1 00:00:14,920 --> 00:00:19,400 Hello everyone, this is Michael Moore and this is my podcast. 2 00:00:19,560 --> 00:00:21,880 Welcome. Thank you for joining me. 3 00:00:23,160 --> 00:00:30,120 Well, it's another crazy week. I should just record that line 4 00:00:30,120 --> 00:00:33,080 once and just put it on a continuous loop and begin every 5 00:00:33,080 --> 00:00:36,640 podcast this way. But on each week, I I don't 6 00:00:36,640 --> 00:00:40,080 know, I keep hoping, well, OK, I think we've hit the total limit 7 00:00:40,080 --> 00:00:43,240 of madness. And then the next week happens. 8 00:00:44,520 --> 00:00:49,040 So on today's podcast, I've got a special thing I'm going to 9 00:00:49,520 --> 00:00:54,080 play for you from students who been leading the protests on the 10 00:00:54,080 --> 00:00:58,360 campuses and they had a press conference here a couple of 11 00:00:58,360 --> 00:01:01,200 weeks ago a group of them group of colleges. 12 00:01:02,240 --> 00:01:06,360 I never again, I I saw nothing of this on any kind of 13 00:01:06,360 --> 00:01:09,560 mainstream media didn't seem to be covered. 14 00:01:10,040 --> 00:01:14,800 And because we've this podcast has been we've been going to 15 00:01:15,480 --> 00:01:19,280 various campuses and handing the microphone over to the students 16 00:01:19,600 --> 00:01:21,920 so that their voices are heard. I'm going to do that one more 17 00:01:21,920 --> 00:01:27,160 time again here on this podcast. But before we do that, let's 18 00:01:27,160 --> 00:01:32,720 just dig in for a few minutes into what has transpired in the 19 00:01:32,720 --> 00:01:37,240 last week or so. Two main things that seem to 20 00:01:37,240 --> 00:01:41,200 have crossed the line that just when I think we've already 21 00:01:41,400 --> 00:01:47,080 crossed every possible line, then a new line, One that you 22 00:01:47,080 --> 00:01:52,320 would never expect to happen, even even though the line is 23 00:01:52,320 --> 00:02:00,000 being crossed by mega heads and crazy Republicans and vicious 24 00:02:00,000 --> 00:02:02,640 right wingers and white supremacists and whatever, Just, 25 00:02:02,920 --> 00:02:06,360 you know, we've now seen it all starting back in, you know, 26 00:02:06,360 --> 00:02:09,560 2015. That was really long before 27 00:02:09,560 --> 00:02:12,120 that. But my brain can just handle so 28 00:02:12,120 --> 00:02:14,160 much. And then I have to erase things 29 00:02:14,160 --> 00:02:17,240 that were going on in 2003 and onward. 30 00:02:17,240 --> 00:02:20,600 But, and now that I've just said that, see, I've already erased 31 00:02:20,600 --> 00:02:23,400 the fact that I got some nice notes from people this week. 32 00:02:24,040 --> 00:02:27,640 This was the 20th anniversary of US winning the Palm Door, the 33 00:02:27,640 --> 00:02:31,600 top prize at the Cannes Film Festival for Fahrenheit 9/11. 34 00:02:32,840 --> 00:02:37,160 And normally, you know, if this was just a normal podcast, we'd 35 00:02:37,600 --> 00:02:41,440 maybe take a few minutes and celebrate that incredible moment 36 00:02:41,560 --> 00:02:46,160 that a documentary film was awarded the top prize in Cannes 37 00:02:46,960 --> 00:02:50,000 and what that meant and what it did and everything that happened 38 00:02:50,000 --> 00:02:51,400 in the weeks and months after that. 39 00:02:51,400 --> 00:02:55,560 And maybe I'll find a moment or two during this 20th anniversary 40 00:02:55,560 --> 00:02:58,440 year for Fahrenheit 9/11 and share some of that with you. 41 00:02:58,440 --> 00:03:02,000 Things that I always thought, someday I'll put this in a book 42 00:03:02,200 --> 00:03:05,480 and I will, but I maybe I'll just, I'll share it with you, 43 00:03:05,480 --> 00:03:09,200 the podcast listeners here, 'cause you've been such a good, 44 00:03:09,440 --> 00:03:11,640 a good group of people. I love hearing from you. 45 00:03:12,080 --> 00:03:14,800 I read all your letters. I read all your comments. 46 00:03:15,240 --> 00:03:18,560 Occasionally I'm able to reply, but I hate to even promise you 47 00:03:18,560 --> 00:03:21,200 that because I'm just so busy with, you know, the various 48 00:03:21,200 --> 00:03:23,400 things we've got coming up this year and next year. 49 00:03:24,440 --> 00:03:29,280 And I know you'd rather me be doing my day job, so we'll get 50 00:03:29,280 --> 00:03:31,880 to all of that. But thanks to those who sent me 51 00:03:31,880 --> 00:03:35,560 something nice about the 20th anniversary of our palm door 52 00:03:35,560 --> 00:03:42,880 when and can that means a lot. So I just wanted to just say a 53 00:03:42,880 --> 00:03:44,960 couple things about this week because. 54 00:03:45,360 --> 00:03:47,360 And I just thought, why are you putting off telling them what 55 00:03:47,360 --> 00:03:49,520 you want to say? And I thought, well, yeah, 56 00:03:49,520 --> 00:03:55,520 because it's not that I'm scared, it's just that I realize 57 00:03:55,800 --> 00:04:00,120 we're in a heap of, it's not trouble, it's worse than 58 00:04:00,120 --> 00:04:06,040 trouble. We've got an ugly year right now 59 00:04:06,240 --> 00:04:07,760 that we're in, that we're facing. 60 00:04:08,920 --> 00:04:14,680 And well, I don't put anything past Trump or his cohorts this 61 00:04:14,680 --> 00:04:17,920 past week, these two things that happened really reminded me 62 00:04:17,920 --> 00:04:22,880 that, oh, that's right, we're in a big mess and the mess is 63 00:04:23,000 --> 00:04:27,240 staring us right in the eye. It really did it to me this 64 00:04:27,240 --> 00:04:29,360 week. And I thought, well, I've got to 65 00:04:29,360 --> 00:04:31,440 really think about how do we deal with this? 66 00:04:32,360 --> 00:04:36,880 How do we, the majority. That's everybody who believes 67 00:04:36,880 --> 00:04:39,400 that women should have the right to control their own bodies, 68 00:04:39,400 --> 00:04:42,720 Everybody who believes that what's happening to our earth is 69 00:04:42,720 --> 00:04:45,800 actually happening. That's everybody who believes 70 00:04:45,800 --> 00:04:52,560 that $7.25 an hour is not anything near a living wage. 71 00:04:53,240 --> 00:04:59,240 In fact, it's enforced poverty. That's the majority of us, 5560. 72 00:04:59,240 --> 00:05:04,880 Five, 75% of us, in some cases 90% of us. 73 00:05:05,600 --> 00:05:09,120 When it comes to wanting more gun control laws or wanting 74 00:05:09,120 --> 00:05:13,640 more, I mean, the vast majority of Americans agree with what I'm 75 00:05:13,640 --> 00:05:20,760 saying right now. 20 years ago, not so much. 30, 30-40 years 76 00:05:20,760 --> 00:05:23,240 ago. Well, I know it was a little 77 00:05:23,240 --> 00:05:26,920 lonely out on that limb, but that's OK, I thought. 78 00:05:26,920 --> 00:05:28,680 I thought what I believed in was right. 79 00:05:28,680 --> 00:05:32,160 And and a lot of you did too. And we all kind of stuck 80 00:05:32,160 --> 00:05:34,720 together. And then here we are now we're 81 00:05:34,720 --> 00:05:37,960 the majority majority of Americans agree with us. 82 00:05:39,080 --> 00:05:44,800 And that has frightened, frightened the white, Christian, 83 00:05:45,200 --> 00:05:50,360 former majority of this country. And they're not going to go away 84 00:05:50,360 --> 00:05:52,800 quietly. And they made that very clear 85 00:05:52,800 --> 00:05:57,600 this week. Two stories that appeared in the 86 00:05:57,600 --> 00:06:02,520 press this week #1. Unbeknownst to any of us, 87 00:06:02,800 --> 00:06:05,000 though, somebody must have known 'cause. 