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SUMMARY:#TalkRadio – January 21: In the Spirit of Martin: Live from Brunswick and Trump Administration Begins & Our Opposition
DESCRIPTION:LISTEN LIVE\n			\n				\n				\n				\n				\n				January 21\, 2025: In the Spirit of Martin: Live from Brunswick and Trump Administration Begins & Our Opposition\n			\n				\n				\n				\n				\n				The nonpartisan “Igniting Change Radio Show with Barbara Arnwine\, Esq. and Daryl Jones\, Esq.” program will be aired from 12:00 p.m. to 1:00 p.m. Eastern Time (ET) on Radio One’s WOL 1450 AM in the Washington\, DC metropolitan area as well as nationwide on WOLDCNEWS.COM and Barbaraarnwine.com. \nPlease note\, during the show there are 3 hard stop commercial breaks at 12:13 PM Eastern Time\, 12:28 PM ET and 12:43 PM ET. \n			\n			\n				\n				\n				\n				\n				\n				\n				\n				\n				\n				SPEAKERS:\nCameron Barnes: 12:00 PM – 12:57 PM Eastern TimeNational Young Adult Policy Advocate; National Youth Director of Rainbow PUSH; TJC Fellow and Freedom Rider; Director of Youth & Young Adult Engagement\, New Faith MB Church Chicago \nMarcus Arbery: 12:00 PM – 12:25 PM Eastern TimeFather of Ahmaud Arbery and Glynn County Activist \nKimberly Cummings: 12:00 PM – 12:25 PM Eastern TimeAunt of Ahmaud Arbery and Glynn County Activist \nPorsché “Queen” Mitchell-Miller: 12:00 PM – 12:25 PM Eastern TimeCEO\, Embracing Ahmaud’s Pace \nDr. Karen McRae: 12:30 PM – 12:57 PM Eastern TimePresident & CEO\, Concerned Black Men of America \n			\n			\n				\n				\n				\n				\n			\n				\n				\n				\n				\n				\n				\n				\n				\n				\n				\n				INTRODUCTION: \n			\n				\n				\n				\n				\n				Part one of our show will feature guests Porsché “Queen” Mitchell-Miller\, and Kimberly Cummings\, and Marcus Arbery who will be recording live from Brunswick with Co-Hosts Jones and Arnwine at the jury selection for the Jackie Johnson trial. Cameron Barnes will also join this portion and the second part of the show. Jackie Johnson\, the former Brunswick Judicial Circuit District Attorney\, is set to stand trial for allegedly obstructing the investigation into Ahmaud Arbery’s killing. Johnson faces charges of violating her oath of office and hindering law enforcement officers. The trial comes more than four years after Arbery’s death\, which sparked nationwide protests over racial injustice. Johnson is accused of interfering with the investigation to protect Gregory McMichael\, a former investigator in her office\, and his son\, Travis McMichael\, who were involved in Arbery’s death. Jury selection for the trial is scheduled to begin soon\, with a larger-than-usual pool of 200 potential jurors due to the case’s notoriety. Read more here: https://www.cnn.com/2025/01/21/us/ahmaud-arbery-jackie-johnson-da/index.html \nKaren McRae will join as a Guest for Part 2. Part 2 will feature a discussion of the Biden Pardons\, the Trump Inauguration\, and the response to the threat of Mass Deportations in several states. \nPRESIDENT TRUMP’S DAY ONEOn Day One of his presidency\, President Trump signed executive orders freezing federal hiring and mandating a return to in-office work for government employees. The orders also reinstated Schedule F\, stripping some civil servants of employment protections. A new Department of Government Efficiency\, led by Elon Musk\, aims to reduce government spending and fire “rogue bureaucrats.” The hiring freeze applies to all executive branch positions except military\, national security\, public safety\, and immigration enforcement. Remote work arrangements are to end “as soon as practicable.” The freeze will not affect Social Security\, Medicare\, or Veterans’ benefits\, but remains for the IRS until deemed in the national interest to lift it. Additionally\, Trump dismantled some of Biden’s diversity\, equity\, and inclusion initiatives within the federal government. (source: https://www.axios.com/local/washington-dc/2025/01/21/trump-executive-orders-federal-hiring-freeze-remote-work?stream=top&utm_source=alert&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=alerts_dc ) \nSee the latest updates of President Trump’s executive orders here https://www.nytimes.com/live/2025/01/20/us/trump-executive-orders and here  \, which include but are not limited to: \n\n\nPardoning nearly all of the 1\,600 Jan. 6th Rioters and commuting the sentences of several others\, including people accused of low-level\, non-violent offenses that day and those who committed violence. Just hours after Trump’s sweeping Jan. 6 pardons were issued\, his new U.S. attorney in Washington\, Ed Martin\, started dismissing some cases stemming from the Capitol attack\, court papers show. One of the cases that Martin has moved to dismiss is the trial of Jared Wise\, a former F.B.I. agent charged with felony civil disorder and assault. Prosecutors say that Wise confronted officers at the Capitol\, calling them Nazis and encouraging a mob of Trump supporters to kill them. “Republicans cannot claim to be the party of law and order while pardoning and commuting the sentences of individuals who brutally assaulted law enforcement officers in service of a violent insurrection\,” said Representative Jerrold Nadler\, Democrat of New York\, adding: “These defendants were convicted by a jury of their peers for participating in an attack that included direct assaults on law enforcement\, vandalism\, trespassing\, and an attempt to overturn a free and fair election through the use of force.” By including Enrique Tarrio\, the former leader of the Proud Boys\, in his extraordinary pardons for the events of Jan. 6\, 2021\, President Trump granted clemency on Monday to a man whom prosecutors have described as a savvy\, street-fighting extremist who helped his compatriots in “Trump’s army” initiate an assault on the Capitol. Even before Jan. 6\, Mr. Tarrio was among the best-known far-right figures in the country\, having been involved in violent protests going back to the deadly neo-Nazi rally in Charlottesville\, Va.