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Speaker: Never in the history of this country have we ever seen close to 80 members of Congress who are supporting conditioning military aid to Israel. When we used to say that 15 years ago, people said we were radical, and now it became a mainstream thing. In recent primary elections, people who vocally opposed the Gaza genocide have been successful against very powerful opponents. What has changed? People who watched the genocide in Gaza, struggling economically in this country, scared of rogue agencies like ICE, want leaders who are going to say, end military aid to Israel, abolish ICE. There is not going to be a presidential candidate that's going bow for the vote of the American people without having to take a position. Are you concerned that you might see the other side tries to soften their position a bit in order to satisfy critics, but nothing practically changes? They see a shift in American politics. They are watching where the electorate is, and that in of itself is a win for pro-Palestinian movements. What's your advice to politically engaged people who want to take the momentum to the next level? Stay the course. Change is coming, and it's coming fast.
Speaker: Bismillah alhamdulillah wa salatu wa salam ala rasulullah. Assalamu alaikum, may peace be upon you. Welcome everyone to today's episode of Care On Air, Beyond the Courtroom and Behind the Headlines. I'm your host today, Edward Ahmed Mitchell, Deputy Director of the Council on American Islamic Relations.
Speaker: Very excited to present to you our guest today, Linda Sarsour. Needs no introduction, but as you all know, she is activist extraordinaire, mentor, leader, Executive Director of Empower,
Speaker: change. She has been a leading voice for human rights for all people in our country, for a just American foreign policy, for justice in our domestic policy. And I think you are seeing now in many elections across our country the manifestation of years of work that Linda has been putting in. And we're very happy to have her with us today to discuss what's happening in the political sphere, and also what her advice is for people who are seeing these developments and wanting to get involved themselves. So ah Linda Sarsour, assalamu alaikum. Welcome to the program.
Speaker: All things considered, how are you doing? Alaikum As-Salaam. Alhamdulillah, I feel very grateful. I feel optimistic. This is not something I've felt in a really long time, as you know. And I'm just glad to be here to talk to my friends at CARE. Alhamdulillah. Thank you, Linda. We always appreciate you making the the time. So let me dive right into it. You know, CARE, as disclaimer, is a nonprofit, 501c3. We do not endorse or oppose candidates for office.
Speaker: But we do want to do some analysis of what's going on. So, Linda, what what is your observation of what we've seen in recent... primary elections, other elections in which people who um vocally oppose the Gaza genocide, oppose U.S. support for that genocide, and speak out on other issues, domestic and international, that you know were once third rails of American politics, you know have been successful against very powerful opponents.
Speaker: What's going on here? What has changed that has led to this moment? It's actually in an exoneration, Edward, of things that we believed and knew for a very long time. What we're watching is people who are taking their values and their principles to the polls. People who've watched the genocide for three plus years in Gaza,
Speaker: extended to Lebanon, a war on Iran, people who are struggling economically in this country, people who are scared of rogue agencies like ICE, and they want to vote for people who align with their values. So this is not about the individual personalities or the specific people who are running. This is people, our neighbors, who are going to the polls and saying, I want something different. I want bold, brave, unequivocal leaders to represent me who are going to say, end military aid to Israel, abolish ICE.
Speaker: We need health care. We can't have people in our country dying because they don't have health care. These are people who want to take care of our planet. Our planet is is suffering. We watch tornadoes and hurricanes and earthquakes happening. And these people are coming out, going against the most powerful people who are profiting off of the demise of our planet and, of course, of our community. So it is an incredible thing to watch.
Speaker: what we've been saying for a long time manifest at the polls and into these elections. And I know for a fact that as we get into the 2028 elections, and and i and I mean that on the presidential level, there is not a single person on the Democratic Party ticket that's going to be able to run a primary without having to take an unequivocal position on Palestine, on military aid to Israel. And that is a manifestation of all the work that we have all done, but including young people who stood up on college campuses across the country. I hope they see this. I hope they see this, Edward. I hope that they see that their work
Speaker: Their sacrifices were not in vain. And here we are, um incredible young people, young people of color, the first Ethiopian-American woman who's going to Congress. We are watching Muslim-American doctors go to Congress. I mean, it's just incredible. ah ah The first ah Latina Muslim to go to Congress. I'm from New York. I mean, it's just incredible.
