1 00:00:08,840 --> 00:00:11,319 Speaker 1: As the sun began to tuck away for winter, so 2 00:00:11,440 --> 00:00:14,400 Speaker 1: did many Portlanders who had spent the summer out protesting. 3 00:00:14,760 --> 00:00:17,479 Speaker 1: As the days grew shorter, a shrunken but dedicated group 4 00:00:17,520 --> 00:00:20,120 Speaker 1: of activists continued to pound the streets in their call 5 00:00:20,239 --> 00:00:23,320 Speaker 1: for justice. The early days of the protests had been 6 00:00:23,320 --> 00:00:26,280 Speaker 1: fueled in part by the massive lockdown and the layoffs 7 00:00:26,280 --> 00:00:29,480 Speaker 1: that came with it. As the pandemic wore on, economic 8 00:00:29,560 --> 00:00:33,720 Speaker 1: collapse contributed to street activism in new ways. Portland has 9 00:00:33,720 --> 00:00:37,000 Speaker 1: been in a housing state of emergency since two thousand fifteen, 10 00:00:37,240 --> 00:00:40,479 Speaker 1: as it was declared by former Mayor Charlie Hales and 11 00:00:40,560 --> 00:00:43,559 Speaker 1: extended by his successors in the City Council again in 12 00:00:43,600 --> 00:00:47,120 Speaker 1: two thousand nineteen for two more years. For a long time, 13 00:00:47,240 --> 00:00:50,640 Speaker 1: thousands of Portland's had lived one paycheck away from homelessness, 14 00:00:51,120 --> 00:00:54,280 Speaker 1: and in thousands more found themselves on the edge of 15 00:00:54,280 --> 00:00:58,720 Speaker 1: a cliff. To stave off disaster, a pandemic eviction moratorium 16 00:00:58,760 --> 00:01:02,320 Speaker 1: was adopted by local all makers. It included no forgiveness 17 00:01:02,440 --> 00:01:05,679 Speaker 1: or grace period from mr rent. This meant that while 18 00:01:05,720 --> 00:01:08,080 Speaker 1: you wouldn't get kicked out of your home for missing rent, 19 00:01:08,360 --> 00:01:11,680 Speaker 1: all that unpaid rent still stacked up. At the time 20 00:01:11,720 --> 00:01:14,840 Speaker 1: of recording, eighty nine thousand households in Oregon are subject 21 00:01:14,920 --> 00:01:18,560 Speaker 1: to eviction when the state's moratorium expires, owing more than 22 00:01:18,640 --> 00:01:23,440 Speaker 1: three hundred and seventy eight million dollars in collective back rent. Now, 23 00:01:23,480 --> 00:01:25,800 Speaker 1: evicting all of those people would cost the state three 24 00:01:25,800 --> 00:01:29,839 Speaker 1: billion dollars, eight times more than the total back rent owed. 25 00:01:30,360 --> 00:01:33,720 Speaker 1: Near the end of the whole situation wound up coming 26 00:01:33,760 --> 00:01:37,000 Speaker 1: to a head in the battle over a single property. 27 00:01:37,360 --> 00:01:41,600 Speaker 1: The Red House on North Mississippi Avenue. Coming up next 28 00:01:41,720 --> 00:01:44,880 Speaker 1: is a lane Portland has spent the last decade basking 29 00:01:44,880 --> 00:01:47,319 Speaker 1: in its image is a liberal playground of bird stickers 30 00:01:47,319 --> 00:01:51,160 Speaker 1: and local war foodies. However, this hides the concerted destruction 31 00:01:51,200 --> 00:01:53,920 Speaker 1: by developers and city planners of Portland's black community in 32 00:01:53,960 --> 00:01:57,120 Speaker 1: the Albina District. During that same time, the area was 33 00:01:57,160 --> 00:02:00,240 Speaker 1: redlined for blacks, with local government working in concert real 34 00:02:00,360 --> 00:02:03,240 Speaker 1: estate agents and banks to guarantee black people virtually had 35 00:02:03,280 --> 00:02:06,880 Speaker 1: no options to live outside the neighborhood. Following the Vanport 36 00:02:06,920 --> 00:02:10,040 Speaker 1: floods of nineteen forty eight, local lawmakers and real estate 37 00:02:10,040 --> 00:02:13,200 Speaker 1: interests coordinated to ensure that thousands of black individuals and 38 00:02:13,280 --> 00:02:16,160 Speaker 1: families suddenly without a home, could look nowhere else but 39 00:02:16,200 --> 00:02:18,880 Speaker 1: a small section of inner North and Northeast Portland if 40 00:02:18,880 --> 00:02:21,720 Speaker 1: they were to live within city limits. The mostly European 41 00:02:21,760 --> 00:02:25,880 Speaker 1: immigrant populated neighborhood flipped almost overnight, with many other residents 42 00:02:25,919 --> 00:02:28,639 Speaker 1: quickly fleeing the area to avoid living near black people. 43 00:02:29,400 --> 00:02:32,360 Speaker 1: Shortly after the flood, close to seventy percent of the 44 00:02:32,400 --> 00:02:36,359 Speaker 1: state's black population lived in the Albina district. Consequently, the 45 00:02:36,400 --> 00:02:38,639 Speaker 1: neighborhood has been the nucleus to much of the city's 46 00:02:38,680 --> 00:02:42,560 Speaker 1: black community for generations. The Portland Police Bureau conducted years 47 00:02:42,560 --> 00:02:45,920 Speaker 1: of targeted harassment aimed at the Albina community. Years of 48 00:02:45,919 --> 00:02:48,960 Speaker 1: blite systemic disinvestment and policing have led to a mass 49 00:02:49,000 --> 00:02:51,880 Speaker 1: exodus of Blacks from the central Albina core. Many left 50 00:02:51,919 --> 00:02:54,080 Speaker 1: to the fringes of the city in search of lower rents. 51 00:02:54,080 --> 00:02:57,760 Speaker 1: As North Northeast Portland suddenly became prime real estate, quickly, 52 00:02:57,840 --> 00:03:00,480 Speaker 1: the place so many called home was eroding before their eyes. 53 00:03:01,320 --> 00:03:03,840 Speaker 1: Here are the snack Mamas on the gentrification of Albina 54 00:03:03,919 --> 00:03:07,239 Speaker 1: and some history of North Northeast Portland. Yeah, it's hard 55 00:03:07,280 --> 00:03:10,119 Speaker 1: to Portland. It's turned Like I said, it's really hard 56 00:03:10,160 --> 00:03:13,400 Speaker 1: to watch the change. Sometimes I get really angry and 57 00:03:13,440 --> 00:03:18,560 Speaker 1: it's hard. It's hard to watch this upsetting. But everything 58 00:03:18,560 --> 00:03:20,760 Speaker 1: looks all nice and fancy, but nobody knows how it 59 00:03:20,800 --> 00:03:23,639 Speaker 1: got that way. Emmanuel Hospital, I mean, fucking break, you 60 00:03:23,720 --> 00:03:27,200 Speaker 1: know what I mean. Like, yeah, it's nice to have 61 00:03:27,240 --> 00:03:29,080 Speaker 1: a hospital there, it really is. I mean, but you 62 00:03:29,080 --> 00:03:31,560 Speaker 1: could have cleared the fucking freeway and stuff. You're right there. 63 00:03:31,600 --> 00:03:33,639 Speaker 1: I mean, get Motor Center out of there and put 64 00:03:33,639 --> 00:03:36,000 Speaker 1: a hospital right there. Like I don't even remember what 65 00:03:36,080 --> 00:03:42,120 Speaker 1: was there before Motor Center was, but I'm sure quarter 66 00:03:42,200 --> 00:03:46,120 Speaker 1: they changed. Figure it out, you know what I mean. 67 00:03:46,400 --> 00:03:49,320 Speaker 1: But you're tearing families out of homes who lived there. 68 00:03:49,360 --> 00:03:52,320 Speaker 1: For I was like my my son's grandmother. She lived 69 00:03:52,360 --> 00:03:54,360 Speaker 1: on thirty three and Prescott, right there on the corner. 70 00:03:54,800 --> 00:03:57,040 Speaker 1: She's like in her late nineties. It came in pretty 71 00:03:57,080 --> 00:03:59,160 Speaker 1: much soil that house from up underneath her, and they're 72 00:03:59,160 --> 00:04:03,000 Speaker 1: always the box with all moved into like a hotel 73 00:04:03,120 --> 00:04:05,400 Speaker 1: like apartment thing. And died shortly after that. And it's like, 74 00:04:05,440 --> 00:04:07,080 Speaker 1: as this upsetting, you want to drive by and see 75 00:04:07,080 --> 00:04:08,880 Speaker 1: and I'm like, God, damn, I don't drun my car 76 00:04:08,920 --> 00:04:11,320 Speaker 1: to that house, you know, but is upsetting the way 77 00:04:11,320 --> 00:04:13,040 Speaker 1: they do things and the way they you know, re 78 00:04:13,200 --> 00:04:15,960 Speaker 1: home people in the you know, the wounds run deep. 79 00:04:16,240 --> 00:04:19,880 Speaker 1: In the last decade, homeownership for black Portlanders has fallen, 80 00:04:20,000 --> 00:04:23,800 Speaker 1: not risen. Perhaps more striking is their representation in the 81 00:04:23,800 --> 00:04:28,200 Speaker 1: houseless population. About seven point two percent of Multnomah County's 82 00:04:28,279 --> 00:04:31,320 Speaker 1: population is black, but according to their most recent point 83 00:04:31,320 --> 00:04:33,719 Speaker 1: in time count, which was released in pre COVID Times, 84 00:04:34,080 --> 00:04:37,240 Speaker 1: it showed that black Portlander's accounted for more than sixteen 85 00:04:37,279 --> 00:04:41,200 Speaker 1: percent of the houseless in the area. A policy adopted 86 00:04:41,200 --> 00:04:43,400 Speaker 1: by the City of Portland, designed to give residents with 87 00:04:43,440 --> 00:04:47,080 Speaker 1: historic ties to inner North and Northeast helps illustrate how 88 00:04:47,120 --> 00:04:50,840 Speaker 1: deep the need is. The policy gives first DIBs at 89 00:04:50,880 --> 00:04:54,200 Speaker 1: select new apartments being developed by the Housing Bureau, assists 90 00:04:54,200 --> 00:04:58,839 Speaker 1: existing homeowners in the area with maintenance and foster's homeownership opportunities. 91 00:04:59,279 --> 00:05:01,960 Speaker 1: When applicating for the first round of units opened up, 92 00:05:01,960 --> 00:05:05,920 Speaker 1: in thousands applied to live in the handful of units. 