The Dark Truth About Fake News

You're Welcome w/ Zoe Nightingale

As a podcaster, in moments like this, you want more than ever to be able to take your microphones to the streets and be able to amplify as many voices as you possibly can and try to help further causes like Black Lives Matter.

However, I am deep in Colorado on road trip with my entire family with almost no access to the internet or phone service so for now, I am proceeding with another podcast that was scheduled for this week and will have to wait to join in the protests when I return to NYC this Monday.

I promise you, I will do everything in my power to see the systemic racism that has plagued our country since it's inception stopped. I will do it with storytelling, fundraising, protesting, and getting representatives elected who can actually change the laws that have for centuries purposefully tried to suppress, oppress and incarcerate the African American community.

But for now, I bring you the story of Dakota Gruener, the founder and CEO of ID2020. A person that I am honored to call a friend and a woman who is doing work that I think is exceptionally important. For the last four years she has been a champion of the voiceless, working tirelessly to provide vaccines, upward mobility and resources to the world's most vulnerable all around the world.

Earlier this year, she was targeted by none other than my least favorite person ever, Alex Jones on his garbage show Info Wars. Because of the nonsense he spun, a slew of internet trolls threatened her life and I am very very angry about it.

Normally I wouldn't even want to bring any kind of light to the heartless, disgusting, lie infested work that he does, but this time I felt like I needed to because it's a ripe opportunity to shed light on exactly the kind of poison people like him are spewing into the world.

He entangled her in a conspiracy theory so idiotic and insane that I wanted to give her an opportunity to explain that work that she actually does, and in doing so hopefully help continue to bring awareness to her life mission.

I love you Dakota.

Lastly, fuck you Alex Jones. Fuck Info Wars and fuck all of you soulless internet trolls who hide behind your lies and conspiracies and turn fear into dollar signs, you disgust me.

Stay safe, get out there, pick up your signs, make your voice heard, fight for the future and the present you want to live in.

DON'T FORGET TO VOTE

Register at www.voteproud.us

Check out her work at www.ID2020.org

Donate to the George Floyd Gofund me here:

https://www.gofundme.com/f/georgefloyd

Other Organizations you can support:

Support the Block

NAACP Legal Defense Fund

Black Lives Matter

www.8cantwait.org

Music:

Inner City Blues - Marvin Gaye

April 26th 1992 - Sublime