๐Ÿ›ป Next Friday โ€“ Live Q&A! Exposing Tech & Media On the Road

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Join Joe Cardillo & Sam Chavez next Friday for our Live! Q&A to introduce our Fall podcast & video series, Road Trippin' for Change! We will be sharing more about the lessons in the thick of "Trump's America" and what it means for organizations, communicators, & everyday people in this moment where tech & media are bowing to fascism. Read on for more...

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๐Ÿ›ป Next Friday โ€“ Live Q&A! Exposing Tech & Media On the Road

Joe Cardillo (they/them) is guest hosting a Live! broadcast of the roots of change podcast to talk to host, Sam Chavez (she/they/he), about their 60 day trip across the United States to expose what tech & the media obscure...the reality of "Trump's America"

โ€‹This fall, come out on the road with my corgi and I to learn the deeper layer of U.S. history that's not taught in schools and what it's really like to live in Trump's America in 2025.

๐Ÿ›ป Live Q&A! Exposing Tech & Media On the Road ยท Luma
Weโ€™re Roadtrippinโ€™ for Change! Joe Cardillo (they/them) is guest hosting a Live! broadcast of the roots of change podcast to talk to host, Sam Chavezโ€ฆ

What to Expect

  1. โ€‹Joe & Sam talk the news stories of the moment
  2. โ€‹The history and reality of tech and media in 2025
  3. โ€‹Red vs. Blue | What's true in towns, suburbs, & cities across the U.S.?
  4. โ€‹The surveillance state and managing our personal cyber security
  5. โ€‹& more!

โ€‹What Youโ€™ll Get

โ€‹๐ŸŽŸ๏ธ By purchasing an in-studio ticket, you get one-month free of the roots of change podcast & access to our resources for activists and heart-first humans navigate the tech, media, & politics in 2025.

โ€‹Our Fall podcasts and videos series is going on the ground and getting to the roots of the authoritarian tilt that is gripping the Western world. We've been right in the action over the last 60 days! So far we've covered:

  • โ€‹๐Ÿœ๏ธ Land and Water rights in the Southwest
  • โ€‹๐Ÿ›๏ธ The Occupied Capitol City (& Trump's National Guard deployment!)
  • โ€‹๐Ÿค  Cowboys & Queer Culture
  • โ€‹๐Ÿ—ฝ The Big Apple & It's Big Wealth Gap
  • โ€‹๐Ÿ—ž๏ธ The history of media & tech
  • โ€‹๐Ÿฅพ The long history of rural life in the U.S.
  • โ€‹๐Ÿข Indigenous & Migrant rights
  • โ€‹๐Ÿซ vs. ๐Ÿ˜ The Myths of Red vs. Blue
  • โ€‹๐Ÿ“ฒ The border(s) covering Cyber Security and our Surveillance State

โ€‹I am so excited to share what we've learned (& what the media and Big Tech don't want us to understand) so we can build our agency and build the change we deserve. There are powerful forces trying to stop us, but our collective power will always be more powerful.

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