>> let me give you a little piece of advice. you -- you keep using language like that, and you're going to find yourself out of a job. look at this. this, like it or not, is how the american sausage gets made. like any good sausage, it involves grinding parts down, spicy, and ain't always pretty to watch. activism like this is what gets us the rights that are founders claimed we had in the first place. white women suffrage, activism. civil rights act, activism. protecting the rights of migrant farmworkers. si se puede.

that's what we all witnessed in 2020, activism. people rising up to declare black lives matter day after day. that's saying a lot since 2020 was the longest year in the history of civilization. but in portland, oregon, the fight for racial justice morphed into something bigger when donald trump's army of militarized federal nincompoops descended on the city in the summer of 2020. a demand for local police reform turned into a battle for the soul of our nation. so i guess i'm going back to portland. ♪

>> portland, oregon. we've been here before. remember? gentrification. you're trying to tell me when you were a kid, they weren't selling kombucha on tap. >> jokes about hipsters. >> that seems very portland. >> with the beard and the hat. >> producers making me do some wacky bike riding. simpler times. the question is how did a city that's 70% white become the epicenter of 2020's black lives matter activism? honestly, where else but portland? portland is a bright blue dot in a state surrounded by red, maga hat red.

and antifa, anarchists and activists have been fighting white nationalists here for years, since way before it was cool. add to that the killing of george floyd and a president set on making an example out of liberal cities -- >> we could take care of portland in 45 minutes. >> -- and it's no surprise at all that portland became one of the epicenters of the blm movement. ♪ >> groups like black unity pdx, a civil rights collective focused on action, have been protesting in portland nightly since the killing of george floyd. >> shut it down. >> they want it all, police defunded, wealth redistributed. >> shut it down. >> i.c.e. abolished. all of it. >> shut it down! >> 19-year-old xavier warner, aka princess, is one of the founders. >> i don't want to see another

[ bleep ]. >> xavier is in the weird position of having to worry about a police curfew, and carol's curfew. who is carol? xavier's mom. were you born here in portland? >> yeah. so i was born and raised here. i lived in a predominantly white community my whole life except for prior to being adopted when i was 5. >> it changed a lot with this black lives matter. did i say it right? >> yeah. >> she used to save black life matters. i'm like, no, no, no. it's plural. >> part of it is his black life matters so goddamn much for me. i'm sorry for the cussing. i probably lived a lot in the bubble. i didn't really with the black and white and racism, i apologize because i know i'm a good citizen, but i don't think it was on my radar. >> so what led you to do all of that? what led you to start doing? >> okay. well -- >> uh-oh, what's -- i feel like i just stepped into something.

>> i'm not sure. i'm just curious. >> do you not know the answer to this question? >> i feel like you know the answer because it's a big reason why i transferred colleges. >> go ahead. i'm listening. >> i went to college in the midwest. i had a lot of racist experiences. one of the examples was i was walking to a theater party, and there was five guys all in trump masks in a mercedes-benz throwing water balloons at me full of paint saying the n-word. i had to run. i was scared for my life. so after that, school was already ended. i flew back home, and george floyd just died. and so that really sparked the flame in me that change needs to happen, and it needs to happen now. >> what does that spell? >> black lives matter! >> if you weren't paying attention, you'd think they were getting ready for a fun night out. but this is serious. >> my address was posted online.

i've been doxxed. two guys that came up to the door. there was somebody throwing rocks at my window. >> here? >> yeah, right here. i've been hit in the head with a baseball bat. i've been assaulted and things that nobody should ever experience. >> and you keep going back. when the protests began in late may of 2020, protesters faced portland police. but on july 4th, federal agents came in. >> that was ten times worse. i remember the first night that i got gassed. the sensation is your throat starts to burn, and then your sinuses start to burn, and then your eyes start to burn. it -- it hurts. the feds were so brutal. they were there to [ bleep ] us up, and they did. they accomplished that. okay. i'll see you when i see you. >> there's got to be a better way than taking 19-year-old kids and young adults as they're trying to make a difference and using chemical weapons on them.

