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00:00:00This is Justin Samuels, and this film is the Many Faces of Occupy Wall Street.
00:00:06Many Faces of Occupy Wall Street is a compilation of many of my videos on Occupy,
00:00:11and in this film, I'm showing both positive and negative aspects of Occupy Wall Street.
00:00:17People who were happy with the movement or say the movement changed in positive ways,
00:00:21and people who had many complaints about the movement, including problems such as rapes or sexual assaults in the camps or things like that.
00:00:29For more information on these things, you can check out a variety of sources.
00:00:34Early in the fall, when I wrote more positive coverage on Occupy Wall Street,
00:00:39you can check out my articles on op-ednews.com.
00:00:42You can also check out my e-book, Occupy Wall Street, A Leftist Anarchist Cult for the major problems on Occupy Wall Street.
00:00:51That e-book is available for sale on Amazon.com.
00:00:54For further information on Occupy Wall Street, you can check out a variety of other sources on the web.
00:01:00The Huffington Post, Breitbart.com.
00:01:03These ran a hand among others to done excellent work on covering Occupy Wall Street.
00:01:07And you can also check out The Daily Caller has some pretty good articles too,
00:01:12for more of these things that are featured on Occupy Wall Street.
00:01:16The sexual assault case that Nan Terry speaks about, that is referenced in the Huffington Post.
00:01:25Basically, I think that Occupy Wall Street had...
00:01:29I've been pretty critical of it recently, but it's had some good effects too.
00:01:33The one good effect Occupy Wall Street has had is, I think, the changes it's had on the media.
00:01:38Because, for a long time, the major networks in the New York Times were the official sources.
00:01:45And other newspapers too, were the official sources of news.
00:01:49And if they decided not to cover things, they didn't get covered.
00:01:53And, Occupy Wall Street changed that on both the left and on the right throughout the political spectrum.
00:02:00When people wanted to find out what was going on on Occupy Wall Street,
00:02:03they didn't necessarily turn into the big newspapers or to the networks.
00:02:07They found out a lot of interesting information from blogs, from e-books sold on Amazon,
00:02:13from YouTube, from Vimeo, from other sources.
00:02:17And many of these new media outlets have continued to thrive post-Occupy Wall Street,
00:02:22and they still cover things in the activist world, not limited to Occupy Wall Street.
00:02:28So I think that's the most positive change that Occupy Wall Street has had,
00:02:33in terms of it's led people to the media sources, and I think it's great.
00:02:38My biggest criticism of Occupy Wall Street is that I think it's failed its most vulnerable members.
00:02:43It sort of glorified homelessness. We hate money, we hate money, we hate money.
00:02:48But if you've got no money, the only way to fix your situation is to get money.
00:02:52To get a job, go to school, get education. These are things that will fix your homelessness.
00:02:56Ultimately, the only things that will fix your homelessness.
00:02:59And Occupy Wall Street, some in Occupy Wall Street, not everybody,
00:03:03were so anti-everything, anti-capitalist, anti-everything that they wanted to basically
00:03:08throw away everything.
00:03:11They consider themselves anarchists, they basically want to throw away all structural authority,
00:03:17but if you throw away everything, you even throw away food production,
00:03:21such as agriculture, if you throw away food transportation, refrigerators, and electricity,
00:03:25you're left with nothing, and unfortunately, some people have taken it to the extreme,
00:03:29and have been in some very unsafe circumstances, basically living homeless,
00:03:34in New York City and other large cities.
00:03:36And that's extremely unfortunate, that it doesn't have to be that way,
00:03:39so those people are just urging them to rejoin the rest of society.
00:03:44But anyway, I really hope you enjoy this film,
00:03:47and I hope you check out those other sources of information on Occupy Wall Street,
00:03:52including my book, Occupy Wall Street, A Leftist Anarchist Cult.
00:03:56An e-book that gives more favorable coverage to Occupy Wall Street is
00:04:00Every Time I Check My Message Is Somebody Thinks I'm Dead by Daniel Ladine.
00:04:05And again, check out Lee Spanahan's work on Breitbart.com.
00:04:11Check out some articles from the Huffington Post.
00:04:14Check out other articles on Occupy Wall Street from Breitbart.
00:04:17Check out Citizen Journalist by Nicarala.
00:04:20He's done a lot of coverage on Occupy Wall Street.
00:04:22Mandy Nagy again at Breitbart.com has done excellent coverage.
00:04:27Just check out a variety of sources across the political spectrum on Occupy Wall Street,
00:04:31and you'll get a full picture of all the things that went on.
00:04:36To hire a physician?
00:04:41To hire a physician!
00:04:55Hey, look, if you're really worried about this,
00:04:58You are coming work for us.
00:05:00Me too!
00:05:06My home paycheck goes to Sully Bay!
00:05:08That's true!
00:05:10My too!
00:05:12My too! My son's too!
00:05:14Thank you for signing your futures away!
00:05:28I have an idea!
00:05:30I have an idea!
00:05:32What do you want to do?
00:05:34Organize together and have a death strike!
00:05:58You're actually scared!
00:06:00That's true!
00:06:06Let's go!
00:06:08Let's go!
00:06:10Let's go!
00:06:12Let's go!
00:06:14Let's go!
00:06:16Let's go!
00:06:18It's a celebration!
00:06:20It's a party!
00:06:22Go on!
00:06:24Go on!
00:06:26Go on!
00:06:28Go on!
00:06:30Go on!
00:06:32Go on!
00:06:34It's a celebration!
00:06:36No!
00:06:38You're wrong!
00:06:40You're all wrong!
00:06:42You are alone!
00:06:44And it's never going to change!
00:06:46It's never going to change!
00:06:48We are not alone!
00:06:50We are not alone!
00:06:52We are not alone!
00:06:54We are not alone!
00:06:56We are not alone!
00:06:58We are not alone!
00:07:00We are not alone!
00:07:02We are not alone!
00:07:04We are not alone!
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00:07:10We are not alone!
00:07:12We are not alone!
00:07:14We are not alone!
00:07:16And today we'll actually start a program by maybe even telling you guys, sharing with
00:07:24you guys what the Penchen Lama means to the Tibetan people, who he is to the Tibetan
00:07:28people by sharing the poems, the writings, the music by Tibetans inside Tibet, by Tibetans
00:07:37in exile who express their love, their devotion to the Penchen Lama so that you can share
00:07:45a glimpse of what the Penchen Lama means to the Tibetan people, and what he could mean
00:07:49to the world.
00:07:50So...
00:07:51Sam Chuk, maybe you can share a poem with us.
00:08:05I'm gonna read out the lyrics of the song from Sunam Tashi, called Missing the Penchen Lama
00:08:19by Sunam Tashi.
00:08:20Sunam Tashi is a well-known Tibetan singer in Tibet.
00:08:24Here he sings in reverence to the Penchen Lama and expresses his as well as the Tibetan people's
00:08:29devotion and love to the Penchen Lama.
00:08:32You're my root Lama.
00:08:36Please return to the land of snow.
00:08:40Your holiness, Penchen Lama, who else could I offer this pure white scarf to who else could
00:08:46I sing this heartfelt song for each drop of my tears?
00:08:49I think and think, please return to the land of snow.
00:09:00Your holiness, Penchen Lama, who else could I offer this pure white scarf to who else could
00:09:05I sing this heartfelt song for each drop of my tears?
00:09:09I think and think, I feel really sad.
00:09:16That was an English translation to a song by Sunam Tashi, who is a well-known Tibetan singer,
00:09:23musician inside Tibet, who sang openly about his devotion to the Penchen Lama.
