October 14, 2024 • 16 mins
Over the last decade, the extreme far right wing has peddled a distorted understanding of reality, and now we're in a place where a significant amount of the population are living in an alternative reality. We need to come together and rebuild community in our shared reality, before it's too late.
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Speaker 1 (00:11):
Good morning, peeps, and welcome to WOKATEP Daily with Meet
your Girl Danielle Moody back recording from the home Bunker, Folks.
I want to start off today's show with telling you
a little bit about where I was at the end
of last week. I took a trip out to California
for Reproductive Freedom for All's annual luncheon, and Reproductive Freedom
(00:39):
for All is the new name of the organization formerly
known as NAYRAU. And I have been someone who has
worked inside and around different movement spaces throughout my entire profession,
helping different organizations, whether they be LGBTQ focused, anti racist focused, abortion,
(01:06):
rep justice focused, and so on, so long as they
are focused on progressive issues. I have worked in a
number of capacities as a consultant to help advance progressive causes.
And I was invited to speak on a panel about
new media and progressivism. And when I arrived the night
(01:27):
before the luncheon where I was speaking, I had the
wonderful opportunity to meet Amanda Zerowski. Amanda Zerowski is the
lead plaintiff in a case against Texas for their atrocious,
deadly abortion ban. You heard Amanda's story most likely if
(01:50):
you were watching the Democratic National Convention, where reproductive freedom
was center stage throughout the entire event, but on one
particular night, the stories of women who almost died like
Amanda almost did because she was pregnant and was miscarrying
(02:14):
and the doctors waited until she was near death in
order to give her abortion care. Her story is horrific
and is something that should never happen inside of a
developed country, but her story is becoming the norm in America,
(02:38):
where we've heard of the two women black women who
died in Georgia because they did not receive the abortion
care that they needed, and they left their children and
families behind. Those children will grow up without mothers unnecessarily.
Amanda's story is center stage along with two other incredible women,
(03:05):
one of them who is also an OBGYN, who talk
about their harrowing experiences of horrific I don't even know
the word, but in a documentary called Zaraski v. Texas
that is currently doing the film festival circuit, these women
(03:25):
their stories are front and center. One woman who was
forced to carry a non viable fetus two term, only
to listen in anguish as that baby was born and
then would suffer a horrific, suffocating death four hours later.
(03:48):
This is what the overturning of Robi Wade has returned
America to a patchwork of protections for women and people
with uteruses. There was Ziaski. The tech Sis documentary is
executive produced by Hillary Clinton Academy Award winner Jennifer Lawrence,
(04:08):
and it can't find distribution because no distributor will touch it.
And so the documentarians, the filmmakers are taking this film
literally town by town, festival by festival, working really hard
to get it widely released before the election. This is
(04:34):
what censorship looks like. It isn't because the film isn't good.
It's winning awards. It's because it talks about abortion and
changes the narrative around abortion. You see, for too long,
we've allowed the right to literally write the story about
what kind of person seeks an abortion. They've made it
(04:57):
seem like it is women who just want to live
a free wheeling life and no family, no responsibilities, and
are just out there, you know, getting one abortion after
the other. The reality is that the women and people
with you verses that get abortions oftentimes already have children.
(05:18):
Oftentimes are having a horrific medical episode like a miscarriage,
like a non viable pregnancy, and they need to be treated.
And there are women like Chrissy Teagan, who, if he
followed her a couple of years ago, had announced her
(05:42):
pregnancy with her husband John Legend and then miscarried, And
what she would learn after the overturning of Rob Wade
was that what procedure was used on her to save
her life was an abortion. She didn't know it, and
(06:05):
a lot of women don't know it because the doctors
are and the health professionals are moving in a way
that they're doing everything at their disposal to save that
person's life so that they don't bleed out like the
two women in Georgia did. So this film and the
(06:25):
discussion that I had the great fortune to listen to
when I was out in California really opened my eyes
to the power of story and the necessity for story
at a time when there is just so much disinformation,
so many lies that are out there trying to distort
(06:49):
our understanding of reality. Because that's what the Republicans are doing.
