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America Dissected

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America Dissected

Incision Media LLC

Politics, News, Society & Culture

4.64.4K Ratings

🗓️ 20 August 2024

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Summary

Environmental injustice leaves too many Americans, mainly Black and brown, breathing air that has been poisoned by smokestacks too close to their homes and schools. Abdul reflects on the process that drives it. Then he sits down with Darren Riley, CEO of JustAir, a company working to build air monitoring networks across hard hit communities, about how to leverage tech for environmental justice. This show would not be possible without the generous support of our sponsors. America Dissected invites you to check them out. This episode was brought to you by: Marguerite Casey Foundation: Sign up for their new Summer School program at CaseyGrants.org/SummerSchool. Liquid I.V.: Turn your ordinary water into extraordinary hydration with Liquid I.V.® Get 20% off your first order of Liquid I.V.® when you go to liquidiv.com and use code DISSECT at checkout. Henson Shaving: Go to https://hensonshaving.com and enter AD at checkout to get 100 free blades with your purchase. (Note: you must add both the 100-blade pack and the razor for the discount to apply.) Article: Check out their spring and summer home collection at article.com/AD. Make sure to use promo code AD at checkout to save $50 off your first purchase of $100 or more.

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America Disected is brought to you by Marguerite Casey Foundation who wants you to know that while some folks worry about the threat of fascism in the United States

0:06.3

Many are already living it. Across the country organizers are being labeled terrorists for fighting for the sanctity of life in Palestine, the health of our planet at Standing Rock, and against the expansion of the prison industrial complex at Cop City.

0:19.0

The stakes could not be higher, and those who care about freedom, especially funders, need to understand the history

0:24.6

of how we got here and the role we can play in helping fuel multiracial coalitions that can

0:29.4

fight the forces of fascism. Be part of the solution. Register now to join Margaret Casey Foundation

0:34.4

Summer School, Building a People and Planet-centered Future. Together, Summer School

0:39.2

Participants will hear from visionary organizers, activist scholars, and experts, and get political education

0:45.4

that has the power to spark the solidarity necessary for creating a future focused on the

0:51.0

well-being of people and the planet.

0:53.0

Sign up today to join Margaret Casey Foundation Summer School at Casey grants.org

0:57.0

slash summer school, that's C-A-S-E-Y-G-R-A-N-T- S dotorg slash Summer School. The WHO declares Empocks, a global health emergency, again.

1:17.0

Medicare unveils the results of negotiations for the first 10 prescription drugs.

1:21.0

The Democratic Vice Presidential nominee had two children via IVF, setting up a political

1:26.2

showdown over access to the critical reproductive technology.

1:29.9

This is America Seced.

1:30.9

I'm your host, Dr. Abdul Al Sayin.

1:33.0

Take a deep breath.

1:40.0

Now take another one. Right now that air is traveling down your

1:48.4

lungs into specialized sacks surrounded by blood vessels called alveoli. There oxygen moves from the air in your

1:54.3

lungs into your blood where it'll hit your ride on a special molecule called

1:57.4

hemoglobin to travel to all of your body's tissues. Meanwhile, your blood is

2:01.8

offloading the carbon dioxide your body produced in the process of breaking

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