Speaker 1: Trying to get we need to speak here. Fine, that's fine,
Speaker 1: La booboos and tyranny.
Speaker 2: Let's get into let's get into it. I'm Theosa and
Speaker 2: I'm Mala. Well, there's much to discuss, because not much
Speaker 2: has changed since we recorded last week. I said, we
Speaker 2: are still covering it, but today we want to talk
Speaker 2: specifically about censorship, freedom of the press, and the current
Speaker 2: crisis and fears that we have as two women, two
Speaker 2: Latinas who are at this intersection that I think is
Speaker 2: very unique to our show where we're not a newsroom.
Speaker 2: This is not hard journalism, but there is a type
Speaker 2: of journalistic integrity in the way we produce our show,
Speaker 2: and we're going to talk about all of that today.
Speaker 1: And there is an expectation from our audience that when
Speaker 1: big important things happen in the world, that we cover
Speaker 1: those big important things, that we talk about them, we
Speaker 1: provide our analysis, and over the years we've responded in
Speaker 1: person and on the ground to cover events and happenings
Speaker 1: in our community. And that's true today and with everything
Speaker 1: that's been going on this past week in LA. By
Speaker 1: the time this episode comes out, it will have been
Speaker 1: two weeks into the ice raids, the deployment of the
Speaker 1: National Guard and Marines in Los Angeles, and the demonstrations
Speaker 1: and rallies that the community has put together in response
Speaker 1: to those violent ice raids, daily kidnappings essentially of community
Speaker 1: members on the street in different parts of LA City
Speaker 1: and LA County. Ice raids at the workplaces of our
Speaker 1: community members, at schools, at graduations, inside of people's homes.
Speaker 1: It seems like the city is under siege, and it
Speaker 1: very much is.
Speaker 2: If there was ever a time to really call it
Speaker 2: what it is, it's now. We have descended into fascism,
Speaker 2: into tyranny. And I think that there has been this
Speaker 2: expectation or this hope and maybe even a little arrogance,
Speaker 2: as is American exceptionalism, but that this could not happen here, right.
Speaker 2: But I think what we're seeing and what we've been
Speaker 2: seeing in the last days since the ice raids began,
Speaker 2: is that it's here. And if there was a moment
Speaker 2: you were waiting for to really define it, I think
Speaker 2: that this is the moment, and there have been other
Speaker 2: things leading up to it, but I think feeling it
Speaker 2: here in La it's like, oh, it's here.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's not. Oh, martial law is coming. Martial law
Speaker 1: has happened. We're in it. I mean the Los Angeles
Speaker 1: is there's a military takeover of Los Angeles and as
Speaker 1: of this recording, there is a curfew in downtown LA
Speaker 1: that was instituted Tuesday night eight pm to six am.
Speaker 1: What was interesting about the curfew interesting not being the
Speaker 1: right word. What was terrifying about the curfew is that
Speaker 1: it was implemented. I didn't get the alert on my
Speaker 1: phone until like past ten ten o'clock. It was very
Speaker 1: poorly rolled out at the last minute. And one of
Speaker 1: the statements from Mayor Bass on local news was that
Speaker 1: if you live downtown, if you work downtown, if you
Speaker 1: have business downtown, you're fine. However, the lapd Ice, the
Speaker 1: National Guard, the Marines, the military presence downtown, it doesn't
Speaker 1: seem like they're checking people's reasons for being downtown. They're
Speaker 1: just shooting at people with rubber bullets who are trying
Speaker 1: to get home and detaining people whether or not they
Speaker 1: live downtown, and they're not checking, they're not asking what's
Speaker 1: going on here with the raids and with the curfew.
Speaker 1: They're acting first and then asking questions later. So even
Speaker 1: if you have your paperwork, even if you have a
Speaker 1: valid reason, it doesn't seem to matter. And that's part
Speaker 1: of what makes this whole situation so frightening, is that
Speaker 1: we're engaged in this game that has no rules. You
Speaker 1: can't follow rules that don't exist, and so then that
Speaker 1: means that everybody is at risk of being targeted and
Speaker 1: being accused of breaking the rules.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and I think that's what makes these specific ICE
Speaker 2: raids in LA. I mean to be clear, this is
Speaker 2: not the first time there have been deportations in this
Speaker 2: country or during the past administration there were also deportations, right,
Speaker 2: but I think the way LA feels like seized, like
Speaker 2: you said, and it feels like it doesn't matter anymore.
