The Many Faces of Occupy Wall Street-SD
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00:00:00 This is Justin Samuels and this film is "The Many Faces of Occupy Wall Street."
00:00:06 "Many Faces of Occupy Wall Street" is a compilation of many of my videos on Occupy.
00:00:11 And in this film, I'm showing both positive and negative aspects of Occupy Wall Street.
00:00:17 People who were happy with the movement or say the movement changed in positive ways
00:00:21 and people who had many complaints about the movement,
00:00:24 including problems such as rapes or sexual assaults in the camps or things like that.
00:00:30 For more information on these things, you can check out a variety of sources.
00:00:34 Early in the fall, when I wrote more positive coverage on Occupy Wall Street,
00:00:39 you can check out my articles on op-ed-news.com.
00:00:43 You can also check out my e-book, "Occupy Wall Street, a Leftist Anarchist Cult"
00:00:48 for the major problems in Occupy Wall Street.
00:00:51 That e-book is available for sale on Amazon.com.
00:00:54 For more further information on Occupy Wall Street,
00:00:57 you can check out a variety of other sources on the web.
00:01:00 The Huffington Post, Breitbart.com.
00:01:03 Lee Stranahan, among others, have done excellent work on covering Occupy Wall Street.
00:01:08 And you can also check out The Daily Caller. It has some pretty good articles too.
00:01:13 For more of these things that are featured on Occupy Wall Street.
00:01:16 The sexual assault case that Nan Terry speaks about.
00:01:21 That is referenced in the Huffington Post.
00:01:24 Basically, I think that Occupy Wall Street had--
00:01:29 I've been pretty critical of it recently, but it's had some good effects too.
00:01:33 The one good effect that Occupy Wall Street has had is--
00:01:36 I think the changes it's had on the media, because
00:01:40 for a long time, the major networks in the New York Times were the official sources.
00:01:45 And other newspapers too, were the official sources of news.
00:01:49 And if they decided not to cover things, they didn't get covered.
00:01:53 And Occupy Wall Street changed that on both the left and on the right throughout the political spectrum.
00:02:00 When people wanted to find out what was going on at Occupy Wall Street,
00:02:03 they didn't necessarily turn to the big newspapers or to the networks.
00:02:07 They found out a lot of interesting information from blogs,
00:02:11 from e-books sold on Amazon, from YouTube, from Vimeo, from other sources.
00:02:17 And many of these new media outlets have continued to thrive post-Occupy Wall Street,
00:02:22 and they still cover things in the activist world, not limited to Occupy Wall Street.
00:02:28 So I think that's the most positive change that Occupy Wall Street has had,
00:02:33 in terms of it's led people to other media sources, and I think that's great.
00:02:38 My biggest criticism of Occupy Wall Street is that I think it's failed its most vulnerable members.
00:02:43 It's sort of glorified homelessness. We hate money, we hate money, we hate money.
00:02:48 But if you've got no money, the only way to fix your situation is to get money.
00:02:52 To get a job, go to school, get an education. These are things that will fix your homelessness.
00:02:57 Ultimately, the only things that will fix your homelessness.
00:03:00 And Occupy Wall Street, some in Occupy Wall Street, not everybody,
00:03:04 were so anti-everything, anti-capitalist, anti-everything, that they wanted to basically throw away everything.
00:03:12 They considered themselves anarchists, they basically wanted to throw away all structure and all authority,
00:03:17 but if you throw away everything, you even throw away food production, such as agriculture,
00:03:22 you throw away food transportation, refrigerators, electricity, you're left with nothing.
00:03:26 And unfortunately, some people have taken it to the extreme,
00:03:29 and have been in some very unsafe circumstances, basically living homeless in New York City and other large cities.
00:03:36 And that's extremely unfortunate, that doesn't have to be that way.
00:03:39 To those people, I would just urge them to rejoin the rest of society.
00:03:43 But anyway, I really hope you've enjoyed this film, and I hope you check out those other sources of information on Occupy Wall Street,
00:03:52 including my book, Occupy Wall Street, The Leftist Anarchist Cult,
00:03:55 a book, e-book that gives more favorable coverage to Occupy Wall Street is
00:04:00 Every Time I Check My Message, Somebody Thinks I'm Dead by Daniel Levine.
00:04:04 And again, check out Lee Stranahan's work on Breitbart.com.
00:04:09 Check out some articles from the Huffington Post.
00:04:13 Check out other articles on Occupy Wall Street from Breitbart.
00:04:17 Check out Citizen Journalist by Nick Arama, he's done a lot of coverage on Occupy Wall Street.
00:04:22 Mandy Nagy again, Breitbart.com has done excellent coverage.
00:04:27 Just check out a variety of sources across the political spectrum on Occupy Wall Street,
00:04:31 and you'll get a full picture of all the things that went on.
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00:09:17 That was an English translation to a song by Sonam Tashi, who is a well-known Tibetan singer, musician inside Tibet,
00:09:26 who sang openly about his devotion to the Panchen Lama.
00:09:32 Second, I would like to ask Lucy to come share a poem.
00:09:37 [crowd noise]
00:09:42 So, Tsering Woser is a Tibetan poet, a writer, and a blogger who lives in Beijing.
00:09:50 She writes reports on the situation in Tibet, and is a courageous voice,
00:09:55 amplifying the messages of the Tibetans living in Tibet,
00:10:00 despite the constant harassment she receives from the Chinese government.
00:10:05 According to Woser, this poem was written one day in October 2005,
00:10:09 when she had finished reading "The Search for the Panchen Lama" by a female British journalist.
00:10:15 "If time could cover up a lie, is ten years enough?
00:10:22 A child matures into a clever youth, but like a parrot,
00:10:27 mumbles by rote the phrases that will please his masters.
00:10:32 The other child, where is he?
00:10:36 The scarlet birthmark on his wrist recalls his previous life before,
00:10:42 when for ten years he sat trust with tight handcuffs in some Beijing cell no ray of light could reach.
00:10:52 What bruises mar him now, the child no one hears from.
00:10:57 If there are nine levels to the darkness, at which one are they trapped, he and the other?
00:11:04 If there are nine levels to the light, to which do they aspire, he and the other?
00:11:10 Perhaps in each phase of darkness and of light, where one is trapped, the other aspires.
00:11:16 Kun chok som, the world's turned upside down,
00:11:20 that the pain of impermanence, of samsara, has struck home to the Panchen Lama."
00:11:28 [applause]
00:11:33 For those of you who are just joining us,
00:11:41 we are here celebrating the birthday of Tibet's Panchen Lama,
00:11:46 Tibet's 11th Panchen Lama, who is a very important religious leader,
00:11:50 a spiritual leader of Tibet, who was kidnapped in 1995
00:11:55 when he was a six-year-old boy, and today he is turning 23 years old.
00:12:00 This is the 17th birthday he is spending in captivity.
00:12:04 This is the 17th birthday he is spending against his will.
00:12:09 Can I ask, also what we are doing right now is sharing poems, sharing music,
00:12:19 sharing lyrics from songs that Tibetans inside Tibet, as well as Tibetans in exile,
00:12:25 have written in expression of their love and devotion to Tibet's Panchen Lama, the stolen child.
