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Speaker 1: the on House and today we have a very special guest,

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Speaker 1: Charlie Madison Winters goes by the pronouncer. She and her

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Speaker 1: is running for Congress and she is the catalyst for change.

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Speaker 1: I want to let her have her story because it's

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Speaker 1: important for the Young House community, because we have a

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Speaker 1: very diverse community to understand what her platform is and

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Speaker 1: how she's going to help the house community and what

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Speaker 1: visions does she see. So, without further to do, let

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Speaker 1: Charlie tell us a little bit about herself. How did

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Speaker 1: you feel the calling to run for Congress? Okay, well him, Charlie.

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Speaker 1: I mean, first of all, I've always wanted to do this.

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Speaker 1: Politics is something I've paid attention to for a long

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Speaker 1: time and cared about. But you know, paying attention to

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Speaker 1: it does not necessarily make a run or anything. But

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Speaker 1: I'm trans I'm autistic. I've spent I've spent a large

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Speaker 1: percentage of my life just banging my head against the

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Speaker 1: wall of the system trying to make sure I can.

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Speaker 1: You know, I'm a six time college drop out. There

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Speaker 1: were no accommodations in that in order for me to

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Speaker 1: do anything. A lot of my friends are trans disabled.

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Speaker 1: You know, I'm fortunate in that my partner helps support

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Speaker 1: me while I do things like run for office or

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Speaker 1: be chronically unemployed. I really lucky in that respect, but

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Speaker 1: a lot of my friends aren't, and I'm trying to

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Speaker 1: support them and watching them struggle with the same things

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Speaker 1: that I struggle with and be punished entirely worse for it,

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Speaker 1: just because of circumstance. I've seen people struggle with housing.

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Speaker 1: You know, my friends are just going from job to job.

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Speaker 1: Even the people I know who graduated college, they're drowning

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Speaker 1: in debt. Just there's so much wrong, Like you have

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Speaker 1: to walk through the world ignoring so much. It's just

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Speaker 1: absolutely horrifying. And at some point I decided I just

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Speaker 1: I want. I wanted to stand up and run here

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Speaker 1: and provide an alternative to our long term twenty four

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Speaker 1: year incumbent just sort of assumes everything will be fine.

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Speaker 1: She'll just keep getting elected and she doesn't necessarily have

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Speaker 1: to promise anything. I'm getting a little upset about it

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Speaker 1: because it's just take your time, please, we want to

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Speaker 1: hear your story. Well, it's just that's that's a lot

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Speaker 1: of it. I'm struggling. Everyone I know is struggling. I

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Speaker 1: want to stand up and run for office because there's

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Speaker 1: always someone who stands up to Chile. The incumbent here

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Speaker 1: and every year the incumbent loses just a little bit

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Speaker 1: more support because when you've been in office for twenty

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Speaker 1: four years, and this is what happened over the last

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Speaker 1: twenty four years, the gutting of our welfare state and

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Speaker 1: absolute lack of resources. You know, one of the things

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Speaker 1: that really drives me to run for office is six

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Speaker 1: months after I graduated high school, the economy just collapsed.

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Speaker 1: And I grew up in a suburban area in a

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Speaker 1: family that was relatively middle class, And when you're there,

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Speaker 1: they're telling you a lot about what the world is

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Speaker 1: like and what you can do and what you can expect.

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Speaker 1: And it never seemed quite right because you can see

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Speaker 1: so many counter examples to those narratives. But when you

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Speaker 1: grow up in it, you just sort of assume, yeah, Okay,

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Speaker 1: you work hard, you get a little somewhere. Maybe it's

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Speaker 1: not as good as they said, but you do it.

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Speaker 1: And that was a complete lie. There's nothing that I

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Speaker 1: can personally do other than fight for what I believe

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Speaker 1: and stand up and organize people against this miserable system

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Speaker 1: that's actually going to get me anywhere in this life.

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Speaker 1: You know, success is relatively out of my control, except

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Speaker 1: as we create it on the ground and realizing that

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Speaker 1: from the moment I graduated high school onward, as I

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Speaker 1: watched everyone I know struggle to accomplish anything, As I

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Speaker 1: watched bankers repossess families, I knews houses, turning half of

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Speaker 1: Denver into inter rental property, at some point I got

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Speaker 1: incredibly fed up and said, you know what, I'm just

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Speaker 1: going to provide an alternative because none of the alternatives

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Speaker 1: thus far have been substantially different enough. I want people

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Speaker 1: to be able to vote for housing for all, Medicare

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Speaker 1: for all, actual substantial universal socialist programs that they haven't

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Speaker 1: had the chance to because no one's actually stood for them. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: and I also just want people to have an alternative

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Speaker 1: that's not funded by interests that oppose them. The incumbent

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Speaker 1: takes a lot of medical insurance money and says that

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Speaker 1: she'll support Medicare for all, but I frankly don't believe

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Speaker 1: that in that situation, and I want people to be

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Speaker 1: able to vote for someone who definitely doesn't take insurance money. Wait,

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Speaker 1: if I may interject there, I have another follow up question.

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Speaker 1: What do you think your unique skills would be to

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Speaker 1: make you successful in running for office? That's an interesting one.

