here to welcome you to the skyway territory and to thank you very much for including us today. [inaudible] [applause] >> it's a good day to be a woman. >> we stand upon the river of life, the potomac that flows out into the mother of water. this is where we are. this is who we are. this is the lineage that goes back thousands of years to this moment in time with us, who is us together, walking forward in

a time that is ours. this is the time to read major rate our people. heart, one mind, one voice, one breath, one song, one motion forward. welcome to the skyway land where the waters blend as we flow together as one. our nexty young sister generation. >> hi everybody. i don't have a whole lot of time. i want to share something i think is very important. it's important for the future generations. for the next seven generations.

i want to advocate for a time and a space to heal. we all need to heal. i've experience something this year that has allowed for me to understand how important it is for us to come together and to listen to each other stories. it is so important. create a safe space for one another so that we can tell those stories. , i come from an indigenous community. are indigenous communities matriarchal. remade 38.o time to take this white , it's time to

reclaim the tradition of female leadership. turn this old white male dominated perspective of life and history and turn it upside down, remade three it. need to do this for ourselves. we need to do this for our children, the next seven generations. thank you. today is valerie's birthday. seven generations ago, her grandmother remember to pray and way for as their relations. on my relations, march on. rise.

[inaudible] >> hello beautiful relatives. my name is sarah eagle heart. the ceo of native americans and philanthropy. communitieso, our

came to the women's march. we were so excited because 1000 women, indigenous women travel to washington to share their voice. and, our sisters at the women's march heard us. linda, carmen, tamika heard our voice. they stepped up for us in so many ways in the past two years. they've showed up at our events. they've shared their platforms with our communities to raise up indigenous issues. fromommunity that i come our issues, are poverty, our pain is largely forgotten. left out of the media. it's left out of the research. our voice is not heard. you don't see our issues because you don't see us. now, it's time for healing. it's time for truth.

thelso want to uplift issues that are women are going through with the missing murdered indigenous women epidemic. today, we are going to share a song that came from our first nation sisters in canada, the women warrior song. ago, we sang this song from the very beginning of the march to the very end. the indigenous peoples were the first there to pray, the first to close the march walking across the final finish line. this song is offered as a prayer song. ♪

>> thank you. [applause] [inaudible]

>> hello everybody. you look so beautiful. [applause] on the senior minister of middle collegiate church of manhattan. i'm so glad to be able to follow my indigenous family and share some words of blessing. know, thinking about this movement makes me want to tell you what it means to be a christian pastor. there are all kinds of christians. i'm the kind that believes there's more than one path to god. that believes that every single body is created by god exactly as you are. fabulously the way you are. i'm really clear that i understand that i follow a

who was bornabbi in nazareth, in galilee, in palestine. intersection, jesus is. poor, jewish, palestinian, homeless a rescue jew. i was talking to my friend this morning, we were talking about the messiness of movement. she told me a hilarious story about when she was a 17-year-old working for the student nonviolence coronation committee in alabama. how she and all the students were sometimes frustrated with martin luther king junior. nonviolence coronationyes, they- frustrated. they said he would get up -- dressed up and do the preaching

while they were getting chased by dogs and shot by police. one day, they thought they would protest him. no matter how good he preached, we are going to look at him. we not going to clap or shout. guess what, dr. king preached his but off. all those resistors cheered anyway. ruby says movements are messy. movements are messy. we don't all believe the same things about god. some of us don't believe in god at all. we don't have the same tactics. we don't have the same strategies. we don't have the same way to do stuff. we agree in this. our common enemy is white supremacy. [applause] our common enemy is transphobia. our common enemy is sexism.

enemy is greed. messy but we are going to have to move together. because it's a mess, we need to take these things with patience, forgiveness, resilience, humility, a stubborn commitment to look at our neighbor and understand that they are badas ses. [applause] to see them as an extension of ourselves. today tom blessing us stay in this messy movement together. [applause] shabbat shalom, d.c.. let's try that one more time. shabbat shalom. my name is abby stein.

i'm a jewish transgender queer women. and an ordained rabbi. i'm here today with my jewish lgbtq andth my transgender family. together, together we are screaming that we are here with every part of who we are. with every identity of who we are. all a to share with you quick piece that relates to this week's part of the bible, of the torah that we are teaching in our synagogues this week. tradition, leaving egypt wasn't a historical event alone. egypt tradition, leaving was in existential and generational event.

in every generation, every individual sees themselves as they themselves have gone out of egypt, have gone out of their narrow places. every time, every generation, and every place. when we go -- let go of what divides us, it defines us. it brings us together. [applause] try one thing with you all. something we all have to let go. repeat after me. let's let it out. can we do this? ok. anti-semitism. let it out. transphobia. >> let it out.

>> homophobia. >> let it out. >> racism. >> let it out. >> the phobia. >> let it out. >> able-ism. >> let it out. >> i want to ask you all one thing. there, a lotle out of people in the media are trying to divide us. is notings us together the fact that we are all the same. what brings us together is our differences. everyday, we are letting go. we are leaving the narrow space. that say we can only be with people that agree with us. we can be with every individual because of what brings us together and because of our differences. [applause]

shabbat shalom. [inaudible] [no audio] -- [applause] >> good afternoon, everybody. [speaking foreign language] i greet you all with the greetings of peace and blessings. my name is remaz abdelgader. i am a proud sudanese muslim american. [applause] a local community organizer and activist. and an aunt to five beautiful black muslim girls. i look out and am so inspired by the beautiful faces that look at me. the faces of my sisters and brothers, the faces of my family. in humanity uplifting each other today. when we uplift one of us, we uplift all of us.

when we save one of us, we save all of us. the prophet of god mohammed said when you kill one innocent man, it is as if you have killed all of humanity. and when you save one life, it is as if you saved all of humanity. my message today is for all of us to save one another. to stand with one another. in times of hardship, adversity, trials. to look at one another and humanize each other. i stand before you, speaking on behalf of the american muslim community. but i also speak to you on behalf of my story. one time when i was in college organizing, someone looked at me at the end of the day and decided to take my life. he almost ran me over with his car. as he attempted to take my life, he said "this isn't iraq,

bitch." and this is what has turned on my activism. i turned to my faith so that i could feel for -- heal from that trauma. so the muslim community is here today marching for equality and freedom. we are marching for the safety of our muslim children being bullied in school. [applause] we are here today marching for the end of injustices across the world. here in the heart of our nation, washington, d.c., the glue to all of our borders and where our families come from, we are here marching alongside all those protesting oppressive governments locally and globally. but governments, like my home country of sudan, they know there is a protest happening, because the president has reigned power over 30 years. peaceful protesters are walking down the street and being shot at. so i urge you to go home and see

what is going on globally. an injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere. [applause] we are marching against unjust policies and laws that leave the marginalized perpetually disadvantaged. we are marching as muslim woman and are visible today because we believe our faith motivates our activism. god forbids what is evil and enjoys what is good. our faith tells us when we encounter an injustice, to change it with our actions. if we cannot change it with their actions then change it with our voice. speak even if your voice quivers. and if you cannot change it with your voice, then you hate it with your heart. i stand before you to tell you our faith as muslims is not what you hear in the media. our faith speaks of surrender and peace.

islam is a faith of peace and justice. islam preaches if you have saved one human being, you have saved all of humanity. politicians can only succeed in demonizing minorities if we allow them to. we cannot allow politicians and policies turn us against each other. use fear mongering to divide us. this is what undermines our principles of justice, freedom, and liberty. i want to share one verse from the koran -- crude and escort and -- it says all mankind, indeed, we have created you from man and female and made you peoples and tribes, so you may know one another. the most noble of you in the sight of allah is the most righteous of you. allah is knowing and acquainted. this is what i believe america to be. thank you. [applause] [cheers]

>> peace, my brothers and sisters. i am leah daughtry, the executive prime minister of the house of the lord churches. it is our pleasure to be here to stand in solidarity with you in this pivotal moment. our country's founding documents declare we hold these truths to be self-evident. that all men are created equal. all men are created equal. for more than 200 years, some of us for more than 400 years, we have worked, fought, scrapped, climbed to make that declaration include all of us.

and now we have fought through reconstruction, through the civil rights movement, through the suffrage movement, through the farmworkers movement, through stonewall to this moment, where we stand and declare that we are equal and we are here to secure all of our inalienable rights. some people ask the question "aren't you happy yet? aren't you satisfied yet? don't you know that women are the biggest voting bloc in the nation, aren't you satisfied? aren't you satisfied that there -- that nancy pelosi is the speaker of the house? aren't you satisfied that there are record number of women in congress? aren't you satisfied? aren't you ready to stop?" we say no, we are just getting started.

[cheers] and they say it is time for you to stop. but we say we cannot stop. we cannot stop. we will not stop. until every child is reunited with their parents at the border. we cannot stop. we cannot stop. we will not stop until every child has a free, full access to education. we cannot stop. we will not stop. until everyone has full, free, fair access to health care. we cannot stop. we cannot stop. we will not stop. until every black mother's child, latino mother's child, asian mother's child is able to walk the streets free, fair, and safely, without fear. without fear of their lives being taken by the people paid to protect us.

we cannot stop, will not stop. until every black woman, white woman, trans woman, latina woman, asian woman, native woman , our lives are valued all the same and we have the same rights as our white brothers, we cannot stop. we won't stop. this wave is just starting. come on, sisters. let's ride the wave! [cheers] [applause] >> hello. are you ready for the wave? where's the women's wave? where are america's people

today? we are right here. and i want to stop and thank the leaders of the women's march and all of the people part of the women's march all over america. we, as black women -- you see this t-shirt. we know what happened in 2016. in 2018, we said we are going to push down the street and take over congress. and in 2020, we are going to take over what? the white house! [cheers] women have to stick together. either we stand together or fall apart. for like the great freedom fighter harriet tubman said, when you hear the do coming, keep moving. when they are calling your name and trying to hang you up, keep moving.

keep moving. keep fighting. >> keep moving. [cheers] [inaudible] >> we won't stop! we won't stop! we won't stop! we won't stop! we won't stop! we won't stop! we won't stop! we won't stop! we won't stop! we won't stop! we won't stop! [cheers] >> my sisters, the few but righteous brothers who are with

us, my siblings, all my relations. i have the amazing honor of standing here to represent over 4 million black women. [cheers] members of the national council of negro women. we women of ncnw know the truth in these words of our shero, the iconic dr. dorothy irene height. she let our organization for

over 50 years. she said this. if the time is not ripe we have to ripen the time. this great nation of ours is still not feeling ripe enough to deliver on its promise of full and equal rights for women. so that is why we women are here today. to rise up. to march. to let folks know that we insist that america deliver on her promise. [cheers] the ncnw is focused on

eliminating what is minimally the double jeopardy that black women suffer from, racism and sexism. but we also call for the end of all of the "isms" that keep us, our families, and our communities from thriving. we must ripen the time for the end of any and all systems of inequality. [cheers] here, again, the words of dr. dorothy irene height -- she said there are no persons who are not entitled to their civil rights. she went on to say this, as she

assessed where we are in terms of guaranteeing those civil rights to all americans, including us womenfolk. she said this -- we have to recognize that we have a mighty long way to go. but we have to go there together. and so, my sisters, my brothers, my siblings, my relations, all, today, only a matter of another day or so before we and the world remember the life and work of dr. martin luther king jr. hear him explain to us why we can only go there together.

