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Speaker 1: Broke podcast, while I eat a meal created by self

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Speaker 1: Portlanders who had spent the summer out protesting. As the

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Speaker 1: The early days of the protests had been fueled in

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Speaker 1: Coming up next is a lane Portland has spent the

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Speaker 1: Here's Donovan Smith. The Red House, All Mississippi, has belonged

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Speaker 1: to the Kinney family for over sixty five years. William

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Speaker 1: and Pauline Kenney sold their house to their son, William Jr.

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Speaker 1: And his wife in their financial Dominoes began when the

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Speaker 1: owner's son got into a car accident on a suspended

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Speaker 1: license ase of teen in two thousand two. The driver

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Speaker 1: the third was ultimately convicted of a felony. To cover

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Speaker 1: legal fees, the Kenney family took out a balloon loan

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Speaker 1: against the house. The son, William X. Nice, was since

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Speaker 1: to five years first and doven old attention before being

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Speaker 1: transitioned to the state prison at eighteen. Over time, due

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Speaker 1: to interests and expenses piling up, as well as inadequate

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Speaker 1: last black owned homes on North Mississippi, ended up in

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Speaker 1: In September, or judge ruled that the eviction of the

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Speaker 1: Kenneys could proceed despite the eviction moratorium. That month, the

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Speaker 1: Moltnoma County Shars stormed into the Reddit House with rifles

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Speaker 1: some Portlanders began gathering around the Red House to support

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Speaker 1: the Kennies. They decried the forced eviction, especially amist economic

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Speaker 1: and then on December five, the Portland Police Bureau and

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Speaker 1: County Sheriffs arrived yet again to clear out residents, campers

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Speaker 1: An independent Portland journalists was on the ground when the

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Speaker 1: tide turned against the police eviction team. Red House will

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Speaker 1: where to be here? Um? You know, Red Houses is

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Speaker 1: That morning, oh my god, it was like not even

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Speaker 1: This is wild? But I think that's fucking huge because

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Speaker 1: That red house. It was like a weather proof um

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Speaker 1: When the barricades were up, we UM, we organized watch

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Speaker 1: Everyone was just kind of like on edge, like it

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Speaker 1: coming back and with force. They just got their asses

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Speaker 1: and everyone was waiting, and within minutes, you know, barricades

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Speaker 1: like they weren't just like barricades. Um, were you at

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Speaker 1: But a lot of barricades like like they were really

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Speaker 1: eviction defense as a so called autonomous zone. He said, quote,

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Speaker 1: to hold those violating our community laws accountable. There will

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Speaker 1: be no autonomous zone in Portland, en quote. Nervous anticipation

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Speaker 1: loomed over everyone the first night inside the barricades. Behind

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Speaker 1: more tents were put up in the streets around the

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Speaker 1: acting like cops. To be honest, Multiple people, some of

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Speaker 1: men acting as self appointed security team. Problems with the

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Speaker 1: protest security occurred inportantly before, the most notable being the

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Speaker 1: coming from all corners of the country as sympathetic viewers

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Speaker 1: and readers and to stop the Kenneyes from losing their home.

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Speaker 1: A slight twist came when the Oregon Public Broadcasting Guard

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Speaker 1: op BE released an article revealing that the Kenney family

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Speaker 1: in fact had a place to stay after the raid.

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Speaker 1: In fact, it was another family member who yep on

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Speaker 1: their own home. The headline read family at the center

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Speaker 1: of the Red House protests old second Portlands home, detailing

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Speaker 1: the fact that the home had been kept in the

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Speaker 1: family for generations, disperst similar headlines locally and Nashally, they're

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Speaker 1: trying to say the Kinney family lied about like not

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Speaker 1: having anywhere to go, and when I get kicked out,

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Speaker 1: I have gotten kicked out of places that I've been

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Speaker 1: staying at and have had nowhere but my grandmother's house

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Speaker 1: to go. And that's exactly what happened to the Kinney family.

