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Speaker 1: to lok a Tora Radio. We're back this week with

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Speaker 1: another mayoral candidate interview. Today we're talking to Ray Huang,

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Speaker 1: a community organizer, coalition builder, and pastor. A few weeks ago,

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Speaker 1: her team invited me to an indie press event hosted

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Speaker 1: at Midnight Books in the Arts District. This is where

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Speaker 1: I got to hear her campaign platforms firsthand. At this event,

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Speaker 1: I learned more about Ray and her decades long advocacy

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Speaker 1: for affordable housing. Now we're bringing her campaign policies to you.

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Speaker 1: In this interview, you'll hear her discuss social housing.

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Speaker 2: Social housing is permanent, affordable housing that is permanently off

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Speaker 2: the speculative market.

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Speaker 1: Free buses, let's get people.

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Speaker 2: Out of their cars. We can change that by making

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Speaker 2: our lives easier, by making transit more accessible, by making

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Speaker 1: We make it free on a public bank.

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Speaker 2: A public bank is a bank that we get to runt.

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Speaker 2: It's our cities. That means the fees and all of

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Speaker 2: those transactions are not going into the pockets of wall streets.

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Speaker 1: What strikes me so far about this campaign is that

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Speaker 1: Ray shared that community members every day Angelino's like you

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Speaker 1: and me, contributed to her policy points. As we approach

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Speaker 1: the June second primary, there is a stacked race. Incumbent

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Speaker 1: Mayor Karen Bass is running for re election. Council member

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Speaker 1: Nthia Rahman is also running. You can tune into that

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Speaker 1: interview on our feed if you haven't already. Reality TV

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Speaker 1: star Spencer Pratt, Yes, Spencer from the Hills, is also running,

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Speaker 1: and Adam Miller, a tech entrepreneur. We know that not

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Speaker 1: all of our listeners are LA based, but we still

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Speaker 1: think this mayoral race is so important because as large

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Speaker 1: it is often a test ground for politics and policy.

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Speaker 1: Here's our interview with mayoral candidate Ray Honk.

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Speaker 2: This is Ray Quang, mayoral candidate for Los Angeles and

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Speaker 2: you're listening to Loko Tora.

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Speaker 3: Ray, can you tell us what is the LA story

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Speaker 3: that you want to tell? What is it about Angelinos

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Speaker 3: that you love the most, and what qualities do Angelinos

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Speaker 2: What I love most about being an Angelino is the

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Speaker 2: fact that we show up for each other. We show

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Speaker 2: up for each other and we keep us safe. We

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Speaker 2: protect each other. Over the last over a decade now

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Speaker 2: that I've lived here, more and more, every single time

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Speaker 2: a crisis occurs, such as especially the pandemic and then

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Speaker 2: lead the fires, during the Black Lives Matter uprising, during

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Speaker 2: now the ice raids, every single time a major crisis occurs,

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Speaker 2: we show up and we've been fighting for each other.

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Speaker 2: People that we have no relationship with, but the fact

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Speaker 2: We're willing to go the extra mile to be able

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Speaker 2: one another. Also create systems, a rapid response network delivery

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Speaker 2: of food, medicine, and clothing both during the fires and

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Speaker 2: especially now with the raids. I'm part of a rapid

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Speaker 2: with legal representation. Right These are all things that Angeline

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Speaker 2: Shortly after there were kidnappings at a elementary school graduation.

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Speaker 2: This is what Los Angeles does, and I'm so proud

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Speaker 2: The challenge, the frustration is that city Hall is not

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Speaker 1: It's really great to hear you talk about the movement

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Speaker 1: work and the rapid response networks and the organizing that

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Speaker 1: we also want to ask you to describe your perfect

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Speaker 2: So actually I'm going to describe almost every weekend I

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Speaker 4: This is what we do. We sleep in the morning.

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Speaker 2: And we make a big breakfast, and then we ride

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Speaker 2: and there's all these shops and restaurants. I live in

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Speaker 2: a historic Japanese neighborhood. It is it's where a lot

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Speaker 2: My neighborhood was one where a lot of Japanese communities

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Speaker 4: That's fabulous.

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Speaker 3: That does sound like a great LA day, especially with

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Speaker 3: that and painting that picture for us. So, speaking about

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Speaker 3: community and your community, you have spent years as not

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Speaker 4: You to run for mayor now? Yeah?

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Speaker 2: So I am also a pastor, but most of my

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Speaker 2: so the work I actually do is I'm a community

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Speaker 4: That is my profession.

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Speaker 2: Over the last decade here in Los Angeles, I have

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Speaker 2: been primarily organizing communities locally. Actually I do that as

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Speaker 2: to organize my neighbors. Part of that work is, for example,

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Speaker 2: just after the fires, we did doorder door canvassing to

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Speaker 4: Relief do you need help right now?

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Speaker 2: To a advocacy has how had these fires impacted you.

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Speaker 2: We weren't in a neighborhood that was burned by the fires,

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Speaker 2: A lot of clients of people who lived in my

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Speaker 2: Who lived in my neighborhood who were consultants and who

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Speaker 2: I've been primarily working on is I am a coalition builder.

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Speaker 2: Beyond my work here in the city, I also have

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Speaker 2: been running a statewide Housing Justice coalition. We have over

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Speaker 2: It's a multi year strategy because you can't just solve

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Speaker 2: Is what I'm getting is what I'm good at. The

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Speaker 1: Yeah, it sounds like, of course, the coalition building that

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm so excited of actually about our platform to

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Speaker 2: affordable housing. What does that mean? Social housing, like I

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Speaker 2: We want to be able to create neighborhoods where you

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Speaker 3: I think also what we're getting at here is the

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Speaker 4: If the current.

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Speaker 2: No, we need to move into that direction right now.