93 00:05:06,600 --> 00:05:09,520 Speaker 1: More complexes have been built since and dozens more served 94 00:05:09,560 --> 00:05:12,920 Speaker 1: for the home repair and ownership opportunities. But every time 95 00:05:12,960 --> 00:05:16,239 Speaker 1: applications open, the systems are flooded with people just hoping 96 00:05:16,279 --> 00:05:20,360 Speaker 1: to make the waitlist. However, for people that qualify, some 97 00:05:20,440 --> 00:05:22,320 Speaker 1: feel like the program does not go far enough to 98 00:05:22,360 --> 00:05:25,040 Speaker 1: remediate the damage that was done to the community. The 99 00:05:25,200 --> 00:05:28,360 Speaker 1: neck mom must continue. Why even that program has problems 100 00:05:28,400 --> 00:05:30,520 Speaker 1: since it limits the ownership rights of the family that 101 00:05:30,560 --> 00:05:33,520 Speaker 1: it helps to return. Yeah, I entered into this program 102 00:05:33,560 --> 00:05:37,599 Speaker 1: for the Bulama County did UM for people who lived 103 00:05:37,600 --> 00:05:40,240 Speaker 1: in North Portland and we're kind of pushed out, so 104 00:05:40,279 --> 00:05:42,560 Speaker 1: I entered that program. I'm just like, this is fucking 105 00:05:42,560 --> 00:05:45,240 Speaker 1: complete bullshit. You're asking people who have been kicked out 106 00:05:45,240 --> 00:05:48,279 Speaker 1: of their homes because of you guys have great fucking 107 00:05:48,279 --> 00:05:53,039 Speaker 1: credit to get into this program and to um be 108 00:05:53,120 --> 00:05:55,240 Speaker 1: able to buy a home on their own ship. But 109 00:05:55,320 --> 00:05:57,600 Speaker 1: yet you own the land, they can own the home. 110 00:05:57,680 --> 00:06:01,000 Speaker 1: Like fuck, go funk yourself. Yeah that's what it is. 111 00:06:01,040 --> 00:06:05,400 Speaker 1: They own the people. Yeah, you can't. You can't do ship. 112 00:06:06,560 --> 00:06:10,160 Speaker 1: They own that land. You own the home, mind you 113 00:06:10,839 --> 00:06:13,920 Speaker 1: when you they get a piece of that money when 114 00:06:13,960 --> 00:06:16,320 Speaker 1: you sell your home because they helped you get into there. 115 00:06:16,839 --> 00:06:18,960 Speaker 1: And you know, yeah, so you can't do any work 116 00:06:18,960 --> 00:06:21,760 Speaker 1: on the land or or tear the house down and building. 117 00:06:21,880 --> 00:06:23,960 Speaker 1: You can't do whatever you want to do. That's their 118 00:06:24,040 --> 00:06:27,479 Speaker 1: fucking land, you know, and you're just owning the home 119 00:06:27,520 --> 00:06:30,200 Speaker 1: on it. So it's not actually nothing people get back 120 00:06:32,520 --> 00:06:39,080 Speaker 1: absolutely and so and so, like you have choices between um, 121 00:06:39,120 --> 00:06:43,080 Speaker 1: all these little houses or our little buildings or town 122 00:06:43,120 --> 00:06:45,599 Speaker 1: homes or whatever. Like. There was nothing that was over 123 00:06:45,720 --> 00:06:48,520 Speaker 1: like three two bedrooms, I think two or three bedrooms 124 00:06:49,040 --> 00:06:50,880 Speaker 1: on any of those lists, because I've got a family 125 00:06:50,880 --> 00:06:53,640 Speaker 1: of five, you know, I'm just like, fuck, like, none 126 00:06:53,680 --> 00:06:55,760 Speaker 1: that should share for me, Like, what's what's the deal? 127 00:06:55,800 --> 00:06:57,760 Speaker 1: Can I build on it? No? You can't build anything 128 00:06:57,760 --> 00:07:00,320 Speaker 1: else on it? What the fuck? You know? Find out there? 129 00:07:00,440 --> 00:07:04,000 Speaker 1: That's their property, just on the building for that point being, 130 00:07:04,040 --> 00:07:07,600 Speaker 1: you know. And and um, yeah, I'm just like, but 131 00:07:07,720 --> 00:07:10,480 Speaker 1: all these properties are certain properties, you know, because it's 132 00:07:10,520 --> 00:07:17,160 Speaker 1: just what they own that you get to live on. Yeah, basically, 133 00:07:17,600 --> 00:07:19,680 Speaker 1: And I'm just like, this is fucking bullshit, dude. You know. 134 00:07:19,720 --> 00:07:21,560 Speaker 1: I never made it to my second appointment. I was like, 135 00:07:21,640 --> 00:07:25,640 Speaker 1: look out of here. Local activist Regina Rage also spoke 136 00:07:25,680 --> 00:07:29,520 Speaker 1: on the ongoing gentrification in Portland in specific relation to 137 00:07:29,600 --> 00:07:32,760 Speaker 1: a certain red painted house on Mississippi Avenue that was 138 00:07:32,800 --> 00:07:35,920 Speaker 1: owned by the same black family for more than fifty years. 139 00:07:36,760 --> 00:07:39,120 Speaker 1: That house would become one of the main focal points 140 00:07:39,160 --> 00:07:46,160 Speaker 1: in Portland protests. Yeah, Mississippi Street is located in a 141 00:07:46,200 --> 00:07:50,040 Speaker 1: neighborhood in Portland that was previously in all black neighborhood 142 00:07:50,280 --> 00:07:55,360 Speaker 1: and is at the very moment being gentrified and developed. 143 00:07:56,440 --> 00:08:01,680 Speaker 1: And UM, black families are being four out into East 144 00:08:01,720 --> 00:08:08,760 Speaker 1: Portland and Southeast Portland because of this gentrification and so 145 00:08:08,880 --> 00:08:13,520 Speaker 1: like for me specifically, UM, I like remember the lot 146 00:08:14,000 --> 00:08:19,000 Speaker 1: that we're all occupying, and it's been empty my entire life, 147 00:08:19,920 --> 00:08:23,280 Speaker 1: and now because of this protest, they want to develop 148 00:08:23,320 --> 00:08:26,720 Speaker 1: it into something else. They're gonna donate it and then 149 00:08:26,720 --> 00:08:29,840 Speaker 1: they're gonna put higher rises on top of it, condos, 150 00:08:29,960 --> 00:08:34,920 Speaker 1: you know. Um, the neighborhood looks vastly different from when 151 00:08:35,000 --> 00:08:38,800 Speaker 1: I was growing up. I don't recognize it. Sometimes I'm 152 00:08:38,880 --> 00:08:43,680 Speaker 1: driving and I just really don't recognize it. And um, 153 00:08:43,840 --> 00:08:47,560 Speaker 1: that's what makes it important to the community is this 154 00:08:47,640 --> 00:08:52,239 Speaker 1: is one of the last black families in this neighborhood 155 00:08:52,679 --> 00:08:57,640 Speaker 1: and they are doing everything they can to remain this neighborhood. 156 00:08:58,320 --> 00:09:04,480 Speaker 1: And previously they were displaced from Vamport as well, another 157 00:09:04,559 --> 00:09:11,160 Speaker 1: neighborhood in Portland's that was destroyed. UM, and all of 158 00:09:11,200 --> 00:09:14,800 Speaker 1: it is tied to white supremacy. In what we're fighting against, 159 00:09:15,360 --> 00:09:32,040 Speaker 1: we crooked. Here's Donovan Smith. The Red House All Mississippi 160 00:09:32,080 --> 00:09:35,319 Speaker 1: has belonged to the Kinney family for over sixty five years. 161 00:09:36,200 --> 00:09:38,439 Speaker 1: William and Pauline Kenney sold their house to their son, 162 00:09:38,520 --> 00:09:43,200 Speaker 1: William Jr. And his wife in their financial Dominoes began 163 00:09:43,240 --> 00:09:45,280 Speaker 1: when the owner's son got into a car accident on 164 00:09:45,320 --> 00:09:48,080 Speaker 1: a suspended license as of teen in two thousand two. 165 00:09:48,760 --> 00:09:51,440 Speaker 1: The driver of the car died, the passenger was injured, 166 00:09:51,440 --> 00:09:54,000 Speaker 1: and William the third was ultimately convicted of a felony. 167 00:09:55,200 --> 00:09:57,560 Speaker 1: To cover legal fees, the Kinney family took out a 168 00:09:57,600 --> 00:10:00,640 Speaker 1: balloon loan against the house the Sun and William X. 169 00:10:00,720 --> 00:10:03,960 Speaker 1: Nice was sinced to five years first and juvenile detention 170 00:10:04,040 --> 00:10:08,160 Speaker 1: before being transitioned to the state prison at eighteen. Over time, 171 00:10:08,520 --> 00:10:11,240 Speaker 1: due to interests and expenses piling up, as well as 172 00:10:11,280 --> 00:10:15,040 Speaker 1: inadequate legal representation, the Kinney family home, now one of 173 00:10:15,040 --> 00:10:18,280 Speaker 1: the last black owned homes on North Mississippi, ended up 174 00:10:18,280 --> 00:10:22,359 Speaker 1: in foreclosure because the foreclosure process started prior to the pandemic. 175 00:10:22,720 --> 00:10:25,079 Speaker 1: In September, or judge ruled that the eviction of the 176 00:10:25,160 --> 00:10:29,040 Speaker 1: Kenneys could proceed despite the eviction moratorium. That month, the 177 00:10:29,120 --> 00:10:32,280 Speaker 1: Montnoma County Sharfs stormed into the Reddit House with rifles 178 00:10:32,600 --> 00:10:36,000 Speaker 1: and evicted four members of the family. After the initial eviction, 179 00:10:36,120 --> 00:10:38,920 Speaker 1: some Portlanders began gathering around the Red House to support 180 00:10:38,920 --> 00:10:42,840 Speaker 1: the Kennies. They decried the forced eviction, especially amist economic 181 00:10:42,880 --> 00:10:47,000 Speaker 1: crisis and the pandemic. Some even camped outside the property, 182 00:10:47,160 --> 00:10:49,720 Speaker 1: and then on December five, the Portland Police Bureau and 183 00:10:49,800 --> 00:10:53,000 Speaker 1: County Sheriff's arrived yet again to clear out residents, campers 184 00:10:53,200 --> 00:10:57,520 Speaker 1: and render the home on Mississippi Avenue uninhabited Alsas are 185 00:10:57,800 --> 00:11:00,400 Speaker 1: An independent Portland journalists was on the on when the 186 00:11:00,440 --> 00:11:03,960 Speaker 1: tide turned against the police eviction team. Red House. Wow, 187 00:11:04,000 --> 00:11:09,320 Speaker 1: where to be kids? Um? You know, Red Houses is 188 00:11:09,440 --> 00:11:14,840 Speaker 1: like such a wild story in so many ways. Um, 189 00:11:14,880 --> 00:11:18,320 Speaker 1: that morning, oh my god, it was like not even 190 00:11:18,440 --> 00:11:23,280 Speaker 1: nine thirty in the morning, and I was just like, 191 00:11:23,800 --> 00:11:26,800 Speaker 1: holy sh it, Like everyone just went like full Paris 