#50: The Current Affairs Autonomous Zone

Current Affairs

Comedy, Government, News, Culture, Politics

4.4 • 645 Ratings

🗓️ 10 June 2020

⏱️ 71 minutes

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Summary

The panel discusses the protests, alternatives to policing, and political art. (If you want to know further thoughts on Dave Eggers' "The Captain and The Glory", don't worry—Current Affairs will reveal all soon.) The panel this week was editor-in-chief Nathan J. Robinson, associate editor Vanessa A. Bee, finance editor Sparky Abraham and host Lyta Gold. Transform Harm: https://transformharm.org/abolition/ Criticism of 8 Can't Wait: https://www.8toabolition.com/ Resource Guide: Prisons, Policing and Punishment: https://medium.com/@micahherskind/resource-guide-prisons-policing-and-punishment-effb5e0f6620 Nathan's article about Christopher Dorner: https://newpol.org/last-american-idealist/ This episode was edited by Dan Thorn of Pink Noise Studios in Somerville, MA.

Transcript

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0:00.0	From Studio H8 in the Current Affairs remote world headquarters, it's Current Affairs, your
0:06.0	ears greatest hour of politics and culture.
0:08.0	I'm your guest host, Letta Gould.
0:10.0	Pete Davis is busy.
0:12.0	He's maybe out being the CEO of Antifa.
0:15.0	We cannot confirm or deny this.
0:17.0	Nobody should ask too many questions about it, especially not the FBI.
0:24.7	What Pete is doing is his own business, and we just hope he's been saying about it,
0:26.5	which is not big to see over.
0:28.3	Are we still pretending he's alive?
0:30.6	You know, Pete's alive.
0:32.4	Pete is definitely alive.
0:34.5	He's the CEO of it, or maybe not.
0:36.3	He's definitely alive.
0:37.4	He's definitely alive. Don't worry about that. That's definitely alive. He's definitely alive.
0:38.4	Don't worry about that.
0:40.6	That's definitely not the thing you should be concerned about.
0:41.6	We didn't murder him.
0:45.0	No one should investigate further is what we're trying to say.
0:49.3	There's no reason that the doors to Studio H3 are locked and we're in Studio H8 now.
0:50.0	No, no.
0:51.3	That's... Studio H3 might burn down mysteriously.
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