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Peaceful No Kings Rallies Draw 7,000,000 - Trump and GOP Runs and Hides; George Floyd Remembered in Houston - TPN 10/19/25 · The People's News

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Speaker 1: It's the week of October nineteenth, twenty twenty five, and
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Speaker 1: this is what's on the People's News. No King's Protests
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Speaker 1: rallies occurred bigger and better than before. Over seven million
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Speaker 1: people nationwide. Houstonians celebrate the life of George Floyd. Katie
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Speaker 1: the bottom and select the People's News. On Saturday, October eighteenth,
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Speaker 1: a coalition of groups led by fifty to fifty one
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Speaker 1: and Indivisible held the second No King's Rally, which had
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Speaker 1: over twenty six hundred events across the United States and
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Speaker 1: around the world. Seven million people nationwide in the US protested,
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Speaker 1: which is two million more than the first No King's Rally,
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Speaker 1: which was held on June fourteenth. There were two parts
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Speaker 1: of the Houston event, a march and then a rally
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Speaker 1: at City Hall. The total attendance for both of those
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Speaker 1: was fixed at around ten thousand. Here is some sound
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Speaker 1: from the rally itself.
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Speaker 2: Then to each other to do whatever is needed to
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Speaker 2: build change. I want you all to take a moment
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Speaker 2: here now with me, a breath, and feel the power
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Speaker 2: of our collective unity behind this cause. They cannot win
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Speaker 2: if we stand united. We the people must build this
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Speaker 2: foundation brick by brick and be the change we.
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Speaker 3: Want to see.
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Speaker 2: You want to live in a country with free speech,
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Speaker 2: then you must speak your beliefs freely. You want to
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Speaker 2: live in a country that has compassion for everyone, then
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Speaker 2: you must have compassion for everyone. You want to live
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Speaker 2: in a country where there is peace, then you must
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Speaker 2: build peace within your community. You want to live in
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Speaker 2: a world where there is an then you must share
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Speaker 2: what you have to spare.
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Speaker 4: You want to see someone do something, be someone Usa
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Speaker 4: husa brother and sister siblings. I am Lena mo Alis
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Speaker 4: representing the Gulf Coast Area Labor Federation ninety two affiliate song.
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Speaker 4: Today we say love in America. There are no kings, however, belongs.
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Speaker 5: To the people.
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Speaker 4: Today we get in love, love for our communities, our families,
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Speaker 4: and love for this country that we build every single day.
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Speaker 4: We are immigrants, we are workers, we are dreamers.
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Speaker 6: We are America.
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Speaker 4: So when they say we hate America, I say no,
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Speaker 4: we love it so much that we refuse to.
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Speaker 5: Give it up on it.
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Speaker 4: We love it enough to march. We love it enough
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Speaker 4: to fight. We love it enough to demand to live
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Speaker 4: up to the promise of liberty and justice for all.
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Speaker 7: Yes, we are fed up.
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Speaker 2: We are disgusted with the direction our federal government is moving.
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Speaker 2: It is not serving us, the people who build this country.
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Speaker 2: It is serving power, It is serving wealth, It is
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Speaker 2: serving goes.
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Speaker 8: We have everything and want more.
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Speaker 4: But we are here because the promise of America, of justice,
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Speaker 4: of fairness, of opportunity is being stolen and playing side
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Speaker 4: by people who think they can rule instead of represent
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Speaker 4: We we march because federal workers, the very fat bone
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Speaker 4: of our government, are being treated like disposable parts. We
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Speaker 4: march because working families are being squeezed dry while corporations
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Speaker 4: and billionaires get fat off the tax breaks and bailouts.
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Speaker 4: We marched because the labor unions are collective voice for
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Speaker 4: fairness and dignity are being attacked at every level. We
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Speaker 4: march because health care is still being treated like a privilege.
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Speaker 7: Not a right. So we say, fund the.
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Speaker 4: Government and fix the health care crisis. As we march
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Speaker 4: for democracy itself because it is under siege. Instead of
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Speaker 4: government by the people, we are watching government for.
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Speaker 5: The powerful, by the powerful.
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Speaker 4: We are fighting for those who keep this country alive. Teachers, nurses, jennifers,
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Speaker 4: truck briggers, public workers, line cook constructs and workers, young members,
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Speaker 4: and everyone who believes.
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Speaker 3: In the dignity of work. We are fighting for America.
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Speaker 4: That belongs to all of us. We are fighting for
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Speaker 4: in America that belongs to all of us. That is
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Speaker 4: why we march, we speak, we stand together because.
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Speaker 5: There are no kings here.
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Speaker 7: It is only we the people.
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Speaker 4: Repeat after me, No kings, no gold, or we the people.
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Speaker 6: Good Bless.
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Speaker 3: Giles.
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Speaker 9: Mandy Giles is the parent of two transgender young adults
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Speaker 9: and the founder of Parents of Trans Youth, a social
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Speaker 9: impact business providing learning, support and community the caregivers of
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Speaker 9: trans kids and young adults across the country. During the
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Speaker 9: past three Texas legislative sessions, Mandy testified before the Senate
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Speaker 9: and House committees against the many many bills targeting trans
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Speaker 9: youth and the larger transgender community.
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Speaker 10: Use their mixed My name is Mandy Giles, by pronouncer
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Speaker 10: she her, and I am here today because so many
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Speaker 10: other parents of transgender, non binary, and gender expansive kids
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Speaker 10: can't be here because Donald Trump's cruel executive orders targeting
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Speaker 10: transgender people, Greg Abbott's fixation on yeah on where people
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Speaker 10: go to the bathroom, and Texas lawmaker's obsession with restricting
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Speaker 10: the rights of trans folks have created this culture of
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Speaker 10: fear and confusion for families with transgender kids and the
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Speaker 10: entire gender expansive community. It's like our federal and state
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Speaker 10: governments have nothing better to do than depick on the
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Speaker 10: transgender community, who make out less than.
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Speaker 3: Two percent of our population.
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Speaker 10: The amount of negative energy and verbal vomit by the
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Speaker 10: tyranny to harass and terrorize and erase the public existence
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Speaker 10: of trans people is the very definition of state sanctioned bullying.
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Speaker 10: Transgender folks are being demonized by the right and by
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Speaker 10: leaders who promise that they would have our backs, but
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Speaker 10: now they are being forced to use trans kids as
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Speaker 10: pause in political games, or they are throwing trans people
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Speaker 10: under the bus for their own political game. So I
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Speaker 10: ask of you, instead of turning your backs on trans
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Speaker 10: folks because they're a tiny minority for because you might
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Speaker 10: see them as a political liability, you need to pick
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Speaker 10: them up and bring them with you in this larger struggle.
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Speaker 11: Because if you.
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Speaker 10: Because if you don't, you're next. For years now, transgender
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Speaker 10: folks and the people who love them and advocate for
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Speaker 10: them have gone to the Texas Capital every other spring.
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Speaker 12: There you go to argue for their right to be
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Speaker 12: who they are in the state of Texas, to simply
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Speaker 12: to peacefully just exist.
