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Addled Trump to Own Gaza in Insane 'Peace' Plan; MVA Fighting for Vets; Assata Shakur Remembered - TPN 10/5/25 · The People's News

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  Speaker 1: It's the week of October fifth, twenty twenty five, and
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  Speaker 1: this is what's on the People's News. There's a peace
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  Speaker 1: deal in Gaza, kind of is peace possible? Veterans in
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  Speaker 1: Louisiana fight for their rights and the rights of all
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  Speaker 1: veterans across the country. The Innocence Project is still fighting
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  Speaker 1: the fight to protect the innocent locked in prison, remembering
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  Speaker 1: a Sada Shakur freedom fighter. All that and more on
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  Speaker 1: the People's News. I'm Steve Gallington. This is the People's News,
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  Speaker 1: and the People's News starts now.
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  Speaker 2: Hi.
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  Speaker 1: This is Steve Gallington, producer and host for the People's News.
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  Speaker 1: One of the things that I got in preparation for
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  Speaker 1: going to the No King's rally on June fourteenth was
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  Speaker 1: a presentation from the ACLU, which I want to repeat
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  Speaker 1: the information from for you in light of the convicted
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  Speaker 1: felon opening up Alligator Alcatraz and the Republican House and
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  Speaker 1: Senate passing this big, ugly, expensive, devastating bill. Among those
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  Speaker 1: things is one hundred and thirty five billion dollars for
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  Speaker 1: increased secret police activity or ICE funding. And so you
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  Speaker 1: police or ice. You do not have to answer any
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  Speaker 1: questions about status or country of origin. The right to
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  Speaker 1: remain silent is protected under the fifth Amendment of the Constantution.
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  Speaker 1: You have the right to ask to see a lawyer.
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  Speaker 1: You have the right to refuse searches of your person
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  Speaker 1: and your car if the police do not suspect a crime.
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  Speaker 1: This is the fourth Amendment of the Constitution. Never sign
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  Speaker 1: anything without knowing what it says. And you have a
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  Speaker 1: right to record what happens. And if you're hearing this
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  Speaker 1: and you can speak and read Spanish, the People's News
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  Speaker 1: would love for you to read the script in Spanish,
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  Speaker 1: so we can accompany that with this as well. So
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  Speaker 1: be safe out there, look out for each other, and
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  Speaker 1: we will get through this together. Over seventy people have died,
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  Speaker 1: with a tax continuing in Gaza City as a ceasefire
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  Speaker 1: is said to be agreed on the convicted fellaon Donald
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  Speaker 1: Trump exhibiting more and more dementia and mental decline every
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  Speaker 1: single day, thinks that He's on an episode of the Apprentice,
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  Speaker 1: and he has worked out a deal with bb Net
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  Speaker 1: and Yahoo that Gaza will give up the hostages that
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  Speaker 1: they're holding and giving up their weapons, and in return,
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  Speaker 1: Israel will stop attacks and move to a designated line.
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  Speaker 1: After that, Trump himself and former Prime Minister Tony Blair
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  Speaker 1: would govern over Gaza on their own. So in Trump's
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  Speaker 1: Apprentice fever dream, he feels like this is the way
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  Speaker 1: that he's going to be able to develop Gaza as
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  Speaker 1: his own luxury property. The piece deal is problematic on
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  Speaker 1: many levels and may be illegal. We talk to Nick Cooper,
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  Speaker 1: who has headed many protests against what he calls an
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  Speaker 1: assault by Israel on Gaza, which he has called a
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  Speaker 1: form of apartheid. He commented on this latest deal, well, of.
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  Speaker 3: Sense, any kind of an agreement requires some kind of
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  Speaker 3: framework of law and equality and justice and you know,
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  Speaker 3: people actually having choices or whatever. But I mean, obviously
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  Speaker 3: you can't have an agreement where you know, hey, if
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  Speaker 3: you say no, then you'll get a genocide, and if
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  Speaker 3: you say yes and maybe a genocide. I mean, that's
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  Speaker 3: not really an agreement. That's just you know the kind
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  Speaker 3: of thing that genocidal powers are going to want to do.
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  Speaker 4: What do you think solution is besides Israel of getting
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  Speaker 4: out of that?
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  Speaker 3: Oh, well, you know, the solution has always been the
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  Speaker 3: you know, the framework of international law in which those
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  Speaker 3: who have participated in the knife would be brought up
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  Speaker 3: on war crimes charges in a tribunal system, and then
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  Speaker 3: you would have, you know, perhaps the Truth and Reconciliation
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  Speaker 3: Commission that would work on having peaceful, long term outcomes.
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  Speaker 4: But they say that they have a framework of of
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  Speaker 4: of negotiations and peace.
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  Speaker 3: Right, Well, I mean they can say whatever, but I mean,
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  Speaker 3: you know, this is just there's an ongoing genocide. There's
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  Speaker 3: not even any indication that the genocide is going to stop,
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  Speaker 3: no matter what things. Netna, who signs in fact in Hebrew,
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  Speaker 3: will kind of make very clearly that you know, there's
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  Speaker 3: genocide and nothing cleansing, and they'll never be a Palestinian state.
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  Speaker 3: So it's not it's not like it matters what he
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  Speaker 3: signs or whatever, and this is just some nonsense that
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  Speaker 3: they say or whatever. And you know, at this point
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  Speaker 3: people don't need to worry about what anybody's saying about anything.
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  Speaker 3: If there was anything resembling justice going on, it would
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  Speaker 3: look very different and it's not. And they can frame
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  Speaker 3: it however they want. I mean, Trump can say one
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  Speaker 3: day that it's going to be you know, whatever Riviera
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  Speaker 3: kind of situation in Gaza with luxury hotels, and you know,
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  Speaker 3: they can say anything they want, but the reality is
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  Speaker 3: that there's an on going genocide and there's no way
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  Speaker 3: to end it. I mean in the sense that if
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  Speaker 3: you're going to have the Israeli government continue and power,
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  Speaker 3: then the genocide is going to continue. The way that
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  Speaker 3: we've dealt with things like this before has been with war, cime, tribunals.
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  Speaker 4: People who said that the attack in Manchester the synagogue
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  Speaker 4: was tacking two people's shields, Uh, it was fames that
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  Speaker 4: this is going to be is going to be an honest,
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  Speaker 4: ongoing struggle and issuals in your attach Yeah, I mean.
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  Speaker 3: You know, if you're doing a genocide, of course, like
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  Speaker 3: that's going to have all kinds of collateral damage to
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  Speaker 3: innocent people around the world. That's you know the nature
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  Speaker 3: of this level of violences that's going to referberate on
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  Speaker 3: every level throughout society. So obviously, like people don't have
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  Speaker 3: the ability to hit out that anybody who's actually doing
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  Speaker 3: the violence. All they have the ability to do is
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  Speaker 3: pick on some you know, civilians or whatever. And that's
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  Speaker 3: that's what happens when you don't have any kind of
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  Speaker 3: justice framework, international law. You just have a bunch of
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  Speaker 3: people who are angry at each other. M H.
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  Speaker 4: And the movement here as far as stopperings, there's a
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  Speaker 4: lot of a lot of organizations in an attacked by
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  Speaker 4: the Trump administration as.
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  Speaker 5: Being a terrorist organization. They say, you know, and people's
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  Speaker 5: not on.
