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Speaker 1: Welcome home. Y'all, this is Native Lampod. It's solo pod Day.
Speaker 1: I'm your host, Angela Rai. And today we are still
Speaker 1: talking about ICE just taking over Minneapolis, and the residents,
Speaker 1: the citizens there are not letting it go by easily.
Speaker 1: They are holding Ice accountable on every side. They are
Speaker 1: ensuring that they are protecting citizens from horns, car horns
Speaker 1: to whistles. They are ensuring that ICE's road is not easy. Now,
Speaker 1: one thing I want to flag for you all these days,
Speaker 1: you can't necessarily trust the data coming out of this
Speaker 1: administration because they throw out numbers all the time that
Speaker 1: may or may not be fact checked. But the Department
Speaker 1: of Homeland Security Secretary Christy Noam is saying, as of today,
Speaker 1: more than ten thousand people have been detained by ICE
Speaker 1: in Minnesota. What we know so far is some of
Speaker 1: these people are citizens. They're saying they're all illegals. First
Speaker 1: of all, we all know that human beings cannot be illegal.
Speaker 1: They can be undocumented people.
Speaker 3: But we know for a.
Speaker 1: Fact They have even detained people who are Native American,
Speaker 1: indigenous to this country, people who've been there before them. Right,
Speaker 1: this is what we're up against right now, in this
Speaker 1: day and age, right on the other side of the
Speaker 1: Martin Luther King Holiday, I'm thrilled to introduce to some
Speaker 1: of you.
Speaker 3: I know many of you.
Speaker 1: Many many of you have seen her incredible journalism on
Speaker 1: the ground in Minnesota. And there's one of her first
Speaker 1: videos that I saw that just pricked my heart, and
Speaker 1: it is a young woman who is protesting on behalf
Speaker 1: of her neighbors.
Speaker 3: Let's roll that clip here today.
Speaker 4: I'm out here because I'm not and I want to
Speaker 4: protect my neighbors. These are all people that I love,
Speaker 4: and it makes me so mad that my class they's
Speaker 4: I can't even take it. Every day every day we're
Speaker 4: getting taken well, we.
Speaker 5: Care, we care, We're so mad, We're so mad and hurting. Yes,
Speaker 5: what do you see as some of the solutions for
Speaker 5: our country and how we move forward from this moment?
Speaker 6: We need to find better solutions to find people to
Speaker 6: get into the country. No one should be illegal on
Speaker 6: land that's not even belonging to our government.
Speaker 4: This isn't our land.
Speaker 5: Tell me how you found out about the death of
Speaker 5: Renee Good and how that impacted you.
Speaker 2: How did it make you feel.
Speaker 4: I think I was just on my phone and I
Speaker 4: saw it. It was kind of the same way that
Speaker 4: I kind of found out about George Floyd. I was
Speaker 4: just scrolling on my phone and it just made me
Speaker 4: feel violated, because no one should have to face so
Speaker 4: death that cruel.
Speaker 2: And what do you think justice looks like?
Speaker 6: Justice looks like getting everybody back to those family lists
Speaker 6: now got Tiken wrongfully?
Speaker 1: I just blown away by that video, the power and
Speaker 1: the voice of that young woman, and the journalist who
Speaker 1: platforms people who ordinarily would be ignored or not given
Speaker 1: a platform to be heard at all. She is the
Speaker 1: reason when we say independent journalism matters, especially in a
Speaker 1: day and age where we are watching media companies bout
Speaker 1: to Trump every single day, putting people on air who
Speaker 1: are refusing, frankly, to tell the truth, to speak truth
Speaker 1: to power, and ensure that at the very least this
Speaker 1: administration is fact checked well on the ground. In Minnesota,
Speaker 1: in Minneapolis specifically and in Saint Paul, Georgia Fort is
Speaker 1: doing exactly that, and for that she's winning awards including
Speaker 1: one that just was given to her yesterday on Doctor
Speaker 1: King's holiday.
Speaker 3: Welcome, Miss Georgia.
Speaker 2: Fort, Thank you so much for having me. Angela Oh,
Speaker 2: I'm thrilled to have you.
Speaker 1: Thank you for being here, for making time in the
Speaker 1: mist of everything that's going on. I just want to
Speaker 1: ask you what you're hearing. We know Christy Nooam is
Speaker 1: saying that more than ten thousand people have been detained
Speaker 1: by ICE. What are you all hearing on the ground,
Speaker 1: particularly from local elected leaders.
Speaker 2: We are actually witnessing for ourselves, us citizens being detained.
