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WABE 90.1 FM
"rashad robinson" Discussed on WABE 90.1 FM
"And fosters discrimination misinformation and violence Rashad Robinson leads the racial justice group color of change For years we have been deeply concerned about the role that Facebook plays in our society that Facebook plays can not democracy the impacts on our communities and those concerns only become deeper and deeper as the days weeks months and years go by And the central figure in Facebook's controversial business model is Sandberg When Zuckerberg brought her on he was a 23 year old Harvard dropout known for the motto move fast and break things Sandberg was 38 and is comfortable in the halls of Congress as in corporate America thanks to stints at the Treasury Department and consulting firm McKinsey Once she published lean in her manifesto encouraging women to climb the corporate ladder she became the global girl boss For the people she mentored like Kim Scott at Google Sandberg was a firewall protecting her from office politics She had been kind of a umbrella for me In other words she had shielded me and the other people that we worked with from a lot of political nonsense At Facebook Sandberg played that umbrella role publicly She took charge of policy communications relationships with regulators and lawmakers Zuckerberg once described it as the things he didn't want to do Katie Harbaugh worked in public policy at Facebook until last year She was in some ways very much a co CEO in the external terms with Mark It was one of the few companies I think that if it was The White House or Congress or you name it they were perfectly fine having Cheryl be representing the company and not necessarily having the CEO But Sandberg's focus on being that shield for Facebook and Zuckerberg eventually became a major line of attack She was accused of deflecting and denying big problems from Russian interference in the 2016 election to the Cambridge Analytica data scandal to the January 6th capitol riot Harbaugh says those criticisms came from inside Facebook as well Part of her legacy will certainly be the fact that those things need to be paid attention to a lot sooner to make sure they don't become really big problems before you're ready to handle them As instrumental as Sandberg was in making Facebook what it is today even critics say she should not be blamed for all the company's problems Robinson of color of change is no fan of Facebook But he credits Sandberg for her work on racial equity including advocating for a civil rights audit But as Robinson sees it there was only so much Sandberg could do At the end of the day the company is controlled by Mark Zuckerberg who is chairman and CEO and majority shareholder Over the past year Zuckerberg has renamed the company meta to signal its shift in focus to the metaverse and immersive virtual world The CEO is now the same age Sandberg was when he hired her And one thing is clear While Sandberg shared in Facebook successes and failures the future of meta belongs to Zuckerberg alone Shannon Bond NPR news The.
WABE 90.1 FM
"rashad robinson" Discussed on WABE 90.1 FM
"Who donate to this NPR station This is weekend edition from NPR news I'm Scott Simon Racial discrimination was one of four historic crises that Joe Biden pledged to take on even before he was elected president But after a State of the Union address this week some social justice advocates worry about that promise And piers won a summer's reports In President Biden's first address to a joint session of Congress last year he pledged to root out systemic racism and to advance efforts to create a more equitable country We've all seen the need and justice in the neck and black Americans But this year those issues were not the focus From a president who said that he would make race equity a linchpin of his administration he didn't mention it That's cliff albright He is a cofounder of the group black voters matter speaking on a virtual panel of progressives responding to the president's speech I don't think he said race or even the word black once even when he was talking about the first black woman potential Supreme Court Justice who he nominated If you look at the transcript of the speech he doesn't use the word anywhere in his speech Progressive activists say that the forceful language that Biden used on race as a candidate and in his first year in office have been replaced by silence You know you can't say that it's time for America to come together on race By ignoring race That's Rashad Robinson the president of color of change Racial justice is not charity It's not the thing that a president should do to be nice to black and brown folks Racial justice is strategy And the quicker The White House and other folks recognize the strategic power of engaging on racial justice to motivate engage and deliver for the community's most impacted the better off they will be in the better off the country will be One issue that received only a passing mention from Biden was voting rights A yearlong public push for federal legislation died in January Biden also didn't renew calls for police reform legislation Bipartisan talks on that collapsed last year He did however use the moment to repeat his call for more funding for police departments responding to a nationwide rise in gun violence We should all agree the answer is not to defund the police.
MIP Make It Plain with Mark Thompson
"rashad robinson" Discussed on MIP Make It Plain with Mark Thompson
"Two of our coverage of the make good trouble rally, August 28th, 50th anniversary of the March on Washington. Today we'll hear congresswoman Cori Bush, latasha Brown and cliff albright of black voters matter, Alicia Garza of the black futures lab and Rashad Robinson of color of change. If you want to hear part one, check out Friday's make it plain where in the same place, just go backwards, the same place where you found today's broadcast, wherever you get your podcasts. I want you to give it up to my congresswoman and your congresswoman from the great state of Missouri from St. Louis, Missouri, and our great congressman from the great state of New York from The Bronx. Give it up for congresswoman Cori Bush and Jamaal Bowman. Good afternoon. Good afternoon. I need it. I need it. I need it. I am the St. Louis congresswoman Cori Bush, and I'm going to start by first of all telling you all why I do what I do. I do what I do because I first love you. And that's important for me to make sure that you understand that that with because I love you, I put my body on the line for you. Because I love you, I push the envelope and because I love you, I don't care what people think about me, I just care that you get what you need. And it's because I love you and because I love our communities that I'm the one that you heard led our colleagues and sleeping on the steps of the U.S. capitol for a few nights to keep that pressure up until we secured those basic protections for 11 million people across this country who were facing violent evictions during the deadly pandemic. We secured those protections, all of us who spoke up and all of us that said, we can't put our people out in the street in the middle of a pandemic, and we shouldn't do it period. All of those protections save lives for three weeks longer than anybody thought was possible. But what happened because we have this broken raggedy system because Republicans have suppressed our votes because they don't want us to heal from the violent ongoing pain that the, that the white supremacy and flicks on our communities daily, Republicans have made the Supreme Court and institution that is felling us as well. So let's be clear, Trump and McConnell were only able to stack this court so unfairly because stacking so unfairly against our communities through the suppression of our votes through the suppression of black votes and to be clear, suppression of black votes is the perpetuation of white supremacist violence. Let me say that again, it is, it is the perpetuation of white supremacist violence. So we're making it plain. Right here on the mall of the U.S. capitol right here right here saying in the name of giants who shoulders, we are standing on. As you hear my voice in this moment, we're making it plays so that the Republican Party of voter suppression, that's what I call them that they know that we see their voter suppression for exactly what it really is. It's white supremacist violence. And we're demanding freedom and liberation of all systems of white supremacist tyranny. We demand to live free of the suppression of our voices. Wait a minute to live free of racist policing in our communities. We demand to live free. From systems from systems of food, education and healthcare part time that's killing us. I don't think y'all want to be free. I can't hear you. We demand to live free. We're also demanding freedom from policy violence. Freedom from the racist Senate procedural tool that's called the filibuster. Freedom from that Jim Crow relic that is blocking before the people act. Blocking the John Lewis, civil rights advancement act blocking statehood for Washington, D.C.. Blocking too many of the long overdue policies that our communities need that we need pass right now to save our lives. So let me say this. We will not stop pushing for freedom. We will not stop pushing for liberation for all of us. Liberation from evictions, liberation from poverty, liberation from the suppression of our votes and our work, it starts by making sure that every single last and top black racist white supremacist voter suppression law in this country is abolished abolishing now. Thank you. Ladies and gentlemen, let's hear it for congresswoman Cori Bush. One of the primary organizations responsible for pulling us together on this sacred day in this sacred space is black voters matter. And I know we all have seen. Cliff all bright and Natasha Brown on MSNBC, but we've also seen them out here in these streets. And they're doing the important work of getting our voters out, but let me tell you something. Let me tell you what they told me. Is not up to them. To keep mobilizing voters. To vote for Democrats with the Democrats won't do what they supposed to do. And get rid of the filibuster. So that's what we have to consider are they ready? Look like they trying to get him to the stage. Would they be a mob right now? Ladies and gentlemen, it is my privilege to bring forward. My comrades in arms 58 years ago. There was a voting rights movement fighting for the same things we're fighting for today. Same thing ain't nothing changed. How did that happen? How is nothing changed? Please welcome representing as I lose my voice, black voters matter. Natasha Brown. And cliff albright. Natasha Brown. And cliff all bright. Hear you them. What's going on? When I say black voters, you say matter, black voters. Black voters. When I say love, you say power, love. Love. We are so excited to be here with y'all on this historic day. We are so excited we wish we could be here though on a day where we could just commemorate and celebrate but unfortunately today is not that day. Because we still got work to do. And so here we are at a moment a historic moment we are in a battle for our voting rights in a moment where we see voter suppression sweeping all across this country. Y'all know the deal 48.
