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Speaker 1: to the city of Los Angles for the new year,

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00:31:31,160 --> 00:31:37,800
Speaker 1: and that messages coscis not hairdcuffs. Everybody said, huskis not haircuts.

433
00:31:38,360 --> 00:31:43,320
Speaker 1: Hoskins not handcuffs. And so I'm gonna come I'm gonna

434
00:31:43,320 --> 00:31:46,800
Speaker 1: come back and I'm gonna talk about climbing that we

435
00:31:46,920 --> 00:31:50,880
Speaker 1: see ourselves here right now. When you look around the nation,

436
00:31:51,800 --> 00:31:57,760
Speaker 1: you see right here on King Date the political agenda.

437
00:31:59,160 --> 00:32:03,760
Speaker 1: Nobody agree with the political agenda of apoliticians around the nation.

438
00:32:04,800 --> 00:32:08,000
Speaker 1: We see in Washington, we see the capital that we

439
00:32:08,080 --> 00:32:12,640
Speaker 1: see raise at the at the state the capital, and

440
00:32:12,720 --> 00:32:15,560
Speaker 1: then right here on the local level, we also see

441
00:32:16,120 --> 00:32:20,320
Speaker 1: that politicians nobody agree with the with they with what

442
00:32:20,440 --> 00:32:24,320
Speaker 1: they're talking about. Nobody agreed with their political agenda. And

443
00:32:24,440 --> 00:32:27,440
Speaker 1: that's why we riding today. But before I'm gonna come

444
00:32:27,480 --> 00:32:30,520
Speaker 1: back and I'm gonna talk more about this. But before

445
00:32:30,960 --> 00:32:33,760
Speaker 1: I do, I want to ground us and King Day

446
00:32:34,200 --> 00:32:38,240
Speaker 1: and have put them up here. And he gonna ground

447
00:32:38,360 --> 00:32:45,200
Speaker 1: us and Queen Day real quick. Thanks logan. What day

448
00:32:45,360 --> 00:32:51,720
Speaker 1: is this? What day is it? What day is it?

449
00:32:54,480 --> 00:32:58,320
Speaker 1: This is Martin Luther King Dad. This is the official

450
00:32:59,440 --> 00:33:07,360
Speaker 1: recognition of doctor King's birthday. We're here at LA CAN

451
00:33:09,760 --> 00:33:13,320
Speaker 1: to demonstrate and act and to stand up and make

452
00:33:13,360 --> 00:33:20,000
Speaker 1: it clear to everyone that we are collectively determined, not

453
00:33:20,160 --> 00:33:24,240
Speaker 1: only the folks here at LA CAN or MLK Coalition,

454
00:33:25,720 --> 00:33:30,120
Speaker 1: but a whole range of human and economic and social

455
00:33:30,560 --> 00:33:35,720
Speaker 1: and civil rights organizations in our community are determined to

456
00:33:35,880 --> 00:33:41,560
Speaker 1: stand up against the kind of displacement that creates, that

457
00:33:41,760 --> 00:33:49,360
Speaker 1: creates and created skip people who are houseless, people hopeless,

458
00:33:51,240 --> 00:33:59,760
Speaker 1: poverty in America, unemployment, economic inequality, period, all the things

459
00:33:59,800 --> 00:34:04,920
Speaker 1: that doctor King stood up for and fought actively against

460
00:34:05,400 --> 00:34:09,040
Speaker 1: throughout his adult life. For that reason alone, we need

461
00:34:09,120 --> 00:34:12,440
Speaker 1: to honor him. When we look at what's going on

462
00:34:12,600 --> 00:34:16,560
Speaker 1: in Washington, d C. And the kind of so called

463
00:34:16,680 --> 00:34:22,759
Speaker 1: leadership this country has had in recent years, we see

464
00:34:22,840 --> 00:34:27,759
Speaker 1: something even more fundamental about doctor King, which was that

465
00:34:27,880 --> 00:34:31,920
Speaker 1: he represented a figure who not only stood on political

466
00:34:32,040 --> 00:34:36,720
Speaker 1: and economic issues, but who wedded those issues to basic

467
00:34:36,880 --> 00:34:43,680
Speaker 1: questions of morality. Doctor King us to say, often, the

468
00:34:43,840 --> 00:34:49,799
Speaker 1: time is always right to do what is right. Who

469
00:34:50,000 --> 00:34:54,960
Speaker 1: is doing right on our behalf in Washington or any

470
00:34:55,040 --> 00:35:03,399
Speaker 1: place else in this country today almost known almost no one,

471
00:35:04,719 --> 00:35:08,799
Speaker 1: and so it is up to us to stand up ourselves,

472
00:35:10,400 --> 00:35:13,839
Speaker 1: to take inspiration from Doctor King and many others who

473
00:35:14,000 --> 00:35:18,440
Speaker 1: dedicated their lives to making our lives and our world

474
00:35:18,960 --> 00:35:26,279
Speaker 1: a better and decent place for human beings to live in. Everyone,

475
00:35:27,239 --> 00:35:32,160
Speaker 1: each and everyone, no matter what color, no matter what

476
00:35:32,400 --> 00:35:35,520
Speaker 1: region you come from, no matter what the nationality of

477
00:35:35,640 --> 00:35:40,520
Speaker 1: your people or their creed. We all have human rights,

478
00:35:41,840 --> 00:35:45,399
Speaker 1: but we can't exercise them unless we stand up for them.

479
00:35:46,760 --> 00:35:49,279
Speaker 1: And when we talk about this placement, we know that

480
00:35:49,440 --> 00:35:53,879
Speaker 1: the COVID virus has displaced millions and millions of people

481
00:35:53,920 --> 00:35:58,960
Speaker 1: in this country out of their jobs. Many small businesses

482
00:35:59,040 --> 00:36:02,040
Speaker 1: have been forced to close down altogether because of the

483
00:36:02,239 --> 00:36:06,040
Speaker 1: economic impact of that. But you know, all of these

484
00:36:06,120 --> 00:36:11,040
Speaker 1: conditions were there even before COVID showed up, millions of

485
00:36:11,080 --> 00:36:16,279
Speaker 1: people being displaced, and we must fight that displacement, whether

486
00:36:16,360 --> 00:36:20,760
Speaker 1: it means being displaced out of housing, displaced out of jobs.

487
00:36:21,120 --> 00:36:23,960
Speaker 1: And we're certainly not going to allow Doctor King to

488
00:36:24,120 --> 00:36:29,839
Speaker 1: be displaced by the COVID virus. So we are here

489
00:36:30,239 --> 00:36:33,520
Speaker 1: to engage because Doctor King would not want us to

490
00:36:33,600 --> 00:36:38,520
Speaker 1: be as foolish and as dismissive as some people have

491
00:36:38,760 --> 00:36:42,799
Speaker 1: been about this COVID virus. Issue. You would want our

492
00:36:42,920 --> 00:36:47,000
Speaker 1: communities and everyone in them to be safe, particularly in

493
00:36:47,120 --> 00:36:51,759
Speaker 1: any activity honoring his memory. And so that is why

494
00:36:51,840 --> 00:36:55,240
Speaker 1: we're doing a car caravan instead of what we usually

495
00:36:55,320 --> 00:36:59,279
Speaker 1: do on Doctor King's birthday, which is Marx and demonstrate

496
00:36:59,600 --> 00:37:03,359
Speaker 1: in that way we can still demonstrate. And Doctor King

497
00:37:03,440 --> 00:37:06,359
Speaker 1: said it is incumbent on us to demonstrate as long

498
00:37:06,440 --> 00:37:13,800
Speaker 1: as injustice and inequality exists. But the car caravan is

499
00:37:13,880 --> 00:37:16,000
Speaker 1: a form in which we can do this. We feel

500
00:37:16,440 --> 00:37:19,080
Speaker 1: pretty safely and say we have put out the call

501
00:37:19,239 --> 00:37:23,400
Speaker 1: to the community at large involve inviting anyone and everyone

502
00:37:23,440 --> 00:37:27,200
Speaker 1: who wants to join with us in raising these issues

503
00:37:27,280 --> 00:37:30,000
Speaker 1: and honoring Doctor King and in building unity in our

504
00:37:30,080 --> 00:37:36,800
Speaker 1: communities to actually dedicate ourselves to getting something done about

505
00:37:36,920 --> 00:37:41,920
Speaker 1: our problems today. So on behalf of the MLK coalition.

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00:37:42,480 --> 00:37:44,600
Speaker 1: I want to thank our brothers and sisters here at

507
00:37:44,760 --> 00:37:48,880
Speaker 1: La Cann who are among our strongest allies in the

508
00:37:48,960 --> 00:37:53,560
Speaker 1: city of Los Angeles, and we are theirs. And I

509
00:37:53,680 --> 00:37:58,080
Speaker 1: want to thank Brother Q here who had a wonderful

510
00:37:58,160 --> 00:38:03,520
Speaker 1: program at Lamarck Park and actually a caravan an action

511
00:38:03,719 --> 00:38:08,080
Speaker 1: at Lambert Park yesterday that was beautiful and he'll talk

512
00:38:08,160 --> 00:38:11,359
Speaker 1: about that well. Thank you one and all for being here.

