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- Let me end on a positive note.

As my wife always reminds me,

I depress everybody so much

that we got to pass out the tranquilizers at the end,

but here's the point.

If we were sitting in this room 30 years ago

and somebody were to say, "You know,

"I think in the year 2008 the United States of America,

"it's gonna elect an African-American president

of the United States,"

people would have said, "You're crazy.

That ain't never gonna happen, not in our lifetime."

It happened.

It happened when people all over this country,

African-Americans and white allies,

stood up, occasionally died,

often went to jail fighting against segregation, racism,

unfair voting laws.

It happened because people had the courage

to stand up and fight.

25 years ago or so,

you know how many women senators we had?

Two.

Today there are 20, and no one denies

that in the coming years half of the Congress

will be women or more.

Still a long way to go to overcome sexism, absolutely,

but profound changes in this country happened

because women by the millions said, "Enough is enough!"

Ten years ago if somebody said, "Well, you know,

"I think that in conservative states in America,

these states will have gay marriage,"

people would have said, "You are really crazy,"

but that is exactly what's happening.

Real change never happens without struggle.

I mean, Frederick Douglass, the great abolitionist, said,

"No one gives you freedom.

You got to struggle for it, and you got to fight for it."

When we come together as a people,

there is very little that we cannot accomplish.

- You've just got

a bunch of losers

in this new economy.

The winners are spread out and mostly ungrateful.

The losers are concentrated and pissed.

- It's no longer the old right versus left,

do you want more government or less government?

It's really anti-establishment versus establishment.

- How do we fix the problems of our nation and grow forward

instead of tearing down the shoulders that we stand on?

- It was at nighttime when we had to leave.

We had to move in one day,

just put whatever you could in a little bag

and had, like, one outfit.

My mom was like, "Oh, we're moving to Mercer County,"

and, you know, when I was a kid, everybody was like,

"Oh, Mercer's County's better than McDowell.

"Like, they have everything,

and everything's nice, and you can get jobs,"

and so it was a place

where people said your dreams could come true.

We saw all these two-story houses,

and we were amazed,

and we were wondering which one we were gonna move into.

But we lived in this little trailer right here.

And I remember I had this little puppy for a time here,

and in the wintertime the snow piled up on that roof,

and the roof caved in,

and it--thank God it didn't hit the puppy,

but it--it was one little spot the puppy was in that

the roof didn't fall down into, one corner.

Hey, Paul.

- Hey, girl.

- Did you miss me? - Yeah.

My name is Sabrina Shrader.

I grew up in McDowell County, where I had a lot of friends

and a lot of people that helped me

get through a lot of hard stuff

and long periods of poverty.

My friends told me to not tell my stories in public,

you know, make us look bad,

and a few years ago I spoke at the West Virginia Legislature.

The "West Virginia Gazette" snapped a picture of it,

titled the article "Poverty Gets a Face,"

and made the front page of the newspaper.

I went up there, and I told my truth.

- Most of the time I think "Well, I'm only 17 years old.

I'm not really--"

- But when you get 18, you can vote, so you need to know.

You need to know what people stand for.

We've been taught not to get involved with politics, right?

- Yeah. - Well, that's wrong.

That's why we don't have any power.

What's been happening is all this money has been

controlling politics

'cause all the people without money

haven't been involved, right?

- Yeah.

- So those are the people that are in charge.

We have to change that.

Bye, love y'all. - Love y'all.

- We're trusting these people that have no clue

what we go through to make decisions for us.

I'm tired of that, so I'm gonna do my best to get in there

and become one of those decision-makers.

- If you don't have jobs

and you're not paying people decent wages,

the whole mechanism of the United States

begins to fall apart,

and that's what's been happening with us

for a long time.

We've neglected the infrastructure.

We haven't paid attention to the employment issue.

We've let wages stagnate or decline, and then we look up,

and we say, "Oh, my goodness,

"why is there so much poverty in this country?

Why is the middle class having such a hard time?"

- All right. All right, Ellie, make it in.

Okay.

All right, I got to drive now. Thanks for letting me know.

That's horrible.

I love you too.

Bye.

- What's the phone call you just got about Wal-Mart?

- Oh, my husband called me to let me know

that the Wal-Mart in Kimball,

which is where the food bank

is that helps a lot of people in McDowell County

get food and clothes, is shutting down,

and that's going to have a drastic effect

on how they're able to help people.

You're gonna get to meet some of these people tomorrow.

It's not gonna be good.

It's, like, a forgotten-about place.

[indistinct chatter]

- Okay, then. That's fine.

We're only gonna be able to serve 110 families today.

That's all the food that we have.

We're going to try our best to be here again on Monday.

If I give you food today, don't you come back up in here Monday

'cause you know what's gonna happen, right?

- Right. - My name is Linda McKinney.

I'm director of Five Loaves and Two Fishes Food Bank

in Kimball, West Virginia.

My suggestion is if we get to you and you're past 110

is just kind of wait around,

and we might be able to scrape up something.

We get one semi tractor trailer

a month from Operation Blessing.

Our volunteers came in early this morning

to break down the truck,

put it in the shopping carts.

We are also a Feeding America site.

Anything that Wal-Mart would dispose of,

we get that three days a week.

We will be losing that food on the 28th

when Wal-Mart closes their doors.

Now, there's a hundred- and-some-plus at Wal-Mart,

not only are--they're out of their jobs.

There's no way this food bank can help them.

In the last three months we've turned away more

and more and more.

It just gets sadder and sadder,

and then you have 47% of children

are considered homeless.

They're living with grandparents

or other relatives,

so, you know, we'll just regroup.

That's all we can do, and if there's a crumb left,

I'll feed somebody, you know?

I'm from Italian heritage. You feed people.

Can you listen, baby? We're out of numbers.

We can only serve 110 today.

Go that way and pull your truck up here

where you'll keep warm, baby.

So that's what we do.

- You feel guilty and shame for yourself

'cause you think you did something

to deserve to be poor,

and you must not be working hard enough

because you can't pay your bills, and you can't buy food.

I mean, something must be wrong with you.

That's what I used to think.

I don't think that no more.

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- Well, let me thank all of you for coming out

on a Saturday morning.

What I want to do is just chat for a little while,

tell you a little bit about myself

and some of the ideas that we're fighting for.

I was born in New York City.

My dad was a paint salesman.

Grew up in a 3 1/2-room apartment,

moved to Vermont in 1964,

ran for the United States Senate

on a third party back in 1971,

and I got 2% of the vote.

Not dissuaded, I ran again, and I got 1% of the vote.

[laughter]

Too dumb to quit, I ran again and got,

eventually, 6% of the vote, and then I stopped running.

I gave the people of Vermont a break after one guy said to me,

"If you promise never to run again, I will vote for you."

[laughter]

But I didn't keep that promise.

I am in Iowa because I am giving thought

to running for president of the United States.

What I am hearing is a lot of support for the agenda

that I am proposing,

which is a agenda to create millions of decent-paying jobs,

to raise the minimum wage, to do pay equity,

to reform our disastrous trade policies,

to deal with asking the wealthy and powerful

to start paying their fair share of taxes,

to deal with the national healthcare problem.

