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Speaker 1: It was the age of wisdom. It was the age

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Speaker 1: It was the window of despair. This was a paraphrase

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Speaker 1: statement of Charles Dickens's Tale of Two Cities. This episode

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Speaker 1: showcased these sentiments exactly on one end. In our country,

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Speaker 1: people followed Trump, the city council, and the police. They

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Speaker 1: and other people of color, using justifications such as he

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Speaker 1: But once charge is brought in on people destroying criminals

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Speaker 1: the past revered such as murder, torture, rape, and count

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Speaker 1: with other deeds, that the statues is ximplified. This is

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Speaker 1: the apex of white privilege and supremacy. Our society is

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Speaker 1: on the precipice of change. The need to uplist Black

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Speaker 1: Lives Matter as well as unhoused Black lives Matter, is

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Speaker 1: an example of this. So America and the world is

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Speaker 1: giving notice to corrupt systems and sending the message that

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Speaker 1: I thank you all for listening, and maybe we again

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Speaker 1: meet in the light of understand Chloe very understanding, right,

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Speaker 1: hear me? Hi, everybody, my name is Kadria Kirby. I

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Speaker 1: go by Lady Bliss. I'm not performing. I'm just going

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Speaker 1: radical actions of rage personally taking over me. I'm new

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Speaker 1: I'm new to being able to physically watch as our

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Speaker 1: and accomplishing change in a peaceful manner, as we did

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Speaker 1: right here in this very part. What I am used

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Speaker 1: to is the reason why we are all gathered here today.

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Speaker 1: I know a police state. I just came from one.

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Speaker 1: I grew up in one. I'm from a city where

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Speaker 1: this would never happen. I'm from a city where it

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Speaker 1: I'm used to roaming around all night long, somber or not,

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Speaker 1: and running around like scattered mice. Why because it's illegal

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Speaker 1: and eventually I'll go to jail for a week. Get out,

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Speaker 1: do it over and over and over again. I'm used

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Speaker 1: having a tent. There's no protests, there's no rally, there's

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Speaker 1: not in a social media group in my home state

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Speaker 1: same police state that I just ran away from. And

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Speaker 1: that's why I'm here today. Thank you God, Bless George

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Speaker 1: Lord led Her alive, ted her live, Let her alive,

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Speaker 1: tell her a live, Set her with thighs better. Renie.

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Speaker 1: How on the rides that the guy everyone quiet von

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Speaker 1: die Rogers, Let's take a prize. Fifteen coppers sixty pop

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Speaker 1: in like fifty choppers. City wannas. They feels the CNC.

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Speaker 1: Daddy told them protect his loved ones. Fifteen coppers sixty

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Speaker 1: We sat on tractors. Were activists with us. That are alive,

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Speaker 1: No lover? Who God is? New school nazis, judas copies nigga.

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Speaker 1: Who you stopping? Oh you cop in? Oh you got dumb?

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Speaker 1: Who poo you gun? Miss Ooh what happened poo? Who

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Speaker 1: many your pool? Got man in it? Zulu Cammy do

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Speaker 1: God is good, He's always good. Can't get the room.

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Speaker 1: I got things I want to do trapping the food,

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Speaker 1: Who's let anarchy rule? Yam confused man kills man, man

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Speaker 1: baby boomers? They don't goup Black and Brown united through this.

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Speaker 1: Hallelujah soon as too soon as his shue wan jediate live,

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Speaker 1: jedivate thie Yeah, jediate live better, thive better re lies

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Speaker 1: deti renes, Helena rise, lady a guy, everyone quiet, pap

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Speaker 1: On dow Roger. Let's take a ride trip. Yes, God,

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Speaker 1: everyone was talking. We must defund the police six hundred

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Speaker 1: the military. We must defund Hollywood. In this narrative of

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Speaker 1: me to get here, Dad, give me there, Give me here.

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Speaker 1: you to hear them. Brother Theodora Henderson, come on up,

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Speaker 1: good afternoon everyone. I have to be honest. I can't

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Speaker 1: and how should we express ourselves in this perilous time.

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Speaker 1: My name as you know is still Henderson and I

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Speaker 1: What people first think of me is that I am

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Speaker 1: That's one thing we have in common. I don't give

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Speaker 1: if police pulls you over, you are a criminal. If

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Speaker 1: die out there just for the cool. Yeah, you know,

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Speaker 1: so out here is great. You know the people in

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Speaker 1: this park, even the homeless best camp I've been to. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: you know, everyone tries to pick up after themselves. You know,

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Speaker 1: we find trash, we try to pick it up, things

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Speaker 1: like that. Of course, you have your bad apples everywhere

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Speaker 1: you go, bad apples, irony, you know. But I know

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Speaker 1: this one's really good. We all try to help each other.

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00:27:49,920 --> 00:27:53,800
Speaker 1: We stay together and there's no stealing, you know. We

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Speaker 1: drugs to a minimum. We also weed together in family

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Speaker 1: that's say together, but no, it's really good. Well, who

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Speaker 1: are you guys with? I'm with I'm Theo Henderson with

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Speaker 1: Weedy and howse I deal with a podcast to deal

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Speaker 1: with people that are living on the streets. I too,

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00:28:09,960 --> 00:28:13,320
Speaker 1: am in the house and I have taken created a

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Speaker 1: podcast and hosted to talk about different people's stories that

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Speaker 1: lives on the streets. Absolutely, what we completely appreciate you.

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Speaker 1: Maybe the time you can meet me and my wife. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: see please, I would love to. Honey, I want to

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Speaker 1: be on the podcast real quick. Say hi to people. No,

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00:28:28,359 --> 00:28:31,280
Speaker 1: not right now, enough time. I told him if you'd

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Speaker 1: like to talk some time, we can give them the

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00:28:32,720 --> 00:28:35,880
Speaker 1: time to talk indeed, but yeah, I know that'd be great.

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Speaker 1: We'd love to get our story out there. And now

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00:28:37,359 --> 00:28:40,280
Speaker 1: what we really appreciate is people getting awareness out trying

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Speaker 1: to actually help us. And you know, you know there

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00:28:43,560 --> 00:28:47,000
Speaker 1: are more open homes in this country than there are

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Speaker 1: homeless people. Absolutely, and there's no reason for us to

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Speaker 1: be out on the street. I totally agree. Thank you again.

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Speaker 1: What is your name again? Well they called me Batman,

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00:28:54,960 --> 00:28:58,200
Speaker 1: but my name is Zach. All right, Zach Batman. Thank you.

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Speaker 1: This is Theo Henderson from Weedy and how I thank

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Speaker 1: you for showing us this and we will definitely come

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Speaker 1: back and give you guys another featured interview. Absolutely, yes,

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Speaker 1: we'll do. This is Leo Henderson. I thank you all

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Speaker 1: for listening and may we again meet in the light

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Speaker 1: of understanding. This is Leil Henderson from Weedian Howes. I'm

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Speaker 1: here and before a protest that I'm talking to another

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Speaker 1: out in the house, neighbor, and I want to get

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Speaker 1: his intake on what you feel about the protests out here.

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Speaker 1: What's your thoughts on my thoughts out on this protest?

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Speaker 1: The Rainbow Cord listen should be equally involved in this

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Speaker 1: because not only does black lives matter, all lives matter,

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Speaker 1: All colors are in the rainbow. So it should be

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Speaker 1: a combination of the Rainbow Coalition with special emphasis on

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00:30:07,920 --> 00:30:10,760
Speaker 1: the blacks because the blacks. They have moved the blacks

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Speaker 1: to the bottom of the totem pole when it comes

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Speaker 1: to job, housing and social living and all of that,

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Speaker 1: you know. So that's my intake on the protest that,

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Speaker 1: like I said, the Rainbow Coalition should be equally involved

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Speaker 1: in this because all lives matter, All colors, like I said,

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Speaker 1: is in the rainbow, and the rainbow civilizers, you the Caucasian,

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Speaker 1: the Oriental, the Hispanics, and all the above, all races

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Speaker 1: should be you mean, Asians, Orientals, the rug But here

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00:30:43,720 --> 00:30:46,960
Speaker 1: is the thing right now, they're focusing on the brutality.

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Speaker 1: Did you hear what happened with George Floyd? No, I

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00:30:49,280 --> 00:30:53,000
Speaker 1: didn't know. I'm later on now, having had the privilege

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Speaker 1: of listening at the TV or being around like communications,

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Speaker 1: like what news is being reported I here on through

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Speaker 1: the streets, through the grapevine, and what did you hear?

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00:31:04,640 --> 00:31:08,720
Speaker 1: I heard? Like honestly, I see signs say the police

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Speaker 1: killer cops, they killed somebody named Rihanna. I don't know

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Speaker 1: any tailor Rihanna Taylor. And I feel like the blacks

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Speaker 1: that's out here on that's being homeless, they are targeted

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00:31:22,160 --> 00:31:26,720
Speaker 1: because like they feel like the homeless doesn't matter, and

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Speaker 1: the homeless populations comprised mostly Blacks, So they trying to

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Speaker 1: orchestrate the homeless Blacks. They trying to They got us

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Speaker 1: out though, and they say the coronavirus. Well, they giving

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Speaker 1: all the low bottom jobs to the Hispanics, so they

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Speaker 1: creating a war, a race war among Hispanics and Blacks.