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Speaker 1: I talk to people about that a lot, because like,

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Speaker 1: the skills necessary to run for office are like completely

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Speaker 1: the opposite of the skills you want. And a person

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Speaker 1: elected to office and occasionally we get someone really cool

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Speaker 1: who they coalesce inside together the ability to like, you know,

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Speaker 1: organize and be charismatic and sort of have a brand

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Speaker 1: that is reasonable within this strange electoral system, while also

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Speaker 1: being really thoughtful fighting for what is right, having strong

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Speaker 1: ideological conviction. I don't know. I'd like to think I

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Speaker 1: have a little of both of those. Mostly I think

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Speaker 1: my skills would do really well in Congress. I try

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Speaker 1: to be really thoughtful. I try to explore as much

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Speaker 1: nuance as I can. I ask a lot of structural

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Speaker 1: based questions. I look at the problems that we have

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Speaker 1: as failings of our society, not as issues that bad

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Speaker 1: actors caused or that like the right person can fix. I,

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Speaker 1: as one individual member of the House, can be as

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Speaker 1: thoughtful as I want to be. But nothing's going to

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Speaker 1: get done unless there are mass movements of people out

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Speaker 1: there in the streets demanding the things that I'm standing for.

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Speaker 1: So my goal here is to try and channel that

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Speaker 1: thoughtfulness into policies that I believe in, and those can

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Speaker 1: be turned into law easily and quickly, but only with

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Speaker 1: a mass movement of people behind it. So that's what

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Speaker 1: I want to bring to the table is a place

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Speaker 1: we can catalyze that mass movement, bring people to the table,

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Speaker 1: lift up the organizations who you know, like in Denver,

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Speaker 1: we have tons of people working on housing, immigrant rights,

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Speaker 1: all these different issues, and I want them to know

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Speaker 1: they have an ally in Congress and that the work

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Speaker 1: that they do turning people out to fight for these

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Speaker 1: things will be promoted, lifted up, and noticed by the country.

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Speaker 1: Can you give us a little insight on your platform

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Speaker 1: for the unhoused crisis that sleeping I'm sure Denver, Colorado

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Speaker 1: is sleeping all over Los Angeles with the police violations

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Speaker 1: of civil rights and Mitchell Farrell, he refuses to see

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Speaker 1: his constituents that are in the house and he's directing,

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Speaker 1: along with the Council President Newry Martinez, to while attack

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Speaker 1: and basically threaten and harass on house people where there

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Speaker 1: are no sufficient places for them to be. And we

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Speaker 1: have been like hitting our helps against the wall because

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Speaker 1: of the cozy relationship with the police. The director of

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Speaker 1: sanitation and the newer Martinez who is trying to criminalize

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Speaker 1: on house people. In fact, in one of my episodes,

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Speaker 1: there was a gentleman that has never had a criminal record,

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Speaker 1: but since he's been out on the street has been

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Speaker 1: cited twenty four times for having his tent up because

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Speaker 1: he's disabled. And these things affect so many areas, like,

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Speaker 1: for example, the Trump administration has cutting off benefits for

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Speaker 1: disabled people house or in house. So what is your

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Speaker 1: platform in order holding them account? Just to add a

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Speaker 1: little to that, the last election in Denver, we held

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Speaker 1: a referendum on giving unhoused people here a right to survive,

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Speaker 1: a right to use tents, more in blankets and things,

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Speaker 1: and it got voted down, which is absolutely devastating because

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Speaker 1: the rich landlords in our state funneled one and a

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Speaker 1: half million dollars into an ad campaign against unhoused people

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Speaker 1: instead of you know, I don't know, spending that money

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Speaker 1: to build house. But at the end of the day,

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Speaker 1: we can't force private landowners to build stuff. Okay, this

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Speaker 1: is happening everywhere obviously, but so on my platform, one

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Speaker 1: of the first things I think we can do is

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Speaker 1: we can create civilian police accountability councils to make sure

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Speaker 1: that in addition to disarming cops and changing the ways

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Speaker 1: in which they're allowed to do asset for Fitzure like

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Speaker 1: take stuff from people at a federal level, and a

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Speaker 1: lot of these laws, a lot of those laws are federal.

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Speaker 1: We can create a framework for every district to put

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Speaker 1: police under the accountability and command of the people of

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Speaker 1: that district. In essence, you elect a board that has

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Speaker 1: complete oversight over the police. That's one thing we can

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Speaker 1: do that will shift the balance of power. That's one

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Speaker 1: of the things I think we can do in addition

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Speaker 1: to disarming cops. That's going to get something. Two can

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Speaker 1: for example, can we have unhoused people on those civility committees,

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Speaker 1: because sometimes some well meaning housed people who have the

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Speaker 1: polief system that police officers are just doing the job.

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Speaker 1: They're good people and they're not understanding the terroristic actions

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Speaker 1: that they're doing to unhouse people. Yeah, I agree with

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Speaker 1: that entirely, and I would absolutely love to mandate that

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Speaker 1: these councils have on house people on them to make

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Speaker 1: sure that that is represented. Yeah. One of the other

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Speaker 1: things I want to do is just a massive investment

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Speaker 1: in public housing. I mean, one of my core goals

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Speaker 1: here over the course of my lifetime is to help

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Speaker 1: decommodify housing entirely, because it's absolutely seen to me that

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Speaker 1: houses are a good that is bought and sold rather

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Speaker 1: than something we simply provide as a society to everyone

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Speaker 1: who lives here. I know that here in Denver, and

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Speaker 1: I'm sure out there in California saw the moms for

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Speaker 1: housing out in Oakland, and just the sheer numbers of

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Speaker 1: houses that are built rich people for no other purpose

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Speaker 1: than to flip them later when the housing prices go up,

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Speaker 1: and then they manipulate housing prices to make sure no

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Speaker 1: one can afford them, and it's unsustainable, but it's also

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Speaker 1: completely immoral. So one of the things I want to

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Speaker 1: do is completely reform all the assistance programs that we have.

