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Man shot by ICE has surgery, DA Garza singled out at House hearing, Abortion rights in emergencies · Austin Signal

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The man shot by an ICE agent in
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North Austin, who spent more than 10
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days with a bullet lodge and his
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body has now had surgery.
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We've got the latest on Wilbur
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Garces Perez and Travis County
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District Attorney Jose Garza was at
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the center of a Texas House
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Committee on Governmental Oversight
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meeting this week, but Garza wasn't
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there to defend himself.
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We've gotten more from that 12 hour
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meeting and we'll hear from some
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Texas doctors who wanna make sure
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people know their abortion rights
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during a medical emergency.
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That is coming up on today's show.
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The Austin Signal is a production
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of KUT News, hosted by
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Jerry Quijano.
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A new film focuses on the
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transformation of a public college
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in Florida, but the issues facing
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that college aren't just limited to
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that one institution.
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We're gonna chat with the producer
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of the film ahead of some local
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screenings and discussions.
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We've got those stories and more.
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It's all up next on Austin
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Signal.
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Howdy out there, you are tuned in
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to Austin Signal.
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I'm your host, Jerry Kikano.
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It is Friday, October 2nd.
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Thank you for being with us this
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week.
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A quick update to a story we've been
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following about the man who was shot
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by ICE almost two weeks ago.
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The lawyer for Wilbur Garces-Bedes
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says he underwent surgery yesterday
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to remove the bullet that had been
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lodged in his back since September
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20th.
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The lawyer says he is recovering and
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has spoken to his family.
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ICE officials say Garces Perez was
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shot after fleeing from an
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immigration traffic stop.
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The officer who shot Garces was not
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wearing a body camera, according to
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an ICE investigator who testified in
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court on Wednesday.
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The other officer had his body
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camera recording during the traffic
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stop, but turned it off before
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arriving at the scene of the
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shooting.
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We've got more about this story at
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KUT.org and on the KUT
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app, and we will continue to update
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you with the latest right here on
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Austin Signal.
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Travis County's district attorney
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was center stage at a hearing this
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week at the Texas legislature but
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he wasn't there himself.
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KUT's Andrew Weber reports on
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the contentious hearing.
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Hearing Wednesday at the Texas House
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Committee on Governmental Oversight
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centered around prosecutorial
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integrity, or a lack thereof,
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as some lawmakers see it.
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The idea that prosecutors in Texas
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cities aren't investigating and
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trying cases under the letter of the
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law. There was a conspicuous
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absence, namely Jose Garza's.
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Republicans have long railed against
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the Travis County District Attorney,
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who ran on a progressive platform to
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reduce jail stays and prosecute
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police for misconduct.
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He's become a hard target for
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right-leaning lawmakers who see him
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as soft on crime.
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Garza was invited to testify after
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being called out by the state's
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governor, lieutenant governor, and
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house speaker, but he didn't show.
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One of his prosecutors, Stephanie
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Garakanian, served as Garza's proxy,
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reading a five-page written
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statement to the panel.
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She said the district attorney's
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office is prosecuting cases when
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they have evidence.
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A prosecutor's decision to
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reject a charge or
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dismiss a case based on insufficient
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evidence does not
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mean that a prosecutor has
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gone quote unquote rogue.
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It does not means that a prosecutors
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is not enforcing the law.
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To the contrary, it means
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that the prosecutor is
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following the law."
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State Representative Richard Hayes,
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a former prosecutor, dressed down
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Garconian.
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This is part of the problem, if
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y'all hide in the weenie, so nobody
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knows what's going on.
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And then you wonder what all this
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hubbub is about.
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We need a little sunshine here.
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We need to open up the doors, put a
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little light on this issue.
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That's what we're trying to do, and
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all you've done today is...
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Had.
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Hayes, a Denton Republican, faces
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two challengers in his bid for
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reelection this November.
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One Democratic representative,
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Richard Peña-Raymond from Laredo,
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was perhaps the most outspoken
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against Garza.
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Here he is talking to Garconian, the
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prosecutor. He said the office owes
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an explanation for cases that
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prosecutors fumbled or when frequent
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offenders get released on bail.
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But part of why we're having this
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hearing is because on the
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big ones, where people die,
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the public has the right to
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understand what the hell is going
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on.
