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It was immediately obvious.

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I think my first interviews
after a few hours later

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when journalists asked what
I thought was going to have

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then said what was obvious that every

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Repressive state in the world would
use this as a window of opportunity

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to intensify acts of violence and repression
they would differ depending on the society.

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So for Russia would mean stepping up the
atrocious crimes in Chechnya and for China would

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mean harsher repression
in western China and

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Indonesia would mean stepping up and not J for
Israel would be the occupied territories.

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More repressive governments like say
Uzbekistan would become even more totalitarian

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And the more democratic societies like
ours would use the opportunity to impose

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greater discipline on their own populations

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and also to pursue their
long-term objectives.

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Our government has launched
a broadside against

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civil liberties we see a
an administration that has

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attacked our criminal
justice system by attacking

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the right to counsel people there\'s
there\'s individuals held in

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detention without lawyer without
access to lawyers without

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charges against them without
even the prospect of a trial

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As a as a basis for determining
guilt or innocence.

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Well after 911 the US government

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the Bush administration in
particular began a series of efforts

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through law and
administrative decisions that

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substantially cut back on constitutional
rights of people in the United States.

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They eventually passed a bill
called the Patriot Act which

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is misnamed what it really is about
is about taking away the rights of

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people in the United
States the US Patriot Act

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One which there\'s really
nothing patriotic about

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the US Patriot Act because it it set
in motion a restriction on liberties

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Which continue to be
eroded until this day and

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what that Act did was allow
the government to take

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some extraordinary steps
which have chipped away at

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at our traditional civil liberties

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and human rights protections
here in the United States.

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Constitution which protects
our fundamental rights

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in the United States is in great jeopardy.

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First we have a a clause
of the Constitution

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called the Fourth Amendment
that protects the right to be

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free from government arrest without
probable cause or without a reason.

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It protects the right of me not to
be wiretap without going to a court.

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It protects the right for me not to be
stopped on the street and arrested.

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The fourth amendment I would say
is basically been crossed out of

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the United States Constitution with the
United States government seems to be

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doing in case after case is essentially
anything that can get away with if you can get

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away with trying people in

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secret it\'ll do that if I can get away
with trying people at all it will do it.

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If it can get away with putting people
in a place like Guantanamo and then

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saying that they have no rights that
there\'s no court in the world to which

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These detainees can apply
then it will do that.

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The allegations that have
been made by many from

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a comfortable distance
that the men and women in

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the US Armed Forces are
somehow not properly treating

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the detainees under their
charge are just plain false.

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Right now we have 600 and some
people in Guantanamo Bay Cuba.

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None of those people are
being allowed into a court.

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None of them can challenge there.

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There there Jialing none of them
have access to when attorneys

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None of them have charges against them but
that\'s not only happening in Guantanamo.

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We have American citizens
now who were in jail here

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man them Hamdi and a man
named pedia both of whom are

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American citizens and neither
of whom are allowed to

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go into a court to challenge

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their convictions with an attorney
that has ever met with them.

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They\'re both put in military
Briggs not in regular jails.

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There\'s no charges against them
no contact with the families.

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Nothing. Then we have a second
or third large grouping of

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people that were picked up after 9-11
mostly immigrants from the Middle East.

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Estimates go from 1200 to
3 thousand that were put

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in jail held in community
cado out access to lawyers.

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We fought to get the names of
those people who were arrested.

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Government wouldn\'t give us the names we
fought to get access to them for attorneys.

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Government wouldn\'t give us
that there\'s simply being

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held in jail there no
relationship to terrorism.

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There are people who are your taxi driver.

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Your flower seller your doctor.

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He\'s individuals are not
individuals who have been

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charged with any terrorist
offences there people who overstay

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their visas WHO have changed jobs without
changing their visa status this type of thing.

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So it was left to civil liberties
groups and groups like

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Amnesty International who
were contacted by families.

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Sometimes by lawyers when
when detainees had access

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or were able to find a lawyer
although many of them did not

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To try to piece together
a picture of what was

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happening was a painstaking process
but we were eventually able to

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establish a good a pretty good
sense of the treatment in

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detention and in some places it
was it was very bad including

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isolation or solitary confinement for months
at a time sometimes more than six or eight

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months sometimes almost a
year in solitary confinement

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there have been numerous cases
of employment discrimination.

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For example whereby an individual who has

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identified or being identified
as Muslim or Arab American

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And has been terminated
from their employment or

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demoted or had their hours reduced or
being harassed by fellow employees.

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And we\'ve seen quite a
number of cases like that.

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We also recorded as an organization
more than 700 violent incidents

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targeting Arab Americans Muslim Americans

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Southeast Asians and those
perceived to be Arab and Muslim.

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And those types of incidents
ranged from verbal abuse to

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name and name calling to more violent incidents
including actually a number of murders.

