1 00:00:11,760 --> 00:00:14,880 Speaker 1: Good morning, peeps, and welcome to WOKATEP Daily with Meet 2 00:00:14,920 --> 00:00:20,239 Speaker 1: your Girl Danielle Moody back recording from the home Bunker, Folks. 3 00:00:20,600 --> 00:00:24,319 Speaker 1: I want to start off today's show with telling you 4 00:00:24,320 --> 00:00:27,160 Speaker 1: a little bit about where I was at the end 5 00:00:27,160 --> 00:00:31,120 Speaker 1: of last week. I took a trip out to California 6 00:00:31,560 --> 00:00:39,479 Speaker 1: for Reproductive Freedom for All's annual luncheon, and Reproductive Freedom 7 00:00:39,520 --> 00:00:44,239 Speaker 1: for All is the new name of the organization formerly 8 00:00:44,320 --> 00:00:50,360 Speaker 1: known as NAYRAU. And I have been someone who has 9 00:00:51,240 --> 00:00:57,400 Speaker 1: worked inside and around different movement spaces throughout my entire profession, 10 00:00:58,000 --> 00:01:05,760 Speaker 1: helping different organizations, whether they be LGBTQ focused, anti racist focused, abortion, 11 00:01:06,160 --> 00:01:09,120 Speaker 1: rep justice focused, and so on, so long as they 12 00:01:09,120 --> 00:01:12,760 Speaker 1: are focused on progressive issues. I have worked in a 13 00:01:12,840 --> 00:01:17,200 Speaker 1: number of capacities as a consultant to help advance progressive causes. 14 00:01:17,520 --> 00:01:21,160 Speaker 1: And I was invited to speak on a panel about 15 00:01:21,720 --> 00:01:27,360 Speaker 1: new media and progressivism. And when I arrived the night 16 00:01:27,400 --> 00:01:30,600 Speaker 1: before the luncheon where I was speaking, I had the 17 00:01:31,160 --> 00:01:38,440 Speaker 1: wonderful opportunity to meet Amanda Zerowski. Amanda Zerowski is the 18 00:01:38,560 --> 00:01:44,120 Speaker 1: lead plaintiff in a case against Texas for their atrocious, 19 00:01:44,959 --> 00:01:50,040 Speaker 1: deadly abortion ban. You heard Amanda's story most likely if 20 00:01:50,120 --> 00:01:57,600 Speaker 1: you were watching the Democratic National Convention, where reproductive freedom 21 00:01:58,000 --> 00:02:01,080 Speaker 1: was center stage throughout the entire event, but on one 22 00:02:01,120 --> 00:02:07,280 Speaker 1: particular night, the stories of women who almost died like 23 00:02:07,320 --> 00:02:14,000 Speaker 1: Amanda almost did because she was pregnant and was miscarrying 24 00:02:14,320 --> 00:02:20,080 Speaker 1: and the doctors waited until she was near death in 25 00:02:20,200 --> 00:02:26,280 Speaker 1: order to give her abortion care. Her story is horrific 26 00:02:26,680 --> 00:02:31,120 Speaker 1: and is something that should never happen inside of a 27 00:02:31,480 --> 00:02:38,600 Speaker 1: developed country, but her story is becoming the norm in America, 28 00:02:38,840 --> 00:02:43,880 Speaker 1: where we've heard of the two women black women who 29 00:02:44,400 --> 00:02:48,600 Speaker 1: died in Georgia because they did not receive the abortion 30 00:02:48,720 --> 00:02:51,880 Speaker 1: care that they needed, and they left their children and 31 00:02:51,919 --> 00:02:56,960 Speaker 1: families behind. Those children will grow up without mothers unnecessarily. 