June 3 – Texas Allows University Students to Carry Concealed Firearms in Classrooms; Co-Author of the Alarming Report on Police Shootings; “The Wages of Rebellion: The Moral Imperative of Revolt

Full Program

Part 1

We be begin with the bills passed this weekend by the Tea Party Republican dominated Legislature in Texas, one that will allow students and faculty at public universities in Texas to carry concealed handguns into classrooms, and another that allows the open carry of firearms in the rest of the state. Robert Jensen, a Professor in the School of Journalism at the University of Texas at Austin, joins us to discuss how he might deal with armed students who are angry at the grades he gave them, and the irony that these bills will come into effect exactly 50 years to the day after the nation’s first mass shooting on campus, the 1966 massacre of 16 and the wounding of 32 at the University of Texas, in Austin.

Part 2

Then we speak with the co-author of a new report at the Washington Post “Fatal police shooting in 2015 approaching 400 nationwide”, a report that led to the introduction of a bill in the Senate Tuesday by Senators Boxer and Booker, the Police Reporting of Information, Data and Evidence Act. Steven Rich, the database editor for the investigations unit who was a member of the reporting team awarded the Pulitzer Prize who also won the Robert F. Kennedy Journalism Award for social justice reporting, joins us to discuss his alarming report that exposes the need for a national database on police shootings.

Part 3

Then finally Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and author Chris Hedgesjoins us to discuss his latest book “Wages of Rebellion: The Moral Imperative of Revolt”, a powerful call to action that investigates what social and psychological factors cause revolution and resistance and what it takes to be a rebel in modern times.