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Speaker 2: It is so difficult to be able to have your

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Speaker 2: democracy to the neighborhoods of Angelino's. Participatory budgeting is something

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Speaker 2: that I've been working on since twenty twenty. Alongside Black

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Speaker 2: It is when taxpayers get to decide and determine where

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Speaker 2: Of paying our taxes because we want to solve the

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Speaker 2: participatory budgeting is a place where Angelinos can vocalize what

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Speaker 2: same time, our residents ought to feel like they also

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Speaker 1: Well, thank you for expanding on the people's budget, and

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Speaker 2: Yeah, we need to know in advance what our plans.

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Speaker 2: When you so, I've done a letter strategic visioning with

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Speaker 2: It's just it requires so much time and energy and

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Speaker 2: And so if we do a two year budget cycle,

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Speaker 2: And I guess I'll just because I'm talking about the economy,

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Speaker 2: well as support small and medium sized productions. We're proud

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Speaker 2: and bring it home.

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Speaker 1: Don't go anywhere, locomotives, We'll be right back.

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Speaker 3: I'm so glad you touched on Hollywood and the creative

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm very proud of our platform, particularly around the

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Speaker 2: to be able to hear out and discuss what are

442
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Speaker 2: the challenges that people are facing and what are the

443
00:26:31,680 --> 00:26:36,399
Speaker 2: solutions that they want to offer to the table. Your creators, yourselves,

444
00:26:36,800 --> 00:26:39,800
Speaker 2: so I'll mentioned that first, and one of the things

445
00:26:39,800 --> 00:26:45,080
Speaker 2: I heard out is more third spaces for creators that

446
00:26:45,160 --> 00:26:48,760
Speaker 2: come together and share out and support one another in

447
00:26:48,840 --> 00:26:51,280
Speaker 2: the work that you are doing. It can be a

448
00:26:51,400 --> 00:26:54,600
Speaker 2: very isolating job. People tend to work in their homes

449
00:26:55,400 --> 00:26:59,000
Speaker 2: or it's very expensive to find production studios where they

450
00:26:59,040 --> 00:27:04,400
Speaker 2: can go film or record their stories and their content.

451
00:27:05,440 --> 00:27:08,720
Speaker 2: So if we are able to provide and support third

452
00:27:08,760 --> 00:27:12,560
Speaker 2: spaces like that, it allows for the creator economy to

453
00:27:12,560 --> 00:27:15,640
Speaker 2: be able to flourish and to feel supported. And if

454
00:27:15,640 --> 00:27:19,639
Speaker 2: we don't, they won't move, as we've been seeing Hollywood

455
00:27:19,920 --> 00:27:23,960
Speaker 2: move as well, making our city affordable as a whole,

456
00:27:24,400 --> 00:27:28,200
Speaker 2: making housing more affordable, making transit more affordable. These are

457
00:27:28,240 --> 00:27:31,520
Speaker 2: all ways that we can sustain these kinds of creative

458
00:27:31,640 --> 00:27:34,600
Speaker 2: artistic economies in our city.

459
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Speaker 4: So I'll give you one example.

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Speaker 2: There was a YouTube studio where people came together, where

461
00:27:44,560 --> 00:27:48,439
Speaker 2: YouTubers could come together and work on their content together.

462
00:27:49,000 --> 00:27:51,399
Speaker 2: When YouTube left the city, it was bought out and

463
00:27:51,400 --> 00:27:54,320
Speaker 2: bought by a private company, and it still is here

464
00:27:54,480 --> 00:27:58,000
Speaker 2: on the West side of Los Angeles. However, it's very

465
00:27:58,000 --> 00:28:00,280
Speaker 2: expensive to be able to be a member there and

466
00:28:00,359 --> 00:28:02,360
Speaker 2: utilize their services. And also it's on the west side,

467
00:28:02,400 --> 00:28:04,520
Speaker 2: so if you live on the East side, it's a

468
00:28:04,520 --> 00:28:07,680
Speaker 2: bit too far. I love the idea, and this is

469
00:28:07,720 --> 00:28:11,919
Speaker 2: what was asked by the Creator Economy roundtable individuals. What

470
00:28:12,200 --> 00:28:15,959
Speaker 2: if this city supported and provided more spaces like this,

471
00:28:16,920 --> 00:28:20,960
Speaker 2: a kind of library content creator space where we could

472
00:28:21,080 --> 00:28:26,680
Speaker 2: share resources, share technology, and just make it more livable

473
00:28:26,760 --> 00:28:29,639
Speaker 2: and fun and be in community as we create content together.

474
00:28:30,400 --> 00:28:34,199
Speaker 2: This would be so supportive of our creators. On the

475
00:28:34,240 --> 00:28:37,840
Speaker 2: side of Hollywood, we know that it's so expensive to

476
00:28:37,880 --> 00:28:42,120
Speaker 2: film here. There's support for these big, huge studios, but

477
00:28:42,280 --> 00:28:47,560
Speaker 2: no support for small and medium sized productions, and what

478
00:28:47,640 --> 00:28:51,320
Speaker 2: a travesty. One of the best things about Los Angeles

479
00:28:51,400 --> 00:28:53,960
Speaker 2: is the fact that we are so good at storytelling,

480
00:28:54,320 --> 00:28:57,920
Speaker 2: and that we are so creative in this moment to

481
00:28:58,080 --> 00:29:01,120
Speaker 2: tell stories over and create new ideas and things, and

482
00:29:01,160 --> 00:29:04,800
Speaker 2: it really tends to come from these independent spaces, these

483
00:29:04,840 --> 00:29:08,000
Speaker 2: smaller spaces where new creations come. The bigger studios tend

484
00:29:08,000 --> 00:29:11,640
Speaker 2: to make these big marvel studio things, but I would

485
00:29:11,640 --> 00:29:14,720
Speaker 2: say the more interesting and fun creative art really comes

