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what if they Enlightenment promise US

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promised us freedom on the basis of

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being able to think for ourselves

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thus govern ourselves

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that was really the premise

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that if we were released from

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constraints of myth and tradition

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released to be able to think and reason

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and discover what was true for ourselves

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that that was the source of our freedom

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but something happened at the end of the

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20th century

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which was this new way of thinking about

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society and human beings as a market

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what does it mean to rule yourself if we

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are all meant to think of ourselves as

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what's really tragic about the

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economization of every aspect of life

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is that we're really seeing the

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enlightened and dream come to a kind of

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where the mandates of a financialized

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society all but extinguish the real

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freedom to make yourself according to

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your own lights

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s we made a film

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the corporation

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we argued that large publicly traded

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corporations are programmed relentlessly

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to pursue profit and growth and have

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become the dominant institutions of our

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we showed that the corporation is deemed

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by law to be a person

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but it has the same rights as human

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sometimes even more

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so we pose the question

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if the corporation is legally a person

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what kind of person is it

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we analyzed it the way a psychiatrist

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would analyze a patient

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we found his character to be

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pathologically self-interested

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now with the world in crisis

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climate change spiraling inequality

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a global pandemic

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we re-examined the corporation

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I was changed I was changing our world

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and how it's changing our very sense of

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Who We Are

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to begin this story we take you back to

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the 2000s

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at that time the corporation was in

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crisis this mini will come to order this

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is a case of America's largest corporate

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bankruptcy Enron and Worldcom had

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collapsed in corporate scandals of

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unprecedented magnitude

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corporations were being called out for

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malfeasance that was destroying lives

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around the same time globalization was

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sparking worldwide protests Against The

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Growing Power and impunity of the

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corporation

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and our first film had just charged that

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corporations are institutional

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influenced it yes

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about 2005 we started to see many of the

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world's biggest branded companies

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suddenly making very sweeping promises

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rebranding themselves and rebranding the

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entire capitalist system is having

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that Cult of shareholder value has seen

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its day as the narrow construct for how

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companies operate in society wait what

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did he say that Cult of shareholder

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value has seen its day as the narrow

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construct for how companies operate in

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this idea that making money for

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shareholders is no longer the

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corporation's only goal it's the essence

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of the new story the story that

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corporations now tell about themselves

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Klaus Schwab the man who first came up

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say half a special responsibility how we

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combine or how we plan money making and

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social responsibility

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to advance his ideas

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annual Gathering of corporate Titans and

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it's one of the most important

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elites yearly migration route

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people who are successful and make a lot

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of money are a dime a dozen but these

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are the people who are the most

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but Davos isn't only a meeting place for

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the super Elite

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it's also where corporate Chiefs and

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government leaders come together each

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year to promote the story of the new

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the corporations are conscientious now

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longer greedy and selfish but poised to

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help make the world a better place

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Sandra navidi is a Davos Insider and

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author of a book about the world's most

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powerful players these Financial Elites

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have great power and in some instances

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this power actually exceeds those of

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democratically elected people or

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this is Jamie dimon

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he heads the biggest bank in the United

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States and is a leading voice for

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so the Jamie Diamond reception there

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will be some introduction to the clients

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this is Sanjay Jane

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one of Diamond's top Executives at

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JPMorgan Chase

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he's advising a prospective client no

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but I knew that we needed to be here

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because Davos is the place where all

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these people come together for a week

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it's insane what happens here

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and here's the client

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Bebop Cresta hi

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he's looking for investors in his

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company that's developing a

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transportation capsule that travels at

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the speed of sound

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sorry excuse me

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JP Morgan and JB diamond in particular

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kicked into Troy as the one city in the

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entire country we were going to save and

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so you need to say to Jamie I just want

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you to know that we are building a

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hyperloop to Detroit we care about

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Detroit as much as you do that's

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I don't know where there was a spec team

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from a person like Jimmy diamond

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very great culture inside their company

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the starting programs trying to improve

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creating a special program for Detroit

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reconstructing completely I wasn't

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expecting that I know what you've done

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for Detroit and all the effort allegedly

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to save it and it's not public yet but

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actually build an item to Detroit you

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important project it's a big big year

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for us it's exciting I'll see you in a

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couple weeks okay okay thank you thank

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you very much Davos is a place of

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interaction of dialogue we look at the

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ecosystem of what's Happening

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so here in Davos we debated the motion

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is the business of business still just

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business and interestingly more than 80

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percent said no in today's

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transformative age the business has a

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wider accountability and opportunity

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we're in a new age of doing business

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you need to give back you need to be

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serve a social purpose there is a new

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possibility we can imagine something

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different it takes courageous leadership

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life is short and precious and if we're

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it all sounds so good this talk of a new

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the triple bottom line of people profit

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and planet is real the problem is the

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capitalist system as a whole is not

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attempting to do good in the world there

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but the notion that there is anything

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inherently socially responsible about a

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by law the corporation exists for one

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reason to return benefits to

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social responsibility

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corporations don't have the leeway to

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sacrifice sharehold returns for doing

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whatever they want or whatever they

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of the corporation's new image

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of the claying corporations have changed

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you always have to come back as a leader

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to purpose why are we here why are we

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doing business and we want to do

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business for the long term values are

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new Corporation movement

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when he was CEO of the world's second

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he professed deep environmental beliefs

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while achieving record profits and

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meteoric growth you basically for the

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first time and welcome to Executives

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step forward to say global warming is a

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problem it's set BP apart uh I think

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people are much more convinced now at

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least around the world that there is a

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real case to take precaution reaction to

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avoid carbon uh concentrations going to

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atmosphere my sense is that John Brown's

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concerns are genuine his interest in the

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environment is genuine his concern for

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workers and for people's safety

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theoretically is genuine

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but those desires are just inherently

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conflicting with the need to make money

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because turning a profit for those

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corporations is always going to come

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first

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[Applause]

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2005 when I was CEO of BP we had a

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terrible tragedy 15 people died in a

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Refinery explosion in Texas City

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this is the second time people have died

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at this plant in less than a year in

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that time it has been fined for more

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than 14 safety violations

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all of us at BP are very deeply saddened

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by the loss of life and injury suffered

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by so many people

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after Texas City we were at pains at

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pains to say safety must never be

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compromised for financial performance we

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were very concerned to make sure that

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safety operational safety process safety

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took privacy it's ridiculous for John

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Brown to suggest that he had adequately

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addressed process safety in the wake of

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the Texas City Refinery it was less than

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a year later his company had a spill in

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Alaska on oil pipelines which it turns

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out were not maintained technicians at

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prudho Bay warned it was understaffed

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lacking in routine maintenance leak

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prone and vulnerable there was a

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specific decision to save money by not

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running corrosion tests in those

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pipelines it's the same kind of thing

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that led to the Texas City explosion

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yet BP claimed it had learned its lesson

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from Texas City

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in 2007 I left BP and I thought this is

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great this company has got it

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foreign

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people died

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and while I wasn't there and I didn't

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know what had happened

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I could see some terrible Echoes of

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History

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while John Brown had left BP

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some things hadn't changed

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the poor decisions that led to the

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Deepwater Horizon Echo and track what

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John Brown instituted in the company a

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decade or two before

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John Brown pushed the largest cost cut

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that I've heard of at any Corporation in

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any kind of industry not just the oil

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industry you can't do that without

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cutting corners on maintenance of

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equipment without pushing timetables

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that's the culture that he built

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thank you

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when given that choice between doing

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good and doing well for your company the

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fact that publicly held companies have

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an obligation to deliver to their

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shareholders making those profits will

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always be the highest priority those

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trend lines are just headed in opposite

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directions and I think they always will

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be

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[Music]

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clear a for-profit Institution

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and we are making an investment in

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Detroit

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remember Jamie dimon from JPMorgan Chase

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he's the CEO who wants to save Detroit

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was devastated by the 2008 financial

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crisis

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a third of its homes were abandoned

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over the next five years it spiraled

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towards rock bottom when the 2008

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financial crisis hammered North America

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long-suffering Detroit was hit

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especially hard Detroit is officially

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the largest city in history to file for

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bankruptcy

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after bankruptcy Jamie dimon and his

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bank stepped in with vast amounts of

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capital why Detroit so obviously it's

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good for the bank but but it's poor

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Humanity trying to help your city and

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your people come back and recover from

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it have been basically a terrible 20

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years

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Jamie Diamond wants to rescue Detroit

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but what's misleading is he wants

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America to believe that he and by

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implication J.P Morgan Chase Bank are

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somehow the good guys that they are

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leading us in a direction we want to be

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going in without without any memory that

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he and the bank caused in part a huge

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recession that wrecked the lives of

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millions tens of millions of people at

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one point the market fell as if down a

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well the NASDAQ everything and more has

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been completely wiped out three of the

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five biggest independent firms on Wall

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Street have now disappeared major

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sectors of America's Financial system

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are at risk of shutting down

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2008 financial crisis was the result of

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corporate misconduct and Reckless

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speculation that malfeasance nearly

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destroy the global economy

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cost the American economy about 20

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trillion dollars in terms of lost

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housing value lost productivity from the

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recession

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millions of people lost their jobs

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millions of others were thrown out of

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their homes

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people were really hurt

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moments

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the nation's biggest bank JP Morgan

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Chase has agreed to a 13 billion dollar

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settlement with U.S government for

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misleading investors and mortgage

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agencies about the safety of

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mortgage-backed Securities it sold ahead

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of the financial crisis that would be

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the largest fine ever paid by a single

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Bank to settle civil charges yet doesn't

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even resolve a possible criminal case

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with JPMorgan Chase's caring image

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helped mask its self-interested nature

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I think we have to acknowledge that as a

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kind of private sector propaganda it has

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been remarkably successful this is on

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and geared at us an expert on how

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Corporate Elites cloak profit making and

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virtue when you have someone like Jamie

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dimon who is running an institution

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that paid fines

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for its role in helping the cause of

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financial crisis that wiped out

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communities we're talking about

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obliterated certain communities

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when you have someone like that who then

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turns around

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and says that save Detroit what's so

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amazing

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is this kind of two-step

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that this plutocratic group has been

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able to pull up you first create

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conditions in which people in a city

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like Detroit are Shattered by your

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speculation decisions and then you have

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the gall

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to Market yourself to those folks as

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their as their Christ

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we were here in the darkest moments for

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everybody at all time we didn't run we

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didn't hide and we figured you know if

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we can help in Detroit you can help

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anywhere

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we participate

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in this game

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that allows the very people

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abetting harm to our society or actively

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harming our society to reinvent

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themselves as saviors

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[Applause]

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well that's part of a larger game

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corporations now play

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make me feel good promises with Bright

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Smiles

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appearing to be different than what they

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really are

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foreign

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had a Playbook

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what might it look like

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what would its key plays be

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[Music]

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I am here with Bill Gates I'd love you

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to tell our readers what what the heck

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creative capitalism is can we take some

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of the caring and Innovation power the

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resources of Corporations and get them

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to focus more on that on the needs of

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the poorest

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Bill Gates put his idea of creative

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capitalism to work according billions

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into investments in Africa including a

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multi-million dollar stake in a startup

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company called Bridge International

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academies

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good morning class

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how are you

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I'm fine thank you Bridge is a flagship

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of creative capitalism we serve children

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living in poverty even people who are

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living in poverty

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they are earning cash and they're

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earning cash for a reason they're

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earning it to be able to spend it on

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things they need in their lives five

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years ago my co-founder Shannon and I

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decided that an aggressive startup

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company that could figure out how to

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profitably deliver education at a high

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quality could radically disrupt the

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status quo and education ultimately

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creating what could be a billion dollar

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new Global education company

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schools for the poor is a 51 billion

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dollar a year Market no one's even

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thought about it

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in the global South what we've seen is

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the emergence of chains of schools

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for-profit schools to compete against

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the public education system one of the

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biggest players is Bridge International

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academies

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invest in Bridge schools Pearson the

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World Bank Zuckerberg Gates and the list

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goes on

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we hear of creative capitalism

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but that's promoting a world where the

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market

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would dictate terms

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with respect to the provision of

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Education

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we take lessons that other large global

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Service Providers use like McDonald's or

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Starbucks

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we build for scale we systematize we

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standardize we call this vertically

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integrated platform our Academy in a box

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what is so interesting about this social

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business thing

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is on the surface it seems incredibly

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Noble

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they're saying money making should not

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be the sole goal of a business it should

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also have a social purpose

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but what it is also saying

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is that the kinds of change that we

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ought to pursue are the kinds of change

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that kick something back to the winners

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but those interested financial reasons

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are good for the world

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if we succeed in serving 10 million

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children which

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I know we will it's still only about one

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percent of children

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who need improved services in their

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government and Community Schools

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so I hope we not only get there but far

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transitive and in so doing be a good

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partner for our shareholders and those

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who've entrusted us with their capital

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try to make a big impact

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this is colonialism pure and simple

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the fundamentally bridge is saying give

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us your education system we will take

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care of it public education is one of

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the basic commitments of a Democratic

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Society

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education is not non-political it's not

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apolitical you teach a set of values

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when you're teaching you cannot rely on

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Mark Zuckerberg Bill Gates the World

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Bank to take over and provide the

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education that you should be providing

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yourself bridge is in business when you

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want to utilize

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poor citizens of this world as the

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source of income

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they're making money out of utilizing

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unqualified teachers

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we believe everyone is a teacher

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and everyone could be there are certain

