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Social Action Briefing
by Jessica Mitchell and Craig Milch
What's going on, why it matters, and what we can do about it.
Episodes
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Social Action Briefing - Episode 58
In what amounts to our Season 2 Finale, Professor Jessica Mitchell and Craig Milch participate in a special episode produced by Martina Stephenson on her last day as SAB's official Social Work Intern. They commemorate Mental Health Awareness Month, review this past season, how often topics...
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Social Action Briefing - Episode 57
Professor Jessica Mitchell, Martina Stephenson, and Craig Milch discuss Biden's 2024 announcement, the debt ceiling and cuts to Medicaid, Tucker Carlson's ouster at Fox News, more (!) SCOTUS ethics violations, FL surgeon general's covid lies, housing first in NYC, and attacks on civil rights in...
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Social Action Briefing - Episode 56
This week, Professor Jessica Mitchell, Martina Stephenson, and Craig Milch discuss Clarence Thomas, NYS bail reform and budget talks, the social work licensing exam, new NYS judge nominees, abortion and trans medical care bills in CO, MO, and FL, Black maternal health, a ban of the study of…
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Social Action Briefing - Episode 55
Professor Jessica Mitchell, Martina Stephenson, and Craig Milch are back together to record, coincidentally after Trump has (finally) been indicted. They discuss the indictment, the elections in Wisconsin and Chicago, new SCOTUS ethics rules, the next shadow docket-like procedure SCOTUS...
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Social Action Briefing - Episode 54
In her last interview for Women's History Month, Martina Stephenson speaks with health and wellness coach Vanessa Farrell (vihealthcoaching.com) about her background, health coaching, challenges women face in taking care of their heart health and overall wellness, easy and helpful changes, what...
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Social Action Briefing - Episode 53
This week Martina Stephenson continues to honor Women's History Month and celebrates International Women's Day by welcoming back Nicole Tarangelo LMSW to the podcast to have a wide-ranging conversation about contraception and the disproportionate burden placed on women to prevent pregnancy.
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Social Action Briefing - Episode 52
Martina Stephenson kicks off Women's History Month and National Disability Awareness Month by interviewing teacher, advocate, social work student Marc Esposito about his background, how he found his way to social work, working with differently abled clients, Haitian American model and disability...
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Social Action Briefing - Episode 51
In this final edition of this year's series of Black History Month interviews, Martina Stephenson speaks to Corey Grant (@coreyg_21) of Granted Access Production (@granted_access_production) about his career as an actor, producer, and educator, the importance of storytelling, and what it means to...
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Social Action Briefing - Episode 50
In the next edition of our series of Black History Month interviews conducted by Martina Stephenson, Randy Ficklin, MSW, CASAC-T returns to talk about the meaning of Black history, who inspires them, social work in Black history, Clarence 13X, the Nation of Islam, the Nation of Gods and Earth…
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Social Action Briefing - Episode 49
This week, Professor Jessica Mitchell and Craig Milch discuss the State of the Union, voting rights and the possible mooting of Moore v. Harper, a democracy voucher proposal in New Hampshire, the potential abortion pill ban, and the pride of Nassau County, George Santos.
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Social Action Briefing - Episode 48
In the first of a series of interviews for Black History Month, Martina Stephenson speaks with Franks Deceus (@deceusart on Instagram). They discuss Franks’ background, challenges faced as an aspiring Black artist, the nature of success, what the day-to-day artistic process looks like, art's...
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Social Action Briefing - Episode 47
Professor Jessica Mitchell, Martina Stephenson, and Craig Milch talk about the embarrassment that is NY state politics, Alabama's election-denying SOS, the ongoing water crisis in Jackson, MS, the ongoing assault on trans rights, police accountability, and 4-day weeks.
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Social Action Briefing - Episode 46
Professor Jessica Mitchell, Martina Stephenson, and Craig Milch discuss the new House, a Hochul immigration rights veto, Brittney Griner, Dana White, the first death penalty execution of a trans person in US history, abortion pill prosecutions in Alabama, and both information and financial literacy.
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Social Action Briefing - Episode 45
Professor Jessica Mitchell, Martina Stephenson, and Craig Milch are back to discuss GOP disarray while trying to elect a Speaker of the House, Biden's judicial nominees, Republican voter fraud, Governor Hochul appointments, Senator Murray's election as Senate President Pro Tempore, developments...
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Social Action Briefing - Episode 44
This week, Professor Jessica Mitchell and Craig Milch discuss the Georgia runoff, the problem with the rail labor dispute narrative, this week's SCOTUS cases, another instance of Republican voter fraud, the need for Black teachers, Baltimore utilizing a trauma-informed approach, Hochul's signaled...
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Social Action Briefing - Episode 43
Professor Jessica Mitchell and Craig Milch are back from hiatus to rejoin Martina Stephenson. They discuss the election results, redistricting, the white power movement's infiltration of politics, the railroad labor dispute, a foreign policy opportunity for Biden, involuntary hospitalization in...