The question is whether or not there is the willingness

on the part of ordinary people to in fact get engaged,

to stand up, and to fight back.

Every worker in this room is producing more than he

or she did 20, 30 years ago.

Are our wages going up or our hours going down?

Quite the contrary, right?

People work longer hours in many cases for lower wages.

While the middle class is crumbling,

the wealthiest people and the largest corporations

are doing phenomenally well.

Today the top 1/10 of 1%

owns more wealth than the bottom 90%.

The Walton family of Wal-Mart owns more wealth

than the bottom 40% of the American people, one family.

I think we have a moral obligation

to bring people together for the sake of our kids

and our grandchildren and the climate

and the planet, to say,

you know what? You can't keep doing what you're doing.

You can't keep beating down the middle class.

You can't keep buying elections.

You can't keep sending our jobs to China.

That's wrong.

So the job is to mobilize.

How effectively we can do that, that remains to be seen.

Let me ask you this question.

Do you think we would have a shot of winning

or doing well in the Iowa caucus?

Honest assessment.

[applause]

All right.

- Our parents grew up during the Depression.

We grew up in the '50s and '60s,

and through the hard work of our parents and grandparents,

we were able to have decent lives,

got a decent education, and we thrived.

You had a lot of politicians,

including politicians in the Republican Party,

who were liberals, frankly-- frankly liberals,

I mean, to the left of many Democrats today.

So they cared about the poor.

They cared about the working classes.

They cared about the middle class.

They thought that it was important for people

to be able to go to college

and not come out with staggering levels of debt,

and I think more than anything they understood

that it was absolutely essential

for people to have work,

and not just work, but work at good wages.

Certainly when Reagan was elected in 1980,

all bets were off.

This fantasy was perpetrated

that the best way to help ordinary people

and poor people

was to turn all of our resources

towards the very wealthy

and help them,

and they would do better and better,

and then some of their wealth

would trickle down to the masses.

Well, of course, that was nonsense,

but it was a kind of nonsense that gripped this society,

and the working classes

and the poor have been worse off ever since.

- Five, six, seven, eight!

- I see a lot of ferment across the land

in the United States right now; people are not happy.

People understand that things are not going well.

You have the Black Lives Matter movement.

You have the movement of low-wage workers.

They've been protesting and calling periodic strikes.

I'd like to see leadership emerge

that could begin to knit

some of these movements together

so that they form alliances.

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- My name is Jan Williams.

I'm a 41-year-old mother

and a school bus driver for L.A. USD.

I grew up in L.A. in the '80s and '90s.

The neighborhood that I grew up in

was a predominantly black community,

a working class area.

Now the same areas are being gentrified where we now

are being pushed out of those communities,

and you see us becoming more... white.

[laughs]

Rents are skyrocketing. Jobs are scarce,

and I think a lot of people are leaving the city for work.

[cheering]

I got involved with the movement for Black Lives

through working with my union.

A friend of mine in our labor union organized

a bus tour for us

to go to Ferguson to see where Mike Brown was killed.

I really didn't even know much about

what was the big deal about that at the time.

It wasn't anything that moved me, you know,

to investigate more about it,

so when we went to Ferguson,

we had an opportunity to talk to people

who lived in the community

who shared with us about the media blackout,

how they had tanks out there, had tear gas.

People weren't allowed to leave their house.

Basically, Ferguson had become a war zone,

and I couldn't believe

that that could happen here in this country.

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Black Lives Matter, it's an organization

of people like me,

of regular people that's just doing

what we can to create the change

that we need to see so that we can live freely.

It began as a hashtag on social media.

We've regularly organized protests around the deaths

of black people killed by law enforcement,

racial profiling, police brutality,

racial inequality

in the United States criminal justice system.

- No justice!

all: No peace! - I said no justice!

all: No peace!

[indistinct chanting]

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[police radio chatter]

- [bleep]

- [indistinct] Stop! Stop!

[gunshot]

[gunshots] - Get on the ground!

- I'm getting out! Let me get out.

Do not touch me.

- [inaudible]. - Do not touch me.

- Get out of the car now.

- [inaudible]. Ow!

Oh, my God!

[indistinct shouting]

- Get on the ground!

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- Tears in Inglewood at the location

where a night out for single parents

ended with their dying in a police shooting.

Officers responded to the call of an occupied car

stopped in Manchester Boulevard

early Sunday morning.

They saw a gun

and that both the man and woman inside were unconscious.

- They were parked in their car right here,

and they were asleep.

Police say they spent 45 minutes trying to wake them up

and they ended up dead, both of them shot and killed

after a night of being on a date.

We still--we're still trying to get answers.

This system is designed to do just exactly what it's doing,

so we will never get justice under this system.

The system killed her.

- What do you tell your son?

- You mean about police officers?

They make him nervous, and it--and it hurts me

because we're not--you know,

he's not scared of what they call gang members,

somebody look just like him.

That's not gonna scare him and intimidate him,

but he sees a police officer with all this artillery

around his waist,

dark glasses looking at him,

and now he's nervous and paranoid,

so I told him, you know, I'm fighting for it.

We're fighting for change. - Black lives, they matter here!

all: Black lives, they matter here.

- Thank you, guys, for your support.

My name is Jan. I'm a organizer with Black Lives Matter,

and I'm a union member of [inaudible] Union 99!

[cheering]

- For some folks, you're thinking,

"Well, tomorrow's gonna get better

'cause Donald Trump said so."

Well, okay, you need a little bit more history.

I think on the left we need a little bit less history.

You know, we have a whole, you know, Black History Month.

I would--at this point I would trade in Black History Month,

20 of them for one Black Future Weekend.

- Progressives have played along with the racism game.

They've refused to confront the ways in which racism

is used to divide communities from each other

in order to maintain and reproduce economic inequality.

- We've been doing environmental justice,

racial justice, immigrant rights.

Everyone's been doing their own separate mobilizations,

separate set of priorities,

and we need a real political revolution

that's multiracial, multiethnic,

multi-everything type coalition.

- A political revolution means people feeling their power,

taking to the streets, protesting there,

but strategizing, organizing,

taking control of the levers of power in this country.

- Check two. Check, testing, one, two.

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[cheers and applause]

- Then with your support and the support of millions

of people throughout our country,

we begin a political revolution

to transform our country economically,

politically, socially, and environmentally.

[cheers and applause]

- Today Vermont senator Bernie Sanders

kicked off his campaign for president.

- He's a long shot. - A long shot.

- I don't think he's gonna be taken too credibly.

- Bernie Sanders is a socialist, for God sakes.

- A thick Brooklyn accent.

- He's 73 years old. He looks 91.

- He's a little crusty. - He's a loon, isn't he?

- If Salvador Dali and Dr. Seuss had a child

and that child was raised by schizophrenic howler monkeys,

it would be Bernie Sanders!

Give me a taste of this crazy, wacko cuckoo bird!

- If a bank is too big to fail, that bank is too big to exist!

We must establish pay equity for women workers.

We must be focused on campaign finance reform.

- What a rational,

slightly left of center mainstream politician.

