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Speaker 1: don't get out of here. Everybody each other here, I'm awful,

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Speaker 1: get out of here. The first thing that comes to

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Speaker 1: mind is just like the power of mutual aid UM,

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Speaker 1: the smaller events really build the community ties together UM

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Speaker 1: I think, I mean, there's so much power. Like mutual

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Speaker 1: a local organizer and musician as the protests in Portland

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Speaker 1: After more than two months in the streets, protesters in

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Speaker 1: Alliance talks about organizing exhaustion. Well, to be honest with you,

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Speaker 1: Acts of minor vandalism will be answered by baton charges,

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Speaker 1: in new ways to support the community. But what is

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Speaker 1: app or wherever you get your podcasts. For other people

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Speaker 1: that wanted to protests but didn't feel comfortable going out alone,

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Speaker 1: comrad Collective connected protesters to each other, sparking the connections

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Speaker 1: that help sustain the movements. As a kind of a

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Speaker 1: tough one that summarized UM, I guess the best way

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Speaker 1: to say it is that UM community has kind of

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Speaker 1: been a limiting factor for a lot of people in protests,

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Speaker 1: and right around the time of UH fourth of July

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Speaker 1: and right after that, Shark Youth started kind of becoming

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Speaker 1: a kind of a meeting point for folks through social media,

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Speaker 1: through Telegram, and from there there's been several UM definit iterations,

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Speaker 1: Disabled Common Collective, Care Collective, UM soon to be Queer

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Speaker 1: Comedy Collective as well, all kind of forming from that.

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Speaker 1: I don't know, locusts of just like community, just like

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Speaker 1: folks trying to find the necessary connections to get their

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Speaker 1: ideas off the ground. Yeah. I mean for me personally,

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Speaker 1: I just sort of started sitting in a park with

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Speaker 1: a sign just asking people if they needed buddies. I

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Speaker 1: was going to be there anyway. It figured like it

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Speaker 1: was something easy to do, and I started a Twitter

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Speaker 1: and one thing just sort of snowballed into another. Now

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Speaker 1: here we are Disabled Comrade Collective have form to meet

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Speaker 1: the needs of people with disabilities or who have alternative

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Speaker 1: needs to be able to participate in protests. Yeah. How

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Speaker 1: um so, how Disabled Comrade Collective started was kind of like, um,

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Speaker 1: so I'm I'm disabled and chronically ill, so like I

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Speaker 1: can't be on the ground all the time. It's like

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Speaker 1: here and there, and then when I am it takes

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Speaker 1: a lot out of me. Um and so uh Sylvan

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Speaker 1: who is like like the main person of um like

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Speaker 1: handling Disabled Comrade Collective, Uh, they also are disabled and

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Speaker 1: chronically ill and so um they just kind of like

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Speaker 1: we were just complaining on Twitter, like they were like, man,

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Speaker 1: like there needs to be like a group for like

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Speaker 1: disabled and ill people like to have different needs and

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Speaker 1: like neuro divergent and then like, um, it just everyone

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Speaker 1: was like yeah, and then it just kind of uh

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Speaker 1: went onto Sylvan and they're like, I guess I'm doing

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Speaker 1: this thing. So that's how that started. The e Walks

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Speaker 1: also formed early in the protests, but through the course

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Speaker 1: of the summer they found that their mission change e

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Speaker 1: Walks is a humanitarian aid coalition made up of crisis

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Speaker 1: and medical workers. We're fighting integrated medical and mental health

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Speaker 1: care that's trauma informed and harm reductive in nature. This

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Speaker 1: service model was really adapted from another organization that we

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Speaker 1: worked with um as organizers called Whitebird Medicine UM and

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Speaker 1: they've been the attention of national news recently for their

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Speaker 1: Hoods program. However, looking at the situations in Portland and

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Speaker 1: the socio political inequities that are being enforced every single day,

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Speaker 1: it became increasingly clear that Britlin's model was going to

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Speaker 1: need to look a little bit different. So we beefed

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Speaker 1: up our teams and we got a hole off the

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Speaker 1: ground side and now we've sort of moved morphed into

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Speaker 1: like a whole bunch of different things we do uh

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Speaker 1: protest work. Still, we're committed in UM supporting the community

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Speaker 1: for as long as that needs to happen. One thing

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Speaker 1: that became increasingly clear as public reliance on the police

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Speaker 1: force has begun to reflect the police forces ability to

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Speaker 1: protect people who served them. UM E Walks has really

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Speaker 1: taken a look at what the city needs most, and

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Speaker 1: our shift was born out of seeing a complete lack

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Speaker 1: of actually reachable mental health services within our city. UM

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Speaker 1: costs are prohibited access to those actual things within standalone

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Speaker 1: buildings does not work for many patients and it also

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Speaker 1: leaves our house list community severely lacking as always in

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Speaker 1: services and outreach UM As we began looking at adapting

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Speaker 1: our model and taking a look at what this community needed,

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Speaker 1: one of the things that struck us most was that

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Speaker 1: there is a complete lack of about tornative resources to

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Speaker 1: police involvement. And while EOX is not there yet, we

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Speaker 1: would like to envision a future where we have a

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Speaker 1: place in helping form a service that can do just

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Speaker 1: such a thing. Meeting in the front of the Federal Courthouse.

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Speaker 1: During the Fed War, Optical Block began doing eye exams,

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Speaker 1: helping people get prescriptions and glasses, organizing around the Mutual

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Speaker 1: eight tents of Riot Ribs. As riot ribs imploded at

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Speaker 1: the end of July, the number of Mutual Aid quote

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Speaker 1: blocks organizing services to protesters and marginalized communities exploded. These

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Speaker 1: groups organized around identifying and helping with one community need

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Speaker 1: at a time. Protesters set up a wide ranging network

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Speaker 1: of alternative organized to help each other outside of the

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Speaker 1: frameworks of the city or capitalism. In many cases, the

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Speaker 1: blocks were explicit that in an abolitionist framework, the goal

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Speaker 1: was to meet needs without the charity and violence that

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Speaker 1: often accompanied the state and more traditional types of existence.

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Speaker 1: Instead organized as a community to give people's needs met.

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Speaker 1: As activist Mariah explains, there was a block for everything

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Speaker 1: like pet block. Yeah, oh gosh, I mean, I can't

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Speaker 1: say I have a favorite. They're all amazing, Like they

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Speaker 1: honestly like shocked me every day because I'm just like,

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Speaker 1: oh do we I even asked them, like, yo, do

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Speaker 1: we have a caramplastic block, Like, yeah, I don't say

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Speaker 1: I have a favorite. I am just amazed by people

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Speaker 1: being able to come together and do that. I've seen

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Speaker 1: job block, I've seen I've seen stuff I couldn't even

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Speaker 1: think of, and I'm like, that's just amazing. I I

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Speaker 1: think it's amazing for like, yeah, this little community. I'm like,

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Speaker 1: I'm wish people like would know more about this. I

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Speaker 1: want to say, no more about this, get more involved

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Speaker 1: because I'm like the communities is doing it, and like, yeah,

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Speaker 1: we protect us and it's amazing. As August continued, community

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Speaker 1: events and mutual affairs became common. Mending Block could repair

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Speaker 1: your clothes and made box of buzz for anonymity at

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Speaker 1: night actions. Beauty Block could give you a manicure, but

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Speaker 1: also made bath bombs and care packages for jail support.

