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🗓️ 7 December 2021
⏱️ 119 minutes
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Adaner Usmani joins Weekends to explain why fighting racial inequality today depends on forging a working-class coalition, and why race-based solutions to inequality are ultimately a dead end.
Weekends with Ana Kasparian and Nando Vila features free-flowing and humorous commentary on current events and political strategy. This is the podcast version of the show from December 3, 2021.
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0:00.0 | Welcome to Weekends, Anna Kasparin and Nando Vila. Yes, Nando Vila, live in the flesh. |
0:21.9 | He's back baby. He's back baby. Back baby. Back in the saddle again. Back in black, like |
0:28.8 | I never left. I missed you guys so much. We missed you. We missed you. It was great to still |
0:35.7 | have your decodes, prerecorded decodes while you were away, but it's even better to have |
0:40.0 | you here, of course. There's not the same energy, you know? Like when it's live, I do the |
0:45.3 | decodes with like usually what I prerecorded the decodes I'm doing them late at night. |
0:49.8 | Poor kale is like up to like three in the morning with me doing the decodes and I'm just |
0:54.7 | like I'm not as, you know, Friday mornings, baby, I'm ready to go. Let's go. Let's |
0:59.1 | yeah, freaking go. Let's go. And today's show is bananas. We're going to have a donner |
1:05.6 | who's money to join us to discuss the, you know, criminal justice reform, the incarceration |
1:13.3 | rate and also the big debate that I'm always uneasy to get into because it's so fierce. |
1:20.4 | Class versus race, there was a great essay written in the latest episode, episode the latest |
1:26.4 | edition of catalyst. So we're going to get into the details of that. Our decode segments |
1:32.7 | are fantastic. Nando's going to get into a little international news. I'm going to talk |
1:37.9 | about Biden's relationship to the Carlisle group and why it is a complete nutter disaster. |
1:42.3 | It's going to be awesome. Really looking forward to it. Yeah. Some corruption at home and |
1:46.8 | some corruption abroad. Exactly. Yeah. Yeah. But before we get to all of that, kale brought |
1:54.0 | a story to our attention that I think is worth doing, especially as we're learning more |
1:58.8 | about the Omicron variant of coronavirus and as Americans are getting more and more, I |
2:06.1 | guess, they're getting urged. Let me put it that way to go get their booster shots if |
2:10.1 | they've already been fully vaccinated. And look, there is, of course, an issue with |
2:15.2 | the fact that we rely on pharmaceutical companies and a healthcare industry that puts priority, |
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