486
00:29:14,760 --> 00:29:19,040
Speaker 2: from these independent filmmakers. And so we need to support

487
00:29:19,080 --> 00:29:22,440
Speaker 2: them by cutting the fees, cutting the red tape, making

488
00:29:22,440 --> 00:29:27,600
Speaker 2: the permitting system cheaper, faster and more supported. And if

489
00:29:27,600 --> 00:29:30,400
Speaker 2: we are able again to make the city in general

490
00:29:31,400 --> 00:29:34,240
Speaker 2: both safer and more affordable to get around. That was

491
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Speaker 2: one thing that both round tables brought up, was just

492
00:29:36,440 --> 00:29:39,840
Speaker 2: so hard it is to get around Los Angeles, that

493
00:29:39,880 --> 00:29:41,720
Speaker 2: would be able to help support them. We have to

494
00:29:41,760 --> 00:29:47,040
Speaker 2: remember that our Hollywood economy is way bigger than just filmmakers.

495
00:29:47,600 --> 00:29:51,360
Speaker 2: It's also the caters who serve them. It's also the

496
00:29:51,440 --> 00:29:55,000
Speaker 2: designers who make the clothes for all the costumes. It's

497
00:29:55,040 --> 00:29:58,800
Speaker 2: also the hair stylist, the makeup artists, the drivers of

498
00:29:58,840 --> 00:30:01,760
Speaker 2: the trucks of the moving all of these, all of

499
00:30:01,800 --> 00:30:02,600
Speaker 2: the equipment.

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00:30:03,040 --> 00:30:07,040
Speaker 4: These are all part of Hollywood. We are so proud.

501
00:30:07,080 --> 00:30:11,040
Speaker 2: This is what makes our industry grow and move. So

502
00:30:11,080 --> 00:30:14,160
Speaker 2: we need to support all of these aspects, and so

503
00:30:14,280 --> 00:30:17,800
Speaker 2: I just want to name that. Lastly, AI technology is

504
00:30:17,920 --> 00:30:23,600
Speaker 2: killing and strangling our art and culture community, so we

505
00:30:23,720 --> 00:30:28,160
Speaker 2: need to find regulations on AI. One of the things

506
00:30:28,240 --> 00:30:31,800
Speaker 2: I plan on carrying out is creating an AI account

507
00:30:32,040 --> 00:30:38,040
Speaker 2: Accountability Commission. It's going to oversee how technology use is

508
00:30:38,080 --> 00:30:41,080
Speaker 2: impacting our residents in a negative in a positive way.

509
00:30:41,480 --> 00:30:45,560
Speaker 2: So we need to ensure that technology as it's growing,

510
00:30:45,880 --> 00:30:51,000
Speaker 2: is going to serve us, not hurt us. It is

511
00:30:51,160 --> 00:30:55,120
Speaker 2: important on two respects. One is on job creation. I

512
00:30:55,120 --> 00:30:58,840
Speaker 2: don't see technology as a threat if it's there for

513
00:30:59,000 --> 00:31:02,480
Speaker 2: us to use to support our lives, to make it

514
00:31:02,520 --> 00:31:06,760
Speaker 2: easier and more beautiful. But if it's taking us away

515
00:31:06,840 --> 00:31:10,440
Speaker 2: and enslaving us, that's a problem. The other side of

516
00:31:10,440 --> 00:31:15,480
Speaker 2: it surveillance. I'm calling for the end of the flock contract.

517
00:31:15,880 --> 00:31:18,680
Speaker 2: I've been making that very public. There's a lot of

518
00:31:18,680 --> 00:31:20,960
Speaker 2: other cities now that are beginning to end the flock

519
00:31:21,000 --> 00:31:24,800
Speaker 2: contracts because the surveillance has been used and it's all

520
00:31:24,840 --> 00:31:26,280
Speaker 2: around the city. By the way, if you ever see

521
00:31:26,320 --> 00:31:29,000
Speaker 2: a tiny black box on the streets that you can

522
00:31:29,000 --> 00:31:30,840
Speaker 2: actually look it up. You can see where your flock

523
00:31:30,880 --> 00:31:32,880
Speaker 2: camera is if you want to look it up on

524
00:31:32,920 --> 00:31:37,880
Speaker 2: the internet. Those cameras have been used to identify people

525
00:31:38,000 --> 00:31:41,719
Speaker 2: and surveil them. Ice has been found to use that

526
00:31:41,760 --> 00:31:46,280
Speaker 2: surveillance technology. There was one incident where a Texas sheriff.

527
00:31:46,320 --> 00:31:49,000
Speaker 2: This wasn't Ice, but it's bad enough. A Texas sheriff

528
00:31:49,120 --> 00:31:52,920
Speaker 2: used flock cameras to identify a woman who is leaving

529
00:31:53,000 --> 00:31:55,320
Speaker 2: the border of Texas to be able to get out

530
00:31:55,320 --> 00:32:02,280
Speaker 2: an abortion. That's terrifying. So we need to ensure that

531
00:32:02,520 --> 00:32:07,480
Speaker 2: new technology is not hurting our communities, not putting us

532
00:32:07,520 --> 00:32:10,800
Speaker 2: in danger, and we need to be serious about it,

533
00:32:10,840 --> 00:32:18,080
Speaker 2: and we need resident participation in thinking about what kind

534
00:32:18,120 --> 00:32:23,880
Speaker 2: of security and protections we need and recommendations on ensuring

535
00:32:24,200 --> 00:32:28,000
Speaker 2: that technology is moving with us and not against us.

536
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Speaker 1: Oh. I've been thinking about this for a long time,

537
00:32:31,480 --> 00:32:36,800
Speaker 1: that we are in a society now where we voluntarily,

538
00:32:36,840 --> 00:32:40,320
Speaker 1: like self, surveil ourselves and our neighbors. And I think

539
00:32:40,320 --> 00:32:43,360
Speaker 1: about that with all the recording cameras that we put

540
00:32:43,400 --> 00:32:46,160
Speaker 1: on our homes in our backyards for this sense of safety.

