meaningful bottom up policy reforms. all of our ears are buzzing, marbury. coming to the center for popular >> how old are you? how did you do all of this? she is going to talk to us about her work at the center for popular democracy at the center for black lives.

marbre: it is a huge honor to be here. thank you for having me here. it is a huge pleasure and honor to be here. talk a bit about the work that we have been doing. of place ofstate state legislatures. racial profiling, body cameras, a lot of action at the state level.

reflect the aspirations of freedom fighters and folks on the ground impacted educationhat limit and enforce state violence against them. i think it is a time to think about the system, transforming it, and so much of that has to happen at the state level. i will speak briefly. that we are inside of, criminal justice or educational system, are not just in need of tweaks. they are broken because the roots are rotten. the criminal justice system came out of slavery. dante spoke to this a bit. it's not just that practices are broken, the purpose of policing and criminal justice in this country. not -- ourmacy is

system supports white supremacy and basic ways. what hashink about to happen, it's not that we have to tweet these systems, -- , what isse systems the purpose of a police station in our country? in order to align state legislation with the opportunity, it requires oldness to push into those places. it requires a real vision about the world we want to live in. movement ise of the to balance this visionary transformational vision, which is thinking about a whole new with the need to enact small steps and reforms. do that?

recognize it is a broken system, but also smart things they get us to that place. that requires a long-term vision. i was in new orleans yesterday with activist thinking about city budgets and the city level. it talks about the freedom budget. it is a 10-year plan to eradicate poverty in the united states. ae whole budget is progressive agenda, full employment, living wage, access to housing. it's something that you hear candidates say today that they said in 1967, which is sad. 10 mcgill, an activist out of los angeles, said we have been

doing work in los angeles, and in the process of researching, we uncovered the 100 year plan of usc, a corporate plan to re-envision of what los angeles would look like. thinkingidea that the in one session in 10 years is insufficient. we have to have a vision that outgrows our lifetime and involves her children and grandchildren. how do we think about a whitewide agenda where supremacy is no longer a prevalent issue. and in the meantime, do things that make people's lives better. i have three different ideas, ways to think about that.

defensiveness, we have seen in the last 30 years a consolidation of power on the right. secondly, thinking about reforms, incremental reforms that are moving us in the right direction. quickly, legislation that consolidates power. how we make sure that the reforms we make our moving towards our vision of what we want to see. lastly, how do we think about transformation. how do we frame the work we are doing so that it is transformative. thinking about how we combat what is happening, four main areas. we've seen across the country a series of laws pass at the state level the make it impossible to enact reforms at the local level.

there's just so much they can't do. recently inhis terms of education in georgia and other states, taking schools out of the control of municipalities into state government, a privatization agenda. we've seen it in terms of wages. in detroit, they're trying to pass wage ordinances, but they have been stopped at the state level. how do we think about it and combat this move towards a state control? municipalities the power to control their systems? passed seen legislation in places that gets to this, it is not ok that 45% of our budget comes from the poorest and most .ulnerable to th

but what can fix that, do we do to check the predatory powers. a lot of this is about profiteering and private corporations, and how to we stop the profiteering? way arounds led the private prisons and industries. -- allowing them to call family members and children, how do we stop the profiteering? this is how we choose to punish people is not a private issue and there should not be money made off of that. it sounds like slavery. lastly, we saw in the last 30 years a lot of different legislation that protects police officers and corrections officers. backo we claw some of that and allow for them to be

accountable. how do we stop to defeat the officers bill of rights? i think we also have to be careful. a moment where a lot of people have ideas, so how do we passed isthat what we not reinforce status quo or consolidate power? body cameras and community policing. i would love to know what it means. things, tos, three departments that have gotten funding have no regulations. , testifornia, new york programs about body cameras, giving folks money and saying, why don't you film all of this and let us know how it goes. investment increases police budgets without accountability,

which got as into the problem in the first place. pay policejust departments more, not to mention the corporate actors who are getting millions of dollars. this microphone is giving us some base. to give them more money is problematic. thinking critically about the reforms we are our passing and packaging as victories may help to consolidate power to the same people in the first place. i will not get into the surveillance state that body cameras create, we should get a drink. we are creating a state where surveillance is also a problem. we should ask what body cameras do.

policing came about in the 1990's in new york city. it was used then as now to justify the highly -- putting police in more places. during the task force hearings, to hear police chief talk about it was not their job to be social counselors. they did not want to do that job. thating about the reforms we are championing and thinking about whether they are moving us in the right direction, this goes back to the necessity of a long-term vision of the world you want to live in. safety is not just defined by cages and surveillance. it is about housing, education, and jobs, and so do we think about the criminal reform package in each of those areas?

and careful about where we tread, the last pieces about transformation. as we are thinking about legislation, i know it is not easy for you, lots of agendas, aggressively antiblack and or, but how do we think about thinking transformative late. i have some lists, but also being in spaces and in conversations with people on the ground because people are thinking and creative ways about the world they want to see. violencest impacted by have ideas about how to solve and get out of the situation that i think are incredibly vital that folks have to be living too. transformation, in the cash bail , a system of plea bargaining --

[applause] it has made prosecutors the judge and the jury with no accountability. that should scare us. why we are inason this room is because of the unchecked power of prosecutors. it should make us all very scared. if somebody does not belong or fit to be in public, there is no amount of money that makes that ok. is a class-based system that should scare us. secondly, decriminalization. 1990's, we sawnd the building of the present state under republican and democratic control. we are all complicit in that creation. whatever the intentions were, we have to be cognizant of the reality that we all pushed tough

on crime that allowed for the creation of a prison state on both sides of the aisle. it took both sides to build it, and it will take both sides to dismantle it. 2000s, tens ofnd thousands of new laws were passed. in 1985 not criminal was criminal in 1987, saggy pants, bordering, taking up public space. it is illegal for you to be in a public space and you will get arrested for that. pants, loitering, that is taking a public space. in a illegal for you to be public space and you will get arrested for that. how do we decriminalize behavior that does not a long and the criminal justice system and is

not land you in a cage. how do we support institutions they can deal with those issues that are not prisons? california has done some of this, but it's not about reducing it to misdemeanors. you in jail,o land ruin your credit, part of the same system. the entire swath of behavior that is not dangerous out of the criminal justice system. second, decriminalization with reparations. reparations makes people uncomfortable. you can use what ever language makes you happy inside, but the idea is that we extract millions of dollars from immunities, destroyed areas, destruction of communities across the country, and we can track which communities. we have that data. all of the profit from decriminalization could go back to the folks that we extracted

it from, right? that can be done very easily. engaging the process of who gets the money. would save 170e million dollars annually in wisconsin if we decriminalize marijuana. for theld that do education system in madison? to ensurebout ways the money is put back in the communities so they can repair themselves. incarceration has had incredible consequences on the families of those impacted. lastly, the idea of what it's yearthat every single think about where money goes at the state level. what we have seen for the last 30 years is a huge increase in spending on incarceration and spending and a decrease in education, employment, things