88 00:06:05,000 --> 00:06:09,880 This happened over three years ago, after the vicious, violent 89 00:06:10,400 --> 00:06:13,680 attempt to overthrow the election of 2020. 90 00:06:14,160 --> 00:06:21,920 On January 610, days after that, Supreme Court Justice Samuel 91 00:06:21,920 --> 00:06:30,200 Alito had a flag on his flagpole in the yard of his beautiful 92 00:06:30,200 --> 00:06:37,680 house in the DC area had a flag that had become, in those short 93 00:06:37,680 --> 00:06:43,240 couple of weeks, the symbol for the January 6th rioters. 94 00:06:44,440 --> 00:06:47,240 Because so many of them have been arrested, they were going 95 00:06:47,240 --> 00:06:50,440 to be put on trial. So this what they called 96 00:06:50,440 --> 00:06:53,200 themselves. The stop the steal moment, the 97 00:06:53,200 --> 00:06:56,680 stealing meeting, stealing the election, stop the steal. 98 00:06:57,200 --> 00:07:02,160 Their symbol became flying the American flag upside down, and 99 00:07:02,160 --> 00:07:06,800 all of a sudden tons of right wingers around the country, 100 00:07:07,720 --> 00:07:12,280 including in DC, started flying the American flag upside down. 101 00:07:15,080 --> 00:07:26,200 And this past week, photos, video surfaces of the Alito home 102 00:07:27,920 --> 00:07:34,280 with its Stop the steel upside down flag flying at his home, a 103 00:07:34,280 --> 00:07:38,280 justice, a conservative right wing justice of the Supreme 104 00:07:38,280 --> 00:07:46,680 Court who at that time was and would become involved with 105 00:07:46,960 --> 00:07:52,760 having to hear all of Trump's appeals because he was claiming 106 00:07:52,760 --> 00:07:54,400 that the election was stolen from him. 107 00:07:55,480 --> 00:07:58,240 So while he's hearing all this, while it's going between 108 00:07:58,240 --> 00:08:01,280 different appeals courts and then some of it went up to the 109 00:08:01,280 --> 00:08:07,200 Supreme Court and he's voting on this stuff just like with 110 00:08:07,200 --> 00:08:11,000 Clarence Thomas, his wife having been part of the January 6th 111 00:08:11,360 --> 00:08:17,040 uprising. And he's just very publicly 112 00:08:17,040 --> 00:08:23,120 flying this, this flag upside down in support of, I would 113 00:08:23,120 --> 00:08:28,120 assume, the thousands of other people around the country who 114 00:08:28,120 --> 00:08:32,960 are doing the same thing, standing up for the those who 115 00:08:32,960 --> 00:08:39,760 got arrested on January 6th. This is a justice of the Supreme 116 00:08:39,760 --> 00:08:42,760 Court. This is a justice who's going to 117 00:08:42,760 --> 00:08:46,120 hear the things that are before the court right now regarding 118 00:08:46,120 --> 00:08:48,240 these trials that Trump is in the middle of. 119 00:08:48,640 --> 00:08:51,520 They have the power to stop these these trials, except for 120 00:08:51,520 --> 00:08:56,640 the one that's going on right now this month, the hush money 121 00:08:56,640 --> 00:08:59,200 trial in New York. That's a state trial, but the 122 00:08:59,200 --> 00:09:02,480 other ones are federal and they could just shut this sucker 123 00:09:02,480 --> 00:09:06,800 right down. Why didn't we know about this? 124 00:09:08,040 --> 00:09:09,800 Why didn't those pictures surface? 125 00:09:11,280 --> 00:09:17,040 Why are we finding out now that one of the 9 justices and two if 126 00:09:17,040 --> 00:09:23,920 you want to throw Thomas into that crowd, is maybe perhaps 127 00:09:24,480 --> 00:09:32,920 also part of these group of traitors, people who are calling 128 00:09:32,920 --> 00:09:38,720 for the overthrow and the overturn of a legitimate, much 129 00:09:38,720 --> 00:09:43,040 investigated national election for President of the United 130 00:09:43,040 --> 00:09:48,000 States. How freaking scary is that? 131 00:09:52,240 --> 00:09:55,480 What are we going to have to face in these coming months? 132 00:09:57,480 --> 00:10:00,000 I mean, it's one thing to say that, well, this, this justice 133 00:10:00,480 --> 00:10:02,440 believes in this. And you know, I believe in that. 134 00:10:02,440 --> 00:10:04,120 And we have a difference of opinion. 135 00:10:05,840 --> 00:10:09,960 But when they're active participants or if they say now 136 00:10:09,960 --> 00:10:12,880 Alito has come out, he's using the Clarence Thomas excuse. 137 00:10:13,080 --> 00:10:19,240 Oh, that was just my wife there, there in the, you know, at the 138 00:10:19,240 --> 00:10:24,040 big rally there on January 6th that became the violent uprising 139 00:10:24,760 --> 00:10:25,720 she was. That was my wife. 140 00:10:25,720 --> 00:10:29,360 That wasn't me. Now, Alito was saying that I 141 00:10:29,360 --> 00:10:32,360 think my wife went out there and put the flag up there upside 142 00:10:32,360 --> 00:10:37,080 down. I mean, really, I mean, you 143 00:10:37,080 --> 00:10:40,280 don't even have the courage to just admit that it was you. 144 00:10:41,600 --> 00:10:44,480 Well, of course, you know, I guess the lawyers would say. 145 00:10:44,480 --> 00:10:47,200 Now, Mike, you got to be sure and say, well, you don't know 146 00:10:47,200 --> 00:10:49,640 it's really him. You don't have any evidence that 147 00:10:49,880 --> 00:10:53,800 he was flying the flag, even though it was on his flagpole in 148 00:10:53,800 --> 00:10:56,760 a house that he owns. But you know, he probably owns 149 00:10:56,760 --> 00:10:59,840 it with his wife. So let's blame the wife. 150 00:11:02,560 --> 00:11:04,360 I don't give a rat's ass right now. 151 00:11:05,920 --> 00:11:10,600 We are on to you, all of us. The majority of Americans are on 152 00:11:11,040 --> 00:11:16,600 to you, Justice Alito. How dare you even have that word 153 00:11:16,600 --> 00:11:19,040 justice now in your name and your title? 154 00:11:19,760 --> 00:11:21,840 We're on to you. We're on to Clarence Thomas. 155 00:11:22,000 --> 00:11:23,240 We know what Trump's going to do. 156 00:11:23,240 --> 00:11:26,360 He's already told us because he's so friggin stupid. 157 00:11:27,960 --> 00:11:30,440 He's already told us what he's going to do on day one. 158 00:11:35,760 --> 00:11:40,880 And then, a few days later, this past week, the Governor of 159 00:11:40,880 --> 00:11:50,840 Texas, Governor Abbott, pardoned and is releasing a murderer, a 160 00:11:50,840 --> 00:11:58,840 man who shot a Black Lives Matter protester back in 2021. 161 00:12:01,680 --> 00:12:07,120 He shot the man because, well, he first of all decided to run 162 00:12:07,120 --> 00:12:08,840 his. I forget if it was a car or a 163 00:12:08,840 --> 00:12:13,560 pickup truck through a large group of demonstrators. 164 00:12:14,760 --> 00:12:19,280 Basically it seemed to the police trying to run them over. 165 00:12:22,480 --> 00:12:26,120 And so some of the protesters surrounded his vehicle to stop 166 00:12:26,120 --> 00:12:31,360 him from doing any more harm. And because being Texas, you 167 00:12:31,360 --> 00:12:37,080 know, you can have a gun on you, a visible gun in a holster or a 168 00:12:37,080 --> 00:12:41,000 strap. And I guess this protester was 169 00:12:41,400 --> 00:12:46,840 obeying the law by having an open carry, a weapon that he 170 00:12:46,840 --> 00:12:51,040 wasn't threatening anybody would didn't point it at this guy and 171 00:12:51,040 --> 00:12:54,120 the guy just took his gun there in the car and blew the guy 172 00:12:54,120 --> 00:12:57,960 away. This is where we live. 173 00:13:00,200 --> 00:13:03,600 But a governor, I mean, is all the bad things that Abbott has 174 00:13:03,600 --> 00:13:09,480 done, scummy type stuff. All the migrants that he's put 175 00:13:09,480 --> 00:13:12,240 on buses just to drop them off in the middle of cities up 176 00:13:12,240 --> 00:13:19,080 north, pardoning A convicted murderer. 