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Speaker 10: I want my transgender kids to live in a world
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Speaker 10: where they can be their whole selves at work, where
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Speaker 10: they can go to the fuck where they need to,
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Speaker 10: where they have easy access to the medication they need,
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Speaker 10: and where they don't have to fight for their rights
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Speaker 10: and dignity every two years at the Texas Capital. And
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Speaker 10: doesn't everybody want those things? Don't you want those things?
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Speaker 10: Do you see how the fight for trans rights and
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Speaker 10: equality affects us all because trans rights are human rights.
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Speaker 10: Do not leave them behind, do not throw them under
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Speaker 10: the bus. We are them and they are us. I
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Speaker 10: am thrilled to see so many people here today taking
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Speaker 10: a stand against dictatorship and for democracy. But don't let
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Speaker 10: today be the end. What are you gonna do tomorrow?
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Speaker 10: How will you show up? Where will you donate, where
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Speaker 10: will you volunteer? What leaders will you hold accountable? And
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Speaker 10: what is your plan to vote? Everyone here has power,
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Speaker 10: and the power belongs to us. In a democracy, our
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Speaker 10: power is expressed in unity and togetherness.
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Speaker 3: So we need you.
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Speaker 10: We need your voices, we need your power, We need
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Speaker 10: your privilege to be allowed to be visible and to
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Speaker 10: take action for trans rights and equality. We can only
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Speaker 10: do this together. I'm Mandy Giles for parents to trans you.
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Speaker 3: Thank you.
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Speaker 13: I better hear everybody say this. Trans rights are human rights.
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Speaker 13: Trans rights are human rights. Trans rights art human rights.
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Speaker 13: Trans rights are human rights. Trans rights are human rights.
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Speaker 13: Trans rights are human rights. Right start human right.
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Speaker 14: Right.
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Speaker 15: What we're here today to stand up against the Trump
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Speaker 15: administrations were on immigrant communities and working class people.
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Speaker 11: In the past ten months, we've witnessed new.
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Speaker 16: Months attacks on the working class from the Department of
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Speaker 16: Federal Troops to American cities. The continued support for the
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Speaker 16: genocide of the Palestinian people in Hussa, the economic disaster
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Speaker 16: of the tariff war, and trumps so called Big Beautiful
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Speaker 16: Bill with huge cuts to health care and food assistance programs.
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Speaker 4: Shame.
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Speaker 16: Every single one of these policies is unpopular, even among
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Speaker 16: those who may have supported Trump in the past. To
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Speaker 16: make matters worse, are local governments here in Texas and
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Speaker 16: Houston are fully cooperating with ICE and the Department of
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Speaker 16: Homeland Security.
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Speaker 15: Shame.
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Speaker 16: Just last week we saw the kidnapping of Emanuel Garcia,
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Speaker 16: a fifteen year old teenager with autism, who remained in
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Speaker 16: continent at the Office.
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Speaker 3: Of Refugee Resettlement. Have I speak shame?
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Speaker 1: No Kings demonstrates the width and the breadth of resistance
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Speaker 1: against the authoritarian and addled convicted felon Donald Trump and
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Speaker 1: his criminal, cruel and corrupt regime. Here are people at
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Speaker 1: the rally stating their reasons why they were there.
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Speaker 17: I'm an activist and I believe in civil rights. I
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Speaker 17: don't like what they're doing to my brown and black friends. First,
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Speaker 17: they were killing them during George Floyd. Then we started
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Speaker 17: assaulting them on the streets and disappearing them. I'm worried
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Speaker 17: that they're going to do what they did in Argentina
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Speaker 17: and drop them out of aeroplanes over the Gulf of Mexico.
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Speaker 6: My name is Kim Wimberley was scared to bombing boats
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Speaker 6: right now?
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Speaker 17: Yes, absolutely, you should have also done something about Gaza
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Speaker 17: a long time ago. There's not enough cardboard for the
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Speaker 17: things we need to write down about it.
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Speaker 18: So what do you think is gonna happened to the
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Speaker 18: administration right now? Because obviously he's not going to resign.
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Speaker 8: No, he's not.
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Speaker 17: There's no way we can punish him. Doubt he's going
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Speaker 17: to allow elections because he's practicing for martial law to
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Speaker 17: close down the vote in boosts. I'm very concerned. I
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Speaker 17: don't know what we could do.
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Speaker 5: I'm Linda.
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Speaker 6: What brings you guys here to protest?
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Speaker 19: Try to save democracy?
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Speaker 6: How'd you find out about this?
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Speaker 20: This valley?
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Speaker 5: Internet?
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Speaker 21: I have some Internet emails, emails.
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Speaker 19: Mailing list, same thing from multiple organizations.
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Speaker 20: Are sorry?
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Speaker 6: Was more important? What what brought you? What was the
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Speaker 6: last drau that brought you down here?
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Speaker 21: But the last I belonged to Emerson Unitarian Church and
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Speaker 21: our group, we have a whole group of it.
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Speaker 5: I don't know.
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Speaker 21: Twenty five people came down together.
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Speaker 19: My granddaughter and I protest every opportunity we get, and
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Speaker 19: we brought another friend with us today.
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Speaker 18: So what so, what's what's going on in the country
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Speaker 18: that's affecting you guys.
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Speaker 19: I'm about to lose my health insurance because it's gonna
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Speaker 19: go up to eighteen thousand dollars a year that I
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Speaker 19: cannot afford. We have a dictator running the country, we
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Speaker 19: have authoritarianism.
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Speaker 5: We're not here. We're not here. We're here, so we
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Speaker 5: gotta do something. This is a start, but we got
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Speaker 5: us keep doing stuff. I have a daughter who's gonna
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Speaker 5: lose her health insurance.
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Speaker 21: Also, she's in California and she's expects her insurance to trickle.
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Speaker 6: Hey, what brings you here? A person of color?
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Speaker 17: March?
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Speaker 22: Because what is happening in Houston and if they detective
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Speaker 22: in the United State is literally everything that I've read
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Speaker 22: about in a hitty book. And I and Gover would
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Speaker 22: have expected we would be reliving Hit three again, that
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Speaker 22: our ancestors, like our grandparents, went through that it's insanity,
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Speaker 22: Like I it's not expecting like history to be repeating
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Speaker 22: itself and we're going into skinned like fastest states like
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Speaker 22: right now, Like again, Ice is in looking street arresting
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Speaker 22: people based on skin color, not even doing that, like it's.
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Speaker 7: Sanity.
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Speaker 6: Yeah what what what specifically? Right?
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Speaker 18: What specifically that's going on that you disapprove of?
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Speaker 22: It does again Ice Firth and foremost Ice, I am
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Speaker 22: not liking all the legislation that is going against marginalized community,
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Speaker 22: the trans community, my communities. I don't like that because
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Speaker 22: it's like we're supposed to be going forward, but we
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Speaker 22: are literally going back in time and not.
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Speaker 5: In a good way, not in a good way.
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Speaker 6: What are your thoughts on the Voting Rights Act being.
