Roots of Revolution

Xiuhtezcatl Martinez Author

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Martinez is a powerful voice in the global youth- led environmental movement. From the age of six, Martinez has spoken around the world, from the Rio+20 United Nations Summit, to the General Assembly at the UN. A musician and activist, he is also known as a fashion model, philanthropist, and cross-cultural icon.

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[00:00:00.500]♪ ♪
[00:00:07.240]>> TODAY, YOU ARE PART OF AN IMPORTANT CONVERSATION
[00:00:09.876]ABOUT OUR SHARED FUTURE.
[00:00:12.312]THE E.N. THOMPSON FORUM ON WORLD ISSUES
[00:00:14.914]EXPLORES A DIVERSITY OF VIEWPOINTS
[00:00:16.716]ON INTERNATIONAL AND PUBLIC POLICY ISSUES
[00:00:19.319]TO PROMOTE UNDERSTANDING AND ENCOURAGE DEBATE
[00:00:22.088]ACROSS THE UNIVERSITY AND THE STATE OF NEBRASKA.
[00:00:25.425]SINCE ITS INCEPTION IN 1988, HUNDREDS OF DISTINGUISHED
[00:00:29.462]SPEAKERS HAVE CHALLENGED AND INSPIRED US,
[00:00:32.198]MAKING THIS FORUM ONE OF THE PREEMINENT SPEAKER SERIES
[00:00:36.936]IN HIGHER EDUCATION.
[00:00:39.773]IT ALL STARTED WHEN E.N. "JACK" THOMPSON
[00:00:42.776]IMAGINED A FORUM ON GLOBAL ISSUES THAT WOULD
[00:00:45.812]INCREASE NEBRASKAN'S UNDERSTANDING OF CULTURES
[00:00:48.715]AND EVENTS FROM AROUND THE WORLD.
[00:00:51.050]JACK'S PERSPECTIVE WAS INFLUENCED BY HIS TRAVELS,
[00:00:54.521]HIS ROLE IN HELPING TO FOUND THE UNITED NATIONS,
[00:00:57.223]AND HIS WORK AT THE CARNEGIE ENDOWMENT
[00:00:59.793]FOR INTERNATIONAL PEACE.
[00:01:01.828]AS PRESIDENT OF THE COOPER FOUNDATION IN LINCOLN,
[00:01:05.165]JACK PLEDGED SUBSTANTIAL FUNDING TO THE FORUM.
[00:01:08.368]AND, THE UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA AND LIED CENTER
[00:01:11.271]FOR PERFORMING ARTS AGREED TO CO-SPONSOR.
[00:01:14.574]LATER JACK, AND HIS WIFE KATIE, CREATED THE THOMPSON FAMILY FUND
[00:01:19.446]TO SUPPORT THE FORUM AND ALL THEIR PROGRAMS.
[00:01:22.749]TODAY, MAJOR SUPPORT IS PROVIDED BY THE COOPER FOUNDATION,
[00:01:28.087]LIED CENTER FOR PERFORMING ARTS,
[00:01:30.089]AND UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA - LINCOLN.
[00:01:32.859]WE HOPE THESE TALKS SPARKS AN EXCITING CONVERSATION AMONG YOU.
[00:01:39.766]AND NOW, ON WITH THE SHOW!
[00:01:41.868]♪ ♪
[00:01:57.484]>> GOOD EVENING AND WELCOME TO THE E.N. THOMPSON FORUM
[00:02:00.987]ON WORLD ISSUES.
[00:02:02.555]I'M PATRICE McMAHON, CHAIR OF THE E.N. THOMPSON FORUM
[00:02:06.259]AND I'M PLEASED TO WELCOME ALL OF YOU,
[00:02:08.862]THOSE WATCHING VIRTUALLY, AS WELL AS THOSE WHO COULD JOIN US
[00:02:12.532]AT THE LIED CENTER THIS EVENING.
[00:02:14.667]WE WOULD LIKE TO THANK THE COOPER FOUNDATION,
[00:02:17.003]THE UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA-LINCOLN, AND THE LIED
[00:02:19.706]CENTER FOR PERFORMING ARTS FOR THEIR ONGOING SUPPORT
[00:02:22.976]FOR THIS PRESTIGIOUS SERIES.
[00:02:25.411]I WOULD LIKE TO TAKE THIS OPPORTUNITY TO INTRODUCE
[00:02:28.214]DR. COLETTE YELLOW ROBE, ORIGINALLY FROM THE WINNEBAGO
[00:02:32.118]INDIAN RESERVATION IN NEBRASKA AND AN ENROLLED MEMBER OF
[00:02:35.722]THE NORTHERN CHEYENNE TRIBE IN MONTANA.
[00:02:38.458]DR. YELLOW ROBE HOLDS A Ph.D.
[00:02:40.727]FROM THE TEACHING, LEARNING AND TEACHER EDUCATION DEPARTMENT
[00:02:44.364]IN THE COLLEGE OF EDUCATION AND HUMAN SCIENCES
[00:02:47.333]AT THE UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA-LINCOLN.
[00:02:49.702]DR. YELLOW ROBE IS AN ACTIVE COMMUNITY MEMBER,
[00:02:52.839]COMMITTED TO SOCIAL JUSTICE AND ALLEVIATING POVERTY.
[00:02:56.509]AS THE ACADEMIC COUNSELOR FOR THE STUDENT SUPPORT SERVICES
[00:02:59.712]PROGRAM, AT UNL, HER WORK FOCUSES PRIMARILY ON FIRST
[00:03:04.317]GENERATION LOW-INCOME AND DISABLED COLLEGE STUDENTS.
[00:03:08.621]CURRENTLY, SHE SERVES ON THE CHANCELLOR'S COMMISSION
[00:03:11.424]ON THE STATUS OF PEOPLE OF COLOR AT UNL,
[00:03:14.727]AND THE MAYOR'S MULTICULTURAL ADVISORY COMMITTEE
[00:03:17.463]FOR THE CITY OF LINCOLN.
[00:03:19.065]WE ARE PLEASED TO HAVE DR. YELLOW ROBE PERFORM A LAND
[00:03:22.802]ACKNOWLEDGMENT CEREMONY FOR US THIS EVENING
[00:03:25.505]BEFORE WE BEGIN OUR PROGRAM.
[00:03:30.209]>> HELLO, EVERYONE.
[00:03:31.077]GREETINGS!
[00:03:32.812]MY NAME IS VONAHE'E, THAT MEANS "CEREMONIAL WOMAN"
[00:03:36.316]IN THE CHEYENNE LANGUAGE AND IT'S AN HONOR TO BE HERE,
[00:03:39.252]NEA'ESE AS WE WOULD SAY.
[00:03:41.654]I'M JOINING YOU TODAY FROM LINCOLN, NEBRASKA,
[00:03:44.891]AND I WAS ASKED TO GIVE A LAND ACKNOWLEDGMENT TODAY.
[00:03:49.195]AND BEFORE I DO THAT, IT WOULD BE TRADITIONAL AND
[00:03:51.631]VERY CULTURALLY RESPECTFUL FOR ME TO ASK FOR FORGIVENESS
[00:03:55.602]FOR MY ELDERS FOR THE MISTAKES THAT I'M GOING TO MAKE,
[00:03:58.237]SO I WOULD ASK YOU TO PARDON ME ON THAT.
[00:04:00.840]AND WE ARE GOING TO VERY HUMBLY AND VERY GRACIOUSLY ACKNOWLEDGE
[00:04:04.811]OUR TRIBAL AND INDIGENOUS PEOPLES HERE.
[00:04:07.914]SO FIRST, LET ME ACKNOWLEDGE THAT THE INDIGENOUS TRIBAL
[00:04:10.950]NATIONS WERE ANCESTRAL.
[00:04:14.087]WE ARE PRESENT AND WE ARE THE FUTURE OF THE HOMELANDS
[00:04:17.590]OF WHICH THE UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA-LINCOLN WAS FOUNDED.
[00:04:21.527]THE UNIVERSITY SPANS ACROSS SEVERAL AREAS,
[00:04:24.130]SO I'M HONORED TO BE ABLE TO INCLUDE OUR ORIGINAL STEWARDS
[00:04:27.000]OF THE LAND WHO WOULD SPAN ACROSS WHAT BECAME THE STATE.
[00:04:30.770]AND THE -- THESE INDIGENOUS TRIBAL NATIONS INCLUDE: THE
[00:04:34.641]TERRITORIAL LANDS OF THE PAWNEE, THE PONCA, THE OTOE-MISSOURIA,
[00:04:39.979]THE OMAHA, THE DAKOTA, THE LAKOTA, THE ARAPAHOE,
[00:04:45.385]THE TATESTAS AND THE SUHTAI OR THE CHEYENNE PEOPLES,
[00:04:49.122]THE KAW OR KANSAS PEOPLES, AS WELL AS THE RELOCATED WINNEBAGO,
[00:04:54.627]THE ASANTEE -- SANTEE-DAKOTA, THE IOWA
[00:04:57.263]AND THE SAC AND FOX PEOPLES.
[00:04:59.666]NEA'ESE AND ENJOY THE PROGRAM.
[00:05:01.401]THANK YOU.
[00:05:02.468]>> THANK YOU SO MUCH, DR. YELLOW ROBE.
[00:05:04.971]IN CONTINUATION OF THIS YEAR'S SEASON, REGENERATION,
[00:05:08.841]LEADERSHIP, AND HOPE FOR A CHANGING PLANET,
[00:05:11.711]TONIGHT WE WELCOME XIUHTEZCATL MARTINEZ TO THE FORUM STAGE.
[00:05:16.649]AT 20 YEARS OLD, OUR SPEAKER IS A YOUNG MAN OF MANY TALENTS
[00:05:20.853]AND PASSIONS.
[00:05:22.221]MR. MARTINEZ IS AN ADVOCATE, A LEADER,
[00:05:24.857]ACTIVIST AND HIP-HOP ARTIST.
[00:05:27.060]RECENTLY NAMED "TIME'S NEXT 100,"
[00:05:30.329]XIUHTEZCATL HAS FELT CALLED TO CHANGE THE NARRATIVE ON
[00:05:34.100]WHAT IT MEANS TO BE AN ACTIVIST SINCE AN EARLY AGE.
[00:05:37.870]ALREADY HE HAS SPOKEN MULTIPLE TIMES AT THE UNITED NATIONS,
[00:05:41.274]ADDRESSING THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY, AND HAS BEEN ON PANELS WITH
[00:05:44.610]THE LIKES OF BERNIE SANDERS, VAN JONES, AND BILL McKIBBEN.
[00:05:48.881]HE HAS ALSO GIVEN THREE TED TALKS AND BEEN A GUEST ON
[00:05:52.351]THE DAILY SHOW WITH TREVOR NOAH AND REAL TIME WITH BILL MAHER.
[00:05:56.289]HE HAS BEEN FEATURED MULTIPLE TIMES IN ROLLING STONE,
[00:05:59.358]ON PBS, SHOWTIME, NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC,
[00:06:02.195]AND MANY NEWS AND TELEVISION SHOWS.
[00:06:04.931]XIUHTEZCATL IS THE YOUTH DIRECTOR FOR EARTH GUARDIANS,
[00:06:08.668]AN INTERNATIONAL ENVIRONMENTAL CONSERVATION ORGANIZATION,
[00:06:12.438]WHICH IN HIS WORDS "AIMS TO INSPIRE AND TRAIN DIVERSE YOUTH
[00:06:17.810]TO BE EFFECTIVE LEADERS IN THE ENVIRONMENTAL,
[00:06:20.413]CLIMATE AND SOCIAL JUSTICE MOVEMENTS.
[00:06:22.749]THROUGH THE POWER OF ART, MUSIC, STORY TELLING,
[00:06:26.252]CIVIC ENGAGEMENT AND LEGAL ACTION,
[00:06:28.855]WE ARE CREATING IMPACTFUL SOLUTIONS TO SOME OF THE MOST
[00:06:32.492]CRITICAL ISSUES WE FACE AS A GLOBAL COMMUNITY."
[00:06:36.262]XIUHTEZCATL HAS A UNIQUE TALENT FOR CONNECTING PEOPLE THROUGH
[00:06:40.133]POPULAR CULTURE, AND SHARING THE MESSAGE OF HIS INDIGENOUS ROOTS
[00:06:44.370]TO BETTER SERVE THE PLANET AND RE-IMAGINE THE FUTURE
[00:06:47.440]FOR HIS GENERATION.
[00:06:49.275]AFTER THE SPEECH, YOU'LL HAVE THE OPPORTUNITY TO SUBMIT
[00:06:52.311]QUESTIONS VIA TEXT, BY SENDING A MESSAGE TO THE NUMBER 2233
[00:06:59.886]AND THEN IN THE SUBJECT LINE PUT ENT918.
[00:07:04.924]AND THIS WILL ALLOW YOU TO SEND A QUESTION FOR MR. MARTINEZ.
[00:07:09.195]OR YOU CAN GO ONLINE TO pollev.com/ent 918.
[00:07:17.537]AS A SPECIAL TREAT, AFTER HIS TALK AND THE Q&A,
[00:07:21.541]XIUHTEZCATL WILL SHARE SOME OF HIS MUSIC WITH US
[00:07:26.212]IN A SHORT CONCERT.
[00:07:27.780]AND NOW, PLEASE JOIN ME IN WELCOMING XIUHTEZCATL MARTINEZ.