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Speaker 1: Community art therapy happened weekly as people try to process

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Speaker 1: the stress and brutality. Tech Block assisted people with computers

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Speaker 1: and devices. While we don't have time to cover every

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Speaker 1: group that arose during that time, we can have some

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Speaker 1: of the activists describe how and why they formed. Jedi

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Speaker 1: explains Plant Block. So, plant Block literally came out of

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Speaker 1: mutual aid, Like it formed out of like Mac already

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Speaker 1: being in contact with a bunch of community members already

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Speaker 1: having his own garden kind of things set up and

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Speaker 1: then just pull every everybody together and creating vigils with

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Speaker 1: flowers or provide people with just like vegetable bags and

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Speaker 1: stuff like that. So like nowadays, if you go to

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Speaker 1: any kind of like well this was certainly true. I

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Speaker 1: mean we're not having as many because it's so cold

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Speaker 1: and wet now. But like a lot of the the

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Speaker 1: community events that we would hold UM, half of those

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Speaker 1: like vendors that would be at these community events literally

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Speaker 1: were formed within this movement. They didn't exist prior to

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Speaker 1: George Floyd. So seeing how you know, the tragic death

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Speaker 1: of of of him and many others fallen before him,

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Speaker 1: have kind of, in a way like been a catalyst

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Speaker 1: for strengthening mutual aid in our city UM, And anybody

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Speaker 1: who's been on the ground, been going to these events

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Speaker 1: have has seen it with their own eyes. So many

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Speaker 1: different mutual aid groups have formed because of it's just

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Speaker 1: coming to other so often, and the more that we

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Speaker 1: come together, the more we realize we don't need to

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Speaker 1: rely on the state UM to feed and clothe and

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Speaker 1: keep us safe. During the Fed War, cars were damaged

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Speaker 1: by right munitions and had their filters clagged with powdered

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Speaker 1: tear gas. Portland Please developed a habit of repeatedly attacking

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Speaker 1: protester vehicles protecting marches by stabbing out their tires. Those

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Speaker 1: snack Mamas had their vans impounded and trash for handing

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Speaker 1: out food and water in response. PT Street Mechanics formed

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Speaker 1: to help people repair their cars and provide vehicle assistance

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Speaker 1: for protesters, but quickly in large their focus to help

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Speaker 1: with other transportation needs. Here they explain how they formed

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Speaker 1: the protin Street Mechanics started UM kind of shot like

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Speaker 1: on Twitter, primarily because there were calls for people's cars

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Speaker 1: getting to repairs after having them being damaged out in protests. UM.

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Speaker 1: It very quickly expanded well beyond that, because car repair

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Speaker 1: isn't something that you can do at protests UM, and

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Speaker 1: that was one of our first things, is like, I know,

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Speaker 1: we're actually just doing community car care UM by moving

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Speaker 1: away from the protests and actually allows us to UM

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Speaker 1: focus on other things UM and actually focus on the

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Speaker 1: marginalized communities that are tend to be very active in

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Speaker 1: protests but are also the reasons why we are protesting UM.

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Speaker 1: And that was a big thing for us in our

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Speaker 1: initial framing was not necessarily just helping protesters kind of

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Speaker 1: manage their day to day needs UM, but also helping

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Speaker 1: to support the communities that are have historically been marginalized

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Speaker 1: and have historically been oppressed UM, so that these protests

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Speaker 1: don't need to happen. We should not have to go

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Speaker 1: and protest UM. And big part of it is building

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Speaker 1: the world that we want to see UM, So we

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Speaker 1: kind of quickly moved into that perspective. I think a

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Speaker 1: lot of ways we end up providing a lot of

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Speaker 1: support for other blocks. So a lot of the people

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Speaker 1: that we help and the people reach out to us

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Speaker 1: are people who are using their vehicles for MUTUALID and UM.

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Speaker 1: Those people absolutely get UM like care from us. They

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Speaker 1: get support in terms of making sure that their vehicles

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Speaker 1: are reliable and safe UM so that they can provide

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Speaker 1: their own kind of like practices because a lot of

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Speaker 1: a lot of other mutual aid systems or like organizations

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Speaker 1: are about like just giving stuff away UM and providing

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646
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Speaker 1: of like breaks with that a little bit. So like

647
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Speaker 1: we we haven't really been able to UM kind of

648
00:39:48,920 --> 00:39:50,279
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649
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Speaker 1: or like some of the fares or some of the

650
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Speaker 1: kind of like mutual aid meetups because we there's no

651
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652
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Speaker 1: into some problems with that, UM were like people being

653
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656
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Speaker 1: male life and death. I think these peeples of planning

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Speaker 1: to kill Dr King. On April four, Dr Martin Luther

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Speaker 1: King was shot and killed in Memphis. A petty criminal

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Speaker 1: Case closed right James L. Ray was upon for the

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Speaker 1: official story. The authorities would parade all we found a

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Speaker 1: gun that James el Ray bought in Birmingham that killed

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Speaker 1: Dr King, Except it wasn't the gun that killed Dr. King.

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Speaker 1: One of the problems that came out when I got

693
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Speaker 1: the Ray case was that some of the evidence, as

694
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Speaker 1: far as I was concerned, did not match the circumstances.

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Speaker 1: This is the MLK Tapes. The first episodes are available

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Speaker 1: or wherever you get your podcasts. Coming up next is Elane,

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Speaker 1: my colleague in the streets and my partner in writing

699
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Speaker 1: this podcast. The cycle of nightly protests and daily community

700
00:43:05,760 --> 00:43:09,520
Speaker 1: building and mutual aid would continue unabated, and on September five,

701
00:43:09,680 --> 00:43:13,080
Speaker 1: Portland had its hundredth night of continuous protest. The event

702
00:43:13,120 --> 00:43:15,040
Speaker 1: was marked by a care fair featuring many of the

703
00:43:15,120 --> 00:43:18,800
Speaker 1: mutual aid groups that had formed recently. Plant Walk had vegetables,

704
00:43:18,800 --> 00:43:21,160
Speaker 1: sprouts and seeds that they were giving away, and care

705
00:43:21,239 --> 00:43:25,360
Speaker 1: Bok offered massages to protesters and Tea Symbiosis tabled books

706
00:43:25,360 --> 00:43:27,799
Speaker 1: and zines, and people ate donated food and listened to

707
00:43:27,840 --> 00:43:31,080
Speaker 1: speakers and music by local musicians. At one point, the

708
00:43:31,080 --> 00:43:34,640
Speaker 1: car Caravan, a reoccurring car protest frequented by people whose

709
00:43:34,640 --> 00:43:37,800
Speaker 1: social distancing needs made other types of visible protest harder,

710
00:43:38,040 --> 00:43:40,760
Speaker 1: came past, honking horns and waving signs declaring that black

711
00:43:40,760 --> 00:43:44,120
Speaker 1: lives mattered. Mac was on the ground that day. You know,

712
00:43:44,200 --> 00:43:47,080
Speaker 1: I think a lot of folks once once things went

713
00:43:47,080 --> 00:43:49,680
Speaker 1: off in Minneapolis, and once we knew they were, once

714
00:43:49,760 --> 00:43:52,320
Speaker 1: we had our first big riot here in Portland, we

715
00:43:52,400 --> 00:43:54,640
Speaker 1: knew something was going to happen, Like we knew that

716
00:43:54,640 --> 00:43:57,479
Speaker 1: there were going to be some protests and stuff last

717
00:43:57,480 --> 00:43:59,560
Speaker 1: a little while. I don't think anyone at the start

718
00:43:59,560 --> 00:44:04,600
Speaker 1: of it really called a hundred plus j continuous protest.

719
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Speaker 1: When did you realize this is not a normal not

720
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Speaker 1: just not a normal Portland protest, This isn't like a

721
00:44:13,000 --> 00:44:17,239
Speaker 1: normal Portland summer of protests, and it would continue to

722
00:44:17,320 --> 00:44:20,840
Speaker 1: not be a normal summer of protests. That night, Portland

723
00:44:20,880 --> 00:44:24,040
Speaker 1: police pushed protesters blocks away from the East Portland Precinct,

724
00:44:24,160 --> 00:44:27,279
Speaker 1: gassing families in their homes, and at the beginning of September,

725
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Speaker 1: Oregon began one of its worst fire seasons on record.

726
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Speaker 1: As one of the last marches commemorating the hundred At

727
00:44:33,040 --> 00:44:35,520
Speaker 1: the day of protest, while and through the St. John's

728
00:44:35,520 --> 00:44:39,040
Speaker 1: neighborhood of North Portland, Mariah remembers how the sky slowly

729
00:44:39,080 --> 00:44:41,920
Speaker 1: dimmed as smoke began rolling into the city from fires

730
00:44:41,920 --> 00:44:44,839
Speaker 1: burning from the south and east. I won't, I won't

731
00:44:44,840 --> 00:44:46,920
Speaker 1: for the day it started rolling into town. I was

732
00:44:47,000 --> 00:44:51,600
Speaker 1: actually at the big march in St. John's because we

733
00:44:51,640 --> 00:44:54,160
Speaker 1: all started coming back and we were just like coughing

734
00:44:54,239 --> 00:44:56,840
Speaker 1: and and everything, and I was like, what the is

735
00:44:56,880 --> 00:44:58,399
Speaker 1: going on? I looked in there and I was like, Okay,

736
00:44:58,440 --> 00:45:01,360
Speaker 1: it's smoked from the fire about but where And then obviously,

737
00:45:01,400 --> 00:45:03,799
Speaker 1: you know, twenty four hours later we started becoming hell.

