Episode 325 - JVP MVP (w/ Liv Kunins-Berkowitz & Jason Farbman)
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🗓️ 23 November 2023
⏱️ 58 minutes
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In this very special Thanksgiving episode, Liv Kunins-Berkowitz & Jason Farbman, two representatives for Jewish Voice for Peace, join to describe how they organized massive events at Grand Central Station, the Statue of Liberty, the Cannon Rotunda, and more, before discussing the crucial role Jewish voices are playing in the movement for Palestinian rights and the challenges that intra-group conversations about Zionism present --including over Thanksgiving dinner.
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Produced by Armand Aviram.
Theme by Nick Thorburn (@nickfromislands).
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| 0:00.0 | These are the most significant anti-war actions since Johnson in the late 60s with Vietnam. I mean, it's unbelievable what we're seeing. This is generational. It's huge. We have so many people. And I think, yes, we will grapple with questions. And some people we will lose, unfortunately. I don't think we're going to try to. But we're going to try to figure out how to keep those coalitions together on a principled basis. We're going to lose some, but we're going to emerge from this on the other side with vastly more people than we had before. I'm I am thrilled to be joined by two folks from Jewish Voice for Peace, including Liv |
| 0:59.3 | Kundens Berkowitz and Jason Farman. Welcome to you both. |
| 1:02.9 | Hey, thanks for having us. |
| 1:04.0 | Thank you. |
| 1:05.1 | Liv, what do you do with Jewish Voice for Peace? |
| 1:08.1 | I am the media coordinator for Jewish Voice for Peace. |
| 1:11.0 | So a lot of it has been how are we telling our story of the movement we're a part of |
| 1:15.6 | and sharing our call for C-Spyre with as many people as possible right now. |
| 1:20.7 | And Jason? |
| 1:22.0 | I'm the digital director, which means that I do the website and our team does the emails. |
| 1:26.6 | So really a lot of the digital actions that we've been doing, including the petition to Biden to Demand Seaspire, which now has well over a quarter million signatures. And then all the emails, we've just been getting a ton of interest. So trying to figure out how to keep everybody in the loop and keep everybody plugged in. So I'm sure most of the listeners don't need any introduction. but can you just walk us through some of your biggest actions if you want to call them that over the last five weeks where people might know you from? |
| 1:52.1 | Well, we began this month by shutting down the Capitol and we brought around 500 Jews to sit in the capital. We were led by rabbis who |
| 2:03.1 | are part of our rabbinical council at Jewish Voice for Peace. And they led us in singing and praying |
| 2:08.4 | and calling for ceasefire because we immediately knew we had to get our voices into the halls of power. |
| 2:14.5 | And yeah, we've just kept organizing from there all over the country. We've led |
| 2:18.8 | citizens in Grand Central Station, took over the Statue of Liberty, shut down the Oakland |
| 2:23.6 | Federal Building, occupied Hollywood Boulevard in L.A., staged a huge protest outside of the Israeli |
| 2:30.4 | consulate in Chicago, and then so many more actions that maybe haven't made national |
| 2:35.0 | news but are really transforming small communities all around the country. I mean, honestly, |
| 2:39.6 | it's been so impressive. It feels like if you were just to ask me based on the kind of media |
| 2:44.4 | impression you've been able to make and the sheer volume of people that you've been able to |
| 2:49.8 | call to various locations seemingly |
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