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Speaker 1: It's the week of November thirtieth, twenty twenty five, and
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Speaker 1: this is what's on this special best of edition of
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Speaker 1: the People's News. The twenty twenty five elections will go
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Speaker 1: down as a blue wave, sweeping in Democrats and removing corrupt,
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Speaker 1: criminal and Trump. Following Republicans Unions win another victory in Houston.
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Speaker 1: Gavin Newsom visits Houston after his success in California. No
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Speaker 1: Kings brings over seven million people out to protest against
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Speaker 1: the corrupt and crule Republican Trump administration. All that and
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Speaker 1: more on the People's News. I'm Steve Gallington. This is
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Speaker 1: the People's News, and the People's News starts now. This election,
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Speaker 1: which saw historic voter turnout, is a harbinger for what's
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Speaker 1: going to be happening in twenty twenty six. You cannot
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Speaker 1: emphasize enough how dramatic this was and how much of
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Speaker 1: a blue tsunami is coming in twenty twenty six. Doctor
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Speaker 1: Michael Adams is founding director of the Executive Master of
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Speaker 1: Public Administration Program Barbara Jordan Public Policy and Research Center
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Speaker 1: at Texas Southern University in Houston, Texas. He analyzed this election.
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Speaker 2: We know that within a fifteen month period, we saw
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Speaker 2: the untimely death in some Estensis of Congresswoman Sheila Jackson
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Speaker 2: Lee and also Congressman Selvester Turner, and that created an
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Speaker 2: environment where Sheila Jackson Lee was on the ballot and
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Speaker 2: therefore the precinct judges had to select a replacement, and
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Speaker 2: that election, we saw Sevester Turner being picked by the
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Speaker 2: precinct judges to be on the ballot for the.
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Speaker 3: Twenty to twenty four, twenty twenty.
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Speaker 2: Four elections special election for that and so he won that.
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Speaker 3: Seat.
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Speaker 2: But also the term of Sheila Jackson Lee had to
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Speaker 2: be completed by someone, and her daughter, Erica Lee Carter,
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Speaker 2: was chosen by the voters to that.
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Speaker 3: So if you take.
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Speaker 2: Into account all of these moving pieces, as I would
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Speaker 2: describe them, you get a lot of confusion within the
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Speaker 2: ancient Congressional district, I would surmise to say, amongst the
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Speaker 2: voters and the residents of this district. And then within
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Speaker 2: a fifteen month period you see the passing of two
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Speaker 2: congressional members in terms of those who occupied the ancient
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Speaker 2: Congressional district name the Sheilo Jackson Lee into Best Attorneys
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Speaker 2: and March that seat became vacant, and the governor chose
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Speaker 2: to schedule a special election on November fourth of this year,
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Speaker 2: and so that's how we got to this point, and
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Speaker 2: we see a wide field of candidates who wanting to
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Speaker 2: fill in the gap for being the congress person for
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Speaker 2: the ancient congressional district. Specifically, there were sixteen people who
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Speaker 2: signed up. There were more than that that some of
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Speaker 2: them chose not to run. So we had sixteen candidates
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Speaker 2: on the ballots on Tuesday of this week, and out
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Speaker 2: of those two candidates, we knew that with such a
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Speaker 2: wide feel it was it guaranteed a runoff. And the
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Speaker 2: polling I think was very clear, and kudos to my friends.
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Speaker 3: Over at the Hobby School.
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Speaker 2: I think they were spot on and within the margin
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Speaker 2: of era they predict.
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Speaker 3: Did that Christian Minifie, who is the.
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Speaker 2: Current attorney county Attorney, and Amanda Edwards were were the
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Speaker 2: front runners. And that's what we saw on election night
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Speaker 2: when the results were finally tabulated, right, and I don't
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Speaker 2: know I hadn't checked the county site this morning whether
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Speaker 2: they are official, but it looks as though Christian Menifee
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Speaker 2: gonnered twenty nine percent.
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Speaker 3: Of the vote. Amanda Edward twenty five six percent of
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Speaker 3: the vote, and.
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Speaker 2: Jeel Unda Jones, who is currently serving in the Texas
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Speaker 2: State Legislature, she came in and captured nineteen.
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Speaker 3: Percentage points of the vote. So that's that's what we
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Speaker 3: are now.
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Speaker 2: If you want to pivot and talk about what the
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Speaker 2: issues were in this campaign, it seems as though the candidates,
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Speaker 2: all of them if you look at their ass and
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Speaker 2: those that had television ads, namely Christian Menafie and Amanda Edwards,
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Speaker 2: because they raised more than one point five million dollars,
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Speaker 2: and I think Jelunda Jones did fairly well with a
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Speaker 2: budget and campaign finance report revealing that she had about
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Speaker 2: three hundred thousand dollars. All right, So they all talked
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Speaker 2: about fighting or using Donald Trump as a fall so
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Speaker 2: to speak. Because the Hobby survey, I'll go back to that.
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Speaker 2: When they talked about the issues that were important to
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Speaker 2: the residents of the district, to me, it was kind
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Speaker 2: of striking that civil liberties and civil rights was at
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Speaker 2: the top of the list, not affordability, not kitchen table
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Speaker 2: issues such as jobs and access to capital and these
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Speaker 2: kinds of things. Civil rights and civiliveries and what that
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Speaker 2: allowed me to conclude was that the residents of the
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Speaker 2: eighty Congressional District clearly believed that the current presidential administration,
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Speaker 2: namely Donald Trump, is an existential threat to their well
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Speaker 2: being in their future and our Paul to see if
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Speaker 2: you have a follow up.
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Speaker 4: Yeah, it seemed like the money people with Menifee and Edwards,
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Speaker 4: they were able to get the downtown money which as
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Speaker 4: Julanda wasn't wasn't able to and Jeulanda was speaking to
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Speaker 4: issues dealing with the community more than Menifee and Edwards.
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Speaker 4: Am I looking at that right.
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Speaker 2: Well, you can, and I think you would have to
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Speaker 2: just aggregate that and break that down. I would say
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Speaker 2: that because Jelanda Jones and some local media sources have
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Speaker 2: suggested that even in the last election, there was a
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Speaker 2: campaign in terms of criminal justice reform in terms of
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Speaker 2: the judges, that she had taken money from that and
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Speaker 2: been a member of the Texas State Legislature. I wouldn't
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Speaker 2: necessarily say that all of her funds came from small
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Speaker 2: donations and these kinds of things. It's like we saw
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Speaker 2: one candidate of Isaiah Martin and I did some digging
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Speaker 2: on that as well, and it seemed as though that
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Speaker 2: was kind of misleading because it said that he had
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Speaker 2: a million dollars. However, if you look at what was
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Speaker 2: happening there with his fundraisings, like he was buying funds.
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Speaker 2: It's where you can use a company where you pay
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Speaker 2: a certain amount of money and then they will do
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Speaker 2: digital blast for you and then the money will will
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Speaker 2: come in. And so I think that was a somewhat
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Speaker 2: I don't want to say disingenuous, but it's notwithstanding. So
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Speaker 2: so no, I wouldn't clearly say that hers was community
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Speaker 2: based on.
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Speaker 3: What have you. Now, I think Jelunda Jones is going
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Speaker 3: to talk about it.
