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Should we pull him?
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Unload.
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Let's give him a hand, get the fuck off.
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Republican nominee Donald Trump
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continues to make an impact without any clothes on.
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The activist group In Decline arranged
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for Donald Trump statues to appear yesterday morning,
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not only here, but also in L.A., New York, Seattle,
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and Cleveland.
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Here's a caption from Bill Clinton and Melania Trump,
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what I see every morning when I wake up.
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Donald Trump was a picture of the naked Donald Trump statue.
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I was in my neighborhood walking down Hollywood Boulevard
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and there's like a giant naked Trump
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with his tiny little nubbin of a penis.
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I ran into it by total happenstance
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in the uncastron market.
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It was really funny and effective.
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It gets people talking about Trump
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and his narcissism, his insecurity.
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Instead of being horrified by this orange keto monster,
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they're like it, they can laugh at him.
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Dipper has no balls, was crucial
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because we were sounding the alarm well
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before he was even nominated.
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In addition to creating something poignant and inspiring,
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we felt it was also necessary to raise the bar
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in the event that he was elected.
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Grab him by the pussy, I can do anything.
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Donald J. Trump is now president of the United States.
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We are going to make America so great again.
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When Trump won the selection, I didn't know what to do.
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I couldn't watch the news.
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He've ended the war on beautiful clean call.
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North Korea best not make any more threats
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to the United States, this is my honor.
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Your organization is terrible.
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Let's go.
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Right now is a confusing fucking time in the world.
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Donald J. Trump is calling for a total and complete shutdown
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of Muslims entering the United States.
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This demigod is like gotten control of us.
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I hate to tell you Puerto Rico,
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but you thrown our budget a little out of whack.
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I don't know what I'm saying.
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Trump, I think sparked the rise of division,
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racism, sexism, xenophobia.
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Just 12 through hundreds of people.
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Yes, I think there's blame on both sides.
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You never have racism come out of a cave
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like it has under his administration.
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People die crossing that wall.
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Maybe they'll just stay on their side.
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It's a witch hunt.
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You are fake news.
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The ambulances are coming and going.
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It comes from China.
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One people, one nation, and another crisis.
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Proud boys, stand back and stand by.
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The political crisis, which has always been ongoing,
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but it seems to be more of a crisis now
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than anything I've ever beheld in my life.
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Anytime you have fascism rear its ugly face,
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they will always be a greater hunger for resistance arts.
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The time is ripe for people to be fighting that shit.
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The cultural climate right now
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is fantastic for resistance arts.
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Art is not a mirror, but a homer.
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But we should shape the world.
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My weapon is my paybrush.
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That's how I fight.
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Art could really disrupt mainstream narratives.
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I honestly can say that the arts have saved my life.
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It's something that will change the world.
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I see it as a voice for the voiceless.
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The early '80s, when I first saw the Robbie Kanal,
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President Reagan, contradiction posters all over Los Angeles.
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God, this is a kid, you know, and I asked my mom,
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I was like, that's the president,
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and they're saying something bad about the president.
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And she's like, yeah.
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And I go, can you do that?
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She's like, yeah, it's a free country.
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You can say anything you want.
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And right then, it quit.
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When I realized that art could be an effective tool
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for bringing about change in the world,
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was when I was on death row,
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people started doing things like screen printing,
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pre-the West Memphis three T-shirts.
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People would hold art shows to pay for attorneys
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and private investigators and DNA testing,
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all that sort of stuff.
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Art really was a very vital component
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that led to me eventually being released from death row.
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The power of art is a tale of the truth
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that you won't get from a bureaucrats or politicians.
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So it exposes them and reflects that.
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When I was in the Black Panther Party,
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you had a whole grassroots community
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that wasn't a reading community,
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but learned through observation and participation.
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So if they seen the graphics and the visuals,
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they could get to just the story.
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You had people who saw in the images,
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maybe their apples, their fathers and their brothers.
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So now they become heroes in the artwork themselves.
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The Black Panther Party, the African American community,
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became a national and an international icon
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that transcended boundaries.
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With every movement, there's been a movement of art
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that goes with it that's been made by the people
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to kind of like stand up and fight
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against whatever it is they're fighting against.
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The Black Panther Party for self-defense
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calls upon the American people in general
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to take careful note racist police agencies
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throughout the country are intensifying the terror,
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brutality, murder and repression of Black people.
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Any progressive, radical or revolutionary change,
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it's come from below.
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The people who made the Berlin Wall fall,
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the people who destroyed apartheid,
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the people who dismantled Jim Crow
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had no more intelligence, power, money, courage
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or creativity than anyone watching this right now.
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They stood up in their place in time
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for more just and decent household workplace,
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school, country, world and just did it.
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A lot of people feel like spectators in the world
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that they've been told that they need to sit on the sidelines
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while other people shape things.
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I believe that the more people contributing their voice
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in a creative way, the better the world will be.
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Younger generations often feel jaded by politics
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and they think that there's no hope,
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there's no room for them, in utilizing urban art,
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Shepard was really able to activate
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a younger generation of voters.
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His artwork became like a huge part of American politics,
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part of history now.
