Speaker 1: Good morning, peeps, and welcome to wokay f Daily with
Speaker 1: Meet your Girl Danielle Moody recording from the Home Bunker, Folks.
Speaker 1: As of this recording right now, there is no indictment
Speaker 1: yet of Donald Trump. But again, as of this late
Speaker 1: afternoon recording that I'm doing, New York City police have
Speaker 1: begun to put out barricades in New York City as
Speaker 1: Donald Trump continues to rage truth social his broke ass
Speaker 1: Twitter where he's typing in all caps about freedom and
Speaker 1: justice and literally having a fucking meltdown over what he
Speaker 1: knows is coming. And like I've said before, friends, I
Speaker 1: want to remind us that when Donald Trump and company
Speaker 1: like Kevin McCarthy and Jim Jordan, who are using their
Speaker 1: positions to weaponize our government to go after people like
Speaker 1: Alvin Bragg and haul them before a committee, it's the
Speaker 1: same bullshit stunts that they pulled with Hillary Clinton and
Speaker 1: the Benghazi committees and made her sit for eleven hours.
Speaker 1: And Hillary Clinton never took to social media to call
Speaker 1: her people into the streets. Why because she didn't have
Speaker 1: anything to hide. She could sit in front of them
Speaker 1: and they could drill her and grill her and do
Speaker 1: all of these bullshit political theatrics, but at the end
Speaker 1: of the day, she knew she had the truth on
Speaker 1: her side and there was nothing to hide. And I
Speaker 1: want folks to think about, you know, if Hillary Clinton
Speaker 1: were so criminal and crooked, if Joe Biden and Hunter
Speaker 1: Biden were so criminal and crooked, then why wasn't why
Speaker 1: wasn't there any charges brought on any of these people
Speaker 1: during the Trump administration when he was weaponizing the Department
Speaker 1: of Justice? Where were the cases? There were none, Because
Speaker 1: just in the same way the fucking Giuliani was laughed
Speaker 1: out of sixty some odd fucking courts in this country
Speaker 1: with frivolous, bullshit cases around electoral fraud, Donald Trump in
Speaker 1: the Department of Justice would have been laughed out of
Speaker 1: anybody's court on their frivolous claims. So you have to
Speaker 1: understand that all of this is about a motherfucking grift.
Speaker 1: That's all any of this is. And so right now
Speaker 1: you have folks right that are saying that they're not
Speaker 1: going to come. There are folks that are trying to
Speaker 1: organize and get Trump supporters to New York City, and
Speaker 1: folks are saying, yeah, we're not going. And why is
Speaker 1: that because one they think it's going to be a
Speaker 1: federal trap, or you mean that the Feds will actually
Speaker 1: do their job unlike what they did on January six,
Speaker 1: or the fact that Donald Trump does not have lightning
Speaker 1: in a bottle and he's not going to be able
Speaker 1: to amp up his mindless supporters to put their lives
Speaker 1: and livelihood on the line in order to stand their
Speaker 1: ground for his criminal, fucking behavior. And just in as
Speaker 1: I am recording this in the third Oathkeeper's trial that
Speaker 1: has been ongoing, four of the six defendants are guilty
Speaker 1: of all charges, including obstruction, and they are Sandra Parker,
Speaker 1: Laura Steele, William Isaacs, and Connie megs So two defendants.
Speaker 1: This is according to Kyle Cheney's tweet thread. Two defendants
Speaker 1: had mixed results but were acquitted or deadlocked on serious charges,
Speaker 1: Benny Parker and Michael Greene. B Parker deadlocked on conspiracy
Speaker 1: to obstruct, Acquitted of obstruction and conspiracy to prevent federal
Speaker 1: officer from discharging duties. Green acquitted of conspiracy to obstruct,
Speaker 1: deadlocked on obstruction, Acquitted of conspiracy to prevent federal officers
Speaker 1: from discharging duties. Green and Benny Parker were both convicted
Speaker 1: of entering and remaining in restricted area, a misdemeanor. So
Speaker 1: all defendants were convicted of at least one thing, but
Speaker 1: split verdicts on most significant felonies, with again four of
Speaker 1: the six being guilty on all charges, including obstructions. So
Speaker 1: is it worth it to put your life, your livelihood
Speaker 1: that of your family on the line for Donald Trump?