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Speaker 1: The police removed them from their home at gunpoint, and

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Speaker 1: they had nowhere else but their grandma's house to go,

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Speaker 1: so they went to say there and the media tried

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Speaker 1: to say that they had a second house and as

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Speaker 1: if an entire family with multiple generations all has to

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Speaker 1: live in the same house, that is some racist ship

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00:27:43,960 --> 00:27:48,360
Speaker 1: was super racist to say that a black family has

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Speaker 1: to all live in the same fucking house. All p

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Speaker 1: B ran an apology articles shortly thereafter, apologizing for their

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Speaker 1: mischaracterization of the Kinney's plate. Some support had dwindled, but

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Speaker 1: through it all, support for the Red House grew, and

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Speaker 1: so did the fundraiser. The go fund me raised well

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Speaker 1: over the quarter million dollars and needed to secure the house.

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Speaker 1: The developer was ready to approach the bargaining table. With

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Speaker 1: the assistance of the city, Roman and the Kinneys began

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Speaker 1: discussions about transferring ownership back into the hands of the family.

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Speaker 1: This was a mark of celebration for some who had

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Speaker 1: been occupying the house since September as conversations with Roman

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Speaker 1: trucked on the city after days of threatening police force

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Speaker 1: against the house, promised the barrel with back off if

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Speaker 1: barricades came down. The Kidneys obliged, to the dismay of

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Speaker 1: some activists, many white, who wanted to flex the strength

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Speaker 1: of the people. But for Regina, she says, the occupation

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Speaker 1: was never about the walls. There were a lot of

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Speaker 1: people who we didn't even know, who had never been

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Speaker 1: to the Red House, who had opinions on what we

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Speaker 1: should have done and like who we are now because

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Speaker 1: we didn't keep those barricades up. Um, But it was

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Speaker 1: never about the barricades. It was, it is and will

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Speaker 1: always be about what is best for the Kidney family

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Speaker 1: and what they want. And um we did lose like

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Speaker 1: support slowly and slowly after the barricades UM came down.

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Speaker 1: People stopped coming and UM their individuals living at the

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Speaker 1: Red House right now who still need support from this

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Speaker 1: community and are not getting it because the cops aren't

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00:29:29,840 --> 00:29:32,520
Speaker 1: an imminent fat anymore. At the moment, it does seem

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Speaker 1: the eviction blockade was successful in applying enough pressure to

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Speaker 1: open up options for the Kinneys to keep their home.

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Speaker 1: Holding down a few blocks of a neighborhood while raising

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Speaker 1: hundreds of thousands of dollars may not be a perfectly

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Speaker 1: replicable strategy, but it does show the type of things

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Speaker 1: that can happen when community comes together to stand up

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Speaker 1: against a perceived injustice. Here's Coy on the potential impact

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Speaker 1: of the Red House story in the future. And I

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Speaker 1: hope it happens all around the country, and I hope

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Speaker 1: people are inspired by it and that they go speaking

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Speaker 1: out evictions to do the ship with than to lift

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Speaker 1: up this work. Um, this isn't like the first ever

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Speaker 1: time a neighborhood has risen up to defend an eviction.

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Speaker 1: This would happen even as far back as the thirties.

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Speaker 1: Communities would come together to fight um, the police when

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Speaker 1: they came to drag people out of their homes. Right,

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Speaker 1: I think like we've all have I don't know, we've

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Speaker 1: probably all seen that pick of like it's from like

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Speaker 1: the thirties, Like range of reference where it's like neighborhood

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Speaker 1: men and they're all white, like on top of a

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Speaker 1: sheriff stopping them from evicting a widow, you know, like

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Speaker 1: a handful of people continue to occupy the Red House.

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Speaker 1: Negotiations have continued since December, but all parties have been

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Speaker 1: pretty tight looked about the status of the talks up

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Speaker 1: until now. Red Houses not marked the end of protests

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Speaker 1: in Portland's More than anything, it's galvanized a large amount

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Speaker 1: of mutual aid directed around evictions and houselessness. During the

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Speaker 1: same period, as Red House activists keeping multi week watch

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Speaker 1: over a houseless encampment at a local park that was

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Speaker 1: under threat of sweep by the city. As winner is

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Speaker 1: set in the Mayor's support to roll back eviction protections

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Speaker 1: as well as protections against camp suites. Facing freezing temperatures

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Speaker 1: and the mounting pandemic, activists are mobilized to get gear

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Speaker 1: and supplies, as well as helping with defense work to

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Speaker 1: prevent more evictions and displacement. Activists argue that sweeps and

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Speaker 1: evictions are unconscionable during a pandemic, and that money funding

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Speaker 1: the evictions could be used to make sure that people

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Speaker 1: are housed. Dmitria Hester speaks about the continuing mutual aid. No,

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Speaker 1: I am I. It hasn't surprised me because our community

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Speaker 1: know us the need. They know us the need, so

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Speaker 1: they started all this group so that that we can

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Speaker 1: help the need in our community. I mean, people are

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Speaker 1: still getting evicted, They're still not being able to pay

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Speaker 1: their bills, They're still not and food from our government.

