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In 1994, the Violent Crime Control[br]and Law Enforcement Act passed.

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You probably know it as the crime bill.

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It was a terrible law.

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It ushered in an era of mass incarceration

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that allowed mandatory minimums,

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three-strikes laws,

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the expansion of the death penalty --

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it was terrible.

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But it passed with bipartisan support.

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GOP House Speaker Newt Gingrich,

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architect of the Republican Revolution,

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led the way --

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signed into law by Democratic[br]President, Bill Clinton.

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Also in 1994,

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I was a senior in high school[br]when this bill got passed,

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and you were likely to find me

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on the streets protesting[br]any number of causes ...

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including the crime bill.

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So that's what makes this picture[br]all the more surprising.

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Newt was not on the top of my[br]"Favorite Person in this Country" list.

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But this picture was taken in 2015.

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This was the start of a movement

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that would pass a bill[br]called the First Step Act.

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The "New York Times"[br]called it the most significant reform

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in criminal justice in a generation.

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You know, 1994 Nisha --

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on-the-streets activist --

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might be disappointed in this photo --

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some of you might be too.

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But standing here today I'm not.

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This is what I'm here[br]to talk to you about today.

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This is radical common ground.

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And I'm not talking about the kind[br]of common ground where --

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you know, we can talk[br]about how much we love springtime

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or "puppies are super cute."

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And it's not, you know,[br]compromised common ground.

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This is common ground that's hard.

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It hurts.

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It's the type of common ground[br]where you will be ridiculed and judged.

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But it's the type of common ground[br]that can secure human freedom.

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It can save lives.

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And it's the type of common ground[br]I was born to find.

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It's in my DNA.

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My dad was born[br]during the partition in India.

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After the Indian independence movement,[br]the country was really divided

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between people who wanted[br]to keep the country together

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and those who wanted[br]different independent nations.

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And when the British left,

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they just decided to draw a line,[br]the partition and make a new country.

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This started the largest forced[br]mass migration in human history.

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Fifteen million people trapped[br]on the wrong side of these new borders.

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Two million people dead[br]during the partition.

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And my dad was the youngest[br]baby in a Hindu family

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on the wrong side of the border.

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and like families all around[br]the border on both sides,

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they went into hiding.

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And I was told when I was little[br]about the story of my family in hiding,

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and one day when armed men came[br]into the house that they were hiding in,

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searching for families,[br]my dad started crying.

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And my grandma started shaking him.

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And my grandfather, in that moment,

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he made the choice that he'd sacrifice[br]his son in order to save the family.

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But luckily, in that moment[br]he stopped crying.

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My grandma, she shook him[br]and he stopped crying

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and I'm here today[br]because he stopped crying.

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But I'm also here today

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because of that Muslim family[br]that took us in.

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They also were held at gunpoint

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and an armed man asked[br]if they were hiding anyone,

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and they swore on the Quran[br]that nobody was in that house.

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They chose in that moment[br]when the entire country --

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everybody in the region,

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you could hate people[br]who had different politics than you,

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different religion,

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you could kill people.

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That was what was happening.

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but they swore on their Holy book,

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they chose the shared humanity

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over politics of that day, and we lived.

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And we survived.

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And I start with this story[br]because often people tell me

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that my mission for common[br]ground is the weak position.

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But I ask how was that Muslims[br]family's actions weak?

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Because of that, my dad[br]did grow up healthy in India

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and he emigrated to this country,

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and I was born here in the late '70s,

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and like most first-generation kids[br]I was born to build bridges.

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I was a bridge between[br]the old country and the new.

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And just growing up, that's what I did.

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I was a brown girl in the Black[br]and white South in Atlanta, Georgia.

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I was like, on one hand,

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the perfect Indian daughter --

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straight As,

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captain of the debate team --

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but on the other hand,

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I was also this radical feminist,

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punk-rock activist sneaking[br]out of the house for concerts

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and, you know, getting arrested[br]like, all the time for causes.

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I was a mix of a lot things.

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But they all live harmoniously in me.

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Building bridges was just natural,

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and I think all of us represent[br]a mix of a bunch of things.

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I think we have that ability[br]to find the common ground.

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But that's not how[br]I was living my life ...

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at all.

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I moved to the Bay Area in 2001,

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and this was kind of[br]a turning point for me;

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it was the start of the second Iraq War.

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And I was organizing[br]with a bunch of activists --

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of course --

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and we were thinking that probably[br]we needed to expand our circle

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a little bit,

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that we weren't going to successfully[br]stop the war if, you know --

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just amongst us.

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So we decided we'd build bridges,

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expand our circle,

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and so the great, anarchist[br]versus communist soccer tournament

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of 2001 was born.

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(Laughter)

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That's it.

