Dig: Taming Free Speech w/ Laura Weinrib
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🗓️ 25 September 2022
⏱️ 136 minutes
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Featuring Laura Weinrib on The Taming of Free Speech: America’s Civil Liberties Compromise. Did you know that the ACLU was founded as a radical labor organization allied with the IWW? Weinrib traces the rise of the modern civil liberties movement, and modern constitutional liberalism more broadly, from World War I through the New Deal. She explains how the ACLU went from defending free speech as a means to revolutionary ends to a liberal position exalting free speech as an end unto itself—including the anti-union speech of bosses and the political speech of corporations.
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| 0:00.0 | This episode of The Dig is brought to you by our listeners who support us at patreon.com |
| 0:05.6 | and by Haymarket Books, which has loads of great left-wing titles, perfect for dig listeners |
| 0:11.3 | like you. |
| 0:13.0 | One that you might like is Atomic Days, the untold story of the most toxic place in America |
| 0:18.7 | by Joshua Frank. |
| 0:20.9 | Once home to the US's largest plutonium production site, the Hanford Nuclear Reservation in Washington |
| 0:27.6 | state is laced with 56 million gallons of radioactive waste. |
| 0:33.7 | The threat of an explosive accident at Hanford is all too real, an event that could be more |
| 0:39.1 | catastrophic than Chernobyl. |
| 0:41.3 | In the context of renewed support for Atomic Power, Joshua Frank criticizes nuclear technology |
| 0:47.8 | and shines a spotlight on the ravages of Hanford and its threat to communities, workers, |
| 0:54.3 | and the global environment. |
| 0:57.1 | As Nick Estes puts it, the Hanford site haunts the future of the Columbia River Basin, its |
| 1:02.7 | land, people, plants, and animals. |
| 1:05.5 | It's a nuclear crime scene that once made Atomic Weaponry, Joshua Frank dissects the |
| 1:11.2 | historical crime scene, tracing it back to the colonization of this land while also pointing |
| 1:16.9 | to the future crimes that may have been unleashed by perpetual radioactive pollution. |
| 1:23.8 | Atomic Days by Joshua Frank |
| 1:26.2 | Out now from Haymarket Books, and available at Haymarketbooks.org, where US and UK readers |
| 1:32.6 | receive free shipping on orders over $25 and 25 pounds, respectively. |
| 1:47.8 | Welcome to the Dig, a podcast from Jacobin Magazine. |
| 1:51.4 | My name is Daniel Denver, and I'm broadcasting from Providence, Rhode Island. |
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