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Pages tagged "Police State"


#1195 Criminalizing protest with civility as a cudgel

Posted on Podcast by Amanda Hoffman · July 10, 2018 6:00 PM
Air Date: 7–10-2018
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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)

Posted on Podcast by Amanda Hoffman · May 08, 2018 6:00 PM

​Air Date: 5–8-2018

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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)

Posted on Podcast by Amanda Hoffman · March 27, 2018 6:00 PM

​Air Date: 3–27-2018

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Today we take a look at the blossoming of the renewed efforts of the conservative drug warriors
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#1171 Debt, profit and modern-day slavery (Injustice System)

Posted on Podcast by Amanda Hoffman · March 16, 2018 6:00 PM

​Air Date: 3–16-2018

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Today we take a look at the catastrophic point where cutting taxes, racism, capitalism, immigration policy and our punitive-rather-than-rehabilitative criminal justice system all meet
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​#1142 Long past time to boycott the NFL

Posted on Podcast by Amanda Hoffman · October 27, 2017 6:00 PM

​Air Date: 10–27-2017

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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

Posted on Podcast by Amanda Hoffman · September 26, 2017 6:00 PM

​Air Date: 9-26-2017

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Today we look at the economic and criminal implications of immigration policy
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​#1132 800,000 hostages (Immigration and DACA)

Posted on Podcast by Amanda Hoffman · September 12, 2017 6:00 PM · 1 reaction

​Air Date: 9-12-2017

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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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​ #1122 Real-Life Alternatives to the Prison/Industrial Complex

Posted on Podcast by Amanda Hoffman · July 28, 2017 6:00 PM

​Air Date: 7-28-2017

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Today we look at the cause and state of our prison system and hear some suggestions on ways to fundamentally reform it
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​#1116 The evolution of policing (Injustice System)

Posted on Podcast by Amanda Hoffman · June 30, 2017 6:00 PM

​Air Date: 6-30-2017

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Today we take a look at some of the problems with modern policing and how we got to now
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#1105 The Surge comes to the War on Drugs

Posted on Podcast by Amanda Hoffman · May 19, 2017 6:00 PM

​Air Date: 5-19-2017

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Today we look at the impact Jeff Sessions and the entire Republican government is having on drug policy in America and how we should be addressing destructive drug addiction instead
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