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Pod Save the People

Never Cover Your Eyes

Pod Save the People

Crooked Media

Society & Culture, News, Politics

4.78.8K Ratings

🗓️ 18 September 2018

⏱️ 81 minutes

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Summary

Clint, Brittany and DeRay are on to discuss the overlooked news, including the impact of economics on the ability to evacuate from a hurricane, college access, and North Carolina gerrymandering. Sam joins remotely to share his news about a House bill that would reclassify dozens of offenses as “crimes of violence.” Anand Giridharadas joins DeRay in the studio to talk about his new book, Winners Take All.

Transcript

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0:00.0

Hey, this is Durey and welcome to Pottsick the People.

0:05.3

On this episode we're joined by Ananji who's going to talk to us about his book winners

0:09.3

take all and then we have the news with me, Brittany Clemson, as usual.

0:13.0

Sam's a little different on this episode because he was traveling but she will hear his

0:16.3

news nonetheless.

0:17.9

And the message that's been on my mind has been a piece of advice that I heard in the boxing

0:23.1

community and it was never cover your eyes.

0:26.4

And I think about that a lot when I think about the work that we're in which is often

0:30.6

work that's rooted in some sort of confrontation or challenge that the temptation to look away,

0:36.9

the temptation to just take a break, to put your head down is sometimes so great because

0:42.2

you get so weary.

0:43.9

But in this work we can't ever take our eyes off of either the thing we're fighting for

0:49.6

or the thing we're fighting against.

0:51.9

But the moment that we take our eyes off of who is on the other side of the battle, we

0:57.2

actually start to lose sight of their tactics and their strategies and remember they're always

1:01.8

watching us they know how we move for so long and that was just my mind.

1:06.8

Never cover your eyes.

1:08.3

Let's go.

1:09.8

Hey, it's Sam's Nyangua and today I want to talk about a particular bill that passed

1:16.5

the U.S. House's representatives last week.

1:19.3

It's called the Community Safety and Security Act of 2018, otherwise known as HR6691.

1:25.5

Here's why it's important.

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