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"National Red Cross warns its surging in Latin America, Vietnam says a new, highly transmissible variant is spreading there. And as NPR's Windsor Johnston reports, President Biden says the U. S is making remarkable. Bite and also gave credit to the American people. Americans of every party. Every race free have come together, rolled up their sleeves literally. And done their part. Now 51% of American adults have been fully vaccinated. The president has set a goal of vaccinating at least 70% of Americans by July, 4th. The CDC says the U. S is averaging about 1.7 million shots per day. The seven day average of daily infections is down roughly 23% from a week ago. Windsor Johnston. NPR news Third wave of Corona virus infections in Canada appears to be waning, but Dan Carbon Chuck reports Canada's top doctor says it's not yet time to ease up on restrictions. Chief Public Health officer Dr Teresa Tam says while there is a decline in the number of new cases is expected to continue dropping, some areas of the country are still fighting the latest resurgence of the Corona virus. Tom says. If Canadians stay the course the country is headed for a better summer. The new modeling shows a drop in new cases, hospitalizations, ICU, admissions and deaths compared to a month ago. But Tom says more progress is needed on vaccinations before restrictions can be eased or resurgence of the virus is likely. However, Manitoba still faces a surging virus and new tougher restrictions are being put in place with military personnel now deployed to help the province for NPR News. I'm Dan Carp in shock in Toronto. In a London courtroom today. An 18 year old man was charged with conspiracy to commit murder in the shooting last weekend of a high profile black lives matter. Activists. Sasha Johnson was shot in the head and is in critical condition. In Philadelphia, Eric Riddick is spending his first full day in freedom. He was released from prison yesterday after nearly 30 years of being held for a wrongful murder conviction, Reddick tells ABC News. His release comes at a time of greater possibility for all these years to Rectify my wrongful conviction. But my freedom at the time wasn't this season. So today is testimony. That justice is definitely a Caesar. Lone witness, who blamed Riddick for the crime, later recanted his testimony and claimed he was coerced by Philadelphia police. This is NPR. The centennial of the Tulsa Oklahoma Race massacre is being commemorated. That's when an attack by a white mob level the prosperous black community and left as many as 300 residents dead. But another blow to the community years later, is also being acknowledged as Matt Trotter of member Station K. W. G. S reports, Tulsa native Reuben Gant says while the Tulsa race massacre destroyed Greenwood, it's black residents rebuilt and once again became a thriving community. But what.
KQED Radio
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"Where you come from all the while, knowing it might be better to hide the truth of who you are. Stan. Snap judgment way probably present my secret self mysteries curled about mystery snap judgment, storytelling with the beat cinema of sound right after this short break, snappers stay too. Live from NPR news. I'm Barbara Klein. The Corona virus pandemic continues to march around the world at widely different paces. The International Red Cross warns its surging in Latin America. Vietnam says a new, highly transmissible variant is spreading there. And as NPR's Windsor Johnston reports, President Biden says the U. S is making remarkable progress. Speaking in Virginia on Friday, President Biden praised the nation's governors. Further efforts to step up the pace of vaccinations in their states by then also gave credit to the American people. Americans of every party every race free Come together, rolled up their sleeves literally. And done their part. Now 51% of American adults have been fully vaccinated. The president has set a goal of vaccinating at least 70% of Americans by July, 4th. CDC says the U. S is averaging about 1.7 million shots per day. The seven day average of daily infections is down roughly 23% from a week ago. Windsor Johnston. NPR NEWS A third wave of Corona virus infections in Canada appears to be waning, but Dan Carbon Chuck reports Canada's top doctor says it's not yet time to ease up on restrictions. Chief Public Health Officer Dr Teresa Tam says While there is a decline in the number of new cases is expected to continue dropping, some areas of the country are still fighting the latest resurgence of the Corona virus. Tom says. If Canadians stay the course the country is headed for a better summer. The new modeling shows a drop in new cases, hospitalizations, ICU, admissions and deaths compared to a month ago. But Tom says more progress is needed on vaccinations before restrictions can be eased or resurgence of the virus is likely. However, Manitoba still faces a surging virus and new tougher restrictions are being put in place with military personnel now deployed to help the province for NPR News. I'm Dan Carp in Chuck in Toronto. In a London courtroom today. An 18 year old man was charged with conspiracy to commit murder in the shooting last weekend of a high profile black lives matter. Activists. Sasha Johnson was shot in the head and is in critical condition. In Philadelphia, Eric Riddick is spending his first full day in freedom. He was released from prison yesterday after nearly 30 years of being held for a wrongful murder conviction, Reddick tells ABC News his release. Comes at a time of greater possibility are for all these years to rectify my wrongful conviction. But my freedom at the time wasn't this season. So today is testimony that Justice is definitely it's easier. Lone witness, who blamed Riddick for the crime, later recanted his testimony. Ng and claimed he was coerced by Philadelphia police. This is NPR Live from KQED.
