Jacobin Radio: Black Lives Matter LA; Geoffrey Berman

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🗓️ 25 June 2020

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Suzi talks to two student activist/leaders of #StudentsDeserve, Sarah Djato at Dorsey high school, and Asia Bryant, who just graduated from Hamilton High, about their organizing, in partnership with Black Lives Matter LA, to defund school police and reallocate the money ($70 million of the LAUSD budget) to bring in counselors, services, and programs that serve black and brown youth as “students, not suspects.” That idea has now been endorsed by UTLA (United Teachers of Los Angeles), and will be taken up at the LAUSD School Board meeting this week.

Suzi then talks to Los Angeles Times legal affairs columnist, former US Attorney Harry Litman to discuss AG William Barr and President Trump against Manhattan US Attorney Geoffrey Berman. Friday night Barr announced Berman would resign, but Berman refused, and Saturday afternoon Trump fired Berman. But it doesn’t stop there, and Harry Litman helps us understand the dizzying array of legal and practical questions this raises. We also talk to Harry about the surprising decision on the Bostock v. Clayton Country Georgia case announced last week that saw our very conservative Supreme Court come to an unexpected rule, by a vote of 6-3 that says Title VII of the 1964 Civil Rights Act forbids discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation or transgender status — a hugely significant result.

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0:00.0	This is Jacobin Radio, I'm Susie Weisman.
0:09.1	Today we begin with the movement to defund the school police in the
0:15.8	Los Angeles Unified School District or LA U.S.D. an issue that has been a concern of
0:21.1	education equity advocates for years but has now come to the
0:25.2	forefront in the wake of the mass demonstrations and revulsion at police violence
0:29.2	across the country. The LA School Police Department, a force of some 400, accounts for about $70 million of the district budget.
0:39.0	And there is momentum now to defund the police and reallocate the money to bring in counselors, services, and
0:46.4	programs that serve black and brown youth as students, not suspects.
0:50.9	We hear from two student activists from students deserve or S.D. Sarah Jato, a
0:56.2	rising senior at Dorsey High School, and Asia Bryant, who just graduated from
1:00.7	Hamilton High School. Both have been deeply involved in organizing
1:04.4	against the police presence and are leading the efforts
1:07.3	of students deserve with Black Lives Matter Los Angeles
1:11.0	to defund school police now supported by the teachers union or
1:15.8	UTLA and which will be taken up at the LA USDA school board meeting this week.
1:20.9	We then turn to the LA Times Legal Affairs columnist
1:25.3	former US attorney and professor of constitutional law, Harry Lippman, who joins us
1:30.6	to discuss the standoff between Attorney
1:34.0	General William Barr and President Trump against Manhattan
1:36.8	U.S. Attorney Jeffrey Berman.
1:39.2	Friday night Barr announced Berman would resign, but Berman refused and Saturday afternoon President
1:44.0	Trump announced that he fired Berman, but it doesn't stop there and Harry Littman will help us
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