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Pod Save the People

Oppression Depends on Secrecy

Pod Save the People

Crooked Media

Society & Culture, News, Politics

4.78.8K Ratings

🗓️ 31 July 2018

⏱️ 47 minutes

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Summary

DeRay, Sam, Clint and Brittany discuss the overlooked news, including how the Trump administration is attacking a crucial lifeline for domestic violence victims, and how Memphis police spying on activists is worse than we thought. Candidate for St. Louis County Prosecutor Wesley Bell joins DeRay and discusses how he wants to reform the criminal justice system in St. Louis, and Lyft’s Vice President of Government Relations, Joseph Okpaku, joins DeRay to discuss new legislation that could put a cap on the number of drivers in New York City.

Transcript

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0:00.0

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

0:10.4

On this episode we have Wesley Bell who's running to be the county prosecutor in St.

0:13.7

List County.

0:14.7

We also join by Joseph Opaco who is one of the VPs at Lyft.

0:18.8

The reality is that Lyft is providing a significant amount of service in communities of color

0:23.6

and outer burrows.

0:24.8

So those are the neighborhoods that are going to get hit the hardest by having a cap on

0:29.0

our service.

0:30.0

And with the news with me, Brittany Clinton and Sam as usual.

0:33.9

So before we jump in, the messages we got talking to a group of teachers not too long ago

0:38.8

and what I said to them is something that I really believe, this notion that like what

0:43.5

the best teachers do.

0:44.5

And I've said this before, I think on the pod is that what the best teachers do is that

0:48.2

they know that the students already had the gift before the teacher walked into the

0:52.5

room and that their role is to actually make sure that the gift is always present, along

0:57.0

after the teacher's gone.

0:58.0

And what the worst teachers do is to make people believe that the gift is only present

1:02.4

in their presence.

1:04.2

And I say that because I've thought about that a lot and what it means to lead teams,

1:07.5

what it means to be on teams, what it means to be an activist and an organizer is that

1:11.6

part of what we do is help people find the gift inside of them.

1:14.8

And what made me start thinking about that phrase was when the teaching was really hard,

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