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Speaker 2: She's she's benefied her, she's been out there and in
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Speaker 2: many quarters, she could be described as being a kind
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Speaker 2: of polarizing figure. And I think it's my belief that
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Speaker 2: Menifee Uh certainly tied to the county and some of
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Speaker 2: the things he was better positioned and the people who
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Speaker 2: endorsed him. Now he won the endorsement rate, so I
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Speaker 2: think all of that helped bring more money into him.
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Speaker 3: Now he was endorsed by Jasmine Crockett. And whether you
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Speaker 3: like Jasmine.
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Speaker 2: Crockett or not, but recent poland suggests that she's a
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Speaker 2: very popular figure, uh, in particular in Texas, and I
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Speaker 2: would surmise in the major urban areas and also amongst
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Speaker 2: black people in particular.
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Speaker 5: What do you what about these propositions that were as
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Speaker 5: a matter of fact, actually before we talk about the props, uh,
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Speaker 5: talk about the at large positions that were that were
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Speaker 5: that were on the on the table.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, they at large positions for the Houston City Council.
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Speaker 2: We know that Letitia Plumber uh is leaving city council.
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Speaker 2: She's outing to run for county judge and uh, that
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Speaker 2: seat is open. And what we saw was Alexandra uh Halundion.
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Speaker 3: I can't think of her nagative to excuse.
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Speaker 2: Me now for that, uh, but she is a lawyer
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Speaker 2: with a major law firm. I think she came and
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Speaker 2: first a percentage point ahead of Dwight Borkins, who is
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Speaker 2: a long time political and someone who is well known
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Speaker 2: in the community, the black community. And I also believe
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Speaker 2: that Borkin's benefited from the fact of the special election
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Speaker 2: because he lives in the ancient congressional district and some
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Speaker 2: of the things that he touted in terms of food
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Speaker 2: deserts and bringing in the HB that we see right
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Speaker 2: there on the two eighty eight quarter in the McGregor
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Speaker 2: area that he touted himself as that and we know
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Speaker 2: that Dwight has one run from there before and he's
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Speaker 2: a well known figure in buy so I think that
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Speaker 2: helps him in that particular race. So that's going into
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Speaker 2: a runoff, and so it's going to be interesting to see,
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Speaker 2: first of all, in all of these when we talk
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Speaker 2: about a runoff, you have to talk about getting your
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Speaker 2: supporters back to the polls on runoff day. Now, for
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Speaker 2: the City Council, looks like that runoff will occur December thirteenth,
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Speaker 2: and for the special election for the eighteenth Grectal District,
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Speaker 2: that could be pushed back to January or even early
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Speaker 2: February because there's a law that most people are not
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Speaker 2: familiar with. It's called the MOVE Act, and it's a
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Speaker 2: law enacted by Congress that stands for the Military Overseas
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Speaker 2: Voter Empowerment Act, and that act, that law mandates a
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Speaker 2: forty five day canvas in period, and what I mean
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Speaker 2: by canvas in period is counting the votes and certifying
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Speaker 2: the ballot. And so that's up to the governor to
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Speaker 2: schedule that election. The runoff for the city council position.
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Speaker 2: The mayor will will schedule that and I'm suggesting that
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Speaker 2: he will call that on December thirteenth, So that's what
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Speaker 2: we are.
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Speaker 4: So he's not the mayor. I can understand the mayor
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Speaker 4: getting that out of the way that the governor out.
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Speaker 2: But yeah, and that's going to lead to a lot
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Speaker 2: of confusion if the maps, the mid decade redistricting maps
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Speaker 2: are upheld to be constitutional out in El Paso by
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Speaker 2: the federal court, and we know that we will getting
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Speaker 2: the immediate appeal from from either side, the winningside or
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Speaker 2: the losing side. In terms of the losing side in.
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Speaker 3: Particular, will will appeal directly to the U. S.
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Speaker 2: Supreme Court, and that's they don't have to go through
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Speaker 2: the Thirteenth Circuit Court of Appeal in the orders because
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Speaker 2: of this is the voting rights case. It can go
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Speaker 2: directly to the US Supreme Court.
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Speaker 4: Well. Yeah, and we had one of the lowest turnouts
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Speaker 4: for for voting in the years this It seemed like
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Speaker 4: he was getting lower and lower, but.
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Speaker 2: Not necessarily in terms of an off cycle kind of
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Speaker 2: election or this is a special election, so you're gonna
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Speaker 2: get a lower lower voter voter turnout. All right, Now,
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Speaker 2: do we have a problem with turnout?
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Speaker 3: Yes? How do we energize voters? What do we do? One,
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Speaker 3: you can stay at.
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Speaker 2: The top of the list better politicians, better candidates, right,
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Speaker 2: but there are a lot of things driving turnout.
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Speaker 4: Wait wait, hold on, hold not better candidates, more exciting candidates.
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Speaker 3: Because you you can.
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Speaker 4: You can be it. You can be a better case
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Speaker 4: canted it. But if you if you're not exciting the electors, uh,
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Speaker 4: they're not gonna come out to you. Know, you can
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Speaker 4: be you know, the smartest dude in the house and
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Speaker 4: running for office. But if you can't get the people excited,
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Speaker 4: become and both with you, then you're not your spinning
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Speaker 4: your wheels.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, but Beta Canadas, then you allow me. Now you
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Speaker 3: sound like Barbara wal Walter used to ask, ask the
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Speaker 3: question and answer it too. Right now, what I mean
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Speaker 3: about CANNIS in.
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Speaker 2: Terms of the messaging what we saw in New York
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Speaker 2: for example, Uh, the biggest issue that we've had and
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Speaker 2: I have a project of civic engagement projects, uh that
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Speaker 2: is designed is designed excuse me, to increase a voter
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Speaker 2: turnout And the biggest challenge that we have as young
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Speaker 2: people or gen Z people in terms of what do
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Speaker 2: we motivate, how do.
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Speaker 3: We get them there better messaging?
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Speaker 2: As we look at New York in terms of a
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Speaker 2: progressive campaign, how do you resonate, how do you hone
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Speaker 2: in on issues Bernie Sanders when he ran for president
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Speaker 2: in terms of uh, free free college and these kinds
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Speaker 2: of things, how do you motivate when you talk about that?
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Speaker 2: And if you look at even the eighteen congressional district election,
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Speaker 2: I was kind of surprised, and I made this comment,
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Speaker 2: why do these people just keep talking about fighting Donald Trump?
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Speaker 3: And what else is on the table?
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Speaker 2: Driving around the district and I know the district, well,
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Speaker 2: I live in the district.
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Speaker 3: You go down in the bottom and going back. And
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Speaker 3: I told some chap when Barack Obama was elected, I said, well, look,
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Speaker 3: we're gonna come back. You can take two thousand and.
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Speaker 2: Eight, you come back at the end of two terms.
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Speaker 2: If he's successful, the bottom is gonna look the same basically,
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Speaker 2: and it has been looking the same, say for gentrification,
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Speaker 2: and so if you don't talk about these kinds of
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Speaker 2: issues where you're impacting human life and the people who
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Speaker 2: live there, and there's a lot of suffering. You can
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Speaker 2: say that there's a social element there. If you don't
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Speaker 2: talk about social equity, then you don't have the messaging.