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Social Action Briefing - Episode 42
This week, Martina Stephenson speaks to Nicole Tarangelo, LMSW about the Michael Valva case, mandated supporting, and needed changes in education to support the movement to abolish the child welfare system and replace it with true support to families.
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Social Action Briefing - Episode 41
This week, Martina Stephenson spoke with Randy Ficklin, MSW, CASAC-T, a forensic mental health specialist. They had a personal and insightful conversation about systemic racism, mass incarceration, education, and related topics.
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Social Action Briefing - Episode 40
Professor Jessica Mitchell and Craig Milch discuss the ongoing midterm elections, inflation, voter suppression, SCOTUS on the verge of (again) overturning decades of precedent, and every instance of Rainbow Fentanyl being given to trick-or-treaters (SPOILER ALERT: there were none).
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Social Action Briefing - Episode 39
This week Professor Jessica Mitchell, Martina Stephenson, and Craig Milch discuss legal challenges to Biden's student debt relief, the impending debt ceiling hostage situation, Republican hypocrisy, redistricting, attempts to outlaw slavery in 2022, Britney Griner, and American shootings.
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Social Action Briefing - Episode 38
This week Professor Jessica Mitchell, Martina Stephenson, and Craig Milch discuss SCOTUS developments, Republicans' plans if they win the House, a particularly disgusting example of GOP hypocrisy, DeSantis' racist fascism, fake stuff (vandalism, defund the police arguments, and internal police...
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Social Action Briefing - Episode 37
This week Professor Jessica Mitchell, Martina Stephenson, and Craig Milch discuss the slate of election deniers running in the November midterm elections, the rally against/Hochul investigation of anti-LGBTQ discrimination at a Long Island school district, racism from Alabama's Senator Tuberville...
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Social Action Briefing - Episode 36
This week Professor Jessica Mitchell, Martina Stephenson, and Craig Milch discuss the AL voting rights case before SCOTUS, Republican hypocrisy, employment discrimination, NY school reclassification, creepy menstruation monitoring in FL, and more Dobbs collateral damage.
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Social Action Briefing - Episode 35
This week Professor Jessica Mitchell, Martina Stephenson, and Craig Milch discuss fascism at home and abroad, an important climate treaty, the medical system's treatment of people who do and/or potentially can give birth, and a case of extreme neglect in the prison system.
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Social Action Briefing - Episode 34
This week Professor Jessica Mitchell, Martina Stephenson, and Craig Milch provide an update on water crises and discuss 14th amendment disqualifications, election chicanery in GA and FL, Alvin Bragg's hypocrisy, and Suicide Prevention Month.
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Social Action Briefing - Episode 33
This week Professor Jessica Mitchell and Craig Milch welcome the newest edition to the podcast, Martina Stephenson. They discuss the student debt loan forgiveness program, the water crises in Jackson, MS and Pakistan, Women's Equality Day, suffrage, and the fallout of Dobbs, the recent racist...
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Social Action Briefing - Episode 32
We're back from summer vacation! This week, Professor Jessica Mitchell and Craig Milch talk about Biden's newly announced student debt relief, the recently (finally) enacted climate, healthcare, and tax fairness reconciliation bill, this week's election results, and a NY state wrongful…
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Social Action Briefing - Episode 31
This week, Professor Jessica Mitchell and Craig Milch talk about SCOTUS continuing its effort to turn the United States into a white Christian nationalist hellscape, Cassidy Hutchinson's 1/6 testimony, this week's elections, gun and school meal legislation, and student debt.
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Social Action Briefing - Episode 30
Professor Jessica Mitchell and Craig Milch discuss the January 6th committee, potential federal gun safety legislation, how a few different states are approaching homelessness, Texas abortions, and the NYC budget.
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Social Action Briefing - Episode 29
Professor Jessica Mitchell and Craig Milch are back to discuss the upcoming Jan 6 hearings, Biden's executive actions on solar energy, the fallout of CTC expiration, NY's gun control legislation, SF's DA recall, and how the Biden admin can eliminate the scourge of for-profit diploma mills.
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Social Action Briefing - Special Episode - Criminal Justice Reform
In a special episode this week, Alexandria Hanna, MSW MPH '22, interviews community organizer, social justice activist, and entrepreneur Willie Jenkins. Willie is the founder of the Zenith Youth Program and Co-Admin of Black Lives Matter of The East End. He also is the Organizer of The Annual...
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Social Action Briefing - Episode 27
Professor Jessica Mitchell and Craig Milch talk about Justice Alito's leaked draft opinion overturning Roe v. Wade, Justice Gorsuch and the Insular Cases, another case of Republican voter fraud, corporate greed amidst inflation, California's plan to help its residents cope with rising costs, the...
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Social Action Briefing - Episode 26
This week Professor Jessica Mitchell and Craig Milch discuss reconciliation and loan forgiveness talks, Biden pardons, Florida's election police, positive developments in Texas, the impending hunger cliff, and supervised injection sites.