Speaker: So, Linda, let me ask you this. You know, American public opinion has been changing now for several years, especially in the wake of the genocide, the encampments, etc. But ah public opinion changing doesn't necessarily mean that election results change, because as you said, you've got these very powerful interest groups, PACs, ah lobby groups, APAC being the most infamous of them when it comes to this issue that have usually been able to block insurgent candidates from winning.
Speaker: um What has changed in terms of of how did they put it this way? How does this happening? How are candidates who don't have access to super PAC funding don't have you know significant name recognition? How are they managing to ah win these elections?
Speaker: it's It's incredible. You just need one thing that's impossible to become possible to make you believe everything's possible. So I want to say, and I want to give a little credit to Zahran Mamdani campaign and Zahran Mamdani as an individual, because Zahran Mamdani was a young 33-year-old Muslim kid from Queens, and he was running against career politicians. And a lot of people, Edward, were so skeptical. They said, is this kid crazy? Like, what is he thinking here? Like, why would he even do this? You know, why put effort into something that is going to be absolutely impossible? There are gonna be millions, tens of millions of dollars that poured into this New York City mayoral race. you know New York is New York City. like this is not We're not running in a small town in you know in the Midwest. This is New York City. It's one of the most important cities in the world. And people were skeptical, but young people wanted to take their protest activity
Speaker: They wanted to take their ah activism on college campuses and they wanted to figure out another place, another venue for that. And so one of the things that really helped Zohran Mamdani become the mayor of New York City was a 100,000 volunteer operation. And I want to emphasize that. Because yes, money is important, Edward, and they have to fundraise. They have to have the resources to run. Absolutely.
Speaker: But we have to remember that it's also the field. It's also knocking on doors. It's talking to our neighbors. It's giving our neighbors something to vote for. And what Zoran did for people was he gave them something to vote for.
Speaker: It was no longer just vote for me because I'm better than the other guy or I'm better than the other person. Vote for me because I have values and I have principles and I have an agenda that's going to make your life better. And on top of me wanting to make your life better, I also don't think that our taxpayer dollars should be killing Palestinians. Although the New York City mayor doesn't necessarily have great impact on foreign policy. The fact that he held those principles really moved New Yorkers. And guess what?
Speaker: He did the really the impossible. I mean, the polls, Edward, where the guy was down, like he was 2% of the polls and then he was like 11% of the polls. Like it just kept telling us, no, no, no, it can't happen. And the people of New York City, particularly young people were like, no, it's happening. And I remember even kids like mine, like feeling excited, wanting to take their friend, meeting up at canvases, you know, getting the little merch. I mean, it was it was just exciting for young people to take their values and principles and activism to the polls. So then Zahran becomes the mayor of New York City after the whole world told us it was impossible.
Speaker: then people are like, well, I guess if Zoran could be the mayor, then maybe other things can be possible. And that is why you watched an incredible community in New Jersey, a New Jersey 12th district in an open seat held by an incredible Congresswoman named Bonnie Coleman Watson became an open seat, she retired. And here comes a ah ah doctor who served in Gaza during the height of genocide, who was told you will be killed there. Like you got to get out of there. And he said, absolutely not. I will not leave these patients here. There is nothing more. I'm not more honorable than the people of Gaza. So if this is where I'm going to die, this is where I'll die. So he stayed and he's a surgeon. He was doing surgeries on people with horrific wounds um that were ah committed on them by the Israeli military.
Speaker: And he got up and he said, I'm running for Congress to, you know, he said, ah he said bombs. He said, no bombs, health care or health care, not bombs. That was his kind of mantra.
Speaker: And it's this is a ah semi affluent district in New Jersey. So people said, oh, I don't know if that's going to resonate. I don't know if those people are the kind of people that care about this kind of these kinds of issues. I don't know if these people want Medicare for all. I don't know if they care about abolishing ICE. And you know what?
Speaker: He knocked it out of the park, Edward. He won by almost 10 percentage points. And again, this is not about whether we support a candidate or not. it's a It's a story. It's a narrative of where the electorate is. The electorate supported a doctor who literally went to save people's lives in in Gaza. And we're watching that across the country. Maylok Kiros in Colorado, Denver, Colorado. This is a young woman who was an attorney in New York City during the height of genocide. She wrote an op-ed as a lawyer saying that she defends the First Amendment rights of students to protest on college campuses. Normal thing that a lawyer would say because a lawyer went to law school and understands the Constitution. Her firm threatened her. They said, you better take that down.