32 00:02:57,800 --> 00:03:04,600 Speaker 1: Amanda's story is center stage along with two other incredible women, 33 00:03:05,160 --> 00:03:08,680 Speaker 1: one of them who is also an OBGYN, who talk 34 00:03:08,760 --> 00:03:14,520 Speaker 1: about their harrowing experiences of horrific I don't even know 35 00:03:14,560 --> 00:03:19,320 Speaker 1: the word, but in a documentary called Zaraski v. Texas 36 00:03:19,360 --> 00:03:25,200 Speaker 1: that is currently doing the film festival circuit, these women 37 00:03:25,320 --> 00:03:28,720 Speaker 1: their stories are front and center. One woman who was 38 00:03:28,840 --> 00:03:34,960 Speaker 1: forced to carry a non viable fetus two term, only 39 00:03:35,880 --> 00:03:40,520 Speaker 1: to listen in anguish as that baby was born and 40 00:03:40,600 --> 00:03:46,760 Speaker 1: then would suffer a horrific, suffocating death four hours later. 41 00:03:48,040 --> 00:03:51,080 Speaker 1: This is what the overturning of Robi Wade has returned 42 00:03:51,120 --> 00:03:55,360 Speaker 1: America to a patchwork of protections for women and people 43 00:03:55,360 --> 00:04:02,840 Speaker 1: with uteruses. There was Ziaski. The tech Sis documentary is 44 00:04:02,960 --> 00:04:07,760 Speaker 1: executive produced by Hillary Clinton Academy Award winner Jennifer Lawrence, 45 00:04:08,680 --> 00:04:13,640 Speaker 1: and it can't find distribution because no distributor will touch it. 46 00:04:14,920 --> 00:04:22,200 Speaker 1: And so the documentarians, the filmmakers are taking this film 47 00:04:22,800 --> 00:04:27,920 Speaker 1: literally town by town, festival by festival, working really hard 48 00:04:28,400 --> 00:04:33,960 Speaker 1: to get it widely released before the election. This is 49 00:04:34,000 --> 00:04:37,960 Speaker 1: what censorship looks like. It isn't because the film isn't good. 50 00:04:38,000 --> 00:04:43,000 Speaker 1: It's winning awards. It's because it talks about abortion and 51 00:04:43,120 --> 00:04:46,839 Speaker 1: changes the narrative around abortion. You see, for too long, 52 00:04:47,200 --> 00:04:53,359 Speaker 1: we've allowed the right to literally write the story about 53 00:04:53,800 --> 00:04:57,320 Speaker 1: what kind of person seeks an abortion. They've made it 54 00:04:57,360 --> 00:05:01,360 Speaker 1: seem like it is women who just want to live 55 00:05:01,480 --> 00:05:05,520 Speaker 1: a free wheeling life and no family, no responsibilities, and 56 00:05:05,600 --> 00:05:08,400 Speaker 1: are just out there, you know, getting one abortion after 57 00:05:08,440 --> 00:05:13,239 Speaker 1: the other. The reality is that the women and people 58 00:05:13,240 --> 00:05:18,039 Speaker 1: with you verses that get abortions oftentimes already have children. 59 00:05:18,960 --> 00:05:27,440 Speaker 1: Oftentimes are having a horrific medical episode like a miscarriage, 60 00:05:27,480 --> 00:05:31,919 Speaker 1: like a non viable pregnancy, and they need to be treated. 61 00:05:32,600 --> 00:05:38,560 Speaker 1: And there are women like Chrissy Teagan, who, if he 62 00:05:38,640 --> 00:05:42,360 Speaker 1: followed her a couple of years ago, had announced her 63 00:05:42,400 --> 00:05:49,279 Speaker 1: pregnancy with her husband John Legend and then miscarried, And 64 00:05:50,360 --> 00:05:54,280 Speaker 1: what she would learn after the overturning of Rob Wade 65 00:05:54,960 --> 00:06:00,440 Speaker 1: was that what procedure was used on her to save 66 00:06:00,520 --> 00:06:05,000 Speaker 1: her life was an abortion. She didn't know it, and 67 00:06:05,040 --> 00:06:08,800 Speaker 1: a lot of women don't know it because the doctors 68 00:06:08,839 --> 00:06:11,599 Speaker 1: are and the health professionals are moving in a way 69 00:06:12,080 --> 00:06:16,120 Speaker 1: that they're doing everything at their disposal to save that 70 00:06:16,200 --> 00:06:19,719 Speaker 1: person's life so that they don't bleed out like the 71 00:06:19,760 --> 00:06:25,279 Speaker 1: two women in Georgia did. So this film and the 72 00:06:25,400 --> 00:06:29,240 Speaker 1: discussion that I had the great fortune to listen to 73 00:06:29,279 --> 00:06:32,719 Speaker 1: when I was out in California really opened my eyes 74 00:06:33,279 --> 00:06:39,600 Speaker 1: to the power of story and the necessity for story 75 00:06:40,680 --> 00:06:44,680 Speaker 1: at a time when there is just so much disinformation, 76 00:06:44,920 --> 00:06:48,560 Speaker 1: so many lies that are out there trying to distort 77 00:06:49,600 --> 00:06:54,719 Speaker 1: our understanding of reality. Because that's what the Republicans are doing. 78 00:06:54,760 --> 00:06:57,600 Speaker 1: At the end of the day. This is not just 79 00:06:57,839 --> 00:07:01,560 Speaker 1: like about telling little fibbs about croud size here and there. 80 00:07:01,680 --> 00:07:04,840 Speaker 1: This isn't just about you know, the AI deep fakes. 81 00:07:05,000 --> 00:07:08,919 Speaker 1: The ultimate goal is to actually shift and create and 82 00:07:09,000 --> 00:07:14,800 Speaker 1: construct an entirely different reality than the real world, and 83 00:07:14,840 --> 00:07:19,520 Speaker 1: we're seeing it with fifty percent of the population. So 84 00:07:19,680 --> 00:07:24,200 Speaker 1: when there are storytellers that are brave enough and subjects 85 00:07:24,240 --> 00:07:28,480 Speaker 1: like Amanda that are brave enough to want to tell 86 00:07:28,520 --> 00:07:33,640 Speaker 1: their stories, they deserve a fucking audience. But the distributors 87 00:07:34,320 --> 00:07:39,760 Speaker 1: are spineless, are narrow minded, are small, and don't understand 88 00:07:39,840 --> 00:07:45,200 Speaker 1: the gravity of the situation that we are in. Every 89 00:07:45,320 --> 00:07:48,520 Speaker 1: day that I turn on my microphone and computer, I 90 00:07:48,600 --> 00:07:53,080 Speaker 1: am reminded about the awesome responsibility that I have to 91 00:07:53,160 --> 00:07:56,600 Speaker 1: tell the truth to help navigate all of you through 92 00:07:56,880 --> 00:08:01,520 Speaker 1: a world that is becoming increasingly chaotic on purpose. I 93 00:08:01,600 --> 00:08:05,760 Speaker 1: can't express to you enough how important independent media is 94 00:08:06,400 --> 00:08:10,680 Speaker 1: at this time, and how its importance and its need 95 00:08:11,160 --> 00:08:16,360 Speaker 1: will increase over time. Our reality is being tested, our 96 00:08:16,480 --> 00:08:21,200 Speaker 1: reality is being upended, and if we don't ground ourselves 97 00:08:21,320 --> 00:08:27,640 Speaker 1: in truth, if we don't share important stories that we 98 00:08:27,800 --> 00:08:30,840 Speaker 1: know are true, we're going to get lost in the 99 00:08:30,840 --> 00:08:35,120 Speaker 1: tornado of lies. Just like the people who have just 100 00:08:35,200 --> 00:08:42,520 Speaker 1: suffered the tragedies of Hurricane Helene and Hurricane Milton, people 101 00:08:42,679 --> 00:08:48,520 Speaker 1: literally not receiving aid, choosing not to receive aid because 102 00:08:48,559 --> 00:08:51,000 Speaker 1: of the lies that Donald Trump and the Republican Party 103 00:08:51,000 --> 00:08:53,760 Speaker 1: are telling them that if you accept FEMA aid, they're 104 00:08:53,760 --> 00:08:57,480 Speaker 1: going to take your home, which is a bold face lie. 105 00:08:57,640 --> 00:09:02,720 Speaker 1: They are weaponizing tragedy and trauma people's deep fears for 106 00:09:02,800 --> 00:09:05,840 Speaker 1: their own political gain, and it isn't something to be 107 00:09:05,880 --> 00:09:08,720 Speaker 1: shrugged off anymore. On The Danielle Moody Show, which I 108 00:09:08,840 --> 00:09:13,400 Speaker 1: encourage you all to watch and subscribe to my YouTube channel. 