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Speaker 1: Like instead of Section eight paying out chunks of money

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Speaker 1: to developers and landlords to allow low income people a

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Speaker 1: couple units here and there, we should build the gigantic

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Speaker 1: public housing units that are mandated to be funded as

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Speaker 1: an entitlement by the federal government so that you can't

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Speaker 1: demolish them by neglect like they did to the last

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Speaker 1: crop of public housing, to just make them free to

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Speaker 1: people who need them. My goal here is universal policies

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Speaker 1: given first to the people who need it most. So excellent.

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Speaker 1: Let me ask you what is the hardest thing about

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Speaker 1: campaign you know right now? For me, the hardest part

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Speaker 1: about campaigning is pushing past the nihilism and the hopelessness

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Speaker 1: that a lot of people feel about our political system.

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Speaker 1: How unreach presented of the system is. We just did

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Speaker 1: the Iowa Caucus and everyone on the internet who hadn't

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Speaker 1: realized it that was starting to realize how undemocratic a

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Speaker 1: caucus really is, and just every step of the way,

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Speaker 1: there's so much paper work, there's so many rules, it's

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Speaker 1: designed to be impossible. The whole system of who's allowed

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Speaker 1: to support a candidate with money and who's not and

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Speaker 1: how restricts a lot of the people out there doing

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Speaker 1: good work through nonprofit systems simply because we don't have

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Speaker 1: a government that will actually do any of those things.

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Speaker 1: So they're trying to scramble to make up for it,

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Speaker 1: and they can't necessarily support openly because against the law.

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Speaker 1: The whole system is rigged against small candidates. And I

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Speaker 1: think there are I think what do you say about

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Speaker 1: the paperwork? I think that's one thing we share in

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Speaker 1: commony on house community trying to get housing, that quagmire

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Speaker 1: of paperwork and the ridiculous rules and the obstacles of society,

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Speaker 1: biases and things of that nature, and it makes it

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Speaker 1: very difficult for people living in these shelters or saying

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Speaker 1: that their shelter resistant. I had a transman on the

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Speaker 1: early episode in an interview and he said some of

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Speaker 1: the difficulties being trans going to shelters, and I was wondering,

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Speaker 1: do you think running for Congress will inspire more transgender candidates? Oh?

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Speaker 1: For that, Yeah, absolutely it will. It already has. I'm

647
00:37:16,200 --> 00:37:18,960
Speaker 1: already getting dms from people on Twitter about people who

648
00:37:19,040 --> 00:37:22,799
Speaker 1: want to run everywhere from Canada across the US. I've

649
00:37:22,840 --> 00:37:24,920
Speaker 1: talked to a number of people about this. I'm in

650
00:37:25,200 --> 00:37:28,240
Speaker 1: discord groups with lots of trans people who are planning

651
00:37:28,239 --> 00:37:30,480
Speaker 1: to run in the future. Not only are we starting

652
00:37:30,480 --> 00:37:32,800
Speaker 1: to realize that we got to run, but I definitely

653
00:37:32,840 --> 00:37:35,040
Speaker 1: have had people say to me that I have inspired

654
00:37:35,040 --> 00:37:37,200
Speaker 1: them to run, and I'm like, great, this feels good,

655
00:37:37,239 --> 00:37:41,359
Speaker 1: We're all going to do this. Excellent. What is one

656
00:37:41,360 --> 00:37:43,920
Speaker 1: of the common myths that you hear about the transgender community?

657
00:37:44,440 --> 00:37:47,239
Speaker 1: I don't know if I could pinpoint one exactly. Just

658
00:37:47,480 --> 00:37:52,080
Speaker 1: the discourse around being trans has been so thoroughly poisoned

659
00:37:52,160 --> 00:37:56,360
Speaker 1: by right wingers and people who just don't know a

660
00:37:56,440 --> 00:38:01,120
Speaker 1: whole lot about things. I think help adjuctu our listeners,

661
00:38:01,160 --> 00:38:04,160
Speaker 1: like I say, as you know, probably know my podcast

662
00:38:04,160 --> 00:38:06,400
Speaker 1: reaching a lot of ears, and a a lot of people

663
00:38:06,440 --> 00:38:09,759
Speaker 1: are really eager to do things and learn, So help

664
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Speaker 1: educate it, and help educate me on some of the

665
00:38:12,040 --> 00:38:16,160
Speaker 1: things that I may be inadvertently ignorant or or so.

