WEBVTT 00:38:34.211 --> 00:38:36.781 THIS BEGINS THE 00:38:36.847 --> 00:38:38.015 SELECT COMMITTEE ON THE STATUS 00:38:38.082 --> 00:38:40.384 OF BOYS AND MEN OF COLOR. I 00:38:40.451 --> 00:38:41.552 WANT TO THANK ALL OF YOU FOR 00:38:41.619 --> 00:38:43.387 BEING HERE, ESPECIALLY THOSE OF 00:38:43.454 --> 00:38:44.555 YOU THAT HAVE COME FROM OTHER 00:38:44.622 --> 00:38:46.390 PARTS OF CALIFORNIA. WE DID OUR 00:38:46.457 --> 00:38:47.525 LAST HEARING IN LOS ANGELES, 00:38:47.591 --> 00:38:49.360 AND I'M GRATEFUL TO BE HERE IN 00:38:49.427 --> 00:38:51.929 OAKLAND. I WANT TO START BY 00:38:51.996 --> 00:38:52.997 MAKING IT CLEAR THAT 00:38:53.064 --> 00:38:54.432 ASSEMBLYMEMBER BONTA WOULD BE 00:38:54.498 --> 00:38:55.599 HERE, BUT SHE IS NOT FEELING 00:38:55.666 --> 00:38:58.369 WELL TODAY. AND SO WE SEND HER 00:38:58.436 --> 00:38:59.870 OUR LOVE AND OUR PRAYERS. AND 00:38:59.937 --> 00:39:01.439 SHE'S HERE. WE KNOW THAT SHE'S 00:39:01.505 --> 00:39:03.507 WITH US IN ALLYSHIP ALWAYS. AND 00:39:03.574 --> 00:39:05.209 I WANT TO THANK MY COLLEAGUES 00:39:05.276 --> 00:39:07.778 WHO ARE HERE FOR COMING UP ON 00:39:07.845 --> 00:39:10.281 THE WEEKEND OR ON THE RECESS. I 00:39:10.347 --> 00:39:12.016 ESPECIALLY WANT TO THANK 00:39:12.083 --> 00:39:13.851 SENATOR AVELINO VALENCIA, WHOSE 00:39:13.918 --> 00:39:15.252 BIRTHDAY IT IS. CAN WE GIVE IT 00:39:15.319 --> 00:39:22.159 UP FOR THE SENATOR? YEAH. THE 00:39:22.226 --> 00:39:23.394 PURPOSE OF TODAY'S CONVENING IS 00:39:23.461 --> 00:39:25.696 TO TALK ABOUT WHAT REIMAGINING 00:39:25.763 --> 00:39:27.231 JUSTICE AND HEALING FOR BOYS 00:39:27.298 --> 00:39:28.799 AND MEN IN CALIFORNIA CAN LOOK 00:39:28.866 --> 00:39:30.735 LIKE. AND WE HAVE THREE PANELS 00:39:30.801 --> 00:39:32.536 OF EXPERTS FROM AROUND THE 00:39:32.603 --> 00:39:34.004 STATE AND FROM HERE IN OAKLAND 00:39:34.071 --> 00:39:35.740 IN PARTICULAR, THAT ARE GOING 00:39:35.806 --> 00:39:37.208 TO BE TESTIFYING BEFORE THIS 00:39:37.274 --> 00:39:38.342 COMMITTEE. AND BEFORE THAT, I 00:39:38.409 --> 00:39:40.478 WANT TO OPEN IT UP TO ANY 00:39:40.544 --> 00:39:42.246 QUESTIONS, COMMENTS, OR OPENING 00:39:42.313 --> 00:39:49.086 STATEMENTS FROM MY COLLEAGUES. 00:39:49.153 --> 00:39:52.323 MR. KALRA. THANK YOU, MR. CHAIR. 00:39:52.389 --> 00:39:54.158 I'LL BE BRIEF AND JUST WANT TO 00:39:54.225 --> 00:39:56.427 EXPRESS MY APPRECIATION TO ALL 00:39:56.494 --> 00:39:59.964 THE ORGANIZATIONS THAT ARE HERE 00:40:00.030 --> 00:40:01.365 TODAY. MORE IMPORTANTLY, THE 00:40:01.432 --> 00:40:03.067 WORK THAT YOU DO ALL THROUGHOUT 00:40:03.134 --> 00:40:04.168 THE YEAR, ESPECIALLY WHEN WE'RE 00:40:04.235 --> 00:40:07.171 UP IN SACRAMENTO FIGHTING FOR 00:40:07.238 --> 00:40:09.240 JUSTICE. AND I KNOW MANY OF YOU 00:40:09.306 --> 00:40:10.441 AND MANY OF YOUR ORGANIZATIONS 00:40:10.508 --> 00:40:12.209 HAVE DONE THAT FOR A VERY LONG 00:40:12.276 --> 00:40:15.079 TIME AND IS I ENTER MY LAST 00:40:15.146 --> 00:40:16.280 COUPLE OF YEARS. I LOOK FORWARD 00:40:16.347 --> 00:40:18.282 TO CONTINUE TO WORK WITH ALL OF 00:40:18.349 --> 00:40:22.253 YOU TO SEE HOW WE CAN PUSH BACK 00:40:22.319 --> 00:40:23.754 AGAINST THE RECENT TREND OVER 00:40:23.821 --> 00:40:26.323 THE LAST COUPLE OF YEARS OF 00:40:26.390 --> 00:40:27.491 TRYING TO PUSH BACK AGAINST 00:40:27.558 --> 00:40:29.260 SOME OF THE GAINS THAT WE'VE 00:40:29.326 --> 00:40:31.595 MADE AND FOCUS ON WHAT WE KNOW 00:40:31.662 --> 00:40:33.063 WORKS, WHICH IS UPLIFTING THE 00:40:33.130 --> 00:40:34.865 COMMUNITY AND WORKING WITH THE 00:40:34.932 --> 00:40:37.701 COMMUNITY. SO THANK YOU. 00:40:37.768 --> 00:40:41.605 SENATOR FONG. THANK YOU SO MUCH, 00:40:41.672 --> 00:40:42.740 CHAIR BRIAN, AND THANK YOU FOR 00:40:42.807 --> 00:40:43.874 YOUR LEADERSHIP AND EFFORTS ON 00:40:43.941 --> 00:40:45.643 THE SELECT COMMITTEE ON THE 00:40:45.709 --> 00:40:46.844 STATUS OF BOYS AND MEN OF COLOR 00:40:46.911 --> 00:40:48.679 AND MY COLLEAGUES AS WELL. AND 00:40:48.746 --> 00:40:49.914 TO ALL OUR COMMUNITY LEADERS 00:40:49.980 --> 00:40:50.915 GATHERED HERE TODAY. THANK YOU 00:40:50.981 --> 00:40:52.650 FOR THE TREMENDOUS WORK AND 00:40:52.716 --> 00:40:53.617 EFFORTS AROUND THIS SELECT 00:40:53.684 --> 00:40:54.718 COMMITTEE. AND WE KNOW THAT 00:40:54.785 --> 00:40:56.620 THERE'S A LOT MORE WORK TO BE 00:40:56.687 --> 00:40:57.621 DONE AHEAD AROUND REIMAGINING 00:40:57.688 --> 00:40:58.722 JUSTICE AND HEALING FOR MEN IN 00:40:58.789 --> 00:41:01.125 CALIFORNIA, AND WAYS TO IMPROVE 00:41:01.192 --> 00:41:02.827 TRANSITIONS AFTER INCARCERATION, 00:41:02.893 --> 00:41:03.794 BUT ALSO ADDRESSING HEALING AND 00:41:03.861 --> 00:41:05.095 MENTAL HEALTH AND MENTAL HEALTH 00:41:05.162 --> 00:41:06.764 NEEDS OF BOYS AND MEN OF COLOR, 00:41:06.831 --> 00:41:08.632 BUT ALSO LOOKING AT HOW WE CAN 00:41:08.699 --> 00:41:09.600 WORK AROUND YOUTH 00:41:09.667 --> 00:41:10.501 APPRENTICESHIPS, JOB TRAINING 00:41:10.568 --> 00:41:11.602 PROGRAMS AND ADDITIONAL 00:41:11.669 --> 00:41:13.003 OPPORTUNITIES. AND SO REALLY 00:41:13.070 --> 00:41:14.171 GRATEFUL TO ALL THE SPEAKERS 00:41:14.238 --> 00:41:16.040 THAT ARE GOING TO BE HERE TODAY 00:41:16.106 --> 00:41:17.141 TO SHARE INSIGHTS AND HOW WE 00:41:17.208 --> 00:41:18.209 CAN CONTINUE TO PARTNER 00:41:18.275 --> 00:41:19.210 TOGETHER. REALLY APPRECIATE 00:41:19.276 --> 00:41:20.144 CHAIR BRYANT, AGAIN, FOR HIS 00:41:20.211 --> 00:41:22.046 LEADERSHIP AND FOR HIS WORK AND 00:41:22.112 --> 00:41:24.181 EFFORTS AROUND MANY, MANY 00:41:24.248 --> 00:41:25.249 DIFFERENT ISSUES. THANK YOU 00:41:25.316 --> 00:41:28.886 CHAIR. SENATOR VALENCIA. THANK 00:41:28.953 --> 00:41:30.588 YOU, CHAIR BRYAN. GOOD 00:41:30.654 --> 00:41:33.157 AFTERNOON EVERYONE. IT'S 00:41:33.224 --> 00:41:34.692 HUMBLING TO BE HERE TODAY 00:41:34.758 --> 00:41:35.459 CONSIDERING EVERYTHING THAT 00:41:35.526 --> 00:41:37.127 WE'RE DEALING WITH AT THE 00:41:37.194 --> 00:41:38.863 NATIONAL STAGE ACROSS THE STATE 00:41:38.929 --> 00:41:40.064 OF CALIFORNIA, BUT IN 00:41:40.130 --> 00:41:41.799 PARTICULAR IN OUR IMMEDIATE 00:41:41.866 --> 00:41:44.335 COMMUNITIES. AND THE TIMELINESS 00:41:44.401 --> 00:41:49.006 OF THIS OF THIS HEARING 00:41:49.073 --> 00:41:50.875 COULDN'T BE MORE PRECISE. THE 00:41:50.941 --> 00:41:53.277 NAME ITSELF, REIMAGINING 00:41:53.344 --> 00:41:55.079 JUSTICE AND HEALING FOR MEN IN 00:41:55.145 --> 00:41:58.048 CALIFORNIA. OUR MEN AND YOUNG 00:41:58.115 --> 00:42:00.851 BOYS ARE STRUGGLING ACROSS THE 00:42:00.918 --> 00:42:03.053 BOARD. AND WHEN IT COMES TO 00:42:03.120 --> 00:42:05.155 BOYS AND MEN OF COLOR, BLACK 00:42:05.222 --> 00:42:09.827 AND BROWN KIDS, IT'S CAUSING 00:42:09.894 --> 00:42:12.429 EXTRA HARM. SO THIS 00:42:12.496 --> 00:42:13.430 CONVERSATION HAS BEEN ONE 00:42:13.497 --> 00:42:14.531 THAT'S BEEN TAKING PLACE FOR A 00:42:14.598 --> 00:42:17.434 LONG TIME. THE TENACITY AND 00:42:17.501 --> 00:42:19.937 FOCUS OF CHAIR BRYAN HAS MOVED 00:42:20.004 --> 00:42:22.039 THE NEEDLE. AND I LOOK FORWARD 00:42:22.106 --> 00:42:23.607 TO THOSE CONVERSATIONS TO 00:42:23.674 --> 00:42:24.675 CONTINUE AND MOVING ON. 00:42:24.742 --> 00:42:27.511 COMMUNITY AHEAD. THANK YOU. 00:42:27.578 --> 00:42:29.313 THANK YOU SO MUCH. I ALSO 00:42:29.380 --> 00:42:30.748 BECAUSE I HAVEN'T SEEN ALL OF 00:42:30.814 --> 00:42:32.983 YOU SINCE THE END OF SESSION, 00:42:33.050 --> 00:42:34.919 WANT TO SAY HOW PROUD I AM FOR 00:42:34.985 --> 00:42:36.220 THE COMMUNITY THAT HAS SHOWN UP 00:42:36.287 --> 00:42:37.588 TO SUPPORT THIS SELECT 00:42:37.655 --> 00:42:40.124 COMMITTEE. ONE OF THE PIECES OF 00:42:40.190 --> 00:42:41.225 LEGISLATION THAT'S A DERIVATIVE 00:42:41.292 --> 00:42:43.027 OF THE WORK OF THIS COMMITTEE 00:42:43.093 --> 00:42:46.830 WAS AB 1646, BEFORE WE WENT TO 00:42:46.897 --> 00:42:48.432 CHUCKLES JUSTICE CENTER IN LOS 00:42:48.499 --> 00:42:49.166 ANGELES, A NUMBER OF MY 00:42:49.233 --> 00:42:50.567 COLLEAGUES AND I, INCLUDING 00:42:50.634 --> 00:42:51.936 MEMBERS OF THIS PANEL, WENT TO 00:42:52.002 --> 00:42:53.470 LOS PADRINOS JUVENILE HALL AND 00:42:53.537 --> 00:42:55.039 MET WITH INCARCERATED YOUTH IN 00:42:55.105 --> 00:42:57.107 THE R1 AND R2 UNITS, WHO ASKED 00:42:57.174 --> 00:42:58.842 US TO CARRY LEGISLATION WITH 00:42:58.909 --> 00:43:01.011 THEM TO GIVE ALL YOUTH IN 00:43:01.078 --> 00:43:02.012 CALIFORNIA THE RIGHT TO 00:43:02.079 --> 00:43:03.013 PHYSICAL CONTACT WITH THEIR 00:43:03.080 --> 00:43:04.114 LOVED ONES WHEN THEY COME TO 00:43:04.181 --> 00:43:06.050 VISIT WITH GAVIN NEWSOM'S 00:43:06.116 --> 00:43:07.151 SIGNATURE. CALIFORNIA IS NOW 00:43:07.217 --> 00:43:08.886 THE FIRST STATE IN THE COUNTRY 00:43:08.953 --> 00:43:09.853 WHERE INCARCERATED YOUTH HAVE 00:43:09.920 --> 00:43:11.088 THE RIGHT TO PHYSICAL TOUCH, 00:43:11.155 --> 00:43:12.890 INCLUDING HUGS WITH THEIR 00:43:12.957 --> 00:43:14.024 VISITORS. AND THAT IS BECAUSE 00:43:14.091 --> 00:43:15.192 OF THE WORK OF THIS COMMITTEE 00:43:15.259 --> 00:43:16.994 AND BECAUSE OF THE WORK OF THE 00:43:17.061 --> 00:43:18.028 INCARCERATED YOUNG PEOPLE IN 00:43:18.095 --> 00:43:19.163 LOS PADRINOS JUVENILE HALL. SO 00:43:19.229 --> 00:43:25.602 GIVE IT UP FOR YOURSELVES. WITH 00:43:25.669 --> 00:43:26.770 THAT, WE'LL GO AHEAD AND START 00:43:26.837 --> 00:43:29.907 WITH OUR FIRST PANEL. IF YOU 00:43:29.974 --> 00:43:31.809 GUYS WOULD LIKE TO COME DOWN, 00:43:31.875 --> 00:43:34.111 MR. ALEXANDER, JAMES BURCH, 00:43:34.178 --> 00:43:40.517 RAFEAL AND SEAN JONES. I CAN'T 00:43:40.584 --> 00:43:59.303 READ THAT YOU. THREE MINUTES 00:43:59.370 --> 00:44:00.404 APIECE IN WHATEVER ORDER YOU 00:44:00.471 --> 00:44:03.140 PREFER. MAYBE WE'LL START FROM 00:44:03.207 --> 00:44:05.943 THE TOP, MR. ALEXANDER. THAT'S 00:44:06.010 --> 00:44:07.911 THE TOP. YOU WERE THE. YOU'RE 00:44:07.978 --> 00:44:10.147 THE TOP OF MY LIST. I'LL GO 00:44:10.214 --> 00:44:12.149 WITH IT. DO YOU NEED ME TO TURN 00:44:12.216 --> 00:44:13.717 THIS ON? YES, SIR. SO MY NAME 00:44:13.784 --> 00:44:15.853 IS CALEB ALEXANDER. I'M THE 00:44:15.919 --> 00:44:16.987 PRESIDENT OF PILLARS OF THE 00:44:17.054 --> 00:44:19.890 COMMUNITY IN SAN DIEGO. THE 00:44:19.957 --> 00:44:21.658 POINT THAT I'M WAS TASKED TO 00:44:21.725 --> 00:44:25.629 TALK ABOUT IS PENAL CODE 148. 00:44:25.696 --> 00:44:28.532 IN SEPTEMBER OF LAST YEAR, ONE 00:44:28.599 --> 00:44:31.735 OF OUR STAFF MEMBERS WAS PULLED 00:44:31.802 --> 00:44:33.504 OVER BY THE POLICE AFTER 00:44:33.570 --> 00:44:34.571 ATTENDING A FOOTBALL GAME TO 00:44:34.638 --> 00:44:36.440 WATCH HIS SON. THREE OF HIS 00:44:36.507 --> 00:44:37.875 CHILDREN WERE IN THE CAR. HE 00:44:37.941 --> 00:44:39.643 WAS PULLED OVER AND WHEN HE 00:44:39.710 --> 00:44:41.011 DEMANDED HIS RIGHTS AND BEGAN 00:44:41.078 --> 00:44:42.179 TO SPEAK ABOUT HIS RIGHTS, HE 00:44:42.246 --> 00:44:43.580 WAS REMOVED, FORCIBLY REMOVED 00:44:43.647 --> 00:44:46.116 FROM THE CAR AND ARRESTED. A 00:44:46.183 --> 00:44:49.019 WEEK LATER, ANOTHER OF OUR 00:44:49.086 --> 00:44:50.087 MEMBERS OF PILLARS OF THE 00:44:50.154 --> 00:44:51.488 COMMUNITY WAS DOWNTOWN SAN 00:44:51.555 --> 00:44:52.890 DIEGO. SAW A MAN BEING HARASSED 00:44:52.956 --> 00:44:55.492 BY THE POLICE, STEPPED IN AND 00:44:55.559 --> 00:44:56.894 MENTIONED THAT THAT PERSON HAS 00:44:56.960 --> 00:44:59.763 RIGHTS TOO. HE TOO WAS ARRESTED. 00:44:59.830 --> 00:45:01.231 WHAT DID THESE PEOPLE HAVE IN 00:45:01.298 --> 00:45:03.700 COMMON? BOTH OF THEM WERE BLACK. 00:45:03.767 --> 00:45:04.868 NEITHER OF THEM WERE BREAKING 00:45:04.935 --> 00:45:08.105 ANY LAWS. BOTH INSISTED ON 00:45:08.172 --> 00:45:10.641 THEIR RIGHTS AND THEY WERE BOTH 00:45:10.707 --> 00:45:13.143 RESISTED. THE ONLY UNDERLYING 00:45:13.210 --> 00:45:15.646 CHARGE THAT THEY WERE CHARGED 00:45:15.712 --> 00:45:17.815 WITH WAS RESISTING ARREST UNDER 00:45:17.881 --> 00:45:21.819 PENAL CODE 148. THESE SCENES, 00:45:21.885 --> 00:45:23.253 BOTH OF WHICH HAPPENED WITHIN A 00:45:23.320 --> 00:45:24.421 COUPLE OF WEEKS OF EACH OTHER, 00:45:24.488 --> 00:45:26.824 OF COURSE, ECHO POST-SLAVERY 00:45:26.890 --> 00:45:28.625 BLACK CODES, WHERE BLACK MEN 00:45:28.692 --> 00:45:30.394 AND WOMEN WERE HARASSED JUST 00:45:30.461 --> 00:45:31.528 FOR STANDING UP FOR THEIR 00:45:31.595 --> 00:45:32.896 RIGHTS AND JUST FOR HOLDING 00:45:32.963 --> 00:45:35.833 THEMSELVES WITH DIGNITY. IN SAN 00:45:35.899 --> 00:45:38.001 DIEGO, AFTER THESE OCCURRED, WE 00:45:38.068 --> 00:45:40.070 PULLED THE RECORDS, WE DID PRA 00:45:40.137 --> 00:45:41.271 REQUESTS, AND WE FOUND OUT THAT 00:45:41.338 --> 00:45:43.373 BLACK FOLKS IN SAN DIEGO ARE 00:45:43.440 --> 00:45:45.242 CHARGED WITH PENAL CODE 148, 00:45:45.309 --> 00:45:48.011 FOUR TIMES MORE THAN OTHERS, 00:45:48.078 --> 00:45:49.880 DISPROPORTIONATE TO THEIR 00:45:49.947 --> 00:45:52.382 POPULATION SIZE. THESE NEW ERA 00:45:52.449 --> 00:45:54.518 BLACK CODES ARE EVEN MORE 00:45:54.585 --> 00:45:56.320 EGREGIOUS AND SO EGREGIOUS THAT 00:45:56.386 --> 00:45:58.122 THE CITY'S ATTORNEY'S OFFICE 00:45:58.188 --> 00:46:01.758 THEMSELVES ONLY PROSECUTE 00:46:01.825 --> 00:46:03.560 ACTUALLY REFUSES TO PROSECUTE 00:46:03.627 --> 00:46:05.329 NEARLY 70% OF THOSE CASES THAT 00:46:05.395 --> 00:46:07.831 ARE CHARGED BECAUSE OF 00:46:07.898 --> 00:46:09.199 RECOGNIZING THAT THIS IS ONE OF 00:46:09.266 --> 00:46:10.400 THE ALL OF THE CONSEQUENCES 00:46:10.467 --> 00:46:13.604 THAT COME FROM THIS YOUNG MEN, 00:46:13.670 --> 00:46:15.139 YOUNG WOMEN WHO ARE RIPPED FROM 00:46:15.205 --> 00:46:16.540 THEIR FAMILIES, SENT TO THE 00:46:16.607 --> 00:46:18.075 LOCAL JAIL, EVENTUALLY BOOKED 00:46:18.142 --> 00:46:20.477 AND RELEASED. BUT THE 00:46:20.544 --> 00:46:23.013 CONSEQUENCES AS FAR AS HOW MUCH 00:46:23.080 --> 00:46:24.581 MONEY IS SPENT WITH OFFICERS 00:46:24.648 --> 00:46:26.683 THAT ARE BEING USED, THE COST 00:46:26.750 --> 00:46:28.519 TO THE TAXPAYERS, THE TRAUMA 00:46:28.585 --> 00:46:29.786 AND MENTAL HEALTH OF THE 00:46:29.853 --> 00:46:30.954 CHILDREN THAT ARE IN THE CARS, 00:46:31.021 --> 00:46:32.089 THE CHILDREN THAT ARE RELATED 00:46:32.156 --> 00:46:33.790 TO THESE PEOPLE, THE IMPACTS 00:46:33.857 --> 00:46:36.326 AND JOBS AND CHILD CARE, AND 00:46:36.393 --> 00:46:38.428 THE BREAKDOWN IN TRUST FOR LAW 00:46:38.495 --> 00:46:39.530 ENFORCEMENT ARE ALL REASONS WHY. 00:46:39.596 --> 00:46:41.331 PENAL CODE 148 IS SOMETHING 00:46:41.398 --> 00:46:42.799 THAT WE'VE BEEN FOCUSING ON AND 00:46:42.866 --> 00:46:44.935 FEEL LIKE WE NEED TO MAKE SOME 00:46:45.002 --> 00:46:47.838 POLICY CHANGES. CLARIFYING 00:46:47.905 --> 00:46:51.408 QUESTION WHAT IS PC? 148? PC 00:46:51.475 --> 00:46:53.510 148 IS ESSENTIALLY A RESISTING 00:46:53.577 --> 00:46:57.814 ARREST CHARGE. I HAVE A LONGER 00:46:57.881 --> 00:47:00.417 DEFINITION IF YOU WANT, BUT NO, 00:47:00.484 --> 00:47:02.553 THAT'S PERFECT. WE'LL ASK 00:47:02.619 --> 00:47:04.254 FOLLOW UP QUESTIONS AT THE END 00:47:04.321 --> 00:47:09.193 OF THE PANEL. MR. BURCH. HELLO, 00:47:09.259 --> 00:47:11.094 MY NAME IS JAMES BURCH. I'M THE 00:47:11.161 --> 00:47:12.062 FOUNDER AND EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR 00:47:12.129 --> 00:47:13.197 OF BLACK SOLUTIONS LAB. WE'RE 00:47:13.263 --> 00:47:14.264 AN OAKLAND BASED ORGANIZATION 00:47:14.331 --> 00:47:15.165 THAT SUPPORTS BLACK LED, 00:47:15.232 --> 00:47:16.166 COMMUNITY BASED AND DIRECT 00:47:16.233 --> 00:47:17.034 SERVICE ORGANIZATIONS WITH 00:47:17.100 --> 00:47:18.569 RESEARCH, POLICY AND STRATEGY, 00:47:18.635 --> 00:47:20.204 WITH A FOCUS ON IMPROVING 00:47:20.270 --> 00:47:20.871 PUBLIC SAFETY OUTCOMES FOR 00:47:20.938 --> 00:47:22.639 BLACK, OAKLAND AND OAKLAND AS A 00:47:22.706 --> 00:47:24.208 WHOLE. RIGHT NOW, OUR 00:47:24.274 --> 00:47:25.943 ORGANIZATION IS FOCUSED ON TWO 00:47:26.009 --> 00:47:27.110 AREAS HOMELESSNESS AND HOW TO 00:47:27.177 --> 00:47:28.512 BETTER SERVE OAKLANDERS WHO ARE 00:47:28.579 --> 00:47:30.314 IN CRISIS OR WITNESS SOMEONE IN 00:47:30.380 --> 00:47:32.149 CRISIS WITH REGARDS TO WITH 00:47:32.216 --> 00:47:33.517 REGARDS TO CRISIS RESPONSE, 00:47:33.584 --> 00:47:34.685 WE'RE LEADING A SURVEY PROCESS 00:47:34.751 --> 00:47:35.752 WITH OUR PARTNERS THAT ASK 00:47:35.819 --> 00:47:37.187 BLACK OAKLANDERS WHAT THEIR 00:47:37.254 --> 00:47:37.921 EXPERIENCE IS WHEN SOMEONE IS 00:47:37.988 --> 00:47:40.324 IN CRISIS. THE GOAL, TO PUT IT 00:47:40.390 --> 00:47:41.825 BLUNTLY, IS TO DETERMINE WHO 00:47:41.892 --> 00:47:43.293 PEOPLE ARE CALLING OR NOT 00:47:43.360 --> 00:47:44.928 CALLING AND WHY AND WHAT THE 00:47:44.995 --> 00:47:46.196 OUTCOMES ARE. AND WHAT WE'RE 00:47:46.263 --> 00:47:47.965 LEARNING IS THAT OUR CRISIS 00:47:48.031 --> 00:47:49.399 RESPONSE SYSTEMS ARE FACING 00:47:49.466 --> 00:47:50.467 GREAT CHALLENGES TO EVEN 00:47:50.534 --> 00:47:52.603 RESPOND TO COMMUNITIES OF COLOR. 00:47:52.669 --> 00:47:54.104 IN OAKLAND, WE HAVE A POLICE 00:47:54.171 --> 00:47:54.972 DEPARTMENT WITH HISTORICALLY 00:47:55.038 --> 00:47:56.073 LONG RESPONSE TIMES FOR MANY 00:47:56.139 --> 00:47:57.341 LOW LEVEL CALL TYPES, WITH A 00:47:57.407 --> 00:47:58.976 MEDIUM OF FOUR HOURS FOR 00:47:59.042 --> 00:48:00.277 PRIORITY TWO CALLS AND EIGHT 00:48:00.344 --> 00:48:02.713 HOURS FOR PRIORITY THREE CALLS. 00:48:02.779 --> 00:48:03.680 ADDITIONALLY, IT IS COMMONLY 00:48:03.747 --> 00:48:04.815 THOUGHT AND WE STRONGLY AGREE, 00:48:04.881 --> 00:48:06.717 AS I'M SURE MANY OF YOU DO, 00:48:06.783 --> 00:48:07.784 THAT POLICE ARE NOT THE 00:48:07.851 --> 00:48:08.785 APPROPRIATE RESPONSE TO LOW 00:48:08.852 --> 00:48:10.254 LEVEL CALLS FOR SERVICE. TO 00:48:10.320 --> 00:48:11.722 ADDRESS THIS, OAKLAND 00:48:11.788 --> 00:48:13.123 ESTABLISHED MACRO A CIVILIAN 00:48:13.190 --> 00:48:14.524 RESPONSE PROGRAM, BUT PEOPLE 00:48:14.591 --> 00:48:16.360 DON'T KNOW IT EXISTS. SO WE'RE 00:48:16.426 --> 00:48:17.461 STUCK IN A SITUATION WHERE 00:48:17.527 --> 00:48:18.495 POLICE AREN'T SHOWING UP AND 00:48:18.562 --> 00:48:20.397 PEOPLE DON'T KNOW HOW TO ACCESS 00:48:20.464 --> 00:48:21.465 ANY OTHER OPTION. AND WITH 00:48:21.531 --> 00:48:23.066 MONEY, TIGHT MACRO IS FIGHTING 00:48:23.133 --> 00:48:24.368 TO MAINTAIN ITS STAFF HAVING 00:48:24.434 --> 00:48:26.003 NINE POSITIONS FROZEN IN THE 00:48:26.069 --> 00:48:28.238 LAST BUDGET CYCLE AND CAN'T 00:48:28.305 --> 00:48:29.306 CURRENTLY AFFORD THE 00:48:29.373 --> 00:48:30.007 DESPERATELY NEEDED OUTREACH. 00:48:30.073 --> 00:48:31.074 THEY NEED TO LET OUR 00:48:31.141 --> 00:48:32.175 COMMUNITIES KNOW THAT THIS 00:48:32.242 --> 00:48:34.411 OPTION IS AVAILABLE. WHEN IT 00:48:34.478 --> 00:48:35.779 COMES TO HOMELESSNESS, OUR 00:48:35.846 --> 00:48:36.847 FIRST PRIORITY IS TO ADDRESS 00:48:36.913 --> 00:48:38.515 THE IMMENSE GAP BETWEEN THE 00:48:38.582 --> 00:48:39.483 NUMBER OF SHELTER BEDS 00:48:39.549 --> 00:48:41.585 CURRENTLY IN OAKLAND. WE 00:48:41.652 --> 00:48:43.687 CURRENTLY HAVE ABOUT 150 BEDS, 00:48:43.754 --> 00:48:45.188 FOR A VERY CONSERVATIVE 00:48:45.255 --> 00:48:48.425 ESTIMATE OF 4400 HOMELESS 00:48:48.492 --> 00:48:49.493 OAKLANDERS, WITH ADVOCATES 00:48:49.559 --> 00:48:51.995 ESTIMATING THAT NUMBER TO BE 00:48:52.062 --> 00:48:53.163 BETWEEN 5 AND 6000. WE NEED 00:48:53.230 --> 00:48:54.531 MORE TEMPORARY HOUSING OPTIONS, 00:48:54.598 --> 00:48:56.366 BUT WITH EXTREME DIFFICULTY 00:48:56.433 --> 00:48:57.734 ANTICIPATING THE FUTURE OF HAP 00:48:57.801 --> 00:48:59.603 FUNDING AND A NEED MUCH GREATER 00:48:59.670 --> 00:49:01.438 THAN WE CURRENTLY RECEIVE, OUR 00:49:01.505 --> 00:49:02.606 NUMBERS OF TEMPORARY HOUSING 00:49:02.673 --> 00:49:05.375 SITES ARE GOING DOWN, NOT UP. 00:49:05.442 --> 00:49:06.743 THIS MEANS THAT SWEEP CONTINUE 00:49:06.810 --> 00:49:07.778 TO PUSH OUR UNHOUSED NEIGHBORS 00:49:07.844 --> 00:49:09.313 FROM BLOCK TO BLOCK 00:49:09.379 --> 00:49:10.347 INDEFINITELY, COSTING MILLIONS 00:49:10.414 --> 00:49:13.750 IN OVERTIME, COSTING MILLIONS 00:49:13.817 --> 00:49:15.352 IN CONTRACT POLICE OVERTIME. 00:49:15.419 --> 00:49:16.553 THAT MAKES IT EVEN MORE 00:49:16.620 --> 00:49:19.356 DIFFICULT TO FUND OUR SOLUTIONS. 00:49:19.423 --> 00:49:20.824 I'LL CONCLUDE BY MAKING CLEAR 00:49:20.891 --> 00:49:22.526 THAT AS THE FUNDING THAT IS OUR 00:49:22.592 --> 00:49:24.061 PRIMARY OBSTACLE IN THIS MOMENT 00:49:24.127 --> 00:49:25.128 WITH OAKLAND, LIKE MANY CITIES 00:49:25.195 --> 00:49:26.563 FACING A STRUCTURAL DEFICIT, 00:49:26.630 --> 00:49:27.731 WE'RE LOOKING TO THE STATE FOR 00:49:27.798 --> 00:49:29.833 CRITICAL RESOURCES TO SUPPORT 00:49:29.900 --> 00:49:31.301 BOYS AND MEN OF COLOR. THANK 00:49:31.368 --> 00:49:34.838 YOU. THANK YOU SO MUCH. AND 00:49:34.905 --> 00:49:36.340 RAFEAL, BEFORE WE GO TO YOU, I 00:49:36.406 --> 00:49:37.507 WANT TO ACKNOWLEDGE THAT 00:49:37.574 --> 00:49:39.876 ASSEMBLY MEMBER SHADI AL. HE IS 00:49:39.943 --> 00:49:42.079 HERE AND ALSO GIVE YOU AN 00:49:42.145 --> 00:49:43.847 OPPORTUNITY TO ADDRESS THE 00:49:43.914 --> 00:49:45.482 MEMBERS OF THE PUBLIC WHO HAVE 00:49:45.549 --> 00:49:46.650 COME TO JOIN US IN THIS 00:49:46.717 --> 00:49:47.718 COMMITTEE AND ALSO WANT TO 00:49:47.784 --> 00:49:49.519 POINT OUT ANOTHER VICTORY FOR 00:49:49.586 --> 00:49:51.054 BOYS AND MEN OF COLOR THIS YEAR 00:49:51.121 --> 00:49:52.489 WAS THE REAUTHORIZATION AND 00:49:52.556 --> 00:49:53.957 EXTENSION AND FUNDING OF THE 00:49:54.024 --> 00:49:56.093 CRISIS ACT, WHICH WAS CARRIED 00:49:56.159 --> 00:49:57.627 BY SOME OF THE MEMBER EL-HAWARY 00:49:57.694 --> 00:49:59.596 THIS YEAR. AND WITH THAT, I'LL 00:49:59.663 --> 00:50:05.168 PASS IT OVER TO YOU. GOOD 00:50:05.235 --> 00:50:07.304 EVENING EVERYONE. I'M SO PROUD 00:50:07.371 --> 00:50:09.840 TO BE A PART OF THIS SELECT 00:50:09.906 --> 00:50:11.575 COMMITTEE AND REALLY GRATEFUL 00:50:11.641 --> 00:50:14.444 TO OUR CHAIR AND MY COLLEAGUES 00:50:14.511 --> 00:50:17.314 WHO ARE ALSO ON THIS SELECT 00:50:17.381 --> 00:50:18.548 COMMITTEE. IT'S SO IMPORTANT 00:50:18.615 --> 00:50:19.916 THAT WE DO THE WORK TO INVEST 00:50:19.983 --> 00:50:22.052 IN OUR COMMUNITIES, AND AS WE 00:50:22.119 --> 00:50:23.120 RECOGNIZE JUST WHAT IT MEANS 00:50:23.186 --> 00:50:25.021 AND WHAT IT TAKES TO INVEST IN 00:50:25.088 --> 00:50:26.356 BOYS AND MEN OF COLOR, I AM 00:50:26.423 --> 00:50:27.391 COMMITTED TO THIS FIGHT 00:50:27.457 --> 00:50:29.059 ALONGSIDE EACH AND EVERY ONE OF 00:50:29.126 --> 00:50:33.163 YOU. THANK YOU, THANK YOU. YOU 00:50:33.230 --> 00:50:36.466 MAY BEGIN. GOOD AFTERNOON. MY 00:50:36.533 --> 00:50:38.402 NAME IS RAFEAL LÀ. I'M WITH THE 00:50:38.468 --> 00:50:39.703 ANTI POLICE TERROR PROJECT. 00:50:39.770 --> 00:50:41.104 WE'RE A OAKLAND BASED 00:50:41.171 --> 00:50:42.172 ORGANIZATION THAT WAS FOUNDED 00:50:42.239 --> 00:50:43.373 IN THE WAKE OF THE MURDER OF 00:50:43.440 --> 00:50:45.175 OSCAR GRANT. I THINK IT'S 00:50:45.242 --> 00:50:46.143 REALLY BEAUTIFUL THAT THIS 00:50:46.209 --> 00:50:47.244 HEARING IS ACTUALLY HELD HERE 00:50:47.310 --> 00:50:49.012 AT THE OSCAR GRANT YOUTH 00:50:49.079 --> 00:50:50.414 EMPOWERMENT ZONE, WHICH IS DOWN 00:50:50.480 --> 00:50:51.915 THE STREET FROM FRUITVALE BART 00:50:51.982 --> 00:50:53.984 STATION, WHERE 15, ALMOST 16 00:50:54.050 --> 00:50:55.852 YEARS AGO NOW, OSCAR GRANT WAS 00:50:55.919 --> 00:50:57.654 MURDERED AT THE BART STATION, 00:50:57.721 --> 00:51:00.190 LEADING TO NOT JUST LOCAL 00:51:00.257 --> 00:51:01.625 MOVEMENT ORGANIZING TOWARDS 00:51:01.691 --> 00:51:02.659 LOOKING AT ALTERNATIVES TO 00:51:02.726 --> 00:51:04.127 CRISIS RESPONSE, POLICE 00:51:04.194 --> 00:51:05.529 OVERSIGHT BODIES, AND WHAT IT 00:51:05.595 --> 00:51:06.997 MEANS TO INVEST IN COMMUNITY, 00:51:07.063 --> 00:51:09.166 BUT REALLY NATIONWIDE AND 00:51:09.232 --> 00:51:10.267 INTERNATIONALLY SWEEPING CALL 00:51:10.333 --> 00:51:13.503 FOR ENFORCEMENT REFORMS. AND SO 00:51:13.570 --> 00:51:14.671 I'M HERE TO TALK TO YOU ALL 00:51:14.738 --> 00:51:16.540 ABOUT WHAT IT MEANS TO HAVE 00:51:16.606 --> 00:51:17.607 ALTERNATIVES TO CRISIS RESPONSE. 00:51:17.674 --> 00:51:19.443 AND I WANT TO EXTEND A THANK 00:51:19.509 --> 00:51:20.444 YOU TO ASSEMBLYMEMBER ELHAWARY 00:51:20.510 --> 00:51:21.645 FOR THEIR WORK WITH THE CRISIS 00:51:21.711 --> 00:51:23.980 ACT, WHICH IS A REALLY CRITICAL 00:51:24.047 --> 00:51:25.549 STEP TO HAVING STATES SUPPORT 00:51:25.615 --> 00:51:27.184 OUR COMMUNITY BASED 00:51:27.250 --> 00:51:28.919 INTERVENTIONS AS ANTI POLICE 00:51:28.985 --> 00:51:30.754 TERROR PROJECT. WE HAVE OUR OWN 00:51:30.821 --> 00:51:31.822 PROGRAMS FOR COMMUNITY 00:51:31.888 --> 00:51:33.323 SERVICING FOLKS OUT OF WEST 00:51:33.390 --> 00:51:35.158 OAKLAND THROUGH A MENTAL HEALTH 00:51:35.225 --> 00:51:36.893 CRISIS LINE THAT SERVES ALL OF 00:51:36.960 --> 00:51:38.195 OAKLAND, WHERE FOLKS ARE ABLE 00:51:38.261 --> 00:51:39.729 TO CALL VOLUNTEERS AND 00:51:39.796 --> 00:51:41.164 COMMUNITY MEMBERS, FOLKS WHO 00:51:41.231 --> 00:51:43.033 ARE TRAINED IN CRISIS RESPONSE, 00:51:43.099 --> 00:51:44.434 MENTAL HEALTH CRISIS RESPONSE, 00:51:44.501 --> 00:51:46.303 DOMESTIC VIOLENCE RESPONSES AS 00:51:46.369 --> 00:51:47.737 AN ALTERNATIVE TO POLICE. AS WE 00:51:47.804 --> 00:51:49.105 KNOW, MANY OF OUR COMMUNITIES 00:51:49.172 --> 00:51:50.941 MAY NOT MAKE THAT PHONE CALL TO 00:51:51.007 --> 00:51:53.410 POLICE AS APTP, WE SUPPORT A 00:51:53.477 --> 00:51:54.544 NUMBER OF IMPACTED FAMILY 00:51:54.611 --> 00:51:56.079 MEMBERS WHO LOST THEIR LOVED 00:51:56.146 --> 00:51:57.547 ONES TO EXTRAJUDICIAL KILLINGS 00:51:57.614 --> 00:51:59.249 OF POLICE WHO ACTUALLY SHOWED 00:51:59.316 --> 00:52:00.884 UP, OFTENTIMES IN RESPONSE TO 00:52:00.951 --> 00:52:02.285 THE FAMILY CALLING THEMSELVES 00:52:02.352 --> 00:52:03.887 FOR SUPPORT TO POTENTIALLY A 00:52:03.954 --> 00:52:05.021 MENTAL HEALTH CRISIS OR OTHER 00:52:05.088 --> 00:52:06.756 CRISIS THAT THE FAMILY WAS 00:52:06.823 --> 00:52:08.325 EXPERIENCING, AND THAT A PERSON 00:52:08.391 --> 00:52:10.193 WHO SHOWED UP WITH A BADGE AND 00:52:10.260 --> 00:52:11.428 A GUN WAS NOT EQUIPPED TO 00:52:11.495 --> 00:52:12.529 SUPPORT THEM WITH. AND SO 00:52:12.596 --> 00:52:15.732 HAVING MORE COMMUNITY RESPONSE 00:52:15.799 --> 00:52:17.200 PROGRAMS SUCH AS MACRO. SO 00:52:17.267 --> 00:52:18.568 GOING FROM THE COMMUNITY BASED 00:52:18.635 --> 00:52:19.769 RESPONSE TO COMMUNITY 00:52:19.836 --> 00:52:21.505 PARTNERSHIP WITH THE CITY 00:52:21.571 --> 00:52:22.672 ORGANIZATIONS LIKE MACRO HAS 00:52:22.739 --> 00:52:24.407 BEEN ABLE TO SERVE OUR 00:52:24.474 --> 00:52:25.542 PARTICULARLY UNHOUSED COMMUNITY 00:52:25.609 --> 00:52:26.576 FOLKS WHO ARE STRUGGLING WITH 00:52:26.643 --> 00:52:28.011 SUBSTANCE ABUSE THROUGH THEIR 00:52:28.078 --> 00:52:30.146 MOBILE ASSISTANCE PROGRAM THAT 00:52:30.213 --> 00:52:32.349 COULD USE GREATER SUPPORT. WE 00:52:32.415 --> 00:52:33.350 KNOW FROM WORKING WITH MACRO 00:52:33.416 --> 00:52:35.185 THAT THEIR CURRENT BUDGET IS 00:52:35.252 --> 00:52:36.753 ABOUT HALF OF WHAT THEY TRULY 00:52:36.820 --> 00:52:39.556 NEED TO BE SUCCESSFUL, AND EVEN 00:52:39.623 --> 00:52:40.557 INCREASE THEIR SERVICE RANGE. 00:52:40.624 --> 00:52:41.725 RIGHT NOW, THEY'RE FOCUSED IN 00:52:41.791 --> 00:52:43.226 DOWNTOWN OAKLAND, AND THAT'S 00:52:43.293 --> 00:52:44.594 WHAT WE KNOW ABOUT INTERVENTION 00:52:44.661 --> 00:52:45.595 PROGRAMS. IT'S IT'S VERY 00:52:45.662 --> 00:52:47.097 HELPFUL FOR THEM TO BE THESE 00:52:47.163 --> 00:52:48.865 LOCALIZED EFFORTS, SUCH AS THE 00:52:48.932 --> 00:52:50.033 FAMILY BRIDGES PROGRAM, WHICH 00:52:50.100 --> 00:52:51.501 IS A BENEFICIARY OF THE CRISIS 00:52:51.568 --> 00:52:53.937 ACT 1.0. AND IT WAS ABLE TO 00:52:54.004 --> 00:52:54.938 DEMONSTRATE IN CHINATOWN WHAT 00:52:55.005 --> 00:52:56.673 IT WAS LIKE TO HAVE AN 00:52:56.740 --> 00:52:57.707 ORGANIZATION THAT WAS ALREADY 00:52:57.774 --> 00:52:58.942 WORKING IN COMMUNITY AND 00:52:59.009 --> 00:53:00.744 ALREADY DOING THE WORK AND HAD 00:53:00.810 --> 00:53:02.879 BUILT IN COMMUNITY TRUST, THEN 00:53:02.946 --> 00:53:03.947 ALSO BE ABLE TO PARTNER WITH 00:53:04.014 --> 00:53:05.682 THE CITY TO EXPAND WHAT THAT 00:53:05.749 --> 00:53:07.250 LOOKS LIKE. BECAUSE OUR FOLKS 00:53:07.317 --> 00:53:09.019 NEED WRAPAROUND SERVICES, THEY 00:53:09.085 --> 00:53:11.521 NEED THE PREVENTION PIECE OF 00:53:11.588 --> 00:53:12.989 HOUSING AND ACCESS TO HEALTH 00:53:13.056 --> 00:53:15.191 CARE, AS WELL AS WHEN THE 00:53:15.258 --> 00:53:16.626 PREVENTION IS LIMITED. AND THEN 00:53:16.693 --> 00:53:18.361 WE HAVE A CRISIS ON OUR HANDS. 