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I use what I call the inside, outside strategy.
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I'll do illegal stuff, but when I get the opportunity
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to put something that expresses my point of view
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on a big building legally, even if the person
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who's building it is doesn't understand
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the potential antagonism, once it's there,
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it's creating a conversation.
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When you do something intelligent
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that makes people go, shit, that's super effective.
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Look at what Banksy's done, I mean it's unbelievable
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how he's actually got his name out there like that.
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I mean, I think he's fucking genius.
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You know, my favorite is Banksy because he's witty
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and he's interesting and he works in so many different,
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you know, levels.
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Man, he did one of the Gaza Strip.
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The hole in the wall and it's like paradise on the other side,
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that was kind of crazy to me.
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I was like amazed by the message.
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Like I said, so many things went out.
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One word being said.
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Resistance art gets people to think about
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the things they don't want to think about.
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We all can live in our own sort of curated realities,
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but these things that exist in public space
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force people to have more of a community conversation.
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I'm always doing it and of course,
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in decline has been a major force.
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We received a message from the activist art group
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in decline this morning.
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The billboard is supposed to say shoot a 50 caliber,
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but now it says, shoot a school kid.
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Intervening in billboards around guns,
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I think is pretty provocative.
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You know, I admire the ambition and the courage.
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Two billboards each with a mannequin and a noose
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around its neck.
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That's some pretty bold statement.
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That's, that's some bullsy shit.
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Yeah, I need it.
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In decline is pretty militaristic in the way
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it puts everything together.
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We have to be.
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You've been around 20 years and virtually every single time
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you go outside to create something as a crime.
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And we're gonna develop a pretty immense rap sheet.
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Most of the risks involve legal risks,
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which are plenty and they're real.
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You know, I've been to jail for art and graffiti
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and it's not stopping me.
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The group in decline is a group of sick individuals
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who hate Trump and his supporters
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and think it's funny to degrade us
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and then excuse it by calling it art.
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We don't take ourselves too seriously obviously
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and that's super important.
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You good?
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But we also know what, we also know where we stand.
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I think artists have a combination of jobs to do.
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Number one, whatever is wrong in the world,
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if you have a voice,
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you should certainly be furthering that conversation.
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Once Trump came in office,
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they really spurred us into action.
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We knew this guy was gonna assume that he was above the law.
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So we wanna pull the rope in the opposite direction
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for these four years and kind of join people
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and be on the right side of history.
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March of 2018, we booked a room
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at the Trump Hotel in New York City.
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The Trump Hotel staff came out
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and graciously took all of our bags
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up to our room for us.
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What they didn't know was in those bags
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where all of our materials,
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including about 12 live rats.
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We stripped the entire hotel down to the bones.
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Once the room was completely empty,
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we constructed a jail cell
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and then put a Trump impersonator in the jail cell
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and surrounded him with live rats and McDonald's wrappers.
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The Trump in the hotel room with the cape.
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Yeah, that blew my head off.
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Only thing I could think the whole time I was watching was,
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what is he gonna say what he sees this?
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In the client is doing some of the most extravagant
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takeovers anybody's ever seen.
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The installation work, the crew, the planning,
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the amount of people and the amount of people that get reached.
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There's no way to not have a reaction.
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I think the more successful in the client is,
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the more enemies in the client has.
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I was reluctant about doing this in a year.
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That's why I'm masked up,
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because I know they didn't be watching this.
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Respectful in decline.
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For doing shit, you're not supposed to.
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Shit, you could get in a lot of trouble for her,
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but that's the chance you take.
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For art and for being an activist.
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You have to be willing to take shit,
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'cause you will take shit, you know?
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For taking a polarizing position, you're gonna take shit.
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Color Conakova was sentenced to two years in prison
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on charges of hooliganism after taking part
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in the Pussy Ride punk protest staged in Moscow's main cathedral.
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We got locked inside prison for two years.
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We were told by the government, you have to admit
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that you're guilty and you have to bring deep condolences
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to Pushing for being harmed by you and be like,
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"Hi, I actually love lesbian Pushing."
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And then you will be let go with it.
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No, we don't really see ourselves in this light.
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And we stayed in jail.
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And we were prepared to die for what we believe in.
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Pussy Riot in Russia that sticks in your fucking head.
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It embarrasses Putin, 'cause he could not control them,
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and it gets you America as if people connect to them.
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Pussy Riot was the one thing that I saw growing up
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in a suburban town.
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If they can make music subjecting government,
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then I can do something in my town.
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Sunrise has used their logo and their color,
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the color yellow, which is so bright.
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And they've flooded offices of Nancy Pelosi,
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and it's a sea of yellow.
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Our party needs to work for us, not for the 1% and the wealthy.
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It's impossible to change the man's game
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by playing by their rules.
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So we have to go outside of those limits.
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This is all self-care, and this is not the fact
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that we are born and made a better future for our kids,
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and it's the fact that it's the same.
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Breaking the law is a reminder to young people
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that the laws have to change.
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Like, why are we supposed to be following laws
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when corporations are destroying our planet?
