1 00:00:06,920 --> 00:00:13,140 On June 16, 2015, Donald Trump descended an escalator into the gilded lobby of Trump Tower 2 00:00:13,140 --> 00:00:15,871 in downtown Manhattan, to officially announce 3 00:00:15,871 --> 00:00:19,360 his candidacy for President of the United States. 4 00:00:19,360 --> 00:00:23,260 That is some group of people. Thousands! 5 00:00:23,260 --> 00:00:26,657 The idea that Trump could actually win the US Presidential election 6 00:00:26,657 --> 00:00:28,960 didn’t occur to many people at the time. 7 00:00:28,965 --> 00:00:32,529 Certainly not to American liberals, who viewed his campaign 8 00:00:32,529 --> 00:00:36,730 as an irrelevant publicity stunt, and a way to score some easy laughs. 9 00:00:36,730 --> 00:00:39,670 Donald Trump just last week, he confirmed to the National Review 10 00:00:39,670 --> 00:00:42,660 that he is again considering a run in 2016 11 00:00:42,660 --> 00:00:43,830 Do it! 12 00:00:43,830 --> 00:00:44,830 (Laughter) 13 00:00:44,830 --> 00:00:48,510 Do it! Look at me. Do it! 14 00:00:48,510 --> 00:00:52,901 As the months dragged on, this laughter became tinged by a growing sense of unease, 15 00:00:52,901 --> 00:00:56,010 as Trump steadily rose to the head of the Republican pack. 16 00:00:56,010 --> 00:01:01,735 Donald Trump is America’s back mole. It may have seemed harmless a year ago. 17 00:01:01,735 --> 00:01:06,430 But now that it’s gotten frighteningly bigger, it is no longer wise to ignore it. 18 00:01:06,430 --> 00:01:10,463 Yet even as he ascended the stage of the Republican National Convention 19 00:01:10,463 --> 00:01:14,670 to accept his party’s nomination in July of 2016, 20 00:01:14,670 --> 00:01:16,386 many people still refused to believe 21 00:01:16,386 --> 00:01:18,670 what was happening right before their eyes. 22 00:01:18,670 --> 00:01:23,247 We’re back with David Hundo P Plouffe, the man who says Hillary Clinton 23 00:01:23,247 --> 00:01:24,799 has a 100 percent chance of winning 24 00:01:24,799 --> 00:01:26,790 I continue to believe Mr. Trump will not be president 25 00:01:27,200 --> 00:01:30,280 So you think this presidential race is just about over? 26 00:01:30,280 --> 00:01:32,846 Virtually over, the only thing that could save Donald Trump now is frankly, 27 00:01:32,846 --> 00:01:34,610 some type of external intervention 28 00:01:34,610 --> 00:01:39,408 This came to an abrupt end on election night, as stunned pundits soberly announced 29 00:01:39,408 --> 00:01:44,850 that Donald J Trump would be sworn in as the 45th President of the United States. 30 00:01:44,850 --> 00:01:46,100 (sighs) 31 00:01:47,060 --> 00:01:50,942 You’re awake by the way… You are not having a terrible, terrible dream, 32 00:01:50,942 --> 00:01:53,417 also you’re not dead and you haven’t gone to hell… 33 00:01:53,417 --> 00:01:55,320 This is your life now, this is our election now 34 00:01:55,320 --> 00:01:58,280 this is us, this is our country, It's real 35 00:01:58,280 --> 00:02:01,280 USA!! USA!! 36 00:02:01,380 --> 00:02:03,389 Thank you! 37 00:02:03,389 --> 00:02:07,130 The Democratic Party, and its various corporate media appendages, 38 00:02:07,130 --> 00:02:10,664 had grossly underestimated the anti-establishment backlash, 39 00:02:10,664 --> 00:02:14,260 that decades of neoliberal pcapitalist policies had fostered 40 00:02:14,260 --> 00:02:17,256 among broad swathes of the American population. 41 00:02:17,256 --> 00:02:19,870 Trump’s campaign had effectively tapped 42 00:02:19,870 --> 00:02:22,140 this deep reservoir of seething anger, 43 00:02:22,140 --> 00:02:24,890 and poured gasoline on the flames by appealing 44 00:02:24,890 --> 00:02:28,780 to the patriarchal and nationalist impulses of white America. 45 00:02:28,780 --> 00:02:36,660 Get the fuck out of here! Our country motherfucker! Our country! A proud fuckin American! 46 00:02:36,660 --> 00:02:41,110 Made in USA bitch! Trump! Donald Trump! Fuck you! 47 00:02:42,110 --> 00:02:45,931 On election night, as 4Chan trolls and alt-right figures celebrated, 48 00:02:45,931 --> 00:02:49,682 and liberals sank into paralysis and fatalistic despair... 49 00:02:49,682 --> 00:02:53,370 anarchists, anti-authoritarians and crowds of angry youth 50 00:02:53,370 --> 00:02:55,190 took to the streets. 51 00:02:55,190 --> 00:02:59,169 In cities across the country, large, spontaneous demonstrations broke out 52 00:02:59,169 --> 00:03:02,084 before the votes were even finished being tallied. 53 00:03:02,084 --> 00:03:04,327 Many of these protests were militant, 54 00:03:04,327 --> 00:03:07,817 with participants burning effigies, clashing with police 55 00:03:07,817 --> 00:03:09,970 and shutting down major highways. 56 00:03:09,970 --> 00:03:12,998 In Oakland, two police cars were smashed up and burned, 57 00:03:12,998 --> 00:03:16,390 and several cops were sent to the hospital with injuries. 58 00:03:16,390 --> 00:03:20,102 Within this charged political atmosphere, a multi-city network 59 00:03:20,102 --> 00:03:23,800 of anarchists stepped up to begin planning a massive demonstration 60 00:03:23,800 --> 00:03:27,908 aimed to coincide with Trump’s inauguration on January 20th. 61 00:03:27,908 --> 00:03:33,590 Within days, a website was calling on people to hashtag Disrupt J20. 62 00:03:33,590 --> 00:03:37,052 Over the next thirty minutes, we will take a look at the historic protests 63 00:03:37,052 --> 00:03:39,313 that rocked the streets of DC that day, 64 00:03:39,313 --> 00:03:43,362 as well as the unprecedented wave of mass repression that followed. 65 00:03:43,362 --> 00:03:48,010 Along the way, we will speak with a number of defendants and their supporters 66 00:03:48,010 --> 00:03:51,513 as they share their experiences of running riot in Washington, 67 00:03:51,513 --> 00:03:54,200 taking on the Department of Justice in court... 68 00:03:54,200 --> 00:03:56,940 and ultimately... staying OUT of Trouble. 69 00:04:15,550 --> 00:04:23,160 We need somebody, that literally will take this country and make it great again. 70 00:04:23,160 --> 00:04:26,510 News: Donald Trump wins the presidency! 