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Eunisses for the People · Locatora Radio [A Radiophonic Novela]

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Speaker 1: We're pros. Well, we have a really special, exciting interview
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Speaker 1: for y'all today. As you know, we are l A based,
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Speaker 1: born and raised in l A. And you know, when
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Speaker 1: it comes to city politics, it's kind of hard to
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Speaker 1: not know what's going on, like elections take over the
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Speaker 1: city and this year, for this episode in particular, we
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Speaker 1: are really excited to bring back our Latinas in politics
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Speaker 1: segment or Latinas in politics um series. And so we're
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Speaker 1: going to be talking to on A Nandez who's running
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Speaker 1: for l A City Council District one, and Mole is
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Speaker 1: going to tell us a little bit more about her. Yes,
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Speaker 1: Aoni says is a very very very exciting fresh face
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Speaker 1: in l A politics. She's running for, like the USS said,
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Speaker 1: a city council seat against incumbent Gil Sadillo, who has
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Speaker 1: been in office for a very long time now. L
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Speaker 1: A City Council District one is socio economically and racially diverse,
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Speaker 1: representing core parts of northeast and northwest l A, including
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Speaker 1: Glass l Park, Highland Park, Chinatown, Mount Washington, Eco Park,
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Speaker 1: Illegian Park, Westlake, Pico Union, Koreatown, Angelino Heights, Lincoln Heights,
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Speaker 1: and MacArthur Park. So I live, I don't live in
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Speaker 1: Council District one. I'm probably like two or three blocks
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Speaker 1: outside of Council District one. But um Aonas is kind
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Speaker 1: of a little bit of a local hero legend in
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Speaker 1: some ways because she is known for her community work
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Speaker 1: as far as advocacy, equity and access, especially with regards
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Speaker 1: to decriminalization, for things like cannabis convictions. I met Only
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Speaker 1: Says several years ago when I was working on a
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Speaker 1: docuseries about Latinos in the legalized cannabis industry. She was
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Speaker 1: one of the um sort of experts in the field,
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Speaker 1: one of the activists that I interviewed on camera for
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Speaker 1: this docuseries, and at the time, Only Says was working
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Speaker 1: on expungement clinics and cannabis decriminalization efforts. So we've seen
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Speaker 1: Only Says also doing lots of advocacy in recent years
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Speaker 1: with her work on Measure J through UM an organization
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Speaker 1: called La Defensa. So we're really excited to bring this
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Speaker 1: Latina and Politics series back, especially because, uh, there is
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Speaker 1: this sort of tendency to overlook these kind of major
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Speaker 1: sort of elections because they're not mayoral, they're not senators.
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Speaker 1: But here in l A, the city council is a
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Speaker 1: big fucking deal, and we pay attention to what's going
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Speaker 1: on with the city council and in some ways, like
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Speaker 1: not to be dramatic, but like l A City council
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Speaker 1: this is some Gotham ship. You know, there's the corruption,
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Speaker 1: there's Hollywood, there's just a lot of issues going on.
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Speaker 1: In the city UM and only Says has this platform
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Speaker 1: that's focused on leaving nobody behind with an emphasis on
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Speaker 1: public safety, housing, UM, the environment, and gender justice. So
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Speaker 1: this episode we'll be hearing from only Says about the race,
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Speaker 1: her platform, and what moved her to run for political
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Speaker 1: office in l A. Amazing and also to add on that,
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Speaker 1: like not to be dramatic and not to toot our
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Speaker 1: own horn, but like people may or may not have
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Speaker 1: been asking for the local endorsement, We've had multiple people
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Speaker 1: ask for interviews, and as you know, we don't always
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Speaker 1: have the capacity or availability to interview everyone, uh for
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Speaker 1: specifically for the Latinos in Politics series, but we believe
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Speaker 1: in onesis his work and we are excited to share
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Speaker 1: the platform with her and for y'all to get to
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Speaker 1: know her. Oh yeah, we definitely like, are not just
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Speaker 1: interviewing everyone running for a political office in l A.
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Speaker 1: And THEOSA is alluding to some yes, mayoral candidates who
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Speaker 1: literally we're asking, so when are we going to be
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Speaker 1: on look at So um, we don't say yes to everyone.
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Speaker 1: We're very picky, very choosy, and we have decided that
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Speaker 1: we really would love for you all to hear from
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Speaker 1: one says, and we really want to amplify um her
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Speaker 1: message and her platform so that you all can be
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Speaker 1: informed voters and you can get to know a little
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Speaker 1: bit more about this new candidate UM in l A politics.
