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>>A people's movement.
To transform
this country.
We're going to transform
this country in a way
they've never
seen before.
He's not working for the
people.
The two candidates
don't meet the
criteria of
integrity.
That we need a
people's party.
>>The
lobbyists are primarily
hired by corporation
corporations
for their own
interests.
They're tied to
big money.
>>These
corporate Democrats
operate
just like Republicans.
Nothing is going
to change.
Who told us that in Joe
Biden himself.
It's the
most honest thing
he's said.
>>Here's your host, Nick
Brana.
>>Sisters and brothers,
young and old,
black, brown
and white, poor
and middle
class, and to those from
every corner
of the country,
welcome to the People's
Convention.
My name is Nick
Brana.
I am the founder and
national coordinator
with the Movement for a
People's
Party and your
host for this
historic day.
We announced
the people's
convention just
three weeks
ago, and today
we are being
joined by some
of the greatest
voices for
justice in our country,
including Bernie 2020
co-chair Senator Nina
Turner, Harvard
professor,
Dr Cornel West,
two former
democratic presidential
candidates, Marianne
Williamson and
Mike Gravel,
Senator Mike Gravel, the
former governor of
Minnesota, Jesse
Ventura,
actor and humanitarian,
Danny Glover, Pulitzer
prizewinner
Chris Hedges,
comedian and political
commentator
Jimmy Dore and
Ryan Knight.
A labor leader
with the American postal
workers union and Amazon
walkout organizer Chris
smalls, national dell
delliates and former
cessional candidates en
enconsideration toed by
brand new Congress
and DSA
are joining us today,
renowned comedians,
a poet,
the former volunteer
national high school
director with
Bernie 2020,
leading Indigenous
rights
and antiwar activists,
non-profit founders, a
climate scientist and
leaders in the
Latino and
veteran communities,
as well
as our revolution Los
Angeles will
all be with us
today today.
And it is my
great honor
to say that as
of last night,
the Movement
for a People's Party has
crossed 100,000 members.
10,000 of whom
joined just
in the last week.
And why is this?
It's because we
face as a society an
overwhelming amount of
crises that are
convergeing:
a health crisis with a
pandemic that
has claimed
more than 180,000
lives and
has at the same
time seen
millions of people lose
their employer-based
health
coverage at
the same time
they need it the most.
A crisis, a country
that is
facing a reckoning with
systemic racism
and police
brutality after
the murder
of George Floyd.
A country
in which it's facing a
housing crisis
that is worse
than anything
that has been
seen since the Great
Depression, an economic
crisis worse -- that is
unparalleled
except for the
Great Depression.
So the
level of crisis
we face in
this country
indicates that
we have two political
parties that
can no longer
govern this country.
They cannot provide
basic needs.
There's a term
in political
science for that.
It's a failed state.
Our country, the richest
country in the
world, is seen right now
billionaires adding more
than $600 billion
of wealth
to the their
for tunes while
breadlines expand
for miles,
while child hunger has
climbed to record
levels.
In this country
the richest
country in the
history of
the world.
That's what has
brought us together
today.
To examine the
state of the
nation in this
country and
to ask ourselves: Are we
being served by our
government?
It exists for
us.
Are we being served?
And if the answer is no,
what are we to
do about it?
At the conclusion of the
program today,
we will be
holding a historic
vote to
form a major
new political
party in the
United States
of America, a
party free of
corporate money and
influence.
The vote will be
open to everyone.
It will
be cast through
the People's
Party app which you can
download on People's
Convention.org.
Please, get
the app now,
prepare to cast
the vote.
We will cast it at the
end of the program.
I would also like to say
that today you're going
to be hearing
from various
different perspectives
on
what to do about 2020.
Who to vote for in this
election.
There are many different
views and voices
on that, but what we all
agree on here at the
People's Convention
is that
the status quo is not
working and
that we need a
major new party free
of corporate money.
That is what has brought
us together
and that is what I look
forward to discussing
today.
First, we must
understand,
though, the challenges
that
we face.
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>>George Floyd died here.
That's why you have this
massive memorial filling
this intersection
behind me.
NICK BRANA: Hello,
everyone.
It's my pleasure
to introduce our first
speaker for the day.
Cheng-Sim Lim
is a national
Bernie delegate, a film
curator, immigrant,
medicare
for all activist,
serves on
the board of
health care for
all Los Angeles and a
member of the
progressive Asian network
for action and DSA
LA.
I recently had the
privilege of sitting on
a panel that
she organized
that should have
been really
the democratic national
convention, the beyond
Bernie convention and
people's assembly.
Everyone, please welcome
Cheng-Sim Lim.
>>Hello, People's
Convention.
Thank you for
convening all of us here
today.
My name is Cheng-Sim
Lim.
I'm an immigrant.
I came to this country 41
years ago at
the start of
the Reagan era.
My lifetime in this
country matches the
neo-liberal
ascendancy and
it is this experience
that
values profits
over human
life and dignity
that has
brought me here today.
I want to keep
within my time,
to I'll go to
why I became
an activist.
In 2007 I
underwent treatment for
breast cancer.
That experience
opened my eyes to
the gross in
inequities of
the American for-profit
health insurance
system.
At first I didn't
understand
why getting health
care had
to be so complicated.
My doctors had
to check if what
they wanted to prescribe
was covered by
insurance and I would
get billed months
afterwards for stuff I
couldn't easily decipher.
Still I was one of
the lucky ones.
I had health insurance.
Two of my friends who
were dealing with
serious illnesses didn't
have health insurance
even though they worked
full time time.
Their jobs didn't come
with health insurance,
and I couldn't imagine
going through my cancer
treatment if further
stressed about how to
pay for it.
So my growing awareness
of how unjest our health
care system was led me to
volunteer in the 2018
Obama campaign.
Obama had a health care
plan with a public
option.
By that time I had
learned enough to prefer
single payer in which
everyone would have
comprehensive and
high-quality health care
that is publicly funded,
but I had yet to learn
enough not to fall for
the democratic lie, and
they're still telling
that lie, that the
public option, which
preserves everything
that is wrong and costly
with the current system
could be sustainable and
lead to universal health
care.
It took me another year
to learn as a volunteer
for organizing for
America or OFA, helping
to get the Affordable
Care Act passed
that as inadequate
reform
option was it
was a bait and
switch.
We had collected
thousands of
constituent letters
to send to Congress
for the public
option and we
were puzzledled
by President
Obama didn't
seem to care to
fight and allowed
the public
option to be
killed in the
Senate when Democrats
had a
majority.
We were told by
the then chief
don't let the
perfect be the
enemy of the
good.
This is the same
chief who went
on to become
Obama's election
campaign
manager in 2012 and to
advise the British
Conservative
Premiers David
Cameron and
Theresa May on
their election
campaigns.
I think it's telling how
easily a democratic
operative can
move between
the democratic and Tory
parties.
Don't you?
At any
rate, I subsequently
learned
from press accounts
that the
Obama administration was
cutting deals behind the
scenes with
big pharma and
hospital associations to
drop the public
option in
exchange for their
acquiescence on the ACA.
This is happening while
volunteers were
being told
to gather support
for the
public option.
Meanwhile in California
where I live we
saw the Democrats
could pass
single pay payer
health care
which the California
state
legislature did
in 2006 and
2008, when there was
certainty the
bills wouldn't
be enacted.
In this case
Republican governor
Arnold
vetoed single
payer bills.
Once we had a democratic
super-majority
in the state
and a democratic govern
governor, Democrats
couldn't
pass single payer.
Flash forward to
five weeks ago.
I was a Bernie
delegate to
the democratic
convention.
In the middle
of a pandemic,
when the COVID
count, it's
it's worse now, was 4
million Americans
afflicted,
150,000 dead, over 14
million newly unemployed
since March and without
health insurance,
add these
numbers to the already
crisis level 70 million
uninsured or under
underinsured
before COVID.
All this proportionately
affected islanders.
The
Democratic Party
couldn't
acknowledge the need for
medicare for all.
Then during the
democratic
convention,
while a parade
of Republicans
got to speak
on the broadcast, Bernie
delegates would
type in that
we need medicare
for all and
the green new deal found
themselves blocked from
posting the rest of the
meeting.
That's the level
of pettiness
the DNC went to
to silence any
mention of
medicare for all.
I could cite other
examples but I'd
run out of time.
In my lifetime in this
country I've seen no
evidence the Democratic
Party will deliver
medicare for all
on its own.
We need massive pressure
from the outside.
One way to do that is
through an
anti-oligarchy People's
Party that is serious
about organizing to
contest for power.
How about we do it?
NICK BRANA: Thank you,
Cheng-Sim Lim.
If the
Democratic Party
cannot pass
medicare for all now,
something that
most wealthy
countries, almost all of
them take for
granted, at a
time when we
have a global
pandemic, when
millions of
people are losing their
health care,
when they could
pass it in the house and
then they could win the
election and they could
still have the
Republicans block it for
them and the insurance
companies, it is truly
incredible that they
cannot fascinow and I
salute the delegates that
took that stand, more
than 75 per cent of
Bernie delegation that
refused to vote for the
democratic Democratic
Party platform as a
result of its exclusion
for medicare for all.
We'll hear more about
that now in fact from
another Bernie national
delegate that I also had
the pleasure of sharing
a panel with, that is
Hanieh Jodat.
Hanieh Jodat is a
national Bernie
delegate, the co-founder
of the Muslim
Delegates & Allies.
She's a founding
member of the
Women's March Los
Angeles, a former
fundraising coordinator
for the United Nations
High Commissioner for
Refugees in USA and
Australia and
a fundraising
coordinator for Oxfam
America in Los Angeles.
LAV, it's great
to have you
with us.
>>Thank you, Nick.
It's an honor to be here
today with you
and the rest
of the amazing speakers.
When we talked
about war, we
must first recognize
that
Black Lives Matter.
I've long been
under assault in
this country
and we support
the peaceful protests
sweeping the globe from
Los Angeles and
Washington to
Sydney to Rio de Janeiro
fighting for justice and
equality in the face of
systemic brutality.
Jacob
Blake fighting
for justice
is able to still
fight for
his survival
unlike Freddie
gray, Breonna
Taylor, Eric
garner, Sandra
bland and the
many more heartbeats
that have been silenced.
In witnessing
the domestic
unrest right here in the
United States
of America, I
can't help but
face my own
affliction as a child
of war in Iran.
Our homes were
without electricity, our
windows taped
so the glass
wouldn't shatter from
explosions, sirens that
often interrupted our
television programs,
sounding the alarm for
families to seek
shelter in
basements as
Iraqi planes
flew over the science of
Tehran.
My own grandmother
who clinched
her rosary bead
praying, holding
my hands in
hers asking
GDP to protect
her children and
granddaughter, me.
Little
did we do that
the Iraqis we
were taught to
fear were our
sisters and brothers
sharing
the same wounds
and trauma.
Now it is time to link
the Black Lives Matter
movement with the
peace and justice
movement, to shout
demilitarize
and defund the
police but also
defund the
military as
pro protesters
march against the
intersection between
military zone
at home, in
the form of tear
gas, rubber
bullets, armored
vehicles
and the deployment of
unmarked federal
troops to
snatch citizens off the
streets with military
characterized by regime
change, US
counter-insurgencies and
decked-long
occupations of
Iraq and Afghanistan,
and
drone warfare,
a history of
western colonialism
followed
by brutal sanctions,
occupation and
destabilization
efforts are
the over overwhelming
cause
of this surge
of hundreds of
thousands of refugees
flooding across European
borders today,
major NATO
powers continue
to collude
with the US imperialism,
massive numbers
of displaced
refugees are
migrating from
countries that
are victims
of the US military
and its
allies' aggression,.
Not
one of these
conflicts can
be justified under
humanitarian
purposes, yet
each of the
source of the
enormous profit
in the form
of private military
contracts for
American and
European corporations.
Now
it is the time
to demand it
and to stage sanctioned
violence targeting human
beings for the color of
their skin, be
it those who
cross our borders,
refugees
of US intervention
in Latin
and Central America
or those
who are not citizens
of the
United States born from
Native American
genocide in
a country built on the
branded backs of African
slaves.
Now it is time to
declare an end
to the failed
and in inhumane war on
terror, repeal the
authorization
of US military
failed and inhumane
war --
military force that
green-lights
US aggression,
anywhere, any
time, to link
Islamophobia with the
scapegoating
of Muslims at
home, bombings
on multiple
majority Muslim
countries.
The cost of this
institutionalized
violence
at home and a abroad is
tremendous.
Tragic health
outcomes for people of
color, fearful
of walking,
driving and
sleeping while
black, 20 soldier
suicides
on an average
day for those
returning from Iraq and
Afghanistan,
according to a
2016 analysis from the
department of veterans
affairs, national
outrage
and polarization with
members of armed
militias
reminisceent of fascist
Germany's killing
protesters
in the streets
of Kenosha,
Wisconsin.
Just as the cost
of policing in
major cities
can account for
over 50 per
cent of general
funds, the
US's 700 billion
military
budget, more than the
military budgets
of the next
eight countries
combined,
subsidize military
bases in
over 80 countries
cost the
taxpayers 54
cents on every
discretionary dollar.
Meanwhile, treatment
of our
homeless stains
our souls,
college students live in
poverty and our fire
department holds pancake
breakfasts to raise
desperately
needed funds.
It is not enough to
demilitarize
the police.
We
must also demilitarize
our
approach to a
foreign policy
that is consistently the
cause of violence
around the
world.
Defund the police,
defund the military.
Let us move forward
with this peace
movement.
Thank you, Nick.
NICK BRANA:
Thank you for
reporting back on the
democratic national
convention and
sharing your
own personal story as an
immigrant to the United
States as well,
just like
Cheng-Sim Lim, and the
disappointments of the
Democratic Party
in being a
similar war
party like the
Republican Party.
Our next
speaker is a exceedian.
He
is a creator
of the earbuds
of podcast podcasting
documentary
and he is also
the host of
the political
villagetanty
and he is here
to speak to
us and do some
live comedy.
Welcome, Graham Elwood.
GRAHAM ELWOOD: Hello,
everybody.
My name is grant
Elwood and it's
an honor to
be here after
watching the
train wrecks of the
Republican and
Democratic Party
conventions.
Wow,
it's unbelievable the
Democrats platform
is bad
Trump Trump
Trump bad and
then the Republicans,
man, I
thought I was watching
triumph of the will and
of course they will
called Joe
Biden a Marxist.
Man, I
wish Joe Biden was a
Marxist.
That would actually
get me excited if
Joe Biden was a Marxist.
Neither party offered
anything.
Neither party
wants to defund
the police.
Neither party wants to
address climate change.
The Republicans don't
think it exists.
The Democrats, oh, we're
going to green up our
military.
Yes, I'm sure the people
in the Middle East
will be ecstatic knowing
they're getting bombed
by rockets powered by
biodiesel.
It's ridiculous.
None of them
want made care
for all, get money out
of politics, and we're
constantly stuck with
this lesser of two evils
thing.
That's all they tellu the
lesser of two evils.
Nowhere else in American
society would anybody
accept this.
Politics affects every
aspect of our daily
lives.
You're watching this
on the internet.
Your internet provider.
There's a tax.
There's legislation.
That's politics.
It affects everything.
Did you buy something
today?
You paid a sales tax.
That's politics.
And yet this thing that
affects every area of
our life, we're only
given the lesser of two
evils.
Nowhere else would
Americans accept this.
Can you imagine if
advertiser were like the
all new Chevy Malibu,
not as crappy as the
Ford Taurus.
Honey, it's date night.
We need a sitter
for the kids.
There are only two
babysitters to choose
from, a pedophile and
a Meht head.
They would
maybe get a fun
face tattoo.
The Republican Party is
awful, Trump is awful, I
don't like them, but the
Democrats pragmatic
centrism.
Joe Biden has
said now is not
the time for
revolution.
That's right.
Revolutions always happen
when things are
going great.
Hey, guys, when
there's a
vaccine and the economy
is back to normal and
everybody has a job and
the cops aren't out of
control, we're not
bombing seven countries,
then we'll start
the revolution.
That's when it starts,
when everything is
going great.
Thank God
Biden and Pelosi
and that
crowd weren't
alive and in
power during the civil
rights movement.
They would
be like hey Rosa
Parks, this
front of the
bus thing, it's
causing problems.
It's kind of a
purity test.
Do you think maybe you
could just move to the
middle of the bus?
In fact, start
at the back.
Move up one row at a
time, wait a couple of
years, get bipartisan
support, and then move
up another row.
That's their plan
for everything.
And when we wanted to get
rid of Trump, their
solution was impeachment,
not, I don't know,
here's a crazy idea, back
a progress progressive
that had the biggest
grassroots following of
any politician in the
history of the country.
No.
Let's go impeachment,
which was
terrifying, because
I don't
want Trump to
be in power,
but that would
have put Mike
Pence.
He's crazy than
Trump.
What would he do?
Outlaw lunch
with women?
he
said he's afraid
to have --
he would be
too tempted by
having lunch
with a woman?
What happens,
Mike, are you
just like how
dare you bring
your boobs to lunch?
These are the
-- this is our
choices are
the lesser of
two rapeists?
This is insane.
And there's no
progressive policy
from
anybody anybody,
not even
from the Democrats,
even the
progress progressives
in the
Democratic Party
have all
folded.
That's all they
have to say, not even --
they don't even want to
legalize marijuana,
which
we've seen it
would benefit
so many people country.
Look at Colorado
Colorado.
We need to legal
ease we'd.
This country
is on the brink
of a civil war.
We need to smoke
some we'd.
Trump wouldn't
want to build a
wall around Mexico,
he would
just be down
at the border
going we should start a
music festival.
Pence do
you want to hit that?
Thanks so much.
I'm honored
oto be on the panel with
everybody.
I hope Nina
Turner and Mike
Gravel run.
I would take
a bullet for
both of them.
Check out
what I do on my website.
Thank you so much.
NICK BRANA: Graham
Elwood,
everybody.
I swear, did the
democratic convention
happen?
Because I only saw
two Republican
conventions.
Who decided to give the
Republicans two
conventions
this year?
Next up we have
an award-winning
actor and
humanitarian,
someone you
will all know
as a Bernie
2020 surrogate, former
goodwill ambassador
to the
development program, the
recipient of
multiple NAACP
you awards and Emmy nomi
nominations,
supporter of
many unions,
particularly
postal workers union.
Please welcome
Danny Glover.
DANNY GLOVER: Thank you,
Nick.
Boy, it's hard to
follow up Graham
Elwood.
He
had us all early in the
morning, here
early in the
afternoon, looking
at and
bringing some
humor to this
moment.
Sometimes you want
to laugh, but
we deal with
the reality
of what it is
right now.
We're voting
simply to get
rid of Trump
and perhaps the idea of
building a party,
building a
people people's
party from
the bottom up.
I think it
has to be from
the bottom up
to talk about
-- to support
the issues and
support the
struggles of workers,
unions, nurses,
teachers,
everything else.
We have to
really talk about
fundamentally
education and
education as a
constitutional right,
quality education is a
constitutional right.
We
have to talk
about so many
different things
that will
lift up the platform,
but we
know all these
issues reside
in certainly
creating the
kind of party,
creating the
kind of will
and building
that kind of will that's
necessary for us for the
future to deal
with climate
change, as my
sister talked
about foreign policy.
We don't deal with
the issue of
foreign policy
here we're
always confronted with
regime change
wherever it is
in the world.
A policy that
has been consistent,
administration after
administration after
administration.
So the
things we have to talk
about.
I remember working
with the African
liberation
support committees
in the
70s and understanding
that
even with the
will that was
responseive
to the freedom
of those countries,
there
was always the
underlying
regime change
that went on
within those
countries as
well.
So I think the
platform is full, but we
have to be consistent
in the
voices that really talk
about what we
need at this
desperate time,
and those
are evident.
Those things are evident
when we think
about health
care, when we
think about
employment, we
think about the focus on
returning to the
marketplace.
The jobs that
are there -- that were
there, when we had a
functioning marketplace,
when we had a growing
marketplace and
everything,
aren't going to be there
anymore.
