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Speaker 1: Good morning, keeps, and welcome to WIKA F Daily with

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Speaker 1: Meet your Girl Danielle Moody. Recording from the Home Bunker, Folks,

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Speaker 1: I really struggled with today's show and the decision to

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Speaker 1: entire episode talking about Donald Trump and doing exactly what

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Speaker 1: I have been lambasting the media for, or if we

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Speaker 1: were going to mention Donald Trump and then turn your

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Speaker 1: attention to actual, other important news that is happening. So

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Speaker 1: I've decided to do the latter because I got to

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Speaker 1: tell you that I am so fucking disgusted with the

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Speaker 1: mainstream media. I'm so fucking disgusted with all NBC's, CBS,

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Speaker 1: fucking MSNBC, CNN. All of them have learned absolutely nothing.

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Speaker 1: There is no critical analysis that is happening right now.

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Speaker 1: I hear people saying, oh my god, this is a

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Speaker 1: sad day for the nation. Tell me why. Tell me

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Speaker 1: why it's a sad day for the nation for a

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Speaker 1: white heterosis, wealthy, privileged, fucking entitled son of a bitch

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Speaker 1: to actually face criminal charges. Tell me why that's a

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Speaker 1: sad day. I did an entire TikTok yesterday talking about

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Speaker 1: what actual sad days in America look like. The murder

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Speaker 1: George Zimmerman him being found not guilty after murdering a

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Speaker 1: sixteen year old boy named Trey von Martin, that was

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Speaker 1: a fucking sad day. The Supreme Court that has been

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Speaker 1: weaponized by the Republican Party overturning Roe v. Wade, that

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Speaker 1: was a sad day in America. All of the criminalization

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Speaker 1: and target of the trans community that is happening. Those

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Speaker 1: are sad days in America. New Town, Columbine, Parkland, the

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Speaker 1: Pol's nightclub shooting, Uvaldi, the Tennessee School, and so many others.

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Speaker 1: Those are sad days in America. A privileged, white, fucking

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Speaker 1: held to account for crimes that he has committed is

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Speaker 1: not a sad day in our country. It is one

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Speaker 1: where we should rejoice that the justice system is doing

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Speaker 1: exactly what it was supposed to do in the first

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Speaker 1: fucking place, which has hold all people to account that

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Speaker 1: break the law and remind us as a nation that

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Speaker 1: we are not yet a Banana republic. When the former

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Speaker 1: twice in peace. President of the United States can be

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Speaker 1: brought in for an arraignment for over thirty counts of

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Speaker 1: charges against him. That is a righteous day in America.

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Speaker 1: The covering of Donald Trump's playing on the tarmac, the

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Speaker 1: following of his motorcade, that's not news. That is sensationalistic

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Speaker 1: bullshit that I for one, decided not to watch my

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Speaker 1: What a nicer day you can have when you don't

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Speaker 1: spend it plopped down in front of the television to

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Speaker 1: somebody in the media, you know, NBCCBS and other the

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Speaker 1: mainstream news outlets decided to cut their coverage right and

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Speaker 1: just turn one hundred percent to Donald Trump. Nobody cut

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Speaker 1: their coverage. However, earlier in the week, when the state

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Speaker 1: of Tennessee saw the largest walkout of students in its history,

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Speaker 1: nobody cut from their regular coverage to show the faces

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Speaker 1: of resistance are young children who are fighting for their

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Speaker 1: lives because the adults that are in charge refuse to

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Speaker 1: do so. Nobody was showing what the Tennessee Republicans in

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Speaker 1: because they decided to side with their constituents to call

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Speaker 1: those constituents in their districts have lost representation. No one

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Speaker 1: cut their coverage. Then I am so sick and fucking

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Speaker 1: tired of the media in this country. So for those

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Speaker 1: of you who support my podcasts here on Patreon, you

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Speaker 1: know I appreciate you so very much because you are

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Speaker 1: making a choice to resist, a choice to resist the

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Speaker 1: ratings war, to resist right the herd, and to carve

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Speaker 1: cover Donald Trump the way that we cover everything else.