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Speaker 2: And I think the Democratic Party has been in.
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Speaker 3: Search of that.
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Speaker 2: And this is why we saw in New York and
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Speaker 2: where they didn't say it was.
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Speaker 3: About the economy, stupid but men.
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Speaker 2: Johnny was able to galvanize people around the affordability issue.
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Speaker 2: And anybody who knows New York, you knows New York
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Speaker 2: is not a cheap place to live in. And he
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Speaker 2: can talk about rent control, you can.
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Speaker 3: Talk about pre transportation. If you have a job, how.
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Speaker 2: Do you get to work, and these kinds of things,
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Speaker 2: because and we know that there's a problem that most
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Speaker 2: of the people, I want to say most of the
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Speaker 2: people larg percentage of the folks that don't even pay
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Speaker 2: the transfer they jump jumped the real interest points and
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Speaker 2: what have you. So having seen all of that, he
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Speaker 2: was able to tap into something. And whether or not
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Speaker 2: this was a bill, whether of what can happen in
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Speaker 2: the mid term elections coming up for the Democrats and
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Speaker 2: how they will position themselves and what have you, I
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Speaker 2: don't know, but clearly it was something. I think it
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Speaker 2: was a glaring indictment on the Trump administration and what
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Speaker 2: we've seen in terms of what the shutdown of the
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Speaker 2: American government said. I think it was a confluence of
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Speaker 2: these kinds things, and so you're going to have to
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Speaker 2: talk about that if you're going to try to increase
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Speaker 2: a grow voter voter turnout.
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Speaker 1: That was doctor Michael Adams, founding director of the Executive
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Speaker 1: Master of Public Administration Program Barbara Jordan Public Policy and
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Speaker 1: Research Center at Texas Southern University in Houston, Texas. Food
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Speaker 1: service workers at the George R. Brown Convention Center in Houston,
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Speaker 1: Texas ratified a new contract with Levy Premium Food Service,
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Speaker 1: making them the second group to reach a settlement in
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Speaker 1: the Unite Here Local twenty three's citywide campaign to raise
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Speaker 1: the standards for hospitality. Francesca Carballo, Texas Chapter president of
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Speaker 1: Unite Here Local twenty three, spoke on the new contract.
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Speaker 6: Yeah, so yesterday workers at the George R. Brown ratified
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Speaker 6: their contract again, another historic contract for hospitality workers downtown.
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Speaker 6: You know, workers are some workers are going from making
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Speaker 6: sixteen dollars to twenty this coming January and with significant
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Speaker 6: races each year after so each year of the contract,
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Speaker 6: so it's very exciting and the workers shoul feel very proud.
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Speaker 4: And I have to ask this question. With the shutdown
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Speaker 4: going on, a lot of people, jobs are being affected,
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Speaker 4: how powerful is it for you guys.
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Speaker 6: I mean, yeah, it's a it's a very you know,
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Speaker 6: dark time in a lot of ways in the country.
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Speaker 6: I mean, definitely, you know, it's it's just super unfortunate.
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Speaker 6: You know that our government's had a good luck, and
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Speaker 6: you know the people that are most affected are working
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Speaker 6: class people. So you know, being part of something like this,
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Speaker 6: you know, even the strike that wrapped up earlier this month,
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Speaker 6: and then you know, having this victory almost back to back,
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Speaker 6: it's a definite bright spot. And it's definitely you know,
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Speaker 6: getting a lot of hope to our members, and I
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Speaker 6: think just workers across the city that you know, there's
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Speaker 6: still you know, even though there's there's a lot of
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Speaker 6: barriers sometimes in the way, especially in Texas, like workers.
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Speaker 1: This is like a.
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Speaker 6: Prime example of like what can happen when workers do
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Speaker 6: come together, when they organize and they fight that they
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Speaker 6: can't win.
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Speaker 4: I'm already saying the House of Blues is workers are
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Speaker 4: organizing there now seem like something like your fighters being
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Speaker 4: spread across the city.
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Speaker 6: Yeah, I just heard about that today actually, So that's
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Speaker 6: that's super exciting. I hope that we hear more stories
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Speaker 6: like that. You know, the Houston is definitely like a
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Speaker 6: growing electorisity and it's it's booming, and workers in hospitality
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Speaker 6: and entertainment are are struggling to get by in the
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Speaker 6: city because everything's going up and the wages are not.
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Speaker 6: So I'm I know a lot of people are happy
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Speaker 6: to hear that the union movement, the labor movement is spreading.
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Speaker 4: This contract is for how long?
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Speaker 6: Oh, expirations in twenty twenty eight.
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Speaker 4: Okay, and they were out of they were out of
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Speaker 4: the contract for how long?
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Speaker 6: Well, their contract expired in a proper first.
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Speaker 4: Was it hard trying to negotiate or was this something
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Speaker 4: that they just wanted to stay because because of the
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Speaker 4: World Cup and all these events is coming here they
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Speaker 4: wanted just to get it out of the way.
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Speaker 6: Well, I definitely feel like the pressure right of the
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Speaker 6: Hilton strike, you know, just last month definitely had a
18:42
Speaker 6: lot to do with them and the workers also at
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Speaker 6: the at lev the Convention Center, they took similar steps.
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Speaker 6: They authorized a strike vote if necessary. You know, obviously
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Speaker 6: that definitely put some pressure on the employer to move fast,
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Speaker 6: and you know, they put they put together, they've met
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Speaker 6: a lot of the demands that the workers put on
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Speaker 6: the table. So you know, in the end, it wasn't
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Speaker 6: necessary to walk out because you know, they felt the part,
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Speaker 6: they felt sufficient enough, you know, pressure to come to
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Speaker 6: the table with a real offer and that workers feel
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Speaker 6: you know, uh proud about.
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Speaker 4: And luckily in Houston you have a city, you have
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Speaker 4: a city official that a city and other union organizers.
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Speaker 1: That that have your back, have the support.
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Speaker 6: Yes, you know, yeah, definitely. I mean we had a
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Speaker 6: lot of political support and community sport out on the
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Speaker 6: picket line, and you know they were all asking like, oh,
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Speaker 6: like if the you know, if the conventions, Internet keep
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Speaker 6: us updated. We want to support in any way we can.
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Speaker 6: So yeah, that was definitely great to see the community
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Speaker 6: come together.
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Speaker 1: That was Francesca Carbollo, Texas chapter president of your Unite
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Speaker 1: Here Local twenty three. After an overwhelming and decisive victory
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Speaker 1: in California with the passage of Proposition fifth, which would
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Speaker 1: add five more Democratic congressional seats, two time Governor of California,
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Speaker 1: Gavin Newsom made his way to Texas on Saturday to
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Speaker 1: cheer on Democrats in Texas. We talked to some outside
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Speaker 1: the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers Union hall where he
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Speaker 1: was speaking.
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Speaker 7: But what brings you down.
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Speaker 8: Interest in what he has to say?
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Speaker 9: Oh, just enjoying being with like minded people on a
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Speaker 9: beautiful day and supporting somebody who can really help us.
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Speaker 8: How can he help us standing up to the.
