The Drip
The racial revolution is ongoing. Join Kurtis and Patience to make sense of it. The Drip caters to the Black millennial audience and informs you of important developments in the fight against racism, while assessing decisions being made by our political leaders.Feel free to listen to Episodes 1-6, but Episode 7 is when we start consistently discussing the ongoing racial revolution.
The Drip
Episode 37 - The Proud Boys, GameStop and Curbing Private Prison Contracts
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Patience Adamu & Kurtis Vermont
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Season 2
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Episode 37
On this week’s episode, we discuss some of the top headlines from the week of January 24th, including: All MPs voting to add the Proud Boys to Canada’s terror list; The feds building a new process to hire more Black public servants; GameStop: Main street beating Wall Street at its own game; We lost a good one, Rest in Paradise Cicely Tyson; Black folks getting deported from Bali; Biden curbs private prison contracts to stem racial injustice.
Politics
- https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/proud-boys-terrorist-1.5888257
- https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/public-service-diversity-1.5887722?fbclid=IwAR2VcUNnj-8Qe74-xfHv3eYlnc7eqZHgZlxl6pi2fWobt-BKPMV9lKPxIGk
- https://www.canada.ca/en/treasury-board-secretariat/corporate/organization/centre-diversity-inclusion.html
- https://thecaribbeancamera.com/rejection-letter-sent-to-black-organizations-completely-unacceptable-hussen/?fbclid=IwAR2bk8KDJIAN9lnhOtp-tC8h-0hjDq9exN7tEDEzvJVYw7rAsbOAG-vNd2M
- https://ipolitics.ca/2021/01/26/ontario-sitting-on-billions-of-unspent-covid-relief-cash-report/?fbclid=IwAR3bvkokLA1cOWNVFTOei5Tqbl6vmWIWajJlFdIfvswqPja5A0O_-XipJOQ
- https://toronto.ctvnews.ca/ontario-spent-466m-less-on-healthcare-than-planned-ahead-of-covid-19-pandemic-1.5042104?cache=vpwzeytrnkqkdl
Economy
- https://markets.businessinsider.com/news/stocks/short-sellers-sitting-on-19-billion-of-losses-on-gamestop-data-shows-2021-1-1030020684
- https://globalnews.ca/news/7605149/jagmeet-singh-day-traders-problem-wall-street-gamestop-push/?fbclid=IwAR3Qr80fOzE7-JlUeDsVGxvFAL4T1pa6bB4I6vnMyLPMShSz9fsVhBGqsEw
- https://globalnews.ca/news/7593300/alberta-premier-keystone-xl-pipeline-compensation/
- https://globalnews.ca/news/7588853/biden-cancels-keystone-xl/
- https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/calgary/dale-swampy-indigenous-keystone-xl-national-coalition-1.588433
Blackity Black Black
- https://calgary.ctvnews.ca/calgary-figure-skater-shares-passion-for-skating-in-viral-video-1.5241985
- https://www.insider.com/bali-to-deport-american-expat-after-tweets-report-2021-1
World
- https://www.nytimes.com/2021/01/26/business/biden-private-prisons-justice-department.html
- https://apnews.com/article/joe-biden-race-and-ethnicity-prisons-coronavirus-pandemic-c8c246f00695f37ef2afb1dd3a5f115e