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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.
00:04:59Oh!
00:05:04My whole paycheck goes to Selly Mae!
00:05:08Oh, that's true!
00:05:10My true!
00:05:11My true!
00:05:12My son's true!
00:05:13Thank you for signing your futures away!
00:05:16You true!
00:05:18Go!
00:05:19Go!
00:05:21Go!
00:05:24Go!
00:05:24Go!
00:05:25Go!
00:05:27I have an idea!
00:05:31I have an idea!
00:05:33We all can fly and organize together and have a death strike!
00:05:55I have an idea!
00:05:57You're actually scared!
00:05:59I'm scared!
00:06:03Stop!
00:06:11Strike! Strike! Strike! Strike! Strike! Strike! Strike! Strike!
00:06:17It's a celebration! It's a party!
00:06:32It's a celebration!
00:06:34It's a celebration!
00:06:38No! You're wrong! You're all wrong, okay?
00:06:41You are alone!
00:06:44And it's never gonna change!
00:06:46It's never gonna change!
00:06:48We are not alone!
00:06:52We 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
00:07:25Llama means to the Tibetan people, who he is to the Tibetan people.
00:07:28By 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 Llama, so that you can share a glimpse of what the Pension Llama means to
00:07:47the Tibetan people, and what he could mean to the world.
00:07:57So, 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 Llama by Sunam
00:08:19Tashi.
00:08:20Sunam Tashi is a well-known Tibetan singer in Tibet.
00:08:24Here he sings in reverence to the Pension Llama and expresses his, as well as the Tibetan people's devotion and
00:08:30love to the Pension Llama.
00:08:32GEDONG CHUGI NIMA RUBUCHEN
00:08:34You're my root lama. GEDONG CHUGI NIMA RUBUCHEN
00:08:37Please return to the land of snows.
00:08:40Your Holiness, Pension NIMA RUBUCHEN
00:08:42Who else could I offer this pure white scarf?
00:08:45To who else could I sing this heartfelt song for each drop of my tears?
00:08:49GEDONG CHUGI NIMA RUBUCHEN
00:08:50I think and think. I feel really sorry. GEDONG CHUGI NIMA RUBUCHEN
00:08:54You are my root. GEDONG CHUGI NIMA RUBUCHEN
00:08:57Please return to the land of snows.
00:09:00Your Holiness, Pension NIMA RUBUCHEN
00:09:01Who else could I offer this pure white scarf? To who else could I sing this heartfelt song for each
00:09:07drop of my tears?
00:09:09I think and think. I feel really sad.
00:09:13GEDONG CHUGI NIMA RUBUCHEN
00:09:15That was an English translation to a song by Sonam Tashi
00:09:21Who is a well known Tibetan singer, musician inside Tibet
00:09:25Who sang openly about his devotion to the Pension Lama
00:09:31Second I would like to ask Lucy to come share a poem
00:09:37GEDONG CHUGI NIMA RUBUCHEN
00:09:41So, Serin Woser is a Tibetan poet, a writer and a blogger who lives in Beijing
00:09:49She writes reports on the situation in Tibet
00:09:53And 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
00:10:08When she had finished reading The Search for the Panchan Lama by a female British journalist
00:10:16If time could cover up a lie
00:10:20Is ten years enough?
00:10:23A child matures into a clever youth
00:10:26But like a parrot mumbles by rote
00:10:29The phrases that will please his masters
00:10:32The other child? Where is he?
