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Amped Up with Ryan Knight

Elizabeth McLaughlin Gets Amped Up with Proud Resister

Amped Up with Ryan Knight

Ryan Knight

News

3.4880 Ratings

🗓️ 26 June 2019

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Progressive activist Ryan Knight chats with Lights for Liberty Organizer Elizabeth McLaughlin.

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0:00.0

Welcome to Amped Up with Proud Resister.

0:12.3

This is progressive activist, Ryan Knight.

0:14.2

And I'm Chris LaVoy from the Stephanie Miller show.

0:17.3

And our guest today is the founder of the Gaia Project for Women's Leadership and the Organizer of Lights for Liberty, a worldwide vigil on July 12th to end human detention camps in the United States.

0:30.8

Elizabeth McLaughlin, welcome to Amped Up.

0:33.6

Thank you so much. It's a thrill to be here. And I have to say, it's not just me. We've got an

0:37.6

organizing team of about 15 amazing people, including frontline immigration activists and undocumented

0:43.6

folks, as well as the kind of bigger picture national organizing team. So I'm proud to be one of many

0:48.8

and not the only one. Absolutely. I saw that Invisible is on board this morning and Women's March yesterday.

0:57.3

Yeah, this has been an incredible whirlwind, and we're just so grateful for all of the support.

1:02.4

You know, I think that in the seven days now, it's seven days as of today that we launched the website.

1:08.8

We've just been heartened, I think, by how many folks out there have shared our outrage

1:14.1

and are willing to really take a strong stand against this administration and these atrocities

1:18.9

that are being perpetrated against migrant families.

1:22.9

So it's been an extraordinary run so far, and I just really hope that July 12th is the beginning

1:28.4

of, you know, some really serious change in this country about this issue and many others.

1:34.6

Absolutely.

1:35.2

You know, I wrote down some new stories, because since our last episode with Rosie, you know,

1:41.9

there's been even more atrocities committed against children. You know,

1:45.0

we're finding that new information every day. So I just want to read a couple things here and get

1:48.6

your reaction, Elizabeth. NBC News had a report yesterday. A hundred migrant children were moved out

1:56.0

of the Clint, Texas border facility, a facility described as appalling, and they have been moved back

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