Speaker 2: We're hearing directly from impacted families of people who are
Speaker 2: going through the legal immigration process, who don't have a
Speaker 2: criminal background, that are being detained. And so where I,
Speaker 2: as a journalist, have researched some of these numbers right
Speaker 2: anywhere from sixty five to seventy five percent according to
Speaker 2: who you're checking with, of people who are currently detained
Speaker 2: by ICE that don't have any criminal background. That is
Speaker 2: extremely alarming, and like you pointed out, it's contradicting the
Speaker 2: narrative and the statistics that we're getting from our federal government.
Speaker 3: I'm curious to know.
Speaker 1: When you first learned that ICE was going to be
Speaker 1: making its way to Minneapolis.
Speaker 3: What crossed your mind?
Speaker 2: Well, I think my biggest concern was for the everyday
Speaker 2: residents here and knowing that we were ground zero in
Speaker 2: twenty twenty, knowing that there is an organizer community here,
Speaker 2: a protest culture, I guess you could say, of people
Speaker 2: who are not going to just lay down and take injustice,
Speaker 2: take mistreatment. And so my biggest concern was how my
Speaker 2: things escalate. And you know a lot of people may
Speaker 2: or I guess, may not have heard that there was
Speaker 2: a huge action that happened here back in June, right
Speaker 2: before the assassination of Melissa Hortman, and so at that time,
Speaker 2: people were tense thinking that we were going to become
Speaker 2: this target, and it kind of then was just it
Speaker 2: felt like a one time thing, and there was nothing
Speaker 2: happening here up until recently when they announced Operation Metro Surge,
Speaker 2: and so all of those worst case scenarios were actually
Speaker 2: now seeing play out in real time. So I want
Speaker 2: to stay here for a moment, because you talked about
Speaker 2: George Floyd in twenty twenty, Before George Floyd, there was
Speaker 2: Filando Castile, and now it seems like from an outsider's view.
Speaker 2: So this could be wrong, but from an outsider's perspective,
Speaker 2: it seems like the very law enforcement that you all
Speaker 2: have watched abuse the rights of your citizens, hurt, harm,
Speaker 2: and even kill. And I'm thinking specifically about the Minneapolis
Speaker 2: Police Department. Now this community has to seemingly rely on
Speaker 2: this same police department in the face of ice. Are
Speaker 2: you all seeing that in the same way or does
Speaker 2: it feel more like this community is doing this on
Speaker 2: their own and law and this other law enforcement isity
Speaker 2: is more or less coordinating with Ice. Well, it's a
Speaker 2: bit of both. And yeah, I would also urge people
Speaker 2: who have not followed what's been happening in Minnesota, you know,
Speaker 2: before twenty twenty, to even look at Jamar Clark. There
Speaker 2: was an eighteen day occupation at the fourth Precinct in
Speaker 2: the middle of winter, and so the things that have
Speaker 2: been ruminating here boiling here, have been simmering for a
Speaker 2: long time. And I say both and directly to answer
Speaker 2: your question about the relationship there with local law enforcement,
Speaker 2: because back in June, and I think it's it's significant
Speaker 2: to look at how things played out and the posture
Speaker 2: of the Minneapolis police chief back in June and the
Speaker 2: posture of the mayor back in June when the federal
Speaker 2: government first came here, right, because two weeks before that
Speaker 2: first federal raid in Minnesota, the DOJ rolled back the
Speaker 2: dissent decree on our local law enforcement. There are dissent
Speaker 2: decrees in a lot of police departments across this country. Right.
Speaker 2: Our consent decree here, it was enacted after the murder
Speaker 2: of George Floyd, after the federal government under the Joe
Speaker 2: Biden administration investigated and uncovered patterns and practices of racial
Speaker 2: discrimination and civil rights violations, and so they put forth
Speaker 2: this consent decree. So why did the federal government roll
Speaker 2: back that consent decree? No one ever was really told
Speaker 2: why it just happened. The only other state we saw
Speaker 2: this happening was Louisville, where Breonna Taylor was killed. Right,
Speaker 2: So these two states very interesting. Then a few weeks later,
Speaker 2: the federal government is here. They do this huge raid.