00:10:36The scar-like birthmark on his wrist recalls his previous life before
00:10:41When for ten years he sat trussed with tight handcuffs
00:10:46In some Beijing cell no ray of light could reach
00:10:52What bruises mar him now? The child no one hears from
00:10:57If there are nine levels to the darkness
00:11:00At which one are they trapped? He and the other
00:11:04If there are nine levels to the light
00:11:06To which do they aspire? He and the other
00:11:09Perhaps in each phase of darkness and of light
00:11:12Where one is trapped, the other aspires
00:11:16Kun-chuk-sam
00:11:17The world's turned upside down
00:11:19That the pain of impermanence of samsara has struck home to the Panchan Lama
00:11:37For those of you who are just joining us
00:11:41We are here celebrating the birthday of Tibet's Panchan Lama
00:11:45Tibet's 11th Panchan Lama
00:11:47Who is a very important religious leader
00:11:50A spiritual leader of Tibet
00:11:51Who was kidnapped in 1995 when he was a six year old boy
00:11:56And today he is turning 23 years old
00:11:59This is the 17th birthday he is spending in captivity
00:12:03This is the 17th birthday he is spending against his will
00:12:12Can I ask, also what we are doing right now is sharing poems
00:12:17Sharing music, sharing lyrics from songs that Tibetans inside Tibet
00:12:22As well as Tibetans in exile
00:12:24Have written in expression of their love and devotion to Tibet's Panchan Lama
00:12:29The stolen child
00:12:30Can I ask Namgyella to come up and share another
00:12:35Share the lyrics to another song
00:12:44Hello everybody
00:12:45My name is Namgyella
00:12:46Thank you all for joining us
00:12:48I'm going to read the English translation of the song
00:12:52Yirekyo by Kunga
00:12:55Kunga, a widely popular Tibetan singer
00:12:59Was born on September 3rd, 1981 in Eastern Tibet
00:13:04Kunga is one of many Tibetan singers
00:13:07Including Yadong and Jamyangki
00:13:10Who have vowed never to sing in favor of the Chinese Communist Party
00:13:15The following song Yirekyo, which means heart saddens
00:13:20By Kunga, calls for the return of the Dalai Lama to Tibet
00:13:25And sings in reverence to the Dalai Lama, Panchan Lama and the Karmapa
00:13:32Kunga refers to the Dalai Lama and the kidnapped Panchan Lama
00:13:37With concealed analogies
00:13:39The Dalai Lama to the sun
00:13:41And the Panchan Lama to the moon
00:13:43So here's the translation of the song
00:13:47Sun sets behind the seven mountains
00:13:50The white moon gets consumed by the clouds
00:13:54And the stars have fallen amid rain and clouds
00:13:58Heart saddens unable to meet you three
00:14:01Heart saddens unable to meet you three
00:14:05Oh, the sun, the moon and the stars
00:14:08The stars have fallen amid rain and clouds
00:14:12Heart saddens unable to meet you three
00:14:15Heart saddens unable to meet you three
00:14:19At the center of the planet Earth
00:14:22Come, Eastern Tibet
00:14:24Echoes the reverent Lama's teaching
00:14:27Now, I'm left alone and unable to hear such teaching
00:14:33Heart saddens, I'm unable to see my Lama
00:14:37Heart saddens, I'm unable to see my Lama
00:14:41Oh, my Lama, now I'm left alone and unable to hear your teaching
00:14:47Heart saddens, I'm unable to see my Lama
00:14:52Heart saddens, I'm 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.
00:15:10All father and mother, now your kindness yet to be repaid.
00:15:15My youthful heart saddens, my youthful heart saddens.
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 Pension Lama.
00:15:45The Pension Lama is one of the most important religious leaders of Tibet.
00:15:49Him, the Pension Lama and the Dalai Lama are one of the two most important religious leaders of Tibet.
00:15:56The Pension Lama, Gendin Chukin Yima.
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
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.
00:16:3517th birthday in captivity.
00:16:3917th 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
00:16:56in calling for his release.
00:16:59All right, so do you see Occupy as changing things in this country?
00:17:06Yes.
00:17:08All right, 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 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.
00:17:29Um, wow, is it true about people who were like, um, fighting and being raped and all that?
00:17:35Yep.
00:17:36Wow, 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 still?
00:17:51Both.
00:17:52Both were being assaulted, wow.
00:17:54So, it was a very unsafe condition, right?
00:17:57Yeah, basically.
00:17:59Unsafe place.
00:17:59So, um, you 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, 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
00:18:31is in the news again, so, all good, right?
00:18:35Yep.
00:18:36All good.
00:18:37All right, one last question.
00:18:39Where do you think Occupy will be by the fall?
00:18:42Be 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 a sidewalk, we
00:19:24just take up.
00:19:26Okay.
00:19:27And then, and then people will turn around and say, wow, 500,000 people, 40,000 cops, who's
00:19:36going to win this one?
00:19:38And most likely, they're going to have to call in the National Guard and, and assist help
00:19:46from all the neighboring states to spare any police officers that they can, which New
00:19:54Jersey doesn't do 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.
00:20:20So step on the National Guard, and then we can have a field day.
00:20:24Okay.
00:20:25That'll be, um, very, um, interesting to see.
00:20:29So we have to wait and see.
00:20:30Um, thank you.
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.
00:20:40Um, extremely, extremely blessed.
00:20:42Um, I've been taking care of business, like always.
00:20:46And keep up following up with, um, the Movement Online and also my working groups have, I send
00:20:53out people to basically follow up and do what they need to do and not basically while I'm
00:20:58taking care of all the banks.
00:20:59Okay.
00:21:00Can you tell us more about your working group, Strong Women Rules?
00:21:03What do they do?
00:21:03Um, Strong Women Rules Working Group, we dealt with women, um, that got raped during the,
00:21:08um, the, when we were at the park.
00:21:09Um, right now we have several trials that have been taking place, um, bring those, um, justice
00:21:17for the victims, um, for those basically that have been victimized by the rape work.
00:21:22Um, we have couple trials, one of the trials coming up is in May, it's a Tanya trial.
00:21:27Uh, I'm so excited, I can't wait, um, to see it, we just had another trial just finished.
