Mitsy!

0:00for sale. What what’s interesting about we the people is um a community of people who live in proximity and know each other who are have various areas of experience and expertise to organize. Um Ann M is one of the first people that comes to mind. She’s always had for years house concerts or organized music events at Reading Terminal Market or Indian area musicians, but she actually also was at Ben Franklin Institute as an organizer of look at all their displays and all what they do to outreach um and communicate science um to the to the community. So she was a an experienced person to how to plan

0:52something. And we’ve seen these little uprisings like in Minneapolis is one most famous. Um but we were organized before they got so bleaguered with their ICE, you know, visits, but they came through with organizing locally. And we had our version here in Germantown, West Mount area, Chesan Hill, um, Elkins Park, you know, that vicinity in Philly and right over the edge in the other state. And so someone said, I can organize musicians Kenny Lancing. He’s a big uh connector in the web of of musical connections here, including Andrea Salon. So he goes, I think it would be great to have um musicians come and play and be a place where we’re

1:44actually being entertained as a serious speaker. speaks to the issue of what’s happening to our immigration detention camps, our um schools, our medical systems, our um multitude of areas where there’s breakdown in social infrastructure um taking away the the supports that we need. So we have to like be voices basically and we are we the people to say oh yeah we have some power but we understand it it’s locally done and that model has been springing up all around the country all around the world and they’re the main drivers of getting social movements going when you actually have people who want to show up in a shady little train station um uh

2:44Allen’s Lane train stations where we first started in April of last year on Wednesdays. So they called oh we’re about we the people and that idea from the constitution saying it’s our government is supposed to work for us and it’s partnered with this a society that cares and helps to make it happen. isn’t in all the government. It isn’t all the people. It has to be a partnership.

3:13Yes. And we can’t have basically a lot of the the policing be our enemies or the justice system failing us, our politicians. And so we’re going to get mad. We’re going to hear listen to smart people and play some music and give her so sense of hope because it is freaking dispiriting traumatizing that’s the word that’s a freaking trauma to live in this society right now what’s been happening since Donald Trump came I know it’s been analyzed was a transfer there beforehand, but he got on a big train. He got a lot of people on board and there are billionaires who have the capacity to absolutely train the

4:08algorithms that feed everybody’s social media feeds. And there’s kind of two camps, the more positive and the more, you know, the more I said positive or pro- social. They’re pro-social. And there’s others who are not so much. It’s about what tax, you know, benefits I can get, what’s for me, outright graph, outright corruption, anti-science. So that’s the big picture of what we’re protesting. We the people show up and videotape and find your grow your outlet because that’s one thing we’re not we’re missing. We don’t have enough. Um,

4:56like I told you, there’s there’s written form. Yeah. And there’s some more verbal like there’s way more than just the Mos story hour. By the way, we have our own storytelling in Philadelphia.

5:08Okay. No. No. Take off on Moth um radio hour, which is about people telling their stories. Oh, I’ve heard of Moth Radio Hour. They do do in Philly, but guess what else? We started before the pandemic um first person arts also decided to do our own Philly version and we would just put it out the organizers not not really we but come in and uh draw a um a number and um if your number’s drawn you get to go on and so my first visit. That’s what happens.

5:52What happened? Did you get my number was pulled the first time and you got five minutes and they give you a topic what it’s going to be about. The things that come out of people’s mouths. I did okay. I’m glad it was recorded and it went on the internet. So did all the other people on all that particular theme.

6:13That’s really cool. So, Mao, I want to see you or by the way, did you know about is a new media group that does interviews around town and their whole thing is what’s happening in the community and put it on a local little channel. You get it on just radio.

6:37It’s called Gtown Radio. Okay. Yeah. Yeah, I have heard of that. All right. It’s in Maplewood. It’s on Maplewood Mall. I’ve seen it. Yeah, that’s cool.

6:50Oh, yeah. I’m I’m check it out. Check it out over there. Now, I when I was there, um I joined a little community on Maplewood, the Maplewood Collective. Um so along the way, the meetings, we knew that Gtown Radio was there, but there was another group I have some memory problems. Uh that started with a father and son who were like Germantown, Mount Ary family and um they show up with their cameras and they shoot and then they put it on the local TV. Darn if I can remember. Anyway, I’m the one that told the Maplewood Collective uh group um we can get interviews. They that’s what

7:40their whole purpose is about is what’s happened aman you know let’s find out what’s happening get the stories how did they come to be what you doing how do you frame things remember us talking about the frames

7:53yeah yeah yeah yeah well we need to hear different people’s frames that’s kind of my goal all right that’s that’s it so I’ll see you later maybe you’ll come to Maplewood What?