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Today, a lot of news outlets and the other Democratic candidate was...
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No, no, no, no. We're better than that.
Yeah!
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Now, there's this rumor that is being perpetuated that Trump talking about abortion and punishing women and doctors then for it, that somehow Bernie Sanders was saying that that wasn't an important issue.
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Regardless of the fact that he's always stood up for women's rights, equal pay, equality.
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And is pro-choice.
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Which the other Democratic candidate very well knows.
There is this rumor that is pitching out there that because he's saying that we're giving Trump too much time on the airwaves and we need to stop feeding into that hate and talking about the issues,
that somehow that meant he doesn't care about women's issues. Shame on you, Hillary.
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Now, oh, I'm sorry. Hold on, let me watch my tone.
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Because we very, very much want a debate which she already agreed to.
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And considering that in 2008 there were twenty six debates and she held Obama's feet to the fire saying that she would debate anytime, anywhere,
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Because that's what you should do when you're trying to run the country.
Let's very much hope that she does come, so I will say with a smile on my face that I'm excited about the fact that I don't have to vote against someone.
That I get to vote for someone.
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Who hasn't called undocumented people "illegals".
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Like the other Democratic candidate.
Or called our children who needed care "super predators" that needed to be "brought to heel".
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Who called people on welfare "dead beats".
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No. Well, yes. She is under FBI investigation, thank you.
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That's not getting promoted very much, but she is about to be interviewed in a little bit.
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But no, the reality is when you're saying the types of things that been said in trying to misconstrue and obfuscate the facts, you're trying to divide people.
And I appreciate Gloria Steinem saying "I'm sorry" for saying that us women Bernie supporters are only here because the boys are here.
So I'm really glad to see quite a lot of females and males here.
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And also this push and this idea that you're only white. Well, my daddy, my biological daddy anyway, is Irish. So Bernie didn't need to make me white.
But apparently all of y'all are white, that's crazy.
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Must be having issues with my eyes.
No, the reality is when they're talking about that stuff, that they're trying to divide us.
They're trying to say that only Trump supporters are racist, which there are a lot racists who follow Trump, but they're not all racist.
That all followers of Bernie are white males, but that's not true either.
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And I think it's actually pretty amazing that when you're seeing in really large populations of white males and white females,
in certain states that have been poorly talked about, that they're there cheering for justice and equality, specifically racial and environmental and beyond.
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It's a beautiful thing. So is what Bernie meant when he talked about Trump getting too much attention, distracting us from the issues.
Trump is getting $1.9 billion worth of free media.
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Bernie has gotten about $321 million.
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And most of that's been with a lot of eye rolling and saying that he's to be dismissed and out of the equation.
Why do you think that is? Do you think that's an accident?
No!
You've got to really think about the fact that they're trying to say vote against him and forget about him, so what does that mean? That we have to vote for the other Democratic candidate? No.
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We're not in the general election. We're in a primary and everybody should have their say.
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So I don't have to go against somebody because I get to vote for someone who is on our side, who says no fracking.
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Who marched with Martin Luther King.
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And who can draw a crowd that makes me dizzy with happiness and love and acceptance.
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She had a fraction of that many people yesterday at the Apollo.
And failed to mention that once she was a Senator, two million people were stopped because of stop and frisk.
That she said nothing about.
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In 2006 alone, 506,000 people were stopped and frisked. 90% of which were innocent.
Because, shockingly, you can't judge a criminal by the color of their skin.
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And racial profiling is not okay. It is unjust and unnecessary and we to end them.
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[laughs]
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So I just want to say something because I love you. And I'm a New Yorker.
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My mom was raised on 137th Street here in the Bronx. Born in Lyndon hospital which since burned down.
I'm from Coney Island
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Grew up in the lower east side, ooh, ooh!
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Ooh, ooh!
And I want to say that we don't need to be divided.
We need to breaching out and talking those folks who are supporting Trump.
Why? Because they're supporting him for a reason.
They're standing up behind him because he's against the establishment as well. And they're literally standing behind the guy who they know is going to go into the Oval Office and go, "You're fired."
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I can understand that.
But I'm supporting the guy who's looking at all of us and saying, "You're hired."