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Speaker 1: So we have to depend on each other to give

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Speaker 1: us what we need, you know, to be successful, to

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Speaker 1: keep going on, because I don't see a future of

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Speaker 1: our government giving us or doing anything to help us.

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Speaker 1: So we still have to continue this fight. Plus we're

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Speaker 1: pushing it to the to the White House. I was

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Speaker 1: there when um when Biden one, we marched our march

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Speaker 1: with the Black Panthers to the White House, saying to

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Speaker 1: for eight tell the tell the world who we hate,

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Speaker 1: the Republicans, the Democrats, the whole damn bunch. Another ongoing

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Speaker 1: movie in that this game renewed interests in the summer protests,

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Speaker 1: the Patrick Kim and marches that happened twice a week.

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Speaker 1: Leeth Winston has been marching the streets of Portland's at

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Speaker 1: times alone, in the search for justice for her son

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Speaker 1: Patrick Kimmons. For years, Leith has pleaded for local officials

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Speaker 1: to reopen his case. Sator he was shot and killed

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Speaker 1: by Portland police in lateen. The calls were matt with

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Speaker 1: little action. That was until the George Floyd uprisings. These

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Speaker 1: protests gave rise to an immended version of the slogan

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Speaker 1: black Lives Matter, with many beginning to proclaim that all

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Speaker 1: black lives matter. While this phrase was created and part

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Speaker 1: to give more visibility to black LGBTQ people were experiencing

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Speaker 1: some of the worst harms in the community, it also

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Speaker 1: grew to buck at the idea that those worth honoring

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Speaker 1: or remembering need to somehow be perfect victims, black and

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Speaker 1: unarmed with no criminal background. When news of Kiman's case broke,

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Speaker 1: details were scammed he gotten into a confrontation with two men,

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Speaker 1: shooting and wounding both of them. Police showed up shortly thereafter,

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Speaker 1: and he was shot and killed. It was later revealed

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Speaker 1: by the autopsy that of the twelve bullets police fired

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Speaker 1: at twenty seven year old Kiman and I entered his body.

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Speaker 1: It also showed that some of those shots had gone

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Speaker 1: through his back. After a judge ruled out there was

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Speaker 1: no wrong doing by the police. The Barreau released footage

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Speaker 1: of the early morning standoff. Organizer Jedi Leave explains the

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Speaker 1: scene here basically, like there was like a minor like

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Speaker 1: argument or scuffle or whatever, and Patrick started running, and um,

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Speaker 1: he didn't know that he was running towards the police,

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Speaker 1: but he was running towards the police and then went

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Speaker 1: to turn into like in between some cars, and the

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Speaker 1: cops started shooting him and all the shots went into

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Speaker 1: his back. So, um, yeah, they shot him in the

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Speaker 1: back and killed him. And uh, the cops were not charged.

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Speaker 1: It was basically rule justifiable homicide and um it wasn't though,

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Speaker 1: because they shot him in his back. So during the trial,

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Speaker 1: the rookie cop who fired the fatal shots described himself

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Speaker 1: as doing what he was taught to neutralize the threat.

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Speaker 1: It was enough to vindicate him in the courts, but

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Speaker 1: not in eyes Slita. She's been leading regular marches throughout

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Speaker 1: the city since, sometimes with the crowd, other time it

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Speaker 1: was just alone with a megaphone to manny for the

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Speaker 1: case to be reopened. Once the Portland protests began, her

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Speaker 1: fight gained new light. Organizers like Jedi have helped grow

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Speaker 1: the fleet of protesters marching alongside Kim AND's mother. He

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Speaker 1: talks about his involvement in the marches here. She did

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Speaker 1: it for well over a year with virtually no help,

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Speaker 1: um except for one person named Jay and he still

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Speaker 1: comes to this very day like he's the only person

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Speaker 1: that actually stuck with her throughout this entire time. But

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Speaker 1: um so, she's basically just trying to spread awareness and

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Speaker 1: like talk to Ted Wheeler, it worked. An emotional face

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00:35:38,920 --> 00:35:41,360
Speaker 1: to face between her and the mayor was finally scheduled.