>> i shouldn't be, like, going out there with pepper spray and a baton and a taser just to keep myself safe for preaching that my life matters. i shouldn't have to do that. i really shouldn't have to do that. >> thank you, mom! >> thank you. >> escalating violence that xavier and many other protesters encountered in the summer of 2020 was seen by many as a turning point. not since the civil rights era had so many people understood that a fight for black rights is a fight for all our rights. >> what i saw was more than just the erosion of first amendment rights. we started seeing due process rights. so another constitutional violation, which i think is a slippery slope. >> mm-hmm. >> all of our constitutional rights are in jeopardy at that point. >> like a lot of portlanders, navy veteran chris david only had a peripheral knowledge of what was going on in downtown portland in the early days of

the protests. as a white guy, he didn't really have to worry about the cops. but all that changed in july 2020 when after weeks of mostly peaceful protests, donald trump flooded portland with federal agents to, quote, protect federal buildings, unquote. >> we need to know who are you? what is going on? >> many of the agents didn't wear badges and yanked protesters off the streets into unmarked vans. >> we cannot have secret police abducting people. this is a democracy, not a dictatorship. >> this kind of violent federal deployment over the objections of state and local officials is not something most of us are used to seeing in america, and we shouldn't get used to it. >> what really pissed me off about that concept was it was desensitizing us to the idea of who is authority? >> yes. >> as soon as we allow that kind of behavior, you know, things -- all bets are off, right? i made a quip to my ex-wife and

daughter that i was going to go down to protest, and they were so angry at me, and said, no, you are not going to go down. so i decided to put on all the navy gear i had. i put on this hat. i put on my naval academy sweatshirt, and i dug out my really old battered backpack that had all of my navy patches on it, right? >> yeah. >> i was hoping that the federal officers were also vets, and it would give them pause. they would respect me long enough so that i could ask the question, why are you violating your oath of office? why are you violating your oath to the constitution? you did not take an oath to a president. you took it to an idea. you took it to a concept that this is the underpinning of this entire country. i get downtown, and it was very peaceful. it was almost sort of celebratory. so it's 10:45, and i'm tired, i need to find another bus to go home. that's when the feds started showing up. there was no warning to disperse at all. they just came out, and they

started knocking them down like they were playing rugby or football, hitting them full blast, body blows. one of the officers came in and plowed into me. another dude came up, and he leveled his automatic weapon at my chest from about three feet away. i'm just standing there. he could have killed me instantly. one round would have blown my heart apart. i started asking him, why are you violating your oath to the constitution? and then the dude with a baton started wacking me all over the place, and he manages to break my hand. and i knew it immediately because it caused my finger to curl up like this. and then another guy came up and just hit me point blank in the face with pepper spray, which is like flaming gasoline from that distance. i can barely breathe. my only priority was to get to a part of the park that had less tear gas in it. and i could barely see. in fact, i was completely losing

my vision. i just collapsed on a -- on a park bench. >> park bench, yeah. >> that's when one of the volunteer combat street medics came up and rescued me. they pulled me out of there. >> the medic got chris to the hospital where he got patched up and end and the night, probably thinking, what the [ bleep ] just happened? >> it's ridiculous that veterans have to come out of the woodworks in order to try to protect their fellow citizens from the depredations of our [ bleep ] law enforcement officers in this country. the system is broken. it needs to be completely strip down bare bones and rebuilt. i'm talking about policing and criminal justice system. >> which is exactly wa xavier and black unity pdx are trying to call attention to as they head out tonight. the call is the same as -- defund the portland police department .

>> as you've all seen before, the police decided to turn up the law and order. a little after midnight, xavier was struck by a cop with a baton and was rushed to the hospital with a concussion. another sleepless night for carol, and another reminder of what's at stake at this moment in time.

