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Speaker 1: Wake that ass up in the morning Breakfast Club Morning.

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Speaker 2: Everybody is the e J n Vy, Jess, Hilary Charlamagne,

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Speaker 2: the guy we are the Breakfast Club. Ess is on

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Speaker 2: maternity leave, so Laura LaRosa is filling in, and we

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Speaker 2: got some special guests in the building. We have the

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Speaker 2: Tory Norton and Maurice Mitchell.

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Speaker 1: Welcome.

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Speaker 3: How y'all feeling welcome? Welcome to not in Lewis.

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Speaker 4: Don't forget I'm sorry, damn name Lewis.

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Speaker 1: How you're feeling the energy? Everything good, Thing's good.

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Speaker 3: I can't complain.

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Speaker 5: Bless blessed, so happy to be here. I know we're

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Speaker 5: less than a week until election day or something.

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Speaker 1: Man, a couple of days.

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Speaker 3: It's crazy.

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Speaker 6: The Working Families Party. Maurice, you're the national directory. And

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Speaker 6: I remember Jill Stein brought y'all up when she was

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Speaker 6: here on the Breakfast Club.

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Speaker 1: Was that an accurate look?

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Speaker 5: I get excited when people have our names in their mouths, right,

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Speaker 5: because generally that means we're doing that work, were put

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Speaker 5: in work. And the Working Families Party, for those of

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Speaker 5: you that may not know what we do, where what

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Speaker 5: happens where everyday people come together, people who aren't picked

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Speaker 5: from the political establishment. We come together and we demand

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Speaker 5: a seat at the agenda setting table, right, because we're

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Speaker 5: talking about elections, but it's really about setting agendas and

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Speaker 5: building agendas. And so when people are looking they say like, well,

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Speaker 5: you know, I'm fed up with this party at that party.

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Speaker 1: We want something else where. That's something else.

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Speaker 5: And I like to say that we're a non delusional,

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Speaker 5: grassroots third party, right. And so what that means is,

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Speaker 5: you know, we cook what we have in the kitchen, right.

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Speaker 5: So I grew up working class, right, and you know

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Speaker 5: I can't always have money to buy a gourmet meal,

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Speaker 5: but I'll look what we have in the kitchen, I'll

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Speaker 5: make a gourmet meal.

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Speaker 1: Right.

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Speaker 5: And so we run people as independent WFP people sometimes

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Speaker 5: when we can, if there's a path to win, Like,

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Speaker 5: for example, how many of you know who Tis James is?

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Speaker 1: Absolutely okay. What you may not know is that Attorney general,

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Speaker 1: that's right.

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Speaker 5: She started as an independent Working Families candidate in two

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Speaker 5: thousand and three and worked her way up to becoming

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Speaker 5: Attorney General.

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Speaker 1: She was a lawyer.

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Speaker 5: She was a public defender and a consumer protection lawyer,

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Speaker 5: and the political establishment wanted nothing to do with her,

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Speaker 5: the white establishment, the black establishment, the Democratic Party establishment,

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Speaker 5: and we joined forces with her, and historically we defeated

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Speaker 5: the Republicans and Democrats and got her elected as a

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Speaker 5: city council person. Right, not too far from here in Brooklyn.

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Speaker 5: She worked her way all the way up to become

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Speaker 5: Attorney General, which is historic. But what does she do

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Speaker 5: when she had that authority? She used it in order

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Speaker 5: to hold the powerful accountable. Right, So everybody talks about

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Speaker 5: the thirty four felonies, the thirty four felonies, holding this

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Speaker 5: couldn't rent in his homes. When he became president, often

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Speaker 5: never faced accountability. He finally faced accountability when an independent

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Speaker 5: black woman gave him that work. Brought to you in

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Speaker 5: part by the Working Families Party, right, And so I

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Speaker 5: remember I'm from New York. I remember in New York

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Speaker 1: It was through the Working Families Party.

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Speaker 5: People talk about down ballot races, right, actually focusing on

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Speaker 5: down ballot races, so that in city council and in

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Speaker 5: Now that's the floor. You hear a lot of Democrats

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Speaker 5: I'll just end with this. There is an approach that

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Speaker 5: more freedom. However, what we've seen is like, look nineteen

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Speaker 5: That told us, as the Working Families Party, that the

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Speaker 5: But the bottom up approach that's viable. So we started

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Speaker 5: endorse close to one thousand down ballet candidates.

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Speaker 1: Right.

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Speaker 5: So, President and I know we're going to talk about

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Speaker 5: a lot of this. We're going to talk about the pushback. Look,

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Speaker 5: people are talking about the president. That is really important,

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Speaker 5: But the president doesn't make the laws. Congress makes the laws,

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Speaker 5: city council makes the laws, State legislature makes the laws,

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Speaker 5: and so working families.

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Speaker 1: What we do often is when you have.

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Speaker 5: Especially Democrats who are corporate Democrats who have either they

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Speaker 5: forgotten their way or never had their way, and they're

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Speaker 5: more accountable to lobbyists and corporations. Well we're the force

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Speaker 5: that kicks them out and replaces them with working families

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Speaker 5: like the concrete things that actually matter. So in Philadelphia, right,

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Speaker 5: We have CVS long receipts, right, But it's important that

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Speaker 5: people know this. So in Philadelphia, this is a city

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Speaker 5: Families Party candidates Kendrick Brooks and Nicholas O'Rourke. Why is

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Speaker 5: that important? Kendra is from nice Town. You could still

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Speaker 5: go to Nice Town. She's right there. She's on City

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Speaker 5: Council because of this movement that we built, and when

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Speaker 5: she got on City Council, it was historic. She was

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Speaker 5: the first non Democrat or Republican to get on city council.

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Speaker 3: Right.

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Speaker 5: And we were actually with Kendra a few days ago

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Speaker 5: And the important thing about Kendra Brooks and why governance

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Speaker 5: She organized all the folks in city Council so that

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Speaker 5: during COVID in twenty twenty, when people were sheltering in

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Speaker 5: Philly that was temporary. Fast forward to today, we've made

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Speaker 5: lot of working people, a lot of people are listening,

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Speaker 5: In Philadelphia, there's a forty one percent decrease in evictions

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Speaker 5: because of that policy brought to you by Kendrick Brooks

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Speaker 5: is about putting results down for everyday working people.

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Speaker 1: What got you involved with the Working Family Forwardyvitor.

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Speaker 7: Well, amen to everything, Mare, he said. What got me

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Speaker 7: involved is really just my passion for politics. I went

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Speaker 7: they reached out to me and my husband too, and

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Speaker 7: it was like, look, how can we get involved, And

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Speaker 7: really it was just a natural, I think, organic relationship.

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Speaker 7: I am really you know, big in Jersey, big in

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Speaker 7: pushback was how we kind of first initially connected. And

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Speaker 7: the pushback just made me honestly more aware of Project

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Speaker 7: So we went to Philly. We've been canvassing, knocking on doors,

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Speaker 7: So really just getting involved was a natural, organic relationship.

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Speaker 7: And I'm glad that working Families is using the culture,

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Speaker 1: Well, y'all pushing for the VP, right, I don't have

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Speaker 5: Oh so it's not so yeah, I want to be

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Speaker 5: I want to be clear. We're an independent third party

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Speaker 5: and look, we tell the people the truth.

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Speaker 1: So if we can't.

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Speaker 5: Find inside right, So if we can't find a path

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Speaker 5: to victory, right, Because one of the ways to just

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Speaker 5: to define a party is like parties organized winning. And

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Speaker 5: one way to evaluate a party is to ask what

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Speaker 5: is your path to victory and what is your strategy?

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Speaker 1: Right?

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Speaker 5: Those are the questions you should be asking. If we

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Speaker 5: don't see a path to victory, we don't waste our

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Speaker 1: This is just the truth.

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Speaker 5: Right between now an election day it will be it

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Speaker 5: we'll get elected. And the thing that I want to

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Speaker 5: say and how it comes back to the pushback, because

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Speaker 5: the pushback is a project of our sister organization, Working

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Speaker 5: Family's Power. It's a public education right yeah, yeah, pun intended, right,

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Speaker 5: and it's designed because look, I'm want to go back

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Speaker 2: Of course?

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Speaker 5: The reason why that concerned me is that I think

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Speaker 5: we could all agree that she was able to establish herself,

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Speaker 5: she was able to feed her family, she was able

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Speaker 5: to become a celebrity through our culture.

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Speaker 1: Right could we all agreed that that's true? Okay? So

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Speaker 1: I'm a student of history.

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Speaker 5: I know that black culture has always been a force

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Speaker 5: always played that role. And I also know that when

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Speaker 5: folks in our culture have had the ability, that had

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Speaker 1: And so even though you could maybe vote for.

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Speaker 5: A candidate that will give you a tax cut and

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Speaker 7: We kind of leave those people behind. Yes, the average American,

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Speaker 7: working American, the real people. And that's also again what

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Speaker 5: What I was going to say is like the Torri

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Speaker 5: Any anybody who came up through our culture benefits from

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Speaker 5: We need to call it out and we need to

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Speaker 5: There's so much misinformation and disinformation that flat out lies

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Speaker 1: And then there's been been.

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Speaker 5: I believe that neutrality in times of high contradictions and

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Speaker 5: I can relate to that. So there's so much misinformation

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Speaker 1: It's my job. This is why I'm so happy to

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Speaker 5: It's my job as an organizer to be able to shame,

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Speaker 5: There's always been conservatives in our culture who are part

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Speaker 5: So, simply because you might have a leaning in one

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Speaker 7: Not In this time in my life, I have an

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Speaker 7: I continued, and I actually was offered an internship at

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Speaker 7: Capitol Hill. I actually used to sing for all the

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Speaker 7: politicians in Jersey, the mayor, so you know, Sharp James

442
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Speaker 7: and Nork and everyone really knew me. So for me,

443
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Speaker 7: politicians and politics was somewhat you know, it had a

444
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Speaker 7: synergy in my life.

