The Sound of Black and Brown

What should white people do?

Should we still care about what is happening in Florida? And what does anything happening in Florida have to do with climate change? Speaking at an oil rig site on Wednesday in Midland, Texas, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis unveiled his energy plan for the U.S. if he is elected president, saying he would focus on building up American "dominance" while seeking to undo the policies of President Joe Biden's administration.According to the Time magazine “Florida is a bellwether for the rest of the nation; the surge water rise that besets Miami today will, soon enough, beset states ranging from California to New York. The state, of necessity, should be a leader in U.S. climate resiliency. But rather than acknowledge a crisis and build out a holistic approach to climate change, Florida, led by Governor Ron DeSantis, denies the urgency and applies a hodge-podge of contradictory initiatives designed for short-term applause.” #PoorPeopleFedUp #Racism#SystemicRacism #CivilRights #WhitePrivilege #NoJusticeNoPeace #FacingRacism #BlatantRacism #NormalizedRacism
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Get involved in climate action, check these out:
Petition to key legislators to move the CT Environmental Rights Amendment forward in the 2024 legislative session: https://actionnetwork.org/petitions/we-want-our-right-to-a-healthy-environment-in-the-ct-constitution
Oct. 4, 3:00 pm. National Zoom with distinguished legal panel: "Securing Climate Justice Through Green Amendments: the Held v. Montana victory & what it means for the nationwide movement” Register here: https://us06web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_ErwDsWYlSiK_MLzVP6Dc7Q#/registration
Oct. 22, 7 pm. Zoom Forum: “The Farm Bill Affects All of Us and the Issues We Care About” Confirmed guest panelists Robert Chang, Policy Director of the Northeast Farmers of Color Land Trust and an organic farmer at Echo Farm in Woodstock, CT and MC Whelan, coordinator of New CT Farmers Alliance.
Build intersectional and international solidarity with auto workers (some UAW locals are now on strike) and activists fighting environmental racism on September 28 at 7 p.m.: Marcie Pedraza, Environmental Activist and UAW auto worker will be speaking with Luiz Carlos Prates, a union leader and auto worker from Brazil and others about the international struggle of auto workers in factories and in our communities.Hear her story alongside the dynamic struggles of auto workers in Brazil! Hear how industrial workers are taking on the bosses, climate change, and other social issues. Register here: https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_tuOr2lGsQJi457B5Q44Ezw#/registration

What should white people do?

More than 660,000 people have left Ukraine for Europe since the Russian invasion began but yet there’s very little talk about Racism. Let’s not ignore that, Ukrainian nationalist groups’ were heavily involved in the Holocaust and mass ethnic cleansing of Poles during World War II.Though a majority-white country, Ukraine has a diverse, multiethnic population including Tatars, Jews and Roma, as well as small communities of Black and Asian Ukrainians. In recent decades, the country earned a good reputation among the mostly African and Asian nations who send some 80,000 of their citizens there to study. And while Ukraine provided them with a relatively comfortable life, it was not an easy one to attain. Reporters have documented dehumanizing treatment against international students from Africa, South Asia and the Middle East in Ukraine. This treatment also extended to racialized permanent residents of Ukraine, including a long-time practicing Nigerian doctor. While white women and children were given priority on vehicles departing the country, African women were barred from trains leaving Kyiv even though there were empty seats. Now the question is, why should Black and Brown people care about what is happening there? And what about what’s happening in the Ukraine are white people empathizing with? What is the cost of the war and who pays? #PoorPeopleFedUp #Racism#SystemicRacism #CivilRights #WhitePrivilege #NoJusticeNoPeace  #FacingRacism #BlatantRacism #NormalizedRacism 
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White is NOT the New Black