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  Speaker 4: Group, it's it's it's a people. It's a different different
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  Speaker 4: groups together. Just is it were you that the attacks
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  Speaker 4: on people's free speech and attacks on people' civil rights
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  Speaker 4: being being a stake.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean that's a complete attack kind of going
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  Speaker 3: on right now. And uh, you know, it's it's nothing
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  Speaker 3: that anybody who's alive in the United States has ever
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  Speaker 3: experienced in their life on this level of cutdown on
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  Speaker 3: constitutional freedoms.
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  Speaker 4: Well, and what do you think it was the end
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  Speaker 4: if anyway, because we've got in from reministrations nobs of
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  Speaker 4: the course, you get the right to go to places
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  Speaker 4: like Portland saying days uh, you know, it's an Antifa
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  Speaker 4: threatened the city and it needs to be taken over
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  Speaker 4: and they're gonna use that same platform as he said
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  Speaker 4: in the in the speech to the military, that we
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  Speaker 4: need to be we need to be used in cities
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  Speaker 4: in America as as takeoff spots or learning spots from
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  Speaker 4: before going overseas.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean that's pretty clear, uh, pretty clear example
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  Speaker 3: of what fascism looks like. I mean you say, yes,
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  Speaker 3: the enemy within and the foreign enemies, and we got
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  Speaker 3: to fight all about whatever you said, whether it's an
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  Speaker 3: Israel or the US or whatever the cow fascism sounds.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, this is this has taking another level though, because
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  Speaker 4: the the cities are being heard by the shut down
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  Speaker 4: and funding and people's people snapped in it. It's getting
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  Speaker 4: the finishers are being assations. So how do you find
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  Speaker 4: how do you know we talked about Issier, but but
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  Speaker 4: the administration now has gone gonea on Tovidy, not just
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  Speaker 4: talk about any hurt people, hurt people in general.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, you have a you know, I think that in
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  Speaker 3: the in the US framework of law, there are things like,
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  Speaker 3: you know, you can't enforce the law selectively, you know,
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  Speaker 3: in indicating you know, kind of revenge spirit. I mean,
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  Speaker 3: you're you're not allowed to do that under our laws.
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  Speaker 3: But you know, obviously those are enforcing those laws are
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  Speaker 3: the ones who are doing those things, so you can't
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  Speaker 3: really expect them to be held accountable, including in the courts.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, you know, of course, there are plenty of
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  Speaker 3: judges who are perfectly aware of the constitutional history in
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  Speaker 3: the United States, and they know that certain things are unconstitutional,
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  Speaker 3: but ultimately, with the Supreme Court where it is and
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  Speaker 3: their their rulings can get overturned.
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  Speaker 1: That woul 's activist Nick Cooper, commenting on the latest
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  Speaker 1: negotiations in the ongoing war of Israel against Gaza. October
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  Speaker 1: seventh will mark the second year since the attack by
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  Speaker 1: Hamas which started this entire conflict. Robert Robinson is scheduled
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  Speaker 1: to be executed on October sixteenth. Thursday, October second was
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  Speaker 1: the twelfth annual Wrongful Conviction Day, a day to raise
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  Speaker 1: awareness of the causes and remedies of wrongful conviction and
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  Speaker 1: to recognize the tremendous personal, social, and emotional costs of
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  Speaker 1: wrongful conviction for innocent people and their families. Since nineteen
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  Speaker 1: eighty nine, over three thousand, seven hundred people have been
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  Speaker 1: exonerated in the US. Collectively, these men and women spent
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  Speaker 1: thirty four thousand plus years in prison for crimes they
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  Speaker 1: didn't commit. As reported on this show before, there have
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  Speaker 1: been many in Texas that have been exonerated by the
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  Speaker 1: Innocence Project of Texas. Mike ware is the executive director
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  Speaker 1: of the Innocent Project of Texas. He talked about what
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  Speaker 1: they are doing and what people can do to help them.
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  Speaker 6: Yeah, it's a day. It's a National Wrongful Conviction Day
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  Speaker 6: that you know that that I guess has been set
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  Speaker 6: aside to recognize the phenomena of innocent people being convicted
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  Speaker 6: and imprisoned or maybe in some cases even executed for
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  Speaker 6: crimes they did not commit. And you know, we're I'm
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  Speaker 6: there are different events that are being organized. I'm going
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  Speaker 6: to participate in one at Texas Christian University tomorrow that
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  Speaker 6: is pretty much an all day event with speakers including judges, investigators, lawyers,
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  Speaker 6: academics that are going to be speaking about wrongful convictions
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  Speaker 6: and how they occur and how they can be prevented
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  Speaker 6: and how they can be identified and rectified. So the
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  Speaker 6: you know, the day is set aside really to bring
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  Speaker 6: the public attention to the fact that in the United
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  Speaker 6: States of America, in Texas. Uh, innocent people, completely innocent
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  Speaker 6: people are convicted, and that that is a huge problem
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  Speaker 6: with the justice system and needs to be addressed.
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  Speaker 4: How hard is it going to be now that you
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  Speaker 4: have an administration that is going it's taking things back
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  Speaker 4: a step, restricting any type of uh, well on this
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  Speaker 4: law and order law order stances, restricting some of the
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  Speaker 4: due process that we can rely on in the past.
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  Speaker 4: How hard is it going to be now to try
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  Speaker 4: to try to deshame people from being innocent people from
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  Speaker 4: being prosecuted.
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  Speaker 6: Well, well, I mean it's never been easy, you know,
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  Speaker 6: you know the the it's and of course, you know,
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  Speaker 6: we deal with trying to prevent innocent people from being prosecuted,
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  Speaker 6: but we also deal on the other end that once
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  Speaker 6: innocent people are prosecuted and convicted, we you know, initiate
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  Speaker 6: and litigate the often lengthy court proceedings that it takes
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  Speaker 6: to exonerate such a person. I've always said that it's
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  Speaker 6: much much easier to convict a completely innocent person than
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  Speaker 6: it is to exonerate a completely innocent person once they've
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  Speaker 6: been convicted. And I guess you know, some of the
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  Speaker 6: new policies and atmosphere that have been propagated by this
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  Speaker 6: administration are not going to make an already difficult job
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  Speaker 6: any easier.
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  Speaker 4: And the general public right now, because there's a lot
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  Speaker 4: of the rhetoric that's that's that's going around, how hard
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  Speaker 4: is it going to get support from the public because
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  Speaker 4: of what they're seeing around them and some of the
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  Speaker 4: some of the things they're hearing.
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  Speaker 6: Well, I'm not exactly sure specifically what you're talking about,
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  Speaker 6: but I think, well, I.
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  Speaker 4: Think when the public when I was just gonna say,
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  Speaker 4: when the public hears that we have innocent person that's convicted,
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  Speaker 4: but on the other hand, they hear the law and
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  Speaker 4: order stances that well or you know, well, he probably
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  Speaker 4: did it anyway, you know, or he had a he
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  Speaker 4: had a he had a criminal record in his background,
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  Speaker 4: so he probably did it, and the public, the general
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  Speaker 4: public hears that. So it's harder, it's harder for people
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  Speaker 4: to understand how innocent people can be can be prosecuted.
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  Speaker 6: Well, I mean there's always been that, you know, and
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  Speaker 6: there's always been people who have our entities or you know,
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  Speaker 6: political voices or whatever that have tried to undermine the
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  Speaker 6: validity of our work with lies. Uh. And my position
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  Speaker 6: is Ultimately, the truth is going to win out over
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  Speaker 6: the lies. But but I think, as far as you know,
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  Speaker 6: I think one of the subtexts of your question is,
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  Speaker 6: you know, what do you say to people who say, well,
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  Speaker 6: I'm I'm I'm for strong law enforcement, I'm for law
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  Speaker 6: and order, I'm for tough on crime. Well, it is
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  Speaker 6: not tough on crime to convict and imprison innocent people
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  Speaker 6: and let the guilty people go free. And a prime
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  Speaker 6: example of that is what has just happened in Travis
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  Speaker 6: County where the yogurt shot murders have evidently now been solved.