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Another part of the Fourth Amendment
right that has been taken away

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is the right to have your conversations
not wiretap rather government

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Normally in the normal case
if the government wants

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to wiretap let\'s say my
conversation they have to go to

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the court and they have to say we think
Michael routing or may have committed

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a crime and therefore we have wanna
warrant to wiretap his phone line.

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Instead they go to the special Foreign
Intelligence Surveillance Court that meets in

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a room that has all to end those blacked
out and bottom of the Justice Department.

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No one is there except the judges on the court
and someone from the US Attorney side or

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the United States government and
they issue warrants for peoples to

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be wiretap and they\'re issuing thousands
of those warns thousands of them.

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And almost none are being issued by

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the regular procedures any
longer under our constitution.

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The second hallmark of US Constitution
of our constitutional system.

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And if any real democratic government

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is the right to dissent and the
right to tell your government.

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What do you think the right to meet
with other people in political groups

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and plan demonstrations the
right to write what you want.

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And that\'s protected in the United
States by the First Amendment to

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the United States
Constitution which basically

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gives all of us citizen a non-citizen

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alike the right to petition
our government and dissent.

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And they\'ve basically made
a huge inroad into that.

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And they\'ve done it primarily through releasing
or unleashing whatever you\'re wondering.

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Where do you want to use the FBI and the CIA
and other government intelligence agencies

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The spy in the United States on

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political and religious
groups in the last couple

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of weeks we\'ve seen new
initiative coming out of the FBI.

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Whereby district officers are

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being requested to count the
number of mosques in their area.

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The implication being that Muslims and are
suspicious inherently because they\'re Muslim.

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And I think that\'s a very dangerous
message for the government to be sending.

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Has been an excellent comment

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The Patriot Act makes it possible for

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government agents to break into
anyone\'s home when they are way.

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Conductor search and keep the citizen
in definitely from finding out that

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a warrant was issued or not they can
oblige librarians to tell them what books.

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Anyone has withdrawn.

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If the librarian refuses he or
she can be criminally charged.

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They can also collect
your credit reports and

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other sensitive information without
judicial approval for the citizens content.

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Finally all this unconstitutional activity

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need not have the slightest
connection with terrorism.

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Early last month the Justice Department
leaked Patriot Act to known as

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the domestic security enhancement
act as of January 92003.

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It has not yet gone to Congress
but it has certainly been leaked.

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And I saw participant.

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Here\'s a provision if an American
citizen born American citizen

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it has been accused of supporting

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an organization labeled as
terrorists by the government.

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He can be deprived of his
citizenship even if he

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had no idea the organization
had any link to terrorism.

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Provision of T2 is also made for more
searches and wiretaps without warrant.

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As well as Section 201 secret arrests.

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In case the citizen tries to fight back

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in order to retain the
citizenship he or she was born

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with those federal agents who conduct

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illegal surveillance with the blessing
of high Administration officials.

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Our immune from legal action and

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native-born American deprived or citizenship
would presumably be deported as today.

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A foreigner born person can be deported.

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Also according to American citizens.

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The provision has a wonderful language.

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It says He can be deployed a stripped of his
citizenship deported from the United States.

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Then they suddenly thought well
what country would want every you

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know we\'ve had a rephrase this.

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Because he can he can of course get a
passport says he doesn\'t have citizenship.

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So that thoughtful divisors of

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our domestic security enhancement authorizes
the Attorney General to deport him

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quote to any country or region

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regardless of whether the country
or region has a government

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What it sounds like heaven to
me and I get the cookbook.

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We believe that as people living
in the United States it is

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our responsibility to resist the
injustices done by our government

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and our names not in our name will you wage

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endless war there can be no more deaths
no more transfusions of blood for oil.

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Not in our name will you invade countries

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bomb civilians kill more children.

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Letting history take its
course over the graves of the

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nameless not in our name will you
erode the very freedoms you have

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claimed to fight for not
by our hands are we supply

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weapons and funding for the annihilation
of families on foreign soil.

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Not by our mouths while
we let fear silence us.

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Not by our hearts will we allow
whole peoples are countries to be

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deemed evil not by our
will and not in our name.

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We pledge resistance

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Pledge alliance with those who
have come under attack for

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voicing opposition to the war
or for their religion or

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ethnicity we pledged to make
common cause with the people

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of the world to bring about
justice freedom and peace.

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Another world is possible and
we pledged to make it rail.

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After 9 March 11 a meeting was called of

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activists piece workers different people
from various organizations to discuss.

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What could be done in
the present situation.

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And out of that grew both the
NIH on pledge of resistance

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the not non ne pledge and the
statement of conscience.

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The Statement of Conscience
was written by a number of

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intellectuals actors professors
and so on and has been endorsed.

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And the endorsement keeps growing and

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growing and has been published
in a number of newspapers.

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The Statement of Conscience is going to
be coming out again in the New York Times

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and a full two-page spread because
it is getting so many endorsements

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One of the reasons I\'m proud
of America is that we

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have a wonderful tradition
of speaking your mind.

