Speaker 1: Good morning, peeps, and welcome to wok F Daily with
Speaker 1: Meet your Girl Daniel Moody, recording from the Home Bunker.
Speaker 1: It's been another really trying week in this country, around
Speaker 1: the world, and on today's Woke Wednesday, much like last
Speaker 1: week's Woke Wednesday, I want to talk a bit about
Speaker 1: what I feel the purpose of Wokenesses, which is about
Speaker 1: raising consciousness. It is about educating ourselves and the people
Speaker 1: around us about systemic oppressions, about creating the level of
Speaker 1: consciousness that it takes in order to imagine and create
Speaker 1: new world outside of where we have been living and existing.
Speaker 1: I think that where we are right now is in
Speaker 1: an extraordinarily low vibrational place. What do I mean by that?
Speaker 1: I mean that when you look around, everything and everywhere
Speaker 1: is just wrapped in hatred, in violence. We are watching
Speaker 1: what is not normal, folks. And I've been thinking about this.
Speaker 1: Netanyahu spoke this week, you know, hailing his massacre of
Speaker 1: thousands of children and folks. Let me preface this by
Speaker 1: saying again that I as I every time that I
Speaker 1: talk about Israel and Palestine. I am not a foreign
Speaker 1: affairs expert. I am not an expert on the Middle East.
Speaker 1: I am not a historian. What I offer to you
Speaker 1: is my own opinion based on my experience fighting for
Speaker 1: justice and the liberation of all peoples. How do I
Speaker 1: do that through my microphone? Through education? Right, I see
Speaker 1: myself as a teacher, and I'm not going to get
Speaker 1: into a back and forth about who is right or
Speaker 1: who is wrong. Where I stand is on the side
Speaker 1: of humanity, is on the side that tells us, with
Speaker 1: all of the technological advances that we are making, that
Speaker 1: war is our only answer. War killing of thousands of
Speaker 1: people is how we think that we're going to advance
Speaker 1: peace and democracy. That in all of the evolution that
Speaker 1: we have done and have seen around the world, right,
Speaker 1: that our war mongering minds are still in their rectilian state.
Speaker 1: We have been brainwashed into believing that when aggression shows itself,
Speaker 1: aggression can only be met with aggression. And you know,
Speaker 1: I've had people tweet at me and post at me,
Speaker 1: and I will trust, trust and believe I've removed shit
Speaker 1: with the quickness. I There is not a democracy on
Speaker 1: my social media page. Let me put it that way, right,
Speaker 1: you say some hot shit to me or to people
Speaker 1: that are commenting, you will be blocked but the reality
Speaker 1: is that people are saying, you know, well, you've told
Speaker 1: America not to invade. You know, in World War Two,
Speaker 1: do you know that it took six million people to
Speaker 1: be dead, six million Jewish people right to be murdered,
Speaker 1: for the United States to intervene, And that what we
Speaker 1: are witnessing right now. Just mind you, just mind you. Right,
Speaker 1: in World War Two, there was no social media, right,
Speaker 1: you relied on photographers on the ground to be able
Speaker 1: to then send those pictures back. We are watching war
Speaker 1: and murder, right did deaths of children in real fucking time?
Speaker 1: Bombs go off? We are seeing the videos instantly. That's
Speaker 1: not normal. It is not normal for us to literally
Speaker 1: be taking in the trauma and the devastation of war
Speaker 1: in real time. And so do I believe that the
Speaker 1: outrage that we are seeing people have around the world
Speaker 1: is absolutely supported by what they are seeing with their
Speaker 1: own eyes and the fact, frankly, that they are losing
Speaker 1: what was already on shaky ground, which was the trust
Speaker 1: of their elected leaders, whether they are their prime ministers
Speaker 1: or their presidents. I watched a post go up. I
Speaker 1: can't remember what side it was on because a friend
Speaker 1: send it to me and it was like this reporting
Speaker 1: that was not validated, right, that said that their shamas
Speaker 1: had beheaded. You know, this woman, one of the concertgoers, right,
Speaker 1: wasn't seen like verified anywhere, right, but it's flying around
Speaker 1: social media. And I got to tell you that the
Speaker 1: comments shocked me because the comments that people are just like,
Speaker 1: we don't believe a fucking word that is being said here,
Speaker 1: like this is all propaganda and it hasn't been verified anywhere.