that make us safer. 1987-2013, 30% increase in spending on incarceration. 6% increase in higher education. that is crazy. the idea that we invested so much money in carson rating and an caging people and not educating them, is a big problem. spend money on is a reflection of what we care about, right? 10 states spend more on incarceration than education. that scares me. we are seeing an increase in incarceration spending and a decrease in and health and education. instance, we know that a 10% increase in real wages results and a 14% decrease in crime rates over 10 years. we know that a 9% increase and

graduation rates results and it 10% decrease in criminal acts. andou invest in jobs education, you will have lower crime rates, right? there are no studies that show us that increasing police presence reduces crime. it's a good idea. it's also a human idea, but we have to think about budgets and who we care about. if we have a budget where the major investment is incarceration, we are saying something to those communities about how we feel about them. you cannot say with a straight face that you believe black lives matter if you're part of a budget process or the major investment in black communities is incarceration, caging, and surveillance, so it is time to be bold. [applause] it's time to be bold

about where our money is going and where our priorities are. thank you. much. [applause] >> thank you. , the executive director of color of change, the nation's largest online civil rights organization. under his leadership, it has grown its membership from a little over 1000 to over one million. since 2005, it has been a leading force in holding government and corporations accountable and advancing visionary solutions. shot has greatly expanded the scope and impact in the past rashad has -- wer greatly expanded the scope and impact of the past four years.

color of change developed and led a national campaign against the [applause] i guess i don't have to explain what that is to this crowd. exchangelegislative council, after exposing involvement in passing voter id laws, exposed alec for harmful stand your ground laws, 90 corporations into their support of alec. [applause] >> as a result of color of changes work, alec disbanded the task force, committee response for drafting harmful laws. he is a thought leader for civil rights and social change and technology driven activism. he has appeared in many news stories, cnn, abc, and etc.

he has also been named for the influentialars as african-americans under 45. he has received the transforming .merica award and just last week, the community change champion award. had that, let's welcome ras robinson. [applause] i know that i have to stand. it's great to be with you. how is everyone doing? great. panelo great to be on the with the two of you as well, my colleague and friend. i want to talk about how we get there, right? rbrepolicy solutions that ma laid out our transformative, but

we are living in the state and the community right now. the work that dante is talking about, the uplifting of young people's voices and their vision for our democracy and economy are what we need, but how do we get there? i want to talk a little bit about movement building, about what we need to do together, about the inside game and the outside game, which is something that is often time progresses -- as progresses we don't do as well as we should. color of change was found in the aftermath of hurricane katrina. 10 years ago, this moment of and disappointment, a pain frustration, of anger that so many americans had about the failure of government to be accountable to the most honorable community, black folks . folks watched as people were literally left to die in the , and innt did nothing

the aftermath of that, our founders sent out a single e-mail to 1000 people to ask them to hold government and institutions accountable. those folks responded, and over the last 10 years, we have grown through campaigns like holding fox news and our media accountable, pushing over 200 advertisers to leave the glenn beck show and force glenn beck off the air. it wasn't because the beck show was less popular. in fact, the last episode was pretty highly rated, but you couldn't sell that advertising. the corporations were pushed to make a choice between standing with communities or standing with fox. in the aftermath of alec, there were many organizations that the campaign would not have been successful without,

organizations doing the research and organizing for years. many of those organizations were standing outside of alec's offices and protesting. fromget 90% of its money corporations. told those corporations that you can't calm for black folks money like they and make us unsafe by night. [applause] rashad: we mobilized our membership. we stood with other online and that rights organizations stood with us and mobilized their members, corporation after corporation dropped, domino and domino dropped. alec is still doing havoc in our state. in the process, we created a framework.

no longer are they the shady, behind the scenes organization that they used to be. america has a better understanding of what they are -- what they do and who they are. of the outside game and part of the inside game necessary to win. up to fightd for an open internet. ,ome folks may be in this room but we stood to fight up for an open internet. it's not just about the issues that we fight for, what our ability to get those issues through the door, clear roads that make our voices powerful in democracymy and this . protecting an open internet was not just about signing petitions, but our ability to be heard, regardless of privileged

or not, majority or minority, in favor or out-of-favor, whoever may be in power. at color of change, we are working to distribute the organizing work we are doing. thatve launched a platform is urging our members to start more campaigns. many of you working in state offices may hear from us in different ways. i apologize in advance, but i hope you will thank me later. you will hear from our members standing up and fighting on a wide range of issues. some of those issues will be , but necessary for the structural improvement of our lives. to remove confederate symbols from streets and from schools. the fact that there are robert e lee schools in california is really confusing to me, but i

run a civil rights organization. we will be asking you to stand with us. that is part of the work of on-ramp and people to our movement, helping people understand why race matters. that is the important work to building movements that are powerful to push policy goals that you want. when people say they want to get more black people involved, how do we get more black people to care about my issue? i hear it on public financing, climate, to every other i issue that impacts our community. it's about reaching people where they are and then engaging. it's not about what we say. it's about what we do. it's not about the right words, but the right policy behind us. that goes to my really clear point that i want to make here.

thisis age of media, and age of getting things to trend on social media, so often we mistake cultural presence for cultural power. or awarenessesents of our issues, the fact they are out in the community or people are talking about them for the fact that we have built the power to get them over the line, that we have built the energy, passion, and engagement of everyday people to ensure that people will move on the issue when we want them to move on the issue. legislativet is change and the fact that so many of our issues, we can get them on the front page of the news, but we can't have people to show up to meet with the yet,sentatives, or better we can't get people to vote the right way when we want them, or hold their elected official in power, to incentivize their official to do the right thing or push them out when they do the wrong thing. whether it is our media environment, and every single

day we see the news stories and local news, and at color of change want this step back and on peel some of what we are seeing. we started doing studies and reports monitoring local news coverage. , the new at new york york local market, the 11:00 and 10:00 news, and we look at them because in many places the new york news is the standard for what happens around the country. they have the most money, so they do it the best. we monitor them for six months, , some poorwill night color of change staff who now one hazard pay. they monitored and tracked crime coverage by race. then we went back and compared that coverage to the nypd arrest records we knew were skewed because of broken window policing or stop and were, all the things that

laid out already. even after that, all four stations had a distortion great of 40% to 50%, meaning they showed more black crime than white crime, and they all underreported white crime. these were decisions made each and every night, but on the aggregate of six months led to an array of coverage that was happening. telling them who they should be afraid of, who they should fear, who are the villains. while you're working to pass policy, that's what you're trying to pass it inside of, i hostile climate telling people a false narrative and false story about our communities, a false story that fits outside of pleasing, the story that incentivizes and pushes us to believe what we are being told on the front pages of our newspaper, what we are being

