Speaker 1: Good morning, peeps, and welcome to WOKATEP Daily with Meet
Speaker 1: your Girl Danielle Moody back recording from the home Bunker, Folks.
Speaker 1: I want to start off today's show with telling you
Speaker 1: a little bit about where I was at the end
Speaker 1: of last week. I took a trip out to California
Speaker 1: for Reproductive Freedom for All's annual luncheon, and Reproductive Freedom
Speaker 1: for All is the new name of the organization formerly
Speaker 1: known as NAYRAU. And I have been someone who has
Speaker 1: worked inside and around different movement spaces throughout my entire profession,
Speaker 1: helping different organizations, whether they be LGBTQ focused, anti racist focused, abortion,
Speaker 1: rep justice focused, and so on, so long as they
Speaker 1: are focused on progressive issues. I have worked in a
Speaker 1: number of capacities as a consultant to help advance progressive causes.
Speaker 1: And I was invited to speak on a panel about
Speaker 1: new media and progressivism. And when I arrived the night
Speaker 1: before the luncheon where I was speaking, I had the
Speaker 1: wonderful opportunity to meet Amanda Zerowski. Amanda Zerowski is the
Speaker 1: lead plaintiff in a case against Texas for their atrocious,
Speaker 1: deadly abortion ban. You heard Amanda's story most likely if
Speaker 1: you were watching the Democratic National Convention, where reproductive freedom
Speaker 1: was center stage throughout the entire event, but on one
Speaker 1: particular night, the stories of women who almost died like
Speaker 1: Amanda almost did because she was pregnant and was miscarrying
Speaker 1: and the doctors waited until she was near death in
Speaker 1: order to give her abortion care. Her story is horrific
Speaker 1: and is something that should never happen inside of a
Speaker 1: developed country, but her story is becoming the norm in America,
Speaker 1: where we've heard of the two women black women who
Speaker 1: died in Georgia because they did not receive the abortion
Speaker 1: care that they needed, and they left their children and
Speaker 1: families behind. Those children will grow up without mothers unnecessarily.
Speaker 1: Amanda's story is center stage along with two other incredible women,
Speaker 1: one of them who is also an OBGYN, who talk
Speaker 1: about their harrowing experiences of horrific I don't even know
Speaker 1: the word, but in a documentary called Zaraski v. Texas
Speaker 1: that is currently doing the film festival circuit, these women
Speaker 1: their stories are front and center. One woman who was
Speaker 1: forced to carry a non viable fetus two term, only
Speaker 1: to listen in anguish as that baby was born and
Speaker 1: then would suffer a horrific, suffocating death four hours later.
Speaker 1: This is what the overturning of Robi Wade has returned
Speaker 1: America to a patchwork of protections for women and people
Speaker 1: with uteruses. There was Ziaski. The tech Sis documentary is
Speaker 1: executive produced by Hillary Clinton Academy Award winner Jennifer Lawrence,
Speaker 1: and it can't find distribution because no distributor will touch it.
Speaker 1: And so the documentarians, the filmmakers are taking this film
Speaker 1: literally town by town, festival by festival, working really hard
Speaker 1: to get it widely released before the election. This is
Speaker 1: what censorship looks like. It isn't because the film isn't good.
Speaker 1: It's winning awards. It's because it talks about abortion and
Speaker 1: changes the narrative around abortion. You see, for too long,
Speaker 1: we've allowed the right to literally write the story about
Speaker 1: what kind of person seeks an abortion. They've made it
Speaker 1: seem like it is women who just want to live
Speaker 1: a free wheeling life and no family, no responsibilities, and
Speaker 1: are just out there, you know, getting one abortion after
Speaker 1: the other. The reality is that the women and people
Speaker 1: with you verses that get abortions oftentimes already have children.
Speaker 1: Oftentimes are having a horrific medical episode like a miscarriage,
Speaker 1: like a non viable pregnancy, and they need to be treated.
