tv Documentary RT February 21, 2021 1:30am-2:01am EST
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the green new deal would be a deadly deal for the united states of america if the last few days have proven anything it's that we need oil and gas relying solely on renewable energy would be catastrophic many of these sources have proven to be unreliable the united states may be a global superpower but at home it's a lacking power quite literally all of this critics say are symptoms of america in decline and are seeing new york. city look at some other stories making headlines around the world now starting in the u.s. state of colorado and this terrifying sight is what passengers saw out their windows after the engine of a united airlines flight to hawaii failed the course of the problem is unknown the boeing triple 7 made an emergency landing back at denver airport no injuries were reported however parts of the engine fell out of the sky damaging the roofs of houses and temporarily blocking some roads below. i've read
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characters from the amazon rain forest is blamed for the 1st time in a bow tie nickel garden in the u.k. the blossom which only last surround 12 hours true interest from all around the world with thousands of people tuning in to a live stream which had been monitoring the flower for 11 days thank you for joining us here on r.t. international we're back at the top of the hour. and. if there's any deficiency in the last 4 years it was the fact that we had this transformational president with really grand aspirations that were. american people in the most populist president in recent history matched by the appointments that were made in the administration i think maybe with
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his background in business he might have underestimated the importance of personnel . having worked in the white house in the executive branch of government so much rests on personnel. the unique thing about marshmallow lives is that he the adults are afraid 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 not speaking or meeting but 187 total instances 38 deaths
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93 injuries and 15 teenagers killed or injured 3 children serious. to another. 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 stuff myself my friends bring them into those rooms suddenly these senators didn't have the same kind of talking points which they normally have they couldn't just show us down. the river 3 cheers a chameleon when they see the. so i don't know form to talk to you or the powerful seeing that and seeing that young people can really affect that room 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
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the father big brother there on the figure that they used to voice that they might not be getting in but one like the other kids and the and those. happy i'm asking a lot of a lot of my time of the young people whether it's taking 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.
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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 that relationship where there are 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 any you need that's all together you need 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 they have the power would so write laws to give resources to send funds to these communities that . good afternoon everybody so before we get started on the road noticing how the young people behind me i wear red sable crossed
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a mouse with words on it and just to show that represents either a power for. a loved one that they lost to gun violence while while the fight. to yo d. k. le dans barry was kill may 15th 2016 she was my friend 22 year old edward james was killed on april 15th 2009 saying he was my brother. 9 to 0 don't want to johnson was killed on september 5th 28 saying it was my brother. losing down months 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 always zillion they knew he was someone who wanted to make a difference and they didn't let that death one day. in the hour and this one baby. so. he's here
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with me i guess. yeah. yeah i get it and mentally prepare myself. mentally really prepare myself because in the end like i hear you know there's certain things sit up and wait on them you know that i can hear ma ma you know i can hear him from a window called amused. that to deal with. the memories of i just say still here with me. this happy struggling to get through the day because i can come to sit down that's how small maybe not in physical form. or spiritual you. can always their mom will make you happy make me happy don't wear bad don't move any of. those school graduating from the d.
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somewhere on the eastern seaboard of the united states and there. is attention brought by every day and they're asked. to one day actually mean and i hear the most beautiful old poetry ever heard my life. that's right that's today over 7th 2019. i saw the wall street journal on a bench left behind by an investment banker. at night a woman experiencing homelessness use 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 or dying breath alive in her chest. open in orbit. the shoeman worn and wearing.
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casey our own. count the florists 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. looking at the risk of long no rush for us though up most of us into the cyclone things in your bios at the dock and ships go
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back home black american suffered from racism and a complete lack of prospects. is that columbus month that he'll be a losing show won by elsa store all but by doing. so they decided to leave everything behind and start a new life in a country about which they knew almost nothing at all and some of the are are career groups who. are in the united. you. know almost a 100 years of history repeating itself. to go anywhere that mean.
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ok we're almost there you're a member of this. hi there i love it 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 it's 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
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often low. 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 there. 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 near union station and you. believe we have designed a program. that is to serve them visit a month they are going to ask them any questions don't judge them that's what he thought and how they ended up being on the street it's not our job to judge them.
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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 mission to be that way. and. there's a 1000000 reasons why people become homeless it's not how. 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
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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
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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 our deal with you. get 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
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father set up the table and in this water on the way we came to. check out. and told the wall and gives as well as. the seed of something i would like to see the wall and here is the seawall and then where did give me. that you're going to. treat all your stuff. done again we might be passing on my few books worth of but we need also donations of will be sent into the. in the moment we are what you get is an experience of compassion that confession cannot be parked compassion can only be expedient. and you don't want to go on. that's priceless.
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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 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
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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 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 o's 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
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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. i've had unemployment when i had lost jobs in the past but i had never gotten food stamps i had never gotten any of 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 safely it was like. and impossible momentous i just had no comprehension of how do i get to a homeless shelter. so that whole process was may 15th of 2070. in the most of our lives. so all those months were in motel rooms or sleep with all.
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stories the shapes the we must go warns that brussels is politicizing the fight against the pandemic as the kremlin heads back to controversial comments from the head of the european union casting doubts over russians coded bag c. . we discussed the e.u. is ongoing criticism on facebook maybe with russia's foreign ministry spokeswoman. how can a gross offer its maxime's in the world not without hiding it making it too expensive or blackmailing with it. but it's nationwide protests in spain over the jailing of a councillor on the route the slandering the crown and glorifying terrorism so no sign of easing off the 5 days. on both radians little.
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