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Watch our latest episode of the Live United Podcast, hosted by Jesse Guardiola and featuring Isabel Flores, a bilingual reporter with 2 News Oklahoma. The discussion explores how Isabel's cultural background and language skills allow her to connect with and report on stories within Tulsa's Hispanic community, often serving as a crucial voice. She highlights the importance of covering stories that showcase community resilience, collaboration, and Tulsans coming together to support one another, reflecting the core values of Living United.

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This week we interviewed Heartfelt Dreams Foundation as well as the Nashua Fire Marshall! Thank you for LIVING UNITED!

Pastor Micah Powell continues his sermon series Joyful Unity in Christ with this week's sermon "Living United and Worthy of the Gospel" from Philippians 1:27-30.

Wrestling is overtly incredibly fascinating as we've always known on Tights and Fights!Alex Schmidt is one of the hosts of the MaxFun podcasts “Secretly Incredibly Fascinating.” Recently they had a podcast breaking down the history of wrestling as an actual competition. So naturally we had to invite him on to teach him about the flip side: Cut the kayfabe!Main EventOn "Secretly Incredibly Fascinating,” Alex and his co-host Katie Schmidt broke down the history of Sumo wrestling. And one thing about sumo is that Vince McMahon would happily find a way to represent the competition in some really great and really awful ways.The Three CountLindsey and Danielle put over Mick Foley endorsing Kamala Harris. Julian put over Living United for Change in Arizona. Hosted by Danielle Radford and Lindsey KelkProduced by Julian Burrell for Maximum Fun.The music for our new promo is provided by Incompetech.comIf you want to talk about more wrestling throughout the week be sure to join us on Facebook, BlueSky and Instagram. PLUS! Check out our Tights and Fights Discord!If you liked the show, please share it with your friends and be sure to leave us a quick review on Apple Podcasts or wherever you get podcasts.

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Today Hunter had the distinct pleasure of speaking with Nate Wade and Katie Gipson-McLean, two public defenders from the Arizona. Of all the episodes, this may be the one that makes you the most pissed off.   From the outset, Katie and Nate drop story after story that reveals the deeply regressive and reactionary structure sustaining the status quo of mass incarceration in Arizona. From the powerful money interests in the DOC, to the work of a single, motivated individual, Arizona can easily be described as one of the most pro carceral states in America. Constantly ranking at the top leader boards in state spending on incarceration, Arizona is this way by design.   Despite all of the issues laid out (and there are a lot of them), Hunter hopes you walk away with hope that change in a place like this is possible because of the dedication and determination of fighters like Nate and Katie!! Guests: Nate Wade, Public Defender, Pinal County, Arizona Katie Gipson-McLean, Public Defender, Maricopa County, Arizona Key Topics and Takeaways: How Nate and Katie got into Public Defense [8:06] Inconsistencies from county to county in Arizona Public Defense and Criminal Justice [12:00] Understanding the Politics of Arizona [21:29] How a single person shapes Arizona criminal justice policies [32:33] Can punishment have a deterrent effect? [36:45] The corruption and power influencing Arizona reforms [39:10] Why it is so difficult for defense attorneys to have their voices heard in Arizona [50:30] Katie describes the broken plea bargaining in Maricopa County [57:00] The impacts of the Victim's Bill of Rights on public defense [1:03:34] Hope for change in Arizona [1:14:00]   Resources: Maricopa County Public Defender Maricopa County Know Your Rights Podcast Pinal County Public Defender Office Arizona communities would 'collapse' without cheap prison labor, Corrections director says Mass Liberation The Invisible Hand of Steve Twist How an Arizona man who's never held elected office has shaped one of America's most punitive criminal justice systems. Arizona Criminal Justice Commission Check out there board and the lack of defense counsel!! Living United for Change in Arizona (LUCHA) Follow Katie on Twitter Follow Nate on Twitter Contact Hunter Parnell:   hwparnell@publicdefenseless.com   Instagram   Twitter   www.publicdefenseless.com

