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Speaker 1: telling the story is from the people that we serve,

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Speaker 1: and absolutely like you know, like I what's made I

432
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Speaker 1: feel like my work and our work a capitalist that

433
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Speaker 1: I listened to you, I listen to harding to your

434
00:26:27,800 --> 00:26:32,160
Speaker 1: lived experiences because you guys understand the lack of resources

435
00:26:32,200 --> 00:26:35,000
Speaker 1: that are happening out there, and so it's not coming

436
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Speaker 1: into a space like thinking that we can come into pollutants,

437
00:26:38,240 --> 00:26:41,720
Speaker 1: but reverse that and basically ask the people who are

438
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Speaker 1: deeply affected by it and really do our due diligence

439
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Speaker 1: to completely amplify their voices. Yeah, excellent. I have one

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Speaker 1: last question that I heard a rumor and it may

441
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Speaker 1: be true or not, but I heard that and I

442
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Speaker 1: have to get you from you first, because I trust

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Speaker 1: your your source is unimpeachable. I heard that Melissa was

444
00:27:00,760 --> 00:27:03,919
Speaker 1: out here dancing. Is that true? Man? I mean in

445
00:27:04,000 --> 00:27:09,320
Speaker 1: about thirty minutes you'll see the lots on not everybody,

446
00:27:09,640 --> 00:27:12,720
Speaker 1: everyone people were serving and it's all love. That's all

447
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Speaker 1: you care to comment on that? Is there any video

448
00:27:15,920 --> 00:27:18,960
Speaker 1: photos on that? I'm pretty sure this man is really

449
00:27:19,520 --> 00:27:26,480
Speaker 1: also fast pieces? Well, thank you. I just had to

450
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Speaker 1: ask because quiet man has one of those. This is

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Speaker 1: Ceo Henderson from Weed in House and I thank you

452
00:27:32,119 --> 00:27:34,280
Speaker 1: all for listening and maybe we again meet in the

453
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Speaker 1: light of understanding what we're doing. We're about to start.

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Speaker 1: This is Theo Henderson from Whitie and Howe's. I'm here

455
00:28:44,480 --> 00:28:47,800
Speaker 1: in the hub of social justice and change. This is

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00:28:47,800 --> 00:28:51,200
Speaker 1: the Los Angeles Community Action Network. They have been instrumental

457
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Speaker 1: for a lot of victories that is unknown about for

458
00:28:54,440 --> 00:28:58,000
Speaker 1: human rights, for unhoused community. As you can see, uh,

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Speaker 1: we here are parent preparation of a feeding a distribution network.

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Speaker 1: So let's get the viewpoint and statement from General dogun

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Speaker 1: General Dogun thank you again? Question showing us oh fall

462
00:29:11,720 --> 00:29:13,760
Speaker 1: to the people. Oh yeah, for sure all the time. Man,

463
00:29:14,200 --> 00:29:18,120
Speaker 1: So I'm noticing behind us we have a urban farm.

464
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Speaker 1: What's what's this? What's this about? It's a hydro punic card.

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00:29:22,600 --> 00:29:24,720
Speaker 1: This is what it what it is, and so what

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Speaker 1: it is. It's a system basically where you don't have

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Speaker 1: to water. It waters itself, right. And so they got

468
00:29:32,680 --> 00:29:35,200
Speaker 1: these little beauty little balls. You don't know if you

469
00:29:35,200 --> 00:29:37,400
Speaker 1: can really see them, but the little balls right here,

470
00:29:37,440 --> 00:29:39,840
Speaker 1: see them, and it has seeds in them. It's a

471
00:29:39,840 --> 00:29:42,320
Speaker 1: little ball of just dirt, okay. And they got little

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00:29:42,320 --> 00:29:46,760
Speaker 1: holes in this this tall like tower system and the

473
00:29:46,920 --> 00:29:49,840
Speaker 1: like about maybe forty holes in each tower system. If

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Speaker 1: you stick one of these little balls that has the

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00:29:52,280 --> 00:29:55,840
Speaker 1: dirt and the seeds already in it, right, and and

476
00:29:55,960 --> 00:29:59,520
Speaker 1: you uh, and it waters with all boys itself. I

477
00:29:59,560 --> 00:30:02,200
Speaker 1: noticed this is growing out of this. And so yes,

478
00:30:02,280 --> 00:30:04,160
Speaker 1: this is a garden that you could just as long

479
00:30:04,160 --> 00:30:07,240
Speaker 1: as the water is on there and it grows overnight.

480
00:30:08,200 --> 00:30:10,200
Speaker 1: I mean, you put your stuff in there today and

481
00:30:10,240 --> 00:30:15,680
Speaker 1: you wake up tomorrow, you eating salvage. You need all

482
00:30:15,720 --> 00:30:17,840
Speaker 1: you need to come out here with your playing, your addressing.