- [rapping] ♪ Bernie Sanders standing up to slander ♪

♪ Serving his constituents

♪ Not kneeling or appealing to rich ♪

♪ Standing up for what's right in a system that's all wrong ♪

♪ Going against the grain when so many play along ♪

♪ Independent of a party, he's a free thinker ♪

♪ Not kneeling to corporations ♪

♪ 'Cause he's a bigger man than that ♪

♪ Man, I tip my hat to these four heroes ♪

♪ Each one of them chose a unique way to go about ♪

♪ Making change in a world that's deranged ♪

♪ And for each one of them

♪ There's a dozen others from Martin Luther King ♪

♪ To my own mother to Brother Ali ♪

♪ Ali to the Martin MacAvoy fan ♪

♪ These people made me who I am ♪

[indistinct chatter]

- Hey, Dominic. - How you doing?

[acoustic strumming]

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- I think probably... [inaudible]

- Look at this. It says, "Main DP security."

Mom, do you know where we're going?

- Hyatt? Hyatt.

- That's right, Hyatt Middle School, 1214 East 15th.

I think we got 'em out tonight.

- Bernie!

- Yes, you can switch.

- If you're a Bernie supporter, come over here.

If you're a Hillary supporter, stay on this side, please.

- I've been supporting Hillary because

she has the most experience

and most qualified on both sides of the aisle.

- Hillary Clinton is fighting to preserve what we have,

and Bernie Sanders is fighting for our future.

- Precinct chairs, please do your count.

- 53, 54, 55, 56, 57.

- 51. - 52.

- 53. - 55.

all chanting: Feel the Bern! Feel the Bern!

- Clinton 232, Sanders 224,

for a total of 456.

So we will elect our delegates.

- About what?

- No. - No.

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- Iowa, thank you!

[cheers and applause]

Nine months ago we came to this beautiful state.

- Thank you.

- We had no political organization.

- Thank you! - We had no money.

We had no name recognition, and we were taking on

the most powerful political organization

in the United States of America.

[cheers and applause]

And tonight, while the results are still not known,

it looks like we are in a virtual tie.

[cheers and applause]

[women screaming]

[car horns honking]

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- Donald Trump, you know he's what?

- Bien business, bien deals.

♪

- I want to begin

by congratulating Senator Sanders

on his victory.

[crowd roars]

- The candidacy of Bernie Sanders,

for those involved with grassroots politics,

was not as surprising to those people

as those in the corporate media,

you know, the pundits, who know so little about so much,

explaining the world to us and getting it so wrong.

- The people of New Hampshire have sent a profound message

to the political establishment,

to the economic establishment,

and, by the way, to the media establishment.

[crowd roars]

- Bernie Sanders rode a movement that goes back

to Occupy

that burst on the scene in 2011.

Hundreds and thousands streamed into Zuccotti Park,

downtown Manhattan,

people expressing deep dissent,

anger, and solutions.

What can be done? How do you create a different world?

How do you challenge those in power?

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- We will make banks pay,

and we will reclaim our democracy

because this government was founded to be of the people,

by the people, and for the people.

- Yeah!

- It belongs to us because we are the 99%.

- Occupy was actually my first real brush with activism.

I found out that there was an Occupy L.A,

and I went down just to donate some supplies and be like,

"Good job, guys. Like, keep up the good work,"

and then go back to my life,

and I was very quickly volun-told,

you know, what I could do to help,

and I stayed, and I ended up being there for two months

and, you know, being arrested in the eviction.

I'm Elise Whitaker. I'm in the field

organizing staff with Democracy Spring.

We are a mass nonviolent civil disobedience movement

aimed at getting money out of politics

and ending voter suppression.

At that time I remember a lot of folks telling me that,

you know, protesting doesn't change anything

and that Occupy was gonna be meaningless,

but ultimately, four years later

we can look at our current political climate,

and the idea of the 99% is a household concept.

People talk about income equality.

People talk about campaign finance reform.

They talk about Wall Street corruption.

- All right, so you're coming?

All right, muy bien. That's exciting.

- Coming away from that movement, you know,

we really realized there's not one solution,

but there is one major impediment

to us gaining traction on any of these issues,

and that is that we don't have a democracy that works for us.

so we started building this movement

and kind of dreaming up something

like Democracy Spring.

It's gonna be killer. I don't know. I'm excited.

I think we're gonna change the world.

- I don't think our Congress is filled with criminals.

I think our Congress is filled with people

who go there for the right reasons

but then find themselves in a system

that forces them to spend an extraordinary amount of time

raising money from the tiniest fraction of the 1%.

My focus in research recently has been

on the--on basic corruption of our democracy,

a system which plainly benefits the rich

and gives them extreme influence inside the system

relative to the middle class and to the poor.

The empirical data on the actual decisions

of our government show us that what our government is doing

is not responding to the average voter.

Our government's responding to the donors of their campaigns.

What I became convinced of was that

if we didn't find a way to motivate a political movement

that could address this fundamental issue,

then this democracy was toast.

- All right. - That's surprisingly heavy.

- If you're meeting other folks

that are here to take action with us,

make sure that they know those training times

and locations, all right? Cool?

- Started Saturday, April 2nd in Philadelphia,

a march from the Liberty Bell to D.C,

and this is day seven.

We've come over 100 miles now.

My name's Kai Newkirk.

I'm the campaign director of Democracy Spring.

I'm grateful to be here with you.

We're a nonviolent army of freedom fighters,

you know, and patriots that's moving towards D.C.,

and our--just our strength and capacity's

just growing every day.

Our demand is very clear. It's very simple.

It's to take immediate action

to end the corruption of big money in politics

and ensure free and fair elections

that give us all an equal voice.

There's four bills that are on the table right now

that would start to really build small donor,

citizen, public financing of elections,

overturn Citizens United

and other decisions that have taken away our capacity

to be able to say now to superPACs

and no to billionaires putting tens

and tens of millions of dollars into elections,

restore the Voting Rights Act

which was gutted by the Supreme Court,

and make it much easier for people to vote,

like automatic registration,

ensuring that people have access.

We're gonna march to the Capitol,

to the people's house,

and we will claim that space, you know, nonviolently, right?

Peacefully but with a fierce determination,

and we are not going to leave

until either Congress listens to the people

and comes to their senses

and is willing to take some action

to save our democracy

or they arrest us all and send us to jail.

- One vote! all: One vote!

- Money out!

all: Money out! - Of politics!

all: Of politics!

- Democracy! all: Spring!

- Democracy! all: Spring!

- Democracy! all: Spring!

- Democracy! all: Spring!

- Yeah!

- There are people that say that we are asking

for far too much too fast,

and we say to those people we are only asking,

we are only demanding everything

that was promised to us.

- Why, as a person of faith,

do I participate in civil disobedience?

Because for me this is prayer. This is how I pray.

This is how I give my thanks.

- Good afternoon, everyone.

Give our welcome to some of our workers

that aren't afraid to stand up.

- Hey! Whoo!

- Please give it up for Mr. Cenk Uygur!

[cheers and applause]

- [indistinct] Cenk!

- When we fought for civil rights, we won.

When we fought for women's rights, we won.

When we fought for gay rights, we won.

And when we fight to get our democracy back,

we're gonna win!

They're not coming for us anymore. We're coming for them.

all: Our democracy!