told from the right wing politicians. we push this out and we started campaigning. we are pushing the networks to do better. they have said, we are not racists, and we said, ok, we know, but what you're doing is this, and now we have to fix this or we will be having conversations with your advertisers. the last piece, and this is an --ortant piece and something and i believe i will have this have madeom, but we semi-mistakes around corporate accountability in our movement. after 2010, i believe so much of our work should have been focused on holding and pushing back corporations. i believe corporate accountability, not only as a structural issue, but as a symbol, uniting not just across movements for black lives, but we see it showing up in other communities around the country,

other communities on the right and left that has seen how corporations have moved into our lives, created growing inequality, and if we don't continue to start pushing back and very clear ways against corporations, we will never build a populist movement that can win. [applause] we say that black lives because when black people win, we believe everyone wins. we believe our history over and over again has shown us that when we have progress on these issues, when immigrants and women and gay and lesbians bisexual and transgender and native people win, we all win. our some total movement has to be about finding common ground and working together, leveraging symbolic victories and opportunities to drive people to online activism into the streets

or into public service. issues thatructural we can move people to once we have gotten them there. work remains and continues, but i want to thank all of you for standing up, helping us understand about alec as we move through our campaign work. we will continue to be an outside force agitating and driving forward, and we hope you will continue stand with us on the inside. [applause] >> we are going to open enough for questions and answers. to going to ask one question our panel to answer really quickly. insiderhe point about and outsider game, and needing both. i'm going to ask each of them to , and margaret had

her list of transformative policy changes she liked. if you could pick one policy change that you would like to this roomveryone in when they get back to their home states on monday could start working on if they are not already, one on your wish list that you think is close to a magic bullet, but what is the one policy that you think would be most helpful in this moment for legislators to advance and statehouses across the country, what would it be? we will start with dante. us is one policy for banning all guns on campus. -- evenwe have seen yesterday, not all communities across the country have a ban on concealed carry. there has been a tremendous concealed carry movement over

the last year. quickly, we have seen the rise of the concealed carry movement deeply connected to the armament of campus police that are affecting black and brown communities as well. we are looking hard and deep around the concealed carry laws that are in the those states. marbre: i'm going to break your rules. budget, andhe thinking about realigning its with values. we can rethink what we are investing in. about omnibus bills, so i think the idea of packaging, but what we are seeing in our communities is amana station -- is a manifestation of failures across the board. what is a platform that gets to all of that? >> thank you.

rashad: it's so hard. i will cheat and say omnibus -- omnibusin it search andin it special prosecutors. in this movement moment of people standing up and talking clearly about police accountability, those are two pieces that provide more power and opportunity for community. marbre: one more thought. you got me thinking. bill in theights 1960's was an omnibus bill that address the entire experience of black folks at that time to it presented a vision to congress ,nd the country about voting segregation, economic justice, pushed and walked on, so thinking about platforms and packages that get to more than one area, putting forth your

vision of the world you want to be in is important. >> great. thank you. we want to hear from you, of course. , ifs take a few questions the three of you could take notes and try to answer all the questions and not dodge questions, especially when directed to you, but we will take a few and hear from them and try to have another round. right here first. >> state representative from new hampshire. in the state of new hampshire, we have at this time a lot of the presidential candidates coming, and one of the issues from one of the candidates, i'm wondering how u.s. leaders would address it. that is the horrible statistic 55%lackmail unemployment at . >> ok, let's take another one

right here. >> also from new hampshire. i'm in my 70's. i remember many years ago when there was as much frustration as i hear today. the black panther movement came on. mixed opinions, positive or negative, does the panel see the movement coming that back -- that movement coming back? thank you. >> thank you. >> audrey gibson from the great state of florida. be carbon copied on many issues, i guarantee you. floridian fighting the battle daily. and i will go quickly. i know you talked about , butminalization policies in your answers can you talk about the impact that policies

on things like foster care, project letting, online access to information only online policy, primary stop legislation, and the .uzzword of smart justice how have you looked at those other policy areas that we can make changes in that can impact our black and brown communities, and how we can come together better, native americans, black and brown, especially in order, to impact not only black lives matter, but brown lives matter as well. the last thing i would say his commentary, i think people here the words black lives matter. the problem is that they do not hear the message of exactly what that means. when ever that is written down

in an editorial or something, the come back from non-minorities is that, well, white lies matter. that is true. how we couch it, particularly in the south, will help us to make that are policies i think as long as we show that the big umbrella that everybody can dissipate in. thank you. >> let's take one more here, and then will come back to our panel. >> joe salazar state representative out of colorado. my friend, we are the cochairs of the latino democratic congress, working with our black legislative caucus to move heavy legislation to the state giving with education, economics, and primarily criminal justice. we passed a huge package of police reforms this last legislative session. we know that there is no lot of work that still needs to be done, but you touched on something that was essential to some of the legislation, which

is on curtailing the power of prosecutors, because they are a part of this. we are to pass legislation giving with judges, the together with debtor's prison. we have a limited that an colorado, but the next part is prosecutors, so it would be great to hear your thoughts on how we could package that. i would love it if you came out the colorado. i think if our white republican saw you, they would probably pee themselves. [laughter] >> we are keeping this pg, by the way, this discussion. [laughter] >> your response. >> i think i will take the first two, try to take parts of the first two, and i think in terms

of black youth unemployment, it gets back to around the investment idea, right? i will give example of something that we did in new york as one way to think about this. we ran a campaign, called safety beyond policing which was an attempt to intervene around the budgetary processes in new york city. over $100 million will be spent on about 1000 cops. we ran a campaign to think about what you would do -- >> 1000 new cops? >> in addition to the current police officers there. york police department is the second-largest military in the world. we asks this question about

what you would do with this hundred million dollars, and how would you better use that money to provide jobs for unemployed youth, provide housing, to have health access. , budgets determine priorities, and they reflect our values. have a reconfiguration of those values and priorities, we will be a wood to provide the resources necessary to provide a declined to black youth unemployment, displaced homeless housing, have adequate health care for communities. it is about how do we rethink some of our budgetary needs and how we are putting power behind the way that we can really incorporate reinvestment and communities. really quickly, on the second question, so the black panthers were an organization, not a

movement, but i think that what we are seeing within the last years, the black panthers were pushing back against, is the reality that a lot of stuff is not changed. communities are still being impacted by police brutality, still impacted by poverty, still impacted by joblessness, these conditions have not necessarily change, just evolved, and so i think you are seeing in this movement a real reflection of this over decades and centuries that this has remained the same. >> thank you, dante. marbre: i am a broken record around reinvestment. don't hampshire, those even include folks who are incarcerated. so it's higher. betweenhe sure leaks