Speaker 2: There is no law in order because there are unmarked
Speaker 2: vehicles massed suppose it ICE agents, and they're just taking people.
Speaker 2: They're not reviewing paperwork. It doesn't matter if you're a citizen.
Speaker 2: And clearly if you fit the profile of and we
Speaker 2: know what the profile is, if you're brown, if you
Speaker 2: look other, then you fit the bill for them. And
Speaker 2: so I think that is also part of the terror,
Speaker 2: and that's a very important and crucial part of tyranny
Speaker 2: and fascism. It's making everyone feel so afraid to be
Speaker 2: out in the street to say anything, to protest, to
Speaker 2: exercise their First Amendment constitutional right of the press, of
Speaker 2: free speech. And that's like the current moment we're living in.
Speaker 1: It's the current moment that we're living in. And once
Speaker 1: they've detained you, you've been detained and you've been you're
Speaker 1: being processed.
Speaker 2: President David Auerta of SEIU is potentially facing six years
Speaker 2: in prison and the charges are strange. He was filming,
Speaker 2: he was protesting, not even protesting, he was peacefully resisting
Speaker 2: and filming, and he could potentially face six years. And
Speaker 2: the hope that is that that does not happen. But
Speaker 2: if someone like David Wuerta, our labor president of SCIU,
Speaker 2: is facing charges, if our Senator Alex Badea is being
Speaker 2: physically forcefully removed from a press conference for asking a
Speaker 2: question asking a question and there's video of him identifying himself,
Speaker 2: then what does that tell us?
Speaker 1: There is no there is no rule of law, and
Speaker 1: where have our constitutional rights and protections gone, namely freedom
Speaker 1: of assembly and freedom of the press. Because in the
Speaker 1: midst of the rallies, the demonstrations, we are seeing LAPD
Speaker 1: and ICE agents very brutally tear gassing and pepper ball
Speaker 1: spring demonstrators and protesters. On Wednesday night, I was seeing
Speaker 1: reports that the protests that started in Pershing Square and
Speaker 1: moved over to Grand Park an hour and a half
Speaker 1: before the eight pm curfew, police started to kettle people,
Speaker 1: gas people, and detain people, and in some instances in
Speaker 1: front of City Hall in the Grand Park area, they
Speaker 1: held demonstrators until the curfew and then arrested everybody. So
Speaker 1: we're in a situation where our constitutional rights are very
Speaker 1: much being trampled on in real time and on camera.
Speaker 1: And I'm very grateful to all of the demonstrators who
Speaker 1: are posting to TikTok into reels as things are happening,
Speaker 1: or we would have no way of knowing what's actually
Speaker 1: going on on the ground. And publications like La Taco,
Speaker 1: they've had their journalists out on the ground every day
Speaker 1: for the past week covering the protests and for the
Speaker 1: most part, really focusing on the abuses that law enforcement
Speaker 1: and whatever military presence is enacting on our civilian, unarmed
Speaker 1: civilian population. So it's a very scary time, and at
Speaker 1: the same time, we want to connect history to the
Speaker 1: current moment because this is not isolated. History does repeat itself,
Speaker 1: and as people who make media, we're very concerned about
Speaker 1: the way that journalists are being treated.
Speaker 2: Yeah, not to be super nerdy, but I'm gonna be nerdy.
Speaker 2: I'm reading this book right now called on Tyranny, and
Speaker 2: there is this saying history repeats itself. And Timothy Snyder,
Speaker 2: the author of this book, first line, history does not repeat,
Speaker 2: but it doesn't struct and so he is it's this
Speaker 2: short read and it's this breakdown of how we can
Speaker 2: learn from history and how we can do things differently
Speaker 2: and not allow it to repeat itself. And so with
Speaker 2: that in mind, there's these historical moments that we can
Speaker 2: learn from and call upon and use them to instruct
Speaker 2: us on how to fight back or how to resist
Speaker 2: and whatever that looks like for the individual right, whether
Speaker 2: that be doing mutual aid, whether that be making podcasts,
Speaker 2: making art, right, taking care of their family members and
Speaker 2: their community, or taking to the streets. Don't go anywhere,
Speaker 2: look amotives.
Speaker 1: We'll be right back, and we're back with more of
Speaker 1: our episode. We want to talk about freedom of press
Speaker 1: because we see that very much under attack this past
Speaker 1: week and on video on camera very clearly journalists being
Speaker 1: targeted by law enforcement, being shot with rubber bullets, for example.
