this fourth whether you have been waiting here. with you or if you st no you want to go on with the firmness of the good things you know when that's over it just from entry. my name is taylor from home and executive director and founder of yes philly which is a school that works with young adults who've dropped out of philadelphia schools and are trying to finish high school so they come to us because they want to finish their education age sixteen to twenty one which is the it's that we work with young people are deciding who they want to doing and they're deciding how to if they want to change if they are if they want to be not like their parents not like their neighbors not like some of the they come from very rough communities and this is

a chance what this is a time when if they a lot of them are making decisions about who they're going to be as adults if you're living in poverty and everyone around you is living in poverty it's hard to understand why you should get up in the morning go to school every try to find a job and then go to that job every day and do things that are not necessarily fun or interesting and this is not about the students or about the parents if there's a lot of history of people being incarcerated there has been and still is a lot of drug abuse in philadelphia and i think if you live in poverty and without hope it's very hard to dig yourself out of that it's very hard to do the things you need to do. which you don't have to graduate. placement how they

run. this is the simple truth. not really not really just kind of had. to leave. the last. twelve thirteen. you been a real gun shot people getting murdered life.

as soon as we walk out of this building right any media. can begin to start taking pictures or video of anything that we're doing we can stop them from doing with that means everything that we do people will be watching i mean. if you're throwing trash on the ground if you're pushing and shoving each other around all that you get from it. we are in several schools. school in brooklyn south charter high school in the bronx that's our youth coalition we were in there every day for the last three weeks teaching these kids about racism teaching these kids about police brutality teaching these kids about taking cried and who they are teaching these kids that they have the power all the powers and the people that they have the power to affect change is what we. told ok

we'll be lookin at you to see you would soon have to say that police brutality are you put there. are you. are you going to. tell bill yet. i. heard.

something over. the front b.v. . this monday. he knows the neighborhood. you lived in this same neighborhood for fifty two years how do you live in the same neighborhood with fifty two years we have a big right here in sixty three. and we really tore up the city so we're really not. you know never really came back from there the blacks around here always struggle school again war wisely always have problems during the sixty's there was a lot of drinking and was in the other drug problems the drug problems didn't hit us in tool really in the seventies to seventy's was. a lot.

different drugs to this go bad. really came came about in the seventy's we was really trying to get back from what we did in the sixty's tearing up the city then in the eighty's the money was flowing the kids were getting what they needed the schools annoyed by it was getting jobs and all year it was still touch trying to survive. it started out with gang war and what we stopped gay want to start having drug wars and drug wars was. developed from. you it was making money off the crack. they would fight for you know stuff on the corners the main thing is. they start shutting down the schools given the key it's different activities they took out the gym school they took out.

different activities for the kids to do they all have all football and baseball games and stuff like that to go through we had the chance to learn. the sports they had joe best basketball player he was good he was he was looked up to and he was a mark to different people in school when they did that they don't do that like the school more they'll give you a chance to or to show. you all really ability the kids they don't want to go just the more. social science math and all that one and a lot more than that in school where doing all the more.

so we asked students in the spring how many of them. you know could put their hands on a gun within twenty four hours and all. most overstayers in the school felt that they could get their hands on a gun within twenty four hours my students are not buying guns but they know that

their uncle has a gun and they know where it is or they know that. they know somebody who has a con the know where it is so when i say they could put their hands on a gun i'm not saying goodbye one. good afternoon i want to introduce my eyes to raise some of you met him this summer he did a workshop on black guns matter this summer and he's here again to talk to us today

also feel. oh really wow this will go well and of course missionary form. we've got oh you got my you got your mind on one thing all the time i'm lookin to go and this is art. i mean think about it. but guns aren't the answer to everything art can have as a place to hitting a target a hundred yards away. with little rockets and a small dog. i think the tests are being tended not to last. also because there is a still going on for three days. say. the same the position of. the context. of the international law. are more more on the serbian side