\, in August 2017. \n\n\n\n\nRevoking roughly 78 executive orders issued by President Biden\, including capping prescription drug prices. On the first day of his presidency in 2021\, Mr. Biden took an essentially opposite position than Trump did yesterday\, directing agencies to include sexual orientation and gender identity in any regulations and policies covering workplace discrimination\, formalizing protections for L.G.B.T.Q. workers. He extended those directions to schools and students last year. Elements of Mr. Trump’s orders were written to explicitly target education institutions\, rolling back actions taken during the Biden administration that extended protections under the Civil Rights Act of 1964\, incoming officials told reporters on Monday. The Biden administration had instructed schools that Title IX of the Civil Rights Act\, which protects students against discrimination based on sex\, afforded the same protections to transgender students against discrimination based on their gender identity. On his first day of office\, Mr. Biden unveiled a racial equity agenda after vowing during his inauguration speech to defeat “white supremacy.” Mr. Biden ordered agencies to take sweeping steps to address inequity in housing\, criminal justice\, voting rights\, health care\, education and economic mobility. His administration also created new offices\, like one dedicated to civil rights and environmental justice at the Environmental Protection Agency. Mr. Trump’s order specifically targets Mr. Biden’s “environmental justice” office and personnel for review. Mr. Trump’s first act in office was to rescind executive orders issued by Mr. Biden included ones he signed on his first day in office in 2021\, “advancing racial equity and supporting underserved communities” and “preventing discrimination on the basis of gender identity and sexual orientation.” The Trump official said that it was fitting that the administration was taking measures on the King holiday to reinstitute equal treatment by eliminating racial “preferences” and diversity programming. See the list of Biden’s Executive Orders that President Trump rescinded here: https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/01/initial-rescissions-of-harmful-executive-orders-and-actions/ \n\n\n\n\nRenaming the “Gulf of Mexico” to the “Gulf of America”; undid President Obama’s renaming of Mount McKinley; formed a “U.S. Board of Geographic Names”\, including circumventing Congressional approval by stating: “Where Congressional action is required to establish a renaming in public law\, following Board approval on renaming\, the Board shall provide guidance to all relevant Federal agencies to use the Board-approved name in the interim in federal documents and achieve consistency across the federal government.” https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/01/restoring-names-that-honor-american-greatness/ \n\n\n\n\nWithdrawing from the Paris Climate Agreement and the World Health Organization \n\n\n\n\nStalling the ban of Tik Tok for 75 days \n\n\n\n\nFederal officials shutting down a government app that allows migrants to schedule appointments to use ports of entry\, an option that almost a million immigrants used while it was active\, during Trump’s inaugural speech \n\n\n\n\nAn executive order defining birthright citizenship. The president cannot change the Constitution on his own\, but he has made it clear he wants to deny birthright citizenship\, which is guaranteed by the 14th Amendment\, to the children of noncitizens. The American Civil Liberties Union and other immigrant rights groups sued the Trump administration over its hours-old executive order to stop conferring citizenship to anyone born in the United States. The lawsuit was filed in New Hampshire. \n\n\n\n\nOrdering the head of the Department of Homeland Security to end a Biden-era program that allowed migrants fleeing from Cuba\, Nicaragua\, Haiti and Venezuela to fly into the United States and remain in the country temporarily\, part of a sweeping first-day crackdown on immigration. The program\, known as humanitarian parole and introduced by the Biden administration in early 2023\, allowed migrants from to fly into the United States if they had a financial sponsor and passed security checks. \n\n\n\n\nDeclaring a national emergency at the U.S.-Mexico border on Monday\, invoking special presidential powers that allow him to unilaterally unlock federal funding for border wall construction and potentially to deploy the military and National Guard to the border. Mr. Trump took a similar step during his first term as a way to circumvent Congress and access billions of dollars that lawmakers refused to approve to build a wall along the border with Mexico. He once again empowered the military to support the Border Patrol with logistical planning\, drone support and help procuring detention space. But in a separate order\, Mr. Trump appeared to go further by giving the military a specific responsibility over immigration enforcement. During Mr. Trump’s first term\, the military only supported immigration authorities but did not apprehend migrants. Mr. Trump now directed the Defense Department to come up with a plan in 30 days “to seal the borders and maintain the sovereignty\, territorial integrity\, and security of the United States by repelling forms of invasion\, including unlawful mass migration\, narcotics trafficking\, human smuggling and trafficking\, and other criminal activities.”   Congress is limited in what it can do to stop a president from using his emergency powers. Under the National Emergencies Act\, the House and the Senate can pass a joint resolution to end the emergency status if they believe that the president is acting irresponsibly or the threat has dissipated. The law says that if one chamber passes such a measure\, the other must bring it up in 18 days. But Republicans control both chambers of Congress\, making it extremely unlikely that Mr. Trump would face pushback from the legislative branch. He could also veto any joint congressional resolution terminating the national emergency. \n\n\n\n\nBeing in the process of removing “over a thousand” Biden administration appointees who had not already resigned\, President Trump stated in the first late-night social media post of his second term\, stating “YOU’RE FIRED”. \n\n\n\n\nPaul Ingrassia\, the newly appointed White House liaison to the Justice Department\, was outside the D.C. jail in a tuxedo and spoke to the crowd that had gathered in anticipation that Jan. 6 detainees could be released. \n\n\n\n\nOrdering his administration to gut policies instituted under the Biden administration to prevent sex discrimination and protect transgender Americans\, and dismantle federal programs that promote diversity\, equity and inclusion. Mr. Trump’s actions\, part of a blitz of orders that he signed on his first day in office\, assert that the government will now defend women against “gender ideology extremism” by reversing “efforts to eradicate the biological reality of sex.” They also call for ending D.E.I. programs and the “termination of all discriminatory programs” in the government\, including in federal employment practices. The executive orders included a mix of administrative measures\, such as changing government forms to include only two genders\, as well as assertions dismissing the validity of gender identity entirely. A gender identity other than the one assigned at birth\, an order said\, “reflects a fully internal and subjective sense of self” and “does not provide a meaningful basis for