Speaker 1: And maybe at this point you all listening have seen
Speaker 1: these clips online because they've been circulating. An Australian journalist,
Speaker 1: Lauren Tomasi of News nine Australia was shot with a
Speaker 1: rubber bullet. I saw the footage and in this footage,
Speaker 1: the journalist is speaking to can is standing quite a
Speaker 1: distance away from law enforcement who are behind her in
Speaker 1: this footage, and they are lined up facing protesters. As
Speaker 1: Lauren Tomasi is reporting on the events, you can clearly
Speaker 1: see behind her an officer take his rifle, turn, look
Speaker 1: straight at her, point at her and shoot her with
Speaker 1: a rubber bullet, completely unprovoked. She wasn't anywhere near him,
Speaker 1: she wasn't talking to him.
Speaker 2: She was doing a stand up, she was reporting.
Speaker 1: And you see this this cop just very intentionally and
Speaker 1: purposefully turn and aim his rifle at her and shoot her.
Speaker 1: And she's not the only one. I saw another clip
Speaker 1: of the protest had taken to the freeway and there's
Speaker 1: law enforcement down on the freeway right across the lanes
Speaker 1: and there's a journalist up top on the street level
Speaker 1: right above above the freeway. So this journalist is very
Speaker 1: very far away from the law enforcement, and this journalist
Speaker 1: is reporting again to camera and again in the back
Speaker 1: of this video you can see the law enforcement way
Speaker 1: down there on the freeway spot the journalist turn aim
Speaker 1: his rifle up directly at the journalist and shoot this
Speaker 1: journalist with a rubber bullet. That is very scary.
Speaker 2: It's scary. And these are supposed supposedly non lethal project dials,
Speaker 2: but they can cause serious harm. And this is not
Speaker 2: the first time that they've been used on civilians and
Speaker 2: on journalists. Even during this there was a British journalist,
Speaker 2: Nick Stern, who was hid in the leg with a
Speaker 2: projectile while he was covering the demonstrations in Paramount, and
Speaker 2: his injury was a two inch hole in his leg
Speaker 2: that required emergency surgery to remove the forty millimeter projectile.
Speaker 2: And this was allegedly fired by La County Sheriff's deputy.
Speaker 2: And so there's so many instances, not only during this
Speaker 2: current moment, but even in past moments, so much so
Speaker 2: that La Press Club Journalists Right advocate Adam Rose started
Speaker 2: compiling data after the twenty twenty uprisings. He says to
Speaker 2: news publication cal Matters that there has been a long
Speaker 2: history of problematic dynamics between police and the press in LA.
Speaker 2: There's other examples like the two thousand and seven may
Speaker 2: date melee and going even further back, right, and so
Speaker 2: this is not something new, but I think we are
Speaker 2: seeing it in more direct, vicious and just straight up
Speaker 2: out there ways. Now it's being documented by either the
Speaker 2: journalists themselves and their like camera equipment or by like
Speaker 2: civilian journalist mobile journalists on their phone, and it's now
Speaker 2: on social media.
Speaker 1: And I've seen also footage of like journalists being detained
Speaker 1: and removed from the protest and told you have to
Speaker 1: leave and if you come back, we will arrest you.
Speaker 1: In nineteen seventy on the Chicano Moratorium against the Vietnam War,
Speaker 1: LA Times journalist Ruben Salasad was killed by LAPD officers
Speaker 1: while covering the Chicano Moratorium, and notably, Ruben Salazar was
Speaker 1: one of the first journalists ever to dedicate coverage to
Speaker 1: the Chicano and Mexican American communities. And so LA as
Speaker 1: much as we love it and we've had we've had
Speaker 1: our own beautiful times here. It is a historically oppressive
Speaker 1: place and with the LAPD, specifically our communities of color
Speaker 1: have had big time issues. Now we're adding the addition
Speaker 1: of the National Guard, ICE and the Marines. And I
Speaker 1: was watching local news. I think it was KTLA that
Speaker 1: I was watching on Tuesday night when the curfew was
Speaker 1: implemented and down intown LA. And what the reporters, the
Speaker 1: on broadcast news we're talking about is that in the past,
Speaker 1: when LA has responded to oppression with protests, that our
Speaker 1: protests in LA we outnumber the police. Today now that
Speaker 1: is completely changed, that is no longer true. According to
Speaker 1: our local news broadcast, civilian demonstrators are outnumbered by law
Speaker 1: enforcement six to one. So we have never been in
Speaker 1: this situation before. We've never been in this situation before.