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Speaker 1: Gil cydo. I think a lot of people have been around,
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Speaker 1: and he's been around, and he's a familiar name. So
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Speaker 1: she's a fresh face, and I think she's somebody that
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Speaker 1: not everybody knows a ton about. So we want to
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Speaker 1: give you all the opportunity to hear from her directly. Okay,
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Speaker 1: look at what is without further ado. Super excited to
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Speaker 1: have CD one l A City l A City council
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Speaker 1: candidate on SIS and on this welcome to look at
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Speaker 1: that our radio. Thank you so much for having me.
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Speaker 1: I'm so excited. We're excited to have you as well.
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Speaker 1: You can actually catch one says on both of our
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Speaker 1: podcasts here on Look at Thought. We're going to hear
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Speaker 1: about Ony says, like the entire platform, her backstory, her bio.
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Speaker 1: We're gonna give you the full ons insight. On Mighty Oneada,
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Speaker 1: a podcast for pad heads, says, and I talk about
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Speaker 1: cannabis specifically in relation to the city council and her platform. Yeah,
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Speaker 1: and today we're excited to revisit our latinas in politics
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Speaker 1: see ease. And this will be the first of season six. So,
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Speaker 1: like I said, super excited to be doing that with Nisus.
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Speaker 1: So welcome again. I would love to just get started
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Speaker 1: and tell us a little bit about you and tell
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Speaker 1: us a little bit about CD one Council District one.
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Speaker 1: Thank you. It's a great question. Um. So my name
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Speaker 1: is Anisus and said Nandez. I was born and raised
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Speaker 1: in Highland Park in c D one. I've lived here
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Speaker 1: my whole life for over thirty years. And a little
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Speaker 1: bit about CD one is that, you know, the very
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Speaker 1: north part of the district is Highland Park, then you
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Speaker 1: go to Glasstoll Park, Cypress Park, Lincoln Heights, MacArthur Park,
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Speaker 1: Peko Union, Chinatown, UM University Park, Angelina Heights, Mont Washington.
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Speaker 1: So we have a very diverse district where we have
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Speaker 1: a large large communities of migrants, large communities of elders
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Speaker 1: and young people, Mono lingual speaking communities, whether it's just Chinese,
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Speaker 1: whether it's just Spanish and so we and we also
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Speaker 1: have you know, very high incomeario such as Mount Washington, UM.
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Speaker 1: So there's a lot of issues to to bring together.
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Speaker 1: But I mean this district when it was created, it
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Speaker 1: was to give Latinos a seat on the city council
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Speaker 1: because at the time we did not have political power
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Speaker 1: in that way. And so that's also one of the
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Speaker 1: reasons why I ran, because I want to make sure
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Speaker 1: we can continue that leadership without the ratio of our communities. Amazing.
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Speaker 1: Thank you so much for giving us that background. You know,
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Speaker 1: we've interviewed Latinos that are running for the first time
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Speaker 1: in the past. We we see the conversations online and
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Speaker 1: we know that it's a really grueling process, especially for
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Speaker 1: someone more progressive, for a young Latina, you know, and
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Speaker 1: so for you, like why are you running? Like this
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Speaker 1: is a really difficult and challenging thing that you are
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Speaker 1: taking on, and you know, we support it and we
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Speaker 1: love it, you know, but what keeps you going? Why
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Speaker 1: are you running for city council? I'm running for city
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Speaker 1: council because you know, I saw I've seen the impacts
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Speaker 1: that gentrification have had on my communities in the last
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Speaker 1: nine years. I've seen how elders that look like our
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Speaker 1: mamas or theas um our theos do not have a
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Speaker 1: pathway of retirement to rest. You know, one of the
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Speaker 1: things that really pushed me over the edge was seeing continuously,
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Speaker 1: week after week, the same woman coming to pick the
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Speaker 1: recycling bins out of the trash so that she can
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Speaker 1: make endy ends me, you know. And the last nine years,
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Speaker 1: we've seen how in Highland Park the Latino population is
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Speaker 1: dropped by ten percent. That's not by accident, you know,
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Speaker 1: that's the that's increases in rent, that's evictions happening when
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Speaker 1: people are flipping whole apartment buildings and they you know,
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Speaker 1: pressure people to sell their keys to them. Myself, I've
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Speaker 1: seen how you know, we spend per year a million
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Speaker 1: dollars to incarcerate one young person in l A County
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Speaker 1: in a probation camp instead of actually giving them care
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Speaker 1: and access. And these are all political decisions. The forty
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Speaker 1: one isn't people who are experiencing homelessness on the streets
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Speaker 1: of the city of l A. Is a political decision.
