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Feminists Around the World: Protesting Today · Stuff Mom Never Told You

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  Speaker 1: Hey, this is Annie and Samantha.
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  Speaker 2: Welcome to stuff. I never told you your protection if
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  Speaker 2: I hurt radio.
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  Speaker 3: So it's not a great time for the US. I
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  Speaker 3: might have been crying this morning over some videos of
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  Speaker 3: people outside of the US who actually are compassionately asking
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  Speaker 3: how we're doing and understanding that we are not doing well.
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  Speaker 3: And as more and more fascist things, fascist like things
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  Speaker 3: and things are occurring here, we're trying to combat the
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  Speaker 3: feeling of helplessness and fear by focusing on people and
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  Speaker 3: organizations and protesters and the right to protest. That we're
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  Speaker 3: trying to find things to uplift or to at least
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  Speaker 3: encourage our fellow peoples in this time. And yeah, protesters
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  Speaker 3: have been out and about all around the US even
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  Speaker 3: today constantly, and with Labor Day coming, I know there's
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  Speaker 3: some thoughts and processing of like possibly more organizations coming
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  Speaker 3: out and about. So we thought for this activist around
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  Speaker 3: the world that we would talk about some protesting organizations
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  Speaker 3: and trusted organizations so we can gather together and get unified.
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  Speaker 1: As we were talking about.
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  Speaker 3: Previous leaders and protesters and people in the sphere talking
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  Speaker 3: about how being unified is one of the key points
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  Speaker 3: and combating this and with activists around the world. Something
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  Speaker 3: that we love to do is highlight those good organizations
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  Speaker 3: that we see as trustworthy and that have done proving
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  Speaker 3: good work. However, let me admit to you now this
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  Speaker 3: episode is a little odd, a little different because I've
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  Speaker 3: hit some roadblocks, I've hit some questions in my own
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  Speaker 3: mind and my own thinking. As we know that the
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  Speaker 3: government to be paranoid or over the top. You know,
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  Speaker 3: we're buying into some conspiracy theories, but we know that
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  Speaker 3: the government does track a lot of our data. That's
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  Speaker 3: what they have done. They have set this up from
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  Speaker 3: jump in order to be able to do so with
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  Speaker 3: very little uh, slowing down or any kind of repercussions.
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  Speaker 1: They are free to do so.
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  Speaker 3: So there's a lot of conversations and even talking about
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  Speaker 3: the organizations recently from other actives around the world, how
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  Speaker 3: they're trying to protect their members and their staff, and
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  Speaker 3: in order to do so, we know that things like
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  Speaker 3: ICE does not care about any actual legal threshold, They
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  Speaker 3: do not care about due process, and they don't even
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  Speaker 3: actually care who you are.
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  Speaker 1: And they have.
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  Speaker 3: Given themselves permissioned by our current administration as well, to
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  Speaker 3: do whatever they want. So there's a lot of up
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  Speaker 3: things happening in which I have gone back and forth about,
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  Speaker 3: like I want to talk about these organizations. I want
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  Speaker 3: to find these organizations. But we even though we might
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  Speaker 3: not be the best podcast, and we've kind of like
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  Speaker 3: lost a lot of people through you know, host changes,
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  Speaker 3: through other amazing podcasts coming out and all these other things,
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  Speaker 3: so so many things. We might not be the most popular,
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  Speaker 3: but we are still available in public spheres, and so
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  Speaker 3: speaking out loud, we also want to take responsibility in
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  Speaker 3: making sure people are safe as well. So I've hit
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  Speaker 3: this moment of like I want to talk about these organizations.
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  Speaker 3: I would love for you our listeners who are involved
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  Speaker 3: in things in that area, because obviously we are in
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  Speaker 3: State of Georgia, in Atlanta, and we have a very
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  Speaker 3: different viewpoint from people who are in New York, in
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  Speaker 3: la in DC. Talked to Bridget today and found out
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  Speaker 3: how she was doing stuff like that. So if you
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  Speaker 3: have experiences like you can tell us about how you
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  Speaker 3: have joined some protests recently and how well they went
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  Speaker 3: for you, or how scary they we went for you,
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  Speaker 3: or things that you have learned, we would love for
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  Speaker 3: you to share.
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  Speaker 1: We need that right now.
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  Speaker 3: We need that information because one of the things that
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  Speaker 3: we can do as podcasters, and I feel like we
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  Speaker 3: have a responsibility to do, is to be able to
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  Speaker 3: tell the truth and highlight the things that are happening
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  Speaker 3: around the country, especially when things are being suppressed pretty heavily.
