of the most brilliant strategists of the new american majority, building a campaign that for the first time in a turn georgiato blue by speaking to the most progressive voters in the state. she was speaking out to voters normally ignored by both parties. over one million people of color eligible to vote, more than half of whom were women, but the powers that be did not believe a black woman could win in georgia, let alone demonstrate the new american majority strategy could win, so they cynically recruited a white millionaire moderate, also named stacey, that they believed would appeal to white moderate voters in the state. early on, stacey abrams built her campaign strategy around engaging and energizing those millions of voters of color in the state of georgia, a state that is almost majority people of color. georgia is also a state where 42% of registered democrats

are black women, and boy did that strategy deliver in the primary. our stacey brought 199,000 additional democrats into the primary than previous years. [applause] stacey abrams, the candidate the georgia democratic party and the democratic governors association, so-called experts believed was unelectable just a year ago, has emerghed as our best hope to recapture that state in the deep south. [applause] is doing it in a way that makes our democracy stronger, by engaging more voters, with a platform that supports reproductive justice, medicare expansion, and lgbt writes. stacey abrams knew what the democrats now need to know, that

the new american majority is led by women of color, the keystone to victory. [applause] here's something else i have to tell you about georgia. now that the gop has chosen the former secretary of state, the one behind shameless voter suppression, an anti-immigrant enemy of our communities. there's hidden figures crafting a new democratic coalition in georgia. these heroes are women of color. joanna thompson, stephanie cho, franco,brown, marisa these other women behind us strategy. it increased asian american turnout six times, latina turnout four times in the state of georgia for the primary. [applause] not until stacey

abrams' landslide victory that many in the democratic establishment started to believe. arewe at she the people telling the story of stacey abrams and the legion of women of color running for office this year because in them, they are the hope of our nation. she the people is telling the stories about how women of color are going to save our democracy, and right now in swing states like arizona, florida, new mexico, virginia, and now mississippi, places that trump won, women of color are leading the charge by engaging new and younger voters and people of color. [applause] yes! we understand that our swing arers r not th ones -- not the ones moving from red to blue. our swing is from non-voter to

voter. [applause] right now, latina, asian-american, native american, and arab-american women are in stateslead running like georgia, florida, texas. women of color are claiming places in blue districts where tired old moderates are not fighting for us and challenging the gop in places like southern california, where the majority of women are black and brown and the majority of voters are women. [applause] and speaking of excellent candidates, she the people is not just calling 2018 the year of women of color for nothing. women of color are already leading the most vibrant racial and social justice movements of our day, from families belong together to black lives matter to time's up, running for office and appealing to a multiracial base in districts across the

nation. women of color r the most unde -- are the most underrepresented group of leaders in our nation, and the most likely to face primary challenges by democrats, and they are finding new paths to leadership. it is not just stacey abrams. ez,is alexandria ocasio-cort who beat a 10 term democrat in new york. a progressive running in detroit, michigan who would be our first muslim congresswoman. our first native women in congress, progressive from new mexico. [applause] a's ayanna pressley, congressional candidate from boston. our first transgender asian-american owoman lieutenant governor in hawaii. corey bush, running for next week in congress. gina ortiz jones, filipina

veteran from senator neo, texas -- san antonio, texas. there are thousands of staceys across our nation, and this is what she the people is about, supporting the political wisdom and leadership of women of color. so i'm here to tell you, there's hope in 2018. can and will be won in the midterms, realizing justice in our nation. so listen, progressives, and frankly you, too, democratic party. [laughter] get information behind women of color. -- in formation behind women of color. [applause] and she the people is here for all of us. so i ask you, will you be here for all of us? say yes, and together we'll win. [applause]

>> that was amazing. amy is one of the smartest minds we have on our side. so glad she's on our side. i was sitting back like, yes, yes. ourved her comment about opportunity, not just turning red to blue, but turning nonvoter to voter, right? quick something, a announcement for you before we get into our big final keynote. eather, we are moving cory booker to tomorrow for lunch, so if you bought a day pass to the cory booker, we will honor that tomorrow, no big deal. what we have next, i think you will find as our cap for the ni ght, you will find it completely inspirational, exactly

everything amy was talking about about campaigning on our values to the strong, -- be strong, bold, visionary, investing in our base. showing people it is not only the right thing to do, morally good, not just makes us feel good, it is how we win. the next elected official i want to talk to you is the direct response to everyone who wants to say to you, we need a quieter candidate. you need to sit down, be quiet, moderate the position of little bit. could you maybe be a little bit whiter? none of that, none of that. our final speaker tonight, i --t to introduce to you

