Speaker 1: Good morning, Peepsen, and welcome to Okay f Daily with
Speaker 1: Meet your Girl Danielle Moody recording from the Home Bunker.
Speaker 1: You know, folks, we are just a handful of days
Speaker 1: until the State of Georgia makes its decision in their
Speaker 1: runoff election about who is going to represent them. Now,
Speaker 1: I have had such deep feelings about what Republicans have
Speaker 1: done in the State of Georgia. I've had such deep
Speaker 1: feelings about the political apparatus that is even allowed for
Speaker 1: Reverend Warnock to have a fighting chance in the State
Speaker 1: of Georgia because of the work that's Stacy Abrams, Blackpack
Speaker 1: and other on the ground coalitions have done to create
Speaker 1: a get out the vote apparatus that is bar none
Speaker 1: and should be replicated in every fucking state in this country,
Speaker 1: regardless of how red we think that it is, because
Speaker 1: what Democrats do and have done is just seed states,
Speaker 1: full states, full fucking regions to Republicans and say, oh,
Speaker 1: we could never instead of getting on the ground three
Speaker 1: hundred and sixty five days a year talking to people,
Speaker 1: organizing with people, building up momentum, and building a pipeline
Speaker 1: of candidates that could potentially whether it is in five
Speaker 1: years and ten years or in twenty years, turn that
Speaker 1: state from red too fucking purple too blue. Right, That's
Speaker 1: the kind of elbow grease. Is the kind of fortitude,
Speaker 1: that is the kind of persistence that black women have,
Speaker 1: that have been at the forefront of shaping and changing
Speaker 1: Georgia that Democrats need to have up and down this
Speaker 1: fucking country if they want to, in fact, preserve and
Speaker 1: expand our democracy. What do I mean by expand? I
Speaker 1: mean that we live up to our creed where all
Speaker 1: people are treated equal, where everyone has access to liberty
Speaker 1: and justice and freedom and happiness, and that these are
Speaker 1: not just words and parts of our constitution, but that
Speaker 1: we live these ideals, and these ideals are present in
Speaker 1: our policies. Right. That doesn't happen when we keep ping
Speaker 1: ponging back and forth between the white nationalist Republican Party
Speaker 1: and the Democrats. Right. So when we look at this race,
Speaker 1: this Senate race, and you know, I've heard some people say, well, oh,
Speaker 1: it's not that consequential anymore, because we already have the
Speaker 1: Democrats have already won the Senate. And I say to them,
Speaker 1: are you dumb? Because the more Democratic senators we have,
Speaker 1: the more things that we actually get done. So no,
Speaker 1: we don't just throw up our hands and say so
Speaker 1: we won. We don't need another seat, Yes we fucking do. Frankly,
Speaker 1: we need sixty in order to get all of the
Speaker 1: things done that we actually want to get done in
Speaker 1: this country and can't because of the archaic racist filibuster
Speaker 1: that is in place and because of Joe Manchin and
Speaker 1: Kursen Cinema that deny us the ability to get rid
Speaker 1: of the filibuster. So we can codify you know, women's
Speaker 1: rights and voting rights into this country, so that we
Speaker 1: nullify the damage that the Supreme Court is doing now
Speaker 1: that it has been weaponized and radicalized by the white
Speaker 1: supremacy Republican Party. So when I look at Georgia and
Speaker 1: I look at a herschel Walker that is a empty
Speaker 1: vessel puppet for white supremacy and the Republican Party that
Speaker 1: they would lift up this man that has near a
Speaker 1: brain in his head, it's clearly I mean not even
Speaker 1: under I don't even what is the worst word, rather
Speaker 1: than underqualified for a job, right like he is, whatever
Speaker 1: that word is, that is what herschel Walker is. Herschel
Speaker 1: Walker couldn't even be I think in charge of coaching
Speaker 1: a little league football team, because the man does not
Speaker 1: have control of his mental faculties. You listen to him
Speaker 1: and in Warnock's latest ad, which is by far the
Speaker 1: most brilliant thing I have seen, and again I'm like,
Speaker 1: if Democrats at the national level are not paying attention
Speaker 1: to one the apparatus that has been put in place
Speaker 1: to get out the vote in Georgia, and to two
Speaker 1: the way in which Reverend Warnock has decided to fight
Speaker 1: back against the white supremacists in Georgia, they're not paying
Speaker 1: attention his latest attack ad looks like this. It looks
Speaker 1: like a bunch of Georgians, different races, different ages, sitting
Speaker 1: in a white room like a focus group, and they
Speaker 1: have headphones on and they're watching herschel Walker in his
Speaker 1: own words at rallies. They're watching clips of him speaking.
