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The Many Faces Of Occupy Wall Street
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00:00:00This is Justin Samuels
00:00:02and 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
00:00:19or say the movement changed in positive ways
00:00:21and people who had many complaints about the movement
00:00:25including problems such as rapes or sexual assaults in the camps or things like that.
00:00:30For 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
00:00:48for the major problems of Occupy Wall Street.
00:00:50That e-book is available for sale on Amazon.com.
00:00:54For further information on Occupy Wall Street,
00:00:57you can check out a variety of other sources on the web.
00:01:00The Huffington Post, Breitbart.com.
00:01:03Lee Stranahan, among others, have done excellent work on covering Occupy Wall Street.
00:01:08And you can also check out The Daily Caller.
00:01:10It has some pretty good articles, too,
00:01:12for more of these things that are featured in Occupy Wall Street.
00:01:16The sexual assault case that Nan Terry speaks about.
00:01:20That is referenced in the Huffington Post.
00:01:25Basically, I think that Occupy Wall Street had...
00:01:28I have been pretty critical of it recently, but it's had some good effects, too.
00:01:32Though one good effect Occupy Wall Street has had is, I think, the changes it has 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.
00:01:48And if they decided not to cover things, they didn't get covered.
00:01:54And 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 to the big newspapers or to the networks.
00:02:07They found out a lot of interesting information from blogs,
00:02:11from e-books sold on Amazon, from 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,
00:03:04were so anti-everything, anti-capitalist, anti-everything that they wanted to basically
00:03:09throw away everything.
00:03:13They 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, when you throw away food transportation, refrigeration, 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 the large cities.
00:03:36And that's extremely unfortunate, that doesn't have to be that way,
00:03:40to those people that are just urging to rejoin the rest of society.
00:03:43But anyway, I really hope you've enjoyed this film,
00:03:46and 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
00:03:59Every Time I Check My Message Is Somebody Thinks I'm Dead by Daniel Levine.
00:04:05And again, check out Lee Spanahan's work on BrightBard.com.
00:04:11Check out some articles from the Huffington Post.
00:04:13Check out other articles on Occupy Wall Street from BrightBard.
00:04:17Check out Citizen Journalist by Nicarala.
00:04:19He's done a lot of coverage on Occupy Wall Street.
00:04:22Mandy Nagy again at BrightBard.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.
00:04:35To you all, to higher conditions!
00:04:48Ease up! Ease up!
00:04:55Hey, look, if you're really worried about this, you can all film and work for us.
00:04:59Ease up!
00:05:05My home paycheck goes to Sully May.
00:05:08That's True!
00:05:10Thank You.
00:05:11Mine's True!
00:05:13My sons True!
00:05:13Thank you for finding M.A.F.D.
00:05:14Ease up!
00:05:18No!
00:05:19No!
00:05:23No!
00:05:23No!
00:05:24No!
00:05:25No!
00:05:25If my master is in work, I have an idea.
00:05:31That's the idea!
00:05:32This is why all you can live organized together and have a gun strike.
00:05:37Yeah!
00:05:39No!
00:05:42No!
00:05:42Good shot!
00:05:44Good shot!
00:05:46Good shot!
00:05:47Really happy Mr. Felica
00:05:49Believe in
00:05:49We are actually scared!
00:06:17It's a celebration, it's a party, it's a murder party, it's a murder party, it's a murder party,
00:06:32it's a celebration, it's a celebration, you're wrong, you're all wrong, you are alone, and it's never going to change,
00:06:46it's never going to change.
00:06:49We are not alone!
00:07:18And today we'll actually start a program by maybe even telling you guys, sharing with you guys what the Pension
00:07:25Lama means to the Tibetan people, who he is to the Tibetan people.
00:07:29By sharing the poems, the writings, the music by Tibetans inside Tibet, by Tibetans in exile, who express their love,
00:07:40their devotion to the Pension Lama.
00:07:42So that you can share a glimpse of what the Pension Lama means to the Tibetan people, and what he
00:07:49could mean to the world.
00:07:56So, some jokes, maybe you can share a poem with us.
00:08:12I'm going to read out the lyrics of the song from Sunam Tashi, called Missing the Pension Lama by Sunam
00:08:19Tashi.
00:08:21Sunam Tashi is a well-known Tibetan singer in Tibet. Here he sings in reverence to the Pension Lama and
00:08:26expresses his as well as the Tibetan people's devotion and love to the Pension Lama.
00:08:32GEDONG CHUGI NIMA, LIMBOCHEN, you're my root Lama. GEDONG CHUGI NIMA, LIMBOCHEN, please return to the land of snows.
00:08:52GEDONG CHUGI NIMA, LIMBOCHEN, you're my root Lama. GEDONG CHUGI NIMA, LIMBOCHEN, you're my root Lama. GEDONG CHUGI NIMA, LIMBOCHEN,
00:08:58please return to the land of snows.
00:08:59GEDONG CHUGI NIMA, LIMBOCHEN, your holiness, pension and bacheng. Who else could I offer this pure white scarf to? Who
00:09:04else could I sing this heartfelt song for each drop of my tear?
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, musician inside
00:09:25Tibet, who sang openly about his devotion to the Pension Lama.
00:09:32Second, I would like to ask Lucy to come share a poem.
00:09:42So, Serin Woser is a Tibetan poet, a writer and a blogger who lives in Beijing. She writes reports on
00:09:51the situation in Tibet and is a courageous voice amplifying the messages of the Tibetans living in Tibet.
00:09:59Despite the constant harassment she receives from the Chinese government.
00:10:04According to Woser, this poem was written one day in October 2005 when she had finished reading The Search for
00:10:11the Panchen Lama by a female British journalist.
00:10:16If time could cover up a lie. Is ten years enough? A child matures into a clever youth, but like
00:10:27a parrot mumbles by rote the phrases that will please his masters. The other child, where is he?