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I mean, you look at Star Wars, it's
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about a rebel alliance, you know?
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The rebel alliance is fighting against the dark lords,
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and we have that situation right now.
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There are actually people hell-bent on destroying the planet.
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Putin and Trump, they are everything that they hate.
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Not to crap out of it, would you?
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They're both misogynists.
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And I love the women.
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They both don't give a flying fuck about environmental issues.
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So we have to fight back.
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Now is the best time in the world to fuck shit up,
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and I mean that in the best way possible.
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I mean it with love, in the old punk rock fashion,
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fucking shit up, which is really fixing things.
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In the good old days, this doesn't happen,
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because they used to treat them very, very rough.
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And when they protested once, they would not do it again,
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so easily.
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Beautiful lesson that I've learned
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and this sunrise is like how to use my voice
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and turns out you need a screen.
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First of all, just doing anything
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you're not supposed to do is fun.
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You don't do stuff that hurts people,
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but you do stuff that fucks with people.
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If you're not having fun when you're living your life
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and fighting the man, they win.
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Get angry, get pissed, make change.
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I would encourage people to break rules
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that don't make sense, because it teaches us
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a lot about why rules exist in the first place.
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And it helps us to change rules that aren't working.
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It really is, by any means, necessary.
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Do what it takes.
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That sucks a little, but I'm not going to be upset.
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Yeah.
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Oh, fuck you, that feel good.
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You want something that's going to be able to save
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a human being, no matter what mother nature throws at him.
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This is the Halliburton survival ball.
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The activism and the mischief kind of came up together,
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although I didn't realize there was an activism
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component at first.
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Today, the country's largest business lobby,
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the Chamber of Commerce, got punked.
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It will reverse its position on the climate change bill,
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and once a carbon tax, if you will.
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If we are impersonating someone in power,
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we will try to announce a utopian vision that's
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like what everybody wants to hear them say,
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but they otherwise wouldn't be likely to say.
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Clean coal is a technology that has not only not been proven,
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it basically doesn't exist.
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OK, this is AmeriCorps' label.
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I'm with the US Chamber of Commerce.
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This is not an official US Chamber of Commerce event.
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Can I see your business car?
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Can I see yours?
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How do you hear representing the US Chamber of Commerce?
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Yes, I am.
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OK, well I work there, and you do not look familiar to me at all.
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Could I see your business car?
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If we wanted to, as just regular citizens,
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have a voice in democracy, culture jamming
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is sort of a way to weasel in and say something louder
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than you're usually allowed to.
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This guy is a fraud, he's lying.
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Let's call it a prank, you know.
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Lighten up, have a sense of humor.
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I try to practice things to say before the judge.
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I quit thinking about, by any means,
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necessary being like something violent.
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I literally feel like that's like a creative call.
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Oh, hey!
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I've always thought that a plan was the best thing
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to destroy their sense of dignity.
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Let's get this round yourself with troublemakers.
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People that were just natural rulebreakers
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did something visceral.
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Get in trouble, good trouble, necessary trouble.
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Like say, Lenny Bruce.
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And then it won't matter, even Randy,
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if you're a colored, and I'm Jewish.
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He was humorous, but it was to show that society is sick.
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Hunter's pure gums, huh?
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He was the guy I had to meet.
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When I started in my clinical career, growing career,
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I wanted to change the world.
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And 50 years later, I've achieved it.
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It's now worse than it was when I started.
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You'd like to punch him in the face, I'll tell you.
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Shit's fucked up, and we have a responsibility as artists,
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if your superpower is singing a song that people will resonate
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with, or you're good at drawing on a wall,
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we all have a responsibility to make beauty out of nothing.
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Look at that attitude.
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There's never been a successful social movement
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that hasn't had a great soundtrack.
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Black flag, the sex pistols, the clash.
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I mean, I was nine years old when I heard fuck the police.
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I'm not interested in just being an ally.
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I want to be an accomplice.
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Praise the middle fingers in the sky.
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Play that.
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Die already, not defy the one-man wall city.
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A minor threat, a black flag, did something different.
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And it started hacking globally.
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Punk is not a movement.
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It is a culture.
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It is a rebel culture.
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The resistance musicians, the artists who are rebellious,
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they're not making music in order to sell music.
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They're making music to inspire other people
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and to wake people up, right?
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So that line between commercial and what
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you want to call resistance art or rebellious stuff,
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it's not a fucking line.
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It's a wall.
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You got to make art because it's in your heart,
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not because of how it's going to affect your bank account.
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My job as a radical political musician
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is not to lecture you.
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My argument is made in the Moscow.
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If you have a voice, you need to use your voice.
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The days of passively making art for art's sake,
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like those days, ended a long time ago.
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I've had a lot of experience doing the right thing
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and knowing that it was going to really hurt my career.
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You're always going to get shit.
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And you have to just say, fuck it.
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It's still worth it, but it's hard sometimes.
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We've been banned from certain countries
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because of what we say.
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I mean, we're still on a list of bans who
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are banned from the radio.
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We were carrying deeply about our principles, our politics.
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So it was always our goal to communicate it
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to be your audience, even if our art is not comfortable for them.
