There Should be No Billionaires: LA Progressive Publisher Sharon Kyle

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Jab La Talk fifteen eighty. What a perfect song walk
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on music. As Miles would say for our next guest,
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she is a powerhouse indeed, and I always love when
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she comes on the microphone with me. She's the publisher
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and editor of the Los Angeles Progressive. She's a jd.
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Former president of the Guild Law School, and she actually
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used to work. She used to do actual rocket science.
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She was a member of several spaceflight teams at NASA's
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Jet Propotion Laboratory. She was on the board of directors
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of the ac LU and is on the editorial board
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of The Blackcommentator dot com. Sharon Kyle, good.
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Morning, Good morning, Dominique. Howll you this morning?
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I'm blessed because you're here. How are you?
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I'm hanging in man, it's such a pleasure to be
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with you again this morning. You. Yeah, you're definitely a
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bright spot for me. When I know we're going to talk,
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I'm feeling good.
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Oh yeah, I'm glad to hear it. Well, people may
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not know because they've been hearing nothing but Left Coast Forum,
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Left Coast Forum, Left Coast Forum on this radio station.
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And of course we're teaming up with the LA Progressive
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this year to present it. But really, the Left Coast
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Forum is the brainchild of you and your husband, right.
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Well, yes, Well, we had gone to the Left Forum,
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which is a convening that occurs in New York City
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and it's been going on for I don't know a
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couple of decades, and Dick and I attended. We were
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invited by Professor Rick Wolf, who actually lives in New
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York and I'm originally from New York, and so we
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took a trip to New York went to the Left Forum,
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and we were just blown away by the number of classes, convenings,
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the keynote speakers. It was just such a positive experience.
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And I asked Rick. I said to Rick, I wish
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we had something like this in California, And he said, well,
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why don't you start one? And you know, before he
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said that, it hadn't occurred to me that that's what
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we could do. We could start one. So that's what
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we did. So that's what we did, and almost killed
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ourselves trying to pull this thing off. But for twenty
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and seventeen, twenty and eighteen, and two thousand and nineteen
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we were doing the Left Coast Forum, and at that
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time it was a three day convening. We had fifty
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planary sessions, three keynote speakers at each one. And it
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was in the two nineteen session that Dick, my husband,
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came down with cancer. Oh and thank god, you know
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he's cancer free now. But we had to take a
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break and then COVID hit us and we said, okay,
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we need to just stop this. But people have been
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asking us all the time, when are you guys going
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to do the left coast for him again? And then
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Tavis contacted us, and I was really surprised that kbla
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talk to teen eighty, was interested and willing, and Tavis
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just kind of jumped in with both feet, you know
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how he is.
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Yeah, when he sets his mind or something, here comes
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the tsunami. We're getting ready to do it.
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I'm not you, you are not joking, and yeah, it
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comes the tsunamis. So on October the twenty fifth, we
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opened the doors at nine o'clock. At nine point thirty,
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we'll have a welcome and then for the rest of
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the day we'll have a combination of keeote speakers, plannary
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sessions in the classroom. We have a whole series of documentaries.
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There will be food just really great, a great opportunity
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for activists, for academic to network.
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But go ahead, go ahead, I was.
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Right now, Oh boy, we need it. I mean, in
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a way, it's kind of being done for selfish reasons.
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I'm trying to maintain my uh sanity dominique. It's uh,
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it is just so overwhelming what's going on. And because
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we published The LA Progressive. When I say, we am
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talking about my husband and I and we are so
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blessed to have a bunch of people that provide us content.
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But we publish The LA Progressive every single day, and
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so it's impossible for me not to be immersed in
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what's going on in the world. There are times when
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I just want to close my doors, shut the blinds,
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and listen to music, and but I can't. I've got
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to get up every day and publish the LA's Aggressive.
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And you guys have been doing this. How long have
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you been publishing?
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Yeah? Yeah, we've been doing it for since March fourteenth,
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two thousand and eight. That was our first edition.
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Wow, so every single day every thousand and eight.
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Yeah, So you're more or less an expert.
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On everything, because if you read The LA Progressive you'll
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see they cover everything, and it's and you're reading all
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that stuff, you're editing all that stuff, you're putting it
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up in your in your publication.