738
00:45:04,239 --> 00:45:07,200
Speaker 1: But how much it just showed, like the community transition

739
00:45:07,239 --> 00:45:10,760
Speaker 1: to mutual aid and aiding like fire survivors and victims.

740
00:45:10,920 --> 00:45:14,000
Speaker 1: Uh me as well. I also did, like I don't know,

741
00:45:14,040 --> 00:45:17,319
Speaker 1: I raised like five thousand dollars and went and went

742
00:45:17,360 --> 00:45:20,120
Speaker 1: shopping and dropped him off like they got a place

743
00:45:20,200 --> 00:45:24,480
Speaker 1: near Lloyd Center, UM and then out in Milwaukee. But

744
00:45:24,560 --> 00:45:26,680
Speaker 1: it was so amazing to see the community be able

745
00:45:26,719 --> 00:45:29,560
Speaker 1: to come together and help people. Dry conditions and hot

746
00:45:29,560 --> 00:45:33,319
Speaker 1: winds sent fire sweeping force states. Oregon was enveloped in

747
00:45:33,320 --> 00:45:36,520
Speaker 1: the worst fires the state had seen in decades. Smoke

748
00:45:36,560 --> 00:45:39,960
Speaker 1: from multiple blazes blanketed the region, making breathing impossible and

749
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Speaker 1: devastating huge swaths of the state. As thousands evacuated and

750
00:45:43,239 --> 00:45:46,319
Speaker 1: whole towns were consumed by fire with no evidence. Far

751
00:45:46,400 --> 00:45:49,919
Speaker 1: right media exploded with rumors that Antifa and BLM were

752
00:45:49,960 --> 00:45:53,920
Speaker 1: starting fires despite public officials trying to counteract the rumors.

753
00:45:53,960 --> 00:45:57,160
Speaker 1: It was too little, too late. The fearmongering rhetoric had

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Speaker 1: scared individuals and right wing militias to stay in fire

755
00:46:00,000 --> 00:46:03,799
Speaker 1: are areas, hindering evacuees, and to set up armed checkpoints

756
00:46:03,800 --> 00:46:06,480
Speaker 1: and fire zones to harass anyone they thought didn't look right.

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00:46:06,880 --> 00:46:09,239
Speaker 1: Reporter Alyssa Tsar went out to the fire zone to

758
00:46:09,239 --> 00:46:12,840
Speaker 1: talk with evacuees and report on the fire response. Um,

759
00:46:12,880 --> 00:46:15,239
Speaker 1: just seeing you know, the community come together and kind

760
00:46:15,280 --> 00:46:19,120
Speaker 1: of a great example of we protect us, you know,

761
00:46:19,280 --> 00:46:23,240
Speaker 1: manifesting right before our eyes. Um. Fuck, there were people

762
00:46:23,320 --> 00:46:26,400
Speaker 1: that were like rollying together trailers to go help people

763
00:46:26,440 --> 00:46:29,760
Speaker 1: evacuate their barn animals and take them to somewhere safe.

764
00:46:31,120 --> 00:46:36,880
Speaker 1: So yeah, I mean that's what we went there for. Um.

765
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Speaker 1: And it's it's so funny because I believe the day

766
00:46:40,800 --> 00:46:44,719
Speaker 1: before I went to Malala um or the day before that,

767
00:46:44,800 --> 00:46:47,320
Speaker 1: so one or two days before, I had tweeted something

768
00:46:48,080 --> 00:46:51,280
Speaker 1: and I was totally joking, but it was also very serious.

769
00:46:51,360 --> 00:46:55,080
Speaker 1: It was along the lines of like, you know, right

770
00:46:55,080 --> 00:47:00,000
Speaker 1: wingers on Twitter are saying, you know, Antifa started the wildfires. Meanwhile,

771
00:47:00,160 --> 00:47:03,920
Speaker 1: every fucking leftist on Twitter at the time was like, hey, um,

772
00:47:04,200 --> 00:47:06,560
Speaker 1: what's the most efficient way to bring a fire extinguisher

773
00:47:06,600 --> 00:47:09,960
Speaker 1: to a protest? You know, because at the time there

774
00:47:10,000 --> 00:47:13,040
Speaker 1: was also a fire risk and the protests were happening,

775
00:47:13,040 --> 00:47:17,359
Speaker 1: and this is something people were super concerned about. Um,

776
00:47:17,440 --> 00:47:21,520
Speaker 1: and you know, we were making jokes about these circulating rumors.

777
00:47:21,560 --> 00:47:24,239
Speaker 1: I really did not think in a matter of two

778
00:47:24,360 --> 00:47:29,080
Speaker 1: days they would manifest into a full blown, like actionable

779
00:47:29,200 --> 00:47:33,759
Speaker 1: conspiracy theory. Alissa soon found out how serious those conspiracy

780
00:47:33,800 --> 00:47:36,719
Speaker 1: theories were being taken. At the time, the witches had

781
00:47:36,719 --> 00:47:41,200
Speaker 1: showed up and they had brought a bunch of it's

782
00:47:41,239 --> 00:47:46,080
Speaker 1: like swagons filled with supplies. Um. We were on our

783
00:47:46,160 --> 00:47:53,840
Speaker 1: way to I think it was at the time the airport, um,

784
00:47:54,040 --> 00:47:57,279
Speaker 1: because that's where the firefighters had told us that they

785
00:47:57,320 --> 00:48:01,040
Speaker 1: were gonna have the firefighters beast stationed as well as

786
00:48:01,200 --> 00:48:05,360
Speaker 1: be taking supplies. So on our way there there was

787
00:48:05,600 --> 00:48:08,359
Speaker 1: have you ever seen those uh, those signs where it's

788
00:48:08,400 --> 00:48:12,480
Speaker 1: like uh green, yellow, red, and it's like a fire

789
00:48:12,560 --> 00:48:16,520
Speaker 1: danger sign and the arrow points wherever. So the arrow

790
00:48:16,760 --> 00:48:18,719
Speaker 1: was like all the way in the red and it

791
00:48:18,840 --> 00:48:24,279
Speaker 1: was like leave now. So granted, we stopped to take

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00:48:24,320 --> 00:48:27,560
Speaker 1: a picture of that because it's there's just this like

793
00:48:27,760 --> 00:48:31,160
Speaker 1: you know, field of like tall grass on the side

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00:48:31,160 --> 00:48:35,080
Speaker 1: of the road. Leave Now. It was just a very

795
00:48:35,160 --> 00:48:39,759
Speaker 1: picturesque moment, something really eerie about it. The road is

796
00:48:39,800 --> 00:48:42,640
Speaker 1: like completely empty, but every now and then you can

797
00:48:42,680 --> 00:48:47,480
Speaker 1: see like a line of cars trying to evacuate. But anyways,

798
00:48:47,480 --> 00:48:51,640
Speaker 1: we we pulled over. Um. Wow, I haven't thought about

799
00:48:51,680 --> 00:48:55,719
Speaker 1: this in so long, but yeah, we've We've pulled over

800
00:48:55,760 --> 00:48:59,879
Speaker 1: to take this picture and Justin and Sergio are kind

801
00:49:00,000 --> 00:49:02,319
Speaker 1: is still standing next to the car. Um and this

802
00:49:02,400 --> 00:49:05,640
Speaker 1: is public property. Um, it's on the side of the road.