177 00:13:19,560 --> 00:13:24,800 He's convicted by a jury pardoning him and letting him 178 00:13:24,800 --> 00:13:29,200 go. What's the message there to the 179 00:13:29,240 --> 00:13:37,200 other crazed MAGA people? That they can kill somebody who 180 00:13:37,560 --> 00:13:41,960 opposes what they stand for and get away with it. 181 00:13:43,440 --> 00:13:45,320 That's the message of this past week. 182 00:13:48,240 --> 00:13:50,840 I know, I know. You can see what's going on. 183 00:13:50,840 --> 00:13:52,160 You can see they're getting ready. 184 00:13:54,000 --> 00:13:57,000 They're getting ready in part because they know that no matter 185 00:13:57,200 --> 00:14:01,680 what the polls say, Trump, they're worried he's not going 186 00:14:01,680 --> 00:14:03,720 to make it. They're not going to make the 187 00:14:03,720 --> 00:14:09,040 mistake they made last time. Matthew Gates, that crazy 188 00:14:09,880 --> 00:14:16,520 Republican representative from Florida in the US House, tweeted 189 00:14:16,520 --> 00:14:19,720 out a thing to Trump this week, saying something to the effect 190 00:14:19,720 --> 00:14:23,400 of Mr. President. Don't worry, we're standing back 191 00:14:23,400 --> 00:14:29,640 and standing by. But Trump, as you remember a 192 00:14:29,680 --> 00:14:34,000 number of years ago, told the white supremacist groups he was 193 00:14:34,000 --> 00:14:37,120 appreciative of their efforts. Just hang on. 194 00:14:37,240 --> 00:14:38,560 I'll let you know when I need you. 195 00:14:40,120 --> 00:14:44,200 So that was this week. And in the middle of all this, 196 00:14:44,200 --> 00:14:49,760 you've got President Biden going from one week saying to the 197 00:14:49,760 --> 00:14:54,640 Israelis, I told you not to invade the city of Rafah in 198 00:14:54,640 --> 00:14:58,160 Gaza. So I'm gonna put a hold on our 199 00:14:58,160 --> 00:15:00,440 weapons to you, which sounded great. 200 00:15:02,120 --> 00:15:07,240 And then a week later, he's changed his mind again and 201 00:15:07,640 --> 00:15:11,800 sending them immediately a billion dollars worth of weapons 202 00:15:12,800 --> 00:15:14,680 to the Israelis. Wow. 203 00:15:15,840 --> 00:15:18,000 I know. It's like, this is the point 204 00:15:18,000 --> 00:15:20,560 where you turn off the podcast just like you turn off the TV. 205 00:15:20,560 --> 00:15:22,640 Just like I all of us turn off the TV. 206 00:15:22,640 --> 00:15:24,720 We don't watch this anymore. We don't listen to it. 207 00:15:26,320 --> 00:15:31,160 But we can't stick our heads in the sand either, can we? 208 00:15:33,040 --> 00:15:38,120 And I have a lot of faith in the fact that the good and good 209 00:15:38,120 --> 00:15:43,480 people are outnumbering the not so good people right now. 210 00:15:44,880 --> 00:15:46,320 And we just have to get through this. 211 00:15:46,320 --> 00:15:52,600 We have to get through this year and we have to listen to our our 212 00:15:52,600 --> 00:15:57,640 youth, our young people. We have to listen to the women 213 00:15:57,640 --> 00:16:01,520 of America who've been made second class citizens 23 months 214 00:16:01,520 --> 00:16:07,680 ago by this very Supreme Court. We have to listen to the people 215 00:16:07,680 --> 00:16:11,080 who are the victims of white supremacy and white privilege 216 00:16:11,080 --> 00:16:14,960 for well, for a very, very, very long time. 217 00:16:17,040 --> 00:16:26,120 But that's our majority women, youth, people of color, you know 218 00:16:26,120 --> 00:16:30,920 right there that's I would say close to 70% of the country. 219 00:16:32,880 --> 00:16:36,680 That's our side. People don't believe in 220 00:16:36,680 --> 00:16:40,840 violence. People believe in democracy, and 221 00:16:41,320 --> 00:16:44,200 especially believe that we never actually really got to have the 222 00:16:44,200 --> 00:16:50,920 full democracy that was promised 250 years ago, that we have more 223 00:16:50,920 --> 00:16:59,320 work to do. So listen, I'm going to thank 224 00:16:59,320 --> 00:17:01,200 our underwriter for today's episode. 225 00:17:01,720 --> 00:17:06,920 And then in a minute or so here, come back to you with the voices 226 00:17:07,400 --> 00:17:11,040 of the college students. I had a press conference that 227 00:17:11,040 --> 00:17:16,000 they held a couple of weeks ago. I kept waiting for to see some 228 00:17:16,000 --> 00:17:18,200 coverage of it in the mainstream media. 229 00:17:18,280 --> 00:17:21,760 Haven't seen it. So I will bring it to you here 230 00:17:21,760 --> 00:17:25,640 on this podcast and it'll only be another 20-30 minutes. 231 00:17:25,640 --> 00:17:30,280 So please come back, stick with me here and listen to our 232 00:17:30,280 --> 00:17:35,400 college students who have been absolutely incredible and I've 233 00:17:35,400 --> 00:17:40,640 had to suffer a lot of smearing and slander and whatever. 234 00:17:40,960 --> 00:17:45,000 But but you know by now we know when our our leg is being 235 00:17:45,000 --> 00:17:47,680 pulled, right? We know when we're being lied 236 00:17:47,680 --> 00:17:51,160 to. We know when all the PR people 237 00:17:51,160 --> 00:17:55,200 of spending the money they spend to put out a a narrative that 238 00:17:55,200 --> 00:18:00,160 isn't true, Yeah, we're on to all of it. 239 00:18:00,920 --> 00:18:02,320 So we just have to hang in there. 240 00:18:03,080 --> 00:18:05,040 We just have to get through this year. 241 00:18:05,800 --> 00:18:08,640 It doesn't mean there isn't work to do next year, but we'll do 242 00:18:08,640 --> 00:18:11,720 the good kind of work that's been put off for far too long. 243 00:18:12,000 --> 00:18:15,440 The stuff that will take us to that place where we'll be a full 244 00:18:15,440 --> 00:18:19,080 democracy, where no group of people is a second class 245 00:18:19,080 --> 00:18:23,440 citizen. Come on, we're already most of 246 00:18:23,440 --> 00:18:27,360 the way there. We just have the people that 247 00:18:27,360 --> 00:18:31,720 have held power for so long, unhappy that they're not going 248 00:18:31,720 --> 00:18:34,560 to have that kind of power for much longer. 249 00:18:34,880 --> 00:18:36,960 They will have power still there. 250 00:18:36,960 --> 00:18:41,320 They'll they'll still be rich and they'll still get the same 251 00:18:41,320 --> 00:18:45,320 number of votes. You or I get 1. 252 00:18:46,840 --> 00:18:49,440 So it's not like we're gonna take their voting rights away 253 00:18:49,440 --> 00:18:52,640 from them. They're just not gonna run the 254 00:18:52,640 --> 00:18:58,840 country anymore in the sort of white, male, Christian way that 255 00:18:58,840 --> 00:19:01,800 things have always been done. And they know that. 256 00:19:02,320 --> 00:19:05,080 They know that the clock is ticking, The time is running 257 00:19:05,080 --> 00:19:13,280 out. And sorry, not sorry. 258 00:19:14,680 --> 00:19:18,600 We're going to make this country and this planet a better place. 