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Speaker 2: To the dismantlement of democracy is going on?
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Speaker 9: He can put his plans into action, and we love KPFT.
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Speaker 10: What brought you guys down here.
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Speaker 11: And the fact that he's review refuting everything that that
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Speaker 11: great Gabbot and Trump have done, and so that's that's
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Speaker 11: that was our main motivation. And he's he's got the
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Speaker 11: enthusiasm as to what we're speaking about today and what
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Speaker 11: we need something different, And he's saying the hard part
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Speaker 11: out loud.
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Speaker 7: Was it kickstart.
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Speaker 10: The the Democratic Party?
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Speaker 7: I believe?
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Speaker 11: So, yes, ma'am, Yes sir.
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Speaker 12: My name's Willing a child, and I'm wanting to come
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Speaker 12: down here to see Gavin Newsom.
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Speaker 7: And for what reason, Well, I'm.
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Speaker 12: The Democrat, lifelong Democrat, raises the Democrat. So when I
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Speaker 12: heard he was coming to Houston, I was like, what
21:35
Speaker 12: I need to see him in person and.
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Speaker 10: What brings what's what do you think he'll do for
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Speaker 10: the Democratic Party?
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Speaker 12: Well, I think he really raises morale and gives people
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Speaker 12: a lot of hope, and I think that's really important.
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Speaker 1: In this dan age inside the hall, state and local
21:49
Speaker 1: officials spoke on becoming stronger and how energized they are,
21:52
Speaker 1: But the main speaker was Governor Newsom, who electrified the
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Speaker 1: eight hundred plus people in attendance.
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Speaker 7: Thank you for.
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Speaker 13: Stepping it and thank you for inspiring a nation Texas.
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Speaker 14: Thank you for inspiring.
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Speaker 9: He wasn't wrong.
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Speaker 13: You guys made this happen. You guys have a wakened
22:16
Speaker 13: up our music. We're dealing with an invasive species.
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Speaker 15: By the way, he is an historic president, however, historically
22:33
Speaker 15: unpopular president.
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Speaker 14: Under every category. You can't even make that. This is
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Speaker 14: hard to do.
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Speaker 16: On every issue, on the economy, on terrorists, on immigration,
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Speaker 16: on healthcare, historically unpopular president.
22:54
Speaker 14: He knows it, and he knows it. Why else, Why
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Speaker 14: else did he make that call to your government?
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Speaker 16: Why else did he He only need to read the
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Speaker 16: election before one was that that's just weakness, weakness, masting
23:13
Speaker 16: has strength.
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Speaker 14: That's Donald Trump. And he had a very bad night
23:19
Speaker 14: on Tuesday.
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Speaker 16: He did because all of you, you're showing up.
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Speaker 14: That No Kings rally.
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Speaker 13: Talk about patriotism, You talk about why the founding fathers
23:40
Speaker 13: lived and died.
23:43
Speaker 14: You talk about why we're all here.
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Speaker 17: The best of the Roman Republic, best of grief, democracy,
23:48
Speaker 17: co equal branches government, the rule of law, not the
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Speaker 17: rule of God's.
23:58
Speaker 18: Nodding on people all across the States of America. What's
24:01
Speaker 18: at stake? And you put a stake of the ground.
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Speaker 18: People are showing up. I believe in crowns, groans, no Kings,
24:13
Speaker 18: and people.
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Speaker 13: All across this country are waking up because you have
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Speaker 13: a courage. Month school Gene colleagues, had the courage to
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Speaker 13: step up at a time when we were desperate for leaderships.
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Speaker 14: How what happens to us, That's how we respond to
24:35
Speaker 14: what happens. Responded. You didn't roll over, you'd give in it.
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Speaker 13: Stepped up and you traveled, as Jean said, all across
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Speaker 13: the United States of America, and you woke us up.
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Speaker 14: You didn't just have your bats here, you had our back.
24:52
Speaker 14: In the state of California, we were looking for a fight,
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Speaker 14: not only.
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Speaker 19: That we could live, but a fight worth fighting for.
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Speaker 19: When I kicked off this campaign, We kicked off the
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Speaker 19: profitty campaign.
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Speaker 20: It was at the Democracy Center, the little Tokyo and
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Speaker 20: Los Angeles.
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Speaker 13: That's the sacred site where we are in turning and
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Speaker 13: busting the Japanese at that site.
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Speaker 14: To kick off the campaign at the Democracy Center, what
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Speaker 14: did Donald Trump do?
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Speaker 13: He sent out his mass then he sent out his
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Speaker 13: secret police.
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Speaker 14: Greg will beat him. And don't take my word for
25:32
Speaker 14: you can hear the federal judge's own words.
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Speaker 13: This is the guy who believes that the oath of
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Speaker 13: office he needs to take is to the dear leader,
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Speaker 13: not the Constitution of the United States.
25:41
Speaker 14: Mass men, mass man showing up border patrol. You saw,
25:48
Speaker 14: you saw. You may have seen this on election day
25:53
Speaker 14: in Los Angeles. Days after I'll say it, the Los
25:58
Speaker 14: Angeles Dollars won the World Series?
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Speaker 16: Did you not listen with albren I was a former
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Speaker 16: mayor of San Francisco.
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Speaker 14: This days later, what did you do? At a lecture day?
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Speaker 13: He sent a hundred ice and Border control to assemble
26:19
Speaker 13: at Dodger Stadium. What they call the board tax units.
26:22
Speaker 13: These are the border tactical units. This is what you're
26:26
Speaker 13: seeing all across the United States. What you're seeing almost
26:29
Speaker 13: nightly and daily in Chicago, said out to chill, to intimidate,
26:36
Speaker 13: so people wouldn't show up at the polls.
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Speaker 14: You know, it's did we show up live two hours
26:47
Speaker 14: after pulling that you wanted to send the message the
26:56
Speaker 14: United States and er and she's absolutely right. Wasn't just
26:59
Speaker 14: an jury. It wasn't just Virginia. It was in Bucks
27:02
Speaker 14: County with him now democratic is attorney hundreds.
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Speaker 21: It was in Georgia, wasn't It.
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Speaker 13: Was all across this country and in Texas as we are.
27:15
Speaker 13: He is with armmune system, justice brandise.
27:21
Speaker 14: He said it best. He said it best.
27:26
Speaker 13: He said, in a democracy, the most important office not governor.
27:31
Speaker 14: It's not president.
27:33
Speaker 13: In a democracy, the most important office is office of citizen.
27:46
Speaker 14: Here and so I listened again.
27:50
Speaker 13: Want to express gratitude, You just sell the sense of
27:52
Speaker 13: well being.
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Speaker 20: You get us. Oh, we're gonna get through this. But
28:01
Speaker 20: as I said, we cannot rest until we take it back.
28:09
Speaker 14: It's no more race.
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Speaker 13: In our lifetime than the House of Representeds and taking
28:15
Speaker 13: back the House of Day. It's still lot struts today.
28:21
Speaker 13: It started on Tuesday.
28:24
Speaker 14: And I say this, the future is not just something
28:26
Speaker 14: to experience It's not something to ensure. The future is
28:30
Speaker 14: something to manifest.