identification.” Under the orders\, the Office of Management and Budget and the Office of Performance and Personnel Management will coordinate on changing hiring practices\, ending equity-focused programs and grants and terminating “chief diversity officer” positions designated during the Biden administration. The orders deliver on Mr. Trump’s promise to eradicate what his allies consider to be “wokeism” in the federal government\, a term that conservatives use to describe racial justice and civil rights advocacy. They are part of an effort that he took up in his first term by rolling back policies boosting affirmative action and transgender rights. He acknowledged that he was being inaugurated on Martin Luther King Jr.’s Birthday and said he would “not forget” that he had gained support among Hispanic and Black voters in the November election. “We will forge a society that is colorblind and merit-based\,” Mr. Trump said. Mr. Trump ordered federal agencies to recognize a biological\, binary definition of sex — male or female and not interchangeable. The government will also eliminate references to gender identity in policy documents\, and will order that government-issued documents\, including passports and visas\, accurately reflect one’s biological sex. The order also prohibits the use of federal funds for any use promoting gender ideology through grants or other government programming\, as well as the use of public funding for transition-related medical procedures in prisons. Perhaps the most pointed part of the directive instructs agencies to protect “intimate single-sex spaces\,” such as prisons and rape shelters\, by denying access to transgender women. The Biden administration had instructed schools that Title IX of the Civil Rights Act\, which protects students against discrimination based on sex\, afforded the same protections to transgender students against discrimination based on their gender identity. Mr. Trump’s executive actions will undo that policy. The order directs his attorney general to release guidance stating that a Supreme Court decision in 2020 that cemented stronger civil rights protections to transgender workers does not apply to schools and their students\, echoing a ruling by a federal judge earlier this month. \n\n\n\n\nAt a rally on Sunday\, Mr. Trump reiterated his intent to minimize the role of the federal government in steering education policy\, saying that he instructed his pick for education secretary\, Linda McMahon\, to return much authority over the nation’s schools to state legislatures. In his previous administration\, Mr. Trump railed against efforts to teach children about slavery and his conservative allies supported the movement to remove books about race and gender from school libraries. He indicated on Monday that the enforcement power of the Education Department would be critical to bringing change to the nation’s schools. \n\n\n\n\nTerminating\, to the maximum extent allowed by law\, all DEI\, DEIA\, and “environmental justice” offices and positions (including but not limited to “Chief Diversity Officer” positions); all “equity action plans\,” “equity” actions\, initiatives\, or programs\, “equity-related” grants or contracts; and all DEI or DEIA performance requirements for employees\, contractors\, or grantees. This Order also requires an investigative report to see if any of these programs and positions become renamed “to preserve their pre-November 4th\, 2024 function”; all training materials; federal grantees who received Federal funding to provide or advance DEI\, DEIA\, or “environmental justice” programs\, services\, or activities since January 20\, 2021. Trump also seeks to keep informed and hear reports on the prevalence and the economic and social costs of DEI\, DEIA\, and “environmental justice” in agency or department programs\, activities\, policies\, regulations\, guidance\, employment practices\, enforcement activities\, contracts (including set-asides)\, grants\, consent orders\, and litigating positions. https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/01/ending-radical-and-wasteful-government-dei-programs-and-preferencing/ \n\n\n\n\nRestored the federal death penalty — although President Biden commuted the death sentences of all but three of the prisoners who were on the federal death row. Trump’s order also mandates the use of the death penalty in any case where someone is convicted of murdering a law enforcement officer or if an undocumented migrant is convicted of a crime that is eligible for the death penalty. \n\n\n\n\nCanada’s finance minister responded late Monday to President Trump’s statement that he was still planning to impose tariffs of 25 percent on Canadian goods on Feb. 1\, even though the new president did not immediately sign a tariff executive order after taking office earlier in the day. “Our country is absolutely ready to respond to any one of these scenarios\,” Dominic LeBlanc said. “We still continue to believe that it would be a mistake.” \n\n\n\n\nSigning an executive order to make border security a priority for the military\, a directive that could allow U.S. troops to assume a direct role in immigration enforcement and test longstanding legal limits on deploying armed forces on American soil. By declaring border security to be a priority for the military as a whole\, the president’s directive could put his administration on a collision course with laws intended to prevent presidents from using their power as commander in chief to turn the military against U.S. civilians. Mr. Trump’s order directs the defense secretary to make border security part of the mission of U.S. Northern Command\, sealing U.S. borders and “repelling forms of invasion including unlawful mass migration\, narcotics trafficking\, human smuggling and tracking\, and other criminal activities.” The order gives the defense secretary 30 days to come up with a plan for how to execute the mission. The directive does not specify exactly which branches of the armed forces ought to be deployed to aid in such a mission\, leaving those determinations to military leaders. The Posse Comitatus Act of 1878 forbids the use of armed forces for law enforcement purposes on U.S. soil\, unless Congress or the Constitution expressly authorizes it. While the prohibition is seemingly straightforward\, some have argued that its limits would not apply if service members were deployed inside the country for military purposes\, as opposed to law enforcement ones. The main exception to the Posse Comitatus Act is the Insurrection Act. The  more than 200-year-old law grants the president power to deploy the military domestically when faced with “unlawful obstructions\, combinations\, or assemblages\, or rebellion” that prevent the execution of federal or state laws. That broad power