00:10:36The sky-like birthmark on his wrist recalls his previous life before, when for ten years he sat trussed with
00:10:44tight handcuffs in some Beijing cell no ray of light could reach.
00:10:52What bruises mar him now, the child no one hears from. If there are nine levels to the darkness, at
00:11:00which one are they trapped? He and the other. If there are nine levels to the light, to which do
00:11:07they aspire? He and the other.
00:11:09Perhaps in each phase of darkness and of light where one is trapped, the other aspires.
00:11:16Kun-chuk-sam, the world's turned upside down, that the pain of impermanence of samsara has struck home to the
00:11:25Panchen Lama.
00:11:37For those of you who are just joining us, we are here celebrating the birthday of Tibet's Panchen Lama, Tibet's
00:11:4611th Panchen Lama, who is a very important religious leader, a spiritual leader of Tibet,
00:11:51who was kidnapped in 1995 when he was a six-year-old boy, and today he is turning 23 years
00:11:58old.
00:11:59This is the 17th birthday he is spending in captivity. This is the 17th birthday he is spending against his
00:12:08will.
00:12:13Can I ask, also what we are doing right now is sharing poems, sharing music, sharing lyrics from songs that
00:12:21Tibetans inside Tibet, as well as Tibetans in exile, have written in expression of their love and devotion to Tibet's
00:12:29Panchen Lama, the stolen child.
00:12:30Can I ask Namgyella to come up and share the lyrics to another song?
00:12:44Hello everybody, my name is Namgyella. Thank you all for joining us.
00:12:48I'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.
00:13:04Kunga is one of many Tibetan singers, including Yadong and Jamyangki, who have vowed never to sing in favor of
00:13:13the Chinese Communist Party.
00:13:15The following song, Yirekyo, which means heart saddens, by Kunga, calls for the return of the Dalai Lama to Tibet,
00:13:25and sings in reverence to the Dalai Lama, Panchen Lama, and the Kamapa.
00:13:32Kunga refers to the Dalai Lama and the kidnapped Panchen Lama, with concealed analogies, the Dalai Lama to the sun,
00:13:41and the Panchen Lama to the moon.
00:13:43So here's the translation of the song.
00:13:47Sun sets behind the seven mountains. The white moon gets consumed by the clouds. And the stars have fallen amid
00:13:56rain and clouds. Heart saddens unable to meet you three. Heart saddens unable to meet you three.
00:14:12Heart saddens unable to meet you three. Heart saddens unable to meet you three.
00:14:19At 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. Heart saddens unable
00:14:39to see my Lama.
00:14:48Heart saddens unable to see my Lama. My dear father and mother, fashion hair, close to departure. Now your kindness
00:15:03yet to be repaid.
00:15:05My youthful heart saddens. My youthful heart saddens. My youthful heart saddens. Thank you.
00:15:30For those of us joining us, we are Tibetans in exile and our supporters here at Union Square to celebrate
00:15:40the 23rd birthday.
00:15:42The 23rd birthday of Tibet's Penchen Lama. The Penchen Lama is one of the most important religious leaders of Tibet.
00:15:49Him, the Penchen Lama and the Dalai Lama are one of the two most important religious leaders of Tibet.
00:15:56The Penchen Lama, Gendinchuki Nima. He was six years old when he was recognized as Tibet's Penchen Lama, the reincarnation.
00:16:05At six years old, in 1995, he was abducted by the Chinese government. At six years old, he was the
00:16:14youngest political prisoner.
00:16:16Him and his family were abducted by the Chinese government and it has been years since anybody has heard anything
00:16:24from him or seen anything about him or know his whereabouts.
00:16:28And the Chinese government refuses to give that information over.
00:16:32Today is his 23rd birthday. 17th birthday in captivity. 17th birthday kidnapped. 17th birthday since his kidnap by the Chinese
00:16:46government.
00:16:47What we are doing here is asking everybody, asking our New York friends, our New York neighbors to join us
00:16:56in calling for his release.
00:16:59Alright, so do you see Occupy as changing things in this country?
00:17:06Yes.
00:17:09Alright, how long have you been in Occupy?
00:17:11Uh, since September 17th.
00:17:16Have you been in a lot of direct actions?
00:17:19Not really.
00:17:20Okay, you just kind of hold down the port?
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, um, fighting and being raped and all that?
00:17:35Yep.
00:17:37Wow, anybody know?
00:17:38Nope.
00:17:39Okay, but you heard people tell you what happened to them, right?
00:17:43Yeah.
00:17:43And, um, it was pretty bad.
00:17:45Yes, it was.
00:17:46Um, was 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, basically.
00:17:58Unsafe place.
00:17:59But I tried my 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?
00:18:06I'm sleeping out here on Wall Street.
00:18:09Well, actually, this is Wall Street and, um, Broad Street?
00:18:16On the corner of Broad Street.
00:18:18Broad Street, okay.
00:18:20So, um, that's good though.
00:18:22I mean, like, everyone is back again because in the wintertime it was pretty cold and it
00:18:25seems like a lot of people went away.
00:18:27Yeah.
00:18:27But, to me, it looks like a lot of people are coming back now that it's warm and now Occupy
00:18:32is in the news again.
00:18:33So, all good, right?
00:18:35Yep.
00:18:36All good.
00:18:37All right.
00:18:38One last question.
00:18:39Where do you think Occupy will be by the fall?
00:18:43Be by the fall?
00:18:43Yeah.
00:18:44Hmm.
00:18:47Hopefully, in a mass number, that 500,000 people come.
00:18:54All right.
00:18:54And overwhelm the police.
00:18:56The police don't have enough police for 500,000 people.
00:19:01Yeah, New York City only has 40,000 police, so 500,000 people would be significant.
00:19:06And it'd be, it'd be like, uh, 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 the sidewalk,
00:19:24we just take up.
00:19:26Okay.