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Speaker 18: It's decisions, not conditions of what are termin our faith
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Speaker 18: in future.
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Speaker 13: The fact that you chose to be here is testament
28:37
Speaker 13: to that we have agency.
28:39
Speaker 14: We can shape the future here in Texas. We can
28:42
Speaker 14: shape the future here all.
28:44
Speaker 13: Across the South and across the United States of America.
28:48
Speaker 14: You have that out.
28:54
Speaker 1: The mood in the hall was electric and exciting as
28:58
Speaker 1: Houstonians of all stripes fight to combat the fascism and
29:03
Speaker 1: cruelty and corruption of the current administration across town. In
29:08
Speaker 1: a much more somber event, Republican Texas Governor Greg Abbott
29:12
Speaker 1: made an appearance in Houston to announce that he is
29:14
Speaker 1: running for governor again. Hi, this is Steve Gallington, producer
29:18
Speaker 1: and host of The People's News. The People's News is
29:21
Speaker 1: people powered news. We are free to report the unvarnished
29:25
Speaker 1: and unspun truth and challenge the status quo of corporate
29:29
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Speaker 1: new one hour episodes of The People's News drop each
29:38
Speaker 1: Sunday on The People's News podcast. Thanks for listening. On Saturday,
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Speaker 1: October eighteenth, a coalition of groups led by fifty to
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Speaker 1: fifty one and Indivisible held the second No King's Rally,
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Speaker 1: which had over twenty six hundred events across the United
30:01
Speaker 1: States and around the world. Seven million people nationwide in
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Speaker 1: the US protested, which is two million more than the
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Speaker 1: first No King's Rally, which was held on June fourteenth.
30:13
Speaker 1: There were two parts of the Houston event, a march
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Speaker 1: and then a rally at City Hall. The total attendance
30:20
Speaker 1: for both of those was fixed at around ten thousand.
30:24
Speaker 1: Here is some sound from the rally itself.
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Speaker 9: And to each other to do whatever is needed to
30:30
Speaker 9: build change.
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Speaker 12: I want you.
30:33
Speaker 9: All to take a moment here now with me, a breath,
30:37
Speaker 9: and feel the power of our collective unity behind this cause.
30:42
Speaker 9: They cannot win if we stand united. We the people
30:52
Speaker 9: must build this foundation brick by brick and be the
30:55
Speaker 9: change we want to see. You want to live in
30:58
Speaker 9: a country with free speak, then you must speak your
31:04
Speaker 9: beliefs freely. You want to live in a country that
31:08
Speaker 9: has compassion for everyone, then you must have compassion for everyone.
31:19
Speaker 9: You want to live in a country where there is peace,
31:23
Speaker 9: then you must build peace within your community. You want
31:29
Speaker 9: to live in a world where there is enough. Then
31:33
Speaker 9: you must share what you have to spare. You want
31:39
Speaker 9: to see someone do something, Be someone.
31:48
Speaker 21: Who's that Use that.
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Speaker 14: Brother, sister, siblings.
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Speaker 22: I am Leda and allis representing the Gulf Coast Area
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Speaker 22: Labor Federation ninety two affiliate song.
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Speaker 23: Today we say love in America. There are no kings.
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Speaker 23: Power belongs to the people. Today we gather in love,
32:28
Speaker 23: love for our.
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Speaker 22: Communities, our families, and love for this country that we
32:34
Speaker 22: build every single day. We are immigrants, we are workers,
32:40
Speaker 22: we are dreamers.
32:42
Speaker 23: We are America.
32:48
Speaker 22: So when they say we hate America, I say no,
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Speaker 22: we love it so much that we refuse to.
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Speaker 24: Give it up on it.
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Speaker 14: We love it enough to march.
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Speaker 23: We love it enough to fight.
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Speaker 14: We love it enough to.
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Speaker 22: Demand to live up to the promise of liberty and
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Speaker 22: justice for all.
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Speaker 2: Yes, we are fed up.
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Speaker 22: We are disgusting with the direction our federal government is moving.
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Speaker 22: It is not serving us, the people who build this country.
33:25
Speaker 14: It is serving power.
33:27
Speaker 9: It is serving wealth.
33:29
Speaker 22: It is serving those who have everything and want more.
33:33
Speaker 22: But we are here because the promise of America, of
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Speaker 22: justice and fairness, of opportunity is being stolen in plain
33:42
Speaker 22: side by people who think they can rule instead of
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Speaker 22: represent We march because federal workers, the very fact bone
33:53
Speaker 22: of our government.
33:55
Speaker 24: Are being treated like disposable parts.
33:58
Speaker 22: We march us working families are being squeezed dry while
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Speaker 22: corporations and billionaires get back off the tax breaks and bailouts.
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Speaker 9: Wen march because the labor.
34:12
Speaker 22: Unions are collective boys for fairness and dignity.
34:16
Speaker 25: Are being attacked at every level.
34:19
Speaker 22: We march because healthcare is still being treated like a privilege,
34:24
Speaker 22: not a right. So we say, fund the government and
34:27
Speaker 22: fancy healthcare crisis as we march for democracy itself because
34:37
Speaker 22: it is under siege instead of government by the people.
34:41
Speaker 9: We are watching government.
34:42
Speaker 14: For the powerful, by the powerful.
34:45
Speaker 25: We are fighting for those who keep this country alive.
34:49
Speaker 22: Teachers, nurses, jennifers, truck drivers, public workers, line off constructions.
34:58
Speaker 21: Walkers, and every one of believes.
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Speaker 14: And that they of there.
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Speaker 24: We We are fighting for America that belongs to all
35:10
Speaker 24: of us.
35:11
Speaker 9: We are fighting for in America that belongs.
35:14
Speaker 4: To all of us.
35:15
Speaker 22: That is why we march, We speak, we stand together because.
35:20
Speaker 25: There are no kings here.
35:22
Speaker 9: It is only we, the people.
35:25
Speaker 22: Repeat after me, No kings, no rulers, just we, the people.
35:37
Speaker 14: Godless.
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Speaker 24: S Diles Many Styles is the parent of two transgender
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Speaker 24: young adults and the thousand of parents of trans youth,
35:49
Speaker 24: a social impact business providing learning, support and community the
35:54
Speaker 24: caregivers of trans kids and young adults across the country.
35:58
Speaker 24: During the past three Texas Lant of sessions, Mandy testified
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Speaker 24: before the Senate and House communities against the many many
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Speaker 24: bills targeting trans youth and the larger transgender community use
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Speaker 24: their mixed My name is.