has been invoked about 30 times in U.S. history\, including by President Abraham Lincoln when seven Confederate states seceded\, and President Dwight D. Eisenhower to enforce the desegregation of schools in Little Rock\, Ark. Most recently\, President George H.W. Bush used it in 1992 to send troops into Los Angeles at the request of California’s governor in an effort to quell race riots that followed the police beating of Rodney King. Mr. Trump threatened to invoke the Insurrection Act during his first term to put down racial justice riots that broke out across the country after the killing of George Floyd\, an unarmed Black man\, by white police officers. The president also declared a national emergency on Monday to fund and outfit the military’s involvement in his deportation effort\, and augment the Department of Homeland Security’s efforts to obtain “complete operational control of the southern border of the United States.” The effort to prosecute the violent mob that ransacked the Capitol on Jan. 6\, 2021\, and the leaders of far-right groups who egged them on\, represented the biggest and most logistically complex investigation in the history of the Justice Department. President Donald J. Trump erased it in an instant on Inauguration Day. \n\n\n\n\nSigned an executive order suspending refugee resettlement in the United States\, picking up where he left off in his first term with his efforts to kill a program that offers safe harbor to people around the world facing threats and persecution. The order directs top leaders in the Department of Homeland Security and the State Department to issue a report to him every 90 days thereafter to allow him to assess whether the refugee program “would be in the interests of the United States\,” according to the order. Presidents have the power to single-handedly determine the number of refugees allowed into the country. Every year\, the president\, in consultation with Congress\, sets a numerical cap for refugee admissions that year. Since the refugee program began in earnest in 1980\, the annual cap has been high\, regardless of the party holding the White House. For example\, in his final year as president\, George W. Bush admitted around 60\,000 refugees in 2008 after setting a cap of 80\,000. President Joseph R. Biden Jr. slowly restored the refugee resettlement operation during his four years in office\, hiring more officers and prompting the opening of offices across the country to serve them. Around 150 offices opened as of last year. By 2024\, the United States had allowed more than 100\,000 refugees to enter the country\, the highest total in three decades. \n\n\n\n\nSigning an executive order stripping the security clearances of former intelligence officials who in 2020 signed a letter that said the spread of emails from Hunter Biden’s laptop had “the classic earmarks of a Russian information operation.” The order also revoked any security clearances held by John Bolton\, who served as a national security adviser in the first Trump administration\, but earned the president’s ire for publishing a book about his time in office. The executive order said Mr. Bolton wrote a “reckless” book that included sensitive information that should not have been published. The executive order\, first reported by Axios\, was the brainchild of John Ratcliffe\, Mr. Trump’s nominee to lead the Central Intelligence Agency\, according to two Trump administration officials. \n\n\n\n\nInvoking emergency power and national security\, Trump has issued an order barring asylum for people newly arriving at the Southern border. As a seemingly overlapping move\, it also says undocumented migrants are ineligible for asylum if they do not provide federal officials\, before entering the United States\, “with sufficient medical information and reliable criminal history and background information” for vetting. \n\n\n\n\nDirecting both the Department of Homeland Security secretary and the attorney general to make sure sanctuary jurisdictions are not given federal funds. The order also directs his leaders to encourage undocumented immigrants to leave the country and directs the Homeland Security Department to increase partnerships with local law enforcement on immigration enforcement. \n\n\n\n\nSigning an executive order challenging an international agreement the Biden administration had negotiated to try and stop large multinational corporations from booking profits in countries with low taxes. \n\n\n\n\nTrying to dramatically expand the use of expedited removal\, which does not afford full due-process hearings to undocumented migrants if they cannot prove they have been living in the United States for more than two years. Until now the government has used that authority only for people who were caught just after crossing the border\, and it is not clear if courts will deem it constitutional to use it much more extensively. \n\n\n\n\nDepartment of Government Efficiency has officially been established by executive order. The order changes the name of the United States Digital Service\, which was created in 2014 by former President Barack Obama to change the government’s approach to technology\, to the “United States DOGE Service.” The unit will have an administrator established in the executive office who will report to the White House chief of staff. In its first cuts\, Elon Musk’s non-governmental advisory group\, the Department of Government Efficiency\, or DOGE\, posted a screenshot on X of a deleted page for the Office of Personnel Management’s inter-agency council for chief diversity officers. The council advised agencies on diversity\, equity and inclusion programs. Trump on Monday promised the end of DEI practices in federal government and said hiring would be based on merit. “It begins\,” Musk said\, sharing the post by @DOGE on X. \n\n\n\n\nSetting in motion what is likely to be an eventual restoration of his first term ban on travel to the United States of citizens from several predominantly Muslim countries. He issued an order directing a 60-day study to come up with a list “identifying countries throughout the world for which vetting and screening information is so deficient as to warrant a partial or full suspension on the admission of nationals from those countries.” \n\n\n\n\nIssuing an order short-circuiting the security clearance vetting process for his White House staffers. Anyone on a list submitted by his White House counsel is to “immediately” be granted a Top Secret/Secure Compartmented Information-level clearance good for six months. \n\n\n\n\nFulfilling his promise to rescind former President Biden’s 2023 executive order on A.I. safety. The Biden order set safety standards for the use of artificial intelligence across the federal government. Trump’s executive order leaves a vacuum