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Trump Kills American Research; 14 Point MOU Violated - Straight Closed Again; Juneteenth Celebrated - TPN 6/21/26 · The People's News

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Speaker 1: It's the week of June twenty first, twenty twenty six,
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Speaker 1: and this is what's on the People's News. Mit President
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Speaker 1: says federal cuts hurts American innovation. Persian community divided on
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Speaker 1: Iran in World Cup as Iran US piece again put
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Speaker 1: on hold. Republicans bet on their old playbook, attack the
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Speaker 1: week and address problems that don't exist. Juneteenth, in Texas,
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Speaker 1: Houston goes orange ahead of the Dutch World Cup match
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Speaker 1: against Sweden. All that and more on the People's News.
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Speaker 1: I'm Steve Gallington. This is the People's News, and the
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Speaker 1: People's News starts now. Cuts and federal grants and funding
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Speaker 1: the universities hurt the future of American inn In twenty
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Speaker 1: twenty five, over seven thousand, eight hundred research grants from
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Speaker 1: the National Institute of Health and the National Science Foundation
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Speaker 1: were terminated or frozen by the Trump administration. Another seventy
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Speaker 1: three billion in grants are on the blocks to be
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Speaker 1: cut for twenty twenty seven. This could lead to the
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Speaker 1: loss of medical progress, leaving patients without future research treatments,
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Speaker 1: weaken innovation in fields like biotech, computing, and aerospace, and
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Speaker 1: make it harder for young scientists to build careers in research.
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Speaker 1: This research then migrates outside the US, mainly to China.
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Speaker 1: One of the top universities in the world is Massachusetts
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Speaker 1: Institute of Technology or MIT. MIT president Sally Kolbloth. As
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Speaker 1: part of the Curiosity on a Mission, an effort to
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Speaker 1: highlight the role of basic research and American innovation, she
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Speaker 1: explains how university research leads to make major breakthroughs and
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Speaker 1: what could be at risk if funding continues to decline,
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Speaker 1: and why this work matters for patients, industries, and American's competitiveness.
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Speaker 2: So, you know, in the United States, most of the
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Speaker 2: really fundamental research basically trying to understand how things work.
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Speaker 2: Curiosity driven research is done at universities and funded by
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Speaker 2: the federal government in a competitive way, so our scientists
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Speaker 2: write proposals to the government and panels of scientists judge it,
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Speaker 2: and the very best science, we hope.
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Speaker 3: Always gets funded.
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Speaker 2: And so the reason this is important is that you know,
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Speaker 2: the things like medical advances, new devices, the national security
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Speaker 2: all depend upon our understanding the world around us, so
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Speaker 2: that we can use the proceeds of this research to
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Speaker 2: form the basis for the kind of advances we see
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Speaker 2: in everyday, like and so cuts to university research, cuts
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Speaker 2: to research funding mean that the pipeline of discoveries that
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Speaker 2: will lead to the kind of medical advances we enjoy,
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Speaker 2: to the kind of technological advances we enjoy, will run dry.
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Speaker 4: Some of the things that happen that's happening right now
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Speaker 4: as far as research, and it seems like this administration,
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Speaker 4: and I have to say that is not looking at
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Speaker 4: at at the research and not looking at uh science
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Speaker 4: as something that's real, because I look at what they
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Speaker 4: look at climate change is faith. They look at other
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Speaker 4: other scientific even even when COVID they look at that, Well,
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Speaker 4: that's not real.
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Speaker 3: So do you have a.
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Speaker 4: Problem with getting funding when you have such backlash from
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Speaker 4: opposition in this country.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean part of the problem is and part
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Speaker 2: of the reason where doing this sort of campaign, if
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Speaker 2: you will, call curiosity on a mission, is that I
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Speaker 2: don't think people understand that the very basic science that
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Speaker 2: gets done is not just because scientists want to know
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Speaker 2: things or we're just trying to establish some you know,
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Speaker 2: a line of facts. It's because this kind of research
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Speaker 2: is necessary for the future of the country. So we
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Speaker 2: may not feel it right now with basic science is
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Speaker 2: shut off, but I'll tell you, we'll feel it ten
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Speaker 2: years from now. Our children will feel it, our children's
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Speaker 2: children will feel it.
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Speaker 3: You know.
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Speaker 5: One of my best, one of.
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Speaker 2: My favorite examples of this is immunotherapy for cancer. You know,
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Speaker 2: we all know people now we are getting cancer treatments
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Speaker 2: that are based on a deep understanding of.
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Speaker 3: The immune system.
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Speaker 2: If we didn't have that deep understanding, we couldn't manipulate
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Speaker 2: the system for new treatments. You know, regardless of what
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Speaker 2: you believe, if you believe in science or don't believe
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Speaker 2: in science, the facts are clear. Which is that a
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Speaker 2: aside from the fact that scientific discovery is essential to
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Speaker 2: modern life, the other thing is it's essential to the economy.
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Speaker 2: So even if you're not interested in science, if you're
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Speaker 2: interested in the economic success of this country, you've got
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Speaker 2: to invest in science. Places like MIT we started thirty
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Speaker 2: thousand active companies. For each dollar of NIH fundament research,
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Speaker 2: we see two dollars and fifty cents in new economic
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Speaker 2: activity in this country. We see huge job creation.
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Speaker 5: This kind of.
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Speaker 2: Economic activity has resulted in you know, more than four
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Speaker 2: hundred thousand jobs and ninety three billion in economic impacts.
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Speaker 2: And that's just one agency in one year. So regardless
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Speaker 2: of your political orientation or what you believe, the objective
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Speaker 2: facts are that science is essential for the success of
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Speaker 2: the country.
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Speaker 5: Yeah.
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Speaker 4: Talk about some of the everyday innovations that people might
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Speaker 4: see but don't know comes from university research.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, you know, it's true. Almost everything around us that
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Speaker 2: we benefit from. So the Internet began.
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Speaker 3: In university research.
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Speaker 6: Radar was developed.
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Speaker 2: With federal fund to get myte touch screen technology that
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Speaker 2: you have, you know in your iPhone, things like MRI scanning,
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Speaker 2: lithium batteries, chemotherapy, even you know, you can love or
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Speaker 2: hate AI, but that began with computer science research decades ago,
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Speaker 2: and so everything we enjoy. You know, you're running in
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Speaker 2: the woods and you get lost and you take out
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Speaker 2: your phone.
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Speaker 3: It's gona.
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Speaker 2: You have a signal and you use your GPS.