- Whose democracy?

all: Our democracy! - Whose democracy?

all: Our democracy!

- I say money ain't speech. Corporations aren't people.

all: Money ain't speech. Corporations aren't people.

- Money ain't speech. Corporations aren't people.

all: Money ain't speech. Corporations aren't people.

- Hell yeah, guys, hell yeah! - You are demonstrating...

[indistinct shouting]

You will cease and desist,

or you will be placed under arrest.

This is your second warning.

- Keep moving back, please. Keep moving back, please.

Move back.

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- If you are not prepared...

all: If you are not prepared! - To be arrested today...

all: To be arrested today! - Leave this area now!

all: Leave this area now!

- If you are prepared... all: If you are prepared!

- Stay! all: Stay!

- Stay! all: Stay!

- Take your power back!

all: Take your power back!

- There will be a growing political price to pay

for anyone who defends the status quo of corruption

in their offices, in the Capitol,

in the streets, at the polling place.

We can spark and tap into

that kind of sleeping giant of people

who reject, you know, the status quo, right,

that we can--we can change the entire political weather

and we can open up the possibility for reform

that people don't think is possible right now.

- Well, change is inevitable.

All great empires

who have been resistant to change,

that has been their downfall.

- I think it's going into a place of more open-mindedness

and more of love rather than separation.

- We are here as part of our 50th anniversary celebration,

going back to our roots!

- If things are gonna change, we've got to step up

to the plate and take some risks.

If not us, who? If not now, when?

You know, all it takes is for good people to be silent.

Well, none of us want to be silent.

- I'm so energized that you all are here.

Are you feeling energized?

all: Yeah!

- So this movement, where does it come for you personally?

- It's all love. It's all love and hope.

It's that we are facing a real crisis in our nation

when every voice can't be heard

and every vote can't be counted,

but I believe that we can do better, you know,

and it's--to me it's an act of patriotism.

- The whole idea is-- of a free market

separate from government

is an illusion.

Government determines the rules of the game,

and the question, fundamentally,

is who has most influence in designing those rules?

Many people in America today,

they've internalized the propaganda

that somehow you're paid what you're worth

without an understanding that the market itself

is a product of decisions made,

and what you're paid really is a matter of who has the power

to determine what you're paid.

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- Oh, you look pretty. I'm glad you wore blue.

I love yours.

- I just believe that it's time that we have elected officials

who are leaders that are able

to walk the walk and talk the talk.

- I don't know any legislator

that knows what it's like

to be born into generational poverty

and be the only person in your family

to graduate high school.

I'm so glad that we're running together

because we're two change-makers.

- So you'll let them know today. Make it known in May

so that they'll remember in November.

- Mm-hmm, that's right.

- [laughing]

- Okay, so what are you running for?

We haven't met you.

- House of delegates in district 27, which is--

- Okay, so you're gonna replace one of these jokers?

- I hope so. - Very good.

- Yeah. - Very good.

- So we only get three minutes. - Yeah, I know.

- This is your page here.

- Because of the situation that I was born into,

I understand the numerous obstacles most of--

- This is the first official speaker.

- Oh, are you first?

- Y'all making me first? Oh, my God.

- She's devoted her entire life to solving the problems

in southern West Virginia

that poverty has created for the majority,

so if you could all help me in welcoming Ms. Sabrina Shrader.

[cheers and applause]

- Politics is about three things:

people, power, and money.

These tax breaks are not creating jobs.

They are destroying and taking away the ones that we have.

I'm counting on you to become a part

of the political revolution

that has been taking place around the country.

Together we can make West Virginia a thriving state.

Thank you for your time, and God bless you all.

[cheers and applause]

all: Remember in November. Remember in November.

Remember in November. Remember in November.

- Draw a line from the Occupy movement

right through the Fight for 15 and Black Lives Matter

and other grassroots movements

right to the Bernie Sanders campaign,

and what you see is a building of a progressive movement.

Now, there's no guarantee it will continue to build further,

but I think the momentum is there.

People don't want to give up.

[calm music]

♪

- When I spoke at the West Virginia Legislature,

Senator Bernie Sanders' office called me.

I got to speak on a panel there

in front of the Health Committee and the Senate.

It was a relief to see and hear that other people

knew that poverty does exist in America

and that even if people hadn't growing up living in it,

that some of them did have the right perspectives.

Hello?

In Charleston where Bernie's coming to a rally there?

- Uh-huh.

- They're shutting their schools down and everything.

- Quite a bit of excitement out here for the--

- Mm-hmm. - For Bernie coming?

- Yeah, I haven't even really got to practice my speeches.

Look at this. Isn't this great?

Look at all these vehicles here. Hi.

- Keep this area clear for when Bernie comes in.

- Uh-huh.

- Just down this way or this way.

- I have you here.

Honey, I have you in the third seat.

He's gonna sit right there.

- Y'all are awesome. This looks so great.

- It does, doesn't it?

- I'm so--I'm starting to feel proud.

[indistinct chatter]

♪

- He's gonna talk about poverty in America

and ask people to chime in on their personal experiences,

what can we do,

what should communities be doing,

what can government do? You know, what's our goal?

- I am really pleased that this event--

I know what it's like to not have enough food

and what it's like to stand in line at a food bank,

and living in poverty every day creates toxic stress,

which causes even more problems.

So that we can come together

for community conversation on rural poverty.

Now I would like to welcome and introduce... Bernie Sanders.

[cheers and applause]

- Thank you all. This is quite the turnout.

Today is not a political rally.

What today is about is discussing an issue

that we simply, as a nation,

in Congress and the media, do not talk about,

and that is the issue of poverty

and the toll that poverty

is taking

on the people of our country.

Unbelievably,

there are fairly wide swathes of communities

in America today,

including McDowell County, West Virginia,

where life expectancy

is actually going down for a variety of reasons

having to do with despair--

people going no place in a hurry,

can't find good jobs, unemployment too high.

People are becoming alcoholic, addicted to opiates and heroin,

and are committing suicide,

taking place in America right now in the year 2016.

How severe is the drug problem in your judgment?

- I would say that 90% of my clients

are in some way addicted to drugs.

Beyond that, it has touched my personal life,

as my mother died of a prescription drug overdose.

- The stress is-- it's unbearable...

living in poverty,

and we don't have anything else,

so either you turn to drugs, or you fight through.

We have nothing else.

- Thank you. [applause]

You're not gonna get a handle on the drug problem, I think,

unless we deal with some economic issues

and we deal with the despair

and the hopelessness that a lot of people are feeling.

[applause]

- I was embarrassed to talk at first

because I am Sabrina Shrader's sister.

I actually was pretty smart as a teenager.

We both made good grades. I was involved in sports.

Well, I got on drugs not by a doctor.

I ended up getting married to a drug dealer.

It ruined my life. We got in some trouble.

He caught charges, and I took the rap for it,

and, you know, there was times when I was sitting in jail

that I thought that I would just come out and give up,

but I didn't,

so what is it about how do you get second chances

for trying to turn your life around?

If I had a job or if I had things that I could do,

places you can go, it would be a lot easier.

Thank you.

- That's not easy to say publicly.

Thank you very much for your courage.

