BLACK LIVES MATTER (EVERYWHERE)
The Hartmann Report
Thom Hartmann
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🗓️ 12 June 2020
⏱️ 58 minutes
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Summary
Medea Benjamin has been thinking about the intersection between racism and militarism- could forces for peace be assembled to intervene in conflicts, much like we hope to change the approach of our police forces?
The 13th amendment did not abolish slavery, it only limited it to those convicted of a crime. Why does America imprison people at rates far higher than any other developed country, and what does this tell us about the fundamental structure and history of our society?
Meanwhile, the Trump Crime Family continues their epic grift- did Melania renegotiate her pre-nup with Trump as a condition to moving to Washington, D.C.?
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| 0:00.0 | This is the Tom Hartman Program. |
| 0:15.0 | Welcome back to the third hour of our program. |
| 0:18.0 | On the line with us is the activist co-founder, Code Pink and Global Exchange, |
| 0:22.0 | author of Kingdom of the Unjust behind the US |
| 0:25.6 | Saudi connection. Madia Benjamin, Code Pink.org, Global Exchange.org, you can tweet |
| 0:31.4 | her at Media Benjamin. |
| 0:32.8 | Madia, welcome back to the program. |
| 0:34.4 | I read this piece that you and Nicholas Davies wrote. |
| 0:37.5 | I saw it on Mint Press News. |
| 0:39.3 | Black Lives Matter everywhere. |
| 0:41.2 | It's time to defund the US military. Talk with us for a moment |
| 0:45.2 | about the intersection of racism, not just American racism, but racism around |
| 0:50.5 | the world and militarism. |
| 0:53.0 | Yes, thanks so much for having me on, Tom. |
| 0:57.0 | Great to be back on the show. |
| 0:59.0 | If you look at the history of U.S. wars since the time of Vietnam till today, the US wars are |
| 1:06.4 | against people of color and so many people in the military get indoctrinated in racist ideas as part of getting people ready to go over and |
| 1:19.6 | kill people they know nothing about and really have no beef with. |
| 1:24.0 | And so when you see the U.S. killing people of color in places like Afghanistan or in Iraq |
| 1:32.0 | or you see U.S US weapons being used against people of color in Yemen or in Palestine or let's take it to the economic warfare that's been going on in places like Venezuela or Iran, |
| 1:47.0 | also non-white people. |
| 1:49.6 | The U.S. is at war with people of color around the world and that is reflected right here at home. |
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