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Pod Save the People

The Iconography of Resistance

Pod Save the People

Pod Save the People

News, Society & Culture, Politics

4.78.8K Ratings

🗓️ 30 May 2017

⏱️ 80 minutes

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Summary

DeRay, Brittany and Sam go deep on the past week’s news, including the economics of mass incarceration, emoluments, education budgets, and the troubling work to preserve Confederate monuments. DeRay speaks with Vanita Gupta, former head of the Civil Rights Division at DOJ, about civil rights retractions under Sessions, burning criminal justice questions and civil asset forfeiture. This episode is dedicated to victims of violence worldwide, past and present.

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0:00.0

Hey, this is Durey and welcome to Pod Save the People.

0:07.9

You know, I get people asking me a lot, what should I do?

0:10.8

What can I do?

0:12.4

And what I remind people is that there's a no silver bullet.

0:16.4

Mb is an understanding the world is the first step to changing.

0:20.5

It's why we spend so much time on the conversations on the podcast, helping think through the news

0:25.8

and helping think through some of the most important issues of the day, whether it's

0:29.7

healthcare, taxes, and today we talk about civil rights and legal space.

0:35.9

My practical advice to you would be first talk about it.

0:38.5

Think you can't change what you don't know.

0:40.5

So the more questions you ask, the more that you research, the more that you engage in

0:45.0

the awful conversation, whether it's in person or online, like the better off you are

0:48.9

and the better prepared you are to begin thinking about solutions.

0:52.7

The second is that we've become addicted to critique.

0:55.6

But it is one thing to critique the world.

0:57.4

It's another thing to build the world.

1:00.0

And while it's important to deconstruct and to understand that a deep love and a take

1:03.9

apart, you do that so it sets you up to build again.

1:08.5

So I'm excited for when we get deeper into the podcast episodes when we will have episodes

1:13.6

solely devoted to what the solutions look like and what incredible work is happening around

1:19.1

closing the racial wealth gap and ending mass incarceration and ending mandatory minimums

1:25.5

and thinking about sensing reform and bail differently and thinking about public education.

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