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Speaker 1: That's what the police is doing. They promoting this, and

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Speaker 1: that's my take on it. You know, well, thank you.

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Speaker 1: How long have you been out here? Well, I've been

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Speaker 1: on the street since two thousand and seventeen. I lost

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Speaker 1: my wife in two thousand and seventeen and I was

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Speaker 1: lying on then I went to jail, lost my job,

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Speaker 1: my apartment, my car, my everything because of a lot

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Speaker 1: and the police. They know I didn't pull no knife

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Speaker 1: up on theod. I just got off of work. What

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Speaker 1: I look like here of the knife. I'm coming home

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Speaker 1: for work and I got my corfe cup and my

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Speaker 1: cockys in my head. And my neighbor which was a

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Speaker 1: black man, lied him in his girlfriend. I pulled a

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Speaker 1: knife on him. I ain't pulling no knife on nobody. Man,

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Speaker 1: But I'm just getting off of work. I don't I

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Speaker 1: don't work with a knife. I'm a custodian. I had

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Speaker 1: my coffer cup and cockys in man here, and they

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Speaker 1: give me four years and a strike just to keep

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Speaker 1: me behind the eight ball. That's what the police is doing.

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Speaker 1: They try to take the blacks. They gonna chump up

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Speaker 1: charges on them and then like give your strike and

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Speaker 1: every little thing you do they gonna come. And like

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Speaker 1: last week they locked me up for nothing. I said,

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Speaker 1: what do they say? Why they why did they lock

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Speaker 1: you up? Well, they say I had a want, but

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Speaker 1: that one that they picked me up for. I was

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Speaker 1: supposed to go to the court until the thirty year

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Speaker 1: for this month. What was the warren for? I mean

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Speaker 1: public drunk and I wasn't drunk and I had just

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Speaker 1: come out the liquor store had the bottle, and I

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Speaker 1: got the bottle shutting like I'm sitting down here like this,

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Speaker 1: right here, the bottle setting right there. I got to

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Speaker 1: argue with somebody in the marijuana shot because they took

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Speaker 1: my friend's we shot, and I went to talk to

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Speaker 1: them people about it. And the next I gotta know

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Speaker 1: what they called the cheff and I don't walk across

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Speaker 1: the street. I'm gone. I ain't dead nothing. I ain't

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Speaker 1: dead nothing. And I go over there and they come over.

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Speaker 1: I got the bottle right there, just like I ain't

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Speaker 1: never been sitting on the curve and I'm home. They

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Speaker 1: they come over there and locked me up, talking about

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Speaker 1: some public drunk and I hit the bottle. Ain't never

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Speaker 1: been over Well, I'm sorry to hear that. So I

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Speaker 1: didn't get your name. My name is three. Name is

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Speaker 1: John Eltwood black Man. Oh, mister black Man. Thank you

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Speaker 1: very much for your time. And you're telling me what

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Speaker 1: your perspective is. Is there anything? Is there anything or

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Speaker 1: any way that people could help you in your situation?

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Speaker 1: But know what I'm saying, I can say like, well,

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00:34:01,080 --> 00:34:02,960
Speaker 1: I'm not out, you see upset down. I'm not breaking

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Speaker 1: no law I don't need the police harass I mean

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00:34:05,040 --> 00:34:06,920
Speaker 1: because I feel like I got a target on my

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Speaker 1: back and every chance they get they're gonna kiss me. Actulated.

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Speaker 1: They want to come lock me up. Yeah, Trump us

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Speaker 1: some charges and I just need something. Just like Whitney Houston.

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00:34:16,320 --> 00:34:19,359
Speaker 1: She did that movie Bodyguard, right, I know what that means.

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00:34:19,400 --> 00:34:21,600
Speaker 1: She had to have a bodyguard, but they ended up

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00:34:21,640 --> 00:34:24,399
Speaker 1: kidding her anyway, she didn't dry. The folks drunk came

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00:34:24,520 --> 00:34:27,040
Speaker 1: up and killed her. Well, thank you, mister blackman. This

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Speaker 1: is Steel Henderson from Wadi at the House. I thank

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

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Speaker 1: a lot of other's talents. This is Steel Henderson from

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Speaker 1: your to house. I have got here a life for

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Speaker 1: life a hunger strike. This is a dramatic example of

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Speaker 1: standing up for justice. And I wanted to actually what

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00:35:09,160 --> 00:35:12,840
Speaker 1: motivated you to do a hunger strike? Many people probably

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Speaker 1: won't believe these words as I say them, because I

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00:35:15,760 --> 00:35:19,719
Speaker 1: didn't believe them myself when I experienced it. But I

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00:35:19,840 --> 00:35:23,920
Speaker 1: received a message from God. Okay, and this prompted you

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Speaker 1: to do this. What do you hope to accomplish? How

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Speaker 1: long have you been on a hunger strike? This is

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Speaker 1: my third day on my hunger strike and my intentions

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Speaker 1: for this hunger strike. With everyone that I meet in

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Speaker 1: the streets here, this has spread the message that I

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Speaker 1: want an audience with the mayor because you don't take

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00:35:41,280 --> 00:35:44,879
Speaker 1: a powerful message to the masses, because what's right, it's

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00:35:44,960 --> 00:35:48,279
Speaker 1: never popular. And if I want to be met with

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Speaker 1: adversity in the streets, then I will just tell my

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Speaker 1: message to everyone. But no, this message is for one person.

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Speaker 1: And if people want me to eat, if people care

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Speaker 1: all about my life, please send a message to the

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Speaker 1: mayor to talk to Christian Steele. Okay, thank you very much.

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Speaker 1: Hopefully people will prompt the mister Carcetti to do something

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Speaker 1: about it. Just before you go, sir, one last thing,

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Speaker 1: despite my mystery behind my own message, it represents all

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Speaker 1: of us. This message represents all of us. I'm here

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Speaker 1: for the freedom of all of us. There you have it.

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Speaker 1: This is THEO Henderson from Weedy and Howse. I thank

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Speaker 1: you all for listening, and we have an interesting message

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Speaker 1: that was giving us on a hunger strike. Let us

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Speaker 1: mill about and see what else we have here. This

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Speaker 1: is CEO Henderson from Weed. I'm into studios with a

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Speaker 1: gentleman that's running for Congress. His name is David Kim,

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00:37:05,600 --> 00:37:08,759
Speaker 1: and he has a platform that deals with the in

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Speaker 1: house crisis that's going on. Let's introduce Davis. Hi. Nice,

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Speaker 1: thanks for having me, Leo. My name is David. I'm

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Speaker 1: ready for Congress here in California's thirty fourth congressional district,

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Speaker 1: which covers Downtown La Koreatown, Eagle Rock, Highland Park, Lincoln Heights, Westlake,

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Speaker 1: and surrounding neighborhoods. Excellent. My question is that who are

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Speaker 1: you running against? I am running against the current incumbent,

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Speaker 1: Jimmy Gomez. Yes, he's a self alleged progressive, but not

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Speaker 1: not really progressive at all. What got you started in

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Speaker 1: wanting to run for Congress? So ten months ago I

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Speaker 1: had no idea I'd be running for congress. I was

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Speaker 1: actually helping Kenneth Mahea run for Congress. Yes, two years

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00:37:50,239 --> 00:37:53,520
Speaker 1: ago I was. I remember getting a text from him

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Speaker 1: reading about his platform and realizing, holy shit, like this

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Speaker 1: is the platform to run on and to win, and

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Speaker 1: so I ended up helping him him. Unfortunately, he didn't

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Speaker 1: win the election, but as a Green Party candidate, he

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00:38:04,960 --> 00:38:08,040
Speaker 1: got less than I mean, so there's less than one

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Speaker 1: percent registered as Green in our district, but he managed

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Speaker 1: to win a total twenty eight percent of the total

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Speaker 1: vote for the general elections, So that means a third

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Speaker 1: of Democrats didn't even vote for their own candidate because

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Speaker 1: they don't think he's progressive enough and he hasn't been

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Speaker 1: really doing anything for the district. So yeah, so you're

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Speaker 1: with the Green Party. I am not with the Green Party.

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Speaker 1: So I was actually trying to get Kenneth to run again,

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Speaker 1: but he was too tired from running because he was

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Speaker 1: so verked out. So then I was like, okay, fine,

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Speaker 1: then you don't have to run with the Democratic Party,

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Speaker 1: just run Green Party. But he still wouldn't because he

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Speaker 1: was so tired, and so then I was like, you

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Speaker 1: know what, I'm going to throw my hat into the race.