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Speaker 5: You know.
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Speaker 2: My colleague get Arizona State, Michael Crow likes to pull
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Speaker 2: out his iPhone and say that this was fifty years
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Speaker 2: of you know, physics and chemistry that went to the
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Speaker 2: operation of the phone. I think people don't understand these
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Speaker 2: things are not invented in industry. Industry takes the basic
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Speaker 2: discoveries and develops them into products. We're thrilled to collaborate
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Speaker 2: with industry because we want to bring good to the world.
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Speaker 2: But shareholders and history don't have the thirty and forty
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Speaker 2: years of patients to wait for returns. They rely on
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Speaker 2: universities to bring forth these important discoveries.
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Speaker 4: How is it, How is it that we've gotten to
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Speaker 4: this this, this, this, this time and day that that
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Speaker 4: that science is being challenged?
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Speaker 2: You know, it's interesting. I think a lot of it
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Speaker 2: comes from just two things. One is, you know, a
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Speaker 2: sort of lack just of understanding of what I'm talking about,
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Speaker 2: like how the pipeline works, and having you know, industries frankly,
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Speaker 2: you know, wanting to advocate for more research and industry
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Speaker 2: rather in than universities. That's I think one thing. The
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Speaker 2: other thing is, you know, I would remiss if I did,
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Speaker 2: I would be remissive. I didn't acknowledge the fact that, look,
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Speaker 2: there have been politics around higher education in universities. What's happening,
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Speaker 2: whether it's protests or anything else. And I think the
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Speaker 2: dollars that come to universities have been used as a
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Speaker 2: sort of lever and the problem is that's really cutting
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Speaker 2: off your nose just by your face.
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Speaker 7: Even if you don't like.
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Speaker 2: Some of what's going on with students at universities cutting
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Speaker 2: off research. It's punishing the whole country. It's not just
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Speaker 2: impacting higher education.
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Speaker 3: Yeah.
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Speaker 4: And also this aspect of getting of funding itself. You know,
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Speaker 4: it's a threat now to try to find funding in
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Speaker 4: the universities, especially major university. I don't know where people
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Speaker 4: are going to look for alternative, alternative research. Is it
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Speaker 4: a threat that some of the funding you're not going
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Speaker 4: to be able to compete with other nations?
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Speaker 7: Oh?
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Speaker 3: Huge?
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Speaker 2: You know it's interesting because you know, for years and
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Speaker 2: years and years, the scientific journals have been dominated by
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Speaker 2: the United States. Guess what, Now they're being dominated by China.
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Speaker 2: And that's because China is investing, investing, investing in all
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Speaker 2: sorts of research, and they have a large fool of
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Speaker 2: talent who in the past, many of those folks who
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Speaker 2: wanted to come to the United States to.
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Speaker 5: Do their research.
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Speaker 2: That's shifting and I think, you know, again, we may
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Speaker 2: not see it tomorrow, but in the long run, if
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Speaker 2: we want discoveries to be done in the US so
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Speaker 2: we are not so dependent on discoveries elsewhere, we've got
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Speaker 2: to invest now in the science here.
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Speaker 4: Where can we go and find out more information.
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Speaker 2: So we are focusing on how curiosity drives these important discoveries.
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Speaker 2: So we have a website called Curiosity Mission dot org.
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Speaker 2: This will tell you about scientists, the work they're doing,
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Speaker 2: the pipeline. And if you want to find out more
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Speaker 2: about MIT, you can go to Understanding dot Mit dot edu.
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Speaker 2: And that includes a video for America's two hunderd fiftieth
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Speaker 2: anniversary that shows the importance of science for America's future.
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Speaker 4: And what's your The thing is, you know, as far
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Speaker 4: as far as funny that doesn't just go for MIT,
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Speaker 4: but you know some of the smaller universities also in
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Speaker 4: my correctal net.
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Speaker 2: Oh yeah, it's universities all over the country. When I
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Speaker 2: talk to, you know, my other friends who are presidents,
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Speaker 2: or I go to meetings, everyone's concerned about this, you know.
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Speaker 2: I think everyone recognizes that the higher education system has
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Speaker 2: been the crown jewel of this country. And part of
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Speaker 2: it is because of research, and.
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Speaker 3: Part of it is because of education.
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Speaker 2: And I will say that you know, places like MIT
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Speaker 2: and others that have means, a lot of that money.
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Speaker 3: Is invested in the students.
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Speaker 2: So we give retuition to any family who earns under
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Speaker 2: two hundred thousand dollars a year, you know, and many
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Speaker 2: of our peers do similar things. They try to help
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Speaker 2: students no matter where they're from, to be able to
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Speaker 2: succeed and when they're at the university to participate in
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Speaker 2: the kind of important and exciting research we're talking about,
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Speaker 2: so if they want to become scientific leaders in the future,
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Speaker 2: they will have the tools to do so.
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Speaker 1: That was Sally Kambluth, president of MIT, one of the
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Speaker 1: leading universities in the world. She spoke on the need
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Speaker 1: to fund university research in the US. To find out
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Speaker 1: more information, you can go to Curiosity Mission put together
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Speaker 1: dot org. Iran and the US have signed a fourteen
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Speaker 1: point memorandum of Understanding setting the framework for how peace
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Speaker 1: talks can take place during the next sixty days. Israel
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Speaker 1: immediately violated Article number one of the fourteen point Memorandum
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Speaker 1: of Understanding, resulting in Iran shutting down the Strait of Hormuz. Meanwhile,
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Speaker 1: the World Cup continues with the Iranian team being banned
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Speaker 1: from staying in the US and after play, immediately being
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Speaker 1: forced to leave the country back to their home base
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Speaker 1: in Mexico. This is divided the Persian community here in
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Speaker 1: the US. At the match in Los Angeles, there were
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Speaker 1: pro SHAW demonstrators clashing with others inside the match. Outside
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Speaker 1: saw demonstrators both protesting against and for the Iranian regime.
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Speaker 1: The World Cup has become a lightning rod within the
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Speaker 1: Persian community, with people divided on whether or not to
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Speaker 1: support the team. We talked to Kareem Zanngani, local Persian
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Speaker 1: activist of the Iranian American community of Texas about the
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Speaker 1: situation and the ceasefire.
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Speaker 7: And is ironic to realize that this team is not
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Speaker 7: really representing the Iranian people.
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Speaker 3: Is not the Iranian people. Team is the regime team.