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"Commercial flight to land in his country last week in order to arrest a journalist onboard. The White House says the U. S will reimpose full blocking sanctions against nine Belarusian state owned enterprises and will work with allies to develop a list of targeted sanctions against key members of Lukashenko's regime. The Biden administration called diverting the plane in the subsequent arrest, a quote direct affront to international norms. The European Union is also discussing slapping Belarus and more sanctions with leaders meeting in Portugal, describing the incident as state piracy. Russian President Vladimir Putin called the criticism with Lukashenko and outburst of emotions. Dave Mystic NPR news The White House says President Biden's planned meeting with Russia's Vladimir Putin next month is still on despite a new hacking attack aimed at the U. S federal government. As NPR's Dina Temple Raston reports Microsoft of financial supporter of NPR is blaming Russian hackers for the cyber intrusion. This week, They found hackers in a bunch of international development in human rights organization systems. And as best as they can tell, the hackers broke into a company that was helping us a I D with marketing. And they use that hack to send phishing emails. You know, Microsoft told us it wasn't a huge hack, they said Maybe as many as 3000 accounts for either hacked or threatened, maybe as many as 150 institutions, but they think the actual numbers are probably a lot smaller than that. Dispute over reparations is disrupting the centennial commemoration of the Tulsa Race massacre when a white mob attacked the thriving black community of green wood as many as 300 people were killed and what was known as Black Wall Street was destroyed. NPR's Debbie Elliott reports, organizer's have called off a headline event after no agreement could be reached overpayments to survivors. Monday's remember and rise ceremony was to honor the three living survivors of the 1921 told so race massacre and was to feature singer songwriter John Legend and Georgia voting rights activist Stacey Abrams. It was called off after negotiations broke down over the amount of payments to survivors and descendants of the attack. Talz attorney to Mario Solomon Simmons represents them in a lawsuit seeking reparations. So fire is and descendants were denied the opportunity to even be a part of the Tulsa race masses into your commission. This is something that has been a slap in the face President Joe Biden is scheduled to be in Tulsa on Tuesday to mark the centennial. Debbie Elliott NPR news This is NPR news. In a London courtroom today. An 18 year old man was charged with conspiracy to commit murder in the shooting last weekend of a high profile black lives matter, activist Sasha Johnson, who was an Oxford University graduate, was shot in the head and remains hospitalized in critical condition. Colombia's president is deploying military forces to the southwestern city of Cali. The move comes after at least three people died in anti government protests yesterday. Tens of thousands of Colombians have been demonstrating for a month. Protests were triggered by tax changes. But demands have broadened since then movie theaters across the U. S a re opening more than a year after covert 19 closed them. NPR's Mandali del Barco reports on what's opening on big screens, the National Research group reports at 70% of movie goers air now comfortable going back to movie theaters. People out there. Emily.
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Sasha Johnson: Man, 18, Appears in Court Over Activist's Shooting
"With conspiracy to commit murder in the shooting last weekend of a high profile black lives matter, activist Sasha Johnson remains hospitalized in critical condition. China's space agency says it successfully
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"Harris Perry in for Dan Xena this week, and we've been reflecting on the global impact of last summer's uprisings following officer Showman's murder of George Floyd here to discuss that, and war is Omar Wessel. He is an assistant professor of politics at Princeton University. Omar. Thanks for joining us You so much for having me So Omar clearly neither racial justice nor state violence, our new or even particularly rare. So why is it that this moment resonated across the globe? I think there's three main reasons that murder of droid flew. George Floyd was so powerful first and foremost is the video, particularly Darnell A. Frazier's footage that just was very visceral, very intimate, very powerful allowed people to see The profound indifference to human suffering. That officer shall been indicated as we as we could watch the life drain from George Floyd's face right so that that footage really was Exceedingly important, And that's an echo of what we've seen in the past, where whether was Amatil or Rodney King that documentation of in particular state violence can be very powerful in mobilizing people Another really Important factor is that the Sheldon himself was just so extreme in his level of indifference right that that it's not that this wasn't a, you know, an ambiguous situation. I mean, it was just very Stark. So much so that we saw other police forces criticized that behavior. I mean, which we almost never see. And then Lastly, I think that the timing in the midst of the pandemic meant that Where you know, One of the court challenges for any social movement is trying to, uh, get get a bunch of people to kind of show up at the same place at the same time, and people always have things going on in their lives, but during the pandemic suddenly People were able to kind of focus on this particular injustice with to a degree that would have been much harder without the pandemic. I so appreciate that because it reminds us that protests don't just pop up. They don't just emerge. They are actually organized by activists who bring people together in those spaces. Um, but they're also right. In addition to the work of activists and organizer's, There's also those what you have written about as seeds those seeds of an agenda. So actually, just this week you publish it. Academic paper in the A. P s are titled Agenda Seeding and Thinking about 1916 19 sixties black protest movements. I'm wondering about the ways of black American movement for freedom. Have seeded agendas abroad before is this something that we've seen happen? Yeah, that's that's It's a great question. And I think you know part of what is for me deeply fascinating about how social movements work is the way that they learn from each other. So, for example, just to go back to the 19 forties. Buyer Dressed in a key influence on Martin Luther King's commitment to Nonviolence, Rustin goes to India toe learn from disciples of Gandhi about their non cooperation movement, and we've seen similar echoes of the current black Lives matter. Movement on a zoo. The introduction sort of really helpfully outlined on movements around the world and and in particular, I think It's the emphasis on police violence on unjust state violence that has helped to focus Um and you know when those incidents arise in a place like Columbia and in recent weeks that people have described it as their own George Floyd moment, right, And so, so in that way, there's a kind of a template and um, and a sense of legitimate outrage. At state violence that helps to mobilize people building on what they've seen in black lives matter in the U. S. So I I appreciate that you started with with rust in because that shows us sort of the black Atlantic. The current's moving the other way, But it does often feel as though um as it moves on, Lee sort of from U. S centric out. So I'm thinking of us learning just yesterday that Sasha Johnson, a black lives matter. Activists in the UK Is in critical condition after being shot. And we don't know from initial reports whether this shooting was directly related to her activism, But still, I wonder about, for example, the capacity of a Sasha Johnson to be a figure like George Floyd also reigniting movements here in the U. S. We definitely see this kind of cross pollination happening in many different contexts. So I mean, even for example, you know there was the career square protests in Egypt and that helped influence the occupy Wall Street protests in the United States. And some of that is about Tactics. You know, this is there's a particular method of protest, like occupying a space. But in other cases like what you're describing their ways in which a, um iconic figure can become a kind of rallying point for a movement and and and and we also see just to kind of speak to the international dimensions. There are ways in which sometimes they're activists moving from one place to another kind of learning from each other. So the scholars enough to fetch it, for example, has talked about how People in Turkey who organized the protest in in Istanbul also helped share some of the methods they learned with folks in career square. So there there is, um you know, the in particular in the age of the Internet, their ways in which people are communicating sharing tactics trying to figure out how can they get their voice heard, And in the particular case, you're saying it's it's obviously still too early to say whether the U. K might influence the U. S. And this specific case. But it certainly happened historically. So you you dropped social media there. So I just want to think about the ways, though, that that has sometimes looked a little different relative to global actors. So you know we're being sort of celebratory of this idea of ideas than and activism moving back and forth. But in the 2016 elections here in the U. S. Foreign entities actually exploited black lives matter, language and images to work against right interests of racial justice. How can how can we sort of navigate that question of these illegitimate uses globally? One of the court challenges for any social movement is too kind of capture the moral high ground and hold it. And there will always be a counter mobilization that tries to deal legitimize the claims for equality or or justice of that movement. When I find the 19 sixties, there are tactics and it requires often you know, kind of extreme. Kinds of methods but making one self the object of state violence strategically doing that and getting media coverage of those kinds of attacks. That, of course, can lead to trauma, injury and death. But but but but helped elevate an issue and do it in a way that is, you know, sort of helps to just illuminate the injustice in a very profound way that that kind of tactic Can work, but it's very hard to sustain. Omar Wasow is an assistant professor of politics at Princeton University. He's also a little bit the whole reason that I know about the black planet and those questions of global organizing. Omar. Thank you for your work for so long and.
