WEBVTT - Organizing Playbook Pt.1 | Andrew Gillum SoloPod 0:00:00.120 --> 0:00:04.080 Native Land Pod is a production of iHeartRadio in partnership 0:00:04.120 --> 0:00:09.160 with Reason Choice Media. Welcome, Welcome, Welcome, Welcome, Welcome, Welcome. 0:00:10.800 --> 0:00:11.160 What's up? 0:00:11.160 --> 0:00:11.440 It was up? 0:00:11.600 --> 0:00:11.959 Up? Was up? 0:00:12.039 --> 0:00:12.280 Was up? 0:00:12.320 --> 0:00:17.240 Hello, Hello, and welcome everybody. This is Andrew Gillum coming 0:00:17.280 --> 0:00:20.320 to you with one of our how do you say 0:00:21.760 --> 0:00:26.000 we call these side pieces? We call these many many 0:00:26.079 --> 0:00:29.160 mini pods, I guess, and we also call them solo pods. 0:00:29.200 --> 0:00:33.560 And it's where you'll get to hear from your hosts 0:00:33.680 --> 0:00:37.320 at Native Lamb Pod on days in which we're not 0:00:37.360 --> 0:00:41.120 in our regular schedule. And I just want to say 0:00:41.159 --> 0:00:44.360 welcome and also thank you for tuning in. I just 0:00:44.360 --> 0:00:47.479 want to quickly outline that these are really going to 0:00:47.560 --> 0:00:51.560 be very brief, if you will, by comparison to the show, 0:00:51.600 --> 0:00:55.720 maybe twenty minute long opportunities where you get to come 0:00:55.760 --> 0:00:59.320 in and hear from the various hosts about issues that 0:00:59.360 --> 0:01:04.399 we might consider to be important. And for me, I 0:01:04.480 --> 0:01:08.200 really wanted to kick these off with a little bit 0:01:08.280 --> 0:01:12.039 of a reminder and maybe some training support on what 0:01:12.080 --> 0:01:16.720 it means to get back to the basis of organizing y'all. 0:01:16.840 --> 0:01:20.080 The moment that we find ourselves in right now, I 0:01:20.080 --> 0:01:24.440 think is requiring us to really, really really get serious 0:01:24.480 --> 0:01:28.720 about what it means to see our neighbors, hear our neighbors, 0:01:29.400 --> 0:01:32.400 protect our clan, our family, the people who we love 0:01:32.440 --> 0:01:36.080 and support, make sure they remain harmless through this very, 0:01:36.160 --> 0:01:40.640 very difficult and trying time. And some of that is 0:01:40.680 --> 0:01:43.399 going to require that we get back in touch with 0:01:43.920 --> 0:01:49.760 foundational organizing principles that have carried our community from back 0:01:49.800 --> 0:01:53.000 there to where we are right now. And I know 0:01:53.160 --> 0:01:56.960 right now the challenges feel like one. They feel humongous, 0:01:57.040 --> 0:02:00.920 they feel exhausting, they feel tiring. I would even add 0:02:00.960 --> 0:02:05.280 to that heartbreaking, and I add heartbreaking because while I 0:02:05.280 --> 0:02:07.880 wanted to spend most of my time in these first 0:02:07.880 --> 0:02:11.400 twenty or so minutes with y'all talking about organizing and 0:02:11.440 --> 0:02:14.840 the organizing series that I'd like to I'd like to 0:02:14.840 --> 0:02:20.760 engage you all in Yesterday we learned about the cancelation 0:02:21.200 --> 0:02:25.600 of our dear Sister Joy and Reads show the Readout 0:02:25.639 --> 0:02:30.600 on MSNBC. Now, some of us may have quit MSNBC 0:02:30.800 --> 0:02:34.480 back when they tried the same thing with Tiffany Cross, 0:02:35.040 --> 0:02:37.840 my dear colleague and fellow co host on Native Lampod 0:02:39.080 --> 0:02:41.440 and many of us even if we made the decision 0:02:41.440 --> 0:02:43.560 to step away from the network at that time because 0:02:43.600 --> 0:02:46.240 of the treatment that she received. A lot of us 0:02:46.240 --> 0:02:49.680 stayed around and said, hey, look that's where Joy is, 0:02:50.000 --> 0:02:55.880 and Joy is from my standpoint, she's not just a newswoman, 0:02:56.000 --> 0:02:59.520 She's not just an anchor. She's not there doing this 0:02:59.560 --> 0:03:04.880 for anybody the entertainment value or for sport. Joy read 0:03:05.040 --> 0:03:07.400 the Joy read that I know, and the Joy read 0:03:07.480 --> 0:03:11.520 that we have all come to know and love over 0:03:11.520 --> 0:03:15.840 the years on the various platforms that she's been Joy 0:03:16.280 --> 0:03:20.160 quite simply is the bringer of truth and it doesn't 0:03:20.200 --> 0:03:23.679 matter how inconvenient that truth may be. She's going to 0:03:23.760 --> 0:03:28.240 bring it to you anyway. And today's day and age, 0:03:28.280 --> 0:03:33.880 where you have a very thin skinned political leadership apparatus, 0:03:34.240 --> 0:03:37.119 and I would even argue maybe a thinner or equally 0:03:37.160 --> 0:03:41.880 as thin skin in the corporate media, who are prepared 0:03:41.920 --> 0:03:46.760 to wilter and bend to the will of the White House, 0:03:46.840 --> 0:03:50.760 in the party that's in control right now, it's going 0:03:50.840 --> 0:03:53.880 to cost us something, and in this case, it's costing 0:03:54.040 --> 0:03:57.600 us one of the best truth tellers that we have 0:03:57.920 --> 0:04:01.480 out there. Joy represents, and my opinion, the best of 0:04:01.520 --> 0:04:06.320 who we are. She is fact based, her opinion is 0:04:06.400 --> 0:04:12.400 always supported by laundry lists of receipts. She is someone who, 0:04:12.480 --> 0:04:16.200 regardless of what the popular wins may be, has always 0:04:16.279 --> 0:04:20.640 deepened into what our true lived experiences are and we're 0:04:20.920 --> 0:04:24.919 in our community, and she broadcast broadcasts those experiences to 0:04:25.520 --> 0:04:31.720 the world. Y'all. She is going to be deeply, deeply, 0:04:32.240 --> 0:04:37.400 deeply missed by her viewers on MSNBC. But I got 0:04:37.440 --> 0:04:40.200 to tell you, you know, joy from from from my lips 0:04:40.240 --> 0:04:43.880 to your ears. I hope. Uh, this is a setup 0:04:44.600 --> 0:04:49.880 for really God calling you into greater service, to higher purpose. 0:04:50.240 --> 0:04:53.120 While you have served an incredible purpose up to this point, 0:04:53.800 --> 0:04:57.640 you're being called into higher service. And sometimes in the 0:04:57.680 --> 0:05:02.360 process of moving into higher service, you have to be sifted. 0:05:02.839 --> 0:05:07.000 Remember those that old equipment that our grandparents, my grandmama 0:05:07.080 --> 0:05:09.720 used to use when she was doing her pancakes, a 0:05:09.839 --> 0:05:12.359 corn bread and the flour would go into the sifter 0:05:12.440 --> 0:05:13.960 and it would sift all the way through. But what 0:05:14.040 --> 0:05:17.159 would come out as a finer grain of things and 0:05:17.200 --> 0:05:21.479 it made everything taste just that much better. Well, there 0:05:21.520 --> 0:05:24.279 is a finer grain of you that is through this 0:05:24.440 --> 0:05:27.599 process and on the other side, and so many of 0:05:27.680 --> 0:05:31.159 us just can't wait to see whether that takes you, 0:05:31.920 --> 0:05:35.919 and more importantly, where it takes us collectively. But before 0:05:35.960 --> 0:05:39.279 we get to what Joy Read's next steps are, I 0:05:39.320 --> 0:05:42.359 think we have to send a very very important signal 0:05:42.560 --> 0:05:47.800 to the corporate folks who are making these decisions, are 0:05:47.839 --> 0:05:52.440 silencing our voices, are supplanting our voices with you know, 0:05:52.720 --> 0:05:56.680 minstrel shows and dictates of how they think we are 0:05:56.720 --> 0:06:00.280 supposed to show up on their platforms. We need to 0:06:00.279 --> 0:06:02.719 send them a signal that this is not a game, 0:06:02.839 --> 0:06:06.159 This is not a toy, This is not a transaction 0:06:06.600 --> 0:06:09.320 that you trade in and trade out. This is our 0:06:09.360 --> 0:06:12.560 lives and we deserve and need voices who are going 0:06:12.600 --> 0:06:16.960 to speak truth and power to the powerful about what we're, 0:06:17.080 --> 0:06:19.480 what our lived experiences are, and what we need and 0:06:19.520 --> 0:06:22.720 what we demand of the system. And Joy has unapologetically 0:06:22.760 --> 0:06:25.120 done that on behalf of all of us standing in 0:06:25.160 --> 0:06:29.200 the gap. We've got to send a signal, And so 0:06:29.960 --> 