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Speaker 7: And that's why we be asking people actually to bend
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Speaker 7: this the the Iranian the regime team from from the
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Speaker 7: World Cup, appeasing, appeasing the regime while they are executing
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Speaker 7: the world class athletics and there are many of them
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Speaker 7: in the prison. As you know, it is not it
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Speaker 7: is not a good thing, is not is not right.
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Speaker 7: So that's why they were asking people are actually to
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Speaker 7: ban this theme. This theme is the iergy city. This
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Speaker 7: theme is the regime team that they that who are
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Speaker 7: taking the Iranian people and at them and a lot
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Speaker 7: of world class athletic that they've been even executed, or
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Speaker 7: they are in the prison.
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Speaker 3: Those are the those are the real heroes. Those are
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Speaker 3: the real athletics.
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Speaker 7: Are the Iranian people that they are being executed or
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Speaker 7: or they are in.
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Speaker 3: Prison as at this time.
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Speaker 7: So this this theme is is the iogy is control
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Speaker 7: by LGC. They're headed by RGC and the guys, and
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Speaker 7: they all had to support if they have it.
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Speaker 3: It's like the differences by the regime.
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Speaker 7: You I'm sure you know, well, they're not going to
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Speaker 7: let them come to play in this this world of yep, what's.
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Speaker 4: So what's your so, what's the community saying about if
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Speaker 4: that's the case, what's the community saying about the deal
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Speaker 4: that was just made by the Trump administration and the
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Speaker 4: Iranian government, which does say anything about the marketcy.
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Speaker 3: Or anything in there about changing power.
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Speaker 7: Well, and yet you said, right, this is this is
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Speaker 7: very ironic. That is to see this regime still in
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Speaker 7: the power and human rights and justice it had no
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Speaker 7: place in this deal. You know, that was the first
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Speaker 7: first thing that the Iranian people was expecting that the
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Speaker 7: human rights and the stop execution of the Iranian people
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Speaker 7: on a daily basis should be should.
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Speaker 3: Be demanded by the United States, but.
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Speaker 7: That unfortunately that didn't have any any any place in
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Speaker 7: this and and negotiation in these talks.
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Speaker 3: So MH is this deal. Yeah, of course, Iranian people
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Speaker 3: they don't want war. Iranian people they don't want appeasement.
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Speaker 7: And that's why our resistance, which is the n c
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Speaker 7: R i as Issue National councilor Resistance of Iran led
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Speaker 7: by Miss Marian gradually that she has a provision government
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Speaker 7: and it has a ten plant for the future of Iran,
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Speaker 7: vision and road map that it has offered for me
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Speaker 7: many years.
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Speaker 3: And she was saying that no, no appeasement, no war,
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Speaker 3: and let the.
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Speaker 7: Iranian people take care of their issue, and the US
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Speaker 7: only should support the Iranian people and their rights to
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Speaker 7: confront the i l GC Iranian Iranian people have their
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Speaker 7: own resistance and they have m K and their organized
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Speaker 7: resistance groups all over Iran. That the regime of Afridom.
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Speaker 7: That's the main thing that US should support them to
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Speaker 7: overthrow the regime and bring about freedom and justice in Iran.
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Speaker 7: And that's going to benefit not only the region but
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Speaker 7: also entire worlds. That's that is missing unfortunately. The main
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Speaker 7: thing that to overthrow the regime, which is the the problem.
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Speaker 7: As you know, now even today is more clear that
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Speaker 7: this regime it has to go entirely.
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Speaker 4: And with that said, where does it Where does the
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Speaker 4: community feel about supporting this administration as because it seems
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Speaker 4: like that the regime is a lot more powerful now
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Speaker 4: than before the war.
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Speaker 3: No, regime is not.
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Speaker 7: Obviously, the regime is not powerful. Regime is weak and vulnerable.
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Speaker 7: I'm not saying it because I like to say it
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Speaker 7: is fact. Regime of course it lost a lot of
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Speaker 7: This is the fact that he lost a lot of
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Speaker 7: the heads from the Supreme leader all the way the
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Speaker 7: head of the igal, see how many many others have
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Speaker 7: been eliminated.
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Speaker 3: So this region cannot be stronger. The problem.
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Speaker 7: The problem is that regime always, you know, when when
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Speaker 7: they are scared, the streame higher more.
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Speaker 3: This is this is this is the case. That's how
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Speaker 3: they're trying to show that they are strong.
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Speaker 7: They are not as strong as you see. They are
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Speaker 7: falling apart. Actually within the regime they are.
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Speaker 3: They are they are hearing each other apart.
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Speaker 7: They just know because nobody's benefit, you don't see much
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Speaker 7: of it.
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Speaker 3: But is the fact. Regime is very weak. Regime is vulnerable.
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Speaker 7: That's why it's executing people on daily basis.
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Speaker 3: You tell me if if the regime is.
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Speaker 7: Powerful, how come on daily basis they they executed the
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Speaker 7: most valuable people that they are just standing for freedom
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Speaker 7: and democracy. So this is very obvious sign of weakness,
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Speaker 7: sign of fear from the Iranian people because the real
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Speaker 7: real war is between the Iranian people and the regime.
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Speaker 7: That's the one that they're hoping that the United States
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Speaker 7: of America and the world free world to recognize that
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Speaker 7: and support that.
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Speaker 3: And and and everybody will benefit from that. Would you have.
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Speaker 4: Would you have supported a a coop so to speak,
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Speaker 4: or even what you're talking about take over the government,
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Speaker 4: because that would become another civil war?
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Speaker 3: My correct on that the coop? Did you say coop?
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Speaker 3: I just want to make sure the understand your your
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Speaker 3: question if you cook, Yeah, the coop has no place.
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Speaker 8: You know.
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Speaker 7: The coup it happened, It happened in the past that
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Speaker 7: they brought. They brought the dictatorship of shot in the
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Speaker 7: parlor back in nineteen fifty three, then again again against
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Speaker 7: the will of the Iranian people, against the democratic government
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Speaker 7: of doctor Mosadev. And that's why we ended today today
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Speaker 7: is actually the result for.
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Speaker 3: That coup because the only the only one.
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Speaker 9: Shaw left in Iran, he was the Mulas because all
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Speaker 9: the great people was executed by regime, by the regime
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Speaker 9: of Shaw, and.
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Speaker 3: All it was in the prison, so there was no one.
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Speaker 5: That it was.
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Speaker 10: It has the potential of the leadership leadering the the
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Speaker 10: nineteen seventy nine revolution, and the Moulla was the only
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Speaker 10: one that hijacked after the Iranian people overthrew the Shaw,
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Speaker 10: Whomani took over the revolution and it becomes another li She.