Those are the
things that are
important to
understand how
do we look at
work, what is the
relationship
we have to work
and how do we create the
kind of transformative
work
and the kind
of work that
certainly helps
us develop
as human beings
and helps us
develop our communities.
But we have to take this
moment and take
this moment
and do the work
that we have
to do.
We're in the face of
growing fascism, in the
face of what's happening
in the streets where
peace peaceful
protesters are being
attacked and viciously
attacked.
We have to begin
to take this moment and
understand that
if we don't
act now, if we don't do
something now,
we're we will
find ourselves
in a darker
moment than we
can imagine.
Thank you again for
allow allowing me to say
my few words, and I look
forward to listening to
other comments about
this as well.
Thank you so much.
The idea that I'm on
the Zoom call with
many, many, many
people who
whose work I've
read, whose
work I've appropriated
sometimes in
my own language
and understanding.
Thank you.
NICK BRANA: Thank you,
Danny.
I believe this is
probably also the most
remarkable Zoom
call I've
ever been on.
All of the
speakers can attest to.
And you're very
right to say
that if we don't
fight now,
there will be
nothing left
to fight for.
Our next
speaker is going
to speak
exactly to that topic.
It's
my pleasure to introduce
NASA jet propulsion
laboratory climate
scientist
Dr Peter, a
former Bernie
2020 surrogate,
got his PhD
from physics
in Colombia and
received the public
achievement medal, an
accomplished climate
scientist here
to tell us
about why we
need a People's
Party.
He speaks on his own
behalf, as all speakers.
Peter, it's
great to have
you.
>>Thanks, Nick.
I'm a
scientist, a climate
scientist.
I'm also a
human.
I'm a father.
I'm a citizen, and
I am terrified
of what I'm
seeing coming
down -- what's
here right
now and what's
coming in the
future with climate
breakdown and ecological
breakdown.
We're all
feeling it right now.
We're
feeling the wildfires
in the
west.
We're feeling the
hurricanes hammering the
southeast.
We're feeling
the floods in
the Midwest.
We have climate
migrants on
the rise, ice sheets
melting, ocean
circulations
that we count on for our
weather shutting down.
We have threats
to our food
system and our
water system.
And this is just at the
very beginning of what
we're going to experience
over the next few years
and decades.
That's why I'm
here today.
I can't see what I'm
seeing and sit on the
sidelines.
It's literally impossible
for me not to speak out
and sound the alarm.
Some people might call
me an alarmist, but I
don't think I am because
I think the alarm is
absolutely completely
justified by the
mountain of scientific
evidence.
And now you don't
even need to
be a scientist
to know what's
happening.
You can feel it in the
heat waves, in your
lungs when you go
for days and days
during wildfire smoke.
People are dying now.
People are having their
livelihoods wrecked,
their homes destroyed.
They're moving from
other nations up
towards the poles.
Later this century
century, if we
don't have a
radical change
of course, a large band
around the equator,
something like a billion
people, could
end up needing
to migrate toward
the poles
because the heat
will be too
much for their bodies to
survive in.
This isn't science
fiction.
That's the thing
that gets me.
It's not the new
normal normal.
We're on an escalator
basically towards
getting worse.
It will stay getting
worse and worse until
we have massive,
rapid, radical
systems change.
To do that,
we need policies.
We basically need
policies that
would destroy the fossil
fuel industry.
Because we're not
talking about just
reducing it
a little bit.
We're not talking about
a 10 per cent reduction
in the fossil fuels
that we burn and the
greenhouse gas emissions
that we emit every year.
We're talking about going
down to zero on a
massively fast
timescale,
which means a radical
transformation
of society,
our energy systems,
transportation
systems, the
way we work,
the way we eat,
the way we interact with
other nations.
It's
radical.
We're the time for
incremental change is
completely over.
What I've
noticed over
the decades,
I've been terrified
about
this for 15
years and I've
been an activist and
scientist for
15 years, and
both parties
are clearly be
beholden to the
fossil fuel
industry.
It's as simple as
that.
Both parties take
donations.
One party
certainly is
in hard denial.
They actually
say this is a
hoax, which
makes my head
explode.
But the other
party also takes
donations.
The other party also
participants in the
revolving door.
They have
campaign advisers
who are
lobbyists for the fossil
fuel industry
industry, for
fracking and for the oil
industry.
It's crazy.
Just
recently the
DNC said they
would not end
fossil fuel
subsidies, which is a
complete no-brainer,
this
huge billion
even by some
estimates trillion
globally
dollar handouts to the
wealthest industries,
the
planet has ever known.
It's a no-brainer
to stop that
and the Democratic Party
can't even say
they're going
to stop fossil fuel
subsidies, let
alone do the
green new deal
that we need.
So it's clear to me that
the fossil fuel industry
will keep fighting dirty
when their survival
is at
stake because we need to
shut them down
with policies.
They will fight ten times
as hard as ever,
continue to buy off
politicians and
they'll continue
misinforming the
public, lying
to the public
about what's actually
happening on
our planet.
So
we need a party.
We need a political
system that is not
beholden to
them, that is
independent,
that doesn't
take corporate money and
does what the
people want
and does what the planet
needs and not what the
corporation corporations
want.
I just want to do
science.
I want to raise my
family on a
planet that's
not burning.
I want the
coral reefs
to stay alive.
I want policies that end
this nightmare of global
heating and climate and
ecological break down.
The decisions
we make in the
next few years
will affect
humanity and
our planet for
thousands and
even in some
ways for millions
of years.
Thank you.
NICK BRANA: Thank you,
doctor.
Very much
appreciate your
being here
to share that grim
perspective.
Having studied
climate science
myself in
college and having
worked on
the bill in 2009 to cap
carbon emissions,
cap and
trade bill,
I saw the way
that Barack
Obama and his
administration
were elected
to -- on the promise of
fighting the
climate crisis
and then reneged
on it once
they were elected
and how
the White House
wouldn't put
pressure on it and we
couldn't get a cap and
trade, considered a
suboptimal solution to
things like carbon tax.
That was ten years ago.
We have barely
budged from that
position.
In fact, we have
gone backwards from that
position now.
So this is
existential.
Our next
speaker is our youngest
speaker of the day.
She is
our national student
coordinator
with students
for a People's Party.
She is also the
founder of
Bernie -- beyond
Bernie and
a founding director
of our
time, our revolution, a
student organization.
She's
also a YDSA member and
former volunteer
national
high school
director with
Bernie 2020.
>>Hi, everyone.
I'm so excited and
honored to be
here, not only
just because
I see this as
such a pivot
pivotal and central
moment in US history but
because I have the
absolute honor of
speaking on my favorite
thing in politics,
student
organizing.
I remember whenever
I first became
involved in politics, I
think I was
in 6th or 7th
grade, I would love to
say that came about
through love, but
it really just
came out of
frustration.
I
was frustrated
at the world,
the problems
we had, at the
people of this
world because
I didn't understand
how we
could still have certain
problems, such
in inhumane
problems.
But most
importantly
and fiercely I
was frustrated
at how small
I felt.
I was a little girl
looking at a
big world with
adult problems that came
with adult enemies and
I felt oh, so small.
Everyone I asked had
told me there's
nothing I could do, they
told me I was too young.
What they really meant
was I was too small.
Nonetheless, I absolutely
refused that.
I saw that as an excuse,
a justification for
their own lack of
participation in our
democracy.
So I dove straight in.
I knew that this war we
were waging against
injustice and hate and
evil and oppression
needed all the soldiers
they could get.
It was really all
hands on deck.
And I was eager
to even give and
contribute little middle
schooler hands.
I share this story
with you all
today because I
understand that so many
young people have gone
through similar
things.
We've contantly
been told what
we can and
can't do, what's
realistic,
feasible and
practical, what
we're capable of.
I want to take this
moment to say
thank you to
all of my young
organizers out there.
Thank you for fanning
your spark
into a flame and for
caring enough about
what's happening in the
world and not caring one
bit about who
says what we can do.
This persistence
and resilience
is so ineffably
imperative
and I really
love that about
us.
My absolute favorite
thing is not just our
determination but how
unwavering we are.
We are so confident
in what we
believe in and
we understand
that it's not
up for grabs.
There's no place
nor time
for negotiation, for
debates.
We understand that
our core ideals
cannot and
mustn't be sackified or
compromised.
This is
something that
I actually
think adults,
you need to
learn from us.
Be proud of what
you believe in.
Be proud of what
is right and
believe in it with
all you have.
Fight for it with all
that you've got.
On the left as
a collective, we
need to be serious about
consolidating, about
centralizing,
about having a
united front
because that is
the only way we'll get
through this together.
One great individual
is great,
but two were always be
greater.
We must focus and
heed the salience of
accumulating government
power both inside and
outside of our
government.
We must be together.
We
must fight and
we mustn't
cower down.
We mustn't go
with what is
normal, what
we're used to,
comfortable
with.
We only have a couple
of chances to get this
right.
We are fighting for
the very remnant of our
humanity and
it is up to us
to take back
our own power,
not that someone
randomly
took it from us, but we
voluntarily
gave it away.
Please fight.
If you
believe in what
a People's
Party could be, if you
believe in what a major
third party
in this nation
could be, then that
should be the end of
the discussion.
Fight for it.
Believe in it.
Have hope.
Thank you so much for
this opportunity.
I hope you stay safe,
I hope you stay
organizing and I hope
you remember to vote in
this election.
Thank you so much
for your time.
NICK BRANA: Thank you.
She is one of the most
remarkable organizers
I've
ever met.
We have so much
to learn from
her generation.
She's half my
age.
I cannot believe there
are organizers
half my age
that are as talented and
dedicated as she is.
It's an honor to
have her working
with us as student
coordinator.
Of course, she and her
generation represent
those who will
be the most
affected by the climate
crisis upon which both
political parties and
corporations have known
about for almost
a half a
century without
seriously
lifting a finger to do
something about it.
Our
next speaker
is someone who
got national
attention when
he led a walkout
out of a
Staten island Amazon
warehouse, when
management
forced employees
to continue
working despite
an outbreak
of coronavirus at the
warehouse.
Please welcome
Chris Smalls, who is the
founder of the
congress of
essential workers.
Chris,
it's great to
have you with
us.
CHRIS SMALLS: Thank
you, Nick.
Thank you for having
me and thank you
People's Party for
putting this amazing
convention together
with all these
prominent people of this
movement in time and
history.
For those who
don't know me,
my story, my
name is Chris
smalls, former
Amazon employee.
When this
pandemic hit
the country, I
stood up for
what I thought
was right.
I wasn't an organizer
beforehand.
I was a concerned
parent, a
concerned father, a
concerned supervisor.
What
I stood up for
was not only
for health and safety
concerns; it was for our
very own communities
that we
live in.
What you've seen
on March 30 changed
my life
forever.
I held a protest
two hours later, Amazon
decided to terminate me.
This goes to tell you,
America, capitalism
doesn't
separate itself
from racism
racism.
They terminated me,
put a target on my back
because of the
color of my
skin and because
of what I
did.
Don't let them spin it
any other way,
let them put
these things out in the
media that I
violated any
social distancing
violations
that didn't exist.
What we're talking
about here is
the fact that making a
stance in these
unprecedented
times is very
necessary.
Doing what you
never thought
you would be
subject to doing
in life is
what we're talking about
here.
This moment in time in
history is very
important for our younger
generation.
It was a no-brainer for
me to do what I did.
It was inhumane for me
to sit back on the
sidelines and
do nothing.
I sit here proudly to say
that I don't have no
regrets about
my lost job.
Working for
Jeff Bezos, a
now $200 billion
man, was
probably the
worst decision
of my life and
doing what I
did on March
30 was the best
decision of my life.
Now I'm a catalyst
in this labor
movement and a social
justice movement.
I've been traveling all
over the country with my
organization
that I founded
in mid-April,
the Congress
of essential
workers, a coalition of
works from all over the
nation, different
backgrounds,
black, brown,
Indigenous communities,
immigrants.
We all came
together, formed this
alliance and continue to
stand in the streets and
advocate on our
own demands
of the working-class
people
and the communities
we live
in.
Some of these demands
are very basic,
medicare for
all, something that we
should all have
as American
citizens.
The raising of
minimum wane to $30 per
hour.
People are saying we
are unskilled, untrained
workers and I
tell everybody
that say we
don't deserve
$30 an hour that you're
being ignorant
and blinded
and brainwashed
that we do
not deserve that that.
As a warehouse
worker working
with Amazon since 2015,
there's no four-year
accredited college
in this
nation that would
teach you
the things you
have to learn
in the warehouse.
Everybody who came
to that -- gets
hired with any company
has to go through a
training period.
I tell you if you teach
me something, I will
learn it.
So we have to get out of
that mental mentality
and understand that this
is not the new normal
for us.
We have to create this.
The youth generation, I'm
looking to you and I
see what you're doing.
I've been in the streets
with the younger
generation and I'm so
proud and I'm so happy
that we continue continue
to fight.
Over this past weekend we
were in Washington, DC
in front of Jeff Bezos'
mansion and the media
want to make headlines
about the guillotine
that was set up in front
of his property more so
than the voices of the
stories of the employees
that used to work for him
or still work for him.
I'm here to say I'm not
going to allow the media
to drown out our voices
just like Amazon tried
to drown out my voice
when they it terminated
me on March 30.
You may have read about
it, but they also tried
to run a smear
campaign on me.
Jeff Bezos the richest
man in the world was in
that conversation when
this leaked memo was
leaked to the public,
which said I'm not smart
or articulate and I
should the face of the
whole union organizing
for Amazon.
I want to say thank you,
David, because you gave
me the best idea ever
ever to become the face
of this movement and
that's exactly what I
continue to do and stand
for and fight for.
As you know, 12
billionaires in this
country have accumulated
over a trillion dollars
of wealth during the
course of this pandemic,
while more than half the
country is unemployed.
As you know, the
richest man in
the world is
on pace to be
the first trillionary in
history.
That is not
something we should be
praiseing.
This is something
we should be very
aware of, scared
of, because
these billionaires
do not
represent this
country at
all.
They put properties
above people.
People have
died to accumulate their
wealth for them,
and they
are not taking
care of the
black community,
the brown
community, the
Indigenous
communities,
the immigrant
communities at all.
We all
need to take
this moment in
time as COVID-19
is still
here.
We need to take this
moment in time to fight
back.
And that is the
future that
I see America
going towards..
These
candidates like
Joe Biden
and Kamala Harris do not
represent us, we're
putting them on notice
starting today with
this People's
Party movement.
I'm letting it be
known I had nine
senators sign
a letter on my
behalf to Jeff Bezos.
Nine
of them.
Kamala Harris was
one of them, Elizabeth
Sanders, core booker.
To
all the workers
exploited
during this
time, we need
you guys to
take action if
you're really
representing the power
of the people, if
you're trying
to represent a
message to your
constituents
that stands
in solidarity
with the working-class
people.
Enough is enough.
I think the younger
generation and myself
included are
tired of the
Democratic Party
doing a lot
of lip service and not
enough action.
So we're looking
for a new way out
and a third party may
be the way to go.
I believe this is the
foundation and this
coalition that we form
here today with these
speakers and stories will
be the way of the
future.
I want to make sure that
I'm a catalyst and
investor for that
movement and the younger
generation, because I'm
looking to see my kids
grow up in a society
where they don't have to
be subjected to social
injustice or racial
inequalities when they're
in the workforce.
So please, people, let's
take this moment in time
in history, let's come
together as black and
brown and all people of
different backgrounds
backgrounds and creeds,
let's stand together in
solidarity.
Do not stop fighting, do
not stop marching in
these streets.
Let's continue to
mobilize, to be
strategic.
We have to fight back
because the time is now.
There will not be another
chance after this.
We want to look back on
this opportunity five
years from now and say
where were you during
COVID-19?
Ask yourselves that.
Where were you during
this moment in history
?" did you sit back and
do nothing or were you
really a part of the
movement for change?
I want to say I make a
pledge and encourage
everybody to join me, my
organization, join any
organization in your
community that is
fighting for the change
that is much-needed in
society today.
Be safe out there
and please vote.
Solidarity.
NICK BRANA:
Chris smalls,
everyone.
It's absolutely
unconscionable
to think that
we have two political
parties and a set of
oligarchs that are
continuing to try to
dismantle our public
services, attacking
their
own employees
at a time when
people are already
suffering
to such a great extent.
So, Chris, I'm
sorry for what
happened to
you at Amazon,
but I am glad
that you are
now a national
voice, that
you are giving voice to
people who didn't have
it before this crisis.
Our next speaker
is likewise
giving a voice
to those who
don't have it.
He is the president of
the American postal
workers union of Vermont,
which has endorsed the
Movement for a
People's Party.
He is on the executive
council of the
Vermont AFLCIO.
He is, of
course, defending
the union,
which is now
under relent
relentless attack by the
Trump administration
in an
effort to question the
validity of the vote by
mail.
But also, as he will
share probably,
I'm sure, is
the United States postal
service has been under
attack really
for decades,
and the resolutions that
have challenged
it the most
are -- were
passed by the
democratic and the
Republican Party,
efforts to
defund the postal
service.
So next it's great to
introduce you to Omar
Fernandez, president
of the
APWU of Vermont Vermont.
>>Hello, everyone.
I am the president of the
American postal workers
union of Vermont,
and I also
am the vice president
of the
postal workers
of Vermont
for the AFLCIO.
Why do I
mention these things?
The reason I
mention those
titles is not to impress
anyone.
The only reason I
even bring up
those titles
is because I
received those
titles because of the
consent of my
sisters and
brothers in the state of
Vermont.
They gave me
permission to
represent them
through everything
that we
need to go through.
I'm going to come
back to that,
because we need to come
together on
things we can
agree upon.
But absolutely
the American
postal workers
union of Vermont
endorses
the Movement
for a People's
Party.
I've only been doing
this for a very
short years,
working for the
post office
for six years
and president
for three, four years.
I've learned,
and I've been
frustrated that
both parties
are not doing
what they need
to do to take care of
the postal service
service.
I know some of
my brothers and
sisters out there want
to say that somebody
here and somebody there
is helping us.
That's absolutely true.
They are.
In both sides, Republican
and Democrats are
both helping us.
But not enough.
There's too much excuses,
too much of, well,
we can't because this.
We can't because this
person hasn't jumped in
and all that.
That needs to stop.
We need a third party
because they have two
parties already.
The oligarchs and the
corporations
already have
two parties
that take care
of them.
We need a party to
take care of us.
I just want to go
over the history
of the postal service.
In 1970 there
was a wildcat
strike that was created
around that
area where we
decided, went
against the
laws and everything and
formed the American
postal
workers union.
After that,
American was
going great.
All of a sudden
the Congress
wanted to do
an analysis to
see how the
postal service
was doing.
They wanted to see how
badly we were doing.
But what did
they find out
instead?
They found out
that the postal service
overpaid retirement,
some
people say 75
billion, some
people say 100 billion,
overpaid during
that time.
Right after that,
they came
up with a law called the
PAEA.
This law, passed in
2006 by a lame
duck session
of Congress, by both
parties, is what put the
concrete around
our necks to
try to drown us.
We still have been
surviving because
you have been out there
supporting us.
This law, if it wasn't
for this law that
makes us pay 75 years in
advance of retirement,
if it
wasn't for that law, the
postal service
would have
operating profits in the
Now that the movement
for their papers part he
is there for you
and you can call on us
at any time if you need.
And that's what we
believe on as a new
party.
We believe that any
party system and with
postal workers any cyst
answer with workers in
general.
So to all of us on
the call we will
be there to defend the
Postal Service and the
postal new unions and
they are time of need.
Our next speaker has
sent in video from his
comedy special
.
He is a renowned
comedian a host of
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this clip that
he has sent us
is from his newest
comedy special performed
at the Al Ray Theatre in
Los Angeles, Lee can
stop Chevron Mac
>>
I'm gonna say his name
probably wanted two more
times throughout this our
and the reason is
because he's off talking
sick them not the cause
of our problems.
He's a
symptom he's a visual
representation of how
Vogt up things
have gotten.
