Don't be a Dursley. Help us support the people on our doorstep.
Harry Potter and the Sacred Text
Vanessa Zoltan, Casper ter Kuile & Ariana Nedelman
4.7 • 6.8K Ratings
🗓️ 14 October 2019
⏱️ 3 minutes
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Summary
The whole idea of this podcast is that we want to get ready for when tragedies happen near us. We want to make sure that if an opportunity to love a one year old, dropped off at our door were to ever happen to us, we won't be a Dursley.
Tragically, a vividly clear example of this is happening on our figurative doorstep; the American southern border with family separation, closing of borders from people feeling life-threatening conditions and more.
To that end, we have partnered with RAICES and set a goal that between today, Indigenous People’s Day, and Christmas, our loving community can raise $25,000 together. Please join us, and take one further step on your journey to not being a Dursley. You can donate at: give.classy.org/dontbeadursley
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| 0:00.0 | So Casper, since the very beginning of this podcast, we have been in conversation with |
| 0:04.6 | what it would mean to be a derzli and to avoid the derzli-ishness within ourselves. |
| 0:11.3 | Yeah, from the very beginning, we've been thinking about that attitude of generous |
| 0:14.9 | hospitality. |
| 0:15.9 | If you think back to the folks in that little town in France who had just always opened |
| 0:20.4 | their doors to the stranger, which meant that when the Second World War broke out and Jews |
| 0:24.6 | were fleeing the Nazis, these folks just opened their doors and let them into their home |
| 0:28.9 | no matter what personal cost. |
| 0:31.2 | And when we started this podcast, there were obviously a lot of atrocities that the United |
| 0:35.2 | States had been a part of, but we had no idea that we were going to be so visibly |
| 0:41.8 | and obviously participating in a kind of Holocaust on our southern border. |
| 0:49.4 | We are making commitment, Vanessa and I, with the whole Harry Potter and the Secret |
| 0:53.8 | Text team, to raise $25,000 before the end of this year for an amazing organization |
| 1:00.9 | that serves refugees and immigrants with legal help and other educational services. |
| 1:06.3 | The organization is called the Rises and we're so thrilled to be partnering with them because |
| 1:11.6 | they really embody the values that this podcast has always been about. |
| 1:15.0 | Rises helps with crisis management, addressing family separations and the moments of mass |
| 1:20.1 | release of detainees. |
| 1:21.8 | It offers legal services, post-release and resettlement support and all sorts of social |
| 1:26.5 | services as well as advocacy and communications to help people understand what this issue |
| 1:31.1 | is and why it matters. |
| 1:32.5 | You know, we often joke what would Hermione do, but I know that she'd be joining us in |
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