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Art's a good story.
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The song is a good story.
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And those stories are what get to people.
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And they got to meet me.
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That has been the role of art since human beings
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began creating art.
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They created songs, dances, theater in order
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to make sense of the universe.
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I needed to breathe.
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It's my outlet.
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It's my everything, you know?
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Art also can call into question things
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that are assumed as truth.
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As political activists or artists,
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we're supposed to question everything, like everything.
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And it's exhausting to question everything.
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But you should just look at everything and why is it like that?
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And is that the best way for it to be?
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Why should a company own a million billboards
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and I own none, you know?
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Our public spaces have become all about advertising.
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And our media space is all about who
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has the biggest megaphone, which is usually
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determined by money or power.
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The problem with our side of the equation
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is it's all the money exist on the other side.
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They have the money, we don't.
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It's not there.
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You have to do this because it's the right thing,
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yeah, because it's everybody's got to love you.
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There's that place that wants your money.
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There's that place that wants your money.
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Here's a drive-through, they want your money.
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Here's a vacation you could buy.
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Here's an hotel you can stay in.
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Here's a car wash.
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Or here's a free alternative view.
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A little ends you can look at as you fucking out here.
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Take it or leave it, you know?
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It's free.
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In fact, it cost us a lot of money.
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We put it there, and we did it for you.
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Every day, 365 days a year, seven days a week,
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wherever you go, you're going to see visions.
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Whether you're positive or next, if you don't see them.
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Everybody wins if art got a message
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and got something to say.
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So for me, it makes sense to make things that
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can open your eyes or talk about something that really
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can matter.
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People can see something and then
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inhabit that space and have their own independent reaction
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to things.
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Art is so deeply affects people.
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Visuals affect people.
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It's really important to pull people in.
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Then they can feel like they have power.
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When my mother took me to the shops,
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when I was like six years old, and there was a bit of graffiti,
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it's gone now, but it was a frightful piece.
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And it was that kind of thing that started making me think
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that there was a message out there that wasn't just
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advertisements.
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And I think that's when I started looking at graffiti.
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I was attracted to graffiti because of the
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Robin Hood aspect of it all.
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It feels good because it really feels like
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you're going against the oppressor.
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The opinion in general is really pure art for.
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It's really democratic.
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Anybody can do it, and you can do it anywhere.
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I realized that I could talk with the people to
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communicate with the society and share my
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awareness about things that I don't like.
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I don't know, there's just some excitement to it that just,
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I still can't stop doing it.
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Some of the guys in my family, what are you doing?
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Fucking write your name over and they're like,
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"What's wrong with you?"
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Like, you just don't get it.
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Yeah, it is almost like a drug.
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It's addicting.
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These guys are all criminals, I'm a criminal.
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It's like, what if we just did it during the day?
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You know, what if you got it like an orange vest
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and, you know, did it during the day?
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Then it would look like that's your job.
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Sometimes the police would just stop and watch you.
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A really important thing to get across to people
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who are new at this is to use humor.
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You know, if you go toe to toe with the cops,
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they're gonna bash you to the fucking ground.
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But if you can make the army guys or the cops laugh
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or see the humanity in what you're doing,
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that's subversive in the best way possible.
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I think breaking the rules that make a point.
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If you're making a fucking point,
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it's a good thing.
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We like using humor because it's fun.
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What are you doing?
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I'm actually just closing my account.
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Guys, guys, he's closing his account.
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It's a hook.
523
00:30:19,320 --> 00:30:22,320
It's like a, it's a way to get people interested
524
00:30:22,320 --> 00:30:26,200
and then to deliver the sort of medicine.
525
00:30:26,200 --> 00:30:28,240
If you get people laughing and they're endorphins
526
00:30:28,240 --> 00:30:30,520
or up, again, you can slide a nice message in there.
527
00:30:30,520 --> 00:30:33,480
You can slide something really socially conscious in there.
528
00:30:33,480 --> 00:30:39,440
Either make it really, really pretty
529
00:30:39,440 --> 00:30:41,680
or make it really, really funny.
530
00:30:41,680 --> 00:30:44,560
And that's how you get past people's defenses.
531
00:30:44,560 --> 00:30:49,040
Political cartoons are usually humorous.
532
00:30:49,040 --> 00:30:50,800
It has a social critique,
533
00:30:50,800 --> 00:30:54,160
but disguised as an innocent comic strip.
534
00:30:54,160 --> 00:30:56,880
So you think cartoons could be extremely effective.
535
00:30:58,800 --> 00:31:00,280
Humor is great, it's a kind of dynamic
536
00:31:00,280 --> 00:31:02,680
where people can come in that may not agree with you
537
00:31:02,680 --> 00:31:04,880
and it creates a space where they may listen
538
00:31:04,880 --> 00:31:06,080
to your point of view,
539
00:31:06,080 --> 00:31:07,240
where if you just shout them down,
540
00:31:07,240 --> 00:31:08,880
they're just gonna freeze up.
541
00:31:14,440 --> 00:31:15,280
That's very funny.
542
00:31:15,280 --> 00:31:16,960
I wish I understand it.
