Alicia Garza is joined this week by the Founder and Chief Doer of the Three Point squad, Jessica Byrd, and by the Senior Vice President for MomsRising.org, Monifa Bandele. Garza, Byrd and Bandele discuss the BREATHE Act, a visionary bill that divests our taxpayer dollars from brutal and discriminatory policing and invests in a new vision of public safety. Plus, Garza’s weekly round-up of all that is awful and excellent, known as “Lady Don’t Take No”.

Learn about the BREATHE Act at https://breatheact.org/

Join The Movement For Black Lives at https://m4bl.org/

Jessica Byrd on Twitter

Monifa Bandele on Twitter

Lady Don't Take No on Twitter, Instagram & Facebook.

Alicia Garza on Twitter, Instagram & Facebook.

This pod is supported by the Black Futures Lab

Production by Phil Surkis

Theme music: "Lady Don't Tek No" by Latyrx

Alicia Garza founded the Black Futures Lab to make Black communities powerful in politics. She is the co-creator of #BlackLivesMatter and the Black Lives Matter Global Network, an international organizing project to end state violence and oppression against Black people. Garza serves as the Strategy & Partnerships Director for the National Domestic Workers Alliance. She is the co-founder of Supermajority, a new home for women’s activism. She shares her thoughts on the women transforming power in Marie Claire magazine every month. Her forthcoming book, The Purpose of Power: How We Come Together When We Fall Apart (Penguin Random House) will be published in October 2020, and she warns you -- hashtags don’t start movements. People do.