U.S. Justice Dept. Files Suit to Block Arizona from Requiring Proof of Citizenship to Use Federal Election BallotCorrection - the audio podcast version has an error that has since been corrected for the syndicated radio broadcast. We referred to the National Voting Rights Act; it is the National Voter Registration Act. Sorry for the error! Today's LinksArticles:Arizona Star/Tuscon.com - Feds: Arizona could face lawsuit over voter ID lawAssociated Press - Feds sue over new Arizona citizenship proof law for votingGroups Taking Action:  Mi Familia Vota, Living United for Change AZ, League of United Latin American Citizens, Arizona Students Association, Arizona Democracy Resource CenterYou're listening to the American Democracy Minute, keeping YOUR government by and for the people.We reported back in April about a bill passed by the Arizona legislature and signed by Governor Doug Ducey that requires that Arizona voters must have proof of citizenship when voting for President, a law at odds with the National Voter Registration Act..  The U.S. Justice Department just filed suit last week to block that new law.  Arizona has two ballots for elections; a state & federal elections ballot and a federal-only ballot, which was implemented when the State of Arizona implemented a proof of citizenship law in 2004 for state ballots. The federal-only ballot uses an affidavit to swear to citizenship on penalty of perjury, but does not require identifying papers.  It was used by about 12,000 voters statewide in 2020, some of whom are Native Americans who may not have the necessary documentation.  Election deniers pointed to baseless claims of voter fraud among these ballots when Donald Trump lost Arizona by just under 10,500 votes.  Voter fraud is extremely rare, and there was no evidence of widespread abuse in 2020.Arizona Attorney General Mark Brnovich has made comments that allowing such voting without proof of citizenship was part of a widespread plan by “neo-Marxists” to allow non-citizens to vote.  But in addition to the Justice Department filing suit, two other voting rights organizations have filed their own suits, trying to protect the right of ALL Americans to vote.We have links to articles and groups taking action at AmericanDemocracyMinute.orgGranny D said “Democracy is not something we have, but something we DO.” For the American Democracy Minute, I'm Brian Beihl.

Today's show rundown: Mark starts us off talking about senator Krysten Sinema, and how Biden is saying that 2 senators should not be able to block the will of the other 48 senators. The past 5 million in Govt. spending isn't even spent yet. Local governments are holding committee meetings trying to burn through this money. This is the problem with inflation, too much money with too little goods and services. Years back, you used to do something called a passbook savings account for like 5-5.5 percent interest. So if inflation was 3 percent, you beat it by 2 and a half percent, you could stay ahead of inflation. Biden is saying he will not take 1 penny from the middle class and the poor. The 3.5 Trillion actually has "ZERO COST" as per Biden and the left. When we take people and and sit them at home, and pay them for nothing...we see retail spending increase. The government established the worth of a person to do NOTHING ...16$ and hour. So people are entitled to think they are more valuable that that to do something. Pay attention to your bills come wither - with the increase in fuel oil, your heat bill could be higher. The idea that we are going to charge corporations more taxes, and that they will not pass that onto the consumers is absurd. Living United for Change in Arizona are the ones harassing Sinema - these aren't activists. These are people being paid to do a job, including chasing people into bathrooms and filming them. https://worldmission.cc/donate-humanitarianoutreach/ Give H2Max a try and let us know what you think: buyh2max.com Help us bring you the best content possible. Due to the left's boycotts of those who advertise with Conservatives, we have had a number of advertisers back-out to avoid possible backlash. Support the show and gain access to even more content at https://www.patreon.com/bftpodcast Don't forget to leave us a voicemail for the chance to have it played on a future episode. You can do so by clicking the link. https://bluntforcetruth.com/voicemail/ Also, check out the store on our website to get your own Blunt Force Truth gear. https://store.bluntforcetruth.com/

