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In episode six, Tiffany is joined by Wisdom Cole. Wisdom O. Cole is the National Director of the NAACP Youth & College Division. In this role, he serves more than 700 youth councils, high school chapters, and college chapters actively involved in the fight for civil rights. Wisdom brings extensive experience in civil rights advocacy training institute, electoral action training, grassroots organizing, issues toolkits, and webinars at the local, state, and national level.

Timestamps:

18:00- Power In the black church

16:00-Organizing The Black Voters

29:00- Would Wisdom Ever Run For Office?

32:00- Student Loan Debt Cancellation

40:00- Tiffany Gives Wisdom His Flowers

45:00 Tip Of The Week

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In episode five, Tiffany is joined by Elise Joshi. Elise Joshi is a 20-year-old organizer and student at UC Berkeley. During her time as Strategy Director, she facilitated and led Gen-Z for Change's labor actions by working with coders, content creators, and labor unions. Elise also has her own platform of over 115,000 followers on TikTok where she mobilizes her followers to vote and take action in labor, climate, and health.

Timestamps:

5:00- How Elise Got Started As An Organizer

10:00-How To Build Relationships Digitally

21:00-Exposing Fake Abortion Clinics

32:00- Chase Impact Not Virality

45:00- A Moment In HistoryConnect with us on social media

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In episode four, Tiffany is joined by Courtland Cox, Chair of the SNCC Legacy Project. Cortland explains what the SNCC legacy project is and why it's so important for us to know our history. The duo discuss police brutality, student loan debt, inflation, and the Maga crowd fighting for what we fought against in the 60ths. The duo also have an in depth conversation about what role the elders play in the movement. To close us out, Courtland stresses how we can get involved in politics.

Timestamps:

3:00- Listener Review

15:00- SNCC Legacy Project

25:00- Police brutality

37:00 -We have to continue the fight

45:00- SNCC making Tiffany comfortable

49:00- Joe Biden running for reelection

59:00-How Tiffany and Courtland met

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In episode three, Tiffany is joined by author, Deepa Iyer .Deepa Iyer is a South Asian American writer, lawyer, strategist, facilitator, and activist. She is also the Senior Director of Strategic Initiatives and the host of "The Solidarity is this podcast". Tiffany and Deepa talk about Deepa's book "Social Change Now" and the roles that we play in the change ecosystem. The duo goes into detail about the social change ecosystem and how we can use this book to pick our roles, organize, and make change.

00:01:43- Listener Review

00:03:20-Snippet from Deepa's Book

00:10:46- Deepa shares what made her right her book

00:15:30- What's Your Role in Social change?

00:19:00- Deepa Explains What an ecosystem is

00:28:00- How to go from an idea to a movement?

00:34:00- How To Deal With Imposter syndrome

00:42:40- Give People Space To Find A New Role

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Welcome to the second episode of How We Get Free Podcast! Tiffany is joined by her close friend Keron Blair. Keron starts by sharing the story of how he got started in organizing and why he always says yes! Keron also describes the gaps that he's seeing in the organizing movement and describes his definition of a "movement". The duo breaks down the word "movement" and if you can actually build a movement or just support one.

Keron Blair is the Chief of Field and Organizing at the New Georgia Project, and Jamaican immigrant based out of Atlanta, GA and advisor to many social change organizations on the state wide level.

Timestamps

00:00:35: Listener Review

00:06:00:Kiran's Time At Howard

00:14:05: Keron wanted to be a pastor, a lawyer, a trade unionist

00:17:00: What are the gaps in the movement

00:23:00: How to scale up organizing through technology

00:26:00:Can you have a movement without organization

00:33:00: Can movements be successful?

00:25:00: What's the difference between a movement or a campaign?

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Welcome to the first episode of How We Get Free Podcast!

In this episode, Tiffany talks about the book she's reading "Long Walk To Freedom" and spills some major tea on Nelson Mandela that we didn't know before! Then, Tiffany takes the time to introduce herself and explains how she got her start in organizing.

She also shares that her most memorable campaign is working with Julius Jones and encourages us to vote to support people who are wrongly imprisoned.

Timestamps

1:25- Tiffany Introduces Herself

3:44- Nelson Mandela Was Pro Violence

8:50- Tiffany Shows Love To The Early Supporters

13:55- Tiffany Shares How She Started Organizing.

16:40-Tiffany's Most Memorable Campaign Is Helping Julius Jones

20:40- Tiffany Finds Her Family Through Organizing

24:00- Tiffany's Book Recommendation This Week is "Long Walk To Freedom"

A Long Walk To Freedom

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Welcome to the How We Get Free Podcast, I am your host Tiffany Dena Loftin, Im a black woman living Los Angeles California and over the last 16 years I've organized black and brown people across the globe in their fight for racial and economic justice. I've been a lead organizer in the fight for student loan debt cancellation, the ongoing fight to end police brutality, and I've turned out over 100,000 voters throughout my career.

Weekly I will be speaking directly with the most brilliant Freedom Fighters across the globe where they will be sharing the blueprint on how you can make a difference in your community because where do Freedom Fighters like us go to learn from each other?

Don't miss an episode – Make sure you're subscribed anywhere where you can listen to podcasts. Follow me @tiffanydloftin and follow the show @ howwegetfreepod. It would help me and our community of freedom fighters to grow this show if you left a rate and review on apple podcast of 5 stars. Thank you for your love and support and LETS GET FREE.