he said we are caught up in an inescapable network. whatever affects one of us directly affects all of us. and so it is that we black women in ncnw are committed to the kind of civic engagement that will substantially improve the lives of all of us. and we stand in solidarity with our sisters of all hues, with our sisters of all backgrounds, with our sisters of all

conditions. we of ncnw stand with indigenous women. we stand with poor women. we stand with immigrant women. when we can, we stand with disabled women. jewish women, muslim women, latina women, asian and pacific islander women. we of ncnw stand with lesbian, bisexual, and trans women. we stand with old and young women. we stand with white women. the 4 million black women of ncnw are committed to the struggle for civil rights, for women's rights, for human rights.

and we will stay in this struggle until no girl, until no women, stands alone, stands afraid, or stands without equal rights. [cheers] [applause] [cheers] >> we are here as jews and as jewish women of color, marching. >> giving thanks to the multi-god whose mercies endure forever.

shabbat shalom. the prophet said we are now faced with the fact that tomorrow is today. we are confronted with the fierce urgency of now. in this unfolding conundrum of life and history, there is such a thing as being too late. this is no time for apathy or complacency. this is the time for vigorous and positive action, the prophet said, dr. king. as a new member of the women's march steering committee, i am feeling both humbled and super proud to be standing here with you, with my sister april, with all of our sisters and jewish women of color who have stepped up and out to lift up a new jewish reality.

we are here for ourselves, for our families. we are here for our communities. we are here for our country. and we are here for the world. on this time, most saturday afternoons, i would be at a table with my husband and children enjoying our sabbath meal. we will be taking comfort in our traditional observance of the sabbath. yet here today, i am standing with you in a wave at the edge of the sea in saving our, and others', lives. we are here at the women's march, standing with you, against the longest government shut down in history. we are standing here with you in all folks whose labor and lives have been devalued by a government whose policies

devalue humanity. we are affirming that human rights are women's rights, and that women's rights are human rights. we are standing on this platform honoring the fact that the women's march policy platform is fighting for changes in our government that will mitigate suffering for all of us. we are here to positively shape our future. we are standing with women involved in the criminal injustice system. we are standing with refugees and immigrants, due to wars. we are standing with women from the caribbean. with women from africa. with those subjugated by xenophobic laws and economic exploitation. we are standing with indigenous women. we are lifting up #mmiw. our need for environmental justice, gender justice, our need to stand tall and clear as women of color and as jews. i am here as the circle leader

of a brilliant wave of jewish women of color and jewish women, to issue an invitation to all women to stand in solidarity with us. to help us to be fully seen. to acknowledge that the pain of anti-semitism is real. and it cannot be condoned, equivocated, or excused but be dealt with face-to-face, heart to heart, eyeball to eyeball as family. jewish women of color are here to do this work together and do it in the context of liberation. that the fight for justice means being intersectional. it means there is no other movement for us to be part of.

we are doing this work because we love our people -- all of them. shabbat begins with a phrase. and it was evening, and it was morning, one day. and the reason we say that is when it is evening and when it is morning, you look up at the sky, and it looks the same. you do not know if it is getting dark or you do not know if it is getting light. do not know, but it is in that unknown that we, as jewish women of color, will jump in. we will jump into the unknown and call for a new reality that calls for liberation. shabbat shalom. april: isn't my sister brilliant? and goodhalom

afternoon, my beautiful people. i am standing alongside 75 other inspired jewish women of color and a whole contingent of others here today. i see you. what a joy it is to be here today and an honor to be a member of the new steering committee for the women's march. my name is april baskin. i work as a public speaker, activist and inclusion consultant as a proud -- consultant. as a proud multiracial jewish women of color, with black, jewish, and indigenous nativecod american heritage, i come to this work honestly. i carry many communities with me today, and every day, with my life and work. i stand on the shoulders of giants, like my dear sisters and mentors, and many others on this

stage and around the country. i come mostly with a message of hope and joy, but i also want to acknowledge that for many of us the past year has been filled with pain, and exhaustion. i want to be specific here. i am speaking to everyone. for whom this march matters. for the people who couldn't be here for medical reasons and who were afraid for some reason and will watch the livestream or the feedback later on youtube. this march is for you. just in case you are questioning, give yourself the time to heal. but we are here, ready to walk alongside you on this pass. -- path. so please join us. so many of us, especially women and allies in communities targeted by oppression are deeply homesick for a place we have never been to yet, never experienced. for a world that has not yet

come into being. that world is ours for us to create and claim. it is not only ok but necessary to demand more than just breathing a little and calling it life. now is the time to make sure we transmute our collective longing and yearning into sustained action in the months and years ahead. but when we are scared, as many of us are, how can we do that? my invitation is to rekindle a sense of hope. remember that? we got a lot of hope before y'all. we can do it again. i believe our actions and leadership are most powerful when we are truly able to envision a positive future.

to not only experience the joys of justice. i am going to get a little personal. one of my go twos for rekindling hope is engaging in the sacred feminine practice of ritual and song. so, on this day, i want to share a few lines of a song i learned in jewish summer camp by legendary musician debby friedman. may she rest in peace. for those of you who know it, feel free to sing along. ♪ ♪ and the old shall dream dreams and the youth shall see visions and our hope shall rise up to the sky we must live for today

we must build for tomorrow give us time give us strength give us life ♪ we got to call on our ancestors, our songs and feminist traditions. i share these beautiful uplifting lyrics with everyone. it is important we bring our full self joyously to this work. we are prepared to walk alongside you. all of us, everyone here, every single person here, all the white people here, all the black people here, the people of color, jews, all of us. we ain't got nothing to lose but our chains. let's get free. shabbat shalom. [cheers] [applause]

[inaudible] ♪ >> what's up, beautiful people! what's up, beautiful people! [cheers] bamby: [speaking spanish]

i know it was hard a little bit for you to understand, but i just wanted to appeal to a higher power and ask the people of this land to allow me to say a few words in their lands. i am the president and ceo of the translatin@coalition. we are a national advocate group that provide support and services and sustenance for the transgender community in los angeles. today is a historical day, not just for me but for many tribes -- trans women. today, trans women get to be visible to the whole world. [cheers] we get to raise our voice and proudly say that transwomen are

women, period. [cheers] no one, nobody, not the government, not individuals, companies, or institutions get to dictate who we are as individuals, as a community, and as a movement. we will define ourselves. [cheers] i want to take a moment to acknowledge our ancestors. transwomen have lead and been part of many movements over history, but our contributions and the value we bring have been erased from this movement. we are here reclaiming our space, not only today but for many years and many movements to come. we are here. we have been here. and we will continue to be here.

[cheers] gender nonconforming lives are not disposable. no one can claim to fight for social justice when they exclude, degrade, or criminalize or contribute to the continued tradition of violence we experience, particularly transwomen of color. it is not enough to come to a march and say that you stand in solidarity with us when you turn around and make jokes to your friend, when you center every discussion around cisgender experiences. or what you said about me simply because i am a woman with a penis. my truth is, i am a woman and i belong here. [applause]

feminism is not just for white women, it is not just for the middle class or the able-bodied. feminism is for all of us. i think -- thank the women's march for honoring that, and i ask all of you to stay with us as we stay with you to fight for us as we fight for you. to recognize us as we recognize you. a wise woman once said, are feminism will now be -- arectional -- hold on feminism will be intersectional bullshit. be we do not arrive at

by expressingity our privileges. he recognizes that our identity cannot be quantified or generalized. our life experiences will never be exactly the same. we are all fighting a common enemy. , whitey, transphobia supremacy, able-ism. they all came from the same violent ideology. none of us are less than anyone. together, we can be so much better. i'm asking you to look at your heart and think about what you stand for. i believe if you are here in this space and you march with us it is because you stand with

trans women, too. because we are women. [applause] i want to hear you say with me, trans woman are women. trans women are women. trans women are women. trans women are women. [applause] >> i am a proud trans woman and i am a woman. [applause] >> good evening. i am a woman. [no audio] -- [applause] my name is dear dray. i am a trans woman. [applause]

>> my name is maria, i am a woman. [applause] not only am i a woman, i am a badass. [applause] trans people and gender nonconforming people are not going anywhere. we are just coming into our power. if you do not stay with us, get out of the way. consider this place reclaimed. thank you. [applause] [inaudible]

>> we see you, we love you. we see you, we love you. we see you, we love you. we see you, we love you. we see you, we love you. we see you, we love you. [applause] >> are my sisters in the house? are my sisters in the house? i stand before you to bring you words from some of the fiercest ancestors from the black tradition. i bring you words from sister ella baker, who said we who believe in freedom must never rest. i bring you words to remind us

that it is good when the sisters and a few good men get together. that it is important for us, not just in the women's march of 2019, that this year we bring an agenda with us. it is one thing to protest, and we need protest to remind the people with special titles that the every day people of this country will not have our voices suppressed or depressed. we stand up. we bring the protest not just to the white house or the halls of congress, the state of the union matters but state of the street matters more. [applause] what is happening in the state

of the streets right now at this moment, we have almost one million of our sisters and brothers who are not receiving their paychecks go somebody decided to have a temper tantrum. -- because somebody decided to have a temper tantrum. the state of the streets says says that folks with fancy titles need to understand that folks need to eat every day, pay their mortgage, get their medicine, and a live every day. -- and live every day. i submit to the folks who are blessed enough to walk halls of congress because we gave them the power through our votes, that they all need to be in the room and never come out until the government reopens. [applause] the state of the street says that it is immoral and

unconscionable that in the united states of america, that anyone would suffer by not having clean water, clean food, and clean air. hello, flint, michigan. hello, flint, michigan. ohio hello,leto, ames, iowa. . importantlyyou most , we need more of the feminine andit in this thing, everybody that looks like us might not role like us -- might not roll like us, but we need more of the feminine spirit. and the feminine spirit stands up for humanity in a badass way. can i get an amen.