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Speaker 1: And I think for us to like for me, I'm

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Speaker 1: not really like because I think the whole Democrat Party

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Speaker 1: is corrupt corporate anyway. But I think right now, just

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Speaker 1: being realistic, it's a numbers game for us to really

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Speaker 1: have a chance to win the progresses in this district.

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Speaker 1: We sort of need to win in Rome players as

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Speaker 1: they do, and then once we are able to take

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Speaker 1: that to our advantage and win. Then yeah, then we

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00:39:06,840 --> 00:39:09,360
Speaker 1: can definitely put Los Angeles on the map, because it

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Speaker 1: doesn't make sense that we've been neglected for so long

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Speaker 1: federally on the national level. You know, I was thinking

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Speaker 1: too when I've never heard of mister Gomaz, but I

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Speaker 1: had heard of Kenneth Mehir and I heard about it.

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Speaker 1: And there is like a seismic shift going on in

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Speaker 1: the Democratic Party from the old guard from the new

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Speaker 1: guard who's saying some of the things and not working,

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Speaker 1: which is one of the reasons why I think Bernie

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Speaker 1: Sanders was much more palatable to people and people like

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Speaker 1: Andrew Yang because they were looking for something different, that's

639
00:39:39,400 --> 00:39:43,120
Speaker 1: something that's going to work, instead of the established system

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00:39:43,160 --> 00:39:46,879
Speaker 1: that is already out there. So I wanted to touch

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00:39:46,920 --> 00:39:49,719
Speaker 1: into on some issues because which tell us what your

642
00:39:49,800 --> 00:39:53,320
Speaker 1: platform is and then we can get examine those questions

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Speaker 1: and issues. Yeah, no, for sure. Well, the main reasons

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Speaker 1: that got me to run, I mean, before that is

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Speaker 1: helping Cannon's campaign, And the reason why I helped out

646
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Speaker 1: Cannon's campaign was it just doesn't make sense where we

647
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Speaker 1: have so like masses of people having two to three

648
00:40:08,440 --> 00:40:11,160
Speaker 1: jobs just to make ends meet. Masses of people unhoused,

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Speaker 1: and then now COVID nineteen, everything's accelerated it where now

650
00:40:15,440 --> 00:40:17,920
Speaker 1: we have massive people with no jobs to make ends meet,

651
00:40:17,920 --> 00:40:20,080
Speaker 1: and now the city's just opening up to brush everything

652
00:40:20,160 --> 00:40:22,560
Speaker 1: under the carpet. I'm feel like nothing happened, and so

653
00:40:22,680 --> 00:40:24,839
Speaker 1: we're about to have see a bunch of evictions happen.

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Speaker 1: And so I think kind of long story short, like

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Speaker 1: I feel like if the people, if we don't step

656
00:40:30,200 --> 00:40:32,560
Speaker 1: up and stand up and run for office, then this

657
00:40:32,719 --> 00:40:35,160
Speaker 1: is just gonna get worse. Our forty year wage stagnation

658
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Speaker 1: is going to be fifty or sixty or seven years.

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Speaker 1: And so that's why I feel like you kind of

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Speaker 1: nailed it right on, Like instead of lip service anymore,

661
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Speaker 1: where we're continue where we're corp where we're bailing out corporations,

662
00:40:46,160 --> 00:40:48,839
Speaker 1: we really really really need to bail out the people

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Speaker 1: right now. And so that's where the old guard and

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Speaker 1: new guard is changing right now, where like our campaign,

665
00:40:53,640 --> 00:40:56,480
Speaker 1: we're refusing to accept any corporate pack money, any non

666
00:40:56,560 --> 00:40:59,319
Speaker 1: corporate pack money, because we feel like it should really

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00:40:59,360 --> 00:41:01,520
Speaker 1: be directly for the people. Because when you have a

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00:41:01,600 --> 00:41:05,560
Speaker 1: current congressman who says, hey, everybody should have single healthcare,

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Speaker 1: but then he's taking the biggest donations from big farm

670
00:41:09,280 --> 00:41:12,960
Speaker 1: when he says, hey, public college should be free for everybody,

671
00:41:13,000 --> 00:41:15,920
Speaker 1: but he takes the biggest donations from student deck collectors.

672
00:41:15,960 --> 00:41:17,759
Speaker 1: It's like, come on, did your mom and dad tell

673
00:41:17,800 --> 00:41:20,000
Speaker 1: you like to walk the walk and not just talk

674
00:41:20,080 --> 00:41:23,160
Speaker 1: the talk? Because your actions aren't speaking louder than your

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00:41:23,200 --> 00:41:26,320
Speaker 1: words right now. And so case some point we just

676
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Speaker 1: before we started our interview, there was a gentleman over

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00:41:29,080 --> 00:41:32,960
Speaker 1: there who was railing against the younger generation, and I

678
00:41:33,080 --> 00:41:37,160
Speaker 1: had to remind him gently that, you know, his elders

679
00:41:37,480 --> 00:41:40,239
Speaker 1: did not approve of everything that he did. And it's

680
00:41:40,280 --> 00:41:42,600
Speaker 1: also you can't see the world from their eyes, and

681
00:41:42,680 --> 00:41:45,600
Speaker 1: they can't see the world from your eyes. They realize

682
00:41:45,719 --> 00:41:47,759
Speaker 1: that there's some things that are broken that the older

683
00:41:47,840 --> 00:41:52,440
Speaker 1: generation may have didn't take care of, or just basically

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00:41:52,600 --> 00:41:55,919
Speaker 1: by indifference or by a change of opinion. It's okay

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00:41:56,040 --> 00:41:59,120
Speaker 1: with keeping the status quote. The younger generation, during their

686
00:41:59,160 --> 00:42:03,680
Speaker 1: own language and there own ingenuity and innovativeness, are trying

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00:42:03,800 --> 00:42:06,799
Speaker 1: to do things and bring change. So with that said,

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00:42:07,320 --> 00:42:09,920
Speaker 1: there's a lot of people in Los Angeles, California, and

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00:42:10,000 --> 00:42:13,560
Speaker 1: downtown and the areas that you mentioned, there's a strong route.

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Speaker 1: There's a pernicious weed that is sprouted up with It's

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00:42:17,200 --> 00:42:20,759
Speaker 1: called nimbiism. They have a very hostile idea of where

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00:42:20,840 --> 00:42:24,400
Speaker 1: unhoused people should be, how where unhoused people should not be,

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Speaker 1: and their viewpoint of an unhoused crisis is so out

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Speaker 1: of touch, and it's been so out of touch for

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Speaker 1: some years. How do you plan on addressing that and

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00:42:33,280 --> 00:42:36,440
Speaker 1: what do you plan on doing to make the unhoused

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Speaker 1: community's voice heard. Yeah, I mean in regards to the

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00:42:40,400 --> 00:42:43,640
Speaker 1: nimbi's to first let you know clearly where I am.

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00:42:43,719 --> 00:42:47,799
Speaker 1: I'm a Fimbiist. So beyond yimbi I think ymbi's are great,

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Speaker 1: but I think we need to go a little further

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00:42:49,840 --> 00:42:52,279
Speaker 1: in the sense of with Los Angeles we have less

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00:42:52,320 --> 00:42:55,160
Speaker 1: than ten thousand public housing units, which is so miniscule

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Speaker 1: compared to other cities and counties all over the country.

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Speaker 1: And that's because in the nineteen fifties there was actually

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Speaker 1: a movement to stop public houses from happening, and I

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00:43:04,040 --> 00:43:05,560
Speaker 1: think I forgot what it was called. It was some

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00:43:05,800 --> 00:43:08,160
Speaker 1: it was called like the anti socialist or whatever group,

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Speaker 1: But then they succeeded, and now we have and that's

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Speaker 1: actually made our housing crisis even worse, where we have

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00:43:14,840 --> 00:43:18,360
Speaker 1: some gentrification continuing to happen, but yet our communities and

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00:43:18,400 --> 00:43:21,520
Speaker 1: people continue to get displaced or evicted and have just

712
00:43:22,080 --> 00:43:24,640
Speaker 1: our parks and our freets to really call home now.

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Speaker 1: And so I think there needs to be really a

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Speaker 1: push where we are ending all developer money donations, and

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00:43:30,680 --> 00:43:32,680
Speaker 1: that obviously has to come on a betteral level with

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Speaker 1: ending Citizens versus United. But before that even happens, our

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00:43:36,200 --> 00:43:40,040
Speaker 1: current congressman, although he advocates for ending Citizens versus United,

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Speaker 1: why can't he just take an initiative to stop taking

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Speaker 1: real estate developer money as well. And that's what I

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00:43:45,600 --> 00:43:48,280
Speaker 1: think Los Angeles right now we have the biggest problem

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00:43:48,440 --> 00:43:51,760
Speaker 1: is nobody. We need to We need somebody to shine

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00:43:51,800 --> 00:43:56,400
Speaker 1: the spotlight and the flashlight on Los Angeles corrupt politics

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Speaker 1: because like you know, justin John Lukim who paid five

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Speaker 1: hundred that dollars to the LA city official the other day,

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Speaker 1: he's also the same donor for my opponent as well.