0:06:33.279 I want to join the bandwagon of folks who today 0:06:33.960 --> 0:06:38.920 are encouraging folks to watch Joy's last sign off show 0:06:39.000 --> 0:06:43.760 tonight on MSNBC during her normal regular seven pm Eastern 0:06:43.760 --> 0:06:47.080 Standard time, and wherever you live you can you can 0:06:47.160 --> 0:06:50.839 you can obviously look up the show times, but be 0:06:51.000 --> 0:06:55.359 with her, stand with her, hold her spiritually during this 0:06:55.480 --> 0:06:57.760 time where she has to make it through this show 0:06:58.760 --> 0:07:03.080 on the network that summarily decided that her voice was 0:07:03.120 --> 0:07:06.280 no longer a value to them. At this moment, we 0:07:06.320 --> 0:07:08.800 want to say that her voice is valuable to us, 0:07:09.160 --> 0:07:12.160 that it means something to us, that we are powering 0:07:12.200 --> 0:07:15.840 her forward. Even if they can't see it, we're gonna 0:07:15.840 --> 0:07:18.320 help to make sure that they feel it. So at 0:07:18.320 --> 0:07:21.040 the end of the conclusion of her show tonight and 0:07:21.120 --> 0:07:23.920 Joy will sign off by telling her telling the rest 0:07:23.960 --> 0:07:25.600 of us where it is that we can go and 0:07:25.640 --> 0:07:31.520 find her voice beyond this current platform. And after that, y'all, 0:07:32.200 --> 0:07:35.080 we're gonna turn the TV off. We're gonna shut it down. 0:07:35.160 --> 0:07:38.560 We're going to log off of whatever platforms in which 0:07:38.600 --> 0:07:43.480 you are watching or hearing MSNBC, and we're gonna send 0:07:43.480 --> 0:07:46.480 them a very important message that our voices matter. And 0:07:46.480 --> 0:07:48.360 guess what. My voice right now is being interrupted by 0:07:48.440 --> 0:07:51.000 my cell phones. And this has always been my theory 0:07:51.000 --> 0:07:54.080 about these lives. I'm telling you, y'all, I am technology 0:07:54.200 --> 0:07:58.600 of tooth and if it happens again, just charge it 0:07:58.600 --> 0:08:00.160 to my head, not to my heart. I'm gonnaigure this 0:08:00.240 --> 0:08:02.200 out by the time we get into the next one, 0:08:02.680 --> 0:08:05.080 but we want to make sure that they hear and feel, 0:08:05.480 --> 0:08:09.360 more importantly, feel the effect of when we choose to 0:08:09.520 --> 0:08:13.000 take our time and attention, a very precious and non 0:08:13.040 --> 0:08:16.000 renewable resource, our time and attention, when we choose to 0:08:16.040 --> 0:08:19.840 put that elsewhere. Joy, We're going to follow you wherever 0:08:19.880 --> 0:08:22.760 you go, and tonight we want to make a very 0:08:22.880 --> 0:08:26.080 very strong, important show of support that we're going to 0:08:26.160 --> 0:08:29.560 have your back because you have had our backs in 0:08:29.600 --> 0:08:32.360 our fronts and sides and other blind spots when we 0:08:32.440 --> 0:08:34.960 didn't even know it. The last confession I'll make on 0:08:35.000 --> 0:08:37.679 this one with regard to Joy is that when I 0:08:37.760 --> 0:08:40.920 ran for governor of the state of Florida back in 0:08:40.960 --> 0:08:46.400 twenty eighteen, and it was looking like we might that 0:08:46.440 --> 0:08:49.240 we could potentially pull off a win in that race, 0:08:49.880 --> 0:08:53.160 I reached out to Joy and asked her if she 0:08:54.040 --> 0:08:57.480 could do her show live from Florida, and that I 0:08:57.520 --> 0:09:00.640 would grant her if I were to win that race. 0:09:01.080 --> 0:09:06.680 The first interview after the race was concluded, possibly later 0:09:07.080 --> 0:09:10.400 that that election night or maybe the next morning, and 0:09:10.880 --> 0:09:13.280 Joy did what she had to do, and she showed up. 0:09:13.360 --> 0:09:14.840 I didn't get to see her that night. It was 0:09:14.840 --> 0:09:17.400 a it was of course, it worked out a different way, 0:09:17.400 --> 0:09:20.800 and it was a bit heartbreaking on one end, but 0:09:21.360 --> 0:09:26.240 she did what was necessary within whatever the corporate confines were, 0:09:26.800 --> 0:09:30.319 to try to bring to the American people the experience 0:09:30.360 --> 0:09:33.920 that we had here in Florida. And I'll never forget that. 0:09:34.000 --> 0:09:36.600 And she's been her friend and the gap on so many, 0:09:36.840 --> 0:09:41.360 so many more occasions. Don't believe the hype that they're 0:09:41.400 --> 0:09:45.480 trying to sell us about unqualified, whatever stories they want 0:09:45.520 --> 0:09:49.720 to put out, ratings, all this craziness. You see the 0:09:49.880 --> 0:09:53.440 enemy tries to use. They do a little jiu jitsu. 