>> amen. aroundnot going to play with this, things are hard, folks are suffering, but i believe in a transcendence that is greater than any one man. i believe in a transcendence that is bigger than any one movement, and if you don't believe me, i want you to think about the history of revolution in this country. and that is what this is about, revolution, baby. there not going to build on old, we are going to build on the new. this is about revolution. nation, wrap our minds around the fact that there are far too many people with titles who don't give a damn about the people, if we wrap our minds around the fact that titles are good, they get your

phone calls returned, they get you in the room, titles are good but purpose is better. need more purpose-driven people, and that is why the citizen-leaders of this nation, women and a few good men like you who are here today, we are the voice of consciousness. about it,'t just talk sisters, we have to be about it, and that is 365 days a week. .hat is how we roll a turner.s ed i hail from the great state of ohio, and i am the president of our revolution. [applause]

words from crying mamas. from familiesrds who are suffering every single day just to make ends meet. bring you words sisters, that the feminine spirit is what is needed for humanity, and that spirit is about truth, that spirit is about justice, that so we is about uplift, must protest sisters, but we must also plan. and the women's march as an agenda in 2019 of justice for all. [crowd cheering] bring you words, as someone

who understands what it means to suffer, i bring you words. i wasn't born with a fancy title. i bring you words, that those of us who can relate to the everyday struggle of the everyday people of this nation must unite, regardless of our ethnicity, our agenda, sexual orientation, our religion or no religion, we stand together. [applause] whether you are black or brown or thee or yellow or red swirl in between, baby, we are together. [crowd chanting] words that this is a thatabout perseverance, this is not, to quote the christian bible, the race is given to the strong, or he or

she who endures until the end, this is an endurance race because the fight for justice is about endurance, and it is our time at this moment to do what whatn, where we are, with we have, right now. i bring you my final words from one of my she-roes from history. i want you to think about the power of one. rosa parks understood the power , when she channeled an entire movement in montgomery to boycott a bus system that discriminated against folks. i bring you words, the power of one. to notwoman stood up

only democrats of her time, but a system that was rotten to the core, that would not allow black folks to register to vote in the south, the power of one. and i bring you words from one of our modern-day warrior women, who did what no politician could pole toshe climbed that tear down that symbol of bigotry and hate. one, the power of one. and to my sisters, i want you to know that when we move, the whole world shakes. when fierce women move, the because ourshakes, mission is so high, we can't get

over it, and our mission is so and we can't get under it, our mission is so wide we can't get around it, the power of one. this up as a preacher and a politician, from the black church tradition i bring you words from sister and i want you to wrap your mind around this, and i want my sisters out there, no matter what you identify culturally or ethnically or sexually, i want you to understand that i am an angry-ass black woman. and we are taking applications, baby, you can be an angry black

woman too. because if you are not mad as thatabout a system suffocates the life out of everyday people, you are not mad as hell that it is rigged socially, politically, economically, if you are not mad as hell that some folks in this country go to sleep at night with no food, no bed, no lights, no clean water, if you are not mad as hell that our teachers in l.a. have to strike. hell aboutnot mad as injustice, then something is wrong with you. i am an angry black woman. [applause] bring my final words, i hope we leave

this place more energized to do the work, because it is good the family has come together, but what are we going to do for the causes of justice in our communities when we leave here? that is what the women's march is all about. we have an agenda. we have an agenda. and we must plan our work and work our plan, but in the words of sister harriet tubman, sacrificed everything she had, she could have just been very comfortable about her own freedom, but she was convicted in her heart and she heard the call of god to go back and not relatives, but she saved some other folks' relatives. what are you going to do to save someone else? and timeent back time

again to save folks, and never lost one passenger. what are you going to do for the cause? and not only was she the ultimate conductor of the underground railroad, she was a in a wayhe union army that only a black woman could for freedom, for justice. what are we going to do for the cause? you in thiss asking time to lay down your life, but we have to get comfortable with being uncomfortable. that is what the women's march is all about. i want you to take sister you,et tubman's words with

"if you hear the dogs barking, keep going. if you see the torches in the woods, keep going. if they are shouting after you, don't ever stop, keep going. and if you want a taste of ."eedom, keep going in the 21st century women's march, if you want health care all -- for all, we will. women,want a system for we will. and if you believe black women should have their agency and voice without being torn down and talked about, we will. and if you believe equality and justice is really for everybody and not just somebody, we must.

and if you believe we must change a system of injustice in this country, we must. every child,lieve regardless of their parents' zip code, deserves a high-quality education, we must, [crowd response was bracket and if you believe in freedom and justice in our time, you must [crowd response] [applause] [applause] god bless you. [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2019] [captioning performed by the national captioning institute, which is responsible for its caption content and accuracy. visit ncicap.org] good afternoon, women's wife. give it up for yourselves. honored toud and stand here as a woman of color,

to sing the black national anthem. if you know it, feel free to sing along. ♪ and singy voice tell earth and heaven ring. ring with harmonies of liberty, let our rejoicing rise, high as the listening skies. let it resound, loud as the rolling sea. sing a song full of the faith, that the dark past has taught us

hopeg a song full of the that the president has brought us. of our newrising sun day begun, ll victorych is won. ♪ years, god ofry our silent tears, thus farhas brought us

on the way, by thy might, us into the light, keep us forever in the path, we pray. lest our feet stray from the god, where we met thee, our heart, drunk with the ,ine of the world we forget

beneath thy hand, may we forever stand, true to our god, true to our native land. [applause] thank you. god bless you all. >> hello, washington. i am the copresident of women's march. on january 21, 2017, two years ago, we stood here to say not

just that women's rights are human rights, but that women of center of be at the an inclusive women's movement, if we are to make any change at all. i bring my children on stage with me today to remind us that there has been a lot of growth over the last two years. this one was just two months old, and look what we have done. in two years we have resisted, we have entered into the national conversation, that has never happened before. we have broken down silos between groups of people who do not share the same values, don't organize in the same communities, and we have started courageous conversations that i am sure will last for some time, at work is not over.

here to tell you that, especially after this year's struggles, [laughter] i have never been more proud to bring my family with me on this journey, and i have never been by women ofo be led color. what we have to do over the next few years, this is important because that women's wave is absolutely rising [laughter] and like i said in the first women's march, this is just the beginning. [applause] just the truly beginning, because we, just two

months ago, voted in the most women-centered congress in history. and i mean literally every single one of this in the audience, and around the world, because we are not just marching overwashington dc, we have 300 marches across the nation today. [applause] that there are people who would very much like to see our movement shredded and put asunder, but you have to think about these little ones, tommy and chloe, and your little ones, and the daughters that will come after our granddaughters, and we have to think about what type of world we want to create for them , and we have to recommit today to struggling together, to learning from one another, to

reading and listening to the history, not from the people who did the oppressing, but from the people who were oppressed. that is our true history. we are standing on indigenous land, and i am wearing red today because i stand in solidarity with indigenous people and recognize their claim to this land. until we acknowledge the genocide of their people, the slavery of africans, until we acknowledge the way that that continues ca still today, and never really stopped, and at that point when we learn our real history, that is when we can be a part of the solution no matter what the color of our skin. and i have a special message today for my white sisters. i want you to know that i am right here with you, learning

these things for the very first time. i have only been doing this work, like many of you out there, for two years, not 20 years, for two years, not since the moment i was born, like so many of the people you have heard on stage today, and i am committed to continue to doing that learning and uplifting their voices. will you join me? [crowd cheers] i'm going to hold you to that. with that, i am proud to mallory, carmen perez, and linda, because they are the leaders we are all looking for. [applause] s dias, familia.

i name is carmen perez, and am crowd as one of the original organizes of the women's march, to welcome the women's wave. two years ago, as i stood on this stage and made promises to women and men and allies around the world to help build an intersectional movement that was bound in the liberation of all people, i shared on that day how power ofspoke of the being maladjusted to in unjust society. i vowed that we would not adjust to hatred and bigotry, we would resist islamophobia, xenophobia, white supremacy, ism.sm, misogyny and able

we would be brave and intentional and apologetic in addressing the intersections of our identities, and collectively we would stand among the most marginalized, because they are us. those were not just words to me. i have worked in the prisons for 20 years and i believe in the inherent power and beauty of restorative justice. the idea that human beings are we maket, we fail, mistakes, but we do not throwaway people. -- we do not throw away people. my sistersst year, and i have faced accusations that have hurt my soul, charges of anti-semitism and neglecting family.qia and i want to be unequivocal in

affirming that women's march and i and my sisters condemn anti-semitism, homophobia, trans phobia, and all forms. excuse of bigotry. there is no defense of bigotry. there is no excuse for hate. but if this movement is to grow and prosper, there must be in times of conflict and opportunity for truth and reconciliation. are you committed to that? [crowd cheering] yes, and i am with you sisters and brothers and siblings, because i am committed as well. i vow to anyone who doubts their place in the women's march, you are welcome here. i vow to jewish women, there is a place at the table for you.

. i vow that we will work together and harder to fight against ableism and all forms of discrimination. na,tand here as a chica mexican-american woman with proud of theots, work we have accomplished together in the women's march. you all showed up, we elected hundreds of women, and together we will win. [applause] now i stand even more committed to dedicating my life to praising the beloved community that dr. king draft of. are you with me? [crowd cheering] the next step in the evolution of our revolution is the women's agenda.

women's agenda will give clear marching orders to every grassroots activist in this nation, and establish a solid platform on which truly progressive candidates could run 0.d win 202 this is our blueprint for action in 2019 and beyond. but i want to leave you with this. love this country just as much as i love anyone. the pastel sunsets in california, the rolling hills in tennessee, the buildings of new york and the country roads of west virginia. but most of all, i love my people. i love the people that of the fabric that make up this great tapestry that is america. million stories

that paint this once-black and the tens and millions of stories that came before them. it is in the people were we find our shared values, not in our politics, not through our laws. it is in each other were find our hope. so i want you all to remember that the person who doesn't look ise you, or vote like you, still part of arguably the greatest experiment in human history, and the only way we oure this place better for children is to respect one another, treat your neighbor as you would want to be treated, listen to each other and find a way to work together on making this country what we all dreamed that it could be. thank you.

[speaking spanish] [crowd cheering] >> there are many who want to define women and rewrite our it is important that we define ourselves for ourselves. i was born in harlem in new york when thehe 1980's, crack epidemic tore through our communities and destroyed our families. this epidemic was a man-made crisis designed to finish off my community. my mother and father steered our family the best that they could, utilizing the black freedom movement as our only source of survival.

through my eyes i have watched friends gunned down. through my eyes i have watched families go hungry. through my eyes i have watched vacations behind bars. very few people who don't look like me, and even some who do look like me, are there. i joined this movement because i believe that for the first time, there is a real possibility to protect young girls who look young girls who are living with my circumstances, 1980, but in 2019. in 1851, young girls who are living sojourner truth asked the question, ain't i a woman? she was at a women's convention in ohio with, i am sure, a lot

of women who did not look like her. today we ask a new question, intersectionality for whom? blackthis question as a woman who mourns the loss of seven-year-old jazmine barnes, who was killed in a gunfight that had nothing to do with her. i ask this question is a black woman who feels the pain of judge glenda hatchett's daughter-in-law who bled to death after a c-section, because all records indicate that women with the best health insurance still cannot get the proper care in this country. i ask this question because seven-year-old jay cullen kale died at the border of dehydration. i ask this question on behalf of trans women who are the most

targeted and least protected in our society. and i have to imagine that kimberly crenshaw, when she conceived the term intersectionality, was thinking about the stories i have just told. to all my sisters, i see you. to my muslim sisters, i see you. to my latina sisters, i see you. to my asian sisters, i see you. to my disabled sisters, i see you. do notmy jewish sisters, let anyone tell you who i am, i am part of you. pain.you and i hear your whether you are a doctor or a sex worker or one of the 800 thousand furloughed workers who have not received -- one of the