00:53:18.428 --> 00:53:19.462 WE KNOW CRISIS CAN LOOK LIKE 00:53:19.529 --> 00:53:20.697 VERY DIFFERENT THINGS, WHETHER 00:53:20.764 --> 00:53:22.399 IT BE A MENTAL HEALTH CRISIS. 00:53:22.465 --> 00:53:24.134 FOLKS ARE FACING FOOD 00:53:24.200 --> 00:53:25.201 INSECURITY, AND THAT'S LEADING 00:53:25.268 --> 00:53:27.037 FOLKS TO CRISIS, RIGHT? 00:53:27.103 --> 00:53:28.104 OFTENTIMES WHEN WE LOOK AT 00:53:28.171 --> 00:53:29.906 CRIME STATS, THE SO-CALLED 00:53:29.973 --> 00:53:32.075 CRIME THAT IS THE HIGHEST IS A 00:53:32.142 --> 00:53:33.443 ROBBERY, RIGHT? WHEN PEOPLE ARE 00:53:33.510 --> 00:53:36.413 DOING CONDITIONS BASED CRIMES 00:53:36.479 --> 00:53:37.581 BECAUSE FOLKS NEED TO MEET 00:53:37.647 --> 00:53:39.282 THEIR NEEDS. AND SO RATHER THAN 00:53:39.349 --> 00:53:41.451 POLICING POVERTY, FORWARD 00:53:41.518 --> 00:53:42.519 POLICING, POVERTY, WE WANT TO 00:53:42.586 --> 00:53:43.653 BE ABLE TO ACTUALLY MEET 00:53:43.720 --> 00:53:44.988 PEOPLE'S NEEDS. AND SO 00:53:45.055 --> 00:53:46.456 INVESTING IN OUR COMMUNITY 00:53:46.523 --> 00:53:47.591 FURTHER, ESPECIALLY WHEN WE SEE 00:53:47.657 --> 00:53:50.026 AT THE NATIONAL LEVEL, CUTS TO 00:53:50.093 --> 00:53:51.895 SNAP AND OTHER RESOURCES THAT 00:53:51.962 --> 00:53:53.597 BENEFIT OUR FOLKS. WE WANT TO 00:53:53.663 --> 00:53:54.698 TAKE PEOPLE WHO ARE BEING 00:53:54.764 --> 00:53:55.999 PUSHED FURTHER INTO THE MARGINS 00:53:56.066 --> 00:53:57.267 AND BEING CRIMINALIZED OUT OF 00:53:57.334 --> 00:53:59.402 THE MARGINS, AND COMMUNITY 00:53:59.469 --> 00:54:01.204 PROGRAMS AND SPACES LIKE HERE, 00:54:01.271 --> 00:54:03.039 LED BY OUR PARTNERS AT COURAGE 00:54:03.106 --> 00:54:03.740 COMMUNITIES UNITED FOR 00:54:03.807 --> 00:54:05.675 RESTORATIVE JUSTICE, WILL ALLOW 00:54:05.742 --> 00:54:07.644 US TO DO THAT. SO WE HOPE FOR 00:54:07.711 --> 00:54:08.612 CONTINUED PARTNERSHIP WITH THE 00:54:08.678 --> 00:54:10.213 STATE INVESTMENT FOR THE STATE 00:54:10.280 --> 00:54:12.415 AS WE PARTNER LOCALLY, FOR THE 00:54:12.482 --> 00:54:14.150 FOLKS WHO ARE EXPERTS AT WHAT 00:54:14.217 --> 00:54:15.151 THEIR COMMUNITIES NEEDS, BEING 00:54:15.218 --> 00:54:16.353 ABLE TO MEET THEIR COMMUNITIES 00:54:16.419 --> 00:54:18.855 NEEDS. THANK YOU SO MUCH. I 00:54:18.922 --> 00:54:20.323 ALSO WANT TO THANK COMMUNITIES 00:54:20.390 --> 00:54:21.558 UNITED FOR RESTORATIVE JUSTICE 00:54:21.625 --> 00:54:23.660 FOR HOSTING US TODAY. THANK YOU 00:54:23.727 --> 00:54:25.261 FOR ALLOWING US TO BE IN THIS 00:54:25.328 --> 00:54:28.264 SPACE. AND FOR MAKING SURE THAT 00:54:28.331 --> 00:54:29.666 COMMITTEE MEMBERS SAW THE OSCAR 00:54:29.733 --> 00:54:31.167 GRANT MURAL DOWN THE STREET AND 00:54:31.234 --> 00:54:32.168 UNDERSTOOD THE SIGNIFICANCE AND 00:54:32.235 --> 00:54:33.336 THE HISTORY OF THE PLACE THAT 00:54:33.403 --> 00:54:36.172 WE'RE STANDING IN. INCREDIBLY 00:54:36.239 --> 00:54:37.574 POWERFUL. ALSO, BEFORE I GO TO 00:54:37.641 --> 00:54:40.477 YOU, SEAN OR MR. JONES, I JUST 00:54:40.543 --> 00:54:42.112 HAVE A QUESTION. EVEN THOUGH I 00:54:42.178 --> 00:54:43.313 SAID THEY WOULD GO TO THE END, 00:54:43.380 --> 00:54:45.115 HOW DOES MACRO WORK? BECAUSE 00:54:45.181 --> 00:54:46.383 TWO OF YOU HAVE NOW MENTIONED 00:54:46.449 --> 00:54:47.450 MACRO, AND I'M GATHERING IT'S 00:54:47.517 --> 00:54:48.752 AN ALTERNATIVE CRISIS RESPONSE 00:54:48.818 --> 00:54:50.587 LINE OR SOMETHING LIKE HOW IS 00:54:50.654 --> 00:54:52.722 IT? IS IT A FORMAL CITY PROGRAM? 00:54:52.789 --> 00:54:54.891 IS IT A CITY PROGRAM? IT'S A 00:54:54.958 --> 00:54:56.693 CITY PROGRAM. IT'S BASED IN 00:54:56.760 --> 00:54:57.761 OAKLAND'S, SORRY, OAKLAND'S 00:54:57.827 --> 00:54:59.729 FIRE DEPARTMENT. AND IT WORKS 00:54:59.796 --> 00:55:02.132 IN TWO WAYS. INCREASINGLY, OVER 00:55:02.198 --> 00:55:04.968 THE LAST YEAR, THEY'VE STARTED 00:55:05.035 --> 00:55:06.403 ROUTING MORE 911 CALLS THROUGH 00:55:06.469 --> 00:55:08.171 A MACRO. SO IF THERE ARE LOW 00:55:08.238 --> 00:55:10.040 LEVEL CALLS OF SPECIFIC CALL 00:55:10.106 --> 00:55:11.808 TYPES, THOSE CALLS, WHEN 00:55:11.875 --> 00:55:13.209 RECEIVED BY THE DISPATCH, WILL 00:55:13.276 --> 00:55:15.211 GO TO MACRO RESPONDERS WHO HAVE 00:55:15.278 --> 00:55:17.947 A MUCH LOWER RESPONSE TIME AS 00:55:18.014 --> 00:55:19.349 AS YOU KNOW, AS THEY'RE FACING 00:55:19.416 --> 00:55:20.517 MANY FEWER CALLS. THERE'S ALSO 00:55:20.583 --> 00:55:22.652 A DIRECT LINE TO REACH FOR 00:55:22.719 --> 00:55:23.720 MACRO, WHICH IS WHAT I'M 00:55:23.787 --> 00:55:25.121 TALKING ABOUT. AND THE ONLY 00:55:25.188 --> 00:55:25.922 CHALLENGE, THE MAIN CHALLENGE 00:55:25.989 --> 00:55:27.624 THAT WE'RE FACING THERE IS HOW 00:55:27.691 --> 00:55:28.925 DO WE GET IN DEEP COMMUNITIES, 00:55:28.992 --> 00:55:30.627 LIKE IN DEEP EAST OAKLAND? HOW 00:55:30.694 --> 00:55:31.861 DO WE GET PEOPLE TO KNOW THAT 00:55:31.928 --> 00:55:33.663 THIS EXISTS? WHEN WE'RE TALKING 00:55:33.730 --> 00:55:34.798 TO FOLKS, IT'S ONE OF THOSE 00:55:34.864 --> 00:55:35.865 THINGS WHERE, YOU KNOW, IT 00:55:35.932 --> 00:55:37.734 TAKES RESOURCES TO GET THE WORD 00:55:37.801 --> 00:55:38.835 OUT RIGHT. AND WITH THOSE 00:55:38.902 --> 00:55:39.803 RESOURCES LACKING, FOLKS WHO 00:55:39.869 --> 00:55:40.904 WERE TALKING TO JUST AREN'T, 00:55:40.970 --> 00:55:42.739 YOU KNOW, AREN'T AWARE OF THE 00:55:42.806 --> 00:55:43.907 PROGRAM AND SO DON'T KNOW WHO 00:55:43.973 --> 00:55:45.775 TO CALL WHEN THERE'S A CRISIS 00:55:45.842 --> 00:55:46.876 OF THAT SORT. SO MUCH. MR. 00:55:46.943 --> 00:55:52.182 JONES. APPRECIATE. YEAH. YES, 00:55:52.248 --> 00:55:55.051 SIR. I, I IT'S BEEN THE 00:55:55.118 --> 00:55:56.953 MINISTER, I DID A PANEL. I'M A 00:55:57.020 --> 00:55:58.054 LITTLE NERVOUS. YOU KNOW, IT'S 00:55:58.121 --> 00:55:59.656 BEEN A MINUTE, YOU KNOW. BUT 00:55:59.723 --> 00:56:02.225 BUT I APPRECIATE. GOOD 00:56:02.292 --> 00:56:03.993 AFTERNOON EVERYBODY. MY NAME IS 00:56:04.060 --> 00:56:05.762 SEAN JONES. I'M PART OF SOCIAL 00:56:05.829 --> 00:56:07.197 JUSTICE LEARNING INSTITUTE 00:56:07.263 --> 00:56:09.399 ALUMNI ALSO BSW BROTHERS SONS 00:56:09.466 --> 00:56:13.103 SELVES COALITION. OUR MAN IT'S 00:56:13.169 --> 00:56:16.573 BEEN ADMITTED I WORKED I I 00:56:16.639 --> 00:56:18.742 WORKED AND BEEN BEEN A PART OF 00:56:18.808 --> 00:56:20.944 BILL OF RIGHTS YOU KNOW WITH 00:56:21.010 --> 00:56:22.712 BSW ALSO DID STUDY AND RESEARCH 00:56:22.779 --> 00:56:24.881 WITH SJ LEE. YOU KNOW, WE HAD A 00:56:24.948 --> 00:56:27.083 CLASS CALLED BME WITH BLACK 00:56:27.150 --> 00:56:28.451 MALE YOUTH ACADEMY SCHOOL TO 00:56:28.518 --> 00:56:30.220 PRISON PIPELINE AND WITH THE 00:56:30.286 --> 00:56:31.488 SCHOOL TO PRISON PIPELINE MEANS 00:56:31.554 --> 00:56:32.555 THAT HOW STUDENTS IS BEING 00:56:32.622 --> 00:56:35.391 TREATED AS PRISONERS IN, IN, IN 00:56:35.458 --> 00:56:37.460 A LEARNING ENVIRONMENT IN ALL 00:56:37.527 --> 00:56:41.064 SCHOOLS OF LÀ USD, YOU KNOW, AS 00:56:41.131 --> 00:56:42.832 STUDENTS LIKE WE SHOULD BE 00:56:42.899 --> 00:56:44.334 BEING TEACHED AND NOT JUST 00:56:44.400 --> 00:56:46.503 BEING TREATED LIKE, LIKE, YOU 00:56:46.569 --> 00:56:47.904 KNOW, INMATES AND DO PRISONS 00:56:47.971 --> 00:56:49.339 LIKE WE AS SCHOOL TO, TO GET 00:56:49.405 --> 00:56:51.541 OUR EDUCATION AND TO GET, YOU 00:56:51.608 --> 00:56:52.675 KNOW, WHAT, WHAT WE NEED TO 00:56:52.742 --> 00:56:54.577 KNOW ABOUT OUR FUTURE AND GO TO 00:56:54.644 --> 00:56:55.812 COLLEGE OR GET A JOBS OR 00:56:55.879 --> 00:56:57.781 WHATNOT, NOT JUST AND NOT JUST 00:56:57.847 --> 00:56:59.115 NOT FOR HIGH SCHOOL, BUT LIKE 00:56:59.182 --> 00:57:00.717 FOR JUNIOR HIGH AND FOR 00:57:00.784 --> 00:57:01.718 INTERMITTENT SCHOOLS. AND YOU 00:57:01.785 --> 00:57:03.520 LOOK AT OUR, OUR SCHOOLS AND, 00:57:03.586 --> 00:57:06.289 AND THE LÀ USD, YOU JUST LOOK 00:57:06.356 --> 00:57:07.957 AT OUR SCHOOLS, LIKE HOW IT'S 00:57:08.024 --> 00:57:09.092 LIKE IT'S BEING LIKE FORMED OR 00:57:09.159 --> 00:57:11.995 HOW IT'S BEING LIKE, JUST LIKE 00:57:12.061 --> 00:57:14.964 HOW, HOW IT'S BEING BUILT AS 00:57:15.031 --> 00:57:17.467 LIKE A PRISON, LIKE YOU TELLING 00:57:17.534 --> 00:57:18.902 STUDENTS LIKE TO GO TO THIS 00:57:18.968 --> 00:57:21.571 CLASS OR YOU, YOU GET IN CLASS, 00:57:21.638 --> 00:57:23.106 YOU GOING TO BE LATE, YOU GET 00:57:23.173 --> 00:57:24.874 SENT TO AN OFFICE, IT'S GOING 00:57:24.941 --> 00:57:26.176 TO BE CONSEQUENCES IF YOU DON'T 00:57:26.242 --> 00:57:27.577 DO WHAT YOU'RE SUPPOSED TO DO 00:57:27.644 --> 00:57:30.513 IN SCHOOLS. AND YOU, YOU LOOK 00:57:30.580 --> 00:57:32.916 AT INSIDE OF PRISON AND YOU SEE 00:57:32.982 --> 00:57:36.653 INMATES LIKE INMATES TO, AGAIN, 00:57:36.719 --> 00:57:41.191 SAU YOUR CELL, OUR CELL OR, OR 00:57:41.257 --> 00:57:42.225 THERE'S GOING TO BE 00:57:42.292 --> 00:57:43.226 CONSEQUENCES. YOU'RE GOING TO 00:57:43.293 --> 00:57:44.828 BE SENT TO SOLITARY CONFINEMENT 00:57:44.894 --> 00:57:46.696 OR PROTECTIVE CUSTODY, OR 00:57:46.763 --> 00:57:48.731 YOU'RE GOING TO BE SENT TO 00:57:48.798 --> 00:57:50.233 DIFFERENT YARD WITH DIFFERENT 00:57:50.300 --> 00:57:52.001 PEOPLE THAT THAT YOU'RE NOT 00:57:52.068 --> 00:57:53.536 FAMILIAR WITH OR ANYTHING LIKE 00:57:53.603 --> 00:57:56.439 THAT. SO WE SO I DID LIKE ONE, 00:57:56.506 --> 00:57:58.274 I REMEMBER DURING HIGH SCHOOL 00:57:58.341 --> 00:57:59.976 IN NINTH GRADE, WE JUST LIKE 00:58:00.043 --> 00:58:01.344 RESEARCHED AND INTERVIEWED THE 00:58:01.411 --> 00:58:03.146 COUPLE OF SURVEYS, YOU KNOW, 00:58:03.213 --> 00:58:04.948 YOU KNOW, JUST ADDING UP THE 00:58:05.014 --> 00:58:06.783 STATISTICS, LIKE GETTING THE 00:58:06.850 --> 00:58:08.551 PEOPLE VOICE, LIKE WHAT THEY 00:58:08.618 --> 00:58:09.319 HEARD, WHAT THEY THINK ABOUT 00:58:09.385 --> 00:58:12.856 THIS ISSUE OR THIS TOPIC. AND 00:58:12.922 --> 00:58:14.290 SOME OF THEIR KIDS, LIKE, THEY 00:58:14.357 --> 00:58:15.458 FEEL LIKE THEY'RE PRISONERS AS 00:58:15.525 --> 00:58:17.160 WELL. LIKE THEY THINK THAT 00:58:17.227 --> 00:58:18.328 THEY'RE NOT BEING TREATED AS 00:58:18.394 --> 00:58:19.395 HUMAN BEINGS. THEY'RE BEING 00:58:19.462 --> 00:58:21.197 TREATED LIKE LIKE A CAGED 00:58:21.264 --> 00:58:22.532 ANIMAL, THAT WE'RE NOT CAGED 00:58:22.599 --> 00:58:24.434 ANIMALS. LIKE WE JUST HERE TO 00:58:24.500 --> 00:58:29.405 BE A PLUS STUDENT, YOU KNOW, 00:58:29.472 --> 00:58:31.274 AND I FEEL LIKE OUR KIDS TODAY, 00:58:31.341 --> 00:58:32.675 NOT JUST OUR KIDS LIKE 00:58:32.742 --> 00:58:34.210 TEENAGERS, YOU KNOW, FROM K 00:58:34.277 --> 00:58:35.845 THROUGH 12, LIKE WE SHOULD NOT 00:58:35.912 --> 00:58:37.347 GO THROUGH THAT. LIKE THEY 00:58:37.413 --> 00:58:40.617 SHOULD HAVE EDUCATION, HAVE A 00:58:40.683 --> 00:58:41.751 FUTURE IN LIFE AND THEY CAN 00:58:41.818 --> 00:58:42.819 PASS ON TO DIFFERENT 00:58:42.886 --> 00:58:44.854 GENERATIONS OF THEIR KIDS AND 00:58:44.921 --> 00:58:47.824 THEIR FAMILIES. AND OUR SCHOOLS 00:58:47.891 --> 00:58:49.592 ARE HERE TO JUST BE A LEARNING 00:58:49.659 --> 00:58:52.095 ENVIRONMENT, NOT JUST LIKE, 00:58:52.161 --> 00:58:54.931 LIKE PRISONS OF TO SEND PEOPLE 00:58:54.998 --> 00:58:57.200 TO PRISON FOR THINGS THAT 00:58:57.267 --> 00:59:00.837 THEY'VE DONE, LIKE, AND AS WELL 00:59:00.904 --> 00:59:02.472 AS WE CAN'T FORGET ABOUT THE 00:59:02.538 --> 00:59:03.573 SCHOOL POLICING. I FEEL LIKE 00:59:03.640 --> 00:59:04.707 THE SCHOOL POLICING NEEDS MIGHT 00:59:04.774 --> 00:59:06.476 BE BETTER AS WELL. LIKE THEY 00:59:06.542 --> 00:59:07.844 SHOULD BE LIKE HELD ACCOUNTABLE 00:59:07.911 --> 00:59:09.279 FOR THINGS THAT, THAT HAPPEN TO 00:59:09.345 --> 00:59:11.247 A STUDENT, LIKE FOR, FOR THEIR 00:59:11.314 --> 00:59:12.615 MENTAL ISSUES OR WHAT IS 00:59:12.682 --> 00:59:14.183 HAPPENING TO THEM OR CHECK UP 00:59:14.250 --> 00:59:16.953 ON THEM, NOT JUST LIKE TREATED 00:59:17.020 --> 00:59:18.388 THEM, NOT JUST BE TREATED AS 00:59:18.454 --> 00:59:20.223 STUDENT, LIKE THE ONE WAY THEY 00:59:20.290 --> 00:59:21.357 SHOULD BE. TREAT STUDENTS THE 00:59:21.424 --> 00:59:23.159 RIGHT WAY AS MUCH AS LIKE 00:59:23.226 --> 00:59:24.127 PRISONERS BECAUSE PRISONERS, 00:59:24.193 --> 00:59:25.662 THEY, THEY NEED A SECOND CHANCE 00:59:25.728 --> 00:59:29.232 OF LIFE AS WELL. SO THAT'S WHAT 00:59:29.299 --> 00:59:31.801 I WORKED ON RESEARCH TODAY. AND 00:59:31.868 --> 00:59:34.270 I FEEL LIKE OUR STUDENTS NEED 00:59:34.337 --> 00:59:35.939 BE OUR STUDENTS NEED TO BE 00:59:36.005 --> 00:59:37.607 BETTER, SAFE AND SOUND AND GET 00:59:37.674 --> 00:59:38.741 OUR EDUCATION AND THEN JUST 00:59:38.808 --> 00:59:40.476 PASSED ON NEXT GENERATION HERE 00:59:40.543 --> 00:59:47.517 TO COME. THANK YOU SO MUCH. YOU 00:59:47.583 --> 00:59:51.754 DID GREAT. APPRECIATE IT. 00:59:51.821 --> 00:59:52.755 COLLEAGUES. ANY QUESTIONS FOR 00:59:52.822 --> 00:59:57.593 THE PANEL? MR. KALRA? THANK YOU, 00:59:57.660 --> 00:59:59.262 MR. CHAIR, AND THANK YOU TO ALL 00:59:59.329 --> 01:00:01.364 THE PANEL PANELISTS. IT WAS IT 01:00:01.431 --> 01:00:02.532 WAS GOOD TO HEAR ABOUT THE 01:00:02.598 --> 01:00:05.068 MACRO PROGRAM. I HOPE THE CITY 01:00:05.134 --> 01:00:07.637 WILL FIND WAYS TO FUND IT MORE. 01:00:07.704 --> 01:00:08.404 AND ESPECIALLY WITH THE 01:00:08.471 --> 01:00:09.405 OUTREACH, IT SOUNDS LIKE IT'LL 01:00:09.472 --> 01:00:11.607 BE A. IT'S DESPERATELY NEEDED 01:00:11.674 --> 01:00:13.710 TO LET FOLKS KNOW ABOUT IT, BUT 01:00:13.776 --> 01:00:15.178 I LOOK FORWARD TO LEARNING MORE 01:00:15.244 --> 01:00:16.646 ABOUT IT AFTER THE HEARING. 01:00:16.713 --> 01:00:19.148 I'LL BE IN TOUCH TO LEARN MORE. 01:00:19.215 --> 01:00:22.018 I HAD A. I JUST WANTED TO THANK 01:00:22.085 --> 01:00:23.853 MR. ALEXANDER FOR BRINGING UP 01:00:23.920 --> 01:00:26.089 THE ISSUE OF ONE OF 148, WHICH 01:00:26.155 --> 01:00:27.757 ARE NOT JUST RESISTING, 01:00:27.824 --> 01:00:28.858 RESISTING, DELAYING, OR 01:00:28.925 --> 01:00:30.693 OBSTRUCTING A POLICE OFFICER IN 01:00:30.760 --> 01:00:32.195 THE PERFORMANCE OF THEIR DUTIES, 01:00:32.261 --> 01:00:34.230 WHICH IS, AS IT SOUNDS, 01:00:34.297 --> 01:00:36.065 INCREDIBLY BROAD. I WAS A 01:00:36.132 --> 01:00:37.400 PUBLIC DEFENDER IN SANTA CLARA 01:00:37.467 --> 01:00:40.003 COUNTY FROM 1997 TO 2008. 01:00:40.069 --> 01:00:41.471 ANYONE FROM THE BAY KNOWS SANTA 01:00:41.537 --> 01:00:44.374 CLARA COUNTY. THEY WOULD CHARGE 01:00:44.440 --> 01:00:45.541 EVERYTHING THEY POSSIBLY COULD. 01:00:45.608 --> 01:00:47.610 THEY WOULD FILL THE SHEET. SO 01:00:47.677 --> 01:00:49.012 WHENEVER WE SAW CASES THAT IT 01:00:49.078 --> 01:00:51.514 WAS A STANDALONE. 148 IT WAS 01:00:51.581 --> 01:00:53.249 INCREDIBLY PROBLEMATIC. IT 01:00:53.316 --> 01:00:54.384 WOULD BE FOLKS THAT WERE 01:00:54.450 --> 01:00:55.852 QUESTIONING AUTHORITY AS YOU 01:00:55.918 --> 01:00:57.987 REFERRED TO PEOPLE, THIRD 01:00:58.054 --> 01:00:59.789 PARTIES OBSERVING OR FILMING 01:00:59.856 --> 01:01:02.792 THE POLICE OR IN THE MOST 01:01:02.859 --> 01:01:03.926 EGREGIOUS SITUATIONS, COVER UP 01:01:03.993 --> 01:01:05.928 A POLICE ABUSE. AND SO THERE 01:01:05.995 --> 01:01:07.430 WOULD LITERALLY BE CLIENTS 01:01:07.497 --> 01:01:08.097 COMING STRAIGHT FROM THE 01:01:08.164 --> 01:01:11.467 INFIRMARY INTO THE COURTROOM. 01:01:11.534 --> 01:01:13.603 CLEARLY, YOU KNOW, HAD HAD HAD 01:01:13.669 --> 01:01:15.038 BEEN ABUSED. AND THE ONLY 01:01:15.104 --> 01:01:16.506 CHARGE THEY WOULD HAVE IS A. 01:01:16.572 --> 01:01:18.941 148. SO I APPRECIATE YOU 01:01:19.008 --> 01:01:20.076 RAISING. THIS HAS BEEN AN ISSUE, 01:01:20.143 --> 01:01:21.511 OBVIOUSLY, FOR MANY DECADES. I 01:01:21.577 --> 01:01:22.545 APPRECIATE YOU RAISING THAT 01:01:22.612 --> 01:01:23.913 ISSUE AND ALSO RAISING THE 01:01:23.980 --> 01:01:25.148 ISSUE OF BEING ABLE TO COLLECT 01:01:25.214 --> 01:01:26.516 DATA, BECAUSE THAT'S ANOTHER 01:01:26.582 --> 01:01:27.717 AREA UNDER THE RACIAL JUSTICE 01:01:27.784 --> 01:01:29.852 ACT IS GETTING RESOURCES, 01:01:29.919 --> 01:01:31.220 BECAUSE THAT'S THE PUSHBACK 01:01:31.287 --> 01:01:32.622 FROM THE COURTS. AND THE DAS 01:01:32.688 --> 01:01:34.290 ALL THE TIME IS THAT WE DON'T 01:01:34.357 --> 01:01:35.358 HAVE THE RESOURCES TO GET THE 01:01:35.425 --> 01:01:39.095 DATA. AND SO, YOU KNOW, FINDING 01:01:39.162 --> 01:01:40.930 SOME SYSTEM WHERE THE DATA IS 01:01:40.997 --> 01:01:43.466 MORE EASILY ACCESSIBLE TO 01:01:43.533 --> 01:01:44.901 INDIVIDUALS, TO COMMUNITY 01:01:44.967 --> 01:01:46.002 ORGANIZATIONS, TO DEFENSE 01:01:46.069 --> 01:01:47.070 ATTORNEYS, WHAT HAVE YOU, SO 01:01:47.136 --> 01:01:48.504 THAT THIS ANALYSIS CAN BE 01:01:48.571 --> 01:01:49.906 PROPERLY DONE, NOT JUST IN SAN 01:01:49.972 --> 01:01:51.874 DIEGO BUT THROUGHOUT THE STATE. 01:01:51.941 --> 01:01:53.042 SO I APPRECIATE YOU RAISING THE 01:01:53.109 --> 01:01:58.915 ISSUE OF THE 148. ANY OTHER 01:01:58.981 --> 01:01:59.615 QUESTIONS OR COMMENTS, 01:01:59.682 --> 01:02:03.619 COLLEAGUES? WHAT IS MACRO'S 01:02:03.686 --> 01:02:06.722 BUDGET? DID YOU HAVE THE 01:02:06.789 --> 01:02:09.125 NUMBERS 2.5 MILLION. ABOUT 2.5 01:02:09.192 --> 01:02:10.493 MILLION. AND AGAIN, WE'RE WE'RE 01:02:10.560 --> 01:02:12.061 WE'RE IN A POSITION WHERE IN 01:02:12.128 --> 01:02:13.296 THE LAST BUDGET CYCLE, NINE OF 01:02:13.362 --> 01:02:15.631 THE NINE POSITIONS WERE FROZEN. 01:02:15.698 --> 01:02:17.533 AND SO FIRST OF ALL, I DIDN'T I 01:02:17.600 --> 01:02:18.701 DIDN'T SAY THIS. MAC WAS DOING 01:02:18.768 --> 01:02:20.636 A GREAT JOB. I REALLY, I REALLY 01:02:20.703 --> 01:02:22.505 LOVE THE PROGRAM. I LOVE WHAT 01:02:22.572 --> 01:02:23.573 THEY'RE DOING. YOU KNOW, THEY 01:02:23.639 --> 01:02:25.541 LEAD WITH A, WITH A EMT AND A 01:02:25.608 --> 01:02:26.609 PEER RESPONDER, RIGHT? THIS IS 01:02:26.676 --> 01:02:28.478 A MODEL THAT'S BEEN, YOU KNOW, 01:02:28.544 --> 01:02:29.846 GROWING ACROSS THE COUNTRY AND 01:02:29.912 --> 01:02:30.980 IT'S SHOWING GREAT RESULTS IN 01:02:31.047 --> 01:02:32.615 NOT ONLY THE ABILITY TO SERVE 01:02:32.682 --> 01:02:34.317 THE PEOPLE, BUT TO, TO DIVERT 01:02:34.383 --> 01:02:36.085 CALLS FROM 911 SYSTEMS, RIGHT? 01:02:36.152 --> 01:02:37.787 TAKING LARGE PERCENTAGES IN 01:02:37.854 --> 01:02:39.322 BOTH HERE AND IN CITIES ACROSS 01:02:39.388 --> 01:02:41.390 THE COUNTRY. AND SO THE 01:02:41.457 --> 01:02:42.492 CHALLENGE IS JUST GETTING A 01:02:42.558 --> 01:02:43.659 PROGRAM LIKE THAT ON ITS FEET 01:02:43.726 --> 01:02:45.461 AND GROWING A PROGRAM LIKE THAT. 01:02:45.528 --> 01:02:47.463 AND, AND I WISH WE DID HAVE THE 01:02:47.530 --> 01:02:49.398 FUNDS IN OAKLAND TO, TO PAY FOR 01:02:49.465 --> 01:02:50.533 A SERVICE LIKE THAT. BUT RIGHT 01:02:50.600 --> 01:02:51.734 NOW WITH, WITH THE STRUCTURAL 01:02:51.801 --> 01:02:52.702 DEFICIT, WE'RE TALKING ABOUT 01:02:52.768 --> 01:02:54.403 FIGHTING TO PREVENT THINGS FROM 01:02:54.470 --> 01:02:55.571 BEING CUT AS OPPOSED TO, TO, TO, 01:02:55.638 --> 01:02:57.473 TO ABLE TO GROW PROGRAMS. AND 01:02:57.540 --> 01:02:58.574 SO THAT'S WHY I TOOK THE 01:02:58.641 --> 01:03:00.376 ADVANTAGE OF BEING HERE WITH 01:03:00.443 --> 01:03:01.577 ALL YOU FINE FOLKS TO MENTION 01:03:01.644 --> 01:03:03.446 THAT, YOU KNOW, IT IS IT IS 01:03:03.513 --> 01:03:04.514 RESOURCES THAT WE'RE LOOKING 01:03:04.580 --> 01:03:06.382 FOR TO BE ABLE TO GROW THESE 01:03:06.449 --> 01:03:07.483 PROGRAMS. IT WAS STATE FUNDS 01:03:07.550 --> 01:03:08.584 THAT HELPED MACRO GET ON ITS 01:03:08.651 --> 01:03:10.386 FEET WHEN IT WAS FIRST 01:03:10.453 --> 01:03:11.387 ESTABLISHED, THANKS TO OUR 01:03:11.454 --> 01:03:11.921 LOCAL LEGISLATORS AVAILING 01:03:11.988 --> 01:03:13.456 THEMSELVES OF, I THINK IT WAS 01:03:13.523 --> 01:03:14.490 SENATOR NANCY SKINNER AT THE 01:03:14.557 --> 01:03:16.359 TIME. BUT BUT BUT, YOU KNOW, 01:03:16.425 --> 01:03:17.360 HOPING FOR FOR CONTINUED 01:03:17.426 --> 01:03:18.427 PARTNERSHIP WITH THE STATE FOR 01:03:18.494 --> 01:03:19.595 NOT ONLY MACRO, BUT PROGRAMS 01:03:19.662 --> 01:03:21.397 LIKE THIS THAT EXIST, YOU KNOW, 01:03:21.464 --> 01:03:22.431 LIKE THE ROCK PROGRAM IN 01:03:22.498 --> 01:03:23.466 RICHMOND IS ANOTHER GOOD 01:03:23.533 --> 01:03:24.534 EXAMPLE. THERE ARE PROGRAMS 01:03:24.600 --> 01:03:25.535 THROUGHOUT THE STATE THAT ARE 01:03:25.601 --> 01:03:26.702 DOING THE CIVILIAN RESPONSE. 01:03:26.769 --> 01:03:27.670 AND, AND WITH 911 SYSTEMS 01:03:27.737 --> 01:03:29.405 OVERLOADED ACROSS THE STATE AND 01:03:29.472 --> 01:03:30.439 RESPONSE TIMES, YOU KNOW, A 01:03:30.506 --> 01:03:31.474 GREAT CHALLENGE, ESPECIALLY FOR, 01:03:31.541 --> 01:03:32.542 FOR, FOR COMMUNITIES OF COLOR, 01:03:32.608 --> 01:03:34.410 YOU KNOW, IT'S A GREAT, IT'S A 01:03:34.477 --> 01:03:35.578 GREAT RESOURCE TO BE ABLE TO 01:03:35.645 --> 01:03:37.413 GROW THESE PROGRAMS, TO RESPOND 01:03:37.480 --> 01:03:38.581 TO THESE LOW LEVEL CALLS THAT 01:03:38.648 --> 01:03:40.449 OFTEN HAVE, YOU KNOW, 4 OR 5, 01:03:40.516 --> 01:03:41.684 SIX, EIGHT HOUR RESPONSE TIMES, 01:03:41.751 --> 01:03:43.386 WHICH JUST DOES NOT MEET THE 01:03:43.452 --> 01:03:44.487 NEED THAT OUR COMMUNITIES ARE 01:03:44.554 --> 01:03:45.555 FACING. WHAT'S MACRO'S RESPONSE 01:03:45.621 --> 01:03:46.956 TIME? I DON'T HAVE THAT NUMBER. 01:03:47.023 --> 01:03:48.491 I DON'T HAVE THAT NUMBER WITH 01:03:48.558 --> 01:03:50.393 ME. BUT I KNOW IT'S IT'S MUCH 01:03:50.459 --> 01:03:51.427 BETTER THAN EIGHT HOURS. YOU 01:03:51.494 --> 01:03:52.595 KNOW, IT'S, IT'S, IT'S, IT'S, 01:03:52.662 --> 01:03:54.397 IT'S, WE'LL BE PRODUCING A 01:03:54.463 --> 01:03:55.598 SURVEY IN THE NEXT COUPLE OF 01:03:55.665 --> 01:03:57.433 MONTHS. AND SO I'M HAPPY TO 01:03:57.500 --> 01:03:58.568 SHARE THAT WITH YOU ALL THAT 01:03:58.634 --> 01:04:00.436 WE'LL HAVE MORE DATA FROM THE 01:04:00.503 --> 01:04:00.937 COMMUNITY WHO'VE, WHO'VE 01:04:01.003 --> 01:04:01.737 RECEIVED SERVICES, YOU KNOW, 01:04:01.804 --> 01:04:03.573 FROM MACRO AS WELL AS OTHERS. 01:04:03.639 --> 01:04:05.408 BUT WHAT WE'RE HEARING FROM 01:04:05.474 --> 01:04:07.410 FOLKS IS THAT IS THAT MACRO IS 01:04:07.476 --> 01:04:09.245 MUCH MORE ABLE TO MEET THE NEED, 01:04:09.312 --> 01:04:10.313 RIGHT? YOU KNOW, THERE'S, 01:04:10.379 --> 01:04:12.081 THERE'S, THE MACRO UNITS ARE 01:04:12.148 --> 01:04:13.583 CERTAINLY ALWAYS BUSY, RIGHT? 01:04:13.649 --> 01:04:16.152 AND ARE OVERTAXED, BUT ARE MUCH 01:04:16.219 --> 01:04:17.286 BETTER ABLE TO MEET THE NEED 01:04:17.353 --> 01:04:19.155 THAN THE POLICE WHO, YOU KNOW, 01:04:19.222 --> 01:04:20.423 WHO AREN'T ABLE TO SHOW UP. 01:04:20.489 --> 01:04:22.592 THANK YOU. AND IF I MAY, I JUST 01:04:22.658 --> 01:04:24.193 WANT TO ADD, I THINK A LARGE 01:04:24.260 --> 01:04:26.062 PART OF MACRO SUCCESS IS THEIR 01:04:26.128 --> 01:04:27.163 UNDERSTANDING OF THE DEEP NEED 01:04:27.230 --> 01:04:28.331 FOR COMMUNITY PARTNERSHIP. 01:04:28.397 --> 01:04:29.732 RIGHT? SO ELLIOTT, WHO HELPS 01:04:29.799 --> 01:04:31.968 LEAD TO LEAD THE MACRO TEAM, IS 01:04:32.034 --> 01:04:33.436 IN CONSTANT CONVERSATION WITH 01:04:33.502 --> 01:04:34.937 THEIR COMMUNITY PARTNERS ACROSS 01:04:35.004 --> 01:04:36.272 THE CITY WHO ARE DOING 01:04:36.339 --> 01:04:37.640 INTERVENTION WORK, WHO ARE 01:04:37.707 --> 01:04:38.507 POTENTIAL PIPELINES. THEY'RE 01:04:38.574 --> 01:04:40.243 NOT JUST THINKING ABOUT THEIR 01:04:40.309 --> 01:04:42.378 INITIAL INTERVENTION AT THE 01:04:42.445 --> 01:04:43.346 CRISIS. THEY'RE THINKING ABOUT 01:04:43.412 --> 01:04:44.914 WHERE PEOPLE GO AFTERWARDS. 01:04:44.981 --> 01:04:45.948 THEY'RE THINKING ABOUT 01:04:46.015 --> 01:04:46.649 WRAPAROUND SERVICES. THEY'RE 01:04:46.716 --> 01:04:48.150 THINKING ABOUT HIGH PRIORITY 01:04:48.217 --> 01:04:49.619 AREAS. AND DESPITE THE LACK OF 01:04:49.685 --> 01:04:51.454 THE BUDGET TO DO SO, ARE DOING 01:04:51.520 --> 01:04:52.855 DEEP COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT TO 01:04:52.922 --> 01:04:54.557 BUILD TRUST, WHICH IS SOMETHING 01:04:54.624 --> 01:04:55.691 YOU REALLY CAN'T PUT A DOLLAR 01:04:55.758 --> 01:04:57.093 AMOUNT BEHIND. AND NOW THAT 01:04:57.159 --> 01:04:58.594 THEY'VE BUILT THE TRUST OF THE 01:04:58.661 --> 01:05:00.029 COMMUNITY, NEED TO BUILD ON 01:05:00.096 --> 01:05:02.665 THAT TRUST BY SUCCEEDING. THANK 01:05:02.732 --> 01:05:04.367 YOU FOR THAT. MR. ALEXANDER, I 01:05:04.433 --> 01:05:05.768 JUST HAVE A QUESTION FOR YOU. 01:05:05.835 --> 01:05:07.203 PC 148 ARE THERE ANY 01:05:07.270 --> 01:05:09.705 JURISDICTIONS THAT HAVE DONE 01:05:09.772 --> 01:05:11.474 ANY CHANGES WITH THIS OR ANY 01:05:11.540 --> 01:05:12.208 PROSECUTORS WHO HAVE DECIDED 01:05:12.275 --> 01:05:14.777 THEY'RE NOT THEY'RE NOT 01:05:14.844 --> 01:05:16.212 CHARGING THIS OR THEY'RE NOT, 01:05:16.279 --> 01:05:18.381 YOU KNOW, PURSUING CASES? THE 01:05:18.447 --> 01:05:20.149 THE ABOLITIONIST IN ME SAYS, 01:05:20.216 --> 01:05:22.318 GET RID OF PC. 148 THE 01:05:22.385 --> 01:05:23.786 PRAGMATIST IN ME WHO RECOGNIZES 01:05:23.853 --> 01:05:25.187 THE POLITICS OF THINGS IS LIKE, 01:05:25.254 --> 01:05:26.589 DON'T ALLOW IT TO BE A 01:05:26.656 --> 01:05:28.958 STANDALONE CHARGE. IT WOULD 01:05:29.025 --> 01:05:30.126 HAVE TO ACCOMPANY ANOTHER 01:05:30.192 --> 01:05:31.327 CHARGE AND THEN SCRUTINIZE IT 01:05:31.394 --> 01:05:33.162 STILL HEAVILY. I'M JUST KIND OF 01:05:33.229 --> 01:05:34.230 CURIOUS, HAS ANYBODY TRIED TO 01:05:34.297 --> 01:05:35.331 ADDRESS THIS? BECAUSE I THINK 01:05:35.398 --> 01:05:37.099 MR. CARL BRINGS AN INCREDIBLE 01:05:37.166 --> 01:05:38.200 POINT AND HAS SEEN THIS 01:05:38.267 --> 01:05:39.602 FIRSTHAND AS A PUBLIC DEFENDER, 01:05:39.669 --> 01:05:41.037 WHERE IT'S A STANDALONE CHARGE 01:05:41.103 --> 01:05:42.471 AND IT'S IT'S OFTEN USED JUST 01:05:42.538 --> 01:05:46.409 BECAUSE YOU WANTED TO. THE 01:05:46.475 --> 01:05:47.510 ASSEMBLY MEMBER MIGHT KNOW MORE 01:05:47.576 --> 01:05:49.312 ABOUT THIS THAN I DO BECAUSE 01:05:49.378 --> 01:05:52.148 THE WAY THAT HE WAS. YEAH. 01:05:52.214 --> 01:05:54.016 EXPLAINING IT NOT TO MY 01:05:54.083 --> 01:05:56.152 KNOWLEDGE, THE THE FEW PEOPLE 01:05:56.218 --> 01:05:57.586 IN POLICY CIRCLES THAT WE'VE 01:05:57.653 --> 01:06:00.156 SPOKEN TO HAVE RECOMMENDED JUST 01:06:00.222 --> 01:06:02.291 PUTTING PRESSURE ON LOCAL PD TO 01:06:02.358 --> 01:06:03.726 ACTUALLY NOT DO IT. SO IT'S 01:06:03.793 --> 01:06:04.794 POSSIBLE THAT THERE ARE SOME 01:06:04.860 --> 01:06:07.330 CITIES IN CALIFORNIA WHERE THE 01:06:07.396 --> 01:06:09.131 POLICE DEPARTMENT HAS KIND OF 01:06:09.198 --> 01:06:11.233 GOTTEN RID OF THE CULTURE. THE 01:06:11.300 --> 01:06:14.503 CONCERN ABOUT MAKING IT AS THE 01:06:14.570 --> 01:06:16.305 CONCERN ABOUT MAKING IT THAT IN 01:06:16.372 --> 01:06:17.773 ORDER TO CHARGE SOMEBODY WITH 01:06:17.840 --> 01:06:19.175 RESISTING ARREST, IT WOULD HAVE 01:06:19.241 --> 01:06:20.242 TO BE ATTACHED AND NOT A 01:06:20.309 --> 01:06:21.711 STANDALONE CRIME, IS THAT THEY 01:06:21.777 --> 01:06:26.449 WOULD JUST ADD THINGS TO IT. SO 01:06:26.515 --> 01:06:27.883 RIGHT NOW, WE'RE JUST KIND OF 01:06:27.950 --> 01:06:29.118 REALLY INTERESTED IN COLLECTING 01:06:29.185 --> 01:06:30.653 MORE INFORMATION ON IT, BUT 01:06:30.720 --> 01:06:32.154 WOULD LOVE TO WORK WITH ALL OF 01:06:32.221 --> 01:06:34.323 YOU ON FIGURING OUT KIND OF A 01:06:34.390 --> 01:06:37.159 WAY TO DISCOURAGE THE ABUSES 01:06:37.226 --> 01:06:38.794 THAT WE SEE HAPPENING REALLY ON 01:06:38.861 --> 01:06:41.530 A DAILY BASIS. THANK YOU SO 01:06:41.597 --> 01:06:43.165 MUCH. ANY OTHER QUESTIONS OR 01:06:43.232 --> 01:06:45.901 COMMENTS, MR. VALENCIA? THANK 01:06:45.968 --> 01:06:48.671 YOU, MR. CHAIR. TO TOUCH ON THE 01:06:48.738 --> 01:06:49.839 PROGRAM THAT WAS JUST DISCUSSED 01:06:49.905 --> 01:06:51.207 HERE. WE HAVE A VERY SIMILAR 01:06:51.273 --> 01:06:52.675 PROGRAM TO THAT IN ANAHEIM. 