00:19:26And then, and then people will turn around and say, wow, 500,000 people, 40,000 cops,
00:19:36who's going to win this one?
00:19:38And 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 New, from 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's stuck, stranded in the middle of the ocean, by itself, with no backup.
00:20:19With no backup?
00:20:19It's a 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.
00:20:31You'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.
00:20:39Very busy.
00:20:40Extremely, extremely blessed.
00:20:43I've been taking care of business, like always.
00:20:46And 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 and manage.
00:20:57Basically, while I'm taking care of the Bank.
00:20:59Okay.
00:21:00Can you tell us more about your working group, Strong Women Rules?
00:21:03What do they do?
00:21:03Strong Women Rules Working Group, we dealt with women that got raped during the park.
00:21:10Right now, we have several trials that have been taking place.
00:21:15We bring justice for the victims.
00:21:19For those basically that have been victimized by the labor.
00:21:23We have a couple of trials.
00:21:24One of the trials coming up is in May.
00:21:26It's a Tanya trial.
00:21:28I'm so excited.
00:21:29I can't wait to see it.
00:21:30We just had another trial just finished.
00:21:33And 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
00:21:42who was actually at the park.
00:21:45Okay, that's good.
00:21:46I'm sure the courts will do the right thing and convict these men for the crimes they've
00:21:50done.
00:21:51They will.
00:21:52They will, yes.
00:21:53I'm just wondering, Strong Women's Rule is doing good work.
00:21:57Why was there such opposition against you at Occupy?
00:22:02Great 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.
00:22:09I'm straight to the point.
00:22:10I don't have time for BS.
00:22:12I can smell of BS miles away.
00:22:14They couldn't manipulate me.
00:22:16They couldn't brainwash me and they tried to silence me in any way possible from bribing
00:22:22to silence me to basically try to destroy my reputation.
00:22:26But in reality, those who really know me, they know exactly what I have done.
00:22:30And they know my work.
00:22:32And no matter what, other people might know who doesn't know me might not, you know,
00:22:36quite listen to the yeses.
00:22:38I 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.
00:22:51I told people, you know, that sounds fishy.
00:22:54I listened to my inner guts and my inner guts never, never, never failed me.
00:22:59And whenever there was something like, for example, a spoke concert 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.
00:23:11And 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.
00:23:17Because 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 had said before, I am for them.
00:23:37I would die for the 99%.
00:23:38I stay with the 99%, and I do sleep among the 99%.
00:23:41But I wouldn't, besides having the victim, the rape victim, or having the rape victim,
00:23:46we have them provide shelters.
00:23:48We have them bring them back to society.
00:23:51Occupy Wall Street had never, never, ever could do something like that.
00:23:55Because really, those people right now who claim the occupiers, who are occupying Wall Street,
00:24:00they don't care for the 99%.
00:24:02If you honestly want the truth, at night time, 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 part of, actually part of the movement that made the movement what it was.
00:24:16Watch them on the street, how they're laying down in a, whatever they're laying down.
00:24:21Cardboard, whatever they use to lay down.
00:24:23If 99% was for the true 99%, one of the things I can say is, let's get a building.
00:24:29But accounting refused to do that.
00:24:30Accounting comes with all kinds of excuses, so they can splurge their money.
00:24:33They waste their money on stupidity.
00:24:35They waste their money on, what that damn group called, the group that basically saying they're doing direct action.
00:24:42Direct action is a joke.
00:24:44Because direct action, all they do is splurge and cause people to go to jail for nothing.
00:24:49One of the things people do not understand, when you go to jail, you might say, oh, it's nothing.
00:24:52You know, it's a little fun here and there.
00:24:54But down the road, 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, when they're doing
00:25:03the background...
00:25:04They'll find it like your criminal record.
00:25:06Exactly.
00:25:08And people don't understand, cooperation, big companies nowadays, in order to have a business, you've got to go to the
00:25:13government.
00:25:14So they have to have what they call a tax ID, a business tax ID.
00:25:18So a company will look at that, they will look at the business, and they will look at you.
00:25:22They'll pick the next person that don't have a record, that deal with disobedience, civil disobedience.
00:25:26That's true.
00:25:27And the other thing is, depending on what the person got convicted for, if you're a convicted felon, a company
00:25:33like a bank, for example, cannot hire you.
00:25:35They're not permitted to, by the government.
00:25:37Exactly.
00:25:37With the market right now, nowadays, it's really hard, and more harder for any felon to get jobs.
00:25:44And if those felon who manage to get jobs, they're either blessed, number one, or they have to struggle, or
00:25:49they have some kind of connection.
00:25:51It's really, really hard.
00:25:52So then people need to really start thinking, and start basically, let people push them, the other kids.
00:25:57Those who basically, who have apartments, who have, you know, who have money, who have mom and dad that can
00:26:02take care of them.
00:26:03They need to really look at themselves.
00:26:05But yeah, the movement is wonderful.
00:26:07We have a movement.
00:26:08Great.
00:26:08But when you look at different movements during the years, like in the hippie days, in the 60s, in the
00:26:1440s, when you've got all those movements that rise, that we had, and 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've got more restrictive rules, and regulations, and laws, and stronger government, and that will affect you.
00:26:28I think it's kind of ironic that anarchists, who do have money because they're being supported by their parents, were
00:26:35in 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.
00:26:54Someone has to pay your cell phone bill, your internet connection, your money.
00:26:58It's all come down to laziness.
00:27:00Yes.
00:27:00They want somebody to take care of them while, you know, they're saying, yeah, we're part of 99%.
00:27:04But, you know, they're not only lazy, but they're hypocrite.
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 know me, they know I only slept in the churches with them.
00:27:18I help them.
00:27:19I give them everything they want.
00:27:20I 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 got, I'm a trust fund baby.
00:27:30Let's do this.
00:27:31Let's do that.
00:27:32Yeah.
00:27:32Yeah.
