In the News: From the USA to Gaza: The New Global Movement Against Racism & Repression
The Socialist Program with Brian Becker
The Socialist Program
4.7 • 587 Ratings
🗓️ 25 May 2021
⏱️ 61 minutes
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On today's "In the News" roundtable, Brian Becker, Esther Iverem, Nicole Roussell and Walter Smolarek discuss the one year anniversary of the murder of George Floyd, the Palestinian people's continuing resistance after 11 days of massacres by Israeli forces, and how the mass movements that developed around the issues of racist police violence and the oppression of Palestinians have changed the world.
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| 0:00.0 | The world is marking the one-year anniversary of the murder of George Floyd. |
| 0:05.0 | And the Palestinian people continue to stand strong after 11 days of massacres by Israeli forces. |
| 0:10.9 | Today we'll talk about the mass movements that have developed around the issues of racist police violence and the oppression of Palestinians. |
| 0:17.3 | And how these movements have changed the world. |
| 0:20.7 | We need a new system. We need a new society. We need to demand that which may have sounded |
| 0:26.8 | impossible even a few weeks ago, but is not only realizable, but an imperative necessity. |
| 1:00.9 | Yeah. Welcome to today's episode of In The News, our Tuesday show on the Socialist Program with Brian Becker. |
| 1:02.8 | It's May 25, 2021. |
| 1:07.5 | This is an in-depth look at the biggest stories in the news right now, today, and this week. |
| 1:11.5 | We look beyond the headlines and expose the distortions in the corporate-owned media. If you enjoy the show, please support this independent programming by going to patreon.com |
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| 1:22.2 | seminar with Brian Becker this Wednesday, May 26th at 7 p.m. Eastern, 4 p.m. Pacific. That's tomorrow at 7 p.m. Eastern, 4 p.m. Pacific. |
| 1:31.3 | Supporters can ask Brian questions beforehand and live on the seminar. I'm Nicole Roussel here with |
| 1:36.8 | Esther Evarim, Walter Smilerick, and our host, Brian Becker. Esther Evarim is also the host of the radio show |
| 1:42.7 | and podcast on the ground at On The Ground Show. |
| 1:45.1 | org. Make sure to check out On the Ground, which comes out weekly every Friday. |
| 1:50.4 | Brian, today is the one year anniversary. It's been one single year since the murder of George Floyd, which really rocked the entire planet. |
| 1:59.4 | Quite a year. quite a year. |
| 2:02.0 | I'm going to start with a quote from Vladimir Lenin, the leader of the Russian Revolution. |
| 2:09.2 | There are decades when nothing happens, and then there are weeks where decades happen. |
| 2:16.3 | Now, Lenin's quote was from 1917 because decades were happening |
| 2:21.6 | right then and there where the Russian people and in particular women workers in St. Petersburg |
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