I watch and comment on the documentary John Lewis: Good Trouble   Recorded February 19, 2021   Notes:   -Real life superhero   -I will comment during the doc but this podcast won’t be the length of the doc   -What he’s been through   -That mugshot — https://twitter.com/repjohnlewis/status/622844317162434560?lang=en   -Pre-COVID   -Elijah Cummings   -Organize, mobilize, legislate   -Being brutalized by cops for waiting on line to vote   -Knowing the risk   -The power of voting   -Pettus bridge and unlawful assembly   -Parading permit   -Troopers advancing with weapons   -Civil disobedience   -Bashed in the head   -Present day voter suppression   -Constant struggle   -“There’s so much more progress to be made”   -“My greatest fear…”   -Misinformation, hatred, and cruelty   -Comic Con story   -Equity   -Getting involved   -Ripple effects   -Good trouble   -Say something, do something, good trouble, necessary trouble   -2018 and the blue wave   -Change from then to now (so much more to do)   -Preaching to chickens   -Picking cotton   -Nashville and non-violence   -Non-violence as offense, not defense   -Starting locally to desegregate downtown Nashville   -Systems versus an individual    -Under a constant threat   -Training   -One big temper tantrum from people in power   -Fear and insecurity   -First Nashville sit-in   -Optics   -Doing everything you can   -AOC   -How racism morphs   -Barriers   -Voting requirements   -Senator Warnock   -Beto O’Rourke   -Election Day 2018 and 2020   -James Clyburn   -John Lewis Voting Rights Act   -Republicans want to suppress votes   -AOC and the speed of freedom   -Moving slow versus moving fast   -Results of the Supreme Court gutting the Voting Rights Act    -Long wait times to vote   -HR1   -Opressors framing themselves as victims   -Freedom Singers   -How music lifts the spirit   -Thurogood Marshall   -John F. Kennedy and intentions   -We cannot be patient   -Democrats vs. Republicans   -Fast vs. Slow   -Wife and son   -Lawlessness and hypocrisy of the “law and order” Trump administration   -Viral videos   -Julian Bond and the danger of registering people to vote   -Rise into politics   -Becoming an “insider”   -Tense moments with Bonds   -Activism from the outside and inside   -Protest on the floor and the non-coverage of Fox “News”   -Stacey Abrams and the power of Lewis’ story   -The resistance to the right to vote   -The more who show up…   -President Obama   -Looking back 2008, 2012, 2016, 2020   -Paul Wyrech - he’s not from AIPAC, he’s from ALEC and he didn’t want everybody to vote   -Removing the filibuster   -This is not a time for despair   -The struggle   -2019 Edmund Pettis Bridge (Trump wasn’t there)   -Putting in the work   -Medal of Freedom   -A good start   -A giant   -There were post credits   -Inspiring   -Equity and progress (and justice)   -Plugs!   Twitter https://twitter.com/mmampodcast Facebook https://www.facebook.com/mmampodcast    Apple Podcasts https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/music-movies-and-other-stuff/id1236495556?mt=2  Podbean https://mmam.podbean.com/ Email [email protected]     Get your news from credible sources (New York Times, USA Today, BBC, NPR, etc.)   #GoodTrouble   © MMAMPodcast 2021 All Rights Reserved