[00:07:34.253][ APPLAUSE ]
[00:07:41.360][ SPEAKING FOREIGN LANGUAGE ]
[00:07:55.474]>> MY NAME IS XIUHTEZCATL.
[00:07:57.577]SALUDOS!
[00:07:58.211]BUENAS TARDES!
[00:07:59.045]GOOD EVENING.
[00:08:00.947]MY PEOPLE ARE THE MEXICA PEOPLE OF MEXICO-TENOCHTITLAN,
[00:08:05.184]MY ELDERS, MY ANCESTORS COME FROM XOCHIMILCO,
[00:08:08.588]A SMALL TOWN CALLED SANTA CRUZ ACALPIXCA.
[00:08:10.756]AND THE CEREMONIAL SITE THAT WE COME FROM IS CALLED CUAHILAMA.
[00:08:15.461]I'M GRATEFUL TO BE WITH Y'ALL THIS EVENING EVEN DIGITALLY,
[00:08:19.799]YOU KNOW, STILL FINDING WAYS TO CONNECT AND SHARE THESE STORIES,
[00:08:23.970]TALKING WITH ONE ANOTHER.
[00:08:26.172]I'M GRATEFUL FOR ALL THE FOLKS WHO ARE ABLE TO SAFELY SHOW UP
[00:08:29.175]IN PERSON, AS WELL AS EVERYBODY TAPPING INTO THE LIVE STREAM.
[00:08:33.412]I WOULD LIKE TO BEGIN WITH MY TALK IN THAT WAY,
[00:08:38.384]ACKNOWLEDGING WHERE I COME FROM, WHERE MY ANCESTORS COME FROM.
[00:08:41.254]I'M CURRENTLY ON THE TERRITORY OF TONGVA PEOPLES THAT EXIST
[00:08:45.691]ON THIS LAND IN THE PAST, PRESENT, AND FUTURE,
[00:08:49.428]AS STORIES AND CARETAKERS OF THE SPACE.
[00:08:52.298]IT'S NOW KNOWN AS LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA.
[00:08:56.402]AND I'M GRATEFUL ALSO TO HAVE THE SPACE I'VE OPENED UP
[00:08:58.804]WITH LAND ACKNOWLEDGMENT AND, YOU KNOW,
[00:09:01.240]I THINK IT'S VERY IMPORTANT FOR US AS WE MOVE THROUGH THE WORLD
[00:09:04.510]TO UNDERSTAND AND HAVE A COHESIVE ANALYSIS ON WHOSE LAND
[00:09:09.815]WE WALK UPON.
[00:09:11.217]I THINK PLACE PLAYS SUCH A SIGNIFICANT ROLE IN HOW WE MOVE
[00:09:14.153]IN THE WORLD, AND FOR US, YOU KNOW, WE OCCUPY MANY SPACES.
[00:09:19.492]WE INTERACT WITH MANY PLACES.
[00:09:22.528]SO FOR ME, YOU KNOW, I THINK THAT WAS A BEAUTIFUL WAY
[00:09:25.464]TO START IT OFF.
[00:09:27.033]I WOULD LIKE TO BEGIN WITH MY TALK, TALKING ABOUT STORIES.
[00:09:31.971]I THINK REVOLUTION, CULTURAL CHANGE, SOCIAL CHANGE,
[00:09:37.076]BEGINS WITH THE WAYS IN WHICH WE TELL STORIES.
[00:09:41.747]THAT IS A KEY INGREDIENT TO HOW WE IMAGINE AND BUILD ALTERNATIVE
[00:09:46.652]FUTURES AND I HAVE BEEN IN THE WORLD OF CLIMATE AND
[00:09:51.157]ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE IN MY WORK ON INDIGENOUS SOVEREIGNTY
[00:09:53.826]PROJECTS FOR A LONG TIME.
[00:09:56.829]GROWING UP, I WAS VERY STEEPED IN THIS WORK.
[00:10:00.333]THE FAMILIAL SURROUNDING AT A VERY YOUNG AGE,
[00:10:05.037]THE SPACE IN THE COMMUNITY THAT I GREW UP AROUND REALLY HELPED
[00:10:07.707]CULTIVATE THE SENSE OF URGENCY AROUND SHARING MY VOICE AND
[00:10:11.377]TELLING MY STORY, CONNECTING WITH MANY OF THESE ISSUES
[00:10:14.747]THAT DIRECTLY AFFECTED MY COMMUNITIES, MY PEOPLE,
[00:10:17.717]BOTH IN MEXICO AND WHERE I GREW UP IN COLORADO, AS WELL.
[00:10:22.054]AND ONE THING THAT I SAW IS THE WAYS IN WHICH PEOPLE AROUND ME
[00:10:26.692]WERE TELLING STORIES AROUND THE CLIMATE CRISIS,
[00:10:29.996]OR THE ENVIRONMENTAL CRISIS, ENVIRONMENTAL ISSUES IN OUR
[00:10:32.565]COMMUNITY, FAILED TO CONNECT AND REACH THE MASSES IN THE WAY
[00:10:37.636]THAT THESE ISSUES SO DEEPLY NEEDED TO BE RESPONDED TO.
[00:10:42.575]AND IF YOU LOOK AT THE ARCHETYPES OVER THE LAST FIVE,
[00:10:46.379]TEN YEARS OF THE CLIMATE ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE MOVEMENT,
[00:10:50.116]FIRST OF ALL THE ANGLE OF JUSTICE HAS BEEN -- HAS NOT BEEN
[00:10:52.852]KIND OF A PRIMARY APPROACH OR PRIORITY FOR A LOT OF HOW WE
[00:10:57.957]TALK ABOUT THE ENVIRONMENT IN MANY SPACES.
[00:11:01.761]IF YOU LOOK AT THE ARCHETYPES OF THESE SPACES IN THE MOVEMENTS
[00:11:04.196]WHETHER IT'S, YOU KNOW, BILL McKIBBEN OR AL GORE,
[00:11:08.434]MANY OF THESE LEADERS ARE OLDER WHITE MEN WHO ARE TELLING
[00:11:11.837]STORIES AROUND THE DEVASTATION OF THE FUTURE.
[00:11:15.141]AND THE IMAGERY THAT IS ASSOCIATED WITH THAT IS SO OFTEN
[00:11:18.144]WOVEN INTO THIS IDEA OF A FAR OFF APOCALYPTIC FUTURE
[00:11:22.915]OF WEATHER EVENTS, OF NATURAL DISASTERS, ICE CAPS MELTING.
[00:11:27.787]I GREW UP IN COLORADO.
[00:11:29.155]I KNOW A LOT OF YOU PEOPLE ARE IN NEBRASKA RIGHT NOW.
[00:11:31.657]I AIN'T NEVER SEEN NO ICE CAPS IN MY LIFE,
[00:11:34.060]AND SO A LOT OF THESE PICTURES THAT WERE BEING PAINTED
[00:11:37.329]WERE FAR FROM ME, WERE FAR FROM MY REALITY,
[00:11:39.632]WERE FAR FROM HOW I INTERACTED WITH MY COMMUNITY,
[00:11:42.768]WITH THE WORLD.
[00:11:44.236]SO AS FIVE, SIX, SEVEN YEARS OLD GROWING UP IN THE ENVIRONMENTAL
[00:11:48.441]SPACE THAT HEAVILY RELIED ON THESE NARRATIVES TO COMMUNICATE
[00:11:52.545]AND TO TALK ABOUT SOME OF THE MOST IMPORTANT AND SERIOUS
[00:11:55.548]ISSUES OF OUR TIME.
[00:11:58.017]AS A YOUNG NATIVE KID GROWING UP FAR FROM MY TRADITIONAL
[00:12:01.720]HOMELANDS, IT WAS STILL PRIVILEGED TO BE ENGAGED AND
[00:12:05.691]WELCOMED IN A LOT OF OTHER INDIGENOUS COMMUNITIES,
[00:12:08.060]AND SPACES -- CEREMONIAL SPACES THAT MY FATHER ALWAYS MADE
[00:12:10.830]A POINT TO BRING US TO.
[00:12:12.698]FOR ME, MY RELATIONSHIP WITH THE NATURAL WORLD,
[00:12:16.402]MY RELATIONSHIP WITH THIS CONVERSATION OF ENVIRONMENTALISM
[00:12:21.340]WAS NOT SO MUCH THIS EXTERNAL USE OF ENERGY.
[00:12:25.511]DEFENDING OUR LAND AND OUR WATER ARE A PART OF OUR CULTURAL
[00:12:30.082]SURVIVAL AS INDIGENOUS PEOPLES IN MY COMMUNITY.
[00:12:33.085]THAT IS WHAT MY FATHER TAUGHT ME,
[00:12:34.286]THAT IS WHAT MY ELDERS HAVE TAUGHT ME,
[00:12:36.655]AND AS I BEGAN TO BRANCH OUT AND CONNECT WITH OTHER YOUNG LEADERS
[00:12:39.492]OF NATIVE YOUTH FROM DIFFERENT COMMUNITIES,
[00:12:41.560]THAT WERE EXPERIENCING SIMILAR ISSUES IN THEIR COMMUNITIES,
[00:12:45.831]WHETHER IT WAS THROUGH THE CLIMATE CRISIS,
[00:12:47.833]THROUGH THE DEVELOPMENT OF RESOURCE EXPLOITATION AND
[00:12:50.870]EXTRACTION IN THEIR COMMUNITIES, WE WOULD SEE
[00:12:52.872]THESE PARALLEL STORIES.
[00:12:54.807]FOR US THE PRESERVATION OF OUR LAND, OF OUR WATER,
[00:12:58.277]IS LIKE HAND-IN-HAND WITH THE PRESERVATION OF OUR COMMUNITIES,
[00:13:01.614]OF OUR PEOPLE, OF OUR WAYS OF LIFE.
[00:13:04.650]THE WAY THAT I WAS RAISED, WE ARE INSEPARABLY LINKED
[00:13:09.355]TO THE NATURAL WORLD.
[00:13:11.457]I HAVE THIS VERY CLASHING NARRATIVES OF THIS LIKE,
[00:13:15.861]TREE HUGGER ENVIRONMENTALIST VIBE AT A LOT OF THE MEETINGS
[00:13:19.365]I WOULD PULL UP TO, YOU KNOW, THE CLIMATE EVENTS
[00:13:21.667]THAT WE WOULD ATTEND THAT I WOULD SPEAK AT
[00:13:24.236]AND THIS VERY GROUNDED PERSPECTIVE ON SEEING NATURE
[00:13:27.206]AS AN EXTENSION OF OURSELVES,
[00:13:29.108]OF OUR COMMUNITIES, OF OUR HOMES,
[00:13:32.178]AND IT WAS AS I BEGAN TO SEE MORE NATIVE YOUTH,
[00:13:37.082]MORE YOUTH OF COLOR, AND TO THESE SPACES AND THE
[00:13:39.652]CONVERSATIONS THAT THAT DYNAMIC BEGAN TO TRANSFORM.
[00:13:43.022]I THINK IT GAVE US THE OPPORTUNITY TO RE-IMAGINE THE
[00:13:45.891]CONVERSATION AROUND THE CLIMATE CRISIS IN A WAY THAT REALLY
[00:13:48.294]SPEAKS TO THE IMMEDIACY OF WHAT WE ARE ACTUALLY FACING.
[00:13:53.532]THE CLIMATE CRISIS IS SO DEEPLY COMPLEX AND INTERCONNECTED AND
[00:13:57.236]WOVEN INTO EVERY OTHER SOCIAL ISSUE THAT CONNECTS OUR
[00:14:00.839]COMMUNITY AND OUR WORLD, THAT TO PUT IT IN THIS BOX OF A VERY
[00:14:05.444]ISOLATED POLARIZING POLITICAL AND ENVIRONMENTAL ISSUE
[00:14:09.715]THAT MUST BE LEFT TO ACTIVISTS AND ENVIRONMENTALISTS,
[00:14:12.885]SEPARATES THE MAJORITY OF THE PUBLIC FROM BEING ABLE TO BE
[00:14:16.655]FEELING EMPOWERED TO ENGAGE IN THESE CONVERSATIONS.
[00:14:19.792]AND WHEN I STARTED TO LOOK AT MY AUDIENCE,
[00:14:22.561]WHEN I STARTED TO LOOK AT MY PEERS, OTHER YOUTH,
[00:14:27.299]I BEGAN TO ASK THIS QUESTION, LIKE HOW DO WE TAP IN,
[00:14:29.268]HOW DO WE BREAK THROUGH, YOU KNOW,
[00:14:31.870]THE COMMON MISCONCEPTIONS AROUND THESE ISSUES.
[00:14:35.608]HOW DO WE MOBILIZE A GENERATION TO BE PREPARED TO EXIST
[00:14:40.045]IN A CHANGING WORLD?
[00:14:42.348]BECAUSE UNDERSTANDING THE SCIENCE AND AGAIN I'M NOT
[00:14:44.917]A SCIENTIST AND I'M NOT -- I HAVEN'T DEEPLY ANALYZED
[00:14:49.221]SCIENTIFIC PAPERS, BUT I THINK WE LIVE IN A WORLD WHERE
[00:14:52.124]SCIENTIFIC INFORMATION IS EASILY AND READILY AVAILABLE TO US.
