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Thursday, September 28th, 2023   Stephen Bright and James Kwak are co-authors of The Fear of Too Much Justice: Race, Poverty, and the Persistence of Inequality in the Criminal Courts. Stephen Bright has been an advocate for death row inmates for four decades and was the long-time director of the Southern Center for Human Rights, where James Kwak is the immediate past chair. We do not have a level playing field between the prosecution and the defense. Inequality and injustice in the criminal legal system is made worse by the widespread lack of capable defense attorneys for poor people. If you're accused of a crime, a good lawyer can tell you what your rights are and can conduct an investigation to uncover new facts that might show your innocence. Unsurprisingly, over 90% of convictions are acquired through plea bargains, instead of through trials.    Listen to our first conversation with Stephen:  <a href= "https://www.futurehindsight.com/episodes/episode/stephen-bright">https://www.futurehindsight.com/episode/stephen-bright</a>    Follow James on Twitter:  <a href= "https://twitter.com/jamesykwak">https://twitter.com/jamesykwak</a>    Follow Mila on Twitter:  <a href= "https://twitter.com/milaatmos">https://twitter.com/milaatmos</a>    Follow Future Hindsight on Instagram:  <a href= "https://www.instagram.com/futurehindsightpod/">https://www.instagram.com/futurehindsightpod/</a>   Love Future Hindsight? Take our Listener Survey!  <a href= "http://survey.podtrac.com/start-survey.aspx?pubid=6tI0Zi1e78vq&ver=standard"> http://survey.podtrac.com/start-survey.aspx?pubid=6tI0Zi1e78vq&ver=standard</a>    Take the Democracy Group’s Listener Survey! <a href= "https://www.democracygroup.org/survey">https://www.democracygroup.org/survey</a>   Want to support the show and get it early?  <a href= "https://patreon.com/futurehindsight">https://patreon.com/futurehindsight</a>    Check out the Future Hindsight website!  <a href= "http://www.futurehindsight.com">www.futurehindsight.com</a>   Read the transcript here:  <a href= "https://www.futurehindsight.com/episodes/the-fear-of-too-much-justice-stephen-bright-james-kwak"> https://www.futurehindsight.com/episodes/the-fear-of-too-much-justice-stephen-bright-james-kwak</a>      Credits:  Host: Mila Atmos  Guests: Stephen Bright & James Kwak Executive Producer: Mila Atmos Producer: Zack Travis

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The Fear of Too Much Justice: Stephen Bright & James Kwak

Thursday, September 21st, 2023   Sara Schreiber is the Executive Director of America Votes, the coordination hub of progressive communities. We discuss expanding access to voting, modernizing elections, and getting out the vote up and down the ballot. The last three election cycles saw a real surge of voters: 46 million people who did not vote in the 2016 election, voted in 2018 or 2020. Unprecedented numbers of voter engagement and pro voter policies have also been implemented since 2016. New voters are young and diverse. More than half of them are 18 to 34; nearly half are people of color; and 56 percent of them are women. Although most of them think of themselves as independents, they are more progressive on the issues. They are in favor of abortion rights, gun violence prevention policies, and climate action. Democracy issues were also more salient in the election after the Dobbs decision. In the eighties, younger voters were not necessarily more progressive than older voters.  Follow Sara on Twitter:  <a href= "https://twitter.com/SchreiberSara">https://twitter.com/SchreiberSara</a>     Follow Mila on Twitter:  <a href= "https://twitter.com/milaatmos">https://twitter.com/milaatmos</a>    Follow Future Hindsight on Instagram:  <a href= "https://www.instagram.com/futurehindsightpod/">https://www.instagram.com/futurehindsightpod/</a>   Love Future Hindsight? Take our Listener Survey!  <a href= "http://survey.podtrac.com/start-survey.aspx?pubid=6tI0Zi1e78vq&ver=standard"> http://survey.podtrac.com/start-survey.aspx?pubid=6tI0Zi1e78vq&ver=standard</a>    Take the Democracy Group’s Listener Survey! <a href= "https://www.democracygroup.org/survey">https://www.democracygroup.org/survey</a>   Want to support the show and get it early?  <a href= "https://patreon.com/futurehindsight">https://patreon.com/futurehindsight</a>    Check out the Future Hindsight website!  <a href= "http://www.futurehindsight.com">www.futurehindsight.com</a>   Read the transcript here:  <a href= "https://www.futurehindsight.com/episodes/america-votes-sara-schreiber"> https://www.futurehindsight.com/episodes/america-votes-sara-schreiber</a>      Credits:  Host: Mila Atmos  Guests: Sara Schreiber  Executive Producer: Mila Atmos Producer: Zack Travis