Today's show rundown: Mark starts us off talking about senator Krysten Sinema, and how Biden is saying that 2 senators should not be able to block the will of the other 48 senators. The past 5 million in Govt. spending isn't even spent yet. Local governments are holding committee meetings trying to burn through this money. This is the problem with inflation, too much money with too little goods and services. Years back, you used to do something called a passbook savings account for like 5-5.5 percent interest. So if inflation was 3 percent, you beat it by 2 and a half percent, you could stay ahead of inflation. Biden is saying he will not take 1 penny from the middle class and the poor. The 3.5 Trillion actually has "ZERO COST" as per Biden and the left. When we take people and and sit them at home, and pay them for nothing...we see retail spending increase. The government established the worth of a person to do NOTHING ...16$ and hour. So people are entitled to think they are more valuable that that to do something. Pay attention to your bills come wither - with the increase in fuel oil, your heat bill could be higher. The idea that we are going to charge corporations more taxes, and that they will not pass that onto the consumers is absurd. Living United for Change in Arizona are the ones harassing Sinema - these aren't activists. These are people being paid to do a job, including chasing people into bathrooms and filming them. https://worldmission.cc/donate-humanitarianoutreach/ Give H2Max a try and let us know what you think: buyh2max.com Help us bring you the best content possible. Due to the left's boycotts of those who advertise with Conservatives, we have had a number of advertisers back-out to avoid possible backlash. Support the show and gain access to even more content at https://www.patreon.com/bftpodcast Don't forget to leave us a voicemail for the chance to have it played on a future episode. You can do so by clicking the link. https://bluntforcetruth.com/voicemail/ Also, check out the store on our website to get your own Blunt Force Truth gear. https://store.bluntforcetruth.com/

The liberal wing of the Democratic Party seems to be nearing its breaking point with Sen. Kyrsten Sinema. Over the weekend, members of the non-profit Living United for Change in Arizona, or LUCHA, followed Sinema, D-Ariz., into a bathroom at Arizona State University. Activists recorded and shouted their grievances at her for not supporting more accommodating immigration reforms. Progressives' frustration with Sinema go beyond Arizona voters. A Saturday Night Live skit portrayed her as the senator derailing legislation central to the Biden administration, including the $3.5 trillion human infrastructure package. Sinema has said that is too expensive for her vote, but hasn't said what she would support. In this week's episode of The Gaggle, an Arizona politics podcast, hosts Yvonne Wingett Sanchez and Ronald J. Hansen, speak with Emily Kirkland, executive director of Progress Arizona, a progressive community nonprofit. She's breaking down why the left is angry with Sinema and what they're doing about it. 

Chris and Jesse are delighted to be joined by the chief storyteller for the Tulsa Area United Way, Matt Gleason. Matt talks about his time working for the Mental Health Association, who during the early phases of the lockdown, released a podcast episode a day. He talks about how it was actually cathartic working so hard to help others in such a stressful time. In his new position, he gets to tell all the amazing stories and all the fantastic organizations that the Tulsa Area United Way supports and he talks about the upcoming release of Stories of Living United: a Tulsa Area United Way podcast! So make sure to subscribe when it is released. We also want to recognize Tallgrass Estate Planning LLP, as they are the newest corporate partners with Rant9 Productions. We look forward to continuing our podcast network with their support, and we appreciate their efforts in creating a unique and necessary community service in estate planning today. Learn more about Tallgrass Estate Planning LLP, check out http://www.tallgrassestateplanning.com/ (www.tallgrassestateplanning.com) or check out their Facebook, http://www.facebook.com/tallgrassestateplanning (www.facebook.com/tallgrassestateplanning).  Please subscribe to Pod4Good wherever you get your podcasts! If you're not sure where, check out http://www.pod4good.com/ (www.Pod4Good.com)