Speaker: She said, absolutely not. This is what I believe in. This is what it's going to state. And she got fired. She went back to Denver, Colorado. You know what she could have done, Edward? She could have sat around and said, you know what? I need to be a little more quiet. I need i want to be a successful attorney.
Speaker: But she did it. She got up and said, you know what? I'm go run for Congress against a 30-year incumbent in Denver, Colorado. And people said, it's outrageous. This is not going to happen. And Maylac Quiroz just last Tuesday became the Democratic nominee and is pretty 99.9% sure going to Congress in January. So again, wherever you look in New York City, Daria Liza took out the chair of the Hispanic Caucus. He was an AIPAC backed ah member of Congress who had, you know,
Speaker: I would call it wishy-washy positions. um He kind of went wherever the kind of wind blew him. And here comes a young woman in her early 30s, Latina, an Afro-Dominican woman who is um also Muslim, who was an and an activist. She was on the college campus. I met her at Columbia. University, who was the first college, as you know, the first university that kind of sparked the encampment. So here, Daria Aliza was one of the leaders of the encampment. She knows Mahmoud Khalil very closely and was one of the organizers behind it. And here you have to talk about the power of organizing on college campuses. Now the same woman who was organizing as a PhD student on Columbia University's encampment and college campus is now going to Congress. And so I i feel so optimistic, Edward. I feel like we are in at a crossroads in this country. And I'm very proud of my neighbors. I'm very proud of average Americans who are saying, yeah, I want my tax dollars to pay for schools and hospitals and not to bomb children in Gaza or in Lebanon or in Iran. so It's just incredible. It's the field. It's the knocking doors. It's people doing phone banking. It's people personally writing. I watched people personally writing postcards. Like in in Dr. Adams' campaign, there were women that had these postcards that were writing little messages, different messages to different people.
Speaker: I'm sure someone got that postcard and said, somebody sat down and wrote me a note. They really want my vote. And so it's just incredible to see that. And of course, Edward, there were, um you know, ah individual donors in our community who have, you know, started to invest in in in super PACs, right? Not corporations, but individuals with wealth that want to see ah more, better and just foreign policy that want to to see a more comprehensive immigration reform. that care about the most marginalized people, that wanna see people have healthcare, care even though they have healthcare, care they have everything that they need, but they're willing to share their wealth because they wanna make sure everybody else has that. So it's just been absolutely incredible. It's again, a manifestation of a lot of the work that many people have done over the last decades.
Speaker: Gotcha, gotcha. So that's how it's happening. Next question is, what's the impact? Because you still have leadership of both parties, even as the opinion changes among the grassroots, who are very entrenched you know with one position when it comes to the Israel-Palestine, very pro-Israel, more military aid, very limited, if any, criticism at all.
Speaker: And you've got elections coming up in 2028. What impact do you think this has? Because, you know, even if all these people ultimately enter Congress, it's still a minority of of the caucus. But does the that visible sea change end up forcing a change in leadership policies, a change now 2028 plays out? So, again, what's your thought on on the future of of the impact of this?
Speaker: Oh, we're already seeing the impact. You know, the other day I was watching an interview with Rahm Emanuel, who, as you know, is kind of going to put his hat in the ring for 2028. Someone who has been an an unequivocal supporter of Israel, like with no qualms about it, unconditional. And here he is criticizing Israel, talking about conditioning aid, you know, going after Benjamin Netanyahu. He actually just did a speech all the way in Tel Aviv.
Speaker: in inside of israel criticizing the israeli government inside of israel so we're already watching that impact and even when you watch you know for example ah CARE has supported the Block the Bombs Act. Never in the history of this country, um or at least in the since the kind of Palestine-Israel issue has come up, have we ever seen close to 80 members of Congress who are supporting Block the Bombs Act, who are putting it on the record that they support conditioning military aid to Israel. That was never a thing. When we used to say that, Edward, 15 years ago, people said we were radical. People said that we were outrageous, that we were like the most dangerous people in America. And now it became a mainstream thing. There is not going to be a presidential candidate, i'm telling you right now, that's going to go up there and try to vow for the vote of the American people without having to take a position.