00:09:31Second, I would like to ask Lucy to come share a poem.
00:09:37So, Farin Woser is a Tibetan poet, a writer and a blogger who lives in Beijing.
00:09:50She writes reports on the situation in Tibet and is a courageous voice amplifying the messages
00:09:56of the Tibetans living in Tibet, despite the constant harassment she receives from the Chinese
00:10:03government.
00:10:05According to Woser, this poem was written one day in October 2005, when she had finished
00:10:10reading The Search for the Penchen Lama by a female British journalist.
00:10:15If time could cover up a lie, is ten years enough?
00:10:22A child matures into a clever youth, but like a parrot mumbles by rote the phrases that will
00:10:30please his masters.
00:10:32The other child, where is he?
00:10:37The sky-like birthmark on his wrist recalls his previous life before, when for ten years
00:10:43he sat trussed with tight handcuffs in some Beijing cell no ray of light could reach.
00:10:52What ruses mar him now, the child no one hears from?
00:10:56If there are nine levels to the darkness, at which one are they trapped?
00:11:02He and the other.
00:11:04Perhaps in each phase of darkness and of light, where one is trapped, the other aspires.
00:11:16Kunchuk Sam, the world's turned upside down, that the pain of impermanence of samsara has struck
00:11:24home to the Penchen Lama.
00:11:28For those of you who are just joining us, we are here celebrating the birthday of Tibet's
00:11:45Penchen Lama, Tibet's 11th Penchen Lama, who is a very important religious leader, a spiritual
00:11:51leader of Tibet, who was kidnapped in 1995 when he was a six-year-old boy.
00:11:57And today he is turning 23 years old.
00:11:59This is the 17th birthday he is spending in captivity, this is the 17th birthday he is
00:12:05spending without, I mean against his will.
00:12:09Can I ask, also what we are doing right now is sharing poems, sharing music, sharing lyrics
00:12:20from songs that Tibetans inside Tibet, as well as Tibetans in exile, have written in expression
00:12:26of their love and devotion to Tibet's Penchen Lama, the Stolen Child.
00:12:31Can I ask Namgyala to come up and share the lyrics to another song?
00:12:45My name is Namgya. Thank you all for joining us. I'm going to read the English translation of the song Yirekyo by Kunga.
00:12:56Kunga, a widely popular Tibetan singer, was born on September 3rd, 1981 in Eastern Tibet.
00:13:05Kunga is one of many Tibetan singers, including Yadong and Jamyamki, who have vowed never to sing in favor of the Chinese Communist Party.
00:13:16The following song, Yirekyo, which means heart saddens, by Kunga, calls for the return of the Dalai Lama to Tibet
00:13:26and sings in reverence to the Dalai Lama, Penjin Lama, and the Karmapa.
00:13:33Kunga refers to the Dalai Lama and the kidnapped Penjin Lama with concealed analogies, the Dalai Lama to the sun and the Penjin Lama to the moon.
00:13:44So here's the translation of the song.
00:13:47Sun sets behind the sudden mountains. The white moon gets consumed by the clouds.
00:13:54And the stars have fallen amid rain and clouds. Heart saddens unable to meet you three. Heart saddens unable to meet you three.
00:14:06Heart saddens unable to meet you three. Heart saddens unable to meet you three.
00:14:20At the center of the planet Earth, come Eastern Tibet, echoes the reverent Lama's teaching.
00:14:28Now I'm left alone and unable to hear such teaching. Heart saddens unable to see my Lama.
00:14:38Heart saddens unable to see my Lama.
00:14:42Heart saddens unable to see my Lama.
00:14:52Heart saddens unable to see my Lama.
00:14:56My dear father and mother, fashion hair, close to departure. Now your kindness yet to be repaid.
00:15:06My youthful heart saddens. My youthful heart saddens.
00:15:10Old father and mother, now your kindness yet to be repaid. My youthful heart saddens. My youthful heart saddens. Thank you.
00:15:20For those of us joining us, we are Tibetans in exile and our supporters here at Union Square to celebrate the 23rd birthday.
00:15:42The 23rd birthday of Tibet's Pension Lama.
00:15:45The Pension Lama is one of the most important religious leaders of Tibet.
00:15:50Him, the Pension Lama and the Dalai Lama are one of the two most important religious leaders of Tibet.
00:15:56The Pension Lama, Gendinchuki Nima.
00:15:59He was six years old when he was recognized as Tibet's Pension Lama, the reincarnation.
00:16:06At six years old, in 1995, he was abducted by the Chinese government.
00:16:12At six years old, he was the youngest political prisoner.
00:16:16Him and his family were abducted by the Chinese government and it has been years since anybody has heard anything from him or seen anything about him or know his whereabouts.
00:16:28And the Chinese government refuses to give that information over.
00:16:33Today is his 23rd birthday.
00:16:3517th birthday in captivity.
00:16:3817th birthday kidnapped.
00:16:4217th birthday since his kidnap by the Chinese government.
00:16:47What we are doing here is asking everybody, asking our New York friends, our New York neighbors to join us in calling for his release.
00:16:59Alright, so do you see Occupy as changing things in this country?
00:17:06Yes.
00:17:08Alright, how long have you been in Occupy?
00:17:11Since September 17th.
00:17:16Have you been in a lot of direct actions?
00:17:18Not really.
00:17:20Okay, you just kind of hold down the fort?
00:17:22Yeah.
00:17:23Okay, did you stay in any of the squats?
00:17:25Yeah.
00:17:26How was that?
00:17:27Terrible.
00:17:29I hated it.
00:17:31Wow, is it true about people who were like biting and being raped and all that?
00:17:36Yep.
00:17:37Wow, anybody know?
00:17:38Nope.
00:17:39Okay.
00:17:40But you heard people tell you what happened to them, right?
00:17:43Yeah.
00:17:44And it was pretty bad.
00:17:46Yes, it was.
00:17:47Was it just girls being assaulted or guys too?
00:17:51Both.
00:17:52Both were being assaulted, wow.
00:17:54So it was a very unsafe condition, right?
00:17:57Yeah.
00:17:58Unsafe place.
00:17:59But I tried your best.
00:18:01You tried your best.
00:18:02Well, you did what you had to do.
00:18:03Well, I'm glad you're out of it.
00:18:04Are you now sleeping out on Wall Street or somewhere else?
00:18:07I'm sleeping out here on Wall Street.
00:18:09Well, actually this is Wall Street and Broad Street.
00:18:16On the corner of Broad Street.
00:18:18Broad Street, okay.
00:18:20So, that's good though.
00:18:22I mean like everyone is back again because in the winter time it was pretty cold and it seems like a lot of people went away.
00:18:27Yeah.
00:18:28To me it looks like a lot of people are coming back now that it's warm and now Occupy is in the news again.
00:18:33So, all good right?
00:18:36Yep.
00:18:37All good.
00:18:38All right.
00:18:39One last question.
00:18:40Where do you think Occupy will be by the fall?
00:18:43Be by the fall?
00:18:44Yeah.
00:18:45Hmm.
00:18:46Hopefully in a mass number that 500,000 people come.
00:18:53All right.
00:18:54And overwhelm the police.
00:18:55The police don't have enough police for 500,000 people.
00:19:01Yeah.
00:19:02Yeah.
00:19:03New York City only has 40,000 police.
00:19:04So, 500,000 people would be significant.
00:19:06And it would be like, hello, we're marching down here if you like it or not.
00:19:13You are not arresting all of us.
00:19:16That, yes.
00:19:17We'll march down every street, every corner, every alleyway, every inch of a sidewalk we
00:19:24just take up.