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It\'s in the Constitution.

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Says Congress shall make no law respecting

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the freedom of speech or
freedom of religion and so on.

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So whether you\'re right or
wrong you have a right.

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And in fact I used to sing it.

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And maybe Ryan I may be wrong bring
them home and bring him home.

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I got her right to sing this song
bring them home bring them home.

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I Saying that back during the Vietnam
war genocide against the war in Iraq

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This is about race and

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ratio for a busy detainees.

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As holding your breath.

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Let do this study.

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When do we see listed on the what in

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effect don\'t ask me

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for the mass center clinical impact.

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But it\'s the same story.

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No object to initiate change for
the betterment for man. Generation

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There\'s a growing peace movement
in this country and around

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the world if only the media would cover it.

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Hundreds of thousands of
people have marched have

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gone out in the streets and people
don\'t just enjoy doing that.

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They\'d rather go about their business and

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their lives but they do it because no one
is inviting them into a studio to have

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a civilized discussion and
they feel deeply about what is

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happening that someone will
be killed and their name

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whether it\'s a US soldier or it\'s
someone who is the target of

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a US soldier because the mainstream
media doesn\'t really report on that.

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Sometimes people feel a little
isolated they don\'t know.

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They don\'t know that they\'re really part
of something bigger than themselves.

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And that can be very demoralizing.

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And that\'s one of the reasons why I
think mass mobilizations are important.

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Not only for the message
that they send to the powers

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that be but it helps those
people come to to them.

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They say bad feel connected
B connected to people.

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You see signs or meet people from all
over the country and different kinds

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of folks different constituencies
working marching together.

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You begin to feel that you really
are part of something bigger

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Then then just yourself or just
your small group and that\'s

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very important to get that
sense of solidarity connection

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there has never been so many
people trying to find some way to

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speak out for peace or seeing out for
peace find something they can do.

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In small towns not just big cities.

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But in small towns all around America there
are peace vigils women in black you know

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and some waving rainbow colored signs and the
attempts for the government to diffuse it.

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Or to mislead it have not
really been successful. I\'m

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personally positive though.
I have no proof.

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That some of these people who do
very angry things throwing things.

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Literally as a French
phrase agent provocateur.

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Somebody who wants to do a bad thing.

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And these people sent in by the government
to make the peace movement looks Philly.

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I have no proof of it but I\'ve
known it\'s happened before.

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So it\'s probably happening happening now.

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As the anti-war movement
has grown by leaps and

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bounds you\'re surely going to

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find the American government
trying to suppress that movement.

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And what they\'ll do is they\'ll start
to infiltrate the peace movement

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Start to label the peace movement as
tools of a foreign government started to

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accuse people of being you know
supporting Iraq or supporting terrorism.

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And they\'ll use a variety
of ways to try and tarnish

00:21:26.720 --> 00:21:30.499
the peace movement and one of those
ways will be by the suppression of

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dissent basically either
criminalizing it or making it

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impossible really for people to get the word
out either through the media or otherwise.

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Every time this repression
abroad desert oppression here at

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the United States the loss of freedoms
for people who are abroad means

00:22:13.010 --> 00:22:15.799
the loss of freedoms from people
here in the United States that

00:22:15.800 --> 00:22:19.324
people care about freedom here they gotta
care about freedom somewhere else.

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Because there is a link.

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If you\'re going to have a war on the world
you have to have a war on the people.

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You have to have a war
on our civil liberties.

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You\'ll have to have a drive toward fascism.

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And we see that this is
what has been happening.

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Hi

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I don\'t want to exaggerate
but I think there are

00:23:47.735 --> 00:23:51.004
comparisons between the United States now

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and the rise of Hitler in

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Germany for instance for the burning
of the Reichstag you have 911

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Which creates an emergency situation
which allows the government to

00:24:03.470 --> 00:24:10.309
justify abrogating lots of civil
liberties and stifling opposition.

00:24:10.310 --> 00:24:14.629
Anybody who isn\'t for the
government is declared unpatriotic.

00:24:14.630 --> 00:24:18.754
Then just as Hitler had
one war after another.

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In the same way America is brewing.

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These wars especially of the war in Iraq.

00:24:25.265 --> 00:24:28.264
So that creates another
crisis situation that

00:24:28.265 --> 00:24:33.289
requires lots of people in
uniform to go some place.

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And again you have to be patriotic
and love the army and love are boys.

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And you don\'t dare oppose any of
that or you\'re seen as a trader

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And then just as Hitler\'s
stigmatized The Jews in

00:24:46.400 --> 00:24:52.710
America I think we\'re
stigmatizing Arab Americans.

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Place students cities refusing.

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There\'s a long history a big marches of many
kinds of cities which we believe is our

00:25:26.050 --> 00:25:29.719
The city of New York and the
Police Department started to

00:25:29.720 --> 00:25:33.199
negotiate a route for a
march and then abruptly.

