OVER ABOLISHING THE FILIBUSTER.
SO TO YOU THIS IS OLD NEWS,
REVEREND.
YOU UNDERSTAND THERE IS A WAY TO
BRING ATTENTION TO THIS THE MOST
SERIOUS OF ISSUES.
BUT NOW THIS HAS TO GO FURTHER
THAN PEOPLE LIKE YOU WHO HAVE
LONG BEEN WILLING TO GET
ARRESTED FOR THE CAUSE.
THIS NOW HAS TO GO TO EVERY ONE
OF US IN THIS SKRE BECAUSE WHILE
THE RIGHTS DO NOT EXTEND TO ALL
OF US, THEY ARE NOT ENJOYED BY
ANY OF US.
>> ALI, YOU ARE EXACTLY RIGHT.
THIS IS THE TIME.
THATS WHY NOT ONLY WAS OUR
ARREST -- I WAS ARRESTED WITH
PEOPLE FROM WEST VIRGINIA AND
OHIO, KENTUCKY, WHO ARE PUTTING
PRESSURE ON McCONNELL AND
MANCHIN.
LAST WEEK OVER A HUNDRED WOMEN
FROM 42 STATES STOOD UP AND WERE
ARRESTED.
THIS COMING MONDAY WERE GOING
TO BE IN 40 STATES IN THE SENATE
OFFICE -- DEMOCRATS AND
REPUBLICAN, ASKING THEM, ARE YOU
WILLING TO END THE FILIBUSTER?
ARE YOU WILLING TO PASS THE REAL
JOHN LEWIS BILL, THE FOR THE
PEOPLE ACT THE ONE HE WROTE.
ARE YOU WILLING TO PASS THE
VOTING RIGHTS AC, WILLING TO
PASS 15 AND AND UNION DO IT BY
AUGUST 6th, THE 56th AEVRS OF
THE VOTING RIGHTS ACT.
.
IF THEY SAY YES.
WE TELL THE MEDIA.
IF THEY SAY NO WE ENGAGE ON
DIRECT ACTION.
WEDNESDAY WE LOCKED A MARCH FROM
GEORGETOWN, TEXAS TO AUSTIN,
TEXAS.
THEN ON SATURDAY A MASSIVE RALLY
IN TEXAS TO NATIONALIZE WHATS
GOING ON AND DEMAND FEDERAL
ACTION, A SELMA LIKE MARCH.
WE CANT DO THIS STATE BY STATE
AND LITIGATION BY LITIGATION.
IVE BEEN THROUGH THAT IT TAKES
TOO LONG.
WE NEED THE FEDERAL PROTECTIONS.
THEN ON THE FOLLOWING MONDAY
WERE COMING BACK TO D.C. WITH
CLERGY AND WORKERS.
CLERGY AND LOW WAGE WORKER, A
MASS OF THEM TO IN FACT ENGAGE
IN DIRECT ACTION.
AND EVERYBODY NEEDS TO GET IN
WHERE NECK GET IN.
YOU DONT HAVE TO BE UNDER THE
SAME BANNER BUT WE NEED TO BE IN
THE SAME BATTLE
>> YOU MAKE THIS CONNECTION FOR
WAGES.
FOR POOR PEOPLE.
AND FOR DEMOCRACY.
I WAS TALKING TO DOLORES JAURTA
REGISTER VOTE ESPER IN 1955
BECAUSE SHE UNDERSTOOD IF THE
VOTERS DO NOT HAVE FRAVRPZ,
THEIR RIGHT, IT AFFECTS ALL
DECISIONS ABOUT THEM INCLUDING
KEEPING PEOPLE IN POVERTY
>> EXACTLY RIGHT.
THATS WHY WE DONT NEED TO MAKE
THE CHOICE BETWEEN PHYSICAL
INFRASTRUCTURE AND PROTECTING
THE INFRASTRUCTURE OF OUR
DEMOCRACY.
WE DONT KNEE NEED TO SAY WE
NEED TO BUILD BRIDGES BUT STOP
PEOPLE PEOPLE FROM VOTING.
DR. IC KING SAYS THE GREAT FEAR
OF THE SOUTHERN ARRISOCRACY.
WE CANT SEE THIS AS A RACE
ISSUE.
ITS A RACE ISSUE AND TARGETED
AT BLACK PEOPLE.
BUT ITS NOT -- WHEN YOU LOOK AT
THESE BILLS AND LOOK AT TEXAS,
WEST VIRGINIA, THE BILLS PASSED,
IT WILL HURPT WHITE PEOPLE.
IT WILL HURT POOR PEOPLE, BLACK
PEOPLE, LATINO PEOPLE.
DISABLED PEOPLE, ASIAN PEOPLE,
NATIVE PEOPLE, WORKERS.
IT WILL TAKE AWAY OUR THINGS --
56 MILLION AMERICANS USE IN THE
PAST ELECTION.
THEYRE TRYING TO TAKE AWAY
EARLY VOTING, TAKE AWAY SAME DAY
REGISTRATION.
TAKE AWAY MAIL IN.
DROP BOX.
56 MILLION PEOPLE USED THOETS
METHODS IN THE PLAVT ELECTION.
IN THE FRANCHISE VOTING.
WE MUST SEE THIS FOR WHAT IT IS,
JANUARY 6th WAS A VIOLENT
INSURRECTION.
