the unique thing about marshmallow lives is that he the adults are great of us quite frankly members of congress are very afraid of us and that's something we know and we definitely use to our advantage we're able to get meetings with people who quite literally will never vote in favor of any gun violence 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 2 years. to nothing. 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 experienced myself and my friends bring them into those rooms suddenly these senators didn't have the same

kind of talking points which they normally had they couldn't just show us down. through 3 cheers a chameleon i mean they see me. so i don't know form to talk to you or the powerful seeing that and seeing that young people can really affect 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. as a goal. it's. just it's. really. it's because there are. some very visible.

i. like the father big brother out there on the figure that they use to voice that they might not be getting in but one like the other kids and the and those.

acrobat guides us with a lot of a lot of my time with the young people whether it's taken to go ego on the play basketball the concert my house they play games they also i educate them and you know bring them together around issues that are affecting them in their community. which i don't know how we're going to take you 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.

come. they investigation. their patients are taken saying. 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 building 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 you need that's also getting the folks who actually in the end of 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 give resources to send funds to these committees that. good afternoon everybody so before we get started on the run though to see how the young people behind me i want to read table crossed a mouse with words on it and just to show that represents either a powerful. quote of a loved one that they lost to gun violence while while 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 summerfield 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 reading this one baby. so. he's here with me i guess you don't. yeah. yeah i get it and mentally prepare myself. mentally really prepare myself because you know you see and like i hear you know a certain look they. sit up and wait on them you know that i can hear ma ma you

know i can hear from a window called amused. that to deal with. the memories of i do say still here with me. this happen strong to get through the day because i can come sit down and talk to maybe not in physical form. spiritually. alister make her head make me happy don't wear bad don't. go school graduate be do just a resume that has everything down. so. getting away from. it. yes. the.

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ok we're almost there you're a member 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 one only i'm sure ours looks like a gymnasium. but we had air mattresses and slept on the floor for the 1st couple of months 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 . susan.

i did meet jackie or both of us go. every often move. this is about 75 miles 80 miles from our home but the longest distance is when we do venice sunset i'm on a club that takes at least an hour and 45 minutes to get you know. we do this 5 nights of the monday through friday. skate throw in dot com and tuesday it's all you are wednesday in south central l.a. and spins venice and santa monica friday nights again down the civic

center in. union station in. the me we never designed a program. and it's because some of them visit a month 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. on what he likes to be a speed sleeping on the payments with their traffic going to get out in a totally unsanitary conditions that's nobody's wish to be that way. 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 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 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 our deal with you. or did bother me here to see these homeless people who are raised here on here such as wealthy country of the world the wealthiest country in the world. and yet these people are going through trash cans . to survive. our happiness seconds and.

we have a program for she and i mean we've received the big food cart meals for the homeless made of a day on the street of los angeles. on a number 8. 152200 meals a night. we make it a point that we don't have them far more lying if somebody comes to the truck following those. lines in my opinion is kind of fun even little isaac. that's not the idea that we started bid we wanted to give dignity is to be the.

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it's. the moment we are what you get is an experience of compassion that confession from not because 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 immediately. 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 abused 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 see my r. . 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 a 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 on assistance. 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 and my kids 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 2071 i will move into domestic violence shelter was to live. so all those months were in motel rooms or sleep with. join me every thursday i'll be all excited when sure when i'll be speaking to guest of the world of politics sports business i'm show business i'll see you. 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. on things on their way. back home like americans suffered from racism and

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