192 00:11:26,800 --> 00:11:30,199 Speaker 1: on p PP. It was not even ten o'clock in 193 00:11:30,240 --> 00:11:33,040 Speaker 1: the morning. I was like, what am I witnessing right now? 194 00:11:33,160 --> 00:11:38,600 Speaker 1: This is wild? But I think that's fucking huge because 195 00:11:39,920 --> 00:11:45,080 Speaker 1: you know, for almost two hundred days we've seen people 196 00:11:45,520 --> 00:11:50,720 Speaker 1: we've you know, we've seen activists and protesters play nothing 197 00:11:50,760 --> 00:11:55,120 Speaker 1: but defense, and even the defense is very like it's 198 00:11:55,200 --> 00:11:58,800 Speaker 1: usually very childish and comical, you know, which is what's 199 00:11:58,840 --> 00:12:02,720 Speaker 1: so fucking powerful. You know. They throw bouncy balls and 200 00:12:02,800 --> 00:12:05,400 Speaker 1: water balloons filled with glitter at the cops, and the 201 00:12:05,440 --> 00:12:11,440 Speaker 1: cops's reaction is just like, you know, it's absurd. UM. 202 00:12:11,600 --> 00:12:14,880 Speaker 1: So seeing that kind and even even the morning of 203 00:12:14,920 --> 00:12:19,319 Speaker 1: Red House, that was still defense, but it was a 204 00:12:19,320 --> 00:12:24,839 Speaker 1: different kind of defense. It was hands on, aggressive, don't 205 00:12:25,160 --> 00:12:29,120 Speaker 1: funk with us kind of defense. And you know, it's 206 00:12:29,160 --> 00:12:33,480 Speaker 1: the first time I've seen anything like that. UM. And 207 00:12:33,600 --> 00:12:38,920 Speaker 1: the fact that it was done for that reason, I 208 00:12:38,920 --> 00:12:42,720 Speaker 1: think also just goes to show like what the community 209 00:12:42,800 --> 00:12:50,760 Speaker 1: is about. UM. Seeing people care that much, it was incredible. Um. 210 00:12:51,800 --> 00:12:56,440 Speaker 1: There were people literally fighting the cops, and I think 211 00:12:56,440 --> 00:12:59,800 Speaker 1: this is one of the few like literally fighting the 212 00:13:00,120 --> 00:13:04,840 Speaker 1: up um to defend a family that was you know, 213 00:13:05,120 --> 00:13:08,800 Speaker 1: they were trying to force out of their home. And UM, 214 00:13:08,840 --> 00:13:12,600 Speaker 1: I think you know, in general Red House, but like 215 00:13:12,720 --> 00:13:15,960 Speaker 1: even like leading up to Red House, there's been UM, 216 00:13:16,040 --> 00:13:19,800 Speaker 1: I think there's been a lot more attention and a 217 00:13:19,800 --> 00:13:24,520 Speaker 1: lot more care and focus on houselessness activist Regina Rage 218 00:13:24,640 --> 00:13:28,360 Speaker 1: also witnessed the December raid. I was there at five. 219 00:13:28,720 --> 00:13:33,760 Speaker 1: They called me at four, and I got there right 220 00:13:33,840 --> 00:13:40,119 Speaker 1: after in the morning, Yes, in the morning. UM. Initially 221 00:13:40,160 --> 00:13:45,640 Speaker 1: it was just me there, UM. And then I think 222 00:13:45,679 --> 00:13:51,240 Speaker 1: by the time daylight hit and Coyn was there, there 223 00:13:51,320 --> 00:13:56,800 Speaker 1: was maybe like fifty people, all like crunched in like 224 00:13:56,960 --> 00:14:00,800 Speaker 1: this one tiny side yard that the only place we 225 00:14:00,840 --> 00:14:05,720 Speaker 1: were allowed to be at. And at that point I 226 00:14:06,240 --> 00:14:09,960 Speaker 1: noticed that white people were allowed to stand in that 227 00:14:10,080 --> 00:14:15,559 Speaker 1: alleyway and I wasn't. Every time I stepped in the alleyway, 228 00:14:15,800 --> 00:14:19,120 Speaker 1: they the police charged at me and threatened to arrest me. 229 00:14:19,800 --> 00:14:27,200 Speaker 1: And UM, I started yelling about how like they were 230 00:14:27,280 --> 00:14:30,920 Speaker 1: blatantly allowing these white people to walk back and forth 231 00:14:30,960 --> 00:14:35,200 Speaker 1: in this alleyway, but I wasn't, and other people started yelling, 232 00:14:35,320 --> 00:14:37,400 Speaker 1: and then soon we were all just standing in the 233 00:14:37,440 --> 00:14:42,760 Speaker 1: street and the police we're rushing us. UM. At one 234 00:14:42,800 --> 00:14:47,760 Speaker 1: point they massed us all and UM forced us all 235 00:14:47,800 --> 00:14:51,280 Speaker 1: back onto the side yard, and then we rushed again. 236 00:14:52,040 --> 00:14:56,000 Speaker 1: A couple of people got arrested, and they at one 237 00:14:56,040 --> 00:15:00,560 Speaker 1: point decided to pull back, and the sheriff's let first, 238 00:15:01,320 --> 00:15:06,120 Speaker 1: and as they started to lead I started running down 239 00:15:06,160 --> 00:15:11,680 Speaker 1: the hill towards the cop cars, and everybody else followed 240 00:15:12,200 --> 00:15:17,680 Speaker 1: and it escalated from there. Under a hell of water bottles, rocks, paint, balloons, 241 00:15:17,720 --> 00:15:21,920 Speaker 1: and other random projectiles, police retreated from the area. The 242 00:15:21,920 --> 00:15:24,880 Speaker 1: cops initially arrived around five am and were completely gone 243 00:15:24,880 --> 00:15:27,560 Speaker 1: by ten thirty. In the five hours they were present, 244 00:15:27,600 --> 00:15:30,840 Speaker 1: at least seven people were arrested, and the hasty retreat 245 00:15:30,920 --> 00:15:34,200 Speaker 1: several police cars were damaged, some by projectiles and one 246 00:15:34,280 --> 00:15:36,360 Speaker 1: due to an officer crashing his own cruise there into 247 00:15:36,400 --> 00:15:40,880 Speaker 1: another car. Regina describes what happened next. Um, the police 248 00:15:40,920 --> 00:15:47,640 Speaker 1: finally left. UM, we're chased off whatever. UM, and we 249 00:15:47,800 --> 00:15:54,920 Speaker 1: just took down the fence and started building them immediately. UM. Yeah, 250 00:15:54,720 --> 00:15:58,280 Speaker 1: and the police had destroyed all of what we had 251 00:15:58,320 --> 00:16:02,760 Speaker 1: built that red house. It was like a weather proof 252 00:16:02,920 --> 00:16:08,000 Speaker 1: um living space for those individuals who were staying there, 253 00:16:08,120 --> 00:16:11,320 Speaker 1: as well as like an event space. It was like 254 00:16:12,000 --> 00:16:17,120 Speaker 1: very very very nice, and UM they destroyed it. And UM, 255 00:16:17,200 --> 00:16:21,240 Speaker 1: so we took basically all the broken materials that they 256 00:16:21,280 --> 00:16:25,920 Speaker 1: created for us and used those to build barricades. And UM. 257 00:16:25,920 --> 00:16:30,480 Speaker 1: When the barricades were up, we UM, we organized watch 258 00:16:31,400 --> 00:16:35,360 Speaker 1: and UM began calling for supplies to be brought in. 259 00:16:36,280 --> 00:16:38,200 Speaker 1: Like what happened. I do want to add what happened 260 00:16:38,240 --> 00:16:42,400 Speaker 1: with that barricade was just like organic and organic response 261 00:16:42,440 --> 00:16:46,160 Speaker 1: to being attacked by an enemy who literally does not 262 00:16:46,240 --> 00:16:49,120 Speaker 1: give a funk about your life. Like Regina and I 263 00:16:49,160 --> 00:16:51,480 Speaker 1: are both single mothers, you know what I'm saying, Like 264 00:16:51,520 --> 00:16:54,480 Speaker 1: they're out there gassing single mom at Lista recounts the 265 00:16:54,480 --> 00:16:56,240 Speaker 1: mood after the cops were pushed out of the area. 266 00:16:56,440 --> 00:16:59,640 Speaker 1: Everyone was just kind of like on edge, like it 267 00:16:59,760 --> 00:17:02,920 Speaker 1: was a huge celebration, but everybody was like that they're 268 00:17:02,960 --> 00:17:06,159 Speaker 1: coming back and with forced they just got their asses 269 00:17:06,200 --> 00:17:08,760 Speaker 1: handed to them. There's absolutely no way they're just gonna 270 00:17:09,240 --> 00:17:12,399 Speaker 1: you know, they're just gonna leave. So everyone everyone was 271 00:17:12,480 --> 00:17:16,280 Speaker 1: ready and everyone was waiting, and within minutes, you know, 272 00:17:16,400 --> 00:17:20,800 Speaker 1: barricades started to go up. Um, but they weren't even then, 273 00:17:20,840 --> 00:17:23,840 Speaker 1: Like they weren't just like barricades. Um. Were you at 274 00:17:23,880 --> 00:17:27,879 Speaker 1: a pekaz or any of the like the really really 275 00:17:27,880 --> 00:17:31,480 Speaker 1: barricaded Knights and you know, those nights were fucking sick. 276 00:17:32,119 --> 00:17:34,680 Speaker 1: But a lot of barricades like like they were really 277 00:17:34,720 --> 00:17:39,200 Speaker 1: cool and they were they served their purpose. But Red House, 278 00:17:39,600 --> 00:17:44,240 Speaker 1: I'm talking like reinforced barricades and blockades like there were 279 00:17:44,280 --> 00:17:47,639 Speaker 1: powered tools, there was concrete being laid out, like you know, 280 00:17:48,280 --> 00:17:52,400 Speaker 1: anything you could think of. Um, And I think, uh, 281 00:17:52,600 --> 00:17:57,320 Speaker 1: you know a lot of that comes from practice and um. 282 00:17:57,359 --> 00:18:01,439 Speaker 1: You know, you learn what you do wrong by you know, 283 00:18:01,880 --> 00:18:05,760 Speaker 1: testing things out. But I think the biggest change was, 284 00:18:06,280 --> 00:18:09,479 Speaker 1: like it was the passionate. Hours after the barricades went up, 285 00:18:09,680 --> 00:18:12,600 Speaker 1: narrowly re elected Portland Mayor Ted Wheeler made a series 286 00:18:12,640 --> 00:18:16,439 Speaker 1: of tweets decrying the eviction blockade and mischaracterizing the eviction 287 00:18:16,480 --> 00:18:20,159 Speaker 1: defense as a so called autonomous zone. He said, quote, 288 00:18:20,520 --> 00:18:23,320 Speaker 1: I'm authorizing the Portland Police to use all lawful means 289 00:18:23,320 --> 00:18:26,320 Speaker 1: to in the illegal occupation on North Mississippi Avenue and 290 00:18:26,359 --> 00:18:29,600 Speaker 1: to hold those violating our community laws accountable. There will 291 00:18:29,640 --> 00:18:32,880 Speaker 1: be no autonomous zone in Portland end quote. Nervous anticipation 292 00:18:33,000 --> 00:18:36,359 Speaker 1: loomed over everyone the first night inside the barricades. Behind 293 00:18:36,400 --> 00:18:40,199 Speaker 1: the multiple layers of reinforced barricades and impromptu call troops, 294 00:18:40,640 --> 00:18:43,080 Speaker 1: people anxiously waited to see if the police would show 295 00:18:43,119 --> 00:18:46,320 Speaker 1: up that first night, but slowly morning came and the 296 00:18:46,359 --> 00:18:49,240 Speaker 1: coast was clear. Over the next few days, the infrastructure 297 00:18:49,240 --> 00:18:53,199 Speaker 1: grew barricades grew more sophisticated. The Jankee caltrots made of 298 00:18:53,200 --> 00:18:56,600 Speaker 1: screws and garden hoses were replaced with wealthy rebar the 299 00:18:56,600 --> 00:18:59,680 Speaker 1: food donation area turned into a whole kitchen, and more 300 00:18:59,720 --> 00:19:01,800 Speaker 1: and more tents for put up in the streets around 301 00:19:01,800 --> 00:19:04,200 Speaker 1: the Red House. But as time went on and police 302 00:19:04,240 --> 00:19:07,960 Speaker 1: didn't show familiar problems of roles regarding people acting as security. 