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Speaker 1: Good morning, Peeves, and welcome to ok F Daily with

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Speaker 1: Meet your Girl Danielle Moody recording from the Home Bunker. Folks,

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Speaker 1: you know, as I record this today, I'm certain that

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Speaker 1: you have seen the news of what is happening in Louisiana,

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Speaker 1: and it is the State of Louisiana. Governor Landry has

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Speaker 1: decided that he wants to be Dysantis light, I guess

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Speaker 1: or Dysantis tough for this most Southern Dassantis. I don't

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Speaker 1: fucking know.

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Speaker 2: But he's passed.

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Speaker 1: He signed a bill that would require that every classroom

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Speaker 1: in Louisiana's public schools show the Ten Commandment. This is

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Speaker 1: not about educating kids. These people don't give a fuck

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Speaker 1: about children. It is all about their way to own

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Speaker 1: the Libs. And since the bill was signed, ACLU has

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Speaker 1: said that they are going to sue, and of course

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Speaker 1: Landry welcomes being sued because it's going to have his

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Speaker 1: name in the headlines, because that's what this is about

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Speaker 1: for Republicans. And the fact is is that in ACLU's

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Speaker 1: post on social media about them preparing to sue the

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Speaker 1: State of Louisiana, they said public schools are not religious schools.

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Speaker 1: You don't get to put press your religion on other people.

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Speaker 1: If you want your kids the only thing that you

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Speaker 1: want them to be able to read is the Bible,

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Speaker 1: and you want them to follow the ten Commandments, and

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Speaker 1: that is the most important thing to you, then enroll

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Speaker 1: them in a religious fucking school. That is your choice.

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Speaker 1: But if I'm sending a child to public school, I

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Speaker 1: want them to get an education that prepares them to

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Speaker 1: be global citizens, that prepares them to be critical thinkers

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Speaker 1: in the workplace, that prepares them to be good people,

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Speaker 1: that prepares them to ask questions right, not one where

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Speaker 1: one kind of religion is pressed upon them. America is

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Speaker 1: not a Christian nation. It is a nation that is

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Speaker 1: filled with a lot of fucking people from all over

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Speaker 1: the world. That used to be a point of pride,

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Speaker 1: it is now a point of contention. People used to

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Speaker 1: I see more people in my comments section looking for

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Speaker 1: other places to live, People being forced to move out

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Speaker 1: of their home states in order to give birth, in

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Speaker 1: order to educate their kids, in order for their kids

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Speaker 1: to feel safe from bullying and harassing, not just from

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Speaker 1: their own peers, but from the administration and from the

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Speaker 1: fucking governors of these red states. It's appalling, it's ridiculous.

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Speaker 1: It's shit that was litigated back in the sixties and

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Speaker 1: guess what if I'm an atheist or agnostic, or I'm

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Speaker 1: Muslim or any myriad of religions, are you allowing me

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Speaker 1: Are you dictating to me how I'm going to pray?

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Speaker 1: If the Ten Commandments mean something to you, it doesn't

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Speaker 1: mean something to me. Again, you can do whatever it

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Speaker 1: is that you want with your child, put them in

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Speaker 1: your moral compass, but that is not the place for

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Speaker 1: public education. It is about recognizing the needs of the public,

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Speaker 1: not one community, class group, or race. Coming up next

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Speaker 1: on today's WOKF, I am in conversation with Melanie Willingham Jaggers,

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Speaker 1: who is the CEO of Glisten, the only organization in

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Speaker 1: the country that focuses on creating safe, stable, uplifting environments

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Speaker 1: am very happy to welcome back to WOKF Daily the

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Speaker 1: executive director of Glisten, Melanie Willingham Jaggers, to join us

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Speaker 1: as we do our Pride coverage for the month and

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Speaker 1: we get the low down on all things LGBTQ.

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Speaker 1: You know, Melanie that I talk about education a lot

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Speaker 1: on my show because I'm a former teacher, former lobbyist

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Speaker 1: I also think it's the reason why the opposition is

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Speaker 1: You at Glisten focus on creating educational environments that are safe,

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Speaker 1: We don't care about them, Melanie, A happy pride to you.

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Speaker 1: And what what do you even begin begin to take

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Speaker 2: Yeah? No, absolutely, And you know, the good news and

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Speaker 2: So these are states, largely in the South and the Midwest,

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Speaker 2: help to make sure that our right to discriminate against

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Speaker 2: So you know, the fight continues. As I understand that

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Speaker 2: we're being faced with is really I think we have

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Speaker 2: the benefit of seeing exactly what the opposition wants to do. Right.

