White Canada has a Black History
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0:06 - 0:09This episode of It's the End of the World
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0:09 - 0:10as We Know it and I Feel Fine
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0:10 - 0:13was made possible by contributions from
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0:13 - 0:14slaves like you.
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0:14 - 0:15Spank you very much!
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0:16 - 0:17We have to maintain law and order
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0:17 - 0:19or we might as well be back in the jungle
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0:20 - 0:22Daws.... the ghetto is a jungle
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0:22 - 0:23always has been
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0:24 - 0:26understand? You cannot cage people
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0:26 - 0:27like animals and not expect them
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0:27 - 0:29to fight back some day.
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0:30 - 0:32It has always been an army occupation
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0:32 - 0:35here... with police, badges and uniforms.
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0:36 - 0:39You and me... a cop and a social worker?
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0:39 - 0:41We are keepers of this goddamned zoo.
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0:42 - 0:43Streets have to be safe.
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0:43 - 0:45Safe for who?
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0:45 - 0:47You're here to protect property,
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0:47 - 0:48not lives.
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0:48 - 0:50Well that's what it's all about
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0:50 - 0:51isn't it?
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0:51 - 0:52You worked hard to get what you got,
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0:52 - 0:53didn't ya?
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0:53 - 0:54And you wanna keep it
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0:54 - 0:55just like I do.
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0:55 - 0:56Bullshit!
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0:56 - 0:59Listen. You think because you got a badge
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0:59 - 1:01and I got a couple of degrees
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1:01 - 1:02that makes a difference?
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1:02 - 1:04Do you know what white folks
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1:04 - 1:07call people like you and me in private?
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1:09 - 1:11Niggers, Daws.
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1:12 - 1:14Niggers.
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1:20 - 1:23Gooooooooooood morning slaves,
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1:23 - 1:24and welcome to another sedition of
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1:24 - 1:26It's the End of the World as We Know it
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1:26 - 1:28and I Feel Fine,
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1:28 - 1:29the show that believes in showing
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1:29 - 1:30proper respect for the dead.
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1:30 - 1:32Into CNN to bring you
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1:32 - 1:33some very sad breaking news
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1:33 - 1:34on the death of US Supreme Court
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1:34 - 1:36Justice Antonin Scalia
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1:36 - 1:37He died in his sleep, of natural causes
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1:37 - 1:38overnight.
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1:46 - 1:47I am your host the Stimulator,
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1:47 - 1:51and I gotta say me and my subMedia slaves
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1:51 - 1:53have had a fucking hoot sifting through
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1:53 - 1:56the mountains of hate mail we received
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1:56 - 1:58from ancaps and Bernie Sanders
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1:58 - 1:59supporters, pissed off by our
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1:59 - 2:00last two shows...
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2:00 - 2:02Well, you got egg on my face!
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2:02 - 2:03Buuuuuuuuuuut
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2:03 - 2:05while it's tempting to take yet
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2:05 - 2:07another swipe at a low-hanging fruit,
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2:07 - 2:08this week there’s more pressing
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2:08 - 2:10matters at hand.
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2:10 - 2:13Namely... actual motherfuckin resistance!
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2:24 - 2:25So, with that in mind,
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2:25 - 2:27we turn first to Hong Kong,
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2:27 - 2:28where on February 9th,
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2:28 - 2:30residents of the scrappy,
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2:30 - 2:31working-class neighbourhood of Mong Kok,
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2:33 - 2:36decided to ring in the Lunar New Year
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2:36 - 2:38by getting into a giant fucking
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2:38 - 2:40street brawl with the mothafuckin pigs.
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2:54 - 2:56Shit kicked off when the po-po moved in
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2:56 - 2:58to try and clear out illegal vendors,
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2:58 - 2:59hawking food
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2:59 - 3:01and assorted New Years trinkets.