574
00:26:40,380 --> 00:26:44,880
core skills you need to have you've got

575
00:26:43,619 --> 00:26:46,619
to be able to read

576
00:26:44,880 --> 00:26:48,240
might seem like a low bar but you have

577
00:26:46,619 --> 00:26:50,939
to start somewhere

578
00:26:48,240 --> 00:26:52,319
it's true Bridge teachers know how to

579
00:26:50,940 --> 00:26:53,820
read

580
00:26:52,319 --> 00:26:56,158
but they're required to do a little more

581
00:26:53,819 --> 00:26:58,558
in their classrooms because they follow

582
00:26:56,159 --> 00:27:00,720
scripted lesson plans read word for word

583
00:26:58,558 --> 00:27:02,460
from a tablet

584
00:27:00,720 --> 00:27:05,339
it's telling you all of these different

585
00:27:02,460 --> 00:27:07,740
ways to behave move away from the board

586
00:27:05,339 --> 00:27:10,439
circulate in the classroom give them

587
00:27:07,740 --> 00:27:14,298
one-on-one coaching you cannot have

588
00:27:10,440 --> 00:27:17,759
teachers who behave as robots

589
00:27:14,298 --> 00:27:20,759
that tells you walk three steps to the

590
00:27:17,759 --> 00:27:24,960
Glock board walk around the classroom

591
00:27:20,759 --> 00:27:27,179
and that's just a teacher ought to be a

592
00:27:24,960 --> 00:27:30,000
natural teacher

593
00:27:27,179 --> 00:27:32,880
from an investment point of view

594
00:27:30,000 --> 00:27:35,099
that because of a tragic failure of our

595
00:27:32,880 --> 00:27:37,440
existing systems there's an incredible

596
00:27:35,099 --> 00:27:38,879
need for services to solve these

597
00:27:37,440 --> 00:27:41,640
problems

598
00:27:38,880 --> 00:27:43,919
people have I just kind of said well if

599
00:27:41,640 --> 00:27:46,799
hopefully the government will fix it but

600
00:27:43,919 --> 00:27:48,179
fix it with what government can't fix

601
00:27:46,798 --> 00:27:50,220
problems

602
00:27:48,179 --> 00:27:51,960
it's a defining idea of the new

603
00:27:50,220 --> 00:27:54,419
Corporation

604
00:27:51,960 --> 00:27:58,140
a key play in its Playbook

605
00:27:54,419 --> 00:28:00,600
and it goes back nearly half a century

606
00:27:58,140 --> 00:28:03,000
in this present crisis

607
00:28:00,599 --> 00:28:04,199
government is not the solution to our

608
00:28:03,000 --> 00:28:07,880
problem

609
00:28:04,200 --> 00:28:07,880
government is the problem

610
00:28:08,640 --> 00:28:12,360
we believe that

611
00:28:09,900 --> 00:28:15,840
achievement should be severely

612
00:28:12,359 --> 00:28:17,699
live in the way in which they say that

613
00:28:15,839 --> 00:28:20,339
they are entitled to impose their

614
00:28:17,700 --> 00:28:22,019
judgment on what the people want if you

615
00:28:20,339 --> 00:28:23,819
look at the real problems of poverty and

616
00:28:22,019 --> 00:28:26,400
denial of freedom to people in this

617
00:28:23,819 --> 00:28:29,339
country almost every single one of them

618
00:28:26,400 --> 00:28:32,159
is a result of government action

619
00:28:29,339 --> 00:28:36,119
in the 1980s corporations were

620
00:28:32,159 --> 00:28:38,580
frustrated by the limits on profits that

621
00:28:36,119 --> 00:28:41,819
they felt were imposed upon them by the

622
00:28:38,579 --> 00:28:45,178
combination of labor unions increasing

623
00:28:41,819 --> 00:28:48,240
regulation taxation

624
00:28:45,179 --> 00:28:50,038
and that combination of things led to a

625
00:28:48,240 --> 00:28:53,579
kind of rebellion

626
00:28:50,038 --> 00:28:58,019
one that wouldn't overthrow democracy in

627
00:28:53,579 --> 00:29:01,199
some overt way but choke it leash It

628
00:28:58,019 --> 00:29:03,658
tone it down and above all replace it

629
00:29:01,200 --> 00:29:05,700
with markets

630
00:29:03,659 --> 00:29:07,159
corporations formed alliances with

631
00:29:05,700 --> 00:29:08,778
governments they had helped elect

632
00:29:07,159 --> 00:29:11,340
governments that were in fact

633
00:29:08,778 --> 00:29:13,619
anti-government and that happily lifted

634
00:29:11,339 --> 00:29:17,099
limits on corporate freedom

635
00:29:13,619 --> 00:29:20,519
Prophet soared but a price was paid and

636
00:29:17,099 --> 00:29:24,058
not by corporations what you get is this

637
00:29:20,519 --> 00:29:26,220
profound anti-government program to

638
00:29:24,058 --> 00:29:29,460
create deficits through the combination

639
00:29:26,220 --> 00:29:32,700
of tax cuts and military spending so as

640
00:29:29,460 --> 00:29:35,519
to make it impossible to use government

641
00:29:32,700 --> 00:29:38,840
in a positive and constructive way to

642
00:29:35,519 --> 00:29:38,839
deal with our social problems

643
00:29:42,960 --> 00:29:47,579
Mr President

644
00:29:44,759 --> 00:29:49,558
on behalf of the Business Leaders here

645
00:29:47,579 --> 00:29:52,678
in this room let me particularly

646
00:29:49,558 --> 00:29:55,859
congratulate you for the historic tax

647
00:29:52,679 --> 00:30:01,140
reform passed last months

648
00:29:55,859 --> 00:30:04,500
greatly reducing the tax burden of U.S

649
00:30:01,140 --> 00:30:08,100
companies providing a tremendous boost

650
00:30:04,500 --> 00:30:10,859
to the global economy I cannot wait to

651
00:30:08,099 --> 00:30:12,839
sign these giant tax cuts it'll be the

652
00:30:10,859 --> 00:30:15,778
largest tax cuts by far in the history

653
00:30:12,839 --> 00:30:17,339
of our country J.P Morgan Chase they

654
00:30:15,778 --> 00:30:19,619
just announced earnings and they were

655
00:30:17,339 --> 00:30:22,199
incredible where where are you they were

656
00:30:19,619 --> 00:30:25,019
very substantial will you say Thank you

657
00:30:22,200 --> 00:30:27,120
Mr President at least thank you Mr

658
00:30:25,019 --> 00:30:29,639
President maybe in order apparently he

659
00:30:27,119 --> 00:30:32,939
believes he played a strong role in JP

660
00:30:29,640 --> 00:30:36,140
Morgan's blowout quarter best profit for

661
00:30:32,940 --> 00:30:36,140
any Bank ever in history

662
00:30:37,140 --> 00:30:42,480
corporate profits are the highest

663
00:30:39,179 --> 00:30:45,538
they've been in decades fast forward a

664
00:30:42,480 --> 00:30:47,519
few months Global pandemic the rich keep

665
00:30:45,538 --> 00:30:49,679
getting richer and our friends on the

666
00:30:47,519 --> 00:30:52,200
other side said what do we do now let's

667
00:30:49,679 --> 00:30:56,159
do a tax cut 36 million people

668
00:30:52,200 --> 00:30:57,960
unemployed 40 percent of families who

669
00:30:56,159 --> 00:31:00,120
have a worker that makes forty thousand

670
00:30:57,960 --> 00:31:02,159
dollars a year and less lose their job

671
00:31:00,119 --> 00:31:04,259
last month four million people didn't

672
00:31:02,159 --> 00:31:07,860
pay their rent in the Republican Party

673
00:31:04,259 --> 00:31:09,898
says we don't have any money to help you

674
00:31:07,859 --> 00:31:13,019
are you kidding me

675
00:31:09,898 --> 00:31:15,058
where do you guys live

676
00:31:13,019 --> 00:31:17,579
and while corporations Lobby for and

677
00:31:15,058 --> 00:31:19,500
profit from tax cuts at home

678
00:31:17,579 --> 00:31:23,220
they further avoid taxes by stashing

679
00:31:19,500 --> 00:31:26,278
profits abroad the corporate Elites is

680
00:31:23,220 --> 00:31:28,200
best positioned to use the system that

681
00:31:26,278 --> 00:31:31,980
we have to their advantage and one

682
00:31:28,200 --> 00:31:34,200
manifestation of that is text Havens

683
00:31:31,980 --> 00:31:36,839
every year corporations squirrel away

684
00:31:34,200 --> 00:31:39,600
billions of dollars in tax Havens

685
00:31:36,839 --> 00:31:42,199
and when that's combined with tax cuts

686
00:31:39,599 --> 00:31:44,639
guess what happens

687
00:31:42,200 --> 00:31:46,860
60 of some of America's biggest

688
00:31:44,640 --> 00:31:49,259
companies reportedly paid no federal

689
00:31:46,859 --> 00:31:51,538
income tax for 2018 despite earning

690
00:31:49,259 --> 00:31:54,119
billions of dollars in profits this is

691
00:31:51,538 --> 00:31:56,278
my first time at DeVos and uh and I find

692
00:31:54,119 --> 00:31:59,459
it quite a bewildering experience to be

693
00:31:56,278 --> 00:32:01,319
honest I mean 1500 private yets have

694
00:31:59,460 --> 00:32:03,000
flown in here to here Sarah David

695
00:32:01,319 --> 00:32:05,339
Attenborough speak about you know how

696
00:32:03,000 --> 00:32:06,599
we're wrecking the planet and I mean I

697
00:32:05,339 --> 00:32:09,538
hear people talking the language of

698
00:32:06,599 --> 00:32:11,759
participation and Justice and equality

699
00:32:09,538 --> 00:32:13,500
and transparency but then I mean almost

700
00:32:11,759 --> 00:32:15,359
no one raises the real issue of tax

701
00:32:13,500 --> 00:32:17,278
avoidance right and of the rich just not

702
00:32:15,359 --> 00:32:19,678
paying their fair share we got to be

703
00:32:17,278 --> 00:32:21,599
talking about Texas that's it taxes

704
00:32:19,679 --> 00:32:25,679
taxes taxes all the rest is [ __ ] in

705
00:32:21,599 --> 00:32:28,740
my opinion thank you government used to

706
00:32:25,679 --> 00:32:30,778
have a lot of power to extract wealth in

707
00:32:28,740 --> 00:32:32,880
the form of taxes and then be able to

708
00:32:30,778 --> 00:32:35,038
use that wealth for the betterment of

709
00:32:32,880 --> 00:32:37,980
the society as a whole but what's

710
00:32:35,038 --> 00:32:41,220
happened now is that we have given more

711
00:32:37,980 --> 00:32:42,839
power to corporations to control their

712
00:32:41,220 --> 00:32:45,899
wealth and to take it out of the tax

713
00:32:42,839 --> 00:32:47,639
system so what happens as a result of

714
00:32:45,898 --> 00:32:49,819
that first of all

715
00:32:47,640 --> 00:32:52,559
companies and rich people get a lot

716
00:32:49,819 --> 00:32:54,058
richer not paying those taxes you might

717
00:32:52,558 --> 00:32:56,339
have been paying second thing that

718
00:32:54,058 --> 00:32:58,859
happens is the government has less money

719
00:32:56,339 --> 00:33:02,278
the government's capacity is sort of

720
00:32:58,859 --> 00:33:04,619
contracted and then social problems

721
00:33:02,278 --> 00:33:06,119
start to grow in part because the

722
00:33:04,619 --> 00:33:09,418
government has less money

723
00:33:06,119 --> 00:33:11,699
now with that background

724
00:33:09,419 --> 00:33:15,179
rich people step onto the scene and say

725
00:33:11,700 --> 00:33:18,720
oh my gosh this is a shame

726
00:33:15,179 --> 00:33:21,480
the situation we see here is a shame

727
00:33:18,720 --> 00:33:24,960
we got all these social problems

728
00:33:21,480 --> 00:33:26,159
and government my gosh you know the

729
00:33:24,960 --> 00:33:30,659
government should be solving this stuff

730
00:33:26,159 --> 00:33:32,278
but it isn't that is embarrassing well

731
00:33:30,659 --> 00:33:33,419
I'm happy to solve these problems but of

732
00:33:32,278 --> 00:33:35,579
course when we do solve it we're gonna

733
00:33:33,419 --> 00:33:37,320
do it my way we're gonna privatize the

734
00:33:35,579 --> 00:33:40,319
solution

735
00:33:37,319 --> 00:33:40,319
foreign

736
00:33:43,558 --> 00:33:49,259
often also called starve the Beast

737
00:33:46,798 --> 00:33:50,700
you create a crisis of confidence how

738
00:33:49,259 --> 00:33:52,200
much money do we need to be investing

739
00:33:50,700 --> 00:33:55,980
right now in the United States in water

740
00:33:52,200 --> 00:33:58,380
infrastructure by 2020 44 of all water

741
00:33:55,980 --> 00:34:00,778
infrastructure in the United States will

742
00:33:58,380 --> 00:34:01,860
be classified as poor very poor or

743
00:34:00,778 --> 00:34:04,200
Beyond life

744
00:34:01,859 --> 00:34:07,558
you deny resources for Quality public

745
00:34:04,200 --> 00:34:10,500
services in the 1970s there were a lot

746
00:34:07,558 --> 00:34:13,559
of pools of free Federal money that has

747
00:34:10,500 --> 00:34:16,079
really no pun dried up and lo and behold

748
00:34:13,559 --> 00:34:19,019
the answer is privatization

749
00:34:16,079 --> 00:34:21,179
what we believe is that Private Industry

750
00:34:19,019 --> 00:34:22,559
is part of the answer which is very

751
00:34:21,179 --> 00:34:24,000
consistent with what the president's

752
00:34:22,559 --> 00:34:25,799
plan is

753
00:34:24,000 --> 00:34:28,800
American Waterworks is one of the

754
00:34:25,800 --> 00:34:30,659
world's largest water corporations

755
00:34:28,800 --> 00:34:33,240
it takes over public water assistance

756
00:34:30,659 --> 00:34:34,980
and runs them for profit

757
00:34:33,239 --> 00:34:36,838
and around the world

758
00:34:34,980 --> 00:34:38,639
there are many other companies doing the

759
00:34:36,838 --> 00:34:40,759
same thing

760
00:34:38,639 --> 00:34:43,159
it's absolutely terrifying notion

761
00:34:40,760 --> 00:34:46,099
privatization of water

762
00:34:43,159 --> 00:34:49,440
moving in exactly the wrong direction

763
00:34:46,099 --> 00:34:52,379
access to a portable

764
00:34:49,440 --> 00:34:56,280
clean drinking water is a fundamental

765
00:34:52,378 --> 00:34:58,440
human right what's this Insidious

766
00:34:56,280 --> 00:35:01,680
that the corporate mind could even

767
00:34:58,440 --> 00:35:04,820
conceive or imagine the notion of

768
00:35:01,679 --> 00:35:04,819
privatizing it

769
00:35:07,320 --> 00:35:09,720
corporations have figured out that

770
00:35:08,699 --> 00:35:12,719
they're a really big business

771
00:35:09,719 --> 00:35:14,699
opportunities in these public sectors in

772
00:35:12,719 --> 00:35:18,739
part because they've been walled off

773
00:35:14,699 --> 00:35:18,739
from corporate influence in the past

774
00:35:21,000 --> 00:35:28,460
the private sector is voracious in

775
00:35:24,659 --> 00:35:28,460
seeking to privatize almost everything

776
00:35:29,760 --> 00:35:34,260
first privatized government services as

777
00:35:32,338 --> 00:35:37,199
much as possible

778
00:35:34,260 --> 00:35:39,240
and also the seizure and the

779
00:35:37,199 --> 00:35:42,960
commodification of the public comments

780
00:35:39,239 --> 00:35:46,319
your your Parks your public schools your

781
00:35:42,960 --> 00:35:48,240
streets how can we get more money out of