chokwe antar lumumba. >[applause] >> thank you. ots! evening, netro it is my pleasure to stand before you today and share a message and share our selective vision of how we change this country. it is my honor to bring greetings to you, all the way from jackson, mississippi. [applause] year, wes time last won an election by winning 93% of the vote! [applause] and more importantly, we did so on an unapologetically progressive agenda. [applause] the declaration in jackson, mississippi, that we

intended to be the most radical city on the planet. [applause] thatis a declaration honestly comes out of what was initially a critique. a critique of myself. prior to taking office, it was a critique of my father, who people suggested, maybe we were far too radical to bring people together. maybe we were too radical to make the change that was necessary in the city of jackson. and so, i took it upon myself to look up what the word "radical" means. when you look at the definition of radical, you find that a radical is a person who seeks change. if we look outside of these walls, we look into our communities and we see a need for change, then the reality is, we need to be prepared to be as radical as the circumstances dictate we should be. [applause]

when i look across history, at those individuals we revere most atmississippi, we look fannie lou hamer, ida b. wells. when we look at martin luther king, when we look at jesus christ, they were all radicals. as we look at the conditions our communities have fallen into, we have to be honest with people and speak truth to power, and at -- i wouldh argue that you are in the conditions you find yourself because someone has not fought hard enough. [applause] claim this radical

agenda. we wear it as a badge of honor, where we declare we want to be that radical city. just recently, i had the pleasure of being at a convening of about 40 mayors from all across the world, and we were studying the issues we see not only in the nation, but what we are experiencing in the world, where we see a rise of inequality. so we were looking at case studies, and taking this issue from the premise of what has gone wrong. there were a lot of thoughtful remarks. many of the mayors were offering the question of globalization, looking at wage disparities, issues of education, the innovation versus workforce debate. these were all important contributions to the discussion, but i must admit i was a little perplexed in the question itself. i thought we were attacking the issue from a flawed perspective,

and that was the perspective that something has gone wrong. istated, from where i stand, saw a system that had not gone wrong, but a system that was working in the way it was always intended to. [applause] wealthym where the ultra- get to make the decisions for everyone's economic interests. so what we face, the problems we have, is not a system that has gone wrong, but a system that is overproducing in the way it was intended to work. [applause] and so we must identify that, and make the changes in jackson, mississippi, in new orleans, louisiana, in gary, indiana, and across the nation, and decide we must have a new system that governs us. [applause] jackson, mississippi, i've had the opportunity to talk to people all across the country.

and as i've traveled around the country, i have been confronted with the question, how does it feel in jackson, mississippi after the election of donald trump? i have shared with people, the wednesday after donald trump was elected president, i woke up in mississippi. and that means, no matter whether donald trump is the president, no matter whether our country has experienced great booms or busts, we have always been at the bottom, and so as a democratic party, we have to make our politics local, and start giving power to local areas so they can become the places that rescue themselves. [applause] we asked the question, what do you do when everywhere you look you see a lack of integrity? you find it in yourself.

and you begin to change the world from right where you are standing. that is our mission in jackson, mississippi. twosee, i am the son of organizers, two parents that had an understanding of justice and injustice, and they thought it was important to give it to me, just as important as giving my sister and i food, water and shelter, they gave us a sense of community. they grounded us in something that was more important than ourselves as individuals, and i thank them for that. because i had such a rich experience to live in the household with my heroes, i've had the propensity to speak on some of the larger issues of life, such as discrimination, self-determination, and equality. arewhat you find when you campaigning, when you're going door-to-door, talking about all these major issues, i knock on the door of a brother and sister

in jackson, mississippi. they tell me, that's good, young brother, but how are you going to fix that pothole in the middle of my street? we have toimately, realize that is our mission. pothole to pothole, community to community, so people in jackson, mississippi understand there is a community that looks just like there's in new orleans, louisiana. a community that looks just like theirs in gary, indiana or chicago, illinois suffering from the same infrastructure problems. ultimately, what we learned is that your issue is an issue of self-determination, an issue where you don't control the conditions which leads to a pothole being fixed. you don't control the conditions which dictates the quality of life you would like to enjoy. and so we must come up with a new equation. we must dare to revolutionize