800,000 furloughed workers who have not received their paychecks, i see you. and to my black sisters, i feel you, deep down in my bones ended my soul, and i know many of you heard a battle cry, you didn't know if i was ok so you came and you called and you texted, and you tweeted. let me make sure you understand who i am. no matter what they say, no matter what they write, i will not bend, my back is up willght, i will not bow, i not break, i am who i am for over 20 years and no media outlets or no one else will tell you. i am telling you, i love all people and no one will define for me who i am. only i can do that. [applause] and let me say this last thing.

they asked to be, what are you going to do, how are you going to handle this situation? i came to the women's march and i brought people with me who were not coming before amid the calls. and i will tell you this, i came to do a job with my sisters, and we will complete the job, and no one will be discarded from this movement. love onetand together, another, protect one another, we have nothing to lose but our chains. god bless you. going piece. .- go in peace [applause] >> lord have mercy. give it up one more time for

.amika mallory national organ size are -- national organizer with the women's march and the cofounder of mpower change. nothing has really changed into years. youill stand before unapologetically muslim american, unapologetically palestinian-american, and unapologetically from brooklyn, york. york. [applause] we are in a very serious situation, and when we are in serious situations i remember the words of great people. if you are not careful, the

newspapers will have you hating the people who are being oppressed, and loving the people who are doing the oppressing. brothers of our dear malcolm x. sisters and brothers, there are no perfect leaders. we are all flawed human beings. we should not be throwing stones from glass houses. said, i want to be remembered as someone who was sincere. even if i made mistakes, they were made insincerity. if i was wrong, i was wrong insincerity. i can deal with a person who is wrong, as long as they are sincere. sisters and brothers, we come to this movement not because we choose to come here, it is

because we have to be here. our communities are under attack by this administration. can talk about whatever controversy they want, but the real controversy is in the white house. [applause] what is controversial is a president and administration that throwshildren, teargas at human beings at the toder, a president who wants take back rights for lgbtq people. what is controversial is our complicit support for a saudi-led war in yemen. [applause] controversy is collusion with russia. so if you want to talk about

controversy, let's start talking about the real controversy. in 2017 we marched in the largest single-day demonstration in american history. led bystration that was women of color. in 2017 thato you we were going to win back the house in 2018. not only did we win back the house, we put over 110 women in congress. [applause] but that wasn't enough for us. we didn't put just any women in we made history, the first two native american women, [applause] the first two latinos from texas, [applause]

the first black woman from massachusetts, the youngest woman in congress, two muslim women in congress, [applause] and my favorite of all, the first palestinian-american woman in congress. [applause] so we marched and then we won back the house. now we have work to do. we just unveiled a historic document. from now, you will get to say you were alive when we unveiled a truly bold, intersectional feminist agenda. our agenda is not just about pay equity, because it is not enough for us to just get paid the same as men in this country. our agenda is not just about reproductive rights, because we are more than that.

anything from medicare for all toending the war in yemen, standing up for free speech and right toitutional boycott divestment in these united states of america. overgenda was written by 60 directly impacted women from across the country, from legacy andnizations like the aclu planned parenthood, two indigenous activists who worked on environmental justice and reproductive rights. has the pain of broken and hurt people. it is a policy platform made of solutions. and i will say this to all of don't listen to critics without credentials.

the credentials are in this movement, on the front lines. and when you are listening to the critics, ask yourselves this question. woman-ledother mobilization force like us, and if there is an alternative to us, we have to go organize with them, but it doesn't exempt the residents here in freedom plaza. i will leave you with this quote that moves me and grounds me in by anrk that i do, aboriginal woman named lelah watson. you have come here to help me you are wasting your time, but if you have come here because you believe that your liberation is bound up with mine, then let us work together.

i want you to take five seconds becauseat these faces, we are going to stay out here in these streets, we will be on the front lines, we will continue to defend our rights and the rights of the communities we come from. and this president said he has an announcement to make today at .:00 and we want tor, declare it from the stage today, he wants to negotiate with us and the american people. and i want to tell members of congress to listen to me very carefully. on thel not negotiate backs of immigrants, on the

backs of people of color, cheering] four no damn wall. we don't care what you have to offer, because our answer to a wall in this country is absolutely not, no questions asked. [applause] the people united will never be defeated. responds] the people united will never be defeated. [crowd responds] [applause]

>> how are you doing? ? today?how are you doing dakota irontroduce eyes, a member of the standing rock reservation. listen to her voice. >> [speaking native american language] hello, everybody, my name is

tokata iron eyes. where are the indigenous people? make some noise. [applause] where are my young people at? [applause] indigenous girl i grew up knowing that i was the backbone of my people. i am the leader by a right, a god-given right that i was born a woman. indigenous,orn which meant that i was inherently a leader. and as all of us are indigenous to someplace, because if you look back far enough everyone one of us has ancestors, has people who knew how to live in harmony with the land, with the water, with the animals, and that is what it means to be indigenous.

it is time to take that back, that part of ourselves that has been taken from us. it is time to regain that and it happens by coming to marches like this, it happens by sharing our stories, speaking up about injustices though that one day our daughters don't have to put up with this. [applause] i grew up with my grandmothers, meaunt, my mother, telling what a ceremony was, telling me that my moon was a ceremony, me being a woman was a ceremony, the way i walk, the way i talk is sacred. and it is true for all of us in the crowd today. thank you so much, for listening to me. [applause] i have one more thing. to all our indigenous sisters fromhere, to all who came

the reservations, thank you for coming out and i am so sorry, because i know some of you are missing your daughters, missing your family members, and to any young girl who is missing right now, we want you home, we miss au, and it is time to make change. bring our sister's home. -- our sisters home. hello, i'm first nation and come to you from the front lines of a resistance camp where we those who want to continue to shift greedy fossil fuels through our sacred territories. when these projects happen, they happen somewhere else, somewhere you don't see, they happen to

us. remember these faces. these are the original people of these lands telling you, this is not going to work, we cannot continue to live in the way that we do. we must be sustainable, we must be in harmony with the earth, there is nothing more important to us than the earth. water is life. life.is [crowd response] life.is [crowd response] water is life. water is life. when you are in these moments, look at your grandchildren's faces, think of their faces. can you look upon them and say, i did everything i could to give you a better world? i thought my hardest to give you a better world? i fought for the water for millions of people? we are fighting for all of you. women and ourour

children when these men come into build these projects, they come into build, they come in to take, they rape the earth and they rape our bodies. remember we are fighting for you because we love you, and when we stanch to gather we are strong, we are united, we cannot be defeated. we are strong and united, we cannot be defeated. [crowd response] i want to end with a song from the people of the white buffalo calf woman who gave the sacred pipe to the lakota people. ♪ [singing native american song]

♪ [applause] >> lot of water not oil. [crowd response] love water not oil. water is life.

water is life. [crowd response] ♪ >> good afternoon, everyone. beautiful. my name is anna maria gina, and i came here because so many of andhave given me hope allowed me to imagine that our country is not dying, our country is waiting to be born. whoe are the words of women have been thinking how it feels,

democracy that works for all of us. just a few months ago i joined thousands of people, women who were fighting against the nomination of brett kavanaugh to the supreme court. preventing myself the door of an elevator closing in our faces, and the rage and the power of women. i found myself face-to-face with vested withs been so much power in our society to decide the future and to decide .ur destiny and i told him to listen to our stories, to listen to our rage, to confront the reality of a

culture in this country that enables sexual violence to exist every single day. and what i learned in that moment of confronting senator flake in that elevator, what i learned is something that we need to remind each other every single day, which is that courage is contagious, that when we do something that is hard for we that is scary for us, invite others to find power with in them -- within them. thathen we do that we find we are experts of our own experience, and that our voices are necessary to build a country where we can all be free. [crowd cheering] so i want to say thank you to

the millions of people who two years ago marched across the tone for howet the we will fight for the people we for thew we will fight values we hold dear, and how we would fight to make sure white nationalism does not take root, that hatred does not take root. are the capitalists who trying to steal our democracy do not succeed, because the other thing i have learned in the last few months is that democracy does not exist without us, that we have to breathe life into it, that we breathe life into our democracy when we tell our stories, when we do our citizens, when we come to rallies, when we march, when we protest, when we join together,

that is how we build a democracy that works for us and that is how we build the country of our dreams. today as i am thinking about not just the occasion of the two years of the women's march, but the occasion of dr. martin luther king, what would have .een his 90th birthday i have to remember that we have to guide every day with a dream that we have. countryme, i dream of a where a woman can have the peace of knowing that her work is that herf knowing children are safe from the police and from the border patrol, of knowing that her that the sacred, and

country is there to support her when she needs to go to the doctor, of knowing that she does not have to choose between putting food on the table and making sure that her child is safe. country where that woman can sit down and read a book to her daughter, and her daughter will see herself in her daughter will see her history in that book, her daughter will know that her ancestors survived, they survived the holocaust, they survived japanese internment camps, they survived incarceration, they survived deportation, they survived slavery and they survived trans and theyionalism,

survived. i know the future and i know that country is possible because we are here today. i know that country is possible because there are millions of people that are ready to fight to build this country of our dreams. and i also note it is possible because, over the last two years we have been tested, we have been forced to show up and we have done that again and again. at the beginning of the trump administration the republicans tried five times to take away our health care, and five times people in wheelchairs showed up and blocked the hallways. [applause] who are dyingople showed up and made them listen to their stories. five times, women showed up and reminded them that we own our

bodies, and not them. five times, we saved our health care. so now when i think about the country of my dreams i think that this country is possible, because when we fight we win. when we fight we win. whenwe tell our stories, we join in protests, when we join in community, when we march, when we sit down or block the hallways of congress, we win. [applause] i am am ready to win, i'my to win so much, and going to start by demanding every person in this country has the right to go to the doctor. i wanthealth care, medicare for all that is really for all, that does not leave regardless of

their gender, their sexual orientation, their immigration status, every single one of us has the right to know that our body is sacred and our country will respect that sacredness. i dream of a country where that mother and that daughter know respected,voices are that their brilliance is respected, that they are leaders .n this moment that woman as a domestic worker -- is a domestic worker, that woman is a federal worker, that woman isa doctor, that a member of congress, that woman is my president, that is the

country of my dreams. and i know this country is possible because every single one of us will continue to do what it takes to build the country where we can all be free. to the people,ch to the women that have dared to lead in the face of so much darkness. men that have joined and to the people of all genders, to transgender people who continue to remind us that we have to break the imagine and really world where we all respect the freedom that lives in our hearts. telling thegain and stories that our hearts tell,

join me in forcing elected officials to look us in the eye, join me again and saying, look at me, do not look away, look at me, me. join me again and breathing life into our democracy every single day. this is what democracy looks like. this is what democracy looks like. this is what democracy looks like. >> tell me what democracy looks like. >> this is what democracy looks like. >> thank you so much. [applause]

>> hello my fellow americans. what an honor it is for me to speak to all of you today and i want to thank you so much for braving the cold in order to raise your voices and fight injustices of this administration. thank you. my name is jamie rodney and i am a mother, wife, and a full-time federal investigator of the u.s. department of housing and urban development. i workedgues and tirelessly to enforce our civil rights. we investigate complaints of discrimination in housing and

lending on the basis of race, national origin, color, religion , sex, familial status, and ensure that all americans have the right to choose wherever you want to live in this beautiful country. member of the national federation of federal employees and i'm speaking to you on behalf of of the 800,000 for load -- furloughed federal employees in america. we are suffering. our families are suffering. financially, emotionally, and mentally because of this trump shutdown. i am here to demand the president trump, vice president pence, senator mcconnell, and everyone in congress in this government shutdown now.