On Tuesday, May 4, 2021, the Ash Center hosted a book talk of Prisms of the People: Power & Organizing in Twenty-First-Century America with co-authors Elizabeth McKenna and Michelle Oyakawa. Joined by Alejandra Gomez and Tomás Robles of Living United for Change in Arizona (LUCHA), the panel draws upon their collective research and experience to discuss the characteristics of winning and losing campaigns, sharing how movements build power for change as well as where they often go wrong. Tova Wang, Democracy Fellow at the Ash Center, moderates the discussion.About the CenterThe Ash Center is a research center and think tank at Harvard Kennedy School focused on democracy, government innovation, and Asia public policy. AshCast, the Center's podcast series, is a collection of conversations, including events and Q&As with experts, from around the Center on pressing issues, forward-looking solutions, and more. Visit the Ash Center online, follow us on Twitter, and like us on Facebook. For updates on the latest research, events, and activities, please signup for our newsletter.

In this week's episode, our Season 02 sponsors, United Way of Erie join us for a laid back and courageous conversation! United Way of Erie County is a local social impact organization on a mission to crush poverty in our community. Who envisions a collaborative community where all students succeed and all families thrive. That's LIVING UNITED. https://www.unitedwayerie.org/ With this month's celebration of Womxn's History, we talk with four dynamic womxn about their role in the organization, the connection between poverty and literacy, the pros and cons of community schools, and the understanding of what the United Way of Erie County does in the community. 0:43 - 2:10 (Guest Introduction) - Each guest introducing themselves starting with Joelyn Bush (Director of Marketing and Communications), Laurie Root (Senior Vice President), Katrina Byrd (Community School Director), and Kaitlyn Falk (Community School Coordinator). In this episode you'll learn more about: -United Way of Erie's revamp of their mission to end the cycle of poverty by leveraging the community impact framework -Shared Stories of experiences of working in the community schools -The impact and challenges from all four perspectives -How the community as a whole can get involved with the organization and advocate for the expansion of United Way of Erie's mission We had a such a great time talking with our new friends at United Way of Erie and there was so much that we unpacked in our hour conversation that we wanted to do a deeper dive. 64:17 (Hosts Reflections) - Listen in on our reflections of the systemic issues that we spoke about in this episode with our guests! -- We'll be back next week! -- Continue the conversation at https://msha.ke/ourerieseries This podcast is produced by John C. Lyons, Marty Nwachukwu, DaVona Pacley and Lydia Laythe. Funding provided by United Way of Erie and Ember+Forge. Music by LiteShado. -- We appreciate you for listening to the Our Erie podcast. Peace. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/ourerieseries/support

This week, Farai Chideya talks with Nse Ufot of the New Georgia Project about the power of organizing the vote. Air Force Sergeant Tamika Hamilton on what inspired her to run in California, and Varshini Prakash of the Sunrise Movement connects racial inequity and the climate crisis. Saru Jayaraman of One Fair Wage explains the pandemic's effect on service workers.  Alejandra Gomez of Living United for Change in Arizona reflects on organizing efforts in the election. Plus, how Dr. Camilla Pang explains the average human’s behavior.EPISODE RUNDOWN2:27 Chief officer of The New Georgia Project Nsé Ufot explains how The New Georgia Project used platforms like Twitch to reach a younger audience. 8:16 Ufot gives details on the group’s goal to knock on one million doors ahead of the Georgia Senate race.15:45 Air Force Sergeant Tamika Hamilton describes what inspired her to run as the Republican candidate for California’s 3rd Congressional District. 19:52 Hamilton talks about her plans to run in 2022. 22:51 Varshini Prakash, co-founder and executive director of the Sunrise Movement, explains why climate policies might have a chance in 2021. 25:14 Prakash explains that to deal with the climate crisis, the country must also deal with inequality. 28:23 Prakash talks about the prospect of Deb Haaland as Interior Secretary in the Biden Administration.32:22 Saru Jayaraman is the president of One Fair Wage, an organization fighting for a more equitable wage structure for workers in the service industry.34:20 Jayaraman says workers who live off tips are facing major challenges with the pandemic.38:32 Alejandra Gomez of LUCHA shares what inspired her to get involved in organizing.40:16 Gomez the role of organizing and activism in the political changes in her state of Arizona.44:19 Dr Camilla Pang talks about how she uses science to better understand human behavior.

