Call: (713) 526-5738 – Live stream: KPFT (Entire USA) Radio Show Date: July 6th, 2016
Police life and death power must be checked
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How many more times will Politics Done Right have a show like this? We will have a show like this until it is no longer needed. Philando Castile is the latest casualty of our police one day after Alton Sterling was gunned down by yet another unhinged cop. Folks, these cops are our alter egos. After all, our police is a reflection of us all. They are our alter ego with the power to kill, with the power to maim, with the power to control.
Today we will talk about Philando Castile and Alton Sterling’s murder-by-cop and its implications. What can we do? What must we do?
As I perused Facebook last night I saw a video of one of Houston’s political figures addressing a group of young people protesting police brutality. I watched her give sound advice to these young folks just like she did with those of us at Occupy Wall Street in Tranquility Park back in 2011 when the police started to move in. Our special guest today is Former City Council Woman, Former University of Houston Track Star, Former Survivor participant, Current TV Star of the reality show Sisters in Law, Current Houston Independent School Board Member, and attorney Jolanda Jones.
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My Blog Posts Of The Week
- Caller: Stop the distraction. The Big Beautiful Bill’s danger is much more than Medicaid & SNAP.
- Focus on the Big Beautiful Bill. The Trump-Musk feud, travel ban, Harvard, etc. are distractions.
- Democrats wake up: Here’s how to turn GOP killing green projects and Medicaid cuts into big wins.
- Mining our brain: Capitalism makes AI a clear and present danger. Democracy makes it our utopia.
- Give “We’re all gonna die” Sen Joni Ernst a break. It’s a smokescreen, taking our eyes off the ball.
- Michael Steele nails the naivete of journalists covering the Trump-Musk saga.
- Jasmine Crockett paraphrases Sen. Joni Ernst perfectly: You elected me to help you dig your grave.
- Are there ways living organisms can be used to fix pollution?
- Which companies and industry sectors stand to profit the most from global warming?
- Professor nails how tariffs are likely to cost Americans using the washing machine tariff history.
- Tariffs 101: This is how tariffs really work and how Trump is attempting to screw MAGA and us all
- CNN’s Jake Tapper allows Speaker Johnson to lie about the One Big Beautiful Bill to Americans.
- 60 Minutes Scott Pelley nails Trump in his NC Wake Forest University speech.
- AOC scolds Republicans for supporting the for-profit Medicare Advantage waste, fraud, and abuse.
- One Big Beautiful Bill will starve a large portion of Trump’s MAGA base.
- The King of Debt, Trump, will turn America into Argentina.
- Racist National GOP Machine Makes Its Pitch for Harris County
- China ‘deal’ sealed the reality that the American led order is over.
- What is mariculture and why are proponents so bullish on it as a solution to environmental challenges?
- What’s being done to get more minorities into green jobs?
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