303 00:19:08,080 --> 00:19:12,159 Speaker 1: Here's Regina and UM. I think that white people in 304 00:19:12,200 --> 00:19:16,480 Speaker 1: this movement often come into it with all white savior 305 00:19:16,560 --> 00:19:21,240 Speaker 1: complex and take up a lot of space and actually 306 00:19:21,280 --> 00:19:25,600 Speaker 1: alienate the black people that this movement is about. And 307 00:19:25,840 --> 00:19:29,800 Speaker 1: that's what happened during the barricade. There were a ton 308 00:19:29,840 --> 00:19:37,360 Speaker 1: of white cis gendered people running around UM, behaving crazily, 309 00:19:38,359 --> 00:19:43,000 Speaker 1: UM acting like cops. To be honest, Multiple people, some 310 00:19:43,119 --> 00:19:46,520 Speaker 1: of them children, were physically assaulted, put in chokehole, shot 311 00:19:46,560 --> 00:19:49,320 Speaker 1: at with paintballs, and kicked out of the Red House 312 00:19:49,320 --> 00:19:52,200 Speaker 1: eviction defense area for not having permission to use paint 313 00:19:52,440 --> 00:19:55,960 Speaker 1: by large men acting as self appointed security team. Problems 314 00:19:55,960 --> 00:19:58,920 Speaker 1: with the protest security occurred in Portland before, the most 315 00:19:58,960 --> 00:20:02,400 Speaker 1: notable being the truck driver assault, but smaller incidents took 316 00:20:02,400 --> 00:20:05,359 Speaker 1: place throughout the summer and fall. Armed men running around 317 00:20:05,359 --> 00:20:08,879 Speaker 1: in tactical gear, trying to intimidate people into obedience and 318 00:20:09,240 --> 00:20:12,600 Speaker 1: in some cases using physical force has the same fundamental issue. 319 00:20:12,640 --> 00:20:16,040 Speaker 1: People critique police for the same problem of armed security 320 00:20:16,160 --> 00:20:18,240 Speaker 1: essentially acting as cop is part of what got a 321 00:20:18,240 --> 00:20:22,280 Speaker 1: black teenager in Seattle's Capitol Hill occupied protests are child killed. 322 00:20:22,960 --> 00:20:25,720 Speaker 1: One phrase spray painting near the Red House was killed 323 00:20:25,720 --> 00:20:29,080 Speaker 1: the cop in your head, reflecting the protesters dissatisfaction with 324 00:20:29,160 --> 00:20:32,360 Speaker 1: this dynamic. When a group of people are attacking children 325 00:20:32,359 --> 00:20:36,440 Speaker 1: over graffiti, that's basically a mini police force. Unaccountable armed 326 00:20:36,440 --> 00:20:39,119 Speaker 1: men and tactical gear. Part of police abolition is can 327 00:20:39,200 --> 00:20:43,000 Speaker 1: running policing dynamics found throughout your life, even at anti 328 00:20:43,040 --> 00:20:46,480 Speaker 1: police protests. The kill the cop in your head graffiti 329 00:20:46,520 --> 00:20:49,400 Speaker 1: at Red House was soon buffed and covered over by 330 00:20:49,400 --> 00:20:52,800 Speaker 1: a fellow activists within the blockade. For most within the barricades, 331 00:20:52,920 --> 00:20:55,320 Speaker 1: there wasn't much conflict to speak of. The time at 332 00:20:55,320 --> 00:20:58,040 Speaker 1: the eviction blockade was mostly spent sitting around a campfire 333 00:20:58,080 --> 00:21:01,199 Speaker 1: and watching over the forty five intus for incoming police. 334 00:21:01,560 --> 00:21:03,639 Speaker 1: The neighbors who lived near the Red House. The biggest 335 00:21:03,720 --> 00:21:06,880 Speaker 1: change was a slight inconvenience to parking. Many locals were 336 00:21:07,000 --> 00:21:09,800 Speaker 1: very sympathetic to the cause, putting up signs and supported 337 00:21:09,800 --> 00:21:12,400 Speaker 1: the Kennys and the Red House, and some even show 338 00:21:12,520 --> 00:21:17,200 Speaker 1: support in other ways. People were actually very supportive. UM. 339 00:21:17,359 --> 00:21:21,439 Speaker 1: Neighbors were bringing us food and supplies, they were coming 340 00:21:21,520 --> 00:21:25,560 Speaker 1: to hang out with us, they were bringing us coffee. UM. 341 00:21:25,640 --> 00:21:30,280 Speaker 1: There were very few individuals in the neighborhood who actually 342 00:21:30,320 --> 00:21:34,160 Speaker 1: felt threatened by any of us, But unfortunately those are 343 00:21:34,359 --> 00:21:37,639 Speaker 1: the people who got to the media first. But I 344 00:21:37,680 --> 00:21:42,159 Speaker 1: think that if we UM were able to talk to 345 00:21:42,280 --> 00:21:45,360 Speaker 1: everyone who was involved, I think that they would say 346 00:21:45,359 --> 00:21:48,520 Speaker 1: that they were proud of what we did. Yeah, like 347 00:21:48,680 --> 00:21:52,000 Speaker 1: the ones who the few and far between ones who 348 00:21:52,040 --> 00:21:55,359 Speaker 1: were like against it were they were just very loud, 349 00:21:55,920 --> 00:21:59,560 Speaker 1: quite privileged people with time on their hands, you know, 350 00:22:00,200 --> 00:22:03,840 Speaker 1: which often times, as we know, can have the ear 351 00:22:04,040 --> 00:22:07,760 Speaker 1: of the powers that be. Once the barricades went up 352 00:22:07,760 --> 00:22:12,200 Speaker 1: in seven lockdown beeped up media both locally and naturally 353 00:22:12,240 --> 00:22:15,120 Speaker 1: couldn't resist the Red House story. What had been one 354 00:22:15,400 --> 00:22:18,360 Speaker 1: families years long battle in the courts was now suddenly 355 00:22:18,400 --> 00:22:22,600 Speaker 1: catching the headlines CNN and TMZ and YEP, even Fox. 356 00:22:23,280 --> 00:22:26,000 Speaker 1: A local activist named Koa Crespan, who had been working 357 00:22:26,000 --> 00:22:28,280 Speaker 1: with Regina to organize with the Kennies laun should Go 358 00:22:28,320 --> 00:22:30,480 Speaker 1: fund me. It set out to raise a quarter million 359 00:22:30,480 --> 00:22:32,720 Speaker 1: dollars for the Kennies as a bargaining chip to get 360 00:22:32,760 --> 00:22:36,399 Speaker 1: to developer Roman o Zarouga to the table. When national 361 00:22:36,440 --> 00:22:39,640 Speaker 1: media began constantly reporting on the house, donation shot up 362 00:22:39,680 --> 00:22:42,679 Speaker 1: coming from all corners of the country as sympathetic viewers 363 00:22:42,720 --> 00:22:45,480 Speaker 1: and readers and to stop the Kennies from losing their home. 364 00:22:46,080 --> 00:22:48,920 Speaker 1: A slight twist came when the Oregon Public Broadcasting Guard 365 00:22:49,000 --> 00:22:51,840 Speaker 1: op BE released an article revealing that the Kenney family 366 00:22:52,160 --> 00:22:54,080 Speaker 1: in fact had a place to stay after the raid. 367 00:22:54,840 --> 00:22:57,920 Speaker 1: In fact, it was another family member who yep on 368 00:22:58,080 --> 00:23:01,520 Speaker 1: their own home. The headline family at the center of 369 00:23:01,560 --> 00:23:05,280 Speaker 1: the Red House protests old second Portlands home, detailing the 370 00:23:05,320 --> 00:23:07,479 Speaker 1: fact that the home had been kept in the family 371 00:23:07,520 --> 00:23:12,560 Speaker 1: for generations, disperst similar headlines locally and Nashally. They're trying 372 00:23:12,600 --> 00:23:15,920 Speaker 1: to say the Kinney family lied about like not having 373 00:23:15,920 --> 00:23:20,159 Speaker 1: anywhere to go, and when I get kicked out, I 374 00:23:20,200 --> 00:23:22,879 Speaker 1: have gotten kicked out of places that I've been staying 375 00:23:22,920 --> 00:23:26,359 Speaker 1: at and have had nowhere but my grandmother's house to go, 376 00:23:26,840 --> 00:23:29,960 Speaker 1: and that's exactly what happened to the Kinney family. The 377 00:23:30,040 --> 00:23:33,280 Speaker 1: police removed them from their home at gunpoint, and they 378 00:23:33,280 --> 00:23:37,479 Speaker 1: had nowhere else but their grandma's house to go, so 379 00:23:37,760 --> 00:23:41,679 Speaker 1: they went to say there, and the media tried to 380 00:23:41,720 --> 00:23:45,040 Speaker 1: say that they had a second house. And as if 381 00:23:45,320 --> 00:23:50,120 Speaker 1: an entire family with multiple generations all has to live 382 00:23:50,160 --> 00:23:54,600 Speaker 1: in the same house, that is some racist ship. Was 383 00:23:54,760 --> 00:23:59,080 Speaker 1: super racist to say that a black family has to 384 00:23:59,160 --> 00:24:02,159 Speaker 1: all live in the same fucking house. O. P. B 385 00:24:02,359 --> 00:24:08,200 Speaker 1: ran an apology articles shortly thereafter, apologizing for their mischaracterization 386 00:24:08,280 --> 00:24:12,280 Speaker 1: of the Kinneys plate. Some support had dwindled, but through 387 00:24:12,320 --> 00:24:14,240 Speaker 1: it all, support for the Red House grew, and so 388 00:24:14,359 --> 00:24:17,040 Speaker 1: did the fundraiser. The go fund me raised well over 389 00:24:17,080 --> 00:24:19,200 Speaker 1: the quarter million dollars and needed to secure the house. 