Speaker 1: The entire ad is just them reacting to herschel Walker speaking.
Speaker 1: It is brilliant. They're listening to herschel Walker talk about
Speaker 1: vampires and werewolves and how he wants to be a werewolf.
Speaker 1: Now they're watching videos of herschel Walker just run on
Speaker 1: about bad air in China and good air in the
Speaker 1: United states, and like we have enough good air, so
Speaker 1: they're bad air, won't get I mean it is. And
Speaker 1: then the people are reacting and their reactions go range
Speaker 1: from ways of embarrassment to anger, to frustration to this
Speaker 1: is how little And this is what I have been saying,
Speaker 1: This is how little the Republican Party thinks about the
Speaker 1: people of Georgia. That all they want is a yes man.
Speaker 1: All they want is somebody to hit the yes button.
Speaker 1: Not somebody that is going to think about them, that
Speaker 1: is going to lead them, that is going to be
Speaker 1: supportive of them and actually understand their needs. No, they
Speaker 1: just need an empty vessel in there, a empty black
Speaker 1: body that they can point to and say, boy, you
Speaker 1: go ahead and go do that. Boy, you go ahead
Speaker 1: and vote like that. And I spoke about this that
Speaker 1: a good reverend down in Georgia went viral for his
Speaker 1: video lambasting Herschel Walker, lambasting white nationalist racist in the
Speaker 1: state of Georgia, saying that they don't want you to
Speaker 1: have a man that is of philosophy. They want you
Speaker 1: to vote for the man with a football. You don't
Speaker 1: need a walker, you need a leader. You need somebody
Speaker 1: that is about running this state putting us on the map, right,
Speaker 1: And I gotta tell you that herschel Walker bodies exactly
Speaker 1: what it is the Republican Party thinks about black people,
Speaker 1: what they think about people of color, how very little
Speaker 1: they think about us, right. And you can tell by
Speaker 1: the company that these motherfuckers keep. You know, they say
Speaker 1: nothing still with regard to Donald Trump dining with a
Speaker 1: white supremacy and known white supremacis and anti semi in
Speaker 1: Nick Fluente's end in Kanye West, they say nothing because
Speaker 1: they don't want to upset their base, which is built
Speaker 1: on white supremacy and white supremacists. Their silence tells us
Speaker 1: who they are. And this is the thing and I
Speaker 1: did to TikTok about this earlier in the week, which
Speaker 1: said this, you don't need to announce that you are
Speaker 1: a racist. You do not need to announce that you
Speaker 1: are an anti semi. All you have to do is
Speaker 1: pay attention to what people say, what they don't say,
Speaker 1: and who the fuck they rock with. That will give
Speaker 1: you all the information that you need. I don't need
Speaker 1: Donald Trump to stand up on a stage and say
Speaker 1: that he is a racist. I know that Donald Trump
Speaker 1: is a racist. I know it from the ways that
Speaker 1: he ran his fucking rental buildings in New York City
Speaker 1: and was sued for it. I know the way in
Speaker 1: which he had spoken about black people, that's my good
Speaker 1: black over there. I know the way that he has
Speaker 1: spoken about African nations and nations are built by people
Speaker 1: of color as shiphole countries. I know the ways that
Speaker 1: he has treated undocumented people in this country. I know
Speaker 1: the ways that he has spoken about Mexicans in this country,
Speaker 1: how he has said that those that come in here
Speaker 1: should be from good places like Finland or Norwegian. Right
Speaker 1: like we know who Donald Trump is. It is willful
Speaker 1: ignorance that has us believed that this Republican Party isn't
Speaker 1: just a well funded, well organized, fucking hate group. So
Speaker 1: it is more important than ever, more important than ever,
Speaker 1: that we elect people who look like this country's demographic shift,
Speaker 1: and not just look like them in the way that
Speaker 1: the Republican Party has put up this empty vessel known
Speaker 1: as herschel Walker, that doesn't just have the complexion, but