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Speaker 4: Said, something that was interesting to me was you said
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Speaker 4: they took over it from the show. The show was
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Speaker 4: an unpopular leader from who's taken.
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Speaker 7: Yeah, Showers shows the dictator Showers, the puppet show was
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Speaker 7: not represent the Iranian people, obviously you know that.
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Speaker 3: Well, we talked about it before. It was the fact,
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Speaker 3: this this this.
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Speaker 7: Mullas was growing inside the Shaws, the dictatorship. Every every
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Speaker 7: other great people was executed or he was in prison.
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Speaker 7: So it was it was a lack of leadership while
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Speaker 7: the even and people overthrow the Shaw, so Romania hijacked
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Speaker 7: the revolution. He said that it's going to be for people.
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Speaker 7: But as soon as he cut he got up the power.
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Speaker 7: He changed his mind and he said it very clearly.
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Speaker 3: Oh, I changed my mind, he said, I like he
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Speaker 3: just simply said it because it was a mula.
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Speaker 7: So he then he started bringing all the mulas into
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Speaker 7: the government and and ignore.
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Speaker 3: The people and people representative. I was gonna ask, how
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Speaker 3: are you going to.
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Speaker 4: Do you cheer for the Iranian players or the Iranian
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Speaker 4: team or do you uh yeah, I mean most of
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Speaker 4: those plays, by the way, most of those players play internationally,
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Speaker 4: they play they don't play in Iran most of.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, yeah, true, good, good question.
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Speaker 7: You know is regardless of those individuals, and you look
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Speaker 7: at the team, this team, if he has the slightest
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Speaker 7: differences with the regime or any any reserve, they're not
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Speaker 7: gonna let them come to this thing.
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Speaker 3: These out purely is a regime team. The head of
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Speaker 3: it is completely by iologies.
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Speaker 7: That actually they are in the sanctioned list of the
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Speaker 7: United States, so they are they are not representing the
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Speaker 7: Iranian people.
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Speaker 3: Is a very mixed feeling, unfortunately.
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Speaker 7: But the fact of the matter is this the lot
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Speaker 7: of athletics, a lot of great athletics, the world class
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Speaker 7: athletic They've been executed since.
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Speaker 3: They won since the region came into.
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Speaker 7: Power in nineteen seventy nine, and he started killing them
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Speaker 7: because they were supporting the m K, apporting amy K.
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Speaker 3: So there was just they were just hanged.
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Speaker 7: They were up to today, I mean right now we
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Speaker 7: have quite few still. They gave him like for example,
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Speaker 7: the guy named Mama Jabod Sonny.
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Speaker 3: But for his sonny that he's he's a he's.
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Speaker 7: A champion, boxing champion. He's they gave.
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Speaker 3: Him three times execution three times that is, you know,
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Speaker 3: at any given time.
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Speaker 7: They execute him, you know, because he's he's supporting amy K,
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Speaker 7: like many others going.
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Speaker 3: This is just one example.
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Speaker 7: So those are the regime is fear. The regime fear
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Speaker 7: is the urn and people especially from the emy K,
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Speaker 7: because the emi K and the resistance units.
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Speaker 3: All over Iran are the one that who.
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Speaker 7: Organizing the the uprising, organizing this freedom, demanding for for
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Speaker 7: to to all through the regime, and that's what they
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Speaker 7: do every day they do at all around Tehran and Iran.
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Speaker 1: That was Kareem Zanngani with the Iranian American Community of Texas.
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Speaker 1: He was commenting on the Persian community and the Iranian
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Speaker 1: World Cup players. The State Republican convention was held here
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Speaker 1: in Houston last week. What we saw there was a
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Speaker 1: continuation of the traditional Texas Republican playbook. Attack those who
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Speaker 1: are weak or don't have any representation, attack problems that
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Speaker 1: don't exist, while continuing to take power and money away
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Speaker 1: from the people of Texas. The main talking points at
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Speaker 1: the convention this time was banning sharia law in Texas,
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Speaker 1: which no one has ever said is going to happen,
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Speaker 1: attacking Islam, attacking abortion by limiting in vitro fertilization, cutting
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Speaker 1: property taxes, and continuing their attax on the LGBTQ community
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Speaker 1: by saying that being transgender or being gay is a
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Speaker 1: choice instead of recognizing transgender identity. Also stronger election security
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Speaker 1: by having ice at polling stations. Vlad David Hook is
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Speaker 1: a Republican media strategist. He says Republicans are on a
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Speaker 1: right path to victory with this platform.
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Speaker 5: Well, the Texas GUP convention was I think really consequential
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Speaker 5: in terms of the political landscape as we move towards
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Speaker 5: the November mid term election. So you know, he had
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Speaker 5: over four thousand Texas Republicans assembling at the Georgia r
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Speaker 5: Brown from across Texas gathering to hear not only messages
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Speaker 5: of unity from elected leaders and the grass roots, but
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Speaker 5: they also elected new party leadership, and they voted on
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Speaker 5: the resolutions and party rules and platform legislator priorities that
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Speaker 5: will guide the Texas Legislature over the next two years.
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Speaker 5: And so it was hugely consequential because the Texas Legislature
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Speaker 5: starts in their new session, the ninetieth session for the
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Speaker 5: Texas Legislature in January, and we have candidates on the
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Speaker 5: ballot now who are running in the midterm Republicans to
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Speaker 5: you know, to try to maintain hold on House of
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Speaker 5: Representatives in the United States Senate, but also candadiate's like
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Speaker 5: Governor Abbott, Lieutenant Governor Patrick, and state representative state centers
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Speaker 5: who are all running to maintain Republican dominance in the legislature.
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Speaker 5: So what happened at this conse uh, This, this convention
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Speaker 5: is hugely consequential because it sets the table, it sets
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Speaker 5: the tone, it sets the parameters, and it creates the
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Speaker 5: direction that the party needs going forward.
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Speaker 11: What's the what's what topics seem because it seemed like
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Speaker 11: more the topics we're dealing with personally, issues like dealing
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Speaker 11: with abortion and dealing with.
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Speaker 4: Uh L B T T rights, and of course the
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Speaker 4: share law topic. Also what was the what was you
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Speaker 4: think that's gonna went over and keep the g O
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Speaker 4: P and Pollinger, No.
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Speaker 5: You have I think you have to look at it
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Speaker 5: from the perspective of what is the priority of Texas voters.
