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Feminists Around the World: Sara Mora · Stuff Mom Never Told You

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  Speaker 1: Hey, this is Anny and Samantha and whatcome stuff? I
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  Speaker 1: never told your production by her radio.
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  Speaker 2: And we are officially in Hispanic Heritage month. So for
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  Speaker 2: today's activists, we are talking about the works and advocacy
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  Speaker 2: of Sarah Mora. So Mara is a fierce immigration rights
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  Speaker 2: activist who has dedicated her life to advocate for the
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  Speaker 2: rights of immigrants in the US. She actually moved here
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  Speaker 2: at a very young age with her family from Costa Rica.
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  Speaker 2: When I say here, I'm saying US, so I should
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  Speaker 2: probably put that in there. It didn't take her long
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  Speaker 2: to jump into advocacy work, as in fact, according to
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  Speaker 2: her side Miss Sarahmura dot com, it was at the
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  Speaker 2: age of ten she was already a vocal leader in
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  Speaker 2: her church and community, and in high school she continued
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  Speaker 2: to be a leader and advocate for her community, for
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  Speaker 2: her people like this was the thing that she did
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  Speaker 2: from jump. So in fact, soon after high school she
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  Speaker 2: would go on to interview the Costa Rican Vice President
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  Speaker 2: about immigrants in the US and people who had left
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  Speaker 2: Costa Rica and DACA rights and how the country of
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  Speaker 2: Costa Rica and other countries could support the young people
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  Speaker 2: who are in the US. So DACA is a deferred
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  Speaker 2: Action for childhood arrivals which passed in twenty twelve, which
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  Speaker 2: quote offers a two year renewable legal status to undocumented
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  Speaker 2: immigrants who entered the US as children. Recipients receive a
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  Speaker 2: social Security number and are eligible to get a driver's license, job,
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  Speaker 2: and start on a path to potential citizenship. So that's
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  Speaker 2: from Assembly dot Malala dot org just a little bit
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  Speaker 2: of information on what that program was. It could also
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  Speaker 2: be referred to as dreamers, which we haven't heard as
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  Speaker 2: much of recently, but obviously it's still a big thing.
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  Speaker 2: We haven't heard too much about that, mainly because of
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  Speaker 2: the whole issue of deportation, illegal arrests, and illegal attainment
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  Speaker 2: of refugees and immigrants, so DACA would obviously be also
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  Speaker 2: a bigger part of that conversation. It was in twenty seventeen,
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  Speaker 2: during Trump's first administration that DACA was ended, which risks
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  Speaker 2: the livelihoods of almost eight hundred thousand young people. In
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  Speaker 2: an interview with Malala dot org, Sarah talks about how
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  Speaker 2: DACA has been instrumental to her and her family. So
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  Speaker 2: here's what she says. She says, DACA helped my sister
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  Speaker 2: and I because it opens limited opportunities to function normally
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  Speaker 2: within our spaces, for example, by providing a driver's license, opportunity,
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  Speaker 2: working authorizations, and a Social Security number, driving to school
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  Speaker 2: and college, supporting our family by being able to drive
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  Speaker 2: my mom to hospital appointments, as well as being able
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  Speaker 2: to drive to work has meant everything. I feel like
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  Speaker 2: that should be a common sense conversation because we know
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  Speaker 2: that the legalities around that is kind of harsh, and
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  Speaker 2: in areas like Alina, in areas like Florida, in areas
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  Speaker 2: like Georgia, and in most the Southeast, transportation is an
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  Speaker 2: issue and there's not really any really sustainable transit systems,
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  Speaker 2: and so having this type of assurance like insurance and
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  Speaker 2: driver's license is really important to anybody's livelihood. So after
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  Speaker 2: the ending of DACA, Maura publicly shared her story of
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  Speaker 2: being undocumented and why DACA was so instrumental to her
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  Speaker 2: life and many like her. In another interview she did
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  Speaker 2: with seventeen dot com, she talked about why it was
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  Speaker 2: so important for her to reveal her status. So she said,
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  Speaker 2: it was important for me because I felt like I
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  Speaker 2: lived in part of the country where that wasn't common.
