Gone til November: You Want Voting to End Oppression So You Won't Have To Featuring @iischristy

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iHartEricka

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🗓️ 6 November 2018

⏱️ 80 minutes

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"I know there's voter suppression but... "I know it won't change anything but... "Stop complaining and vote but... "Don't you dare sit at home and do nothing" Voting simply isn't a sufficient means to end systems of oppression because our political system remains invested in keeping power concentrated in the hands of a small few whom we elect to represent our interests every two to four years, often to our disappointment when they uphold the law of the land via racist, xenophobic, anti-immigrant, transphobic and homophobic policies and modest liberal reforms. So cut the shit and cast down your bucket... I mean your ballot. Support Danye Jones's family as they mourn and petition the police for a thorough investigation into his death: https://www.gofundme.com/in-memory-of-danye-jones "Voting Does Not Make a Difference" by ancestor W.E.B. Du Bois: https://www.thenation.com/article/i-wont-vote-2/ Christy Degallerie IG and Twitter: iischristy "Why the 'Hate U Give' is Not a Black Lives Matter Movie" by Patrisse Khan-Cullors and Melina Abdullah Voter Suppression in the US, implications on 11/6 midterm elections (I don't like title of article but it's comprehensive): https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-45986329 Referenced Reading: The Color of Law by Richard Rothstein LeanIn Initiative https://www.surveymonkey.com/mp/latina-equal-pay-day-2018/ Lyft using big lobby dollars to stop initiative to house homeless in SF http://www.sfexaminer.com/lyft-drops-100k-sf-tax-fund-housing-homeless/ Notes: Set it Off screenplay co-written by Kate Lanier and Takashi Bufford Episode Sponsored by You and the Pleasure Chest

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0:00.0	I shall not go to the polls.
0:02.0	I believe that democracy has so far disappeared in the United States that note two evils exist.
0:07.8	There's but one evil party with two names, and it will be elected despite all I can do or say.
0:13.8	This administration is dominated and directed by wealth and for the accumulation of wealth.
0:19.3	It runs smoothly like a well-organized industry because industry runs it for the accumulation of wealth. It runs smoothly like a well-organized industry because industry
0:22.9	runs it for the benefit of industry. Corporate wealth profits as never before. We turn over
0:29.3	the national resources to private profit and have few funds left for education, health, or housing.
0:35.2	This money comes from the very corporations which today are the government.
0:39.6	This and a real democracy would be enough to turn the party responsible out of power. Yet,
0:45.6	this we cannot do. I will be no party to it and that will make little difference. You will bravely
0:51.8	marks to the polls and that also will make no difference. Democracy is
0:56.1	dead in the United States, yet there is still nothing to replace real democracy.
1:02.3	We want to take a moment of silence for Dione Jones, who was lynched in St. Louis, Missouri,
1:09.1	and he's one of several Ferguson activists who have been murdered.
1:14.0	Definitely want to take some time after the moment of silence to get into action and lift this
1:19.8	story as it's not being lifted. It's not being talked about to donate to his mom and support him
1:26.6	in the ways that, and support his legacy and also just the people
1:31.1	who are surviving his life afterwards.
1:49.0	Refobeyed Step back, refocus. Step back.
1:51.0	Refocus.
1:52.0	Step back.
1:53.0	Refocus.
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