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3:01 - 3:03In the heavy clashes that followed,
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3:03 - 3:05militants hurled bricks, garbage
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3:05 - 3:06and other random debris,
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3:06 - 3:08and beat cops the fuck down,
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3:08 - 3:09with sticks, poles
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3:09 - 3:11and motherfuckin street signs,
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3:11 - 3:13injuring nearly 90 of them!
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3:13 - 3:13Mong Kok
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3:14 - 3:16was the site of some of the
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3:16 - 3:17fiercest resistance during last year's
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3:17 - 3:19Umbrella Revolution,
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3:19 - 3:20when for two months,
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3:20 - 3:22pro-democracy activists set up
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3:22 - 3:24occupations and barricaded major streets
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3:24 - 3:25across the city.
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3:25 - 3:26The crushing of this movement
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3:26 - 3:28only increased the palpable animosity
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3:28 - 3:30many Hong Kong residents feel
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3:30 - 3:32towards the totalitarian regime in Beijing
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3:32 - 3:34and in the year that has followed,
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3:34 - 3:36tensions have continued to build.
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3:36 - 3:37Despite being technically ruled
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3:37 - 3:39by jack-booted Commies,
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3:39 - 3:41Hong Kong is a major artery
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3:41 - 3:42of global capitalism,
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3:42 - 3:44with some of the highest levels
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3:44 - 3:46of inequality found anywhere in the world
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3:46 - 3:48The city boasts over
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3:48 - 3:50200,000 fucking millionaires,
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3:50 - 3:52while 20 percent of its population
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3:52 - 3:53lives in poverty,
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3:53 - 3:55and over 50,000 of its residents
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3:55 - 3:57live in literal fucking cages.
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3:58 - 4:01As this powder keg of social contradiction
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4:01 - 4:03develops, hopefully Hong Kong's proles
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4:03 - 4:05will be able to avoid the lure
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4:05 - 4:07of right-wing nationalism,
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4:07 - 4:08and begin to join forces
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4:08 - 4:10with the insurgent workers and peasants
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4:10 - 4:13kicking shit off in mainland China.
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4:13 - 4:14I think there's been a massacre
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4:14 - 4:15of workers rights
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4:15 - 4:16for pensions.
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4:16 - 4:18People will die, and they will never
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4:18 - 4:19get a pension.
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4:19 - 4:21That's why there is mass resistance
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4:21 - 4:23against this policy.
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4:23 - 4:25Meanwhile, on February 4th,
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4:25 - 4:26workers in Greece
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4:26 - 4:27staged their third general strike
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4:27 - 4:28in four months,
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4:28 - 4:30with 40,000 peeps taking to the streets
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4:30 - 4:32to protest looming pension reforms,
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4:32 - 4:33which have been demanded
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4:33 - 4:35by the motherfuckin vampires
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4:35 - 4:37of the so-called Troika,
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4:37 - 4:38as a precondition to the latest
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4:38 - 4:40injection of cash into Greece's
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4:40 - 4:41cash-starved economy.
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4:41 - 4:43Once the demonstrations reached Parliament
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4:43 - 4:45Anarchists threw down hard,
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4:45 - 4:47lobbing rocks and molotov cocktails
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4:47 - 4:48at Athens riot pigs,
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4:48 - 4:50who responded with tear gas
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4:50 - 4:51and flash grenades
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4:51 - 4:52in what has by now become
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4:52 - 4:54an almost ritualistic display
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4:54 - 4:55of mutual fucking hatred.
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5:02 - 5:03Never gets old.
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5:03 - 5:03Anyway...
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5:03 - 5:05by now the Greek left's love affair
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5:05 - 5:06with Syriza,
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5:06 - 5:08and its weaselly fuck of a leader,
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5:08 - 5:11Alexis Tsipris, is long fucking over.
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5:11 - 5:13Despite this, Tsipiris is still trying to
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5:13 - 5:15play shit off like he's cool in the gang,
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5:15 - 5:17expressing his support for the strikes
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5:17 - 5:18being carried out against the very
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5:18 - 5:20policies that his government
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5:20 - 5:22has been ramming down peeps' throats.