666
00:38:16,320 --> 00:38:20,480
Speaker 1: And I don't want to walk around ignorant, so educate

667
00:38:20,600 --> 00:38:23,200
Speaker 1: what's going on. Well, let's see in a lot of

668
00:38:23,239 --> 00:38:27,480
Speaker 1: the organizing spaces I'm in that we're all starting to

669
00:38:27,560 --> 00:38:31,839
Speaker 1: do is just assuming you don't know someone's pronouns and

670
00:38:32,640 --> 00:38:36,960
Speaker 1: asking them when you meet them, introducing yourself with pronouns

671
00:38:37,040 --> 00:38:40,160
Speaker 1: so that people know that's a really easy thing that

672
00:38:40,200 --> 00:38:42,960
Speaker 1: anyone can do. And I like it when people who

673
00:38:42,960 --> 00:38:45,279
Speaker 1: aren't trans get in on that too, because it's a

674
00:38:45,360 --> 00:38:50,200
Speaker 1: recognition that we all choose how to do our gender

675
00:38:50,280 --> 00:38:52,719
Speaker 1: to some degree. So that's the second thing I want

676
00:38:52,719 --> 00:38:58,040
Speaker 1: to see is the fall park from homeless or transient vagrants,

677
00:38:58,080 --> 00:39:01,480
Speaker 1: hobos and all of the terms that has had a

678
00:39:01,600 --> 00:39:04,759
Speaker 1: very negative stigma, and then some people in some communities

679
00:39:04,800 --> 00:39:07,760
Speaker 1: wanted to take the word back, like like you say, queer,

680
00:39:07,960 --> 00:39:10,359
Speaker 1: I remember when I was growing up that offensive word,

681
00:39:10,480 --> 00:39:13,840
Speaker 1: and you wouldn't say, are there any offensive words that

682
00:39:13,880 --> 00:39:17,080
Speaker 1: we should or are you guys retaking? Is there any

683
00:39:17,120 --> 00:39:19,919
Speaker 1: other language? Are any words that would be considered rude

684
00:39:19,920 --> 00:39:22,399
Speaker 1: and offensive to your community that we need to be

685
00:39:22,640 --> 00:39:25,719
Speaker 1: respectful of? Yeah, I mean it depends on who you're

686
00:39:25,760 --> 00:39:29,000
Speaker 1: talking to. The safest way to do it, I would say,

687
00:39:29,080 --> 00:39:31,719
Speaker 1: is when you're talking about a trans person, just say

688
00:39:31,880 --> 00:39:36,640
Speaker 1: trans person, trans woman, transman, whichever is appropriate to them. Okay, Okay,

689
00:39:36,719 --> 00:39:39,759
Speaker 1: that's was what I was leading to. Yeah, yeah, No,

690
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Speaker 1: I use the word queer all the time to describe

691
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Speaker 1: myself because I like that word. I feel fine reclaiming

692
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Speaker 1: that I would just get to know the person avoid

693
00:39:49,000 --> 00:39:53,600
Speaker 1: those particular words. Queer is difficult among older folks because

694
00:39:53,719 --> 00:39:55,560
Speaker 1: you did grow up in the world. Yeah, I hear that,

695
00:39:56,080 --> 00:39:58,279
Speaker 1: and I do use it, and I do want to

696
00:39:58,320 --> 00:40:00,640
Speaker 1: be careful with that one around folks who had that

697
00:40:00,680 --> 00:40:03,040
Speaker 1: thrown at them as a slur, whereas I only did

698
00:40:03,120 --> 00:40:05,440
Speaker 1: for a small percentage of my life. So it was

699
00:40:05,480 --> 00:40:07,440
Speaker 1: easy to reclaim and I get that, but yeah, the

700
00:40:07,480 --> 00:40:10,640
Speaker 1: word tranny is not great or acceptable among a lot

701
00:40:10,680 --> 00:40:14,759
Speaker 1: of people I know. And my advice is just let

702
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Speaker 1: the person show you what words they use and just

703
00:40:17,920 --> 00:40:20,760
Speaker 1: sort of avoid those until you hear the other person

704
00:40:20,880 --> 00:40:22,799
Speaker 1: using them. And if you want to say, like, can

705
00:40:22,880 --> 00:40:27,160
Speaker 1: I use that one? Go for it. Okay, Well, thank you,

706
00:40:27,160 --> 00:40:30,080
Speaker 1: you have definitely educated us. Let me see if I've

707
00:40:30,080 --> 00:40:32,759
Speaker 1: got all of the questions, what advice would you give

708
00:40:32,800 --> 00:40:35,600
Speaker 1: to someone who wants to run for Congress? Oh gosh,

709
00:40:35,760 --> 00:40:38,879
Speaker 1: I mean, I definitely want to start with just do it.

710
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Speaker 1: I'm part of the Rose Caucus, which is a nationwide

711
00:40:43,920 --> 00:40:47,960
Speaker 1: network of candidates who are all working together for democratic

712
00:40:48,040 --> 00:40:53,800
Speaker 1: socialist policies under a unified platform. And we came together

713
00:40:54,600 --> 00:40:57,719
Speaker 1: and we were vetted by this big crowd of thousands

714
00:40:58,000 --> 00:41:01,279
Speaker 1: of people who are volunteers on people's campaigns all over

715
00:41:01,280 --> 00:41:05,200
Speaker 1: the nation. They came together to vet us figure out

716
00:41:05,280 --> 00:41:08,399
Speaker 1: who should be in the caucus, and we were able

717
00:41:08,440 --> 00:41:11,120
Speaker 1: to do that. And so there's a lot of people

718
00:41:11,239 --> 00:41:14,160
Speaker 1: out there all over the country and the world who

719
00:41:14,280 --> 00:41:17,120
Speaker 1: want to help you be successful in this. And I've

720
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Speaker 1: gotten where I am because I chose to run. I

721
00:41:20,480 --> 00:41:23,920
Speaker 1: put myself out there and I'm going out there meeting people,

722
00:41:24,080 --> 00:41:26,120
Speaker 1: you know, doing my thing. But a lot of people

723
00:41:26,160 --> 00:41:28,520
Speaker 1: just came to me. They dmd me, they knew me

724
00:41:28,640 --> 00:41:31,000
Speaker 1: from the past, and they just said, can I help?