390 00:24:20,000 --> 00:24:23,480 Speaker 1: The developer was ready to approach the bargaining table with 391 00:24:23,560 --> 00:24:26,080 Speaker 1: the assistance of the city, Roman and the Kinneys began 392 00:24:26,119 --> 00:24:29,399 Speaker 1: discussions about transferring ownership back into the hands of the family. 393 00:24:30,040 --> 00:24:32,040 Speaker 1: This was a mark of celebration for some who had 394 00:24:32,080 --> 00:24:35,480 Speaker 1: been occupying the house since September, as conversations with Roman 395 00:24:35,520 --> 00:24:38,440 Speaker 1: trucked on the city. After days of threatening police force 396 00:24:38,480 --> 00:24:41,120 Speaker 1: against the house, promised the barrel with back off if 397 00:24:41,119 --> 00:24:44,439 Speaker 1: barricades came down. The Kinneys obliged, to the dismay of 398 00:24:44,480 --> 00:24:47,439 Speaker 1: some activists, many white, who wanted to flex the strength 399 00:24:47,480 --> 00:24:50,399 Speaker 1: of the people. But for Regina, she says, the occupation 400 00:24:50,440 --> 00:24:53,159 Speaker 1: was never about the walls. There were a lot of 401 00:24:53,160 --> 00:24:56,200 Speaker 1: people who we didn't even know, who had never been 402 00:24:56,359 --> 00:25:00,359 Speaker 1: to the Red House, who had opinions on what we 403 00:25:01,000 --> 00:25:04,960 Speaker 1: should have done and like who we are now, um, 404 00:25:05,000 --> 00:25:08,639 Speaker 1: because we didn't keep those barricades up, um, But it 405 00:25:08,720 --> 00:25:12,600 Speaker 1: was never about the barricades. It was, it is and 406 00:25:12,640 --> 00:25:15,879 Speaker 1: will always be about what is best for the Kidney 407 00:25:15,880 --> 00:25:19,879 Speaker 1: family and what they want. And um we did lose 408 00:25:19,960 --> 00:25:24,960 Speaker 1: like support slowly and slowly after the barricades um came down, 409 00:25:25,119 --> 00:25:32,320 Speaker 1: people stopped coming and UM their individuals living at the 410 00:25:32,359 --> 00:25:35,600 Speaker 1: Red House right now who still need support from this 411 00:25:35,720 --> 00:25:40,320 Speaker 1: community and are not getting it because the cops aren't 412 00:25:40,440 --> 00:25:43,120 Speaker 1: an imminent threat anymore At the moment, it does seem 413 00:25:43,119 --> 00:25:46,119 Speaker 1: the eviction blockade was successful in applying enough pressure to 414 00:25:46,200 --> 00:25:48,280 Speaker 1: open up options for the Kidneys to keep their home, 415 00:25:48,960 --> 00:25:51,600 Speaker 1: holding down a few blocks of a neighborhood, while raising 416 00:25:51,680 --> 00:25:54,400 Speaker 1: hundreds of thousands of dollars may not be a perfectly 417 00:25:54,440 --> 00:25:57,440 Speaker 1: replicable strategy, but it does show the type of things 418 00:25:57,480 --> 00:26:00,159 Speaker 1: that can happen when community comes together to stand up 419 00:26:00,160 --> 00:26:04,240 Speaker 1: against a perceived injustice. Here's Coy on the potential impact 420 00:26:04,240 --> 00:26:06,119 Speaker 1: of the Red House story in the future. And I 421 00:26:06,160 --> 00:26:09,600 Speaker 1: hope it happens all around the country, and I hope 422 00:26:09,600 --> 00:26:12,600 Speaker 1: people are inspired by it and that they go speaking 423 00:26:12,600 --> 00:26:16,040 Speaker 1: out evictions to do the ship with then to lift 424 00:26:16,119 --> 00:26:19,880 Speaker 1: up this work. Um, this isn't like the first ever 425 00:26:20,680 --> 00:26:24,639 Speaker 1: time and neighborhood has risen up to defend an eviction. 426 00:26:25,440 --> 00:26:28,679 Speaker 1: This would happen even as far back as the thirties. 427 00:26:29,280 --> 00:26:33,920 Speaker 1: Communities would come together to fight um the police when 428 00:26:34,000 --> 00:26:37,120 Speaker 1: they came to drag people out of their homes. Right, 429 00:26:37,200 --> 00:26:39,200 Speaker 1: I think like we've all seen have I don't know, 430 00:26:39,640 --> 00:26:43,840 Speaker 1: we've probably all seen that pick of like it's from 431 00:26:43,880 --> 00:26:47,080 Speaker 1: like the thirties, like range of reference, where it's like 432 00:26:47,440 --> 00:26:51,479 Speaker 1: neighborhood men and they're all white, like on top of 433 00:26:51,480 --> 00:26:56,479 Speaker 1: a sheriff stopping them from evicting a widow, you know, 434 00:26:56,600 --> 00:26:59,760 Speaker 1: like a handful of people continue to occupy the Red House. 435 00:27:00,000 --> 00:27:03,479 Speaker 1: Negotiations have continued since December, but all parties have been 436 00:27:03,520 --> 00:27:05,600 Speaker 1: pretty tight looked about the status of the talks up 437 00:27:05,680 --> 00:27:08,640 Speaker 1: until now. Red Houses not marked the end of protests 438 00:27:08,640 --> 00:27:12,439 Speaker 1: in Portland. More than anything, it's galvanized a large amount 439 00:27:12,440 --> 00:27:16,760 Speaker 1: of mutual aid directed around evictions and houselessness. During the 440 00:27:16,800 --> 00:27:19,840 Speaker 1: same period, as Red House activists keeping multi week watch 441 00:27:19,880 --> 00:27:22,480 Speaker 1: over a houseless encampment at a local park that was 442 00:27:22,640 --> 00:27:25,080 Speaker 1: under threat of sweep by the city. As winner is 443 00:27:25,080 --> 00:27:27,440 Speaker 1: set in the mayor is support to roll back eviction 444 00:27:27,480 --> 00:27:31,719 Speaker 1: protections as well as protections against camp suites. Facing freezing 445 00:27:31,760 --> 00:27:35,280 Speaker 1: temperatures and the mounting pandemic, activists have mobilized to get 446 00:27:35,320 --> 00:27:38,080 Speaker 1: gear and supplies, as well as helping with defense work 447 00:27:38,160 --> 00:27:42,560 Speaker 1: to prevent more evictions and displacement. Activists argue that sweeps 448 00:27:42,560 --> 00:27:46,520 Speaker 1: and evictions are unconscionable during a pandemic, and that money 449 00:27:46,600 --> 00:27:48,800 Speaker 1: funding the evictions could be used to make sure that 450 00:27:48,840 --> 00:27:53,960 Speaker 1: people are housed. Dmitria Hester speaks about the continuing mutual aid. No, 451 00:27:54,320 --> 00:27:58,560 Speaker 1: I am surprising because our community know us the need, 452 00:27:59,320 --> 00:28:01,119 Speaker 1: they know it's an needs, so they started all this 453 00:28:01,320 --> 00:28:04,320 Speaker 1: group so that that we can help the need in 454 00:28:04,400 --> 00:28:07,600 Speaker 1: our community. I mean, people are still getting evicted, They're 455 00:28:07,640 --> 00:28:10,240 Speaker 1: still not being able to pay their bills. They're still 456 00:28:10,359 --> 00:28:14,240 Speaker 1: not getting food from our government. So we have to 457 00:28:14,320 --> 00:28:17,440 Speaker 1: depend on each other to give us what we need, 458 00:28:17,920 --> 00:28:20,960 Speaker 1: you know, to be successful, to keep going on because 459 00:28:21,920 --> 00:28:24,879 Speaker 1: I don't see a future of our government giving us 460 00:28:24,960 --> 00:28:27,240 Speaker 1: or doing anything to help us. So we still have 461 00:28:27,320 --> 00:28:30,520 Speaker 1: to continue this fight. Plus we're pushing it to the 462 00:28:30,920 --> 00:28:34,840 Speaker 1: to the White House. I was there when Um when 463 00:28:34,880 --> 00:28:39,920 Speaker 1: Biden one, we marched our march with the Black Panthers 464 00:28:40,040 --> 00:28:43,600 Speaker 1: to the White House, saying to for aid, tell the 465 00:28:44,080 --> 00:28:48,520 Speaker 1: tell the world who we hate, the Republicans, the Democrats, 466 00:28:48,560 --> 00:28:51,000 Speaker 1: the whole damn bunch. Another ongoing movie in that this 467 00:28:51,080 --> 00:28:53,880 Speaker 1: game renewed interests in the summer protests, the Patrick kim 468 00:28:53,880 --> 00:28:56,880 Speaker 1: And marches that happened twice a week. Leetha Winston has 469 00:28:56,920 --> 00:29:00,120 Speaker 1: been marching the streets of Portlands at times alone, the 470 00:29:00,120 --> 00:29:03,560 Speaker 1: search for justice for her son Patrick Kimmons. For years, 471 00:29:03,640 --> 00:29:06,480 Speaker 1: Leath has pleaded for local officials to reopen his case 472 00:29:06,480 --> 00:29:09,520 Speaker 1: satur he was shot and killed by Portland police in lateen. 473 00:29:09,880 --> 00:29:12,920 Speaker 1: The calls were met with little action. That was until 474 00:29:12,920 --> 00:29:16,280 Speaker 1: the George Floyd uprisings. These protests gave rise to an 475 00:29:16,280 --> 00:29:19,600 Speaker 1: immended version of the slogan Black lives Matter, with many 476 00:29:19,640 --> 00:29:23,400 Speaker 1: beginning to claim that all black lives matter. While this 477 00:29:23,440 --> 00:29:26,000 Speaker 1: phrase was created and part to give more visibility to 478 00:29:26,360 --> 00:29:30,240 Speaker 1: black LGBTQ people were experiencing some of the worst harms 479 00:29:30,240 --> 00:29:33,120 Speaker 1: in the community, it also grew to buck at the 480 00:29:33,200 --> 00:29:37,160 Speaker 1: idea that those worth honoring or remembering need to somehow 481 00:29:37,240 --> 00:29:42,120 Speaker 1: be perfect victims, black and unarmed with no criminal background. 