483
00:30:18,600 --> 00:30:23,520
Speaker 1: It's had to fight with parking spool. We got some steaks,

484
00:30:23,560 --> 00:30:25,640
Speaker 1: you know, I mean, I'm there with you. So it's

485
00:30:25,720 --> 00:30:28,720
Speaker 1: like whose idea of what's doing this because I noticed

486
00:30:28,720 --> 00:30:31,640
Speaker 1: you guys really about a lot of types of forms

487
00:30:32,160 --> 00:30:36,080
Speaker 1: just justice things for example, food justice. People have missed

488
00:30:36,640 --> 00:30:39,320
Speaker 1: we're not all protests and we're not all about yelling this,

489
00:30:39,640 --> 00:30:42,800
Speaker 1: but we're talking about really economic development and different things

490
00:30:42,840 --> 00:30:45,880
Speaker 1: like this. So what what got this going? So, I

491
00:30:45,920 --> 00:30:47,560
Speaker 1: mean this is part of the fight. I mean, we

492
00:30:47,680 --> 00:30:49,920
Speaker 1: gotta just like we got to have our own soldiers,

493
00:30:49,920 --> 00:30:52,360
Speaker 1: our own military, we got to have our own guarden,

494
00:30:52,440 --> 00:30:54,520
Speaker 1: own food. We can't we can't depend on the interview

495
00:30:54,680 --> 00:30:58,360
Speaker 1: the feeders during the time of war. We're gonna be

496
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Speaker 1: starving mothers. Yeah, So with that said, we have our

497
00:31:05,920 --> 00:31:09,280
Speaker 1: own rooftop guarden as well. Look at that show. I'll

498
00:31:09,320 --> 00:31:10,920
Speaker 1: buy you up there. Man, you can probably talk to

499
00:31:10,960 --> 00:31:13,000
Speaker 1: my brother Ray right here. You know what I'm saying. Mean,

500
00:31:13,160 --> 00:31:16,600
Speaker 1: who's more, he's on the team foods. You know team.

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00:31:16,920 --> 00:31:18,840
Speaker 1: You know what I'm saying. But we call it a

502
00:31:18,920 --> 00:31:22,760
Speaker 1: wellness and justice, and so what it is is it's

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00:31:23,000 --> 00:31:26,320
Speaker 1: justice coming together with community wellness. We understand that skilled

504
00:31:26,360 --> 00:31:29,600
Speaker 1: Row historically it's a community has been greatly deprived. It's

505
00:31:29,600 --> 00:31:32,200
Speaker 1: a recovery community and a lot of people it's either

506
00:31:32,240 --> 00:31:34,560
Speaker 1: actively in their addiction or they just came out of

507
00:31:34,560 --> 00:31:37,880
Speaker 1: their addiction, right, and then it's an extremely low income,

508
00:31:38,000 --> 00:31:42,720
Speaker 1: poverished community that's totally polishing, and we don't have unfortunately,

509
00:31:42,720 --> 00:31:44,400
Speaker 1: we don't have a route. You know what I'm saying.

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00:31:45,360 --> 00:31:47,680
Speaker 1: We got stares in our community called the green apple,

511
00:31:47,960 --> 00:31:50,240
Speaker 1: but believe me, you won't find a green apple nowhere

512
00:31:50,280 --> 00:31:56,680
Speaker 1: in green stuff on it. But you know, there's the crisis.

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00:31:56,960 --> 00:31:59,400
Speaker 1: The prices is the highest prices you know in the

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Speaker 1: in the Nay. This is the ports community the nation.

515
00:32:02,200 --> 00:32:05,880
Speaker 1: And we downtown is being gentified and it used to

516
00:32:05,920 --> 00:32:07,640
Speaker 1: be the cheapest part of the city. Now it's the

517
00:32:07,640 --> 00:32:09,880
Speaker 1: most expensive part of the city. And heavily police do

518
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Speaker 1: I understand heavily too. You got more cops on Skill

519
00:32:12,880 --> 00:32:16,680
Speaker 1: Road than any other part of the nation right under

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00:32:16,720 --> 00:32:20,880
Speaker 1: the safe season this year the city was policeing's Skilled

521
00:32:20,920 --> 00:32:24,360
Speaker 1: Road at a cost of one hundred million dollars annually.

522
00:32:24,720 --> 00:32:27,920
Speaker 1: Right for ten years straight, they invested over one hundred

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00:32:27,960 --> 00:32:30,960
Speaker 1: million dollars in just policing about fifteen square blocks a

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00:32:31,040 --> 00:32:33,280
Speaker 1: skilled row right bout from Main Street to where we're

525
00:32:33,280 --> 00:32:38,000
Speaker 1: standing at now, braining the Gladys Street. And so after

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00:32:38,040 --> 00:32:40,560
Speaker 1: ten years of policing. Before they started, it was a

527
00:32:40,560 --> 00:32:42,640
Speaker 1: little less than about two hundred tenths on the street.