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5:22 - 5:24Buuuuuuuut the Greek people
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5:24 - 5:25aren't fucking stupid, and they
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5:25 - 5:27are well aware that they're being fleeced.
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5:27 - 5:29Syriza's latest capitulation
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5:29 - 5:31to the country's insatiable creditors
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5:31 - 5:33comes in the form of a steep hike
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5:33 - 5:36to taxes and social security contributions
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5:36 - 5:37which will have many Greeks
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5:37 - 5:39poneying up to three-quarters
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5:39 - 5:40of their wages
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5:40 - 5:41towards paying off the country's debt.
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5:41 - 5:42Farmers in Greece
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5:42 - 5:44have been protesting these reforms now
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5:44 - 5:45for weeks,
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5:45 - 5:46blockading major highways,
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5:46 - 5:47and sealing off the country's borders
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5:47 - 5:49with Turkey and Macedonia.
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5:49 - 5:50On February 12th, a convoy of
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5:50 - 5:52pissed off farmers descended
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5:52 - 5:54onto the streets of Athens,
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5:54 - 5:55and attempted to storm the
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5:55 - 5:56Ministry of Agriculture,
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5:56 - 5:58leading to yet more clashes with the cops.
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5:58 - 6:00Check this shit out!
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6:13 - 6:15As the situation continues to get
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6:15 - 6:17even more fucking dire in Greece,
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6:17 - 6:19and with no solution to the country's
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6:19 - 6:20economic clusterfuck in sight,
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6:20 - 6:23it’s a safe fucking bet that
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6:23 - 6:24the footage of flaming riot cops
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6:24 - 6:26that the country has become
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6:26 - 6:27world famous for
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6:27 - 6:29won’t be stopping anytime soon.
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7:25 - 7:27Here in the United Snakes and Klanada,
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7:27 - 7:28February is celebrated as
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7:28 - 7:29Black History Month,
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7:29 - 7:31where for one month of the year,
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7:31 - 7:33tens of thousands of white elementary
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7:33 - 7:34and high school teachers
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7:34 - 7:36present awkward, obligatory,
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7:36 - 7:38and kinda fuckin racist lessons
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7:38 - 7:39for their students,
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7:39 - 7:41on historical Black figures,
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7:41 - 7:42such as Frederick Douglas
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7:42 - 7:43and Martin Luther King…
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7:43 - 7:45Who invented the air conditioner?
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7:45 - 7:46A Black man.
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7:46 - 7:49and then explain how George Washington
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7:49 - 7:50Carver invented peanut butter.
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7:50 - 7:52Well Doctor Carver's
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7:52 - 7:53two dinner guests...
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7:53 - 7:55Edward "Skippy" Williamson
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7:56 - 7:58and Frederick "Jiff" Armstrong
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7:58 - 7:59-- two white men.
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7:59 - 8:01Stole George Washington Carver's
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8:01 - 8:02recipe for peanut butter,
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8:02 - 8:03copyrighted it, and reaped
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8:03 - 8:05untold fortunes from it.
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8:05 - 8:07Given the tense state of racial dynamics
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8:07 - 8:09in the post-Ferguson United Snakes,
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8:09 - 8:11this year's Black History Month
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8:11 - 8:12has been more political than most.
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8:12 - 8:14All around the country,
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8:14 - 8:15Black peeps are rising up,
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8:15 - 8:18reconnecting with past histories
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8:18 - 8:19of struggle, and publicly challenging
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8:19 - 8:21the racist status fucking quo.
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8:21 - 8:23Even the holy grail of American spectacles
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8:23 - 8:25-- the motherfuckin Super Bowl,
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8:25 - 8:27featured a half-time lesson
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8:27 - 8:28on Black history,
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8:28 - 8:30compliments of none other than
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8:30 - 8:31Mrs. Black Bill Gates in the making
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8:31 - 8:33herself, Beyonce,
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8:33 - 8:34who performed alongside dozens of
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8:34 - 8:35back-up dancers
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8:35 - 8:37dressed in Black Panthers regalia.