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  Speaker 6: And and it's it's by it was they were. The
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  Speaker 6: yogurt shot murders were evidently committed by a serial murderer
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  Speaker 6: who was never identified during the investigations until now until recently,
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  Speaker 6: and who went on to commit more murders after he
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  Speaker 6: committed the yogurt shot murders. While these innocent boys, some
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  Speaker 6: of these innocent boys were prosecuted, some went to prison,
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  Speaker 6: one was on debt, at least one was on death
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  Speaker 6: row for a while. You know, how does putting those
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  Speaker 6: innocent prosecuting and imprisoning and putting those innocent boys on
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  Speaker 6: death row while the actual perpetrator, a serial murderer is
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  Speaker 6: out committing more murders. How is that tough on crime?
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  Speaker 6: It's not, it's the opposite.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, and it's something that I've been talking to you
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  Speaker 4: over the years. I've seen cases that if anybody would
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  Speaker 4: have would have would have really looked at the case,
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  Speaker 4: can say, hey, there's no way this person did this crime.
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  Speaker 4: I think the most outrageous that I've heard was the
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  Speaker 4: it takes his ranger that used the oh what if?
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  Speaker 4: What what if? Theory that they put in the head
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  Speaker 4: of the of the of of a person that what
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  Speaker 4: if you did this? And then this is that you
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  Speaker 4: have done this and there's no there's no evidence of
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  Speaker 4: them even being in the scene in the tub, but
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  Speaker 4: they still prosecuted that principle. Yeah, yeah, I know the
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  Speaker 4: case you're talking about. I know it well.
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  Speaker 6: And yeah, it's once again, what purpose does that serve?
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  Speaker 6: Fabricating basically fabricating and framing a person to take the
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  Speaker 6: fall for a murder that was obviously committed by someone else.
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  Speaker 6: How is that? How is that law and order? How
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  Speaker 6: is that pro law enforcement? How is that tough on crime?
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  Speaker 6: When we know whoever, whoever committed the particular murder that
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  Speaker 6: I know you're talking about was never even has never
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  Speaker 6: been identified, and instead, you know, a a an innocent
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  Speaker 6: man was framed and convicted.
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  Speaker 4: I was just asking, how how is it that we
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  Speaker 4: are are we getting into a situation now that the
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  Speaker 4: civil rights are being thrown out the window, and especially
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  Speaker 4: when do process when especially when you're talking about brown
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  Speaker 4: people and in the immigrants, immigrants that's in this country
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  Speaker 4: that are being that are being picked up on no charges,
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  Speaker 4: but the fact that of of the of them being brown,
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  Speaker 4: or or or from or have a voice from somewhere else.
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  Speaker 6: Yeah, it sure looks that way. I mean, you know,
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  Speaker 6: I guess up up to this point, you know, we
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  Speaker 6: have been dealing with people who have been convicted of
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  Speaker 6: crimes they did not commit. But now it looks like
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  Speaker 6: we're dealing with people being picked up, arrested, and deported
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  Speaker 6: without even being accused.
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  Speaker 4: Of course, how do we get to that point? Are
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  Speaker 4: we to the point where now we're with on the
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  Speaker 4: constitution out the window?
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  Speaker 6: There's a lot of evidence of that that we're singing
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  Speaker 6: all around this yst Well.
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  Speaker 4: How do we fight this? We've seen this happen before,
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  Speaker 4: but how do we as individuals fight this.
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  Speaker 6: Well, we've got the midterms coming up. I'd say number one,
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  Speaker 6: get out and vote for the right candidates. Inform yourself
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  Speaker 6: and get out and vote for the right candidates in
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  Speaker 6: the midterms that are coming up. And what what cases
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  Speaker 6: are you working on now that people should know about. Well,
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  Speaker 6: we're working on Sandy melgar case down there in Harris County.
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  Speaker 6: Can you tell us about that case? Yeah, she was
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  Speaker 6: convicted in twenty seventeen a murder that she not only
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  Speaker 6: did not commit, she couldn't possibly have committed. She is
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  Speaker 6: supposedly murdered her longtime husband, who she had a very
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  Speaker 6: loving relationship with. There were no problems in the marriage,
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  Speaker 6: and they were celebrating I don't know, thirty something anniversary
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  Speaker 6: and there was a there was a home break in
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  Speaker 6: and he was murdered and she was tied up and
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  Speaker 6: injured and locked in a closet and things were stolen,
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  Speaker 6: and the Harris County Sheriff's office showed up and showed
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  Speaker 6: up and decided, for whatever crazy reason, right away that
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  Speaker 6: she committed the murder of stage the crime scene without
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  Speaker 6: any evidence of that crazy theory. And so that's that's
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  Speaker 6: the case. We're working on. I think I can tell
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  Speaker 6: you that the BBC has just come out with an
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  Speaker 6: excellent podcast on the case. The most recent episode came
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  Speaker 6: out today, so it's called Hands Tied, and I would
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  Speaker 6: recognize I would recommend that that podcast to learn about
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  Speaker 6: the Sandy Milk arcass from the BBC.
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  Speaker 7: And from what I.
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  Speaker 4: Will go and listen to that. But how is it
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  Speaker 4: that with no evidence, she's she's being she's being prosecuted
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  Speaker 4: on anything, you know, because it has to be some
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  Speaker 4: investigator and it found that it was a break in
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  Speaker 4: and somebody, somebody actually broke into the house and it
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  Speaker 4: wasn't her that did the crime.
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  Speaker 6: Well, you know, this is a long story that I'm
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  Speaker 6: I'm I'm really not prepared to go into right now.
• 21:44
  Speaker 6: I mean, it's it's, it's it's it's not only subject
• 21:48
  Speaker 6: of this eight part, eight episode podcast, it's also the
• 21:52
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• 21:56
  Speaker 6: and Justice podcast did. Bob Ruth did an excellent job.
• 22:00
  Speaker 6: So I've given you, I've given you the case in
• 22:04
  Speaker 6: a nutshell. It doesn't see the case juste. But maybe
• 22:09
  Speaker 6: we can have a conversation another time about that Guineas.
• 22:13
  Speaker 1: That was Mike Ware, executive director of the Innocence Project.
• 22:17
  Speaker 1: Without intervention from the state, Robert Robinson will be executed
• 22:21
  Speaker 1: on October sixteenth for a crime that never happened.
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  Speaker 1: dot com. Louisiana veterans are fighting for the right to
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  Speaker 1: have competent legal representation. Military Veterans Advocacy, a national nonprofit
• 23:04
  Speaker 1: that serves the interests of armed service members and veterans.
• 23:08
  Speaker 1: In June of twenty twenty four, sued Louisiana Governor Jeff
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  Speaker 1: Landry an Attorney General Elizabeth Merle over the unconstitutional nature
• 23:17
  Speaker 1: of recent legislation that Landry allowed to become law without
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  Speaker 1: and unaccredited organizations to represent veterans without any oversight. We
• 23:31
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• 23:36
  Speaker 1: about MVA and what it does and how these new
• 23:40
  Speaker 1: laws are affecting veterans.