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Speaker 22: Taken ergies insanity? Like what as American citizens that is
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Speaker 22: our in the words like our, I'd have given right
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Speaker 22: to vote, but yet they're trying to take it away.
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Speaker 22: If you aren't a white cist head male, sorry sorry sorry,
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Speaker 22: a white cist head Christian male, you do not have
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Speaker 22: a place in the government and you need to be
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Speaker 22: silent and put to the side and hidden away from you.
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Speaker 6: All right, I'm talking for a person approaches.
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Speaker 18: What's your thoughts of being down here and being a
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Speaker 18: person of color down here too, because it's not that many.
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Speaker 23: Well, I'm down here because it's the best place to be.
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Speaker 23: If I was in watching, I would still be no
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Speaker 23: matter of work. It's very important to make a statement.
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Speaker 23: And I like to make my statement because I'm a
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Speaker 23: citizen that votes and believe in democracy and believe in
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Speaker 23: freedom of speech. And I'm sitting back and observing all
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Speaker 23: the plaque score coming by and saying to myself, what's
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Speaker 23: on these people mind? They all are locked into one.
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Speaker 23: We want to get Trump out of that White House,
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Speaker 23: and also we must go to vote and participate and
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Speaker 23: get that man that's going to destroy this country.
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Speaker 11: Hour.
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Speaker 23: That's the first and foremost I can do.
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Speaker 20: City here.
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Speaker 23: I said, I may not stay for the full three hours,
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Speaker 23: but I'll give it an hour, and I have. So
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Speaker 23: that's the most important thing. While I'm here.
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Speaker 18: Think about the voting rights sack then in front of
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Speaker 18: the in front of the in front of the Supreme
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Speaker 18: Court being taken away, Monty rights.
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Speaker 7: Being taken away.
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Speaker 23: That's because we allowed that to happen. If you don't
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Speaker 23: vote and you don't keep up with what's going on,
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Speaker 23: we should have stopped this before it got to this point.
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Speaker 23: I don't think anything of it that is good, but
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Speaker 23: I do know that he's not going.
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Speaker 20: To demolish everything.
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Speaker 23: This will make us stronger as a people. This is
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Speaker 23: need to be done because we have become so lack
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Speaker 23: and doing what we shouldn't do. We'd say, well, if
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Speaker 23: I don't vote, I don't participate, they're not going to
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Speaker 23: do anything anyway. But that's not true. I've been out
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Speaker 23: here ever since the mid sixties, and that's why I
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Speaker 23: participate and what I believe. So it's just not four
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Speaker 23: years ago, six years ago. I had over fifty some
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Speaker 23: years participating. And I wish that the churches and that
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Speaker 23: the top this shallon or blacks would all get together
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Speaker 23: and try to work something and now our best interest,
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Speaker 23: because if not, we are going back to the nineteen hundred.
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Speaker 18: Give me your name of what brings you down here
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Speaker 18: a person of color to ev.
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Speaker 24: Well, we bring me down here is the simple fact
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Speaker 24: that what's going on in America today, we all have to.
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Speaker 20: Stand up and be accountable. So I'm here in the
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Speaker 20: Southern T shirts.
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Speaker 24: Am I woke because the administration has misused the definition
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Speaker 24: of the word tremendously to where it's.
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Speaker 20: A bad thing. I want to help take the word back.
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Speaker 24: And I gotta say to most of these Caucasian people,
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Speaker 24: they don't know to look it up in Webster's Dictionary
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Speaker 24: of what the definition means. And by them being down here,
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Speaker 24: they are being woke, and that is attentively being attempt
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Speaker 24: to social and racial justice.
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Speaker 6: So that's why I'm here. How can we get more
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Speaker 6: black folks down? We wait, we wait.
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Speaker 24: This is not our party where we started the protest,
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Speaker 24: and we've been on the forefront of this type of
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Speaker 24: demonstration for years, for decades, and now it's their term.
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Speaker 24: They didn't support us. That's why we don't see many
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Speaker 24: of us down here. They never support us, so we
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Speaker 24: are not coming down to support them. They're doing fine.
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Speaker 24: We know that the fight is coming. We're ready to
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Speaker 24: stand up when the fight comes to our door, which
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Speaker 24: evidently is coming, because he's getting rid of our history,
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Speaker 24: he's getting rid of our education. So we want to
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Speaker 24: see if they're going to stand for with us when
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Speaker 24: we get out here as African Americans.
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Speaker 25: Well, I think I stand in solidarity for a lot
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Speaker 25: of things, a lot of the issues that these people
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Speaker 25: are talking about especially when it comes down to integration and
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Speaker 25: the concept of no kings. This country should not have kings.
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Speaker 25: And I think the character reministration right now is acting
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Speaker 25: like their monarch. So I've come down here and this
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Speaker 25: is like my third protest. I'm totally against the administration
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Speaker 25: the way they're doing things, and I think the only
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Speaker 25: way we can do is just go ahead and voice
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Speaker 25: our opposition to it.
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Speaker 6: What while did you about this Voting Rights Action is
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Speaker 6: up for grabs.
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Speaker 18: Also that's important to the minority community, especially the Black community.
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Speaker 25: Oh absolutely absolutely. I think the Voter Rights Act and
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Speaker 25: I think we need to be in the streets. I
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Speaker 25: think every black and America needs to be in the
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Speaker 25: streets because they getting ready to uh get rid of
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Speaker 25: Section two of the Voter Rights Act.
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Speaker 1: They've already got.
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Speaker 25: Rid of section five with Holder versus Shelby. Now they're
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Speaker 25: trying to get rid of section two, which is right
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Speaker 25: before the Supreme Court, and the Justice is already hostile
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Speaker 25: toward that. And I don't know how come we don't
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Speaker 25: have one hundred thousand people that black people in the
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Speaker 25: streets right now, Maybe because.
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Speaker 18: They don't have a only speak for this one because
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Speaker 18: they don't go out into the community and.
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Speaker 25: Get to maybe so maybe so. I mean, but if
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Speaker 25: you start to have pay attention, man, you got to
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Speaker 25: find out what's going on.
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Speaker 6: And the word is out.
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Speaker 25: I mean, the Supreme Court is about to do us
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Speaker 25: a whole lot of injustice right now.
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Speaker 6: And the way it's.
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Speaker 25: Working, Uh, they're about to strip black people out of
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Speaker 25: our representation. Okay with your men that they gerrymanding that
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Speaker 25: they did here uh in Texas. Uh, they're going after
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Speaker 25: Sheila Jackson's league, or perhaps Barbara Jordan's District eighteen.
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Speaker 6: They're going out to.
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Speaker 25: Al Green in nine, and they're going out to Jasmine
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Speaker 25: Crockett up in Dallas, and we just can't have that.
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Speaker 25: So yeah, I'm I'm standing in solidarity with these people,
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Speaker 25: but our people need to stand in solidarity as well.
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Speaker 25: You know what I'm saying. It takes a village to
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Speaker 25: make change. I mean as far as he's standing, uh
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Speaker 25: in solidarity. And we need to be wary of Ice
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Speaker 25: because Ice is picking black people up the streets.
