The Quarantine Tapes

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The Quarantine Tapes 132: Antony Anderson Nov 12, 2020

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“Once there is that outreach to the police, we try to find solutions for that community member, even if it means directing them to find who can assist their problem, as opposed to stepping back and saying, ‘It’s not my problem’. Now that is critical to the relationship that exists and we build between our police officers and the community.”

The Quarantine Tapes 131: Alex Vitale Nov 11, 2020

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“What we need to do is we need to talk out to communities about what the specific public safety challenges are that they face...and then we need to look at whether or not we can come up with credible, non-police strategies to address those specific concerns.”

The Quarantine Tapes 130: Sonny Rollins Nov 10, 2020

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“Jazz is a music of freedom, as Sun Ra said, because we had to create, we had to fight, we had to struggle, we had to break down barriers.”

The Quarantine Tapes 129: Ruha Benjamin Nov 09, 2020

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“Informed refusal, to me, is a crucial dimension of power. You don’t have real power if you can’t refuse, if you can’t say no to something.”

The Quarantine Tapes 128: Suzanne Nossel Nov 03, 2020

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“The complete erosion of trust and truth in our country where no one knows what to believe...what will it take to restore faith in fact-based discourse? Because that has been substantially undermined.”

The Quarantine Tapes 127: Vivek Murthy Nov 02, 2020

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“The secret to connecting with other people is to deeply connect with ourselves.”

The Quarantine Tapes 126: Ed Yong Oct 30, 2020

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“I think, sadly, not enough attention is paid to preparedness in peacetime years. People go through these cycles of panic and neglect where a crisis hits, everyone freaks out, and the minute it’s over, attention to resources starts to dwindle and that’s exactly what we saw over the last several years. We’re even seeing it now in the middle of this outbreak where the pandemic isn’t even over and, already, people are relaxing into neglect.”

The Quarantine Tapes 125: George Gascón Oct 29, 2020

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“I went from that place of believing that what I was doing was on the right side of the angels, if you will, to understanding that there were not only limitations to the utility in what I was doing, but then understanding that, actually, so much of what I was doing was a part of a larger social, economic problem in this nation that preceded, certainly, me and really beginning to search for other ways to address these issues.”

The Quarantine Tapes 124: Slavoj Žižek Oct 28, 2020

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“We learned through Wikileaks and others how all our phone conversations, emails, and so on, were made available to state agencies or even to private agencies and so on and so on. I think that COVID just made us aware, or made it more visible, something that was already going on before.”

The Quarantine Tapes 123: Supervisor Sheila Kuehl Oct 27, 2020

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“Just the status of race in this country, it’s still aspirational for us, but I do think an awful lot of people are saying, 'I don’t think I ever quite understood. I’m taking this more seriously now'. At least, I hope that’s the case.”

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