00:12:31 Can I ask Namgyal Lao to come up and share the lyrics to another song?
00:12:44 Hello everybody, my name is Namgyal. Thank you all for joining us.
00:12:49 I'm going to read the English translation of the song "Yi Re Kyo" by Kunga.
00:12:56 Kunga, a widely popular Tibetan singer, was born on September 3rd, 1981 in eastern Tibet.
00:13:05 Kunga is one of many Tibetan singers, including Yadong and Jamyangki,
00:13:11 who vowed never to sing in favor of the Chinese Communist Party.
00:13:16 The following song, "Yi Re Kyo", which means "Heart Saddened" by Kunga,
00:13:22 calls for the return of the Dalai Lama to Tibet,
00:13:26 and sings in reverence to the Dalai Lama, Panchen Lama, and the Karmapa.
00:13:33 Kunga refers to the Dalai Lama and the kidnapped Panchen Lama
00:13:37 with concealed analogies, the Dalai Lama to the sun and the Panchen Lama to the moon.
00:13:44 Here's the translation of the song.
00:13:47 Sun sets behind the saddened mountains.
00:13:50 The white moon gets consumed by the clouds.
00:13:54 And the stars have fallen amid rain and clouds.
00:13:58 Heart saddens, unable to meet you three.
00:14:06 Oh, the sun, the moon, and the stars.
00:14:09 The stars have fallen amid rain and clouds.
00:14:12 Heart saddens, unable to meet you three.
00:14:20 At the center of the planet Earth, come eastern Tibet,
00:14:25 echoes the reverent Lama's teaching.
00:14:28 Now I'm left alone and unable to hear such teachings.
00:14:33 Heart saddens, I'm unable to see my Lama.
00:14:42 Oh, my Lama, now I'm left alone and unable to hear your teachings.
00:14:48 Heart saddens, I'm unable to see my Lama.
00:14:56 My dear father and mother, ashen hair, close to departure,
00:15:01 now your kindness yet to be repaid.
00:15:06 My youthful heart saddens, my youthful heart saddens.
00:15:10 Oh, father and mother, now your kindness yet to be repaid.
00:15:15 My youthful heart saddens, my youthful heart saddens.
00:15:19 Thank you.
00:15:21 [applause]
00:15:30 For those of us joining us, we are Tibetans in exile
00:15:37 and our supporters here at Union Square
00:15:40 to celebrate the 23rd birthday, the 23rd birthday of Tibet's Panchen Lama.
00:15:45 The Panchen Lama is one of the most important religious leaders of Tibet.
00:15:50 Him, the Panchen Lama, and the Dalai Lama
00:15:52 are one of the two most important religious leaders of Tibet.
00:15:56 The Panchen Lama, Gendun Chukyi Nyima,
00:15:59 he was six years old when he was recognized as Tibet's Panchen Lama, the reincarnation.
00:16:06 At six years old in 1995, he was abducted by the Chinese government.
00:16:12 At six years old, he was the youngest political prisoner.
00:16:16 Him and his family were abducted by the Chinese government
00:16:21 and it has been years since anybody has heard anything from him
00:16:25 or seen anything about him or know his whereabouts.
00:16:28 And the Chinese government refuses to give that information over.
00:16:33 Today is his 23rd birthday.
00:16:35 17th birthday in captivity, 17th birthday kidnapped,
00:16:42 17th birthday since his kidnap by the Chinese government.
00:16:48 What we are doing here is asking everybody, asking our New York friends,
00:16:53 our New York neighbors to join us in calling for his release.
00:16:58 Alright, so do you see Occupy as changing things in this country?
00:17:06 Yes.
00:17:07 Alright, how long have you been in Occupy?
00:17:11 Since September 17th.
00:17:15 Have you been on a lot of direct actions?
00:17:18 Not really.
00:17:20 Okay, you just kind of hold down the fort?
00:17:22 Yeah.
00:17:23 Okay, did you stay in any of the squads?
00:17:25 Yeah.
00:17:26 How was that?
00:17:27 Terrible.
00:17:28 I hated it.
00:17:31 Wow, is it true about people were like,
00:17:33 biting and being raped and all that?
00:17:35 Yep.
00:17:36 Wow, anybody know?
00:17:38 Nope.
00:17:39 Okay, but you heard people tell you what happened to them, right?
00:17:43 Yeah.
00:17:44 And it was pretty bad.
00:17:46 Yes, it was.
00:17:47 Was it just girls being assaulted or guys too?
00:17:51 Both.
00:17:52 Both were being assaulted, wow.
00:17:54 So it was a very unsafe condition, right?
00:17:57 Yeah, basically.
00:17:58 Unsafe place.
00:17:59 But we tried our best.
00:18:01 You tried your best, well you did what you had to do,
00:18:03 well I'm glad you're out of it.
00:18:04 Are you now sleeping out on Wall Street or somewhere else?
00:18:07 I'm sleeping out here on Wall Street.
00:18:09 Well actually this is Wall Street and Broad Street,
00:18:16 on the corner of Broad Street.
00:18:18 Broad Street, okay.
00:18:20 So that's good though, I mean like everyone is back again,
00:18:23 because in the winter time it was pretty cold and it seems like a lot of people went away.
00:18:27 Yeah.
00:18:28 But to me it looks like a lot of people are coming back now that it's warm
00:18:30 and now Occupy is in the news again, so all good, right?
00:18:36 Yep, all good.
00:18:38 Alright, one last question, where do you think Occupy will be by the fall?
00:18:43 By the fall?
00:18:44 Yeah.
00:18:47 Hopefully in a mass number that 500,000 people come.
00:18:54 Alright.
00:18:55 And overwhelm the police, the police don't have enough police for 500,000 people.
00:19:02 Yeah, New York City only has 40,000 police, so 500,000 people would be significant.
00:19:07 And it would be like, hello, we're marching down here if you like it or not.
00:19:13 You are not arresting all of us.
00:19:16 That, yes.
00:19:18 We'll march down every street, every corner, every alleyway,
00:19:23 every inch of the sidewalk we'll just take up.
00:19:26 Okay.
00:19:27 And then people will turn around and say, wow, 500,000 people, 40,000 cops,
00:19:36 who's going to win this one?
00:19:39 And most likely they're going to have to call in the National Guard
00:19:44 and assist help from all the neighboring states to spare any police officers that they can,
00:19:53 which New Jersey doesn't do it because they hate New York City.
00:19:57 New York State, the state of New York won't do it.
00:20:03 From Pennsylvania all the way up to Maine won't even do it, won't even help New York.
00:20:10 Yes.
00:20:11 Basically New York is stuck by itself.
00:20:14 New York City is stuck, stranded in the middle of the ocean by itself with no backup.
00:20:19 With no backup.
00:20:20 Just depend on the National Guard and then we can have a field day.
00:20:24 Okay.
00:20:25 That'll be very interesting to see.
00:20:29 So we have to wait and see.
00:20:31 Thank you.
00:20:32 You're welcome.
00:20:33 This is the infamous Nan Terry in front of Bank of America.
00:20:36 How are you doing, Nan?
00:20:38 I am blessed.
00:20:39 Very busy, extremely, extremely blessed.
