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Nisrin’s Story Immigration Ban 1.0

A touching and honest non-narrated produced portrait of one of the first people to be detained at JFK under the initial Trump travel ban order. Stanford PhD student traveling from Sudan: Nisrin Abdelrahman
Aired on:
http://www.cbc.ca/listen/shows/the-doc-project/segment/13703580
https://www.radioproject.org/2017/09/arrival-trumps-travel-refugee-ban/
http://kalw.org/post/stanford-grad-student-was-one-first-trump-travel-ban-detainees#stream/0
“80s interlude” (Album: Or Up We Fall), by Fanas
“Theme 4”, “Sleep”, “Intermission” & “In a Dream” (soundtrack for a film that doesn't exist), by Johnny Ripper
“Data” (don't), by Johnny Ripper

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Title: The Unthinkable Brink (working title)
Elisabeth Dee & Tyler Brooks
Kim: I would say keep your head down. I would say be careful. I would say that self-preservation is your upmost responsibility because until you can come out in a safe and open and caring environment, the system that you’re growing up in is designed to destroy you. So you may have to keep your head down. And it may be the thing that drives you to the brink. The unthinkable brink.
Elisabeth #1: I’ve known Kimberly for eight years. She taught photography at my high school, right outside of Salt Lake City, Utah. There was something about her I was drawn to. I felt like she saw things in me I didn’t know where there. When she came out as intersex and transgender, I realized why we had been pulled into each other’s orbits: we were both outsiders. We were both Mormon and queer and struggling.
Anchor #1: We regard same sex marriage as a particularly grievous or significant serious kind of sin that requires church discipline.
Anchor #2: Well the number one killer of Utah’s kids is suicide according to new numbers from the state health department. And there’s no definitive reason for this abrupt rise in suicide among Utah youth but there are many pointing to Utah’s religious culture.
Tyler Glenn: Please don’t let this be a summer of more gay suicides, please make a space for your gay members, please tell them they are okay and they are made in the image of god.

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“Mike” LifeMoves
by Crystal Escolero
[Introduction]
Hi my name’s Mike. Grew up in Santa Clara. Good neighborhood. Decent anyway. Not rich. Not exactly poor. Depends who you ask.
I went straight to work, in a machine shop. That’s when IBM used to give all their jobs to all the little teeny companies in the bay area. So, I had a great job for six months. Next thing I know everyone got laid off and everybody was out of work.
So, then getting a job after that was...you know, I just turned 18. When you turn 18, it’s like “Oh you’re not trying hard enough. Get a job you bum.” And there were no jobs to get. All you can do is find little part time jobs. So, you never make a dime to do anything. Except feed yourself, buy your cigarettes, and drink your beer.
I just got stuck in that realm...

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Jennifer Manry Final Podcast Transcript
By: Hannah Nguyen and Lea Zawada
[Typing on keyboards, faint radio chatter, the phone rings.]
JM: 911 emergency. I grew up in a law enforcement family. I was running around the police department since I was born.
[Cue Music]
[Narration:] Jennifer Manry is a dispatcher at the Menlo Park Police Department. She’s just celebrated her 28th birthday. She’s wearing the blue polo of the MPPD and on one of the many screens is a photo of her pug, wearing the same uniform. She grew up listening to exciting stories of cop life.
JM: My dad was a sergeant for 30 years and he was at redwood city police department.
They would tell me stories as i got older.
[Narration:] Like the time he was in a shootout.
JM: The guy was pointing a gun at his pregnant girlfriend and he had my dad on the ground and my dad just took a chance and shot the guy. The only thing he brought home with him was if he had a stressful day you could always tell. He was a little bit quieter he was a little bit more short. But I only know that now because I have days like that too.
[Narration:] It felt natural for Manry to work in law enforcement. She was proud of the work her dad did, putting away bad guys.
JM: My dad loved his dispatchers and he appreciated them very much. So was like yah you know talk to a couple of them you know I would do little sit alongs. I remember the first day that I did my first sit along that was something where I was like this is fricken awesome. So after that I just kept doing little sit alongs and I’m like yep that’s what I wanna do.
[Narration:] She found a job that excited her. It was stressful at first, especially when she was on her own for the first time.