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Yeah, we don't let anybody else. Wow, we don't let
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anybody else. It's just Sick and I and occasionally his
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daughter will will help us. But Dick is really the powerhouse.
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He gets up, so it's seven ten a m. And
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at six o'clock in the morning, he's up, and I'm like,
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please take the same bit another hour. He will. He
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is absolutely committed and he spends a good twelve hours
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every day. And what I do is I write, I edit,
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I do the search engine optimization. I do a lot
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of the you know we do. We have a podcast,
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and we have the YouTube. But what I've learned in
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all the eighteen years and the fifty thousand articles have
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shaped my understanding of politics and how our world works.
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And we're at a point in our history where I
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think there is no denying that white supremacy impacts everyone,
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not just black people, not just brown people. I think
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that there are a lot of white people, Asian people
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who would not like, who do not like what is
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being done by this administration. And they're being in pacted
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by it, and they're being impacted by white.
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Supremacy, and it's and I really feel like it's just
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the beginning as far as being impacted by it. Everyone
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makes much of fa fo, you know, mess around and
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find out what you voted for, blah blah blah. But
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I really feel like a lot of the impacts if
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we talk about the big so called Beautiful Bill, for example,
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the real trauma from that has not happened yet.
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That's right, Well, we don't. We don't feel it until
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it's it's in, it's gone into full action. We had
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a conversation and interview with with Martha Oh goodness, I'm
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forgetting her name and I and I shouldn't because she's
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leading one of our plannaries. She's a head of La Kre.
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I'll look it up. I don't know, Matha.
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Santana Chin and she was talking to us about how
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the Big Beautiful Bill, or what they're calling obb B,
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is having an impact on our healthcare. So many people
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know that medical is being reduced, but that has a
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rippling effect on everyone's health care. So, you know, people
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have a tendency to sort of look the other way
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if they think a change in policy is not going
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to directly impact them personally, but if they look a
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little further, so what's happening, for example, what's happening with
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medicare As we reduce medicare coverage for everyone else will
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become more expensive and less available because Medicaid was covering
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a lot of the financial and economic burden when it
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comes to the cost for all kinds of services and
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a lot of the services that are associated with hospitalization,
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with the kinds of things that the doctors purchase, the
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support services, nurses, their employment. It ripples in so many
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ways that the big beautiful bill is going to have
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a negative impact pretty much on everyone except the very wealthy.
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And why are they doing this to benefit very wealthy
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and to give them huge tax breaks?
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Yeah, that's just That's why I say. I think the
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impact is just beginning and folks are going to like
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it less and less. We're talking with Sharon Kyle, yet
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another reason why you should all be there on the
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twenty fifth of October, a week from Saturday, at trade
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Tech La trade Tech. It's free, but you got to register.
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Go to KBLA fifteen eighty dot com. You can register there.
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It's free, free, free, but we just want to know
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you're joining us. We'll continue our conversation. You're also invited in.
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You got to question the comment, Let's do it. Eight
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hundred and nine two fifteen eighty. We're unapologetically progressive KBLA doc.
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Fifteen eighty Me and Sharon Kyle, who is the publisher
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and editor of the LA Progressive. It's a daily publication.
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You can get it delivered right to your email box,
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reads really well on the phone, and it is a
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volunteer subscription. You can get it for free or you
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can support their work, which would be the better option.
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And it is just an incredible resource. You and your
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husband Dick Price. I didn't know you guys just did
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this single handedly. It's a huge undertaking. Thank you for
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doing that work. But you're also the creators of the
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Left Coast Forum here on the Left Coast, which is
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taking place on Saturday the twenty fifth. What can people
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expect when they show up this year?
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So I was just listening before you let me in
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on the call, and I could hear Tavis mentioning who's
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going to be there? So Mayor Karen Bass early in
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the morning is going to welcome all of us, but
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this isn't just a platform for electeds. We honor Mayor
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Bass and the LA Progressive and I stand in solidarity
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with UH with Mayor Bass during this difficult time and
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even before we have, the Trump administration have been very
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specific about attacking black women in leadership. I mean, if
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you if you look at what's happened with in New
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York and what's happening with Lisa Cook, who is a
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federal a Fed governor, it's the attacks are just He's unrelenting.