00:20:43 Been taking care of business, like always,
00:20:46 and keep up, following up with the movement online and also my working groups.
00:20:52 I send out people to basically follow up and do what they need to do
00:20:57 and not have to face anyone taking care of other things.
00:21:00 Okay. Can you tell us more about your working group, Strong Women Rules?
00:21:03 What do they do?
00:21:04 Strong Women Rules working group,
00:21:05 we deal with women that got raped when we were in the park.
00:21:10 Right now we have several trials that have been taking place
00:21:15 bringing justice for the victims,
00:21:19 for those basically that have been victimized by the rapist.
00:21:23 We have a couple trials.
00:21:25 One of the trials coming up is in May, it's a tiny trial.
00:21:28 I'm so excited.
00:21:29 I can't wait to see it.
00:21:31 We just had another trial just finish.
00:21:33 We're also going to go after David Parker, Dave Parker,
00:21:37 who actually raped, besides Lauren, with the blue hair,
00:21:41 but other people, other women who were actually at the park.
00:21:45 Okay, that's good.
00:21:46 I'm hoping, I'm sure the courts will do the right thing
00:21:49 and convict these men for the crimes they've done.
00:21:51 They will.
00:21:52 They will, yes.
00:21:53 I'm just wondering, Strong Women Rules is doing good work.
00:21:57 Why was there such opposition against you and Occupy?
00:22:02 Great question, because I tell the truth.
00:22:05 I don't sell my soul to the devil, if you want to call it that way.
00:22:09 I'm straight to the point.
00:22:10 I don't have time for BS.
00:22:12 I can smell a BS a mile away.
00:22:14 They couldn't manipulate me.
00:22:16 They couldn't brainwash me.
00:22:18 They tried to silence me in any way possible,
00:22:21 from bribe me to silence me,
00:22:23 to basically try to destroy my reputation.
00:22:26 But in reality, those who really know me,
00:22:29 they know exactly what I have done
00:22:31 and they know my work.
00:22:32 And no matter what, other people who don't know me
00:22:35 might not fully listen to the answers.
00:22:38 I would suggest people to actually get to know me
00:22:42 than just go by what they said.
00:22:45 I basically did not put up.
00:22:48 I saw what was coming,
00:22:49 and I've been calling out exactly what was coming.
00:22:51 I told people, "That's not fishy."
00:22:54 I listened to my inner gods,
00:22:56 and my inner gods never, never, never failed me.
00:22:59 And whenever there was something like, for example,
00:23:01 a spoke concert that sounded fishy,
00:23:04 I would ask questions.
00:23:05 If that question was not satisfying to me,
00:23:07 I would continue to ask questions.
00:23:09 If I had to raise my voice--
00:23:10 And several times they tried to basically silence me
00:23:13 when I was trying to do that.
00:23:14 And I would not remain silent
00:23:16 because, like I said, I am for the real 99%,
00:23:20 not the fake 99%, but the one, the true 99%.
00:23:24 Those people who actually--
00:23:25 that are struggling,
00:23:26 that basically can't pay their bills,
00:23:29 or that lost their homes,
00:23:30 that lost everything because of the economy,
00:23:32 because of the greed,
00:23:33 I am for those people.
00:23:35 Like I have said before, I am for them.
00:23:37 I would die for the 99%,
00:23:38 stay with the 99%,
00:23:39 and I do sleep among the 99%.
00:23:41 But besides helping the victim,
00:23:44 the rape victim,
00:23:46 we help them provide shelters.
00:23:48 We help them bring them back to society.
00:23:51 If I was to--
00:23:52 we never, never, ever could do something like that
00:23:55 because really those people right now
00:23:57 who claim they are occupiers,
00:23:58 who are occupiers of Wall Street,
00:24:00 they don't care for the whole 99%.
00:24:02 If you want honesty, want the truth,
00:24:04 at nighttime, go to Union Square.
00:24:06 Watch them laying down,
00:24:07 you know, lay down for themselves,
00:24:09 lay down with the poor 99%, the homeless.
00:24:12 Those people who were poor,
00:24:13 that's actually part of the movement
00:24:14 that made the movement what it was.
00:24:16 Watch them on the street,
00:24:17 how they're laying down in a--
00:24:20 whatever they're laying down,
00:24:21 cardboard, whatever they use to lay down.
00:24:24 If 99% was for the true 99%,
00:24:26 one of the things I kept saying,
00:24:27 "Let's get a building."
00:24:29 Accounting refused to do that.
00:24:30 Accounting come up with all kinds of excuses
00:24:32 so they can splurge their money.
00:24:33 They're wasting money on stupidity.
00:24:35 They're wasting the money on
00:24:37 what that damn group called,
00:24:39 the group that basically saying
00:24:40 they're doing direct action.
00:24:42 Direct action is a joke
00:24:43 because direct action, all they do is splurge
00:24:45 and cause people to go to jail for nothing.
00:24:48 One of the things people do not understand,
00:24:50 when you go to jail,
00:24:51 you might think, "Oh, it's nothing,
00:24:52 it's a little fine here and there."
00:24:54 But down the road,
00:24:55 that could come down and haunt you.
00:24:57 You know why?
00:24:58 Because if you do decide to start a business
00:25:00 or get a job or whatever it is,
00:25:03 when they're doing the background search--
00:25:05 They'll find out about your criminal record.
00:25:06 Exactly.
00:25:08 People don't understand,
00:25:09 cooperation, big companies nowadays,
00:25:12 in order to have a business,
00:25:13 you got to go to the government.
00:25:15 So they have what they call a tax ID,
00:25:17 a business tax ID.
00:25:18 So a company will look at that,
00:25:20 they will look at the business
00:25:21 and they will look at you.
00:25:22 They'll think the next person
00:25:23 that don't have a record
00:25:24 that deal with disobedience,
00:25:26 civil disobedience.
00:25:27 That's true.
00:25:28 And the other thing is,
00:25:29 depending on what the person got convicted for,
00:25:30 if you're a convicted felon,
00:25:32 a company like a bank, for example,
00:25:34 cannot hire you.
00:25:35 They're not committed to by the government.
00:25:37 Exactly.
00:25:38 With the market right now,
00:25:39 nowadays it's really hard
00:25:41 and more harder for any felon to get jobs.
00:25:44 And if those felons who manage to get jobs,
00:25:47 they're either blessed, number one,
00:25:48 or they have to struggle
00:25:49 or they have some kind of connection.
00:25:51 It's really, really hard.
00:25:52 So then people need to really start thinking
00:25:54 and start basically let people push them,
00:25:56 the anarchists,
00:25:57 those who basically have apartments,
00:25:59 who have money,
00:26:01 who have mom and dad that can take care of them.
00:26:03 They need to really look at themselves.
00:26:05 Yeah, the movement is wonderful.
00:26:07 We have a movement.
00:26:08 Great.
00:26:09 But when you look at different movements
00:26:10 during the years,
00:26:11 like in the hippie days,
00:26:13 in the '60s and the '40s,
00:26:15 when you got all those movements
00:26:16 that was right that we had,
00:26:17 and then what happened?
00:26:18 Because debt is gone,
00:26:19 people went back to living their life.
