Imagining Structural Violence in the Age of Trump
May 17, 2020
Host Jim Vrettos and Forensic Psychiatrist Dr. Bandy Lee have a conversation about structural violence, its effects in the American society and how this presidency may have increased the range of it.
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The Radical Imagination
The Radical Imagination looks at radical alternatives of what the United States could be like, offering a safe space in which people can discuss what they imagine in order to transform the criminal justice system, economic system, political system, etc.; understanding that the same issues that...
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