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8:37 - 8:38It was really outrageous...
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8:38 - 8:40that she used it as a platform
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8:40 - 8:42to attack police officers.
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8:42 - 8:45Oh fuck! Fuck me in the dick!
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8:46 - 8:47Buuuuuuuuuut
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8:47 - 8:48while the right-wing corporate media
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8:48 - 8:50endlessly debates
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8:50 - 8:52whether Beyonce’s performance was racist
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8:52 - 8:53and the nuanced difference
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8:53 - 8:55between the Panthers and the KKK….
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8:55 - 8:57another story is going largely
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8:57 - 8:59under-reported…
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8:59 - 9:00Climatologists are saying
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9:00 - 9:02that this past year's El Niño
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9:02 - 9:04was the strongest on record,
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9:04 - 9:06and it's having devastating effects
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9:06 - 9:08on weather patterns across the globe.
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9:08 - 9:09Whereas in southern California,
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9:09 - 9:11it has led to heavy rains
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9:11 - 9:12that have replaced the region's
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9:12 - 9:14long-standing drought
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9:14 - 9:15with widespread flooding,
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9:15 - 9:17in Haiti, on the other hand,
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9:17 - 9:19it has exacerbated an existing drought,
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9:19 - 9:21leading to widespread crop failures
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9:21 - 9:22and food shortages,
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9:22 - 9:24which have put millions of people
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9:24 - 9:25at risk of starvation.
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9:25 - 9:27Every day is getting worse.
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9:27 - 9:29It is difficult to grow crops,
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9:29 - 9:30because of lack of water.
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9:30 - 9:31Many are malnourished
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9:31 - 9:33and they don't have food.
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9:33 - 9:34And the scale of the problem
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9:34 - 9:35is even more fucking dire
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9:35 - 9:37in South-eastern Africa…
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9:37 - 9:38where El Niño, combined with the
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9:38 - 9:39pre-existing effects
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9:39 - 9:41of global climate change,
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9:41 - 9:44have set the stage for a looming famine
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9:44 - 9:45of biblical fucking proportions,
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9:45 - 9:48with up to 14 million people
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9:48 - 9:50already suffering from food and/or
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9:50 - 9:51water shortages,
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9:51 - 9:53and some experts predicting
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9:53 - 9:55that up to 49 million people
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9:55 - 9:58are ultimately at risk of starvation.
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9:59 - 10:02Just let those numbers sink in for a second.
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10:02 - 10:04Everyone is in hardship.
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10:04 - 10:07We all have so little to eat
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10:07 - 10:09because there was no harvest this season.
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10:09 - 10:10Scorching hot temperatures,
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10:10 - 10:13combined with an almost complete lack
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10:13 - 10:13of rainfall,
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10:13 - 10:15has turned large areas of the region
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10:15 - 10:17into a parched wasteland,
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10:17 - 10:19decimating agriculture in South Africa,
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10:19 - 10:21Lesotho, Zimbabwe, Mozambique,
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10:21 - 10:23Zambia, Madagascar, Malawi,
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10:23 - 10:24and Ethiopia,
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10:24 - 10:27where upwards of 8.5 million people
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10:27 - 10:28are facing food shortages,
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10:28 - 10:30and 1 million children
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10:30 - 10:32are struggling with acute malnutrition.
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10:32 - 10:33This tragic situation
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10:33 - 10:35is a bleak fucking reminder
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10:35 - 10:37of the ways in which white supremacy
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10:37 - 10:39is interwoven into the very fabric
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10:39 - 10:41of globalized capitalism.