782
00:35:46,320 --> 00:35:51,300
the public comments

783
00:35:48,239 --> 00:35:53,159
the for-profit motivation is always a

784
00:35:51,300 --> 00:35:55,560
very bad reason for providing Public

785
00:35:53,159 --> 00:35:57,179
Services there's a conflict of interest

786
00:35:55,559 --> 00:35:59,219
between whether you're going to pay off

787
00:35:57,179 --> 00:36:01,500
the shareholders or whether you're going

788
00:35:59,219 --> 00:36:04,199
to invest in the public system

789
00:36:01,500 --> 00:36:06,719
many responsibilities and obligations

790
00:36:04,199 --> 00:36:09,960
must be public in order to maintain

791
00:36:06,719 --> 00:36:13,500
equal access to the basic necessities of

792
00:36:09,960 --> 00:36:16,019
life a healthy Democratic Society has a

793
00:36:13,500 --> 00:36:17,760
thriving private sector and also a

794
00:36:16,019 --> 00:36:20,940
thriving public sector

795
00:36:17,760 --> 00:36:24,119
and as we permit the private sector to

796
00:36:20,940 --> 00:36:26,519
encroach upon and to literally absorb

797
00:36:24,119 --> 00:36:28,140
the responsibilities and obligations of

798
00:36:26,519 --> 00:36:31,639
a Democratic Society

799
00:36:28,139 --> 00:36:31,639
we lose our democracy

800
00:36:32,039 --> 00:36:37,320
and the rise of big Tech corporations is

801
00:36:35,039 --> 00:36:40,880
now accelerating this process

802
00:36:37,320 --> 00:36:40,880
for example in schools

803
00:36:41,099 --> 00:36:45,740
not only in Africa but elsewhere too

804
00:36:46,320 --> 00:36:51,000
corporations have decided that they

805
00:36:48,239 --> 00:36:52,799
should do remake of Education by using

806
00:36:51,000 --> 00:36:55,079
technology

807
00:36:52,800 --> 00:36:56,940
they want to have teacher-less

808
00:36:55,079 --> 00:36:58,920
classrooms

809
00:36:56,940 --> 00:37:01,619
But the teacher is the single most

810
00:36:58,920 --> 00:37:04,039
important and expensive part of

811
00:37:01,619 --> 00:37:07,019
Education in the tech industry's dream

812
00:37:04,039 --> 00:37:09,300
if the teacher is removed from the

813
00:37:07,019 --> 00:37:11,838
equation then you can cut costs

814
00:37:09,300 --> 00:37:11,839
dramatically

815
00:37:13,500 --> 00:37:19,320
these companies monopolize everything

816
00:37:16,500 --> 00:37:23,400
first of all monopolize their sector and

817
00:37:19,320 --> 00:37:26,099
the next thing is to look where's left

818
00:37:23,400 --> 00:37:27,900
these giant corporations are frantically

819
00:37:26,099 --> 00:37:29,940
searching for new sources of profit

820
00:37:27,900 --> 00:37:32,099
because it's drying up

821
00:37:29,940 --> 00:37:34,139
they say we need to take the education

822
00:37:32,099 --> 00:37:37,140
system take the Health Care system take

823
00:37:34,139 --> 00:37:39,319
the transport system and own it or we

824
00:37:37,139 --> 00:37:39,319
die

825
00:37:40,800 --> 00:37:47,339
Silicon Valley is the new Rome of our

826
00:37:44,338 --> 00:37:51,059
time the valley has become

827
00:37:47,338 --> 00:37:55,259
this extraordinary Power Center that has

828
00:37:51,059 --> 00:37:58,679
a huge say over what kind of media

829
00:37:55,260 --> 00:38:01,320
information we have in a democracy

830
00:37:58,679 --> 00:38:02,699
over you know frankly how many of our

831
00:38:01,320 --> 00:38:05,480
biggest problems are solved over how

832
00:38:02,699 --> 00:38:08,699
election campaigns are run etc etc etc

833
00:38:05,480 --> 00:38:10,559
technology is neutral and in many ways

834
00:38:08,699 --> 00:38:13,078
it's great but there's a difference

835
00:38:10,559 --> 00:38:15,299
between the technology and allowing a

836
00:38:13,079 --> 00:38:17,700
few powerful players to manipulate it

837
00:38:15,300 --> 00:38:20,099
for their own ends so we've gone from

838
00:38:17,699 --> 00:38:22,078
this wide open world that opened up all

839
00:38:20,099 --> 00:38:23,940
of these possibilities for people to

840
00:38:22,079 --> 00:38:26,640
create things to share information to

841
00:38:23,940 --> 00:38:28,619
share ideas and it has collapsed into

842
00:38:26,639 --> 00:38:31,759
these walled Gardens that are controlled

843
00:38:28,619 --> 00:38:35,460
by a few very powerful players

844
00:38:31,760 --> 00:38:36,960
we're seeing Amazon for example gobbling

845
00:38:35,460 --> 00:38:38,400
up every kind of business in sight

846
00:38:36,960 --> 00:38:39,900
they're interested in getting to

847
00:38:38,400 --> 00:38:41,160
Pharmaceuticals and they're making a big

848
00:38:39,900 --> 00:38:43,440
Movement of food

849
00:38:41,159 --> 00:38:45,960
they capture about half of everything

850
00:38:43,440 --> 00:38:46,858
that Americans spend online and they're

851
00:38:45,960 --> 00:38:49,320
growing into all these different

852
00:38:46,858 --> 00:38:51,059
directions they control 35 percent of

853
00:38:49,320 --> 00:38:52,740
the world's cloud computing capacity

854
00:38:51,059 --> 00:38:54,838
they're building out shipping and

855
00:38:52,739 --> 00:38:57,598
Logistics infrastructure that is scaled

856
00:38:54,838 --> 00:39:00,059
to take on the postal service and ups

857
00:38:57,599 --> 00:39:02,099
and increasingly they are the

858
00:39:00,059 --> 00:39:05,039
intermediary for all of our smart

859
00:39:02,099 --> 00:39:07,200
devices Alexa their voice system is 70

860
00:39:05,039 --> 00:39:08,519
of the market

861
00:39:07,199 --> 00:39:10,919
and on it goes they're making

862
00:39:08,519 --> 00:39:14,099
investments in finance and Health Care

863
00:39:10,920 --> 00:39:17,338
hit movies and television shows

864
00:39:14,099 --> 00:39:20,220
Amazon is increasingly setting the rules

865
00:39:17,338 --> 00:39:22,739
for what happens in its Marketplace and

866
00:39:20,219 --> 00:39:24,598
pretending like that's a real Market but

867
00:39:22,739 --> 00:39:26,519
of course it's not you know that's a

868
00:39:24,599 --> 00:39:30,200
direct threat to democracy a very

869
00:39:26,519 --> 00:39:30,199
fundamental threat to democracy

870
00:39:31,380 --> 00:39:35,338
go elected by no one

871
00:39:33,599 --> 00:39:37,740
corporations are now starting to be

872
00:39:35,338 --> 00:39:39,900
treated like governments we're join our

873
00:39:37,739 --> 00:39:42,358
live by the world's first ever Tech

874
00:39:39,900 --> 00:39:44,338
Ambassador can I start simply by asking

875
00:39:42,358 --> 00:39:46,619
you what exactly does a tech Ambassador

876
00:39:44,338 --> 00:39:48,719
do well we're basically trying to treat

877
00:39:46,619 --> 00:39:50,700
the technology and the tech companies in

878
00:39:48,719 --> 00:39:52,439
a way which is similar to the way we

879
00:39:50,699 --> 00:39:54,358
treat a bilateral relationship with

880
00:39:52,440 --> 00:39:55,980
countries all over the world the value

881
00:39:54,358 --> 00:39:58,380
of their stocks is always the same as

882
00:39:55,980 --> 00:40:00,838
the GDP of France and we think that that

883
00:39:58,380 --> 00:40:02,400
is being translated into influence over

884
00:40:00,838 --> 00:40:04,320
political affairs

885
00:40:02,400 --> 00:40:06,300
we think it is necessary to treat them

886
00:40:04,320 --> 00:40:08,160
in a way which is similar to the way we

887
00:40:06,300 --> 00:40:10,680
treat other countries

888
00:40:08,159 --> 00:40:12,598
a lot of folks in the valley believe

889
00:40:10,679 --> 00:40:16,559
that the companies they are building are

890
00:40:12,599 --> 00:40:20,640
kind of Replacements of government I

891
00:40:16,559 --> 00:40:23,338
think if we don't push back against the

892
00:40:20,639 --> 00:40:25,500
kind of agenda that these companies have

893
00:40:23,338 --> 00:40:27,420
we're going to live in a world in which

894
00:40:25,500 --> 00:40:29,820
they are governing us

895
00:40:27,420 --> 00:40:32,210
privately through the profit motive but

896
00:40:29,820 --> 00:40:35,429
governing us

897
00:40:32,210 --> 00:40:35,429
[Music]

898
00:40:36,780 --> 00:40:42,119
the deal that the corporations want from

899
00:40:39,300 --> 00:40:43,380
us is to hand everything to them all the

900
00:40:42,119 --> 00:40:45,660
value to them

901
00:40:43,380 --> 00:40:47,579
and we get a little bit of utility we

902
00:40:45,659 --> 00:40:50,519
get usefulness it becomes easier to

903
00:40:47,579 --> 00:40:52,980
study or easier to get to work or easier

904
00:40:50,519 --> 00:40:55,800
to take a health test

905
00:40:52,980 --> 00:40:58,079
that is a dangerous deal because nobody

906
00:40:55,800 --> 00:41:00,839
can guarantee what is going to be done

907
00:40:58,079 --> 00:41:03,780
with the information we're handing our

908
00:41:00,838 --> 00:41:05,759
data with no checks no balances no

909
00:41:03,780 --> 00:41:08,640
control over it I think that's going to

910
00:41:05,760 --> 00:41:11,099
be one of the new challenges of life in

911
00:41:08,639 --> 00:41:14,639
the 21st century I'm going to call them

912
00:41:11,099 --> 00:41:17,460
the super social media corporations

913
00:41:14,639 --> 00:41:19,199
the entities that really run our lives

914
00:41:17,460 --> 00:41:22,260
right now

915
00:41:19,199 --> 00:41:23,819
the scope of their reach cannot be

916
00:41:22,260 --> 00:41:26,760
underestimated

917
00:41:23,820 --> 00:41:29,640
they know everything about us

918
00:41:26,760 --> 00:41:32,760
every single aspect of what we do who we

919
00:41:29,639 --> 00:41:36,239
do it with where we do it what we buy

920
00:41:32,760 --> 00:41:40,200
is a gold mine for aggregators

921
00:41:36,239 --> 00:41:41,659
it lets them mold their policies and

922
00:41:40,199 --> 00:41:45,239
their products

923
00:41:41,659 --> 00:41:47,519
predicting how you are going to live the

924
00:41:45,239 --> 00:41:49,799
rest of your life they're trying to

925
00:41:47,519 --> 00:41:52,800
influence the decisions that you make

926
00:41:49,800 --> 00:41:56,099
from now to when you die

927
00:41:52,800 --> 00:41:59,660
so that it will best serve ultimately

928
00:41:56,099 --> 00:41:59,660
the corporate bottom line

929
00:42:01,920 --> 00:42:15,780
[Music]

930
00:42:11,880 --> 00:42:17,160
technology provides us such a seductive

931
00:42:15,780 --> 00:42:18,359
fantasy

932
00:42:17,159 --> 00:42:21,059
okay

933
00:42:18,358 --> 00:42:23,639
our smartphones are data-driven systems

934
00:42:21,059 --> 00:42:26,338
our social media platforms they are all

935
00:42:23,639 --> 00:42:28,618
designed to conceal the true cost of

936
00:42:26,338 --> 00:42:30,679
these Technologies to our society as a

937
00:42:28,619 --> 00:42:30,680
whole

938
00:42:30,800 --> 00:42:37,200
privacy is usually the value that we use

939
00:42:34,800 --> 00:42:39,000
to think through these issues but for me

940
00:42:37,199 --> 00:42:41,819
it's not about privacy it's about

941
00:42:39,000 --> 00:42:44,400
control the drive to make data

942
00:42:41,820 --> 00:42:46,320
profitable leads these companies to say

943
00:42:44,400 --> 00:42:47,460
who we are and Define who we are to

944
00:42:46,320 --> 00:42:49,920
other people

945
00:42:47,460 --> 00:42:51,659
let me use a real life example of a

946
00:42:49,920 --> 00:42:54,000
hiring algorithm you'll do an interview

947
00:42:51,659 --> 00:42:56,460
they'll analyze your video footage and

948
00:42:54,000 --> 00:42:59,159
they'll say you challenge the status quo

949
00:42:56,460 --> 00:43:01,679
you are a change agent

950
00:42:59,159 --> 00:43:04,318
don't hire this person because they are

951
00:43:01,679 --> 00:43:06,598
more likely to cause trouble at work

952
00:43:04,318 --> 00:43:08,219
as far as the algorithm is concerned you

953
00:43:06,599 --> 00:43:11,579
are not a human being you're just a

954
00:43:08,219 --> 00:43:13,639
collection of data points and this is

955
00:43:11,579 --> 00:43:17,640
one of the dangers that we face today

956
00:43:13,639 --> 00:43:20,460
because we are now saying we need to

957
00:43:17,639 --> 00:43:23,098
stop using human reason and we need to

958
00:43:20,460 --> 00:43:26,139
rely more on these kinds of algorithmic

959
00:43:23,099 --> 00:43:29,409
decision-making systems

960
00:43:26,139 --> 00:43:29,408
[Music]

961
00:43:30,000 --> 00:43:36,780
we are increasingly surrendering our

962
00:43:32,818 --> 00:43:39,838
capacity to rely on human experience and

963
00:43:36,780 --> 00:43:43,500
to trust in each other

964
00:43:39,838 --> 00:43:47,578
so the question that these Technologies

965
00:43:43,500 --> 00:43:49,199
are really raising for us is what does

966
00:43:47,579 --> 00:43:51,839
it mean to be human

967
00:43:49,199 --> 00:43:54,239
and this kind of Technology of strangers

968
00:43:51,838 --> 00:43:57,599
is one of the ways in which we are

969
00:43:54,239 --> 00:44:00,199
moving away from the genuine Heritage of

970
00:43:57,599 --> 00:44:00,200
the Enlightenment

971
00:44:04,389 --> 00:44:11,879
[Music]

972
00:44:07,440 --> 00:44:15,420
we're taught that it is all about me

973
00:44:11,880 --> 00:44:18,000
narcissism The Cult of the self the idea

974
00:44:15,420 --> 00:44:20,460
that consumption can somehow help us

975
00:44:18,000 --> 00:44:23,338
overcome our alienation

976
00:44:20,460 --> 00:44:24,720
make us important

977
00:44:23,338 --> 00:44:26,460
I thought you know what better way to

978
00:44:24,719 --> 00:44:29,699
cure the darkness than to go shopping

979
00:44:26,460 --> 00:44:32,519
you know help stimulate the economy

980
00:44:29,699 --> 00:44:34,799
these were all

981
00:44:32,519 --> 00:44:37,380
I hesitate the word values but these

982
00:44:34,800 --> 00:44:40,099
were all consciously instilled

983
00:44:37,380 --> 00:44:40,099
in the public

984
00:44:40,800 --> 00:44:48,920
it up ends Traditional Values of thrift

985
00:44:46,980 --> 00:44:52,980
self-effacement

986
00:44:48,920 --> 00:44:54,659
communitarianism and replaces them with

987
00:44:52,980 --> 00:44:56,099
the values that we now Define as

988
00:44:54,659 --> 00:44:58,980
American values but which should

989
00:44:56,099 --> 00:45:01,160
properly be called corporate values

990
00:44:58,980 --> 00:45:01,159
foreign

991
00:45:02,710 --> 00:45:08,480
[Music]