Speaker 1: So people are aware, right, We're all becoming really aware
Speaker 1: that we're being played, right, that we are being played
Speaker 1: and our sympathies are being played and manipulated. Because here's
Speaker 1: where I stand. I don't care how a child prays.
Speaker 1: I don't care what they look like. I don't care
Speaker 1: what their sexual orientation or their gender identity is. You
Speaker 1: have the right to fucking exist by virtue of the
Speaker 1: fact that you were born. You have the right to
Speaker 1: exist free, free from violence, with self determination that should
Speaker 1: not have caveats. And what I have witnessed from our
Speaker 1: own government, who those hands are so fucking bloody right now,
Speaker 1: is the justification of what many are saying are the
Speaker 1: breaking of international law. Israel is using chemical weapons, Israel
Speaker 1: is bombing densely populated areas. Israel had turned Gaza into
Speaker 1: a prison open air where borders from c to the
Speaker 1: other side to the other side are locked down. Those
Speaker 1: people have nowhere to evacuate to. So when I heard
Speaker 1: Secretary Blincoln talk about the fact, well, israel Is told
Speaker 1: the folks in Gaza that they should evacuate, maybe maybe
Speaker 1: you should offer up the true truth, which is that
Speaker 1: there's nowhere to evacuate too, because guess what, the United
Speaker 1: States hasn't called for open humanitarian corridors so that those
Speaker 1: people can get the fuck out of harm's way. That's
Speaker 1: what the United States hasn't done. So you're not telling
Speaker 1: the truth. Net Nyahu said, get out of the north
Speaker 1: and go south, and then you bomb the south. You
Speaker 1: bomb the south, You tell the people to go back
Speaker 1: to the north, they go back to the north. You
Speaker 1: bomb the North. They are bombing refugee camps, they are
Speaker 1: bombing residential areas. They have already been fifty nine United
Speaker 1: Nations employees that have been killed by airstrikes, thousands, thousands
Speaker 1: of children dead in three weeks. And I'm listening to
Speaker 1: the President of the United States and the Secretary tell
Speaker 1: me that that's okay, that that is just a byproduct
Speaker 1: of what it takes for independence and people having their
Speaker 1: own you're defending yourself against children, That's what you're defending
Speaker 1: yourself against. That's what we should be giving fourteen billion
Speaker 1: of our dollars towards. I continue to say, I continue
Speaker 1: to say that what is happening right now is the
Speaker 1: biggest erosion of faith and support in this current administration.
Speaker 1: And they don't realize it. They do not realize that
Speaker 1: young people Generation Z right, forty seven year old millennials right,
Speaker 1: are not interested in having our money go to the
Speaker 1: murder of children and call that self defense. That black
Speaker 1: people and brown people in this country who know through
Speaker 1: our genes over generations, the language the justification for our lynchings,
Speaker 1: our murder, our rape, our incarceration is the same fucking
Speaker 1: language that's being used. I saw an ABC News article
Speaker 1: that I posted that said, Oh, there is looting that
Speaker 1: is happening, looting when people have nothing, Are you fucking
Speaker 1: kidding me? So they should want to leave money behind
Speaker 1: as they run for their lives from a series of
Speaker 1: bombs that are dropping. Are you fucking dumb? The same
Speaker 1: language that they use during Katrina to say that, and
Speaker 1: the same language that DeSantis used when the looting starts.
Speaker 1: The shooting starts to justific justify murder of innocent people
Speaker 1: that are trying to just get are bare fucking necessities met.