Speaker 1: has the character and the fortitude and the will to
Speaker 1: match what we need in order to preserve our democracy,
Speaker 1: in order to actualize our freedoms in this country, Coming
Speaker 1: up next, it's my conversation with Dalida Hosha, who is
Speaker 1: the executive director of renew US, which is an organization
Speaker 1: that is about endorsing progressive, Black, Indigenous people of color
Speaker 1: candidates across America and giving them the skills and the
Speaker 1: ability to be able to not only run as candidates,
Speaker 1: but to run campaigns as well. So I will talk
Speaker 1: with Delida about a whole host of things and why
Speaker 1: it is important that organizations like renew US exist, folks.
Speaker 1: I am very excited to welcome to woka F Daily
Speaker 1: for the very first time Dalida Hosha, who is the
Speaker 1: executive director of renew US, say an organization that is
Speaker 1: dedicated in working with down ballot progressive candidates. Dalida, please
Speaker 1: tell the WOKAF audience a bit more about renew USA
Speaker 1: and how what integral part you played in in the
Speaker 1: midterm elections. Yeah, sure, Danielle, thank you for having me.
Speaker 1: Um So, as you said, renew USA really trying to
Speaker 1: make sure we identify the gaps that progressive um you know,
Speaker 1: the left has been missing in order to really build
Speaker 1: true power. Right, we have seen how since the seventies
Speaker 1: the far right really invested in state they had, you know,
Speaker 1: this strategy to invest in state power. UM, while the
Speaker 1: far left we just thought that you know, DC was
Speaker 1: the goal, right and UM, at a national level, things
Speaker 1: have not changed. So UM Renew really wants to focus
Speaker 1: on building that power locally, UM to make sure that
Speaker 1: power rises up right, to make sure that we can
Speaker 1: change things on a local and state level, because that's
Speaker 1: where it truly matters, like that's where impacts our day
Speaker 1: to day life, not so much at a national level,
Speaker 1: where most of the things get stuck, you know, and
Speaker 1: we don't see change that really impacts our life and
Speaker 1: push us forward towards justice. So Renew have been able
Speaker 1: to identify the gaps and we have been able to
Speaker 1: provide the service to close that gap and really really
Speaker 1: invest in candidates at a local and state level to
Speaker 1: build that long lasting progressive power that we desperately need
Speaker 1: in order to save our planet, in order to change
Speaker 1: you know, our lives, everyday lives for immigrants, lgbtqu Native Americans,
Speaker 1: you know, just really really change the lives of those
Speaker 1: who have been the most marginalized in this country and
Speaker 1: and honestly worldwide. Let's talk a bit about the fact
Speaker 1: that Democrats for far too long have ceded state influence
Speaker 1: to the right. Right, like you said, you know, democrats
Speaker 1: will the democratic establishment has always told us, okay, we
Speaker 1: need representative representation in Congress, in the Senate, um know,
Speaker 1: at the governorship, the presidency. And so what has happened
Speaker 1: by virtue of that is that folks have kind of
Speaker 1: allowed what is happening at the state, uh and local
Speaker 1: level to kind of fall by the wayside. Can you
Speaker 1: speak to some of the candidates, UM that you all
Speaker 1: were helping in the races that you were helping in,
Speaker 1: and why it's important for folks who may only be
Speaker 1: invested at the national level to understand the intricacies of
Speaker 1: about what happens at the state and local level. Sure, Um,
Speaker 1: so VERNUA is in twelve different states, right, so we
Speaker 1: had candidates UM in various uh in all the twelve
Speaker 1: states and UM progressive candidates. For example, in North Carolina,
Speaker 1: we had we endorsed Carla who first Latina would become
Speaker 1: the first Latina to be elected, uh, you know to
Speaker 1: the state house. UM. We indorsed for example, my district