Sharing the 15th edition of the Free City Radio podcast ! This program looks at community activist voices in the U.S. who are articulating the important role that community mobilization played in voting Trump out. Importantly this podcast attempts to explore the ways that local activists worked in ways that intersected their ongoing daily organizing work with the priority of defeating Trump. First we hear from community activist Abril Gallardo from Living United for Change in Arizona (LUCHA) a community organization that worked hard to mobilize against Trump while sustaining local organizing, info : https://luchaaz.org Second we go to Michigan, I got the chance to speak with Muslim community leaders who were involved in mobilizing Muslim communities in the Detroit region, including Dearborn, to vote heavily against Trump. I spoke with Imam Mohammad Ali Elahi and also Namira Islam Anani. In Michigan I also called Nicholas Jansen from the Sunrise Movement in Michigan who mobilized to vote against Trump to express the urgency of the climate justice movement, info https://www.sunrisemovement.org Also in this show we went to D.C. where I spoke with Ryan Grim who is the D.C. bureau chief for The Intercept, Ryan speaks about the shifting political reality in U.S. states like Georgia and Arizona, while also speaking about the growing importance of The Squad in the U.S. political landscape. Finally I got the chance to speak with Dr. Steffie Woolhandler, a primary care physician and the co-founder of Physicians for a National Health Program (pnhp.org) who speaks about the sustaining importance of pushing the Medicare For All campaign in the U.S. not matter what happens in the 2020 election. Also Steffie speaks about the role of the private healthcare and pharmaceutical corporations on major media networks, given advertising dollars, CNN and other networks. Music on this show from Amir Amiri, Jordan Christoff, Rival Consoles, Invincible feat. Finale and Silvana di Lorenzo. This podcast is produced in collaboration with @radiockut community radio in Montreal where Free City Radio broadcasts every Wednesday, hosted by Stefan @spirodon Christoff.