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Speaker 5: What we know is that the Republican Party is the
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Speaker 5: majority party in the Sextans legislature. Both Governor Evatt and
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Speaker 5: Senate Governor Patrick are both Republicans. All statewide officers are
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Speaker 5: held by Republicans, and so what we can say is
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Speaker 5: that the Republican Party reflects the will of the majority
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Speaker 5: of Texans. And so when Republicans gathered in Houston at
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Speaker 5: the convention and they put forward their legislative priorities, really
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Speaker 5: focusing on policies that advance growth, opportunity, and prosperity for
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Speaker 5: every single Texan and policies that really uphold the principles
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Speaker 5: of faith, family, and freedom. You know, we can see
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Speaker 5: that the Republican Party is looking down the road with
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Speaker 5: a vision towards the future, with an idea of maximizing
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Speaker 5: the opportunities and liberty that people need in order to
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Speaker 5: really build the lives that are of of of significant
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Speaker 5: value and consequence and contributive to the rest of society.
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Speaker 5: And so what Republicans advanced at the Conventional were policies
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Speaker 5: and ideas and rules and priorities that move those ideas forward,
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Speaker 5: you know, so upholding principles of life, Upholding principles of
29:25
Speaker 5: national and state sovereignty, Upholding principles of free markets and capitalism,
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Speaker 5: Upholding principles of faith, family and freedom to empower families
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Speaker 5: to create better futures and better lives for their families.
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Speaker 5: Upholding ideas of of you know, growing business, not stifling business.
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Speaker 5: So when we look across the the vast array of
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Speaker 5: things that emerge from the Convention, you know, when we
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Speaker 5: when we put all of them to the tests, what
29:59
Speaker 5: we can see is they all move the needle in
30:05
Speaker 5: order to maximize freedom, uh encourage liberty, expand opportunity and
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Speaker 5: improve growth and and and greatly enhance opportunity for prosperity
30:19
Speaker 5: for all.
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Speaker 4: Does that include Muslims because they were it was a
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Speaker 4: it was an article in the paper about Muslims being.
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Speaker 3: Targeted at the convention.
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Speaker 4: But yeah, I'll talk about more of the diversity of
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Speaker 4: of the of the party.
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Speaker 3: Is that is that being addressed?
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Speaker 5: Yeah, and I heard about that incident, and apparently what
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Speaker 5: happened is a a a person who was involved with
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Speaker 5: the Council for American Islamic Relations, which has been identified
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Speaker 5: as a group which is supportive and UH involved with
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Speaker 5: ongoing acts of terrorism across the world, and which has
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Speaker 5: been rightly you know, identified by Governor Abbott and by
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Speaker 5: national UH national groups that that monitor these extremist groups
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Speaker 5: for their behavior. Apparently this individual tried to get UH
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Speaker 5: certification and and credentials as a Republican delegate, which, you know,
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Speaker 5: it's not only you know, problematic in terms of in
31:28
Speaker 5: terms of you know, maintaining the h the the hold
31:38
Speaker 5: of the party on its on on what it can
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Speaker 5: do and who it involves as members, but also you know,
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Speaker 5: really runs into into the face of you know, undermining
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Speaker 5: the principles that really drive the party. You know, it's
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Speaker 5: it's it's difficult to really reconcile UH what extreme radical
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Speaker 5: Muslim actions, UH, how they don't align with with fundamental
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Speaker 5: American principles. You know, it's it's the the the it's
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Speaker 5: very clear that radical Islam has very little to do
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Speaker 5: with a free and prosperous Western civilization. Uh So it
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Speaker 5: makes I guess.
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Speaker 3: I guess, I guess my closer, We what what?
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Speaker 7: What?
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Speaker 4: What would you consider radical radical Islam? I mean, because well,
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Speaker 4: you know, certainly what we've been around Islam, you know,
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Speaker 4: you know, in the past, and I don't I don't
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Speaker 4: seeing anything that's considered radical at all.
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Speaker 3: Let's go ahead.
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Speaker 5: Well, yeah, no, I think I think radical Islam is
32:43
Speaker 5: best characterized as as utilizing and encouraging violence and depravity
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Speaker 5: and and hatred as a means of advancing UH and
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Speaker 5: their goal. And so when we have groups across the
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Speaker 5: world that espouse a radical theology, you know, and they
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Speaker 5: talk about jihad, or they talk about you know, destroying
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Speaker 5: Christianity or or the West, I think it's safe to
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Speaker 5: look at those as being aligned with a definition of
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Speaker 5: radical Islam. I think America has had many members of
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Speaker 5: Muslim community who have been very positive and contributive members
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Speaker 5: of our society, and who are wonderful parts of our
33:34
Speaker 5: community and who are friends and and neighbors. But when
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Speaker 5: we see when we see alignment with with some of
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Speaker 5: these groups that have espoused hatred and violence and and
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Speaker 5: murder as far as part of their operating manifesto or
33:59
Speaker 5: even as as part of their founding charters. Then we
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Speaker 5: have to really, you know, question whether or not those
34:07
Speaker 5: are are of value to bring into our society. And
34:11
Speaker 5: what we can see clearly is that those values don't
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Speaker 5: align with our understanding of Western civilization and and the
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Speaker 5: ideas of UH enhance and trying within our constitution that
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Speaker 5: all men are created equal and endowed with the Creator
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Speaker 5: by certainly unailable rights. Those those ideas are not commensurate.
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Speaker 5: H and not don't exciting.
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Speaker 3: I was just gonna you don't think that's fear monitoring.
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Speaker 3: And also, you know, I.
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Speaker 11: I fear most I fear Christian groups.
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Speaker 3: They're on that same level and that type of stuff.
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Speaker 5: I think. I think you can certainly make the case
34:46
Speaker 5: that there are some Christian groups and some Christians individually
34:49
Speaker 5: who who don't align with the broader UH understanding of
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Speaker 5: Christianity or or even within our what's your civilization's tradition
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Speaker 5: of Christianity. But those are are few and far between.
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Speaker 5: There they are. They're the exceptions rather than the norm.
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Speaker 5: But what we see when it comes to radical Islam
35:10
Speaker 5: is that these groups that espouse murder, that that promote hatred,
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Speaker 5: that use fear, intimidation and terrorist tools to advance their
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Speaker 5: agenda are sometimes the loudest voices in the room, and certainly,
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Speaker 5: you know, they certainly get the most attentions, and they
35:26
Speaker 5: have really done a disservice uh to the Muslim community
35:30
Speaker 5: by putting themselves forward as the face of that that
35:37
Speaker 5: ideology rather than groups that promote peace and and and coexistence.