At the end of the day. This is not just
like about telling little fibbs about croud size here and there.
This isn't just about you know, the AI deep fakes.
The ultimate goal is to actually shift and create and
construct an entirely different reality than the real world, and
(07:14):
we're seeing it with fifty percent of the population. So
when there are storytellers that are brave enough and subjects
like Amanda that are brave enough to want to tell
their stories, they deserve a fucking audience. But the distributors
are spineless, are narrow minded, are small, and don't understand
(07:39):
the gravity of the situation that we are in. Every
day that I turn on my microphone and computer, I
am reminded about the awesome responsibility that I have to
tell the truth to help navigate all of you through
a world that is becoming increasingly chaotic on purpose. I
(08:01):
can't express to you enough how important independent media is
at this time, and how its importance and its need
will increase over time. Our reality is being tested, our
reality is being upended, and if we don't ground ourselves
in truth, if we don't share important stories that we
(08:27):
know are true, we're going to get lost in the
tornado of lies. Just like the people who have just
suffered the tragedies of Hurricane Helene and Hurricane Milton, people
literally not receiving aid, choosing not to receive aid because
(08:48):
of the lies that Donald Trump and the Republican Party
are telling them that if you accept FEMA aid, they're
going to take your home, which is a bold face lie.
They are weaponizing tragedy and trauma people's deep fears for
their own political gain, and it isn't something to be
shrugged off anymore. On The Danielle Moody Show, which I
(09:08):
encourage you all to watch and subscribe to my YouTube channel.
The Danielle Moody Show is live Monday through Thursday on
YouTube five pm Eastern. I told people last week that
the Zariski film needs support. It needs donations. If you
head to the film Collaborative dot org, you can donate,
(09:32):
you can host a screening because we're going to have
to do this work from the grassroots because the powers
that be do not want these messages getting out. They
don't want women and people with uteruses to understand that
what is happening in these states right now, how Project
twenty twenty five is unfolding in places like Texas and
(09:55):
Florida and Alabama and Mississippi and Tennessee and throughout the country.
More than half of the country does not have abortion access.
They don't care about the life of the pregnant person
and our mortality rates for women, maternal mortality rates are
(10:16):
skyrocketing and will continue to do so. And for those
people who think that oh, I'm in a blue state
or I'm in a blue city inside of a red state,
are safe, you are not. We are hanging on by
a thread. So it is films like this one that
require our attention and require our amplification. And that is
(10:41):
why I ask folks, if you are liking these shows,
these episodes, I ask you to like them, to share them,
to post them, to get them out into your universe.
Because the more people we can connect with and encourage
(11:01):
to really actively participate, to listen, to have conversations, to
have the tough conversations. Because this is what I said
when I was on the panel. I was in a
ballroom full of majority white women, and I told them
very explicitly, fifty percent of white women are going to
still vote with Donald Trump in this election. These are
(11:24):
your family members, these are your colleagues, these are your friends,
These are the people that you sit on the pta with.
This is your walking buddy, and you have been told
not to have impolite conversations. Let's not make it uncomfortable.
Let's just keep things on the surface. Don't talk about politics,
don't talk about religion, don't talk about what matters, in
(11:47):
order just to save space, to save face, and to
create this false sense of a calm space. If we
don't have these hard conversations, if we do not broach them,
then we double down into our siloed camps, and we're
more susceptible to the lies that are spread because we
(12:11):
refuse to engage. The way that Donald Trump and Republicans
win is when we go into our separate corners and
decide to believe their narratives rather than engage with people
in real life. Our democracy thrives because of we the people,
(12:32):
not we the algorithm, not we the siloed, not we
the tribe, but we all the people. So we have
to get uncomfortable. And you know, as famed personal trainer
said Jillian Michaels, like, you have to get comfortable with
being uncomfortable if you want change. Change does not come
(12:54):
from your comfort zone. As so many personal trainers say
about personal and physical trendsransformation. The same is true about
political and spiritual transformation. It doesn't come from a safe space.