725
00:41:31,200 --> 00:41:33,600
Speaker 1: And the answer is yes, absolutely. So there's tons of

726
00:41:33,600 --> 00:41:36,759
Speaker 1: people who want to help. And because we're doing this

727
00:41:36,920 --> 00:41:39,080
Speaker 1: Rose Caucus thing and the tons of us are being

728
00:41:39,160 --> 00:41:42,239
Speaker 1: inspired to run. Within a few years, a bunch of

729
00:41:42,280 --> 00:41:46,000
Speaker 1: people near you will probably know the process who have

730
00:41:46,120 --> 00:41:49,959
Speaker 1: not been absolutely nihilistically decimated by banging their head against

731
00:41:50,000 --> 00:41:53,000
Speaker 1: this political system over and over again. The thing is,

732
00:41:53,000 --> 00:41:55,880
Speaker 1: when I started running, some of the first responses I

733
00:41:55,960 --> 00:41:58,879
Speaker 1: got were, why do you think you're capable of that?

734
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Speaker 1: You don't have the institute support to do that. You

735
00:42:01,680 --> 00:42:04,920
Speaker 1: have you aren't integrated enough into the quote unquote right communities,

736
00:42:05,000 --> 00:42:08,160
Speaker 1: using this weird language to basically say you are not

737
00:42:08,280 --> 00:42:11,480
Speaker 1: good enough to do this. Yet no one should vote

738
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Speaker 1: for you, because there's this electoralism brain worm in people's

739
00:42:15,000 --> 00:42:17,320
Speaker 1: brains where they're like, oh God, I'd love to vote

740
00:42:17,360 --> 00:42:20,359
Speaker 1: for you, but you don't dress right or look right,

741
00:42:20,440 --> 00:42:23,840
Speaker 1: and it makes you selectable and I hate that. And

742
00:42:23,880 --> 00:42:25,560
Speaker 1: they're going to tell you that and you should just

743
00:42:25,680 --> 00:42:30,080
Speaker 1: run anyway. Okay, Well, thank you. I was going to say,

744
00:42:30,520 --> 00:42:32,879
Speaker 1: I didn't touch on this. This is another issue that

745
00:42:33,320 --> 00:42:37,520
Speaker 1: you are, you proudly claimed is autism, because we need

746
00:42:37,520 --> 00:42:39,919
Speaker 1: a more of a platform. It's just now been coming

747
00:42:39,960 --> 00:42:42,120
Speaker 1: into the forefront. What are the things that we need

748
00:42:42,160 --> 00:42:48,319
Speaker 1: to do to understand what autism is. Sure, there's a

749
00:42:48,320 --> 00:42:50,920
Speaker 1: lot of debate going on out there. The information I

750
00:42:51,000 --> 00:42:53,799
Speaker 1: get is my community of autistic adults who have been

751
00:42:53,800 --> 00:42:57,399
Speaker 1: thinking about themselves as autistic for a long time now

752
00:42:57,440 --> 00:43:01,600
Speaker 1: and have gathered online to to describe their own experiences.

753
00:43:01,640 --> 00:43:03,560
Speaker 1: Because the most important thing I can warn people about

754
00:43:03,600 --> 00:43:05,319
Speaker 1: there's a lot of the research being done out there

755
00:43:05,360 --> 00:43:08,560
Speaker 1: is one done on autistic kids, and two it doesn't

756
00:43:08,560 --> 00:43:11,319
Speaker 1: listen to the actual experiences of those children. You teach

757
00:43:11,360 --> 00:43:15,440
Speaker 1: it because more as test subjects than people who report

758
00:43:15,480 --> 00:43:19,160
Speaker 1: their experiences. Now, for me, what being autistic means, there's

759
00:43:19,200 --> 00:43:22,000
Speaker 1: this thing that it needs more research done on it,

760
00:43:22,040 --> 00:43:25,799
Speaker 1: but it really maps well with autistic adults experiences, and

761
00:43:25,840 --> 00:43:29,520
Speaker 1: it's called the intense world theory. I really like this one.

762
00:43:29,719 --> 00:43:32,400
Speaker 1: The basic idea is that you know, we all have

763
00:43:32,440 --> 00:43:35,480
Speaker 1: different experiences of the world, like touch and sight and

764
00:43:35,560 --> 00:43:38,239
Speaker 1: light and all these things, and for a lot of

765
00:43:38,239 --> 00:43:41,600
Speaker 1: autistic folks, these are turned up much higher than other people.

