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Air Date: 7/10/2018

Today we take a look at the attempts to distract with calls for civility and the attempts to suppress dissent with various bans and impediments to protest

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SHOW NOTES

Ch. 1: The Problem with Civility - On the Media - Air Date 6-30-18

 

Ch. 2: Criminalizing Protest - @USNewsBeat - Air Date 6-14-18

 

Ch. 3: The Civility Fetish - Citations Needed - Air Date 6-14-18

 

Ch. 4: NFL Bans National Anthem Protests - @DemocracyNow - Air Date 05-24-18

 

Ch. 5: Civility as a cudgel - Trumpcast - Air Date 6-30-18

 

Ch. 6:  Mara Verheyden-Hilliard on Criminalizing Protest - CounterSpin - Air Date 7-7-18

 

VOICEMAILS

Ch. 7: Why wouldn't a UBI just cause inflation? - David from Houston

 

Ch. 8: Final comments on a Universal Basic Income, inflation and recommending an episode of The Dig about Troop Veneration and US Empire

 

MUSIC:

  • Opening Theme: Loving Acoustic Instrumental by John Douglas Orr 
  • Turning on the Lights - Speakeasy (Blue Dot Sessions)
  • Swapping Tubes - Studio J (Blue Dot Sessions)
  • Rafter - Speakeasy (Blue Dot Sessions)
  • Great Great Lengths - The Balloonist (Blue Dot Sessions)
  • Insatiable Toad - Origami (Blue Dot Sessions)
  • Voicemail Music: Low Key Lost Feeling Electro by Alex Stinnent
  • Closing Music: Upbeat Laid Back Indie Rock by Alex Stinnent

 

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