2017 Significant Speeches and Videos

“White Privilege” @WANPOETRY

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John Oliver Accurately Explaining Trump’s “dog whistle politics” media strategies, of “delegitimizing the medial, what-aboutism, and trolling”

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Boston counter protest to a white supremacy rally

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After a white supremacist during a “Unite the Right” rally in Charlottesville ran a car into anti-white supremacist protestors, killing one person and injuring 20, activist decide to tear down a Confederate statue in Durham, NC as an act of civil disobedience against the government sanctioned rewriting of American history

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Mayor Mitch Landrieu’s 2017 address on the importance of the removal of four New Orleans confederate statues, against active and violent resistance , created in the “Lost Cause of the Confederacy” White Washing Era

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Women’s Viral Speech about When you voted for Trump, you have to know that you voted the same way as the KKK

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Constituent reacts at a Townhall for GOP Representative Tom MacArthur, who authored the MacArthur Amendment, which allowed the the 2017 GOP Healthcare Bill that cut 800 billion in medicaid for rich tax cuts, to move forward by allowing states to overturn ACA (Obamacare) protections, such as the ban on insurance companies using pre-exisitng conditions to charge high rates, drop and refuse coverage.

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Sabaah Folayan’s documentary “Whose Streets?” about the black resistance against the systemic racial suppression of the Ferguson Police & US police system

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Activist Valarie Kaur Speech at the National Moral Revival Poor People’s Campaign Social Justice Watch Night Service

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Speech from Saru Jayaraman from Restaurant Opportunity Center (ROC) and their campaign, One Fair Wage Campaign talking about Restaurant Worker Rights

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Neil deGrasse Tyson Warns the Rising GOP Science Denial Could ‘Dismantle’ Democracy

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Rev. William Barber, founder of Moral Mondays, Speech at 2017 United Steelworkers Convention

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Urgent Message from Standing Rock as Police Surround Their Camp

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Leah Penniman (Soulfire Farm) speaks at the Holyoke Food Justice Conference

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Rev. William Barber, founder of Moral Mondays, speech about hope in the face of a Racist Trump presidency

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“Stranger Things” SAG awards acceptance speech during nationwide protests against Trump’s Muslim Immigration and Refugee Ban

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Poet Nina Mariah reading her poem, “Nasty Women” which became a highlight speech of the 2017 DC Women’s March

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Short clip of the life of the 16 year old Palestinian activist Ahed Tamimi and her activist family living under Israel occupation. Ahed was sentenced to 8 months for slapping a Israel soldier after they shot her 15 year old cousin in the head. Read about the Palestinian struggles and resistance here.

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MILCK singing “I cant Keep Quiet” at the 2017 Women’s March on Washington

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Maya Angelou, “And Still I Rise” remastered for the 2017 Skoll World Forum

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Inside the organization of Black Lives Matter‘s inauguration day protests

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One of the many remixes of Richard Spencer, president of the National Policy Institute, a white nationalist think-tank who has been organizing Neo-Nazi rallies in support of Trump’s Election, gets punched by a Black Bloc protestor