513
00:38:12,560 --> 00:38:16,600
Speaker 1: After today is still on us to build our unity.

514
00:38:17,920 --> 00:38:22,080
Speaker 1: Our enemies are all unified. You see, this is one

515
00:38:22,120 --> 00:38:25,719
Speaker 1: of our biggest problems. They've got their unity and it

516
00:38:25,800 --> 00:38:29,920
Speaker 1: has given them tremendous power over our lives. We have

517
00:38:30,120 --> 00:38:34,320
Speaker 1: to break that dynamic. So we have to build solidarity

518
00:38:34,640 --> 00:38:37,920
Speaker 1: and not be hung up about our organizational lives. That

519
00:38:38,520 --> 00:38:41,600
Speaker 1: we have this difference and that difference what we have

520
00:38:41,760 --> 00:38:45,040
Speaker 1: to look for is what we are unified about and

521
00:38:45,280 --> 00:38:48,719
Speaker 1: lead with that. So brothers and sisters, thank you so

522
00:38:48,880 --> 00:38:51,440
Speaker 1: much for being out here. Brother Q is great to

523
00:38:51,480 --> 00:38:55,600
Speaker 1: see you and everyone out today. Thank you, Thank you.

524
00:38:57,400 --> 00:39:05,240
Speaker 1: Yeah all right, sorry about debt. We gotta mic that works.

525
00:39:06,400 --> 00:39:11,640
Speaker 1: And so how y'all feel out there? I said, how

526
00:39:11,719 --> 00:39:17,320
Speaker 1: you feel out there? So as Quasi just mentioned that

527
00:39:17,600 --> 00:39:21,799
Speaker 1: yesterday Black Lives Matter and Clergy for Black Lives did

528
00:39:22,000 --> 00:39:26,640
Speaker 1: a radical King March of car rally because we know

529
00:39:26,880 --> 00:39:31,239
Speaker 1: how they love to senitize King, right, we want to

530
00:39:31,360 --> 00:39:35,600
Speaker 1: sanitize our hands, but we don't want to sanitize king,

531
00:39:35,800 --> 00:39:40,840
Speaker 1: is that right? And so yesterday we took to the

532
00:39:40,960 --> 00:39:47,320
Speaker 1: street to give them the unsanitized King. And so we

533
00:39:47,560 --> 00:39:52,200
Speaker 1: know that we did not come here alone. We know

534
00:39:52,920 --> 00:39:59,000
Speaker 1: that we did not come here independent of our ancestors. Right,

535
00:40:00,200 --> 00:40:08,680
Speaker 1: so we're gonna pull libatians. We're gonna decolonize our spirituality

536
00:40:08,760 --> 00:40:15,560
Speaker 1: today and we're gonna pour libations in honor of our ancestors.

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00:40:16,400 --> 00:40:22,399
Speaker 1: And so my great grandmother, mother Ma Ablishi was born

538
00:40:22,560 --> 00:40:27,560
Speaker 1: in Ghana, taken when she was four years old, brought

539
00:40:27,680 --> 00:40:32,120
Speaker 1: to the Shaws of the Caribbean. They thought about shooting

540
00:40:32,200 --> 00:40:36,719
Speaker 1: them because they were kids, they decided not to. And

541
00:40:36,960 --> 00:40:42,160
Speaker 1: so it is the only reason why I'm standing here today.

542
00:40:43,080 --> 00:40:46,480
Speaker 1: And we know in the spiritual in the spiritual ram,

543
00:40:46,640 --> 00:40:51,759
Speaker 1: Scripture always talks about a drink offering that we pour

544
00:40:51,880 --> 00:40:55,520
Speaker 1: out to God. So we're gonna pull out to God

545
00:40:55,960 --> 00:41:01,600
Speaker 1: and raise up the name of our ancestors, our friend today.

546
00:41:03,000 --> 00:41:05,800
Speaker 1: And of course, when I was a hip hop artist

547
00:41:06,680 --> 00:41:11,080
Speaker 1: signed to Virgin Records, when we pull up the forty

548
00:41:11,160 --> 00:41:17,239
Speaker 1: ounce bottle approved, we would always say, let's pull a

549
00:41:17,360 --> 00:41:21,880
Speaker 1: little for the whole easing way here. We didn't know

550
00:41:23,040 --> 00:41:25,520
Speaker 1: that that was spiritual. We thought we were just pulling

551
00:41:25,560 --> 00:41:29,920
Speaker 1: a little liquor. But I learned later on that we

552
00:41:30,040 --> 00:41:33,480
Speaker 1: were pouring livation. And we've always done that. So the

553
00:41:33,560 --> 00:41:36,840
Speaker 1: spirit of our ancestors have been with So I'm gonna

554
00:41:36,880 --> 00:41:40,920
Speaker 1: start by calling up my I'm bleach shee ma bleache

555
00:41:41,920 --> 00:41:46,239
Speaker 1: from which I came. And then we're gonna call out

556
00:41:47,120 --> 00:41:52,760
Speaker 1: the Reverend doctor Martin Luther King. Say her name, Ma Bleach,

557
00:41:52,840 --> 00:42:01,440
Speaker 1: she I say, I say, say the name Reverend doctor

558
00:42:01,480 --> 00:42:08,640
Speaker 1: Martin Luther King. I shave. Say her name hight Up

559
00:42:08,760 --> 00:42:16,239
Speaker 1: be Well. I shaved, Say your name, Say your name,

560
00:42:17,680 --> 00:42:28,720
Speaker 1: Harriet Tubman. I shave who Fanny lou Hamer? I shave

561
00:42:30,120 --> 00:42:37,080
Speaker 1: who else? Who? I still can't hear you, But I

562
00:42:37,239 --> 00:42:46,840
Speaker 1: shaved for all the unnamed, unhoused folks who died on

563
00:42:47,040 --> 00:42:54,760
Speaker 1: the streets of skid Row. We pull our shave anybody

564
00:42:54,840 --> 00:43:07,440
Speaker 1: else Malcolm X, mister Sabad, I say kwamee tore? I

565
00:43:07,640 --> 00:43:21,799
Speaker 1: say who who shall turn the truth? What do you say? Bobby?

566
00:43:22,800 --> 00:43:30,959
Speaker 1: See you? I shave a Baker l Baker. Lets shay

567
00:43:32,400 --> 00:43:36,040
Speaker 1: right here? A freedom fighter from La Care give it

568
00:43:36,160 --> 00:43:43,640
Speaker 1: up for a homie Edie h sha, I say, Hamida,

569
00:43:47,000 --> 00:43:54,239
Speaker 1: he said that? I say one more? Who else heard her? Batoon?

570
00:43:55,680 --> 00:44:04,160
Speaker 1: I can't I say who else? James Foreman, I shave,

571
00:44:08,960 --> 00:44:19,520
Speaker 1: I shave say the name again? Medica efforts. I say

572
00:44:22,520 --> 00:44:41,879
Speaker 1: George Textan, I shave, I say, said George Whyley, I shave.

573
00:44:43,560 --> 00:44:48,600
Speaker 1: And then now I want you to think about your ancestors,

574
00:44:49,760 --> 00:44:55,480
Speaker 1: the one from whence UK could be your grandmother, your

575
00:44:55,560 --> 00:45:03,000
Speaker 1: great grandmother. And then I will think about all our ancestors.

576
00:45:03,520 --> 00:45:06,879
Speaker 1: You think about your ancestors. I think about all our

577
00:45:07,120 --> 00:45:11,799
Speaker 1: ancestors who speak to me through the Pacific Ocean. Those

578
00:45:11,880 --> 00:45:15,719
Speaker 1: who were thrown in the water on the journey here

579
00:45:16,320 --> 00:45:20,200
Speaker 1: from Africa, on the journey to South America, on the

580
00:45:20,400 --> 00:45:25,800
Speaker 1: journey to the Caribbean, the entire diaspora of Africans, those

581
00:45:25,840 --> 00:45:28,560
Speaker 1: who did not make it, those who were raped on

582
00:45:28,719 --> 00:45:31,839
Speaker 1: the wave, those who were beaten on the wave, those

583
00:45:31,880 --> 00:45:35,760
Speaker 1: who died of hypothermia on the way. The ocean speaks

584
00:45:35,840 --> 00:45:39,439
Speaker 1: to us. So as this water evaporates and goes back

585
00:45:39,520 --> 00:45:43,200
Speaker 1: to the ocean, our point for all of our ancestors.