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Do you get that part?
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I do.
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You get that part. Representative Raymond
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Do you
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Do you get that part?
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I do.
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Yes or no? I do You understand?
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The public's concern.
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Gharakhanian, who doesn't prosecute
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violent crime, spent nearly two
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hours addressing concerns, pointing
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out that Austin's violent crime rate
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has dropped since 2021,
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and that Garza's office handles
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roughly 15,000 cases a year.
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In a statement to KUT Thursday,
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Garza office said he offered to meet
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with lawmakers individually and
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that he takes the committee's
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concerns seriously.
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House Speaker Dustin Burroughs
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Thursday signaled support for more
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state oversight of local
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prosecutors, saying that the
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committee work was just starting.
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I'm Andrew Weber in Austin.
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The Texas legislature passed a law
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last year aimed at clarifying
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when doctors can legally perform
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abortions in medical emergencies,
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the one narrow exception to the
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state's strict abortion ban.
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Physicians who advocated for the
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legislation are now working to
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ensure women and their physicians
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know their rights.
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KUT's Olivia Aldridge spoke to
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doctors about what they think is
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working under the law and what's
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still unknown.
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Ever since most abortions became
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illegal in Texas in 2021,
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doctors have said the law was
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unclear about what defined a
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medical emergency, and the
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consequences are major if they get
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it wrong.
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Up to $100,000 in fines,
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the loss of their medical license,
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and even extensive prison time.
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That's why many physicians urged
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legislators to pass Senate Bill
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31, also known as
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the Life of the Mother Act.
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Among them was Dallas area
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doctor Deborah Fuller.
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Who testified for its House
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companion bill in 2025.
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I'm testifying for this bill because
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I know this bill will
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help save women's lives.
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Legislators on both sides of the
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aisle supported the law too.
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It represented a tiny sliver of
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common ground on abortion.
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It clarified that a pregnant
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person's death or impairment does
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not have to be imminent before a
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doctor can step in.
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And the doctors can discuss abortion
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while considering if it's the best
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treatment option.
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It also confirmed that the burden of
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proof is on the state to demonstrate
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that no reasonable doctor would
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have provided an abortion in the
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same situation.
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Now more than a year later,
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Fuller says she believes the law is
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helping doctors.
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The angst that might come,
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the confusion that might come across
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prior to SB 31 has
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really lessened.
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But she also thinks there's work
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left to do to educate pregnant women
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throughout the state about their
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rights under.
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Law.
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Most of them have not heard of it at
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all. My patients in my office
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have not even brought up
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be 31 at all.
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Advisory Committee for Asking for
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a Mom, a campaign to ensure
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that pregnant women and their loved
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ones are informed about the law.
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It's a project of the Texas Campaign
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for Mothers, a nonprofit that
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lobbied for SB 31.
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The group defines itself as
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nonpartisan, but has several
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influential Republicans on its
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advisory board.
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Asking For a Mom puts information
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on a website and on brightly colored
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flyers for doctors to keep inside
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their clinics.
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Fuller hopes these resources will
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arm women with the knowledge they
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need ahead of any emergency that
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might arise.
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In an obstetrical emergency,
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it would be very unusual for someone
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to access a law to find
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out, oh, what is and what isn't
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happening? What is and isn't
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covered? Where am I in
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this legislation?
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Patients are only one half of the
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equation.
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The other is doctors.
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Senate Bill 31 requires Texas
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OBGYNs, ER doctors,
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and family medicine physicians to
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receive online training on the law
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to renew their licenses with the
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Texas Medical Board.
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It walks through how to handle a few
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specific scenarios, like
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an ectopic pregnancy, premature
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water breaks, and a woman who needs
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chemotherapy for cancer treatment.
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Doctors should be allowed to
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terminate a pregnancy in those
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cases.
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But that process only happens every
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two years, so some doctors
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haven't received the training yet.
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Asking for a mom is trying to
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bridge those gaps by hosting
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trainings at medical schools and
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other clinical settings.
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Austin OBGYN and med school
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professor, Dr. Charles Brown,
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helps lead these sessions.
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Most practicing physicians don't
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spend their day reading legal
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journals. They take care of patients
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all day.