800,000 furloughed federal -- federal employees have been taken hostage by the president and the senate over a discriminatory wall that the vast majority of americans know we do not need. we do not want. is useless, it is ineffective. it does nothing to strengthen our border security. america has way better technology than a wall to have border security. give me a break. families ofd the 800,000 federal employees have been foot up -- put on of path of -- to financial ruin. first we don't receive our paychecks that we need. second, they tell us we can't get another job because the

ethics department of our agency is closed. we cannot get the clearance that is required. us that once we humiliate ourselves and begged for money, that we could be putting our careers into .eopardy how outrageous. meanwhile, the president, vice president, and congress are all getting paid. how unfair. we federal employees are middle-class americans who have been squeezed by the rising cost of living while president trump broke his promise for our pay increase by stating that a pay increase would be inappropriate. stating that we must be fiscally sustainable. president trump, did you

consider being fiscally 1%tainable when you gave the and the wealthy corporations so many tax cuts that you put our nation onto the path to a $2 trillion deficit? no. you didn't. consider whether it was inappropriate to give vice president pence and all of your political appointees at $10,000 bonus in the same breath that you took away our tiny 2.1% raise? no. you didn't. he you consider whether it was fiscally sustainable to shut down our government, stop paying your employees to make this great nation run, and make our is $1.2 billion -- lose $1.2 billion a week?

no, you didn't. the impact of his government shutdown is outrageous. day of thee 29th shutdown. there is no end in sight. steny hoyer stated, this is a shutdown is the longest in history. it's the dumbest in history. and it may well be the most damaging in history. we must end this shutdown now. end of the government shutdown now, thank you. soon, all an over 800,000 federal employees are not going to miss one paycheck, we are going to miss to paychecks. , raise your hands and voices if you can not miss to --

one or two paychecks. americans live paycheck to paycheck. passed a bill to give federal employees back pay was the government reopens. all the contractors that work for the federal government have will not out and they be receiving back pay. how unfair. over a million americans will be able to afford their mortgage, day care, student loans, medicine, groceries, gas and all of their bills. we have been forced to empty out our savings, put everything we can on credit cards, take out loans that screw up our credit and humiliate ourselves by begging for money. this is not the america that i know and love.

this is the product of greed. political corruption, and a failure of leadership from the white house and the senate. 400,000 federal employees have been forced to work without pay. being forced to work without pay is called slavery. slavery was abolished by the 13th amendment in 1865. constitution, which you, president trump, promise to uphold. we need to come together as a country. a government of the people, by the people, and most importantly -- people.ple area

i am humbled to stand here in front of you today because when i look at you, i see the true strength of our country. when i look at you, i see the conviction and the passion to make sure that future generations have more opportunities than we do. power look at you, i see coming together. i see real people. icu and they see you too. see you and they see you too. heard, the right to be we have the right to belong, we have the right to succeed and we have the right to choose our own destiny. i say to them, if you know what's good for you you will get out of our way. we are coming. me.se, repeat after

and the shutdown. and thehutdown -- end the shutdown. thank you very much. i love you. thank you. we have a lot of work to do and i was supposed to do this earlier but i didn't follow destruction -- instructions. now i am. stay connected to us he can follow our policy agenda in our 50 states strategy into 2020. textout your phones and w-a-v-e to 40649.

i can send you some text when it'so you know bad out here, we need to in the streets. hello everyone. i'm an organizer of the aclu. woman, i am a doctoral , i am an american. i am a fighter and like all of you, i am here to win. my parents brought me to this country from mexico when i was just seven months old. they always want to give their children the best they could, even if that meant leaving

behind all they had ever known. my parents always told me to chase after my dreams. they always told me i belonged here. because of them, i always had ambitions and hope. i learned at a young age that i was undocumented. it's because of years of tireless work by activists in the fight for daca that i can stand here today. after graduating college with two bachelors degrees, i got my first job. he gave me a sense of security, of freedom from anxiety about my future. things that before doc i never dreamed were possible. knownlu has always been as an organization of lawyers. election, he2016 felt the call to do more. of new supporters,

we built our organizing force around people power. as a century-old institution, we had a new surge of power driven by a desire to fight. built and led by the people. the past two years have been relentless. we have seen the targeting of immigrant communities through the muslim than, the asylum band, family separation, the termination of tps, and the horrific treatment in detention centers including the deaths of innocent children. they have unleashed new enforcement on black communities and ignored and even encouraged the process of police brutality. black people are villain eyes that the highest level of governments for exercising their first amendment rights. by taking a knee during the national anthem. they undermine access to health , coverage for abortion and

contraception, and denied young women it detention the right to abortion. they have stripped students from their right to be free from sexual result -- sexual assault, harassment, and discrimination. they have tried to eliminate protections against termination for lgbtq people. they tried to erase trans people from the military and from existence. and president trump came after and all daca recipients, trying to prevent us from pursuing her dream and threatening to go after and remove us from this country because home. and you know i can go on and on and on. i take a moment to call these attacks out. dayuse the castrated every but it's a ministration, they can be impossible to keep track of it all. we haven't forgotten. we are fighting back.

that's why i'm here today. to be in the fight with you. women'se aclu and the march. bike the women's march, we believe in ending gender-based violence and state sanctioned violence. in advancing lgbt writes because it did not end with the right to marry. we believe in ensuring that our queer siblings can live their whole lives from discrimination. we believe in women making choices about their own bodies and restoring abortion coverage for everyone who needs it. we believe in protecting immigrant rights, finding a pathway to citizenship for an to people and people with tps. we believe in ending family separation and the asylum band and reuniting the families trump has separated.

ending the tragic action by the trumpet the station that still stands today. the muslim band. and like the women's march, we believe in protecting the first amendment rights of everyone so , neil, can speak freely boycott, protest, and rally like we all are today. there's so much more that unites us than divides us. and if we stop to hear and understand each other, we will only find yourselves more united today than we were yesterday. attacked ornot feel afraid. i feel our power. power, that unified strength that will take us to victory.

thank you, gracias. [applause] >> welcome to d.c.. welcome to d.c.. where are my d.c. folks at? where are my d.c. folks at russian mark -- at? holler back. nene.fternoon my name is i am a native washingtonian. i'm also an organizer for black lives matter, d.c.. black lives matter.

i want to thank tamika and linda. for our atonement, our future commitment. i want to thank them for giving , d.c., a voice and representation here today. i want to use my time and shine a light on the issues in washington dc. i have been downtown the last in my entire life fighting for my people. go.t there, that's where we city council. attended a hearing for public safety. i reminded our city officials that the d.c. police department doesn't keep black people safe. especially trans women and sex workers.

d.c. -- 85% of d.c. trans workers have died. 23% of black trans people or sexually assaulted by the police because they were perceived to be transgender or in the sex trade. time to decriminalize sex work. you to invest in the future of black trans women.

80% one black. it was categorized as sex trafficking under federal law. we don't receive amber alerts. human trafficking in d.c. exists. city toto get our change the police and investing community to sit -- community resources. the police here don't keep us safe. we keep us safe. this white supremacy government has placed a target on my back.

i am part of an organization that is here to build an infrastructure to empower black people. i walk on top of the tracks. i'm unapologetically block. -- black. unapologetically. i don't look back. seriously, i don't look back. when i see police dogs, i can't look back. it's because of freedom fighters. india k go. the tosha mckinney. aaron curry. and so many more. the lies are shortened by killer cops you must be stopped.

where do we go from here? i will say about the journey on top of the tracks. i have a teenage flexon. i can't stop. i'm going to tell you guys, when ,ou leave d.c. and return home donate to d.c. organizations. black organizations doing the work. voice is gone from yelling at people. i need you to hear this. nietzsche to hear this.

in d.c., we'll have a voice. so i need you to leave d.c. better than how you found it. i'm been a jew to donate. black people and brown people get brutalized and killed when they get on the metro. -- i'm going to need you to donate. black people and brown people get brutalized and killed when they get on the metro. rise up against the forces that are anti-black. rise up to those who want to police our uteruses.

i'm just saying. rise up against the black women -- rise up for the black women incarcerated because they can't afford bail. up for black rise women who are raped. rise up for black women working in the streets. missing black girls in the inner-city. rise up, fight back. rise up, fight back. rise up, fight back. >> i'm also a organizer of black lives matter in d.c. i want to say welcome to chopper city.

the displacement and gentrification have melted so much of that chocolate away. as i look at the crowd this morning, i remember why the font of that chocolate melting is so painful. i also want to welcome you know -- welcome you to the district where all 700,000 residents do not enjoy full citizenship in lots of ways but i'm just going to talk about this one. we are not a state but we pay the highest federal taxes. we have no vote, no representation in congress. so what we need you do do on -- to do on tuesday or whatever, i don't know when they actually work, but we need you to call, to tweet, to e-mail your elected officials because ours, again, have not vote. and tell them to support hr 51.

the d.c. admission act. and as for #statehoodnow, second d.c. is not just memorial, -- memorials, congress or the white house or the capital that was built by slaves that the federal government rented for local slaveowners at the price of $5 per worker per month. where some of these slaves died where the wall fell on them, it was cheaper to bury them. so they remain in a mass grave still, today. third, i want to make it clear that not all women are for all women. our mayor is not for us. just this week, she vetoed the bill to decriminalized metro fare evasion using the same rhetoric that despite metro's own numbers to the contrary environmently swear that race is

not an -- vehemently swear that race is not an issue. while you listen to the national platform, you need to be aware of what that looks like in d.c. one in seven arrests of youths were girls. since 2013, that trend has ticked upwards to an 87% increase. meanwhile, arrests for boys have dropped 22%. between 2007 and 2015, arrests for 13-year-old and 15-year-old girls in d.c. more than doubled. and arrests for 14-year-old girls tripled. it should be noted that the population of females are primarily girls of young women and color, 67%. d.c. has a serious police occupation problem with more than 32 independent police departments, d.c. is the most

heavily policed city in the country. and that's because there are independent police departments for everything here. every university, there's park police, there's challis, metro -- there's capitol police, metro police f.b.i. police. , every library has a police department. the capital and secret service police are the police that killed and shot mayor curry -- mary m curie while her daughter sat in the back. with regard to the metropolitan police department, those are the ones with the blue and white and red cars. there's so many cars. the department has stopped and frisked eight out of 10 -- eight 10- eight out of every people stopped and frisked out of the district of columbia are black. we only make up 47% of the population in d.c.