00:21:32Um, and we're also going to go after, um, David Parker, Dave Parker, who actually waved besides
00:21:39Lauren with the blue hair, but other people also who was, other one who was actually at
00:21:44the park.
00:21:45Okay, that's good.
00:21:46So, um, I'm hoping, I'm sure the courts will, um, do the right thing and convict these men
00:21:49for the crimes they've done.
00:21:51But, um, they will, yes.
00:21:53So, um, I'm just wondering, um, Strong Women's Rule is doing good work.
00:21:57Why is, why was there such opposition against you at Occupy?
00:22:01Um, great question, because I tell the truth, um, I don't sell myself to the devil, you want
00:22:08to call it that way.
00:22:09Okay.
00:22:09I'm straight to the point, I don't have time for BS, I can smell a BS a mile away.
00:22:14Um, they couldn't manipulate me, um, they couldn't brainwash me and they tried to silence
00:22:19me in any way possible, from bribing to silence me, to basically try to destroy my reputation.
00:22:26But in reality, when those who really know me, they know exactly what I have done, and they
00:22:31know my work, and no matter what, other people might know, who doesn't know me, might not,
00:22:36you know, probably listen to the yeses.
00:22:38I would suggest people to actually get to know me, then, uh, just go by what they said.
00:22:45Um, I basically did not put up, I saw what was coming, and I'd been calling out exactly
00:22:50what was coming.
00:22:51Um, I told people, you know, that sounds fishy, I listened to my inner guts, and my inner guts
00:22:57never, never, never failed me.
00:22:59And whenever there was something like, for example, a smoke 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.
00:23:09If I had to raise my voice, and several times they tried to basically silence me, when I
00:23:13was trying to do that.
00:23:14And I would not, you know, remain silenced.
00:23:16Because, like I said, I am for the real 99%, not 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, or
00:23:29that 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, I would die for the 99%, I stay with the 99%,
00:23:39and I
00:23:40do sleep among the 99%.
00:23:41But I would, besides, having the victim, the rape victim, or having the rape victim, we have
00:23:46them provide shelters, we have them bring them back to society.
00:23:51And if I was, we had never, never, ever could do something like that, because really, those
00:23:56people right now who play the archipiers, or who are in Archipier Wall Street, they don't
00:24:00care for the 99%.
00:24:02If you honestly want the truth, at night time, go to Union Square, watch them laying down,
00:24:07you know, lay them for themselves, lay down, the poor 99%, the homeless, those people who
00:24:12were poor, that are actually part of the movement, that make the movement what it was, watch
00:24:16them on the street, how they're laying down, you know, 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
00:24:29refuse to do that, accounting comes with all kinds of excuses, so they can splurge their
00:24:33money.
00:24:33They waste their money on stupidity, they waste their money on, what that damn group called,
00:24:39the group that basically saying they're doing direct action, direct action is a joke, because
00:24:44direct action, all they do is splurge and cause people to go to jail for nothing.
00:24:48One of the things people do not understand, when you go to jail, you might say, oh, it's
00:24:52nothing, you know, it's a little fine here and there.
00:24:54But down the road, that will come, that could come down and haunt you.
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
00:25:03doing the background, background service.
00:25:05They'll find about your criminal record.
00:25:06Exactly.
00:25:08And people don't understand, cooperation, big companies nowadays, in order to have a business,
00:25:13you've got to go to the government.
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'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,
00:25:26civil disobedience.
00:25:27That's true, and the other thing is, depending on what the person got convicted for, if you're
00:25:30a convicted felon, a company like a bank, for example, cannot hire you.
00:25:35They're not permitted to.
00:25:35Exactly.
00:25:36By 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
00:25:43jobs.
00:25:44And if those felon who managed to get jobs, they either blessed, number one, or they had
00:25:49to struggle, or they had some kind of connection.
00:25:51It's really, really hard.
00:25:52So then the people need to really start thinking, and start basically, let people push
00:25:56them, the other kids, those who basically, who have apartments, who have, you know,
00:26:00who have money, who have mom and dad that can take 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.
00:26:09But when you look at different movements during the years, like in the hippie days,
00:26:13in the 60s, in the 40s, when you've got all those movements that rise that we had,
00:26:17and then what happened?
00:26:18There 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,
00:26:27and that will affect you.
00:26:28I 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
00:26:38jobs, because 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 the 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 for the 99%.
00:27:12So have I.
00:27:13So people who know 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 my own ways 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, I got my parents,
00:27:29I got, I'm a trustful baby, let's do this, let's do that.
00:27:32Yeah, yeah, yeah.
00:27:32And, you know, and yeah, it's 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.
00:27:44You're welcome.
00:27:44And this was a splendid interview.
00:27:46And I'm sure everybody would 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.
00:27:53They can follow me on Twitter, StormontWills1, on Twitter.
00:27:57Or they can send us an email, StormontWillsWorkingGroup at either Yahoo or Gmail.com.