71 00:04:26,510 --> 00:04:30,010 The next day, we’re just like, now what? 72 00:04:30,010 --> 00:04:34,500 Days later, we had a website up, put together a video, a facebook event, and all this. 73 00:04:34,500 --> 00:04:41,110 Folks got a spokescouncil together. It was probably one of the best mobilizations 74 00:04:41,110 --> 00:04:43,230 of coalitions that I’ve ever been a part of. 75 00:04:43,230 --> 00:04:50,164 The spokescouncils were according to the principles of consensus and according to also 76 00:04:50,164 --> 00:04:52,822 the Saint-Paul Principles of organizing. 77 00:04:52,822 --> 00:04:57,350 It’s a great way to organize a massive number of people according 78 00:04:57,350 --> 00:05:00,490 to basic anarchist principles. 79 00:05:02,448 --> 00:05:07,490 Our solidarity will be based on respect for a diversity of tactics and the plans of other groups. 80 00:05:07,490 --> 00:05:13,020 The actions and tactics used will be organized to maintain a separation of time or space. 81 00:05:13,020 --> 00:05:17,060 Any debates or criticisms will stay internal to the movement, 82 00:05:17,960 --> 00:05:21,860 avoiding any public or media denunciations of fellow activists and events. 83 00:05:21,860 --> 00:05:28,030 We oppose any state repression of dissent, including surveillance,infiltration, disruption and violence. 84 00:05:28,030 --> 00:05:32,330 We agree not to assist law enforcement actions against activists and others. 85 00:05:32,820 --> 00:05:37,400 Different assemblies organized different aspects and there was about nine different blockades 86 00:05:37,400 --> 00:05:41,400 that were organized in those assemblies as well as, like, a permitted march, 87 00:05:41,400 --> 00:05:45,090 J19 which was kind of like, a protest against Deploraball, 88 00:05:45,090 --> 00:05:47,930 as well as the anti-capitalist and anti-fascist march 89 00:05:50,300 --> 00:05:55,043 So we were able to convene broader mass meetings that drew four to six hundred people 90 00:05:55,043 --> 00:06:01,310 in some cases. Break down into smaller working groups around the specific direct-action blockades, 91 00:06:01,310 --> 00:06:07,600 the unpermitted march, the permitted festival of resistance, art, housing, medics, legal 92 00:06:07,600 --> 00:06:09,590 like, we had a whole array of things. 93 00:06:09,590 --> 00:06:14,930 No one wanted to just show up and just show out. Like there was a definite message about 94 00:06:14,930 --> 00:06:17,030 disrupting the inauguration. 95 00:06:18,030 --> 00:06:20,716 News 1: Burning cars and smashed windows! 96 00:06:20,716 --> 00:06:23,340 The protesters dressed in black 97 00:06:23,340 --> 00:06:25,637 their faces covered, armed with hammers and bricks. 98 00:06:25,637 --> 00:06:29,630 News 2: Bricks and rocks being thrown right here at the police! 99 00:06:29,630 --> 00:06:31,230 News 3: Six officers reportedly injured. 100 00:06:49,040 --> 00:06:50,280 This thing’s crazy. 101 00:06:50,930 --> 00:06:52,370 Black Lives! Matter! 102 00:06:52,370 --> 00:06:53,170 Make nazis afraid again! 103 00:06:55,170 --> 00:06:58,929 So that day our goal was to shut down a checkpoint. 104 00:06:58,929 --> 00:07:01,980 We started with a rally in front of the MPD offices 105 00:07:01,980 --> 00:07:06,770 Obviously one of the things we continue to fight is the police brutality and murder 106 00:07:06,770 --> 00:07:07,526 here in DC. 107 00:07:07,526 --> 00:07:13,300 The first thing we did was lock up in chains to what would have been the checkpoint 108 00:07:13,300 --> 00:07:17,132 entrances to the actual parade route. We got there before it opened. 109 00:07:17,132 --> 00:07:20,180 Nobody ever got through that checkpoint for the entire day. 110 00:07:20,180 --> 00:07:22,430 We certainly attended with an obvious attempt 111 00:07:22,430 --> 00:07:26,570 to disrupt the inauguration specifically because of the rising fascism of Trump. 112 00:07:26,570 --> 00:07:30,556 There was a little speech, and then we just started marching. 113 00:07:30,556 --> 00:07:32,038 In the beginning it was just like any normal march. 114 00:07:32,038 --> 00:07:34,370 People chanting, y’know, down the street. 115 00:07:34,370 --> 00:07:40,710 And then slowly I noticed people pulling trash cans and newspaper bins into the street. 116 00:07:40,710 --> 00:07:42,960 And then there was fireworks. 117 00:07:42,960 --> 00:07:50,510 And then finally like, i started seeing windows broken. I remember seeing the Bank of America. 118 00:07:50,510 --> 00:07:53,230 All of their windows were completely gone. 119 00:07:56,230 --> 00:07:59,185 So this is what happens in the rest of the world 120 00:07:59,185 --> 00:08:01,880 when people fight against a fascist government. 121 00:08:01,880 --> 00:08:05,199 Levels of seriousness that are not like our protests here 122 00:08:05,199 --> 00:08:07,472 where we yell and scream and then go home. 123 00:08:07,472 --> 00:08:10,950 That people start realizing like, this is a little more serious 124 00:08:10,950 --> 00:08:14,740 than just “I’m mad today” or “our president is going to be terrible” 125 00:08:14,740 --> 00:08:21,290 Yeah pand looking back as a participant that day cemented what solidarity looks like. 126 00:08:25,290 --> 00:08:27,920 But then all of a sudden, everyone just started running. 127 00:08:27,920 --> 00:08:30,330 The cops would come and corner us one way 128 00:08:30,330 --> 00:08:33,169 making us go another way. And then they’d corner us this way. 129 00:08:33,169 --> 00:08:37,500 So while we’re running away eventually we notice there’s a whole bunch of cops in front of us. 130 00:08:42,289 --> 00:08:46,036 We were eventually kettled on a corner of 12th and L Street in downtown DC. 131 00:08:46,036 --> 00:08:53,060 The bravery and the spirit that people maintained during a very long period of being held outside 132 00:08:53,060 --> 00:08:57,217 on the corner and so we were held from about 10am until well after nightfall. 133 00:08:57,217 --> 00:09:02,420 And people were very good about sharing food and sharing water and medical supplies and cigarettes 134 00:09:02,420 --> 00:09:05,155 or whatever else people needed to kind of keep their state of normal. 135 00:09:05,155 --> 00:09:10,880 And so the actual arrest was a very interesting time where people were sharing tactical advice and strategic advice. 