109 00:09:13,640 --> 00:09:16,760 Speaker 1: The Danielle Moody Show is live Monday through Thursday on 110 00:09:16,880 --> 00:09:22,200 Speaker 1: YouTube five pm Eastern. I told people last week that 111 00:09:22,600 --> 00:09:27,840 Speaker 1: the Zariski film needs support. It needs donations. If you 112 00:09:27,920 --> 00:09:32,200 Speaker 1: head to the film Collaborative dot org, you can donate, 113 00:09:32,320 --> 00:09:35,600 Speaker 1: you can host a screening because we're going to have 114 00:09:35,640 --> 00:09:39,240 Speaker 1: to do this work from the grassroots because the powers 115 00:09:39,240 --> 00:09:43,760 Speaker 1: that be do not want these messages getting out. They 116 00:09:43,760 --> 00:09:47,400 Speaker 1: don't want women and people with uteruses to understand that 117 00:09:47,720 --> 00:09:50,240 Speaker 1: what is happening in these states right now, how Project 118 00:09:50,320 --> 00:09:55,640 Speaker 1: twenty twenty five is unfolding in places like Texas and 119 00:09:55,720 --> 00:10:01,400 Speaker 1: Florida and Alabama and Mississippi and Tennessee and throughout the country. 120 00:10:01,440 --> 00:10:06,360 Speaker 1: More than half of the country does not have abortion access. 121 00:10:06,760 --> 00:10:10,200 Speaker 1: They don't care about the life of the pregnant person 122 00:10:10,840 --> 00:10:16,040 Speaker 1: and our mortality rates for women, maternal mortality rates are 123 00:10:16,120 --> 00:10:19,800 Speaker 1: skyrocketing and will continue to do so. And for those 124 00:10:19,960 --> 00:10:23,400 Speaker 1: people who think that oh, I'm in a blue state 125 00:10:23,480 --> 00:10:25,800 Speaker 1: or I'm in a blue city inside of a red state, 126 00:10:26,000 --> 00:10:30,240 Speaker 1: are safe, you are not. We are hanging on by 127 00:10:30,320 --> 00:10:35,400 Speaker 1: a thread. So it is films like this one that 128 00:10:35,520 --> 00:10:40,960 Speaker 1: require our attention and require our amplification. And that is 129 00:10:41,000 --> 00:10:46,080 Speaker 1: why I ask folks, if you are liking these shows, 130 00:10:46,200 --> 00:10:51,280 Speaker 1: these episodes, I ask you to like them, to share them, 131 00:10:51,360 --> 00:10:55,000 Speaker 1: to post them, to get them out into your universe. 132 00:10:55,840 --> 00:11:01,120 Speaker 1: Because the more people we can connect with and encourage 133 00:11:01,920 --> 00:11:06,120 Speaker 1: to really actively participate, to listen, to have conversations, to 134 00:11:06,200 --> 00:11:09,400 Speaker 1: have the tough conversations. Because this is what I said 135 00:11:09,440 --> 00:11:11,840 Speaker 1: when I was on the panel. I was in a 136 00:11:12,200 --> 00:11:16,560 Speaker 1: ballroom full of majority white women, and I told them 137 00:11:16,679 --> 00:11:21,040 Speaker 1: very explicitly, fifty percent of white women are going to 138 00:11:21,080 --> 00:11:24,360 Speaker 1: still vote with Donald Trump in this election. These are 139 00:11:24,400 --> 00:11:28,360 Speaker 1: your family members, these are your colleagues, these are your friends, 140 00:11:29,040 --> 00:11:31,520 Speaker 1: These are the people that you sit on the pta with. 141 00:11:31,960 --> 00:11:35,480 Speaker 1: This is your walking buddy, and you have been told 142 00:11:35,880 --> 00:11:40,400 Speaker 1: not to have impolite conversations. Let's not make it uncomfortable. 