Speaker 1: And there seems to be no due process. There seems
Speaker 1: to be no again, there's there's no there's no rules
Speaker 1: to this game. There's no playing fair. Not that it
Speaker 1: was fair before, but now even more so. I mean,
Speaker 1: I'm seeing footage in front of city Hall, and you
Speaker 1: can see city Hall, you can see City Hall in
Speaker 1: Grand Park, and police on horses is trampling protesters. I
Speaker 1: mean it's bad. So we wanted to do a little
Speaker 1: refresh for our audience and for ourselves to talk about
Speaker 1: why does it matter so much that press be able
Speaker 1: to document and cover and report on civil issues and
Speaker 1: rallies and demonstrations. Why does it matter? Well, let's read
Speaker 1: a little something from the National Archives. Congress shall make
Speaker 1: no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting free
Speaker 1: exercise thereof, or abridging the freedom of speech or of
Speaker 1: the press, or the right of the people peaceably to
Speaker 1: assemble and to petition the government for a redress of grievances.
Speaker 1: And so what we have here is a situation where
Speaker 1: the only way right now that we can redress our
Speaker 1: grievances with the government is by coming out in person
Speaker 1: and taking to the streets and demonstrating. In a time
Speaker 1: where the houses were republican, the Senate is republican, the
Speaker 1: Supreme Court is republican, and our democratic leadership is not
Speaker 1: able to vote things through. We can't vote things through.
Speaker 1: Nothing is getting passed. What other recourse do we have
Speaker 1: as a people then going out and demonstrating and protesting.
Speaker 2: Don't go anywhere, Look, amos, We'll be right.
Speaker 1: Back and we're back with more of our episode.
Speaker 2: According to an LA Times report, in a late night
Speaker 2: order on Thursday, June twelfth, the US Ninth Circuit Court
Speaker 2: of Appeals paused a court order that would have required
Speaker 2: President Trump to return control of the thousands of California
Speaker 2: National Guard troops in LA to Governor Gavin Newsom. So
Speaker 2: all of this is still ongoing and on hold. The
Speaker 2: hope is that Governor Gavin Newsom and his team have
Speaker 2: all the tricks up their sleeves and are gonna try
Speaker 2: to I think, regain control of California. Yeah, but of
Speaker 2: course that's not going to be without resistance from the
Speaker 2: federal administration.
Speaker 1: Yeah. Absolutely. And it's like we've spent so much money,
Speaker 1: so much money, building prisons, beefing up law enforcement, billions
Speaker 1: of dollars towards police departments all over. But those police
Speaker 1: departments and the LAPD are not our friends, right, They're
Speaker 1: not gonna like help us to defend California.
Speaker 2: Yeah, you know what I've been thinking, this is not
Speaker 2: a Marvel movie. No, Like you know, there was a
Speaker 2: someone commented on one of our posts like kind of
Speaker 2: missing the point about our clip about Latinos who are
Speaker 2: ice agents. And LAPD officers, and she was like, now, Dot,
Speaker 2: this is not do not go common anything to her,
Speaker 2: but this is She said something like yeah, and that's
Speaker 2: why we need to remember that we shouldn't like be
Speaker 2: mean to them, and we shouldn't like spit on them
Speaker 2: because there are Latino brothers and Theos and Purimos and
Speaker 2: this and this and that. And I'm like, this is
Speaker 2: not a Marvel movie, this is not cop Ganda. This
Speaker 2: is real life. And they're terrorizing our community, whether the
Speaker 2: en they're a part of our community, if they're LAPD
Speaker 2: even worse.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and those Latino cops are not treating Latino protesters
Speaker 1: or undocumented Latin Americans with kindness or with more humanity
Speaker 1: because you know, we share a last name. It doesn't
Speaker 1: mean anything to them. They don't care. They don't care
Speaker 1: at all, and they will brutalize just as much as
Speaker 1: the next cop. And it's it's it's so wild to
Speaker 1: witness all these years of the copaganda and where it's
Speaker 1: gotten us.
Speaker 2: Now. Yeah, when my brother, just like aside anecdote in
Speaker 2: the nineties, my brother was driving home from work and
Speaker 2: he was pulled over and he was detained for having
Speaker 2: tinted windows. He was sent to the Twin Towers.
Speaker 1: Oh my god.
Speaker 2: And he says, the cop that pulled me over was Latino.