482 00:29:42,480 --> 00:29:45,160 Speaker 1: When news of Kimmon's case broke, details were scammed. He 483 00:29:45,240 --> 00:29:47,920 Speaker 1: got into a confrontation with two men, shooting and wounding 484 00:29:48,000 --> 00:29:51,840 Speaker 1: both of them. Police showed up shortly thereafter, and he 485 00:29:51,880 --> 00:29:54,480 Speaker 1: was shot and killed. It was later revealed by the 486 00:29:54,520 --> 00:29:57,480 Speaker 1: autopsy that of the twelve bullets police fired at twenty 487 00:29:57,480 --> 00:30:00,400 Speaker 1: seven year old Kimmen and I entered his body. It 488 00:30:00,480 --> 00:30:02,560 Speaker 1: also showed that some of those shots had gone through 489 00:30:02,600 --> 00:30:05,040 Speaker 1: his back. After a judge ruled out there was no 490 00:30:05,120 --> 00:30:07,640 Speaker 1: wrong doing by the police. The Barrel release footage at 491 00:30:07,680 --> 00:30:12,040 Speaker 1: the early morning standoff. Organizer Jedi Levy explains the scene 492 00:30:12,040 --> 00:30:15,880 Speaker 1: here basically like there was like a minor like argument 493 00:30:15,960 --> 00:30:20,840 Speaker 1: or scuffle or whatever, and Patrick started running and um, 494 00:30:20,920 --> 00:30:23,000 Speaker 1: he didn't know that he was running towards the police, 495 00:30:23,680 --> 00:30:27,240 Speaker 1: but he was running towards the police and then went 496 00:30:27,360 --> 00:30:31,200 Speaker 1: to turn into like in between some cars, and the 497 00:30:31,240 --> 00:30:35,040 Speaker 1: cops started shooting him and all the shots went into 498 00:30:35,080 --> 00:30:38,680 Speaker 1: his back. So, um, yeah, they shot him in the 499 00:30:38,720 --> 00:30:43,880 Speaker 1: back and killed him. And uh, the cops were not charged. 500 00:30:43,880 --> 00:30:50,680 Speaker 1: It was basically rule justifiable homicide and um it wasn't though, 501 00:30:50,720 --> 00:30:53,480 Speaker 1: because they shot him in his back. So during the trial, 502 00:30:53,680 --> 00:30:56,640 Speaker 1: the rookie cop who fired the fatal shots described himself 503 00:30:56,680 --> 00:30:59,560 Speaker 1: as doing what he was taught to neutralize the threat. 504 00:31:00,000 --> 00:31:01,840 Speaker 1: It was enough to vindicate him in the courts, but 505 00:31:02,160 --> 00:31:06,000 Speaker 1: not in eyes Salita. She's been leading regular marches throughout 506 00:31:06,000 --> 00:31:10,800 Speaker 1: the city since, sometimes with the crowd, other times just 507 00:31:10,880 --> 00:31:13,040 Speaker 1: alone with a megaphone to many for the case to 508 00:31:13,080 --> 00:31:17,480 Speaker 1: be reopened. Once the Portland protests began, her fight gained 509 00:31:17,520 --> 00:31:20,680 Speaker 1: new light. Organizers like Jedi have helped grow the fleet 510 00:31:20,680 --> 00:31:24,280 Speaker 1: of protesters marching alongside kim AND's mother. He talks about 511 00:31:24,280 --> 00:31:27,400 Speaker 1: his involvement in the marches here. She did it for 512 00:31:28,000 --> 00:31:33,400 Speaker 1: well over a year with virtually no help, um except 513 00:31:33,400 --> 00:31:36,040 Speaker 1: for one person named Jay, and he still comes to 514 00:31:36,080 --> 00:31:39,880 Speaker 1: this very day like he's the only person that actually 515 00:31:39,920 --> 00:31:43,920 Speaker 1: stuck with her throughout this entire time. But Um, so 516 00:31:44,040 --> 00:31:46,680 Speaker 1: she's basically just trying to spread awareness and like talk 517 00:31:46,760 --> 00:31:49,840 Speaker 1: to Ted Wheeler. It worked. An emotional face to face 518 00:31:49,880 --> 00:31:52,800 Speaker 1: between her and the mayor was finally scheduled. Ted Wheeler 519 00:31:52,880 --> 00:31:55,120 Speaker 1: was super sad and was like, I can't believe I 520 00:31:55,160 --> 00:31:58,680 Speaker 1: haven't done more about this. I'm really really sorry. He's 521 00:31:58,800 --> 00:32:02,239 Speaker 1: told her that she's like the wrongest speaker, like one 522 00:32:02,280 --> 00:32:05,360 Speaker 1: of the strongest speakers she's he's ever seen, and he 523 00:32:05,440 --> 00:32:08,959 Speaker 1: was brought to tears. Snigger was literally crying in the 524 00:32:08,960 --> 00:32:15,080 Speaker 1: Mayor's office. Um, so that was great And what she's 525 00:32:15,120 --> 00:32:18,600 Speaker 1: trying to what basically, we're just continuing to put the 526 00:32:18,640 --> 00:32:23,080 Speaker 1: pressure on, uh, the police officers when we go out 527 00:32:23,240 --> 00:32:27,320 Speaker 1: and um, really we just want this the next meeting 528 00:32:27,360 --> 00:32:29,960 Speaker 1: to to come up because the next meeting they're gonna 529 00:32:30,000 --> 00:32:35,000 Speaker 1: sit down and actually review the tapes together. So um, 530 00:32:35,080 --> 00:32:41,720 Speaker 1: that is what's being done right now. Um, and just 531 00:32:41,840 --> 00:32:45,680 Speaker 1: keeping our fingers crossed that happened sooner sooner than later. Still, 532 00:32:45,880 --> 00:32:48,640 Speaker 1: the case has a mem reopened. Letha continues to march 533 00:32:48,680 --> 00:32:51,480 Speaker 1: around the city demanding justice for our son efectually known 534 00:32:51,480 --> 00:32:54,760 Speaker 1: as Pat Pat. The marches have continued with increased numbers 535 00:32:54,800 --> 00:32:58,280 Speaker 1: through all the fall and into winter. During the autumn, 536 00:32:58,320 --> 00:33:01,320 Speaker 1: face with increased attacks from our right extremists who would 537 00:33:01,320 --> 00:33:04,520 Speaker 1: attack lead this marches with signs and flags declaring that 538 00:33:04,600 --> 00:33:08,800 Speaker 1: they backed the Blue. Organizers and activists began using the 539 00:33:08,840 --> 00:33:12,920 Speaker 1: slogan back the Black for their weekly protests that continued 540 00:33:12,960 --> 00:33:16,720 Speaker 1: hate and aggression that these peaceful marches have seen reflected 541 00:33:16,760 --> 00:33:19,680 Speaker 1: the growing vitriol that was coming from the far right 542 00:33:19,920 --> 00:33:23,320 Speaker 1: as we moved into the election, and finally, the January 543 00:33:23,400 --> 00:33:26,800 Speaker 1: violence that rocked the nation. In Washington, d C. On 544 00:33:26,920 --> 00:33:31,280 Speaker 1: January six, thousands of Trump supporters rushed to Capitol Building 545 00:33:31,520 --> 00:33:34,280 Speaker 1: and a last ditch attempt to stop the certification of 546 00:33:34,320 --> 00:33:38,120 Speaker 1: the presidential election results. The violent attempt to take over 547 00:33:38,240 --> 00:33:42,800 Speaker 1: forced Congress to evacuate, left five dead, including two police officers, 548 00:33:42,880 --> 00:33:46,640 Speaker 1: and drew the ties between law enforcement, Republican congress people, 549 00:33:47,080 --> 00:33:50,160 Speaker 1: and far right militants to the forefront of national awareness. 550 00:33:50,960 --> 00:33:53,600 Speaker 1: In December, a stop to steal rally in Salem, Oregan 551 00:33:53,720 --> 00:33:57,120 Speaker 1: had similarly breached the state capital, though the group hadn't 552 00:33:57,160 --> 00:34:01,479 Speaker 1: reached the chambers of legislature. CCTV footage later showed that 553 00:34:01,520 --> 00:34:05,080 Speaker 1: the breach in Salem began with the Republican legislator opening 554 00:34:05,080 --> 00:34:07,880 Speaker 1: the doors to admit the mob. On the sixth January, 555 00:34:08,360 --> 00:34:11,759 Speaker 1: a small far right group assembled again and clash with 556 00:34:11,880 --> 00:34:16,600 Speaker 1: left wing demonstrators. The group again included both mainstream Republican 557 00:34:16,600 --> 00:34:21,640 Speaker 1: politician and extremist figures, including one of the white supremacists 558 00:34:21,680 --> 00:34:26,200 Speaker 1: convicted in the nine murder of Ethiopian grad student Mulla 559 00:34:26,239 --> 00:34:29,400 Speaker 1: get Us. A raw in Portland compared to the nation's capital, 560 00:34:29,520 --> 00:34:32,840 Speaker 1: the Salem rally was limited. No major breaches of the 561 00:34:32,880 --> 00:34:36,560 Speaker 1: capital in Salem occurred. By three pm, the crowded dispersed. 562 00:34:37,120 --> 00:34:40,399 Speaker 1: Despite the shakeup, Biden assumed office just over a week later. 