01:06:52.742 --> 01:06:54.810 IT'S CALLED THE MOBILE CRISIS 01:06:54.877 --> 01:06:57.046 RESPONSE TEAM, WHICH SERVES THE 01:06:57.113 --> 01:06:58.447 EXACT SAME PURPOSE. IT'S DONE 01:06:58.514 --> 01:07:02.785 AN INCREDIBLE JOB IN REFERRING 01:07:02.852 --> 01:07:04.553 911 CALLS THAT ARE NONVIOLENT 01:07:04.620 --> 01:07:08.190 OR OF THAT CALIBER TO A 01:07:08.257 --> 01:07:09.592 SPECIALIZED TEAM THAT NOT ONLY 01:07:09.658 --> 01:07:11.060 ADDRESSES THE IMMEDIATE NEED AT 01:07:11.127 --> 01:07:13.195 A MUCH MORE RAPID RATE, BUT 01:07:13.262 --> 01:07:14.430 ALSO PROVIDES THAT SECONDARY 01:07:14.497 --> 01:07:15.898 LEVEL OF SUPPORT AND CONNECTING 01:07:15.965 --> 01:07:17.166 FOLKS WITH THE NECESSARY 01:07:17.233 --> 01:07:18.601 RESOURCES. WE FOUND A LOT OF 01:07:18.667 --> 01:07:20.069 PROMISE IN A PROGRAM LIKE THAT. 01:07:20.136 --> 01:07:21.137 I'M ENCOURAGED TO HEAR THAT 01:07:21.203 --> 01:07:22.671 OTHER COMMUNITIES ARE DOING IT 01:07:22.738 --> 01:07:23.839 AS WELL, BUT IT WOULD BE 01:07:23.906 --> 01:07:25.808 INTERESTING TO HAVE A STATEWIDE 01:07:25.875 --> 01:07:27.243 CONVERSATION AROUND HOW WE CAN 01:07:27.309 --> 01:07:28.677 EITHER FUND A PROGRAM LIKE THAT, 01:07:28.744 --> 01:07:29.979 SUPPORT A PROGRAM LIKE THAT, 01:07:30.045 --> 01:07:30.980 RIGHT? SO LOCAL MUNICIPALITIES 01:07:31.046 --> 01:07:32.248 CAN IMPLEMENT SOMETHING THAT'S 01:07:32.314 --> 01:07:34.817 MOST CATERED TO THEIR NEEDS. 01:07:34.884 --> 01:07:36.051 THANK YOU SO MUCH. THANK YOU TO 01:07:36.118 --> 01:07:43.793 THE FIRST PANEL. OUR SECOND 01:07:43.859 --> 01:07:45.261 PANEL IS ON REIMAGINING 01:07:45.327 --> 01:07:47.396 PATHWAYS DURING AND POST 01:07:47.463 --> 01:07:49.865 INCARCERATION. AND I'D LIKE TO 01:07:49.932 --> 01:07:52.435 INVITE UP MR. GALVEZ, ORTIZ, 01:07:52.501 --> 01:07:55.404 MILLER AND CAÑADA. OKAY. SORRY. 01:07:55.471 --> 01:08:18.427 YOU'RE GOOD, YOU'RE GOOD. BRIAN, 01:08:18.494 --> 01:08:22.364 ARE YOU A PART OF THIS PANEL? I 01:08:22.431 --> 01:08:23.899 THINK ARE YOU A PART OF THIS 01:08:23.966 --> 01:08:33.075 PANEL, BRIAN? YES. THANK YOU 01:08:33.142 --> 01:08:34.777 ALL FOR JOINING US TODAY. WE'LL 01:08:34.844 --> 01:08:38.514 START WITH YOU, JORGE. FIRST OF 01:08:38.581 --> 01:08:46.055 ALL. I GOT A LOUD VOICE. OH, 01:08:46.121 --> 01:08:48.858 THERE WE GO. FIRST OF ALL, I 01:08:48.924 --> 01:08:49.925 JUST WANT TO WELCOME THE 01:08:49.992 --> 01:08:51.060 ESTEEMED MEMBERS OF THE SELECT 01:08:51.126 --> 01:08:52.595 COMMITTEE HERE TO COMMUNITY 01:08:52.661 --> 01:08:53.996 JUSTICE. AND OF COURSE, ALSO 01:08:54.063 --> 01:08:55.764 SENATOR VALENCIA FELIZ 01:08:55.831 --> 01:08:57.900 CUMPLEANOS HONORED THAT YOU'RE 01:08:57.967 --> 01:08:59.068 SPENDING YOUR BIRTHDAY HERE 01:08:59.134 --> 01:09:01.937 WITH US TO BE IN DEEP 01:09:02.004 --> 01:09:03.205 CONVERSATION. AND I ALSO WANT 01:09:03.272 --> 01:09:05.908 TO JUST ACKNOWLEDGE AND AND THE 01:09:05.975 --> 01:09:07.610 PUN IS INTENDED THAT IT TAKES 01:09:07.676 --> 01:09:09.578 COURAGE TO ACTUALLY HOST THESE 01:09:09.645 --> 01:09:11.614 KINDS OF EVENTS OUTSIDE OF THE 01:09:11.680 --> 01:09:13.115 TYPICAL HALLS IN WHICH THESE 01:09:13.182 --> 01:09:14.149 CONVERSATIONS HAPPEN WHEN WE'RE 01:09:14.216 --> 01:09:16.285 DISCUSSING STATE POLICY. AND SO 01:09:16.352 --> 01:09:18.454 COMING HERE IN THE HEART OF 01:09:18.521 --> 01:09:20.089 EAST OAKLAND, THAT REPRESENTS 01:09:20.155 --> 01:09:21.023 THE FRONTLINE COMMUNITIES 01:09:21.090 --> 01:09:22.091 IMPACTED BY THE ISSUES THAT 01:09:22.157 --> 01:09:23.726 WE'RE DISCUSSING IS COMMENDABLE. 01:09:23.792 --> 01:09:25.461 SO THANK YOU FOR THAT. MY NAME 01:09:25.528 --> 01:09:27.463 IS GEORGE GALVEZ. I AM 01:09:27.530 --> 01:09:28.163 CO-FOUNDER AND EXECUTIVE 01:09:28.230 --> 01:09:29.865 DIRECTOR OF COURAGE COMMUNITY 01:09:29.932 --> 01:09:31.800 FOR RESTORATIVE JUSTICE. AND WE 01:09:31.867 --> 01:09:33.135 WERE I HAVE THE DISTINCT 01:09:33.202 --> 01:09:34.270 PRIVILEGE OF WORKING WITH YOUNG 01:09:34.336 --> 01:09:35.738 PEOPLE WITH VERY SIMILAR LIVED 01:09:35.804 --> 01:09:37.940 EXPERIENCES MYSELF. AND SO AT 01:09:38.007 --> 01:09:40.042 THE AGE OF 17, I WAS ARRESTED. 01:09:40.109 --> 01:09:41.510 I WAS CHARGED WITH MULTIPLE 01:09:41.577 --> 01:09:44.046 FELONIES. I WAS VERY, VERY 01:09:44.113 --> 01:09:45.447 FORTUNATE NOT TO BE CHARGED AS 01:09:45.514 --> 01:09:47.983 AN ADULT. I WAS CHARGED AS A 01:09:48.050 --> 01:09:49.451 YOUTH, WHICH ALLOWED ME TO 01:09:49.518 --> 01:09:50.953 BEGIN MY HEALING JOURNEY AT THE 01:09:51.020 --> 01:09:52.922 AGE OF 19 AND FIND MY WAY INTO 01:09:52.988 --> 01:09:54.089 COMMUNITY COLLEGE, WHERE I WAS 01:09:54.156 --> 01:09:57.059 ABLE TO TRANSFORM MY LIFE. YOU 01:09:57.126 --> 01:09:59.528 KNOW, I LINK UP WITH MENTORS, 01:09:59.595 --> 01:10:01.030 GOT INVOLVED IN COMMUNITY 01:10:01.096 --> 01:10:03.132 ORGANIZING, AND ALSO REALLY SAW 01:10:03.198 --> 01:10:04.900 A PATHWAY OF EDUCATION AS PART 01:10:04.967 --> 01:10:06.702 OF MY LIBERATION. RIGHT. YOU 01:10:06.769 --> 01:10:07.603 KNOW, THEY SAY THE CRUELEST 01:10:07.670 --> 01:10:09.438 KIND OF PRISON IS THE PRISON OF 01:10:09.505 --> 01:10:12.508 THE MIND, RIGHT. AND SO 01:10:12.575 --> 01:10:13.676 COMMUNITY RESTORATIVE JUSTICE 01:10:13.742 --> 01:10:14.710 WAS BORN OUT OF THE GANG 01:10:14.777 --> 01:10:16.111 INJUNCTION ORGANIZING HERE IN 01:10:16.178 --> 01:10:18.981 OAKLAND. AND MY CO-FOUNDERS 01:10:19.048 --> 01:10:20.416 WERE DEFENDANTS IN IN THE 01:10:20.482 --> 01:10:22.284 FRUITVALE GANG INJUNCTION. AND 01:10:22.351 --> 01:10:25.454 AT THE TIME THEY WERE BEING 01:10:25.521 --> 01:10:26.855 CRIMINALIZED AND THEY WERE 01:10:26.922 --> 01:10:29.291 BEING LABELED AS SOCIOPATHS AND 01:10:29.358 --> 01:10:31.060 ALL THE OTHER KINDS OF TROPES 01:10:31.126 --> 01:10:32.995 THAT YOU CAN SORT OF IMAGINE. 01:10:33.062 --> 01:10:34.463 AND NO ONE WAS ACTUALLY 01:10:34.530 --> 01:10:35.698 ENGAGING WITH THE DEFENDANTS 01:10:35.764 --> 01:10:37.967 AND THE OF THE, OF THE 01:10:38.033 --> 01:10:39.101 FRUITVALE GANG INJUNCTION TO 01:10:39.168 --> 01:10:40.336 ACTUALLY ASK THEM WHAT WAS 01:10:40.402 --> 01:10:41.837 THEIR VISION FOR THE COMMUNITY, 01:10:41.904 --> 01:10:43.772 WHAT WERE THEIR NEEDS? AND 01:10:43.839 --> 01:10:46.041 THAT'S HOW WE BEGAN. AND WHEN 01:10:46.108 --> 01:10:47.042 YOU ACTUALLY HAVE A 01:10:47.109 --> 01:10:48.043 CONVERSATION WITH THEM, THEY 01:10:48.110 --> 01:10:49.945 HAD A VERY CLEAR AND ARTICULATE 01:10:50.012 --> 01:10:51.380 IDEA OF WHAT THEY WANTED TO 01:10:51.447 --> 01:10:52.781 IMPROVE OUTCOMES FOR THEIR 01:10:52.848 --> 01:10:55.351 COMMUNITY. THEY IDENTIFIED SOME 01:10:55.417 --> 01:10:57.519 SPACES THAT IN WHICH BLIGHT HAD 01:10:57.586 --> 01:10:59.455 BEEN OCCURRING, ILLEGAL DUMPING 01:10:59.521 --> 01:11:01.123 HAD BEEN OCCURRING. WE TESTED 01:11:01.190 --> 01:11:02.925 THE SOIL. WE FOUND THAT THE 01:11:02.992 --> 01:11:04.460 SOIL WAS SAFE. IT WASN'T TOXIC, 01:11:04.526 --> 01:11:05.961 BUT THEY HAD WEEDS AS TALL AS 01:11:06.028 --> 01:11:07.196 ME. THERE WAS OLD REFRIGERATORS, 01:11:07.262 --> 01:11:08.897 TIRES, MATTRESSES AND ALL THAT 01:11:08.964 --> 01:11:10.199 KIND OF STUFF, AND WE CLEANED 01:11:10.265 --> 01:11:11.867 IT UP THROUGH COMMUNITY, EFFORT 01:11:11.934 --> 01:11:14.403 AND STRUGGLE AT OUR OWN EXPENSE. 01:11:14.470 --> 01:11:16.205 AND WHEN WE DID THE RESEARCH TO 01:11:16.271 --> 01:11:17.339 IDENTIFY, WELL, WHO'S THE 01:11:17.406 --> 01:11:19.141 SLUMLORD THAT I, I ALLOWED THIS 01:11:19.208 --> 01:11:20.509 BLIGHT TO OCCUR IN THE GANG 01:11:20.576 --> 01:11:21.810 INJUNCTION ZONE. IT TURNED OUT 01:11:21.877 --> 01:11:24.079 IT WAS THE CITY OF OAKLAND. IT 01:11:24.146 --> 01:11:25.914 WAS THE CITY OF OAKLAND, THE 01:11:25.981 --> 01:11:27.282 SAME CITY THAT AT THE TIME WAS 01:11:27.349 --> 01:11:28.283 WAGGING THEIR FINGER AND 01:11:28.350 --> 01:11:29.451 CALLING THESE GUYS THE WORST OF 01:11:29.518 --> 01:11:31.353 THE WORST. AND SO OUR 01:11:31.420 --> 01:11:32.721 RELATIONSHIP WITH THE CITY HAS 01:11:32.788 --> 01:11:34.523 TRANSITIONED. WE ARE NOW A 01:11:34.590 --> 01:11:35.991 RECIPIENT OF THE DEPARTMENT OF 01:11:36.058 --> 01:11:37.793 VIOLENCE PREVENTION FUNDING TO 01:11:37.860 --> 01:11:40.462 SUPPORT THIS WORK. AT COURAGE. 01:11:40.529 --> 01:11:42.831 WE KNOW THAT EVERY YOUNG PERSON 01:11:42.898 --> 01:11:44.633 IS A BLESSING. EVERY YOUNG 01:11:44.700 --> 01:11:46.402 PERSON HAS A SACRED PURPOSE, 01:11:46.468 --> 01:11:47.870 AND IF THEY DON'T IDENTIFY, IF 01:11:47.936 --> 01:11:49.104 THEY DON'T FULFILL THEIR SACRED 01:11:49.171 --> 01:11:50.105 PURPOSE, THAT'S NOT THEIR 01:11:50.172 --> 01:11:52.508 FAILURE. THAT'S OUR FAILURE, 01:11:52.574 --> 01:11:55.010 RIGHT? SO WE START WITH THE 01:11:55.077 --> 01:11:57.613 HEALING FOUNDATION, RECOGNIZING 01:11:57.680 --> 01:11:59.048 THAT MANY OF THE YOUNG PEOPLE 01:11:59.114 --> 01:12:00.816 WE'RE DEALING WITH HAVE 01:12:00.883 --> 01:12:03.385 EXPERIENCED TRAUMA, AND HOW ARE 01:12:03.452 --> 01:12:05.154 WE SUPPORTING THEM IN MOVING 01:12:05.220 --> 01:12:06.555 FROM THEIR TRAUMATIZED SELF TO 01:12:06.622 --> 01:12:08.257 THEIR AUTHENTIC SELF SO THAT WE 01:12:08.323 --> 01:12:09.458 CAN ELEVATE THEIR VOICE AND 01:12:09.525 --> 01:12:10.726 POWER TO BE THE AUTHENTIC 01:12:10.793 --> 01:12:12.361 LEADERS THAT WE KNOW THEY ARE? 01:12:12.428 --> 01:12:13.529 WE BELIEVE THOSE WHO ARE CLOSE 01:12:13.595 --> 01:12:15.397 TO THE PAIN ARE CLOSE TO THE 01:12:15.464 --> 01:12:16.498 SOLUTION, AND THAT THE YOUNG 01:12:16.565 --> 01:12:18.367 PEOPLE ARE THE EXPERTS OF THEIR 01:12:18.434 --> 01:12:19.568 OWN LIVES. AND WE HAVE SOME OF 01:12:19.635 --> 01:12:20.736 THESE YOUNG PEOPLE ACTUALLY 01:12:20.803 --> 01:12:22.371 HERE IN THE AUDIENCE TODAY, 01:12:22.438 --> 01:12:23.539 SOME OF OUR HOMIES FOR JUSTICE 01:12:23.605 --> 01:12:25.340 INTERNS. IF Y'ALL WANT TO MAKE 01:12:25.407 --> 01:12:26.542 A LITTLE BIT OF NOISE FOR 01:12:26.608 --> 01:12:29.278 HOMIES FOR JUSTICE, Y'ALL. AND 01:12:29.344 --> 01:12:31.146 YOU ALSO SEE THAT THOSE WHO 01:12:31.213 --> 01:12:32.181 FACILITATED LEAD THAT PROGRAM 01:12:32.247 --> 01:12:33.415 ARE ALSO FOLKS WHO'VE BEEN 01:12:33.482 --> 01:12:35.284 THERE, DONE THAT. SO I WANT TO 01:12:35.350 --> 01:12:37.252 JUST LIFT UP ALEJO'S, WHO I MET 01:12:37.319 --> 01:12:38.654 WHEN SHE WAS 16 YEARS OLD AND 01:12:38.721 --> 01:12:39.488 INCARCERATED IN THE JUVENILE 01:12:39.555 --> 01:12:40.789 JUSTICE CENTER. SHE'D BEEN 01:12:40.856 --> 01:12:42.257 INCARCERATED FOR NEARLY A YEAR, 01:12:42.324 --> 01:12:43.492 AND SINCE THAT TIME, SHE'S BEEN 01:12:43.559 --> 01:12:45.127 A RECIPIENT OF THE CALIFORNIA 01:12:45.194 --> 01:12:46.528 ENDOWMENT YOUTH POWER AWARD. 01:12:46.595 --> 01:12:48.664 SHE'S A RECIPIENT OF THE SOROS 01:12:48.731 --> 01:12:50.833 JUSTICE FELLOWSHIP, AND SHE IS 01:12:50.899 --> 01:12:52.267 GETTING READY TO GRADUATE FROM 01:12:52.334 --> 01:12:53.736 COLLEGE FROM CAL STATE EAST BAY, 01:12:53.802 --> 01:12:55.504 Y'ALL. YOU KNOW WHAT I MEAN? 01:12:55.571 --> 01:12:58.807 AND HAS BEEN A PHENOMENAL 01:12:58.874 --> 01:13:00.209 MENTOR AND LEADER. SO THE 01:13:00.275 --> 01:13:00.976 FUNDAMENTAL POINT, AND I'M 01:13:01.043 --> 01:13:02.544 GOING TO KIND OF SUMMARIZE 01:13:02.611 --> 01:13:06.749 RIGHT NOW. IS THAT IT COST 01:13:06.815 --> 01:13:09.551 NEARLY 600,000 TO $1 MILLION, 01:13:09.618 --> 01:13:10.686 DEPENDING ON WHAT THE AVERAGE 01:13:10.753 --> 01:13:11.653 DAILY ATTENDANCE IS AT ANY 01:13:11.720 --> 01:13:13.155 GIVEN TIME, TO INCARCERATE ONE 01:13:13.222 --> 01:13:14.590 YOUNG PERSON HERE IN ALAMEDA 01:13:14.656 --> 01:13:16.792 COUNTY. AND THOSE NUMBERS DON'T 01:13:16.859 --> 01:13:18.260 NECESSARILY CHANGE RADICALLY, 01:13:18.327 --> 01:13:19.328 REGARDLESS OF WHAT COUNTY THAT 01:13:19.394 --> 01:13:20.863 YOU LOOK AT. AND WE'RE TALKING 01:13:20.929 --> 01:13:22.397 ABOUT YOUNG PEOPLE WHO COME 01:13:22.464 --> 01:13:23.365 FROM THE MOST VULNERABLE 01:13:23.432 --> 01:13:24.366 FAMILIES IN OUR COMMUNITIES, 01:13:24.433 --> 01:13:26.101 RIGHT? SO IMAGINE IF WE SIMPLY 01:13:26.168 --> 01:13:28.303 SHIFTED THOSE RESOURCES TO 01:13:28.370 --> 01:13:29.905 ACTUALLY SUPPORT THEM. THERE'S 01:13:29.972 --> 01:13:30.806 ABOUT THREE THINGS THAT WE 01:13:30.873 --> 01:13:32.641 COULD ACCOMPLISH. ONE, WE 01:13:32.708 --> 01:13:33.675 ADDRESS THE ROOT CAUSES OF 01:13:33.742 --> 01:13:36.545 CRIME, SOMETHING THAT, YOU KNOW, 01:13:36.612 --> 01:13:37.546 THE SAFEST COMMUNITIES DON'T 01:13:37.613 --> 01:13:38.747 HAVE, THE MOST JAILS OR PRISONS. 01:13:38.814 --> 01:13:39.815 THEY ACTUALLY HAVE THE MOST 01:13:39.882 --> 01:13:43.819 RESOURCES, RIGHT? TWO, IT'S 01:13:43.886 --> 01:13:45.621 MORE COST EFFICIENT. IT WOULD 01:13:45.687 --> 01:13:46.922 COST A FRACTION OF THAT. WE 01:13:46.989 --> 01:13:48.157 DON'T NEED TO SPEND $1 MILLION 01:13:48.223 --> 01:13:50.092 A YEAR ON ONE YOUNG PERSON. YOU 01:13:50.159 --> 01:13:51.894 KNOW WHAT I'M SAYING, TO CHANGE 01:13:51.960 --> 01:13:54.863 THEIR LIFE. AND THREE. DAMN, I 01:13:54.930 --> 01:13:57.566 FORGOT MY THIRD POINT. I REALLY 01:13:57.633 --> 01:14:00.302 MAN, I HAD IT DOWN. BUT IN ANY 01:14:00.369 --> 01:14:03.639 CASE, IN ANY CASE, WHAT WE'VE 01:14:03.705 --> 01:14:05.741 SEEN IS A LACK OF INVESTMENT. 01:14:05.808 --> 01:14:07.242 YOU KNOW, BUDGETS ARE 01:14:07.309 --> 01:14:10.445 REFLECTIONS OF OUR VALUES. AND 01:14:10.512 --> 01:14:11.513 WHEN THERE HAVE BEEN 01:14:11.580 --> 01:14:12.948 OPPORTUNITIES, WE HAVEN'T 01:14:13.015 --> 01:14:13.982 NECESSARILY SEEN THOSE 01:14:14.049 --> 01:14:16.552 INVESTMENTS OCCUR IN FROM THE 01:14:16.618 --> 01:14:18.754 GROUND UP IN SUPPORTING 01:14:18.821 --> 01:14:20.856 FRONTLINE COMMUNITIES AND IN 01:14:20.923 --> 01:14:22.191 SUPPORTING CREDIBLE MESSENGERS. 01:14:22.257 --> 01:14:23.392 AND BECAUSE THOSE OF US WHO'VE 01:14:23.458 --> 01:14:24.359 OVERCOME THE CHALLENGES THAT 01:14:24.426 --> 01:14:25.527 THESE YOUNG PEOPLE ARE 01:14:25.594 --> 01:14:26.962 CONFRONTED WITH ARE OFTENTIMES 01:14:27.029 --> 01:14:28.530 THE BEST ONES, WE'RE THE ONES 01:14:28.597 --> 01:14:30.065 WHO ARE BEST EQUIPPED TO 01:14:30.132 --> 01:14:31.200 ACTUALLY SUPPORT THEM IN MAKING 01:14:31.266 --> 01:14:32.734 LIFE AFFIRMING DECISIONS. SO 01:14:32.801 --> 01:14:37.105 THANK YOU. THANK YOU, SIR. 01:14:37.172 --> 01:14:39.608 THANK YOU SO MUCH. HELLO, 01:14:39.675 --> 01:14:41.009 EVERYBODY. NICE TO SEE YOU. MY 01:14:41.076 --> 01:14:42.477 NAME IS BRIAN CAÑADA. I'M THE 01:14:42.544 --> 01:14:44.313 DEPUTY DIRECTOR OF CURB 01:14:44.379 --> 01:14:46.114 CALIFORNIANS UNITED FOR A 01:14:46.181 --> 01:14:48.217 RESPONSIBLE BUDGET. WE ARE A 01:14:48.283 --> 01:14:50.752 COALITION OF MORE THAN 100 01:14:50.819 --> 01:14:51.753 ORGANIZATIONS THAT ARE WORKING 01:14:51.820 --> 01:14:53.355 TO REDUCE THE NUMBER OF PRISONS 01:14:53.422 --> 01:14:55.824 AND JAILS, REDUCE THE NUMBER OF 01:14:55.891 --> 01:14:57.960 PEOPLE IN THEM, AND SHIFT 01:14:58.026 --> 01:14:59.428 WASTEFUL SPENDING TOWARDS THE 01:14:59.494 --> 01:15:00.863 THINGS THAT MOST OF US KNOW 01:15:00.929 --> 01:15:02.965 ACTUALLY KEEP PEOPLE SAFE. 01:15:03.031 --> 01:15:05.500 HOUSING, JOBS, ALL THE 01:15:05.567 --> 01:15:07.269 IMPORTANT STUFF THAT WE KNOW 01:15:07.336 --> 01:15:10.205 COMMUNITIES NEED. CURB HAS BEEN 01:15:10.272 --> 01:15:13.108 AN COALITION FOR ABOUT 25 YEARS, 01:15:13.175 --> 01:15:14.810 AND WE DO PUBLIC EDUCATION AND 01:15:14.877 --> 01:15:17.379 ALSO WORK ON LEGISLATIVE STUFF. 01:15:17.446 --> 01:15:20.282 I'M ALSO CURBS LOS ANGELES 01:15:20.349 --> 01:15:22.050 COORDINATOR. WE'RE A CO-FOUNDER 01:15:22.117 --> 01:15:25.387 OF JUSTICE LA, WHICH HELPS STOP 01:15:25.454 --> 01:15:28.223 L.A. COUNTY'S $3.6 BILLION JAIL 01:15:28.290 --> 01:15:30.726 PLAN. WE ALSO, AS PART OF 01:15:30.792 --> 01:15:33.295 REIMAGINE L.A. COUNTY HELP PASS 01:15:33.362 --> 01:15:35.731 MEASURE J IN 2020, WHICH 01:15:35.797 --> 01:15:37.866 ASSEMBLY MEMBER BRIAN WAS AN 01:15:37.933 --> 01:15:40.435 ARCHITECT OF AND DEFENDED THAT 01:15:40.502 --> 01:15:42.604 WHEN JUST RECENTLY BY PASSING 01:15:42.671 --> 01:15:44.773 MEASURE E IN L.A. COUNTY, WHICH 01:15:44.840 --> 01:15:47.609 FIXED THE COUNTY'S MISTAKE BY 01:15:47.676 --> 01:15:50.512 ERASING MEASURE J, DRIVING 10% 01:15:50.579 --> 01:15:53.015 OF NET COUNTY COSTS TO 01:15:53.081 --> 01:15:54.783 COMMUNITY INVESTMENT. SO YEAH, 01:15:54.850 --> 01:15:56.618 WE'RE WE'RE SUPER PROUD OF THAT. 01:15:56.685 --> 01:15:59.154 AND, AND TO BE HERE, THERE'S SO 01:15:59.221 --> 01:16:00.889 MUCH TO FOCUS ON RIGHT NOW. AND 01:16:00.956 --> 01:16:03.458 WE KNOW JUST THE LEVEL OF NEED 01:16:03.525 --> 01:16:05.961 THAT WE'RE INUNDATED WITH BOTH 01:16:06.028 --> 01:16:07.062 FEDERALLY AND AT THE STATE 01:16:07.129 --> 01:16:09.298 LEVEL AND LOCALLY. AND SO I 01:16:09.364 --> 01:16:10.599 THINK THESE TYPES OF 01:16:10.666 --> 01:16:12.167 CONVERSATIONS ARE JUST REALLY 01:16:12.234 --> 01:16:13.902 HELPFUL TO REGROUND ALL OF US 01:16:13.969 --> 01:16:16.772 IN OUR RESPECTIVE VALUES AND 01:16:16.838 --> 01:16:17.973 WHERE THEY INTERSECT AND WHAT 01:16:18.040 --> 01:16:20.375 WE CAN DO TOGETHER. AND THE BIG 01:16:20.442 --> 01:16:21.743 ONE, I THINK, AND THIS IS A 01:16:21.810 --> 01:16:23.679 GREAT PLACE TO TALK ABOUT IT, 01:16:23.745 --> 01:16:25.080 IS RACIAL JUSTICE. AND, YOU 01:16:25.147 --> 01:16:26.782 KNOW, THIS IS PROBABLY ONE OF 01:16:26.848 --> 01:16:28.317 THE FEW GROUPS OF PEOPLE THAT I 01:16:28.383 --> 01:16:29.851 DON'T HAVE TO MAKE LIKE THAT 01:16:29.918 --> 01:16:31.887 PITCH TO, OF WHY IT'S IMPORTANT, 01:16:31.954 --> 01:16:33.021 ESPECIALLY WHEN WE HAVE, YOU 01:16:33.088 --> 01:16:36.291 KNOW, 27% OF THE PRISON 01:16:36.358 --> 01:16:38.060 POPULATION BEING BLACK FOLKS, 01:16:38.126 --> 01:16:40.929 WHEN ONLY 6 TO 10% OF THE 01:16:40.996 --> 01:16:43.832 POPULATION IS, IS BLACK HERE IN 01:16:43.899 --> 01:16:46.301 CALIFORNIA. AND HOW LATINX, 01:16:46.368 --> 01:16:48.170 INDIGENOUS PEOPLE, ASIAN FOLKS 01:16:48.236 --> 01:16:52.107 ARE ALSO HORRIBLY 01:16:52.174 --> 01:16:53.508 OVERREPRESENTED. THAT BEING 01:16:53.575 --> 01:16:55.344 SAID, IN THIS BLUE WAVE THAT 01:16:55.410 --> 01:16:58.213 WE'VE SEEN AND IN THIS PUSH 01:16:58.280 --> 01:17:01.049 TOWARDS ORGANIZATIONS LIKE THE 01:17:01.116 --> 01:17:03.251 DSA, I SEE TWO GROUPS REALLY 01:17:03.318 --> 01:17:05.053 BEING THROWN UNDER THE BUS OR 01:17:05.120 --> 01:17:06.555 FORGOTTEN ABOUT, AND THAT'S 01:17:06.621 --> 01:17:09.524 BLACK FOLKS AND TRANS PEOPLE. 01:17:09.591 --> 01:17:11.360 AND I THINK THAT, YOU KNOW, AS 01:17:11.426 --> 01:17:12.594 WE CELEBRATE SOME OF THESE WINS, 01:17:12.661 --> 01:17:14.730 WE HAVE TO REMEMBER THAT THERE 01:17:14.796 --> 01:17:17.366 IS A GROUP OF PEOPLE WHO ARE 01:17:17.432 --> 01:17:18.867 BEING IGNORED OR LEFT BEHIND. 01:17:18.934 --> 01:17:21.303 AND I REMEMBER HEARING AOC MAKE 01:17:21.370 --> 01:17:23.572 REMARKS ABOUT WOKE 2.0. I DON'T 01:17:23.638 --> 01:17:25.574 KNOW IF YOU ALL HEARD THAT 01:17:25.640 --> 01:17:26.641 CONFIGURATION AND HOW IT WAS, 01:17:26.708 --> 01:17:28.176 YOU KNOW, MAYBE WE WENT TOO FAR. 01:17:28.243 --> 01:17:29.378 AND WHEN PEOPLE ARE SAYING THAT 01:17:29.444 --> 01:17:30.612 THEY'RE TALKING ABOUT TRANS 01:17:30.679 --> 01:17:31.413 RIGHTS AND THEY'RE TALKING 01:17:31.480 --> 01:17:33.115 ABOUT BLACK LIVES MATTER. AND 01:17:33.181 --> 01:17:34.349 SO I JUST WANT US TO REMEMBER 01:17:34.416 --> 01:17:36.351 AS WE LIKE, EMBRACE THIS MOMENT, 01:17:36.418 --> 01:17:37.486 THAT THERE'S ACTUALLY LIKE A 01:17:37.552 --> 01:17:39.988 LOT OF WORK STILL TO DO FOR A 01:17:40.055 --> 01:17:42.457 REALLY INCLUSIVE CROSS SECTOR 01:17:42.524 --> 01:17:45.394 MOVEMENT TOWARDS RACIAL JUSTICE 01:17:45.460 --> 01:17:49.364 HERE. AND ON THAT NOTE, 01:17:49.431 --> 01:17:51.933 STRENGTHENING THOSE LAWS, I 01:17:52.000 --> 01:17:53.235 THINK ARE REALLY, REALLY 01:17:53.301 --> 01:17:54.403 IMPORTANT RIGHT NOW. AND WE 01:17:54.469 --> 01:17:56.138 WANT TO THANK ASSEMBLY MEMBER 01:17:56.204 --> 01:17:58.273 KALRA, WHO HELPED AUTHORED THE 01:17:58.340 --> 01:18:00.375 RACIAL JUSTICE ACT, WHICH IS A 01:18:00.442 --> 01:18:02.277 REALLY, REALLY HUGE DEAL, AND 01:18:02.344 --> 01:18:02.944 STRENGTHENING THE RACIAL 01:18:03.011 --> 01:18:05.180 JUSTICE ACT GOING FORWARD AND 01:18:05.247 --> 01:18:07.282 ENSURING THAT SIMILAR LAWS ARE 01:18:07.349 --> 01:18:08.750 PASSED, I THINK IS REALLY, 01:18:08.817 --> 01:18:11.286 REALLY ESSENTIAL TO SORT OF 01:18:11.353 --> 01:18:12.721 ENSURING THAT BLACK FOLKS AND 01:18:12.788 --> 01:18:14.489 PEOPLE OF COLOR AREN'T LEFT 01:18:14.556 --> 01:18:16.658 BEHIND IN A LOT OF THE 01:18:16.725 --> 01:18:19.161 CONVERSATIONS THAT WE'RE HAVING. 01:18:19.227 --> 01:18:20.262 THE OTHER PIECE AROUND 01:18:20.328 --> 01:18:21.496 SENTENCING, TOO, IS I HEAR A 01:18:21.563 --> 01:18:23.698 LOT ABOUT, YOU KNOW, NORWAY, 01:18:23.765 --> 01:18:24.966 LOTS OF PEOPLE HAVE VISITED 01:18:25.033 --> 01:18:26.134 NORWAY AND WANT TO TALK ABOUT 01:18:26.201 --> 01:18:27.235 THE CALIFORNIA MODEL. THEY WANT 01:18:27.302 --> 01:18:29.237 TO TALK ABOUT PRISONS IN 01:18:29.304 --> 01:18:30.772 CALIFORNIA AND HOW WE CAN MAKE 01:18:30.839 --> 01:18:32.474 THEM VERSIONS OF THAT BY 01:18:32.541 --> 01:18:35.410 CREATING SHINIER, NICER CAGES 01:18:35.477 --> 01:18:37.946 FOR PEOPLE TO BE IN. AND IT'S 01:18:38.013 --> 01:18:38.947 INTERESTING TO ME WHENEVER I 01:18:39.014 --> 01:18:40.816 HEAR PEOPLE TALK ABOUT NORWAY, 01:18:40.882 --> 01:18:41.917 BECAUSE THEY'RE NEVER TALKING 01:18:41.983 --> 01:18:44.019 ABOUT THE SENTENCING GUIDELINES 01:18:44.086 --> 01:18:45.487 THAT HAPPEN IN NORWAY, WHERE 01:18:45.554 --> 01:18:47.055 PEOPLE LIKE RECEIVE A MAXIMUM 01:18:47.122 --> 01:18:48.857 OF 20 YEARS FOR EVEN SOME OF 01:18:48.924 --> 01:18:51.226 THE WORST CRIMES THAT PEOPLE 01:18:51.293 --> 01:18:52.627 CAN BE CONVICTED FOR. THEY 01:18:52.694 --> 01:18:54.096 NEVER TALK ABOUT EXPANDING THE 01:18:54.162 --> 01:18:55.564 SOCIAL SAFETY NET THE WAY 01:18:55.630 --> 01:18:58.433 NORWAY HAS. AND THEY ALSO 01:18:58.500 --> 01:19:00.535 HONESTLY DON'T INTERROGATE THE 01:19:00.602 --> 01:19:01.970 NORWAY SYSTEM ITSELF, WHICH IS 01:19:02.037 --> 01:19:03.105 ACTUALLY INCREDIBLY RACIST 01:19:03.171 --> 01:19:06.241 TOWARDS MIGRANTS AND HAS A LOT 01:19:06.308 --> 01:19:08.276 OF ISSUES ON ITS OWN THAT A LOT 01:19:08.343 --> 01:19:09.344 OF REALLY SMART PEOPLE HAVE 01:19:09.411 --> 01:19:10.345 WRITTEN ABOUT. SO IT'S 01:19:10.412 --> 01:19:11.513 SOMETHING THAT I THINK NEEDS TO 01:19:11.580 --> 01:19:13.348 BE UNPACKED A LITTLE BIT THAT'S 01:19:13.415 --> 01:19:14.516 KIND OF JUST TAKEN FOR GRANTED 01:19:14.583 --> 01:19:18.253 BY FOLKS WHO ARE WELL-MEANING 01:19:18.320 --> 01:19:21.490 AND INTEND FOR THINGS TO BE 01:19:21.556 --> 01:19:25.460 LESS BAD IN A CAGE FOR PEOPLE 01:19:25.527 --> 01:19:26.862 WHO ARE INCARCERATED IN, IN 01:19:26.928 --> 01:19:27.929 PRISON AND CONDITIONS OF 01:19:27.996 --> 01:19:29.731 CONFINEMENT MATTER. BUT, YOU 01:19:29.798 --> 01:19:30.932 KNOW, LET'S BE CAREFUL WITH 01:19:30.999 --> 01:19:32.501 WHAT WE'RE TALKING ABOUT. SO I 01:19:32.567 --> 01:19:34.402 REALLY ENCOURAGE PEOPLE TO LIKE, 01:19:34.469 --> 01:19:35.971 LISTEN TO SOME OF THE CRITIQUES 01:19:36.037 --> 01:19:37.305 THAT ARE COMING OUT AROUND THE 01:19:37.372 --> 01:19:38.707 CALIFORNIA MODEL AND 01:19:38.773 --> 01:19:41.576 INITIATIVES LIKE THAT. TWO 01:19:41.643 --> 01:19:42.878 PIECES AROUND THAT, ESPECIALLY 01:19:42.944 --> 01:19:44.846 THE FIRST IS AROUND ELDERS. 01:19:44.913 --> 01:19:46.348 THAT'S A BIG CONCERN FOR US IN 01:19:46.414 --> 01:19:48.450 THE BROADER COMMUNITY. THERE 01:19:48.517 --> 01:19:51.720 ARE ABOUT 19,000 PEOPLE WHO ARE 01:19:51.786 --> 01:19:53.855 AGED 55 AND OLDER IN THE 01:19:53.922 --> 01:19:55.323 CALIFORNIA PRISON SYSTEM. AND 01:19:55.390 --> 01:19:57.125 RIGHT NOW, WHAT WE'RE SEEING AS 01:19:57.192 --> 01:20:02.130 PART OF CDCR, $73 BILLION, 20 01:20:02.197 --> 01:20:05.000 YEAR MASTER INFRASTRUCTURE PLAN 01:20:05.066 --> 01:20:07.202 IS THIS MOVEMENT TOWARDS MAKING 01:20:07.269 --> 01:20:08.637 SOME PRISONS INTO BASICALLY 01:20:08.703 --> 01:20:11.506 LIKE EXPENSIVE OLD AGE HOMES. 01:20:11.573 --> 01:20:12.707 AND, YOU KNOW, THE AVERAGE COST 01:20:12.774 --> 01:20:14.509 OF KEEPING SOMEONE IN PRISON IS 01:20:14.576 --> 01:20:16.945 ABOUT $133,000 A YEAR. BUT A 01:20:17.012 --> 01:20:18.180 LOT OF YOU MIGHT KNOW WHEN 01:20:18.246 --> 01:20:19.915 WE'RE TALKING ABOUT ELDERS OR 01:20:19.981 --> 01:20:20.882 PEOPLE WHO ARE MEDICALLY 01:20:20.949 --> 01:20:22.884 COMPROMISED, 300, $400,000 A 01:20:22.951 --> 01:20:24.119 YEAR. IT'S REALLY, REALLY 01:20:24.186 --> 01:20:25.687 EXPENSIVE TO KEEP AN 80 YEAR 01:20:25.754 --> 01:20:29.858 OLD IN WITH CANCER IN A PRISON. 01:20:29.925 --> 01:20:32.360 EVEN ALONG THOSE LINES, THE 01:20:32.427 --> 01:20:34.996 MORE EVOLVED VERSION OF THAT 01:20:35.063 --> 01:20:36.731 THAT PEOPLE ARE STARTING TO GET 01:20:36.798 --> 01:20:40.702 BEHIND ARE MC. AND SO THOSE ARE 01:20:40.769 --> 01:20:41.803 COMMUNITY. THEY'RE CALLED 01:20:41.870 --> 01:20:43.638 COMMUNITY REENTRY PROGRAMS. BUT 01:20:43.705 --> 01:20:44.973 REALLY WHAT THEY ARE ARE JUST 01:20:45.040 --> 01:20:47.542 MINIATURE PRISONS. AND SO WHILE 01:20:47.609 --> 01:20:50.045 I KNOW PEOPLE ARE EXCITED ABOUT 01:20:50.111 --> 01:20:51.746 THIS IDEA OF LIKE FIGURING OUT 01:20:51.813 --> 01:20:53.615 A WAY TO MAKE INCARCERATION 01:20:53.682 --> 01:20:55.884 SOMEHOW LESS HARMFUL, WE HAVE 01:20:55.951 --> 01:20:58.253 TO FIGURE OUT HOW TO DO THAT 01:20:58.320 --> 01:21:00.422 WITHOUT ACTUALLY EXPANDING THE 01:21:00.488 --> 01:21:02.591 SYSTEM OF INCARCERATION AND 01:21:02.657 --> 01:21:04.759 INVESTING BILLIONS OF DOLLARS 01:21:04.826 --> 01:21:07.662 INTO WHAT IS ESSENTIALLY MINI 01:21:07.729 --> 01:21:09.464 PRISONS IN PEOPLE'S COMMUNITIES. 01:21:09.531 --> 01:21:11.633 SO WE'RE REALLY EXCITED TO BE 01:21:11.700 --> 01:21:13.802 LIKE IN DEEP WITH OUR REENTRY 01:21:13.868 --> 01:21:15.370 PARTNERS. SPEAKING OF MEASURE 01:21:15.437 --> 01:21:16.671 Â, I JUST GAVE TWO 01:21:16.738 --> 01:21:18.506 PRESENTATIONS TO LARP ABOUT 01:21:18.573 --> 01:21:20.308 MEASURE E REALLY RECENTLY. AND 01:21:20.375 --> 01:21:22.377 I THINK LIKE THAT'S REALLY KEY 01:21:22.444 --> 01:21:24.579 IS LIKE, HOW DO WE DO REENTRY? 01:21:24.646 --> 01:21:26.748 THAT'S COMMUNITY LED AND 01:21:26.815 --> 01:21:28.416 DOESN'T ACTUALLY EXPAND THE 01:21:28.483 --> 01:21:29.484 SYSTEM OF INCARCERATION THAT WE 01:21:29.551 --> 01:21:31.353 KNOW THAT'S SO HARMFUL TO 01:21:31.419 --> 01:21:33.555 PEOPLE. AND SO A LOT OF THIS 01:21:33.622 --> 01:21:35.457 STUFF IS LIKE WOLF IN SHEEP'S 01:21:35.523 --> 01:21:36.558 CLOTHING. AND THERE ARE A LOT 01:21:36.625 --> 01:21:38.460 OF PEOPLE THAT I RESPECT THAT 01:21:38.526 --> 01:21:39.661 ARE INVOLVED IN LIKE CRP AND, 01:21:39.728 --> 01:21:41.029 AND THINKING ABOUT MOVING THEM 01:21:41.096 --> 01:21:42.430 FORWARD AND PEOPLE WHO WERE 01:21:42.497 --> 01:21:44.633 REALLY VALUES ALIGNED WITH. SO 01:21:44.699 --> 01:21:45.767 FIGURING OUT LIKE FOR THOSE 01:21:45.834 --> 01:21:47.235 PEOPLE WHO GOING FORWARD WITH 01:21:47.302 --> 01:21:50.405 THAT, HOW TO PUSH BACK AGAINST 01:21:50.472 --> 01:21:51.840 PEOPLE WHO WANT TO MAKE WHAT 01:21:51.906 --> 01:21:54.042 ALREADY EXISTS WORSE AND MAYBE 01:21:54.109 --> 01:21:55.477 HELP SOME OF OUR PARTNERS 01:21:55.543 --> 01:21:58.346 UNDERSTAND OUR CRITIQUE SO THAT 01:21:58.413 --> 01:21:59.848 MAYBE IT BECOMES A LESS 01:21:59.914 --> 01:22:01.216 ATTRACTIVE OPTION FOR PEOPLE 01:22:01.283 --> 01:22:02.417 VERSUS JUST RELEASING THEM. 01:22:02.484 --> 01:22:03.952 MOST PEOPLE WHO ARE IN CRP, 01:22:04.019 --> 01:22:05.287 THEY HAVE ABOUT TWO YEARS LEFT 01:22:05.353 --> 01:22:07.289 ON THEIR SENTENCE, AND MOST OF 01:22:07.355 --> 01:22:09.124 THEM ARE ON ANKLE MONITORS AND 01:22:09.190 --> 01:22:10.959 IN COMMUNITY AND SEEING THEIR 01:22:11.026 --> 01:22:12.394 FAMILIES. AND WE'RE A LITTLE 01:22:12.460 --> 01:22:14.095 CONFUSED AS TO IF SOMEONE IS 01:22:14.162 --> 01:22:15.630 SAFE ENOUGH TO BE OUT IN THE 01:22:15.697 --> 01:22:17.299 WORLD, OUT IN THE COMMUNITY, 01:22:17.365 --> 01:22:18.533 WHY THEY'RE NOT JUST SAFE 01:22:18.600 --> 01:22:20.735 ENOUGH TO BE RELEASED EARLY. SO 01:22:20.802 --> 01:22:21.770 THAT'S SOMETHING WE REALLY WANT 01:22:21.836 --> 01:22:24.339 TO EXPLORE AND UNPACK. THE 01:22:24.406 --> 01:22:26.474 OTHER PIECE IS PRISON CLOSURES. 