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Speaker 2: What's the one thing that you would change? You said,

446
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Speaker 2: you know, do this to change things for artists. What's

447
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Speaker 2: the one thing that you would change for those artists

448
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Speaker 2: that you just was.

449
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Speaker 1: Like, it's just not right.

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Speaker 3: I think now some of that is changing.

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Speaker 7: Back then, I wanted artists to have more autonomy, more power,

452
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Speaker 7: more ownership. I think now one thing I would change

453
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Speaker 7: more so as an actress or in Hollywood is ability

454
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Speaker 7: to create our own projects without relying on other people's money.

455
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Speaker 7: If we could get funding or if there was like

456
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Speaker 7: an organization that specifically focused I mean there are, but

457
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Speaker 7: specifically gave funding and opportunities to black people and black filmmakers,

458
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Speaker 7: and there are a handful.

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Speaker 3: But if we.

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Speaker 7: Had a larger central hub, I would change this idea

461
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Speaker 7: of needing approval but also not being able to create,

462
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Speaker 7: not having ownership. So if we could make our work

463
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Speaker 7: like an artist who sings. I was a recording artist

464
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Speaker 7: and now I'm an actress. But if we could have

465
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Speaker 7: more ownership and actual control over the narrative, because the

466
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Speaker 7: stories are often told from another point of view and

467
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Speaker 7: you just are plugged into it, you know, for the poster.

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Speaker 3: But if we actually were.

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Speaker 7: Behind the scenes and doing more in that category, I

470
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Speaker 7: think that would make.

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Speaker 3: Us way more powerful.

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Speaker 6: That's more important now than ever before, especially with what

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Speaker 6: you see they're doing in schools where they don't even

474
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Speaker 6: want to teach you real history.

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Speaker 1: So we won't tell our stories if we don't.

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Speaker 7: Well, that's actually part of what me and Maurice we're

477
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Speaker 7: just talking about Projects twenty twenty five is taking away

478
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Speaker 7: you know, what is it? The woke agenda and they're

479
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Speaker 7: afraid of teaching that, which is crazy to me because

480
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Speaker 7: I think about my daughters seven years old. She's in

481
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Speaker 7: second grade, and some of these things will affect her

482
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Speaker 7: trajectory as a student in this you know, in this life.

483
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Speaker 7: So I'm like, wait a minute, no, now it's on

484
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Speaker 7: me as a parent. But it also should be a

485
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Speaker 7: sense of accountability in our schools and our systems to

486
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Speaker 7: make sure that they can't eliminate true American history. It's

487
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Speaker 7: not just black history. This is American history. We built

488
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Speaker 7: this country. We did a lot of the work on

489
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Speaker 7: the backs of slaves and slavery, so let's not eradicate

490
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Speaker 7: that and make it as if it didn't happen.

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Speaker 3: That was one of the things we just said.

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Speaker 1: That's right.

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Speaker 5: And the thing about the way that that connects to

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Speaker 5: Project twenty five, especially with artists, and it's this is

495
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Speaker 5: a big manual. It's more than nine hundred pages, so

496
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Speaker 5: they're coming for everybody, they're coming for artists, create they

497
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Speaker 5: have a very creepy agenda. So you don't get into

498
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Speaker 5: page five before they're talking about outlawing pornography and putting

499
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Speaker 5: pornographers in jail, in prison. But I want to explain

500
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Speaker 5: what that would actually do if you're an artist, right,

501
00:24:40,680 --> 00:24:45,160
Speaker 5: So the line between art and pornography that is subjective, right,

502
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Speaker 5: So what they want in terms of having artists have

503
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Speaker 5: control and more power. They want to eliminate that. So

504
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Speaker 5: from people who currently are making money on OnlyFans, to

505
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Speaker 5: people who are content creators, to when you talk about

506
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Speaker 5: edgy art, were often talking about our art black and brown.

507
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Speaker 1: Folks hip hop.

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Speaker 5: That's often we're pushing the boundaries right, and so they'll

509
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Speaker 5: be in a position to say, hey, that video we

510
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Speaker 5: listen to, they're already listening to our lyrics and we're

511
00:25:11,000 --> 00:25:13,640
Speaker 5: getting caught up because our lyrics. They'll have more authority

512
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Speaker 5: to do that and not just prevent it from happening,

513
00:25:16,560 --> 00:25:19,200
Speaker 5: but also putting people behind bars. They say they want

514
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Speaker 5: to put educators and librarians behind bars off of this

515
00:25:24,080 --> 00:25:27,480
Speaker 5: trying to eliminate the woke agenda. And for us in here,

516
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Speaker 5: we know when they say woke, it's not become code

517
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Speaker 5: for the ND word. It's a way for them to

518
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Speaker 5: be able to say what they want to say in

519
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Speaker 5: a different way. So when they say they want to

520
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Speaker 5: eliminate woke, they want to eliminate our history. And the

521
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Speaker 5: reason why they want to eliminate black history is because

522
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Speaker 5: it's American history. What happens when white children, black children

523
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Speaker 5: Latino children learn actual American history and learn about the

524
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Speaker 5: oppression of our history. They want to fight oppression as adults,

525
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Speaker 5: and they don't want you to fight oppression because that

526
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Speaker 5: means you're finding that the status quot These are people

527
00:26:01,800 --> 00:26:04,840
Speaker 5: with an awful lot of power and money, and they're

528
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Speaker 5: not comfortable with the power money they want they want more,

529
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Speaker 5: and so it's about them having more power money and

530
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Speaker 5: you having less power money. That's basically what the agenda is.

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Speaker 5: And if you're if you're an artist, you should be concerned.

532
00:26:17,480 --> 00:26:20,239
Speaker 5: If you're a parent, you should be concerned. If you're

533
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Speaker 5: a black man, you should be concerned for a black man.

534
00:26:23,320 --> 00:26:27,399
Speaker 5: Because this is the agenda about making national stop and frisk.

535
00:26:27,840 --> 00:26:30,600
Speaker 5: They want that to be national. Right, So there's no

536
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Speaker 5: city or state you could avoid the stop and frisk agenda.

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Speaker 1: Right.

538
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Speaker 5: How many of you know what qualified immunity is, absolutely right.

539
00:26:38,280 --> 00:26:41,720
Speaker 5: So that's the law that emboldens police officers, so they

540
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Speaker 5: know that if they shoot or kill us that they

541
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Speaker 5: have protection, so they won't face any accountability.

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Speaker 7: It's already hard to get them indicted or if it's

543
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Speaker 7: something happens, you know, so imagine with qualified immunity, how

544
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Speaker 7: that will affect so much.

545
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Speaker 1: Why George exactly exactly?

546
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Speaker 5: And there's there's one there's one candidate the way who

547
00:27:01,200 --> 00:27:03,480
Speaker 5: actually was a part of George Floyd Policing Act. And

548
00:27:03,840 --> 00:27:06,679
Speaker 5: to me, listen, I came through the Movement for Black Lives.

549
00:27:06,680 --> 00:27:10,280
Speaker 5: So George Floyd is the Police Policing Act. To me,

550
00:27:10,359 --> 00:27:12,960
Speaker 5: that is the floor, right. The Moment for Black Lives

551
00:27:13,000 --> 00:27:14,920
Speaker 5: talks about the Breed Act. To me, that's the ceiling.

552
00:27:15,080 --> 00:27:15,280
Speaker 1: Right.

553
00:27:15,880 --> 00:27:18,639
Speaker 5: So there's there's one candidate that's talking about how do

554
00:27:18,680 --> 00:27:21,359
Speaker 5: we get that passed. There's another candidate that's talking about

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00:27:22,320 --> 00:27:24,720
Speaker 5: day one I want to execute quote.

556
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Speaker 1: Unquote drug dealers or who are the drug dealers?

557
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Speaker 5: Like, if we have an honest conversation in our society,

558
00:27:30,520 --> 00:27:34,120
Speaker 5: when our society thinks about drug dealers, who comes to mind.

559
00:27:33,960 --> 00:27:35,159
Speaker 1: The pharmaceutical companies.

560
00:27:41,160 --> 00:27:43,520
Speaker 5: Are they talking about the Sackler family, who are the

561
00:27:43,560 --> 00:27:47,600
Speaker 5: greatest drug dealers in the history of this country? Right?

562
00:27:47,760 --> 00:27:50,159
Speaker 5: Or are they talking about somebody else? Are they talking

563
00:27:50,200 --> 00:27:51,520
Speaker 5: about black and brown people?

564
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Speaker 4: Right?

565
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Speaker 5: So when they say these things, we must believe them.

566
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Speaker 6: Do you think that enough is well? First of all,

567
00:28:02,359 --> 00:28:03,920
Speaker 6: y'all on the ground, y'all been on the ground, yep.

568
00:28:03,920 --> 00:28:05,040
Speaker 6: What do you think is gonna happen to this?

569
00:28:06,080 --> 00:28:08,720
Speaker 1: So I don't make predictions, right, but what I can you're.

570
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Speaker 3: Excited, I'm excited.

571
00:28:09,880 --> 00:28:14,680
Speaker 7: I feel inspired, excited and hopeful.

572
00:28:14,840 --> 00:28:15,280
Speaker 4: It's fact.