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Speaker 1: And so you know, I had done most of my
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Speaker 1: daytime work is around trying to build out alternatives to incarceration,
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Speaker 1: to build out the solutions that would keep us safe.
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Speaker 1: Because you know, I'm a survivor of sexual harm and violence.
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Speaker 1: I've had loved ones who have been sent to jail
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Speaker 1: and migrant jails for lack of access to stable housing,
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Speaker 1: mental health services, and drug treatment. And so you know,
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Speaker 1: when in the beginning, I thought that the solution was
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Speaker 1: for me to become a police officer, I could be like, oh,
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Speaker 1: I could have been the police officers that would have
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Speaker 1: helped me when I call nine one one for intimate
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Speaker 1: partner Violet support, or that wouldn't have arrested my friend
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Speaker 1: when he got arrested for selling with in twenty eleven,
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Speaker 1: which that conviction ruined his life. And so instead I
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Speaker 1: dedicated myself to trying to change policy, and we've been
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Speaker 1: successful as community on the outside in building policy and
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Speaker 1: solutions and the budgets we want to see. We passed
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Speaker 1: Measure J in a ballot measure that I said moved
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Speaker 1: tem percent of locally generated tax dollars into community young
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Speaker 1: people alternatives to incarceration and two million l A on
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Speaker 1: the voters approved in the middle of a pandemic. And
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Speaker 1: so that was one of the things that opened my
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Speaker 1: eyes to that said, you know, we have power as
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Speaker 1: community to move things, and if we could bring community
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Speaker 1: into city hall, then perhaps we can start pushing city
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Speaker 1: Hall in the direction of prioritizing life affirming responses and
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Speaker 1: actually keeping our people housed. Can you talk about some
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Speaker 1: of the main pillars of your platform. If folks visit
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Speaker 1: your campaign website, they'll see that you have like several focuses.
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Speaker 1: Housing is one of them, um, public safety is one
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Speaker 1: of them. Can you talk a little bit about how
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Speaker 1: you came up with the focus of your campaign. Yes, so,
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Speaker 1: just like an overarching theme, UM, and all these buckets
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Speaker 1: of policy work are in the platforms. Are putting people
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Speaker 1: before profits, are putting care versus you know, incarceration, incrstil settings,
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Speaker 1: um and so. And it's also about racial equity and
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Speaker 1: gender justice. So you can see those themes go through
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Speaker 1: each other platforms. But most of my expertise has been
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Speaker 1: around public safety. And you'll see in the public Safety
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Speaker 1: platform that all of these platforms. Let me just take
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Speaker 1: a step back and say they weren't developed just by myself.
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Speaker 1: We created policy tables and brought in experts about in
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Speaker 1: community members, people directly impacted by these issues, so that
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Speaker 1: we can come together and figure out, Okay, what are
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Speaker 1: the solutions you all would really like to see or
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Speaker 1: would you all really like us to push forward? And
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Speaker 1: so that's where these were born out of. But um
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Speaker 1: public safety is about developing life affirming responses, so creating
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Speaker 1: more access to psychiatric mobile response teams so that if
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Speaker 1: you see someone having a mental health crisis, you could
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Speaker 1: call the hotline and get a psychiatric mobile response team.
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Speaker 1: Or it's about creating access to mental health care and
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Speaker 1: drug treatment. You know, the best, the safest communities are
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Speaker 1: the most resourced. And it's not about more law enforcements,
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Speaker 1: about more access to jobs, stable housing, and supportive services.
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Speaker 1: And with housing again, it's putting people over profit where
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Speaker 1: we're pushing for protecting renters to keep them housed. Last year,
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Speaker 1: the City of l A housed twenty people experiencing homeless
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Speaker 1: is twenty. But at the same time people became homeless.
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Speaker 1: And that's because we're not protecting people in their homes.
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Speaker 1: We're not implementing and establishing protections for renters. This district
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Speaker 1: and over the City of l A are renters. We
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Speaker 1: have no policies that protect them from tenant harassment, from
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Speaker 1: from landlord harassment, real landlord harassment laws. We don't give
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Speaker 1: them access to attorneys when they're being evicted in eviction court.
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Speaker 1: And those are the policies that we want to bring
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Speaker 1: up to protect every single affordable housing unit that exists,
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Speaker 1: providing you know, access to attorneys and eviction court. And
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Speaker 1: then the last thing is building deeply, deeply, deeply affordable housing.
