Rosa Clemente on Puerto Rico, Me Too and Hip Hop
In The Thick
Futuro Media
4.9 • 1.9K Ratings
🗓️ 20 July 2018
⏱️ 22 minutes
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Summary
She was the first Latina to run for vice president with the Green Party in 2008, but Rosa Clemente has long been organizing for political and social change. Maria and Julio talk to Rosa about her organizing work, the rap industrial complex and her independent reporting on the aftermath of Hurricane Maria in Puerto Rico. Want to read/watch more?
- Rosa talks to Rolling Stone about why she didn't participate in the Puerto Rican Day Parade.
- Watch the mini-doc Puerto Rising, made by Rosa's collective PR On The Map.
- Watch the full video referenced in the episode where Rosa explains her experience of sexual abuse.For information regarding your data privacy, visit acast.com/privacy
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, welcome to In The Thick This is a podcast about politics, race, and culture from a POC perspective. I am Maria Inohosa. |
| 0:08.0 | And I am Julio Riccalo Barela. Today we have a special guest joining us all the way from whoa so far away in |
| 0:17.2 | Albany New York State is Rosce Clemente she's a longtime community organizer and she's the first ever Black Puerto Rican Afro Latina to run for Vice President of the United States of America. |
| 0:30.0 | She did this with the Green Party. |
| 0:32.0 | Hey Rosa, welcome to The thick. |
| 0:34.0 | Hi, thank you for having me. |
| 0:36.0 | So Rosa, anybody who's kind of been around in Latino political circles, |
| 0:40.0 | people of color, coalition, New York and national activism I mean you've been like an activist for a long time |
| 0:49.7 | You've been super outspoken in regards to Me Too and Times Up and you've said that women |
| 0:56.3 | across race and class and even celebrities since yo you attended the Golden Globes |
| 1:02.1 | with like serious Hollywood actresses, you basically |
| 1:05.5 | say that women have a shared interest and empowerment in this moment of Me Too and Times Up. |
| 1:12.4 | Not everybody kind of agrees. So what does this |
| 1:15.2 | moment of Me Too and Times Up mean for you as a long time Latina activist, political activists in the United States of America. |
| 1:24.4 | Well, what's going on with Times Up and Me Too are two very different things. |
| 1:29.6 | Me Too and the work that Torontoana Burke has been doing for over 20 years herself and many of us women in the hip-hop generation |
| 1:38.4 | when Toronto was beginning to talk about how we survive sexual violence and abuse. |
| 1:45.0 | You know, she was talking about survivors and the Me Too movement is about the survivors and how they survive and encounter violence and how they thrive from that. |
| 1:54.8 | Times Up is a very specific Hollywood-orientated collective that is a legal defense |
| 2:01.7 | fund now, right? |
| 2:02.7 | So me going to the Golden Globes this past January |
| 2:06.5 | with seven other kick-ass organizing women |
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