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Behind The Scenes Of The Travel Ban: What Is Our Responsibility Now?

Majority 54

Majority 54

News, News Commentary, Politics, Society & Culture

4.76.3K Ratings

🗓️ 3 August 2018

⏱️ 47 minutes

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Summary

This episode is for everyone who has listened to this show, thought about the change they’d like to make in the world, and hesitated to take action because they either weren’t an expert or weren’t directly affected by the thing they wanted to change. We’ve been debating the Muslim ban since the 2016 campaign, and we’ve even done an episode of this show on Islamophobia, but today we wanted to tell you about the woman behind the legal fight for refugees. She’s not a long-time human rights attorney or a former refugee herself. In fact, when Becca Heller started the International Refugee Assistance Project, she wasn’t even a lawyer yet. Now that organization is helping people in over 70 countries. Becca is also one of the people who organized volunteer attorneys to assist refugees at airports when the Muslim ban first came down. The Muslim ban may not lead the news everyday, but the damage its doing continues, and here is my conversation with Becca about what can be done. Important links: @RefugeeAssist @Majority54  @JasonKander hellomajority54@gmail.com Donate: https://irap.urbanjustice.org/civicrm/contribute/transact?reset=1&id=13 Produced by Brock Wilbur  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

I'm Jason Kander and this is Majority 54.

0:05.3

I'm always telling you to use your platform.

0:08.6

And I try to lead by example with this podcast.

0:11.6

In that vein, I have an exciting announcement.

0:14.5

By far, one of the most popular episodes of Majority 54 ever was my conversation last

0:20.0

season with Shannon Watts.

0:21.6

Shannon's the founder of Mom's Demand Action for Gunsense in America.

0:25.0

I can't tell you how many times somebody has come up to me and told me that they joined

0:29.8

at Mom's Demand Action after glistening to that conversation.

0:33.6

I'm proud of that because it's one of many ways that we have used our platform on this

0:37.6

show.

0:38.6

Now, as you know, I have a book coming out on Tuesday.

0:41.8

It's called Outside the Wire, 10 Lessons I've Learned in Everyday Courage.

0:45.6

And I want to use that platform to support Mom's Demand Action too.

0:49.5

So I'm pleased to tell you that starting now and lasting until a week after the book

0:53.2

hits shelves, for every copy sold, Diana and I will make a personal contribution to Mom's

0:59.4

Demand Action in every town for Guns Safety.

1:02.9

I told you last week, I'm really proud of this book.

1:05.3

I wrote this for anyone who looks at the world, wants to change it, thinks maybe upping

1:10.4

their political involvement as the answer, but then looks at people in politics and says,

1:15.0

if I do that, I might lose myself in it.

1:17.2

I might lose my faith in the world, or I just might have to do things that I don't

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