Speaker: Kamala Harris is another example. She's mulling and not ah potentially coming back in 2028. She's on a tour, an apology tour, calling different Arab American and Palestinian activists or pro-Palestinian activists. She's basically you know trying to figure out where she wants to be on this issue because she knew that she was wrong during the time that she was running for president.
Speaker: And so we're already seeing it. We're watching, even on the Republican side, I watched a clip from of Tucker Carlson during the Turning Point USA ah kind of conference or convention post the horrific murder of Charlie Kirk, where he starts in his keynote talking about Israel, criticizing Israel, basically saying, we got to break ties with Israel. They're like a liability and military aid. Like saying all kinds of things.
Speaker: I couldn't believe, Edward, an average age, 21 year old white kids, both you know majority white men, but some young white women In ah erupting applause.
Speaker: Now, we may we may not align on why, like they may have a different reason why, but that's not the point. The point is we're even seeing a shift among young conservatives. So imagine the next 20 years, those young conservatives are also going to potentially be elected officials or in Congress. I don't know.
Speaker: And I see a shift again that's happening across the country, really regardless of political party. And so the impact is already here. I don't have to kind of foresee it or think about what it could be. I'm already watching it happen. And and so 2028, again, will be a manifestation of the work we've done for many years to make Palestine a central issue um in any palsine in any presidential debate or in just people running and having to take a position. the The electorate is forcing them to take a position. And they're already taking the position before they even officially announce just to kind of set
Speaker: themselves up so it's it's really that's the optimism that i have um that sometimes our work is not in vain you know we've taken a lot of hits uh edward as you know whether it be care whether it be us as individual leaders we've sacrificed a lot we've um been targeted in very vicious ways but at the end of the day it was all worth it edward because we're watching the fruits of our labor and we're still here to see it happen i'm doing So question for you, Linda, are you concerned at all going into 2028 about a bit of what I would call um
Speaker: triangulation So for example, you look Rahm Emanuel. So one of the things that he said was amid all this criticism and and historical dissembling, claiming it was the Palestinians' fault there was no deal. But he also said, okay, so Israel should not get any more unconditional aid.
Speaker: But what he's also saying is that they should still be able to buy weapons, right? so And you also see now in Congress this push to essentially force a future president to share u s military technology and intelligence with Israel.
Speaker: And if he decides or she decides not to do that, He can only do it because of a threat to American security, and he has to tell Congress about it. So are you concerned at all that you might see some triangulation where the other side tries to seem to soften their position a bit um in order to satisfy critics, but nothing practically changes? So the Israeli government is still getting the weapons. It's just maybe they're paying for them now, but they're still getting weapons and using them to kill people. um You've got the next president who may have a different position, but their hands are tied because of these new laws that have been passed saying you've got to share intel, you've got to share this and that. So what are your thoughts there? Like I saw a Democratic majority for Israel, you know, supporting Manuel's speech. and That's when I said, oh, that's that's a concern. Right. What are your thoughts there?
Speaker: Oh yeah, there's absolutely going triangulation. And let me just be very clear. I'm an absolute no on Rahm Emanuel, no matter what he says. I'm just pointing out that Rahm Emanuel, someone like him, would never have thought to even say anything critical of Israel in the past. The question really is more about why did he why did why does he even have to do triangulation? Why does he have to you know appease critics? For what reason? Because he knows and is watching American politics. He's watched the this past cycle where there have been at least...
Speaker: at least 10 primaries um that have happened where we have aye ah supported or helped or seen the election of incredibly progressive, incredibly pro-Palestinian candidates. And so he's like, oh, my God, i I have to, you know, lean in here. Same thing with Kamala Harris. Kamala was around in 2024. When asked what she would do differently than Joe Biden, she said nothing. And apparently now so she's having a change of heart.
Speaker: Why? Because she watched the electorate. she's watch She's trying to meet the people where they're at. That doesn't mean that people, Edward, are going to be sincere. It doesn't mean that this is what they believe. But they see a shift in American politics. They are watching where the electorate is. And that in of itself is a win for our movement. It's an a win for pro-Palestinian movements because for a very long time, people didn't care about what we thought.
Speaker: And now that they're watching that same values and same principles we have around an independent, free Palestine, where we just want to see Palestinians thrive. We want to see palestinians Palestinian children grow up. We don't want to use our tax dollars to bomb families and to decimate entire neighborhoods.