Speaker 1: And there are women like Chrissy Teagan, who, if he
Speaker 1: followed her a couple of years ago, had announced her
Speaker 1: pregnancy with her husband John Legend and then miscarried, And
Speaker 1: what she would learn after the overturning of Rob Wade
Speaker 1: was that what procedure was used on her to save
Speaker 1: her life was an abortion. She didn't know it, and
Speaker 1: a lot of women don't know it because the doctors
Speaker 1: are and the health professionals are moving in a way
Speaker 1: that they're doing everything at their disposal to save that
Speaker 1: person's life so that they don't bleed out like the
Speaker 1: two women in Georgia did. So this film and the
Speaker 1: discussion that I had the great fortune to listen to
Speaker 1: when I was out in California really opened my eyes
Speaker 1: to the power of story and the necessity for story
Speaker 1: at a time when there is just so much disinformation,
Speaker 1: so many lies that are out there trying to distort
Speaker 1: our understanding of reality. Because that's what the Republicans are doing.
Speaker 1: At the end of the day. This is not just
Speaker 1: like about telling little fibbs about croud size here and there.
Speaker 1: This isn't just about you know, the AI deep fakes.
Speaker 1: The ultimate goal is to actually shift and create and
Speaker 1: construct an entirely different reality than the real world, and
Speaker 1: we're seeing it with fifty percent of the population. So
Speaker 1: when there are storytellers that are brave enough and subjects
Speaker 1: like Amanda that are brave enough to want to tell
Speaker 1: their stories, they deserve a fucking audience. But the distributors
Speaker 1: are spineless, are narrow minded, are small, and don't understand
Speaker 1: the gravity of the situation that we are in. Every
Speaker 1: day that I turn on my microphone and computer, I
Speaker 1: am reminded about the awesome responsibility that I have to
Speaker 1: tell the truth to help navigate all of you through
Speaker 1: a world that is becoming increasingly chaotic on purpose. I
Speaker 1: can't express to you enough how important independent media is
Speaker 1: at this time, and how its importance and its need
Speaker 1: will increase over time. Our reality is being tested, our
Speaker 1: reality is being upended, and if we don't ground ourselves
Speaker 1: in truth, if we don't share important stories that we
Speaker 1: know are true, we're going to get lost in the
Speaker 1: tornado of lies. Just like the people who have just
Speaker 1: suffered the tragedies of Hurricane Helene and Hurricane Milton, people
Speaker 1: literally not receiving aid, choosing not to receive aid because
Speaker 1: of the lies that Donald Trump and the Republican Party
Speaker 1: are telling them that if you accept FEMA aid, they're
Speaker 1: going to take your home, which is a bold face lie.
Speaker 1: They are weaponizing tragedy and trauma people's deep fears for
Speaker 1: their own political gain, and it isn't something to be
Speaker 1: shrugged off anymore. On The Danielle Moody Show, which I
Speaker 1: encourage you all to watch and subscribe to my YouTube channel.
Speaker 1: The Danielle Moody Show is live Monday through Thursday on
Speaker 1: YouTube five pm Eastern. I told people last week that
Speaker 1: the Zariski film needs support. It needs donations. If you
Speaker 1: head to the film Collaborative dot org, you can donate,
Speaker 1: you can host a screening because we're going to have
Speaker 1: to do this work from the grassroots because the powers
Speaker 1: that be do not want these messages getting out. They
Speaker 1: don't want women and people with uteruses to understand that
Speaker 1: what is happening in these states right now, how Project
Speaker 1: twenty twenty five is unfolding in places like Texas and
Speaker 1: Florida and Alabama and Mississippi and Tennessee and throughout the country.
Speaker 1: More than half of the country does not have abortion access.
Speaker 1: They don't care about the life of the pregnant person
Speaker 1: and our mortality rates for women, maternal mortality rates are
Speaker 1: skyrocketing and will continue to do so. And for those
Speaker 1: people who think that oh, I'm in a blue state
Speaker 1: or I'm in a blue city inside of a red state,
Speaker 1: are safe, you are not. We are hanging on by
Speaker 1: a thread. So it is films like this one that
Speaker 1: require our attention and require our amplification. And that is
Speaker 1: why I ask folks, if you are liking these shows,
Speaker 1: these episodes, I ask you to like them, to share them,
Speaker 1: to post them, to get them out into your universe.
Speaker 1: Because the more people we can connect with and encourage
Speaker 1: to really actively participate, to listen, to have conversations, to
Speaker 1: have the tough conversations. Because this is what I said
Speaker 1: when I was on the panel. I was in a
Speaker 1: ballroom full of majority white women, and I told them
Speaker 1: very explicitly, fifty percent of white women are going to
Speaker 1: still vote with Donald Trump in this election. These are
Speaker 1: your family members, these are your colleagues, these are your friends,
Speaker 1: These are the people that you sit on the pta with.