Speaker 2: But everyone here locally, all of the share triff, the mayor,
Speaker 2: the police chief, they stand in unity and they say, oh,
Speaker 2: this was not an ice raid. This was a federal
Speaker 2: raid against sex traffickers. And so they really held the
Speaker 2: line for the federal government. Now you fast forward and
Speaker 2: you see our mayor on television using profanity, grand standing
Speaker 2: against the federal government. But he kind of allowed them
Speaker 2: to come in and held the line for them and
Speaker 2: be kind of became a local spokesperson on behalf of
Speaker 2: their operation. So what we're I think there's that caused
Speaker 2: a lot of mistrust to see the police chief take
Speaker 2: that stand. And then when you're on the ground, regardless
Speaker 2: of what they're saying in press conferences, when you're on
Speaker 2: the ground, we're seeing local law enforcement agencies actually extend
Speaker 2: the crime scene in order to allow federal agents to
Speaker 2: leave these scenes safely. We're seeing city equipment used to
Speaker 2: put up barrier between protesters and these federal agents. So
Speaker 2: you know, we're I'm following what local elected officials are
Speaker 2: saying in the press conferences, but what I'm hearing from
Speaker 2: the people who I'm interviewing on the street is they're
Speaker 2: waiting to see the action that matches up with what
Speaker 2: locals are actually saying.
Speaker 1: That is such a profound point and what struck me, honestly,
Speaker 1: Georgia is so often I feel like across the board, nationally,
Speaker 1: white elected officials like the bar for what they have
Speaker 1: to do in order to get like overwhelming support is
Speaker 1: so low, like oh, he can do the dougie, you know,
Speaker 1: and it's like you can, you know, you get this
Speaker 1: this overwhelming support. So to hear you say that people
Speaker 1: are seeing kind of this walking contradiction between what elected
Speaker 1: official officials are saying stay the f out our city
Speaker 1: or keep that f out or whatever versus what they've
Speaker 1: actually done to facilitate some of that action is profound.
Speaker 1: We did get a question from a viewer and I
Speaker 1: meant to ask this, so I'm glad they brought it.
Speaker 1: Daja Peterson asked, what is Operation surch Can you define
Speaker 1: that for us or describe it?
Speaker 2: Well, that is what the federal government. That's what Christy
Speaker 2: nom announced as a title for the deployment of thousands
Speaker 2: of federal agents here in Minnesota. And so it's just
Speaker 2: kind of a name that the federal government has used
Speaker 2: to basically come and occupy the state of Minnesota. I
Speaker 2: believe at this point are over three thousand agents ice
Speaker 2: agents here in our state. That number actually is larger
Speaker 2: than the combined number of all of the local law
Speaker 2: enforcement agencies combined in the metro area. So that's what
Speaker 2: Operation Metro Surges, Operation Metro Search.
Speaker 1: And then the other thing that I want to do,
Speaker 1: just so we can put a video or an image
Speaker 1: to Operation Surge, is play what Ice was doing on Sunday.
Speaker 3: Let's roll that clip so for those who are.
Speaker 1: Listening, they detained and walked a man purp walked out
Speaker 1: a man out of his house, half dressed with just
Speaker 1: boxers and an open robond.
Speaker 7: You can't get close, y'all know you can just change
Speaker 7: your mind and go home.
Speaker 5: Stop doing the Scots and ship right.
Speaker 1: So I wanted to play, especially the clip of the
Speaker 1: man who is an elder clearly an elderly man. I
Speaker 1: know you know this story, Georgia, but I want you
Speaker 1: to talk about this man is walked out of his house.
Speaker 1: I don't know what the temperature is in Minneapolis right now,
Speaker 1: but it's too cold for him to have an open
Speaker 1: rollbond in boxers.
Speaker 2: The most important fact about that story is that was
Speaker 2: a US that is a man who has gone through
Speaker 2: the process to become a US citizen. He was embarrassed
Speaker 2: in front of all of all of his neighbors, taken
Speaker 2: out in seven degree weather, and some people said he
Speaker 2: had just gotten out the shower. All he had on
Speaker 2: was boxers and crocs, an elder, a US citizen. And
Speaker 2: so to see those types of mistakes quote and I
Speaker 2: say air quotes, mistakes right, made over and over and
Speaker 2: over again, it is extremely disheartening. And I think it
Speaker 2: signals going back to like the consent decree, right patterns
Speaker 2: and practices. When you mainstream media wants us to look
Speaker 2: at one isolated event at a time, No, take do
Speaker 2: zoom out. Let's look at the aerial picture. Here. We
Speaker 2: are seeing the patterns of unconstitutional arrests of you as citizens,
Speaker 2: the violation of due process for people who are not citizens,
Speaker 2: attacks on journalists, attacks on peaceful protesters, attacks on legal observers,
Speaker 2: and many even let's say, arrest of people who maybe
Speaker 2: should be arrested. They're happening violently. And so to see
Speaker 2: these patterns continually perpetuated in America without any checks, without
Speaker 2: any balances. We just we had a federal judge who
Speaker 2: issued an order to basically reinforce the law prohibiting these
Speaker 2: ice agents from attacking peaceful protesters and journalists and whatnot.
