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American working people out in the streets finally, nonviolently, but using voice, anger, that is what america is about. i ve been telling people for 30 years, people need to get in the streets, they notice it. i m standing here, ground zero for this whole illegal immigration insanity. it is illegal immigrants other key word is illegal. if i hear we are anti-immigrant protesters, i will lose my mind. it is not about that. why is this ground zero and the whole country, this is first spot they slam illegal immigration shelter and smack dab in the middle of a middle class working class neighborhood across the street, look where my fingers are pointing. you have this facility with 90% of them dropped off by young ....
On our democratic values b people who are behaving in desperate ways because the know they are losing the argument they re on the right wrong sid of the gun safety issue. let s not forget the context i which all this happened. i m afraid that too often we get caught up in the political conversation, the back and forth in america sometimes, an we forget about what is at stake. we fail to center the people s concerns six people were killed in school trusted with the care of our children, and out of tha tragedy, you saw citizens stan up in the best of the american tradition trying to assemble peacefully, nonviolently, an rather than responding to th violence in the classroom with common sense gun safety laws we saw these legislators respond in a most draconia ways against those who wer nonviolently protesting. ....
School three of them precious littl children and then three others who were trusted with the care of our children and out of that tragedy, you saw citizens stand up in the best of the american tradition trying to assemble peacefully, nonviolently, and rather tha responding to the violence i the classroom with common sens gun safety laws, we saw thes legislators respond in a mos draconian ways against those who were nonviolentl protesting and so i do think that there i precedent here, to answer your question julian bond was a youn legislator, elected to the georgia legislature at a different time, and there were those who didn t like what h was saying at the time and so they decided that the were going to somehow usurpe the peoples will, they refused to see him the supreme court found them t be in the wrong position, an so he was seated ....
And rather to respond with common sense gun safety laws, we saw these legislators respond in the most draconian ways against those nonviolently protesting. i do think there s precedent here to answer your question julian bond was a young legislator elected to the legislature at a different time, and there were those that didn t like what he was saying at the time so they decided they were going to usurp the peoples will. the supreme court found them to be in the wrong position and so he was seated. whether it means standing up against partisan or racial gerrymandering or the inordinate impact of dark money in our politics or voter suppression or the games partisan actors play, in my own runoff election this past season i had to sue the secretary of state i had to sue state officials so ....
Fighting and that s the reality we believe it s still possible even in a state like this, tha real gun reform legislatio that protects communities, tha protects schools, is possible. joining me now is senator raphael warnock, a democra from georgia senator, it was hard just to sit there and realize, let i sink in, what has happened i the last 36 hours. what is your reaction to all o it well, it s deeply painful and like americans, and people all of goodwill across tennessee, across the country, i was deeply disturbed by what i witnessed and i think it s important for us to keep all o this in perspective. we must not forget that all of this happened on the heels o the unthinkable. nine-year-olds slaughtered in school, along with those charged with the care of those nine-year-olds, at a school ru by a church. and in the wake of that, american citizens stood up protesting and calling on thei legislators to respond and rather than the legislatur responding to the violence they decided ....