Down To Earth With Harriet Cammock
525 episodes - English - Latest episode: 6 days ago - ★★★★ - 6 ratingsSharing hope, loving people, changing lives. Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/harrietcammock/support
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Facial Recognition Technology is coming to a New York School District
February 11, 2020 15:58 - 51 minutes - 47.7 MBSchool districts across the country are incorporating the controversial software despite objections from citizens and parents. The Lockport School District in Lockport, New York (20 miles east of Niagara Falls) has incorporated facial recognition software to monitor people on the property of it’s eight schools, becoming the first known public school district in New York to adopt facial recognition and one of the first in the nation. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.c...
What To Fo About Toxic Relationships
February 11, 2020 01:11 - 59 minutes - 55.1 MBBehavioral psychiatrist, De. Rhonda Mattox joined me to discuss why do we choose the SAM eMate over and over and what to do with our toxic relationships --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/harrietcammock/message Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/harrietcammock/support
The Myth of White Slavery
February 10, 2020 16:04 - 54 minutes - 50.1 MBWhite slavery has its roots in slavery that took place after ‘chattel slavery’ The myth of white slavery surrounds the forcible use of white women who were abused and violated and the outcry against their treatment , but the same Christian evangelicals who cried out against ‘perceived white slavery’ did not cry out against chattel black slavery of black women who were sexually abused and violated. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/harrietcammock/message S...
Has Conservative Christianity Fueled the Sex Trafficking Trade
February 09, 2020 16:02 - 56 minutes - 52.5 MBWhile Christians are largely of one kind that human and sex trafficking are wrong, the strategies we use to accomplish an end to these horrors vary. Social purity movements led by middle-class Christian evangelicals are after all rooted in assumptions that a woman’s natural moral nature should be pure, pious and submissive. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/harrietcammock/message Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/harrietcammock...
Indigenous Women And Children Are the Most Vulnerable to Sex Trafficking
February 07, 2020 15:52 - 47 minutes - 44.2 MBThe human trafficking of indigenous peoples in the Americas, began with Christopher Columbus, and continues today where indigenous women and children are disproportionately affected by human trafficking and primarily sex trafficking . --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/harrietcammock/message Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/harrietcammock/support
The Myth Of Dangerous Neigjboehoods
February 07, 2020 14:59 - 46 minutes - 43.3 MBWhy are we criminalizing entire neighborhoods. 30 years after the ‘broken window’ form of policing? --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/harrietcammock/message Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/harrietcammock/support
Chaos at Chain Pharmacies Is Putting Vulnerable Patients At Risk
February 05, 2020 17:05 - 56 minutes - 52.3 MBThe people least surprised by medication mix-ups are the pharmacists working in some of the country’s biggest retail chains. Many pharmacists at popular drugstores like CVS, Rite-Aid, and Walgreens describe understaffed and chaotic workplaces where they say it has become difficult to perform their jobs safely., putting the public at great risk of medication errors. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/harrietcammock/message Support this podcast: https://podc...
Are Slavery Reparations Really Impossible?
February 04, 2020 17:06 - 53 minutes - 49.1 MBAdvocates for slavery reparations have spent decades calling on the U.S. government to assess how such a policy could be implemented. A 30 year old Bill in the U.S. House of Representatives (H.R. 40) , has never reached a vote. According to an Associated Press poll, while 74% of African Americans favor reparations payments , 85% of White Americans oppose it. Although the public remains unloved, for some African Americans in Chicago and at Georgetown University, reparations are within reach. ...
