age, i understood that freedom is as fragile as it is precious. sooner or later, the great ronald reagan said the loss of liberty is always but one generation away. >> watch book tv this weekend on c-span2. the annual women's march was held in washington, d.c. two years after the first women's march following the inauguration of president trump. because of the government shutdown, this year's rally was held at freedom plaza instead of the national mall. i am the copresident of the 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 y katha pollitt discusses issues -- women's issues and peter cory will be on to talk about the tax policy of freshman democratic representative alexandria oh cause your cortez from new york. then american enterprise iraq --e done across

dalibor rohac discusses the latest on brexit. the c-span cities tour is asked -- exploring -- we take you to independence, missouri. today at 10:00 a.m. eastern on book tv. we will explore the roots of independence and why is served as a starting point >> of america's great westward trail. downtown was the place to be. we had several blacksmith shops there. outfitting general stores. if you needed any thing that would take you out west you would get it here. you can imagine the buzzing community downtown. on american history tv, we take you to many of the truman sites including his home and library. ofch this c-span cities tour independence, missouri at 10:00

a.m. on c-span twos book tv and at 2:00 p.m. on american history tv on c-span3 working with our cable affiliates. explore the american history. >> president trump offered a proposal which if approved would end the ongoing government shutdown. his proposal includes funding for a border wall and a three-year extension to the daca program which allows children of illegal immigrants to stay in this country. this is 15 minutes. president trump: just a short