that's been testing all right I know about it Oh [Music] if you repeat out the bees like Woolworth together not one step back now the war was together not one step back say we is the most important word and the Justice vocabulary the issue is not what I can do but we what we can do when we stand together when we pray together we struggle together when we go to jail together when we fight for right together and so we are committed forward together not one step back turn to your neighbor and say neighbor are you ready for Poor People's Campaign national call for our retirement if y'all put your hands together put your hands together [Applause] doctor this video habits was the co-chair for people's campaign a national kapa haka revival and the corporation of Kairos would you rather her tonight [Applause] and also co-chair of the Poor People's Campaign you may be seated I wanna invite miss Laura Ashton welcome we are [Music] [Applause] where are you all right wherever you are keep the bikes for we know how to modulate but sometimes it's gonna get a little rowdy in here tonight because we are fighting for this part of the soul of this democracy law Heston it was a housekeeping welcome everyone I'm excited to tell you that in this space we love children we believe that children are part of the movement today and we love the sounds that they make and they are welcome here with us in this room however we also know that sometimes parents like a little like to be able to focus on the event and sometimes that's difficult when you have kids so we have across the hall some free child care that our child care provider miss age in the back here so if you have children please they have play-doh and crying and snacks and the things to do if you're interested just [Music] they're free to come in and out as they please [Applause] [Music] all right now put it down raise your hand if you don't have a pledge card okay so keep your hand up because tonight this is an organizing meeting this is not just to hear some good speeches other you're going to get that too but this is about learning how you can take actually how you can become a part of a growing movement and this pledge card is an essential piece of that because good speaking is a part of more than that because if you're not organized you don't have anything to speak about but if you speak you ought to be organized so another part of organizing is making sure that this message gets out farther than just this room so right now they're live-streaming there folks tuning in not only in Washington but also we have folks here from Alaska we're making sure their folks back home are hearing this one from organ or making sure that their phone in this and we have people tuning in from all around the country often all around the world but we need your help to spread the word so who's got some all right get that out and right now I need to get on your Facebook page trying to get on your Twitter account and I will you to let folks know I'm here at the hashtag for People's Campaign mass meeting and you can chew in by going to the Poor People's Campaign a national call from a revival of Facebook page I know that's a long name if you just say other people's campaign Facebook page the assignment or you can say to the breach for parents org website that's where relaxed thinking - WWWE will enter work so they can go to the poor concealing Facebook page or they can go directly to the website or you all could just go right now to that Facebook page and share it that would be easy if you feel like your tech savvy in that way I'll make sure you using the hashtag or people's campaign I know we have a lot of friends right now watching this live stream I'm also speaking to you we need you to be laughs tweeting this event we need you to be using that hashtag we want to make sure the folks all across the city all across the state all across this region are hearing that the Pacific Northwest is joined the Poor People's Campaign and it's time to get ready so I'm going to call them take them on your haul are you from that state Alaska one space Hawaii who's from the state that knows that America music changes state of mind [Applause] all right so we got this morganite we want you to hold your cards get a field out go to that those web sites now max meaning this is a mass meeting the mass meetings always have a the atmosphere in menace meetings we don't just sing just to be singing - any kind of music but music draws us together briefly draw us together so we wanted when when you took my program [Applause] want to do that alright so we got the total experience quiet we don't switch it around we want good to do one song we're gonna bring them back but we want them to do one song right now and the end and the begin to sing and then I have something next that we're gonna do after that so let's welcome the total experience Wow [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Music] [Applause] you see bags a unity mainstream [Music] [Music] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] you [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] now's the time [Applause] [Music] [Applause] No [Applause] [Music] [Music] you [Music] [Applause] [Music] come on and give it up come on and give it up from the cool one experience quiet they're gonna come back later on in the meeting up with everybody in this holding for second because it is time for unity black white brown red yellow poor wealthy Republican Democrat gained straight young old to come together in a unity for justice and a unity for lifting up those on the margins and the unity for fighting for the very soul in this world there has to be a group of us who understand that we must be unified in our commitment to love and to justice and to truth and we will not let hate and division have the stage without the moral challenge while in doing that let us remember the people in Sutherland Texas and let us grieve for our nation's [Music] continued thirst too often for more weapons and more instruments of destruction is their Vanessa is Vanessa in the building tonight we met a young lady she may not have been able to get here on the plane who said she was fun that community she is Native American native Latino [Music] individual and she was praying for those communities so let us all for just a moment because certainly if meanness can be unified certainly goodness needs to be if he can be unified certainly love must be if Flyers can be unified so the truth must be unified and if folk can be unified to do things that make people cry we can be unified in our tears and I'm concerned in our morning those of the human family are heard and killed and destroyed so we pray for southern and all of those families and we pray that this nation will grieve to the point that it changes will grieve to the point that it changes Shalom we come tonight again for music and I want to introduce you she can tell you who she is not that Misha Allen the field musicology for the our revival member and repairers of the breach and all of us [Music] [Music] [Applause] experience so we see on this beautiful diversity on this beautiful because this is really what I mean everything looks like right but we're missing just a few people and so I'm just going to ask very quickly because we have to do this quickly I'm going to ask Dan to people to rush the stage [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] don't get us wrong young okay so now here's the part where you all joining in and across the country we call this the Justice jump-off choir so they walk through those doors tonight you came to my room we got you that's right something that I see to standard and I want so everywhere we know is that we stand together because we stand together but I just want to know this is a room so much audience where the Altos I [Music] we do know one person said Africa's right here [Applause] other work they said where the back of the classroom where the teacher calls to write okay someplace the first little piece that we're going to do is a song that came from the original Poor People's Campaign 1968 and it was written by Jimmy Carter raise your hand if you ever heard the name Frederick Douglas Kirkpatrick and the song is everybody's got a right to live and we're just going to do the corresponding ethicist everybody has got a right to live everybody's got a right to live [Applause] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] Oh [Music] we have another stuff we don't have drops tonight right but I have some handful workforce all right so we're clapping [Music] [Applause] so we're Karen asked me now 1967-68 and we're singing this song whoa [Music] okay don't everybody just take a deep breath that was rehearsal like it so the words are what this point with my mind and the responsiveness is stained or than freedom and we simply found drugs right so we're going to get a break this time here we go [Applause] [Applause] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] say bye mang say my mind stayed on freedom now you just saw demonstration of the kind of field musicologist will need where we're watching you to the state capitals all around this country we'll talk about that in a minute but that's exactly how we'll go in so the odd-looking Alaska start looking or again start looking Washington for that person will be talking about that tomorrow at this time I'm going to ask Aaron Scott tremendous tremendous leader along with his Eric Eric to come up together as they will give us welcome hosts welcome to the water welcome them as they come to the mind at this time and they are welcomed us to this space this is Mike [Applause] I'm Erin this is Eric Eric works here Eric's gonna tell us whose land were honored to find ourself on so that his guests yeah dude my name is Eric and I am a member of the denied nation and so tonight we're tethered in