143 00:11:40,480 --> 00:11:43,400 Speaker 1: Let's just keep things on the surface. Don't talk about politics, 144 00:11:43,440 --> 00:11:47,760 Speaker 1: don't talk about religion, don't talk about what matters, in 145 00:11:47,880 --> 00:11:52,360 Speaker 1: order just to save space, to save face, and to 146 00:11:52,480 --> 00:11:57,520 Speaker 1: create this false sense of a calm space. If we 147 00:11:57,800 --> 00:12:01,880 Speaker 1: don't have these hard conversations, if we do not broach them, 148 00:12:02,559 --> 00:12:07,760 Speaker 1: then we double down into our siloed camps, and we're 149 00:12:07,800 --> 00:12:11,240 Speaker 1: more susceptible to the lies that are spread because we 150 00:12:11,360 --> 00:12:15,679 Speaker 1: refuse to engage. The way that Donald Trump and Republicans 151 00:12:15,760 --> 00:12:19,320 Speaker 1: win is when we go into our separate corners and 152 00:12:19,360 --> 00:12:25,320 Speaker 1: decide to believe their narratives rather than engage with people 153 00:12:25,440 --> 00:12:31,360 Speaker 1: in real life. Our democracy thrives because of we the people, 154 00:12:32,080 --> 00:12:35,720 Speaker 1: not we the algorithm, not we the siloed, not we 155 00:12:35,960 --> 00:12:39,480 Speaker 1: the tribe, but we all the people. So we have 156 00:12:39,600 --> 00:12:45,200 Speaker 1: to get uncomfortable. And you know, as famed personal trainer 157 00:12:45,320 --> 00:12:48,680 Speaker 1: said Jillian Michaels, like, you have to get comfortable with 158 00:12:48,760 --> 00:12:54,400 Speaker 1: being uncomfortable if you want change. Change does not come 159 00:12:54,440 --> 00:12:58,040 Speaker 1: from your comfort zone. As so many personal trainers say 160 00:12:58,160 --> 00:13:02,560 Speaker 1: about personal and physical trendsransformation. The same is true about 161 00:13:02,600 --> 00:13:07,959 Speaker 1: political and spiritual transformation. It doesn't come from a safe space. 162 00:13:08,840 --> 00:13:15,599 Speaker 1: That's where the status quo lives. We must extend ourselves, 163 00:13:16,400 --> 00:13:21,160 Speaker 1: open our arms, open all the modes of communication to 164 00:13:21,360 --> 00:13:28,120 Speaker 1: get back to a place of community, collaboration and togetherness. Now, 165 00:13:28,160 --> 00:13:30,560 Speaker 1: I tell you all the time, like I believe that 166 00:13:30,640 --> 00:13:33,559 Speaker 1: a good amount of the population is fucking gone and 167 00:13:33,600 --> 00:13:35,960 Speaker 1: they are looney tunes and they are not coming back. 168 00:13:36,480 --> 00:13:40,160 Speaker 1: But if you know and love one of those people, 169 00:13:40,800 --> 00:13:44,160 Speaker 1: then don't pooh pooh them slowly try and bring them 170 00:13:44,200 --> 00:13:48,360 Speaker 1: back in to our shared reality. I watch and I 171 00:13:48,440 --> 00:13:51,480 Speaker 1: played this video on the Danielle Moody Show last week 172 00:13:52,320 --> 00:13:55,720 Speaker 1: of a woman that was being interviewed and literally saying 173 00:13:55,760 --> 