00:19:25Okay.
00:19:26And then people will turn around and say, wow, 500,000 people, 40,000 cops, who's going
00:19:37to win this one?
00:19:39And most likely they're going to have to call in the National Guard and assist help from
00:19:46all the neighboring states to spare any police officers that they can, which New Jersey doesn't
00:19:55do it because they hate New York City.
00:19:57New York State, the state of New York won't do it.
00:20:03From Pennsylvania all the way up to Maine won't even do it.
00:20:08Won't even help New York.
00:20:10Yes.
00:20:11Basically, New York is stuck by itself.
00:20:13New York City is stuck, stranded in the middle of the ocean by itself with no backup.
00:20:19With no backup.
00:20:20So, step on the National Guard and then we can have a field day.
00:20:24Okay.
00:20:25That'll be very interesting to see.
00:20:29So, we have to wait and see.
00:20:32You're welcome.
00:20:33This is the infamous Nan Terry in front of Bank of America.
00:20:36How are you doing, Nan?
00:20:37I am blessed.
00:20:38Very busy.
00:20:39Extremely blessed.
00:20:40I've been taking care of business, like always.
00:20:45And keep up following up with the movement online and also my working groups.
00:20:52I send out people to basically follow up and do what they need to do.
00:20:56Basically, one thing and one thing.
00:20:59Okay.
00:21:00Can you tell us more about your working group Strong Women Rules?
00:21:03What do they do?
00:21:04Strong Women Rules Working Group.
00:21:05We deal with women that got raped when we were in the park.
00:21:10Right now, we have several trials that have been taking place, bringing justice for the victims.
00:21:19For those basically that have been victimized by the rape group.
00:21:23We have a couple trials.
00:21:24One of the trials coming up is in May.
00:21:26It's a tidier trial.
00:21:27I'm so excited.
00:21:28I can't wait to see it.
00:21:29We just had another trial just finished.
00:21:32And we're also going to go after David Parker.
00:21:36Dave Parker who actually raped besides Lauren with the blue hair but other people also who
00:21:42was, other women who was actually at the park.
00:21:45Okay.
00:21:46That's good.
00:21:47So, I'm hoping, I'm sure the courts will do the right thing and convict these men for
00:21:50the crimes they've done.
00:21:51They will.
00:21:52They will, yes.
00:21:53So, I'm just wondering, Strong Women's Rule is doing good work.
00:21:57Why is, why was there such opposition against you at Occupy?
00:22:01Great question because I tell the truth.
00:22:05I don't sell myself to the devil, you want to call it that way.
00:22:09Okay.
00:22:10I'm straight to the point.
00:22:11I don't have time for BS.
00:22:12I can smell of BS in my eyes away.
00:22:14They couldn't manipulate me.
00:22:16They couldn't brainwash me and they tried to silence me anyway if possible for me.
00:22:20To silence me.
00:22:21To basically try to destroy my reputation.
00:22:22But in reality, when those who really know me, they know exactly what I have done and
00:22:27they know my work.
00:22:28And no matter what, other people might, who doesn't know me might not, you know,
00:22:35quite listen to the yeses.
00:22:37I would suggest people to actually get to know me than just go by what they said.
00:22:46I basically did not put up.
00:22:48I saw what was coming and I've been calling out exactly what was coming.
00:22:52I told people, you know, that sounds fishy.
00:22:54I listened to my inner guts.
00:22:56And my inner guts never, never, never failed me.
00:22:59And whenever there was something like, for example, the smoke console, that sounds fishy,
00:23:04I would ask questions.
00:23:05If that question was not satisfied to me, I would continue to ask questions if I had to
00:23:09raise my voice.
00:23:10And several times they tried to basically silence me when I was trying to do that.
00:23:14And I would not, you know, remain silent because like I said, I am for the real 99%.
00:23:20Not the fake 99%, but the one, the true 99%.
00:23:24Those people who actually, that are struggling, that are basically can't pay their bills,
00:23:29or that lost their homes, that lost everything because of the economy, because of the greed.
00:23:33I am for those people.
00:23:35Like I have said before, I am for them.
00:23:37I will die for the 99%.
00:23:38I stay with the 99%, and I do sleep among the 99%.
00:23:41But I would, besides having the victim, the rape victim, having the rape victim,
00:23:46we have them provide shelters.
00:23:48We have them bring them back to society.
00:23:51Occupied Wall Street never, never, ever could do something like that.
00:23:55Because really, those people right now who claim their occupiers,
00:23:58or who are in Occupier Wall Street, they don't care for the whole 99%.
00:24:02If you honestly want the truth, at nighttime, go to Union Square.
00:24:06Watch them laying down, you know, lay them for themselves, lay down.
00:24:09The poor 99%, the homeless.
00:24:12Those people who were actually part of the movement that made the movement what it was.
00:24:15Watch them on the street, how they're laying down in, you know, in a, in a, whatever they're laying down.
00:24:21Cardboard, whatever they use to lay down.
00:24:24If 99% was for the true 99%, one other thing I can say is, let's get a building.
00:24:28Well, accounting refused to do that.
00:24:30Accounting comes with all kinds of excuses, so they can scratch their money.
00:24:33They're wasting money on stupidity.
00:24:35They're wasting the money on, um, what the, what that damn group called,
00:24:39the group that basically saying they're doing, uh, action, direct action.
00:24:42Direct action is a joke.
00:24:43Because direct action, all they do is splurge and cuss people to go to, go to jail for nothing.
00:24:48One of the, one of the things people do not understand.
00:24:50When you go to jail, you might say, oh, it's nothing, you know, it's a little fine here and there.
00:24:53But down the road, that will come, that could come down in hundreds.
00:24:57You know why?
00:24:58Because if you do decide to start a business, or get a job, or whatever it is,
00:25:02when they're doing the background, background service.
00:25:05They'll find about your criminal record.
00:25:06Exactly, exactly.
00:25:07And then, and people don't understand, cooperation, big companies nowadays,
00:25:11in order to have a business, you gotta go to the government.
00:25:14So they have to have what they call a tax ID, a business tax ID.
00:25:17So a company will look at that, they'll look at the business, and they'll look at you.
00:25:21They'll pick the next person that don't have a record, that deal with disobedience.
00:25:26See what disobedience is.
00:25:27That's true, and the other thing is, depending on what the person got convicted for,
00:25:30if you're a convicted felon, a company like a bank, for example, cannot hire you.
00:25:35They're not committed to.
00:25:36Exactly.
00:25:37By the government.
00:25:38Exactly, with the market right now, nowadays it's really hard,
00:25:41and more harder for any felon to get jobs.
00:25:44And if those felon who manage to get jobs, they either blessed, number one,
00:25:48or they had to struggle, or they had some kind of connection.
00:25:51It's really, really hard.
00:25:52So then people need to really start thinking, and start basically,
00:25:55let people push them, the other kids.
00:25:57Those basically who have apartments, who have money, who have mom and dad
00:26:02that can take care of them.
00:26:04They need to really look at themselves.
00:26:05Yeah, the movement is wonderful.
00:26:07We have a movement.
00:26:08Great.
00:26:09But when you look at different movements during the years, like in the hippie days,
00:26:13in the 60s, in the 40s, when you got all those movement that was rise, that we had,
00:26:17and then what happened?
00:26:18Because there is God going back to living their life.
00:26:21But nowadays, we have the technology.
00:26:23We got more restrictive rules, and regulations, and laws, and stronger government,
00:26:27and that will affect you.
00:26:29I think it's kind of ironic that anarchists, who do have money because they're being supported
00:26:33by their parents, were in such opposition to occupy doing something for people to get jobs,
00:26:38because homeless people need money, they need income.