How I Built This
"rashad robinson" Discussed on How I Built This
"Many other systems which manufacturer inequality and so the thing about katrina moments. Like that you can even say this about kovin right is that no one was nervous about disappointing. Black people government corporations in media. And so if you start off by the idea that one of the pieces of the theory of changes that we have to make decision makers nervous about disappointing us then you start to think about. How do i build the campaigns. How do i build the structures that actually do that right and so part of building that infrastructure is also recognizing the climate about how people are getting their information and so we've really built this strategy of responding to moments building energy finding the systemic pivot and then scaling over time we talk about it as respond build pivot and scale. It's how we sort of still though respond to various moments that are happening but then try to chattel those moments and channel that energy channel that response into things that can actually move toward systemic victories. And then if we go back in sort of evaluate how did our efforts actually sort of lead to change a campaign back during the sixteen election we ran and we went back and forth with the clinton campaign to give back their private prison donations and we went back and forth right so we sent to emails to the clinton campaign one was like a smiling hillary that she had given back the money. The second one was like a pitcher. That wasn't that was like she was upset and that she hadn't given back the money. And we explain the issue. There were footnotes and we send both emails to the campaign and we said by the end of the week. We're going to send out one of these emails. You let us know which one and they decided to the smiling hillary email and we got a lot of practice of credit about it but no black people were freed from private prisons. No private prisons closed. We set a new standard around democratic presidential candidates not accepting private printing donations. We create a new narrative around private prisons. That made it harder for folks to defend them on the left and that's important so that's momentum achievement no matter how much sort of visibility impressed you get. It's not a systemic victory but knowing that difference is also important in terms of the architecture you built so you're actually building houses in your building structures that are sustainable over time. If you just go around getting a bunch of momentum achievements but you don't actually change the rules then you've built a lot of presents but you haven't actually achieved any power. I keep thinking about how in a weather system. We might put an umbrella up but actually there are these giant rivers that run deep under our oceans that determine currents and weather patterns that are fixed or or semifixed and and we focus on the symptoms. I'm curious about this word progress because that's been part of our cultural narrative for for for for decades. This idea that progress happens. It's real. it's achievable. What do you think about that word. Progress i actually think. Progress is very tricky right as a word because the systems that we are fighting are durable and strong and they were made to be durable and strong and sometimes they will create space for us to have cosmetic victories. That aren't actually progress. Right we can have more black millionaires and billionaires but we still have a widening wealth gap and so it doesn't mean that we don't sort of recognize that progress we have to sort of be inside of real conversations of hope of achievement and at the same time our progress oftentimes comes with backlash right. It's not a mistake right that. After the first black president was elected. That's when we saw that rise in those discriminatory voter id laws. You can vote with your gun license but not your student. Id news now. See basically an attempt to strip american citizens of their right to express their will for a better future through the vote. We have to sort of both recognize progress but steel ourselves to be able to defend that progress and this goes back to this idea of infrastructure infrastructure gives us the ability to not just achieve big things but to hold onto those big things but also to then face down the forces that really stand in the way of change and so to that extent. That progress is so important but but the stories that can sometimes be told of progress of the past oftentimes have singular individuals who sort of fought and overcame things instead of the stories of people coming together building infrastructure and then overcoming really big forces. That's the story of progress. That i'm the inside of and that's the story of progress that we are trying to make more. I think so. Many of us as humans are motivated are inspired. By stories and stories can really change the way people think about things i- intrinsically believe that hope is a necessary factor necessary element in in motivating people that hope. This idea that things can get better. I think i believe in that idea. Do you believe in that idea. I used to go into the voting booth with my grandfather eastern long island. The nays frenetic but he asked me to read the names and he put me on his show. There's back when they had those lever machines so we'd have to pull the lever. After my grandfather died. I found out that he actually couldn't leader right. He went into the fields as six year olds. A sharecropper never got a formal education. He still wanted to participate. I think about. I think about him so much in our work. Not just in terms of hope in aspiration because it wasn't a a hope without a deep understanding of the realities. My grandfather was race man. He liked the mets not the yankees because he believed that the yankees didn't give a black man a fair shot and so it was very much this idea that sitting hoping i think about the stories of the folks before him i think about their migration from a violent challenging racist south to a violent challenging racist north and the belief that there could be something more for them that there was something worth fighting for. There was a belief in a better tomorrow. My grandfather was became a homeowner. He was part of a union. He got my help to get my dad in the union where he learned a skill and then became an entrepreneur. I'm all of these. Things are very much part of the story in the legacy of of people who are pressed. It's part of the story of how we built social movements. It's part of the story about why we build social movements. And i couldn't do this work every day without having a sense of hope which is absolutely rooted in an idea that more is possible and better as.
How I Built This
"rashad robinson" Discussed on How I Built This
"Strength to do the work you do. It is absolutely emotionally exhausting. There are days where we get some of the most troubling and tragic outreaches from people in deep pain and we may not have the resources to take an on. We may not be the right organization and so there are so many of these things that we can't take on and so we constantly have to think about what are the moments that we can take that actually allow us to move toward systemic pivot. So that we can win change. That can be sort of self fulfilling over time and can lead to more change but also like i'm in these stories. I'm in these stories as myself. My family's in these stories. My i sometimes see my younger self and some of these stories. And you can't take yourself out of that and you can't censor yourself at the same time. I also know that. I am doing this work on top of a legacy of people who were entrepreneurs you know this kind of like this sort of two types of entrepreneurship that i kind see in the black community that entrepreneurship of trying to build something that you know adds a new service ads in new resource. And then the thing for press people for black folks for other folks that have been marginalized is having to build something that already exists. But you've been excluded from and having to build the the black newspapers that you know. Black people literally have really created independent media in this country and so black people have constantly had to sort of reimagined and find new ways to build things whether it was to provide something new or whether it was to provide the same exact thing that already existed but we were excluded from. And it's not just black folks. I think about press people have always had to figure out a way to be heard counted invisible regardless of whether we are privileged or vulnerable in the majority or the minority or in favor out of favor with whoever may be power at the time and those institutions in that infrastructure. I think also is something that has sustained me. I am not alone. I am not on my own. I am not out front trying to take all the bullets. I am working to build infrastructure that is bigger than me and hopefully will last far beyond what we come back in just a moment more by conversation with rashad robinson on how to deal with the mental and emotional stress that comes with fighting for social justice. Stay with us guy. Roz and you're listening to how i built this from. Npr this message comes from npr sponsor. Go daddy making a different future starts with you. That's why go daddy does more than help you find a name. 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Hey welcome back to how i built this guy roz and you're listening to an excerpt of my conversation about leadership with activist and president of color of change rashad robinson we talked at the virtual. How i built this summit held back in may and reshot says it's important for any organizer to create space for self and community care. You mentioned that you are also part of the story. Your family people you know. How do you deal with your own mental stress and emotional stress personally. I have an incredible network of friends and family who love me for my wards four all the qualities that make me a leader and and love me win. I don't always meet the mark but give me the type of advice encouragement and critique that people in my position need and you know. I've been thinking a lot about what does it mean to create space for south care for community care as someone who has to lead an organization of over one hundred and fifty staff. We're asked to respond to viral videos where people see themselves or their family members in there were exa constantly have to wake up and drive campaigns to fight a systemic injustice where all of my staff are part of the story and the folks who are not seeing themselves directly impacted are inside of an organization with our allies and there are working to make their contributions to changing society because they know that when black people win to society moves in the right direction and even if it didn't black people winning in of itself would be enough. You've talked about changing the architecture of what was seen as a civil rights movement. You've talked about the magical thinking that that sometimes people see an advocacy work and you just eluded to earlier sending water bottles to flint when when it's actually much deeper problem or you know or solving you know You know unequal education at at schools mainly You know attended by black and brown students by doing mentorship and services at that. That actually isn't what would solves or begins to solve problems. It's much much bigger problem And so i wonder I want i want you to talk a little bit. With this idea of architecture like reimagining the architecture not only of the discourse but of of the fight. Yeah i mean. We think a lot about architecture and we're costly trying to like innovate the systems of how we take an information. We were founded in the aftermath of hurricane katrina which was a flood caused by bad decision makers that turned into a life altering disaster by bad decision makers in black people literally on their roofs begging for the government to do something and left to die and katrina illustrate a lot of things that people already knew geographic segregation generational poverty the impacts of what we've done to our planet all the ways in which structural racism undergirds.
How I Built This
"rashad robinson" Discussed on How I Built This
"Can occur as a result so much of what you have to do. Rashad as a leader of such a massive organization that is addressing one of the most challenge if not the most challenging series of of issues in human history. is persuasion. What have you learned about the art of persuasion as somebody who is pursuing impact. Yeah that's such a great question. I think about persuasion a lot particularly. Because i i've come to realize after this last summer that ratio racial justice moved people to the streets. Move people to action. And so if you think about over the last ten years right people saying black lives matter to or it's racist to say that now being not that it's not controversial but now it's on streets in front of capitals. It's raised up on science. That is the power of persuasion. Persuasion is not just about some sort of messaging. It's about narrative because narrative once again is about power about the rules norms of society. What is acceptable. And what is possible and so you know we also think a lot about the stories we tell far too often we tell stories about inequality that are unfortunate rather than stories that are unjust and really sort of illustrate the injustices stories that often times start from a passive voice about the system instead of an active voice. So what i mean by that is black. People are less likely to get a loan from the bank is what will often times here instead of banks are less likely to give loans to black people and that may seem like semantics. But what i'm really saying here. Is that when you say. Black people are less likely to get loans from bit from the bank. People ask themselves. Well what's wrong with black people. Maybe we should give them financial literacy. If we say you know banks are less likely to give loans to black people. Then we ask ourselves. What's wrong with the banks and so we don't need financial literacy to help. Black people do better inside of institutions which have targeted exploited and red line. Since almost they're very beginning. We actually need structural change and so when we deal with sort of charitable solutions to structural problems. What ends up happening in our policy is folks sending water bottles to flint and stopping short of actually cleaning up the pipes doing service days and inner city schools instead of actually dealing with the fact that we have deep inequities in our public education system. That are not an accident but they are manufactured and so for us at color of change how we tell the story. We don't keep trying to fix people who have been exploited targeted and left out but we actually fixed the systems which have done so much damage and which are oftentimes propped up by profiteers and bias. Society that we're far too many people benefit from those systems being in place for should. I can't help us. Think as i listened to you and i know your story and all of the work you've done throughout your life on behalf of lgbtq issues on behalf of racial justice. I'm blown away. I mean where. Where do you.