563 00:34:40,640 --> 00:34:43,800 Speaker 1: On his first day in office, Biden signed executive order 564 00:34:44,000 --> 00:34:47,439 Speaker 1: halting ICE deportations for a hundred days, as the administration 565 00:34:47,520 --> 00:34:52,000 Speaker 1: attempted to overhaul many of Trump's deportation policies. That same day, 566 00:34:52,160 --> 00:34:55,640 Speaker 1: protesters in Portland gathered at the local ICE headquarters. They 567 00:34:55,680 --> 00:34:58,799 Speaker 1: didn't want to temporate into de deportations. They wanted a 568 00:34:58,840 --> 00:35:02,759 Speaker 1: complete disbanding the nine eleven era agency, who split up 569 00:35:02,800 --> 00:35:06,320 Speaker 1: scores of families, held small children in cages, and acted 570 00:35:06,360 --> 00:35:09,680 Speaker 1: in strong concert with the FBI since its inception. This 571 00:35:09,800 --> 00:35:12,600 Speaker 1: night ended with six arrests and without the stating of 572 00:35:12,640 --> 00:35:16,000 Speaker 1: tear gas. Days later another it was a different story, 573 00:35:16,080 --> 00:35:18,960 Speaker 1: as Feds and Right gear matt protesters with cuffs, force 574 00:35:19,040 --> 00:35:23,120 Speaker 1: and classet gas. The headquarters had, however, become a fixture 575 00:35:23,120 --> 00:35:26,400 Speaker 1: in the protests, with federal agents regularly deploints c S 576 00:35:26,480 --> 00:35:29,520 Speaker 1: gas against him. But situated next to the facility was 577 00:35:29,600 --> 00:35:32,799 Speaker 1: a school k through a public charter, Cottonwood School of 578 00:35:32,840 --> 00:35:36,600 Speaker 1: Civics and Science School regularly was engulfed in tear gas. 579 00:35:36,760 --> 00:35:40,320 Speaker 1: Dr Juni per seminists immediately sprung into action, collecting soil 580 00:35:40,360 --> 00:35:44,200 Speaker 1: samples across the school campus and Coldness playground to assess 581 00:35:44,239 --> 00:35:47,719 Speaker 1: its impacts. While that research continues, Cottonwood didn't wait for 582 00:35:47,760 --> 00:35:50,600 Speaker 1: their answer. They wanted an immediate into the use of 583 00:35:50,640 --> 00:35:54,440 Speaker 1: tear gas by federal agents. Now the agency hasn't issued 584 00:35:54,480 --> 00:35:57,200 Speaker 1: any formal response, but it's almost certain that activists will 585 00:35:57,239 --> 00:36:00,080 Speaker 1: continue atturning to the building and call for an to 586 00:36:00,200 --> 00:36:03,120 Speaker 1: ice as weeks roll along with four years of Biden 587 00:36:03,160 --> 00:36:05,760 Speaker 1: and Harris at the Helm. Their election was a welcome 588 00:36:05,800 --> 00:36:09,160 Speaker 1: reprieve from Trump's heavy handed brand of racist politics, but 589 00:36:09,560 --> 00:36:12,400 Speaker 1: not an end to the fight against systems of oppression. 590 00:36:12,760 --> 00:36:15,560 Speaker 1: The simultaneous re election of Mayor Ted Wheeler was a 591 00:36:15,600 --> 00:36:17,719 Speaker 1: mark of dread for many of who have been on 592 00:36:17,760 --> 00:36:20,760 Speaker 1: the ground. He eaked out a win, earning more boats 593 00:36:20,840 --> 00:36:24,359 Speaker 1: and on ballot challengers Sarah i anneron but less than 594 00:36:24,440 --> 00:36:27,279 Speaker 1: her in total. Writings, many which are presumed to have 595 00:36:27,320 --> 00:36:30,160 Speaker 1: went to Don't Shoot Portland founder to Resta Raeford, who 596 00:36:30,160 --> 00:36:33,960 Speaker 1: community members launched a writing campaign for after the long 597 00:36:34,000 --> 00:36:36,879 Speaker 1: time BLM leader lost her bid for Portland's top seat 598 00:36:36,880 --> 00:36:39,839 Speaker 1: in the primaries. The results revealed a divide even in 599 00:36:39,960 --> 00:36:43,480 Speaker 1: Portland politics. Despite the split, it also marked the most racially, 600 00:36:43,600 --> 00:36:47,040 Speaker 1: gender and sexually diverse council in the city's history. The 601 00:36:47,080 --> 00:36:51,279 Speaker 1: new council assumed office to January. Negotiations began between the 602 00:36:51,320 --> 00:36:54,399 Speaker 1: city and police union that same month, and this time, 603 00:36:54,440 --> 00:36:56,720 Speaker 1: for the first time ever, the public got a glintse 604 00:36:56,840 --> 00:37:00,480 Speaker 1: behind the curtain after monster protests that put their barrel 605 00:37:00,520 --> 00:37:03,359 Speaker 1: on headlines across the world. All lives were on these 606 00:37:03,400 --> 00:37:07,080 Speaker 1: powerful van cards of the profession. In the negotiations, tensions 607 00:37:07,120 --> 00:37:10,520 Speaker 1: remained high as union heads railed against new measures of oversight, 608 00:37:10,600 --> 00:37:14,440 Speaker 1: discipline and limits on overtime expenditures. While the barrel had 609 00:37:14,520 --> 00:37:17,319 Speaker 1: said they want racial and social justice, changes in the 610 00:37:17,360 --> 00:37:20,919 Speaker 1: police force. Many of the proposed changes have been met 611 00:37:20,960 --> 00:37:24,479 Speaker 1: with critique and resistance. Their current contract with the city 612 00:37:24,480 --> 00:37:29,040 Speaker 1: expired June this year. As negotiations continue, it remains to 613 00:37:29,080 --> 00:37:31,600 Speaker 1: be seen what changes will come between the Barrel and 614 00:37:31,680 --> 00:37:33,800 Speaker 1: the city. The past year has been marked by a 615 00:37:33,880 --> 00:37:37,879 Speaker 1: number of police involved violence, despite the growing cause for justice. 616 00:37:38,280 --> 00:37:41,919 Speaker 1: In Vancouver, Washington, a bridge away from Portland, two young 617 00:37:42,000 --> 00:37:45,440 Speaker 1: black men, Kevin Peterson Jr. And Genoa Davis, have been 618 00:37:45,560 --> 00:37:48,120 Speaker 1: killed by officers, with them just a couple of months 619 00:37:48,120 --> 00:37:51,040 Speaker 1: of each other. And the college town of Eugene, Oregon, 620 00:37:51,560 --> 00:37:54,520 Speaker 1: Chen Shariff was shot after police responded to an alleged 621 00:37:54,560 --> 00:37:59,920 Speaker 1: domestic violence report. Shariff did survive meanwhile and miss the backdrop, 622 00:38:00,040 --> 00:38:03,040 Speaker 1: but the pandemic the streets of Portlands are seeing thirty 623 00:38:03,120 --> 00:38:06,520 Speaker 1: year highs and gun violence economic downturn is leaving the 624 00:38:06,520 --> 00:38:10,520 Speaker 1: city on edge. White supremacis of all stripes have been emboldened, 625 00:38:10,520 --> 00:38:13,960 Speaker 1: while cries for justice for black lives have reached feverish 626 00:38:14,000 --> 00:38:17,960 Speaker 1: new highs. The international cameras are gone now. Protests continue, 627 00:38:18,000 --> 00:38:22,320 Speaker 1: but in marketly smaller numbers. That nine minute fuse of 628 00:38:22,400 --> 00:38:25,200 Speaker 1: George Floyd's murder had lit a fire under the country. 629 00:38:25,600 --> 00:38:28,360 Speaker 1: You know what surface was a renewed urgency to transform 630 00:38:28,360 --> 00:38:31,359 Speaker 1: a system that has devalued black lives, not as an 631 00:38:31,360 --> 00:38:35,080 Speaker 1: exception but a fundamental tool and tradition of the society. 632 00:38:35,600 --> 00:38:38,239 Speaker 1: As the streets have quieted, the urgency for chain still 633 00:38:38,280 --> 00:38:40,879 Speaker 1: remains for those that have been a part of these uprisings. 634 00:38:41,480 --> 00:38:44,000 Speaker 1: As the resistance begins to take a new face, the 635 00:38:44,080 --> 00:38:48,360 Speaker 1: question remains, what's next. I don't think it's going to 636 00:38:49,760 --> 00:38:51,640 Speaker 1: I don't think people are just gonna get tired and 637 00:38:51,680 --> 00:38:55,440 Speaker 1: go away. This is like people have had enough of 638 00:38:55,600 --> 00:38:59,400 Speaker 1: this police brutality and in the racism that you know, 639 00:38:59,520 --> 00:39:04,280 Speaker 1: influence just police brutality. I don't see it going away. 640 00:39:04,320 --> 00:39:07,200 Speaker 1: I mean I see it ebbing and flowing, like you know, 641 00:39:07,360 --> 00:39:10,360 Speaker 1: just it's almost natural for any energy to do that. 642 00:39:10,440 --> 00:39:12,479 Speaker 1: So we go, you know, we go up with big 643 00:39:12,520 --> 00:39:15,719 Speaker 1: turnouts and go down with low turnouts, or up with 644 00:39:15,920 --> 00:39:19,200 Speaker 1: really good morale, and then you know, down in the 645 00:39:19,360 --> 00:39:22,600 Speaker 1: dumb later. It's just so I think it's going to 646 00:39:22,760 --> 00:39:26,880 Speaker 1: keep following that, some kind of evan flow of change. 647 00:39:27,160 --> 00:39:29,520 Speaker 1: But I don't think it's going to go away. I 648 00:39:29,520 --> 00:39:32,000 Speaker 1: don't see how would you go away when the police 649 00:39:32,040 --> 00:39:36,520 Speaker 1: are continuing to kill unarmed black people. They're continue their 650 00:39:36,560 --> 00:39:39,799 Speaker 1: continuing to do it. I think it's really telling that 651 00:39:40,640 --> 00:39:43,479 Speaker 1: as far as I know, not one single Portland police 652 00:39:43,480 --> 00:39:46,960 Speaker 1: after has been um disciplined for their actions. And they 653 00:39:46,960 --> 00:39:51,480 Speaker 1: have done something extremely terrible, things that should be disciplined, 654 00:39:51,560 --> 00:39:54,200 Speaker 1: things that go against their training, things that go against 655 00:39:54,239 --> 00:39:57,640 Speaker 1: their own policies and procedures, and these things are caught 656 00:39:57,680 --> 00:40:01,640 Speaker 1: on video, so there's no excuse at why they have 657 00:40:01,800 --> 00:40:10,160 Speaker 1: not been disciplined. People just like become the changes, become 658 00:40:10,280 --> 00:40:14,560 Speaker 1: the normative, like the way get pushed out into the 659 00:40:14,560 --> 00:40:20,000 Speaker 1: big c of water, BIGFC and and that's what it is, 660 00:40:21,320 --> 00:40:25,440 Speaker 1: you know. I think, like I look at Ferguson, uh 661 00:40:25,520 --> 00:40:28,880 Speaker 1: so that movement you know, kind of faded away or whatever. 