00:26:41They were saying, oh, we don't want people to be wage slaves, but we all need money.
00:26:46You can't go to the grocery store for free.
00:26:48Your clothes, someone had to pay for them.
00:26:51To be able to communicate with people that you love, like your family, your friends.
00:26:55Someone has to pay your cell phone bill, your internet connection.
00:26:58Basically, it's all come down to laziness.
00:27:00They want somebody to take care of them while they're saying, yeah, we're part of the 99%.
00:27:04But they're not only lazy, but they're hypocrites.
00:27:06Because if you really want to be part of 99%, live like one.
00:27:10I have lived among the 99%.
00:27:12So have I.
00:27:13So people who knows me, they know that I only slept in the churches with them.
00:27:18I help them.
00:27:19I give them everything they want.
00:27:21I go out and mount waves to make sure that they got what they needed.
00:27:24So those people who are saying that, oh, yeah, you know, I'm an anarchy.
00:27:28I got my parents.
00:27:29I'm a trust fund baby.
00:27:30Let's do this.
00:27:31Let's do that.
00:27:32Yeah, yeah, yeah.
00:27:33And you know, and yeah, it was hypocrite.
00:27:35It's really hypocrite.
00:27:36You really need to understand how somebody you feel walking that person's shoes.
00:27:40That's all I have to say.
00:27:42Okay, good.
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00:28:07I'm live now.
00:28:08What do you think about the Mutu Union Square?
00:28:10I think it was a good idea at the time.
00:28:13I thought it was a good idea.
00:28:15Yes.
00:28:16And I still think that it was a good idea.
00:28:18And right now, I'm just sorry that there was not more support from the people that control
00:28:24the website.
00:28:25Union Square does activism, outreach, conversations.
00:28:32We used to do an open mic here all the time.
00:28:35Union Square is a good place to have conversations about all kinds of things.
00:28:39It's a good place to have.
00:28:40Okay.
00:28:41And in terms of any future financing coming in, do you think occupiers are being taken
00:28:47care of?
00:28:48Are things going well in that end?
00:28:50I don't think that occupiers should be taken care of like pets.
00:28:53But I do think that if you're showing video footage of an occupation and you're doing reporting
00:29:00on an occupation, an actual encampment.
00:29:03Yes.
00:29:04And then money comes in.
00:29:05If you're taking that money, it's your responsibility to get that money to the occupation that you're
00:29:10letting everybody know about.
00:29:13Okay, so that occupation should be funded towards any money that's being raised.
00:29:17Those people, because they're occupying, obviously deserve the money because they're doing all the
00:29:20work occupying, right?
00:29:21Not so much deserve the money, but it's like, not to use the corporate language, but if money
00:29:26was communication, then the people that are donating are trying to communicate their support.
00:29:31And we're not getting those communications.
00:29:33Even the letters of support that we get, we never got to see them.
00:29:38We rarely got to see the actual people that were camped out, never got to see letters from
00:29:44anyone in America.
00:29:46And I got to see them because I went into a room somewhere and I looked around and under
00:29:50a pile of tarps and slogan flyers, I saw some letters.
00:29:56But no one ever handed those out or made copies of those.
00:29:59I don't know if I'm really getting across the idea that's in my head, but the point
00:30:03is that there's a middleman between America and the actual Occupy Wall Street encampment.
00:30:10And those middlemen need to get out of the way.
00:30:12One last question.
00:30:13Do you know who those middlemen are?
00:30:17On my website, there's a video of the first General Assembly at Zuccotti Park.
00:30:28Yes.
00:30:29So, you know, I know the people who think that they created the General Assembly and I know
00:30:35the people who think that, you know, who think that they're the ones that created it at Wall Street.
00:30:42And that info is on your website.
00:30:45Well, there's a video of somebody doing it.
00:30:49On the video is like the first General Assembly and I asked the two facilitators, I was like,
00:30:55who are you, who are you affiliated with, and why are you standing up there?
00:30:59Yes.
00:31:00You know, and they laughed like they had some sort of innate authority.
00:31:04And I was like, you know, why didn't you ask for volunteers to facilitate?
00:31:08I can facilitate a meeting, other people can facilitate a meeting.
00:31:12Let's just say that the people that are good at socializing, those guys, the socializing people.
00:31:18The socializing people kind of took over from everybody else.
00:31:20Yeah.
00:31:21Occupy Wall Street is not anti-capitalist.
00:31:23It's just the anti-capitalists that are so good at socializing together and controlling the message.
00:31:29Oh, so a bunch of anti-capitalists or anarchists, whatever they call themselves, took over from everybody else.
00:31:35Not so much took over, but just created something that looked legitimate.
00:31:39And, you know, the media manipulators, the people that can manipulate the media, the people that can manipulate the message.
00:31:45Okay.
00:31:46As usual.
00:31:47The same thing that happens in the macrocosm, happens in the microcosm.
00:31:51Okay.
00:31:54Alright, thank you, Sage.
00:31:55No problem.
00:31:56Alright, Zach, how do you think Occupy has helped the country?
00:31:59Or do you think Occupy has done anything for the regular person?
00:32:02I believe Occupy Wall Street has helped bring attention, like, a lot of corruption within our country.
00:32:10And a lot of problems that we're facing with.
00:32:13That it's shed light on another side of America that's kind of twisted and corrupted.
00:32:19And I think it's helping the country realize that.
00:32:23And they're helping the world realize that.
00:32:26So they're coming down on our country, asking them to, like, stop messing with us so much.
00:32:32Alright, do you think Occupy has helped you?
00:32:34And if so, how?
00:32:35Occupy has helped me a lot to become more self-sufficient on the streets and surviving, like, within the community.
00:32:44Like, like, support system.
00:32:46It's like, it's like always having people there for you.
00:32:49Like, like, if I don't have an extra pair of socks, where do I go?
00:32:52I go to Occupy Wall Street and somebody has an extra pair of socks.
00:32:55Or if I'm starving, I go to Occupy Wall Street and somebody's got something to put in my stomach.
00:33:01You know what I mean?
00:33:02I mean, if I'm lonely, you go to Occupy Wall Street.
00:33:05There's people here, you know?
00:33:06It supports us as friends.
00:33:08So, Occupy has been a big, um, supports us not only emotionally but physically.
00:33:12Like, physical needs like food, um, clothes, et cetera.
00:33:16Yeah, everything.
00:33:17They've helped me out a lot.
00:33:18So, I mean, uh, I think that, I think Occupy Wall Street has turned it into a good thing.
00:33:25Instead of a bad thing, the way the media portrays us.
00:33:29I think the best thing about Occupy Wall Street is, despite whatever problems we may or may not have,
00:33:34um, the support system is probably really important.
00:33:37And, I guess, the social network without money.
00:33:41Because, normally in a big city like this, you have to go out to the restaurant or the bar and submit a lot of money.
00:33:45But, occupiers can socialize with each other for free.
00:33:48Yeah, a lot of people have to spend a lot of money to show off in front of people.
00:33:54And that's the only way they can gain friends or companionship.
00:33:59Because it's lonely when you have all that money and nobody to share it with.
00:34:04And then you have to, you have to go out there and oppress people and act like something that you're not.
00:34:10Instead of being yourself and just being a natural person.
00:34:13And just enjoying nature, enjoying the greater things in life that money can't buy.
00:34:19Alright, thank you, Zach.
00:34:21Alright, hi Felix.
00:34:24Hi.
00:34:25So, has Occupy Wall Street changed your life at all?
