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Premieres Monday, March 20, 2023 at 11 p.m. on KPBS TV / PBS App. Meet activist Ruby Duncan, who led a grassroots movement of mothers who challenged presidents, the Vegas mob, and everyday Americans to fight for a universal basic income and rethink their notions of the "welfare queen."
will be another innocent black person that was killed by police. sometime in the near future, and we hope that law enforcement moves quickly in order to punish them. that s the part that i think is still so difficult to handle. to swallow, to just abide by the notion that this violence continues. maybe the circumstances around it can be made better. and we cannot do it police department by police department, state by state. it must be federal law. that is why i said what i said, reverend jackson told me, you have to change the laws. we were raised in this. her father was george wiley, he had a national welfare rights organization. i was raised in a bread basket. we were taught, drilled in this, because we don t get anything out of this other than to try to do what is right. what is right is to change the law. otherwise, 20 years from now, what did we have? a lot of things that achieved nothing, but fundamentally changed how society operates,
that s the part that i think is still so difficult to handle. to swallow, to just abide by the notion that this violence continues. maybe the circumstances around it can be made better. and we cannot do it police department by police department, state by state. it must be federal law. that is why i said what i said, reverend jackson told me, you have to change the laws. we were raised in this. her father was george wiley, he had a national welfare rights organization. i was raised in a bread basket. we were taught, drilled in this, because we don t get anything out of this other than to try to do what is right. what is right is to change the law. otherwise, 20 years from now, what did we have? a lot of things that achieved nothing, but fundamentally