00:27:32Yeah.
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, walk in that person's shoes.
00:27:40That's all I have to say.
00:27:42Okay, good.
00:27:42Well, thank you very much, Nan.
00:27:44And this was a splendid interview.
00:27:45And I'm sure everybody will like to hear your side of the story.
00:27:50It was wonderful.
00:27:51We all enjoyed it.
00:27:52It was a pleasure talking to you.
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00:28:06And we're out.
00:28:07I'm live now.
00:28:08What do you think about the Mutu Union Square?
00:28:11I think it was a good idea at the time.
00:28:13At the time, I thought it was a good idea.
00:28:15And 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
00:28:23the website.
00:28:24But Union 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, and in terms of any future financing coming in, do you think occupiers are being
00:28:47taken care 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.
00:29:03And then money comes in, if you're taking that money, it's your responsibility to get that
00:29:07money to the occupation that you're letting everybody know about.
00:29:13Okay, so that occupation should be funded towards any money that's being raised.
00:29:16Those people, because they're occupying, obviously deserve the money because they're doing all
00:29:19the work occupying, right?
00:29:20Not 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.
00:29:37Like, we rarely got to see the actual people that were camped out, never got to see letters
00:29:44from anyone in America.
00:29:45And I got to see them because I went into a room somewhere and I looked around and under
00:29:49a pile of like tarps and slogan flyers, I saw some letters.
00:29:55But 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.
00:30:09And those middlemen need to get out of the way.
00:30:12One last question.
00:30:12Do you know who those middlemen are?
00:30:18On my website, there's a video of the first General Assembly
00:30:25and I asked the two facilitators.
00:30:26I was like, what is the first General Assembly at Zuccotti Park?
00:30:28Yes.
00:30:31So, you know, I know the people who think that they created the General Assembly
00:30:35and I know the people who think that they're the ones that created it at Wall Street.
00:30:42And that info is on your website?
00:30:44Well, there's a video of somebody doing it.
00:30:48On the video is like the first General Assembly and I asked the two facilitators.
00:30:54I was like, who are you?
00:30:56Who are you affiliated with?
00:30:58And why are you standing up there?
00:31:00Yes.
00:31:00And they laughed like they had some sort of innate authority.
00:31:04And I was like, why didn't you ask for volunteers to facilitate?
00:31:09I can facilitate a meeting, other people can facilitate a meeting.
00:31:13Let'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.
00:31:34Not 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.
00:31:45As usual.
00:31:46The same thing that happens in the macrocosm, happened in the microcosm.
00:31:51Okay.
00:31:53All right, thank you, Sage.
00:31:55No problem.
00:31:57All right, 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.
00:32:14It'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 and 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.
00:32:32All right, do you think Occupy has helped you?
00:32:34And if so, how?
00:32:36Occupy has helped me a lot become more self-sufficient on the streets and surviving, like, within the community, like,
00:32:45support system.
00:32:46It's like, it's like always having people there for you.
00:32:49Like, 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.
00:33:01Like, you know what I mean?
00:33:02If 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.
00:33:19So, I mean, uh, I think that, I think Occupy Wall Street has turned it into a good thing instead
00:33:26of 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, um,
00:33:35the support system is probably really important.
00:33:38And, 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 to
00:33:44spend a lot of money.
00:33:45But, occupiers can socialize with each other for free.
00:33:50Yeah, a lot of people have to spend a lot of money to show off in front of people.
00:33:55And, 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 with.
00:34:04And then you have to, you have to go out there and oppress people and, and act like something that
00:34:09you're not.
00:34:10Instead of being yourself and just being a natural person.
00:34:13And just enjoying nature, enjoying, enjoying the greater things in life that money can't buy.
00:34:19Alright, thank you, Zach.
00:34:22Alright, hi Felix.
00:34:24Hi.
00:34:26So, 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 a lot of approaches to just saying, oh, I want to go back to my old life but
00:34:43I can't yet.
00:34:45In my opinion, the way I feel is like, I have changed so much from that.
00:34:50Uh-huh.
00:34:52Um, there's no option for me but I don't really want to do it until things are the way we're
00:34:59hoping to be.
00:35:00Because, more than anything, me myself have changed over these last 6 months.
00:35:07Um, I am very proud of Eric Anton and I did not find something with it.
00:35:17Yes.
00:35:19Okay, and, um, where do you think Occupy will go in the future?
00:35:24Um, well, I'm not really low.
00:35:29But, I will tell you that, whatever direction we're taking, which is since, like, expanded here,
00:35:40in New York, we already have, like, two locations in New York.
00:35:43We have, here, uh, Union Square and we have Down Wall Street.
00:35:47We're trying to hold onto the port down there, too.
00:35:50Um, it seems like we actually try to, uh, make satellite, uh, locations onto the city and, so we can
00:35:59actually bring the message out.
00:36:01And, we are mostly directly now, I guess, toward the social justice, uh, aspect.
00:36:10Because, um, I feel like, not only, I mean, the money's just the root of the problem, but just have
00:36:18branch out to so many ways, like,
00:36:32health care, child care, education, all these things that need to be improved, um, and, what I see, what I
00:36:44was redoing, is.