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Speaker 1: Ted Wheeler was super sad and was like, I can't

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Speaker 1: believe I haven't done more about this. I'm really really sorry.

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Speaker 1: He told her that she's like the strongest speaker, like

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Speaker 1: one of the strongest speakers she's he's ever seen, and

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Speaker 1: he was brought to tears. Snigger was literally crying in

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Speaker 1: the Mayor's office. Um so that was great. And what

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Speaker 1: she's trying to what basically, we're just continuing to put

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Speaker 1: the pressure on, uh, the police officers when we go

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Speaker 1: out and um really, we just want this the next

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Speaker 1: meeting to to come up because the next meeting they're

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Speaker 1: gonna sit down and actually review the tapes together. So

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Speaker 1: um that is what's being done right now, um and

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Speaker 1: just keeping our fingers crossed. That happened sooner, sooner than later.

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Speaker 1: Still the case has a mem reopened. Leatha continues to

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Speaker 1: march around the city demanding justice for our son, effectually

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Speaker 1: known as pat Pat. The marches have continued with increased

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Speaker 1: numbers through all the fall and into winter. During the autumn,

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Speaker 1: face with increased attacks from far right extremists who would

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Speaker 1: attack Leatha's marches with signs and flags declaring that they

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Speaker 1: backed the Blue. Organizers and activists began using the slogan

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Speaker 1: back the Black for their weekly protests. That continued hate

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Speaker 1: and aggression that these peaceful marches have seen reflected the

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Speaker 1: growing vitriol that was coming from the far right as

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Speaker 1: we moved into the election, and finally, the January violence

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Speaker 1: that rocked the nation. In Washington, d C. On January six,

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Speaker 1: thousands of Trump supporters rushed to Capitol Building and a

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Speaker 1: last ditch attempt to stop the certification of the presidential

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Speaker 1: election results. The violent attempt to take over forced Congress

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Speaker 1: to evacuate, left five dead, including two police officers, and

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Speaker 1: drew the ties between law enforcement, Republican Congress people, and

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Speaker 1: far right militants to the forefront of national awareness. In December,

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Speaker 1: a stop to Steal rally in Salem, Oregon had similarly

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Speaker 1: breached the state capital, though the group hadn't reached the

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Speaker 1: chambers of Legislature. CCTV footage later showed that the breach

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Speaker 1: in Salem began with the Republican Legislature opening the doors

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Speaker 1: to admit the mob. On the sixth January, a small

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Speaker 1: far right group assembled again and clash with left wing demonstrators.

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Speaker 1: The group again included both mainstream Republican politician and extremist figures,

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Speaker 1: including one of the white supremacists convicted in the nine

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Speaker 1: murder of Ethiopian grad student Mulla get Us. A raw

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Speaker 1: in Portland. Compared to the nation's capital, the Salem rally

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Speaker 1: was limited. No major breaches of the capital in Salem occurred.

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Speaker 1: By three pm, the crowded dispersed. Despite the shakeup, Biden

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Speaker 1: assumed office just over a week later. On his first

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Speaker 1: day in office, Biden signed executive order halting ice deportations

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Speaker 1: for a hundred days as the administration attempted to overhaul

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Speaker 1: many of Trump's deportation policies. That same day, protesters in

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Speaker 1: Portland gathered at the local ICE headquarters. They didn't want

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Speaker 1: to temporate into de deportations. They wanted a complete disbanding

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Speaker 1: of the nine eleven era agency, who split up scores

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Speaker 1: of families, held small children in cages, and acted in

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Speaker 1: strong concert with the FBI since its inception. This night

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Speaker 1: ended with sick suarrests and without the stating of tear gas.

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00:39:03,040 --> 00:39:05,960
Speaker 1: Days later, another it was a different story as Feds

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Speaker 1: and right gear matt protesters with cuffs, force and classet gas.

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Speaker 1: The headquarters had, however, become a fixture in the protests,

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Speaker 1: with federal agents regularly deploints c S gas against him.