Speaker 1: right here in Massachusetts. UH, we worked on Robin Kennedy
Speaker 1: for state Senate right, um, and progressive candidate um who
Speaker 1: is now thankfully my my state senator. Um. So, we
Speaker 1: we had just amazing candidates that we indorsed um all
Speaker 1: over the country. And obviously when um, when you're going
Speaker 1: for progressive candidates, it also means that you're going to
Speaker 1: lose a lot, right, You're gonna lose them because you
Speaker 1: gotta be if we're not built to to lose, then
Speaker 1: we're not built to like really be in the fight
Speaker 1: we you know, um so. And the important is um
Speaker 1: candidates um As I say, the power flows up right,
Speaker 1: So candidates at a local and state level most likely
Speaker 1: there is a pipeline for them to then go to Congress. Right.
Speaker 1: So if we're not investing at a state level, local
Speaker 1: and state level, then we're really not looking forward to
Speaker 1: the power that we could build towards, right, um. And
Speaker 1: that's what the far right did. They like invested so
Speaker 1: deeply in local and state level. And then we wonder
Speaker 1: sometimes we caught off guardens like how did we get
Speaker 1: that that person as you know, a US Congress uh,
Speaker 1: you know, representative, oh senators, just like well they've been
Speaker 1: building while we've been, um, you know, the the left
Speaker 1: been pretending that we're just like going straight to um,
Speaker 1: you know, Congress in White House to get the power.
Speaker 1: Then they've been building because they know the power is
Speaker 1: going up instead of like you're not seeing your US
Speaker 1: representative or US senator leaving that position to come down
Speaker 1: and become your state senator. Right, that's not happening, right,
Speaker 1: And that is why it's so important for us to
Speaker 1: build local and state level because most likely those are
Speaker 1: the folks that are going to be representing you at
Speaker 1: the national level. UM. And and the changes that truly
Speaker 1: happens at a local and state level. UM. Take immigration
Speaker 1: form you know an example, and I'm taking immigration. I'm
Speaker 1: an immigrant right from Kate Bird, which is west coast
Speaker 1: of Africa. We continue to hear that immigration is national,
Speaker 1: you know, it should be debated and it should be
Speaker 1: so called fixed at a national level. Right in the meantime,
Speaker 1: you know, the system is broken. Nothing is getting done
Speaker 1: on a national level. So that means we have to
Speaker 1: be able to do it at a state level. And
Speaker 1: in order to be able to do it at a
Speaker 1: state level, we have to be able to work with
Speaker 1: progressive candidates, get them in office so we can get
Speaker 1: those laws change at a state level, and that is
Speaker 1: going to impact what happens on the national levels, not
Speaker 1: the other way around, as we've been pretending that it
Speaker 1: is right. So, you know, one of the things that
Speaker 1: I think has been really important to me as I've
Speaker 1: been looking and trying to educate people on why they
Speaker 1: should care about state and local races is what's happening
Speaker 1: with the school boards right. For instance, school boards have
Speaker 1: been taken over by the far right and they are
Speaker 1: banning books. Right, two thousand books have been banned across
Speaker 1: you know, k through twelve schools across this country. They
Speaker 1: are banning curriculum, they're banning words. And I'm saying if
Speaker 1: you're a person, regardless of if you have kids in
Speaker 1: the school system or not, right, you should care about
Speaker 1: how young people are being educated. So, how does RENEW
Speaker 1: get people activated and interested in either running for office
Speaker 1: themselves or being trained to go and find folks that
Speaker 1: are interested in running for office and then running their campaigns. Yeah,
Speaker 1: so RENEW is really focused on recruiting our own I
Speaker 1: call it our own people, right, regular people who are nurses, parents, advocates, activists.