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So one of the things that you that you can
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expect is we're gonna start off with a welcome and
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Tavis will be welcoming us. But then we're gonna break away.
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And we have four classrooms that are open at LA
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Trade Tech. And the first thing at ten o'clock in
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the morning is we'll have the Empowerment Congress, which talks
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about the redistricting effort in California, the Proposition fifty. And
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that is essential that everyone in November votes. I'm sure
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everybody has received their ballots, they received their sample ballots.
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We cannot let this go because this is our one
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opportunity to check the Trump administration. And you know the
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Voting Rights Act, it's being considered to be permanently gutted.
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The United States Supreme Court is arguing this issue this week.
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So we've got to vote on this issue of redistricting.
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And so the Empowerment Congress is going to give us
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an hour lesson on the redistricting, what it means and
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how it helps to further empower us to begin to
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act like a democracy to these citizens and not to
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be subjects. We are treated as if we were subjects,
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and in some sense it seems as if we have
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accepted this being a subject and not a citizen. The
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Empowerment Congress is talking about you take the reins of democracy.
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This is yours. Our people paid for this. So that's
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one of the sessions. Then another session that's going on
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is housing as a human right. We need to stop
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looking at housing as something that it's optional. I mean,
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you go almost any place in Los Angeles County and
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you are going to see people who are unsheltered. This
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is unthinkable, unthinkable, men, women, children, unsheltered. Housing is a
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human right and we need to demand it that way.
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So that's at ten o'clock. We have twenty five different plenaries.
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Wow, that's a lot of opportunities to learn and show
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up and I think, you know it's important. Adrian Shropshire
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was saying yesterday on the show that we we have
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to walk away with concrete action steps and real networking
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so that we have these twenty five plenaries and then
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we keep it going.
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That's absolutely right. You know, Dominique, what I didn't know
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when we first started publishing The La Progressive. I didn't
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really have a clear analysis about how social change actually
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comes into play. I mean, direct action marching on the streets.
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That is essential, but that is not the panacea. That
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is one of the essential elements of change. Another essential
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element of change is legislation, writing of policy that is
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supportive of the people instead of the corporations. That's another essential.
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But we've got to change the minds of the people.
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That's one of the reasons I love that song wake
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Up Everybody, No More Sleeping? Is that Harold Melvin and
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the Blue Notes.
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Yeah, ye, there's another remake of it, but that was
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the original Harold Melvin and the Blue Notes, Yes.
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And Bluonos right. So that's one of my favorites, and
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my other one is Isley Brothers. When will there be
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a harvest for the world.
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Ah, Yeah, that's a great song.
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Yeah, it's a great song because it speaks to where
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we are. We live in a country that is really
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beyond measure, and yet there's just a small cadre of
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people who are controlling everything. This oligarchy. We call it
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a democracy, but it's not a democracy. We've got a
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small cadre of billionaires, which I don't believe that billionaires
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should even exist in a democracy. In a democracy where
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we the people make the decisions. When we decide that,
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oh well, we're going to allow one or two people
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to own everything get the greatest tax breaks while the
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rest of us struggle from day to day, we wouldn't
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make that decision.
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I mean, right now, it's even it's even consolidating more
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than what we've seen in the past. The fact, for example,
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that Larry Ellison, who is a billionaire as recently under
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his son's name, purchased Paramount sky whatever it is, sky Bite,
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sky Dance, and then they're they're controlling CBS, and now
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they're talking about buying Warner Brothers, which owns CNN, and
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they already have a controlling interest in TikTok.
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billionaire who also happens to be a pretty committed Zionist,
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is really problematic at this moment in history.
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in and just wipe them out. Tens of thousands of
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federal workers have lost their jobs. And now that we're
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in the settle shutdown, workers who in the past would
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have been furloughed and get there, you know, be compensated
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for their labor after the shutdown is over, Trump is
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considering making them work and never paying them. Now, to me,
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that's some constitutional that is slavery. But yeah, that hasn't
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been heard in the court, so that that if that
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hasn't that hasn't been challenged, And if that challenge goes
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to the courts, I imagine that it will go to
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the Supreme Court. It wouldn't surprise me if the Supreme
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courts it was fine.