00:26:21 But nowadays we have the technology,
00:26:23 we got more restrictive rules
00:26:24 and regulations and laws
00:26:26 and stronger government,
00:26:27 and that will affect you.
00:26:29 I think it's kind of ironic
00:26:30 that anarchists,
00:26:31 who do have money
00:26:32 because they're being supported by their parents,
00:26:34 were in such opposition to Occupy
00:26:36 doing something for people to get jobs
00:26:38 because homeless people need money,
00:26:39 they need income.
00:26:41 They were saying,
00:26:42 "Oh, we don't want people to be wage slaves,
00:26:44 but we all need money.
00:26:46 You can't go to the grocery store for free.
00:26:48 Your clothes,
00:26:49 someone had to pay for them.
00:26:51 To be able to communicate
00:26:52 with people that you love,
00:26:53 like your family, your friends,
00:26:55 someone has to pay your cell phone bill,
00:26:56 your internet connection,
00:26:57 you don't need money."
00:26:58 It's all come down to laziness.
00:27:00 They want somebody to take care of them,
00:27:01 why they're saying,
00:27:02 "Yeah, we're part of the 99%."
00:27:04 But they're not only lazy,
00:27:05 but they're hypocrite
00:27:06 because if you really want to be part of 99%,
00:27:09 live like one.
00:27:10 I have lived for the 99%.
00:27:12 So have I.
00:27:13 So people who know me,
00:27:15 they know I only slept in the churches with them.
00:27:18 I helped them.
00:27:19 I gave them everything they want.
00:27:21 I go out of my way
00:27:22 to make sure they got what they needed.
00:27:24 So those people who are saying,
00:27:26 "Oh yeah, I'm an honor key,
00:27:28 I got my parents,
00:27:29 I'm a trust fund baby,
00:27:30 let's do this, let's do that.
00:27:31 Yeah, yeah, yeah."
00:27:33 And it's hypocrite.
00:27:35 It's really hypocrite.
00:27:36 You really need to understand
00:27:37 how somebody feels
00:27:38 walking in that person's shoes.
00:27:40 That's all I have to say.
00:27:42 Okay, good.
00:27:43 Well, thank you very much Nan.
00:27:44 And this was a splendid interview.
00:27:46 And I'm sure everybody will like to hear
00:27:49 your side of the story.
00:27:50 It was wonderful.
00:27:51 We all enjoyed it.
00:27:52 It was a pleasure talking to you.
00:27:53 They can follow me on Twitter,
00:27:55 @StormontWolves1 on Twitter.
00:27:57 Or they can send us an email,
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00:28:00 at either Yahoo or Gmail.com.
00:28:02 Alright?
00:28:03 Okay, everybody.
00:28:04 You know how to contact Nan for more information.
00:28:06 And we're out.
00:28:07 Live now.
00:28:08 What do you think about the move to Union Square?
00:28:11 I think it was a good idea at the time.
00:28:13 At the time I thought it was a good idea.
00:28:15 And I still think that it was a good idea.
00:28:18 And right now,
00:28:20 I'm just sorry that there was not more support
00:28:23 from the people that control the website.
00:28:25 Union Square does activism,
00:28:29 outreach,
00:28:31 conversations.
00:28:32 We used to do an open mic here all the time.
00:28:35 Union Square is a good place to have conversations
00:28:38 about all kinds of things.
00:28:39 It's a good place to be.
00:28:40 Okay.
00:28:41 And in terms of any future financing coming in,
00:28:46 do you think occupiers are being taken care of?
00:28:49 Are things going well in that end?
00:28:51 I don't think that occupiers should be taken care of like pets.
00:28:53 But I do think that if you're showing video footage
00:28:57 of an occupation,
00:28:59 and you're doing reporting on an occupation,
00:29:02 an actual encampment,
00:29:04 and then money comes in,
00:29:06 if you're taking that money,
00:29:07 it's your responsibility to get that money
00:29:09 from that occupation that you're letting everybody know about.
00:29:13 Okay, so that occupation should be funded
00:29:15 towards any money that's being raised.
00:29:17 Those people, because they're occupying,
00:29:18 obviously deserve the money
00:29:19 because they're doing all the work occupying, right?
00:29:21 Not so much deserve the money,
00:29:22 but it's like,
00:29:23 not to use the corporate language,
00:29:25 but if money was communication,
00:29:27 then the people that are donating
00:29:29 are trying to communicate their support.
00:29:31 And we're not getting those communications.
00:29:33 Even the letters of support that we get,
00:29:36 we never got to see them.
00:29:38 We rarely got to see...
00:29:39 The actual people that were camped out
00:29:41 never got to see letters from anyone in America.
00:29:45 And I got to see them
00:29:47 because I went into a room somewhere,
00:29:48 and I looked around,
00:29:49 and under a pile of tarps and slogan flyers,
00:29:54 I saw some letters.
00:29:56 But no one ever handed those out or made copies of those.
00:29:59 I don't know if I'm really getting across
00:30:01 the idea that's in my head,
00:30:02 but the point is that there's a middle man
00:30:05 between America and the actual Occupy Wall Street encampment.
00:30:10 And those middle men need to get out of the way.
00:30:12 One last question.
00:30:13 Do you know who those middle men are?
00:30:15 On my website,
00:30:22 there's a video of the first General Assembly at Zuccotti Park.
00:30:28 Yes.
00:30:29 So...
00:30:33 I know the people who think that they created the General Assembly,
00:30:36 and I know the people who think that...
00:30:39 who think that they're the ones that created Occupy Wall Street.
00:30:42 And that info is on your website?
00:30:44 Well, there's a video of somebody doing...
00:30:48 On the video is the first General Assembly,
00:30:51 and I asked the two facilitators,
00:30:54 I was like,
00:30:55 "Who are you?
00:30:56 Who are you affiliated with?
00:30:58 And why are you standing up there?"
00:31:00 And they laughed.
00:31:01 Like they had some sort of innate authority.
00:31:04 And I was like,
00:31:05 "Why didn't you ask for volunteers to facilitate?"
00:31:09 I can facilitate a meeting.
00:31:10 Other people can facilitate a meeting.
00:31:12 Let's just say that the people that are good at socializing,
00:31:15 those guys.
00:31:16 The socializing people.
00:31:18 The socializing people kind of took over from everybody else.
00:31:20 Yeah.
00:31:21 Occupy Wall Street is not anti-capitalist.
00:31:23 It's just the anti-capitalists that are so good at socializing together
00:31:27 and controlling the message.
00:31:29 Oh, so a bunch of anti-capitalists or anarchists,
00:31:32 whatever they call themselves, took over from everybody else.
00:31:35 Not so much took over,
00:31:36 but just created something that looked legitimate.
00:31:39 And, you know, the media manipulators,
00:31:42 the people that can manipulate the media,
00:31:43 the people that can manipulate the message.
00:31:45 Okay.
00:31:46 As usual.
00:31:47 The same thing that happens in the macrocosm
00:31:49 happens in the microcosm.
00:31:51 Okay.
00:31:52 Alright, thank you, Sage.
00:31:55 No problem.
00:31:57 Alright, Zach, how do you think Occupy has helped the country?
00:31:59 Or do you think Occupy has done anything for the regular person?
