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Alicia Garza brings you an election day bonus episode, with a special election week round-up, and a special call to action that you simply can't miss! Alicia Garza on Twitter, Instagram a Facebook. Alicia's new book:  The Purpose of Power: How We Come Together When We Fall Apart  Lady Don't Take No on Twitter, Instagram a 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 a Partnerships Director for the National Domestic Workers Alliance. She is the co-founder of Supermajority, a new home for women’s activism. Alicia was recently named to TIME’s Annual TIME100 List of the 100 Most Influential People in the World, alongside her BLM co-founders Opal Tometi and Patrisse Cullors. She is the author of the critically acclaimed book, The Purpose of Power: How We Come Together When We Fall Apart (Penguin Random House),  and she warns you -- hashtags don’t start movements. People do.  VOTE! VOTE! VOTE!