586
00:45:49,920 --> 00:45:58,560
Speaker 1: Make some noise, Make some noise, make some noise. A

587
00:45:58,800 --> 00:46:05,880
Speaker 1: shave oil in Silest, bound in jail, had no money

588
00:46:05,960 --> 00:46:31,080
Speaker 1: for the good that babio monkeys all in silest begin

589
00:46:31,400 --> 00:46:38,719
Speaker 1: the shower age the wolver Nano. There walked out rid

590
00:46:42,960 --> 00:46:47,000
Speaker 1: mister Deil Henderson from Median House. Today is January eighteen,

591
00:46:47,080 --> 00:46:50,560
Speaker 1: twenty twenty one, and we are here at Los Angeles

592
00:46:50,600 --> 00:46:55,680
Speaker 1: Community Action Network discussing about our house. I should say

593
00:46:55,760 --> 00:46:59,799
Speaker 1: car caravans. We are here because the issues that were

594
00:47:00,320 --> 00:47:03,360
Speaker 1: uh definitely a part of doctor King's legacy in nineteen

595
00:47:03,400 --> 00:47:07,239
Speaker 1: sixty eight. It's grown and it's definitely pertinent today in

596
00:47:07,360 --> 00:47:10,760
Speaker 1: twenty twenty one. Here's another gentleman. His name is Michael.

597
00:47:10,840 --> 00:47:13,040
Speaker 1: Michael was an unhoused artist that have featured a few

598
00:47:13,440 --> 00:47:16,480
Speaker 1: a few episodes ago. So without service to Michael, what's

599
00:47:16,520 --> 00:47:18,399
Speaker 1: your take on the situation? And thank you the comp

600
00:47:19,440 --> 00:47:22,520
Speaker 1: thank you for I mean to speak. I think one

601
00:47:22,560 --> 00:47:24,760
Speaker 1: of the most important things today would be to focus

602
00:47:24,880 --> 00:47:30,920
Speaker 1: on what really matters to the people that are unhoused,

603
00:47:31,560 --> 00:47:36,399
Speaker 1: that don't have a home, that are being speneralized by

604
00:47:36,719 --> 00:47:38,800
Speaker 1: not just the fullness for even though it's in the

605
00:47:38,840 --> 00:47:41,719
Speaker 1: communities who don't understand the issues are not just them

606
00:47:42,040 --> 00:47:45,320
Speaker 1: but excelf for us too. And so you know, without

607
00:47:45,360 --> 00:47:48,120
Speaker 1: you know, uh saying further on that, just it's you know,

608
00:47:48,280 --> 00:47:51,680
Speaker 1: it's about people. It's not about you know, who has

609
00:47:51,800 --> 00:47:54,360
Speaker 1: or who don't have. My question is this, what do

610
00:47:54,440 --> 00:47:56,160
Speaker 1: you think? What what do you say the people that

611
00:47:56,320 --> 00:47:58,680
Speaker 1: only know that doctor King, which is I have a

612
00:47:58,760 --> 00:48:01,560
Speaker 1: dream speech. As you and I both know that his

613
00:48:01,680 --> 00:48:04,399
Speaker 1: him was a lot more more detailed and much more

614
00:48:04,480 --> 00:48:07,480
Speaker 1: complex than that. What is your what's your what's your perspective?

615
00:48:07,520 --> 00:48:11,080
Speaker 1: What would you have to say to that? Personally? I

616
00:48:11,840 --> 00:48:14,120
Speaker 1: believe that he was a man of a character, a

617
00:48:14,280 --> 00:48:17,520
Speaker 1: man who still for what was right, what was just,

618
00:48:17,760 --> 00:48:21,680
Speaker 1: and most definitely what was important to not just himself

619
00:48:21,719 --> 00:48:24,640
Speaker 1: but to other people. Uh. He made it a point

620
00:48:24,719 --> 00:48:27,759
Speaker 1: to say that a character reflects not one's color, but

621
00:48:27,840 --> 00:48:31,560
Speaker 1: one's character. And I think that's what really is your character.

622
00:48:31,880 --> 00:48:33,800
Speaker 1: I would say that I said again that a country

623
00:48:33,880 --> 00:48:36,400
Speaker 1: is not big on race, it's big on character. And

624
00:48:36,560 --> 00:48:38,320
Speaker 1: if you have no character, and then guess what you

625
00:48:38,440 --> 00:48:41,759
Speaker 1: have no race? Very true, you have no thought race

626
00:48:41,800 --> 00:48:44,520
Speaker 1: in this I guess no part in this race. So

627
00:48:44,719 --> 00:48:47,040
Speaker 1: here is in the human race. So here's the thing

628
00:48:47,120 --> 00:48:49,239
Speaker 1: that what's today? What's planned today? What do you? Are

629
00:48:49,280 --> 00:48:51,640
Speaker 1: you going to be one of the speakers today? I

630
00:48:51,719 --> 00:48:53,239
Speaker 1: don't know, but if I un less to speak, I

631
00:48:53,239 --> 00:48:55,719
Speaker 1: will speak. Okay, Yes, I think I would think it

632
00:48:55,719 --> 00:48:57,680
Speaker 1: would be better. It would be great to have a

633
00:48:58,040 --> 00:49:01,759
Speaker 1: house people speaking too, because we're affected by white supremacy

634
00:49:01,800 --> 00:49:05,359
Speaker 1: and economic injustice. Justice the people that are worried about

635
00:49:05,400 --> 00:49:08,319
Speaker 1: evicting and being evicted or worried about where their next

636
00:49:08,360 --> 00:49:13,239
Speaker 1: paycheck is coming from. You agree, well, you know, if

637
00:49:13,719 --> 00:49:16,720
Speaker 1: if you know, if money is the it's the main issue,

638
00:49:17,000 --> 00:49:19,640
Speaker 1: then I guess the focus is video money then rather

639
00:49:19,719 --> 00:49:21,879
Speaker 1: than people. So I guess you know, when it comes

640
00:49:21,920 --> 00:49:24,360
Speaker 1: to people solves the people will being, then it doesn't

641
00:49:24,400 --> 00:49:27,759
Speaker 1: matter as long as they get a paycheck. So I

642
00:49:27,840 --> 00:49:31,279
Speaker 1: guess that's the equation of that. Huh. So I guess,

643
00:49:31,920 --> 00:49:34,879
Speaker 1: but you know, it's more than it's more than about money.

644
00:49:35,600 --> 00:49:39,560
Speaker 1: It's it's it's it's about the will being of people.

645
00:49:40,239 --> 00:49:43,120
Speaker 1: It's about people's souls being well. And if people souls

646
00:49:43,160 --> 00:49:45,200
Speaker 1: as not will, then guess what money does not matter?

647
00:49:45,480 --> 00:49:49,560
Speaker 1: Absolutely that Michael, you have touched on some very key issues.

648
00:49:49,760 --> 00:49:51,600
Speaker 1: Is there anything else you'd like to say? I just

649
00:49:51,680 --> 00:49:54,000
Speaker 1: to say that you know, those who are who who

650
00:49:54,080 --> 00:49:57,040
Speaker 1: don't have a house, are unhoused, just know that there's

651
00:49:57,120 --> 00:50:00,440
Speaker 1: hope and keep up aliving your heart, don't give up,

652
00:50:01,200 --> 00:50:04,480
Speaker 1: don't get to dream. Thank you very much, Michael. I

653
00:50:04,560 --> 00:50:07,480
Speaker 1: appreciate it. And this is THEO Henderson from Weedi and house.

654
00:50:07,520 --> 00:50:09,680
Speaker 1: We're gonna mill about to get it from more perspectives,

655
00:50:09,960 --> 00:50:13,040
Speaker 1: and I thank you all again for listening since January eighteen,

656
00:50:13,080 --> 00:50:16,040
Speaker 1: twenty twenty one, and we are here at Los Angeles

657
00:50:16,080 --> 00:50:21,879
Speaker 1: Community Action Network getting some perspectives before the caravan takes off.

658
00:50:22,600 --> 00:50:26,320
Speaker 1: Usually they usually before COVID nineteen, we probably would have

659
00:50:26,400 --> 00:50:29,120
Speaker 1: had marches, but a car caravan is a more creative

660
00:50:29,160 --> 00:50:32,760
Speaker 1: way of socially distancing, getting the message around and speaking

661
00:50:32,840 --> 00:50:35,439
Speaker 1: and letting the people know that we are alive and well,

662
00:50:35,600 --> 00:50:39,240
Speaker 1: and we are speaking doctor King's dream alive more default

663
00:50:41,200 --> 00:50:45,840
Speaker 1: inside last bound in jail had no money for the

664
00:50:45,960 --> 00:51:14,040
Speaker 1: good baby all In sangin the show the Wolfanana then

665
00:51:14,239 --> 00:51:40,200
Speaker 1: walked down got pastogs. So so all power to the people.

666
00:51:41,880 --> 00:51:44,319
Speaker 1: So I would say to take away from this action

667
00:51:44,560 --> 00:51:49,200
Speaker 1: most definitely is at of the homeless twenty twenty one budget.

