Month: October 2020

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CBS News Roundup - World News Roundup: 10/08

Mike Pence and Kamala Harris face off over the virus, the economy and taxes. President Trump says it's a blessing from God that he got the virus. Louisiana braces for Hurricane Delta. CBS News Correspondent Steve Kathan has today's World News Roundup.

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How To Citizen with Baratunde - Building Bridges, Not Walls

Baratunde ignores the headlines about Chicago and heeds a listener’s advice to learn more about the South Side from a local artist who is building bridges in her community and literally helping people find common ground. Tonika Johnson helps us understand the pride that comes from being a Chicagoan and the root causes of today’s community struggles grounded in segregation and discrimination. Through her Folded Map Project, she is a perfect example of using art as a way to citizen.

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We are grateful to Tonika Johnson for joining us. 

Follow @TonikaJ on IG. You can learn more about The Folded Map Project at https://www.foldedmapproject.com/. 

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ACTIONS FOR THIS EPISODE.


Internal: (actions that help you reflect on your own emotions, opinions, and experiences regarding a particular issue)

Find your fold, as Tonika says. 

Whether you live in Chicago or not, there is a dividing line exacerbating racial and class segregation in our lives, and we want you to find it. 

First, reflect on your own neighborhood, and digitally identify and write down the following:

  1. The food you enjoy and the restaurants you support
  2. The neighborhood cultural institutions and local artists you appreciate
  3. The local businesses you depend on: grocery, bookshops, dry cleaners, etc.
  4. The local library and any programming it offers that you’re into
  5. The local news sources you rely on


Now, think about a neighborhood you hear about in the news that is in your city, but that you may not visit because it’s “bad” or “undesirable” or because it’s too nice and inaccessible to you. 


For that neighborhood, use the internet and social media to get to know it outside of media headlines using the questions below: 

  1. For the food you enjoy, find a restaurant in that neighborhood that you’d want to order from.
  2. Find and follow two local artists and one cultural institution to follow on social.
  3. Find and follow three local businesses that match the type you frequent in your neighborhood.
  4. Check out the corresponding library website and follow them on social media.
  5. Find one neighborhood news source from that neighborhood. Maybe there’s a podcast, online weekly, or social media account devoted to telling stories of that community.


We want you to become a better citizen of your neighborhood and your whole city. 


BONUS:

Listen to these two episodes of This American Life called “House Rules” that examine segregation in the U.S. https://www.thisamericanlife.org/512/house-rules 

Explore the history of redlining in your US city. This project by the Digital Scholarship Lab a the University of Richmond let’s you examine the New Deal HOLC (Home Owners’ Loan Corporation) maps which set the stage for so much segregation that persists to this day. https://dsl.richmond.edu/panorama/redlining/#loc=4/40.592/-104.228 


EXTERNAL: (actions that are public and require you to interact with or join others in your community)


For Chicago residents, use the Folded Map action kit to find your map twin. Submit your results. All this is at https://www.foldedmapproject.com/submit

If you know an educator, share the the story - https://www.foldedmapproject.com/video and sign up for more info on the curriculum currently in development.

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Bay Curious - Proposition 19: Property Tax Transfers

Proposition 19 would allow adults 55+, people living with severe disabilities, and victims of natural disasters to transfer their property tax assessment to another home. It would also close the so-called "Lebowski" loophole ... requiring people who inherit property to pay market rate tax assessment if they do not make the home their primary residence.

This episode is part of our Bay Curious Prop Fest series, which explores the 12 propositions on California's ballot. The series runs from Oct. 1-16, with new episodes dropping every. weekday.

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Reported by Joe Fitzgerald Rodriguez. Bay Curious is made by Olivia Allen-Price, Katrina Schwartz, Katie McMurran and Rob Speight. Additional support from Erika Aguilar, Jessica Placzek, Kyana Moghadam, Paul Lancour, Bianca Hernandez, Ethan Lindsey, Vinnee Tong and Michelle Wiley.

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The Intelligence from The Economist - More-civil discourse: Pence and Harris debate

That a housefly could steal the show at America’s only vice-presidential debate is telling, but a discussion with more substance than bombast was a welcome respite. Cuba is experiencing its worst food crisis in decades, and that at last may spur changes to its confused and market-distorting dual-currency system. And geopolitics sticks its beak into an enormous annual bird migration.

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The Best One Yet - “The $30/month Breakfast McClub” — McDonald’s new breakfast. Levi’s thrift store. Crispr’s Nobel Prize bump.

Levi’s shares popped 5% after earnings, but we are most focused on its new online thrift store for secondhand Levi’s. McDonald’s just added its 1st baked breakfast item in 8 years, so we’ve got a bold idea for Ronald: Breakfast Club. And gene-editing pioneer Crispr watches its stock jump 11% — doesn’t hurt when your co-founder just got a Nobel Prize in chemistry. $LEVI $CRSP $MCD Got a SnackFact? Tweet it @RobinhoodSnacks @TBOYJack @NickOfNewYork Want a shoutout on the pod? Fill out this form: https://forms.gle/KhUAo31xmkSdeynD9 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.
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NBN Book of the Day - Stephen Wall, “Reluctant European: Britain and the European Union from 1945 to Brexit” (Oxford UP, 2020)

In January 2020, the UK became the first country to leave the European Union after a troubled 47-year membership.

What was at the core of the country’s semi-detachment to the EU? Was the UK’s eventual inevitable or was it a tragedy of errors and misunderstandings borne of divergent political cultures? What does the future hold for the relationship?

In his new book Reluctant European: Britain and the European Union from 1945 to Brexit (Oxford UP, 2020), Stephen Wall provides unique insight with this narrative political history, having served in the foreign office from 1968, worked for two prime ministers, and ended his career as the UK’s Permanent Representative to the EU in Brussels then as head of the European policy for Tony Blair.

Tim Gwynn Jones is an economic and political-risk analyst at Medley Global Advisors.

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Short Wave - What Coronavirus Test Results Do — And Don’t — Mean

Even though we've been living with the pandemic for months, there's still lots of confusion about coronavirus tests and what the results do — and don't — mean. NPR correspondent Rob Stein explains the types of tests, when they are most accurate and how to make sense of the results.

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