(2015/04/21) A fight for survival (#BlackLivesMatter)

Edition #915

Today we take a brief look at the Walter Scott killing, just one of the several recent police killings of unarmed black men in America, as well as examining the broader system in which these killings are allowed to happen

 

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Show Notes

Ch. 1: Opening Theme: A Fond Farewell - From a Basement On the Hill

00:00:30 Ch. 2: Act 1: American Police Kill More People in March Than UK Police Since 1900 - @davidpakmanshow - Air Date: 04-03-15

Ch. 3: Song 1: Stop the Killing - Kay Kay and the Rays

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00:04:21 Ch. 4: Act 2: Why #BlackLivesMatter - The Good Fight (@teamgoodfight) - Air Date: 2-3-15

Ch. 5: Song 2: Black Lives Matter - Single - Pastor Chris Harris

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00:21:18 Ch. 6: Act 3: If we can't trust our system then what system do we have? - This Week in Blackness (@TWiBnation) - AIr Date: 4-9-15

Ch. 7: Song 3: A System - Sungod Abscondo

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00:29:07 Ch. 8: Act 4: What if there had been no camera at the Walter Scott killing? - CounterSpin (@FAIRmediawatch) - Air Date: 4-10-15

Ch. 9: Song 4: Question Authority - Drunk Injuns

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00:32:07 Ch. 10: Act 5: Police escalate violence when they should be deescalating - @jimmy_dore Show - Air Date 8-15-14

Ch. 11: Song 5: You're Only Making It Worse - Reno Divorce

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00:37:42 Ch. 12: Act 6: The Costly Police Gender Gap - The F Word with @GRITlaura Flanders on @grittv - Air Date: 3-24-15

Ch. 13: Song 6: Saving Lives - A Fragile Tomorrow

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00:40:52 Ch. 14: Act 7: Black? It's More Dangerous Driving Now Than 12 Years Ago - @theyoungturks - Air Date: 04-19-15

Ch. 15: Song 7: A Dose of White Supremacy - Neffe Odom Kragh-Muller

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00:47:50 Ch. 16: Act 8: Juan González on Walter Scott Shooting: When Will the Police Killings of Black Males Stop? - @democracynow - Air Date: 4-10-15

Ch. 17: Song 8: Black Lives Matter - Single - NicDanger

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00:51:38 Ch. 18: Act 9: Demand an Executive Order on Racist, Violent Policing via @ColorOfChange — Best of the Left Activism

Ch. 19: Song 9: "This fickle world" - Theo Bard

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00:54:41 Ch. 20: Act 10: An Overreaction: Words On #BlackLivesMatter And MLK - Sarah O'Neal (@sarahadebibe) on @ajplus - Air Date: 01-18-15

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Voicemails

00:59:41 Ch. 21: Promoting LGBA2015.org from PrideOfIndy.org - Erin from Philadelphia

01:01:23 Ch. 22: Thoughts on the labels we use - James from Missouri

01:02:28 Ch. 23: JoatU.org as a marketplace to trade skills - Todd from Rochester

01:03:53 Ch. 23: Libertarianism would just bring back the guilded age - Ian from Chattanooga, TN

Voicemail Music: Loud Pipes - Classics

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01:05:34 Ch. 25: Final comments on Time Banking and the lack of coverage of police killings of women of color

Closing Music: Here We Are - Everyone's in Everyone

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Activism: Demand an Executive Order on Racist, Violent Policing via @ColorOfChange

Take Action:

SIGN and share the Color of Change petition: "President Obama: End discriminatory, violent policing and its unjust consequences”

Additional Activism/Resources:

SIGN and share: "Demand the Post and Courier issue a public apology for shameful #WalterScott article”

SIGN and share: "Tell advertisers to ditch Bill O’Reilly”

Sources/further reading:

"President Obama Already Has a Way to Prevent Policing Abuses” by Alan Jenkins and Diego Iniguez-Lopez of The Opportunity Agenda”

"The Origins of Modern Policing” via The Indypendent

"Police ‘Reforms' You Should Always Oppose” by Prison Culture

"Black Americans killed by police in 2014 outnumbered those who died on 9/11” at RawStory

"Abolish the Police. Instead, Let’s Have Full Social, Economic, and Political Equality” by Mychal Denzel Smith at The Nation

Written by BOTL social media/activism director Katie Klabusich

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Produced by Jay! Tomlinson

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