• 23:43
  Speaker 8: Sure, as Senator Stuart Cathy Adam Monroe Louisiana introduced and
• 23:48
  Speaker 8: was able to get passed a bill in Louisiana legislature
• 23:52
  Speaker 8: that would have allowed uncertified and we believe unqualified to
• 24:01
  Speaker 8: represent veterans. You know, the v EIGHT has their certification system.
• 24:06
  Speaker 8: Even as an attorney have to be certified by the
• 24:08
  Speaker 8: VDA to practice before the PA. So these guys were
• 24:12
  Speaker 8: basically able to come in. There was no restraints on
• 24:17
  Speaker 8: how much they could charge, and you know, this allowed
• 24:21
  Speaker 8: them to do it. We objected to that of their
• 24:25
  Speaker 8: number of reasons, primarily because you know this is federal benefits.
• 24:30
  Speaker 8: Congress is the one who should be dictating this Topsiana legislature,
• 24:35
  Speaker 8: and there has been some problems throughout the country with
• 24:39
  Speaker 8: the these other organizations trying to kind of worm their
• 24:44
  Speaker 8: way into the veterans benefits system. And as a result,
• 24:48
  Speaker 8: you know, we want Congress to take care of any
• 24:52
  Speaker 8: kind of regulation. Would you not feel that a patchwork
• 24:56
  Speaker 8: of fifty different systems would be very good and in fact, uh,
• 25:05
  Speaker 8: you know, Congress is considering a bill right now.
• 25:07
  Speaker 5: But I.
• 25:09
  Speaker 8: Uh Jack Bernman, who is a retired Marine lieutenant general
• 25:14
  Speaker 8: and also represents Michigan First District, the Upper Peninsula of Michigan,
• 25:23
  Speaker 8: who has a bill in that would do that would
• 25:26
  Speaker 8: do the regulation. We took it to the court. The government,
• 25:30
  Speaker 8: the state of general fold of motion dismiss the governor
• 25:35
  Speaker 8: as basically, I'm sorry the UH. The governor was dismissed
• 25:40
  Speaker 8: from the case, and we understand that, but the Attorney
• 25:44
  Speaker 8: General was not. As a result, the judge actually got
• 25:50
  Speaker 8: a little I think ticked off at the UH, at
• 25:55
  Speaker 8: the government. He said some of their arguments were nonsensical
• 25:59
  Speaker 8: and where we had called one border on frivolous, he said,
• 26:01
  Speaker 8: the court agrees. So those are kind of if you
• 26:06
  Speaker 8: want to hear when you're an attorney. But you know,
• 26:08
  Speaker 8: I said about the other side, that's a good thing.
• 26:11
  Speaker 8: We've contacted the Attorney General's office to see if they
• 26:14
  Speaker 8: want to settle, and they are not interested in settling
• 26:18
  Speaker 8: at this time, so I guess we're going to move forward.
• 26:21
  Speaker 8: We have summary judgments motions filed, and as the court
• 26:24
  Speaker 8: to grant summary judgment if they do. That'll be fine.
• 26:28
  Speaker 8: If God will move on to trial.
• 26:31
  Speaker 3: How is it?
• 26:32
  Speaker 5: Does somebody can replace? You can go in front of
• 26:36
  Speaker 5: anybody and not have the bad Nobody did a background
• 26:39
  Speaker 5: check on the.
• 26:40
  Speaker 4: On the on the river.
• 26:43
  Speaker 8: You know there's particularly and I'm not saying that these
• 26:46
  Speaker 8: people are necessarily crooks or criminals, but you know they
• 26:53
  Speaker 8: in many cases are not qualified and they're certainly not
• 26:56
  Speaker 8: certified by the BA.
• 26:58
  Speaker 9: You know.
• 26:59
  Speaker 5: And I say that because you know, you know, you
• 27:01
  Speaker 5: can practice law, but your specialization has to be in
• 27:04
  Speaker 5: something you know, you know, either a con on the
• 27:06
  Speaker 5: er or or.
• 27:08
  Speaker 8: Well, yeah, you usually put an emphasis. When I first
• 27:12
  Speaker 8: came out of the Navy and I started practice law,
• 27:14
  Speaker 8: I did a kind of a general practice for a while,
• 27:18
  Speaker 8: but then I zer it in on military law and
• 27:22
  Speaker 8: veterans laws. That's what I knew the best.
• 27:26
  Speaker 5: So where does this case still now?
• 27:28
  Speaker 8: Uh? We wait for the court to rule on the
• 27:31
  Speaker 8: summary judgment in motions again if it if we win there,
• 27:35
  Speaker 8: and I think we have an excellent chance, Uh, then
• 27:39
  Speaker 8: that's it. The law will be basically declared unconstitutional.
• 27:45
  Speaker 5: And it was your you know, you wouldn't know, you
• 27:47
  Speaker 5: wouldn't know what what judges you might have with this case.
• 27:51
  Speaker 8: As Judge Jackson out of Batmanars and what's also history
• 27:57
  Speaker 8: of I don't know his history at all.
• 28:03
  Speaker 5: And this has been going how long has it been
• 28:05
  Speaker 5: going on?
• 28:07
  Speaker 8: We filed last summer I'm sorry, uh, summer of last year.
• 28:13
  Speaker 5: And this takes this stuff. Is this something that's has
• 28:17
  Speaker 5: been acting the veteran organizations across the country or is
• 28:20
  Speaker 5: this this kind of of something that's just Louisyannagy.
• 28:25
  Speaker 8: Actually there's a lot of interest. We've gotten some support
• 28:28
  Speaker 8: from the National Organization of Veterans AVOCA and the Better
• 28:33
  Speaker 8: for Wars, among others.
• 28:35
  Speaker 5: Can you tell people, at least from people how to
• 28:38
  Speaker 5: get in touch a your organization, tell you what your
• 28:40
  Speaker 5: organization does.
• 28:41
  Speaker 8: Sure Military Veterans Advocacy is five oh one C three
• 28:46
  Speaker 8: tax exempt nonprofit. Our website is www. Military Veterans Advocacy
• 28:53
  Speaker 8: dot org. We litigate, legislate, and educate.
• 28:57
  Speaker 3: That means we.
• 28:59
  Speaker 8: Go up beat up Congress for veterans benefits, although we're
• 29:04
  Speaker 8: not going to do too much of that here now
• 29:06
  Speaker 8: since Congress is still closed down or the government shut down.
• 29:11
  Speaker 8: We will see the VA or other groups that are
• 29:15
  Speaker 8: in this case, was the State of Louisiana for to
• 29:21
  Speaker 8: try to increase better tect veterans. And we also do
• 29:25
  Speaker 8: particularly legal education for attorneys on veterans law as better
• 29:30
  Speaker 8: as law is a unique kind of a unique niche,
• 29:33
  Speaker 8: and we want to make sure that the people that
• 29:35
  Speaker 8: go in out of practicing veterans law know what they're doing.
• 29:38
  Speaker 5: We know about the VA in in divisions in Texas.
• 29:43
  Speaker 5: How are the veterans being treated in Louisiana, especially as
• 29:47
  Speaker 5: far as the especially as for as a be a
• 29:50
  Speaker 5: hospitalizations and stuff like that.
• 29:53
  Speaker 8: Well, VA Hospital in New Orleans used to get a
• 29:56
  Speaker 8: second chance to die for the country, but post Katrina
• 30:00
  Speaker 8: they've come a long way and generally the medical treatment
• 30:06
  Speaker 8: you get there is pretty good.
• 30:09
  Speaker 5: Yeah, because we hear about this all the time, about
• 30:14
  Speaker 5: the way the venomans are treated a certain a certain facilities.
