A New Year and the Dogs Are Still in the Streets But They Aren't Alone: A Conversation about the Continuing Outrage Of Police Murder, Gil Scott-Heron Corrected a Mistake and the Leadership and Plan to End It.
Weekly Program
Carl Dix (Revolutionary Communist Party/Stop Mass Incarceration Network, Rise Up October); Bob Avakian (Chairman, Revolutionary Communist Party); Cornel West (Professor, Union Theological Seminary); Gil Scott-Heron (Poet/Musician)
Carl Dix on the horror of police murder, its justification by the system, from Tamir Rice to the Chicago PD murders of Quintonio LeGreir and Bettie Jones: how to end all this, the possibility & need for all out revolution and the police in socialist society. Gil Scott-Heron's powerful song - Jose Campos Torres. From their 2014 dialogue, Revolution and Religion, the Fight for Emancipation and the Role of Religion, Bob Avakian & Cornel West on why we are still fighting for justice in 2015
Michael Slate - Host and Producer Henry Carson - Assistant Producer Jeff Pryor - Production Assistant Alex Brenner - Intern Teddy Robinson - Engineer
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