electoral politics, where we change the equation and people are given the power to govern themselves. [applause] is what we are pushing for in jackson, mississippi. that is what we are fighting for. by the creation of people's assemblies, not only an opportunity to hear what the people want, but to have the people demand from their leadership what they want. no longer, no longer should we just allow someone to stand before us and give their vision for our lives. we have to be at the table. we have to dictate the policies. and we have to draft the leadership which represents our interest. what we are pushing for is a new idea. we are looking to push for a solidarity economy, an economy tot no longer allows people

go through cycles of humiliation, cycles where you see people living in poverty, blighted communities, poor education, failing infrastructure. we must push a solidarity economy that allows us to show dignity in people's lives. [applause] we have to abandon the traditional models of how we develop cities, how we develop our nation, and make it more than just about great, big edifices. and moving people from one state of misery to the next. our mission must be, instead of moving people away, we are going to lift people up. [applause]

what our cities demand. this is what our nation demands. we have to speak truthfully, and recognize that the models of development we have been pursuing r failed model -- are failed models. we see a country that is over dependent on a criminal justice system, and we have to be honest about that. we always tell our children that crime does not pay, but the reality is, crime pays very well. when you look at all the people who are employed by crime, if crime stops tomorrow, our country's economy would crash. first you have the lawyers. everybody loves the lawyers, right? you have the judges. we have police, and

more police in our world today than we have ever had. we have our city police, county police, state police, federal police, secret police. and our secret police who watch the secret police. we have prison guards, we have parole officers, probation officers, and all the companies that contract with our prisons. so all of this depends on an over-incarceration of our society. [applause] and we ask the question, why w e see civil unrest all across the nation. because we are pushing a failed economic strategy that make certain we have that. it demands we over-incarcerate, thathe statistics show us doesn't make our communities any safer than they have become. and -- than they have always

been. we have a country that has more people incarcerated than any other country in the world. we have more law enforcement than any other country in the world. than anyve more crime other country in the world. and so we have to make certain that we are bold enough to speak truthfully to ourselves. today, in jackson, mississippi, i was honored to have the young people from parkland, florida in jackson, mississippi. please give them a round of applause. [applause] i'm tremendously proud of these young people, because they remind me of one of my favorite quotes. from a revolutionary, a ,sychologist, a great author dr. franz fanon.

mustote, "each generation discover its mission, fulfill it, or betray it." we see people across the nation, like the kids in parkland, florida, who are daring to come up with -- take up that call. young people who no longer want people to speak to them. they want to speak for themselves. we must take this energy and allretize it, concretize it around the nation. in the deep south, where there is opportunity for democrats to win. [applause] organize. fromit from the mystical, the mysterious. and identify what our message must be. iswe see, a country which gripped with school shootings from coast-to-coast, we have to speak to the uncomfortable

truths of what gun violence looks like in our nation. and as a black man, i long for the day where i have as many rights in this nation as a gun does. [applause] you see, we have to come to the understanding that martin luther king began to come to not long before he died. martin had a conversation with harry belafonte, not long before he died. he said, listen, harry, i am beginning to wonder. i am beginning to fear what we are integrating into. you see, i believe we are going to win this integration struggle, but i'm beginning to fear we may be integrating into

a burning house. he said, i see a country that abuses labor, that abuses working people. he said, i fear integrating into a house that looks like that. if people can't take care of their families, it is senseless to just come together on social issues and walk mississippi fields together. ultimately, we have to come to a place where we are sharing goods, resources and power. [applause] and if we cannot come to that place, then it isn't worth integrating into that, and i fear that my dream has become a nightmare. what we havesion, before us are two critical

options. economicse option of for the people and by the people, or the option of economics by a few people for themselves. [applause] this has been the traditional model, and i believe that if we are sincere in our mission, sincere in our mission to touch the lives of individuals, sincere in our mission to make certain that democrats take hold of offices and effectuate the change that they want to see. we can no longer be afraid. we can no longer hide in the shadows and be afraid to move forward on progressive agendas. for if jackson, mississippi can push forward a progressive

space that3%, in a has been the location of some of the most horrible suffering our history, if progress can be obtained right here in the belly of the beast, progress can be obtained anywhere, and we must fight for it. thank you so much. [applause] >> netroots nation, thanks so much for coming tonight. 9:00us at world of beer at p.m. for our opening karaoke party, brought to us by planned parenthood action fund. [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2018] [captioning performed by the national captioning institute, which is responsible for its caption content and accuracy. visit ncicap.org]

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