01:22:26.541 --> 01:22:28.943 BOTH THE HOUSE AND THE ASSEMBLY 01:22:29.010 --> 01:22:31.513 FOR THE FIRST TIME PASSED A 01:22:31.579 --> 01:22:32.714 RECOMMENDATION TO CLOSE PRISONS, 01:22:32.781 --> 01:22:33.982 WHICH IS SUPPORTED BY THE 01:22:34.049 --> 01:22:35.450 STATE'S OWN LEGISLATIVE 01:22:35.517 --> 01:22:37.919 ANALYST'S OFFICE AND IN BUDGET 01:22:37.986 --> 01:22:39.387 NEGOTIATIONS WITH GOVERNOR 01:22:39.454 --> 01:22:40.822 NEWSOM. SURPRISE, SURPRISE, IT 01:22:40.889 --> 01:22:43.058 GOT KICKED OUT OF THE FINAL 01:22:43.124 --> 01:22:45.527 BUDGET. THERE'S A NEW 01:22:45.593 --> 01:22:47.295 ADMINISTRATION IN TOWN, AND 01:22:47.362 --> 01:22:49.097 HISTORICALLY, THE LEGISLATURE 01:22:49.164 --> 01:22:51.299 HAS BEEN VERY RESPONSIVE TO US 01:22:51.366 --> 01:22:52.701 AND HAVING CONVERSATIONS ABOUT 01:22:52.767 --> 01:22:55.970 WHAT MATTERS. IT IS A A BLACK 01:22:56.037 --> 01:22:57.038 HOLE OF KNOWLEDGE AND 01:22:57.105 --> 01:22:57.939 INFORMATION WHEN IT COMES TO 01:22:58.006 --> 01:22:59.941 THE ADMINISTRATION. SO REALLY 01:23:00.008 --> 01:23:01.343 FIGURING OUT HOW WE CAN BE IN 01:23:01.409 --> 01:23:02.377 PARTNERSHIP WITH THE 01:23:02.444 --> 01:23:03.912 LEGISLATURE TO BETTER 01:23:03.978 --> 01:23:06.381 COMMUNICATE WITH BECERRA AND 01:23:06.448 --> 01:23:07.515 FIGURE OUT, LIKE, HOW WE CAN 01:23:07.582 --> 01:23:09.617 ALL BETTER WORK TOGETHER. SO 01:23:09.684 --> 01:23:11.419 ALL OF THE EFFORTS THAT THE 01:23:11.486 --> 01:23:12.520 LEGISLATURE UNDERTAKES IN THE 01:23:12.587 --> 01:23:14.289 COMMUNITY UNDERTAKES DURING THE 01:23:14.356 --> 01:23:16.124 BUDGET PROCESS DOESN'T JUST 01:23:16.191 --> 01:23:17.859 LIKE GET THE HEAVE HO AS SOON 01:23:17.926 --> 01:23:19.094 AS LIKE, YOU KNOW, THREE PEOPLE 01:23:19.160 --> 01:23:21.463 GET INTO A SMOKE FILLED ROOM 01:23:21.529 --> 01:23:22.564 TOGETHER. SO WE REALLY 01:23:22.630 --> 01:23:24.366 APPRECIATE EVERYONE'S CONTINUED 01:23:24.432 --> 01:23:25.867 EFFORTS TOWARD DECARCERATION. 01:23:25.934 --> 01:23:27.602 AND JUST LIKE THE TRUE 01:23:27.669 --> 01:23:29.070 UNDERSTANDING THAT CALIFORNIA 01:23:29.137 --> 01:23:31.206 FOR ALL OF OUR, YOU KNOW, 01:23:31.272 --> 01:23:33.408 VAUNTED PROGRESSIVENESS 01:23:33.475 --> 01:23:34.409 INCARCERATES MORE PEOPLE THAN 01:23:34.476 --> 01:23:35.977 MOST COUNTRIES. AND SO, YOU 01:23:36.044 --> 01:23:37.379 KNOW, IT WASN'T CONTROVERSIAL 01:23:37.445 --> 01:23:40.215 TO SAY A FEW YEARS AGO, WELL, 01:23:40.281 --> 01:23:42.283 PRIOR TO 2016, THAT THERE WERE 01:23:42.350 --> 01:23:44.519 TOO MANY PEOPLE IN PRISON. EVEN 01:23:44.586 --> 01:23:45.520 REPUBLICANS AGREED WITH THAT. 01:23:45.587 --> 01:23:47.555 SO I'D LIKE TO GET US BACK TO A 01:23:47.622 --> 01:23:48.690 PLACE WHERE WE, JUST AS A 01:23:48.757 --> 01:23:50.024 SOCIETY, UNDERSTAND THAT, YOU 01:23:50.091 --> 01:23:52.093 KNOW, PRISONS AREN'T MAKING US 01:23:52.160 --> 01:23:54.963 SAFER. THANK YOU SO MUCH. ALSO 01:23:55.029 --> 01:23:55.864 SHOULD POINT OUT THAT IN NORWAY, 01:23:55.930 --> 01:23:57.632 YOU'RE ALLOWED TO VOTE IN 01:23:57.699 --> 01:24:00.368 PRISON. YUP. THAT'S RIGHT, MR. 01:24:00.435 --> 01:24:05.006 MILLER. HELLO. HOW ARE YOU GUYS 01:24:05.073 --> 01:24:06.174 DOING? AND THANK YOU FOR HAVING 01:24:06.241 --> 01:24:07.976 ME. MY NAME IS DEREK MILLER. 01:24:08.042 --> 01:24:09.043 I'M THE POLICY ANALYST FOR 01:24:09.110 --> 01:24:10.145 LEGAL SERVICES FOR PRISONERS 01:24:10.211 --> 01:24:11.146 WITH CHILDREN. AND ALL OF US 01:24:11.212 --> 01:24:13.348 ARE NONE. I COME TO YOU TODAY 01:24:13.415 --> 01:24:15.483 BECAUSE I'M WORRIED. SO THIS IS 01:24:15.550 --> 01:24:17.252 SOMETHING THAT'S UNSPOKEN OF 01:24:17.318 --> 01:24:19.087 AND IT COMES FROM ALL OF OUR 01:24:19.154 --> 01:24:19.788 COMMUNITIES, ESPECIALLY WHEN 01:24:19.854 --> 01:24:22.023 YOU'RE IMPACTED. SO I GREW UP 01:24:22.090 --> 01:24:24.292 IN LA. I HAD THE ABILITY TO 01:24:24.359 --> 01:24:25.560 COME TO SACRAMENTO STATE AND 01:24:25.627 --> 01:24:27.162 CHANGE MY LIFE, BUT IT WAS 01:24:27.228 --> 01:24:30.265 THROUGH STEPS AND JUST ME 01:24:30.331 --> 01:24:31.666 RECOGNIZING THAT THERE'S 01:24:31.733 --> 01:24:35.303 PITFALLS. SO MY WORRY IS THOSE 01:24:35.370 --> 01:24:36.938 THAT ARE FORMERLY INCARCERATED 01:24:37.005 --> 01:24:38.206 COME OUT AND THERE'S LIKE A 01:24:38.273 --> 01:24:39.607 PLATEAU PHASE. WE'RE NOT 01:24:39.674 --> 01:24:43.178 ALLOWED TO PURSUE CAREER BASED 01:24:43.244 --> 01:24:45.313 OPPORTUNITIES. IT SEEMS LIKE 01:24:45.380 --> 01:24:46.448 EVERYTHING IS CUT OFF. THERE'S 01:24:46.514 --> 01:24:47.916 FEDERAL REGULATIONS, IF NOT 01:24:47.982 --> 01:24:49.651 FEDERAL REGULATIONS, THERE'S 01:24:49.717 --> 01:24:52.554 SOCIETY STIGMA. WE'RE EXPECTED 01:24:52.620 --> 01:24:54.689 AFTER LONG PERIODS OF TIME. I 01:24:54.756 --> 01:24:56.891 DID 18 YEARS. WE'RE EXPECTED 01:24:56.958 --> 01:24:58.426 AFTER THIS TIME TO COME OUT AND 01:24:58.493 --> 01:25:01.229 JUST BE HAPPY. HAPPY IS NOT 01:25:01.296 --> 01:25:03.298 SUCCESS. HAPPY IS NOT LIVING 01:25:03.364 --> 01:25:05.400 YOUR LIFE. THE FACT THAT WE'RE 01:25:05.467 --> 01:25:07.302 NOT ALLOWED TO PURSUE THINGS 01:25:07.368 --> 01:25:09.170 THAT FIT OUR INTERESTS, SO WE 01:25:09.237 --> 01:25:11.306 CAN BE MEMBERS OF SOCIETY AND 01:25:11.372 --> 01:25:13.475 CONTRIBUTE, IT KIND OF IT HURTS 01:25:13.541 --> 01:25:16.611 ME. SO COMING OUT HERE, I WENT 01:25:16.678 --> 01:25:17.812 TO COMMUNITY COLLEGE. I 01:25:17.879 --> 01:25:18.947 GRADUATED WITH NATURAL SCIENCE 01:25:19.013 --> 01:25:20.715 AND MATHEMATICS DEGREE. I WENT 01:25:20.782 --> 01:25:22.784 TO SACRAMENTO STATE. I 01:25:22.851 --> 01:25:24.619 GRADUATED IN KINESIOLOGY. I WAS 01:25:24.686 --> 01:25:26.020 PURSUING MY MASTER'S FOR 01:25:26.087 --> 01:25:27.989 BIOLOGICAL RESEARCH. WITH THAT, 01:25:28.056 --> 01:25:30.758 I WAS A PART OF PROJECT REBOUND, 01:25:30.825 --> 01:25:33.228 SOMETHING THAT, DON'T GET ME 01:25:33.294 --> 01:25:35.763 WRONG, IT'S AN ATHLETE. POLICY 01:25:35.830 --> 01:25:37.899 IS ENCOURAGED, ADVOCACY IS 01:25:37.966 --> 01:25:39.100 ENCOURAGED. THIS SEEMS TO BE 01:25:39.167 --> 01:25:40.835 THE ONLY SECTOR WHERE PEOPLE 01:25:40.902 --> 01:25:42.103 WHO ARE FORMERLY INCARCERATED 01:25:42.170 --> 01:25:43.705 CAN GET A JOB TO LIVE 01:25:43.771 --> 01:25:45.473 SUCCESSFUL. AND THAT KIND OF 01:25:45.540 --> 01:25:47.275 LIKE, IT'S SHOCKING TO ME THAT 01:25:47.342 --> 01:25:49.110 95% OF THE PEOPLE WHO GET OUT 01:25:49.177 --> 01:25:50.612 AND PURSUE HIGHER EDUCATION CAN 01:25:50.678 --> 01:25:51.980 ONLY DO THIS BECAUSE OTHER 01:25:52.046 --> 01:25:53.515 SECTORS WON'T ALLOW US. THERE 01:25:53.581 --> 01:25:55.316 ARE MANY JUST LIKE ME, THOUGH. 01:25:55.383 --> 01:25:56.651 WE ARE OUTLIERS. THERE'S 01:25:56.718 --> 01:25:57.919 CHEMISTS, THERE'S ENGINEERS, 01:25:57.986 --> 01:26:00.355 THERE'S MANY MORE, AND EVERY 01:26:00.421 --> 01:26:03.458 DOOR IS CLOSED. SO I CAME HERE 01:26:03.525 --> 01:26:06.728 TODAY TO ASK YOU, WHAT IS THE 01:26:06.794 --> 01:26:07.829 EXPANSION OF, YOU KNOW, 01:26:07.896 --> 01:26:09.697 EMPLOYMENT SECTORS LOOKING LIKE 01:26:09.764 --> 01:26:11.366 FOR PEOPLE THAT ARE FORMERLY 01:26:11.432 --> 01:26:13.201 INCARCERATED? BECAUSE TO ME, 01:26:13.268 --> 01:26:14.669 WHEN YOU RELEASE PEOPLE AND 01:26:14.736 --> 01:26:15.770 THEY'RE FREE, BUT YOU DON'T 01:26:15.837 --> 01:26:17.171 GIVE THEM THE ABILITY TO CREATE 01:26:17.238 --> 01:26:18.973 A SOLUTION OR HAVE A SOLUTION, 01:26:19.040 --> 01:26:21.476 IT'S A PROBLEM. AND WHAT I 01:26:21.543 --> 01:26:22.977 THINK A LOT OF TIMES, AND 01:26:23.044 --> 01:26:24.379 NOBODY SAYS THIS, WHEN YOU 01:26:24.445 --> 01:26:26.214 BLOCK BARRIERS AND PATHWAYS AND 01:26:26.281 --> 01:26:27.782 PEOPLE THAT HAVE THE ABILITY, 01:26:27.849 --> 01:26:29.150 NOT JUST US, BUT MEMBERS THAT 01:26:29.217 --> 01:26:30.785 SIT IN FRONT OF US, HAVE THE 01:26:30.852 --> 01:26:31.986 ABILITY TO ACTUALLY CHANGE THAT 01:26:32.053 --> 01:26:33.421 NARRATIVE AND CHANGE THAT 01:26:33.488 --> 01:26:34.822 OPPORTUNITY. WHEN THAT'S NOT 01:26:34.889 --> 01:26:37.358 DONE, YOU ENCOURAGE RECIDIVISM. 01:26:37.425 --> 01:26:38.860 A LOT OF TIMES WE'RE GOING BACK 01:26:38.927 --> 01:26:40.929 INTO THESE COMMUNITIES WHERE 01:26:40.995 --> 01:26:42.630 THEY LACK RESOURCES. I GREW UP 01:26:42.697 --> 01:26:43.798 ON 89TH AND WESTERN. I'M A 01:26:43.865 --> 01:26:45.333 WESTERN CENTURY BABY. I TELL 01:26:45.400 --> 01:26:46.734 YOU THAT. I'VE BEEN THERE ALL 01:26:46.801 --> 01:26:49.237 MY LIFE AND THAT'S HOW I GREW 01:26:49.304 --> 01:26:51.105 UP. WE DON'T HAVE IT. WE DON'T 01:26:51.172 --> 01:26:52.206 HAVE THE BEST EDUCATION. I WAS 01:26:52.273 --> 01:26:54.175 A HIGH SCHOOL DROPOUT. I GOT MY 01:26:54.242 --> 01:26:57.979 GED AS A NEW CORCORAN. SO A LOT 01:26:58.046 --> 01:26:59.614 OF US AREN'T SUCCEEDING. AND A 01:26:59.681 --> 01:27:01.816 LOT OF A LOT OF US AREN'T GIVEN 01:27:01.883 --> 01:27:03.918 THAT ABILITY. AND ONE THING I 01:27:03.985 --> 01:27:05.453 USED TO ALWAYS HEAR IN POLY SCI 01:27:05.520 --> 01:27:07.922 IS WE HAVE ACCESS. ACCESS MEANS 01:27:07.989 --> 01:27:09.190 NOTHING IF WE DON'T KNOW WHERE 01:27:09.257 --> 01:27:12.727 IT'S AT. SO I SIT HERE IN FRONT 01:27:12.794 --> 01:27:14.495 OF YOU AND YOU KNOW I LOVE ALL 01:27:14.562 --> 01:27:16.364 Y'ALL. I MESS WITH ALL Y'ALL, 01:27:16.431 --> 01:27:18.333 MAN. BUT IT IS A REAL NEED AND 01:27:18.399 --> 01:27:20.234 AN ENCOURAGEMENT FOR PEOPLE WHO 01:27:20.301 --> 01:27:22.704 ARE COMING BACK INTO SOCIETY TO 01:27:22.770 --> 01:27:26.307 BE SUCCESSFUL. I HATE HEARING 01:27:26.374 --> 01:27:27.375 THE NARRATIVE WHERE THEY THINK 01:27:27.442 --> 01:27:29.510 WE ONLY WANT TO COMMIT CRIME, 01:27:29.577 --> 01:27:31.679 OR WE WANT TO STAY JUST WITH A 01:27:31.746 --> 01:27:34.215 LACK OF. IT'S NOT THAT WHEN 01:27:34.282 --> 01:27:35.683 EVERYTHING IS CLOSED AND YOU'RE 01:27:35.750 --> 01:27:38.519 GIVING YOUR BEST. WHAT ELSE DO 01:27:38.586 --> 01:27:41.356 YOU HAVE? SURVIVAL IS YOUR ONLY 01:27:41.422 --> 01:27:42.824 MEANS. AND I JUST FEEL LIKE IT 01:27:42.890 --> 01:27:46.427 NEEDS TO CHANGE. INCREDIBLY 01:27:46.494 --> 01:27:51.165 POWERFUL. MR. ORTIZ, BRING US 01:27:51.232 --> 01:27:55.103 HOME. SO I'M HERE. HEY, 01:27:55.169 --> 01:27:55.970 EVERYONE. MY. THANK YOU. FIRST 01:27:56.037 --> 01:27:57.805 AND FOREMOST. THANK YOU ALL FOR 01:27:57.872 --> 01:27:59.407 THIS OPPORTUNITY TO BE HERE 01:27:59.474 --> 01:28:01.209 BEFORE YOU ALL. MY NAME IS 01:28:01.275 --> 01:28:02.276 EFRAIN ORTIZ. I'M THE 01:28:02.343 --> 01:28:03.077 MEMBERSHIP AND OUTREACH 01:28:03.144 --> 01:28:05.880 COORDINATOR WITH THE JUSTICE AT 01:28:05.947 --> 01:28:07.348 INITIATE JUSTICE. WE FIGHT. WE 01:28:07.415 --> 01:28:09.384 FIGHT TO END MASS INCARCERATION 01:28:09.450 --> 01:28:10.284 BY ACTIVATING THE POWER OF 01:28:10.351 --> 01:28:13.454 THOSE DIRECTLY IMPACTED BY IT. 01:28:13.521 --> 01:28:14.555 AS YOU HEAR BEFORE OUR 01:28:14.622 --> 01:28:15.657 PANELISTS HERE, MANY OF US HAVE 01:28:15.723 --> 01:28:17.458 BEEN IMPACTED BY THE CARCERAL 01:28:17.525 --> 01:28:18.660 SYSTEM. MANY OF US HERE IN THIS 01:28:18.726 --> 01:28:20.495 ROOM HAVE BEEN IMPACTED BY THE 01:28:20.561 --> 01:28:21.596 CARCERAL SYSTEM. AND WHAT DOES 01:28:21.663 --> 01:28:23.431 THIS LOOK? WHAT DOES THIS LOOK 01:28:23.498 --> 01:28:24.499 LIKE FOR INITIATE JUSTICE? HOW 01:28:24.565 --> 01:28:26.467 DO WE BUILD THAT BETTER? HOW DO 01:28:26.534 --> 01:28:28.236 WE BUILD THAT DEMOCRACY FOR 01:28:28.302 --> 01:28:29.003 CALIFORNIA? THAT INCLUDES ALL 01:28:29.070 --> 01:28:31.773 OF US, RIGHT? WE'VE HAD SOME 01:28:31.839 --> 01:28:34.709 GREAT SUCCESS IN THE PAST, 01:28:34.776 --> 01:28:35.877 CO-SPONSORING WITH ASH KALRA, 01:28:35.943 --> 01:28:38.646 THE R, J, A AND MANY OTHER 01:28:38.713 --> 01:28:40.481 BILLS. RIGHT. WE PASSED 01:28:40.548 --> 01:28:43.618 PROPOSITION 17 IN 2020. WE'RE 01:28:43.685 --> 01:28:44.786 CO-SPONSOR ON THAT, YOU KNOW, 01:28:44.852 --> 01:28:46.220 RESTORING VOTING RIGHTS FOR 01:28:46.287 --> 01:28:47.689 THOSE THAT ARE FORMERLY 01:28:47.755 --> 01:28:50.224 INCARCERATED. YOU AND I HAD A 01:28:50.291 --> 01:28:51.125 CONVERSATION EARLIER WHERE IT 01:28:51.192 --> 01:28:54.529 MADE ME SO PROUD DURING THESE 01:28:54.595 --> 01:28:55.596 ELECTIONS TO SEE SO MANY 01:28:55.663 --> 01:28:58.099 FORMERLY INCARCERATED PEOPLE 01:28:58.166 --> 01:29:00.301 POSTING THOSE I VOTED STICKERS, 01:29:00.368 --> 01:29:02.070 RIGHT? BEING PROUD TO VOTE, 01:29:02.136 --> 01:29:03.171 BEING PROUD TO HAVE THEIR 01:29:03.237 --> 01:29:05.673 VOICES HEARD. YOU KNOW, I 01:29:05.740 --> 01:29:07.075 INITIATE JUSTICE. WE HAVE THIS 01:29:07.141 --> 01:29:08.943 INSIDE OUTSIDE STRATEGY 01:29:09.010 --> 01:29:10.311 APPROACH. MANY OF YOU. I, I 01:29:10.378 --> 01:29:11.512 DON'T HAVE TO PREACH TO THE 01:29:11.579 --> 01:29:13.381 CHOIR. MANY OF YOU ALL SITTING 01:29:13.448 --> 01:29:14.549 HERE BEFORE ME HAVE GONE INSIDE 01:29:14.615 --> 01:29:16.851 THESE PRISONS. RIGHT INSIDE. WE 01:29:16.918 --> 01:29:18.319 HAVE A CIVIC ENGAGEMENT 01:29:18.386 --> 01:29:19.620 TRAINING PROGRAM WHERE WE TEACH 01:29:19.687 --> 01:29:20.755 PEOPLE THE LEGISLATIVE PROCESS. 01:29:20.822 --> 01:29:22.557 WE TEACH THEM HOW TO EMPOWER 01:29:22.623 --> 01:29:23.324 THEMSELVES. WE TEACH THEM HOW 01:29:23.391 --> 01:29:25.460 TO ADVOCATE FOR THEMSELVES. 01:29:25.526 --> 01:29:26.627 SOME OF THOSE LETTERS HAVE MADE 01:29:26.694 --> 01:29:28.429 IT TO THE ASSEMBLY FLOOR, TO 01:29:28.496 --> 01:29:30.832 THE SENATE FLOOR, TO COMMITTEE 01:29:30.898 --> 01:29:32.667 HEARINGS, RIGHT WHERE THEY 01:29:32.734 --> 01:29:33.701 TESTIFIED, EVEN THOUGH THEY 01:29:33.768 --> 01:29:34.802 COULDN'T BE THERE IN PERSON. 01:29:34.869 --> 01:29:35.903 THEIR LETTERS WERE READ IN 01:29:35.970 --> 01:29:37.371 THESE COMMITTEE HEARINGS. 01:29:37.438 --> 01:29:39.307 THAT'S POWERFUL, RIGHT? BECAUSE 01:29:39.373 --> 01:29:40.274 YOU'RE HEARING DIRECTLY FROM 01:29:40.341 --> 01:29:42.009 THE PEOPLE THAT IS DIRECTLY 01:29:42.076 --> 01:29:44.212 IMPACTING OUT HERE. WE HAVE A 01:29:44.278 --> 01:29:45.313 PROGRAM CALLED THE INSTITUTE OF 01:29:45.379 --> 01:29:46.748 IMPACTED LEADERS, WHERE WE 01:29:46.814 --> 01:29:48.850 TRAIN, WE HAVE TRAINED, WE HAVE 01:29:48.916 --> 01:29:50.318 GRADUATED OVER 23 COHORTS 01:29:50.384 --> 01:29:51.385 THROUGHOUT THE STATE OF 01:29:51.452 --> 01:29:54.622 CALIFORNIA, 450 OUTSIDE 01:29:54.689 --> 01:29:55.623 ORGANIZERS THAT HAVE GONE 01:29:55.690 --> 01:29:57.158 THROUGH THAT PROGRAM. YOU KNOW, 01:29:57.225 --> 01:29:58.192 AND THE NUMBERS ARE AMAZING, 01:29:58.259 --> 01:29:59.293 RIGHT? BUT MORE THAN THE 01:29:59.360 --> 01:30:00.828 NUMBERS IS THE QUALITY, THE 01:30:00.895 --> 01:30:02.230 PEOPLE THAT ARE COMING THERE. 01:30:02.296 --> 01:30:03.631 RIGHT BACK WHEN I WAS GROWING 01:30:03.698 --> 01:30:05.433 UP, WE TALK ABOUT LIKE WHEN I 01:30:05.500 --> 01:30:07.935 GOT INCARCERATED, I STARTED 01:30:08.002 --> 01:30:09.003 LEARNING, REALLY WORKING ON 01:30:09.070 --> 01:30:10.138 MYSELF. I LEARNED ABOUT THE 01:30:10.204 --> 01:30:11.906 RIPPLE EFFECT, RIGHT? THE 01:30:11.973 --> 01:30:13.107 RIPPLE EFFECT OF OUR CRIMES, 01:30:13.174 --> 01:30:14.575 THE RIPPLE EFFECT THAT WE 01:30:14.642 --> 01:30:15.743 CAUSED, THE HARM THAT WE CAUSE, 01:30:15.810 --> 01:30:17.545 AND HOW IT REALLY EXPANDS OUT 01:30:17.612 --> 01:30:18.713 INTO OUR COMMUNITIES, NOT JUST 01:30:18.780 --> 01:30:20.481 THE DIRECT PERSON THAT WE'VE 01:30:20.548 --> 01:30:23.084 HARMED. THIS IS HOW WE'RE 01:30:23.151 --> 01:30:24.886 CHANGING THAT, RIGHT? BECAUSE 01:30:24.952 --> 01:30:26.320 WHEN WE'RE TRAINING ONE PERSON, 01:30:26.387 --> 01:30:27.755 WHEN WE'RE AND I DON'T EVEN 01:30:27.822 --> 01:30:29.690 WANT TO SAY TRAINING, I WANT TO 01:30:29.757 --> 01:30:30.958 SAY EMPOWERING, RIGHT? TEACHING 01:30:31.025 --> 01:30:32.460 THEM THAT THEY ALREADY HAD THIS 01:30:32.527 --> 01:30:34.595 IN THEM, RIGHT? WHEN WE TEACH 01:30:34.662 --> 01:30:36.130 THAT ONE PERSON HE'S TAKING, 01:30:36.197 --> 01:30:37.765 THEY'RE TAKING IT, HE OR SHE, 01:30:37.832 --> 01:30:40.001 THEY'RE TAKING IT ON TO THEIR 01:30:40.067 --> 01:30:40.601 ORGANIZATIONS. THEY'RE TAKING 01:30:40.668 --> 01:30:42.170 IT BACK TO THEIR COMMUNITIES. 01:30:42.236 --> 01:30:43.304 THEY'RE TAKING IT BACK TO THESE 01:30:43.371 --> 01:30:45.173 PRISON YARDS, RIGHT? THESE ARE 01:30:45.239 --> 01:30:46.674 THE LEADERS THAT ARE CHANGING 01:30:46.741 --> 01:30:48.242 THE ENVIRONMENT INSIDE THESE 01:30:48.309 --> 01:30:49.777 PRISON YARDS. THESE ARE THE 01:30:49.844 --> 01:30:51.145 LEADERS THAT ARE CHANGING THE 01:30:51.212 --> 01:30:52.547 ENVIRONMENTS IN OUR IN OUR 01:30:52.613 --> 01:30:53.714 COMMUNITY. AND I WILL SAY THAT 01:30:53.781 --> 01:30:54.949 IT'S NOT JUST INITIATE JUSTICE, 01:30:55.016 --> 01:30:56.684 RIGHT? WE DON'T DO THIS ALONE. 01:30:56.751 --> 01:30:58.586 WE DO THIS WITH ALL OUR AMAZING 01:30:58.653 --> 01:30:59.654 COMMUNITY PARTNERS. MANY OF YOU, 01:30:59.720 --> 01:31:01.556 MANY OF WHO ARE IN THIS ROOM 01:31:01.622 --> 01:31:04.091 RIGHT NOW. AND I WANT TO SAY 01:31:04.158 --> 01:31:06.594 THAT WE KNOW FOR A FACT, YOU 01:31:06.661 --> 01:31:08.963 KNOW, GROWING UP, I SEARCHED 01:31:09.030 --> 01:31:10.932 FOR BELONGING, RIGHT? I JOINED 01:31:10.998 --> 01:31:12.066 MY NEIGHBORHOOD BECAUSE I 01:31:12.133 --> 01:31:13.768 WANTED TO BELONG. I WANTED TO 01:31:13.835 --> 01:31:15.269 BE A PART OF SOMETHING. WE KNOW 01:31:15.336 --> 01:31:17.038 CIVIC ENGAGEMENT CREATES THAT. 01:31:17.104 --> 01:31:18.506 IT CREATES A SENSE OF PURPOSE. 01:31:18.573 --> 01:31:19.907 IT CREATES THAT SENSE OF 01:31:19.974 --> 01:31:22.476 BELONGING. IT HELPS. IT HELPS 01:31:22.543 --> 01:31:25.680 US STAY OUT OF PRISON. IN SOME 01:31:25.746 --> 01:31:28.182 CASES, IT HELPS CREATE. WE HELP 01:31:28.249 --> 01:31:31.118 CREATE ROADS THAT DON'T HAVE TO 01:31:31.185 --> 01:31:32.987 LEAD TO PRISON. RIGHT. AND I 01:31:33.054 --> 01:31:35.156 WANT TO APPLAUD YOU, ISAAC, 01:31:35.223 --> 01:31:36.557 BRIAN, AND MANY THAT WORKED ON 01:31:36.624 --> 01:31:39.427 ON THE HUGS ACT, RIGHT? WE TOO. 01:31:39.493 --> 01:31:41.562 WE HAVE A PROGRAM CURRENTLY AT 01:31:41.629 --> 01:31:43.331 PLEASANT VALLEY STATE PRISON 01:31:43.397 --> 01:31:45.166 WHERE WE STARTED A BEALL CLINIC 01:31:45.233 --> 01:31:47.335 WITH OUR OUR ORGANIZERS INSIDE. 01:31:47.401 --> 01:31:49.503 THEY DRAFTED UP 3 OR 4 BILLS AT 01:31:49.570 --> 01:31:51.005 THE END OF LAST YEAR, BEGINNING 01:31:51.072 --> 01:31:52.974 OF THIS YEAR, AND WE KNEW IT 01:31:53.040 --> 01:31:54.141 WAS GOING TO BE A TOUGH 01:31:54.208 --> 01:31:55.610 POLITICAL CLIMATE. WE ASKED 01:31:55.676 --> 01:31:57.378 THEM, WHICH ONE DO YOU WANT US 01:31:57.445 --> 01:31:59.380 TO PUSH? AND IT WAS A SOCIAL 01:31:59.447 --> 01:32:00.314 EMOTIONAL LEARNING BILLS FOR 01:32:00.381 --> 01:32:02.383 ALL K THROUGH 12 SCHOOLS. AB 01:32:02.450 --> 01:32:04.218 1851, WHICH SADLY, YOU KNOW, 01:32:04.285 --> 01:32:05.486 DIDN'T MAKE IT THROUGH THE 01:32:05.553 --> 01:32:06.520 SENATE APPROPRIATIONS, BUT IT 01:32:06.587 --> 01:32:07.822 WAS DRAFTED BY THOSE 01:32:07.889 --> 01:32:08.923 INDIVIDUALS WHEN WE ASKED THEM 01:32:08.990 --> 01:32:10.324 WHY THAT BILL, WHEN THEY HAD 01:32:10.391 --> 01:32:11.826 OTHER BILLS THAT COULD BRING 01:32:11.893 --> 01:32:12.960 THEM HOME EARLIER OR REDUCE 01:32:13.027 --> 01:32:14.262 THEIR SENTENCE OR, YOU KNOW, 01:32:14.328 --> 01:32:15.796 GIVE THEM OTHER OPTIONS, THEY 01:32:15.863 --> 01:32:17.164 SAID, BECAUSE WE DIDN'T WANT 01:32:17.231 --> 01:32:19.267 THE YOUNG ONES TO BE IN THE 01:32:19.333 --> 01:32:20.434 SHOES THAT WE'RE AT RIGHT NOW. 01:32:20.501 --> 01:32:22.270 AND THAT TO ME IS POWERFUL. 01:32:22.336 --> 01:32:24.338 THAT IS SELFLESS, NOT SELFISH. 01:32:24.405 --> 01:32:26.540 RIGHT. SO WE KNOW FOR A FACT 01:32:26.607 --> 01:32:29.076 THAT THIS WORKS. WE WANT TO 01:32:29.143 --> 01:32:31.545 CONTINUE TO BRING THIS TO 01:32:31.612 --> 01:32:33.714 VARIOUS COMMUNITIES. I WANT TO 01:32:33.781 --> 01:32:35.182 ENCOURAGE YOU ALL HERE SITTING 01:32:35.249 --> 01:32:36.684 BEFORE ME, TO CONTINUE TO GO 01:32:36.751 --> 01:32:38.719 INSIDE THOSE PRISONS, TO SIT IN 01:32:38.786 --> 01:32:40.121 THESE ROOMS WITH INDIVIDUALS, 01:32:40.187 --> 01:32:41.255 TO GO INTO THE DETENTION 01:32:41.322 --> 01:32:43.858 CENTERS, BECAUSE THERE'S SOME 01:32:43.925 --> 01:32:45.359 PEOPLE THAT I BROKE BREAD WITH 01:32:45.426 --> 01:32:46.560 IN THERE THAT I'D RATHER HAVE 01:32:46.627 --> 01:32:48.329 MY AS MY NEIGHBORS RIGHT NOW 01:32:48.396 --> 01:32:49.563 THAN SOME OF MY NEIGHBORS THAT 01:32:49.630 --> 01:32:51.465 I HAVE NOW. I'LL TELL YOU THAT. 01:32:51.532 --> 01:32:53.401 RIGHT. SO I WANTED TO SAY THAT, 01:32:53.467 --> 01:32:54.602 RIGHT. LIKE, AND, AND, AND 01:32:54.669 --> 01:32:56.437 AGAIN, THE WHOLE THING, THIS IS 01:32:56.504 --> 01:32:57.638 A POWER THAT PEOPLE ALREADY 01:32:57.705 --> 01:32:59.674 HAVE IN THEM. WE'RE JUST SIMPLY 01:32:59.740 --> 01:33:00.675 EMPOWERING THEM. WE'RE GIVING 01:33:00.741 --> 01:33:02.576 THEM THAT EXTRA LITTLE NUDGE. 01:33:02.643 --> 01:33:04.378 RIGHT NOW, THESE ORGANIZERS 01:33:04.445 --> 01:33:05.446 THAT WE HAVE OUTSIDE ARE 01:33:05.513 --> 01:33:07.581 LEADING IN DISTRICT VISITS WITH 01:33:07.648 --> 01:33:09.417 STATE REPRESENTATIVES, WITH 01:33:09.483 --> 01:33:11.218 THEIR STAFFERS, RIGHT? WE'RE 01:33:11.285 --> 01:33:12.987 HELPING TRAIN OTHERS, BUT WE'RE 01:33:13.054 --> 01:33:14.488 EMPOWERING THEM TO ACTUALLY 01:33:14.555 --> 01:33:15.856 TAKE ON THAT LEADERSHIP ROLE, 01:33:15.923 --> 01:33:17.658 TO BRING OTHERS INTO THE FOLD. 01:33:17.725 --> 01:33:19.093 RIGHT? BECAUSE WE BELONG IN 01:33:19.160 --> 01:33:20.895 THESE TABLES. WE KNOW THAT 01:33:20.962 --> 01:33:22.363 ALREADY. WE BELONG IN THAT 01:33:22.430 --> 01:33:23.397 CAPITAL. I REMEMBER MY FIRST 01:33:23.464 --> 01:33:24.498 TIME OUT OF PRISON STEPPING 01:33:24.565 --> 01:33:26.300 INTO THAT CAPITOL. IT FELT SO 01:33:26.367 --> 01:33:28.502 WEIRD, YOU KNOW? AND NOW I'M 01:33:28.569 --> 01:33:31.272 LIKE, I DAP EVERY ALL YOU UP. I 01:33:31.339 --> 01:33:32.773 GIVE YOU ALL HUGS, LIKE, 01:33:32.840 --> 01:33:34.342 BECAUSE I KNOW I BELONG THERE. 01:33:34.408 --> 01:33:36.744 YOU KNOW, WE ALL BELONG THERE. 01:33:36.811 --> 01:33:42.149 SO I WANT TO SAY. YOU KNOW, I 01:33:42.216 --> 01:33:43.951 WANT TO SAY TO THOSE LISTENING 01:33:44.018 --> 01:33:45.519 TODAY, TO THOSE IN THIS ROOM, 01:33:45.586 --> 01:33:47.188 OUR VOICES MATTER, OUR 01:33:47.254 --> 01:33:49.423 EXPERIENCES MATTER. OUR PAST 01:33:49.490 --> 01:33:52.960 DOES NOT DEFINE US. WE NEED TO 01:33:53.027 --> 01:33:54.762 BE THE ONES IN THESE ROOMS 01:33:54.829 --> 01:33:56.931 HELPING SHAPE THESE LAWS, THESE 01:33:56.998 --> 01:33:57.999 POLICIES TO BUILD THE 01:33:58.065 --> 01:33:59.800 CALIFORNIA THAT WE WANT. RIGHT? 01:33:59.867 --> 01:34:00.868 BECAUSE DEMOCRACY SHOULDN'T 01:34:00.935 --> 01:34:03.437 JUST WORK FOR US. IT SHOULD BE 01:34:03.504 --> 01:34:10.211 SHAPED BY US. YES. NOW TURN IT 01:34:10.277 --> 01:34:12.013 BACK TO MY COLLEAGUES ON THE 01:34:12.079 --> 01:34:16.317 DAIS. ANY QUESTIONS? COMMENTS? 01:34:16.384 --> 01:34:18.185 SAID MEMBER ELWHA. I FEEL LIKE 01:34:18.252 --> 01:34:20.287 I JUST GOT CALLED OUT A LITTLE 01:34:20.354 --> 01:34:22.590 STARE DOWN OVER HERE. I MEAN, 01:34:22.656 --> 01:34:26.794 HE SAID IT. OKAY, FIRST OF ALL, 01:34:26.861 --> 01:34:28.929 THANK YOU ALL SO MUCH FOR 01:34:28.996 --> 01:34:31.098 SHARING YOUR PERSPECTIVES. AND 01:34:31.165 --> 01:34:32.533 REALLY, I THINK HELPING US TO 01:34:32.600 --> 01:34:35.069 SEE AND DIG INTO AREAS THAT WE 01:34:35.136 --> 01:34:36.737 REALLY DO NEED TO BE THINKING 01:34:36.804 --> 01:34:38.639 MORE ABOUT. I HAVE A FEW 01:34:38.706 --> 01:34:40.474 QUESTIONS, SO I DON'T KNOW IF I 01:34:40.541 --> 01:34:42.443 SHOULD ASK THEM ALL OR TRY TO 01:34:42.510 --> 01:34:44.045 GIVE A LITTLE SPACE, BUT I 01:34:44.111 --> 01:34:45.446 THINK THE FIRST QUESTION I HAVE 01:34:45.513 --> 01:34:49.050 IS FOR NEDDRICK AROUND 01:34:49.116 --> 01:34:50.584 RECOGNIZING WHAT YOU TALKED 01:34:50.651 --> 01:34:52.686 ABOUT, THE EXTENT TO WHICH I 01:34:52.753 --> 01:34:54.188 SIT ON BMP BUSINESS AND 01:34:54.255 --> 01:34:55.489 PROFESSIONS. AND I THINK A LOT 01:34:55.556 --> 01:34:56.991 OF AS WE THINK ABOUT LICENSURE, 01:34:57.058 --> 01:34:58.426 YOU KNOW, WHERE THOSE BARRIERS 01:34:58.492 --> 01:34:59.693 ARE AS WE THINK ABOUT CHEMISTS 01:34:59.760 --> 01:35:01.362 AND ENGINEERS AND WRITE ALL 01:35:01.429 --> 01:35:02.797 THESE DIFFERENT KIND OF BOARDS 01:35:02.863 --> 01:35:04.598 THAT WE THAT WE ARE ULTIMATELY, 01:35:04.665 --> 01:35:06.700 YOU KNOW, CONTINUING TO SUPPORT, 01:35:06.767 --> 01:35:08.536 WHERE HAVE YOU SEEN 01:35:08.602 --> 01:35:09.637 OPPORTUNITIES, IF AT ALL? RIGHT. 01:35:09.703 --> 01:35:11.505 LIKE, HAVE YOU SEEN ANY OF ANY 01:35:11.572 --> 01:35:12.807 OF THESE BOARDS THAT HAVE BEEN 01:35:12.873 --> 01:35:15.409 OPEN TO SHIFTING? LIKE, FOR 01:35:15.476 --> 01:35:16.777 INSTANCE, I FEEL LIKE I DON'T 01:35:16.844 --> 01:35:18.446 KNOW IF IT WAS I CHAIR BRYANT 01:35:18.512 --> 01:35:20.114 OR SOMEBODY ELSE, BUT LIKE, FOR 01:35:20.181 --> 01:35:21.215 INSTANCE, WITH BARBERING, I 01:35:21.282 --> 01:35:22.316 FEEL LIKE THERE'S BEEN SOME 01:35:22.383 --> 01:35:25.186 SHIFTS. AS AN EXAMPLE, HAVE 01:35:25.252 --> 01:35:28.322 THERE BEEN ANY SUCCESSES AND 01:35:28.389 --> 01:35:29.857 MAYBE BEYOND CALIFORNIA, HAVE 01:35:29.924 --> 01:35:31.592 YOU SEEN THAT THAT THERE HAVE 01:35:31.659 --> 01:35:33.227 BEEN SOME SOME OPPORTUNITIES 01:35:33.294 --> 01:35:34.428 THAT WE COULD REALLY MODEL 01:35:34.495 --> 01:35:37.698 OURSELVES AFTER? SO WHEN 01:35:37.765 --> 01:35:39.500 TALKING TO PEOPLE, INCLUDING 01:35:39.567 --> 01:35:40.801 MYSELF, ACTUALLY EXPERIENCING 01:35:40.868 --> 01:35:42.703 IT, OF COURSE THERE'S GOING TO 01:35:42.770 --> 01:35:44.572 BE SOME SUCCESSES, BUT THEY 01:35:44.638 --> 01:35:47.441 REMAIN AS OUTLIERS. 3% TO THE 01:35:47.508 --> 01:35:50.644 97% IS ABSOLUTELY NOTHING. THAT 01:35:50.711 --> 01:35:52.446 JUST MEANS YOU WERE RIGHT. 01:35:52.513 --> 01:35:53.547 CHANCE AND OPPORTUNITY. THAT'S 01:35:53.614 --> 01:35:55.382 HOW IT WORKS OUT SOMETIMES IN 01:35:55.449 --> 01:35:58.919 OTHER SECTORS. NÓ THERE ARE 01:35:58.986 --> 01:36:00.754 REGULATIONS EVEN WHEN GETTING 01:36:00.821 --> 01:36:01.789 CERTIFICATION, JUST LIKE ME, I 01:36:01.856 --> 01:36:03.757 WAS TOLD, YEAH, I COULD WORK IN 01:36:03.824 --> 01:36:05.059 THE MEDICAL FIELD AND GET 01:36:05.126 --> 01:36:05.926 CERTIFIED, BUT I'M NOT ALLOWED 01:36:05.993 --> 01:36:09.396 TO WORK IN CALIFORNIA. OKAY, 01:36:09.463 --> 01:36:11.465 THANKS. THAT DOESN'T HELP ME AT 01:36:11.532 --> 01:36:13.300 ALL. IT DOESN'T HELP ANYBODY 01:36:13.367 --> 01:36:14.568 THAT'S DEMONSTRATING THEY HAVE 01:36:14.635 --> 01:36:16.570 THE CAPABILITIES TO DO IT. 01:36:16.637 --> 01:36:18.439 THEY'RE JUST NOT ALLOWED TO. A 01:36:18.506 --> 01:36:19.807 LOT OF THINGS. LIKE I SAID, 01:36:19.874 --> 01:36:21.308 SOCIETY STIGMA ACTUALLY HARMS 01:36:21.375 --> 01:36:23.410 US. A LOT OF CORPORATIONS, 01:36:23.477 --> 01:36:24.879 INSTITUTIONS ARE QUICK TO SAY 01:36:24.945 --> 01:36:27.448 THAT THEY'RE WORRIED ABOUT, YOU 01:36:27.515 --> 01:36:29.917 KNOW, YOUR PAST LIFE, YOU BEING 01:36:29.984 --> 01:36:30.951 INCARCERATED. I WAS EVEN 01:36:31.018 --> 01:36:32.419 REMOVED FROM A JOB THAT WAS 01:36:32.486 --> 01:36:33.587 WALGREENS, NOTHING BIG. BUT 01:36:33.654 --> 01:36:36.357 THEY SAID THE STAFF FELT 01:36:36.423 --> 01:36:38.225 FRIGHTENED BY ME. AND THIS IS 01:36:38.292 --> 01:36:39.627 FROM A MANAGER THAT WAS ONLY ON 01:36:39.693 --> 01:36:41.562 FOR A WEEK. WHAT HE DIDN'T KNOW 01:36:41.629 --> 01:36:42.730 IS THE PEOPLE I WAS WORKING 01:36:42.796 --> 01:36:44.498 WITH USED TO DRIVE ME TO 01:36:44.565 --> 01:36:45.633 SACRAMENTO STATE SO I CAN GET 01:36:45.699 --> 01:36:47.668 TO CLASS, SO I KNOW THEY DIDN'T 01:36:47.735 --> 01:36:48.669 FEEL UNCOMFORTABLE WITH ME, BUT 01:36:48.736 --> 01:36:51.505 I COULDN'T PURSUE IT. AND IT'S 01:36:51.572 --> 01:36:52.873 JUST SOMETHING THAT, LIKE I 01:36:52.940 --> 01:36:54.408 SAID, IT AFFECTS US. ALSO, I 01:36:54.475 --> 01:36:55.843 DIDN'T KNOW ALL THE RULES THAT 01:36:55.910 --> 01:36:57.144 GO WITH IT. I'M GONNA BE HONEST 01:36:57.211 --> 01:36:58.913 WITH YOU. I WAS KIND OF 01:36:58.979 --> 01:37:00.881 IGNORANT TO THE FACT OF WHAT WE 01:37:00.948 --> 01:37:03.050 DO HAVE AS FAR AS OUR BENEFITS. 