Eric Ulloa created a documentary-theatre-act 6 months after the tragic Sandy Hook Elementary school shooting. At Overton, a panel focused on making change.
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death. and the shock of seeing the devastating violence that mamie till was willing to make visible despite her trauma and pain. and that is we re seeing a privatization of our politics, if we re really honest it s this dark flow of money and this way in which we have lost the ability to have a real democratic dialogue based in policies and solutions it s also about how we re privatizing all our spaces from our schools where we re told you don t like it or if the school s not good or if it s too dangerous you can opt out. and by the way, there s this notion that the danger too much of the danger is being attributed to black people, to latinos, you know, despite the fact of our own victimization at the hands of guns. and that s a different kind of privatization that sort of suggests we can separate from one another and not see how we re linked and not understand
my office is in contact with federal, state and local officials and we stand ready to assist. in what? they re dead what are you going to assist with cleaning up their brains off the wall wiping the blood off the school room floor what are you going to assist with when i pick up my 6 and 11-year-old grandkids at school when i m here at home, on the way it goes through my mind that i hope they re going to be okay. and most of you in this room, when we were in school we worried if nancy would dance with us on friday after the football game or something that was our anxiety coach, it goes through all of our minds. hi again, everybody. it s 5:00 in new york. that was legendary coach of the san antonio spurs gregg popovich, who used his last pregame media availability of