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had we look at the history of protest movements in the u.s., we see a maddening trend. whether it's first wave feminism, second wave feminism, civil rights movement, "me too" movement, black women do a lot of the heavy lifting, and other folks get a lot more of the credit. the same is true with black lives matter. it was founded by three black women. >> it's wonderful to have white allies, but if those white allies are speaking for black people who have not asked them to do so, then that's problematic. >> dr. shirley jackson, chair of the black studies department at

portland state university, has spent years writing and teaching about race and social movements. >> one of the problems that we see sometimes in the way that people are looking at protests in portland, it's as though you are showing your blackness if you are out there supporting black lives matter. but that's not the only way to show your support. >> mm-hmm. >> it may be what some whites think that blacks should be doing. >> mm-hmm. >> but that's just part of the problem. blacks should be determining what they want to do and how their activism should look. it should not be dictated by people who have a stereotype of black people or a stereotype of black activism. >> naked athena. >> don't make me go there. >> it's had a lot of attention from the national media was on

naked athena. when it's all distilled into one image, it feels portlandish. >> here is a white woman, and her body becomes the focus of the press in a black lives matter movement. but black women's bodies historically, we have been objectified. so for a white woman to say that she is doing this in a way that somehow promotes black lives matter is simply lost on me. >> today i'm visiting don't shoot portland, a center for local act viism and community support. i'm talking to two women, one black, one white. they're determined to do this allyship thing much better. >> it's a wonderful place for our community. it's been in service for over ten years. >> over ten years. so that pre-dates even black lives matter. >> of course. we've always been for black lives.

>> what i'm saying is a lot of people think that these discussions started happening recently. >> no. they've been happening so long. i'm from memphis. hey, hey, hey, sister. come on, come on. what's up? >> three years ago, demetria was the victim of a racist attack by a white supremacist, jeremy christian. yep, that's his last name. >> he got on the train doing what he do, doing his hate, and he threw a gatorade bottle full of wine into my eye to the point where after four months still, you could see the blackness in my eye. >> christian attacked demetria on may 25th, 2017, but he wasn't arrested that night, which meant the very next day, he was available to fatally stab two men and injure a third after he was confronted for shouting racist and anti-muslim slurs at

two teenage black girls, one of whom was wearing a hijab. after that, he was arrested, convicted, and sentenced to prison. >> i should have killed you! >> every black person i know have went through something like i went through, and that's why we fight. >> the fight intensified in the summer of 2020 when trump flooded portland with federal agents. lots of new groups formed in response to the violence from the ages. the one that got the most attention. demetria and nicole both joined the group. >> there was a thing on facebook. they posted out, moms come out, wear a yellow shirt. i'm like, i'm a mom. we can do this. >> they're speaking my language.

>> right. but it was really unnerving because there was no structure. there was no organization. like they have no idea. we're going up against the feds. they have no idea. they've got their hair in their face and little bike helmets and your birkenstocks and gras na low in your backpack. >> america loved the wall of mostly white moms. they were seen as protectors of democracy and became instant media darlings. but this group brought something else to the surface, white allies getting credit for black folks' work -- again. >> the mere fact that you had white women take these roles in a state of being leaders of this particular protest, putting themselves in between their sons and daughters and the federal authorities -- >> mm-hmm. >> -- it just simply erased the presence of black women.

>> behind the scenes, questions were being asked. where were all the black moms in this wall? because let's be real. black moms deal with injustice at the hands of law enforcement way more often than white moms do. >> very quickly were calls for it to be turned over to black leadership, not just a woman of color. >> mm-hmm. >> and that was initially started, and then it fell through. it literally unraveled -- not unraveled. it exploded within about 24, 48 hours of that. >> two weeks later, the group had collapsed under the weight of its own white privilege. demetria stepped away from wall of moms and formed a new group. moms united for black lives. she was quickly joined by nicole and many other moms. >> for me, what i've learned with the wall of moms, with working with demetria, you just take a seat. if you're going to come out and support a black lives, you listen to the black voices at a march. you follow the black leadership. you don't let a white voice take you off somewhere else.

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♪ what's up? >> hey, hey. >> if i were to believe the right wingers, the q. anon-ers, the gopers and even some in the media, visiting portland in fall 2020 is a terrible idea. >> if you look at portland, that's anarchists. they're just thugs. >> they're burning, looting, and being called peaceful protesters. >> my father was convinced that antifa is burning down the city. my mother called me last week and asked if protesters were trying to burn down my house. i'm like, hold on a second. let me look out the window. nope, they're not out there. >> randy blazic is a former

sociology professor and current chair of the organization against hate crimes. he's been studying extreme right-wing discourse around the blm movement. >> hate groups always have this sort of apocalyptic element to it, that the government is just about to collapse and america is being taken away. there's this perception that portland is sort of burning because it's not upholding american values. so that's being used by a lot of people on the extreme right. >> people go into a restaurant and the rioters come in and get in their face and threaten them and turn over their tables. >> they want to overthrow the rule of law in america. do you know what that means? >> burning down cities and attacking and killing innocent americans. >> yikes. >> there's this sort of ticking time clock, like a movie where the clock is ticking down till the big boom. the picture that's presented to middle america is you're about to get portland in your ba backyard, so you need to do something now. that is bringing people into the movement. the way that we kind of talk about this is sort of this militia funnel.