on federal A.I. regulations\, while some states and European nations have enacted laws to regulate the fast-growing technology that poses risks to national security and jobs. \n\n\n\n\nIssuing an executive order decrying the “weaponization” of the Justice Department instructs his attorney general to scour federal law enforcement agencies\, the Securities and Exchange Commission\, and the Federal Trade Commission for any indications of political bias in work conducted under the Biden administration. The same executive order instructs the director of national intelligence to conduct a similar review of intelligence agencies. Both reviews will culminate in a report to the White House and recommendations for “remedial action.” The executive order does not give a time frame for the reviews or reports. The order also makes unclear what type of review will be conducted — an ethics investigation like the kind often undertaken by the Justice Department’s inspector general\, or a criminal inquiry mounted by prosecutors. It also leaves vague what it means by the stated goal to “ensure accountability for the previous administration’s weaponization of the Federal government against the American people.” The executive order\, titled “ending the weaponization of the federal government\,” begins with a list of misleading accusations against the Biden administration for what Mr. Trump has long claimed to be unfair use of the criminal justice system against him\, his supporters and conservatives generally. The language of the document suggests — but does not explicitly state — that the Trump administration review will examine the actions of local district attorneys or state officials\, such as the district attorneys in Manhattan or Fulton County\, Ga.\, or the New York attorney general\, all of whom filed cases against President Trump. \nMore reading: https://www.whitehouse.gov/news/  \nThis show will be one of many in which we will highlight TJC’s affirmative agenda for 2025 and 2026. \n\n\n			\n				\n				\n				\n				\n				QUESTIONS: \n			\n				\n				\n				\n				\n				PART 1 OF SHOW- 12:00 – 12:25 PM Eastern Time with guests Porsché “Queen” Mitchell-Miller\, Kimberly Cummings\, Marcus Arbery\, and Cameron Barnes \n[The show will begin with a short tribute to Martin Luther King Jr. and by encouraging people to: go to VotingRightsAlliance.org/2025Pledge to sign onto our 2025 Voting Rights Pledge;”] \nPart one of our show will feature guests Porsché “Queen” Mitchell-Miller\, and Kimberly Cummings\, and Marcus Arbery who will be recording live from Brunswick with Co-Hosts Jones and Arnwine at the jury selection for the Jackie Johnson trial. Cameron Barnes will also join this portion and the second part of the show. Jackie Johnson\, the former Brunswick Judicial Circuit District Attorney\, is set to stand trial for allegedly obstructing the investigation into Ahmaud Arbery’s killing. Johnson faces charges of violating her oath of office and hindering law enforcement officers. The trial comes more than four years after Arbery’s death\, which sparked nationwide protests over racial injustice. Johnson is accused of interfering with the investigation to protect Gregory McMichael\, a former investigator in her office\, and his son\, Travis McMichael\, who were involved in Arbery’s death. Jury selection for the trial is scheduled to begin soon\, with a larger-than-usual pool of 200 potential jurors due to the case’s notoriety.  \n\nWhat are your one-minute final thoughts to our listeners?\nThank you for all of your hard work. How do our listeners get in contact with you?\n\nPART 2 OF SHOW- 12:30 – 12:57 PM Eastern Time with guests Cameron Barnes and Dr. Karen McRae \n[Karen McRae will join as a Guest for Part 2. Part 2 will feature a discussion of the Biden Pardons\, the Trump Inauguration\, and the response to the threat of Mass Deportations in several states. ] \nIn short summary of the nearly 48 executive orders Trump issues and the near 78 executive orders from President Biden that Trump revoked: \n\n\nJan. 6th Pardons and Case Dismissals: President Trump pardoned nearly all Jan. 6th rioters\, including Enrique Tarrio\, and commuted sentences for others\, leading to case dismissals by his new U.S. attorney in Washington. \n\n\nRevoking Biden’s Executive Orders: Trump revoked 78 executive orders from Biden’s administration\, including those related to racial equity\, LGBTQ protections\, and environmental justice. \n\n\nGeographic Renaming: Trump renamed the Gulf of Mexico to the Gulf of America and formed a U.S. Board of Geographic Names to manage such changes. \n\n\nParis Climate Agreement and WHO Withdrawal: Trump withdrew the U.S. from the Paris Climate Agreement and the World Health Organization. \n\n\nImmigration Crackdown: Trump ended a Biden-era program allowing migrants from specific countries to temporarily stay in the U.S. and declared a national emergency at the U.S.-Mexico border to fund border wall construction. \n\n\nBirthright Citizenship and Refugee Resettlement: Trump issued an executive order to redefine birthright citizenship and suspended refugee resettlement in the U.S. \n\n\nFederal Death Penalty Restoration: Trump restored the federal death penalty\, mandating its use for crimes involving the murder of law enforcement officers or certain crimes by undocumented migrants. \n\n\nSecurity Clearance Revocations: Trump revoked security clearances of 51 former intelligence officials who signed a letter about Hunter Biden’s laptop and former national security adviser John Bolton. \n\n\nEnding DEI Programs: Trump terminated DEI\, DEIA\, and environmental justice programs and positions\, and ordered an investigation into their prevalence and costs. \n\n\nWeaponization of Federal Agencies: Trump issued an executive order to investigate political bias in federal law enforcement and intelligence agencies\, targeting actions taken under the Biden administration. \n\n\n[What’s your number one action that you would recommend that our listeners do to be involved in 2025? \nWhat are your favorite resources that you recommend that people utilize during this time? \nWhere do people go to get the best information? \nWhat activities are planned in 2025 that you hope our listeners will be engaged in?] \nWhat are your one-minute final thoughts to our listeners? \nThank you for all of your hard work. How do our listeners get in contact with you? \n[TJC will continue to vigorously defend the rights of all Americans and will fight the implementation of Project 2025 and our future shows will continue to cover any hate crimes and how we effectively protect ourselves while advancing our agenda for justice.] \n[Daryl and Barbara may share their favorite books and encourage people to donate towards TJC’s giveaways of banned and affirming books.]