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That's why he feels it's valuable to
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offer an in-person forum where
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medical professionals can ask
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questions and get up to speed,
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especially in light of reporting
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from ProPublica about women who've
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died when abortion care has been
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delayed.
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Between that and the personal
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kinds of stories that I would hear
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at the medical meetings from my
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colleagues, I really felt
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like we needed to
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clear the air to try and
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get back on track to let
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the physicians do what they know how
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to do.
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Brown estimates he's visited at
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least a dozen medical residency
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programs to provide in-person
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training.
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The questions he gets from
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participants, he says, tend to be
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legal rather than medical.
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The OB-GYN doctors know what to
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do.
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They need to have the confidence
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they can legally
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do it, so they will do
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it.
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The Texas Medical Board's training
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emphasizes that doctors are able to
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lean on their judgment in
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emergencies.
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That does not mean that all
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physicians would necessarily agree
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with the decision.
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It says that as long as you're
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practicing evidence-based medicine
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and documenting your
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decision-making, the risk of
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prosecution is low.
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But some physicians still have
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concerns.
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Dr. Damla Karzan in Houston has
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joined multiple lawsuits involving
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Texas's abortion laws.
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Even after the Life of the Mother
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Act, she thinks the band's exception
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could be confusing.
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I think there's still so much fear,
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and so people aren't
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100% certain.
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If providers aren't a hundred
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percent certain, they're going to
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delay.
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There are documented cases of delays
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in Texas that have put women in
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life-threatening and even fatal
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situations.
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Recently, the Texas Tribune reported
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that an Austin-area woman lodged
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complaints against local hospitals
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for delaying treatment when she
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was having a miscarriage.
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That incident allegedly occurred in
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2025 after the life
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of the Mother Act had become law.
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It may take time before data is
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available that can shed light on
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whether Senate Bill 31 is having
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life-saving effects.
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Initial Texas Health and Human
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Services data shows that a few
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more abortions were performed under
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the emergency exception during the
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first six months of 2026,
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compared to the same period last
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year.
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Texas usually releases reports on
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deaths associated with pregnancy and
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childbirth on a delay of two
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years or more.
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But in the meantime, Dr.
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Charles Brown says he's hopeful.
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You know, time will tell if it's
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going to be as effective as
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intended, but I'm
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trying to make it as effective
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as it can be.
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Brown says he's committed to
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spreading the word, one training at
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a time.
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I'm Olivia Aldridge in Austin.
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It's a wet one out there.
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Rain has been falling sporadically
11:43
outside the KUT studios and those
11:45
rain chances will continue
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throughout the first weekend of the
11:48
Austin City Limits Music Festival.
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We're under a flood watch in the
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Austin area until seven o'clock
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tonight.
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The weather service says rainfall
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amounts between a quarter and a half
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inch are possible.
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Stay safe out there and remember,
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if you encounter flooded roads,
12:03
turn around, do not drown, it is not
12:05
worth it.
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Looking at the rest of the weekend,
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30% chance of rain tomorrow.
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Also the potential for some
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thunderstorms.
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Pretty much similar conditions on
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Sunday as well.
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All of this should clear after this
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weekend. Monday, we're looking at
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mostly sunny skies with a high
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around 84.
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This is Austin Signal.
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We're coming right back after this
12:26
break.
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This is Austin Signal.
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Welcome back to the show.
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The Austin Film Society is hosting
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this weekend special screenings of
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the documentary First They Came for
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My College.
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The film focuses on the
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transformation of a public college
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in Florida.
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Here to tell us more is Holly
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Herrick, head of film and creative
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media at AFS.
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She's also a producer on the film.
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Holly, thanks for your time.
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Thank you so much for having me,
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Jerry. So first off, tell us how and
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why did you get involved in this
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project?
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So, the project
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began because I
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am a graduate of New College of
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Florida, and that's the school that
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the film focuses on.
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And when I found out
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that the governor of Florida
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Ron DeSantis announced that
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he was going to
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basically elect new
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board members to the board of
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trustees, hoping
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to change the character and
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the academic program at the school,
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that really concerned me
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and my fellow alumni.