How I Built This
"rashad robinson" Discussed on How I Built This
"Hey everybody welcome to another special edition of how i built. This guy is. We're releasing the final main stage interview from our how i built this summit which happened virtually back in may and our final episode is from my conversation with rashad robinson about making a meaningful impact in the world. Rashad is an activist and the president of color of change. The nation's largest online racial justice organization over the past decades rashad has taken on everything from criminal justice reform to improved media representation for marginalized communities tracking back to his childhood. Rashad has pushed hard for racial justice and equal rights in all aspects of life. Recite joined us on the virtual stage during color of changes week of action. A series of events created to honor the one year anniversary of the death. George floyd rashad talked about why they didn't wanna focus only on pain and tragedy around the anniversary but to center it on something. Different black joy. Black joy is not the absence of pain but the presence of aspiration. Not just what we are fighting against what we are fighting for and in so many of the ways in which we try to bring people together to actually accomplish big things we center black joy we center sort of relational organizing. I fundamentally believe that leadership in activism is not being a spokesperson for people who are not hurt but about building the vehicles in the infrastructure so that people can be heard for themselves and so when we bring people together in the spirit of black joy. I think it's incredibly important because we're not just trying to center what we don't want but we're trying to center all the ways in what in what we do one in black people black joy right has been such a centerpiece of what has made this country. What it is from all of the things. We've contributed from food and culture and and politics to the innovations. We've had to make in the entrepreneur space. All of that. I think is part of black joy in part of this sort of resilience and purposeful contributions that black people have made to this country to the world. I love that so much Rashad this conference is about entrepreneurship. And of course. Entrepreneurship doesn't necessarily mean for profit. Making entrepreneurship is found all across the board including in activism. In what you do because so much of it is about creative ways to create disruption. You've been an activist your whole life. You literally grew up in an activist home. You've got involved political organizing in highschool even hosted a political talk. Show on your local access station when you were younger Why did you pursue a life of activism. You know. I pursued a life. I've pursued my purpose. I pursued fighting for the people. I care about and fighting for myself and that has led me into a world of activism but i never really knew until i got much older that this could be sort of a job or life as a young activist. People would say particularly in the black community that i should either run for office. And i've done everything. I could to run from office and or that i should be a minister minister and those were some of the things that people would often time say and i feel like in both those cases people were. I think speaking to this idea of being of service. And i think that's what i continue to try to do. I think over the past year. I read that color of change seen incredible growth. I mean it's sort of strange to talk about a social mission. Activist organisation as is experiencing growth. But it's true right like we talked about startups. It's been an incredibly important year. I think your email list alone has gone from like one and a half million people to almost seven million. Maybe more by this point which is just incredible. How do you as as a leader because so many of the of the people watching tonight are thinking about impact. How can i have an impact. How do you measure that for yourself and for the organization. Yeah we think about it. A couple of ways first. We have this kind of central sort of premise. To our work that i've really tried to include in in all the things that we do and it's not mistaking presence for power presences. Visibility awareness re tweet shutouts from the stage. Presence is not bad but we mistake presents for power. We sometimes think we've done things that we haven't actually done. We mistake a black president for thinking that we are post racial. We may mistake. America's love for black celebrities and black culture for thinking that america loves black people as much as a miracle loves black culture in america can love celebrate and even monetize black culture and hate black people at the same time and so that standard of not mistaking presents for power. Really about recognizing that power is the ability to change the rules and that is really where we start at in terms of impact but across all of our campaign where we really create goals across the organization. Try to really work to hold folks accountable for what does it mean to actually contribute. And so we we talk about things. That are what we call pile on. Victories and those are just things that would have happened without us. All the way to things that couldn't have happened without us and we try to be in that space of things that couldn't happen without us or things where we played a unique role of value. Add that if we were not very might not have happened at all the final thing. I'll say about this. Is that in this presence versus power speights. It's incredibly important that we keep a real focus on strategic action. So you're not going to see a campaign from color of change that says tell mitch mcconnell to stand up for affirmative action as much as we may want mitch mcconnell to stand up for affirmative action. There's no amount of color of change members signing a petition or building a campaign. That's going to get him to do that. And so that's asking people to engage in something that we know. We don't have a theory of change around. So having theories of change is also incredibly important to how we think about impact but how we think about asking people for their time and their energy in our efforts you know one of the things that is so profound about what you're working on is that there. There's no timeline you know. I mean there's no well in six months time we're gonna to solve systemic racism. I mean it. It is a potentially never ending struggle. And i wonder how you think about victory and victories. How do you do you sort of step back and look at. Let's say a time line that has no end but still recognize certain things as victories. I'm absolutely. I mean that's what you have to do. And along the way you're trying to create a more human and less hostile world and that's how we think about this. We also recognize that people don't experience issues. We experience life that the forces that hold us back or deeply interrelated a racist criminal. Justice system requires a racist media culture to keep it alive to create the demand for to protect it. Political inequality goes hand in hand with economic inequality. These things all operate together. And so that does get us back to sort of the thing. I started with which is power right and this idea that we're constantly trying to raise the floor on what's acceptable and push up the ceiling on what's possible and when we do that we create new space for new things to happen but because we baby changed the narrative where we change the landscape. But we've changed. What's possible then. More things can.
How I Built This
"rashad robinson" Discussed on How I Built This
"A dollar. It's fun you know i. I've said this before. I i've said it before publicly. I think curiosity is much more important than than intelligence. I think actually people who are curious. I didn't curiosity is a is a can be developed a choice. You can choose to be curious. And it's as simple as that and it's actually much much more important than ron telliance because in my experience every founder. Who's been on high built. This is a person who follows their curiosity. So i think it's a it's a super important point. I wanna i want to ask you about a brand and you may not. You may not have one off the top of your head. Maybe you do. Which brand right now do you think is is doing marketing very well right now. No believe it or not. We work with chick. Talk bainer but it's not the work we're doing with them. That's gonna make me say tick-tock factor. I think nick tran is a very good operator as their cmo. I love what they're doing with their television commercials using content. That like it's my favorite concept. It's getting affirmation that human beings think this is interesting and you're taking it to another platform giving even more awareness so the tick tock is done a very solid job of. It's really funny. Think talk and facebook lever not building awareness around groups. I'm blown away by much. Under thirty year olds are signing up for facebook groups. That scale right now. I think it's an effective marketing job by them elf cosmetics. I think has been very native to talk to a demo. They need to win there. That the loser some things like my brain went very fast when you said that you know the truth is it's always a tough question for me because i'm because unless i know the business results. Yeah i think that marketing is very good at cheering for itself in a silo without asking. If it's doing what it's supposed to be doing you know. The ad world loves to clap and celebrate itself around work. That isn't actually driving business results. Which i've always found fascinating. What do you think about. Sort of kind of unusual approaches to content marketing. Like i think of stay comes comes. Yes day comes has a twitter account. That's gotten a lot of attention. Because it's just the person writing the tweets is just really quirky and weighing in on all kinds of things that have nothing to do with stay comes but it's but you go to their website. It's actually kind of funny and interesting. And they sell t shirts and hats. And it's i haven't thought stadium since the eighties. I'm a. I'm a huge fan of breaking patterns. If you think you know it's funny. I have been willing as a human being to take on a little crow little judgment out of my subconscious bias towards breaking patterns. I wouldn't call it shock jock. But i think when i when i communicate a lot of times i look at myself It took me a long time like oh. This is me being affected by randy. The macho man savage and eddie murphy and chris rock like i'm affected by that. And what i think about those three. They broke patterns in their craft in delivery. And i think what you're talking about state comes. Wendy's does very well or other brands. Popeye's is breaking patterns. I mean it's what we did with planters right. We killed mr peanut that stopped. Everybody knows guy before painter won the planters business. When we do the work we realized he cared. About mr peanut that was the nineteen sixties phenomenon. So how do you break the pattern. You kill him. All of a sudden. Miraculously america really cared about it. And so yeah. I mean how. Do you break patterns like. That's what commercials were. When i had television what's unusual that isn't annoying or destructive. That's what commercials became so. Yeah i'm a big fan of marketing. That is different. Catches you quote on who off guard but values the other person's timeframe and that's where i think we've lost our way in marketing. A lot of marketing is distracting people instead of catching them off guard. The content has to be worthwhile. It goes back to that. Escapist like if instead of pre roll podcast. Add if out of nowhere guy you started. Singing looks means. You have agreed of sun before i mean the ad hoc right like if i came. I really want wine text explode and i think your audience. So would you sing. Yeah i don't wanna do live read. I don't wanna do a pre roll. I don't wanna be middle. I want to pay you that in the middle of an interview up out of nowhere you start going walling text dot com like like. That would completely stop your entire audience. That trump bring thinks. I think in creative ways that will completely get everybody to quote unquote pay attention but not be something that is bothering them because they want to actually hear the rest of it. There's a level of surprise. The white integration. It's why fell in love with social media. It was in the feed. It wasn't like you just got. I'm watching a show. And it gets the cliffhanger nat crap. Now i gotta watch him a spin dag big fan of the spin of drinking one right now. It's more integrated into the different silly way you singing a wine. Tax dad will make people chuckle more so than when you start reading it. Hey let's stop low. Quick this i got to give a shout to one of our sponsors. It's already dead because it's intrusive instead of in addition to gary i am going to explore that and i hope our audience watching right now. We'll forgive me. If i break out in song in the middle of your podcast episode. Just in the middle of it random. I'm in gary chuck. We talked back in may as part of the high billfish 2021 virtual summit or conversations like this one from the how i built this summit will be in your feed soon including my live interviews with bernie brown adam grant and rashad robinson. You will not want to miss those so. Please keep an eye on your podcast feed. This episode was edited by casey herman with music composed by routine arab louis. Our production staffer summit includes neva. Grant chasing howard julia carney thera safari metzger janet. John lee analyst ober kiana cappa dona. John isabella allie prescott. Wlob ska and jeff goldstein. Our intern harrison bj choi jeff. Rodgers is our executive producer on guy roz. And you've been listening to how i built this from. Npr this message comes from npr sponsor hp to help combat climate change. Hp thought about how they could build their products in a truly sustainable way taking used plastic and turning it into best in class products at hp dot com slash hp dash sustainability..
Democracy Now! Audio
"rashad robinson" Discussed on Democracy Now! Audio
"New sanctions on Cuba's defense minister and the interior ministry with President Biden warning quote this is just the beginning. The move comes in response to recent anti government protests announcing the economic crisis during the pandemic and reports of government repression. People have been scrambling to cope amidst shortages of medicine food and other resources largely due to catastrophic U.S. sanctions. And the Cuban foreign minister Bruno Rodriguez denounced the sanctions is unfounded and slanderous and said the U.S. should enforce such measures on itself instead because of daily acts of police repression and brutality. This comes as over 400 politicians intellectuals clergy members artists activists and former heads of state are calling on Biden to immediately lift the 243 sanctions the Trump administration imposed on Cuba. The group which includes former Brazilian president Luis and osteo Lula da Silva Noam Chomsky and Cornell west printed a full page ad in today's New York Times headlined let Cuba live. Congress member and congressional black caucus web Hank Johnson was arrested Thursday. Alongside prominent African American voting rights advocates as they protested ongoing attacks on democracy in front of a Senate building. Harvard professor former president Cornell William Brooks black Hooters matter cofounder cliff albright and color of change president Rashad Robinson were also among the arrested. Before their arrest the men were joined by other activists in black Congress members on the steps of the Supreme Court where they called for abolishing the filibuster and for senators to pass the for the people act. This is Rashad Robinson speaking yesterday. We have nothing to us and ask us for our vote by day. And stay silent where they take away our power by night. We will not go back and I want to say that there were no good old days. There is only a path forward. There is only a path forward with all of us being able to be heard. Come on. Recognize invisible. In India over 200 farmers lit a protest near the parliament in New Delhi Thursday. Marking some 8 months of resistance against three pro corporate agricultural laws enacted by prime minister Narendra Modi. Farmers are continuing to pressure Modi's government to repeal the laws which deregulate agricultural markets and roll back key labor and income protections. Millions of farmers and opponents of the reforms have staged multiple strikes across India since at least last November. Agriculture is the leading source of income from more than half of India's 1.3 billion population. In South Africa the death toll in recent anti government protests has risen to at least 337 people. Thousands of others have been arrested. The demonstrations erupted after former president Jacob Zuma began his 15 month jail sentence for refusing to testify in a corruption probe. They've since focused on grinding poverty and record levels of unemployment exacerbated by the pandemic. At least 20 refugees are presumed to have drowned off the coast of Libya in the Mediterranean Sea Wednesday. This week alone the Libyan coast guard has intercepted 7 vessels and apprehended hundreds of refugees including children as they attempt to reach Europe for safety. I'm mister international reports that in the first half of this year over 7000 refugees have been apprehended and forcibly returned to prison camps in Libya. Meanwhile the number of refugees who've died while attempting to reach European soil by sea has more than doubled compared to the first 6 months of 2020. So far this year over a thousand. Hundred people have perished. The Pentagon says it launched overnight air strikes against Taliban targets and Kandahar Afghanistan Thursday. U.S. officials say they'll continue to conduct air strikes until they complete their withdrawal at the end of August and that most of the recent strikes in Afghanistan come from unmanned drones. In related news the U.S. House overwhelmingly passed a bill Thursday to provide 8000 more special visas for Afghans who worked as interpreters contractors and security personnel for the U.S. during its occupation. The visas will also cover their families. The Senate armed services committee voted to increase The Pentagon budget by $25 billion above President Biden's request and a move likely to face opposition from progressive Democrats who are seeking to cut military spending. Activists gathered in front of the cultural attache office for the United Arab Emirates in Washington D.C. Thursday to protest the planned rendition of former Guantanamo prisoner revealing back to Russia. He's currently being held in a UAE prison. After being released from Guantanamo Bay in 2017 where he was held without charge for over 15 years. Advocates say 17 other former Guantanamo prisoners now locked up in the UAE under inhumane conditions. This is Helen qinger of witness against torture. They've been tortured. This man will live with that for the rest of their lives. We are the reparations we need to make sure that they are in good situations and continue to follow them and support them in attempting to make the rest of their lives. Fulfilled. 40 labor healthcare and other advocacy groups are calling on President Biden to invoke the defense production act to halt the shutdown of the largest U.S. generic drugs plant at the end of this month. 1500 people are in the verge of losing their jobs at via Trish nylons pharmaceuticals plant in West Virginia which will start outsourcing its manufacturing to India. The groups say the move will leave the U.S. with virtually no domestic production of generic pharmaceuticals threatening the supply chain for essential drugs. The House committee on financial services held one of its first hearings on public banking this week New York Congress member Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez who last year introduced the public banking act with Congress member Rashida Tlaib said public banks would help support local economies and infrastructure and help combat inequality and structural racism in the banking industry. But most states and cities have to rely on commercial banks because there's no public option. This is De Niro Del Rio from the new economy project.