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Speaker 1: And Josa and Mala I asked you, you know, if
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Speaker 1: you if your loved ones didn't live in the city,
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Speaker 1: do you think that your friends and family could live
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Speaker 1: here and for to rent a house or house here,
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Speaker 1: an apartment here. Many of the people I know do not,
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Speaker 1: and so like, the housing piece is critical to us,
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Speaker 1: and I see, might you admitied, I would love to
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Speaker 1: hear what we both We both have thoughts. We talked
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Speaker 1: about housing all the time because it is kind of
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Speaker 1: priority number one. Honestly, Yeah, definitely. You know, I live
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Speaker 1: in a smaller city, so I'm in l A County,
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Speaker 1: and so even the city that I live in is
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Speaker 1: increasingly not affordable. And for us, you know, rent control
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Speaker 1: was proposed by our smallest city council and shot down,
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Speaker 1: And so even the possibility of renting, if I wanted
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Speaker 1: to stay in my little city, I wouldn't be able
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Speaker 1: to write, which is why many of our listeners we
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Speaker 1: as well live at home with their families, because it's
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Speaker 1: the most affordable right living in these multigenerational homes which
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Speaker 1: not everyone has healthy family you know, relationships. Not everybody
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Speaker 1: has access to a bedroom, right to privacy. So we
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Speaker 1: know that it's a very complex, a very layered and
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Speaker 1: nuanced issue, and we are you know, really excited and
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Speaker 1: happy to talk with you about what seems like progressive
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Speaker 1: ideals but are actually just really fucking standard, Like this
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Speaker 1: should be the standard right for for all platforms and
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Speaker 1: policies in l A County, in l A City. Tell
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Speaker 1: them again, this is the basics. You know, we just
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Speaker 1: want to keep people housed. We want people to have
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Speaker 1: access to housing. We're not talking about luxurious mansions which
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Speaker 1: they're building, you know, luxury and market rate um housing,
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Speaker 1: but that is just not affordable to our people. And
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Speaker 1: so yeah, go ahead. There seems to be this emphasis
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Speaker 1: on the new luxury housing but not keeping long term
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Speaker 1: residents in the city. Um. And like my parents left
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Speaker 1: l A because they couldn't afford anything in the city anymore,
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Speaker 1: and they looked everywhere in the city in the county,
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Speaker 1: so they moved to Makersfield because that's the only place
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Speaker 1: they could afford by house and more and more that's happening,
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Speaker 1: and it's really that I feel and I feel like
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Speaker 1: those families that the teen percent decrease in Latino families
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Speaker 1: in Highland Park, like where are they going? They have
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Speaker 1: to go somewhere. They end up leaving the city. And
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Speaker 1: that's like generations of people who have like put in
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Speaker 1: time and work and taxes and education into the communities
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Speaker 1: and then like the city makes it very easy for
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Speaker 1: them to just leave, you know. Yes, And also, um,
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Speaker 1: the pressure that you all received, like that people receive
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Speaker 1: as homeowners, where we're constantly bombarded with texts, mailer's phone
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Speaker 1: calls say hey, let's let us get this headache off
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Speaker 1: your hands, and you know, framing it to our communities
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Speaker 1: as a headache. When land ownership is the beginning of
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Speaker 1: intergenerational wealth. And you know, there's a lot of us
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Speaker 1: come from families who just migrated and from other countries
17:56
Speaker 1: like myself, I'm a daughter of Mexican and my migrants,
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Speaker 1: and so you know, land ownership is a big deal
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Speaker 1: in order to be able to build collective wealth as
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Speaker 1: as a family. But um, yeah, housing is critical both
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Speaker 1: in and and building it. And I mentioned building and
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Speaker 1: I just want to add a number to it, because
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Speaker 1: what does affordable housing need. You know, there's different levels
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Speaker 1: to it. But in this district and CD one, the
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Speaker 1: average medium income for year is thirty two dollars. Thirty
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Speaker 1: two dollars is the average medim income. And so what
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Speaker 1: we are building right now with market ray and luxury
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Speaker 1: development is not um is not for the people living there.
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Speaker 1: And I've met several people, I would say about a
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Speaker 1: dozen people who you know, we're promised affordable housing units
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Speaker 1: in new development, and you know, we ended up getting
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Speaker 1: finessed and lied to by developers and in the end
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Speaker 1: they are you know in spanishads are evicted from the
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Speaker 1: apartments and not you know, guaranteed a spot, which is
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Speaker 1: horrible because people think that, you know, oh yes, let's
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Speaker 1: go ahead and approve and support this development because they're
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Speaker 1: gonna give us a space, but in in end they don't.
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Speaker 1: That's truly awful. UM, thank you for shining light on that.