i know it is a twenty four but also. just find the ak we got a nice moment when the nobility all borders. officer of the road to get up off the ground the officer began to hear him down. heard them freeze on the sounds of kind of fighting into the grown man the christening essentially the officer who. drew his or her own. twisted away from the officer. of his group. the officer did they kind of lunge for the weapon once missed and then when it happened on tree swung and i didn't hit him i never saw any contact with. any kind of went back to where they were so the officers back here there try again fifteen feet apart at this point and that's when

the officer pulled out his gun and he bid on three. you know world of big parts of the lot and kids yours it's time to wait to dig deeper to hit the stories that midstream media refuses to tell more than ever we need to be smarter we need to stop slamming the door on the shouting past each other it's time for critical thinking it's time to fight for the middle for the troops the time is now for watching closely watching the hawks. cain came days here this summer when you were here with a great p. . great s. bake do away with guns love the way here book deal with guns west with he had

soldiers they used in their lives made he was here to talk to us about guns he ain't going to get in a main mr yogi from a gun store if they'll just view him blue and you're right so day grody he may he talked about guns and shill with what was the gun use for and how to take apart a gun what is the poppers we still hold. in clean your gun he showed us day i felt it was very. healthy but then at the same time i had to tell him that i didn't find no that was meant for every student because some students found a death in jolt found a play from the mud with a great hokey he did. he did for overweight from new foods he stayed on his go he stayed on here to help the kids talk about guns he broke down gun didn't embody a boot don't dast to me i have been. i haven't been this race again for the last

five years ago when he broke down guns here some very good point so why are they black of any of those where young guys like. these look like. oh well i don't buy the firearm safety training the victim basically go to areas where. you're meant to go on things like just the people of god you think on the phone while all this is everybody have a. very experienced explosive going out why would she asked you out of. box. also you so shot it might not. have you here is with. me and not just seeing a lot of things. shot seven times even features. called the shot. i earned because.

you. were seeing as you just let in suicide it's an important. so really important issue in our community and people are dying and you know there's a lot of shooting going on and a lot of it is. because people are not thinking it through to people who are in their communities that are doing that need to come and talk to them and share with them about their lives and in fi's them about their lives so ongoing and mentor them i mean i think our students all need mentors and community and i think there are it's a community is full of people who are i mean i think actually the most important icons are the ordinary people who just have figured out how to have a good life and are working to have families have a house. you know because i think we you know one of the problems in and i've had

i've been working with this population for twenty five years and i think one of the problems is that it's only the famous people. not the right people for to be using as your models because very few people are going to become stars and that's you know i mean if you're lucky when that happens that's great but for the rest of the population figuring out what the balance is i have work that you're satisfied with and that pays your way and that keeps you in the house and have friends those a really important skill set and you need to be modeled. on. the i'll respect the name because black lives matter.

because i want to make sure it's going to drive the next generation to take law on that task out there both were exacerbated what i've done. i want to ever tell i don't want to carve growing. what i recall i don't want top down or what the ground was shot down. the reality of what went on with your work throughout the service is an impostor and it was out. oh when it comes to the relationship between the black and white when it comes to relationships.

and you worked with them on lawless old policy that they could push we also work with them organize a march. madness matter how matter might not matter they did everything from media press relations to outreach to reached out to all the elected officials within new york city logistics to help plan a route marshalling may help each other with safe they created signs there was a lot of beautiful things to do shows in big bill which featured a lot of fight. right how do. you think about the schools they develop your relations i mean occasions these are

skills that they could take to college and into corporate america. these are the careers they want to pursue which he threw about a lot of these kids will have something that will have a leg up on all of the kids in a situation who want to become a lawyer that's. right now you have to write out legislation ok we will go and lobby for the state capitol in albany down at city hall these kids are a part of history and it's important that we make them part of the site gives them a way to falsely be changed if they want to see help them create solutions based on the future of these kids all the future of the city and we are hoping to get to where they need to be.