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  Speaker 3: again we are in bad places in our mental health sometimes,
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  Speaker 3: need those stories. This is something like I'm doing as
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  Speaker 3: a call out. So this is why this episode is
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  Speaker 3: a little different. And honestly, we're also in crush month.
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  Speaker 3: This is what I'm gonna call it, because this is
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  Speaker 3: the time of year right before the holidays where a
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  Speaker 3: lot of activity happens. Birthdays, dragon con holidays, vacation times,
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  Speaker 3: all those things happen around this time. So we are
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  Speaker 3: trying to get everything straight. So we are recording this
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  Speaker 3: and what timestamp is August twenty sixth of twenty twenty five,
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  Speaker 3: so a little bit ahead, hey, because you know, for me,
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  Speaker 3: I'm the procrastinator likes the way last minute.
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  Speaker 1: But we're a little bit ahead.
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  Speaker 3: So even with that, there are obviously things that are
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  Speaker 3: changing and being ever so scary, with things happening all
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  Speaker 3: around the world, all around the country, as we write,
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  Speaker 3: as we record, as we release this episode, there are
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  Speaker 3: more and more events happening, so bear with us, and
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  Speaker 3: especially specific episodes like these. And as a quick side,
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  Speaker 3: we are trying our best to navigate the internet to
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  Speaker 3: weed out misinformation and disinformation and bad players who are
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  Speaker 3: only adding to the confusion. So if we discover new
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  Speaker 3: things about people or organizations that may.
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  Speaker 1: Be something that's important.
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  Speaker 3: Maybe that comes out with like, oh this was wrong,
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  Speaker 3: they did this, they're anti this, we'll come out to
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  Speaker 3: speak about it. And if you know something that you're
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  Speaker 3: like a you probably don't want to talk about them,
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  Speaker 3: let us know because we can't always get all that
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  Speaker 3: information just from two people's perspective, so we always need
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  Speaker 3: your assistance with that.
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  Speaker 1: But we are going to talk about some of the.
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  Speaker 3: Past, organizations that have worked and have done some planning,
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  Speaker 3: and that includes just the recent one, the No Kings
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  Speaker 3: protests or an organization that have helped put together this
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  Speaker 3: protest that happened in June of twenty twenty five. The
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  Speaker 3: numbers are not completely clear, but the estimate attendees range
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  Speaker 3: from two to four point eight million, so a pretty
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  Speaker 3: big range across the country. There are some inaccuracies. The
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  Speaker 3: inaccuracies seem to be due to the fact that small
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  Speaker 3: towns were involved in this, and I love those posts.
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  Speaker 3: One think about favorite things to see is the small
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  Speaker 3: towns that I did not think would be a part
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  Speaker 3: of protests like this. We're out and about, but it
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  Speaker 3: was hard to count all of them, so there may
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  Speaker 3: be more, who knows, and it's beautiful to see. Just recently,
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  Speaker 3: I don't know if you know. Again, a time stamped it.
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  Speaker 3: The Vice President came through Fayette County Phtree City, which
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  Speaker 3: is one of the widest affluent areas in Georgia.
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  Speaker 1: Coming to talk about crime rates.
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  Speaker 3: Everybody laughed because that's a golf art community. They literally
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  Speaker 3: have lanes for golf carts.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, it's also where they filmed a lot of Marvel movies.
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  Speaker 1: Are they used to, Oh yeah, they used to.
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  Speaker 3: So it's quite funny because they have probably some of
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  Speaker 3: the better accessibilities for non car transportation.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, Also there's a lot to be said anyway, but
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  Speaker 3: they had a protest there. It was lovely to see
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  Speaker 3: protesting him and making sure they know that he knew
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  Speaker 3: that he was not welcome. And there was no crime
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  Speaker 3: to be talked about, like, of course there's small crime everywhere.
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  Speaker 3: What we should be talking about is gun control, because
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  Speaker 3: if we wanted to control any type of crime, that
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  Speaker 3: would be it.
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  Speaker 1: But they whatever. But yeah, so no Kings has been
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  Speaker 1: a part of that.
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  Speaker 3: They were able to infiltrate the whole country and many
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  Speaker 3: people came out. I love the amount of people that
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  Speaker 3: went through this we were able to see and participated.