00:36:45trying to find ways to be self-sustainable
00:36:49teach all of people to be self-sustainable
00:36:52and what I see here is
00:36:56somehow small co-ops
00:37:01requires making
00:37:03working groups as a co-operative
00:37:07teach a part of
00:37:10a real community
00:37:11I've heard of Occubank, one-armed guy
00:37:14and there's some other things too
00:37:16and I've heard from some of
00:37:17young Occupies, Occupy Farms
00:37:20that Occupy has showed them how to
00:37:21find food, how to find clothes
00:37:23it shows them how to find resources
00:37:25they have friends, you don't have to spend
00:37:27a lot of money in the bar just to hang out with your friends
00:37:29you have your friends that you actually work with
00:37:31on Occupy or whatever you're working on
00:37:34and so Occupy has been good for a lot of people
00:37:37myself included, I've been writing a lot more
00:37:39because of Occupy and interviewing
00:37:41I don't even know the people because of Occupy
00:37:43so Occupy's 30 million has had a lot of good effects
00:37:48we're all a bunch of controversial people
00:37:50but that's what it takes
00:37:51yes we are
00:37:54it's interesting seeing the
00:37:57melting pot in Occupy
00:38:00we're coming from all different
00:38:03walks of life
00:38:04and all
00:38:06spiritual religious backgrounds
00:38:07and non religious or non religious
00:38:10spiritual backgrounds
00:38:11and
00:38:13there are even capitalists
00:38:15among our mess which is
00:38:18strange
00:38:18but they have their own ideas how to make it work
00:38:21so we're going from the capitalist to the anarchist
00:38:24all together here
00:38:25trying to figure out middle point
00:38:28and so far
00:38:29the only thing we have in common
00:38:31and we can agree on
00:38:34is that things are
00:38:35fucked up and bullshit
00:38:37and that we all want pizza
00:38:39we all want pizza yes
00:38:41everybody waits until the store is closed
00:38:43and we all get pizza
00:38:45that's one of the best things about Occupy
00:38:53other than that
00:38:56we are trying to find a middle ground
00:39:00as a middle ground
00:39:01where we can actually work
00:39:03and
00:39:09I'm really happy about
00:39:10the outcomes
00:39:12we're not sneaking on the sidewalk
00:39:14since it's closer anymore
00:39:15but
00:39:16I'm really happy about
00:39:16we're still showing presents over there
00:39:18showing presents in New Square
00:39:22and as May Day gets closer
00:39:25we're
00:39:26projecting that there's going to be
00:39:28more sites on the city where
00:39:30we are going to be able to make a
00:39:32presence in the places that
00:39:34we want to target
00:39:36and I'm not going to mention them
00:39:38right now
00:39:40few places that we
00:39:42are 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
00:39:50and just be visible
00:39:54I feel
00:39:55very hopeful
00:39:56among all the crises here
00:39:58and the fights that we sometimes
00:40:00we have among each other
00:40:01I am pretty happy about this happening right now
00:40:03and I'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 students to
00:40:13working people to
00:40:14people who don't have a place to stay
00:40:15Union Square already had all types of people
00:40:18so I think it was a good fit for Occupy
00:40:19although we do have other locations too
00:40:21downtown and I'm sure other locations
00:40:24like you said will pop up
00:40:27It'll be interesting to see where Occupy evolves
00:40:29because
00:40:32in the fall Occupy in each city
00:40:34was about a central camp in the city
00:40:35and now it's something that's become more decentralized
00:40:39yes
00:40:42we've always been decentralized
00:40:43we've always been decentralized
00:40:44but we always had a central place
00:40:46a place of meeting during that first two months
00:40:51that
00:40:52not having the park
00:40:53kind of like
00:40:54really
00:40:56put us haywire
00:40:58we're like running like
00:40:58she has the heads for a while
00:41:00but
00:41:03we learned that
00:41:04there's actually power
00:41:05in the central station
00:41:07it is
00:41:08and it does empower the whole
00:41:09leaderless movement
00:41:10and we are sure
00:41:13as long as it's within our
00:41:15guidance and agreements
00:41:17it's okay for people to do autonomous actions
00:41:20yes
00:41:21which they spun out here and there once in a while
00:41:25well the one good thing that we
00:41:26did also the bureaucracy in Occupy
00:41:28is the spokes councillor and dinner assembly
00:41:31everybody quit that bullshit
00:41:33we all
00:41:34a lot 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 let's go
00:41:44and they did it
00:41:44so
00:41:45i think
00:41:46in terms of decision making
00:41:48Occupy has gotten better
00:41:49in the past year
00:41:50well
00:41:50um
00:41:52the original GA
00:41:53kind of dissolved
00:41:55and so did spokes
00:41:56spokes dissolved
00:41:57for GA did
00:41:58yes
00:41:59mostly cause the people who were running that
00:42:02were not the core occupiers
00:42:04but there's some talk about
00:42:06another GA that sprang out soon
00:42:08yes
00:42:09just cause apparently there
00:42:10since we started Occupy
00:42:13some
00:42:13some kind of
00:42:15PayPal account was established
00:42:16for
00:42:16for Wall Street
00:42:18but
00:42:18that one is not going to be released
00:42:21until we actually organize
00:42:23now that we have people that
00:42:25we
00:42:25probably see that we can be more
00:42:27on the same page
00:42:29cause we're actually occupying
00:42:31no
00:42:31one is to have our basic needs
00:42:34like
00:42:35food
00:42:36and
00:42:37food
00:42:38medical supplies
00:42:41maybe even
00:42:42even
00:42:42small
00:42:42battery pack
00:42:43to charge our funds
00:42:44and stuff like that
00:42:46just like
00:42:47not a ridiculous amount of
00:42:49two thousand
00:42:49three thousand dollars for inaction
00:42:51and we don't know what money
00:42:52went for
00:42:54cause
00:42:54we don't really need that much money
00:42:56for inaction
00:42:57really
00:42:58we just need people to show up
00:43:00and let them be rowdy
00:43:01and do whatever they need to do
00:43:03um
00:43:04but
00:43:06instead of
00:43:07fund
00:43:08as I
00:43:08or
00:43:09just more would be great
00:43:10like
00:43:11the alpha
00:43:12and
00:43:12just more
00:43:13but
00:43:15that money
00:43:16that came to that
00:43:17PayPal account
00:43:18would like it to have
00:43:19for
00:43:20uh
00:43:21basic needs
00:43:22as long as we can actually
00:43:23figure the GA
00:43:25okay
00:43:25um
00:43:27that
00:43:27will not be run by 10% or so
00:43:30okay
00:43:30you're right
00:43:31well you know
00:43:32kitchen can get money directly
00:43:33because they serve the food
00:43:35so maybe
00:43:35um
00:43:36if somebody would have donated money to kitchen directly
00:43:38or donate food even to kitchen
00:43:39um
00:43:40anybody who wants to donate money to occupiers on the ground
00:43:43such as yourself
00:43:43can 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
00:43:53how to give Derek donations
00:43:55um
00:43:56or whatever's needed to help
00:43:57um
00:43:58him and others
00:43:59to keep up the good fight
00:44:00yeah
00:44:01um
00:44:01I'm on Facebook
00:44:02and I'll
00:44:03got Turkish guy inspired you
00:44:05Turkish guy inspired me
00:44:07yes
00:44:07um
00:44:08so
00:44:09what brings you to Occupy?