00:28:02All right.
00:28:02Okay, everybody, you know how to contact Nan for more information, and we're out.
00:28:07I'm live now.
00:28:08What do you think about the move to Union Square?
00:28:11I think it was a good idea at the time.
00:28:13Like, at the time I thought it was a good idea, and I still think that it was a good
00:28:17idea.
00:28:18And right now, I'm just sorry that there was not more support from the people that control the 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 taken 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, but I do think that if you're showing
00:28:55video footage of an occupation, and you're doing reporting on an occupation, an actual encampment, and 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 letting everybody know
00:29:12about.
00:29:13Okay, so that occupation should be funded towards any money that's being raised. Those people, because they're occupying, obviously deserve
00:29:18the money, because they're doing all the work occupying, right?
00:29:20Not so much deserve the money, but it's like, not to use the corporate language, but if money was communication,
00:29:27then the people that are donating are trying to communicate their support, and 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 from anyone
00:29:44in America, and I got to see them, because I went into a room somewhere, and I looked around, and
00:29:49under a pile of tarps and slogan flyers, I saw some letters.
00:29:55But no one ever handed those out or made copies of those. I don't know if I'm really getting across
00:30:01the idea that's in my head, but the point is that there's a middleman between America and the actual Occupy
00:30:08Wall Street encampment, and those middlemen need to get out of the way.
00:30:11One last question. Do you know who those middlemen are, or...?
00:30:17Ummm...
00:30:18On my website, there's a video of the first General Assembly at Zuccotti Park.
00:30:27Yes.
00:30:31So, you know, I know the people who think that they created the General Assembly, and I know the people
00:30:36who think that, you know, who think that they're the ones that created Wall Street.
00:30:42And that info is on your website?
00:30:44Well, there's a video of somebody doing it. On the video is like the first General Assembly, and I asked
00:30:51the two facilitators, I was like, who are you, who are you affiliated with, and why are you standing up
00:30:59there?
00:30:59Yes.
00:31:00You know, and they laughed, like they had some sort of innate authority. And I was like, you know, why
00:31:05didn't you ask for volunteers to facilitate? I can facilitate a meeting, other people can facilitate a meeting.
00:31:12They're just, let'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. Occupy Wall Street is not anti-capitalist. It's just the anti-capitalists that are so good at socializing together
00:31:26and 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. And, you know...
00:31:40The media manipulators, the people that can manipulate the media, the people that can manipulate the message.
00:31:45Okay.
00:31:45As usual. The same thing that happens in the macrocosm, happened in the microcosm.
00:31:51Okay.
00:31:53Alright, thank you, Sage.
00:31:55No problem.
00:31:57Alright, Zach, how do you think Occupy has helped the country, or do you think Occupy has done anything for
00:32:01the regular person?
00:32:02I believe Occupy Wall Street has helped bring attention, like, a lot of corruption within our country, and a lot
00:32:11of problems that we're facing with.
00:32:14It's shed light on another side of America. It's kind of twisted and corrupted.
00:32:20And 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.
00:32:32Alright, do you think Occupy has helped you, and if so, how?
00:32:36Occupy has helped me a lot to become more self-sufficient on the streets, and surviving, like, within the community,
00:32:44like, support system.
00:32:46It's like, it's like always having people there for you, like, like, if I don't have an extra pair of
00:32:50socks, 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? If I'm lonely, you go to Occupy Wall Street.
00:33:05There's people here, you know? It 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. They'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.
00:33:26Instead of a bad thing, the way the media portrays us.
00:33:28I 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.
00:33:38And, 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, Occupyers 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.
00:33:54And, 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 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.
00:34:22Alright, 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 own life.
00:34:39Like, those other approaches are just today saying,
00:34:41Oh, I want to go back to my own life but I can't yet.
00:34:45In my opinion, the way I feel is like, I have changed so much from that.
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 the last 6 months.
00:35:07Um, I am very proud of every Canton 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, but I will tell you that whatever direction we're taking,
00:35:35which is since, like, expanding here in Europe.
00:35:40We already have, like, two locations in here.
00:35:42We 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 tried to, uh, make satellite, uh, locations onto the city and,
00:35:58um, so we can actually bring the message out.
00:36:01And we are mostly directly now, I guess, toward a social justice, uh, aspect.
00:36:09Like, because, um, I feel like not only that, I mean, the money is just the root of the problem,
00:36:18but just have branch out to so many ways, like, housing, and marriage equality, and so many things out there,
00:36:32like, healthcare, childcare, education.
00:36:37All these things, I mean, for me, improve, um, and...
00:36:43What I see in Occupy Wall Street doing is trying to find ways to be self-sustainable.
00:36:49Teach all of people to be self-sustainable.
00:36:52And, um, what I see in Europe in the future is, like, somehow, small co-ops, uh, occupiers, like,
00:37:02making, like, working groups as a co-operative.