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Speaker 3: So it's it's it's.
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Speaker 5: Pretty clear that the motions and the actions taken at
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Speaker 5: the convention were in alignment with ensuring that the body
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Speaker 5: and the deligates of the party selective principles.
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Speaker 4: Yeah, okay, And do you think that's a winning leaving
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Speaker 4: leaving the convention of the platform is a winning platform?
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Speaker 5: I think so. I think I think the vast majority
36:17
Speaker 5: of of of people who have looked at it and
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Speaker 5: and who emerge from the convention after the all the
36:25
Speaker 5: work that was done, arrived at the conclusion that this
36:29
Speaker 5: is this is a solid platform. These are good priorities
36:32
Speaker 5: that we need to move forward for an upcoming legislative session.
36:37
Speaker 5: These are winning issues that can help the party prevail
36:41
Speaker 5: in November in the mid term on on solid footing
36:47
Speaker 5: in order to not only continue to grow the party,
36:50
Speaker 5: but continue to be the party that Americans depend on
36:54
Speaker 5: for leadership for uh as as the party that upholds
36:59
Speaker 5: American value and upholds the principles that have made our
37:02
Speaker 5: country so great. And as we work forward and move
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Speaker 5: forward to continue to make America great every single day,
37:12
Speaker 5: you know, we know that we can look at these
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Speaker 5: principles and these priorities and these values and use them
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Speaker 5: as a way to guide us as we move forward.
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37:54
Speaker 1: Community health centers across Texas and the nation are providing
37:58
Speaker 1: both healthcare and mental health services to their patients. A
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Speaker 1: new report shows that integrating these services can often improve
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Speaker 1: patient outcomes. Primary care physicians use what's called a warm
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Speaker 1: handoff to introduce the patient to a behavioral health specialist
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Speaker 1: during a regularly scheduled appointment. We hear more from Texas
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Speaker 1: News Service and Free to ross.
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Speaker 8: Community health centers serve as more than a place to
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Speaker 8: see a doctor in many places. In Texas, more than
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Speaker 8: seven hundred centers across the state provide primary and preventive
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Speaker 8: care to patients in underserved areas. Over the last several years,
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Speaker 8: they've also started addressing the demand for a behavioral health
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Speaker 8: services by integrating it into primary care appointments. A recent
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Speaker 8: report from the National Association of Community Health Centers shows
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Speaker 8: combining the two improves access to treatment and reduces the
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Speaker 8: stigma associated with seeing a mental health professional. Lance Kelly
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Speaker 8: with Waco Family Medicine says they've been using the practice
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Speaker 8: for about ten years.
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Speaker 12: There is oftentimes built in trust with the primary care team,
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Speaker 12: and one of the things that the paper highlights is
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Speaker 12: how the central warm handoffs are the primary care clinician
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Speaker 12: connecting the patient with the behavioral health provider.
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Speaker 8: Kelly says patients don't often follow through with referrals, but
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Speaker 8: the warm handoff allows the patient to be seen immediately.
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Speaker 8: Centers using behavioral health integration report improvements to patient engagement
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Speaker 8: and outcomes, as well as chronic disease management. Centers across
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Speaker 8: the nation have created their own models to address the
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Speaker 8: needs of their communities. Integrated care teams can consist of
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Speaker 8: primary care providers, behavioral health clinicians, and psychiatric consultants. Kelly
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Speaker 8: says addressing a patient's mental health issues makes it easier
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Speaker 8: to manage their overall health.
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Speaker 12: It can be incredibly challenging to treat diabetes, heart disease,
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Speaker 12: chronic pain if we are not concurrently addressing depression, anxiety,
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Speaker 12: post traumatic stress disorder, substance use disorders.
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Speaker 8: Like many health care facilities, community health centers were impacted
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Speaker 8: by the Medicaid unwinding that followed the COVID nineteen pandemic.
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Speaker 8: Gully says expanding Medicaid and changing the billing process would
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Speaker 8: allow facilities to help more patients.
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Speaker 12: If we can increase access to primary care and increase
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Speaker 12: access to care just generally, that is going to give
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Speaker 12: us an opportunity to be able to address the patient's
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Speaker 12: behavior all needs.
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Speaker 8: Some states don't allow centers to build for more than
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Speaker 8: one appointment per day. He says that hinders those facilities
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Speaker 1: Juneteenth was celebrated Friday across the country, as it is
41:05
Speaker 1: now a federal holiday. It marks the day February nineteenth,
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Speaker 1: eighteen sixty five, when General Granger from the Union Army
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Speaker 1: landed in Galveston and announced that the enslaved black people
41:22
Speaker 1: in Texas were now free. This came two years after
41:25
Speaker 1: the signing of the Emancipation Proclamation, which freed black people
41:30
Speaker 1: across the US. In Texas, that information did not arrive
41:34
Speaker 1: until after harvest season. With the announcement in Galveston, two
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Speaker 1: hundred and fifty thousand enslaved people were free. That next year,
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Speaker 1: freedmen organize which is now the celebration of Emancipation Day
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Speaker 1: on June nineteenth, Galveston, Texas at Reedy Church, which is
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Speaker 1: where the first free black slaves celebrated the first June teenth.
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Speaker 13: And in eighteen sixty five from General Granger came to.
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Speaker 6: You know, two years later to let the slaves know
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Speaker 6: that they were free.
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Speaker 13: They actually posted the sign on our door, on the
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Speaker 13: church's door, and then from there they went back history
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Speaker 13: tells us that we got it all in the Galveston
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Speaker 13: Daily News that they went back to their various places
42:34
Speaker 13: because you know, they didn't know what to do. They
42:37
Speaker 13: said that they were free, but they had to go
42:40
Speaker 13: back home.
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Speaker 6: To where wherever they were working and.
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Speaker 5: What so forth.
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Speaker 13: And so then in eighteen sixty six the congregation got
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Speaker 13: together and that was when they had the first celebration
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Speaker 13: of June tenth. So that was a year later, and
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Speaker 13: it was January, and it said that it was raining
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Speaker 13: and you know, they had to walk through the mud
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Speaker 13: or whatever to get to the courthouse, which is a
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Speaker 13: block up and at the courthouse that is where it
43:15
Speaker 13: is set in the paper. Over three thousand slaves showed
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Speaker 13: up for that first celebration.
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Speaker 3: Of June tenth, you.