Sabrina is a person who comes out of that environment

with that much despair,

and yet she is keeping her eyes on the prize,

looking forward, and I respect her immensely.

Okay, let's take some more.

- 20 minutes [inaudible]. - All right, okay, whoops.

My wife tells me that we got a lot of other places

to go to today and I can't be late, so--

- We love you. - Well, I love you too.

[relaxed acoustic music]

♪

- I am so proud of her.

She told her truth.

I am humbled and honored to introduce to you,

Lord willing, the next president

of the United States, Bernie Sanders!

- We have got to revitalize American democracy.

We have got to bring millions of people

into the political process who today are not in the process.

I want people to understand

that politics is not a dirty word.

It is how change takes place in a democratic society.

♪

- Last night the Sanders dream of reproducing

that Michigan miracle didn't come true.

The movement took a big body blow.

Ohio lost. Illinois lost.

Every contest lost,

and suddenly things look very different.

Part of what went wrong with the Bernie nomination quest

was that the white left,

the populist left has been addicted

to this dumb analysis

that we call trickle-down justice, okay?

This idea that you don't have to talk about race.

Don't talk about racism.

Just say you're gonna go after the big banks.

You're gonna fix social security,

and then shh, racism will go away.

Well, no sane African-American person

ever born believes that.

The entire white populist left was proceeding along this road

that was inevitably gonna come into conflict

with the racial justice left,

and it took the form of Black Lives Matter

charging the stage.

They're challenging the entire society to say,

"We matter. Our lives matter.

Our experience matters. You must take us seriously."

- We're doing this work not for political reasons,

not for any other reason than to seek justice

for the families of those whose lives,

whose bodies have been stolen by the police

and also disrupting the system

that oppresses us

and kills us routinely.

- This is not only about racial justice.

This is about American justice system

and making the infrastructure work for everybody.

- All Americans want a safer,

better relationship with law enforcement,

and that's what we're talking about.

- And when I'm finished,

the baton is gonna be passed to another until we get justice

'cause justice for one will be justice for all.

[somber music]

♪

- Every Tuesday, the Los Angeles Police Commission

meeting is held.

Over nearly two years now Black Lives Matter

organizers have come to the meetings.

We've had a--one of our citizens arrested,

an 81-year-old man, for speaking off-topic.

We've had organizers arrested

for speaking beyond two minutes.

There are police officers

standing at every corner

to intimidate people.

These are all tactics that the current president

of the Police Commission, Matt Johnson,

is using to intimidate us and keep us in silence

and repress and oppress our voice.

The Police Commission is actually supposed to be

working on behalf of their citizens.

- [speaking Spanish]

- I demand justice.

- Thank you, sir.

[cheers and applause]

- We the public, black lives matter,

any life matters.

You have to stop injuring people.

- Yeah, say her name.

- Say her name. all: Wakiesha Wilson!

- Say her name.

all: Wakiesha Wilson! - Say her name.

all: Wakiesha Wilson!

- I start calling the jails to see why she didn't

make it to the court.

They tell me they didn't know where she was.

I said, "My name is Lisa Hines.

"I'm trying to locate my daughter,

Wakiesha Wilson. She was in your custody."

I called every hour on the hour,

and they couldn't tell me anything, and they said,

"Well, ma'am, we're just trying to find her,"

and they gave me a different number to call,

so I called the number.

That's the coroner's, and he told me,

"I'm sorry to inform you,

"but your daughter is deceased,

suicide from hanging."

So I said, "No, she didn't do that.

No, she did not kill herself."

That was four days she had been dead before I found out,

and I had been talking to the police,

and they didn't tell me anything.

I did speak with a detective,

and he did tell me that

she had a altercation with a officer.

After the altercation, she was found dead in the cell.

It's not only Wakiesha.

There's Sandra Bland, Shalia Hayes.

They all are women of color.

They are black women, and they say they were found hanging.

Every black woman that goes to jail leaves in a body bag

because she committed suicide?

No. I don't think so.

That's--no.

They need--they have to come up with

something better than that.

- And none of you all have given them answers.

The first report-- - [inaudible].

- No, wait, but you let the police talk over four minutes.

The first LAPD report said that you all...

[inaudible]-- the telephone booth.

The second report said that she was lying unconscious

in the middle of the floor, so which one was it?

- Let's have order, please.

- Thank you, that's all I have to say.

Justice for Wakiesha Wilson!

all: Justice for Wakiesha Wilson!

- Wakiesha Wilson, say her name!

- Everyone needs to have a seat right now.

- Sit down, sit down.

[indistinct shouting]

- He can't take the heat of this community,

so he running!

Fire Chief Beck! Fire Chief Beck!!

Your time is up, Chief Beck!

all: Fire Chief Beck! Fire Chief Beck!

Fire Chief Beck!

- [inaudible] We get some answers about Wakiesha Wilson!

[inaudible] is just gonna stand up there...

[shouting]

- Say her name, Wakiesha Wilson.

- Say her name!

- Wakiesha Wilson. - Say her name!

all: Wakiesha Wilson! - Say her name!

all: Wakiesha Wilson!

- They did cut the meeting short.

There were over 57 community members who wanted to speak.

Out of all the stories we heard,

they were all pretty repetitive that the LAPD

is not here serving the community

in a way that the community is happy about.

Show him the picture. Show him the picture of your son.

That's her son that the police killed.

That's her baby.

We gonna fight for this, and her m--her baby

too, your baby killed too, right?

These are the mothers. These are why we fight.

All these tears we see,

there's millions more that she has cried

and will continue to cry.

Chief Beck, he could care less.

It's okay to him for her to shed these tears.

The unions is where Garcetti goes

when he's ready for reelection,

so when it's time to start playing politics,

they're heads are gonna roll now

because the unions are getting involved

and getting ready to support and stuff.

- You know what? - So I was hoping

to get some more solidarity with la--with labor

that are actually--they're working at the beginning too.

- The idea that labor and civil rights was two movements

but with one goal was expressed very early on.

The march on Washington, that was the first time

I had seen that many black folk together,

standing in such pride and dignity

and hearing the magnificent voices.

Randolph's was one of them.

John Lewis, who was a kid, was another of those,

and of course, when Dr. King spoke,

you could hear a pin drop.

I was 15.

I didn't know that it was history at the time.

I just knew that it sounded important,

and I wanted to be there.

This is my 45th year being in the labor movement.

I'm a grandmother.

At 67, I get to see the whole gamut, all right?

And I watch some of the young people today

who are expressing themselves in all kinds of ways.

I think about one sister in particular,

Bree in the situation in South Carolina

and the Confederate flag.

Everybody was waiting for a decision

to come down to remove it.

Girlfriend jumped on that doggone pole,

pulled that puppy down, handed it over,

and said, "What next?"

Some of it is moment

because of the nature of the instant news,

the texting, the Instagram, all the rest of it.

That's a moment piece,

but when they take those moments

and turn it into a movement,

hot damn, we're ready to rock and roll.

Let's go, and us gray-haired old people,

or if we dye it red, brown,

or whatever, we're ready to support them.

We the people have the power.

We'll learn how to use those democratic principles

and rights that we have because after all,

we are the giants that our forefathers envisioned.