992
00:45:09,719 --> 00:45:15,480
recent years we've drifted almost

993
00:45:12,780 --> 00:45:18,660
without realizing it from having a

994
00:45:15,480 --> 00:45:21,059
market economy to becoming a market

995
00:45:18,659 --> 00:45:23,219
Society

996
00:45:21,059 --> 00:45:26,159
the difference is this a market economy

997
00:45:23,219 --> 00:45:29,279
is a tool a valuable and effective tool

998
00:45:26,159 --> 00:45:31,858
for organizing productive activity but a

999
00:45:29,280 --> 00:45:35,540
market Society is a place where almost

1000
00:45:31,858 --> 00:45:35,539
everything is up for sale

1001
00:45:35,940 --> 00:45:39,838
we aren't so steeped in this

1002
00:45:38,159 --> 00:45:42,239
commodification

1003
00:45:39,838 --> 00:45:43,920
that it's hard to distinguish between

1004
00:45:42,239 --> 00:45:45,838
being a consumer

1005
00:45:43,920 --> 00:45:47,700
and being a citizen

1006
00:45:45,838 --> 00:45:49,739
I'm not much of a believer in political

1007
00:45:47,699 --> 00:45:51,419
citizenship I I actually believe much

1008
00:45:49,739 --> 00:45:53,939
more in the power of the marketplace

1009
00:45:51,420 --> 00:45:55,920
this is Richard Edelman one of the

1010
00:45:53,940 --> 00:45:58,559
world's most influential business gurus

1011
00:45:55,920 --> 00:46:01,318
I think companies actually have filled a

1012
00:45:58,559 --> 00:46:04,440
void left by government business is at

1013
00:46:01,318 --> 00:46:07,440
the top rank government and media really

1014
00:46:04,440 --> 00:46:11,519
are at the back end of the trust rank

1015
00:46:07,440 --> 00:46:15,599
these are big changes in reliability of

1016
00:46:11,519 --> 00:46:18,420
business as potential good actor

1017
00:46:15,599 --> 00:46:22,200
it's a brilliant strategy they're going

1018
00:46:18,420 --> 00:46:24,180
to present themselves as good actors and

1019
00:46:22,199 --> 00:46:27,239
use that as part of their image and as

1020
00:46:24,179 --> 00:46:29,759
part of their branding

1021
00:46:27,239 --> 00:46:33,299
when we see a big Corporation doing

1022
00:46:29,760 --> 00:46:35,280
something it creates a sense of hope

1023
00:46:33,300 --> 00:46:37,079
that maybe we can solve the climate

1024
00:46:35,280 --> 00:46:42,060
crisis

1025
00:46:37,079 --> 00:46:44,160
or inequality or other kinds of problems

1026
00:46:42,059 --> 00:46:46,980
we maybe even think of their huge power

1027
00:46:44,159 --> 00:46:49,500
as being a plus because we know that the

1028
00:46:46,980 --> 00:46:51,900
scale of these challenges are so big and

1029
00:46:49,500 --> 00:46:53,639
we feel so powerless and frustrated

1030
00:46:51,900 --> 00:46:55,980
about the ability of our government

1031
00:46:53,639 --> 00:46:57,598
systems to actually solve them that we

1032
00:46:55,980 --> 00:47:00,059
start to sort of put our faith in

1033
00:46:57,599 --> 00:47:02,039
corporations but of course in the

1034
00:47:00,059 --> 00:47:06,078
process of doing that we're going

1035
00:47:02,039 --> 00:47:06,079
further down the path that led us here

1036
00:47:09,179 --> 00:47:15,179
I grew up in the 1950s and at that time

1037
00:47:12,659 --> 00:47:17,759
there was a sense that our society would

1038
00:47:15,179 --> 00:47:20,338
continually progress towards greater

1039
00:47:17,760 --> 00:47:21,420
equality a greater opportunity that

1040
00:47:20,338 --> 00:47:24,539
there would continue to be social

1041
00:47:21,420 --> 00:47:27,960
Mobility for those at the bottom

1042
00:47:24,539 --> 00:47:30,659
the average pay for a CEO in the 1950s

1043
00:47:27,960 --> 00:47:34,740
was 20 times that of the average worker

1044
00:47:30,659 --> 00:47:37,318
today the average pay of a CEO is 270

1045
00:47:34,739 --> 00:47:40,199
times that of the average worker

1046
00:47:37,318 --> 00:47:42,719
in some cases that Gap is much greater

1047
00:47:40,199 --> 00:47:44,818
for example Jamie Diamond makes more

1048
00:47:42,719 --> 00:47:47,098
than one thousand times the salary of

1049
00:47:44,818 --> 00:47:49,199
one of his lowest paid employees

1050
00:47:47,099 --> 00:47:51,359
Mr Diamond you're an expert on financial

1051
00:47:49,199 --> 00:47:52,739
statements and you run a 2.6 trillion

1052
00:47:51,358 --> 00:47:55,078
dollar Bank

1053
00:47:52,739 --> 00:47:57,659
I went to monster.com and I found a job

1054
00:47:55,079 --> 00:48:00,480
in my hometown of Irvine at JPMorgan

1055
00:47:57,659 --> 00:48:02,940
Chase that pays 16.50 an hour this is

1056
00:48:00,480 --> 00:48:06,119
U.S congresswoman Katie Porter providing

1057
00:48:02,940 --> 00:48:08,039
an example of a hypothetical employee a

1058
00:48:06,119 --> 00:48:10,380
single mother working as a teller at one

1059
00:48:08,039 --> 00:48:11,699
of Jamie diamonds Banks she rents a

1060
00:48:10,380 --> 00:48:13,200
one-bedroom apartment she and her

1061
00:48:11,699 --> 00:48:15,659
daughter sleep together in the same room

1062
00:48:13,199 --> 00:48:17,879
in Irvine California

1063
00:48:15,659 --> 00:48:19,559
going to be sixteen hundred dollars she

1064
00:48:17,880 --> 00:48:22,500
spends one hundred dollars congresswoman

1065
00:48:19,559 --> 00:48:24,480
Porter itemized typical monthly expenses

1066
00:48:22,500 --> 00:48:26,940
and showed they greatly exceed the

1067
00:48:24,480 --> 00:48:29,338
employee's salary my question for you Mr

1068
00:48:26,940 --> 00:48:31,260
Diamond is how should she manage this

1069
00:48:29,338 --> 00:48:34,519
budget shortfall while she's working

1070
00:48:31,260 --> 00:48:34,520
full-time at your bank

1071
00:48:36,659 --> 00:48:40,078
I uh

1072
00:48:38,338 --> 00:48:42,659
I don't know that all your numbers are

1073
00:48:40,079 --> 00:48:44,099
accurate that number is a start is it

1074
00:48:42,659 --> 00:48:45,539
generally a starter job she is a

1075
00:48:44,099 --> 00:48:47,460
starting employee she has a six-year-old

1076
00:48:45,539 --> 00:48:49,199
child this is her first job you can get

1077
00:48:47,460 --> 00:48:52,079
those jobs out of high school and she

1078
00:48:49,199 --> 00:48:54,719
may have my job one day

1079
00:48:52,079 --> 00:48:55,980
but the widening gap between CEOs and

1080
00:48:54,719 --> 00:48:58,980
their employees

1081
00:48:55,980 --> 00:49:01,318
is just one symptom of rising inequality

1082
00:48:58,980 --> 00:49:04,800
more generally right now in the United

1083
00:49:01,318 --> 00:49:07,858
States the richest country on the planet

1084
00:49:04,800 --> 00:49:10,260
half of American families couldn't pay a

1085
00:49:07,858 --> 00:49:12,900
400 bill that landed on their doorstep

1086
00:49:10,260 --> 00:49:14,099
without going into debt or selling

1087
00:49:12,900 --> 00:49:16,260
something

1088
00:49:14,099 --> 00:49:18,900
that's because corporate Executives and

1089
00:49:16,260 --> 00:49:21,240
corporate lobbyists are constantly able

1090
00:49:18,900 --> 00:49:22,680
to change the rules of the game in the

1091
00:49:21,239 --> 00:49:24,899
favor of the people who are already

1092
00:49:22,679 --> 00:49:28,559
wealthy and Powerful

1093
00:49:24,900 --> 00:49:31,380
making it harder to form a union making

1094
00:49:28,559 --> 00:49:34,739
it easier for Mega corporations to shut

1095
00:49:31,380 --> 00:49:37,680
out competition from smaller businesses

1096
00:49:34,739 --> 00:49:39,659
slashing the taxes on wealthy people and

1097
00:49:37,679 --> 00:49:43,098
corporations and shifting more of the

1098
00:49:39,659 --> 00:49:47,519
responsibility on working-class people

1099
00:49:43,099 --> 00:49:50,818
the result is economic inequality

1100
00:49:47,519 --> 00:49:53,579
it's a real moral outrage and it can't

1101
00:49:50,818 --> 00:49:56,099
be dealt with separate from race and

1102
00:49:53,579 --> 00:49:58,318
gender we can't really deal with these

1103
00:49:56,099 --> 00:50:00,838
inequalities separately because they're

1104
00:49:58,318 --> 00:50:02,579
also interwoven the black and brown

1105
00:50:00,838 --> 00:50:04,559
people who are impacted by police

1106
00:50:02,579 --> 00:50:07,440
brutality women who are impacted by

1107
00:50:04,559 --> 00:50:09,779
sexual harassment in the workplace the

1108
00:50:07,440 --> 00:50:12,000
enormous numbers of workers who are

1109
00:50:09,780 --> 00:50:13,980
struggling with poverty and homelessness

1110
00:50:12,000 --> 00:50:17,099
and all the degeneration that we see

1111
00:50:13,980 --> 00:50:19,280
under capitalism for no fault of their

1112
00:50:17,099 --> 00:50:22,079
we're talking about a global economy

1113
00:50:19,280 --> 00:50:24,720
that for all the wealth that were

1114
00:50:22,079 --> 00:50:27,720
generated last year a trillion dollars

1115
00:50:24,719 --> 00:50:30,239
of that new wealth went to just 500

1116
00:50:27,719 --> 00:50:31,439
individuals I know you have a lot I'd

1117
00:50:30,239 --> 00:50:33,539
love to call up and have a conversation

1118
00:50:31,440 --> 00:50:35,460
about our financial affairs and see if

1119
00:50:33,539 --> 00:50:37,259
we can be helpful see if you can find a

1120
00:50:35,460 --> 00:50:39,358
way for her to live on less than the

1121
00:50:37,260 --> 00:50:43,560
minimum that I've described

1122
00:50:39,358 --> 00:50:45,960
helpful the one percent and 0.01 is a

1123
00:50:43,559 --> 00:50:48,179
group of folks who talk an extraordinary

1124
00:50:45,960 --> 00:50:51,000
game and also act an extraordinary game

1125
00:50:48,179 --> 00:50:52,558
of trying to help out in an age of

1126
00:50:51,000 --> 00:50:54,358
inequality and who are willing to do

1127
00:50:52,559 --> 00:50:59,460
absolutely anything

1128
00:50:54,358 --> 00:51:01,739
to help accept stepping off the backs of

1129
00:50:59,460 --> 00:51:04,920
the working people of this country who

1130
00:51:01,739 --> 00:51:08,279
have been screwed and and passed over by

1131
00:51:04,920 --> 00:51:10,380
four decades worth of change there's a

1132
00:51:08,280 --> 00:51:13,519
great quote that was attributed to

1133
00:51:10,380 --> 00:51:15,720
Justice Brandeis that said you can have

1134
00:51:13,519 --> 00:51:17,579
democracy or you can have large

1135
00:51:15,719 --> 00:51:18,659
accumulations of wealth but you can't

1136
00:51:17,579 --> 00:51:21,539
have both

1137
00:51:18,659 --> 00:51:24,058
that wealth gives them a tremendous

1138
00:51:21,539 --> 00:51:26,039
amount of power both in promoting our

1139
00:51:24,059 --> 00:51:29,099
political leaders in promoting a

1140
00:51:26,039 --> 00:51:31,699
legislative agenda in every aspect of

1141
00:51:29,099 --> 00:51:31,700
our society

1142
00:51:31,858 --> 00:51:34,858
foreign

1143
00:51:35,039 --> 00:51:39,719
if I want to run a campaign that is

1144
00:51:37,440 --> 00:51:41,940
entirely funded by corporate political

1145
00:51:39,719 --> 00:51:43,379
action committees is that is there

1146
00:51:41,940 --> 00:51:45,000
anything that legally prevents me from

1147
00:51:43,380 --> 00:51:47,818
doing that

1148
00:51:45,000 --> 00:51:50,579
no so now I'm elected and I'm in I've

1149
00:51:47,818 --> 00:51:52,980
got the power to draft Lobby and shape

1150
00:51:50,579 --> 00:51:56,039
the laws that govern the United States

1151
00:51:52,980 --> 00:51:58,740
of America are there any limits on the

1152
00:51:56,039 --> 00:52:00,719
laws that I can write or influence

1153
00:51:58,739 --> 00:52:02,699
there's no limit so there's none so I

1154
00:52:00,719 --> 00:52:04,799
can be totally funded by big Pharma come

1155
00:52:02,699 --> 00:52:06,659
in write big Pharma laws and there's no

1156
00:52:04,800 --> 00:52:09,180
limits to that whatsoever that's right

1157
00:52:06,659 --> 00:52:11,818
is there anything preventing me from

1158
00:52:09,179 --> 00:52:15,058
holding stocks say in an oil or gas

1159
00:52:11,818 --> 00:52:18,119
company and then writing laws to

1160
00:52:15,059 --> 00:52:20,220
deregulate that that industry and

1161
00:52:18,119 --> 00:52:22,500
potentially cause the stock value to

1162
00:52:20,219 --> 00:52:25,980
soar and accrue a lot of money in that

1163
00:52:22,500 --> 00:52:28,380
time you could do that yes okay great

1164
00:52:25,980 --> 00:52:30,599
I think we've seen The Disappearance of

1165
00:52:28,380 --> 00:52:32,099
independent governments with the rise of

1166
00:52:30,599 --> 00:52:35,160
corporate rule

1167
00:52:32,099 --> 00:52:37,440
we have seen more and more takeover

1168
00:52:35,159 --> 00:52:40,379
of government takeover of electoral

1169
00:52:37,440 --> 00:52:42,980
processes the problem is a corporate

1170
00:52:40,380 --> 00:52:46,440
system and a political system where

1171
00:52:42,980 --> 00:52:48,059
governments see their main role as

1172
00:52:46,440 --> 00:52:51,358
facilitating

1173
00:52:48,059 --> 00:52:53,040
private corporations to basically do

1174
00:52:51,358 --> 00:52:55,500
whatever the hell

1175
00:52:53,039 --> 00:52:58,318
nothing more starkly

1176
00:52:55,500 --> 00:53:00,420
illustrates this than our federal

1177
00:52:58,318 --> 00:53:02,880
Treasurer picking up a lump of coal and

1178
00:53:00,420 --> 00:53:05,519
carrying it around Parliament House Mr

1179
00:53:02,880 --> 00:53:08,400
Speaker this is Cole Don't Be Afraid

1180
00:53:05,519 --> 00:53:11,880
don't be scared the treasurer knows the

1181
00:53:08,400 --> 00:53:14,280
rule on props it's cold Mr Speaker those

1182
00:53:11,880 --> 00:53:17,818
opposite have an ideological

1183
00:53:14,280 --> 00:53:20,640
pathological fear of coal affordable

1184
00:53:17,818 --> 00:53:23,460
energy is what Australian businesses

1185
00:53:20,639 --> 00:53:25,440
need to remain competitive

1186
00:53:23,460 --> 00:53:27,780
Scott Morrison

1187
00:53:25,440 --> 00:53:29,460
and prime minister

1188
00:53:27,780 --> 00:53:32,040
he heads a group of high-level

1189
00:53:29,460 --> 00:53:33,240
politicians with deep ties to Major coal

1190
00:53:32,039 --> 00:53:36,358
companies

1191
00:53:33,239 --> 00:53:38,759
take note of this one adani we'll return

1192
00:53:36,358 --> 00:53:40,980
to it later

1193
00:53:38,760 --> 00:53:43,680
what's happening in Australia is just

1194
00:53:40,980 --> 00:53:45,838
one part of a larger Global story

1195
00:53:43,679 --> 00:53:48,480
it's become accepted that corporations

1196
00:53:45,838 --> 00:53:51,179
are in charge

1197
00:53:48,480 --> 00:53:53,880
governments are incredibly subservient

1198
00:53:51,179 --> 00:53:55,318
to corporate rule

1199
00:53:53,880 --> 00:53:58,019
thank you

1200
00:53:55,318 --> 00:54:00,539
in the United States we've seen under

1201
00:53:58,019 --> 00:54:03,179
the Trump Administration the wholesale

1202
00:54:00,539 --> 00:54:05,579
corporate takeover of government on a

1203
00:54:03,179 --> 00:54:07,980
scale with no historic precedent

1204
00:54:05,579 --> 00:54:10,079
is beyond the wildest dreams of the

1205
00:54:07,980 --> 00:54:12,980
corporate sector especially in the area

1206
00:54:10,079 --> 00:54:12,980
of deregulation

1207
00:54:15,059 --> 00:54:22,680
I pledged to eliminate two unnecessary

1208
00:54:19,079 --> 00:54:26,099
regulations for every one new regulation

1209
00:54:22,679 --> 00:54:28,139
we have succeeded beyond our highest

1210
00:54:26,099 --> 00:54:33,300
expectations

1211
00:54:28,139 --> 00:54:38,338
instead of two for one we have cut 22

1212
00:54:33,300 --> 00:54:39,720
burdensome regulations for every one new

1213
00:54:38,338 --> 00:54:43,199
rule

1214
00:54:39,719 --> 00:54:46,139
I'm willing to bet that those are made

1215
00:54:43,199 --> 00:54:48,899
up numbers but the issue in regulation

1216
00:54:46,139 --> 00:54:51,480
or deregulation is not the number I mean

1217
00:54:48,900 --> 00:54:53,099
that's really absurd we want to know you

1218
00:54:51,480 --> 00:54:56,159
know if you want to have another

1219
00:54:53,099 --> 00:54:59,838
financial crisis well if you do let's

1220
00:54:56,159 --> 00:54:59,838
get rid of the financial regulations

1221
00:55:00,420 --> 00:55:06,960
corporations have said repeatedly

1222
00:55:03,059 --> 00:55:08,579
we are responsible now we understand the

1223
00:55:06,960 --> 00:55:10,559
public interest so we don't have to be

1224
00:55:08,579 --> 00:55:12,000
regulated we can self-regulate well

1225
00:55:10,559 --> 00:55:13,440
they've got an obvious self-interest in

1226
00:55:12,000 --> 00:55:15,119
saying that the reason they can't

1227
00:55:13,440 --> 00:55:17,880
self-regulate is that that's not what

1228
00:55:15,119 --> 00:55:20,280
they're about they're about trying to

1229
00:55:17,880 --> 00:55:22,920
make profit routinely When government

1230
00:55:20,280 --> 00:55:24,960
regulation fails companies in the

1231
00:55:22,920 --> 00:55:26,639
pursuit of profit endanger people and

1232
00:55:24,960 --> 00:55:28,619
that's not a hypothetical it means

1233
00:55:26,639 --> 00:55:31,500
people get poisoned they get diseases

1234
00:55:28,619 --> 00:55:33,300
they get sick Corners will be cut and

1235
00:55:31,500 --> 00:55:37,940
people will be injured and people will

1236
00:55:33,300 --> 00:55:37,940
be killed we see it over and over again

1237
00:55:41,579 --> 00:55:49,069
[Music]

1238
00:55:45,900 --> 00:55:49,070
[Applause]

1239
00:55:51,920 --> 00:55:58,699
thank you

1240
00:55:54,599 --> 00:55:58,699
[Music]

1241
00:56:04,050 --> 00:56:07,119
[Applause]

1242
00:56:17,650 --> 00:56:21,909
[Applause]

1243
00:56:27,920 --> 00:56:31,860
[Music]

1244
00:56:40,500 --> 00:56:43,338
oh

1245
00:56:46,679 --> 00:56:51,838
every industry has fought regulation

1246
00:56:49,318 --> 00:56:54,119
they all resist oversight by the

1247
00:56:51,838 --> 00:56:55,799
government because regulation increases

1248
00:56:54,119 --> 00:56:57,539
their cost of operating but I've never

1249
00:56:55,800 --> 00:57:00,350
seen an industry that's fought it more

1250
00:56:57,539 --> 00:57:04,579
than the oil and gas industry

1251
00:57:00,349 --> 00:57:04,579
[Music]

1252
00:57:05,460 --> 00:57:09,539
remember this

1253
00:57:07,920 --> 00:57:12,260
this too was a consequence of

1254
00:57:09,539 --> 00:57:12,259
deregulation

1255
00:57:28,318 --> 00:57:33,719
as a result of the Deepwater Horizon

1256
00:57:30,539 --> 00:57:35,699
catastrophe nearly 200 million gallons

1257
00:57:33,719 --> 00:57:36,838
of crude oil spilled into the Gulf of

1258
00:57:35,699 --> 00:57:39,118
Mexico

1259
00:57:36,838 --> 00:57:43,400
making it one of the worst environmental

1260
00:57:39,119 --> 00:57:43,400
and deregulation disasters in history

1261
00:57:44,400 --> 00:57:51,980
but deregulation wasn't the only problem

1262
00:57:47,818 --> 00:57:51,980
he was also recklessly breaking the law

1263
00:57:52,679 --> 00:57:57,139
and they're not alone in being corporate

1264
00:57:54,420 --> 00:57:57,139
lawbreakers

1265
00:58:04,110 --> 00:58:09,369
[Music]

1266
00:58:16,199 --> 00:58:21,058
[Music]

1267
00:58:18,838 --> 00:58:24,299
corporations will certainly do things

1268
00:58:21,059 --> 00:58:26,460
that are wrong that are unethical if

1269
00:58:24,300 --> 00:58:28,440
they're legal and permissible

1270
00:58:26,460 --> 00:58:30,900
and all the empirical evidence says that

1271
00:58:28,440 --> 00:58:32,880
they will also violate the law routinely

1272
00:58:30,900 --> 00:58:34,858
either intentionally or because they'll

1273
00:58:32,880 --> 00:58:35,849
just go over the lines if there's

1274
00:58:34,858 --> 00:58:37,440
profits to be made

1275
00:58:35,849 --> 00:58:40,380
[Music]

1276
00:58:37,440 --> 00:58:43,318
this opioid crisis is a killer

1277
00:58:40,380 --> 00:58:44,430
and it's a killer that does not

1278
00:58:43,318 --> 00:58:50,878
discriminate

1279
00:58:44,429 --> 00:58:50,878
[Music]

1280
00:58:56,838 --> 00:59:01,318
lives are being destroyed as

1281
00:58:59,400 --> 00:59:03,740
corporations profit from their playbook

1282
00:59:01,318 --> 00:59:03,739
moves

1283
00:59:04,858 --> 00:59:07,940
as they play to win

1284
00:59:08,159 --> 00:59:13,920
these corporate forces have no limits

1285
00:59:11,099 --> 00:59:17,579
and these forces

1286
00:59:13,920 --> 00:59:20,298
have put the very human species itself

1287
00:59:17,579 --> 00:59:20,298
at risk

1288
00:59:40,219 --> 00:59:45,899
giant equals Idol corporations they're

1289
00:59:43,500 --> 00:59:47,119
literally playing casino with life on

1290
00:59:45,900 --> 00:59:50,160
Earth

1291
00:59:47,119 --> 00:59:51,480
their logic of profits their process of

1292
00:59:50,159 --> 00:59:55,279
profits

1293
00:59:51,480 --> 00:59:55,280
is the death of nature

1294
00:59:55,619 --> 01:00:00,059
whenever you mess with nature you don't

1295
00:59:57,838 --> 01:00:01,739
know for sure what the exact impact will

1296
01:00:00,059 --> 01:00:03,720
be with chopped down for us we bring

1297
01:00:01,739 --> 01:00:05,399
livestock into new regions and we spread

1298
01:00:03,719 --> 01:00:07,439
these new diseases we're at the source

1299
01:00:05,400 --> 01:00:08,940
of this problem the major cities all

1300
01:00:07,440 --> 01:00:11,039
around the world are vulnerable to a

1301
01:00:08,940 --> 01:00:12,960
disease arriving in the city and then

1302
01:00:11,039 --> 01:00:16,139
causing a major epidemic and again we're

1303
01:00:12,960 --> 01:00:18,659
seeing that more and more the rate at

1304
01:00:16,139 --> 01:00:20,338
which new disease epidemics are

1305
01:00:18,659 --> 01:00:23,460
originating

1306
01:00:20,338 --> 01:00:25,440
many of them moving from forests and

1307
01:00:23,460 --> 01:00:28,260
wild species to humans

1308
01:00:25,440 --> 01:00:32,220
is partly because of corporate invasions

1309
01:00:28,260 --> 01:00:35,339
into ecosystems and violence to animals

1310
01:00:32,219 --> 01:00:39,078
the attack on other species is bouncing

1311
01:00:35,338 --> 01:00:39,078
back as an attack on us

1312
01:00:44,039 --> 01:00:48,960
ownings from Sao Paulo are dire in the

1313
01:00:46,858 --> 01:00:51,900
United States disaster has been declared

1314
01:00:48,960 --> 01:00:54,240
in all 50 states

1315
01:00:51,900 --> 01:00:55,740
when the corona virus hit in the spring

1316
01:00:54,239 --> 01:00:58,019
of 2020.