662 00:40:29,239 --> 00:40:33,759 Speaker 1: This just happened. I can't yeah, but yeah, and this 663 00:40:34,160 --> 00:40:37,640 Speaker 1: Kinst election they just elected one of the activists from 664 00:40:37,640 --> 00:40:41,600 Speaker 1: their Congress. So that's like the movement like says what 665 00:40:41,880 --> 00:40:45,000 Speaker 1: that's like last change and the people there has well 666 00:40:45,120 --> 00:40:50,759 Speaker 1: radicalized to do so it's life. Though the movement that's 667 00:40:50,840 --> 00:40:56,080 Speaker 1: tied to the Summer may stayed away. It's like unless 668 00:40:56,080 --> 00:40:59,440 Speaker 1: they're going to you know, remove everybody and all of 669 00:40:59,440 --> 00:41:04,200 Speaker 1: our ages, all of our renewed perspectives on life, and 670 00:41:04,320 --> 00:41:09,680 Speaker 1: you can't really life right at all. I think the 671 00:41:09,840 --> 00:41:13,239 Speaker 1: it's interesting, there's like two different The morale of the 672 00:41:13,360 --> 00:41:15,960 Speaker 1: city as a whole is very like in Limbo, I 673 00:41:16,000 --> 00:41:21,680 Speaker 1: feel like often times, but because it's like ultimately people 674 00:41:21,680 --> 00:41:25,560 Speaker 1: who are protesting are ultimately doing it for the right reasons, 675 00:41:26,320 --> 00:41:29,360 Speaker 1: and we get like little glimmers of like hope. But 676 00:41:29,400 --> 00:41:32,279 Speaker 1: then like just today I learned the three black people 677 00:41:32,320 --> 00:41:34,719 Speaker 1: that were killed in the last week throughout the United 678 00:41:34,760 --> 00:41:38,080 Speaker 1: States by police unarmed, so and then you hear ship 679 00:41:38,160 --> 00:41:41,000 Speaker 1: like that, and then it it just makes you wonder, 680 00:41:41,080 --> 00:41:43,120 Speaker 1: like why are we even continuing to do this, Like 681 00:41:43,160 --> 00:41:46,799 Speaker 1: why even keep fighting? This just keeps happening. But I 682 00:41:46,840 --> 00:41:50,160 Speaker 1: think that, um, right now we live in this I 683 00:41:50,200 --> 00:41:52,040 Speaker 1: feel like right now we live in this time of 684 00:41:52,160 --> 00:41:56,560 Speaker 1: questions where we have a lot of questions without answers. 685 00:41:57,320 --> 00:42:00,480 Speaker 1: But there are years that asked questions and there are 686 00:42:00,600 --> 00:42:03,160 Speaker 1: years that answer them. I don't think we're in a 687 00:42:03,440 --> 00:42:05,040 Speaker 1: in a year right now where we're gonna get a 688 00:42:05,080 --> 00:42:07,520 Speaker 1: lot of answers and that's okay. I feel like we 689 00:42:07,560 --> 00:42:10,600 Speaker 1: need to be okay with like sitting in the questions 690 00:42:11,040 --> 00:42:15,800 Speaker 1: and going through like the mud and going through the puddle, 691 00:42:15,880 --> 00:42:17,960 Speaker 1: so to speak, in order to get to where we 692 00:42:18,000 --> 00:42:20,240 Speaker 1: want to go. It's gonna take time because the system 693 00:42:20,280 --> 00:42:24,560 Speaker 1: has taken years to UM to build into what it 694 00:42:24,640 --> 00:42:27,399 Speaker 1: is right now, and so it's just gonna take time. 695 00:42:27,800 --> 00:42:30,840 Speaker 1: So I think the morale of the city limbos because 696 00:42:30,880 --> 00:42:34,879 Speaker 1: you have a bunch of you know, the white Neil 697 00:42:34,920 --> 00:42:38,239 Speaker 1: liberals who just want to go back to normal. But 698 00:42:38,480 --> 00:42:40,600 Speaker 1: normal was killing us, so we're not going to do that. 699 00:42:40,680 --> 00:42:44,319 Speaker 1: And then you have our side, which is like we're 700 00:42:44,320 --> 00:42:48,359 Speaker 1: feeling we're getting pulled in all kinds of directions, we're 701 00:42:48,360 --> 00:42:53,000 Speaker 1: feeling inspiration, and then we're feeling discouragement because we keep 702 00:42:53,000 --> 00:42:57,799 Speaker 1: seeing the same ship happened. But ultimately, UM mutual aid 703 00:42:57,840 --> 00:42:59,719 Speaker 1: really is the way of the future, and I think 704 00:42:59,760 --> 00:43:03,720 Speaker 1: that these mutual aid groups and networks that were forming 705 00:43:03,840 --> 00:43:07,440 Speaker 1: right now are really the genesis of what it's going 706 00:43:07,480 --> 00:43:10,560 Speaker 1: to look like for humanity to live in a world 707 00:43:10,640 --> 00:43:14,400 Speaker 1: without dependence on the state and without needing or feeling 708 00:43:14,440 --> 00:43:16,520 Speaker 1: like we the police are going to keep us safe 709 00:43:16,560 --> 00:43:21,440 Speaker 1: when they've proven so many times that we don't UM. 710 00:43:21,520 --> 00:43:26,919 Speaker 1: So I personally am excited about the future because I'm 711 00:43:27,000 --> 00:43:30,960 Speaker 1: witnessing like the yeah, really just the genesis of what 712 00:43:31,960 --> 00:43:36,160 Speaker 1: of the world that I would like to live in. UM. 713 00:43:36,200 --> 00:43:39,680 Speaker 1: But obviously you know, it's the whole two steps forward, 714 00:43:39,719 --> 00:43:41,680 Speaker 1: one step back thing that we that we have to 715 00:43:41,719 --> 00:43:45,560 Speaker 1: do with as well. So I'm looking forward to how 716 00:43:45,600 --> 00:43:48,719 Speaker 1: things are going. I'm just hoping that more people can 717 00:43:48,719 --> 00:43:53,399 Speaker 1: really open their eyes to UM, how they're how being 718 00:43:53,440 --> 00:43:57,359 Speaker 1: complicit to the system is literally murdering people they look 719 00:43:57,400 --> 00:44:00,560 Speaker 1: like me and Donovan, and that we need to stop it. 720 00:44:00,640 --> 00:44:05,160 Speaker 1: There's too many people who are still sleeping. UM. That's 721 00:44:05,160 --> 00:44:07,680 Speaker 1: a big reason why I think we were doing that 722 00:44:07,719 --> 00:44:09,919 Speaker 1: thing at our CJ was to wake up this side 723 00:44:09,920 --> 00:44:14,160 Speaker 1: of this the river like march through the neighborhoods, wake 724 00:44:14,239 --> 00:44:16,759 Speaker 1: people up, let them know that we're here, there's a 725 00:44:16,800 --> 00:44:18,239 Speaker 1: ton of us, and that they need to be on 726 00:44:18,239 --> 00:44:21,839 Speaker 1: our side because ultimately, when when we are free, when 727 00:44:21,880 --> 00:44:23,720 Speaker 1: black people are free, everybody is going to be free, 728 00:44:24,520 --> 00:44:26,840 Speaker 1: because black liberation is human liberation at the end of 729 00:44:26,880 --> 00:44:32,719 Speaker 1: the day. So if we can really focus on uplifting 730 00:44:32,719 --> 00:44:36,080 Speaker 1: our most marginalized and most oppressed communities and we're uplifting 731 00:44:36,160 --> 00:44:39,319 Speaker 1: everybody at the same time, and the quicker that more 732 00:44:39,360 --> 00:44:42,440 Speaker 1: people really understand that and are inspired enough to actually 733 00:44:42,480 --> 00:44:46,040 Speaker 1: take action and be a part of the movement. Um 734 00:44:46,080 --> 00:44:50,680 Speaker 1: the better. Just um yeah, um, I'm looking forward to 735 00:44:50,760 --> 00:45:08,240 Speaker 1: things that personally we get. Uprisings were not Portland's first 736 00:45:08,280 --> 00:45:11,560 Speaker 1: by any means. The city earned the name Little Bay 737 00:45:11,640 --> 00:45:15,480 Speaker 1: Route after protests against the Portland Republican National Convention in 738 00:45:15,600 --> 00:45:18,640 Speaker 1: nineteen eighty nine. But when the world was gripped with 739 00:45:18,640 --> 00:45:21,439 Speaker 1: a pandemic that had brought most facets of normal life 740 00:45:21,440 --> 00:45:24,480 Speaker 1: to a screeching halt, a spotlight was flung on the 741 00:45:24,520 --> 00:45:27,480 Speaker 1: gaps between what America says it is in the realities 742 00:45:27,520 --> 00:45:31,160 Speaker 1: its black citizens experienced for decades, And in the midst 743 00:45:31,160 --> 00:45:34,080 Speaker 1: of all this, Portland became Little Bay Route again, or, 744 00:45:34,239 --> 00:45:37,880 Speaker 1: as President Trump called it, a beehive of terrorists. To 745 00:45:38,000 --> 00:45:40,400 Speaker 1: many of those on the ground, the city of Roses 746 00:45:40,440 --> 00:45:42,680 Speaker 1: seemed to be seeing what might be the beginnings of 747 00:45:42,680 --> 00:45:46,920 Speaker 1: a beautiful new world, straining to be born tragedy, ward 748 00:45:46,920 --> 00:45:50,880 Speaker 1: with hope, and through it all blood, sweat and tear gas. 749 00:45:50,880 --> 00:45:53,759 Speaker 1: Sometimes messy, but determined group of activists stood toe to 750 00:45:53,840 --> 00:45:56,440 Speaker 1: toe against some of the deepest cylinders of oppression in 751 00:45:56,480 --> 00:45:58,480 Speaker 1: the country to make sure the normal that we have 752 00:45:58,520 --> 00:46:03,120 Speaker 1: all known is replaced. Some lobbied, some voted, some shouted 753 00:46:03,120 --> 00:46:07,480 Speaker 1: down the mare. Some started nonprofits, some started wearing block. 754 00:46:07,960 --> 00:46:12,000 Speaker 1: No matter what people chose, thousands decided to take action. 755 00:46:12,920 --> 00:46:16,319 Speaker 1: New definitive answers emerged out of the protests, but what 756 00:46:16,440 --> 00:46:20,120 Speaker 1: did emerge was a reinvigorated sense of urgency for change. 757 00:46:20,640 --> 00:46:23,640 Speaker 1: The question we're now all left with is this, Will 758 00:46:23,640 --> 00:46:26,719 Speaker 1: we right the historic wrongs of this nation in time 759 00:46:26,760 --> 00:46:30,720 Speaker 1: to fix things before the clock runs out? Only time 760 00:46:30,800 --> 00:46:37,360 Speaker 1: will tell uh? Where the grand pops who couldn't fathom 761 00:46:37,360 --> 00:46:40,000 Speaker 1: the obamacist I don't hate America just to me? And 762 00:46:40,120 --> 00:46:43,960 Speaker 1: she keeps the promises looking like the sixties. It's crazy, 763 00:46:44,200 --> 00:46:46,880 Speaker 1: a nationwide deja who what my people post to do? 764 00:46:47,520 --> 00:46:51,120 Speaker 1: Go to schools named after the clan founder were around town? Is? 765 00:46:51,239 --> 00:46:54,120 Speaker 1: I don't see why we frown in? Native American students 766 00:46:54,120 --> 00:46:57,839 Speaker 1: forced to learn about when o'para Sarah? How is that fair? Bro? 767 00:46:58,560 --> 00:47:02,279 Speaker 1: Some Euros unsung in some monsters get monuments built for them. 768 00:47:02,320 --> 00:47:04,280 Speaker 1: But it ain't be all a little bit of monster. 769 00:47:04,400 --> 00:47:05,040 Speaker 1: We crook it