Speaker 1: Doesn't fucking seem so. So you know, we will see
Speaker 1: and we will pay close attention to what is happening
Speaker 1: over the course of this week. So do stay tune
Speaker 1: and do stay on top of my social media at
Speaker 1: d two cents across platforms Instagram and Twitter and Danielle
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Speaker 1: with Christine Quinn, president and CEO of Women in Need,
Speaker 1: providing shelters to homeless families in New York City and
Speaker 1: was the first female and openly LGBTQ speaker of the
Speaker 1: New York City Council. And in this conversation, we discuss
Speaker 1: the escalation of the homelessness crisis that is happening nationwide,
Speaker 1: as well as the epidemic of rent hikes, folks. I
Speaker 1: am very excited to be joined on WOKE a f
Speaker 1: by Christine Quinn, who is the president and the CEO
Speaker 1: of Women in Need, which is the largest provider of
Speaker 1: shelter and supportive services for families homeless families in New
Speaker 1: York City and is also the first female and openly
Speaker 1: LGBTQ speaker of the New York City City Council. Christie
Speaker 1: and I want to talk first about what we are
Speaker 1: kind of seeing both in New York City but nationwide,
Speaker 1: which is this escalation in the homeless crisis. I have
Speaker 1: traveled to a couple of different cities, recently Washington, d C.
Speaker 1: San Francisco. I live here in New York and I
Speaker 1: got to tell you that what I'm seeing is really heartbreaking.
Speaker 1: I'm seeing full tent cities being created in parks and
Speaker 1: on sidewalks, people that are clearly living on the brink
Speaker 1: and in despair. So I wanted to get your thoughts
Speaker 1: first on what you are seeing here in New York City,
Speaker 1: but also why this is becoming such a crisis nationwide.
Speaker 1: So in New York City, over the past two years,
Speaker 1: we have seen fifty percent increase in family homelessness. You know,
Speaker 1: some of us, I think, in the greater society got
Speaker 1: lulled into a sense of homelessness being headed in the
Speaker 1: right direction, if you will, during the pandemic, But that
Speaker 1: was because jurisdictions like New York and others put eviction
Speaker 1: moratoriums in place that gave us a false sense of progress.
Speaker 1: So things are as, unfortunately, as bad as they have
Speaker 1: ever been. Why is that? A couple of reasons? One,
Speaker 1: what are the root causes of homelessness? I mean there's
Speaker 1: a few. One domestic violence, right, eighty percent of WINS
Speaker 1: moms are survivors of domestic violence. We as a society
Speaker 1: have yet to take INTI mid partner violence as seriously
Speaker 1: as we should, and have yet to come up with
Speaker 1: real strategies to deter it from happening and to really
Speaker 1: help those who are the survivors. Move on to people
Speaker 1: getting evicted. Fifty two percent of WINS moms are working,
Speaker 1: but they can't pay the rent. So you can put
Speaker 1: out whatever job numbers you want, whoever the president is,
Speaker 1: and I'm happy that the recent ones are good for
Speaker 1: President Biden, but that doesn't really address those who are
Speaker 1: living if they're lucky on minimum wage. Three While good
Speaker 1: paying jobs aren't reaching women of color in urban settings.
Speaker 1: We have rent in urban settings, and New York is
Speaker 1: maybe the highest numbers, but not an exception. We have
Speaker 1: rents escalating, escalating, escalating, And what used to be an
Speaker 1: apartment affordable to somebody who's now in shelter. That was
Speaker 1: an apartment that was affordable to a working class person. Right,
Speaker 1: So you're seeing this crisis trickle down. Hate to use
Speaker 1: that term in the worst of all possible ways. Now,
Speaker 1: the overarching reason why this problem is so vast is
Speaker 1: no one, not in New York, and I would argue
Speaker 1: not anywhere in the country. No electric leader a real
Speaker 1: significance has said I'm gonna end the crisis of homelessness. No,
Speaker 1: they all try to manage it so it's not on
Speaker 1: the cover of the newspaper. Manage it so tourists don't
Speaker 1: see the homeless. Push them are out, move them out.