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00:32:42,920 --> 00:32:45,800
Speaker 1: Now it's five thousand plucks tents on the streets, right,

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Speaker 1: And so we told them you cannot police your way

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Speaker 1: out of homelessness. The only solution to homelessness is what

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00:32:54,200 --> 00:32:56,360
Speaker 1: It's so simple. But it's like it's we get so

532
00:32:56,400 --> 00:32:59,320
Speaker 1: many permitations of resistant on that. I mean, they spent

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00:32:59,400 --> 00:33:01,840
Speaker 1: more money on triple H because they really spent a

534
00:33:01,880 --> 00:33:04,800
Speaker 1: billion point five you know what I mean, just TD

535
00:33:05,000 --> 00:33:07,000
Speaker 1: just the police that they just that was a gift

536
00:33:07,040 --> 00:33:10,360
Speaker 1: that was given LAPD. Then on top of that, the

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00:33:10,400 --> 00:33:14,280
Speaker 1: city was given LAPD eighty seven percent of the homeless budget,

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00:33:14,480 --> 00:33:16,320
Speaker 1: which was another one hundred million dollars. So how the

539
00:33:16,320 --> 00:33:18,720
Speaker 1: hell you gonna end homelessness when you're giving the cops

540
00:33:18,760 --> 00:33:21,719
Speaker 1: eighty seven percent to police to police to the homeless.

541
00:33:21,800 --> 00:33:23,840
Speaker 1: Out right ridiculous. And then on top of that, there

542
00:33:23,880 --> 00:33:26,560
Speaker 1: was getting another fifty four percent of the general fund

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00:33:27,040 --> 00:33:29,960
Speaker 1: overall budget, right, so three of the top budgets of

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00:33:30,000 --> 00:33:31,800
Speaker 1: the city was going in there. And did that don't

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00:33:31,800 --> 00:33:34,880
Speaker 1: include all the other little fake programs that they got,

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00:33:35,000 --> 00:33:37,959
Speaker 1: you know what I'm saying, mean, like CSP community what

547
00:33:38,000 --> 00:33:42,840
Speaker 1: they call the Community's of Safety Partnership like that Community

548
00:33:42,880 --> 00:33:46,160
Speaker 1: Safety Partnership Program ITSUFF like that. What kind of partnership

549
00:33:46,200 --> 00:33:48,840
Speaker 1: we have with the police, the police state, the people

550
00:33:48,840 --> 00:33:51,520
Speaker 1: in the community see as terrorists. You know what I'm saying.

551
00:33:51,600 --> 00:33:54,960
Speaker 1: We don't see you as a serving and protecting our communities,

552
00:33:54,960 --> 00:33:56,960
Speaker 1: and we see you as every time you turn the corner,

553
00:33:57,040 --> 00:33:59,920
Speaker 1: little kids is running, Adost's talking about you. We see

554
00:33:59,920 --> 00:34:03,840
Speaker 1: you as terrorists because everybody is getting rasked, somebody's getting

555
00:34:03,840 --> 00:34:07,560
Speaker 1: a ticket, somebody's going to jail, and unfortunately somebody gets shot.

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00:34:07,800 --> 00:34:10,000
Speaker 1: You know, so, we don't need you in our community.

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00:34:10,120 --> 00:34:12,200
Speaker 1: Don't even we won't even call you, we won't even

558
00:34:12,239 --> 00:34:14,439
Speaker 1: want We hate you. They don't even come over here.

559
00:34:14,520 --> 00:34:16,680
Speaker 1: Right you're taking all the money you know here it

560
00:34:16,760 --> 00:34:18,720
Speaker 1: is You got people that's laying on the street dying

561
00:34:18,800 --> 00:34:21,520
Speaker 1: three a day right in the city of Los Angeles.

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00:34:21,560 --> 00:34:24,239
Speaker 1: And the mayor's idea is to give LAPD your raise.

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00:34:24,320 --> 00:34:25,520
Speaker 1: You know what I'm saying mean, this is how we

564
00:34:25,560 --> 00:34:28,920
Speaker 1: got in this situation by LAPD blood sucking. You know

565
00:34:28,960 --> 00:34:32,440
Speaker 1: what I'm saying means the community and blood sucking the

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00:34:32,480 --> 00:34:34,480
Speaker 1: whole city. Basically you know what I'm saying, mean for

567
00:34:34,560 --> 00:34:37,120
Speaker 1: resources that they don't need. I have a question too,

568
00:34:37,160 --> 00:34:40,840
Speaker 1: because people And then on top of that, before Bradon

569
00:34:40,920 --> 00:34:44,480
Speaker 1: left he said crime was down fifty four percent. I

570
00:34:44,520 --> 00:34:46,480
Speaker 1: mean not pioty for it, but down back to where

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00:34:46,480 --> 00:34:48,799
Speaker 1: it was in the nineteen fifties. That's what I want

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00:34:48,840 --> 00:34:51,040
Speaker 1: to say. So when crime is down, you know what