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Speaker 9: Mandy Giles by pronouncer she Her, and I am here
36:17
Speaker 9: today because so many other parents of transgender, non binary,
36:23
Speaker 9: and gender expansive kids can't be here because Donald Trump's
36:29
Speaker 9: cruel executive orders targeting transgender people, Greg Abbott's fixation on
36:37
Speaker 9: yeah on where people go to the bathroom, and Texas
36:42
Speaker 9: small Maker's obsession with restricting the rights of trans folks
36:47
Speaker 9: have created this culture of fear and confusion for families
36:52
Speaker 9: with transgender kids and the entire gender expansive community. It's
36:58
Speaker 9: like our federal and state governments have nothing better to
37:02
Speaker 9: do than to pick on the transgender community, who make
37:06
Speaker 9: out less than two percent of our population. The amount
37:11
Speaker 9: of negative energy and verbal vomit by the tyranny to
37:16
Speaker 9: harass and terrorize, and erase the public existence of trans
37:22
Speaker 9: people is the very definition of state sanctioned bullying. Transgender
37:32
Speaker 9: folks are being demonized by the right and by leaders
37:37
Speaker 9: who promise that they would have our backs, but now
37:41
Speaker 9: they are being forced to use trans kids as paws
37:45
Speaker 9: in political games, or they are throwing trans people under
37:49
Speaker 9: the bus for their own political gain. So I ask
37:56
Speaker 9: of you, instead of turning your backs on trans folks
38:00
Speaker 9: because they're a tiny minority or because you might see
38:03
Speaker 9: them as a political liability, you need to pick them
38:06
Speaker 9: up and bring them with you in this larger struggle.
38:12
Speaker 14: Because if you.
38:16
Speaker 9: Because if you don't, you're next. For years now, transgender
38:24
Speaker 9: folks and the people who love them and advocate for
38:29
Speaker 9: them have gone to the Texas Capital every other spring.
38:32
Speaker 7: There you go to argue for their.
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Speaker 9: Right to be who they are in the state of Texas,
38:43
Speaker 9: to simply to peacefully just exist. I want my transgender
38:51
Speaker 9: kids to live in a world where they can be
38:55
Speaker 9: their whole selves at work, where they can go to
38:58
Speaker 9: the fuck when they need to, where they have easy
39:05
Speaker 9: access to the medication they need, and where they don't
39:09
Speaker 9: have to fight for their rights and dignity every two
39:12
Speaker 9: years at the Texas Capital. And doesn't everybody want those things?
39:25
Speaker 9: Don't you want those things? Do you see how the
39:31
Speaker 9: fight for trans rights and equality affects us all? Because
39:37
Speaker 9: trans rights are human rights. Do not leave them behind,
39:47
Speaker 9: do not throw them under the bus. We are them
39:50
Speaker 9: and they are us. I am thrilled to see so
39:57
Speaker 9: many people here today to stand against dictatorship and foreign democracy.
40:05
Speaker 9: But don't let today be the end. What are you
40:07
Speaker 9: going to do tomorrow? How will you show up? Where
40:10
Speaker 9: will you donate, where will you volunteer? What leaders will
40:14
Speaker 9: you hold accountable?
40:15
Speaker 7: And what is your plan to vote?
40:20
Speaker 9: Everyone here has power, and the power belongs to us.
40:26
Speaker 9: In a democracy, our power is expressed in unity and togetherness.
40:32
Speaker 3: So we need you.
40:35
Speaker 9: We need your voices, We need your power, We need
40:39
Speaker 9: your privilege to be allowed to be visible and to
40:45
Speaker 9: take action for trans rites and equality. We can only
40:51
Speaker 9: do this together. I'm Mandy Giles.
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Speaker 3: With parents to tell you thank you.
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Speaker 7: I better hear everybody say this.
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Speaker 21: Trans nights are human rights. Trans rights are human rights.
41:07
Speaker 21: Trans rights are human rights, trans rights are humion rights,
41:12
Speaker 21: trans rights are human rights. Trance rights are human rights.
41:17
Speaker 21: Rights are human right.
41:21
Speaker 26: What we're here today to stand up against the Trump
41:29
Speaker 26: administration's war on immigrant communities and working class people. In
41:36
Speaker 26: the past ten months, we witnessed more month attacks on
41:39
Speaker 26: the working class, from the deployment of federal troops to
41:43
Speaker 26: American cities, the continued support for the genocide of the
41:47
Speaker 26: Palestinian people in Hussa, the economic disaster of the tariff war,
41:52
Speaker 26: and shrump so called Big Beautiful Bill with huge cuts
41:56
Speaker 26: to healthcare and prim an assistance programs. Share Every single
42:02
Speaker 26: one of these policies is unpopular, even among those who
42:06
Speaker 26: may have supported Trump in the past. To make matters worse,
42:10
Speaker 26: our local governments here in Texas and Houston are fully
42:14
Speaker 26: cooperating with ICE and the Department of Homeland Security.
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Speaker 21: Shame.
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Speaker 26: Just last week we saw the kidnapping of Emanuel Garcia,
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Speaker 26: a fifteen year old teenager with autism who remains in
42:29
Speaker 26: custody at the Office of Refugee Resettlement as I speak.
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Speaker 1: Shame No Kings demonstrates the width and the breadth of
42:43
Speaker 1: resistance against the authoritarian and addled convicted felon Donald Trump
42:49
Speaker 1: and his criminal, cruel and corrupt regime. Here are people
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Speaker 1: at the rally stating their reasons why they were there.
42:57
Speaker 25: I'm an activist and I believe in civil rights. I
43:00
Speaker 25: don't like what they're doing to my brown and black friends.
43:03
Speaker 25: First they were killing him during George Floyd. Then we
43:07
Speaker 25: started assaulting him on the streets and disappearing them. I'm
43:12
Speaker 25: worried that they're going to do what they did in
43:13
Speaker 25: Argentina and drop them out of aeroplanes over the Gulf
43:16
Speaker 25: of Mexico. My name is Kim Wimberley.
43:19
Speaker 7: It was scared the bombing votes right now?
43:21
Speaker 25: Yes, absolutely, he should have also done something about Gaza
43:25
Speaker 25: a long time ago. There's not enough cardboard for the
43:29
Speaker 25: things we need to write.
43:29
Speaker 14: Down about it.
43:31
Speaker 10: So what do you think is going to happen to
43:33
Speaker 10: the administration right now?
43:34
Speaker 7: Because obviously he's not going to resign it.
43:36
Speaker 25: No, he's not, and there's no way we can punish him.
43:39
Speaker 25: I doubt he's gonna allow elections because he's practicing for
43:42
Speaker 25: martial law to close down the voting booths. I'm very concerned.
43:46
Speaker 25: I don't know what we could do.
43:48
Speaker 7: I'm landa what brest. You guys here to protest, try
43:53
Speaker 7: to save democracy? How'd you find out about this?
43:57
Speaker 3: This valley?
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Speaker 12: Internet?
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Speaker 27: Some Internet emails emails.
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Speaker 6: Mailing list, same thing from multiple organizations.
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Speaker 4: So women, sorry, this.
44:11
Speaker 7: Is more important. What what brought you? What was the
44:16
Speaker 7: last route that brought you down to you?
44:18
Speaker 12: What it is the last time?
44:19
Speaker 27: I belong to Emerson Unitarian Church and our group we
44:22
Speaker 27: have a whole group of it. I don't know twenty
44:25
Speaker 27: five people came down together.
44:28
Speaker 11: My granddaughter and I protest every opportunity we get, and
44:31
Speaker 11: we brought another friend with us today.
44:33
Speaker 6: So what so?
44:33
Speaker 10: What's what's going on in the country that is infecting
44:36
Speaker 10: you guys?
44:37
Speaker 27: I'm about to lose my health insurance because it's going
44:39
Speaker 27: to go up to eighteen thousand dollars a year that
44:41
Speaker 27: I couldnt afford.