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Speaker 6: In Chicago and in Florida. They take thousands of Oh yeah.
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Speaker 7: Yeah, that's that's correct.
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Speaker 6: But I'm talking about Americans.
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Speaker 25: I mean, they were in South or on the South
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Speaker 25: side of Chicago, predominantly black apartment, putting children in zip ties,
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Speaker 25: putting putting them in handcuffs. So I mean, these people
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Speaker 25: do whatever the hell they want to do. Now, the people,
25:05
Speaker 25: the politicians and the mayor and the governor of Illinois had
25:08
Speaker 25: stopped them from bringing in the National Guard to putting
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Speaker 25: actually soldiers on the ground in Chicago. But Trump administration
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Speaker 25: have brought in the federal agents so called ICE for
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Speaker 25: immigration enforcement, and they are all over the all over
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Speaker 25: Cook County.
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Speaker 18: And I want the remnants of Fred Hampton High God,
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Speaker 18: the remnants of Fred Hampton situation.
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Speaker 25: Yeah, you know, I was in Chicago. I'm from Chicago,
25:35
Speaker 25: so I mean I can tell you about that, you know,
25:36
Speaker 25: and I was fifty sixteen years old when they murdered
25:39
Speaker 25: Fred Hampton. But then and they covered it up. And
25:44
Speaker 25: it was a combination of the FBI who actually, uh
25:50
Speaker 25: probably ordered to hit and then the Chicago police came
25:55
Speaker 25: in there and were actually executioners.
25:57
Speaker 6: And then.
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Speaker 25: The Contrino, who to call it a county turned in Chicago,
26:02
Speaker 25: are the one that tried to cover it up. So yeah,
26:05
Speaker 25: but and that brings me another thing. Any time that
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Speaker 25: we all we have a movement that they think is powerful,
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Speaker 25: they get rid of the leaders. They did the same
26:16
Speaker 25: thing with Malcolm X. They did the same thing with
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Speaker 25: Doctor King. They said the same thing with Fred Hampton.
26:24
Speaker 25: They did the same thing with bunch of Carter In
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Speaker 25: Los Angeles.
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Speaker 6: They had a.
26:30
Speaker 25: Schism between the Panthers and Karnga in LA back in
26:34
Speaker 25: the early seventies. So I mean, and it was all
26:37
Speaker 25: controlled by Cointail, which was a division of the FBI
26:41
Speaker 25: at that particular time. So I mean, I'm not really
26:49
Speaker 25: a revolutionary per se, but I think I need to
26:54
Speaker 25: voice my opposition for change. And only way we're going
26:59
Speaker 25: to affects to get out there and get in the streets. Now,
27:02
Speaker 25: this is still not like I've seen some rebellions LA
27:09
Speaker 25: nineteen ninety two.
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Speaker 6: It's not like to Chicago, Chicago.
27:13
Speaker 25: Nineteen sixty eight, Detroit nineteen sixty seven, you know what
27:16
Speaker 25: I'm saying.
27:18
Speaker 22: So, but.
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Speaker 25: We're still out here trying to bring attention, bringing awareness.
27:24
Speaker 25: If this stuff comes from TV and people look at
27:26
Speaker 25: us and say, okay, man, you know you got ten
27:28
Speaker 25: thousand people out here in Houston, you got twenty five
27:30
Speaker 25: thousand people in Chicago. You got fifty thousand people in
27:32
Speaker 25: New York and then you have people dotted around all
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Speaker 25: these little suburban times.
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Speaker 6: I just left Parallelan to come here to see what
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Speaker 6: it was about.
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Speaker 1: Seven million people, seven million people standing up for their
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Speaker 1: rights and the rights of their fellow Americans, standing up
27:50
Speaker 1: against Trump's secret police ice immigration raids. And in the
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Speaker 1: context of this being characterized as a hate rally full
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Speaker 1: of terrorists and Antifa, everything was peaceful. There were no
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Speaker 1: arrests in Houston. There were no arrests among the one
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Speaker 1: hundred thousand protesters that marched in Chicago, no arrests, no
28:13
Speaker 1: arrest with one hundred thousand protesters that marched in New
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Speaker 1: York City. It was peaceful, It was joyful. And if
28:20
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28:23
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Speaker 1: People around the world saw the tragic death of George
28:54
Speaker 1: Floyd at the hands of Minneapolis police officers. His death
28:59
Speaker 1: sparked protest outrage around the world as people looked in
29:02
Speaker 1: the mirror at their own police department or military and
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Speaker 1: how they were treated. Floyd was born on October fourteenth,
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Speaker 1: nineteen seventy three. He was forty six years old when
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Speaker 1: he was brutally murdered by a white policeman in Minneapolis.
29:17
Speaker 1: He was born in Houston, and there have been many
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Speaker 1: murals put up around the city in his memory. One
29:23
Speaker 1: is close to where he was born, in the third
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Speaker 1: Ward on thirty three hundred Winborne. It was where his
29:28
Speaker 1: family spoke along with other supporters, marking his birthday with speech,
29:33
Speaker 1: song and poetry.
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Speaker 26: Evodiwungu hee hee hee, hello, he he he helle na
29:48
Speaker 26: na nankusobuwi Naku, naguti loguini, nag nagum naku Mandela uncle
30:01
Speaker 26: Naho hit me look Winnie he.
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Speaker 3: Where my Africa?
30:08
Speaker 7: Hate?
30:12
Speaker 3: He need where my Africa Hi hotel?
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Speaker 5: Nah nah?
30:23
Speaker 3: Don't go George with nah nah No call George Floyd.
30:29
Speaker 7: He need where my.
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Speaker 3: Africa use hotels? He need where my Africa?
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Speaker 17: A U.
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Speaker 27: Listen honor for me to be out here. Today and
30:49
Speaker 27: celebrate the life of George Floyd. But also when I
30:53
Speaker 27: was writing this poem, I think it's important that we
30:55
Speaker 27: remember the countless injustices that was done to George Sloy
31:00
Speaker 27: and also the countless people that are unnamed. So they
31:04
Speaker 27: took a life, they took a father. He was more
31:07
Speaker 27: than just some person that was shot down, you know.
31:10
Speaker 27: And so I wrote this poem in honor of him,
31:14
Speaker 27: but also in remembrance that we did lose somebody, We
31:17
Speaker 27: did lose a life. This poem is called Daydream and
31:23
Speaker 27: honor and remembrance of George Floyd, a life so easily vanished?
31:29
Speaker 27: Could that situation be managed? Was that phone call for
31:32
Speaker 27: twenty dollars worth a human being? Which was that phone
31:36
Speaker 27: call for twenty dollars worth a human being? Uh? And
31:39
Speaker 27: so they rushed to the scene, I mean his mama,
31:42
Speaker 27: and he had COVID nineteen yet they yet he still complied,
31:46
Speaker 27: and the cop still lied, and he compressed into his neck,
31:49
Speaker 27: and with his last breath he.
31:51
Speaker 3: Cried, I can't breathe. What is his system? All but
31:58
Speaker 3: one that gives us nightmares? Can't help? But daydream Lord.
