Protests, Yesterday And Today

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🗓️ 28 August 2020

⏱️ 35 minutes

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This week we're talking protests, both old and new. On Wednesday, Milwaukee Bucks players refused to play their NBA playoff game in protest of racial injustice. Other pro athletes in the NBA, WNBA and more also walked off the job. Sam talks it out with Clinton Yates, columnist for The Undefeated. Then, we take it back 50 years to the Chicano Moratorium in Los Angeles on August 29, 1970. That march and rally against the Vietnam War ended in 200 arrests, many injuries, and three deaths, including journalist Rubén Salazar. It's Been a Minute producer Andrea Gutierrez shares a personal story about it.

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0:00.0	Hey y'all, this is Sam's Aunt Betty.
0:02.8	This week on the show, protest, present and past.
0:07.6	Alright, let's start the show.
0:12.0	Hey y'all, from NPR. I'm Sam Sanders.
0:14.3	You are listening to It's Been a Minute.
0:16.5	And this episode, we are talking protest.
0:19.5	We're gonna start by unpacking one of the biggest stories of this week.
0:23.1	All the professional athletes who have gone on strike
0:25.9	over police killings of black people.
0:28.4	And then a bit later, we'll talk about a protest from 50 years ago
0:32.0	in Los Angeles over the Vietnam War.
0:35.2	It is called the Chicano Moratorium.
0:37.6	And if you don't know what it is already, well, we're gonna tell you.
0:41.6	Alright, let's begin with this week's protest in sports.
0:45.0	This Wednesday, the Milwaukee Bucks walked off the court
0:47.8	ahead of their playoff game to protest for racial justice.
0:51.5	Milwaukee is just 40 miles away from Kenosha, Wisconsin,
0:55.1	where police shot a black man,
0:56.8	Jacob Blake in the back seven times.
1:00.3	That shooting has led to protests across the country.
1:03.5	Soon after the Bucks walked off the court, other NBA and WNBA players,
1:08.0	and former players and coaches, they'd all decided that they'd had enough.
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