Make It Plain MIP with Rev. Mark Thompson

Teachers, parents, and kids all have the DESIRE to go back to school, but only one thing matters: is it SAFE? Randi Weingarten is the President of the American Federation of Teachers (AFT) and her team has been working on a slew of back-to-school scenarios since April, and they have identified the three key things that need to happen BEFORE we can consider putting students, teachers, and administrators at risk. She outlines these important items and also gives us an update on what the Trump administration, and more specifically Betsy DeVos, has NOT done to prepare schools, budgets, or the people who rely on both. Executive Producer: Adell Coleman Producer: Brittany Temple Distributor: DCP Entertainment For additional content: makeitplain.com 

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There are 99 days until Election Day, and as Mark states plainly, "this is it." The Democratic Party is set to assemble virtually to officially nominate Joe Biden, and Chairman Tom Perez joins Mark to discuss strategy and what the convention will look like in this unprecedented format. As for the election itself, the Chairman says there is "no overconfidence" on the democratic side, as he thinks we took too much for granted in 2016 and does not want to see a repeat. He also touches on our chances of winning the Senate majority, and how the troubling events in Portland are a preview of "Trump's America" taking full form. Executive Producer: Adell Coleman Producer: Brittany Temple Distributor: DCP Entertainment For additional content: makeitplain.com 

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Dr. Brittney Cooper is an Associate Professor of Women, Gender, and Africana studies at Rutgers University, as well as the author of two books, "Beyond Respectability" and "Eloquent Rage." She's recently brought attention to the term "necropolitics," but it's more than just a buzzword, and that's what she's on the show to discuss today. Did you know that one in every 1,450 Black people have died from COVID-19? Not just the ones that contracted COVID-19, but out of ALL Black people living in the United States. Dr. Cooper says that's necropolitics in action--a system designed to bring Black people to premature deaths. Hear her incredible insight on this topic and more, including the things that are giving her hope right now, thoughts on Biden's VP pick and if he can afford to NOT pick a black woman, and how she hopes we'll reorganize the way we live in a post-coronavirus world. Executive Producer: Adell Coleman Producer: Brittany Temple Distributor: DCP Entertainment For additional content: makeitplain.com 

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If you've listened to #ThursdayKos before then you know that Markos Moulitsas, Founder of DailyKos and Civiqs, was once gung-ho for Elizabeth Warren getting on the Biden ticket. But now he's changed his mind, and there's a strategic reason for it. So, who should the VP pick be? He discusses that, the strategy behind it, and why the tactic that pushed Trump to success throughout his entire life is absolutely failing him now. Executive Producer: Adell Coleman Producer: Brittany Temple Distributor: DCP Entertainment For additional content: makeitplain.com 

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Eugene Jarecki is an award-winning director and filmmaker and he is also the creator of the Trump Death Clock. What's the Trump Death Clock, you ask? It's a real-time tally of the cost of human lives to coronavirus, aimed directly at Trump and his administration's reckless handling of the pandemic. Eugene believes that the American people need to demand more responsible leadership and this traveling clock draws direct attention to the consequences of Trump's inaction. In today's episode Eugene explains his initial motivation for the clock (hint: it's in Times Square in New York City), the history of presidential accountability, and what city the Trump Death Clock might end up in next. Executive Producer: Adell Coleman Producer: Brittany Temple Distributor: DCP Entertainment For additional content: makeitplain.com 

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The Rev. Robert R.A. Turner describes being attacked by anti mask protesters last Wednesday during his weekly Repentance & Reparations Rally at Tulsa City Hall. The Pastor of Historic Vernon Chapel AME Church explains why he is demanding reparations for the Greenwood Massacre--the 1921 bombing of Tulsa’s Black Wall Street. Executive Producer: Adell Coleman Producer: Brittany Temple Editor: Andrew Marshello Distributor: DCP Entertainment For additional content: makeitplain.com 

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At the annual Selma Bridge Crossing Jubilee in 2006, Rev. Mark mic'd John Lewis, so he could describe what happened every step of the way on Bloody Sunday. From Brown Chapel, where the March 7, 1965 march began to the other side of the Edmund Pettus Bridge, here is raw audio of John Lewis describing the 1965 March during the 2006 March. You will hear the voices of Martin Luther King, III and the SNCC Freedom Singers. Executive Producer: Adell Coleman Producer: Brittany Temple Editor: Ryan Woodhall Distributor: DCP Entertainment For additional content: makeitplain.com 

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Leshia Townsend, McDonald's worker AND agitator for a union at McD's, describes the company's war on its own workers and joins Allyn Umel of fightfor15.org to make the case for the Monday, July 20 Strike For Black Lives. j20strikeforblacklives.org Charisma Troiano of democracyforward.org reacts to Pompeo's July 16 speech, and updates on several lawsuits that have Trump hemmed up. Executive Producer: Adell Coleman Producer: Brittany Temple Distributor: DCP Entertainment For additional content: makeitplain.com 

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Rev. Jackson recounts the experience of his first act of civil disobedience as a part of the Greenville Eight at the Greenville, SC whites-only public library on July 16, 1960. Daily Kos Founder Markos Moulitstas talks Trump's dwindling numbers, Biden's ad buy in Texas, Sen. Doug Jones chances after Tuesday's primary and he urges Sen. Lisa Murkowski to leave the GOP. Executive Producer: Adell Coleman Producer: Brittany Temple Associate Producer: Ryan Woodhall Distributor: DCP Entertainment For additional content: makeitplain.com 

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What kind of power does your boss have over you? What does it mean, in this pandemic world, to think about the conditions under which we work? Are we even conscious of these conditions? This is what Mark explores today with Professor of Sociology and Author Erin Hatton. While researching her book, “Coerced: Work Under the Threat of Punishment,” Dr. Hatton interviewed four groups of people: prisoners, student athletes, welfare recipients, and graduate students. These groups are extremely different from one another, but they have a similar type of coercion, and that is what Dr. Hatton calls “status coercion,” where their bosses have punitive power over them if they refuse to comply with an order. And as our country is gripped by coronavirus, those people in power have even greater control over their workers, and it is becoming apparent just how many types of workers fall victim to status coercion. Is your boss coercing you? Listen to today’s episode and decide. Executive Producer: Adell Coleman Producer: Brittany Temple Distributor: DCP Entertainment For additional content: makeitplain.com 

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