00:44:12um
00:44:13well
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
00:44:19and that was something I knew how to do
00:44:21I know a lot about perception
00:44:23or
00:44:23I think I know a lot about
00:44:24I perceive myself as a nowhere of a perception
00:44:26and I came here to participate
00:44:28in
00:44:29this major issue
00:44:31and
00:44:33I
00:44:33can't lie to you
00:44:35between that time and now
00:44:37I've been like 50 things
00:44:40and I don't know why
00:44:41and I feel kind of like I've lived in like a very trashy reality show
00:44:46okay
00:44:48so
00:44:49you
00:44:50um
00:44:50how do you feel about Occupy's move to Union Square?
00:44:54good because I had a connection to Union Square prior
00:44:57to Occupy
00:44:58okay
00:45:00and
00:45:01and has Occupy had any influence or change on your life?
00:45:04has it changed at all?
00:45:06yes
00:45:07it's
00:45:07it's
00:45:08it's
00:45:08it's
00:45:08it's
00:45:10it's been my ruin
00:45:12it's been your ruin?
00:45:13yes
00:45:13how has 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
00:45:22it's
00:45:23it's been important
00:45:23I mean
00:45:24this world is about
00:45:26um
00:45:27in a way different things much of the time
00:45:30yeah
00:45:30and
00:45:30uh
00:45:31the Greek word philio
00:45:32I believe it
00:45:33the kind of friendship
00:45:34has grown on me
00:45:35yeah
00:45:36um
00:45:38I would say it's like it's transformed me
00:45:40a
00:45:40compassionate decent person
00:45:42uh-huh
00:45:42I wasn't that bad to begin with
00:45:44okay
00:45:44but it gave me some opportunities to connect in important ways
00:45:48so it's connected you to other people
00:45:49yes it has
00:45:50improved your social skills
00:45:52I think mine are good
00:45:54other people don't
00:45:55that's their problem
00:45:56but
00:45:56um
00:45:57they hold many of the cards in these matters
00:46:00um
00:46:01no but the whole thing is um
00:46:03on a number level has been important
00:46:05um
00:46:06I mean there's been a change in uh
00:46:08discussion
00:46:09and that's been good
00:46:11we've had opportunities of such magnitude
00:46:13um
00:46:14it's hard to wreck it
00:46:15and we've
00:46:16not always let's say
00:46:17done stuff with them
00:46:19uh-huh
00:46:20and um
00:46:21there's a lot more can be said
00:46:22but I think that's enough
00:46:23for now
00:46:23okay that's good
00:46:24maybe a part two
00:46:25because I know the man behind this camera
00:46:27okay
00:46:28good
00:46:28well thank you very much George
00:46:32all right
00:46:32all right there is a Trayvon modern march day
00:46:34there's one tomorrow
00:46:35um
00:46:37specifically um
00:46:38what are people doing on this march
00:46:40uh
00:46:41well like uh
00:46:42the march today was like organized by the TWU
00:46:45uh-huh
00:46:45and I guess it's like to uh raise awareness
00:46:47yes
00:46:48and in solidarity with like other actions uh happening throughout the country
00:46:52yes
00:46:53and the one tomorrow which is uh
00:46:55at six o'clock the rally and then at seven of march
00:46:59is uh
00:46:59I think that the grand jury's gonna convene
00:47:02yes
00:47:02but I heard that they're not gonna convene
00:47:05I heard that the grand jury's not even gonna go through
00:47:07but they're still having a rally tomorrow here
00:47:09and a march
00:47:10they're leaving at seven o'clock
00:47:11and basically
00:47:12that's in solidarity with other actions going on throughout the country
00:47:15and that's also like uh
00:47:17a black community
00:47:18all right
00:47:19and like uh other disenfranchised communities coming out
00:47:21and speaking out against
00:47:22out against police brutality
00:47:24or speaking out against other state sanctioned uh
00:47:29brutalities against people of color
00:47:31okay
00:47:31like uh
00:47:32tomorrow
00:47:33specifically
00:47:34the reason why I agree with uh
00:47:35with uh
00:47:36rallies and marches like this
00:47:38is because it raises awareness about like
00:47:40core issues of what's going on in the black community
00:47:43yes
00:47:44like other minority communities that are disenfranchised
00:47:47you know
00:47:47you have systematic discrimination
00:47:49and you have like a
00:47:50you have systematic uh
00:47:52disenfranchisement
00:47:53through
00:47:54brutality
00:47:55stopping like
00:47:56for example you have stopped
00:47:58stopping frisk
00:47:58you have um
00:48:00other like policies that target specifically these
00:48:02disaffected communities
00:48:04do you feel that uh
00:48:05not that I'm advocating drug use I'm totally against this but
00:48:09do you feel that the war of drugs totally um
00:48:13what's the word um
00:48:14this has disparate impact on poor people or people in poor communities
00:48:17let's say somebody has like a small amount of marijuana and then they get stopped on that
00:48:21and they get locked up in jail do you think that's uh
00:48:23uh
00:48:23is that negatively affecting these communities
00:48:26uh
00:48:27yes I would say it was negatively affecting the community
00:48:30like even like the um
00:48:31the limited amount of uh benefit it has on the community like
00:48:35just like
00:48:36busting of like drug dens or uh
00:48:37busting of like uh
00:48:39drug corners
00:48:40yes
00:48:41that's yes
00:48:42that's a very limited benefit
00:48:44cause at the same time
00:48:46you're really not addressing like uh
00:48:48the deep
00:48:48uh problems
00:48:50of why people are using drugs
00:48:52you're just criminalizing the issue
00:48:54and you're arresting people that have like a bag of marijuana for example
00:48:59you're clogging up the traditional system
00:49:02and um