the department gun recovery unit is a lawless unit of officers that rode black and brown neighborhoods up out of unmarked cars and unconstitutionally search the district's young people while wearing t-shirts with white supremacist symbols on them and a banner with their motto. let's not forget those charge with trafficking guns. one using a homicide and those charged and convicted of sex trafficking. you are visiting a city where the chief of police says being held accountable through oversight by the council of d.c. emboldens criminals. but then again, in the past marriage, his wife alleged he knocked her teeth out. accountability is not his strongest suit. folks, you are standing in a

city where black women, where i live, cannot deliver babies into -- east of the river. the closest maternity ward is miles away. and let me leave you with this thought. white women do not own feminism. [cheers and applause] let me say is one more time. white women do not own feminism. [cheers and applause] it's not about whether or not we feel comfortable here. the truth is we ask ourselves do we want to do the emotional labor it would take to be here? is it worth the microaggression and all of the women and all women matter banter for hours. the white tears and eye rolls

and even more poignant do white , women belong in our spaces? if you can't understand why black lives matter, stands with our palestinian brothers and sisters, there is no shock to us that you can't understand why we don't want to be lynched and chained down by the police. [cheers and applause] >> if you can't understand us wanting to end police brutality, to -- to stop families from being separated, hold accountability to everybody who is being charged with taking care of us. then it shouldn't be hard for you to understand why black lives -- lives matter. i'm passionate about this. and lastly, you cannot demand how black women defend themselves or the ways of getting justice.

you cannot make us use the language that you use to get justice. we as black women can be wherever we want to be because we say so. say so. -- we say so. and i say to you again, white women do not own feminism and if you want to know why, it's because this black woman who was born in colorado springs and reborn in d.c., a mother, a daughter, a sister, a sober woman, survivor, womannist and anarchist says so. [cheers and applause] >> black lives matter. [applause] >> black lives matter! black lives matter!

black lives matter! black lives matter! black lives matter! >> hello, everyone. it is so amazing and beautiful to be around such fierce group of women! and you know my toes are freezing, but i just have so much energy. my spirit feels full to be surrounded by all of you. my name is christina jimenez and i'm the executive director of united we dream and enjoined by chavez, leader from uwd, d.m.v. >> let's give it up. we are really proud to stand here, represent an immigrant youth and families from united we dream who are marching today

here and all over the country. we are honored to stand here for all of the women and girls who -- who have been told no. for all the women and girl who are living in fear of deportation. we are honored to be standing here for them and for their families. because let me be clear about something. all of the members of our community are undocumented, unafraid and here to stay. [applause] >> here to stay, here to stay, here to stay! here to stay! here to stay! here to stay! look, and i want to break it down very real for you. at united we dream, we have this thing where to keep it real, when i say real talk, you say

real. real talk. >> real! >> real talk. >> real! >> real talk. >> real! >> yeah, real talk. >> real! >> donald trump is a racist madman. [applause] >> his white supremacist views are like cancer that are spreading throughout the country. but you know what? real talk. >> real! >> real talk. >> real. >> this sisterhood over here, all around you, all of us, are -- are going to stop him. but not just him because the problem is not just donald trump. did you agree with me? we are going to stop white supremacy together. because let me tell you

something we're not going to be , fooled. we know the same people in power are the same people that are keeping the government on their shutdown. for a wall, for a racist wall. [applause] >> we know that those are the same people that are trying to tell woman that we cannot control our own bodies. those are the same people that are targeting our native-american communities. those are from the same people that are targeting about our lbgtqi community. they're the same people that who are making money and insuring that we have more jails so that it can put their brown and black bodies. they're the same people that are responsible for the fact. real talk. >> real. >> real talk. >> real. >> there's still 15,000 people

-- children in cages as we speak. they're still there. and i want you to feel the outrage. right now as we speak, there are still 400,000 immigrants in detention camps. and as our sister reminded us yesterday, we cannot call them deattention camps. -- them detention camps. let's call them the real name. they're terror sites. they're sites of terror. that's what they are. and any one of them, one of our friends, an immigrant youth leader is still there locked up. in solitary confinement. because he's undocumented.

as we speak, that is the real -- reality for many people in our communities. so when you hear trump says that he wants a wall, what he -- he really is saying is that he wants more sites of terror, more agents to terrorize immigrant communities and he wants to continue to kick us out of this country. immigrant youth and family. so when you hear creative politicians say to you that we should never share with trump, then maybe we should compromise. let me be very clear. real talk. >> real. >> real talk. >> real. >> we are united we dream and we as movement cannot compromise with white supremacy. [applause]

we will not negotiate with white supremacy. we must receive white supremacy. we must receive trump. and i know that we will take them down together. so together, join me in insuring that we stop this racist wall, that we stop this mass deportation agenda, that we ensure that eduardo is free so he can be with his family and at 4:00 p.m. that he wants a -- and whenpeaks trump speaks at 4:00 p.m. that he wants a wall, we are going to say no. we're going to say no. because we are not dealing with white supremacists. [applause] >> no more money for deportation. no more money for agents that are terrorizing our families and building sites of terror.

what we need be pushing congress for right now is to take money away from those monsters. take it away. take it away. we must define hate and bigotry and congress can do that right now. this is why together we took on the street. we knock on doors. we brought our way to washington, d.c. and to congress. that's why. that's why we did it. so i want you to join me today in insuring that we take away that money from those monsters that we defund our bigotry, that we stop this mass deportation agenda. take out your phones. and text defund hate to 877877. defund hate to 877877. real talk. >> real. >> real talk. >> real. >> are we going to defund hate?

are we ready to stop white supremacy? >> yes. >> defund hate. defund hate. defund hate. defund hate. and let me close with this. my sisters and siblings. no ban, no wall, no race. no ban, no wall, no race. no ban, no wall, no race. thank you. [cheers and applause] >> [speaking in spanish] >> hey, beautiful people who bring me so much hope and light. my name is henna and i'm a pakistani american. i'm a steering committee member

of the muslim women contingent of the muslim women's march and i'm the director of outreach where i had indicate to stop genocide. i am here today as a muslim you who have believed firmly injustice witnesses for god even if it is against yourselfs. i am here because i live and breathe my fate, because my role model, my beloved prophet was a motto of living a life of yuffs -- life of justice and made a just society. i am an immigrant. i'm a mother, a daughter, a sister, and a wife and my faith teaches me the value of human life. i believe that every single life belongs to the creator and therefore is valuable. i'm here as a fighter against

violence, against women, against the race of our sisters. i have seen what happens when race is normalized. my sisters have suffered rape as a weapon of war, hundreds of thousands of them, survivors of genocide. my work lets me connect local and global issues, how islamaphobia and the war on terror has destroyed entire countries. i am here as advocate of survivors of genocide and refugees and there is a refugee crisis around the world and we see it right here at our border. the millions of refugees around the world are a part of this crisis. i have witnessed what unabated hate, fake news and division can do to a country. we cannot let that happen here.

it ends with genocide. we cannot let that happen here. we cannot believe that american exceptionalism will stop this from happening here. we have to actively fight against bigotry and hatred every -- every single day. [applause] >> the people at our borders, they're running away from violence. we can expect them to increase. we need to welcome them. are you with me? we need to remove the cap on refugees. are you with me? we need to stop the wars in our streets here in d.c. and overseas. we need to end wars that kill black and brown people every single day. i am marching for my people,

city american sister, my palestinian, nigerian, yemeni sisters. my afghanis, iraqi sisters and children feabted by our wars and our destructive policies. i march against rape and genocide in for the dignity of human life. firm in the belief that islam is andwerful agent of change goodness in this world. are you with me? we need to redirect military money to benefit our children here. our cities, our health care system right here. are you with me? we need to free the political prisoners that are imprisoned in our country. are you with me?

we need to lead with compassion. are you with me? i am here with a large group of amazing women, rising with the waves. racial here to march for , economic, and social justice advocated by god. are you with us? we march for equity. are you with us? marching for sisters in inner cities across the nation. are you with us? matterh for black lives because one third of american muslims are black and based on our enslaved ancestors, were brought into this country. black lives matter to us. we are here for a black sisters who have lost their sons and daughters to state violence. imprisonedr unjustly

people like an american muslim journalist who is imprisoned right here in d.c.. we march against the muslim band. no muslim band ever. >> no muslim ban ever! >> we march against unjust policies that families at the -- that separate families at the borders and through the muslim ban. are you with us? [applause] >> we are marching because we our people and believe that diversity is what makes this country so powerful. [applause] >> are you with us? [applause] >> we march for the refugees speaking shelter at our borders, the children caged in internment camps. are you with us? we march for the hundreds and thousands of children, orphan by wars, wars that are funded by our tax dollars. are you with us? [applause]

>> when we unite, then change will come. are you with us? [applause] >> thank you. [applause] >> hmm, hello. how is everybody tonight? [applause] whoo! my name is mia and i'm the founder and coordinator of the woman's march disability caucus. [applause] >> give it up. whoo. at first, i want to let everybody know there is a hearing aid that was lost. it's at the volunteer tent and give it up for the volunteers. [applause] >> so it's the

woman's march disability caucus really got founded by how many grassroots groups have gotten founded by. it's when activists get together and they decide to create their own seats at the table. for me, as a disabled woman and a korean-american transracial adoptee, i have been raised by two amazing parents who believes -- you believe i had a right to express myself and maintain independence to the best of my ability to self advocacy. [applause] after years of feeling left out of so many things due to my disability, my race and my gender, i became extremely nervous after the 26th election and i'm pretty sure everybody felt that way. i knew as an individual with multiple marginalized identities, i would sigh myself

-- see myself and my friends get battered due to the current political powers deciding that our needs and our lives -- lives were not important. i have been organizing and advocating on local and state levels. but i decided that i need to rededicate myself to organizing in bigger ways. after the 2016 election, i started to see posts about the women's march as many of you probably did. right after the election, and so i thought it would be a great -- great time to get my hands dirty. by looking at, helping my state group or helping my state group march in north carolina. -- group get to d.c. or to help a sister march in north carolina. but like many amazing advocates and activists before me, i

noticed that huge issue around accessibility. people were writing to the women's march assaying about accessibility and i too was concerned. especially since i was seeing the answers questions -- i mean, the answers -- the questions answered and had been attending numerous marches and evens -- events throughout my life. so i started contacting the women ice march organizers to see if there were what is that i could help with the accessibility. when i didn't hear anything, i got together with a group of friends who were all disabled to help build power and to contact the women ice march as a group. we finally were able to get their ear and get a seat at the table. [applause] >> now, we want a seat at the table. we didn't want participation trophies. we were not satisfied with being token individuals within a progressive group. now, this process is by no means a smooth process.