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00:34:51,040 --> 00:34:53,319
Speaker 1: I'm saying, especially to the lowest where it is back

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00:34:53,360 --> 00:34:54,880
Speaker 1: in the fifties, that ain't the time to give the

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00:34:55,040 --> 00:34:58,000
Speaker 1: lped raisers. That's the time to break it down. You know,

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00:35:00,000 --> 00:35:03,120
Speaker 1: I've just start defunding them and putting money in other

577
00:35:03,160 --> 00:35:05,160
Speaker 1: places because we don't need you no more. We don't

578
00:35:05,200 --> 00:35:07,200
Speaker 1: need that no more. So why you still put money

579
00:35:07,200 --> 00:35:09,560
Speaker 1: into it's not working? Right? My question is this too?

580
00:35:09,680 --> 00:35:11,879
Speaker 1: Is that okay? But the people always when they say

581
00:35:11,880 --> 00:35:14,359
Speaker 1: to defund the police, people don't understand that they still

582
00:35:14,480 --> 00:35:17,040
Speaker 1: have three point one billion dollars, so it's not like

583
00:35:17,080 --> 00:35:19,560
Speaker 1: that they're going to be starving. So second of all,

584
00:35:19,719 --> 00:35:22,040
Speaker 1: is like what we're asking is people always thinking when

585
00:35:22,080 --> 00:35:25,320
Speaker 1: we say defund the police, that crime like rapes and

586
00:35:25,400 --> 00:35:27,919
Speaker 1: murders and all of these things are going to be

587
00:35:28,400 --> 00:35:31,120
Speaker 1: not taken care of But the problem is what my

588
00:35:31,200 --> 00:35:33,840
Speaker 1: research has shown is that the majority of the policing

589
00:35:34,040 --> 00:35:36,560
Speaker 1: is not done about rapes and murders. It's done up

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00:35:36,600 --> 00:35:40,239
Speaker 1: with about quality of life crimes targeting poor people. And

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00:35:40,440 --> 00:35:45,080
Speaker 1: so that's so that's a ridiculous argument. And I'm gonna

592
00:35:45,080 --> 00:35:49,200
Speaker 1: tell you, like this man, it's the crime crime in

593
00:35:49,239 --> 00:35:52,360
Speaker 1: the city, especially like you're on Skill Road, right, we

594
00:35:52,480 --> 00:35:54,759
Speaker 1: have the more majority of the police. They got what

595
00:35:54,760 --> 00:35:58,720
Speaker 1: they call compstats, Right, they show where part one crimes

596
00:35:58,719 --> 00:36:02,480
Speaker 1: are most happy. Part one ts or like you say, rape, robbery, murder,

597
00:36:02,680 --> 00:36:05,120
Speaker 1: stuff like that, right, those are part one crimes, right,

598
00:36:05,400 --> 00:36:08,799
Speaker 1: And it shows that it's more pop one crimes in

599
00:36:08,880 --> 00:36:12,440
Speaker 1: south central Compton and wats like that than it is

600
00:36:12,480 --> 00:36:16,840
Speaker 1: on Skill Road. Right. Skill Road has the lowest crime

601
00:36:16,960 --> 00:36:19,640
Speaker 1: rate in the city, and yet we have the highest

602
00:36:19,680 --> 00:36:23,600
Speaker 1: patrol rate in the city. Right. Why it's because you're

603
00:36:23,600 --> 00:36:26,279
Speaker 1: trying to show off for the business people. You want

604
00:36:26,280 --> 00:36:28,880
Speaker 1: to clear areas. Those are legentified police. You want to

605
00:36:28,920 --> 00:36:32,040
Speaker 1: move poor people out of the area. That ain't about crime,

606
00:36:32,080 --> 00:36:34,160
Speaker 1: and it ain't about because it ain't no damn crime.

607
00:36:34,520 --> 00:36:37,080
Speaker 1: Like Breton said, you know, crime has been what it

608
00:36:37,280 --> 00:36:39,239
Speaker 1: was back in the fifties. There is nothing, So what

609
00:36:39,280 --> 00:36:40,840
Speaker 1: do you do? You try to make it seem like

610
00:36:40,880 --> 00:36:43,560
Speaker 1: something's going on. That's why they create all these these

611
00:36:43,560 --> 00:36:46,640
Speaker 1: fake programs that stop the police spying, collitions and take

612
00:36:46,640 --> 00:36:49,400
Speaker 1: it up. You're like prayer pro and laser, you know,

613
00:36:49,400 --> 00:36:51,440
Speaker 1: all this kind of stuff. You know, we're dismailing all

614
00:36:51,440 --> 00:36:54,000
Speaker 1: those programs because we're showing it don't work. If the

615
00:36:54,000 --> 00:36:57,080
Speaker 1: Americans say, yeah, we'll take two hundred and fifty million

616
00:36:57,080 --> 00:36:59,400
Speaker 1: dollars from the police department, no plot, we'll cut their budget.