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Speaker 1: But situated next the facility was a school k through

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Speaker 1: a public charter. Cottonwood School of Civics and Science School

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Speaker 1: regularly was engulfed in tear gas. Dr Juni per seminists

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Speaker 1: immediately sprung into action, collecting soil samples across the school

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Speaker 1: campus and Coldness playground to assess its impacts. While that

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Speaker 1: research continues, Cottonwood didn't wait for their answer. They wanted

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Speaker 1: an immediate into the use of tear gas by federal agents.

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Speaker 1: Now the agency hasn't issued any formal response, but It's

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Speaker 1: almost certain that activists will continue atturning to the building

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Speaker 1: and call for an end to ICE as weeks roll

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Speaker 1: along with four years of Biden and Harris at the Helm.

652
00:39:53,680 --> 00:39:56,840
Speaker 1: Their election was a welcome reprieve from Trump's heavy handed

653
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Speaker 1: brand of racist politics, but not an into the fire

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Speaker 1: against systems of oppression. The simultaneous re election of Mayor

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Speaker 1: Tch Wheeler was a mark of dread for many of

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Speaker 1: who have been on the ground. He eaked out a win,

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Speaker 1: earning more boats and on ballot challengers Sarah i annerone,

658
00:40:13,040 --> 00:40:16,040
Speaker 1: but less than her in total writings, many which are

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Speaker 1: presumed to have went to Don't Shoot Portland founder Torressea Raeford,

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Speaker 1: who community members launched a writing campaign for after the

661
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Speaker 1: longtime BLM leader lost her bid for Portland's top seat

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Speaker 1: in the primaries. The results revealed a divide even in

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Speaker 1: Portland politics. Despite the split, it also marked the most racially,

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Speaker 1: gender and sexually diverse council in the city's history. The

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Speaker 1: new council assumed office cs January. Negotiations began between the

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Speaker 1: city and police union that same month, and this time,

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Speaker 1: for the first time ever, the public got a glinse

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Speaker 1: behind the curtain after monster protests that put their Barrel

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Speaker 1: on headlines across the world. All eyes were on these

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Speaker 1: powerful van cards of the profession. In the negotiations, tensions

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Speaker 1: remained high as union heads railed against new measures of oversight, discipline,

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Speaker 1: and limits on overtime expenditures. While the Barrel had said

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Speaker 1: they want racial and social justice changes in the police force,

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Speaker 1: many of the proposed changes have been met with critique

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Speaker 1: and resistance. Their current contract with the city expired June

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00:41:15,080 --> 00:41:19,040
Speaker 1: this year. As negotiations continue, it remains to be seeing

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Speaker 1: what changes will come between the Barrel and the city.

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Speaker 1: The past year has been marked by a number of

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Speaker 1: police involved violence, despite their growing calls for justice. In Vancouver, Washington,

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Speaker 1: a bridge away from Portland, two young black men, Kevin

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00:41:32,440 --> 00:41:36,000
Speaker 1: Peterson Jr. And Genoa Davis, have been killed by officers

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Speaker 1: within just a couple of months of each other. And

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Speaker 1: the college town of Eugene, Oregon, Wi Sheen Shariff was

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Speaker 1: shot after police responded to an alleged domestic violence report.

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Speaker 1: Sharif did survive. Meanwhile, I missed the back drop of

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Speaker 1: the pandemic. The streets of Portland are seeing dirty year

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00:41:52,760 --> 00:41:56,200
Speaker 1: highs and gun violence. Economic downturn is leaving the city

688
00:41:56,239 --> 00:42:00,000
Speaker 1: on edge. White supremacists of all stripes have been emboldened.

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Speaker 1: All cries for justice for black lives have reached feverish

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Speaker 1: new highs. The international cameras are gone now. Protests continue,

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Speaker 1: but in marketly smaller numbers. That nine minute feuse of

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Speaker 1: George Floyd's murder had lit a fire under the country.

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Speaker 1: You know what surface was a renewed urgency to transform

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Speaker 1: a system that has devalued black lives, not as an exception,

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Speaker 1: but a fundamental tool and tradition of the society. As

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Speaker 1: the streets have quieted, the urgency for chain still remains

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Speaker 1: for those that have been a part of these uprisings.