The Power Of Privileged Neighboorhoods
February 03, 2020 17:12 - 56 minutes - 51.9 MBA recent study shows how neighborhoods are impacted by race and income disparities --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/harrietcammock/message Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/harrietcammock/support
Locked Up: Kids’Parents Are Incarcerated And Christians Are Not Helping
February 02, 2020 15:48 - 43 minutes - 40.3 MBWhy as a Christian country are so many of our people locked up? What happens to the children of incarcerated parents. A non-religious organization in Detroit aims to fix that . There are 2.7 million children in America whose parents are incarcerated. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/harrietcammock/message Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/harrietcammock/support
White Americans Will Be The New Minority
February 01, 2020 03:26 - 51 minutes - 47.7 MBAccording to data from statisticians at the Census Bureau, while Americans will be the minority in 2044 --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/harrietcammock/message Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/harrietcammock/support
What Makes A Routine. At Accident A Crime
January 30, 2020 15:56 - 51 minutes - 48.1 MBWhile driving through a dangerous curve in East Texas in 2016, James Fulton turned into oncoming traffic and killed 20 yr old Haile Beasley. Despite James crossing over two lanes of traffic, at the scene, the detective failed to take a blood draw of James and he was subsequently let go. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/harrietcammock/message Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/harrietcammock/support
Facial Recognition Is Making Privacy A Thing Of The Past
January 30, 2020 05:10 - 59 minutes - 54.9 MBA tech startup in Australia developed a facial recognition software sold to American law enforcement agencies. The company uses your pictures uploaded to sites like google, facebook and YouTube . This makes your privacy a thing of the past --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/harrietcammock/message Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/harrietcammock/support
Manhattan’s Luxury Skyscrapers Are Emory- But It’s Homeless Shelter’s Are Full
January 28, 2020 16:35 - 59 minutes - 54.9 MBMore than half of luxury condo units remain unsold after five years on the market. While 80,000 homeless people sleep in New York City’s shelters or on it’s streets, the average price of a newly listed Manhattan condo is $3.77M. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/harrietcammock/message Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/harrietcammock/support
California Lawmakers Considering Declaring Painkillers As Carcinogens
January 27, 2020 15:56 - 48 minutes - 44.8 MBAt the height of the #opiscrisis, should California lawmakers classify a common painkiller as a carcinogen. A state law known as Proposition 65 says California must warn people of any chemical known to cause cancer or reproductive toxicity. Acetaminophen, an over-the-counter painkiller is the basis for more than 600 prescription medications, could be added to that list. Over 133 studies about acetaminophen were reviewed, with only a few concluding that use of acetaminophen led to increase in ...
Jealousy Is Preventing Us From Being Good Persons
January 26, 2020 16:06 - 59 minutes - 55.1 MBJealousy is defined as resentment against a person enjoying success or advantage while envy is defined as covetousness towards someone else’s advantages, success, possessions, etc. These emotions lie at the very antithesis of all that Christ taught us. As Christians, our goal is to love one another, as Christ loves us. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/harrietcammock/message Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/harrietcammock/support
How American Firms Helped Africa’s Richest Woman Exploit Her Country’s Wealth
January 24, 2020 15:59 - 48 minutes - 45.3 MBAngola is a southwestern African country rich in diamonds and oil preserves but mired by corruption, grinding poverty, widespread illiteracy and high infant mortality rate. Angola is the native country of one of the world’s richest women, Isabel Dos Santos, a billionaire whose father was president rod Angola from 1975-. Her father under his tenure gave her access to the country’s resources which she used for her own benefit --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/s...
American History Textbooks Are Influenced By Partisan Politics
January 23, 2020 15:57 - 50 minutes - 46.5 MBPolitical divide shape what students learn about American history. Conservatives fight for schools to promote patriotism, Christianity, and the founding fathers. The political left pushes for focus on marginalized groups of history, like women, enslaved people, and Native Americans. Analysis king some of the most popular textbooks used in California and Texas a New York Times analysis discovered hundreds of differences- some subtle others very extensive. On complex political questions, textbo...
College-educated White Americans Are Largely Political Hobbyists
January 22, 2020 16:05 - 52 minutes - 48.3 MBAlthough most college-educated people follow political updates by reading articles online, they mostly consume political information only as way of satisfying their own emaotional and intellectual needs. Political hobbyists learn and talk about big, important things, and debate the issues on their abstract merits, as opposed to engaging in politics via being a member of union, belonging to an organization, or attending political meetings. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spo...
What Will America Do With It’s Abandoned Churches
January 21, 2020 16:04 - 55 minutes - 51 MBWith immigrants and refuge populations growing across the U.S. the conversion of vacant Christian churches into new places of worship can preserve historic architecture. But what of instances where those former churches are now used as community centers. It begs the question did the Christian Church miss it’s mark in addressing the needs of the community it serves. Was the church relevant to it’s community --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/harrietcammock...