617
00:36:59,480 --> 00:37:01,160
Speaker 1: It would take he wanted to fifty million dollars. You

618
00:37:01,239 --> 00:37:03,719
Speaker 1: can take the whole pillion. Get it on call, come up,

619
00:37:03,760 --> 00:37:05,719
Speaker 1: give it in, kick it in. He got three point

620
00:37:05,800 --> 00:37:08,719
Speaker 1: five to do what it ain't. No crime going on. Car.

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00:37:08,840 --> 00:37:10,560
Speaker 1: You need to kick some of that in and so

622
00:37:10,920 --> 00:37:13,080
Speaker 1: and when you kick that in, then we'll start seeing

623
00:37:13,080 --> 00:37:15,040
Speaker 1: a difference in our community. Like you say, you give

624
00:37:15,040 --> 00:37:17,960
Speaker 1: a person you gotta seen gang members, got seen addicts,

625
00:37:18,080 --> 00:37:19,680
Speaker 1: you give him an opportunity. You go out there and

626
00:37:19,680 --> 00:37:21,520
Speaker 1: you get that man a job. That man get a job,

627
00:37:21,680 --> 00:37:23,120
Speaker 1: you're gonna send me. Once he get a job, he

628
00:37:23,239 --> 00:37:25,160
Speaker 1: gonna go get housing, he's gonna start paying rent. He

629
00:37:25,280 --> 00:37:27,080
Speaker 1: gonna buy a car. He gonna get a car note

630
00:37:27,160 --> 00:37:28,759
Speaker 1: and once he started getting a card up and the

631
00:37:28,880 --> 00:37:30,719
Speaker 1: job and start that, he ain't gonna mess that up.

632
00:37:30,760 --> 00:37:32,200
Speaker 1: He gonna want to go to work because he want

633
00:37:32,239 --> 00:37:34,600
Speaker 1: to keep his car. He got his nice car shined up,

634
00:37:34,880 --> 00:37:37,319
Speaker 1: got his girlfriend riding around him. He want to keep

635
00:37:37,360 --> 00:37:39,040
Speaker 1: that going on, you know what I'm saying. And so

636
00:37:39,080 --> 00:37:41,160
Speaker 1: he ain't gonna go out there and mess up. Give

637
00:37:41,200 --> 00:37:43,799
Speaker 1: a person opportunities and you will see your change. You

638
00:37:43,840 --> 00:37:45,480
Speaker 1: know it's gonna you put the money in the police

639
00:37:45,520 --> 00:37:48,040
Speaker 1: and take it out of our communities. You create fighters,

640
00:37:48,080 --> 00:37:50,920
Speaker 1: You create you know, a scavenger where we like crabbed

641
00:37:50,960 --> 00:37:53,520
Speaker 1: on each other and stuff like that, right because it

642
00:37:53,600 --> 00:37:56,280
Speaker 1: shows that were with us enough of fruits and vegetables

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Speaker 1: for everybody, and everybody is heavy. You know what I'm saying.

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Speaker 1: It's it's a private, lovely community and that's what we wanted.

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Speaker 1: And only way we can do that it's a defund

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Speaker 1: The pigs shout to start today, bring our money back.

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Speaker 1: We want to rebot. Well, there you have it. This

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Speaker 1: is Steo Henderson from Witty and House and I thank

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Speaker 1: you all for listening, and may we again meet in

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Speaker 1: the light of understanding un housed news WoT your California

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Speaker 1: is moving forward to create a shelter for the unhoused.

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Speaker 1: The shelter will house only one hundred and eighty seven

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Speaker 1: people out of thousands. City officials are looking for funds

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Speaker 1: to operate the shelter. The city budget is seventy two

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Speaker 1: point three million dollars. Once the shelter is open, their

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Speaker 1: primary goal of primalizing and enforcing the anti en house

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Speaker 1: ordinances will be back in the text and other news

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Speaker 1: what six family shelter fails? Expection officials estimated it would

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Speaker 1: open into nineteen. The shelter will only house fifty families

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Speaker 1: and is called the Ayah Fire Alarm Issues Secure access

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Speaker 1: was excited. However, tipsters informed Washington City Paper as ongoing

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Speaker 1: construction is on the medical clinic, Department of Human Services

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Speaker 1: will terminate the contract once the shelter will house only

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Speaker 1: fifty unhoused people. Other unhoused families will be put on

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Speaker 1: the street. A more tragic news and unhoused man was

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Speaker 1: brutally beaten to death by How's fifteen year old boy

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Speaker 1: and a seventeen year old house girl. Here's how it happened.