- Welcome to you,

if this is your first action,

your first time thinking about getting arrested.

You're gonna be a family tomorrow.

You're gonna be an action family.

I like to think of direct action

as being kind of inherently about conflict in some ways,

and it's not necessarily bad.

Conflict and tension is we're trying to make conflict

that's usually below the surface really visible

so that people can't ignore it anymore.

- We're not just signing online petitions anymore,

or we're not just yelling on the Internet.

We're finally getting to civil disobedience.

People have had it, and Americans are uniting to say,

"We're going to take action." We've got to fix the system.

Democracy Spring is a part of that.

We're in Philly right now

at the Democratic National Convention,

and it's a mess, and Sanders' supporters are in rebellion,

and the Democratic Party

is trying to squelch that rebellion.

They're trying to take their signs away,

take away their voice,

and make sure that they fall in line,

and all it does is drive independence away

that sees a machine that does not relate to them.

[foreboding music]

♪

- You've been all over the place.

- Yeah, moving and shaking.

In June I was asked to speak representing West Virginia,

America, and Bernie about ways to reduce poverty in America,

so I spoke in front of the Democratic National Committee

in Washington, D.C.,

and that was the first time I ever flew on a plane.

I never thought I would do that, but I did it.

This has felt the weirdest

'cause this building is so huge.

I'm not accustomed to Uber and all that jazz,

so I'm kind of just following them,

and whatever guides me, I'm going.

all: No more election fraud! No more election fraud! No--

- The way they rigged this election,

the way they rigged Hillary Clinton

is terrible for democracy.

- Are you a delegate? - I am a delegate.

- From what state? - I am from Arizona.

all: No more election fraud!

[indistinct shouting]

- We started off with the establishment

and the media considering us to be a fringe candidacy,

50 points behind in the polls,

and nobody outside of Vermont knew who I was.

But by the time the campaign ended, we had won 22 states.

We ended up with 1,900 pledged delegates

to the Democratic National Convention,

about 46% of the total.

We helped write the most progressive platform

in the history of the Democratic Party.

As a result of our efforts, Secretary Clinton

changed her views on a number of very important issues,

such as the Keystone Pipeline,

the TPP, minimum wage, higher education,

and I think it is fair to say

that the progressive movement today

is in far better shape than it was

before we began the campaign,

and I know that there is

an enormous amount of disappointment

that we did not do better,

but I think our attitude has got to be

not to look back but to look forward.

We accomplished an enormous amount,

and people are just gonna have to keep working hard.

Social change, it doesn't happen overnight,

not for the worker's movement, trade unionism, civil rights,

not for the women's movement, not for the gay movement,

not for the environmental community.

The struggle continues,

and we got to roll up our sleeves

and maintain the pressure.

- Mic check! - Mic check!

- Mic check! - Mic check!

- Mic check! - Mic check!

- If you are here to sit in, join us here!

- One person!

all: One person! - One vote!

all: One vote! - One person!

all: One person! - One vote!

all: One vote! Shame on DNC! Shame on DNC!

- You're not going through here, no, sir.

- And the rocket's red glare...

all: ♪ The bombs bursting in air ♪

♪ Gave proof through the night ♪

♪ That our flag was still there ♪

- You will be arrested in the morning.

all: ♪ Oh, say, does that Star-Spangled... ♪

- We met up at Marconi Plaza,

rallied with allies from the microjustice movement,

the peace movement, and the labor movement,

and we marched down here to the Wells Fargo Center,

where the Democratic National Convention is happening,

and we sat in to block the [inaudible]

where the delegates can go in

and then said that we were gonna go over any barriers

to bring our message to the Democratic Party.

They need to live up to their name

and fight to make this the last corrupt, billionaire-dominated,

voter suppression-marred election in the country.

- Sign here.

- We're here in a big police bus.

They're bringing dozens of us.

This is just a bunch of the men.

Gonna bring us down to process us, I suppose.

[somber music]

♪

all: ♪ People gonna rise like the water ♪

♪ We gonna calm this crisis down ♪

♪ I hear the voice of my great-granddaughter ♪

♪ Saying end corruption now

♪ People gonna rise like the water ♪

♪ Gonna calm this crisis down

♪ I hear the voice of my great-granddaughter ♪

♪ Saying end corruption now

Hell no, DNC, we won't vote for Hillary!

Hell no, DNC, we won't vote for Hillary! Hell no, DNC--

- The DNC's in a world of trouble,

and they don't know it. And they're like,

"I don't get it. We love Hillary Clinton,"

and so they assume their perspective

is the perspective of everybody out there.

"She's been so nice to us. She's great."

Well, that's not what they think.

If this election is about Hillary Clinton,

we will lose, okay?

And when I say we, yes, progressives,

and yes, the whole country,

'cause that clown Donald Trump will win,

and God help us all if that happens,

but right now that's exactly what the DNC's doing.

They're handing him the election with their arrogance.

- Thank you very much, Michigan.

You have cast 81 votes for Secretary Clinton

and 66 votes for Senator Sanders.

- And the nomination is going to Hillary Clinton

as of just now,

and that's the big news in this country,

around the world.

[cheers and applause]

- Hillary Clinton will get credit

for having built a machine.

Bernie Sanders is building a movement.

Those are very different things,

both important, both necessary,

and at the end of the day, 99 times out of 100,

you'd rather have a machine than a movement.

They're more reliable, machines.

- Hillary Clinton understands that she cannot alienate

this democratic base

which I think represents

people across the political spectrum in this country.

They are seeming to make some concessions,

but if they are only symbolic, it won't be enough for many.

- You cheater.

[laughing] You're a cheater.

[reflective music]

♪

- And so the Trump nightmare

begins to emerge,

Trump-zilla just crushing the villagers in state after state,

and he has now turned the entire political system

into a reality TV show in which he is the star,

and nobody else knows what to do

because they're still operating

inside the old media system.

On reality TV, the villain is always the star,

and he understands that,

and so he has stranded the entire political culture

inside an entertainment culture

that the political class doesn't understand.

- I couldn't tell the difference

between CNN, MSNBC, and Fox

because Donald Trump sounds the same

on all three networks.

You know, you constantly would hear his voice

with the lower third that said,

"Breaking news, breaking news."

He is ripping open the underbelly of hate in America.

He is opening a Pandora's box that is extremely frightening.

He's calling women pigs,

and he's saying no to Muslims coming into the country.

He's calling Mexicans rapists.

- Donald Trump has found this big set of mostly white

working-class folks who are falling,

and he has said, "I will be your champion.

"I will say crazy stuff,

"but I am gonna be for you no matter what,

and therefore you will be for me no matter what."

- For most of the day I wasn't actually too worried about it.

I was in New York. I was about to--I had obligations at CBS.

I'm just kind of enjoying my day in New York.

- As we were driving around New Hampshire

trying to energize all of the canvassers who were out there,

there were really only Trump signs along the streets.

I started to get this feeling in the pit of my stomach

that we might not win

and that the politics of hate and fear

might actually win this election.

- It wasn't until Florida returns began coming in

and a bunch of the trackers

were showing a huge surge of votes in the rural counties.

He's winning Florida. He's winning Iowa.