136 00:09:12,050 --> 00:09:14,800 And then eventually we were just arrested one by one 137 00:09:14,800 --> 00:09:18,890 and spent the night in jail and were released the next evening. 138 00:09:28,171 --> 00:09:33,540 For years now, cops in DC have had a reputation for being relatively restrained when it comes 139 00:09:33,540 --> 00:09:38,130 to dealing with public protests. But while it’s therefore understandable that the indiscriminate 140 00:09:38,130 --> 00:09:43,410 use of flash bangs, pepper spray and mass arrest that occurred at the J20 protests caught 141 00:09:43,410 --> 00:09:48,400 many participants by surprise... these actions weren’t without historical precedent. 142 00:09:48,400 --> 00:09:54,281 Hey hey! Ho ho! The IMF has got to go! Hey hey! Ho ho! 143 00:09:54,550 --> 00:09:59,160 Back in the heyday of the anti-globalization movement, Washington was ground zero for two 144 00:09:59,160 --> 00:10:04,560 major protests against the World Bank and IMF, where similarly heavy-handed crowd control 145 00:10:04,560 --> 00:10:10,940 tactics were employed by DC’s Metropolitan Police Department, or MPD, as part an official 146 00:10:10,940 --> 00:10:16,110 policy of preemptive mass arrest, dubbed ‘trap and detain’. 147 00:10:16,110 --> 00:10:21,081 At the so-called A16 anti-capitalist demonstrations of April, 2000, 148 00:10:21,081 --> 00:10:23,530 the MPD arrested over 1300 people 149 00:10:23,530 --> 00:10:29,350 including a sweeping round-up of 648 protesters on the eve of the weekend’s 150 00:10:29,350 --> 00:10:30,830 major demonstration. 151 00:10:30,830 --> 00:10:38,270 Two years later, at a similar protest in September of 2002, the MPD and federal US Parks Police 152 00:10:38,270 --> 00:10:42,396 encircled and mass-arrested around 400 people in Pershing Park, 153 00:10:42,396 --> 00:10:44,699 one block away from the White House. 154 00:10:44,699 --> 00:10:49,890 Detainees were hog tied and left in stress positions for more than 24 hours 155 00:10:49,890 --> 00:10:52,110 before ultimately being released. 156 00:10:52,110 --> 00:10:56,780 Civil rights lawyers, led by the Partnership for Civil Justice, responded to these two 157 00:10:56,780 --> 00:11:02,500 mass arrests by suing the MPD and the federal government. The resulting lawsuits cost DC 158 00:11:02,500 --> 00:11:07,440 taxpayers over $20 million dollars in damages, embarrassed city politicians and the police 159 00:11:07,440 --> 00:11:13,480 top brass, and ultimately led to legislation that placed new controls on police activity, 160 00:11:13,480 --> 00:11:18,550 including guidelines explicitly outlawing the use of arbitrary mass detention. 161 00:11:18,550 --> 00:11:22,990 But it’s a well-known fact that police don’t exactly appreciate checks on their authority... 162 00:11:22,990 --> 00:11:25,517 and the cops in DC are no exception. 163 00:11:25,517 --> 00:11:30,020 On the day of the Disrupt J20 protests, Interim Police Chief, Peter Newsham, 164 00:11:30,020 --> 00:11:33,760 who 16 years earlier had personally ordered the mass arrest of 165 00:11:33,760 --> 00:11:38,181 protesters in Pershing Park, had been on the job for just over four months. 166 00:11:38,181 --> 00:11:41,342 And no doubt emboldened by Trump’s campaign promises 167 00:11:41,342 --> 00:11:43,770 to give cops free reign to brutalize people 168 00:11:43,770 --> 00:11:49,604 however they saw fit, he decided that the era of playing nice was over. 169 00:11:58,110 --> 00:12:02,240 On January 21st over 230 people had spent the night in lock-up, 170 00:12:02,240 --> 00:12:04,430 but we didn't know what the charges were going to be. 171 00:12:05,390 --> 00:12:09,875 When we were first arrested I assumed that it would just be a $50 fine. 172 00:12:09,870 --> 00:12:14,588 The day of our court date I realized that we were all actually being charged with 173 00:12:14,588 --> 00:12:18,967 a felony, and I was like 'woah, this is big.' 174 00:12:20,110 --> 00:12:22,804 There was a solid amount of people that were just, frankly, scared. 175 00:12:22,804 --> 00:12:24,264 And for, like, good reason. 176 00:12:24,264 --> 00:12:25,550 Fuck your dreams. 177 00:12:25,550 --> 00:12:27,184 Fuck your aspirations. 178 00:12:27,184 --> 00:12:28,170 Y'know... you're gonna be in jail. 179 00:12:28,170 --> 00:12:32,147 That's another world you have to process and readjust yourself to. 180 00:12:32,147 --> 00:12:34,820 And we were not about to go there. 181 00:12:34,820 --> 00:12:38,720 So we were initially each charged with one count of felony riot. 182 00:12:38,720 --> 00:12:42,610 Three months later, while I was at an anarchist gathering in Mexico, I received an email from 183 00:12:42,610 --> 00:12:46,100 a comrade, which informed me that the superceding indictment had been issued. 184 00:12:46,100 --> 00:12:50,920 And in that superceding indictment we were given numerous additional charges. 185 00:12:50,920 --> 00:12:53,100 This includes felony riot, 186 00:12:53,100 --> 00:12:54,620 conspiracy to riot, 187 00:12:54,620 --> 00:12:56,410 several counts of destruction of property, 188 00:12:56,410 --> 00:12:57,570 inciting a riot, 189 00:12:57,570 --> 00:13:01,593 several counts of assault and several counts of assault on an officer with a deadly weapon. 190 00:13:01,593 --> 00:13:06,480 It was insane... y'know, facing 80 years in prison was very nerve-wracking. 191 00:13:06,480 --> 00:13:11,360 The idea is to charge people with far more crimes than you could possibly convict on. 192 00:13:11,360 --> 00:13:16,920 And though you realize that this is probably just a scare tactic to get people to accept 193 00:13:16,920 --> 00:13:19,970 pleas... you're still facing 80 years in prison. 194 00:13:19,970 --> 00:13:25,000 In Washington DC, prosecutors have filed a slew of additional felony and misdemeanor 195 00:13:25,000 --> 00:13:29,520 charges against more than 200 people who were arrested at protests during President Trump's 196 00:13:29,520 --> 00:13:31,873 inauguration January 20th. 197 00:13:31,873 --> 00:13:39,100 The new charges mean protesters are now facing up to 75 years in prison. 198 00:13:39,100 --> 00:13:42,380 After the mobilization, Washington DC was fairly spent. 