The Michael Slate Show, Fri., 8/26; Become a Friend of Revolution Books!

We Recommend - Received in an email:  THE MICHAEL SLATE SHOW Friday, Aug. 26th,  10 - 11 AM, KPFK, 90.7 FM Or Listen Live at kpfk.org This week on The Michael Slate Show:   ___________________________________________________   BRANDON L. GARRETT, author of Convicting  the Innocent: Where Criminal Prosecutions Go  Wrong, examined the records of 250 people who  were exonerated by DNA evidence after spending an average of 13 years in prison, including  seventeen who were on Death Row. He shows  that the wrongful convictions were not exceptions,  but resulted from practices that the courts rely on  every day. Brandon Garrett is a professor at the  University of Virginia School of Law.     ALISON WEIR, on "Israeli Video  Games in Gaza," exposing the war  crimes committed with drones in  recent attacks against Palestinians.  A pro-Israeli writer bragged, "With  the possible exception of the United  States, Israel is the country most  closely identified with UAV [drone]  operations in the post-World War II  period." Alison Weir is president of  the Council for the National Interest  and executive director of  If Americans Knew.  Pictured above: Islam Quraiqe, killed by Israeli  drone on his second birthday. ____________________________________ Thank you! to all who called in or went online to contribute last week during  the Summer Fund Drive. Thank you all for your support of The Michael Slate Show  and KPFK. ___________________________________ Listen, Download, or Subscribe to past shows by going to www.kpfk.org. Click on  "Audio Archives," and scroll down to the date of the show you want. You can click the "Download" link to download, or the Podcast button, to download or subscribe.    Please send any comments to michaelslate@redfuture.com.  You Can't Change the World  If You Don't Know the BAsics! "No more generations of our youth, here and all around  the world, whose life is over, whose fate has been sealed,  who have been condemned to an early death or a life of  misery and brutality, whom the system has destined for oppression and oblivion even before they are born. I say  no more of that."  1:13 [Read more] Check out the whole Special issue [here] at revcom.us.  Come to a discussion Thursday, 8/25, 7 pm.    Have an hour or two?  Volunteer now to help take this out on campuses for the  next couple of weeks! Ready...Set...BAsics Plan to Shake Up and Wake Up the Campus It is a time of churning in the world. All of this objectively is counterposed to  people's belief in the permanent necessity of existing conditions-and potentially  constitutes fertile soil for questioning, for seeking answers to why things are the  way they are, and whether they can be different. At this moment, more than ever, the world needs and is ready for BAsics-as a critical and leading edge of a whole  revolutionary ensemble, to crack all of this open, to spark and foster much-needed  political and intellectual ferment, to bring these questions to the fore, to shake up  and wake up the campuses, to forge a revolutionary pole and a different ethos.   [Read on]

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