The Takeaway
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"Of this special anti robbery squad due to its widespread abuses including torture and killings the culture and the politics of black americans has long been agenda-setting for social movements around the world and the global impact of george floyd murder and the movement ignited is no exception here to discuss that. And more is omar wessel. He is an assistant professor of politics at princeton university. Omar thanks for joining us. Thank you so much for having me. So omar clearly neither racial justice state violence our new or even particularly rare. So why is it that this moment resonated across the globe think. There are three main reasons that murder. Droid george floyd was so powerful. First and foremost is the video. Particularly darnell frazier's footage that just In a way that was just a very visceral intimate very powerful allowed people to see the profound indifference to human suffering that officer chauvin indicated as we as we could watch the life drain from george floyd face right So that that footage really was Exceedingly important and an echo of what we've seen in the past. Where whether it was emmett. Till or rodney. King the documentation of In particular state violence can be very powerful at mobilizing people Another really important factor. Is that the shop. In himself was just so extreme in his level of indifference. It's not this wasn't a a ambiguous situation. I mean it was just a very stark so much so that we saw other police forces criticize that behavior which we almost never see And then lastly i think the timing in the midst of the pandemic meant that Where you know. One of the court challenges for any social movement is trying to Get people to show up at the same place at the same time and people always have things going on in their lives but during the pandemic suddenly people were able to kind of focus on this particular injustice with to a degree that would have been much harder without the pandemic so appreciate that because It reminds us that protests. Don't just pop. they don't just emerge. They are actually organized activists who bring people together in those spaces but they're also right in addition to the work of activists and organizers. There's also those what you have written about as seeds though seeds of an agenda so as she just as week you published an academic paper in the aps are titled agenda seating and thinking about nineteen sixty nine hundred sixty s black protest movements. I'm wondering about the ways at black american movements for freedom have ceded agendas abroad before. Is this something that we've seen happen ya. That's that's a great question. I think know part of what is For me deeply fascinating about how social movements work is the way that they learn from each other so for example just to to go back to the nineteen forties Fired royston a key influence on martin. Luther king's commitment to nonviolence rust and goes to india to learn from disciples of gandhi about their non-cooperation movement and we've seen similar echoes of the current black lives matter movement on an as the introduction to really help outlined on movements around the world and in particular. I think it's the emphasis on police violence on unjust state violence that has helped to focus Kind of win. Those incidents arise in a place columbia in in recent weeks that people have described it as their own. George floyd moment right and so so in that way there's a kind of a template and And a sense of legitimate outrage at state violence that helps to mobilize people building on what they've seen in black lives matter in the us. So i appreciate you started with with rust. And because that shows us sort of the black atlantic the currents moving the other way but it does often feel as though As though it it moves only sort of from. Us centric out. So i'm thinking of a learning just yesterday that sasha johnson black lives matter activists in the uk is in critical condition after being shot. And we don't know from initial reports whether this shooting was directly related to her activism. But still i wonder about for example. The capacity of a sasha johnson to be figure like george floyd also reigniting movements here in the us. We definitely see this kind of cross pollination happening in many different contexts. So i mean even for example You know there was the square protests in egypt and that helped influence the occupy wall street protests in the united states. So some of that is about tactics. You know there's there's a particular method of protests like on a space But in other cases like what you're describing their ways in which A an iconic figure can become a rallying point for a movement and And that that and we also see just to of speak to the international dimensions their ways. In which sometimes they're activists being from one place to another kind of learning from each other so The the this callers to feci for example has talked about how people in turkey who organized a protest in an istanbul Also helped share some of the methods they learned with folks in interior square so there there is a lot in particularly in the age of the internet. Their ways in which people are communicating sharing tactics trying to figure out. How can they get their voice. Heard and in the particular case you're saying it's you know it's obviously still too early to say whether the uk might influence the us in this specific case But it certainly happened historically so you dropped social media there so i just wanna think about the ways though that that has sometimes looked a little different relative global actors. So we're being sort of celebratory of this idea of than and activism moving back and forth but in two thousand sixteen elections here in the us foreign entities actually exploited black lives matter language and images work against right interests of racial justice. How can how can we of navigate. That question of these illegitimate uses.
