Solidarity & Resistance In A Year of Devastation

In The Thick

Futuro Media

News, Politics

4.9 • 1.9K Ratings

🗓️ 10 October 2024

⏱️ 39 minutes

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A year after Oct 7, 2023, Maria is joined by Palestinian-American activist Linda Sarsour and Rabbi Alissa Wise to talk about what this past year of unimaginable loss, rage, and resistance has meant for their communities, and how they are building towards a future of solidarity. They discuss the election, the mobilizing power of grief, and what it looks like to create a world in which every life is treated as sacred.

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0:00.0	Futuro.
0:10.0	Hey hey, what's up in the thick listener.
0:12.0	How you doing?
0:14.1	Today's gonna be a fascinating and special show
0:18.1	because we're entering the final countdown to the election,
0:21.2	but this is coming as we mark one year. the and the resulting year of unfathomable loss and grief in Palestine and in the world.
0:37.0	And so to help us make sense of this really difficult moment, I'm so warmed by these two people. First, somebody who I have such admiration for her,
0:46.8	her name is Linda Sarseur. You probably know who she is. She's a renowned author.
0:52.0	She's an activist. She's a renowned author, an activist, she's a Palestinian Brooklynite.
0:56.0	The name of her book is, We Are Not Here To Be Bystanders, a Memoir of Love and Resistance.
1:02.0	Linda Sarsour, thank you so much for joining us.
1:05.0	Thank you so much Maria for having me today.
1:07.0	Now that leads us into somebody who actually has been next to Linda in Love and Resistance, and that is author and activist Rabbi
1:15.7	Alyssa Wise.
1:17.4	She's a co-founder of rabbis for Ceasefire.
1:20.9	Welcome, Rabbi Elissa Elissa.
1:23.0	Thank you so much for having me. Linda and Rabbi Alissa, we come to our episode in a
1:44.0	profound global moment of grief, rage, reckoning it's a moment that marks the beginning of
1:46.3	Israel's war on Gaza.
1:48.2	Many experts in human rights monitors have called this a genocide after Hamas attacked Israel killing some 1,200 people
1:56.2	and taking about 250 hostages on October 7th, 2023. Israel then launched into a military assault, the scale of which has not been seen in recent memory in the region.
2:08.0	Now, the numbers are nothing short of staggering.
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