259 00:19:18,920 --> 00:19:25,160 We have no choice. So let me take a moment here to 260 00:19:25,520 --> 00:19:27,800 thank our underwriters for today's episode. 261 00:19:28,480 --> 00:19:32,720 First up is Shopify. Thank you, Shopify, for 262 00:19:32,720 --> 00:19:35,080 supporting my work. If you've been thinking about 263 00:19:35,080 --> 00:19:37,640 starting your own business, if you're looking for a little help 264 00:19:37,640 --> 00:19:41,240 to grow the one you've got, if you got a nonprofit you want to 265 00:19:41,240 --> 00:19:44,320 get out there to the world, check out Shopify. 266 00:19:44,680 --> 00:19:48,680 It's the platform online platform where your nonprofit 267 00:19:48,680 --> 00:19:52,360 can sell things to support your organization or your school can 268 00:19:52,360 --> 00:19:55,000 do it. 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What you've heard maybe in some 315 00:22:58,800 --> 00:23:01,600 of the media about things that they've been saying on these 316 00:23:01,600 --> 00:23:05,240 campuses. It's one lie after another being 317 00:23:05,240 --> 00:23:09,960 told about these kids. And you know, you know, they're 318 00:23:09,960 --> 00:23:15,040 18/19/2023 years old. These kids are smart. 319 00:23:16,160 --> 00:23:20,920 They're really smart, you know, And some of you listening to 320 00:23:20,920 --> 00:23:26,320 this, you already know that too, 'cause you raise them, you raise 321 00:23:26,320 --> 00:23:30,080 them to be good people, to question authority, to not be a 322 00:23:30,080 --> 00:23:34,040 homophobe or a misogynist or a bigot of any kind. 323 00:23:35,320 --> 00:23:37,680 So nobody should be surprised at any of this. 324 00:23:39,280 --> 00:23:45,520 They have taken on a a very difficult job to stand up for 325 00:23:45,520 --> 00:23:54,520 the Palestinian people. Enough of me, I want you to 326 00:23:54,520 --> 00:23:59,320 listen to these college students and what they had to say at this 327 00:23:59,560 --> 00:24:02,560 incredibly powerful press conference a couple weeks ago. 328 00:24:03,720 --> 00:24:16,520 I'll turn it over to them right now. 20,000 people. 329 00:24:17,560 --> 00:24:33,440 Dead 40, 1000 people. Dead. 20,000 330 00:24:45,520 --> 00:25:13,120 people dead. We don't want to. 331 00:25:23,720 --> 00:25:30,080 Do not engage with agitators. That is not the purpose. 332 00:25:31,880 --> 00:25:33,400 And reason. We are here and reason. 333 00:25:33,760 --> 00:25:36,560 We are. Here the reason we are, here the 334 00:25:36,560 --> 00:25:38,840 reason we. Are here is to. 335 00:25:38,880 --> 00:25:43,080 Free Palestine. Free. 336 00:25:43,080 --> 00:25:44,360 Free. Palestine. 337 00:25:46,800 --> 00:25:47,480 Free. Free. 338 00:25:47,520 --> 00:25:56,880 Palestine, everyone, we're going to begin now. 339 00:25:56,880 --> 00:26:00,400 There's a press conference that has been called between CUNY and 340 00:26:00,400 --> 00:26:02,920 Colombia. Both student groups organized 341 00:26:02,920 --> 00:26:06,560 encampments on their campuses as part of the movement to liberate 342 00:26:06,560 --> 00:26:09,400 Palestine, to end the genocide in Palestine and the occupation. 343 00:26:09,400 --> 00:26:11,200 And we're going to go through the speakers. 344 00:26:11,680 --> 00:26:14,040 And at the end, if we have time, we'll take a few questions. 345 00:26:16,760 --> 00:26:21,720 On the 207th day of genocide in Gaza, pro Palestinian student 346 00:26:21,720 --> 00:26:26,080 activists struck a decisive blow to Israel by exposing Columbia 347 00:26:26,080 --> 00:26:30,080 University's use of violence to protect their investments in 348 00:26:30,080 --> 00:26:32,520 Israel's vicious assault on Palestinians. 349 00:26:32,800 --> 00:26:36,640 After having ignited a global movement hereby dubbed the 350 00:26:36,640 --> 00:26:41,360 student Intifada by Palestinians in Gaza, the shocking police 351 00:26:41,360 --> 00:26:44,640 violence we all witnessed on Columbia's campus followed the 352 00:26:44,640 --> 00:26:49,200 student decision to escalate after the university repeatedly 353 00:26:49,400 --> 00:26:52,680 attempted to use force to extract concessions in 354 00:26:52,680 --> 00:26:57,000 negotiations. On Monday, a group of autonomous 355 00:26:57,160 --> 00:27:00,440 protesters took over the university's historic 356 00:27:00,440 --> 00:27:04,880 administrative building on campus without the use of any 357 00:27:04,880 --> 00:27:09,680 physical violence and renamed it Hinds Hall in memory of Hind 358 00:27:09,680 --> 00:27:13,440 Rajab, a modern 6 year old Palestinian girl who was 359 00:27:13,440 --> 00:27:16,680 violently murdered by the Israeli occupation forces in 360 00:27:16,680 --> 00:27:20,000 Gaza. We honour Hind to call attention 361 00:27:20,000 --> 00:27:24,680 to Israel's systematic disregard for Palestinian lives after 362 00:27:24,680 --> 00:27:28,960 Israeli soldiers prevented an emergency medical crew from 363 00:27:28,960 --> 00:27:32,920 reaching Hind and rescuing her as she sheltered in a car 364 00:27:33,160 --> 00:27:36,760 surrounded by the dead bodies of her family who were murdered by 365 00:27:36,760 --> 00:27:40,200 the IOF. Columbia's surreal response to 366 00:27:40,200 --> 00:27:44,480 the protesters nonviolent takeover of Hinds Hall turned 367 00:27:44,480 --> 00:27:49,400 our campus into a war zone. The university called the NYPD 368 00:27:49,560 --> 00:27:53,760 to storm campus with militarized police brutally attacking and 369 00:27:53,760 --> 00:27:58,080 arresting over 100 students with multiple hospitalizations. 370 00:27:58,680 --> 00:28:03,240 The NYPD then removed our peaceful encampment on the lawn, 371 00:28:03,520 --> 00:28:07,880 destroying our belongings, tents, artwork and the community 372 00:28:07,880 --> 00:28:12,320 where we have spent the last 13 days sharing meals, praying and 373 00:28:12,320 --> 00:28:16,120 protesting for liberation. Columbia's attempt to oppress 374 00:28:16,120 --> 00:28:18,920 the movement only strengthens our resolve. 375 00:28:22,280 --> 00:28:25,880 We are not finished. There is a reason why the 376 00:28:25,880 --> 00:28:29,440 student LED movement has garnered unstoppable momentum on 377 00:28:29,440 --> 00:28:33,080 campuses worldwide. Because we stand on the right 378 00:28:33,080 --> 00:28:36,880 side of history. We stand for humanity and we 379 00:28:36,880 --> 00:28:40,080 will not rest until Palestine is free. 380 00:28:44,160 --> 00:28:48,760 The protesters defending Hinz Hall belong to a rich, beautiful 381 00:28:48,760 --> 00:28:52,560 legacy of civil disobedience at Columbia. 382 00:28:52,840 --> 00:28:59,000 Indeed, on April 30th, 1968, nearly 700 anti war student 383 00:28:59,000 --> 00:29:03,720 protesters at Columbia met the brutal force of state violence 384 00:29:03,720 --> 00:29:06,800 for taking over the same building, now named Hinz Hall. 385 00:29:07,320 --> 00:29:12,200 On the 56th anniversary of that day, to the very same day of the 386 00:29:12,200 --> 00:29:16,040 week, we met the same militarized adversaries with the 387 00:29:16,040 --> 00:29:20,240 resolved fiercer than before. The brave protesters in Hinz 388 00:29:20,240 --> 00:29:25,080 Hall put themselves in harm's way to force Columbia to divest. 389 00:29:25,520 --> 00:29:29,400 In response, Columbia University broke every written and 390 00:29:29,400 --> 00:29:33,640 unwritten rule of university norms by inviting a SWAT team 391 00:29:33,800 --> 00:29:38,960 and hundreds of armed riot cops, including the Vicious Strategic 392 00:29:38,960 --> 00:29:41,920 Response Group, to invade Columbia's classrooms. 