incarceration and circumstance is joblessness. that is one of the fastest ways to get yourself locked out. the importance of quality jobs and quality pay to reducing crime rates is essential. it in the right way is important. if you want to be telephone crime, you should produce more jobs. that is a key component of increasing the strength of communities and reducing crime rates. i don't have a solution beyond that. we should think of it in that way. in terms of florida, speaking about state budgets and digging into state budgets. we did an analysis of 10 state budgets, florida is one of them, looking at how much money is spent on incarceration versus health, jobs, childcare, any of those things. digging into state budgets and saying how is this a lived

experience and how do we support folks and communities, including childcare, foster care, how do we rethink and put ford of budget, whether or not he gets past, that addresses each area be highlights the way we can stronger and safer away from incarceration and prisons. i don't know what to do with the colorado question, but i want to talk to the question on prosecutors. decriminalization is a huge piece of that. if we take away the laws that prosecutors can charge, we limit discretion in fundamental ways. mandatory minimums is another powerful thing, giving -- having -- the idea of mandatory maximums. you cannot go to jail for more than three years on this charge.

one of the major problems is that folks were facing 20 years for almost nothing, of course you please. theecutors have the power, threat of putting you in the cage for 20 years means people will do anything to get out of that whether they are guilty or innocent. having mandatory maximums is a powerful idea. i would love to think more about that. ,n terms of the black panthers there is this image of what they were, the substitute for militancy and for the idea of the possibility of revolution that might include guns. the black panthers were a putlutionary party, but ford community control and a meaningful way, housing, quality education -- put forward community control in a meaningful way, housing, quality education -- how they didn't the trade is one thing, but the agenda of the black panthers is

one that we know back to quite a bit and don't give credit in that space for for political reasons, but there is a book called community control and the black panthers that lays some of that out. i think the platform is one we should get behind. >> thank you. comedon't have much to add except i do think it is about what we incentivize and this incentivize in our system, in ,erms of legislation, policies incentivizing andx de-incentivizing in his system. where police involved with misconduct, how are we incentivizing the system to be fair and open and just when we know that district attorneys or prosecutors are not incentivized to do the right thing.

how do we have a system that is open and fair and through our policy and advocacy work are incentivizing the right things? seconding everything my co-panelists have said. we just completed -- we hired special investigators to go down to texas because of what was theening with sandra bland, woman found hanging in the jail cell and taxes that became national news. we mobilize hundreds of thousands of members, work with other organizations, petitions to the justice department, back-and-forth with the justice department, but to the process and hearings of these conversations with members in --s county, and they sort of they were part of a larger narrative that we continue to hear about collusion and the lack of incentives to do the right rings in these small counties and towns, the conflict

of interest that exist inside or criminal justice system, where sheriffs can appoint the person that going to do the investigation, the investigation is not binding, but we think it's going to be an investigation, but what our private investigator found, the first part of a three-part series has been published in huffington post, the next of peace will be coming out soon, but we found a lot of what we much moreo see, but factual details, because we were able to verify a lot of it. it really did point to a real corrupt system. it was a system that incentivizes high bail for people who do not have the ability to hire defense or powerful in our system. it incentivizes sheriffs and judges taking money under the table. it incentivizes all sorts of things. united states and philippines are the only type of democracies with a paid bail system.

that absolutely has to change for all the things that have been laid out, but that is of that macro policy level, but at the micro level, a woman was given a 5000 or bill for a traffic infraction. her family had to figure out how to get that. it took days. she was found hanging in her jail cell. storytinue to see of the level that happening, and at the macro level we see how our systems absolutely incentivizes this, how the overlays of capitalism and corporate power, and that they'll work is absolutely the work of the bail bond industry, the surveillance -- absolutelyntly became part of alex financial strain to they continue to push it in state around the country. be on the lookout. movement to know more

ending happens, privatized prisons, what is happening is the groups are getting money for surveillance, extending probation, parole, and surveillance. that is the new frontier. we can't civilly be full by some of the things that are happening, and we have to keep our eyes open for all the ways that the system will incentivize the wrong things, and we have to work to incentivize the right things. that,: just to add to we've also seen privatization of probation. we see the influence of private corporations and politics to push for policies that expand those services, so that is something to be cognizant of. that, there are also private police departments, particularly in chicago, where the private the police departments are policing communities in chicago as well.

the corporatization of police, prisons, and surveillance is something that should be paid close attention to. really running out of time. we would do a speed round. we will take two more questions and allow the panelist to wrap up. >> i'm from arkansas. like many other states, the disproportionality of african-american men who are locked up is truly immoral. of iowa, the lead connecticut, wisconsin, racial impact statements, and i tried very hard for the last two sessions to get one passed in arkansas, unsuccessfully. i was just wondering about your aboutts through your lens whether or not something like that could be helpful and just shining a light on how we are using these black and brown bodies particularly as a way of

keeping the system propped up, making money, and everything else, and just have information, because all it says is that we will do a racial impact statement prior to changing the laws and adding loss, so that at least we will be informed about the impact we might have, that we don't even intend to have. >> those are like environmental reports, fiscal impact studies. thank you so much. last question. >> minnesota. my question is really about strategy. -outsideioned the inside game. i came from the outside to the inside. i noticed a lot of folks on the inside that the first tennessee and activist is in an office. there are a lot of activists out there who do not know how the legislature works. developspeak to how to

a strategy in the state or jurisdiction to make that a mutually beneficial relationship instead of one that is adversarial? >> great, thank you. you, 30 seconds, if you can answer those questions and any concluding thoughts you have. concise, because we want to get people out on time. if you could address this great questions. i think it is about leadership. i think it is about someone taking it upon themselves to see that that is going to be the goal, in terms of bringing legislators and actress together , and where i have seen it work best is finding discreet and clear things to work on in the beginning to build trust and to understand the lines in which people's roles and where people start and stop. howpeople to figure out

much the rubber band is going to stretch and when it is going to break, because in these situations, it is about people understanding the roles. i have seen the inside-outside game breakdown so much. there will be times in which an to -- toorce can do it let the folks you're not doing the work of the lefty radicals, and so to the extent that it is not simply about always having all the groups lined up, but understanding the roles people play on the field and how they can do it the best. that takes trust, leadership, and getting people to start working together. racial impact statements are an important tool, and i totally agree. in new york, we've been trying to do the same thing at the state level. we have done it through existing bills, our decriminalization bill that includes impact statements.