541
00:32:46,680 --> 00:32:50,080
Speaker 1: But actually we're like surveying our neighbors and ourselves. Right,

542
00:32:50,200 --> 00:32:52,000
Speaker 1: we don't get to opt into them if our neighbor

543
00:32:52,040 --> 00:32:55,080
Speaker 1: has it, because sure there's like that recording that's through

544
00:32:55,120 --> 00:32:58,280
Speaker 1: being recorded, but I'm actually not really opting into this.

545
00:32:59,000 --> 00:33:01,840
Speaker 1: So this is really interesting that you bring this up.

546
00:33:02,000 --> 00:33:06,000
Speaker 1: What do you think Angelino's think about did this type

547
00:33:06,040 --> 00:33:09,160
Speaker 1: of program and if it's is it supposed to be

548
00:33:09,200 --> 00:33:10,160
Speaker 1: helpful for us?

549
00:33:11,520 --> 00:33:15,360
Speaker 2: Most people have no idea that it's happening, right, not

550
00:33:15,480 --> 00:33:19,680
Speaker 2: even aware because these boxes just came up overnight and

551
00:33:19,720 --> 00:33:22,000
Speaker 2: no one even noticed it, and it's just happening. So

552
00:33:22,200 --> 00:33:24,440
Speaker 2: most people don't even recognize it and don't know that

553
00:33:24,440 --> 00:33:27,440
Speaker 2: we're being surveiled on a regular basis, and we're being

554
00:33:27,480 --> 00:33:30,000
Speaker 2: told it's for our safety. But safety for who and

555
00:33:30,040 --> 00:33:33,080
Speaker 2: for whom? Protection for who and for whom? That's the question.

556
00:33:33,880 --> 00:33:35,959
Speaker 2: I do want to name something about surveillance, and this

557
00:33:36,040 --> 00:33:40,160
Speaker 2: is important here. Traffic surveillance is something that's been talked

558
00:33:40,160 --> 00:33:42,840
Speaker 2: about a lot, and there's debate about this, right, the

559
00:33:42,920 --> 00:33:49,120
Speaker 2: red traffic light surveillance where you pass through and it

560
00:33:49,160 --> 00:33:51,840
Speaker 2: takes a photo of your license plate and then you

561
00:33:51,880 --> 00:33:54,200
Speaker 2: get a ticket in the mail. The idea is it's

562
00:33:54,200 --> 00:33:57,760
Speaker 2: supposed to encourage you not to go through a red

563
00:33:57,800 --> 00:33:58,240
Speaker 2: light again.

564
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Speaker 4: And I get that, But here's the.

565
00:34:00,320 --> 00:34:02,760
Speaker 2: Thing is that we need to remember and think about

566
00:34:03,320 --> 00:34:06,240
Speaker 2: the fact that surveillance is after the crime has already

567
00:34:06,240 --> 00:34:12,319
Speaker 2: been committed. So is it actually making us safer or

568
00:34:12,600 --> 00:34:18,040
Speaker 2: is it that it's about providing the penalty. So I

569
00:34:18,719 --> 00:34:22,200
Speaker 2: want us to be thinking about how do we create

570
00:34:22,440 --> 00:34:26,680
Speaker 2: safety to begin with a lot of the ways that

571
00:34:26,719 --> 00:34:30,560
Speaker 2: we think about crime here, not just in Los Angeles

572
00:34:30,560 --> 00:34:35,560
Speaker 2: but actually across our country and talking about policing, for example,

573
00:34:36,840 --> 00:34:42,600
Speaker 2: is that we need more police because we can stop crime.

574
00:34:42,680 --> 00:34:44,799
Speaker 2: The problem is the crime has already occurred, and then

575
00:34:44,800 --> 00:34:48,240
Speaker 2: you call the police officers, so the crisis has already occurred.

576
00:34:48,560 --> 00:34:51,840
Speaker 2: It doesn't stop crime. I want us to be thinking

577
00:34:51,960 --> 00:34:57,440
Speaker 2: about being proactive about safety, preventing harm before it happens.

578
00:34:59,520 --> 00:35:05,280
Speaker 2: The reason I have been championing eviction defense is because

579
00:35:05,320 --> 00:35:09,200
Speaker 2: it prevents homelessness from beginning to begin with. It prevents

580
00:35:09,239 --> 00:35:12,200
Speaker 2: harm from happening to begin with. And we all know

581
00:35:13,080 --> 00:35:16,759
Speaker 2: that if you prevent homelessness, that's the best form of

582
00:35:16,920 --> 00:35:21,319
Speaker 2: ending homelessness keeping people housed, because once you fall into

583
00:35:21,360 --> 00:35:25,120
Speaker 2: that homelessness cycle, it continues on same thing with all

584
00:35:25,160 --> 00:35:30,399
Speaker 2: of these other areas. As we're thinking about safety. If

585
00:35:30,400 --> 00:35:32,880
Speaker 2: we want to prevent crime from happening, it means that

586
00:35:32,920 --> 00:35:37,239
Speaker 2: we need to provide people with good jobs where they're

587
00:35:37,280 --> 00:35:41,200
Speaker 2: making enough money. They're not scrambling to have to find

588
00:35:42,520 --> 00:35:45,440
Speaker 2: money elsewhere. They don't have to work multiple jobs, or

589
00:35:45,440 --> 00:35:48,399
Speaker 2: if they can get a quick bit of cash, they

590
00:35:48,400 --> 00:35:52,360
Speaker 2: won't choose the alternative. Right, we want to be able

591
00:35:52,400 --> 00:35:56,400
Speaker 2: to provide people with the opportunity to pursue their life interests,

592
00:35:56,440 --> 00:36:02,240
Speaker 2: their goals, their dreams. Because people who live meaningful lives,

593
00:36:03,040 --> 00:36:06,960
Speaker 2: live abundant lives, live happy lives, they're less likely to

594
00:36:07,000 --> 00:36:11,680
Speaker 2: fall into crises, into mental health concerns, into depression, into anxiety,

595
00:36:12,000 --> 00:36:14,880
Speaker 2: which is oftentimes in those spaces and places, that's where

596
00:36:15,520 --> 00:36:18,280
Speaker 2: crisis occurs. And when crisis occurs, we're in fight or flight.