00:34:30Well, uh, it has changed my life so much that I couldn't even go back to my old life.
00:34:39Like, there's other protesters yesterday saying,
00:34:41Oh, I want to go back to my old life but I can't yet.
00:34:45In my opinion, the way I feel is like, I have changed so much.
00:34:50There's no option for anyone doing what I'm doing until things are the way we're hoping to be.
00:35:00Because more than anything, me myself have changed over the last 6 months.
00:35:06Um, I invert a lot of everything I've done and I did not find the software.
00:35:17Yes.
00:35:18Okay, and um, where do you think Occupy will go in the future?
00:35:23Um, well, I'm not really low, but I will tell you that wherever direction we're taking,
00:35:36which is since, like, expanded here and here, we have, like, two locations in here.
00:35:42We have here on Union Square and we have down Wall Street if we try to hold onto the floor down there, too.
00:35:49Um, it seems like we actually tried to, uh, make satellite, uh, locations onto the city and,
00:35:59so we can actually bring the message out and we are mostly directly now, I guess,
00:36:06toward a social justice, uh, aspect because, um,
00:36:11um, I feel like not only that, I mean, the money is just the root of the problem,
00:36:18but just have to branch out to so many ways, like, the housing and marriage equality and,
00:36:31so many things out there, like, healthcare, childcare, education,
00:36:37um, all these things that need to be improved, um, and, what I see,
00:36:44what I was really doing is trying to find ways to be self-sustainable,
00:36:49teach all the people to be self-sustainable, and, what I see in European pictures, like,
00:36:57um, somehow, small cloths, um, occupiers, like, making working groups as a cooperator,
00:37:05and, what I see, um, fish, like, how to build community.
00:37:11Yeah, I've heard of Occubank from one off, right?
00:37:13Yes.
00:37:14And, um, there's some other things, too.
00:37:16And, I've heard from some young occupiers, Occupy Farms,
00:37:19that Occupy has showed them how to find food or how to find clothes.
00:37:23It's, like, shows them how to find resources.
00:37:25They have friends.
00:37:26You don't have to spend a lot of money in the bar just to hang out with your friends.
00:37:29You have your friends that you actually work with in Occupy, or whatever you're working on.
00:37:32Yes.
00:37:33And, um, so, Occupy has been good for a lot of people, um, myself included,
00:37:38I've been writing a lot more because of Occupy,
00:37:40and, um, interviewing another because of Occupy,
00:37:43so, Occupy certainly has had a lot of good effects.
00:37:46Um, we're all a bunch of controversial people,
00:37:50but, that's what it takes.
00:37:52Yes, we are.
00:37:53Um, it's interesting seeing the melting pot in Occupy,
00:37:59how we're coming from all different walks of life,
00:38:04and all spiritual religious backgrounds.
00:38:08Yes.
00:38:09And non-religious or non-spiritual backgrounds.
00:38:11Yes.
00:38:12And, there are even capitalists around, among our mess,
00:38:17which is strange,
00:38:19but they have their own ideas of how to make it work,
00:38:21so, we're going from the capitalists to the anarchists,
00:38:24all together here, trying to figure out a middle point.
00:38:27And, so far, the only thing we have in common,
00:38:30and that we can agree on,
00:38:32is that things are fucked up and bullshit.
00:38:36Yes.
00:38:37And that we all want pizza.
00:38:39We all want pizza, yes.
00:38:40Everybody waits until the store is closed,
00:38:42and we all want pizza.
00:38:44That's one of the best things about Occupy.
00:38:46The pizza.
00:38:48Yeah, we're fucked up.
00:38:50Things are fucked up, and we need pizza.
00:38:52That's what we've done.
00:38:53Other than that,
00:38:54we are trying to, I guess,
00:38:58find a middle ground,
00:38:59a safe work ground where we can actually work.
00:39:03And,
00:39:04I'm pretty happy about the outcomes.
00:39:11We're not sneaking on the sidewalks of the Wall Street Mall,
00:39:15but,
00:39:16we're still trying a presence over there,
00:39:18trying a presence in New Square.
00:39:20And, as May Day gets closer,
00:39:24we're projecting that there's going to be more sites in the city,
00:39:29where we are going to be able to make a presence in the places that we want to target.
00:39:36And,
00:39:37I'm not going to mention them right now,
00:39:39but,
00:39:40a few places that we are not too much in love with,
00:39:45that we may be able to target,
00:39:46or just places that where we can,
00:39:48are just going to be able to gather and just be visible.
00:39:52Okay.
00:39:53I feel very hopeful,
00:39:56among all the craziness here,
00:39:58and,
00:39:59the fights that we sometimes have among each other.
00:40:01I am pretty happy about this happening right now.
00:40:03And,
00:40:04I'm very happy for the move to Union Square,
00:40:06because Union Square already had a lot of protesters,
00:40:08and all types of people already came to Union Square,
00:40:10from,
00:40:11students,
00:40:12to,
00:40:13working people,
00:40:14to,
00:40:15people who don't have a place to stay.
00:40:16Union Square already,
00:40:17had all types of people.
00:40:18So, I think it was a good fit for Occupy.
00:40:20Although, we do have other locations too,
00:40:21downtown.
00:40:22And,
00:40:23I'm sure other locations,
00:40:24like you said, will pop up.
00:40:25Um,
00:40:26it'll be interesting to see where Occupy evolves,
00:40:29because,
00:40:30in the fall,
00:40:32Occupy in each city was about a central camp in the city,
00:40:35and now it's,
00:40:36something that's become more decentralized.
00:40:39Yes.
00:40:40Well,
00:40:41we've always been decentralized.
00:40:42We've always been decentralized, yeah.
00:40:44But,
00:40:45we always had a central place of meeting during that first two months.
00:40:49Um,
00:40:50Um,
00:40:51that,
00:40:52not having the part,
00:40:53kind of like,
00:40:54really,
00:40:55put us,
00:40:56like,
00:40:57haywire,
00:40:58like,
00:40:59running like,
00:41:00ships,
00:41:01the heads for a while,
00:41:02but,
00:41:03um,
00:41:04that,
00:41:05there's actually power in the central station.
00:41:07There is.
00:41:08And,
00:41:09it does empower the whole leaderless movement,
00:41:11and,
00:41:12um,
00:41:13we are sure,
00:41:14as long as it's within our,
00:41:16guidelines and our agreements,
00:41:17basically,
00:41:18for people to do autonomous actions.
00:41:20Yes.
00:41:21Um,
00:41:22which stays for now,
00:41:23here and there,
00:41:24once in a while.
00:41:25Well,
00:41:26the one good thing that we,
00:41:27did also,
00:41:28the bureaucracy and Occupy,
00:41:29the spokes council and dinner assembly.
00:41:31Everybody quit that bullshit.
00:41:32Um,
00:41:33we all,
00:41:34uh,
00:41:35some of the work is being done,
00:41:36by working groups,
00:41:37on people who are doing individual autonomous actions.
00:41:40When people decided to camp downtown,
00:41:42a bunch of people just said,
00:41:43let's go,
00:41:44and they did it.
00:41:45So,
00:41:46I think,
00:41:47in terms of decision making,
00:41:48Occupy has gotten better in the past here.
00:41:50Well,
00:41:51um,
00:41:52you know,
00:41:53originally,
00:41:54a,
00:41:55kind of dissolve,
00:41:56and so disposed,
00:41:57folks,
00:41:58before GA did.
00:41:59Yes.
00:42:00Mostly because the people who were running that,
00:42:02were not the core occupiers,
00:42:04but,
00:42:05there's some talk about,
00:42:06I don't know,
00:42:07the GA piece running out soon.