668
00:51:49,640 --> 00:51:52,320
Speaker 1: So the city just came out unfortunately was able to

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00:51:52,560 --> 00:51:55,800
Speaker 1: UH at the U c l A students, then a

670
00:51:55,920 --> 00:51:59,040
Speaker 1: law student did some research for us, and we was

671
00:51:59,120 --> 00:52:03,800
Speaker 1: able to up with the city's budget right, and so

672
00:52:04,080 --> 00:52:07,880
Speaker 1: the city all of the twenty twenty one budget right. UH,

673
00:52:08,080 --> 00:52:11,759
Speaker 1: it's lace with criminalization right from the beginning it's lace

674
00:52:11,800 --> 00:52:17,239
Speaker 1: with criminalization, right, criminalization for our seas, public health, all

675
00:52:17,280 --> 00:52:20,040
Speaker 1: you the services, right. And so one of the jobs

676
00:52:20,080 --> 00:52:22,719
Speaker 1: we most definitely gotta do is to is to change

677
00:52:22,760 --> 00:52:25,720
Speaker 1: that budget. We got to make them defund the police

678
00:52:25,760 --> 00:52:29,839
Speaker 1: out of that budget and reallocate that money to services, right.

679
00:52:30,320 --> 00:52:33,000
Speaker 1: And so one way to do that right is our

680
00:52:33,080 --> 00:52:35,080
Speaker 1: coalition get together. You know what I'm saying. Mean, we

681
00:52:35,200 --> 00:52:37,520
Speaker 1: gonna ride on the city and make sure that they

682
00:52:37,640 --> 00:52:39,960
Speaker 1: do that. And so, uh, that's still gonna be the

683
00:52:40,040 --> 00:52:42,600
Speaker 1: only thing that's gonna end the four day because if not,

684
00:52:43,080 --> 00:52:45,200
Speaker 1: we're gonna continue to be out here. Our street watch

685
00:52:45,320 --> 00:52:48,719
Speaker 1: teams goes Kenny to be out here monitoring and documenting,

686
00:52:48,920 --> 00:52:50,560
Speaker 1: and it's gonna be a whole lot of time and

687
00:52:50,680 --> 00:52:53,800
Speaker 1: resources that we spend on the streets, right, So to

688
00:52:53,880 --> 00:52:56,200
Speaker 1: cut all that sharp, to take their funding from them,

689
00:52:56,280 --> 00:52:58,560
Speaker 1: take their money from them, and then they ain't got

690
00:52:58,680 --> 00:53:01,080
Speaker 1: nothing to sweep with. He ain't gonna do it for free.

691
00:53:01,640 --> 00:53:04,360
Speaker 1: And so I would say that's my takeaway from this.

692
00:53:05,120 --> 00:53:07,560
Speaker 1: You know, all pover to the people. You know, it's

693
00:53:07,600 --> 00:53:10,279
Speaker 1: four days. We gotta stop that. And the only way

694
00:53:10,320 --> 00:53:12,200
Speaker 1: we're gonna stop that is the bill housing in the

695
00:53:12,280 --> 00:53:14,520
Speaker 1: city of lost sayers. We don't need them more condos.

696
00:53:14,840 --> 00:53:17,480
Speaker 1: We don't need no more loss. We need a portable housing.

697
00:53:17,560 --> 00:53:19,759
Speaker 1: We need that futaball house. And now we gonna let

698
00:53:19,800 --> 00:53:22,000
Speaker 1: them beat us out of what five thousand units to

699
00:53:22,080 --> 00:53:24,440
Speaker 1: triple h that they still hold us. They ain't even

700
00:53:24,480 --> 00:53:27,879
Speaker 1: have conversation talking about that, right and so and then

701
00:53:29,320 --> 00:53:31,359
Speaker 1: I would like this Chris beIN right here, he's from

702
00:53:31,560 --> 00:53:34,479
Speaker 1: sam Pedro and every week got our Human and Civil

703
00:53:34,560 --> 00:53:37,800
Speaker 1: Rights Committee. He talks about give an update, he talks

704
00:53:37,800 --> 00:53:41,920
Speaker 1: about buster condor up there. The council member is just

705
00:53:42,040 --> 00:53:45,280
Speaker 1: continue to just criminalize homeless folks out there. He continued

706
00:53:45,320 --> 00:53:48,320
Speaker 1: to call for sweeps. He continue to try to backdoor

707
00:53:48,520 --> 00:53:50,960
Speaker 1: money to the police. At a time when the whole nation,

708
00:53:51,040 --> 00:53:54,120
Speaker 1: if not the world, is talking about abolished or defund

709
00:53:54,200 --> 00:53:56,759
Speaker 1: the police. We still got city council members. They all

710
00:53:56,920 --> 00:53:59,480
Speaker 1: evidently didn't get the email because they still trying to

711
00:53:59,680 --> 00:54:02,560
Speaker 1: fund the police. And by the twenty twenty one budget

712
00:54:02,640 --> 00:54:05,320
Speaker 1: of the homelessness, we see that all our damn money

713
00:54:05,640 --> 00:54:07,800
Speaker 1: is going to the police. That on include the fifty

714
00:54:07,840 --> 00:54:10,759
Speaker 1: six percent of the general fum that they already get.

715
00:54:11,120 --> 00:54:13,960
Speaker 1: All right, and so, uh, that's where that's where the

716
00:54:14,040 --> 00:54:15,920
Speaker 1: work is at, that's where the fight is at. That's

717
00:54:15,920 --> 00:54:18,600
Speaker 1: where the next step is at. So I joined, folks

718
00:54:18,680 --> 00:54:21,960
Speaker 1: to make sure you own the next service is not sweeps.

719
00:54:22,000 --> 00:54:24,879
Speaker 1: Coalition call. We're gonna be deep briefing this and we're

720
00:54:24,880 --> 00:54:27,200
Speaker 1: gonna be talking about how to take that take our

721
00:54:27,320 --> 00:54:30,759
Speaker 1: money back from the city and reallocate that to bill

722
00:54:30,800 --> 00:54:35,920
Speaker 1: housing for everybody. Everybody say housing for everybody. And if

723
00:54:35,960 --> 00:54:37,680
Speaker 1: we don't get a place to take a shit and

724
00:54:37,800 --> 00:55:03,600
Speaker 1: shut it down, right, that's where it goes. I've been

725
00:55:03,719 --> 00:55:05,719
Speaker 1: through it all here in Hollywood in my last two

726
00:55:05,800 --> 00:55:10,640
Speaker 1: years of being unhoused here, and it's brutal, it's inhumane,

727
00:55:11,000 --> 00:55:18,080
Speaker 1: it's it's absolutely unprecedented and uncalled for. We are your neighbors.

728
00:55:19,680 --> 00:55:23,840
Speaker 1: We are people, We have talents and dreams and aspirations,

729
00:55:24,560 --> 00:55:28,680
Speaker 1: just like anyone who has a house. Our only sin

730
00:55:28,840 --> 00:55:31,560
Speaker 1: is that we're poor, and you want to hold that

731
00:55:31,800 --> 00:55:36,759
Speaker 1: against us. What? Why? Why there's been one hundred and

732
00:55:36,800 --> 00:55:40,399
Speaker 1: fifty million dollars reallocated out of the LAPD budget. Has

733
00:55:40,440 --> 00:55:45,800
Speaker 1: any of it been spent to do anything? Thank you? What? What?

734
00:55:46,200 --> 00:55:49,600
Speaker 1: And why where is that money going? And why is

735
00:55:49,680 --> 00:55:51,880
Speaker 1: it not being spent for what it was allocated for.

736
00:55:52,600 --> 00:55:57,200
Speaker 1: It was specifically taken away from the LAPD sexys to

737
00:55:58,239 --> 00:56:02,880
Speaker 1: for policing the unhoused, to supposedly providing services for the unhoused.

738
00:56:03,320 --> 00:56:07,240
Speaker 1: And I have yet to see them as an unhoused individual.

739
00:56:07,440 --> 00:56:10,520
Speaker 1: They are not there. And now they're trying to push

740
00:56:10,600 --> 00:56:14,279
Speaker 1: forty eight eighteen or forty eight eleven, whatever that is,

741
00:56:15,320 --> 00:56:20,360
Speaker 1: that would make it absolutely illegal for anyone to camp, sit, stand,

742
00:56:20,600 --> 00:56:27,240
Speaker 1: or lay in public anywhere in Hollywood, and that pushes

743
00:56:27,320 --> 00:56:31,319
Speaker 1: your unhoused people that much further from their resources, which

744
00:56:31,400 --> 00:56:34,800
Speaker 1: makes it that much harder for us to get anything done.

745
00:56:37,400 --> 00:56:44,200
Speaker 1: Sweeps destroy our belongings. They destroy medicines and important documents

746
00:56:44,239 --> 00:56:47,359
Speaker 1: that we need to get off the streets. The only

747
00:56:47,480 --> 00:56:52,279
Speaker 1: thing sweeps do is keep us on the streets. That's

748
00:56:52,400 --> 00:56:54,320
Speaker 1: all they do. If you want us to go away,

749
00:56:54,920 --> 00:57:00,880
Speaker 1: provide housing, house keys, not hand coffts. Service is not

750
00:57:01,080 --> 00:57:04,759
Speaker 1: sweets deep in the police and give people health, keeps

751
00:57:14,680 --> 00:57:20,040
Speaker 1: state and the willingness of Jesus gona keep me on

752
00:57:20,400 --> 00:57:41,840
Speaker 1: the ring the fingers down, and we did or rain.