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That's how large my circle[br]was allowed to expand.

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Building bridges with liberal Democrats?

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Oh, no way, that was a bridge too far.

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Local electeds?

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That was a bridge too far.

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And that was in 2001.

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And I think you'll agree with me now.

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In 2020 it's gotten even worse --

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that division, that tribalism.

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We won't sit down at dinner

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with people who voted differently than us.

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We, like, see a mean tweet[br]from our best friend --

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a tweet that, like,[br]doesn't fit with our worldview,

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and all of a sudden they're canceled.

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The purity politics of the moment gone.

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I sometimes wake up --

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I don't know what we're going to do.

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And people ask me[br]"how do we do that?"

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But I know about common ground.

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I feel like we can build those bridges.

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But it's not easy.

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I have a concept that I go back to,

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and it's a concept that should[br]be familiar to everybody

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since the beginning of human history.

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It's the idea of the commons.

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This shared place[br]in the center of town --

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town square,

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the quad --

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but it's the place[br]where you come together,

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your community,

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and you can listen to people[br]on soapboxes with different ideas,

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and you can be very different,

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but you come together because you know[br]together we're stronger than being apart.

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And today when I think of the commons,

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I extend it to the resources[br]we all share --

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collectively owned,

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like the air we breathe.

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I think of schools,

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parks.

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I think of the intelligence we share.

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We can share in libraries or the internet.

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And I think the internet's important.

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In this digital age,

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that shared humanity,

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that access to be together in the commons,

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is at our fingertips.

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But we're not using it that way.

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We're not coming together.

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To choose that path towards the commons[br]and to be with each other,

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you also have to choose love.

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That's a hard thing.

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But I know you can't go to the town square

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filled with hate for the town.

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You can't lead a people you don't love.

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You can't lead a country you don't love.

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And --

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I don't think you can change the world

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and say, "I'm only changing it[br]for the people like me,

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my own circle of friends,

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not for the people I hate, not for them."

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It doesn't work.

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It's a terrible strategy, it doesn't work,

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but that's what we keep doing.

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I see it every single day.

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These silos are just getting stronger.

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And you know,

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your corner of the internet,

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like Instagram or Twitter,

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we're just in an echo chamber[br]talking to each other.

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So I can be really comfortable in my[br]Berkeley Democratic Socialist commons

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and talk to all of you.

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And my dad can be in his bootstrappy[br]immigrant Republican commons,

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and I can watch MSNBC

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and he can watch Fox News

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and we will not know the same things.

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We won't have the same --

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I mean, we won't live in the same world.

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We may never know each other[br]or be with each other again.

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And I don't want to keep going[br]down that path.

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And I know we can get back[br]to a better path.

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I know we can find our way to the commons,

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and I know that because I had a first,[br]like, front-row, firsthand look

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at the ability to do it

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and do it on a large scale.

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And so I want to get you back[br]to the First Step Act

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and the criminal justice reform.

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I interviewed for a job[br]with Van Jones about seven years ago.

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And he's been a mentor and my boss,

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and he's actually an inspiration[br]behind a lot of this in the speech.

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And he told me that we were going to pass[br]bipartisan criminal justice reform,

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and I laughed because I thought[br]that was an oxymoron.

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I was in the streets --

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go figure --

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at the Republican[br]National Convention in 2000

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in Philadelphia,

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and we were protesting[br]the criminal justice system.

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And there were no Republicans[br]on the streets with me at that protest.

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I remembered the crime bill;

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I lived through the tough-on-crime era;

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I didn't see it.

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But he saw it and he walked me through it.

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He saw me and people like him on the Left,

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who it's always been and issue[br]of dignity and justice,

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that this system has been[br]racist since the start

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and discriminating against poor[br]people and people of color

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and it's an issue of justice and dignity.

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So there we were.

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But he also saw something different[br]from our colleagues on the Right.

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The fiscal Conservatives,

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they had an economic incentive to do it:

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they saw a system that cost[br]the taxpayers a whole lot of money

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and was getting terrible results

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and it wasn't making[br]the communities any safer.

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The Libertarian Right,

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who believe in less government,

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saw an expansion of government control,

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an expansion of the police state,

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mass incarceration is like,[br]antithetical to who they are.

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And the religious Right:

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second chances --

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redemption.

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These are values that they hold dear,

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and the criminal justice system[br]can't see those anywhere.

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And so there was common ground to be had.

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And that's what we set out to do.

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And under the leadership[br]of the formerly incarcerated folks

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who have been leading this forever,

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we built this bipartisan coalition[br]to pass criminal justice reform.

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Eighty-seven senators voted in favor[br]of the First Step Act,

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and yeah, President Trump signed it.

