#1541 Tear down paradise and put up a dystopian police state (Cop City)
Air Date: 2–5-2023
Today, we take a look at the threat to the lives of environment protectors around the world with a special focus on the first environmental activist in the U.S. to lose their life at the hands of police while defending the environment and the people who depend on it as part of the Defend the Atlanta Forest movement against the construction of what they have dubbed "Cop City."
Read more#1266 Writing human bias into the code that runs our lives (Algorithms)
Air Date: 4–19-2019
Today we take a look at the racism, sexism and classism that is permeating the algorithmic systems that are directing more and more of our online and offline lives
Read more#1195 Criminalizing protest with civility as a cudgel
Air Date: 7–10-2018
Today we take a look at the attempts to distract with calls for civility and the attempts to suppress dissent with various bans and impediments to protest
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#1182 Wrongheaded laws and prosecutors (Injustice System)
Air Date: 5–8-2018
Today we take a look at how we came to have some of the mandatory minimum laws that we do, how they came out of a sense of desperation from an underserved and ignored community, and how prosecutors have used those laws to make things worse. But there is hope to turn this around.
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#1174 Renewed and repackaged racism (Drug War)
#1171 Debt, profit and modern-day slavery (Injustice System)
#1142 Long past time to boycott the NFL
Air Date: 10–27-2017
Today we look at some of the recent and no-so-recent political problems plaguing the NFL including the protests against police abuse, institutional racism, sexism, homophobia and their coverup of the traumatic brain injuries suffered by countless players. And we discuss why it all matters.
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#1135 Understanding the Effects of Immigration
#1132 800,000 hostages (Immigration and DACA)
Air Date: 9-12-2017
Today we look at the combination of racism and cold political calculations that went into the decision to hold 800,000 DACA recipients hostage in order to placate the GOP’s scared white base and create leverage to force through funding for the southern board wall (also to placate the GOP’s scared white base)
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