He's just a boil
that has risen up and
now we can all see it
and the mask is come
off and there it is.
I didn't know how bad
it had gotten until I
saw that thing.
But he's not the cause,
we had the fall
resistance the mixed
resistance the corporate
damage in the mainstream
media and their like
"we're the resistance!"
Oh really,
you're going to stop
the big banks from
exciting all of us?
All not really.
All you can stand up to
big Pharma so people can
afford their medication?
No no no but otherwise
where there were
Justin's.
Are you can a stand up
for private prisons and
the fact that were
imprisoning everybody in
this damn country?
Are you to stop the wars
around the world?
Well no, not on that.
Well what are you
resisting then?
What are you resisting
!
And they're like,
well
.
>>
You can find
the rest of that for
free on YouTube I
recommend it
very highly.
I also want to give a
update on the People's
convention overall.
So I have just learned
that we are top 10
trending in the United
States of America
right now.
All of you here in the
People's convention that
is you're doing this is
your party that we are
building right here
number nine trending
along with People's
party so way to go
everyone.
Let's keep it up.
Next up we have the
national director of
move to amend president
of the board of
directors of democracy
unlimited and a local
democracy Bella with the
Liberty tree foundation
it is Kaitlin
(inaudible)
>> Hi everyone
I am Kaitlin and
I'm honoured and
to be here today with
such distinguished
company which includes
the thousands of you
that are tuning in
because you've had it
with the corporate
party duopoly.
I also want to give a
shout out to my fellow
greens that are here.
I've been a green since
I've been 18 so I want
to acknowledge my
brothers and sisters
that no that should this
should is rigged.
Move to amend is a
grassroots grassroots
movement to amend the
Constitution to make
sure that only human
beings have
constitutional rights
and the ability to
exercise our First
Amendment free speech
rights and have
influence over election
should have nothing to
do with how much money
you have.
Last year, movement for
a papers party endorsed
movement to amend and I
hope that you will the
do the
same@movedtoamend.org
and the People's party
took the principles in
their platform which is
more to say than the
Republican Party which
supported citizens for
United and the
Democratic Party as well.
A promise that has
never solely being
fulfilled in the United
States and whose
blessings are less
attainable with every
minute that the
Republicans or Democrats
hold power.
Our constitution has
been hijacked by
corporations.
Whenever our local
community or state
is able to organize its
people to pass a law or
measure to rein in
corporate power whether
over our foods our
health are safety our
wages our environment or
our elections, giant
corporations hold the
ultimate trump card in
that they consume our
government and
ineffective Sue we the
people to strip away our
efforts at South
governments over our
economic institutions.
What does this
look like?
This looks like most
Santos suing the state
of California because
they don't want have to
label that round up
Kansas causes cancel.
So they claim that their
states my states labour
laws affect their
constitutional rights.
Or it looks like coal
companies suing states
and saying that
environmental
regulations are taking
some property.
So our communities are
forced to pay for the
prophets that cold part
pretty companies would
have made if we want to
keep supporting our
help.
Or it looks like states
who are up against the
Walmarts of the world
but instead the Supreme
Court has stripped
communities of allowing
them to choose which is
this is the prospers by
using the vice stripping
the 14th amendment.
All of these examples
are real cases that are
happening right now or
have already happened as
part of the
good doctrine of
corporate personhood
which is why we must
pass the we the people
amendment to put
a stop to this.
Until we make clear that
only human beings have
constitutional rights
companies wills continue
to win against their
support because that art
our courts prioritize
the corporate lights
over our rights.
When only a tiny
fraction of the people
hold 99% the wealth and
the rest of us are
leftists who
squabble over crumbs.
But now were saying
enough.
What can be bought
had it.
If you want to control
our destiny if we want
to live in a world that
is not rocked by racism:
eyes Asian our climate
disasters we need to
stand up and stop
accepting our future
being determined by a
greedy minority whose
only agenda is gobbling
everything up for
themselves.
Vote however your
conscience tells you do
in November but our time
is now to build a major
new party for 4 People
in America free from
corporate influence that
takes all that we have
learned in a
fight for an
independent political
parties and applies it
to our current
challenges and our
current opportunities.
We are on the precipice
of a country and as a
species.
The America that we have
known is a failure and
nearly everything
needs to change.
We know this in
our hearts.
We have so much work
before us but we can do
it.
Because we have two full
let's embrace new
visions that draw an old
wisdom and buried the
structures of oppression
and exportation that it
entrenched the
Democratic and
Republican parties and
the forces that own
them.
I'm so very honoured to
be with you to start
this party and I can't
wait to see what we will
accomplish please do
join us at we to amend
to pass this
amendment@move-
dtoamend.org.
>> Kaitlin, it's an
honour thank you for
your comments.
That is the fire that we
need to start a major
new party.
Our next speaker is
someone who likewise
bring sapphire and adds
to it a real tradition
of American
intellectualism.
Which unfortunately,
is not the norm.
We have the pool it
surprised winning
journalist former
foreign correspondent
for the New York Times
Borough cheap author of
several
best-selling books
rights for many national
publications host of the
Army award-winning RT
America shell on
contact, Chris Hedges.
>> Thanks Nick.
And thanks for
letting me speak with
such impressive people
some of whom I know
and most of whom
I know about.
There is only one
choice in this election.
And that is the
consolidation of
oligarchic power under
Donald Trump or the
likewise under
Joe Biden.
The oligarchs under
Trump or Biden will win
again and we will lose.
The oligarchs made it
abundantly clear that
should Bernie standards
had miraculously become
the Democratic Party
nominee they would join
forces with the
Republicans to crush
them.
The oligarchs preach
mantra of the least
worst to us when they
trying to ram a Hillary
could you or Joe Biden
down their throats but
ignore for themselves
what they prefer biting
over Trump but they can
leave with either.
Live with either.
Only one thing matters
to the oligarchs is not
democracy or truth or
the consent of the
governed it is not
income inequality it is
not the surveillance
state it is not endless
war it is not jobs it is
not the climate
breakdown it is the
primacy of karmic
corporate power.
Which has extinguished
our democracy and left
most of the working
class and the working
poor in misery.
As well as the continued
and increased
consolidation of
their wealth.
It is impossible to work
in a system to shatter
the hedge enemy of how
of oligarchic power or
the institution of real
change will only come by
sustained acts
of mobilized
full stop
.
The more we are fooled
by the electoral
burlesque to the more
disempowered we both
become.
Dr.
Cornell West and I were
on the streets with
protesters in
Philadelphia outside the
appropriately named
Wells Fargo Centre under
the 2008 16 Democratic
convention.
When hundreds of
courageous vendors
delegates walked
out of the hall.
Show me what democracy
looks like they chanted
holding burning sides
over their head as they
poured out of the exits.
This is what the mugs
he looks like.
Sanders's is greatest
tactical mistake
was not joining.
He bowed in fear it
before the mighty alter
the corporate state.
He had desperately had
to stave off a report at
by his supporters and
delegates on the eve of
the convention by
sending out repeated
messages in his name
most of them offered by
members of the Clinton
campaign to be
respectful not to
disrupt the dominating
process and support
Clinton.
He was a dutiful
sheepdog then and now as
well.
Attempting to hurt his
supporters into the
embrace of the Clinton
and now Biden campaign.
Sanders apparently
believed that if he was
as see Chris enough to
the Democratic Party
elite they would give
him a chance in 2020.
A chance they denied
him in 2016.
Politics I suspect he
would offer argue is
about compromise and the
practical and this is
true but playing
politics in the system
that is not democratic
is about being complicit
in the charade.
Sanders misread the
Democratic Party
leadership swap
creatures of the
corporate state, he
misread the Democratic
Party itself which is
a corporate Mirage.
It's can at best pre-
approved candidates and
act as props at rallies
and that choreographed
party conventions.
The Democratic Party has
zero influence on party
politics or party
policies.
His naïveté and lack of
political courage drove
away
most of his committed
supporters.
He's wrong they
are right.
We need to overthrow the
system not placate it.
Trump and
Biden are each
reporting date but
repugnant features
daughter into old age
with lapses and and
no moral core.
Is Trump or dangerous
than Biden?
Yes.
Is he more of
us threat?
But is biting
the solution?
No.
Biden
represents the
nostalgia of the ruling
elite of the old liberal
order he personifies
betrayal by the
Democratic Party of
working men and women
and spawned the deep
hatred of the whirling
elites across the
political spectrum.
He is a gift to Dona
Grob's and demagogues
like Trump.
Abide in per muscle
abide in presidency will
only make more
Trump florist.
More Americans do not
want more the same.
The trumps the biggest
voting block the more
100 is
thousand citizens will
be apathetic and say
home.
The demoralization
of the electric
electorate is
by design.
In America you are only
allowed to vote against
West you hate.
But by voting for Biden
you do Beaufort
something.
You vote for the
humiliation of
courageous woman such
as Anita Hill who
confronted their
abusers.
You vote for the
architects of the
endless wars in
the Middle East.
You vote for the
apartheid state in
Israel.
You vote for wholesale
surveillance of the
public by government
intelligence agencies
and the abolition of due
process and habeas
corpus.
You vote for austerity
programs such as the
destruction of welfare
and social security.
You vote for NAFTA and
free trades deals a
decline in wages the
loss of hundreds of
thousands of
manufacturing jobs and
the off shoring of jobs
to underpaid workers who
toil in sweatshops in
Mexico's Vietnam etc.
You vote for the assault
on education and a
transfer of federal
funds to Christian
charter schools.
You vote for the
doubling of our prison
population the tripling
assent sentences and
huge expansions of
crimes meriting a death
penalty.
You vote for Miller to
lyse the police who
gunned down poor people
with impunity.
You vote for the green
do new deal and
immigration form.
You vote against
reproductive rights.
You vote on against
segregated up public
school system.
You vote
against punitive
levels of
that and the
.
Vote for deregulating
the banking
industry or the end the
full profit insurance
and against universal
healthcare.
You vote for bloated
defence project.
You vote for the
use of unlimited
oligarchic money to
buyer elections.
You vote for for
a politician
who in his time in the
Senate supported MBNA
how quartered in
in Delaware that also
employed his son Hunter.
What the
people want will be
ignored because what the
corporate lobbyists
will do
if we do not respond
to the the
tragedy that
has been exasperated
by the
the pandemic we will on
B or hold the eco-side
that will wipe out the
human species along with
most like other
life forms.
Right wing violence
along with lethal police
violence will explode
with or without trump in
office if we do not
build robust socialist
programs to reintegrate
those who have been
pushed aside back
into society.
To heal the ruptured
social bonds to give
workers jobs that
provide a sustainable
income and dignity and
in empowerment and
protection to provide
free well-funded school
through college.
If you do not build
their labour unions
along with institution
universal healthcare and
the squandering of
resources on endless war.
Yes, we need new
radical parties which is
why I'm here today and
in this election and
from now on
we need to stand up
for their values not
surrender them.
Which is why I urge you
in this election to vote
But I'm also not naïve
enough to tell you
we can win.
The corporate state
has no very effective
mechanisms of control
and impression.
But these corporate
forces
have us by the throat
and they have my
children by the throat.
In the end, I do not
fight fascist because I
will win, I fight
fascist because they are
fascist.
Thank you.
>>
Thank you, Chris, for
that assessment where we
are as a country.
You speak with knowledge
of having seen the
breakdown of civil
societies in other
countries in Eastern
Europe and I am honoured
and privileged as we all
are that you bring that
perspective analysis
here today.
to truly appreciate the
gravity of what is
happening in the
United States.
Our next segments is
a montage
of many thousands
of different supporters
that we have across the
country.
I'm happy to say that is
a part of the lead up of
the People's convention
who put out a call for
videos,
for testimonies, for
citizen testimony, to be
a part of the
convention, to speak in
their own words about
what is happening across
the country.
It is one thing for
those of us who are here
today to hear from
speakers to share with
you, it is another to
hear from people
themselves and their own
struggles that they have
confronted.
So, I'm happy now to
turn it over to our
storyboard testimonials.
To them.
>>
Leader of the major
parties in the United
States represent
the people,
the interest
of the wealthy
.
I have been
...
Right now what
we have is
essentially a two-party
duopoly
that
gives us one more
choice than a
dictatorship
>>
we can have universal
healthcare.
They want allow it.
We can't have
a living wage.
Big business
one allow it.
We can address the
number prices.
The process
fossil fuel industry
one hour.
>>
The system that
currently oppresses us
has been
stealing our money
for decades.
>>
Camry 500 experiences
them?
I will ask all the
people who are currently
suffering due to COVID-19
who can afford to
pay their outrageous
hospital bills.
>>
I know from personal
experience that this
hospital will
assume me if
and garbage my wages
if I can pay them.
>>
>>
I tried to apply
for disability
in January and was told
I would not qualify.
That the court system
would lie and
(INAUDIBLE) the books.
>>
Both parties are reps
any people who don't
have problems.
The people who do have
problems, the problem
government can solve...
>>
It's time to start over.
Brand-new party.
>>
Corporations feel they
own nature and that they
own the ecosystem.
They own people.
>>
When I look at the
world I see people
sleeping on the streets.
I see people who are
food insecure, people
who are loaded with a
mountain of debt coming
out of college.
I see people in a
pandemic who don't have
healthcare.
I don't know how anybody
looks at that and things
things operating
correctly.
>> Please having chains.
Police aren't being
reformed.
>> The reason why people
commit crimes because
they see no other way.
>> We will always be
voted for more were as
long as we vote Democrat
or vote Republican.
It is time to vote for
the people so that we
can still have a
country, a planet.
>> I have hope and
belief in MPP.
>> The People's party,
to care about people.
>> We need a new people.
>> We need the People's
party, now.
>>
You have a dear
from our very own
supporters about why
this is so important.
We need to form
a major party.
Next up was going
to be Senator Mike
,
unfortunately
Senator Gravelle was
not able to join us today
but
he said that he would
be honoured to join us
on a national call later.
We will have to save
something for everyone
for later.
But if they always keep
them wanting more.
There you have it.
In place of Mike
Novello, we have our
next speaker
who is the former
of Congress
.
She is on the steering
committee
of justice of the
justice world collision.
She is a standup
comedian,
and she is Lauren
Ashcraft.
Please welcome
Lauren Ashcraft.
>>
Hi everyone.
Thank you so much, I'm
so honoured to be here
today.
My lame is Lauren
Ashcraft and you may
recognize me for my
recent campaign in New
York 12.
I want to raise
awareness around the
most urgent issues
our society faces.
Along the way I realize
that everything was so
much more broken
than even seems.
We live in a
failed state
, and that state was
built around the premise
of white property owning
men making decisions
that only man
for them benefi
t them.
244 years later, our
fascist president
, the administration
come up,
police,
.
.
..
That's the country
that we live in.
You cannot fix
something that was built
to be broken.
We have to shatter the
systems that oppress us
and rebuild everything
for all of us.
We're in an abusive
relationship with our
two-party system.
The Democratic Party
plays good cop, while
the Republican Party
pays bad cop.
What have we learned
through all of these
protests?
ARE bastards.
We need a party
that is built from
truth telling, from the
struggles of the working
class, not a party that
accepts money from
industries that profit
from our oppression.
What no establishing
politician want you to
know is that at the
federal level behaviour
things through
something called
(INAUDIBLE).
Nothing that has
ever happened
when we have spent more
than we tax the back.
We are doing
it right now.
We're definitely...
Duplicating cages,
to militarized police
stop
there is no deficit
booking
that comes out from
under our beds
.
Why is it that our
politicians want us to
think there is
one we one universal
healthcare.
They lose the
daughters.
o
l
ar
l
ars
.
Let me tell you
something that wasn't
set at the DNC.
We can paper universal
healthcare.
We can pay for the
green new deal.
We can pay for
jobs guarantee.
We can cancel the rent,
we can pay for everyone
in this country to
get $2000 a month
until the end
of this crisis.
We can define the
police, we can stop
this war, we can build
a country in which we
are all truly equal.
What we cannot
do is wait.
Two weight means that
you have the privilege
of jogging down
the street
, sleeping in your bed,
or opening your car door
without being shot
by the police.
Someday your love ones
are going to ask you
what you did in
this moment.
Tell them that you
knew we had to change
and that you did
everything you could
to fight for it.
I'm asking you
to join me
by voting your
conscience of this
November and help me
, afterwards to build a
party and platform that
works for every
single one of us.
We don't have to choose
between bad and worse
.
We can choose change.
Thank you.
>>
Thank you, Lauren.
Thank you.
That was very well said.
I'm happy to say to
that I have just
learned that we are now
number four trending
in the United States.
Because this is the
convention that people
should have seen
two weeks ago.
This is the convention
that people should have
seen one week ago.
It's happening now
, in three weeks, we as
a movement, organize all
of these amazing people
that you are seeing here
today.
Imagine what we can do
as the people in four
years.
Our next speaker is also
a former Democratic
candidate from New York
.
He ran for New York's
ninth Congressional
District.
He is a housing rights
...
A combat veteran,
of the wars of Iraq
and Afghanistan.
I say James.
Isaiah James.
>>
Thank you.
For those who don't
know me, my name is
Isiah James.
I'm a disabled veteran,
I'm an activist.
First and foremost, I'm
a black male in America.
As many of you
have seen,
over these past few
weeks and months,
black people in America
is something that
really needs to be heard
and taken seriously.
We haven't been
nearly as diligent
and not as a country
and dealing with our 400
years sinister of slavery
.
Until we exercise that
to me from the body,
that's gonna do nothing
but linger.
I'm here to talk today
about our politics in
this country.
As many of you know,
as I know, as anybody
watching this nose, our
politics is beyond
(INAUDIBLE).
broken
.
The audacity
of both parties in this
country to tell women
when they can and
cannot use their
constitutional rights.
When I say that,
Democrats spend
more money
on wars
then Planned Parenthood.
The audacity of both
parties to total
tell black people...
Democrats also
find a private
prisons.
The audacity of both
parties in this country
to say we cannot avoid
universal healthcare.
Democrats and
Republicans are both fun
our war machine.
Guess what?
It is time for us, the
people, to be audacious.
It is time for us to
stand up and make our
voices heard.
It's always been true,
no one was ever boring
on top of Mount Everest.
You get there one
step at a time.
The journey is long,
it is hard, it is.
It is worth it.
All these great
men and women have
talked about
moving the ball forward
with each generation.
I'm 33 years
old, I may not
see the end of
this result,
but I know that we
have to push it.
It is time for all
of us to stand up
and stiffen our spines
and strengthen our
resolve.
We need to move this
country in the direction
that it needs to be.
Our founding document
was written by men who
owned slaves.
I should tell you how
much thought they put
into the word freedom.
All the men and women
were created equal.
If that is so, if that
is true, we have to make
it true.
Change doesn't exist...
When it comes time for
people like me in this
generation, and I'm so
proud and honoured to be
here.
You see people from
all walks of life,
comedians, actors,
politicos, scientists,
this is a movement.
This is a movement
saying that people have
had enough.
You don't have
to be Republican
to like this movement.
You have to be Democrat
to like this moving.
All you have to be
is a person who is
willing to say that I am
my brother's people.
I am my sister's keeper.
We did not inherit
this earth
from our ancestors.
We are borrowing it from
future generations.
If you wanted to
look like anything
for our children and
grandchildren, we have
to start now.
As I said before, the
clock is ticking.
We don't have
time to wait.
We don't have time to
wait on climate change,
we will have time to
wait on criminal
justice.
We don't have
time to wait.
Poor people, working
people, working people=
black people, we don't
have the luxury of
waiting.
We don't have the
luxury of waiting to
talk to our friends in
Congress because they
don't listen to us.
Now is the time for
us to stand up and I
understand that it's
a monumental task.
It really truly is.
But so is dismantling
slavery.
A system that it's
listed for 20+ years.
A system that existed
for almost 100 years.
It's a monumental task,
but guess what?
We are up to the task.
We are up to do it.
I ran for Congress
last cycle, not because
I wanted fame or money,
or exposure, I ran for
Congress because I'm
tired of seeing the same
homeless brothers and
sisters around
the block.
