Celebrate the Wins

Pod Save the People

Crooked Media

Society & Culture, News, Politics

4.7 • 8.8K Ratings

🗓️ 13 November 2018

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Summary

DeRay, Sam, Brittany, and Clint discuss the overlooked news, including Roe v. Wade's vulnerability, holistic public defense, the role of consent decrees in curbing police brutality, and Mississippi's Senate runoff race. The Washington Post's Elizabeth Bruenig joins DeRay to talk about her article, "She reported her rape. Her hometown turned against her. Can justice ever be served?"

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0:00.0	Hey, this is Durey.
0:02.6	And we're going to buy two of the people.
0:04.0	In this episode, we have the news, like always,
0:06.2	of me Brittany Clinton-Zam.
0:07.6	And then we're joined by the reporter Liz Brunick.
0:09.6	In 2006, a cheerleader at a high school in North Texas
0:15.3	reported her rape.
0:17.3	No one was ever prosecuted for her rape.
0:19.9	In fact, the town turned on her.
0:22.9	And so the question that my article tries to answer is why?
0:28.3	Now, the word for this week is celebrate the wins.
0:32.4	You know, so often we're in this work with hard.
0:35.2	We fight more than we win.
0:37.1	We press, we go on.
0:38.2	And we just forget to celebrate that what happened with the midterms.
0:41.8	We got a lot of good things out of that.
0:43.3	The governorship, the state legislature's.
0:45.7	We didn't win all the races we wanted, but we got some good stuff.
0:48.7	And even making up on our personal lives is that we spend so much time
0:52.1	especially activists like fighting and pushing.
0:55.0	That we forget to celebrate the wins.
0:56.9	On this episode, you'll hear us celebrate some things
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