Speaker 1: We're really recruiting people who wouldn't think that they are
Speaker 1: fit to be an office, they are fit to represent.
Speaker 1: We have activists on the ground every day organizing, trying
Speaker 1: to change um uh you know uh laws and trying
Speaker 1: to put in place things that it's going to better
Speaker 1: our lives. But a lot of them don't think that
Speaker 1: they have the skills or they have what it takes
Speaker 1: to actually be a public um, you know, servant in
Speaker 1: that way of like representing their constituents. Right, So we
Speaker 1: are going out there identifying those those folks who have
Speaker 1: been doing the work for so long and having you know,
Speaker 1: just conversations, Um, have you thought of yourself as someone
Speaker 1: who can run for office? Um? And you know they
Speaker 1: say it takes at least seven times when you ask
Speaker 1: a female identified the person um for them to say yes, um.
Speaker 1: And that is um. You know it's it's not that's
Speaker 1: not by accident, right, that is not by accident. So
Speaker 1: we are taking a time to make sure that it's
Speaker 1: not a one time conversation. UM. It's you know, we
Speaker 1: are building a community as we recruit folks. We are
Speaker 1: building a community and we are creating the conditions for
Speaker 1: them to claim and reclaim their power. We don't have
Speaker 1: the power to give anyone right you have. We can
Speaker 1: only create the conditions for people to recognize their power
Speaker 1: and take it. And that is exactly what Bruneau is doing.
Speaker 1: We are recruiting candidates, we are providing the trainings that
Speaker 1: they need and apologies if you hear my dog, we
Speaker 1: are providing the trainings that they need because it's not
Speaker 1: just getting that person to say yes, right, it's also
Speaker 1: providing them with the trainings that they need. Because a
Speaker 1: lot of the times that is why a lot of
Speaker 1: folks get discouraged from running. They get someone to recruit
Speaker 1: them and then it's kind of like, oh, now you
Speaker 1: have to figure out on your own what you need
Speaker 1: in order to run a campaign, and that's not fair
Speaker 1: to them. And then when you know the campaign is
Speaker 1: not quote unquote successful because they're not elected, then they
Speaker 1: get discouraged and they sort of like go away. And
Speaker 1: that is we continue to lose people in our movement,
Speaker 1: and that is why the folks who are left are
Speaker 1: getting burnt out because we're just like constantly viewing too much. Right.
Speaker 1: So we are providing the trainings that they need, and
Speaker 1: we also providing trainings for campaign managers. Right. We renew
Speaker 1: noticed that there was a gap, right, we not enough
Speaker 1: people of color, lgbtqu members of the community have been um,
Speaker 1: you know, have been sort of allowed at the opportunity
Speaker 1: to learn the skills needed to become campaign managers, which
Speaker 1: means that we have an issue with the pipeline because
Speaker 1: most of the people who become campaign managers eventually, um
Speaker 1: either you're becoming chief of staff or becoming a staff
Speaker 1: member of whoever is elected, and then that opens the
Speaker 1: door for you to then later on run. Right, So
Speaker 1: like the that is a game, that is a gap,
Speaker 1: like when you have a lack of you know, uh
Speaker 1: leaders in the pipeline to be able to represent us.