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Speaker 1: I didn't know that that was a legal practice that
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Speaker 1: developers could do that. UM. So, you know, shifting to
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Speaker 1: another platform of yours onsus is environment. I know that
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Speaker 1: you also have a platform on environmental issues and also
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Speaker 1: gender justice, so it would love to get into that.
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Speaker 1: And here you're uh your take on your platforms. Yes,
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Speaker 1: so the environmental justice is big um in this district,
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Speaker 1: in CD one and throughout the city of l A.
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Speaker 1: But in this district we have over seven hundred oil wells.
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Speaker 1: And yesterday I actually went to go tour where the
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Speaker 1: oil wells are by Vista most Apart. I smelled the
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Speaker 1: oil from these oil wells. You know, in other parts
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Speaker 1: of the city there are tons of oil wells as well,
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Speaker 1: but the differences is that they've been kept, they've been closed,
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Speaker 1: the land has been remediated, and so they've been able
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Speaker 1: to clean up that land and build things on there,
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Speaker 1: such as housing that's safe or even green spaces. But
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Speaker 1: here Invisted most Apart, I mean Visted Mossa in Los Angeles,
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Speaker 1: these wells are sitting there empty. It's like you know,
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Speaker 1: a minefield where you're you know, you don't know where
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Speaker 1: you're stepping, what could be in the ground. That's how
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Speaker 1: it is there where literally new developments have been going up,
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Speaker 1: being built on top of these oil wells, and in
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Speaker 1: the middle of building you have like a river like
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Speaker 1: they hit by accident oil well and it just starts
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Speaker 1: boozing out oil, you know, and we've there's there's pictures
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Speaker 1: their stories of last year. Uh, you know, them having
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Speaker 1: a river of oil coming out of one of under
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Speaker 1: the developments that was being built. And so it's not
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Speaker 1: only that you know, there's oil and these wells, it's
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Speaker 1: that they release methane gas, they release different toxic gases,
20:44
Speaker 1: and um, they have to vent them. So regardless of
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Speaker 1: what we do, you know, they can we can never
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Speaker 1: take oils out. We can only cap them. But even
20:52
Speaker 1: when we cap them, they have to be events in
20:54
Speaker 1: place so that the methane gas can escape. So this
20:57
Speaker 1: means that people that are constantly surrounded by these box
21:00
Speaker 1: of gases. And so one of the things that we
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Speaker 1: really want to prioritize is the capping of these oil wells.
21:06
Speaker 1: And you know, not building eight units on top of
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Speaker 1: five oil whells. Um, it's just wild what they're doing
21:12
Speaker 1: out there. And um, we want to create jobs, creating
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Speaker 1: We can create jobs by closing down these oil wells
21:18
Speaker 1: and by creating green spaces with them, or by creating
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Speaker 1: safer spaces for community because literally there's just these metal
21:24
Speaker 1: poles sticking out of the ground that are from you
21:27
Speaker 1: know before, like three generations before us and so the environment,
21:31
Speaker 1: but us not only oil wells, but we're talking about
21:34
Speaker 1: also transportation. You know, you cannot get to Allegian Park
21:38
Speaker 1: on the metro UM but and so we want to
21:41
Speaker 1: really push for the expansion of availability of bus lines
21:44
Speaker 1: and other metro lines such and the micro metros so
21:48
Speaker 1: that people can get to everywhere they need to get to,
21:50
Speaker 1: so we can stop relying so heavily on cars, but
21:53
Speaker 1: also making it free because we've met too many people,
21:56
Speaker 1: especially when they started charging fares again where they told
21:59
Speaker 1: us like, look to have to decide whether we're gonna
22:01
Speaker 1: have like lunch for this for this week or whether
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Speaker 1: I'm going to pay the bus fare to get myself
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Speaker 1: and my kids to school. And so we shouldn't have
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Speaker 1: to be putting people in those kind of predicaments, especially
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Speaker 1: when many, many, too many people are still struggling UM
22:13
Speaker 1: with the you know, recession and financial economic hardships because
22:16
Speaker 1: of COVID. And then the second piece around UM gender justice.