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Speaker 13: Know of actually, And so then when they went and celebrated,
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Speaker 13: they went to the courthouse, read the information, came back
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Speaker 13: right down that little street right there over the side,
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Speaker 13: and they were so singing in jubileus and came into
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Speaker 13: the church in worship. And so we reenact that every year.
43:52
Speaker 13: So that's what we do, based up on what happened
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Speaker 13: as a celebration. Now last year we had Biden because
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Speaker 13: in Biden become and I said, we gave him two
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Speaker 13: more years of life because he was very excited about
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Speaker 13: the you know that we gave him that. And so
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Speaker 13: this year we have the first African American mayor of Tulsa, Oklahoma,
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Speaker 13: that's who and so we are so excited to hear him.
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Speaker 13: And so I was telling the folks early on that
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Speaker 13: the church, all of that is, all of this is.
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Speaker 6: Authentic.
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Speaker 13: The I was reading about am churches and all have
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Speaker 13: Gothic architectures. You can tell by the architect that that
44:54
Speaker 13: we have.
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Speaker 6: And that picture up.
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Speaker 13: Front, a guy found that in that by his house
45:01
Speaker 13: and it was a picture of Richard Allen and he
45:04
Speaker 13: gave it to us, that little picture.
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Speaker 6: At stained glass.
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Speaker 13: And one of the other things that we found out
45:11
Speaker 13: is that all stained glasses in the church represent something
45:19
Speaker 13: that happened. It gives you the history of a church.
45:22
Speaker 13: So wherever you are, go and look at the windows,
45:28
Speaker 13: because you could always find the history of your church.
45:33
Speaker 13: And so that's one of the original.
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Speaker 6: Events right there.
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Speaker 13: All the others werenewed after the whole church.
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Speaker 1: Reedy Chapel Ame is located in Galveston, Texas, on twenty
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Speaker 1: thirteen Broadway, It was established in eighteen forty eight when
45:53
Speaker 1: black slaves were given land by their white slave masters,
45:57
Speaker 1: and was one of the locations General Granger of the
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Speaker 1: Union Army went to announce the General Order ending slavery
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Speaker 1: in Texas in Houston. State Representative Jolanda Jones held her
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Speaker 1: Black History story time at Texas Southern University. This year.
46:15
Speaker 1: She had doctor Alexander Brown, a Bloody Sunday survivor and
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Speaker 1: civil rights leader who shared his first hand experience from
46:23
Speaker 1: Selma and the Birmingham Jail. We asked him about voting.
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Speaker 14: Do you see what happened with civil rights movement? And
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Speaker 14: we talked about voting rights and how how he took
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Speaker 14: away the voting rights back back in the day with
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Speaker 14: the poll tax, you know, the Jim Crow laws.
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Speaker 6: Do you see that happening right now?
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Speaker 3: Taking it?
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Speaker 14: How do you tell young how do you feel tell
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Speaker 14: the younger generation how important it is to these laws
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Speaker 14: that they do and is taking away your rights?
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Speaker 15: Well, you have to remind him that, well, they things
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Speaker 15: are changing, They're not changing voluntarily. We've got to force
47:09
Speaker 15: them to change. The only way we're gonna get that
47:12
Speaker 15: done is to change the people who are in these
47:17
Speaker 15: offices who respond to our needs and we have to
47:23
Speaker 15: do that. And in order to do that, we gotta
47:25
Speaker 15: get on vote. And as simple as that, you know,
47:29
Speaker 15: and we can get people out to vote, we can
47:33
Speaker 15: save us as a people. But we've got to get
47:37
Speaker 15: out there. And I said, I ain't doing it. I
47:44
Speaker 15: don't care what they do. I ain't doing it. But
47:47
Speaker 15: you cannot not do it if I put all that
47:53
Speaker 15: energy into it at the beginning of my life, my zeal,
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Speaker 15: my desire has not changed. It is not diminished at all.
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Speaker 15: So what I want to say, I'm tired and I
48:10
Speaker 15: won't to do it. I don't know how the choice.
48:13
Speaker 15: So whatever it is I can do, I want to
48:15
Speaker 15: do it, and I've decided for me. It's encouraging folks
48:20
Speaker 15: who are voting this time to go vote. You know,
48:26
Speaker 15: I'm not going to be going under standing on the
48:28
Speaker 15: corners and stuff. I'm trying to drag folks in to
48:31
Speaker 15: give them me to register the vote I want to go.
48:36
Speaker 15: I'm trying to go back to the folks that I
48:38
Speaker 15: have registered and get them to get out.
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Speaker 1: Some of the audience are taking the reins and working
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Speaker 1: in the community.
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Speaker 16: My name is Michael Bone, Matthews, member of five Beta
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Speaker 16: Signal Fraternity incorporate it. I am the state director for
48:53
Speaker 16: our single Beta Club, which is the male youth affiliate
48:57
Speaker 16: for five Beta Sigma Fraternity, into a program from males
49:01
Speaker 16: between ages of eight to eighteen.
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Speaker 6: So last week we had an event.
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Speaker 16: Called Pizza with the Police where we partnered up with
49:10
Speaker 16: the Fort Being County Sharf's Department, Brother Eric Fagan, and
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Speaker 16: our local Missouri City Police Department providing an opportunity for
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Speaker 16: our youth to have a huddle in conversation with the
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Speaker 16: local law enforcement and so great event, and we also
49:26
Speaker 16: provided some safety training information.
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Speaker 6: For the youth and the adults that were there.
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Speaker 16: The spinoff of that is going to happen on June
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Speaker 16: twenty eighth, where we're also partnering with the local community
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Speaker 16: partner that's going to.
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Speaker 1: This world and in particular the Dutch team have brought
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Speaker 1: a new high to the sport of football here in Houston.
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Speaker 1: This has taken the city by storm. Where you saw
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Speaker 1: on Saturday in the hot morning sun, well over five
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Speaker 1: thousand people showed up to walk two miles from Rice
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Speaker 1: University to the NRG Stadium supporting the Dutch team, mostly
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Speaker 1: local Houstonians. They followed the two double decker buses to
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Speaker 1: the stadium with a crazy enthusiasm not seen in the US.
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Speaker 1: They danced and sang and just had a fantastic time,
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Speaker 1: not really knowing the words, but buying into the Dutch
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Speaker 1: enthusiasm for their team and their sport.
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Speaker 6: Oh fantastic.
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Speaker 1: Wouldn't no place that'd rather be?
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Speaker 6: Yeah, what do you think? What do you think?