00:37:05Yes.
00:37:06Um, teach, like, how to build community.
00:37:11Yeah, I've heard of Occupy Bank from one on, right?
00:37:13Yes.
00:37:14And, um, there's some other things too.
00:37:16And I've heard from some of young occupiers, Occupy Farms,
00:37:20that 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.
00:37:37Um, myself included.
00:37:38I've been writing a lot more because of Occupy and, um, interviewing other people 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, but that's what it takes.
00:37:51Yes, we are.
00:37:53Um, it's interesting seeing the, the melting pot in Occupy.
00:37:59Um, we're coming from all different walks of life and all spiritual religious backgrounds.
00:38:07Yes.
00:38:08And non-religious or non-nist spiritual backgrounds.
00:38:11Yes.
00:38:12Um, there are even capitalists around, among our mess, which is strange.
00:38:19But they have their own ideas how to make it work.
00:38:21So, we're going from the capitalists to the anarchists all together here.
00:38:25Trying to figure out a middle point.
00:38:28And so far, the only thing we have in common and that we can agree on, is that things are
00:38:35fucked up and bullshit.
00:38:36Yes.
00:38:37And that we all want pizza.
00:38:39Okay.
00:38:39We all want pizza, yes.
00:38:41Everybody waits until the store is closed and we all want pizza.
00:38:45That's one of the best things about Occupy.
00:38:47The pizza.
00:38:49The pizza.
00:38:50Yeah.
00:38:50Fucked up.
00:38:51Things are fucked up and we need pizza.
00:38:53That's what we've done.
00:38:54Other than that, um, we are trying to, I guess, find a middle ground.
00:39:00We can actually work.
00:39:04And, um, I'm pretty happy about the outcomes.
00:39:12Um, we're not sneaking on the sidewalks on the wall screen anymore, but we're still showing
00:39:17presence over there, showing presence in New Square.
00:39:20Um, and as May Day gets closer, um, we're, uh, projecting that there's gonna be more sites
00:39:29on the city where we are gonna be able to make a presence in the places that we're gonna
00:39:35target, um, and I'm not gonna mention them right now, uh, but a few places that we are
00:39:43not too much in love with that we may be able to target or just places that where we can
00:39:48are just gonna be able to gather and just be visible.
00:39:52Okay.
00:39:53Um, I feel very hopeful among all the craziness here and the fights that we sometimes we have
00:40:00among each other.
00:40:01We, I am pretty happy about this happening right now.
00:40:03And I'm very happy for the move to Union Square because Union Square already had a lot
00:40:07of protestors and all types of people already came to Union Square from students to, um,
00:40:13working people to people who don't have a place to stay.
00:40:16Union Square already had all types of people, so I think it was a good fit for Occupy.
00:40:20Although we do have other locations too, downtown, and I'm sure other locations, like you said,
00:40:24will pop up.
00:40:25Um, it'll be interesting to see where Occupy evolves because in the fall, Occupy in each city
00:40:34was about a central camp in the city and now it's something that's become more, um, decentralized.
00:40:39Yes.
00:40:40Well, we've always been decentralized.
00:40:42We've always been decentralized.
00:40:44Yeah.
00:40:44But we always had a central place of meeting during that first two months.
00:40:50Um, that, not having the part kind of like really put us like haywire, like running like
00:40:58chicks with our heads for a while, but, um, we learned that there's actually power in the
00:41:06central station.
00:41:07It is.
00:41:08And it does empower the whole leaderless movement and, um, we are sure, as long as it's within
00:41:15our guidelines and our agreements, it's okay for people to do autonomous actions.
00:41:21Yes.
00:41:21Um, which they spread out here and there once in a while.
00:41:24Um, well, the one good thing that we did also, the bureaucracy in Occupy, the spokes council
00:41:29on a dinner assembly.
00:41:31Everybody quit that bullshit.
00:41:33Um, we all, uh, a lot of the work is being done by working groups on people who are doing
00:41:38individual autonomous actions.
00:41:40When people decided to camp downtown, a bunch of people just said, let's go, and they
00:41:44did it.
00:41:45So, I think in terms of decision making, Occupy has gotten better in the past year.
00:41:50Well, um, the original GA kind of dissolved and so disposed for GA did.
00:41:58Yes.
00:41:59Mostly because the people who were running that were not the core occupiers.
00:42:04But there's some talks about another GA to be sprung out soon.
00:42:09Yes.
00:42:09Just because apparently there, since we started out to buy some, some kind of PayPal account
00:42:15was established by Wall Street.
00:42:18But that one is not going to be released until we actually organize.
00:42:23Now that we have people that, we probably see that we can be more on the same page.
00:42:29Because we're actually occupying, you know, one is to have our basic needs met.