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Speaker 1: So gender justice is very important to me UM, but
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Speaker 1: with the lens of making sure that we are uplifting
22:27
Speaker 1: our most marginalized communities such as two spirit transgender folks,
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Speaker 1: gender diverse people, lgbt Q plus folks. And so for
22:36
Speaker 1: the last four four years in l A County, I've
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Speaker 1: been pushing and with my colleagues to move away from
22:43
Speaker 1: trying to focus on building a jail that's responsive for women,
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Speaker 1: a jail that's better for women, and actually shifting the
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Speaker 1: framework and the policy priorities to one where we focus
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Speaker 1: on you know, two spirit transgender general conforming folks and
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Speaker 1: LGBTQ people insist women and focusing on trying to end
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Speaker 1: the incarceration of these groups. You might be saying, why
23:03
Speaker 1: why are you trying to do that? Well, because in
23:06
Speaker 1: l A County there's about one thousand, three hundred women
23:09
Speaker 1: in the l A County jail system, and over half
23:12
Speaker 1: of them, close to seven hundred of them are simply
23:15
Speaker 1: there because they cannot pay bail to get out. And
23:18
Speaker 1: we know that the top three charges and the top
23:20
Speaker 1: five charges for women in l A County are related
23:22
Speaker 1: to drug offenses, driving without a license, suspended license, or
23:26
Speaker 1: driving with no insurance or f t A. And so
23:28
Speaker 1: it's literally these traffic issues that are criminalizing women, lgbt
23:32
Speaker 1: Q plus folks you know, sex work, uh and drug
23:35
Speaker 1: offenses as well. So the work that we've done in
23:37
Speaker 1: l A County is to really move away from from
23:40
Speaker 1: incarcerating these groups for those issues and to one where
23:43
Speaker 1: we're investing in their housing, investing in responses so that
23:46
Speaker 1: people who have been impacted by intimate partner violence have options,
23:50
Speaker 1: have places to go um And one of the things
23:52
Speaker 1: we also created was a group we call it SNACK
23:56
Speaker 1: Survivors Network Against Criminalization. The Survivors Network Against Criminalization we
24:01
Speaker 1: created because we saw how the pendulum was swinging back
24:04
Speaker 1: and forth on criminal justice reform. But me and other
24:07
Speaker 1: survivors in this work have been uplifting other solutions that
24:11
Speaker 1: would have prevented our harm, that would have kept us safe,
24:14
Speaker 1: and that would have helped repair some of the damage
24:16
Speaker 1: that you know, in harm that we went through. And
24:18
Speaker 1: so that's what we've done on the outside this community
24:20
Speaker 1: to create SNACKS so that there was a pathway for
24:22
Speaker 1: other survivors that want to try different options for you know,
24:26
Speaker 1: transformative justice or healing or even preventative work, had a
24:29
Speaker 1: space to collectively do that. And so that's the work
24:32
Speaker 1: that we're bringing both in the county but also that
24:33
Speaker 1: we're trying to bring to city Hall. And the last
24:36
Speaker 1: piece on gender justice is even when we think about
24:38
Speaker 1: building a team. I started a nonprofit called La Defensa
24:43
Speaker 1: where most of our teams are fem's, women's uh LGBTQ folks.
24:47
Speaker 1: We are a queer lead on our board. We have
24:49
Speaker 1: trans trans folks such as Bambi from Trans Latina Coalition,
24:54
Speaker 1: an amazing trans women who also has endorsed our campaign um.
24:58
Speaker 1: But you know, most of our teams are fans. Most
25:01
Speaker 1: of these fans are doing political work, campaign work, and
25:04
Speaker 1: when you look at my campaign team, I also was
25:06
Speaker 1: very intentional there where we are queer lead, women of
25:09
Speaker 1: color team. Most of our most of our colleagues who
25:12
Speaker 1: are in leadership position are women so that they can
25:14
Speaker 1: learn these campaign skills so that they can launch their
25:17
Speaker 1: own campaigns and be campaign managers and field directors and
25:20
Speaker 1: you know, fundraising directors because oftentimes we're left doing the
25:23
Speaker 1: legwork without actual opportunity for driving wages or good titles.
25:28
Speaker 1: And so that's I mean gender justice both in policy
25:30
Speaker 1: but even in the teams we create, right, we have
25:32
Speaker 1: to be very very intentional about that because the patriarchy
25:35
Speaker 1: and white supremacy are very strong and not allowing us
25:38
Speaker 1: to have, you know, these opportunities, so we got to
25:40
Speaker 1: create them for ourselves. I appreciate you breaking down your campaign,
25:50
Speaker 1: your team, the your board, the folks that have endorsed you,
25:55
Speaker 1: because it also speaks to like your coalition building and
25:59
Speaker 1: the organizing and the intentionality behind like creating a campaign
26:05
Speaker 1: that's different from the incumbent and like the legacy politics.
