How to Lose Your Job by Supporting Palestine [TEASER]
5-4
Prologue Projects
4.6 • 3.2K Ratings
🗓️ 19 December 2023
⏱️ 7 minutes
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Summary
Ryna Workman and Jinan Chehade were both knocked off the Big Law course they thought they were on, after expressing solidarity with Palestine. Now they're on a mission to make some good trouble.
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| 0:00.0 | That is a lucid, intelligent, well thought out objection. |
| 0:04.0 | Thank you, Your Honor. |
| 0:06.0 | Over ruled. |
| 0:07.0 | Hey everyone, this is Leon from fiasco and prologue projects. |
| 0:14.1 | On this episode of 5 to 4, Peter, Rianen, and Michael are talking to Rina Workman and Janan Chahati. |
| 0:21.4 | Rina is a third-year law student at NYU law and Janan is a recent graduate of Georgetown |
| 0:26.4 | Law. Both thought they had their first law jobs all lined up, but when their |
| 0:31.1 | messages of support for the cause of Palestinian liberation made them targets on social media, their firms dropped them. |
| 0:37.0 | This is a conversation about what speech is really free, and what corporate law firms are actually looking for when they say they want diverse |
| 0:44.4 | teams. |
| 0:46.1 | This is 5 to 4, a podcast about how much the Supreme Court and big law suck. |
| 1:00.5 | Welcome to 5 to 4, where we dissect and analyze the Supreme Court cases that have rescinded our civil rights, like a law firm firm rescinding a Palestinian activist job offer. |
| 1:04.5 | I'm Peter, I'm here with Rianen. |
| 1:07.8 | Hey and Michael. |
| 1:09.6 | Hi everybody. |
| 1:10.7 | Keeping a topical today. |
| 1:12.4 | That's right. Yeah, yeah, special episode. That's right. |
| 1:13.0 | Yeah, special episode. |
| 1:14.5 | Yeah, we are conducting an interview |
| 1:17.4 | with a couple of folks, Rina Workman and Janan Chahati, |
| 1:21.9 | who had a somewhat similar experience, both of them going into |
| 1:26.0 | big law jobs and having those offers, those jobs taken away from them for what they said. |
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