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New College doesn't have a formal
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film program, and so
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I am the only alumni
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that I know who works on this side
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of independent film, even though
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there are others, but I
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figured that we needed those of us
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who are filmmakers and also
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alumni should work together to
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see if we can tell a long-form story
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because.
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Well, there were hundreds, even
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thousands now of stories that came
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out about New College.
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A few of them were told from the
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perspective of people who knew the
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school really well, had been to the
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school, or were part of the New
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College of Florida community.
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It's a very unique school and it's
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a public honors college in the state
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of Florida.
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It's small, but it was also a beacon
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for learning,
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academic excellence, and
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access for
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students in Florida because it was
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very inexpensive and so a lot of
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that story hadn't been told and
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It was important to me that
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there was a long-form film that
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could talk about the community that
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was built there the excellence of
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the academic program and why
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everyone should pay attention to
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a school that
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is being the subject of a
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politically motivated takeover
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And the film is very timely.
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A local example for us here was a
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recent protest regarding UT's move
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to eliminate certain classes from
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the core curriculum.
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You said you were in New York
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recently for some screenings.
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What are you hearing about other
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examples of this happening across
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the country?
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So, unfortunately,
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what happened at New College, which
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was the elimination of academic
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programs and actual censorship
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that took place on campus is
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now everywhere.
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And in fact, Penn America did
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a study on censorship and
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academic freedom that showed that
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all 50 states have
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laws in the books that threaten
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academic freedom.
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And academic freedom is really
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important because if we're not,
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if we can't argue.
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In the search of knowledge and the
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advancement of knowledge, then we're
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not gonna move forward.
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We have to have experts and scholars
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who are,
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we have to trust that there are
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experts on these topics and
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we also have to create spaces where
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those experts can challenge each
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other.
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And when we put politicians in
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charge of those decisions, rather
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than the people who are experts in
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their fields, we're missing that
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piece.
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That will allow for that
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type of discourse in a classroom, a
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freedom to discuss, a freedom to
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argue.
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And I'm concerned that
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when we have politics
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and academia, we've already decided
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where we want those conversations to
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go, rather than letting the
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expertise lead.
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And so it is in all 50
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states.
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I think that Florida and Texas
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are particularly at risk right
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now of losing some of their
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best experts, some
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of their best professors.
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Because these are the states that
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are sort of leading the charge to
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eliminate certain types
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of discourse from their campuses.
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It sounds like the topic was very
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near and dear to you, and you did
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the producing work in addition to
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your regular duties at AFS.
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What was the hardest part of
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bringing this film to fruition?
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That's a great question.
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I think the hardest part of any
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documentary in
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production is not knowing where the
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story is going to go.
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So you're trying to raise money
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without fully knowing what
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the film, what the end point is
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going be.
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And it was really important that we
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fund the films we could keep going.
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The edit of this film lasted almost
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a full year because we were working
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with over 300 hours of footage.
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So there were huge challenges at
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every turn. And a lot of it was.
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You know, a number of people on the
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team just volunteering their time to
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make it happen.
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And so it is very much an
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independent film that was
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pieced together by people who really
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cared and were really invested in
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the story.
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And we couldn't have done it
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without, yeah, because I have a
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full-time job, we couldn have done
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without a team of committed
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people and
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particularly those on the new
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college campus who really
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engaged in telling the story and an
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important thing about this film is
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that it's partially made by the
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students themselves.
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So we gave students iPhone
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cameras so they could film from
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their perspective what was happening
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on campus and then a significant
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amount of the footage that you see
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in the film was made by the
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students.
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Ultimately, what kind of
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conversations or maybe even
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arguments do you hope that
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people will have after watching this
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film?
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I think that both
17:46
we want campus communities
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to engage in
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what's happening to
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the programs that they have
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stewarded for so many years.
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And we also want people
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who haven't thought too much
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about why
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censorship and academic freedom
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can affect those outside
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campus communities to engage with
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these ideas.
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One thing that we paid close
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attention to in making this film is
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the history of
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censorship and particularly
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the political interference on
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academic freedom.
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And it's something that happens
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a lot under authoritarianism
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and under fascist governments.
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When we go too far down
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this road, it becomes
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about power, who has power,
18:35
who has access to power, and who's
18:37
able to keep it.
18:38
And when you when you take education
18:41
as, and turn it into
18:43
an argument over power,
18:45
it's the students that lose.
