00:00I think that we should all be wondering not just how to get ourselves to power,
00:06but how to change the power itself.
00:09I think if we just strong-arm our way into the same room with the same rules,
00:15we're going to get the same results.
00:17We have to change the room.
00:30I have a friend who always told me
00:42to just not even bother getting out of bed unless you're willing to think big.
00:47And that was the best advice I ever got
00:49because I'm not going to nickel and dime my way through life.
00:52Why?
00:53Right?
00:54I mean, just throw everything you have at whatever you've got
00:58and just see where it comes out.
01:29If Rush Limbaugh and Phyllis Shafley had had a baby,
01:33that would have been my mother.
01:35There was a memo that was handed out when we were all born
01:38that said, please be quiet, don't use your loud voice.
01:40I was a tomboy.
01:42In fact, in the ninth grade I played on the boys' soccer team,
01:45one of the first in Southern California to do it.
01:47I scored a goal, an assist, and a yellow card.
01:52Just that badass.
02:58I love you.
02:59I love you too.
03:28I love you.
03:58I spent some years when my children were young,
04:11sort of tethered to New York City.
04:14I didn't want to go far because they were young.
04:17So I went into the neighborhoods,
04:19and I really learned a lot about grassroots women
04:24and that kind of activism up close.
04:27And I met some extraordinary women in that world.
04:30I met the kind of heroism and integrity
04:34that you normally think you only find in epic poetry.
04:37But there it was, right under my nose,
04:40softening the burden of poverty on people,
04:43raising the voices of the unheard people,
04:46and pushing back on the relentless depredations
04:50of the particularly rough version of capitalism
04:55as it expresses itself in our cities,
04:57particularly in New York.
05:21I guess it started with a trip I took to Liberia.
05:24In 2006, I went a couple of months after
05:27the president had been inaugurated there.
05:29First female president, head of state in Africa.
05:32And I was really excited about her presidency
05:35and went with a group of women to see
05:37if there was any way I could be of support to her.
05:39And while I was there, I heard this amazing story.
05:42I had never heard it outside of Liberia.
05:44It was all oral.
05:45Nothing was written.
05:46And it was going to be lost.
05:48It was just too horrible.
06:24What was it like in doing that,
06:26directing this time, for the first time, right?
06:29Terrifying.
06:30Yeah.
06:31I kind of carried this idea of I had to be good at it
06:34or whatever, but I was lucky.
06:36Because you have the spirit of Walt looking over you,
06:38going, don't mess that up.
06:39I mean, how can you go anywhere but down?
06:42But I'm so committed to the issue
06:46and talking about the issue.
06:47And I was really trying to bring all the best of myself
06:51to the way we were talking about the issue.
06:54♪
07:24As long as you have employees working full time
07:50at your company, that are sleeping in their cars,
07:53that are rationing their insulin,
07:54that are driving three hours each way to get to work,
07:57that are having their hours changed
07:59in a whimsical way that prevents them
08:01from being able to supplement their income
08:03with second and third jobs,
08:05as long as any of that is happening
08:07and your CEO is walking away with 65
08:09or maybe as much as $97 million in a year,
08:13this is just simply on its face morally wrong.
08:17♪
08:37If I'm paying a lower effective rate than my assistant is,
08:40then something seems to be fundamentally not right.
08:43♪
09:12♪
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