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Speaker 1: As the resistance begins to take a new face, the

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Speaker 1: question remains, what's next. I don't think it's going to

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Speaker 1: I don't think people are just gonna get tired and

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Speaker 1: go away. This is like people have had enough of

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Speaker 1: this police brutality, and in the racism that you know

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00:42:48,920 --> 00:42:53,799
Speaker 1: influences police brutality. I don't see it going away. I

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00:42:53,800 --> 00:42:56,600
Speaker 1: mean I see it heaving and flowing, like you know,

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Speaker 1: just it's almost natural for any energy to do that.

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Speaker 1: So we go you know, we go up with big

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Speaker 1: turnouts and go down with low turnouts, are up with

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Speaker 1: really good morale, and then you know, down in the

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Speaker 1: dumps later. It's just so I think it's going to

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Speaker 1: keep following that some kind of evan flow of change.

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Speaker 1: But I don't think it's going to go away. I

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Speaker 1: don't see how would you go away when the police

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Speaker 1: are continuing to kill unarmed black people or continue their

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Speaker 1: continuing to do it. I think it's really telling that,

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Speaker 1: as far as I know, not one single Portland police

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00:43:32,880 --> 00:43:36,359
Speaker 1: after has been um disciplined for their actions. And they

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00:43:36,400 --> 00:43:40,920
Speaker 1: have done some extremely terrible things that should be disciplined,

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Speaker 1: things that go against their training, things that go against

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Speaker 1: their own policies and procedures, and these things are caught

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Speaker 1: on video, so there's no excuse at all for why

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Speaker 1: they have not been disciplined. People just like become the changes,

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Speaker 1: become the one that like the way just pushed out

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Speaker 1: into the big c of water, BIGFC and and that's

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Speaker 1: what it is. You know. I think, like I look

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00:44:13,120 --> 00:44:16,839
Speaker 1: at Ferguson, uh so that movement you know, kind of

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00:44:17,200 --> 00:44:22,440
Speaker 1: faded away or whatever. This just happened. I can't Yeah,

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Speaker 1: but yeah, and this kins election. They just elected one

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Speaker 1: of the activists from their Congress. So that's like the

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00:44:30,000 --> 00:44:33,120
Speaker 1: movement like says what that's like last change, and the

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Speaker 1: people there has been well radicalized to do so it's life.

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Speaker 1: Though the movement that's tied to the summer may stayed away.

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Speaker 1: It's like unless they're going to, you know, remove everybody

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Speaker 1: and all of our experiences and all of our renewed

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Speaker 1: perspectives on life, and you can't really like destroy movement

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Speaker 1: and all natural I think the it's interesting there there's

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Speaker 1: like two different The morale of the city as a

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00:45:03,560 --> 00:45:07,120
Speaker 1: whole is very like in Limbo, I feel like often times,

738
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Speaker 1: but because it's like ultimately people who are protesting are

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00:45:12,719 --> 00:45:17,000
Speaker 1: ultimately doing it for the right reasons, and we get

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Speaker 1: like little glimmers of like hope. But then like just

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Speaker 1: today I learned the three black people that were killed

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00:45:22,480 --> 00:45:25,759
Speaker 1: in the last week throughout the United States by police unarmed,

743
00:45:26,320 --> 00:45:29,000
Speaker 1: so and then you hear ship like that, and then

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00:45:29,040 --> 00:45:31,000
Speaker 1: it it just makes you wonder, like why are we

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00:45:31,040 --> 00:45:33,640
Speaker 1: even continuing to do this, Like why even keep fighting?

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00:45:33,680 --> 00:45:37,920
Speaker 1: This just keeps happening. But I think that um, right

747
00:45:37,960 --> 00:45:40,279
Speaker 1: now we live in this I feel like, right now

748
00:45:40,320 --> 00:45:43,640
Speaker 1: we live in this time of questions where we have

749
00:45:43,680 --> 00:45:47,680
Speaker 1: a lot of questions without answers, But there are years

750
00:45:47,680 --> 00:45:51,399
Speaker 1: that asked questions and there are years that answer them.

751
00:45:51,560 --> 00:45:53,520
Speaker 1: I don't think we're in a in a year right

752
00:45:53,560 --> 00:45:55,480
Speaker 1: now where we're gonna get a lot of answers, and

753
00:45:55,520 --> 00:45:57,760
Speaker 1: that's okay. I feel like we need to be okay

754
00:45:57,800 --> 00:46:02,319
Speaker 1: with like sitting in the questions and going through like

755
00:46:02,640 --> 00:46:05,960
Speaker 1: the mud and going through the puddles, so to speak,

756
00:46:06,040 --> 00:46:07,799
Speaker 1: in order to get to where we want to go.