[00:14:56.662]AND UNDERSTANDING THE SCIENCE WE SEE A PICTURE OF THE FUTURE
[00:15:00.299]AS BEING PAINTED, BECAUSE OF THE DIRECTIONS WE ARE GOING,
[00:15:03.836]THAT IS VERY, VERY DARK, THAT HAS A POTENTIAL TO BE VERY,
[00:15:07.506]VERY DARK AND ONE OF THE FIRST STORIES THAT I THINK IS
[00:15:11.710]AN IMPORTANT CHALLENGE IS THIS IDEA OF FUTURES,
[00:15:15.214]THAT THE CLIMATE CRISIS EXISTS IN A FAR OFF DISTANT FUTURE
[00:15:18.250]THAT IS SO FAR REMOVED FROM OUR REALITY,
[00:15:21.186]I THINK IT'S AS FOOLISH AS ISOLATING OUR UNDERSTANDING OF
[00:15:24.123]THESE ISSUES TO MELTING SEA ICE AND RISING SEA LEVELS.
[00:15:29.862]COMMUNITIES ALL OVER THE WORLD TODAY RIGHT NOW ARE EXPERIENCING
[00:15:33.165]AND HAVE BEEN EXPERIENCING THE IMPACT OF THE CLIMATE CRISIS.
[00:15:37.169]AND TO GO A LAYER DEEPER, WHEN WE THINK ABOUT WHAT THIS CRISIS
[00:15:40.005]IS, IS AN IMBALANCE, IS A SOCIETY THAT HAS GONE SO FAR
[00:15:48.514]FROM BEING IN RIGHT RELATION WITH THE NATURAL WORLD
[00:15:52.518]THAT OUR VERY ECONOMY, OUR VERY SOCIAL SYSTEMS,
[00:15:56.322]THE WAYS IN WHICH OUR SOCIETY FUNCTIONS,
[00:15:58.924]IS BASED ON THE EXPLOITATION NOT JUST OF THE PLANET,
[00:16:01.660]BUT OF COMMUNITIES.
[00:16:04.263]IF WE TAKE A SECOND TO THINK ABOUT AND LOOK AT AND UNDERSTAND
[00:16:07.766]WHAT THE CLIMATE CRISIS MEANS, IT MEANS PEOPLE BEING LEFT
[00:16:11.637]BEHIND, POOR BLACK, BROWN, AND INDIGENOUS COMMUNITIES BEING
[00:16:15.574]LEFT BEHIND AFTER STORMS HIT, AFTER FIRES COME THROUGH AND
[00:16:18.410]DESTROY COMMUNITIES, AFTER DROUGHTS DEVASTATE FARMLANDS.
[00:16:23.782]IT'S REALLY UNDERSTANDING THE IMPACTS ARE DISPROPORTIONATELY
[00:16:27.252]AFFECTING COMMUNITIES OF COLOR.
[00:16:29.188]THE IMPACT THAT IT HAS, IT WILL CONTINUE TO HAVE ECONOMICALLY.
[00:16:33.826]IT WILL AFFECT OUR ABILITY TO ACCESS CLEAN WATER,
[00:16:36.795]TO GROW FOOD, TO BE ABLE TO ENTER THE JOB FORCE.
[00:16:40.499]I EVEN THINK ABOUT STUDENTS BECAUSE YOU KNOW I --
[00:16:42.701]PRE-PANDEMIC ESPECIALLY, I WAS GOING AROUND UNIVERSITIES AND
[00:16:46.238]SPEAKING TO STUDENTS AND TALKING ABOUT AND HAVING A LOT OF
[00:16:49.241]REALLY AWESOME CONVERSATIONS WITH FOLKS.
[00:16:51.543]AND YOU KNOW, THE WORLD HAS ALREADY CHANGED SO MUCH.
[00:16:55.581]I'VE BEEN INVOLVED IN THE CLIMATE MOVEMENT FOR --
[00:17:00.285]NOW I'M 29, SO LIKE 14 YEARS AND THE AMOUNT THAT HAS CHANGED
[00:17:05.023]IN THAT TIME AND IT'S JUST ASTOUNDING TO SEE.
[00:17:09.728]YOUNG PEOPLE TODAY LIKE, WE ARE NOT PREPARING THIS GENERATION
[00:17:12.364]TO ENTER A WORLD WHERE THE CLIMATE
[00:17:14.433]IS DRAMATICALLY CHANGING AROUND US.
[00:17:17.002]AND THERE IS TWO CONVERSATIONS, ONE OF RESILIENCE AND BEING ABLE
[00:17:21.306]TO SURVIVE, CHALLENGES THAT WE WILL EXPERIENCE,
[00:17:24.143]AND ALSO AVERTING THE DAMAGES, AVERTING THE WORST OF THE
[00:17:27.746]CRISIS, ESSENTIALLY.
[00:17:29.415]WE HAVE A VERY NARROW WINDOW AND SCIENCE HAS NARROWED IT DOWN
[00:17:32.017]FOR US TO UNDERSTAND THE TIMEFRAME.
[00:17:34.386]EVEN STILL, SCIENCE HAS SAID BETWEEN TEN TO 12 YEARS
[00:17:38.524]TO REALLY TURN AROUND THE CLIMATE CRISIS,
[00:17:40.359]TO RE-IMAGINE MUCH OF HOW THE WORLD'S ECONOMIES FUNCTION.
[00:17:45.431]IT'S STILL SUCH A NEBULOUS, FAR OFF NUMBER
[00:17:48.734]AND IT'S HARD TO CONNECT TO.
[00:17:50.869]SO ANYWAYS, I'VE BEEN SPENDING THE LAST GOOD AMOUNT OF MY LIFE
[00:17:55.941]EXPLORING, ANSWERING COMMUNITIES AND HAVING THESE CONVERSATIONS,
[00:17:59.445]ASKING THESE QUESTIONS, SITTING DOWN WITH EVERYONE FROM,
[00:18:02.714]YOU KNOW, PEOPLE IN THE SPACE OF TECH AND ENTREPRENEURSHIP
[00:18:06.485]AND SOCIAL MEDIA TO CLIMATE SCIENTISTS,
[00:18:09.922]PROFESSIONALS IN THE FIELDS OF BIOCHAR, OF CARBON,
[00:18:15.627]OF CARBON SEQUESTRATION, OF PROFESSIONALS AND ORGANIZERS ON
[00:18:20.065]THE FRONT LINES OF INDIGENOUS ELDERS THAT AT THE FOREFRONT OF
[00:18:23.402]BATTLING WHETHER IT'S, YOU KNOW, DAMS,
[00:18:26.638]BLOCKING OUR TRADITIONAL RIVERWAYS OR PIPELINES
[00:18:29.141]BEING BUILT UNDERNEATH OUR TERRITORY
[00:18:30.943]OR URANIUM BEING MINED IN OUR COMMUNITIES.
[00:18:33.111]THERE HAS BEEN SO MUCH KNOWLEDGE THAT I'VE BEEN REALLY PRIVILEGED
[00:18:37.015]TO BE SURROUNDED BY.
[00:18:38.750]AGAIN, THE QUESTION IS RETURN TO HOW DO WE FRAME
[00:18:41.587]THIS CONVERSATION IN A WAY THAT CONNECTS
[00:18:44.957]SPECIFICALLY TO OUR GENERATION?
[00:18:47.693]BECAUSE I BELIEVE AND I'VE SEEN THAT THROUGHOUT HISTORY YOUNG
[00:18:50.295]PEOPLE ARE THE SPEARHEADS OF THOSE THAT GO FORTH AND ARE
[00:18:54.800]BOTH BRAVE ENOUGH TO IMAGINE ALTERNATIVES AND ARE I THINK
[00:18:59.605]ANCHORED IN LOVE, WHICH I THINK IS SUCH AN IMPORTANT INGREDIENT
[00:19:03.041]OF SOCIAL CHANGE TO THE EXTENT OF BEING ABLE TO
[00:19:06.178]POWERFULLY ENACT THESE VISIONS OF THE FUTURE
[00:19:10.349]IN A REALLY BEAUTIFUL WAY.
[00:19:12.651]IF FOR ME, MY PATH OVER THE LAST SEVERAL YEARS HAS LANDED
[00:19:15.988]AND CONTINUED TO EXPLORE ART AS A FORM OF COMMUNICATION.
[00:19:21.760]AND THAT'S JUST FOR ME SPECIFICALLY.
[00:19:23.529]I THINK WHAT I'VE LEARNED BROADLY IS THAT YOUNG PEOPLE
[00:19:27.466]HAVE THE GREATEST POWER TO ADDRESS SOCIAL ISSUES,
[00:19:31.336]TO USE OUR VOICES, TO ENGAGE IN PUSHING FOR SYSTEMIC CHANGE.
[00:19:35.674]WE FEEL EMPOWERED IN THE TACTICS THAT WE ARE USING AND AGAIN,
[00:19:39.211]THIS COMES BACK TO THE STORY OF ACTIVISM.
[00:19:41.446]IT'S SO OFTEN BEEN COMMUNICATED THAT TO BE AN ACTIVIST IS TO
[00:19:45.217]STAND INSIDE OF THIS VERY SMALL AND NARROW BOX, TO PROTEST,
[00:19:50.455]TO MAKE PICKET SIGNS, TO MAKE PHONE CALLS TO YOUR ELECTED
[00:19:53.725]OFFICIALS, TO ENCOURAGE FOLKS TO SHOW UP TO THE BALLOT,
[00:19:58.630]TO THE BALLOT BOX, AND IT IS THIS KIND OF MUNDANE SIMPLE WAY
[00:20:04.670]THAT ACTIVISM HAS BEEN DEFINED IN WHAT I'M SEEING ALL AROUND
[00:20:07.506]US, THAT YOUNG PEOPLE ARE DEFINED AS NOT BEING BOUND TO
[00:20:12.144]ANY RULES AND UNDERSTANDING THAT THE WAYS IN WHICH WE CAN
[00:20:15.180]ORGANIZE TO BUILD SYSTEMIC CHANGE COME FROM
[00:20:17.849]SO MANY DIFFERENT PLACES.
[00:20:19.685]I THINK YOUNG PEOPLE --I'VE SEEN YOUNG PEOPLE TOTALLY RE-IMAGINE
[00:20:23.855]AND REPOSITION THE CONVERSATION AROUND THE CLIMATE CRISIS INTO
[00:20:27.359]THE FOREFRONT OF LIKE, THE PUBLIC IN THE LAST THREE YEARS
[00:20:32.297]IN SUCH A SIGNIFICANT WAY AND IT'S BECAUSE OF POLITICAL
[00:20:36.168]MOVEMENTS LIKE THE SUNRISE MOVEMENT,
[00:20:38.470]FROM SIT-INS IN NANCY PELOSI'S OFFICE AND GETTING SUPPORT
[00:20:42.274]FROM PEOPLE LIKE ALEXANDRIA OCASIO-CORTEZ,
[00:20:44.643]AND REALLY SHAKING UP THE WAYS IN WHICH PEOPLE THINK ABOUT THE
[00:20:48.146]CLIMATE CRISIS ALL THE WAY TO TRANSFORMING AND BEING A PART OF
[00:20:51.550]THE TASK FORCE THAT HAS COMPLETELY TRANSFORMED JOE
[00:20:54.152]BIDEN'S CLIMATE RECOVERY PLAN, CLIMATE RESPONSE PLAN FROM WHAT
[00:20:57.956]IT WAS PRIOR TO THE PRIMARIES.
[00:21:02.461]AND SO WE'RE SEEING LIKE MASSIVE POLITICAL CHANGE HAPPENING
[00:21:05.297]BECAUSE YOUNG PEOPLE ARE BEGINNING TO
[00:21:07.132]RE-IMAGINE THESE STORIES.
[00:21:08.567]THAT BRINGS ME BACK TO THE WAYS IN WHICH I CONNECT TO MY
[00:21:11.770]GENERATION AND TO MY VOICE IN THE MOST, I THINK,
[00:21:15.207]REAL AND RAW WAY AND THAT IS AS AN ARTIST.
[00:21:18.043]I'VE SPENT SO MUCH OF MY LIFE, YOU KNOW,
[00:21:19.778]TRAVELING IN AND VISITING PLACES AS A SPEAKER AND COMMUNICATOR,
[00:21:25.517]AND I WAS -- I WOULD SAY EIGHT OR NINE YEARS OLD WHEN I STARTED
[00:21:30.122]TO LEARN ABOUT THE HISTORY OF HIP-HOP, OF RAP MUSIC,
[00:21:33.659]AND THE CULTURE OF HIP-HOP MORE BROADLY AS REVOLUTIONARY TOOL IN
[00:21:38.296]THE HANDS OF FOLKS, LIKE TALIB KWELI, KRS-ONE, YOU KNOW,
[00:21:43.368]FROM MY HOMETOWN, THE FLOBOTS, A BUNCH OF MY MENTORS,
[00:21:46.304]LIKE D.J. KAVIN, LIKE A BUNCH OF ARTISTS THAT WERE USING
[00:21:49.708]THIS PLATFORM OF HIP-HOP TO TELL STORIES,
[00:21:52.044]TO REPRESENT OUR COMMUNITY,
[00:21:53.745]TO OFTENTIMES MARGINALIZE BLACK AND BROWN COMMUNITIES TO BRING
[00:21:57.182]THOSE CONVERSATIONS TO THE FOREFRONT THROUGH OUR ART,
[00:22:00.752]THROUGH OUR MOVEMENT, AND WHETHER IT WAS DANCE BATTLES
[00:22:03.989]AND BREAK DANCING OR DEEJAYS SPINNING RECORDS,
[00:22:07.693]THERE WAS ENTIRELY DIFFERENT FEELING WHEN WE COMMUNICATED
[00:22:11.930]AND TOLD OUR STORIES THROUGH AN ARTFORM THAT ALLOWED US
[00:22:16.368]AND GAVE US A SPACE TO RECLAIM A BIT OF HOW OUR STORY
[00:22:19.871]WAS BEING TOLD FOR US.