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I mean, what are they not saying is fine? I'm
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I'm thinking my mind is on dual tracks. I know
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that a bunch of news agencies have walked out of
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the Pentagon, for example, today and yesterday because of the
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secretary of the former Fox and Friends Secretary of Defense
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saying that they have to they have to sign some
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kind of pledge to basically repeat Pentagon propaganda and not
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be independent journalists. Now, you know, if it was a
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bridge too far for CNN, that's pretty bad because these folks,
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they they acquiesced to a huge degree.
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Yeah, Yeah, they're they're turning in their dodges and packing
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up their desks, dozens of them, uh, leaving the Pentagon
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yesterday rather than agree to these restrictions on how they
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can do their work. I didn't realize that Fox was
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among them, but it's quite a lot. It's it's CNN,
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it's The Atlantic, it's The New York Times, CBS News, ABC,
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the Wall Street Journal, which is very conservative, the Associated Press.
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They're like, peace and we're out. We're not signing that pledge.
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That shows you how far towards fascism we have moved.
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It sure does. And then when they talk about the
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fascism playbook, it's it's almost as if the Trumpet administration
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has a fashion fascist playbook, and they're just checking off
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the box, going down the line, just you know, firing people,
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attacking universities, attacking journalists, which he started, not in the
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second administration, he actually started the attack on journalism during
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his first administration.
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Yeah, so these are all.
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Of the things that the fascist government does before they
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begin their deep oppression.
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Yeah, I see, I see what you're saying. I'm seeing
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this ap article. Then they quote a Fox News analyst
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who says what they're really doing. They want to spoon
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feed information to the journalists that would be their story.
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That's not journalists, lislm, says Jack Keene, retired US Army
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general and Fox News analysts. So, yeah, it's bad. If
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the Fox folks are walking out, we have a problem.
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I mean, this guy worked for Fox. Now they're trying
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to dictate what journalists can and cannot report about the Pentagon.
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We're talking with Sharon Kyle. I always love having access
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to her brain, and we're going to continue this conversation
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after news, Traffic and sports only right here. Daron Kyle
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is here. She's a jd. Juris doctorate. She knows a
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thing or two about a thing or two. After publishing
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the La Progressive every day. I didn't realize it was
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since two thousand and eight. That's a herculean feet you
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and your husband, Dick Price have been doing. You can
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go to La Progressive dot com to find out more.
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To sign up, you can go to KBLA fifteen eighty
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to register for the Left Coast Forum. I am genuinely
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excited about it, really looking forward to a great day.
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And I think it's so important that we, you know,
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just hang out with each other, spend some time. You
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said you felt overwhelmed. I feel like a lot of
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us do. And one of the ways to stay courageous
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is to have some fun, listen to some music, and
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opine a little bit together and strategize.
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That's right. And we're so grateful, Dominique that you have
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accepted al invitation to be involved. So you'll be there.
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And I haven't ironed out exactly your role in one
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of the planary sessions, but we actually welcome you to
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do whatever you want to do.
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Yeah, Thamas ironed it out like that, Yo, Thank you.
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You're very kind. You know how mister Smiley is. He's
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got me and doctor Nie Cordelai Corte doing the LGBTQ panel.
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So cool, so cool, and I understand. I think it's
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at two thirty. That's what I was told. We've got
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a stellar panel already booked. Me and me, you know,
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we don't play. Give us an assignment. Oh I love
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him and were the KBLA avengers over here. So it's
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going to be quite a great session. Really looking forward
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to it. But I'm looking forward to listening to other
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people's panels and plenaries and just rubbing elbows with everybody,
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including you and your husband. You're both so brilliant. So
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I just think it's going to be a great day,
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and I hope folks will we'll join us there.
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Well. One of the things that one of the panels
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that I'm going to be on, I'm both moderating and
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speaking on, is the panel that discusses racism on the left.
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And yeah, yeah, that one is so challenging for me
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because I'm kind of tiptoeing and and but want to
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be direct. I don't want to compromise the truth, but
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still want to maintain a nice civil conversation with the audience.