Speaker 1: And that is what renew is doing. We training campaign
Speaker 1: managers all across the country and then connecting them to
Speaker 1: progressive candidates not only for them to be supported with
Speaker 1: their campaign with progressives, but also to create that pipeline
Speaker 1: to then have more of our people, I continue to say,
Speaker 1: our people representing us. Tell us a little bit about
Speaker 1: what you're training, particularly for campaign managers, because I do remember,
Speaker 1: you know, working on Capitol Hill and I was a
Speaker 1: part I went to Capitol Hill as a member of
Speaker 1: the Congressional Black Caucuses fellowship program, and the whole purpose
Speaker 1: of that was to bring more black people to Capitol
Speaker 1: Hill because in many ways in Washington, DC, that pipeline
Speaker 1: was fueled by people who were afforded the ability and
Speaker 1: privilege to do unpaid internships. We don't do that kind
Speaker 1: of thing anymore, but because of unpaid intern ships, that
Speaker 1: the assumption was that your families had money, right, and
Speaker 1: and you didn't have to spend any time working and
Speaker 1: you could uh kind of get your foot in the door. Um.
Speaker 1: And so the CBC recognized that there was a huge
Speaker 1: gap in terms of black and brown people being represented
Speaker 1: on Capitol Hill for that reason. So I want to
Speaker 1: talk a little bit about your the campaign manager training,
Speaker 1: uh trainings and programs. What are some of the things
Speaker 1: that you offer and how do people find the program
Speaker 1: if in fact they are interested uh in in getting
Speaker 1: in getting that experience. Yeah, so some some of the
Speaker 1: trainings included in the curriculum UM fundraising. Right, and we
Speaker 1: know whether folks want to have an open conversation about it, UM.
Speaker 1: We know UM that bipop folks have have had a
Speaker 1: sort of UM streaming relationship with with money. Right. I
Speaker 1: For example, book UM was one of the things that
Speaker 1: I shy away from is asking is organizing money. We
Speaker 1: don't see it as organized money. A lot of the
Speaker 1: times we're seeing as you know, bagging, so we shy
Speaker 1: away from that. So that is part of fundraising, is
Speaker 1: part of the training really um you know uh, teaching
Speaker 1: our participants to look at it from a different angle.
Speaker 1: It's about organizing money, um, that you need to do
Speaker 1: in order to achieve a goal, right um. And UM
Speaker 1: we also training on you know, uh comms right um.
Speaker 1: As a campaign manager, messaging extremely important, right. So we
Speaker 1: have messaging training, we have fundraising training, vote builder, uh,
Speaker 1: anything that you will need in order to um, you know,
Speaker 1: confidently run a campaign um. Which is as you said,
Speaker 1: uh and an issue because a lot of folks who
Speaker 1: can afford to do interference internship and paid internship, you know,
Speaker 1: they gained those skills, but for the rest of us
Speaker 1: who cannot afford to do that, we continue to be
Speaker 1: left behind. And then there's this constant narrative of just like, um,
Speaker 1: folks are not coming to the table. It's just like
Speaker 1: they can't come to the table if they don't if
Speaker 1: they thinking about how I'm not going to meet my
Speaker 1: knee Yeah, where's my where's my mail coming from the
Speaker 1: next day? How I'm not going to feed my family.
Speaker 1: You can't come to the table like that. Yeah. You know,
Speaker 1: one of the things that has been on the rise
Speaker 1: in this country over the last several years is political violence,
Speaker 1: threats of political violence. I mean we just you know,
Speaker 1: uh saw the attack on Paul Pelosi, Speaker Pelosi's husband.
Speaker 1: We have seen other members of Congress be shot. We
Speaker 1: have seen other you know, threats of the FBI and
Speaker 1: bombing and all of these things. How does the rise
Speaker 1: in political violence? We saw the polsters that volunteered in
Speaker 1: Georgia in the twenty twenty election have their entire lives
Speaker 1: turned upside down and are living in fear because of
Speaker 1: the former twice impeached presidents tweets and attacks on them.
Speaker 1: So how do you talk about how does RENEW kind
Speaker 1: of talk about this the reality of political violence while
Speaker 1: also seeking to find candidates and volunteers that want to
Speaker 1: run for office and work on campaigns. Yeah, so that first,
Speaker 1: the acknowledgement that fear can paralyze one is something that RENEW.