393 00:29:45,920 --> 00:29:49,520 They invaded Columbia's classrooms, barricaded students 394 00:29:49,520 --> 00:29:53,160 and pressed alike inside their dorms, and brutalized hundreds 395 00:29:53,160 --> 00:29:57,040 of us with metal equipment, Tasers, flash grenades, and 396 00:29:57,040 --> 00:30:02,680 batons. Over 100 students were arrested. 397 00:30:02,920 --> 00:30:05,800 At least one student was hospitalized due to injuries 398 00:30:05,800 --> 00:30:09,240 from the NYPD. Video footage shows police 399 00:30:09,360 --> 00:30:12,440 shoving students to the ground, Tasers crackling in the 400 00:30:12,440 --> 00:30:16,040 background as our classmates screamed, and a student being 401 00:30:16,040 --> 00:30:19,200 thrown down concrete stairs, leaving her unconscious. 402 00:30:19,440 --> 00:30:22,880 She was then denied medical care by Columbia. 403 00:30:26,000 --> 00:30:28,640 The world sees you clearly, Columbia. 404 00:30:28,840 --> 00:30:33,080 Your only goal, which you will defend at any cost, is to enrich 405 00:30:33,080 --> 00:30:37,480 your endowment at the expense of 40,000 Palestinians martyrs and 406 00:30:37,480 --> 00:30:40,880 every student in your care. We honor the memory of every 407 00:30:40,880 --> 00:30:44,840 university in Gaza destroyed by Israel, and we will continue to 408 00:30:44,840 --> 00:30:47,680 use our education to speak truth to power. 409 00:30:52,080 --> 00:30:55,960 We call on students and faculty worldwide to escalate their 410 00:30:55,960 --> 00:30:58,080 protests. To students and their 411 00:30:58,080 --> 00:31:02,120 supporters, academia is meant to advance our understanding of 412 00:31:02,120 --> 00:31:05,280 humanity. With Gaza as our metric, we call 413 00:31:05,280 --> 00:31:09,280 on you to resist this militant war making status quo. 414 00:31:09,560 --> 00:31:12,520 You must create your own campus agitations. 415 00:31:12,680 --> 00:31:16,200 University business cannot continue as usual amidst A 416 00:31:16,200 --> 00:31:19,360 genocide. Rest assured that history will 417 00:31:19,360 --> 00:31:22,680 absolve many of us, but certainly not all of us. 418 00:31:23,000 --> 00:31:26,400 And to every professor who has expressed shock at the events of 419 00:31:26,400 --> 00:31:30,520 last night, if you do not take action to demand divestment and 420 00:31:30,520 --> 00:31:33,600 an end to police presence on campus by withholding your 421 00:31:33,600 --> 00:31:37,880 labor, you too are complicit. You must do more than make 422 00:31:37,880 --> 00:31:39,520 statements. You must strike. 423 00:31:39,800 --> 00:31:42,440 Do not create exams, do not teach classes. 424 00:31:42,680 --> 00:31:46,440 Our universities, which put profit over life, must grind to 425 00:31:46,440 --> 00:31:48,560 a halt until our demands are met. 426 00:31:48,920 --> 00:31:53,680 Divestment, disclosure and end to campus militarization and 427 00:31:53,680 --> 00:32:01,000 amnesty for all the student The student revolution will help 428 00:32:01,080 --> 00:32:03,160 free Palestine within our lifetime. 429 00:32:03,240 --> 00:32:13,000 Thank you. On the afternoon of April 30th, 430 00:32:13,360 --> 00:32:18,160 City College, following the despicable actions we've seen at 431 00:32:18,160 --> 00:32:21,800 Columbia, warn these students and faculty and community 432 00:32:21,800 --> 00:32:25,480 members that the encampment must be dismantled by the morning of 433 00:32:25,480 --> 00:32:29,320 May 1st. At approximately 11:00 PM, 434 00:32:29,760 --> 00:32:35,200 without warning, CCNY President Vincent Boudreaux requested the 435 00:32:35,200 --> 00:32:39,960 NYPD to enter the encampment to arrest students and faculty. 436 00:32:41,120 --> 00:32:45,560 He claimed to do this in the interests of student safety, 437 00:32:45,960 --> 00:32:51,240 because students and workers united protesting pose a safety 438 00:32:51,240 --> 00:32:55,320 risk. Protesters stood their ground as 439 00:32:55,320 --> 00:32:58,840 SRG officers came in with their batons and their Mace. 440 00:32:59,320 --> 00:33:02,640 They stood in their ground as they swarmed and viciously 441 00:33:02,640 --> 00:33:06,680 attacked them. SRG police broke the ankle of an 442 00:33:06,680 --> 00:33:10,640 undergraduate student, broke the teeth of two protesters, 443 00:33:11,040 --> 00:33:14,760 attacked and burned many students, faculty and at least 444 00:33:14,760 --> 00:33:19,680 one journalist with pepper spray at close range, and they beat 445 00:33:19,680 --> 00:33:23,760 many more with batons. Legal observers were denied 446 00:33:23,760 --> 00:33:29,480 entry, and amongst some of the very first people to be arrested 447 00:33:29,720 --> 00:33:33,800 was a faculty member who had been in negotiations with the 448 00:33:33,800 --> 00:33:35,360 president and the vice chancellor. 449 00:33:35,360 --> 00:33:42,760 Moments ago, 173 arrests were made at City College, a 450 00:33:42,840 --> 00:33:47,000 university that champions brown and black students, that uses 451 00:33:47,000 --> 00:33:49,760 the labor of brown and black students to advance its 452 00:33:49,760 --> 00:33:52,880 reputation. A university of the people that 453 00:33:52,880 --> 00:33:54,480 is supposed to be for the people. 454 00:33:55,640 --> 00:33:59,480 And as officers made their way into campus, brave students 455 00:33:59,640 --> 00:34:03,440 managed to occupy the finance office of Howard E 456 00:34:03,560 --> 00:34:07,000 administration building. In a final act of resistance, 457 00:34:07,360 --> 00:34:10,960 the students held the building for over an hour until they were 458 00:34:10,960 --> 00:34:14,719 violently removed and arrested. We salute those brave, 459 00:34:14,719 --> 00:34:18,239 autonomous students and we salute each and every single 460 00:34:18,239 --> 00:34:21,360 person standing up to this genocidal machine. 461 00:34:27,520 --> 00:34:32,600 We remind the larger community that we are protesting not to 462 00:34:32,600 --> 00:34:36,280 assert our First Amendment rights, but we are protesting to 463 00:34:36,320 --> 00:34:39,400 end this genocide. We are protesting to call for a 464 00:34:39,400 --> 00:34:43,639 dismantling of Zionism, which includes complete divestment. 465 00:34:47,440 --> 00:34:50,800 SRG violence is not new to us. It is not novel. 466 00:34:51,120 --> 00:34:53,000 We are. Accustomed to these threats of 467 00:34:53,000 --> 00:34:56,679 intimidation, we are accustomed to this violence, and we know 468 00:34:56,679 --> 00:34:59,960 that it is an attempt to plant fear in our hearts. 469 00:35:00,120 --> 00:35:04,760 But we remind students all over the globe that together we are 470 00:35:04,760 --> 00:35:08,840 stronger than they are. We call on CUNY students 471 00:35:08,960 --> 00:35:13,280 everywhere, and we call on students in every corner of this 472 00:35:13,280 --> 00:35:17,400 country to resist, to stand tall and proud, to resist. 473 00:35:17,400 --> 00:35:20,120 Because as we are protesting. People. 474 00:35:20,120 --> 00:35:24,080 In Rafa, in tents are being bombed by the Zionist entity. 475 00:35:24,080 --> 00:35:28,760 As we are protesting, there are children in Qaza dying of heat 476 00:35:28,760 --> 00:35:31,480 and starvation. As we are protesting, there are 477 00:35:31,480 --> 00:35:36,800 people who are being bombed with our tax money and our tuition. 