The Sick Logic of the Mass Incarceration of Black People, the Relationship between Science and Morality, a Call for the Arrest of the Pope and Arizona Goddamn!
Weekly Program
Michelle Alexander, The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness, PZ Myers, science blog Pharyngula. Bob Avakian, Revolutionary Communist Party
Michelle Alexander provides an incisive and insightful picture of how the War on Drugs and the resulting mass incarceration of Black and brown people was designed to create a racialized caste system, a whole new Jim Crow system even as we're told that we live in a colorblind society; PZ Myers discusses the relationship between Science and Morality and the role of each in the world and comments on Richard Dawkins call for the arrest of the Pope; In the wake of the fascist assualt on immigrants in Arizona Bob Avakian offers a thought on Why People Come Here from All Over the World.
Michael Slate - Host and Producer Meleiza Figueroa - engineer Henry Carson - Production Assistant Aidge - Production Assistant
Music break embedded at 35:40 that can accomodate local station id if needed. If you use the show, or simply check it out, let us know. Write to us at michaelslate@redfuture.com with you comments, criticisms, suggestions, ideas and so on. Sound Exchange Info if needed: 1) Song: Just Gimme Some Truth; Artist: John Lennon; Album: The U.S. vs John Lennon; Label: Capitol Records 2) Song: Friends of Science; Artist: Galactic; Album: Ya Ka May; Label: Anti/Epitaph; 3) Song: Working for the Clampdown; Artist: The Clash; Album: London Calling; Label: Epic