• 30:18
  Speaker 8: And well, we had a problem at bay By It's
• 30:23
  Speaker 8: in Florida, spen a few years now and the secretary
• 30:28
  Speaker 8: of the time we got a hold of him and
• 30:30
  Speaker 8: he got it straight out prefect.
• 30:32
  Speaker 1: That was Commander John Wells, US Navy, retired with m
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• 30:44
  Speaker 1: o c A. C y dot Org. Asada Shakur meant
• 30:49
  Speaker 1: a lot to many in the black community. She was
• 30:52
  Speaker 1: not just hip hop legend Tupac Shakur's grandmother, but was
• 30:56
  Speaker 1: so much more. She was a freedom fighting member of
• 31:00
  Speaker 1: the Black Liberation Army and author of Asada and autobiography,
• 31:05
  Speaker 1: and stands as a powerful and iconic symbol of resistance
• 31:09
  Speaker 1: and survival. Shakur died at the age of seventy eight
• 31:12
  Speaker 1: on September twenty fifth, in Havana, Cuba. Shakur always maintained
• 31:17
  Speaker 1: her innocence. After being wrongfully convicted for the killing of
• 31:20
  Speaker 1: a New Jersey State trooper in nineteen eighty, she escaped
• 31:25
  Speaker 1: imprisonment and lived out her remaining years on the Caribbean island.
• 31:30
  Speaker 1: In twenty thirteen, the FBI added her to the most
• 31:33
  Speaker 1: wanted list. She was never apprehended. The Minister of Culture
• 31:39
  Speaker 1: and the Revolutionary artist of the Black Panther Party, Emery Douglas,
• 31:43
  Speaker 1: talked about meeting Asada Shakur in Oakland at the Black
• 31:47
  Speaker 1: Panther Office. He also discussed her courageous life and dedication
• 31:51
  Speaker 1: to the movement of black people in the US. Mister
• 31:55
  Speaker 1: Douglas was on Block Report Radio and we air that
• 31:59
  Speaker 1: entire interview here with their permission.
• 32:03
  Speaker 10: You are listening to another edition of Black Report Radio
• 32:06
  Speaker 10: with the People's Minister of Information, j R.
• 32:08
  Speaker 8: Val Ray.
• 32:09
  Speaker 10: Today, our guest is the Minister Culture of the Black
• 32:13
  Speaker 10: Panther Party and the revolutionary artist Emriy Douglas. We're gonna
• 32:17
  Speaker 10: be talking about the passing of Black Panther and Black
• 32:21
  Speaker 10: Liberation Army member as well as political exile in Cuba,
• 32:25
  Speaker 10: Asida Shakur. She recently passed last week in Cuba.
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  Speaker 3: How are you, Emri, I'm doing good, Jr.
• 32:33
  Speaker 7: And yourself, I'm good good.
• 32:36
  Speaker 10: Sorry to hit you up on this somber day for
• 32:38
  Speaker 10: such a somber subject, but I wanted to hit you
• 32:42
  Speaker 10: specifically because you are one of the people that Asada
• 32:47
  Speaker 10: Shakur was honored to meet when she was a young
• 32:50
  Speaker 10: Black Panther coming to Oakland, California. Do you remember that
• 32:54
  Speaker 10: story on you meeting Asada and what happened?
• 32:58
  Speaker 7: Yes, I recall how I initially first saw her is that,
• 33:05
  Speaker 7: you know, looking out the window of the front of
• 33:07
  Speaker 7: the office one day in the afternoon and I seen
• 33:11
  Speaker 7: this young lady pap pastaid Ooh she still looks good,
• 33:15
  Speaker 7: but she didn't come in. And so what happened is
• 33:18
  Speaker 7: a couple of days later, I was out and about
• 33:21
  Speaker 7: dealing with political work, and when I came back in
• 33:24
  Speaker 7: the office, there she was in the office. As she
• 33:27
  Speaker 7: mentioned in her book, I believe she uh was out
• 33:30
  Speaker 7: here for a conference. And when she came by, I
• 33:34
  Speaker 7: guess she was reluctant to come in. The first was
• 33:36
  Speaker 7: you know. But then I seen her when she came
• 33:38
  Speaker 7: in and I introduced myself and Barbacilla was there. She
• 33:41
  Speaker 7: t cut up with Barbacil and myself and others for
• 33:44
  Speaker 7: a moment, and that was the initial meeting between her
• 33:49
  Speaker 7: and I. Then and then when I used to go
• 33:51
  Speaker 7: back to New York from time to time, I would
• 33:53
  Speaker 7: see her working with the Panthers in New York, all
• 33:56
  Speaker 7: of the branch and what have you. On the one
• 33:59
  Speaker 7: occasion I stayed at the apartment. When I was there,
• 34:03
  Speaker 7: I mean, she was full of curd the whole how
• 34:07
  Speaker 7: she got from point A to point B. And in
• 34:09
  Speaker 7: the context of what took place, in the context of that,
• 34:14
  Speaker 7: I mean, that's courage. You call that just straight up,
• 34:18
  Speaker 7: deep deep down inside commitment to social concerns, socialuggestice, and
• 34:26
  Speaker 7: I said, I'll recall remember Asata. I remember I went
• 34:29
  Speaker 7: to Cuba about twenty sixteen, but because I was invited
• 34:34
  Speaker 7: by the African Cultural Department there to bure a display
• 34:39
  Speaker 7: in Havana, you know, I didn't think it was appropriate
• 34:42
  Speaker 7: for me to request to visit or see her in
• 34:45
  Speaker 7: that context. So I didn't get opportunity during that time
• 34:49
  Speaker 7: to visit with her or talk with her. But I
• 34:52
  Speaker 7: recalled when Panther editor Jernana Abraham was one of the
• 34:56
  Speaker 7: editors of the newspaper went to Cuba, and I gave
• 35:00
  Speaker 7: for a whole bunch of calory sales that a friend
• 35:03
  Speaker 7: of mine had given to me who used to work
• 35:06
  Speaker 7: at Berkeley Flea Market in oak And, California, and she
• 35:09
  Speaker 7: used to wear them. Because I used to see pictures
• 35:11
  Speaker 7: of her early day when she had all those calory shells. Well,
• 35:15
  Speaker 7: those were the carosells that I had sensed her during
• 35:18
  Speaker 7: that time while she was there, because Joe Nina had
• 35:21
  Speaker 7: the opportunity to connect with her and to share those
• 35:25
  Speaker 7: carry sheeals with her.
• 35:27
  Speaker 10: Wow, can you talk a little bit about some of
• 35:31
  Speaker 10: the political work that she was doing and what was
• 35:35
  Speaker 10: on your mind when you heard that she was on
• 35:39
  Speaker 10: the FBI's most wanted list at that time.
• 35:43
  Speaker 7: The whole movement, we understood what cointail pro was. We
• 35:46
  Speaker 7: understood that, and we understood that that's the way that
• 35:49
  Speaker 7: they would try to exaggerate the situations, as they would
• 35:55
  Speaker 7: normally do when they arrest somebody, they put all these
• 35:59
  Speaker 7: trumped up charges on them, and when it had nothing
• 36:02
  Speaker 7: but maybe even not even the misdemeanor. And so that's
• 36:06
  Speaker 7: the same thing you to say with Asava. They were vindictive,
• 36:09
  Speaker 7: how they had been TAKETI the system in in the UH,
• 36:14
  Speaker 7: the racism and all that that exists then in now
• 36:19
  Speaker 7: you know. So, but as she spoke, she speaks in
• 36:21
  Speaker 7: her own words. She articulates very clearly and very convincingly.