0:09:53.640 --> 0:09:58.240 They take their weakest and most vulnerable place, and they 0:09:58.280 --> 0:10:02.920 then project that vulnerability onto other communities, other people, so 0:10:02.960 --> 0:10:05.520 that they can then insulate themselves from attack. What am 0:10:05.559 --> 0:10:09.280 I talking about, Well, I'm talking very specifically about not 0:10:09.400 --> 0:10:11.800 just Joy's incidents, and which is an example of the 0:10:11.800 --> 0:10:15.839 corporate side, but this picture, it can be drawn a 0:10:15.920 --> 0:10:18.560 lot bigger. It's not just the corporate We want you 0:10:18.640 --> 0:10:24.720 to obviously watch her show this evening, throw our support 0:10:24.760 --> 0:10:27.720 behind her, but following that, we want to make sure 0:10:27.760 --> 0:10:32.160 that we follow Joy and read on every platform in 0:10:32.240 --> 0:10:38.520 what she is listed. So if you in Snapchat, Instagram, 0:10:39.080 --> 0:10:42.960 blue Sky, whatever the platforms are that you get information 0:10:43.040 --> 0:10:45.720 and share information, please please please go ahead and put 0:10:45.760 --> 0:10:47.520 in the search engine right now Joy and read. If 0:10:47.520 --> 0:10:50.679 you don't already do it now follow her and then 0:10:50.760 --> 0:10:54.760 contact MSNBC. Let our voices be heard and let them 0:10:54.760 --> 0:10:57.360 know that we disagree with the step that they've taken 0:10:57.400 --> 0:11:00.400 and that they want our business. They best do better 0:11:00.440 --> 0:11:03.440 to bring us to voices who best represent our community. 0:11:03.480 --> 0:11:06.480 All skin folk and kim folk and all folks who 0:11:07.160 --> 0:11:10.040 may reflect what we look like who are on television 0:11:10.120 --> 0:11:13.160 are not necessarily speaking our truth and telling our stories. 0:11:13.800 --> 0:11:16.600 The number at MSNBC, and we'll hopefully get this in 0:11:16.640 --> 0:11:20.240 show notes is two one two six six four four 0:11:20.559 --> 0:11:24.640 four four four. Let's light up that board and make 0:11:24.679 --> 0:11:28.640 sure that they know that we're watching. When prompted, press one, 0:11:29.040 --> 0:11:32.680 then press two. Leave a message stating that you believe 0:11:32.760 --> 0:11:36.640 that their actions are unacceptable and that we need brave 0:11:37.120 --> 0:11:41.560 and honest journalists like Joy and Reid to come to 0:11:41.640 --> 0:11:44.640 us on their platforms as well. We want you to 0:11:44.640 --> 0:11:48.319 watch obviously tonight, but we want you to disconnect immediately 0:11:48.360 --> 0:11:51.240 following from the platform. That will bring us her show 0:11:51.280 --> 0:11:55.400 tonight MSNBC at seven pm Eastern Standard time, and look 0:11:55.440 --> 0:11:59.439 for your local networks for your showtimes. And then, last, 0:11:59.440 --> 0:12:01.040 and certainly not at least, we want you to spread 0:12:01.040 --> 0:12:04.000 the word. If you post about watching the show tonight 0:12:04.080 --> 0:12:06.680 or anything related to it you're discussed around the decision, 0:12:06.960 --> 0:12:11.760 please use the hashtag. We need joy. We need joy 0:12:11.760 --> 0:12:15.280 in so many forms, joy in our spirit, but also 0:12:15.480 --> 0:12:18.200 joy the person. And we thank you for bringing us 0:12:18.240 --> 0:12:20.400 both of those joy. Thank you for your friendship. We 0:12:20.440 --> 0:12:23.840 will follow you wherever because you are a true and 0:12:23.920 --> 0:12:29.160 an honest