757
00:46:07,840 --> 00:46:10,720
Speaker 1: It's gonna take time because the system has taken years

758
00:46:10,800 --> 00:46:14,560
Speaker 1: to UM to build into what it is right now,

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00:46:15,440 --> 00:46:17,799
Speaker 1: and so it's just gonna take time. So I think

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00:46:17,840 --> 00:46:20,600
Speaker 1: the morale of the city limbos because you have a

761
00:46:20,640 --> 00:46:25,640
Speaker 1: bunch of you know, the white neo liberals who just

762
00:46:25,719 --> 00:46:28,960
Speaker 1: want to go back to normal. But normal was killing us,

763
00:46:28,960 --> 00:46:30,600
Speaker 1: so we're not going to do that. And then you

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Speaker 1: have our side, which is like we're feeling we're getting

765
00:46:35,520 --> 00:46:39,640
Speaker 1: pulled in all kinds of directions, We're feeling inspiration, and

766
00:46:39,640 --> 00:46:42,920
Speaker 1: then we're feeling discouragement because we keep seeing the same

767
00:46:42,960 --> 00:46:47,719
Speaker 1: ship happen. But ultimately, UM mutual aid really is the

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Speaker 1: way of the future, and I think that these mutual

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00:46:51,040 --> 00:46:54,520
Speaker 1: aid groups and networks that were forming right now are

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00:46:54,960 --> 00:46:57,400
Speaker 1: really the genesis of what it's going to look like

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00:46:57,560 --> 00:47:01,360
Speaker 1: for humanity to live in a world without dependence on

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00:47:01,360 --> 00:47:04,560
Speaker 1: the state and without needing or feeling like we the

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00:47:04,600 --> 00:47:07,240
Speaker 1: police are going to keep us safe when they've proven

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00:47:07,360 --> 00:47:13,200
Speaker 1: so many times that we don't. UM. So I personally

775
00:47:13,239 --> 00:47:18,919
Speaker 1: am excited about the future because I'm witnessing like the yeah,

776
00:47:19,000 --> 00:47:22,000
Speaker 1: really just the genesis of what of the world that

777
00:47:22,040 --> 00:47:26,520
Speaker 1: I would like to live in. UM. But obviously, you know,

778
00:47:26,600 --> 00:47:29,960
Speaker 1: it's the whole two steps forward, one step back thing

779
00:47:30,000 --> 00:47:31,960
Speaker 1: that we that we have to do with as well.

780
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Speaker 1: So I'm looking forward to how things are going. I'm

781
00:47:36,480 --> 00:47:39,200
Speaker 1: just hoping that more people can really open their eyes

782
00:47:39,280 --> 00:47:44,080
Speaker 1: to UM how they're how being complicit to the system

783
00:47:44,239 --> 00:47:47,719
Speaker 1: is literally murdering people they look like me and Donovan,

784
00:47:48,400 --> 00:47:50,719
Speaker 1: and that we need to stop it. There's too many

785
00:47:50,760 --> 00:47:55,200
Speaker 1: people who are still sleeping UM. That's a big reason

786
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Speaker 1: why I think we were doing that thing at our

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00:47:57,640 --> 00:48:00,600
Speaker 1: CJ was to wake up this side of this the

788
00:48:00,680 --> 00:48:04,719
Speaker 1: river like march through the neighborhoods, wake people up, let

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Speaker 1: them know that we're here. There's a ton of us,

790
00:48:06,760 --> 00:48:09,759
Speaker 1: and that they need to be on our side because ultimately,

791
00:48:09,840 --> 00:48:12,000
Speaker 1: when when we are free, when black people are free,

792
00:48:12,000 --> 00:48:15,080
Speaker 1: everybody is going to be free, because black liberation is

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00:48:15,160 --> 00:48:18,480
Speaker 1: human liberation at the end of the day. So if

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00:48:18,560 --> 00:48:23,239
Speaker 1: we can really focus on uplifting our most marginalized and

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00:48:23,280 --> 00:48:26,960
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Speaker 1: are inspired enough to actually take action and be a

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00:48:32,880 --> 00:48:39,280
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