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Into the Mix

Season 3 Trailer: Let's get into it!

Into the Mix

Ben & Jerry's and Vox Creative

Documentary, Society & Culture

4.3537 Ratings

🗓️ 26 June 2024

⏱️ 3 minutes

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Summary

Into the Mix is all about joy and justice in action, and this season, Ben & Jerry’s is bringing you four multi-part stories that take you beyond the news headlines, and introduce you to the real people at the heart of some of today’s greatest fights for justice. Host Ashley C. Ford is taking you to meet activists who fought to shut down a notorious jail in St. Louis, a community rising up against the destruction of their health and home in a part of Louisiana dubbed Cancer Alley, and leaders protecting voting rights and inclusion efforts in the south.   Let’s get into it, beginning July 10th.

Transcript

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0:00.0

I started telling me, you don't go up against the industry.

0:05.4

I said, no, you don't.

0:07.4

I don't say, but watch me.

0:09.3

This season on Into the Mix, a Ben and Jerry's podcast about joy and justice produced with Vox creative.

0:16.9

Four stories that take you beyond the headlines and introduce you to the real people at the heart of some of today's greatest fights for justice.

0:25.6

From a group of activists who fought to empty a notoriously brutal St. Louis jail,

0:31.6

They asked me to be on the organizing team maybe six months after my senses had been vacated and was like, I noticed we're starting

0:38.9

a campaign to close the workhouse. Are you interested? And I was like, hell yeah. Hell yeah,

0:43.7

I'm interested. To the community rising up against the destruction of their health and home,

0:49.7

in a part of Louisiana dubbed Cancer Alley. I got other work to do.

0:54.5

We got other fish to fry.

0:56.0

We've got other bigger issues that's going on in St. James Perry

0:58.7

that we're going to overturn.

1:00.0

Every story, every person, every community we've had the good fortune of getting to know

1:08.0

has taught us over and over again that if we let it, joy always leads

1:15.0

us in the direction of something better. You know, it feels like it's really birthed in love for

1:21.9

community. Like deeper connections to our communities. If we could close this, like what also can we build together?

1:29.7

Renewed hope.

1:31.1

I was about to be so bitter about everything that was happening to me.

1:38.3

And I was like, no, I'm not going to give them that satisfaction of making me someone that I'm not.

1:48.8

And lasting justice.

1:50.8

You know, I'm going to still have my joy and my love for other people.

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