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[caption id="attachment_375525" align="alignnone" width="603"] The National Butterfly Center, 2013. | Image by Marianna Wright is licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0 [1][/caption] On today's show: 0:08 - Jules Boykoff (@JulesBoykoff [2]), associate professor of political science at Pacific University in Oregon, author, and former professional soccer player joins us to discuss the Beijing Olympics. 0:33 - We discuss the San Francisco Police Department's MOU with the San Francisco District Attorney's office with Cristine Soto DeBerry (@CristineDeBerry [3]), Founder and Executive Director of the Prosecutors Alliance of California and Equipto (@EQUIPTO [4]), a San Francisco activist and hip hop artist fighting for justice for victims of police violence. 1:08 - The National Butterfly Center [5] in Mission, Texas just closed its doors for the foreseeable future after years of harassment, online threats, and violence by right-wing extremists. Marianna Wright (@mtwrighter [6]), the Center's Executive Director joins us to discuss. 1:33 - Tracy Baxter, a writer, actor, and playwright and Zach Kopciak, Associate Artistic Director of the 3 Girls Theater [7] joins us to discuss Kudzu 2012 [8], which plays at the 3 Girls Theater on Sunday, February 13. [1] https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/ [2] https://twitter.com/JulesBoykoff [3] https://twitter.com/CristineDeBerry [4] https://twitter.com/EQUIPTO [5] https://nationalbutterflycenter.org/ [6] https://twitter.com/mtwrighter [7] https://www.3girlstheatre.org/ [8] https://www.3girlstheatre.org/event-details/salon-series-kudzu-2012-by-tracy-baxter