00:42:08Yes.
00:42:09Just because,
00:42:10apparently,
00:42:11there,
00:42:12since we started to occupy,
00:42:13some,
00:42:14some kind of,
00:42:15Paypal account was established,
00:42:16for Occupy Wall Street,
00:42:17but,
00:42:18that one is not going to be released,
00:42:21until we actually organize.
00:42:22Now that we have people,
00:42:24that,
00:42:25we,
00:42:26probably,
00:42:27see that we can be more,
00:42:28on the same page.
00:42:29Because,
00:42:30we're actually occupying,
00:42:31you know,
00:42:32to have our,
00:42:33basic needs meds,
00:42:34like,
00:42:35food,
00:42:36and,
00:42:37food,
00:42:38medical supplies,
00:42:40maybe,
00:42:41even little,
00:42:42small,
00:42:43battery packs,
00:42:44to charge our funds,
00:42:45stuff like that.
00:42:46Just like,
00:42:47not the ridiculous amount of,
00:42:49two thousand,
00:42:50three thousand dollars,
00:42:51for an action,
00:42:52and we don't know what money,
00:42:53went for.
00:42:54Because,
00:42:55we don't really need that much money,
00:42:57for an action,
00:42:58really.
00:42:59We just need the people,
00:43:00to show up,
00:43:01and let them be rowdy,
00:43:02and do whatever they need to do.
00:43:03Okay.
00:43:04Um,
00:43:05but,
00:43:06and,
00:43:07set a fund aside,
00:43:09for just more,
00:43:10would be great,
00:43:11like,
00:43:12mail fund,
00:43:13and just more,
00:43:14but,
00:43:15um,
00:43:16that money,
00:43:17that came to that,
00:43:18PayPal account,
00:43:19we would like it to have,
00:43:20for,
00:43:21uh,
00:43:22basic needs,
00:43:23as long as we can actually,
00:43:24look at RGA.
00:43:25Okay.
00:43:26Um,
00:43:27that,
00:43:28will not be run by 10%,
00:43:29or so.
00:43:30Okay,
00:43:31you're right.
00:43:32Well,
00:43:33you know,
00:43:34kitchen,
00:43:35can get money directly,
00:43:36because they serve the food.
00:43:37So,
00:43:38maybe,
00:43:39um,
00:43:40anybody who wants to donate money,
00:43:41to occupiers,
00:43:42who are on the ground,
00:43:43such as yourself,
00:43:44can give food directly,
00:43:45or can give money directly.
00:43:46They can look you guys up.
00:43:47Um,
00:43:48this is Felix Rivera Petrie.
00:43:49Um,
00:43:50you know,
00:43:51hit him up online,
00:43:52to find out how to help.
00:43:53Um,
00:43:54and how to give direct donations.
00:43:55Um,
00:43:56or whatever's needed,
00:43:57to help,
00:43:58um,
00:43:59him and others,
00:44:00keep up the good fight.
00:44:01Yeah.
00:44:02I'm in Facebook,
00:44:03and I'll...
00:44:04That Turkish guy inspired you.
00:44:06Turkish guy inspired me,
00:44:07yes.
00:44:08Um,
00:44:09so,
00:44:10what makes you to Occupy?
00:44:11Um,
00:44:12well,
00:44:13it started the movement,
00:44:14and this seems like,
00:44:1510 to 15 years ago,
00:44:17uh,
00:44:18as a kind of a culture jamming thing.
00:44:20And that was something I knew how to do.
00:44:21I know a lot about perception,
00:44:23or,
00:44:24I think I know a lot about perception.
00:44:25I perceive myself as a nowhere of a perception.
00:44:27And I came here to participate,
00:44:29in this major issue.
00:44:31And,
00:44:32I can't lie to you,
00:44:35between that time and now,
00:44:37I've been like 50 things,
00:44:39and I don't know why.
00:44:41And I feel kinda like I've lived in like,
00:44:44a very trashy reality show.
00:44:46Okay.
00:44:47Okay.
00:44:48So,
00:44:49you,
00:44:50um,
00:44:51how do you feel about Occupy's move to Union Square?
00:44:54Good,
00:44:55because I had a connection to Union Square prior,
00:44:57to Occupy.
00:44:58Okay.
00:44:59And,
00:45:00has Occupy had any influence or change on your life?
00:45:04Has it changed at all?
00:45:05Yes,
00:45:06it's,
00:45:07it's,
00:45:08it's ruined to me.
00:45:09It's been my ruin.
00:45:11It's been your ruin?
00:45:13Yes.
00:45:14How's it ruined you?
00:45:15I've been here on and off for six months.
00:45:18So,
00:45:19it stopped you from doing other things?
00:45:21Um,
00:45:22yeah,
00:45:23it's,
00:45:24it's been important.
00:45:25I mean,
00:45:26this world is about,
00:45:27um,
00:45:28in a way,
00:45:29different things much of the time.
00:45:30Yeah.
00:45:31And,
00:45:32uh,
00:45:33the Greek word,
00:45:34Philio,
00:45:35I believe it,
00:45:36the kind of friendship has grown on me.
00:45:37Yeah.
00:45:38Um,
00:45:39I would say it's like,
00:45:40it's transforming me,
00:45:41a compassionate, decent person.
00:45:42Uh huh.
00:45:43It wasn't that bad to begin with.
00:45:44Okay.
00:45:45But it gave me some opportunities to connect in important ways.
00:45:48So,
00:45:49it's connected you to other people.
00:45:50Yes,
00:45:51it has.
00:45:52Improved your social skills.
00:45:53I think mine are good.
00:45:55Other people don't.
00:45:56That's their problem,
00:45:57but,
00:45:58um,
00:45:59they hold many of the cards in these matters.
00:46:01Um,
00:46:02no,
00:46:03but the whole thing is,
00:46:04um,
00:46:05on a number of levels,
00:46:06it's been important.
00:46:07Um,
00:46:08a lot of change in,
00:46:09uh,
00:46:10discussion,
00:46:11and that's been good.
00:46:12We've had opportunities of such magnitude,
00:46:14um,
00:46:15it's hard to wreck it.
00:46:16And we've,
00:46:17not always,
00:46:18let's say,
00:46:19done stuff with them.
00:46:20Uh huh.
00:46:21And,
00:46:22um,
00:46:23there's a lot more to be said,
00:46:24but I think that's enough for now.
00:46:25Okay, that's good.
00:46:26I know the man behind this camera.
00:46:27Okay,
00:46:28good.
00:46:29Well,
00:46:30thank you very much,
00:46:31George.
00:46:32Alright,
00:46:33there is a Trayvon Modern March Day,
00:46:34and there's one tomorrow.
00:46:35Um,
00:46:36specifically,
00:46:37um,
00:46:38what are people doing on this march?
00:46:39Uh,
00:46:40well,
00:46:41like,
00:46:42uh,
00:46:43the march day was,
00:46:44organized by the TWU.
00:46:45Uh huh.
00:46:46And I guess it was like to,
00:46:47uh,
00:46:48raise awareness.
00:46:49Yes.
00:46:50And in solidarity with,
00:46:51like,
00:46:52other actions happening throughout the country.
00:46:53Yes.
00:46:54And the one tomorrow,
00:46:55uh,
00:46:56at 6 o'clock,
00:46:57the rally,
00:46:58and then at 7 o'clock,
00:46:59is,
00:47:00uh,
00:47:01I think that the,
00:47:02uh,
00:47:03grand jury's gonna convene.
00:47:04Yeah.
00:47:05But I heard that they,
00:47:06they're not gonna convene.