voice who has earned our trust. And know 0:12:29.320 --> 0:12:33.960 Johnny Come Lately or Surprise or pop up figure is 0:12:34.040 --> 0:12:35.880 going to have our trust. You have to earn it, 0:12:35.920 --> 0:12:37.640 you have to work for it. You put in the work, 0:12:37.679 --> 0:12:39.200 and that's why we want to put in some work 0:12:39.679 --> 0:12:42.560 for you. What I was getting to on second topic, 0:12:42.640 --> 0:12:44.640 just changing the page, and then finally I'll talk to 0:12:44.640 --> 0:12:46.240 you about what we hope to do with these on 0:12:46.280 --> 0:12:48.640 a regular basis when we come to you in these 0:12:48.679 --> 0:13:02.079 solo pods. When I talked about the enemy weaponizing their 0:13:02.120 --> 0:13:06.480 weakness to insulate themselves from attack, I'm talking about this 0:13:06.600 --> 0:13:10.520 DEI stuff right which I have translated to the N 0:13:10.640 --> 0:13:13.920 word is how I experience it when they use it, 0:13:13.920 --> 0:13:16.760 it seems like the sessing out of us wherever they 0:13:16.760 --> 0:13:20.400 can find it. Well, this weekend, something else happened in 0:13:20.400 --> 0:13:24.240 addition to the news and the corporate world regarding Joy Reid, 0:13:25.520 --> 0:13:30.360 the general who led the Joint Chiefs of Staff, which 0:13:30.400 --> 0:13:32.679 is the which is the collection of all of the 0:13:32.679 --> 0:13:37.360 military chiefs and leaders across the various branches, including the 0:13:38.360 --> 0:13:44.920 National Guard. This is the group that assembles as advisory 0:13:45.400 --> 0:13:51.880 to the President of the United States, Defense Secretary of 0:13:51.960 --> 0:13:55.240 the United States, and the intelligent chiefs of our country. 0:13:55.280 --> 0:14:00.240 They are the official advisory group Joint Chiefs that chairmen 0:14:00.280 --> 0:14:04.480 of the Joint Chiefs serves both and Democratic and Republican administrations. 0:14:04.480 --> 0:14:09.040 Why because their oath and their fealty is to the 0:14:09.080 --> 0:14:12.040 Constitution of the United States and to the people and 0:14:12.080 --> 0:14:16.240 the nation of the United States. Well, the current Joint 0:14:16.520 --> 0:14:18.840 the previous I guess I should say, before he was 0:14:18.880 --> 0:14:25.840 fired Chairman of the Joint chief of Staff was General C. Q. Brown, 0:14:26.240 --> 0:14:29.480 who spent forty years as a pilot in the Air Force, 0:14:31.000 --> 0:14:34.880 met all of the criteria. There were no lessening of criteria, 0:14:35.080 --> 0:14:39.000 no quotas having to be met. It simply required that 0:14:39.080 --> 0:14:42.600 those making this decision looked across the entire board of 0:14:42.680 --> 0:14:48.760 qualified individuals underscore qualified, and choose from amongst them a 0:14:48.840 --> 0:14:54.600 person who would lead the Joint Chiefs. While President Trump 0:14:54.720 --> 0:15:00.840 decided to dismiss CQ. Brown this weekend and removing him 0:15:00.840 --> 0:15:03.360 from his position in addition to a couple of other 0:15:03.440 --> 0:15:09.200 top brass within the United States Armed Services, and replaced 0:15:09.280 --> 0:15:15.240 him not with somebody equally qualified or really not with 0:15:15.360 --> 0:15:19.560 somebody who is just qualified for the position of Chairman 0:15:19.600 --> 0:15:24.480 of the Joint Chiefs, which does require special experiences in 0:15:24.600 --> 0:15:29.520 qualifications to be named. He decided to name a gentleman 0:15:29.640 --> 0:15:34.160 named Dan Caine, who I don't know personally, but yes, 0:15:34.280 --> 0:15:36.680 says served this country and we thank him for it. 0:15:37.760 --> 0:15:41.800 But in appointing mister Caine, the President actually had to 0:15:41.960 --> 0:15:47.520 waive the criteria necessary for him to have been automatically 0:15:47.640 --> 0:15:51.040 qualified for the President to make that appointment. The President 0:15:51.080 --> 0:15:54.520 has the ability to waive that criteria if he chooses, 0:15:54.720 --> 0:15:58.200 if it is in the best