597
00:36:18,360 --> 00:36:22,759
Speaker 2: That's when mistakes are hurt is done to ourselves or

598
00:36:22,800 --> 00:36:26,560
Speaker 2: to others. Right, we want to get people out of

599
00:36:26,600 --> 00:36:30,200
Speaker 2: the cars. We want to get people out of their

600
00:36:30,239 --> 00:36:36,160
Speaker 2: cars because the biggest killer of our children, it's not homicides,

601
00:36:36,239 --> 00:36:42,799
Speaker 2: it's not violent crime, it's actually traffic collisions, and three

602
00:36:42,880 --> 00:36:46,520
Speaker 2: hundred people die a year because of traffic collisions here

603
00:36:46,520 --> 00:36:49,960
Speaker 2: in Los Angeles. So let's get people out of their cars.

604
00:36:51,160 --> 00:36:53,880
Speaker 2: And we can change that by making our lives easier,

605
00:36:54,120 --> 00:36:57,880
Speaker 2: by making transit more accessible, by making transit faster, and

606
00:36:58,080 --> 00:37:03,080
Speaker 2: if we make it free, it not only provides safety

607
00:37:03,080 --> 00:37:06,440
Speaker 2: for communities by which they can access their resources to

608
00:37:06,480 --> 00:37:08,960
Speaker 2: get to their doctor, to get to school, to get

609
00:37:09,000 --> 00:37:11,200
Speaker 2: to work. You have no idea how many people have

610
00:37:11,200 --> 00:37:16,520
Speaker 2: had fights altercations with their bus drivers because they forgot

611
00:37:16,719 --> 00:37:20,560
Speaker 2: their metro card or they didn't have enough money to

612
00:37:20,600 --> 00:37:24,320
Speaker 2: get on the bus and they're going to miss their job.

613
00:37:24,600 --> 00:37:27,400
Speaker 2: If we make the dash bus free, it means that

614
00:37:27,840 --> 00:37:30,600
Speaker 2: immediately thirty percent of ridership goes up. We've seen that

615
00:37:30,680 --> 00:37:34,279
Speaker 2: in research, and if thirty percent more ridership goes up,

616
00:37:34,560 --> 00:37:37,280
Speaker 2: it means more people are not driving in their cars.

617
00:37:37,880 --> 00:37:41,720
Speaker 2: It means that people are making smarter choices about getting

618
00:37:41,760 --> 00:37:44,080
Speaker 2: around town. If they had a little bit to drink,

619
00:37:44,640 --> 00:37:46,719
Speaker 2: had a little bit too much to smoke, they can

620
00:37:46,760 --> 00:37:49,920
Speaker 2: get on a bus instead. They can make smarter choices

621
00:37:49,960 --> 00:37:54,040
Speaker 2: about that because there's huge incentive. And it also means

622
00:37:54,040 --> 00:37:57,280
Speaker 2: that we're more interconnected. A busy bus is a safe bus,

623
00:37:58,040 --> 00:38:02,680
Speaker 2: more opportunities than meet and greet your name means less

624
00:38:02,719 --> 00:38:08,480
Speaker 2: stereotyping of other people around you and more connections.

625
00:38:08,560 --> 00:38:12,200
Speaker 3: I sold my car when I moved downtown and started

626
00:38:12,200 --> 00:38:15,160
Speaker 3: grad school at USC and as a lifelong Angelina, it

627
00:38:15,280 --> 00:38:18,080
Speaker 3: was like so unheard of and unthinkable, and my family

628
00:38:18,200 --> 00:38:19,280
Speaker 3: was like, what are you doing?

629
00:38:20,080 --> 00:38:21,480
Speaker 4: You need a car in LA.

630
00:38:21,600 --> 00:38:24,279
Speaker 3: But it's made it so much more accessible for me

631
00:38:24,520 --> 00:38:27,800
Speaker 3: to get to school, to afford school, to afford life.

632
00:38:28,280 --> 00:38:31,440
Speaker 3: Taking the Metro with my student U pass which allows

633
00:38:31,480 --> 00:38:34,760
Speaker 3: me free rides, and so given the option between ubering

634
00:38:34,880 --> 00:38:37,640
Speaker 3: or taking the Metro, I get my steps in, I

635
00:38:37,680 --> 00:38:39,960
Speaker 3: take the train and it's free and it's lovely, and

636
00:38:40,000 --> 00:38:42,520
Speaker 3: I'm so grateful to have that option.

637
00:38:42,760 --> 00:38:44,319
Speaker 4: And to me, when I think of.

638
00:38:44,400 --> 00:38:48,960
Speaker 3: Countries that are really serving their population and that have

639
00:38:49,280 --> 00:38:52,719
Speaker 3: very high qualities of life, these countries, a lot of

640
00:38:52,760 --> 00:38:56,040
Speaker 3: them being in Europe or in Asia, they have a

641
00:38:56,160 --> 00:39:01,000
Speaker 3: lot of free, accessible, fast, public transportations. So I really

642
00:39:01,000 --> 00:39:04,040
Speaker 3: appreciate that you are bringing that into your campaign.

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Speaker 1: Don't go anywhere, locomotives, We'll.

