Rashad Robinson & Color of Change Cancels Bill O'Reilly

Politically Re-Active with W. Kamau Bell & Hari Kondabolu

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🗓️ 25 May 2017

⏱️ 60 minutes

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Summary

Rashad Robinson has done battle with Bill O’Reilly and won – twice. He’s taken on the shady, corporate-driven conservative operation ALEC and gotten companies like Coca Cola and Walmart to back down from supporting stand-your-ground laws. And now, after successfully campaigning to remove O’Reilly from Fox News - along with
great work from UltraViolet, the Women's March, NOW-New York, CREDO, Sleeping Giants, and MoveOn - he’s taking on the prison-profiteering bail bond industry – and it’s not even June. As executive director of Color of Change, the nation's largest online racial justice organization, Rashad is at the forefront of the strategic campaigns that transform lives and movements. In this episode of Politically Re-Active, he shares the backstories behind these campaigns, the role of entertainment in the resistance, and more. Trust us – you won’t want to miss it!

Please visit Color of Change to learn how you can support their campaigns, especially their current campaign to reform the bail bond industry: https://www.colorofchange.org/. And follow Rashad on Twitter: @rashadrobinson.

Get in the head of one of your favorite hosts! Kamau’s book “The Awkward Thoughts of W. Kamau Bell” is available on Amazon. You can find a link as well as dates for his book tour at http://www.wkamaubell.com/. Hari also really, really wants you to listen to his albums and come to his shows. Do it! Find more info at http://www.harikondabolu.com/.

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0:00.0	I mean, it feels like that the work you're doing with the bail industry is so much more
0:04.4	needed with Jeff Session just recently coming out saying we have to go harder than we
0:09.8	you know we have to prosecute everybody to the fullest extent of the law.
0:13.4	Confederate Jeff.
0:15.0	I'm, I'm, I'm, I'm, I'm, I'm, I'm, I'm, I'm, I'm, I'm, I'm, I'm, I'm, I'm, I'm, I'm
0:24.4	I'm, I'm, I'm, I'm, I'm, I'm, I'm, I'm, I'm, I'm, I'm, I'm, I'm, I'm, I'm
0:29.7	Oh, please don't call me the H-Man that's a mistake.
0:31.9	Incredible.
0:32.5	Each man strikes terror to every...
0:36.1	The show were two comedians, Debbie Knappbell and the H-Man.
0:39.2	Each man, each man, man.
0:40.8	Try to make sense of politics in America.
0:42.9	Oh, God damn it.
0:44.7	On today's show we're speaking with the Executive Director of the largest online racial justice
0:49.5	organization, Color of Change.
0:51.8	And that is of course for Shod Robbins.
0:54.6	The Color of Change was one of the first organizations to popularize petition-based campaigns.
0:59.9	We're all used to this now, you see him everywhere, but Color of Change was there early right
1:04.6	after Katrina in 2005 and they actually get shit done.
1:09.7	If you're mad about the criminal justice system or predatory consumer products or cuts
1:14.1	in community investment or dehumanizing portrayals of black people in news and entertainment
1:19.3	then we should date.
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