[00:22:22.040]AND SO I STARTED MAKING BEATS WHEN I WAS 12 AND WRITING
[00:22:25.744]AND DOING SMALL THINGS HERE AND THERE.
[00:22:28.413]THAT HAS BEEN SO BEAUTIFUL TO SEE HOW LIKE THE JOURNEY AS AN
[00:22:30.916]ARTIST HAS RUN ABSOLUTELY PARALLEL TO BOTH THE WORK I'VE
[00:22:34.219]DONE POLITICALLY, THE WORK I'VE DONE WITH THE ORGANIZATION EARTH
[00:22:37.289]GUARDIANS, THE WORK THAT I'VE DONE TO SUPPORT SPACES
[00:22:41.493]FOR INDIGENOUS YOUTH LEADERSHIP TRAINING,
[00:22:44.062]AND I THINK ART AGAIN LENDS ITSELF AS A PLATFORM IN A WAY TO
[00:22:49.167]OBVIOUSLY LIKE, PORTRAY A MESSAGE IN A DIFFERENT WAY,
[00:22:52.270]BECAUSE WHEN YOU PLAY AT A SHOW IT'S VERY DIFFERENT THAN WHEN
[00:22:56.341]YOU GIVE THE TED TALK OR YOU SPEAK AT THE UNITED NATIONS
[00:22:59.444]THE WAY YOU CAN INTERACT WITH THE CROWD,
[00:23:01.379]THE WAY YOU GET IN THE CROWD AND ARE PERFORMING AND THE ENERGY,
[00:23:04.449]IT'S LIKE YOU CAN TRANSFORM A SPACE,
[00:23:07.619]BASED ON THE MUSIC THAT YOU'RE CREATING.
[00:23:09.755]AT THE SAME TIME, I THINK THE GREATER MESSAGE IS THAT YOUNG
[00:23:12.457]FOLKS, WHETHER YOU'RE WATCHING FROM HOME ON ZOOM
[00:23:15.260]OR YOU'RE IN THE ROOM RIGHT NOW OR YOU'VE SEEN VIDEOS OF ME
[00:23:17.796]OR HAVE HEARD OF THE WORK IN THE PAST, EACH AND EVERY ONE OF
[00:23:20.732]Y'ALL HAS SUCH A SIGNIFICANT ROLE TO PLAY IN SHAPING
[00:23:24.503]THE FUTURE, AND THAT DOESN'T MEAN THAT EVERY ONE OF Y'ALL
[00:23:28.240]HAS TO GO BE REVOLUTIONARIES AND COMPLETELY TRANSFORM OUR SOCIETY
[00:23:31.977]ON YOUR OWN.
[00:23:33.779]WHAT I'VE SEEN IS THAT EACH OF US HAS LIKE,
[00:23:37.883]SOMETHING WITHIN US THAT WE HAVE TO OFFER TO OUR WORLD,
[00:23:40.519]TO OUR GENERATION, TO THE MOMENT THAT WE ARE IN,
[00:23:43.455]THAT CAN HELP TURN THE TIDES OF WHERE WE'RE GOING.
[00:23:46.158]AND I'M NOT JUST TALKING LIKE ELECTING A DEMOCRATIC PRESIDENT,
[00:23:51.263]YOU KNOW, LIKE A DEMOCRAT PRESIDENT, YOU KNOW.
[00:23:53.465]I THINK IT GOES SO MUCH DEEPER THAN THAT.
[00:23:55.867]WHEN WE THINK ABOUT CULTURAL CHANGE,
[00:23:58.103]IT GOES BEYOND THE COLONIAL STRUCTURES OF LIKE,
[00:24:01.973]THE UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT AND REALLY GIVES US THE OPPORTUNITY
[00:24:06.444]AS THE INDIVIDUALS AND AS COMMUNITIES TO START TO
[00:24:09.881]IMAGINE A NEW FUTURE.
[00:24:11.783]AND THAT IS SOMETHING THROUGH MY ART AS WELL THAT HAS TAUGHT ME
[00:24:16.054]SO MUCH, -- WHAT MUSIC HAS TAUGHT ME SO MUCH IS HOW THE
[00:24:19.758]BEGINNINGS OF BUILDING AN ALTERNATIVE WORLD IS TO HAVE THE
[00:24:24.129]COURAGE TO IMAGINE ALTERNATIVES, IMAGINE ALTERNATIVES TO THE
[00:24:29.568]EXISTING WAYS IN WHICH POLICE FUNCTION IN OUR COMMUNITIES.
[00:24:33.238]IMAGINE ALTERNATIVES TO THE WAY THAT THE PRISON SYSTEM TAKES,
[00:24:36.975]YOU KNOW, MILLIONS OF OUR RELATIVES AND INCARCERATES
[00:24:39.911]PEOPLE AT SUCH ASTRONOMICAL RATES AND IS CONTROLLED AND
[00:24:44.015]PRIVATIZED IN SUCH AN INTENSE WAY OF HOW HEAVILY OUR
[00:24:46.818]COMMUNITIES ARE POLICED, OF HOW WE VALUE PROFITS AND THE
[00:24:51.590]BENEFITS OF SHAREHOLDERS OVER COMMUNITY WEALTH
[00:24:54.492]AND BUILDING A STRONG AND SUPPORTING STRONG FAMILIES
[00:24:57.395]AND ENSURING FOLKS HAVE ACCESS TO EDUCATION.
[00:25:00.332]IT'S REALLY BEING BRAVE ENOUGH TO IMAGINE SOMETHING
[00:25:03.902]BEYOND A SOCIETY.
[00:25:05.237]I WAS SPEAKING TO A GROUP OF A BUNCH OF NATIVE STUDENTS,
[00:25:08.240]DIFFERENT STUDENTS EARLIER TODAY,
[00:25:10.375]AND I WAS SAYING IT WAS A POINT IN HISTORY WHERE THE IDEA OF
[00:25:14.980]A WORLD BEYOND SLAVERY, YOU KNOW, IN THE UNITED STATES,
[00:25:20.285]A WORLD BEYOND SLAVERY SEEMED UNTHINKABLE TO MANY FOLKS,
[00:25:23.722]ESPECIALLY MANY WHITE FOLKS, WHO THEIR ENTIRE ECONOMY WAS BASED
[00:25:27.192]ON THE EXPLOITATION OF BLACK BODIES, YOU KNOW,
[00:25:30.795]OR THE IDEA OF A SOCIETY BEYOND BOARDING SCHOOLS FOR INDIGENOUS
[00:25:35.967]YOUTH, SPECIFICALLY SCHOOLS THAT SENT YOUNG INDIGENOUS YOUTH AWAY
[00:25:39.604]FROM THEIR COMMUNITIES TO INDOCTRINATE THEM,
[00:25:41.306]TO WHITEWASH THEIR CULTURE AND TO PLAY A PART IN
[00:25:44.142]ERASING THEIR IDENTITY.
[00:25:45.610]IT WAS A TIME IN OUR SOCIETY WHERE THE IDEA OF A WORLD BEYOND
[00:25:48.580]THAT WAS UNTHINKABLE.
[00:25:50.682]THERE WAS A TIME WHERE THE IDEA OF CHANGING THE WASHINGTON
[00:25:53.685]FOOTBALL TEAM'S NAME FROM THE RACIST SLUR THAT IT HAD BEEN FOR
[00:25:57.656]SO LONG, THE YEARS AND YEARS OF ORGANIZING THAT WE HAD DONE,
[00:26:00.926]THERE WAS A TIME WHEN WE THOUGHT THAT'S NEVER GOING TO HAPPEN.
[00:26:04.396]THAT'S IMPOSSIBLE.
[00:26:05.664]LIKE, "IT IS WHAT IT IS" AND SOME PEOPLE CLAIM THAT
[00:26:08.767]IT'S NOT THAT RACIST OR NOT ALL NATIVES ARE OFFENDED BY IT,
[00:26:11.770]HOWEVER IT IS THAT THEY SPIN THE NARRATIVE, RIGHT?
[00:26:14.105]WE ARE CONTINUING OVER AND OVER AGAIN TO SEE HOW MOVEMENTS,
[00:26:17.442]SPECIFICALLY MOVEMENTS THAT ARE LED BY THIS KEEN SENSE OF...
[00:26:24.316]IMAGINATION, GROUNDED IN REALITY,
[00:26:27.285]SHAPES AND TRANSFORMS THE FABRIC OF OUR COMMUNITIES,
[00:26:31.756]OF OUR POLITICS, OF OUR SOCIETY.
[00:26:38.263]AND THAT BRINGS ME TO THIS SUMMER I RELEASED A BOOK TITLED
[00:26:43.635]IMAGINARY WONDERS
[00:26:45.437]AND THIS BOOK IS A VERY SHORT READ.
[00:26:47.772]IT'S LIKE 60 PAGES.
[00:26:49.908]AND IT IS A VERY SUCCINCT, RAW REFLECTION OF HOW I SEE THE
[00:26:59.617]WORLD AND THE WAYS IN WHICH I KIND OF USE MY PERSONAL
[00:27:04.322]EXPERIENCE AS A YOUNG INDIGENOUS PERSON, AS A SON OF IMMIGRANTS,
[00:27:08.360]AS A MEXICAN AMERICAN, HOW I HAVE BOTH NAVIGATED THE WORLD
[00:27:14.733]AND UNDERSTOOD THE INTERCONNECTIONS BETWEEN
[00:27:17.369]THE ISSUES THAT HAVE DEFINED MY LIFE, THE CLIMATE CRISIS,
[00:27:22.807]MIGRATION, AND FAMILY SEPARATION,
[00:27:25.944]LOOKING AT SOCIAL JUSTICE AND HOW THAT IS WOVEN INTO THE WAY
[00:27:29.514]THAT MUST BE WOVEN INTO THE WAY THAT WE RESPOND TO THE CLIMATE
[00:27:32.951]CRISIS AND MUSIC AND ART.
[00:27:35.020]SO IT TAKES THESE BROAD CONCEPTS AND WEAVES THEM TOGETHER INTO
[00:27:38.857]THIS VERY IMPORTANT STORY.
[00:27:42.427]AND THIS SUMMER, THE IDEA OF BORDERS, OF HUMAN-MADE BORDERS,
[00:27:48.033]THE U.S.-MEXICO BORDER, THE SO-CALLED U.S.-MEXICO BORDER,
[00:27:51.336]BEING SOMETHING THAT CONNECTS SO MANY OF OUR MOVEMENTS
[00:27:53.872]LIKE, THAT CONCEPT BOTH CLARIFIED AND BECAME SO MUCH
[00:27:58.176]MORE IMPORTANT IN MY MIND, IN MY EYES,
[00:28:01.146]AND MY UNDERSTANDING WAS OPENED UP, TOO
[00:28:04.549]IN SUCH A SIGNIFICANT WAY BY A COUPLE THINGS.
[00:28:08.853]AND OBVIOUSLY OVER THE LAST SEVERAL YEARS OF A TRUMP
[00:28:12.424]ADMINISTRATION WE'VE WITNESSED JUST INSURMOUNTABLE AMOUNTS OF
[00:28:16.895]VIOLENCE TOWARDS OUR UNDOCUMENTED RELATIVES AND
[00:28:22.333]MIGRANTS AND ASYLUM SEEKERS AND FOLKS FROM LATIN AMERICA,
[00:28:29.174]YOU KNOW, MANY INDIGENOUS RELATIVES FROM LATIN AMERICA AND
[00:28:32.143]THE WAYS IN WHICH THEY HAVE BEEN TREATED, FAMILY SEPARATION,
[00:28:35.413]THE MASS RAIDS OF IMMIGRANT COMMUNITIES HERE
[00:28:37.782]IN THE UNITED STATES.
[00:28:39.684]I THINK, FOR ME AS, YOU KNOW, A MEMBER OF THAT COMMUNITY,
[00:28:43.121]IT'S BEEN A VERY VISCERAL THING TO WATCH FROM A DISTANCE,
[00:28:45.990]YOU KNOW, AND WATCH AS OUR COMMUNITIES ARE TERRORIZED BY
[00:28:49.127]THIS ADMINISTRATION, BY I.C.E.
[00:28:52.764]AND ANOTHER THING HAPPENED THIS SUMMER WHERE, YOU KNOW,
[00:28:55.667]THERE WAS A SIGNIFICANT MOVEMENT THAT HAS BEGUN IN TWO DIFFERENT
[00:28:59.537]INDIGENOUS NATIONS, ONE OF THEM IS THE ACOMA NATION
[00:29:03.007]WHICH IS AN INDIGENOUS GROUP THAT HAS EXISTED,
[00:29:05.443]THEIR TRADITIONAL HOMELANDS -- THEIR TRADITIONAL HOMELANDS
[00:29:08.413]RESIDE ON BOTH SIDES OF THIS HUMAN-MADE BORDER.