Speaker 1: We're not stupid. And in fact, the world really is watching,
Speaker 1: and you're watching protests, marches take place everywhere in this
Speaker 1: country and in cities around the world. I'm watching people
Speaker 1: get fired for saying that there should be a cease fire,
Speaker 1: people get fired for saying that we must come up
Speaker 1: with a better way. These smart, smart people that are
Speaker 1: developing technological advancements and creating policy around it, you can't
Speaker 1: think of anything better than bombing children, hospitals, refugee camps,
Speaker 1: and don't get me started on the fucking part and
Speaker 1: parcel of the hospital. And tell me, well, Daniella was that,
Speaker 1: I don't give a fuck. I don't give a fuck
Speaker 1: because the distraction is in the oh, well, we dropped
Speaker 1: seven thousand bombs, but that one that wasn't us. I
Speaker 1: don't care. What I care about is watching the erasure
Speaker 1: of an entire people in real time. What I care
Speaker 1: is that this week Secretary of State Anthony Blincoln sat
Speaker 1: down before the Senate Appropriations Committee gave his testimony, was
Speaker 1: interrupted multiple times by activists and protesters shout out to
Speaker 1: them asking for another fourteen billion dollars of our money
Speaker 1: to go to war with a people that have nothing,
Speaker 1: literally nothing. I will tell you, folks that the reason
Speaker 1: why I believe right now that the far right, this
Speaker 1: anti Semitic group of people, you know Marjorie Taylor Green
Speaker 1: with her Jewish space lasers, and the comments that have
Speaker 1: been made and said that caught on tape right from
Speaker 1: elected officials on the right, the reason why they are
Speaker 1: so staunchly supporting Israel right now is because what is happening,
Speaker 1: what they're giving a grain light to, is exactly what
Speaker 1: the white evangelical quote unquote Christian nationalists would like to
Speaker 1: be able to do in America. And that's what their
Speaker 1: plans are. If they win in twenty twenty four, there
Speaker 1: will be no constitution, there will be no freedom of speech,
Speaker 1: there will be no freedom to assembly. There will be blacklists,
Speaker 1: there will be open air prisons, there will be the
Speaker 1: carting off and the imprisonment of anyone like myself who
Speaker 1: speaks out. We will be labeled as enemies of the
Speaker 1: state put away, locked away right for the quote unquote
Speaker 1: safety of everyone else. Everything that has been happening in
Speaker 1: Israel and Palestine over the last fifty plus years is
Speaker 1: what America would have looked like had the Civil Rights
Speaker 1: Act not disrupt the desire for white supremacy and the
Speaker 1: criminalization of all black people. We had a Supreme Court, activists, fighters,
Speaker 1: leaders that were assassin during that time period because they
Speaker 1: wanted right to remain separate and unequal. They wanted a
Speaker 1: multi track quote unquote democracy, democracy for white Americans, servitude
Speaker 1: and oppression for Black Americans and everyone else. I saw
Speaker 1: with my own eyes when I went to Israel in Palestine,
Speaker 1: and I said, oh my god, they this is what
Speaker 1: we exported. We exported hate, we exported segregation, we exported violence,
Speaker 1: and they put their own little spin on it and
Speaker 1: then created a narrative that a loud for it to persist,
Speaker 1: this two tiered system and be hailed as a democracy
Speaker 1: of the Middle East. How sway, how how did that work?
Speaker 1: Democracies mean that everyone is free, not some people. I
Speaker 1: where we are as a globe is terrifying. You are
Speaker 1: watching the formation of new axes of evil, right You're
Speaker 1: watching Russia make moves and Iran make moves, and China
Speaker 1: make moves, because, let me tell you, the longer that
Speaker 1: this parade of bomb happens in Israel and Palestine, you
Speaker 1: are gonna watch Biden's numbers tank, you are gonna watch
Speaker 1: growing outrage in this country, and there's going to be
Speaker 1: no one that is going to carry the blame outside
Speaker 1: of the Biden administration that is trying to get reelected
Speaker 1: and in doing so, trying to cast the Trump administration
Speaker 1: as anti democratic, which they are, as dangerous, which they are,
Speaker 1: as white supremacists, which they are. But then if you're
Speaker 1: offering up an alternative that doesn't recognize the humanity of
Speaker 1: all people, what you are going to have is a
Speaker 1: bunch of folks be like so, I'm just not gonna vote,
Speaker 1: which will open the door to the final, the final
Speaker 1: call of fascism in America, where everything, every agency, every realm,
Speaker 1: every system that has been able to hold on for
Speaker 1: dear life these last eight years will give way, and
Speaker 1: then we're fucked. Then we're fucked. I already believe that
Speaker 1: there is no turning back to where we are right now.