While white people continually make attempts to control the narrative, with new terms, labels and definitions, where does that leave ours? Did we even ever get to be in our identity? As Black and Brown people grapple with economy as it unfolds, holding on to what little of their basic needs can be met - food, water, warmth, rest - as well as the rise of conservatism, it should be that Black and Brown people are represented in the demand for basic need provision, but is that really happening? Is ‘grassroots’ the new term used by white people as a mask? Is being ‘grassroots’ the new ‘woke’ thing to do? “I have never been interested in what people say, I am interested in what they do” ~ Shirley Chisholm  #PoorPeopleFedUp #AmeriKKKa #RacismInAmerica #SystemicRacism #CivilRights #WhitePrivilege #NoJusticeNoPeace  #FacingRacism #BlatantRacism #NormalizedRacism Please continue to like and share and check us out here https://linktr.ee/blackbrownunitedinaction your solidarity is greatly appreciated 🫵🏽✊🏽✊🏾✊🏿!

A Tale of Two White Men

Just like you we have been dealing with climate change, and maybe you saw the back and forth between New Haven’s current Democratic Mayor and his RepubliKKKan opponent. Does it really pay to switch sides? From New Haven to the Capital of the United States, white men are battling for ‘democracy’, who pays in this fight? Where is democracy when someone switches sides? Does that impact voting or does it distract from progress? Why does this country, from the city, to the state, struggle with progress? What will it take for Black and Brown people to have confidence, represent and support themselves? Can we restore hope in the vote? “Control in modern times requires more than force, more than law. It requires that a population dangerously concentrated in cities and factories, whose lives are filled with cause for rebellion, be taught that all is right as it is. And so, the schools, the churches, the popular literature taught that to be rich was a sign of superiority, to be poor a sign of personal failure, and that only way upward for a poor person was to climb into the ranks of the rich by extraordinary effort and extraordinary luck” (‘A People's History of The United States’, Howard Zinn).
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What’s in your ballot? Pt. 2

We are talking about representation in the midst of RepubliKKKan extremism and Conservatism, what does all mean? Do we need to ask Beyonce where the left is? Can we really say in 2023, surviving COVID and all that goes with that, that the needs and concerns of the Black and Brown people are being represented and acted upon by elected lawmakers? What’s really preventing Black and Brown people from getting to the poll booth? Thank you for continuing to like and share the podcast and check out what we got going on here >>> https://linktr.ee/blackbrownunitedinaction your solidarity is greatly appreciated 🫵🏽✊🏿✊🏾!
Find out more about the white supremacist propaganda happening in Connecticut here https://www.adl.org/resources/tools-to-track-hate/heat-map 
Look up Anti Government groups and more in your state here https://www.splcenter.org/states/connecticut 
Learn more about the Nazi Squatters in Maine here https://www.thedailybeast.com/maine-wants-blood-tribe-neo-nazi-squatters-gone 
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What should white people do?

Hey! It’s time to grab your favorite snack and listen to our new series "What should white people do?" Amy L and Manny C join the conversation about Labor Day and Conservatism. According to Daily Caller contributor Gage Klipper “Labor Day has historically been a left-wing holiday, with its roots in the 19th and 20th Century labor movements. While Republicans kick-off the summer with Memorial Day, the celebration of workers has long been ceded to the Democrats. However, 2016 marked an epochal shift in America’s political alignments. It’s high time for conservatives to reject their white collar attachments and fully become the party of the working man” check out full buffoonery here https://dailycaller.com/2023/09/03/conservatives-reclaim-labor-day/
And yes, he’s serious and you should be too because Conservatism is on the rise and if you remember what happened at the US Capitol on Jan 6th, or why Roe v Wade was reversed you, it is critical for white people to figure out what to do next. 
#PoorPeopleFedUp #AmeriKKKa #RacismInAmerica #SystemicRacism #CivilRights #WhitePrivilege #NoJusticeNoPeace #FacingRacism #BlatantRacism #NormalizedRacism 
Find out more about the white supremacist propaganda happening in Connecticut here  https://www.adl.org/resources/tools-to-track-hate/heat-map 
Look up Anti Government groups and more in your state here https://www.splcenter.org/states/connecticut 
Learn more about the Nazi Squatters in Maine here https://www.thedailybeast.com/maine-wants-blood-tribe-neo-nazi-squatters-gone 
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Black Codes & Labor Day

