In This Episode
This Election Day episode is dedicated to voting rights with Faiz Shakir, National Policy Director for the ACLU, and journalist Ari Berman. The news crew discusses gun violence and voting rights, and Jonathan Greenblatt, CEO of the Anti-Defamation League joins DeRay to talk about the recent 67% rise in anti-Semitic hate crimes and what the ADL is doing about it.
Show notes:
WaPo: The persistent crime that connects mass shooters and terror suspects: Domestic violence
Vox: Watch: Samantha Bee on why “abused women are the canary in the coal mine for mass shootings”
NYT: Air Force Error Allowed Texas Gunman to Buy Weapons
HuffPo: Make Your Voice Heard. Go Vote In Tuesday’s Local Elections.
MotherJones: How Voter Suppression Threw Wisconsin to Trump
ACLU: LET PEOPLE VOTE: REMOVING RESTRICTIONS AND BARRIERS TO VOTING IN AMERICA
ACLU: People Power
ADL: ADL Data Shows Anti-Semitic Incidents Continue Surge in 2017 Compared to 2016