Speaker: That's apparently a mainstream position. And we, you and me, ah Edward, are sharing that with our regular neighbors. Like what's beautiful now, Edward, is that it ain't about the powerful people. Regular people, your regular neighbors, like even my neighbors who don't know much about Palestine. I've had this many time conversations just kind of being outside, you know, taking out, you know how it is, taking out the garbage. Your neighbors are outside. You know, people are, it's not okay.
Speaker: it's not okay what's happening in Gaza. There aren't really a lot of people that are like, yeah, go on ahead and you know we want to see more children. dead That's not a position that normal people have. do Do powerful people have it? do people Does AIPAC say, well, that's collateral damage and we don't really value the lives of those Palestinian children? Yes, of course there are people that are like that, but they are not the majority.
Speaker: And the electorate is demonstrating that through polls. They're demonstrating that through election. So Yes, I'm definitely, i'm not I'm not saying I'm worried about it. I'm expecting triangulation. I'm expecting people talking out of both sides of their mouth. The the funny part is we've never really seen them have to talk out of both sides of their mouths. And the fact that they they think they have to do that, I think for us, we shouldn't underestimate what we've been able to transform in this country.
Speaker: Gotcha. Okay, so now moving to, you know, you've been doing this for a long time, you've seen the dark times, you've seen, you know, improving times, even amid, you know, still horrible things happening. So as we look ahead, what's your advice to Stephen Sills, Student activists, you know, politically engaged people who want to take the the momentum, as you describe it to the next level, keep it up not fall backwards, especially as you go into the rest of this election year. Stephen Sills, Jr.: 2028 you know what's your advice to to people about how to get engaged and make positive change.
Speaker: I would say to young people that um they're actually a much luckier generation um than mine and those before us because they're actually watching in real time their fruits of their labor.
Speaker: um you that we Their courage, the the encampments that happen, the did It didn't require resources, right? It didn't require grants. it didn't cry it in It required just a conviction, a commitment of of young people saying, what we see is outrageous and we don't want this to be a stain, at least not on our generation. And so for those of you who have been active, stay active, stay the course, because change is coming and it's coming fast and it's incredible to watch.
Speaker: It's very simple for me, um Edward, when I go to a lot of college campuses and kids ask me, students ask me, like, how do we get more involved? Join a student group, join ah MSA, you know, join ah Students for Justice in Palestine, ah join a human rights group. There are many different kind of types of student organizations that are on college campuses. Maybe there's one that's specifically around an issue that you care about. Maybe there's one that's fighting for Medicare for all on your campus or one that's supporting you know and undocumented immigrants. Join a student group because this work, Edward, requires you to have ah people who are aligned around you. This is hard work. And so to have people that you trust, people that are there for you, people that you can share ah thoughts with and and just kind of be in a community. Community is important to to surround yourself with people who are values aligned.
Speaker: to take you through this process. I also want you to be a good student. I want you to graduate and I want you to ah be you know a doctor or an engineer or a lawyer or a journalist or a social worker.
Speaker: So your education is still important. So I don't want people to kind of have to choose between their activism and their education. Just do it in a way that's balanced where you're able to still focus on your studies, but at the same time be able to be involved in things that you know move you um and give you purpose on your college campus. And even after your college campus, people say, what happens to me when I graduate? Where do I go from there?
Speaker: We have plenty of incredible organizations um in our communities, you know from care chapters across the country, joining groups um like ICNA Social Justice. There's many um you know local grassroots organizations. you know In New York City, we have many um grassroots organizations, Malika, Arab American Association of New York, DRUM, DESY'S RISING UP AND MOVING. THEY'RE JUST INCREDIBLE ORGANIZATIONS. AND THESE TYPES OF ORGANIZATIONS EXIST EVERYWHERE.
Speaker: SO IF YOU ARE A YOUNG MUSLIM AMERICAN join an organization, maybe um give them, you know, an hour, two hours a week of your time, they may show up to their events when they're calling for volunteers, show up and support. If there are actions happening in your community, if you hear that there is a, ah you know, a rally to support an Ecuadorian mother who has just been stripped from her children, that's also on us, Edward, to start showing up and keep showing up for our neighbors They don't have to be Muslim for us to show up for them. The type of trauma that is being committed against undocumented people of all backgrounds is absolutely horrific. There are literally children that are staying with family and friends because their parents are being unjustly detained by ICE. And some of those people detained, Edward, as you know, are Muslims. We watched the story of Salah Sarasour, of Ma'roof, of Ya'qub and many others and Lika and many others. We found out, um Edward, that our voices matter. So if you see a petition that comes out of Empower or comes out of care that says, you know, demand the release of so-and-so, you lose nothing.