00:32:02 I believe Occupy Wall Street has helped bring attention
00:32:07 to a lot of corruption within our country
00:32:10 and a lot of problems that we're facing with.
00:32:13 It's shed light on another side of America
00:32:17 that's kind of twisted and corrupted.
00:32:20 And I think it's helping the country realize that
00:32:23 and helping the world realize that.
00:32:25 So they're coming down on our country,
00:32:28 asking them to stop messing with us so much.
00:32:31 Alright, do you think Occupy has helped you?
00:32:34 And if so, how?
00:32:35 Occupy has helped me a lot.
00:32:37 I've become more self-sufficient on the streets
00:32:40 and surviving within the community,
00:32:44 like a support system.
00:32:46 It's like always having people there for you.
00:32:49 Like if I don't have an extra pair of socks,
00:32:51 where do I go?
00:32:52 I go to Occupy Wall Street.
00:32:53 And somebody has an extra pair of socks.
00:32:55 Or if I'm starving, I go to Occupy Wall Street.
00:32:58 Somebody's got something to put in my stomach.
00:33:01 If I'm lonely, I go to Occupy Wall Street.
00:33:05 There's people here, support systems, friends.
00:33:08 So Occupy has been a big support system,
00:33:10 not only emotionally but physically.
00:33:12 Physical needs like food, clothes, etc.
00:33:16 Yeah, everything. They've helped me out a lot.
00:33:18 So I think Occupy Wall Street has turned into a good thing
00:33:25 instead of a bad thing, the way the media portrays us.
00:33:29 I think the best thing about Occupy Wall Street is,
00:33:32 despite whatever problems we may or may not have,
00:33:34 the support system is probably really important.
00:33:37 And I guess the social network without money.
00:33:41 Because normally in a big city like this,
00:33:43 you have to go out to the restaurant or the bar
00:33:45 to make a lot of money.
00:33:46 Occupiers can socialize with each other for free.
00:33:49 Yeah, a lot of people have to spend a lot of money
00:33:52 to show off in front of people.
00:33:54 And that's the only way they can gain friends or companionship.
00:33:59 Because it's lonely when you have all that money
00:34:02 and nobody to share it with.
00:34:04 And then you have to go out there and impress people
00:34:07 and act like something that you're not
00:34:10 instead of being yourself and just being a natural person
00:34:13 and just enjoying nature, enjoying the greater things in life
00:34:18 that money can't buy.
00:34:19 Alright, thank you, Zach.
00:34:21 Hi, Felix.
00:34:24 Hi.
00:34:25 So, has Occupy Wall Street changed your life at all?
00:34:30 Well, it has changed my life so much that
00:34:36 I couldn't even go back in my own life.
00:34:39 Like, there's a lot of protesters yesterday saying,
00:34:42 "Oh, I want to go back to my old life, but I can't yet."
00:34:45 In my opinion, the way I think of it is like,
00:34:48 I have changed so much in the past.
00:34:51 There's no option for anybody to keep doing what I'm doing
00:34:57 until things are the way we're hoping to be.
00:35:00 Because more than anything, me, myself, have changed
00:35:05 over the last six months.
00:35:08 I am very proud of everything I've done
00:35:12 and I did not plan this out in my past.
00:35:18 Okay, and where do you think Occupy will go in the future?
00:35:23 Well, I'm not married yet,
00:35:27 but I will tell you that
00:35:33 whatever direction we're taking,
00:35:36 which is like expanding here,
00:35:40 we already have two locations in New York.
00:35:43 We have here in inner square and we have down Wall Street.
00:35:47 We're trying to hold onto the fort down there, too.
00:35:50 It seems like we're actually trying to make satellite locations
00:35:57 all over the city so we can actually bring the message out
00:36:02 and we're mostly directing now, I guess,
00:36:06 toward the social justice aspect.
00:36:10 Because I feel like not only that,
00:36:16 I mean, the money is just the root of the problem,
00:36:18 but just how we branch out to so many ways,
00:36:22 like housing and marriage equality
00:36:28 and so many things out there like healthcare,
00:36:34 childcare, education,
00:36:37 all these things that need to be improved.
00:36:41 And what I see Occupy Wall Street doing is
00:36:46 trying to find ways to be self-sustainable,
00:36:50 teach other people to be self-sustainable.
00:36:53 And what I see in the future is
00:36:57 somehow small co-ops,
00:37:01 occupiers like making working groups and cooperatives
00:37:05 and actually teach how to build community.
00:37:11 I've heard of Occu-Bank from one of our guys.
00:37:14 And there's some other things, too.
00:37:16 And I've heard from some of the young occupiers, Occupy Farms,
00:37:20 that Occupy has shown them how to find food, how to find clothes.
00:37:23 It shows them how to find resources.
00:37:26 They have friends.
00:37:27 You don't have to spend a lot of money in the bar
00:37:28 just to hang out with your friends.
00:37:29 You have your friends that you actually work with
00:37:31 at Occupy or whatever you're working on.
00:37:33 And so Occupy has been good for a lot of people,
00:37:37 myself included.
00:37:38 I've been writing a lot more because of Occupy
00:37:40 and interviewing a lot of people because of Occupy.
00:37:43 So Occupy certainly has had a lot of good effects.
00:37:48 We're all a bunch of controversial people,
00:37:50 but that's what it takes.
00:37:52 Yes, we are.
00:37:54 It's interesting seeing the melting pot in Occupy
00:37:59 how we're coming from all different walks of life
00:38:04 and all spiritual or religious backgrounds.
00:38:08 Non-religious or non-religious background.
00:38:11 Yes.
00:38:12 And there are even capitalists among our midst,
00:38:17 which is strange.
00:38:19 But they have their own ideas that are making work.
00:38:21 So we're going from the capitalists to the anarchists
00:38:24 all together here.
00:38:25 Trying to figure out a middle point.
00:38:28 And so far the only thing we have in common
00:38:31 and that we can agree on
00:38:34 is that things are fucked up and bullshit
00:38:37 and that we all want pizza.
00:38:39 We all want pizza, yes.
00:38:41 Everybody waits until the store is closed
00:38:43 and we all go get pizza.
00:38:45 That's one of the best things about Occupy.
00:38:47 The pizza.
00:38:49 Yes, things are fucked up and we need pizza.
00:38:53 That's what we've done.
00:38:54 Other than that,
00:38:56 we are trying to find a middle ground,
00:39:00 a safe middle ground where we can actually work.
00:39:04 I'm pretty happy about the outcomes.
00:39:12 We're not sneaking on the sidewalks of Wall Street anymore,
00:39:16 but we're still showing presence over there,
00:39:18 showing presence in New Square.
00:39:20 And as May Day gets closer,
00:39:25 we're projecting that there's going to be more sites
00:39:29 in the city where we are going to be able to make a presence,
00:39:33 places that we want to target.
00:39:36 And I'm not going to mention them right now,
00:39:39 but a few places that we are not too much in love with
00:39:45 that we may be able to target,
00:39:47 or just places where we can gather and just be visible.
00:39:52 I feel very hopeful among all the craziness here
00:39:58 and the fights that we sometimes have among each other.