00:47:07I heard that the grand jury's not even gonna go through.
00:47:08But they're still having a rally tomorrow here,
00:47:10and a march,
00:47:11that's leaving at 7 o'clock.
00:47:12And basically,
00:47:13that's in solidarity with other actions going on throughout the country.
00:47:16And that's also like,
00:47:17uh,
00:47:18the black community.
00:47:19Uh huh.
00:47:20And like,
00:47:21uh,
00:47:22other disenfranchised communities coming out,
00:47:23against police brutality,
00:47:24or speaking out against other state sanction,
00:47:27uh,
00:47:28brutalities against people of color.
00:47:31Okay.
00:47:32Like, uh,
00:47:33tomorrow,
00:47:34specifically,
00:47:35the reason why I agree with,
00:47:36uh,
00:47:37rallies and marches like this,
00:47:38is because it raises awareness about,
00:47:40like,
00:47:41core issues of,
00:47:42uh,
00:47:43what's going on in the black community.
00:47:44Yes.
00:47:45Like,
00:47:46other minority communities that are disenfranchised.
00:47:47You know,
00:47:48you have systematic discrimination,
00:47:49and you have like,
00:47:50a,
00:47:51you have systematic,
00:47:52uh,
00:47:53disenfranchisement.
00:47:54Through,
00:47:55brutality.
00:47:56Stopping,
00:47:57like,
00:47:58for example,
00:47:59you have stop,
00:48:00stop and frisk.
00:48:01You have,
00:48:02um,
00:48:03other,
00:48:04like,
00:48:05do you feel that,
00:48:06um,
00:48:07not,
00:48:08that I'm advocating drug use,
00:48:09I'm totally against this,
00:48:10but,
00:48:11do you feel that the war of drugs,
00:48:12totally,
00:48:13um,
00:48:14what's the word,
00:48:15um,
00:48:16this has disparate impact on poor people,
00:48:17or people in poor communities.
00:48:18Let's say somebody has like,
00:48:19a small amount of marijuana,
00:48:20and then they get stopped on that,
00:48:21and they get locked up in jail.
00:48:22Do you think that's,
00:48:23um,
00:48:24is that negatively affecting these communities?
00:48:26Uh,
00:48:27yes,
00:48:28I'll say it was negatively affecting the community.
00:48:30Like,
00:48:31even like,
00:48:32the limited amount of,
00:48:33uh,
00:48:34benefit it has on the community,
00:48:35like,
00:48:36like,
00:48:37busting of,
00:48:38like,
00:48:39drug dens,
00:48:40or,
00:48:41uh,
00:48:42busting of,
00:48:43uh,
00:48:44drug corners.
00:48:45Yes.
00:48:46That's,
00:48:47yes,
00:48:48that's a very limited benefit.
00:48:49Because at the same time,
00:48:50you're really not addressing,
00:48:51like,
00:48:52the deep,
00:48:53uh,
00:48:54problems of why people are using drugs.
00:48:55You're just criminalizing the issue,
00:48:56and you're arresting people that have,
00:48:57like,
00:48:58a bag of marijuana,
00:48:59for example.
00:49:00You're clogging up the traditional system.
00:49:01And,
00:49:02um,
00:49:03you're messing up these people with,
00:49:04uh,
00:49:05records and,
00:49:06uh,
00:49:07futures,
00:49:08possibly.
00:49:09Possibly with convictions,
00:49:10they may have a hard time getting a job or going to school,
00:49:11right?
00:49:12Exactly.
00:49:13Because that's already hard enough,
00:49:14if you don't have that.
00:49:15So,
00:49:16having that is definitely,
00:49:17like,
00:49:18an extra,
00:49:19like,
00:49:20uh,
00:49:21impediment,
00:49:22for, uh,
00:49:23for your advancement in this society.
00:49:24So,
00:49:25I guess it's sort of weird,
00:49:26because,
00:49:27often,
00:49:28when people talk about limited government,
00:49:29blah,
00:49:30blah,
00:49:31we hate the government,
00:49:32it seems ironic that the government would punish people for doing,
00:49:34um,
00:49:35marijuana.
00:49:36I'm not saying become a pod head,
00:49:38or become an alcoholic,
00:49:39or become a this,
00:49:40or become a that,
00:49:41but,
00:49:42it seems like,
00:49:43it seems like, uh,
00:49:44a choice should be left up to you to do that.
00:49:45Yes,
00:49:46it is a contradiction.
00:49:47Like, a lot of, like,
00:49:48so-called, like, uh,
00:49:49Republicans,
00:49:50or so-called conservatives,
00:49:51that they, like,
00:49:52fry themselves on limited government,
00:49:53it shows the hypocrisy.
00:49:54Because the only time they want limited government is when the government is actually going in and busting up monopolies,
00:49:59or going in and providing, uh, poor people with social services, like Medicare, SSI, or Section 8.
00:50:05However, like, when the government's, uh, trying to regulate what women do with their body as an abortion,
00:50:10or when the government is trying to regulate the amount of drug use people use, which is something personal,
00:50:15and at best, a sickness,
00:50:17these same people are saying that the government should arrest them, convict them, and harass them.
00:50:23So, it shows the contradiction, right?
00:50:25It shows, like, the blatant and inherent contradiction in their position.
00:50:29And, arguably, if you want to make government smaller, if you reformed the drug laws,
00:50:35let's say, not locking people up for marijuana, for example,
00:50:37you would have a lot less government spending, because I know people talk about, they hate taxes.
00:50:41Um, uh, we've all worked, nobody likes having taxes cut out of your paycheck.
00:50:45So, I mean, yeah, so somebody commits a serious crime, murder, theft, lock them up.
00:50:50But, kids smoking marijuana, arguably, by throwing so many people in jail for that,
00:50:55or even prosecuting them, even if they don't go to jail,
00:50:57that's a huge waste of, um, taxpayer money, wouldn't you say?
00:51:00Yeah, I'd say, like, it's a big, uh, use, but, like, you have to consider also, too, like, um,
00:51:04let's take an example, uh, what's going on, uh, here, like, uh, in Zuccotti,
00:51:09and what's going on in Union Square, where all these police doing overtime.
00:51:12Yes.
00:51:13You know, a lot of times, these institutions, they need something to justify funding.
00:51:16And funding of continued existence, but go ahead.
00:51:18And preservation, like, take the DEA.
00:51:20You know, the DEA and other, like, um, organizations like that,
00:51:24they want the war on drugs to continue. Why?
00:51:27Because it funds them.
00:51:28You know, it's a career for them.
00:51:30It's the same thing, like, uh, the war on terror.
00:51:33Yes.
00:51:34You know, you want a war on terror, because if you own, like, a surveillance camera, uh, company,
00:51:39you're gonna get that funding from the government, or if you're, like, a company, like, let's say, um,
00:51:44Dick Cheney's company.
00:51:45Yeah.
00:51:46What's the company's name?
00:51:48Uh, what's your name?
00:51:49Halliburton.
00:51:50Halliburton.
00:51:51Yeah.
00:51:52Oh, KBR.
00:51:53Yeah.
00:51:54Well, if you have this running on so-called war on drugs, you know,
00:51:56it's good for your coffers, for your pockets.
00:51:58You know, you really don't care about the issue, but you care about what the issue's doing for you.
00:52:02Like, not my brother, like, not my father, not my cousin, not you, not him, not him, not her, not anybody.
00:52:12Never a kid, or not a little kid, or should anybody.
00:52:15What is it?
00:52:16What is it?
00:52:17The freedom of all these mothers should never move, or never have long-term shots.
