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325. BOLD - The Election Special
🕑 Added 2020-10-05 17:34:04 +0000 UTCContext note: This episode was recorded on Sep 19, 2020.
BOLD is a podcast about race and justice in America, and a collaboration between Small Beans and Showing Up For Racial Justice, produced by White People 4 Black Lives.
In this special Election Update, co-hosts Dahlia Ferlito and Ivette Alé discuss the impending vote, voter suppression, and how to make your voice heard in modern America.
Main Theme by Rachael Cantu and Melantopia.
Art by Michael Vincent Bramley.
Email the show! boldconversationspod@gmail.com
USEFUL LINKS
AWARE-LA (Alliance of White Anti-Racists Everywhere)
CURB (Californians United for a Responsible Budget)
LA County Sheriff under FBI investigation
- https://laist.com/2019/07/11/the_fbi_is_investigating_controversial_banditos_and_other_cliques_in_la_sheriffs_department.php
- https://www.kcrw.com/news/shows/greater-la/homeless-dijon-kizzee-art/lasd-max-huntsman
- https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2020-09-03/congressional-request-sheriff-gangs-investigation
Yes on Prop 17 – https://yeson17.vote
Democracy Needs Everyone report from Initiate Justice
No on Prop 20 – https://noprop20.vote
No on Prop 25 – https://stopprop25.com
Orgs opposing Prop 25:
- JusticeLA – justicelanow.org
- Dignity and Power Now – dignityandpowernow.org
- Human Rights Watch – hrw.org
- Silicon Valley De-Bug – siliconvalleydebug.org
- Essie Justice Group – essiejusticegroup.org
- La Defensa – ladefensa.org
Stop LAPD Spying Coalition – stoplapdspying.org
Reimagine LA - Yes on J – https://yesonj.reimagine.la
Jackie Lacey Must Go
Meet Your DA – meetyourda.org
Links to phone banking – https://www.awarela.org/takeaction
WP4BL – https://www.awarela.org/white-people-4-black-lives
Showing Up for Racial Justice (SURJ) – http://showingupforracialjustice.org/
Comments
Jake Emory
really interesting conversation! Perhaps through lack of effort on my part but I have found it hard to pinpoint exactly what "defund the police" means, so the topic of circumnavigating government and law enforcement departments and giving money straight to communities was enlightening!!