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Speaker 1: The two teens from New Jersey brutally beat sixty three

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Speaker 1: year old Bobby J. Hill Jr. He died from severe

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Speaker 1: head trauma with multiple injuries to his head. Detectives found

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Speaker 1: out who he was by retrieving a video evidence from

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Speaker 1: one of the teen's cell phones and surveillance tapes watching

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Speaker 1: the team's ter where mister Hill slept at Exeitu Hamilton

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Speaker 1: homeless Shelter executive dies at fifty nine. Lynda Kimball, executive

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Speaker 1: director of Serve City, died on June twenty eighth after

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Speaker 1: long term buildings. And lastly, HUD rule will dismantle protections

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Speaker 1: for transgender houseless people. HUD, under doctor Ben Carson's leadership,

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Speaker 1: has proposed of allowing shelters to deny access to single

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Speaker 1: sex shelters of gender identities to accommodate religious beliefs of

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Speaker 1: shelters providers. And this is on house needs. This is

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Speaker 1: THEO Henderson from Median House. I'm currently here at Glendale

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Speaker 1: City Hall and there's a protest going on about cancelation

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Speaker 1: of rent and eviction. Here in the studios is a

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Speaker 1: member of this team and I noticed he was speaking

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Speaker 1: in Armenia and could you tell us what was you

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Speaker 1: chanting with the Armenians statement, and you can say it

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Speaker 1: in armony if you don't mile, Absolutely, so we're we're

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Speaker 1: saying sonntv arts you have in chen kuzum vartias koom

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Speaker 1: bartica arcum in chen kuzum, yeah, penkuzum hima. These are

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Speaker 1: translations of food, not rent and what do we want

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Speaker 1: trend cancelation? When do you want it now? And for us,

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Speaker 1: it's very important to bring in Armenian and Spanish into

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Speaker 1: the space because Glendale has very large Armenian speaking Spanish

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Speaker 1: speaking communities. This is always a work in progress, but

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Speaker 1: as someone you know who is Armenian, my organizing in

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Speaker 1: Glendale has everything to do with understanding of anti gentrification work,

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Speaker 1: has everything to do with preservation of long standing immigrant

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Speaker 1: communities as part of the larger fight to prevent displacement. Right,

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Speaker 1: So yeah, it's a that's that's a very important part

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Speaker 1: of what we do. Yes, I also noticed it because

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Speaker 1: they also have a tendency to put us in boxes

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Speaker 1: or places. I know that they were my experience you

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Speaker 1: in Glinda has always been right for police harassment or

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Speaker 1: a black, black unhoused people. So I noticed that that's

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Speaker 1: so it's kind of like kind of eerie to see

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Speaker 1: like me able to be out here during their day,

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Speaker 1: but that I noticed that they have like Latino and

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Speaker 1: like you say, Armenian people here do you can you

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Speaker 1: do you know that the racial tensions that were going

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Speaker 1: on there or about the police, police brutality, idea of

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Speaker 1: ideologies that's going out here. You mean Glendelle, I mean

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Speaker 1: Glendell has a very quote unquote rich history of uh

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Speaker 1: of racism or worth racism specifically and di black racism,

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Speaker 1: but also by extension racism gains any minority uh or

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Speaker 1: whatever is perceived as minority because we are the majority.

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Speaker 1: You know that, right? Well, yeah, of course right, and yeah,

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Speaker 1: I mean the brief taster of it. This was like

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Speaker 1: the West Coast headquarters of the Klan back in the

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Speaker 1: beginning twentieth century. I believe to this day there's like

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Speaker 1: there's like weird they take this off way Steeve, but

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Speaker 1: like weird like quasi swastika like signs on the zahle

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Speaker 1: or something. I think this I had recently taken off.

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Speaker 1: And this was a sundowntown until the sixties, and it's

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Speaker 1: still a sundown town to the black On House right,

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Speaker 1: no kidding, yeah, And I think you know what, when

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Speaker 1: we are doing work in housing justice, and folks said

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Speaker 1: it better than I could earlier, we have to look

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Speaker 1: at this as intersectional fights, whether it's racial justice, housing justice,

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00:43:51,760 --> 00:43:58,000
Speaker 1: fights against antagonism and homophobia, work that is done to

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Speaker 1: move towards living a society that is supportive and fair

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Speaker 1: for everyone. And especially in Glendale, it is kind of weird.

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Speaker 1: I mean, the thing with Glendale is that it borders LA.

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Speaker 1: Like there's a big border right with LA. But when

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Speaker 1: you enter the city hall sometimes you may think you're

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Speaker 1: in a rural town in terms of just the attitude,

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Speaker 1: not anything else, but the attitude of the city council

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Speaker 1: and the city Hall towards its residents, its constituents, and

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Speaker 1: the way that they think they can just do whatever

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Speaker 1: and not and get away with it. And we are

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Speaker 1: intental changing that. Well said, this is THEO Henderson from

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Speaker 1: Willian Howse. I thank you for your time and I

742
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Speaker 1: hope we all meet again in a lot of understanding.

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Speaker 1: All right, this is CEO Henderson from Weedy and House.