That's where the status quo lives. We must extend ourselves,
(13:16):
open our arms, open all the modes of communication to
get back to a place of community, collaboration and togetherness. Now,
I tell you all the time, like I believe that
a good amount of the population is fucking gone and
they are looney tunes and they are not coming back.
(13:36):
But if you know and love one of those people,
then don't pooh pooh them slowly try and bring them
back in to our shared reality. I watch and I
played this video on the Danielle Moody Show last week
of a woman that was being interviewed and literally saying
that the government was controlling the weather, that they were
(13:59):
seeding clouds to intensify storms because she heard that from
Marjorie Taylor Green, from Donald Trump and quote unquote reputable
Republican politicians seating the clouds. And people were commenting and
laughing and calling her stupid. And I said, this is
(14:23):
not the fringe. It was ten fifteen years ago. You
would have seen that story on the cover of the Inquirer.
That person would have been in an aluminum hat and
he would have been like, Ah, whatever, crackpot, this is
now fifty percent of the population. Folks. It didn't happen overnight.
It happened over a decade. It happened over by telling
(14:46):
people that there are facts and alternative facts. It happened
by telling people all no, the crowds were overwhelming, even
though you're seeing empty space at Trump's inauguration mass empty space.
It starts small and then it builds into a full blown,
fucking avalanche of lies, so much so that you don't
(15:10):
know which way is up. Right has become left, left
has become right, down has become up, up has become down,
and you're just absolutely disoriented and exhausted. That is the goal,
and to a certain extent, it is working, which means
that those of us who are still on Earth one
(15:34):
need to amplify, amplify, amplify the truth through our platforms,
through our conversations. We have got to rebuild community brick
by brick, because their goal is to tear us down,
so we have to be stronger than the lies that
they are spinning. I encourage all of you to head
(15:58):
over to the film collaborative, or to take a look
at the trailer, to take a look at the action
campaign for Zarawski. The Texas can host a screening between
now and the election. Do so. If you have the
treasure and the ability to donate, do so. Every dollar counts.
(16:23):
We need to spread the message that is it for
me today, Dear friends on Woke af AS always power
to the people and to all the people. Power, Get
woke and stay woke as fuck.
Good morning, peeps, and welcome to WOKATEP Daily with Meet
your Girl Danielle Moody back recording from the home Bunker, Folks.
I want to start off today's show with telling you
a little bit about where I was at the end
of last week. I took a trip out to California
for Reproductive Freedom for All's annual luncheon, and Reproductive Freedom
(00:39):
for All is the new name of the organization formerly
known as NAYRAU. And I have been someone who has
worked inside and around different movement spaces throughout my entire profession,
helping different organizations, whether they be LGBTQ focused, anti racist focused, abortion,
(01:06):
rep justice focused, and so on, so long as they
are focused on progressive issues. I have worked in a
number of capacities as a consultant to help advance progressive causes.
And I was invited to speak on a panel about
new media and progressivism. And when I arrived the night
(01:27):
before the luncheon where I was speaking, I had the
wonderful opportunity to meet Amanda Zerowski. Amanda Zerowski is the
lead plaintiff in a case against Texas for their atrocious,
deadly abortion ban. You heard Amanda's story most likely if
(01:50):
you were watching the Democratic National Convention, where reproductive freedom
was center stage throughout the entire event, but on one
particular night, the stories of women who almost died like
Amanda almost did because she was pregnant and was miscarrying
(02:14):
and the doctors waited until she was near death in
order to give her abortion care. Her story is horrific
and is something that should never happen inside of a
developed country, but her story is becoming the norm in America,
(02:38):
where we've heard of the two women black women who
died in Georgia because they did not receive the abortion
care that they needed, and they left their children and
families behind. Those children will grow up without mothers unnecessarily.
Amanda's story is center stage along with two other incredible women,
(03:05):
one of them who is also an OBGYN, who talk
about their harrowing experiences of horrific I don't even know
the word, but in a documentary called Zaraski v. Texas
that is currently doing the film festival circuit, these women
(03:25):
their stories are front and center. One woman who was
forced to carry a non viable fetus two term, only
to listen in anguish as that baby was born and
then would suffer a horrific, suffocating death four hours later.