00:40:01 I am pretty happy about this happening right now.
00:40:04 And I'm very happy for the move to Union Square
00:40:06 because Union Square already had a lot of protesters
00:40:08 and all types of people already came to Union Square,
00:40:10 from students to working people
00:40:14 to people who don't have a place to stay.
00:40:16 Union Square already had all types of people,
00:40:18 so I think it was a good fit for Occupy.
00:40:20 Although we do have other locations too, downtown,
00:40:22 and I'm sure other locations, like you said, will pop up.
00:40:25 It'll be interesting to see where Occupy evolves,
00:40:30 because in the fall,
00:40:33 Occupy in each city was about a central camp in the city,
00:40:36 and now it's something that's become more decentralized.
00:40:40 Yes.
00:40:41 We've always been decentralized.
00:40:43 We've always been decentralized, yeah.
00:40:45 But we always had a central place of meeting
00:40:48 during that first two months.
00:40:50 That, not having the park,
00:40:54 kind of like really put us like haywire,
00:40:58 like running like shits without heads for a while,
00:41:01 but we learned that there's actually power
00:41:05 in the decentralization.
00:41:07 There is.
00:41:08 And it does empower the whole leaderless movement.
00:41:11 We are shown, as long as it's within our guidelines
00:41:16 and our agreements, it's okay for people to do autonomous actions.
00:41:20 Yes.
00:41:21 Which stays for now here and there once in a while.
00:41:24 Well, the one good thing that we did also,
00:41:27 the bureaucracy in Occupy,
00:41:29 the spokescounsel in the General Assembly,
00:41:31 everybody quit that bullshit.
00:41:33 A lot of the work is being done by working groups
00:41:37 on people who are doing individual autonomous actions.
00:41:40 When people decided to camp downtown,
00:41:42 a bunch of people just said, "Let's go," and they did it.
00:41:45 So I think in terms of decision-making,
00:41:48 Occupy has gotten better and faster.
00:41:50 Well, originally, GA kind of dissolved,
00:41:55 and so this spokesman for GA did.
00:41:58 Yes.
00:41:59 Mostly because the people who were running that
00:42:02 were not the core Occupiers.
00:42:05 But there's some talk about another GA being used to run Gauss School.
00:42:09 Yes.
00:42:10 Just because apparently there, since we started Occupy,
00:42:13 some kind of a palacao established for Occupy Wall Street.
00:42:17 But that one is not going to be released until we actually organize.
00:42:23 Now that we have people that we probably see that we can be more on the same page,
00:42:29 because we're actually Occupy,
00:42:31 we want to have our place in X-Men,
00:42:35 like food, medical supplies,
00:42:41 maybe even a small battery pack to charge our phones, stuff like that.
00:42:46 Just not a ridiculous amount of $2,000, $3,000 for an action.
00:42:51 We don't know what money we went for.
00:42:54 Because we don't really need that much money for an action, really.
00:42:58 That's true.
00:42:59 We just need people to show up and let them be rowdy
00:43:02 and do whatever they need to do.
00:43:04 But instead of funds aside for just more would be great,
00:43:11 like mail funds and just more,
00:43:14 but that money that came to that pay palacao,
00:43:18 we would like it to have for basic needs
00:43:22 as soon as we can actually forget about GA.
00:43:25 Okay.
00:43:26 That would not be run by 10%ers.
00:43:29 Okay, you're right.
00:43:31 Well, you know, Kitchen can get money directly because they serve the food.
00:43:35 So maybe if somebody would donate money to Kitchen directly,
00:43:38 or donate food even to Kitchen,
00:43:40 anybody who wants to donate money to Occupy or on the ground,
00:43:43 such as yourself, can give food directly or can give money directly.
00:43:46 They can look you guys up.
00:43:48 This is Felix Rivera, featuring.
00:43:50 Hit them up online to find out how to help,
00:43:53 how to give direct donations,
00:43:56 or whatever is needed to help him and others keep up a good life.
00:44:00 Yeah.
00:44:01 I'm in Facebook now.
00:44:04 You got Turkish guy inspired you.
00:44:06 Turkish guy inspired me, yes.
00:44:08 So what brings you to Occupy?
00:44:11 Well, it started the movement, and this seems like 10 to 15 years ago,
00:44:17 as a kind of a culture jamming thing.
00:44:20 And that was something I knew how to do.
00:44:22 I know a lot about perception, or I think I know a lot about--
00:44:25 I perceive myself as a knower of perception.
00:44:27 And I came here to participate in this major issue.
00:44:32 And I can't lie to you, between that time and now,
00:44:37 I've been like 50 things, and I don't know why.
00:44:42 And I feel kind of like I've lived in a very trashy reality show.
00:44:47 Okay.
00:44:49 So you--how do you feel about Occupy's move to Union Square?
00:44:54 Good, because I had a connection to Union Square prior to Occupy.
00:44:59 Okay.
00:45:01 And has Occupy had any influence or change on your life?
00:45:04 Has it changed at all?
00:45:07 Yes, it's--it's--it's wrecked me.
00:45:11 It's been my ruin.
00:45:13 It's been your ruin?
00:45:14 Yes.
00:45:15 How has it ruined you?
00:45:16 I've been here on and off for six months.
00:45:19 So it stopped you from doing other things?
00:45:22 Yeah, it's been important.
00:45:24 I mean, this world is about, in a way, different things much of the time.
00:45:30 Yeah.
00:45:31 And the Greek word "phileo," I believe it, the kind of friendship has grown on me.
00:45:36 Yeah.
00:45:38 I would say it's like it's transformed me into a compassionate, decent person.
00:45:42 I wasn't that bad to begin with.
00:45:44 Okay.
00:45:45 And it gave me some opportunities to connect in important ways.
00:45:48 So it's connected you to other people and--
00:45:50 Yes, it has.
00:45:51 --improved your social skills.
00:45:53 I think mine are good.
00:45:55 Other people don't.
00:45:56 That's their problem, but they hold many of the cards in these matters.
00:46:02 No, but the whole thing is, on a number of levels, been important.
00:46:07 I mean, there's been a change in discussion, and that's been good.
00:46:12 We've had opportunities of such magnitude.
00:46:14 It's hard to wreck it, and we've not always, let's say, done stuff with them.
00:46:20 And there's a lot more to be said, but I think that's enough for now.
00:46:24 Okay, that's good.
00:46:25 There may be a part two because I know the man behind this camera.
00:46:28 Okay, good.
00:46:29 Well, thank you very much, George.
00:46:32 All right, there is a Trayvon Martin March today, and there's one tomorrow.
00:46:37 Specifically, what are people doing on this march?
00:46:41 Well, the march today was organized by the TWU, and I guess it was to raise awareness--
00:46:48 Yes.
00:46:49 --and solidarity with other actions happening throughout the country.
00:46:53 And the one tomorrow, which is at 6 o'clock, the rally, and then at 7, the march,
00:46:59 is--I think the grand jury is going to convene.
00:47:02 But I heard they're not going to convene.
00:47:05 I heard the grand jury is not even going to go through, but they're still having a rally tomorrow here,
00:47:09 and a march that's leaving at 7 o'clock.
