory, signed the first of several measures limiting the powers of as soon |
| 1:32.5 | to be predecessor Democrat Roy Cooper. |
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