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🗓️ 15 September 2021
⏱️ 37 minutes
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Lee talks about why he and other activists were arrested at the Capitol. Also the cops that killed Elijah McClain are about to get prosecuted and the US drops its coup attempt on Venezuela.
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0:00.0 | Let's roll, let's roll, never get their control. |
0:04.6 | They've got their money, but we've got our soul. |
0:08.0 | Let's roll, let's roll, never get their control. |
0:11.9 | It's ain't got their money, but we've got our soul. |
0:15.9 | Hey, folks, welcome to a moment of clarity. |
0:18.9 | I'm doing well out there. |
0:20.3 | Let's get into it a couple of days ago now. |
0:22.5 | Monday, Labor Day. |
0:24.7 | Ironically, the day they cut off all unemployment assistance from the government in the middle of a pandemic on Labor Day. |
0:31.6 | I was invited by Movement for a People's Party and Nick Brana and some others to speak at the Capitol steps where People's Party decided to have a, to begin a protest, an occupation, to demand housing for all. |
0:50.7 | Now, you might recall that this was, or something similar was it started by Corey Bush and then some others joined in, other members of the squad, and then by the end of it you had fucking Chuck Schumer and Adam Schiff and all these goons showing up, showing their support for doing the opposite of what they were doing. |
1:08.6 | And they ultimately achieved, they claimed, a 60-day |
1:14.3 | extension on the moratorium that the Biden administration was going to allow the lack to go to expire. |
1:20.4 | And that only lasted a few days before the Supreme Court overturned it and said they couldn't do that. |
1:26.6 | So the eviction had ended, |
1:28.2 | the eviction moratorium, sorry, had ended. And as many of you may have heard me say or others say |
1:33.3 | before, 15 million people across this country are facing eviction right now, are facing losing |
1:38.7 | their homes. There's $20 billion in back rent that is owed. Now, of course, if you compare that to our military |
1:46.3 | budget, tiny little itty-bitty fraction, if you compare that to your average person trying to pay |
1:52.2 | their rent, that's a shitload of money. So, and here's the thing. I don't, you know, I'm asked |
2:00.6 | to speak at things and if I support them, |
2:02.2 | I'll fucking speak at them. So, but that doesn't mean I need to take credit for the whole thing. |
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