- [Protestor] We have nothing to lose but our chains!
- [All] We have nothing to lose but our chains!
- And the chant started
being used by Malkia Cyril
in Oakland, who is a Panther Cub.
Her Momma was a Panther so she calls herself
the Panther Cub.
And Malkia took that from Assata letter,
Assata wrote a letter to the grassroots movement
and part of the letter was that part.
So Malkia started chanting it at rallies.
My homegirl Esperanza took that chant
and brought it back to LA and when I heard that chant
I started using it everywhere.
I took that chant and brought it to Ferguson
and when the folks at Ferguson heard it
they started chanting it everywhere.
So we started to see that chant, we started to see
"Black Lives Matter" being chanted everywhere
and the media picking it up, but we also started to see
that Assata quote being chanted everywhere
and the media picking up.
And so now it's the chant we use when we finish
every protest, we chanted that,
we chanted it in the White House,
in the Oval Office when Obama was president.
And we've literally used it around the globe
and it's such a powerful, powerful chant.
And it's, it's such a focuser, it's like, all right,
this is why I do this.
- It is our duty.
- To fight for our freedom.
- It is our duty to fight for our freedom.
- [All Protestors] It is our duty to fight for freedom.
- It is our duty to fight for our freedom.
- It is our duty to win.
- [Protestors] It is our duty to win.
- We must love each other.
- We all must love each other.
- We must love each other.
- [All] We must love each other.
- We must love each other
and support each other.
- And support each other.
- We must love each other and protect each other.
- We must love each other and support each other.
- We must love and support one other.
- We have nothing to lose.
- But our chains.
- Except our chains.
- But our chains.
- We have nothing to lose but our chains.
- [All] We have nothing to lose but our chains.
- We have nothing to lose but our chains.
- Being a person of color in this country,
coming out of the womb you are birthed
into a hostile environment.
- [Newscaster] A five-year-old girl being handcuffed.
- The world has been told to fear and hate the black man.
- They advances this country has made
is because black people have been willing to die
and sacrifice for it.
- That's how this country was built.
- They try'na to put us back in bondage.
- [Protestors] Being black is not a crime.
- Activism is the portal for actually creating change.
- As children suffer from lead poisoning.
- The federal government is using people's tax dollars
to poison our children and community.
(baby cries)
- We've got to go to the polls
and vote like we never voted before.
- [Newscaster] Growing allegations of voter suppression.
- [Reporter] Are you removing black voters
just to win this election?
- I'm out here fighting for voting rights in 2018.
- Why is it okay for you to use your fear
as an excuse for murder?
- So if racism is the gunpowder
then stand-your-ground is the match.
- [Reporter] Thousands gathering from all over
to fight the school-to-prison pipeline.
- School is setting you up for the system
of jails and prisons.
- [Protestors] It is our duty to fight for freedom.
- It is our duty to win.
- I lost years for nothing.
- Cash bail ends up putting legally innocent
people in cages.
- Why'd you just steal meth, boy?
- What's happening with police brutality in Minneapolis
is happening across the country.
- We deserve justice, our lives matter too.
- Everyday we wake up, black folks
should be fighting for the freedom of black people.
- We become remarkable when we fight for justice.
- I'm past pissed off, I'm in action mode right now.