[00:29:12.317]AND THEY HAVE BEEN RESISTING VIOLENCE AND PERSECUTION OF
[00:29:16.955]EXISTING IN THESE TWO WORLDS, THESE SEPARATE,
[00:29:20.492]THESE IMAGINARY SEPARATE WORLDS, FIGHTING BACK AGAINST HOW
[00:29:24.896]COLONIALISM HAS CONTINUED TO IMPACT THEIR COMMUNITIES.
[00:29:28.032]AND ALSO THE KUMEYAAY NATION WHICH IS IN SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA
[00:29:32.303]AND THEY EXPERIENCED KIND OF THAT SIMILAR CRISIS WHERE THEY
[00:29:35.907]-- THERE WAS A LINE DRAWN IN THE SAND AND A WALL BUILT THERE
[00:29:38.776]WHERE INDIGENOUS FOLKS HAVE EXISTED ON BOTH SIDES
[00:29:41.746]OF THIS LINE FOR GENERATIONS.
[00:29:43.815]AND THE BUILDING OF TRUMP'S GENOCIDAL BORDER WALL HAS
[00:29:47.852]RESULTED IN A MASSIVE MOVEMENT OF RESISTANCE.
[00:29:53.424]I DON'T KNOW IF IT'S ACTUALLY MASSIVE.
[00:29:55.026]I THINK IT'S STILL BEEN MORE UNDERGROUND THAN OTHER
[00:29:58.196]INDIGENOUS LIBERATION MOVEMENTS THAT WE'VE SEEN IN RECENT
[00:30:00.832]HISTORIES, WHETHER THAT'S MONA KEA IN HAWAII TO PROTECT SACRED
[00:30:06.137]MOUNTAIN MONA KEA OR STANDING ROCK -- TO DEFENDING STANDING
[00:30:10.208]ROCK FROM THE BUILDING OF THE DAKOTA ACCESS PIPELINE.
[00:30:13.144]BUT STILL, THE MOBILIZATIONS OF INDIGENOUS RELATIVES ON THE
[00:30:17.382]GROUND THERE BUILDING STRONG COALITIONS AND MOVEMENTS TO
[00:30:20.718]DEFEND A LAND FROM THE ENCROACHMENT OF
[00:30:22.420]THIS BORDER WALL, THAT IS DESTROYING SACRED SITES,
[00:30:25.089]THAT IS DESTROYING SACRED SPRINGS,
[00:30:28.326]AND THAT'S WHAT I MEAN WHEN I TALK ABOUT OUR CULTURAL SURVIVAL
[00:30:32.797]IS TIED TO THE LAND, IS TIED TO THE WATER,
[00:30:36.034]AND I'M NOT JUST LIKE MAKING THAT UP OR SAYING THAT
[00:30:38.469]BECAUSE I READ THAT SOMEWHERE.
[00:30:40.071]YOU SEE IN THESE STRUGGLES FOR SOVEREIGNTY,
[00:30:43.541]THESE STRUGGLES FOR INDIGENOUS FOLKS,
[00:30:46.411]FIGHTING FOR OUR RIGHT TO SELF-DETERMINATION,
[00:30:49.948]THAT YOU KNOW, OUR -- THESE STRUGGLES ARE SO TIED TO THE
[00:30:54.219]LAND AND THE WELL-BEING OF OUR COMMUNITY OFTENTIMES ARE
[00:30:57.689]CREATION STORIES, THE STORIES THAT GROUND OUR IDENTITIES
[00:31:01.726]AS INDIGENOUS PEOPLE ARE VERY CONNECTED TO PLACE,
[00:31:05.330]VERY CONNECTED TO PLACES ON THE LAND, TO BODIES OF WATER.
[00:31:10.368]I THINK IT'S A PERFECT EXAMPLE OF HOW RELATIVES HAVE BEEN
[00:31:13.738]ORGANIZING AT THE BORDER AND DOING THIS WORK AND TELLING A
[00:31:17.308]STORY THAT SAYS WE'RE NOT JUST FIGHTING FOR OUR COMMUNITIES
[00:31:20.678]OR OUR LAND OR OUR RESERVATION OR OUR SACRED SITES,
[00:31:24.916]BUT WE UNDERSTAND THAT THE ISSUE OF THE HUMAN-MADE BORDER
[00:31:27.452]CONNECTS AND WEAVES TOGETHER SO MANY DIFFERENT ISSUES FROM THE
[00:31:32.090]SEPARATION OF FAMILIES IN THE UNITED STATES AND HOW WE'VE SEEN
[00:31:35.727]THAT IMPACT SO MANY FAMILIES, BOTH AT THE BORDER AND ALL
[00:31:39.897]ACROSS THE SO-CALLED UNITED STATES.
[00:31:43.434]AND I WAS REALLY LIKE, BLESSED TO CREATE BOTH A SONG AND VIDEO
[00:31:49.040]THAT KIND OF CAME OUT AROUND THIS TIME, TITLED, LO CIELO,
[00:31:52.777]WHICH MEANS THE SKY, AND IN SPANISH,
[00:31:56.314]AND THE VIDEO REALLY -- THE SONG EXPLORES MY EXPERIENCE, AND,
[00:32:02.720]YOU KNOW, OUR FAMILY'S STORY IN CONNECTION TO FAMILY SEPARATION
[00:32:07.158]AND NOT SO EXPLICITLY BUT MORE ARTISTICALLY THAT REALLY LOOKS
[00:32:10.295]AT HOW LOVE, I'VE WITNESSED THAT IN MY LIFE BE SOMETHING THAT IS
[00:32:15.767]CONNECTED US AND CARRIED US THROUGH SO MANY OF THESE VERY
[00:32:20.938]CHALLENGING MOMENTS, SOMETHING THAT HAS OVERCOME THESE
[00:32:24.042]HUMAN-MADE BORDERS, AND SO THAT THE STORY THAT I TELL IN THAT
[00:32:28.012]SONG, IN THAT VIDEO, CONTINUE TO EXPLORE THIS IDEA OF FAMILY
[00:32:32.450]SEPARATION AS SOMETHING THAT HAS AFFECTED MY COMMUNITY,
[00:32:35.586]THAT HAS AFFECTED MANY UNDOCUMENTED COMMUNITIES,
[00:32:37.588]IMMIGRANT COMMUNITIES, AND AS WELL AS THE ENTIRE BLACK LIVES
[00:32:41.826]MATTER UPRISING, THE UPRISING TO DEFEND BLACK LIFE THAT HAS KIND
[00:32:46.798]OF TAKEN PLACE OVER THE LAST SEVERAL MONTHS.
[00:32:49.434]WE ARE SEEING HOW THAT IN ITSELF HAS ALSO BEEN A WAY IN WHICH
[00:32:55.373]WE CAN COMMUNICATE AROUND UNDERSTANDING FAMILY SEPARATION,
[00:32:59.344]HOW POLICE VIOLENCE PLAYS A ROLE IN SEPARATING FAMILIES,
[00:33:02.447]SEPARATING FATHERS FROM THEIR CHILDREN,
[00:33:04.215]SEPARATING CHILDREN FROM THEIR MOTHERS,
[00:33:06.250]SEPARATING FAMILY MEMBERS FROM ONE ANOTHER.
[00:33:08.786]I THINK THE CONNECTION BETWEEN SO MANY OF THESE ISSUES
[00:33:12.724]ARE SO IMPORTANT.
[00:33:14.525]AND ESPECIALLY WHEN WE'RE TALKING ABOUT THE CLIMATE
[00:33:16.227]CRISIS, I THINK WE STAND TO USE THIS AS ONE OF THE GREATEST,
[00:33:25.570]MOST CONNECTING ISSUES OF OUR TIME.
[00:33:29.674]AND THE WAYS IN WHICH IT TOUCHES ON SO MANY OTHER SOCIAL ISSUES
[00:33:35.046]GIVES US, I THINK, SIMILAR TO THIS PANDEMIC ACTUALLY GIVES US
[00:33:38.316]AN OPPORTUNITY TO REALLY RETHINK,
[00:33:40.284]HOW DO WE WANT TO RE-IMAGINE OUR SOCIETY AS WE GO FORWARD
[00:33:43.421]IN THE WORLD, AS WE BUILD INTO THE FUTURE?
[00:33:48.159]THIS PANDEMIC HAS ALSO EXPOSED AND MADE IT SO EXPLICITLY CLEAR
[00:33:52.964]HOW CONNECTED AND REALLY HOW OUR GOVERNMENT AND HOW SO MANY OF
[00:33:57.268]THESE SYSTEMS THAT ARE IN PLACE DO NOT ACTUALLY EXIST TO VALUE
[00:34:02.073]OR PROTECT HUMAN LIVES, OR TO PROTECT OUR COMMUNITIES,
[00:34:06.911]YOU KNOW, WHEN THE RATES OF INFECTION AND THE DEATH TOLLS,
[00:34:11.849]ESPECIALLY IN BLACK AND BROWN COMMUNITIES,
[00:34:13.584]ESPECIALLY IN INDIGENOUS COMMUNITIES,
[00:34:15.953]SHOWS THAT THE SETTLER STATE CAN CONDONE AND ALLOW THIS KIND OF
[00:34:21.058]VIOLENCE TO HAPPEN AGAINST OUR PEOPLES,
[00:34:23.528]WHILE STILL ALLOWING THE BIGGEST CORPORATIONS IN THE COUNTRY TO
[00:34:25.930]CONTINUE TO GROW SIGNIFICANTLY, AND TO -- THAT THE PROFIT
[00:34:30.701]MARGINS TO CONTINUE TO GROW, THE DISPARITY CONTINUE TO GROW WHILE
[00:34:33.871]FOLKS DON'T HAVE ACCESS TO HEALTHCARE, JOBS, CLEAN WATER,
[00:34:38.976]LIKE FOLKS IN THE NAVAHO NATION AND INDIGENOUS COMMUNITIES
[00:34:42.213]THAT LIKE STRAIGHT UP CAN'T WASH THEIR HANDS,
[00:34:44.715]THAT DON'T HAVE THE ABILITY TO TAKE THE SAME KIND OF SAFETY
[00:34:46.717]PROTOCOLS BECAUSE OF THE WAYS IN WHICH OUR COMMUNITY FROM
[00:34:50.054]THE JUMP HAS BEEN SO DIRECTLY IMPACTED BY THE LIKE,
[00:34:55.593]"PROGRESS AND GROWTH" THAT THIS NATION HAS GONE THROUGH,
[00:34:59.163]THAT HAS REALLY BENEFITED A VERY SELECT GROUP OF THE POPULATION.
[00:35:04.402]AND SO THE CLIMATE CRISIS AGAIN I THINK CAN BE A DOORWAY
[00:35:08.739]THAT WE WALK THROUGH.
[00:35:11.075]IT CAN HELP US INTO THE FUTURE IN A WAY WHERE WE LOOK AT
[00:35:15.780]ADJUSTING THE CLIMATE CRISIS, NOT JUST FROM A STANCE OF SOLAR
[00:35:19.417]PANELS, AND WIND TURBINES AND CARBON REMOVAL AND CARBON
[00:35:22.453]DIOXIDE BUT REALLY FROM A PLACE OF UNDERSTANDING,
[00:35:25.690]RE-IMAGINING ECONOMIES, PUTTING MILLIONS OF PEOPLES TO WORK IN
[00:35:29.894]REBUILDING OUR INFRASTRUCTURE IN THIS COUNTRY,
[00:35:33.064]BECAUSE THE FOSSIL FUEL EMPIRE, THE FOSSIL FUEL ECONOMY HAS
[00:35:35.967]PROVEN TIME AND TIME AGAIN TO ONLY BENEFIT VERY FEW PEOPLE.
[00:35:40.371]AND WHEN WE LOOK AT WHO NEEDS TO BENEFIT FROM THE TRANSITION OF
[00:35:44.509]OUR ENERGY ECONOMY, IT CAN'T JUST BE FOLKS LIKE ELON MUSK WHO
[00:35:48.613]IS SELLING TESLAS TO PEOPLE AND BIG ENERGY COMPANIES.
[00:35:52.116]IT HAS TO BE INDIVIDUALS.
[00:35:53.985]IT HAS TO BE FOLKS THAT HAVE ACCESS TO AN OWNERSHIP OVER OUR
[00:35:57.388]OWN ENERGY GRIDS, AND I THINK WHEN WE IMAGINE THE FUTURE,
[00:36:01.759]THE GREEN NEW DEAL IS ONE FRAMEWORK AND ONE WAY OF LOOKING
[00:36:04.929]AT HOW WE IMPLEMENT A JUST TRANSITION AWAY FROM
[00:36:07.865]FOSSIL FUELS.
[00:36:09.800]WE ARE LOOKING AT AGAIN, A VERY SMALL TIMELINE,
[00:36:14.105]A VERY SHORT JOURNEY AHEAD OF US,
[00:36:18.509]THAT IS GOING TO BE LIKE TEN YEARS THEY'RE GOING TO PASS IT,
[00:36:21.078]LIKE THAT.
[00:36:22.847]SO WE VIEW THIS MOMENT THAT WE ARE IN AS A GENERATION
[00:36:30.354]POLITICALLY, SOCIALLY, THIS PANDEMIC, I MEAN, FOR REAL,
[00:36:35.993]EVERYTHING IN 2020 HAS BEEN LIKE SO MANY LAYERS TO ADD UPON THE
[00:36:41.666]ADVERSITY WE ARE ALREADY FACING.
