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Commune with Jeff Krasno

10. Why We March with Emi Guereca

Commune with Jeff Krasno

Commune Media

Health & Fitness, Society & Culture

4.6 • 654 Ratings

🗓️ 16 October 2018

⏱️ 35 minutes

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Summary

Despite growing up in the United States illegally, Emiliana Guereca always believed she could achieve anything she wanted, but she never dreamed she would spark one of the most meaningful gatherings in U.S. history. The Women’s March on January 21st, 2017 was the largest single day protest in US history, with the turnout in Los Angeles—organized by Emi—estimated at a record-setting 750,000 protestors. Why are marches important for democracies? And what turns a march into a movement? Learn more about Commune courses and events at onecommune.com.

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I think that it is a movement in a sense that we feel empowered to continue, that we feel that we will be closer to equity because that's what we're

0:23.9

working on.

0:24.9

I do think it's a movement.

0:26.6

I also think that we are judged with the different perception because it should just

0:33.9

just be a march.

0:34.5

You should have, you should just leave it alone.

0:37.0

I can't leave it alone. You know,, you should just leave it alone. I can't leave it alone.

0:38.8

You know, I need equity.

0:40.4

I need equality.

0:41.4

I have two young boys that will grow up not knowing what that looks like, right?

0:46.1

So for me, I can't leave it alone.

0:49.0

It has to work itself beyond a march, whether I'm in the movement or not.

1:05.5

Thank you. work itself beyond a march, whether I'm in the movement or not. Emiliana Guernica didn't find out she was in the country illegally until she became the first in her family of 12 brothers and sisters to apply for college.

1:15.4

She grew up living a life of community activism, finding inspiration in her mother's passion for standing up for what she believes.

1:23.9

And while Emmy always thought she could accomplish anything she wanted in the United States,

1:29.1

she never dreamed that she'd be the person to spark what would turn out to be one of the most meaningful gatherings in U.S. history.

1:36.7

The women's march on January 21st, 2017, was the largest single-day protest in U.S. history.

1:44.0

With the turnout in Los Angeles on that day, estimated to have brought out a record-setting

1:48.5

750,000 protesters, Emmy's story fits the classic Heroes Journey trope,

1:55.6

extraordinary circumstances around her upbringing, a call to adventure and duty,

2:02.1

and a moment where she made the choice to cross that first threshold into a point of no return.

2:07.8

The end of the hero's journey?

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