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But our problem is not just the extreme right wing
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white supremacist. Our promise goes beyond that, because the United
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States has been very deeply engaged in implementing white supremacy
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almost since before in colonial times, you know. And there's
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a through line that takes us from colonial times to
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now where race has been used as a wedge to
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prevent solidarity, where people who would naturally have alliances with
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each other and with naturally work together, they don't because
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of this schism that we have, and it's called race.
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I saw it a lot in the Bay Area. I
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see it here. There's some progressives who feel that automatically
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because they're hy tu that they should be the leaders
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in this space. Nope, it's not going down like that.
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It's one of the reasons I have such great respect
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for black for white people, for black lives, is they
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get that. Yes, they understand it.
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It's and they're not the only organization. I belong to
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an organization called Coming to the Table. And I don't
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know if we've ever talked about this on the show,
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but i'll just tell you this briefly. Coming to the
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Table as an organization that came about as a results
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of people searching their roots using third party applications like
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ancestry dot com twenty three and me. People begin to see,
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and specifically white people, that they had either some black
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DNA or they had found that they were the descendants
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of enslavers. And so coming to the table is a
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group of people who are either descendants of enslavers, descendants
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of people who were enslaved, Africans who were enslaved. That's
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the primary group. Is a national organization. They're chapters all
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over the country. We meet once a month and we
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talk about how to heal. We talk about reparations, how
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we can involve in, how we can weigh in on
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the various pieces of legislation across the nation to support reparations.
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why do we need to do this. We talk about
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ways to continue to see the legacy of slavery, both
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in the lives of the descendants of the enslaved and
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in the lives of the descendants of enslavers, how that
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has limited their lives, how the legacy continues to limit
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their lives. So one of the key people who's very
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active in coming to the table is going to be
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a speaker on my panel. She's a white woman and
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she is so well trained in the language of oppression,
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and how many of the enslavers, because of their cognitive dissonance,
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they shape the narrative that made it seem natural, okay,
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And it was just just a matter of well, this
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is how it's supposed to be. These people cannot run
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their own lives, and oh, by the way, we should
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benefit from their labor. They shouldn't benefit from their labor.
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We should. And that way of thinking has continued.
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Well, I see that throughout the left cooast form we're
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not shying away from the tough issues, the prickly politics.
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You're you know, racism on the left, Doctor Nie Cordelai
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Corte and I are doing from pride to protest. Has
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LGBTQ politics gone soft? So again we're we're moving beyond
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the raw raw rod and looking at what are the
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real issues we've got to confront so that we can
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move forward. Especially right now, I want to circle back
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to what you said about Prop fifty. I you know,
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I also support Prop fifty. I think it's important we've
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got to do something. We have to push back. But
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if the extreme Court does gut the Voting Rights Act
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further and basically legalize racism in Jerry mandering, will it
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even matter? Will Prop fifty make any difference when we're
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talking about if they can do that and redistrict all
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of these different states along racial lines, racist lines, doesn't
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that possibly give Republicans a permanent majority in the House
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of Representatives in our little five seats? Might mean nothing.
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That could happen temporarily, and all of these things. Even
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if we do well with the Proposition fifty campaign in California,
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although I'm hearing that it's not looking good again because
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people aren't turning out, they're not supporting it, and the
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opposition has thrown so much money at opposing this that
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people who don't have a depth of information are falling
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for the okie dope. But the thing that I want
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to impress upon the listeners is this is a band
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aid fix. Even though I support Proposition fifty. We've got
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to get much deeper into what does it mean to
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be a citizen to take control of your country, so
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that no matter what the Supreme Court did or does,
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it's going to be temporary because we can undo what
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they do. If the people would unite, we can undo it.
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Yeah. I think that's a really good point because that's
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part of the antidote to the discouragement right now, just
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like they overturned Roe v. Wade, we can undo what
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they're doing, and we're going to have to. And I
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feel like that they're overreaching so extremely right now that
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even though some folks might not be paying attention, eventually
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and eventually by eventually, I mean in twenty twenty six,
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it's going to be too much to bear and they're
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going to wake up and smell the coffee.