it makes me cynical. i just want to know. i don't think knowing always means we do better. at least it is out there. i think it is an important step. we address some of that and address the ideas. i think knowing the impact is an important first that. -- first step. we can push that and informed folks through communities -- committees. inviting folks on the outside into offices, into conversations, and basing policy agendas on those conversations in a really involved way. for me, relationships are the key to all of that. in addition to that, i think it being really real is bet that relationship cannot

based on a media opportunity with an activist or vice a versa with the legislature, and having a space to think about shared strategy, shared impact, shared relationship towards an overall mission in a way that does not seem co-opting and really being a part of the thinking about what that relationship means for you, what that relationship means for them. >> let's thank our three panelists. [applause] >> i just want to suggest that based on that last question and response that this is a great conversation, hopefully you can talk to these three in the hallways, and my wish is that we can continue this movement in thefuture convening's of innovation exchange. thank you.

i want to echo that and take a minute to acknowledge this moment, where you have leaders paraguay elected officials, and how powerful that actually is. think about how powerful that could be and what we can take from this moment and going back into our states, contacting with movement leaders on the ground. we will be working with them all on development of policy ideas ,hat we can connect you to ideas we can connect you to come people we can connect you to. we are committed to doing that. i wanted to thank the panel here today. these are amazing, dynamic people, and heroes of mine for its of thank you again. [applause] newsmakers, adam announcer: adam schiff talks

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outside the capitol today commemorating the 20th anniversary of the million man march. the event included activists and community leaders. familieseard from the of michael brown, sandra bland, and trayvon martin. this is one hour and 15 minutes. god, i bearme of that mohammed is our exalted christ. i also bear witness that lewis fark is our defined profit in our midst. brothers and sisters, i would like to greet everyone of you -lama-lakum.

i am here with my brothers and sisters from haiti and the dominican republic. we want to show to the world that we are not going to be allowed to be divided. not anymore. because the division of our people is to the benefit of the enemy. unity of our people is to our benefit. we will do everything necessary to keep us at one, keep us together. this is why i am honored that lewis marcon had the vision to pull dominicans and haitians people, as we one were before. we think the minister for his vision, and today you see on the

stage the dominican flag and the haitian flag side-by-side. your plan has failed! [applause] >> at this point, i would like for our sister to read the bushman's prayer. please receive our sister with a well-deserved round of applause. >> this is a prayer of revolution. sun god, who created the which shines on us from above, who rouses to see and makes the gonder rumble. listen. god, though hidden in a cloud, watches over us. the god of the white man calls for crime, but our god will good

work. our god, who is so good, commands us to vengeance. he will direct our arms and help us. theelp us throw away likeness of the white man scott god, who has so often brought us to tears, and lift us to the liberty in our hearts, unity and strength. unity is strength. unity is strength. [applause] >> thank you. we would like to introduce the representative of the nation of islam to the dominican republic. please receive him with a well-deserved front of applause. [applause] >> in the name of allah, the merciful, i bear witness that there is no god, but allah, the

originator of the heavens and the earth and the creator of all human beings. my name is brother vladimir x. i was born in a small island in the caribbean that goes by the ,ame of the dominican republic and shares a border with our sister nation of haiti. for those of you who have not been following current events pertaining to what is going on on this island, there is a move -- definehe five national allies and national brothers and sisters, the haitians and the dominicans, from one another. we share the same history. sameare the same past, the miseries, and the same subhuman conditions. we are brothers and sisters by nature because we were all

brought from mother africa centuries ago. difference between the haitians and the dominicans is a piece of cloth for the flag that has been used by our enemies for centuries to keep the overwhelming majority of the human family divided. we cannot continue. we must not continue to let our minority of europeans rule over the majority of the black inhabitants of the planet earth. the whole earth belongs to our people, not just puerto rico, not just the dominican republic, not just guatemala -- the whole our people.gs to no matter what flag you identify yourself with, the earth is your home. identify yourself with the sun, moon, and the stars. anywhere you can walk and breed, this is your home, my beautiful black brothers and sisters. the difference between the

patients and dominicans -- we speak spanish and have spanish names. were enslaved, brutalized, and victimized by the french, so they speak french and have french names, but we are all the same people and we have been victimized by the same wicked oppressor for over 500 years. brothers and sisters, justice or else! peace be unto you. [applause] >> give him another round of applause. mistakes should not exist because we correct them. mr. lee of the national parks service. when i think people, i failed to

mention his name. he was one of the original people to help do this and help and he has been marvelous throughout the process. wherever you are today, thank you and much respect to you. it was a great job and it is a joy to work with you. thank you so much. get a littleto more energy out here, y'all. let's clap because right now, i want to hear you as loud as possible. we want justice, right? no justice, no peace! no justice! >> no peace! >> black lives matter! all right. the hip-hop community has been very involved and i want to bring a spoken word piece right , a hip-hop brother

artist, and a member of justice league. >> justice or else. what does that mean? everywhere i go, ask me what does that mean? what do you mean, what does that mean? have it you seen what i see on that screen for yourself? new justice. -- we need justice. yeah, but what do you mean by all else? well, we need justice or else. we are going to withhold our wealth. [applause] up to this point, we are the only ones enslaved, so it is time to exercise our power and redistribute that pain. it is insane to do the same thing and expect different results, the same ones who made us slaves are the same ones we keep active for health. ask yourselves, how are you

going to win a fight in the cold when the murder -- when the ones who commit murders are the ones who write the reports? hq tired of being tired? of hearing one of us dying? or one of us is guilty and don't even get tried? are choking us on camera, but we are worried about black friday and taking pictures with santa. you got a protector selves. -- got to protect your selves. you can't expect anyone else to love you more than you, so that means all else is up to you. what do you want to sacrifice so your kid can have a life? let's take christmas from santa claus and get it back to christ! [applause] >> this ain't a march. are going to stand. the fact of the matter, we can't say our lives and told like

lives matter -- until black lives matter. the difference? when they kill us, they don't let us slide. ray ray was guilty before he got try. -- tried. recordsgiving us jail instead of diplomas. [applause] right. that's what i'm talking about. justice or else! we are now keeping with the hip-hop community and going to bring a young brother who is a former inmate. he spent five years in prison. he actually worked for the honorable nasa barry. -- massa barry.