478 00:35:36,960 --> 00:35:40,600 And so, as CUNY students, CUNY alum, and as part of the CUNY 479 00:35:40,600 --> 00:35:46,440 community, we remind people that as of 2016, CUNY was invested in 480 00:35:46,440 --> 00:35:50,920 at least 1.1 million in weapons manufacturer companies. 481 00:35:50,920 --> 00:35:55,880 And as of 2016, CUNY was invested in nearly 8.5 million 482 00:35:56,040 --> 00:35:59,440 in companies that either aid or profit from the ongoing 483 00:35:59,440 --> 00:36:02,880 occupation of Palestinians. And so, if CUNY does not like 484 00:36:02,880 --> 00:36:06,080 our encampments, if CUNY does not like the images of our 485 00:36:06,080 --> 00:36:08,800 encampments, if we are disturbing their peace, then we 486 00:36:08,800 --> 00:36:12,000 tell them that they must divest. They must stop disturbing the 487 00:36:12,000 --> 00:36:20,800 lives of the Palestinian people. We remind the president and the 488 00:36:20,800 --> 00:36:24,680 larger CUNY community and all media correspondents, we remind 489 00:36:24,680 --> 00:36:28,440 everyone who set Raza on fire that we will not rest. 490 00:36:28,600 --> 00:36:31,680 We will not rest. We will not rest until they 491 00:36:31,680 --> 00:36:35,160 divest and until the Zionist entity falls. 492 00:36:50,040 --> 00:36:54,000 I'd like to begin by saying that our protest, our encampment, the 493 00:36:54,000 --> 00:36:57,560 occupation of Hint Hall, formerly known as Hamilton Hall, 494 00:36:57,960 --> 00:37:01,360 was a blessing in disguise for Columbia University. 495 00:37:01,760 --> 00:37:05,920 It was an opportunity for them to recognize a moment in which 496 00:37:05,920 --> 00:37:08,840 they could choose to divest, a moment in which they could 497 00:37:08,840 --> 00:37:12,520 choose to clarify their position on one of the most important 498 00:37:12,720 --> 00:37:17,640 moral questions of our lifetime. Columbia University was too 499 00:37:17,640 --> 00:37:21,960 blind, too blind, based on its money, its endowment, its 500 00:37:21,960 --> 00:37:26,000 capitalist interests, It's its priority of profit over life, 501 00:37:26,240 --> 00:37:30,160 its alignment with congressional pressure and US geopolitical 502 00:37:30,160 --> 00:37:33,240 interests too blind to recognize this opportunity. 503 00:37:33,520 --> 00:37:37,440 Instead, Columbia University chose to condemn its students 504 00:37:37,440 --> 00:37:39,240 who are standing on the side of justice. 505 00:37:39,440 --> 00:37:43,400 And this will be a stain on its legacy, which we will not let it 506 00:37:43,400 --> 00:37:46,000 forget. Not today, not tomorrow, and not 507 00:37:46,000 --> 00:37:54,080 for the next few decades. Throughout our two weeks of 508 00:37:54,080 --> 00:37:57,520 negotiations with this university, we were consistently 509 00:37:57,520 --> 00:38:01,840 met with bad faith negotiating, despite the fact that the 510 00:38:01,840 --> 00:38:04,600 university claims that they had constructive dialogue with 511 00:38:04,600 --> 00:38:07,640 students. Yesterday, under threat of law 512 00:38:07,640 --> 00:38:10,600 enforcement, the university Senate members reached out 513 00:38:10,600 --> 00:38:15,640 again, asking us to accept a deal that was far removed from 514 00:38:15,640 --> 00:38:18,200 what students demanded. Though our demands were 515 00:38:18,200 --> 00:38:20,200 divestment, disclosure and amnesty. 516 00:38:20,440 --> 00:38:24,120 The university gave us nothing more than bureaucracy, nothing 517 00:38:24,120 --> 00:38:28,040 more than proposals, nothing more than speculation that one 518 00:38:28,040 --> 00:38:31,360 day soon maybe they would consider divesting. 519 00:38:32,600 --> 00:38:36,840 Shay. While law enforcement was 520 00:38:36,840 --> 00:38:40,080 descending on the campus, students were joyful. 521 00:38:40,240 --> 00:38:43,520 They were not afraid. They were not cowed in fear by 522 00:38:43,520 --> 00:38:46,560 their university because they knew that they were taking the 523 00:38:46,560 --> 00:38:49,720 principled ground. They refused to accept a deal 524 00:38:49,880 --> 00:38:52,200 that would disgrace their movement. 525 00:38:52,360 --> 00:38:55,720 They refused to accept capitulation, and they took the 526 00:38:55,720 --> 00:38:58,200 moral high ground. They refused to allow the 527 00:38:58,200 --> 00:39:01,520 university to to say that they had come to agreement with us. 528 00:39:01,760 --> 00:39:05,080 Our students sang songs saying that they will not be moved 529 00:39:05,240 --> 00:39:08,600 unless by force, knowing that they were being watched by the 530 00:39:08,600 --> 00:39:13,280 eyes of children in Gaza who write our names on their tents, 531 00:39:13,520 --> 00:39:17,960 who who say Columbia University who say Cooney is protesting for 532 00:39:17,960 --> 00:39:20,200 them. Our students remain principled, 533 00:39:20,200 --> 00:39:24,080 remain strong, remain tenacious in the face of police violence, 534 00:39:24,080 --> 00:39:27,040 in the face of brutalization, and in the face of bad faith 535 00:39:27,040 --> 00:39:28,840 negotiating by their university thank. 536 00:39:29,240 --> 00:39:37,040 You. As a Palestinian American 537 00:39:37,040 --> 00:39:41,080 student at Columbia University, especially as someone who has 538 00:39:41,080 --> 00:39:45,040 lost family members, I have experienced consistent 539 00:39:45,040 --> 00:39:49,840 dehumanization from media outlets and from Columbia's own 540 00:39:49,840 --> 00:39:53,120 administration. We are regularly treated as if 541 00:39:53,120 --> 00:39:56,920 we are national security threats for simply being against the 542 00:39:56,920 --> 00:40:01,280 bombing of our relatives. That is done with our tax 543 00:40:01,280 --> 00:40:04,320 dollars. It should not be controversial 544 00:40:04,480 --> 00:40:08,800 to say that you were against the death of over 40,000 people. 545 00:40:10,560 --> 00:40:13,840 It's honestly it. Colombia has been such a 546 00:40:13,840 --> 00:40:17,160 challenging place to grieve for me as a student. 547 00:40:17,600 --> 00:40:20,160 I just lost another cousin last week. 548 00:40:21,080 --> 00:40:24,600 I've lost over 15 members of my extended family. 549 00:40:24,920 --> 00:40:28,320 My family members are some of the last Palestinian Christians 550 00:40:28,320 --> 00:40:31,240 in Gaza. They have nowhere left to go. 551 00:40:32,400 --> 00:40:35,520 And I'm not the only student that has lost family. 552 00:40:35,520 --> 00:40:38,400 There are students here who have lost thirty family members, 20 553 00:40:38,400 --> 00:40:40,360 family members. We are all grieving. 554 00:40:40,360 --> 00:40:43,320 I'm just saying, and the university does not care. 555 00:40:44,080 --> 00:40:49,160 They want to appease their donors and trustees so bad that 556 00:40:49,160 --> 00:40:52,520 they are willing to use systematic violence against us 557 00:40:52,800 --> 00:40:55,680 and they think it's OK. This is not OK. 558 00:40:55,680 --> 00:40:58,920 This is not acceptable. Regardless of whether or not you 559 00:40:58,920 --> 00:41:02,160 agree with the encampment or whether or not you agree with 560 00:41:02,160 --> 00:41:06,160 people occupying a building, students should not be brutally 561 00:41:06,160 --> 00:41:11,920 attacked by the NYPDI. Also want to call out some 562 00:41:11,920 --> 00:41:16,320 specific outlets, specifically CNN and the New York Times. 