1317
01:00:55,739 --> 01:01:02,179
it laid bare the unjust and dangerous

1318
01:00:58,019 --> 01:01:02,179
fault lines of corporate capitalism

1319
01:01:05,159 --> 01:01:10,259
African Americans have been hit hardest

1320
01:01:07,500 --> 01:01:13,380
by the virus despite accounting for 14

1321
01:01:10,260 --> 01:01:18,140
of Michigan's population they represent

1322
01:01:13,380 --> 01:01:19,380
41 of its covered victims

1323
01:01:18,139 --> 01:01:22,980
[Music]

1324
01:01:19,380 --> 01:01:25,019
on prayer that is not

1325
01:01:22,980 --> 01:01:27,199
I haven't been in contact with nobody to

1326
01:01:25,019 --> 01:01:27,199
ask

1327
01:01:30,318 --> 01:01:35,000
I'll be honest with you I can barely

1328
01:01:32,519 --> 01:01:35,000
keep track

1329
01:01:36,599 --> 01:01:38,720
okay

1330
01:01:38,818 --> 01:01:44,940
this is the culmination of Decades of

1331
01:01:42,000 --> 01:01:48,838
tilting policy tilting public resources

1332
01:01:44,940 --> 01:01:52,079
in favor of the biggest corporations

1333
01:01:48,838 --> 01:01:54,960
fewer hospitals fewer hospital beds less

1334
01:01:52,079 --> 01:01:58,039
capacity to be able to respond in an

1335
01:01:54,960 --> 01:01:58,039
emergency like this

1336
01:02:11,940 --> 01:02:15,780
other systems are also breaking down

1337
01:02:14,519 --> 01:02:18,179
right now

1338
01:02:15,780 --> 01:02:20,760
essential workers people who are on the

1339
01:02:18,179 --> 01:02:22,739
front lines of getting our groceries to

1340
01:02:20,760 --> 01:02:25,020
us or really putting their lives on the

1341
01:02:22,739 --> 01:02:28,259
line without any kind of real backing

1342
01:02:25,019 --> 01:02:30,298
from the companies that employ them

1343
01:02:28,260 --> 01:02:32,760
this is partly the product of the

1344
01:02:30,298 --> 01:02:35,059
absence of Labor protections unions and

1345
01:02:32,760 --> 01:02:35,059
so on

1346
01:02:35,579 --> 01:02:42,079
what we're seeing is is a continuation

1347
01:02:38,039 --> 01:02:44,639
of the ways that corporations have

1348
01:02:42,079 --> 01:02:47,160
undermined ordinary people's ability to

1349
01:02:44,639 --> 01:02:50,460
have any say over their lives

1350
01:02:47,159 --> 01:02:52,558
this is actually not a crisis of full of

1351
01:02:50,460 --> 01:02:54,059
Novelties it's a crisis full of

1352
01:02:52,559 --> 01:02:57,000
Revelation

1353
01:02:54,059 --> 01:03:00,059
for example the same exact dynamic of

1354
01:02:57,000 --> 01:03:03,000
the 2008 financial crisis bailout where

1355
01:03:00,059 --> 01:03:05,099
the most powerful gained power as a net

1356
01:03:03,000 --> 01:03:09,059
result of those bailouts that is

1357
01:03:05,099 --> 01:03:11,460
literally happening again maybe worse

1358
01:03:09,059 --> 01:03:13,760
as Ordinary People suffered the Despair

1359
01:03:11,460 --> 01:03:15,900
and harsh effects of economic breakdown

1360
01:03:13,760 --> 01:03:17,640
giant corporations were thrown a

1361
01:03:15,900 --> 01:03:20,880
lifeline

1362
01:03:17,639 --> 01:03:22,920
president I have an update at last

1363
01:03:20,880 --> 01:03:25,260
we have a deal

1364
01:03:22,920 --> 01:03:27,358
what did the Senate majority fight for

1365
01:03:25,260 --> 01:03:29,579
one of the largest corporate bailouts

1366
01:03:27,358 --> 01:03:34,380
with as few strings as possible in

1367
01:03:29,579 --> 01:03:37,559
American history shameful the grief of

1368
01:03:34,380 --> 01:03:40,318
that fight is wrong for crumbs for our

1369
01:03:37,559 --> 01:03:42,780
families and the option that we have is

1370
01:03:40,318 --> 01:03:45,960
to either let them suffer with nothing

1371
01:03:42,780 --> 01:03:47,339
or to allow this greed and billions of

1372
01:03:45,960 --> 01:03:49,440
dollars which will be leveraged into

1373
01:03:47,338 --> 01:03:52,139
trillions of dollars to contribute to

1374
01:03:49,440 --> 01:03:54,119
the largest income inequality Gap in our

1375
01:03:52,139 --> 01:03:56,818
future

1376
01:03:54,119 --> 01:03:59,160
once again the very wealthy big

1377
01:03:56,818 --> 01:04:01,139
corporations did extraordinarily well

1378
01:03:59,159 --> 01:04:03,659
over the last year and a half they've

1379
01:04:01,139 --> 01:04:05,639
spent over a trillion dollars buying

1380
01:04:03,659 --> 01:04:08,460
back their shares of stock to

1381
01:04:05,639 --> 01:04:10,259
artificially boost their share prices so

1382
01:04:08,460 --> 01:04:12,599
that the top Executives and major

1383
01:04:10,260 --> 01:04:14,460
investors would benefit they could have

1384
01:04:12,599 --> 01:04:17,640
used that trillion dollars as a cushion

1385
01:04:14,460 --> 01:04:20,699
against the big rainy day the storm that

1386
01:04:17,639 --> 01:04:23,879
we now have they didn't instead they got

1387
01:04:20,699 --> 01:04:27,419
bailed out it's socialism for the rich

1388
01:04:23,880 --> 01:04:30,180
the corporate socialism but also the

1389
01:04:27,420 --> 01:04:33,599
harshest form of capitalism for most

1390
01:04:30,179 --> 01:04:36,239
working people and the poor

1391
01:04:33,599 --> 01:04:38,818
the crisis is highlighted that we're

1392
01:04:36,239 --> 01:04:41,098
absolutely unprepared to deal with

1393
01:04:38,818 --> 01:04:42,000
disasters like what we're facing right

1394
01:04:41,099 --> 01:04:44,818
now

1395
01:04:42,000 --> 01:04:46,260
and we also have this other even bigger

1396
01:04:44,818 --> 01:04:50,358
looming crisis which is the climate

1397
01:04:46,260 --> 01:04:50,359
catastrophe that's not going anywhere

1398
01:04:54,960 --> 01:05:03,358
it's no exaggeration to say that the

1399
01:04:59,219 --> 01:05:06,539
greed economy is killing us it's killing

1400
01:05:03,358 --> 01:05:08,460
off species it's depleting our natural

1401
01:05:06,539 --> 01:05:12,058
resources

1402
01:05:08,460 --> 01:05:15,720
it's poisoning our people

1403
01:05:12,059 --> 01:05:19,140
a handful of corporations are allowed to

1404
01:05:15,719 --> 01:05:21,419
put next quarter's profits ahead of the

1405
01:05:19,139 --> 01:05:23,578
Next Generation

1406
01:05:21,420 --> 01:05:25,980
when our children and grandchildren look

1407
01:05:23,579 --> 01:05:27,140
back in the history books and ask the

1408
01:05:25,980 --> 01:05:31,380
question

1409
01:05:27,139 --> 01:05:32,699
why didn't we stop the crisis of climate

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01:05:31,380 --> 01:05:35,338
change

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01:05:32,699 --> 01:05:37,439
the only answer we'll have for them is

1412
01:05:35,338 --> 01:05:39,420
that it was profitable for a handful of

1413
01:05:37,440 --> 01:05:41,659
Corporations to keep polluting our

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01:05:39,420 --> 01:05:41,659
planet

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01:05:44,159 --> 01:05:49,259
here are coming faster than anybody

1416
01:05:46,318 --> 01:05:52,818
thought the impacts from them are going

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01:05:49,260 --> 01:05:52,819
to be far worse than we thought

1418
01:05:53,519 --> 01:05:59,460
it's also going to change the entire

1419
01:05:56,039 --> 01:06:01,558
Global Dynamic around equality the world

1420
01:05:59,460 --> 01:06:04,380
is going to divide in ways that we have

1421
01:06:01,559 --> 01:06:07,440
a difficult time imagining now we're

1422
01:06:04,380 --> 01:06:10,079
headed for a world that sees a protected

1423
01:06:07,440 --> 01:06:13,559
privileged view surrounded by an

1424
01:06:10,079 --> 01:06:16,220
immensely impoverished majority of the

1425
01:06:13,559 --> 01:06:16,220
global population

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01:06:16,318 --> 01:06:21,179
with the impacts of climate change now

1427
01:06:18,480 --> 01:06:23,039
in plain view fossil fuel companies have

1428
01:06:21,179 --> 01:06:25,199
stopped actively denying that it's

1429
01:06:23,039 --> 01:06:27,239
happening

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01:06:25,199 --> 01:06:29,399
they've discovered that a better

1431
01:06:27,239 --> 01:06:33,000
strategy for them now in the age of

1432
01:06:29,400 --> 01:06:35,160
active climate breakdown is to charm us

1433
01:06:33,000 --> 01:06:37,679
all into believing that they're part of

1434
01:06:35,159 --> 01:06:41,038
the solution saying okay we're going to

1435
01:06:37,679 --> 01:06:42,899
invest in Renewables but meanwhile we

1436
01:06:41,039 --> 01:06:45,480
have to keep using fossil fuels for a

1437
01:06:42,900 --> 01:06:48,000
long time so you know we can use lighter

1438
01:06:45,480 --> 01:06:52,679
fuels like natural gas but we have to be

1439
01:06:48,000 --> 01:06:55,079
realistic it is impossible impossible to

1440
01:06:52,679 --> 01:06:55,919
displace carbon fully for a very long

1441
01:06:55,079 --> 01:06:58,460
time

1442
01:06:55,920 --> 01:07:01,139
gas is a very good

1443
01:06:58,460 --> 01:07:04,019
carbon fuel

1444
01:07:01,139 --> 01:07:06,779
you have to see this as one more arrow

1445
01:07:04,019 --> 01:07:07,920
in the large quiver of delay tactics and

1446
01:07:06,780 --> 01:07:09,660
ways to

1447
01:07:07,920 --> 01:07:12,119
preserve what's really the core of their

1448
01:07:09,659 --> 01:07:14,038
business not the core of the best

1449
01:07:12,119 --> 01:07:15,960
interest of society we need to

1450
01:07:14,039 --> 01:07:17,760
transition to the cleanest form of

1451
01:07:15,960 --> 01:07:19,500
carbon free energy as quickly as

1452
01:07:17,760 --> 01:07:22,079
possible if we were to do this by

1453
01:07:19,500 --> 01:07:24,298
tomorrow it wouldn't be fast enough I

1454
01:07:22,079 --> 01:07:27,119
mean we'd just be stupid if we look to

1455
01:07:24,298 --> 01:07:28,920
the coal and gas and oil industry for a

1456
01:07:27,119 --> 01:07:31,680
clean energy future that's not what they

1457
01:07:28,920 --> 01:07:33,539
do they have a business model they're

1458
01:07:31,679 --> 01:07:36,179
going to pursue that business model to

1459
01:07:33,539 --> 01:07:38,460
the end of time and they may do that if

1460
01:07:36,179 --> 01:07:40,318
we're not able to control them the

1461
01:07:38,460 --> 01:07:43,980
fossil fuel industry actually doesn't

1462
01:07:40,318 --> 01:07:46,858
plan to stop increasing production and

1463
01:07:43,980 --> 01:07:49,740
distraction anytime soon in fact they're

1464
01:07:46,858 --> 01:07:53,219
doubling down on it their goal is to

1465
01:07:49,739 --> 01:07:55,739
extract as much as possible before it

1466
01:07:53,219 --> 01:07:58,399
becomes just completely unviable for

1467
01:07:55,739 --> 01:07:58,399
them to do so

1468
01:07:59,039 --> 01:08:04,339
the fossil fuel industry is wrapping up

1469
01:08:01,199 --> 01:08:04,338
new Mega projects

1470
01:08:04,500 --> 01:08:09,960
some companies pursuing profits from

1471
01:08:07,079 --> 01:08:12,119
even the dirtiest fuels

1472
01:08:09,960 --> 01:08:16,259
like a Donnie

1473
01:08:12,119 --> 01:08:18,420
around 2011 there were plans for nine

1474
01:08:16,259 --> 01:08:20,399
new coal export ports up and down the

1475
01:08:18,420 --> 01:08:23,460
Great Barrier Reef Coast

1476
01:08:20,399 --> 01:08:26,219
adani's proposed Carmichael mine would

1477
01:08:23,460 --> 01:08:27,838
be a 60 million tonne a year thermal

1478
01:08:26,219 --> 01:08:30,198
coal mine in the middle of the Galilee

1479
01:08:27,838 --> 01:08:30,198
basin

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01:08:30,600 --> 01:08:33,900
the largest new proposed coal project in

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01:08:32,880 --> 01:08:38,119
the world

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01:08:33,899 --> 01:08:41,000
to be 40 kilometers by 13 kilometers

1483
01:08:38,119 --> 01:08:44,179
entirely encompassed within

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01:08:41,000 --> 01:08:44,179
wanganujagalingu country

1485
01:08:44,219 --> 01:08:49,380
it is on the doorstep of the Great

1486
01:08:46,738 --> 01:08:52,379
Barrier Reef an already very stressed

1487
01:08:49,380 --> 01:08:54,838
and vulnerable ecosystem and what we're

1488
01:08:52,380 --> 01:08:57,960
going to see is 500 more coal ships

1489
01:08:54,838 --> 01:09:00,059
every year trudging through a stress

1490
01:08:57,960 --> 01:09:02,939
Reef that what scientists are telling us

1491
01:09:00,060 --> 01:09:05,640
is already half dead the adani

1492
01:09:02,939 --> 01:09:08,460
Carmichael mine would drive global

1493
01:09:05,640 --> 01:09:10,859
warming it would destroy habitat for

1494
01:09:08,460 --> 01:09:13,859
endangered species it would destroy

1495
01:09:10,859 --> 01:09:15,420
groundwater and it would disenfranchise

1496
01:09:13,859 --> 01:09:16,640
wangan and juggling with traditional

1497
01:09:15,420 --> 01:09:20,270
owners of that country

1498
01:09:16,640 --> 01:09:20,270
[Music]

1499
01:09:23,939 --> 01:09:28,858
try and get rid of that problem

1500
01:09:26,350 --> 01:09:30,779
[Music]

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01:09:28,859 --> 01:09:33,359
we know that the mechanisms of the state

1502
01:09:30,779 --> 01:09:36,600
line up to work for mining companies and

1503
01:09:33,359 --> 01:09:40,699
corporations essentially to roll over

1504
01:09:36,600 --> 01:09:40,699
Aboriginal people to get past us

1505
01:09:43,338 --> 01:09:48,600
the government and the state and the

1506
01:09:45,899 --> 01:09:49,920
corporations devise ways saying oh we

1507
01:09:48,600 --> 01:09:51,060
want to put this mind and we just want

1508
01:09:49,920 --> 01:09:53,279
to do it we just want to put this

1509
01:09:51,060 --> 01:09:56,539
pipeline in and all these people are in

1510
01:09:53,279 --> 01:09:56,540
our way we need to remove them

1511
01:09:59,640 --> 01:10:04,079
they use the security they use our own

1512
01:10:01,920 --> 01:10:06,960
Aboriginal police against us they use

1513
01:10:04,079 --> 01:10:09,719
every means they can

1514
01:10:06,960 --> 01:10:11,698
to indigenous people it is clearly a

1515
01:10:09,719 --> 01:10:13,920
life and death struggle

1516
01:10:11,698 --> 01:10:15,359
that's what you're witnessing happening

1517
01:10:13,920 --> 01:10:18,659
around the world

1518
01:10:15,359 --> 01:10:23,000
that is destructive corporate agenda

1519
01:10:18,659 --> 01:10:23,000
that is completely out of control

1520
01:10:24,630 --> 01:10:27,800
[Music]