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Speaker 14: Do you think this so many people would have showed
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Speaker 14: up today?
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Speaker 3: Yeah?
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Speaker 16: I think it was only supposed to be five thousand,
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Speaker 16: but this has be way more than five thousand.
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Speaker 4: Thoughts on this event in the West University, which you
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Speaker 4: ever thought this many people would be walking down?
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Speaker 17: I think it's amazing. We're here for the World Cup
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Speaker 17: and we just want to immerse ourselves in what happens
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Speaker 17: at the World Cup. And experience it because it doesn't
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Speaker 17: come you're very often.
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Speaker 14: So what's your what's your thoughts on this event? And
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Speaker 14: it will come in jo.
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Speaker 17: I think it's I think it's great. It's good to
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Speaker 17: see people coming out. I see a lot of Astros
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Speaker 17: jerseys because it fits in the color and animal.
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Speaker 6: Yes, yes, and I love it. It's amazing. The Dutch,
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Speaker 6: the Dutch machine, the Orange machine. This is amazing.
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Speaker 18: Is it?
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Speaker 6: Clockwork goings again? The clockwork Orange? Exactly?
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Speaker 14: What's your did you think that many people would have
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Speaker 14: showed up on a Saturday morning?
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Speaker 6: Never?
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Speaker 14: Yes, yeah, this is crazy.
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Speaker 17: I have thoroughly enjoyed it.
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Speaker 6: The walk, it's a little but I'm loving it.
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Speaker 3: Goodbye?
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Speaker 6: Are you? Are you going to be Dutch today today?
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Speaker 17: I am No.
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Speaker 5: I'm just kidding.
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Speaker 4: I'm going for whoever wins.
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Speaker 6: But I'm here in Orange for the walk. Okay, okay
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Speaker 6: and Johnna walk. Oh, this walk is beautiful. Look at
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Speaker 6: all the people that came.
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Speaker 15: I woke up early, mind you, on a Saturday morning,
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Speaker 15: that's a sleeping.
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Speaker 6: Day, just to experience his culture.
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Speaker 1: That's beautiful.
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Speaker 3: It's beautiful.
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Speaker 6: You're Dutch today, Mexican, I'm Dutch today. I think it's cool.
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Speaker 6: It's it's a cool experience. It's beautiful. I love the
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Speaker 6: World Cup. I love football, and I just think it's
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Speaker 6: awesome to see everybody to come together and long. This
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Speaker 6: is two mile walk. Oh you gonna make it. I'll
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Speaker 6: make it.
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Speaker 18: I don't know.
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Speaker 6: My family will make it. We're here for the vibes, though.
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Speaker 1: That was the sounds of the jubilant crowd that walked
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Speaker 1: two miles to NRG Stadium to watch the Dutch beach
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Speaker 1: Sweden five to one. Houston is the fourth largest city
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Speaker 1: in the US and billions of dollars or coming in
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Speaker 1: through tourism, including all the uptick and activity from the
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Speaker 1: World Cup. With all that revenue coming into the city,
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Speaker 1: Houston's hospitality workers, including food and beverage workers at NRG
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Speaker 1: Stadium and the Fan Zone in downtown Houston, are not
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Speaker 1: able to participate in that economic boom. Hospitality workers here
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Speaker 1: make less than twelve dollars an hour, far less than
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Speaker 1: the minimum wage workers, and members of Unite Here Local
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Speaker 1: twenty three spoke at the Harris County Commissioner's Court meeting
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Speaker 1: this week. Harris County runs the stadiums, but contracts the
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Speaker 1: concessions to vendors. They gathered in front of the Commissioner's court.
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Speaker 18: Because we're tired of Houston workers being left behind. Houston
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Speaker 18: is the fourth largest city in the country. Over the
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Speaker 18: last few years, we've seen our city transform into a
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Speaker 18: world class tourist destination, yet with more and more major
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Speaker 18: events coming to our city. But yet the workers across
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Speaker 18: the city that make these events possible are barely making it.
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Speaker 18: They're living check to check and working multiple jobs just
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Speaker 18: to make it by. However, we have seen, right through
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Speaker 18: the power of our union that these companies have more
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Speaker 18: than enough to pay the workers what they deserve. Right
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Speaker 18: over the last year, since last fall, we've saw our
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Speaker 18: members fight, even go on strike to win life changing
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Speaker 18: wages and job security protections. Right across the airport, across
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Speaker 18: downtown hotels, convention center workers have won a minimum of
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Speaker 18: twenty dollars right with it going up in the next
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Speaker 18: few years. And we see our stadium workers just across
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Speaker 18: the street from where we work making some most even
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Speaker 18: making less than twelve dollars. Right, how is that possible
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Speaker 18: in twenty twenty six do we think that that's fair?
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Speaker 2: Oh?
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Speaker 18: How can you survive off of twelve dollars, and we see,
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Speaker 18: you know, the companies making billions of dollars right, and
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Speaker 18: workers are struggling. So I want to introduce one worker,
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Speaker 18: one great worker that's out here speaking of for herself
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Speaker 18: and her co workers. Ruby Garza a long time stadium worker.
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Speaker 18: So I'm going to pass it over to her to
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Speaker 18: share her story.
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Speaker 6: Yeah, okay, you just need it.
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Speaker 5: Okay.
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Speaker 19: My name is Ruby Garza. I'm a beer vendor at
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Speaker 19: t stadiums. I have worked at these stadiums for more
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Speaker 19: than twenty years. I make less than eleven at one
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Speaker 19: and twelve dollars at the other, and I live with
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Speaker 19: my son and grandson. We struggle to pay the bills
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Speaker 19: on time. I don't know how we do it sometimes,
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Speaker 19: but we make it ends meet. Sometimes we have to
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Speaker 19: buy Let's groceries than what we need because money is tight.
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Speaker 19: I would like to live on my own one day,
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Speaker 19: and if I make a living wage, I can. If
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Speaker 19: we make a fair wage, maybe my coworkers could give
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Speaker 19: their kids some more of their things they deserve. The
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Speaker 19: prices of the drinks at the stadiums are incredibly high.
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Speaker 19: Nearly all of them are more than what I make
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Speaker 19: in an hour. A beer loan is twelve dollars up
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Speaker 19: to thirteen dollars. We deserve better. That's why we are
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Speaker 19: fighting for respect and dignity.
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Speaker 18: At our jobs.
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Speaker 1: Unite twenty three in hospitality workers here are hoping to
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Speaker 1: strike for forty two days against Hilton Americas and the
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