OPERATION SAVE ABORTION | A Feminist Buzzkills Podcast Special Episode

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🗓️ 19 October 2024

⏱️ 42 minutes

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WE DID A THING! Get your ear holes ready for our must-listen training sesh, Operation Save Abortion: Ballot Initiatives! November's election is creeping up, and we want to make sure YOU are geared up to protect abortion wherever you are. We’ve rallied together an all-star trifecta of folks who put in the WORK for pro-abortion ballot initiative campaigns from two of the TEN states that have abortion on their ballot, PLUS a guest from a state whose abortion amendment won last year! You're about to get ALLLLL the tea from ballot initiative experts and abobo-loving activists about how the process works, the challenges they face, and – most importantly – how YOU can plug in to help no matter where you live! Who’s fighting the fight with us this week? Chris Love, Spokesperson from Arizona for Abortion Access, leads the conversation on all things ballot initiative in The Grand Canyon State. Kellie Copeland, Executive Director of Abortion Forward, representing Ohio, chats with us on their AMAZING win earlier this year and delivers hope for all of the ten abobo amendments on the November ballot. AND, Karen Middleton, President of Cobalt Advocates, drops her knowledge on what’s next for Coloradans for Protecting Reproductive Freedom. Times are heavy, but knowledge is power, y’all. We gotchu.

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0:00.0	Welcome to Feminist Buzz Kills. We have an awesome special audio and video episode called Operation
0:20.0	Ballad Initiative Edition. If you are fans of the pod, you know that Abortion Access Front
0:25.8	has a series called Operation Save Abortion.
0:28.4	That is a bunch of different training videos
0:30.9	to help you get activated in all the ways you can to protect reproductive
0:35.5	health rights and justice. You can go to Operation Save Abortion.com and see all of our previous
0:42.3	ones but today we really wanted to drill down and get all of you
0:48.7	activated when it comes to bout initiatives and so in this particular episode we're going to do just
0:55.7	that Moge. That's right we wanted to dedicate an entire episode to full-on
1:00.2	activism that motivates all of our buzz buzzkill listeners wherever you live to jump in
1:04.8	and help get these crucial abortion ballot initiatives passed.
1:08.5	That's right and we're going to be talking to an incredible panel of organizers who will share
1:11.9	their processes of getting ballot initiatives passed
1:14.6	and on the ballots in their states, the challenges they may have faced, why they're important in how you,
1:20.6	and we can't say this enough, can join in and help get them passed in these final weeks
1:24.6	before the election wherever you live.
1:29.5	So we have two states with active valid initiatives represented in these conversations, but there are 10 around the country and during our convo we'll touch on all of them so you can learn as much as possible.
1:41.2	We also have available activist toolkits
1:43.4	for all the states so you can have a guide
1:45.7	to help you choose your own activist adventure
1:48.2	and get to work.
1:49.6	That's right.
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