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1) Darius Charney, Senior Staff Attorney with the Center For Constitutional Rights, who was lead counsel on the case Floyd v. City of New York, a landmark federal civil rights class action lawsuit that found the New York City Police Department’s stop-and-frisk practices racially discriminatory and otherwise unconstitutional. He'll discuss the current wave of protests in response to the police murder of George Floyd -- and the work CCR is doing to advocate for reform of police departments, the criminal justice system and institutional racism.

2) Cas Mudde, Stanley Wade Shelton UGAF Prof of international Affairs, at the University of Georgia's School of Public and International Affairs, assesses the current wave of protests against police violence, President Trump's ordering the deployment of active-duty military forces to the U.S. capital, and growing concern about this government's authoritarian response -- and the danger it poses to constitutional rights and democracy. Mudde, whose latest book is titled, "The Far Right Today," and host of the podcast, RADIKAAL," will also touch on important points raised in his recent article, "The fight is on for progressives to push Biden to the left. They might just win."

3) Eugene Jarecki is an Emmy and Peabody award-winning director of dramatic and documentary films who has twice won the Grand Jury Prize at the Sundance Film Festival for “Why We Fight” (2005) and “The House I Live In” (2012.) He'll discuss his "Trump Death Clock,"which measures the cost in human lives of President Trump and his regime's reckless handling of the coronavirus pandemic, the response he's received -- and the larger issue of Trump's accountability for tens of thousands of coronavirus deaths.

4) Connecticut Black Lives Matter activist Rhonda Caldwell of Hamden Action Now and Kerry Ellington of People Against Police Brutality in New Haven, CT discuss their work organizing against local and national police violence, as well as structural and institutional racism. They'll focus on local cases they have organized around, including the police killing of Jayson Negron and Mubarak Soulemane -- and the shooting attack on Paul Witherspoon and Stephanie Washington, as the couple sat in their car near the Yale University campus in April 2019.

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