interests of the nation. Well, 0:15:58.200 --> 0:15:59.760 he determined it was in the best interest of the 0:15:59.840 --> 0:16:04.720 name to appoint someone who was not qualified technically for 0:16:04.800 --> 0:16:09.360 the position, so he takes out a qualified individual who 0:16:09.400 --> 0:16:13.720 met all of the standards, no quotas simply qualified ready 0:16:13.760 --> 0:16:16.600 to serve, and replace them with someone who, while they 0:16:16.600 --> 0:16:19.160 have served this nation and we are grateful, was not 0:16:19.240 --> 0:16:22.120 qualified on paper to be named the Chairman of the 0:16:22.160 --> 0:16:24.800 Joint Chiefs of Staff. I think we would all agree 0:16:25.160 --> 0:16:27.600 that Secretary Hexseth, who is now the Secretary of Defense, 0:16:29.080 --> 0:16:32.960 who pales can't even be mentioned in the same sentence 0:16:33.000 --> 0:16:36.280 as his predecessor, quite frankly, but is unqualified for the 0:16:36.280 --> 0:16:39.560 position that he holds. And that, frankly is true across 0:16:39.600 --> 0:16:43.920 the board with almost all of Trump's appointments to the 0:16:44.040 --> 0:16:47.360 National Cabinet. So what do they do. They go on 0:16:47.360 --> 0:16:51.600 a rampage against Dei, which they say didn't earn it, 0:16:53.440 --> 0:16:57.760 and truth all their folks didn't earn it. Yet they're 0:16:57.800 --> 0:17:02.440 in these positions, and they are placing men and women 0:17:02.840 --> 0:17:07.240 and folks of color and other marginalized people who fought 0:17:07.920 --> 0:17:11.520 to be just considered off their merit. They're being pushed out, 0:17:11.840 --> 0:17:14.359 while people with no merit at all are being pushed in. 0:17:15.160 --> 0:17:17.560 I say this, y'all because I think we have to 0:17:17.640 --> 0:17:21.680 begin to forward our truthful narrative around this We shouldn't 0:17:21.680 --> 0:17:24.440 be pushed back on our back heel in this fight 0:17:24.480 --> 0:17:28.560 around DEI when it simply means take the qualified individual 0:17:28.600 --> 0:17:32.080 and guess what. Look beyond your circle of friends, Look 0:17:32.119 --> 0:17:34.680 to the people who are qualified but may not share 0:17:34.720 --> 0:17:39.040 your same lived experience, are committed to the constitution, but 0:17:39.440 --> 0:17:43.000 may not be loyal to you the individual, because their 0:17:43.000 --> 0:17:46.240 oath is to the constitutional and to the country. We 0:17:46.359 --> 0:17:49.200 have no shame, we ought to have no shame around 0:17:49.560 --> 0:17:54.080 the term diversity, equity, and inclusion. We are not carry 0:17:54.240 --> 0:17:56.119 the load that they want to put on our backs 0:17:56.400 --> 0:18:00.080 of dishonesty. Like we didn't earn where we are. We 0:18:00.240 --> 0:18:04.560 earned it. We worked hard, in fact, in many cases, 0:18:04.600 --> 0:18:07.679 harder than most that surround us to get those positions. 0:18:08.080 --> 0:18:10.119 We're not going to tolerate that they want to apply 0:18:10.240 --> 0:18:14.439 that across the corporate sector and across now the public sector. 0:18:14.920 --> 0:18:18.800 And it's simply a lot, and we have to reject it. Finally, y'all, 0:18:18.800 --> 0:18:21.120 I just want to say, when we come to you, 0:18:21.200 --> 0:18:23.440 at least when I'm doing many pots, I'm going to 0:18:23.480 --> 0:18:27.040 try my very very best to ensure that they're bringing 0:18:27.119 --> 0:18:33.000 information and education and hopefully that you'll leave our conversations 0:18:34.200 --> 0:18:37.879 having felt more informed and more equip than when you 0:18:38.040 --> 0:18:41.520 joined us. And so in that spirit and in the 0:18:41.560 --> 0:18:44.840 spirit of where I sort of started describing these many 0:18:44.880 --> 0:18:48.240 pods to you, at least from my perspective, is that 0:18:48.400 --> 0:18:51.439 in the coming weeks, I'm going to take time, with 0:18:51.520 --> 0:18:55.199 the support and help of Lolo, one of our producers, 0:18:55.240 --> 0:18:56.760 who's going to pop in here in a moment