26:10
Speaker 1: So can you just give our listeners out there a
26:14
Speaker 1: sense of how they can support, how they can learn more,
26:18
Speaker 1: how they can get involved. Plenty of our listeners likely
26:21
Speaker 1: live in your district because it's right in the middle
26:24
Speaker 1: of the city of Los Angeles. It's a pretty huge
26:28
Speaker 1: core district, and um, it's a really big deal that
26:32
Speaker 1: you're running at the time that you're running. So for
26:35
Speaker 1: those listening, how can they get involved, how can they support,
26:39
Speaker 1: how can they be part of team? Only says yes,
26:44
Speaker 1: So just do you on no timeline. We have fifteen
26:47
Speaker 1: days or fourteen days now until ballots drop, which is
26:50
Speaker 1: on May nine. If you're registered to vote, you should
26:53
Speaker 1: be receiving a mail in ballot starting that week. If
26:55
Speaker 1: you haven't registered to vote. This is your how do
26:58
Speaker 1: I say this? Your law arm clock to to register
27:01
Speaker 1: the vote now, it takes less than five minutes on
27:03
Speaker 1: your phone. And we need everybody to tap in because
27:06
Speaker 1: it's a non presidential election year and so the voter
27:08
Speaker 1: turnout might be low, and we need everybody a historic
27:11
Speaker 1: amount of votes, a historic amount of support to be
27:14
Speaker 1: a corporate Democrat who has literally taken half a million
27:17
Speaker 1: dollars from developers and real estate and so we you know,
27:21
Speaker 1: we've already not the district once, but we're not in
27:23
Speaker 1: the district again two and three times. So if you
27:26
Speaker 1: love walking outside, talking with people and just having a
27:30
Speaker 1: good time, you know, interacting with folks, then please go
27:33
Speaker 1: onto our website and nieces dot com and register so
27:37
Speaker 1: you can canvass. We're canvassing Monday through Friday every and
27:40
Speaker 1: actually Saturday, so every day every day of the week
27:42
Speaker 1: we canvass, but our biggest days are on the weekends.
27:45
Speaker 1: If you don't like to go outside, if you don't
27:47
Speaker 1: want to talk to someone in person. We're also doing
27:49
Speaker 1: phone banks, virtual phone banks where we're gathering in teams
27:52
Speaker 1: every day online on Zoom and just going through a
27:55
Speaker 1: call list and calling people we're also if you don't
27:57
Speaker 1: want to do calls, we're also hosting up postcard writing parties,
28:01
Speaker 1: or you can host a postcard writing of your own.
28:03
Speaker 1: But we're having our team right postcards to to voters
28:07
Speaker 1: here in the City of l A into the district
28:09
Speaker 1: because we want to create. We want to meet people
28:11
Speaker 1: at where they're at, at every single level, whether it's postcards,
28:15
Speaker 1: was on the phone, whether it's text, whether it's at
28:16
Speaker 1: the door, whether it's you know, MacArthur Park every Saturday
28:19
Speaker 1: morning that I'm there trying to talk with us. Mass Like,
28:22
Speaker 1: there's many lanes. If you're an artist, you want to write,
28:24
Speaker 1: you want to write poems, or you want to create
28:26
Speaker 1: our visual or whatever it is. Everybody has a has
28:29
Speaker 1: a lane in this campaign because it's gonna take everyone
28:32
Speaker 1: to be this incumbent um. This incumbent is this is
28:36
Speaker 1: an epitome of the establishment of the patriarchy of matches
28:40
Speaker 1: More and of not a lack of leadership. Nine years
28:44
Speaker 1: we've had the same representation and we don't have much
28:47
Speaker 1: to show for it. We're not safer, we don't have
28:48
Speaker 1: more people housed, and that's why it's time for us
28:51
Speaker 1: to go into city Hall. And so please now is
28:54
Speaker 1: the time. And oh the last thing is our race
28:57
Speaker 1: will be decided in June. We are not going to
28:59
Speaker 1: a November. I know folks are saying, oh, I'll type
29:01
Speaker 1: in closer in November. But only him and I made
29:04
Speaker 1: it on the ballot. So whoever gets the most votes
29:06
Speaker 1: in June wins. There is no after. We don't get
29:09
Speaker 1: another chance at this until so please tap in now.
29:13
Speaker 1: This is incredibly urgent. Wow only says thank you so
29:18
Speaker 1: much for putting that context into this race, into why
29:22
Speaker 1: you're running, and also a sense of urgency because it
29:26
Speaker 1: is urgent. L a city is in a crisis right now,
29:29
Speaker 1: and so, you know, very excited to chat with you
29:33
Speaker 1: and talk with you today about your platforms and also
29:35
Speaker 1: like a huge major announcement today you were endorsed by
29:39
Speaker 1: the labor leader and civil rights activists the the Lodes.