but on the top level of this funnel, there are a lot of mainstream issues that bring people into the movement. guns is a huge one. people really concerned about their second amendment rights or land use. mainstream white suburban anxiety. but then you go down to sort of the next level of that funnel, and it becomes a hatred of the federal government. you go down another level and it becomes all those nicolas cage movies, right? it's some cabal, some secret conspiracy. then you go down the next level, and it becomes an anti-semitic theory conspiracy. then you go down to the bottom of the funnel, and it's the revolutionaries. so the idea of this model, the more people you can bring in on mainstream issues, you can convince them to slide down to the bottom. so what we're seeing now is a sort of acceleration of the movement from the top to the bottom. >> conservative media is driving more people than ever before to

the funnel. and once inside, the slippery slope is greased by alt-right media favorites like 4 chan and parler that weren't even around a few decades ago. what was once the domain of fridge white nationalist groups has increasingly infiltrated the mainstream of american political and cultural discussion. and this can have dangerous consequences. >> what we're looking at now is the threat of a lot of --. that's the thing that keeps me up at night. >> we will stop the steal. >> you remember this, right? on january 6th, 2021, only weeks before then-president-elect joe biden's inauguration, white

supremacists, terrorists, insurrectionist donald trump supporters -- did i get everything -- stormed and breached the u.s. alccapitol. as much as it seems like it would be easy to condemn a president ordering a coup on his own government, nope. there was equivocating, hiding behind parliamentary procedure, and full-on flights of fancy. >> they were masquerading as trump supporters, and in fact were members of the violent terrorist group antifa. >> and some even tried to compare this to this. let's be clear. this is activism. this is terrorism. how is it that protesters peacefully saying that cops shouldn't kill black people get pepper sprayed and arrested by the thousands, but the people violently taking over the capitol get reprimanded and politely asked to leave.

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americans dealt with complicated feelings about the police for the first time. the right wing saw that and they did what they do. they pulled a bait and switch and returned too an old boogeyman, antifa. images of people clad in black fighting in the streets was an easy idea to sell to people who say things like blue lives matter. as we learned last season, antifa is short for anti-fascist. if you're unsure how you feel about that, picture a table. on one side of the table is hitler and mussolini. and on the other side is the --. which side of the table are you sitting on? i'm with raffi. join me at my weekly antifa meeting, i mean my second time ever meeting with antifa. tucker is going to be so mad. >> hello. >> hello. >> thank you for coming to this totally normal situation. >> thank you for joining us as

totally normal-looking people. >> i think a lot of people on the left have done a lot of work to say antifa is not a group. it's an ideology. then you guys actually are a group. >> there is an analogy like knitters. you can be someone who knits scarves for your family on holidays. you can be someone that's in a knitting club, and you can call yourself someone that knits but not engage with any other groups of people that are interested in knitting. >> that's the best analogy i've ever heard. so let's talk about the other side of it because a lot of things that antifa is credited with is violence. how do you feel about violence in the movement? >> we are all from portland, and we're defending our community. i think what's often left out is that groups like the proud boys are coming into portland from across the state and the country to commit violence here on our city streets. >> [ bleep ] antifa!