bys person picked up a book chancellor williams, and while he was in prison he picked that book up, and it changed his life. today, he is a doctoral candidate in the african-american studies department at howard university. let's give it up for my brother. anton! [applause] >> good morning, brothers and sisters. i am anton house. i graduated with my bachelors in 2011. i got my masters in 2013. compliments, i am still a convicted felon. i represent 100 millions of citizens who are part of the mass incarceration racket in the most industrialized nation in the world will stop -- in the world. latinos, men and women, walk out of their homes

each morning with the possibility of being politically disenfranchised. show of hands, how many could make -- how many convicted felons do we have in the audience today? whoseny people do we have families are incarcerated or awaiting trial right now? this is the reason why we need a national campaign for felony expungement. as a disciple in wisconsin, i do struggle to to adhere to my organization possible literature , pertaining to education, economics, politics, social development, organization, and unity, education being the most important. i was under the principles of love, peace, truth, and justice. we knew these terms and ideas, but we did not have a positive outlet to show how to use them in our urban conditions. understand the importance of these ideas. they were not created to be

devices or for us to terrorize our communities with. toy were created with us solidify us as groups. currently, i am in the process of obtaining my doctoral degree from howard university, the same history department that teaches the responsibility of scholar activism and community responsibility. blacks, i amt of reminded of the words of an ancestor, who asked, what do you call the educated negro with a ba or an ma? you -- hd? the answer the answer, nigger. because that's what the white man calls them. phdga --ig without a nigga without a phd, now i have

one. there will be of no progress to their people if they do not have self-knowledge. what i want all to take away , whenever weay is have, store established, the only way we will be able to keep it is a far value system is rooted in self-knowledge -- if our value system is rooted in self-knowledge. thank you. black power! >> i need a video, y'all. all right. we are moving into a section that is very important to me, very important to all of you who women.e, with us -- the let's get it up for the women. women for justice. we've got to bang powerful bang t that -- got to

--wo -- two powerful sisters that you will hear from. you will hear from the president of the naacp d.c. chapter. >> our women are the key. >> [indiscernible]

justice for women. [applause] >> good morning. it is an honor to stand before you on this historic day, commemorating the 20th anniversary of the million man march. 20 years ago, the honorable minister farrakhan, and nearly 2 million men from across the country joined to deliver one powerful message -- we are strong when we stand together. today, i stand on the shoulders , civil men and women

rights leaders, activists that have championed social justice. shoulders ofe dorothy, mary, danny, angela davis, selma thomas bailey, rosa , roslynorraine miller brock in our mayor. -- and armada -- and our mayor bowser. all of these women continue to pay the way. the unprecedented success of the million man march in 1995 was based on our ability to unite fromy 2 million men different religions, economic and political affiliations that stood together for one purpose. today, men and women all stand together.

that is our strength, our power. together, we are strong. we did not get here alone, and no one can fight this fight .lone the issues that disproportionately affect some of us impact all of us. we all have the right to jobs, economic sustainability, education, health, criminal justice, voting rights, and safe communities. heary -- at -- here me -- me -- everyone deserves to live in communities safe of gun violence, where two euros can play in their front yards without getting shot by a stray bullet. we need to hold our communities accountable. we stand today for justice, safety, and equality.

divided we are weak, but together we are strong. -- blacks,lack teen latinos, and whites stand today to make us stronger. we all stand stronger together. thank you. [applause] >> this next person that is coming i am so honored to announce today and bring to the stage. the national spokeswoman for louis farrakhan, and her name is sister ava mohammed. [applause] >> in the name of the law -- the we givee merciful, thanks to your law for his love and mercy upon humanity. giving us his process and his

messengers that when we go astray, through them he leads us back to the right path. we thank him for moses and the torah, jesus and the gospel, mohammed and the holy koran. i think -- think allah for coming to us in the person of whomohammed, the great raised up what we now know to be the promised messiah that predicted christ, the honorable hugh aisha mohammed. -- elijah mohammed. to be here before you as a student and follower of this divinely anointed an appointed representative, the honorable minister louis far -- fa louis far con rrakhan.

in the carotid, -- carron -- koran, the lord asks, how can you deny a law when you are without life and hgave you life? farrakhancon -- louis teaches us that when you're given a gift, you must accept it. the greatest gift is life, therefore we are divinely protect, to respect, and defend our own lives and the lives of others. you let no one take your life without a fight. islam is a religion of peace. one, but the holy koran states, fight with those and five -- who fight with you. it reads, there is life for you in retaliation. there is no species on this

organism, thatng will not come to its own defense. every species fights for its survival -- insects, wildlife. it has only been the black man and woman in america who have been called upon by our former slave masters to forgive and forget while we are being slaughtered. we are taking that no longer. we are in obedience to allah, his christ, and the nature in which we are created. what is the role of the woman? speciesmale of every comes to the defense of her offspring. she will sacrifice herself to defend her children.

she is genetically programmed to do that. when a woman does not stand up and fight for her child, she is other than herself. we think allah that minister louis farrakhan is bringing us with all of house -- all the -- allah's guidance back to ourselves. there is no mail -- molly in any incies that will -- male the species that will come to the defense of the female in his species. it is at the core of his being. when a man ceases woman under -- seized is his duty his woman under attack, it is his duty to come to her aid. why? because there is no life without the woman. it is through her wound that a man has -- womb that a man has

his mortality, his reproductive capability, and above all, to express his many and, to exert his dominion. he cannot do that without his mates. he will instantly lay down his life to defend the woman. today to stand up for black women in the month of july alone -- we are here today to stand up. quattro black women in the month of july alone were dead in the custody of police. sandra bland and others unnamed! we are here to say, you have the last black woman off the streets of america and taken her away. her body, and us

claims she committed suicide. that is a modern-day lynching. these people have never changed and they never will. it is time for us to go ourselves and allah has chosen , one man, to lead us up out of here, the honorable minister louis farrakhan. may allah bless us with love and the understanding. also, like him -- assa-lamm a-lakum. [applause] >> one more time for sister ava mohammed, the national spokesperson for the honorable minister louis farrakhan and the nation of islam. i want to thank you all for allowing me to be here to serve you today. to step awayr me

from this program, but i want to tell you that i cannot even see the people who are gathered here . if you turn around and look behind you, as far as you can see, our people have gathered. [applause] >> that's right. give each other some love. back over here. they like to call us 35 girls and 40-year-olds the rising stars. but i am telling you that the young man who will take us through the rest of this program star, he is an already risen star. brother mohammed, a

student minister from indiana. [applause] >> assalamualaikum! in the name of the lord, the therecent, the merciful, is but one god. we bear witness to that one god bringing us moses, jesus, and mohammed. however, as a student of louis farrakhan, i can never thank the almighty god allah enough for his intervention in our affairs in the form of a man named mr. for rod mohammed. this hour, we know that we would not be gathered here today 10/10/15, were it not for the most beautiful and dutiful home and -- human being walking the face of the earth today, the honest bowl -- the honorable minister louis farrakhan, our

champion. [applause] here, brothers and sisters, and i wish you all could see what i can see. we mob deep today. oncome together today 10/10/15 because we are sick and tired of being sick and tired of throwing down our timeline on instagram, twitter, facebook, and every other day we see a young black male being murdered by the ku klux klan. kluxid the blue clucks klan. [applause] and we love our children the same way you love your children, and you cannot kill a man with a tea andkittles and a get away with it. you not kill -- you cannot kill

a man and a hoodie and get away with it. you cannot put your knees in the back of a 14-year-old girl just for swimming while black and get away with it. black lives matter to us, and we are going to let you know that they matter to you as well. about the, we talk struggle against the power structure, first thing that critics say is self-appointed, pro bono, a defense attorney for white folks that tops of the table, and they say, you know, black people too, and that's the truth. that is why we are fighting the world -- fighting the war on two big fronts. white supremacy, but also negativity, a special type of negativity that we do to one another. but when ray ray kills tyrone, tyrone is dead and ray ray gets life in prison. but when an officer kills 19-year-old unarmed tyrone, he

does not go to jail, he gets paid administratively. -- administrative leave. is that the truth? a gofundme account is setup, and other crackers are donating millions of dollars to him. we've got to stop this kind of madness, brothers and sisters. so we know that today, as we gather for this supreme cause of wouldn't beknow we for on 10/10/15 were it not the great folks that put the first million man march together, our great honorable mayor for life of washington, d.c. out of love and respect for this wonderful brother, it is an honor and privilege to predict to you is wonderful wife -- present to you his wonderful wife and son.