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Speaker 1: So you see LA being so corrupt in its developer

727
00:44:08,200 --> 00:44:10,880
Speaker 1: money cash politics that this needs to expose. So one

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Speaker 1: of my goals after getting elected into office is to

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00:44:14,200 --> 00:44:18,000
Speaker 1: expose this completely and have Los Angeles be investigated by

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Speaker 1: the federal government with the money that's being taken right now.

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Speaker 1: But then secondly, I think, so we need to end

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Speaker 1: corruption at at where it starts, and that starts with

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Speaker 1: like everywhere here. Like my opponent, his wife is the

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Speaker 1: chief of operations for mayor of Garciti himself. So it's

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00:44:33,480 --> 00:44:35,799
Speaker 1: like when you see that kind of not to say

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00:44:35,840 --> 00:44:38,960
Speaker 1: that that inherently is bad, but if you're a federal

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Speaker 1: congressman and your wife is the chief of operations for

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Speaker 1: the mayor of Los Angeles, then there should be some

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00:44:43,840 --> 00:44:47,560
Speaker 1: better coordination between the housing funds that are delivered, like

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Speaker 1: with the community block development grant. They granted up to

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Speaker 1: ten billion dollars in the Cares Act, But where do

742
00:44:54,680 --> 00:44:56,839
Speaker 1: we see the money, how is that being funneled? Are

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00:44:56,880 --> 00:44:59,759
Speaker 1: the cities and counties really working together with that? Has

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00:44:59,800 --> 00:45:02,279
Speaker 1: our has our congressman even had a discussion with that

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00:45:02,400 --> 00:45:04,799
Speaker 1: with our mayor about that. So I think in terms

746
00:45:04,840 --> 00:45:06,919
Speaker 1: of that, like on the federal, state and local level,

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00:45:07,000 --> 00:45:09,200
Speaker 1: everything is just shit, and so that needs to change.

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Speaker 1: That's the first thing. But now number two, how do

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00:45:11,640 --> 00:45:14,279
Speaker 1: we do with the solutions? And so our campaign we've

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Speaker 1: completely fully embraced the Homes Guarantee, which was started by

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Speaker 1: the People's Action, which was also sort of like offshoot

752
00:45:22,760 --> 00:45:25,279
Speaker 1: of the Bernie movement back in twenty sixteen. But the

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00:45:25,360 --> 00:45:28,960
Speaker 1: Homes Guarantee is all about reinvesting into public housing. There's

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00:45:28,960 --> 00:45:31,640
Speaker 1: about seventy billion dollars worth of improvements that need to

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00:45:31,680 --> 00:45:34,200
Speaker 1: be made to current public housing, and most of the

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00:45:34,239 --> 00:45:36,560
Speaker 1: people in public housing are people of color, and it's

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00:45:36,680 --> 00:45:41,000
Speaker 1: completely racist for them not to fix and make improvements

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00:45:41,040 --> 00:45:43,120
Speaker 1: to the current housing. That's the first thing. And then

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00:45:43,200 --> 00:45:44,959
Speaker 1: number two, we need to go ahead and build twelve

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00:45:45,000 --> 00:45:47,920
Speaker 1: million social housing units because that's the number of households

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Speaker 1: that are in poverty right now and that are homeless

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00:45:51,000 --> 00:45:53,760
Speaker 1: across the nation. And so it's building that minimum twelve million,

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Speaker 1: and then of that twelve million, setting aside for in

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Speaker 1: terms of permanent supportive house with wrap around services for

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Speaker 1: those who need it in whatever areas that they need,

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Speaker 1: and being able to also cap so for these social

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00:46:08,040 --> 00:46:10,680
Speaker 1: housing units. It sort of mirrors the models in Europe

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Speaker 1: where we would be able to cap the income of

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Speaker 1: different qualifying residents where they don't have to pay more

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Speaker 1: than a third of their income. Because currently in the

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Speaker 1: nation we have forty plus million renting households. Half of

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Speaker 1: them pay more than a third of their income, and

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Speaker 1: at least a fourth of them pay more than half

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Speaker 1: of their income. And so when you think about that,

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00:46:32,040 --> 00:46:36,000
Speaker 1: rent is rent is really something that really ties down

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Speaker 1: the people. It's increasing in our district. For example, the

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00:46:40,200 --> 00:46:42,839
Speaker 1: average rent for one bedroom apartment is two thousand dollars

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00:46:42,880 --> 00:46:45,680
Speaker 1: a month, Yet the median income for a family of

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00:46:45,760 --> 00:46:48,000
Speaker 1: for is thirty six thousand. So you wonder how in

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00:46:48,080 --> 00:46:50,520
Speaker 1: the world is anybody able to live like that? Yet

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00:46:50,560 --> 00:46:53,320
Speaker 1: our elected officials continue to get re elected saying that

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00:46:53,360 --> 00:46:56,200
Speaker 1: they're helping the people and they're doing all of this.

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Speaker 1: But kind of what the process is right now at

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Speaker 1: THEO is they're going to DC, they're legislating in a

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00:47:01,719 --> 00:47:04,120
Speaker 1: room behind closed doors, and then they come out and

786
00:47:04,160 --> 00:47:06,319
Speaker 1: they're like, hey, guys, we got you crumbs. Aren't you happy?

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00:47:06,719 --> 00:47:08,480
Speaker 1: When it should actually be the other way around, where

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00:47:08,480 --> 00:47:10,359
Speaker 1: they're talking with THEO, where they're talking with me, where

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00:47:10,360 --> 00:47:12,360
Speaker 1: they're talking with Carlos and they're like, hey, guys, what

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00:47:12,440 --> 00:47:14,760
Speaker 1: do you think are our issues right now? What relief

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00:47:14,840 --> 00:47:16,640
Speaker 1: do you want to see? And then taking that and

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00:47:16,760 --> 00:47:19,719
Speaker 1: then going to DC and then legislating, but it's the

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00:47:19,840 --> 00:47:22,160
Speaker 1: other way around. And I think what the problem is

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00:47:22,239 --> 00:47:24,000
Speaker 1: right now, I think going back to the old guard

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Speaker 1: new guard that you had pointed out is in regards

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Speaker 1: to I think the older I don't know, the establishment Democrats,

797
00:47:31,640 --> 00:47:34,480
Speaker 1: they don't really think that corporate donations are a big deal.

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Speaker 1: But actually, when you look back at the course of history,

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Speaker 1: with the death of the pension in nineteen seventy eight,

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00:47:40,320 --> 00:47:42,360
Speaker 1: when the four toh one K was created, that was

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00:47:42,400 --> 00:47:45,360
Speaker 1: the result of big companies lobbying Congress to pass on

802
00:47:45,520 --> 00:47:48,040
Speaker 1: the risk of retirement to the people instead because they

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00:47:48,040 --> 00:47:50,359
Speaker 1: didn't want to pay for that shit. Now we see

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00:47:50,360 --> 00:47:52,400
Speaker 1: the same thing with everything else, and so where are

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00:47:52,440 --> 00:47:54,400
Speaker 1: we going to draw the line to stop this? But

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00:47:54,640 --> 00:47:58,000
Speaker 1: our colected officials continue to bail out corporations, and so

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00:47:58,120 --> 00:47:59,880
Speaker 1: I think it's really a time to go ahead and

808
00:48:00,040 --> 00:48:02,319
Speaker 1: say no, enough is enough. And so we have down

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00:48:02,400 --> 00:48:06,480
Speaker 1: Ballet Progresses all across the country running at different congressional racis.

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Speaker 1: If you go on Twitter and just type in the

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Speaker 1: hashtag down ballet progresses, and so a lot of us

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00:48:12,000 --> 00:48:14,600
Speaker 1: we're working on different issues that are important for our region.

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00:48:14,719 --> 00:48:18,880
Speaker 1: For US Los Angeles, it's obviously housing, and so with that,

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Speaker 1: we need a national Bill of tenants, right, so we

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00:48:21,920 --> 00:48:25,000
Speaker 1: need rent control, we need a right to counsel for everyone,

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00:48:25,400 --> 00:48:27,799
Speaker 1: and we need to go ahead and expand this at

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Speaker 1: a faster pace. And I mean it's not to say

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00:48:30,320 --> 00:48:33,760
Speaker 1: that like Yimbi's they're doing a great job of removing

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00:48:33,840 --> 00:48:37,560
Speaker 1: exclusionary zoning policies and allowing for multi dwelling units and

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Speaker 1: all of that. That's great, but I think you need

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Speaker 1: to go further. And that's where the Pinji is a shot.

