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M Train: Cyborgs, Activism, and the Muslim Vote (Live! from Brooklyn)

See Something Say Something

Ahmed Ali Akbar

Society & Culture, Religion & Spirituality

4.8550 Ratings

🗓️ 27 February 2020

⏱️ 45 minutes

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Summary

We're coming to you live! For the second episode of M-Train —the new six-part miniseries from See Something, Say Something and BRIC Radio — we hosted a panel discussion at the BRIC Ballroom centered on Muslims in politics. Our guests for the night were Shahana Hanif, New York City Council Candidate, Sadaf Jaffer, Mayor of Montgomery County in New Jersey (and first Muslim woman elected mayor in America), and Mohammad Missouri, Executive Director of JetPAC.  We talked about the Muslim bloc swinging leftwards, confronting Islamophobic trolls who live in your communities, and the challenges of representing a group as diverse as American Muslims.

 

M Train is released bi-weekly and each episode focuses on the New York City metro area and the stories of American Muslims that can be found on and off the subway.

 

Learn more about New York City Council Candidate Shahana Hanif here: https://shahanafrombk.com/

Learn more about Mayor Sadaf Jaffer here: https://www.sadafjaffer.com/

Learn more about Jet-PAC and Muhammad's work here: https://www.jet-pac.com/about-us/

 

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Follow our Producer Shirin @Shebe86. 

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This miniseries was made with the generous help of the Doris Duke Foundation for Islamic Arts Building Bridges Program. You can learn about their mission here: https://www.ddcf.org/what-we-fund/building-bridges/

This episode featured music composed by Myra Al-Rahim and from Freesound. 

For more information on this and all BRIC Radio podcasts, visit www.bricartsmedia.org/radio.

SSSS is on Patreon. Find us at patreon.com/ahmedaliakbar. Thanks to our patrons for supporting the show.

Transcript

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0:00.0

Ladies and gentlemen, this is an important message from the New York City Police Department.

0:06.7

If you see a suspicious package or activity on the platform or train, do not keep it to yourself.

0:12.6

Stand clear of the closing doors, please.

0:19.8

Hey everyone, I'm Amadella Yucper, and this is M-Train, a podcast miniseries by See Something, Say Something, and brick radio.

0:27.1

The series focuses on New York City and features Muslim stories from around the metro area.

0:32.3

For episode two, we're bringing you our live show debut from January.

0:39.6

So, the panel kind of focuses on this current Muslim political moment.

0:44.3

You know, we have Ilhan Omar and Rashida Talaib.

0:46.3

But on our panel, we have a mayor, we have a city council candidate, we have a political

0:50.5

consultant.

0:51.8

And, you know, some interesting things have definitely happened since

0:54.8

this panel was recorded. For instance, there was this story coming out of the Iowa caucuses

0:59.7

that Bernie Sanders had registered five new mosques as primary sites, and they almost exclusively

1:06.3

went to him, or at least in a dominating fashion. And, you know, Super Tuesday is coming up in a week, so we'll see how things go.

1:13.7

But for now, just take a listen to this live show from January.

1:17.2

Before we go on, we did say that this episode was going to be a episode about Caribbean food,

1:21.3

but due to a production staff, that episode has been delayed a little.

1:25.6

Also, there's some issues with the microphones in the live show.

1:28.6

Please excuse any audio quality issues.

1:40.0

Hello, everyone.

1:41.8

I'm Amadale-Yukper, and this is See Something Something Say Something's M train live miniseries from Brick House in downtown Brooklyn. Give it up for Brick.

1:53.6

So this week we're showing the world the first live glimpse of this collaboration between See Something and Brick.

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