• 36:26
  Speaker 7: You know that her hands were in the air. You know,
• 36:30
  Speaker 7: she wasn't resisting what have you. She had no gun.
• 36:35
  Speaker 7: You know she was shot. How could she have killed
• 36:38
  Speaker 7: the officer and the policeman, the patrolman or whoever he
• 36:43
  Speaker 7: was when she was already had been shot and her
• 36:46
  Speaker 7: arm was paralyzed. So that negates they hold. It shows
• 36:52
  Speaker 7: you clearly how they, in what they made, are are
• 36:56
  Speaker 7: capable beyond just the UH attempting to put her out
• 37:03
  Speaker 7: as a wanted person, but you demonize her in the
• 37:06
  Speaker 7: eyes of the public and particularly of the African American
• 37:10
  Speaker 7: and people of color community and the progressive in the country.
• 37:13
  Speaker 10: You know, well, I know that you have been a
• 37:17
  Speaker 10: black panther, you know, almost since the beginning, and I
• 37:22
  Speaker 10: know you saw the cases of people like Huie who
• 37:26
  Speaker 10: had to flee, Angela Davis who had to flee. You
• 37:30
  Speaker 10: also saw that the Cuban people gave a side of
• 37:34
  Speaker 10: chakor exile for over forty years. What can you say
• 37:39
  Speaker 10: to that show of solidarity and what should we learn
• 37:41
  Speaker 10: from it as a community.
• 37:44
  Speaker 7: Well, there's there's many lessons to learn in relationship to
• 37:48
  Speaker 7: that solidarity, because without solidarity, we were in a deep hole,
• 37:53
  Speaker 7: went at bottomless pit. We continuously without solidarity. She be
• 38:01
  Speaker 7: well what she had been right?
• 38:03
  Speaker 10: Yeah, What would you have to say specifically to the
• 38:07
  Speaker 10: black community about the solidarity that the Cuban people has
• 38:11
  Speaker 10: offered our movement, not just in the Sadist case, but
• 38:14
  Speaker 10: in the case of many freedom fighters.
• 38:17
  Speaker 7: If they've been informed and enlightened by the case of
• 38:20
  Speaker 7: Comrade's sister of the struggle, Asata, who has transitioned they
• 38:25
  Speaker 7: can be to become enlightened about the solidarity of the
• 38:30
  Speaker 7: struggle and what have you. You know, that's all the
• 38:33
  Speaker 7: thing I can say, that she would and what she
• 38:35
  Speaker 7: said and what she shood for, and that they can
• 38:40
  Speaker 7: now be enlightened by that or become enlightened and informed.
• 38:47
  Speaker 10: What was the importance of your art in political prisoner
• 38:52
  Speaker 10: campaigns like those of the Panther twenty one or Erica
• 38:57
  Speaker 10: and Bobby or Huey or other political prisoners. What is
• 39:01
  Speaker 10: the importance of art being a big part of those
• 39:05
  Speaker 10: campaigns and what role do you feel that art plays
• 39:08
  Speaker 10: in the propaganda process, particularly with political prisoners.
• 39:13
  Speaker 7: Well, tell their story from our perspective. You know, we
• 39:17
  Speaker 7: know that the mainstream media always was going to have
• 39:21
  Speaker 7: lives misinformation and not even half truth, and so in
• 39:26
  Speaker 7: that context, I was to tell our story from our
• 39:28
  Speaker 7: perspective relationship to political prisoners and to develop solidarity for
• 39:35
  Speaker 7: them through our paper, informing and enlightening the community around
• 39:39
  Speaker 7: those issues of political prisoners and that they were freedom fighters, fighters, suggestice,
• 39:44
  Speaker 7: human rights, quality of life issues.
• 39:48
  Speaker 10: Last question, the director of the FBI recently came out
• 39:54
  Speaker 10: and he was basically going against people and telling people
• 39:59
  Speaker 10: not to honor the life of a side of Shakur.
• 40:03
  Speaker 10: What should we gain from that and how should the
• 40:06
  Speaker 10: people respond to that?
• 40:08
  Speaker 7: Well, it's chills the vindictius, and the people should respond
• 40:11
  Speaker 7: by acknowledging in her memory and setting up monuments in
• 40:15
  Speaker 7: the context of her spirit of what she was about,
• 40:18
  Speaker 7: continued to be inspired by is being spared with. So
• 40:24
  Speaker 7: that's you know, that's here and her there.
• 40:27
  Speaker 10: No doubt I'm right with you. Well, thank you, Emory Douglas,
• 40:31
  Speaker 10: Minister Culture of the Black Panther Party and the Revolutionary Artist.
• 40:35
  Speaker 10: Thank you for coming on and talking about your comrade
• 40:37
  Speaker 10: aside of Shakur and giving us your memories and your thoughts.
• 40:41
  Speaker 7: Uh yes, thank you, my brother. I appreciate it.
• 40:43
  Speaker 10: All right, Talk soon.
• 40:45
  Speaker 1: That was Emory Douglas being interviewed on Block Report Radio.
• 40:49
  Speaker 1: You can hear more from them on Block Report Radio,
• 40:53
  Speaker 1: World All Put Together dot Com. In Major League Soccer,
• 40:57
  Speaker 1: the Houston Dynamo fell to San Diego FC by a
• 41:01
  Speaker 1: four to two score at Shell Energy Stadium on Saturday night.
• 41:05
  Speaker 1: Defender Philippe Andreid and ford Sergio Santos were the goal
• 41:10
  Speaker 1: scorers for Houston, with Santos marking his first goal in Orange.
• 41:15
  Speaker 1: In the National Women's Soccer League, the Houston Dash played
• 41:18
  Speaker 1: the Orlando Pride to a one to one draw as
• 41:21
  Speaker 1: they look to make the playoffs. Dash defender Page Nielsen
• 41:25
  Speaker 1: commented after the match.
• 41:28
  Speaker 2: Yeah, it feels like a loss, to be honest. We
• 41:32
  Speaker 2: know that everygham's important from here on out, and I
• 41:35
  Speaker 2: think that's that's growth for this team. When you tie,
• 41:40
  Speaker 2: when you get a point against a very good team.
• 41:43
  Speaker 2: I think being this disappointed is a lot of growth
• 41:46
  Speaker 2: for this team. We have so much promise potential. It's
• 41:49
  Speaker 2: definitely not over yet. We still in control our own
• 41:52
  Speaker 2: destiny and we played really good soccer. Now it's just
• 41:55
  Speaker 2: about connecting in the final third and really winning our
• 41:59
  Speaker 2: duels around the box. Still super proud of this group.
• 42:02
  Speaker 2: We fought to the end, from the starters, from the
• 42:05
  Speaker 2: bench players. There's some like I'm I'm so happy to
• 42:08
  Speaker 2: be honest. Team of the game. Yes, Defensively, I thought
• 42:16
  Speaker 2: we were. We were pretty solid throughout the ninety minutes.
• 42:20
  Speaker 2: I think obviously second half the game kind of got
• 42:23
  Speaker 2: got stretched. That's from both sides though. We were playing
• 42:26
  Speaker 2: longer and so it was it was hard sometimes to
• 42:28
  Speaker 2: fully seal the back so they would just play long again. Definitely,
• 42:34
  Speaker 2: uh sat more into a four four two and couldn't
• 42:37
  Speaker 2: get a lot of pressure on the ball, which is fine,
• 42:39
  Speaker 2: We're okay with that if we can still stop crosses
• 42:43
  Speaker 2: and be defensively sound.