Ohio is very close,

and the projections show he's gonna win that too,

and I'm thinking,

"Oh, like, there's a pretty good chance he's gonna win."

- We were in upstate New York

trying to turn out the vote for Zephyr Teachout.

Her race was very close, but she didn't win in the end,

and just watching the results come in,

I mean, it was painful,

knowing what the consequences

were gonna be for people in our country.

- I was actually working on a campaign here in Indiana.

Seeing the numbers come in and seeing kind of, like,

loss after loss after loss

was rough, you know?

- By that point I was on the phone with organizers

around the country--it was maybe 11:00 at night,

coordinating protest actions

and other events to get people together.

The way that I survived the election result

was to organize.

- Now the question for Republicans is how much

will Trump influence their ideology?

Will they have that same combination

of aggressive nationalism,

of white identity politics, of nominal commitment

to delivering benefits to people?

Question for Democrats is, how much are we going

to see lots of candidates and candidacies

modeled after some element of the Sanders campaign?

[laid-back acoustic strumming]

♪

- You can do polls all day long,

but it's still not going to catch everybody,

and you're not gonna know who the majority

is because people are split.

I'm running for a house of delegates seat

in district 27 in West Virginia.

Three richer-than-me men,

they've had those seats for a while.

They get money from the coal PACs,

the political action committees.

My money came from the unions, the teachers' unions,

the United Miners of America.

Some people gave me donations,

so I had about $8,000 from mostly West Virginia people.

Well, then this group came together

after Bernie didn't get nominated.

It's called Our Revolution,

and they help regular people get into office.

Well, I'm the only West Virginia candidate

that they endorsed,

so I got about $22,000 added to that from them.

I've got ten billboards up. I've got ads in the paper,

which has been the most expensive thing.

An ad in the paper was about $2,000 for one day.

I mean, that's a lot of money, and I hate spending on this,

but that's what you have to do to get your name out there,

so I'm loving the hell out of people.

Literally what I'm doing, loving the hell out of them

until you see the light come in people,

and I do get to see that.

To see my best friend in McDowell

County, who is a recovering addict,

is thinking about running for mayor in the town

that she lives, yeah, that drives me.

When my youngest sister can go and campaign

with me four hours on a street in Princeton

and talk to hundreds of people,

yeah, that keeps me going.

To get the sleeping giants to wake up,

you have to get them to believe in themselves,

and once they believe in themselves,

then they can operate through love,

but you got to get them to love themselves too,

and right now in America most everybody hates themselves

'cause we're stuck right now.

I was stuck and didn't know it till three years ago,

and once you get stuck and you need to grow, guess what?

You go through a lot of growing pains.

It hurts, but pain doesn't last forever

unless you stay stuck, so you got to keep going.

This is it. There's no more votes.

[calm music]

♪

- I'm just gonna keep doing what I'm doing,

keep telling my stories, keep being involved,

keep uniting people to get involved,

keep connecting the dots, keep teaching,

keep doing what I'm doing and keep growing it.

"Well, she's a Democrat. She ain't a Christian.

She's for abortion." That ain't true.

All these rich people,

Mainers.

Look out, West Virginia,

'cause we're gonna have to rise up.

Like, come on.

- Clearly a lot more has to be done,

overturning Citizens United,

moving to public funding of elections,

doing away with Republican efforts to suppress the vote,

making it harder for poor people

or people of color to vote,

getting, even more importantly,

progressives elected to the city council,

to the state legislature, to school boards.

What I want to see is that people understand

that getting involved in the political process

is not only not a big deal,

it's what your birthright is about.

- I see the optimism in the progressive community

moving forward,

and I saw it in the Bernie Sanders campaign.

Here was a Palestinian Muslim girl from Brooklyn, New York,

introducing a white 75-year-old man from Vermont

in a place like Wisconsin to a 90% white audience.

No one in this campaign ever told me,

"Look, here are your talking points.

Here are the issues you can't discuss."

People said, "You go up there.

"Bernie's coming out in ten minutes.

"You got ten minutes to talk.

Say whatever you want. Be you. Be all of you, everything."

- We need a new framework and a new language

for how we think about who is the "we."

It's always more powerful to begin at the place

where lots of different experiences come together.

We call it whole person politics

because it rejects the notion

that you should have to choose

between one part of your experience

or try to carve out one section of your experience

from a whole life.

- I want people to realize that when you're organizing,

that the most basic thing that you do

is look around the table

and think to yourself, "Who's not here?

Whose voice is not at the table?"

And once we start doing that for each other,

then our organizing becomes more intersectional,

and believe or not, we expand the table,

which means we expand and build more power.

[warm music]

♪

- Today we are struggling with all those promises

that got made in our documents that govern us as a people.

The discussion today talked about those democratic rights

and the principles of our country.

The bottom line is, civil rights and labor rights

may have two movements but it's always one goal,

for the strengthening of character of people

so that they realize the dignities

that the country promised us.

- I have the privilege of, for the last 15 years,

working for 1199 SEIU,

which is a union whose history

and whose roots have always been one

that the struggle of workers

to have economic justice in their lives

is deeply grounded in making sure

that those same workers have justice in their lives

when they go back to their communities.

- What makes a difference is knowing where you've been

and the shoes that you've walked in

and seeing your--having your perspective that I don't have,

and we need to bring that not only into the rank and file

but into our leadership.

- My generation doesn't want to organize

the way the generation above us did.

It's this kind of top-down, hierarchical, rank-and-file

organizing is-- is incredibly effective

and has done wonders for the people of this country,

but it's not how people of my generation operate.

Millennials have a much more natural understanding

of horizontalism and decentralized communications,

and I think that that's going to be really imperative

to how we organize going forward,

and I also think that there's just this freshness

and this creativity that we can bring to the movement,

and hopefully some humility.

- We need to find ways to work together.

We need to listen to the voices that often get shut down

so that in 2018

when we do have these big elections coming up,

we're ready.

[indistinct chatter]

- We brought together 35 millennials

from across the organizing spectrum

to come together in Washington, D.C.

in anticipation of Trump's government

to start talking about the next steps

that we need to take as a multiracial movement

led by millennials to tackle the issue

of not just resisting Trump

but also how do we strengthen democracy?

How do we reclaim our democracy?

How do we get young people to stay involved

in the political process?

- Less than 24 hours af-- you know,

after the polls had closed,

we had, like, 200 people on a phone call,

and we have a listserv now of thousands of people,

many of whom have never been activists before.

- If you want people to stay involved, they have to win,

and it can be small things.

It can be the establishment of a group.

You know, it can be, you know,

a service that you're providing for the community.

- I am worried about trendy activism.

I'm worried about, like--like, it's gonna die down,

and people are gonna normalize Trump.

- We're in such an interesting moment of crisis

and opportunity

because old systems are breaking down.

There's an opportunity to do something new

because whether it's Democracy Spring or Black Lives Matter

or the Dreamers,

we understand that the work of direct action,

of actually confronting

and trying to interrupt business as usual,

is required to change people's hearts and minds,

to open up sense of possibility and imagination,

and to make something that yesterday seemed impossible,

tomorrow seem inevitable.

- Madam Secretary, please call the meeting.