Democracy Now! Audio
"sasha johnson" Discussed on Democracy Now! Audio
"The arrest of dissidents has always been outrageous. It is the modern expression of bush. Era extraordinary rendition. International kidnapping by state agents and should be opposed no matter the flag under which it occurs. He stabbed a top secret. Study leaked to the new york. Times by fame. Pentagon papers whistleblower daniel ellsberg reveals the us military pressed then president dwight eisenhower to prepare a nuclear first strike against mainland china during the taiwan strait crisis of nineteen fifty eight the document shows. Us military planners were ready to accept the risk that the soviet union would launch. Its own nuclear retaliation on behalf of its ally china and that millions of people would die daniel ellsberg told the new york times he decided to disclose the document now. Due to rising tensions between the united states and china over taiwan senate democrats have introduced a bill that would trim seventy three billion dollars the us nuclear arsenal over the next decade. The smarter approach to nuclear expenditures or saint act was co sponsored by oregon. Congress member earl blumenauer and senator ed markey of massachusetts. They introduce their bill monday. As the congressional budget office released a report projecting the cost of maintaining the us nuclear stockpile through twenty thirty at six hundred thirty four billion dollars. Mali's facing a new political crisis after soldiers detained mali's president and prime minister and what appears to be the country second military coup in less than a year. The african union and united nations issued a joint statement calling for the immediate and unconditional release of the two leaders. President bond. Dow and prime minister mokhtar. Wan who are reportedly being held at a military base outside of bamako the two leaders both came to power in september. As part of a transitional government following a military coup burmese authorities have detained in jail to. Us journalist. who's been reporting on the burmese military. Coup danny fencer was detained. Monday at the airport in rangoon as he was preparing to board a flight to malaysia. Fence is the managing editor of the publication frontier myanmar. The committee to protect journalists has demanded his immediate release calling his arrest. The quote latest grave threat to press freedom in myanmar. A prominent black lives matter. Activists in britain is in critical condition after being shot in the head at a party sunday in south london. Police say they don't believe the activists. Sasha johnson was the victim of a targeted attack but some fellow activists say she's received death threats in the past the. Us supreme court has declined to your the case of a missouri. death row. Her who seeking to be shocked by a firing squad rather than die by lethal injection ernest. Johnson suffers from epilepsy and says missouri's plans to inject him with the drug pinto. Barbital will trigger excruciating seizures. That amount to cruel and unusual punishment after the court six conservatives declined to hear johnson's case without explanation justice sonia sotomayor wrote in a dissenting opinion signed by justices brier and kagan quote missouri is now free to execute johnson in a manner that at this stage of the litigation we must soon will be akin to torture given his unique medical condition she said and a federal court has struck down at georgia law banning state from doing business with anyone who supports the palestinian led boycott divestment and sanctions movement against israel. The ruling came in a lawsuit filed by independent journalist. Abby martin who was barred from speaking at georgia southern university in two thousand nineteen because she refused to sign a pledge against the beedi s movement under georgia law any recipient of a government contract larger than a thousand dollars must sign such a pledge. Martin filed the lawsuit last year. My right to speak at a conference on media at a public university was conditioned on my pledge to never participate my constitutional right to engage in peaceful political action. It is not just this particular conference but my right to speak at any public university or similar event in the entire state has been taken away. Because i will not forfeit my constitutional rights by signing this pledge and those are some of the headlines this is democracy now democracy now dot org the quarantine report when we come back. We'll speak with reporter. Emily wilder she was just fired by the associated. Press after a disinformation campaign led by college republicans at stanford university over her support for palestinian human rights as a college student. She was fired days after israel bombed the ap in gaza. This is her first live tv interview about her. Firing a.
Democracy Now! Audio
"sasha johnson" Discussed on Democracy Now! Audio
"The arrest of dissidents has always been outrageous. It is the modern expression of bush. Era extraordinary rendition. International kidnapping by state agents and should be opposed no matter the flag under which it occurs. He stabbed a top secret. Study leaked to the new york. Times by fame. Pentagon papers whistleblower daniel ellsberg reveals the us military pressed then president dwight eisenhower to prepare a nuclear first strike against mainland china during the taiwan strait crisis of nineteen fifty eight the document shows. Us military planners were ready to accept the risk that the soviet union would launch. Its own nuclear retaliation on behalf of its ally china and that millions of people would die daniel ellsberg told the new york times he decided to disclose the document now. Due to rising tensions between the united states and china over taiwan senate democrats have introduced a bill that would trim seventy three billion dollars the us nuclear arsenal over the next decade. The smarter approach to nuclear expenditures or saint act was co sponsored by oregon. Congress member earl blumenauer and senator ed markey of massachusetts. They introduce their bill monday. As the congressional budget office released a report projecting the cost of maintaining the us nuclear stockpile through twenty thirty at six hundred thirty four billion dollars. Mali's facing a new political crisis after soldiers detained mali's president and prime minister and what appears to be the country second military coup in less than a year. The african union and united nations issued a joint statement calling for the immediate and unconditional release of the two leaders. President bond. Dow and prime minister mokhtar. Wan who are reportedly being held at a military base outside of bamako the two leaders both came to power in september. As part of a transitional government following a military coup burmese authorities have detained in jail to. Us journalist. who's been reporting on the burmese military. Coup danny fencer was detained. Monday at the airport in rangoon as he was preparing to board a flight to malaysia. Fence is the managing editor of the publication frontier myanmar. The committee to protect journalists has demanded his immediate release calling his arrest. The quote latest grave threat to press freedom in myanmar. A prominent black lives matter. Activists in britain is in critical condition after being shot in the head at a party sunday in south london. Police say they don't believe the activists. Sasha johnson was the victim of a targeted attack but some fellow activists say she's received death threats in the past the. Us supreme court has declined to your the case of a missouri. death row. Her who seeking to be shocked by a firing squad rather than die by lethal injection ernest. Johnson suffers from epilepsy and says missouri's plans to inject him with the drug pinto. Barbital will trigger excruciating seizures. That amount to cruel and unusual punishment after the court six conservatives declined to hear johnson's case without explanation justice sonia sotomayor wrote in a dissenting opinion signed by justices brier and kagan quote missouri is now free to execute johnson in a manner that at this stage of the litigation we must soon will be akin to torture given his unique medical condition she said and a federal court has struck down at georgia law banning state from doing business with anyone who supports the palestinian led boycott divestment and sanctions movement against israel. The ruling came in a lawsuit filed by independent journalist. Abby martin who was barred from speaking at georgia southern university in two thousand nineteen because she refused to sign a pledge against the beedi s movement under georgia law any recipient of a government contract larger than a thousand dollars must sign such a pledge. Martin filed the lawsuit last year. My right to speak at a conference on media at a public university was conditioned on my pledge to never participate my constitutional right to engage in peaceful political action. It is not just this particular conference but my right to speak at any public university or similar event in the entire state has been taken away. Because i will not forfeit my constitutional rights by signing this pledge and those are some of the headlines this is democracy now democracy now dot org the quarantine report when we come back. We'll speak with reporter. Emily wilder she was just fired by the associated. Press after a disinformation campaign led by college republicans at stanford university over her support for palestinian human rights as a college student. She was fired days after israel bombed the ap offices in gaza. This is her first live tv interview.