766
00:43:41,640 --> 00:43:44,200
Speaker 1: You know, for me, I can see the flickering of

767
00:43:44,239 --> 00:43:47,440
Speaker 1: fluorescent lights, those really great led lights can cause me

768
00:43:47,480 --> 00:43:52,319
Speaker 1: physical pain. Loud noises make my blood boil in a

769
00:43:52,320 --> 00:43:55,200
Speaker 1: way that they don't seem to bother other people. And

770
00:43:55,239 --> 00:43:58,319
Speaker 1: there's a lot of that, and it can make things

771
00:43:58,400 --> 00:44:00,879
Speaker 1: very tiring in the world because you using a lot

772
00:44:00,960 --> 00:44:04,320
Speaker 1: more energy to take in a really loud, chaotic world.

773
00:44:04,480 --> 00:44:07,640
Speaker 1: And so a lot of like sensory sensitivities that autistic

774
00:44:07,680 --> 00:44:10,800
Speaker 1: people experience come in that forms. Just when an autistic

775
00:44:10,840 --> 00:44:13,319
Speaker 1: person is saying, you know, this hurts, this is uncomfortable,

776
00:44:13,360 --> 00:44:16,160
Speaker 1: I can't stand to be in here, it's probably true.

777
00:44:16,160 --> 00:44:18,160
Speaker 1: It's probably because the lights are really bright to a

778
00:44:18,200 --> 00:44:20,680
Speaker 1: degree that no one else notices, because it's just not

779
00:44:20,719 --> 00:44:24,040
Speaker 1: as intense for them. There's this stereotype that autistic people

780
00:44:24,120 --> 00:44:26,960
Speaker 1: aren't good at social interaction, but what a lot of

781
00:44:27,040 --> 00:44:30,239
Speaker 1: us find is that we're actually really really good at it,

782
00:44:30,280 --> 00:44:32,640
Speaker 1: to the point where, like if you look at someone's face,

783
00:44:32,840 --> 00:44:35,920
Speaker 1: the amount of emotional information you can tell from someone's face,

784
00:44:36,080 --> 00:44:40,080
Speaker 1: it's astounding. You know, people make tiny little micro expressions

785
00:44:40,080 --> 00:44:42,280
Speaker 1: with their face that they don't even realize that they're making,

786
00:44:42,320 --> 00:44:44,759
Speaker 1: but I notice every single bit. So a lot of

787
00:44:44,760 --> 00:44:46,920
Speaker 1: times we get used to not looking at people's faces

788
00:44:46,920 --> 00:44:48,799
Speaker 1: when they're talking because we want to focus on the

789
00:44:48,800 --> 00:44:51,520
Speaker 1: words they're saying, and it's hard to if we're looking

790
00:44:51,520 --> 00:44:53,520
Speaker 1: them in the eyes because we're just taking in so

791
00:44:53,880 --> 00:44:57,400
Speaker 1: much information. And a lot of autistic folks describe themselves

792
00:44:57,440 --> 00:44:59,839
Speaker 1: as hyper empathetic. What they're meaning there is that they're

793
00:44:59,840 --> 00:45:03,920
Speaker 1: just taking in so much social information. Yeah. Yeah, those

794
00:45:03,960 --> 00:45:06,960
Speaker 1: are a couple of ways that I experience and autistic

795
00:45:07,080 --> 00:45:09,560
Speaker 1: and a lot of other people I know also experience it.

796
00:45:10,120 --> 00:45:14,040
Speaker 1: How can we become an autistic friendly society? I mean,

797
00:45:14,120 --> 00:45:17,719
Speaker 1: this is just a general idea that applies to everyone,

798
00:45:17,800 --> 00:45:21,280
Speaker 1: from autistic folks, trans folks, the un house community, everyone.

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00:45:21,680 --> 00:45:25,040
Speaker 1: It's like, just listen to us when we say what

800
00:45:25,080 --> 00:45:28,680
Speaker 1: we need. Because we live in this world where there

801
00:45:28,760 --> 00:45:31,520
Speaker 1: is an acceptable standard of how you can be and

802
00:45:31,560 --> 00:45:34,640
Speaker 1: who you are, and everyone has to conform to it.

803
00:45:34,680 --> 00:45:37,719
Speaker 1: And a lot of autistic kids are taught from very

804
00:45:37,719 --> 00:45:41,120
Speaker 1: early on in their lives you have to stop stemming,

805
00:45:41,239 --> 00:45:43,640
Speaker 1: which is basically just you know, it can be talking,

806
00:45:43,719 --> 00:45:46,840
Speaker 1: it can be touching, it can be flapping our hands

807
00:45:46,880 --> 00:45:49,879
Speaker 1: that calms us down and it brings us back into

808
00:45:49,920 --> 00:45:52,440
Speaker 1: the world because I don't know why it works, but

809
00:45:52,480 --> 00:45:54,560
Speaker 1: it does. You know, if I just flap my hands

810
00:45:54,640 --> 00:45:57,520
Speaker 1: or something, I feel a lot better if I'm anxious

811
00:45:57,600 --> 00:45:59,880
Speaker 1: or nervous and doing it right now as we're talking

812
00:46:00,120 --> 00:46:02,960
Speaker 1: a little bit, because it helps me focus. But people

813
00:46:03,040 --> 00:46:05,799
Speaker 1: are taught very early on not to do that. And