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10:41 - 10:43While rich fucking countries in the west
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10:43 - 10:45throw out an unconscionable amount
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10:45 - 10:47of perfectly good food
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10:47 - 10:48every fucking day,
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10:48 - 10:49large areas of the world are
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10:49 - 10:50starving to death
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10:50 - 10:52in front of our very eyes.
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10:53 - 10:55Capitalism is a man-made fucking disaster,
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10:55 - 10:57which makes it that much harder
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10:57 - 10:59for poorer countries to cope
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10:59 - 11:01with changes in weather patterns,
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11:01 - 11:02which are only going to get worse
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11:02 - 11:04as climate change continues
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11:04 - 11:05to do its thing.
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11:05 - 11:06While the scale and scope
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11:06 - 11:07of these problems can be hard
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11:07 - 11:09to wrap one's head around,
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11:09 - 11:11they are ultimately connected
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11:11 - 11:12to resistance to white supremacy
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11:12 - 11:14and capitalism here at home,
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11:14 - 11:16as they represent the global consequences
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11:16 - 11:17of these hierarchal systems,
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11:17 - 11:20projected abroad via imperialism
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11:20 - 11:22and neo-colonial trade policies.
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11:22 - 11:23So...
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11:23 - 11:24to learn more about some of the
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11:24 - 11:25local struggles against white supremacy
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11:25 - 11:27here in Klanada,
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11:27 - 11:28and how they’re connected to
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11:28 - 11:30the bigger picture,
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11:30 - 11:31I recently caught up with Ajamu Nangwaya,
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11:31 - 11:34an anarchist, educator and writer
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11:34 - 11:35from Toronto,
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11:35 - 11:37and an organizer with the Network
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11:37 - 11:38for the Elimination of Police Violence.
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11:38 - 11:41Hey Ajamu, how the fuck are ya?
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11:41 - 11:42I'm pretty good.
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11:42 - 11:43Just battling a cold....
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11:43 - 11:45but I'm getting better.
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11:45 - 11:47So... it’s February,
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11:47 - 11:49which means it’s Black History Month.
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11:49 - 11:50In the past, you've been critical
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11:50 - 11:52of this term, and the way it's
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11:52 - 11:54framed by the media, government officials
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11:54 - 11:56and social justice advocates alike.
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11:56 - 11:57Why is that?
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11:57 - 12:00It's a cultural celebration... and it
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12:00 - 12:02is not focused on the need for
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12:02 - 12:03social emancipation.
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12:03 - 12:07Therefore, it is a time for us to
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12:07 - 12:09engage in a name change - but
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12:09 - 12:11beyond the name change is the need
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12:11 - 12:14to focus on political ideology,
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12:14 - 12:17political organizing... for us to expose
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12:17 - 12:20the fact that there's still a need for us
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12:20 - 12:22to fight against capitalism, racism,
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12:22 - 12:25homophobia... in the present time
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12:25 - 12:28and.. we haven't achieved emancipation,
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12:28 - 12:31which history kind of focuses on the past,
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12:31 - 12:33and not the present and the future.
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12:33 - 12:35You were an early member of
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12:35 - 12:36the Black Action Defense Committee,
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12:36 - 12:37or BADC,
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12:37 - 12:39a Toronto-based organization
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12:39 - 12:41active in struggles against racist
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12:41 - 12:44police terror in the 1980s and 1990s.
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12:44 - 12:46For viewers who might not be familiar
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12:46 - 12:48with this group or its history,
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12:48 - 12:50can you give us a quick run-down?
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12:50 - 12:51Yes.. the Black Action Defense Committee
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12:51 - 12:53was created in August 1988.
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12:53 - 12:56It was a response to the killing
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12:56 - 12:58of an elderly African man
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12:58 - 12:59with mental health issues.
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12:59 - 13:01Well, a number of activists came together
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13:01 - 13:03and said "we need an organizational
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13:03 - 13:06response to the act of police violence."