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Black Lives Matter Activist Sasha Johnson Shot, in Critical Condition
"An activist who has played a leading role in anti-racism demonstrations in britain was in a critical condition in london hospital on monday. After being shot the taking the initiative party said sasha johnson who played a leading role in black lives matter protests last year was shot in the head sunday police and a friend said did not appear to be talkative attack. Though the party said johnson had received numerous death threats related to her activism. The party said johnson was a strong powerful voice for our people and our community. The metropolitan police force officers were called the reports of gunshots in south london just before three. Am on sunday. Police said the shooting took place near a house where a party was taking place. Detectives have appealed for witnesses and have not made any rests like other countries. Britain has faced an uncomfortable reckoning with race since the death exactly a year ago of george floyd a black american the knee of a. Us policeman in may twenty twenty that sparked anti racism protests around the world. Large crowds at black lives matter protests across the uk called on the government and institutions to face up to the legacy of the british empire and the country's extensive profits from the slave trade. Johnson was a speaker at rallies last summer and is a leader of the newly founded black black-led taking the initiative party
The Erick Erickson Show
"sasha johnson" Discussed on The Erick Erickson Show
"Have to pause for a second because something happened about two minutes ago. I am hearing a radio station in my ear And it's my radio station in atlanta and someone has clearly pushed a button somewhere and suddenly. Now i am listening to wb radio in atlanta in my year. Now they had to say that. So jim would know 'cause i've been talking the whole time that this has been going on. Someone clearly is pushing a button somewhere. Tappin twice today Is very. I have no idea why people keep pushing buttons to suddenly sin programming into my ear. But they do. I'm sorry the only way for me to do anything about was to talk down the line to jim courier that someone had yet again pushed that button now to get back to my point. I was fine. I honestly i was fine until i heard a commercial and it was my voice. Y'all i can't listen to myself on the radio just going to while engineer the point is gone. I'll i'll focus on this. I cannot stand listen to myself and apparently it's very common you yourself don't like to listen to you on a recording. You realize these this really the way it sounded. Apparently it's not actually the way you sound. You hear yourself differently from the way other people do so. I've been told but my goodness gracious. The deal breaker for me is the moment i hear. My voice is just it's game over. I cannot listened to my. I don't like to watch myself tv. I don't like to hear myself and this is very common one time. Toby never listened to a single one of his shows because he didn't like two years old voice which was fascinating to me the low and welcome it. Is eric erickson here. Glad to be with you the phone number. If you want to be a part of this program. Eight seven seven seven eric. Eight seven seven nine seven three seven four to five interesting i. I'm just seeing this associated. Press alert sasha. Johnson and activists who's played a leading role an anti-racism demonstrations in britain has been shot in the head. My i don't know anything about it other than that. But goodness that's that's a heck of a thing to push out this morning Listen y'all this is i. I'm and. I'm sorry. I'm a little bit flustered. If you're just tuning in the very last segment last hour something happens somewhere. My building and they routed suddenly radio program and in my ear and i was in the middle of a good point and then suddenly it fell apart as i was listening to my own voice from an advertisement but so let me make this point a move on although at the bottom of this hour my friend victory coats is going to join me She in the trump administration was on the national security council And then in the energy department it was a highly instrumental in helping block The iran deal get rid of the iran deal and also Helping jared kushner with the abraham accords among other things. She's going to join me to talk about The israel palestinian situation. But just a..
The Erick Erickson Show
"sasha johnson" Discussed on The Erick Erickson Show
"Hello and welcome it. Is eric erickson here. Glad to be with you the phone number. If you want to be a part of this program eight seven seven nine seven eric. Eight seven seven nine seven three seven four to five interesting i i. I'm just seeing this associated. Press alert sasha johnson. An activist who's played a leading role. Anti-racism demonstrations in britain has been shot in the head. My i i don't know anything about it other than that but goodness that's that's a heck of a thing to push out this morning Listen y'all this is a i. I'm and. I'm sorry. I'm a little bit flustered. If you're just tuning in the the very last segment last hour something happens somewhere in my building. And they routed suddenly radio program and into my ear and i was in the middle of a good point and then suddenly it fell apart as i was listening to my own voice from an advertisement but so let me make this point of move on although at the bottom of this hour my friend victory coach is gonna join me She in the trump administration was on the national security council And then in the energy department and was highly instrumental in helping block The iran deal get rid of the iran deal and also Helping jared kushner with the abraham accords among other things. She's going to join me to talk about The israel palestinian situation. But just there's there's clearly a level of of E- trying to be evenhanded in the way the left is covering this. There's a clear talking. Point in the american media that are doing it There is anti-semitism right now. And there's islamaphobia right now. It's both sides. But i want to read you this from axios. The new york. Police department's crying task force launched an investigation into a pair of antisemitic incidents in brooklyn on saturday night days after the new york police department said it would increase patrols in jewish neighborhoods amid a rise in hate crimes. The newark police department says. One hundred ninety-five hate crimes reported newark city between january first and may sixteenth and increase of seventy one percent over the last year..
