he will never vote in favor of any gun violence prevention bill but they're afraid to not because they don't want to see what would happen if we were to call them out for not taking our meeting but 187 total instances 38 deaths 93 injuries and 15 teenagers killed or injured 3 children serious. to not offended. we go into these rooms with these and with these house members and they'd be surprised because we were these young faces who had experience to come out and stop myself and my friends and bring them into those rooms suddenly these senators didn't have the same kind of talking points which they normally how do they couldn't just shout us down. further 3 cheers am amelia this is me. so i don't know form talk to your money or power for seeing that and seeing that

young people can feel the effect that really just showed me that across issues across spaces across the nation we need young people to be able to stand up and actually make their voices heard because they have an impact and they have a real measurable and. as a go. it's. just it's. really. wants. to get some very visible.

i. thank. the father big brother that i'm the figure that they use to voice that they might not be getting on like the other kids and the and those. thank you. acrobat my asking a lot of a lot of my time of the young people whether it's taken to go ego on the play

basketball the consul my house they play games they also i educate them and you know bring them together on issues that are affecting them in their community. which out empower them to take to speak at one of these events to run on these events to be a father marge's and just showing them that they are capable of. starting their own movement. how. investigation. there. are taken say.

they're definitely connected it's the size of the same coin i think in order for you to see real change there it takes build in their relationship there are different levels of relationship that they have to occur where you're trying to make make real change so it's one thing for us. to be on the ground be grassroots be on the field but there's no mandate that's helping us to do those things so i think having the right people who have those connections you need that any you need that's all together you mean folks who actually in the field who are living this on every day this is trying to make a difference and the folks who are able to reach those in the power that have the

power to write laws to to give resources to send funds to these committees that. good afternoon everybody so before we get started on the run notice and how the young people behind me i wear red sable crossed a mouse with words on it and just to show that represents either a powerful. quote. a loved one that they lost to gun violence while that while in the fight. 2 year old dk lydia's berry was clear made 152016 she was my friend so on and so year old edward james was killed on april 15th 2009 saying he was my brother. 900 don't want to johnson was killed on such overfilled 28 c. it was my brother. losing dominance it was a breaking point. for me he was a young person we lost him because my city. i didn't know how to move forward but

the young people or resilient they knew he was someone who wanted to make a difference and they didn't let that death go and vague. yeah right this one baby. so. he's here with me i guess you don't. yeah. yeah i've had a mentally prepare myself. mentally really prepare myself because you know you see in like i here and you know. they. sit up and wait on them you know that i can hear ma ma and you know i can hear them a window called amused. to deal with. the memories but i do say still here with me. this happen stralia get through the day because i can come to sit down and talk to maybe not in

a physical form. spiritually. ellison who had to make me happy don't wear a badge it don't mean to. go school graduate be do just a resume that has everything. so. getting away from. it. yes. the.

character is perfect. for a great. concert thank you that's so. whoa. this bench is one of thousands and thousands of benches of thousands and thousands of years some bench as foam logs or ledges of slate or edges straight from manufacturers of all kinds and where people

come to can be called remember or get resistant so rest reset. this bench is somewhere on the eastern seaboard of the united states a mere. intervention by every day and their ass. until one day i actually need it and i hear the most beautiful old poetry ever heard of my life. that's right that's today over 72019. i saw the wall street journal on a bench left behind by an investment banker. at night a woman experiencing homelessness used the news as her pillow in a blanket. she spread the business tax sections across her legs politics across her breasts. she adjusted her head on life in the arts and used the bench itself

as a bed sized for a queen. i saw full life living death. dying breath alive in the chest. and open in orbit to. the human born and wearing. a body left behind. an untold obituary. a journal. unrecorded life. on a bench. see the map. you see where we are. dry that.

where the rescue mission. sat now r.c.m.p. john thinks here. ready. we're going to come up on the back of it right now. you see our own. count the floors count 1234 we're on the 4th floor which one you think is our room. over there. in the 1920 s. and thirty's several 100 african-americans moved to the soviet union and many of their descendants still live in russia. or going at the post because no no rush for

us though up most of us have got chills for ways to own things on their way. back home but i can merican suffered from racism and a complete lack of prospects. is that the lump us mud that he'll not be a loser will show one by else a store on the by the door to. so they decided to leave everything behind and start a new life in a country about which they knew almost nothing at all some of the our career groups who are lurkers who read your new. found great crowd. to moulay a good. you know i'm going to go. and now almost a 100 years later the history is repeating itself my great grandfather george time i went to russia. probable worst. to go anywhere why not me. why don't i come here.

was a pandemic no certainly no borders i'm just blind to nationalities. as much we don't talk with certainty we don't look like seeing the whole world needs to be. judged 2 as common every crisis with this system to modern times we can do better we should be. everyone is contributing nature in our own way but we also know that this crisis will not go on forever the challenges create the response has been masked so many good people are helping us. it makes us feel very proud that we're in it together. he.