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  Speaker 3: One of the things that made this protest successful was
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  Speaker 3: due to the fact that, again it was in more
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  Speaker 3: areas than any others, so they had around twenty one
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  Speaker 3: hundred and fifty areas, where like the women's protests that
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  Speaker 3: was also one of the largest in our lifetime, only
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  Speaker 3: had six hundred and fifty locations, So it was pretty
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  Speaker 3: impressive that it was as widespread as it was and
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  Speaker 3: with that, this organization has pushed to encourage more people
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  Speaker 3: to get involved with protesting and activism. In their site,
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  Speaker 3: they had a program called a one Million Rising, which
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  Speaker 3: is an effort to train people on a local scale
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  Speaker 3: for resistance and for protests, which I loved. From their site,
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  Speaker 3: they said one Million Rising as a national effort to
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  Speaker 3: train one million people to resist authoritarianism together through a
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  Speaker 3: series of trainings and local gatherings, will build the strategy,
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  Speaker 3: skills and people power it takes to stop Trump and
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  Speaker 3: his enablers from seizing more power. This is how we
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  Speaker 3: get organized, this is how we win. So I love that.
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  Speaker 3: So they had like a four part program on how
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  Speaker 3: to get it done and listing things. They do have
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  Speaker 3: some stuff on their site to show where the areas
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  Speaker 3: that have come through and trained so that we can
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  Speaker 3: see if things are going forward with types of protests.
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  Speaker 3: And with that, they have completed that first batch of
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  Speaker 3: sessions with several locations registered, so hopefully we can see
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  Speaker 3: more of that. Again, this is one of those situations
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  Speaker 3: where I kind of go iffy because if they wanted,
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  Speaker 3: if they were be targeted, which we've seen in fascist
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  Speaker 3: states that that does happen, and this information is important
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  Speaker 3: to note, so's.
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  Speaker 1: Be weary because I know no kings.
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  Speaker 3: We also had that big controversy where they try to
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  Speaker 3: get people to register and everybody's like wait wait wait
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  Speaker 3: wait wait wait wait wait wait, that doesn't seem like
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  Speaker 3: a good idea, and I will hold it that that
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  Speaker 3: doesn't seem like a good idea. I think it's interesting
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  Speaker 3: to note that they wanted to know how many people
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  Speaker 3: would attend for like number wise, but for safety reasons.
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  Speaker 3: This seems like a bad idea, just to put that
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  Speaker 3: out there. So in just recently, like this month in LA,
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  Speaker 3: there's been many many protests. People are calling it music
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  Speaker 3: fests on TikTok because TikTok is really.
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  Speaker 1: Going downhill. We're just gonna say that way.
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  Speaker 3: They had a twenty four hour day of action which
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  Speaker 3: was planned by different groups including CHERLA or the Coalition
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  Speaker 3: of Human Immigration Rights in LA which was founded in
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  Speaker 3: nineteen eighty six, or the SEIU which is the Service
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  Speaker 3: Employees International Union, and several other key players that came
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  Speaker 3: in with different unions and definite immigration sites. They came
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  Speaker 3: together working to mobilize and protests against the kidnapping illegal
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  Speaker 3: arrests that committed by ice. So there's a lot of
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  Speaker 3: cool things happening there. There's still going from what I understand,
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  Speaker 3: I think was just like not being noted. People are
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  Speaker 3: not seeing what's happening. And of course the only times
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  Speaker 3: we see anything happening is if there's any kind of violence,
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  Speaker 3: and well, we know how that got gets to that point,
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  Speaker 3: don't we and moving.
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  Speaker 1: On and then you know what, I don't know, we've
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  Speaker 1: talked enough about this. I think we've talked about it before.
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  Speaker 1: But the Quaker.
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  Speaker 3: Community, let's just give a shout out to that Quaker
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  Speaker 3: community who've been leaders and examples of protesting and nonviolent
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  Speaker 3: protesting for years, four years since the like like in
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  Speaker 3: the US, since the ending of slavery, they were there
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  Speaker 3: as champions and advocates to the black community in that
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  Speaker 3: time to end slavery, like they have been a part
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  Speaker 3: of this community. In fact, not too long ago they
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  Speaker 3: there was like a group of like three hundred Quakers
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  Speaker 3: who marched from New York City to Washington, d C.
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  Speaker 3: In protests of the immigration policies implemented by the current administration.
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  Speaker 3: Like they marched all the way down in solidarity with
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  Speaker 3: immigrants and how this administration is wreaking havoc and.
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  Speaker 1: Doing illegal things.
