I'm re-reading my 18-year-old essay on the ridiculous claims for
genetic predispositions to violence among Black children, and its
real world consequences, which I'm attaching .....
It dissects the way science is misused under Democrats as well as
Republicans to rationalize racist policies. Please give it a read and
let me know what you think!
Mitchel
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Here are several sketches -- interviews done in the course of recent
demonstrations -- from my new series, "Profiles of Protest in the
Trump Resistance Era" for WBAI radio / Pacifica.
<https://ia601500.us.archive.org/1/items/PROTESTATSCHUMERSPARKSLOPEAPT.20170131FINAL/PROTEST%20AT%20SCHUMER'S%20PARK%20SLOPE%20APT.%202017-01-31%20FINAL.mp3>PROFILES
OF PROTEST #6
14 minutes. Mitchel Cohen reports from a protest of more than 1,000
people who marched on Senator Charles Schumer's apartment in Park
Slope, Brooklyn, Tuesday night, condemning Schumer's votes in favor
of 3 of Trump's cabinet appointments, and demanding that Sen. Schumer
and other Democrats "join the resistance" and stop placating the
Trump administration and Wall Street.
<https://ia601508.us.archive.org/2/items/BATTERYPARKRallyAndMarch/BATTERY%20PARK%20Rally%20and%20March.mp3>PROFILES
OF PROTEST #5
12 minutes - Participants in the "No Hate, No Fear, Refugees are
Welcome Here!" rally and march of 18,000 people in New York City
Sunday, January 29, 2017, beginning in Battery Park.
<https://ia601503.us.archive.org/19/items/ProfileOneAnnieGrayGiftOfGod/Profile%20One%20-%20Annie%20Gray%20%26%20Gift%20of%20God.mp3>PROFILES
OF PROTEST #1
3:24 minutes - A wonderful 3 minute piece interviewing a couple of
90-year-olds at the women's march in NYC.
<https://ia601506.us.archive.org/15/items/ProfilesTWOMoreVoicesFromTheWomensMarch20170121/Profiles%20TWO%20-%20More%20voices%20from%20the%20Women's%20March%202017-01-21.mp3>PROFILES
OF PROTEST #2
This one sketches 3 women at the gigantic Women's march on January
21, 2017. Just 1:24 minutes ....
<https://ia801509.us.archive.org/15/items/ANTIINAUGURATIONNYCPROTEST20170120/ANTI-INAUGURATION%20NYC%20PROTEST%20%202017-01-20.mp3>PROFILES
OF PROTEST
<https://ia801509.us.archive.org/15/items/ANTIINAUGURATIONNYCPROTEST20170120/ANTI-INAUGURATION%20NYC%20PROTEST%20%202017-01-20.mp3>#3
From the streets of NYC's inauguration night protest, as thousands
marched from Foley Square down to Trump's building on Wall Street.
<https://ia801501.us.archive.org/0/items/ImmigrantRightsRallyWashingtonSquarePark02252017/Immigrant%20Rights%20Rally%20-%20Washington%20Square%20Park%2002-25-2017.mp3>PROFILES
OF PROTEST
<https://ia801501.us.archive.org/0/items/ImmigrantRightsRallyWashingtonSquarePark02252017/Immigrant%20Rights%20Rally%20-%20Washington%20Square%20Park%2002-25-2017.mp3>#4
Immigrant Rights Rally in Washington Square Park Jan. 25, 2017, with
3,000 people participating.
www.MitchelCohen.com
Ring the bells that still can ring, Forget your perfect offering.
There is a crack, a crack in everything, That's how the light gets in.
~ Leonard Cohen
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