Disclaimer, this episode will cover sensitive topics such as trauma, mental health, and the

meaning of life.

As soon as the discretion is advised.

Hello everybody, what's good y'all?

Welcome to the Heat Wave.

I'm Chui Hii him and thank you for listening.

Today we have a very special episode.

We're going to be talking about revolutionary optimism, practicing and spirituality, and

acknowledging like the struggles that happen within organizing.

But before we go into this conversation, I know this conversation is going to be on the

left radio stream as well.

So, I want to set the record straight what the Heat Wave and what Metcha the issue is

about.

So, the Heat Wave is the official podcast of Metcha the Assume.

Metcha is a community-based communist organization that is dedicated on combating the

lagacies of settler colonization such as capitalism and white supremacy by creating a movement

that centers black indigenous queer trans and femme people.

We are an organization that of course came from the Chicano movement from the 60s, but we

have now distanced ourselves from that because we recognize that a lot of the things that

oppress people that identify themselves as Chicane have face other contradictions.

So, now our organization is multinational.

We strive for liberation of all people, we strive for decolonization, and of course, we strive

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