803
00:49:05,840 --> 00:49:10,359
Speaker 1: It's not anyone's like yard or anything. And they're still

804
00:49:10,360 --> 00:49:13,239
Speaker 1: by the car, and I'm like in front of the

805
00:49:13,320 --> 00:49:15,759
Speaker 1: sign and there's some like tall grass. I'm kind of

806
00:49:15,800 --> 00:49:19,719
Speaker 1: crouched down taking a picture of it, and I'm like

807
00:49:19,800 --> 00:49:22,799
Speaker 1: focused on the picture and hear someone talking. At first,

808
00:49:22,840 --> 00:49:25,200
Speaker 1: I thought maybe it was like Justin in Sergio, but

809
00:49:25,280 --> 00:49:31,160
Speaker 1: I look up and there's three dudes with with rifles, um,

810
00:49:31,160 --> 00:49:34,799
Speaker 1: you know, pointing their rifles at us. And it it

811
00:49:34,920 --> 00:49:38,080
Speaker 1: took a bit for me to register what was going

812
00:49:38,120 --> 00:49:43,560
Speaker 1: on because I was really confused. Um, and I got

813
00:49:43,640 --> 00:49:49,080
Speaker 1: up and they started interrogating me, and I'm answering, but

814
00:49:49,160 --> 00:49:53,399
Speaker 1: I'm still like really confused because I'm like, Okay, they're

815
00:49:53,440 --> 00:49:58,640
Speaker 1: not cops, but why are they so offended and so

816
00:49:58,760 --> 00:50:02,359
Speaker 1: aggressive and style? Like I I was legit, just like

817
00:50:02,560 --> 00:50:05,640
Speaker 1: I could not figure out what was going on. And

818
00:50:05,680 --> 00:50:10,080
Speaker 1: then they kept asking questions, you know, like where are

819
00:50:10,080 --> 00:50:12,680
Speaker 1: you from? Why are you in our the city? Or

820
00:50:12,680 --> 00:50:16,320
Speaker 1: are you taking a picture of this? UM started talking

821
00:50:16,320 --> 00:50:19,160
Speaker 1: about like because we all had our press credentials on,

822
00:50:19,320 --> 00:50:23,120
Speaker 1: we were all in plain clothing, and you know, slowly,

823
00:50:23,120 --> 00:50:26,360
Speaker 1: like based off the questions they were asking, it slowly

824
00:50:26,480 --> 00:50:29,480
Speaker 1: started to kind of click for me. But even when

825
00:50:29,520 --> 00:50:31,600
Speaker 1: it clicked, I think that just kind of made me

826
00:50:31,640 --> 00:50:35,840
Speaker 1: more confused, because like we were literally all tweeting about

827
00:50:35,880 --> 00:50:41,760
Speaker 1: this jokingly last night, but somehow and fuck literally two

828
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Speaker 1: to three days this rumor manifested into a fucking conspiracy

829
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Speaker 1: where people are holding people at gunpoint, militias are holding

830
00:50:51,320 --> 00:50:54,560
Speaker 1: people up at gunpoint. It's it's just wild to me.

831
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Speaker 1: They finally got to a point they started saying that,

832
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Speaker 1: you know, there were people that were coming into their

833
00:51:01,400 --> 00:51:06,080
Speaker 1: city that are starting fires so that they can loot um,

834
00:51:06,560 --> 00:51:09,319
Speaker 1: you know, and they kept saying the word loot, and

835
00:51:09,360 --> 00:51:14,040
Speaker 1: then um, they started talking about protesters from Portland and

836
00:51:14,560 --> 00:51:18,040
Speaker 1: it was just like you know, it was it was

837
00:51:18,080 --> 00:51:22,279
Speaker 1: all like it was coming to me before, but it

838
00:51:22,360 --> 00:51:24,920
Speaker 1: was coming to me in a way where it's like okay, maybe,

839
00:51:24,920 --> 00:51:28,560
Speaker 1: but there's no way. But then they started asking those questions.

840
00:51:28,600 --> 00:51:32,080
Speaker 1: I was like, oh, okay, they they really do believe

841
00:51:32,160 --> 00:51:36,520
Speaker 1: that I'm an Antifa starting the fires right now, like

842
00:51:36,840 --> 00:51:41,040
Speaker 1: okay fuck? Um yeah, using words like like looting. And

843
00:51:41,040 --> 00:51:46,160
Speaker 1: then they started talking about protesting, um, god fuck. And

844
00:51:46,200 --> 00:51:49,759
Speaker 1: then it took a little bit before Justin and Sergio

845
00:51:50,239 --> 00:51:54,799
Speaker 1: even saw and uh, it was Justin who came down

846
00:51:54,920 --> 00:52:01,880
Speaker 1: first and started to like talking and see what's going on.

847
00:52:02,040 --> 00:52:05,080
Speaker 1: Oh funk. I just remember too, when Sergio finally like

848
00:52:05,400 --> 00:52:07,600
Speaker 1: realized what was going on. He came up to us

849
00:52:07,640 --> 00:52:11,439
Speaker 1: and he's like, are you writing us man? Yeah? Yeah

850
00:52:11,480 --> 00:52:15,200
Speaker 1: not and not physically nobody touched us, but just like

851
00:52:15,280 --> 00:52:17,279
Speaker 1: a body language and the way that they were being,

852
00:52:17,400 --> 00:52:19,960
Speaker 1: the way that they were positioned, and like slowly like

853
00:52:20,000 --> 00:52:24,759
Speaker 1: you know, edging forward when they would be speaking. Um,

854
00:52:24,840 --> 00:52:29,520
Speaker 1: we were I think when when Sergio got involved, him

855
00:52:29,600 --> 00:52:31,759
Speaker 1: and Justin we're just trying to be like listen, we're

856
00:52:31,760 --> 00:52:34,839
Speaker 1: just trying to take pictures, like we're not gonna bother you,

857
00:52:34,960 --> 00:52:38,439
Speaker 1: like like whatever. And also like we we also tried

858
00:52:38,440 --> 00:52:40,520
Speaker 1: to explain to them like we're not here to like

859
00:52:41,920 --> 00:52:45,640
Speaker 1: make this political or dehumanize anyone or whatever, like We're

860
00:52:45,719 --> 00:52:51,600
Speaker 1: here with like sympathy and you know, like we're again,

861
00:52:51,640 --> 00:52:55,920
Speaker 1: this is like a humanitarian issue. This is just like

862
00:52:56,000 --> 00:53:00,440
Speaker 1: what the fuck. Yeah, you know, are not here to

863
00:53:00,480 --> 00:53:05,560
Speaker 1: be like yeah, like you know, burn those whatever, Like no,

864
00:53:05,560 --> 00:53:08,840
Speaker 1: none of that. Um. So they really wanted us to

865
00:53:09,000 --> 00:53:13,279
Speaker 1: just like pack it up and go back to Portland, um,

866
00:53:13,320 --> 00:53:15,920
Speaker 1: you know, and they were kind of insinuating that they

867
00:53:15,920 --> 00:53:18,120
Speaker 1: would have their eyes on us. They took a picture

868
00:53:18,160 --> 00:53:19,880
Speaker 1: of all of our faces. They took a picture of

869
00:53:19,880 --> 00:53:24,960
Speaker 1: the license plate. Um. So yeah, it was kind of creepy.

870
00:53:25,040 --> 00:53:28,319
Speaker 1: But I will tell you for sure, none of us

871
00:53:28,880 --> 00:53:33,480
Speaker 1: really realized what happened until like a few hours later,

872
00:53:33,560 --> 00:53:36,279
Speaker 1: because we were fine. We were all fine, and I

873
00:53:36,320 --> 00:53:39,040
Speaker 1: was tweeting about it. I'm like, ll guess what happened,

874
00:53:39,480 --> 00:53:41,440
Speaker 1: And then like an hour or two later, we're just

875
00:53:41,480 --> 00:53:47,960
Speaker 1: like fuck, like we got held up at gunpoint, um

876
00:53:48,080 --> 00:53:51,160
Speaker 1: the city. Like by the time we got to where

877
00:53:51,200 --> 00:53:55,480
Speaker 1: we stopped Uh, that area was all burnt down already,

878
00:53:55,760 --> 00:53:58,680
Speaker 1: so had something happened, there's a good chance no one

879
00:53:58,680 --> 00:54:01,160
Speaker 1: would have found out about it. As we came to

880
00:54:01,239 --> 00:54:05,239
Speaker 1: learn later, the cops are all very pro these right

881
00:54:05,280 --> 00:54:10,799
Speaker 1: wing militias over there, So um, the seriousness of it

882
00:54:10,880 --> 00:54:13,759
Speaker 1: definitely didn't kick in until a lot later. But what

883
00:54:13,760 --> 00:54:17,480
Speaker 1: we're protesters actually doing during this time, well, many of

884
00:54:17,480 --> 00:54:19,960
Speaker 1: the people being labeled as rioters and having rumors of

885
00:54:20,040 --> 00:54:22,600
Speaker 1: arson spread about them were out in the community trying

886
00:54:22,640 --> 00:54:24,920
Speaker 1: to help as many victims of the fires as possible.

