"The only people responsible for police violence are the police" with Samelys López & Asad Haider

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Katie Halper

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🗓️ 12 June 2020

⏱️ 82 minutes

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Samelys López talks why she's running for congress, how her experience with child homelessness has shaped her platform, the kind of music her neighbors are playing in the background during our interview, the corporate centrist democrats she's challenging in the primary and her humanist anti-imperialist foreign policy. Asad Haider talks about police violence, the Sanders campaign, political violence, and how rational looting is.

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to the Katie Halper show really excited about this week's
0:05.0	episode we have two great guests one is Somelis Lopez who is running for
0:09.9	Congress in Bronx's 15th District. She is a housing advocate.
0:14.1	She's formerly homeless, and she is the real progressive
0:17.6	in this race.
0:19.3	And she talks about her biography, why she got into politics, what moved her to enter the race, and what makes
0:26.0	her different from the other candidates.
0:27.7	You'll definitely want to vote for her if you live in the Bronx in the 15th District, the elections are June 23rd. Also you can follow her
0:37.2	on Twitter at Somelis Lopez that's Samelie Y S L O P E Z.
0:47.0	Then I speak to Assad Hader, who is the author of
0:50.8	mistaken identities, race and class in the Age of Trump.
0:55.6	He's also the founding editor of Viewpoint magazine, and you can find him on Twitter
1:00.1	at Generality I I-I-I-I-I.
1:04.0	Stand by for more episodes that are coming down the pike,
1:07.1	which include an interview with Malika Jabali,
1:10.2	Margaret Kimberly, Anya Parmpel,
1:13.0	Johanna Fernandez,
1:15.0	Ranya Callick, Leslie Lee,
1:18.0	Eugene Perrier,
1:20.0	Shahead Bhutar.
1:21.0	All of those are coming as either main episodes or patron only episodes.
1:26.7	Huge news guys, huge breaking news. You know, listeners you've probably heard at the Katie Halper show Bump,
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