to 0:18:56.840 --> 0:19:00.600 let me know if there are any questions, We're gonna 0:19:00.640 --> 0:19:04.399 walk our listening audience through some of the basics and 0:19:04.400 --> 0:19:08.960 fundamentals around organizing. How do we get our communities ratcheted up, 0:19:09.000 --> 0:19:11.920 how do we move them not just through this moment, 0:19:12.560 --> 0:19:16.359 but to a place where I think as a community 0:19:17.000 --> 0:19:21.240 we begin to live our truest, fullest sells and have 0:19:21.320 --> 0:19:25.479 the policies and institutions that are around us being built 0:19:25.480 --> 0:19:29.920 to support that growth, that freedom, that independence, that ability 0:19:29.960 --> 0:19:34.280 to live truly free and unencumbered, in order to get 0:19:34.320 --> 0:19:37.720 closer to that beloved community that I think all of 0:19:37.800 --> 0:19:40.840 us want and admire. It doesn't have to be a 0:19:40.840 --> 0:19:44.040 pipe dream, but it does require something of us and 0:19:44.080 --> 0:19:46.120 from us, and quite frankly, it's the same thing that 0:19:46.359 --> 0:19:49.600 democracy requires of us and from us, and that is 0:19:49.640 --> 0:19:56.320 that we be in the movement in action in whatever 0:19:56.359 --> 0:19:58.680 way that suits us and whatever way that deepens into 0:19:58.720 --> 0:20:02.200 our skill set. But you can't maintain societies that see 0:20:02.359 --> 0:20:05.320 us and respect us unless we're prepared to put in 0:20:05.440 --> 0:20:08.560 the work. We shouldn't always have to, but given the 0:20:08.640 --> 0:20:11.840 challenges we face, the foes we face, our ancestors didn't 0:20:11.880 --> 0:20:14.320 let their knee break their necks, and we're not going 0:20:14.359 --> 0:20:16.360 to let it happen to us. But it is going 0:20:16.400 --> 0:20:19.800 to require the work. So today, what we're going to 0:20:19.840 --> 0:20:22.080 make sure you have in the show notes as my 0:20:22.119 --> 0:20:24.960 time comes to an end, is a list of organizations 0:20:24.960 --> 0:20:28.800 and groups that you can research, determine whether or not 0:20:28.840 --> 0:20:32.840 they fit in your skill set and interest area, and 0:20:32.880 --> 0:20:35.800 then hopefully you make the move to deepen into how 0:20:35.840 --> 0:20:39.359 you can better support the work of those entities and organizations. 0:20:39.840 --> 0:20:41.439 And in the coming weeks, we want to talk to 0:20:41.440 --> 0:20:44.080 you about how you then build that beloved community right 0:20:44.160 --> 0:20:48.000 where you are, either online or in person, hopefully a 0:20:48.040 --> 0:20:52.000 mix of both, but better equip each and every one 0:20:52.040 --> 0:20:54.320 of us with the knowledge, the skills, and the tools 0:20:54.359 --> 0:20:59.560 that are necessary to bend that arc more deeply, and 0:20:59.640 --> 0:21:06.600 more admittedly, and more permanently. In the direction of justice 0:21:07.280 --> 0:21:10.720 for all of us. With that, I want to avite, Lolo, 0:21:11.800 --> 0:21:14.840 if there are any questions, I want our listeners to know, 0:21:15.240 --> 0:21:18.240 I'm not going to be just talking about organizing by 0:21:18.320 --> 0:21:21.280 what by virtual of what I read. I'm going to 0:21:21.320 --> 0:21:24.919 be talking about organizing from my own lived experience. For 0:21:25.040 --> 0:21:29.600 many years, was an organizer, mostly on college campuses and 0:21:29.640 --> 0:21:34.200 then in greater community. And then my organizing work led 0:21:34.240 --> 0:21:38.280 to organizing elected officials who were our age and younger 0:21:38.320 --> 0:21:41.400 and diverse cohorts so that they can be more effective 0:21:41.800 --> 0:21:44.760 at bringing the benefits back to our community. And now 0:21:45.000 --> 0:21:47.080 we got to organize for all of us. And so 0:21:47.520 --> 0:21:49.080 I'm not going to be talking to you about what 0:21:49.119 --> 0:21:51.240 I've read. I'm going to be talking with you and 0:21:51.320 --> 0:21:54.359 engaging and exchanging with you about what I know, and 