waffle vault or the intellectual house which is our wattle evolved isla chute see the common language spoken here in these areas by the indigenous people which translates to intellectual house and so a brief history this place has been in I guess who's conceived forty-seven years ago the idea of the dream unfortunately the can person who they came from passed away before we open our doors and so yeah so this is occupied land and the University of Washington acknowledges the Coast Salish peoples of this land the land which touches the shed waters of all tribes and bands within the Suquamish to Leila and Michael shape Nations [Applause] welcome to Seattle open to Washington welcome to the Northwest welcome to the Poor People's Campaign my name is Aaron Scott I'm a street chaplain and organizer in Grays Harbor County the most economically yes the most economically distressed County in Washington State I serve on the National Steering Committee of the Poor People's Campaign I've been working on this campaign for 10 years now all over the country but tonight we're in Seattle for a reason and more ways than one you know this city is the belly of the beast the single richest individual on the face of the planet works here in cause King County his home I won't mention any names you can stop by Microsoft and ask about him Amazon has turned this city into America's largest company town meanwhile we are in an officially declared state of emergency of homelessness in Seattle for every twenty unhoused people who get into housing each month almost 100 more become homeless and an average of 12 people in Seattle every month die homeless somehow in the city that showcases the heights of prosperity and technological advancement where politicians creatively managed to find the funds for a new youth jail a highly militarized police force and endless sweeps of homeless encampments and RVs they can't figure out how to solve the problem that tonight there are pregnant women sleeping in tents all over the city there are families with children living in their cars in this city in this rich city teachers teach us teach us so we're coming together tonight because we can't keep waiting on them to fiddle while Rome burned and we're coming together in Seattle tonight because 50 years ago when MLK called for the first Poor People's Campaign the Northwest stood up specifically Flo where a black woman from the Central District who put in decades of poor people's organizing before dr. King even dreamed of it stood up specifically Esther Ross of the Stillaguamish tribe who fought tooth and nail for federal recognition of her nation striking fear and dread into the hearts of Congress members every time they saw her pushing her walker up to the Capitol stood up [Applause] and specifically Hank Adams and a Cinnabon sue who grew up on the Quinault rez in Grays Harbor County who was shot in the stomach by white vigilante is when he took part in the fish wars with the late great Billy Frank jr. stood up Flo Esther and Hank led a caravan of 26 bus loads to DC from Washington Oregon Montana the Dakotas and Alaska in 1968 for the first Poor People's Campaign pink Adams is still alive he's 74 I sent him an invitation I don't know if she made it out tonight or if he's watching the live stream but mr. Hank atoms if you're listening thank God for you we're here at intellectual house I hear intellectual house tonight to honor your life and your sacrifices and we're here to pick up the work you started with dr. King 50 years ago so let's get down to it let's take a moment out of this whole Atlanta and she said this is an occupied territory it belonged to others long before it belongs to the University of Washington and we have to remember as like men never to Alaska in many places you knew all along didn't know Alaska is the largest landmass of all the states even on the map it's made to look really really small and Texas is made to look really big and that is because Alaska was controlled and was by the natives and and there were forces that did not want it to appear as large as it actually was and so we are here on this occupied territory Narron we thank God for your ministry others these chaplains not hidden away in institutions but dealing with the institutional realities of poverty and racism today and I would say Aaron not only chaplain but profits at the harbour office in the harbor and and let us remember the names she called out of their spirits right now people also often tell what history so long I said poor people's campaign was dr. King's idea actually the first lady there were 25 people in those along that one sees the child bears and people from here and others were in the room and so we honor that tonight we have chosen not to merely commemorate the Poor People's Campaign we don't need any more commemorations we need re-imagination engagement so we re engaging the proteins campaign and we say a national call for moral revival combining those two because we need a revival of our morality understanding in this nation as all of those who died whether it was shot in the stomach or whether they died from just giving so much fighting for others and in this sacred space I'm glad your wishes welcomed us to deal honestly with what people will not show you if they were trying to get you to buy a home in Seattle and that's the problem attention violence that was perpetrated against the poor and those who are on the margins we are saying no more so I want to ask all of the clergy now to come John stains see that came on and rabbi Deborah colliding and I just want to ask tonight is there an imam or the muslim brother or sister in this house tonight is there any would you come up and stand with these grudges just as because i to a muslim this is a season we cannot allow people to be isolated we will not allow it anymore so as a Christian I could say tonight to animals to amuse and if you want to attack most of all you will have to attack if also there are any people here while they lead us in prayer that would like to take a lead we invite some of you to come to the front and do so I am so amazed that people who would criticize people for taking an e which is one of the most sacred positions in the religious economy Muslims taken me Christians taken either Pope takes of me Jews taken me and the criticized folk who would take a need and say they're desecrating something when in fact you can be standing up with your hand over your heart and desecrate the real meaning of the flag because the blue on the flag stands for justice so if you're working against justice you are desecrating what the flag is supposed to stand for and we in faith we take nice because we don't bow to any flag or any country we bound ultimately to the God of the universe and declare that justice is more important and love is more important than anything so anyone who would love to take a knee while they pray brothers and sisters of the cloth it might be a Muslim system I have to take a moment of mom privilege I got one of my own lost over here Hannah do you want to just come up here with me okay yeah I just be my own little little boys babies come on up kids can come in and out of this space that's what we said this is a children's campaign right all right you just will you join us in the spirit of meditation and prayer holy one now of many names and thou beyond all naming we gather this evening and Thanksgiving we give thanks for this gathered body for these shining faces and strong voices all gathered here in common purpose we give thanks for the presence of so many good hearts and bright spirits we give thanks for all those across the country who share our vision we give thanks for the power rising among your people we gather this evening in sorrow and sometimes in anger to see the suffering of your people the despair and destruction that has fallen over the land the forces of division and greed that would separate us from one another from the sacred ground of our Mother Earth from our holy purpose show us our task of reparation and healing [Music] we gather this evening in hope and encourage we believe in the vision of the people main home we believe a new day is still possible we ask for strength and power and clearness of sight as we seek to heal our people our land and our nation help us to walk in the paths of peace and justice and righteousness help us to announce this vision with joyful loving spirits that following us might join our cause [Music] bismillah domani rahim may our hearts be filled but the love and light that our Creator our motive originator are the goodness in this universe may be seek the good and the light in each and every one of our beings strangers friends family the other let us know for the love and the light we creates all the names we cherish all of your people we honor all the lands we rejoice in our togetherness man a powerful moment across the nation and if you would in the tradition of one tradition of Native people would all of us stand quietly for a second I need to know which way is due north from here which way is north is it this way Shh very sacred moment for that I want to ask us to turn north and honor all of the freedom fighters and the Justice seekers who have come from the north whose spirits yet speak to us from the north a task now that we would turn to the south that we would honor all of the freedom fighters with Justice seekers of all different races classes colors and sexualities that down through the years have come through the South who have stood their ground we're now turn to the right and honor to with all those freedom fighters all of those persons of faith persons not of faith who believed in the moral arc of the universe and had a great faith in justice and love and mercy let us honor that spirit now face the east and honor all of those who come from the eastern parts of the world who've had