Citizen the Pod

Citizen the Pod

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Citizen the Pod episodes

  • Merry Impeachmas!

    Citizens welcome Black with No Chaser to show! Host, Keina Zontel chops it up CJ and Cirilo about the lawsuit placed against the family of Trayvon Martin, the Kamala Harris double standard and Trump impeachment.

    Join the movement and subscribe to Citizen the Pod on all of your podcast platforms and follow Keina Zontel on Youtube, Facebook, Instagram and Twitter.

    Special thanks to Crews Control Media for the production and Danny Switchblade for the music.

    1 hr 26 min
  • Power, pot & poverty: CBCF ALC 2019

    Citizen the Pod taped its first live show during this years Congressional Black Caucus Foundation's Annual Legislative Conference in Washington D.C. . Keina Zontel was joined by Bear Clarke, owner of Bear's Vibes, and Taj Tashombe, Vice President of Government Affairs for Oakland Athletics. We discussed the cannabis industry, economic development strategies for communities of color and why it's important for young people to find creative ways to participate in these spaces.

    Join the movement and subscribe to Citizen the Pod on all of your podcast platforms and follow Keina Zontel on Youtube, Facebook, Instagram and Twitter.

    Special thanks to Crews Control Media for the production and Danny Switchblade for the music.

    50 min
  • The Squad is the standard

    On today's episode, host Keina Zontel chops it up with Instagram's, the Political Plug. We discuss the Squad, Trump's tweets & rhetoric towards these women of color and the candidates seeking the 2020 Democratic nomination for President.

    Join the movement and subscribe to Citizen the Pod on all of your podcast platforms and follow Keina Zontel on Youtube, Facebook, Instagram  & Twitter.

    Special thanks to Crews Control Media for production and Danny Switchblade for the music.

    46 min
  • Playing the long game

    Join host, Keina Zontel, and Jeralyn Cave and Denise Lieberman of the Advancement Project, as we discuss our unique opportunity to create political power, the long game of voter disenfranchisement and Democracy Rising- a study that focused on felony voter disenfranchisement and the issues that motivate millennial voters of color. If your interested in reading Democracy Rising, click the link  https://advancementproject.org/resources/democracyrising/. 

    Citizens we need your support. We need to ensure that New York State and any state that decides to legalize cannabis, passes legislation that will benefit communities of color in the following ways: address the disparities in the criminal justice system, invest in the communities most impacted by the war on drugs and make sure the process to enter the market legally does not shut POCs out, so go to www.smart-ny.com  to spread the message.

    Join the movement and subscribe to Citizen the Pod on all of your podcast platforms and follow Keina Zontel on Youtube, Facebook, Instagram  & Twitter.

    Special thanks to Crews Control Media for production and Danny Switchblade for the music.

    25 min
  • That's just too much like right!

    Join host, Keina Zontel,  Ekua Aidoo Mens, Equity and Inclusion Officer for Evergreen Health and Adrienne Garr, our resident social worker, as we discuss health equity, Senator Klobuchar's robust addiction and mental health platform, and 45's troubling foreign policy decisions.

    Citizens we need your support. We need to ensure that New York State and any state that decides to legalize cannabis, passes legislation that will benefit communities of color in the following ways: address the disparities in the criminal justice system, invest in the communities most impacted by the war on drugs and make sure the process to enter the market legally does not shut POCs out, so go to www.smart-ny.com  to spread the message.

    Join the movement and subscribe to Citizen the Pod on all of your podcast platforms and follow Keina Zontel on Youtube, Facebook, Instagram  & Twitter.

    Special thanks to Crews Control Media for production and Danny Switchblade for the music.

    41 min
  • Back to politics as normal?

    Join Keina Zontel and political strategist, Paul Hypolite, as we discuss the 2020 Democratic Presidential candidates, their viability and the new goals of the Democratic electorate.

    Citizens we need your support. We need to ensure that New York State and any state that decides to legalize cannabis, passes legislation that will benefit communities of color in the following ways: address the disparities in the criminal justice system, invest in the communities most impacted by the war on drugs and make sure the process to enter the market legally does not shut POCs out, so go to www.smart-ny.com  to spread the message.

    Join the movement and subscribe to Citizen the Pod on all of your podcast platforms and follow Keina Zontel on Youtube, Facebook, Instagram  & Twitter.

    Special thanks to Crews Control Media for production and Danny Switchblade for the music.


    46 min

About Citizen the Pod

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Change occurs from the bottom up and the goal of this show is to help you find ways to be apart of it. Instead of complaining and sitting on the sidelines, your going to join our conversation, get in…