753
00:57:42,600 --> 00:57:48,200
Speaker 1: It was the day we started to y on the

754
00:57:48,400 --> 00:57:55,919
Speaker 1: fans and the Lord, how everybody doing today? I want

755
00:57:55,960 --> 00:57:59,520
Speaker 1: to say, I want to be I want to say,

756
00:58:00,160 --> 00:58:05,560
Speaker 1: make sure everybody getting themselves around of a pause, because

757
00:58:05,680 --> 00:58:11,360
Speaker 1: what we did today is unheard of. We did a

758
00:58:11,440 --> 00:58:16,920
Speaker 1: beautiful march yesterday, but I can tell you with all honesty,

759
00:58:17,960 --> 00:58:25,160
Speaker 1: this march today felt better. It was bigger. Our voices

760
00:58:25,520 --> 00:58:29,760
Speaker 1: was heard as well as our voices was heard yesterday.

761
00:58:31,200 --> 00:58:34,520
Speaker 1: Because one of the things that we're doing, we're fighting

762
00:58:34,640 --> 00:58:41,080
Speaker 1: for a people are people that's unhoused that feel and

763
00:58:41,280 --> 00:58:48,320
Speaker 1: don't understand that they absolutely count. Oftentimes, one of our

764
00:58:48,440 --> 00:58:53,200
Speaker 1: staff who was formerly unhoused, sister Camille, she talked to

765
00:58:53,320 --> 00:58:56,400
Speaker 1: me sometimes and she talked to our other members and

766
00:58:56,960 --> 00:59:00,880
Speaker 1: tell us and make us understand that these brothers and

767
00:59:01,040 --> 00:59:06,160
Speaker 1: sisters that's unhoused, they feel alone, They feel no one

768
00:59:06,320 --> 00:59:09,720
Speaker 1: cares about them. They don't like the government because the

769
00:59:09,760 --> 00:59:14,040
Speaker 1: government officials, as I came and met my sisters, they

770
00:59:14,160 --> 00:59:19,480
Speaker 1: believe in sweeps and they don't give them no opportunity

771
00:59:20,640 --> 00:59:23,439
Speaker 1: for housing. They just say get the hell out of here.

772
00:59:25,240 --> 00:59:31,120
Speaker 1: That's unfair. We believe in the human rights. We spoke

773
00:59:31,200 --> 00:59:34,240
Speaker 1: at a form the other day, a town hall, and

774
00:59:34,400 --> 00:59:38,600
Speaker 1: I mean it was nice, but no one spoke about

775
00:59:38,640 --> 00:59:43,600
Speaker 1: the unhoused population. We speak about third world countries. I

776
00:59:43,840 --> 00:59:48,160
Speaker 1: ran China, North Korea and other so called third world countries,

777
00:59:48,200 --> 00:59:51,640
Speaker 1: about the human rights issues in America, which is the

778
00:59:51,800 --> 00:59:56,120
Speaker 1: greatest country in the world. There's no other country that

779
00:59:56,280 --> 00:59:59,360
Speaker 1: I rather live in, especially as a black man, with

780
00:59:59,520 --> 01:00:02,960
Speaker 1: all the injustice that have ever happened to our Native

781
01:00:03,000 --> 01:00:07,200
Speaker 1: American brothers and sisters are Hispanic brothers and sisters, and

782
01:00:07,520 --> 01:00:10,880
Speaker 1: especially the African American community that I am a part of.

783
01:00:11,720 --> 01:00:15,800
Speaker 1: There's no other country that I'd rather live in. But

784
01:00:15,960 --> 01:00:19,280
Speaker 1: if you have never heard, I will tell you today

785
01:00:20,040 --> 01:00:24,120
Speaker 1: the unhoused problem that we see in America is a

786
01:00:24,320 --> 01:00:33,760
Speaker 1: human rights issue. It's a human rights issue. This issue

787
01:00:33,840 --> 01:00:38,120
Speaker 1: that we see in America be taken to the UN.

788
01:00:39,040 --> 01:00:44,480
Speaker 1: The United Nations should hear about the unhoused population of America.

789
01:00:45,320 --> 01:00:48,720
Speaker 1: Because we are quick as not one president in my

790
01:00:48,920 --> 01:00:51,560
Speaker 1: few years on this earth. Some of you other brothers

791
01:00:51,640 --> 01:00:54,240
Speaker 1: and sisters is a lot older than me. Bless your

792
01:00:54,320 --> 01:00:58,640
Speaker 1: heart because you're you're fortunate enough to see the age

793
01:00:58,720 --> 01:01:01,720
Speaker 1: that you are. I see my brother with gray hair.

794
01:01:03,320 --> 01:01:10,640
Speaker 1: That's wisdom, that's knowledge. But our flight flight here in

795
01:01:10,800 --> 01:01:15,040
Speaker 1: America with the unhoused population, do you n should hear

796
01:01:15,120 --> 01:01:21,080
Speaker 1: about it? Do you n must hear about it? The Governor,

797
01:01:21,720 --> 01:01:25,600
Speaker 1: Gavin Newsom, I'm sorry, He's not gonna do nothing for us.

798
01:01:26,520 --> 01:01:30,919
Speaker 1: The Mayor, we already know, Eric Garcetti or no other

799
01:01:31,040 --> 01:01:34,920
Speaker 1: marry in California is gonna do anything for us. We

800
01:01:35,240 --> 01:01:40,320
Speaker 1: have to do the work brothers and sisters, brothers and sisters,

801
01:01:41,360 --> 01:01:46,240
Speaker 1: brothers and susters that love. And it's on the fucking

802
01:01:46,560 --> 01:01:51,160
Speaker 1: ground doing this work each and every day. Making your

803
01:01:51,280 --> 01:01:55,200
Speaker 1: law enforcement don't disrespect the rights of our unhoused brothers

804
01:01:55,240 --> 01:01:59,160
Speaker 1: and sisters. Is the one that's gonna be counted at

805
01:01:59,200 --> 01:02:01,760
Speaker 1: the end of the day for standing up for the

806
01:02:01,920 --> 01:02:09,480
Speaker 1: rights of people. Every Friday, City Hall Sessions, you can

807
01:02:09,560 --> 01:02:14,200
Speaker 1: find us under Jawad underscore vision. Were having a lot

808
01:02:14,280 --> 01:02:18,440
Speaker 1: of problems with IG with publishing our stuff and so

809
01:02:18,560 --> 01:02:21,400
Speaker 1: on and so forth, but you can find us on

810
01:02:21,520 --> 01:02:28,160
Speaker 1: a Jawad underscore vision. We do a food drive, donation drive,

811
01:02:28,560 --> 01:02:34,080
Speaker 1: ppe pass out, skid roll clean up every Wednesday, every Friday.

812
01:02:35,040 --> 01:02:39,920
Speaker 1: Every Wednesday, every Friday. Anytime this sister and her members

813
01:02:40,080 --> 01:02:44,280
Speaker 1: make a call Sea Hall Sessions would be there. It's

814
01:02:44,440 --> 01:02:49,600
Speaker 1: guaranteed because she street watching other brothers and sisters are

815
01:02:49,760 --> 01:02:53,680
Speaker 1: doing the work on the ground that's needed. It's doing

816
01:02:53,800 --> 01:02:59,280
Speaker 1: the work on the ground that's needed. Homelessness, mental health,

817
01:03:00,120 --> 01:03:05,120
Speaker 1: drugs and alcohol is a human rights issue. Let's unify,

818
01:03:05,400 --> 01:03:07,920
Speaker 1: let's stand up, let's stay on the ground. It was

819
01:03:07,960 --> 01:03:09,919
Speaker 1: a like I said, I'm gonna say it once again.

820
01:03:10,040 --> 01:03:13,320
Speaker 1: It was a beautiful march yesterday. It was a beautiful

821
01:03:13,400 --> 01:03:19,400
Speaker 1: march yesterday. Today was it touched me. It touched me

822
01:03:19,560 --> 01:03:23,760
Speaker 1: Today's march touch me and you all did that. You

823
01:03:23,920 --> 01:03:27,120
Speaker 1: all is the ones that funnel is the ones that

824
01:03:27,600 --> 01:03:32,960
Speaker 1: that energizes our spirit at City Hall Session members, Thank

825
01:03:33,040 --> 01:03:57,240
Speaker 1: you very much, Thank you very much. I have to

826
01:03:57,280 --> 01:04:01,440
Speaker 1: stop find just have to sign here that don't discapitalize

827
01:04:01,480 --> 01:04:04,600
Speaker 1: what I say all the time. Stop arresting side houses.