199 00:13:42,380 --> 00:13:48,050 So as we were kind of developing the legal collective and legal framework, particularly 200 00:13:48,050 --> 00:13:54,360 MACC, the Metropolitan Anarchist Coordinating Council and Richmond folks kind of, like, 201 00:13:54,360 --> 00:13:56,080 stepped up. 202 00:13:57,620 --> 00:14:03,010 I became more involved in providing legal support on January 21st, sort of directly 203 00:14:03,010 --> 00:14:04,010 in the aftermath. 204 00:14:04,010 --> 00:14:07,520 There were multiple different sort of hubs of people providing different kinds of support, 205 00:14:07,520 --> 00:14:11,670 and the place that I was most active was in the DC Legal Posse - the collective that sort 206 00:14:11,670 --> 00:14:13,970 of sprung up specifically to provide support. 207 00:14:13,970 --> 00:14:19,200 MACC helped bottom-line the initial assemblies of the defendants that allowed for folks to 208 00:14:19,200 --> 00:14:23,230 draw together four different points of unity to sign onto. 209 00:14:23,230 --> 00:14:26,440 People would break off, come up with ideas and then we would discuss them. 210 00:14:26,440 --> 00:14:32,120 Like 'I don't like this point, but I do like this point... let's expand a bit on this point.' 211 00:14:33,950 --> 00:14:39,310 Everything was hinging on having to make this shit work. 212 00:14:39,310 --> 00:14:41,980 This was very much a multi-city, decentralized effort. 213 00:14:41,980 --> 00:14:46,045 Multi-city for us meant Movement for Black Lives more locally, 214 00:14:46,045 --> 00:14:49,794 but in contacting the Movement for Black Lives nationally 215 00:14:49,794 --> 00:14:54,010 which is made up of about 75 different national organizations. 216 00:14:54,010 --> 00:14:57,750 And really coordinating with them to talk about what this meant. 217 00:14:57,750 --> 00:15:02,380 And to make sure that when we talked about it, that we always incorporated places like 218 00:15:02,380 --> 00:15:08,136 Ferguson, where there are political prisoners from the Ferguson uprising. 219 00:15:08,136 --> 00:15:12,250 So the coordination were essentially weekly meetings and different calls where people 220 00:15:12,250 --> 00:15:14,890 did legal research and kind of, like, formed working groups. 221 00:15:14,890 --> 00:15:17,540 And those working-groups did various tasks. 222 00:15:17,540 --> 00:15:19,950 I was able to help with a lot of the media work. 223 00:15:19,950 --> 00:15:23,050 Y'know, the defendants wanted to do their own media. 224 00:15:23,050 --> 00:15:26,660 And, like... that's the best kind of media there is anyway. 225 00:15:26,660 --> 00:15:28,060 I gave a bunch of interviews. 226 00:15:28,060 --> 00:15:32,300 We did a lot of off-the-record background for reporters to explain how this case fits 227 00:15:32,300 --> 00:15:33,770 into a larger context. 228 00:15:33,770 --> 00:15:35,310 There was a very robust campaign. 229 00:15:35,310 --> 00:15:37,570 We had yard signs, it was very grassroots. 230 00:15:37,570 --> 00:15:38,860 It was very professional. 231 00:15:38,860 --> 00:15:42,250 So I was really proud of the work that everyone did. 232 00:15:42,250 --> 00:15:44,680 We used a lot of decentralized tactics to approach it. 233 00:15:44,680 --> 00:15:48,920 One of the things which is really quite amazing, with the large and diverse group of people 234 00:15:48,920 --> 00:15:53,560 who faced federal prosecution, was the ability of people to act collectively and to resist 235 00:15:53,560 --> 00:15:58,687 this kind of knee-jerk reaction to take some sort of plea bargain. 236 00:16:04,930 --> 00:16:08,940 Before J20, there had been folks charged with rioting at Standing Rock. 237 00:16:08,940 --> 00:16:11,533 I think that there was a charge in Minneapolis. 238 00:16:11,533 --> 00:16:14,200 There was a charge brought the same day in New Orleans. 239 00:16:14,200 --> 00:16:17,560 I think that there were similar charges brought against activists in Sacramento. 240 00:16:17,560 --> 00:16:21,120 And so people were worried that this was going to be part of a wave. 241 00:16:21,120 --> 00:16:26,170 I would say that the charges are designed to criminalize certain forms of dissent. 242 00:16:26,170 --> 00:16:30,270 They're designed certainly to criminalize tactics and strategies. 243 00:16:30,270 --> 00:16:34,920 Specifically the use of public mass assemblies and specifically the use of black bloc tactics. 244 00:16:34,920 --> 00:16:40,450 The US Justice Department actually tried to say that participating in a black bloc was 245 00:16:40,450 --> 00:16:42,190 a conspiracy to riot. 246 00:16:42,190 --> 00:16:47,550 Very early on it became clear that the state had taken the 230 people and broken them up 247 00:16:47,550 --> 00:16:49,120 into categories. 248 00:16:49,120 --> 00:16:54,230 And it seemed to be that the categories were meant to show a continuum of culpability. 249 00:16:54,230 --> 00:16:57,270 There was 'movers', which were like... allowed for reabsorbtion. 250 00:16:57,270 --> 00:17:02,730 There was alleged 'breakers', which were people who did an alleged act, such as break a window 251 00:17:02,730 --> 00:17:06,810 or throw a newspaper box into the street. 252 00:17:06,810 --> 00:17:11,700 The third category, which I was accused of, was an alleged 'organizer'. 253 00:17:11,700 --> 00:17:16,240 People who allegedly made the black bloc on J20 happen. 254 00:17:16,240 --> 00:17:20,819 The fact that there had been these changes to police procedure... these limitations to 255 00:17:20,819 --> 00:17:26,050 police tactics that had been won after some pretty brutal clashes in the early 2000s, 256 00:17:26,050 --> 00:17:27,880 had sort of established the tone in DC. 257 00:17:27,880 --> 00:17:32,030 And I think that a lot of people in DC had gotten used to the police handling people 258 00:17:32,030 --> 00:17:33,030 with kid gloves. 259 00:17:33,030 --> 00:17:36,868 And I think the police had gotten used to a lot of permitted marches. 260 00:17:36,868 --> 00:17:39,370 I've grown up here. I've lived here my whole life. 261 00:17:39,370 --> 00:17:43,900 We thought that there wouldn't be mass arrests on J20 because there hadn't been mass arrests 262 00:17:43,900 --> 00:17:46,600 in something like the decade prior. 