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Right-Wingers Push Death Penalty Reinstatement / Maya Schenwar

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🗓️ 11 July 2023

⏱️ 79 minutes

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Maya Schenwar returns to discuss her Truthout article, “Right-Wingers Push Death Penalty Reinstatement Bills as Part of Hardline Agenda: The same forces that are attacking abortion, trans health care and racial justice are also pushing for more executions." Maya Schenwar is a writer, editor, journalist and organizer who has spent the last 20 years working tosculpt new ways for journalism to serve the public good and fuel social transformation. She spent 13 years as Editor-in-Chief of Truthout, an independent social justice news publication, and is currently the organization’s Editor-at-Large and Board President. Recently, Maya founded the Truthout Center for Grassroots Journalism. She is the co-author (with Victoria Law) of Prison by Any Other Name: The Harmful Consequences of Popular Reforms (The New Press, July 2020), and the author of Locked Down, Locked Out: Why Prison Doesn’t Work and How We Can Do Better (Berrett-Koehler Publishers, 2014). Both books challenge the ingrained logic of prison and policing that holds our society captive, and share the work of bold and creative efforts to uproot the prison-industrial complex. Maya is also the co-editor (with Joe Macaré and Alana Yu-Lan Price) of Who Do You Serve, Who Do You Protect? Police Violence and Resistance in the United States, an anthology focused on the entrenched racism and violence of policing and the fight to dismantle that institution. She authored a chapter in The Long Term: Resisting Life Sentences, Working Toward Freedom, and co-authored a chapter in the anthology Welcome to the Revolution: Universalizing Resistance for Social Justice and Democracy in Perilous Times, with Alana Yu-Lan Price. More info at https://www.mayaschenwar.com/. Also, an episode of "Rotten History."

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Dead man walking, shall be granted. Nebraska I assume is a Lincoln record. Dead Man Walking challenge for him.

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But it's the same style, right?

0:27.0

Right, nice. This is hell.

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hell.

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Live from the United States, where there are far too many people who love to hate.

0:59.0

This is hell.

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In fact, so many people love hate in this country that one of the two major political parties

1:06.4

which dominates US politics governance and media appears to have an agenda, a party platform that is not only about

1:14.4

hating those who are not like them through policy that policies that commit

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cruelty and violence against who they see is the other, violence that can turn deadly,

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but they're also just generally throwing around hate like it's pennies.

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At least that is what our guests suggest today in a few minutes we will

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have the return of Maya Shenwar who is going to be on to discuss her truth-out

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article right-wingers push death penalty reinstatement bills as part of hardline

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agenda. The same forces that are attacking abortion, trans health care, and racial justice are also pushing for more executions which you can find at

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truth out.com you can follow truth out on Twitter at truth out Maya is director of the Truth Out Center for Grassroots Journalism.

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She is also Truth Out's editor at large and board president.

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Maya is the co-author with another past guest Victoria Law of Prison by Any Other Name,

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The Harmful Consequences of Popular Reforms, which we discussed with her and

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Victoria on the show back in 2020. She is also the author of Lockdown,

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locked out, why prison doesn't work and how we can do better,

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