Democracy Now! Audio
"rashad robinson" Discussed on Democracy Now! Audio
"Their communities. Hospitals and areas with the largest spikes and cases are warning things are likely to get much worse. This is Eric Frederick chief administrative officer at mercy hospital in Missouri. You are just starting to see this in your community and your vaccination rates are low like ours. And you can expect this to go beyond what you saw last year for the delta variant is much more contagious. It's making people sicker. It's getting into a younger population. There's a lot less mitigation in place than last year. Just three states Missouri Texas and as well Florida represent 40% of the new infections. Meanwhile in California Los Angeles officials said 20% of new cases are now being reported in vaccinated people as the delta variant has taken hold. In more sports news the NFL is ramping up pressure on all players to get vaccinated saying teams will have to forfeit games and players will go unpaid if there is a COVID-19 outbreak among unvaccinated team members. The Biden administration's imposed new sanctions on Cuba's defense minister and the interior ministry with President Biden warning quote this is just the beginning. The move comes in response to recent anti government protests announcing the economic crisis during the pandemic and reports of government repression. People have been scrambling to cope amidst shortages of medicine food and other resources largely due to catastrophic U.S. sanctions. And the Cuban foreign minister Bruno Rodriguez denounced the sanctions is unfounded and slanderous and said the U.S. should enforce such measures on itself instead because of daily acts of police repression and brutality. This comes as over 400 politicians intellectuals clergy members artists activists and former heads of state are calling on Biden to immediately lift the 243 sanctions the Trump administration imposed on Cuba. The group which includes former Brazilian president Luis and osteo Lula da Silva Noam Chomsky and Cornell west printed a full page ad in today's New York Times headlined let Cuba live. Congress member and congressional black caucus web Hank Johnson was arrested Thursday. Alongside prominent African American voting rights advocates as they protested ongoing attacks on democracy in front of a Senate building. Harvard professor former president Cornell William Brooks black Hooters matter cofounder cliff albright and color of change president Rashad Robinson were also among the arrested. Before their arrest the men were joined by other activists in black Congress members on the steps of the Supreme Court where they called for abolishing the filibuster and for senators to pass the for the people act. This is Rashad Robinson speaking yesterday. We have nothing to us and ask us for our vote by day. And stay silent where they take away our power by night. We will not go back and I want to say that there were no good old days. There is only a path forward. There is only a path forward with all of us being able to be heard. Come on. Recognize invisible. In India over 200 farmers lit a protest near the parliament in New Delhi Thursday. Marking some 8 months of resistance against three pro corporate agricultural laws enacted by prime minister Narendra Modi. Farmers are continuing to pressure Modi's government to repeal the laws which deregulate agricultural markets and roll back key labor and income protections. Millions of farmers and opponents of the reforms have staged multiple strikes across India since at least last November. Agriculture is the leading source of income from more than half of India's 1.3 billion population. In South Africa the death toll in recent anti government protests has risen to at least 337 people. Thousands of others have been arrested. The demonstrations erupted after former president Jacob Zuma began his 15 month jail sentence for refusing to testify in a corruption probe. They've since focused on grinding poverty and record levels of unemployment exacerbated by the pandemic. At least 20 refugees are presumed to have drowned off the coast of Libya in the Mediterranean Sea Wednesday. This week alone the Libyan coast guard has intercepted 7 vessels and apprehended hundreds of refugees including children as they attempt to reach Europe for safety. I'm mister international reports that in the first half of this year over 7000 refugees have been apprehended and forcibly returned to prison camps in Libya. Meanwhile the number of refugees who've died while attempting to reach European soil by sea has more than doubled compared to the first 6 months of 2020. So far this year over a thousand. Hundred people have perished. The Pentagon says it launched overnight air strikes against Taliban targets and Kandahar Afghanistan Thursday. U.S. officials say they'll continue to conduct air strikes until they complete their withdrawal at the end of August and that most of the recent strikes in Afghanistan come from unmanned drones. In related news the U.S. House overwhelmingly passed a bill Thursday to provide 8000 more special visas for Afghans who worked as interpreters contractors and security personnel for the U.S. during its occupation. The visas will also cover their families. The Senate armed services committee voted to increase The Pentagon budget by $25 billion above President Biden's request and a move likely to face opposition from progressive Democrats who are seeking to cut military spending. Activists gathered in front of the cultural attache office for the United Arab Emirates in Washington D.C. Thursday to protest the planned rendition of former Guantanamo prisoner revealing back to Russia. He's currently being held in a UAE prison. After being released from Guantanamo Bay in 2017 where he was held without charge for over 15 years. Advocates say 17 other former Guantanamo prisoners now locked up in the UAE under inhumane conditions. This is Helen qinger of witness against torture. They've been tortured. This man will live with that for the rest of their lives. We are the reparations we need to make sure that they are in good situations and continue to follow them and support them in attempting to make the rest of their lives. Fulfilled. 40 labor healthcare and other advocacy groups are calling on President Biden to invoke the defense production act to halt the shutdown of the largest U.S. generic drugs plant at the end of this month. 1500 people are in the verge of losing their jobs at via Trish nylons pharmaceuticals plant in West Virginia which will start outsourcing its manufacturing to India. The groups say the move will leave the U.S. with virtually no domestic production of generic pharmaceuticals threatening the supply chain for essential drugs. The House committee on financial services held one of its first hearings on public banking this week New York Congress member Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez who last year introduced the public banking act with Congress member Rashida Tlaib said public banks would help support local economies and infrastructure and help combat inequality and structural racism in the banking industry. But most states and cities have to rely on commercial banks because there's no public option. This is De Niro Del Rio from the new economy project.
Niner Faithful Radio
"rashad robinson" Discussed on Niner Faithful Radio
"Jeff fisher but sometimes it was like okay. We'll find you wanna fire. Jeff fisher who are you going to get. And that's how. Sometimes i think that players especially see with a lot with quarterbacks like let's say kirk cousins for example who a pretty good quarterback you know he. He was definitely a top ten to fifteen quarterback. We had something like thirty out. Thirty five touchdown passes last year. But i think that when you look at the vikings could you upgrade for kirk cousins. Yes you definitely could upgrade from kirk cousins but they stick with her cousins. Because sometimes it's well who are you going to get better so i agree with you. Twenty fifteen after that draft and everything like that. You had reasons to think that the niners were balanced back to me. Well alternately i think sealed trip bulky fate and why honestly. I thought maybe after twenty fifteen was went. I thought the niners should fire indefinitely after twenty sixteen. Was this dry. I mean you drive to force buckman. Clearly that was a slam dunk right. I mean drafting deforest. Buckner slammed up. I joshua gar net. Where we'll we'll redman. Rashad robinson ronald blair johnson Very cooper jeff driscoll kevin taylor aaron burr bridge and prince. Charles award iming ronald blair in deforest buckner really really solid players. And let's not forget you've been legitimate. Believe that rashard robinson was going to be our starting quarter twenty seventeen as twenty sixteen draft. Yeah you got a couple of players yet too much of a wash and so i think ultimately the niners did make the right decision on moving on from trump while few and chip kelly ultimately chip kelly. It was a joke but brian..
Cape Up with Jonathan Capehart
"rashad robinson" Discussed on Cape Up with Jonathan Capehart
"To be able to make decisions and what is being done is to prevent kids from learning about history because there are many adults that don't want young people to ask them the questions about where they were what they were doing how they showed up and so it's better to race then to actually engage to be in a conversation But we cannot let that happen. And so i think that for all of us. We should once again center young people. We should center they resilience them but we should also center. What the future's going to look like in a world where our kids can have access to much information it was texas legislature. That said if kids are old enough to experience racism. They're old enough to learn about it. And i think you know whether we're talking about critical race theory which is not something that gets taught in school because teachers did not study critical race theory. We're actually talking about whether or not we teach about. Martin luther king whether or not we teach about rosa parks whether or not we teach about cesar chavez whether or not we teach about so many of the moments that made this country what it is and so many struggles which have helped define the future that we should all be hopeful to be part of. Now you'll see why. I've been dying to get rashad robinson on this podcast and i'm going to have to have you back because there's so much more to talk about rashad robinson president of color of change. Thank you very much for coming to the podcast. Thank you my friend. Thanks for having me happy pride before. Go let me introduce you to a new podcast from washington post opinions. It's called. please go on post columnist. James home every friday james interviews someone who's written and inside or important for the post his first guest by president khama harass. You might remember james if you listen to his previous show..