to stand whether it be in Tiananmen Square or wherever it has been those who have dared to stand for justice stand for love stand for mercy we honor them we honor their memory we honor their spirit I say you may be seated this is a movement that is open to everyone the Poor People's Campaign a national call for moral revival with a goal that we'll talk about at the end of having 40 days of simultaneous direct action in 25 states in the District of Columbia with no less than a thousand people in each state and 2,500 in the District of Columbia to launch in not commemorate but the launch a movement that will challenge will issue a moral challenge to the moral crisis of our time Reverend dr. lives the O'Hara's will speak tonight and help us to understand the vastness and the importance of this vision and why it is our time now to stand together we were going to show a video that would show you how people are connecting all over the country so that we can come out of despair and recognize that all over and not just because of trauma this movement is not because of Donald Trump because even if Hillary had been the Obama had four more years we would still need to address the issues [Applause] trumpism might exacerbate it the even if tomorrow he was impeached still we would have a third of this nation in poverty and I'll let Liz deal with those facts and figures right here in this state we'd still be dealing with issues that the poor people can't campaign sought to deal with 50 years ago racism militarism and poverty we have a moral crisis systemic racism is alive and we're a white nationalist and we're not talking about interpersonal whether you have a black friend or cliff's a black baby at a hurricane shelter in Houston the kind of institutional systemic racism and white supremacy we're talking about we're so clear on it from a policy perspective that you can be black and be a white nationalist if you really understand that white nationalism is not about statues but about statues and that the majority of these statues that were raised in this country were not raised after the Civil War they were raised after 1896 between 1896 and 1922 to celebrate two things the reincarnation and the re visitation of white policy supremacy not white people white polish the supremacy in the laws three things and to stand against black and white people working together who were the reconstruction is of the 1800s they were those statues were raised as a sign that after Plessy vs. Ferguson deconstruction had taken hold in America and the one particularly in Charlottesville was raised to honor the fact that white supremacist believed in 1914 15 16 and 17 that they had elected they had elected they white supremists to the White House named Woodrow Wilson 100 years ago before Bannon was ever in the White House Woodrow Wilson was playing Birth of a Nation in the White House so we cannot in this moment say we've never seen this before the fact of the matter is systemic racism by nationalism white supremacy whether we look at it through the lens of many things all the suppression immigration denial of immigration reform an attack on Muslims the tax on health care all that have their roots in white nationalism is not new but it is what nail painted a Princeton scholar says and an iconography of a very very too often carried out American activity call-and-response we have a call for justice it lasts a little while and then almost simultaneously or right along at the same time simultaneously or concurrently we have a response of hatred and extremism and vitriol we have to address the moral crisis of systemic racism liz is gonna tell you we got to address the moral crisis of systemic poverty right now one of the greatest examples of why we have to do that is that we went through an election last year we had 26 debates I know you're gonna talk about that if you will I let you that we share so we do partner preaching we share together 26 debates Democratic and Republican Democrat and Republican 26 primary and not one hour on systemic racism to elect the president of these new nitra we'd have one hour on voter suppression one hour on poverty and a third of this country lives in poverty working poor and poor the extreme poor we didn't have one hour on ecological devastation there wasn't one hour on the war economy and there wasn't one hour on the way in which the heretical theology of white Christian nationalism has too often taken over the moral conversation in this country [Applause] dadada I didn't say Republican primary or debates or they're not one hour we had more conversation about tweets and innuendos than we did about the substantive issues that impact the lives of the holes on the margin and the least of these and that should trouble us all and we need a movement that if it does nothing else will change the narrative and say no more you will no longer in this country continue to engage in attention violence against racism and poverty and ecological devastation and the war economy and our schizophrenic moral narrative that loves to put our hand on Bible at one on one hand and in our policies violate everything the Bible tells us to do for the least community and the herdin and the broken [Applause] why do we have to do this right last thing I want to mention is that right now nothing is more clear why we have to have a movement than this so-called tax bill and I'm not talking about the RIP that the Republicans pushed the Republicans say their tax bill will help the middle class the Democrats say their plan would hurt the middle class nobody is talking about the poor Democrats act like it's a curse word to say the poor Republicans when they say the poor they say it's a state of mind and people is a choice and people created and both of those are wrong and there must be a movement that changes that narrative right now they're talking about cutting 1.5 trillion dollars that's the same amount of money that some people want to cut from Medicaid and Medicare the amount of money they're cutting in the state tax is the same amount of money that some want to cut from education and other programs that help lift up the least of these and and and what everybody's talking about the middle class but not about how to predict this tax plan even if the partial of it would actually raise the kind of taxes that hurt poor people - most sell taxes on gas and clothing my friends a nation is in trouble a democracy is in trouble when systemic racism systemic poverty have so grabbed our national way of doing things that we can literally ignore that's a sin before all that is holy and we must have a movement not for the poor but with the pool that that that that that creates a stage for the poor to speak and to stand and to challenge the way things are going not because we believe we're gonna fix everything next year but because we know we won't fix anything unless we stand up together [Applause] we have to have a movement not to save a party and not to save any individual candidate but literally a movement to save the heart and soul of his nation itself and the reason we cannot walk away from moral language and we must have people of faith that will come into the public square along with people who may not be of a particular religious faith but they believe in the moral arc of the universe or they believe in the great tenants of the Constitution about the establishment of justice and the providing for the common good and promoting the general welfare or they've been oh they understand that theologically for instance for Christians and Jews there more than 2,500 scriptures about how you treat the least of these and those on the margins and the stranger they must we have to have a movement that is not afraid we're people of faith can put on their religious garb and if necessary go to jail because they will not be quiet they will not stop standing why because here is the ugly truth you would think that information is was still dealing with systemic racism and systemic poverty and ecological devastation and the war economy and so much false moral narrative in the public square you would think I would pray as a preacher that the nation would take a knee the nation that we would all bow down and repent but here's the fact of the matter far too much of our the religion in the public square is the cause of the problem that we have today and is giving cover to the oppressor rather than span against the oppressor and we have to have a movement where Jews and rabbis and Imams and Christians and other stand up and say we will no longer be chaplain to the Empire we will be profits to the nation so we're coming together we'll talk later about 1040 but right now the ultimate goal of the Poor People's Campaign a war of national call for more revival first is to put a face on the facts not just to talk about numbers but to talk about humanity in human beings so tonight we have some testimonies we have someone coming to talk about poverty to testify not to tell you how they pull themselves up are their own bootstraps and that everything is fine and folk just work hard but they're really give us a picture through their life and their living of what is the reality about poverty then we have a testimony about systemic racism the first one is from is that sister Buck's Buckmaster mashallah and then the Reverend called Livingstone is coming and then to talk about racism and then we have a testimony about the war economy from Gina Brewer with about face Veterans Against the War and then we have a testimony about ecological degradation now they can't do it all in tonight they're gonna need to talk about three minutes to the nation that thousands of people watching their face and that story will inform us as to why we have to have this movement and they're going to stand together because we have to have a movement that doesn't allow people to separate