[00:36:45.036]IT COMES DOWN TO WHAT WILL WE HAVE THE COURAGE TO BUILD
[00:36:51.375]AND TO TAKE POWER IN A REALLY SIGNIFICANT WAY,
[00:36:56.247]MORE THAN RELYING ON THE ESTABLISHMENT POLITICAL SYSTEM
[00:37:00.685]TO DICTATE OUR FUTURE.
[00:37:03.087]I THINK THIS WHOLE -- I'VE SEEN SO MUCH CONVERSATION IN
[00:37:08.259]INDIGENOUS COMMUNITIES AND JUST ACROSS THE BOARD ARE FOLKS LIKE
[00:37:11.262]PUSHING PEOPLE TO GET OUT AND VOTE,
[00:37:13.531]AND I THINK IT'S IMPORTANT.
[00:37:14.765]I THINK IT'S ALL GREAT.
[00:37:16.300]AT THE SAME TIME, WE LIKE, ENGAGE IN OUR DEMOCRACY
[00:37:20.571]AT THIS LEVEL OF PARTICIPATING IN SELECTING OUR LEADERS,
[00:37:25.309]SELECTING POLITICIANS.
[00:37:27.345]WE HAVE TO UNDERSTAND THAT THE WORK GOES AND MUST GO
[00:37:29.814]DEEPER THAN THAT.
[00:37:31.215]TRANSFORMATIVE RADICAL, POWERFUL CHANGE HAS ALWAYS COME FROM
[00:37:35.286]THE BOTTOM UP, HAS COME FROM INDIVIDUALS
[00:37:37.722]ORGANIZING THEIR COMMUNITIES, ORGANIZING THEIR FAMILIES,
[00:37:42.326]ORGANIZING THOSE AROUND THEM TO DEMONSTRATE AS THE MAJORITY,
[00:37:47.465]AS THE PEOPLE, WE ARE HERE.
[00:37:50.801]WE WILL NOT BE IDLE AS THE WORLD FALLS APART AROUND US,
[00:37:55.139]AS OUR COMMUNITIES ARE NEGLECTED, AND FRANKLY,
[00:37:59.210]NOT PRIORITIZED IN THE DEVELOPMENT OF THIS WORLD.
[00:38:03.514]AND I THINK ONE THING THAT WE LEARNED FROM INDIGENOUS
[00:38:05.216]COMMUNITIES TIME AND TIME AGAIN IS THAT THERE IS THIS ABILITY TO
[00:38:09.820]EXIST IN BALANCE, THAT WE CAN HAVE AND BUILD A FUTURE WHERE
[00:38:16.727]OUR ECONOMIES DO NOT RELY ON THE EXPLOITATION AND EXTRACTION OF
[00:38:22.466]COMMUNITIES OF PEOPLE, OF WORKERS, OF MOTHERS,
[00:38:26.337]OF CHILDREN, OF BLACK, BROWN, AND INDIGENOUS BODIES,
[00:38:30.908]WHERE WE CAN HAVE -- WE CAN HAVE THRIVING ECONOMIES AND A
[00:38:33.944]THRIVING SOCIETY, AND PRESERVE AND PROTECT THE LAND THAT IS,
[00:38:39.950]YOU KNOW, WE ONLY HAVE MORE THAN A COUPLE CHANCES,
[00:38:45.389]AND I THINK WE'RE LIKE, SLOWLY GETTING CLOSER TO
[00:38:49.293]THIS TIPPING POINT.
[00:38:50.728]AND THIS CROSSROADS, WHERE WE WOULD DECIDE KIND OF WHICH WAY
[00:38:54.598]THE FUTURE RUNS, AND I THINK EVERY ELECTION, EVERY DECISION,
[00:38:57.868]EVERY VOTE, EVERY TIME WE CHOOSE TO POLITICALLY ENGAGE OR EVERY
[00:39:02.773]TIME WE CHOOSE TO ORGANIZE, EVERY TIME WE CHOOSE TO USE
[00:39:05.009]OUR VOICE, THAT CAN HAVE SIGNIFICANT IMPACTS
[00:39:08.079]ON THE DIRECTION THAT WE GO.
[00:39:10.014]AND WHAT I'VE WITNESSED FROM DOING THIS FROM SUCH YOUNG AGE
[00:39:13.384]IS YOUR VOICE REALLY MATTERS.
[00:39:16.287]AND I THINK EVEN IF YOU DON'T HAVE AN AUDIENCE OF A THOUSAND
[00:39:19.724]PEOPLE OR THE GLOBAL LIKE, ASSEMBLY AT THE UNITED NATIONS,
[00:39:24.328]OR MAYBE NOT SPEAKING TO WORLD LEADERS.
[00:39:27.064]SOME OF THE MOST POWERFUL AND LIKE DEEPLY NECESSARY
[00:39:32.703]CONVERSATIONS BEGAN BETWEEN TWO PEOPLE,
[00:39:35.606]BEGAN WITH YOU ENTERTAINING THE IDEA WITH YOU'RE YOUR HOMIES OF
[00:39:40.211]A VISION DIFFERENT FROM THE WORLD THAT EXISTS RIGHT NOW.
[00:39:44.081]AND SO EARTH GUARDIANS FOR ME HAS BEEN AN ORGANIZATION AND
[00:39:47.118]A SPACE AND A PLATFORM TO HELP KIND OF TAKE SO MANY OF THESE
[00:39:51.021]IDEAS AND APPLY THEM TO STARTING TO BUILD ALTERNATIVES
[00:39:55.059]TO WHAT EXISTS AROUND US.
[00:39:56.660]AND I THINK PART OF ONE OF THE PROGRAMS THAT I'VE BEEN SO
[00:39:59.764]INSPIRED TO BE ENGAGED WITH IS THE INDIGENOUS YOUTH LEADERSHIP
[00:40:03.434]PROGRAM THAT WE BEGAN IN 2019, WHERE WE BROUGHT 30 NATIVE YOUTH
[00:40:07.271]FROM ALL OVER NORTH AMERICA, AND WE BROUGHT TRAINERS,
[00:40:11.375]FRONT LINES, ACTIVISTS, ORGANIZERS, STORY TELLERS,
[00:40:15.679]PEOPLE THAT HAVE BEEN WORKING IN MANY DIFFERENT SECTORS TO COME
[00:40:18.015]AND TEACH AND TRAIN, HOLD SPACE FOR THESE YOUNG PEOPLE.
[00:40:21.852]I THINK IN MANY OF OUR NONWHITE COMMUNITIES THERE ARE LOTS OF
[00:40:24.922]LAYERS OF HISTORICAL AND ANCESTRAL TRAUMA THE YOUNG
[00:40:28.993]PEOPLE ARE VERY MUCH SO DEALING WITH TO THIS DAY,
[00:40:31.962]VERY MUCH SO CONTINUING TO BATTLE WITH AND AS WE HAVE VERY
[00:40:35.399]EXISTENTIAL CONVERSATIONS ON HOW DO WE PROTECT OUR COMMUNITIES
[00:40:38.102]FROM THESE PIPELINES AND FROM THE EXPLOITATION OF OIL AND FROM
[00:40:41.672]THE EXPANSION OF NATURAL GAS EXTRACTION AND FRACKING?
[00:40:44.708]HOW DO WE ALSO ENSURE THAT THESE CONVERSATIONS ARE ABOUT
[00:40:49.380]HEALING FOR US?
[00:40:51.782]BECAUSE LIKE THESE -- WE RE-IMAGINE A FUTURE,
[00:40:55.019]IT CAN'T JUST BE ABOUT CARBON EMISSIONS AND ENERGY,
[00:40:57.288]IT HAS TO BE ABOUT BUILDING AND ENSURING THAT WE CARVE A SPACE
[00:41:01.625]IN THE WORLD FOR A THRIVING COMMUNITY FOR OUR PEOPLE,
[00:41:04.495]FOR OUR LAND.
[00:41:06.397]I'VE BEEN REALLY HUMBLED BY THE JOURNEY OVER THE LAST YEAR OF
[00:41:09.266]HOW MUCH I'VE BEEN ABLE TO LEARN FROM MY PEERS,
[00:41:11.869]FROM OTHER YOUNG NATIVE ORGANIZERS AND LEADERS IN THIS
[00:41:14.772]SPACE, THAT HAVE SO MUCH TO SAY, THAT HAVE SO MUCH TO SHARE,
[00:41:18.275]AND CONTINUE TO AFFIRM THIS BELIEF THAT THERE IS A WORLD
[00:41:23.080]BEYOND LIKE THE SOUTHERN COLONIAL INSTITUTIONS,
[00:41:25.983]THAT OFTENTIMES BIND US, AND KEEP US SO SILENCED,
[00:41:31.488]SO DISEMPOWERED, BEYOND THESE ELECTIONS,
[00:41:34.725]BEYOND LIKE BEYOND THE UNITED STATES, YOU KNOW,
[00:41:39.897]BECAUSE THIS IS A YOUNG -- A VERY YOUNG COUNTRY
[00:41:43.534]THAT HAS NOT EXISTED FOR VERY LONG.
[00:41:44.935]AND I THINK A LOT IS GOING TO HAVE TO CHANGE ABOUT HOW WE
[00:41:48.005]OPERATE AND HOW WE EXIST, AND I THINK ONE OF THE MOST IMPORTANT
[00:41:51.141]THINGS IS THE WORK WE DO FROM HERE FORWARD IS GROUNDED IN A
[00:41:54.044]PLACE OF LOVE, BECAUSE FURTHER THAN RAGE, FURTHER THAN ANGER,
[00:41:59.850]FURTHER THAN PAIN, FURTHER THAN THE TRAUMA THAT MANY OF OUR
[00:42:03.454]COMMUNITIES FEEL, FURTHER THAN THE FEAR OF WHAT THE FUTURE MAY
[00:42:06.690]BE, OF THE UNCERTAINTY, I THINK THAT THERE IS POWER IN BEING
[00:42:11.295]GROUNDED IN FIGHTING FOR AND MOVING THROUGH THE WORLD
[00:42:17.301]ANCHORED IN WHAT WE LOVE AND UNDERSTANDING WHAT IT IS THAT
[00:42:22.306]WE'RE STANDING TO PROTECT.
[00:42:24.141]WHEN I GO AND GET TO GO HOME AND BE WITH MY SIBLINGS,
[00:42:27.011]MY LITTLE COUSINS, I'M REMINDED OF WHY I'M DOING THIS WORK AND
[00:42:32.449]WHY FOR ME IT IS BIGGER THAN ONE ELECTION OR BIGGER THAN
[00:42:35.986]ONE POLITICAL MOMENT, BIGGER THAN ONE ACTION,
[00:42:39.690]AND THAT WE DO THIS BECAUSE THERE IS SO MUCH TO FIGHT FOR.
[00:42:44.461]THERE IS SO MUCH LEFT TO DEFEND.
[00:42:46.330]AND BECAUSE FOR GENERATIONS OUR ELDERS AND OUR ANCESTORS HAVE
[00:42:49.233]BEEN DOING THE WORK, HAVE BEEN PUTTING IN THE WORK SO THAT WE
[00:42:52.002]COULD EXIST HERE TODAY TO BE ABLE TO HAVE THESE CONVERSATIONS
[00:42:55.506]TO ANSWER AND ASK THESE QUESTIONS, TO FAIL, TO STUMBLE,
[00:42:58.342]TO FALL, TO HUMBLY KNOW THAT WE HAVE NO IDEA WHAT WE'RE DOING
[00:43:02.746]BUT AT DIFFERENT POINTS WE FEEL THAT,
[00:43:06.583]WE FEEL LOST AND WE FEEL CONFUSED AND TO KNOW THAT
[00:43:09.286]IT'S OKAY TO ASK FOR HELP, TO ASK OUR ANCESTORS FOR HELP,
[00:43:12.423]TO ASK OUR COMMUNITY MEMBERS AND OUR RELATIVES FOR HELP,
[00:43:15.259]AS WE CONTINUE THIS WORK, TO PUSH FOR LIKE, A MORE JUST,
[00:43:21.031]EQUITABLE, AND SUSTAINABLE WORLD.
[00:43:23.300]AND ONE THING I ENCOURAGE FOLKS TO DO IS REALLY UNDERSTAND HOW
[00:43:26.537]YOUR STRUGGLE AND HOW THE ISSUES THAT CONNECT YOUR LIFE HOW THAT
[00:43:30.107]CONNECTS YOU TO THE WORLD.
[00:43:31.809]HOW THAT CONNECTS YOU TO OTHER PEOPLE AND OTHER FOLKS
[00:43:33.811]THAT DON'T LOOK LIKE YOU.
[00:43:35.245]YOU KNOW, IF YOU -- BECAUSE I THINK THERE'S SO MUCH MORE
[00:43:38.682]THAT BINDS US TOGETHER THAN SEPARATES US.
[00:43:41.418]WE ARE -- OUR FUTURE WILL NOT BE DEFINED BY OUR HISTORY OF
[00:43:45.956]COLONIZATION IN THIS COUNTRY, A HISTORY OF VIOLENCE,
[00:43:49.293]A HISTORY OF EXPLOITATION.