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Speaker 1: I think that's an excellent point because I actually want

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Speaker 1: to go even further too, is with the idea of

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Speaker 1: that needs to be overhauled. I was talking before we

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00:48:50,600 --> 00:48:55,160
Speaker 1: got here about the project room key and unfortunately the

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Speaker 1: city has allowed former shelters to have these old repressive

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Speaker 1: ideas and triggering behaviors to house unhoused people, for example, curfews.

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Speaker 1: That's a problem, and I was telling them about it.

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Speaker 1: That triggers me because especially as a person of color,

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Speaker 1: I don't want to be locked in or told where

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Speaker 1: I can be or not be. The second thing is

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00:49:14,520 --> 00:49:16,960
Speaker 1: the lack of autonomy. For example, you can't get a key,

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00:49:17,080 --> 00:49:21,000
Speaker 1: someone has to key you in. They use the excuse

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Speaker 1: talking about the nurse is going to be as leaves

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Speaker 1: at seven o'clock. But that's unacceptable. Still, you know they

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Speaker 1: go home and they and so why you're suggesting that

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00:49:29,000 --> 00:49:31,640
Speaker 1: unhoused people need to be incarcerated, they need to be

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00:49:31,760 --> 00:49:34,120
Speaker 1: locked somewhere, they need to be shut away. And this

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00:49:34,320 --> 00:49:36,719
Speaker 1: is not necessarily always Nimbi's. This is people that are

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Speaker 1: in service providers for unhoused people that believes this. And

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00:49:40,600 --> 00:49:43,120
Speaker 1: if we're going to truly change the housing crisis and

842
00:49:43,440 --> 00:49:46,520
Speaker 1: housing how we deal with the unhoused population, we need

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00:49:46,640 --> 00:49:50,200
Speaker 1: to have a very thought a paradigm shift in the

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Speaker 1: respect how we treat them. There are also another issue.

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Speaker 1: There are people out here that use the substances, and

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Speaker 1: if you tell them that they can't use substances as

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00:49:58,239 --> 00:50:01,080
Speaker 1: as it's a voluntary choice, is a health issue, a

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00:50:01,200 --> 00:50:03,560
Speaker 1: health matter, or they have mental health crisis, you throw

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Speaker 1: them out. And because you're trying to treat it as

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Speaker 1: a dry out shelter or whatever, that is not acceptible.

851
00:50:09,840 --> 00:50:12,640
Speaker 1: You know where they are, You need to meet them

852
00:50:12,680 --> 00:50:14,480
Speaker 1: where they are, and you need to be able to

853
00:50:15,160 --> 00:50:19,160
Speaker 1: re examine or reshape. But that ties into the Nimbiism.

854
00:50:19,480 --> 00:50:23,840
Speaker 1: Nimbiaism creates and dictates the punitative and ordinances that we have,

855
00:50:24,320 --> 00:50:27,160
Speaker 1: the policies that we have, and people that well meaning

856
00:50:27,239 --> 00:50:30,560
Speaker 1: people that get involved, they don't understand that their foothold,

857
00:50:30,800 --> 00:50:34,880
Speaker 1: it's very entrenched into the mud. So we have to

858
00:50:35,000 --> 00:50:37,759
Speaker 1: do a very paradigm shift in all things. And that's

859
00:50:37,800 --> 00:50:40,200
Speaker 1: why I do wed in how because I advocate for it.

860
00:50:41,040 --> 00:50:43,840
Speaker 1: The second question I have, and the wind is blowing

861
00:50:43,920 --> 00:50:49,880
Speaker 1: it away, it exists, what are your thoughts on Project

862
00:50:49,960 --> 00:50:52,960
Speaker 1: room Key? Yeah? With Project room Key, I mean what

863
00:50:53,800 --> 00:50:57,160
Speaker 1: it's just interesting how suddenly you check one day after

864
00:50:57,880 --> 00:51:01,640
Speaker 1: if they report themselves to the track. But it's like, what,

865
00:51:02,040 --> 00:51:04,440
Speaker 1: why do you have suddenly three thousand billion without there

866
00:51:04,480 --> 00:51:07,759
Speaker 1: being any updates? What are you guys just changing the

867
00:51:07,840 --> 00:51:10,239
Speaker 1: numbers in the Excel spreadsheet? And so I think the

868
00:51:10,320 --> 00:51:14,240
Speaker 1: first thing is accountability. There should actually be a deeper

869
00:51:14,239 --> 00:51:17,640
Speaker 1: accountability process where people are able to love eplopment, where

870
00:51:17,640 --> 00:51:20,520
Speaker 1: there's actually weekly updates on that, and people are able

871
00:51:20,560 --> 00:51:23,080
Speaker 1: to contribute to how that process is being done, because

872
00:51:23,160 --> 00:51:26,000
Speaker 1: right now it's without any public contribution and with any

873
00:51:26,040 --> 00:51:29,600
Speaker 1: public involvement, it's just whatever whoever is assigned to do it,

874
00:51:29,680 --> 00:51:32,080
Speaker 1: and the city government is doing it. And I think

875
00:51:32,360 --> 00:51:35,520
Speaker 1: even with that, on a federal level, what our congressman

876
00:51:35,719 --> 00:51:38,759
Speaker 1: or what federal elected officials could have done is, hey, guys,

877
00:51:39,040 --> 00:51:42,640
Speaker 1: when we're when we're allocating ten billion, three billion dollars

878
00:51:42,680 --> 00:51:46,840
Speaker 1: to community block development, we're allocating four billion to assistant

879
00:51:46,880 --> 00:51:50,399
Speaker 1: services and housing authorities and five billion to another When

880
00:51:50,480 --> 00:51:53,600
Speaker 1: we do this, le let's attach the condition that they

881
00:51:53,719 --> 00:51:57,000
Speaker 1: need to commandeer hotels so that when they're able to

882
00:51:57,120 --> 00:51:59,719
Speaker 1: tap into these funds. And why don't we see that

883
00:52:00,120 --> 00:52:02,640
Speaker 1: the nation being done? Because if we had been if

884
00:52:02,680 --> 00:52:05,000
Speaker 1: that had been done, then we could see a bigger

885
00:52:05,040 --> 00:52:07,640
Speaker 1: involvement in project room Key, then we could see actually

886
00:52:08,280 --> 00:52:11,080
Speaker 1: people being in it. And in terms of I think

887
00:52:11,719 --> 00:52:13,439
Speaker 1: I mean and then that goes to say that mayor

888
00:52:13,480 --> 00:52:15,200
Speaker 1: should have common to your hotels to go ahead and

889
00:52:15,280 --> 00:52:17,480
Speaker 1: do it and not just ask them to participate in

890
00:52:17,560 --> 00:52:19,840
Speaker 1: a crisis like this, Are you kidding me? And so

891
00:52:20,000 --> 00:52:22,400
Speaker 1: that's where our federal officials, where I know a lot

892
00:52:22,440 --> 00:52:24,759
Speaker 1: of hotels and owners are like, oh, but if we

893
00:52:24,960 --> 00:52:26,840
Speaker 1: let them in in, our hotels going to be damaged.

894
00:52:26,920 --> 00:52:28,800
Speaker 1: First of all, it's not going to be exactly, but

895
00:52:28,960 --> 00:52:32,239
Speaker 1: second of all to alleviate whatever their concerns are, Like,

896
00:52:32,880 --> 00:52:37,000
Speaker 1: here's a fund that you can use to fix whatever

897
00:52:37,080 --> 00:52:40,280
Speaker 1: imaginary issues you have, and so that's what it should

898
00:52:40,280 --> 00:52:42,239
Speaker 1: have been done. But I mean, I'm not going to

899
00:52:42,400 --> 00:52:45,320
Speaker 1: but the nimbiaism, that's what the part of the problem was.

900
00:52:45,440 --> 00:52:48,120
Speaker 1: It's like the nimbiaism is so pervasive, made no full

901
00:52:48,160 --> 00:52:50,840
Speaker 1: well after what the project room key goes over that

902
00:52:50,920 --> 00:52:53,320
Speaker 1: they were going to renovate those places anyway, It's just

903
00:52:53,480 --> 00:52:56,480
Speaker 1: was the excuse they even suit the cities and things

904
00:52:56,560 --> 00:52:58,759
Speaker 1: of that nature. The issue is, I'll give you a

905
00:52:58,920 --> 00:53:02,480
Speaker 1: perfect one on the sound Army out in bell California

906
00:53:02,600 --> 00:53:05,600
Speaker 1: has a very punitative policy. You have to go through

907
00:53:05,680 --> 00:53:07,800
Speaker 1: the wand all the time as if you're a criminals,

908
00:53:08,080 --> 00:53:10,320
Speaker 1: and then you cannot stay in your bed area. And

909
00:53:10,360 --> 00:53:12,960
Speaker 1: they use the excuse because someone will steal your stuff. Now,

910
00:53:13,120 --> 00:53:15,640
Speaker 1: as a human being that has the own autonomy. At

911
00:53:15,680 --> 00:53:18,040
Speaker 1: the time I was injured, you know, some days I

912
00:53:18,120 --> 00:53:20,440
Speaker 1: want to list lay down like anybody else, like if

913
00:53:20,480 --> 00:53:22,839
Speaker 1: they are on house. But you couldn't do that until

914
00:53:22,840 --> 00:53:26,239
Speaker 1: a certain time because the caseworker at the time told me,

915
00:53:26,560 --> 00:53:31,080
Speaker 1: because the county demands that you leave the place I

916
00:53:31,280 --> 00:53:33,640
Speaker 1: leave the area of the bed area. So these are

917
00:53:33,680 --> 00:53:35,880
Speaker 1: the issues that I think that really needs to be

918
00:53:35,960 --> 00:53:39,239
Speaker 1: addressed because people are talking about project Room Key and

919
00:53:39,280 --> 00:53:41,160
Speaker 1: then when they feel you find out like one of

920
00:53:41,200 --> 00:53:43,920
Speaker 1: the residents didn't want to go, it's because of these issues.