01:37:03.117 --> 01:37:05.186 WHEN SOMEBODY VIOLATES THAT OR 01:37:05.252 --> 01:37:07.721 DISCRIMINATES. BUT EVEN WITHOUT 01:37:07.788 --> 01:37:08.889 DISCRIMINATION, LIKE I SAID, 01:37:08.956 --> 01:37:10.224 YOU FIND THAT WE'RE BEING 01:37:10.291 --> 01:37:12.760 REJECTED. WHY? BECAUSE OF OUR 01:37:12.826 --> 01:37:15.629 BACKGROUNDS AND IT'S A CONSTANT. 01:37:15.696 --> 01:37:17.431 AND EVEN WHEN WE LOOK AT THINGS 01:37:17.498 --> 01:37:18.866 LIKE THE FAIR CHANCE, YES, WE 01:37:18.933 --> 01:37:20.267 HAVE IT FEDERAL REGULATIONS, 01:37:20.334 --> 01:37:21.702 BUT THERE'S NO ACCOUNTABILITY. 01:37:21.769 --> 01:37:24.271 SO IF THERE'S NO ACCOUNTABILITY, 01:37:24.338 --> 01:37:26.407 WHAT IS IT? ONCE AGAIN, THAT'S 01:37:26.473 --> 01:37:27.875 THAT ACCESS PROBLEM. YOU CAN 01:37:27.942 --> 01:37:29.109 COME IN, BUT I DON'T HAVE TO 01:37:29.176 --> 01:37:30.878 GUARANTEE YOU, EVEN THOUGH YOU 01:37:30.945 --> 01:37:32.179 MAY BE OVERQUALIFIED, YOU MIGHT 01:37:32.246 --> 01:37:33.948 BE QUALIFIED AND JUST FIT IN 01:37:34.014 --> 01:37:36.250 THAT POSITION. BUT I GET TO RUN 01:37:36.317 --> 01:37:39.019 A BACKGROUND CHECK AND NOW I 01:37:39.086 --> 01:37:41.288 DON'T WANT YOU, I, I'M SCARED 01:37:41.355 --> 01:37:43.757 OF A LAWSUIT. THAT'S NOT WHAT 01:37:43.824 --> 01:37:45.859 OUR INTENTION IS. A LOT OF US 01:37:45.926 --> 01:37:47.661 THAT COME OUT AND PURSUE, 01:37:47.728 --> 01:37:48.562 ESPECIALLY HIGHER DIMENSIONS 01:37:48.629 --> 01:37:50.064 AND CAREERS, WE'RE JUST TRYING 01:37:50.130 --> 01:37:52.132 TO LIVE OUR LIFE. WE'RE TRYING 01:37:52.199 --> 01:37:53.801 TO FIND SUCCESS AND HAPPINESS 01:37:53.867 --> 01:37:55.269 AND KNOWING THE ABILITY THAT WE 01:37:55.336 --> 01:37:57.404 COULD DO IT, ESPECIALLY MYSELF. 01:37:57.471 --> 01:37:58.939 FOR ME, I WAS LIKE, I'M NEVER 01:37:59.006 --> 01:38:00.474 GOING TO DO NOTHING. I'M JUST 01:38:00.541 --> 01:38:02.443 GOING TO GANG BANG, DIE, SIT IN 01:38:02.509 --> 01:38:04.945 PRISON. SO UNDERSTANDING THAT I 01:38:05.012 --> 01:38:06.447 ACTUALLY HAVE THAT TALENT AND 01:38:06.513 --> 01:38:07.815 THAT ABILITY AND SEEING OTHERS 01:38:07.881 --> 01:38:10.751 AS WELL THAT ARE WAY BEYOND ME. 01:38:10.818 --> 01:38:12.853 IT SHOULD BE NO NEED WHY 01:38:12.920 --> 01:38:15.356 REGULATIONS HINDER US AND WHY 01:38:15.422 --> 01:38:17.524 BEING RELEASED IS A CONTINUOUS 01:38:17.591 --> 01:38:19.326 PUNISHMENT. A LOT OF US HAVE 01:38:19.393 --> 01:38:22.563 DONE OUR TIME. WHEN DOES IT END 01:38:22.630 --> 01:38:29.136 AND. THANK YOU. AND I DID WANT 01:38:29.203 --> 01:38:30.170 TO SAY CONGRATULATIONS TOO, 01:38:30.237 --> 01:38:31.338 BECAUSE IT'S A BIG DEAL TO BE 01:38:31.405 --> 01:38:34.108 ABLE TO GET A DEGREE IN 01:38:34.174 --> 01:38:36.310 CHEMISTRY AND MATHEMATICS AND 01:38:36.377 --> 01:38:37.778 BIOLOGICAL SCIENCE. LIKE I JUST, 01:38:37.845 --> 01:38:40.180 I FEEL LIKE THAT'S ALWAYS NEXT 01:38:40.247 --> 01:38:41.615 LEVEL WHEN YOU DO HARD SCIENCES. 01:38:41.682 --> 01:38:45.653 SO BATTY ALSO, JUST, JUST TO 01:38:45.719 --> 01:38:47.388 RESPOND. I DO THINK THAT 01:38:47.454 --> 01:38:48.489 SITTING ON BNP, THERE'S AN 01:38:48.555 --> 01:38:49.556 OPPORTUNITY FOR US TO BUILD 01:38:49.623 --> 01:38:51.058 THOSE RELATIONSHIPS WITH THOSE 01:38:51.125 --> 01:38:53.193 VARIOUS KIND OF BOARDS THAT 01:38:53.260 --> 01:38:54.595 GOVERN AND REALLY THINK ABOUT 01:38:54.662 --> 01:38:55.629 WHAT THOSE REGULATIONS ARE SO 01:38:55.696 --> 01:38:56.864 THAT WE CAN FIGURE OUT WHERE 01:38:56.930 --> 01:38:58.999 CAN WE PUSH IN. WHY WERE SOME 01:38:59.066 --> 01:39:00.668 OF THESE CREATED? HOW MUCH OF 01:39:00.734 --> 01:39:01.935 IT IS FEDERAL VERSUS STATE, AND 01:39:02.002 --> 01:39:03.704 HOW CAN WE ENSURE THAT WE'RE 01:39:03.771 --> 01:39:04.838 ACTUALLY HELPING TO SHIFT THAT? 01:39:04.905 --> 01:39:06.674 SO THANK YOU FOR BRINGING IT UP. 01:39:06.740 --> 01:39:08.642 AND IT LOOKS LIKE YOU WANTED TO 01:39:08.709 --> 01:39:09.843 CHIME IN. I, I THINK I HAVE 01:39:09.910 --> 01:39:11.578 OTHER QUESTIONS, BUT I THINK 01:39:11.645 --> 01:39:12.746 I'M GOING TO PASS IT TO MY 01:39:12.813 --> 01:39:14.648 COLLEAGUES AND THEN COME BACK 01:39:14.715 --> 01:39:17.718 AROUND. ANYBODY TO MY LEFT. I, 01:39:17.785 --> 01:39:22.656 I HAVE A MR. KALRA. I THANK YOU, 01:39:22.723 --> 01:39:25.592 MR. CHAIR. HE ASKED THE 01:39:25.659 --> 01:39:26.994 QUESTION OF MR. MILLER AND I 01:39:27.061 --> 01:39:29.263 JUST FOLLOWING UP ON A NOT 01:39:29.330 --> 01:39:30.531 GOING TO ASK A QUESTION BECAUSE 01:39:30.597 --> 01:39:32.299 SHE ALREADY ASKED IT, BUT ON A 01:39:32.366 --> 01:39:34.201 COMMENT, I THINK THAT ONE THING 01:39:34.268 --> 01:39:35.703 THAT YOU RAISE, WHICH IS SO 01:39:35.769 --> 01:39:37.471 IMPORTANT, IS THAT I THINK JUST 01:39:37.538 --> 01:39:40.341 THE IDEA THAT FREEDOM GOES 01:39:40.407 --> 01:39:42.843 BEYOND RELIEVING SOMEONE OF 01:39:42.910 --> 01:39:44.645 THEIR PHYSICAL CONDITION OF 01:39:44.712 --> 01:39:47.147 INCARCERATION, IF WE DON'T GIVE 01:39:47.214 --> 01:39:48.282 THEM THE FREEDOM OF 01:39:48.349 --> 01:39:50.451 SELF-DETERMINATION. AND SO, YOU 01:39:50.517 --> 01:39:51.985 KNOW, IT DOESN'T JUST BENEFIT 01:39:52.052 --> 01:39:53.620 THE INDIVIDUAL. IF SOMEONE'S 01:39:53.687 --> 01:39:54.788 PASSIONATE ABOUT BEING AN 01:39:54.855 --> 01:39:55.789 ARCHITECT OR A SOFTWARE 01:39:55.856 --> 01:39:57.658 ENGINEER OR A TEACHER, WE 01:39:57.725 --> 01:39:59.259 SHOULD WANT THEM TO BE IN THE 01:39:59.326 --> 01:40:00.227 FIELD THEY'RE PASSIONATE ABOUT 01:40:00.294 --> 01:40:01.962 BECAUSE THAT'S ALSO A GREATER 01:40:02.029 --> 01:40:04.498 CONTRIBUTION TO SOCIETY. SO 01:40:04.565 --> 01:40:05.866 LIKE THE ASSEMBLY MEMBER SAID, 01:40:05.933 --> 01:40:08.068 AND, AND YOU ALSO REFERRED TO 01:40:08.135 --> 01:40:10.270 THAT JUST LOOKING AT LICENSURES 01:40:10.337 --> 01:40:11.705 AND CERTIFICATES, 01:40:11.772 --> 01:40:12.706 CERTIFICATIONS, BUT IT'S ALSO 01:40:12.773 --> 01:40:14.308 ABOUT BEHAVIOR CHANGE. WE HAVE 01:40:14.375 --> 01:40:15.976 TO GET FOLKS TO GET OUT OF THE 01:40:16.043 --> 01:40:18.178 MENTALITY OF BEING FEARFUL OF 01:40:18.245 --> 01:40:20.013 HIRING FOLKS THAT WERE FORMERLY 01:40:20.080 --> 01:40:20.714 INCARCERATED. AND THERE'S 01:40:20.781 --> 01:40:22.416 DIFFERENT WAYS TO DO IT. YOU 01:40:22.483 --> 01:40:23.650 CAN'T NECESSARILY, YOU KNOW, WE 01:40:23.717 --> 01:40:24.618 HAVE FAIR HOUSING LAWS. IT 01:40:24.685 --> 01:40:26.086 DOESN'T MEAN THAT PEOPLE OF 01:40:26.153 --> 01:40:27.054 COLOR DON'T GET DISCRIMINATED 01:40:27.121 --> 01:40:28.555 AGAINST WHEN IT COMES TO RENTAL 01:40:28.622 --> 01:40:30.424 HOUSING OR SALES OR HOUSING FOR 01:40:30.491 --> 01:40:32.559 SALE. BUT I THINK PART OF IT IS 01:40:32.626 --> 01:40:34.261 PUTTING THINGS ON THE BOOK. THE 01:40:34.328 --> 01:40:35.729 OTHER PART IS A BEHAVIOR CHANGE. 01:40:35.796 --> 01:40:38.432 YOU CAN USE INCENTIVIZING FOLKS 01:40:38.499 --> 01:40:39.833 TO HIRE FOLKS. WE DO HAVE SOME 01:40:39.900 --> 01:40:41.702 OF THOSE PROGRAMS. I KNOW THE 01:40:41.769 --> 01:40:42.736 TRADES CERTAINLY HAS SOME OF 01:40:42.803 --> 01:40:44.071 THOSE PROGRAMS AS WELL. BUT, 01:40:44.138 --> 01:40:45.839 YOU KNOW, WE'RE I'M OPEN AND I 01:40:45.906 --> 01:40:47.708 THINK ALL OF US WOULD BE OPEN 01:40:47.775 --> 01:40:48.909 TO MORE IDEAS. SO IN THE WEEKS 01:40:48.976 --> 01:40:50.778 AND MONTHS AHEAD, AS WE HEAD 01:40:50.844 --> 01:40:51.845 BACK TO SACRAMENTO, IF THERE 01:40:51.912 --> 01:40:53.714 ARE VERY SPECIFIC THINGS WE CAN 01:40:53.781 --> 01:40:54.848 DO, EITHER IN BMP OR OTHER 01:40:54.915 --> 01:40:56.683 AREAS, I KNOW THAT YOU KNOW, 01:40:56.750 --> 01:40:57.684 SENATOR REYES, OBVIOUSLY OUR 01:40:57.751 --> 01:40:58.852 CHAIR, BRIAN, AND OTHERS HAVE 01:40:58.919 --> 01:41:00.721 DONE A LOT OF WORK IN THE 01:41:00.788 --> 01:41:01.789 FIREFIGHTER SPACE. I STILL 01:41:01.855 --> 01:41:02.890 DON'T KNOW IF FOLKS ARE 01:41:02.956 --> 01:41:03.891 ACTUALLY GETTING HIRED AS 01:41:03.957 --> 01:41:05.092 FIREFIGHTERS, THOUGH. RIGHT. 01:41:05.159 --> 01:41:07.094 AND SO WE CAN MAKE ALL THE LAWS, 01:41:07.161 --> 01:41:09.630 WE CAN PAY THEM CERTAINLY MORE 01:41:09.696 --> 01:41:11.098 ADEQUATELY THAN WE HAD BEEN 01:41:11.165 --> 01:41:11.832 TRADITIONALLY. BUT WHEN THEY 01:41:11.899 --> 01:41:12.933 GET OUT, OUR FIRE DEPARTMENT IS 01:41:13.000 --> 01:41:14.735 ACTUALLY HIRING THEM. AND SO IF 01:41:14.802 --> 01:41:16.770 THAT'S NOT THE CASE, WHAT DO WE 01:41:16.837 --> 01:41:18.038 NEED TO DO TO BRIDGE THAT GAP? 01:41:18.105 --> 01:41:19.840 AND THAT'S, I THINK, THE TOUGH 01:41:19.907 --> 01:41:21.942 PART OF THIS CONVERSATION. I'VE 01:41:22.009 --> 01:41:23.043 GOT ONE QUESTION THAT WE'RE 01:41:23.110 --> 01:41:24.978 GOING TO GET TO OUR FINAL PANEL 01:41:25.045 --> 01:41:26.880 IN THE IN THE INTEREST OF TIME, 01:41:26.947 --> 01:41:28.081 I KNOW SOME OF MY COLLEAGUES 01:41:28.148 --> 01:41:29.082 HAVE FLIGHTS. THEY HAVE TO 01:41:29.149 --> 01:41:33.187 CATCH UP. BRIAN, Y'ALL PROBABLY 01:41:33.253 --> 01:41:34.488 DON'T KNOW THIS. I'M NOT SURE 01:41:34.555 --> 01:41:36.123 IF I'M SUPPOSED TO SAY THIS. 01:41:36.190 --> 01:41:38.058 I'M GOING TO SAY IT ANYWAY. AND 01:41:38.125 --> 01:41:39.193 OUR BUDGET CHAIR CAN COME AND 01:41:39.259 --> 01:41:41.161 GET ME IF HE WANTS TO. BUT WE 01:41:41.228 --> 01:41:42.296 HAVE DONE SURVEYS OF THE 01:41:42.362 --> 01:41:43.330 ASSEMBLY DEMOCRATIC CAUCUS 01:41:43.397 --> 01:41:44.932 ASKING ABOUT PRISON CLOSURE 01:41:44.998 --> 01:41:46.467 AMONGST ASSEMBLY MEMBERS. AND 01:41:46.533 --> 01:41:48.402 THE LAST TIME THAT WE DID IT, 01:41:48.469 --> 01:41:49.570 OVER 50% OF THE DEMOCRATIC 01:41:49.636 --> 01:41:51.371 CAUCUS BELIEVED THAT WE SHOULD 01:41:51.438 --> 01:41:53.207 HELP SOLVE SOME OF OUR BUDGET 01:41:53.273 --> 01:41:55.175 DEFICIT CONCERNS BY CLOSING 01:41:55.242 --> 01:41:56.710 MORE PRISONS, BASED ON THE 01:41:56.777 --> 01:41:58.612 RATIO OF BEDS TO PEOPLE 01:41:58.679 --> 01:41:59.313 INCARCERATED, EVEN WITHOUT 01:41:59.379 --> 01:42:01.815 LETTING MORE PEOPLE OUT. 01:42:01.882 --> 01:42:02.950 ALTHOUGH I AM DEFINITELY IN 01:42:03.016 --> 01:42:04.084 FAVOR OF MORE PEOPLE COMING 01:42:04.151 --> 01:42:05.853 HOME, MY CONCERN WITH SOME OF 01:42:05.919 --> 01:42:06.987 THAT, AND CURIOUS YOUR THOUGHTS, 01:42:07.054 --> 01:42:08.355 IS WE OFTEN HAVE THAT 01:42:08.422 --> 01:42:09.423 CONVERSATION IN RESPONSE TO A 01:42:09.490 --> 01:42:11.258 TIGHT BUDGET DEFICIT, WHICH 01:42:11.325 --> 01:42:13.327 MEANS WE LOSE THE REINVESTMENT 01:42:13.393 --> 01:42:14.761 CONVERSATION BECAUSE THESE 01:42:14.828 --> 01:42:16.597 DOLLARS THEN JUST END UP PART 01:42:16.663 --> 01:42:19.099 OF A LARGER BUDGET. IS THAT THE 01:42:19.166 --> 01:42:20.734 WAY WE SHOULD BE DOING IT, 01:42:20.801 --> 01:42:22.369 WHERE, YOU KNOW, BY ANY MEANS 01:42:22.436 --> 01:42:23.370 NECESSARY, CLOSE MORE PRISONS? 01:42:23.437 --> 01:42:25.572 OR SHOULD THESE SHOULD THESE 01:42:25.639 --> 01:42:27.341 DOLLARS BE REINVESTED IN 01:42:27.407 --> 01:42:29.209 SPECIFIC WAYS AND PATHWAYS TO 01:42:29.276 --> 01:42:31.311 REENTRY? AND CURIOUS WHAT WHAT 01:42:31.378 --> 01:42:33.180 YOU WOULD DO IF YOU WERE IN 01:42:33.247 --> 01:42:40.654 CHARGE OF, OF THIS PROCESS. YES. 01:42:40.721 --> 01:42:42.122 IT'S THE FIRST ANSWER TO YOUR 01:42:42.189 --> 01:42:47.194 QUESTION. GOD, WHAT WOULD I DO? 01:42:47.261 --> 01:42:48.595 WELL, I THINK SOMETHING THAT 01:42:48.662 --> 01:42:50.497 WOULD BE REALLY IMPORTANT AND 01:42:50.564 --> 01:42:52.966 IT'S CHALLENGING. YOU ALL HAVE 01:42:53.033 --> 01:42:53.967 INTERACTIONS WITH THE BUDGET 01:42:54.034 --> 01:42:56.537 AND RUN SOME BUDGET COMMITTEES, 01:42:56.603 --> 01:42:58.405 I'M SURE, BUT IT'S NOT ALWAYS A 01:42:58.472 --> 01:43:00.107 ONE FOR ONE SWAP, LIKE BECAUSE 01:43:00.173 --> 01:43:01.942 IF WE CLOSE A PRISON, THAT 01:43:02.009 --> 01:43:04.111 MONEY JUST DOESN'T DIRECTLY GO 01:43:04.177 --> 01:43:06.280 TO COMMUNITIES. YOU KNOW, I 01:43:06.346 --> 01:43:07.714 THINK THAT WOULD BE REALLY 01:43:07.781 --> 01:43:09.449 POWERFUL AS PART OF A ROADMAP 01:43:09.516 --> 01:43:10.551 TO PRISON CLOSURE. AND THAT'S 01:43:10.617 --> 01:43:12.052 WHAT THE STATE IS LACKING, LIKE 01:43:12.119 --> 01:43:14.154 AN ACTUAL CONCRETE, 01:43:14.221 --> 01:43:15.289 COMPREHENSIVE VISION TO CLOSE 01:43:15.355 --> 01:43:17.424 PRISONS IN CALIFORNIA THAT 01:43:17.491 --> 01:43:19.359 INCLUDES COMMUNITY REINVESTMENT. 01:43:19.426 --> 01:43:20.627 AND SO I THINK THAT IS ONE OF 01:43:20.694 --> 01:43:24.898 THE BIG PIECES THAT A 01:43:24.965 --> 01:43:26.667 COMPREHENSIVE ROADMAP TO SAFE 01:43:26.733 --> 01:43:29.903 PRISON CLOSURES WOULD INCLUDE. 01:43:29.970 --> 01:43:32.272 AND, YOU KNOW, YOU ALL KNOW 01:43:32.339 --> 01:43:33.807 THIS. A LOT OF PEOPLE DON'T 01:43:33.874 --> 01:43:35.275 CARE ABOUT RACIAL JUSTICE. AND 01:43:35.342 --> 01:43:36.710 THE TRUTH OF THIS MATTER IS 01:43:36.777 --> 01:43:38.245 THAT IT'S A BUDGET ISSUE. WE 01:43:38.312 --> 01:43:40.347 HAVE A STRUCTURAL DEFICIT IN 01:43:40.414 --> 01:43:41.882 CALIFORNIA, AND PRISON CLOSURE 01:43:41.949 --> 01:43:43.617 IS ONE OF THE ONLY WAYS TO 01:43:43.684 --> 01:43:45.552 REDUCE YEAR OVER YEAR SAVINGS. 01:43:45.619 --> 01:43:47.888 YOU SAVE $150 MILLION ANNUALLY 01:43:47.955 --> 01:43:49.590 EVERY TIME A PRISON CLOSES, NOT 01:43:49.656 --> 01:43:51.491 TO MENTION BILLIONS IN 01:43:51.558 --> 01:43:52.960 INFRASTRUCTURE COSTS THAT ARE 01:43:53.026 --> 01:43:55.095 SAVED BY SHUTTING DOWN THESE 01:43:55.162 --> 01:43:59.099 TRULY ANCIENT AGING FACILITIES. 01:43:59.166 --> 01:44:00.467 AND I THINK THAT THAT'S REALLY 01:44:00.534 --> 01:44:02.703 IMPORTANT TO UNDERSTAND TO TO 01:44:02.769 --> 01:44:04.338 ISAAC'S POINT, YOU KNOW, YOU 01:44:04.404 --> 01:44:05.606 CAN CLOSE A PRISON AND SAVE 01:44:05.672 --> 01:44:08.008 MONEY, BUT EVERY TIME WE CLOSE 01:44:08.075 --> 01:44:10.978 ONE CDCR'S BUDGET KEEPS GOING 01:44:11.044 --> 01:44:12.546 UP. AND I DON'T THINK THERE'S A 01:44:12.613 --> 01:44:13.513 FULL UNDERSTANDING OF LIKE, 01:44:13.580 --> 01:44:14.915 WHERE ALL THOSE DOLLARS ARE 01:44:14.982 --> 01:44:16.350 ACTUALLY GOING TO BECAUSE IT'S 01:44:16.416 --> 01:44:18.452 NOT GOING TO, QUOTE UNQUOTE, 01:44:18.518 --> 01:44:19.720 REHABILITATION. CDCR'S BUDGET 01:44:19.786 --> 01:44:22.823 IS ABOUT $14.5 BILLION. THE 01:44:22.889 --> 01:44:24.658 OVERALL CORRECTIONS BUDGET IS 01:44:24.725 --> 01:44:27.027 NEARING $20 BILLION. AND I 01:44:27.094 --> 01:44:28.195 THINK THAT, YOU KNOW, REALLY 01:44:28.261 --> 01:44:30.430 THINKING ABOUT THIS AS A BUDGET 01:44:30.497 --> 01:44:32.132 ISSUE FOR MAYBE PEOPLE WHO 01:44:32.199 --> 01:44:33.767 DON'T CARE ABOUT ALL THE THINGS 01:44:33.834 --> 01:44:36.536 THAT WE CARE ABOUT IS REALLY IS 01:44:36.603 --> 01:44:37.938 REALLY KEY. SO I THINK THAT 01:44:38.005 --> 01:44:39.006 THAT'S ACTUALLY REALLY 01:44:39.072 --> 01:44:40.507 IMPORTANT IS FIGURING OUT LIKE, 01:44:40.574 --> 01:44:42.576 WHAT A COMPREHENSIVE ROADMAP 01:44:42.643 --> 01:44:44.378 FOR PRISON CLOSURE LOOKS LIKE. 01:44:44.444 --> 01:44:46.246 THAT DOES HAVE SOMETHING TO DO 01:44:46.313 --> 01:44:50.150 WITH RELEASES THAT DOES ENSURE 01:44:50.217 --> 01:44:52.052 THAT THE DOLLARS THAT ARE SAVED 01:44:52.119 --> 01:44:54.154 BY PRISON CLOSURE ARE DRIVEN 01:44:54.221 --> 01:44:55.956 BACK INTO THE COMMUNITY, THAT 01:44:56.023 --> 01:44:57.357 THERE'S ACTUALLY A LONG TERM 01:44:57.424 --> 01:44:58.825 PLAN FOR PRISON CLOSURE BECAUSE 01:44:58.892 --> 01:45:00.427 THE LAO HAS DONE THE ANALYSIS, 01:45:00.494 --> 01:45:02.095 LIKE OUR PRISON POPULATION WILL 01:45:02.162 --> 01:45:04.331 CONTINUE TO BE REDUCED. AND CDC 01:45:04.398 --> 01:45:06.466 SAYS 20 YEAR PLAN DOESN'T SEEM 01:45:06.533 --> 01:45:09.302 TO REALLY TAKE ANY OF THAT INTO 01:45:09.369 --> 01:45:11.805 ACCOUNT, ENSURING THAT CLOSED 01:45:11.872 --> 01:45:13.273 PRISONS STAY CLOSED. A LOT OF 01:45:13.340 --> 01:45:14.908 FOLKS KNOW WE HELPED PASS A 01:45:14.975 --> 01:45:16.009 BILL THAT STOPPED THE CLOSED 01:45:16.076 --> 01:45:17.611 STATE PRISONS FROM BECOMING ICE 01:45:17.678 --> 01:45:18.612 DETENTION CENTERS LIKE 01:45:18.679 --> 01:45:20.247 CALIFORNIA CITY, SO ENSURING 01:45:20.313 --> 01:45:22.616 THAT CLOSED PRISONS STAY CLOSED 01:45:22.683 --> 01:45:25.452 AND FIGURING OUT HOW WE CAN 01:45:25.519 --> 01:45:26.853 REPURPOSE THESE PRISONS IN THE 01:45:26.920 --> 01:45:28.689 COMMUNITIES TO ENSURE LIKE THEY 01:45:28.755 --> 01:45:30.824 ACTUALLY SERVE THEM, BECAUSE 01:45:30.891 --> 01:45:31.958 PRISONS WERE SOLD AS AN 01:45:32.025 --> 01:45:33.794 ECONOMIC ENGINE TO ALL OF THESE 01:45:33.860 --> 01:45:34.928 COMMUNITIES. AND LAST I CHECKED, 01:45:34.995 --> 01:45:36.029 MOST OF THEM WERE STILL LIKE 01:45:36.096 --> 01:45:38.098 UNDER THE POVERTY LINE. SO YEAH, 01:45:38.165 --> 01:45:40.200 I THINK THAT THAT'S, YOU KNOW, 01:45:40.267 --> 01:45:43.136 IF I WERE TO BE ASSEMBLY PERSON 01:45:43.203 --> 01:45:45.605 FOR THE DAY PRISON CLOSURE 01:45:45.672 --> 01:45:47.007 ROADMAP, LIKE WHAT DOES IT 01:45:47.074 --> 01:45:48.241 ACTUALLY MEAN TO THINK ABOUT 01:45:48.308 --> 01:45:49.976 THE FUTURE AND HOW TO DO THIS 01:45:50.043 --> 01:45:51.211 IN A WAY THAT'S INTELLIGENT, 01:45:51.278 --> 01:45:52.846 THAT DOESN'T COST THE TAXPAYERS 01:45:52.913 --> 01:45:53.947 MONEY, LIKE SPENDING MILLIONS 01:45:54.014 --> 01:45:55.115 OF DOLLARS ON A ROOF OF A 01:45:55.182 --> 01:45:56.917 PRISON, WHICH IS WHAT HAPPENED 01:45:56.983 --> 01:45:58.185 TO ONLY CLOSE IT A COUPLE YEARS 01:45:58.251 --> 01:46:00.420 LATER. I PIGGYBACK ON THAT REAL 01:46:00.487 --> 01:46:01.555 QUICKLY BECAUSE CALIFORNIA DID 01:46:01.621 --> 01:46:02.889 SHUT DOWN ITS YOUTH PRISON 01:46:02.956 --> 01:46:05.459 SYSTEM. RIGHT. SO AND THE MAY 01:46:05.525 --> 01:46:07.260 BUDGET REVISE OF 2020, GOVERNOR 01:46:07.327 --> 01:46:09.396 NEWSOM SHUT DOWN JPS. THE 01:46:09.463 --> 01:46:10.497 PROBLEM WITH THAT WAS THERE 01:46:10.564 --> 01:46:11.598 WASN'T INITIALLY A PLAN. SO 01:46:11.665 --> 01:46:13.467 THERE WAS A HIGH RISK OF THERE 01:46:13.533 --> 01:46:14.735 BEING A NET WIDENING EFFECT AND 01:46:14.801 --> 01:46:16.403 MORE YOUNG PEOPLE BEING CHARGED 01:46:16.470 --> 01:46:17.504 AS ADULTS, GOING TO ADULT 01:46:17.571 --> 01:46:18.739 PRISON WITH ADULT SENTENCES. 01:46:18.805 --> 01:46:21.208 AND SO SB 823 WAS JUST SORT OF 01:46:21.274 --> 01:46:22.743 A WAY THAT ADVOCATES, MANY OF 01:46:22.809 --> 01:46:24.444 WHOM ARE IN THIS ROOM, 01:46:24.511 --> 01:46:25.979 SCRAMBLED AS JUST A BAND AID TO 01:46:26.046 --> 01:46:28.081 TRY TO ADDRESS THAT. BUT THE 01:46:28.148 --> 01:46:29.182 CHALLENGE IS LIKE JUST AN 01:46:29.249 --> 01:46:31.418 EXAMPLE OF ALAMEDA COUNTY IS WE 01:46:31.485 --> 01:46:33.186 SPENT THOUSANDS AND THOUSANDS 01:46:33.253 --> 01:46:35.122 OF HOURS THROUGH THE JUVENILE 01:46:35.188 --> 01:46:36.356 JUSTICE COORDINATING COMMITTEE 01:46:36.423 --> 01:46:38.191 TO ACTUALLY PUT TOGETHER AN SB 01:46:38.258 --> 01:46:39.559 823 PLAN. WE PRESENTED IT TO 01:46:39.626 --> 01:46:41.294 OUR BOARD OF SUPERVISORS. PART 01:46:41.361 --> 01:46:42.462 OF THAT PLAN ACTUALLY INCLUDED 01:46:42.529 --> 01:46:44.030 A GUARANTEED BASIC INCOME FOR 01:46:44.097 --> 01:46:45.365 YOUNG PEOPLE WHILE THEY'RE 01:46:45.432 --> 01:46:46.733 INCARCERATED, SO THEY'D HAVE A 01:46:46.800 --> 01:46:47.934 SAFETY NET BECAUSE A LOT OF OUR 01:46:48.001 --> 01:46:49.169 YOUNG PEOPLE DON'T NECESSARILY 01:46:49.236 --> 01:46:50.103 HAVE STABILITY. THEY DON'T 01:46:50.170 --> 01:46:51.905 NECESSARILY HAVE A STABLE 01:46:51.972 --> 01:46:54.007 FAMILY TO COME HOME TO OR, OR 01:46:54.074 --> 01:46:55.242 HOUSING OR ANY OF THOSE THINGS. 01:46:55.308 --> 01:46:57.043 SO WE WANTED TO MAKE SURE WE 01:46:57.110 --> 01:46:58.211 WERE PREPARING THEM FOR SUCCESS. 01:46:58.278 --> 01:47:00.280 AND SO WHEN WE SUBMITTED IT TO 01:47:00.347 --> 01:47:01.915 THE COUNTY BOARD OF SUPERVISORS, 01:47:01.982 --> 01:47:03.483 WE FORGOT THAT WE HAD NOT READ 01:47:03.550 --> 01:47:05.418 THE FINE PRINT OF OUR OWN BILL 01:47:05.485 --> 01:47:07.320 AND THAT ALL THEY NEEDED TO DO 01:47:07.387 --> 01:47:08.455 WAS MERELY ACCEPT RECEIPT OF IT, 01:47:08.522 --> 01:47:09.689 AND THEY HAD NO ACCOUNTABILITY 01:47:09.756 --> 01:47:11.358 TO ACTUALLY IMPLEMENT IT. WE'VE 01:47:11.424 --> 01:47:12.492 SEEN THAT HAPPEN ALSO WITH AB 01:47:12.559 --> 01:47:13.760 109 IN REALIGNMENT, WE CONTINUE 01:47:13.827 --> 01:47:15.395 TO SEE EXAMPLES OF WHERE, TO 01:47:15.462 --> 01:47:17.063 YOUR POINT, ASSEMBLY MEMBER, 01:47:17.130 --> 01:47:18.298 BRIAN, THERE'S COST SAVINGS, 01:47:18.365 --> 01:47:19.966 BUT THEY'RE NOT NECESSARILY 01:47:20.033 --> 01:47:21.001 OPERATING IN THE BENEFIT OF 01:47:21.067 --> 01:47:22.202 COMMUNITY AND ADDRESSING ROOT 01:47:22.269 --> 01:47:25.405 CAUSES OF THESE ISSUES. SO THAT 01:47:25.472 --> 01:47:26.807 I THINK IS CRITICAL WITH THE 01:47:26.873 --> 01:47:28.441 CLOSURE OF THESE JJS, WE CAN 01:47:28.508 --> 01:47:29.676 LOOK AT EXAMPLES FROM NEW 01:47:29.743 --> 01:47:30.744 JERSEY IN WHICH THEY'VE BEEN 01:47:30.811 --> 01:47:32.179 REPURPOSED FOR PUBLIC BENEFIT 01:47:32.245 --> 01:47:33.413 OR EVEN CHUCKLES JUSTICE CENTER 01:47:33.480 --> 01:47:34.748 IN LOS ANGELES, WHERE THE YOUTH 01:47:34.815 --> 01:47:36.883 JUSTICE COALITION IS SERVING, 01:47:36.950 --> 01:47:38.685 YOU KNOW, MANY IMPACTED YOUNG 01:47:38.752 --> 01:47:40.787 PEOPLE IN FRONTLINE COMMUNITIES. 01:47:40.854 --> 01:47:41.955 THANK YOU. WE'RE GOING TO GO TO 01:47:42.022 --> 01:47:43.890 THE FINAL PANEL. BUT OUR FIRST 01:47:43.957 --> 01:47:44.858 COMMITTEE HEARING WAS AT 01:47:44.925 --> 01:47:45.926 CHUCKLES JUSTICE CENTER, AND WE 01:47:45.992 --> 01:47:47.794 MADE IT CLEAR TO THE COMMITTEE 01:47:47.861 --> 01:47:48.995 MEMBERS THAT WAS A FORMER SITE 01:47:49.062 --> 01:47:50.163 OF INCARCERATION FOR YOUNG 01:47:50.230 --> 01:47:51.631 PEOPLE, NOW TURNED INTO A 01:47:51.698 --> 01:47:53.533 COMMUNITY CENTER WHERE HEALING 01:47:53.600 --> 01:47:54.835 WORK IS TAKING PLACE AND 01:47:54.901 --> 01:47:56.636 EDUCATION IS TAKING PLACE, AND 01:47:56.703 --> 01:47:57.737 EMPOWERMENT AND DEVELOPMENT IS 01:47:57.804 --> 01:47:59.172 TAKING PLACE. SO THANK YOU FOR 01:47:59.239 --> 01:48:03.577 THAT REMINDER. YES, SIR. I JUST 01:48:03.643 --> 01:48:05.145 WANT TO ADD ONE THING. JUST 01:48:05.212 --> 01:48:06.146 THINKING ABOUT LIKE BUILDING 01:48:06.213 --> 01:48:07.881 THE DEMOCRACY THAT CALIFORNIA 01:48:07.948 --> 01:48:11.084 NEEDS AT ONCE WITH PROP 17, THE 01:48:11.151 --> 01:48:13.253 PASSING OF PROP 17, WE TAKE OUR 01:48:13.320 --> 01:48:14.721 ONUS. IT'S ON US AS A COMMUNITY 01:48:14.788 --> 01:48:16.223 MEMBERS TO EDUCATE OUR FOLKS 01:48:16.289 --> 01:48:17.390 THAT THEY HAVE THE RIGHT TO 01:48:17.457 --> 01:48:19.326 VOTE. BUT ALSO, I THINK WE NEED 01:48:19.392 --> 01:48:20.527 TO CONTINUE THE CONVERSATION OF 01:48:20.594 --> 01:48:21.895 RESTORING VOTING RIGHTS FOR ALL 01:48:21.962 --> 01:48:23.263 RIGHT, EVEN THOSE THAT ARE 01:48:23.330 --> 01:48:24.431 INCARCERATED, BECAUSE IT'S A 01:48:24.497 --> 01:48:25.665 RIGHT. IT'S NOT A PRIVILEGE. 01:48:25.732 --> 01:48:27.234 WHEN WE GET INCARCERATED, OUR 01:48:27.300 --> 01:48:28.702 PRIVILEGES ARE REMOVED. RIGHT? 01:48:28.768 --> 01:48:29.903 BUT IT'S NOT IT'S OUR RIGHT. 01:48:29.970 --> 01:48:31.271 THEY'RE STILL CALIFORNIANS. WE 01:48:31.338 --> 01:48:33.073 HAVE A REPORT OUT THE ROAD TO 01:48:33.139 --> 01:48:34.841 DEMOCRACY REPORT, WHICH OVER A 01:48:34.908 --> 01:48:37.344 THOUSAND PEOPLE INSIDE WERE 01:48:37.410 --> 01:48:38.945 WERE INTERVIEWED AND CHALLENGES 01:48:39.012 --> 01:48:40.213 THE STIGMA THAT PEOPLE 01:48:40.280 --> 01:48:41.314 INCARCERATED DON'T CARE ABOUT 01:48:41.381 --> 01:48:43.817 VOTING. RIGHT. SO DEFINITELY IF 01:48:43.884 --> 01:48:45.051 YOU, YOU KNOW, LET'S CONTINUE 01:48:45.118 --> 01:48:47.053 TO HAVE THOSE CONVERSATIONS. I 01:48:47.120 --> 01:48:47.854 APPRECIATE THAT. AND WE'LL GO 01:48:47.921 --> 01:48:49.656 TO THE FINAL PANEL, BUT ALSO 01:48:49.723 --> 01:48:50.657 PULLING AT MY HEARTSTRINGS 01:48:50.724 --> 01:48:51.825 BECAUSE ACA FORD DID EXIST AND 01:48:51.892 --> 01:48:54.261 I HAVE TRIED TO MAKE THIS 01:48:54.327 --> 01:48:55.862 HAPPEN. WE ALSO KNOW THAT WHEN 01:48:55.929 --> 01:48:56.963 PEOPLE WHO ARE INCARCERATED GET 01:48:57.030 --> 01:48:57.964 TO PARTICIPATE CIVICALLY, EVEN 01:48:58.031 --> 01:48:59.099 WHILE INCARCERATED, INCREASES 01:48:59.165 --> 01:49:00.734 THEIR CONNECTIONS TO SOCIETY, 01:49:00.800 --> 01:49:02.068 THEIR FEELING OF PARTICIPATION 01:49:02.135 --> 01:49:03.970 IN SOCIETY, AND REDUCES THE 01:49:04.037 --> 01:49:05.071 CHANCE OF RECIDIVATING WHEN 01:49:05.138 --> 01:49:06.673 THEY COME HOME. SO THANK YOU 01:49:06.740 --> 01:49:08.909 FOR THAT. THANK YOU TO THE 01:49:08.975 --> 01:49:10.110 SECOND PANEL. CAN WE GIVE IT UP 01:49:10.176 --> 01:49:15.115 FOR THEM? THANK YOU. OUR FINAL 01:49:15.181 --> 01:49:17.651 PANEL IS ON FROM VIOLENCE TO 01:49:17.717 --> 01:49:18.785 SAFETY, HEALING, HARMS AND 01:49:18.852 --> 01:49:20.654 MENTAL HEALTH PATHWAYS FOR BOYS 01:49:20.720 --> 01:49:22.722 AND MEN OF COLOR, WE HAVE 01:49:22.789 --> 01:49:25.558 DOCTOR SERRANO CHRISTIAN AND 01:49:25.625 --> 01:49:29.162 BABA HODGE. I WANT TO COME DOWN. 01:49:29.229 --> 01:49:31.798 MAN. I LIKE CALLING YOU DOCTOR 01:49:31.865 --> 01:49:38.872 NOW I DO TOO. AND THREE MINUTES 01:49:38.939 --> 01:49:47.180 APIECE. WELL GOOD AFTERNOON. MY 01:49:47.247 --> 01:49:48.581 CHECK. YEAH, WE CAN DO BETTER 01:49:48.648 --> 01:49:49.749 THAN THAT. GOOD AFTERNOON. GOOD 01:49:49.816 --> 01:49:52.352 AFTERNOON. THANK YOU. FIRST OF 01:49:52.419 --> 01:49:54.187 ALL, THANK YOU SO MUCH TO 01:49:54.254 --> 01:49:55.155 EVERYBODY INVOLVED IN MAKING 01:49:55.221 --> 01:49:56.556 TODAY POSSIBLE AND THIS 01:49:56.623 --> 01:49:57.624 ALLOWING US TO HAVE THIS 01:49:57.691 --> 01:49:59.392 CONVERSATION AND GATHERING A 01:49:59.459 --> 01:50:00.493 REALLY DOPE GROUP OF PEOPLE, 01:50:00.560 --> 01:50:02.629 RIGHT, TO THINK ABOUT MANY 01:50:02.696 --> 01:50:04.097 TOPICS. SO OUR PANEL, WE'RE 01:50:04.164 --> 01:50:05.966 TASKED WITH THINKING ABOUT WHAT 01:50:06.032 --> 01:50:08.034 IS HEALING LOOK LIKE, RIGHT? 01:50:08.101 --> 01:50:09.235 AND HOW DOES HEALING FUNCTION 01:50:09.302 --> 01:50:12.005 AS AN ALTERNATIVE? I WAS 01:50:12.072 --> 01:50:12.572 SPECIFICALLY ASKED TO THINK 01:50:12.639 --> 01:50:14.274 ABOUT WHAT DOES HE LOOK LIKE 01:50:14.341 --> 01:50:15.275 WHEN WHEN IT'S COMMUNITY 01:50:15.342 --> 01:50:16.476 CENTERED. AND I THINK I WANT TO 01:50:16.543 --> 01:50:18.411 SAY A COUPLE THINGS. THE FIRST, 01:50:18.478 --> 01:50:19.579 I THINK, IS JUST RECOGNIZING 01:50:19.646 --> 01:50:21.014 AND NAMING THAT BLACK BROWN 01:50:21.081 --> 01:50:22.382 BOYS AND YOUNG PEOPLE OF COLOR 01:50:22.449 --> 01:50:24.050 ARE DESERVING OF HEALING. RIGHT? 