00:13:59,240 Speaker 1: that the government was controlling the weather, that they were 174 00:13:59,320 --> 00:14:05,240 Speaker 1: seeding clouds to intensify storms because she heard that from 175 00:14:05,280 --> 00:14:11,359 Speaker 1: Marjorie Taylor Green, from Donald Trump and quote unquote reputable 176 00:14:12,520 --> 00:14:18,720 Speaker 1: Republican politicians seating the clouds. And people were commenting and 177 00:14:18,840 --> 00:14:22,320 Speaker 1: laughing and calling her stupid. And I said, this is 178 00:14:23,440 --> 00:14:29,360 Speaker 1: not the fringe. It was ten fifteen years ago. You 179 00:14:29,400 --> 00:14:32,080 Speaker 1: would have seen that story on the cover of the Inquirer. 180 00:14:32,600 --> 00:14:34,800 Speaker 1: That person would have been in an aluminum hat and 181 00:14:34,840 --> 00:14:37,880 Speaker 1: he would have been like, Ah, whatever, crackpot, this is 182 00:14:38,000 --> 00:14:42,480 Speaker 1: now fifty percent of the population. Folks. It didn't happen overnight. 183 00:14:43,080 --> 00:14:46,720 Speaker 1: It happened over a decade. It happened over by telling 184 00:14:46,760 --> 00:14:50,240 Speaker 1: people that there are facts and alternative facts. It happened 185 00:14:50,280 --> 00:14:53,480 Speaker 1: by telling people all no, the crowds were overwhelming, even 186 00:14:53,480 --> 00:14:59,720 Speaker 1: though you're seeing empty space at Trump's inauguration mass empty space. 187 00:15:00,480 --> 00:15:04,920 Speaker 1: It starts small and then it builds into a full blown, 188 00:15:05,440 --> 00:15:10,840 Speaker 1: fucking avalanche of lies, so much so that you don't 189 00:15:10,880 --> 00:15:15,240 Speaker 1: know which way is up. Right has become left, left 190 00:15:15,280 --> 00:15:18,840 Speaker 1: has become right, down has become up, up has become down, 191 00:15:19,200 --> 00:15:24,440 Speaker 1: and you're just absolutely disoriented and exhausted. That is the goal, 192 00:15:25,040 --> 00:15:28,880 Speaker 1: and to a certain extent, it is working, which means 193 00:15:28,880 --> 00:15:33,480 Speaker 1: that those of us who are still on Earth one 194 00:15:34,280 --> 00:15:40,080 Speaker 1: need to amplify, amplify, amplify the truth through our platforms, 195 00:15:40,360 --> 00:15:45,600 Speaker 1: through our conversations. We have got to rebuild community brick 196 00:15:45,680 --> 00:15:49,400 Speaker 1: by brick, because their goal is to tear us down, 197 00:15:50,160 --> 00:15:53,560 Speaker 1: so we have to be stronger than the lies that 198 00:15:53,600 --> 00:15:58,600 Speaker 1: they are spinning. I encourage all of you to head 199 00:15:58,640 --> 00:16:02,200 Speaker 1: over to the film collaborative, or to take a look 200 00:16:02,640 --> 00:16:06,600 Speaker 1: at the trailer, to take a look at the action 201 00:16:06,760 --> 00:16:13,160 Speaker 1: campaign for Zarawski. The Texas can host a screening between 202 00:16:13,200 --> 00:16:16,720 Speaker 1: now and the election. Do so. If you have the 203 00:16:16,920 --> 00:16:22,400 Speaker 1: treasure and the ability to donate, do so. Every dollar counts. 204 00:16:23,040 --> 00:16:26,840 Speaker 1: We need to spread the message that is it for 205 00:16:26,960 --> 00:16:32,000 Speaker 1: me today, Dear friends on Woke af AS always power 206 00:16:32,040 --> 00:16:35,880 Speaker 1: to the people and to all the people. Power, Get 207 00:16:35,960 --> 00:16:38,240 Speaker 1: woke and stay woke as fuck.