(03:48):
This is what the overturning of Robi Wade has returned
America to a patchwork of protections for women and people
with uteruses. There was Ziaski. The tech Sis documentary is
executive produced by Hillary Clinton Academy Award winner Jennifer Lawrence,
(04:08):
and it can't find distribution because no distributor will touch it.
And so the documentarians, the filmmakers are taking this film
literally town by town, festival by festival, working really hard
to get it widely released before the election. This is
(04:34):
what censorship looks like. It isn't because the film isn't good.
It's winning awards. It's because it talks about abortion and
changes the narrative around abortion. You see, for too long,
we've allowed the right to literally write the story about
what kind of person seeks an abortion. They've made it
(04:57):
seem like it is women who just want to live
a free wheeling life and no family, no responsibilities, and
are just out there, you know, getting one abortion after
the other. The reality is that the women and people
with you verses that get abortions oftentimes already have children.
(05:18):
Oftentimes are having a horrific medical episode like a miscarriage,
like a non viable pregnancy, and they need to be treated.
And there are women like Chrissy Teagan, who, if he
followed her a couple of years ago, had announced her
(05:42):
pregnancy with her husband John Legend and then miscarried, And
what she would learn after the overturning of Rob Wade
was that what procedure was used on her to save
her life was an abortion. She didn't know it, and
(06:05):
a lot of women don't know it because the doctors
are and the health professionals are moving in a way
that they're doing everything at their disposal to save that
person's life so that they don't bleed out like the
two women in Georgia did. So this film and the
(06:25):
discussion that I had the great fortune to listen to
when I was out in California really opened my eyes
to the power of story and the necessity for story
at a time when there is just so much disinformation,
so many lies that are out there trying to distort
(06:49):
our understanding of reality. Because that's what the Republicans are doing.
At the end of the day. This is not just
like about telling little fibbs about croud size here and there.
This isn't just about you know, the AI deep fakes.
The ultimate goal is to actually shift and create and
construct an entirely different reality than the real world, and
(07:14):
we're seeing it with fifty percent of the population. So
when there are storytellers that are brave enough and subjects
like Amanda that are brave enough to want to tell
their stories, they deserve a fucking audience. But the distributors
are spineless, are narrow minded, are small, and don't understand
(07:39):
the gravity of the situation that we are in. Every
day that I turn on my microphone and computer, I
am reminded about the awesome responsibility that I have to
tell the truth to help navigate all of you through
a world that is becoming increasingly chaotic on purpose. I
(08:01):
can't express to you enough how important independent media is
at this time, and how its importance and its need
will increase over time. Our reality is being tested, our
reality is being upended, and if we don't ground ourselves
in truth, if we don't share important stories that we
(08:27):
know are true, we're going to get lost in the
tornado of lies. Just like the people who have just
suffered the tragedies of Hurricane Helene and Hurricane Milton, people
literally not receiving aid, choosing not to receive aid because
(08:48):
of the lies that Donald Trump and the Republican Party
are telling them that if you accept FEMA aid, they're
going to take your home, which is a bold face lie.
They are weaponizing tragedy and trauma people's deep fears for
their own political gain, and it isn't something to be
shrugged off anymore. On The Danielle Moody Show, which I
(09:08):
encourage you all to watch and subscribe to my YouTube channel.
The Danielle Moody Show is live Monday through Thursday on
YouTube five pm Eastern. I told people last week that
the Zariski film needs support. It needs donations. If you
head to the film Collaborative dot org, you can donate,
(09:32):
you can host a screening because we're going to have
to do this work from the grassroots because the powers
that be do not want these messages getting out. They
don't want women and people with uteruses to understand that
what is happening in these states right now, how Project
twenty twenty five is unfolding in places like Texas and
(09:55):
Florida and Alabama and Mississippi and Tennessee and throughout the country.
More than half of the country does not have abortion access.