887
00:54:25,320 --> 00:54:30,480
Speaker 1: Alyssa continues. Um. You know, Portland's like mutual aid groups

888
00:54:30,480 --> 00:54:33,440
Speaker 1: from Portland. We're driving all the way down to Eugene

889
00:54:33,480 --> 00:54:36,200
Speaker 1: to drop off some supplies and back, like you know,

890
00:54:36,360 --> 00:54:40,480
Speaker 1: countless times, back and forth. UM. So that was that

891
00:54:40,560 --> 00:54:45,480
Speaker 1: was really great, just seeing you know, what we're capable of. UM.

892
00:54:45,719 --> 00:54:49,040
Speaker 1: And I think at first, you know, we talked about

893
00:54:49,040 --> 00:54:52,440
Speaker 1: the protests kind of slowing down for the fires, um.

894
00:54:52,480 --> 00:54:54,120
Speaker 1: And I think a lot of it at first was

895
00:54:54,200 --> 00:54:57,799
Speaker 1: because it was unhealthy to go outside. But I think

896
00:54:57,840 --> 00:55:00,960
Speaker 1: a huge part of it too, is like wanting to prioritize,

897
00:55:01,080 --> 00:55:03,480
Speaker 1: like there's people that need help right now, and like

898
00:55:03,520 --> 00:55:06,120
Speaker 1: if we don't get on this like you know, this

899
00:55:06,160 --> 00:55:08,480
Speaker 1: is this is part of what we're here for. This

900
00:55:08,520 --> 00:55:13,919
Speaker 1: is this is part of anarchy, you know. UM. And yeah,

901
00:55:14,040 --> 00:55:17,680
Speaker 1: just seeing people really like commit was really incredible. I mean,

902
00:55:18,239 --> 00:55:20,919
Speaker 1: did you make it on to Malt. Morgan from Team

903
00:55:21,000 --> 00:55:24,200
Speaker 1: Raccoon had been coordinating filter exchanges and sourcing gas mass

904
00:55:24,280 --> 00:55:26,880
Speaker 1: for children and rapidly change their focus as the area

905
00:55:26,920 --> 00:55:31,200
Speaker 1: was smothered by smoke. Yeah. Yeah, I was really fortunate

906
00:55:31,280 --> 00:55:35,359
Speaker 1: to get to kind of collaborate with UM a lot

907
00:55:35,400 --> 00:55:41,080
Speaker 1: of mutual aid groups for Malt the Mutual Aid Lloyd

908
00:55:41,200 --> 00:55:47,080
Speaker 1: Theater and also MAMA, the Milwaukee area Mutual Aid. UM.

909
00:55:47,200 --> 00:55:50,920
Speaker 1: We decided to move Malt to Mama because it was

910
00:55:51,640 --> 00:55:55,000
Speaker 1: damp out because of all the smoke cover and we

911
00:55:55,000 --> 00:55:58,560
Speaker 1: were getting lots of donations of cloth goods like blankets

912
00:55:58,600 --> 00:56:04,000
Speaker 1: and mattresses even and and um clothing in all kinds

913
00:56:04,000 --> 00:56:08,239
Speaker 1: of things that we didn't want to mildew UM. But yeah,

914
00:56:08,400 --> 00:56:12,200
Speaker 1: I I was on the ground giving out respirators a

915
00:56:12,239 --> 00:56:15,920
Speaker 1: lot at MALT. I have a really fond memory of

916
00:56:15,960 --> 00:56:18,120
Speaker 1: giving a respirator to an eight year old and a

917
00:56:18,160 --> 00:56:22,960
Speaker 1: spider man's sure and the eight year old was on

918
00:56:23,040 --> 00:56:25,960
Speaker 1: a scooter just scooting around pretending to be a robot

919
00:56:26,000 --> 00:56:29,120
Speaker 1: spider man now that they had their respirator on, and

920
00:56:29,160 --> 00:56:33,479
Speaker 1: that was fun. We had fun that day. Um. But

921
00:56:33,880 --> 00:56:38,400
Speaker 1: um yeah, I I was kind of just giving respirators

922
00:56:38,400 --> 00:56:43,000
Speaker 1: out like candy during wildfire disaster relief. So I'm not

923
00:56:43,480 --> 00:56:46,759
Speaker 1: totally sure how many went out just for that, but

924
00:56:46,840 --> 00:56:50,240
Speaker 1: it was quite a bit. Um. Basically, we were trying

925
00:56:50,280 --> 00:56:52,520
Speaker 1: to make sure that everybody who was going on supply

926
00:56:52,680 --> 00:56:56,000
Speaker 1: runs to the actual camps themselves was getting a box

927
00:56:56,040 --> 00:56:58,560
Speaker 1: of respirators to give out in case there were any

928
00:56:58,600 --> 00:57:01,759
Speaker 1: people that were really struggling, any asthmatics, any people that

929
00:57:02,080 --> 00:57:08,000
Speaker 1: um have respiratory ailments because we had the worst air

930
00:57:08,080 --> 00:57:11,800
Speaker 1: quality in the entire world. Um, I gave I remember

931
00:57:11,800 --> 00:57:15,680
Speaker 1: I gave a box of like I think it was

932
00:57:15,719 --> 00:57:19,680
Speaker 1: like eighteen respirators to somebody who was like, I actually

933
00:57:19,680 --> 00:57:21,760
Speaker 1: work in an asthma clinic and I know a lot

934
00:57:21,800 --> 00:57:24,360
Speaker 1: of patients, and I was like, yeah, yeah, yeah, here

935
00:57:24,360 --> 00:57:28,760
Speaker 1: you go, here's a box of eighteen respirators. The e

936
00:57:28,920 --> 00:57:31,640
Speaker 1: Walks transformed an empty mall parking lot into a fire

937
00:57:31,720 --> 00:57:35,000
Speaker 1: relief aid station almost overnight, becoming a node for a

938
00:57:35,040 --> 00:57:38,560
Speaker 1: tremendous amount of supplies and cared to both evacuees as

939
00:57:38,600 --> 00:57:40,720
Speaker 1: well as to the houseless community that had nowhere to

940
00:57:40,760 --> 00:57:43,000
Speaker 1: go to get out of the smoke. When the fires

941
00:57:43,000 --> 00:57:45,760
Speaker 1: first started raging, there was this moment um sort of

942
00:57:46,840 --> 00:57:50,080
Speaker 1: I remember it being a Tuesday or a Wednesday, just

943
00:57:50,240 --> 00:57:53,040
Speaker 1: after the fires had started, where the protests calmed down

944
00:57:53,040 --> 00:57:56,720
Speaker 1: a little bit, largely because it was a safety issue

945
00:57:56,760 --> 00:57:59,520
Speaker 1: to be out in the smoke inhalation UM and even

946
00:57:59,520 --> 00:58:02,880
Speaker 1: though all of our gear is built to protect from

947
00:58:02,960 --> 00:58:07,640
Speaker 1: um C S gas, that doesn't necessarily translate to smoke

948
00:58:07,880 --> 00:58:12,880
Speaker 1: air everywhere. In taking a look at what the community

949
00:58:12,920 --> 00:58:16,640
Speaker 1: requests were, ewoks social media got a lot of requests

950
00:58:16,680 --> 00:58:22,080
Speaker 1: of UM, calls for medical support, calls for supply provision UM.