263 00:17:46,600 --> 00:17:49,940 One of the reasons that it caught everyone off guard in DC is that the law that was used 264 00:17:49,940 --> 00:17:54,330 to prosecute people hadn't actually been used to prosecute anyone since the early 70s. 265 00:17:54,330 --> 00:17:58,360 And it was passed by congress in the wake of the uprisings in Newark and Detroit, basically 266 00:17:58,360 --> 00:18:02,610 because they were afraid about the prospect of Black people rising up in DC. 267 00:18:02,610 --> 00:18:08,108 There was a definite need to say why we support J20. 268 00:18:08,108 --> 00:18:12,730 Y'know, lotta times folks were like 'that's just them skinny white folks with masks on... 269 00:18:12,730 --> 00:18:15,031 and we don't have anything to do with that.' 270 00:18:15,031 --> 00:18:19,340 When the truth is... they are us, and we are them. 271 00:18:19,340 --> 00:18:24,332 And so it could have been us on J20, but it's always us as Black liberation fighters. 272 00:18:24,332 --> 00:18:29,569 The potential threat for becoming political prisoners or political casualties 273 00:18:29,569 --> 00:18:32,757 is high in this game, and we know that. 274 00:18:39,670 --> 00:18:43,171 Federal prosecutors in the United States have become quite fond 275 00:18:43,171 --> 00:18:47,522 of grossly overcharging defendants in hopes of scaring them into taking plea deals. 276 00:18:47,522 --> 00:18:53,120 It’s a big reason why more than 90% of criminal offences in the US never make it to trial. 277 00:18:53,120 --> 00:18:58,290 This was the same tried and tested strategy, that US Assistant Prosecutor and Deputy Chief 278 00:18:58,290 --> 00:19:04,440 of DC’s Felony Major Crimes Division, Jennifer Kerkhoff, tried to use on the J20 co-defendants, 279 00:19:04,440 --> 00:19:09,340 by slapping a staggering list of felonies on nearly 200 individuals connected only by 280 00:19:09,340 --> 00:19:14,240 the dubious assertion that everyone arrested on the streets of DC that day was part of 281 00:19:14,240 --> 00:19:16,300 a conspiracy to riot. 282 00:19:16,300 --> 00:19:21,000 Kerkhoff no doubt expected those on the receiving end of these charges to freak out and start 283 00:19:21,000 --> 00:19:25,270 flipping on one another... thereby setting the stage for a series of easy convictions 284 00:19:25,270 --> 00:19:27,150 for lesser charges. 285 00:19:27,150 --> 00:19:31,400 Unfortunately for her, the J20 defendants refused to roll over. 286 00:19:31,400 --> 00:19:36,410 Early on in their legal process, many of them signed onto a shared statement of principles, 287 00:19:36,410 --> 00:19:40,030 in which they made it clear that they would refuse to cooperate with the state’s efforts 288 00:19:40,030 --> 00:19:45,610 to prosecute them, and pledged to coordinate legal defence and support efforts. 289 00:19:45,610 --> 00:19:50,100 Faced with this firm resolve and collective solidarity, the US Department of Justice had 290 00:19:50,100 --> 00:19:53,520 no choice but to try and make their outlandish case stick. 291 00:19:53,520 --> 00:19:58,160 In a desperate attempt to do just this, they subpoenaed California-based hosting provider, 292 00:19:58,160 --> 00:20:01,810 Dreamhost, to try and force them to turn over the IP addresses 293 00:20:01,810 --> 00:20:06,226 of everyone who visited the website DisruptJ20.org 294 00:20:06,226 --> 00:20:10,970 They also sought access to suspected organizers’ personal facebook accounts, in an attempt 295 00:20:10,970 --> 00:20:15,470 to dig up dirt that might help prove the existence of a conspiracy. 296 00:20:15,470 --> 00:20:20,210 These efforts largely failed, and they were forced to rely heavily on evidence provided 297 00:20:20,210 --> 00:20:22,710 by discredited far-right news outlets. 298 00:20:22,710 --> 00:20:27,121 The ensuing trials were a massive humiliation for Kerkhoff 299 00:20:27,121 --> 00:20:30,041 and the entire American justice system. 300 00:20:40,120 --> 00:20:44,610 Conspiracies are essentially a thought crime, A conspiracy to riot is essentially 301 00:20:44,610 --> 00:20:48,191 three people getting together and saying 302 00:20:48,191 --> 00:20:50,430 "there should be a riot." 303 00:20:50,430 --> 00:20:55,320 What conspiracy law basically says is, that anyone who's convicted of or can be 304 00:20:55,320 --> 00:21:00,440 found liable for any particular crime, in this case the criminal conspiracy is 305 00:21:00,440 --> 00:21:04,480 thus responsible for all the crimes that stem from that. 306 00:21:04,480 --> 00:21:08,760 Essentially saying if you were out on the streets on, you know, inauguration day and 307 00:21:08,760 --> 00:21:10,650 you were dressed a certain way 308 00:21:10,650 --> 00:21:12,625 Chanting the same chants 309 00:21:12,625 --> 00:21:16,280 AK47, put the cops in piggie heaven! 310 00:21:16,280 --> 00:21:18,840 Espousing certain messages 311 00:21:20,670 --> 00:21:22,270 Like bringing a medic 312 00:21:22,270 --> 00:21:28,599 You are presumptively part of a plot hundreds of people deep to riot in the streets 313 00:21:28,599 --> 00:21:34,140 The state asserted in a rather untraditional way that the conspiracy itself can be spontaneous. 314 00:21:34,140 --> 00:21:38,480 In other words if two people are walking by a store and they say “hey that store looks 315 00:21:38,480 --> 00:21:42,840 unlocked let's go rob it” that a conspiracy is actually derived in that moment. 316 00:21:42,840 --> 00:21:50,120 So the state argued that during the the J20 actions that people conspired in the streets. 317 00:21:50,120 --> 00:21:54,880 It means that they have a much lower bar to clear in terms of what they need to prove, 318 00:21:54,880 --> 00:22:01,870 that gives prosecutors an incredible amount of leeway in terms of who they can charge. 319 00:22:01,870 --> 00:22:05,650 The state would consistently assert that defendant “A” did not assault 320 00:22:05,650 --> 00:22:10,120 anyone nor did they break any windows, but by being present at an assembly they 321 00:22:10,120 --> 00:22:15,460 have thus conspired to facilitate others to break windows and to carry out assault. 