44:43
Speaker 6: We have a dictator running the country, we have authoritarianism.
44:48
Speaker 7: We're not here, We're not here. We're here, So we
44:51
Speaker 7: got to do something. This is a start, but we
44:54
Speaker 7: got to keep doing stuff.
44:57
Speaker 27: I have a daughter who's going to lose your health
44:58
Speaker 27: insurance and also he's in California and uh, she's expects
45:04
Speaker 27: to trickle.
45:05
Speaker 7: Hey, what brings you here?
45:06
Speaker 5: A person of color?
45:08
Speaker 7: March?
45:09
Speaker 28: Because what is happening in Houston, in the state of Texas,
45:13
Speaker 28: in the United States is literally everything that I've read
45:17
Speaker 28: about in the history book, and I never would have
45:19
Speaker 28: expected we would be reliving history again that our ancestors,
45:24
Speaker 28: like our grandparents went through. That it's insanity, Like I
45:29
Speaker 28: was not expecting like history to be repeating itself, and
45:33
Speaker 28: we're going into skin like fastest stage like right now,
45:37
Speaker 28: Like again, Ice is in looking street arresting people based
45:40
Speaker 28: on skin color, not even doing that like it's sanity.
45:45
Speaker 7: Yeah what what what specifically?
45:47
Speaker 10: What specifically that's going on that you disapprove of?
45:52
Speaker 28: It does again Ice? Further and foremost Ice, I am
45:57
Speaker 28: not liking all the legislation that is going against marginalized community,
46:03
Speaker 28: the trans community, my communities.
46:05
Speaker 7: I don't like that.
46:06
Speaker 28: Because it's like we're supposed to be going forward, but
46:10
Speaker 28: we are literally going back in time and not.
46:12
Speaker 7: In a good way, not in a good way.
46:15
Speaker 4: What are your thoughts on the voting right, Sack, You
46:17
Speaker 4: didn't take.
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Speaker 6: A not.
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Speaker 28: Insanity?
46:21
Speaker 7: Like what as American citizens, that.
46:25
Speaker 28: Is our in the words, are God given right to vote,
46:31
Speaker 28: but yet they're trying to take it away. If you
46:33
Speaker 28: aren't a white cist head male, sorry sorry sorry, a
46:37
Speaker 28: white cist head Christian male, you do not have a
46:40
Speaker 28: place in the government, and you need to be silent
46:42
Speaker 28: and put to the side and hidden away from you.
46:48
Speaker 10: All right, I'm talking for approachest. What's your thoughts of
46:53
Speaker 10: being down here and being a person of color down
46:55
Speaker 10: here too, because it's not that many.
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Speaker 29: Well, I'm down here because it's the best place to be.
47:05
Speaker 29: If I was in Washington, I would still be a
47:07
Speaker 29: matter of where it's very important to make a statement.
47:12
Speaker 6: And I like to make my.
47:13
Speaker 29: Statement because I'm a citizen that votes and believe in
47:17
Speaker 29: democracy and believe in freedom of speech. And I'm sitting
47:21
Speaker 29: back observing all the plaque score coming by and saying
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Speaker 29: to myself, what's on these people mind?
47:30
Speaker 7: We all are locked into one.
47:33
Speaker 29: We want to get Trump out of that White House,
47:36
Speaker 29: and also we must go to vote and participate and
47:40
Speaker 29: get that man that's going to destroy this country hours.
47:43
Speaker 29: That's the farcest and foremost I can be sitting here.
47:48
Speaker 29: I may not stay for the full three hours, but
47:52
Speaker 29: I'll give it an hour and I have So that's
47:55
Speaker 29: the most important thing. While I'm here, think.
47:58
Speaker 10: About the Voting Rights Act. Here in front of the
48:01
Speaker 10: in front of the in front of the Supreme Court
48:03
Speaker 10: being taken away.
48:04
Speaker 7: Funny ways be taken away.
48:06
Speaker 29: That's because we allow that to happen. If you don't
48:10
Speaker 29: vote and you don't keep up with what's going on,
48:14
Speaker 29: we should have stopped this before it got to this point.
48:19
Speaker 29: I don't think anything of it that is good, but
48:21
Speaker 29: I do know that it's not going to abolish everything.
48:27
Speaker 29: This will make us stronger as a people. This is
48:32
Speaker 29: need to be done because we have become so lacked
48:36
Speaker 29: and doing what we shouldn't do. We'd say, well, if
48:39
Speaker 29: I don't vote, I don't participate, they're not going to
48:42
Speaker 29: do anything anyway.
48:44
Speaker 1: But that's not true.
48:45
Speaker 29: I've been out here ever since the mid sixties and
48:50
Speaker 29: that's why parts to late and what I believe.
48:54
Speaker 3: So it's just not.
48:57
Speaker 29: Four years ago, six years ago. I have over fifty
49:01
Speaker 29: some years artistipating. And I wish that the churches and
49:07
Speaker 29: that the top the Selona Blacks would all get together
49:11
Speaker 29: and try to work something and now our best interest,
49:14
Speaker 29: because if not, we are going back to the nineteen
49:18
Speaker 29: one hundred.
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Speaker 7: Give me your name? What brings you down here, a
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Speaker 7: person of color to an event.
49:24
Speaker 8: Well, we bring me down here. It's the simple fact
49:27
Speaker 8: that what's going on in the Maran today, we all
49:30
Speaker 8: have to stand up and be accountable. So I'm here
49:35
Speaker 8: in the suthern t shirts. Am I woke? Because the
49:39
Speaker 8: administration has misused the definition of the word tremendously to
49:44
Speaker 8: where it's a bad thing.
49:46
Speaker 7: I want to help take the word back.
49:48
Speaker 8: And I gotta say to most of these Caucasian people,
49:52
Speaker 8: they don't know to look it up in Webster's.
49:54
Speaker 7: Dictionary of what the doctor's definition means.
49:58
Speaker 8: And by them being down here, they are being woke,
50:02
Speaker 8: and that is attentively being attempt to social and racial justice.
50:09
Speaker 7: So that's why I'm here. How we get more black
50:12
Speaker 7: folks down here? We wait, we wait.
50:15
Speaker 8: This is not our party where we started the protest,
50:19
Speaker 8: and we've been on the forefront of this type of
50:21
Speaker 8: demonstration for years, for decades, and now it's their term.
50:26
Speaker 8: They didn't support us. That's why you don't see many
50:28
Speaker 8: of us down here. They never support us, So we
50:30
Speaker 8: are not coming down to support them. They're doing fine,
50:33
Speaker 8: but we know that the fight is coming. We're ready
50:35
Speaker 8: to stand up when the fight comes to our door,
50:37
Speaker 8: which evidently is coming because he's getting rid of our history,
50:41
Speaker 8: he's getting rid of our education. So we want to
50:45
Speaker 8: see if they're going to stand with us when we
50:47
Speaker 8: get out here as African Americans.