951
00:58:22,160 --> 00:58:26,360
Speaker 1: The other organs that are headed by EWOKS organizers began

952
00:58:26,440 --> 00:58:29,760
Speaker 1: getting requests through their social media and it became really

953
00:58:29,800 --> 00:58:33,680
Speaker 1: clear that the aid sites that were previously established were

954
00:58:33,720 --> 00:58:37,760
Speaker 1: overworked and ineffective and their functioning UM largely because of

955
00:58:37,840 --> 00:58:39,960
Speaker 1: the amount of people that they had coming through and

956
00:58:40,040 --> 00:58:42,680
Speaker 1: the issues that happened when you have those that many

957
00:58:42,760 --> 00:58:46,760
Speaker 1: people with differing views really meeting in the middle UM.

958
00:58:46,880 --> 00:58:51,160
Speaker 1: When the Red Cross and the Salvation Army established a

959
00:58:51,360 --> 00:58:54,640
Speaker 1: base at Clackmus Town Center or in intent was initially

960
00:58:54,640 --> 00:58:58,000
Speaker 1: to be further down the south with them, but when

961
00:58:58,240 --> 00:59:01,880
Speaker 1: that psyche quickly reached the pacity in the overflow went

962
00:59:02,000 --> 00:59:05,200
Speaker 1: to the organ Convention Center. We realized that there was

963
00:59:05,240 --> 00:59:07,120
Speaker 1: going to be a whole group of people that weren't

964
00:59:07,120 --> 00:59:10,400
Speaker 1: being serviced by the Salvation Army. The Salvation Army also

965
00:59:10,640 --> 00:59:14,680
Speaker 1: does not provide any sort of food or diapers UM,

966
00:59:14,880 --> 00:59:18,360
Speaker 1: and their clothing supplies are pretty much limited to what

967
00:59:18,520 --> 00:59:25,120
Speaker 1: you can carry. UM the malt site and MALTA is

968
00:59:25,160 --> 00:59:28,600
Speaker 1: an acronym that stands for Mutual Aid at Lloyd Theater.

969
00:59:29,360 --> 00:59:35,360
Speaker 1: UM we established in the Lloyd Movie Theater parking lot. Thankfully,

970
00:59:35,400 --> 00:59:37,360
Speaker 1: the manager of that parking lot did not have an

971
00:59:37,360 --> 00:59:40,760
Speaker 1: issue with it UM, but we began doing all of

972
00:59:40,760 --> 00:59:43,240
Speaker 1: the supply provision that the Salvation Army and the Oregan

973
00:59:43,360 --> 00:59:47,360
Speaker 1: Convention Center was unprepared to do. UM. We also found

974
00:59:47,440 --> 00:59:51,200
Speaker 1: that we were getting a high level of UM migrant

975
00:59:51,200 --> 00:59:55,880
Speaker 1: communities and minority communities that might otherwise feel grossly uncomfortable

976
00:59:56,600 --> 01:00:00,760
Speaker 1: with organizations that have appeared to have of room and

977
01:00:00,880 --> 01:00:07,919
Speaker 1: participation and cooperation in the past. When sort of roll

978
01:00:08,000 --> 01:00:11,560
Speaker 1: through started to slow down, and the Oregon Convention Center

979
01:00:11,600 --> 01:00:15,680
Speaker 1: began to stabilize UM as as paired with the breaking

980
01:00:15,760 --> 01:00:19,000
Speaker 1: of the fire line and the actual higher danger moving

981
01:00:19,000 --> 01:00:22,320
Speaker 1: a little bit further south. We moved into the clack

982
01:00:22,400 --> 01:00:25,880
Speaker 1: of this area, and our goal was finding a site

983
01:00:26,360 --> 01:00:28,520
Speaker 1: that was going to be safe for humans to come

984
01:00:28,520 --> 01:00:32,480
Speaker 1: through no matter what their resident or minority community status

985
01:00:32,560 --> 01:00:36,479
Speaker 1: was UM to receive services, but also to be close

986
01:00:36,600 --> 01:00:38,800
Speaker 1: enough to jump further down south if that was flow

987
01:00:38,920 --> 01:00:44,360
Speaker 1: was necessary. Well, when we established the Mama's Site UM,

988
01:00:44,400 --> 01:00:46,560
Speaker 1: and now that I'm thinking about it, I can't remember

989
01:00:46,560 --> 01:00:49,680
Speaker 1: what Mamma stands for it and I apologize. Mama stands

990
01:00:49,760 --> 01:00:55,520
Speaker 1: for Milwaukee Area Mutual Aid fare. We go thanks to UM.

991
01:00:55,560 --> 01:00:58,520
Speaker 1: When we established the Mama's Site, we had every intention

992
01:00:58,520 --> 01:01:02,520
Speaker 1: of continuing to move further our south. Something really amazing

993
01:01:02,600 --> 01:01:05,600
Speaker 1: happened while we were there, and putting us inside the

994
01:01:05,680 --> 01:01:11,000
Speaker 1: mutual Aid area of Milwaukee allowed best to have resources

995
01:01:11,000 --> 01:01:14,880
Speaker 1: within other organizations within the community and the mutual Aid

996
01:01:14,920 --> 01:01:17,840
Speaker 1: network to send supplies further down south. What that happened

997
01:01:17,840 --> 01:01:23,400
Speaker 1: to move our site UM, that location ended up being

998
01:01:23,600 --> 01:01:27,960
Speaker 1: really key in terms of in terms of being able

999
01:01:28,000 --> 01:01:32,320
Speaker 1: to move supplies, gain supplies and see community needs UM.

1000
01:01:32,360 --> 01:01:36,040
Speaker 1: And it also highlighted the needs that we were not

1001
01:01:36,200 --> 01:01:40,760
Speaker 1: able to meet within that which was the the property

1002
01:01:40,840 --> 01:01:45,960
Speaker 1: damage in the economic impacts of having lost everything UM.

1003
01:01:46,000 --> 01:01:49,120
Speaker 1: In that respect, it allowed us to move more supplies

1004
01:01:49,160 --> 01:01:52,120
Speaker 1: to safer locations for humans because we were able to

1005
01:01:52,120 --> 01:01:54,479
Speaker 1: see that that was happening and able to pre plan

1006
01:01:54,640 --> 01:01:57,360
Speaker 1: for what their future coming needs would be. Some of

1007
01:01:57,360 --> 01:01:59,640
Speaker 1: those supply lines are still open and we are still

1008
01:01:59,680 --> 01:02:03,760
Speaker 1: funning about supplies UM that have just been passed around

1009
01:02:03,880 --> 01:02:09,520
Speaker 1: groups since time. May I jump in, Yeah, So a

1010
01:02:09,560 --> 01:02:12,320
Speaker 1: couple of things I'd like to add. One of the

1011
01:02:12,400 --> 01:02:17,600
Speaker 1: things that was really important about malt or Mutual Aid

1012
01:02:17,680 --> 01:02:22,920
Speaker 1: at Lloyd Theater we we were able to address the

1013
01:02:22,960 --> 01:02:27,080
Speaker 1: needs of our houseless community that did not want to

1014
01:02:27,800 --> 01:02:32,560
Speaker 1: UM go inside and stay at the convention center UM.

1015
01:02:32,640 --> 01:02:37,120
Speaker 1: So one of the things that we did is resourced

1016
01:02:37,160 --> 01:02:42,080
Speaker 1: pretty much every respirator UM that was still in existence

1017
01:02:42,080 --> 01:02:45,240
Speaker 1: in the Portland me people in an area. UM I

1018
01:02:45,280 --> 01:02:51,560
Speaker 1: had volunteers calling, getting in the quarries UM, making purchases

1019
01:02:51,560 --> 01:02:58,440
Speaker 1: and delivering the respirators and filters to the houseless folks

1020
01:02:58,560 --> 01:03:03,800
Speaker 1: at UM A C three PO and other camps where

1021
01:03:03,840 --> 01:03:10,720
Speaker 1: people where people were UM just left to their own devices.

