Overcoming America's Long History of Criminalizing Dissent and Protest / Whitney Bauck

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🗓️ 11 February 2026

⏱️ 100 minutes

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Award-winning climate and environment journalist Whitney Bauck discusses her latest at the Guardian, "The criminalizing of protest and dissent has a long history in America." Our conversation will also cover her previous posts describing "How activism is tackling the US loneliness epidemic," and "How US cities are helping each other resist ICE." Checkout Whitney's recent Guardian pieces here: https://www.theguardian.com/profile/whitney-bauck Whitney currently serves as a contributing writer for the Guardian, and previously served as print editor at the climate and culture magazine Atmos.

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0:00.0	Take a second
0:03.0	The water
0:04.0	The water
0:06.0	Take a gap This is a power in the world.
0:31.6	Biggie man! This is Hell.
0:47.0	Live from the United States, where the law is far too often, the crime.
0:53.8	This is hell. Journalist Nicole Foy joined us last week, and she
0:59.1	contributed, contributed, it's harder to say than I thought, to a ProPublica investigation,
1:05.1	which in turn led to, as Nicole writes, Senate Democrats documenting the experiences of nearly two dozen citizens wrongly detained by immigration agents,
1:15.7	contradicting the Trump administration's claims that it only detains immigrants.
1:20.5	Following that hearing, Senator Richard Blumenthal, Democrat from Connecticut,
1:24.3	was quoted saying,
1:25.7	What most struck me is the brutality and physical violence involved in every story.
1:33.0	This is stuff that should be unrecognizable as America.
1:40.2	Should be.
1:42.0	Sure.
1:43.1	But if you've been paying any attention, it is very recognizable throughout U.S. history.
1:49.2	The state has launched police violence against citizens when the police, whenever the police are, the citizens whom the police, I am having some real difficulty today.
2:00.5	You know what I'm going to do? I'm going to take a sip of water and start all over. You difficulty today. You know what I'm going to do?
2:01.1	I'm going to take a sip of water and start all over. You should. And you know what we're going to do, too? You should be like Joe Rogan and make everyone hear those sips. Oh, I used to do, I used to pour the coffee at the beginning of the show and everybody told me that they loved the sound because that's when they knew they should pour their morning coffee every week.
2:16.3	So I should start that all over again.
2:17.7	All right.
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