Speaker 1: That's different than having a real conversation with constituents and
Speaker 1: saying we have a crisis here. You know, we have
Speaker 1: more children in shelter in New York City than there
Speaker 1: are seats in the Barclay's Arena where the Nets play.
Speaker 1: That's a sin. So we need to be real with
Speaker 1: voters and say we have a problem that's been out
Speaker 1: there for decades. We're gonna need a decade at least
Speaker 1: to solve it. But we're going to solve it. We're
Speaker 1: not just going to get it to a place where
Speaker 1: you don't see it, you know. And I love that
Speaker 1: you that you bring up that point, because I think
Speaker 1: for a lot of people, even quote unquote well meaning progressives,
Speaker 1: that so long as you don't see your homelessness, as
Speaker 1: long as you're able to ride the subways and you know,
Speaker 1: go to and from work, as long as you're able
Speaker 1: to walk down your street and you don't see homeless people,
Speaker 1: then you feel fine. And we don't ever ask ourselves, well,
Speaker 1: what happened to that person that was that I used
Speaker 1: to pass on my run or that I used to
Speaker 1: see on the subway. And I think it's it's twofold,
Speaker 1: and I want to ask you about this, which is
Speaker 1: one every time I'm on Instagram, I get messages about
Speaker 1: how rents in every city or skyrocketing right that you know,
Speaker 1: we saw just for a moment during the pandemic in
Speaker 1: twenty twenty and twenty twenty one, people fleeing cities and
Speaker 1: going too, you know, whether it's in New York, going
Speaker 1: to Upstate, going to the suburbs, you know, but leaving
Speaker 1: the cities, and so rents kind of came down a
Speaker 1: little bit. But like to your point, they were also
Speaker 1: on a moratorium of increase. Well, that ship has said,
Speaker 1: because you're seeing rents be increased six, seven, ten percent
Speaker 1: in some places, which means that not even for the
Speaker 1: working class, but whatever is left of the middle class
Speaker 1: is being squeezed out of cities because they can't afford
Speaker 1: the rents. And so you know, Mayor Adams has spoken
Speaker 1: about this, but hasn't really done anything right. Usually sides,
Speaker 1: you know, on the sides of the landlords as opposed
Speaker 1: to the tenants. And so in that issue, when we
Speaker 1: see rents that are escalating to places that have become
Speaker 1: so unaffordable. There are rents around here where I live
Speaker 1: in Brooklyn that you're talking about are four five thousand
Speaker 1: dollars a month. You know, you need to make a
Speaker 1: significant six figure salary, a high six figure salary for
Speaker 1: that too for that not to phase you. So how
Speaker 1: do we deal with these issues both and which is
Speaker 1: that one people who are on the bubble of working
Speaker 1: class to middle class right, are being squeezed out in
Speaker 1: a way where their rents are more than thirty three
Speaker 1: percent of what their checks are. And then for those
Speaker 1: who say that they're well meaning and want to care
Speaker 1: for people who are less fortunate, but at the end
Speaker 1: of the day just really don't want to see them, right,
Speaker 1: So you don't have the push to politicians to say,
Speaker 1: my constituents want this issue solved in a humane and
Speaker 1: empathetic way. Absolutely, And you know, this issue of not
Speaker 1: being seen is particularly vexing when you're working on the
Speaker 1: issues of family homelessness, because it is not that we
Speaker 1: want children on the street, but it's a crime to
Speaker 1: have your child on the street. So no, I mean,
Speaker 1: I've had intelligent people say to me, oh, I didn't
Speaker 1: know there were children who were homeless. It's like, you know,
Speaker 1: but you don't know what you don't see. So that
Speaker 1: really and what's one of the reasons that win When
Speaker 1: I got there seven years ago, we really ramped up
Speaker 1: our efforts at you know, public relations, media, etc. Not
Speaker 1: because you know, I'm a girl who doesn't mind being
Speaker 1: on television, but because if people don't know, they don't
Speaker 1: push the politicians. If people don't know, they don't hold
Speaker 1: people accountable, and that really really matters too. You know,
Speaker 1: I think you raised an issue that really is so important.