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do you see how many state initiatives immediately following that decision,
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so many states, even in the states that you wouldn't
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have expected, like in Kansas and in Missouri, women came
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out in droves demanding that their access to control their
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own bodies would not be taken over by the federal government. Yeah.
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So yeah, So in a way, I'm glad we're being impacted,
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and I'm hopeful that people will come out on October
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the twenty fifth to the LA Trade Tech, which by
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the way, is that four hundred West Washington Boulevard in
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Los Angeles all day October the twenty fifth, and it's free.
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I mean, you can't get any better. Than free. All
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you have to do is register at KBLA fifteen eighty
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dot com. It's free and you can come for part
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of it or come for all of it. And I'm
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going to be there for most of the day. I'm
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really looking forward to just seeing everybody hanging out and talking,
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talking between sessions, getting a little something to eat, and
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just having some fellowship and some intellectual I mean, this
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is a think tank Thursday, and I feel like the
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Left Coast Forum is like a crowd sourcing our think tank.
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Absolutely absolutely, you know. So really what changed me and
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and put me off this A few things in my
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life that fueled my passion. One thing is I'm a mom.
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I have a son and I have a daughter. And
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when I had my little my son was the first one.
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When I had my little baby boy, I didn't have
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a clue about what was happening in this country and
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how I was bringing him into a situation that really
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didn't support him. And I began to see that as
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he grew up. I remember when he was about thirteen
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years old and his little muscles started coming in and
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you know, he'd been walking down the street. You know
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how they go on totunity was likeing and and we'd
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be walking down the street, or I remember we went
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to a video store and he went to his side
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of the store and I went to my side of
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the store, and then he came to me later he said, Mommy,
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this white lady was standing by me and then she
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like clutched her purse. He said, why do they act
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like that? And that was like it just a little
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window open for me to see the future for my son.
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And that's one of the things that keeps me on fire.
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Yeah. Yeah, we're talking with Sharon Kyle. It's not too
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late to call if you want to say a thing
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about a thing. Next hour, we'll be talking with Cynthia
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Heard Mitchell. And of course I will be at the
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State of Black LA today at USC It's sold out,
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but you can see it on Univision or NB you
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go to their websites. They'll be streaming. I will be there,
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so I look forward to seeing you everywhere. Right now,
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we're right here on KBLA Talk fifteen eighty. Sharon Kyle
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is with me. She is the editor and publisher of
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the La Progressor and convener of the Left Coast Forum,
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which I will definitely be at some Doctor Cornell West
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will be at and many others Tavis Smiley. It's funny
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because doctor West loves to hang out. I'm sure he's
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not just going to be speaking and running. He always is,
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you know, talking with the people, taking pics and stuff.
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So that will be fun for folks too. And I
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know we have snacks and music.
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I think we certainly do. And it's an opportunity to
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start to build solidarity, and my hope is cross racial solidarity.
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I discovered a book recently. A friend of mine actually
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gave it to me as a gift, and the name
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of the book is The Nation That was by Kermit Roosevelt.
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And this talk of democracy, as if the United States
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was ever a democracy, it's a myth, and this book
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lays out why it's a myth. But we have so
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much potential, and this is what excites me. We have
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so much potential as a people. We have opportunities to
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build the kind of nation that we all and we
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have the resources to make it happen. You know. It's
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not like we're in a resource poor country.
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Yeah, that's for sure. It's just where we send our resource.
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As a great article in the LA Progressive right now
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about you know, warfare for Venezuela and welfare for Argentina.
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It's not that we don't have the money, it's where
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we decide to spend.
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It, and who decides. You see, we need to make
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those decisions. The people need to make those decisions. Congress
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things to make those decisions. But the rules of being flipped,
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and we need to flip them in the way that
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gives the people the power. That's the whole purpose of
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the Constitution.
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Yeah, and it's not too You don't think it's too late.
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You don't feel like we've gone too far, gone too
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far down the road of fascism.
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Absolutely not. As long as we have that Constitution and
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we read it and learn about it and then take
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that power in our own hands and exercise it, it
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is not too late.