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And because we were able to do that,

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because we were able[br]to look at that shared humanity,

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get over our distaste[br]for working across the aisle,

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20,000 people have been[br]impacted in just the last year,

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7,000 home who would[br]not have been home,

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17,000 years of human freedom[br]restored just in the last year.

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(Applause and cheers)

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And Republicans and Democrats[br]in this election cycle,

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almost all of them running,

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are running on platforms[br]of criminal justice reform.

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They are trying to bring this bigger,[br]stronger, bolder and more reforms

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everywhere they are.

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That was impossible[br]during the tough-on-crime era.

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But I also look at this.

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These are the people coming home.

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In my office, we get a video[br]like this almost every day.

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Thousands of people coming home.

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And when people tell me[br]that common ground is the weak position

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or that my love for the people

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or my belief in our shared[br]humanity is naive,

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or that if I work with folks[br]across the aisle

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that I'm somehow getting[br]taken advantage of,

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I just look at this:

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I look at the people.

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I say, "Say that to this --

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to the folks coming home."

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Say that to those 2.2 million people[br]that are still behind bars.

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So now our challenge[br]is to make this possible

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across a whole bunch[br]of other issues too:

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human rights, immigration --

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all sorts of things --

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health care, mental health.

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I think there's common ground to be had.

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But it's not easy.

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If you want change in a large scale,

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you need large movements,

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and that means[br]our circles have to be bigger.

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And it's not easy being a Lefty[br]working across the aisle;

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I certainly get[br]my fair share of hate mail,

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but I think that that's exactly[br]the radical approach we need right now.

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And so this is Jenny Kim.

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She is someone who is dead serious[br]about second-chance hiring.

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She wants to make sure

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that formerly incarcerated folks[br]have a pathway to jobs

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and that businesses make it[br]an amazing place for folks to work.

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She's also the deputy[br]general counsel at Koch Industries.

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K-O-C-H, Koch.

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She is an amazing organizer,

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and I'm proud to work[br]with her on this issue.

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And an issue I care deeply about,

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probably a lot of you do too -- climate,

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which seems divisive,

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seems like there's no common[br]ground to be had there.

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I think there is.

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Trump's own Department of Defense[br]this year released a report saying

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that all future wars were going[br]to be wars about resources,

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wars about climate.

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And so yeah, I want to find[br]partnership with the military.

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And I used to be the national director --

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the national organizer[br]for the War Resisters League,

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the oldest pacifist[br]organization in the country.

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But if there's common ground[br]to be had there,

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yeah, I'll partner with them.

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It's not easy.

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The approach means[br]we need to find love.

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We need to get back[br]to that shared humanity

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and that commons.

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But I know this love,

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it doesn't just get us through[br]Thanksgiving dinner.

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It's the kind of love[br]that secures freedom,

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changes the world.

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But to do that,

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I have to step into my courage,

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and I want all of you[br]to step into your courage.

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Just like that Muslim family

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stepped into their courage[br]for my Hindu family all those years ago.

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I think we can do it.

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But it's a little bit uncomfortable.

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If you are who I know you to be --

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you know, someone who cares[br]about change and progress

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and wants to see something[br]change in the world --

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you probably want to know how

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but you're also a little bit uncomfortable[br]about me standing up here

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and celebrating these pictures[br]with Newt and Koch,

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talking about partnerships[br]with the military.

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I want you to feel those feelings.

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I feel them too.

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I don't enter into these[br]partnerships lightly at all.

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My entire trajectory of who I am[br]has made me think

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that it's not even possible,

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but I know it is.

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That feeling,

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that discomfort,

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that's preceded every major[br]breakthrough in human history ever.

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That's that feeling[br]that comes before a moonshot.

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And so I want to make you[br]even a little more uncomfortable.

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I want you think about an issue[br]that you care deeply about --

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something that you want to see changed[br]on a national or global scale.

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Think big.

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What would resolution look like?

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On a large scale,

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what would it look like[br]to solve that problem?

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Can you get there with just[br]your circle of friends?

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I know you can't.

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The anarchist-communist soccer[br]tournament isn't going to help

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bring about that change.

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So I want to think about how[br]we can expand our circle a little more.

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Where is there common ground to be found?

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Can you think of any unlikely allies?

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Strange partners?

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Further than that,

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who's in your way?

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Who's stopping you[br]from finding that common ground,

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and is there room for them in that circle?

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I think there is.

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I think we have to be able[br]to find it at this scale.

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And it means that we're going[br]to have to step into that courage

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and include people,

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hold our vision so strong,

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know that justice[br]and freedom is so important

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that we're able to include more people,

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love the people who might[br]not love us back.

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And so I want to ask you:

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who's your Newt?

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Who's your Koch?

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Who's the military in your story?

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And I want you to find --

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choose that common ground.

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Thank you.

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(Applause and cheers)