29:44
Speaker 1: So can you congratulations first of all, and secondly, can
29:48
Speaker 1: you tell us about that process and how are you
29:51
Speaker 1: feeling right now? Oh? Yeah, I'm feeling so good about
29:55
Speaker 1: that endorsement. Oh you know, I met the Lord is
29:57
Speaker 1: with them uh my through a mutual friend Jasmine and
30:02
Speaker 1: he and many years ago we met the lottest um
30:06
Speaker 1: and I had posted about her meeting her and you
30:10
Speaker 1: know that experience of meeting an icon, meeting someone who
30:13
Speaker 1: has sacrificed so much. That's for someone like me, for
30:17
Speaker 1: people that are like me and us to be able
30:19
Speaker 1: to become lobbyists, to be able to take a political
30:22
Speaker 1: space and be experts. And so I had posted about
30:25
Speaker 1: that in and you know, I had shared that with
30:28
Speaker 1: her team. I shared that with her because I didn't
30:31
Speaker 1: know which way she was gonna go. You know, I'm going,
30:33
Speaker 1: like I said, I'm going against them incumbent who many
30:35
Speaker 1: people are afraid of, who many people in the establishment
30:38
Speaker 1: have endorsed because that's what they do. You endorse the
30:41
Speaker 1: incumbent and her for her to step up and be
30:43
Speaker 1: brave with me, Oh, I can't tell you how that feels.
30:47
Speaker 1: It's been really difficult to see, you know, a lot
30:50
Speaker 1: of Latino leadership moving the other direction because that's what
30:53
Speaker 1: you do with the status quo. And so I'm feeling
30:56
Speaker 1: incredibly energized, supported, uh and reinforced, like you know, we're
31:01
Speaker 1: doing the right thing. And you know, the loads is
31:04
Speaker 1: someone that is that someone I look up to because
31:07
Speaker 1: she has evolved, you know, she is someone who takes
31:09
Speaker 1: information and you can see throughout her life how she's
31:12
Speaker 1: taken that and has evolved her analysis in her way
31:15
Speaker 1: of thinking about things and positions. And that is important
31:18
Speaker 1: because that means she's open to change and not staying
31:22
Speaker 1: in the same stat is core same ineffective um and
31:25
Speaker 1: ineffective solutions and policy. So I'm I'm so happy, I'm
31:29
Speaker 1: so grateful, and I'm so excited because this, this is it.
31:33
Speaker 1: This means a lot, you know this for me, this
31:35
Speaker 1: this means so much for the people. Thank you so
31:41
Speaker 1: much for stopping by look at our radio and chatting
31:45
Speaker 1: with us, so our so our constituents, so our listeners
31:49
Speaker 1: could get our listeners get to know you and your platform,
31:54
Speaker 1: your potential future constituents. Um, everybody, please give aonis As
31:59
Speaker 1: a follow. She's all over social media, she's online, she
32:02
Speaker 1: has a website and um dang, what else? Get out
32:07
Speaker 1: there and vote. Make sure you registered to vote. I
32:09
Speaker 1: don't know if uh, there are some of our listeners
32:12
Speaker 1: maybe who haven't maybe haven't voted in a city council
32:15
Speaker 1: election before. I know, not everybody has right, So make
32:19
Speaker 1: sure that you registered to vote. That step number one
32:21
Speaker 1: and make sure you get those ballots in UM. Thank
32:24
Speaker 1: you so much for joining us and uh good luck.
32:28
Speaker 1: We hope you win. We are also actually before we leave,
32:32
Speaker 1: we're formally endorsing on SUSUM as a podcast as look
32:37
Speaker 1: at our radio just you know us and Dolores you
32:41
Speaker 1: know come true we um. We were waiting for Dolores
32:48
Speaker 1: to drop her news before we dropped ours. Thank you
32:53
Speaker 1: so much, Onis for stopping by look at our radio,
32:57
Speaker 1: for sharing your platforms with us to our listeners as
33:00
Speaker 1: well sharing your time and energy. We know that you're
33:03
Speaker 1: out there putting in the work, connecting with people, connecting
33:06
Speaker 1: with your community, and so we thank you for taking
33:09
Speaker 1: the time to come by and share with us. Thank
33:14
Speaker 1: you all. Thank you Mala Rsel for sharing your platform
33:17
Speaker 1: with me, for allowing me to share. And you know
33:19
Speaker 1: it's just you sense surgency, you see it, and you
33:23
Speaker 1: stepped up and helping. And thank you for also standing
33:26
Speaker 1: in the light and being brave with me, because it's
33:28
Speaker 1: gonna take all of us to beat this mountain. So
33:32
Speaker 1: I am eternally grateful. Thank you