573
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Speaker 5: Yeah, I can't listen when I'm so like. We do

574
00:28:20,240 --> 00:28:23,040
Speaker 5: things online, but we're also outside, right, and so when

575
00:28:23,080 --> 00:28:25,160
Speaker 5: I leave here, I'm going to be in Phoenix, I'm

576
00:28:25,160 --> 00:28:27,520
Speaker 5: gonna be in Milwaukee, I'll be back in Philly, and

577
00:28:27,600 --> 00:28:31,199
Speaker 5: we're with the people. And so I get nothing but

578
00:28:31,800 --> 00:28:34,359
Speaker 5: excitement and joy from being with the people. Because if

579
00:28:34,400 --> 00:28:36,960
Speaker 5: you're scrolling online and you're getting caught up in that

580
00:28:37,000 --> 00:28:40,440
Speaker 5: misinformation and disinformation, part of that is to make you

581
00:28:40,480 --> 00:28:44,240
Speaker 5: feel cynical. Yes, I like to say the cynicism is

582
00:28:44,320 --> 00:28:47,680
Speaker 5: a political project of the far right and the status quo,

583
00:28:48,080 --> 00:28:50,360
Speaker 5: because you'll just be like, oh man, we can't do nothing.

584
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Speaker 7: As a matter anyway, I'm not as well just not.

585
00:28:53,520 --> 00:28:57,040
Speaker 5: Vote exactly, But when you're actually outside and you knock

586
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Speaker 5: on some doors. By the way, I want to encourage people, right,

587
00:29:00,680 --> 00:29:04,400
Speaker 5: don't just vote. There's still an opportunity, And if I may,

588
00:29:04,440 --> 00:29:06,600
Speaker 5: I'd like to shout out some opportunities for folks to

589
00:29:06,600 --> 00:29:08,880
Speaker 5: be able to knock on doors. So if you're listening

590
00:29:08,880 --> 00:29:12,960
Speaker 5: to this, text the word power pun intended, text the

591
00:29:13,000 --> 00:29:15,920
Speaker 5: word power to three zero four zero three. If you

592
00:29:15,960 --> 00:29:18,120
Speaker 5: text the word power to three zero four zero three

593
00:29:18,320 --> 00:29:21,680
Speaker 5: wherever you are, you could volunteer to knock on doors,

594
00:29:21,680 --> 00:29:24,480
Speaker 5: to have conversations with your neighbors, to do phone banks,

595
00:29:24,520 --> 00:29:28,240
Speaker 5: to even text. Why because in the final days, it's

596
00:29:28,240 --> 00:29:30,680
Speaker 5: not about what the politicians say. It's not about you know,

597
00:29:30,680 --> 00:29:32,520
Speaker 5: I'm sure you're getting a lot of TV ads and

598
00:29:32,560 --> 00:29:35,400
Speaker 5: digital ads and all that stuff. It's about what everyday

599
00:29:35,480 --> 00:29:39,040
Speaker 5: people say to their neighbors. And you're an everyday person.

600
00:29:39,320 --> 00:29:40,960
Speaker 5: They want you to believe the lie that you have

601
00:29:41,040 --> 00:29:44,320
Speaker 5: no power when you're on these streets and you're seeing

602
00:29:44,360 --> 00:29:45,480
Speaker 5: these long lines.

603
00:29:45,640 --> 00:29:45,920
Speaker 3: Yep.

604
00:29:46,040 --> 00:29:48,520
Speaker 1: And look, remember we saw that elder. Do you remember

605
00:29:48,520 --> 00:29:50,280
Speaker 1: that elder? Right? And she.

606
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Speaker 7: Was on the line and she said that she had

607
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Speaker 7: been waiting I think, like I mean months. She said

608
00:29:56,920 --> 00:29:59,320
Speaker 7: they were supposed to send her ballot, you know, in Philly.

609
00:29:59,400 --> 00:30:01,680
Speaker 7: She kept applying and she sent it in. She called

610
00:30:01,720 --> 00:30:04,080
Speaker 7: it was a lot of things that just weren't coming,

611
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Speaker 7: and it didn't come in the mail. So she said,

612
00:30:05,800 --> 00:30:07,840
Speaker 7: I knew I had to come on down here. And

613
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Speaker 7: get here for early voting. And you know, she was

614
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Speaker 7: an elderly woman, and so we made arrangement, you know,

615
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Speaker 7: to try to get her in where she didn't have

616
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Speaker 7: to wait on that line. But I was thinking to myself,

617
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Speaker 7: my gosh, imagine some people don't have the ability to

618
00:30:20,720 --> 00:30:23,040
Speaker 7: access the patience.

619
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Speaker 8: My mom was selling strength she went to they changed

620
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Speaker 8: the voting locations. A lot of people in our neighborhood

621
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Speaker 8: they don't have like they can't just get in a

622
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Speaker 8: car and drive somewhere.

623
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Speaker 3: They're on public transportation.

624
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Speaker 8: So she was saying that, like they were trying to

625
00:30:32,760 --> 00:30:35,239
Speaker 8: figure out, like just making how to like everybody get

626
00:30:35,280 --> 00:30:37,000
Speaker 8: together and go to this new location. But they never

627
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Speaker 8: sent out the new location in the mail. So a

628
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Speaker 8: lot of people don't even know you just gonna last

629
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Speaker 8: minute go voting.

630
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Speaker 3: They keep saying they're going to send it. And that's

631
00:30:43,520 --> 00:30:44,360
Speaker 3: exactly what any did.

632
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Speaker 8: Income But so you guys use power as the push.

633
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Speaker 8: But how many times when you out with the people,

634
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Speaker 8: they're like.

635
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Speaker 3: Oh my godsha and that helped.

636
00:30:55,840 --> 00:31:01,200
Speaker 1: That states you know, actually they yes, because.

637
00:31:01,280 --> 00:31:03,520
Speaker 7: We have figured out a way to in New York.

638
00:31:04,000 --> 00:31:08,480
Speaker 7: Uh former inmates ken vote. But it's so funny because yes,

639
00:31:08,720 --> 00:31:11,240
Speaker 7: we were out just the other day and people, I

640
00:31:11,280 --> 00:31:14,800
Speaker 7: think do feel like a little confused, shocked.

641
00:31:14,520 --> 00:31:15,320
Speaker 3: Exciting seeing you.

642
00:31:15,360 --> 00:31:16,880
Speaker 8: It was just like when you walked in, I was like, oh,

643
00:31:17,040 --> 00:31:18,440
Speaker 8: look at Tasha, Like it's just hard.

644
00:31:18,480 --> 00:31:21,120
Speaker 7: It's not funny because I know, and I'm always like, well,

645
00:31:21,120 --> 00:31:25,840
Speaker 7: my name is Liturri like yeah, yeah, yeah, Butha. I'm

646
00:31:25,840 --> 00:31:27,560
Speaker 7: gonna just put that in my middle name from now

647
00:31:27,640 --> 00:31:31,840
Speaker 7: on because I But the beauty of that is that

648
00:31:31,920 --> 00:31:33,800
Speaker 7: when you're a part of something, it's just like the wire,

649
00:31:34,280 --> 00:31:36,200
Speaker 7: you know, and you look back at shows or even

650
00:31:36,240 --> 00:31:39,360
Speaker 7: the sopranos or certain things when power has you know,

651
00:31:39,360 --> 00:31:41,480
Speaker 7: I've been in the show for ten years and I'm

652
00:31:41,480 --> 00:31:42,040
Speaker 7: still alive.

653
00:31:42,240 --> 00:31:47,160
Speaker 3: I think I'm out of witness protection now. Actually yeah.

654
00:31:47,200 --> 00:31:48,880
Speaker 3: But what I will say.

655
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Speaker 7: Is that it does give a platform and also people

656
00:31:52,280 --> 00:31:54,840
Speaker 7: to you know, just kind of wake up their senses

657
00:31:54,840 --> 00:31:56,960
Speaker 7: a little bit and say, Okay, if this matters in

658
00:31:57,040 --> 00:31:58,720
Speaker 7: this part of the culture, then it.

659
00:31:58,720 --> 00:31:59,480
Speaker 3: Should matter to me.

660
00:32:00,040 --> 00:32:02,920
Speaker 5: And it breaks the cynicism right because there's so many

661
00:32:02,960 --> 00:32:06,920
Speaker 5: messages you don't matter, nobody cares when somebody as iconic

662
00:32:07,120 --> 00:32:12,320
Speaker 5: as as Tasha is actually in your neighborhood impressing why

663
00:32:12,440 --> 00:32:15,800
Speaker 5: you why you matter enough to vote while your vote

664
00:32:15,840 --> 00:32:20,520
Speaker 5: matters in Philly or in in Wisconsin, in Milwaukee or

665
00:32:20,560 --> 00:32:22,920
Speaker 5: any of these other places. It kind of breaks the

666
00:32:23,000 --> 00:32:24,840
Speaker 5: lie of cynicism. So you get to have a real

667
00:32:24,880 --> 00:32:26,200
Speaker 5: conversation about the issues.

668
00:32:26,320 --> 00:32:29,720
Speaker 7: And also when I say and I also want to

669
00:32:30,280 --> 00:32:32,760
Speaker 7: make sure people know me too, you know, when when

670
00:32:32,800 --> 00:32:34,320
Speaker 7: you are a character, you want them to know in

671
00:32:34,400 --> 00:32:36,080
Speaker 7: your real life this matters.

672
00:32:36,120 --> 00:32:38,160
Speaker 3: So I'm Nuri. I always see you.

673
00:32:38,160 --> 00:32:40,719
Speaker 7: Know, of course we play as Tasha, but I'm Theuri

674
00:32:41,240 --> 00:32:43,880
Speaker 7: and Naturi cares. And Naturi was a straight A student,

675
00:32:43,920 --> 00:32:46,080
Speaker 7: and Naturi went to school for political science. And Naturi

676
00:32:46,440 --> 00:32:49,440
Speaker 7: has a family. I'm a mother, and I also, you know,

677
00:32:49,520 --> 00:32:52,720
Speaker 7: had a pregnancy where I struggled with the thoughts of

678
00:32:53,360 --> 00:32:56,120
Speaker 7: having an abortion in all honesty, and I know what

679
00:32:56,480 --> 00:32:59,120
Speaker 7: so many women are dealing with and not being not

680
00:32:59,480 --> 00:33:02,040
Speaker 7: you know, not wanting to feel judged. And I think

681
00:33:02,080 --> 00:33:02,960
Speaker 7: that's a real thing.