Speaker 2: But it didn't stop them, you know. And so the
Speaker 2: question I think that I'm asking myself as a mother
Speaker 2: and as a parent. Who, yes, I work as a
Speaker 2: journalist in Minnesota, but I also live here. What is
Speaker 2: going to stop them? Yeah, because our governor has made please,
Speaker 2: he said whatever political ego he had aside, and he
Speaker 2: went on a national platform and said, please, can we
Speaker 2: turn the temperature down here? We have seen these types
Speaker 2: of concessions from so many elected officials here who now
Speaker 2: today we're learning many are being subpoena into some type
Speaker 2: of federal probe. And so I am continuing to challenge
Speaker 2: myself to find language to talk about the reality that
Speaker 2: we're living in, not just in Minnesota, but in America.
Speaker 2: And it's frustrating because I think that media is very
Speaker 2: powerful obviously, that's why this is the work that I do.
Speaker 2: But to see mainstream media not contextualize what this government
Speaker 2: really is, call it what it is we are now
Speaker 2: in and authoritarian regime that is not going to follow
Speaker 2: the constitution, that is not going to abide by the
Speaker 2: orders of federal judges. And the longer that we refrain
Speaker 2: from actually using the language, the longer it's going to
Speaker 2: take for us to find real solutions to move our
Speaker 2: country forward.
Speaker 1: What do you feel in this moment, Like you talked
Speaker 1: about being a Minnesota resident, you talked about hearing the
Speaker 1: police from at least the governor to abide by the constitution.
Speaker 3: Like, calm down, because this is not it.
Speaker 1: We're not going in a good direction as a resident,
Speaker 1: as a mother.
Speaker 3: Are you afraid about what's next?
Speaker 2: Absolutely? Absolutely so.
Speaker 1: What drives you to keep be cause you're not just
Speaker 1: like reporting on it from videos you're seeing online. You're
Speaker 1: going to the heart of the protest, You're going to
Speaker 1: the heat of the action. What is driving you to
Speaker 1: be at ground zero in spite of that fear?
Speaker 2: We cannot be neutral about the dismantling of our democracy
Speaker 2: and still expect to be protected by it. We cannot
Speaker 2: allow our fear to paralyze us to the point where
Speaker 2: we decide to do nothing, that we just become spectators
Speaker 2: and then just live with the consequence of whatever this
Speaker 2: administration is doing. And so I am activated by my ancestors.
Speaker 2: I feel like I stand on the shoulders of I
Speaker 2: to b Wells, who documented lynchings that was probably extremely
Speaker 2: controversial at her time. I imagine that because she had such
Speaker 2: a narrow focus and because she decided to tell the
Speaker 2: stories of people who are lynched in their families, and
Speaker 2: not so much so of the people who are lynching them.
Speaker 2: She was probably accused of not being objective and being
Speaker 2: an activist, and probably all the same things that I hear.
Speaker 2: But it did not It did not prevent her from
Speaker 2: continuing to do that documentation, which now fast forward years later,
Speaker 2: is extremely essential to us understanding that era. It is
Speaker 2: extremely essential because of the continued attempts to erase our history.
Speaker 2: I stand on the shoulders of David Jackson, the photographer
Speaker 2: who took the horrific image of Emmitt til which touched
Speaker 2: the hearts, the minds, and the souls of so many
Speaker 2: white Americans and activated them to do something. And so
Speaker 2: I understand the power of media and the power of storytelling.
Speaker 2: And if I allow my fear to paralyze me, then
Speaker 2: I feel like they have won. I feel like in
Speaker 2: twenty years we won't have an accurate reflection of what
Speaker 2: is happening. And I think it's essential because you mentioned this,
Speaker 2: like in your opening, this administration has a history of Lyne.
Speaker 2: So who is going to be the archivist of this moment,
Speaker 2: who is going to gather the truth and hold it
Speaker 2: so that future generations can have an accurate reflection of
Speaker 2: what this moment is really like.
Speaker 1: Speaking of what this moment is really like. One place
Speaker 1: that I say all the time, Georgia is a safe
Speaker 1: space for me.
Speaker 3: It is where I met God.
