Dave and Bob come together this week in the Sound Studio to try to understand the #defund police movement. After a little reminiscing about great stickers in their life, they discuss the history of policing, including the failures of reform efforts and visions of abolition of the police and prisons. They dig even deeper to ask what are police actually for in society? Building on this, they discuss what people can do wherever they are to be a part of these efforts.
Thanks to the artists: Drake Stafford, Cullah, and the enigmatic Joe Schine
Spike Lee’s brilliant Do The Right Thing (1989, not 1990 or 91 as we stated in the show) and an essay on why people riot.
Mariame Kaba’s historical and historic essay on abolition in the NYT
“Pig” as a derogatory word for police has been going on since at least 1811.
Police shot their own anti-bias trainer, interviewed on Democracy Now.
Cheryl Harris’ important essay Whiteness as Property
Critical Resistance’s very important work on defunding and prison abolition
Box Car by Shovels and Rope, one of the best vocal performances Dave’s ever seen
Book club! How To Be An Anti-Racist by Ibram X. Kendi
The podcast Intercepted, this week’s amazing episode with abolitionist Ruth Wilson Gilmore
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Email: davepeachtree@gmail.com
Ep70: Rabindranath Tagore: The forest school as inspiration for our modern world
Ep69: Season 9: No Bummers! Scheming and Dreaming
Ep68: Disciplinary Literacy in the Digital Age for Elementary School Teachers
Ep 67: Revolutionary Love Next Steps
Bonus Ep: 20 Minutes on Putin’s Attack on Ukraine
Ep66: Boulder Trip 2021: Great Hang-outs and Historic Fires
Ep65: 2021 In Review! The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly
Ep64: Recovering Capitalist Addicts and Cracks in the System: Having and Being Had Book Club Part 2 (side episode)
Ep63: Still Fighting: Finding Hope in the Fight for a Better World
Ep62: Revolutionary Grief and the Connections to Stories, Vulnerability, and Space-making
Ep 61: Having and Being Had Bookclub (side episode)
Ep60: New Season! Tracing Revolutionary Love in Our Lives
Ep 59: TV, Books, Movies, Sports, Music, Podcasts? We Got You Covered
Ep: 58 Season Finale! Creating Another World in Apocalypse
Ep 57: Revisiting Occupy Wall Street, 10 Years Later
Ep56: Reform or Revolution? Putting the Credit Card Hack to the Test
Ep55: We are All Artists: Unlocking the Power of Art (To Take Down Daddy Beyz)
Ep54: A True Wide World of Sports is Possible
Ep 53: Two Lists to Help You Make Another World a Reality
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