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The news continues here on the ill just, they are off to generation change states youve been searching. Bye for now. Is frank assessments 3000000000. 00 . Is it going to be enough to get focused on the economy back on track . The short answer is no informed opinions for those who are attempting to flee to chat. How dangerous is that . The journey is incredibly difficult for many people to manage to get out. But its a great cost in depth analysis of the days headlines, questions really . Who controls what goes on an outer space in the future will be governments for wont be big part of corporations and individual super wealthy billionaires inside story on challenges era the generation divide isnt a miss Young Millennials engines. These are wrong was no striving for increment of change. They are fighting from those radical policies because they see that was falling apart from Climate Change to crushing student debt. Young people are taking more forceful positions and they expect foster as well come to generation change where we attempt to understand and challenge the ideas that are mobilizing the youth around the was this week we talk to 2 young people who are fighting Police Brutality in the us, they use different tools and strategies, but they have the same end goal, Racial Justice the which is a diverse in community. How does that trip your experiences . I am the daughter of immigrants, which is something that i talk about a lot. My family is from jamaica and so growing up and seeing, you know, a lot of the struggles with being 1st generation american, my mom had a really difficult time finding a saw within our or k for me, my sisters c l 0. And so i ended up having to travel about 40 minutes every day to get to school was the majority white neighborhood. And so i remember always asking, you know, why is it that most of my classmates are way hers when i go back home. My neighbors are, are glad for emily. Current community is, you know, and so certain things that i was able to fully understand that until i got older and understood the history of you as the your 24. And youve already graduated from Columbia University where you started a non profit for women of color, coal re believe. And youre also one of the youngest in turns in obama, as whitehouse your most well known as the co founder of freedom march in new york city. Tell me a little bit more about it. I was out on the ground in brooklyn and was seeing, you know, that a lot of processors were out. And were looking for organizers and, oh, you saw was that there was a lot of confusion. And so we created freedom are generally safe voices and to see how many people you know came together and sit in solidarity. And since that day weve been on the front lines ever since you dedicated your life to the fight for Racial Justice. Have there been any personal costs for yourself . You always have to make the decision that when the bell rings, what exactly is going to be your response . A lot of people say, you know what i have done during this, so right seems man, in my answer is always whatever youre doing right now. Grateful to the able to read my own organization. That is black woman, lad. I am a force and he reckoned with on the front lines. Its not always leverage. Its not always easy. Its actually very tiring. But it has been an incredible journey and will continue to be an incredible journey. The you grew up in a mixed race family and you talk publicly about the discrimination that you faced in school and in your neighborhood going off. One of my earliest memories is actually the house, about 5 or 6 years old, being beaten up in a bathroom by some other kid who can call me the n word. I cant remember anything earlier than that, and that is something that still impacts. And you also grew up in orlando, florida, which is 15 minutes from sun for the rectory, one modern and skilled in 2012. I saw myself in trouble. You know, it was a kid who was at the city bus home. The bus will drop me off about a mile away from the house. And i would walk that mile every single day after school, and thats what happened, a trademark. She was stopped by George Zimmerman, and then the criminal Justice System can do anything to hold George Zimmerman accountable. So that was the last straw for me. What is the importance of data in the side for Racial Injustice . In 2014 ferguson, half the price of service this was 1. 00 of the sort of flash point where the nation came focused on police file. It became clear that there was very little data produced by the federal government to help us understand the problem. For me, that meant that 1st thing is to get the data instead of 11 police file. And since im half the day, quite simply visualizes people who are killed by police. The goal is to demonstrate assistance. Indeed, a nationwide problem that requires a systemic solution. The working to renew the Racial Injustice for a while. Now, have there been any personal costs to you . Absolutely. My work is literally compiling reading through analyzing and figuring out how to tell a story about cases of people who have been killed by the news and otherwise its hard to impart because these are lives. These are people, his instrument deals with families. So theyre also been physical threats as well. Right . So you know, ive had the guy show up at my door, then i was starting to get threats. Messages e mails as a young black man in his work like i am constantly up against institutions and system is that im much more powerful and yet you know, time and time again, im reminded that this work skills remains important. Thats why the work samuel and chelsea. Thank you so much for being here today. The 1st question id like to ask both of you. Do you think our generation is more politically active than the generations before . And how are approaches different. I disagree with the fact that were more politically active this generation. If you look at history, then you know even the civil rights movement, there were a gang leaders who are on the front lines for that as well. John lewis was 23 when hes spoken to march on washington. Martin luther king organize that. A very young age. I think what were seeing now is in the midst read of a digital age where social media so easily at everyones disposal, that it is a tool kit in ways that we havent seen before. Historically, to democratize information to share resource says and ultimately to sales community. And i think thats what happened this past summer with the george wide process. But i also think that that is really indicative of the power of Community Building and Coalition Building that were seeing with the gen z and millennial generations. So just to be care your seeing that often ration is not more politically active. But what were doing is were using Digital Tools to tools to organize and ways the generations before, didnt have the opportunity to absolutely correct. Samuel, how would you respond to that . I agree wholeheartedly. With that, i think you look just at the sheer number of protests that occurred since the ferguson uprising in 2014 and then again after the murder of george floyd and minneapolis, its a scale that this nation has never seen before. You know, we have in terms of organizing, you know, we were learning from organizing all across the world to figuring out how to use limited resources, but access to technologies, access to a phone, access to twitter, but just allow us to go further to go faster to organize more quickly and on a scale that hasnt been passed, what is digital organizing . Then . Digital organizing is how do we actually mobilize and online people skills their talent, their energy, and theyre concerned about this issue with the actions that can make the biggest difference towards ending Police Violence towards changing the systems and structures that we produce. Police fonts and cities across the country. And chelsea