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What's in Store for Milwaukee at this Summer's RNC? / Rachel Ida Buff

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🗓️ 6 February 2024

⏱️ 85 minutes

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Our guest is Rachel Ida Buff who posted the Boston Review article, “The Right Comes for Milwaukee: Why did the blue city agree to host the Republican National Convention—and to suspend a hard-won police reform for its duration?” Also, 'This Week in Rotten History.' Check out Rachel's article here: https://www.bostonreview.net/articles/the-right-comes-for-milwaukee/ Help keep This Is Hell! completely listener supported and access weekly bonus episodes by subscribing to our Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/thisishell

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Oh, it's all in all my belly.

0:02.0

There and now we could have been.

0:05.0

I'm in a while running with my own.

0:08.0

Yeah.

0:09.0

It's a kill.

0:10.0

And the woman. The Pick it down down! This is hell. Live from Chicago where the city will be hosting this August Democratic National Convention and only a month earlier

0:55.1

in July our neighbor to the north Milwaukee will be hosting the Republican

0:59.1

National Convention and you know if those two conventions are happening that close to one another

1:04.6

within 90 miles of one another there will be no question this summer that both

1:12.0

the people in Chicago and Milwaukee.

1:16.0

Well, finally, fully be aware that

1:21.2

this is hell, yes, I've spoken with and one of our producers Chris Kulvin has

1:27.2

spoken with many people who are going to be protesting the summer's DNC here in

1:32.3

Chicago come in August. In fact I've talked to people

1:35.4

in Milwaukee who are coming down for the DNC protests the month after the

1:40.0

RNC actions up in their own hometown.

1:43.0

Problem with that planning for Milwaukeeans is those protests in Milwaukee may still be...

1:50.0

The protesters may still be completely worn out by what might happen at the

1:55.8

RNC in Milwaukee and mid-July. And what might happen is downright frightening.

2:03.0

First, there's Wisconsin being a hotbed for far-right white supremacist fascist.

2:08.0

That's not good.

2:10.0

Second, the police have already revealed how friendly they are to such violent, deadly fascist back in 2020 in

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