4th of July Special Episode: What's Patriotism Got to Do with It?

Excerpt from this episode: "It’s the 4th of July, and I know a lot of folks out there aren’t feeling very patriotic, and I completely empathize. It’s difficult to feel patriotic given what is happening at the border, with reproductive rights, and when there are military tanks rolling down the streets of DC that took over $2.5 million dollars away from protecting our parks, but I digress. One of the reasons I wanted to do a fourth of July podcast episode is because I wanted to touch on a few issues that are keeping many in our country from fully participating in our democracy, like gerrymander and voter suppression, and how the biases in our political reporting is damaging to our discourse, but I also wanted to this episode to touch upon something that should inspire you just a bit. In 488 days, we have a change once again, set the tone of what we want out of this country. And I don’t know about you, but I’m going to save my sparklers for Nov 3rd, 2020. In this episode, I speak with Meg Heckman. Meg is an assistant professor of journalism at Northeastern University. I also speak with Rebecca Sive, author of Vote Her In: Your Guide to Electing Our First Woman President (2018). But first I speak with Ben Williams. Ben a Legal Analyst and serves as the lead for the Princeton Gerrymandering Project's research and organizational partnerships." Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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4th of July Special Episode: What's Patriotism Got to Do with It? is an episode from OBSCENE by Maya Contreras and Ellen Novak.

This episode is 61:19 long.

This episode was published on Jul 4, 2019.

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