00:25:33.200 --> 00:25:35.959
They pulled the negotiations off the table.

00:25:35.960 --> 00:25:38.929
They pulled any proposals
off the table and said

00:25:38.930 --> 00:25:43.399
no march no place in New
York City at anytime on on

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February 15th the city has no problem
with the St. Patrick\'s Day Parade which

00:25:48.170 --> 00:25:50.569
draws on 2 thousand people or more or

00:25:50.570 --> 00:25:53.719
the Israeli day parade or
the Puerto Rico day parade.

00:25:53.720 --> 00:25:58.789
It has no problem with them but the city
says that it\'s different when there\'s

00:25:58.790 --> 00:26:00.919
a political demonstration that there were

00:26:00.920 --> 00:26:05.824
security concerns and time problems in
getting the police together to handle

00:26:05.825 --> 00:26:10.069
a parade that is political and
of this magnitude what we

00:26:10.070 --> 00:26:14.644
saw was that tens of thousands of
people never made it to the rally.

00:26:14.645 --> 00:26:20.089
A couple of 100 people were arrested
for the crime of trying to get to

00:26:20.090 --> 00:26:23.449
the rally people who were trying
to make their way peacefully to

00:26:23.450 --> 00:26:27.799
the demonstration just never got there
and people poured out into the streets.

00:26:27.800 --> 00:26:31.129
And at times at times it was

00:26:31.130 --> 00:26:34.699
wonderful and I\'m told at times
and it was calm and peaceful.

00:26:34.700 --> 00:26:39.619
But at times the police charged
with horses and people were heard.

00:26:39.620 --> 00:26:42.030
And people were arrested

00:26:52.420 --> 00:26:55.659
Now we wish to produce seven

00:26:55.660 --> 00:26:58.030
has not

00:27:04.310 --> 00:27:09.380
really slippery.

00:27:11.680 --> 00:27:19.680
So those of us gathered here today
differ in many many different ways.

00:27:22.400 --> 00:27:27.589
But by our presence here we share and
enduring love of our country and

00:27:27.590 --> 00:27:33.139
abiding faith in it just to do its
traditions and its love of liberty.

00:27:33.140 --> 00:27:38.989
What are those traditions is the right the
responsibility and the requirement to examine

00:27:38.990 --> 00:27:44.839
the action of our leaders do call them Joe
account to oppose them when they\'re wrong.

00:27:44.840 --> 00:27:48.210
And today they are more.

00:27:48.910 --> 00:27:51.304
Effective is the peace movement.

00:27:51.305 --> 00:27:54.589
Well sometimes I look at

00:27:54.590 --> 00:27:56.899
The political landscape and it seems to me

00:27:56.900 --> 00:28:00.244
the decision was made a long
time ago to go to war in Iraq.

00:28:00.245 --> 00:28:05.929
Having very large protest is not going
to affect the President\'s determination.

00:28:05.930 --> 00:28:07.469
He said he said about it.

00:28:07.470 --> 00:28:09.469
Well it\'s all very well
that people demonstrate but

00:28:09.470 --> 00:28:11.929
I\'m not making politics
by focus group here.

00:28:11.930 --> 00:28:13.039
Now the difference between

00:28:13.040 --> 00:28:16.129
a political demonstration and a focus
group are quite is quite considerable.

00:28:16.130 --> 00:28:18.949
Of course he makes politics
by focus group while with pi.

00:28:18.950 --> 00:28:21.979
I think if this movement is
going to have any effect

00:28:21.980 --> 00:28:26.269
today and the Bush
administration it needs to think

00:28:26.270 --> 00:28:31.189
about how it can move as quickly
as possible to message and

00:28:31.190 --> 00:28:36.799
tactics probably civil disobedience tactics
that are going to force this administration

00:28:36.800 --> 00:28:44.119
to change its policy civil disobedience for
a person of faith is a question of leading.

00:28:44.120 --> 00:28:49.219
It\'s a witness to testimony so you
don\'t just automatically do it.

00:28:49.220 --> 00:28:51.859
The individuals who are
there on the other side.

00:28:51.860 --> 00:28:59.269
I\'m not your enemy are not to be demeaned
are not to be insulted or provoked.

00:28:59.270 --> 00:29:05.929
No one else should be heard and probably no
announced this property should be heard.

00:29:05.930 --> 00:29:11.749
And for me that action is based
in my faith and belief in

00:29:11.750 --> 00:29:18.274
the nonviolent Jesus we need to speak to the
legal system which says that it\'s legal

00:29:18.275 --> 00:29:21.979
for our president to bomb women and

00:29:21.980 --> 00:29:28.260
children that it\'s legal to have sanctions
then it\'s legal to have a preemptive war.

00:29:31.450 --> 00:29:39.450
We said yesterday I sat in front on the
sidewalk of the UN for 30 seconds and prayed.

00:29:39.680 --> 00:29:41.494
And I was then arrested.

00:29:41.495 --> 00:29:43.339
It\'s more than a right.

