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In this episode we discuss the role of institutional betrayal and institutional cowardice at Cornell. The Cornell (5)7 rape (alleged)  case has shown us one thing: that we need to ban money or men because we can't have both. The extreme wealth of Cornell means that they intended to protect the Epstein class and make sure they have a future to exploit the next generation, and that protection always favors men. This case also shows us the limits of women's ability to participate as rights-bearing fully equal citizens when they cannot even attend college without sexual violence. Stay furious and let's go. 

00:00:53 Talking about Cornell 7 Rapists (alleged) 

Welcome to this week's Campfire Episode of the Civic Flame. This week, we talk about the September 11, 2001, attacks. We look at where I was, how the world has changed, the 60 Words that Sent us into the Global War on Terror (GWot), and why Gen Z never lived in a world with civil liberties. Grab your stress blankets, because this one's tough. 

What happens when women simply divest from men? The 4 B movement is a South Korean originated feminist separatist movement that answers that question. Learn about 4B and why men need to start stepping up because women are stepping back. 

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What was the Kerner Commission Report, and why is it one of the most fundamental Congressional Reports in US history? Walk back to 1968 with us in this audience-requested episode about the report that changed the course of one of the most influential elections in US history and told the American public that we were moving towards two societies: one White and one Black. 

This week, we launch a new sub-series: Mother of Democracy that combines my work in women's health with my civics work. Trigger alert: we talk about rape, cults, and femicide, so this one is not family friendly. 

In our season finale of the Civic Flame, we look at a truly load-bearing amendment. The Fourteenth Amendment includes birthright citizenship, due process, privileges and immunities, equal protection, and more!

We go through the five sections of this game-changer and talk about how the Fourteenth Amendment fundamentally altered US citizenship and why todays' legal civil war is trying to attack it. Let's go!

00:00:55 The Fourteenth Amendment is a big deal

00:01:35 Section 1 of the 14th Amendment and Birthright Citizenship  

00:04:00 Birthright Citizenship and US v Wong Kim Ark

00:06:22 Privileges and Immunities were supposed to be a big deal

00:09:22 Due Process and Equal Protection are for persons not just citizens

00:12:00 The 14th Amendment and the Doctrine of Selective Incorporation

00:14:00 Right to an attorney and civil Gideon 

00:14:12 Section 2 of the 14th Amendment and representation

00:16:40 Section 3 of the 14th Amendment and the Insurrection Clause

00:19:33 We’re in a legal civil war

00:21:00 Section 4 of the 14th Amendment and refusal to pay the confederate traitors

00:24:50 Section 5 of the 14th Amendment and reaffirming Legislative Supremacy

00:26:00 Season one finale!

00:23:00 Thank you!

In this episode, we take a look at the 9th and 10th Amendment and talk about why most people are not reading the Constitution as radically as they should. We get all of the rights, that's just the purpose of federalism. Want to be a Constitutional radical, too? Let's go!

00:00:30 I’m a Constitutional Radical

00:00:52 The Bill of Rights was not a complete list

00:02:00 The Anti-Federalists and Federalists both wanted a government of limited powers

00:02:47 What does the Ninth Amendment say?

00:03:41 The Ninth Amendment deserves its time to shine!

00:05:04 What does the Tenth Amendment say?

00:05:35 Texans and the US Flag Code and when Vermont was its own country 

00:06:56 The Constitutional Revolution of 1937 alters federalism for the New Deal

00:08:01 Next time, we’ll start the 14th Amendment!

00:08:30 Thank you