I ran for Congress
because I am tired.
My wife is a
public school teacher.
We have to scrape
whatever money to buy
things for our cousin.
I ran for Congress
because I am tired of
seeing 22 veterans die
every day of suicide.
When our
dispensed budget is
...
People who look like
me, who built this
community, cannot
afford.
I thank
ran for Congress
because I'm tired of
getting messages in my
email box telling me
the I/O hundreds of
thousands of dollars.
I ran for Congress
because I'm tired of
seeing women having to
live in homeless
shelters while we have
more billionaires than
any city in the world.
I ran for Congress
because I was tired of
seeing this.
If you are tired of
seeing this too, if you
are fed up with our
words to poorly party
corporate system,
I am so you that.
This November, I'm not
going to tell you who to
vote for.
I'm telling right now,
I'm not voting for the
lesser of two evils.
The lesser of two evils
are still evil.
If Joe Biden were to
win, all that's going to
do is empower the
next Elem...
.
We have to break the
chain and cycle.
All it takes is one.
A mighty oak tree
grows out of
a tiny seed.
This is the seed right
now that is being
planted.
It's now up to
us to own it.
Future generations can
fees from our labours.
Thank you to everybody
who is here and stepping
up and speaking up.
Thank you for putting
this panel together.
Thank you for
inviting me.
Thank you all
for listening.
>>
Thank you, Isaiah.
I think that Shannon
shivers down my spine
about why you ran.
Next up we have
the creative activist
and singer, writer,
host of act out on free
speech TV, freelance
peak or,
founder of articling
apathy, founder and lead
singer of political...
She is going to
read us a poem
recently published
all of her poems in.
I'm lost, please welcome
Eleanor Goldfield.
>>
Thank you so much, Nick.
It's been incredibly
inspiring and awesome
to hear everyone speak.
It's, like you don't
even need poetry because
you're already doing it.
I am here to offer a
little bit of poetic
break.
This was specially
requested by net.
I wrote it for this
particular time and
place that we are
all experiencing.
Yeah, I hope
you enjoy it.
What a strange time
to write poetry.
What a strange
time to write music.
What a strange
time to build
barricades.
What a strange time
to rattle thrones.
Two brief teargas
and sage
, two small change.
To pray with raised fists
and to meditate and
bellowed screams.
What a strange
time to smile
for
,
to laugh,
to wear a mask that
reveal who we are.
To dance when we know
the world is watching.
To forge several
linings and hurricanes
, to write stories and
graffiti's on monuments
to a whitewashed
history.
A strange time.
The sirens signs
of normal.
A normal
so strange
, dear member?
That remark of
m
ira
ge
now naked, obvious.
True.
Illusions always diehard
stop
they always hunt
the living.
Everything was
and all rights.
It is an alright.
It may not be alright.
I am not all right and
if you are not all
right, that's all right.
Through a trembling
hand, I can write
poetry.
With aching arms,
we can build.
Through tired eyes,
we can see.
With the weak knees,
we can fight.
In topping empires,
we can rest.
In these cramped
corners, we can make
world.
We are historic.
We are futuristic.
We are placeholders
for infinity.
We won't be here again,
but we are here now.
in these strange days
and in these strange
ways.
You can stop us like
you can stop at sunrise.
Seeds will grow
and others will burn.
That fire inside is
your ancestral guide
.
Call on it now.
As we sweeping the
trenches, navigate
underworld,
catch princes of sky
and carve hope in our
minds.
Feel summer
...
on concrete
.
So our dreams with
sober friends, we wonder
interweaving world.
These songs of freedom
drown out our fears.
Carrying a tune
from fields to mines,
from Haymarket.
.
..
No solos but symphonies
rising.
More and more a
Shenandoah electric
stripping that light
fantastic bombastic
.
It ain't no Requiem
mass, it's a love song.
To militant joy,
to radical resolve, to
a solidarity of the
shaken.
To the emergence
of divergent.
And like root systems of
finding our way home.
To the fight,
to the belt.
Heartbeats pulse
the rhythm.
of our place
in our time.
There is no pause
, no rewind.
Play.
>>
Thank you, Eleanor.
That was beautiful.
I hope that you
will submit more
to us
.
We would love to publish
them on people
party.org.
There is no revolution
without arts and without
poetry and without dance
and without song.
The People's party
is no exception.
I'm happy to say to that
we have now climbed
to number two
training
nationally in the
United States.
That's what looks like.
That's what looks like
for the people to be
claiming no more for
them to be saying.
Now we take the
driver's seat.
Our next speaker is the
host of the progressive
soapbox and radio show
out of watching BC D
Washington DC...
Jamaal Thomas
.
>>
Thank you.
I appreciate the
opportunity to be here.
I called back-and-forth
over what they actually
talk about.
I think I want to talk
about unemployment.
A million people
followed for
unemployment as week.
This compounds with...
On top of the million
people that
failed
her out of healthcare
at this very moment.
This combines
with the twice of the
main people that were
out of healthcare even
after Obama care.
There are people
who basically
flung into the streets
from their own speakers
didn't necessarily
(INAUDIBLE).
They are not
acts of God.
They are choices
that were made
of one over the other.
Right now, the rights
stop
.
There always never
necessarily deal with
the reality
of precursors.
No one
in their right mind
wants to be out there
angry and perturbed
and throwing stuff.
There are people
who say in this,
no matter.
No one wants to
pay attention
to what was visited
on the prior.
The poverty of
African-Americans is 39%.
For whites, 30%.
The majority
. If you're looking
for areas
that have
African population
population,
are either prisons
or jails.
That's astonishing!
Those are active
policy.
That's horrendous.
The point to you is
that these things are
visited by society.
No one cares up
to that point.
Compare and contrast
that with the beauty
pageants that the
Republican Party and the
Democratic Party had.
Neither one of these
parties are dealing with
the real concerns
of the populations.
Both parties have
realized that basically
because there's only two
both can be captured
by corporate class
.
This is politics.
We are scepters.
There is no way out
in a political system.
The only way out
is to extricate yourself
from the political
party,
slay under the banner
policy for the unders
then that we drag
.
..
All of it
taking a shot, all of
it doing whatever they
can to propose
a new policy.
We win.
88% per support% support.
If you can't get it
over the finish line,
with Biden,
carrying music
kick rocks.
The only strategy
is to leave.
Enter Stan under the
banner of policy and to
make a demand.
.
.
You get a boat, we
represent our interests
is.
I'm making a point that
if you are a lefty and
you don't get it
at this point,
this is your task.
This is your play.
If the Democratic Party
really does believe
after 30 million people
we can demand this is
what we want
. And if you don't
appropriate that, and
they're willing
to take it,
any notion of
representative
government is dead
.
The second point is
your legitimacy
goes to which the great
you can maintain
. Let's add a magnet
.
The People's party
.
..
Which is why I say
yes, both for the party
.
Nick, back to you.
I'm battle time.
d
w
a
d wit
h him.
>>
Thank you.
It's wonderful to have
your support and to have
been a guest on the show.
I look forward
to many more.
in the work that we
have ahead of us.
Our next speaker is
likewise an independent
media leader
, as was a comedian,
the host of get
your news on,
I'm very grateful to him
.
They were very gracious
and always
in any venue
they went to
to provide
for MPP organizers
and I'm very factor
for that.
I would like to
introduce to you now
(INAUDIBLE).
>>
We are here today
because
we realize that
.
They say the system
is broken.
Here we realize
, the system is working.
The system is working
the way it is supposed
to.
It is working the way it
is supposed to for the
donor class and
for Wall Street.
It is working so well,
it's gotten to the point
where our options for
presidents are Joe Biden
or Donald Trump.
Like most people with a
pulse, I don't want to
vote for either
candidate.
For a lot of reasons,
one of them being I have
a cat.
I already spent enough
time checking a box for
a piece of ship.t.
The only time people
should be having to
choose between
a legend rapist
is if they are picking
someone out of a suspect
lineup.
Not voting for leader
of the free world.
This is the point that
it is going to us too.
got
te
'
s g
i
t's
got
ten
us
to
.
We reached the point
where people like John
Kasich and Colin Powell
are part of the
supposed serve
alternative
to the conservatives.
At the rate we
are going now,
by 2028
,
John
Don Junior is going to
run as president as a
Democrat.
I don't know who the
Republican nominee is
going to be, I'm
guessing it's going to
be a hologram
of Mussolini.
I would imagine
that is it.
This is by design.
The Republicans are
one of the greatest
(INAUDIBLE) to mankind.
I believe that
to be true.
The only way they are
able to be this horrible
it's because of how
ineffective the
democrats are.
And vice versa.
They need each other.
And that's bad
partisanship.
They take
b
y
partisanship
.
We are here to say
it's time to end
the duopoly.
We are here to say
it's not radical
to the man the type of
healthcare systems, the
rest of the
industrialized world
takes for granted.
It's not radical to say
anybody working 40 hours
a week and on his job
deserves a living wage.
It's not radical to say
we need to look out for
the most vulnerable
among us.
It's not radical to say
that education should be
for everyone and not
just for the elite.
It's certainly not
radical to say it is
time to end the wars
and end them now.
I want to give a
special thank you to
everyone here today
because you also
amazing.
In particular, some of
the speakers today have
done so much to educate
myself and everybody
else in the world about
what the United States
is doing around
the world.
That's the job the
corporate media put\
refuses to do.
That is why I personally
am not for any were
unless I am willing to
go fight for myself.
That's why the only word
I am for is the war on
drugs.
I'm fighting for drugs.
I think were going
to win actually.
I'm doing my part one
drink at a time.
But we are here today to
say it is time to end
the duopoly and we
cannot settle for less.
The time is now because
if not now, when?
At the end of the day
my friends, there is
nothing pragmatic about
incremental solution to
a catastrophic problem.
My name is Ron,.
Thank you for allowing
me to be a part of this.
Peace.
>> Republicans
are fittingly given
almost as much time as
progressives
at the Democratic
Party convention.
As if progressives who,
as Ron pointed out,
have the greatest
support in terms of
policies.
Medicare forgetting
money out of politics,
free public college
,
all of these are issues.
In the
Supermajority issues
and get a Democratic
Party cannot so much
as put speakers on
to speak about it.
In fact, they
put (INAUDIBLE)
into it.
Wouldn't let him
say the words
basic income.
That's the basic
democratic
c
party of today.
We have a girl,
she is a several late
, and the first drag
queen elected to public
office in the
United States.
Maybe it is great
to have you.
>>
I am so excited
to be here.
Thank you so much
for having me here.
My name is
(UNKNOWN TERM)
in early 2019, I was
I also ran for the U.S.
House representative,
this election cycle and
California's 28...
We lost by less than 1%.
Representation is
so important in our
government.
On every level, from
this report, to stay, to
federal.
That's part of the
reason why I ran against
Adam shift.
I'm a trans feminine,
non-binary person, and I
want to ask you how we
can expect people like
you are immediately be
fairly represented in
our government when
there is no one like you
or me in our government.
Just two weeks ago,
three trans women were
brutally attacked
in Hollywood.
It was all caught in
film, it was clearly a
hate crime.
Public officials made
there to be official
there for the news
announcement was the.
The same officials were
nowhere to be found to
demand justice.
This is an acceptable
and an inaccurate
representation of our
deals.
I'm sure you have
noticed that the two
party system is not
working for everybody.
In fact, it's only
working for corporate
America and the
wealthy elite.
Big business does not
care if you're a
Democrat or Republican.
Big business knows that
leaders of both parties
are working to enhance
the corporate agenda
rather than the agenda
of the people.
It's my needs to believe
It's foolish to believe
that officials are about
housingg and justice
injustice.
It's time to disbanded
the functional two-party
system that perpetuates
greed and corporate
influence in American
politics.
It's we, the people,
that hold the power and
the elites are doing
everything they can to
make sure that we
don't realize that.
True progress for the
people cannot be
achieved until we form
our own party.
A party that finally
serves the interest of
real people like
you and me.
Let this be the last time
that we vote blue
no matter who.
Which ultimately enables
the status quo to rob
the poor and the sick
and kill people
of colour.
We have the opportunity
to make a new America.
One in which every
person has access to
healthcare, education,
housing, and dignity.
I am so proud to support
the movement
of people's party and I
cannot wait to see the
people rise up.
Please join the movement
and demand more from the
government.
Black lives matter and
I yelled my time.
Thank you.
>>
Thank you.
Next up we have another
independent
media leader.
Another longtime
supporter of MPP.
It is the host
from Miami
, Nico house.
>>
Thank you.
You may not know this
but a lot of people ask
on a regular basis
who am I going to vote
for, which party in my
going to vote for
this election?
I usually pose a few
questions for them
.
When asked them for
you in a vote for?
I say who it depends
which one of them spoke
up for the region's
Americans.
You tell me I can vote
for racist, then I can
vote for his
segregation.
Right?
Maybe our vote
for the person
who had a very strict
anti-
word.
a
r.
Which one of those
candidates
and watching those
parties represent that?
Out of curiosity, or any
other choices that
you're offering me
declining money from the
largest (INAUDIBLE)
in the country?
Which one of those
of those candidates
are speaking up about
the open market slavery
that we are seeing?
What's one of those
candidates and a time of
pandemic are pushing
for the most popular
apologies choice?
In a time of a pandemic
is pushing
for the solutions
that have already been
made available overseas
.
Which one of those
candidates
deny corporate money
?
Which one
of those candidates
are speaking up about
election integrity
Mac\
?
Rather than making a
partisan mockery of our
vote
, simply to push their
own personal parties
.
Which one
of those candidates
is going to speak up
for myself as
a black male?
Not only when it's
convenient, when they're
running for office, but
actually putting their
money where their mouth
is and putting pen and
paper for policy that
benefits everyone.,
rather than just
1% in the elite.
The truth is, when
I tell people that,
they can't believe that
those are the only
options left.
You know how
you make sure
that these are not
the only options left
in two years, four
years, etc.?
You organize now
behind a party
that is based
its entire platform
strictly
on the issues,
rather than
personality.
There's no personality
to get behind, there's
no quotes of a
personality to Gibeon
for the only coach that
you can join is a
coat of the issues.
For those of you who
may be in a position
where you feel like
you have to choose
because her choices are
essentially by the
way Neil Fascism
and
.
This ability Fascism
, we can say anything
about that
because John might win
.
During flints
They are often the
choice between
(UNKNOWN TERM).
Well, I choose the
people instead.
Imagine
Martin Luther King
approaching any of them
, any of the great
leaders from the civil
right movement.
I going to vote for the
racism segregation?
Imagine asking that and
then shaming them for
saying I vote for...
I vote for
a platform
that treats healthcare
as a right.
I vote for a platform
that takes climate
change seriously
.
I vote for a platform
that does preventative
maintenance when it
comes to healthcare
rather than reacting to
a pandemic after the
fact that.
I will reply from that
will ensure wages are
fair, Raper is
a preventative
.
The great leaders
of our time
as history has told us
will choose the issues
every single time
rather than playing
to the party
, or either of
the parties
.
If you all can remember,
Martin Luther King was
going to go after anybody
who's set foot
in the Oval Office.
Everybody,
was pushed
by nothing more
than people organizing
behind issues
that mattered
most of them.
I want to thank Nick
and all of the other
members who organize
this brilliant convention
and want to thank
everybody else was
taking a stand against
. This is in voting for
the lesser of two evils,
it's basically
voting evil.
We have to say no more
when we vote for evil.
Instead, we will fight
for the issues.
>>
Amen,
.
We need a lesser
strategy
of these two evils.
Whether choices got
worse and worse every
four years.
Next up we have two
speakers who are here
joining us as activists
and experts
on basic income.
One of the policies that
is most desperately
needed supported by
Bernie Sanders, a few
members of Congress.
The first is the
recent board member and
leader of the humanity
movement, which we are
happy to collaborate
with
.
.
.
We are very glad to
participate with them
and other
members of the Yang gang
and that
campaign
and in the effort to
get Congress to support
us people stimulus.
It's a pleasure to
introduce you now to
Matthew Brands cop
M
at
thew
.
>>
Thank you.
It's a honour
and really exciting to
be working with the
People's party
.
Been really proud
of the courage
, not by the
speaking today
.
Without further do,
I'm
M
as
sey
.
Can you be homeless
and scrap for changes
in food and still be
good?
I've seen women give
her half or even
sandwiched her man.
That's pretty dang
good in my book.
Can you be good person
in a minimum fast food
worker?
What about a mother who
finally opens that
restaurant?
That is doing good.
What if one of
these metaphors
wasn't about food, I'm
very hungry while
writing this, but
here we are.
Anyway. Can you be good
if you come into the
restaurant into a
multibillion-dollar
change providing decent
jobs with benefits for
thousands of people.
I think so.
How much faster each of
those people would be
able to help others and
do good had they had the
foundation.
A small steady source of
income so we can get
some food to eke,at.
In her case, she can
open a restaurant and
served that full uneasy.
bowl .
..
It doesn't have
to be food,
but it's not service
to look at the
community.
If money is supposed to
represent how much we
have contribute to
society, we can see that
our ability to make an
impact and do good grows
as parentally
as resources.
We overthrew charter to
make sure that we all
have the ability
to grow.
We have come to the
point in society were
catching a bank...
This brings me
to the question
was
can you be a
billionaire and still be
good?
Not sure the ideal word
had billing years.
billionaires
.
I have to say yes
because if 100 million
people are attempting
to do good, society is
broken and game applied
to the Nintendo
capitalism 64.
A few of you are going
to ruin the game.
To earn that title of
that level is in
gamen'tn't easy.
No one has his play with
a broken controller ever
again.
Everyone has the basic
resources they need
, not complete file.
It's not about
competing.
It's about doing as much
as possible with the
skills that you have.
Who are the billionaires
that are going to step
up that are actually
going to give back and
fix the system?
It has consume
so much power.
Jack Dorsey, the
twitter of CEO...
Someone who is
able to build
from billion-dollar
investors
in a billion-dollar
world
,
is literally giving it
back to people who need
it most.
That is good.
We as a people must
focus on who and what we
are fighting for and
fighting against what
steps we are fighting
against corruption,
against greed,.
We are fighting
for good.
A common morality to
help others so they can
help many more.
The freedom to serve
others how you feel your
best capable isn't
what makes
basic income means.
America's great
not because
it's always been good
but because we have
always driven to be
better.
Thank you, take
care, be good.
>>
Thank you, Masi.
s
ey
.
I'm honoured to have
you and be working with
you again.
after the rally for
people stimulate.
Next we have a speaker
who is going to be with
us live but was caught
in the hurricane
in New Orleans
.
He is the editor of
basic income today
,
one of the leading
thinkers on the merits of
basic income.
He is waiting for
many publications
.
He was once described
to me
by someone else and the
basic income movement as
the third of
the movement.
I think that has
certainly changed.
in the past year.
Please welcome
Scott sentence.
.
>>
A category four
hurricane just went
through my state
of Louisiana.
's extraordinary weather
events are normal.
Hundred 80,000 dead
Americans and 1000 more
dying every day from
coronavirus is normal.
1 million Americans
nearly applying for
unemployment benefits
every week is normal.
Being killed by police
as a black man is normal.
Congressional gridlock
is normal.
The president eroding
faith in our
institutions is normal.
What's become normal
is not OK.
None of this is OK.
What we are doing in
America isn't working.
America is not working.
It's time to
draw a line.
This far and no further.
This line
we shall not pass.
The only way to really
change direction is with
truly systemic
reforms.
We have to look
with new eyes
.
We can't just vote
for different
leaders.
We have to change how we
vote and voting has to
exist upon the
foundation of
fundamental human rights
.
We all have a
right to life.
There is a fundamental
human rights.
We have never truly
recognized it.
No one really has the
right to life as long as
someone else can
withhold what is needed
to live.
When a monetary system,
money is oxygen.
That is what I believe
in the most important
structural change of
all is an income for.
Or every American will
work every month
above the poverty line
and never far below her.
it
.
It's a structural
change that removes
barriers to others
structural changes.
It's a foundational
floor for everything
else we need to do
.