644
00:39:08,920 --> 00:39:09,720
Speaker 2: Be right back.

645
00:39:13,400 --> 00:39:17,160
Speaker 3: So on the topic also of safety and of community

646
00:39:17,200 --> 00:39:21,160
Speaker 3: and being out in public, going back to ice and

647
00:39:21,400 --> 00:39:24,759
Speaker 3: our community feels very unsafe in public, unsafe taking the train,

648
00:39:24,960 --> 00:39:28,799
Speaker 3: unsafe taking the buses because of the threat and the

649
00:39:28,840 --> 00:39:34,400
Speaker 3: fear of ice kidnappings. So how do you plan on

650
00:39:34,719 --> 00:39:38,640
Speaker 3: protecting Angelino's from ice raids? And how do you plan

651
00:39:38,680 --> 00:39:42,480
Speaker 3: to hold LAPD accountable for collaborating with the federal government

652
00:39:42,719 --> 00:39:44,880
Speaker 3: Despite the fact that Los Angeles is at least a

653
00:39:44,960 --> 00:39:47,000
Speaker 3: name a sanctuary city.

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00:39:47,080 --> 00:39:50,160
Speaker 2: It is time that we just stopped talking about being

655
00:39:50,239 --> 00:39:52,719
Speaker 2: a sanctuary city and we actually do the work of it.

656
00:39:53,239 --> 00:39:56,520
Speaker 2: And that means that when laws are broken, such as

657
00:39:56,600 --> 00:40:03,160
Speaker 2: when of your chief of police is refusing to follow

658
00:40:03,280 --> 00:40:07,400
Speaker 2: the state law which mandates that federal agents should not

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Speaker 2: be wearing masks, that.

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Speaker 4: You follow the law. The police are there to make

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Speaker 4: us follow the law.

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Speaker 2: Why I can't the police.

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Speaker 4: Chief follow the law? So that's one thing is we do.

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Speaker 2: Accountability means making hard decisions and firing your police chief.

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Speaker 2: That is step number one. Step number two, put people

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Speaker 2: who believe in making Los Angeles actually feeling like a

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Speaker 2: sanctuary state. Put those people onto the Police Commission. As mayor,

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Speaker 2: you get to decide and appoint people on the Police Commission.

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Speaker 2: Let's make sure you put people there who are impacted

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Speaker 2: by the LAPD who are impacted by ICE for them

671
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Speaker 2: to make determinations about what it would look like to

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Speaker 2: have a police that actually serves and protects the people

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Speaker 2: of Los Angeles.

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Speaker 4: Number three, Let's.

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Speaker 2: Make sure that we have full representation, legal representation for

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Speaker 2: everybody who is impacted by ice, everybody who's impacted by

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Speaker 2: our unjust immigration system. Right now, we have defunded represent LA.

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Speaker 2: It's time that we take seriously when we're at sanctuary state,

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Speaker 2: that we put our money where our mouth is. Number four.

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Speaker 2: Our communities are the ones protecting our neighbors because the

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Speaker 2: police isn't, because city hall isn't. We're the ones showing

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Speaker 2: up with rapid response when bad stuff happens. Right when

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Speaker 2: ice shows up in our neighborhoods, we're identifying their cars

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Speaker 2: and their vehicles, We're identifying their what they look like,

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Speaker 2: where they are. La Taco has been highlighting sites of ice.

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Speaker 2: We should be doing that as a city. So these

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Speaker 2: are things where again, our neighbors and our residents of

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Speaker 2: LA are leading and the city should follow. We should

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Speaker 2: be funding and supporting that progress instead of making it

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Speaker 2: harder or just leaving our residents to their own devices

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Speaker 2: to protect and thank goodness, we're doing it because that's

692
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Speaker 2: what's stopping Trump's administration. But also, I just can it

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Speaker 2: makes no sense to me that we have to be

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Speaker 2: the ones protecting ourselves when we pay the police to

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Speaker 2: protect us. So it's time we actually force the police

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Speaker 2: to do their job. And the police are under the

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Speaker 2: city jurisdiction, not the state, not the federal. This is

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Speaker 2: our city, not Trump's city, and so that means we

699
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Speaker 2: get to decide what the laws are here and what

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Speaker 2: our city is going to look like and what protections

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Speaker 2: look like.

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Speaker 1: And feel like, thank you so much for breaking that

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Speaker 1: down for us, because that's definitely top of mind for

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Speaker 1: a lot of people in our community. Is this feeling

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Speaker 1: that local government is not doing enough, that the electeds

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Speaker 1: are not doing enough. And yes, there are electeds who

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Speaker 1: have been very outspoken, like council member Owns set A

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Speaker 1: one this and others, but there has been a feeling

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Speaker 1: of disappointment in terms of other elected officials and yeah,

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Speaker 1: city leaders. Because we've been talking about public safety, you

711
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Speaker 1: also have this initiative that I think is really important

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Speaker 1: to safety and the ecosystem of LA which is creating

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Speaker 1: the first Office of Nightlife, and I loved your social

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Speaker 1: video about that because we have a lot of friends

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Speaker 1: who are DJs or work in nightlife, who host parties,

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Speaker 1: and you attribute this idea of the office of Nightlife

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Speaker 1: because La has the most night shift workers of any

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Speaker 1: city in the country. So I'm curious, how do you

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Speaker 1: envision this office functioning and what type of services would

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Speaker 1: be offered.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, here's the thing, we don't think about our nightlife

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Speaker 2: at all. It's not even something that comes past their minds. Right,

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Speaker 2: this city shuts down in such a crazy way. For

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Speaker 2: being the second largest city in the nation, we have

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Speaker 2: everything shuts down. Even the streets are really dark, which

726
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Speaker 2: is a real problem and we actually need to fix

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Speaker 2: for safety reasons. We need to have a dedicated team

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Speaker 2: and office thinking about the questions of how to make

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Speaker 2: our city safe as safe at night as it is

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Speaker 2: during the day, making sure that systems are working and

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Speaker 2: functional to support every single Angelino at night as much

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Speaker 2: it is during the day, because we are a city

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Speaker 2: that is a week all hours.