URL:https://barbaraarnwine.com/event/talkradio-january-21-2025/
LOCATION:News Talk Radio 1450
CATEGORIES:Martin Luther King Jr.,News Talk Radio1450
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SUMMARY:#TalkRadio – December 31: Perspectives on The Year 2024
DESCRIPTION:LISTEN LIVE\n			\n				\n				\n				\n				\n				December 31\, 2024: Perspectives on The Year 2024\n			\n				\n				\n				\n				\n				The nonpartisan “Igniting Change Radio Show with Barbara Arnwine\, Esq. and Daryl Jones\, Esq.” program will be aired from 12:00 p.m. to 1:00 p.m. Eastern Time (ET) on Radio One’s WOL 1450 AM in the Washington\, DC metropolitan area as well as nationwide on WOLDCNEWS.COM and Barbaraarnwine.com. \nPlease note\, during the show there are 3 hard stop commercial breaks at 12:13 PM Eastern Time\, 12:28 PM ET and 12:43 PM ET. \n			\n			\n				\n				\n				\n				\n				\n				\n				\n				\n				\n				SPEAKERS:\nThe Honorable Louis A. Elisa II: 12:00 PM – 12:57 PM Eastern TimeTransformative Justice Coalition Board Member; Boston Black Covid Coalition Member; National Black Emergency Alliance Member; served as the Executive Secretary of the Seaport Advisory Council\, Director of Port Development for the Commonwealth of Massachusetts\, Office of the Lieutenant Governor\, from 2007-2015; appointed the United States Permanent Representative to the Senior Civil Emergency Planning Committee (SCEPC)\, North Atlantic Council and Advisor for Civil Emergency Planning (CEP) to the U.S. Ambassador at NATO\, Brussels Belgium \nAtty. Terry O’Neill: 12:00 PM – 12:57 PM Eastern TimeCurrent Board Secretary of the Transformative Justice Coalition; former President of the National Organization for Women (NOW); Former Host of the podcast What Equality Looks Like; LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/terry-o-neill-3076303/  \nProf. Ernest J. Quarles\, Esq: 12:10 PM – 12:57 PM Eastern TimeProfessor at John Hopkins University and African American Policy Forum Board Member \nMakayla Myers: 12:00 PM – 1257 PM Eastern TimeTransformative Justice Coalition-certified Voting Rights Advocate & Alumni\, September 2024 Class; Full time student\, Community College of Philadelphia\, Majoring in Public Health; Community Education as a Youth Commissioner (Mayoral Appointee) for City of Philadelphia’s Office of Youth Engagement; In Partnership with City Commissioners Office; Vice President & Political Action Chair of NAACP PA State Conference\, Youth & College Division; NAACP Fired Up 2024 Cohort; President of the Youth Council & Adult Branch Executive Committee Chair for NAACP Philadelphia; Black Voters Matter Partner; Canvassed in low-propensity neighborhoods\, door-knocked\, community education; Students Learn Students Vote; Phone bank & Canvass Volunteer w/ PA Democrats; President of Black Girls Vote\, Community College of Philadelphia Chapter; Young Black Voters for Harris\, volunteer/Policy & Social Media Committee Member #CCPVotes Volunteer; this includes tabling\, voter registration\, update/change registration\, voter education\, student engagement\, speaking/presenting to classes\, handing out literature\, requesting absentee ballots\, etc.; Founder of Stars of Giving\, an youth-led org focused on volunteerism\, education\, and mentorship; What I Wish I Knew Foundation x Students Demand Action “Motion Conference” Voter Education Keynote Speaker; African American Policy Forum \n			\n			\n				\n				\n				\n				\n			\n				\n				\n				\n				\n				\n				\n				\n				\n				\n				\n				INTRODUCTION: \n			\n				\n				\n				\n				\n				Hi Igniters For Change! The Igniting Change Radio Show on Tuesday\, December 31st\, 2024\, from 12:00 PM – 1:00 PM Eastern Time (11:00 AM – 12:00 PM Central Time)\, entitled “Perspectives on The Year 2024”\, will be live with Radio Show Co-Hosts and Transformative Justice Coalition (TJC) Co-Leaders Attorneys Barbara Arnwine\, Esq. and Daryl Jones\, Esq. and special guests Atty. Terry O’Neill; the Honorable Louis A. Elisa II; Prof. Ernest J. Quarles\, Esq.; and\, Makayla Myers. Our show will feature perspectives from some of our nation’s foremost thinkers regarding the challenges\, follies\, and achievements of 2024. We will discuss many of the major happenings during the year including race and Election 2024; the Supreme Court of the United States’ misadventures and horrible decisions\, such as the Grants Pass decision even in the face of rising homelessness; the fight for 100% Justice for Ahmaud Arbery; TJC’s “I’ll Rise and Vote” Voter Activation and Education initiatives; the impact of voter suppression; gun control and school shootings; the impact of natural disasters; Project 2025; the attacks on Diversity\, Equity\, and Inclusion (DEI); the rise of AI; the battle to rename the Francis Key Scott Bridge; Gen Z and Young Millennial leadership; the Black homeless man Jordan Neely being choked to death on the subway and his killer being set free; Body cam footage now showing NY prison guards brutally beating inmate Robert Brooks who later died; and\, so much more.  \n			\n				\n				\n				\n				\n				QUESTIONS: \n			\n				\n				\n				\n				\n				[This show will start with a recognition of New Year’s Eve and Kwanzaa]  \n\nIf you could sum up the year in one word\, what would that word be?\nWhat did you think was the most significant development in 2024 and why?\nMakayla\, what do your peers think was the most significant development for 2024? \nWhat policies were enacted in 2024 that will have the most lasting impact?\nWhat do you think was the most egregious and the best US Supreme Court decision and why? (Grants Pass\, Presidential Immunity\, Chevron Doctrine\, etc)\nWhat do you think people paid too much attention to that will historically turn out to be insignificant? \nWhat do you think people didn’t pay enough attention to that will historically turn out to be incredibly significant?\nWho were the major figures that passed away this year and what do you think the impact of their presence no longer being with us means for our future? \nWho rose to prominence and what do they mean for our future?\nWho do you think should have been the Times Person of the Year?\nDespite the failure of the American media to cover this subject\, climate change was a major international issue. What were some of the most important international agreements reached to address climate change?\nOne major failing in 2024 was in the area of criminal justice reform. Indeed it caused severe miscarriages of justice\, such as the Black homeless man Jordan Neely being choked to death on the subway and his killer being set free; Body cam footage now showing NY prison guards brutally beating inmate Robert Brooks who later died; and\, others. What was the most significant\, affirmative development of racial justice? What was the worst?\nWhat would you recommend our audience do to prepare for 2025?\nWhat are your goals in 2025 and for the midterm elections?\nHow can our listeners get involved in your work? \nWhat are your one-minute final thoughts to our listeners?\nThank you for all of your hard work. How do our listeners get in contact with you?\n\n[TJC will continue to vigorously defend the rights of all Americans and will fight the implementation of Project 2025 and our future shows will continue to cover any hate crimes and how we effectively protect ourselves while advancing our agenda for justice.] \n[Daryl and Barbara may share their favorite books and encourage people to donate towards TJC’s giveaways of banned books.]