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Speaker 27: Please, I plead, don't make no more martyrs, guinea pigs
32:07
Speaker 27: for a corrupt system, eager to slaughter just to prove
32:10
Speaker 27: what little black life really means. Cops carry death, and
32:15
Speaker 27: Lady Justice can't see. She don't recognize your face when
32:19
Speaker 27: you're born black as me. I'm tired of we being strange,
32:23
Speaker 27: fruit dangling from trees, chained, restrained, called out our names,
32:28
Speaker 27: even beats executed in the streets, in a park, in
32:32
Speaker 27: a car, wherever you find cops, a black life subject
32:35
Speaker 27: to bleed in broad daylights or even at night. They
32:40
Speaker 27: barge into our homes and murder us in our sleep.
32:43
Speaker 3: Yeah, they be thieves of peace.
32:47
Speaker 27: But somehow these beasts became beauty and victims became villains.
32:52
Speaker 27: And this racist skin peete the sea. They was frightened
32:56
Speaker 27: of the black monster. He looked suspicious, He had almah.
32:59
Speaker 27: He was twelve to be begun. He called out for
33:01
Speaker 27: his mama.
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Speaker 3: He was running away. She wouldn't put out her cigarette.
33:04
Speaker 27: She was a resident class handcuffed only ten boy calls
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Speaker 27: nine one one.
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Speaker 3: They shot him in the chest. He said I could
33:10
Speaker 3: have breathed. He died with the knee on his neck.
33:15
Speaker 3: Hiss excuses for murder.
33:17
Speaker 27: Yeah, they keep the us unrest, Yet Maga shifts blame
33:23
Speaker 27: and make the racist blame less her. The sea of
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Speaker 27: Charlie Crook, who shared the same b day as the ones,
33:31
Speaker 27: and how often they mistook the real justice Still divine
33:37
Speaker 27: horma eventually come if we just take the time to look.
33:43
Speaker 27: And when we daydreamed from the nightmares, we must look inside.
33:48
Speaker 27: There is a world beyond oppression, where communities thrive, where
33:51
Speaker 27: every person is protected, where people operate from care. But
33:55
Speaker 27: we must protest injustice and end this nightmare. Yeah and
34:00
Speaker 27: tonight we under Big Floyd On in his music, in
34:07
Speaker 27: his church as an athlete or father who uplifted those
34:10
Speaker 27: who hurt, and his humor in his dance, in his life.
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Speaker 3: A tragic loss. One day we shall overcome, but we
34:22
Speaker 3: mustn't forget. At what cost? Thank you?
34:27
Speaker 7: I say so, I saw, I say, I say, I say,
34:37
Speaker 7: I say.
34:39
Speaker 3: Well, I'll tell you what we are honored today. Tell
34:42
Speaker 3: this gentleman with us, George Floyd's big brother who actually
34:46
Speaker 3: helped raise his little brother.
34:49
Speaker 20: Would you tell us about your brother. I've been doing
35:01
Speaker 20: this so much this week all your name, My name
35:05
Speaker 20: is Travis King. Human Rights Actors, Human Rights Actless, Travis O. G.
35:11
Speaker 14: Mush like the older brother of George Stow. Everybody knows
35:16
Speaker 14: that the world knows the h But I speak to
35:19
Speaker 14: you about I decided to go ahead. I take this
35:22
Speaker 14: time because I never want, no want to think that
35:25
Speaker 14: this fight is over. Yeah, you all to take the
35:31
Speaker 14: time by child life to sit up and continuously say
35:35
Speaker 14: his name.
35:36
Speaker 20: That is gonna keep that's gonna keep justice alive. Right,
35:39
Speaker 20: That's what I'm saying. I speak to you.
35:41
Speaker 14: I speak to you because i speak for experience because
35:43
Speaker 14: of simple fact I've been to police were tacked along
35:46
Speaker 14: with him as we grew up in these projects.
35:49
Speaker 20: You know what I'm saying. And right now I'm saying
35:51
Speaker 20: this is it was. It is adamant that I fight
35:55
Speaker 20: for this justice keep on.
35:57
Speaker 14: Going because it's you know, I'm not by a long shot,
36:01
Speaker 14: you know what I mean. I said the title was
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Speaker 14: Human Rights Acts. So that makes me want to fight
36:06
Speaker 14: for the forces that doesn't have it for it. Yes,
36:11
Speaker 14: so that goes you know what I'm saying to saying
36:12
Speaker 14: that if I'm not biased, I fight for the white,
36:14
Speaker 14: I fight for the brown, and I fight for the
36:17
Speaker 14: black too, you know what I'm saying.
36:19
Speaker 20: Yeah, And if you see me, and you know it.
36:21
Speaker 20: You researched me.
36:22
Speaker 14: You understand that I'm seriously of human rights actress. But
36:26
Speaker 14: I do understand that black people go through it the
36:29
Speaker 14: most of America, right, yes, right, I haven't forgot the
36:34
Speaker 14: meling of my skin right because I've been through the
36:38
Speaker 14: same old stuff once before.
36:39
Speaker 20: I just passed, you know what I mean? So it
36:42
Speaker 20: justice is a part of America that we have put
36:47
Speaker 20: up with. And if we don't stand for someone with
36:49
Speaker 20: my well founy.
36:51
Speaker 6: All right, all right, you know what I mean as as.
36:54
Speaker 14: As a whole, not as just you know, one different race,
36:58
Speaker 14: you know, one white, one black, bay Miskan one black,
37:02
Speaker 14: you know, like you know, no, as a whole we
37:05
Speaker 14: have to fight for injustice.
37:08
Speaker 20: And I have you. I mean, like numerous of people
37:10
Speaker 20: that's along with me along with this fight.
37:12
Speaker 14: They don't care about the color. What then, seeing is
37:15
Speaker 14: something that has happened that is wrong and who's ever
37:19
Speaker 14: have done this? That's behind the band that has on
37:21
Speaker 14: God that have to.
37:23
Speaker 20: Be held to common.
37:25
Speaker 14: So this is the reason that you have accidents like
37:27
Speaker 14: me that I don't just do this. I do this
37:29
Speaker 14: all over Marror, in every city, in every culture. You
37:33
Speaker 14: know what I mean, as you know that goes through something,
37:35
Speaker 14: I'll be with Vanessa Gilliam family, Michael.
37:40
Speaker 20: Taylor. Of course, I'm gonna be with my little brother family.
37:44
Speaker 20: So you know, it's it's, it's, it's, it's, it's it's
37:47
Speaker 20: what's being done. Period.
37:51
Speaker 14: Being the voice for the voices is not easy, but
37:53
Speaker 14: it's a fight that we have to keep on going.
37:55
Speaker 14: There was something that was given to me from God,
37:58
Speaker 14: my high power, to be the vessel with this. And
38:02
Speaker 14: I speak to y'all because I love every color that's right.
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Speaker 7: Here right now, right that's right, sha.
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Speaker 5: You know what I mean.
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Speaker 20: And you know I just took the time and to
38:16
Speaker 20: tell y'all love y'all man and forever what y'all doing.