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13:06 - 13:09And that led to BADC. And it is is
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13:09 - 13:12in the late 80s and 1990s,
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13:12 - 13:16the most prominent group in Ontario
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13:16 - 13:19that was pushing for police accountability
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13:19 - 13:21that was organizing against
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13:21 - 13:22police violence.
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13:22 - 13:23Up here in Klanada,
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13:23 - 13:25most of the news and analysis that we hear
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13:25 - 13:28about police brutality comes from the US.
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13:28 - 13:31How is the operation of white supremacy,
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13:31 - 13:32as it relates to state violence,
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13:32 - 13:34different in both countries,
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13:34 - 13:36and in what ways is it the same?
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13:36 - 13:37I would say, fundamentally,
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13:37 - 13:40there's no real difference between
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13:40 - 13:42police violence in the United States
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13:42 - 13:43and Canada.
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13:43 - 13:45Because we experienced slavery
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13:45 - 13:48in Canada. And the police, as always
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13:48 - 13:50are the coercive element in society.
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13:50 - 13:52That is, the police, the military
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13:52 - 13:55has always worked against African people.
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13:55 - 13:58In the US and also in Canada.
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13:58 - 14:00So our relationship with
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14:00 - 14:03law enforcement, as well as the judicial
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14:03 - 14:05system and prison system, has always
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14:05 - 14:08been a negative, oppositional one.
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14:08 - 14:09On a similar note,
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14:09 - 14:12many peeps in this country are generally
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14:12 - 14:13familiar with the history of
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14:13 - 14:14the Civil Rights
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14:14 - 14:16and Black Liberation movements in the US,
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14:16 - 14:18and more recent historical examples,
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14:18 - 14:20such as the LA Riots of 1992...
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14:20 - 14:24buuuuuuuut are often less familiar
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14:24 - 14:25with the history of struggles against
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14:25 - 14:27anti-Black racism here at home.
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14:27 - 14:29How do you think this affects
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14:29 - 14:31the perspective of revolutionaries
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14:31 - 14:31here in Klanada,
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14:31 - 14:33and are there specific movements
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14:33 - 14:34and events that you think peeps
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14:34 - 14:36here would benefit
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14:36 - 14:37from learning more about?
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14:37 - 14:41The media dominates our perception
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14:41 - 14:42of reality.
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14:42 - 14:44And African Americans are living in
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14:44 - 14:47the centre of world imperialism - the
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14:47 - 14:47United States.
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14:47 - 14:51So, whatever they do gets projected
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14:51 - 14:53across the world. In Africa,
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14:53 - 14:54in Latin America...
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14:54 - 14:57a lot of us end up using African Americans
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14:57 - 14:58as our reference point.
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14:58 - 15:01So, whatever African Americans do,
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15:01 - 15:03we tend to pick it up
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15:03 - 15:04in our own spaces.
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15:04 - 15:06But we also, here in Canada,
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15:06 - 15:09have a history of struggle and
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15:09 - 15:11resistance, which is documented
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15:11 - 15:13but it's not as widely known
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15:13 - 15:14as in the United States.
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15:14 - 15:16For example, we know about
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15:16 - 15:19the LA rebellion, or the Rodney King
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15:19 - 15:22rebellion in April-May 1992.
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15:22 - 15:24But we're not aware of the Yonge Street
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15:24 - 15:26Rebellion that took place around
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15:26 - 15:28the same time.
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15:28 - 15:28A march took place
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15:28 - 15:30and it was a solidarity march
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15:30 - 15:33with what's going on in LA at the time...
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15:33 - 15:35but it was also a march to protest
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15:35 - 15:36the police killing of a young
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15:36 - 15:38African man, you know, during the
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15:38 - 15:39same time.
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15:39 - 15:41But we had a rebellion here.
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15:41 - 15:42It's not as widely known
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15:42 - 15:44outside of Canada
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15:44 - 15:45-- even inside of Canada.