00:47:12 And basically, that's a solidarity with other actions going on throughout the country,
00:47:16 and that's also the black community and other disenfranchised communities coming out
00:47:22 and speaking out against police brutality or speaking out against other state-sanctioned brutalities
00:47:30 against people of color.
00:47:32 Tomorrow, specifically, the reason why I agree with rallies and marches like this
00:47:38 is because it raises awareness about core issues of what's going on in the black community
00:47:44 and other minority communities that are disenfranchised.
00:47:47 You have systematic discrimination and you have systematic disenfranchisement through brutality.
00:47:56 For example, you have stop and frisk.
00:47:59 You have other policies that target specifically these disaffected communities.
00:48:04 Do you feel that--not that I'm advocating drug use, I'm totally against this--
00:48:09 but do you feel that the war of drugs totally--what's the word--
00:48:14 has disparate impact on poor people or people in poor communities?
00:48:18 Let's say somebody has a small amount of marijuana and they get stopped on that and locked up in jail.
00:48:22 Do you think that's--is that negatively affecting these communities?
00:48:27 Yes, I'll say it was negatively affecting the community.
00:48:30 Even the limited amount of benefit it has on the community, like busting of drug dens,
00:48:37 or busting of drug corners, that's a very limited benefit.
00:48:45 At the same time, you're really not addressing the deep problems of why people are using drugs.
00:48:52 You're just criminalizing the issue and you're arresting people that have a bag of marijuana, for example.
00:48:58 You're clogging up the judicial system and you're messing up these people's records and future, possibly.
00:49:07 Possibly with convictions, they may have a hard time getting a job or going to school, right?
00:49:11 Exactly, because that's already hard enough if you don't have that.
00:49:15 So having that is definitely an extra impediment for your advancement in this society.
00:49:22 So I guess it's sort of weird because often when people talk about limited government,
00:49:27 you know, the government is too big in this country, blah blah blah blah, we hate big government.
00:49:31 It seems ironic that the government would punish people for doing marijuana.
00:49:37 I'm not saying become a pothead or become an alcoholic or become a this or a become a that,
00:49:41 but that seems like a choice should be left up to you to do that.
00:49:45 Yes, it's a contradiction.
00:49:47 A lot of so-called Republicans or so-called conservatives that they pride themselves on limited government,
00:49:53 it shows their hypocrisy.
00:49:55 Anytime they want limited government is when the government is actually going in and busting up monopolies
00:49:59 or going in and providing poor people with social services like Medicare, SSI, Section 8.
00:50:06 However, when the government is trying to regulate what women do with their body as an abortion
00:50:11 or when the government is trying to regulate the amount of drug use people use, which is something personal,
00:50:16 and at best a sickness, these same people are saying that the government should arrest them, convict them, and harass them.
00:50:24 So it shows the contradiction, right? It shows the blatant and inherent contradiction in their position.
00:50:30 And arguably, if you want to make government smaller, if you reformed the drug laws,
00:50:35 let's say not locking people up for marijuana, for example,
00:50:38 you would have a lot less government spending because I know people talk about they hate taxes.
00:50:43 We've all worked. Nobody likes having taxes cut out of your paycheck.
00:50:46 So, yeah, somebody commits a serious crime, murder, theft, lock them up.
00:50:51 But kids smoking marijuana, arguably, by throwing so many people in jail for that or even prosecuting them,
00:50:57 even if they don't go to jail, that's a huge waste of taxpayer money, wouldn't you say?
00:51:01 Yeah, I would say it's a big use, but you have to consider also too,
00:51:05 let's take an example of what's going on here, like in Zuccotti and what's going on in Union Square,
00:51:11 where all these police are doing overtime.
00:51:13 A lot of times these institutions, they need something to justify funding.
00:51:17 Oh, their continued existence, go ahead.
00:51:19 Yeah, and preservation, like take the DEA.
00:51:22 The DEA and other organizations like that, they want the war on drugs to continue. Why?
00:51:28 Because it funds them. It's a career for them.
00:51:31 It's the same thing like the war on terror.
00:51:34 You want a war on terror because if you own a surveillance camera company,
00:51:40 you're going to get that funding from the government.
00:51:42 Or if you're a company like, let's say, the Chinese company.
00:51:46 What's the company's name?
00:51:49 Halliburton.
00:51:50 Halliburton. Or KBR.
00:51:52 Well, if you have this running on so-called war on drugs, it's good for your pockets.
00:51:58 You really don't care about the issue, but you care about what the issue is doing for you.
00:52:03 Not my brother, not my father, not my cousin, not you, not him, not her, not anybody.
00:52:12 Never again will I lose anybody.
00:52:16 You see, my father, you see, my father should never have war on drugs.
00:52:21 No one should lose their kids to an unjust system that doesn't want us to be here.
00:52:25 But for us to be enslaved, that's what it is.
00:52:27 If you didn't want to be, you shouldn't have brought us here.
00:52:29 You shouldn't have brought us here.
00:52:31 This country would be on my back.
00:52:34 Now you're telling me this is my grandmother.
00:52:36 Shit makes this shit work.
00:52:38 So try to choose this my grandmother.
00:52:41 These people are my family.
00:52:43 All of you are my family.
00:52:45 Every last one of you, black, white, I don't care what the fuck you look like, just use my language.
00:52:49 I'm just very upset.
00:52:51 And she was right.
00:52:53 We can't wait for the council to tell us what to do.
00:52:55 We can't wait in calls.
00:52:57 Phone calls are not enough.
00:52:59 We have to get up and get out here.
00:53:00 And I brought us out here to make that a statement.
00:53:03 And this is just the beginning.
00:53:04 We're going to march.
00:53:05 We're going to walk.
00:53:06 We're going to hold up our signs, our flags, our fiddle figures, our feet, whatever.
00:53:10 I don't care what you do.
00:53:11 You're just going to walk and you're going to scream at the top of your lungs every single person you have lost to this system.
00:53:16 Every single person that's locked up right now and you know shouldn't be there, you say their name while you walk.
00:53:21 I don't care if you cry.
00:53:22 I'm crying in front of all of you right now.
00:53:24 It means nothing.
00:53:25 No one should be in jail for no reason other than if they committed a crime.
00:53:30 It's another form of slavery.
00:53:31 It is.
00:53:32 You're right.
00:53:33 It is.
00:53:34 So follow us as we march down here towards Washington Square Park.
00:53:37 And we're going to hold up our flags, take pictures.
00:53:40 Thank you.
00:53:41 And thank you all for coming out to support me.
00:53:43 I really do appreciate it.
00:53:44 [Applause]
00:54:05 We are Trayvon Martin.
00:54:34 We are Trayvon Martin.
00:54:36 We are Trayvon Martin.
00:54:39 We are Trayvon Martin.
00:54:41 We are Trayvon Martin.
00:54:44 We are Trayvon Martin.
00:54:46 We are Trayvon Martin.
00:54:49 We are Trayvon Martin.
00:54:51 We are Trayvon Martin.
00:54:54 We are Trayvon Martin.
00:54:56 We are Trayvon Martin.
00:54:58 We are Trayvon Martin.
00:55:00 We are Trayvon Martin.
00:55:02 We are Trayvon Martin.