It's the power to say
no, it's the security to
breathe freely.
It's fuel for
extensional activism.
What does money by
? It buys time.
Freedom from abuse.
It buys access to
records, it pays for
disasters of
evacuations, it pays for
grassroots campaign.
It affords volunteering.
It supports entire
communities.
We need more than UBI
.
An unconditional right
to life is not the
ultimate goal of the
justice Society.
It is the prerequisite
to adjust the society.
UBI is the construction
of the firm ratios
...
And free our
imaginations and our
potential to achieve all
the otherwise remains
unachievable.
Upon that foundation,
we also need
healthcare as a right.
No one should ever be
depending on their jobs
for life-sustaining
income or lifesaving
medical care.
The right to breathe is
not an employee benefit.
It is inalienable.
We need Medicare for
all and we need basic
income for all.
No conditions, no means
testing, no, what about.
s.
But to accomplish and
preserve these pillars
of adjuster society, we
also need a functioning
government.
We need to save,
restore, and expand our
democracy.
We never should have
allowed a two-party
system.
Duopoly is not
democracy.
To change the structure
requires massed local
activism
post every stay is in
charge of how they vote.
Main was the first
to break free.
Alaska and
Massachusetts may be
next.
Every state must follow
in order to end the
spoiler effect and move
from plurality to
majority voting.
Politicians must be
prohibited from choosing
their voters.
At the very least, we
need third-party...
We also need publicly
financed elections were
every American is
allowed amount of
funding to donate to
political campaigns.
We need so much more
but I consider these the
most important that we
make everything else
possible.
No matter how
impossible it
because I know.
2020 is the year none of
us will never forget.
It will also change
the world.
It change the world to
make it an opportunity
to make it something
new.
Something that actually
works all of us.
Something that puts
our humanity first.
A better world
is possible.
It is up to us to
make it happen.
It is up to us
to build it.
It's up to us to
build that line.
.
.
To hell
with the two-party
system will stop to hell
with poverty
and the daily
fear of it.
To hell with
non-universal
healthcare.
2020 and no further.
Normal is no longer
acceptable.
>>
Thank you, Scott.
Very glad that you
could participate
despite getting caught
in a hurricane.
Forever and watching,
you can join us at
People's party.org and
People's convention.org.
This is just the
beginning here.
Our next speaker is a
very special guest, is
an American political
commentator.
An author, actor,
retired professional
wrestler, former mayor
of Brooklyn Park
in Mississauga
Minnesota
.
Jesse Ventura
.
He said that to
participate in
building a major new
party in America free of
corporate money
would be an honour
equal to running for the
presidency
as they considered
earlier this year.
Everyone
welcome Jesse Ventura.
>>
Hello everyone.
I'm vegan terror
The first thing I want
to get clear is this is
not a campaign.
I am not running for
any public office at
this time.
But I do want to make a
political statement in
the light of what
we live under today
and a brief history
first of all, I'm 69
years old now.
I'm a graduate of
Minneapolis high school.
Mister Floyd,
the incident happened
in my neighbourhood.
I'm very familiar
with it.
So, that's a little
bit of history of me.
I joined the Navy right
out of high school.
I'm a Vietnam veteran.
I came home the first
thing I did was
rebellious and
I walked were.
To draft movement.
I wanted to draft and
because the draft was a
horrible thing that was
totally discriminating
and the rich kids get
out like Donald Trump.
The poor kids
have to go.
So, most of the poor
kids were kids of colour
would have to
go to the world.
I marched against the
draft, we were
successful in
eliminating it.
I also marched for the
equals right amendment.
And then involve lately
, I marched multiple
times
to change the name
of the watching thing
.
..
Dennis
called me the greatest
free spirit he had ever
met.
That was one of the
greatest compliment I
could ever get from
someone like Dennis.
My history is I have
always been 1/3 party
full stop I voted for
John Anderson way back.
I voted for
party politics
constantly because I
have seen the
destruction and
understand John Adams,
one of the forefathers
of the country,
when he said
.
sai
s
aid.
..
When they become so
powerful that they will
become the end of the
United States as we know
it.
Don't you think we are
kind of there right now?
The two political
parties have really
taken over full stop I
like to refer them as
one political party.
Unfortunately, it was
like herding cats.
I did find out what
we had in common.
Here's what we
had in common.
We didn't take
the dirty money
.
That's why all of the
third parties pretty
much have in common.
We are not dirty with
the PAC money.
Always room with us,
the two major parties
today
they put their party
before the country.
You see that constantly
stop
protect the political
party, the party's
power, they are not
necessarily doing what
is best for the people
of America.
That's number one
on their priority.
Number two, the donors.
The money people.
The people that keep
them in power.
The people that
pave the way.
They are the ones that
get the tax cuts
.
They are the ones that
get the money bailouts
when our economy tanks.
They are the second
once fixed or taking
care of.
Then finally,
it's their own
personal view.
Whatever they may feel
personally about an
issue.
We, the people, might
be for.urth.
We might be fifth
for all I know.
There is a division
in this country today
and it's the biggest
it's ever been.
I heard a describe
it every day
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ribe
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he o
ther day
.
I was a teenager
back then.
I was a young young
14-year-old
when President John F.
Kennedy was assassinated.
I don't buy
for one minute
(INAUDIBLE).
That aside, that's
another story.
I lived through
all of that.
I live through the death
of Robert Kennedy.
I thought we were
finished with it.
We are not.
That's the thing that
bothers me the most
today.
The fact that
they are forcing me to
relive history again.
They are forcing me to
relive times that I
remember in my
life today.
I think it's worse today
, believe it or not,
then it was in his 60s.
I think to get to where
we are at today, you
have to go back another
hundred years.
You gotta go back
to the Civil War.
What is happening in our
country today is a
division
, a division in
our country.
We are being divided up
just like the Confederacy
, just like the
union soldiers.
If that happens, it
will be a disaster.
A complete disaster.
Now, why do we need to
elect 1/3 party
president?
Here is why.
No matter if you elect
Donald Trump or John
Biden...
It's going to get worse.
The only way were
a
o
ut
is to give them
a common enemy.
They fear different
party more than anything
else.
And guess who knows
that from experience to
Mac you are looking at
them.
I got elected governor
of Minnesota.
I had a
Democratic-controlled
Senate and Republican
controlled house.
Now, for the first
three years, whatever I
cited would generally
prevail.
We got to year three.
I submitted my budget
which I was required to
do was to the Democrats
and Republicans got bent
together.
They
They overwrote my
(INAUDIBLE) twice.
Their budget
didn't work.
I had left office
and guess what?
Minnesota had a $5
billion deficit.
They put their party
politics and party
power before the good
people of Minnesota.
The pecking order
was them first.
The Minnesota
people second.
There is a great
example of it.
Now nationally, that is
what you need to have
happen.
You must give them a
common enemy was the
somebody
that those two parties,
Dave field deferred
party movement more
than anything else
.
They eventually will
jump into bed together
and they would be
singing Kumbaya by the
fireside.
How did this happen?
Well, it happened
because the third entity
entered the game.
That is what we
need in America.
1/3 or even a four
entity should be
entering the game now.
We are too diverse.
I'm physically
conservative.
But I'm socially liberal
.) With?
I believe in less
government.
This letter places where
I feel government can be
reduced.
But I also believe
in social issues.
I don't think it's the
government's business
what your sexual
preferences for some I
don't think it's the
business to end the were
on drugs.
It's been a disaster.
There is also serve
things like that that
can happen if we
break the cycle
of the Democrats
and Republicans.
That's what you
have to do.
You have to break
the cycle.
During that is
difficult and will be
difficult.
In may be at 10 or 20
year process will stop
remember, they have been
in charge this long.
They are going to
protect their turf.
I just want to tell
everyone thank you very
much for hearing
me today.
I appreciate
it very much.
Keep trying to get out
of politics, but it's,
like pulling the plug.
It keeps wanted to
secure damaging.
..
.
Always member
what the late
Grace
Jerry
said, if you are made
to pick the lesser of
two evils.
It means you are
still picking evil.
Thank you.
>>
Jesse Ventura, everyone.
That marks the end of
the first have ever
program.
When we returned, we
are now going to go on
attainment intermission.
When we returned, we are
going to have Chase
ionize, Jimmy Dewar,
Medea Benjamin, Italy
rhinitis, myself,
m
yse
lf,
and a lot more.
Be sure to come back in
10 minutes and enjoy the
music.
The aim.
Be ready to cast
your vote.
See you in a second.
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Welcome back to the
second part of our
program.
This has been a
fantastic evening.
Number two on Twitter
training.
We are the second most
talked about thing in
the country right now.
He was convention.
It's convention that
actually talk about
policy.
A party free of
corporate money and
influence.
And now I'm happy to say
to that we are opening
the vote.
We are opening the vote
for a major new party
and that is going to be
on the People's party
Apple.
You can get on the
conventional website.
People's convention that
work, downloaded for
free on Apple and
android and cast your
vote.
The vote is now open.
The vote is do we commit
to forming a major new
political party free of
corporate money and
influence in 2021?
I am excited to announce
those results.
After
We have next
our speakers
, Jimmy door,
Jerry Perez,
Ryan Knight,
and many more.
First up,
his chase assign eyes.
i
s C
hase.
He is a member of the
quote unquote People's
lock project and
a cofounder
of the indigenous
news website
.
The last real Indians.
He ran for Congress
as well and was a
Bernie surrogate
.
Trace
C
hase
,
it is wonderful to
have you with us.
>> Thank you so much.
I just want to send
greetings to everybody
.
I call every single
one of you
a friend of mine
.
To the thousands of
people listening right
now, people who we
try to reach with
our message
, with our hearts.
Not only in 2016, when
I ran for the United
States Congress
but right now
after we saw what
happened with Bernie
Sanders,
the last time
and this time,
we are all sharing
the same sense of
existential
dread
.
It's this or negative
source
clawing at us from
within.
Trying to instill
its fear
, doubt
, and confusion
and hoping not
only to exploit
our fear
, doubt and confusion
.
Those same forces
, which robbed us of any
real representation,
will continue
to our present not only
every working American
but every working
family
in this world.
Not to mention those
who are represented
in those forces,
with the sand from
Christian
, European,
patriarchy
.
Who continued to
instill in this world
Abraham Mick-based
conflict and expect us
to send our sons and our
daughters to go die
for their profit.
As governor adventure
was saying, it's never
them.
I say this as a Native
American, as an American
Indian, on whom
citizenship was imposed.
American citizenship
was imposed in 1924.
We went and fought
and died
for this country
.
This world greatest
experiment has
died
.
.
Now, we are at a point
. If you remember,
Dean
.
..
Right after I lost to
Donald Trump surrogate,
,
in 2016, I joined
the front lines
.
There we were
able to witness
unarmed
water protectors,
unarmed protesters who
are trying to defend
all of our rights
to free speech
, our right to peaceably
assemble, or rights to
be free from illegal
searches and seizures
.
We were trying to defend
all of America's
constitutional natural
human and civil rights.
Not to mention
the treaty rights of
the original civilized
others of this entire
hemisphere.
When that was going
down, the world was able
to witness corporate
sponsored
states
violence.
Brutality that
main
name to some of
our supporters.
The same brutality that
is being executed on the
streets of liberal or
democratic cities by the
current commander
in chief
work pays a snatch
and grab policies.
With the murders that
are happening in his name
, and the name of the
all those who would like
to think they could
create a civil war
or a raceway.
We got news for you.
There is not enough
race this and this world
to make that a war.
We will never
lose to those
who would seek to to
generate and degrade our
spiritual dignity
as a human family.
For everyone out there
who is looking for a new
home
, looking for a new
place where we don't
care about citizens
United or corporate
personhood
, we know it's important
to vote.
To show up in
unprecedented numbers
for this election
right now.
We are in the middle
of a conflict.
An undeclared war
of the billionaire class
, there are surrogates,
their mercenaries, their
assets,
willing and unwilling.
It's on
them versus the people.
We don't have any more
time to sit on the
sidelines.
This is calling for our
action right now.
I want to let you
know from the
Pioneer reservation, we
are standing with all of
the people in America
who we welcomes in love
but those same
forces talk
took those natural
resources by force.
We want your support
here today
for all that it claims
to have land back in
our hands because this
is the part of prophecy.
A land back to prophecy.
If you put land back
in indigenous hands,
the world can
begin to heal.
brothers and sisters,
I want to end there.
Thank you so much
for your support.
And your continued
organizing.
>>
We have been inspired
.
We are honoured to
be joined by you.
Next
we have
the host of the
Jimmy door show
and he is a stand
up comedian.
Leading
US meeting critic, host
of several comedy
specials, author of the
best
seller.
A gracious host also
on his channel
for the People's
convention today, please
welcome Jimmy door.
>>
Before we continue,
let's acknowledge that
the previous owners of
the sacred land we are
on.
In November,
America's women decide
if they want to vote for
a right-wing
racist pathological
liar or Donald Trump.
I don't know if you
saw the Democratic
convention, Bentley Joe
Biden's healthcare plan
won't cover your...
The Republican
convention was a bunch
of rich guys telling you
how scary socialism is
to them.
Ratings were down for
both conventions.
Americans are
so ungrateful.
Democrats are Republicans
work hard to give us
the worst candidates and
imaginable
.
The least we can do is
watch their feature
conventions.
You know all of us here
, there was a call all
of us crazy just because
we want a better future.
They tell themselves
that we are crazy
because they are in
denial about how crazy
things have actually
gotten.
The system has failed.
The system
has collapsed.
We are in a economical
crisis.
We are in the climate
crisis, we are in the
hive crisis.
We need to save
ourselves
.
In America, we have one
party of oligarchy.
One party of
inequality.
One party of war
...
The Republicans
.
Their candidate, a
reality TV game shows.
Because of a failed
system that left people
desperate.
They are not a solution.
The Democrats
were thirst
self-righteousness
, their repulsive
combination of class
privilege and world
posturing, but tending
to be the party of
working people while
selling them out to the
predators of working
people and the
middle class..
Joe Biden has gotten
his whole life.
Supporting unspeakable
a form possibly
o
p
o
l
ici
es.
You know the grazing
Joe Biden's eyes?
That's not from some
spiritual awakening.
That's from persisting
during
for pyjamas and
Gunsmoke reruns.
(LAUGHTER)
>>
I man that is criminally
An erstwhile Job bailing
when in reality
he is Mister Potter
.
Their candidate is
the candidate of
deregulation.
The candidate
of
mass incarceration
.
The candidate of war.
They are not a solution.
They establish and
want to go back
, they want voters
to go back to sleep.
To trade one night
mare
for another nightmare.
When the status quo has
so clearly failed us
, we have candidates
that promised nothing
will fundamentally
change.
We need alternatives.
We need alternative
media
.
We need alternative
energy.
We
need alternative
politics.
But Jimmy
, you will be going up
the big political parties
.
Big banks, big
oil, big Pharma.
Let's get away
from big.
Let's realize that
we are only big
when we come together
and acknowledge
our smallness.
That's when we are big.
We are up against
Democrats and
Republicans.
We only care...
Republicans and
Democrats only care
about short-term profits
and short-term
solutions.
Democrats and
Republicans are going to
give us as short-term
future.
A People's party is
the only solution.
The People's party must
transform our political
system, it must.
The People's party must
rejuvenate our democracy.
that has already been
stolen from us.
For workers,
we need to do this.
For the planet, we
need to do this.
For all people, we
need to do this.
What the People's party
is proposing is
something completely
radical.
We are demanding
policies that the
majority of Americans
want.
How radical.
Things like
single-parent healthcare.
Actually read leading
Wall Street.
And stopping black and
brown people here and
across the globe.
Take that many we used
to use to kill black and
brown people in other
countries and investor
back here in our home.
Making lives actually
embed matter instead of
exporting misery...
We must work to become
the majority party.
Until we get there, we
must be large enough
that any party
that wants to win
must form a coalition
with us.
Coalition
by which
they can see
to our demands and not
the other way around.
I compromise is not a
compromise if it's you
who is making all
the concessions.
They are going to concede
to the majority of
Americans and the
policies we want
or they are
going to lose.
Out of control
and equality.
Poverty, corruption, we
say no more, no more, no
more.
We wish to abolish the
billionaire, not just
for yourselves
, but to save the
billionaire souls as
well.
Every day we are told
we are prisoners of
a two-party system.
We are not.
We do not have to
comfort our words jailers
and we can free
ourselves from this
prison.
All this time
, in our own hands, we
have had the key of
democracy to get us out.
When we free ourselves,
we free our fellow
citizens.
We need to have the
courage to fight for the
world we want.
No matter what we are up
against, how long it
takes,
we think we are on the
precipice of a darker
best.
We are not.
Millions of
people are counting on
us, the future of the
nation is coming on us,
the future of the human
species is counting on
us.
People's party.
>>
Jimmy
D
ore
, e
veryone
.
Well said.
I want to thank Jimmy
for being such a
longtime supporter
as well.
Without his support, I
do not believe that the
movement for People's
party would be as far
and as it is
guarded today.
Thank you Jimmy and
everyone a part of his
show.
Next is Medea Benjamin,
the cofounder
of the woman
(INAUDIBLE) and the
cofounder of human
rights global exchange.
She's been on the
forefront of the entire
movement, a former
nutritionist
.
Medea Benjamin.
>>
Thank you so much, Nick
m,
and thank you for
inviting me to this
historic gathering where
we have been so inspired
by every single speaker.
It's also so wonderful
to be among a group of
people who understand
why we need an
alternative to the war
parties.
To the parties
that kill and
displaced millions of
people around the world
with no accountability,
no remorse,
and no lessons learned.
Look at the Democrats
having Joe Biden who is
supporting the Iraq war
as their candidate.
These parties both
have policies.
They are based on the
same kind of racism, the
same kind of mortality,
that we see unleashed
against black and brown
people here at home.
We desperately need for
ourselves, and for those
of victims,
we need a party that is
not in the clutches of
the military-industrial
complex of the military
contractors.
A party that can
put our front and
policy in a radically
new direction.
What are some of those
things that we do?
Well, we would give our
total support to the UN
Secretary General.
Who insists that
we must have a
(INAUDIBLE) fire.
The fury of a pandemic
illustrates the folly of
war.
We should also post our
country to support
the grassroots movement
from the bottom up
to create a you and Ben
and nuclear weapons.
This movement was so
inspiring that a wand
Nobel Peace Prize and
then supported
by 44 countries
, and needs 50 countries
to go into effect.
Our country should
be one of them.
We would also save $1.3
trillion and both
parties that have been
allocated to modernize
nuclear weapons.
We do not need more
weapons, we need to end
to it.
Many of the speakers
have brought up the
issues of the Pentagon
budget.
This is something that
we need a party that
will get seriously to
work and taken on this
grotesque distorted
budget.
More than the next 10
countries combined, a
budget that robs us
of of Apollo gold
a pot
of go
ld.
We couldn't
even recently
had a majority of
either party to vote for
just a 10% cut.
There are a few brave
congresspeople
, but really,
Barbara Lee
,
that have called
for a cut
for the Pentagon
budget by half.
This is where we need to
go to save us billions
but also make us safer
here at home.
We need a party that
would stop the Democrats
of the Republicans from
trying to take us into
new wars.
Now, with two major
powers, I'm talking
about Russia and China,
both parties are buying
l
yi
n
g
.
This is extremely
genders.
We have to shut out
loud and clear
.
China and Russia are
not our enemies, we
refuse to be taken
on a path.
Both parties understand
that the world is not
popular with the
American people.
That is why they have
been mouthing the
platitudes that they
will get out of these
middling wars.
We need a party that
won't talk about
bringing our troops
home but will do it.
We need a party that says
hello no, we will not
continue to give $3.8
trillion of our tax
dollars to the apartheid
state of Israel and
will instead support
Palestinian rights.
We won't keep
selling weapons
.
And work with all the
countries in the region
to find an end to the
violence that has
destroyed so many lives.
Here closer to home,
we need a party that
understands the
devastating effects that
US policies have had in
Latin America and the
Caribbean.
Including policies that
enforce people to flee
their homes to seek
asylum here.