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And I know that means a lot to you because I know New Yorkers and we are not interested in being bamboozled.
No!
That's right.
Or duped, or divided by our race, our gender, our age, that's the past.
When people did have to vote for the lesser of two evils. But we don't have to do that.
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The reality is when 9/11 happened, people came together and they saw when the Syrian refugees were walking, something mirrored their experience.
We had to walk across bridges and reach out and we wanted to reach and hold them back in.
We celebrated when there was a blackout for three days because we weren't attacked.
My mom was walking down the street on the lower east side going, "Neighbors, bring out your meat and meet your neighbors!"
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So we could share our perishables.
And people were making love in the fire escapes and dancing in drum circles naked in the parks.
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Walking through Time Square because they could see the stars for the first time.
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Taking care of each other during Hurricane Sandy.
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Making sure our neighbors had medicine and food who couldn't walk down the stairs.
Charges, generators so they could get their phones charged because that's now as important as water.
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Marched against the bailout because they knew the people needed the bailout, not the banks.
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They're still getting bailed out. If they were too big to fail then then, you know, what does that look like for us boding in the future?
You know, this is a community that I love, a place where I grew up that was the melting pot, a center of the world.
You can go anywhere and people know New York.
You can get, you know, a Chinese food roll, you can get a slice of pizza. You can jump on a train and go to Philly and get yourself a Philly cheese steak.
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We go to Coney Island to ride the cyclone and get a headache from it because wow, those wooden rollercoasters are dangerous.
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We go to New Jersey so we can go on the waterpark, we go upstate going across the Washing State Bridge so that we can go and see mountains and greenery.
And see bears and walk like little engines like my dad taught me to do, which is dangerous because they're bears.
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And we've seen what gentrification does to our community. You know,
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Broadway is an old Native Indian trail and for the first time, because of gentrification, it has been disturbed and distrupted.
We get that, we know our history.
And yeah, I forgot to mention Gucithribo too.
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So I want to say I love seeing you all here, but don't complain to me if you didn't make it your business to bring at least five people with you to vote.
At least five.
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To show the world that we knew the bailout was wrong. To show the world that we knew we weren't supposed to go to Iraq and invade that country.
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That had nothing to do with 9/11. And the mass media that sold us that is also the mass media that is trying to sell us the person who voted for it.
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By the way, there is a sit-in at CNN in LA, I think at noon if you want to tell anybody to be there.
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Because they're working against us right now and understand: if Bernie doesn't win, net neutrality will be a very big issue.
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Because they don't like this. All of us coming together and talking to each other and organizing each other despite them.
There is a lot at stake. A lot.
So vote for the person who voted "No" for the Patriot Act twice.
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Vote for the person who said no to the Iraq war and didn't waste trillions of dollars, but more importantly hundreds of thousands of lives.
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And started I*S*I*S and the destabilization of the Middle East that we're still feeling the repercussions of today.
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That doesn't apologize if somehow that brings lives back where the soldiers that we did come back suddenly erases their PTSD.
Someone who doesn't think that regime idea is a good idea for foreign policy in Honduras, Syria, Libya and beyond.
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Someone who's telling us to vote together, someone who's going to go into the Oval Office and keep the door open and open up the blinds of the windows and says, "Let's get to work".
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I'm excited to work for Bernie Sanders.
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Because I'm excited to work for all of you.
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Alright Obama.
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Bernie!
Bernie!
Bernie!
Bernie!
Bernie!
I wish that this time I was introducing him, but I'm introducing Spike Lee.
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Who still calls me Lala.
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But I just want to say, thank you so, so, so much for being here and showing what New York is really about.
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Coming together and understanding that real change comes from the bottom up.
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Remember, when Martin Luther King was killed it wasn't because he was pushing on the civil rights movement.
He was able to achieve that. It's because he was coming together and asking for a poor man's march on Washington.
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Bringing Black, white, and brown together. Talking about how we need to address our foreign policy and what that has done to devastate and destabilize so many places.
So much so that those people are coming here and many people want to build a wall to stop them.
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Spike Lee's going to come to the stage and drop the mic.
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I love you.
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We can do this.
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Rosario Dawson, give it up.
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