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Speaker 2: They are not slow walking, they are not pretending, they're

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Speaker 2: not writing in footnotes. They are putting everything they want

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Speaker 2: and I think that the job for folks on our side,

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Speaker 2: and our side is the side that believes in democracy,

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Speaker 2: believes that children should be able to go to school,

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Speaker 2: both free from the encumbrances of discrimination, but also supported

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Speaker 2: right by actual supports. What does it mean to see

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Speaker 2: vital and contributing members of our society now and in

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Speaker 2: the future. We at Lisson believe that education is the

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Speaker 2: cornerstone of democracy. You said as much yourself, and I

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Speaker 2: which is why they are attacking public education generally speaking,

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Speaker 2: American democracy. And so when we have an educated populace,

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Speaker 2: we are unfit for authoritarianism, We're unfit for fascism, and

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Speaker 2: they know that and we know that. So that's where

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Speaker 2: the that's where we are right that's the battle that

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Speaker 2: we're in right now at Glisten. We continue to work

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Speaker 2: on our part, right whether it's five hundred and sixteen

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Speaker 2: we continue to understand that it is the people who

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Speaker 2: connect with our folks to ensure that we are building

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Speaker 2: every level of intervention in the education system to make

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Speaker 1: You know, one of the things that I think is

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Speaker 1: important and I would like you to enlighten our listeners,

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Speaker 1: of give us some context to the behind the scoop

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Speaker 2: Yeah. Absolutely, I actually want to cover a couple points

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Speaker 2: on this specific question. One I want to lift up

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Speaker 2: for everyone listening that yes, five hundred and sixteen anti

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Speaker 2: LGBTQ plus bills were introduced. That doesn't mean that they

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Speaker 2: Our opposition are a bunch of stut queens, not in

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Speaker 2: they write them down, they get introduced, and then suddenly

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Speaker 2: think also their core of vulnerability. Right, once we figure

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Speaker 2: how are you doing, how is it going, what helped me?

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Speaker 2: How we how can we support? And where are your wins?

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Speaker 2: Because there are wins happening. And I think that again,

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Speaker 2: when we rely on someone else to tell us what's happening,

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Speaker 2: what we hear is shaped by the filter of that source.

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Speaker 2: And when various sources are have proven and continue to

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Speaker 2: prove to be unreliable and not invested in us understanding

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Speaker 2: our power, then we have to go to other sources,

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Speaker 2: and my constant recommendation is to find your people. Always

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Speaker 2: find your people. When you are feeling discouraged or down,

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Speaker 2: go find your people. Go find folks who are like

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Speaker 2: you or who are different than you, who are facing

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Speaker 2: the world in the same way that you are, and

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Speaker 2: listen to what they are experiencing, but also also get

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Speaker 2: with them to strategize around what could and should be

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Speaker 2: different and find your joy. The revolution will continue on,

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Speaker 2: and they better be dancing and they're better be glitter, right,

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Speaker 2: And there's also work in spreadsheets and emails. But if

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Speaker 2: we don't feel like we are able to live our

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Speaker 2: lives until we get out of the hottest part of hell, well,

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Speaker 2: then the other side has already won, right We actually

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Speaker 2: solid part of our liberation, part of our coalitional leadership

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Speaker 2: and movement work is serious and it is fun and

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Speaker 2: it is everything in between. If we can only be

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Speaker 2: in conflict and only be angry, they have already won

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Speaker 2: because our understanding what is possible on the other side

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Speaker 2: of this fight, on the other side of our victory

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Speaker 2: is going to be limited right by the emotions that

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Speaker 2: we're feeling right now. And if we don't keep practicing

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Speaker 2: our emotions of joy along with our emotions of outrage,

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Speaker 2: along with our emotions of this can happen under on

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Speaker 2: my watch, not in my name that too, But also

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Speaker 2: you have to find joy and connection and love, you know,

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Speaker 2: in this moment.

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Speaker 1: I appreciate that because I think that oftentimes I'm asked,

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Speaker 1: you know, to provide guidance and thoughts on you know,

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Speaker 1: how do people stay sane? What can I do? And

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Speaker 1: the guilt that is associated with wanting to step away

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Speaker 1: for a moment, But recognizing that your resistance can look

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Speaker 1: like a lot of different things. It does not have

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Speaker 1: to look like one thing. So I really appreciate you

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Speaker 1: saying that, and for making the time for wokaf in

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Speaker 1: your busy pride hamster wheel schedule. I deeply appreciate it,

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Speaker 1: and you.

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Speaker 2: Happy to do it and always happy to enjoy you.

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Speaker 2: Thanks for having we.

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Speaker 1: That is it for me today, dear friends on wogay

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Speaker 1: f as always power to the people and to all

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Speaker 1: the people. Power, get woke and stay woke as fuck.