00:29:43.340 --> 00:29:49.099
It\'s really an obligation to protest
and to make your objection public.

00:29:49.100 --> 00:29:53.389
I think people will make an
enormous difference if they

00:29:53.390 --> 00:29:58.099
speak out and people should
not be afraid to speak out.

00:29:58.100 --> 00:29:59.944
One should not

00:29:59.945 --> 00:30:03.889
Be silent because they don\'t think
their voice will have an effect.

00:30:03.890 --> 00:30:06.874
People do have an effect.

00:30:06.875 --> 00:30:10.729
If they stand up and just by standing

00:30:10.730 --> 00:30:15.199
up they are protecting those
who are targeted right now.

00:30:15.200 --> 00:30:20.149
People have stand up I happen to take to the
streets and they have to persevere until

00:30:20.150 --> 00:30:26.010
the government acts in accordance with the
wounded people that means no more happiness.

00:30:27.460 --> 00:30:31.249
Isn\'t a more free societies were lucky.

00:30:31.250 --> 00:30:34.504
It\'s not like Turkey or Colombia.

00:30:34.505 --> 00:30:37.069
Iraq let\'s say that\'s

00:30:37.070 --> 00:30:42.289
relatively free societies with lot of
privilege and lots of things we can do

00:30:42.290 --> 00:30:44.344
Affect government policy.

00:30:44.345 --> 00:30:49.200
If you have any commitments both to
the issues and the democracy you do.

00:30:57.940 --> 00:31:04.399
A lot of students have participated in
bread or community groups that have

00:31:04.400 --> 00:31:07.219
occupied the offices of

00:31:07.220 --> 00:31:09.529
congressional representatives
when the Congress was

00:31:09.530 --> 00:31:12.604
about to vote on the Bush were resolution.

00:31:12.605 --> 00:31:17.283
You start like here in New
York Gum NYU students occupied

00:31:17.284 --> 00:31:22.249
Hillary Clinton\'s Office and actions
like that all over the country.

00:31:22.250 --> 00:31:24.859
There\'s really been a lot of

00:31:24.860 --> 00:31:28.609
protest on campus against the war in Iraq.

00:31:28.610 --> 00:31:33.829
We saw a brief wave of protest

00:31:33.830 --> 00:31:38.599
about the war in Afghanistan on
campus but the war in Iraq is

00:31:38.600 --> 00:31:43.879
really inspiring protests all over
the country at more campuses that

00:31:43.880 --> 00:31:49.309
I mean I have lost count of about
a month ago a candidate over 400.

00:31:49.310 --> 00:31:50.659
But I know it\'s been more now.

00:31:50.660 --> 00:31:56.149
And it said many squares that are have
not traditionally been activist and

00:31:56.150 --> 00:31:57.799
haven\'t gotten involved in say

00:31:57.800 --> 00:32:02.329
the anti sweatshop movement or other other
movements that have been prominent.

00:32:02.330 --> 00:32:07.054
And I think the issue is really
is really galvanizing students

00:32:07.055 --> 00:32:13.999
And many students who individually have not
been acted before and it\'s been really

00:32:14.000 --> 00:32:17.209
say first year students here
usually when the students

00:32:17.210 --> 00:32:20.779
see you take a little while to get used
to college before they get active.

00:32:20.780 --> 00:32:26.864
This is really this is really attracting
kids who have just arrived at school.

00:32:26.865 --> 00:32:30.060
It\'s quite remarkable.

00:32:37.540 --> 00:32:45.540
This is fun. Really.

00:32:52.300 --> 00:32:54.919
My name is Anna and I\'m here at

00:32:54.920 --> 00:32:59.059
the Columbia antiwar coalition and we\'re
selling bus tickets go to Washington DC

00:32:59.060 --> 00:33:01.350
the National protests

00:33:02.970 --> 00:33:10.970
by three.

00:33:17.230 --> 00:33:20.974
So how can we make our voices heard

00:33:20.975 --> 00:33:25.039
by doing things like demonstrations
protests protests there.

00:33:25.040 --> 00:33:27.209
I think it\'s going to give a lot of people

00:33:27.210 --> 00:33:31.054
the sense that like right I\'m
not alone would definitely meet

00:33:31.055 --> 00:33:33.930
Countries that have verbal things.

00:33:35.140 --> 00:33:38.674
I do not agree with what the
United States government is doing.

00:33:38.675 --> 00:33:40.819
I don\'t know if it\'s right or wrong.

00:33:40.820 --> 00:33:42.799
And I also think that it\'s my place as

00:33:42.800 --> 00:33:46.590
a citizen to speak out and say
what I do think he\'s right.

00:34:11.140 --> 00:34:17.509
Do you know these

00:34:17.510 --> 00:34:19.120
the

00:34:28.540 --> 00:34:29.869
people

00:34:29.870 --> 00:34:32.884
should feel encouraged that so many people

00:34:32.885 --> 00:34:37.110
from so many different walks
of life are speaking out.