921
00:53:44,200 --> 00:53:47,120
Speaker 1: It's like we're we as an a house community, we're

922
00:53:47,200 --> 00:53:50,919
Speaker 1: on the verge of protesting too, because you Black Lives

923
00:53:51,000 --> 00:53:53,279
Speaker 1: Matter should be a wake up call to you to

924
00:53:53,440 --> 00:53:56,000
Speaker 1: understand these things that you guys are doing. No matter

925
00:53:56,040 --> 00:53:58,239
Speaker 1: how you felt that this was you're the best thing,

926
00:53:58,719 --> 00:54:01,960
Speaker 1: it's over these these that you have. It's gonna it's

927
00:54:02,040 --> 00:54:05,160
Speaker 1: going to require congress people or people that in the

928
00:54:05,239 --> 00:54:07,520
Speaker 1: office to really put the pressure on them and to

929
00:54:07,719 --> 00:54:11,840
Speaker 1: tell them that this is not acceptable. On another issue

930
00:54:12,040 --> 00:54:15,560
Speaker 1: is why do the city officials believe shelters are the

931
00:54:15,600 --> 00:54:18,800
Speaker 1: answer for the unhoused community. I think I mean in

932
00:54:18,920 --> 00:54:21,920
Speaker 1: regards to the whole shelter idea, first of all, it's

933
00:54:22,840 --> 00:54:26,839
Speaker 1: I think what the biggest issue is is they that's

934
00:54:26,920 --> 00:54:29,120
Speaker 1: not in their priorities, to be honest with you, and

935
00:54:29,280 --> 00:54:31,439
Speaker 1: I mean if it was in their priorities, then would

936
00:54:31,480 --> 00:54:34,279
Speaker 1: shelters be the solution. No, it wouldn't Like if they

937
00:54:34,360 --> 00:54:37,960
Speaker 1: actually freaking cared shelters wouldn't even come up, because if

938
00:54:38,000 --> 00:54:40,920
Speaker 1: they were to even understand the way the shelters work,

939
00:54:41,040 --> 00:54:44,520
Speaker 1: or even understand what rules of observed policies are being

940
00:54:44,560 --> 00:54:46,719
Speaker 1: put in place that they're probably not even aware of

941
00:54:46,760 --> 00:54:49,200
Speaker 1: where they're they are completely aware of, then that even

942
00:54:49,200 --> 00:54:53,719
Speaker 1: shows the callousness of their heart into shelters. It is

943
00:54:53,960 --> 00:54:58,480
Speaker 1: stinct into the cap out. It's like it's it's a

944
00:54:58,520 --> 00:55:00,680
Speaker 1: cop up for elected officials to say that they're doing

945
00:55:00,760 --> 00:55:03,480
Speaker 1: something and they're actually not. And so that's another and

946
00:55:04,000 --> 00:55:06,080
Speaker 1: sad to say, I mean, I'm not, I'm not an

947
00:55:06,120 --> 00:55:08,799
Speaker 1: agress at all. I totally I'm not, but sad to say,

948
00:55:08,840 --> 00:55:12,000
Speaker 1: I think with our politics there's this old mentality that

949
00:55:12,120 --> 00:55:14,719
Speaker 1: also needs to be renewed and change. And that's why

950
00:55:14,840 --> 00:55:16,680
Speaker 1: we need to go ahead and change the old garden

951
00:55:16,719 --> 00:55:20,920
Speaker 1: with the new guar Gatian because these are are elected officials.

952
00:55:21,400 --> 00:55:25,960
Speaker 1: They're in the mentality of like of putting people in shelters,

953
00:55:26,040 --> 00:55:28,319
Speaker 1: throwing away their belongings, doing what they think is right

954
00:55:28,360 --> 00:55:30,120
Speaker 1: for them. When it's like, dude, you're throwing away their

955
00:55:30,239 --> 00:55:32,840
Speaker 1: entire possessions, like its service is not sweeps. And I

956
00:55:32,920 --> 00:55:36,239
Speaker 1: think that's what like, even our whole city was like, oh,

957
00:55:36,920 --> 00:55:39,760
Speaker 1: like no, we were going to continue with our sweeps.

958
00:55:39,800 --> 00:55:41,920
Speaker 1: But the court case was it a month or two

959
00:55:41,920 --> 00:55:44,440
Speaker 1: months ago? Yeah, yeah, you couldn't do that was a

960
00:55:44,560 --> 00:55:49,239
Speaker 1: Boise versus ye Martin versus boys. Martin versus boys versus bois.

961
00:55:49,440 --> 00:55:52,680
Speaker 1: So like even with that, it's like it clearly shows

962
00:55:52,719 --> 00:55:55,080
Speaker 1: that our officials actually don't have the priorities in the

963
00:55:55,120 --> 00:55:57,239
Speaker 1: heart there. And so I think from now on, like

964
00:55:57,719 --> 00:55:59,400
Speaker 1: a lot of us need to be vigilant in the

965
00:55:59,480 --> 00:56:01,960
Speaker 1: sense of who are we electing and re electing into

966
00:56:02,040 --> 00:56:05,560
Speaker 1: office and where their platforms are. And I think I

967
00:56:05,680 --> 00:56:09,000
Speaker 1: think the key thing is like what my mom taught

968
00:56:09,080 --> 00:56:11,920
Speaker 1: me is like and what everybody is you put you

969
00:56:12,160 --> 00:56:14,440
Speaker 1: you always instead of talking the top, you always need

970
00:56:14,480 --> 00:56:16,359
Speaker 1: to walk the walk. And it's really putting your money

971
00:56:16,400 --> 00:56:19,200
Speaker 1: where the mouth where your mouth is. And looking at

972
00:56:19,239 --> 00:56:21,719
Speaker 1: the LA budget, I mean obviously you probably know where

973
00:56:21,840 --> 00:56:25,160
Speaker 1: fifty four percent of it was originally allocated to the LAPD.

974
00:56:25,719 --> 00:56:29,400
Speaker 1: And then we have neighborhood done with I serve on

975
00:56:29,440 --> 00:56:32,600
Speaker 1: the MacArthur Park neighborhood house services and with our funds

976
00:56:32,719 --> 00:56:36,000
Speaker 1: being super minusculous, like a fraction of a percentage compared

977
00:56:36,040 --> 00:56:39,560
Speaker 1: to the LAPD, and it's like, what why do we

978
00:56:39,680 --> 00:56:41,560
Speaker 1: exist then if you're not going to give us any

979
00:56:41,640 --> 00:56:43,959
Speaker 1: money exactly, And then they say they have no money

980
00:56:44,080 --> 00:56:46,120
Speaker 1: to go ahead, and like I think, I think that

981
00:56:46,239 --> 00:56:48,800
Speaker 1: I saw a graphic the other day that the city

982
00:56:49,440 --> 00:56:52,080
Speaker 1: if they spend I think the number was five hundred

983
00:56:52,160 --> 00:56:55,960
Speaker 1: or six hundred million just a portion of the LAPD

984
00:56:56,120 --> 00:56:59,279
Speaker 1: budget and reinvested, that we wouldn't have any un house

985
00:56:59,320 --> 00:57:02,320
Speaker 1: communities here. And that's very good point because here's another

986
00:57:02,400 --> 00:57:04,560
Speaker 1: thing is that this is like a system, a plan

987
00:57:04,760 --> 00:57:07,400
Speaker 1: is in place. First you got the developments and they

988
00:57:08,120 --> 00:57:10,760
Speaker 1: wanted to come in and gentify or colonize the area

989
00:57:10,960 --> 00:57:14,200
Speaker 1: and displace people of color and housing and secure people.