Cape Up with Jonathan Capehart
Rashad Robinson Is a Leader Fighting for Equity and Justice
"Rashad robinson. Welcome to the podcast. Thanks for having me. I am so glad we are able to do this conversation one because it's the last possible episode a of pride month but also because of where we are in the country right now and if there is one person to talk to about this sort of inter sexual moment we're in right now in our country. You are that person. So i'm just going to throw out this broad. Brush question to you and ask you. What would you say is the state of our union given the perch that you're in right now. Yeah i mean given the purge. I'm in right now. She's been thinking about this. A lot and i was thinking about this. A lot as we lost congressman. John lewis and thinking about all of the political In policy change that happened during his time. During that era of the sixties the voting rights act civil rights. Act spending time with Congressman john lewis sort of later in his in his tenure. I don't think we're in that same era of big serve structural policy change. I think were in this moment of deep cultural shift. You saw it last summer. When racial justice became a majoritarian issue doesn't mean there isn't backlash. But what. I mean by racial justice becoming majoritarian issues. That many people thought the best we could do in terms of activism at that time was clap outside of our windows are uplift investigative journalism and it was racial justice that moved people to the street. Move people to action led to upticks voter. Registration
The Takeaway
"rashad robinson" Discussed on The Takeaway
"Drivers are twenty percent. More likely to be pulled over than white drivers and black drivers are also more likely to be ticketed than white drivers and wealth isn't a deterrent for these stops. Either in two thousand sixteen after the killing of landau casteel south carolina senator. Tim scott revealed that he had been pulled over seven times in the course of one year. And even when these incidents don't end in death they can still be moments of extreme trauma and stress feet order. Obey it off shoot. Consider army second lieutenant collins. Reo a black. Latino men in uniform who in december was pulled over by police with their guns drawn and pepper sprayed. I'm tenzin abega and expanding. Why driving while black is so dangerous in this country. Where we begin today on the takeaway rashad robinson is president of color of change and he joins me now rashad. Welcome back to the show. Thanks for having me great to be with you for. What do we know about the traffic. Stop that dante right experienced before he was killed. Well what we know is that. It's kind of typical. It's par for the course of what we see time and time again Someone being pulled over in a way. That's deeply profiled. A black person being pulled away in a way that's deeply profiled that the police moving on on a black suspect in a way that they would never move in on a white suspect And then what doesn't always happen but what happens. Far too often is that we now end up with someone that has been hurt harmed or killed and in this case killed and then we end up with police department Trying to figure out a story and closing ranks to protect themselves time and time again when we see. These incidents happen We end up with a situation where police refused to take any accountability for the structural challenges in the structural Rules i'm both written and unwritten that actually incentivize the killing of black people by police in this country and and a system that far too often of overwhelmingly denied any type of accountability to the families or the community you say this is a structural issue. And i kinda understand that because part of what we're thinking about in doing. This segment is thinking about the incidents. That we've no of the philander. Custodial killing the Dante right killing the terrence crutcher. Killing all of these happened in what we're supposed to be routine traffic stops and i'm wondering what is the calculus that turns a traffic stop into a killing well. The cat'll part of the calculus is what we know about. Police culture police culture which is a deeply deeply racist. And i know that this may sound maybe hyperbolic some of your listeners. Or that. I'm i'm sort of just throwing things out there. But in two thousand fifteen the fbi actually came out with a report talking about the infiltration of white nationalism in the racism inside of policing in this country we also deal with the police in culture that actually failed to really ever admit to racial profiling existing. And i say this is someone that has sat in meetings during the obama white house and i remember a meeting back in two thousand sixteen with about thirty folks in the room. Advocates like myself. It was mayors and other elected officials. And it was those in law enforcement and the head of the fraternal order of police responded to me in public in front of president obama in front of elected officials and police chiefs when i started talking about racial profiling. He interrupted me. This is joe pasco and said all of this talk of racial profiling is new to me now. It would be one thing for him to say. I don't agree that you're you know about your demands around what to do. I don't think that is happening as much but he gas let the very idea that racial profiling exists. So what we have on one hand is widespread. Racial profiling happening you Take through some of the numbers in the opening. And then you end up with a policing culture that actually fails to admit that it doesn't exist and then what we get as politicians who say oh. We just need more training. This police officer was one of the leaders of the training and she couldn't even figure out the difference between her taser in her gun and she was one of the trainers. And this is what we end up with. Is we end up with garbage in garbage as it relates to the type of cutting around the edges that ended up happening when these incidents happening rather than actually going to the structures and structurally policing in this country has been an is about control and when you are focused on control and not focused on safety you end up killing people for no reason because who was in danger during that traffic. Stop the only person that was endanger dante and dante. Right is no longer with us now. The police officer pulled out a gun instead of pulling out a taste and we should make no mistake tasers or also a deeply dangerous. They are not safe devices and far too often. Tasers get pulled on black people in us on black people as well. Black drivers are twenty percent. More likely to be stopped by police than white drivers are We also know that police departments across the country. I mean this was something you know almost a decade ago now that was being talked about if not longer about how to implement implicit bias training. So that these incidences do not happen. Um and yet here we are rashad. What we know about. How much of this supposed- implicit bias training has been implemented across the country. You know we've. There's definitely implicit bias. Training happening in different places and what we know. Is that the end play. It doesn't actually lead to better outcomes at a macro level if we don't deal with downsizing policing if we don't deal with actually putting in accountability structures that really have teeth to them so right now. Police officers unlike so many other professions cannot be held civically accountable for what they do on the job. Right and so what we end up with is. This situation called qualified immunity. Where police officers are not held accountable. We watch as police. Unions have created a whole set of rules and structures Whether it's helped with how they elect prosecutors and put mayors into office over fifty million dollars injected into election since twenty twelve to You know leverage their power to a dictate the terms of of elections. And then what we also see you know when it relates to this sort of way in which policing works is that we send police to do things that they shouldn't be doing so we sent police to go deal with someone who has passed a bad check. We send someone with a gun to go deal with someone. That's having a mental health episode so policing has also become this thing that we send in all situations and that also has to stop but police are not held accountable and so because we have the structure of lack of accountability. You can actually train racism away and you can't actually do implicit bias when someone is given a gun and someone is given carte blanche power to.
KCRW
"rashad robinson" Discussed on KCRW
"It's all things considered from NPR news. I'm Audie Cornish and I'm Mary Louise Kelly. Across Russia. Protesters have taken to the streets in recent weeks in support of jailed opposition figure. Alex Sandoval, Nate. Now, as Navalny faces a three year prison sentence. His team has called off for the protests for now, and Russia's Foreign Ministry is expelling diplomats from Germany, Sweden and Poland for allegedly attending what they're calling illegal rallies. Will Maria Lipman of George Washington University studies Russia from her perch in Moscow. And she attended one of the protests there last month. I asked her whether these uprisings felt different than political protests in the past. What was different this time was the geography. It was broader than ever more cities and towns than on any previous occasions of mass protests, and what was also very important in different is that people were inspired by the same emotion and the chance were similar. From Moscow to the Far East to other places. And the most popular chant was Putin is a thief. What was also unusual this time is police brutality. We had it before, but never on this scale. I mean the riot police beating people on some occasions to guess was used. I think this was the first time I guess was used In public rallies in Russia and the electric shockers. I have seen reports of these latest protest. Some of the protesters have been resisting in in a stronger way than before. Have been throwing things. For example, at the Russian security forces have been taking even bigger risks. T stand their ground. Did you see any of that? I didn't see it personally. Brothers, so plenty of videos and this time around, they were indeed clashes not too many. But there were clashes with the police, and it's not clear at this point. Whether probably they were provocateurs or whether the emotions were running so high as young people saw the policeman roughing up totally innocents, people who did nothing wrong. We don't know. What is true about this protest is that, according to some estimates, some 40% of those who took to the streets did that for the first time. Well, where will all this energy go with Alex and of only behind bars? With his team saying no protests for a bit until spring in summer. How do we know what we're the protest movement goes next? Of course, without of course, you never know with protests on And what is important to know about Russia is that Novalee is commonly referred to as the leader of the opposition, but there is no opposition if we're talking about political structures There is not much there they can identify with to say, I'm a supporter of this party. I will vote for this movement. So it remains to be seen whether this wave of protests ebbs just like others did before, Or maybe something is different this time so that this is going to be a beginning of something bigger off something larger. It sounds as though to you someone with a long record of watching Russian politics and the Kremlin. Putin's grip on power has never really looked in danger. Well, it is certainly not in danger now, but his approval ratings have gone down somewhat. And this is especially true among the young people, And they also face the problem of an aging leader who is no longer his nation's uniter. In fact, he is his nation's divider. We might live to see the time when Putin will begin to look, Maybe not as an asset, but a liability to the Russian establishment. I'm not seeing it from here. But this is something to watch. Maybe for years to come is Maria Lipman. She's a senior associate at the program on New Approaches to research and security in Eurasia. That's it. George Washington University. We reached her today in Moscow. Maria Lipman, Thanks Thank you. President Biden's first few weeks in office have included a focus on equity, and that's won him praise from the coalition that delivered him the presidency. It's also brought criticism from conservatives. NPR's Juana Summers reports. During his first week in office. President Biden made clear that addressing an equity would be a fixture not just of his presidency but the responsibility of the entire federal government. As he signed an executive order last week. Biden described these actions as a moral and paradise if it's time to act, because that's what the faith and morality call us to do. In the months to come. Biden's team is expected to take steps to directly address in equity in all parts of life ranging from housing, criminal justice, health care and education. He has said that one of his administration's goals is to dismantle systemic racism who Leon Castro served as Secretary of Housing and Urban Development and the Obama administration. He says that Biden's focus on historical inequities is especially significant now to govern with an equity lands means to be Realistic to govern with eyes wide open about the racial inequities that exist in our country that were there before covert 19 but have been exacerbated. Since Kobe 19. Biden's early focus on equity is an attempt to account for differences in need among people with historically disadvantaged backgrounds. It is also a reflection of the coalition that delivered him the presidency. Civil rights leaders and activists have given the new administration early positive reviews, though they have also made clear that they want to see more from Biden than just rhetoric. Rashad Robinson is the head of color of change. The work ahead will be operational izing that ensuring that equity just doesn't show up in speeches, but it shows up in budgets. That equity simply isn't about restoring us back to policies from the Obama years, but about what is it going to take to move us forward Susan Rice, Biden's domestic policy adviser, made the case that there is a universal concrete benefit to these actions. She talked about it in the White House briefing room. These aren't feel good policies. The evidence is clear. Investing in equity is good for economic growth. And it creates jobs for all Americans. I think every American deserves equal treatment under the law, and the executive should be focused on ensuring that equality is protected. So that's the reason I am concerned that the bite administration seems, seems to be attempted to do the opposite, right. That's my Gonzalez with the Heritage Foundation, and he echoed criticisms that are already being heard from Republicans on Capitol Hill. On Fox News, Kentucky Senator Rand Paul said that Biden's inaugural address had attacked Republicans with with the senator described as thinly veiled innuendo, suggesting that Republicans are Racists and take a listen to this exchange between Arkansas Senator Tom Cotton Well, questioning Biden's nominee for housing secretary, Marsha Fudge, So just be clear, then sounds like racial equity means treating people differently based on their race. Is that correct? Based on race, but it could be best based on economics. It could be based on the history of discrimination that has existed for a long time. It could be based on educational levels. It could be based on many things. President Biden says that advancing equity is a core value of the country and the value that the majority of Americans share. At least among some Republicans, he may have some convincing to do Wanna summers. NPR news. And you're listening to all things considered. Students across the country are getting their college acceptance letters and deciding where to attend in the fall. Their choices could determine the fate of a number of colleges that are barely surviving from NPR's daily economics podcast, the indicator from Planet money. Stacey Vanek, Smith and Petty, Hirsch explained on the morning of April, 6th 2018 Mackenzie Bumpus was on a mission. Mackenzie was student body president at Mount Item Small Liberal Arts College in Newton, Massachusetts. And she had prepared a presentation for the business faculty about the school's athletes. It was going really well right. She was heading our talking points, then She felt this tail tail buzz on her wrist. I received a notification on my watch that we had gotten an email from the president. The president of Might Ida College. Mackenzie got this weird feeling. She actually just stopped talking mid presentation and read the email off of her watch, And I read that email saw that school was closing. Mount Ida was closing. Well, it wasn't closing. Exactly. It was being acquired by the much larger, much wealthier University of Massachusetts because they're non profits. We tend to forget about colleges and universities being businesses. Julie Fulton is a college consultant and the owner of Mosaic College Prep. They have direct competitors, and they are trying to learn customers who are the students and parents with their offerings. Right now, the college business is in crisis..