We need a party that...
Like this
administration had been
trying to do
with Venezuela
and will instead
initiate
a new good neighbour
policy grounded and the
principle of
nonintervention.
I want to end
by bringing forward
the example of a tiny
Caribbean nation
.
A country with a
fraction of the
financial resources
that the US has
thanks to a large part
of the 60 road embargo.
But a country that
has showed the world
what international
solidarity looks like.
Instead of sending
troops and bombs
overseas, it sends
doctors and nurses to
save people
from earthquakes,
hurricanes, and yes,
pandemics.
Today, Cuban
missions, which the US
government has been
gender sabotage, our
exciting coronavirus
on over 30 countries.
Which is why there is
an international
campaign to nominate
these Cuban doctors and
nurses
for the Nobel
Peace Prize.
You can find out more
about that campaign by
going to Cuba Nobel.org.
I look for to working
with you all to build a
new party that
understands and promotes
international solidarity
and is determined to
live in peace and
cooperation will stopn
with our brothers and
sisters around the world
.
>>
Thank you.
And thank you for your
decades of dirt
service.
It is an honour to
have you with us
stop.
Next we have a speaker
who fought in those words
that you described.
We have Jerry Perez
.
A West Coast regional
court later with the
movement for People's
party, he served six
years as a US
combat Marine,
he is also a former
field director with
Justice Democrat.
We are very happy to
have our revolution and
Los Angeles...
We are very happy as
well that Jerry is
courting aiding trains
for People's party.
Jerry.,
great to have you
.
>>
Thank you, Nick.
Hello, my people.
I am Jay Perez
.
I am their field
I am a sergeant
of Marines
.
I am also a Marine
that suffers
from PTSD
.
I deal with this
everyday.
I have been homeless
on the streets of Los
Angeles.
I have been fortunate
enough to overcome a
little bit of this
and get myself
back on my feet.
I am currently serving
my nation right now
and training these
folks who effectively
organize...
And now seven other
states within my area.
I want to talk to you
right now about what I
have seen all my travels
as a truck driver.
Something that I've
been saying over and
over again since my
beginning when I left
the Marine
back in 2011.
I have been seeing a
growing trend of fear
, uncertainty, I have
been seeing my people
are fighting against
each other..
And
targeting each other
and belittling each
other.
.
.
I have been seeing my
people being divided and
constantly attacking one
another and this is not
something I sacrifice my
youth to make happen.
I went to Iraq, I gave
up some of the best
years of my life to
ensure that my people
didn't have to suffer
through tyranny.
I come back here and I
see there is tyranny
going on right now.
What I see right now is
that my people do not
have representation
.
I see right now that
the leadership
of this nation does
not give a damn.
about my people.
The only thing
they care about
is maintaining their
power and ensuring that
they stay on top of
and keep the money.
That is the one and
only priority.
So, myself and other
like-minded veterans
,
they have seen
the same problems
...
We have stated that we
are not going to
tolerate the situation.
Right now I'm going to
deliver unto you a
message from veterans
of the People's party.
We solemnly swear that
we will do everything
within our ability to
ensure that this party
is formed and has the
infrastructure necessary
to openly go out
throughout this nation
and ensure that the
American people have the
representation that it
needs to me prosperity.
We will ensure that our
organizers and our
volunteers and our
members have the
confidence
, the knowledge,
and expertise
to effectively reach
out into the community.
Talk of the community.
And asked them how
we serve you.
How can we make your
life better?
We will restore community
to this nation.
No longer will we have
our elders locked inside
the homes fearing of
some unknown enemy that
they fear is going
to stemming
o
come in and steal
their property.
Demanding
that they stop being
killed by our own police.
No longer will I have
my police force openly
killing black people
with no consequence.
No longer will have
leadership here that
there's nothing
while I have 280
charity
.
In our all, just like
we did when we were in
the service.
We will lay down
our lives
.
I will lay down my life.,
if needed,
for this fight.
We will have the change
that is needed to ensure
that our children, our
little brothers and
sisters, our cousins,
everyone, that they have
the future that
they deserve.
They have that
they earned.
I want to reach out to
let you know that we see
you, we know that you
are suffering, we know
that you are going
to hell right now.
We want you to know that
we are going to do
everything within our
ability to ensure that
you have your future.
Can, stand with us.
Let us know that you
want this future and I
promise you I will give
you everything you need
What you are
experiencing after the
war.
And the life that you
fled that is what
we want to spare
millions of people from
having to experience.
And it is just
a shame how this
country treats
its veterans.
Next I want to introduce
(inaudible)
the vice chair of our
revolution in Los
Angeles candidate for
Palmdale city Council
former special
projects Dir.
for
. And proud
Cuban-American in
California.
At least welcome.
>> Hi Nick, thank you.
Welcome everyone.
My name is Elyse.
I am the vice chair for
our revolution Los
Angeles candidate for
city Council and a proud
member for mid for
a People's party.
The first thing I want
to say is can everyone
feel the energy here
or is it just me?
(Laughs) I cannot
believe the energy right
now.
Thank you for everybody
who is here.
Today we are all here
for the same reason.
Were fighting for a
better world and we
demand change.
For far too long
Americans have been told
that we cannot afford
basic necessities such
as healthcare
and education.
Meanwhile, our criminal
and corrupt government
has stolen our card herb
tax dollars to enrich
themselves and the
corporate elite
billionaires that
run our country.
Today we take our
country back.
We will be founding
a major
new party to take on
the corruption of the
Democratic and
Republican
establishments and we
will be creating a party
that actually represents
working-class and
middle-class Americans.
Not just corporate
interests and
billionaires.
As the Cuban immigrant
I have always felt a
special response
ability towards
protecting our
democracy for when I was
seven years old, my
mother and I fled the
Castro regime and came
to the US on a visa.
We struggled and there
were times that I could
not see the light at the
end of the title but we
are still here today
standing strong.
As Latinos we've been
shamed into silence.
We are so grateful to be
here that we don't speak
here up.
And we are always scared
of the persecution we
see both in their brown
and black communities
will stop today,
our silence ends.
You see, we are all
Americans and it is our
responsibility to fight
for our country.
The tear down the
corrupt system that as
oppressed as for so long
and to build a future of
a quality that we can
actually be proud of.
The Democratic and
Republican parties have
been taken over by
corruption greed and big
money corporate
and just.
They have taken
Americans hostage and
have used fear to win
their votes while
squashing dissent.
The corrupt criminals
who are currently in
office
have sought to take
everything from us.
They sought to take our
dignity our ability to
put food on the table
the safety of knowing we
have a roof over
our heads.
The chance to get an
education without going
into debt, how we can't
even get sick.
And yet, I smile because
you see we have nothing
to lose.
These thieves these
criminals on the other
hand they have
everything to lose.
And when you are down
there is nowhere to go
but up.
This is our moment.
(Speaks foreign
language)
The future is ours.
Thank you.
>>
Thank you Elise.
Next up we have
the host of
the Tim black show
and also a supporter
of a vent
VP
and draft Bernie
someone who I have been
very happy to work with
over the last three
years.
Tim black.
>> Alright, I'm
EMI timer.
First of all I am
to black of the two
black show and I would
like to first thank you
for allowing me to
participate in this
fantastic event
with great people some
people I know most
people I know.
All people who are
speaking truth powerful
stop that's amazing that
something that I wanted
I was driving back from
North Carolina as I told
Nick.
Got here just in
time to do this.
F
uck
Donald Trump.
One more second.
Memories getting bad,
getting old man.
F
u
ck
Joe Biden.
Big time supporter of
Nick Brana she is the VP
of all things good
in the People's
movement for People's
party she sent me
an email saying that we
would like you to join
us if you'd like to talk
about some things about
why we need any party so
I thought that would be
a good way to do this.
Why do we need
a new party?
We need a new party
because both parties
suck, Johnson.
Both for public and and
Democratic Party have
both failed black people
since there's been black
people.
In fact, we weren't even
let people before we
were brought to America.
So the existence of
black people both
parties have failed
us tremendously.
The so that would be one
good reason to start new
particles why do we
start new party?
The Democratic Party
protester like us
pretends to like us
that the where people
that they want us to
support like they have
their backs but they
don't have any policies
that help our
communities.
They take resources
out of their
communities and all
of it is lip surface.
And the Republican Party
is even worse and that
when it comes to
black folks.
I got into this
political commentary
because black people
need to get something
for the vote.
Very simple.
LGBT Q plus get
something for the vote
why people do get
something for the vote.
Two wrapped up
in patriotism
but they want him
for the vote.
Hispanics want some
the for the vote.
Dammit, black people
need something for the
vote.
Besides Jim Clyburn
saying that he knows Joe
Biden.
Fuck Joe Biden and
folk who you know.
I know that a young man
named Jay Blake went to
got shot and the
shooter won't get
go to jail because
he's a cop.
We need a new party
because this shooting
and killing a black
folks like Tamir Rice
who had his brains blown
out, hello somebody
hello to Nina Turner
in Ohio.
That cop is probably now
a cop again because
that's how shady the
Democratic Party is in
the Republican party is.
We need a new
party because
we are not Taylor.
We can even get a
trial, Johnson.
She was shot in her own
bed and we can't even
get a trial.
We need a new party
because we are not
imbeciles for where
not morons.
They think we
are stupid.
They think we are
stupid and afraid.
What would we do without
Jubal Biden.
We need Joe Biden.
You need Joe Biden like
you need a hole in the
head.
Which is exactly what
happened to a
demonstrator in Kenosha
Wisconsin when what's
his name this
Kyle Rittenhouse's, see
Kyle Rittenhouse was a
17-year-old kid who shot
to three protesters
killing two.
This is going to
continue to happen
as more and more people
lose their minds.
We've got a pandemic.
We have earthquakes.
We have floods.
And we have Joe Biden
and we have Donald
Trump.
These are all natural
disasters.
Or unnatural disasters.
So we need a new party
because to get anything
done that helps us is
going to be like getting
10 piles of ship
in five 5 pound
bucket.
That's the reason we
need a new party because
we realize that the
corporations are
owned by this one.
The Democratic party has
been bought and sold and
after what they did to
what my man Bernie
Sanders two times look I
am a loyal person but I
can't sit around and
wait for time number
three.
I don't know what you
are going to do but I
know what I did in 2016.
I took my ass down and
voted for Joe sign I
will vote for
green again.
That's what I would do
and I will help net and
I will help Carol and
anyone else who wants to
help me dismantle
this corrupt bull.
We need a new party
because it's time
working people black
people Hispanic people
all people get
a fair shot.
We've never gotten
a fair shot.
It's worth dying for.
It's what Joey Perez
just stated a veteran.
This is a country that
just cares about is that
it doesn't care
about effects.
This is a country where
we light veterans freeze
to death on the sidewalk
we pick their dogs up
and send them
to shelter.
Forget what you heard.
In closing I would like
to say, we need a new
party because we have
children who care about
them.
We have grandchildren
aging parents we have
neighbours we have
people all over the
globe who are suffering
under Regine changed
wars.
We need a new party
because we know that the
parties that we have in
place right now are not
going to fix that.
We will all die on this
planet become obsolete
if it is up left
up to them.
The polishing the brass
on a sinking ship.
Don't do it don't
be a part of it.
Stand against it as Dr.
Cornell West says.
It's about what you do
before the worms get
you.
I am Tim back black
follow me at real to
black.
Stand with me.
>> Tim black everyone.
That was great.
Tim put it so well.
Next up
we have the activist
Medicare for all
advocate and host of the
podcast amped up
with Brian night
it is writing night who
has endorsed more than
20 progressive's in the
. In the People's
convention.
Ryan, it's all you.
>>
MI on?
Am I on.
We find ourselves in a
moment of great struggle
we are seeing the climate
crisis ravage her
cities and towns.
We are seeing a pandemic
that has resulted in
over 180,000 American
deaths.
We are seeing unarmed
black people being
murdered by the police.
We are seeing an immoral
and rigged economy where
billionaires like Jeff
Baeza does make 13
billion million dollars
in a single day.
Million dollars in the
sickle day while normal
people cannot make
real wealth.
And rather than meet
this moment of great
struggle with bold
policies is solutions
both corporate parties
in Washington are doing
what they do best.
Putting their corporate
donors over the basic
needs of the American
people.
And we need to be very
clear some about this.
Because one of the
corporate parties likes
to sedate us with
platitudes of hope and
change but make no sit
make no mistake they are
bought and paid for by
the same corporations
and oligarchs as at the
other corporate party in
Washington.
Progressive giant Haydn
REIT Wallace warned us
about this in 1948.
That is how long this
fight has been going on
when he said and I quote
"both parties are the
champions of
big business.
The Republican Party
admits it the Democratic
Party attempts to
conceal it." And here we
are 72 years later and
both corporate parties
in Washington are still
putting corporate
interests over
human interest.
So it is time for us to
fight back and build a
party that is of by
and for the people.
Because here's the
thing, if we are ever
going to have a
government that actually
works for the people and
if were ever going to
fight back against all
of this injustice and
income inequality
then we can't have two
parties that both were
present Wall Street.
We can have two parties
that both represent
giant corporations.
One party has to
represent the people one
party has to represent
labour.
And we don't have that.
Which is why nothing and
I repeat nothing ever
changes in Washington.
So when people say that
America is failing
because of one corrupt
president they are
completely missing the
point and the bigger
picture here.
America is not failing
because of one corrupt
president America is
failing because our
entire system
is corrupt.
We've had 40 years of
failed triple down
economics for the
working class in 40
years of bailouts tax
breaks subsidies and
socialism for giant
corporations in the
ruling class.
America is failing for
the civil fact that we
live in an oligarchy
where both parties
served the ruling Class.
And we won't save
this nation
by just changing our
current president.
We have to do so much
more than that.
We have to actually
change our corrupt
system and our policies
which are rigged to
favour the ruling class.
And the numbers tell
the story here.
The Nyers numbers
don't lie.
Over the past 30 years
the top 1% gained $21
trillion in wealth.
While the bottom filthy
percent drop lost a
staggering nine $9
trillion in wealth.
And it didn't happen
because they work
harder, both are held by
the 1% and and exploit
the working class.
It happened because they
break the system against
us.
And now it's time for
us to unread get by
breaking the duopoly and
building up a party that
serves the needs of the
American people because
the simple truth is
this, we are all losing
under the duopoly.
Democrats left this
independence and yes,
even Republicans all
deserve a better nation
than this.
And if we just step back
and think about it in
simplistic terms how are
we ever going to solve
the systemic part
party's are bought and
paid for by the very
corporations hoop
profit off these
systemic problems?
For example, how are
we going to solve the
climate crisis when both
parties are in the
pockets of the fossil
fuel industry?
How are we ever going
to stop the racial
injustice crisis when
both parties are in the
pockets of the four
. The cost of healthcare
crisis and lack of
healthcare crisis when
both parties are in the
pockets of the big
Pharma and the giant
insurance companies?
How are we ever going
to stop the economic
inequality crisis when
both parties are in the
(inaudible) them answer
to every one of those is
nothing is fundamentally
changing in that
arrangement until
corporate greed does not
.
Building a new major
progressive party that
is free of corporate
money and free of
corporate influence.
And that is why this
is our moment.
This is our time.
It is our moment to
build a party that will
unapologetically fight
for the poor and the
working class.
It is our moment
to build a party
that will
unapologetically fight
for baser racial justice
and environmental
justice.
It is our moment to
build a party that will
unapologetically fight
to raise the minimum
wage to $20 an hour.
It is our moment to
build a party that will
unapologetically fight
for Medicare for all to
save their people and
agree new deal to save
or plan.
It is our moment to
build a party that will
fight for universal
public college trade for
tech schools that
workers have the tools
to compete in this 21st
century economy.
It is our moment to
build a party that will
unapologetically fight
to cut the Pentagon
budget in half and cut
an end these endless
wars and I
it is our moment to
build a party that will
fight to defeat the
duopoly in 2024 and free
this nation from
corporate rule.
So I hope that my
message today is clear.
It is time for the
people to rise up take
our power back it is
time for the people to
ask themselves, "what
kind of nation we want
to be?"
We want to be a futile
nation of plutocratic
nation where just to
billionaires now have
more wealth than half of
our country's corporate
boom population?
Or do we want to be a
free nation a democratic
nation where our economy
actually values its
workers
?
And everyone has
guaranteed healthcare
for?
In closing, it is clear
that the corporate
parties are not ready
to read this moment of
great struggle with the
bold progressive
policies that we need to
move this nation forward
but the
People's party is.
We are ready to take on
corporate interests and
fight for the people's
interest.
We are ready to take on
Wall Street interests
and fight for main
streets interests.
We are ready to take on
the billionaire classes
interests and five of
the working class
interests.
Because we believe and
I believe that every
single person in this
country has worth and
dignity and it's time
that we have a party
that represents them and
represents the people's
interest of this nation.
So I encourage you go to
People's party.org right
now go join our fight
to unread this corrupt
system and build a party
of government and in
America that we deserve.
Thank you.
>> Thank you Ryan.
Thank you for your
tireless work to put
together the People's
convention.
You've heard so much
about what is wrong for
people of all works of
life what's wrong with
this country many
different problems that
are plaguing
this country.
What seems like crisis
over crisis over crisis
of a crisis.
Permanent existence and
state of crisis for
overlapping mounting
that sense that this
that is wrong
is correct.
We shouldn't live
this way.
We can live different.
Next, you gonna see what
we stand for as the
movement for a
People's party.
Here is a video put
together where you are
going to see what
exactly we could have.
>>
Welcome back everyone.
Doesn't that look like
a much better future?
That's all we could have.
And the only thing
thanks standing in the
way is us deciding
to have that.
That is truly the
biggest obstacle.
Our last Street three
speakers will be Marion
Williamson, Dr.
Cornell West and Sen.
Nina Turner.
Before that, a minute
tell you a little bit
about how exactly we can
form a new foreign party
and why we need
to do that.
We are in the midst
of what seems like
we live now in a
perpetual state of
crisis.
We have
a health crisis a
pandemic sweeping the
world and the country.
The rest of the world is
quarantining the United
States.
The richest country in
the world, how
ridiculous is that?
We have about 25% of the
cases in about 25% of
the deaths with only
4% of the population.
Why is that?
It's because when
members of Congress in
the White House and
the White House and
intelligence agencies
find out that it was a
serious threat as far
back as November the
intelligence agencies
White House briefings in
January congressional
meetings in January and
February and what did
members of Congress do?
What did our government
do?
Did they act to
prevent it?
No!
What they did instead is
that members of Congress
that on the stock market
instead of things like
digital meeting
technologies.
They invested
themselves.
In the catastrophe.
They invested in the
Paideia back being as
horrible as it is.
They made money
off of it.
And not one of them has
face consequences,
serious consequences.
Then what happened?
After our government
fails to pair prepare
for the pandemic it
faced obviously a
shortage of masks
personal protective
equipment ventilators
and what did the
government do?
It lie to us.
It had Dr.
fettuccine and his other
spokespeople and both
parties lie to us about
the effectiveness of
masks.
While other countries
new and used masks the
countries that handled
it the best were using
it masks they told
us not to wear them.
It told them weeks to
reverse their advice.
Tens of thousands of
people are dead because
they told us not to wear
masks because they
wanted to save them for
health professionals.
That is a scandal of an
Norma's proportion.
It is one of the
greatest scandals in her
country.
Certainly one of the
greatest health scandals
in our country's
history.
Because they weren't
prepared, because they
bet on the stock market
first instead.
What happened
after that?
They pass the cares act
multi-billion Wall
Street bailout.
They just made it up as
ice cube said in the
video he said.
Why should we vote
Democrat after what are
they gonna give us?
What it has I can
improve our lives?
They passed the cares
act they took their
money and they made out
of thin air and they
gave it to all our Wall
Street friends they
treated a small business
program that was
supposed us bears from
the small business
apocalypse that happened
anyway about 40% of
corporate consolidation
in our nation's history.
.
That later that
collectors were allowed
to take that money.
Even people even
things that were
supposed to be for the
people even the crumbs
they threw at us were
things that they could
back him up.
