I'm My name Sharpe.

I am a direct activist, mutual aid organizer who's been doing it for 10 years and has been

involved in work from journalism to anti-police and ICE activism to mutual aid and

houselessness support cities up and down the West Coast.

Thank you so much.

My name is Alma Castro. I am the current co-chair of Sanpade SSA and I am a city city

counselor. Thank you so much. My name is Elena Ortiz and I'm from Oake Owinge and

Ogapogaogoinge.

I'm a member of Red Nation and a founding board member

of Red Media, which is an indigenous media project

designed by and for native people.

Which rules?

Yes, she's the real job to know.

So thank you with our relationship. thank you. So I will start.

Bradley is a big reason that we are here today.

This is a big reason that we are here today.

This is a function of the Santa Fe DSA book club, and we did read the Mome book and decided that we wanted to talk a little bit about direct action,

especially in these crazy times. What is the role? And I'm going to start with this question

for everyone. What is the role of direct action in creating change? So the role of direct action in creating change is actually to get us out of our comfort zones

and stand up for what we believe and not be performative and not be sitting in front of a computer

posting things and thinking that makes us activists being an

activist you know to paraphrase Jake Guevara like if you're not willing to

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