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How to Survive the End of the World

election time with Linda Sarsour

How to Survive the End of the World

How to Survive the End of the World

Society & Culture

4.82K Ratings

🗓️ 22 August 2024

⏱️ 39 minutes

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0:00.0

Hello my loves. Welcome to the conversation. We're about to have Linda Sarsor come

0:12.2

come join us.

0:14.4

Really excited, actually, that she's going to be with us here.

0:18.4

Here she comes.

0:20.6

Hi, Linda.

0:21.5

Hello, my friend. How are you? A live breathing and grateful. A live

0:26.4

breathing and grateful. I'm really grateful to have you here. So Linda I'm

0:31.8

really grateful that you were down to this is kind of coming out of the blue, like most these conversations have been, but basically after 10 plus months of this round of organizing around Palestine

0:46.7

and trying to stop this genocide.

0:49.2

As election season was approaching I started freaking out and being like how do we hold the two things that we need to hold right now of having an anti-fascist block and also not setting aside our anti-genocide work and setting aside Palestine but feeling like how do we hold it actually in the center of things.

1:09.0

And I think actually already that organizing has had a lot of influence on this election,

1:15.8

whether that's being acknowledged or not acknowledged.

1:19.3

But I brought a bunch of people on to have conversations to just help me ground myself and understand the

1:26.6

moves to me made.

1:28.8

And as we were talking, you know, you're someone who I have looked up to and I've learned a lot from and I have witnessed you walking this line in public and holding this space for your people and holding the space for your people being multitudinous.

1:44.2

So I'm really grateful.

1:46.0

I was just like, wait, why don't you come?

1:47.6

I mean, if you can, can you come talk to me and you said yes immediately?

1:50.8

So I'm really grateful.

1:51.7

I was honored my friend. I'm really honored, so I'm really grateful. I was I was really grateful. You know we're just going to talk

1:56.4

the goal of this is not to tell anyone necessarily what to do but just to get more

2:01.1

ground and have more space to just think as people right now. So the first thing I just want to ask you is how are you? Like, how are you? I know you're in Chicago at the DNC right now.

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