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ok we're almost there your memory this. high there were a lovely day there are you. here it is. so this is where we used to live at the union rescue mission this is the front door

you know we stayed here 8 months. at 1st there were so many families women and children here that we stayed in the day room which is basically like a large dining room large cafeteria style setting linoleum floors it looks like a gymnasium. it's we had air mattresses and slept on the floor for the 1st couple of months or so from september until december and then in december we were placed into a room and because my daughter was with me and not my side it was just me and one child i was sharing a room with 4 other mothers who all had one child with them at the time and. ready .

to. jackie or both of us go. every afternoon. this is about 75 miles 80 miles from our home but the longest distance is when we do venice and said i'm on a club that takes at least an hour and 45 minutes to get there. we do this 5 nights of the monday through friday. morning skid row and dot com

and used to call you were wednesday in south central l.a. and in venice and santa monica friday is again downtown the civic center in. union station in. the me we have designed a program. is to serve them that i love they are going to ask them any questions don't judge them that's muddy waters and how they ended up being on the street it's not our job to judge them. nobody likes to be a speed sleeping on the payments with air traffic running that own in a totally unsanitary conditions that's nobody's wish to be that way. and.

there's a 1000000 reasons why people become homeless it's not always. mental illness and it's not always drug addiction yes those are true. i think those are 2 reasons that have a really negative connotation so it's easy to say only crazy people become homeless and it's easy to say only attics and drug users become homeless that's never going to happen to me and my family but the truth is in the united states most people are a paycheck or 2 away their their one unpaid credit card away you know their one payday loan away. their one unexpected pregnancy away their one job loss away there are so many reasons why you could end up homeless and unable to pay your bills and unable to keep a roof over your head in your family's head. lots of people leave the foster care system and have nowhere to go you turn 18 years old and you are out that's it you go from having no parents and just a foster family to being on the street all the sudden you're 18 it's like you're an

adult figure it out. when you're living on the street when you are unsheltered person when you have nowhere else to go you have nothing to look forward to. i really think that i can understand how easy it must be to slip into a drug use and then fall into addiction because if you've just got nothing else good going on in your day and you need something to make you feel good. i can't imagine that there's. you know. i can't imagine that much else is going to make you feel good at that point when you've hit rock bottom it's like. it is what it is i don't know so.

and then immigrant coming from india it was where he when he heard forgive me because i've seen power deal with deal. with it bothered me here to see these homeless people who are raised here on here such a wealthy country of the world the wealthiest country in the world. and yet these people are going through trash cans. to survive.

the irony that it's seconds and. we have a program for she and i mean we've used to leave the food part meals to the homeless made of a day on the street of los angeles. on an average please. 152200 meals a night. we make it a point that we don't. have them form on line if somebody comes to the truck fine goes to the line in my opinion is kind of. equal.

that's not the idea that we started we wanted to give dignity is to be the. father set up the table and in this water out of the way and say check out. my life. and holds the wall and gives as well as. the cvs something i would like to see the wall and tears of the sea more than war did give me. with enough and. all your stuff. done again we might be passing on my few bucks worth

of but we need also donations of will be sent into the news but. at the moment we are what you get is an experience of compassion that confession to not be tar compassion can only be expedient. and you don't want anyone. that's priceless. i was basically faced with that situation where the apartment manager knew i didn't have any way of paying in mediately. but when i told her i was going to start working and i had family that would cover the rent until then it didn't matter she said. that she knew i was going to go back to him that she'd seen it happen hundreds of times before where. women claim

that they're being abuse. and then they run right back to the man that they're alleging abuse against and she didn't want to deal with that trauma and she thought it was better if i just moved out. the manager gave me a deadline to leave before she filed the eviction people work and so i left. because i knew it was just going to be that much harder to find an apartment if i had an eviction on my record but the day that i left the apartment. i really i did not have anywhere to go. i had a little bit of money from my aunt and so i went and a hotel room at langley. and i was staying in hotel rooms by myself or like if i didn't have enough money i would sleep in my car. and i would try to.

like. like i had packed up and put everything into storage but i didn't really know how he's going to pay this storage bill and how many going to pay. you know to keep the kids and their toys and things like that and so i started selling things out of the storage unit to keep the storage unit and then going and selling blood. i was working. doing online transcription. so that was piece rate it was very very small sums of money i might work all day and make you know $15.00 i had never been on welfare before i had never been honest urn. i've had unemployment when i had lost jobs in the past but i had never gotten food stamps i had never gotten any. and to go from. having had a job since i was 13 years old to being in a motel wondering how i'm going to get $40.00 to find somewhere for me to make it

to sleep it was like an impossible momentous i just had no comprehension of how do i get to a homeless shelter. so that whole process was from may 15th of 2070 illusion to the most important shelter was to live. so all those months were in motel rooms or sleep with. anyone else chose seemed wrong. when old rules just don't hold. me to that you get to shape out just to become educated and in the game equals betrayal. when so many find themselves worlds apart when she's to look

for common ground. though the euro your book in europe. with the asian machine the sort of the beach well storm of the lower story you are through. when you go to the movie way of ligo it in with it appear with an umbrella. that still has the soul of the bees and i'm with you to keep the. skies or financial survival. when customers go by you reduce the price. to

now well reduce some lower. that's undercutting but what's good for market is not good for the global economy. the british and american governments have often been accused of destroying lives in their own interests while you see in this these techniques is the state devising methods to him to essentially destroy the personality of an individual. by scientific means this is how one doctor his theories were allegedly used in psychological warfare against prisoners deemed a danger to the state that was the foundation for the method of psychological interrogation psychological courtroom the cia disseminated from within the u.s. intelligence community and worldwide among our allies for the next 30 years and how the victims say they still live with the consequences today.

child trafficking and forced labor those are the allegations dollars and lawsuits against some of the world's largest chocolate producers we had disturbing testimony use. last month to tara you since were not given any calls are visible scars from a ship seen on surveillance. but the government is the overall role to after court deems that a covert curfew imposed violates people's right to freedom of movement. and as u.s. democrats announced plans for a 911 style commission into the capitol riots we ask if american politicians are planning another mccarthy era witchhunt.