Roger Waters and The Occupation of the American Mind

Edge of Sports

Dave Zirin / The Nation

News, Sports News, Sports, History, Politics

4.8 • 616 Ratings

🗓️ 13 May 2016

⏱️ 50 minutes

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This week, an extensive interview with Pink Floyd founder Roger Waters on Israel, Palestine, US politics, and the power of music. We also discuss the role of sports in these ongoing discussions. The impetus for this interview was a new documentary that Waters narrates called The Occupation of the American Mind" put out by the Media Education Foundation. I also have some choice words about traveling to Rio - where I will be when you are listening to this pod - to look at the pre-Olympic planning. Will report back! Lastly, our Just Stand Up Award goes to the resistors on the ground in Rio, still standing up for working people in the face of the Olympics.The Occupation of the American Mind: http://occupationmovie.com | http://fb.com/occupationmovie | http://twitter.com/OccupationMovieRoger Waters: http://rogerwaters.com | http://fb.com/rogerwaters | http://twitter.com/rogerwatersMusic by Pink Floyd: ‘Time,’ ‘Another Brick in The Wall,’ ’Money,’ ‘Us and Them’ http://pinkfloyd.com & Ocupa Carnaval ‘Cachaça’ http://soundcloud.com/ocupa-carnaval—http://edgeofsportspodcast.com | http://fb.com/edgeofsportspod | http://twitter.com/edgeofsports | email us: [email protected] Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

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0:00.0	Get ready for a special episode of Edge of Sports where we speak about Israel and Palestine to Pink Floyd co-founder Roger Waters.
0:11.8	Here I am a visiting British passport holder, one of the most popular artists in Israel.
0:20.6	I'm treated like a piece of filth by these 18-year-olds
0:25.1	who are managing these checkpoints.
0:27.6	If they're treating me like this,
0:29.9	imagine with what disdain they treat the people who live here
0:35.1	and who've lived here for hundreds of years.
0:42.8	Music the people who live here and who've lived here for hundreds of years. It is very easy, unfortunately, to divert people who are frightened,
0:50.0	away from examining the reality of their lives
0:53.9	into the easy belief that their pain is caused by other people.
1:00.0	Somebody beyond a border, somebody of a different color,
1:05.0	somebody from a different religion, anybody who's different.
1:09.0	I like to think that beneath the icy waters of commerce,
1:14.6	the iceberg of compassion is somewhere there.
1:20.7	Dicking away the moments that make up a dull day.
1:28.3	Fridder and waste, the Owls in an off and wave.
1:36.3	Welcome to Edge of Sports. I'm Dave Ziron.
1:38.3	If you follow my writing, you know that I've written extensively about the Israeli war on the Palestinian people
1:45.2	and how it's impacted the sporting life of people in the Gaza Strip and the West Bank,
1:50.6	particularly their national soccer team,
1:52.9	and particularly the way that some members of this team have been jailed, tortured, and even killed.
1:59.0	And it's stunning to me how little impact this story has in the United
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