High Stakes In Kansas Vote: Right-Wing Assault Against Women, Abortion Rights & Democracy
The Socialist Program with Brian Becker
The Socialist Program
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🗓️ 2 August 2022
⏱️ 45 minutes
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Summary
In a huge moment for the state and for the country, Kansas is voting today on a constitutional amendment that would effectively ban abortions if passed. Kansans are mobilized and fighting against this attack on women. In this edition of The Socialist Program, we air three presentations from a convening at The People’s Forum in New York called Free, safe, legal abortions now! Justice is ours to make!
The first speaker who is introduced is Claudia De La Cruz, co-executive director of The People’s Forum, popular educator, community organizer, and theologian. Claudia then introduces Karina Garcia, reproductive justice organizer for over a decade and member of the Central Committee of the Party for Socialism and Liberation. The last speaker is Mara Verheyden-Hilliard, a constitutional rights lawyer and executive director of the Partnership for Civil Justice Fund.
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| 0:00.0 | Today, people in Kansas are voting on an amendment to the state constitution that would effectively |
| 0:05.6 | ban abortions. |
| 0:07.8 | And Nancy Pelosi is touring what the Pentagon now calls the Indo-Pacific region and threatening |
| 0:12.3 | to visit Taiwan, which the Chinese government is calling a strategic level provocation. |
| 0:18.6 | We need a new system. |
| 0:20.2 | We need a new society. We need to demand that which may have sounded impossible even a few weeks ago a producer of the show, here with Brian Vassel. Welcome to The Socialist Program. |
| 0:55.3 | I'm Nicole Roussel, a producer of the show, here with Brian Becker, our host. |
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| 1:12.8 | Today, we're going to focus on the right to abortion and the Kansas ballot measure to overturn the right to abortion in the state and effectively ban abortions. |
| 1:20.5 | But before we do that, let's talk about the breaking news about Nancy Pelosi's trip to Asia and why a visit to Taiwan could spark a major confrontation with |
| 1:28.5 | China. Her announced itinerary includes Singapore, Malaysia, South Korea, and Japan. |
| 1:34.9 | Yeah, this is a big one. Nancy Pelosi, multi-millionaire, worth somewhere between $130 million |
| 1:41.4 | and $200 million, ultra-rich, the leader of the Democratic Party, the third person in the line of succession in the United States government. |
| 1:50.0 | First, it's the president, then the vice president, then the Speaker of the House. |
| 1:53.0 | So she's a very, very high-level official. |
| 1:56.0 | If she goes to Taiwan in this completely gratuitous, that is unnecessary trip, this, what the Chinese are |
| 2:03.8 | calling a strategic level provocation, nobody knows what will happen. Nobody actually knows. |
| 2:09.3 | Because obviously Nancy Pelosi going when the Democrats also controlled the White House is very, |
| 2:16.6 | very different than the last time a Speaker of the House |
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