563 00:41:16,560 --> 00:41:21,040 Your coverage has been horrific of Palestinian students and of 564 00:41:21,040 --> 00:41:23,040 what what we are dealing with at Columbia. 565 00:41:23,320 --> 00:41:26,720 Reporters were laughing yesterday, CNN reporters when 566 00:41:26,720 --> 00:41:29,080 talking about showing the faces of students. 567 00:41:29,440 --> 00:41:32,840 We are receiving death threats. I am receiving break threats. 568 00:41:33,480 --> 00:41:36,960 We have been constantly harassed and the media is subjecting us 569 00:41:36,960 --> 00:41:40,120 to more violence just so they can get clicks and views. 570 00:41:40,320 --> 00:41:44,880 We are we are students. We are human beings. 571 00:41:45,000 --> 00:41:50,400 We are not your content, and it has been beyond frustrating as 572 00:41:50,400 --> 00:41:53,440 someone who has greatly admired media, who wanted to be a 573 00:41:53,440 --> 00:41:56,720 journalist when I was younger to be treated like this. 574 00:41:59,080 --> 00:42:03,200 Members of the media such as Anderson Cooper from CNN, he was 575 00:42:03,200 --> 00:42:08,320 repeating rumors our reporters at WKCR were doing a better job 576 00:42:08,320 --> 00:42:12,240 of verifying the facts than the professional journalists out 577 00:42:12,240 --> 00:42:15,160 there. As a journalist, you have a 578 00:42:15,160 --> 00:42:18,840 responsibility to the people you cover, and many people have 579 00:42:18,880 --> 00:42:22,200 neglected that and ignored that so they can sell a story. 580 00:42:22,840 --> 00:42:28,040 Shame they thought we fucking shot someone, were the recorded 581 00:42:28,040 --> 00:42:31,240 text messages on a police officer's phone on Columbia 582 00:42:31,240 --> 00:42:34,200 University's campus Tuesday night and posted on Twitter. 583 00:42:34,600 --> 00:42:37,640 This was one of many officers who also denied all medical 584 00:42:37,640 --> 00:42:41,560 access to a student that they knocked unconscious. 2 weeks 585 00:42:41,560 --> 00:42:45,240 after being arrested myself and on the 56th anniversary of 586 00:42:45,240 --> 00:42:49,240 Columbia's brutal arrest of over 700 students protesting the 587 00:42:49,240 --> 00:42:52,480 Vietnam War and gentrification of Harlem, I was pushed and 588 00:42:52,480 --> 00:42:56,480 barricaded into John Jay by riot police called onto campus by 589 00:42:56,520 --> 00:43:03,960 Earth administrators. Yet again, I watched as an EMT 590 00:43:03,960 --> 00:43:07,840 pleaded to be allowed to treat students as police, laughed and 591 00:43:07,840 --> 00:43:13,640 turned off their body cameras, and as press were prevented from 592 00:43:13,640 --> 00:43:16,160 bearing witness. Columbia and the cops 593 00:43:16,160 --> 00:43:19,600 collaborated to brutalize my classmates in the dark for 594 00:43:19,600 --> 00:43:23,240 standing up for what is right. The mainstream media is 595 00:43:23,240 --> 00:43:26,320 currently lying about outside detractors and overblowing 596 00:43:26,320 --> 00:43:29,640 property damage in order to justify brutality and distract 597 00:43:29,640 --> 00:43:32,400 from their complicity and genocide, just as they did with 598 00:43:32,400 --> 00:43:35,280 the Civil Rights Movement, Black Lives Matter, and every other 599 00:43:35,280 --> 00:43:38,400 social movement for change. I was posting videos of the 600 00:43:38,400 --> 00:43:41,560 police throwing tables and breaking windows in real time 601 00:43:41,560 --> 00:43:44,320 yesterday. To be clear, the police caused 602 00:43:44,320 --> 00:43:47,600 far more property damage and physical endangerment than my 603 00:43:47,600 --> 00:43:48,840 classmates ever did. Shave. 604 00:43:53,280 --> 00:43:55,640 Shave. There is not a single student 605 00:43:55,640 --> 00:44:00,040 LED uprising in history met with severe state sanctioned violence 606 00:44:00,200 --> 00:44:10,160 that did not end up being right. Frankly, I am tired of press 607 00:44:10,160 --> 00:44:12,880 conferences performing Palestinian drama to the 608 00:44:12,880 --> 00:44:15,760 American public. How many more children have to 609 00:44:15,760 --> 00:44:18,360 be trapped under the rubble of our bombs for you all to wake 610 00:44:18,360 --> 00:44:20,480 up? History will not look kindly 611 00:44:20,480 --> 00:44:23,680 upon you. 6 year old Hendra Job's name will be memorialized 612 00:44:23,680 --> 00:44:26,200 in textbooks and on Colombia's website one day. 613 00:44:26,520 --> 00:44:29,720 Her story is just one of the over 40,000 slaughtered 614 00:44:29,720 --> 00:44:33,000 Palestinians that we could not possibly name enough buildings 615 00:44:33,000 --> 00:44:36,200 after. As we speak, Israel was invading 616 00:44:36,240 --> 00:44:39,080 Rafa, a location that previously designated a safe zone. 617 00:44:39,280 --> 00:44:44,880 Last week President Joe Biden sent $14.1 billion to fund more 618 00:44:44,920 --> 00:44:53,480 genocide money that could be used to fund our Healthcare is 619 00:44:53,480 --> 00:44:56,520 being funneled to destroy the last standing hospitals in Gaza. 620 00:44:57,040 --> 00:44:59,800 We Americans are the most complicit and the worst 621 00:44:59,800 --> 00:45:04,680 atrocities of modern history. We refuse to be distracted from 622 00:45:04,680 --> 00:45:08,120 genocide. My message to the Columbia 623 00:45:08,120 --> 00:45:10,880 University administration and the United States government is 624 00:45:10,880 --> 00:45:12,840 this. When the tide inevitably 625 00:45:12,840 --> 00:45:15,840 finishes turning and your investment in moral bankruptcy 626 00:45:15,840 --> 00:45:18,760 is no longer politically profitable, understand that you 627 00:45:18,760 --> 00:45:22,000 have always been the villains. And when Palestine is finally 628 00:45:22,000 --> 00:45:26,120 free, we, your students, will never, ever forgive you. 629 00:45:26,840 --> 00:45:29,600 We will not stop fighting. This is only the beginning. 630 00:45:34,160 --> 00:45:37,800 Let us be clear. The attacks yesterday on 631 00:45:37,800 --> 00:45:41,840 students were not only an attack on a head full of students, it 632 00:45:41,840 --> 00:45:44,560 was an assault on the very foundations of freedom and 633 00:45:44,560 --> 00:45:47,120 democracy. Hundreds of our community 634 00:45:47,120 --> 00:45:50,680 members were unjustly imprisoned last night, their only crime 635 00:45:50,680 --> 00:45:54,160 being the defense of justice against the monstrous tyranny of 636 00:45:54,160 --> 00:45:56,040 Zionism. Genocidal agenda. 637 00:45:56,680 --> 00:46:00,440 We say over and over again, our leaders are complicit. 638 00:46:00,800 --> 00:46:04,920 They are not here to help us. Power is with the people and we 639 00:46:04,920 --> 00:46:08,520 keep us safe and we will keep Ghazda safe and we will keep all 640 00:46:08,520 --> 00:46:12,560 of those who are oppressed safe. And I ask you all if you are 641 00:46:12,560 --> 00:46:15,600 covering the student protests, if you are covering the street 642 00:46:15,600 --> 00:46:18,080 protests. I asked the media to have some 643 00:46:18,080 --> 00:46:21,560 shame and cover what's happening in Ghazda as well. 644 00:46:25,240 --> 00:46:30,440 Over 40. 1000 innocent Palestinians have been killed to 645 00:46:30,560 --> 00:46:35,840 pursue a terroristic campaign for no just cause. 