Lee Camp -- CENSORED
The Socialist Program with Brian Becker
The Socialist Program
4.7 • 588 Ratings
🗓️ 9 March 2022
⏱️ 34 minutes
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Summary
On today's special edition of The Socialist Program, Brian is joined by Lee Camp, a writer, comedian, activist and journalist. For eight years Lee hosted the television show “Redacted Tonight”, but this anti-war, anti-imperialist program has now been shut down along with all the shows on RT America amid the anti-Russia frenzy sweeping the country. They discuss how censorship and militarism go hand-in-hand, especially in this current moment of crisis.
Lee’s latest book is called “Bullet Points & Punch Lines.” You can find that and more of his work at leecamp.com, and you can support his work at Patreon.com/LeeCamp.
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| 0:00.0 | We need a new system. We need a new society. |
| 0:04.0 | We need to demand that which may have sounded impossible even a few weeks ago, |
| 0:09.0 | but is not only realizable, but an imperative necessity. Welcome to the Socialist Program, where we go beyond the superficial to understand the social |
| 0:41.0 | and political struggles dominating the world today. |
| 0:44.6 | I'm your host, Brian Becker. |
| 0:46.7 | Today we are doing a special edition of the show with Lee Camp. |
| 0:51.1 | Lee is a writer, comedian, activist, and journalist. For eight years, Lee hosted the television |
| 0:57.6 | show, redacted tonight. But this anti-war, anti-imperialist program has now been shut down, |
| 1:05.5 | along with all the shows on RT America, amid the anti-Russia frenzy sweeping the country. |
| 1:13.1 | We'll talk to Lee about how censorship and militarism go hand in hand, especially in the |
| 1:18.5 | current moment of crisis. |
| 1:21.5 | Lee's latest book is called Bullet Points and Punch Lines. |
| 1:25.7 | You can find that and more of his work at Leecamp.com. And you can support his |
| 1:30.7 | work at patreon.com forward slash Lee Camp. Lee, welcome to the socialist program. Thanks a lot for having me. |
| 1:39.5 | Lee, you have been doing redacted tonight. I mean, you do many other things. You do live shows, |
| 1:45.3 | but this television show that was hosted on RT America, it's been, it's been something people |
| 1:51.4 | counted on for a long time, eight long years. And you and the other people at RT America |
| 1:57.5 | are now without your shows and without your jobs. What happened? |
| 2:02.7 | Yeah, it's pretty crazy. Eight years and 375 episodes and it all ends in a matter of hours. |
| 2:08.8 | Well, we were not given many or almost any details, but I can tell you it was very sudden. |
| 2:14.8 | On Tuesday, it seemed like everything was running fine at RT America, where there are |
| 2:19.3 | many shows across the political spectrum that film there. And then Wednesday, they said, |
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