322 00:22:15,460 --> 00:22:19,670 Hey there everyone this is James O'Keefe with project Veritas after we released these 323 00:22:19,670 --> 00:22:24,730 few videos exposing Disrupt J20 we have a couple updates for you. 324 00:22:24,730 --> 00:22:31,800 Project Veritas is an organization that has made their mark sending these individuals 325 00:22:31,800 --> 00:22:35,750 into organizations and planning meetings who are 326 00:22:35,750 --> 00:22:42,530 pretending to just be another left-wing participant just another lefty but actually they're wired 327 00:22:42,530 --> 00:22:49,340 up with secret cameras and try to find things that they think they can use as dirt against 328 00:22:49,340 --> 00:22:55,270 the organization to try these organizations in the court of public opinion and either 329 00:22:55,270 --> 00:22:58,840 bring down their funding or bring down their support and give them a bad name 330 00:22:58,840 --> 00:23:05,820 our attorney met with the Terrorism Task Force detective this morning the representative 331 00:23:05,820 --> 00:23:10,630 from the US Attorney's Office was also going to be attending and our attorney reports to 332 00:23:10,630 --> 00:23:16,000 us that they are looking at the full footage they are investigating they're analyzing the 333 00:23:16,000 --> 00:23:20,560 tapes and the batches of emails we sent them so they contacted us last night looks like 334 00:23:20,560 --> 00:23:22,338 there's been some legal developments 335 00:23:22,338 --> 00:23:29,640 the prosecution was convinced that this one video that they had of an open public meeting 336 00:23:29,640 --> 00:23:33,631 where the the anti-capitalist anti-fascist march was discussed 337 00:23:33,631 --> 00:23:36,700 was like a really important part of their case 338 00:23:36,700 --> 00:23:42,442 I made an offhanded comment that became kind of like a center for why I got indicted 339 00:23:42,442 --> 00:23:46,946 Just remember when we go to the festival of resistance, that’s like a space that’s 340 00:23:46,946 --> 00:23:51,720 supposed to be family friendly, so, don’t break a window at, the festival of resistance 341 00:23:51,720 --> 00:23:55,110 You know in hindsight I made a dumb comment. 342 00:23:55,110 --> 00:23:59,440 Project Veritas was not actually the only sort of ultra right-wing organization, that 343 00:23:59,440 --> 00:24:02,660 the US Attorney's Office and the Metropolitan Police Department collaborated with and used 344 00:24:02,660 --> 00:24:05,140 footage from in this prosecution 345 00:24:05,140 --> 00:24:12,490 I think Alex Jones and various other far right-wing outlets actually infiltrated the mass meetings 346 00:24:12,490 --> 00:24:18,340 They also got independent footage and reports from the Oathkeepers which is a right-wing 347 00:24:18,340 --> 00:24:21,883 militia from rebel media, and which is an alt right 348 00:24:21,883 --> 00:24:25,693 white nationalist media outlet from Canada 349 00:24:27,153 --> 00:24:28,790 Hammers holy crap! 350 00:24:28,790 --> 00:24:32,200 This is not peaceful protest this is anarchy! 351 00:24:32,200 --> 00:24:38,630 At the end of the last of those video files, the Project Veritas operative is chatting 352 00:24:38,630 --> 00:24:44,190 with a few people and they you see at the end of the video, the initial one that we 353 00:24:44,190 --> 00:24:49,410 got the operative and this guy he was talking to walk out of the doors 354 00:24:49,410 --> 00:24:51,390 in the building they're in and the video just stops. 355 00:24:51,390 --> 00:24:53,320 Go back out there… 356 00:24:53,320 --> 00:25:01,940 A year plus later after some litigation about, you know very generally speaking, the completeness 357 00:25:01,940 --> 00:25:07,410 of the Project Veritas cache that the defense had been given, the government made a second 358 00:25:07,410 --> 00:25:13,330 disclosure of the four video files we got, plus some additional video files we had never 359 00:25:13,330 --> 00:25:15,326 been given access to. 360 00:25:15,326 --> 00:25:17,433 The fourth video file of that initial four 361 00:25:17,433 --> 00:25:20,456 that was disclosed, when we get to the end scene 362 00:25:20,456 --> 00:25:22,708 when the Veritas operative and the other 363 00:25:22,708 --> 00:25:25,250 gentlemen are walking out it doesn't abruptly end. 364 00:25:25,250 --> 00:25:28,270 The US Attorney's Office protested that the reason they cut that off is because there 365 00:25:28,270 --> 00:25:32,890 was nothing on-screen, and so people think that maybe like the person who was wearing 366 00:25:32,890 --> 00:25:37,000 the button cam put on a jacket, so they were still audio but there was no video. 367 00:25:37,000 --> 00:25:40,840 And in that audio the person who was recording the video called Veritas and said: 368 00:25:40,840 --> 00:25:47,890 Yeah I was talking with one of the organizers from the IWW, I don't think they know anything 369 00:25:47,890 --> 00:25:50,700 about like the upper echelon stuff 370 00:25:50,700 --> 00:25:55,610 That led obviously do a whole bunch of uproar and more litigation 371 00:25:55,610 --> 00:25:58,940 They withheld like 69 videos, but they also withheld 372 00:25:58,940 --> 00:26:01,925 the identity of the person who filmed the videos 373 00:26:01,925 --> 00:26:06,002 a week before trial my lawyer was actually able to interview them 374 00:26:06,002 --> 00:26:08,754 and all of a sudden they also became a star witness in my case. 375 00:26:08,754 --> 00:26:13,370 They actually undermined the narrative that Kerkhoff was putting out there by saying like 376 00:26:13,370 --> 00:26:16,020 I didn't believe anyone was planning violence that day 377 00:26:16,020 --> 00:26:20,190 And that ultimately led to the chief judge finding a Brady violation 378 00:26:20,190 --> 00:26:24,760 Brady V Maryland was a Supreme Court case from the 1960s that basically said that prosecutors 379 00:26:24,760 --> 00:26:30,760 have the obligation and the duty to turn over any evidence that could that even has the 380 00:26:30,760 --> 00:26:35,540 possibility of being exculpatory basically helping to demonstrate the innocence of the 381 00:26:35,540 --> 00:26:38,784 defendant to the defense and as a part of