Washington Indivisible Podcast

Today, with 30 days to go before the election, we are expecting a dramatic increase in online disinformation, from both foreign and domestic actors—even within actual campaigns.

Shireen Mitchell has been fighting disinformation for over a decade. She is the founder of both Digital Sistas, the first organization dedicated to bringing women and girls of color online, as well as Stop Online Violence Against Women.

In 2018, she published a groundbreaking report showing that Russian ads in 2016 were created with the specific intent of suppressing the black vote. This year, she released a new report specifically defining digital voter suppression.

Shireen has been doing a series of online seminars with Washington Plus Indivisible and the Washington Indivisible (highly recommended):

REGISTER FOR WEBINAR THREE: 20 days till polls close: disinformation and digital voter suppression update.

Wednesday, October 14

1:30 PM PT

Register here: bit.ly/Fighting_Disinfo_3

WEBINAR ONE: Fighting Back Against Disinformation and Digital Voter Suppression: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VeTH_0tOO7M&feature=youtu.be

Slides: https://drive.google.com/file/d/11bujWNVEmwHsAO8tCMGc1MWiaapOjL4W/view

WEBINAR TWO: Deep dive: responding to disinformation and digital voter suppression: https://youtu.be/3WPxGr5q370

More info from Washington-Plus Indivisible:

https://medium.com/@IndiPlusWA/shireen-mitchell-on-fighting-back-against-disinformation-and-digital-voter-suppression-634b2a1a1424

As part of our town hall series in partnership with the Washington Indivisible Network and Indivisible Tacoma, we present an evening of conversation on education in the state of WA with Superintendent of Public Instruction, Chris Rake-doll.

This conversation was recorded live on the evening of Thursday, October 1st as part of a panel of current and aspiring officeholders here in the state. For the full conversation, go to soundcloud.com/wsip/sets.

As part of our town hall series in partnership with the Washington Indivisible Network and Indivisible Tacoma, we present an evening of conversation on education in the state of WA with LD 28 state senate candidate T’wina Nobles.

This conversation was recorded live on the evening of Thursday, October 1st as part of a panel of current and aspiring officeholders here in the state. For the full conversation, go to soundcloud.com/wsip/sets.

As part of our town hall series in partnership with the Washington Indivisible Network and Indivisible Tacoma, we present an evening of conversation on education in the state of WA with LD 25 candidate for representative Jamie Smith, and Pierce County Council candidate Jani Hitchen, both of whom are teachers.

This conversation was recorded live on the evening of Thursday, October 1st as part of a panel of current and aspiring officeholders here in the state. For the full conversation, go to soundcloud.com/wsip/sets.

As part of our town hall series in partnership with the Washington Indivisible Network and Indivisible Tacoma, we present an evening of conversation on education in the state of WA with LD 28 representative Mari Leavitt, who is running for reelection.

This conversation was recorded live on the evening of Thursday, October 1st as part of a panel of current and aspiring officeholders here in the state. For the full conversation, go to soundcloud.com/wsip/sets.

As part of our town hall series in partnership with the Washington Indivisible Network and Indivisible Tacoma, we present an evening of conversation on education in the state of WA with Beth Doglio, who is running for Congress in the 10th Congressional District.

This conversation was recorded live on the evening of Thursday, October 1st as part of a panel of current and aspiring officeholders here in the state.

For the full conversation, go to http://www.soundcloud.com/wsip/sets.

As part of our town hall series in partnership with the Washington Indivisible Network and Indivisible Tacoma, we present an evening of conversation on education in the state of Washington, with some of our most authoritative office-holders and aspiring office-holders. Over course of the evening, we touch on school safety during the pandemic, issues related to equity and access, funding needs, curriculum, and much more.