brother anded our our sister with a warm round of applause, thanking them for facilitating such a day. [applause] .> assalamualaikum it is a great pleasure for us to you this momentary salute to our husband and father's. -- husbands and fathers. he was a sharecropper from mississippi and became one of the most popular, iconic figures in american history, elected quattro terms as -- four terms as mayor. he became known as mayor for first chairman. as a public servant, he

literally changed the landscape of washington, d.c. he is responsible for shepherding d.c. residents middle-classul positions, and many black millionaires. he also pioneered in establishing minority programs, and as a result, not only did he create millionaires, but he created some self-proclaimed billionaires. the mayor negotiated to open up the washington wizards basketball team, and we all live here, and as a result of that we see a big businesses that have gone up in washington that have transformed this city from a sleepy little town into a bustling, thriving metropolis. the least,y served the last, the lost among us. at a time when black on black theence was at a high,

honorable minister louis farrakhan called black men together in washington for responsibility and reconciliation. all of the city services available. he used his staff to help organize the march. for d.c.t possible government employees to attend. without the vision of minister farrakhan, the million man march could have never happened. in the spirit of my father, i am here to stand with minister farrakhan. the honorable minister has called for 10,000 fearless warriors to go into the black community and reclaim the lives of our lost youth. month, overf this 6000 of our brothers will be reentering our communities, released early from prison. but then begin their june society by answering the ministers call.

across the nation, youth violence is on the rise, but what is really occurring is the rise of the young generation. what is different from this generation, they are not like this generation of the 1960's who organized a march, or my generation, who expressed her frustration through music. this new generation has had little guidance, and they have expressed their frustrations through violence. let us recommit our struggle to show them a better way of living. slanging and banging, let's teach them building. the mayor as we celebrate the 20th anniversary of the million man march. thank you. [applause]

>>. can do better than that. give them another round of applause. [applause] >> our next great presenter that we have coming to the podium is a man that we like to affectionately call the attorney at war. that is none other than the great engine and crump. -- benjamin crump. what's receive our brother with a warm round of applause, benjamin crump. [applause] and him andttorney crump, the president of the national bar association, the largest association of lawyers of color, representing the issues, concerns, and opportunities of 66,000 black lawyers, judges, and legal professionals in america and beyond. i have seen this year, the national bar united, preserving our legacy and protecting our future.

we are here for? protecting our children, protecting our future generations to come? that is why i am here on my birthday with my children. i am reminded when i was here 20 old, as a at 25 years third-year law student, and i, like the rest of americans to melissa and to the words atonement and account ability from minister farrakhan. today marks an opportunity for us all to come together to achieve a common goal, the common goal to make the america in which we live a better america. today is not just a 20th anniversary of the million man march, today is not just my birthday. on the same day as the million man march, a baby named kendra johnson was born in georgia. at 17 years old, his mother and father sent young kendrick to

school with a book bag. to them and ad body bag the next day. the only explanation his parents have ever been given is unbelievable, inconceivable, and income principle. -- incomprehensible. he crawled, stopped breathing, and died, and that was over two years ago. today, before i finish these remarks, i want everyone to join me in a moment of silence of kendrick's birthday to show him and his parents here today that he is still alive in our hearts and we are committed to achieving justice and ensuring that those responsible are held accountable. a moment of silence, please. thank you.

accountability, isn't that what all parents want? it makes me think of families across america seeking accountability. i think about trayvon martin. i think about michael brown, who was killed in ferguson. i think about tamir rice, who was killed in cleveland. i think about elise and thomas, killed in los angeles. i think about jordan davis, killed in jacksonville. i think about the tosha mckinney, killed in fairfield. oscar grant, killed in california. roger, houston texas. i think about myron byrd in tulsa oklahoma. -- travis carter, jonesboro arkansas. victor right. sandra bland, texas. about monro, a

107-year-old grandfather executed by the pine bluff, arkansas police department. what these families want, what our entire immunity once is truth and accountability. , i met with attorney general loretta lynch, the first black woman to be appointed attorney general for the united states. we talked about accountability across the board. than simplyore counting us when we are being put in jail, when we are being charged with life felony convictions, when we are counting our children who have been charged as adults and being incarcerated. true accountability also must mean holding doors to those who protect and serve us when they

commit illegal acts, like shooting our brothers and sisters in the back, chasing our brothers and sisters to death, and placing them in a legal chokehold, ending their lives well before their time. in conclusion, black people, we too,.your help t . atneed your help not just the polls, but also in the courtrooms. when you get your jury summons, do not throw them away and ignore them. do not come up with an excuse just to get out of jury duty. when we go in those courtrooms, us black lawyers do not want to be goldman ones in the judge's roads. -- be the only ones in the judge's robes. let's mark this 20th anniversary of the million man march as a

movement, because black lives matter! black lives matter! -- black lives matter! thank you. [applause] >> i told you he was an attorney at war. the next brother we are going to bring up as another revolutionary attorney. he also served as the national secretary of the nation of islam. please proceed with a warm round of applause, our brother, your brother. [applause] >> assalamualaikum. in the name of allah, i bear witness that there is no god but allah, and that mohammed is his messenger. i would like to thank the honorable minister louis fark on -- louis farrakhan for allowing me to serve. when i came into the nation and 19, when i was at morehouse

college, i was determined to be an attorney. i have been an attorney for 17 years and have tried cases in multiple states, thanks to my mentor, attorney louis myers. at the greatest case i have ever tried was a case of police brutality. we lost that case, but listen to the facts. before the was a freddie gray in baltimore who died in police custody, there was a fred grady in chicago who died in police custody. this was mr. grady's mug shot when he got arrested. you can see him. there is nothing wrong with him. three hours later, in police custody, this is what he looked like. grady diedd that mr. from a heart attack. watch the injustice system come into play, because when the paramedics got there, they said mr. grady was already turning colors, meaning he had been dead for a while.