Speaker 2: And I was looking at him like, come on, dude,
Speaker 2: like don't do this. Like I'm going home to my
Speaker 2: kid right now. Yeah, my brother spent the night at
Speaker 2: twin hours for having tinted windows.
Speaker 1: That's nuts. And that cop did not have to do that. No,
Speaker 1: that was a choice. And I think what's happening now
Speaker 1: as well, with people getting kidnapped and arrested and detained.
Speaker 1: They're meeting quotas. They're still meeting quotas. This is all
Speaker 1: quota based. They just want bodies, they want numbers, and
Speaker 1: they're being very indiscriminate.
Speaker 2: Yes, which is why even if you're a citizen or
Speaker 2: you quote did it the right way, they do not care.
Speaker 2: I don't care. If they cared, they wouldn't be arresting
Speaker 2: folks at their appointments in court. They're detaining folks there
Speaker 2: that are going for their immigration appointments. Mm hmm. It
Speaker 2: doesn't matter to them.
Speaker 1: It doesn't matter to them. And so keeping in mind
Speaker 1: that the goalposts will continue to move and continue to shift,
Speaker 1: and at some point they're going to start detaining people
Speaker 1: who disagree with them. They are already detaining people who
Speaker 1: were born here who have a quote birthright citizenship. If
Speaker 1: you think that you're exempt, you're probably not. If things
Speaker 1: get worse and worse and worse and worse, it's going
Speaker 1: to look like the Red Scare where people were giving
Speaker 1: up names of other people who were alleged communist sympathizers.
Speaker 1: And that word sympathizers, by the way, what does that
Speaker 1: even mean, Oh, your neighbor was an alleged communist? You
Speaker 1: think maybe somebody said something that made it seem like
Speaker 1: maybe they were sympathetic. It's vague intentionally. And today if
Speaker 1: like that judge who got arrested for allegedly helping an
Speaker 1: undocumented man like escape through her courtroom. I was watching
Speaker 1: footage of that, and they show this judge speaking to
Speaker 1: ICE agents while the undocumented man in question left the
Speaker 1: courthouse with his attorney. They weren't running, they weren't sneaking.
Speaker 1: They just walked out of an exit. And the way
Speaker 1: that they're talking about this judge is, Oh, this judge
Speaker 1: is distracting, distracting ICE agents to help this undocumented person
Speaker 1: escape through a side room, a side door, you know,
Speaker 1: like it could be any little thing, Yeah, that can
Speaker 1: be twisted into you are fomenting revolution, You're an enemy
Speaker 1: of the state, you're aiding in abetting criminals. And so
Speaker 1: that means that like you maybe are a business owner,
Speaker 1: maybe you're a white American who voted for Donald Trump,
Speaker 1: and maybe you have employees who are immigrants, regardless of
Speaker 1: their status, and maybe now you're having a change of
Speaker 1: heart about your vote because your employees are being taken
Speaker 1: from you, and maybe now you want to go petition
Speaker 1: and say something to your government. Are you an enemy
Speaker 1: of the state now?
Speaker 2: Right?
Speaker 1: Are you a turncoat?
Speaker 2: Now?
Speaker 1: This is the type of stuff that we're looking at
Speaker 1: down the line. So it's authoritarianism, yes, yeah, And I
Speaker 1: think you know I've been I picked up this book
Speaker 1: on Tyranny.
Speaker 2: I'm going to bring it up again because after the inauguration,
Speaker 2: I was like, Okay, project twenty twenty five is it's
Speaker 2: going to be in full effect? You know, this is
Speaker 2: not what we voted for, but people did and let
Speaker 2: me learn, let me learn something right. And so I
Speaker 2: picked up this book and it's like twenty it's titled
Speaker 2: on Tyranny twenty lessons from the twentieth century and some
Speaker 2: of the things I wanted to just quickly bring on
Speaker 2: for the show a couple of them that I thought
Speaker 2: were really important, and please pick up the book for yourself.
Speaker 2: But it's like, first one, do not obey in advance. Right,
Speaker 2: what we're letting them do now is what they're testing
Speaker 2: the limits now institutions and institutions meaning your local public radio,
Speaker 2: your local newspaper, your library, Like, defend the institutions that
Speaker 2: are protecting knowledge, that are telling stories, that are gatekeepers
Speaker 2: of information, contribute to good causes, whether that be an
Speaker 2: immigrant rights organization, a mutual aid, a GoFundMe for legal resources.