543
00:31:16,960 --> 00:31:18,360
You know, if you talk to a lot of people
544
00:31:18,360 --> 00:31:20,120
who are involved in movements
545
00:31:20,120 --> 00:31:22,440
over throw authoritarian regimes,
546
00:31:22,440 --> 00:31:26,920
they often say that humor was what kept the movement going.
547
00:31:26,920 --> 00:31:29,600
You saw Charlie Choplin making fun of Hitler
548
00:31:29,600 --> 00:31:30,560
and that went around the world
549
00:31:30,560 --> 00:31:34,560
and that studied in film classes now.
550
00:31:34,560 --> 00:31:35,760
And it's funny.
551
00:31:35,760 --> 00:31:37,320
And it's talking about one of the most
552
00:31:37,320 --> 00:31:39,600
dangerous political figures in all history.
553
00:31:39,600 --> 00:31:43,200
You know, dictators do not like to be made
554
00:31:43,200 --> 00:31:47,120
but fascist, absolutely do not like to be made
555
00:31:47,120 --> 00:31:51,960
but Donald Trump does not like to be made but of.
556
00:31:54,560 --> 00:31:56,680
You know, a president is a narcissist.
557
00:31:57,480 --> 00:32:00,160
He has a golf course where he would like to be buried.
558
00:32:00,160 --> 00:32:04,600
We decided that him being the only tombstone
559
00:32:04,600 --> 00:32:05,840
would be kind of boring.
560
00:32:05,840 --> 00:32:08,000
So we gave him some friends
561
00:32:08,000 --> 00:32:10,560
to remind him of some of the things that he buried.
562
00:32:12,240 --> 00:32:14,680
We snuck him with a golf course in the middle of the night,
563
00:32:14,680 --> 00:32:15,880
built the cemetery,
564
00:32:15,880 --> 00:32:18,920
you know, lodged in the tombstones deep into the earth
565
00:32:18,920 --> 00:32:22,680
so he couldn't get him out and then just got the fuck out.
566
00:32:25,260 --> 00:32:31,480
My favorite tombstone, the heroized decency,
567
00:32:31,480 --> 00:32:33,040
he moved on her like a bitch
568
00:32:33,040 --> 00:32:36,520
because there's nothing so clever that we can think of
569
00:32:36,520 --> 00:32:38,840
that like supersedes
570
00:32:38,840 --> 00:32:41,240
what comes out of his own mouth sometimes.
571
00:32:43,820 --> 00:32:49,080
During the Obama years, I'd say
572
00:32:49,080 --> 00:32:52,520
that protest art was not flourishing.
573
00:32:52,800 --> 00:32:55,680
But desperate times motivate people.
574
00:32:55,680 --> 00:33:00,400
In decline, especially in the last few years,
575
00:33:00,400 --> 00:33:02,840
lined up with the right message
576
00:33:02,840 --> 00:33:04,840
right ahead of the right moment.
577
00:33:04,840 --> 00:33:09,240
The Walk of Fame piece,
578
00:33:09,240 --> 00:33:11,440
which was made about a terrible sequence of events
579
00:33:11,440 --> 00:33:13,960
and putting the names of people who lost their lives
580
00:33:13,960 --> 00:33:17,280
to police brutality on the Walk of Fame, is so moving.
581
00:33:17,280 --> 00:33:20,680
It's more moving now than when it was made.
582
00:33:21,880 --> 00:33:24,320
We have cops that are murdering people.
583
00:33:24,320 --> 00:33:25,840
It's me, it's me.
584
00:33:25,840 --> 00:33:27,600
You broke the contract!
585
00:33:27,600 --> 00:33:30,560
When you killed us in the streets and he gave a fuck!
586
00:33:30,560 --> 00:33:31,800
Oh my god!
587
00:33:31,800 --> 00:33:36,480
I think that art runs parallel with the pent up anger,
588
00:33:36,480 --> 00:33:39,440
the unresolved calls for justice.
589
00:33:39,440 --> 00:33:41,960
Stop, now!
590
00:33:41,960 --> 00:33:44,320
Everybody knows that there wouldn't like to be
591
00:33:44,320 --> 00:33:45,720
a black man in this country.
592
00:33:45,720 --> 00:33:50,360
It's never lost its power.
593
00:33:50,360 --> 00:33:52,000
It's getting more and more powerful
594
00:33:52,000 --> 00:33:53,880
because it keeps fucking happening.
595
00:33:53,880 --> 00:34:03,880
Over years, as much as I would say
596
00:34:03,880 --> 00:34:06,640
in the context of the police abuse,
597
00:34:06,640 --> 00:34:08,240
much as things have changed,
598
00:34:08,240 --> 00:34:09,680
some things stay the same.
599
00:34:09,680 --> 00:34:15,720
Racism and the police murders of black people
600
00:34:15,720 --> 00:34:18,880
is absolutely as American as baseball or apple pie.
601
00:34:20,880 --> 00:34:23,440
You know what else is an ingrained tent pole
602
00:34:23,440 --> 00:34:27,640
of American society is resistance to injustice.
