(2014/01/08) Harassment in place of police work (Racism) - a podcast by BestOfTheLeft.com

Edition #788

Harassment in place of police work

Ch. 1: Intro - Theme: A Fond Farewell, Elliott Smith 

Ch. 2: Act 1: Stop-and-Frisk: The High School Senior - Change the NYPD - Air Date: 7-29-13

Ch. 3: Song 1: Going home - Niklas Aman

Ch. 4: Act 2: What percentage of black people should we be afraid of? - Jimmy Dore Show - Air Date 7-27-13

Ch. 5: Song 2: Stop and frisk - MC Grizzz and Akil b STRANGe

Ch. 6: Act 3: Less Guns, Less Crime, This Is Bad How? - CounterSpin - Air Date 11-22-13

Ch. 7: Song 3: 10 Frisk Commandments (Remix) [feat. Jasiri X, Elon James White & Willie Evans Jr.] - This Week in Blackness

Ch. 8: Act 4: Don Lemon Endorses State Sanctioned Harassment - This Week in Blackness - Air Date 11-5-13

Ch. 9: Song 4: Stop and Frisk (The New Jim Crow) [feat. Paul Mabin] - Scientist & Ted Sirota's Heavyweight Dub

Ch. 10: Act 5: The Shocking Truth About Black People - Lee Camp - Air Date: 11-14-13

Ch. 11: Song 5: Stop and firsk - Vex Davortex

Ch. 12: Act 6: Michelle Alexander: Locked Out of America - Moyers And Company - Air Date: 12-20-13

Ch. 13: Song 6: It's the same old song - The Four Tops

Ch. 14: Act 7: Divest From Private Prisons - UnFuck it Up Project

Ch. 15: Song 7: Activism - Shihan

Ch. 16: Act 8: Judge Rules White Girl Will Be Tried As Black Adult - The Onion - Air Date: 01-24-11

Ch. 17: Song 8: Law and order - The International TV Orchestra

Ch. 18: Act 9: Law Professor Jodi Armour on poverty in the discussion of black crime - David Feldman Show - Air Date: 12-19-13

Ch. 19: Final comments on the definition of 'racism'

Voicemails:

Ch. 20: Defining racism - Elka from Fort Wayne, IN

Ch. 22: Bonus clip: Prejudice Is Not Racism - Radio Dispatch - Air Date 12-12-13

Leave a message at 202-999-3991

Closing Music:

Here We Are - Patrick Park

ACTIVISM:

http://act.colorofchange.org/sign/privateprison_divestment/?source=coc_website

Sources/further reading:

http://dreamdefenders.org/whoisysi/

https://www.tarbellnyc.com/discon/8

http://www.globalresearch.ca/the-prison-industry-in-the-united-states-big-business-or-a-new-form-of-slavery/8289

http://www.laborrights.org/creating-a-sweatfree-world/sweatshops/news/11147

http://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/the-school-to-prison-pipeline-a-nationwide-problem-for-equal-rights-20131107 h/t Molly Knefel https://twitter.com/mollyknefel

Produced by:

Jay! Tomlinson

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