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Yeah. I mean, it's interesting the judge has ordered the
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temporarily block the Trump administration from laying off thousands of
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federal workers right now during the shutdown, and that, you know,
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US District Judge Susan Ilston, she granted the request by
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these unions. It shows that some judges are still doing
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their jobs, still trying to stand up to this administration.
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But again, I always wonder will who will make them comply?
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Like attorneing on a John Fey says, this is the
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era of who gone check me boo?
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I never heard of that legal theory, but I like
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it absolutely. Yeah. But you know, education is the most
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important way for us to begin to use this power.
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I mean, there's so many of us who don't make
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the connection between neoliberal capitalism, militaryism, fascism, but they're all intertwined,
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and they're intertwined in a system that is ruled by
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a small cadre in oligachy, some quality plutocracy, but a
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small group of people making decisions that benefit their class
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and disadvantage everybody else.
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Yeah, that's a great point. I Actually Rachel Maddow was
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breaking down how the Treasury is Secretary of bessent has friends,
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billionaire friends that have invested all this money in the
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Argentinian pays and so it's really this whole move is
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really a bailout of some billionaire friends of the Treasury Secretary.
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This twenty billion or forty billion or whatever, we end
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up really sinking because they're not going to pay it back.
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That ain't going to happen.
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No, maybe they won't, but Oh, I don't even want
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to talk about modern monetary theory. That's something that we
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can talk about the next time. Oh we actually have Yeah,
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because we actually would, we actually have solutions.
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Okay, Yeah, Well there we go. We've set up the
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topic for our next show. But I don't want to
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let you leave today, Sharon Kyle without giving you the
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opportunity to say whatever we forgot to say about the
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Left Coast Forum and to personally invite all of the
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k Abla delegation to come through.
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Absolutely, you know, the Left Coast Forum is a labor
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of love. Like I said, my husband and I did
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it for years and other types of convenience because we
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believe that one of the keys to us having the
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kind of country that we want is educating the people.
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People need to understand that there is so much hope
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because we actually have so much power. So we encourage
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you to come to the Left Coast Forum at La
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Trade Tech, four hundred West Washington Boulevard on October the
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twenty fifth. The door is open at nine o'clock and
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we we have a welcome at nine point thirty and
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then the plenary sessions at ten and then keynote speakers
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and this goes on until seven thirty in the evening.
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Nice.
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So from six to seven thirty we have social time.
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That's great and you can unpack whatever happened at the
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No Kings rallies that you may have been attending and
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tell us how to support the work that you and
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your husband are doing. There at the LA Progressive.
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Well, like you've already said, we don't have a paywall.
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We want people to come to the La Progressive dot
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com or one word La Progressive dot com. You can
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read freely and we but you we encourage you to subscribe.
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We have a list of menu items at the top,
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and one of them I hardly ever talk about about glossary.
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I don't even know that you've taken a look at
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that dominate the glossars. So what the reason I started
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this glossary is I hate when people speak in a
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language that the average person doesn't understand. So we have
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a lot of academics who contribute their content, and many
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of them, you know PhDs. They often use language that
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I wouldn't necessarily use them my everyday language. So I
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have created a glossary any any word that you are
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unfamiliar with in an LA Progressive article. You're going to
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find a definition in that.
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Oh yeah, this is great. I need to just study this. Okay. Well,
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thank you so much, so so much, Sharon Kyle for
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all you do and for tapping in with me this morning.
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It's much appreciated.
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Thank you so much for having.
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Me Laprogressive dot com. I'm headed to the LA Urban
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League State of Black Los Angeles. Will be streaming on
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NBC and Univision, and next hour we are going to
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be talking with Cynthia Hurd Mitchell, who's the president and
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CEO of the LA Urban League. So it's a lot
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going on this morning. You might catch me on TV
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or at least on the streams for Univision in NBC.
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Certainly there will be a lot of great information there
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from the county about what is happening with black people
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in Los Angeles, and I fully expect to bring that
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information and an LA County's Ardy Department, which compiles this information,
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and I fully expect to bring all of it with
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me to the Left Coast Forum on October twenty fifth
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at Trade Tech with l A Progressive and k b
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l A Talk fifteen eighty right now, News, Traffic and Sports,
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and then more k b l A Talk fifteen eighty
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is only right here