828
01:04:04,920 --> 01:04:07,320
Speaker 1: Here is I'm here to have the telping plants strict up.

829
01:04:07,320 --> 01:04:09,880
Speaker 1: These are full of the warders to the CDC guidelines.

830
01:04:10,240 --> 01:04:12,040
Speaker 1: So we have one of the uh, one of the

831
01:04:12,200 --> 01:04:15,720
Speaker 1: activists hears. Let's get her take on the situation. Introduce

832
01:04:15,800 --> 01:04:18,560
Speaker 1: us to your h to the audience. Hi, my name

833
01:04:18,640 --> 01:04:22,040
Speaker 1: is Katie. I am a member of Street Watch Los Angeles.

834
01:04:22,160 --> 01:04:24,920
Speaker 1: I am also here as press for Knock Dot LA

835
01:04:25,200 --> 01:04:29,040
Speaker 1: and I am jail support, which will hopefully not be

836
01:04:29,160 --> 01:04:35,120
Speaker 1: necessary give me. But yeah, I am I yeah, I

837
01:04:35,280 --> 01:04:38,280
Speaker 1: just wish that the city would follow CDC guidelines at

838
01:04:38,360 --> 01:04:44,320
Speaker 1: a minimum, which is not disturbing tests. And really what

839
01:04:44,440 --> 01:04:46,680
Speaker 1: they should be doing is you know, especially since we're

840
01:04:46,680 --> 01:04:51,560
Speaker 1: across the street from these luxury condos, UH housing people

841
01:04:52,440 --> 01:04:55,800
Speaker 1: both because it's the humane, ethical thing to do, but

842
01:04:55,920 --> 01:04:59,280
Speaker 1: also for you, but just some conservatives out there. It's

843
01:04:59,320 --> 01:05:02,280
Speaker 1: also a lot cheaper than ZI and all of the

844
01:05:02,600 --> 01:05:07,760
Speaker 1: outfall of this. So that's my take. It's just it's

845
01:05:07,880 --> 01:05:14,280
Speaker 1: wasteful money wise, it is unethical, it's inhumane. So what

846
01:05:14,840 --> 01:05:17,840
Speaker 1: motivates you to come out here on early Tuesday morning,

847
01:05:17,880 --> 01:05:21,280
Speaker 1: because you could be enjoying that cover, the sleep, enjoying

848
01:05:21,320 --> 01:05:23,960
Speaker 1: a doughnut and coffee. What makes you come out here?

849
01:05:24,040 --> 01:05:27,840
Speaker 1: What's motivating you to come? Because people have decided, well,

850
01:05:27,880 --> 01:05:31,760
Speaker 1: the unhoused people here are sick and tired of not

851
01:05:32,000 --> 01:05:37,520
Speaker 1: only being moved, but being moved inconsistently. For the since November,

852
01:05:38,120 --> 01:05:42,920
Speaker 1: sweeps have been canceled without notice. They have been replaced

853
01:05:42,960 --> 01:05:46,560
Speaker 1: with spot cleaning without notice. It's been entirely inconsistent. So

854
01:05:46,680 --> 01:05:50,120
Speaker 1: the people here who live here have no warning in

855
01:05:50,240 --> 01:05:52,560
Speaker 1: many cases they moved all their tents when they didn't

856
01:05:52,600 --> 01:05:56,120
Speaker 1: have to, which then just exposes them to COVID or

857
01:05:56,240 --> 01:05:59,760
Speaker 1: spreading COVID if they have it. And yeah, they're just

858
01:05:59,760 --> 01:06:02,760
Speaker 1: sick tired of it, and they wanted our assistance today

859
01:06:02,920 --> 01:06:07,000
Speaker 1: to make a stand for them with them to create

860
01:06:07,000 --> 01:06:10,120
Speaker 1: a blockade so the police could not do their sweet.

861
01:06:10,200 --> 01:06:12,360
Speaker 1: But if they've even decided to do it today, who

862
01:06:12,440 --> 01:06:16,960
Speaker 1: even knows? Very true? I noticed too what's been going

863
01:06:17,000 --> 01:06:19,960
Speaker 1: on as well is that they have been because of

864
01:06:20,040 --> 01:06:22,840
Speaker 1: more attention of like street Watch and other activists, they

865
01:06:22,920 --> 01:06:26,760
Speaker 1: have been trying to figure out their next move. And

866
01:06:26,920 --> 01:06:30,600
Speaker 1: one part of their next move that's considerably consistent is like,

867
01:06:30,680 --> 01:06:33,520
Speaker 1: for example, today at ten o'clock, I wanted a draw

868
01:06:33,880 --> 01:06:37,600
Speaker 1: our listener's attention that there's people that has called themselves

869
01:06:37,640 --> 01:06:41,080
Speaker 1: they're vigilante group called Friends of Epeo Park and they

870
01:06:41,240 --> 01:06:44,680
Speaker 1: disdained the unhoused people and these people were call on

871
01:06:45,040 --> 01:06:48,480
Speaker 1: and they have latched forces with Mitchell Ferrell. And I

872
01:06:48,600 --> 01:06:51,520
Speaker 1: want to take the time to explain that because this

873
01:06:51,720 --> 01:06:53,960
Speaker 1: last four years with the President Trump, but we had

874
01:06:54,360 --> 01:06:59,000
Speaker 1: he has been exciting antagonistic vigilantes and violence and he's

875
01:06:59,080 --> 01:07:02,600
Speaker 1: up in Direcchet, Mitchell Farrell and Juan Para Rosso, they

876
01:07:02,640 --> 01:07:05,040
Speaker 1: are just saying they're doing the same thing, trying to

877
01:07:05,200 --> 01:07:08,160
Speaker 1: act and wrap up or ratchet up this anti unhoused

878
01:07:08,200 --> 01:07:10,760
Speaker 1: sentiment to get them removed and trying to get them

879
01:07:10,840 --> 01:07:13,440
Speaker 1: put in like a staple center or somewhere where they

880
01:07:13,600 --> 01:07:16,480
Speaker 1: won't have to see the unhoused and houselessness. But the

881
01:07:16,560 --> 01:07:20,040
Speaker 1: reality and the stupidity of this issue is is that

882
01:07:20,160 --> 01:07:24,760
Speaker 1: the more you take move those unhoused, people becoming unhoused daily.

883
01:07:25,200 --> 01:07:28,680
Speaker 1: So it's like you know, putting a bandad over a

884
01:07:29,040 --> 01:07:31,760
Speaker 1: water faucet that's keep floored with water. You're not going

885
01:07:31,840 --> 01:07:34,400
Speaker 1: to stop it. Instead of coming together and trying to

886
01:07:34,480 --> 01:07:38,640
Speaker 1: create solutions like housing for the unhoused, they'd rather use

887
01:07:38,720 --> 01:07:42,080
Speaker 1: their their time and their energy fanning together and having

888
01:07:42,160 --> 01:07:46,040
Speaker 1: a stopping people like Riley Montgomery, stopping activists who are

889
01:07:46,080 --> 01:07:48,360
Speaker 1: trying to change the world for the better. So you

890
01:07:48,440 --> 01:07:51,200
Speaker 1: you got any stressed insight on this, Oh, the only

891
01:07:52,040 --> 01:07:54,520
Speaker 1: insight I have is just that you know, if anyone

892
01:07:54,600 --> 01:07:57,360
Speaker 1: sees there. The Prince of Eco Park likes flyers. Do

893
01:07:57,520 --> 01:08:00,440
Speaker 1: not believe them because the flyers say that they are

894
01:08:01,240 --> 01:08:03,640
Speaker 1: on the same team as we are, and they are not.

895
01:08:03,840 --> 01:08:08,400
Speaker 1: We have only seen them be antagonistic both to the

896
01:08:08,520 --> 01:08:12,080
Speaker 1: unhoused and by harassing members of street Watch, and it's

897
01:08:12,400 --> 01:08:17,160
Speaker 1: really gross. And I think that if you're actually interested

898
01:08:17,200 --> 01:08:19,240
Speaker 1: in solutions for the unhoused, you have to look at

899
01:08:19,280 --> 01:08:22,120
Speaker 1: the data. You have to talk to unhoused people because

900
01:08:22,160 --> 01:08:26,040
Speaker 1: they're human beings. They're not a rat infestation in the city,

901
01:08:26,160 --> 01:08:29,479
Speaker 1: which is often how people talk about them here, and

902
01:08:29,600 --> 01:08:32,960
Speaker 1: it is infuriating. And one other added point that I

903
01:08:32,960 --> 01:08:35,280
Speaker 1: would like to point to, because people that have issues

904
01:08:35,560 --> 01:08:38,080
Speaker 1: with substances or issues that have with enough of help,

905
01:08:38,680 --> 01:08:40,680
Speaker 1: they don't need to be criminalized. You can't shoot them

906
01:08:40,760 --> 01:08:43,400
Speaker 1: to the Santa. You can't shoot them and criminalize them

907
01:08:43,439 --> 01:08:47,559
Speaker 1: to be sober. You can create places and a program