us and say well the people again from the war Connor over there the people are dealing with systemic racism over there the people fighting against power over there no in reality we have inter locking in justices and therefore we must have a inter-relational movement a fusion movement where we all stand together for each other and we bring each other and we transform the nation together so would you invite our testifiers to come at this time [Applause] make sure you say who you are [Applause] [Music] [Applause] my name is mashaallah Buckmaster I'm 28 years old and I'm the proud mother of a single I'm a proud single mom of a beautiful one-year-old named Ella I'm celebrating almost two years of clean and sober [Music] thank you very much I spent five years five or so more years homeless once during my homelessness a neighbor tried to assault me by throwing a log through the window of a empty building where I was squatting because he was so enraged that homeless people were living on his block I got Section eight housing after my daughter was born just before my organization began providing cold-weather shelter to our homeless members for a hundred and ten days last winter chaplains on the harbor hosted about 20 people in our church most of them Millennials who caught a record trying to survive in a County was no good jobs no decent affordable housing horrible health care and plenty of heroin business and property owners were outraged by our cold-weather shelter our homeless members were stalked by police a pastor was threatened with the vigilante violence the same man who tried to attack me during my own time squatting also also assaulted a 19 year old homeless member of our community on church property and later attempted to run him over with his truck I volunteered to stay overnight at our church and keep people safe while they slept I stayed there through the nights while the threats continued to pour in I stayed because my community stepped up to save my life when the rest of society didn't care whether I lived or died and now it was my turn to protect my community I'm joining the Poor People's Campaign because I need a movement that's as tough as I am poor and homeless people get a stereotype like we're too stupid and lazy to solve our own problems I wasn't homeless because I was stupid and lazy and I was homeless because because our county has no problem with the pregnant mothers being homeless in the dead of winter well just two hours away in Seattle the CEOs of Microsoft and Amazon have made themselves the richest individuals on the planet you tell me you've messed up in this situation some of you might be suspicious about a great Harford County person getting up here in front of this car thinking aren't they all just a bunch of rednecks out there yes I'm a redneck we are radical rednecks we're Hillbillies for the liberation of people a living reminder that when they went to throw out their white trash they didn't burn it we're here to stand shoulder to social shoulder to shoulder with anybody taking up this campaign and trust me for the kind of scrappy you want on your side in a fight yeah I'll pass the parallel extent professors he had a Central College and he senior pastor of Kingdom Christian Center I was here I'm here to speak on the invitation of deescalate washing and I want to tell you know about racism I grew up in hilltop arif Tacoma when African Americans had to be there and the police arrested you after dark when you went out the curity it's like Fircrest or even the north end of town soft sometimes how people's lives were endangered by police over policing overreacting and they were not held accountable I want to give you one quick story and then one other and stop one is that later I became an attorney that's after growing up on welfare kool-aid come on meal in the morning hot hot water cornbread and having to make ends meet I went to law school and when I came out I represented for free a person that had been arrested they told me he said they're concerned about the police beating him in jail I showed up he didn't show up in court I went up to the jail because the judge said your honor turn your client better be there tomorrow like I got to get more free time and I showed up he wasn't there wouldn't come out I said no I'm not gonna leave to you bring my client out the african-american was temporarily served because the person that would normally run the jail was not there and he let me back to go see my client I'm talking through the jail cell you got to be there tomorrow man and I'm doing free time and you gotta be nice with us all of us enough song crying I ran up to his bed and I saw him bucking and weaving but he couldn't move the jailer grabbed me and said you're not supposed to be in the salespeople to stay in the hall wes is my client i elbowed him back he told me said he'd better land three days in pee I couldn't move he had been hit in the stomach by some hard object so hard that he couldn't feel his legs and that he was hit only because he was asking for extra cover for in an inmate in jail we're standing up for justice that a justice affects us economically and in criminal justice system in every single way there's just one little story and it's affected my life but I spent most of my time trying to help others that's why I'm glad there's this Poor People's Campaign and I'm glad for deescalate Washington I'm glad that we have petitions out there and that we can hold police more accountable but I'm glad we can also stand up to make a difference we need you my name is Gina Bua and I'm the co-chair of about-face Veterans Against the War my story is like many other veterans stories I joined the army out of economic necessity my ex-husband had lost his job we had two children with no health insurance and a home that would soon be in poor closure I eventually came to the realization though in my military career that our nation's military is being used to support corporations so I made an about-face and joined my fellow veterans in our effort to end the war economy by defunding the military industrial complex [Applause] we cannot sustain our firm or economy with an annual defense budget of 611 billion dollars we must pass a people's budget to reduce defense spending and redirect taxpayer money towards education health care replacing mumbling infrastructure and building a sustainable energy grid as long as the defense industry lobbyists have a stranglehold on Congress we will not be able to pass the people's budget we must stand together and break the military industrial complex is hold on our political system and especially protect our children from military recruiters who target high schools in impoverished neighborhoods my name is rondalee Rowley özil goblins and I am the current chairperson of Gabriella Seattle we're a Filipino led grassroots organization that is fighting for national democracy in the Philippines the Philippines is a former colony of the United States and still today has a strong influence of US imperialism on the Philippine government military exercises with the Armed Forces of the Philippines and unequal treaties such as the visiting Forces Agreement and the defense defense cooperation agreement Trump plans on visiting Asia he's been in Korea right now plans on visiting the Philippines from November 12th until the 14th which will bring more poverty exploitation and oppression to the Philippine people the impact of US imperialism in its military presence and the women and the children including economic violence the Philippine government doesn't protect their people as we saw with the murder trial of private first class Joseph Scott Pemberton a US troop who killed the Filipino trans woman jennifer law day in order to have a truly free and sovereign Philippines we call on all US troops to be taken out of the Philippines we must be critical the increased military budget and call for government spending to be prioritized on social services such as health care education and immigration in the u.s. if we join forces we can redirect our country's economic resources to benefit the people instead of corporations and violent imperialist wars of aggression my name is Jim apollomon I am with doctrine of your local environmental justice organization give modern thanks to the Duwamish tribe and the practical sailor seems when we're on because they are the original defenders of the protector and protectors of in this environment have been fighting for generations and years to protect the environment also have been using alternatives to fossil fuels before we even started doing that in the US as a as a person growing up in Seattle living here majority of my life all of my almost all of my list all the three years I never considered myself an environmentalist even though I grew up with with the highway and the poor steel factory which is a Forbes 500 company right outside my window I had never heard about green jobs or food justice until I got involved with community organizing but I learned that because our communities are so strong and resilient and always willing to fight for each other this is also part of our work is to fight for the environment our home climate change is the greatest threat to racial justice and to our communities already majority of the polluting industries and Superfund sites are located near brought black and brown neighborhoods due to redlining and red racist land-use policies as a result people of color more likely to have asthma and respiratory problems and white people as well as be exposed to cancer and other health ailments and leading to lower life expectancy rates with the heat waves the droughts and the wildfires blowing smoke into our communities it's only getting worse and these ailments are exasperated right now Seattle is also becoming a wealthy green city for the wealthy and corporations it is one of the