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00:46:06,000 --> 00:46:09,600
Speaker 1: you know, many of the therapies used on autistic kids,

815
00:46:09,640 --> 00:46:14,040
Speaker 1: they're functionally conversion therapy. One of them was actually created

816
00:46:14,120 --> 00:46:19,359
Speaker 1: by the guy who invented gay conversion therapy. Yeah, it's

817
00:46:19,360 --> 00:46:23,040
Speaker 1: still being used. There's a lot of controversy among autistic

818
00:46:23,160 --> 00:46:25,880
Speaker 1: parents because they're like, well, it's helped my child, and

819
00:46:25,920 --> 00:46:28,720
Speaker 1: it's like, you're right, it helped your child be more

820
00:46:29,000 --> 00:46:33,759
Speaker 1: appropriate for the world, which will increase potential success. But

821
00:46:33,840 --> 00:46:38,440
Speaker 1: it's also going to increase depression and anxiety because people

822
00:46:38,800 --> 00:46:43,879
Speaker 1: are forced into these standards. But at its core, if

823
00:46:43,920 --> 00:46:47,680
Speaker 1: someone is doing something different. I want to live in

824
00:46:47,680 --> 00:46:51,319
Speaker 1: a world where we approach that with curiosity, where we say, oh,

825
00:46:51,320 --> 00:46:53,520
Speaker 1: why do you do it that way? In a way

826
00:46:53,640 --> 00:46:57,000
Speaker 1: that's non confrontational and isn't about changing someone but just

827
00:46:57,000 --> 00:47:00,600
Speaker 1: about understanding them. And I mean that's part of what

828
00:47:00,680 --> 00:47:03,880
Speaker 1: informs the politics that I have. The reason that I

829
00:47:03,960 --> 00:47:07,480
Speaker 1: care so much about doing socialism and then have the

830
00:47:07,480 --> 00:47:10,080
Speaker 1: policies that I do is I want to put I

831
00:47:10,120 --> 00:47:14,280
Speaker 1: want to put the power of our homes or our

832
00:47:14,480 --> 00:47:16,959
Speaker 1: jobs into the hands of the people who are living

833
00:47:17,000 --> 00:47:20,919
Speaker 1: and working in them. We have things like Medicare for all,

834
00:47:21,000 --> 00:47:23,800
Speaker 1: so we can make sure everyone has access to therapy

835
00:47:23,840 --> 00:47:28,200
Speaker 1: and other things to help explore what they need and

836
00:47:28,920 --> 00:47:31,359
Speaker 1: what they want in a space that isn't necessarily as

837
00:47:31,400 --> 00:47:35,120
Speaker 1: fraud as maybe with all of your neighbors all at once. Okay,

838
00:47:35,680 --> 00:47:39,360
Speaker 1: that's that's the one core thing that I can just

839
00:47:39,440 --> 00:47:44,040
Speaker 1: say is approach people with curiosity, well, ask why they are,

840
00:47:44,160 --> 00:47:47,960
Speaker 1: who they are and what they do. Just talk to them. Well, Charlie,

841
00:47:48,080 --> 00:47:50,759
Speaker 1: I thank you for your time, and I want to

842
00:47:50,800 --> 00:47:53,920
Speaker 1: close out with saying this. To understand somebody is to

843
00:47:54,000 --> 00:47:58,040
Speaker 1: know somebody. To know somebody is to ask them about themselves.

844
00:47:58,440 --> 00:48:00,680
Speaker 1: And I think, Charlie, you have done a lot to

845
00:48:00,800 --> 00:48:03,319
Speaker 1: educate our audience. You did a lot to help educate me,

846
00:48:04,000 --> 00:48:06,759
Speaker 1: and I wish you continued success. I hope you get

847
00:48:06,760 --> 00:48:10,800
Speaker 1: it and I hope that we have more change agents

848
00:48:10,840 --> 00:48:16,160
Speaker 1: in the election process from after the inspiration of Charlie

849
00:48:16,160 --> 00:48:20,120
Speaker 1: Winters and other people that are not in the mainstream

850
00:48:20,239 --> 00:48:23,520
Speaker 1: that are starting to have their voices heard. This is

851
00:48:23,560 --> 00:48:25,839
Speaker 1: Theo Henderson from Lydia and Howse I thank you all

852
00:48:25,880 --> 00:48:28,040
Speaker 1: for listening and maybe we again meet in the light

853
00:48:28,080 --> 00:48:31,480
Speaker 1: of understanding. Thank you for having me on. I really

854
00:48:31,520 --> 00:48:44,000
Speaker 1: appreciate Thank you. This episode can be done without the

855
00:48:44,080 --> 00:48:47,000
Speaker 1: health and efforts of many. I would like to thank

856
00:48:47,040 --> 00:48:52,279
Speaker 1: our guests Charlie Winters on our election, Justseph Mohammad and

857
00:48:52,400 --> 00:48:58,120
Speaker 1: jet Ariot Carlos Mieto, as well as others like Zen

858
00:48:58,239 --> 00:49:04,840
Speaker 1: and Mario, Craig Wongs, CCD, Democratic Socialist Union, Annie Shaw

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Speaker 1: Taiji Makawaro, as well as many others that remained in

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Speaker 1: the scenes, Melissa who feeds for the community and Melissa

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Speaker 1: Asidero Chain, Wynn Mark Corbat. These people are getting the