URL:https://barbaraarnwine.com/event/talkradio-december-31-2024/
LOCATION:News Talk Radio 1450
CATEGORIES:Martin Luther King Jr.,News Talk Radio1450
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SUMMARY:#TalkRadio – December 10: Power and Justice: The Jackie Johnson Hearing and Ahmaud Arbery; The False Equivalency of Pardon Power; and\, Upcoming TJC National TeleTown Hall
DESCRIPTION:LISTEN LIVE\n			\n				\n				\n				\n				\n				December 10\, 2024: Power and Justice: The Jackie Johnson Hearing and Ahmaud Arbery; The False Equivalency of Pardon Power; and\, Upcoming TJC National TeleTown Hall\n			\n				\n				\n				\n				\n				The nonpartisan “Igniting Change Radio Show with Barbara Arnwine\, Esq. and Daryl Jones\, Esq.” program will be aired from 12:00 p.m. to 1:00 p.m. Eastern Time (ET) on Radio One’s WOL 1450 AM in the Washington\, DC metropolitan area as well as nationwide on WOLDCNEWS.COM and Barbaraarnwine.com. \nPlease note\, during the show there are 3 hard stop commercial breaks at 12:13 PM Eastern Time\, 12:28 PM ET and 12:43 PM ET. \n			\n			\n				\n				\n				\n				\n				\n				\n				\n				\n				\n				SPEAKERS:\nNone at this moment\, stay tuned to the show for special guests. \n			\n			\n				\n				\n				\n				\n			\n				\n				\n				\n				\n				\n				\n				\n				\n				\n				\n				INTRODUCTION: \n			\n				\n				\n				\n				\n				Hi Igniters For Change! The Igniting Change Radio Show on Tuesday\, December 10th\, 2024\, from 12:00 PM – 1:00 PM Eastern Time\, entitled “Power and Justice: The Jackie Johnson Hearing and Ahmaud Arbery; The False Equivalency of Pardon Power; and\, Upcoming TJC National TeleTown Hall”\, will be live with Radio Show Co-Hosts and Transformative Justice Coalition (TJC) Co-Leaders Attorneys Barbara Arnwine\, Esq. and Daryl Jones\, Esq. \nAs we were writing this show description\, word broke of the passing of the amazing poet Nikki Giovanni. This show will begin with a tribute to her far ranging impact on the Black consciousness movement and the modern poetry movement. Daryl and Barbara will also share their favorite books and encourage people to donate towards TJC’s giveaways of banned books \nThis broad ranging show will also examine the ongoing public debates about the use of presidential and prosecutorial power. We will start this discussion with a segment previewing the upcoming motions hearing on December 11th in Glynn County\, Georgia in the Jackie Johnson case regarding her alleged abuse of prosecutorial power by protecting the killers of Ahmaud Arbery. Co-Hosts Arnwine and Jones will be in attendance in support of Marcus Arbery and family during these hearings. The major trial of the case is set to start on January 21st\, 2025. As promised four years ago\, TJC will continue to be in this fight until there is 100% Justice for Ahmaud Arbery.  \nThis radio show will also focus on the intriguing and often controversial topic of presidential pardons. We will explore this history of presidential pardons\, especially some of the most notable and contentious uses of this executive power\, starting with President Joe Biden and ending with the Confederacy and George Washington. To guide our discussion\, we will talk about the origin of the pardoning power which is a holdover from the English unilateral power of the monarchy to grant mercy. The President was never meant to be a king; still\, this regal power was bestowed upon the President. Some of the questions to be discussed include: \n\n\nWhy has the Biden pardon generated such heated controversy? \n\n\nWhat has been the history of U.S. presidential pardons? \n\n\nWhat have been some of the most controversial presidential pardons? \n\n\nThere have been many calls for President Biden to further exercise his presidential pardon power. What in the views of our Hosts are some of the most important pardons that should be granted by the President? \n\n\nThis topic will begin with the recent controversy surrounding President Joe Biden’s use of the pardon power to protect his son\, Hunter Biden. Biden’s decision has reignited discussions about the role of presidential pardons in the justice system and their potential for abuse (Politico\, December 4\, 2024)1. In looking at the background of presidential pardons\, we will look at past pardons of President-Elect Donald Trump. During his presidency\, Donald Trump granted clemency to several individuals. Here are some notable pardons: \n\n\nMichael Flynn – Former National Security Adviser who pleaded guilty to lying to the FBI over contacts with a Russian official. \n\n\nRoger Stone – Trump ally convicted of lying to Congress regarding his attempts to contact WikiLeaks after the website released damaging emails about Trump’s 2016 election rival Hillary Clinton \n\n\nPaul Manafort – Former Trump campaign chairman convicted of financial fraud\, alleged Russian meddling in the 2016 U.S. election\, and conspiring to obstruct the investigation \n\n\nCharles Kushner – Father of Trump’s son-in-law Jared Kushner\, convicted of tax evasion and witness tampering \n\n\nSteve Bannon – Former Trump adviser charged with fraud related to a border wall fundraising campaign \n\n\nGeorge Papadopoulos – Former Trump campaign adviser convicted of lying to the FBI about his contacts with Russian intermediaries prior to the 2016 election \n\n\nAlbert Pirro – The ex-husband of Trump ally Jeanine Pirro\, a Fox News Channel host\, convicted of conspiracy and tax evasion charges \n\n\nRod Blagojevich – Former Illinois governor convicted of corruption for trying to sell Barack Obama’s vacated U.S. Senate seat. Trump commuted his sentence \n\n\nLil Wayne (Dwayne Michael Carter Jr.) – Rapper convicted on firearms charges \n\n\nJoe Arpaio – Former Arizona sheriff convicted of criminal contempt of court for defying a court order to stop racial profiling in detaining individuals suspected of being in the U.S. illegally \n\n\nThese pardons were part of the 237 acts of clemency Trump granted during his four years in office\, which