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Speaker 4: Of the night.

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Speaker 2: What I mean by that is we have workers doing

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Speaker 2: the night shift, like you just said who and they

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Speaker 2: are oftentimes essential workers making sure that we're being taken

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Speaker 2: care of doing these late shifts to make sure that

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Speaker 2: when emergency happens at any hour of the day, somebody

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Speaker 2: is available to take care of them.

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Speaker 4: The other thing is that we are a city of artists.

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Speaker 2: That's like a huge part of Los Angeles's history and

743
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Speaker 2: something we're.

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Speaker 4: So proud of.

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Speaker 2: And for those her artists out there, I'm sure they

746
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Speaker 2: can all relate. My best time of day where my

747
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Speaker 2: creativity comes out. It's not the same for everybody, but

748
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Speaker 2: it is for me and a lot of my friends.

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Speaker 2: Is it does come out in the middle of the

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Speaker 2: night because everything is quieter, our minds are slowing down,

751
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Speaker 2: and that's oftentimes when I make the best music, when

752
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Speaker 2: I have some ideas around my painting and I'll just

753
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Speaker 2: be processing, and so that's when the art comes out.

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Speaker 2: We want to support every single aspect of Los Angeles,

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Speaker 2: and if we support our art and culture side of

756
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Speaker 2: Los Angeles, that does also oftentimes include supporting our nightlife.

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Speaker 2: One of the things I want to highlight and name

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Speaker 2: is we tend to criminalize the night. Raves are still

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Speaker 2: seen as illegal right places where people are able to

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Speaker 2: dance and have fun. We should be supporting spaces where

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Speaker 2: people are able to let go. We should be supporting

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Speaker 2: spaces where art and dancing these are there beautiful spaces

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Speaker 2: of camaraderie. Third spaces of greeting, community life, like you said,

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Speaker 2: where DJs can do their art and we can breathe

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Speaker 2: a little bit. We should be supporting this side of

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Speaker 2: our economy. This is a great space for economy to grow.

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Speaker 2: We love our restaurants, we love our bars. Why not

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Speaker 2: support that even more. Make it safer and easier to

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Speaker 2: get around at night as it is during the day.

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Speaker 2: Have available bathrooms and water fountains to make it safe

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Speaker 2: to go out so people can have fun. That is

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Speaker 2: a growing industry. And when people can have fun, it

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Speaker 2: helps their mental health, it supports their emotional and social life.

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Speaker 2: And then that actually means that we're spending more money

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Speaker 2: going out, creating more jobs, and supporting more Angelinos to thrive.

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Speaker 3: I love that idea so much. We love our night life,

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Speaker 3: and we love the people who make our night life possible,

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Speaker 3: who fuel it. Something I think about all the time

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00:47:02,239 --> 00:47:05,160
Speaker 3: being downtown is that there are no public bathrooms and

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Speaker 3: it makes the city so much dirtier and less hygienic.

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Speaker 3: So I love the idea and I'm so glad it's

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Speaker 3: top of mind for you. I want to end by

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Speaker 3: asking how you plan on engaging communities voters who are

784
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Speaker 3: unfamiliar with your work and with your campaign.

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Speaker 4: How do you reach those folks.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, we have been focused primarily on using social media

787
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Speaker 2: as a form of communication because a lot of people

788
00:47:35,520 --> 00:47:41,600
Speaker 2: no longer watch typical TV, don't follow more traditional forms

789
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Speaker 2: of media and education. This is where we're receiving a

790
00:47:44,440 --> 00:47:47,480
Speaker 2: lot of our education and materials, and it's so localized.

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Speaker 2: We also have been knocking on doors, and we've also

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Speaker 2: been doing a lot of meet and greets with different

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Speaker 2: organizations and community groups and inviting folks to be able

794
00:47:55,760 --> 00:47:57,920
Speaker 2: to meet with us if they have a large group

795
00:47:58,000 --> 00:47:59,440
Speaker 2: of friends and they want me to come out and

796
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Speaker 2: meet them, And we've been holding events for people to

797
00:48:02,040 --> 00:48:05,640
Speaker 2: come out as well. Definitely, for those who are listening,

798
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Speaker 2: I would love you to come and volunteer and make

799
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Speaker 2: recommendations and offer ideas of other events that we can

800
00:48:11,120 --> 00:48:13,480
Speaker 2: host or that you would like to host and invite

801
00:48:13,520 --> 00:48:15,520
Speaker 2: me to attend so that I can get to know

802
00:48:15,560 --> 00:48:20,520
Speaker 2: different communities. I'm running for office to represent those who

803
00:48:20,800 --> 00:48:25,680
Speaker 2: are not typically centered in city hall, whose voices have

804
00:48:25,800 --> 00:48:29,719
Speaker 2: been silenced. I'm talking about those who are most impacted

805
00:48:29,760 --> 00:48:33,600
Speaker 2: by the affordability crisis that we have are people who

806
00:48:33,640 --> 00:48:37,560
Speaker 2: are black and brown, who are indigenous, where English is

807
00:48:37,560 --> 00:48:40,000
Speaker 2: a second language, or maybe English is.

808
00:48:39,960 --> 00:48:41,439
Speaker 4: Not a primary language at all.

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Speaker 2: We need to be centering those voices and increasing our

810
00:48:46,040 --> 00:48:51,560
Speaker 2: ability to communicate and serve and support every single corner

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Speaker 2: and aspect of Los Angeles. I live in Sawtel in Japantown.