1022
01:03:10,760 --> 01:03:13,680
Speaker 1: I hear that the city or county was trying to

1023
01:03:13,760 --> 01:03:18,200
Speaker 1: find respirators on eBay, but of course we had better

1024
01:03:18,280 --> 01:03:23,400
Speaker 1: connections UM, and then we were able to, you know,

1025
01:03:23,600 --> 01:03:27,360
Speaker 1: make sure that that our houseless community had their needs

1026
01:03:27,600 --> 01:03:34,960
Speaker 1: met UM before we moved to MAMA and UM. I

1027
01:03:35,000 --> 01:03:38,000
Speaker 1: think the really important part about MAMA was that it

1028
01:03:38,080 --> 01:03:43,200
Speaker 1: allowed people who were not safe at the Clackamas Town

1029
01:03:43,320 --> 01:03:50,560
Speaker 1: Center location to access mutual aid UM, the immigrant and

1030
01:03:50,560 --> 01:03:57,040
Speaker 1: refugee community UM, l g B t Q community UM.

1031
01:03:57,160 --> 01:04:00,760
Speaker 1: There's there was a real disconnect in terms of providing

1032
01:04:00,880 --> 01:04:08,400
Speaker 1: safer spaces for UM people UM at that Clackamus County,

1033
01:04:08,560 --> 01:04:15,120
Speaker 1: Clackamus towns, at the Clackamus Town Center site. UM. I

1034
01:04:15,160 --> 01:04:18,880
Speaker 1: think that's all I really wanted to add. The fires

1035
01:04:18,920 --> 01:04:21,800
Speaker 1: took a community that was based around brutality and trauma

1036
01:04:21,920 --> 01:04:24,760
Speaker 1: and helped remind people that not only do we take

1037
01:04:24,840 --> 01:04:27,360
Speaker 1: care of us, but that mutual aid and support were

1038
01:04:27,400 --> 01:04:30,800
Speaker 1: also the basis for larger change. After forming bonds and

1039
01:04:30,840 --> 01:04:33,600
Speaker 1: clouds of tear gas, there was something poetic and protesters

1040
01:04:33,640 --> 01:04:36,720
Speaker 1: turning their focus outwards to support others in a region

1041
01:04:36,760 --> 01:04:40,120
Speaker 1: where the air had been rendered unbreathable. After the fires,

1042
01:04:40,160 --> 01:04:42,800
Speaker 1: more mutual aid and support would be directed outside of

1043
01:04:42,800 --> 01:04:46,400
Speaker 1: the immediate protester community and towards those displaced by fire,

1044
01:04:46,640 --> 01:04:50,640
Speaker 1: the chronically houseless, and those facing eviction. While these centers

1045
01:04:50,640 --> 01:04:53,640
Speaker 1: of collective care and support were forming among protesters, another

1046
01:04:53,680 --> 01:04:56,600
Speaker 1: group had been preparing to mobilize in Portland. In our

1047
01:04:56,640 --> 01:04:59,240
Speaker 1: next episode, we'll talk about how the Proud Boys and

1048
01:04:59,320 --> 01:05:02,400
Speaker 1: far right extre mists were capitalizing on the same paranoia

1049
01:05:02,440 --> 01:05:05,640
Speaker 1: that had made Malicious form checkpoints and start preparing for

1050
01:05:05,680 --> 01:05:08,480
Speaker 1: a violent return to the city to round us out.

1051
01:05:08,520 --> 01:05:11,040
Speaker 1: Though Here are some final thoughts on mutual aid from

1052
01:05:11,080 --> 01:05:14,920
Speaker 1: activist Krimberu lay the Ewoks, Courtney from Wall of Moms

1053
01:05:14,960 --> 01:05:17,920
Speaker 1: in the Street Mechanic Block. One of the things you

1054
01:05:18,080 --> 01:05:22,760
Speaker 1: like to say is, uh, defund the police and invest

1055
01:05:22,800 --> 01:05:26,280
Speaker 1: in community. And you know one of the things, like

1056
01:05:26,320 --> 01:05:29,600
Speaker 1: my mom was on earlier and she's like and that's

1057
01:05:29,640 --> 01:05:32,560
Speaker 1: your monitor and they're out, lady, need one thing just

1058
01:05:32,640 --> 01:05:36,120
Speaker 1: like you can do the other thing, like stop fighting

1059
01:05:37,000 --> 01:05:39,840
Speaker 1: the battle, and it's like help the people that need help.

1060
01:05:40,000 --> 01:05:45,160
Speaker 1: And we want to use society where the police aren't

1061
01:05:45,480 --> 01:05:49,640
Speaker 1: needed for every goddamn thing. The police aren't needed to

1062
01:05:49,680 --> 01:05:53,960
Speaker 1: harass the house with people in various locations. The police

1063
01:05:54,000 --> 01:05:57,480
Speaker 1: aren't used to respond to various mental health situations of

1064
01:05:57,560 --> 01:06:00,080
Speaker 1: all high end all over the city. The police are

1065
01:06:00,480 --> 01:06:03,160
Speaker 1: you know, basically you don't have the presence they do

1066
01:06:04,400 --> 01:06:06,400
Speaker 1: and the potentially they do to escalate that. We got

1067
01:06:06,400 --> 01:06:12,400
Speaker 1: the situation. Um, you know, so what we can do

1068
01:06:12,520 --> 01:06:16,200
Speaker 1: instead of I guess taking away the power directly and

1069
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Speaker 1: you know actually burning down p p A is just

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Speaker 1: take their jobs in the sense of like takeaway all

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Speaker 1: their responsibilities and believe them, what's nothing to do, ah,

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Speaker 1: because that's the bolt at the end of the day, right,

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01:06:31,720 --> 01:06:33,920
Speaker 1: is to have everyone in the community taken care of.

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Speaker 1: Like that's all we want. Um. You know, it's like

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Speaker 1: I said, the through line to like Black Lives Matter

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01:06:39,360 --> 01:06:43,600
Speaker 1: and topaptism, uh like Boston police, It's like we all

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Speaker 1: just want like community taking care of them. All these

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Speaker 1: people who see that needs to becomes through whatever different

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Speaker 1: specific ones as we need. Um. So yeah, it's it's

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Speaker 1: more of a I hope it continues to do this, right,

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01:06:58,520 --> 01:07:01,640
Speaker 1: I think it will. It's coming more of people are

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01:07:02,320 --> 01:07:08,360
Speaker 1: organizing actions that is directly benefiting their community. The one

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01:07:08,520 --> 01:07:12,600
Speaker 1: thing that really stands out is that Portland's infrastructure is

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01:07:12,640 --> 01:07:14,800
Speaker 1: what makes it possible for us to continue to stay

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01:07:14,840 --> 01:07:17,960
Speaker 1: out here and do this work, UM, and to continue

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01:07:17,960 --> 01:07:21,720
Speaker 1: to persist even as UM those that hold on to

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01:07:21,800 --> 01:07:26,360
Speaker 1: white supremacist structures really clean to the dying, gasping breadths

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01:07:26,400 --> 01:07:29,560
Speaker 1: of it. UM. If you are in another city and

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01:07:29,680 --> 01:07:32,880
Speaker 1: you are looking to form your own mutual aid support network,

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01:07:33,160 --> 01:07:36,160
Speaker 1: firstly and foremostly this is going to be a massive

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01:07:36,200 --> 01:07:39,320
Speaker 1: collaboration effort. It's going to feel like you want to

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01:07:39,360 --> 01:07:42,720
Speaker 1: do everything because everything needs to be done, and so

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01:07:42,800 --> 01:07:45,480
Speaker 1: the most important steps that you can take is recognizing

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01:07:45,560 --> 01:07:48,240
Speaker 1: your lane and recognizing how to stay in your lane,

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01:07:48,560 --> 01:07:52,840
Speaker 1: and recognizing how to let your lane meet other people's late. UM.

