i was wandering the crowd pretty much all day. it was one of the most moving experiences i have had in politics. it took young people to shake up a blocked and stale debate. it took young people to move us off in weird second amendment abo abstractions. i thought you say it in the themes of this in different speeches. emma gonzalez reminding us of the seriousness, why people were there, the long silence was so powerful. naomi, an 11-year-old saying that this is a multi-racial movement. reminding us the inner city kids killed. gun control is no longer a suburban issue the way it was cast. cameron, matt today, laying out concrete demands. this is not about we want something vague. no. they were very specific demands
i saw a tweet. one tweet that stuck with me. b bah the person wrote. violence isn t working. nonviolence isn t working. what will? there is frustration. they re out there being peaceful. what s that going to get them. ferguson didn t get you anything. but is being peaceful? awe f peace doesn t work. we have to be clear what we mean by peace and a lack of peace. a lack of peace doesn t mean violence. when people are out in the streets shutting down highways making a national spectacle of this. they re drawing attention to anner to. we wouldn t be talking about michael brown or airing garner if not for the civil unrest. to that extent we are in the right place. but the question is after they do the protest, what kind of organized response do we want. what demand do we set, otherwise we become the occupy movement. we ll stand in front of the building until capitalism end. good luck with that. we need concrete demands. police oversight. community control of police. citizen review board.
that there s going to reach a point where this movement has to have a specific set of concrete demands. he proposes some very specific ones, you know, that were passed over in financial regulation by congress. why don t you talk about the three he meant. i thought they were great. what i want to say first, though, it s interesting to me how everybody s jumping on this movement. first, every movement in history that happens. you go back to the civil rights movement, sds in the 60s. not disparaging, just that it needs to go to the next level. but everybody says that at the beginning. look at the tea party at this point. it was a bunch of people walking around with tea bags on their hats. all kinds of demands. it wasn t until the summer and the town hall protests to begin to find its focus. and it was centrally funded and coordinated by dick armey and others. this is a much more loosely
videos of sometimes tense exchanges in which clinton suggests that the activists need to come up with concrete demands if they hope to accomplish anything. at times her advice seems to back fire. watch this. if you don t tell black people what we need to do then we won t tell you all what you need to do. i m telling you to tell me. what i mean to say is that this has and always been a problem of violence. there s not much that we can do to stop the violence against us. i understand what you are saying. respectfully if that is your position then i will talk only to white people about how we are going to deal with a very real problem. that s not what i mean. what you just said what the black lives matter movement needs to do i don t believe you change
videos of sometimes tense exchanges in which clinton suggests that the activists need to come up with concrete demands if they hope to accomplish anything. at times her advice seems to back fire. watch this. if you don t tell black people what we need to do then we won t tell you all what you need to do. i m telling you to tell me. what i mean to say is that this has and always been a problem of violence. there s not much that we can do to stop the violence against us. i understand what you are saying. respectfully if that is your position then i will talk only to white people about how we are going to deal with a very real problem. that s not what i mean. what you just said what the black lives matter movement needs to do i don t believe you change