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Speaker 1: But he ain't getting no special fucking coverage on woke

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Speaker 1: AF that's for goddamn sure. The motherfucker was arraigned. Once

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Speaker 1: we know the details of said arraignment and the charges

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Speaker 1: And I hope that you all decided to save your

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Speaker 1: are staying safe. So coming up next my conversation with

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Speaker 1: Our Shared Future Action Fund. And in this conversation, Joaquin

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Speaker 1: and I discuss school board elections and why they have

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Speaker 1: coming up next, folks. I am very happy to welcome

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Speaker 1: to Woke a f daily the political director from Campaign

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Speaker 1: for Our Shared Future Action Fund, Joaquin Gara. Joaquin, you know,

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Speaker 1: we are living at a time that I got to

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Speaker 1: tell you, I wasn't expecting to be here. I wasn't

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Speaker 1: expecting to be in a place where curriculums are being raised,

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Speaker 1: where we're seeing school boards being taken over by radical

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Speaker 1: I just want to give you an opportunity as I

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Speaker 1: know like art, because apparently we're firing principles now for

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Speaker 1: showing for an art teacher showing a picture of Michael

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Speaker 1: now been fired from a charter school. So talk to

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Speaker 1: this insidious campaign against freedom in education. Absolutely, Daniel, thanks

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Speaker 1: so much for having me on so my organization, the

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Speaker 1: sister organization to our C three, the Campaign for Our

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Speaker 1: Shared Future, And really we were born out of the

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Speaker 1: coattails of cultural race theory, which is where we first

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Speaker 1: This is a political strategy, and this is not a

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Speaker 1: I remember when Tipper Goore was politicizing rock and roll, remember,

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Speaker 1: like what is critical race theory? But when it gets

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Speaker 1: UM waking. I appreciate the work that you're doing so much.

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Speaker 1: Please tell the listeners how they can get involved a

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Speaker 1: totally UM. Please go to Campaign for Our Shared Future

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Speaker 1: dot org and um uh you know to to learn

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Speaker 1: more about like the work that we do UM the

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Speaker 1: website for our website, UH you can be found there,

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Speaker 1: you can, it's linked there. You can find out more

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Speaker 1: about the work that we do both on the C three,

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Speaker 1: on the action fund side where we do work around

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Speaker 1: electoral elections. And then Danielle, can I share just one

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Speaker 1: more anecdote? Do we have time? I don't want to, Okay,

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Speaker 1: So in terms of connecting this back to like movement

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Speaker 1: especially um uh to you know the work that organizers

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Speaker 1: Last year, the last scored election that we endorsed in

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Speaker 1: there were five candidates running in runoff elections or the

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Speaker 1: general election, you know, for for Louisiana and UH in Louisiana,

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Speaker 1: they have partners in school board elections, so you had

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Speaker 1: people that are running as Republicans and Democrats. When we

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Speaker 1: one race where the Republican running UM had a track

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Speaker 1: record of saying of having a track record of being

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Speaker 1: anti equity and really saying some really insensitive things as

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Speaker 1: they're related to race UM. And this was the only

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Speaker 1: rate race that we endorsed in. We endorsed Katie Kennison

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Speaker 1: who won and beat a ten year incumbent and this

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Speaker 1: ten year incumbent UH. I want to give a shout

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Speaker 1: out to Gary Chambers who ran for US Senate in

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Speaker 1: Louisiana last year because Gary Chambers, after George Floyd was murdered, right,

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Speaker 1: Gary Chambers and other people in East Baton Rouge were

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Speaker 1: calling for the school district, for the East Bandon School

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Speaker 1: District to change the name of schools Robert E. Lee

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Speaker 1: High School, you know, to take down statues, you know,

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Speaker 1: and this school board member, you know, this is where

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Speaker 1: you know, she had just like a history of being

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Speaker 1: just incredibly insensitive saying some really problematic, you know, racist, adjacent,

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Speaker 1: We would not have been part of defeating this tenure

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Speaker 1: Gary Chambers and the organizers, the people on the ground

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Speaker 1: member to be held accountable. They were calling for her resignation,

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Speaker 1: they were calling on her to step down. She did not,

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Speaker 1: She did not wipe because she was running in a

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Speaker 1: very very conservative Republican district. Now, the good people of

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Speaker 1: East Beaton Rouge and District eight decided, you know what,

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Speaker 1: enough's enough, We're going to vote that person out and

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Speaker 1: they elected Katie Kennison to the school board. Now we

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Speaker 1: didn't we were the only organization to endorse in that race.