00:52:21No one should lose their kid to an unjust system that doesn't want us to be here,
00:52:25but brought up here to these places.
00:52:27If you didn't want to be, you shouldn't have brought up here.
00:52:29You shouldn't have brought up here.
00:52:31It's what you would've made on my back.
00:52:33It's not your company, it's my grandpa.
00:52:36She made the shit work.
00:52:38I'm trying to choose my grandma.
00:52:40These people are my family.
00:52:43All of you are my family.
00:52:45Every last one of you, black, white, I don't care what the fuck you look like.
00:52:48Use my language.
00:52:49I'm just very upset.
00:52:51And she was right.
00:52:52We can't wait for the council to tell us what to do.
00:52:55We can't wait and call.
00:52:56Phone calls are not enough.
00:52:58We have to get up and get out here.
00:53:00And I brought us out here to make that a statement.
00:53:02And this is just the beginning.
00:53:04We're going to march.
00:53:05We're going to walk.
00:53:06We're going to hold up our signs, our flags, our fiddle fingers, our feet, whatever.
00:53:10I don't care what you do.
00:53:11You're just going to walk, and you're going to scream at the top of your lungs
00:53:14every single person you have lost to this system.
00:53:16Every single person that's locked up right now, and you know shouldn't be there,
00:53:19you say their name while you walk.
00:53:21I don't care if you cry.
00:53:22I'm crying in front of all of you right now.
00:53:24It means nothing.
00:53:25No one should be in jail for no reason other than they committed a crime.
00:53:30It's another form of slavery.
00:53:31It is.
00:53:32You're right.
00:53:33It is.
00:53:34I want to follow us as we march down here towards Washington Square Park.
00:53:37And we're going to hold up our flags, take pictures.
00:53:41And thank you all for coming out to support me.
00:53:43I really do appreciate it.
00:53:44We are Trayvon Martin.
00:54:08We are Trayvon Martin.
00:54:11We are Trayvon Martin.
00:54:36We are Trayvon Martin!
00:55:06We are Trayvon Martin!
00:55:29So is it dying? What's wrong?
00:55:31They just can't fly right now.
00:55:32Maybe because it's a baby.
00:55:33No, it totally is a baby.
00:55:35You think so?
00:55:36Yeah.
00:55:37You get big.
00:55:38Yeah, you get to see it in his face.
00:55:42It's a spring though.
00:55:43I don't think they have babies like around this time.
00:55:45I don't know.
00:55:46I mean, I don't think they have babies.
00:55:48I have a lot of animals, but it's big though.
00:55:50It's not like a newborn.
00:55:51Dude, it's just an anatomy itself, man.
00:55:53Have you ever seen a big bat?
00:55:54Dude, look at its hair.
00:55:55Have you seen how big it is?
00:55:56You see how short the hair is on the back?
00:55:58That is a baby.
00:55:59That's a baby.
00:56:00That's a baby.
00:56:01It would be bigger and it would be flying right now.
00:56:04Yeah.
00:56:05It would be somewhere hanging upside down.
00:56:07No, no, no, no, no.
00:56:08So you could just fell out of a nest or something, maybe?
00:56:10With a bank.
00:56:11I can believe it.
00:56:12I don't know what type of a bank.
00:56:13Yeah, but I'd probably try to fly it later down.
00:56:16Because when I was walking around the street, it was like, oh.
00:56:20Oh, shit.
00:56:21Oh, shit.
00:56:26Let's find some crickets.
00:56:28Yeah, let's find some croupes and stuff.
00:56:30Anybody got any insects?
00:56:31Any insects?
00:56:32Oh, you guys can go to the pet store.
00:56:33They'll sell them insects at the pet store.
00:56:35So, yeah, you guys can buy some bugs for it.
00:56:38I don't have any money.
00:56:39There's a big-ass bunny in the window.
00:56:41You better feed this bank.
00:56:42You better feed this bank.
00:56:43You better feed this bank.
00:56:44Maybe you should try to buy it in the best store.
00:56:45So they can drop it on squirrels.
00:56:47Kill it, yeah.
00:56:48You guys should set up, put up like a donation bucket or something like that.
00:56:52Feed the bat.
00:56:53Feed the bat, yeah.
00:56:54Feed the bat.
00:56:55Yeah, put up a bucket.
00:56:56And a sign.
00:56:57All the donations should go to the cause.
00:56:58Grab it through my pocket.
00:57:00There he is.
00:57:01There he is.
00:57:02There he is.
00:57:03There he is.
00:57:04There he is.
00:57:05He is.
00:57:06There he is.
00:57:07There he is.
00:57:08He is.
00:57:09So he's African.
00:57:10So is it dying?
00:57:11What's wrong?
00:57:12You just can't fly right now.
00:57:14Maybe because it's a baby.
00:57:15No, it totally is a baby.
00:57:17You think so?
00:57:18Yeah.
00:57:19You get big.
00:57:20Yeah, no, you get to see it in his face.
00:57:22Oh.
00:57:23It's a spring though.
00:57:24I don't think they have babies like around this time.
00:57:27I don't know.
00:57:28I mean, I don't think they have babies.
00:57:29That's a baby.
00:57:30A lot of animals, but it's big though.
00:57:32It's not like a newborn.
00:57:33It's just an anatomy itself, man.
00:57:35It's just a baby.
00:57:36You see a big bat?
00:57:37Look at his hair.
00:57:38You see how short the hair is on the back?
00:57:40You know what I mean?
00:57:41That is a baby.
00:57:42That's a baby.
00:57:43Because the hair would be longer.
00:57:44It would be bigger.
00:57:45And it would be flying right now.
00:57:46Yeah.
00:57:47Yeah.
00:57:48It would be somewhere hanging upside down.
00:57:49No, no, no, no, no.
00:57:50Wait, did you get fell out of a nest or something?
00:57:51Maybe?
00:57:52It's a type of a bank.
00:57:53I can believe it.
00:57:54It's a type of a bank.
00:57:55Yeah, but I probably tried to fly it later down.
00:57:58Because when I was walking, a lot of things were going to be slain.
00:58:01Oh.
00:58:02Oh, shit.
00:58:03Oh, shit.
00:58:08Let's find some crickets.
00:58:10Yeah, let's find some croupes and stuff.
00:58:12Anybody got any insects?
00:58:13Oh, you guys can go to the pet store.
00:58:15They'll sell them insects at the pet store.
00:58:17So, yeah, you guys can buy some bugs for it.
00:58:20There's a big-ass dummy in the window.
00:58:22You better feed this thing.
00:58:24We should drop it out of the pet store.
00:58:27They can drop it out somewhere else.
00:58:29Kill it, yeah.
00:58:30You guys should put up like a donation bucket or something like that.
00:58:34Feed the bat.
00:58:35Feed the bat, yeah.
00:58:36Feed the bat.
00:58:37Yeah, put up a bucket.
00:58:38And a sign.
00:58:39All donations will go to the cause.
00:58:40Grab it to my pocket.
00:58:42There you go.
00:58:43There you go.
00:58:44There you go.
00:58:45There you go.
00:58:46There you go.
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00:59:12And I'm Okay.
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00:59:23they felt and to hope for a world in which we can all live free of racialized oppression.
00:59:53The first, January 12, 2012, Donald Johnson, 21, New Orleans, January 12, 2012, Dwayne Brown,
01:00:1626, East New York, Brooklyn, January 17, Angelo Clark, 31, Little Rock, Arkansas, January 24,
01:00:37Stephen Rodriguez, 22, Monterey Park, California, January 29, Antoine White, 17, Bushwick, Brooklyn,
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