00:55:04 We are Trayvon Martin.
00:55:06 We are Trayvon Martin.
00:55:09 We are Trayvon Martin.
00:55:11 We are Trayvon Martin.
00:55:13 We are Trayvon Martin.
00:55:16 [Applause]
00:55:29 So is it dying? What's wrong with it?
00:55:31 It just can't fly right now.
00:55:32 Maybe because it's a baby.
00:55:34 No, it totally is a baby.
00:55:35 You think so?
00:55:36 Yeah.
00:55:37 Because it can't fly right now.
00:55:38 No, you can just see it in its face.
00:55:40 Oh.
00:55:42 It's a spring now.
00:55:43 I don't think I have babies around this time.
00:55:45 I don't know.
00:55:46 I mean, I don't think I have any.
00:55:47 I have a lot of animals, but it's big though.
00:55:50 It's not like a newborn.
00:55:51 It's just the anatomy itself, man.
00:55:53 Have you ever seen a big bear?
00:55:54 Look at its hair.
00:55:55 Have you seen how big it is?
00:55:56 You see how short the hair is on the back?
00:55:58 That is a baby.
00:56:00 The hair would be longer.
00:56:01 It would be bigger.
00:56:03 And it would be flying right now.
00:56:05 It would be somewhere hanging upside down.
00:56:07 No, no, no, no, no.
00:56:08 Maybe it fell out of a nest or something, maybe?
00:56:10 I can believe it.
00:56:12 I'm going to tap a little bank.
00:56:14 I probably tried flying like that.
00:56:16 Because when I was walking on the street,
00:56:17 it was moving.
00:56:18 It was moving.
00:56:19 Oh.
00:56:20 [Laughter]
00:56:26 Let's find some crickets.
00:56:28 Yeah, let's find some crickets and stuff.
00:56:30 Anybody got any insects?
00:56:31 Oh, you guys can go to the pet store.
00:56:33 They'll sell insects at the pet store.
00:56:36 So yeah, you guys can buy some bugs for it.
00:56:38 It was a big ass bunny in the window.
00:56:41 We better feed this thing.
00:56:43 We should drop by the pet store.
00:56:46 So they can drop it off somewhere else.
00:56:48 Kill it, yeah.
00:56:50 You guys should put up a donation bucket
00:56:52 or something like that.
00:56:53 Feed the bat.
00:56:54 Feed the bat, yeah.
00:56:55 Feed the bat.
00:56:56 Yeah, put up a bucket and a sign.
00:56:57 Go to the paws.
00:56:59 Travis, you want a paw?
00:57:00 Here you go.
00:57:02 He's a cute snail.
00:57:04 He's like, "kiss, kiss, kiss."
00:57:06 He was hissing and shit.
00:57:07 So he's African.
00:57:11 So is it dying? What's wrong?
00:57:12 It just can't fly right now.
00:57:14 Maybe because it's a baby.
00:57:15 No, it totally is a baby.
00:57:17 You think so?
00:57:18 Yeah.
00:57:19 They get big.
00:57:20 Yeah, you can just see it in its face.
00:57:22 Oh.
00:57:24 It's the spring now.
00:57:25 I don't think they have babies around this time.
00:57:27 I don't know.
00:57:28 I mean, I don't think they have babies.
00:57:29 A lot of animals, but it's big, though.
00:57:32 It's not like a newborn.
00:57:33 It's just the anatomy itself, man.
00:57:35 Have you ever seen a big bat?
00:57:36 Look at its hair.
00:57:37 Have you seen how big it is?
00:57:38 You see how short the hair is on the back?
00:57:40 That is a baby.
00:57:41 That's a baby.
00:57:42 It would be bigger and it would be flying right now.
00:57:46 It would be somewhere hanging upside down.
00:57:49 So maybe it fell out of a nest or something, maybe?
00:57:52 I don't know.
00:57:53 I can't believe it.
00:57:54 It was on top of a bank.
00:57:55 I probably tried to fly it like every day.
00:57:57 Because when I was walking, I was seeing it.
00:57:59 It was moving.
00:58:00 It was like, oh.
00:58:02 [LAUGHTER]
00:58:03 Shut up.
00:58:04 [LAUGHTER]
00:58:07 All right, let's--
00:58:08 Let's go find some crickets.
00:58:10 Yeah, let's find some fruits and stuff.
00:58:12 Anybody got any insects?
00:58:13 Oh, you guys can go to the pet store.
00:58:15 They'll sell the insects at the pet store.
00:58:17 So yeah, you guys can buy some bugs for it.
00:58:20 [INTERPOSING VOICES]
00:58:23 They better feed this thing.
00:58:25 Maybe we should drop by the pet store.
00:58:27 So they can drop it elsewhere.
00:58:29 Kill it, yeah.
00:58:31 You guys should set up-- put up like a donation
00:58:33 bucket or something like that.
00:58:34 Feed the bat.
00:58:35 Feed the bat, yeah.
00:58:36 Feed the bat.
00:58:37 Yeah, put up a bucket and a sign.
00:58:39 All the donations will go to the cause.
00:58:41 Travis, you're my partner.
00:58:44 [INTERPOSING VOICES]
00:58:47 It was hissing and shit.
00:58:49 So it was African, man.
00:58:52 Tonight, we read the names of all 26
00:58:57 of those unarmed citizens who were murdered
00:59:02 by state violence and systemic racism.
00:59:06 As we read their names, their ages, and their locations,
00:59:16 we hand out these balloons.
00:59:18 To commemorate the reasons they fell
00:59:24 and to hope for a world in which we can all
00:59:27 live free of racialized oppression.
00:59:30 [INTERPOSING VOICES]
00:59:57 The first, January 12, 2012.
01:00:04 Donald Johnson, 21, New Orleans.
01:00:11 January 12, 2012.
01:00:15 Dwayne Brown, 26, East New York, Brooklyn.
01:00:24 January 17, Angelo Clark, 31, Little Rock, Arkansas.
01:00:33 January 24, Steven Rodriguez, 22, Monterey Park, California.
01:00:49 January 29, Antoine White, 17, Bushwick, Brooklyn.
01:00:58 February 1, Steven Watts, 15, Calmet, Illinois.
01:01:13 February 3, Ramarly Graham, 18, Bronx, New York.
01:01:23 February 10, Manuel Loggins, Jr., 31, San Clemente, California.
01:01:42 January-- February 13, Johnny Warren, 43, Durham, Alabama.
01:01:54 February 26, Trayvon Martin, 17, Sanford, Florida.
01:02:07 February 29, Raymond Allen, 34, Galveston, Texas.
01:02:15 March 1, Justin Sip, 20, New Orleans, California.
01:02:30 March 1, Dante Prince, 25, Dayton, Ohio.
01:02:40 March 1, Melvin Lawnhorn, 26, Carson County, South Carolina.
01:02:54 March 3, Bo Morrison, 20, westbound Wisconsin.
01:03:03 March 5, Nehemiah Dillard, 29, Gainesville, Florida.
01:03:16 March 5, Wendell Allen, 20, New Orleans, Louisiana.
01:03:25 March 7, Michael Lembard, 22, New Bern, New York.
01:03:35 March 10, Marques Smart, 22, New York.