How insulting is that?
Have they
they told people that
the businesses that is
the big real tailors can
stay open and you have
to close.
And somehow you have
to afford your lease.
And they told working
people that you're not
can have a job but
somehow we are knocking
to pay you basing income
were not can pay you
anything were knocking
to give you healthcare
free healthcare like the
rest of the world enjoys
in facing this cut
crisis the rest of the
developed world.
But somehow we expect
uses to survive 80% of
you are living paycheck
to paycheck before this
crisis and we expect you
to survive, just figured
out.
That's not what they
told Wall Street.
And you know why they
haven't passed another
bailout?
They went on vacation
instead of passing
another bailout and
one for the people.
It's because Wall
Street doesn't have
enough things
they want yet.
Because the stock market
is soaring now and
billionaire wealth has
increased by almost 600
doesn't have enough
things they want yet.
Because the stock market
is soaring now and
billionaire wealth has
increased by almost $600
billion.
During the pandemic.
While the economy has
contracted by 1/3.
That's why.
We only get things when
Wall Street wants it.
It doesn't matter how
much the people are
suffering.
And it's reached levels
that I did not think I
would see in
my lifetime.
In the United States
with we have now 1/10
Americans that faces
evictions that faces
being thrown out in the
streets in the middle of
a pandemic.
One out of every three
families with children
can no longer
afford food.
This is a failed state.
The richest country in
the world a failed
state.
It cannot provide basic
services, the definite
fission of a
failed state.
The definition of
appeal state is a
country that comes
incapable of providing
for its citizens
on a fundamental level.
Basic human needs.
Because of these two
corrupt parties we are
in the throes of a
health crisis array so
justice crisis after
the murders of joy to
George Floyd the
paralyzing of Jacob Lake
Breanna Taylor, when
winglet and full?
We've seen
uprising in this
country the New York
Times described the
BLM movement as the
biggest movement in the
country's history.
Not a word.
It didn't buy
just Congress.
In fact congressional
staffers were
interviewed afterwards
by political and they
were asked, "is this
movement of millions of
people
is not going to change
policy in Washington?
Are there policy plans
you know they said"
no.
There are no plans.
Some of them
even laughed.
When that report
is last.
Thus the level of
callousness that we face
now in our government.
We face an economic
crisis a health crisis a
planetary crisis
the western half of
the United States is
engulfed in wire flyers
wild fires
.
If we
don't fight now there
will be nothing to fight
for.
We have to make
our stand.
That's why
everybody is
gathered today.
To form a People's
party.
We can do this.
In Mexico in 2014
Progressive's got tired
of trying to reform
their two new neoliberal
parties.
They formed a new
party instead.
It was a movement for
two years for 2012 and
then in 2014 it became
a new party.
For all years later four
years later in 2018 they
elected (inaudible)
described as the Bernie
Sanders of Mexico as
the new president.
Just yesterday he said
he was legalizing
marijuana on
on top of a whole suite
of new policies.
They took both houses
of the legislature the
majority of the
governorship and the
presidency in
four years.
That's what a political
revolution looks like.
That's a level of system
change we need in this
country.
That's what we
need to bring.
The same thing has
brought in abroad in
other countries.
In country after country
particularly in Latin
America and Europe we
are seeing you parties
rise and replace and
seriously contest
parties that have been
dominant since the end
of the second world war.
In Spain, Paul Lemos.
In Greece (inaudible).
In Chile, the country of
my parents birthplace as
a first-generation
American (UNKNOWN TERM)
.
This is a phenomenon
that is sweeping the
world.
And here in the United
States, we need to catch
that way.
We cannot be
left behind.
We have a responsibility
not just to ourselves
but to the rest
of the country.
We have such an outsized
impact on the rest of
the country.
We impose on the rest
the world are well on
the rest of the world.
He took over from the
United Kingdom from
Britain as the world's
global empire after
second world war we
inherited that role.
As for the corporate
parties that we have,
Bernie Sanders taught us
that there is no such
thing as a candidate or
a party a People's party
or People's party that
takes corporate money.
It's an oxymoron.
You cannot serve the
Wall Street oligarchs
and Wall Street
corporations and the
military-industrial
complex in the prison
industrial conflux and
big oil and big
agriculture and the
people.
Only by being supported
by millions of small
dollar
donors like the Bernie
Sanders campaign Canada
party be truly
independent.
Can a party truly
represented people and
that is the ideal to
which this party has
made for itself that is
the ideal for which we
strive to form the
People's party for we
can do it.
We have advantages that
we have never had
before.
As working people we
have the Internet
.
The Internet is powering
new parties around the
world.
New the ones that
I spoke up.
The fundraising marker
model's of small
donations we can do the
same just like Bernie
Sanders.
We can do the same thing
through some recurring
memberships.
Here in the United
States.
The organizing model
of the Bernie Sanders
campaign was likewise I
model for a new party.
It distributed
programs through apps
social media Facebook
groups we can do
like always.
We are doing likewise
right now as much as we
are not
as much as they want to
climb down on social
media and independent
news so much of the
house that you heard
today who get the news
out despite being
stamped out by YouTube
big corporations, they
cannot contain a
message.
We went number two
trending today on Twitter
.
The same thing is true
of us being able to get
the word out.
We can as I mentioned
circumvent the
mainstream media now.
Because we have
the Internet.
Because we can
communicate
peer-to-peer we have the
ability to get the
message across.
We are no longer forced
to funnel the
information that we get
from the mainstream
media.
And whatever resources
that they choose to put
in front of us.
We can now communicate
with each other.
In a beautiful movement
where the people lead.
What is worth knowing.
We are going backwards.
Everyone can see it.
Everyone knows it and
things are getting worse
will
things are getting
worse with the Democrats
and the Republican.
Their management of
this country is taking
us backwards it is
making things worse.
In 2008 I volunteered
for
Barack Obama
.
I worked my heart
out for him.
I even worked
to try and enact
cap and trade.
Like I mentioned earlier.
To address the climate
crisis even though at
the time they were
climate scientists that
were saying that
that was not an option.
We need a carbon tax we
need many other policies
that go for them.
That was the case
12 years ago.
But at least he
promised them.
At least he said them.
If that means
anything more.
Rhetorically, he
understood that at least
those things
should be said
, those are what people
what to say.
The system now,
the Democratic Party
both party halfs see
step to such a degree
that
even the party that is
the supposedly side
cannot promise those
things anymore.
They cannot even promise
things that have 70, 80,
90% popular purse
support among Americans.
Like Medicare for all,
legalizing marijuana,
ending mask
incarceration etc.
Joe part
Joe Biden is not a
natural aberration they
are a natural
consequence of
this country's decline.
Joe Biden himself told
us that nothing will
fundamentally change in
his administration.
He recently had a
surrogate of his you
recently said that in
fact that after they win
if they do
, because they might
lose to Trump, as a
result of how bad they
are, but if they win
they will, there will be
a return to austerity
part politics.
Kitchen
cabinet would be empty
there would be no
resources for
the people.
There's always resources
for endless war you just
put that on the national
credit card to you just
invent the money but
there is never resources
for the people.
He recently met to with
a CEO from Blackstone
black stone and had
a teleconference with
many of his donors
and told them there
needs to be changing
corporate governance in
the United States and he
said, but it won't take
any policies I'm not
proposing any.
No policies.
he can
that he is going to be
a continuation of the
neoliberal neofascist
decline of this country
which has now become
a sprint.
It's become a freefall
to authoritarian author
authoritarianism and
oligarchy and the rest
of the world is paying
the price with us.
We have an
responsibility of
Solomon's possibility to
make good on this wave
that is sweeping the
world this revolution
that is sweeping the
world and to join our
sisters and brothers in
forming a major new
political party that is
free of corporate money
and influence.
For years from now, I
believe at the People's
convention of 2024 with
a presidential candidate
poised
to win
to defeat both parties
like other parties did
in other countries
and candidates at all
levels to lead the
political revolution
that we all sought from
the beginning.
That is our vision
and it is a vision that
has never been more real
and more necessary
than it is today.
Thank you.
I look forward
to the next four years.
I would like to remind
everyone that the vote
is open to build major
new party in the United
States.
So please head to
Peoples convention.org
download the app and
cast your vote.
This is a historic
occasion.
And with that, it's my
pleasure to introduce
our next speaker
Marianne Williamson
.
She is an author
spiritual leader
activist Democratic
presidential
candidate in 2020.
She has written 13 books
including multiple New
York Times bestsellers
and is a cofounder of
the peace alliance.
Marianne, it's wonderful
to have you with us.
>> Thank you.
It's wonderful to be
here and I want to say
that what you
have done here
is so moving to me.
It's really an honour to
be in the presence of
this much truth.
There is more truth
telling at this
convention in my opinion
that there was at either
Democratic or Republican
convention.
We kind of talk about
young raised an
alcoholic home where
mommy or daddy are not
saying the truth of
what's really going on
and that there is so
much agitation
in the air.
That's what slaves like
in this country.
We know things are going
on and they're not being
discussed and that
should be the purpose of
political parties.
They to be containers
for truth telling as
certain peoples see it.
And this convention has
did that has opened up a
conversation that is so
important and I am so
honoured that you are
allowing me to be part
of the conversation
today.
It's like a kaleidoscope
everyone is giving their
own piece of it and
everybody has said
things to me that
counter be to a higher
level of truth and
understanding of our
country will stop I
would like to begin by
articulating a context
that is very helpful in
understanding where
we are today.
Just like when you are
a child or even a adult
and you go to therapy
and they ask you about
your childhood because
the more you understand
where you came from and
your parents experiences
and where you came from,
the more you can
understand where you are
now and the more power
you can feel about going
forward because you have
no where you have been.
I think that our looking
at the founding of our
country, where we
started where we've come
to gives us tremendous
power and understanding
of where we need
to go now.
In 1776, 56 signers of
the Declaration of
Independence declared in
founding documents that
had never been done in
the world found set
foundational principles
that were revolutionary.
They were not only
revolutionary
politically they were
revolutionary morally
and spiritually.
That all men are created
equal and that all men
have the God get in rife
to all. All men should
have the ability to
spread their wings and
manifest their
own potential.
That's where starting
and that's where I got
gnarly.
Because out of the 56
signers 41 of them were
slaveowners.
That's it right there.
That contrast and that
struggle right there it
is a character a logical
aspect of the American
mind that is bipolar.
That at one level
stands for the most a
light in principles that
have ever formed their
founding of upcountry
and at the same time at
the very beginning it
has never not been true.
This struggle is
encapsulated in our
politics today as
it has ever been.
Because even though
there have been people
who have been willing to
sacrifice their lives to
take a stand for those
principles there have
been forces they were
with us then and there
with us though that were
willing to transgress
even in the most violent
and wicked ways, against
the principles
of which we purport
to stay.
Every generation of
American history, hours
no less than any other,
has lived at the
struggle.
The good news is, after
over time we tend to
self correct.
America has responded
to sit as slavery with
abolition and the
institutional
suppression of women
with the separate
movement.
And then the civil
rights movement.
Over time as desperately
and dark and painful and
filled with human
suffering as some of the
aspects of American
history have been, there
have been people at in
every generation that
I've taken the will push
back against the forces
that have transgressed
against their principles
and did what week could
to get this country back
on track will stop it
is simply our turn.
Now, I was a child but
I was old enough to
remember Bobby Kennedy
taking a stand against
the Vietnam world.
Taking a stand against
the minimum military
industrial complex MLK
taking a stand against
Rachel and Justice.
And there was hope in
those years because we
saw people in the
political realm who
truly represented a
political terms the
higher aspirational
terms of America.
They killed them.
And everything that we
feared what happened
with those deaths
has come to pass.
1968 they died in 1980
Ronald Reagan was elected
president and
with that came trickle
down economics.
When you have the
wicked transgression
against
(inaudible) where we
stand encapsulated
within a it's edition
it is as if
institution is
like a Toomer.
You have slavery we
know what we need to do.
Abolished slavery.
You have
. Domestic terrorism
against black people we
knew what we had to do.
Passes civil lights
legislation and the
voting rights act.
But what has happened
now had is something
even more insidious
because it isn't
not one institution it
is an economic mindset.
It is not inoperable
cancer it's more like a
cancer that has
metastasized and wrapped
around healthy organs.
With what happened in
trickle down economics
led by the guys from the
University of Chicago
all industry enough the
main articulator of
trickle-down economics
him said said melted
freedom that will none
of this will work
without a universal
basic income.
They left that
out though.
They said that the US
corporation should have
no moral or ethical
response ability to
people or planet.
Because social consensus
before it was that it
should.
It wasn't like the
United States was ever
oh good but the
consensus was that we
should try.
With trickle-down
economics the idea was
that all the
responsibility of the
Corporation was this
short-term process prop
it profits for this
stock whole class and
all other stakeholders
whatever.
Everything was to
accrue to the
stockholders and they
would make so much money
that
all that money would
trickle down and would
lift all boats.
After 40 years you
know what happened.
It did not lift all
boats in fact it left
millions of people
without even a life
vest.
It created such a
massive transfer of
wealth into the hands of
1% as to have completely
devastated the middle
class of this country.
And what he created was
a new aristocracy in
this country.
We have reverted just
like in 1776 we chose
democracy over
aristocracy we have re
diverted to Eric
aristocracy.
It is a corporate
aristocracy.
It is corporate
companies food companies
chemical companies etc.
it is the NRA etc.
guide manufacturers
and it is the
military-industrial
complex.
In 1776 there were
enough people willing to
spend up to fight
aristocracy and now it
is our term.
If we look at the great
social justice movements
in our history such as
abolition and women's
suffrage third parties
were extremely
important.
Abolition did not come
from major party came
from 1/3 party.
Women's suffrage came
from the women's party.
Social Security did not
emerge from a major
party it emerged from
the Socialist party.
I say that incomplete
support of Ryan and Nick
in saying that they
don't want to think of
this as 1/3 party.
They wanted to be
a major party.
I agree with everyone
here that if the
emigrants don't feel
that there is a real
alternative to the
corporatist agenda then
at this point with
everything we been for
in 16 and lately and
what happened to me as
well, the Republican
Party has been taken
over by a corporatist
agenda
that they don't
even pretend.
But the Democratic
Party sees what has
done by a corporatist
agenda but
they'd tries weight
that can to rectify it
from the periphery.
But they do not try to
affect the underlying
sources.
So when it came to
abolition they knew that
it was simply time for
the people to take it
from here.
It was women who knew
when it came to women
suffrage that they
had to step in.
With several Reichs they
knew that it was time
for the people
to step in.
And one more time, it is
time for the people to
step in.
And that's why this
party is a part of.
So I am going to vote
for Joe Biden, I am
deftly gonna vote for
Joe Biden and a has been
said before everyone
has to vote their own
conscience and other
people have expressed
their opinion about
this race.
So we want said to me
"you think he's going to
fix anything?" No I
don't think is going to
fix anything.
But I think he's going
to give us a pausing the
action because Donald
Trump's policies, the
state of this country
right now, what Donald
Trump has done to this
country is Donald Trump
holding back.
You give him a second
term there will be
nothing to hold
him back.
And I agree with
Michelle Obama when you
say that you think it
can't get any worse?
Trust me, it can't.
Just as I said a few
minutes ago we think we
should all read up on
our American history.
Right now it would be a
good idea to read out
about Germany in the
1930s and 1940s.
When I think of this
convention, the first
thing that comes up
for me is patriotic.
You see, it's a great
American tradition to
fight back against
overreach by capitalism.
That's what labour
movements are.
As part of the trickle
down hostagetaking of.
There has been a Dessa
decimation of the label
muse labour
system of the
unites states.
But that pushback is one
of the most American
eight things we can do.
That's why we had
antitrust cloths and
Glass-Steagall and
child labour laws.
Everyone talks but how
this is a duopoly but in
terms of the deeper
truth of what the
duopoly represents is
that it is a monopoly.
It represents something
that theoretically we
are not for this
country.
Where a conversation we
are where a there is no
room for other voices.
That's why those that
are progressives like we
are politically
homeless.
Where resource to go?
We have been basically
told by the Democratic
party that we are
not welcome here.
And even when people
have tried to play
within the rules and the
system I know and you
know what happens to
candidates within the
Democratic Party at this
point in this time in
history who does not
colour between the
lines.
So I think this party
is so important.
Regardless of what
happens after the
election regardless what
happens after the
election whether people
feel in their hearts
move from within the
system of the Democratic
party or we move very
very hard for this
party, I think both
are options that are
meaningful and
significant and
everybody will know in
our own hearts after the
election where we
go with that.
But I can tell you this,
this party the bravery
that Brian and Nick are
showing, I think these
guys and we talked about
a long time from now.
This is something that
remind me about the
greatest social
movements in the history
of this country.
Everybody knows that
we have to look at
the problems in her
history but I think we
need to identify the
problems but also
identify with the
problems solvers.
Some people only talk
about what is good in
this country but they
haven't been listening
to all the terrible
things.
Mass incarceration,
slavery, the horrible
history of racial
injustice.
We didn't entirely
new America.
We need to front and
their resources in the
direction of America's
children.
We need to not only take
a stand against the
military industrial
conference we need to
proactively wage peace.
We have to, as Dr.
Thomas said, since no
more incrementalism when
it comes to climate
change.
If me bold and radical
because love is radical
and democracy
is radical.
We have become a country
where it a brick him
Lincoln said that the
man died at Gettysburg
so that a government for
the people by the people
would not perish.
It is perishing now.
We have become a kind
of tree of the
corporations.
Other generation
said no to that.
Other generations took
a stand and other
generations have
course corrected.
We've never been
perfect.
We've never been good.
All the way in every
way, but it is the job,
the mission of every
generation to do our
best.
Bolster those things
that America doesn't
write where America does
get it right and extend
the franchise to where
it needs to be extended.
It's been happening,
some good things have
been happening, just
like some terrible
things keep happening
to.
And I agree that it is
important that what Nick
said just is there a
specter of
authoritarianism on the
planet there is also a
growing impulse boot
towards the kind of
freedom and democratic
fervour and aspiration
of the Hagemann spirit.
So that people can
actualize their God
given potential.
When you are living in
survive all the time and
living in chronic
economic tension
where you don't know
how to pay your college
loans are what will
happen when you get sick
or how you will send
your kids at Charlotte
College, nobody can live
freely and everyone is
in tension and anxiety.
There's a reason
for that.
And has been said
here before.
Because of policies.
Because of the rig
system that is built at
this point because of
the undue influence of
corporate money on
our government.
Our government has been
a system of legalized
bribery.
It is a handmaid into
these corporate forces.
An is nothing to stop
until we stop it.
At this point I think
Nick and Ryan and
everyone was spoken
here has an absolute
legitimate point.
We can't look to them
to stop it anymore.
We have to do it.
Other generations have,
we need to step in.
And I'm proud to be
stepping with you, this
is big stuff.
This is good stuff this
is historic stuff.
God bless you, good
glass America and can we
please now say, God
bless the world.
Thanks so much,
wonderful to be with
you.
>> Thank you so
much, Marion.
For that amazing speech
and for your spiritual
leadership to join us.
Next, we have someone
else who embodies that
term of courage and
intellect and tenacity
.
Someone who I believe is
a moral compass to our
movement as a whole.
Our whole progressive
movement and their time.
One of the great
philosophers of our
time.
I prominent and
provocative Democratic
intellectual professor
of the public practice
of philosophy at Harvard
University, professor
emeritus at Princeton
University, the author
of 20 books and a
frequent commentator on
CNN and mainstream
media.
The Bernie 2020 and 2016
surrogate and host of,
cohost of the tightrope
podcast.
Dr.
Cornell West.
>> Can you hear
me, my brother?
>> You're on Dr.
West.
>> Let me start by
saluting you my dear
brother neck.
Who would've thought
that we met
three years ago that
you would be able to
spearhead you and Ryan
and the others and allow
us to be a part of this
magnificent moment
generating the kind of
momentum and movement
that will chance form
the American Empire into
a more democratic space.