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Social Action Briefing - Episode 25
This week, Professor Jessica Mitchell and Craig Milch provide an update on Mark Meadows' election fraud, rollouts of Biden administration initiatives, the deployment of covid relief funds, Oklahoma's new abortion ban, a radical judicial challenge to executive power, the reform rollbacks in the…
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Social Action Briefing - Episode 24
This week on the podcast, Professor Jessica Mitchell and Craig Milch discuss the latest case of GOP voter fraud, more SCOTUS shadow docket abuse, Rick Scott's GOP blueprint to ruin America, the Amazon union victory, Texas CPS attack on trans kids and their families, Eric Adams' sweeps of the...
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Social Action Briefing - Episode 23
This week on the podcast: Professor Jessica Mitchell and Craig Milch discuss the passing of the Emmitt Till Anti-Lynching Act, the signing of Florida's Don't Say Gay Bill, the continuing assault on trans rights, good voting rights news in Georgia, attempts to stop the filming of cops, and the New...
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Social Action Briefing - Episode 22
Professor Jessica Mitchell and Craig Milch are back from Spring Break with America's favorite segment followed by a discussion of Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson's confirmation hearing and other SCOTUS developments, voting rights, the distribution of ARP funds, baby bonds, the fight against library...
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Social Action Briefing - Episode 21
This week, Professor Jessica Mitchell and Craig Milch discuss a right-wing theory SCOTUS may use to entrench gerrymandering, Congressional legislation passing this week, election crimes by Big Lie perpetrators, anti-gay legislation targeting librarians in Idaho, and a large non-profit on Long...
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Social Action Briefing - Episode 20
Professor Jessica Mitchell and Craig Milch discuss Ukraine, Biden's State of the Union, the recent UN climate report, the ongoing assault on civil rights in Texas, Governor Hochul's prison labor proposal, housing on Long Island, and universal school meals in Maine.
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Social Action Briefing - Episode 19
After a check-in on GOP lunacy, Professor Jessica Mitchell and Craig Milch discuss the effects of the expiration of the expanded Child Tax Credit, harmful bills set to be voted on in Florida, held-up aid to Black farmers, new national and Virginia polls about racism and education, a successful...
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Social Action Briefing - Episode 18
We're back after a one-week hiatus with our latest edition of "Republicans Taking Credit for Things They Disparaged". Then, Professor Jessica Mitchell and Craig Milch discuss the proposed climate tax credits in BBB, Biden's judicial appointments, a student debt update, SCOTUS' Alabama shadow…
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Social Action Briefing - Episode 17
This week, Professor Jessica Mitchell and Craig Milch discuss the discourse around Biden's impending SCOTUS nomination, Biden's failures on student debt and decarceration, new details about Trump's seditious conspiracy, reports about where Kyrsten Sinema gets her campaign money, and some Black...
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Social Action Briefing - Episode 16
On this week's Social Action Briefing: the latest installment of "Republicans Taking Credit for Things They Disparaged", Professor Jessica Mitchell and Craig Milch discuss a voting rights win in Alabama, (big) SCOTUS news, Youngkin's first moves as VA governor, some wild/harmful proposals from…
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Social Action Briefing - Episode 15
This week, Professor Jessica Mitchell and Craig Milch discuss the latest push for voting rights, the newest iteration of Build Back Better, reform/abolition, copaganda/police lies, recent developments with the 1/6 commission, corruption and systemic problems in society and our political system…
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Social Action Briefing - Episode 14
We're back and as frustrated as ever! Professor Jessica Mitchell and Craig Milch discuss the current state of the fight for voting rights, the lasting effects of President Clinton's welfare "reform", the now-lapsed Child Tax Credit and the prospects of its restoration through legislative action,...
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Social Action Briefing - Episode 13
This week's Social Action Briefing with Professor Jessica Mitchell, Alexandria Hanna, and Craig Milch starts off with a brand new edition of "Republicans Taking Credit for Things They Disparaged" followed by updates and developments regarding (actual) voter fraud, NYC's supervised injection…
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Social Action Briefing - Episode 12
On this week's Social Action Briefing: the latest installment of "Republicans Taking Credit for Things They Disparaged", Professor Jessica Mitchell and Craig Milch discuss the coverup in the murder of Ahmaud Arbery, the ongoing attack on our elections, the report released by Biden's SCOTUS reform...
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Social Action Briefing - Episode 11
On this week's Social Action Briefing, Professor Jessica Mitchell and Craig Milch discuss the verdict in the murder of Ahmaud Arbery, some more election results, the latest BBB details, student loan forgiveness progress, various judicial happenings including the Mississppi abortion SCOTUS...
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Social Action Briefing - Episode 10
Surprise! Jessica Mitchell, Alexandria Hanna, and Craig Milch convened on the Sunday night before Thanksgiving to process the Rittenhouse verdict and what it means for our country. They also touched on another piece of news from Friday, the passage of Build Back Better in the House. Hopefully…
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Social Action Briefing - Episode 9
On this week's Social Action Briefing, Professor Jessica Mitchell and Craig Milch provide updates on the debt ceiling, elections, the response to the infrastructure bill, post-election CRT discourse, and Republican radicalism. They also discuss Chris Christie's absurd attempt at reviving his...
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What's going on, why it matters, and what we can do about it.
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