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Speaker 1: We are here live now here at Glendale, at Glendale

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Speaker 1: City Hall. I'm here speaking to one of the activists.

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Speaker 1: We're talking about canceling Rich Rich eviction man, and I

747
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Speaker 1: wanted to hear her thoughts and what's going on this. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: we are the Glendale Tenants Union, We're a tenants center

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Speaker 1: and tenants led movement. I've been doing work mostly around

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Speaker 1: you know, answering any questions that people have regarding their

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Speaker 1: rights and also making sure that no one's being harassed

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Speaker 1: by landlords and ends being unlawfully evicted, especially during this

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Speaker 1: time with COVID nineteen. We know that our communities who

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Speaker 1: are most affected disproportionately affected by COVID nineteen are also

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Speaker 1: affected by hosing rights issues, are unhoused on documenteds. And

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Speaker 1: so this work for us is intimately bound up with

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Speaker 1: obviously all Black lives matter, obviously making sure we are

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Speaker 1: in trans siblings are housed safe. And yeah, that's that's

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Speaker 1: just a little brief with probably what we do. What

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Speaker 1: is the city hall at Glendale's city has responsible Glendale

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Speaker 1: City Hall, the council has largely ignored us. They've ignored

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Speaker 1: Tenants make up almost seventy percent of the residents in Glendale,

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Speaker 1: and you know, we were a large majority. We're also

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Speaker 1: a super diverse, heterogeneous majority Yeah, most meetings, we tenants'

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Speaker 1: concerns don't even wind up on the agenda, So we

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Speaker 1: do a lot of pushback and try and converse with

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Speaker 1: and make sure that at least there are talking points.

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Speaker 1: Of course, like our focus isn't electoral politics. That's only

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Speaker 1: going to go so far. We don't really believe any

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Speaker 1: of these people are going to enact the changes we want.

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Speaker 1: That's what grassroots movement work, organizing, local organizing work is for.

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Speaker 1: But I think slowly there's been a little bit of

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Speaker 1: a push or a change. I think hopefully city council

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00:47:59,320 --> 00:48:04,360
Speaker 1: is hearing us and listening to us, and if they're not,

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00:48:05,280 --> 00:48:07,400
Speaker 1: we're going to be there for our neighbors no matter what.

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Speaker 1: They're going to be there making sure nobody is getting evicted,

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Speaker 1: and doing what we can to stand in solidarity. I

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Speaker 1: was going to ask because I noticed you guys were

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00:48:17,480 --> 00:48:19,520
Speaker 1: telling them, what's the way it's for people to come

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00:48:19,600 --> 00:48:22,440
Speaker 1: involved and speak out against this? Is there anything that

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00:48:22,480 --> 00:48:27,080
Speaker 1: anybody can do here? In Glenda's Getting involved with us

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00:48:27,560 --> 00:48:33,120
Speaker 1: is a huge step. We are a volunteer led and

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Speaker 1: run an organization. There's only about ten of us, four members,

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Speaker 1: and then of course probably I would say between fifty

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Speaker 1: and one hundred on who has been signing on and

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Speaker 1: more and more so people. I mean, that's really what

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00:48:48,120 --> 00:48:52,440
Speaker 1: we need numbers right now. So we're focusing on outreach

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Speaker 1: and trying to grow to at least five hundred, maybe

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Speaker 1: hopefully in a year. But for those who want to

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Speaker 1: get involved, just basics calling city council, putting pressure on

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Speaker 1: them on Tuesdays, not spending you know, the majority of

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Speaker 1: the time doing that because again it only goes so far.

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00:49:10,719 --> 00:49:13,200
Speaker 1: And then of course just doing work with us outreach,

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Speaker 1: talking to our neighbors, making sure people know, making sure

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Speaker 1: they know we exist, you know, especially Spanish and Armenian

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00:49:20,680 --> 00:49:25,640
Speaker 1: speakers getting involved, because this isn't a movement until we

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00:49:25,760 --> 00:49:29,319
Speaker 1: have really everyone who who feels it can be a

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Speaker 1: part of us. Folks who don't speak English, folks who

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Speaker 1: might be undocumented, the elderly disabled folks. So well, thank

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Speaker 1: you very much. You're giving us a lot of food

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Speaker 1: for thought, and I thank you all for listening as well,

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00:49:43,840 --> 00:49:45,799
Speaker 1: and maybe we again meet in a lot of understanding.

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Speaker 1: This episode highlights and honors the other first responders. It

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Speaker 1: also gives attention to the ongoing protests that are still

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Speaker 1: going on the summer about equality, housing equality, eviction bands,

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Speaker 1: and cancelation the rent our ad Further, we also will

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Speaker 1: need subsidies for writ as well as food for the

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Speaker 1: unhoused community as well as people that are housing secure,

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Speaker 1: in order to stabilize the economy and to give a

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Speaker 1: sense of stability in the family's lives that are housing insecure.

