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00:00We're here in America, fifth generation Chinese-American, and we've developed home here.
00:18If you think about where it's located, that really makes Chinatown a neighborhood that
00:24the city wants to take back to make a lot of money off of.
00:30You're gonna be f***ing nuts.
00:34A lot of anger tonight in one of New York's most iconic neighborhoods, Chinatown.
00:38Anger over the city's plan to put a so-called community jail there.
00:42Go jail! Go jail!
00:44This is very valuable real estate.
00:46We come here to protect our community from the city!
00:52This is really a battle for the soul of Chinatown.
00:56Not only here in New York City, but throughout North America.
01:03This is where you can put a freeway through Vancouver's Chinatown to obliterate it.
01:09If you want to get rid of the Chinese, you train your bullseye, your target, onto Chinatowns.
01:16In the face of all the economic pressure due to COVID, due to anti-Chinese racism,
01:22developers, they come in, they prey on all these type of vulnerabilities.
01:26And if we don't fight back, if we don't organize as a community, that's how we're going to lose everything.
01:32Each fight for Chinatown was generational.
01:35Go Newtown! Go Newtown!
01:42Nobody's going to kick us out of our house. This is our house.
01:51We're going to fight for Chinatown.
01:53We're going to fight for Newtown.
01:55We're going to fight for Chinatown.
01:57We're going to fight for Newtown.
01:59We're going to fight for Newtown.
02:29Go Newtown!