top five cities in America the highest concentration of rich Millennials and the recent census data shows that most of the people moving in are hurting over 100 a year as West Coast cities are boasting about their cutting their carbon emissions and growing their local economies steyr of us us housing prices and costs of food are skyrocketing and people of color and poor people are being put on the streets rapid gentrification is driving people further away from their social safety nets the resources and services would keep them resilient instead they are being pushed into each a hotspots flood zones and areas with less resources or worse they are becoming homeless and being exposed to extreme weather events and in the aftermath of climate to change disasters poor people and people of color the ones to lose their homes and cannot return as seen with Hurricane Katrina typhoon Haiyan superstorm sandy the eastern Washington forest fires and now Hurricane Maria we know that our communities are resilient but we and when we are kept together and it is our neighbors and our families who take care of each other and checking on each other not female not REDCROSS not eyes not seattle public depart Police Department it's our community community resilience means keeping it in the ground and I want to give a shout out to the no doubt coalition and the water protectors transition for an eponymous what are people in our planet thank you somebody repeat after me instead somebody herded my brother and it's gone on far too long somebody's hurting my sister and it's gone on far too long somebody's hurting Mother Earth and it's gone on far too long somebody is hurting the children and it's gone on far too long somebody's hurting black people and brown people and poor white people and it's gone on far too long somebody is pushing for too much war too much hate too much violence and it's gone on far too long and we won't be silent anymore testify now I'm going to ask figure way to stay up here or stay right in front so where were we Clint a couple of chairs but I want y'all close the leaves because in the tradition I come out of testifiers give you the reason the preach other teacher tells you what gives you the direction of what to do because whenever there are testifiers it should encourage all of us to stand up and be strong and the part of the point of these testifiers is to say we've been on fifteen of these these and wherever we go people can stand up and testified about the same realities of racism probably at the logic of the step devastation of the war economy and that is informing us that we have to be this movement so a moment I want to ask the choir to come and give us one quick song because because I've got to get dr. Harrison up tonight to talk about the issues that are in front of us and what we're talking about doing Reverend dr. lispy or Harris his assistant below I mean if you know her she has recently written a book entitled what Jesus really said about the poor she's a PhD in New Testament but she's an activist she's been on the streets she's argued in the suite she's assisted it's not afraid to stand up she understands interlocking in justices and to need and the need for an intersectional deeply moral deeply constitutional and raises anti-poverty protesta smooth Tyrod Center and others have been working for more than ten years and her and I asked to be prayer accept an invitation to be co-chairs of the Poor People's Campaign a national call for more about I want y'all to keep I know it's a long name but don't shorten it because we wanted people to know the Poor People's Campaign but we also know we have to challenge the moral hypocrisy of this nation sometimes people think what morality is about inspiration and other things about real real issues but no poverty is abolish budgets are moral documents she understand things so we said we would figure a way to combine the 10 years that Kairos isn't working on for people's campaign the 10 years of the moral might be a moral revival movement bring all of that together and begin to build from the states of this launching of whooping was campaigning in a national call for Laura she is my sister I love this girl I love for her strength and love of our commitment I love her for her integrity I told her I'm willing to stand with that go to jail and that and we're building in a way so that as you know dr. King was killed he did people forgetting why just him it was 25 does puppets get me and still happen people forget that and we're not deluded about what this means when you challenge power but we are committed to serve this moment not being a high profile evil but to serve this book and to help feel across this country so after the choir sings after the choir sings and I watch other and to come I want us to welcome a Deborah the Jewish rabbi would understand this a Deborah of our own season Deborah was a sister in the Bible who stood against oppression and when everybody wanted to quit Deborah said one word up is time to go up to battle and if we do God will take care of us I want you to honor a modern-day Deborah and and give her your attentive ears and your support right after this tremendous choir gives us a song give it up for them again give it up [Applause] [Music] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Music] [Applause] [Applause] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Applause] [Applause] [Applause] [Music] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Applause] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] well y'all remember this now [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] let's hear it one more time for that amazing fire in in one more time will you will you turn to your neighbor and and touch their hand or give them a hug or give them a greeting [Music] all right so it is an honor to be with you all tonight and it is especially an honor to serve as co-chair of the Poor People's Campaign a national call from war revival with the Reverend dr. William Jay Farber so you all just listen to some powerful testimonies and you all seem to be a people that are very engaged in what's happening so I actually don't need to tell you that we are living in very difficult and very dangerous times our nation is mired in Foreign Wars there is the increased militarization of our communities while poverty and systemic racism environmental destruction brings gender and class inequalities are all mounting we've been on the road for about two and a half months and we if we look at what's been going on in in our country in our world since we started this 15 state tour there are storms raging and destroying the lives and livelihoods of especially the most vulnerable in Texas and Florida and North Carolina and California and Porter and so many places there is a concerted attack on our immigrant brothers and sisters with the revocation of daca the building of wall increased attention and deportation we have neo-nazis marching on our streets and black and brown and poor bodies being murdered by police the latest shooting just yesterday and other massive outbreaks of violence in the recent weeks demonstrating that people are being dehumanized that life isn't seen as sacred and now our politicians are sending a message that hate not love roll supreme in our land feature just is tens of millions of people in our nation are on the brink of losing their health care and if the current budget that is being proposed passes it will be the largest transfer of wealth from the bottom to the top since the u.s. Civil War all of this made me think about Jeremiah 6 earlier today if you read from the message translation it says everyone's after the dishonest dollar little people and big people prophets and priests and everyone in between twist words and doctor truth they dressed the wound of my people as though it were not serious peace peace they say Bubba when there is no peace that's right my people are broken shattered and they put on band-aids saying it's not so bad you'll be just fine but things are not just fine if suppose that they are embarrassed over this outrage no they have no shame though sir they don't even know how to blush there's no hope for them they pit bottom and there's no getting up as far as I'm concerned they're finished God has spoken but God reminds us stand at the crossroads and look ask for those ancient paths where those freedom fighters have gone before ask where the good way is and walk in it and you will find life for your soul consider the facts of what's happening in our nation one and two people in the United States as poor or low-income 43% of children live in families that don't have enough to survive there are 65 million workers who are making less than $50 an hour and our politicians are saying peace peace when there is no peace here in Washington State 11% of the population lives below the federal poverty line 26% of Native Americans 23% of African Americans 19 and a half percent of Latin X people and while the percentage of white people living in poverty is lower the greatest younger of poor people in Washington State in Oregon in Alaska are people consider the massive systemic racism that is taking place in these states things like voter suppression because of felony disenfranchisement in terms of the violence that police are enacting in our communities the kind of environmental racism that folks are facing consider that in Washington State 20 23 percent of children living under 18 are living in households without Ahmed food that in Oregon 26 percent of children living in houses under 18 living in households that don't have enough food and health care or in Alaska that 20 percent are living in households without adequate housing I mean just think about the reality of what is going on in our world today in Washington State the living wage for an adult and one child for a