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Let Yourself Feel (with Maurice Chammah)

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Pod Save the People

News, Society & Culture, Politics

4.78.8K Ratings

🗓️ 2 February 2021

⏱️ 73 minutes

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Summary

DeRay, Sam, Kaya, and De'Ara dive into the underreported news of the week, including Seattle PD's budget, billionaire economic recovery, vaccination distribution, and immigration agents within the 287(g) program. Netta Elzie gives updates on what's happening with the nationwide protests. DeRay sits down with Maurice Chammah, author of "Let The Lord Sort Them: The Rise and Fall of the Death Penalty in the United States" to discuss capital punishment.


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Links:

DeRay: https://theappeal.org/the-lab/report/decades-of-federal-policies-turned-local-police-on-immigrant-communities-heres-how-biden-can-stop-that/

Kaya: https://www.cnn.com/2021/01/26/business/billionaire-wealth-inequality-poverty/index.html

Sam: https://theappeal.org/politicalreport/seattle-participatory-budgeting-defund-police/

De'Ara: https://www.cnn.com/2021/01/30/us/new-york-vaccine-disparities/index.html

Transcript

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0:00.0

Hey, this is Dere.

0:02.8

And we're going to post it to people in this episode.

0:04.2

It's me, Sam Kaya, NDR, as usual, talking about the news

0:07.6

that you probably don't know from the past week.

0:10.2

The Genetic Elsie also is here to give us an update

0:12.0

on what's happening with the protest.

0:13.4

And then I sit down with the incredible author,

0:15.1

Maurice Chama, to talk about his new book,

0:18.4

Let the Lord Sort Them, The Rise and Fall

0:20.5

of the Death Palenty in the United States.

0:22.2

I learned a ton, you'll learn a ton,

0:24.7

timely book, let's do it.

0:27.1

My advice for this week is let yourself feel.

0:29.6

You know, it's one of the things I've been working on therapy.

0:31.9

And definitely something I've seen friend struggle with

0:34.4

is that like something happens normally when something's

0:37.3

like not great, we do everything to avoid the feeling.

0:41.0

We fill up our schedule, we self-medicate.

0:45.4

We do all this stuff so that the feeling won't come.

0:49.0

And avoiding all that feeling just piles up,

0:51.7

and piles up, and piles up until one day's too much.

0:55.3

So let yourself feel, get the support you need,

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