990
00:57:14,640 --> 00:57:17,160
Speaker 1: So they come in, they use the city council to

991
00:57:17,480 --> 00:57:20,960
Speaker 1: enact things like bids business improvement district. In fact, I

992
00:57:21,160 --> 00:57:24,560
Speaker 1: was at I saw one of the big meetings about

993
00:57:24,600 --> 00:57:27,240
Speaker 1: how they have over twenty five thousand bids in the

994
00:57:27,320 --> 00:57:30,920
Speaker 1: country and to that end, they use those bids to

995
00:57:31,080 --> 00:57:35,080
Speaker 1: displace and have a close relationship with the LAPD or

996
00:57:35,160 --> 00:57:39,520
Speaker 1: police officers around the world to help displace ticket cite

997
00:57:40,440 --> 00:57:43,400
Speaker 1: a house to unhouse people. So vacant what they call

998
00:57:43,760 --> 00:57:48,320
Speaker 1: instead of gentrify, enliven the area, so pedestrian traffic could

999
00:57:48,360 --> 00:57:51,760
Speaker 1: take place that are able to spend money in their areas.

1000
00:57:52,200 --> 00:57:55,400
Speaker 1: So the areas of the issue is they know that

1001
00:57:55,480 --> 00:57:57,360
Speaker 1: there's going to be some displacement, they know that there's

1002
00:57:57,400 --> 00:57:59,720
Speaker 1: going to be some problems. But the issue is how

1003
00:57:59,800 --> 00:58:03,720
Speaker 1: can we defund the police and defund bids and break

1004
00:58:03,840 --> 00:58:07,440
Speaker 1: up this relationship. The LAPD is basically a mafia chieftain.

1005
00:58:07,600 --> 00:58:11,640
Speaker 1: They have controlled the narrative in every area. They're always

1006
00:58:11,680 --> 00:58:14,400
Speaker 1: in some conversation. They're with the bids, they're with the

1007
00:58:14,480 --> 00:58:17,920
Speaker 1: sanitation every time you look that they're somewhere infiltrating with

1008
00:58:18,000 --> 00:58:22,000
Speaker 1: the neighborhood council or business improvement business owners. They slither

1009
00:58:22,120 --> 00:58:24,320
Speaker 1: their way into that and this make it seem like

1010
00:58:24,400 --> 00:58:26,720
Speaker 1: that they're indispensable and if you don't have it, then

1011
00:58:26,760 --> 00:58:29,840
Speaker 1: they use the most extreme cancer examples that they have

1012
00:58:30,400 --> 00:58:33,120
Speaker 1: what happens if you don't have murders or rapes and things.

1013
00:58:33,560 --> 00:58:36,320
Speaker 1: So the majority of the crimes that they are picking

1014
00:58:36,760 --> 00:58:41,120
Speaker 1: getting are quality of life issues, you know, So I

1015
00:58:41,240 --> 00:58:43,320
Speaker 1: want to know what can we do to be helped

1016
00:58:43,400 --> 00:58:46,000
Speaker 1: try to dismantle these bids, because it has to be

1017
00:58:46,160 --> 00:58:49,919
Speaker 1: some kind of dramatic example to stop this stuff. Yeah,

1018
00:58:49,960 --> 00:58:52,960
Speaker 1: I mean in regards to I mean, in addition, obviously,

1019
00:58:53,040 --> 00:58:56,120
Speaker 1: I think electropology is the most basic thing, that's the

1020
00:58:56,280 --> 00:58:59,480
Speaker 1: least But right now, I think what we really need

1021
00:58:59,560 --> 00:59:01,720
Speaker 1: to do is to find any means and all means

1022
00:59:01,840 --> 00:59:03,960
Speaker 1: possible right now at this point. So if it is

1023
00:59:04,480 --> 00:59:07,200
Speaker 1: going into protests, if it is calling into public comments,

1024
00:59:07,480 --> 00:59:10,520
Speaker 1: I think recently in the past two months, like public comments,

1025
00:59:10,600 --> 00:59:12,880
Speaker 1: four hundred, three hundred, four hundred people are calling in

1026
00:59:13,360 --> 00:59:15,560
Speaker 1: at a time where like about a year ago, hardly

1027
00:59:15,640 --> 00:59:18,960
Speaker 1: anybody people had anybody called into public comments. And so

1028
00:59:19,160 --> 00:59:20,960
Speaker 1: right now is the time for us to really push

1029
00:59:21,040 --> 00:59:23,200
Speaker 1: for change. And I know that a lot of people

1030
00:59:23,200 --> 00:59:26,000
Speaker 1: are like, dude, dude, David Dootio, you guys are being

1031
00:59:26,040 --> 00:59:28,600
Speaker 1: too aggressive, like cut down on it. I understand the anger,

1032
00:59:28,680 --> 00:59:31,240
Speaker 1: but it's like, no, you don't understand the anger. Then

1033
00:59:31,320 --> 00:59:33,840
Speaker 1: if you're saying that, I know, because this is not

1034
00:59:34,000 --> 00:59:36,560
Speaker 1: even close to what we should be exhibiting to our

1035
00:59:36,600 --> 00:59:39,480
Speaker 1: officials right now. We should be like I mean, I

1036
00:59:39,560 --> 00:59:41,640
Speaker 1: mean in terms of like rioting and stuff, I don't

1037
00:59:42,000 --> 00:59:44,360
Speaker 1: I think it's completely okay for the people to do

1038
00:59:44,760 --> 00:59:47,960
Speaker 1: at this point, because the people have been have been taken,

1039
00:59:48,200 --> 00:59:51,040
Speaker 1: manipulated with their money all this time anyway, and kicked

1040
00:59:51,040 --> 00:59:52,640
Speaker 1: off on the streets. And so I think right now,

1041
00:59:53,000 --> 00:59:55,680
Speaker 1: it's engaging in protests, it's engaging in discussions like this.

1042
00:59:56,120 --> 00:59:59,240
Speaker 1: It's it's leading efforts, whether it be petitioners, but I

1043
00:59:59,280 --> 01:00:02,760
Speaker 1: think it's really voicing your opinion, even if it's flooding

1044
01:00:02,800 --> 01:00:06,760
Speaker 1: your officials offices in person or by phone or email.

1045
01:00:07,120 --> 01:00:09,200
Speaker 1: We must do all means necessary because it doesn't make

1046
01:00:09,280 --> 01:00:15,720
Speaker 1: sense that we have police officers to a bathroom when

1047
01:00:15,720 --> 01:00:18,440
Speaker 1: there's no violence involved. What the heck, like, what are

1048
01:00:18,480 --> 01:00:20,360
Speaker 1: they gonna do? They're gonna kick in the bathroom to

1049
01:00:20,400 --> 01:00:22,200
Speaker 1: make sure you're doing number one or number two? This

1050
01:00:22,320 --> 01:00:25,200
Speaker 1: is it's so ludicrous. This is money wasted by Mitchell

1051
01:00:25,240 --> 01:00:28,680
Speaker 1: Pharrell's office. Yeah, and so and exactly, And so I mean,

1052
01:00:28,760 --> 01:00:31,000
Speaker 1: I'm hopeful in the sense that I know City Councilman

1053
01:00:31,080 --> 01:00:34,240
Speaker 1: Herb Wesson he did a bill where it's i mean,

1054
01:00:34,320 --> 01:00:36,520
Speaker 1: the language is pretty general, so we don't know where

1055
01:00:36,560 --> 01:00:40,320
Speaker 1: it's going yet, but it's about sending medical responders and

1056
01:00:40,840 --> 01:00:45,240
Speaker 1: social workers and health workers to situations that don't require

1057
01:00:45,680 --> 01:00:48,960
Speaker 1: police officers to show up absolutely, like to these situations

1058
01:00:49,000 --> 01:00:51,880
Speaker 1: where we don't have police officers showing up at protests

1059
01:00:51,960 --> 01:00:59,440
Speaker 1: or bathrooms or or in terms of trying to I

1060
01:00:59,480 --> 01:01:02,160
Speaker 1: don't even know what that term was. It's basically gendrified.

1061
01:01:02,280 --> 01:01:04,720
Speaker 1: But he called himself and say it's enlive in the area.

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Speaker 1: That's the dog whistle. Yeah, so I think right now,

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Speaker 1: but we have great city council candidates, and it's it's

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Speaker 1: super important that people like Nitya Rahmen make it to

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Speaker 1: city council. These people like her, once they're elected to office,

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Speaker 1: holy shit, only city will change. And that's why it's

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Speaker 1: important for it people to run on the state level,

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Speaker 1: the federal level, and the local level because now, let's

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Speaker 1: say when I make it into office, when Nitya makes

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Speaker 1: it into city, me and her are going to be

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Speaker 1: talking a lot in terms of how do we coordinate

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Speaker 1: the federal and the local resources and support together, because

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Speaker 1: that's what officials should be doing. That's not absolute right now.