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"Listening to the takeaway. I'm Tenzin Obey God. We've been discussing yesterday's insurrection at the Capitol and the discrepancies between how law enforcement treats black activists. Compared to far right insurrectionists in this country, and I'm joined still, by Rashad Robinson, the president of Color Change, and the Reverend Dr Robert and Franklin Jr. Professor at Emory University's Candler School of Theology. Kevin Franklin, you we ended the last segment. But you're talking about sort of moral leadership. And I would even dare say moral courage. I wonder if the events of this past administration And really the past couple of decades of under Republican leadership. But really President Trump's administration has made that prospect even less likely that the whatever morality may have remained You know, is it Is it really feasible to consider that we could have moral leadership right now? And even if we did our folks going to pay attention, it's a critical question. And I think that we're now in a time of Trying to reconstruct and restore civil society and the meaning of America in the 19th century. The French observer Alexis to totals made an interesting observation quite timely for our time. As we've lived through four years. Will president calling to make America calling for people to make America great again, the total wrote in the 18 forties. The greatness of America lies not in her being Maura enlightened than any other nation, but in her ability to repair her faults. Ability to repair our fault is at the heart of what it means to be a good and a great nation. And I think that what we need now are moral leaders in every sector of life. Were capable and courageous as you underscore to begin some difficult dialogues, some fearless dialogues is one of my friends puts it to have an honest conversation about America about American history. About again for Dr King's, uh, book title. Where do we go from here? Chaos or community? Moral leaders are people who invite us to become a better version of ourselves. And that kind of work will certainly be done in Congress now very proud that Raphael Warnock and John also from Georgia will join the conversation. In Washington President elect Biden and Vice President elect Harris will help the form and sponsored that conversation, so I'm actually encouraged about the future. But ultimately who are the leaders to whom those problem Oise and insurrectionists respond? And here's where I think holding President Trump accountable. Making him pay a price for his irresponsibility is an act of moral decency by the society. So I'm gonna watch that very carefully. What happens there? There should be no pardoning or looking the other way he behavior has consequences. So I think that's the call. Now step up, Speak truth to power, break the silence on issues of racism and oppression and hypocrisy. And let's have an honest conversation about how we move forward together. Rashad. I'm curious about your thoughts on the fact that this these insurrectionists and Some are even calling domestic terrorists have been enabled and encouraged by I are a lot of our politicians and not just the president, but a lot of his supporters. And either people who would even argue that the media itself hasn't gotten this. Home, right? Hasn't really understood what was happening until yesterday. Really? I mean, I even tweeted Look, that guy's this is an unbelievable. This is a logical combination of events. If you've been Paying attention to the past couple of years. What would you How would you assess the media's role in covering? Trump's supporters. Rashad Trump versus, Say, black Lives matter You know this is actually a gesture. An important pointing to build off of Reverend Dr Franklin's Point is right when we have those conversations then and we have that sort of accountability at the individual sort of level of a trump that then has to lead us to new structures. New rules new levels of accountability for those that build infrastructure that profit off of this that amplify it that incentivize and radicalize booze that would do this type of damage and benefit from it. And so when you say media, I think it's very important that as we sit in this age, we think about all of the different ways in which we get information. We move it move information. Yes, There's the sort of mainstream media and the far right media and all the ways in which those sort of channels those vehicles have created a level of disinformation and misinformation about what happened off. Ah, framing that is convinced sort of about both sides or a framing. That takes an incident like what happened on the capital yesterday. And frame it in ways that are not accurate it off and then we also have to look at the social media platforms, the Facebooks and Twitters and Google's and and is a person who has spent years pushing and fighting and challenging these corporations to do better, as the leaders of those institutions were buying islands and profiting off of hate. Creating, allowing for clothes groups allowing for all sorts of content to live on their platform because it was making them money. I've sat across the table be with the leaders of those largest companies work to make demands, and what I recognize most importantly, is that they do not and should not get to be the arbiters. What type of information and content should get to travel. They have created violence algorithms on these platforms and then they are profiting off of them. And unless we have rules that hold these institutions accountable. There's actually nothing we could do because the incentives around money profiting growth will always outweigh for them. Safety, integrity and security. And so as this new administration takes hold, they're gonna have a lot of work to do to make sure that technology that has so much potential to bring us further into the future in the ways in which we can reach one another being engagement. That technology is dragging us into a past, disrupting sort of rules and norms that we have created society, bypassing civil rights laws that we have one and fight fought for, and so in So many ways, there does have to be a whole level of conversation. There has to be a whole level of accountability of the individual level. But we also need the new sort of rules of accountability because what has happened at this capital Did not happen by mistake once again, and it did not happen just because of Donald Trump. There are whole set of folks whether they be sort of right wing Republicans mainstream and right wing media whether they be social media platforms that have enabled it and they've enabled it because it has a benefited them..
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"By Rashad Robinson, the president of Color Change, and the Reverend Dr Robert M. Franklin Jr. Professor at Emory University's Candler School of Theology. Kevin Franklin, you we ended the last segment. But you're talking about sort of moral leadership. And I would even dare say moral courage. I wonder if the events of this past administration And really the past couple of decades of under Republican leadership. But really President Trump's administration has made that prospect even less likely that the whatever morality may have remained You know, is it Is it really feasible to consider that we could have moral leadership right now? And even if we did our folks going to pay attention, it's critical question. And I think that we're now in a time of Trying to reconstruct and restore civil society and the meaning of America in the 19th century. The French observer Alexis to talk bills made an interesting observation quite timely for our time. As we've lived through four years. Will president calling to make America calling for people to make America great again, the talk bill wrote in the 18 forties. The greatness of America lies not in her being Maura enlightened than any other nation, but in her ability to repair her faults. Ability to repair our fault is at the heart of what it means to be a good and a great nation. And I think that what we need now are moral leaders in every sector of life. Work capable and courageous as you underscore to begin some difficult dialogues, some fearless dialogues is one of my friends puts it to have an honest conversation about America about American history. About again for Dr King's, uh, book title. Where'd we go from here? Chaos or community? Moral leaders, air people. You invite us to become a better version of ourselves. And that kind of work will certainly be done in Congress now very proud that Raphael Warnock and John also from Georgia, will join the conversation in Washington. President elect Biden and Vice President elect Harris will help the format sponsored that conversation, so I'm actually encouraged about the future. But ultimately who are the leaders to whom those proud boys and insurrectionists respond? And here's where I think holding President Trump accountable. Making him pay a price for his irresponsibility is an act of moral decency by the society. So I'm gonna watch that very carefully. What happens there? There should be no pardoning or looking the other way he behavior has consequences. So I think that's the call. Now step up, Speak truth to power, break the silence on issues of racism and oppression and hypocrisy. And let's have an honest conversation about how we move forward together. Rashad. I'm curious about your thoughts on the fact that this these insurrectionists and Some are even calling domestic terrorists have been enabled and encouraged by I are a lot of our politicians and not just the president, but a lot of his supporters. And either people who would even argue that the media itself hasn't gotten this. Home, right? Hasn't really understood what was happening until yesterday. Really? I mean, I even tweeted Look, that guy's this is an unbelievable. This is a logical combination of events. If you've been Paying attention to the past couple of years. What would you How would you assess the media's role in covering? Trump's supporters. Rashad Trump versus, Say, black lives matter. This is actually just your important point. And to build off of Reverend Dr Franklin's point is right when we have those conversations in and we have that sort of accountability at the individual sort of level of a trump that then has to lead us to new structures. New rules new levels of accountability for those Had build infrastructure that profit off of this that amplify it that incentivize and radicalized those that would do this type of damage and benefit from it. And so when you say media, I think it's very important that as we sit in this age, we think about all of the different ways in which we get information. We move it move information. Yes, There's the sort of mainstream media and the far right media and all the ways in which those sort of channels those vehicles have created a level of this information and misinformation about what's happened off. Ah, framing that is can be sort of about both sides or a framing. That takes an incident like what happened on the capital yesterday. And frame it in ways that are not accurate at all. And then we also have to look at the social media platforms, the Facebooks and Twitters and Google's and and is a person who has spent years pushing and fighting and challenging these corporations to do better, as the leaders of those institutions were buying islands and profiting off of hate, creating, allowing for clothes groups allowing for all sorts of content to live on their platform. Because it was making them money. I've sat across the table be with them. You know, leaders of those largest companies work to make demands, and what I recognize most importantly, is that they do not and should not get to be the arbiters. Of what type of information and content should get to travel. They have created violence algorithms on these platforms and then they are profiting off of them. And unless we have rules that hold these institutions accountable. There's actually nothing we could do because the incentives around money profiting growth will always outweigh for them. Safety, integrity and security. And so as this new administration takes hold, they're gonna have a lot of work to do to make sure the technology that has so much potential to bring us further into the future in the ways in which we can reach one another be an engagement. That technology is dragging us into a past, disrupting sort of rules and norms that we have created society, bypassing civil rights laws that we have one and fight fought for, and so in So many ways, there does have to be a whole level of conversation. There has to be a whole level of accountability of the individual level. But we also need the new sort of rules of accountability because what has happened at this capital As did not happen by mistake once again, and it did not happen just because of Donald Trump..