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Speaker 1: voices out and as well as Kathy Hook from about

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Speaker 1: my father's business and voting. Our next episode will feature

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Speaker 1: her as an interview as well as you delve deeper

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Speaker 1: into voting rights history. Thank you all again. Services the

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Speaker 1: rentedue painting or This is equally important in this episode

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Speaker 1: to discuss how voting affectished your life as an unhoused

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Speaker 1: person or formerly unhoused. This is important because because there

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Speaker 1: are forces out there that are using this opportunity to

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Speaker 1: further criminalize and demoralize and terrorize. We've discussed how Grace You, Jake, June,

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Speaker 1: Jan Perry, She Lagall and many others are not acceptable

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Speaker 1: to unhouse interests. We also discussed with a person that's

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Speaker 1: running for Congress, Charlie Winters, who has some ideas in

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Speaker 1: order to include all people into the voting landscape. We

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Speaker 1: also had a perspective from another guest, Joseph Muhammad, on

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Speaker 1: his experiences dealing with the lack of shelters and the

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Speaker 1: challenges of shelters that offers. It is my hope for

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Speaker 1: the next episode to delve deeper into what the history

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Speaker 1: of Voting Rights Act is and why it was so sexual.

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Speaker 1: The Doctor King step forward and to get it for

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Speaker 1: after Americans and the South at the time of Jim

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Speaker 1: Crow and segregation. Jim Crow is not open and spoke of,

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Speaker 1: but it's definitely unspokenly done here in this community. It's unhouse, segregate,

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Speaker 1: is unhoused apart time. They are doing everything in their

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Speaker 1: power to make sure our voice is as silence. So

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Speaker 1: it is almost in this the future to end this

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Speaker 1: post our podcast with whom nothing conceizes the demands without change.

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Speaker 1: Here is some voting history on black history mom Harry T.

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Speaker 1: Moore helped sign up black voters throughout the state in

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Speaker 1: nineteen thirties and forties. He organized more than fifty Florida

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Speaker 1: branches of the NAACP and investigated lynchings around the state.

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Speaker 1: He was fearless and demanded his respect and he quarries.

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Speaker 1: He refused to be intimidating. However, in nineteen fifty one,

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Speaker 1: on Christmas Night, Harry T. Moore and his wife, Henry Otter,

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Speaker 1: was killed by a bomb placed under their bed in

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Speaker 1: min Florida. They are the first martyrs of the civil

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Speaker 1: rights movement. This is why using MLK, ROSA, Parks and

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Speaker 1: other giants in the civil rights movement is an insult

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Speaker 1: to their memories. Grace Yu, Jake June and their supporters

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Speaker 1: should be ashamed of themselves to align themselves to these

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Speaker 1: icons and to pervert their message by opposing shelters and

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Speaker 1: to demonizing unhoused people as criminals, to seniors and to children.

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Speaker 1: This quote by doctor Martin Luther King's son says it

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Speaker 1: best what he's describing with people to decide to hijack

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Speaker 1: his father's legacy and message. He says, contexts and context

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Speaker 1: always matter. When my father spoke about the arc of

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Speaker 1: the moral universe bending towards justice, he had just finished

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Speaker 1: marching fifty miles from Selma to Montgomery, Alabama. My father

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Speaker 1: used his words and actions to provide leadership to the

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Speaker 1: most successful pro democratic movement in this country's history. Martin

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Speaker 1: Luther King, Junior's name is synonymous with justice and fairness.

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Speaker 1: He certainly believed that justice and fairness should be available

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Speaker 1: to everyone. But what mockery, what hypocrisy and rank opportunism

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Speaker 1: to equate my father's views about two hundred and forty

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Speaker 1: six years of enslavement and almost one hundred years of

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Speaker 1: segregation to undermine constitutional governments. He was replying to Donald Trump.

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Speaker 1: But I also will use that toward the Koreans and

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Speaker 1: Korea town that has said some hateful things about on

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Speaker 1: house people and attacking advocates that are for everyone. In

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Speaker 1: a Korea town, for all You don't have to be

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Speaker 1: Korean to stand up for civil rights. You don't have

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Speaker 1: to be Korean to do the right thing. Doctor King says,

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Speaker 1: the time is always right to do what is right.

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Speaker 1: Some One says that you have to be black to

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Speaker 1: be in order to work in Compton, or you have

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Speaker 1: to be Korean only to work in Koreatown. That is

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Speaker 1: fallacious and that is hateful, and that perverts again the

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Speaker 1: civil rights message that is used to give rights to everybody.

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Speaker 1: Koreans are able to vote for the Voting Rights Acts

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Speaker 1: of nineteen sixty five that my ancestors, my parents and

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Speaker 1: grandparents and my ancestors before had fought so diligently the

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Speaker 1: thought for this country as well as for you to

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Speaker 1: have the right to vote. We didn't give you the

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Speaker 1: right to demonize us and criminalize us. We gave you

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Speaker 1: the right so you can be able to do the

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Speaker 1: right thing for the newer generations. So you do not

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Speaker 1: have the right to pervert our legacy for your evil

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Speaker 1: and capitalistic games. This is THEO Henderson from Weezian House,

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Speaker 1: and I thank you for listening, and may we all

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Speaker 1: again meet in the light of understanding. Step