Air Date: 3–27-2018
Show Notes
Ch. 1: Opening Theme: Loving Acoustic Instrumental by John Douglas Orr
Ch. 2: Act 1: Michelle Alexander We Must Respond Forcefully & Challenge Jeff Sessions's New War on Drugs - @DemocracyNow - Air Date 05-19-17
Ch. 3: Song 1: Waterbourne - Algea Fields
Ch. 4: Act 2: Race, drugs and prisons - Progressive Faith Sermons w @RevDrRay - Air Date 9-10-17
Ch. 5: Song 2: Gullwing Sailor - Migration
Ch. 6: Act 3: Art Way on Pot Recriminalization - CounterSpin (@FAIRmediawatch) - Air Date 1-12-18
Ch. 7: Song 3: Inessential - Bayou Birds
Ch. 8: Act 4: Understanding the repeal of the Cole memo - Off Kilter - Air Date 1-26-18
Ch. 9: Song 4: Astrisx - Bodytonic
Ch. 10: Act 5: Tell Congress: Punitive Drug Policies Don’t Work. Harm-Reduction Does. via @DrugPolicyOrg - Best of the Left Activism
Ch. 11: Song 5: Streamer - Arc and Crecent
Ch. 12: Act 6: Death to Drug Dealers Trump Threatens to Ramp Up Drug War, Praising Efforts in Philippines & China - @DemocracyNow - Air Date 03-12-18
Voicemails
Ch. 13: The barbary wars were justified - Anonymous
Ch. 14: Breaking free from the car - Joe from Chicago
Voicemail Music: Low Key Lost Feeling Electro by Alex Stinnent
Ch. 15: Final comments on the benefits of electric-assist bikes and the militaristic history of the US
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Closing Music: Upbeat Laid Back Indie Rock by Alex Stinnent
(Additional music from Blue Dot Sessions)
Activism:
TAKE ACTION
Tell Congress: Stand Against Harsh Drug Penalties via Drug Policy Alliance
Tip: Use the sample email as guidance for a call script.
EDUCATE YOURSELF
An Overdose Death Is Not Murder: Why Drug-Induced Homicide Laws Are Counterproductive and Inhumane (Drug Policy Alliance)
Experts React to Trump’s Plan to Escalate Drug War and Impose Death Penalty for Drug Offenses (Drug Policy Alliance)
Read: Jeff Sessions’s memo asking federal prosecutors to seek the death penalty for drug traffickers (Vox)
Eleven countries studied, one inescapable conclusion – the drug laws don’t work (The Guardian, 2014)
Written by BOTL Communications Director Amanda Hoffman
Produced by Jay! Tomlinson
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