included 143 pardons and 94 commutations12. \n(Sources on Trump’s Pardons: 1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pardon_of_Joe_Arpaio   2: https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/controversial-arizona-sheriff-joe-arpaio-pardoned-president-trump/story?id=49426093 ) \nWe then look at President Barack Obama’s commutation of Chelsea Manning’s sentence. Manning\, a former Army intelligence analyst\, was convicted of leaking classified documents. Obama’s decision to commute Manning’s 35-year sentence after seven years in prison was seen as a significant and controversial use of his pardon power (NBC News\, January 17\, 2017)3. \nThe show will delve further into the historical context of presidential pardons by looking at the scandalous Iran-Contra affair which happened during the Ronald Reagan presidency. The scandal involved senior officials secretly facilitating the sale of arms to Iran\, which was under an arms embargo\, and using the proceeds to fund Contra rebels in Nicaragua. The subsequent pardons issued by President George H.W. Bush for key figures in the scandal added another layer of complexity to the use of presidential pardons (PBS\, date not specified)4. \nWe will revisit the pardon of Richard Nixon by President Gerald Ford. This pardon\, granted shortly after Nixon’s resignation in the wake of the Watergate scandal\, remains one of the most controversial in American history. Ford’s decision was intended to help the nation heal\, but it also sparked a significant backlash and debate over the limits of presidential power (Constitution Center\, September 8\, 2024)5. \nAdditionally\, we will discuss the pardon of Roger Clinton\, the brother of President Bill Clinton. This pardon\, granted on the last day of Clinton’s presidency\, raised questions about nepotism and the ethical implications of pardoning close relatives (Washington Post\, December 4\, 2024)6. This was the first time a relative had been pardoned by a sitting president. \nWe will also explore the pardons issued to former Confederates after the Civil War. Both Abraham Lincoln and Andrew Johnson extended pardons to ex-Confederates\, with Johnson issuing a blanket pardon to all Confederate soldiers on December 25\, 1868. These actions were aimed at promoting national reconciliation but were met with varying degrees of acceptance and criticism (Politico\, December 25\, 2018)7. Andrew Johnson’s pardon led to impeachment proceedings. \nFinally\, on the historical context of pardons\, we will examine the first presidential pardon issued by George Washington. In 1795\, Washington pardoned two men sentenced to hang for their involvement in the Whiskey Rebellion\, an early test of the new government’s authority. This pardon set a precedent for the use of executive clemency in the United States (Smithsonian\, August 29\, 2017)8. \nJoin us as we navigate the complex and often contentious history of presidential pardons\, exploring the motivations behind these decisions and their impact on American society. This is a show you won’t want to miss! \n1: Politico\, December 4\, 2024 https://www.politico.com/news/magazine /2024/12/04/biden-presidential-pardon -controversy-00192404  2: NorthJersey\, December 3\, 2024 https://www.northjersey.com/story/news /2024/12/03/who-did-donald-trump -pardon-jan-6-rioters/76730573007/ 3: NBC News\, January 17\, 2017 https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news /president-obama-commutes-chelsea -manning-s-sentence-n708046  4: PBS\, date not specified https://www.pbs.org/wgbh /americanexperience/features/reagan-iran/  5: Constitution Center\, September 8\, 2024 https://constitutioncenter.org/blog/the -nixon-pardon-in-retrospect  6: Washington Post\, December 4\, 2024 https://www.washingtonpost.com/history /2024/12/04/roger-clinton-pardon/  7: Politico\, December 25\, 2018 https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/us-presidents-pardoned-family-members/  8: Smithsonian\, August 29\, 2017 https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/full-list-of-us-presidents-who-have-pardoned-relatives/ar-AA1v7qsx  \nWe will conclude this segment with pardons Ci-Hosts Arnwine and Jones feel President Biden should make prior to his leaving office. \nLastly\, we will discuss the programming that the Transformative Justice Coalition is constituting to address and de-escalate this rising hateful violence. On Monday\, December 16th\, 2024\, TJC will sponsor its next National TeleTown Hall at 7:00 PM Eastern
URL:https://barbaraarnwine.com/event/talkradio-december-10-2024/
LOCATION:News Talk Radio 1450
CATEGORIES:Martin Luther King Jr.,News Talk Radio1450
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SUMMARY:Martin Luther King Jr. Birthday - TJC and Partners’ National Day of Action\, Monday\, January 15th\, 2024
DESCRIPTION:Transformative Justice Coalition’s call for a Day of Action consistent with the theme of the 95th Anniversary of the birthday of Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. The King Center’s theme for 2024 is  “Shifting the Cultural Climate through the Study and Practice of Kingian Nonviolence”. \nSince November 20th\, 2023\, TJC has been covering the disastrous ruling of the 8th Circuit in Arkansas NAACP vs. Arkansas Board of Apportionment\, which bars private citizens and organizations the ability to file racial discrimination cases in voting under Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act. Prior to the Holiday Break\, TJC and its partners formed an organizing convening group to help create national awareness about this threat to our voting rights and to pursue a strategy to win this battle. Based on this work\, TJC and its Partners are issuing a Call To Action for the 2024 MLK Day. \n  \nPhoto credit: Wikipedia
URL:https://barbaraarnwine.com/event/martin-luther-king-jr-birthday-tjc-and-partners-national-day-of-action-monday-january-15th-2024/
CATEGORIES:Martin Luther King Jr.
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