38:18
Speaker 20: Make keep saying this thing.
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Speaker 14: You know what I'm saying, because you gotta understand, George
38:22
Speaker 14: flung at the forefront of right right, He's still at
38:26
Speaker 14: the forefront of you.
38:28
Speaker 20: You know what I mean.
38:28
Speaker 14: You know, I never thought my life that I don't
38:30
Speaker 14: have to say that, but it's the truth. And as
38:33
Speaker 14: I go along with my life, as I speak, I
38:37
Speaker 14: spoke to tr Shoes yesterday text versus students, I speak
38:41
Speaker 14: all over.
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Speaker 20: You know what I'm saying, but I speak this because
38:45
Speaker 20: it has to be a change in America.
38:47
Speaker 4: Right.
38:48
Speaker 20: Yes, you know, I don't sit up there. You don't
38:52
Speaker 20: want to go political wise, but look who you have
38:55
Speaker 20: in office. So let me bring out some jungle rules.
38:59
Speaker 6: Come out, Come on, come with it, Come on, you
39:03
Speaker 6: know the person.
39:05
Speaker 20: If if we can add this person here in office.
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Speaker 14: I don't even want to say his name. Y'all know character,
39:12
Speaker 14: all right, Yeah, I'm just telling you know, if he
39:18
Speaker 14: cants sit up there and praise this other young person
39:23
Speaker 14: that was such a big give him handstands for flag
39:28
Speaker 14: and everything else like that, I need you try to understand,
39:31
Speaker 14: y'all better vote for the right person next. Come on, now,
39:36
Speaker 14: don't go for this, you know what I mean. It's
39:38
Speaker 14: unguarded that people that's getting in these figure out who's
39:43
Speaker 14: it's going to get down for your community. Who's gonna
39:45
Speaker 14: really get down and dig in the tricks along with you?
39:49
Speaker 14: He doesn't make a difference. It's democrat a republic. We
39:53
Speaker 14: need real people in office right now.
39:55
Speaker 3: This is an.
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Speaker 14: Unguarded time in the world right now. Yes, it is
39:59
Speaker 14: so speak to you and I want trying to understand.
40:02
Speaker 14: This is a quote that I have and I need
40:04
Speaker 14: y'all to take this with y'all. Opportunity never disappears, the
40:08
Speaker 14: only go for those who go in season.
40:13
Speaker 20: The pandemic of racism has left us in a quandary.
40:17
Speaker 7: Where will we go? Truck?
40:19
Speaker 6: Would we do?
40:20
Speaker 8: Freedom fighters if we don't exactly know, Well, y'all, we
40:24
Speaker 8: don't even don't know exactly what to do, But we
40:27
Speaker 8: must do what we know until we know what to do.
40:31
Speaker 8: That's keep on fighting, push it, combat this hate until
40:37
Speaker 8: no other brother or sister will experience this odious state.
40:42
Speaker 8: The George Ford Policing Act must pass. It didn't to
40:47
Speaker 8: police the police, calling out their racist acts. As this
40:51
Speaker 8: pandemic of racism looms over us, Remember America KKK's bigoted roots,
40:58
Speaker 8: says name George.
40:59
Speaker 23: Fly George, George Floyd, George.
41:05
Speaker 8: Remembering, protesting, evoking his spirit, praying, revolutionizing, until just as
41:13
Speaker 8: rolls down like water and righteous like a mighty stream.
41:18
Speaker 8: My contraytes of we.
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Speaker 28: Sweet land of bag a treat of the we sing
41:26
Speaker 28: land with my father, mother's brother, sisters, and George Floyd died,
41:31
Speaker 28: land of the Pilgrim's false pride from every mountainside well
41:38
Speaker 28: freedom ever ring a shape.
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Speaker 3: Awesome. Okay, I just want to thank everybody for coming out.
41:59
Speaker 3: You figured out how to do it, how to do what?
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Speaker 10: Oh the music, Okay, we're gonna end with a song.
42:08
Speaker 7: I want to say that UN what Workers World Party, and.
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Speaker 17: We initiated these actions to counter the President and the Senate.
42:20
Speaker 6: While there is Charlie Kirk and his races.
42:25
Speaker 3: Charlie Kirk call George Floyd. You know, yeah, I guess
42:32
Speaker 3: it takes one.
42:35
Speaker 1: We talked to some of the people there after the celebration.
42:39
Speaker 5: You're talking to Nikki Llewellen.
42:41
Speaker 27: I did some poetry here at this event, and uh,
42:44
Speaker 27: it actually was an excellent celebration.
42:46
Speaker 5: It was a diverse community. Actually, George Floyd's.
42:49
Speaker 27: Family came out and they shared a few words. George
42:52
Speaker 27: Floyd's brother shared a few words with us, and we
42:54
Speaker 27: got to meet them and we also figured seeing where
42:57
Speaker 27: they lived at and it was just a removing and powerful.
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Speaker 29: And I'm John Copeland. You know, I learned today that
43:08
Speaker 29: there's two birthdays today, George Floyd and some other guy.
43:13
Speaker 29: We're not going to talk about because he's been talked
43:15
Speaker 29: about enough in the news after his recent assassination and
43:20
Speaker 29: we need to shift the narrative to George Floyd. This
43:24
Speaker 29: is the birthday we should be talking about today, not
43:27
Speaker 29: the birthday of white supremacists.
43:29
Speaker 30: And so.
43:31
Speaker 29: I'm here to stand in solidarity with the community that
43:34
Speaker 29: were negatively impacted by the the death of George Floyd.
43:40
Speaker 29: I can only imagine the profound loss they felt. But
43:43
Speaker 29: you know, whenever he called out his mama's name, every
43:47
Speaker 29: black mother across America felt that. And so you know,
43:52
Speaker 29: it's like after a funeral that that the silence is deafening.
43:55
Speaker 29: And I was kind of expecting to see more people
43:59
Speaker 29: show what but I mean still the people that showed up,
44:03
Speaker 29: they they're the ones that they still feel that they
44:07
Speaker 29: still feel his his the last words that I can't breathe,
44:11
Speaker 29: and yeah, we just need to keep repeating those words
44:15
Speaker 29: and not let the silence be so definite.
44:18
Speaker 18: It is it a fear that that George Floyd's death
44:21
Speaker 18: is being drowned out by the law and order rhetoric
44:26
Speaker 18: that's going on now in this country.
44:31
Speaker 5: I think there's two Americas.
44:33
Speaker 27: I think that people that's been impacted by police violence
44:36
Speaker 27: and that understands what oppression looks like. There's nothing they
44:40
Speaker 27: can tell us that's gonna make us forget our brother
44:43
Speaker 27: George Floyd, or the countless oppressive systems in this country
44:47
Speaker 27: and accountless murders uh of countless unnamed black people in
44:53
Speaker 27: this particular country. So I don't think that anything that
44:56
Speaker 27: they try to do is actually gonna stop us from doing.
45:00
Speaker 27: You have to do an honor in our brother and
45:01
Speaker 27: remembering him.