01:50:24.117 --> 01:50:26.052 AND WHAT I MEAN BY THAT IS THAT 01:50:26.119 --> 01:50:27.854 OFTENTIMES SO MANY OF OUR 01:50:27.921 --> 01:50:28.621 INSTITUTIONS, FROM SOCIAL 01:50:28.688 --> 01:50:30.357 WELFARE INSTITUTIONS, FROM OUR 01:50:30.423 --> 01:50:32.125 SCHOOLS, FROM SOCIAL WORK, 01:50:32.192 --> 01:50:33.960 RIGHT? DON'T THINK OF BLACK AND 01:50:34.027 --> 01:50:35.729 BROWN YOUTH AS DESERVING OF 01:50:35.795 --> 01:50:38.298 HEALING, OF MENTAL HEALTH 01:50:38.365 --> 01:50:40.433 RESOURCES, OF JOY, OF FUN AND 01:50:40.500 --> 01:50:41.901 SECOND, THIRD, FOURTH, FIFTH 01:50:41.968 --> 01:50:44.471 OPPORTUNITIES. RIGHT. AND SO 01:50:44.537 --> 01:50:46.006 WHILE I WAS ASKED TO THINK 01:50:46.072 --> 01:50:47.173 ABOUT HEALING, I ALSO WANT TO 01:50:47.240 --> 01:50:49.109 SAY THAT PART OF WHY I, I'VE 01:50:49.175 --> 01:50:50.243 BEEN THINKING ABOUT HEALING FOR 01:50:50.310 --> 01:50:52.045 THE LAST DECADE IS BECAUSE I'VE 01:50:52.112 --> 01:50:53.013 ALSO BEEN THINKING HEAVILY 01:50:53.079 --> 01:50:55.181 ABOUT POLICING. THANK YOU. AND 01:50:55.248 --> 01:50:56.616 SO I REALLY APPRECIATE THIS 01:50:56.683 --> 01:50:57.684 OPPORTUNITY TO THINK ABOUT 01:50:57.751 --> 01:50:58.518 HEALING, BECAUSE I SPENT THE 01:50:58.585 --> 01:51:00.086 LAST TEN YEARS THINKING ABOUT 01:51:00.153 --> 01:51:01.187 WHAT HEALING LOOKS LIKE, WHY WE 01:51:01.254 --> 01:51:02.655 NEED HEALING PROGRAMING, AND 01:51:02.722 --> 01:51:03.823 WHAT BENEFITS OF COMMUNITY 01:51:03.890 --> 01:51:05.525 CENTERED HEALING ARE THERE FOR 01:51:05.592 --> 01:51:07.093 YOUNG PEOPLE, SPECIFICALLY FOR 01:51:07.160 --> 01:51:08.895 BOYS AND YOUNG MEN OF COLOR? 01:51:08.962 --> 01:51:10.296 AND SO TO ANSWER THESE 01:51:10.363 --> 01:51:11.731 QUESTIONS, I'VE MET WITH YOUNG 01:51:11.798 --> 01:51:13.600 PEOPLE FROM ALL OVER LA COUNTY. 01:51:13.666 --> 01:51:14.768 SO I SPENT THE LAST DECADE 01:51:14.834 --> 01:51:16.236 TALKING TO BLACK AND LATINX 01:51:16.302 --> 01:51:17.537 BOYS AND REALLY HEARING GUT 01:51:17.604 --> 01:51:18.972 WRENCHING STORIES OF HOW 01:51:19.039 --> 01:51:20.306 POLICING AND NOT JUST POLICING 01:51:20.373 --> 01:51:21.841 IN A BLUE UNIFORM, RIGHT? BUT 01:51:21.908 --> 01:51:23.009 ALSO TEACHERS AND OTHER FOLKS 01:51:23.076 --> 01:51:24.511 IN AND OUT OF SCHOOLS THREATEN 01:51:24.577 --> 01:51:25.812 THEIR SAFETY AND EMOTIONAL 01:51:25.879 --> 01:51:27.480 WELL-BEING. AND SO, IN FACT, 01:51:27.547 --> 01:51:28.481 I'VE PUBLISHED ARTICLES THAT 01:51:28.548 --> 01:51:30.183 SHOW THAT BLACK AND LATINX BOYS 01:51:30.250 --> 01:51:31.551 EXPERIENCE POLICING AS EARLY AS 01:51:31.618 --> 01:51:33.353 SIX YEARS OLD, AND THAT 01:51:33.420 --> 01:51:34.187 CONTINUES THROUGHOUT THEIR 01:51:34.254 --> 01:51:35.622 YOUNG LIVES. SO OFTENTIMES WHEN 01:51:35.688 --> 01:51:37.157 THEY'RE ENTERING ADULTHOOD, 01:51:37.223 --> 01:51:39.125 THEY'VE ALREADY EXPERIENCED THE 01:51:39.192 --> 01:51:40.160 HARMS OF POLICE VIOLENCE AND 01:51:40.226 --> 01:51:41.261 INEQUALITY. BUT I ALSO 01:51:41.327 --> 01:51:43.063 WITNESSING THE POLICING, 01:51:43.129 --> 01:51:44.397 DEPORTATION, AND INCARCERATION 01:51:44.464 --> 01:51:47.000 OF THEIR LOVED ONES AND HAVE 01:51:47.067 --> 01:51:48.134 FIRSTHAND ACCOUNTS, RIGHT, OF 01:51:48.201 --> 01:51:50.236 HOW SHIFTING, HOW THE SHIFTING 01:51:50.303 --> 01:51:51.304 POLITICAL AND ECONOMIC 01:51:51.371 --> 01:51:52.772 LANDSCAPE IS HURTING THEM AT 01:51:52.839 --> 01:51:56.209 MULTIPLE LEVELS. AND SO THERE'S 01:51:56.276 --> 01:51:57.043 ANOTHER IMPORTANT THING THAT 01:51:57.110 --> 01:51:58.078 I'VE LEARNED THROUGHOUT THIS 01:51:58.144 --> 01:51:59.846 WORK, AND THAT IS THAT BOYS AND 01:51:59.913 --> 01:52:01.681 YOUNG MEN OF COLOR HAVE VERY 01:52:01.748 --> 01:52:02.782 FEW SPACES TO ACTUALLY HEAL, 01:52:02.849 --> 01:52:04.651 BUT ALSO PROCESS, RIGHT? THE 01:52:04.717 --> 01:52:06.086 HARMS OF POLICING, 01:52:06.152 --> 01:52:07.587 INCARCERATION, DEPORTATION, 01:52:07.654 --> 01:52:08.621 INEQUALITY, AND OTHER FORMS OF 01:52:08.688 --> 01:52:10.090 VIOLENCE, VIOLENCE. BUT 01:52:10.156 --> 01:52:11.858 FORTUNATELY, I'VE ALSO LEARNED 01:52:11.925 --> 01:52:13.726 FROM OVER 100 COMMUNITY 01:52:13.793 --> 01:52:15.462 ORGANIZERS IN CALIFORNIA AND 01:52:15.528 --> 01:52:17.664 ACROSS THE COUNTRY WHO HAVE 01:52:17.730 --> 01:52:20.133 DEVELOPED AND ARE IMPLEMENTING 01:52:20.200 --> 01:52:23.036 APPROACHES TO HEALING THAT IN 01:52:23.103 --> 01:52:24.771 MANY WAYS, THE SECRET SAUCE IN 01:52:24.838 --> 01:52:25.972 THIS WORK AND THIS APPROACH IS 01:52:26.039 --> 01:52:27.107 THAT THERE ARE ALTERNATIVES TO 01:52:27.173 --> 01:52:29.209 THE USUAL PUNITIVE OR HOSTILE 01:52:29.275 --> 01:52:30.877 CONTEXT BOYS, YOUNG BOYS OF 01:52:30.944 --> 01:52:32.412 COLOR NAVIGATE. SO INSTEAD, 01:52:32.479 --> 01:52:33.480 THESE COMMUNITY CENTERED 01:52:33.546 --> 01:52:34.747 APPROACHES CENTER COLLECTIVE 01:52:34.814 --> 01:52:36.015 HEALING THROUGH PROGRAMING THAT 01:52:36.082 --> 01:52:37.750 INTEGRATES ART, CULTURE, 01:52:37.817 --> 01:52:39.919 POLITICAL EDUCATION, AND 01:52:39.986 --> 01:52:40.687 PROGRAMING THAT DISCUSSES 01:52:40.753 --> 01:52:42.122 EVERYTHING FROM GENDER, 01:52:42.188 --> 01:52:43.923 MASCULINITY, SEXUALITY, HISTORY, 01:52:43.990 --> 01:52:46.092 HISTORY, AND SO MUCH MORE. THEY 01:52:46.159 --> 01:52:47.494 OFTEN PROVIDE ACCESS TO 01:52:47.560 --> 01:52:48.595 RESOURCES AND TOOLS THAT 01:52:48.661 --> 01:52:53.299 SCHOOLS FAIL TO PROVIDE. IN 01:52:53.366 --> 01:52:54.167 FACT, I WOULD ARGUE, RIGHT, 01:52:54.234 --> 01:52:55.935 THAT THE HEALING FOR BOYS AND 01:52:56.002 --> 01:52:57.103 YOUNG MEN OF COLOR DEPENDS ON 01:52:57.170 --> 01:52:58.338 FOSTERING SPACES WHERE THEY CAN 01:52:58.404 --> 01:53:00.540 ASK QUESTIONS, LEARN, FEED 01:53:00.607 --> 01:53:01.908 THEIR CURIOSITIES ABOUT 01:53:01.975 --> 01:53:04.077 IDENTITY, DIFFERENCE, AND POWER. 01:53:04.144 --> 01:53:05.545 BUT WHAT DOES THAT LOOK LIKE? 01:53:05.612 --> 01:53:06.579 IT CAN LOOK LIKE CAREFULLY 01:53:06.646 --> 01:53:08.381 PLANNED PROGRAMING OFFERED 01:53:08.448 --> 01:53:10.950 AFTER SCHOOL, A HEALING RETREAT. 01:53:11.017 --> 01:53:12.285 IF ANY OF YOU'VE BEEN LONG 01:53:12.352 --> 01:53:13.453 ENOUGH HERE AROUND LONG ENOUGH. 01:53:13.520 --> 01:53:15.321 THERE USED TO BE A SONS AND 01:53:15.388 --> 01:53:16.489 BROTHERS CAMP WHERE A LOT OF US, 01:53:16.556 --> 01:53:18.391 WHEN WE WERE YOUNG, USED TO GO 01:53:18.458 --> 01:53:19.492 TO PARTICIPATE IN HEALING 01:53:19.559 --> 01:53:21.294 CIRCLE. I USED TO, YES. THAT'S 01:53:21.361 --> 01:53:22.529 WHERE I MET SEAN FOR THE FIRST 01:53:22.595 --> 01:53:24.330 TIME, BUT HE'S MUCH YOUNGER 01:53:24.397 --> 01:53:25.698 THAN I AM. BIG BEAR. YES. NO, 01:53:25.765 --> 01:53:27.433 NO, NOT BIG BEAR. NOT A BIG 01:53:27.500 --> 01:53:29.302 BEAR. WE'RE UP IN THE NORTHERN 01:53:29.369 --> 01:53:32.572 CALIFORNIA MOUNTAINS. RIGHT. SO 01:53:32.639 --> 01:53:34.274 I WAS SAYING THAT THE FEEDS ARE 01:53:34.340 --> 01:53:35.175 CURIOSITIES OF IDENTITY, 01:53:35.241 --> 01:53:37.177 DIFFERENCE AND POWER, BUT IT 01:53:37.243 --> 01:53:38.211 CAN ALSO LOOK LIKE CAREFULLY 01:53:38.278 --> 01:53:40.446 PLANNED PROGRAMING AFTER SCHOOL. 01:53:40.513 --> 01:53:41.881 BUT IN SOME CASES, IN 01:53:41.948 --> 01:53:42.982 RECOGNIZING THE NATURE OF THE 01:53:43.049 --> 01:53:44.017 VIOLENCE OF POLICING IN THIS 01:53:44.083 --> 01:53:45.485 COUNTRY, THE VIOLENCE OF 01:53:45.552 --> 01:53:46.553 INEQUALITY, THE VIOLENCE OF 01:53:46.619 --> 01:53:48.021 STATE SANCTIONED ABANDONMENT, 01:53:48.087 --> 01:53:50.223 IT ALSO MUST BE PRACTITIONERS 01:53:50.290 --> 01:53:51.991 READY TO FACILITATE AND 01:53:52.058 --> 01:53:53.793 SUPPORTED BY PEOPLE IN POWER TO 01:53:53.860 --> 01:53:55.195 FACILITATE SPONTANEOUS 01:53:55.261 --> 01:53:56.629 GATHERINGS, SESSIONS, 01:53:56.696 --> 01:53:57.630 PROGRAMING WHERE BOYS ARE 01:53:57.697 --> 01:53:58.765 PROVIDED TIME TOGETHER FOR 01:53:58.831 --> 01:54:01.334 COLLECTIVE MOURNING AND JOY FOR 01:54:01.401 --> 01:54:03.870 LAUGHTER. PLAY LOVE, GOOD FOOD, 01:54:03.937 --> 01:54:05.672 ALWAYS GOOD FOOD, FUN 01:54:05.738 --> 01:54:06.940 ACTIVITIES AND MOST IMPORTANTLY, 01:54:07.006 --> 01:54:08.007 A SPACE WHERE THEY ARE ALLOWED 01:54:08.074 --> 01:54:09.742 TO BE VULNERABLE, FREE OF 01:54:09.809 --> 01:54:10.710 JUDGMENT AND FREE OF 01:54:10.777 --> 01:54:11.744 CRIMINALIZATION. I THINK THAT'S 01:54:11.811 --> 01:54:13.746 ALSO KEY TO A LOT OF THIS WORK, 01:54:13.813 --> 01:54:14.781 IS THAT OFTENTIMES SCHOOLS AND 01:54:14.847 --> 01:54:15.915 OTHER PLACES ARE NOT PLACES 01:54:15.982 --> 01:54:17.750 WHERE BOYS AND YOUNG MEN OF 01:54:17.817 --> 01:54:18.785 COLOR COULD BE VULNERABLE, ARE 01:54:18.851 --> 01:54:20.086 NOT PLACES WHERE THEY CAN ASK 01:54:20.153 --> 01:54:22.188 QUESTIONS FREE OF JUDGMENT OR 01:54:22.255 --> 01:54:23.189 FREE CRIMINALIZATION. AND I 01:54:23.256 --> 01:54:24.257 WOULD ARGUE THAT'S ALSO TRUE 01:54:24.324 --> 01:54:26.192 FOR A LOT OF YOUNG GIRLS OF 01:54:26.259 --> 01:54:28.328 COLOR TOO, RIGHT? YOU KNOW, 01:54:28.394 --> 01:54:29.796 I'LL END WITH A COUPLE WITH ONE 01:54:29.862 --> 01:54:31.197 THING I I'M WORKING WITH THE 01:54:31.264 --> 01:54:33.399 SONS NOW, THE BROTHER SON 01:54:33.466 --> 01:54:34.567 COALITION ON A SURVEY THAT THEY 01:54:34.634 --> 01:54:35.568 COLLECTED WITH OVER. THEY 01:54:35.635 --> 01:54:36.936 SURVEYED OVER 100 YOUNG PEOPLE 01:54:37.003 --> 01:54:38.771 IN L.A. COUNTY. AND WHEN THE 01:54:38.838 --> 01:54:40.406 PROCESS OF WRITING A REPORT AND 01:54:40.473 --> 01:54:41.441 THINKING ABOUT CAMPAIGNS AND SO 01:54:41.507 --> 01:54:42.542 FORTH, USING THAT. BUT THERE 01:54:42.609 --> 01:54:44.477 WAS ONE QUESTION THAT I ASKED 01:54:44.544 --> 01:54:45.945 THE YOUNG PEOPLE TO. IF THEY 01:54:46.012 --> 01:54:47.814 HAVE ADULTS THAT CARE FOR THEM 01:54:47.880 --> 01:54:49.682 AND THAT THEY TRUST IT, ONLY 01:54:49.749 --> 01:54:51.384 HALF OF SURVEY RESPONDENTS, 01:54:51.451 --> 01:54:52.885 ABOUT 50%, REPORTED THEY HAVE 01:54:52.952 --> 01:54:54.554 AN ADULT THAT CARES FOR THEM 01:54:54.621 --> 01:54:56.456 AND THAT THEY TRUST IN AND OUT 01:54:56.522 --> 01:54:57.624 OF SCHOOLS. AND SO I WANT TO 01:54:57.690 --> 01:54:59.559 LEAVE US TO THAT, TO ALSO 01:54:59.626 --> 01:55:00.593 CONTEXTUALIZE THE CURRENT STATE 01:55:00.660 --> 01:55:01.694 OF THINGS, BUT ALSO WHY IT'S 01:55:01.761 --> 01:55:02.895 IMPORTANT TO REIMAGINE SAFETY 01:55:02.962 --> 01:55:05.131 AND HEALING ALTERNATIVES THAT 01:55:05.198 --> 01:55:07.200 ARE NOT ROOTED IN MORE POLICING, 01:55:07.267 --> 01:55:08.301 CRIMINALIZATION AND 01:55:08.368 --> 01:55:11.271 SURVEILLANCE AND SO ON. THANK 01:55:11.337 --> 01:55:17.610 YOU SIR. THAT WAS GREAT. I'M 01:55:17.677 --> 01:55:20.146 GLAD I'M COMING AFTER. YOU CAN 01:55:20.213 --> 01:55:21.781 BUILD OFF A LITTLE BIT OF WHAT 01:55:21.848 --> 01:55:24.117 YOU WERE SAYING, BUT. HELLO 01:55:24.183 --> 01:55:25.184 EVERYONE. MY NAME IS CHRISTIAN 01:55:25.251 --> 01:55:26.486 BEAUVOIR. USE HE HIM PRONOUNS. 01:55:26.552 --> 01:55:27.854 I'M WITH THE ALLIANCE FOR BOYS 01:55:27.920 --> 01:55:29.188 AND MEN OF COLOR. WE'RE A 01:55:29.255 --> 01:55:30.590 NETWORK OF OVER 200 01:55:30.657 --> 01:55:31.491 ORGANIZATIONS FROM ACROSS THE 01:55:31.557 --> 01:55:33.026 STATE THAT WORK ON RACIAL AND 01:55:33.092 --> 01:55:34.894 GENDER JUSTICE ISSUES. I'M THE 01:55:34.961 --> 01:55:36.362 LEAD ORGANIZER ON OUR HEALING 01:55:36.429 --> 01:55:37.864 TOGETHER CAMPAIGN, WHERE WE DO 01:55:37.930 --> 01:55:39.232 THE WORK TO END GENDER BASED 01:55:39.299 --> 01:55:41.067 VIOLENCE AND REALLY THINK ABOUT 01:55:41.134 --> 01:55:42.835 WHAT IS THE ROLE THAT MEN AND 01:55:42.902 --> 01:55:46.439 MASCULINE IDENTIFIED FOLKS PLAY 01:55:46.506 --> 01:55:48.207 IN DISRUPTING GENDER BASED 01:55:48.274 --> 01:55:50.043 VIOLENCE AND DISRUPTING 01:55:50.109 --> 01:55:51.010 PATRIARCHY, AND THINKING ABOUT 01:55:51.077 --> 01:55:53.313 THAT AT A SYSTEMIC LEVEL, BUT 01:55:53.379 --> 01:55:55.114 ALSO THINKING ABOUT THAT ON THE 01:55:55.181 --> 01:55:56.149 INTERPERSONAL LEVEL. YOU KNOW, 01:55:56.215 --> 01:55:59.485 WE LOOK AT THE WAYS I WAS 01:55:59.552 --> 01:56:01.988 TALKING ABOUT HOW, LIKE YOUNG 01:56:02.055 --> 01:56:03.389 BOYS AND MEN NEED TO, TO HEAL 01:56:03.456 --> 01:56:04.457 FROM THE HARMS THAT HAVE 01:56:04.524 --> 01:56:05.591 HAPPENED. BUT ALSO THINK ABOUT 01:56:05.658 --> 01:56:06.726 LIKE, WHAT DOES ACCOUNTABILITY 01:56:06.793 --> 01:56:09.495 LOOK LIKE IN OUR LIVES? MAKING 01:56:09.562 --> 01:56:10.596 SURE THAT OUR HEALING IS NOT 01:56:10.663 --> 01:56:12.231 AND OUR SAFETY IS NOT AT THE 01:56:12.298 --> 01:56:14.133 COST OF OTHER PEOPLE IN OUR 01:56:14.200 --> 01:56:15.134 COMMUNITIES. BUT THINKING ABOUT 01:56:15.201 --> 01:56:16.569 LIKE, ARE THERE OPPORTUNITIES 01:56:16.636 --> 01:56:17.737 FOR HEALING AND ACCOUNTABILITY 01:56:17.804 --> 01:56:19.005 THAT ARE ROOTED IN COMPASSION 01:56:19.072 --> 01:56:23.109 AND DIGNITY RATHER THAN SHAME, 01:56:23.176 --> 01:56:24.577 HARM, FURTHER CRIMINALIZATION? 01:56:24.644 --> 01:56:25.511 AND THAT'S REALLY THE WORK THAT 01:56:25.578 --> 01:56:29.982 WE'VE BEEN DOING. EARLIER. THE 01:56:30.049 --> 01:56:33.586 QUESTION WAS ASKED ABOUT OPD'S 01:56:33.653 --> 01:56:35.388 RESPONSE TIME VERSUS MACRO 01:56:35.455 --> 01:56:36.589 RESPONSE TIME, AND IT JUST MADE 01:56:36.656 --> 01:56:38.424 ME THINK THAT IT'S IT'S NOT 01:56:38.491 --> 01:56:39.492 REALLY ABOUT LIKE HOW FAST 01:56:39.559 --> 01:56:40.526 SOMETIMES IT'S ABOUT WHO ARE 01:56:40.593 --> 01:56:42.628 THE PEOPLE THAT ARE RESPONDING. 01:56:42.695 --> 01:56:43.863 IS THIS A PERSON THAT MAKES YOU 01:56:43.930 --> 01:56:45.598 FEEL SAFE? AND THE RESEARCH 01:56:45.665 --> 01:56:47.266 SHOWS THAT IN OUR COMMUNITIES, 01:56:47.333 --> 01:56:49.102 OFTENTIMES POLICE ARE NOT 01:56:49.168 --> 01:56:50.436 CALLED BECAUSE IT MAKES THE 01:56:50.503 --> 01:56:51.604 PERSON FEEL SAFER. IT'S BECAUSE 01:56:51.671 --> 01:56:53.106 THERE'S NOT ANOTHER OPTION THAT 01:56:53.172 --> 01:56:54.907 IS AVAILABLE. SO WE'RE TRYING 01:56:54.974 --> 01:56:56.976 TO DO THIS WORK TO CREATE MORE 01:56:57.043 --> 01:56:59.512 OPTIONS SO THAT SURVIVORS HAVE 01:56:59.579 --> 01:57:02.749 OPTIONS, SO THAT PEOPLE WHO ARE 01:57:02.815 --> 01:57:04.217 RAISED IN AN ENVIRONMENT THAT 01:57:04.283 --> 01:57:06.452 TAUGHT THEM THAT DOMINATION WAS 01:57:06.519 --> 01:57:07.787 OKAY IN THEIR RELATIONSHIPS, 01:57:07.854 --> 01:57:08.688 THAT THIS IS ACTUALLY THE WAY 01:57:08.755 --> 01:57:10.556 THAT I INTERACT WITH MY PARTNER 01:57:10.623 --> 01:57:11.657 AND THE OTHER PEOPLE THAT I 01:57:11.724 --> 01:57:14.627 CARE ABOUT HAVE RESOURCES THAT 01:57:14.694 --> 01:57:16.462 CAN, CAN WORK WITH THEM TO FIND 01:57:16.529 --> 01:57:18.931 SOMETHING DIFFERENT. THERE'S A 01:57:18.998 --> 01:57:21.134 CALL FOR CHANGE. HELPLINE IS, 01:57:21.200 --> 01:57:22.902 IS AN ORGANIZATION WE WORK WITH, 01:57:22.969 --> 01:57:25.438 AND IT'S A COMPLETELY ANONYMOUS, 01:57:25.505 --> 01:57:26.172 CONFIDENTIAL HELPLINE FOR 01:57:26.239 --> 01:57:27.774 PEOPLE WHO ARE DOING HARM IN 01:57:27.840 --> 01:57:30.476 THEIR RELATIONSHIPS. AND IT'S 01:57:30.543 --> 01:57:33.045 THIS IDEA THAT ACTUALLY, LIKE 01:57:33.112 --> 01:57:36.582 BEFORE A PERSON IS ARRESTED, 01:57:36.649 --> 01:57:38.017 ARE THERE RESOURCES WE CAN GET 01:57:38.084 --> 01:57:39.485 TO THIS PERSON BEFORE IT, 01:57:39.552 --> 01:57:41.287 BEFORE IT TURNS INTO A BATTER 01:57:41.354 --> 01:57:45.191 INTERVENTION PROGRAM? BEFORE 01:57:45.258 --> 01:57:47.026 SURVIVORS HAVE TO DEAL WITH THE 01:57:47.093 --> 01:57:49.962 PROCESS OF TESTIFYING IN COURT, 01:57:50.029 --> 01:57:50.963 WORRIED ABOUT FAILURE TO 01:57:51.030 --> 01:57:52.098 PROTECT LAWS WHERE THEY MIGHT 01:57:52.165 --> 01:57:53.065 LOSE THEIR CHILDREN, WHERE 01:57:53.132 --> 01:57:54.967 THEIR HOUSING IS AT RISK, IF 01:57:55.034 --> 01:57:57.470 THEY HAVE PRECARIOUS 01:57:57.537 --> 01:57:58.571 IMMIGRATION STATUSES, WHERE 01:57:58.638 --> 01:58:00.373 THOSE THINGS ARE, THEY'RE MORE 01:58:00.440 --> 01:58:02.475 AT RISK. THEY CAN SAY, THIS 01:58:02.542 --> 01:58:04.310 PERSON I LOVE IS DOING THIS 01:58:04.377 --> 01:58:05.645 THING, AND THEY NEED SOME 01:58:05.711 --> 01:58:06.145 SUPPORT DOING SOMETHING 01:58:06.212 --> 01:58:07.647 DIFFERENT, EVEN IF IT'S NOT 01:58:07.713 --> 01:58:09.048 WITH ME, WHO CAN SUPPORT THEM 01:58:09.115 --> 01:58:10.450 IN DOING SOMETHING DIFFERENT. 01:58:10.516 --> 01:58:11.684 SO THESE ARE THE TYPES OF 01:58:11.751 --> 01:58:12.685 SOLUTIONS THAT WE'RE REALLY 01:58:12.752 --> 01:58:15.154 TRYING TO, TO, TO CONTINUE TO 01:58:15.221 --> 01:58:16.022 BUILD OUT THINGS THAT ARE 01:58:16.088 --> 01:58:20.927 ROOTED IN COMMUNITY. EARLIER IN 01:58:20.993 --> 01:58:22.361 THE LAST PANEL, WE TALKED ABOUT 01:58:22.428 --> 01:58:24.464 CLOSING PRISONS AND, AND MAKING 01:58:24.530 --> 01:58:26.265 SURE THAT THOSE FUNDS ARE 01:58:26.332 --> 01:58:27.934 DIRECTED BACK INTO COMMUNITIES 01:58:28.000 --> 01:58:29.902 IN THESE SPECIFIC WAYS. AND 01:58:29.969 --> 01:58:31.370 FOLKS, HAVE I'VE BEEN HEARING 01:58:31.437 --> 01:58:32.371 TALK ABOUT LIKE THE IMPORTANCE 01:58:32.438 --> 01:58:34.207 OF REINVESTING THAT INTO HIGHER 01:58:34.273 --> 01:58:35.274 EDUCATION, BUT ALSO REINVESTING 01:58:35.341 --> 01:58:38.144 INTO THESE REALLY BEAUTIFUL, 01:58:38.211 --> 01:58:40.346 CULTURALLY ROOTED PROGRAMS THAT 01:58:40.413 --> 01:58:41.781 FOLKS HAVE BEEN DOING WITHOUT 01:58:41.848 --> 01:58:43.950 ANY FUNDING FOR GENERATIONS AND 01:58:44.016 --> 01:58:47.119 GENERATIONS AND GENERATIONS, 01:58:47.186 --> 01:58:48.654 LIKE BRINGING YOUNG MEN IN WHEN 01:58:48.721 --> 01:58:51.824 HARM HAPPENS AND SAYING, YOU 01:58:51.891 --> 01:58:54.660 MESSED UP, YOU ARE NOT THE 01:58:54.727 --> 01:58:55.795 WORST THING YOU'VE EVER DONE. 01:58:55.862 --> 01:58:56.863 AND WE'RE GOING TO HAVE AN 01:58:56.929 --> 01:58:57.964 ACCOUNTABILITY PROCESS RIGHT 01:58:58.030 --> 01:58:59.732 NOW. AND THE PERSON THAT 01:58:59.799 --> 01:59:00.867 EXPERIENCED FROM YOU, THE 01:59:00.933 --> 01:59:01.901 EXPERIENCES FROM YOU, ALSO HAS 01:59:01.968 --> 01:59:03.135 AGENCY AND WHAT THIS PROCESS 01:59:03.202 --> 01:59:04.804 LOOKS LIKE. AND THERE'S THESE 01:59:04.871 --> 01:59:06.005 BEAUTIFUL ORGANIZATIONS ACROSS 01:59:06.072 --> 01:59:07.607 THE STATE, LIKE THE CHAT 01:59:07.673 --> 01:59:09.509 PROJECT, LIKE THIS HELPLINE, 01:59:09.575 --> 01:59:11.444 LIKE RISE, THAT, THAT BUILD OUT 01:59:11.511 --> 01:59:13.112 THESE BEAUTIFUL PROGRAMS IN 01:59:13.179 --> 01:59:14.881 SPITE OF THE LACK OF FUNDING, 01:59:14.947 --> 01:59:16.716 IN SPITE OF THE LACK OF 01:59:16.782 --> 01:59:17.416 RESOURCES. AND THAT'S SOMETHING 01:59:17.483 --> 01:59:19.585 WE REALLY WANT TO CHANGE AS 01:59:19.652 --> 01:59:21.320 WE'RE THINKING ABOUT LIKE WHAT 01:59:21.387 --> 01:59:25.458 FUNDING TO. AND WHAT RESOURCES 01:59:25.525 --> 01:59:27.460 AND WHAT BILLS TO PASS, WE 01:59:27.527 --> 01:59:28.261 REALLY THINK ABOUT LIKE, WHAT 01:59:28.327 --> 01:59:29.795 ARE THE UNDERLYING VALUES OF 01:59:29.862 --> 01:59:32.865 THESE SOLUTIONS? ONE OF OUR, 01:59:32.932 --> 01:59:34.834 ONE OF OUR PARTNERS AT GROWING 01:59:34.901 --> 01:59:36.469 A NEW HEART WHO, WHO LEADS THE 01:59:36.536 --> 01:59:39.705 CALL FOR CHANGE HELPLINE TELLS 01:59:39.772 --> 01:59:41.507 US HER HER NAME IS JACK PATRICE. 01:59:41.574 --> 01:59:45.511 SHE TELLS US THAT ACTUALLY LIKE 01:59:45.578 --> 01:59:46.279 ALCOHOLISM, HOMELESSNESS LIKE 01:59:46.345 --> 01:59:47.280 THESE THINGS DON'T ACTUALLY 01:59:47.346 --> 01:59:48.681 CAUSE INTIMATE PARTNER VIOLENCE. 01:59:48.748 --> 01:59:51.617 IT'S THE UNDERLYING VALUE 01:59:51.684 --> 01:59:52.685 SYSTEMS THAT YOU'VE GOTTEN, THE 01:59:52.752 --> 01:59:54.487 THINGS THAT TELL YOU THAT, LIKE 01:59:54.554 --> 01:59:55.588 DOMINATION AND CONTROL ARE THE 01:59:55.655 --> 01:59:56.822 WAYS THAT YOU ARE SUPPOSED TO 01:59:56.889 --> 01:59:57.857 INTERACT WITH PEOPLE. LIKE 01:59:57.924 --> 01:59:59.692 THOSE ARE THE WAYS TO BE LIKE 01:59:59.759 --> 02:00:01.294 THOSE. WHEN WE ADDRESS THOSE 02:00:01.360 --> 02:00:03.095 VALUES, AND THEN WE ADDRESS THE 02:00:03.162 --> 02:00:04.664 ADDITIONAL STRESSORS THAT 02:00:04.730 --> 02:00:06.699 PEOPLE ARE EXPERIENCING, THERE 02:00:06.766 --> 02:00:08.200 ARE MASSIVE IMPACTS AND 02:00:08.267 --> 02:00:09.268 TRANSFORMATION THAT'S POSSIBLE. 02:00:09.335 --> 02:00:10.636 THAT'S POSSIBLE. SHE HAS A 02:00:10.703 --> 02:00:12.171 QUOTE THAT SAYS, COMPASSION 02:00:12.238 --> 02:00:13.573 WITHOUT ACCOUNTABILITY IS 02:00:13.639 --> 02:00:16.108 COLLUSION, AND ACCOUNTABILITY 02:00:16.175 --> 02:00:17.910 WITHOUT COMPASSION IS 02:00:17.977 --> 02:00:19.979 DOMINATION. AND WE WANT TO MAKE 02:00:20.046 --> 02:00:21.213 SURE THAT WE ARE NOT RECREATING 02:00:21.280 --> 02:00:22.348 THE SAME DOMINATION THAT PEOPLE 02:00:22.415 --> 02:00:23.950 ARE ALREADY EXPERIENCING, THAT 02:00:24.016 --> 02:00:25.585 WE ARE NOT TRYING TO VIOLENCE. 02:00:25.651 --> 02:00:27.587 PEOPLE OUT OF THEIR VIOLENCE 02:00:27.653 --> 02:00:29.388 DOMINATE PEOPLE OUT OF THEIR 02:00:29.455 --> 02:00:31.824 DOMINATION. YEAH. SO THANK YOU 02:00:31.891 --> 02:00:32.959 VERY MUCH. THANK YOU. AND 02:00:33.025 --> 02:00:34.827 BEFORE WE GO TO YOU, I JUST 02:00:34.894 --> 02:00:39.131 WANT TO POINT OUT THAT. SENATOR 02:00:39.198 --> 02:00:40.199 VALENCIA HAS PREVIOUSLY HAD A 02:00:40.266 --> 02:00:42.034 SELECT COMMITTEE, AND HOPEFULLY 02:00:42.101 --> 02:00:43.469 WE'LL CONTINUE TO HAVE A SELECT 02:00:43.536 --> 02:00:44.604 COMMITTEE THAT IS COMPLEMENTARY 02:00:44.670 --> 02:00:47.073 TO THIS WORK THAT TALKS A LOT 02:00:47.139 --> 02:00:49.241 ABOUT AT LEAST ONE OF THE 02:00:49.308 --> 02:00:50.376 HEARINGS I PARTICIPATED IN, 02:00:50.443 --> 02:00:51.444 TALKED ABOUT THE ROLE THAT 02:00:51.510 --> 02:00:53.179 SOCIAL MEDIA HAS IN 02:00:53.245 --> 02:00:53.946 PERPETUATING THAT CULTURE FOR 02:00:54.013 --> 02:00:56.015 OUR YOUNG BOYS, AND HOW 02:00:56.082 --> 02:00:57.650 DIFFICULT IT IS TO BREAK THESE 02:00:57.717 --> 02:01:00.119 IDEAS. THAT DOMINANCE AND RED 02:01:00.186 --> 02:01:03.823 PILL BEHAVIOR ARE, ARE THE WAY 02:01:03.889 --> 02:01:06.158 TO A, A SOCIETY ROOTED IN 02:01:06.225 --> 02:01:07.360 COMPASSION AND HEALING. AND SO 02:01:07.426 --> 02:01:08.628 HOPEFULLY THERE'S OPPORTUNITIES 02:01:08.694 --> 02:01:09.795 FOR FURTHER CONNECTION HERE 02:01:09.862 --> 02:01:11.130 BECAUSE I THINK THERE MIGHT BE 02:01:11.197 --> 02:01:12.732 SOME THINGS THAT COULD BE 02:01:12.798 --> 02:01:14.867 HELPFUL. ABSOLUTELY. THANK YOU, 02:01:14.934 --> 02:01:16.602 MR. CHAIR, NOT TO DEVIATE FROM 02:01:16.669 --> 02:01:19.505 THE PANEL, BUT THAT POINT, IT'S 02:01:19.572 --> 02:01:21.574 HITTING ON SUCH A MACRO LEVEL. 02:01:21.641 --> 02:01:23.442 AND THESE NEW TERMINOLOGIES 02:01:23.509 --> 02:01:27.046 ABOUT TOXIC MASCULINITY AND THE 02:01:27.113 --> 02:01:29.482 WORST TRAITS THAT MEN CAN EXERT. 02:01:29.548 --> 02:01:31.317 RIGHT. I THINK WE NEED TO 02:01:31.384 --> 02:01:32.852 REDEFINE THEM AND SEPARATE THEM. 02:01:32.918 --> 02:01:34.787 I GO OUT ON A LEDGE SHARING 02:01:34.854 --> 02:01:36.389 WITH FOLKS IN THESE 02:01:36.455 --> 02:01:38.824 CONVERSATIONS THAT MEN CAN 02:01:38.891 --> 02:01:41.560 EXERT THE MOST TOXIC OF TRAITS, 02:01:41.627 --> 02:01:43.496 BUT MASCULINITY IN AND OF 02:01:43.562 --> 02:01:44.764 ITSELF, TO YOUR POINT, SHOULD 02:01:44.830 --> 02:01:46.666 BE THE BEST OF WHAT MEN CAN 02:01:46.732 --> 02:01:47.800 PROVIDE TO SOCIETY. AND THROUGH 02:01:47.867 --> 02:01:49.335 GUIDANCE AND MENTORSHIP, WE CAN 02:01:49.402 --> 02:01:50.369 ACHIEVE THAT AND SET THOSE 02:01:50.436 --> 02:01:52.538 PARAMETERS. SO I THINK THESE 02:01:52.605 --> 02:01:53.639 CONVERSATIONS INTERSECT, AND 02:01:53.706 --> 02:01:54.874 THAT'S WHY IT'S SO IMPORTANT TO 02:01:54.940 --> 02:01:56.008 KEEP THESE CONVERSATIONS ALIVE. 02:01:56.075 --> 02:01:58.411 SO THANK YOU FOR THAT WORK. AND 02:01:58.477 --> 02:01:59.779 WITH THAT, BOB HODGE, BRING US 02:01:59.845 --> 02:02:01.914 HOME. COOL. GOOD AFTERNOON 02:02:01.981 --> 02:02:03.115 EVERYBODY. THE FIRST THING I 02:02:03.182 --> 02:02:04.984 WANT TO DO IS JUST ACKNOWLEDGE 02:02:05.051 --> 02:02:06.152 THAT EVERYBODY IN THIS ROOM HAS 02:02:06.218 --> 02:02:07.319 SAID SOMETHING IMPORTANT. AND 02:02:07.386 --> 02:02:08.788 EVERYBODY WHO'S SITTING HERE, 02:02:08.854 --> 02:02:10.189 GIVE YOURSELVES A BIG ROUND OF 02:02:10.256 --> 02:02:11.590 APPLAUSE, BECAUSE COME ON, 02:02:11.657 --> 02:02:13.292 Y'ALL CAN DO BETTER THAN THAT. 02:02:13.359 --> 02:02:16.696 YOU IN THE TOWN NOW. AND AND 02:02:16.762 --> 02:02:18.631 THE REASON I DO THAT IS BECAUSE 02:02:18.698 --> 02:02:20.666 ALL OF THIS WORK MATTERS. I 02:02:20.733 --> 02:02:22.101 WANT TO THANK YOU ALL FOR BEING 02:02:22.168 --> 02:02:24.637 HERE. AND I HAVE A TRIVIA 02:02:24.704 --> 02:02:26.806 QUESTION. WHEN DID THIS 02:02:26.872 --> 02:02:32.845 COMMITTEE START? NOPE. NO, THAT 02:02:32.912 --> 02:02:34.580 WAS GOOD. THAT WAS THAT WAS A 02:02:34.647 --> 02:02:37.049 GOOD GUESS, THOUGH. 2011. I WAS 02:02:37.116 --> 02:02:38.684 GONNA SAY IT WAS CLOSE. 02:02:38.751 --> 02:02:39.919 ASSEMBLY MEMBER PEREZ AND OUR 02:02:39.985 --> 02:02:41.353 REPRESENTATIVE STARTED THIS 02:02:41.420 --> 02:02:43.122 WORK. AND THE REASON I GET TO 02:02:43.189 --> 02:02:44.256 BRING THAT UP IS BECAUSE I 02:02:44.323 --> 02:02:46.392 THINK I'M THE OG IN THE ROOM ON 02:02:46.459 --> 02:02:48.160 THE PANELS. I MIGHT NOT BE THE 02:02:48.227 --> 02:02:50.362 OG OG IN THE ROOM, BUT I'M WITH 02:02:50.429 --> 02:02:51.430 THE BROTHERHOOD OF ELDERS 02:02:51.497 --> 02:02:52.531 NETWORK. WE'RE IN A 02:02:52.598 --> 02:02:53.599 GENERATIONAL NETWORK OF AFRICAN 02:02:53.666 --> 02:02:55.000 AMERICAN MEN WHO'VE BEEN DOING 02:02:55.067 --> 02:02:56.502 WORK FOR THE LAST A LITTLE BIT 02:02:56.569 --> 02:02:58.604 MORE THAN A DECADE FORMALLY, 02:02:58.671 --> 02:02:59.839 AND THE THINGS I WANT TO TALK 02:02:59.905 --> 02:03:01.674 ABOUT ARE REALLY GOING TO BE 02:03:01.741 --> 02:03:03.008 CENTERED ON. IF I THINK ABOUT 02:03:03.075 --> 02:03:04.076 THE ASSEMBLY SELECT COMMITTEE 02:03:04.143 --> 02:03:05.845 ON BOYS AND MEN OF COLOR. FIRST 02:03:05.911 --> 02:03:07.747 OF ALL, BOYS AND MEN OF COLOR 02:03:07.813 --> 02:03:08.881 GROW UP IN COMMUNITY. THEY 02:03:08.948 --> 02:03:10.616 DON'T GROW UP IN PROGRAMS. THEY 02:03:10.683 --> 02:03:11.951 DON'T GROW UP IN CARCERAL 02:03:12.017 --> 02:03:13.419 SITUATIONS. THEY GROW UP IN 02:03:13.486 --> 02:03:14.520 COMMUNITY. SO WHATEVER WE CAN 02:03:14.587 --> 02:03:15.921 DO AROUND THE THREE THINGS, I 02:03:15.988 --> 02:03:17.857 WANT TO JUST THROW A COUPLE OF 02:03:17.923 --> 02:03:21.660 THEMES OUT. REPAIR, REINVEST, 02:03:21.727 --> 02:03:24.530 AND REIMAGINE. SO REPAIR, 02:03:24.597 --> 02:03:26.332 REINVEST AND REIMAGINE THE 02:03:26.398 --> 02:03:27.199 REPARATIONS BILLS THAT YOU'VE 02:03:27.266 --> 02:03:28.734 BEEN WORKING ON AND OTHERS HAVE 02:03:28.801 --> 02:03:29.902 BEEN WORKING ON FOR THE LAST 02:03:29.969 --> 02:03:32.037 EIGHT YEARS, NINE YEARS OR SO, 02:03:32.104 --> 02:03:34.240 ARE REALLY IMPORTANT THAT WORK 02:03:34.306 --> 02:03:37.476 TO ACTUALLY UNDO REDLINING, TO 02:03:37.543 --> 02:03:40.312 UNDO JIM CROW, TO UNDO ALL THE 02:03:40.379 --> 02:03:41.881 SYSTEM, SYSTEMIC THINGS THAT 02:03:41.947 --> 02:03:43.516 HAVE HAPPENED TO BOYS AND MEN 02:03:43.582 --> 02:03:45.384 OF COLOR OVER THE LAST 400 02:03:45.451 --> 02:03:49.388 YEARS IS REALLY IMPORTANT TO RE 02:03:49.455 --> 02:03:50.923 REINVEST, TO INVEST IN SCHOOLS, 02:03:50.990 --> 02:03:53.359 TO INVEST IN FOOD SYSTEMS, TO 02:03:53.425 --> 02:03:55.528 INVEST IN THINGS OTHER THAN 02:03:55.594 --> 02:03:56.662 INCARCERATION ARE REALLY GOING 02:03:56.729 --> 02:03:58.597 TO MAKE A DIFFERENCE. SO OF THE 02:03:58.664 --> 02:04:01.767 11 SINCE 2011, YOU'VE COLLECTED, 02:04:01.834 --> 02:04:03.435 IF NOT THOUSANDS, MAYBE 02:04:03.502 --> 02:04:04.603 HUNDREDS OF THOUSANDS OF PAGES 02:04:04.670 --> 02:04:07.039 OF TESTIMONY FROM THE VARIOUS 02:04:07.106 --> 02:04:08.474 COMMUNITIES AROUND THE STATE OF 02:04:08.541 --> 02:04:09.875 CALIFORNIA. THE FIRST ASSEMBLY 02:04:09.942 --> 02:04:11.343 SELECT COMMITTEE HEARING WAS IN 02:04:11.410 --> 02:04:13.145 OAKLAND. AND I KNOW YOU'VE COME 02:04:13.212 --> 02:04:14.613 BACK A FEW TIMES. YOUR 02:04:14.680 --> 02:04:15.714 PREDECESSORS ON THIS BODY HAVE 02:04:15.781 --> 02:04:17.650 COME BACK A FEW TIMES. I KNOW 02:04:17.716 --> 02:04:18.851 THAT THERE HAS BEEN THAT MOMENT 02:04:18.918 --> 02:04:20.686 WHERE WHEN WE, THOSE OF US IN 02:04:20.753 --> 02:04:21.787 THE COMMUNITY DOING THE WORK 02:04:21.854 --> 02:04:22.888 STARTED CALLING THEM THE BOYS 02:04:22.955 --> 02:04:24.723 AND MEN OF COLOR BILLS. LIKE 02:04:24.790 --> 02:04:25.891 THERE WERE ENOUGH BILLS COMING 02:04:25.958 --> 02:04:28.093 THROUGH YOUR ASSEMBLY PROCESS 02:04:28.160 --> 02:04:29.862 THAT MADE US START THINKING, OH, 02:04:29.929 --> 02:04:30.629 THINGS ARE ACTUALLY GOING TO 02:04:30.696 --> 02:04:32.231 GET BETTER. AND WE'VE SEEN THE 02:04:32.298 --> 02:04:33.432 EBBS AND FLOWS, YOU KNOW, OF 02:04:33.499 --> 02:04:35.601 ALL OF THAT. WHEN I THINK ABOUT 02:04:35.668 --> 02:04:36.468 REIMAGINING, I THINK ABOUT LIKE, 02:04:36.535 --> 02:04:38.337 HOW DO WE REIMAGINE THE SYSTEMS 02:04:38.404 --> 02:04:40.272 OF CARE ALONG THE LINES OF WHAT 02:04:40.339 --> 02:04:41.440 MY FRIEND HERE TALKED ABOUT IN 02:04:41.507 --> 02:04:42.908 TERMS OF CULTURALLY BASED 02:04:42.975 --> 02:04:44.243 HEALING PRACTICES, WE'RE 02:04:44.310 --> 02:04:46.412 WORKING. WE BEING THE NATIONAL 02:04:46.478 --> 02:04:47.847 COMPADRES NETWORK AND HECTOR 02:04:47.913 --> 02:04:49.315 SANCHEZ FLORES, WHO LEADS THAT 02:04:49.381 --> 02:04:50.349 ORGANIZATION ALONG WITH JERRY 02:04:50.416 --> 02:04:51.817 TEO, HE'S HERE. WE'VE BEEN 02:04:51.884 --> 02:04:53.018 DOING WORK WITH THE OFFICE OF 02:04:53.085 --> 02:04:55.087 YOUTH AND COMMUNITY RESTORATION 02:04:55.154 --> 02:04:57.356 AND THE STAFF THERE TO ACTUALLY 02:04:57.423 --> 02:04:58.958 WORK WITH CULTURALLY BASED 02:04:59.024 --> 02:05:00.826 HEALING PRACTICES THAT GO 02:05:00.893 --> 02:05:01.994 BEYOND YOUR TYPICAL MENTAL 02:05:02.061 --> 02:05:03.329 HEALTH SERVICES AND MENTAL 02:05:03.395 --> 02:05:04.763 HEALTH INTERVENTIONS. WE KNOW 02:05:04.830 --> 02:05:06.232 THAT ONE OF THE LEADING CAUSES 02:05:06.298 --> 02:05:07.867 OF DEATH NOW IN OUR COMMUNITIES 02:05:07.933 --> 02:05:09.969 IS SUICIDE. IT'S ISOLATION, 02:05:10.035 --> 02:05:10.803 IT'S LONELINESS, IT'S 02:05:10.870 --> 02:05:11.804 DEPRESSION. IT'S TOO MUCH 02:05:11.871 --> 02:05:12.905 SCREEN TIME IN SOCIAL MEDIA. 