how are using that in your work . Digital organizing is how freedom march and why is the came to be right . It was through a friend and i coming together and saying that there wasnt enough organized process taking place in new york city, but then its translating that into action items. So what does that be signing petitions, whether that be getting people to come on the ground or thatd be sharing and disseminating information, which is really important, especially in the age of miss information. And so we had our online classes. We had virtual trainings, we had seminars, we had panels, and so it was through that sharing of information that ultimately led to the spread of freedom march n, y c. And as of growing so rapidly during the summer and you brought up the misinformation. So lets, lets touch on that a little bit. While technology and social media has made it easier for us to mobilize, but it has also led to an increase puerto ization in the country. How do you deal with the distrust in facts . One is sort of radical transparency, so you know, youre in my work. Since 2014 is really has been focused on collecting, analyzing, and story telling, using data to better understand the issue, police fonts across the country. Where are some of the hot spots . A police file and where are the places that are actually making progress towards reducing Police Violence and what are some of the policy and system of changes that can be effective in reducing Police Shootings . Police is a force Racial Disparities and policing. And in the context of that work, and you mentioned this information, there are a set of, ill call them its and this is this information to, to meet this information, but it pre dates and sort of the new round of some social media. What are these and thats can you name . I think there are a set of minutes around policing that have been around for centuries and really trace back to slavery. Right . This idea of black criminality. This idea that the police are not doing anything wrong, they are merely encountering people who are inherently violent and inherently violent places, which are often cold birds, which are racist code words, that narrative is pernicious. It exists across the political spectrum. And so part of it is how do we use the tools available to us data, data visualization, organizing, policy making to effectively and directly dismantle those minutes. And because ultimately these mishap power, the history of our current policing institution was that it was initially created as a slave catching institution. And so when we talk about and doing so many years, right, us to stomach racism, we talked about the fact that still rights movement, truthfully never ended. It had just taken on an different forms. Understanding the data is important, but also understanding that there of course is that intentionality, right . To suppress information. And there is a reason for that. Chelsea, what is the funding, the police this idea around the funding, the please. Lets be very clear. Its a spectrum. Its not a yes or no conversation, especially because the fund and why p d has literally been use as a sensationalizing way to really polarize the country. And in reality, when you kind of break down what the funding, the police really means is reallocating Police Resource is reallocating community resources. There is an urgent need to re imagined Public Safety and to dramatically shift and how we approach Public Safety away from the actual policing based approach and towards investing in a Community Based approach in is not a not responding to communities would file it. So what are the new ways of imagining safety that you know, our generation are talking about is how do we protect our communities and what does it look like to envision a place where we take the resources that are ultimately present in deeming our young people as criminal and putting that money and that funding into resources for our education institutions and putting that money into health care. Right. And so for us to really understand this, its 1st and foremost understand the history. Its to understand tracing of of the money, right in the budget, especially in new york with a lot of the work that we did this past summer around the conversations around the funding. And why p d d funding . The police, which really just translates to how do we make sure that were putting the resources back into our communities. Just to get a scale of how big i want people to know. One does a police watch and look like in different cities. The total amount of money spent on the police, about 11000000000. 00, spelling the n y, p d h here, which is the most of any local Law Enforcement agency or in the country. But you know, city of city, Police Departments are a huge expenditure. So in places like oakland, it can be up to 40 percent of the citys general fund that is spent on policing, which far eclipse is the amount of money spent on, lets say new jobs programs. If investments in Mental Health as a response to Mental Health crises and the types of things that are actually, you know, far better approaches that are not violent approaches to some of the issues that police are currently responding to. Only about 4 percent of the total amount of time and officer spends about typical shift is responding to a violent crime. So again, what police are spending their resources doing is not about responding to file a crime. Its not about keeping people safe from harm. Is about a whole host of other things that are not about Public Safety and actually on to your appointment, exacerbate the problem, respond with a violence to people who are going through are going to struggles are going through poverty are going through homelessness, are going through Mental Health crises, this is something where we need to re imagine what the response to these issues is, but to get there and we have to deem bonke and dismantle dismiss that police as an institution exist to keep people safe because the data just simply doesnt support how can they fix it and they need it in the media . It looks like answering the call to action that so many people have been saying since this past summer and true, please hold for such a long time. It looks like thinking about how do we have more programs like whats being scaled and bringing a Mental Health professionals on the ground with Police Officers. It looks like perhaps completely right and not having Police Officers be the 1st response to every situation that takes place for having the opportunity to call health professionals. And im coming in. It looks like funding adequately our education system, right . All of these things are very tangible. Next steps that we can take. And really what were asking for is a re imagining of how do we go about addressing the needs of our communities and doing so in a way that pushes the conversation forward. And theres nothing radical about that. Is there data then to prove that the funding, the police is more effective . What we can show with the data is that there are cities that have begun to pilot alternative responses to some of the things that police traditionally have responded to. In a way, they actually are piloting a correspondent program, which is not as good as having just a Mental Health provider. But this is the Mental Health provider sort of takes the lead, the police play back up and they sort of sit back. What is interesting about the program is the l. A Sheriffs Department which which ones of programming in collaboration with the county Mental Health providers. And they actually found a report last year where they reviewed the program and they admitted the Sheriffs Department admitted that they would have been used for us an additional 600. 00 and more time. And they would have shop for more people if theyre having a band or Mental Health provider on the same di, escalating the situation. And thats the police saying that, right . So you can imagine th