908
01:08:48,040 --> 01:08:50,879
Speaker 1: to be supportive of a part of our community. Everyone

909
01:08:51,080 --> 01:08:53,560
Speaker 1: in their family has someone that may have had some

910
01:08:53,680 --> 01:08:56,880
Speaker 1: mental health challenges. Everyone in their family has someone that

911
01:08:57,040 --> 01:08:59,160
Speaker 1: you may be even if it's a cousin, they may

912
01:08:59,240 --> 01:09:01,640
Speaker 1: have substance you his issues. And if we don't have

913
01:09:01,800 --> 01:09:03,720
Speaker 1: used a humane approach in trying to figure it a

914
01:09:03,800 --> 01:09:07,400
Speaker 1: solution out instead of running toward guns and police officers

915
01:09:07,640 --> 01:09:11,479
Speaker 1: and vigilantes, like friends of Echo Park that the city

916
01:09:11,520 --> 01:09:15,680
Speaker 1: council Mitchell Pharaoh and wants to for the Gooso embraces

917
01:09:15,800 --> 01:09:19,000
Speaker 1: instead of talking to unhoused people. Today they refuse to

918
01:09:19,040 --> 01:09:21,240
Speaker 1: talk to unhoused people. They don't want to hear their

919
01:09:21,320 --> 01:09:24,439
Speaker 1: needs and concern. They're going to dictate. And that last

920
01:09:24,520 --> 01:09:26,720
Speaker 1: that I heard of, that that was after earlier World

921
01:09:26,760 --> 01:09:28,920
Speaker 1: War two, and that we know how that ended up.

922
01:09:29,479 --> 01:09:31,160
Speaker 1: Is there anything else would you like to think before

923
01:09:31,160 --> 01:09:34,639
Speaker 1: we log off? Oh? Sure, just to kind of echo

924
01:09:34,720 --> 01:09:39,920
Speaker 1: your point about mental health and so didase? I mean yes,

925
01:09:40,080 --> 01:09:43,760
Speaker 1: if anyone has ever met someone upper middle class or

926
01:09:43,880 --> 01:09:47,000
Speaker 1: even like higher like some have inherited wealth, you know,

927
01:09:48,400 --> 01:09:51,320
Speaker 1: you know that if those people are alcoholics or they

928
01:09:51,400 --> 01:09:55,000
Speaker 1: have some sort of mental illness, they just past on

929
01:09:55,080 --> 01:09:59,000
Speaker 1: their money and they never see any consequences that on

930
01:09:59,120 --> 01:10:01,599
Speaker 1: house people or even people who are working class who

931
01:10:01,680 --> 01:10:06,000
Speaker 1: because we have such a threadbare safety net now. So

932
01:10:06,120 --> 01:10:09,000
Speaker 1: it's not a matter of control. It's not a matter

933
01:10:09,120 --> 01:10:13,000
Speaker 1: of self control or morals or anything like that. It's

934
01:10:13,120 --> 01:10:15,800
Speaker 1: purely about money. That if you have the money to

935
01:10:15,880 --> 01:10:18,720
Speaker 1: get the care you need, then you're fine. If you

936
01:10:19,240 --> 01:10:20,720
Speaker 1: don't have the money to get the care you need,

937
01:10:20,760 --> 01:10:22,680
Speaker 1: you're on the streets and you're maligned for it, as

938
01:10:22,720 --> 01:10:25,720
Speaker 1: though it's your lack of personal responsibility. And that's for

939
01:10:26,880 --> 01:10:30,080
Speaker 1: and unfortunately some of us, that's our poor and working class.

940
01:10:30,320 --> 01:10:34,240
Speaker 1: We drink into the internalized images. But I have heard

941
01:10:34,760 --> 01:10:37,720
Speaker 1: from medical personnelity stating it is a medical issue with

942
01:10:37,760 --> 01:10:40,800
Speaker 1: substance and mental health issues. And unfortunately, when we talk

943
01:10:40,800 --> 01:10:44,719
Speaker 1: about medical medicare all that gets silent, or medical issues

944
01:10:44,760 --> 01:10:47,960
Speaker 1: with substance uses, that definitely gets silent, and people don't

945
01:10:48,000 --> 01:10:50,120
Speaker 1: want to hear that reality. They'd rather if they feel

946
01:10:50,160 --> 01:10:54,599
Speaker 1: more comfortable blaming the victim instead of helping people find

947
01:10:54,680 --> 01:10:57,760
Speaker 1: their best sels. Is there anything else you like? Oh? Sure,

948
01:10:57,840 --> 01:11:01,040
Speaker 1: Well this is because that point a kaid babe on here,

949
01:11:01,080 --> 01:11:05,000
Speaker 1: because I have PTSD and I have access to the

950
01:11:05,080 --> 01:11:08,360
Speaker 1: helpcare that I need in order to be like a functioning,

951
01:11:08,439 --> 01:11:12,760
Speaker 1: happy person. And everyone deserves that absolutely absolutely, and they

952
01:11:12,840 --> 01:11:15,080
Speaker 1: definitely don't deserve to be out here on the street exactly,

953
01:11:15,200 --> 01:11:17,639
Speaker 1: no one does. This is THEO Henderson from Leudian House.

954
01:11:17,760 --> 01:11:20,000
Speaker 1: I thank you for your time, Katie, and I hope

955
01:11:20,040 --> 01:11:22,920
Speaker 1: we again meet in the light of understanding. Absolutely, thank

956
01:11:22,920 --> 01:11:39,880
Speaker 1: you so much for we've met. Jill and violence to

957
01:11:41,240 --> 01:12:09,679
Speaker 1: God's The only chain that weekend standing is the chain

958
01:12:09,880 --> 01:12:51,240
Speaker 1: from Kansas and the Fass. This is THEO Henderson from

959
01:12:51,280 --> 01:12:55,559
Speaker 1: William House. I'm here in Hollywood and we are one

960
01:12:56,040 --> 01:12:59,920
Speaker 1: the last leg of the mL Case celebration of the Journey.

961
01:13:00,280 --> 01:13:03,080
Speaker 1: And here we have one of the major organizers, Ashley Bennett.

962
01:13:03,200 --> 01:13:06,400
Speaker 1: So without fervor do we'll introduce her and talk about

963
01:13:06,439 --> 01:13:08,000
Speaker 1: this a little bit. Tell us a little bit of

964
01:13:08,040 --> 01:13:10,720
Speaker 1: what happened today. Hi, the oh, thank thank you so

965
01:13:10,800 --> 01:13:12,880
Speaker 1: much for having me on the show. I really appreciate it.

966
01:13:13,240 --> 01:13:16,640
Speaker 1: So today, in honor of doctor Reverend Martin Luther King

967
01:13:16,760 --> 01:13:20,639
Speaker 1: Junior Day, we did a freedom ride across the city

968
01:13:20,840 --> 01:13:23,000
Speaker 1: to advocate for housing for all of our in house

969
01:13:23,040 --> 01:13:26,160
Speaker 1: brothers and sisters. We're uplifting the fact that we still

970
01:13:26,200 --> 01:13:28,560
Speaker 1: have folks who are on the streets, especially during a

971
01:13:28,600 --> 01:13:31,280
Speaker 1: COVID nineteen pandemic. Housing is more important now than ever.

972
01:13:32,000 --> 01:13:34,400
Speaker 1: But instead of spending money on getting folks into motels

973
01:13:34,560 --> 01:13:37,360
Speaker 1: or actual shelters that they can shelter in place at

974
01:13:37,880 --> 01:13:41,160
Speaker 1: cities continue to invest in comprehensive sweeps, care and care

975
01:13:41,200 --> 01:13:47,360
Speaker 1: plus operations, police budgets, resources that our in house communities

976
01:13:47,360 --> 01:13:49,960
Speaker 1: truly don't need out here. What we need is comprehensive

977
01:13:50,000 --> 01:13:52,280
Speaker 1: solutions to get people indoors and help them rebuild their

978
01:13:52,320 --> 01:13:55,040
Speaker 1: lives from there. So this was all to just say

979
01:13:55,120 --> 01:13:57,160
Speaker 1: to the city and uplift our demands from the Services

980
01:13:57,200 --> 01:13:59,880
Speaker 1: not Sweep coalition, that our city needs to come to

981
01:14:00,120 --> 01:14:04,080
Speaker 1: the hotels. We have somewhere around seventy thousand vacant motel

982
01:14:04,160 --> 01:14:07,759
Speaker 1: rooms right now, and places that are completely empty, places

983
01:14:07,800 --> 01:14:10,080
Speaker 1: that don't want to work with the city, especially for

984
01:14:10,320 --> 01:14:13,240
Speaker 1: programs like Project Room Key. They've just turned their backs

985
01:14:13,240 --> 01:14:15,120
Speaker 1: at our own house, brothers and sisters, and that's not right.

