Our Independence Day Autonomous Zone
The Ann & Phelim Scoop
The Unreported Story Society
4.7 • 556 Ratings
🗓️ 3 July 2020
⏱️ 3 minutes
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Summary
Today we are heading to the beach! It's July 3rd and Los Angeles County has closed the beaches in order to "curb the spread of the virus." It is absolutely ridiculous. Just a few days ago Gavin Newsom and Eric Garcetti were encouraging mass protests of thousands in the street. If Black Lives Matter can protest -- families can spend their holiday weekend at the beach.
That's why we've created the Independence Day Autonomous Zone. We have a MASSIVE banner that we'll be placing across the beach in Venice. If you're in town, come stop by and see our piece of opinion journalism. We'll be there as long as we can be!
Take care and have a great Independence Day Weekend. We'll be broadcasting live on Periscope from the beach if you can't join us. You can follow along on our Twitter here: https://twitter.com/AP_Scoop
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, my name is Anne McElheny. |
| 0:07.0 | And I'm Philan McGillier. |
| 0:08.0 | And welcome to the Anne and Philem Scoop. |
| 0:09.0 | And this is July the 3rd and we're supposed to not be having a scoop today. |
| 0:14.0 | The Ann Film Scoop Daily Virus. We were supposed not to have it. This is July the fourth weekend, busiest day of the year. |
| 0:20.0 | But we can say to you a couple of things. news is all good yes there's a huge number of |
| 0:24.7 | cases but the deaths are falling off the chart basically the deaths are very very |
| 0:30.4 | few people are dying and hospitals are not over capacity 90% death rate |
| 0:35.4 | decline which is wonderful. |
| 0:43.3 | But despite that, we have a total closure here in California been reinstated. |
| 0:51.5 | We have Governor Newsom and Garcetti, the mayor of Los Angeles, closing everything down, despite the fact that very few people are dying here. |
| 0:55.8 | Two weeks ago, Eric Garcetti was at a Black Lives Matter protest surrounded by thousands of people not wearing a mask. |
| 0:59.0 | Now, there's a spike in cases, he says, even though it's their extra testing, |
| 1:03.7 | accounting for a lot of them. |
| 1:04.8 | And when you open up, there's going to be more cases. |
| 1:06.8 | He says there's a spike in cases. |
| 1:08.5 | He doesn't know what caused it, but he's, we're not being allowed on the beach. Bars are closed. Bars are closed. Businesses are closing shortly after they were told they were up. So we've had enough. And if you can protest as a Black Lives Matter, if you can do journalism, if you can be out there with Eric Garcetti, Black Lives Matter and have autonomous zones all over the United States. We're going to have an autonomous zone today. |
| 1:29.3 | We're going to have our own autonomous zone today. |
| 1:30.3 | We're going to have the Independence Day's autonomous zone at Venice Beach. |
| 1:34.3 | And if you're around, maybe you'd come and join us at 10 a.m. this morning. |
| 1:37.3 | We're going to have a large banner. |
| 1:39.3 | Very large battle. |
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