[00:43:50.561]I THINK OUR HISTORY WILL BE DEFINED BY OUR COLLECTIVE
[00:43:53.597]LIBERATION, WHEN WE THINK ABOUT LIBERATION FOR OUR BLACK
[00:43:56.967]RELATIVES, THOSE CONVERSATIONS HAVE TO BE WOVEN INTO AND MIRROR
[00:44:03.540]SO MUCH OF WHAT WE TALK ABOUT WHEN WE TALK ABOUT INDIGENOUS
[00:44:05.743]SOVEREIGNTY, THE REPARATIONS AND ENSURING THAT LAND IS RETURNED
[00:44:10.381]TO INDIGENOUS FOLKS, THE STEWARDSHIP OF LAND AND THE
[00:44:14.251]DISTRIBUTION OF POWER HAPPENS IN A WAY WHERE
[00:44:16.720]INDIGENOUS COMMUNITIES GET TO DECIDE FOR THEMSELVES.
[00:44:19.623]HOW WE DEVELOP OUR LANDS, HOW WE AND WHEN WE DEVELOP NATURAL
[00:44:23.360]RESOURCES AND THAT RELATIONSHIP IS RESTORED, THE POWER OF THOSE
[00:44:26.997]RELATIONSHIPS ARE RESTORED TO INDIGENOUS COMMUNITIES.
[00:44:29.666]WE ARE IN A VERY, VERY CONFUSING POLITICAL MOMENT,
[00:44:32.336]AND I THINK IF WE'VE LEARNED ANYTHING,
[00:44:36.006]IT'S THAT THIS IDEA OF CENTRISM BEING SOMETHING THAT CAN UNITE
[00:44:40.978]US, A SLOW INCREMENTAL REFORMS BEING GOOD ENOUGH TO MOBILIZE
[00:44:48.919]MASSES, LIKE, I THINK THIS ELECTION IN 2016 ALSO LIKE,
[00:44:53.223]SHOWED US THAT'S NOT ENOUGH.
[00:44:56.026]THAT'S NOT ENOUGH TO INSPIRE THE MASSES, TO TURN OUT TO VOTE.
[00:44:59.163]IT'S NOT ENOUGH TO -- THIS IS NOT A STRONG ENOUGH STORY TO --
[00:45:04.268]FOR US TO ACCEPT THAT TO BE HOW WE ARE WRITING THE FUTURE,
[00:45:07.037]HOW WE ARE WRITING THE STORY OF WHAT THE FUTURE WILL BE.
[00:45:10.574]SO WE HAVE A VERY BEAUTIFUL, COMPLICATED,
[00:45:13.877]LONG JOURNEY AHEAD OF US AND I'M REALLY GRATEFUL TO BE WALKING
[00:45:17.748]THIS ROAD AND BEING IN THESE CONVERSATIONS
[00:45:19.850]WITH SO MANY OF Y'ALL.
[00:45:21.819]OTHER LEADERS, OTHER ORGANIZERS, OTHER PEOPLE THAT HAVE JUST PUT
[00:45:24.922]SO MUCH EFFORT INTO ENSURING THAT OUR FUTURE, YOU KNOW,
[00:45:30.861]EXISTS IN A GREATER LIGHT THAN WHAT WE SEE RIGHT NOW.
[00:45:33.597]AND I'M EXCITED TO BE SHARING SOME OF MY ART,
[00:45:36.533]SOME OF MY MUSIC, THAT VIDEO I REFERENCED EARLIER,
[00:45:39.436]LOOKING AT BORDERS, AT MY FAMILIAL EXPERIENCE WITH FAMILY
[00:45:42.806]SEPARATION, I'M REALLY EXCITED TO BE SHARING KIND OF A COLLAGE
[00:45:47.077]OF DIFFERENT PIECES THAT WE'VE CREATED THE LAST YEAR OR TWO.
[00:45:51.248]I ENCOURAGE YOU ALL TO DANCE.
[00:45:52.649]I DON'T KNOW WHAT THE VIBES ARE RIGHT NOW IN THE BUILDING,
[00:45:55.385]FOLKS PROBABLY HAVE THEIR MASKS ON,
[00:45:56.987]AT A SAFE DISTANCE FROM ONE ANOTHER,
[00:45:59.323]IF YOU WANT TO STAND UP, MOVE AROUND,
[00:46:01.558]I THINK THESE KIND OF DIGITAL CONFERENCES AND WAYS OF
[00:46:05.729]CONNECTING ARE ALWAYS A LITTLE DIFFICULT BUT I ENCOURAGE YOU TO
[00:46:08.599]LISTEN TO THE MESSAGE, LISTEN TO THE STORY BEHIND THE WORDS,
[00:46:12.402]TAP IN.
[00:46:13.804]AND UNDERSTAND THAT YOU KNOW JUST IN THE WAY THAT HIP-HOP AND
[00:46:16.206]ART AND MUSIC FOR ME IS HOW I COMMUNICATE THROUGH THIS WORK,
[00:46:20.244]COMMUNICATE THESE STORIES AND THESE MESSAGES,
[00:46:22.646]LIKE EVERY ONE OF YOU ALL HAS A SPACE THAT EXISTS FOR YOUR STORY
[00:46:26.250]AND YOUR VOICE TO BE HEARD.
[00:46:28.352]AND WE HAVE A LOT OF WORK TO DO THROUGH THESE ELECTIONS,
[00:46:31.054]BEYOND THESE ELECTIONS, BEYOND THIS POLITICAL WORK THAT IS
[00:46:37.628]OFTEN HEAVY AND I STOPPED GOING TO THE UNITED NATIONS A COUPLE
[00:46:41.565]YEARS AGO, BECAUSE THAT SPACE WAS NOT CONDUCIVE TO, I THINK,
[00:46:46.637]THE VISION THAT I HAVE AND THAT I THINK THAT MANY OF MY PEERS
[00:46:51.375]HAVE IS FURTHER THAN THESE SLOW, INCREMENTAL PERIODIC REFORMS
[00:46:56.947]THAT THESE GOVERNMENT INSTITUTIONS WILL LIKE HAND-FEED
[00:47:00.884]US BIT BY BIT WHEN IN REALITY WE NEED A MASSIVE TRANSFORMATION
[00:47:04.655]AND I THINK THAT BEGINS WITH PEOPLE,
[00:47:06.123]THAT BEGINS WITH COMMUNITIES, AND AGAIN,
[00:47:08.325]I'M GOING TO REITERATE THAT I THINK MUST BE AND CAN BE
[00:47:11.428]GROUNDED IN A PLACE OF LOVE FOR ONE'S SELF, FOR ONE ANOTHER,
[00:47:14.798]FOR OUR COMMUNITY, FOR OUR LAND, AND THIS IS VERY,
[00:47:18.669]I THINK, A LOVING UNDERSTANDING THAT THE FUTURE IS
[00:47:21.038]INTERSECTIONAL, THE FUTURE OF THESE ISSUES MUST REFLECT ONE
[00:47:23.907]ANOTHER, THE FUTURE OF OUR COMMUNITIES MUST HOLD SPACE
[00:47:26.443]FOR ONE ANOTHER.
[00:47:28.345]I ENTER THE FUTURE WITH A SENSE OF OPTIMISM,
[00:47:30.347]WITH A SENSE OF HOPE.
[00:47:31.882]I THINK MY BOOK IMAGINARY BORDERS IS A GOOD STARTING PLACE
[00:47:35.085]FOR ANYBODY WHO IS REALLY CURIOUS ABOUT
[00:47:36.987]THESE CONVERSATIONS OF INTERSECTIONALITY AND OF HOW
[00:47:39.756]REALLY SEEING YOUR STORY TAPPED INTO AND CONNECT WITH
[00:47:42.759]MANY AROUND YOU.
[00:47:44.561]AND THAT'S AVAILABLE AT BOOKSTORES EVERYWHERE.
[00:47:46.697]PREFERABLY DON'T BUY IT AT AMAZON,
[00:47:48.131]BUT WHATEVER YOU HAVE TO DO TO GET IT DELIVERED.
[00:47:52.603]AGAIN, I WANT TO SAY THANK YOU FOR THE LAND THAT I STAND UPON
[00:47:56.106]FOR THE SPIRITS OF THIS PLACE, THE ANCESTORS OF THIS SPACE.
[00:48:00.811]I WISH YOU ALL A WONDERFUL EVENING.
[00:48:02.579]THANK YOU FOR HAVING ME PART OF THIS AND I LOOK FORWARD TO Y'ALL
[00:48:06.250]GETTING TO ENJOY AND PEEP SOME OF THESE VIDEOS AND SOME OF THIS
[00:48:09.319]MUSIC THAT WE SHARED WITH Y'ALL TO WATCH AFTER THIS.
[00:48:11.989]SO AGAIN, THANK YOU ALL.
[00:48:14.391]AND KEEP WALKING GROUNDED AND UNDERSTANDING THAT THE FUTURE
[00:48:17.461]THAT WE BUILD MUST BE GROUNDED IN LOVE.
[00:48:20.597]THANK YOU.
[00:48:32.109]>> THANK YOU FOR THAT, XIUHTEZCATL.
[00:48:34.111]WE STILL HAVE A CONCERT, BUT I WANTED TO ALLOW OUR AUDIENCE
[00:48:37.814]A FEW QUESTIONS.
[00:48:39.316]AGAIN, IF YOU HAVE QUESTIONS FOR XIUHTEZCATL,
[00:48:42.119]YOU CAN SUBMIT THE QUESTIONS VIA TEXT BY SENDING A MESSAGE TO
[00:48:46.089]THE NUMBER 22333 AND THEN IN THE SUBJECT LINE PUT "ENT918"
[00:48:55.465]AND THIS WILL ALLOW YOU TO SEND US A MESSAGE.
[00:48:58.535]OR YOU CAN GO ONLINE TO pollev.com/ent918.
[00:49:07.411]WE ALREADY HAVE SOME QUESTIONS FOR XIUHTEZCATL.
[00:49:11.348]THIS IS PATRICE McMAHON, AND THE FIRST QUESTION IS -- THIS IS --
[00:49:16.486]YOUR TALK WAS JUST PERFECT FOR THE SERIES THAT WE HAVE THIS
[00:49:19.423]YEAR AND THE TITLE OF OUR SERIES IS REGENERATION,
[00:49:23.093]LEADERSHIP AND HOPE FOR A CHANGING PLANET.
[00:49:26.063]SO, WHEN DID YOU FIRST REALIZE THAT YOU COULD BE PART OF THE
[00:49:30.300]SOLUTION AND THAT YOU WERE MEANT TO BE AN ENVIRONMENTAL LEADER?
[00:49:37.174]>> YEAH, THAT'S A GREAT QUESTION.
[00:49:38.742]I LOVE THAT THEME, TOO.
[00:49:40.110]I THINK REGENERATION IS SUCH AN INCREDIBLE CONVERSATION,
[00:49:45.982]THAT I THINK GOES BEYOND SUSTAINABILITY.
[00:49:48.985]I THINK THERE IS SO MUCH ABOUT THE CURRENT WORLD THAT IS NOT
[00:49:51.888]WORTH SUSTAINING, THAT WE HAVE A LOT OF WORK TO DO TO REGENERATE
[00:49:57.027]MUCH OF WHAT HAS BEEN LOST, AND I --MY WORK AS AN
[00:50:00.430]ENVIRONMENTALIST, YOU KNOW, OR I GUESS IN THE ENVIRONMENTAL
[00:50:03.667]CLIMATE SPACE, JUST WAS INNATE, A LOT OF IT WAS INHERENT TO MY
[00:50:10.006]IDENTITY, TO HOW I GREW UP.
[00:50:12.075]MY FATHER WOULD -- WE WOULD GO AND SPEND SO MUCH TIME IN THE
[00:50:15.045]MOUNTAINS AND IN THE FORESTS OF COLORADO AND THAT WAS ONE OF THE
[00:50:18.315]BIGGEST PRIVILEGES OF GETTING TO LIVE IN BOULDER WAS JUST
[00:50:22.786]THE ACCESS TO NATURE.
[00:50:24.421]EVEN EVERYWHERE WE TRAVELED TOO, WE WERE ALWAYS OUTSIDE,
[00:50:27.657]AND THESE TEACHINGS, WE WOULD GO OUT IN THESE PLACES AND WE WOULD
[00:50:30.460]LOOK AT EVERYTHING FROM LIKE THESE BEAUTIFUL SCENERIES
[00:50:32.662]TO STOP BY A LITTLE STREAM, YOU KNOW,
[00:50:36.032]OR LIKE ANTS CRAWLING ON THE GROUND,
[00:50:38.935]RAIN FALLING FROM THE SKY, AND IT WAS TEACHINGS THAT MY DAD
[00:50:41.671]WOULD TALK TO ME ABOUT, LIKE THIS IS SACRED.
[00:50:45.008]THIS IS A GIFT.
[00:50:46.676]LIKE, LOS SIMPLES QUE VES A TU ALREDEDOR SON UN REGALO,
[00:50:51.181]THE SIMPLE THINGS YOU SEE AROUND YOU ARE GIFTS.
