This document provides an overview and transcript of episode 106 of the Immigrantly podcast. The podcast features interviews with immigrants sharing their experiences. This episode's guest is Moumita Ahmed, a community organizer and candidate for New York City Council. She advocates for policies to help working families afford necessities like education, healthcare, and housing. The transcript outlines Moumita's background and campaign platform, which focuses on fighting for immigrants, the working class, and those affected by economic disparities.

1. Ep-106 "You Always
Have to Stand Up for
Yourself"
THE IMMIGRANTLY
PODCAST

2. About Us:
The Immigrant Podcast (formerly The Alien Chronicles)
is a minority women-owned & runs a weekly podcast
that features immigrants from all different walks of life
to share their immigrant experiences. Immigrant
deconstructs the archaic stereotypes of what it means
to be an immigrant, a child of immigrants, a person of
color, and everything in between. Each episode brings a
fresh perspective on the issues we address.

3. Our today's guest is Moumita Ahmed. She is a movement organizer,
community activist, civic leader, & a candidate for the New York City
Council. Moumita’s campaign is built around, ensuring that working
families don’t have to make sacrifices to afford things like
education, healthcare, and a home. We spoke about a host of issues,
including climate change, the NY housing crisis, optimism in the
midst of all the chaos, and why recycling may not be as effective as
we think.

4. Hey everyone, welcome back to Immigrantly. I am your host, Saadia
Khan. Before I introduce our today's guest, I want to rant a bit. So
bear with me. As most of you who listen to Immigrantly know, that
it's an indie podcast, and we really need your help to sustain it.

5. And I'm assuming if you are coming back every week, or every other
week to listen to our conversation, you probably like our work.
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7. And now to our today's guest. Now, from an activist's perspective,
I've always valued progressive ideals. And for me, the reason or the
answer is simple. It resonates with me because, at the core, those
ideals ensure equal rights for everyone.

8. Our today's guest, Moumita Ahmed, is also part of the progressive
movement. She is a community activist, civic leader, and a candidate
for the New York City Council. And she's not here to stick to the
status quo.

9. We need to wage a political revolution and that means bottom-up
organizing and doing bottom-up organizing means electing people
into these party positions, like district leader, like judicial delegates,
like county committee. These are positions that make up the
Executive Office of the Democratic Party, the approach of that local
Democratic Party. We have to vote with our heart and we have to
vote for the person that's going to make our lives better.

10. Moumita has made it very clear whom she's fighting for. The
working class, immigrants, and anyone who is affected by the
disparities in our economic system.

11. This is a family of five. So these are the grandparents, two parents,
and then one child living in a one-bedroom apartment. The dad's a
bus driver, and the mom is studying to be a nurse. So these are the
realities of working-class immigrant communities. They're living in
small apartments and they're making ends meet and we need to
take care of them.

12. Isn't that wonderful? What's striking about Moumita's work is that
her advocacy is based on her lived experiences after immigrating to
the US at the age of eight. Yeah, 8. She watched her parents make
sacrifice after sacrifice to be able to afford basic things, like quality
education. And now she's fighting for working families so that they
can afford things like education, health care, and a home.

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