two-person family is $24 and 74 cents an hour but what is the minimum wage in this state it's $11 it's less than half of what you need to survive to H teach in Oregon an adult and a child would need to make nearly $25 an hour the minimum wage there is ten dollars and 25 cents an hour in Alaska you'd have to make close to twenty four dollars and seventy five cents the minimum wage in Alaska is nine dollars and 80 cents and then let's think about where that money is going in Washington State Washington spent twelve point six billion dollars on a defense budget just just just last year Oregon spent 1.3 Alaska spent 3.3 billion and has the is in the top ten states for Anchorage used by the military even though it has a smaller competition and if we look at the problem of illogical destruction there's just rampant oil spillage pollution water being tainted and it's it's across all of this area the entire Pacific Northwest and just in the and what's left because of the timber industry I mean just all of this it causes a crisis and then just to get a little more specific you know just a cute few hours from here and great barbar and as the highest youth criminalization rate for non criminal sorry highest youth incarceration rate for non criminal offenses in the entire nation kids are being tapped in solitary confinement being mean to relieve themselves in their cells kids kids are doing this in the richest nation in the country I mean in the world in in a in a in a state that has the richest people in the world there are tax going on against homeless encampments across Washington across Oregon and I don't know if folks saw some of the analysis coming out around the tax cuts that were being proposed that last week and the impact that they would have here on Washington state one of the parts of the proposed plan is to repeal the federal estate tax on estates worth more than five point million five point five million dollars or ten point nine million dollars for couples so Wow there are only 90 wealthy families in Washington state that would be subject to that tax next year if they eliminate this tax the lost revenue from eliminating it would amount to a sum that would cover food nutritional benefits for two hundred thousand people teach less teach with all of this we hear peace peace but there is no peace we need a moral revolution of values this poor people's campaign we need to save the heart and soul of our society and of our democracy in one of his last books from 1967 where do we go from here chaos or community Reverend dr. King talks about a similar crisis that was happening about 50 years ago a moral crisis that was focused on the real moral social issues of his day racism poverty the lack of health care Foreign Wars not issues of personal behavior so he says we must see now that the evils of racism economic exploitation and militarism are all tied together they can't get rid of one without getting rid of the other Jesus confronted this problem of interrelatedness of evil one day or rather it was one night a big shot came to him and he asked Jesus a question what shall I do to be saved Jesus didn't get bogged down in a specific evil he looks at Nicodemus and he said now he didn't say now Nicodemus you must not drink liquor he didn't say Nicodemus you must not commit adultery he didn't say Nicodemus if you must not lie he didn't say you must not steal he said Nicodemus you must be born again in other words Nicodemus the whole structure of your life must be changed now this is what we are healing in America somebody must say to America America if you have contempt for life if you exploit human beings by seeing them as less than human if you will treat human beings as a means to an end you thing afire those human beings and if you will think of five persons you will exploit them economic and if you will exploit persons economically you will abuse your military power to protect your economic interests your economic exploitations so what America must be told today is that she must be born again [Applause] this poor people's campaign a national call for more revival stands for the end of systemic racism white nationalism and white supremacy the dismantling of unjust criminalization systems that exploit and incarcerate poor communities communities of color and unjust immigration policies that punished detain and separate families we believe that equal protection under the law is non-negotiable we believe that people should not live in or die from poverty in the richest nation ever to exist right of all people to living wages to guaranteed income to quality healthcare to housing and clean water and sanitation services and equality and health communities and free access to quality education blame any poor people and claiming that the United States does not have an abundance of resources our false narratives used to perpetrate exploitation exclusion and inequality America your whole structure of life must change in the transformation of the war economy into a peace economy that values all humanity [Applause] in the words of the Reverend dr. King a society that spends more on the military than it does on education or health or other caring for its people is approaching spiritual death and we stand for an end to ecological devastation the buying and selling of the earth's resources to benefit a few wealthy corporations is not okay it will stop with us the detrimental impacts of climate change especially on the poor and marginalized cannot be the way into the future and we believe that renewable energy is within reach and it will lessen the demands that we have on fossil fuels and therefore help communities impacted by extreme extraction like fracking and mountaintop removal these oil pipelines and all of these things that are devastating our communities and when we explore the interconnections of these issues with systemic racism poverty the war economy and ecological devastation we hear a lot of resonance to that quote from dr. King we see how systemic racism allows us to the deny the humanity of our brothers and sisters and when a nine the humanity of others we are given permission to exploit and exclude people from the economy and from other parts of life and by exploiting and excluding people we are emboldened to abuse our military power and through violence and war control resources and this quest to control resources leads to the potential destruction of our entire ecosystem and everything that lives in it and if we don't see how our current moral narrative justifies the cycle and distracts us from it then we're not paying attention [Applause] [Music] so many you know revolution of values we need a rabbi home we need a breakthrough we need a poor people's campaign and so we are building one [Applause] [Music] [Applause] 50 years after dr. king and Cesar Chavez and Hank Adams and other leaders called for a Poor People's Campaign we see what king called of a new and unsettling force a freedom church of the poor a non-violent marnya the poor is rising up and this movement of a Poor People's Campaign a national call for more revival includes families living with poison water in Flint Michigan and homeless encampments in California and Oregon and Washington State it includes impacted families in the Gulf Coast from the BP oil spill and from everything else that is taking place there it includes families calling for hugs not walls on the us-mexico border where we just were a couple weeks ago with families reaching out across a faith border with three minutes with their families trying to be raided because of unjust immigration it includes families without sanitation services and with kids playing in raw sewage and Lounge Callie Alabama it includes people fighting for health care in Vermont and Maine and Pennsylvania and North Carolina low workers low wage workers struggling to pay their bills while the minimum wage is far from a living wage and vets who are coming back from fighting unjust Wars to continue to struggle to provide for their families and millions of people who face poverty and its many cruel forms across this country every day this group of people is rising up we are calling for a Poor People's Campaign we are saying the National that we need a national moral revival to restore the streets to live in [Applause] so so this is what we're about as king was talking about in 1967 he got onto the radio and said he was going to announce that we needed a poor people's campaign and he says there is nothing wrong with a traffic law which says that you have to stop for a red light but when a fire is raging the fire truck goes right through that red light and normal traffic had been get had better get out of its way or when a man is bleeding to death the ambulance goes through those red lights at top speed there is a fire raging now for the poor of this society they are living in tragic conditions because of the terrible economic and justices that keep them locked in disinherited people all over the world are bleeding to death from deep social and economic wounds they need brigades of ambulance drivers who will have to ignore the red lights of the presence until the emergency is solved obediently the strategy for social change wouldn't that be as for scoring as an ambulance within staggering his prime phone and so we are here this evening in Seattle Washington to invite you all to be brigades of ambulance drivers will you sign up today to join into a non-violent civil disobedience movement will you join us in this coming spring starting on Mother's Day May 13 and going for 40 days until June 21st to be a part of 40 days of non-violent civil disobedience a season of more resistance a season of there will be people from 25 states across the country and Washington DC who are going to sign up a thousand people who are willing to engage in nonviolent sales obedience over the course of those 