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"This is julie. And i live in fairfax california. The rioting made me realize how dangerous it is for any group of people in our country feel so disempowered that they have to resort to violence. And how dangerous. It is to have a president to secretly feels like a victim himself and wants to foment violence among other people who feel like victims. Hi my name is sam and i am north carolina. I'm gay and i have a wonderful partner. Seven years however he has taken a right turn east past few months and because of common information and lies propagated by the right. I am now in my car outside my condo that he in i reside in because he will not listen to them. This is how our so called leaders disregarding information that tears families apart plea. This has got to stop now. So how am. I feeling about the future of our country. After today's riots counter intuitively. I feel hopeful for our future because there are people who are saying no who are standing up and saying. This is not okay. We have a more diverse legislative body than ever and if we can put laws into action to protect an uplift people. Then we're heading in the right direction. I think everybody knows the especially the white supremacists nationalist trump cultist terrorists. They're the only group who could have gotten away with doing what they did today. Storming the capital in not even worry about their physical safety and it's just appalling and scary to think about what would have happened if it were any other group of people. Thanks for all your thoughts on a very difficult moment in american history and if you wanna weigh in you can record a voice memo and send it to us at takeaway callers at g mail dot com or you can call us at eight seven seven eight six nine eight to five three. We'll have more coming up on the takeaway stick with us For many people watching attack on the capital the lack of law enforcement was stunning especially for black and brown. Americans who are routinely met with brute force militarized police tanks and tear gas during protests for civil rights and social justice. Many people of color. I know shared the trauma of watching enraged white men and women's storm the capital with marion officer incite. The insurrectionists entered offices with the ease and braggadocio that can only come when you know there will be few if any consequences and in a cruel twist of fate after the insurrectionist dispersed. It was the largely black and brown janitorial staff who were left to literally clean up the mess and this all happening in a building that was built on the backs of slaves here to discuss this and a lot. More is the reverend. Dr robert m franklin junior a professor at emory university's candler school of theology and rashad robinson the president of color of change rashad and reverend franklin. Thanks for joining me. Rashad your reaction to yesterday's events my reaction to yesterday's events is a reminder that this is not a mistake it's not an accident. This is a result and a consequence of decisions of the lack of accountability of all of the ways. In which white nationalist and white supremacy has been able to control police departments and police forces and if people are feeling uncomfortable with that language. And i want people to recognize that in two thousand fifteen an fbi report actually called this out and called out the infiltration in local law enforcement and national law enforcement of these affinity groups to white supremacy. And so the fact that this is not been dealt with the nature in which everyone felt so comfortable with these rioters going into the sacred halls of democracy. I'm recognizes that. This will not be an easy problem to solve and this problem that so many of us are watching is a result of choices that were made by franklin your reaction to what unfolded at the capitol yesterday george orwell the writer once said that we have now sunk to such depths that the first duty of intelligent men and women is to restate the obvious and i think this is a moment of reckoning for all of america time to restate. What is obvious what our first principles are. Most deeply held values tenzin. I'd love the way you began this program as you talked about The sense of arrogance entitlement Braggadocio of those who marched in yesterday. And fortunately the entire world watched that spectacle and i think many were were offended by it My my friend and extraordinary colleague here. Russia has just pointed out the kind of hypocrisy The reluctance of a police response. And i was actually encouraged by commentators. Especially non african american non people of color throughout the recent hours who had pointed out. If these protesters had been people of color especially black and brown americans there would have been an immediate police response. We didn't see that. So the good news. Is that the the the poison of hypocrisy and duplicity is now exposed as if we needed another such lesson and we can move to and i hope this certainly what i'd like to talk about. Where do we go from here. That was the final title of dr king's last book. Where do we go.
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Report Slams Facebook For 'Vexing And Heartbreaking Decisions' On Free Speech
"Facebook has made quote, vexing and heartbreaking decisions about free speech that is, according to an independent audit. And how the social network handles issues such as discrimination, hate speech and election interference. Facebook asked for this investigation two years ago. Today, the investigators are slamming the company and its leaders for some of their decisions for this week's Alltech considered NPR's Shannon Bond joins us and before we get going, I should mention Facebook is a financial supporter of NPR. Hey, Mary, least alright. So investigators slamming decisions by leaders of Facebook. What decisions are we talking about? This is really about speech, and the most prominent example is President Trump. So recently he's put up Facebook posts falsely claiming that voting by mail is rife with fraud, and he made a really inflammatory post about the recent protests against racism. The auditors say Those post clearly violated Facebook's own rules against voters depression inciting violence, But Facebook didn't take the post down. The audit also slammed the company's policy of not fact checking ads by politicians that something Facebook has gotten a lot of criticism over and over all, the audit says, You know these decisions really emblematic of how Facebook has chosen to prioritize free speech above all other values. They say that risk over shadowing games it has made fighting discrimination, for example, that no longer allows advertisers to target housing and job ads based on age, gender or zip code. What is Facebook say in response. Well, the company, as you said, didn't ask for this audit A commissioned it from Laura Murphy of former Sulu executive and a civil rights law firm and chief operating officer. Shelves Cheryl Sandburg said today that Facebook will make some of the changes that it's recommending. Including hiring a senior vice president, who will make sure civil rights concerns informed decisions on products and policies. But when it comes to setting firmer boundaries on political speech, that's something CEO Mark Zuckerberg has resisted. He says Facebook is committed to free expression even when politicians make false claims. And Facebook says it won't adopt every recommendation being made in this report. Now this audit drops as another development plays out all of these brands. I think we're more than 1000 now pausing their advertisements on Facebook in the name of protesting hate speech, or any of them are the organizers of that boycott. Are they speaking up today? Yep, And what I'm hearing is a lot of skepticism about Facebook. Here's Rashad Robinson. He's president of color of Change, one of the groups behind the boycott. The recommendations coming out of the audit are good as the action that Facebook ends up taking otherwise. It is a road math without a vehicle and without the resources to move, and that is not useful for any of us. Another boycott organizer I spoke with today is Jonathan Greenblatt of the Anti Defamation League. He told me he thinks the boycotts just going to keep growing and remember, it's already gone Global until Facebook takes real action on their demands. Yeah, it sounds like we now have this damning audit this big boycott pressure from for many directions on Facebook to change its ways. That's right, and civil rights groups told me they're not going to ease the pressure on Facebook. I spoke to Benita Gupta, She's head of the leadership conference on civil and human rights, and here's what she had to say about the audit. It is a work in progress clearly and pour. In some ways it is. Starts and not a finish for the civil rights community. Gupta and other leaders. I spoke to you know, they say it's just so urgent that Facebook act now because the presidential election is just a few months away. That's something the auditors also say they're really worried about. They say it in the audit. They say a Facebook doesn't get more serious about enforcing its policies, holding politicians to the same standards as other users. That will open the door to more voter suppression even calls for violence on
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Racial Slurs And Swastikas Fuel Civil Rights Pressure On Zoom
"In Zoom meetings racists slurs and hate speech. Keep showing up today. A civil rights group is meeting with the company to demand. Do something about that. Npr Tech correspondent Shannon. Bond has the reporting but first let me know. Zoom is an NPR sponsor Rashad Robinson I encountered the term zoom bombing on social media. We started seeing people posting things and Particularly knee and others aren't at color of change in what they were. Experiencing Color of change is a nonprofit that advocates for racial equality and Robinson is its president. People were tagging him in reports of Zuma tax because so many of them involve racist slurs and harassment. Black Lemay having a church gathering and have people come in drawing You Know Genitalia and calling them. The Edward Robinson's group and others found evidence of organized campaigns out in the open on twitter and Instagram as well as message boards popular with the far right there people shared links and passwords to coordinate attacks on unsuspecting zoom users. This all comes as zoom is being increasingly used for online school Passover Seder town halls. Now Color of change says zoom must take more responsibility. You know we want them to release a specific plan to combat. Racial harassment on the platform among Robinson's list of demands. A chief diversity officer who would focus on how technology impacts bowl normal people also better security and he wants a formal apology to victims in a statement. Npr Zoom says it takes security extremely seriously and it looks forward to the discussion with color of change but other groups are renewing alarms to the anti-defamation League has traced to attacks to a known white nationalist both involved virtual events held by Jewish groups. As more and more people are spending time at home. So are the extremists who are looking to find ways to leverage the technology to harass people. Oren Segal runs the anti-defamation League's Center on extremism. He spoke during a presentation. The group gave Zoom bombing. These are moments where people are trying to find community trying to find opportunities to create normal discussion with colleagues with friends with family. And that's why this is particularly disturbing law enforcement is watching Michigan. Prosecutors worn hacking videoconferences is a crime and there could be jail time in recent weeks. Zoom has taken steps to make it harder for intruders to get into meetings the company blocks Ip addresses of attackers when people report harassment. But critics say it should be more proactive given these are problems that plague so many tech platforms zoom CEO Eric. Yuen appeared on. All things considered where he was asked whether he should have anticipated such attacks by harassers. I never thought about this seriously. That answer reflects how you en envision zoom in the first place it was designed for business meetings but now it's having to grapple with what happens when society at large logs on even more troubling this new form. Virtual harassment doesn't end with zoom meetings themselves. Joan Donovan Studies Online extremism at the Harvard Kennedy School's Shorenstein Center. A lot of these folks are taking video or taking screen shots and then sharing them in other places. So we're seeing the artifacts of Zimbabwe. Show up on Youtube and on takeoff and another video sharing platforms and that happens. It's hard for zoom or any single company to end the vicious
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Facebook had hired a Washington firm to discredit its critics, reports New York Times