To be Latino during an election season can feel like landing on a movie set of a suspenseful, high-stakes drama. It's a story of contradictions. You are a star of the show — Latinos are projected to become the largest, nonwhite racial or ethnic electorate in 2020 — but it is usually set to a predictable, one-note soundtrack: “immigration, immigration, immigration.” An audience of pundits dissects the “Latino vote,” while advocates recite well-rehearsed lines: “Latinos are not a monolith. Ignoring the Latino vote will cost candidates at the polls.”And perhaps the only reason the Latino vote narrative captivates political writers, pundits and especially candidates is because they want to know: “How does the story end?”Related: Getting out the vote for the 2020 election: Lessons from Bernie Sanders' Latino outreachSure, action sequences turn on whether Democrats can rally Latinos or whether an incumbent president, whose political emblem is a border wall, has alienated Latinos who vote for Republicans. But it's a story that comes down to the question: Will they show up on Election Day?The answer depends, in part, on whether our stars feel like heroines on camera or specimens under a microscope, and whether they feel they are part of the US electorate or outsiders: “them,” “the other.”“It matters a great deal, especially for those who are not politicized who have not developed an interest to engage or desire to engage with politics.”Angela X. Ocampo, author “It matters a great deal, especially for those who are not politicized who have not developed an interest to engage or desire to engage with politics,” said Angela X. Ocampo, author of the forthcoming book, “Politics of Inclusion: A Sense of Belonging and Latino Political Participation.”Before our stars became Latino voters, say researchers and voting rights advocates, daily experiences informed their enthusiasm for casting a ballot. To reach the ballot box, Latinos often must first traverse a battlefield of messages from the political left and right that casts Latinos as the perennial outsider. They will have shielded themselves from media coverage often portrays Latinos as rootless newcomers and asks that all-too-familiar question: “Where are you from?” Which presumes that the answer is: “Not here.” They will have faced a barrage of rejecting encounters, with nearly 38% of Latinos reported to the Pew Research Center in 2018 that they had been told to “go back,” chastised for speaking Spanish, or been on the receiving end of offensive slurs in the previous year. They will have pushed through the psychological impact of violent events, such as the 2019 mass shooting in El Paso, which was provoked by racist backlash against Latinos as a growing political force in Texas.Related: The pandemic upended this Latino teen's senior year. Now it's upended his politics.“After that terrible event, we were left at the mercy of a fear created for us,” writes Ilia Calderón, a national news anchor for Univision, in her new memoir, “My Time to Speak: Reclaiming Ancestry and Confronting Race.” The fear extended far beyond El Paso or Texas, beyond Mexicans and Mexican Americans, reaching Calderón, an Afro Latina thousands of miles away in Miami and but to Latinos across the country.“We already had to deal with how the color of our skin makes some look at us a certain way when we walk into a store, what it means to be a woman walking around certain areas at certain times, but now we have to add our papers, last names, or nationality to the mix,” Calderón said.From these experiences, “many Latinos in the U.S. learn that their standing in the U.S. social fabric is limited and below that of others,” writes researcher Ocampo, adding that it holds true for people whose roots run generations deep, or who arrived decades ago and raised their children.A sense of belonging — meaning, how society perceives you — along with feeling respected and valued — can be powerful forces to mobilize or discourage voting. In his eulogy for the late civil rights icon Rep. John Lewis on July 30, former President Barack Obama said a central strategy to voter suppression is to convince people to “stop believing in your own power.”Though Latinos possess a strong American identity, researchers have found Latinos register a lower sense of belonging than whites but slightly higher than Blacks. And given the nation's racist hierarchy, Latinos, who can be of any race, with darker skin have a more tenuous sense of belonging than lighter-skinned Latinos. In 2018, the Pew Research Center found that following the election of Donald Trump, 49% of Latinos had “serious concerns” about the security of their place in the US. The implications can be significant. Ocampo found that a strong belief in belonging to US society can change the probability of voting by up to 10%, translating into tens of thousands of votes.Demographics, though, seem to have little effect. Even in a state like Texas, where Latinos will soon become the largest demographic, they are underrepresented in nearly all areas of leadership. A forthcoming, statewide study by the Texas Organizing Project about Latinos' relationship with the electoral system turned up a solid strain of unbelonging, particularly among working-class Latinos in urban areas.“We are an ‘other.' We still feel it,” said Crystal Zermeno, director of electoral strategy for the Texas Organizing Project.That perception becomes a challenge when trying to convince eligible voters that the ballot box belongs to them.“A lot of times working-class Latinos, they feel like voting is for other people. It's not where they belong.”Crystal Zermeno, Texas Organizing Project“A lot of times working-class Latinos, they feel like voting is for other people. It's not where they belong.”Political campaigns may run on promises of better access to health care, tighter border security and help with college tuition. But to get the message across, candidates and parties need to make an authentic connection.“I needed to make an emotional connection with an old, angry, white, Jewish man from Vermont [Sanders] with a demographic with an average age of 27, to say, ‘I understand your plight,'” said Chuck Rocha, a senior adviser during Bernie Sanders' 2020 presidential campaign effort to turn out Latino voters and recently released the book, “Tío Bernie: The Inside Story of How Bernie Sanders Brought Latinos into the Political Revolution.”Sanders' immigrant roots may have opened a door. But the connection comes from communicating, “You are part of our community and we're part of your community,” Rocha said.Related: Trump, Biden boost efforts to reach Texas Latino votersBelonging, or at least the semblance of it, is a tool that Republicans use — including President Trump. With Trump's “build that wall” chant; fixation on border security, and derogatory references to asylum-seekers and other migrants, Trump has drawn clear and powerful boundaries on belonging. Contained within his rhetoric, rallies and campaign videos is a choreography for performing American identity, patriotism and citizenship.