The B is back, reminiscing, + posing the timely question: "Should you break up with him for not having the same moral and political values as you?"

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Belén discusses the news of the week: SAG-AFTRA ending their strike by winning a tentative agreement, Ohio passing pro-choice and recreational cannabis initiatives, and Congress’ ill guided censure of Congresswoman Rashida Tlaib (MI-12).

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Articles cited in episode:

https://apnews.com/article/ohio-abortion-amendment-election-2023-fe3e06747b616507d8ca21ea26485270

https://www.axios.com/2023/11/08/ohio-abortion-law-vote-election-pass

https://abc6onyourside.com/newsletter-daily/ohio-voters-legalize-recreational-marijuana-whats-next-issue-2

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2023/11/8/who-is-rashida-tlaib-why-was-the-palestinian-american-lawmaker-censured

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This week, Belén goes in on influencer culture, takes a deep dive on Vanity Fair's latest Real Housewives of NY expose, and breaks down the historic victory the United Autoworkers Union won this week!

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Articles cited in episode:

Inside the Real Housewives Reckoning That’s Rocking Bravo by Anna Peele

A Historic Strike (And Win) for Autoworkers (New York Times' The Daily)

What the U.A.W. Won by John Cassidy

U.A.W. Says It Aims to Organize Nonunion Auto Plants by Neal Boudette

Reality Reckoning: Rachel Leviss (Part One), Just B with Bethenny Frankel

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Belén gets into myth busting the claim that President Biden wants to draft the girlies + chatting about the letter her and nearly 400 of her former Bernie 2020 colleagues sent to Senator Sanders this week, asking him to support a ceasefire now. You'll learn something new and have some laughs along the way. Happy listening! 💘🎧

UPDATE: since the recording of this podcast more staffers have signed onto the open letter and the total has reached nearly 400.

Sources:

Fact Check: Biden Drafting American Women Claim Is Baseless

NEARLY 300 BERNIE SANDERS ALUMNI CALL ON SENATOR TO BACK A CEASEFIRE IN GAZA

Open letter to Senator Sanders from former staffers

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Welcome our first ever guest: Azza Abuseif, Executive Director of CAIR-AZ! 🤎
Belén sits down with Azza to talk about her families’ immigrant experience coming to the US from Sudan, fighting Islamophobia in America, and how we can help the people of Palestine. 🇵🇸

Azza previously served as the State Director for NextGen America in Arizona. NextGen mobilizes youth to become civically engaged and vote in crucial elections that will help progress on important issues in America. She led one of the largest youth turnouts for a presidential election in AZ history.

Azza also serves as one of the co-chairs for the Phoenix Women’s March and is a highly respected figure in the immigrant rights and civic engagement landscape in the State of Arizona.

CAIR-AZ website: https://cair-az.org/

Template for Letters to Employers and Schools

CAIR-AZ Annual Banquet

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Resources:

Call + Write for Ceasefire Now!

What Can I do To Help Palestine?

What to Do Besides Scroll Social Media

Brand Boycott

Guide to Processing Humanitarian Crisis in Palestine

The 10 Stages of Genocide

Orgs to follow:

Jewish Voice for Peace

If Not Now

CAIR National

Let's Talk Palestine

Adalah Justice Project

Welcome to Pretty Serious with Belén Sisa! Pretty Serious will consist of one solo episode per week. On Fridays, I’ll talk about one pop culture topic and one political topic of the week that caught my attention and give you my progressive “pretty serious” point of view.

Since this week is our first episode I thought we’d start off by giving you a little bit of background into who I am, my story, and what brought me to create this podcast. Next week, we’ll kick off episode two with fresh weekly topics. So, let’s get into it! 

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