Speaker 2: And this one I thought was really important. Listen for
Speaker 2: dangerous words. So the words like terrorists, right, we're seeing
Speaker 2: that with Los Angeles. It's a war zone. LA is
Speaker 2: a war zone right now. And so they're using our
Speaker 2: federal government and our president is using that type of
Speaker 2: language so that we can and we as the general population,
Speaker 2: not just in LA but beyond. But they're using that
Speaker 2: to for us to surrender on our own freedom right.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and to criminalize civilian, unarmed civilian protesters and demonstrators.
Speaker 1: It's not a war when only one side has guns
Speaker 1: and weapons, a war on us.
Speaker 2: Yes, And this quote from the book is this, people
Speaker 2: who assure you that you can only gain security at
Speaker 2: the price of liberty usually want to deny you both.
Speaker 2: And I think that that is a really important lesson
Speaker 2: that we need to keep in mind, is that this
Speaker 2: is all intentional and they're testing how far they can go.
Speaker 2: Who's willing to like turn on each other, and what
Speaker 2: else can they do? What can happen next? And finally,
Speaker 2: and I'll stop talking about the book, but finally I
Speaker 2: thought this really this really important thing because I don't
Speaker 2: don't want to continue to like for us to be afraid.
Speaker 2: It's scary times, right, But also lesson from this book
Speaker 2: it's be calm when the unthinkable arrives. So it is
Speaker 2: part of this like identify it, Identify what's happening right now.
Speaker 2: Don't think that it can't happen here, because it's happening here,
Speaker 2: and get yourself ready. Yeah, and you think, you know,
Speaker 2: you think about back in history, and you think about
Speaker 2: what happened in the nineteen thirty in Europe and other countries,
Speaker 2: and you think like, well, what would I do you know,
Speaker 2: would I keep my neighbor safe. You know, when I
Speaker 2: think this, we're being tested right now, like the what
Speaker 2: are we going to do now?
Speaker 1: Absolutely, be very careful out there and stay informed. So
Speaker 1: of course there's legacy news like the La Times. We've
Speaker 1: mentioned La Taco, La Public Press and Delon, the National
Speaker 1: Day Labors Organizing Network Chiir La Garsen, and you're going
Speaker 1: to see a lot of rallies and demonstrations and protests
Speaker 1: being organized. I think it's important for us to consider
Speaker 1: who is organizing the rally or the protest and to
Speaker 1: what end, what are the aims, what are the goals?
Speaker 1: Are these people who have a history of organizing for
Speaker 1: a social cause, for a social good? Are these opportunities
Speaker 1: for photo ops or are these k agents who are
Speaker 1: like creating chaotic situations? Because those things also happen, and
Speaker 1: it's not always a good faith attempt to gather a
Speaker 1: ton of people in one place, and we have to
Speaker 1: be careful about that as well. So do your research
Speaker 1: before you put your body and yourself out there in
Speaker 1: harm's way. Be safe. Check out the organizations we just
Speaker 1: mentioned because they are also hosting fundraisers to aid immigrants
Speaker 1: in detention to provide legal support and other resources. And
Speaker 1: if you are looking for a way to contribute, we
Speaker 1: recommend doing some research into the organizations that have a
Speaker 1: track record of working on these issues in an organized,
Speaker 1: ethical way.
Speaker 2: I encourage you to consider how you're going to show
Speaker 2: up in this moment. Like we mentioned in previous episodes,
Speaker 2: not everyone can join a protest for a variety of reasons.
Speaker 2: So consider how you're showing up in this moment. Is
Speaker 2: it driving by to verify ice agents or at a
Speaker 2: certain location. We see sometimes fear mongering and sometimes good intentions.
Speaker 2: We think that ice is in a certain location, turns
Speaker 2: out they're not there. So consider is that how you're
Speaker 2: showing up? Are also local businesses that are being heavily
Speaker 2: hit right now because one people are not going out,
Speaker 2: They're not showing up because they're afraid. How then does
Speaker 2: our local economy suffer and intern our community? So consider
Speaker 2: are you going hard and supporting your local Latino businesses
Speaker 2: at this moment? Are you buying from street vendors? Are
Speaker 2: you doing buyouts? Consider that there's so many ways to
Speaker 2: show up in this moment, and that it is a marathon,
Speaker 2: not a sprint. We are in this for the long haul,
Speaker 2: and let's not police how each of us show up,
Speaker 2: because we all have different gifts and different ways that
Speaker 2: we show up in this moment and in this movement.
Speaker 2: So I hope you take care, hydrate, try to sleep,
Speaker 2: check in with your friends, your family or community, and
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