discovery 382 00:26:38,784 --> 00:26:43,960 And as a result of all of that he dismissed certain charges with prejudice against certain 383 00:26:43,960 --> 00:26:50,880 defendants barred the introduction of any Project Veritas videos and any evidence of 384 00:26:50,880 --> 00:26:55,843 a conspiracy effectively wiped out the government's conspiracy case 385 00:26:55,843 --> 00:26:57,540 And from that moment forward the dominoes 386 00:26:57,540 --> 00:27:01,120 just started falling and there were no more prosecutions after that 387 00:27:02,183 --> 00:27:06,530 In a blow to the Trump administration's efforts to silence dissent the first trial 388 00:27:06,530 --> 00:27:12,130 of people arrested at inauguration day Disrupt J20 protests ended Thursday 389 00:27:12,130 --> 00:27:16,580 In December, six of those people were acquitted, and the government dropped charges against 390 00:27:16,580 --> 00:27:18,350 149 others. 391 00:27:18,350 --> 00:27:22,890 However fifty-nine protesters are still facing multiple felony charges 392 00:27:22,890 --> 00:27:28,840 The government in a statement said that it would now focus its efforts on a smaller core 393 00:27:28,840 --> 00:27:32,400 group that we believe is most responsible for the destucion 394 00:27:32,400 --> 00:27:36,850 Prosecutors have dropped felony charges against several people, who faced possible decades 395 00:27:36,850 --> 00:27:38,570 long prison terms, 396 00:27:38,570 --> 00:27:43,780 Dozens of protesters arrested at president Trump's inauguration are now off the hook 397 00:27:43,780 --> 00:27:46,310 and some of them could get paid. 398 00:27:46,310 --> 00:27:47,103 What? 399 00:27:50,640 --> 00:27:57,390 On July 6th, 2018, the state quietly dropped its charges against the final 39 J20 defendants, 400 00:27:57,390 --> 00:28:00,520 bringing the drawn out legal saga to a stunning conclusion. 401 00:28:00,520 --> 00:28:07,000 In the final tally, out of the 226 individuals eventually prosecuted for their participation 402 00:28:07,000 --> 00:28:13,900 in J20 protests, 205 cases were dismissed, with 21 individuals taking plea deals – most 403 00:28:13,900 --> 00:28:17,260 under youth statues that saw the bulk of their charges dropped. 404 00:28:17,260 --> 00:28:20,640 The state wasn’t able to secure a single jury conviction. 405 00:28:20,640 --> 00:28:25,770 Throughout the course of these proceedings, J20 defendants received an outpouring of solidarity, 406 00:28:25,770 --> 00:28:31,200 with comrades around the world taking part in coordinated days of actions, dropping banners, 407 00:28:31,200 --> 00:28:35,410 throwing up graffiti and dedicating militant direct actions to their cause. 408 00:28:35,410 --> 00:28:39,320 These comrades knew that the stakes of this case were high... which only made the victory 409 00:28:39,320 --> 00:28:41,198 so much sweeter. 410 00:28:41,198 --> 00:28:45,910 And to top things off, class action lawsuits have been filed against the Metro PD, which 411 00:28:45,910 --> 00:28:50,520 will almost certainly translate into a nice little payday for co-defendants, thanks to 412 00:28:50,520 --> 00:28:53,670 the cops’ inability to follow their own rules. 413 00:28:53,670 --> 00:28:57,760 Additional proceedings have also begun against Kerkhoff herself, stemming from her botched 414 00:28:57,760 --> 00:29:04,513 attempts to secure decades-long prison sentences through a desperate campaign of lies and misinformation. 415 00:29:11,600 --> 00:29:17,760 I think one of the most important things we can do is to create a culture, a normative 416 00:29:17,760 --> 00:29:22,640 culture in which we do not cooperate with police, we do not answer questions, we do 417 00:29:22,640 --> 00:29:27,690 not appear in federal grand juries, we do not accept to plea bargains that incriminate 418 00:29:27,690 --> 00:29:31,280 others, we do not consent to searches. 419 00:29:31,280 --> 00:29:36,754 And creating these as practices which are just the norm, allows us to act collectively 420 00:29:36,754 --> 00:29:38,730 in a way that protects the most vulnerable. 421 00:29:38,730 --> 00:29:45,140 It would have been good for the unpermitted march to have broadened the core of people 422 00:29:45,140 --> 00:29:47,230 who were part of the organic planning of it. 423 00:29:47,230 --> 00:29:52,170 So there could have been a more disciplined approach to how to respond as the police aggression 424 00:29:52,170 --> 00:29:53,240 intensified. 425 00:29:53,240 --> 00:29:57,760 There was a core of people who had been involved and tons more people who hadn't been involved 426 00:29:57,760 --> 00:30:02,990 who just heard show up with a mask and there wasn't a process of like engaging folks around 427 00:30:02,990 --> 00:30:06,900 like how to approach that all as strategically as possible. 428 00:30:06,900 --> 00:30:12,400 we may have missed a little bit of an opportunity to understand the bigger context of like, 429 00:30:12,400 --> 00:30:15,520 what we were going into and what these things look like. 430 00:30:15,520 --> 00:30:22,280 Like when else in history did a dictator start doing certain things with the news media? 431 00:30:22,280 --> 00:30:28,760 What other times in history and how did the criminalization of dissent look like? 432 00:30:28,760 --> 00:30:34,450 Like what is it, first of all, do we all understand what repression is, what it's used for and 433 00:30:34,450 --> 00:30:37,490 how it's used and who uses it and who benefits from it? 434 00:30:37,490 --> 00:30:41,550 It's incredibly important for us to do political education, I think we've gotta understand 435 00:30:41,550 --> 00:30:46,290 the things that we're saying and understand the things that we're seeing in a way that 436 00:30:46,290 --> 00:30:51,030 we can talk about, we can talk about like in everyday language 437 00:30:51,030 --> 00:30:55,290 I think that it's important for folks to understand more and for folks to read more about how 438 00:30:55,290 --> 00:30:58,560 the state uses conspiracy laws. 439 00:30:58,560 --> 00:31:02,090 And hopefully in the coming months people who are involved in this case and other conspiracy 440 00:31:02,090 --> 00:31:08,830 cases over the past couple years will keep writing about this and will keep helping us 441 00:31:08,830 --> 00:31:10,913 collectively to understand as a movement 442 00:31:10,913 --> 00:31:14,570 against capitalism against white supremacy against nationalism 443 00:31:23,986 --> 00:31:27,823 So a couple months after we were all arrested, I was at home 444 00:31:27,823 --> 00:31:31,201 and I get a frantic call from my co-worker. 