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15:45 - 15:46Over the past couple of years,
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15:46 - 15:48Black Lives Matter has burst
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15:48 - 15:49onto the political scene,
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15:49 - 15:51and as a popular rallying cry
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15:51 - 15:53for racial equality in the United Snakes.
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15:53 - 15:55There's also an active chapter
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15:55 - 15:57in Toronto, which has employed tactics
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15:57 - 15:59similar to their US counterparts,
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15:59 - 16:01such as highway blockades,
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16:01 - 16:03to protest police killings.
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16:03 - 16:04What is your take on Black Lives Matter,
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16:04 - 16:06and what role do you see them
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16:06 - 16:07playing as struggles against
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16:07 - 16:09white supremacy intensify?
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16:09 - 16:11Initially when the movement came out
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16:11 - 16:14on the scene, I was more openly critical
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16:14 - 16:15of it.
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16:15 - 16:17But at the same time, in terms of its
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16:17 - 16:20ideological direction, it's emphasis
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16:20 - 16:22on more mobilizing people in the
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16:22 - 16:24street, and not necessarily
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16:24 - 16:27organizing people who live in
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16:27 - 16:29communities - whether it's working-class,
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16:29 - 16:32highly segregated communities in the US,
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16:32 - 16:34where we work with people to build their
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16:34 - 16:36independent organization to struggle...
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16:36 - 16:40But I've kind of, tempered my critique
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16:40 - 16:43of the group, because a lot of folks
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16:43 - 16:45who are drawn into it are young people.
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16:45 - 16:47They're becoming involved
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16:47 - 16:48in an organizational context
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16:48 - 16:50for the first time... and
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16:50 - 16:52we have to remember that young people
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16:52 - 16:53are going to make mistakes.
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16:53 - 16:55No doubt you’ve seen the clips
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16:55 - 16:57of Beyonce’s Super Bowl performance
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16:57 - 16:58by now.
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16:58 - 16:59Generally speaking,
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16:59 - 16:59what are your thoughts
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16:59 - 17:01on the role that Black celebrities
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17:01 - 17:03can play in helping to frame
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17:03 - 17:04popular dialogues on race?
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17:04 - 17:06To me, it's not so much
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17:06 - 17:08"Black celebrities", but to me, it's
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17:08 - 17:11the role that African artists
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17:11 - 17:12and artists in general
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17:12 - 17:14must play in the struggle for
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17:14 - 17:16liberation. Especially if you're
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17:16 - 17:18from an oppressed community.
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17:18 - 17:22You have an obligation to use
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17:22 - 17:25your work to advance the stuggle.
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17:25 - 17:27To raise questions in the minds of the people.
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17:27 - 17:30But, the thing that's very clear to me
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17:30 - 17:34is that artists, in a lot of ways,
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17:34 - 17:37cup what's going on around them.
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17:37 - 17:40So you notice in the 60's, even people
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17:40 - 17:43were doing like pop music,
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17:43 - 17:45they were reflecting themes
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17:45 - 17:47of the movement around them.
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17:47 - 17:50So, what we see recently,
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17:50 - 17:52with Lamar performing about the
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17:52 - 17:54Prison Industrial Complex,
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17:54 - 17:58referencing Africa as a place of origin...
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17:58 - 18:01or Beyonce... Beyonce like exposing
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18:01 - 18:03young people to the presence
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18:03 - 18:05of the Black Panther Party,
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18:05 - 18:07with this year being the 50th
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18:07 - 18:08anniversary of it's founding....
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18:08 - 18:10These things are happening
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18:10 - 18:12because there's like a rumbling
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18:12 - 18:14on the ground, or there's a
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18:14 - 18:16conscientized section of the African
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18:16 - 18:17population in the US
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18:17 - 18:20that are pushing... politically.
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18:20 - 18:21And these people are
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18:21 - 18:22picking these things up.
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18:22 - 18:24Anything else you wanna add?
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18:24 - 18:27As anarchists, we need to
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18:27 - 18:29organize with, and among the people.
