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