00:42:34Like, food and, food, medical supplies, maybe even a small battery pack to charge our funds,
00:42:45stuff like that.
00:42:46Just like, not a ridiculous amount of $2,000, $3,000 for an action and we don't know what
00:42:52money went for.
00:42:54Because we don't really need that much money for an action, really.
00:42:58Yeah, sure.
00:42:58We just need the people to show up and let them be rowdy.
00:43:02Okay.
00:43:02And do whatever they need to do.
00:43:04Um, but, instead of, fun aside, or just more would be great, like, the alpha and just more,
00:43:14but, um, that money that came to that PayPal account would like it to have for, uh, basic needs,
00:43:22as long as we can actually go to the GA.
00:43:25Okay.
00:43:26Um, that will not be run by 10% or so.
00:43:30Okay, you're right.
00:43:31Well, you know, kitchen can get money directly because they serve the food.
00:43:35So maybe, um, if somebody would have donated money to kitchen directly or donate food even
00:43:38to kitchen, um, anybody who wants to donate money to occupiers on the ground such as yourself
00:43:43can give food directly or can give money directly, they can look you guys up.
00:43:47Um, this is Felix Rivera and Petri.
00:43:50Um, you know, hit him up online to find out how to help.
00:43:53Um, and how to give direct donations, um, or whatever's needed to help, um, him and others
00:43:59to keep up the good fight.
00:44:01Yeah, um, I meant Facebook came out.
00:44:04Yeah, Turkish guy inspired you.
00:44:06Turkish guy inspired me, yes.
00:44:07Um, so, what brings you to Occupy?
00:44:11Um, well, it started the movement, and this seems like 10 to 15 years ago, uh, as a kind
00:44:18of a culture jamming thing.
00:44:20And that was something I knew how to do.
00:44:22I know a lot about perception, or I think I know a lot about, I perceive myself as nowhere
00:44:26without perception.
00:44:27And I came here to participate in this major issue.
00:44:32And I can't lie to you, between that time and now, I'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, you, um, how do you feel about Occupy's move to Union Square?
00:44:54Good, because I had a connection to Union Square prior, to Occupy.
00:44:59Okay.
00:45:00And has Occupy had any influence or change on your life?
00:45:04Has it changed at all?
00:45:06Yes, it's, it's, it's wrecked me.
00:45:10It's been my ruin.
00:45:12It's been your ruin?
00:45:13Yes.
00:45:14How has it ruined you?
00:45:15I've been here on and off for six months.
00:45:18So, it stopped you from doing other things?
00:45:21Um, yeah, it's, it's been important.
00:45:24I mean, this world is about, um, in a way, different things much of the time.
00:45:30Yeah.
00:45:30And, uh, the Greek word philio, I believe it, the kind of friendship has grown on me.
00:45:36Yeah.
00:45:36Um, I would say it's like it's transformed me into a compassionate, 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.
00:45:50Yes, it has.
00:45:50And improved your social skills.
00:45:53I think mine are good.
00:45:54Other people don't.
00:45:55That's their problem.
00:45:56But, um, they hold many of the cards in these matters.
00:46:01Um, no, but the whole thing is, um, on a number of levels, been important.
00:46:05Um, I mean, there's been a change in, uh, discussion.
00:46:10And that's been good.
00:46:11We've had opportunities of such magnitude.
00:46:14Um, it's hard to wreck it.
00:46:15And we've not always, let's say, done stuff with them.
00:46:19Uh-huh.
00:46:20And, um, there's a lot more to be said, but I think that's enough for now.
00:46:24Okay, that's good.
00:46:24There may be a part two, because I know the man behind this camera.
00:46:27Okay, good.
00:46:29Well, thank you very much, George.
00:46:32All right, there is a Trayvon Modern March Day and there's one tomorrow.
00:46:35Um, specifically, um, what are people doing on this march?
00:46:40Uh, well, like, uh, the march today was, like, organized by the TWU.
00:46:44Uh-huh.
00:46:45And I guess it was, like, to, uh, raise awareness.
00:46:48Yes.
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, at six o'clock the rally and then at seven of March,
00:46:59is, uh, I think that the grand jury's gonna convene.
00:47:02Yeah.
00:47:02But I heard that they, 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 in a march.
00:47:10They're leaving at seven o'clock.
00:47:11And basically, that's in solidarity with other actions going on throughout the country.
00:47:16And that's also, like, uh, the black community.
00:47:18Uh-huh.
00:47:18And, like, uh, other disenfranchised communities coming out and speaking out against, uh,
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, tomorrow, specifically, the reason why I agree with, uh, with, uh,
00:47:37rallies and marches like this is because it raises awareness about, like,
00:47:41core issues of, uh, what's going on in the black community.
00:47:44Yes.
00:47:44And, like, other minority communities that are disenfranchised.
00:47:47You know, you have systematic discrimination and you have, like, a, you have systematic, uh,
00:47:53disenfranchisement through brutality.
