Weekends: Celebrating Juneteenth w/ Bill Fletcher
Jacobin Radio
Jacobin
4.7 • 1.6K Ratings
🗓️ 21 June 2021
⏱️ 116 minutes
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Summary
Every Saturday at 1 PM ET, Ana Kasparian and Nando Vila broadcast live from the Jacobin YouTube channel. Weekends features free-flowing and humorous commentary on current events and political strategy. This is the podcast version of the show from June 19, 2021. We're talking about the meaning of Juneteenth with longtime labor and racial justice activist Bill Fletcher Jr. Also covering the debate around Critical Race Theory and *why there is no* technological fix for policing.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome friends, you're watching Weekends with Andy Casparian and Nando Villa, Nando |
| 0:20.7 | how are you doing? |
| 0:22.3 | I'm good, I'm good, we got to apologize to our audience for slight delay, we had some |
| 0:26.1 | technical difficulties, but you know we're here, we're live, we're |
| 0:29.8 | feeling fresh, we're feeling good, we're looking good, you're looking good, I'm |
| 0:34.1 | looking good, we got a hot show today, so I'm excited. We do. Well you know good |
| 0:40.0 | things come to those who wait, so while we do apologize for the delay, we do have |
| 0:45.0 | one of my favorite produce shows, ready for you guys. So we're gonna have Bill |
| 0:51.1 | Fletcher Jr. on to have what I believe is one of the most important |
| 0:54.8 | conversations to have on the left, which is strategy, what can we do to build a |
| 0:59.4 | broad coalition, and what we should be looking out for in regard to some of the |
| 1:04.1 | populist rhetoric coming from the likes of Tucker Carlson and other right |
| 1:07.8 | wingers, we are also gonna do our super chats earlier today, so we're gonna do |
| 1:13.2 | super chats after our decode segment, so if you want to send in your question or |
| 1:17.8 | your comments, do it earlier today, we're not gonna end the show with super chats, |
| 1:21.6 | we're gonna do it right in the middle, right after our decode segments, and Nando, |
| 1:26.5 | your decode segment, you want to give them a little taste, a little tease? Well |
| 1:29.8 | we're gonna unpack some of this critical race theory stuff, and all the |
| 1:35.1 | hoopla that has been kicked up as a result, and so we'll get into that, and it |
| 1:40.8 | should be interesting. I want to discuss predictive policing, which relies on |
| 1:47.0 | artificial intelligence. Sounds terrifying. It is because it is terrifying. You |
| 1:53.6 | should be, everyone should be, but the good news is I think if the left provides |
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