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Speaker 2: It is an era, It's an ethnic encore of a

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00:49:01,280 --> 00:49:02,840
Speaker 2: lot of Asian immigrants.

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Speaker 4: In the past.

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Speaker 2: My family history, if you were Chinese, they had the

816
00:49:08,160 --> 00:49:12,040
Speaker 2: Chinese Exclusionary Act for generations.

817
00:49:12,160 --> 00:49:13,960
Speaker 4: Being Chinese or Taiwanese, you were not.

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Speaker 2: Allowed to move to the US if you already hear,

819
00:49:18,360 --> 00:49:20,760
Speaker 2: because you were rid before the Exclusionary Act, or because

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00:49:20,800 --> 00:49:23,200
Speaker 2: you were a paper son, which I won't go into

821
00:49:23,239 --> 00:49:26,080
Speaker 2: the history of. Basically, it was a way of being

822
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Speaker 2: able to migrate into the US. We were not allowed

823
00:49:32,239 --> 00:49:36,840
Speaker 2: to live here full lives. We're now at a place

824
00:49:37,440 --> 00:49:43,080
Speaker 2: in our society where we need to repair the racism

825
00:49:43,120 --> 00:49:45,840
Speaker 2: and the classism of the past. We're not there yet,

826
00:49:46,640 --> 00:49:48,840
Speaker 2: but we do need to begin somewhere, and that's what

827
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Speaker 2: I'm advocating for is not just a reform of a

828
00:49:53,000 --> 00:49:55,640
Speaker 2: bad system. The system's not working for us, it's not

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Speaker 2: meeting the ninety nine point nine percent of Angelino's. We

830
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Speaker 2: need to transform and change the system to one that

831
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Speaker 2: actually serves Angelinos who have been living here for generations,

832
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Speaker 2: Angelinas who were born and bred here but always still

833
00:50:12,440 --> 00:50:15,759
Speaker 2: seen and treated like an outsider and a foreigner. It's

834
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Speaker 2: time to center those voices and ensure that they have

835
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Speaker 2: priority and voice in city Hall and that their communities

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Speaker 2: are centered and embraced.

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Speaker 4: And so that's the that's.

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Speaker 2: The Los Angeles that I'm fighting for, and that's the

839
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Speaker 2: Los Angeles that I want to represent.

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Speaker 1: Thank you so much for giving us this incredible download

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Speaker 1: of your policies and politics and really what, in our perspective,

842
00:50:48,320 --> 00:50:52,520
Speaker 1: like a very innovative way of looking at Los Angeles,

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00:50:52,680 --> 00:50:56,600
Speaker 1: one that we have not seen thus far in previous

844
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Speaker 1: mayoral races. So we're really excited to talk to you

845
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Speaker 1: because the Office of Nightlife, the Social housing, right like,

846
00:51:03,239 --> 00:51:06,000
Speaker 1: these are things that are not necessarily new, but they

847
00:51:06,440 --> 00:51:08,480
Speaker 1: would be new for the City of La if you

848
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Speaker 1: were elected. So we really appreciate you spending time with

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Speaker 1: us and breaking some of this down. I want to

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Speaker 1: end by just asking you, how can folks support you,

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Speaker 1: how can they volunteer?

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Speaker 4: Thank you so much.

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Speaker 2: So I'm very proud to say that we have over

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Speaker 2: a thousand volunteers in our campaign. We have raised over

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Speaker 2: one hundred and fifty thousand dollars, and we've asked also

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Speaker 2: by tonight, we will unlock our ability to receive matching

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Speaker 2: funds in the city, which means that every dollar that

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Speaker 2: Angelino spends to donate to our campaign will be matched

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Speaker 2: six times. I am not accepting any dollar from any

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Speaker 2: lobbyist group or any corporations because I believe that this

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00:51:50,800 --> 00:51:53,560
Speaker 2: is for Angelinos, by Angelino's. That's the campaign that we

862
00:51:53,600 --> 00:51:57,799
Speaker 2: are running, and so I would welcome as many Angelinos

863
00:51:57,800 --> 00:52:01,120
Speaker 2: who believe in this campaign as much as I do

864
00:52:01,680 --> 00:52:06,320
Speaker 2: to please donate any money that you are able to support,

865
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Speaker 2: knowing that it's going to be multiplied six times by

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Speaker 2: the city, and also please come out and volunteer. Please

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Speaker 2: consider canvassing. We want to reach half a million doors

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Speaker 2: by June second, so that way we can tell people

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Speaker 2: about our campaign, invite them into the vision, invite them

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Speaker 2: into the future along with us. If you can just

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00:52:27,840 --> 00:52:30,600
Speaker 2: choose one weekend to volunteer. This is how we're going

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Speaker 2: to do it. And if you don't want to, canvass.

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00:52:33,440 --> 00:52:36,640
Speaker 2: There are so many other ways to volunteer. Our platform

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00:52:36,920 --> 00:52:41,560
Speaker 2: was created by Angelinos. There are values that are through

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00:52:41,600 --> 00:52:45,000
Speaker 2: and through, but this platform is actually created by every

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00:52:45,080 --> 00:52:49,160
Speaker 2: day Angelinos who live here, by policy experts, by neighbors,

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Speaker 2: by people who are doing the rapid response work. They're

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Speaker 2: still being shaped by them. So if you are somebody

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Speaker 2: who has something to add and share, even this morning,

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Speaker 2: if someone called me please, will you add more information

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Speaker 2: about this area and I said, please join our team.

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Speaker 4: I want you. This is about us.

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Speaker 2: So that's how people can help today and all the

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Speaker 2: information is on my website ray for La dot com.

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Speaker 3: Raywan, thank you so much for joining us on Look

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Speaker 3: up our Radio.

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Speaker 4: Thank you so much.

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Speaker 2: I appreciate both of you, and a huge shout out

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