Change The Narrative with JD Fuller

Building Collective Power with Diana Barbadillo


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Di Barbadillo is a community organizer who works alongside Black Lives Matter LA, the Check the Sheriff Coalition, and the Philippines-US Solidarity Organization (PUSO SoCal). In addition, Di is an active Legal Observer and Co-President of the Executive Board for the National Lawyers Guild, Los Angeles. Di was born and raised in Los Angeles and is second-generation Filipina-American. She went to college at UCLA and law school at The University of the Pacific, McGeorge School of Law. In her free time, she likes to organize pop-up markets for local small businesses owned by people of color. She is a power house and we are so happy to have her on CTN with JD today

What You Will Hear:

  • Introduction
  • How Di’s education facilitated her activism
  • Di’s parent immigration experiences
  • Privilege vs opportunity
  • Second generation defined
  • Cultural student groups in college
  • Tension and change between the black and asian communities
  • White supremacy and proximity to whiteness
  • Unifying, bonding and solidarity across cultures
  • The phrase “Asian Hate” and why we should stop using it
  • Building collective power
  • Conversation and facing internal conflict
  • LAPD
  • Mental health


Quotes:

“When you realize how much you didn't learn, you are kinda wondering how much of the history you were taught was revisionist, and you realized it was probably all of it.”

“Capitalism is very much like white supremacists”

“I look at Gen Z and I see a lot more open-mindedness. I see a lot more young people fighting for ethnic studies and I think if we can make people understand that we're trying to solidify a bond that used to be there and that was broken apart at some point, we're not just building something new.”

“We are not free until black people are free.”

 “I takes conflict, cooperation, and solidarity moving together in different spaces.”

“Conflict is necessary. And conflict doesn't have to be a knock down, drag out, we're falling out, end all, be all like discussion.”


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