Labor Day is a federal holiday in the United States that is celebrated on the first Monday of September every year. It is a day to honor and recognize the contributions and achievements of American workers to the country’s strength, prosperity, and well-being. The status of Blacks was the focal problem of Reconstruction. Slavery had been abolished by the Thirteenth Amendment, but the white people of the South were determined to keep the Black population in "their place," socially, politically, and economically. This was done by means of the notorious "Black Codes," passed by several of the state legislatures. Northerners regarded these codes as a revival of slavery in disguise. The first such body of statutes, and probably the harshest, was passed in Mississippi in November 1865. During Reconstruction, in several states in the South, former Whigs formed a Conservative Party. However, a little later white southerners showed a steadfast commitment to ensuring their supremacy and the survival of plantation agriculture in the postwar years. Support for Reconstruction policies waned after the early 1870s, undermined by the violence of white supremacist organizations such as the Ku Klux Klan. #BlackCodes #WhoseLabor #LaborDay #PoorPeopleFedUp #Unity#AntiConservatism #CommunityOverCompetition #Racism #CapitalismKills #StopTheWarOnThePoor #TrumpNotWelcome thank you for continuing to like and share the podcast and check us out here >>> https://linktr.ee/blackbrownunitedinaction your solidarity is greatly appreciated 🫵🏽✊🏿✊🏾!

What should white people do?

Hey! It’s time to grab your favorite snack and listen to our new series "What should white people do?" We will be sharing thoughts on the recent “Keep Connecticut White” rally held in Bristol, Connecticut as well as the Nazi group planning to build a headquarters in Maine. How and why is this happening in the Northeast? Tune in to find out this and much more on this new series. 
#PoorPeopleFedUp #AmeriKKKa #RacismInAmerica #SystemicRacism #CivilRights #WhitePrivilege #NoJusticeNoPeace #FacingRacism #BlatantRacism #NormalizedRacism
Find out more about the white supremacist propaganda happening in Connecticut here  https://www.adl.org/resources/tools-to-track-hate/heat-map 
Look up Anti Government groups and more in your state here https://www.splcenter.org/states/connecticut 
Learn more about the Nazi Squatters in Maine here https://www.thedailybeast.com/maine-wants-blood-tribe-neo-nazi-squatters-gone 
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Outside is AmeriKKKa

Power, place and privilege what is that? Why does it matter? We have been talking about white supremacy on the Sound of Black and Brown sharing Black and Brown stories, and lived experiences of surviving and dealing with Racism told, and power, place and privilege keeps coming up. Why is that? And how does that cause Black and Brown people to add to that we not only experience stigmatization from white people, but also ourselves. #BlackStories #BrownStories #FacingRacism #BlatantRacism #NormalizedRacism #StopRacism #AmeriKKKa Please continue to like and share and check us out here https://linktr.ee/blackbrownunitedinaction your solidarity is greatly appreciated 🫵🏽✊🏾✊🏿! 

Is the future Conservatism?

Conservatism is on the rise and spreading like ants. Add to that not every Conservative is a Republican, how is that possible? Grab a snack, and tune in here we will be sharing thoughts on this and more! Tune in by clicking this link The politics in America has a Conservative history. Since the early 1960s there has been a small Conservative Party of New York State. During the late 1860s there was Reconstructionin several states in the South and the former Whigs formed a Conservative Party. Soon after that was merged into the state Democratic parties, despite that, there has never been a national political party called the Conservative Party.#PoorPeopleFedUp #Unity#AntiConservatism #CommunityOverCompetition #Racism #CapitalismKills #StopTheWarOnThePoor #TrumpNotWelcome thank you for continuing to like and share the podcast and check us out here >>> https://linktr.ee/blackbrownunitedinaction your solidarity is greatly appreciated 🫵🏽✊🏿✊🏾!