18:47
So I do think it's
18:49
important to those outside of
18:51
academic communities, but I also
18:52
think it's up to people
18:55
on campuses to ensure that this
18:56
continues to get talked about and it
18:58
gets talked about both within
19:00
the campus walls and outside.
19:02
All right, we have been speaking
19:03
with Holly Herrick.
19:04
She is a producer for the new film,
19:05
First They Came From My College.
19:07
We're gonna have more information
19:08
about this weekend's screenings in
19:09
today's show notes.
19:10
Holly, thank you for your time.
19:11
Thank you so much, Jerry.
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Alrighty, it's Friday, that means
19:31
art beat editor Stephanie Federico
19:32
is joining us in the studio for our
19:34
Where the Art is segment, giving us
19:36
a breakdown of several art
19:38
happenings happening around town
19:39
this weekend. Stephanie, thanks for
19:41
being here!
19:41
Happy to be here, Jerry.
19:43
Well, we are really excited to
19:45
talk, and in fact, today we're doing
19:46
a little mood lighting.
19:47
It's really special here in the
19:48
studio, and it's a nice way to kick
19:50
off the spooky season.
19:51
It's the second day of October.
19:52
How is Austin Arts celebrating the
19:54
kickoff of spooky month?
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We love spooky season,
19:58
the most wonderful time of the year.
20:01
Um, so spooky season means that
20:03
panic at the Paramount, but of
20:04
course, it's not at the paramount
20:06
this year because they're closed for
20:07
renovations.
20:08
Uh, that means horror movies, but
20:10
they're going to be playing, uh,
20:11
this year at state theater, the
20:13
Bullocks, uh IMAX and
20:15
at Bass, um, and it's
20:17
kicking off this weekend tonight, um
20:19
with Friday the 13th and a
20:21
Bay of Blood, which is a movie I'm
20:23
not familiar with.
20:24
I've never heard of that.
20:25
It's an Italian film from 1971.
20:28
It is considered to be one of the
20:30
first slasher films.
20:32
And then Tomorrow Night is a double
20:33
feature of Carrie and Jennifer's
20:36
Body, which I'm really excited
20:37
about. And that is at
20:39
State Theater.
20:41
And you can find the full lineup
20:42
over at austintheatre.org.
20:44
That's theater with an R-E.
20:45
Mm-hmm.
20:46
And there's a lot of
20:49
film festivals this month, it seems
20:50
like. We've got the Austin Film
20:52
Festival coming up.
20:52
There's an AI film festival coming
20:55
up, we've got The Horror
20:56
Film Festival at 29th Street
20:58
Ballroom.
21:02
Yeah, and there's just a lot going
21:04
on. I believe there's another one,
21:05
the ethereal horror fest at Violet
21:07
Crown. Thank you for saying that,
21:08
because I was about to stumble
21:10
over it.
21:11
That's what I do on the radio.
21:13
So there really is a lot to choose
21:14
from if horror is your jam.
21:16
I'm a bit of a scaredy cat, so I
21:18
really wanna see Carrie, but I've
21:20
never built up the courage to
21:22
actually go with it.
21:23
Maybe this weekend will be the one.
21:24
You can do it. Okay, there is a
21:26
big music festival happening out at
21:28
Zilker Park this weekend, people
21:30
might have heard about that one, but
21:31
there is another festival going
21:33
on, Music Fest, which one is that?
21:35
Yeah, this totally caught my eye.
21:37
It's the inaugural Austin
21:39
Steel Guitar Fest that's
21:41
going on. And it was funny, I looked
21:42
at their website and they're like,
21:44
this is an indoor event.
21:46
Because in case you were worried
21:47
about the rain, it's over at the
21:49
Marriott next to the airport.
21:51
So there's gonna be performances
21:53
tonight and tomorrow, some seminars,
21:55
they're closing with this honky tonk
21:57
dance.
21:58
And then there will be three
21:59
musicians who will be
22:01
inaugurated into, inaugurating.
22:03
Inducted, thank you, into the
22:05
Steele Guitar Hall of Fame,
22:07
including Asleep at the
22:09
Wheel co-founder Lucky Oceans,
22:11
also Junior Brown and Pete Rogers,
22:13
and it should be a
22:15
fun time, I think.