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Speaker 1: You know, I was.
45:07
Speaker 29: In New Mexico protesting Charlie Kirk thirty days before he
45:11
Speaker 29: was assassinated, and I had a chance to see the
45:16
Speaker 29: people walk by his audience and hear the racist rhetoric
45:20
Speaker 29: come out of their mouth. And if anyone believes in
45:23
Speaker 29: demonic possession, well that was a church full of demons there,
45:29
Speaker 29: and that forever changed me, just seeing how these ugly
45:35
Speaker 29: people think. And then, you know, thirty days later, when
45:41
Speaker 29: the assassination happened, I was just in shock, you know,
45:46
Speaker 29: and not just in shock by the fact that the
45:48
Speaker 29: man that I protested was assassinated, but in shocked by
45:51
Speaker 29: the fact that they're treating him like someone who was marauded,
45:56
Speaker 29: when the real person who was marauded was George Floyd.
45:59
Speaker 29: And to answer about the question regarding law enforcement, there
46:03
Speaker 29: was an FBI report that came out twenty or thirty
46:09
Speaker 29: years ago, I can't remember, but you can google it
46:11
Speaker 29: and it's out there. FBI report saying that law enforcement
46:15
Speaker 29: agencies across the United States are infiltrated by white supremacists
46:20
Speaker 29: and we are living in a scary time where white
46:23
Speaker 29: supremacists they're no longer afraid of being bold. They're not
46:27
Speaker 29: wearing their white hoods anymore. They've taken it off, and
46:32
Speaker 29: they're trying to normalize what's happening right now. You know,
46:36
Speaker 29: as far as law enforcement goes, they're collaborating with white supremacists,
46:40
Speaker 29: they're collaborating with ice. Who are these rednecks just coming
46:44
Speaker 29: together to abduct people without due process or probable cause,
46:48
Speaker 29: violating our constitution. Now we're having a constitutional crisis because
46:52
Speaker 29: of white supremacy. And so as a homosexual, that concerns
46:56
Speaker 29: me because whenever they're done going after my brown brothers
47:00
Speaker 29: and sisters, my black brothers and sisters, they're going to
47:04
Speaker 29: come after the homosexuals next. They're already targeting trans people.
47:07
Speaker 29: And so that's why I'm here this. Yeah, it's scarce
47:11
Speaker 29: the hell of me that law enforcement is trying to
47:14
Speaker 29: normalize this ship.
47:15
Speaker 18: Oh, I'm sorry, and it's and it is talk of
47:19
Speaker 18: them releasing pardoning the uh, the police officer that killed
47:24
Speaker 18: George Floyd.
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Speaker 6: That's that's been, that's been, that's been talked about.
47:28
Speaker 1: How does that make you feel?
47:30
Speaker 30: Well?
47:30
Speaker 29: They Trump pardoned that racist cop in mary Coppa County, Arizona,
47:35
Speaker 29: the sheriff, I can't remember his name, but he was
47:39
Speaker 29: imprisoned for corruption and mary Coppa County has one of
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Speaker 29: the most racist police agencies in the country and he
47:47
Speaker 29: pardoned him, and that says a lot about where this
47:50
Speaker 29: administration aligns. So it is scary to think that they
47:55
Speaker 29: would pardon what was his name, Charlovian.
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Speaker 5: Yeah, that's that's that's scary. That's scary. It's very scary.
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Speaker 27: And I think that means that we need to be
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Speaker 27: more mindful and more on guard and stand up and
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Speaker 27: events like this we come out and we build community
48:12
Speaker 27: and solidarity with each other because they will continue on
48:15
Speaker 27: with this white supremacy as long as Trump is in office,
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Speaker 27: and it really it ain't just Trump being in office,
48:21
Speaker 27: but it's the culture of white supremacy. As long as
48:23
Speaker 27: the culture continues where it's okay to horm black and
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Speaker 27: brown people as long as it continues, we will constantly
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Speaker 27: see incidents such as this with him saying, Oh, I'm
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Speaker 27: gonna pardon this guy for killing and you know, murdering
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Speaker 27: black people, executing us in the streets.
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Speaker 5: So this will it's gonna continue to happen.
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Speaker 27: You know, it's gonna come a time where we're gonna
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Speaker 27: have to stand up and we're all gonna have to fight.
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Speaker 13: You know.
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Speaker 6: It is George Floyd's memory kind of fading now or
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Speaker 6: is it still as powerful as it was.
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Speaker 27: I actually think that a lot of murders, a lot
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Speaker 27: of injustices have faded from people's country is because there's
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Speaker 27: constantly ignorance that's thrown in our face. And I think
49:05
Speaker 27: what's said is that it sometimes it takes injustice for
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Speaker 27: us to realize and to be reminded of how bad
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Speaker 27: things really are. And the music, the TV was in
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Speaker 27: a media, a lot of this stuff brainwashes us and
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Speaker 27: keeps us docile.
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Speaker 5: And I just wish it wasn't that way.
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Speaker 27: I wish that there was more, you know, people more
49:25
Speaker 27: involved with struggles that are happening.
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Speaker 1: That was from the George Floyd birthday celebration this past
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Speaker 1: week at the Mural across from his home in Houston.
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Speaker 1: The kt Pride celebration was derailed for a moment last
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Speaker 1: week as the event was to be held at Typhoon,
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Speaker 1: Texas Water Park and Katie, but the venue canceled the event.
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Speaker 1: The Barter Park gave no reason for the cancelation. Despite
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Speaker 1: the setback, Commissioner Leslie Briones joined the community for the
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Speaker 1: third annual Katie Pride Celebration. Commissioner Brionis partnered with community
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Speaker 1: organizers to secure the Bear Creek Rodeo Arena after the
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Speaker 1: original Katie Pride venue was canceled. This free celebration featured
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Speaker 1: live performances, family friendly activities, and over sixty five vendors,
50:09
Speaker 1: drawing a large gathering of LGBTQIA plus residents and their
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Speaker 1: allies in West Eris County.
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Speaker 31: As someone who you hopefully knew, knew her name, knew
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Speaker 31: of her, but I think after the invention of unfolded
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Speaker 31: in the last seventy two hours, who we as Katie Pride,
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Speaker 31: hopefully members of the Katie to believe is our true
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Speaker 31: superhero is someone who is willing to stand up and
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Speaker 31: stand proud and is not going to back down by
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Speaker 31: bullies and is truly welcoming and inclusive and shows it
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Speaker 31: not just in words.
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Speaker 11: But in behaviors.
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Speaker 31: Katie Pride today would not be possible without the support
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Speaker 31: of Commissioner in Leslie Briona's and her Precinctoor staff.
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Speaker 3: It is because of her and her staff and how.
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Speaker 31: She leaves and the leadership in which she demonstrates and
50:52
Speaker 31: upholds her staff to also demonstrate that we are here today.
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Speaker 3: They immediately went into action.
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Speaker 10: What can we do?
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Speaker 31: Said no to basic nothing, which is amazing, and we
51:02
Speaker 31: are here and this is still happening.
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Speaker 3: So those people who want to bully online and hate.