Speaker 1: The left, so to speak, has a whole bunch of
Speaker 1: issues they care about, rent control, rent stabilization, affordable housing.
Speaker 1: But you'll see a New York City council or assembly
Speaker 1: member who's on the top of the most left endorsement
Speaker 1: list get an endorsement on Tuesday and on Wednesday stand
Speaker 1: up and say I don't want to shelter in my neighborhood.
Speaker 1: You can't be. We shouldn't allow people to get away
Speaker 1: with that, and we shouldn't allow the left to get
Speaker 1: away with that, because who should be at the top
Speaker 1: of our progressive agenda but women of color and children
Speaker 1: of color. And that is who is homeless in New York. Now,
Speaker 1: as it relates to the real estate industry, you know,
Speaker 1: and housing, I take a little bit of it, maybe
Speaker 1: an unconventional tact. Let's dialogue with the real estate industry.
Speaker 1: They build housing, what are they need? And want to
Speaker 1: build housing that is affordable to my clients, but also
Speaker 1: to the you know, mythical teacher and firefighter who are
Speaker 1: living in New York City. So let's have those conversations. Now.
Speaker 1: Clearly what they want is subsidies. Okay, I can, I
Speaker 1: can yield that they should get some subsidies. Should they
Speaker 1: get the depth of the subsidies they want? No, but
Speaker 1: let's have that debate. But I've had conversations with real estate.
Speaker 1: May not phrase them in the right way, but basically
Speaker 1: they're saying, you know what, if somebody comes from shelter
Speaker 1: and they've not lived and are building this nice, will
Speaker 1: they know how to live? Okay? Whatever, let's address the
Speaker 1: right way to say that somebody's moving to a new
Speaker 1: neighborhood and they don't know anybody, and they may have
Speaker 1: been in shelter for two years, given how long it takes,
Speaker 1: and they haven't paid you know, a content or whatever
Speaker 1: for a while. They may need I believe people need aftercare.
Speaker 1: It's a big transition what they're going for. So let's
Speaker 1: set up that aftercare. But I don't want WIND to
Speaker 1: run it. I want the settlement house in the neighborhood
Speaker 1: near where they live to run it, or the community
Speaker 1: based group in the neighborhood near where they live to
Speaker 1: run it. So if there are paying bill issues that
Speaker 1: landlord can call that neighborhood group and we can work
Speaker 1: to help. And interestingly, you know, the real estate folks
Speaker 1: have said that would really be of interest to them.
Speaker 1: I said they should sell, they should help fund it.
Speaker 1: Those conversations are ongoing. But you know, people, you know,
Speaker 1: I don't always know that people want to help. But
Speaker 1: there are people who want to help and don't know
Speaker 1: how to help. But there are other people who should
Speaker 1: help and need to be don't want to help to help,
Speaker 1: and that has not happened enough in the Adams administration
Speaker 1: or to date in the new Hoco administration. People need
Speaker 1: to be told I want to switch gears now because
Speaker 1: there's there's another issue. I mean, there are many, but
Speaker 1: there's another issue that you know, when people think about
Speaker 1: New York City, and folks who live in New York City,
Speaker 1: they think about freedom, right, they think about living in
Speaker 1: this diverse place where you can walk down the sideway,
Speaker 1: you hear seven eight different languages, you see and hear
Speaker 1: all types of people, and people come here for the
Speaker 1: freedom of that experience. What we've seen, though, Christine, over
Speaker 1: the past couple of months right in particular, that have
Speaker 1: made headlines there's an escalation in hate crimes towards the
Speaker 1: LGBTQ community. There was a member whose home whose apartment
Speaker 1: building was vandalized and was harassed at a at a
Speaker 1: drag story time followed home building vandalized. Most recently, there
Speaker 1: was an LGBTQ flag in front of a restaurant in
Speaker 1: Soho that was taken and burned. Right the person, a woman,
Speaker 1: was just arrested on charges. When people see things like that,
Speaker 1: they're not shocked when they hear about it in a
Speaker 1: red state right or in a red area right. When
Speaker 1: they hear about these things in New York City, I
Speaker 1: think a lot of people, not just the people in
Speaker 1: New York City but nationwide, are like, oh my god,
Speaker 1: this is really this is scary because if this can
Speaker 1: happen in New York right, then this can happen anywhere.