• 42:46
  Speaker 6: But we were.
• 42:47
  Speaker 2: We were a little more on the front foot in
• 42:48
  Speaker 2: the first half, and again I still think we were
• 42:53
  Speaker 2: pretty pretty sound defensively.
• 42:56
  Speaker 4: And what will you tell your team for the next
• 42:58
  Speaker 4: game coming up? Of course I'm getting to war to
• 43:00
  Speaker 4: playoffs and hoping to life for the SPoD.
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  Speaker 10: Yeah.
• 43:04
  Speaker 2: Like Fabrice said, every game is a final, and it's
• 43:08
  Speaker 2: a chance to really prove who we are this season,
• 43:11
  Speaker 2: who we've become, where we started to where we finish,
• 43:15
  Speaker 2: and we're really starting to grow something here. So we
• 43:20
  Speaker 2: got to fight every single minute of every single game,
• 43:22
  Speaker 2: and I know we will. It's just about getting results now.
• 43:27
  Speaker 1: Republican Terrant County Judge Tom O'Hare, using the convicted felons
• 43:34
  Speaker 1: and Governor Abbott's playbook, went after two Democratic Commissioner's Court Democrats,
• 43:41
  Speaker 1: Elisa Simmons and Roderck Miles. They were absent, which temporarily
• 43:46
  Speaker 1: denied him the fourth fifth quorum needed to amend the
• 43:49
  Speaker 1: county budget in a way that he knew they opposed.
• 43:53
  Speaker 1: He went on to cut their staff and any funds
• 43:56
  Speaker 1: that were already approved going into the areas of the
• 43:59
  Speaker 1: county that they support. We talked to Matt Angle with
• 44:03
  Speaker 1: the Lone Star Project before he went on to talk
• 44:06
  Speaker 1: about what happened in Terrant County. Richard asked him about
• 44:10
  Speaker 1: the situation in Dallas where a shooting occurred at the
• 44:14
  Speaker 1: Dallas Immigration and Customs Enforcement Field Office targeting immigrants. One
• 44:20
  Speaker 1: immigrant was dead and two others were seriously injured, and
• 44:24
  Speaker 1: the shooter died of a self inflicted gunshot. Here's Matt Angle, Well, I.
• 44:29
  Speaker 9: Think we've got an extraordinary circumstance and that you've got
• 44:34
  Speaker 9: Republican office holders who are exploiting what was clearly a
• 44:42
  Speaker 9: horrible event. It was a horrible event when there was
• 44:45
  Speaker 9: political violence of any type, and it is a tragedy
• 44:50
  Speaker 9: in Dallas that you had two individuals badly wounded and
• 44:56
  Speaker 9: two who died, one of them a an immigrant, and
• 45:02
  Speaker 9: that that's being exploited at every level by the Republicans
• 45:06
  Speaker 9: to make it a political issue and to create division
• 45:11
  Speaker 9: in a country that's already divided. Greg Abbott was shameful
• 45:16
  Speaker 9: as the governor of our state to use that as
• 45:19
  Speaker 9: a chance to attack Democrats and attack the left, when
• 45:23
  Speaker 9: there is no reason to think that any rhetoric led
• 45:29
  Speaker 9: to that other than the divisive rhetoric that we know
• 45:32
  Speaker 9: starts at the White House. And then I will tell you.
• 45:37
  Speaker 9: It was also particularly galling to see Dallas Mayor Eric
• 45:42
  Speaker 9: Johnson way in. Eric Johnson got re elected as Dallas
• 45:49
  Speaker 9: mayor when he was a Democrat. He only switched parties
• 45:55
  Speaker 9: after getting re elected because Dallas is an overwhelmingly democratic city.
• 46:00
  Speaker 9: Harris got over sixty five percent of the vote, Jordan
• 46:03
  Speaker 9: got over seventy percent. Eric Johnson's never once been willing
• 46:07
  Speaker 9: to put his name on the ballot as a Republican
• 46:10
  Speaker 9: because he knows he would overwhelmingly be rejected. It was
• 46:15
  Speaker 9: an act of cowardice. And again Eric's not looking to
• 46:18
  Speaker 9: really be anything other than a mascot for Republicans because
• 46:24
  Speaker 9: he'll never really be accepted as one. And it's shameful
• 46:27
  Speaker 9: that Dallas has now such a weak mayor and then
• 46:31
  Speaker 9: again such a governor that's not really willing to provide leadership.
• 46:35
  Speaker 9: But we've seen that over and over again with Greg Abbott,
• 46:39
  Speaker 9: in times of crisis, he's at his absolute worst. Whether
• 46:43
  Speaker 9: it's a school shooting, whether it's a terrible winter storm,
• 46:48
  Speaker 9: whether it is a hurricane on our coast. Abbot fails
• 46:54
  Speaker 9: to rise to the occasion every single time.
• 46:57
  Speaker 5: What do we know about as far as as how
• 47:03
  Speaker 5: we're trying to tie us into.
• 47:04
  Speaker 9: The Democrats, Well, we don't know very much about the
• 47:09
  Speaker 9: incident because the shooter committed suicide. We do know that
• 47:14
  Speaker 9: the uh, there was shellcasings that were found that had
• 47:19
  Speaker 9: the word anti ice on it.
• 47:21
  Speaker 4: UH.
• 47:22
  Speaker 9: And so you know, it's reasonable to think that he
• 47:24
  Speaker 9: was upset or at least focused on the activities of Ice.
• 47:29
  Speaker 9: But there's no reason to believe that the rhetoric from
• 47:34
  Speaker 9: Democrats or anybody else uh spurred his actions. And then
• 47:40
  Speaker 9: the truth of the matter is that democrats rhetoric is
• 47:44
  Speaker 9: tame compared to Republicans. For goodness sake, uh, Donald Trump
• 47:49
  Speaker 9: has called Democratic leaders and called the press generally enemies
• 47:54
  Speaker 9: of the state.
• 47:55
  Speaker 3: Uh.
• 47:56
  Speaker 9: He's all but uh, UH set our society on fire
• 48:02
  Speaker 9: with rhetoric in order to build a movement, and so
• 48:09
  Speaker 9: any effort to somehow claim that what Democrats are saying
• 48:14
  Speaker 9: is causing acts of violence it's.
• 48:20
  Speaker 8: Just not true.
• 48:20
  Speaker 9: And what we know, of course, too, is the study
• 48:23
  Speaker 9: after study over the last twenty years has shown that
• 48:26
  Speaker 9: anti government actions are much more likely to come from
• 48:30
  Speaker 9: the far right way from anybody from the list.
• 48:34
  Speaker 4: Yeah, and talking about let's talk about you and you
• 48:39
  Speaker 4: were talking about local politics for state politics, and we
• 48:43
  Speaker 4: had a we had a representative that has gotten a
• 48:46
  Speaker 4: little bit of trouble, and we want to talk about that.
• 48:49
  Speaker 5: A little bit.
• 48:50
  Speaker 9: Well, he's talking about Arrant County. And if you're talking
• 48:52
  Speaker 9: about the county judge in Tarrant County, I mean we've
• 48:56
  Speaker 9: got a Maga county judge in Terrance County named Tim
• 49:01
  Speaker 9: O'Hare who really is trying to create a microcosm of
• 49:06
  Speaker 9: the of the destructive and divisive atmosphere that's in Washington now.