603
00:34:27,640 --> 00:34:34,640
That's been there from day one.
604
00:34:34,640 --> 00:34:36,280
I have a dream today.
605
00:34:36,280 --> 00:34:39,680
When you wanted to pay the price for freedom,
606
00:34:39,680 --> 00:34:40,840
then you get it.
607
00:34:40,840 --> 00:34:45,200
I am!
608
00:34:45,200 --> 00:34:47,560
Mr. Cabernet taking the knee.
609
00:34:47,560 --> 00:34:49,640
That was a powerful, powerful statement.
610
00:34:49,640 --> 00:34:53,560
That's informed, enlightened, educated, young people.
611
00:34:53,560 --> 00:35:00,000
Our job as creatives is to illustrate the truth
612
00:35:00,000 --> 00:35:03,400
that those people are standing up for.
613
00:35:03,400 --> 00:35:07,480
So, I painted him in a faculty's uniform.
614
00:35:07,480 --> 00:35:11,680
Later on, I did Muhammad Ali as T'Challa
615
00:35:11,680 --> 00:35:12,960
to go with Kaepernick.
616
00:35:12,960 --> 00:35:14,880
'Cause they're sort of like on the same parallel
617
00:35:14,880 --> 00:35:16,920
in terms of like they're speaking their heart.
618
00:35:16,920 --> 00:35:19,800
America has never been great for people of color.
619
00:35:19,800 --> 00:35:22,200
And, you know, that's something that needs to be addressed.
620
00:35:22,200 --> 00:35:24,360
Let's make America great for the first time.
621
00:35:24,360 --> 00:35:28,480
Anytime you have that, and it goes against
622
00:35:28,480 --> 00:35:33,480
the status quo, then you come public and then number one.
623
00:35:33,480 --> 00:35:37,720
Here in Atlanta, an artist created a mural in 2017.
624
00:35:37,720 --> 00:35:39,800
But this week, it was torn down.
625
00:35:39,800 --> 00:35:41,760
And the artist thinks it's no coincidence
626
00:35:41,760 --> 00:35:44,160
it happened just before the big game.
627
00:35:44,160 --> 00:35:48,760
Literally, a bulldozer bulldozing over the building
628
00:35:48,760 --> 00:35:50,640
that the murals was on.
629
00:35:50,640 --> 00:35:52,160
This is the first day of Black History Month.
630
00:35:52,160 --> 00:35:53,680
They went with that ball to destroy
631
00:35:53,680 --> 00:35:57,840
a mural to Kaepernick Super Bowl weekend
632
00:35:57,840 --> 00:35:59,600
in the blackest city in America.
633
00:35:59,600 --> 00:36:01,920
But that's what happened.
634
00:36:01,920 --> 00:36:04,880
A bus that was transporting the players
635
00:36:04,880 --> 00:36:06,600
drove down that street.
636
00:36:06,600 --> 00:36:10,640
So it was like, y'all went and bulldozed the building
637
00:36:10,640 --> 00:36:13,480
'cause Colin Kaepernick's on the building?
638
00:36:13,480 --> 00:36:14,320
I mean.
639
00:36:14,320 --> 00:36:20,240
So Ash came up with the idea for Capitol Bowl.
640
00:36:20,240 --> 00:36:23,040
She was like, let's paint Kaepernick all over the city.
641
00:36:23,040 --> 00:36:28,680
You attack us, you wanna response.
642
00:36:28,680 --> 00:36:32,240
I reach out to the streets.
643
00:36:32,240 --> 00:36:36,400
When there's a need, we come together.
644
00:36:40,440 --> 00:36:44,040
This is like the biggest military industrial complex
645
00:36:44,040 --> 00:36:46,240
and they're scared of a painting.
646
00:36:46,240 --> 00:36:47,960
What they're scared of is the revolution.
647
00:36:47,960 --> 00:36:50,440
They're scared of us coming together
648
00:36:50,440 --> 00:36:51,800
and just shutting shit down.
649
00:36:51,800 --> 00:36:53,440
And being like, you know what?
650
00:36:53,440 --> 00:36:55,600
We're fucking done with it.
651
00:36:55,600 --> 00:36:58,280
We will definitely not shut up and dribble.
652
00:36:58,280 --> 00:37:01,760
Artists and athletes and others
653
00:37:01,760 --> 00:37:06,760
who use their very public platform
654
00:37:06,760 --> 00:37:08,520
to speak out against injustice.
655
00:37:08,520 --> 00:37:10,720
Often, yes, they do become ostracized,
656
00:37:10,720 --> 00:37:13,600
but the righteousness of their acts
657
00:37:13,600 --> 00:37:16,680
proves to be heroic.
658
00:37:16,680 --> 00:37:20,960
Kaepernick lost a job 'cause he was like,
659
00:37:20,960 --> 00:37:23,240
highlight and police brutality.
660
00:37:23,240 --> 00:37:25,760
It's our job to back him up.
661
00:37:25,760 --> 00:37:26,920
And we're still going through this shit.
662
00:37:26,920 --> 00:37:29,960
Like, George Floyd, Breonna Taylor.