Increasing The Minimum Wage Could Lower The Rates Of Suicide
January 20, 2020 16:02 - 55 minutes - 51.6 MBMore than 47,000 Americans died by suicide in 2017. Along with other so-called ‘deaths of despair’ -alcoholism and drug overdoses- Suicide is slowly growing into a public health crisis . Researchers estimate that a $1 increase in the minimum wage corresponded with a 3,5% decrease in the Suicide rate for those with a high school education or less, with the effect being moat pronounced during times of high unemployment. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/har...
Let Freedom Ring
January 19, 2020 15:59 - 53 minutes - 49.2 MBAs we celebrate the life and work of #MartinLutherKing, the great American Linerator, we are urged by the words of Jesus Christ , Him who gave His life for freedom , in Luke 4:18. He taught us the He had come to set the oppressed free. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/harrietcammock/message Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/harrietcammock/support
Detroit Is Over-Taxing Black Homeowners
January 17, 2020 16:17 - 56 minutes - 52.6 MBAfter failing to accurately bring down property values in the years following the #GreatRecession, Detroit overtaxed it’s homeowners by at least $600M, according to an investigation by The Detroit News. Many faced tax foreclosures. Of the more than 63,000 #Detroit homes with delinquent debt, more than 90% were over-taxed by an average of at least $3,700 between 2010-and 2016. Although Detroit City Hall completes a 2017 state-ordered reappraisal of every residential property to correct the pro...
Alcohol-Related Among Women Are on The Rise
January 16, 2020 15:57 - 51 minutes - 47.5 MBThat finding was among several troubling conclusions in analysis of death certificates published last week by the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse And Alcoholism. In fact, the rate of alcohol-related deaths amongst women rose 85% between 1999-2017. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/harrietcammock/message Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/harrietcammock/support
Working Class Americans Are Dying Of Despair
January 15, 2020 16:41 - 56 minutes - 52.7 MBWorking class Americans are dying from despair . Job losses due to globalization and automation have caused deaths related to #suicide #alcoholism and #drugs. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/harrietcammock/message Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/harrietcammock/support
Debtor’s Prisons Are Real. In Mississippi
January 15, 2020 03:45 - 47 minutes - 43.7 MBA recent report by the #TheMarshallProject revealed that #Mississippi, the poorest state in the nation locks up people for owing debt from 4 months up to 5 years. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/harrietcammock/message Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/harrietcammock/support
Is The #TalentedTenth Still Relevant To Black America
January 13, 2020 16:06 - 59 minutes - 55.1 MBCoined in 1903 by African American Scholar, sociologist, writer, and philanthropist, W.E Dubois, the #talentedtenth concept was the idea that 10% of African Americans had the opportunity for upward mobility through higher education. Consequently , this 10% were morally obligated to be the rising tide that lifted Black people out of their intended status as permanent second class citizens. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/harrietcammock/message Support th...
Why Are We Talking About Heaven So Much
January 12, 2020 15:54 - 46 minutes - 43.1 MBIs heaven real? Recently we discussed the story of 6 yr old Alex Malarkey, a boy who after narrowly surviving a car accident that left him a quadriplegic, became the center of a media storm when his father Kevin published a bestseller describe Alex’s experiences in ‘visiting heaven’. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/harrietcammock/message Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/harrietcammock/support
Gen X Women (born 1965-1980) Aren’t Getting Any Sleep
January 10, 2020 16:01 - 57 minutes - 53.6 MBMembers of Generation X report sleeping fewer hours per night than members of other generations, including Baby Boomers, Millenials, and Generation Z . --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/harrietcammock/message Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/harrietcammock/support
Inmates Are Dying In Mississippi Prisons
January 09, 2020 15:56 - 51 minutes - 47.3 MBOver the last week, Mississippi’s state prisons have exploded with gang warfare, riots, disorder, and killing. Despite the state having the third highest incarceration rates in the country, Mississippi’s state prions still experience extreme staff vacancies, a long record of violence, frequent inmate escapes, inadequate healthcare, and institutions where criminal gangs are tolerated. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/harrietcammock/message Support this po...