1521
01:10:48,420 --> 01:10:53,940
when a society begins to understand that

1522
01:10:51,658 --> 01:10:56,399
that good job that they had or their

1523
01:10:53,939 --> 01:10:58,500
parents at is never coming back

1524
01:10:56,399 --> 01:11:01,859
that they are going to be working 70

1525
01:10:58,500 --> 01:11:03,899
hours a week and still be consumed by

1526
01:11:01,859 --> 01:11:06,899
crippling Debt Pay image

1527
01:11:03,899 --> 01:11:09,059
that all of their dreams that Oprah and

1528
01:11:06,899 --> 01:11:11,819
everyone else has told them can come to

1529
01:11:09,060 --> 01:11:14,520
fruition are never going to arrive

1530
01:11:11,819 --> 01:11:17,759
and they scream for vengeance and moral

1531
01:11:14,520 --> 01:11:19,980
renewal and they look for the internal

1532
01:11:17,760 --> 01:11:21,420
enemies that have thwarted

1533
01:11:19,979 --> 01:11:23,939
the possibility of their own

1534
01:11:21,420 --> 01:11:24,840
aggrandizement so then you turn on the

1535
01:11:23,939 --> 01:11:26,960
vulnerable

1536
01:11:24,840 --> 01:11:29,819
you turn on Muslims

1537
01:11:26,960 --> 01:11:33,239
undocumented workers homosexuals

1538
01:11:29,819 --> 01:11:35,698
feminists intellectuals liberals

1539
01:11:33,238 --> 01:11:38,218
all of those forces that you are told

1540
01:11:35,698 --> 01:11:40,500
have a thwarted

1541
01:11:38,219 --> 01:11:43,039
the possibilities that were your right

1542
01:11:40,500 --> 01:11:43,039
to have

1543
01:11:43,319 --> 01:11:50,880
what you see is a frustration that grew

1544
01:11:47,219 --> 01:11:54,480
out of economic disempowerment

1545
01:11:50,880 --> 01:11:56,219
turning into a new wave of hate there's

1546
01:11:54,479 --> 01:11:58,198
no question that a lot of people around

1547
01:11:56,219 --> 01:11:59,819
the world have a feeling that we've

1548
01:11:58,198 --> 01:12:02,219
lived in this age that is incredibly

1549
01:11:59,819 --> 01:12:03,960
abundant in Innovation but short on

1550
01:12:02,219 --> 01:12:06,679
progress if progress means most people's

1551
01:12:03,960 --> 01:12:06,679
lives getting better

1552
01:12:08,939 --> 01:12:17,599
it's only a matter of time before people

1553
01:12:13,100 --> 01:12:17,600
want to shatter the system

1554
01:12:19,760 --> 01:12:24,719
there's no guarantee when people rise up

1555
01:12:22,859 --> 01:12:28,439
the shadow system whether you get

1556
01:12:24,719 --> 01:12:31,039
Medicare for all or a wall on the

1557
01:12:28,439 --> 01:12:31,039
southern border

1558
01:12:33,920 --> 01:12:37,859
[Applause]

1559
01:12:34,939 --> 01:12:40,439
[Music]

1560
01:12:37,859 --> 01:12:42,479
it's akin to the fascist movements of

1561
01:12:40,439 --> 01:12:46,559
the 1920s and 30s

1562
01:12:42,479 --> 01:12:48,959
where the alienated can feel a sense of

1563
01:12:46,560 --> 01:12:53,420
empowerment by identifying with the

1564
01:12:48,960 --> 01:12:53,420
great leader often in these big rallies

1565
01:12:55,880 --> 01:13:02,579
I mean it really is like snapshots out

1566
01:12:58,979 --> 01:13:07,279
of the 1930s this kind of politics of

1567
01:13:02,579 --> 01:13:07,279
hatred and reaction and Division

1568
01:13:08,000 --> 01:13:14,100
Donald Trump

1569
01:13:10,619 --> 01:13:15,899
wasn't the problem Donald Trump was the

1570
01:13:14,100 --> 01:13:19,920
symptom of the problem

1571
01:13:15,899 --> 01:13:21,539
the problem is a a breakdown in the

1572
01:13:19,920 --> 01:13:24,779
social cohesion

1573
01:13:21,539 --> 01:13:27,439
that makes democracy and Civil Society

1574
01:13:24,779 --> 01:13:27,439
possible

1575
01:13:28,939 --> 01:13:35,879
and that breakdown in Social cohesion in

1576
01:13:32,520 --> 01:13:39,120
turn was created by 40 Years of rising

1577
01:13:35,880 --> 01:13:42,020
economic inequality by the evisceration

1578
01:13:39,119 --> 01:13:45,179
of the middle class

1579
01:13:42,020 --> 01:13:47,400
collectively the nation lashed out by

1580
01:13:45,179 --> 01:13:49,760
electing the candidate who was lashing

1581
01:13:47,399 --> 01:13:49,759
out too

1582
01:13:57,140 --> 01:14:05,300
this angry right-wing eruption

1583
01:14:02,060 --> 01:14:08,219
completely agreed with the free market

1584
01:14:05,300 --> 01:14:11,760
fundamentalism of this new order and

1585
01:14:08,219 --> 01:14:15,060
represented themselves as a people whose

1586
01:14:11,760 --> 01:14:19,140
whiteness whose Traditional Values whose

1587
01:14:15,060 --> 01:14:21,300
Christianity whose nativism should be at

1588
01:14:19,140 --> 01:14:23,719
the heart of the country's concerns let

1589
01:14:21,300 --> 01:14:26,779
them call you racist

1590
01:14:23,719 --> 01:14:30,619
let them call you xenophobes

1591
01:14:26,779 --> 01:14:34,079
let them call you nativists

1592
01:14:30,619 --> 01:14:36,539
wear it as a badge of honor because

1593
01:14:34,079 --> 01:14:38,039
every day we get stronger and they get

1594
01:14:36,539 --> 01:14:40,439
weaker

1595
01:14:38,039 --> 01:14:43,380
parts of the population are actually

1596
01:14:40,439 --> 01:14:45,599
leaning towards strongman Donald Trump

1597
01:14:43,380 --> 01:14:48,179
the large part of the Turkish population

1598
01:14:45,600 --> 01:14:50,699
is supporting erdogan or we're seeing it

1599
01:14:48,179 --> 01:14:52,500
in Hungary with Orban we are proud to

1600
01:14:50,698 --> 01:14:55,259
stand together with the United States on

1601
01:14:52,500 --> 01:14:57,119
fighting against illegal migration

1602
01:14:55,260 --> 01:15:00,060
on terrorism

1603
01:14:57,119 --> 01:15:02,099
and to protect and help the Christian

1604
01:15:00,060 --> 01:15:04,620
communities all around the world all of

1605
01:15:02,100 --> 01:15:06,420
these right-wing regimes

1606
01:15:04,619 --> 01:15:08,340
represent a continuation of

1607
01:15:06,420 --> 01:15:09,600
privatization of the destruction of

1608
01:15:08,340 --> 01:15:12,239
welfare

1609
01:15:09,600 --> 01:15:14,520
the undermining of labor unions Etc

1610
01:15:12,238 --> 01:15:16,919
Unchained by the kinds of restrictions

1611
01:15:14,520 --> 01:15:19,440
that that workers rights posed or that

1612
01:15:16,920 --> 01:15:21,899
Environmental Protections pose or that

1613
01:15:19,439 --> 01:15:24,960
even structures for providing for the

1614
01:15:21,899 --> 01:15:27,299
poor opposed so now corporations have

1615
01:15:24,960 --> 01:15:29,539
freerra reign

1616
01:15:27,300 --> 01:15:32,940
money has replaced the vote

1617
01:15:29,539 --> 01:15:36,060
America is dominated by a system of

1618
01:15:32,939 --> 01:15:37,799
legalized bribery our three branches of

1619
01:15:36,060 --> 01:15:40,260
government are wholly captive to

1620
01:15:37,800 --> 01:15:43,079
corporate power so you have corporate

1621
01:15:40,260 --> 01:15:46,199
forces that purport to pay fealty to

1622
01:15:43,079 --> 01:15:48,238
electoral Politics the Constitution the

1623
01:15:46,198 --> 01:15:51,839
iconography and language of American

1624
01:15:48,238 --> 01:15:54,658
patriotism and yet internally have

1625
01:15:51,840 --> 01:15:56,520
rendered the citizen impede I don't

1626
01:15:54,658 --> 01:15:58,920
think that you can

1627
01:15:56,520 --> 01:16:01,020
honestly grasp the forces we're up

1628
01:15:58,920 --> 01:16:02,340
against including the unraveling of the

1629
01:16:01,020 --> 01:16:05,699
ecosystem

1630
01:16:02,340 --> 01:16:08,159
and not be filled with despair

1631
01:16:05,698 --> 01:16:10,139
the greatest existential crisis of our

1632
01:16:08,158 --> 01:16:12,539
time is to at once understand the

1633
01:16:10,140 --> 01:16:15,860
reality before us and then find the

1634
01:16:12,539 --> 01:16:15,859
capacity to resist

1635
01:16:19,090 --> 01:16:26,229
[Music]

1636
01:16:28,260 --> 01:16:31,980
so much of our Lives is about the

1637
01:16:30,359 --> 01:16:33,599
stories we tell ourselves

1638
01:16:31,979 --> 01:16:35,639
and corporations have done a very

1639
01:16:33,600 --> 01:16:37,800
effective job at defining the limits of

1640
01:16:35,640 --> 01:16:39,600
possibility and defining what we can

1641
01:16:37,800 --> 01:16:42,779
expect out of life

1642
01:16:39,600 --> 01:16:45,000
so if we believe that we are in a dog

1643
01:16:42,779 --> 01:16:47,519
eat dog world and it's patriarchal

1644
01:16:45,000 --> 01:16:50,579
machismo view of reality then that

1645
01:16:47,520 --> 01:16:52,739
constrains how we act and how we behave

1646
01:16:50,579 --> 01:16:54,960
social movements are created out of a

1647
01:16:52,738 --> 01:16:56,459
contagious mood and a new tactic part of

1648
01:16:54,960 --> 01:16:57,719
what that new tactic does is it wakes

1649
01:16:56,460 --> 01:17:00,480
people up and part of what that mood

1650
01:16:57,719 --> 01:17:03,960
does is gets them to dream again

1651
01:17:00,479 --> 01:17:06,238
in 2011 mass movements for change swept

1652
01:17:03,960 --> 01:17:09,539
across the globe in the aftermath of the

1653
01:17:06,238 --> 01:17:11,099
2008 financial crisis there was a cycle

1654
01:17:09,539 --> 01:17:13,140
of struggles

1655
01:17:11,100 --> 01:17:16,380
sometimes called the movement of squares

1656
01:17:13,140 --> 01:17:18,960
it starts in Tunisia

1657
01:17:16,380 --> 01:17:22,440
and passes to Egypt

1658
01:17:18,960 --> 01:17:23,199
passing then across the Mediterranean to

1659
01:17:22,439 --> 01:17:24,359
Spain

1660
01:17:23,199 --> 01:17:27,359
[Applause]

1661
01:17:24,359 --> 01:17:29,519
to Greece

1662
01:17:27,359 --> 01:17:32,339
before it finally arrives at Ducati Park

1663
01:17:29,520 --> 01:17:34,860
in the United States and what were these

1664
01:17:32,340 --> 01:17:39,079
movements about they were really about

1665
01:17:34,859 --> 01:17:39,079
the demand for a new kind of democracy

1666
01:17:40,679 --> 01:17:43,980
during October Wall Street we suddenly

1667
01:17:42,238 --> 01:17:45,658
thought what we can have a democracy in

1668
01:17:43,979 --> 01:17:48,299
this country that's not run by Corporate

1669
01:17:45,658 --> 01:17:49,619
Finance capitalism like it's amazing you

1670
01:17:48,300 --> 01:17:51,719
know

1671
01:17:49,619 --> 01:17:53,939
the moment was so ripe that within 24

1672
01:17:51,719 --> 01:17:57,020
hours activists in New York City took up

1673
01:17:53,939 --> 01:17:57,019
the idea and ran with it

1674
01:17:58,260 --> 01:18:03,420
these movements were a kind of refusal

1675
01:18:00,840 --> 01:18:05,719
of corporate culture consumerism and

1676
01:18:03,420 --> 01:18:08,520
that was their Essence

1677
01:18:05,719 --> 01:18:10,920
the Occupy Movement quickly spread from

1678
01:18:08,520 --> 01:18:14,719
zakati Park to cities across the United

1679
01:18:10,920 --> 01:18:14,719
States and then the world

1680
01:18:17,300 --> 01:18:20,300
foreign

1681
01:18:23,199 --> 01:18:28,619
[Music]

1682
01:18:24,979 --> 01:18:30,899
movement captured the feeling that

1683
01:18:28,619 --> 01:18:33,899
ordinary working people had and when the

1684
01:18:30,899 --> 01:18:35,460
recession happened in 2008 the very

1685
01:18:33,899 --> 01:18:38,339
banks that had caused the financial

1686
01:18:35,460 --> 01:18:41,960
collapse were the ones being rewarded

1687
01:18:38,340 --> 01:18:44,699
and the rest of us had got sold out

1688
01:18:41,960 --> 01:18:48,300
what was so important about occupy was

1689
01:18:44,698 --> 01:18:50,759
to crystallize the public anger occupy

1690
01:18:48,300 --> 01:18:54,179
did that and put an explanatory

1691
01:18:50,760 --> 01:18:56,360
narrative around the 99 versus the one

1692
01:18:54,179 --> 01:18:56,359
percent

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01:19:00,000 --> 01:19:05,340
an economic system that is fundamentally

1694
01:19:03,079 --> 01:19:06,840
fundamentally misaligned in the

1695
01:19:05,340 --> 01:19:08,409
corporate interest and against the

1696
01:19:06,840 --> 01:19:11,480
people's interests

1697
01:19:08,409 --> 01:19:13,039
[Applause]

1698
01:19:11,479 --> 01:19:14,779
[Music]

1699
01:19:13,039 --> 01:19:15,019
all right

1700
01:19:14,779 --> 01:19:19,759
[Applause]

1701
01:19:15,020 --> 01:19:24,749
[Music]

1702
01:19:19,760 --> 01:19:24,748
[Applause]

1703
01:19:25,399 --> 01:19:30,599
Occupy Wall Street was a constructive

1704
01:19:27,539 --> 01:19:32,340
failure but it taught us something very

1705
01:19:30,600 --> 01:19:33,659
important we need to pair protests with

1706
01:19:32,340 --> 01:19:35,279
gaining sovereignty which means either

1707
01:19:33,658 --> 01:19:37,019
pairing protests with winning elections

1708
01:19:35,279 --> 01:19:39,000
or pairing protests with winning wars

1709
01:19:37,020 --> 01:19:41,280
and you can choose as an activist I

1710
01:19:39,000 --> 01:19:42,960
would Advocate elections there's only so

1711
01:19:41,279 --> 01:19:44,759
many times you can have tear gas fired

1712
01:19:42,960 --> 01:19:46,920
into your face and get hit over the head

1713
01:19:44,760 --> 01:19:50,100
by a police bat on or be dragged up to

1714
01:19:46,920 --> 01:19:51,239
jail and after a while you say you know

1715
01:19:50,100 --> 01:19:53,579
what I'm going to do something at the

1716
01:19:51,238 --> 01:19:55,500
level of politics now

1717
01:19:53,579 --> 01:19:58,079
all those movements face the challenge

1718
01:19:55,500 --> 01:20:01,140
what do you stand for

1719
01:19:58,079 --> 01:20:03,658
are you actually going to challenge the

1720
01:20:01,140 --> 01:20:05,310
power of Corporations this is what the

1721
01:20:03,658 --> 01:20:10,898
2020s will be about

1722
01:20:05,310 --> 01:20:10,899
[Music]

1723
01:20:12,300 --> 01:20:18,300
we turn now to Seattle Washington where

1724
01:20:15,600 --> 01:20:20,940
a former Occupy Wall Street activist is

1725
01:20:18,300 --> 01:20:23,579
being sworn in today to the city council

1726
01:20:20,939 --> 01:20:26,779
we have shown that it's possible to

1727
01:20:23,579 --> 01:20:30,960
succeed as an independent Grassroots

1728
01:20:26,779 --> 01:20:33,738
openly socialist campaign not taking any

1729
01:20:30,960 --> 01:20:38,520
money from Big Business this moment

1730
01:20:33,738 --> 01:20:41,939
belongs to that way of organizing shama

1731
01:20:38,520 --> 01:20:44,520
becomes the first socialist elected to

1732
01:20:41,939 --> 01:20:48,198
uh to the Seattle City council since the

1733
01:20:44,520 --> 01:20:52,320
early 20th century her signature issue

1734
01:20:48,198 --> 01:20:54,779
was 15 an hour minimum wage

1735
01:20:52,319 --> 01:20:57,000
there were courageous workers of

1736
01:20:54,779 --> 01:21:01,738
McDonald's and other fast food Outlets

1737
01:20:57,000 --> 01:21:04,738
who went out on a one-day strike

1738
01:21:01,738 --> 01:21:07,519
15 and a union was their slogan

1739
01:21:04,738 --> 01:21:09,899
on the 15th of May 2014

1740
01:21:07,520 --> 01:21:13,199
thousands of fast food workers flooded

1741
01:21:09,899 --> 01:21:16,139
the streets of 150 U.S cities striking

1742
01:21:13,198 --> 01:21:18,299
to demand a 15 minimum wage better

1743
01:21:16,140 --> 01:21:19,500
working conditions and the right to form

1744
01:21:18,300 --> 01:21:22,679
a union

1745
01:21:19,500 --> 01:21:25,260
we organized Ordinary People workers

1746
01:21:22,679 --> 01:21:29,658
Rank and file union members and

1747
01:21:25,260 --> 01:21:29,659
activists who wanted to fight 415.