50:51
Speaker 30: Well, I think I stand in solidarity for a lot
50:55
Speaker 30: of things, a lot of the issues that these people
50:57
Speaker 30: are talking about, especially when it comes down to integration
51:01
Speaker 30: and the concept of no kings. This country should not
51:06
Speaker 30: have kings. And I think the character and reministration right
51:09
Speaker 30: now is acting like their monarch. So I've come down
51:15
Speaker 30: here and this is like my third protest. I'm totally
51:19
Speaker 30: against the administration the way they're doing things, and I
51:22
Speaker 30: think the only way we can do is just go
51:24
Speaker 30: ahead and voice our opposition to it.
51:27
Speaker 7: What woges you most about this?
51:29
Speaker 10: The Voter Rights Action is up for grabs also, and
51:31
Speaker 10: that's important to the minority community, especially as black community.
51:34
Speaker 30: Oh absolutely absolutely, And I think the Voter Rights Act
51:38
Speaker 30: and I think we need to be in the streets.
51:39
Speaker 30: I think every Black and America needs to be in
51:41
Speaker 30: the streets because they're getting ready to get rid of
51:44
Speaker 30: Section two of the Voter Rights Act. They've already got
51:47
Speaker 30: rid of section five Withholder versus Shelby. Now they're trying
51:52
Speaker 30: to get rid of section two, which is right before
51:55
Speaker 30: the Supreme Court, and the Justice is already hostile toward
51:58
Speaker 30: that and I don't know how come we don't have
51:59
Speaker 30: one hundred people that black people in.
52:01
Speaker 7: The streets right now because they don't have a can
52:04
Speaker 7: only speak for this one.
52:05
Speaker 10: They because they don't go out.
52:06
Speaker 7: Into the community. And maybe so, maybe so.
52:09
Speaker 30: I mean, but if you start to have pay attention, man,
52:11
Speaker 30: you got to find out what's going on.
52:12
Speaker 7: And the word is out.
52:13
Speaker 30: I mean, the Supreme Court is about to do us
52:16
Speaker 30: a whole lot of injustice right now. And the way
52:20
Speaker 30: it's working, Uh, they're about to strip black people out
52:24
Speaker 30: of our representation, okay with the German and that the
52:28
Speaker 30: Germanic that they did here in Texas. Uh, they're going
52:33
Speaker 30: after Chila Jackson's Lee or perhaps Barbara Jordan's District eighteen.
52:39
Speaker 30: They're going out to al Green in nine and they're
52:41
Speaker 30: going out to Jasmine Crockett up in Dallas, and we
52:45
Speaker 30: just can't have that. So yeah, I'm standing in solidarity
52:50
Speaker 30: with these people, but our people need to stand in
52:53
Speaker 30: solidarity as well. You know what I'm saying. It takes
52:57
Speaker 30: a village to make change. I mean as far as
53:01
Speaker 30: he's standing, uh in solidarity. And we need to be
53:04
Speaker 30: wary of Ice because Ice is picking black people up
53:08
Speaker 30: the streets.
53:09
Speaker 7: In Chicago and in Florida, they take thousands of Oh yeah, yeah,
53:13
Speaker 7: that's that's correct. But I'm talking about Americans.
53:17
Speaker 30: I mean they were in South orch on the South
53:20
Speaker 30: side of Chicago, predominantly black apartment, putting children in zip tides,
53:26
Speaker 30: putting putting them in handcuffs.
53:28
Speaker 7: So I mean, these people do whatever the hell they
53:30
Speaker 7: want to do.
53:31
Speaker 2: Now.
53:32
Speaker 30: Uh, the people, the politicians and mayor and the governor
53:34
Speaker 30: of Illinois had stopped them from bringing in the National
53:38
Speaker 30: Guard to putting actually soldiers on the ground in Chicago.
53:43
Speaker 30: But Trump administration have brought in the federal agents so
53:48
Speaker 30: called ICE for Immigration enforcement, and they are all over
53:53
Speaker 30: the all over Cook County and got.
53:56
Speaker 3: The remists of Fred Hampton.
53:58
Speaker 4: Hi, got the remiss of the fredation.
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Speaker 7: Yeah, you know, I was in Chicago.
54:02
Speaker 30: I'm from Chicago, so I mean I can tell you
54:03
Speaker 30: about that, you know, And I was sixteen years old
54:06
Speaker 30: when they murdered Fred Hampton.
54:09
Speaker 9: Uh.
54:09
Speaker 30: But then and they covered it up and it was
54:12
Speaker 30: a combination of the FBI, who actually uh probably ordered
54:19
Speaker 30: to hit and then the Chicago police came in there
54:23
Speaker 30: and were actually executionists, and then the district attorneys what
54:28
Speaker 30: you call it a county turned in Chicago are the
54:30
Speaker 30: one that tried to cover it up.
54:32
Speaker 7: So yeah, But and that brings me another thing.
54:35
Speaker 30: Any time that we all we have a movement that
54:39
Speaker 30: they think is powerful, they get rid of the leaders.
54:43
Speaker 30: They did the same thing with Malcolm X. They did
54:45
Speaker 30: the same thing with doctor King. They said the same
54:48
Speaker 30: thing with Fred Hampton.
54:52
Speaker 7: They did the same thing with bunch of Carter. In
54:54
Speaker 7: Los Angeles. They had a.
54:57
Speaker 30: Schism between the pant This and Karrenga in LA back
55:02
Speaker 30: in the early seventies.
55:04
Speaker 7: So I mean, and it was all controlled by Cointail,
55:07
Speaker 7: which was a division of the FBI at that particular time.
55:10
Speaker 7: So I mean, I'm.
55:14
Speaker 30: Not really a revolutionary per se, but I think I
55:21
Speaker 30: need to voice my opposition for change. And the only
55:26
Speaker 30: way we're going to effect change is to get out
55:28
Speaker 30: there and get in the streets. Now, this is still
55:31
Speaker 30: not like I've seen some rebellions LA nineteen ninety two.
55:39
Speaker 30: It's not like the Chicago Chicago nineteen sixty eight, Detroit
55:42
Speaker 30: nineteen sixty seven, you know what I'm saying.
55:45
Speaker 4: So, but.
55:47
Speaker 7: We're still out here trying to bring attention, bringing awareness.
55:52
Speaker 30: If this stuff comes on TV, and people look at
55:54
Speaker 30: us and say, okay, man, you know you got ten
55:55
Speaker 30: thousand people out here in Houston, you got twenty five
55:58
Speaker 30: thousand people to Chicago, you got fifty thousand people in
56:00
Speaker 30: New York, and then you have people died around all
56:03
Speaker 30: these little suburban times.
56:04
Speaker 7: I guess said parlance, they come here to see what
56:07
Speaker 7: it was about.
56:08
Speaker 1: Seven million people, seven million people standing up for their
56:13
Speaker 1: rights and the rights of their fellow Americans, standing up
56:17
Speaker 1: against Trump's secret police ice immigration raids. And in the
56:23
Speaker 1: context of this being characterized as a hate rally full
56:27
Speaker 1: of terrorists and Antifa, everything was peaceful. There were no
56:32
Speaker 1: arrests in Houston. There were no arrests among the one
56:35
Speaker 1: hundred thousand protesters that marched in Chicago, no arrests, no
56:40
Speaker 1: arrest with one hundred thousand protesters that marched in New
56:43
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56:47
Speaker 1: these same people turn out to the ballot box, the
56:50
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56:55
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