Speaker 1: That was the first thing we acknowledge that it's not
Speaker 1: as easy of just asking someone for you know, to
Speaker 1: step up and run for office. We care be fears, fear,
Speaker 1: not body right, especially for us who have a descendants
Speaker 1: of slaves. While other people want to acknowledge it, have
Speaker 1: open conversation, that's a separate thing, but the fact is
Speaker 1: that it's in our DNA so so fear paralyzes, especially
Speaker 1: when we see what we're seeing in the media or
Speaker 1: the experiences that we have in an everyday life. Right.
Speaker 1: So we knew that we couldn't just UM be out
Speaker 1: there asking people to run without considering the fact that
Speaker 1: some people really fear for their lives, especially if you're
Speaker 1: from a marginalized group. UM, that we need to have
Speaker 1: more representative representation of right UM. So renewed UM partnered
Speaker 1: with puerpoint UM, a national UM UH organization that provides
Speaker 1: UH you know, security consulting UM and UM can UM
Speaker 1: provide can really walk with you UM all the steps
Speaker 1: whether it is you've you've been hacked or you've been
Speaker 1: UM you know attacked on social media physically attacked. They
Speaker 1: you know, they Jessica walks with you UH throughout the
Speaker 1: steps UM for counseling UM and to help you put
Speaker 1: the safety net in place in order for you to
Speaker 1: feel secure to what this is. Uh. And it's not
Speaker 1: just for candidates. Let me be clears for movement leaders. Yes,
Speaker 1: it's for movement leaders. I myself for example. UM, I've
Speaker 1: worked on immigration issue and other issues for a while,
Speaker 1: and I was working on the you know, driver's license
Speaker 1: bill here in Massachusetts for undocumented immigrants. When we first
Speaker 1: filed the bill in twenty nineteen, I started receiving threats.
Speaker 1: This the bill passed June of this year, September ninth,
Speaker 1: Republicans opposition had gathered enough signature to bring it to
Speaker 1: the ballot. We were going to be the first state. Um,
Speaker 1: we became the first state where they collected enough signature
Speaker 1: to bring it to the ballot and potentially repeal it.
Speaker 1: So it became a ballot campaign from September ninth through
Speaker 1: November eight, not even enough time. UM, and I faced
Speaker 1: threats again. UM. Even my neighbor down the street from
Speaker 1: me were following me as I was canvassing for Yes
Speaker 1: on four. I was the I was the field director
Speaker 1: for the Yes on four campaign, and he was following me, right,
Speaker 1: And that is you know I already have trauma from Yeah,
Speaker 1: I already had trauma from when we first filed the bill,
Speaker 1: when I was receiving emails, social media message and even
Speaker 1: people making videos about me. Right, it's a violation of
Speaker 1: my privacy and is exposing me to the world. Right.
Speaker 1: So like I carried that fear and my body, so
Speaker 1: I recognize the fear that other people carry. So to
Speaker 1: then turn around and for someone to say, hey, do
Speaker 1: you want to run for office even though you have
Speaker 1: been so many times without the safety net in place,
Speaker 1: we can't do that to our people. So that's that
Speaker 1: is why we have partner with peer Point to provide
Speaker 1: the service that our movement leaders need in order to
Speaker 1: claim that power and be in the forefront of the movement.
Speaker 1: Sela with the men at ourselves that we have left.
Speaker 1: You know, what advice do you give or encouragement to
Speaker 1: people that you know have a voice, they have a position,
Speaker 1: but they're on the fence about running for office. They're
Speaker 1: on the fence because of the heightened threats because of
Speaker 1: putting themselves or their families at risk, but they feel
Speaker 1: like they need to do something. What advice do you
Speaker 1: give to them? Seek a community? Right, We cannot do
Speaker 1: this alone. Renew cannot do this alone. Candidates cannot do
Speaker 1: this alone. We need to have a community where we
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Speaker 1: thank you. Thank you so much for having me, Danielle.
Speaker 1: Absolutely bye. That is it for me today. Dear friends
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