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18:29 - 18:32Anarchism is the solution
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18:32 - 18:35to oppression in society,
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18:35 - 18:38but we need to be among the people.
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18:38 - 18:41You know, we need to approach them
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18:41 - 18:43in a pragmatic way, that we may not even
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18:43 - 18:46tell them that anarchism is the solution,
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18:46 - 18:48but if we're working with the people,
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18:48 - 18:50and we're looking at "how do we
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18:50 - 18:52organize?" and you start to propose
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18:52 - 18:56a program of broad participation,
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18:56 - 18:58so we can introduce anarchist
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18:58 - 19:00principles to the people,
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19:00 - 19:02and then later on... as they become more
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19:02 - 19:05politically developed, or they come to our
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19:05 - 19:07meetings, they'll realize that
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19:07 - 19:09my God... we've been practicing
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19:09 - 19:12anarchism for so long we didn't know
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19:12 - 19:14that's what we were doing.
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19:14 - 19:17So I believe that we need to be strategic,
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19:17 - 19:20tactical in introducing anarchism
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19:20 - 19:21to the people.
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19:21 - 19:21Thanks Ajamu.
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19:21 - 19:23And that about does it for this sedition
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19:23 - 19:25of It’s the End of the World as we Know it
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19:25 - 19:26and I Feel Fine.
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19:26 - 19:28As it happens with most guests,
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19:28 - 19:30it breaks my fucking heart
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19:30 - 19:32to edit the interview down
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19:32 - 19:33to fit the format.
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19:33 - 19:35I really recommend that y'all listen
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19:35 - 19:37to my entire conversation with Ajamu.
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19:37 - 19:39His insight into movement and
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19:39 - 19:40power building are super solid.
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19:40 - 19:43To do so, just visit my fuckin website:
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19:45 - 19:47With that said, building this show
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19:47 - 19:49over the past 9 years is possible
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19:49 - 19:50through a lot of hard fuckin work
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19:50 - 19:52but also through small donations
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19:52 - 19:54from wage slaves like you.
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19:54 - 19:56So this week I want to give a shout out to
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19:56 - 19:58Laura, Justin, Robin, Guillaume,
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19:58 - 20:00Ranko, Hansen, Roman, Raul,
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20:00 - 20:02Max, Stephen, Karlis, Blade, Steve,
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20:02 - 20:04Jonathan, Jan, Jane, Samantha, Andrew,
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20:04 - 20:06Per, Flyn, Michael, Bear,
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20:06 - 20:08Leandre, Jesse, Agatha, Inca,
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20:08 - 20:10Scott, and Daniel
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20:10 - 20:11Empanadas
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20:11 - 20:13I also want to give a warm welcome
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20:13 - 20:16to the newest members of the taconspiracy
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20:16 - 20:18Sebastian and Anonymous
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20:18 - 20:19Stay tuned to this space
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20:19 - 20:21for more insurrectionary news
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20:21 - 20:23from the global muthafuckin resistance.
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20:23 - 20:24See you next time suckers.
- Title:
- White Canada has a Black History
- Description:
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Goood morning slaves!
This week we bring you, “White Canada has a Black History”
In this sedition of ITEOTWAWKIAIFF we look at the growing class unrest in Hong Kong that kicked off a massive rebellion in the lunar new year. Also street battles in Athens, where anarchists and farmers stormed the Greek capital in reaction to Syriza’s structural adjustment policies.
On the music break we drop the now classic Dead Prez track: Malcolm Garvey Huey.
We continue with an examination on how white supremacy plays a role in the mass starvation of people in the African continent and we wrap things up with Ajamu Nangwaya, an anarchist, educator and writer from Toronto, who spoke to us about black history in so called “Canada”, the similarities of black struggles between peeps down in the US, and the role of celebrities in visibilizing radical politics.
- Video Language:
- English
- Duration:
- 20:42
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