it's a who cooking. having a good. cook does but the other two. time. we were shopping malls. i asked the teacher that one day i have seen this while we do homework no more the reason. they don't feel like doing the work.

forty you've got forty kids to a class and forty kids paper. plus homework they say oh we're going get a relative audience and we just. know we need the education i should be able to do day for say oh we don't. blame the teachers because the tondo hole where he got cut out of the school systems having budget cut is not every day you see a kid go to school do what i got to do. to get out the hood i'll make sure i'm doing i'm going to school for reasons it's not a lot of time you see a lot of people state school some get out the way some of. my mom my dad stop saying some i get out the house now we have african teachers in urban teachers that do not speak perfect english but you got to teach in a losing place i can't understand what the thing is highly teaching. but

that's just because of the budget cuts. at the right times to retain talent a third day i just. he's. trying to educate people of the person that they. don't know now these days so they don't know how we're. going to. talk to these two girls the. drugs keep the drugs to. hold. everybody have a different route to see the new as far as the do hospitals helps couples. at last on the side here. and on to be off to move if we. can do.

the salon to gangster. to free said no. you can't act as a police officer without probable cause even if you see somebody who looks suspicious they're doing something suspicious you can't necessarily do a lot about it unless you see that i'm doing something specific so you may see somebody standing out and it's really cold out and they're along and you want to learn what they're doing but you really can't search them or anything like that. typical things that you might be looking for are people who are out in cold weather or in odd parts of the city you could observe them from

a distance if they can't see. these under the saloon. and there he's at a bar he's standing outside and people inside may know that if you want anything go outside and see that guy pick it up and take a baguette. but chances are he's not going to be dealing on the street if he is outside of a bar if he has any connection to the bar because that's the best way to deal in a bar situation is in the men's room. this guy here that's given a good look and he's welcome back that's good if you are in uniform if you're not in a cruiser he knows that you saw him so he may decide not to be doing any more business tonight. he is standing there in the dark and why and again

it's a constant like around whether it's five minutes later twenty minutes later you're coming back around again now it is you have to. if you're in uniform if you're in a cruiser and he knows you're a cop probably less danger if he knows you're a cop if you're if you're in uniform he knows that you saw him he knows that you saw him standing there and you may come back around and he met or better not be holding anything he better not be in the middle of dealing anything like that if you're working undercover you really don't want to be seen you don't want to make eye contact with the guy unless you want to make some sort of a deal with you and you certainly don't make him suspicious although you might well make eye contact in terms of giving him that the idea that you want something. this pizza shop here. that could be a lie depending upon how late threats open that pizza shop could be a place where people are going to congregate they're going to go there are late at

night place it's open twenty four hours a day or very very late that's where people are at. go after the bars and they want it may want to keep the party going a little bit so that would be a good place to sell. during the great depression which i'm old enough to remember there was and most of my family were unemployed working class there wasn't it was bed you know much worse objectively than today but there was an expectation that things were going to get better. there was a real sense of hopefulness there isn't today today's america was shaped by the

turn principles of concentration of wealth and power. reduced democracy at tax a low down engineer elections manufacture consent and other principle holds according to no i'm chomsky one set of rules for the rich opposite set of rules for poor. that's what happens when you put her into the hands of a narrow sector of will switch will is dedicated to increasing power for chills just as you'd expect one of the most influential intellectuals of our time speaks about the modern civilization of america. i'd say the number. they've matter to us is over one trillion dollars in debt more

than ten white card fine happy day. eighty five percent of global wealth he longs to be ultra rich eight point six percent world market thirty percent some with four hundred to five hundred three first second first second and fifth when he rose to twenty thousand dollars. china's building two point one billion dollars ai industrial park but don't let the numbers over. the only number you need to remember one. one business you know for commits one can only film but. such konami from one small fight only coming suddenly made its mark them up on the

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