Speaker 1: It is in the church, and even in the church
Speaker 1: in Minneapolis it is compromised.
Speaker 3: Let's please roll this clip.
Speaker 7: David Easterwood is a pastor here. He is also the
Speaker 7: director of the field office for ICE and Saint Paul,
Speaker 7: So someone who claims to worship God teaching people in
Speaker 7: this church about God, is out there overseeing ICE agents.
Speaker 7: Think about what we've experienced, the murder of Renee Good
Speaker 7: at the hands of ICE, a Venezuelan national shot by ICE,
Speaker 7: a six month thought baby who almost died as a
Speaker 7: result of ICE unleash the military gray weapons on our community.
Speaker 7: How dare you claim to be a pastor of God
Speaker 7: and you are involved in evil in our community.
Speaker 3: Wherein Jesus would be understanding.
Speaker 1: And we're about worship these moods, We're about straining the
Speaker 1: love of Jesus.
Speaker 2: To talk to them.
Speaker 3: As a solders.
Speaker 5: Had gathered for worship wish we do every Sunday, and
Speaker 5: we were interrupted by this group of protesters.
Speaker 3: We asked them to leave, and they.
Speaker 4: Obviously have not lived.
Speaker 1: I gotta tell you, Georgia, it blew my mind to
Speaker 1: see David Easterwood's name on letterhead as the acting field
Speaker 1: director for the Saint Paul Office right for ICE.
Speaker 3: That's I think that's his title. That is an.
Speaker 1: Intricate role in what is happening there, a primary coordinator
Speaker 1: for what is happening on the ground with immigration and
Speaker 1: Customs enforcement. I bring that up to say, I'm trying
Speaker 1: to figure out what bib what I read. You know, like,
Speaker 1: I just don't understand, and I know people do what
Speaker 1: they have to do for work, but this feels like
Speaker 1: a bridge too far.
Speaker 3: Were you able to speak with him? This, of course,
Speaker 3: was on your socials.
Speaker 1: Again, if you all are not following at by Georgia,
Speaker 1: for you are missing out. There is no coloring of
Speaker 1: the truth. It is all facts, no fiction, telling you
Speaker 1: what's really going on. You get to hear from protesters,
Speaker 1: from residents, from people who've been detained. Of course, you
Speaker 1: saw Don Lemon in that clip. If you're watching, you
Speaker 1: heard his voice. If you're not watching, they're going after
Speaker 1: Don Lemon allegedly with the KKK Act.
Speaker 3: I'm so sorry.
Speaker 1: The irony of going after a black man utilizing the
Speaker 1: KKK act is astounding.
Speaker 3: And he's there just like you, reporting on what is happening.
Speaker 1: He didn't organize this, as you said that this, I mean,
Speaker 1: Minnesota is a hotbed for activism. They know exactly what's
Speaker 1: going on. They don't need y'all to organize this. They
Speaker 1: do need y'all to report on it though.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and it would never happen to a white journalist.
Speaker 3: How about that.
Speaker 2: I think there has been a progression of white Christian nationalism, yes,
Speaker 2: and to see Christianity politicized, to see Christianity weaponized, even
Speaker 2: pointing to the man who was arrested and charged for
Speaker 2: the assassination of Melissa Hartman, this was a man who
Speaker 2: was a Christian who did missions trips to Africa, right,
Speaker 2: And so there is a lot of documentation that Christian
Speaker 2: churches have been infiltrated with people who have their own
Speaker 2: political agenda, and this protests, this demonstration brought awareness to that.
Speaker 2: I want to be mindful, a lot of people in
Speaker 2: the black community identify as Christians and have had a
Speaker 2: very strong reaction to seeing this happen and the thing.
Speaker 2: As a journalist is not our job to agree or disagree,
Speaker 2: but to documents. And I did a follow up post
Speaker 2: on my coverage around this saying civic civil disobedience also
Speaker 2: is not to be agreed or disagreed with. It's a
Speaker 2: decision that is made by organizers, activists, protesters. Historically speaking,
Speaker 2: we just came off of Martin Luther King Holiday, right, Like,
Speaker 2: he was arrested twenty nine times, so he's revered now.