many times, policies and plans have been developed and we had to flag them and help redevelop them to make sure that they were inclusive with disabled people. but each time that we had to change things, i saw minds of individuals on all levels of the team being changed. i saw people that were realizing that they need to reorient themselves from disability participation perspective to a truly inclusive disability justice perspective. [applause] change is not smooth or pretty, if you organize with the right people you can have a lasting impact. this year i saw amazing differences to how this women's march was organized, compared to the first time i got involved. we were able to incorporate the

lessons that we together learned, to improve relationships between the community in the women's march. staff reached out at the planning stage to make sure disabled women had a say in the legislative agenda, and that is a huge thing. [applause] i have to give a big shout out to kelly gray, rebecca coakley and catherine perez. they helped develop the legislative priorities that focused on disabled women, ensuring we were able to make our beliefs known around universal health care, that included disabled people. [applause]

we also made sure that we included in-home and community long-term support services within the health care for all. we also need a real look at reproductive health clinics, and how accessible they are. we also made sure we were addressing issues around economic independence for the disability community. [applause] the disability caucus also helped with a lot of the accessibility that was provided today, and i want to say thank you so much, to all the volunteers who helped make this one of the most accessible marches in history. [applause] as we continue to strive for more inclusive environments, we need to incorporate with the amazing groups in the disability

community. i want to give a shout out to to the disability march group, which gives disabled people alternative ways to participate in the march by providing stories and posting them on websites, so that individuals who are not able to attend the march can post their stories. [applause] i also want to give a shout out to out to disability action for america and numerous other amazing groups, that help ensure every american can access health care. the time is now to ensure disabled women's perspectives are taken seriously. i sit here before you to make a pledge for the women's agenda which is inclusive of people like me.

and i want to encourage you to commit with me. as the disabled community likes to say, nothing about us without us. nothing about us without us. nothing about us without us. nothing about us without us. thank you so much. [applause] >> hey, d.c. [applause] i don't care what nobody says, there ain't nobody more committed than the women. and when mama ain't happy, ain't nobody happy. i want to say, as vice president of the naacp d.c. branch, thank

you for showing up. and i want you to all know that when we come together one by one, sister to sister, aunts, uncles, grandmothers, and we want to thank our brothers who stand up also. but what is most important, my career began in politics in 1968. i celebrate my 68th birthday next friday, and i have been in this struggle since dr. martin luther king took his first speech, made his commitment with the student nonviolent

coordinating committee. dr. king was a trailblazer. he was 26 years old. he died at 38. my job is to encourage, motivate, spend my time, energy and money in pushing forward these young women. my agenda, and i take nothing away from white women, but black women and girls need mentors. [applause] and they need mentors that look like them. so i want to introduce you to the 2036 president of the united states of america, amari. she is the president of the youth and college division at spelman university in atlanta, georgia. give it up. [applause]

>> i am amari senori of spelman college, i'm a graduating senior, i may political science major. -- i am a political science major. in march of i rode on a bus to 2018, d.c. to ensure black voices are heard and put on the agenda for the march of our lives. so today, january 19, 2019, i'm here to make sure the black agenda is here for the women's march. a lot has happened since the first annual women's march. i'm concerned we are more excited about the hype of being a partisan movement than actually doing the work about the movement. so we have a problem. we have some allies who aren't really allies. and we must tell the truth. we have individuals who support us throughout the campaign, but

when you are in private, in the booth, you vote another way. we have individuals who had hidden bias against communities. we have individuals who think making a post on social media and making posters are allies. since the women's march we have seen examples of people not accepting the fact that we are allies. we had a student at an ivy league college that was in the lounge and security was called on her. we have individuals in starbucks and police were called on them. a person was dragged through a waffle house by a police officer. a black worker and mcdonald's was attacked by a white man. we have a black teenager, neil wilson, whose throat was slit in oakland by a white man. i don't see allies, i see bystanders. we must discuss how black women make $.67 to every dollar our

white counterparts make. here are solutions. we must talk about how one out of every five black women are salted before the age of 18. we have hard discussions, even ones you don't want to have. we have educational forums. we vote in our best interests. [applause] and we trust black women, always. in 2019 we have made great progress, we have broken barriers in january. we have 112 women in congress, which exceeds the fact that we had 107 previously. and georgia is very proud of our own lucy mcbath, very proud. in 2019 the naacp won a lawsuit

to extend voting poll hours in georgia, we won clemency for cintoia brown. so those are solutions. in order to continue to move forward we must have action. i need you to look in the eyes of a stranger and repeat after me, are you looking into the eyes of a stranger next to you? i have your back in this march. i am making a promise to you. i will be your ally in a real way, that actually shows up for you. [crowd response] i will not just commit to talking and posting about what is going on. [crowd response] if you're being attacked, i will be there for you.

these last two years have not stalled my commitment to you. [crowd response] this is me renewing my vows to you. if it happens again, i will be there for you. i am going to step in for you. [crowd response] i will not call the police on you. [crowd response] i will have your back. i am sorry for the last two years in america. this roller coaster. i will protect you when injustice shows up. [crowd response] what hurts your community hurts me as well. [crowd response]

we have nothing to lose but our shackles. >> i am siddiqua reynolds, and i am here representing the louisville urban league and the urban league across the country, half of our affiliates run by women, and not just any woman, strong, educated, outspoken black women. girls don't run the world, but maybe we should. maybe we should. maybe we should be the ones that decide if there is war or peace. maybe we should decide if there is affordable housing or homelessness, health care or no care, equal pay or injustice, culturally confident education that recognizes our students' gifts.

maybe we should be the ones to decide with our bodies, and to have our own conversation with god. maybe we should run the part of the world that decides how to repair the damage that this country has caused with redlining. maybe we should decide who gets clean water in america. [applause] maybe we should run the part of america that ensures affordable housing in every district in this country. maybe we should run the part that focuses on economic integration. how can we ever be equal if i don't have any resources? maybe black women ought to be running hollywood. maybe, maybe, maybe, maybe it wouldn't have taken so long to see ourselves reflected by that

which is best among us. hi, like you, am a woman, but i am more than a woman, i am a black woman. and if women have been in the back of the line, than black women have been in the back of the back of the back of the line. and there is no place in a greater america for sexism, bigotry, hatred, anti-semitism, homophobia, discrimination. america can never be great without my voice. [applause] listen, there is no room in america for another wall.

i am a woman, but i am more than that. my existence is even more complicated than that. i myself am a lawyer, i am a former judge, and i have been up close with the absolute best of law enforcement, and i honor those that are the best. and yet there is police brutality. i stand today for the mothers and sons and daughters subjected to subpar educational outcomes, police brutality, lower wage jobs and health disparities, discrimination in every form has been our inheritance. i am the face of a woman like serena williams, unlimited resources and still terrible health care, begging for medical

treatment when we deliver our children. i represent black women who can take no comfort in silence. we are not angry, we have simply swallowed so much pain it is losing from our pores and it comes out like fire. [applause] hot enough, hot enough to burn just one more person attempting to oppress us, to keep us from our freedom. my existence in this country is complicated, and when i march i am here with my people, on my back, unable to rise without the entirety of my race rising with me, still here fighting for space in this world. white supremacy is a threat to all of us, but we must recognize that it affects black bodies differently.

but you and i together, together today and together tomorrow, we can change america. we can be what we are supposed to be. we can help this country keep the promise of what she is supposed to be for all of us. let us agree to stand together when the humanity of you is at risk of being ignored and extinguished. i beg you please, to stand with me when my humanity is not recognized, when those in power refuse to respond to my call. we cannot support in america where children die in cages at borders, where the school-to-prison pipeline is not disrupted, where men with health care try to tell us how we should care for our bodies. we should decide there is no

room in america for confederate monuments. they were losers. [applause] sisters, this has been one of the most welcoming groups of women i have ever had the pleasure to stand with. [applause] and i want to look you in the eye before i go and say this. women, i believe you. [applause] i believe you. i believe you. last thing, we want federal workers back at work. [applause] we want this government open. but if they should somehow get funding for that wall, we will tear it down, we will tear it down, we will tear it down. [applause]

there will be no wall in america. together, together. thank you. the urban league thanks you. >> if you can, repeat after me. it is our duty to fight for our freedom. [crowd response] it is our duty to when. [crowd response] we must love each other and protect each other. [crowd response] we have nothing to lose. [crowd response] good afternoon, women's march. my name is mary hector, and i stand in the spirit of ida b wells, women who have contribute -- contributed so much to this country. on my way over here i was watching the news and i still saw children locked in cages.

i saw political leaders turn a blind eye at people seeking political asylum, dehumanized in front of the world. and then i realized they had seen this before. there was a city by the name of jericho, but just like the people in jericho, there may be big walls, but when good people like us come together, those walls can come down. [applause] i am here to remind you that we can no longer get comfortable. we got excited when we saw barack and michelle obama, but while we were rejoicing there were meetings in dark places and alleys that said, never again. caretta scott king once said freedom is never really won, you win it and earn it in every generation.

that means we have work to do. you cannot believe in human rights and not believe in human responsibility, and that is why i say, following this march we need to get to work, because a war against women's rights and civil rights has been declared, and some of you missed it. we can't change the world unless we change home first, and that means we have to have some uncomfortable conversations about race and this movement, and how intersectionality is important, and that we have to work together. it is our duty to fight for our freedom. [crowd response] it is our duty to win. we must love each other and protect each other. [crowd response] we have nothing to lose but our

change. thank you. [applause] >> good afternoon. free us. free us. we stand on behalf of the more than 1.2 million women entangled in the united states' criminal legal system, 2 million in the -- 200,000 currently in prison and on parole or probation. one million if you have ever heard the cries of an incarcerated mother at 3:00 in the morning, desperate to see and hold her children, it is something you will never forget. they have created policies of separation, punishment and incarceration as an answer to the struggles of poor people, and derived from the policies of slavery. incarcerated women are mostly

the choices women make an search of food and shelter too often to escape violence and abuse are the same, no matter what side of the border they are on. [cheering] fort the national council incarcerated in formerly incarcerated women and girls, we have spoken to incarcerated and formerly incarcerated women throughout the united states, and we have traveled to mexico and brazil and argentina and the caribbean, and spoken to incarcerated in formerly incarcerated women there as well. weather in chicago or the bronx or appalachia, or the world communities that rural alabama,es of lower the stories are the same as

women in mexico or sao paulo. stories of cash for women navigating through persistent poverty and lack of food and housing. they tell the same stories of over criminalization and a drug war that were decades targeted their communities in continued to cause devastating social and economic disruption that has left women of our communities with to raise our children little to no support or access to meaningful resources and opportunities. and most disturbing are the same stories of being witnesses to and victims of violence while their trauma goes on acknowledged and untreated. the common stories of sexual violence often starting during childhood. we also know the pain of being

separated from our children, and in jails and prisons across this country that leads to incarceration of our children. women are currently the fastest growing incarceration population in this united states. becausethis to be true we live in a federal prison, and asan incarcerated -- incarcerated women, we were separated from our children. our daughters, our sons, and millions of children are separated from their mothers due to unnecessary incarceration. incarcerated mothers were the primary caretakers of their children prior to incarceration. what kind of country takes the among us andle

response to their pain and trauma with a prison cell and protracted sentences, increasing the pain, suffering, and economic disparity that deepens the poverty for their children, families, and communities? we must recognize that separation of mothers from their children under any circumstances must be avoided whenever possible. [cheering] >> keeping families together should be the priority of a civilized society. [cheering] >> we need meaningful criminal justice reform. we must not stop at the wasted effort of the first step acts. we must move this country to end incarceration and the way we have carried it forward. we must have meaningful criminal justice reform. we need to stop the separation ,f mothers from their children

whether they are making choices in search of a better life that brings them to our borders, or whether we are talking about mothers from the east capital housing development with the seventh and eighth awards with the highest rate of incarceration right here, locked up in the d.c. jail, state prisons, or any of the thousands of women. -- thousands of women we were incarcerated within the federal system. these women need to be reunited with their children as well. [cheering] >> let's not leave out the fight for freedom, dignity, and justice on behalf of the women and children separated by over-criminalization and mass incarceration. join us in our work at the national council to end the mass incarceration of women and girls. [cheering] >> free her!