00:34:37.330 --> 00:34:43.159
And who came from Detroit because
of a lot of architectural goal for

00:34:43.160 --> 00:34:49.189
Pennsylvania Pennsylvania that lists
the messages they are losing here.

00:34:49.190 --> 00:34:54.690
So it looks like I\'ve got
plenty accompany here.

00:35:02.470 --> 00:35:05.130
My aim

00:35:12.880 --> 00:35:15.420
here today

00:35:25.030 --> 00:35:29.404
is President had this end his
mind before he was elected.

00:35:29.405 --> 00:35:32.059
And now me sharing the course and bully or

00:35:32.060 --> 00:35:36.484
the American people into
going to war against it.

00:35:36.485 --> 00:35:44.485
Okay I don\'t want Bohr model what the rest
of the world is heading us all because of

00:35:45.950 --> 00:35:51.169
his niece decisions with
respect to the learning

00:35:51.170 --> 00:35:57.840
for the people of New York may not want
to prevent life from being taken in.

00:36:00.550 --> 00:36:04.054
And nobody has the right
to take that on any

00:36:04.055 --> 00:36:08.569
financial or you know
any say Noether racism.

00:36:08.570 --> 00:36:10.654
But don\'t stop there.

00:36:10.655 --> 00:36:12.979
Say noticed sexism.

00:36:12.980 --> 00:36:14.989
But don\'t stop there.

00:36:14.990 --> 00:36:17.899
So no to anti-Semitism.

00:36:17.900 --> 00:36:22.039
Some saying Don\'t the homophobia.

00:36:22.040 --> 00:36:24.750
But don\'t stop there.

00:36:25.210 --> 00:36:33.210
In healing. Whatever action

00:36:35.900 --> 00:36:37.204
is required.

00:36:37.205 --> 00:36:39.604
Whenever action is necessary.

00:36:39.605 --> 00:36:44.580
I will defend the freedom and
security of the American people

00:37:08.260 --> 00:37:11.749
And the government is saying
we can make you safer.

00:37:11.750 --> 00:37:14.434
If you give up your constitutional rights.

00:37:14.435 --> 00:37:18.409
If you let us surveil you if you let a
spy on you if you let us wiretap you.

00:37:18.410 --> 00:37:21.229
If you let us throw immigrants
in jail we can make you safer.

00:37:21.230 --> 00:37:25.069
And as long as people feel
threatened they will let

00:37:25.070 --> 00:37:29.309
the government get away with these
kind of cutbacks on our rights.

00:37:29.310 --> 00:37:35.089
Throw long to arbitrary detention without
any charge whatsoever on the basis that

00:37:35.090 --> 00:37:37.774
we don\'t know when this
war will end is the very

00:37:37.775 --> 00:37:41.244
opposite of what human
rights movement is all about

00:37:41.245 --> 00:37:44.434
I think this country has stood
for for quite some time.

00:37:44.435 --> 00:37:49.369
And unfortunately the worst excesses.

00:37:49.370 --> 00:37:54.514
Here in the United States have
come during times of war.

00:37:54.515 --> 00:38:01.369
During World War II the internment
of Japanese Americans in

00:38:01.370 --> 00:38:08.614
California which is now looked on as a
shameful part of our nation\'s history.

00:38:08.615 --> 00:38:12.589
We see it again since September 11th.

00:38:12.590 --> 00:38:17.674
The curtailment of human rights
probably the worst assault

00:38:17.675 --> 00:38:23.594
on the rights of non
citizens since World War II.

00:38:23.595 --> 00:38:31.595
Obviously in times of national emergency
countries are going to step up security.

00:38:33.625 --> 00:38:41.625
And I think everyone agrees that the
security of the population is paramount.

00:38:42.550 --> 00:38:47.889
But it can and should and must
be done with a respect for

00:38:47.890 --> 00:38:52.854
liberties to paraphrase Benjamin
Franklin those who would sacrifice.

00:38:52.855 --> 00:38:56.019
Liberty for added security deserve

00:38:56.020 --> 00:39:01.299
neither liberty nor security many
of us who work in human rights.

00:39:01.300 --> 00:39:05.894
Consider that the age of rights that at
least rhetorically we have supported

00:39:05.895 --> 00:39:09.229
Since World War II after the Holocaust is

00:39:09.230 --> 00:39:12.664
in grave danger it\'s not just
rights in the United States.

00:39:12.665 --> 00:39:16.009
It\'s human rights around the
world part of the problem.

