We're not going back whether we are voting back home from Germany or walking to the polls in the States. Angela and Adrianne talk with Tonya of The Angry Black Woman based in Germany about her voting and activism guide. Pick up your copy today.

Get live help to register or request your overseas absentee ballot from Vote From Abroad.

#Vote2024 #werenotgoingback

We talk with Wisconsin voter Aaron who has lived in Australia for a spell. We break down the importance of voting and voting Blue for all the undecided voters out there.

Here is the link to the Project 2025 webinar Angela mentions: https://youtu.be/IqpWMH5nkPw?feature=shared

We also hear from Delroy Lindo in this episode.

Register/request your overseas absentee ballots NOW from Vote From Abroad.

If you have to return your ballot by mail (your State's rule) and you haven't received your ballot, you checked your spam folder, or you forgot to ask to get your ballot by email, go to Vote From Abroad and request your ballot to come by email.

If you requested for it to come by email and you don't have it vote a Federal Emergency Absentee Write-In Ballot FWAB now from FVAP.gov. You'll need to know who you're voting for so go to Ballotpedia and look up what's happening in your State.

#Vote2024 #WereNotGoingBack

6 of us were part of the Democrats Abroad delegation to the 2024 Democratic National Convention. 5 of us were delegates and one was on staff. For everyone, it was their first Convention except for Adrianne who is on her 5th consecutive Convention.

Listen to the reflections and Black Joy that is propelling us to the polls.

American overseas? Get your ballot sorted now at https://www.votefromabroad.org. Get live help there too.

#Vote2024 #overseasvoter #oversvoter #votefromabroad

Meet Terry Watkins a Theater Arts teacher in China and Missouri voter.

He joined the K Hive in 202 and has been Debunking MIstruths about Kamala Harris ever since.

Tune in to relearn what you thought you knew.

PROJECT 2025 is real. Learn more here.

VOTING PLAN

1. Verify that you are on the voting rolls, especially if you didn't vote in the Primaries.

2. If you are an American living outside of the US go to Vote From Abroad to get your overseas absentee ballot.

3. Vote early if possible and encourage others to do the same.

4. Share this plan with 5 other people.

#Vote2024 #overseasvoter #overseasvoters #votefromabroad #project2025

Based in Kenya, and among many other things, Robyn is an urban planner, policy advocate, and participatory engagement practitioner as the Asia Pacific Housing Forum Manager for Habitat for Humanity International. She is the Founding President of Women In Real Estate, and the Founding Chair of Democrats Abroad Kenya.

Her leadership provides community for like-minded Americans in Kenya. Find your place too: Kenya - Democrats Abroad. Americans overseas register and request ballots from Vote From Abroad. States, go to vote.gov.

#overseasvoter #overseasvoters #votefromabroad

*NOTE* This episode was recorded before the historical events on July 21, 2024!

You may remember Ben Cole from his appearances on this podcast in 2020. He lived in Germany then and lives in the Washington, DC area (affectionately known as the DMV to include those areas of Maryland and nearby).

He's here today to give us his perspective on life in his part of the US, life in academia as he works on his PhD, what drives him to the polls, and why black people should vote in 2024.

Go to https://www.votefromabroad.org to get your overseas ballot and register to vote.

#Vote2024

Meet Khary in South Africa and hear his perspective on how and why black men vote in US elections, moving people to the polls and more.

See what the Biden Administration is doing in your State: https://www.whitehouse.gov/invest/state-fact-sheets/

Register to vote and/or request your absentee ballot from: https://www.votefromabroad.org

#overseasvoters #vote2024

Angela and Adrianne are back with new and familiar guests, compelling reasons to vote even though you live outside of the US, and insight into what Black voters are experiencing and thinking on the ground in America, and around the world.

Tune in, share, and get yourself together to vote. Start at Vote From Abroad. If you are Stateside go to I Will Vote.

Vote From Abroad votefromabroad.org
I Will Vote iwillvote.com

#overseasvoter #overseasvoters #blackvoters #blackvotesmatter

Angela and Ben talk about the verdict in the Chauvin Trial.

Read the Statement by Angela Fobbs, Global Black Caucus Chair, and Julia Bryan, Democrats Abroad Global Chair: https://www.democratsabroad.org/justice_has_been_delivered

Take action now - contact your senators today and demand they support the George Floyd Justice in Policing Act:https://www.democratsabroad.org/support_the_george_floyd_justice_in_policing_act

Request your absentee ballot for the NJ and VA elections: https://www.votefromabroad.org/

Ben and Angela talk about the recent police killings and brutality on African Americans. Don't worry, it's not graphic. 

Here a few link on the subject:

Chicago Police Torture: Explained
https://theappeal.org/the-lab/explainers/chicago-police-torture-explained/

Speaking of trauma: the race talk, the gun violence talk, and the racialization of gun trauma
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41599-019-0320-z

Crime, Corruption and Cover-upsin the Chicago Police Department
https://pols.uic.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/273/2018/10/ac_policecorruptionb6e6.pdf

Mapping Police Violence
https://mappingpoliceviolence.org/

Behind the Police Podcast
https://www.iheart.com/podcast/1119-behind-the-police-63877803/

Headlong: Running from COPS Podcast
https://www.stitcher.com/show/running-from-cops-headlong-season-3