02:05:12.972 --> 02:05:15.741 IT'S THE SOCIAL MEDIA, BULLYING, 02:05:15.808 --> 02:05:16.976 ALL OF THOSE THINGS. THINGS 02:05:17.042 --> 02:05:18.711 MAKE A DIFFERENCE. WE'VE ALSO 02:05:18.777 --> 02:05:20.846 BEEN WORKING IN OUR OWN WAYS 02:05:20.913 --> 02:05:21.947 AROUND DIVERSION. SO WE HAVE 02:05:22.014 --> 02:05:23.749 SOMETHING CALLED THE INDABA 02:05:23.816 --> 02:05:25.117 COURT. WE'RE PARTNERING WITH 02:05:25.184 --> 02:05:28.053 THE COUNTY PROBATION WITH 02:05:28.120 --> 02:05:29.822 POSITIVE MINDS GROUP. GROUP LED 02:05:29.889 --> 02:05:32.725 BY SHANI SHEA, KELVIN POTTS AND 02:05:32.791 --> 02:05:35.594 HAKEEM OWENS TO DO A MODEL THAT 02:05:35.661 --> 02:05:37.196 WE LEARNED ABOUT IN NEW ZEALAND. 02:05:37.263 --> 02:05:38.430 IT GOES KIND OF BEYOND 02:05:38.497 --> 02:05:39.531 RESTORATIVE JUSTICE, BUT WE'RE 02:05:39.598 --> 02:05:41.333 HOLDING COURT FOR LOW LEVEL 02:05:41.400 --> 02:05:43.836 OFFENSES THAT IN EVERY WEEK, 02:05:43.903 --> 02:05:44.970 EVERY MONTH, WE HAVE SEVERAL 02:05:45.037 --> 02:05:46.372 COURT SESSIONS. AND ESSENTIALLY 02:05:46.438 --> 02:05:48.574 IT'S COMMUNITY ELDERS AND 02:05:48.641 --> 02:05:50.042 PARENTS AND COMMUNITY HEALERS 02:05:50.109 --> 02:05:51.176 WHO ARE WORKING WITH KIDS TO 02:05:51.243 --> 02:05:52.878 MAKE SURE THAT THEY GET A PLAN 02:05:52.945 --> 02:05:54.747 SO THAT THEY CAN DO THE KIND OF 02:05:54.813 --> 02:05:55.915 THINGS THAT WE'VE BEEN TALKING 02:05:55.981 --> 02:05:57.616 ABOUT, OTHERS HAVE TALKED ABOUT 02:05:57.683 --> 02:05:58.817 ON THIS PANEL. THE OTHER THINGS 02:05:58.884 --> 02:06:00.619 THAT WE'VE BEEN DOING HAVE BEEN 02:06:00.686 --> 02:06:02.621 AROUND THE THE WORK IN EAST 02:06:02.688 --> 02:06:03.622 OAKLAND, A PLACE BASED 02:06:03.689 --> 02:06:05.858 INITIATIVE CALLED THE 40 BY 40. 02:06:05.925 --> 02:06:07.993 A MONTH AGO, SENATOR ARAGON 02:06:08.060 --> 02:06:09.228 CAME IN AND SPENT A LITTLE TIME 02:06:09.295 --> 02:06:11.096 WITH US TO LEARN MORE ABOUT 02:06:11.163 --> 02:06:12.998 THAT PLACE BASED WORK. WE HAD A 02:06:13.065 --> 02:06:14.566 NATIONAL FUNDER GIVE US $50 02:06:14.633 --> 02:06:16.635 MILLION INVESTMENT TO MATCH 02:06:16.702 --> 02:06:18.003 LOCALLY, WITH $50 MILLION FROM 02:06:18.070 --> 02:06:19.538 LOCAL PHILANTHROPY OVER THE 02:06:19.605 --> 02:06:20.973 NEXT FIVE YEARS TO DO A RANGE 02:06:21.040 --> 02:06:22.808 OF THINGS. ONE OF THE PARTNERS 02:06:22.875 --> 02:06:23.976 IN THAT IS ROOTS COMMUNITY 02:06:24.043 --> 02:06:24.944 HEALTH. ROOTS COMMUNITY HEALTH 02:06:25.010 --> 02:06:26.679 HAS BEEN DOING MENTAL HEALTH 02:06:26.745 --> 02:06:28.881 FIRST AID TRAINING. SO TO WORK 02:06:28.948 --> 02:06:29.949 WITH EVERYDAY PEOPLE IN THE 02:06:30.015 --> 02:06:31.016 NEIGHBORHOOD WHO COULD 02:06:31.083 --> 02:06:32.418 RECOGNIZE, UNDERSTAND, SUPPORT 02:06:32.484 --> 02:06:33.519 PEOPLE GOING THROUGH MENTAL 02:06:33.585 --> 02:06:35.287 HEALTH CRISIS EVEN BEFORE THEY 02:06:35.354 --> 02:06:37.256 GET TO MACRO BECAUSE WE WE 02:06:37.323 --> 02:06:38.324 REALLY SUPPORT THE IDEA OF 02:06:38.390 --> 02:06:40.092 MACRO. MACRO NEEDS TO BE FUNDED 02:06:40.159 --> 02:06:41.827 THREE, FOUR, FIVE TIMES GREATER 02:06:41.894 --> 02:06:43.562 THAN IT HAS BEEN BASED ON THE 02:06:43.629 --> 02:06:45.431 THE EARLIER TESTIMONY HERE. 02:06:45.497 --> 02:06:46.532 THAT'S ANOTHER THING THAT WE'RE 02:06:46.598 --> 02:06:47.499 INVOLVED IN. WE'RE ALSO 02:06:47.566 --> 02:06:49.368 INVOLVED IN A STATEWIDE 02:06:49.435 --> 02:06:51.136 COALITION AROUND IMPROVING THE 02:06:51.203 --> 02:06:53.005 AFRICAN AMERICAN EDUCATOR 02:06:53.072 --> 02:06:54.773 PIPELINE. THE COALITION IS 02:06:54.840 --> 02:06:56.175 CALLED AYA. WE HAVE PARTNERS 02:06:56.241 --> 02:06:58.010 DOWN IN LOS ANGELES WITH THE 02:06:58.077 --> 02:07:01.380 BLACK EDUCATION ACTION NETWORK, 02:07:01.447 --> 02:07:03.415 WHICH ALISA EVANS. WE'RE 02:07:03.482 --> 02:07:05.217 WORKING HERE LOCALLY. BACK IN 02:07:05.284 --> 02:07:07.753 APRIL, WE DID A LEGISLATIVE. IT 02:07:07.820 --> 02:07:08.620 WASN'T ADVOCACY DAY BECAUSE 02:07:08.687 --> 02:07:10.489 WE'RE ALL 501 C THREE. WE CAN'T 02:07:10.556 --> 02:07:11.490 ADVOCATE FOR ANYTHING OTHER 02:07:11.557 --> 02:07:12.524 THAN POLICY. YOU KNOW, I'M 02:07:12.591 --> 02:07:14.960 GIVING THE DISCLAIMER, RIGHT. 02:07:15.027 --> 02:07:17.129 THE. BUT THAT WORK INVOLVED 02:07:17.196 --> 02:07:18.163 GOING AROUND THE STATE AND 02:07:18.230 --> 02:07:19.598 LISTENING TO WHAT AFRICAN 02:07:19.665 --> 02:07:20.833 AMERICAN EDUCATORS ARE SAYING 02:07:20.899 --> 02:07:22.901 ABOUT RECRUITMENT, RETENTION, 02:07:22.968 --> 02:07:25.037 PEOPLE WHO CAN STAY INVOLVED IN 02:07:25.104 --> 02:07:27.172 IN EDUCATIONAL PROCESS. SO WITH 02:07:27.239 --> 02:07:28.607 THAT, YOU KNOW, I'M GOING TO 02:07:28.674 --> 02:07:30.175 STOP THERE AND JUST SAY THAT 02:07:30.242 --> 02:07:31.510 THE MOMENT THAT WE'RE IN IS 02:07:31.577 --> 02:07:32.978 REALLY IMPORTANT FOR YOUR 02:07:33.045 --> 02:07:34.580 LEADERSHIP, WHAT THE COUNTIES 02:07:34.646 --> 02:07:36.548 ARE EXPERIENCING STARTING 02:07:36.615 --> 02:07:37.616 JANUARY 1ST IS GOING TO BE 02:07:37.683 --> 02:07:38.684 SIGNIFICANT CUTS TO MENTAL 02:07:38.751 --> 02:07:40.519 HEALTH SERVICES, SIGNIFICANT 02:07:40.586 --> 02:07:42.688 CUTS TO FOOD SECURITY BASED ON 02:07:42.755 --> 02:07:44.189 THE, QUOTE, BIG, BEAUTIFUL BILL 02:07:44.256 --> 02:07:45.524 THAT IS NOT SO BIG AND 02:07:45.591 --> 02:07:47.426 BEAUTIFUL. IT'S JUST BIG. IT'S 02:07:47.493 --> 02:07:48.761 NOT BEAUTIFUL AT ALL WHEN IT 02:07:48.827 --> 02:07:50.529 COMES DOWN TO WHO CAN EAT EVERY 02:07:50.596 --> 02:07:52.398 DAY. THE LAST THING I WANT TO 02:07:52.464 --> 02:07:54.366 SAY IS JUST KNOW THAT YOU ARE 02:07:54.433 --> 02:07:57.002 PART OF HISTORY. LAST NIGHT IN 02:07:57.069 --> 02:07:58.504 MISSISSIPPI, WE SAW HISTORY 02:07:58.570 --> 02:08:00.639 BEING MADE. I GREW UP IN 02:08:00.706 --> 02:08:01.774 ARKANSAS. I DIDN'T GROW UP IN 02:08:01.840 --> 02:08:02.808 CALIFORNIA. I'VE BEEN IN 02:08:02.875 --> 02:08:03.876 CALIFORNIA LONGER THAN SOME OF 02:08:03.942 --> 02:08:05.644 Y'ALL BEEN ALIVE. MAYBE, BUT 02:08:05.711 --> 02:08:06.812 I'VE BEEN HERE SINCE THE 80S. 02:08:06.879 --> 02:08:08.847 AND. BUT I GREW UP IN ARKANSAS, 02:08:08.914 --> 02:08:10.616 IN A STATE WHERE I GREW UP 02:08:10.682 --> 02:08:11.483 UNDER SEGREGATED THEATERS, 02:08:11.550 --> 02:08:12.518 SEGREGATED SCHOOLS, SEGREGATED 02:08:12.584 --> 02:08:14.053 SWIMMING POOLS. I'M ONLY 66 02:08:14.119 --> 02:08:16.088 YEARS OLD. THIS IS NOT ANCIENT 02:08:16.155 --> 02:08:19.391 HISTORY, BUT 60 YEARS FROM 02:08:19.458 --> 02:08:21.160 YESTERDAY, MEDGAR EVERS OR 02:08:21.226 --> 02:08:22.561 THEREABOUTS WAS SHOT AND KILLED 02:08:22.628 --> 02:08:24.696 ON HIS DRIVEWAY AS N DOUBLE, A 02:08:24.763 --> 02:08:25.831 CP LEADER FOR TRYING TO GET 02:08:25.898 --> 02:08:28.033 PEOPLE TO REGISTER TO VOTE TO 02:08:28.100 --> 02:08:30.969 FOR MISSISSIPPI GODDAM. AND I'M 02:08:31.036 --> 02:08:34.173 JUST QUOTING NINA SIMONE'S SONG 02:08:34.239 --> 02:08:36.241 FROM MISSISSIPPI TO MOVE IN 02:08:36.308 --> 02:08:38.210 THAT WAY. IT IT IS. IT IS A 02:08:38.277 --> 02:08:39.578 CHALLENGE NOW TO THE STATE OF 02:08:39.645 --> 02:08:40.779 CALIFORNIA AND OUR LEADERSHIP 02:08:40.846 --> 02:08:43.882 TO MOVE IN SOME VERY AMAZING, 02:08:43.949 --> 02:08:46.051 INTERESTING, RADICAL WAYS. WE 02:08:46.118 --> 02:08:47.119 CANNOT KEEP DOING BUSINESS AS 02:08:47.186 --> 02:08:49.221 USUAL. WE CANNOT KEEP DOING THE 02:08:49.288 --> 02:08:50.522 SAME OLD, SAME OLD. FOLKS HAVE 02:08:50.589 --> 02:08:52.491 TO TAKE RISKS THAT ARE 02:08:52.558 --> 02:08:54.293 POLITICALLY SOMETIMES RISKY, 02:08:54.359 --> 02:08:55.727 SOMETIMES POLITICALLY RISKY. 02:08:55.794 --> 02:08:56.895 BUT IT'S GOING TO MATTER IN 02:08:56.962 --> 02:08:59.698 TERMS OF THE REPARATIONS, THE 02:08:59.765 --> 02:09:01.867 REPAIR, THE REINVESTMENT, AND 02:09:01.934 --> 02:09:03.669 THE RESILIENCE THAT WE NEED TO 02:09:03.735 --> 02:09:04.937 SEE IN OUR COMMUNITY. SO THANK 02:09:05.003 --> 02:09:06.738 YOU ALL VERY MUCH FOR BEING 02:09:06.805 --> 02:09:07.873 HERE, AND THANKS FOR LISTENING. 02:09:07.940 --> 02:09:11.243 THANK YOU SO MUCH. NOW TURN IT 02:09:11.310 --> 02:09:13.045 BACK TO THE DAIS. ANY QUESTIONS 02:09:13.112 --> 02:09:16.582 OR COMMENTS, COLLEAGUES? MR. 02:09:16.648 --> 02:09:19.518 VALENCIA? THANK YOU, MR. CHAIR. 02:09:19.585 --> 02:09:21.353 AND ON THAT NOTE, ONE OF THE 02:09:21.420 --> 02:09:22.721 BILLS THAT WE WORKED ON LAST 02:09:22.788 --> 02:09:24.490 YEAR AND I HAD THE OPPORTUNITY 02:09:24.556 --> 02:09:26.291 TO AUTHOR, WHICH WAS A SHOCK TO 02:09:26.358 --> 02:09:29.595 ME, WAS AB 1956. COME TO FIND 02:09:29.661 --> 02:09:32.431 OUT, SUICIDE RATES FOR YOUNG 02:09:32.498 --> 02:09:34.066 MEN AND BOYS ARE NOT TRACKED IN 02:09:34.133 --> 02:09:35.701 THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA. AND 02:09:35.767 --> 02:09:38.170 WE'RE SUCH A DATA DRIVEN STATE 02:09:38.237 --> 02:09:40.372 AND OFTEN CREATE POLICIES 02:09:40.439 --> 02:09:42.574 AROUND DATA. WE PRIDE OURSELVES 02:09:42.641 --> 02:09:45.144 IN THAT. AND DESPITE FOUR OUT 02:09:45.210 --> 02:09:49.381 OF FIVE SUICIDES BEING MEN, WE 02:09:49.448 --> 02:09:51.216 DON'T COLLECT THAT DATA. SO 02:09:51.283 --> 02:09:52.718 IT'S A STEPPING STONE TO WHERE 02:09:52.784 --> 02:09:54.820 WE NEED TO BE AROUND THE MENTAL 02:09:54.887 --> 02:09:56.522 HEALTH ISSUES THAT WE'RE HAVING 02:09:56.588 --> 02:09:57.723 AS A SOCIETY AND THE IMPACT 02:09:57.789 --> 02:09:58.757 THAT THOSE INDIVIDUALS ARE 02:09:58.824 --> 02:10:00.526 HAVING ON SOCIETY, RIGHT? SO WE 02:10:00.592 --> 02:10:01.493 DEFINITELY HAVE TO START 02:10:01.560 --> 02:10:02.594 THINKING OUTSIDE THE BOX. VERY 02:10:02.661 --> 02:10:03.762 MUCH APPRECIATE THE TENACITY 02:10:03.829 --> 02:10:05.964 AND THE WORK OVER THE YEARS. 02:10:06.031 --> 02:10:07.332 BUT I DO THINK THAT STRUCTURAL 02:10:07.399 --> 02:10:09.902 CHANGE IS NEEDED. RESOURCES GO 02:10:09.968 --> 02:10:13.472 A LONG WAY, BUT WE'VE ALSO 02:10:13.539 --> 02:10:16.008 DISCUSSED HOW RESOURCES ARE 02:10:16.074 --> 02:10:18.310 EITHER SHIFTED OR AUGMENTED. 02:10:18.377 --> 02:10:19.978 YET THE PROBLEM IS MORE SEVERE 02:10:20.045 --> 02:10:22.481 NOW. SO IN ADDITION TO THE 02:10:22.548 --> 02:10:23.982 RESOURCES, WE REALLY DO HAVE TO 02:10:24.049 --> 02:10:25.517 HAVE SOME FUNDAMENTAL CHANGES 02:10:25.584 --> 02:10:26.852 TO HOW SOCIETY OPERATES IN 02:10:26.919 --> 02:10:28.253 ORDER TO HAVE THESE IMPACTFUL 02:10:28.320 --> 02:10:29.421 CHANGES LONG TERM. SO THANK YOU 02:10:29.488 --> 02:10:32.357 FOR THAT. NO THANK YOU. THANK 02:10:32.424 --> 02:10:34.359 YOU SO MUCH. ASSEMBLY MEMBER 02:10:34.426 --> 02:10:35.861 AL-HAWARI. I'M REALLY 02:10:35.928 --> 02:10:36.662 INTERESTED IN LEARNING A LITTLE 02:10:36.728 --> 02:10:38.163 BIT MORE ABOUT THE CULTURALLY 02:10:38.230 --> 02:10:39.131 BASED HEALING PRACTICES THAT 02:10:39.198 --> 02:10:40.933 YOU BOTH MENTIONED. I THINK YOU 02:10:40.999 --> 02:10:42.601 TALKED A LITTLE BIT, A LITTLE 02:10:42.668 --> 02:10:43.702 BIT ABOUT THEM, BUT I'M JUST 02:10:43.769 --> 02:10:45.170 WONDERING BECAUSE OFTENTIMES 02:10:45.237 --> 02:10:46.238 WE'RE TALKING ABOUT THESE LIKE 02:10:46.305 --> 02:10:48.440 EVIDENCE BASED PRACTICES, IT 02:10:48.507 --> 02:10:49.741 FEELS SOMETIMES LIKE IT'S KIND 02:10:49.808 --> 02:10:51.009 OF UP AGAINST EACH OTHER WHEN 02:10:51.076 --> 02:10:52.778 THE REALITY IS WE KNOW WHAT 02:10:52.844 --> 02:10:53.812 WORKS FOR OUR COMMUNITIES. AND 02:10:53.879 --> 02:10:54.980 OFTENTIMES EVIDENCE BASED MEANS 02:10:55.047 --> 02:10:56.348 THAT THEY DIDN'T REALLY USE US 02:10:56.415 --> 02:10:58.884 FOR EVIDENCE. AND SO JUST 02:10:58.951 --> 02:11:00.285 WONDERING IF YOU ALL CAN SHARE 02:11:00.352 --> 02:11:01.453 A LITTLE BIT MORE ABOUT SOME 02:11:01.520 --> 02:11:03.155 EXAMPLES AND OPPORTUNITIES TO 02:11:03.222 --> 02:11:04.623 EVEN LEARN MORE OR CONNECT 02:11:04.690 --> 02:11:06.124 BEYOND TODAY. YEAH. SO THIS, 02:11:06.191 --> 02:11:07.893 THIS IS GREAT BECAUSE MY FRIEND, 02:11:07.960 --> 02:11:09.294 I'M SORRY, WHAT'S YOUR NAME? 02:11:09.361 --> 02:11:11.463 YES. REAL. YOU WERE AT SONS 02:11:11.530 --> 02:11:12.497 BROTHERS CAMP. I WAS AT SONS 02:11:12.564 --> 02:11:14.333 BROTHERS CAMP. WE WERE DOING AT 02:11:14.399 --> 02:11:15.534 THAT TIME, WE WERE DOING 02:11:15.601 --> 02:11:17.369 HEALING CIRCLES. SO EVERY NIGHT 02:11:17.436 --> 02:11:19.738 AT THIS CAMP, WE HAD 125 YOUNG 02:11:19.805 --> 02:11:21.139 PEOPLE THERE. WE BREAK THEM UP 02:11:21.206 --> 02:11:23.141 INTO GROUPS OF 20 OR SO, AND WE 02:11:23.208 --> 02:11:24.243 ESSENTIALLY HAD TALKING CIRCLES. 02:11:24.309 --> 02:11:25.510 WE HAD CIRCLES THAT WERE YOUNG 02:11:25.577 --> 02:11:27.379 FOLKS GOT A CHANCE TO LIKE, 02:11:27.446 --> 02:11:29.081 REALLY WE OPEN WITH RITUAL, WE 02:11:29.147 --> 02:11:30.148 OPEN WITH LIBATION AND 02:11:30.215 --> 02:11:31.583 ANCESTORS. WE WORK WITH LAND 02:11:31.650 --> 02:11:33.452 ACKNOWLEDGMENT TO GET IT ROOTED 02:11:33.518 --> 02:11:34.453 CULTURALLY. BUT THEN 02:11:34.519 --> 02:11:35.254 ESSENTIALLY WE WERE LISTENING 02:11:35.320 --> 02:11:36.888 TO WHAT YOUNG PEOPLE HAD TO SAY, 02:11:36.955 --> 02:11:39.524 SOME OF IT AS LOW LEVEL AS JUST 02:11:39.591 --> 02:11:40.993 LISTENING. A LOT OF TIMES 02:11:41.059 --> 02:11:42.527 ADULTS AREN'T LISTENING TO WHAT 02:11:42.594 --> 02:11:44.196 YOUNG PEOPLE ARE SAYING. SO TO 02:11:44.263 --> 02:11:45.430 LISTEN AND THEN WHAT HAPPENED 02:11:45.497 --> 02:11:47.466 AT THAT CAMP WAS WE HEARD A LOT 02:11:47.532 --> 02:11:49.234 ABOUT THE CONDITIONS THAT WERE 02:11:49.301 --> 02:11:50.535 FACING YOUNG PEOPLE IN THE 02:11:50.602 --> 02:11:52.204 COMMUNITY. WE TOOK THAT WORK 02:11:52.271 --> 02:11:54.273 AND BUILT ON SIX YEARS OF THAT 02:11:54.339 --> 02:11:56.074 CAMP. WE'VE NOW BEEN DOING 02:11:56.141 --> 02:11:57.542 LISTENING SESSIONS AROUND THE 02:11:57.609 --> 02:11:58.677 STATE AND LISTENING TO WHAT 02:11:58.744 --> 02:11:59.778 YOUNG PEOPLE ARE SAYING AND 02:11:59.845 --> 02:12:01.847 WHAT PROVIDERS ARE SAYING ABOUT 02:12:01.913 --> 02:12:04.383 NEEDING SPACES THAT ARE 02:12:04.449 --> 02:12:05.450 CONSISTENT. A LOT OF TIMES 02:12:05.517 --> 02:12:07.386 YOU'RE IN A IN A ROOM AFTER 02:12:07.452 --> 02:12:08.453 SCHOOL HOURS, YOU DON'T HAVE 02:12:08.520 --> 02:12:10.422 THE YOU HAVE TO GET OUT OF THE 02:12:10.489 --> 02:12:11.923 ROOM BY 5:00, WHATEVER, TO HAVE 02:12:11.990 --> 02:12:13.392 DEDICATED SPACES TO HAVE PEOPLE 02:12:13.458 --> 02:12:14.493 WHO ARE ACTUALLY TRAINED. WE'RE 02:12:14.559 --> 02:12:16.962 WORKING WITH THE OUR STATE 02:12:17.029 --> 02:12:18.430 PARTNERS TO MAKE SURE THAT WE 02:12:18.497 --> 02:12:19.831 UNDERSTAND THAT WE CAN GET 02:12:19.898 --> 02:12:21.633 COMMUNITY HEALTH WORKERS 02:12:21.700 --> 02:12:22.768 CERTIFICATION FOR THOSE 02:12:22.834 --> 02:12:24.202 CULTURALLY BASED PRACTICES SO 02:12:24.269 --> 02:12:26.004 THAT ORGANIZATIONS LIKE OURS 02:12:26.071 --> 02:12:27.306 AND OTHERS CAN ACTUALLY BUILD 02:12:27.372 --> 02:12:30.309 FOR THOSE SERVICES FOR FROM THE 02:12:30.375 --> 02:12:32.110 STATE TO BE ABLE TO DO THE SAME 02:12:32.177 --> 02:12:33.145 KINDS OF WORK THAT OTHER 02:12:33.211 --> 02:12:34.646 PROVIDERS ARE DOING, OTHER 02:12:34.713 --> 02:12:35.314 MENTAL HEALTH PROVIDERS ARE 02:12:35.380 --> 02:12:36.748 DOING. WHEN YOU TALK ABOUT AND 02:12:36.815 --> 02:12:37.883 I'LL, I'LL YIELD THE MIC TO 02:12:37.949 --> 02:12:39.718 SOMEBODY ELSE, BUT BUT, YOU 02:12:39.785 --> 02:12:40.786 KNOW, I LAUGH ABOUT THIS 02:12:40.852 --> 02:12:41.820 EVIDENCE BASED PRACTICE. I HAVE 02:12:41.887 --> 02:12:43.055 I'VE BEEN WE'VE BEEN FLIPPING 02:12:43.121 --> 02:12:44.690 AND SAYING PRACTICE BASED 02:12:44.756 --> 02:12:46.892 EVIDENCE. WE KNOW WHAT WORKS IN 02:12:46.958 --> 02:12:49.027 OUR COMMUNITIES. WE DON'T NEED 02:12:49.094 --> 02:12:50.796 NECESSARILY TO HAVE FOLKS FROM 02:12:50.862 --> 02:12:52.264 ACADEMIA COME IN AND TELL US 02:12:52.331 --> 02:12:54.232 WHAT STUDY US AND THEN SAY BACK 02:12:54.299 --> 02:12:55.534 TO US WHAT WE KNOW WORKS. ALL 02:12:55.600 --> 02:12:57.436 OF US. I'M A LAWYER BY TRAINING. 02:12:57.502 --> 02:12:59.204 WE GOT SOCIAL WORKERS IN OUR 02:12:59.271 --> 02:13:00.305 MIDST. THERE ARE FOLKS THAT 02:13:00.372 --> 02:13:01.406 KNOW KNOW THE WORK. BUT 02:13:01.473 --> 02:13:02.674 ESSENTIALLY WE'RE SAYING WE'VE 02:13:02.741 --> 02:13:04.910 SEEN GENERATIONALLY HOW THOSE 02:13:04.976 --> 02:13:06.311 CULTURALLY BASED PRACTICES WORK. 02:13:06.378 --> 02:13:07.713 IT'S THE SAME THING YOUR 02:13:07.779 --> 02:13:09.147 GRANDMAMA WAS DOING. SHE WAS 02:13:09.214 --> 02:13:10.482 HOLDING YOUR HAND AND SAYING, 02:13:10.549 --> 02:13:11.683 BABY, TELL ME ABOUT IT. SIT 02:13:11.750 --> 02:13:13.452 DOWN, AND WE'RE GOING TO EAT 02:13:13.518 --> 02:13:14.619 SOME GOOD FOOD. WE'RE GOING TO 02:13:14.686 --> 02:13:16.555 MAKE SOME OF IT IS SIMPLE. SOME 02:13:16.621 --> 02:13:17.756 OF IT IS MORE COMPLEX. AND 02:13:17.823 --> 02:13:19.591 WE'RE NOT SAYING THAT WE CAN DO 02:13:19.658 --> 02:13:21.393 AWAY WITH THE LICENSED 02:13:21.460 --> 02:13:22.160 PRACTITIONERS, THE SOCIAL 02:13:22.227 --> 02:13:23.895 HEALTH WORKERS, THE SOCIAL 02:13:23.962 --> 02:13:24.963 WORKERS, THE MENTAL HEALTH 02:13:25.030 --> 02:13:26.431 WORKERS, THOSE PRACTITIONERS. 02:13:26.498 --> 02:13:32.204 THEY'RE ALL PART OF A CONTINUUM. 02:13:32.270 --> 02:13:34.406 I WANT TO FIRST SAY THAT THIS 02:13:34.473 --> 02:13:36.908 IS THE MODEL, RIGHT? SO ME 02:13:36.975 --> 02:13:40.178 COMING AFTER HIM IS WILD. I 02:13:40.245 --> 02:13:42.647 WON'T FORGIVE YOU FOR THIS. 02:13:42.714 --> 02:13:45.517 YEAH, BUT I THINK IT'S TRUE. I 02:13:45.584 --> 02:13:47.719 REALLY FEEL THAT RIGHT NOW. BUT 02:13:47.786 --> 02:13:50.922 BROTHERHOOD OF ELDERS AND NC N 02:13:50.989 --> 02:13:55.927 HAVE COMBAT THIS IDEA IN 02:13:55.994 --> 02:13:57.062 PATRIARCHY THAT, LIKE YOU ARE 02:13:57.129 --> 02:13:59.898 AN INDIVIDUAL, THAT YOU HAVE TO 02:13:59.965 --> 02:14:00.999 DEAL WITH THIS THING ON YOUR 02:14:01.066 --> 02:14:03.869 OWN, THAT THERE IS NOT A 02:14:03.935 --> 02:14:05.303 COMMUNITY THAT IS CONNECTED TO 02:14:05.370 --> 02:14:08.607 YOU. WHEN IN MOMENTS OF 02:14:08.673 --> 02:14:09.307 ACCOUNTABILITY, THAT YOUR 02:14:09.374 --> 02:14:10.409 COMMUNITY IS NOT ALSO 02:14:10.475 --> 02:14:12.177 ACCOUNTABLE TO YOU. SO IT 02:14:12.244 --> 02:14:14.813 REALLY HAS A, THERE'S A 02:14:14.880 --> 02:14:15.847 COLLECTIVISM THAT IS PART OF 02:14:15.914 --> 02:14:16.915 THESE MODELS THAT'S REALLY 02:14:16.982 --> 02:14:20.085 ESSENTIAL. ONE OF ONE OF THE 02:14:20.152 --> 02:14:21.186 ORGANIZATIONS WE WORK WITH, 02:14:21.253 --> 02:14:23.388 BROWN BOI PROJECT WORKS 02:14:23.455 --> 02:14:27.659 SPECIFICALLY WITH TRANS GENDER 02:14:27.726 --> 02:14:29.461 NON-CONFORMING FOLKS, AND THEY 02:14:29.528 --> 02:14:31.630 THINK ABOUT LIKE, WHAT IS 02:14:31.696 --> 02:14:33.064 MASCULINITY LOOK LIKE IN OUR 02:14:33.131 --> 02:14:34.199 COMMUNITY THAT LIKE, WE HAVE 02:14:34.266 --> 02:14:35.300 ELDERS IN OUR COMMUNITY THAT 02:14:35.367 --> 02:14:36.902 HAVE BEEN DOING THIS WORK, THAT 02:14:36.968 --> 02:14:39.171 HAVE BEEN CARING FOR FOLKS FOR, 02:14:39.237 --> 02:14:42.707 AGAIN, GENERATIONS AND CAME UP 02:14:42.774 --> 02:14:43.775 WITH THIS MODEL CALLED 02:14:43.842 --> 02:14:45.944 LIBERATORY MASCULINITY. SO 02:14:46.011 --> 02:14:48.146 INSTEAD OF THINKING AGAIN OF 02:14:48.213 --> 02:14:50.315 MASCULINITY AS THIS IS MY OWN 02:14:50.382 --> 02:14:51.450 THING THAT LIVES WITHIN ME, I 02:14:51.516 --> 02:14:53.285 HAVE TO DEAL WITH ALL MY 02:14:53.351 --> 02:14:54.586 EMOTIONS BY MYSELF. HOW DO I 02:14:54.653 --> 02:14:56.421 THINK ABOUT MY MASCULINITY AS 02:14:56.488 --> 02:14:58.623 ROOTED IN MY COMMUNITY, AS 02:14:58.690 --> 02:14:59.691 CONNECTED TO THE LIBERATION OF 02:14:59.758 --> 02:15:01.893 ALL THE PEOPLE AROUND ME? AND 02:15:01.960 --> 02:15:03.962 THAT ALSO HELPED WAS WAS THE 02:15:04.029 --> 02:15:05.063 FOUNDATION FOR US BUILDING OUT 02:15:05.130 --> 02:15:06.898 OUR POWER BEYOND PATRIARCHY 02:15:06.965 --> 02:15:09.000 PROGRAM. SO WE HAD A PROGRAM 02:15:09.067 --> 02:15:12.337 WITH 20 YOUNG BLACK MEN AND 02:15:12.404 --> 02:15:13.705 MASCULINE IDENTIFIED FOLKS AND 02:15:13.772 --> 02:15:15.140 A OLDER GROUP OF BLACK 02:15:15.207 --> 02:15:16.241 ORGANIZERS. SO THIS 02:15:16.308 --> 02:15:17.676 MULTI-GENERATIONAL GROUP THAT 02:15:17.742 --> 02:15:19.444 WAS THINKING ABOUT LIKE, HOW DO 02:15:19.511 --> 02:15:22.380 WE INTERNALLY INTERROGATE HOW 02:15:22.447 --> 02:15:23.815 PATRIARCHY IS SHOWING UP IN OUR 02:15:23.882 --> 02:15:25.217 LIVES, BUT ALSO USE THIS AS 02:15:25.283 --> 02:15:27.018 PART OF OUR POWER BUILDING 02:15:27.085 --> 02:15:28.487 STRATEGIES. SO THINKING ABOUT 02:15:28.553 --> 02:15:31.389 LIKE UNDOING THE PATRIARCHY 02:15:31.456 --> 02:15:32.757 THAT LIVES IN US ALSO AS A 02:15:32.824 --> 02:15:34.926 POWER BUILDING ORGANIZING 02:15:34.993 --> 02:15:36.728 STRATEGY, BECAUSE WE ALSO KNOW 02:15:36.795 --> 02:15:39.130 THAT SOMETIMES PATRIARCHY IS 02:15:39.197 --> 02:15:40.365 WHAT KEEPS PEOPLE OUT OF 02:15:40.432 --> 02:15:42.133 MOVEMENT, THAT PEOPLE HAVE 02:15:42.200 --> 02:15:43.168 EXPERIENCES IN MOVEMENT WHERE 02:15:43.235 --> 02:15:44.269 THEY DON'T FEEL SAFE, WHERE 02:15:44.336 --> 02:15:45.770 THEY FEEL OTHERED, WHERE THEY 02:15:45.837 --> 02:15:47.239 FEEL LIKE THEY NEED TO BE 02:15:47.305 --> 02:15:48.607 ISOLATED, OR THEY NEED TO BE 02:15:48.673 --> 02:15:50.242 THE THEY DON'T KNOW HOW TO BE 02:15:50.308 --> 02:15:51.376 ANY POSITION, BUT THE NUMBER 02:15:51.443 --> 02:15:54.346 ONE PERSON, INSTEAD OF LIKE A 02:15:54.412 --> 02:15:56.314 PART OF A COLLECTIVE. SO THAT'S 02:15:56.381 --> 02:15:57.649 REALLY WHERE, WHERE SOME OF 02:15:57.716 --> 02:15:58.984 THAT STUFF IS COMING FROM. BUT, 02:15:59.050 --> 02:16:00.852 BUT REALLY OVER HERE IS HERE'S 02:16:00.919 --> 02:16:02.521 THE MODEL. I'M SORRY, BECAUSE I 02:16:02.587 --> 02:16:04.289 KNOW WE GOTTA MOVE TO PUBLIC 02:16:04.356 --> 02:16:05.490 COMMENT, BUT I WANT TO SHARE A 02:16:05.557 --> 02:16:07.325 STORY ABOUT THAT SONS AND 02:16:07.392 --> 02:16:08.393 BROTHERS CAMP. THERE'S A VIDEO 02:16:08.460 --> 02:16:09.561 OUT THERE OF FOUR YOUNG MEN 02:16:09.628 --> 02:16:11.396 REFLECTING ON THEIR TIME IN ONE 02:16:11.463 --> 02:16:12.531 OF THESE CAMPS AND ABOUT THE 02:16:12.597 --> 02:16:14.366 CAMP. RIGHT. WE ALL WILL GET 02:16:14.432 --> 02:16:15.634 THERE ON A SUNDAY. WE'LL LEAVE 02:16:15.700 --> 02:16:17.402 ON A SATURDAY MORNING. SO IT'S 02:16:17.469 --> 02:16:19.337 ABOUT FIVE DAYS OF US DOING THE 02:16:19.404 --> 02:16:20.305 HEALING CIRCLES, THE RETREATS, 02:16:20.372 --> 02:16:21.506 ONE TIME TO TRY TO MAKE US 02:16:21.573 --> 02:16:23.341 CLIMB A WALL, NOT THE 02:16:23.408 --> 02:16:24.309 ORGANIZERS. THE STAFF DIDN'T 02:16:24.376 --> 02:16:25.544 WORK WELL WHEN WE CROSSED IT. 02:16:25.610 --> 02:16:27.345 WE DID JUMPING REALLY WELL. BUT 02:16:27.412 --> 02:16:28.480 IN THAT VIDEO WHERE THEY ASK 02:16:28.547 --> 02:16:29.581 FOR A YOUNG MAN AND 02:16:29.648 --> 02:16:31.383 UNFORTUNATELY ONE OF THEM IS NO 02:16:31.449 --> 02:16:32.584 LONGER WITH US, RIGHT? THEY'RE 02:16:32.651 --> 02:16:34.352 LIKE ASKING ABOUT THE IMPACT OF 02:16:34.419 --> 02:16:35.554 THIS CAMP. AND FOR MANY OF THEM, 02:16:35.620 --> 02:16:37.455 THIS IS THE FIRST TIME THEY'RE 02:16:37.522 --> 02:16:38.590 AT THIS CAMP, RIGHT? THERE'S 02:16:38.657 --> 02:16:39.524 THE FIRST TIME THEY 02:16:39.591 --> 02:16:40.492 PARTICIPATED IN HEALING 02:16:40.559 --> 02:16:41.459 PROGRAMING, AND I HAVE IT 02:16:41.526 --> 02:16:43.328 ETCHED IN MY HEAD RIGHT WHERE 02:16:43.395 --> 02:16:44.763 THEY SAY, WE GOT HERE FROM ALL 02:16:44.829 --> 02:16:46.264 OVER PARTS OF CALIFORNIA, 02:16:46.331 --> 02:16:48.366 FRESNO, INGLEWOOD, ALL THESE 02:16:48.433 --> 02:16:50.235 DIFFERENT PLACES. AND THE 02:16:50.302 --> 02:16:51.536 ORGANIZERS POURED SO MUCH LOVE 02:16:51.603 --> 02:16:53.104 INTO US. AND THEN ONE OF THEM 02:16:53.171 --> 02:16:54.673 SAYS, THIS IS THE THAT PEOPLE 02:16:54.739 --> 02:16:56.274 THINK IS IMPOSSIBLE. AND THEY 02:16:56.341 --> 02:16:58.944 DID IT IN FIVE DAYS. RIGHT? AND 02:16:59.010 --> 02:17:00.712 SO I, I, I CARRY THAT SO MUCH 02:17:00.779 --> 02:17:02.514 WITH ME, RIGHT? TO, TO ALSO 02:17:02.581 --> 02:17:04.983 KIND OF GUIDE AND MOTIVATE HOW 02:17:05.050 --> 02:17:06.651 WE THINK ABOUT PROGRAMING AND 02:17:06.718 --> 02:17:07.852 AT WHAT LEVELS AND MULTIPLE 02:17:07.919 --> 02:17:09.688 LEVELS THAT IT'S REQUIRED. THAT 02:17:09.754 --> 02:17:11.122 IS EVERYTHING FROM THE 02:17:11.189 --> 02:17:12.524 INTERACTIONAL TO THE MORE 02:17:12.591 --> 02:17:14.326 STRUCTURAL WAY AND THEN THE END 02:17:14.392 --> 02:17:15.460 THE VIDEO, RIGHT? LIKE, OH, I 02:17:15.527 --> 02:17:17.395 LOVE YOU SO MUCH. I'M GOING TO 02:17:17.462 --> 02:17:19.264 TAKE CARE OF YOUR KIDS. AND 02:17:19.331 --> 02:17:20.465 WHEN I WAS LIKE, I WON'T TAKE 02:17:20.532 --> 02:17:22.334 CARE OF YOUR KIDS, BUT I DO 02:17:22.400 --> 02:17:24.436 LOVE YOU. WELL, I WANT TO THANK 02:17:24.502 --> 02:17:25.437 THIS PANEL AND ALL THE 02:17:25.503 --> 02:17:27.305 PANELISTS SO FAR. ALSO, I LOVE 02:17:27.372 --> 02:17:29.441 DOING HEARINGS IN COMMUNITY 02:17:29.507 --> 02:17:30.408 BECAUSE I'M DEFINITELY NOT 02:17:30.475 --> 02:17:32.644 ABOUT TO POLICE YOUR TESTIMONY 02:17:32.711 --> 02:17:34.412 IN THE SAME WAY WE WOULD IN A 02:17:34.479 --> 02:17:35.614 HEARING ROOM IN SACRAMENTO. I 02:17:35.680 --> 02:17:36.648 THINK THE RICHNESS AND THE 02:17:36.715 --> 02:17:37.682 AUTHENTICITY THAT COMES FROM 02:17:37.749 --> 02:17:40.185 BEING IN SPACES LIKE THIS IS 02:17:40.251 --> 02:17:41.753 WHAT GROUNDS GOOD POLICY MAKING. 02:17:41.820 --> 02:17:43.822 SO I'M GRATEFUL FOR YOU ALL. 02:17:43.888 --> 02:17:45.223 AND I'M THINKING ABOUT WHAT YOU 02:17:45.290 --> 02:17:47.425 SAID ABOUT ROOTING OUR 02:17:47.492 --> 02:17:48.893 MASCULINITY AS IN THE 02:17:48.960 --> 02:17:49.928 LIBERATION OF ALL AROUND US, 02:17:49.995 --> 02:17:51.229 BUT ALSO AS AN ORGANIZING TOOL. 02:17:51.296 --> 02:17:52.964 AND FOR FOLKS WHO HAVEN'T SEEN 02:17:53.031 --> 02:17:54.966 THE FEMINIST AND CELL BLOCK Y, 02:17:55.033 --> 02:17:57.602 RICHIE ROSITA, YOU SHOULD SONGS 02:17:57.669 --> 02:17:59.671 FROM THE WHOLE ALL OF THE ABOVE. 