free her! free her! [chanting and cheering] >> family, how are you doing? i am one of the field organizes -- organizers for the women's march, and i am here with my sisters. i am also here today with family. i call you all family because that is what we are. that is what we are. and that is the environment the women's march has created globally. they have created a family that is holding the line for justice, that is holding the line for peace. we are the ones standing in the gap.

through the network of women's march, through trials and tribulations, through joys and sorrows, we are moving together for a more just a future and a just today. how are you doing, family? [cheering] >> i encourage all of you to keep standing in the gap for one another. keep standing with the women's having encouraging conversations and difficult conversations. grab your brothers and sisters hands and become an ally. we have work to do, family. [cheering] >> good afternoon, people. you can do better than that, let me hear you. [cheering] >> i am very humbled and privileged to be one of the captain leaders of the women's march, i hail from the great state of oklahoma. oklahoma, where 60 years ago and black woman and the use

president of the naacp started a wave and had the first sit in ever and the nation. [cheering] later, we 60 years just elected our first female democratic congresswoman. [cheering] >> we are very proud in oklahoma, but we also have some issues that we all are dealing with, and we need you to engage. we have been talking about the wave is coming, well i am here to tell you that the wave is here. oklahoma, where we are number one in incarceration of women per capita in the world, where a woman can sit in prison for 41 years for being a victim of domestic violence, and her abuser served 28 days and had

his children returned to him. that must stop. the women's ways, we have to keep it going. we are asking you to continue to support the effort of women of color, of black women. i love black women, do you love black women? [cheering] >> are you satisfied with the leadership of my sisters? [cheering] >> i love our jewish sisters, our queers sisters, our transit sisters, our non-binary. we are inclusive. oklahoma send you love and says it you need to join with us and ride the wave. it is here. women's wave 2019. [cheering] here to celebrate all

of us, and first of all we want to make sure it is clear that we stand with our fearless leadership, the leadership that has led us to this place, to the women's wave and has taught us all to be empowered and keep the way of going and make sure the wave does not stop. we will not allow hate to tear us apart. we will not allow hate to stop the momentum of what has been happening and what is going on in the future. we are here. , iwhen i say, what wave want you to say women's wave. what wave? >> women's wave! >> we are all connected, whether we understand it or not. we are all entitled to the inalienable rights promised to us by the constitution of this country. until we are all free, none of us are free. and until body of tommy belongs

to all of us, none of us our free. [cheering] >> until people like sister hakisha clemens is free, none of us are free. [cheering] >> i can hear you. [cheering] a life experience that sort of my activism. by theacially profiled waffle house and police department in alabama. i stand before you in solidarity with all of my sisters that have treated less than they are worth. filling a space for all of us. let's stand together and fight against injustice, sexual assault, rape, and gender discrimination.

we are not free unless we are all free. unless we alle are free. we are not free. there going to boycott waffle house, that means no eating at the waffle house. they don't respect us, they don't on our dollars. i want to hear everybody say, boycott the waffle house. >> boycott the waffle house! >> boycott the waffle house! thank you. [cheering] >> we are going to leave you with one more chance, because this is not just a chant, these are messages we take to our dinner tables, offices, places where we commune with people, so i want you all to say, what do we want, justice? when do we want it?

now. now we are going to say freedom. what do we want? freedom. when do we wanted? now. now we are going to say love, because that is what we need. what do we want? love. when do we want it? now appeared -- now. [cheering] welcome to this stage of our youth empowerment group. youth. >> empower! >> thank you for coming out, we are so excited to be ending the event with the youth of the future. i am 22 years old and

copresident of women's march youth in power. old and i amars profoundly grateful to be marching with you today as copresident of women's march youth and power. we stand up here with the strength of over 200 youth and power chapters across the nation. chapters who have been changing the narrative, leading key conversations, and organizing action to create change in their community. >> being able to speak here before you all makes me feel that my family is being heard. [cheering] >> as an undocumented person, i can tell you in my own skin that the current narrative led by the administration is fear.

[speaking spanish] communities like my own, they hit home in a way that keep us silent, scared, worried, and confused. the goal is to intimidate and silence the voices of people who are already not being heard. that is why i speak out. to more than ever, we need join together and be grounded in our identity. grounded in the confidence that speaking out is what is right. [cheering] america, itwomen in is a difficult time to have our voices heard. our ideologies acknowledged, and our perspectives valued. youth are being impacted by every issue in our nation and fighting for change on behalf of all of them, because all issues are youth issues. >> reverend dr. martin luther

king jr. said the ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands in times of challenge and controversy. to all of the young people with , if you're hearing this, do not underestimate your youth. [applause] >> youth have taken to the streets multiple times over the past year. we've stopped policies from being passed. we've shown up to vote in larger numbers than ever expected before. we are taking power away from racists, homophobics, sexists, trans-phobic's, islamic phobics, politicians that have shown time and time again they have no concern for us. [applause]

>> in march 2018, when we led the historic national school walkouts that saw 1.6 million students walk out of school to demand sensible gun regulations. [applause] we did so because we were tired of waiting on others to make change for us. we took control of our voices, and we will take control of our future. >> today, youth are marching together in solidarity with our adult counterparts in d.c., across the country, and the world. to my fellow youth, we will not be given power. we must take it. [applause] >> because there is value in our stories. there is value in our words. there is value in us.

[applause] >> to the adults, i ask that when you have the opportunity, amplify youth voices. [applause] >> mentor youth so that we don't make the same mistakes that you have, and provide a platform in your movements for youth, as women's march has been so great to do here today. >> my phone just died so my piece is not my phone anymore, but i want to tell you guys that this is how i feel from the bottom of my heart. you are the dismantlers of outdated systems. [applause] [speaking spanish] [applause] we are going to keep fighting because we're the future, but we will not wait until the future to stand up and speak up and make change happen now. [applause]

>> we, the youth of america, will not wait to have our voices heard tomorrow, while our future is being decided today. [applause] youth of america, our time is now. [applause] >> if you believe in us, if you're fighting with us, then invest in this mission and and sure we have the resources to do this work. donate now to help this empowered group, to help empower us to be leaders. the type of leaders that will empower a nation. i want you all to pull out your phones. pull out your phones right now

-- i know you have them because i see recording. pull out your phones and give what you can to women's march or text "wave" to 40649. go to venmo and donate or text "wave" to 40649. we are the future, period. [applause] >> thank you all. [applause] [tape presentation] >> to our future, i know you don't completely understand what --pening -- lots happening what's happening right now. ♪

but that's why i want to tell you about the women in our family, because they are the strongest people i know. ♪ these past few years have been tough. powerful men who think they can do whatever they want, they laughed at us, thought they had us beaten, but the women in our family, we marched. we took to the streets, and 5 million of us raised our voices. i hope you remember that day as one of the proudest moments of my life. and we didn't just march. we organized. held firm our time, on every important issue facing everyountry, supported ally and what's right.

for women in our family, we won't be silenced. and to the men in power, we're starting to change things. they panicked. they tried it to scare us. but their time was up. the women are part of a movement that's sending shock waves throughout the campus, office, every chamber in america so that hopefully you will never have to face what we did. women in our family, we rise like the water, high enough, strong enough, breaking down every wall put in our way. and we will not quit until we wash away the old world that tries to keep us down to. -- down. so don't be scared. we'll always be there for you,

millions of women fighting. we're family now. and more will join us. onlyse the work is beginning. [applause] [drum being beaten] [native american singing] >> thank you, brother. [native american language being spoken] my name is roxanne white. i am yakima, nez perce, and i want to welcome the indigenous people of washington, d.c. and

the indigenous lands that we're on. our hats go off to the indigenous people of this country and every country on every continent. we are missing indigenous women and girls. i want to thank my brother right here. they let us come out here. they're giving us three minutes so if i speak really fast it's because i have little time, and we're talking about a serious and heartbreaking epidemic that goes by missing and murdered indigenous women and girls. this family right here, we ran into in the crowds on the sidelines. their daughter and their sister has been missing for 18 months. they haven't had a proper investigation. they haven't had any mainstream media coverage. their family members. my cousin has been missing since

october 2 of 2018, from the yakima indian reservation. rihanna kenzie has been missing from oregon since 1999. alyssa macklemore has been missing since 2009 from kent, washington. we are still here. [applause] >> i want to say thank you to the committee for allowing us, and for the ancestors for opening the gates and letting us on the last few minutes here. we want to say the names of our relatives. we want the world to know that our sisters are missing and nobody cares. we feel alone. we need the rest of the world to see us. we need the rest of the world to stand with us. [applause] >> i want to say the names.

rocinda strong, say her name. alyssa macklemore, say her name. astrid smith, say her name. leona cansler, say her name. jackie, say her name. jackie, say her name. janet, say her name. felina metzger, say her name. hattie scott, say her name. brown, say her name. [crowd response] this is their daughter, their sister. this is how we come across. we make up 2% of this world and

this is our land. we were here. we've been here for thousands of years. thousands of years, indigenous people native to this country have been here. and it's hurtful when people talk about rights and freedoms, and we haven't seen it. we live in third world cities and reservations. a lot of people think that we're rich and have a lot of money. we barely can keep up, and the world around us doesn't see us. we're not alcoholics, we're not drunks. we're not invisible, we are here. [applause] i want to encourage all my indigenous people, all my relatives, to please stand strong together. i want to ask you to be more than an ally, be a co-conspirator to indigenous people.

we're going to sing a song as we go out. i'm really nervous. i want to say this. i want to say this. we love all our relatives across the world, and it's not just indigenous people. when we go missing, we go more than just missing in our families and at our tables and in our ceremonies, we go missing to the entire world. so we're here to say to all our relatives, all our marginalized communities, that our prayers are with you, our prayers are with our colonial people, our white relatives. we want to tell you that we were colonized before you so we pray for you, too.

we pray for you, too. we pray for this government you guys have all been talking about. i've been listening to it all day, talking about a government and a system that doesn't honor its people, that hasn't honored its treaties or our reservations or our people. protect our women. women's wntil you march. protect and honor the first people, the first women of this country, you can't have any justice. [applause] >> thank you, roxanne. [crowd noise] >> join us. look it up online. we're innovationsatc.org. we're innovationsatc.org. we need you to support us on policy changes.

we need you to support us in making sure we are not invisible. thank you. [applause] [crowd chanting] [drum being beaten] >> turn the mics on! >> turn on your microphones. >> turn on your microphones! [native american singing] >> turn on your microphones! turn on your microphones!

turn on your microphones! [native american singing] [applause] [native american singing]

[applause] >> thank you all. remember, in november 2020, vote for anybody that's not donald trump. [applause] [captioning performed by the national captioning institute, which is responsible for its caption content and accuracy. visit ncicap.org]

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