Back from hiatus with the first of many conversations. Organizers with LIT take us through the newly released Youth Mandate for Presidential Candidates. The Youth Mandate was a collaborative effort of the Center for Popular Democracy and the Alliance for Educational Justice. Check out the  Youth Mandate here.

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Anoa is joined by two guests this episode. First up is Tina Vasquez an analyst and journalist with Rewire.News focusing on immigration. Tina recently wrote a piece, The Image America Shouldn't Need, examining the obsession with showing the picture of a deceased Oscar and his daughter Valeria as they tried to cross the border. Tina says that with all the reports and documented accounts of what is happening pictures such as that of Oscar and Valeria is completely unnecessary. Anoa and Tina also discuss a second piece about the challenges in the case of a young gender nonconforming asylum seeker Rene Lopez.

In the second segment, Anoa talked with Audia Jones who is running as a progressive candidate for Harris County DA in Texas. Learn more about Audia at her website and make sure to check out Audia on Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram!

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Anoa is joined by Nse Ufot, executive director of the New Georgia Project and New Georgia Project Action Fund and Aimee Castenell, communications director extraordinaire. The trio chop it up about the recent SCOTUS cases on gerrymandering and the census. Nse ties in the deep work happening in Georgia around voter engagement and fighting the ghost of Jim Crow with the Roberts' Court active dismantling of voting rights and civic engagement. Learn more about the New Georgia Project and the New Georgia Project Action Fund here.

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Just in time for the start of summer, Anoa sits down with Malaika Jabali on the first edition of Get Free Fridays! Each Friday across the summer we will have fresh conversations pushing the boundaries of the political conversation. Malaika talks about debunking Electability and organizing to win. Read Malaika's recent piece in In These Times "Sick of Hearing About Electability? It Will Take Organizing To Expand Our Political Imagination."

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Two in-depth conversations with two amazing women building better discourse and pushing necessary conversations in these crucial times. Audra Wilson brings a refreshing perspective to the work of the League of Women voters and how we need to engage and support a better informed electorate. Shannon Watts discussed redefining what it means and how to organize for the long term. Shannon highlights the importance of having clear action items for volunteers and lifting up local leaders. Check out the links to learn more and wear orange on June 7 for National Gun Violence Awareness Day.

League of Women Voters Illinois

League of Women Voters

Moms Demand Action

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Second episode discussing how Joe Biden is not for us, is like MAGA for liberals, and will not help us move forward. This conversation continues from the last episode on "context" around Biden's record.

LET’S NOT REWRITE HISTORY TO DEFEND JOE BIDEN’S RECORD OF CYNICAL DOG-WHISTLE POLITICS

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On this episode, Anoa is joined by Brian Sonenstein of Shadowproof and the Beyond Prisons podcast. Brian and Anoa discuss Joe Biden's rollout and the calls for "context" around his support for the 1994 Crime Bill. Anoa and Brian parse through the calls for context, providing actual context to the discussion. There is a racist subtext to the conversation. Positioning the conversation as an attack or undermining the effort underway prioritizes the feelings and needs of someone who spent his career supporting and advocating for some of the most draconian laws of the modern political era. Despite all the praise and supposedly "wokeness" achieved after 13th, too many liberals are willing to cast aside real opportunities for progress to slide back. There are several good articles that lay out the issues with Biden's criminal justice record. This doesn't even begin to address his issues across multiple other areas. Accountability and Justice is critical to many communities and that should not be set aside because a wealthy white man who is politically connected decides to run for president a fourth time.

More reading:

Blacks Relent on Crime Bill, But Not Without Bitterness

Experts Doubt Effectiveness Of Crime Bill

Joe Biden’s Role in ’90s Crime Law Could Haunt Any Presidential Bid

Don’t Run, Uncle Joe

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On this episode, Anoa opens with a reflection on the recent Youth Town halls on CNN and some highlights of the candidates responses. She next shifts to a conversation with Jessica Byrd founder of Three Point Strategies ahead of the She The People 2020 Presidential forum in Houston, TX. Jessica digs in on issues of electoral justice and accountability as well as what does it mean to build intentionally with movement. One of many conversations to come across this cycle.

Make sure to check out and support local candidates running for office this year in 2019!

Lisa Calderon - Denver, CO Mayor
Regina Williams-Preston - South Bend, IN Mayor
Tami Sawyer - Memphis, TN Mayor

Articles about Mayor Pete mentioned in intro:
Buttigieg's Police Issues Go Beyond Secret Tapes
'I ain't ever seen the dude' – residents of South Bend's poor neighborhoods say Democratic presidential hopeful Pete Buttigieg left them behind

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Anoa recaps the current state of Abortion advocacy in the opening introduction lifting up work done by Mississippi based activist Laurie Beatram Roberts and her work with the Mississippi Reproductive Freedom Fund.
Determined to waste taxpayer funds, Kentucky Governor Matt Bevin signed abortion bill already facing a lawsuit into law.

Amy Littlefield from Rewire.News talks about legal prohibition to abortion care for people in need in public hospitals. Amy walks us through issues in 11 states which severely restrict or outright prohibits the ability of people experiencing serious health concerns to receive safe abortions. The conversation expands to discuss the real threat to abortion and reproductive care by the severe restrictions being passed at the state level.

Bonus article "Southern Progressives Focus on Electoral Justice, Not Democratic Party"

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