WMAL 630AM
"sasha johnson" Discussed on WMAL 630AM
"The government is grown way too much in El Salvador, 52 homicides per 100,000 people and the Democrats tell us that that's what people are fleeing. And then they come to ST Louis, where the homicide rate is 87 per 100,000. People again in the United States is five per 100,000, El Salvador. It's 52 per 100,000. You could see that wonderfully that And then in ST Louis. It's 87 per 100,000. Because the Democrats are making things better. They're they're making things better, and the Democrat Party is anti Israel and anti Semitic. It's interesting. They're anti capitalist, Anti American, and they're not on our side, just just and I've got all kinds of I actually pulled the story on human sacrifices over the weekend. I'm not sure if I'm going to get to in olden times, you know, 500 years ago, when when Spanish and Portuguese explorers were landing and what you know, now Mexico and South America running into the the Aztecs and You know the Inca and the human sacrifices and crazy stuff, you know, cutting heads off, cutting their chest up and pulling out their hearts, whether it's still beating to sacrifice them to the sun God It was largely a sun God thing, and it was about the weather is about the climate. They were trying to prevent climate change. The has tech and the Inca were with their human sacrifices and a lot of Children and not entirely Children. But also they would sacrifice their slaves. You see when they got the would enslave people from other tribes that they had conquered, and then they would have human sacrifices and do all kinds of crazy creative things you know, living snakes and things like that. Creative and and I was reading about it over the weekend and think you know, the more things change, the more they stay the same, but it was 500 years ago, I was thinking that's really not all that long ago. If you put it in context, I think we we were talking about two weeks ago that the oldest person in America remember this. This there was a woman that passed away she is. I think she was 114 years old. And the United States. And if you think about you lay her lifetime and to end her life time plus four lifetimes of her life, and you're back to the human sacrifices and throwing babies in volcanoes. To appease the sun. God Not really. That long ago I was talking about this. You know, if you're 83 84 years old, you've lived for about one third. The history of the United States. If you're what is it, 64? Maybe even 62. You've lived for one quarter of the history of the United States and and this woman that died a couple of weeks ago. 1/5 of the period of human history is not that long. It really isn't recorded history anyway, and, um, and the human sacrifice is that these people because the Aztec one of the emperor's Um, which they passed along through bloodline. And they said that they were chosen by God, just like the European emperors and kings, by the way on bay sacrificed, apparently at one time 80,000 as text to impress the gods. In order to in one fell swoop as my mother used to say, a fell swoop and 80,000 of them, and they did all these crazy things tearing heart satin. While there's still beating and holding him up to the gods, and the crowds would cheer. It's like it's like a bad Hollywood movie with Tom Hanks or something. Crazy, crazy stuff. But I digress. We've got Monica Lewinsky and the news. We've got Charles Barkley in the news. Disney coming up there $100 sandwich at Disneyland. They got the Disneyland, the $100 sandwich, but fear not. It feeds more than one thea all the anti Semitism of the left wingers and the Palestinians. In New York City of Los Angeles. Got an update on that on the fastest girl in Connecticut wrote a piece. Amazingly, you know the one who then lost out to transgender athletes who crushed her soundly and left her in the dust and changed the trajectory of her life. And she will die bitter because you know, liberals decided that what is fair is not fair. And what is not fair is fair, Interesting stuff. And what are Little and a constant updates, of course on the deadly January 6th insurrection. That's the headline in Mother Jones Front Page of The Washington Post today, January six Story no stories about the three day siege of the White House, the torching of the church, the more than 100 police officers injured. The first family evacuated nothing about that in the paper today or for months and months and months. Never comes up pretty amazing stuff. We've got ahold category dedicated to racism and all that. And and also Brian was calling in from Florida but he disappeared on us was he wanted to talk about black lives matter. Activists Sasha Johnson shot comma in critical condition in London in London, England. See, Because this is we're spreading the epic the ethos around the world. This is what the left does the racist left And you know, black lives matter. So that means 12 shouted a party of New Jersey and 48 shot in Chicago over the weekend and 11 killed and Philadelphia shattering all records. ST Louis shattering all records. What do you think is getting shot here? And what do you What do you think the disproportionate impact is here? CNN will not be talking about this. I promise you and activist who has played a leading role in anti racism demonstrations in Britain. Is in critical condition after being shot in the head in London shot both in the head and in London. Her political party says she has a political party. I bet they're a lot of fun, probably don't want to go to their parties. The taking The initiative party. That's the name of the party that taking the initiative party. They have a lot of parties there. We have fewer parties here. Our system is far superior to their their quaint but antiquated. What is that kind of a just slightly post colonial era? This parliamentary system is for the birds. Our system is far superior. Notwithstanding the condition of the Democrat Party today. The taking the initiative party says Sasha Johnson was shot in the head on Sunday. It said Johnson, who played a leading role in black lives matter, protests last year has received numerous death threats. Yeah, that's not what happened. It wasn't it was that you know. Is that a thing with her friends Recently found the recently founded taking the Initiative party, said Johnson, a member of its executive Leadership committee. There is have these Soviet titles was at quote, a strong, powerful voice for our people in our community and quote Metropolitan police said The 27 year old woman was in the hospital in critical condition. Jimi Hendrix. The list goes on Jim Morrison. It goes on and on and condition after being shot in southeast London early Sunday. Early Sunday, means late Saturday night. It did not identify her, but said there is nothing to suggest that this was a targeted attack or that the woman had received any credible threats against her before this incident. So the party's says she had received many death threats. The police say no, no, that's not true. The police force Said officers were called to reports of gunshots in the Peckham area. It's Peckham on Ben them, like pick him. Of the city just before three A.m. on Sunday late night Saturday party place said the shooting took place near a house where a party was taking place, saying, that's you know, so we got that going for us and then that's pretty You know, it's obviously a horrible, awful story, and I'm sorry that we're exporting this this brand of insanity. I'd like to apologize to great Britain, which may not be great, but it's fine. We should call it fine. Britain, you know? Okay. Britain. Leading anti racism that another story leading anti racism protesters shot in the head. She's she's anti everything, but whatever they are, you know, I just I got to tell you the these This is we're not. We're not making the world better with these left wing movements out of the United States or or any place sells for that matter. Remarkable stuff. Right, Michael. Let's see. Let's go to let's go to a telephone call Michael. Let's go to Sami calling from Memphis, Tennessee. Sammy, you're on the Chris Plante show. Chris, How's it going this morning? Great show as usual. Thank you. Thank you. I just wanted to comment about the Biden administration recently using the word triumphant and try up so frequently. How long do you think of the baby before they realized that the letters T r u M P R in both of those words and just continued to discontinue, use you?.