The Boy Who Came Back From Heaven
January 08, 2020 16:28 - 59 minutes - 55.1 MBA 6 yr old boy who had been involved in a car accident , told his father about a near death experience he had. The story eventually became a book which launched a genre of Christian publishing. The boy now grown up retracted his story by saying he never told his father that- --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/harrietcammock/message Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/harrietcammock/support
Older People Need Geriatricians; But Where Are They?
January 07, 2020 15:54 - 43 minutes - 40.5 MBA geriatrician is a physician who specializes in the care of older adults. These doctors monitor and coordinate treatment for ailments, disabilities, and medications their patients need, but also determine what’s most important for their well-being and quality of life. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/harrietcammock/message Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/harrietcammock/support
The #LGBTQ Split In The United Methodist Church
January 05, 2020 16:01 - 43 minutes - 20.1 MBUnited Methodist Church unveiled a plan for anew conservative denomination that would split from the church in an attempt to resolve a decades-long dispute over gay marriage and gay clergy. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/harrietcammock/message Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/harrietcammock/support
The Last Sunday Of The Decade
December 29, 2019 16:24 - 46 minutes - 21.3 MBAs we enter the last Sunday of the decade, we are both looking back and moving forward. We are looking back at the past, both grateful for the blessings, and understanding of the lessons. But we’re also looking to the future, receiving of good fortune, but are prepared for any ill that can befall us. How can we put forth a spirit of earnest gratitude while remaining equally hopeful and optimistic about our future? --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/harriet...
The Problem Of Homelessness In America’s Wealthiest State:
December 26, 2019 03:40 - 47 minutes - 21.7 MBBlack Californians who are descendants of the #greatmigration experience homelessness. What this reveals is the public policy initiative of #redlining: --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/harrietcammock/message Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/harrietcammock/support
The Last Christmas Of The Decade: The Perfect Time To Refelct
December 22, 2019 15:54 - 47 minutes - 43.6 MBOne of the single most effective things we can do to deepen our spiritual growth is to reflect on the impact that God and His scriptures have had on our lives. Reflection is more than just thinking about the past: it’s deliberate, thoughtful pondering of the works that God has performed on your life, and how those works transformed your life for the better. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/harrietcammock/message Support this podcast: https://podcasters.s...
#FreeChrystul: Chrystal Kizer accused of killing her #sextrafficker
December 20, 2019 15:59 - 48 minutes - 44.6 MBChrystal Kizer, a Black teenager from Kenosha, Wisconsin was just 16 yrs old when she met Randy Vilar a 33 yr old white man accused of trafficking and sexually abusing Black girls. Volatile sexually abused Chrystal multiple times and filmed each instance. Randy Volar was arrested and released despite evidence against him and remained free until Chrystal shot him. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/harrietcammock/message Support this podcast: https://podcas...
#Millennials Are Leaving ReligionAnd Not Coming Back
December 19, 2019 17:35 - 51 minutes - 23.7 MBMillennials, 23-38 are leaving religion and are not coming back. They seem to have a disconnect from organized religion and faith in general. At the same time organized religion is not understanding or trying to reach them, what does the future hold? --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/harrietcammock/message Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/harrietcammock/support
A Changing Healthcare Landscape: Overworked Emergency Room Doctors
December 18, 2019 16:03 - 31 minutes - 29.5 MBIn the typical emergency room, demand outpaces the care that workers can provide. Emergency rooms are meant to have open capacity to best handle large scale tragedies such as train wrecks, multiple car crashes, natural disasters, but traffic to a typical emergency room has been growing at twice the pace projected by the United States population growth, despite the Affordable Care Act. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/harrietcammock/message Support this p...
A new student loan proposed by U.S. Sec. of Education, Betsy Devos may alter #studentloandebt
December 18, 2019 15:55 - 49 minutes - 22.7 MBWith total outstanding loan balances standing at $1Trillion, politicians are looking for solutions . At a conference for financial aid, administrators of the Department of Education proposed an alternative: Income-share agreements, a private sector financial product that is popular among education start-ups in Silicon Valley. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/harrietcammock/message Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/harrietcamm...