• 49:12
  Speaker 9: I mean, Tarrent County is a purple county in which
• 49:16
  Speaker 9: Democrats sometimes win top of ballot races, Republicans barely win
• 49:20
  Speaker 9: down ballot races. It's highly competitive, uh going into this
• 49:25
  Speaker 9: next election. And uh uh, the Tarrent County judge over
• 49:30
  Speaker 9: the past years has generally been kind of a mainstream person,
• 49:35
  Speaker 9: whether they were Republican or otherwise. Tim O'Hare is a
• 49:38
  Speaker 9: very different type. He's very destructive and uh, a divisive person.
• 49:45
  Speaker 2: Uh.
• 49:45
  Speaker 9: He rammed through a racist redrawing of the County Commissioner's court.
• 49:52
  Speaker 7: Uh.
• 49:52
  Speaker 9: That's uh that map is in uh in being challenged
• 49:57
  Speaker 9: with under the Voting Rights Act now and and of
• 50:00
  Speaker 9: course he regularly attacks the two Democratic members of the
• 50:05
  Speaker 9: commission who are also represent the two minority districts. And
• 50:11
  Speaker 9: so his whole method of operation is to create dissension
• 50:15
  Speaker 9: and division.
• 50:17
  Speaker 5: Uh.
• 50:17
  Speaker 9: And again because that's the style of politics, that's the
• 50:22
  Speaker 9: style of a governance that has really resulted from Donald
• 50:27
  Speaker 9: Trump being in the White House.
• 50:28
  Speaker 8: Again.
• 50:30
  Speaker 4: Yeah, well, good book, Vonkos guys.
• 50:34
  Speaker 9: H Well, Uh, it's important to remember that is particularly
• 50:40
  Speaker 9: in Tarrant County, that the Democrats are continuing to do
• 50:45
  Speaker 9: better and uh, and they're doing it without any resources.
• 50:49
  Speaker 9: I mean, frankly, the Lone Star Project has been the
• 50:52
  Speaker 9: only organization out that that's not exclusive to Tarrant County
• 50:57
  Speaker 9: that's really invested in uh Tarrant County politics. And I'm
• 51:01
  Speaker 9: hopeful that you'll have the State Party and others put
• 51:06
  Speaker 9: some resources into Tarrant County. I mean, I'm proud that
• 51:10
  Speaker 9: the Lone Star Project we've been in uh a key
• 51:14
  Speaker 9: part of winning some key commissions races and some others.
• 51:17
  Speaker 9: I think that Tim O'Hare can be defeated in the
• 51:20
  Speaker 9: next election. UH, but it's gonna have to take uh
• 51:25
  Speaker 9: it being a state priority, not just something that local
• 51:29
  Speaker 9: Democrats are trying.
• 51:30
  Speaker 8: To do in their own.
• 51:33
  Speaker 4: And this week in the state politics we have uh
• 51:38
  Speaker 4: a run another another intended run against Senator the Cruz.
• 51:44
  Speaker 4: I'm sorry you broke up a little bit there, I'm
• 51:50
  Speaker 4: talking about calling it out is running for UH.
• 51:53
  Speaker 9: Yes, Colin Olridge running again for the for the US Senate,
• 51:57
  Speaker 9: this time in the seat that John corn holds. I
• 52:00
  Speaker 9: don't expect that John Cornyn will be the nominee. In fact,
• 52:04
  Speaker 9: I think Cornyn is pretty pathetically tried to abandon everything
• 52:09
  Speaker 9: he's ever really done as a moderate Republican in the
• 52:12
  Speaker 9: past and pretend to be maga that. I don't think
• 52:14
  Speaker 9: that's going to work. I think that the Republicans will
• 52:17
  Speaker 9: would rather nominate a corrupt Ken Paxton than a cowardly
• 52:21
  Speaker 9: John Cornyn, and I think that gives Democrats and a
• 52:25
  Speaker 9: law opportunity to win a statewide seat. And Colin is
• 52:31
  Speaker 9: running again. Colin ran a much better race in twenty
• 52:36
  Speaker 9: twenty four than he's given credit for. He ran three
• 52:39
  Speaker 9: and a half almost four points ahead of the presidential ticket.
• 52:42
  Speaker 9: No senate candidate in Texas has done that, going back
• 52:45
  Speaker 9: to Lloyd Benson, but he didn't win, and there was
• 52:48
  Speaker 9: some disappointment about that. And now you also have James
• 52:51
  Speaker 9: Tallerica running and James is a new and a fresh
• 52:54
  Speaker 9: face and there's some excitement around him. So I think
• 52:57
  Speaker 9: that'll be a very competitive primary. I think whichever one
• 53:00
  Speaker 9: of them is the nominee, we have a chance to
• 53:03
  Speaker 9: beat a corrupt Ken Paxton in the fall.
• 53:07
  Speaker 4: Yeah, Cornan is running a lot. I have a lot
• 53:12
  Speaker 4: of money into a people put out on the air
• 53:14
  Speaker 4: right now.
• 53:15
  Speaker 6: Oh yeah.
• 53:16
  Speaker 9: The Republicans in Washington, they know that Ken Paxton is
• 53:23
  Speaker 9: a really dangerous nominee for them. The problem is that
• 53:27
  Speaker 9: they've created a monster within their own primary that mainstream Republicans,
• 53:34
  Speaker 9: even the notion of mainstream Republican is nostalgia. Now they
• 53:38
  Speaker 9: don't exist. It's all Trump now. There is no Texas
• 53:42
  Speaker 9: Republican Party anymore. It's all the national Trump Party. I mean,
• 53:47
  Speaker 9: it seems that counterintuitive to a lot of people in
• 53:51
  Speaker 9: Texas because it's been so long since Democrats have held
• 53:54
  Speaker 9: state blide office. But the truth of the matter is
• 53:56
  Speaker 9: the only real Texas focused party in Texas now is
• 54:00
  Speaker 9: the Democratic Party. The Republican Party are totally national in
• 54:04
  Speaker 9: their scope, and they're totally submissive and doting upon Donald Trump.
• 54:12
  Speaker 9: The Republican congressman from Fort ben County said it most
• 54:19
  Speaker 9: insultingly to their own party, but also accurately when he says,
• 54:24
  Speaker 9: if Donald Trump says jump three feet into the air,
• 54:28
  Speaker 9: we jumped three says a lot bet that, And the
• 54:32
  Speaker 9: truth of the matter is that he was just being honest.
• 54:37
  Speaker 9: Matt tells people how to get attention to you and
• 54:39
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• 54:44
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• 54:51
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• 54:53
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• 54:55
  Speaker 1: That was Matt Angle of the Lone Star Project. You
• 54:59
  Speaker 1: can read his new letter at the Lone Star Project
• 55:02
  Speaker 1: dot net.
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  Speaker 7: Hi.
• 55:05
  Speaker 1: This is Steve Gallington, producer and host for the People's News.
• 55:09
  Speaker 1: One of the things that I got in preparation for
• 55:12
  Speaker 1: going to the No King's Rally on June fourteenth was
• 55:16
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• 55:20
  Speaker 1: the information from for you in light of the convicted
• 55:24
  Speaker 1: felon opening up Alligator Alcatraz and the Republican House and
• 55:29
  Speaker 1: Senate passing this big, ugly, expensive, devastating bill. Among those
• 55:35
  Speaker 1: things is one hundred and thirty five billion dollars for
• 55:39
  Speaker 1: increased secret police activity or ICE funding. And so you
• 55:45
  Speaker 1: have rights when dealing with the police or ice, no
• 55:50
  Speaker 1: matter or immigration status. Number one, if they do not
• 55:55
  Speaker 1: have a warrant, an arrest warrant or a search warrant,
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