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The Breakdown with Shaun King

Ep. 341 - Do you live in Texas? Let's organize together!

The Breakdown with Shaun King

The North Star

News, Society & Culture

4.812.6K Ratings

🗓️ 16 October 2020

⏱️ 14 minutes

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Summary

The Grassroots Law Project is organizing a special community just for our work in Texas and we want you, and everybody you know in Texas, to join us. We're launching in 12 days and need YOU on board. ---- If you listen to The Breakdown and want to help support the work we do, consider becoming a member of our Patreon at www.patreon.com/thebreakdown for exclusive members perks and early access to content. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

Today I am excited and proud and ready to announce that in just 12 days we are launching a special organizing community just for those of you who live in Texas for the grassroots law project.

0:15.0

Nearly a million people in Texas

0:18.0

have participated in all of our campaigns

0:21.0

but now we're going to form an organizing community around it so we can fight

0:25.4

for justice, so we can fight for policy change, so we can fight for real accountability

0:31.4

together, but we need you to join us. Today here on the breakdown, I'm going to

0:35.6

unpack and explain what we're building. And if you know anybody who lives in Texas and wants to make the world a better place,

0:44.0

send them this episode and I'll unpack and explain it now.

0:47.4

This is Sean King, and you are listening to

0:49.8

The Breakdown. The breakdown.

0:54.0

The breakdown.

0:55.0

The breakdown.

0:57.0

The breakdown. The breakdown. One of the big ideas that I've tried to teach people over the past few years is that

1:10.0

all of the things that we're fighting against, mass incarceration, police brutality,

1:16.8

racial injustice, disparities on every level of this thing that we call the justice system or the criminal legal system,

1:27.0

all the different types of injustice that we fight against, the good news is that those things, as much as they feel like they are just inevitable,

1:39.6

like they are just a part of our fate as a country.

1:45.2

It's just, it is a racist, bigoted, white supremacist

1:50.4

driven place.

1:51.6

I understand that thinking.

1:54.0

And there is a thought process that just causes us sometimes to feel resigned to a reality that the level of injustice that we've been

2:07.2

seeing and experiencing for the past few years that it will never change that it

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