Speaker 2: Many people never make reference to the twenty nine times
Speaker 2: that he was arrested. It was highly controversial during the
Speaker 2: time of what he was doing and breaking the laws,
Speaker 2: but it did result in change. Yeah, John Lewis revered
Speaker 2: the he tokenized the word good trouble right, also arrested
Speaker 2: many times, as recent as October twenty thirteen where he
Speaker 2: was demonstrating at Get this and immigration protests. So there's
Speaker 2: long history. Rosa Parks, right, she's the one who allowed
Speaker 2: for our public buses to be desegregated and was the
Speaker 2: face of the Montgomery bus boycott, also arrested, So you know,
Speaker 2: I wish that again mainstream media and even the public, like,
Speaker 2: we have to stop having selective outrage. We have to
Speaker 2: stop looking at these issues in a vacuum. How did
Speaker 2: all of a sudden national news A make Don Lemon
Speaker 2: an independent journalists the face of this story. B. How
Speaker 2: did they start talking about this story as though it
Speaker 2: just poof came out of thin air, as though this
Speaker 2: is not the same state where a US citizen named
Speaker 2: Renee Good was just fatally shot by an ICE agent.
Speaker 2: And essentially we're learning that the decision maker, his boss,
Speaker 2: is a pastor at a church, and now there's actually
Speaker 2: a protest there where he is a pastor, Like, how
Speaker 2: are we not how are we isolating and just talking
Speaker 2: about Oh, now the conversation is our church protests appropriate?
Speaker 2: Would this be okay if it happened at a mosque?
Speaker 2: How are we not talking about the unconstitutional arrest of
Speaker 2: citizens that we're seeing happening every day, The due process
Speaker 2: violations with the people who are not citizens, the attacks
Speaker 2: on journalists, the attacks on peaceful protesters, the attacks on
Speaker 2: legal observers, the failure to render aid to a US
Speaker 2: citizen who is brutally shot in her face, the failure
Speaker 2: to investigate the death of a woman a U A
Speaker 2: citizen who is brutally shot in her face, How are
Speaker 2: we we're not talking about that, but we're talking we're
Speaker 2: debating about if a church protest is appropriate. How are
Speaker 2: we not talking about the dismantling of our democracy in
Speaker 2: real time, but we're debating if a church protest is
Speaker 2: appropriate or not. I'm sorry, I'm not interested in wasting
Speaker 2: my freedom right because now maybe I don't know. I
Speaker 2: don't know if I'm being investigated. I don't know what's happening, right.
Speaker 2: I'm not interested in using my freedom that I have,
Speaker 2: my breath, that I have left in my body to
Speaker 2: debate about that when the facts are unconstitutionals of citizens
Speaker 2: are happening every day, regardless of your race, religion, socioeconomic status,
Speaker 2: your gender, your political affiliation. If you call yourself an American,
Speaker 2: you should be concerned that you, as citizens, are being
Speaker 2: unlawfully arrested by ice and nothing is happening. There's no recourse,
Speaker 2: there's no repercussion, there's no consequence. It's happening, it's allowed,
Speaker 2: and it's being normalized. So this is what our society
Speaker 2: is becoming, this is what our culture is becoming. And
Speaker 2: it's not just gonna happen in Minnesota if nothing is
Speaker 2: done about it happening here, It will happen in your city.
Speaker 2: It is just a matter of time. It's not just
Speaker 2: urban cities. We're hearing reports in Rochester, Minnesota, in Wilmer, Minnesota,
Speaker 2: in Duluth, Minnesota, Encircle Pines, Minnesota, in rural areas that
Speaker 2: this is also happening.
Speaker 1: Well with that, Miss Georgia Fort, I am so grateful
Speaker 1: for your time our modern day I to be well
Speaker 1: speaking truth to power, just with facts, just with facts,
Speaker 1: and with a camera. So thank you for your mic,
Speaker 1: for your camera, for your courage, and for doing this
Speaker 1: for all of us. We are absolutely your family here
Speaker 1: in Native Lampod and look forward to having you back
Speaker 1: on soon to tell us one what's happening and definitely
Speaker 1: what we can do. Folks can follow you at by
Speaker 1: Georgia Ford on Instagram. Any other handles you want to
Speaker 1: drop or call to action you want to issue for
Speaker 1: folks who are watching at.
Speaker 2: Home, Support this podcast, support Don Lemon, support other independent
Speaker 2: journalists like myself. My website's Georgiaford dot com. We have
Speaker 2: to invest in support in our independent media because media
Speaker 2: is under attack too, and so if we're not here tomorrow,
Speaker 2: if the DOJ strong arms us and we can't continue
Speaker 2: to do what we do. How are you going to
Speaker 2: be informed? How are you going to find the truth?
Speaker 3: It's good. Well, thank you so much. Welcome home, y'all.
Speaker 3: Until next time, see you soon.
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