Speaker 1: This is your walking buddy, and you have been told
Speaker 1: not to have impolite conversations. Let's not make it uncomfortable.
Speaker 1: Let's just keep things on the surface. Don't talk about politics,
Speaker 1: don't talk about religion, don't talk about what matters, in
Speaker 1: order just to save space, to save face, and to
Speaker 1: create this false sense of a calm space. If we
Speaker 1: don't have these hard conversations, if we do not broach them,
Speaker 1: then we double down into our siloed camps, and we're
Speaker 1: more susceptible to the lies that are spread because we
Speaker 1: refuse to engage. The way that Donald Trump and Republicans
Speaker 1: win is when we go into our separate corners and
Speaker 1: decide to believe their narratives rather than engage with people
Speaker 1: in real life. Our democracy thrives because of we the people,
Speaker 1: not we the algorithm, not we the siloed, not we
Speaker 1: the tribe, but we all the people. So we have
Speaker 1: to get uncomfortable. And you know, as famed personal trainer
Speaker 1: said Jillian Michaels, like, you have to get comfortable with
Speaker 1: being uncomfortable if you want change. Change does not come
Speaker 1: from your comfort zone. As so many personal trainers say
Speaker 1: about personal and physical trendsransformation. The same is true about
Speaker 1: political and spiritual transformation. It doesn't come from a safe space.
Speaker 1: That's where the status quo lives. We must extend ourselves,
Speaker 1: open our arms, open all the modes of communication to
Speaker 1: get back to a place of community, collaboration and togetherness. Now,
Speaker 1: I tell you all the time, like I believe that
Speaker 1: a good amount of the population is fucking gone and
Speaker 1: they are looney tunes and they are not coming back.
Speaker 1: But if you know and love one of those people,
Speaker 1: then don't pooh pooh them slowly try and bring them
Speaker 1: back in to our shared reality. I watch and I
Speaker 1: played this video on the Danielle Moody Show last week
Speaker 1: of a woman that was being interviewed and literally saying
Speaker 1: that the government was controlling the weather, that they were
Speaker 1: seeding clouds to intensify storms because she heard that from
Speaker 1: Marjorie Taylor Green, from Donald Trump and quote unquote reputable
Speaker 1: Republican politicians seating the clouds. And people were commenting and
Speaker 1: laughing and calling her stupid. And I said, this is
Speaker 1: not the fringe. It was ten fifteen years ago. You
Speaker 1: would have seen that story on the cover of the Inquirer.
Speaker 1: That person would have been in an aluminum hat and
Speaker 1: he would have been like, Ah, whatever, crackpot, this is
Speaker 1: now fifty percent of the population. Folks. It didn't happen overnight.
Speaker 1: It happened over a decade. It happened over by telling
Speaker 1: people that there are facts and alternative facts. It happened
Speaker 1: by telling people all no, the crowds were overwhelming, even
Speaker 1: though you're seeing empty space at Trump's inauguration mass empty space.
Speaker 1: It starts small and then it builds into a full blown,
Speaker 1: fucking avalanche of lies, so much so that you don't
Speaker 1: know which way is up. Right has become left, left
Speaker 1: has become right, down has become up, up has become down,
Speaker 1: and you're just absolutely disoriented and exhausted. That is the goal,
Speaker 1: and to a certain extent, it is working, which means
Speaker 1: that those of us who are still on Earth one
Speaker 1: need to amplify, amplify, amplify the truth through our platforms,
Speaker 1: through our conversations. We have got to rebuild community brick
Speaker 1: by brick, because their goal is to tear us down,
Speaker 1: so we have to be stronger than the lies that
Speaker 1: they are spinning. I encourage all of you to head
Speaker 1: over to the film collaborative, or to take a look
Speaker 1: at the trailer, to take a look at the action
Speaker 1: campaign for Zarawski. The Texas can host a screening between
Speaker 1: now and the election. Do so. If you have the
Speaker 1: treasure and the ability to donate, do so. Every dollar counts.
Speaker 1: We need to spread the message that is it for
Speaker 1: me today, Dear friends on Woke af AS always power
Speaker 1: to the people and to all the people. Power, Get
Speaker 1: woke and stay woke as fuck.