America Votes: Sara Schreiber

Thursday, September 14th, 2023   Yoni Landau is the CEO and founder of Movement Labs, the founder of Contest Every Race, and a former White House Office of Management and Budget and Robert Reich staffer. We explore just how technology can empower our practice of democracy and enrich our civic action toolkit.   Think about your personal impact in terms of additionality – how much you’ve done that wouldn’t have otherwise been done. Movement Labs aims to make it easy for you to have an impactful volunteer experience. To be of more service would be to get involved at a very deeply local level. Down ballot, about 75% of elected offices go uncontested; when contested, 48% are winning their elections!   Follow Yoni on Twitter:  <a href= "https://twitter.com/ylandau">https://twitter.com/ylandau</a>    Follow Mila on Twitter:  <a href= "https://twitter.com/milaatmos">https://twitter.com/milaatmos</a>    Follow Future Hindsight on Instagram:  <a href= "https://www.instagram.com/futurehindsightpod/">https://www.instagram.com/futurehindsightpod/</a>   >Love Future Hindsight? Take our Listener Survey!  <a href= "http://survey.podtrac.com/start-survey.aspx?pubid=6tI0Zi1e78vq&ver=standard"> http://survey.podtrac.com/start-survey.aspx?pubid=6tI0Zi1e78vq&ver=standard</a>    Take the Democracy Group’s Listener Survey! <a href= "https://www.democracygroup.org/survey">https://www.democracygroup.org/survey</a>   Want to support the show and get it early?  <a href= "https://patreon.com/futurehindsight">https://patreon.com/futurehindsight</a>    Check out the Future Hindsight website!  <a href= "http://www.futurehindsight.com">www.futurehindsight.com</a>   Read the transcript here:  <a href= "https://www.futurehindsight.com/episodes/maximum-impact-volunteering-yoni-landau"> https://www.futurehindsight.com/episodes/maximum-impact-volunteering-yoni-landau</a>      Credits:  Host: Mila Atmos  Guests: Yoni Landau  Executive Producer: Mila Atmos Producer: Zack Travis

Maximum Impact Volunteering: Yoni Landau

Thursday, September 7th, 2023   Samuel G. Freedman is an award-winning professor of journalism at Columbia University and author of Into the Bright Sunshine: Young Hubert Humphrey and the Fight for Civil Rights. We dive into Humphrey’s activism in the proto civil rights movement and his role to include civil rights in Democratic Party platform in 1948.   Hubert Humphrey was a coalition builder. After his decisive win for mayor of Minneapolis, he put together a civil rights and human rights agenda that put Minneapolis on the national map as an example of what was best in America. He also engaged in deep work to change public attitudes. Humphrey understood as mayor that electing people to the council is crucial to passing laws. Pay attention to every race on the ballot! Follow Sam on Twitter:  <a href= "https://twitter.com/SamuelGFreedman">https://twitter.com/SamuelGFreedman</a>    Follow Mila on Twitter:  <a href= "https://twitter.com/milaatmos">https://twitter.com/milaatmos</a>    Follow Future Hindsight on Instagram:  <a href= "https://www.instagram.com/futurehindsightpod/">https://www.instagram.com/futurehindsightpod/</a>   Love Future Hindsight? Take our Listener Survey!  <a href= "http://survey.podtrac.com/start-survey.aspx?pubid=6tI0Zi1e78vq&ver=standard"> http://survey.podtrac.com/start-survey.aspx?pubid=6tI0Zi1e78vq&ver=standard</a>    Take the Democracy Group’s Listener Survey! <a href= "https://www.democracygroup.org/survey">https://www.democracygroup.org/survey</a>   Want to support the show and get it early?  <a href= "https://patreon.com/futurehindsight">https://patreon.com/futurehindsight</a>    Check out the Future Hindsight website!  <a href= "http://www.futurehindsight.com">www.futurehindsight.com</a>   Read the transcript here:  <a href= "https://www.futurehindsight.com/episodes/hubert-humphrey-and-civil-rights-samuel-g-freedman"> https://www.futurehindsight.com/episodes/hubert-humphrey-and-civil-rights-samuel-g-freedman</a>      Credits:  Host: Mila Atmos  Guests: Samuel G. Freedman Executive Producer: Mila Atmos Producer: Zack Travis

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