22:16
Okay, this next event here includes
22:18
some youths who are going to be
22:20
dueling.
22:20
How does that play into the arts?
22:22
Yeah, so we're going to have
22:24
jazz musicians from Houston,
22:26
Tillotson, and UT coming together
22:28
on one stage to showcase
22:30
the next generation of jazz in
22:32
Austin. They are dueling over
22:34
at St. James Episcopal
22:36
Church, Saturday at three.
22:39
This is a fundraiser for KAZI.
22:42
I don't know if you remember, Katie
22:43
McAfee did a story at the beginning
22:45
of the year about HT's
22:47
Jazz Orchestra, finishing third
22:50
in a National Collegiate.
22:51
Jazz competition, which is really
22:53
exciting for them because the
22:54
program didn't exist four years ago.
22:56
So these young musicians
22:58
are going to be performing, it
22:59
should be really nice.
23:00
Yeah, and I believe the
23:01
Houston-Silletson Jazz Collective is
23:03
gonna be out at the second weekend
23:04
of ACLFest, so a couple of chances
23:06
to check them out.
23:08
A little spooky season adjacent
23:09
to Clue, a production
23:11
of Clue is popping up, where is that
23:13
happening?
23:13
Yeah, well, I was talking to
23:15
somebody in the office the other day
23:16
about this movie with Tim Curry and
23:17
how great it was.
23:18
I rewatched it after he died,
23:21
but Penfold Theater up in Round Rock
23:22
is going to stage a production of
23:24
Clue. It's based on the movie, which
23:25
is based on The Board Game, and for
23:27
those people who have never seen it,
23:30
it's this comedy horror
23:32
about an eccentric group of people
23:34
who get invited to this mansion
23:35
for this big dinner party, but
23:37
it turns out the Most is dead.
23:40
So each of the guests seems to have
23:41
a reason to have killed him and it's
23:43
a basic who done it sort of
23:45
film. And I'd be interested
23:47
to see how they pull it off.
23:49
That sounds more like my speed when
23:51
it comes to horror there.
23:52
Okay, the final event is an artist
23:54
talk. Who is the artist and what
23:56
kind of work do they do?
23:57
The artist is Paige Booth
23:59
and she has a solo exhibit over
24:01
at Lincoln Pin.
24:02
It's called Domestic Tranquility.
24:04
She's doing the talk Sunday at two.
24:07
She's a collage artist,
24:09
long time resident.
24:10
And she, as I said, is called
24:12
Domestique Tranquility.
24:13
So she has all of these houses and
24:15
they're the basic shape and design
24:17
of a house, which is like the square
24:19
with the triangle on top.
24:20
But she fills them in with different
24:22
materials like vintage papers
24:24
and recycled papers.
24:25
And it just really caught my eye.
24:27
So she'll be giving the artist talk
24:29
Sunday at two at the East Sixth
24:31
Street Gallery, Lincoln Pin.
24:32
All right, plenty of things that are
24:34
not ACLFest related to enjoy
24:36
this weekend. That is the Artbeat
24:38
editor, Stephanie Federico, and you
24:40
can find more about the Artbeat at
24:42
kut.org slash Artbeat.
24:44
Stephanie, thank you.
24:45
Thank you, Jerry.
24:46
And thank you out there for spending
24:48
a little time with us today.
24:50
Hopefully you're here with us all
24:52
week long.
24:53
We appreciate you.
24:53
There's more from us at k-u-t
24:55
dot org slash signal.
24:57
And speaking of ACLFes, Austin
24:59
Signal reporters are going to be out
25:00
there this weekend, Getting
25:02
a little bit of tape talking to some
25:04
people seeing how people are feeling
25:05
about the issues that are affecting
25:07
all of us So if you see some
25:09
microphones come on over and talk to
25:10
us and next Friday We're gonna be at
25:12
the ACL fest doing a live one
25:14
hour show We hope to see
25:16
you at some point in between there.
25:18
The Austin signal team is
25:20
Reyna Sevilla Alexandra Hart,
25:22
Kristen Cabrera, and I'm your host
25:24
Jerry Kehanel. Have a great weekend.
25:26
We'll talk to you on Monday