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  Speaker 3: And with that there are prime examples of consistent support
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  Speaker 3: and advocacy work again throughout history, Like I really want
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  Speaker 3: to talk more about it, but just recently Quaker protesters
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  Speaker 3: were arrested along with others for protesting and supports Palestine
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  Speaker 3: in the UK. They have chapters in groups. I believe
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  Speaker 3: they call them the Friends because you know they used
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  Speaker 3: to be the Friends Society. I believe what they were before,
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  Speaker 3: like as the Quakers, and that they have been consistently
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  Speaker 3: a part of these peaceful protests and willing to be
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  Speaker 3: arrested in the name of justice. I'd love to see
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  Speaker 3: it and also just as to put it out there
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  Speaker 3: because again Labor Day is coming around, and I believe
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  Speaker 3: there's some things happening. There's some active activism happening for
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  Speaker 3: those of you participating. Here's some reminders from Amnesty dot
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  Speaker 3: org and their new campaign which they call Protect the Protest,
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  Speaker 3: which is working to protect protesters and their rights and
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  Speaker 3: being able to peacefully protest and to alert the public
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  Speaker 3: of the violations occurring in suppressing that right. It's occurring
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  Speaker 3: now as in fact, there was an executive water about
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  Speaker 3: arresting people who burn the flag, which has been a
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  Speaker 3: form of protests for years, for decades, for decades, and
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  Speaker 3: we know what's happening moving on. So they write this,
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  Speaker 3: know your rights. You have a right to peacefully assemble,
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  Speaker 3: a right to privacy, and a right to protest. If
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  Speaker 3: you get injured, you have the right to receive medical care.
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  Speaker 3: Police must avoid the use of force. So they say
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  Speaker 3: to do these following things. Go ahead and plan ahead.
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  Speaker 3: Make sure you know where you're going, make sure you
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  Speaker 3: know where you can meet up, know the area, know
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  Speaker 3: the area well. Wear protective clothing. And I think we've
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  Speaker 3: talked about this in so many of the Black Lives.
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  Speaker 3: Matter of wild wif that's important, whether it's eye wear,
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  Speaker 3: whether it's not wearing contacts, whether it's wearing clothes that
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  Speaker 3: are neutral and not marked, wearing masks because COVID is.
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  Speaker 1: Still out there. COVID is still out there.
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  Speaker 3: And then talking about packing emergency supplies, get your say
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  Speaker 3: first aid kit. I actually take contact solution and such
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  Speaker 3: because that can help flush out eyes. When we were
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  Speaker 3: doing pepper spray things for my old job, because we
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  Speaker 3: had to get pepper sprayed, they told us to use
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  Speaker 3: baby shampoo that did not work, just so you know,
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  Speaker 3: but you can try it. Don't use milk that has
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  Speaker 3: been highly yelled at. Don't use milk because I actually
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  Speaker 3: can make it a bacterial infection and may be really gross,
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  Speaker 3: So don't do that. But emergency supplies, including emergency numbers,
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  Speaker 3: knowing your rights, all of those things, and honestly, with
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  Speaker 3: what's happening with ice and illegal detentions and kidnappings and
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  Speaker 3: even like people faking being iced to attack women, that's
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  Speaker 3: a whole different conversation. Be prepared to document human rights abuses.
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  Speaker 3: You have the right to film people, especially in this situation.
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  Speaker 3: What we would say is, if you're filming and recording
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  Speaker 3: because you're so excited about being a part of the protest,
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  Speaker 3: do not show people's faces.
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  Speaker 1: Do not show people's faces. So there's a lot to
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  Speaker 1: be said in this moment.
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  Speaker 3: Again, we do ask if you have examples, if you
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  Speaker 3: have stories that you want to share in these protests,
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  Speaker 3: if you have ideas, or if you have actual organizations
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  Speaker 3: that you think should be shared, because I think that's
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  Speaker 3: something that we don't have enough of, then please let
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  Speaker 3: us know. Because honestly, I even asked our friend of
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  Speaker 3: show Bridget who is an activist in DC, Like, what
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  Speaker 3: do you know? Who do you know?
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  Speaker 1: Because it's really.
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  Speaker 3: Hard to find credible sources that tell you who is
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  Speaker 3: trustworthy and who is not. I know right now indivisible
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  Speaker 3: dot org, which is a nonprofit that has a lot
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  Speaker 3: of law makers, law lawyers and such as part of
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  Speaker 3: the organizations, are hosting protests right now throughout I just
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  Speaker 3: saw one in Boca Ratan, so I'd love to see that.
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  Speaker 1: But let us know, let us know because we need
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  Speaker 1: that information.
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