445 00:31:31,201 --> 00:31:35,581 So I go on Facebook and I see that my personal facebook has been attacked, 446 00:31:35,581 --> 00:31:38,834 my address has been given out, they obviously know where I work… 447 00:31:38,834 --> 00:31:42,546 And it was clear that I was doxxed by the far right. 448 00:31:42,546 --> 00:31:50,380 A list of everyone arrested during the J20 was released and I believe and what most people 449 00:31:50,380 --> 00:31:53,980 believe is that the cops actually provided this list to the far right. 450 00:31:53,980 --> 00:31:59,400 We fought the Feds subpoenaing our facebook, then they wound up actually getting access 451 00:31:59,400 --> 00:32:03,820 to all of our data with names redacted except for our own names. 452 00:32:03,820 --> 00:32:07,340 That, so far has not gone anywhere… 453 00:32:07,340 --> 00:32:11,033 And that's why you practice good security culture! 454 00:32:11,033 --> 00:32:14,850 During the J20 prosecution, there was a lot of discussion about you know points of unity 455 00:32:14,850 --> 00:32:21,800 and people agreeing to certain points of unity and in a sense I'd like us as a movement to 456 00:32:21,800 --> 00:32:27,320 move beyond that where when people are arrested, when people are in custody, they presume that 457 00:32:27,320 --> 00:32:30,380 already there's going to be mass defense, there's going to be collective defense there's 458 00:32:30,380 --> 00:32:34,580 going to be non cooperation with with plea agreements there's going to be non-cooperation 459 00:32:34,580 --> 00:32:36,870 with federal grand juries 460 00:32:36,870 --> 00:32:43,780 If you have deep rooted trust you can navigate political and tactical and strategic disagreements 461 00:32:43,780 --> 00:32:49,630 without like never speaking to people again who you used to work with really closely. 462 00:32:49,630 --> 00:32:55,070 The major victory apart from you know, two hundred plus people having their lives back, 463 00:32:55,070 --> 00:33:00,460 is hopefully that there was a little bit of a road block put in place to what I saw as 464 00:33:00,460 --> 00:33:07,340 a really massive erosion to the ability to go out and be an opposing voice 465 00:33:07,340 --> 00:33:11,970 In terms of social precedent in terms of you know the ways that people treat this case 466 00:33:11,970 --> 00:33:17,670 in and might react to similar things in the future, having this as one of the examples 467 00:33:17,670 --> 00:33:24,210 to sort of draw on I think that was really important and a big win for the left and for 468 00:33:24,210 --> 00:33:26,520 for the grassroots. 469 00:33:26,520 --> 00:33:30,840 I think this is a true test case and I think it's it's very clear that we rose above that 470 00:33:30,840 --> 00:33:35,080 and that people were able to act collectively in a time when the state was doing all it 471 00:33:35,080 --> 00:33:40,190 could to split us apart and pit you know, so called "good protester" against "bad protester" 472 00:33:40,190 --> 00:33:45,750 against those of us who are quote "just there" to those of us who are quote "breaking things". 473 00:33:45,750 --> 00:33:50,440 And so I think that that really is an example of solidarity and action and a real true strength 474 00:33:50,440 --> 00:33:52,468 of our collective abilities 475 00:33:55,971 --> 00:34:00,060 J20 may have been the first mass prosecution of political dissidents in the Trump era, 476 00:34:00,060 --> 00:34:05,280 but it hasn’t been the last... and you can bet that there’s more to come. 477 00:34:05,280 --> 00:34:09,969 Since taking office, Trump has presided over a sharp escalation in state repression, a 478 00:34:09,969 --> 00:34:16,409 trend that has coincided with a surge in paramilitary white nationalist and fascist violence. 479 00:34:16,409 --> 00:34:21,690 So far, migrants, refugees and muslims have borne the worst of this reactionary wave.. 480 00:34:21,690 --> 00:34:24,219 but they are not the only groups in the crosshairs. 481 00:34:24,219 --> 00:34:28,510 As women and trans folks brace themselves for expected roll-backs of gender identity 482 00:34:28,510 --> 00:34:34,280 and reproductive rights emanating from the Supreme Court, new federal and state legislation 483 00:34:34,280 --> 00:34:39,420 has already been introduced to criminalize numerous different forms of political protest, 484 00:34:39,420 --> 00:34:45,020 with laws specifically targeting land defenders and anti-fascist protesters for enhanced sentencing. 485 00:34:45,020 --> 00:34:51,159 Meanwhile, the FBI has adapted its COINTELPRO playbook for crushing Black Liberation struggles, 486 00:34:51,159 --> 00:34:55,820 this time under the guise of fighting so-called “Black Identity Extremists.” 487 00:34:55,820 --> 00:35:00,780 These continue to be dangerous times, and while we can and should celebrate the J20 488 00:35:00,780 --> 00:35:06,290 victory, it’s also important to not allow it to lull us into a false sense of security. 489 00:35:06,290 --> 00:35:10,330 So at this point, we’d like to remind you that Trouble is intended to be watched in 490 00:35:10,330 --> 00:35:15,050 groups, and to be used as a resource to promote discussion and collective organizing. 491 00:35:15,050 --> 00:35:19,530 Are you interested in starting a local legal support collective, or just seeking to increase 492 00:35:19,530 --> 00:35:23,290 your crew’s knowledge of how to navigate the court system? 493 00:35:23,290 --> 00:35:27,800 Consider getting together with some comrades, organizing a screening of this film, and discussing 494 00:35:27,800 --> 00:35:29,930 where to get started. 495 00:35:29,930 --> 00:35:33,690 Interested in running regular screenings of Trouble at your campus, infoshop, community 496 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