Alongside the
marvellous militancy of
a moral and spiritual
and political nature on
the streets the last
food months
these foreign 1/2 hours
that I've been blessed
to listen to every
minute has been
such a magnificent
inspiration because
that's very much
what we need
by inspiration I don't
mean just abstract
prayers projection I
mean enactment and
embodiment of examples
of people who have
integrity, honesty
decency courage.
And that's what we heard
in every voice.
Going back to
4 o'clock.
And I go
from a tradition
of people
black people,
the grand people
, a great tradition
which
the anthems
lift every voice
not the neat
not the echoes of the
neo-flash, the neoliberal
ruling class of the
Democratic party for now
that's the echo chamber.
With their talking
points and their
superficial spectacle.
No, I, people who
believe in the Falk,
allow your voice to be
heard from the deepest
quarters of the dark
souls so that you date
engage in a generalized
quest for the truth and
the condition is to let
someone to speak
everyone suffering no
matter what colour no
matter what gender or
sexual end orientation
or national identity and
then connected to
a level beauty.
Beauty is always
something we grass for
in the face of terror.
And then of course, the
quest for good and
wrestling with evil.
Then for something us
it's a quest for for
God.
In the face of so many
demonic and devilish
forces
that are shot through
not through our
structures and
institutions but shot to
our very souls
and hearts.
57 years and three days
ago the greatest public
individual in the
history of the.
It was W EB do boys and
next morning Martin you
Luther King told America
about a dream that he
had which was not the
American dream but a
dream rooted in the
American dream and as
everything has to do
with the movement for
People's party.
What were talking about
here is a people who
muster the wherewithal
who have not just the
courage but the fortitude
the fortitude to factor
five and by fact if I I
mean to generate the
flutes of telling.
To generate the truth
of (inaudible) then
generate the truth out
of kindness of sweetness
and gentleness in how
we relate to each other
but with a steel spine
when it comes to bearing
witness in the face
of oppression.
What does it
integrity do in the
face of oppression?
What does honesty do in
the face of deception?
Here is the People's
party at its best.
What does decency do in
the face of insult and
assault?
What this courage do in
the face of brute force?
We are living in a
moment of massive
Imperial meltdown
spiritual big down and
we need prophetic
fight back.
The People's party is a
prophetic fight back
that like the boys
believes in multiracial,
multi-gender, LT sexual
orientation almost
multi-binary and
non-binary sexual
sensibilities and orchid
orientations.
A solidarity
the wretched
of the earth.
That can tell the truth
about America both its
best and its worst.
Because let us never
forget each and every
one of us come out
of very families
communities and
traditions.
We have to be true from
where we come from and
what I come from a
people who have been
on intimate terms
with catastrophe.
So the ecological
catastrophe, the nuclear
catastrophe we don't
like to talk about with
the gangsters and
Russia's and the right
gangsters in the United
States and the gangsters
in other ruling elites
who have the possibility
of pushing buttons and
blowing us a lot.
The economic catastrophe
with unbelievably
grotesque levels of
wealth inequality that
we hear over and over
again and we need to
come to true with
refusing to come the
tree with the
(inaudible) their lives
indecency and dignity.
The intimate forms of
resistance and
resilience in the face
of catastrophe.
400 years of hatred
here, love wording years
like (UNKNOWN TERM)
here comes Ella Baker and
Ella Baker was trying
to create 1/3 party.
Same tradition.
In the face of
trauma of 400 years
here comes healing.
Not just Aretha
Franklin not just Erica
but do not just Kendrick
Lamar but a whole wave
of voices,
churches in mosques and
synagogues secular forms
trying to heal folk to
empower folk, why?
Because just like our
moment we all want good.
This is Marcus Garvey's
question.
Does America even have
the capacity to treat
the masses of black
people with decency and
dignity?
Not just make room
for the exceptional
Negroes who view
themselves as
exceptional, document
the masses of black
people and we raise that
question for the mass of
the poor people
indigenous people, the
masses of Asians and
Shekinah's and Brown's
in all working and poor
people here and abroad.
The American Empire at
its best articulates the
vision of us lies stone,
every day people ought
to have a dignity.
The vision of a
James Cleveland.
Ordinary people ought
to have dignity and
decency.
Whitman agrees with
he agrees with the.
Tour anymore is an
agrees but does of move
America have the
capacity?
We are all wrestling
with despair and that's
the skeleton in
our closet.
We are living in a
fascist moment
escalating crystallizing
consolidating,
solidifying.
That's the worst
of America.
Here comes the
People's party.
Let us listen to
what Edward Saeed has
to say about precious
Palestinian brothers
that never loses sight
with the humanity of
Jewish brothers and
sisters that that
2000 years of
this. Even to his
preference existed for
their life way occupy
other people just like
anybody else.
That has a spiritual
component to it.
An immoral element to it.
But it's politically in
bring us all together.
Can we listen to
Dorothy Day?
Can we listen to
Caesar to Chavez?
Can we listen to all
our bar voices?
The best of who we are
as a species as a nation
as an imperishable
experiment as an
imperial democracy.
And yet as Marianne
said recognize that
there is the best in
America that is always
understood
that if our lives
matter if black lives
matter for going to have
to make sure that
democratic practices and
orientations and means
of being in the world
are reproduced and
expanded.
If any lies matters
then you're going to
have major radical
democracy but can you
have radical democracy
in America without
Empire or whites
immersed supreme as the
herb male supremacy or
homophobia or have
losing sight of the
humanity of Muslims
and Jews and Arabs?
That's an unanswered
question.
We just don't know.
I let just be honest
about it, there's
nothing wrong with
wrestling with this fair
the way (inaudible) we
can't come up with a new
way.
God vest list with
deep wounds.
Deep hurts.
New energies
.
That's where we are now.
Right on the edge of
the cliff with the
neofascist Yanks is
gangster in the in the
White House and the neo-
liberals who still vote
for his military budget
over and over again.
Africa Africa.
The same ugly policies
in Latin America.
We've talked about
the Middle East.
We don't have time to
talk about Asia but
that's very important
to.
With China and all
other forms of
domination.
What it had to be alive
pandemic and all.
But here comes the
People's party.
Here comes the same
radical democratic
tradition that embraces
us all and I come in
from the chocolate
side of the Empire.
I say I'm bringing
Curtis Mayfield with me.
I'm going to bring Sam
Cooke with me and Nina
Simone with me, why?
Because they provide a
structure of feeling and
value that it provides
a groundwork for a
prophetic fight back in
the face of this empire
collapsing and in the
face of the possible
regeneration and
reawakening of it.
Last but not least, at
this particular moment
I've got brothers and
sisters on both sides
and when I listen to
known Chomsky and my
dear brother
Carl ducked soon and
others say, "we agree
with a critique of the
Empire but we cast a
vote for Biden." I say,
I'm not boast for voting
for milquetoast
like that.
Anti-fascist vote,
I understand.
But I hear my dear
brothers and sisters on
the other side, Chris
Hedges, Margaret Kimberly
, (inaudible)
I learned so much from
them they say you can't
vote for a neoliberal
you can't say vote for
this same bite in.
You've got to go for
green, gofer Sr.
Ellen in July.
That debate is
a real one.
It ought to go on and at
the moment I am leaning
with Angela and Marianne
and gnome Chomsky.
But it's not that it
make me much better is
just that trumps fascism
is one that calls into
question the very
possibility for any
rights or liberties.
That's the kind of
basis that he has.
He wants to shut
down the media.
That's the kind of
fascist sensibility.
It slowly in real-time
before our eyes.
That's the kind of
mom we live in.
This is why this
movement for People's
party is so
fundamentally crucial.
We will resist the same
self-righteousness that
we get among the
neoliberals.
We are stepping into
the unknown, so what?
I come from a people who
step out nothing and
still laying on
something that we helped
create based on a love
of truth and goodness
and beauty.
Put beauty and there,
it's very important.
So want to bring this
to a point close out a
thank you brother Nick
I want to let you know
that we have got to make
sure that the lifting of
the voices become waves
all around the country
grounded in the local
but always having a
global perspective of
the American Empire
keeping track of its
worth but also keeping
track of the radical
democratic tradition
that has been at the
centre of the soul of
America but never at the
centre of American
politics.
It has always been
multiracial although
inserted circumstances
it has been
disproportionately
black.
That is how deep white
supremacy cuts and you
can have faster schism
being in America without
white supremacy being
his face and it's so
crucial that all of us
be decent people who
have integrity
and honesty.
That MTR cells that
don't and ourselves that
sacrifice ourselves for
something grander than
us that have everything
to do with the best of
those who came before
and everything to do
with the children
let the come.
Yet to come.
>> Dr.
West,
who could have known
three years ago
.
When we got together
at Washington DC in
American University that
we would be here today,
but,
have so many friends
with us as we do today.
To represent
a new chapter
of this nation's
history.
Dr.
West, I'm not quite sure
if anyone can follow you
but there is anyone
it might be
, it might be the great
senator Nina Turner.
Nina Turner is the
national cochair of
burning 2020
presidential campaign,
she was.
She's hold tested the
hello somebody podcast.
Former president of
our resolution.
She served Ohio and the
state Senate in this
city Council and she is
a former professional
professor of American
African history.
Now introducing Nina
Turner senator.
>> Thank you neck.
Thank you so much.
Lord have mercy I am on
soul types of fire right
now.
I just want to take a
moment in the black
church just vision
and Dr.
Westrick in a pickle on
this let the redeeming
of the world say so.
This has been our
redeeming hello
somebody.
This is been a
redeeming afternoon
through the evening on
the East Coast as Dr.
Wes said at the
beginning of this
People's convention
to this very moment
different voices have
been able to be lifted
up to salute you brother
Nick the sisters who
helped you put this on
to brother Ryan and I've
got news flash for
folks, not one speaker
was told what to say
or not to say.
That's why you've got a
variety here tonight of
people who have
different views on how
to move this nation
forward but what we do
agree on even if folks
don't necessarily agree
on what should happen in
2020, what we do agree
on is that we are in a
fight for their lives
and for future
generations and we fight
up for what is just
and what is good.
Nobody is scripted here
tonight nobody got a
memo or whispered
in the air.
Nobody was told what to
say with the dealer what
if's face.
So we are a
representation of what
America is.
You know I just
throughout my entire
speech because
everybody's speech when
you give on a
benediction just had to
give a benediction.
Because everybody
did that.
Just beautiful.
Sr.
Marianna don't make me
start making names
because everybody
did that.
You know it came to mind
to me sister and
brothers and I was gonna
read this point but as I
was reading to, two
people came to Marvin
Gaye what's going on and
then the other was a
poem which Langston
Hughes wrote and I
believe he wrote it in
1938 and he was talking
about the pain of Jim
Crow and what was
happening in this nation
and it's titled, "kids
who die." I just want
you to wrap your mind
about this.
Take a moment to.
It is as if he is
talking at this very
moment.
This is Sunday, and I
am feeling all kind of
spiritual ways write
novels kids who die.
This is for the
kids who die.
Black-and-white for kids
who die certainly.
The old and the rich
will live on a while as
always any blood and
gold letting kids die.
Kids will die in the
swamps of Mississippi
organizing sharecroppers
kids who
diagnosed streets of
Chicago organizing
streets of Chicago kids
that die in the orange
groves of California
telling others to get
together whites and
Filipinos Negroes and
Mexicans all kinds
of kids will die.
Who don't believe in
lies and bribes and
allows a piece.
A lousy piece.
Hello somebody.
This poem encapsulates
this very moment.
Brother Langston Houston
is talking about this
very moment.
I hope you caught what
he said, he said telling
others to get together,
whites and Filipinos,
Negroes and that
Mexicans all kinds of
kids will die.
Who don't believe in
lies and bribes and
contentment and
a lousy piece.
That is what a movement
for People's party is
all about.
We don't believe in the
lies and the bribes and
the contentment and
a lousy piece.
How can we have peace
in moments like this?
When 90 millions of our
sisters of our brothers
and sisters are on
insured or underinsured.
How can we have a piece
when a congress goes
and reads this while
millions of people are
facing eviction from
their homes?
How can we have peace
when on the streets of
America right now black
lives have been lifted
and reaching out calling
out the racism and the
white supremacy and
biblical history of a
system that was created
for black lives to
languish?
How can we have peace?
When you've got 12 folks
who are on the precipice
of controlling
$1 trillion.
While meanwhile
back on the ranch
with got sisters and
brothers suffering
all over this country?
How can we have peace?
When people are
drowning in debt for the
crime of going
of college.
Hello somebody.
How can we have peace
when we have a criminal
justice system that is
unjust in every stretch
of the imagination?
How can we have peace?
When black men are shot
in the hat back or a
neon the neck
or I can't smoke
cigarette in my car,
Sandra Bland.
Hello somebody.
Her Breanna
Taylor shot in
her own home?
How can we have peace?
When children go to
bed hungry at night.
How can we have peace
when our veterans are
homeless and can get
the healthcare they
deserve?
And speaking of
healthcare had to me
have peace even in the
moment of a global
pandemic we can even get
the neoliberals of the
Democratic Party to
reverse course in a
platform that is non-
binding.
Hello, somebody.
How can we have peace?
Were not falling
for a lousy piece.
Because
as Langston
Hughes laid out it is
time for the people of
this great nation from
all walks of life from
all sexual orientations
from all religions in
the six-story hood and
brotherhood of love and
uplift, it is time for
us to come together as
sister Marianne laid
out she laid out the
history, baby.
She talked about the
histories that happen in
the 18th century it was
the American revolution.
The founders in all of
their racism and failed
teeth decided to say to
King George, it's over.
We can continue this
relationship went like
this.
Where in the course of
human history comes time
to separate and they
laid out why it was time
to separate.
Hello, somebody.
In the 19th century we
had another type of
revolution, it was
called hello somebody.
The Civil War.
In the 20th century we
had another type of
revolution it was called
civil rights.
Movements.
And in the 21st century
here we are right here
right now in our moment
lifting up of people's
revolution that
is both necessary
, not only for the
survival of our
us but for the survival
of future generations.
How can we have peace?
When we trample all
over mother eat.
How can we have peace
when we have predatory
capitalism
?
How can we have peace
with so many people who
work so hard and still
cannot get even a piece
of the American dream?
How can we have peace?
When the poor and the
working poor and the
barely middle-class
doing all that they can
there's survive day
after day after day
after day and they still
cannot survive.
How can we have peace?
It is a fallacy that if
you work hard enough
, Americans work very
hard, poor people were
very hard, it
is a fallacy.
The very system, the
racist bigoted system
, the system that
oppresses the poor
that system was created
by design.
It didn't happen
by accident.
It was on purpose and on
purpose we the people
can turn this
thing around.
So we've got some
dragons this way, baby.
We've got to slay the
dragons of neo-fascism,
as Dr.
West said, the gangster
in the White House.
He must go.
There is no doubt about
it he must go.
And I agree with Dr.
West that people are
coming at this at all
angles I get it, I'm
not. Hello somebody.
I'm just all's fashion
and I just believe that
folks who are running
for all process onto
earned the vote.
How do you own divert,
you don't earn it by
doing it the same old
same old, you earn it by
giving people a vision.
You have to provide a
vision that provides
provisions for
the people.
It is our money,
our government.
So when you have folks
talk about what we
cannot have with our
money, without
government?
It's a lack of vision.
There is no more time
with for playing games
we are not staying
for a lousy piece.
We come together in the
spirit of sisterhood and
brotherhood.
We stand together as
people from all walks of
life understand that we
must put a little extra
on our ordinary so that
their extraordinary
things can happen, they
will, they have across
the course of history,
we stand in solidarity
with other poor people
all over the world,
hello, somebody.
Because the Rev.
MLK said that when
someone happens to us it
directly has to all
of us indirectly.
We won't stand for their
lousy peace even as we
fight for the neofascist
we will not stand for a
lousy piece because we
know that neoliberalism
is what God is here.
So on purpose, we're
going to put a little
extra in that ordinary
so that
those extraordinary
things can happen.
We are going to rise
together and listen
brother and sisters,
were gonna win some and
were going to lose some
but people are going to
know this?
We are in this fight.
For life.
For liberty.
And everyone's produce
for happiness, we will
not.
For a lousy piece.
So sisters and brothers
this is a poem this is
at Peoples convention
there is not any
convention like this
this is the People's
convention.
We need you to join
forces whether you
believe in staying
within that Democratic
Party and fighting it,
you know the song it's
my party and I could
cry if I want to?
Do that on the inside.
And then there are
people who decide, hell
with that we are going
to work on the outside.
When those forces
were united, baby!
Dr.
West, eight no stopping
us now!
We are on the move.
We will not contort
for a lousy piece.
We need to truth and
reconciliation in these
United States of
America baby.
We need a purpose and
elected leaders who will
not kowtow to their
elected donors.
That's a bit of
a thing about
people's party for we
need leaders both
elected and non-elected
leaders who are rooted
in many willing and able.
To do what is right in
this time at this moment
.
Too many people
are dying.
Too many people
are afraid.
Two people
are stressed people
.
It's been this way
, what the pandemic has
done missed Rona, some
of my elders call it,
with the coronavirus has
done what Cole did 19
has done, is blown this
thing a lot.
Can't nobody in good
conscious pretend that
they don't know what is
going on in this
country.
No longer.
No law or laws the peace
and we both we can both
slay the neofascists and
the neoliberals and tell
the truth, the whole
truth and nothing but
the truth, the United
States of America is a
hegemonic needs nation
and there is no reason
no excuse on God's green
earth while there is so
much suffering and pain
that is being done on
purpose we're going to
undo it on purpose.
Yeah, this is revolution
time.
We have never been a
country of being afraid
of revolution.
This is a revolution
of values as the
MLK said.
A revolution of love, of
justice, of hope, but
that does not happen
because we hope it to
happen or repaid it to
happen it happens
because we put some
sweat equity on that
thing.
In my Christian
tradition, can I get an
amen?
Faith without words.
Is dead.
Faith without work.
Is dead.
So that we can
have a truth
pace a true peace
not a lousy piece.
There is room at these
and for anybody in the
People's convention and
the People's movement
for everybody.
As long as we're stating
together there is
nothing we cannot do,
quoting in my clothes.
The elegance of
Congresswoman Barbara
Jordan and many
of you heard me
say this quote probably
thousands of times on
the campaign trail.
This is a truism
for the ages
and I want you
to know this
, no matter how
you are feeling
whether it is
anger or sad
there is a heaviness
that I feel and I get
.
No matter how you are
feeling bring those
feelings and let's
get to work, baby.
Let's get to work.
To be in the
words of Mahatma Gandhi
the change we want to
see in the world
we are it.
Correct actively
we are at.
This is what
the congresswoman said.
What the people want is
simple, they want in
America as good as its
promise.
That is what the
People's movement is all
about.
That is what this
convention is all about.
It is
about reconciling and
dedicating ourselves to
create an America for
all people that is as
good as its promise
and we, yes we
, we are going
to do this.
Slaying dragons all
the way, baby.
We are going to do this.
Because our mission
is so high.
We can't get over it.
Our mission is so low
that we can't get under
it.
And our mission
is so wide, baby,
we can't get around it.
So if you believe in
what is just, what is
right and what is good,
even if it is a
disagreement on how to
get there it is in your
soul, it is in your
mind, body, spirit this
is indeed a movement
that you, we will get
through 2020.
Were going to get that
neofascist out of the
White House, and baby,
we're going to get to
work on the People's
party, can assist her
get an amen?
With these hands!
(Laughter)This People's
movement.
Brother neck go and
do your thing.
Love all of you.
Let's do this.
>>
Senator, Nina Turner.
Hello, somebody.
And with that
as a result
as
in big part because of
that the results are in
with several
thousand votes
the results are 99%
in favour
of creating a major
new People's party
free of corporate money
and influence so we will
be going forward
and doing that.
That is the future, we
are the future right
here, we just waged a
political revolution
tonight and you should
all be so incredibly
proud of that.
This the beginning a new
chapter that we get to
write.
That people get to write
this chapter of American
history.
Thank you everyone who's
been with us tonight,
this has been a
tremendous evening and I
look forward to what
the future holds.
Have a good night.