1748
01:21:29,960 --> 01:21:34,319
if you are actually going to be true to

1749
01:21:32,399 --> 01:21:36,000
the movement if you are going to be

1750
01:21:34,319 --> 01:21:38,158
accountable to all these people you

1751
01:21:36,000 --> 01:21:41,760
claim to represent once you're elected

1752
01:21:38,158 --> 01:21:43,619
it does require you to take a bold and

1753
01:21:41,760 --> 01:21:46,260
strong stance against the corporate

1754
01:21:43,619 --> 01:21:48,059
politicians if they are not on your side

1755
01:21:46,260 --> 01:21:51,360
then you have to fight against them

1756
01:21:48,060 --> 01:21:53,760
you're Duty bound also over billion

1757
01:21:51,359 --> 01:21:57,198
dollars of taxes that Amazon owes to the

1758
01:21:53,760 --> 01:22:00,179
IRS they now get a break of

1759
01:21:57,198 --> 01:22:02,339
789 million dollars

1760
01:22:00,179 --> 01:22:05,219
her campaign wins so many supporters

1761
01:22:02,340 --> 01:22:08,279
that Seattle becomes the first major

1762
01:22:05,219 --> 01:22:09,539
city in America to adopt 15 an hour

1763
01:22:08,279 --> 01:22:11,880
minimum wage

1764
01:22:09,539 --> 01:22:13,619
and that starts the ball rolling as more

1765
01:22:11,880 --> 01:22:16,440
and more cities Across the Nation have

1766
01:22:13,619 --> 01:22:20,460
followed the example of Seattle

1767
01:22:16,439 --> 01:22:22,379
if you Empower workers by giving them a

1768
01:22:20,460 --> 01:22:23,579
better standard of living it's not going

1769
01:22:22,380 --> 01:22:26,760
to stop there

1770
01:22:23,579 --> 01:22:28,679
it raises their sights the confidence of

1771
01:22:26,760 --> 01:22:30,360
working people towards a different kind

1772
01:22:28,679 --> 01:22:32,460
of society

1773
01:22:30,359 --> 01:22:33,719
you don't need a PhD in economics to

1774
01:22:32,460 --> 01:22:36,420
know that your life sucks under

1775
01:22:33,719 --> 01:22:37,630
capitalism and we've got to build a

1776
01:22:36,420 --> 01:22:40,779
movement to fight for it

1777
01:22:37,630 --> 01:22:40,779
[Music]

1778
01:22:41,569 --> 01:22:46,679
[Applause]

1779
01:22:42,960 --> 01:22:49,859
in 2019 shama sawant was elected to a

1780
01:22:46,679 --> 01:22:52,679
third term on Seattle City council

1781
01:22:49,859 --> 01:22:56,658
despite Amazon spending 1.5 million

1782
01:22:52,679 --> 01:22:56,658
dollars to try to unseat her

1783
01:23:00,539 --> 01:23:04,679
shama was pioneering the new Urban

1784
01:23:03,179 --> 01:23:07,279
Renaissance

1785
01:23:04,679 --> 01:23:11,039
starting around

1786
01:23:07,279 --> 01:23:12,840
2013 and 14 especially a whole new

1787
01:23:11,039 --> 01:23:14,939
movement developed of Grassroots

1788
01:23:12,840 --> 01:23:17,279
organizations from various movements

1789
01:23:14,939 --> 01:23:19,259
that then United to elect for the first

1790
01:23:17,279 --> 01:23:21,539
time representatives of their

1791
01:23:19,260 --> 01:23:23,940
perspectives into office you had a whole

1792
01:23:21,539 --> 01:23:26,698
wave of people all of whom were not

1793
01:23:23,939 --> 01:23:28,799
expected to have a chance all of them

1794
01:23:26,698 --> 01:23:30,658
running on more or less the same

1795
01:23:28,800 --> 01:23:32,279
platform that income inequality is the

1796
01:23:30,658 --> 01:23:34,799
moral issue of our time

1797
01:23:32,279 --> 01:23:37,319
and they were not just part of the U.S

1798
01:23:34,800 --> 01:23:39,600
movement but you had siddiq Khan from

1799
01:23:37,319 --> 01:23:41,819
the first Muslim elected to the

1800
01:23:39,600 --> 01:23:43,980
mayoralty of London you had an Hidalgo a

1801
01:23:41,819 --> 01:23:46,198
leading environmentalist and socialist

1802
01:23:43,979 --> 01:23:48,479
of Europe winning the mayoral City of

1803
01:23:46,198 --> 01:23:50,759
Paris Carmen Julene Cruz the mayor of

1804
01:23:48,479 --> 01:23:55,039
San Juan Puerto Rico and you have other

1805
01:23:50,760 --> 01:23:55,039
colau in uh in Barcelona

1806
01:24:00,319 --> 01:24:06,658
in the wake of the mortgage meltdown

1807
01:24:03,859 --> 01:24:08,880
worldwide there were thousands of

1808
01:24:06,658 --> 01:24:11,879
Spanish homeowners being evicted from

1809
01:24:08,880 --> 01:24:14,640
their houses by International Banks and

1810
01:24:11,880 --> 01:24:17,340
other colau begins to lead a resistance

1811
01:24:14,640 --> 01:24:19,450
movement of the homeowners

1812
01:24:17,340 --> 01:24:24,250
foreign

1813
01:24:19,449 --> 01:24:24,250
[Applause]

1814
01:24:37,680 --> 01:24:40,749
[Music]

1815
01:24:43,520 --> 01:24:47,580
through Mass protests and Civil

1816
01:24:45,899 --> 01:24:52,819
Disobedience she gains a name for

1817
01:24:47,579 --> 01:24:52,819
herself as a defender of the homeowners

1818
01:24:59,189 --> 01:25:07,929
[Music]

1819
01:25:01,770 --> 01:25:07,930
[Laughter]

1820
01:25:08,039 --> 01:25:11,039
gracias

1821
01:25:36,770 --> 01:25:42,260
[Applause]

1822
01:25:40,079 --> 01:25:42,260
foreign

1823
01:25:49,069 --> 01:25:52,179
[Music]

1824
01:26:01,439 --> 01:26:05,519
what's different about this movement is

1825
01:26:03,960 --> 01:26:08,100
that the progressives have seen the

1826
01:26:05,520 --> 01:26:10,560
necessity to actually capture office

1827
01:26:08,100 --> 01:26:12,719
then also once they get into office

1828
01:26:10,560 --> 01:26:14,580
they've understood the necessity for

1829
01:26:12,719 --> 01:26:18,260
continuing to be connected to the

1830
01:26:14,579 --> 01:26:18,260
Grassroots movements that got them there

1831
01:26:18,899 --> 01:26:21,899
Espanol

1832
01:26:27,658 --> 01:26:29,960
is

1833
01:26:33,079 --> 01:26:39,539
2019 more than 200 leading thinkers and

1834
01:26:37,198 --> 01:26:41,178
activists endorse Carlisle's bid for

1835
01:26:39,539 --> 01:26:43,500
re-election

1836
01:26:41,179 --> 01:26:45,840
Barcelona has become a Beacon of Hope

1837
01:26:43,500 --> 01:26:47,579
they wrote proving that we don't have to

1838
01:26:45,840 --> 01:26:48,840
be afraid of standing up to corporate

1839
01:26:47,579 --> 01:26:51,000
power

1840
01:26:48,840 --> 01:26:52,260
that there is another way of doing

1841
01:26:51,000 --> 01:26:55,439
politics

1842
01:26:52,260 --> 01:27:00,909
that puts people at the center

1843
01:26:55,439 --> 01:27:03,799
Kola was re-elected mayor in June 2019.

1844
01:27:00,909 --> 01:27:05,579
[Applause]

1845
01:27:03,800 --> 01:27:08,760
seeing the documentary of the

1846
01:27:05,579 --> 01:27:11,279
corporation it opened my eyes this is

1847
01:27:08,760 --> 01:27:12,480
Chris Barrett he appeared in our first

1848
01:27:11,279 --> 01:27:14,340
film

1849
01:27:12,479 --> 01:27:16,738
featured as one of the first corporate

1850
01:27:14,340 --> 01:27:19,619
sponsored college students

1851
01:27:16,738 --> 01:27:21,899
we saw Tiger Woods on TV with a hat with

1852
01:27:19,619 --> 01:27:23,819
a Nike logo on it and we figured you

1853
01:27:21,899 --> 01:27:25,079
know he probably gets like millions of

1854
01:27:23,819 --> 01:27:26,819
dollars just to wear the hat on the

1855
01:27:25,079 --> 01:27:28,079
press conference and therefore we

1856
01:27:26,819 --> 01:27:30,719
figured we can do that for someone else

1857
01:27:28,079 --> 01:27:32,760
and hopefully get money in turn so we

1858
01:27:30,719 --> 01:27:35,158
can go to school

1859
01:27:32,760 --> 01:27:38,280
you guys were poking fun at us but we

1860
01:27:35,158 --> 01:27:41,399
were 18 year old kids seeing the

1861
01:27:38,279 --> 01:27:43,139
corporation my my mind just like kind of

1862
01:27:41,399 --> 01:27:46,500
exploded it was just like

1863
01:27:43,139 --> 01:27:47,579
I had never been exposed to this mindset

1864
01:27:46,500 --> 01:27:49,079
before

1865
01:27:47,579 --> 01:27:50,639
I was having lunch with my grandfather

1866
01:27:49,079 --> 01:27:53,039
and I asked him who should the

1867
01:27:50,639 --> 01:27:54,600
Democratic nominee be and he told me at

1868
01:27:53,039 --> 01:27:56,760
the time that Bernie Sanders looks

1869
01:27:54,600 --> 01:27:59,100
pretty good I went home and I researched

1870
01:27:56,760 --> 01:28:01,619
Bernie's platform and I realized that

1871
01:27:59,100 --> 01:28:05,039
internally like I align with a lot that

1872
01:28:01,619 --> 01:28:07,679
Bernie says this great nation and its

1873
01:28:05,039 --> 01:28:12,738
government belonged to all of the people

1874
01:28:07,679 --> 01:28:12,739
and not to a handful of billionaires

1875
01:28:13,340 --> 01:28:17,760
and I got connected to Grassroots for

1876
01:28:15,658 --> 01:28:20,158
Sanders they offered me the position of

1877
01:28:17,760 --> 01:28:22,139
assistant fundraising manager where I

1878
01:28:20,158 --> 01:28:22,869
could be able to do the fundraising asks

1879
01:28:22,139 --> 01:28:30,900
on Reddit

1880
01:28:22,869 --> 01:28:33,000
[Music]

1881
01:28:30,899 --> 01:28:34,500
we were able to raise over 10 million

1882
01:28:33,000 --> 01:28:36,619
dollars directly to Bernie Sanders

1883
01:28:34,500 --> 01:28:39,060
campaign

1884
01:28:36,619 --> 01:28:41,399
at some of the field offices people

1885
01:28:39,060 --> 01:28:43,020
would come through the door and they

1886
01:28:41,399 --> 01:28:44,389
would say how do I get involved I have

1887
01:28:43,020 --> 01:28:48,360
never voted in my life

1888
01:28:44,390 --> 01:28:50,699
[Music]

1889
01:28:48,359 --> 01:28:54,179
one of Bernie's messages after he lost

1890
01:28:50,698 --> 01:28:55,738
his presidential run was that local

1891
01:28:54,179 --> 01:28:57,899
people could take back the power and we

1892
01:28:55,738 --> 01:28:59,698
could run for office I met a local

1893
01:28:57,899 --> 01:29:02,279
political organizer in my town of

1894
01:28:59,698 --> 01:29:04,619
Collingswood he was putting together a

1895
01:29:02,279 --> 01:29:06,059
slate of progressive candidates I

1896
01:29:04,619 --> 01:29:09,238
thought that was a brilliant idea it was

1897
01:29:06,060 --> 01:29:11,639
exactly what Barney wanted us to do and

1898
01:29:09,238 --> 01:29:13,019
we I signed the form and we were running

1899
01:29:11,639 --> 01:29:15,119
for office

1900
01:29:13,020 --> 01:29:16,800
I don't think when I was out there

1901
01:29:15,119 --> 01:29:19,079
getting a corporate sponsor that I

1902
01:29:16,800 --> 01:29:21,900
realized that in 16 years I would be an

1903
01:29:19,079 --> 01:29:23,519
elected official in New Jersey I'm going

1904
01:29:21,899 --> 01:29:25,859
to stay on this path and I'm going to

1905
01:29:23,520 --> 01:29:28,380
continue down this political route until

1906
01:29:25,859 --> 01:29:30,559
we have the Progressive Party of the

1907
01:29:28,380 --> 01:29:30,560
future

1908
01:29:31,100 --> 01:29:36,060
historically Progressive movements were

1909
01:29:33,840 --> 01:29:37,440
more interested about building power in

1910
01:29:36,060 --> 01:29:39,600
the streets which is an important thing

1911
01:29:37,439 --> 01:29:41,399
and they kind of neglected running for

1912
01:29:39,600 --> 01:29:43,020
office

1913
01:29:41,399 --> 01:29:45,960
I think now progresses are starting to

1914
01:29:43,020 --> 01:29:48,900
see the nature of power where it lies

1915
01:29:45,960 --> 01:29:51,000
and the reason to contest for it

1916
01:29:48,899 --> 01:29:54,059
now we have thousands of people saying

1917
01:29:51,000 --> 01:29:56,179
Hey I want to run for office

1918
01:29:54,060 --> 01:29:59,940
it's common to say you know that the

1919
01:29:56,179 --> 01:30:01,920
Senators campaign failed I think that's

1920
01:29:59,939 --> 01:30:05,819
a mistake I think it was an

1921
01:30:01,920 --> 01:30:09,319
extraordinary success completely shifted

1922
01:30:05,819 --> 01:30:13,019
the arena of debate and discussion

1923
01:30:09,319 --> 01:30:15,539
issues that were Unthinkable a couple of

1924
01:30:13,020 --> 01:30:17,520
years ago are now right in the middle of

1925
01:30:15,539 --> 01:30:19,859
attention

1926
01:30:17,520 --> 01:30:22,260
the Sanders campaign took to the larger

1927
01:30:19,859 --> 01:30:25,500
political stage the kind of politics

1928
01:30:22,260 --> 01:30:27,199
being practiced by local politicians

1929
01:30:25,500 --> 01:30:29,760
like so long

1930
01:30:27,198 --> 01:30:31,859
and Barrett

1931
01:30:29,760 --> 01:30:34,260
electoral politics interwoven with

1932
01:30:31,859 --> 01:30:35,759
Grassroots activism

1933
01:30:34,260 --> 01:30:39,360
[Music]

1934
01:30:35,760 --> 01:30:42,360
some form of green New Deal is essential

1935
01:30:39,359 --> 01:30:46,698
for the survival of humanity

1936
01:30:42,359 --> 01:30:51,238
now it's part of the general agenda boy

1937
01:30:46,698 --> 01:30:53,960
activist engagement young people they

1938
01:30:51,238 --> 01:30:56,539
receive support from Alexandria

1939
01:30:53,960 --> 01:31:00,658
ocasio-cortez and other young

1940
01:30:56,539 --> 01:31:06,439
legislators who came into office as part

1941
01:31:00,658 --> 01:31:06,439
of the Sanders inspired popular wave

1942
01:31:08,639 --> 01:31:11,639
I think the next wave of revolutions

1943
01:31:10,260 --> 01:31:13,980
really is going to be this kind of

1944
01:31:11,639 --> 01:31:16,319
strange thing where we wake up and we're

1945
01:31:13,979 --> 01:31:18,479
like oh my gosh there's this social

1946
01:31:16,319 --> 01:31:20,579
movement they're in the streets but

1947
01:31:18,479 --> 01:31:24,019
they're running election campaigns they

1948
01:31:20,579 --> 01:31:24,019
have candidates and they're winning

1949
01:31:24,920 --> 01:31:28,920
thank you

1950
01:31:27,250 --> 01:31:31,560
[Music]