0:21:54.400 --> 0:21:57.800 hopefully you'll bring some of your experience to the table 0:21:57.880 --> 0:22:00.040 and we'll just have a great exchange of how to 0:22:00.080 --> 0:22:10.000 do this and do it the best and most effective way. 0:22:11.200 --> 0:22:14.679 With that, Lolo, are there any questions, anything I missed, 0:22:14.880 --> 0:22:17.439 anything I need to reiterate, let me know. 0:22:18.480 --> 0:22:21.400 Hey, y'all. All right, so we haven't gotten a lot 0:22:21.440 --> 0:22:25.120 of questions, but there was one in particular I thought 0:22:25.240 --> 0:22:29.120 was really cool. And so this person said, how do 0:22:29.160 --> 0:22:34.440 we assert and not only respond We need to assert 0:22:35.560 --> 0:22:38.000 because they're already expecting a response. 0:22:39.720 --> 0:22:42.399 Well, let him expect the response, but we got to 0:22:42.400 --> 0:22:47.119 give the response as well. That's number one. There is 0:22:47.280 --> 0:22:51.440 a group right now working on a database that will 0:22:51.480 --> 0:22:55.960 be able to direct us to either black owned or 0:22:56.040 --> 0:23:02.000 black lead black hosted platforms where we can have a 0:23:02.600 --> 0:23:08.320 exchange of information. We can get our source of information 0:23:08.600 --> 0:23:11.240 and facts from people who we know and who we 0:23:11.359 --> 0:23:13.679 trust that we don't always have to rely on the 0:23:13.720 --> 0:23:16.959 corporate media quite frankly to do that for us. And 0:23:17.040 --> 0:23:19.480 so in my thought around how it is we get 0:23:19.520 --> 0:23:23.439 in front of just the reaction, just the response. And 0:23:23.480 --> 0:23:25.280 by the way, I don't take for granted that people 0:23:25.320 --> 0:23:28.160 are gonna automatically respond. I gotta be honest about that, lol. 0:23:28.200 --> 0:23:29.639 I don't know if you have thoughts on it, but 0:23:29.760 --> 0:23:33.200 I don't take for granted that people automatically have a 0:23:33.280 --> 0:23:35.760 knee jerk reaction that when someone does something that they 0:23:35.760 --> 0:23:38.679 don't like, that they have a choice to make. They 0:23:38.720 --> 0:23:41.399 can continue to support the thing that is doing the 0:23:41.400 --> 0:23:44.560 thing that they don't like, or they can make another decision. 0:23:45.400 --> 0:23:48.240 It can't be well, that's the network I've always gone to. 0:23:48.320 --> 0:23:51.280 D there are other options, so we have a choice 0:23:51.280 --> 0:23:53.760 to make. I don't think any of us should take 0:23:53.760 --> 0:23:56.159 for granted that people are automatically going to do a 0:23:56.200 --> 0:23:59.920 thing and reaction to being offended or heard, or let 0:24:00.119 --> 0:24:05.160 down or quite frankly, pushed to the side. The reason 0:24:05.240 --> 0:24:08.080 I mentioned this resource of other places that you can 0:24:08.119 --> 0:24:10.040 go is because we don't want to leave you empty. 0:24:10.520 --> 0:24:14.520 We want to make sure that our buying power can 0:24:14.600 --> 0:24:17.520 continues to show its strength except we get to show 0:24:17.640 --> 0:24:21.800 its strength and places that see us, know us, hear us, 0:24:22.040 --> 0:24:26.800 respect us, and then respond lolo. I may have gotten 0:24:26.840 --> 0:24:28.520 off on the on the question, but I think I 0:24:28.600 --> 0:24:33.520 understood the question uh uh, and then reframed it to 0:24:33.600 --> 0:24:35.720 basically say, one, don't assume we know what to do 0:24:35.920 --> 0:24:38.720 when we're when we're pushed to the side. And then two, 0:24:39.840 --> 0:24:43.840 let's do the work of finding the platforms that are 0:24:43.920 --> 0:24:47.439 in service to us that we then support so that 0:24:47.480 --> 0:24:50.960 folks are then incentivized to do more of the things 0:24:50.960 --> 0:24:52.760 that are in service to us and not less. 0:24:53.720 --> 0:24:57.080 Listen, so we have so I know, on a normal day, 0:24:57.160 --> 0:24:59.919 this is just the first solo pie we would have 0:25:00.080 --> 0:25:03.040