682
00:33:03,600 --> 00:33:04,400
Speaker 3: I'm old talking.

683
00:33:04,480 --> 00:33:08,800
Speaker 6: I was born in nineteen seventy. The character is not

684
00:33:08,840 --> 00:33:09,800
Speaker 6: bigger than thery than me.

685
00:33:16,480 --> 00:33:16,640
Speaker 8: Yeah.

686
00:33:16,680 --> 00:33:21,719
Speaker 7: I I feel like because I was a teenager has power.

687
00:33:21,840 --> 00:33:23,480
Speaker 3: Yeah, because you'll have a grown grown.

688
00:33:23,320 --> 00:33:25,480
Speaker 7: Yeah, you know, for these young as they they late.

689
00:33:25,920 --> 00:33:28,760
Speaker 7: But I appreciate you saying that because that's also why

690
00:33:29,000 --> 00:33:30,600
Speaker 7: I do the work that I do, because it's not

691
00:33:30,680 --> 00:33:33,400
Speaker 7: just about one avenue. Power is one thing, but I'm

692
00:33:33,840 --> 00:33:36,200
Speaker 7: gonna do more things. I'm directing, I'm producing, you know,

693
00:33:36,640 --> 00:33:40,600
Speaker 7: I'm I'm growing as an artist, but as really I

694
00:33:40,600 --> 00:33:44,080
Speaker 7: think as a person, and I think my womanhood, my motherhood,

695
00:33:44,080 --> 00:33:47,880
Speaker 7: my wifehood has allowed me to tap into these different

696
00:33:47,880 --> 00:33:50,440
Speaker 7: areas in a way that is natural because I don't

697
00:33:50,480 --> 00:33:54,240
Speaker 7: want other women, other mothers and other wives to feel

698
00:33:54,320 --> 00:33:56,840
Speaker 7: that their voices aren't heard. So I'm stepping in his

699
00:33:56,960 --> 00:33:57,800
Speaker 7: noturi for I.

700
00:33:57,720 --> 00:33:59,720
Speaker 8: Have two questions for you. You say, and you don't

701
00:33:59,760 --> 00:34:01,200
Speaker 8: have to talk about this if you're not comfortable. But

702
00:34:01,280 --> 00:34:03,680
Speaker 8: you you just said that you struggled with the thoughts

703
00:34:03,680 --> 00:34:04,280
Speaker 8: of abortion.

704
00:34:05,200 --> 00:34:07,800
Speaker 3: Yes, why like, well, no, I just.

705
00:34:07,960 --> 00:34:12,280
Speaker 7: I wasn't sure that I wanted to have my first child.

706
00:34:13,040 --> 00:34:14,000
Speaker 3: I never really talked.

707
00:34:13,800 --> 00:34:17,440
Speaker 7: About this, but essentially, I think that when I was

708
00:34:17,440 --> 00:34:21,200
Speaker 7: shooting Power, I became pregnant. It was an unexpected pregnancy

709
00:34:21,280 --> 00:34:23,600
Speaker 7: and I'm super blessed. My daughter Zeri is amazing and

710
00:34:23,640 --> 00:34:27,120
Speaker 7: I'm so glad she's here. But in all honesty. I

711
00:34:27,719 --> 00:34:31,080
Speaker 7: wrote and directed my first short film. It's called three

712
00:34:31,120 --> 00:34:34,120
Speaker 7: to three, and it's about somewhat an experience that I

713
00:34:34,239 --> 00:34:38,000
Speaker 7: had and also the mental anguish of making that choice.

714
00:34:38,480 --> 00:34:42,560
Speaker 7: And I wanted to use film as a way to

715
00:34:42,920 --> 00:34:46,080
Speaker 7: give women and people and there's men, you know. I

716
00:34:46,120 --> 00:34:49,400
Speaker 7: have Burgundy Baker who stars in it, from the Shy John,

717
00:34:49,400 --> 00:34:52,719
Speaker 7: Clarence Stewart, Venessa Bell Callaway, and this film Three to

718
00:34:52,880 --> 00:34:55,319
Speaker 7: three just gives us a chance to look at the

719
00:34:55,400 --> 00:34:58,319
Speaker 7: issue of abortion in not a politicized way, but in

720
00:34:58,360 --> 00:35:02,879
Speaker 7: a human way deal with So my experience just made

721
00:35:02,920 --> 00:35:05,400
Speaker 7: me realize, like even me, even though I was on

722
00:35:05,440 --> 00:35:08,160
Speaker 7: a hit show this is season four and power was

723
00:35:08,160 --> 00:35:10,200
Speaker 7: at its height, I didn't know if I could be

724
00:35:10,280 --> 00:35:12,600
Speaker 7: a good mother, and I wasn't sure if I would

725
00:35:12,640 --> 00:35:14,359
Speaker 7: be enough. I didn't know if I was gonna make

726
00:35:14,440 --> 00:35:16,040
Speaker 7: enough money. I didn't know if the show was gonna

727
00:35:16,040 --> 00:35:18,080
Speaker 7: get canceled, Like there were so many things. I didn't

728
00:35:18,080 --> 00:35:19,480
Speaker 7: know if I was gonna get married, you know, and

729
00:35:19,760 --> 00:35:22,799
Speaker 7: I didn't. I became a single mom very quickly, so

730
00:35:23,239 --> 00:35:25,160
Speaker 7: you know, until I met my husband when my daughter

731
00:35:25,280 --> 00:35:26,360
Speaker 7: is almost two.

732
00:35:26,680 --> 00:35:27,720
Speaker 3: I wasn't really sure.

733
00:35:27,840 --> 00:35:31,840
Speaker 7: So I'll just say that that's what I channeled those emotions,

734
00:35:31,840 --> 00:35:34,560
Speaker 7: and that's also why women's rights and reproductive rights is

735
00:35:34,600 --> 00:35:36,600
Speaker 7: so important to me at this time.

736
00:35:36,680 --> 00:35:37,880
Speaker 3: So yeah, three.

737
00:35:37,800 --> 00:35:40,319
Speaker 6: Three three, the ascended masters are right by your side,

738
00:35:40,360 --> 00:35:43,160
Speaker 6: assisting you with whatever it is that you're focusing on.

739
00:35:43,200 --> 00:35:47,200
Speaker 7: That's why three three three, And it's also just this interesting. Yeah,

740
00:35:47,239 --> 00:35:50,240
Speaker 7: there's so much power in those numbers. And you'll see,

741
00:35:50,280 --> 00:35:52,439
Speaker 7: like when you see my film, which would be out

742
00:35:53,040 --> 00:35:57,319
Speaker 7: next year in festivals. But essentially it is completion and

743
00:35:57,360 --> 00:36:00,520
Speaker 7: also what you focus on, it will come. So whatever

744
00:36:00,600 --> 00:36:04,319
Speaker 7: your choice is, don't feel haunted by that and just

745
00:36:04,400 --> 00:36:06,760
Speaker 7: be able to go forth and focus on the future.

746
00:36:06,880 --> 00:36:08,600
Speaker 7: And that's what my feeling is about.

747
00:36:08,640 --> 00:36:11,000
Speaker 8: And then my second question was you talked about earlier

748
00:36:11,120 --> 00:36:13,359
Speaker 8: people wanting people to know you outside of power. Yeah,

749
00:36:13,440 --> 00:36:14,920
Speaker 8: and when he brought a fifty earlier, you were like,

750
00:36:14,920 --> 00:36:16,560
Speaker 8: oh my god, I didn't even want that to come up.

751
00:36:16,640 --> 00:36:19,759
Speaker 1: And you knew that was coming up, but that a

752
00:36:19,760 --> 00:36:20,399
Speaker 1: couple of days ago.

753
00:36:22,239 --> 00:36:25,440
Speaker 8: You So you talk to Celia from TMZ and and

754
00:36:25,480 --> 00:36:29,120
Speaker 8: that clip was everywhere. Yeah, your response to your response

755
00:36:29,200 --> 00:36:34,640
Speaker 8: to fifty cent responding fifty and what he was saying

756
00:36:34,680 --> 00:36:37,080
Speaker 8: up here about Omari and you basically saying like Omari

757
00:36:37,680 --> 00:36:40,600
Speaker 8: was ghosts, Ghosts was power. So you didn't agree with

758
00:36:40,600 --> 00:36:42,880
Speaker 8: what Fifty said up here that picked up everywhere, And

759
00:36:43,840 --> 00:36:45,319
Speaker 8: did you you regret saying that?

760
00:36:45,440 --> 00:36:46,440
Speaker 3: Is that while you were like, oh my.