This conversation was recorded live on the evening of Thursday, October 1st, including:

CD 10 Congressional candidate Beth Doglio

LD 28 Representative Mari Leavitt

LD 25 candidate for Representative Jamie Smith

Pierce County Council candidate Jani Hitchen

LD 28 State Senate candidate T’wina Nobles

Superintendent of Public Instruction Chris Reykdal

With so much on the line for the state’s budget in the coming years, many are saying we need a different approach to funding not only the economic recovery, but also the transition to a green economy over the coming decades.

One of those voices is State Senator Bob Hasegawa (LD11), who is advocating for a public, or state, bank, which would change the way our state borrows, manages, and benefits from its finances.

Links:

Sen. Hasegawa's Town Hall on the Public Bank: facebook.com/events/449146242693474

MODEL RESOLUTION TO SUPPORT A STATE BANK OWNED BY AND FOR THE PEOPLE OF WASHINGTON STATE AND A POSSIBLE INITIATIVE TO THE PEOPLE

WHEREAS, the taxpayers of Washington state have demanded greater accountability and wiser use of the taxes they pay to benefit Washingtonians, not Wall Street; and

WHEREAS, a public depository bank owned by and for the people of Washington State (state bank) could meet those demands by using taxpayer dollars to re-invest in infrastructure, student loans, create jobs, increase access to capital for small businesses, absorb debt capacity, generate new revenue without raising taxes, avert long term debt payments and fees to Wall Street, and keep taxpayers’ dollars in Washington state, working for Washington State; and

WHEREAS, a state bank would streamline and create efficiencies of the State’s numerous existing revolving loan programs and leverage their capacity to work for the people of Washington State while lowering overhead and exercising efficiencies of scale, paying it’s own operating costs, and returning profits back to the state; and

WHEREAS, recent Washington State legislative sessions have exposed a serious lack of resources and bonding capacity to deal with the state’s overwhelming capital needs because of years of bouncing off our Constitutional debt limit, and that resource deficiency exists at all levels of government, which has led the Legislature to consider a publicly owned cooperative depository bank that allows political subdivisions to also participate in; and

WHEREAS, a state bank can grow in capacity to be an unparalleled resource for future generations of Washingtonians; and

WHEREAS, a successful model of public banking is the Bank of North Dakota, which was first established in 1919 and is controlled by the people of North Dakota for the benefit of the people and economy of North Dakota; and

WHEREAS, public banking is a bedrock of social and economic development in most other global economies like Germany, Japan, Brazil, Russia, India, England, and China; and

WHEREAS, one of a public bank’s greatest strengths is that it can invest counter-cyclical to the economy by leveraging our tax dollars and creating credit on it’s books in the form of loans to support needed economic development programs and jobs, and is in fact to only way our state can infuse money into our economy to bridge the economic crisis created by COVID-19; now, therefore, be it

RESOLVED, that (name of your organization) endorses creation of a publicly owned depository State Bank; and, be it further

RESOLVED, that in the event an initiative of the people should become a possibility, (name of your organization) should work with others to co-sponsor and pass such an initiative of the people for the purpose of creating a publicly owned depository state bank; and, be it finally

RESOLVED, that a copy of this resolution be transmitted to the Governor, House and Senate leadership, Senator Bob Hasegawa, and other civic minded stakeholders for further dissemination to, and education of, the general public.

As part of our town hall series in partnership with the Washington Indivisible Network and Indivisible Tacoma, we present an evening of conversation with two candidates running for state legislature in the 17th LD.

Tanisha Harris is running for representative in position one, and David Smith is a candidate for state senate.

This conversation was recorded live on the evening of Tuesday, September 22nd.

Links:

http://www.electtanisha.com

http://www.smithforsenate.org

As part of our town hall series in partnership with the Washington Indivisible Network and Indivisible Tacoma, we present a conversation with Washington Attorney General Bob Ferguson, who is running for re-election in November.

We talk about that status of some of his current legal actions against the Trump administration—to date he’s won 34 out of 35 lawsuits—and we get his thoughts on a number of hypotheticals concerning Trump and the November election.

This conversation was recorded live on the evening of Tuesday, September 15th.

Links:

http://www.bobferguson.com