"Bombshell investigation by the New York Times revealing that Facebook executives, including CEO, Mark Zuckerberg and chief operating officer, Sheryl Sandberg or aware of a Russian misinformation campaign on social media network and took a series of extrordinary private actions to preserve Facebook's reputation launching an aggressive lobbying campaign to combat critics and spread misinformation. The New York Times investigation reveals that Facebook hired the Republican position research firm definers public affairs to discredit critics of Facebook linking them to the billionaire liberal donor. George syrups Facebook also allegedly lobby to Jewish civil rights group to condemn criticism of. The company scientists semitic since the publication of the investigation face because announced it will cut to is with the Finers during Thursday's press. Call Zuckerberg dismiss claims Facebook ignored Russia's election meddling or undermined investigations. Many times before that we were to slow to spot Russian interference to stand it into slow to get on top of it. And we certainly stumbled along the way. Suggest that we weren't interested in knowing the truth or that we wanted to hide what we knew or that we try to prevent investigations is simply untrue. Zac, lemberg dodge questions about anyone being fired in light of the New York Times revelations. He said Facebook plans to institute an independent oversight board for more. We go to Washington DC where we're joined by Rashad Robinson, president of color of change one of the organizations targeted by definers, public affairs. The PR company Facebook, employed and endure New Hampshire. We're joined by C Vijay Nahthen, the author of antisocial media, how Facebook disconnects us and undermines democracy. He's a professor of media studies and director of the center for media and citizenship at the university of Virginia. His new article for slate is headline Facebook is a normal sleazy company. Now, we welcome. You voted mockery. Now, Seeven let's begin with you, can you summarize the New York Times investigation, and what most surprised and. Turned you about what it revealed about Facebook. Yeah. Sure. The look this time investigation took more than six months it required. The work of more than five reporters and a team of researchers it delved, very deeply into former Facebook employees and current Facebook employs and their testimony about what went on inside the company and just as importantly in Washington DC over the past two years now over the past two years, we have had this barrage. Revelations about Facebook. The the big picture is Facebook is impossible to govern impossible to control and Facebook had explicitly encouraged, for instance, all of our personal data to go out to third parties and fourth parties parties like Cambridge Analytica. We can't even know we're all this data win that was one scandal. The other scandalous Facebook is the -ceptable beyond susceptible Facebook amplifies, all sorts of misinformation propaganda disinformation much of which came from Russia trying to mess with American democracy. But a lot of it comes dmed. Soclean to domesticate groups comes from political operatives who seem a bit more mainstream within all of this right Facebook. We know has been scrambling to make sense of it has been declaring itself innocent and ignorant for for months and for years. Mark Zuckerberg has seemed stunned by this sort of cognitive dissonance that that his this this thing he created that was was to unify the world and make us all treat each other better his turned out to do just the opposite. What the times report showed is first of all that. In fact, Mark Zuckerberg has been checked out for more than two years. He's just not on top of the daily operations. He has let other people handle the reactions to these revelations and those other people include his chief operating officer Sheryl Sandberg. But but there's a whole team of people, including a number of lobbyists who either worked directly for Facebook or have been contracting from Facebook, and they have been and this what's really mind blowing they have been distributing the same kinds of propaganda that have been. Undermining faith in American institutions and American democracy. The same kinds of propaganda that have been distracting us, the same kinds of propaganda that have generated violence and other parts of the world, the same kinds of propaganda that link crew predicts to George Soros, they Facebook is basically employed a company to engage in the very sorts of of propaganda anti semitic and otherwise against its critics its critics
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Saudi-led coalition troops take Yemen port neighborhood as country on brink of famine
"Trump to be held without bail. While he awaits trial Caesar Sayaka, Florida resident who frequently praised President Trump while threatening his opponents on social media is accused of sending bombs to the Obamas. The Clinton's former vice president Joe Biden next CIA director John Brennan, congress members, Maxine Waters, and Debbie Wasserman Schultz, liberal activists, Tom Steiner, and George Soros, actor Robert deniro and CNN's main office building in Manhattan at the supreme court. Newly seeded Justice Brett Kavanagh appeared receptive Tuesday to the arguments of a condemn Missouri prisoner who says he's likely to experience extreme. Pain if he subjected to a lethal injection Russell buck Lou was scheduled to be executed last March before the high court agreed to hear his appeal. His attorneys argued at the supreme court, Tuesday, Buckley's rare medical condition could prevent a lethal injection drug from circulating properly through his veins likely leading to a death so agonizing it would violate the constitution's ban on cruel and unusual punishment. The supreme court split four two four earlier this year on whether to allow the execution to proceed meaning Justice Cavanaugh will likely cast the deciding vote in the case, and in Wisconsin, where Republican governor Scott Walker was defeated on Tuesday in his bid for a third term an office. The high tech manufacturer Foxconn says seeking to bring in workers from China to help run the factory under construction near the city of Racine. Governor Walker back to plan with the support of house speaker Paul Ryan and President Trump to. Died three billion dollars in tax credits to Foxconn claiming the taxpayer money would provide thousands of new jobs while renovating Wisconsin's economy, but Foxconn has scaled back its plans now saying it'll hire just three thousand workers in the short term, most of them and engineering positions rather than the thirteen thousand Matthew facturing jobs governor Walker had promised and the size of the tax payer subsidy has steadily increased to four point one billion dollars during two terms office. Governor Scott Walker which known for aggressively busting unions, and for his close ties to right wing dark money groups, and those are some of the headlines, this is democracy. Now democracy now dot org. The warrant piece report, I'm Amy Goodman, Juan Gonzalez, welcome to all of our viewers and listeners across the country and around the world. Democrats have seized control of the house of representatives flipping more than two dozen seats. This gives Democrats subpoena power for the first time since President Trump was elected two years ago, while the Democrats will control the House Republicans picked up two more seats in the Senate on the state level. Democrats picked up seven governorships huge turnout numbers were reported across the country. President Trump responded to the election results by tweeting, quote, if the Democrats think they're going to waste taxpayer money investigating us at the house level. Then we will likewise be forced to consider investigating them for all of the leaks of classified information and much else at the Senate level to complete that game. The terms were a groundbreaking election for women for the first time in US history. At least one hundred women will serve in the US house of representatives, including the first two native American women and the first two Muslim women later in the program. We'll hear from. Democratic socialist Alexandra Cossio Cortes who became the youngest woman ever elected to congress. But we begin today's show with two guests here in New York, Katrina, vanden Heuvel, editor and publisher of the nation. America's oldest weekly magazine. She's also a columnist for the Washington Post dot com, and we're joined by Rashad Robinson, executive director of color of change. We welcome you both to democracy. Now, let's begin with Katrina vanden who've oh your thoughts on what has taken place the house now in the hands of Democrats Republicans have expanded control of the Senate. I think taking back the house is critical is a check on President Trump. But also, I think it's important people know that a majority of the committees and subcommittees will be controlled by progressives. The progressive caucus will have about ninety members some of the women you mentioned will join and it will have thirteen committees. And I think thirty subcommittees that's important. And I think the ability to not only hold the president in the. Administration accountable on corruption on self interest on self-dealing, but the ability to lay out bold initiatives, bold, legislation may not pass with a Senate as we've seen it. But it's critical. I think that the progressive Democrats lay out in this war of ideas, that progressives have been winning to a certain extent fifteen minimum wage jobs program infrastructure, free higher. Ed. The governor's race is one spoke of critical critical both as a blue wall against the redistricting scams that we've seen from the Republicans critical also to rest back the rust belt from Trump who really did. Well, and key parts, Wisconsin. How sweet it is Scott Walker going down. I mean, my colleague John Nichols has written so much copy about this man who busted public workers assault on education has demeaned and degraded the Wisconsin idea, so I think that's critical amendment for renewed Robinson. And I were. Talking about it. One thing we've seen in this election. Amien won the barriers to democratic participation the will funded targeting voting suppression. So men men for restoring rights to ex-felons to vote one point four million Floridians will be able to vote I think is a vital step on the road to a true democracy. Statehouses? We haven't seen the numbers yet. But those will be hopeful as well flipping. I think Minnesota and a few others. So I think it was you know, it was a bittersweet night because we've seen the incendiary toxic. Nationalism xenophobia, any immigrant actions talk of this president and his enabler in the Republican party. You know, they they secured some wins. However, those who say was kinda split, let's all recall that the Senate map is the most horrific for Democrats. I mean, it's just, you know, the one third up we're really states in which the Republicans and Trump of played well, you mentioned the rust belt, and it to know that there were three states that really delivered for Trump, Wisconsin, Michigan and Pennsylvania and of the and they're those three in those three states. The statewide all Ron's either for governor or for Senate for the US Senate of the Democrats won six out of seven. So you've seen a situation now where those key states now are really not as reliable Republican as they appear to be in two thousand. One. I mean, many of those voters went for Obama in two thousand and eight and two thousand and twelve so it was that flip in two thousand sixteen that has to be looked at. And I think last night was in good insight into what is possible in twenty twenty in effect. We can talk about a twenty twenty began last night, but that's a different discussion. But I think you see it with taking back those those state houses there were some good minimum wage initiatives in states very troubling that good initiative in Washington state, the kind of carbon tax the green new deal went down. You still see the power of corporate money in our system and at the state level. There were six states that moved into total democratic contrived and the one of the New York state where the New York state Senate, which was had been very evenly divided. The Republicans control now is overwhelmingly democratic twenty three. I think is now the number in the New York state Senate win that means in terms of what can be accomplished. By progressives. Progressives won a supermajority in the Vermont house neutralizing, the newly reelected governor fill Scott's veto threat knows this. I mean, it's critical on so many levels. But historically, as you will know we've lost over a thousand state legislative seats in the last few years. So this is coming back and saying Democrats progressives are going to play at all levels, New York state. You studied you've written one? It's a major win us. See what governor Cuomo does with it because he's hid behind the inability to do much with the independent democratic conference now defeated one last race, which I think is very important one. And I were talking about is Antonio Delgado in the nineteenth congressional district that race was supercharged with toxic racist rhetoric. John Foucault has held out against good people except for teach out, but he's gone. So I think you know, it's a bittersweet, but I think real gains were made. And I think it would be wrong to. Downplay those one of the nation's most closely watched races of the year remains too close to call Georgia secretary of state Brian Kemp, holding a slim lead over democratic challenger Stacey Abrams who is vying to be the first African American woman governor in US history, but Abrams is refusing to concede because thousands of absentee ballots have not yet been counted campus currently at fifty point five percent if he dips below fifty the race goes to a runoff. The Georgia race was marred by widespread allegations of voter suppression carried out by Brian camp. Again, who is as Georgia secretary of state is in control of the elections, despite the fact many demanded that he recused himself. Meanwhile, in Florida Democrat Andrew gillum conceded to Republican Ron to Santa's after a tight race Gillam attempting to become Florida's first African American government, but faced a string of racist attacks from outside groups into Santa's who told Floridians knocked. Monkey this up and in Maryland, Republican governor Larry HOGAN was re elected defeating democrat, Ben jealous. The former head of the N double ACP or shod Robinson. You're the executive director of color of change. Yeah. I think I think these. You know, what happened last night with particularly with Andrew in Stacy's race. I think represents the way that the south is changing.