663
00:37:38,600 --> 00:37:40,880
And that's the spark they live to purify.
664
00:37:40,880 --> 00:37:47,760
I think there's been a deafening silence
665
00:37:47,760 --> 00:37:51,880
in recent years leading up to this sudden explosion
666
00:37:51,880 --> 00:37:52,960
onto the streets.
667
00:37:52,960 --> 00:37:58,560
The West Police brutality goes and kills Jordan Floyd.
668
00:37:58,560 --> 00:38:01,200
It wasn't much for all of us to come together
669
00:38:01,200 --> 00:38:02,880
and actually make a push.
670
00:38:09,520 --> 00:38:11,680
What we've been seeing lately
671
00:38:11,680 --> 00:38:14,480
is both an awakening and a reckoning
672
00:38:14,480 --> 00:38:17,440
with regards to the issue of race in America.
673
00:38:17,440 --> 00:38:22,480
I am your president of law and order
674
00:38:22,480 --> 00:38:27,320
and an ally of all peaceful protesters.
675
00:38:27,320 --> 00:38:30,960
Donald Trump has brought a lot of this into the open.
676
00:38:30,960 --> 00:38:32,520
I don't see him as a threat.
677
00:38:32,520 --> 00:38:34,360
I see him as a call to arms.
678
00:38:36,000 --> 00:38:39,120
Ladies and gentlemen, leaders and fighters
679
00:38:39,120 --> 00:38:42,560
for freedom and liberty and the American dream.
680
00:38:42,560 --> 00:38:46,080
The best is yet to come.
681
00:38:46,080 --> 00:38:52,960
Divide and conquer is how Trump and his cronies
682
00:38:52,960 --> 00:38:55,520
and Bush and his cronies and Reagan and his cronies
683
00:38:55,520 --> 00:38:56,600
and Hitler and his cronies.
684
00:38:56,600 --> 00:38:58,960
That's how they control people.
685
00:38:58,960 --> 00:39:00,560
Divide and conquer.
686
00:39:00,560 --> 00:39:02,800
So unite and never give up.
687
00:39:03,680 --> 00:39:06,360
You have a system that's murdering people
688
00:39:06,360 --> 00:39:10,160
because of their color or the difference of their culture.
689
00:39:10,160 --> 00:39:13,320
You have a system that's colonizing the world
690
00:39:13,320 --> 00:39:15,240
and you're worried about a statue.
691
00:39:15,240 --> 00:39:25,120
If the statue represents some old way of thinking,
692
00:39:25,120 --> 00:39:26,200
bring it down.
693
00:39:33,320 --> 00:39:34,560
But all this shit.
694
00:39:34,560 --> 00:39:39,800
And that's okay not to have in the middle of your city
695
00:39:39,800 --> 00:39:43,200
a statue of people who killed your ancestors.
696
00:39:43,200 --> 00:39:46,680
When you see injustice, fight it.
697
00:39:46,680 --> 00:39:49,480
These older motherfuckers are stolen in your future.
698
00:39:49,480 --> 00:39:52,360
And so the only option is to rebel.
699
00:40:06,080 --> 00:40:13,800
I think we've got to see that a riot
700
00:40:13,800 --> 00:40:16,200
is the language of the unheard.
701
00:40:16,200 --> 00:40:20,800
And what is it that America has failed to heal?
702
00:40:25,120 --> 00:40:30,840
Historically, we've divided a lot of the movements.
703
00:40:30,840 --> 00:40:32,720
You know, we divide the feminist movement
704
00:40:32,720 --> 00:40:33,760
from the climate movement.
705
00:40:33,760 --> 00:40:36,800
We separate black liberation from the free love movement
706
00:40:36,800 --> 00:40:39,960
and those are all inextricably tied together.
707
00:40:39,960 --> 00:40:42,640
That only happens when we bring everyone to the table.
708
00:40:45,380 --> 00:40:54,640
We need to be loud, be seen, and we need allies.
709
00:40:54,640 --> 00:41:01,720
For those of you who are on the front lines
710
00:41:01,720 --> 00:41:05,160
taking abuse, you have great company throughout history.
711
00:41:05,160 --> 00:41:10,760
People exactly like yourselves have stood up
712
00:41:10,760 --> 00:41:14,560
in times of great injustice and the only possible way
713
00:41:14,560 --> 00:41:17,080
to make a more humane, a more decent planet
714
00:41:17,080 --> 00:41:19,240
is for you to do what you're doing.
715
00:41:31,080 --> 00:41:35,080
This is public space, and I think this generation
716
00:41:35,080 --> 00:41:37,420
suddenly is reclaiming the street.
717
00:41:37,420 --> 00:41:41,320
You're seeing more of that punk rock
718
00:41:41,320 --> 00:41:42,920
do-it-yourself aesthetic.
719
00:41:42,920 --> 00:41:47,240
That drives new movements, not preserves old movements.
720
00:41:47,240 --> 00:41:51,320
There's no drug more potent than the spirit of rebellion.
721
00:41:51,320 --> 00:41:54,400
If you're able to implement joy,
722
00:41:54,400 --> 00:41:56,840
you're arming yourself with a psychological attribute
723
00:41:56,840 --> 00:41:59,320
that your oppressor doesn't have.