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Speaker 1: So I was going to ask you, because I saw

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Speaker 1: on your page your platform, what is your platform A

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Speaker 1: community first? So can you tell us a little bit

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Speaker 1: about that? Yeah? So, community first, I think it goes

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Speaker 1: back to what I was telling earlier about how it's

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Speaker 1: so absurd that elected officials I feel like they're so

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Speaker 1: connected from their base and their community, so like they're

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Speaker 1: like a balloon tied to so generally the regular the

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Speaker 1: same picture should be like an analogy wise, let's say

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Speaker 1: the elected officials represent balloons R tied down to the

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Speaker 1: ground with the community. But it seems like right now

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Speaker 1: like they've been cut off and they're just flowing off

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Speaker 1: in space by themselves and their ideological mindsets of what

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Speaker 1: would be perfect and what's not perfect, right right, and

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Speaker 1: then they're bickering about their own personal ideologies and what

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Speaker 1: they think should happen and not happen, instead of actually

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Speaker 1: going back to the base and saying, hey, guys, what

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Speaker 1: do you think should be doing? What do you think

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Speaker 1: should be done? And then going back And so I

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Speaker 1: think right now, the biggest problem that we have in

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Speaker 1: DC is are elected officials, no matter how hard they

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Speaker 1: tried to connect or fathom or experience what the daily

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Speaker 1: suffering is like for everybody in our district, they're not

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Speaker 1: able to comprehend what that is. So because they're not

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Speaker 1: able to comprehend what that is, they're not able to

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Speaker 1: legislate Copper because they're they're they're legislating like completely off target.

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Speaker 1: They're like throwing spaghetti the home and trying to see

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Speaker 1: what sticks. And so I think the first thing that

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Speaker 1: needs to happen is every single federal official should have

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Speaker 1: weekly town halls before they go to go to the

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Speaker 1: legislative DC. Can I interrupt there too ahead because what

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Speaker 1: I noticed, and that's an excellent idea. But I don't

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Speaker 1: want to say I'm playing Infoco's advocate, but I because

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Speaker 1: usually what I've noticed when I go to city hall meetings,

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Speaker 1: I always see the nimbis. The nimbis seem to overwhelm

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Speaker 1: the whole process, and they have the ear of the

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Speaker 1: council members because they throw money at the campaign. They

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Speaker 1: they use social media to role up people by hatred, fear,

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Speaker 1: and miseducation and they get these or for example forty

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Speaker 1: one to eighteen fifty six, eleven sixty four to forty four.

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Speaker 1: All it takes is an angry housed person that has

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Speaker 1: some wealth or has the cod word that they feel

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Speaker 1: that the un housed person is a danger to their

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Speaker 1: children at a park or a school or things like that.

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Speaker 1: How can we get to a point where it's equitable

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Speaker 1: that we don't give into the community hatred or community ignorance.

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Speaker 1: What can we do to stop that? Yeah, And I

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Speaker 1: think that's where it's very important to be more aware

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Speaker 1: of what's going on. I think we need to break

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Speaker 1: what's a great thing about America is that it's about

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Speaker 1: this individual freedom, personal liberties and all of that. But

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Speaker 1: I think it's to a point where we've become to

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Speaker 1: me me, me, me me, where it hasn't really become

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Speaker 1: a family focused, community focused, broader perspective in mind. And

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Speaker 1: so with that being said, I think not only when,

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Speaker 1: and I think a lot of us now realize when

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Speaker 1: we actually stand together and bond in power, we actually

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Speaker 1: can make a bigger difference, right, And you see that

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Speaker 1: with a very prime example of that is People's City Council. Yes,

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Speaker 1: People's City Council. We're They're not like a group of

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Speaker 1: twelve million people or a million people. They're not. They're

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Speaker 1: a group of a handful of people that came together

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Speaker 1: and said, hey, guys, we need to mobilize and organized.

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Speaker 1: They raised two point five million dollars go fundme like that.

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Speaker 1: That's what happens when the people actually wake up and

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Speaker 1: come together. It's just that we haven't seen the sleeping

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Speaker 1: giant wake up yet. Yes, and right now we're slowly

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Speaker 1: waking up the giant. So if we continue to organize

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Speaker 1: and mobilize where we have groups, like our groups are

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Speaker 1: getting bigger, Ka tom Frawl's getting bigger, ground games getting bigger,

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Speaker 1: Los Angeles tenants unions getting Biggerting, Olympics is getting bigger.

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Speaker 1: Everyone's getting bigger. And I think that's a testament to show,

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Speaker 1: like people are slowly waking up. So when people slowly

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Speaker 1: wake up, there's going to be a revolution soon. And

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Speaker 1: so like it's not just for cliche or hashtags sake

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Speaker 1: that we're saying we're the revolution, but it's going to happen,

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Speaker 1: and it is happening right now. And so don't ever

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Speaker 1: underestimate the power of mobilizing and organizing together. And I

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Speaker 1: think that's where if we're able to organize and mobilize

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Speaker 1: just as was and Nimby people do, we can do

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Speaker 1: it more powerfully because we have figgured numbers and so

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Speaker 1: if we if we all show up, we can easily

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Speaker 1: overpower them. But it's just a matter of us showing up.

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Speaker 1: It's a matter of us listening to this podcast and

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Speaker 1: then saying, hey, what's the next step, what's in it

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Speaker 1: for what what should we be doing? Because to be

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Speaker 1: honest with you and I and I know that you

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Speaker 1: would agree and that you're listening, but the whole role

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Speaker 1: of an elected official is to represent the will of

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Speaker 1: the people. And if they're not representing the will of

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Speaker 1: the people, what are they doing and why are they

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Speaker 1: there exactly? And so for me, I am our campaign

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Speaker 1: and once elected, we are always going to be co

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Speaker 1: governing with the people. So we will always be meeting

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Speaker 1: with members of the community and not corporate donors because

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Speaker 1: we don't have any. And so that's the first and

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Speaker 1: foremost thing of why it's important to always have a

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Speaker 1: grassroots campaign because you're not pledging your allegiance to any

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Speaker 1: corporate interesting you don't have to save your time for

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Speaker 1: a meeting with them, because now you can actually meet

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Speaker 1: with the people. And so for us, we plan to

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Speaker 1: co govern with the people. And so if you're if

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Speaker 1: you're listening and you see issues on our platform and

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Speaker 1: you're like, hey, David, this is great, maybe this would

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Speaker 1: also be good because we take feedback from everyone because

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Speaker 1: this is how this is what co governing with the

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Speaker 1: people looks like. And so that's that's the way we

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Speaker 1: can start going ahead. And I think the first thing,

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Speaker 1: going back to your question THEO is realizing that we

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Speaker 1: do have power, and that power is this thing called

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Speaker 1: hope inside of us. Because as long as our hope

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Speaker 1: is there, we can use that hope and converted into

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Speaker 1: power and show that power. And it's just us realizing

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Speaker 1: that and then using that power. So it's just those

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Speaker 1: two things involved, really, But yeah, I think I think

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Speaker 1: I like that. I think you covered everything I wanted

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Speaker 1: to cover. I was gonna say, are you going to

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Speaker 1: be giving any public speeches or anything like that that

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Speaker 1: we could follow or put our audience into that's interested

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Speaker 1: before making sure that you get on office. Yeah. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: So if you actually visit David Kim twenty twenty dot com,

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Speaker 1: we have recordings of past live streams and townhalls we've

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Speaker 1: done on like what what does universal basic income look like?

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Speaker 1: What is many care for all? What is COVID nineteen

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Speaker 1: really being given in this sense? So we have videos

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Speaker 1: on that. We will be doing more live streams in

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Speaker 1: the future with different guest speakers hopefully with the people

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Speaker 1: from Homes Guarantee as well. But we are hoping to

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Speaker 1: have a debate with the current incumbent probably September October.

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Speaker 1: Oh wow. But he's always ignored. He ignored Kenneth completely,

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Speaker 1: he ignored other people before. But we have an organization

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Speaker 1: that might help us push him to debate me. So

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Speaker 1: if that comes up, I'll definitely let you know be

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Speaker 1: sue for sure. Thank you very much. This is David Kim,

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Speaker 1: He's running for Congress. This is Theo Henderson from WIEDI

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Speaker 1: and howse I hope we all learned something and I

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

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Speaker 1: in the light of understanding. Thank you for listening for

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Speaker 1: this episode twenty seven House a tale of two cities.

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Speaker 1: This episode highlights the struggles, the indifference, and the plan

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Speaker 1: of action by different community members. We either are part

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Speaker 1: of the solution or we're a part of the problem.

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Speaker 1: Right now, we're in a time of transformative change. It

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Speaker 1: is up to us to only start to continue this

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Speaker 1: movement forward to change. We can allow authorities and nimbis

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Speaker 1: and police officers and law enforcement to control the narrative,

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Speaker 1: or we as a citizen must put them back in

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Speaker 1: the perspective place that they deserve to be. We are

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Speaker 1: the ones that they serve. It's not the other way around,

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Speaker 1: and we should not be intimidated or bullied by an

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Speaker 1: occupying force that holds with three point one billion dollars.

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

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Speaker 1: in the light of understanding.