00:47:56Stopping, like, for example, you have Stockman Frisk.
00:47:58You have, um, other, like, policies that target specifically these disaffected communities.
00:48:04Do you feel that, uh, not that I'm advocating drug use, I'm totally against this, but,
00:48:09do you feel that the war of drugs totally, um, what'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.
00:48:22Do you think that's, uh, is that negatively affecting these communities?
00:48:27Uh, yes, I would say it was negatively affecting the community.
00:48:30Like, even, like, even, like, the, um, the limited amount of, uh, benefit it has on the community,
00:48:35like, just, like, busting off, like, drug dens or, uh, busting off, like, uh, drug corners.
00:48:40Yes.
00:48:41That's, yes.
00:48:42That's a very limited benefit.
00:48:44Because at the same time, you're really not addressing, like, uh, the deep, uh, problems
00:48:50of why people are using drugs.
00:48:52You're just criminalizing the issue and you're arresting people that have, like, a bag of marijuana,
00:48:57for example.
00:48:59You're clogging up the traditional system.
00:49:02And, um, you're messing up these people's, like, uh, records and, uh, futures, possibly.
00:49:08Possibly with convictions they may have a hard time getting a job or going to school, right?
00:49:11Exactly.
00:49:12Because that's already hard enough if you don't have that.
00:49:15So having that is definitely, like, an extra, like, uh, impediment 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, you know,
00:49:27the government is too big in this country, blah, blah, blah, blah.
00:49:29We hate the government.
00:49:31It seems ironic that the government would punish people for doing, um, marijuana.
00:49:37I'm not saying become a pothead or become an alcoholic or become a this or become a that.
00:49:40But that seems like a choice should be left up to you to do that.
00:49:45Yes, it is a contradiction.
00:49:47Like, a lot of, like, so-called, like, uh, Republicans or so-called conservatives
00:49:50that they, like, fry themselves on limited government, it shows the hypocrisy.
00:49:54Because the only time they want limited government is when the government is actually going in
00:49:57and busting up monopolies or going in and providing, uh, poor people with social services like Medicare, SSI, and Section
00:50:058.
00:50:06However, like, when the government's, 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.
00:50:21Uh-huh.
00:50:21Convict 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, let's say not locking people
00:50:36up 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.
00:50:44Nobody likes having taxes cut out of your paycheck.
00:50:46So, 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 prosecuting 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'd 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.
00:51:06So, uh, what's going on, uh, here, like, uh, in Zucari and what's going on in Union Square with all
00:51:11these police doing overtime.
00:51:12Yes.
00:51:13You know, a lot of times these institutions, they need something to justify funding.
00:51:17Oh, 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 want the war on drugs to continue.
00:51:27Why? Because it funds them.
00:51:29Yes.
00:51:29You know, it's a career for them.
00:51:31Mm-hmm.
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, you're going
00:51:40to get that funding from the government.
00:51:42Or if you're, like, a company, like, let's say, uh, Dick Cheney's company.
00:51:45Um, what's the company's name?
00:51:48Uh, what's your name?
00:51:49Halliburton.
00:51:50Halliburton.
00:51:50Yeah.
00:51:51Or KBR.
00:51:52Yeah.
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.
00:51:58You 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.
00:52:05Like, not my father.
00:52:07Not my cousin.
00:52:08Not you.
00:52:09Not him.
00:52:09Not him.
00:52:10Not her.
00:52:11Not anybody.
00:52:12Never again.
00:52:13Will I lose you?
00:52:14Should anybody?
00:52:15What is it?
00:52:16You know what?
00:52:16Freedom Fulton's mother should never lose you, but never has lost her child.
00:52:20No one should lose their kid to an unjust system that doesn't want us to be here, but brought up
00:52:25here to be played in the first place.
00:52:26You shouldn't have brought up here.
00:52:29You shouldn't have brought up here.
00:52:30You should have brought up here.
00:52:31You shouldn't have brought up here.
00:52:31You shouldn't have brought up here.
00:52:31There's what 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 to find grandmother.
00:52:41These people are dying of 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.
00:52:48It's just 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 that 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 every single person you
00:53:15have lost to this system.
00:53:16Every single person that's locked up right now and you know shouldn't be there, you say their name while you
00:53:20walk.
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 if they committed a crime.
00:53:30It's another form of slavery.
00:53:31It is.
00:53:31You'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 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.
00:54:03We are Trayvon Martin.
00:54:07We are Trayvon Martin.
00:54:13We are Trayvon Martin.
00:54:18We are Trayvon Martin.
00:54:22We are Trayvon Martin.
00:54:25We are Trayvon Martin.
00:54:28We are Trayvon Martin.
00:54:31We are Trayvon Martin.
00:54:33We are Trayvon Martin.
00:54:36We are Trayvon Martin.