986
01:14:15,560 --> 01:14:19,280
Speaker 1: So we're imploring that the city commedyers those hotels and

987
01:14:19,320 --> 01:14:22,280
Speaker 1: gets our folks indoors. Let's take a moment here. Why

988
01:14:22,360 --> 01:14:26,640
Speaker 1: does particular here on Lamarada and Vine. What was the

989
01:14:26,720 --> 01:14:29,799
Speaker 1: dramatic reason for that? So one of our other demands

990
01:14:29,880 --> 01:14:32,439
Speaker 1: is that the city ends special enforcement zones. This was

991
01:14:32,520 --> 01:14:35,559
Speaker 1: the newest created special enforcement zone. We're here on Vine

992
01:14:35,600 --> 01:14:39,760
Speaker 1: and Lamarada, in between Lexington and Lexington and Lamaradas where

993
01:14:39,760 --> 01:14:43,960
Speaker 1: the camp is on Vine. This was a newly designated

994
01:14:44,000 --> 01:14:47,880
Speaker 1: special enforcement zone. Happened about a month ago, and generally

995
01:14:48,000 --> 01:14:51,519
Speaker 1: special enforcement zones are created around shelters where people actually

996
01:14:51,560 --> 01:14:53,719
Speaker 1: can get into. This one was created around the shelter

997
01:14:53,960 --> 01:14:56,840
Speaker 1: that hasn't had availability for beds and over two years.

998
01:14:56,880 --> 01:14:58,320
Speaker 1: I know this for a fact because I've been trying

999
01:14:58,360 --> 01:15:01,439
Speaker 1: to get folks in there years and it's a women

1000
01:15:01,520 --> 01:15:05,920
Speaker 1: only sheltered, so it's sexist. It's not an actual option

1001
01:15:06,000 --> 01:15:08,719
Speaker 1: for housing. So the fact that this is created is absurd.

1002
01:15:09,720 --> 01:15:13,920
Speaker 1: So here is a very excellent point where Doctor King

1003
01:15:14,120 --> 01:15:16,320
Speaker 1: was saying we had to knock at midnight and a

1004
01:15:16,600 --> 01:15:20,040
Speaker 1: social order back his time. So this in twenty twenty one,

1005
01:15:20,080 --> 01:15:22,840
Speaker 1: here's the primary example. What does you want to have

1006
01:15:22,960 --> 01:15:25,639
Speaker 1: accomplished out of today? What was your aim for today?

1007
01:15:26,400 --> 01:15:29,960
Speaker 1: Definitely to raise awareness in the larger community about what

1008
01:15:30,040 --> 01:15:32,880
Speaker 1: we're fighting for with our unhoused brothers and sisters. Before

1009
01:15:32,920 --> 01:15:35,320
Speaker 1: we did the freedom ride across the city. We started

1010
01:15:35,360 --> 01:15:39,080
Speaker 1: in downtown LA went to MacArthur Park, Echo Park, and

1011
01:15:39,240 --> 01:15:41,880
Speaker 1: ended here in Hollywood. We are planning on having several

1012
01:15:41,920 --> 01:15:43,840
Speaker 1: more of these rides to just raise awareness and get

1013
01:15:43,840 --> 01:15:46,040
Speaker 1: people involved in the movement. We really want is for

1014
01:15:46,080 --> 01:15:47,840
Speaker 1: folks to get involved. You want folks to come out

1015
01:15:47,880 --> 01:15:49,880
Speaker 1: and see what it's like to experience a sweep. We

1016
01:15:49,960 --> 01:15:51,880
Speaker 1: want people to actually start learning what it's like to

1017
01:15:51,920 --> 01:15:54,679
Speaker 1: get folks into housing. You know how difficult that process

1018
01:15:54,720 --> 01:15:57,560
Speaker 1: actually is. It shouldn't be that difficult. More people have

1019
01:15:57,680 --> 01:16:00,280
Speaker 1: that knowledge, we're gonna have larger numbers of right on

1020
01:16:00,320 --> 01:16:03,599
Speaker 1: our side and for our homes guarantee. I think that's

1021
01:16:03,600 --> 01:16:05,599
Speaker 1: an excellent idea. Do you think today was a success

1022
01:16:05,800 --> 01:16:07,439
Speaker 1: or what's what's what? Do you think what could be

1023
01:16:07,880 --> 01:16:10,960
Speaker 1: improved upon or any other creative ideas that you want

1024
01:16:11,000 --> 01:16:14,719
Speaker 1: to implement. Today was definitely a success. We had about

1025
01:16:14,720 --> 01:16:17,000
Speaker 1: one hundred cars at the high of the action. Uh

1026
01:16:17,160 --> 01:16:19,719
Speaker 1: we ended the ended the route with about twenty cars.

1027
01:16:19,760 --> 01:16:22,200
Speaker 1: Well that's okay. We had another ride foot off from

1028
01:16:22,240 --> 01:16:24,080
Speaker 1: Mars that went down to Limbert Park, so it definitely

1029
01:16:24,240 --> 01:16:26,800
Speaker 1: was We had a lot of visibility. And the most

1030
01:16:26,840 --> 01:16:28,760
Speaker 1: special thing to me is at the end here we

1031
01:16:28,840 --> 01:16:32,040
Speaker 1: were able to get our communities out here some pizza

1032
01:16:32,240 --> 01:16:35,800
Speaker 1: and just hang out social distanced of course as much

1033
01:16:35,800 --> 01:16:38,599
Speaker 1: as possible, of course, but that's that's the real important

1034
01:16:38,640 --> 01:16:40,320
Speaker 1: part of this work, is making sure that you actually

1035
01:16:40,320 --> 01:16:42,519
Speaker 1: get to know the folks who are in house. That's

1036
01:16:42,600 --> 01:16:45,720
Speaker 1: that's where my heart is. That's why I love this work,

1037
01:16:45,840 --> 01:16:48,400
Speaker 1: so I encourage more people to get out to know

1038
01:16:48,479 --> 01:16:51,840
Speaker 1: your neighbors when when it's COVID safe, and get to

1039
01:16:51,880 --> 01:16:55,440
Speaker 1: know their stories, because that's that's where real chip outstanding.

1040
01:16:55,560 --> 01:16:57,800
Speaker 1: Thank you very much for your time. Actually, this is

1041
01:16:57,880 --> 01:17:02,799
Speaker 1: actually one of the directors schacter Brome and this is yours,

1042
01:17:04,160 --> 01:17:27,720
Speaker 1: and I can't a man understand. Amen, Amen, Amen, Amen, Amen, Amen.

1043
01:17:28,080 --> 01:17:32,360
Speaker 1: Let me tell you some of the children. This little light, mind,

1044
01:17:34,479 --> 01:17:41,320
Speaker 1: I'm gonna up let it shine, this little light mine,

1045
01:17:43,360 --> 01:17:50,479
Speaker 1: I'm gonna let it shine. Yeah, this little light of mine,

1046
01:17:52,120 --> 01:17:56,639
Speaker 1: I'm going up let it shine. I'm letting it shine.

1047
01:17:57,960 --> 01:18:03,760
Speaker 1: Let it shine the shore, my lover, I'm on the

1048
01:18:03,920 --> 01:18:11,599
Speaker 1: chell you that everywhere I go, I'm gonna let it shine,

1049
01:18:13,439 --> 01:18:21,160
Speaker 1: and everywhere I go, I'm gonna let it shine. Now,

1050
01:18:22,320 --> 01:18:30,200
Speaker 1: everywhere I go, I'm gonna let it shine. Let it

1051
01:18:30,360 --> 01:18:37,400
Speaker 1: it shiner, let it shine. To show my over, I

1052
01:18:37,560 --> 01:18:44,120
Speaker 1: gotta tell you that even in my home, I'm gonna

1053
01:18:44,880 --> 01:18:52,200
Speaker 1: let it shine. And he even in my home, I'm

1054
01:18:52,360 --> 01:19:01,200
Speaker 1: gonna let it shine there my home mark, I'm going

1055
01:19:01,360 --> 01:19:06,000
Speaker 1: up let it shine. I'm let it shina. I'm in

1056
01:19:06,160 --> 01:19:14,720
Speaker 1: it shinina to sup my lover, I got mad when

1057
01:19:14,760 --> 01:19:19,879
Speaker 1: I see my neighbor coming, I'm going to let it shine.

1058
01:19:23,120 --> 01:19:27,320
Speaker 1: I think I see my neighbor coming, I met her.

1059
01:19:28,040 --> 01:19:34,760
Speaker 1: Let it shine. When I see my neighbor coming, I'm

1060
01:19:34,880 --> 01:19:40,760
Speaker 1: gonna let it shine. I lit it shina, Let it

1061
01:19:41,000 --> 01:19:58,559
Speaker 1: shine suver. How I like to say, Amen, Amen, Amen,

1062
01:19:59,600 --> 01:20:02,720
Speaker 1: a amen. I wonder what everybody joined me on the

1063
01:20:02,800 --> 01:20:29,160
Speaker 1: lads course. Everybody Amen, A little louder amen, stemming man, Amen,