Hey, Counties!

We hope you’re healthy, safe, and engaged with our national conversation on police brutality and racism.

As always, each episode of Counter Programming will focus on a "counter" of some sort. Today, we learn about counterproductivity. 

We start off this episode by sharing some resources for being an ally to the Black community at this time. 

• If you are a white person trying to learn more about Black Lives Matter, follow WP4BL on instagram. check out your local chapter of Black Lives Matter.
• If you hear chants of “defund the police,” or “abolish the police” and want to understand more about what that would mean, two podcast recommendations for you: 
  • Today, Explained
  • The Daily Zeitgeist 
• Follow Counter Propaganda on Instagram. Their mission is “reclaim the narrative.” They feature a person of color each day and tell their story.  We’re partial to it because it has “counter” in the title. 
• If you’re looking for a little more context into how police forces came about, and spoiler alert, they've always been racist and were founded on principles of white supremacy, another podcast recommendation:
  •  Throughline

Thank you to Ari Moskowitz for lending your voice for the intro section of the episode! You can do the same. Record a voice note saying, "Hi, i'm (your name), and you're listening to Counter Programming with Shira & Arielle." Then send it to us!

You can reach us by email: counterprogrammingshiraarielle@gmail.com. 

You can also reach us on Instagram @counterprogrammingpod.

How to beat counter productivity:

• Start your day with structured “me time” to go through emails and social media from the night before
• Reduce meeting times by 25% 
• Schedule breaks into your day 
• Turn off pop up notifications 
• Hop on the phone (or slack) instead of emailing 
• Chop up big problems into smaller tasks 
• Use checklists 

Learn more about counter productivity in this episode!

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