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I'm Emily Williams, Executive Director of The Arcus Center for Social Justice Leadership at Kalamazoo College. Emily Williams This is Beyond Voting, a limited series that digs into the critical issues central to the 2024 election cycle. We started this show for people like you and me, people who want to share and redesigning the democracy we deserve, outside of the typical political binary of the red and the blue, because it's up to all of us to take action if we want to see real change.
Nobody is moved if they're only allowed to be introduced to or confronted with their own views. So there's this sticky place that if you're going to set out to be an organizer, or set out to be an activist, you also have to make a commitment to working with people who don't completely agree with you on everything.
We'll feature conversations with leaders, activists, and educators discussing the state of our country's institutions and parties.
It's interesting to see the Democrats have taken things literally from the Green Party platform and be like these are the ideas, an end police violence, a liveable wage, canceling student debt loans, fighting to get our reproductive rights. That's always been the Green Party platform.
We'll also take a look at how we continue to be affected by ongoing systems of oppression, and most importantly, how we the people can take critical actions in pursuit of true equity and justice.
As a brown Muslim immigrant, I don't feel safe because if I will get threatened and abused, I don't care if the person who abused me is Democrat or Republican, I'm abused by the end of the day. So the only safe way for me to live in a country that I love and admire and Esam Boreay: enjoy a membership in a party that I believe in is for this party to stick to their values and their true.
So if you want to go beyond voting, join us every Tuesday starting September 24 on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, and everywhere you get your podcasts.
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