724
00:41:59,320 --> 00:42:01,760
Take up space, take up as much space as possible,
725
00:42:01,760 --> 00:42:03,960
be as loud as possible, and make things with your hands,
726
00:42:03,960 --> 00:42:07,000
make actual objects, take up actual physical space,
727
00:42:07,000 --> 00:42:09,000
and get out there and make something.
728
00:42:09,000 --> 00:42:12,320
If a living a life where you do what you want
729
00:42:12,320 --> 00:42:14,400
and you encourage other people to live together
730
00:42:14,400 --> 00:42:15,840
and to create their own fucking reality,
731
00:42:15,840 --> 00:42:18,000
that's shit, and that pisses off the powerful
732
00:42:18,000 --> 00:42:19,400
more than anything else.
733
00:42:19,400 --> 00:42:26,080
The bigger the battle you're going through,
734
00:42:26,080 --> 00:42:29,280
the greater the reward for coming out the other side.
735
00:42:32,520 --> 00:42:35,360
The movement for black lives is being regarded
736
00:42:35,360 --> 00:42:37,560
as one of the most powerful movements
737
00:42:37,560 --> 00:42:39,800
in the history of human beings.
738
00:42:39,800 --> 00:42:43,720
And what that means is it allows us to imagine a world
739
00:42:43,720 --> 00:42:46,000
in which racism no longer exists.
740
00:42:46,000 --> 00:42:47,080
What does equity look like?
741
00:42:47,080 --> 00:42:49,200
What could it look like if we didn't have prisons
742
00:42:49,200 --> 00:42:50,560
or if we didn't have police?
743
00:42:50,560 --> 00:42:53,560
You know, the role of the artist
744
00:42:53,560 --> 00:42:55,960
is to be a mirror for society.
745
00:42:55,960 --> 00:42:58,680
To do that, we actually have to be willing to
746
00:42:59,520 --> 00:43:04,160
dig in deep and say the things that are really hard to say.
747
00:43:06,600 --> 00:43:14,920
The power of artists is that we can create the images,
748
00:43:14,920 --> 00:43:18,000
the songs, the films, the depictions
749
00:43:18,000 --> 00:43:21,080
of what the future can look like and help people feel it.
750
00:43:30,160 --> 00:43:35,160
There's no us versus them, it's just us.
751
00:43:35,160 --> 00:43:36,920
Everybody in the world is us.
752
00:43:36,920 --> 00:43:39,880
Fucking get that straight in your head
753
00:43:39,880 --> 00:43:40,960
and we'll be all right.
754
00:43:43,360 --> 00:43:58,960
♪ I had a 2020 vision ♪
755
00:43:58,960 --> 00:44:02,360
♪ Oh the last of the wrong time time ♪
756
00:44:02,360 --> 00:44:05,600
♪ No more hate, no division ♪
757
00:44:05,600 --> 00:44:08,960
♪ No one is free until the world is won ♪
758
00:44:08,960 --> 00:44:09,800
Up.
759
00:44:09,800 --> 00:44:12,160
I hope it was recorded.
760
00:44:12,160 --> 00:44:13,400
It definitely works.
761
00:44:14,240 --> 00:44:15,240
Perfect time.
762
00:44:16,080 --> 00:44:17,400
You can smell it.
763
00:44:19,640 --> 00:44:23,720
The main thing again is just kind of watch it back
764
00:44:23,720 --> 00:44:26,640
and make sure that you get a fast car
765
00:44:26,640 --> 00:44:28,520
and a passport or space.
766
00:44:28,520 --> 00:44:30,320
And never trust a guy that won't have a beer with you
767
00:44:30,320 --> 00:44:31,720
because that guy's probably lying to you
768
00:44:31,720 --> 00:44:33,520
and he's scared of loose lips
769
00:44:33,520 --> 00:44:34,760
that he's gonna tell you the truth.
770
00:44:34,760 --> 00:44:36,520
It looked like public space.
771
00:44:36,520 --> 00:44:39,520
I didn't know it was private property, but okay, okay.
772
00:44:42,120 --> 00:44:44,080
Here is police helicopter.
773
00:44:47,160 --> 00:44:50,160
My parents are dead and I grew up in an apartment
774
00:44:50,160 --> 00:44:52,800
and I've been through a lot of things, you know.
775
00:44:52,800 --> 00:44:57,120
I got bad grades and once someone punched me,
776
00:44:57,120 --> 00:44:59,120
the political really helps.
777
00:45:01,240 --> 00:45:02,880
Fuck a man who don't like a dog.
778
00:45:02,880 --> 00:45:04,640
Like dogs, they can smell evil
779
00:45:04,640 --> 00:45:05,840
and if a guy doesn't like a dog,
780
00:45:05,840 --> 00:45:07,520
so like Trump will not have a beer with you
781
00:45:07,520 --> 00:45:08,360
and he don't like a dog.
782
00:45:08,360 --> 00:45:10,640
So like, that's all I'm gonna say about him.
58483
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