Here Comes The Sunrise Movement
What A Day
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🗓️ 8 September 2020
⏱️ 20 minutes
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Summary
College students have returned to campuses, and so has coronavirus. Northeastern University suspended 11 students for partying, and will not refund them tens of thousands of dollars in tuition payments. At University of Kansas, students are striking and demanding that the university shut down the campus and give hazard pay to workers.
Extreme weather over the past few weeks has underscored the need for an extensive environmental policy overhaul, the kind that is championed by Massachusetts Senator Ed Markey. We look at how Markey worked with the Sunrise Movement to court young people in his primary race last week. Plus, we speak with Sunrise’s political director Evan Weber about lessons that Biden and other Democrats can learn from their movement.
And in headlines: protesters in Rochester demand justice for Daniel Prude, India now second in Covid cases, and Trump courts the racist White vote over the weekend.
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| 0:00.0 | It's Tuesday, September 8th. I'm Akila Hughes. |
| 0:08.4 | And I'm Gideon Ress again. This is what the day where we are encouraging any Trump |
| 0:11.8 | voters who sank last weekend to keep on trying. |
| 0:14.8 | That's right. Everyone sinks a voter to on their first vote parade. |
| 0:17.7 | All right? It's on you to dry off and just try again. |
| 0:20.2 | You know, being an expert voter requires 10,000 hours of sinking votes. |
| 0:24.1 | Mm-hmm. |
| 0:30.0 | On today's show, what Joe Biden can learn from Ed Markey's win and Massachusetts than |
| 0:38.8 | some headlines? |
| 0:40.3 | But first, the latest. |
| 0:42.1 | If you don't take it off, you're very muffled. So if you would take it off, it would be a lot |
| 0:46.5 | easier. |
| 0:47.5 | I'll just speak a lot louder. Is that better? |
| 0:49.7 | It's better. Yeah. It's better. |
| 0:53.5 | That was Donald Trump asking a reporter to take off his mask because apparently he was |
| 0:57.6 | muffled. I don't think I would have obliged in this situation. |
| 1:01.3 | Yeah. I don't think I've ever told anyone to take their mask off. Like I've told people |
| 1:04.8 | to put them on. |
| 1:05.8 | Yes. That seems to be the right way to go. |
| 1:09.2 | In news, though, last week, which felt like a hundred years ago, we talked about how the |
| 1:12.2 | opening of college campuses had inevitably led to coronavirus outbreaks. |
| 1:15.7 | And to give you a sense of scale, the New York Times looked at 203 counties in the country |
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