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Speaker 31: And think that they can use their positions in their
51:08
Speaker 31: platforms to harm other people, it is the opposite.
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Speaker 20: For Leslie Barona.
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Speaker 3: She's the one that has stood.
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Speaker 31: Up and has stand out. So please remember that always
51:16
Speaker 31: support everything to work. Support her because our voices will
51:20
Speaker 31: always be louder. So please our celebrity of the day
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Speaker 31: and for a really long time, Commissioner Leslie brionas, Okay, can.
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Speaker 15: We give it up?
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Speaker 13: Ravanda?
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Speaker 3: Who can we give it up?
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Speaker 13: To?
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Speaker 11: Everybody who organized Katie Pride. Hi, I'm not here bionas
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Speaker 11: she heard a young and I'm proud to be a
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Speaker 11: Harris County commissioner. They may try to silence us, but
51:54
Speaker 11: hate will never win Harris County. We know that we're
51:58
Speaker 11: on the right side of history and the right side
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Speaker 11: of justice. They may try to cancel events, they may
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Speaker 11: try to paint over our crosswalks, but we will never
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Speaker 11: be silent because here everybody is welcome, everybody is respected.
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Speaker 3: When we say all, we mean all in Harris County.
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Speaker 11: Know that we welcome you here.
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Speaker 3: In Preaching four, I want to thank my team because
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Speaker 3: when they try to cancel, you were happy to host.
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Speaker 11: You have an open invitation, always, always and forever, because
52:33
Speaker 11: I believe deeply that we're all one, and it makes
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Speaker 11: me so sad. I'm raising three little girls, and I
52:40
Speaker 11: love Texas, but this is not the Texas our kids deserve.
52:45
Speaker 11: When I think about Texas and everything's bigger in Texas, frankly,
52:49
Speaker 11: I think they're just talking about high waves and trucks.
52:52
Speaker 11: But one day, when they say everything is bigger in Texas,
52:56
Speaker 11: our liberty will be bigger, our respect will be bigger,
52:59
Speaker 11: our rights will be bigger, and that changed. This is
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Speaker 11: our Texas, and that change will come from the freedom
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Speaker 11: in this room, the equality in this room, and we
53:11
Speaker 11: need to fight together in unity because this is our
53:14
Speaker 11: home and they will never break our pride ever. So
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Speaker 11: if you can join me, stand up Stand Proud.
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Speaker 3: Let's say it together.
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Speaker 11: Stand up Stand pro, Stand up Stand Proune Matter, Stand
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Speaker 11: up stan Prown, stand up stand Prouge our time, Stand
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Speaker 11: up stand Proud.
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Speaker 3: Let's go Harris County. Let a's fight for the economy
53:39
Speaker 3: and Harrison all of us have fun.
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Speaker 7: Thank you, Katy Pride.
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Speaker 1: The Houston Dynamo of Major League Soccer earned a point
53:47
Speaker 1: on the road on Decision Day twenty twenty five, drawing
53:51
Speaker 1: zero to zero was sporting Kansas City to bring the
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Speaker 1: twentieth season in the club history to a close. In
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Speaker 1: the eightieth minute. Forward Nelson Quinn made his twenty twenty
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Speaker 1: five league debut, playing his first competitive minutes and suffering
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Speaker 1: a major knee injury in the twenty twenty four preseason.
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Speaker 1: The Houston Dash earned three key points in their last
54:11
Speaker 1: home match of the season with a one to zero
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Speaker 1: win over the Kansas City Current, snapping the top seeded
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Speaker 1: club's seventeen match unbeaten streak. Forward Ryan Garius netted the
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Speaker 1: lone goal tonight, marking her first NWSL goal after entering
54:27
Speaker 1: the match as a substitute in the second half. The
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Speaker 1: win marked Houston's fourth clean sheet of the season and
54:33
Speaker 1: dealt Kansas City just its third loss of the year.
54:37
Speaker 1: They go into an international break and then travel to
54:39
Speaker 1: Providence Park to face the Portland Thorns Football Club on
54:43
Speaker 1: November two for decision Day as they still fight for
54:46
Speaker 1: a playoff spot. Defender Page Nielsen spoke on the goal
54:50
Speaker 1: and going forward.
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Speaker 30: Yeah, I think this is what it's all about. I'm
54:54
Speaker 30: so proud of this team for no matter what, just
54:58
Speaker 30: going out and doing what we can to ourselves in
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Speaker 30: the best position. And we did just that, and I
55:04
Speaker 30: just I'm honestly just so.
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Speaker 5: Proud of everybody.
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Speaker 4: Any question.
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Speaker 30: The ball, I was wide open when she passed it
55:12
Speaker 30: to me, and then I think it was just a
55:15
Speaker 30: matter of taking that space and really attacking with speed.
55:19
Speaker 30: We know that they commit a lot of numbers high,
55:21
Speaker 30: so that way, you know we'll have good moments to
55:24
Speaker 30: create opportunities on the transition.
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Speaker 4: And so.
55:28
Speaker 30: I don't really remember how Delane got the ball, but
55:30
Speaker 30: I just knew we were like pretty wide open. And
55:32
Speaker 30: then for Sarah's again in the box, Clarissa Ryan I
55:35
Speaker 30: mean there for them to match my speed on the
55:38
Speaker 30: ball as well is just says a lot. And I
55:41
Speaker 30: think it's a lot of growth on the fact that
55:43
Speaker 30: we were able to score a goal like that. And yeah,
55:46
Speaker 30: I mean Ryan went an amazing finish and so composed,
55:49
Speaker 30: literally just got in the game and was able to
55:51
Speaker 30: put that away no problem, and that's what she's been
55:54
Speaker 30: doing all season. So yeah, I'm just literally so.
55:58
Speaker 18: Happy, excited.
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Speaker 30: You know, it's good to be up one. Oh but
56:02
Speaker 30: even before that, like not getting too drawn back to
56:06
Speaker 30: where we're just sitting on our own half, I think
56:08
Speaker 30: really choosing our moments to get up and press and
56:11
Speaker 30: and really do that as a team. There are a
56:13
Speaker 30: couple of moments where we were a little bit stretched
56:15
Speaker 30: or not as together as we wanted, So just looking
56:19
Speaker 30: at that and making making sure we fill the gaps
56:21
Speaker 30: there and yeah, going forward from there.
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Speaker 6: And they would have had to say at the end
56:25
Speaker 6: of the game, there.
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Speaker 30: Ryan those moments, he said after the game. Yes, Yeah,
56:32
Speaker 30: I think he just emphasized how proud he was of
56:34
Speaker 30: us and that we did exactly what we said we
56:37
Speaker 30: were going to do, which feels so good as a
56:41
Speaker 30: team to know that every single person gave it there
56:43
Speaker 30: all tonight and just for a ninety minute performance, and
56:49
Speaker 30: I think that was like, what was what it was
56:51
Speaker 30: going to take in order to beat this team, and
56:53
Speaker 30: that's that's what we did. So yeah, I really don't
56:56
Speaker 30: remember exact words. I always just kind of black out.
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