00:39:16.010 --> 00:39:18.769
And I think those of us in the
United States hadn\'t quite

00:39:18.770 --> 00:39:22.429
realized that we\'ve been
quite critical of civil

00:39:22.430 --> 00:39:27.184
rights liberties being curtailed
as a result of legislative action

00:39:27.185 --> 00:39:32.344
like the US Patriot Act we have not been
as conscious in this country of the fact

00:39:32.345 --> 00:39:40.009
that what is going on at the UN that
is the terrorism sanctions imposed

00:39:40.010 --> 00:39:43.804
by the UN Security Council at the
request of the United States

00:39:43.805 --> 00:39:48.274
in and of itself poses human
rights problems around the world

00:39:48.275 --> 00:39:52.204
What we\'re seeing is a
opportunism by many states

00:39:52.205 --> 00:39:56.644
that now say look terrorism
made us do this.

00:39:56.645 --> 00:39:58.594
In fact we have seen

00:39:58.595 --> 00:40:04.639
human rights violators quite ones that
we have identified for many many years.

00:40:04.640 --> 00:40:07.819
Now coming forward and saying we were right

00:40:07.820 --> 00:40:10.969
all along those security
measures that we had adopted

00:40:10.970 --> 00:40:13.984
those military courts that
you had criticized that

00:40:13.985 --> 00:40:18.169
the rights of detention without
trial that you had criticized.

00:40:18.170 --> 00:40:20.479
Now you see we were right all along.

00:40:20.480 --> 00:40:23.434
And we\'re now seeing opportunities from

00:40:23.435 --> 00:40:27.199
China to Cuba even on this is
not a right left question.

00:40:27.200 --> 00:40:29.824
Coming forward and saying

00:40:29.825 --> 00:40:34.099
The Security Council made
us do this or the US is

00:40:34.100 --> 00:40:39.409
leading the way in doing this
and we see countries from

00:40:39.410 --> 00:40:46.129
Egypt to Pakistan to Russia and
Chechnya to to China using

00:40:46.130 --> 00:40:54.130
the anti-terrorism banner to repress their
own people and to violate human rights.

00:40:57.020 --> 00:41:01.744
The qualities of courage and compassion
that we strive for an America.

00:41:01.745 --> 00:41:05.040
Also determine our conduct abroad

00:41:35.160 --> 00:41:43.044
Well Amnesty International regards the death
penalty to be a human rights violation.

00:41:43.045 --> 00:41:48.859
And because it violates the right
to life and particularly because it

00:41:48.860 --> 00:41:54.899
it is carried out in in in some
states in the United States against

00:41:54.900 --> 00:41:59.479
A persons who are under 18 at the
time the crime was committed.

00:41:59.480 --> 00:42:02.239
It\'s carried out against
juvenile executions.

00:42:02.240 --> 00:42:07.189
It\'s carried out in many circumstances where
there is serious questions about guilt or

00:42:07.190 --> 00:42:12.454
innocence in the death penalty in the
United States is is like a lottery system.

00:42:12.455 --> 00:42:18.259
It\'s more a function of
race of politics of money.

00:42:18.260 --> 00:42:22.234
Then it is a function of
the severity of the crime.

00:42:22.235 --> 00:42:26.989
Those who get the death penalty
are almost invariably poor.

00:42:26.990 --> 00:42:33.844
They don\'t have a means to defend themselves
or hire lawyers that are are highly capable.

00:42:33.845 --> 00:42:37.339
And as a result are stuck with
court appointed lawyers who

00:42:37.340 --> 00:42:43.039
sometimes fall asleep during the
trial who aren\'t in a position to

00:42:43.040 --> 00:42:49.924
prepare a vigorous and and a quality defense
Those are the people who most often.

00:42:49.925 --> 00:42:52.864
It gets the death penalty
in the United States

00:42:52.865 --> 00:42:56.764
but there is no way the
system can be be fixed.

00:42:56.765 --> 00:43:00.514
Worldwide. Amnesty calls for
abolition of the death penalty.

00:43:00.515 --> 00:43:03.649
And there\'s great strides
that are being made in in

00:43:03.650 --> 00:43:07.984
abolition worldwide over half
the countries of the world now

00:43:07.985 --> 00:43:13.879
have abolished the death penalty in law or
in practice and over the past decade on

00:43:13.880 --> 00:43:20.209
average between two or three countries per
year has has abolished the death penalty.

00:43:20.210 --> 00:43:22.729
So there is a definite worldwide trend.

00:43:22.730 --> 00:43:29.029
Right now it\'s about four countries that
carry out 90% of the world\'s executions.

00:43:29.030 --> 00:43:34.384
China is by far the largest
offender in this respect.

00:43:34.385 --> 00:43:42.304
And next is countries like Iran
Saudi Arabia and the United States.

00:43:42.305 --> 00:43:49.470
Those are the countries that carry out about
90% of the executions in the world today

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There\'s a quotation from Benjamin
Franklin and you cannot find it in any of

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the high-school history books and not even
in proper history books except rarely.

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And it occurred Franklin has always been

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depicted as one of the great
bores the Founding Fathers.

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And he\'s of course was one
of the most interesting in

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1789 he was in Philadelphia for
the making of the Constitution.

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He\'s old dying and he finally read

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the handiwork of his fellow of
convention ears. And he didn\'t like it.

