AUA Podcast Episode 8

Episode 8 Outline:

 

1. Intro Theme - It’s On Again by Kendrick
Lamar & Alicia Keys

 

2. Detroit Water Shutoff

 

Detroit water crisis sparks impassioned
grassroots activism

http://thegrio.com/2014/07/28/detroit-water-crisis-sparks-impassioned-grassroots-activism/

 

Detroit Water
Brigade

http://detroitwaterbrigade.org

 

 

3. AZ Charter Schools Using School Book
That Says Slavery To Black People

 

Complaint: Arizona Charter School Using
Book That Says Slavery Was Beneficial To Blacks

http://huff.to/1ymvfFN

 

 

4. Death of Eric Garner

 

Staten Island man dies after NYPD cop puts
him in chokehold

http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/staten-island-man-dies-puts-choke-hold-article-1.1871486?utm_content=buffer8e086&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter.com&utm_campaign=NYDailyNewsTw

 

NYPD Cop in Chokehold Death Loses Gun,
Badge

http://abcnews.go.com/US/nypd-cop-chokehold-death-loses-gun-badge/story?id=24634470

 

 

5. Same Sex Marriage Ban Overturned

 

Appeals court upholds decision overturning
Virginia’s same-sex marriage ban

http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/courts_law/appeals-court-upholds-decision-overturning-virginias-same-sex-marriage-ban/2014/07/28/02764842-167e-11e4-85b6-c1451e622637_story.html

 

North Carolina says it will no longer
defend gay marriage ban in court

http://www.latimes.com/nation/nationnow/la-na-nn-north-carolina-drops-opposition-same-sex-marriage-20140728-story.html

 

6. Work Hard by Renny Ingram feat. Space
and Richy Grind

 

7. Kansas Tax Cuts Destroys Budget Surplus
and Harms Schools

 

Kansas was supposed to be the GOP’s tax-cut
paradise. Now it can barely pay its bills.

http://www.vox.com/2014/7/8/5868717/sam-brownback-kansas-tax-cut

 

How Kansas and California Debunked the
GOP's Tax Cuts Argument

http://readersupportednews.org/opinion2/277-75/24788-focus-how-kansas-and-california-debunked-the-gops-tax-cuts-argument

 

 

 

8. Central American Refugee Children

 

14 facts that help explain America's
child-migrant crisis http://www.vox.com/2014/6/16/5813406/explain-child-migrant-crisis-central-america-unaccompanied-children-immigrants-daca

 

Obama Says U.S.
Could Start Limited Refugee Program in Central America

http://online.wsj.com/news/article_email/obama-to-meet-central-american-leaders-on-migrating-children-1406289294-lMyQjAxMTA0MDIwODEyNDgyWj?tesla=y

 

Texans Give to
Border Refugee Children

http://www.goodnewsnetwork.org/photo-day-texans-give-border-refugee-children/

 

9. More Of A Euphoria by Ab-Soul feat Alori
Joh (R.I.P. Lori)

 

10. Arizona Botches Death Penalty

 

Why it took Arizona
nearly 2 hours to execute a prisoner - http://www.vox.com/2014/7/23/5931633/arizona-death-penalty-execution-joseph-wood
 

Arizona killer takes 2 hours to die,
fueling lethal-injection debate

http://www.latimes.com/nation/nationnow/la-na-nn-arizona-execution-20140723-story.html

 

Death Pentalty Fact Sheet

http://www.deathpenaltyinfo.org/documents/FactSheet.pdf

 

Amnesty International Death Penalty Facts

http://www.amnestyusa.org/our-work/issues/death-penalty/us-death-penalty-facts

 

Oklahoma Man’s Gruesome Execution
Highlights Death Penalty System’s Failures | Autostraddle

http://www.autostraddle.com/oklahoma-mans-gruesome-execution-highlights-death-penalty-systems-failures-235980/

 

An Independent Autopsy Figured Out How
Oklahoma Botched That Execution So Badly | ThinkProgress

http://thinkprogress.org/health/2014/06/13/3448802/autopsy-oklahoma-botched-execution/

 

 

11. Just Like Me by Jay Rock feat. J. Black

 

12. Angry White Guy- House of
Representatives Vote to Sue President Obama

 

13. Outro - It’s On Again by Kendrick Lamar & Alicia Keys

Produced by Ricky Hinds, Cherelle Kay & James Kitchens

Edited by Ricky Hinds & Cherelle Kay