#FastFashion Brand #FashionNova underpays factory workers
December 16, 2019 16:11 - 46 minutes - 43.1 MBThe online retailer #FashioNNova has perfected fast fashion for the Instagram era , relying on celebrities and Instagram users to post about the brand relentlessly. The company’s founder says it can get it’s clothes made in less than 2 weeks by manufacturers located not far from the company’s Los Angeles headquarters. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/harrietcammock/message Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/harrietcammock/support
Overcoming Your Personal Demons
December 15, 2019 15:53 - 47 minutes - 44.3 MBSometimes we are chained to the pain of the past. This prevents us from enjoying the present. Listen how to overcome your personal demons --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/harrietcammock/message Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/harrietcammock/support
The hypocrisy of neo-liberalism in a Maryland school district
December 13, 2019 18:00 - 1 hour - 55.6 MBThe community of Columbia, southwest of Baltimore,Maryland has prided itself on inclusion ever since it was founded over half a century ago.: racially integrated with affordable housing, ‘The Next America’ was its optimistic creed. However a recent proposal to balance the number rod low-income children enrolled in schools across Howard County (where Columbia sits) has led to bitter, divisive, resistance from the so-called ‘liberal’ residents. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcas...
Down To Earth With Harriet Cammock- Racism Is Alive ANd Well In The Banking Industry
December 12, 2019 16:18 - 29 minutes - 27.4 MBA Black JP Morgan employee and a Black wealthy customer secretly recorded their conversations with bank staff. It uncovered racism and a legacy of racism directed against Black customers despite their wealthy status. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/harrietcammock/message Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/harrietcammock/support
America’s infatuation with guns- #jerseycityshooting
December 11, 2019 17:28 - 28 minutes - 26.5 MBWe watched as another #massshooting unfolded. This time in an ultra-orthodox Jewishcommunity across the river from Lower Manhattan. When it ended. A police officer had been killed and 4 others, murdered. The shooting ended at a #kosher market where folks were shopping for groceries, a nearby school was placed on lockdown, and people were at a synagogue praying. It was a modern day gunfight at the Ok Corral, as people ran for cover . What is Americqa’s fascination with guns? --- Send in ...
Poor Healthcare means Poor People: Why Poor Healthcare is contributing to #deathsofdespair
December 10, 2019 16:33 - 28 minutes - 26.1 MBA newly published analysis of more than half a century of federal mortality data found an alarming increase in death rates among young people and people in midlife. The focus of the declining life expectancy in America has mostly been on the plight of rural white Americans dying from ‘deaths of despair’ or drug overdoses, alcoholism, and suicide. But while this study shows that people in midlife across all ethnicities are dying from deaths of despair, what it also shows is America’s glaring...
Student Loans And Politics
December 10, 2019 16:26 - 19 minutes - 18.4 MBThe legislation in Washington that is affecting your student loans. Why are some politicians reluctant to craft legislation holding colleges accountable for low graduation rates, not greeting a job after graduation and not being able to payoff student loans. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/harrietcammock/message Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/harrietcammock/support
Down To earth With Harriet Cammock: Student Loans & Politics
December 10, 2019 16:23 - 58 minutes - 54 MBThere is a wathere’d down legislation being proposed in Washington D.C. that would hold colleges and universities accountable to students for low graduation rates and not being able to find jobs after graduation. And paying off student loans. The legislation faces challenges from the #collegelobby who are advocating for a free market approach to higher education --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/harrietcammock/message Support this podcast: https://podc...
Why is the church radio silent on #racism #violence #injustice
December 08, 2019 15:56 - 28 minutes - 25.9 MBDecades ago, advocates would arise in the church and point out societal issues. Whil offering the solution of love and peace. Today, church leaders seem to be inclined to be Ceo a a part of the society rather than spreading the love of God. The church has become a reflection of the society , denying it’s charter and it’s mission. Why is the church silent on #violenceagainstwomen, #gunviolence and racism --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/harrietcammock/m...
Uber Reported 3,045 #sexualassault incidents on U.S. Rides in 2018
December 08, 2019 15:52 - 58 minutes - 54 MBUber reported 3,045 incidents of #sexualassault in 2018. In a move described by it’s chief legal officer in detailing the number of incidents, he described the findings a “reflection of the society we live in’. This places the blame at the hands of the perpetrators not at the company. Uber and other ride sharing operators, flouted regLatinos and gave anyone with a car, access to it’s driveling platform. Unbelievable. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/h...