761
00:36:46,400 --> 00:36:48,959
Speaker 7: God, oh, I don't regret saying anything that I say

762
00:36:49,280 --> 00:36:52,560
Speaker 7: in most cases. But I think that, you know, I

763
00:36:52,600 --> 00:36:54,960
Speaker 7: was just being honest, you know, And and it's no

764
00:36:54,960 --> 00:36:57,279
Speaker 7: no shade to fifty. He has his feelings and I

765
00:36:57,320 --> 00:37:00,160
Speaker 7: don't know all of the issues that went down, like

766
00:37:00,200 --> 00:37:02,719
Speaker 7: I said in that interview, but I think overall, I

767
00:37:02,800 --> 00:37:05,560
Speaker 7: was just trying to express that, you know, power was

768
00:37:05,560 --> 00:37:08,840
Speaker 7: something that started this whole journey of creating stars the

769
00:37:08,880 --> 00:37:12,040
Speaker 7: stars at and I'm grateful for the opportunity in fifty

770
00:37:12,080 --> 00:37:14,319
Speaker 7: and Courtney gave me that opportunity. So you know, at

771
00:37:14,360 --> 00:37:16,600
Speaker 7: the end of the day, I know that there's politics

772
00:37:16,600 --> 00:37:19,560
Speaker 7: involved in their positions as well. So I respect fifty,

773
00:37:19,920 --> 00:37:24,000
Speaker 7: but I also have to honor what Omari Hardwick brought

774
00:37:24,040 --> 00:37:26,600
Speaker 7: to the table. And all I said in that interview

775
00:37:26,719 --> 00:37:29,919
Speaker 7: was that, you know, I feel like he is kind

776
00:37:29,920 --> 00:37:32,799
Speaker 7: of a staple in the power world that we can

777
00:37:32,880 --> 00:37:36,960
Speaker 7: never undervalue him either. So I just think that as people,

778
00:37:37,280 --> 00:37:40,399
Speaker 7: particularly as black people, I'll just say this, as black people,

779
00:37:40,400 --> 00:37:43,600
Speaker 7: we have to remember to be okay with valuing each

780
00:37:43,640 --> 00:37:48,279
Speaker 7: other and really celebrate those moments when we get to

781
00:37:48,400 --> 00:37:50,640
Speaker 7: a plateau or high moment in our careers.

782
00:37:51,160 --> 00:37:52,320
Speaker 3: Even in your field.

783
00:37:52,480 --> 00:37:55,080
Speaker 7: You know, you guys negotiate and do deals because you

784
00:37:55,160 --> 00:37:57,520
Speaker 7: know you're worth and there's always going to be somebody

785
00:37:57,520 --> 00:37:59,680
Speaker 7: who tells you, na, you're not worth, that you shouldn't

786
00:38:00,080 --> 00:38:02,399
Speaker 7: and that's debatable, and that's not for me to say

787
00:38:02,440 --> 00:38:05,480
Speaker 7: what money he should That's I'm not in anybody's you know, checks.

788
00:38:05,680 --> 00:38:10,480
Speaker 7: I focus on my check. But know your power and

789
00:38:10,560 --> 00:38:13,919
Speaker 7: also know your worth, and it's okay to push for

790
00:38:14,160 --> 00:38:15,200
Speaker 7: you know what you feel your worth.

791
00:38:15,200 --> 00:38:16,359
Speaker 1: That's all y'a. I want to ask.

792
00:38:16,400 --> 00:38:17,000
Speaker 2: We had uh.

793
00:38:17,040 --> 00:38:19,400
Speaker 7: Mitteraraji said the same thing, so this is you know,

794
00:38:19,400 --> 00:38:20,520
Speaker 7: it's all relative.

795
00:38:20,800 --> 00:38:23,000
Speaker 1: We had Mickey Gotton country singer.

796
00:38:22,840 --> 00:38:25,360
Speaker 3: Oh yes, was she a member of three Yes?

797
00:38:26,040 --> 00:38:30,520
Speaker 7: So I forgot that Mickey was the first member of

798
00:38:30,640 --> 00:38:35,920
Speaker 7: three W until Adrian and I recently reunited and Adrian

799
00:38:36,000 --> 00:38:40,080
Speaker 7: sent me a picture of them with Mickey and she

800
00:38:40,160 --> 00:38:42,360
Speaker 7: was singing the National and I was like, oh my gosh,

801
00:38:42,600 --> 00:38:44,800
Speaker 7: that's right, because they told me there was a country

802
00:38:44,840 --> 00:38:46,719
Speaker 7: she was a girl. She wasn't a country artist then,

803
00:38:46,719 --> 00:38:49,399
Speaker 7: but I think she lived somewhere and then she her

804
00:38:49,440 --> 00:38:51,759
Speaker 7: parents pulled her out of the group, and I think

805
00:38:51,760 --> 00:38:54,680
Speaker 7: that's how I wound up getting an audition for but

806
00:38:54,800 --> 00:38:57,960
Speaker 7: I had forgot I was fifteen, So Adrine remembered and

807
00:38:58,040 --> 00:39:00,160
Speaker 7: reminded me, and then I was like, I want to

808
00:39:00,160 --> 00:39:03,000
Speaker 7: meet her when I mean, we've never met. She's so dope,

809
00:39:03,160 --> 00:39:06,480
Speaker 7: her voice is crazy. But how I was thinking, like

810
00:39:06,560 --> 00:39:08,440
Speaker 7: at that time, I was like, girl, you dodged a bullet.

811
00:39:08,680 --> 00:39:10,880
Speaker 1: But because she has.

812
00:39:10,719 --> 00:39:11,280
Speaker 3: Her own career.

813
00:39:11,320 --> 00:39:13,480
Speaker 7: But at the end of the day, I think I'm

814
00:39:13,640 --> 00:39:16,560
Speaker 7: happy that, you know, whatever happened with three W it

815
00:39:16,640 --> 00:39:18,160
Speaker 7: was supposed to happen that way.

816
00:39:18,200 --> 00:39:18,839
Speaker 3: And here I am too.

817
00:39:18,960 --> 00:39:21,280
Speaker 8: How does the reunion field because now y'all both from moms.

818
00:39:21,360 --> 00:39:23,879
Speaker 8: I know you guys, you haven't shared experience, and none

819
00:39:23,880 --> 00:39:25,360
Speaker 8: of us will ever understand.

820
00:39:24,960 --> 00:39:26,440
Speaker 3: Good and bad. Isn't it crazy?

821
00:39:27,239 --> 00:39:29,240
Speaker 7: Me and agent talk about like we need to probably

822
00:39:29,280 --> 00:39:31,719
Speaker 7: talk about this in a formal setting, but I'm very

823
00:39:31,719 --> 00:39:35,480
Speaker 7: grateful that we are reunited. She's a mom, she's a wife,

824
00:39:35,520 --> 00:39:39,640
Speaker 7: and I'm it's almost like that life brings us closer together.

825
00:39:39,719 --> 00:39:42,440
Speaker 7: Although there was so much tension in that time period,

826
00:39:42,680 --> 00:39:45,520
Speaker 7: we look back and actually say, oh, remember when that happened.

827
00:39:45,800 --> 00:39:47,960
Speaker 7: Oh girl, like this is what I was thinking back then,

828
00:39:48,400 --> 00:39:49,960
Speaker 7: and it actually brings us closer.

829
00:39:50,000 --> 00:39:51,480
Speaker 3: I'm so happy for her now.

830
00:39:51,760 --> 00:39:54,000
Speaker 7: I mean, we we actually invite each other to each

831
00:39:54,040 --> 00:39:56,480
Speaker 7: other's homes and she was at my baby shower. It's

832
00:39:56,520 --> 00:39:59,359
Speaker 7: just unbelievable that someone that you know, I didn't think

833
00:39:59,360 --> 00:40:01,160
Speaker 7: I would ever speak to again is.

834
00:40:01,120 --> 00:40:01,720
Speaker 3: Not my friend.

835
00:40:01,800 --> 00:40:04,200
Speaker 1: Did y'all make any promises to each other? Y'all would

836
00:40:04,239 --> 00:40:05,120
Speaker 1: never have.

837
00:40:07,040 --> 00:40:09,960
Speaker 3: So messy child. Did y'all make any promise with.

838
00:40:12,160 --> 00:40:12,560
Speaker 6: We did?

839
00:40:12,600 --> 00:40:12,640
Speaker 5: Not?

840
00:40:13,360 --> 00:40:16,000
Speaker 3: No more, no more, baby, I'm gonna do right.

841
00:40:16,080 --> 00:40:16,319
Speaker 5: I'm not.

842
00:40:16,719 --> 00:40:16,839
Speaker 8: No.

843
00:40:17,320 --> 00:40:20,040
Speaker 7: We just continue to support each other and I don't

844
00:40:20,080 --> 00:40:21,440
Speaker 7: talk to the promises.

845
00:40:21,960 --> 00:40:24,080
Speaker 3: Lady, But that never happened.

846
00:40:25,800 --> 00:40:26,000
Speaker 1: You know.

847
00:40:26,160 --> 00:40:29,040
Speaker 7: God is good and look at what he's doing and

848
00:40:29,120 --> 00:40:31,919
Speaker 7: in my life. So you just can never say never,

849
00:40:32,320 --> 00:40:33,200
Speaker 7: so you can do it.

850
00:40:34,280 --> 00:40:36,960
Speaker 6: God is good talking about you and Adrian, like you

851
00:40:37,000 --> 00:40:40,120
Speaker 6: know you to never have any issues between each other.

852
00:40:45,800 --> 00:40:48,480
Speaker 3: Really should like what I should.

853
00:40:50,680 --> 00:40:51,319
Speaker 1: Throw this at him?

854
00:40:51,320 --> 00:40:51,799
Speaker 8: I have the.

855
00:40:59,239 --> 00:41:04,880
Speaker 1: God is really so, I wanted to ask Maurice.

856
00:41:06,160 --> 00:41:08,719
Speaker 6: Yeah, one of the biggest misconceptions because you said something

857
00:41:08,880 --> 00:41:10,840
Speaker 6: earlier that was very important voting.

858
00:41:10,920 --> 00:41:13,320
Speaker 1: Yeah, you have to be an informable absolutely.