646 00:46:36,280 --> 00:46:40,840 Over 15,000 children have been seen on social media for the 647 00:46:40,840 --> 00:46:45,440 last six months hanging off of walls, parents carrying their 648 00:46:45,440 --> 00:46:50,000 children in plastic bags. Yet the shameful media has only 649 00:46:50,000 --> 00:46:54,520 been covering anti-Semitism, which has not been proven. 650 00:46:54,920 --> 00:46:59,040 Yesterday in California at UCLAA, group of hundreds of 651 00:46:59,040 --> 00:47:03,920 Zionists terrorists, domestic terrorists, attack students 652 00:47:03,920 --> 00:47:07,080 peacefully protesting on their college campus. 653 00:47:08,080 --> 00:47:12,600 That is an act of terrorism. So once you start calling out 654 00:47:12,720 --> 00:47:16,400 what's really going on or what we're protesting, stay the fuck 655 00:47:16,400 --> 00:47:20,840 off of our campuses. So. 656 00:47:24,090 --> 00:47:26,650 We do not trust our institutions to keep us safe. 657 00:47:26,650 --> 00:47:31,480 We trust ourselves and our community to keep us safe, and 658 00:47:31,480 --> 00:47:35,040 I'm calling on my own President Vince Boudreaux and the CUNY 659 00:47:35,040 --> 00:47:41,120 administration who sold us out by calling in the NYPD to 660 00:47:41,120 --> 00:47:44,320 brutalize us for simply condemning A genocide standing 661 00:47:44,320 --> 00:47:48,040 against the genocide last night, which violated their own CUNY 662 00:47:48,040 --> 00:47:54,920 policies. I don't feel safe on my campus, 663 00:47:55,920 --> 00:47:57,960 not after tonight, but even before then. 664 00:47:58,440 --> 00:48:00,960 With the NYPD on our campus, I never felt safe. 665 00:48:02,040 --> 00:48:05,560 We've been protesting for months and I've been hate crimes. 666 00:48:05,760 --> 00:48:09,120 I've been threatened, I've been harassed, and every single time 667 00:48:09,120 --> 00:48:12,240 I quote, UN quote, played by the book and reported it to the 668 00:48:12,240 --> 00:48:15,520 public safety, they ignored it. They swept it under the rug. 669 00:48:21,160 --> 00:48:24,960 So I do not rely on them to keep me safe, or any of us. 670 00:48:25,200 --> 00:48:32,640 I rely on my community. In fact, I've never felt safer 671 00:48:32,640 --> 00:48:35,640 on this campus than how I felt back in the encampments last 672 00:48:35,640 --> 00:48:41,040 night. If you see, it's the most 673 00:48:41,040 --> 00:48:44,560 beautiful society in there. We support each other. 674 00:48:44,720 --> 00:48:48,600 We have little art clubs, little book clubs, mutual aid, food 675 00:48:48,600 --> 00:48:56,240 security, a library for the people, and our encampment is 676 00:48:56,240 --> 00:48:58,080 what it could look like to be liberated. 677 00:48:59,240 --> 00:49:02,840 I will continue to help cultivate these spaces of 678 00:49:02,840 --> 00:49:07,520 liberation in the belly of the beast, and I will continue to 679 00:49:07,520 --> 00:49:11,440 advocate for Palestine and not back down even when all of this 680 00:49:11,440 --> 00:49:14,000 violence continues. Because the only thing I fear is 681 00:49:14,000 --> 00:49:15,400 Allah. Subhanahu at the Allah. 682 00:49:25,320 --> 00:49:28,320 And we will not be intimidated into silence. 683 00:49:28,520 --> 00:49:35,360 In fact, we know that the more they try to silence us, we are 684 00:49:35,360 --> 00:49:38,560 calling for an end to the genocide in the Gaza immediately 685 00:49:38,840 --> 00:49:42,680 and the end of the colonization in Palestine from the river to 686 00:49:42,680 --> 00:49:48,440 the sea. And we will continue to do that 687 00:49:48,760 --> 00:49:54,080 here in Palestine on every part of this earth, because we 688 00:49:54,080 --> 00:50:00,040 declare our right on this earth to be a human being, to be 689 00:50:00,040 --> 00:50:04,320 respected as a human being, to be given the rights of a human 690 00:50:04,320 --> 00:50:10,520 being in this society, on this earth on this day, And we intend 691 00:50:10,520 --> 00:50:14,160 to bring that into existence by any means necessary. 692 00:50:17,600 --> 00:50:20,840 To police brutality, we say we are not deterred and we will 693 00:50:20,840 --> 00:50:27,000 win. Columbia will divest to 694 00:50:27,000 --> 00:50:30,880 repression, we say Our numbers will only grow to state 695 00:50:30,880 --> 00:50:33,560 violence. We say we'll become smarter, 696 00:50:33,560 --> 00:50:40,560 stronger, and better prepared to stand on ground to the 697 00:50:40,560 --> 00:50:43,760 Palestinian people. We recommit our love to you and 698 00:50:43,920 --> 00:50:47,880 affirm that our hope and will has never been stronger. 699 00:50:51,280 --> 00:50:55,120 Our people, arrested yesterday, will soon be free and ready to 700 00:50:55,120 --> 00:50:58,520 fight again with even greater insight into the oppressor. 701 00:50:58,840 --> 00:51:03,920 We, the students, will win. From Emory to humble to CUNY, We 702 00:51:03,920 --> 00:51:10,720 will wage. We will wage not only a fight 703 00:51:10,720 --> 00:51:14,440 against the oppressors, but an effort to educate the world on 704 00:51:14,440 --> 00:51:18,280 our government's complicity and the genocide and the sham that 705 00:51:18,280 --> 00:51:25,560 is the American Empire. From the belly of the beast, we 706 00:51:25,560 --> 00:51:27,640 proudly state that we are unafraid. 707 00:51:27,800 --> 00:51:31,840 We are strong, Tomorrow is ours, and victory is nearer than we 708 00:51:31,840 --> 00:51:34,680 imagine. And our hearts are olive trees 709 00:51:34,800 --> 00:51:38,360 that will sprawl passion unlike anything this country has ever 710 00:51:38,360 --> 00:51:44,360 seen. We with our hope, with our 711 00:51:44,360 --> 00:51:48,080 voices, with our hearts and our minds, we'll build a student 712 00:51:48,080 --> 00:51:52,280 movement and we'll take back our campuses for morally corrupt 713 00:51:52,440 --> 00:51:56,640 administrations that disregard humanity for the sake of profit. 714 00:52:00,320 --> 00:52:03,200 We are the students, and we are not afraid. 715 00:52:03,400 --> 00:52:06,520 We will win all of our demands and more. 716 00:52:06,720 --> 00:52:09,600 From Harlem to Palestine, we will win. 717 00:52:12,760 --> 00:52:18,480 From the river to the sea, Palestine will be free. 718 00:52:18,480 --> 00:52:20,840 Palestine will. Be free. 719 00:52:20,840 --> 00:52:26,320 And we will free Palestine. We will free Palestine within 720 00:52:26,320 --> 00:52:31,280 our lifetime. In our lifetime, from the river 721 00:52:31,280 --> 00:52:36,400 to the sea, Palestine is almost free. 722 00:52:38,800 --> 00:52:40,960 From the river to the sea, Palestine is almost free. 723 00:52:43,360 --> 00:52:50,000 Palestine is almost free. Palestine is almost free. 724 00:52:52,040 --> 00:52:57,560 Palestine is almost free. Palestine is almost free. 725 00:52:57,560 --> 00:53:00,960 Palestine is almost free. Thank. 726 00:53:01,040 --> 00:53:15,800 You so much. I. 727 00:53:47,520 --> 00:54:28,240 None. I know. 728 00:54:28,680 --> 00:54:33,360 I know. I'm just grateful for Gen. 729 00:54:33,360 --> 00:54:42,440 Z I'm so moved. My thanks to Angie and Donald 730 00:54:43,200 --> 00:54:46,320 for this podcast. I appreciate all of your good 731 00:54:46,320 --> 00:54:51,600 work and all your help. I'm Michael Moore. 732 00:54:52,440 --> 00:54:54,480 Thanks to all of you for making this happen. 733 00:54:55,360 --> 00:54:56,480 I'll talk to you real soon.