BBC World Service
Cable Car Plunges to the Ground in Italy, Killing at Least 14
"As it approached a mountain summit beside Lake Majority Hikers nearby were quoted as having heard a hissing sound immediately before the crash, adding to suspicions that a cable supporting the car snapped. There are reports that a prominent black lives matter. Activists in Britain, Sasha Johnson,
NewsRadio WIOD
"sasha johnson" Discussed on NewsRadio WIOD
"And you follow stint on Twitter at Todd Schmidt and on Instagram at Certified Touch, Schnick coming up this hour. We're going to talk to you about the latest from Nashville. Apparently, the police have warning about what was going on. We're going to talk to you about the parents of a little boy who was bullied. They're gonna get to sue the school district because, and this is my opinion that schools don't care about bullying. They would really like it. If the bully the bullying victim would just suffer silently and not say anything, because it creates problems for them, eh? So we're going to talk to you about that. There's a controversy a Bruin. Because of the new Disney Pixar movies, Soul. In which Tina Fey depicts a character that is not human. On. People don't like that. I'm having a hard time wrapping my right right and also one of the leaders of the Black lives matter. Movement is calling for the creation of a race offenders. Registry, just like a sex offenders Registry and, yes, you would not be able to live near communities of color if you were put on the race offender registry. It's really kind of dumb, Just just throwing that out there. But before we get into all of that, I feel the need to mention again. For those of you Just tuning in dawn wells, you know her better as Marianne. The lovable girl next door. You were either a ginger or a Marianne kind of guy. When you were growing up. I was a Marianne kind of guy. She has passed away today in Los Angeles from complications due to covet 19. This is, according to her publicist. She was 82 years old. Born in Reno, Nevada, She represented her home state in the Miss America pageant in 1959 that opened the door for her to start a career in Hollywood, where she appeared in a multitude of television shows, including 77, Sunset Strip. I don't know Never saw it, Maverick. I've heard of that one bonanza I've heard of that. The Joey Bishop show Okay, and something called Hawaiian eye. She beat out 350 other actresses to nab the role of girl next door. Mary Ann on Gilligan's Island, which aired on CBS from 1964 to 1967 and later in syndication. Did you know there's a famous story about that? That show The way it was canceled. Had had been renewed. It was gonna be back on and then Bill Paley, the guy who was in charge of CBS. His wife was talking to him, and they had canceled gun smoke, But his wife liked gun smoke, so they wanted to bring gun smoke back. And because Bill Paley's wife wanted to watch Gunsmoke probably cause she had the hearts for James Harden is the star of that show. Gilligan's Island got the boot because they needed the space for a gun smoke, So that's why that got canceled. In a 2016 interview with Forbes. Wells revealed that the job was not as lucrative as many people believe, she says it's a Mexican misconception is that we must be wealthy, rolling in the dough because we got residuals. We don't really get a dime. I think my salary of course I was low on the totem pole. Ginger and Thurston Jim Backus. Got more. But her salary was $750 a week sure, which Schwartz, the producer. Reportedly, they made $90 million on reruns alone. That's what they don't tell you about. All those old shows that rear end over and over and over again. Nobody knew what residuals were at the time, so nobody negotiated him into the contracts. Now, that's like the first thing they do. I think Larry David, who co created Seinfeld got a check for $137 million. From his for the rear end. So anyway, Don Wells has passed away beyond acting. She sort of does a producer, author, journalist, motivational speaker, teacher, humanitarians folks person and chairman of the Terry Lee Wells Foundation, an organization for women and Children in northern Nevada as running wells running her film Actors boot camp. For seven years in Idaho, and there you go. She's she's no longer with US and Cove. It has taken someone from Gilligan's Island or anybody left from Gilligan's Island. Tina Louise a still life So ginger ginger outlives them all. Shouldn t Louise started became the screech. Of Gilligan's Island, like she would say stuff, and nobody liked her. For a little while, So they all got along when they got together, but any time it came up she wanted she wanted like a career. But like they all did, But she wanted a career. Beyond that, she I think she kind of resented that they have really still only thought of her from Gilligan's Island, and she's like I said she started became the screech of the group. But Said stuff and alienated. I don't think she ever made a porn on them. You was in Dallas like low grade foreign exposed anyway. Right now a activist who calls herself the Black Panther of Oxford wants to create a race offenders registry that would bar alleged Racists. Alleged racist, mind you from getting work or living near communities of colors. Sasha Johnson is her name. She divulged the agenda for the taking The Initiative Party, a political group in the United Kingdom that's been inspired by black lives matter. And, yes, Black lives matter has has this idea first, and they're looking at it, too. In this country, the registry of Racists. Is similar to the sex offender registry, Johnson said. She said if you were to be racially abusive to somebody the register with question whether someone is fit enough to hold a particular job where their bias could influence another person's life. She serves as an executive committee member of T T I. P Which is the taking the initiative party on overseas activism, she added. A lot of racism happens at work in places of education in a micro aggressive way. If you exhibit an element of bias at work, you should probably receive a warning. First like that. You should probably receive a warning first before later being added to the register, so people know in the future. That you hold these views. I would like to hear criteria if they're going to do this, I'm here to tell you this is probably going to happen The if they're floating these ideas around, it's not going to be like an actual registry. But it's going to be something that the black lives matter has and anybody who does anything. You like it if you refer to the George Floyd for a riot, says riots instead of peaceful protests. When a good chunk of the more riots you could get put on the list, And then, according to them, you wouldn't be able to live near a community of color in any way, shape or form. Oh, good Separatists knife. Now. The national Registry would also bar alleged offenders from living their ethnic minority groups and include anyone Accused or charged with a race crime. You see how that's a problem, right? You see how They could then just make some wild accusation and put you on this list. And if anybody takes this ridiculous list seriously Suddenly your life is pretty much ruined. All they're looking for us. That's why you can't pay too close attention while you kind of pay close attention to him, But you can't get too much credibility. The black lives matters because every so often they do something good. But then, every so often they do something ridiculous. And this is something ridiculous. So you're gonna put somebody's name on a list with just an accusation about something and what they're saying? By the way that when they say if your name goes on the list if you're accused of something Is that if you don't do Exactly.