859
00:41:13,360 --> 00:41:15,160
Speaker 6: One of the biggest things I hear people say is

860
00:41:15,160 --> 00:41:16,759
Speaker 6: if you try to talk to him about policy, like

861
00:41:16,760 --> 00:41:20,000
Speaker 6: what the economy was better, Oh, under you know Trump,

862
00:41:20,000 --> 00:41:22,640
Speaker 6: and it's better under Republicans. I learned this in the

863
00:41:22,680 --> 00:41:24,600
Speaker 6: last couple of months. That's just been a false narrative

864
00:41:24,680 --> 00:41:25,520
Speaker 6: all of these years that.

865
00:41:26,920 --> 00:41:30,239
Speaker 5: This is this is misinformation and disinformation. All right, So,

866
00:41:30,520 --> 00:41:37,359
Speaker 5: first of all, Donald Trump inherited the Obama economy. Right,

867
00:41:37,680 --> 00:41:41,200
Speaker 5: So whatever economy that you remember when Donald Trump came

868
00:41:41,239 --> 00:41:44,440
Speaker 5: into office, that was the Obama economy, the Obama Obama economy.

869
00:41:44,840 --> 00:41:48,400
Speaker 5: And look again, to me, the Obama economy is the floor.

870
00:41:48,480 --> 00:41:51,960
Speaker 5: I'm with working families. I want an economy that that

871
00:41:52,040 --> 00:41:55,520
Speaker 5: in many ways focuses directly on the interest of labor unions,

872
00:41:55,520 --> 00:41:57,000
Speaker 5: in ways that we still are trying to get to.

873
00:41:57,360 --> 00:42:00,839
Speaker 5: But the Obama economy was generating jobs month after month

874
00:42:00,840 --> 00:42:05,320
Speaker 5: after month. So so he inherited that. And then people

875
00:42:05,480 --> 00:42:08,520
Speaker 5: don't remember, but if you remember four years ago, we

876
00:42:08,520 --> 00:42:12,680
Speaker 5: were under COVID, Right, millions of jobs were lost, right,

877
00:42:12,719 --> 00:42:15,040
Speaker 5: people were sheltered in place, and some people say, like, well,

878
00:42:15,440 --> 00:42:20,480
Speaker 5: you know that was COVID, but presidents will face untold crises.

879
00:42:20,880 --> 00:42:23,880
Speaker 5: COVID happened to be his crisis. What happened when that

880
00:42:23,920 --> 00:42:27,640
Speaker 5: man faced that crist he unraveled, talking about injecting bleach

881
00:42:27,760 --> 00:42:32,759
Speaker 5: and and his own his own health officials say that

882
00:42:33,160 --> 00:42:35,480
Speaker 5: hundreds of thousands of people lost their lives. They didn't

883
00:42:35,480 --> 00:42:38,080
Speaker 5: have to because the man couldn't keep it together. And

884
00:42:38,160 --> 00:42:42,200
Speaker 5: so when Kamalin, Oh, yeah, I mean, but I want

885
00:42:42,200 --> 00:42:44,520
Speaker 5: to talk about the trade wars, right, because the only

886
00:42:44,560 --> 00:42:46,279
Speaker 5: thing that we hear this man talk about I'm going

887
00:42:46,360 --> 00:42:48,200
Speaker 5: to get into that is tariffs and let me let

888
00:42:48,239 --> 00:42:53,400
Speaker 5: me get into that. So so Biden and Harris inherited

889
00:42:53,840 --> 00:42:58,160
Speaker 5: this economy that was a the the Trump COVID economy.

890
00:42:58,520 --> 00:43:01,359
Speaker 5: And if we remember, I think some of us have

891
00:43:01,440 --> 00:43:03,719
Speaker 5: suppressed that memory because it was so traumatic, right, we

892
00:43:03,719 --> 00:43:05,719
Speaker 5: don't want to remember it. But so many of our

893
00:43:05,800 --> 00:43:08,640
Speaker 5: neighbors died, More than a million people died, so many

894
00:43:08,680 --> 00:43:11,520
Speaker 5: of our friends died, families, so many people are out

895
00:43:11,560 --> 00:43:15,240
Speaker 5: of work, right, And then they were able to pass

896
00:43:15,280 --> 00:43:18,560
Speaker 5: the Recovery Act, which which brought a lot of resources

897
00:43:18,600 --> 00:43:21,080
Speaker 5: to state governments into local governments. People talk about the

898
00:43:21,080 --> 00:43:24,239
Speaker 5: stimulus check there is a Biden Harris stimulus as well,

899
00:43:25,040 --> 00:43:29,120
Speaker 5: and many many other policies which today right, and I

900
00:43:29,160 --> 00:43:31,640
Speaker 5: want the economy to work for so many more people,

901
00:43:31,680 --> 00:43:34,880
Speaker 5: and I'll get to that. But today this economy is

902
00:43:34,960 --> 00:43:40,279
Speaker 5: making jobs, making jobs at manufacturing jobs, making union jobs, right,

903
00:43:40,600 --> 00:43:42,879
Speaker 5: And so we have to actually tell the truth about

904
00:43:42,920 --> 00:43:43,520
Speaker 5: what's happening.

905
00:43:43,760 --> 00:43:44,560
Speaker 1: But let's talk.

906
00:43:44,400 --> 00:43:49,360
Speaker 5: About On one side, there's one policy that's basically tarifs

907
00:43:49,520 --> 00:43:53,200
Speaker 5: taris tariffs. And I almost feel bad for this man

908
00:43:53,280 --> 00:43:56,560
Speaker 5: because he doesn't look, I'm not an economist, but he

909
00:43:56,600 --> 00:44:02,200
Speaker 5: doesn't understand economics one on one, right, Economics one on

910
00:44:02,200 --> 00:44:04,000
Speaker 5: one tariffs.

911
00:44:03,800 --> 00:44:07,760
Speaker 1: Hurt everyday working people. Right. So it's like China doesn't

912
00:44:07,760 --> 00:44:10,719
Speaker 1: pay the tariffs, You pay the tariffs. Right. So you're

913
00:44:10,719 --> 00:44:11,320
Speaker 1: talking about.

914
00:44:11,160 --> 00:44:14,080
Speaker 5: Two thousand percent tariffs that's going on. That is a

915
00:44:14,160 --> 00:44:17,719
Speaker 5: tax on working people. So on one side, you're talking

916
00:44:17,760 --> 00:44:21,040
Speaker 5: about a tax on working people. On another side, you're

917
00:44:21,040 --> 00:44:24,359
Speaker 5: talking about what a six thousand dollars child tax credit, right,

918
00:44:24,560 --> 00:44:30,040
Speaker 5: You're talking about twenty five thousand dollars assistance for home buyers.

919
00:44:30,080 --> 00:44:33,239
Speaker 5: You're talking about fifty thousand dollars for people who have

920
00:44:33,320 --> 00:44:35,560
Speaker 5: a dream or a hustle, or you know, they want

921
00:44:35,560 --> 00:44:37,560
Speaker 5: to start a business, or maybe artists that want to

922
00:44:37,560 --> 00:44:41,520
Speaker 5: start something entrepreneurs. Right, you're talking about policies that you

923
00:44:41,560 --> 00:44:44,240
Speaker 5: could debate, but are focused on the interest of working people.

924
00:44:44,600 --> 00:44:49,360
Speaker 5: With housing, you're talking about holding accountable who the largest

925
00:44:49,400 --> 00:44:53,440
Speaker 5: corporations who are buying up these units. That that's one

926
00:44:53,440 --> 00:44:56,600
Speaker 5: of the reasons why rental process. Yes, so a lot

927
00:44:56,640 --> 00:44:59,480
Speaker 5: of these head funds are buying up these homes, that's

928
00:44:59,520 --> 00:45:03,080
Speaker 5: why the prices are becoming so high. They're talking about

929
00:45:03,160 --> 00:45:04,279
Speaker 5: holding them accountable.

930
00:45:04,440 --> 00:45:04,600
Speaker 1: Right.

931
00:45:04,880 --> 00:45:07,440
Speaker 5: So when you talk about the economy also, there's a

932
00:45:07,480 --> 00:45:10,160
Speaker 5: lot of people who are saying that the American economy

933
00:45:10,200 --> 00:45:15,040
Speaker 5: today right is one of the biggest, most robust economies

934
00:45:15,160 --> 00:45:18,719
Speaker 5: in the world right today, and so we need to

935
00:45:18,840 --> 00:45:22,399
Speaker 5: tell the truth. I would argue that we can do better, right,

936
00:45:22,440 --> 00:45:24,040
Speaker 5: and we have to do better, which is why we

937
00:45:24,040 --> 00:45:26,720
Speaker 5: build a Working Families Party, because we're not just interested

938
00:45:26,800 --> 00:45:29,680
Speaker 5: in electing somebody and then going home. We want to

939
00:45:29,680 --> 00:45:32,520
Speaker 5: fight for more. And in the richest country in the

940
00:45:32,560 --> 00:45:35,880
Speaker 5: history of countries, there shouldn't even be homelessness. We shouldn't

941
00:45:35,880 --> 00:45:38,839
Speaker 5: even be talking about how to people afford healthcare, and

942
00:45:38,880 --> 00:45:42,239
Speaker 5: we know we don't believe any politician is going to

943
00:45:42,280 --> 00:45:43,879
Speaker 5: get elected and then give that to us.

944
00:45:44,040 --> 00:45:45,960
Speaker 1: We need to fight for that on the other side

945
00:45:46,000 --> 00:45:46,560
Speaker 1: of this election.

946
00:45:46,760 --> 00:45:50,759
Speaker 5: So first job number one is to vote and to

947
00:45:50,880 --> 00:45:53,839
Speaker 5: vote out the Project twenty twenty five crew. And it's

948
00:45:53,840 --> 00:45:56,120
Speaker 5: bigger than just Project twenty twenty five on the agenda.