WHAT WERE SEEING IN THESE STATE
HOUSES IS A POLITICAL
INSURRECTION AN ATTEMPT TO DO A
POLITICAL COUP OF OUR SYSTEM OF
VOTING.
AND WE CANT SIT BACK, CANT
JUST SEE IN AS A RACE ISSUE.
WE ALL HAVE TO GET IN NOW.
AND WE HAVE TO SAY TO THE
PRESIDENT AND TO THE SENATE, YOU
MUST ACT NOW.
AND THOSE DEMOCRATS -- THERE IS
NO MODERATE POSITION ON THIS.
THOSE DEMOCRATS THAT WANT TO NOT
PASS THE FOR THE PEOPLES ACT OR
WANT TO WEAKEN IT OR COMPROMISE
IT NOW OR WANT TO SAY WAIT, ITS
BEEN 56 YEARS SINCE THE PASSING
OF THE VOTING RIGHTS ACT IN
1965.
AND WE HAVE LESS VOTING RIGHTS
TODAY UNDER THE VOTING RIGHTS
ACT THAN WE DID 56 YEARS AGO.
AND IF YOU ARE BLOCKING
SOMETHING NOW, YOU ARE AN
ACCESSORY TO THE POLITICAL
INSURRECTION THATS GOING ON.
YOU ARE AN ACCESSORY TO WHAT IS
HAPPENING IN THESE STATE HOUSES.
THIS IS OLD.
ITS NOT JUST EVEN THE TRUMP
LIE.
S IN A LIE ABOUT FRAUD IN VOTING
THAT HAS GONE ON PARTICULARLY IN
THE SOUTH EVERY SINCE THE
SOUTHERN STRATEGY OF STROM
THURMOND AND NIXON.
ITS NOT JIM CROW.
ITS JAMES CROW EE SQUIRE.
IF YOU ARE GAY, BLACK, IF YOU
ARE A WORKER, IF YOURE LATINO,
IF YOURE ASIAN, IF YOURE
NATIVE AMERICAN, IF YOU ARE
WHITING WITH WHO EVER YOU ARE,
IF YOU CARE ABOUT THIS COUNTRY
IN THIS MOMENT, NOT JUST THE
PROTECTION OF A PARTY DEMOCRAT
OR REPUBLICAN BUT THE PROTECTION
OF THE VERY COUNTRY.
AND MAYBE IN SOME WAYS THE
WORLD.
YOU NEED TO BE ENGAGED NOW AND
DEMAND IN THE FILIBUSTER, PASS
THE FOR THE PEOPLE ACT, OWL
PROVISIONS OF IT PASS THE VOTING
RIGHTS ACT, RESTORATION, PASS
THE $15 MINIMUM WAGE.
AND ALSO PROTECT IMMIGRANTS AND
DACA.
WE COULD DO THIS TOMORROW.
WE COULD DO THIS ON MONDAY OR
TUESDAY.
IT DOESNT -- WE DONT HAVE TO
KEEP WAITING ON THIS AND WE
SHOULDNT WAIT AND MUST DEMAND
>> WHAT DO YOU NEED THE PEOPLE
WATCHING YOU RIGHT NOW TO DO
PEOPLE LIKE ME WHO HAVE NEVER
HAD A PROBLEM VOTING, PEOPLE
LIKE ME WHO CAN GET PROBLEMS
SORTED OUT PEOPLE LIKE ME WHO
DONT THINK IT TARGETED ME WHAT
DO WE HAVE TO DO RIGHT NOW TO
JOIN THE FIGHT
>> IF YOU CANT GET TO D.C. YOU
NEED TO FLOOD THE SENATE OFFICES
WITH CALLS, DEMANDING THAT THEY
ACT ON THE THINGS I JUST NAMED.
END THAT FILIBUSTER NOW.
AND DONT ACCEPT THE LIE OF THE
FILIBUSTER THAT IT HAS BROUGHT
PEOPLE TOGETHER.
THATS NOT THE TRUTH.
THE FILIBUSTER HAS BEEN USED NOT
JUST TO HURT BLACK WOMEN PEOPLE
BUT WOMENS AND LABOR RIGHTS.
AND I COULD GO.
CALL FOR THE FULL PASSAGE OF THE
BILL JOHN LEWIS WROTE, THE FOR
THE PEOPLE ACT.
DONT LET PEOPLE SAY WE WILL
GIVE YOU THE VOTING RIGHTS ACT
WITHOUT THE FOR THE PEOPLE ACT.
YOU HAVE TO HAVE BOTH.
YOURE NOT THE FOR THE PEOPLE
ACT YOURE AGAINST SAME DAY
REGISTRATION, AGAINST EARLY
VOTING AGAINST DROP BOX, AGAINST
FELONY ENFRANCHISEDMENT.
CALL FOR THE PASSAGE OF THE
VOTING RIGHTS ACT RESTORATION.
CALL FOR PEOPLE OF NEW 15.
AND JOIN ONE OF THE MOVEMENTS.
JOIN US ON MONDAY, AUGUST 2nd.
JOIN US IN TEXAS ON FOR THE MASS
RALLY IN AUSTIN.
COVID SAFE, COME BRING YOUR
MASK.
COME THERE.
BUT JOIN US BECAUSE THIS IS THE
MOMENT YOU MUST BE WILLING TO
PUT YOUR BODY ON THE LINE AND
PUT AS WE USED TO SAY YOUR BUTT