- Good morning. Let the record reflect

Commissioner Soboroff, Figueroa-Villa,

and Goldsmith are present, and we have a quorum.

- Item number one of the consent agenda...

[inaudible]

[serene music]

♪

- As the public, we paid for the cameras,

so why can't we see them?

Obviously, when the footage is beneficial to law enforcement,

then you release it,

but when it shows something different,

you don't release it.

We're gonna keep coming back,

and if Wakiesha Wilson killed herself,

we want to see it.

[applause]

- It's bullshit that y'all can continue to act like this

is a civil conversation,

that y'all are doing something for the community

when Wakiesha Wilson's family is sitting here.

Y'all have still failed to give them any real, concrete answers

about what happened to her daughter,

and y'all are sitting here talking as

if this is a big step forward for the community.

That's a slap in the fucking face.

- We don't know what else to do, right?

We don't know how to express our pain and anger,

and we don't know how to get justice.

And we've been told that if you just engage the system,

that's democracy, and we know it's a lie.

We know y'all gonna go back there.

Then you're gonna come out and say,

"LAPD is telling the truth about itself."

We know what the outcome is!

- On behalf of the entire commission, I want to again

extend our condolences for the death of Ms. Wilson

to her mother, Ms. Hines,

her children, family, and friends.

In this case, the evidence shows

that there were no substantially

involved personnel,

and accordingly no tactics were employed,

no firearms were drawn, and no force was used.

Accordingly, the commission made no finding

in each of these areas

and unanimously adopted the recommendations

of the chief of police.

The commission has carefully reviewed

the evidence in this case.

- Bullshit! - My condolences to the family.

- Bullshit! - Fuck you!

- Bullshit! - Fuck you!

- No, that's not right. - It's bullshit!

- No, that's not right. - Bullshit.

- Y'all killed her! You [inaudible] motherfucking time?

- You know that's not right. - They killed my baby.

- What you want to do, shoot me?

Then shoot me!

Shoot me! Shoot me! Shoot me!

- Let's go. - Shoot me!

You better kill me! You better kill me!

You better kill me!

- Stop murdering these black women!

- We must love and protect one another.

all: We must love and protect one another.

- We have nothing to lose but our chains.

all: We have nothing to lose but our chains.

- I don't think that we can really look toward politicians

to do this work.

It's stuff that we have to do within ourselves,

building our own community,

building our own coalitions to help make our demands heard.

Right now the work that we're doing here with BLMLA,

our project with making black lives matter in schools

and starting within L.A. USD, within the city of L.A.,

with these small, local elections.

We have people running for school board.

We have city council that are running,

and also our city mayor is coming up this year,

so those elections are important too.

That's how we're able to start to build those models

that we want to see on a national basis.

- [inaudible] confused, scared,

worried about the future

not only because I am a student

but because I am a student of color, a Latina.

- When you actually look at how race is shaping the economy,

how class and gender all work together

to create a situation of inequality,

that's when you actually start to see the full picture

and you start to create better solutions.

- On behalf of Black Lives Matters L.A.

we want to welcome you.

Y'all got heart, and we thank you

for standing for your students,

and for the students we say this may be your first.

Let it not be your last. Stay strong. Thank you.

- Thank you. [cheering]

- They're a shared disadvantage

and a shared struggle,

and if you can convince people to see their disadvantages

as mutually tied together,

you have the basis for a political movement.

- You know, to be honest, you know,

I think it's actually hopeful for people to say,

"Yes, it's actually worse than we thought,"

because it's only when we start there that we can fight

for the things that we really need to solve the problems.

Obama was able to give the grassroots

a deep sense of optimism,

but what he didn't give them

was a way to keep making change

once he was in office.

- So we've been doing environmental justice,

racial justice, immigrant rights.

Everyone's been doing their own separate mobilizations,

separate set of priorities,

so the downfall of the progressive community

is the lack of intersectional organizing

over the course of a long time.

- I think Bernie Sanders gave us a tremendous opening,

and now it's up to us to take that opening.

The revolution is about people getting involved

and being active and being in it for the long haul.

- There is an argument being made that inside

the Sanders campaign

they distributed these responsibilities

way more down to the base than ever before,

and that capacity now is there.

Instead of it all being run from the center,

you know, where Bernie controls the email list,

many people are actually in positions

of being the network hub for their local network.

- There's a million ways

that we should be continuing the revolution.

It's every local fight, state fight, regional fight,

constituency fight,

fights to defend black lives,

fights on immigration, fights for LGBTQ rights.

It's all these--you know,

everybody has to keep fighting.

all: ♪ This land was made for you and me ♪

[cheers and applause]

- We're gonna keep on pushing,

continue to put politicians on notice

that we will not shut up.

We will not go home.

And every time a life is stolen,

we will rise up.

I've also become an organizer with Black Lives Matter

here in Los Angeles.

- People get tired of greed controlling them,

and they start voicing their opinions

and organizing their communities

and having meetings and make change happen.

Take your power back.

And I asked her if she was voting,

and she said, "No, I never vote," and I said, "Why?"

And she said, "'Cause it doesn't change anything,"

and I said, "But see, I am one of you, like,

and I am running, and I need you to vote."

- This is not gonna be easy.

We look at the history of progress in our country.

There've been huge setbacks on all these fights.

It took time. It took struggle.

People had to overcome obstacles and setbacks.

Why would it be any different now?

- I, Donald John Trump, do solemnly swear--

- We the people!

all: We the people!

- Of the United States!

- We're missing this common connection,

feeling of shared responsibility, you know,

together for one another that I think

is really a uniting force that all of us feel,

you know, right, left, across race and class.

I think it's just like, "Let's be there for each other."

- ♪ Higher ground

[relaxed music]

♪

[The Bumping Jones' "On Rewind"]

♪

- ♪ It would take too many roads ♪

♪ To sweep the smiles off our faces ♪

♪ As we travel miles

♪ To bigger places

♪

♪ Hill groves

♪ For songs and dances

♪ Sons and daughters

♪ Of lost romances

♪

♪ Expectations held

♪ Fast to lances

♪ As we charge the garden's defenses ♪

♪ And our final project commences ♪

♪ Look's clearer

♪ On rewind

♪ Always a find

♪

♪ A good heart

♪ And a bad time

♪

♪ Back when we were all entwined ♪

♪ Whispering with your eyes

♪ Scream it loud

♪ And dancing

♪ Side to side

♪

♪ Mind and spine

♪ Euphoria bounce

♪ Through the hours on stage

♪ And in the crowd

♪

♪ Well, sound is getting loud ♪

♪ But we're all too proud

♪ Of all the love that we found ♪

♪ Stirred up in the room that was round ♪

♪ Look's clearer

♪ On rewind

♪

♪ Always of the mind

♪

♪ A good heart

♪ And a bad time

♪ Back when we were all entwined ♪

♪

♪ When it's over and we're high above the city ♪

♪ You'll sit watching me think about ♪

♪ What we'll be

♪

♪ If I had known back then

♪ That our shared past would end ♪

♪ I would've called that hotel home ♪

♪ 'Cause family is first

♪ Look's clearer

♪ On rewind

♪ Always out of mind

♪ A good heart

♪ In a bad time

♪ Back when we were all entwined ♪

♪