Speaker 1: What are you making, you know of what seems to
Speaker 1: be an escalation towards the LGBTQ community in cities that
Speaker 1: have long time been safe havens. So it's the LGBTQ
Speaker 1: plus community. We've seen it in the Asian American community
Speaker 1: and in the Jewish community recently. Yep. And you know,
Speaker 1: before I got elected to the City Council. In nineteen
Speaker 1: ninety nine, I ran the New York City was then
Speaker 1: called the New York City Gay Lesbian Anti Violence Project.
Speaker 1: It's now just called the Anti Violence Project. And one
Speaker 1: of the things we documented was that as our community
Speaker 1: got more power and visibility, the attacks would escalate, and
Speaker 1: as there was coverage in the press and the media.
Speaker 1: At that time. I'm a million years old, but at
Speaker 1: back time, you know, ellen coming out something like that happens,
Speaker 1: violence goes up. Or elected officials and people of stature
Speaker 1: say anti LGBTQ plus things or anti Asian, etc. Violence
Speaker 1: goes up because people who hate are always tragically a
Speaker 1: step away from acting out. So when something happens that
Speaker 1: angers them, it pushes them. When they, you know, see
Speaker 1: a congress member say something anti LGBTQ plus, it pushes
Speaker 1: them over the line to act out violently. And what
Speaker 1: happens with some types of hate and actually LGBTQ plus
Speaker 1: Asian and anti Semitic or evidence of that, those haters
Speaker 1: will go to the places they think those communities are
Speaker 1: and lash out in those areas. And that's what we're seeing.
Speaker 1: And I believe I don't know this, but I believe
Speaker 1: based on my experience in ADP and my experience working
Speaker 1: on hate crimes and city council, I believe the haters
Speaker 1: are enraged that Donald Trump is not president yep, and
Speaker 1: that they've lost their king, and that is part of
Speaker 1: what is fueling them and that they're seeing in New
Speaker 1: York more LGBTQ elected officials than ever before, more LGBTQ
Speaker 1: elected officials in higher positions than ever before. After having
Speaker 1: had twelve years of eight years of the lesbian speaker
Speaker 1: and four years of the gay speaker, these people are
Speaker 1: pissed off. You know, we're rising while they're falling. So
Speaker 1: I think that is part of it. Now, what is
Speaker 1: the response every time there is a hate crime, doesn't
Speaker 1: matter who it's against, we need to speak out, We
Speaker 1: need to condemn it. We need to stand with every
Speaker 1: community and the highest level people, the mayor, the governor,
Speaker 1: the senators, etc. Etc. Need to do that. One. Two,
Speaker 1: the police department needs to engage and I really applaud
Speaker 1: them for apprehending this woman so quickly. And whether we
Speaker 1: like all the cameras out there or not, wake up people.
Speaker 1: You can't do anything and not end up with a
Speaker 1: picture of yourself. You will get caught, and the haters
Speaker 1: need to know the police department takes this seriously. There's
Speaker 1: a hate crime unit and they will bring every resource
Speaker 1: they have to bear to apprehend hate criminals out there.