[00:50:55.419]AND SO I THINK A LOT OF MY INCLINATION TO USE MY VOICE AND
[00:51:01.057]TO SHARE MY STORY CAME FROM THE BELIEFS THAT I CULTIVATED AT A
[00:51:05.362]YOUNG AGE, THAT THERE WAS SO MUCH BEAUTY IN OUR WORLD THAT
[00:51:09.499]WAS NOT SEPARATE FROM ME, THAT I HAD A RESPONSIBILITY TO HELP
[00:51:12.803]ENSURE THAT THOSE THINGS EXISTED IN A GOOD WAY FOR MY CHILDREN,
[00:51:16.339]MY GRANDCHILDREN, THE NEXT GENERATION SO YOUNG NATIVE KIDS
[00:51:20.076]THAT GET TO EXPLORE THESE PLACES AND BE FREE IN THE WAY
[00:51:24.281]THAT I WAS ABLE TO FREELY WALK ON THIS EARTH.
[00:51:27.517]GOOD QUESTION.
[00:51:28.218]THANK YOU.
[00:51:29.486]>> THANK YOU.
[00:51:31.521]EVERY SOCIAL MOVEMENT NEEDS ALLIES.
[00:51:33.690]WHO HAVE BEEN YOUR SURPRISING ALLIES,
[00:51:37.427]PEOPLE OR GROUPS THAT YOU DIDN'T EXPECT TO SUPPORT YOU?
[00:51:50.474]>> THAT'S GOOD -- PEOPLE AND GROUPS -- I MEAN,
[00:51:53.510]I THINK IT'S REALLY INTERESTING, I THINK IT'S REALLY LIKE,
[00:51:57.547]I'M HYPED TO SEE SO MANY OF THE KIDS I GREW UP WITH AND LIKE
[00:52:01.117]FRIENDS FROM BACK HOME THAT YOU KNOW I'VE BEEN DOING THIS WORK
[00:52:05.121]FOR SO LONG, I'VE ALWAYS BEEN THAT KID IN MY FRIEND GROUP
[00:52:07.557]WHO'S JUST LIKE, DOWN ON THE FRONT LINES,
[00:52:09.793]TRAVELING ALL THE TIME, TALKING ABOUT THIS STUFF AND HAVING
[00:52:12.429]THESE CONVERSATIONS, AND IT'S REALLY TIGHT TO SEE THE HOMIES
[00:52:16.800]FROM BACK HOME REALLY PUTTING ON AND EDUCATING THEMSELVES AND
[00:52:19.636]UNDERSTANDING, YOU KNOW, THESE MOVEMENTS AND THESE MOMENTS
[00:52:22.439]WE'RE IN, ESPECIALLY AROUND EVERYTHING THAT BLEW UP
[00:52:25.942]AROUND BLACK LIVES MATTER, AND, YOU KNOW,
[00:52:29.379]WHEN GEORGE FLOYD WAS MURDERED, LIKE I THINK WOKE UP A LOT IN A
[00:52:33.416]LOT OF PEOPLE AND A LOT OF -- I JUST SAW A LOT OF MY --
[00:52:37.420]THAT BE A MOMENT WHERE A LOT OF MY FRIENDS GOT POLITICIZED
[00:52:40.357]AND GOT RADICALIZED AND THE REALITY OF THE ISSUES,
[00:52:43.260]REALITY OF POLICE VIOLENCE BECAME SO MUCH MORE PRESENT.
[00:52:48.798]SO I THINK JUST LIKE, YEAH, HOMIES FROM BACK HOME,
[00:52:51.201]PEOPLE I WOULD NOT HAVE EXPECTED TO DIVE INTO THIS STUFF,
[00:52:54.604]MY PEERS, RANDOM KIDS I WENT TO HIGH SCHOOL WITH,
[00:52:57.307]HITTING ME UP LIKE BRO, HOW DO I GET INVOLVED?
[00:52:59.609]HOW DO I USE MY VOICE?
[00:53:00.944]CAN I TAP IN?
[00:53:02.312]I APPRECIATE WHAT YOU'RE DOING.
[00:53:04.281]AND EVEN JUST WATCHING THEM ON THEIR OWN SOCIAL MEDIA PAGES
[00:53:07.017]BEING LIKE, YO, WHAT THE HECK IS GOING ON?
[00:53:08.952]LIKE I DIDN'T KNOW ABOUT ANY OF THIS.
[00:53:11.021]I DON'T REALLY UNDERSTAND ABOUT THE PRISON INDUSTRIAL COMPLEX IN
[00:53:13.356]THIS WAY AND EVERYBODY SHARED MEMES ABOUT IT, SO I DON'T KNOW,
[00:53:16.560]I THINK THAT'S ONE SPACE I'VE SEEN FOLKS REALLY SHOW UP,
[00:53:20.263]THAT I WASN'T REALLY EXPECTING.
[00:53:22.532]IT HAS BEEN A REALLY PLEASANT SURPRISE.
[00:53:24.467]>> GREAT.
[00:53:25.569]AS YOU KNOW INDIGENOUS PEOPLE IN THE U.S.
[00:53:27.571]HAVE BEEN HIT VERY HARD BY COVID-19.
[00:53:30.840]WHAT CAN YOU SAY ABOUT THIS SITUATION,
[00:53:33.143]ABOUT WHAT'S HAPPENING, AND WHAT SHOULD BE DONE?
[00:53:37.681]>> ABSOLUTELY.
[00:53:39.215]THERE IS SO MUCH NEED TO PRIORITIZE AID FOR THE
[00:53:43.019]COMMUNITIES THAT ARE BEING HIT THE HARDEST.
[00:53:45.989]AND IF YOU LOOK AT HOW THESE BUDGETS ARE BEING DRAWN UP AND
[00:53:50.060]EXECUTED, IT'S MILLIONS AND MILLIONS OF DOLLARS OF BAILOUT
[00:53:53.330]FOR BIG CORPORATIONS, AIRLINES, FOSSIL FUEL COMPANIES,
[00:53:59.202]AND PEOPLE ARE JUST MAKING DECISIONS POORLY.
[00:54:01.471]AND LIKE, PUTTING OUT THESE PLANS, YOU KNOW,
[00:54:04.608]UNDERSTANDING THAT WE'RE GOING INTO A RECESSION,
[00:54:09.312]AND THE ECONOMY IS GOING TO BE HIT REALLY HARD THAT SO MUCH OF
[00:54:12.082]OUR LIVES ARE GOING TO BE IMPACTED,
[00:54:14.084]AND THERE ARE FOLKS IN INDIGENOUS COMMUNITIES
[00:54:16.252]SPECIFICALLY WHO ARE REALLY SUFFERING THE HIGHEST IMPACTS,
[00:54:21.725]SO MANY EXISTING ISSUES FROM POVERTY,
[00:54:25.462]TO LOW ACCESS TO HOUSING, LIKE WE GOT TEN, 12,
[00:54:28.732]15 FAMILY MEMBERS IN ONE HOUSEHOLD BECAUSE OF A VARIETY
[00:54:32.469]OF DIFFERENT REASONS THAT YOU KNOW THE U.S.
[00:54:35.038]HAS NOT PLAYED ITS ROLE, HAS NOT UPHELD ITS RESPONSIBILITY,
[00:54:37.741]HAS NOT HONORED THE TREATIES, YOU KNOW,
[00:54:41.144]RESPECTING THESE SOVEREIGN NATIONS.
[00:54:43.313]AND ANOTHER THING IF YOU LOOK AT NORTH DAKOTA,
[00:54:44.781]TOO DIFFERENT RESERVATIONS AND DIFFERENT TRIBAL COMMUNITIES IN
[00:54:48.652]NORTH DAKOTA, THEY HAVE TOOK IT UPON -- [ INAUDIBLE ].
[00:55:20.517]YOU KNOW, LIKE POLITICIANS AND RESPECTING THE SOVEREIGNTY OF
[00:55:25.755]THESE COMMUNITIES TO DEFEND THEMSELVES FROM THE PANDEMIC.
[00:55:29.459]AND FAILING TO HELP DELIVER AID TO THESE YOUTH IN THESE TIMES,
[00:55:35.498]AND RISK THE SOVEREIGNTY OF THESE COMMUNITIES ARE ALLOWED
[00:55:39.002]AND A LOUD VERY LARGE GATHERING OF TRUMP SUPPORTERS AT
[00:55:48.445]MOUNT RUSHMORE HAPPENED I THINK FOURTH OF JULY WEEKEND.
[00:55:54.250]HUGE PROTEST THAT HAPPENED THERE.
[00:55:55.785]SO I THINK ( inaudible ).
[00:56:07.897]>> WELL, THANK YOU FOR YOUR QUESTIONS.
[00:56:10.700]AND I THINK GIVEN THE SITUATION, WE'LL STOP THE QUESTIONS THERE
[00:56:15.305]AND THANK YOU ALL FOR ATTENDING E.N. THOMPSON'S
[00:56:19.309]-- THE E.N. THOMPSON FORUM ON WORLD ISSUES.
[00:56:21.978]WE WILL HAVE A CONCERT TO FOLLOW,
[00:56:24.948]AND I ALSO WANTED TO REMIND YOU THAT WE WILL HAVE OUR FIRST EVER
[00:56:29.652]STUDENT-ORGANIZED PANEL ON FEBRUARY 23.
[00:56:34.758]SO THANK YOU ALL FOR COMING.
[00:56:37.727]HAVE A NICE EVENING, AND THANK YOU XIUHTEZCATL MARTINEZ.
[00:56:41.931]THANK YOU.
[00:56:44.367][ APPLAUSE ]
[00:56:49.405]♪ ♪
[00:57:52.302]>> WHEN I WAS A LITTLE BOY, MY FATHER TAUGHT ME SOMETHING ABOUT
[00:57:54.404]OUR LEGACY.
[00:57:55.772]IN A WORLD WHERE CITIES FALL, AND THE EARTH CHANGES,
[00:57:58.074]AND LEADERS ARE OVERTHROWN, AND PEOPLE LEFT BEHIND,
[00:58:01.177]ALMOST EVERYTHING AROUND US ISN'T PERMANENT.
[00:58:03.446]EVERY BREATH WE TAKE.
[00:58:05.348]OUR ANCESTORS TAUGHT US THAT ALTHOUGH OUR PEOPLE WERE
[00:58:07.984]COLONIZED, OUR TEMPLES DESTROYED AND OUR CEREMONIES FORBIDDEN,
[00:58:12.188]OUR LEGACY WILL LIVE ON IN FLOWERS AND SONGS,
[00:58:16.960]IN THE HEARTS OF THE PEOPLE.
[00:58:19.662]WE GET TO MAKE THE CHOICE WHETHER OR NOT WE LEAVE
[00:58:21.664]ANYTHING BEHIND.
[00:58:23.967]SO WE WRITE THIS MUSIC IN HOPES WE'LL BE REMEMBERED FOR IT.
[00:58:27.604]THAT THE STORIES WE TELL WILL OUTLIVE US.
[00:58:30.473]THAT THESE LYRICS WILL BE SUNG BY ANOTHER GENERATION.
[00:58:33.977]THIS ART IS A BEACON.
[00:58:35.845]THIS MUSIC HAS SAVED ME MULTIPLE TIMES AND I KEEP BREATHING SO
[00:58:38.448]THAT ONE DAY MAYBE I CAN SAVE SOMEONE ELSE.
[00:58:41.918]I'M ON A STAGE SO THAT THE BRIEF SPARK OF MY LIFE DOESN'T GO OUT
[00:58:46.289]WITH THE HIGHLIGHTING OF THE WORLD FIRST.
[00:58:48.324]IN HONOR OF THOSE THAT CAME BEFORE US
[00:58:50.460]AND THOSE THAT WILL FOLLOW.
[00:58:56.299]LIGHT.
[00:59:00.937]SONGS.
[00:59:11.314]LEGACY.
[00:59:24.227]♪ ♪
[00:59:40.209]>> LOVE IS REAL, LOVE IS FAST.
[00:59:43.012]LOVE IS CONFUSING.
[00:59:46.449]TIME IS TOO.
[00:59:47.884]TIME IS REAL, TIME IS FAST.
[00:59:50.787]TIME IS BENDING.
[00:59:55.425]LOVE IS REAL, LOVE WILL LAST.
[00:59:58.328]LOVE IN UNENDING.
[01:00:02.265]HEARTS BREAK TOO.
[01:00:03.633]TIME IS REAL, TIME WILL LAST.
[01:00:06.169]TIME IS UNENDING.
[01:00:11.140]( rapping )
[01:01:57.113]>> THIS MUSIC SETS ME FREE.
[01:02:04.720]THERE WAS A FORK IN THE ROAD AND I CHOSE MY DESTINY.
[01:02:11.894]AND I HAVE NOT LOOKED BACK SINCE THAT DAY.
[01:02:19.335]CAUSE I CAN HEAR THE WORLD CALLING MY NAME.
[01:02:26.476]CAUSE I CAN HEAR THE WORLD CALLING MY NAME.
[01:02:34.383]( rapping )
[01:03:04.147]>> WHO WILL I BECOME?
[01:03:05.481]WILL I ESCAPE THE PERSON THAT I'M RUNNING FROM?
[01:03:07.049]YEAH.
[01:03:08.317]>> WILL I ESCAPE THE PERSON THAT I'M RUNNING FROM?
[01:03:20.029]♪ ♪
[01:05:46.609]♪ ♪
[01:06:03.926]♪ ♪
[01:06:17.540]( rapping )
[01:08:17.359]♪ ♪
[01:10:49.612]♪ ♪
[01:10:58.787]( rapping )
[01:12:17.566]♪ ♪
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