They don't care about the life of the pregnant person
and our mortality rates for women, maternal mortality rates are
(10:16):
skyrocketing and will continue to do so. And for those
people who think that oh, I'm in a blue state
or I'm in a blue city inside of a red state,
are safe, you are not. We are hanging on by
a thread. So it is films like this one that
require our attention and require our amplification. And that is
(10:41):
why I ask folks, if you are liking these shows,
these episodes, I ask you to like them, to share them,
to post them, to get them out into your universe.
Because the more people we can connect with and encourage
(11:01):
to really actively participate, to listen, to have conversations, to
have the tough conversations. Because this is what I said
when I was on the panel. I was in a
ballroom full of majority white women, and I told them
very explicitly, fifty percent of white women are going to
still vote with Donald Trump in this election. These are
(11:24):
your family members, these are your colleagues, these are your friends,
These are the people that you sit on the pta with.
This is your walking buddy, and you have been told
not to have impolite conversations. Let's not make it uncomfortable.
Let's just keep things on the surface. Don't talk about politics,
don't talk about religion, don't talk about what matters, in
(11:47):
order just to save space, to save face, and to
create this false sense of a calm space. If we
don't have these hard conversations, if we do not broach them,
then we double down into our siloed camps, and we're
more susceptible to the lies that are spread because we
(12:11):
refuse to engage. The way that Donald Trump and Republicans
win is when we go into our separate corners and
decide to believe their narratives rather than engage with people
in real life. Our democracy thrives because of we the people,
(12:32):
not we the algorithm, not we the siloed, not we
the tribe, but we all the people. So we have
to get uncomfortable. And you know, as famed personal trainer
said Jillian Michaels, like, you have to get comfortable with
being uncomfortable if you want change. Change does not come
(12:54):
from your comfort zone. As so many personal trainers say
about personal and physical trendsransformation. The same is true about
political and spiritual transformation. It doesn't come from a safe space.
That's where the status quo lives. We must extend ourselves,
(13:16):
open our arms, open all the modes of communication to
get back to a place of community, collaboration and togetherness. Now,
I tell you all the time, like I believe that
a good amount of the population is fucking gone and
they are looney tunes and they are not coming back.
(13:36):
But if you know and love one of those people,
then don't pooh pooh them slowly try and bring them
back in to our shared reality. I watch and I
played this video on the Danielle Moody Show last week
of a woman that was being interviewed and literally saying
that the government was controlling the weather, that they were
(13:59):
seeding clouds to intensify storms because she heard that from
Marjorie Taylor Green, from Donald Trump and quote unquote reputable
Republican politicians seating the clouds. And people were commenting and
laughing and calling her stupid. And I said, this is
(14:23):
not the fringe. It was ten fifteen years ago. You
would have seen that story on the cover of the Inquirer.
That person would have been in an aluminum hat and
he would have been like, Ah, whatever, crackpot, this is
now fifty percent of the population. Folks. It didn't happen overnight.
It happened over a decade. It happened over by telling
(14:46):
people that there are facts and alternative facts. It happened
by telling people all no, the crowds were overwhelming, even
though you're seeing empty space at Trump's inauguration mass empty space.
It starts small and then it builds into a full blown,
fucking avalanche of lies, so much so that you don't
(15:10):
know which way is up. Right has become left, left
has become right, down has become up, up has become down,
and you're just absolutely disoriented and exhausted. That is the goal,
and to a certain extent, it is working, which means
that those of us who are still on Earth one
(15:34):
need to amplify, amplify, amplify the truth through our platforms,
through our conversations. We have got to rebuild community brick
by brick, because their goal is to tear us down,
so we have to be stronger than the lies that
they are spinning. I encourage all of you to head
(15:58):
over to the film collaborative, or to take a look
at the trailer, to take a look at the action
campaign for Zarawski. The Texas can host a screening between
now and the election. Do so. If you have the
treasure and the ability to donate, do so. Every dollar counts.
(16:23):
We need to spread the message that is it for
me today, Dear friends on Woke af AS always power
to the people and to all the people. Power, Get
woke and stay woke as fuck.
Host
Danielle Moodie
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