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Our Body Politic

Georgia Politics: Voter Mobilization and A Democrat’s Journey to the GOP

Our Body Politic

Diaspora Farms, LLC

News Commentary, Documentary, Society & Culture, Government, News

4.8658 Ratings

🗓️ 22 September 2023

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Summary

We’re celebrating our third year anniversary at Our Body Politic! We started this journey covering the 2020 election, so let’s continue on that path by covering one of the states that will be key in the next election - Georgia. On this episode of Our Body Politic, host Farai Chideya, speaks with Kendra Davenport Cotton, CEO of the New Georgia Project about mobilizing voters in the peach state. Then Farai speaks with Georgia State Representative Mesha Mainor about her decision to switch parties and become the first Black Republican woman serving in the Georgia Assembly. We round out the show with a report by host Farai Chideya about the efforts by the Burning Man festival to diversify, straight from Burners of color.

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Hi, folks, we are so glad that you're listening to Our Body Politics.

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If you haven't yet, remember to follow this podcast on your podcaster of choice like Apple or Spotify or wherever you get your podcast.

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And if you have time, please leave us a review. It helps other listeners

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find us and we read them for your feedback. Here's what one of you had to say. More black and brown,

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queer and trans-politics 101, and it was super informative. I didn't realize all the insidious

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ways the state is trying to control.

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It runs along the same lines of eugenics. It's another public health and human rights issue,

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and I appreciate the visibility on this podcast. These episodes have been becoming such an

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important place for the development of politicization, and I hope you all continue to challenge

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and push us through this content.

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This is Our Body Politics. I'm Farai Chidea. Happy anniversary to us. It has been three years since we launched our show, and we couldn't have done any of this without you. Thank you so much. We started Our Body Politics covering the last presidential election, and now we're looking towards the next one, with voters in a key state, Georgia.

1:45.8

The New Georgia Project is on a mission to build power and increase civic participation in the Peach State.

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They meet voters where they're at, and nothing proves this more than a 2020 voter mobilization campaign,

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where they urge Georgians to get their booties to the polls.

2:00.2

Not sure which one to vote for?

2:02.3

Go to New Georgia Project.orgia.orgia.orgia to learn more about the candidates.

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It's easy.

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Get your booty to the poll.

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