1951
01:31:28,920 --> 01:31:34,219
whatever form it takes change Always

1952
01:31:31,560 --> 01:31:36,300
begins with organizing

1953
01:31:34,219 --> 01:31:39,600
it's going to be the year that we take

1954
01:31:36,300 --> 01:31:41,940
the toxic stultified politics of climate

1955
01:31:39,600 --> 01:31:45,420
change and turn it on its head and it

1956
01:31:41,939 --> 01:31:48,178
starts with stopping adani our aim is to

1957
01:31:45,420 --> 01:31:49,800
move the world away from fossil fuels as

1958
01:31:48,179 --> 01:31:51,420
fast as possible the wangan and

1959
01:31:49,800 --> 01:31:54,179
jagalingu people

1960
01:31:51,420 --> 01:31:57,480
have a different struggle which is to

1961
01:31:54,179 --> 01:31:59,239
protect their land and to win land

1962
01:31:57,479 --> 01:32:02,519
rights

1963
01:31:59,238 --> 01:32:04,259
adani has tried to rip our people apart

1964
01:32:02,520 --> 01:32:07,380
it's actually brought our people

1965
01:32:04,260 --> 01:32:09,239
together as well and we've been able to

1966
01:32:07,380 --> 01:32:10,199
think about what is our alternative

1967
01:32:09,238 --> 01:32:12,238
future

1968
01:32:10,198 --> 01:32:16,219
what do we want to build

1969
01:32:12,238 --> 01:32:18,839
and it's not extractive industries that

1970
01:32:16,219 --> 01:32:20,880
governments and other corporations would

1971
01:32:18,840 --> 01:32:24,420
like it to be

1972
01:32:20,880 --> 01:32:25,920
what we've set out to do is support a

1973
01:32:24,420 --> 01:32:28,739
whole range of organizations and

1974
01:32:25,920 --> 01:32:30,359
individuals to work together to achieve

1975
01:32:28,738 --> 01:32:32,479
much bigger change than any one

1976
01:32:30,359 --> 01:32:34,380
organization could achieve working alone

1977
01:32:32,479 --> 01:32:37,519
we want to

1978
01:32:34,380 --> 01:32:37,520
lose control of

1979
01:32:40,260 --> 01:32:43,800
it we figured that the only way we could

1980
01:32:42,238 --> 01:32:45,899
really stop the project is stopping them

1981
01:32:43,800 --> 01:32:48,239
getting Finance yes they need the

1982
01:32:45,899 --> 01:32:50,399
permits and the approvals

1983
01:32:48,238 --> 01:32:52,979
also needs

1984
01:32:50,399 --> 01:32:55,500
both starpadani and the wangan and

1985
01:32:52,979 --> 01:32:58,738
jagalingo people push to Halt funding of

1986
01:32:55,500 --> 01:33:01,738
the adani cormi we met with some of the

1987
01:32:58,738 --> 01:33:04,559
largest banks in the world and said you

1988
01:33:01,738 --> 01:33:06,899
need to acknowledge that any investment

1989
01:33:04,560 --> 01:33:10,380
in the adani Carmichael coal mine

1990
01:33:06,899 --> 01:33:12,119
will be a breach of your obligations to

1991
01:33:10,380 --> 01:33:13,800
us as the indigenous people who've said

1992
01:33:12,119 --> 01:33:16,260
no

1993
01:33:13,800 --> 01:33:17,940
within a month Standard Chartered came

1994
01:33:16,260 --> 01:33:21,060
out publicly and said that they would

1995
01:33:17,939 --> 01:33:22,500
not be giving any money to adani that

1996
01:33:21,060 --> 01:33:24,600
was after

1997
01:33:22,500 --> 01:33:26,819
they'd already given them 680 million

1998
01:33:24,600 --> 01:33:29,219
dollars the two campaigns together

1999
01:33:26,819 --> 01:33:31,920
succeeded in stopping funding from all

2000
01:33:29,219 --> 01:33:33,960
banks worldwide then they won again

2001
01:33:31,920 --> 01:33:36,000
blocking the Australian government's

2002
01:33:33,960 --> 01:33:38,639
attempt to fill the Gap with a one

2003
01:33:36,000 --> 01:33:40,920
billion dollar loan it was a huge

2004
01:33:38,639 --> 01:33:43,739
victory for us because we were told it

2005
01:33:40,920 --> 01:33:46,079
was something that couldn't be done

2006
01:33:43,738 --> 01:33:48,738
adani and his government allies

2007
01:33:46,079 --> 01:33:48,738
allies push for the money

2008
01:33:48,899 --> 01:33:52,379
the money yet

2009
01:33:50,039 --> 01:33:53,698
not a single lump of coal has been mined

2010
01:33:52,380 --> 01:33:57,119
to date

2011
01:33:53,698 --> 01:34:01,079
the resistance continues

2012
01:33:57,119 --> 01:34:03,359
all of my life I have been told

2013
01:34:01,079 --> 01:34:06,359
who I am through stories about the

2014
01:34:03,359 --> 01:34:10,019
people that I come from without their

2015
01:34:06,359 --> 01:34:13,039
resistance and their resilience I would

2016
01:34:10,020 --> 01:34:16,139
not be here it's come down to me

2017
01:34:13,039 --> 01:34:17,639
and I refuse to be the broken Link in

2018
01:34:16,139 --> 01:34:19,739
the chain

2019
01:34:17,639 --> 01:34:23,940
the fight over the adani coal mine has

2020
01:34:19,738 --> 01:34:26,459
become a symbol whether corporations can

2021
01:34:23,939 --> 01:34:29,219
continue to ride roughshod over the

2022
01:34:26,460 --> 01:34:30,899
wishes of the community and create a

2023
01:34:29,219 --> 01:34:33,840
future that is in their financial

2024
01:34:30,899 --> 01:34:36,359
interests alone or whether the community

2025
01:34:33,840 --> 01:34:38,819
actually can build enough power to say

2026
01:34:36,359 --> 01:34:40,859
no that is not the future we want we

2027
01:34:38,819 --> 01:34:41,429
want a safe future with a safe climate

2028
01:34:40,859 --> 01:34:46,819
for everybody

2029
01:34:41,430 --> 01:34:50,400
[Music]

2030
01:34:46,819 --> 01:34:52,198
there is this Global Network there's a

2031
01:34:50,399 --> 01:34:54,899
big fight brewing in Argentina against

2032
01:34:52,198 --> 01:34:56,399
fracking corporations against coal

2033
01:34:54,899 --> 01:35:00,420
expansion in South Africa and

2034
01:34:56,399 --> 01:35:02,939
Philippines in India and Poland

2035
01:35:00,420 --> 01:35:04,460
there's campaigns against pipelines in

2036
01:35:02,939 --> 01:35:09,738
Canada Kinder Morgan

2037
01:35:04,460 --> 01:35:09,739
Keystone XL the fight outstanding Rock

2038
01:35:11,039 --> 01:35:16,560
our indigenous people have been on the

2039
01:35:13,380 --> 01:35:19,560
front lines way before my time

2040
01:35:16,560 --> 01:35:22,860
it's about the land the water

2041
01:35:19,560 --> 01:35:24,900
our inherent jurisdiction as caretakers

2042
01:35:22,859 --> 01:35:28,859
of Mother Earth

2043
01:35:24,899 --> 01:35:32,158
but it's not just an indigenous struggle

2044
01:35:28,859 --> 01:35:34,679
it's a struggle of humanity we need to

2045
01:35:32,158 --> 01:35:36,238
come together to push back the corporate

2046
01:35:34,679 --> 01:35:37,859
agenda

2047
01:35:36,238 --> 01:35:40,439
all people

2048
01:35:37,859 --> 01:35:43,039
all races are beginning to realize we're

2049
01:35:40,439 --> 01:35:43,039
in this together

2050
01:35:44,340 --> 01:35:48,139
we cannot unring a bell

2051
01:35:50,520 --> 01:35:56,280
our civilization is being sacrificed for

2052
01:35:54,000 --> 01:35:59,100
the opportunity of a very small number

2053
01:35:56,279 --> 01:36:00,289
of people to continue making enormous

2054
01:35:59,100 --> 01:36:01,860
amounts of money

2055
01:36:00,289 --> 01:36:04,738
[Music]

2056
01:36:01,859 --> 01:36:06,420
we have not come here to beg we're

2057
01:36:04,738 --> 01:36:08,879
leaders to care

2058
01:36:06,420 --> 01:36:11,460
you have ignored us in the past and you

2059
01:36:08,880 --> 01:36:13,859
will ignore us again

2060
01:36:11,460 --> 01:36:16,380
you have run out of excuses and we are

2061
01:36:13,859 --> 01:36:18,839
running out of time

2062
01:36:16,380 --> 01:36:21,300
we have come here to let you know that

2063
01:36:18,840 --> 01:36:22,739
change is coming whether you like it or

2064
01:36:21,300 --> 01:36:24,989
not

2065
01:36:22,738 --> 01:36:27,229
the real power belongs to the people

2066
01:36:24,989 --> 01:36:30,000
[Music]

2067
01:36:27,229 --> 01:36:33,419
[Applause]

2068
01:36:30,000 --> 01:36:35,639
if you're really wanting to address the

2069
01:36:33,420 --> 01:36:38,819
Deep problems of social racial and

2070
01:36:35,639 --> 01:36:40,909
gender Injustice in our society then we

2071
01:36:38,819 --> 01:36:43,219
need to think of lessons from history

2072
01:36:40,909 --> 01:36:46,460
[Music]

2073
01:36:43,219 --> 01:36:50,179
one thing that's remarkable is just that

2074
01:36:46,460 --> 01:36:50,179
people keep struggling

2075
01:36:50,520 --> 01:36:55,880
that in the worst situations people

2076
01:36:53,100 --> 01:36:55,880
always fight

2077
01:36:56,119 --> 01:37:01,920
even when you thought

2078
01:36:58,979 --> 01:37:04,099
nothing is possible you look at the

2079
01:37:01,920 --> 01:37:07,319
political situation think how bad it is

2080
01:37:04,100 --> 01:37:09,739
then something beautiful and inspiring

2081
01:37:07,319 --> 01:37:09,738
comes out

2082
01:37:15,179 --> 01:37:18,920
in the spring of 2020 the world shut

2083
01:37:18,060 --> 01:37:23,780
down

2084
01:37:18,920 --> 01:37:23,779
but people's hearts opened wide

2085
01:37:27,560 --> 01:37:30,739
[Music]

2086
01:37:32,359 --> 01:37:35,359
thank you

2087
01:37:38,579 --> 01:37:41,639
one of the most beautiful things I've

2088
01:37:39,960 --> 01:37:44,579
seen during the crisis is the way

2089
01:37:41,639 --> 01:37:47,340
workers in a variety of sectors

2090
01:37:44,579 --> 01:37:49,859
have refused have refused to go along

2091
01:37:47,340 --> 01:37:52,139
with putting workers in danger

2092
01:37:49,859 --> 01:37:54,359
Amazon workers striking

2093
01:37:52,139 --> 01:37:56,520
FedEx workers working out

2094
01:37:54,359 --> 01:37:58,679
but also healthcare workers put in

2095
01:37:56,520 --> 01:38:02,580
dangerous situations

2096
01:37:58,679 --> 01:38:04,980
this foresees the kinds of struggles

2097
01:38:02,579 --> 01:38:07,859
that will emerge from this Christ that

2098
01:38:04,979 --> 01:38:10,339
confront the inequalities of this

2099
01:38:07,859 --> 01:38:10,339
economy

2100
01:38:12,179 --> 01:38:18,239
has revealed that there is Broad support

2101
01:38:15,658 --> 01:38:20,099
for the idea that we need to contain

2102
01:38:18,238 --> 01:38:22,198
corporate power

2103
01:38:20,100 --> 01:38:24,600
so that we live in a society where we

2104
01:38:22,198 --> 01:38:26,638
reinvigorate democracy where we have a

2105
01:38:24,600 --> 01:38:29,159
sense of the public purpose and that

2106
01:38:26,639 --> 01:38:31,260
we're not simply at the mercy of a few

2107
01:38:29,158 --> 01:38:33,000
corporations that increasingly run our

2108
01:38:31,260 --> 01:38:36,000
lives

2109
01:38:33,000 --> 01:38:39,119
this can change the way people think

2110
01:38:36,000 --> 01:38:41,359
about the system we owe one another

2111
01:38:39,119 --> 01:38:44,639
certain things certain minimum things

2112
01:38:41,359 --> 01:38:47,099
that's been lost in the last 40 Years of

2113
01:38:44,639 --> 01:38:49,199
deregulation and privatization and the

2114
01:38:47,100 --> 01:38:52,620
corporate takeover of our our political

2115
01:38:49,198 --> 01:38:56,539
culture and our political system

2116
01:38:52,619 --> 01:38:56,539
starting to Dawn on this

2117
01:39:00,119 --> 01:39:05,698
is because the pandemic has revealed

2118
01:39:02,520 --> 01:39:07,620
that the system is incapable of

2119
01:39:05,698 --> 01:39:10,099
addressing even the most basic needs of

2120
01:39:07,619 --> 01:39:10,099
our society

2121
01:39:11,219 --> 01:39:14,939
this film was being

2122
01:39:13,020 --> 01:39:16,440
as being George Floyd is brutally killed

2123
01:39:14,939 --> 01:39:18,678
by police

2124
01:39:16,439 --> 01:39:21,359
a flash point that ignites an uprising

2125
01:39:18,679 --> 01:39:23,940
thousands took to the streets demanding

2126
01:39:21,359 --> 01:39:25,799
Justice for George Floyd The Death of a

2127
01:39:23,939 --> 01:39:27,960
black man pleading that he can't breathe

2128
01:39:25,800 --> 01:39:30,199
as a white officer was kneeling on his

2129
01:39:27,960 --> 01:39:30,198
neck

2130
01:39:31,198 --> 01:39:34,138
imagine

2131
01:39:32,819 --> 01:39:35,819
angry

2132
01:39:34,139 --> 01:39:38,340
spread

2133
01:39:35,819 --> 01:39:41,759
to be to come

2134
01:39:38,340 --> 01:39:44,520
to come in the historical pandemic that

2135
01:39:41,760 --> 01:39:48,320
has had a disproportionately horrendous

2136
01:39:44,520 --> 01:39:48,320
impact in Black communities

2137
01:39:48,550 --> 01:39:54,480
[Music]

2138
01:39:51,600 --> 01:39:56,699
the democracy is trying to breathe

2139
01:39:54,479 --> 01:40:00,658
because of the weight of poverty on our

2140
01:39:56,698 --> 01:40:02,039
neck the denial of Health Care and I met

2141
01:40:00,658 --> 01:40:04,259
because what's happening is

2142
01:40:02,039 --> 01:40:07,460
metaphorically the whole culture is

2143
01:40:04,260 --> 01:40:07,460
saying we can't breathe

2144
01:40:07,979 --> 01:40:11,459
despite sometimes brutal police

2145
01:40:09,658 --> 01:40:14,460
repression

2146
01:40:11,460 --> 01:40:16,619
the protests grew and began to Target

2147
01:40:14,460 --> 01:40:19,800
broader injustices and distorted

2148
01:40:16,619 --> 01:40:22,619
priorities look at the gear and the

2149
01:40:19,800 --> 01:40:25,260
equipment that they have compared to

2150
01:40:22,619 --> 01:40:27,719
hospital workers dressing themselves in

2151
01:40:25,260 --> 01:40:32,400
garbage bags being forced to use the

2152
01:40:27,719 --> 01:40:35,158
same n95 masks for weeks at a time

2153
01:40:32,399 --> 01:40:37,979
the protests quickly became about more

2154
01:40:35,158 --> 01:40:40,500
than racist policing confronting the

2155
01:40:37,979 --> 01:40:41,779
Echoes of corporate capitalism's racist

2156
01:40:40,500 --> 01:40:46,319
past

2157
01:40:41,779 --> 01:40:49,619
capitalism is racial capitalism

2158
01:40:46,319 --> 01:40:52,139
the Industrial Revolution which pivoted

2159
01:40:49,619 --> 01:40:56,069
around the production of capital was

2160
01:40:52,139 --> 01:40:57,779
enabled by slave labor in the U.S

2161
01:40:56,069 --> 01:41:00,479
[Applause]

2162
01:40:57,779 --> 01:41:02,960
there are calls to rethink who we choose

2163
01:41:00,479 --> 01:41:05,698
to honor from our past

2164
01:41:02,960 --> 01:41:08,039
monuments to men who were once honored

2165
01:41:05,698 --> 01:41:11,960
now viewed by a new generation as

2166
01:41:08,039 --> 01:41:11,960
symbols of racism and colonialism

2167
01:41:15,600 --> 01:41:19,320
people only protest what they believe

2168
01:41:17,639 --> 01:41:21,719
can be changed

2169
01:41:19,319 --> 01:41:23,479
the folk didn't protest that meant we

2170
01:41:21,719 --> 01:41:26,219
really would be in trouble

2171
01:41:23,479 --> 01:41:28,678
I don't believe these are just protests

2172
01:41:26,219 --> 01:41:31,439
against police brutality we're seeing

2173
01:41:28,679 --> 01:41:34,649
the convergence of a class Rebellion

2174
01:41:31,439 --> 01:41:36,539
with racism at the center of it

2175
01:41:34,649 --> 01:41:39,539
[Music]

2176
01:41:36,539 --> 01:41:41,939
change will come on this run

2177
01:41:39,539 --> 01:41:44,158
this Pro just black people we can't be

2178
01:41:41,939 --> 01:41:46,500
the same coming out of this

2179
01:41:44,158 --> 01:41:49,259
too many people are suffering we must

2180
01:41:46,500 --> 01:41:51,000
make our political system respond we

2181
01:41:49,260 --> 01:41:53,280
must do it in our deepest mall and not

2182
01:41:51,000 --> 01:41:56,340
that I believe Traditions but it must

2183
01:41:53,279 --> 01:41:58,920
not be weak it has to be strong it has

2184
01:41:56,340 --> 01:42:01,100
to last for an election and Beyond an

2185
01:41:58,920 --> 01:42:01,100
election

2186
01:42:04,260 --> 01:42:09,239
there is a whole new spirit out there

2187
01:42:06,420 --> 01:42:13,319
that's saying 500 years of colonialism

2188
01:42:09,238 --> 01:42:14,879
is enough 200 years of corporate rule

2189
01:42:13,319 --> 01:42:18,658
is enough

2190
01:42:14,880 --> 01:42:22,020
200 years of the building of a fossil

2191
01:42:18,658 --> 01:42:24,359
fuel age is enough I see people who are

2192
01:42:22,020 --> 01:42:25,020
waking up to the realization that no you

2193
01:42:24,359 --> 01:42:26,639
don't

2194
01:42:25,020 --> 01:42:28,139
go start an app if you want to change

2195
01:42:26,639 --> 01:42:32,039
the world you actually try to change the

2196
01:42:28,139 --> 01:42:33,719
world and de-rig a rigged system and in

2197
01:42:32,039 --> 01:42:37,139
a moment like this if you're not working

2198
01:42:33,719 --> 01:42:39,480
at that level on those kinds of things

2199
01:42:37,139 --> 01:42:41,159
you have to really ask yourself

2200
01:42:39,479 --> 01:42:42,479
what was your role in this moment in

2201
01:42:41,158 --> 01:42:45,839
history

2202
01:42:42,479 --> 01:42:49,559
we've been here before we've been at a

2203
01:42:45,840 --> 01:42:51,960
place where my ancestors were bought and

2204
01:42:49,560 --> 01:42:54,300
sold for profit

2205
01:42:51,960 --> 01:42:58,340
we've been at a place where people

2206
01:42:54,300 --> 01:43:01,380
routinely died on the job and over time

2207
01:42:58,340 --> 01:43:04,260
movements of ordinary people have broken

2208
01:43:01,380 --> 01:43:06,600
the chains and have held corporations

2209
01:43:04,260 --> 01:43:09,179
and powerful people accountable and

2210
01:43:06,600 --> 01:43:11,400
change the rules so that more people can

2211
01:43:09,179 --> 01:43:13,440
flourish and feel truly free

2212
01:43:11,399 --> 01:43:16,079
I think we are in the midst of another

2213
01:43:13,439 --> 01:43:18,779
one of those movements right now where a

2214
01:43:16,079 --> 01:43:22,399
lot of people all across the world are

2215
01:43:18,779 --> 01:43:22,399
saying enough is enough