77WABC Radio
"sasha johnson" Discussed on 77WABC Radio
"Lydia, my meat. More projects on board. I'm in your cock justice there, So I grew up with everybody, but I was in the service. And they spoke to each other using the n word if they knew each other. Okay, But wait a minute. Now. Wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait. We gotta be a little careful when you start with the day and you know you people. You mean African American soldiers? Is that what you're saying? Caroline have to be the Caucasian, white and black and white and black. Yes. They were told to each other that way. Okay. Go ahead out. Many of us want from New York being I down there going to be cooked, but we were basic. And we would, uh, you didn't say that. I never heard it went up very much. It'll have going up on Brian. Have you never heard the word? Very tiny bird So, but they knew each other even kids today. You see them? If there's panic, there's some age white so they use that word. But their friends if you use it outside of a group of whatever they could deem it is racism. That's how I feel. Well, here's what we know that young lady Thank you for the call day that young lady. At the University of Tennessee made made the mistake three years ago and now some miserable, low life that the young man that came forward and revealed it three years later. She's no longer gonna be at the University of Tennessee. So I'm not saying is right to use the n word. It's never right. But come on, you're going to take this young lady's life away from her, But you got that Sasha Johnson. She's saying that she should be on the registry and never even be allowed to work again. That's cool. That's cool. Black being a black militant, and this city has seen their been there. Done that with Sonny Carson. And and the days of civil outrage and shutting down the subways. This is now 2021. Yeah, I don't want to go to anymore. Well, although Times Square for the most part was empty last night, I want to show you this video that I just found. You know me always searching on Yes, yes, Yes. Alright. What video You show. Okay. You see that? Yes. So what do you seeing right now? I see crowd a crowd about a large crowd. Are they wearing masks? No, they're not wearing masks. Why is this allowed? You know why this was allowed? I'm gonna show you because it was a black lives matter. Trans Live matter. Protest in Union Square, New York City last night. This is why people are pissed off. Do you understand? This is why? Because you're banning people from going to restaurants. You're banning people from having celebrations and weddings and this and that, But all you have to do is call it a BLM or trick. I'm not saying there's anything wrong with having but Why is this? Okay? Right. But that's not what you don't you sound like right now. Go to sleep. Courteously. Well, you know what I said? He said a way and the way Curtis would do if he was explaining to me dominate. Why is it your people? Your friends that while you raising your eyebrows at me like that? No, no, no, because I'm watching your courteously. What impersonation? We're gonna get more about this. I'm gonna have Justin play a little bit more of the sound from this when we get back. Lydia surrounded Dominic Carter in for the great Bernie and said, We got a lot of phone calls to get soon. Only a very few minutes. So let me give everybody a shot out. In case we don't get to your phone. Call Steve from the Bronx, Leah from Garden State, Eddie from Rockland, Ryan from Rockland County, Terry from Westchester, Joe from Howard Beach. If Frank from a story.
77WABC Radio
"sasha johnson" Discussed on 77WABC Radio
"And that's the question I get most often and I first Started to contemplate my gender when I was six years old, So that is true, But I tell people this all the time. Didn't understand anything about anything having to do with gender, identity or sexuality or social interactions, Basically until I was in college. And so, like I said, I'm 27 now and I've been transitioning for two years. So it wasn't until I got out of college. But I was able to really make that decision and say, OK, I'm going to make permanent changes to my body and pursue this. Do you think 10 years old is too young to know that you have no gender that your non binary Absolutely. It's it's totally too young. And like I said, I thought about this for almost my entire life. And every time I would think about it, I would learn something new. And then that would kind of would have to think about that new thing and the real The real crux of my decision was and it's really personal. When I hear you know you, lady you talked about your Children. That was the issue for me is I realized I wanted to have Children on. I wanted to protect my ability to do that, and I was learning like if you do this to young, you totally destroy your ability to have your own Children. It's right. It's irreversible damage, and I also wonder about the hormones when you take them so young. What could that due to the development? Could it cause cancer? I just It's It's such a scary process. I feel like kids are being overexposed. It's true and the cancer thing that is like part of the risk factors because any time you're adding, you know, pharmaceuticals to your body, there's there's always the side effects. I think What I've been told is there's ah high level of a specific type of cancer. There's like a higher risk factor for it. But but Truly speaking as far as the cancer goes that very rare, But there is permanent damage with reproductive health. And if you go to young if you take hormone, you know testosterone blockers way too young. You put yourself in a position where not only can you never have your own Children, but you can't actually have the bottom surgery that so many people want So jade you You preserved your fertility, so if you choose to down the line, you'll be able to have a child biological one. Correct. That's really, really important to me Like I really wanted Tol have my own Children and That was kind of like once I understood that about myself because I didn't know that. And this is this is the one final point. I wanted to bring up people say like, Oh, I knew when I was 10 years old. I started thinking about it when I was 10 years old. I knew when I was in college and what helps me No, that is when I was 24 years old. I was still you could look at my Facebook and Twitter. I was still telling people I never want to have Children. And now, three years later or really, just two years later, or a year later, that was like my sole goal in life. Wow. Wow. Thank you so much. J for calling in. Look at that. Where did you ever think in the birdie and said, show you'd be educated like this We have. I learned so much just from Jade, and she is going through transitioning herself, And she says that 10 is just way too young. It's over exposure and she didn't know I hope I'm using the right pronoun. I think she didn't know until 2025 that she wanted to transition and so you've done it a gun. Done it again. Look at the phone bank there. Every phone line is completely lit up either on this issue or the issue of use of the n word. Or or gender is like a million different topic we do. We do have to go to break and we only have what 18 what? 18 minutes left to the show. You know that. What I want 24 minutes of, you know that race offender registry. I gotta tell you, she turning this Sasha Johnson and she's very prominent..