Detroit August 7th 2020
Hi Everyone my name is _____ 
i'm with the Palestinian Youth Movement https://www.pymusa.com/
and with the Detroit Will Breath https://detroitwillbreathe.info/
and today i'm gonna talk to you about racism but within the framework of intersectionality. Because racism means more than prejudice and discrimination. Its a power dynamic, and what that means is that racism is  a structure within a system that subjugates a people to justify their systems exploitation, and i'm gonna say that one more time. Racism is a structure within a system that subjugates a people to justify their systemic exploitation. Now what does that mean, cause tomorrow your gonna here the word Zionism and Zionism equals Racism and tomorrow your gonna here that word a lot. So i'm gonna tell you what Zionism is. Zionism is a political ideology that is based on a settler colonial framework that has taken Palestinian land and is going to ethnically cleanse its people. So what does that mean, what white supremacy is to black people here is what Zionism is to Palestinians in Palestine now. and what that means is that when i am present in Palestine, is the same thing for a black person existing in America, i am shot on sight. I am going to be ethnically cleansed. They don't want me to be here they don't want us to talk they want me to be gone. That's what ethnic cleansing means. They take your land they take your resources and then they want you to cease to exist. Zionism IS Racism. White Supremacy is equal to Zionism and that's the framework. So with that being said the way that we view the US in todays system we have to also look through a settler colonial framework because what that means is that US origins are based in the indigenous ethnic cleansing of these people on these lands that's what the US settler colonial system is. We don't look at in the frame of a democracy. The US is a settler colonial state. And things that we're protesting like police brutality the houses and everything, those are symptoms of settler colonialism. So tomorrow when we're protesting annexation it's the same thing as protesting gentrification here it's called different but its the same thing. So i really hope that you come out tomorrow. ______It's gonna be at ____ Elementary. Look at the DetroitWillBreath or PalestinianYouthMovement on instagram it's going to be 5 o'clock and I'm gonna see you guys there. Free Palestine and Black Liberation

The International Ally

there are a couple of glitches in the audio capture

The Poet

The Clarification

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The Educator

The Teacher

We have a platform out here right now. The country is watching.
And our message, even though it may be there's rioting out there, is still in support of black lives you know. And even if it doesn't make that impact around the country, everyone of these people here in support of black lives it's making a change in them.
So i like that. I'm proud to be here.

The Change In Them

The Freestyle Rapper

The Five Demands(Seattle)

Hey how many people came here because black lives matter? Raise your hand! Now here’s a question I as a black man ask all white people all the time. “What does that mean? What does that mean?” Cause I went down to the protest and asked “what does that mean white people?” You know what I got? I got a lot of befumbled answers. “It means we wanna end police brutality” no. (I see y’all got some kids and that’s the only reason i’m not gonna cuss. Cause I really do cuss.) But it’s two words that if black lives matter to you, and if you don’t say these or why you do what you do you’s a lying ass person. 

The first word is:
FREEDOM: 
Now what freedom means is
 The power or right to think, act or speak without hindrance or restraint. 
Let me repeat that. 
The power or the right to speak, think or act without hindrance or restraint.
 So that means as black people
 -we have the right to tell you what we need
-we have the right to actualize what we need
 -and we have the right to do it without you getting in the goddamn way. 
Now if that sounds kind of harsh i really don’t give a damn.

The second word is..
AGENCY: 
And that’s our ability to act and express ourself free, freely 
so as we come up here and say what we have to say we’re exercising our agency. 
And one of the things about black agency that doesn’t get articulated like white agency:
 we don’t all have to say the same thing, 
we don’t all have to do the same thing. 
We are not one democratic voting block with one set of ideas.
And what we want is those 2 things
because once you do those, 
then you start to process do our lives matter.

The Educator (Freedom And Agency)

The Narrative

On youtube at
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UChjcMyM0CNR32-8pmele3Fw

Audio Captured From
https://www.twitch.tv/woke
https://www.twitch.tv/seattleprotestnetwork

Organizations Mentioned in Speeches:
https://www.reimagineoregon.org/
www.pymusa.com/
www.detroitwillbreathe.info/

Sounds from 2020 Protests