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01:07:52,880 --> 01:07:56,760
Speaker 1: I think that just like the sense of like communities

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01:07:57,520 --> 01:08:01,920
Speaker 1: and people taking care of each other. UM. We're in

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01:08:01,960 --> 01:08:04,439
Speaker 1: a pandemic and a lot of people just don't even

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01:08:04,480 --> 01:08:09,440
Speaker 1: have jobs or are working right now, and the house

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01:08:09,520 --> 01:08:13,840
Speaker 1: of community is only like getting larger, and the police

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01:08:13,880 --> 01:08:18,720
Speaker 1: are attacking the house of community as well. So UM

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01:08:18,760 --> 01:08:24,080
Speaker 1: just seeing people rally around to take care of our community,

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01:08:24,160 --> 01:08:28,600
Speaker 1: while UM the government and UM the police that we

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01:08:28,680 --> 01:08:31,200
Speaker 1: actually pay with our tax dollars. I'm not doing shipped

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01:08:31,240 --> 01:08:34,080
Speaker 1: to help people right now at this moment um. Seeing

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01:08:34,280 --> 01:08:36,840
Speaker 1: us gather around and really take care of each other,

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01:08:37,520 --> 01:08:41,080
Speaker 1: even though like we don't personally know each other, we're

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01:08:41,120 --> 01:08:44,479
Speaker 1: still you know, everyone is still a family and doing

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01:08:44,520 --> 01:08:49,920
Speaker 1: everything they can to provide um the necessities to live

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01:08:50,120 --> 01:08:52,880
Speaker 1: to each other. So I think that that's like something

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01:08:52,920 --> 01:08:55,800
Speaker 1: that's been really amazing is all of the mutual aid

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Speaker 1: that's come out of this. Uh what's been going on

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01:09:00,120 --> 01:09:04,639
Speaker 1: here in Portland is really beautiful. Um, people are able

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01:09:04,680 --> 01:09:07,720
Speaker 1: to make relent, people are starting to get jobs through

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01:09:07,720 --> 01:09:12,720
Speaker 1: other people's connections. People are able to eat. Uh, you know,

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01:09:12,880 --> 01:09:18,360
Speaker 1: people are like providing shelter and you know, things to

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01:09:18,439 --> 01:09:20,880
Speaker 1: live to the house of community after like they've been

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01:09:20,880 --> 01:09:24,360
Speaker 1: taken and flashed by the police. So I think that

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Speaker 1: that's just something that's outside of all of the protests,

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01:09:27,640 --> 01:09:31,720
Speaker 1: is really amazing to see uh this on this community

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01:09:31,840 --> 01:09:35,479
Speaker 1: come together. And I actually took my children down to

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01:09:35,760 --> 01:09:39,519
Speaker 1: jail support to drop off some things this past weekend

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01:09:40,320 --> 01:09:43,280
Speaker 1: in Vancouver, and it was just a really great opportunity

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01:09:43,360 --> 01:09:47,760
Speaker 1: to show them how we as a community need to

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Speaker 1: take care of each other and how much love is

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01:09:49,760 --> 01:09:53,400
Speaker 1: around all of this. It's hard for my kids to

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01:09:53,560 --> 01:09:57,240
Speaker 1: kind of understand what's going on and see like why

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01:09:57,360 --> 01:09:59,920
Speaker 1: I'm like put them to bed and then you know,

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01:10:00,120 --> 01:10:04,000
Speaker 1: leave them with their dad to like go out every night. Um,

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01:10:04,080 --> 01:10:06,160
Speaker 1: and then sure and they see certain things like on

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01:10:06,280 --> 01:10:09,639
Speaker 1: the news and stuff, so they have like I tried

1132
01:10:09,680 --> 01:10:12,040
Speaker 1: to explain to them what's really going on, But it

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01:10:12,120 --> 01:10:14,759
Speaker 1: was really important for me to take them this weekend

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01:10:14,800 --> 01:10:18,280
Speaker 1: to show them that like we do how like we

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01:10:18,400 --> 01:10:20,759
Speaker 1: always say like we got us, like we really do,

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01:10:21,320 --> 01:10:25,000
Speaker 1: and um explain to them that if anyone's going to

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01:10:25,040 --> 01:10:26,760
Speaker 1: take care of our community, like, it's going to be

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01:10:26,960 --> 01:10:29,840
Speaker 1: us at the end of the day. So I just

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01:10:29,960 --> 01:10:32,280
Speaker 1: I'm like trying to eradicate feels are not at a

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01:10:32,320 --> 01:10:35,880
Speaker 1: young age and just teach them, um, at a young

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01:10:35,920 --> 01:10:40,240
Speaker 1: age that you know that in the end, we are

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01:10:40,280 --> 01:10:42,519
Speaker 1: the ones that take care of each other. That I

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01:10:42,520 --> 01:10:45,400
Speaker 1: think about a lot in terms of where things are going,

1144
01:10:45,720 --> 01:10:48,880
Speaker 1: is just about like all the skills that everybody's learning,

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01:10:49,439 --> 01:10:52,400
Speaker 1: um from whatever they're doing. There's so many different mutually

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01:10:53,040 --> 01:10:55,880
Speaker 1: like groups and blocks popping up and trying to like

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01:10:56,720 --> 01:11:00,200
Speaker 1: create material action um. But there's also a kind of

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01:11:00,240 --> 01:11:01,720
Speaker 1: things that are being learned on the street, and they're

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01:11:01,760 --> 01:11:03,919
Speaker 1: kind of being things being learned in terms of organizing

1150
01:11:03,920 --> 01:11:08,000
Speaker 1: protests and direct actions and media campaigns and all of

1151
01:11:08,040 --> 01:11:10,719
Speaker 1: these other kinds of things. And I think that, um,

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01:11:10,760 --> 01:11:15,360
Speaker 1: as the protests continue and as the kind of resistance

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01:11:15,439 --> 01:11:20,200
Speaker 1: to the powers that be continues, UM, I'm really hopeful

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01:11:20,360 --> 01:11:22,840
Speaker 1: that we all continue to grow and get better at

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01:11:22,840 --> 01:11:24,800
Speaker 1: what we're doing, UM, so that we can really like

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01:11:25,040 --> 01:11:27,479
Speaker 1: keep pushing forward and build the world that we want

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01:11:27,520 --> 01:11:31,320
Speaker 1: to see. I have a couple of things. First, UM,

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Speaker 1: anybody can do it. Anybody, it doesn't matter how small,

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01:11:36,400 --> 01:11:40,040
Speaker 1: it doesn't matter what you're doing. You can be part

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01:11:40,160 --> 01:11:43,800
Speaker 1: of a larger scale operation in the sense of if

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01:11:43,800 --> 01:11:46,559
Speaker 1: you have something, you can provide it, even if it's

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01:11:46,600 --> 01:11:50,479
Speaker 1: like helping something dig something off of the internet or

1163
01:11:50,560 --> 01:11:53,599
Speaker 1: you know, telling someone this is how this thing works.

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01:11:54,640 --> 01:11:59,080
Speaker 1: Anybody can do that. And also, do not be afraid

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01:11:59,160 --> 01:12:02,160
Speaker 1: to ask people for help if you don't understand something

1166
01:12:02,280 --> 01:12:04,280
Speaker 1: or if you just need help in terms of like

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01:12:04,360 --> 01:12:11,360
Speaker 1: resources like these things are there and the more people

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01:12:11,600 --> 01:12:18,160
Speaker 1: that are involved, the easier it becomes. Does that make sense? Yes? Great?

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Speaker 1: And that also mutual aid can be as small as

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Speaker 1: it needs to be and as quiet as it needs

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01:12:23,920 --> 01:12:28,120
Speaker 1: to be. Something like helping your neighbor jump a car

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01:12:28,479 --> 01:12:32,599
Speaker 1: like that can be mutual aid. It's like you can

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01:12:32,600 --> 01:12:35,920
Speaker 1: start a group and raise ten dollars over the course

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Speaker 1: of a few months, and you know, like give people vehicles.

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Speaker 1: That's also mutual aid. Um. You don't need to like,

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01:12:42,520 --> 01:12:47,080
Speaker 1: you know, create weird hierarchies or kind of prioritize one

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Speaker 1: form of it over another. Um. It's really just like

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Speaker 1: like like a means for helping each other. Uh. Or

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Speaker 1: the grand pops who couldn't fathom the Obama system hate

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Speaker 1: America just to me, and she keeps the promises teens

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Speaker 1: looking like the sixties. It's crazy, a nationwide deja what

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Speaker 1: my people post to do? Go to schools named after

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Speaker 1: the clan founder we're around town? Is I don't see

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Speaker 1: why we're frowning Native American students forced to learn about

1185
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Speaker 1: when o'pellah Sarah? How is that fair? Bro? Some heroes

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