>> and if we weren't out there putting our bodies on the line, they find people who are weaker than them and pick on them. >> this fighting for democracy and against fascism thing has always been a messy business. and, yes, people get hurt. property gets damaged, and things get confusing. while america loves to celebrate mlk jr.'s nonviolence, america also loves to forget that he was assassinated by some violence at the young age of 39. and while we're talking about black icons assassinated by white supremacy, i'm betting malcolm x would have loved to see some while people confronting white supremacy like this. >> by any means necessary. >> antifa doesn't just take on white supremacy in the streets. >> the vast majority of the work that we do is spent doing

research and trying to identify people on the internet saying, like, violent, racist, disgusting things that they feel empowered to say because they're anonymous and on the internet and try to connect that to their real life person so the people around them know who they're talking to. there are social repercussions for being a neo-nazi. your in-laws might not want you over for thanksgiving anymore. your boss miert not really want you representing their company. >> so it's been research to collect evidence. then how do you put that out into the world? >> we have a website. >> okay, okay. >> twitter. >> or linkedin. >> yes. >> we can make someone's life a little bit harder by publishing their job and hoping they get fired or have to find a new job. but those are like temporary setbacks for them that make their organizing harder, and their organizing is work that intends to commit genocidal violence. so in the grand scheme of things, we think that that's

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well, thank you for being here this morning and taking the time to greet the sun. >> you might be surprised to know the majority of indigenous people in this country live in cities. yet whenever we talk about the social movements that explode in cities all over the country, we don't talk about native people being a part of that, and they are.

>> the ancestors that used to be here and that walked this land are right there with you every single day. ♪ >> how do the three of you know each other? >> i've known tana as long as i can, like, cognitively remember. she's always been an auntie in my mind. >> when people were relocated to the urban areas, they sort of built family that way. >> yeah. >> we kind of just come together. we don't kneeow why, but it fee right. >> you don't meet, you become. >> exactly. >> tana, laura, and jason are the organizers behind the weekly sunrise ceremony in delta park in portland. >> this is a time of truth-telling. this is a time of change. >> the ceremonies began in the summer of 2020 as a way for the native american community to show support to the blm movement. >> we need to understand that the history is right now and that we're part of a continuum.

>> you think there's just a, you know, weirdly in america, the one thing the system, the white man -- i can say the white man here. >> you can say it anywhere. >> that's true. that's true. that's true. thank you for the reminder. the white man does a good job of dividing people of color against each other. certainly blacks and native folks, there seems like there would be a natural alliance, but it doesn't always feel that way. >> i'm born and raised here as well. my family was not culturally connected. i lived in like a black culture. there was a lot of similarities, but we were never taught that shit. excuse me. >> you can say shit. >> okay. >> if i can say white man, you can say shit. >> i think the system didn't accidentally decide to oppress us all. there's malice and intent going on there. some of our original people who encountered the europeans were taken back to europe as slaves. and so we know that history. we know the history of african

slaves who were brought over and who ran away and hid amongst our tribal populations. and we know the history of mostly african-american folks but also native folks being hung for doing things that they, god forbid, they pulled themselves up on their own bootstraps. and we've experienced that same type of thing, right? so we have that solidarity. >> if you talk to any other tribe, they'll tell you this is sacred land to our people here in portland. >> the group chose delta park as the location of the sunrise ceremony because it's sacred land to the tribes and also because it's a symbol of the trauma shared by black folks and indigenous folks. see, this is where bandport used to be a massive wartime housing project for workers. >> vanport was a place where during the war, a lot of people, mostly black folks, but a lot of native folks as well came

because there was fast housing built there to put people in so that they could be workers. >> at its height, vanport was home to 40,000 people. >> then the floods came, and literally within hours, people lost anything that they may have had. they were just sort of left on their own to get it figured out after that. of course that place was never rebuilt because they didn't need those workers anymore. >> and america repeats that cycle of natural disasters happening, it affecting black folks, indigenous folks, people of color get hit the hardest. there's a line from vanport to katrina in new orleans. black people have never returned to new orleans the way we were before katrina. like we've seen time and time again, no one else has our back, so we have to have each other's. >> i wanted to share the love for my black brothers and sisters. >> if you look back on history, when the black panthers came

together with the american indian movement in portland and elsewhere, that was a major threat, and it needed to be broken up. >> yeah. >> right away. >> during the civil rights movement, native american tribes joined the black panthers to fight racial injustice and poverty. and while the fbi was quick to target and disrupt this alliance with raids, imprisonment, and even assassinations, the seeds for future alliances had been planted. >> so we have this opportunity to pick up where our parents and for some younger folks, their grandparents were. >> yeah. >> during the civil rights movement, continue it on. >> it's absolutely necessary that we come together in critical mass and say this is wrong. we need to change it. >> it isn't just two cultures we're talking about. we're talking about everybody's culture. you don't just see black people at these protests. you see white people. you see asian people. you see native people. so we're not talking about what