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Speaker 1: Nobody touched this race. Right. But you know, when you

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Speaker 1: provide people with the information, when you look at it

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Speaker 1: from the state and you present it in a way

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Speaker 1: that is non where you where you ship away the

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Speaker 1: fear and you really talk about like what's really like

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Speaker 1: at stake here as it relates to um setting children

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Speaker 1: up for success and asking them, you know, questions that

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Speaker 1: are legitimate questions and ask them to make a choice.

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Speaker 1: People will make the right decision. That's our hope, right,

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Speaker 1: and and that's one of the reasons why I do

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Speaker 1: the work that I do, especially you know, at the

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Speaker 1: campaign for Our Shared Future actually fun because we didn't

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Speaker 1: I didn't think that we were going to win. You know,

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Speaker 1: this was both candidates really didn't have a campaign operation

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Speaker 1: and weren't spending you know, thousands of dollars like in

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Speaker 1: their race. It was a it was a fifty, it

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Speaker 1: was a it was a toin cost race, right, But

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Speaker 1: we decided to put um, We decided to put some

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Speaker 1: put a stake in the ground here because this is

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Speaker 1: exactly why we exist. We had a candidate who was

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Speaker 1: anti equity, and that's exactly why we exist. I'm proud

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Speaker 1: that we were that we were able to have a

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Speaker 1: small part in Katie Kennison's victory, But that victory would

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Speaker 1: not have been possible if it would not have been

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Speaker 1: for the work that Gary Chambers and his um UM

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Speaker 1: had not started two years earlier. So that's how all

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Speaker 1: of this is connected, right, it doesn't. It's it's it's

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Speaker 1: it's exactly to paraphrase I think everybody Butcher's mlk's quote

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Speaker 1: exactly you know that that is that is the reason

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Speaker 1: why we exist. Um And the last thing that I'll

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Speaker 1: say is that you know, it's school board elections, especially

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Speaker 1: in twenty twenty three, Danielle Um. You don't have any

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Speaker 1: other elections, with the exception of local races in most states. Virginia,

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Speaker 1: Louisiana's gonna uh. Louisiana, Kentucky and Virginia are are a

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Speaker 1: handful of states that have that have other elections up

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Speaker 1: twenty twenty three, it's about scholard and city council elections. Right,

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Speaker 1: So it's even more important that we do our the

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Speaker 1: work that we do and other organizations because it's not

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Speaker 1: just us. There's a whole bunch of other organizations besides

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Speaker 1: us that are working to elect pro equity candidates to

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Speaker 1: make sure that school boards don't get flipped by these

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Speaker 1: reactionary anti equity candidates and forces and bring the culture

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Speaker 1: be Yeah, waquin Gara, thank you so much for making

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Speaker 1: the time for wokey F and also all of the

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Speaker 1: work that you're doing. Folks, do make sure to check

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Speaker 1: out Campaign for Our Shared Future and check out the

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Speaker 1: work that the Action Fund is doing. It is a

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Speaker 1: way for you to get involved, and i'd encourage all

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Speaker 1: your listeners also to go to the stuff to your

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Speaker 1: website and to become a Patreon sponsor as well. You're

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Speaker 1: very welcome. Thanks for all the work. J Janielle really

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Speaker 1: enjoyed the conversation and thanks for having me on. I

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Speaker 1: appreciate you. That is it for me today on woke F.

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Speaker 1: As always, Power to the people and to all the people. Power,

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Speaker 1: get woke and stay woke as fun