00:54:39We are Trayvon Martin.
00:54:42We are Trayvon Martin.
00:54:42We are Trayvon Martin.
00:54:43We trade my heart!
00:55:29so is it dying what's wrong you just can't fly right now maybe because it's a baby no it totally
00:55:34is a baby yeah you think so yeah you get big yeah no you get to see it in his
00:55:39face
00:55:39oh it's a spring though I don't think they have babies like around this time I don't know I mean
00:55:47a lot of animals but it's big though it's not a newborn it's just an anatomy itself man it's
00:55:53you have a need a big bat person look at its hair it is seen how busy how short the
00:55:57hair is on the
00:55:57back you know that's a baby bigger and it would be flying right now it would be somewhere hanging
00:56:06upside down so he fell out of a nest or something maybe I would spend a little
00:56:11bank I can't believe it on the top of the bank how did you probably try to fly like
00:56:15better than that because when I was walking out of the sea
00:56:19oh
00:56:27let's find some chicken yeah let's find some fruits and stuff anybody got any insects oh you guys can go
00:56:32to the
00:56:32pet store they'll sell them at insects at the pet store so yeah you guys can buy like some bugs
00:56:37for it
00:56:37I don't have any money there's a big-ass bunny in the window they better feed this thing
00:56:45so they can drop it all somewhere else kill it yeah you guys should set up put up like a
00:56:51donation
00:56:51bucket or something like that feed the bat feed the bat yeah feed the bat yeah put up a bucket
00:56:56all the
00:56:56it's not go to the cause you have to see my pocket yeah he's like it was hissing this shit
00:57:06yeah so
00:57:07it's african so is it dying what's wrong they just can't fly right now maybe because it's a baby
00:57:15no it totally is a baby yeah you think so yeah you get big oh yeah no you get to
00:57:20see it in his face
00:57:21oh it's a spring though i don't think they have babies like around this time i don't know i mean
00:57:27i don't think that's a baby a lot of animals but it's big though it's not like a newborn it's
00:57:33just
00:57:33an anatomy itself man have you ever seen a big bat look at its hair you've seen how big you
00:57:38see how
00:57:38short the hair is on the back you know what i mean that's a baby that's a baby bigger and
00:57:45it would be
00:57:45flying right now it would be somewhere hanging upside down so you're going to get fell out of a
00:57:51nest or something maybe uh with a bank i can believe it it's on top of a bank yeah but
00:57:56i'd probably
00:57:56try to fly like red or down because when i was walking a lot of scenes it was going to
00:58:00go over and
00:58:00it's like oh shut up man
00:58:07all right let's uh find some crickets yeah let's find some groups and stuff anybody got any insects
00:58:12oh you guys can go to the pet store they'll sell them at insects at the pet store so yeah
00:58:18you guys
00:58:18can buy like some bugs for it you guys should set up put up like a donation bucket or something
00:58:34like
00:58:34that feed the bat feed the bat yeah feed the bat yeah put up a bucket all the inside go
00:58:39to the cause
00:58:40you guys should have to see my pocket
00:58:42hey he's like it was hissing this shit so he's african
00:58:53we 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
00:59:22the reasons they fell and to hope for a world in which we can all live free of racialized oppression
00:59:34and to hope for a world in which we are now in which we are in which we are in
00:59:44which we are in which we are in which we are in the
01:00:04Donald Johnson, 21, New Orleans, January 12, 2012, Dwayne Brown, 26, East New York,
01:00:20Brooklyn, January 17, Angelo Clark, 31, Little Rock, Arkansas,
01:00:34January 24, Steven Rodriguez, 22, Monterey Park, California,
01:00:47January 29, Antoine White, 17, Bushwick, Brooklyn,
01:00:59February 1, Steven Watts, 15, Calumet, Illinois,
01:01:12February 3, Remarly Graham, 18, Bronx, New York,
01:01:24February 10, Manuel Loggins, Jr, 31, San Clemente, California,
01:01:41January 14, February 13, Johnny Warren, 43,
01:01:50Durham, Alabama, February 26, Trayvon Martin, 17, San Bernard,
01:02:05Florida, February 29, Raymond Allen, 34, Jackson, Texas,
01:02:20March 1, Justin Sipp, 20, New Orleans, California,
01:02:30March 1, Dante Prince, 25, Dayton, Ohio, March 1,
01:02:43Melvin Longhorn, 26, Carson County, South Carolina, March 3, Bo Morrison, 20,
01:03:01Westbound Wisconsin, March 5, Nehemiah Dillard, 29, Gainesville,
01:03:13Florida, March 5, Wendell Allen, 20, New Orleans, Louisiana, March 7, Michael Lombard,
01:03:3022, New Bern, New York, March 10, Marquez Smart,
01:03:40March 9, Marquez, 19, Marquez, 19, Marquez, 19, external neighborhoods,
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