The Case of Jason Flom on Power to the People: A forum on the fight for civil rights and justice in our time

📻 Episode #137
🎙️ Hosted by Jason Flom
📅 Jun 15, 2020

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About This Episode

The Case

On Thursday June 11, 2020, justice advocate and philanthropist Jason Flom moderated a forum on Facebook Live with four extraordinary leaders in civil rights, justice, and advocacy: Black Lives Matter co-founder Patrisse Cullors; prison industry expert Bianca Tylek; Drug Policy Alliance executive director Kassandra Frederique; and civil rights lawyer and author Alec Karakatsanis. The goal of this event was to empower people to take action, find resources, and learn how to use their unique talents/resources to move us forward in the urgent fight for racial justice.

This is a list of the many organizations mentioned during this discussion. Learn more and get involved at:

8 to Abolition https://www.8toabolition.com/

Black Lives Matter https://blacklivesmatter.com/

Blackout Collective https://blackoutcollective.org/

Black Youth Project 100 https://www.byp100.org/

In Their Own Words — transcript excerpts

Short excerpts from the episode's official published transcript, with timestamps — listen from these moments, or read the full transcript via the podcast's own platforms.

00:07:34
“Speaker 4: the sky right now in New York City, and all Speaker 4: of that equipment is stuff that the. Speaker 3: Drug war funds. Speaker 4: And so we were excited to elevate and amplify the Speaker 4: call that Black Lives Matter put out around defunding the police,”

00:29:00
“Speaker 7: those that is part of their funding stream. Speaker 6: And then finally, corporate support. Speaker 7: A lot of corporations, your favorite corporations, the verizons of Speaker 7: the at and TS, targets of the world Amazon are Speaker 7: all funding police and they're doing it in one of”

00:49:26
“Speaker 1: entering the field than justice impacted. Is there anything more Speaker 1: impactful than empowering and equipping our people? Wow, that's a Speaker 1: lofty question. It's more of a statement than a question, Speaker 1: So maybe it's okay here, really. Speaker 6: Easy to answer. Speaker 7: No, there's nothing more powerful like we have to equip”

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