949
00:45:56,160 --> 00:45:58,000
Speaker 5: We got to push back on that. And then job

950
00:45:58,080 --> 00:46:00,839
Speaker 5: number two after the elect and we need to stand

951
00:46:00,880 --> 00:46:03,120
Speaker 5: on business in order to make sure that that this

952
00:46:03,200 --> 00:46:06,040
Speaker 5: economy actually works us. Because we know the corporations are

953
00:46:06,040 --> 00:46:08,160
Speaker 5: gonna want to be in people's airs. We need to

954
00:46:08,160 --> 00:46:10,440
Speaker 5: be in the airs of these politicians as well. But

955
00:46:10,480 --> 00:46:13,040
Speaker 5: the contrast is going to be clear, Honestly, y'all, it's

956
00:46:13,120 --> 00:46:16,000
Speaker 5: not even a question at this point. I understand if

957
00:46:16,040 --> 00:46:18,440
Speaker 5: months ago people had questions, right, and.

958
00:46:20,280 --> 00:46:21,040
Speaker 1: But it's the problem.

959
00:46:21,040 --> 00:46:22,960
Speaker 2: I'm gonna tell you what the problem is, right. The

960
00:46:23,000 --> 00:46:24,960
Speaker 2: problem is this, right, And this is what I realized

961
00:46:25,000 --> 00:46:27,759
Speaker 2: the other day, Right, Yeah, a lot of people don't

962
00:46:27,760 --> 00:46:30,080
Speaker 2: have the time to do the research to see if

963
00:46:30,120 --> 00:46:31,400
Speaker 2: the things that they're researching is right.

964
00:46:31,480 --> 00:46:33,640
Speaker 1: Right, And I'm absolutely absolutely.

965
00:46:34,360 --> 00:46:37,440
Speaker 2: I'm watching the World series, right yeah, and they're playing

966
00:46:37,520 --> 00:46:39,879
Speaker 2: ads and people don't know if those ads are really fake?

967
00:46:39,960 --> 00:46:42,360
Speaker 1: Right, so's you're nine to five and you have two jobs.

968
00:46:42,360 --> 00:46:44,160
Speaker 2: You come home, you say, you know what, I'm gonna

969
00:46:44,160 --> 00:46:45,719
Speaker 2: turn on the World Series while I cook for my

970
00:46:45,800 --> 00:46:47,839
Speaker 2: kids and you're watching these ads. You don't know what

971
00:46:47,840 --> 00:46:50,000
Speaker 2: to believe in. Not absolutely, And most people don't know

972
00:46:50,040 --> 00:46:52,800
Speaker 2: that a lot of those ads are full of shit, yes,

973
00:46:53,719 --> 00:46:56,319
Speaker 2: or when they go online to look there's a lot

974
00:46:56,320 --> 00:46:57,279
Speaker 2: of stuff that they're looking for.

975
00:46:57,239 --> 00:46:58,480
Speaker 1: And I feel silly.

976
00:47:00,920 --> 00:47:12,480
Speaker 2: One online a lot of the stuff that they're looking

977
00:47:12,600 --> 00:47:15,200
Speaker 2: for is false. So how do people know what's real

978
00:47:15,239 --> 00:47:16,920
Speaker 2: and what's not. I mean they put an ad with

979
00:47:16,960 --> 00:47:17,960
Speaker 2: me and Charlemagne on it.

980
00:47:18,320 --> 00:47:19,719
Speaker 1: Yeah, I saw that.

981
00:47:21,080 --> 00:47:22,719
Speaker 8: When you saw it that you got your brother sold

982
00:47:22,719 --> 00:47:22,960
Speaker 8: you out.

983
00:47:25,040 --> 00:47:27,880
Speaker 7: Well, no, I was just like, this is crazy. And Charlemagne,

984
00:47:27,920 --> 00:47:30,160
Speaker 7: I know how you know political. We did the movie

985
00:47:30,200 --> 00:47:33,439
Speaker 7: eighty eight together, which was a political thriller about these

986
00:47:33,600 --> 00:47:36,880
Speaker 7: very issues and the election and and just super packs.

987
00:47:36,960 --> 00:47:39,640
Speaker 7: So it's funny because everything you said is so true,

988
00:47:39,680 --> 00:47:42,040
Speaker 7: like they you know, you don't know, and people don't

989
00:47:42,080 --> 00:47:44,600
Speaker 7: often have time. So what I want to say to

990
00:47:44,640 --> 00:47:46,600
Speaker 7: add to what you said and Marie said, is that

991
00:47:46,760 --> 00:47:49,000
Speaker 7: you know, we're just swiping through social media, and that's

992
00:47:49,040 --> 00:47:53,600
Speaker 7: the only maybe quick in a hurry. It's like fast

993
00:47:53,640 --> 00:47:57,480
Speaker 7: food and fast food, you know, you gotta just eat

994
00:47:57,520 --> 00:48:00,600
Speaker 7: because you gotta eat. Sometimes you don't have time or

995
00:48:00,640 --> 00:48:02,160
Speaker 7: you may not have the resource or the money to

996
00:48:02,200 --> 00:48:04,279
Speaker 7: go get a real meal, so but you got to eat.

997
00:48:04,520 --> 00:48:06,279
Speaker 7: So I'm gonna go ahead and get this burger were

998
00:48:06,800 --> 00:48:09,600
Speaker 7: hopefully it is real meat. I don't know, but I'm

999
00:48:09,640 --> 00:48:12,560
Speaker 7: digesting something that I'm not really sure is right or

1000
00:48:12,560 --> 00:48:14,600
Speaker 7: good for me and even true.

1001
00:48:14,760 --> 00:48:17,600
Speaker 5: Yeah, And that's why I encourage everybody, because I believe

1002
00:48:17,640 --> 00:48:20,760
Speaker 5: that the ultimate antiseptic to these lies.

1003
00:48:21,280 --> 00:48:21,879
Speaker 1: It's not just.

1004
00:48:21,840 --> 00:48:25,520
Speaker 5: Better information because we need better information, it's relationships, right,

1005
00:48:25,680 --> 00:48:27,640
Speaker 5: because if I have a if I have a trusted

1006
00:48:27,719 --> 00:48:31,759
Speaker 5: relationship with you and you're spouting this, I could be like, yo,

1007
00:48:31,960 --> 00:48:33,880
Speaker 5: all right, and be let me actually share with you

1008
00:48:33,920 --> 00:48:36,880
Speaker 5: what's up, and we could have a conversation because we

1009
00:48:36,920 --> 00:48:39,600
Speaker 5: trust each other. And you know, when we were in Philly,

1010
00:48:39,960 --> 00:48:45,040
Speaker 5: we had an amazing closed door conversation with working class

1011
00:48:45,080 --> 00:48:46,960
Speaker 5: black men and we were having real.

1012
00:48:47,000 --> 00:48:49,799
Speaker 7: Barbershop in a barbershop and just sat you know, my

1013
00:48:49,880 --> 00:48:53,319
Speaker 7: husband was really a part of that conversation and all

1014
00:48:53,360 --> 00:48:56,440
Speaker 7: these men sat and talked. I was really observing because

1015
00:48:56,480 --> 00:48:58,719
Speaker 7: you know, as a woman, I didn't want to be

1016
00:48:58,840 --> 00:49:01,040
Speaker 7: in that conversation because I don't know what black men.

1017
00:49:01,160 --> 00:49:02,600
Speaker 3: Struggles or what they're dealing with.

1018
00:49:02,640 --> 00:49:04,759
Speaker 7: But that was such a great thing that you know,

1019
00:49:04,840 --> 00:49:07,920
Speaker 7: you guys and working families organize because people do need

1020
00:49:08,000 --> 00:49:09,440
Speaker 7: to just sit and talk to each other.

1021
00:49:09,760 --> 00:49:11,840
Speaker 8: As a woman, what did you observe in that conversation

1022
00:49:11,920 --> 00:49:14,000
Speaker 8: that like a Kamala Harris and like, you know, her

1023
00:49:14,080 --> 00:49:16,560
Speaker 8: team is focusing on right now.

1024
00:49:16,600 --> 00:49:18,200
Speaker 7: Like you know, I think a lot of black men

1025
00:49:18,239 --> 00:49:20,160
Speaker 7: felt like, you know, don't just pick me up and

1026
00:49:20,280 --> 00:49:23,279
Speaker 7: use me now. Some people did feel, you know, even

1027
00:49:23,320 --> 00:49:25,120
Speaker 7: with Kamala Harris. You know, at the end of the day,

1028
00:49:25,400 --> 00:49:29,040
Speaker 7: some people are feeling like, oh, now y'all in both parties,

1029
00:49:29,480 --> 00:49:31,680
Speaker 7: now y'all want to focus on black men or now

1030
00:49:31,719 --> 00:49:33,080
Speaker 7: there's conversations about what.

1031
00:49:33,280 --> 00:49:36,000
Speaker 3: So there was a real you know, some people are frustrated.

1032
00:49:36,040 --> 00:49:38,359
Speaker 7: Some people are feeling you know, discouragions. Some people are

1033
00:49:38,400 --> 00:49:40,719
Speaker 7: like no, you know, they were educators and they were

1034
00:49:40,719 --> 00:49:42,960
Speaker 7: all talking and my husband talked about you know, the

1035
00:49:42,960 --> 00:49:45,319
Speaker 7: influence of the culture, and they talked about Kuavo and

1036
00:49:45,360 --> 00:49:49,520
Speaker 7: different people that are being utilized. But black men were

1037
00:49:49,560 --> 00:49:52,640
Speaker 7: feeling like, are we going to still matter when the

1038
00:49:52,680 --> 00:49:56,600
Speaker 7: election is over? So how do we organize ourselves? And

1039
00:49:56,640 --> 00:49:59,759
Speaker 7: I think they were talking amongst themselves about what can

1040
00:49:59,800 --> 00:50:02,160
Speaker 7: we do to make sure we're not just used as

1041
00:50:02,200 --> 00:50:02,600
Speaker 7: a tool.