40 days in and there'll be 2500 people in Washington DC at the same time those 40 days will be will be include education and culture and marches and protests and between now and then we are connecting with folks in those states in in Washington State in Oregon in Alaska and saying will you all be the ambulance drivers that we need for this [Applause] state capital and imagine what that will be we have heard from historians that never before in the history of this country have twenty five thousand people simultaneously gotten engaged and nonviolent civil civilians at state capitals so this will be something that is historic and big but it's also just what is needed we have to breathe through the narrative that is happening in our country we have to break through the ignoring of of the issues that affect us and we need to be able to come together across the different lines that at this point divide us to a unified movement that calls for for the man to systemic racism an end to poverty an end to this war economy and end to the ecological devastation that is racking our communities and ruining our lives and livelihoods and our futures in our children's future so are you ready I did it ambulance drivers waved a hand [Music] now what I asked you first to give it up for this prophetess this prophet lisby O'Hara [Music] now what you just to give us just a few minutes you're an ambulance driver now let's mention the issues this movement is also has an agenda we're writing an agenda called the souls of poor folks auditing America that will not only curse the darkness but will also show the light because there are answers to all these problems if you took thirty million dollars from the war economy we could in coming across the world if we took some money from the war economy you know if you can blow the world up about seven times I don't think you need to be able or dove anymore that's seven times too many it is not scarcity of resources it is scarcity of we it is also that too often people as laser said have said peace peace where there is no peace but also we and the progressives revolution is whatever we call ourselves we've often bought into the narrative for instance many of us call ourselves on the left and we called him on the right and then we try to debate and say they're wrong after you've called on the right we need a movement that doesn't buy into language that is given to us but a movement language of itself the let language of left versus right and Democrat versus Republican it is too puny we need some moral language that can say there's something that are right and something that are long [Music] we've done some mapping we found out if you put a map up and you start with just one of the penetration points of of racism which is which is voter suppression and you put voter suppression on the map and then you overlay that map of the United States with all the states and have the highest level of poverty and child poverty and women in poverty and black people in poverty and natives in poverty and then you overlay that map with the states that have the greatest need for health care and the greatest resistance to health care and then you overlay that map with the greatest needs for living wages under states that are most resistant to living wages and you overlay that map of the states that have the greatest ecological devastation and the highest attacks on gay people in the highest attacks on the immigrant community and the highest density of prison are prisons and the highest and the lowest density of labor rights and after you color already and we found that it's the same maps so what that means is the same people that are against the LGBT community are against public education saying I'm against public education against Voting Rights the same people against voting rights against curtailing the walking cutting the same people against curtailing the war economy are against living wages the same people against living wages are against healthcare the same people against healthcare are against our Hispanic and other immigrant brothers and sisters the same people against our Hispanic and and other immigrant mother sisters are against Muslims and are xenophobic and the same people that are xenophobic are also against protecting the environment and to say people that are against protecting the environment also want to undermine the ability for everybody to have health care not as a something you get based on what President isn't often but as a human right and what at the bay the map shows us that it made us cynical enough to be together we must be smart enough to come together and in the process of coming together we might even redeem some of them and they might come and start standing with up for the hotness of all humanity and I miss something that's why we're together [Applause] not order the food and as this says they've never been 25,000 people we're not asking for 300 million of the 355 million people but for a remnant 25 thousand people that will act in concert notice tonight we didn't take up an offer because we're building to leave everything in the States we don't have another commemorations no need to commemorate what they did 50 years ago and say oh how great it was there's no need to commemorate the march across the Edmund Pettus Bridge when we have less voting rights today than we had 1965 at some point we have to imitate not commemorate [Applause] and what we're saying is if you have a thousand people 150 a week I'm just saying we can't tell you all the tactics we're gonna do that too quiet tomorrow as you know but but the tactics and it's simultaneous not Washington doing something one day and Carolina's doing something another day and New York doing simultaneous do you know we can take over the new cycle if we change the narrative we can work on the agenda and people start hearing themselves in the agenda that's 100 150 million people that are poor working poor they will stop participating as a lot of time the reason they're not participating because they do not hear their name or their conditions and imagine if we do that and then imagine if after 40 days 25,000 people engaged and so what this will be but you're not going to go to jail but we're saying if you try to take our rights oh shut up we will go to jail and what if 25,000 people end what if it started out in the Statehouse and then they had to report over 250,000 in Ryan's office I mean 250 million rounds off of animatronics off and you say well why are you talking around in the counter because the president is temporary but the Congress makes laws that are permanent and state houses if voting voter suppression starts in state houses races laws about about guns not in Statehouse denial of health care state houses and what if we do this and then after the 40 days what if we then those same valve but go back and deal power to do relationships and register to vote all of the people who've been left down and what if we make it so never again again any political party ignore these issues [Applause] [Music] I said I said there is and we've talked about it often I wonder I don't I don't think about fixing everything next year we need a movement not a woman we need to revive a lot of rally we need a turning point not another tweet we need folk that will engage for the long haul not just send one email tomorrow that we need not to just sign up for a period of picked up a petition to impeach the president we need a movement that can send them off and keep hopefully being elected in the first place you see what I'm saying and so I said you know it comes a point in life that you have to say what we do may not change everything but doing nothing that's not gonna change anything and at some point in your life Reverend you have to say I've never died trying then to live 100 years and be written on my hip or tear all this stuff was going on [Applause] we didn't read the sign up there are 40,000 plus people online today as far away from wrong right now people are saying it's time 40,000 people Plus this room and we have enough people in here to get the first thousand in a moment on what a hash yarrow that thing I know she doesn't know a little bit of walk with me while they're getting these cards but before you do that Lara I want to say one more thing I want all the preachers to come up here rabbis Imams I want the chapters on the harbor some of the activists I want to stand around because this is the time where we need the preachers and the Imams and the rabbis not to just bless the foot when they go to jail we need to go to jail with both come on all around all look at all but y'all celebrate there's some desam for kind of decide understand even right in front here they decided it we need some partners to the nation look at in America there's somebody ready to disagree with Jeff are well there's somebody ready to disagree with Franklin Graham there's somebody that understands that anybody to try to tell you that a true moral agenda is nothing more than hating gay people and and and being against abortion and being for prayer in the school and being for property rights and being for gun rights and trying to make sure that you can convince people that Jesus was an original member of the NRA that is not true theology that is a form of heresy that we are prepared to challenge [Music] [Applause] we understand as clergy that any time you go in and pray PR a wife or a president while that president is praying PR my IMG on the least of these you have just committed theological malpractice and as we get ready Pelican minute yahwah has we gettin ready to do these cards now i want you to know these are the smart system I know she is smarter than me and she's but she didn't think of this first I do all right I didn't think of it first dr. King was tremendous but like all of human beings he was human he didn't think of this