“Who do you like more, the country or the Hispanics?” Trump asked Steve Cortes, a supporter and Hispanic Advisory Council member, during a 2019 rally in Rio Rancho, New Mexico. During his 2020 State of the Union Address, Trump momentarily paused his typical vilification of asylum-seekers and other migrants to recognize one Latino: Raul Ortiz, the newly appointed deputy chief of the US Border Patrol  — a servant of surveillance.“He's putting forth a clear version of what it means to belong and not to belong and who is a threat and not a threat,” said Geraldo Cadava, author of “The Hispanic Republicans: The shaping of An American Political Identity from Nixon to Trump.”In the long term, Cadava says, Trump's strategy is untenable because of the demographic direction of the nation. But in the immediate term, it is meant to rally his base and solidify support among voters in key states. Inviting Robert Unanue, CEO of Goya Foods, a major food brand favored by Latinos, to the White House in July, provoked backlash when the CEO praised the president. Still, for Latino Republican voters, it suggested that the White House is open to them.This, combined with a weeklong, Hispanic outreach campaign that centered on promises to play up Latino business opportunities, in the eyes of Trump's supporters, Cadava said, “he looks like a perfectly electable candidate.” It's an image tailored for an existing base, which stands in contrast to the scene of Trump tossing rolls of paper towels to survivors of Hurricane Maria.Overtures of belonging can also be seen in a move by Sen. John Cornyn, a Republican of Texas, who is up for reelection, to co-sponsor legislation to fund a National Museum of the American Latino. But advocates warn such messages ring hollow when matched with policies. Cornyn, a Trump supporter and lieutenant to Sen. Mitch McConnell, has aggressively backed repealing the Affordable Care Act even though his state has the highest uninsured rate in the nation — 60% of the uninsured are Latino. With news coverage of Latinos generally centered on border and immigration issues, and 30% of Latinos reported being contacted by a candidate or party, according to a poll by Latino Decisions, the lasting image is likely a photograph of a museum. This may explain why Cornyn is 10 points behind his Democratic challenger. To this, some say Democrats have failed to summon a vision of the nation that includes Latinos.“We [Latinos] are part of the America, the problem is we haven't made them part of the public policy and politics of our country because we don't spend the time to reach out and make the connection to that community.” Chuck Rocha, senior adviser during Bernie Sanders' 2020 presidential campaign“We [Latinos] are part of the America, the problem is we haven't made them part of the public policy and politics of our country because we don't spend the time to reach out and make the connection to that community,” said Rocha, who led a campaign by Sanders that scored record turnout among Latinos.Related: This young Afro Latino teacher and voter wants to be a model for his studentsMissing in American politics for Latinos is “a showman, somebody who stands up and who isn't afraid of consequences to stand for our community the way [Trump] stands for racist rednecks. We haven't seen that.”Left is a roadmap of patriotism, of citizenship that positions Latinos in a neverending border checkpoint, not located in South Texas or Arizona, but built around the notion of an American.“There are these tests being administered to see where these people are going to fit in the greater scheme of things if we have to deal with them,” said Antonio Arellano, acting executive director of Jolt Institute, a voter mobilization organization in Texas. “Patriotism can be displayed in many different ways, this administration has tainted nationalism by dipping it into the red cold racist filled paint that has been emblematic of America's darkest moment in history.”In a scathing opinion piece for The New York Times, Alejandra Gomez and Tomás Robles Jr., co-founders of Living United for Change in Arizona (LUCHA) accused political leaders of deserting Latino Arizonans, leaving them as scapegoats to a right-wing political agenda that was built on excluding and attacking immigrants and Latinos.“The thing is, people want community. They want to belong to something that helps them make sense of the political world,” they wrote. “But they don't trust politics or Democrats because both have failed them.” While unbelonging may drive some people from the polls, it can also be a mobilizing force.Following the 1990s' anti-Latino and anti-immigrant campaign in California, that resulted in policies, such as denying education and housing to undocumented imigrants political groups harnessed the outrage and pain among Latinos in that state. In the 2000s, facing deportation, the young Latinos known as the “Dreamers” transformed their noncitizen status into a political asset and became a reckoning force across the nation. Millennials, in particular, reported to Ocampo their outsider status was a catalyzing force for political participation.LUCHA and other advocacy groups have provided something candidates and parties have not: belonging. “We are reminding them and they are true leaders in our community, creating spaces to be themselves authentically in the world,” Gomez told me.These advocacy groups have become a political force in Arizona, backing progressive candidates and galvanizing Latinos, not by stoking party loyalty but as “independent power organizations,” Gomez told me. In a state where Latinos are nearly a quarter of eligible voters, LUCHA and other groups helped roll back anti-immigrant laws and elected community leaders and Democrat Kyrsten Sinema to the US Senate by promoting a platform created not by a party, but by their community.In late summer, the presumptive Democratic presidential nominee, Joe Biden, made belonging a central feature in “The Biden Agenda for the Latino Community.”“President Trump's assault on Latino dignity started on the very first day of his campaign. … Trump's strategy is to sow division — to cast out Latinos as being less than fully American.” “The Biden Agenda for the Latino Community”“President Trump's assault on Latino dignity started on the very first day of his campaign. … Trump's strategy is to sow division — to cast out Latinos as being less than fully American,” it says.Biden's agenda includes a host of policy offerings including a public option for health care, immigration reform and addressing climate change. It remains to be seen if that's enough, if the strategy will amount to policies wrapped up in an anti-Trump message. And this brings to mind a critical point that Rocha made about appealing to Latino voters: Latinos changed Sanders himself, by courting them he gained a more complete portrait of the nation. Belonging, after all, is reciprocal.Come Election Day, whether someone coming off a double shift or mourning family members who died in a pandemic, or a student facing down a deadline for a paper will take a few hours — Latinos stand in lines that are twice as long as whites — a ballot cast will be the end result of a long journey, an epic drama that began long before a campaign season. 