Speaker 1: We need to spread that message and I know a
Speaker 1: relationship as a community is complicated with the police, but
Speaker 1: it is important in these hate crime moments to stand
Speaker 1: with the police. And I know historically I'm not saying
Speaker 1: it's not now. I just don't know. Historically the hate
Speaker 1: crimes unit has been very diverse and very effective and
Speaker 1: very sensitive. So it's a good, you know, part of
Speaker 1: the department to be working with. Now when will this stop,
Speaker 1: I don't know, but I do know that's standing with
Speaker 1: ourselves as a community and standing with other communities is
Speaker 1: the main thing that makes a difference. And it is
Speaker 1: also a place where standing there in solidarity is very
Speaker 1: helpful in dealing with the trauma. And I just want
Speaker 1: anybody who hears this, if you were a member of
Speaker 1: a community that has been suffering hate crimes. That's the
Speaker 1: thing about hate crimes. They're not designed to hurt that
Speaker 1: one person. They're designed to hurt the whole community. And
Speaker 1: if you feel traumatized and then say what's wrong with me?
Speaker 1: I wasn't the person who was attempted? Right? You do
Speaker 1: feel trauma? Get it addressed quality VP's hotline, Speak to somebody,
Speaker 1: because unexpressed trauma eats away at your soul, lessens you
Speaker 1: as a person, and that's what these horrible people ultimately want.
Speaker 1: You know, Christine, you say so many valuable things here,
Speaker 1: and I wonder as a you know, as a former politician,
Speaker 1: you know, we are seeing this escalation right in violence
Speaker 1: and hate because of the rhetoric right that we are
Speaker 1: seeing across across the country. What do you think? What
Speaker 1: what kind of response should there be to politicians who
Speaker 1: are using their microphones, their platforms, their their social media
Speaker 1: handles to stir and create hate, Like should they be
Speaker 1: held accountable? Should there be some type of standard here? Absolutely?
Speaker 1: You know, people during the presidential elections with Trump would
Speaker 1: say to people on you know, TV, your podcast or whatever, well,
Speaker 1: are you saying he's responsible for the violence? And everyone
Speaker 1: would be like, oh, I'm not saying that. Yes, I
Speaker 1: am saying that. I am saying that I've seen it,
Speaker 1: I know it, I've documented it. And we need to
Speaker 1: be that clear and hold people that accountable. And you
Speaker 1: know what if these fools, who are you know, picketing,
Speaker 1: drag story hour, opposing children learning in a fun way,
Speaker 1: let's go to their house if where it countsil never
Speaker 1: bocher lives. Isn't sacred their house. Yeah, we're not going
Speaker 1: to vantilize it, not gonna ventialize it. We'll stay in
Speaker 1: appropriate distance away so people can come in and out
Speaker 1: of the front door. But you know what, what's good
Speaker 1: for the goose is good for the gander. And you know,
Speaker 1: back in the day, there was a very anti gay
Speaker 1: school board out in Queen's Cummings. Was the woman's name,
Speaker 1: I can't remember her first name, who was chair of
Speaker 1: the school board, and she was opposed to the rainbow curriculum.
Speaker 1: And we went out to Queens. It wasn't pleasant. The
Speaker 1: neighbors weren't happy to see us. But you know what, yeah,
Speaker 1: you'd be afraid to do what we gotta do. Keep
Speaker 1: it peaceful, keep it without you know, vandalism. I love that.
Speaker 1: Christine Quinn, I thank you so much. Thank you for
Speaker 1: your time and for the work that you're doing on
Speaker 1: so many different fronts. Really appreciate you. And just before
Speaker 1: you go. Please tell people, particularly those that live in
Speaker 1: New York or actually want to use WIN as a
Speaker 1: model for what they can do in their own communities
Speaker 1: and places where they can get more information. Yeah, please
Speaker 1: go to our website. It's win nyc dot org. That's
Speaker 1: two ends w I n NYC dot org. Wonderful. Thank
Speaker 1: you so much for making the time. I appreciate you.
Speaker 1: Take care bye. That is it for me today. Dear
Speaker 1: friends on woke app as always, power to the people
Speaker 1: and to all the people. Power, get woke and stay
Speaker 1: woke as fuck.