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Speaker 1: It is my hope that we understand that we have

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Speaker 1: more power than we realize, and unfortunately the criminal of

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Speaker 1: the city councils and police officers have flithered their way

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Speaker 1: into the hearts of very few people that are very

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Speaker 1: disdainful of poverty and poor people. We must take this

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Speaker 1: back and remind them in no uncertain terms that they

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00:50:57,800 --> 00:51:01,839
Speaker 1: are responsible for us, they answer to us, and then

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Speaker 1: we will not accept any type of untoward behavior toward

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Speaker 1: poor people, on house people, or anybody that is a

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Speaker 1: part of the system. Shiera Villanova has been crying along

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Speaker 1: with shared Joe Clard about how there is an anti

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Speaker 1: police sentiment. If you consider for the moment that there

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Speaker 1: has been an ongoing war on poor people by the

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Speaker 1: Los Angeles Police Department and other police departments across the country,

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Speaker 1: the question is you have to have some part to

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Speaker 1: play in it? What part did the police play in it?

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Speaker 1: And is never highlighted, It's never acknowledged. And the only

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Speaker 1: thing that we've done is to using deflective conversational points

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Speaker 1: about black on black violence, which I would like to

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Speaker 1: take the moment here because some African Americans and Black

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Speaker 1: Americans love to point that out. So let us be

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Speaker 1: cleared that is an anti black statement. The difference between

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Speaker 1: black on black crime and police brutality is most often

834
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Speaker 1: or not, when black on black crime is committed, they're

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Speaker 1: usually apprehended and they meet the full weight of the

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Speaker 1: justice system. That is not what police brutality does when

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Speaker 1: they commit crimes. Are the criminals and the thugs that

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Speaker 1: perpetuates criminal acts against unarmed people or people existing in

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Speaker 1: a situation. Even if they are criminals, they still are

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Speaker 1: accorded civil rights. The thing that happens to them, they

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Speaker 1: get a paid leave or suspension after wordst If the

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00:52:28,680 --> 00:52:32,439
Speaker 1: situation is the gregorious, they will relieve them of their job,

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Speaker 1: but there's no criminal charges. And then once they are

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Speaker 1: they usually dismissed by fawning or defining. People that believe

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Speaker 1: in police brutality against people of color, or people that

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Speaker 1: believe that we should only discuss black on black crime

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Speaker 1: before we look at to the issue of police brutality.

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Speaker 1: There is no such thing as black on black crime.

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Speaker 1: If there is, there's such thing as white on white crime,

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Speaker 1: Asian on Asian crime, Latino on Latino crime. It list

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Speaker 1: goes on. The usually is that statement is reductive, deliberately

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Speaker 1: and its messages to paralyze people of color, like Black Americans,

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Speaker 1: from standing up and having the temerity of speaking out

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Speaker 1: against the injustices. They have. One more thing, Black on

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Speaker 1: black crime is not true, But I also think it's

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Speaker 1: deliberately omitted by people that's taught that they disrespect for

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Speaker 1: black men and women that have spoken about about the

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Speaker 1: violence in their neighborhoods for years. The gang members that

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Speaker 1: call truces, the other community members that have worked in

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Speaker 1: those very communities that they keep bringing up, like my

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Speaker 1: hometown Chicago, as the result of black on black crime.

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Speaker 1: We need to stop that narrative, and we need to

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Speaker 1: call the attention to even Black Americans that state that

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Speaker 1: there is no such thing of that. We need to

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Speaker 1: get rid of the anti black sentiment even in our

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Speaker 1: own communities in order for us to be able to

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Speaker 1: move forward and talk over the other issues that the

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Speaker 1: city uses as a pivot point to escape blame, such

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Speaker 1: as cancelation, rent eviction, bands, subsidies, and infiltration of funds

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Speaker 1: and infusion of funds in those communities that distress, communities

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Speaker 1: that the colonizers or gentrifiers have infiltrated, impoorant neighborhoods with

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Speaker 1: these trendy restaurants. If we have people that are concerned

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Speaker 1: about this black on black crime or the crime level,

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Speaker 1: give these under house or these black individuals positions of

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Speaker 1: authorities in their communities. Give them things to hope for,

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Speaker 1: things to work for, and things to repair some of

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Speaker 1: the damages in our community. Substance usage, clinics as harm

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Speaker 1: reduction sites, trauma inform care. These are things that we've

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Speaker 1: been talking about for years, but somehow it misses the

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Speaker 1: conversational point when we talk about black on black crime.

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Speaker 1: The other first responders understand this. That's why they're out

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Speaker 1: there in the ditches, and this is what one of

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Speaker 1: the things if you want to join that understand be

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Speaker 1: educated on the whole situation before you take a part

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Speaker 1: of it. In Cherry Pickett to further your dismissive aims.

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Speaker 1: There's a CEO Henderson from Weedie and House. I thank

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Speaker 1: you all for listing. Maybe all again meet in the

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Speaker 1: light of understanding.