'BradCast' 6/19/2023 (Recounted: Theeda Murphy of No Exceptions Prison Collective on the 13th Amendment loophole allowing involuntary servitude)
On today's 'BradCast':\xa0 In honor of today's Juneteenth federal holiday, we're highlighting our previous interview with criminal justice advocate THEEDA MURPHY, Co-Director of the No Exceptions Prison Collective, a non-profit, grassroots initiative based in Nashville, TN. In this interview recorded days before the 2022 midterm elections, Murphy explains how voters in Alabama, Louisiana, Tennessee, Oregon and Vermont have an opportunity to amend their state constitutions to remove language that allows prisoners to be subject to involuntary servitude and forced labor, a modern-day version of slavery. Murphy explains the history of the post-Civil War Thirteenth Amendment, which abolished slavery 'EXCEPT as a punishment for crime,' how it has been disproportionately exercised against Black Americans, and how state-level propositions can be used to build a movement in Congress and nationally to remove the Thirteenth Amendment loophole allowing involuntary servitude. Also today: Florida's Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis enacted yet another ban on freedoms, forcing his far-right ideology onto others by signing a bill barring public colleges and universities from investing in programs that promote diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI).\xa0 DeSantis' Big Government book bans have resulted in the state school board rejecting textbooks about the Holocaust. The Wisconsin state Supreme Court overturned a lower court decision, ruling that hospitals cannot be forced to administer unproven COVID 'treatments' like ivermectin.\xa0 Plus Desi Doyen has our latest 'Green News Report.'