Speaker 1: I already have been sitting on my couch and thinking
Speaker 1: to myself, I need to pack a go bag. Should
Speaker 1: probably start like really preparing as much as one can prepare, right,
Speaker 1: because what felt decades ago far away, whenever there would
Speaker 1: be a conflict right that would arise oceans away, it
Speaker 1: would feel like, oh it would Oh that's distant from us,
Speaker 1: that would never happen here. I don't know about you,
Speaker 1: but I no longer feel that way. I don't know
Speaker 1: about you, but I find myself saying it's only a
Speaker 1: matter of time that either we're attacked from the outside
Speaker 1: or from the inside, or both. And so again you
Speaker 1: find yourself struggling, crying in despair. Know that you were
Speaker 1: not alone. But as I continue to say that while
Speaker 1: wokeness is indeed a choice, it is a choice to
Speaker 1: live consciously, it is not a choice to live in misery,
Speaker 1: and that you do no one any service right by
Speaker 1: not having gratitude for even the illusion of safety that
Speaker 1: we are living right now. And this is after another
Speaker 1: mass shooting that killed over close to two dozen people,
Speaker 1: But currently, right now in America, we're not packing up
Speaker 1: and running for our lives and running to the nearest border.
Speaker 1: So give gratitude for that when you go into the shower,
Speaker 1: when you turn on the fresh water to wash dishes,
Speaker 1: don't think about your tasks like, oh my god, I
Speaker 1: have these things to do. Be grateful that you have
Speaker 1: a home town to do those daily mundane tassin. Give
Speaker 1: gratitude while you're washing the dishes. Maintain a beautiful and
Speaker 1: meticulous house, because there are millions right now that are displaced,
Speaker 1: that have nowhere to go, whether it was climate change
Speaker 1: that ravaged, a fire that ravaged parts of Hawaii, literally
Speaker 1: wiping people out, burning them alive, whether it's bombs that
Speaker 1: are dropping that you can't avoid because again there is
Speaker 1: no place to go. The opportunity to even sit here
Speaker 1: and record right now in the safety of my home
Speaker 1: is a privilege that I'm no longer taking for granted
Speaker 1: because I don't know how much longer we all have.
Speaker 1: And so the greatest way to fight despair and grief
Speaker 1: is with gratitude, is with love, is with organizing, with
Speaker 1: your group of friends, with your colleagues. What can we give,
Speaker 1: where can we donate? How can we show up to
Speaker 1: better what it is that we have and also help
Speaker 1: those in need the most. That's what we're being called
Speaker 1: upon to do. That's how you climb out of despair
Speaker 1: and grief with actions of kindness, love, and gratitude. Empathy
Speaker 1: is not sitting and watching body after body be carried
Speaker 1: out from the rubble. It is being conscious and aware
Speaker 1: that this is happening and it has to stop. But
Speaker 1: sitting in it day in and day out is not
Speaker 1: honoring those people. I'm not saying to look away all
Speaker 1: the time, but I'm saying to look inside. To look
Speaker 1: inside and figure out what you can do in this
Speaker 1: corner of the world to make life better, safer, wholer
Speaker 1: more connected. That is how we fight the darkness by
Speaker 1: being and creating light. That is it for me today,
Speaker 1: Dear friends on Woke af AS always power to the
Speaker 1: people and to all all the people. Power. Get woke
Speaker 1: and stay woke as fuck.