00:49:02you're messing up these people's like uh records and uh futures possibly
00:49:07possibly with convictions they may have a hard time getting a job or going to school right
00:49:11exactly because that's already hard enough if you don't have that
00:49:15so having that is definitely like an extra like uh
00:49:19impediment for uh for your advancement in this society
00:49:22so I guess it's sort of weird because often when people talk about limited government
00:49:26you know the government is too big in this country blah blah blah blah
00:49:29we hate the government
00:49:30it seems ironic that the government would punish people for doing um
00:49:36marijuana
00:49:36I'm not saying become a pothead or become an alcoholic or become a this or become a that
00:49:41but
00:49:41that seems like
00:49:42it seems like um
00:49:43a choice should be left up to you to do that
00:49:45yes it is a contradiction like a lot of like so called like uh
00:49:48republicans
00:49:49yes
00:49:49or so called conservatives that they like pride themselves on limited government
00:49:52it shows the hypocrisy
00:49:54cause the only time they want limited government is when the government is actually going in
00:49:57and busting up monopolies
00:49:59or going in and providing uh poor people with uh social services like medicare
00:50:04SSI and section 8
00:50:05however like when the government is uh trying to regulate what women do with their body as an abortion
00:50:10yes
00:50:10or when the government is trying to regulate the amount of drug use people use which is something personal
00:50:15yes
00:50:16and not best of sickness
00:50:17these same people are saying that the government should arrest them
00:50:20uh huh
00:50:21convict them
00:50:22and 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 wanna make government smaller
00:50:33if you reformed the drug laws let'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 or even prosecute them
00:50:56even if they don't go to jail that's a huge waste of um taxpayer money wouldn't you say
00:51:00yeah i'll say like it's a big uh use but like you have to consider also too like um let's
00:51:05take an example
00:51:06uh what's going on uh here like uh in zucari and what's going on in union square where all these
00:51:11police doing overtime
00:51:12yes
00:51:13you know a lot of times these institutions they need something to justify funding
00:51:16oh they're continuing existence but go ahead
00:51:18and preservation like take the dea
00:51:21yes
00:51:21you know the dea and other like um organizations like that they wanted the war on drugs to continue
00:51:27why because it funds them
00:51:28yes
00:51:29you know it's a career for them
00:51:31it's the same thing like uh the war on terror
00:51:33yes
00:51:33you know you want a war on terror because if you own like a surveillance camera uh company
00:51:40you're gonna get that funding from the government or if you're like a company like let's say uh the cheney's
00:51:44company
00:51:44yeah um what's the company's name
00:51:48uh what's your name
00:51:49Halliburton
00:51:49Halliburton
00:51:50yeah
00:51:50or KBR
00:51:51yeah
00:51:52well if you have this running on so called war on drugs you know it's good for your coffers for
00:51:57your pockets
00:51:57you know you really don't care about the issue but you care about what the issue is doing for you
00:52:03this is like not my brother
00:52:05not my father
00:52:06not my father
00:52:07not my cousin
00:52:07not you
00:52:08not him
00:52:09not him
00:52:10not her
00:52:10not anybody
00:52:11this is like
00:52:12never again
00:52:13will I lose
00:52:14should anybody
00:52:15what is
00:52:16this is like
00:52:16freedom
00:52:17should never lose
00:52:18or never have long time
00:52:20no one should lose their kid
00:52:22to an unjust system
00:52:23that doesn't want us to be here
00:52:24but brought up here to be played in a person
00:52:26if you didn't want to be you shouldn't have brought up here
00:52:29you shouldn't have brought up here
00:52:30you shouldn't have brought up here
00:52:31if you want to be on my back
00:52:34now you're coming to my grandmother
00:52:36she made this shit work
00:52:38she's trying to choose my grandmother
00:52:41these people are dying of family
00:52:43all of you are my family
00:52:44every last one of you black, white, I don't care what the fuck you look like
00:52:48it's 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
00:52:59and I brought us out here to make that a statement
00:53:02that this is just the beginning
00:53:03we're gonna march
00:53:04we're gonna walk
00:53:05we're gonna hold up our signs
00:53:07our flags
00:53:08our fiddle fingers
00:53:08our feet
00:53:09whatever
00:53:09I don't care what you do
00:53:11you're just gonna walk
00:53:12and you're gonna scream at the top of your lungs
00:53:13every single person you have brought to this system
00:53:16every single person that's locked up right now
00:53:18and 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
00:53:27for no reason other than
00:53:28if they committed a crime
00:53:29it's another form of slavery
00:53:31it is, you're right
00:53:32it is
00:53:33so follow us as we march down here towards Washington Square Park
00:53:37and we're gonna hold up our flags
00:53:39take pictures
00:53:40thank you
00:53:41and thank you all for coming out to support me
00:53:42I really do appreciate it
00:54:03we are Trayvon Martin
00:54:07We are Trayvon Martin, we are Trayvon Martin, we are Trayvon Martin.
00:54:35We are Trayvon Martin, we are Trayvon Martin, we are Trayvon Martin.
00:55:00We are Trayvon Martin, we are Trayvon Martin, we are Trayvon Martin.
