WFHB Bloomington Community Radio
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Once again we’re joined by Kimberley Brownlee to talk about the necessity of Social Rights being a rock-bottom human right. We need each other and we need to be needed so that we might become fully human.
Last week we discussed how Social Rights should have priority as human rights in the same way that food and water do, and how the right to be recognized and supported as humans in communities of care should trump individual rights of association. Which is to say the duty to care has priority over the right to be free. And further, that social deprivation – most obvious perhaps in the case of solitary confinement in prisons – is not only a moral wrong but a deep violation of our human rights.
Today’s conversation ranges from permissible forms of exclusion to morally wrong associations which may still be necessary for our well-being, to the ways prison, immigration policy, and healthcare in the U.S. share the same kinds of degrading language and institutional trappings – and what that says about this society.
GUEST
Kimberley Brownlee is a Professor of Philosophy at the University of British Columbia. Her most recent book is Being Sure of Each Other: An Essay on Social Rights and Freedoms and she’s also the author of Conscience and Conviction: The Case for Civil Disobedience, both published by Oxford University Press.
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MUSIC
The Call – “Us” from To Heaven and Back (1997)
Free – “Little Bit of Love” from Free at Last (1972)
Frazey Ford – “You’re Not Free” from Indian Ocean (2014)
Grant-Lee Phillips – “Humankind” from Mobilize (2001)
ID Break: Will Johnson – “Rosanky” from Scorpion (2012)
CREDITS
Producer & Host: Doug Storm
Executive Producer: Kade Young