there was no blood in his cell whatsoever. when the corner got there, they filled out a report that said he died from a heart attack. the problem was, they had not done the autopsy yet. as the trial started going on and we started doing depositions, there were witnesses who said some things that were damaging to the police case. but when i went back to read the transcript, the court reporters had deleted it. in --n we went to trial when we went to trial, we presented the case to the justice department, who said that was not enough evidence to prosecute the police for killing mr. grady. todaye all gathered here under the sound of one man's voice, who has called for justice or else because we know the god of justice never sleeps. so it does not matter whether or not we get any redress of our grievance in the court system, because god sees our pain and he knows what we are going through.

on --honor louis fark farrakhan today, know that we are not listening to an ordinary man, but a man of biblical proportions, a man who profits saw thousands of years ago coming in this day and this time to address the pain that nobody else has been able to address. please, when he comes, receive him like the man nobody else could call, all of us together. thank you all. .ssalamualaikum [applause] >> all praises are due to all of. -- allah. thenext person represents group that has been galvanized and organized for many wars that have been waged the wicked, most of the time for unjust means. this is our brother that represents the veterans for justice. brother robert

with a great round of applause. [applause] >> greetings and citations. . -- salutations i greet you on behalf of the service of all of us and demand families.r not only that, but we need justice for our young people. if they have justice live in the district of columbia and don't have the right to vote? if you believe in justice, if you believe in dignity and human rights for everybody, then you deny the right to vote in the district of columbia, where veterans live, but cannot vote,

you cannot be for justice and equality if you do not support the lives of veterans, who risked their lives for everyday and sacrificed around the world so everyone here can live and walk in peace and harmony if you don't support justice of veterans in the district of .olumbia i am think for that we have a mayor who is as planned and committed to veterans. thank you, mayor bowser. i am grateful that we have a first lady, michelle obama, who is telling our businesses to hire our veterans. ladies to get the grand of america a round of applause, because if no one stands for veterans, they have been. thank you. [applause] >> yacht can do better than that for our brother. let's give that soldier a round of applause. [applause]

next, we have a beautiful sister representing the returned citizens for justice. you all know who that is, right? these are all the brothers and sisters who served time, and now they are back home serving god and our people. let's give her a warm round of applause. [applause] !> assalamualaikum fromng with you greetings our brothers and sisters inside the walls who refuse to eat, who refuse to purchase from the commissary, who are standing together and put their feet down today to stand with us and make us understand the importance of recognizing what this is done to us across this country. increase inan 800% the incarceration of black women in this country in the last 20 years. we stand today to raise our

voices as incarcerated and formerly incarcerated people to let us know that we have got to bring an end thing -- and and tumescent incarceration. -- bring in and to massive incarceration. well in prisons, women are , stripped,a number groped, videotaped, and too often raped and exploited right male prison guards. we have to understand that in prison, across this country, when women are pregnant and incarcerated and give birth, they are shackled, one land to a bed. -- limb to a bed. what kind of country puts mothers in prison for the duration of that child's childhood and denies visits from their children and loved ones? what country incarcerates entire families, two and three generations of women from the same family, leaving all of the

trusted adults incarcerated and taken from the children? what kind of country incarcerates every single trusted adult in our household? we have answered that would complete silence. what kind of community allows andour women to be taken respond with silence? as formerly incarcerated women and men, we are coming for our sisters and brothers. we are organizing ourselves from across this country. january me, brothers and sisters? heare coming -- can you me, brothers and sisters? we are coming for our grandmothers and our brothers. thank you. niggas is a poor community. stand with us!

[applause] rex beautiful, beautiful. brothers and sisters, every time that louis fark on -- louis farrakhan writes a letter, he says, may weit and find you in the best of health and spirit. to deal withnext, justice in the health arena is none other than our own western , let'sl student minister receive him with a round of applause. [applause] , i beare name of allah witness that there is no god but allah, who came to us in the form of mohammed. bringing us the most honorable elijah mohammed.

we are deeply indebted to him a leaderould give us in the honorable minister louis farrakhan. it is in his name that i greet you, my beautiful family, and the words of peace, assalamualaikum. brothers and sisters, i am here to bring to you some vital information that has happened to our community and it has not been brought to the attention of black people throughout america. four months ago, bobby kennedy decided -- bobby kennedy, the son of robert kennedy, met with me and los angeles to give me some shocking and revealing, i mean, terrible information on what is going on at the center of disease control in atlanta, georgia. it has been brought to our the senior lead scientist for the center of

disease control has admitted manythe mmr vaccines and of the vaccine shots have been genetically modified to attack blacks and latinos. i don't think you heard me. timee living in a wicked where we are dealing with a , and thewickedness pharmaceutical industry alone, with the american medical association, have found a way like pharaoh did, killing the children of israel when it was exit,or them to make an pharaoh said let us kill all boy babies, to and under. now they are trying to force vaccines on baby boys, at least 80 shots before they are three years old. this is what minister farrakhan said we are going to do. and 25th of this

month, 25,000 of us are going to march on the center of disease control in atlanta, georgia and nonee going to say, another one on our watch! weare going to be dammed if let someone stand around and publicize with viruses. it is time for us to take this information down -- as i exit. org,o cdctruth. . or 25th, if you are in georgia, south carolina, or tennessee, we need you in atlanta, where louis farrakhan will be leading us to march against the center of disease control. thank you and look at more information on this heinous act by our government. assalamualaikum. [applause] >> beautiful. remindst great soldier

you why the great prophet muhammad talked about two different kinds of preachers, a negro preacher and a black future. -- black preacher. the negro preacher, he always had something to say negative about him, but a black teacher -- preacher he always spoke favorable of. the forefront of the justice or else movement, he is not a negro preacher. this is without a doubt a black preacher, a great disciple of jesus. these help me bring to the podium at this time the reverend jamaal bryant, the senior pastor at emmanuel amy. -- ame. let's bring him on with a round of applause. >> i bring you greetings on the name on behalf of other name, that is the name of jesus christ . every knee must doubt -- bow and

every tongue must confess. if there are any born-again christians here, would you give god the glory now? we stand not just by ourselves. it is said that you can see further when you stand on the shoulders of giants. i want to formally welcome to this commemoration the families of those who have lost their loved ones at the hands of aggressive policing and a militarized police force. me warmly welcome the father of michael brown, who comes to address you now, give him a big hand as he comes. [applause] >> how is everyone? peace and love. just thank everyone for all the support. i want to thank farrakhan for inviting us.

-- start beging to showing love to each other. that is the only way we can get strong. i just want to introduce our brother, the originator of hands up. >> assalamualaikum. hands up! hands up! i cannot hear you. hands up! i want to thank you first of all, i want to thank minister louis farrakhan for doing 10/10. let's give him a round of appl