are we going to do to figure this shit out? we're talking about how can we do this together? my mom is 83, and she said this moment feels different. she lives through the '60s. does >> yeah. >> sometimes i have to ask the dumb questions so you can give a good answer. >> of course. there's sort of this relentlessness about it, and us thinking about it a lot and personally thinking as a legislature, don't stop now because if you give up this energy right now nothing will change. so the momentum is absolutely necessary right now and the energy is different because more and more people than maybe we have been experiencing in a very long time are going, oh, wow, really? because for eight minutes and 46 seconds they had to watch. they had to watch the reality of

black people in america. and the fact that they could not turn away and could not no longer deny what was happening here, that's why this is different. >> i need you folks to come around in the circle here. our people are known for war hooping, and anybody not know what a war hoop is? all right. you're going to get a lesson right here. on the count of three, 1, 2, 3 -- mind. shower with new dove men.

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new orleans is a homogeneous city, so to claim that you love diversity and tolerate it is easy because there's not a whole lot to tolerate, and you can yell we celebrate diversity because it's not there. >> they have been community leaders and organizers in portland for decades. >> we repair and renovate black-owned homes and businesses and help try to build equity and raise property values. >> and a journalist has been

advocating for police reform since martin was killed, and he wants to show the general public what is happening in the streets of portland. >> we value life. that's why we are here. >> i bought a local hip-hop out let ten years ago, and we don't have any concerts to cover and when the protests started it was time to get back to work, and i got my phone out and started streaming -- >> talking about the protests? >> talking about the protests and a lot of writing and then at night being out there at the protests. >> but people trying to document the protests, freelancers, live streamers and reporters with years of experience had reported getting tear-gassed and beat and shot at with rubber bullets. >> i was 30 yards away editing a

picture i had just taken, and they shot me from across the street in the face. >> wow. >> they didn't have id or anything, so it could be anybody. >> shot me in the head with rubber bullets. this is real. >> i am going to go out and take pictures with my cell phone and maybe live stream, and i have to wear a helmet because i might get hit in the head with a baton. that's where we are at. >> many americans associate that with third-world countries or dictatorships and it's happening here. >> this is really a situation where we have people that don't live here beating us up because we want a change in our local budget. the cops don't live here. the sheriffs don't live here, the feds don't live here and none of them care about us. they want what is best for them, and we're telling them what is best for us and they respond to

the violence. >> uh-huh. >> you grow things from the earth. you grow everything from the bottom up. you have to reinvest in our communities and take care of each other, take care of homeowners and take care of black people and business people. >> i hope it inspires people to get rid of the what capitalism breathes. >> give us some equity in this country because what you are not going to see is black people getting happier because the protests are over or the election is over and biden is president, and that's not going to change anything. >> if you take better care of people from birth, and give parents child care and give kids school and make sure they are fed, there's not as many people

to arrest. >> we can either keep on spending money on fixing the problems after they happen or we can invest in the soil and get this thing started. >> america has two places where things get better, in the courtroom and in the streets, and it's often a combo of both. we either get lost in change, but for better or worse, this is how democracy in america has always been. while the current battle is about black lives, at this moment in time we're also fighting for something else, we're fighting for our whole identity as a democracy, fighting to protect and exercise our fundamental rights as americans to rise up, to protest and demand change, and if those rights slip through our fingers that's the whole end of the democracy game as we know it. as frederick douglas said, use justice as demands, and this is

how americans believe in justice. we could avoid all of us if we just lived up to our ideals. until then, see you in the streets. hi, and welcome to our viewers here in the united states and all around the world. i am robyn curnow. today marks one week of clashes between israel and hamas. some of the details might shock you. plus -- >> a miracle in a tragedy. the story of a 6-year-old survivor pulled from the rubble, and many americans are thrilled about the lifting of mask restrictions and one very important group is not, health care workers on the front