00:55:15We are Trayvon Martin, we are Trayvon Martin, we are Trayvon Martin.
00:55:45Did you get a big guy?
00:55:45I don't know, I don't think we get a big guy.
00:55:47I got a lot of animals, but it's big though.
00:55:50It's not like a newborn.
00:55:51It's just an anatomy itself, man.
00:55:53Did you see the big back?
00:55:54Look at its hair.
00:55:55Did you see how short the hair is on the back?
00:55:58That is a baby.
00:55:59The hair would be bigger.
00:56:02It's a big one and it would be flying right now.
00:56:04Probably no less.
00:56:05It would be somewhere hanging upside down.
00:56:08So, did you get fell out of a nest or something maybe?
00:56:10I don't believe it. I don't have a bank, I can believe it. I don't have a bank.
00:56:13I probably tried to fly it like later than that.
00:56:16Because when I was walking, I would have seen it.
00:56:17I was walking. He's like, oh.
00:56:21Oh shit.
00:56:26Alright, let's find some crickets.
00:56:28Yeah, let's find some fruits and stuff.
00:56:30Anybody got any insects?
00:56:31Oh, you guys can go to the pet store. They'll sell them insects at the pet store.
00:56:35So yeah, you guys can buy like some bugs for it.
00:56:37Hey, but I don't have any money.
00:56:38There's a big-ass bunny in the window.
00:56:41They better feed this thing.
00:56:42They can drop it all somewhere else.
00:56:47They'll kill it, yeah.
00:56:49You guys should 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.
00:56:56All the donations will go to the cause.
00:56:59Trapped into my pocket.
00:57:02There he is.
00:57:03There he is.
00:57:04Yeah, he's like.
00:57:05It was hissing and shit.
00:57:07So he's African.
00:57:11So is it dying?
00:57:12What's wrong?
00:57:12He just can't fly right now.
00:57:14Maybe because it's a baby.
00:57:15No, it totally is a baby.
00:57:17Yeah.
00:57:17You think so?
00:57:18Yeah.
00:57:18You get big.
00:57:19No, you get to see it in his face.
00:57:21Oh.
00:57:24It's a spring though.
00:57:25I don't think they have babies like around this time.
00:57:27I don't know.
00:57:27I 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.
00:57:35Have you ever seen a big bat?
00:57:36Dude, look at its hair.
00:57:37Have you seen how big the hair is?
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.
00:57:41That's a baby.
00:57:43It will be bigger.
00:57:44And it will be flying right now.
00:57:46It will be somewhere hanging upside down.
00:57:49So did you get fell out of a nest or something, maybe?
00:57:53I don't believe it.
00:57:54I was on top of a bank.
00:57:55I can believe it.
00:57:55I probably tried to fly it like later down.
00:57:58Because when I was walking, I would have seen it.
00:57:59I would have seen it.
00:58:00I would have seen it.
00:58:00I would have seen it.
00:58:01Oh.
00:58:03Shut up, man.
00:58:08Alright, let's find some crickets.
00:58:10Yeah, let's find some groups and stuff.
00:58:11Anybody got any insects?
00:58:13Oh, you guys can go to the pet store.
00:58:14They'll sell them insects at the pet store.
00:58:17So, yeah, you guys can buy like some bugs for it.
00:58:19I don't have any money.
00:58:20There's a big-ass bunny in the window.
00:58:22You better feed this thing.
00:58:24And you should drop it on your back store.
00:58:27They can drop it on somewhere else.
00:58:29Kill it, yeah.
00:58:31You guys should put up like a donation bucket or something like that.
00:58:34See?
00:58:34Feed the bat.
00:58:35Feed the bat, yeah.
00:58:37Yeah, put up a bucket.
00:58:38And sign.
00:58:38All the donations should go to the cars.
00:58:41Trapped it to my pocket.
00:58:46I don't know.
00:58:48I don't know.
00:58:50I don't know.
00:58:50I don't know.
00:58:51I don't know.
00:58:51I don't know.
00:58:52I don't know.
00:58:52I don't know.
00:58:54I don't know.
00:58:54We read the names of all 26 of those unarmed citizens who were murdered by state violence
00:59:04and systemic racism.
00:59:10As we read their names, their ages, and their locations, we hand out these balloons to commemorate
00:59:21the reasons they felt and to hope for a world in which we can all live free of racialized oppression.
00:59:30Not one so many of them, but the first!
00:59:59January 12, 2012. Donald Johnson, 21. New Orleans. January 12, 2012. Dwayne Brown, 26. East New
01:00:19York, Brooklyn. January 17, Angelo Clark, 31. Little Rock, Arkansas. January 24, Steven
01:00:38Rodriguez, 22. Monterey Park, California. January 29, Antwane White, 17. Bushwick,
01:00:57Brooklyn. February 1, Steven Watts, 15.
01:01:07Calumet, Illinois. February 3, Remarly Graham, 18. Bronx, New York. February 10, Manuel
01:01:28Loggins, Jr. Manuel Loggins, Jr. 31. San Clemente, California. February 13, Johnny Warren, 43. Durham,
01:01:53Alabama. February 26, Trayvon Martin, 17. Sanford, Florida. February 29, Raymond Allen, 34.
01:02:20March 1, Justin Sip. Justin Sip. 20. New Orleans, California. March 1, Dante Prince.
01:02:42March 1, Melvin Longhorn, 26. Carson County, South Carolina. March 3, Bo Morrison, 20. Westbound,
01:03:01Wisconsin. Westbound, Wisconsin.
01:03:06March 5, Nehemiah Dillard. Nehemiah Dillard. Nehemiah Dillard. 29. Gainesville, Florida.
01:03:16March 5, Wendell Allen. Wendell Allen. 20. New Orleans, Louisiana. March 7, Michael Lombard.
01:03:29Michael Lombard. 22. New Bern, New York. March 10, Marquez Smart. Marquez Smart. Marquez Smart.
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