first no twenty six hundred years ago the Prophet Amos was dealing with the situation where he had a narcissistic ego maniac on the front and he had unleashed a whole system of narcissism and greed and God told Amos to give to people two directions one tell y'all what he said I want to read it from the message about my Hebrews little rusty tonight Amos chapter five Amos said people God said tell I'll tell the fraud but people hate this kind of talk Rob truth is never popular but here it is bluntly spoken to the nation nation you're running roughshod over the poor you're taking the bread right out of their mouths and because you're doing this you're never going to move into your luxurious homes and or illegal I mean let me stay with the tips you're never gonna drink wine from the expensive vineyards a misfire says I don't know God says I know precisely the extent of your violations of the nation I know the enormity of your sins and here they are as a nation that too many folks who are bullying right living people you take bribes on the right and on the left this is in the Bible and you keep the poor when they're down justice seems like a lost cause evil looks like it's epidemic decent people are beginning to just throw up their hands protests sometimes looks useless but I need some people verse 14 that will see good and not evil if this nation is gonna live I mean you talk about god bless israel god bless america that's what you talk about you skew claim that god is your best friend well then live like it and maybe that will happen but in order for it to happen I need some people I need a few folk a remnant who will evil in love and then I need that remnant to work it out in the public square I need some priests and others that will no longer just stay in the SEC safety of their sanctuary but I need some people who will work it out in the public square and maybe if you get in the public square I will notice that you're trying to do something and then I'll give you assistance verse 16 says the god of Angel armies said so if you want to change the nation go out into the streets and cry loud I need some people that will fill up the malls and the shops with the cries of doom and you weep loudly and make the nation we need you man into the offices to store the factories the workplaces non-violently I need you to enlist everybody into a general lament the challenge what's going on because God says I want to hear that remnant crying loudly and if I can get a remnant that won't go along with the talking points if I can get a remnant that will challenge what's going on God says then I'll make my visit could it be that until the faithful an activist stand with the oppressed in the public square the crises can't be obeyed could it be that we've gotten to the point now that another tweets not going to just signing another petitions not gonna do it just signing another email is not gonna do it could it be that God is saying to us if I have a remnant that will dare go down to the place of power and challenge what's going on and understand that the rejected can lead the revival that the broken can lead a breakthrough could it be that we can change but things but there will only happen if we work it out in the public square if we're women to take our fate in our heart series and our man into the puppet sweat I believe it's time to do that and I'm here to tell you that Amos is dead Jeremiah is dead Moses is dead Muhammad is dead the disciples are dead we have Lord garrison a white demolitionists dead Frederick Douglass is dead rabbi he Shaw is dead Martin King dead Rosa Parks dead Dorfman a dead Lucretia Rock my dead Coretta Scott dead confident Malcolm dead James Reid dead Biola the wizard dead but guess what we are their children and we are here and as time for us to be the remnant that can transform the nation is for us to be the remnant that will work at it in the public square if we do our children's children will call our names because we did not surrender we did not give up on this democracy we did not give up on justice we did not give up on love but instead we stood together and we fought to save the heart and the soul of this democracy and this world are you ready [Applause] if you're ready hold your cards up and pass those cards to the inside don't move pass them to the inside two people are coming down the middle line we got two more things to do before you leave there quick pass them to the inside Yara come right here walk with me you do it your way [Music] every card you can say if you can't do the civil disobedience sign up the healthy those online go to Poor People's Campaign wwwwww breach repairs or go to the Carroll Center website we need 25,000 out of 355 dr. King said if he could have gotten 3000 and they did and they made difference anymore cause anybody need cars now we gotta ask one thing who's the oldest person here anybody here over Haiti and about over 85 anybody over 86 87 come in my system [Applause] [Applause] [Music] my sister what's your name Marilyn Warner I need to ask you to look at me just a second now this is very serious because in movements you oughta ask permission of the elders because we're getting ready to stand on the work that you did and you and others did long before we were here we're not acting like we're the first ones to get on the scene but tonight as we do it every man's meaning Liz and I we want to ask if we have put the permission of the elders to take up this movement and to ask some of you to suit up another time because you've been through a lot of battles what sister Marilyn is that right do we have your permission on behalf of the elders to take out this way [Music] [Music] this is the youngest child in that can answer question to all the young ones look at me if we do this we will be messing in your future we may not finish but we will be creating something that can make things better but it also means you may have to struggle something I want to know from you do we have permission from you to fight for justice and love do we have permission to fight to make a better world to strive to make a better world for you to live in do we have your permission as young people to try to help the poor do you want us to help the poor do you want us to help people you do we have your permission thank you so much [Music] everybody grab a hand who has to come up and get from the clergy I want us to get from the clergy this is how you get ready for not tonight we saw Harland there's an eye and others that you would allow us to come did you notice tonight we haven't taken up an offering because it needs max meters we want to leave all the resources in the state we're not trying to build a national body for repairs or for catharsis we want everything that done to be able to continue to build here state by state you don't have a national movement by giving up address in DC you national lumen by nationalizing state movers change in America came from Birmingham Oh from Selma oh you see what I'm saying it never came that way and it came from up it has to be we keep wanting these parties to do better they can't do better unless there's a movement in the street a moral movement a rule of consciousness that changes the political climate so that they can't even do what they thought they were elected to do and that's our job and God the God the God of the known by many names the spirit the moral arc of the universe promises to be with us it will never be that really it is not want to thank each of you I'm gonna step out for some reason we've been on the road and preserving I would love to shake every hand in here because I'm a hugger but we've got to preserve our strengths on we've been on the road two straight months and flying back and forth we may not ever come back here but because it's gonna be for you to hold the movement where's Aaron and it's been and we came here cuz you already got movement here where she had chaplains in the heart because it isn't it's not like the people around yet have to figure out how to do move and so we're just honored that you would even think about Washington and Alaska and Oregon taking up this to transform this nation my brothers and sisters it is Liz has told us we cannot let anybody regardless of the political thing and I don't know what she chose that intention but I was reading that this morning so it must be the spirit that you can't keep letting folks like peace peace peace when there is no peace and the systems you're running now are destroying the lives of people especially when we know we can do better and so one more time y'all would you have focusing it together join her walk with me and you may nicely walk with these spirit [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] Wow fine for Justin [Music] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] so you think everybody for coming and I want to close people out with one wonderful from us from dr. King he says the poor and dispossessed of this nation live a truly unjustice unjust society if they can be helped to take action together they will do so with a freedom and a power that will be a new and unsettling force and our complacent national life and as he says that she said we're about building a freedom church a non-violent army of before and that that army is rising up to break every chain of injustice of lack of freedom poverty of racism militarism a colossal devastation and so we thank you for being here we thank you for answering this call for joining in this work and for us to work together move forward in power and images it until we and all of these evils and so is making real in all of our lives so make sure that you connect with people that you've never met before you leave and we think the folks here at intellectual house and the folks that have been on stand before us for welcoming us into this place and and this is just the beginning you