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  Speaker 2: You didn't talk about your legal status, especially not publicly,
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  Speaker 2: So I feel like talking about it publicly was my
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  Speaker 2: way of saying I don't care anymore. I always felt
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  Speaker 2: like in that moment it was urgent to publicize the
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  Speaker 2: tragedy that is migrant policy. After I got so many
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  Speaker 2: messages from different people, young and old in New Jersey
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  Speaker 2: saying thank you for sharing. Manie said that it made
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  Speaker 2: them feel like if they ever wanted to share it,
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  Speaker 2: they could, but even if they didn't, it was overwhelming
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  Speaker 2: to see someone else speak out about it from her website,
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  Speaker 2: Missarahmura dot org. After organizing and using her story publicly
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  Speaker 2: to emphasize the complexities of an immigrant narrative, Sarah was
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  Speaker 2: faced with learning the frustrating reality that, like her story,
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  Speaker 2: migrant folks stories were not mainly used in a way
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  Speaker 2: that empowered the character, but in a way that totally
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  Speaker 2: erased the identity of the impacted person. She grew a
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  Speaker 2: hunger for wanting immigrant parents, elders, in the entire migrant
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  Speaker 2: community to be able to reclaim their stories and know
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  Speaker 2: their rights as storytellers. Her experiences with organizations were negatives
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  Speaker 2: that turned into the core of her passion. She knew
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  Speaker 2: and had experience seeing with her own eyes the tokenizing
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  Speaker 2: and exploitation of migrant people's stories, and so she took
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  Speaker 2: her anger and worked on individual campaigns, beginning in twenty
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  Speaker 2: eighteen with Nuestra Belesa Latina. This campaign was one of
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  Speaker 2: Sarah's first bigger steps into mass impact messages on what
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  Speaker 2: it meant for companies like Univision to recognize and acknowledge
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  Speaker 2: the undocumented population, which is a huge percentage of people
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  Speaker 2: in the LATINX community. This campaign led to online conversation
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  Speaker 2: on the matter, and when former winners of the Beauty
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  Speaker 2: Paget heard and reached out to Sarah's campaign, she was
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  Speaker 2: blown away by how simple it was to have gathered
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  Speaker 2: that collective concern. And I think it's such a big
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  Speaker 2: part of what we've talked about when we were able
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  Speaker 2: to tell our own stories or where people able to
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  Speaker 2: have platforms to share their stories and why that's important.
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  Speaker 2: And also I think we've talked recently more about how
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  Speaker 2: we're trying to be safe in being knowing our boundaries,
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  Speaker 2: because unfortunately this country is not totally safe for everyone.
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  Speaker 2: And I say to the MANI experiences I think both
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  Speaker 2: Anie you and I have had in this business right
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  Speaker 2: and as she continued to share her personal experiences and journey,
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  Speaker 2: she talked about how so many others have come to
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  Speaker 2: talk to her about their own experiences and stories. She
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  Speaker 2: has used the power of social media to continue to
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  Speaker 2: show the humanity behind so many of the undocumented immigrants
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  Speaker 2: in the country and other places. In the Malala dot
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  Speaker 2: org interview, she gave it advice on how to mobilize online,
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  Speaker 2: saying be thorough and ensuring that the information and resources
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  Speaker 2: you share are accurate and build a community by engaging
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  Speaker 2: with the people that engage with you on your platform.
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  Speaker 2: Mobilizing people online in this concept of online activism is
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  Speaker 2: truly about being of service to others and not about
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  Speaker 2: the ego. The time is now to speak out. History
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  Speaker 2: is being made as we speak. Staying silent and quote
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  Speaker 2: minding your business makes you complicit to the oppression of
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  Speaker 2: thousands and thousands of people. All resources, talents, and voices
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  Speaker 2: are welcome in a movement of change that is fighting
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  Speaker 2: against an aggressive force of oppression that does not rest
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  Speaker 2: and all of these things that is important and being
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  Speaker 2: able to publicly at least support one another is a
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  Speaker 2: huge part of that and whether it's having an opportunity
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  Speaker 2: to share other people's stories or to bring light to
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  Speaker 2: other people's stories, that's such an important part of this.
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  Speaker 2: So her work has continued strong. She is working very strong.
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  Speaker 2: In fact, she just was recently named one of Times
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  Speaker 2: one hundred Creators and she was a past awardie of
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  Speaker 2: the Kings Senators twenty twenty four Youth Influencer Award. She's
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  Speaker 2: also the founder of the population Mike, where she tells
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  Speaker 2: the stories of the marginalized people in a respectful and
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  Speaker 2: impactful manner. So love seeing that work. She is huge
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  Speaker 2: on the platform, so we definitely are watching and I'm
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  Speaker 2: excited to see what else she does.
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