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Continuing our series "United For Purpose" We had Sean Booth bring a word on 10 Principles for Living based on word of God   "A PRINCIPLE is a Fundamental Truth, Rule or Idea that Serves as the Foundation for One’s Attitude and Behaviour."    

Spoken on Sunday Morning the 19th of January 2019 by Pooven Govender at Noble Park Evangelical Baptist Church, Victoria, Australia.

‘Living United’ by Andy Mackie Part of our teaching series called 'Living Life Well' on the practice of studying the bible. Recorded on 19/05/2019 at our Bournville gathering.

‘Living United’ by Andy Mackie Part of our teaching series called 'Living Life Well' on the practice of studying the bible. Recorded on 12/05/2019 at our Moseley gathering.

We're excited to feature interviews with the recipients of the YWCA Phoenix Tribute to Leadership Awards for the month of April. Our very first guest is Alejandra Gomez, recipient of the 2019 Racial Justice Award. Alejandra is Co-Director of Living United for Change in Arizona (LUChA) – an amazing community organization of families, working together to bring about a more socially and economically just AZ. She shares the story of how she came to her work and the importance of community organizing and advocacy. You can learn about Alejandra and her work in advancing racial justice on the YWCA website. 

Harvest Church is a multicultural ministry located in Elk Grove, CA. We are committed to helping people love God, love people and live transformed lives.

Harvest Church is a multicultural ministry located in Elk Grove, CA. We are committed to helping people love God, love people and live transformed lives.

Living United with Christ

Tomas Robles, Co-Executive Director of Living United for Change in Arizona (LUCHA) In 2016, Arizonans overwhelmingly voted to increase the minimum wage and provide earned sick time for workers. This week's episode gives you a behind-the-curtain peek into the story of this historic change. It's a much more complicated tale than you might expect, and it starts with one man: Tomas Robles, Co-Executive Director of Living United for Change in Arizona (LUCHA).

Drinking From Fire Hydrants