Speaker: of of adding your voice to these campaigns that are that are out there. And guess what? In many of these cases, our voices matter, Edward. And we've seen the release of people, some after a year of detention, some after 80 days of detention. We are watching the power of the people and not only of Muslim Americans, but our our neighbors, our allies are coming out to support members of our community who have been unjustly ah targeted. So again, when you see online actions, don't say, ah, whatever, these people are just list building. No, it matters. It matters when we have, you know, 200,000 people in our country saying, please release this man to his family, release this grandfather, release this father.
Speaker: That really moves on people um in the system. Yeah. I think also, you know, Edward, people don't like this conversation. Donating, right? People always say, Sister Linda, people are struggling out here. You know, i don't know. People always asking me for money. We have the resources, even those of us with the with what with with whom believe we have the least means. I mean, a lot of us, for example, you know, I always say to people, we we we we have... um you know, a local coffee shop that you like, and you go there a couple of days a week just to kind of get yourself a nice cup of coffee, give something up every week, give up, you know, a five, $6, $7 latte and say, you know what, I'm going to save that money till the end of the month. I might have 20 or $25 and I'm going to give it to a local organization that's doing incredible work. And a lot of times we underestimate the power of that $20. I always say to people, if 20 people gave a local organization, $20 month, Guess what that is? That's $400 a month. That pays somebody's light bill.
Speaker: That allows an organization to keep their lights on. So don't ever underestimate that you're not a big donor and you can't drop $10,000 or $100,000. Your $20 matters. It's part of being able to demonstrate your commitment through action. And lastly, what I'll say is... um We are at a time where social media, um Edward, as you know, is a hit or miss for me. um It's an important place for us to put out our values, to be able to keep people informed. But there's also a lot of misinformation um on the internet. And I think we also have a responsibility as people, even ordinary people, not just people like us who are in this kind of as work, to If we see something and you know it's AI or you know it's not true, you should be very, you know, especially if you know the person, you should just be able to send the message and say, hey, um I saw you post a video.
Speaker: Even if it's a video that comes off as, you know, I don't know, pro-Palestine. If it's not true, it's not true, Edward. And it hurts the cause. when we are amplifying information that is not true. So I'm hoping people see themselves as leaders in that space, because we are all users of different ah social media platforms. Unfortunately, sometimes at night, that's what I do.
Speaker: I say, hey, i appreciate I appreciate the message of this post, but I wanted to bring it to your attention that this video is is is you know AI or is not you know is not true or something like that. Now, it's not a lot. It's not everywhere. But once in a while, I see these things. And I think it's incumbent on us to keep our causes pure, to keep them factual, because we know that facts move people. And we're here we are now, because we have been able to share factual evidence-based information about what has happened, for example, in Gaza, And people are now getting to the point where they're willing to say things that they probably weren't willing to say maybe five years ago. And I think part of that is protecting the integrity um of the movements we're a part of. So I want you to be, a you know, like, ah you know, I want you to just be on the Internet, misinformation, misinformation, because that is really powerful work that we could all do.
Speaker: absolutely So Linda, I want to say thank you for all of that advice. Thank you for the work you've done, for the support you've given to so many young people in particular. um yeah And as you said, we're now seeing the the fruits of that that work. JazakAllah, care for your time. Really appreciate it. Look forward to having you back, inshallah, to discuss, analyze more developments in the future, inshallah. In the meantime, JazakAllah, Karen. As-salamu alaykum.
Speaker: a like mo sallan Thank you. And thank you all for watching today's episode of Care on Air. We really appreciate it. As you all, as I said earlier, care is nonpartisan, does not endorse our post candidates. We hope you found this analysis of the political situation we're seeing interesting and informative. And we hope no matter who you're voting for, that everyone makes their voices heard, turns out to vote because you have the right to do that. And people died for your right to do that. Make sure you exercise your right. to influence our country's future.
Speaker: Thank you all so much again. We'll see you next week for our next episode of Care On Air, inshallah. Until then, assalamu alaikum. May peace be upon.