1042
00:50:02,840 --> 00:50:05,759
Speaker 5: That's right, that's right because for far too long, when

1043
00:50:05,800 --> 00:50:09,960
Speaker 5: it comes time to vote the parties, they come to us.

1044
00:50:10,040 --> 00:50:11,440
Speaker 5: They come to us for somebody, They come to our

1045
00:50:11,440 --> 00:50:14,160
Speaker 5: culture for everything. They come to our culture to make money,

1046
00:50:14,400 --> 00:50:16,960
Speaker 5: to start brands, and to get and to get people

1047
00:50:16,960 --> 00:50:20,440
Speaker 5: into these polls, and the day after it's often crickets

1048
00:50:20,440 --> 00:50:22,640
Speaker 5: when it comes to our agenda, which is why we

1049
00:50:22,680 --> 00:50:25,440
Speaker 5: build organizations like the Working Families Party so we can

1050
00:50:25,520 --> 00:50:28,160
Speaker 5: hold them all accountable. Right, And so to me, I

1051
00:50:28,200 --> 00:50:32,000
Speaker 5: thought it was historic, and so props to VP Harris

1052
00:50:32,360 --> 00:50:35,600
Speaker 5: for having a platform specifically for black men.

1053
00:50:35,880 --> 00:50:38,200
Speaker 1: She didn't just create that after Barack Obama made those comics.

1054
00:50:38,320 --> 00:50:40,560
Speaker 1: We no, no, no, she's been doing that. I know

1055
00:50:40,640 --> 00:50:42,400
Speaker 1: that she's been working on it, right.

1056
00:50:42,200 --> 00:50:45,080
Speaker 7: But there's a narrative that it feels like it's just.

1057
00:50:45,640 --> 00:50:46,600
Speaker 3: And but that's not true.

1058
00:50:46,719 --> 00:50:48,520
Speaker 1: And that agenda to me is the floor.

1059
00:50:48,760 --> 00:50:51,120
Speaker 5: You know, props to black men bill, props to fill

1060
00:50:51,160 --> 00:50:54,520
Speaker 5: Agnear Black Men bill, and the nine bars. Right, there

1061
00:50:54,560 --> 00:50:57,719
Speaker 5: are all types of platforms for black men, right. So

1062
00:50:58,560 --> 00:51:00,680
Speaker 5: I'm happy that that that that happen. I think is

1063
00:51:00,840 --> 00:51:04,600
Speaker 5: historic to have a major candidate actually addressed our issues.

1064
00:51:04,680 --> 00:51:06,440
Speaker 1: That shows we have power, right.

1065
00:51:06,719 --> 00:51:09,279
Speaker 5: And also I want to dispel this misinformation that black

1066
00:51:09,320 --> 00:51:12,040
Speaker 5: men don't vote, or black men don't vote for or

1067
00:51:12,160 --> 00:51:15,200
Speaker 5: vote for black women, or somehow we could lose. The

1068
00:51:15,440 --> 00:51:18,520
Speaker 5: black men are engaged, right, Black men are very much engaged.

1069
00:51:18,640 --> 00:51:22,400
Speaker 5: There's one population of people who always vote on freedom

1070
00:51:22,440 --> 00:51:25,640
Speaker 5: more than anybody else. That's Black women, only rivaled by

1071
00:51:25,640 --> 00:51:28,280
Speaker 5: black men, right, And so we just need to dispel

1072
00:51:28,360 --> 00:51:32,439
Speaker 5: that all of this gender war stuff. Any information that's

1073
00:51:32,440 --> 00:51:36,239
Speaker 5: about dividing us in our community is information that is

1074
00:51:36,360 --> 00:51:40,000
Speaker 5: set upon by our enemies because they're afraid if we

1075
00:51:40,040 --> 00:51:42,160
Speaker 5: as black people come together. And then the other thing

1076
00:51:42,160 --> 00:51:45,319
Speaker 5: that they're afraid of is when working class Black people,

1077
00:51:45,440 --> 00:51:48,520
Speaker 5: Latino people, and working class white people and Native people

1078
00:51:48,760 --> 00:51:51,359
Speaker 5: and Asian people we all come together. That's the thing

1079
00:51:51,400 --> 00:51:52,880
Speaker 5: that they are definitely afraid of.

1080
00:51:54,040 --> 00:51:57,080
Speaker 7: Yes, I mean, and that's exactly all.

1081
00:51:56,920 --> 00:51:58,800
Speaker 3: The leaders and even in the culture.

1082
00:51:59,080 --> 00:52:02,439
Speaker 7: If you can bring people together through music, through through

1083
00:52:02,480 --> 00:52:05,600
Speaker 7: the arts, or through you know what you're speaking, or

1084
00:52:05,600 --> 00:52:09,560
Speaker 7: your activism, and literally that transcends color lines, and then

1085
00:52:09,600 --> 00:52:11,319
Speaker 7: before you know it, you have so much power that

1086
00:52:11,360 --> 00:52:15,359
Speaker 7: they can't control you. Because essentially power is freedom, that's right,

1087
00:52:15,400 --> 00:52:18,400
Speaker 7: and without freedom, you know, that's where we all are

1088
00:52:18,440 --> 00:52:21,919
Speaker 7: fighting for. And that's why voting now matters, because we're

1089
00:52:21,920 --> 00:52:25,520
Speaker 7: fighting not just for power, we're fighting for freedom and

1090
00:52:25,520 --> 00:52:27,080
Speaker 7: that's what's important to us.

1091
00:52:27,480 --> 00:52:30,000
Speaker 1: That's right. How do you support your work? Mary? Okay?

1092
00:52:30,040 --> 00:52:32,760
Speaker 5: Well, there's so many ways and people can get involved

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Speaker 5: right now. I know this show is for a lot

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Speaker 5: of people's entertainment and education, but I'm an organizer, so

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Speaker 5: I'm always going to have a call to action, and

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Speaker 5: so don't see this simply as education as entertainment. See

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Speaker 5: this as your call to action if you want to

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Speaker 5: get in this work between now on election day, because

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Speaker 5: we're still talking to voters, and we still need to

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Speaker 5: talk to voters. It's true when you look at the polls,

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Speaker 5: it's going to be close. Right, you can matter, and

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Speaker 5: so I encourage everybody to text the word power pun

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Speaker 5: intended the three zero four zero three power to three

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Speaker 5: zero four zero three. You could Workingfamilies dot org. You

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Speaker 5: can see our list of endorsed candidates. And by the way,

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Speaker 5: we're on these streets every single day, right, so we've

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Speaker 5: endorsed close to a thousand candidates. We do that every

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Speaker 5: single year. And so if you're interested, there are organizations

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Speaker 5: for you, and my role is to get you organized.

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Speaker 5: I would love for you to join the Working Families Party.

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Speaker 5: If we're for whatever.

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Speaker 7: Reason, you want to volunteer, go to the site.

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Speaker 5: Absolutely, you could volunteer, you could get on board, and

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Speaker 5: if everything or anything I've said aligns with you, then congratulations,

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Speaker 5: you already are Working Families Party member. You might as

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Speaker 5: well make it official. Come on board and get this

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Speaker 5: work because we're going to be on the streets in

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Speaker 5: every major swing swing state. We're also for folks that

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Speaker 5: might not know this. In California and in New York,

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Speaker 5: there are swing districts, right, and so there are congressional districts.

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Speaker 5: This is an opportunity to be able to make a

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Speaker 5: difference there. And then if you vote in Connecticut and

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Speaker 5: New York, we have a ballot line and in New

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Speaker 5: York you could vote Rod d on the Working Families

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Speaker 5: Party line. You could vote for Kamala Harris and Tim Walls,

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Speaker 5: not on the Democratic Party line, but on road D

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Speaker 5: the Working Families party line. Why that's important is that

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Speaker 5: you could say yes, absolutely, I saw the hate rally

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Speaker 5: at Madison Square Garden. I understand the assignment. I don't

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Speaker 5: want to vote that man in I'm going to vote

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Speaker 5: for Kamala Harris and Tim Walls, but I care about

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Speaker 5: the fact that we need to focus our resources on

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Speaker 5: education and healthcare and not on wars abroad. Right, then

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Speaker 5: you can vote on the Working Families Party line, which

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Speaker 5: says this is my candidate choice, but this is also

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Speaker 5: the agenda I vote on, and in those states you

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Speaker 5: could do.

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Speaker 7: That policies that you believe in and making sure that

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Speaker 7: we take care of us at home and not just abroad.

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Speaker 1: That's right.

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Speaker 7: We need people to support us here in America in

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Speaker 7: these cities.

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Speaker 3: So sure, that's also why we do what we do.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, And we can't put at the center these politicians

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Speaker 5: and their biographies, and there's which is like all good.

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Speaker 5: We have to put at the center our families, our children,

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Speaker 5: our communities and use that in order to determine what

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Speaker 5: chess move we make. I like to say that elections

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Speaker 5: and voting is not a love letter, right, So you

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Speaker 5: don't have the life folks. You don't have to love folks,

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Speaker 5: you don't have to trust folks in order to vote

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Speaker 5: your interest and in order to make that chess move.

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Speaker 5: So if you want to make that chess move with us,

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Speaker 5: I invite you to join Working Families, not Lewis.

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Speaker 1: Yes, yes, you so much for joining us.

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Speaker 3: We appreciate it much.

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Speaker 1: It's the breakfast Club. Good morning, wake that ass up

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Speaker 1: in the morning. The Breakfast Club