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But he thought about it and then he got
up he made a very interesting speech.

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He said I think that we should accept

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this constitution for all of

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its errors and omissions At that time
the Bill of Rights was not in there.

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I think because it will
give us for a course of

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years good government which
is what we need right now.

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And then in due course

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it would give good. It may be a blessing
to the people if well administered.

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And I believe that this is
likely to be well administer.

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And then only end due to the corruption

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of the people in despotism which will be the
only form of government suitable for them.

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This is as dark as statement
as anyone has ever made.

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I got around to the best of the
high-school history books I

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saw American pageant. I think it is

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said that they were so afraid for Franklin

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he kept going to dinner parties and
his conversation was quite brilliant.

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Never terrified that he would give his
true opinion of how this thing would end.

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So they had a couple of
young men going around

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with him sitting on either sides
when Benjamin Franklin but

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let me tell you about the Constitution as
they occurred you pass the salt Mr. Franklin.

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I thought of that needless to say

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are in Franklin\'s prophecy came
true and December 2 thousand.

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When the Supreme Court
bulldoze its way through

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the Constitution in order to
select as their president

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the loser in the presidential
election of that year.

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Despotism is now securely in the saddle.

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Is it due to the corruption of the people
and I thought about what he is corruption.

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The founding fathers were always
many of them on the verge of it.

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Others in the Congresses were the blankets

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didn\'t get to Valley forward because it

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couldn\'t pass Congress that
was sitting in Philadelphia.

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Corruption has always been with us but
when it becomes so total that you

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allow an election not
and to make no contest.

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There was no outcry across the country.

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When this terrible manipulation took place

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And then of course Enron and
Anderson is taken for granted that

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these wave companies are like this that

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CEOs are taking all the money
that is not nailed down.

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And people out of work with
no relief to fall back upon.

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So now I think what we might
chat about is that despotism is

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really in the cell and they all
republic is a shadow of itself.

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And we now stand in the glare of

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a nuclear world empire with a
government that sees as its true enemy.

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We the people deprived of
our electoral franchise

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or is the usual aim of despots and serial
warfare is what we\'re going to get.

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Unless with help from well-wishers in new
old Europe and from ourselves awake at last

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we can persuade this peculiar
administration that they

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are acting on their own and
against all our history

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There\'s always been a day and
we in the United States.

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We pretend that that isn\'t
so and the United States.

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We pretend that there are no classes.

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We pretend that there\'s just one
interest that covers us all.

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We pretend to to a common interest.

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We use words phrases like the national interests
of national security national defense

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as if we all have the same national
interests we all have the same security.

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Now we\'re always in this country from
the very founding of this nation

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even before the founding of this nation
always had differences of interest.

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There\'s always been a slave owning class

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a merchant class industrial
class and has always been

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a wage earner class or slave class

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a certain class and American
history is full of class conflict.

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Now the textbooks in American history
you don\'t want to talk about that.

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But we\'ve always had conflict
right from the beginning.

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I mean the American Constitution was founded
in order to control class conflict.

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They\'ve the Founding Fathers James Madison.

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And they said this very explicitly.

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They want they need to
control the conflict that

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occurs between people who own property
and people who don\'t own property.

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So from the beginning we\'ve always had
classes we\'ve always had class conflict.

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And so there\'s always been a they they consists
of the political leaders of the country

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Who are in close connection with

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the business interests of the country

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the corporate interests who are in
close connection with the military.

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You will see the same people
going back and forth from

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the government to the
military to the corporations.

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People leave the government and they
take jobs and big corporations.

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People are retired generals and they immediately
given jobs as CEOs of major companies

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that will then do business with the Pentagon
with the sodas very close connection.

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There between these three
groups the political

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the military the corporate
and that\'s the day.

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We as everybody else is 95% of the American
people or maybe 99% of the American people.

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But the people who don\'t benefit from

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this control of the wealth and its control
of the government by this small elite.

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So we come to the end of this moment of

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US drug oven new dimension of the tradition

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Never forgetting that tradition
is not something you inherit.

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Yet don\'t gaining access
to it by means of osmosis.

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If you wanted to have gotta fight for it

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depends on the depth of
commitment and conviction to

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the forum fathers and
forefathers came before I

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gave so much love and
sacrifice so that we can do.

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And what we off situating
ourselves in a story.

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Us remaining true to
injected into human history.

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A no calls into question
the unjustified suffering.

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A note of that shatters
a superficial harmony.

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And notice t that allows us to dig
deep into the depths of our souls and

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called into question the attacks on our
our intelligence our moral capacity.

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Let us never forget Earth Wind and Fire
encouraging us to keep our heads to the sky

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. It\'s never forget.

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Mahalia Jackson empowering us
to keep our ends on the plow.

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Let us never forget.

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All colors telling us the key drivers and the
great Curtis Mayfield who admonished us to

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forever key all push urban justice.

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Ally Ally.

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Okay.

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Okay.

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Okay