02:17:59.738 --> 02:18:00.872 BUT THANK YOU ALL FOR BEING 02:18:00.939 --> 02:18:03.241 HERE. IT'S NOT SUPER CUSTOMARY 02:18:03.308 --> 02:18:04.743 FOR SELECT COMMITTEES TO HAVE 02:18:04.809 --> 02:18:06.444 PUBLIC COMMENT, BUT I SAW YOUNG 02:18:06.511 --> 02:18:07.646 PEOPLE COME IN. NO. YOU'RE GOOD. 02:18:07.712 --> 02:18:09.447 WE'RE GOING TO DO IT ANYWAY. I 02:18:09.514 --> 02:18:11.549 SAW YOUNG PEOPLE COME IN. I SAW 02:18:11.616 --> 02:18:13.618 SOME YOUNG BOYS AND MEN COME IN. 02:18:13.685 --> 02:18:14.886 I SAW SOME YOUNG GIRLS COME IN. 02:18:14.953 --> 02:18:16.721 AND ALSO I THINK IT'S VERY 02:18:16.788 --> 02:18:17.789 POWERFUL. YOU CAN TELL THE 02:18:17.856 --> 02:18:19.758 STATUS OF BOYS AND MEN OF COLOR 02:18:19.824 --> 02:18:21.660 BY THE STATUS OF WOMEN IN OUR 02:18:21.726 --> 02:18:22.127 COMMUNITIES. THERE ARE 02:18:22.193 --> 02:18:23.128 INEXTRICABLY LINKED. AND SO 02:18:23.194 --> 02:18:24.629 WE'RE GOING TO OPEN THAT 02:18:24.696 --> 02:18:25.730 MICROPHONE UP THERE FOR 32ND 02:18:25.797 --> 02:18:27.098 PUBLIC COMMENT FOR ANYBODY WHO 02:18:27.165 --> 02:18:29.134 WANTS TO COME UP AND GIVE 30S, 02:18:29.200 --> 02:18:30.669 INCLUDING OUR SAN FRANCISCO 02:18:30.735 --> 02:18:31.536 PUBLIC DEFENDER. I'M NOT SURE 02:18:31.603 --> 02:18:33.571 IF HE IS STILL IN THE ROOM, BUT 02:18:33.638 --> 02:18:37.108 I SAW YOU, BROTHER. YOU'VE BEEN 02:18:37.175 --> 02:18:38.510 SEEN. BUT THANK YOU TO PANEL 02:18:38.576 --> 02:18:45.717 THREE. SO ANYBODY WHO WOULD 02:18:45.784 --> 02:18:47.185 LIKE TO GIVE A 32ND PUBLIC 02:18:47.252 --> 02:18:48.887 COMMENT, PLEASE COME UP TO THE 02:18:48.953 --> 02:18:50.121 MICROPHONE. TELL US WHO YOU ARE 02:18:50.188 --> 02:18:53.725 AND YES, SIR. AND REMIND US 02:18:53.792 --> 02:19:00.865 THAT YOU'RE FROM SALINAS. THANK 02:19:00.932 --> 02:19:01.933 YOU ALL FOR BEING HERE. RIGHT 02:19:02.000 --> 02:19:04.469 HERE WITH COURAGE. I HAVEN'T 02:19:04.536 --> 02:19:06.938 WORKED WITH I HAVEN'T IT'S NOT 02:19:07.005 --> 02:19:09.207 ON. I'M NOT THE TECH GUY. I'M 02:19:09.274 --> 02:19:13.178 SORRY. ALRIGHT. I HAVEN'T 02:19:13.244 --> 02:19:14.646 WORKED WITH YOU YET, SIR, BUT 02:19:14.713 --> 02:19:16.181 IF YOU'RE HERE, I'M SURE YOU'RE 02:19:16.247 --> 02:19:17.415 ON THE YOU'RE ON THE RIGHT SIDE. 02:19:17.482 --> 02:19:19.951 BUT I REALLY APPRECIATE Y'ALL. 02:19:20.018 --> 02:19:21.086 WHEN THIS VATO TRUMP WON THE 02:19:21.152 --> 02:19:23.221 PRESIDENT A COUPLE YEARS AGO, I 02:19:23.288 --> 02:19:24.622 WAS KIND OF SAD LIKE OTHER 02:19:24.689 --> 02:19:26.224 FOLKS AND MAD AND THINGS LIKE 02:19:26.291 --> 02:19:27.492 THAT. BUT THEN I WAS EXCITED 02:19:27.559 --> 02:19:28.626 BECAUSE I'VE BEEN HEARING ABOUT 02:19:28.693 --> 02:19:30.228 THIS SUPER BLUE MAJORITY OVER 02:19:30.295 --> 02:19:31.296 HERE IN CALIFORNIA THAT THEY 02:19:31.362 --> 02:19:33.264 TALK ABOUT. RIGHT? AND I WAS 02:19:33.331 --> 02:19:34.933 EXCITED BECAUSE I THOUGHT WE 02:19:34.999 --> 02:19:36.134 WERE GOING TO GO HARDER AND 02:19:36.201 --> 02:19:37.202 STRONGER. RIGHT? BUT WHAT WE'VE 02:19:37.268 --> 02:19:39.003 SEEN THESE LAST COUPLE YEARS IS 02:19:39.070 --> 02:19:40.038 VERY DISHEARTENING. YOU KNOW 02:19:40.105 --> 02:19:41.206 WHAT I MEAN? I DON'T KNOW 02:19:41.272 --> 02:19:42.907 WHETHER IT'S WELL, MAYBE NOW 02:19:42.974 --> 02:19:44.142 THEY JUST HAVE THIS BLUE WAVE, 02:19:44.209 --> 02:19:47.846 I GUESS. CAN Y'ALL HELP INSPIRE 02:19:47.912 --> 02:19:50.148 AND EMPOWER YOUR COLLEAGUES? 02:19:50.215 --> 02:19:51.816 I'M WITH CYCJ THE CALIFORNIA 02:19:51.883 --> 02:19:52.684 ALLIANCE FOR YOUTH AND 02:19:52.751 --> 02:19:54.886 COMMUNITY JUSTICE AND EVERY 02:19:54.953 --> 02:19:56.788 SINGLE BILL FOR THE LAST. I'VE 02:19:56.855 --> 02:19:58.723 BEEN HOME OVER 12 YEARS NOW. IT 02:19:58.790 --> 02:20:00.258 IS DIFFICULT AS HELL TO PASS 02:20:00.325 --> 02:20:02.427 EVERY SINGLE BILL. AND I DON'T 02:20:02.494 --> 02:20:03.228 UNDERSTAND WHY, BECAUSE ALL 02:20:03.294 --> 02:20:05.263 YOUTH ARE SACRED AND I THINK WE 02:20:05.330 --> 02:20:07.465 CAN ALL AGREE ON THAT. RIGHT? I 02:20:07.532 --> 02:20:08.566 GUESS THE QUESTION IS WHAT? 02:20:08.633 --> 02:20:09.734 WHAT CAN WE ANTICIPATE AFTER 02:20:09.801 --> 02:20:11.436 THIS SO-CALLED BLUE WAVE? YOU 02:20:11.503 --> 02:20:13.638 KNOW, BECAUSE WE DON'T BEAT 02:20:13.705 --> 02:20:15.106 AROUND THE BUSH, WE TRIM IT AND 02:20:15.173 --> 02:20:16.808 THERE'S CLEAR FORCES AND 02:20:16.875 --> 02:20:18.276 RESOURCES ATTEMPTING TO TAKE 02:20:18.343 --> 02:20:19.477 OVER TEN YEARS OF WORK AWAY 02:20:19.544 --> 02:20:22.247 FROM US. RIGHT. AND IT'S 02:20:22.313 --> 02:20:23.615 FRUSTRATING. AND SO I GUESS 02:20:23.681 --> 02:20:24.816 IT'S A QUESTION OR A CHALLENGE, 02:20:24.883 --> 02:20:26.651 OR WHAT ARE WE GOING TO DO 02:20:26.718 --> 02:20:28.019 DIFFERENT SO THAT WE DON'T HAVE 02:20:28.086 --> 02:20:29.621 TO BE SCRAMBLING AT THE 02:20:29.687 --> 02:20:31.656 MIDNIGHT HOUR FOR THE 41 VOTE? 02:20:31.723 --> 02:20:33.725 YOU KNOW WHAT I MEAN? IT'S BS. 02:20:33.792 --> 02:20:35.293 THESE ARE OUR CHILDREN. AND IF 02:20:35.360 --> 02:20:36.895 WE CLOSE DOWN THE PRISONS, WE 02:20:36.961 --> 02:20:38.096 GOT TO DISMANTLE THAT PIPELINE. 02:20:38.163 --> 02:20:39.831 WE GOT TO STARVE THE WHOLE 02:20:39.898 --> 02:20:41.299 STUFF FROM SAVING OUR CHILDREN. 02:20:41.366 --> 02:20:43.368 AND THE MY BOTTOM LINE IS WE 02:20:43.434 --> 02:20:44.569 AIN'T GOING BACKWARDS. AND IT'S 02:20:44.636 --> 02:20:45.804 VERY DIFFICULT AND IT SHOULDN'T 02:20:45.870 --> 02:20:47.772 BE LIKE THAT. AND SO I THINK WE 02:20:47.839 --> 02:20:49.541 NEED I KNOW YOU ALL ARE OUR 02:20:49.607 --> 02:20:50.675 STRONGEST ONES UP THERE. SOME 02:20:50.742 --> 02:20:52.477 OF THEM, IF NOT THE STRONGEST, 02:20:52.544 --> 02:20:54.312 BUT WE NEED MORE BECAUSE IT'S 02:20:54.379 --> 02:20:56.114 BS AND WE DON'T GOT TIME TO 02:20:56.181 --> 02:20:58.016 PLAY. YOU KNOW WHAT I MEAN? I 02:20:58.082 --> 02:20:59.951 THINK IT'S A GOOD TIME TO SHOW 02:21:00.018 --> 02:21:01.853 FOLKS THAT MIGHT BE CONFUSED, 02:21:01.920 --> 02:21:03.688 OR THAT FEEL THAT ALL OF OUR 02:21:03.755 --> 02:21:05.590 KIDS ARE JUST EVIL, YOU KNOW, 02:21:05.657 --> 02:21:07.258 OR AND IT'S ALSO TIME TO RIGHT 02:21:07.325 --> 02:21:08.293 SIZE START TALKING ABOUT 02:21:08.359 --> 02:21:09.427 CLOSING DOWN JUVENILE 02:21:09.494 --> 02:21:10.461 FACILITIES. THEY'RE ALL EMPTY, 02:21:10.528 --> 02:21:11.930 YOU KNOW, BUT I DON'T WANT TO I 02:21:11.996 --> 02:21:13.865 THINK I'M ALREADY ON A TANGENT, 02:21:13.932 --> 02:21:15.099 SO I'M GOING TO STOP AND IT'S 02:21:15.166 --> 02:21:17.001 OVER 30S. BUT YOU GET IT. YOU 02:21:17.068 --> 02:21:18.970 KNOW WHAT I MEAN? I WAS GOING 02:21:19.037 --> 02:21:20.905 TO SAY I'M NOT GOING TO STOP OG, 02:21:20.972 --> 02:21:22.040 BUT AND THANK Y'ALL. WE 02:21:22.106 --> 02:21:23.842 APPRECIATE YOU. I LOVE YOU AND 02:21:23.908 --> 02:21:24.909 I REALLY APPRECIATE Y'ALL. AND 02:21:24.976 --> 02:21:26.878 I CAN'T SAY THAT ABOUT A LOT OF 02:21:26.945 --> 02:21:28.112 PEOPLE UP THERE STRAIGHT UP. SO 02:21:28.179 --> 02:21:29.848 THANK YOU. SO WE'LL ANSWER. 02:21:29.914 --> 02:21:30.949 THANK YOU SIR. WE'LL ANSWER 02:21:31.015 --> 02:21:31.983 THAT QUESTION. AND ANYTHING 02:21:32.050 --> 02:21:33.852 ELSE THAT'S SAID IN KIND OF OUR 02:21:33.918 --> 02:21:34.919 CLOSING REMARKS. AND WE'LL JUST 02:21:34.986 --> 02:21:36.888 LET YOU ALL GO. WE ARE GOING TO 02:21:36.955 --> 02:21:38.156 HOLD TO THE 30S, THOUGH, JUST 02:21:38.223 --> 02:21:40.024 SO WE DON'T LOSE MORE COMMITTEE 02:21:40.091 --> 02:21:41.860 MEMBERS BEFORE YOU GET TO TO BE 02:21:41.926 --> 02:21:42.994 HEARD. BUT THERE WAS NO WAY I 02:21:43.061 --> 02:21:44.896 WAS STOPPING THAT. THANK YOU SO 02:21:44.963 --> 02:21:46.064 MUCH. SOMEBODY GIVE ME THE TIME 02:21:46.130 --> 02:21:47.932 WARNING WHEN IT COMES IN. GOOD 02:21:47.999 --> 02:21:49.000 EVENING EVERYBODY. MY NAME IS 02:21:49.067 --> 02:21:50.101 GABRIEL GARCIA. I'M THE POLICY 02:21:50.168 --> 02:21:51.870 AND ADVOCACY DIRECTOR FOR YOUTH 02:21:51.936 --> 02:21:52.337 ALIVE, COMMUNITY BASED 02:21:52.403 --> 02:21:53.037 ORGANIZATION OUT HERE IN 02:21:53.104 --> 02:21:55.073 OAKLAND, ALSO A SPONSOR OF THE 02:21:55.139 --> 02:21:55.874 CALIFORNIA VIOLENCE 02:21:55.940 --> 02:21:56.908 INTERVENTION AND PREVENTION 02:21:56.975 --> 02:21:58.676 GRANT PROGRAM. SO I WANT TO 02:21:58.743 --> 02:21:59.911 THANK YOU FOR YOUR SUPPORT OF 02:21:59.978 --> 02:22:02.046 THAT. OAKLAND ENDED 2025 WITH 02:22:02.113 --> 02:22:04.182 THE LOWEST HOMICIDE RATE ON 02:22:04.249 --> 02:22:08.453 RECORD SINCE 1967. THAT IS IN 02:22:08.519 --> 02:22:09.787 PART BECAUSE OF THE STATE'S 02:22:09.854 --> 02:22:11.022 INVESTMENT IN CAL. SO I WANT TO 02:22:11.089 --> 02:22:12.790 THANK YOU BECAUSE IT MATTERS. 02:22:12.857 --> 02:22:13.925 STOPPING GUN VIOLENCE, ENDING 02:22:13.992 --> 02:22:15.226 GUN VIOLENCE MAKES ALL THE 02:22:15.293 --> 02:22:16.694 OTHER WORK THAT THE INCREDIBLE 02:22:16.761 --> 02:22:19.597 PEOPLE IN THIS ROOM, IT MAKES 02:22:19.664 --> 02:22:21.766 LIFE WORTH LIVING. SAVING LIVES 02:22:21.833 --> 02:22:23.268 ALLOWS THAT WORK TO BE POSSIBLE. 02:22:23.334 --> 02:22:24.669 SO WE ALL WORK IN TANDEM. 02:22:24.736 --> 02:22:25.370 APPRECIATE YOU BEING HERE. 02:22:25.436 --> 02:22:27.105 APPRECIATE YOU COMING OUT TO 02:22:27.171 --> 02:22:28.239 OAKLAND. LOVE TO HAVE YOU 02:22:28.306 --> 02:22:30.041 CONTINUE SUPPORTING CAL AND 02:22:30.108 --> 02:22:31.976 VICTIM COMPENSATION REFORM. 02:22:32.043 --> 02:22:37.916 THANK YOU. GOOD EVENING FOLKS. 02:22:37.982 --> 02:22:39.751 JOSH JACOBO OUT OF SAN 02:22:39.817 --> 02:22:41.519 FRANCISCO, MISSION DISTRICT, 02:22:41.586 --> 02:22:43.021 CO-FOUNDER OF NUESTRA CAUSA. WE 02:22:43.087 --> 02:22:45.523 WORK WITH REENTRY FOLKS, PEOPLE 02:22:45.590 --> 02:22:46.391 INCARCERATED AND THEIR FAMILIES 02:22:46.457 --> 02:22:48.693 AS WELL. ONE THING I JUST 02:22:48.760 --> 02:22:50.528 WANTED US TO KEEP IN MIND IS 02:22:50.595 --> 02:22:52.730 OUR NEWCOMERS THAT COME HERE 02:22:52.797 --> 02:22:53.765 INCARCERATED AND THE 02:22:53.831 --> 02:22:54.866 POSSIBILITIES WHEN THEY GET OUT 02:22:54.933 --> 02:22:56.334 AS WELL AS THEIR FAMILIES. IT'S 02:22:56.401 --> 02:22:57.869 A LOT TO NAVIGATE FOR THEM 02:22:57.936 --> 02:22:58.970 ALREADY JUST BEING HERE IN THE 02:22:59.037 --> 02:23:00.805 COUNTRY, LET ALONE IN A 02:23:00.872 --> 02:23:01.873 SITUATION LIKE THAT. BUT THANK 02:23:01.940 --> 02:23:03.041 YOU FOR BEING HERE AND IT'S 02:23:03.107 --> 02:23:04.609 VERY COMMENDABLE. THANK YOU. 02:23:04.676 --> 02:23:09.580 THANK YOU SO MUCH. I'M GISELLE 02:23:09.647 --> 02:23:12.083 BARAJAS, AND I'M A YOUTH, A 02:23:12.150 --> 02:23:14.319 PART OF HOMIES FOR JUSTICE, 02:23:14.385 --> 02:23:16.087 WHICH IS PART OF COURAGE HERE. 02:23:16.154 --> 02:23:18.256 AND I THINK IT WAS REALLY 02:23:18.323 --> 02:23:21.526 INSPIRING TO SEE PEOPLE WHO 02:23:21.592 --> 02:23:25.496 HAVE POSITION OF POWER IN THIS, 02:23:25.563 --> 02:23:27.765 IN THIS STATE, WHO ARE ACTUALLY 02:23:27.832 --> 02:23:30.501 WILLING TO LISTEN TO PEOPLE WHO 02:23:30.568 --> 02:23:32.136 ARE A PART OF THE COMMUNITY, 02:23:32.203 --> 02:23:33.271 BECAUSE SOMETIMES I DO. I WILL 02:23:33.338 --> 02:23:35.239 SAY AS A YOUTH, I DO FEEL 02:23:35.306 --> 02:23:36.607 DISHEARTENED. WELL, NOW I FEEL 02:23:36.674 --> 02:23:38.109 MORE HEARTENED BECAUSE THE BLUE 02:23:38.176 --> 02:23:39.510 WAVE. BUT I DO FEEL 02:23:39.577 --> 02:23:40.311 DISHEARTENED SOMETIMES BECAUSE 02:23:40.378 --> 02:23:41.679 IT'S LIKE, DO THESE PEOPLE 02:23:41.746 --> 02:23:43.114 REALLY CARE? AND NOW THAT I'M 02:23:43.181 --> 02:23:44.716 SEEING THAT YOU GUYS CARE, I'M 02:23:44.782 --> 02:23:46.351 LIKE, I REALLY FEEL LIKE THERE 02:23:46.417 --> 02:23:47.785 WILL BE MORE CHANGE, ESPECIALLY 02:23:47.852 --> 02:23:49.587 FOR THOSE WHO BECAUSE I 02:23:49.654 --> 02:23:51.022 PERSONALLY HAVE NOT EXPERIENCED 02:23:51.089 --> 02:23:52.190 INCARCERATION, BUT WORKING WITH 02:23:52.256 --> 02:23:53.925 SO MANY PEOPLE WHO HAVE 02:23:53.992 --> 02:23:55.393 EXPERIENCED INCARCERATION AND 02:23:55.460 --> 02:23:57.028 LIKE ALL THESE PEOPLE WHO ARE 02:23:57.095 --> 02:23:58.196 TALKING TODAY ARE LIKE 02:23:58.262 --> 02:23:59.330 GENUINELY AMAZING. AND I THINK 02:23:59.397 --> 02:24:00.732 LIKE EVERYTHING THEY SAID WAS 02:24:00.798 --> 02:24:02.867 GREAT. AND ALSO LIKE REOPENING 02:24:02.934 --> 02:24:06.871 UP, CLOSING DOWN ANY PRISON AND 02:24:06.938 --> 02:24:08.272 USING THAT AS A COMMUNITY SPACE 02:24:08.339 --> 02:24:10.441 FOR CULTURAL HEALING FOR LIKE, 02:24:10.508 --> 02:24:13.011 EVEN JUST LIKE JUST A COMMUNITY 02:24:13.077 --> 02:24:14.045 SPACE WHERE THERE'S LIKE, I 02:24:14.112 --> 02:24:15.179 DON'T KNOW, MAYBE A BOWLING 02:24:15.246 --> 02:24:16.314 ALLEY, I DON'T KNOW, SOMEWHERE 02:24:16.381 --> 02:24:17.982 WHERE YOUTH CAN LIKE COME 02:24:18.049 --> 02:24:19.150 TOGETHER. AND ALSO ADULTS CAN 02:24:19.217 --> 02:24:21.319 COME TOGETHER AND REQUIRE THOSE 02:24:21.386 --> 02:24:23.054 ACCESSES AND REQUIRE THOSE 02:24:23.121 --> 02:24:25.957 RESOURCES AND HAVE THOSE SPACES 02:24:26.024 --> 02:24:28.226 TOO. BUT YEAH, IT WAS REALLY 02:24:28.292 --> 02:24:29.594 COOL SITTING HERE AND LISTENING 02:24:29.660 --> 02:24:31.295 TO EVERYBODY AND THANK YOU. YOU 02:24:31.362 --> 02:24:32.497 GUYS ARE GIVING ME MORE HOPE AS 02:24:32.563 --> 02:24:40.338 A YOUTH. THANK YOU, THANK YOU. 02:24:40.405 --> 02:24:42.940 IS THERE NOBODY ELSE WHO WANTS 02:24:43.007 --> 02:24:51.182 TO BE HEARD? GOOD EVENING 02:24:51.249 --> 02:24:52.183 EVERYBODY. CHRIS NGUYEN, 02:24:52.250 --> 02:24:53.284 EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR, FLORES 02:24:53.351 --> 02:24:56.220 AGENDA, BABA HODGE AND, AND 02:24:56.287 --> 02:24:57.255 GEORGE JUST REALLY WANT TO 02:24:57.321 --> 02:24:58.923 COMMEND THEM. WE KNOW THAT. BUT 02:24:58.990 --> 02:25:00.892 OGS IN THE GAME FOR A LONG TIME. 02:25:00.958 --> 02:25:01.959 SO SALUTE TO Y'ALL AND 02:25:02.026 --> 02:25:03.795 EVERYBODY IN THE ROOM FOR REAL. 02:25:03.861 --> 02:25:05.229 YOU KNOW THE ONLY THING I WANT 02:25:05.296 --> 02:25:07.098 TO LIFT UP AND THIS REALLY 02:25:07.165 --> 02:25:07.698 REALLY IMPORTANT CONVERSATION 02:25:07.765 --> 02:25:09.200 IS THE ECOSYSTEM. ONCE OUR BOYS 02:25:09.267 --> 02:25:11.102 AND MEN COME HOME, I DO WORK, 02:25:11.169 --> 02:25:12.470 I'M FROM WEST OAKLAND, DO WORK 02:25:12.537 --> 02:25:13.738 IN THE ACORN COMMUNITY. AND 02:25:13.805 --> 02:25:15.273 WHAT I HEAR FROM THE YOUTH 02:25:15.339 --> 02:25:16.374 CONSISTENTLY IS THAT NOT ONLY 02:25:16.441 --> 02:25:17.809 THERE'S NOTHING TO DO, BUT 02:25:17.875 --> 02:25:19.110 THERE'S NO RESOURCES FOR THEM 02:25:19.177 --> 02:25:20.178 AND THEIR FAMILIES ONCE THEY 02:25:20.244 --> 02:25:21.412 COME HOME. SO WHEN WE THINK 02:25:21.479 --> 02:25:23.181 ABOUT REPURPOSING SPACE, 02:25:23.247 --> 02:25:24.649 REPURPOSING PRISONS, RIGHT? 02:25:24.715 --> 02:25:26.084 JUST REALLY RETHINK ABOUT 02:25:26.150 --> 02:25:27.151 INVESTING IN SPACE TO REALLY 02:25:27.218 --> 02:25:28.586 THINKING ABOUT THE WRAPAROUND, 02:25:28.653 --> 02:25:29.987 HOLISTIC POINT OF VIEW TO BE 02:25:30.054 --> 02:25:31.522 ABLE TO SUPPORT OUR YOUNG 02:25:31.589 --> 02:25:32.924 PEOPLE AND OUR MEN WHEN THEY 02:25:32.990 --> 02:25:34.692 HOME TOO. SO THAT'S MY 30. 02:25:34.759 --> 02:25:36.994 APPRECIATE EVERYBODY ON HERE. 02:25:37.061 --> 02:25:43.334 THANK YOU. EVERYONE. I'M THE 02:25:43.401 --> 02:25:44.802 ELECTED PUBLIC DEFENDER FOR SAN 02:25:44.869 --> 02:25:46.070 FRANCISCO. I REALLY APPRECIATE 02:25:46.137 --> 02:25:47.338 YOU ALL COMING DOWN TO THIS 02:25:47.405 --> 02:25:49.841 SPACE HERE TO HAVE THIS HEARING 02:25:49.907 --> 02:25:51.275 AND APPRECIATE ALL THE WISDOM 02:25:51.342 --> 02:25:53.478 I'VE LEARNED ABOUT HERE FROM 02:25:53.544 --> 02:25:54.612 SPACES AND PEOPLE COMING BACK 02:25:54.679 --> 02:25:56.681 HOME. AND I JUST WANTED A 02:25:56.747 --> 02:25:58.116 REMINDER THAT EVERYONE WHO IS 02:25:58.182 --> 02:25:59.884 IN THE SYSTEM DESERVES MORE 02:25:59.951 --> 02:26:03.221 ATTENTION AND MORE TIME PERIOD. 02:26:03.287 --> 02:26:05.189 AND FOR THAT, WE HAVE A PUBLIC 02:26:05.256 --> 02:26:06.357 DEFENDER UNDERFUNDING PROBLEM. 02:26:06.424 --> 02:26:07.492 AND THAT'S WHY WE'RE PUSHING 02:26:07.558 --> 02:26:09.227 FOR MORE OF US, WHETHER IT'S 02:26:09.293 --> 02:26:10.728 SOCIAL WORKERS, PARALEGALS, 02:26:10.795 --> 02:26:11.796 ATTORNEYS, TO SPEND MORE TIME 02:26:11.863 --> 02:26:13.564 WITH EACH CLIENT THAT WE 02:26:13.631 --> 02:26:14.298 REPRESENT. BECAUSE THE REALITY 02:26:14.365 --> 02:26:16.100 IS, A LOT OF PEOPLE ARE DOING A 02:26:16.167 --> 02:26:18.002 LOT MORE TIME THAN THEY SHOULD 02:26:18.069 --> 02:26:19.871 BE. AND IF WE WERE DEFENDING AT 02:26:19.937 --> 02:26:21.105 A HIGHER LEVEL ON THE FRONT END, 02:26:21.172 --> 02:26:22.974 WE COULD AVOID THAT. AND THAT'S 02:26:23.040 --> 02:26:24.108 A BIG PART OF THIS REENTRY 02:26:24.175 --> 02:26:25.877 PROCESS IS PREVENTING SO MUCH 02:26:25.943 --> 02:26:26.944 INCARCERATION ON THE FRONT END. 02:26:27.011 --> 02:26:28.880 AND THAT'S A BIG PART OF THIS 02:26:28.946 --> 02:26:29.947 CONVERSATION. I THINK WE HAVE 02:26:30.014 --> 02:26:30.948 TO CONTINUE HAVING. SO I 02:26:31.015 --> 02:26:32.850 APPRECIATE ALL OF YOU, AND I 02:26:32.917 --> 02:26:33.951 LOOK FORWARD TO WORKING WITH 02:26:34.018 --> 02:26:35.153 YOU IN THE NEXT FOUR YEARS, 02:26:35.219 --> 02:26:36.921 BECAUSE I WAS JUST REELECTED ON 02:26:36.988 --> 02:26:41.659 TUESDAY. SO. GOOD AFTERNOON 02:26:41.726 --> 02:26:43.161 EVERYONE. MY NAME IS GRECIA 02:26:43.227 --> 02:26:44.328 RESENDEZ. I'M A POLICY ANALYST 02:26:44.395 --> 02:26:45.630 WITH THE CENTER ON JUVENILE AND 02:26:45.696 --> 02:26:47.398 CRIMINAL JUSTICE. I'M ALSO A 02:26:47.465 --> 02:26:49.567 MOTHER OF TWO BOYS, A FIVE YEAR 02:26:49.634 --> 02:26:51.536 OLD AND AN 18 YEAR OLD. AND IT 02:26:51.602 --> 02:26:52.703 MAKES ME REALLY HAPPY JUST TO 02:26:52.770 --> 02:26:54.572 SEE ALL THE WORK THAT'S BEING 02:26:54.639 --> 02:26:55.740 DONE FOR YOUNG MEN OF COLOR IN 02:26:55.806 --> 02:26:58.576 THIS SPACE. AND I ALSO WANTED 02:26:58.643 --> 02:27:01.546 TO TAP IN THAT CJ, CJ IS HERE 02:27:01.612 --> 02:27:02.780 TO ADVOCATE FOR THE CLOSURE OF 02:27:02.847 --> 02:27:03.948 MORE PRISONS, BUT TO REDIRECT 02:27:04.015 --> 02:27:04.916 THAT MONEY INTO HIGHER 02:27:04.982 --> 02:27:07.051 EDUCATION, IT'S SUPER IMPORTANT 02:27:07.118 --> 02:27:08.319 THAT NOT ONLY WE KEEP OUR YOUNG 02:27:08.386 --> 02:27:10.188 BOYS OUT, BUT THAT WE GIVE THEM 02:27:10.254 --> 02:27:12.290 A PATHWAY GOING FORWARD. AND 02:27:12.356 --> 02:27:13.724 THE AND THE CSU'S ARE 02:27:13.791 --> 02:27:14.926 PARTICULARLY STRUGGLING BECAUSE 02:27:14.992 --> 02:27:16.260 THEY'RE NOT EARMARKED WITH ANY 02:27:16.327 --> 02:27:18.029 FUNDING. SO WE REALLY WANT TO 02:27:18.095 --> 02:27:19.197 SEE THAT WE'RE WORKING WITH AB 02:27:19.263 --> 02:27:21.999 MC ON IT, AND CFA, WHICH IS THE 02:27:22.066 --> 02:27:24.101 TEACHERS UNION AT SFSU. THANK 02:27:24.168 --> 02:27:27.371 YOU. THANK YOU SO MUCH. WITH 02:27:27.438 --> 02:27:29.040 THAT, I'LL TURN IT BACK TO MY 02:27:29.106 --> 02:27:30.007 COLLEAGUES FOR ANY FINAL 02:27:30.074 --> 02:27:32.410 COMMENTS, STARTING WITH 02:27:32.476 --> 02:27:34.545 ASSEMBLYMEMBER AL-HAWARI, MY 02:27:34.612 --> 02:27:37.815 SEATMATE BESTIE. I'M SO PROUD 02:27:37.882 --> 02:27:40.351 TO BE ABLE TO BE HERE, TO BE IN 02:27:40.418 --> 02:27:41.786 COMMUNITY WITH YOU ALL AND TO 02:27:41.852 --> 02:27:42.954 HEAR FROM EVERYBODY. SO THANK 02:27:43.020 --> 02:27:44.655 YOU AGAIN, ESPECIALLY FOR THOSE 02:27:44.722 --> 02:27:46.424 WHO ENDED US WITH PUBLIC 02:27:46.490 --> 02:27:47.825 COMMENT. I WANTED TO SAY A 02:27:47.892 --> 02:27:49.126 COUPLE THINGS. I'M GOING TO BE 02:27:49.193 --> 02:27:50.695 THE NEW PROGRESSIVE CAUCUS 02:27:50.761 --> 02:27:55.766 CHAIR AS OF JANUARY, WHICH IS. 02:27:55.833 --> 02:27:57.034 THANK YOU FOR THE LOVE. TOTALLY 02:27:57.101 --> 02:27:58.903 NOT WHAT I WAS DOING IT FOR, I 02:27:58.970 --> 02:28:00.771 PROMISE. BUT JUST TO SAY, WE 02:28:00.838 --> 02:28:02.006 HAVE A LOT MORE PROGRESSIVES 02:28:02.073 --> 02:28:04.775 THAT ARE GOING TO BE IN OUR IN 02:28:04.842 --> 02:28:06.010 OUR, OUR, OUR CAUCUS THIS YEAR. 02:28:06.077 --> 02:28:07.678 WE HAVE FOLKS THAT ARE JUST 02:28:07.745 --> 02:28:09.046 FINDING OUT LITERALLY TODAY, 02:28:09.113 --> 02:28:10.548 TOMORROW THAT THEY ARE 02:28:10.615 --> 02:28:12.350 OFFICIALLY ELECTED TO THE STATE 02:28:12.416 --> 02:28:15.219 ASSEMBLY FOLKS WHO WHO ARE FTP 02:28:15.286 --> 02:28:16.420 ALL DAY. AND SO LIKE JUST 02:28:16.487 --> 02:28:17.455 THINKING ABOUT WHAT IT MEANS 02:28:17.521 --> 02:28:19.523 FOR US TO BE ABLE TO HAVE REAL 02:28:19.590 --> 02:28:21.325 CONVERSATIONS ABOUT HOW WE CAN 02:28:21.392 --> 02:28:23.160 PUSH. I THINK IT'S IMPORTANT 02:28:23.227 --> 02:28:24.562 THAT WE DON'T WE DON'T AVOID 02:28:24.629 --> 02:28:26.397 THE CONVERSATIONS TO BE MORE 02:28:26.464 --> 02:28:27.832 RADICAL. AND I THINK THAT IS 02:28:27.898 --> 02:28:29.300 REALLY IMPORTANT. WE HAVE 02:28:29.367 --> 02:28:30.368 INCREDIBLE COLLEAGUES WHO ARE 02:28:30.434 --> 02:28:32.270 UP HERE, BUT TO KNOW THAT WE'RE 02:28:32.336 --> 02:28:33.638 BRINGING IN MORE COLLEAGUES, WE 02:28:33.704 --> 02:28:35.206 WON'T HAVE TO FIGHT AS HARD FOR 02:28:35.273 --> 02:28:37.074 41, WHICH WILL BE EXCITING. I 02:28:37.141 --> 02:28:38.676 ALSO JUST WANTED TO SAY, WE 02:28:38.743 --> 02:28:40.044 WORKED WITH SOME FOLKS IN THIS 02:28:40.111 --> 02:28:41.245 ROOM ON THE THRIVE ACT. AND SO 02:28:41.312 --> 02:28:43.080 PART OF THINKING ABOUT WHAT 02:28:43.147 --> 02:28:44.048 THOSE CULTURALLY BASED HEALING 02:28:44.115 --> 02:28:45.216 PRACTICES ARE AS A WAY TO BE 02:28:45.283 --> 02:28:47.251 THOUGHTFUL ABOUT WHAT IT TAKES 02:28:47.318 --> 02:28:49.453 FOR US TO REALLY ULTIMATELY 02:28:49.520 --> 02:28:51.088 KNOW THAT, YOU KNOW, WE WANT TO 02:28:51.155 --> 02:28:52.290 PROVIDE OPPORTUNITIES FOR 02:28:52.356 --> 02:28:54.125 MENTAL HEALTH, FOR SUPPORTS 02:28:54.191 --> 02:28:55.593 WHEN FOLKS EXPERIENCE GUN 02:28:55.660 --> 02:28:56.494 VIOLENCE IN OUR COMMUNITIES, 02:28:56.560 --> 02:28:58.229 BECAUSE WE KNOW WHAT THAT CAN 02:28:58.296 --> 02:28:59.330 DO. AND SO BEING REALLY 02:28:59.397 --> 02:29:00.197 THOUGHTFUL ABOUT THE 02:29:00.264 --> 02:29:01.198 OPPORTUNITIES TO DIG DEEPER, 02:29:01.265 --> 02:29:02.266 ESPECIALLY WITH THOSE OF YOU 02:29:02.333 --> 02:29:03.501 WHO ARE ALREADY DOING THAT WORK 02:29:03.567 --> 02:29:05.369 SO THAT WE CAN EXPAND IT. AND 02:29:05.436 --> 02:29:07.171 THEN LASTLY, I WANTED TO SAY 02:29:07.238 --> 02:29:10.308 THAT I DID GO TO NORWAY. I JUST 02:29:10.374 --> 02:29:12.910 WENT, AND I DO THINK THAT SOME 02:29:12.977 --> 02:29:14.745 OF THOSE PIECES THAT WERE 02:29:14.812 --> 02:29:16.814 MENTIONED WERE VERY NOTICEABLE. 02:29:16.881 --> 02:29:18.249 WE DON'T JUST WANT TO MAKE 02:29:18.316 --> 02:29:19.984 THESE GATES SHINIER, RIGHT? OR 02:29:20.051 --> 02:29:21.852 I THINK THAT'S WHAT WHAT WAS 02:29:21.919 --> 02:29:23.688 SAID. BUT WE DO WANT TO BE 02:29:23.754 --> 02:29:24.822 THOUGHTFUL ABOUT EVERYTHING WE 02:29:24.889 --> 02:29:26.590 CAN DO. WHAT ARE THE VARIOUS 02:29:26.657 --> 02:29:28.292 ANGLES FROM WHICH WE CAN ATTACK 02:29:28.359 --> 02:29:29.694 THE ULTIMATELY, THE PROBLEM OF 02:29:29.760 --> 02:29:31.162 MASS INCARCERATION IN THIS 02:29:31.228 --> 02:29:32.663 COUNTRY, BUT IN PARTICULAR IN 02:29:32.730 --> 02:29:34.732 THIS STATE, AND WHAT IT TAKES 02:29:34.799 --> 02:29:36.701 FOR US TO DO THAT, I THINK, IS 02:29:36.767 --> 02:29:37.702 LOOKING AT OTHER MODELS, 02:29:37.768 --> 02:29:38.736 LOOKING AT ALTERNATIVES, 02:29:38.803 --> 02:29:40.538 REIMAGINING WHAT THE SYSTEM HAS 02:29:40.604 --> 02:29:41.972 ALREADY, YOU KNOW, DONE, AND 02:29:42.039 --> 02:29:43.140 FIGURING OUT WAYS THAT WE CAN, 02:29:43.207 --> 02:29:44.842 CAN ULTIMATELY THINK ABOUT 02:29:44.909 --> 02:29:45.943 ACCOUNTABILITY FROM A 02:29:46.010 --> 02:29:47.345 PERSPECTIVE THAT STILL CENTERS 02:29:47.411 --> 02:29:48.879 HUMANITY, WHICH I THINK WE'VE 02:29:48.946 --> 02:29:51.515 LOST IN OUR IN OUR CARCERAL 02:29:51.582 --> 02:29:54.985 SYSTEM. THANK YOU. THANK YOU, 02:29:55.052 --> 02:29:57.088 THANK YOU, MR. CHAIR. AND TO 02:29:57.154 --> 02:29:59.623 EVERYONE HERE, ANOTHER VERY 02:29:59.690 --> 02:30:03.194 PRODUCTIVE, MOVING AND 02:30:03.260 --> 02:30:05.830 IMPORTANT HEARING OF THIS, OF 02:30:05.896 --> 02:30:08.065 THIS COMMITTEE. AND AS OTHERS 02:30:08.132 --> 02:30:10.501 HAVE ALLUDED TO, THE BLUE WAVE 02:30:10.568 --> 02:30:11.769 AND KIND OF THE POLITICAL 02:30:11.836 --> 02:30:12.803 CHANGES THAT HAVE OCCURRED IN 02:30:12.870 --> 02:30:14.772 THE LAST FEW DAYS, WHICH IS A 02:30:14.839 --> 02:30:16.841 GOOD THING. I THINK THAT WE ALL 02:30:16.907 --> 02:30:18.376 FEEL SOME PRESSURE RELIEVED 02:30:18.442 --> 02:30:19.443 BECAUSE THERE'S A LIGHT AT THE 02:30:19.510 --> 02:30:21.245 END OF THE TUNNEL, BUT THERE'S 02:30:21.312 --> 02:30:22.713 STILL FOLKS BEING ABDUCTED. 02:30:22.780 --> 02:30:25.182 THERE'S THERE'S STILL, YOU KNOW, 02:30:25.249 --> 02:30:26.550 THERE'S STILL AN OCCUPANT IN 02:30:26.617 --> 02:30:27.718 THE WHITE HOUSE FOR THE NEXT 02:30:27.785 --> 02:30:29.620 COUPLE OF YEARS AND A LOT OF 02:30:29.687 --> 02:30:31.589 WORK TO DO. THAT BEING SAID, IT 02:30:31.655 --> 02:30:33.090 IS AN EXCITING TIME IN 02:30:33.157 --> 02:30:36.727 CALIFORNIA, NOT JUST BECAUSE OF 02:30:36.794 --> 02:30:39.263 THE LEGISLATIVE CHANGES AND THE 02:30:39.330 --> 02:30:40.831 INCREASE. I BELIEVE IN LOOKING 02:30:40.898 --> 02:30:42.500 AT THE NEW MEMBERS COMING IN, 02:30:42.566 --> 02:30:43.768 OF FOLKS THAT I THINK ARE GOING 02:30:43.834 --> 02:30:46.470 TO BE PART OF THE SOLUTION IN 02:30:46.537 --> 02:30:48.305 TERMS OF REIMAGINING PUBLIC 02:30:48.372 --> 02:30:50.074 SAFETY, REIMAGINING JUSTICE AND 02:30:50.141 --> 02:30:51.142 HEALING. AS WE'VE BEEN 02:30:51.208 --> 02:30:54.745 DISCUSSING ABOUT TODAY. BUT I 02:30:54.812 --> 02:30:55.880 ALSO THINK THAT THE PUBLIC IS 02:30:55.946 --> 02:30:58.349 MORE AWARE NOW AFTER SEEING THE 02:30:58.416 --> 02:30:59.450 CRUELTY OF THE LAST COUPLE 02:30:59.517 --> 02:31:00.484 YEARS. I THINK THERE'S A 02:31:00.551 --> 02:31:01.552 THERE'S A THERE'S MORE 02:31:01.619 --> 02:31:03.687 COMPASSION AMONGST THE GENERAL 02:31:03.754 --> 02:31:05.523 PUBLIC, REGARDLESS OF POLITICAL 02:31:05.589 --> 02:31:06.957 PERSUASION, THAT THERE ARE 02:31:07.024 --> 02:31:08.225 DIFFERENT WAYS TO DO THINGS. 02:31:08.292 --> 02:31:10.594 AND I THINK THAT IN SOME WAYS 02:31:10.661 --> 02:31:12.062 THERE'S BEEN A SENSE THAT OUR 02:31:12.129 --> 02:31:14.532 SOUL HAS BEEN LOST THE LAST 02:31:14.598 --> 02:31:16.667 COUPLE OF YEARS AS A NATION, 02:31:16.734 --> 02:31:18.469 BOTH DOMESTICALLY AND 02:31:18.536 --> 02:31:19.570 INTERNATIONALLY. I THINK PEOPLE 02:31:19.637 --> 02:31:21.372 WANT TO KIND OF REGAIN THAT 02:31:21.439 --> 02:31:23.874 SENSE OF WHAT THE POSSIBILITY 02:31:23.941 --> 02:31:26.110 IS, YOU KNOW, THAT THAT WHAT 02:31:26.177 --> 02:31:28.546 THE POSSIBILITIES ARE OF US OF 02:31:28.612 --> 02:31:30.648 HAVING A KIND OF A HEALING 02:31:30.714 --> 02:31:32.850 COMMUNITY. ULTIMATELY, THE 02:31:32.917 --> 02:31:33.851 CONVERSATIONS AND THE DIALOG 02:31:33.918 --> 02:31:35.019 AND THE INSIGHT THAT WAS GIVEN 02:31:35.085 --> 02:31:36.821 BY THE PANELISTS TODAY ARE 02:31:36.887 --> 02:31:38.355 INCREDIBLY IMPORTANT. BUT WE 02:31:38.422 --> 02:31:40.458 WE'RE LEGISLATORS AND, AND WE 02:31:40.524 --> 02:31:41.692 NEED TO GO BACK TO SACRAMENTO 02:31:41.759 --> 02:31:43.694 AND LEGISLATE AND ACTUALLY PUT 02:31:43.761 --> 02:31:45.863 FORWARD LEGISLATION, BUDGET 02:31:45.930 --> 02:31:47.965 PROPOSALS THAT ADVANCE THE 02:31:48.032 --> 02:31:49.066 CONVERSATIONS THAT WERE HAD 02:31:49.133 --> 02:31:50.468 TODAY AND AT THE OTHER HEARINGS 02:31:50.534 --> 02:31:51.635 WE'VE HAD AS WELL. AND SO I'M 02:31:51.702 --> 02:31:53.504 VERY EXCITED ABOUT THAT TO GET 02:31:53.571 --> 02:31:54.705 BACK TO WORK IN JANUARY WITH 02:31:54.772 --> 02:31:56.607 EACH AND EVERY ONE OF YOU AND 02:31:56.674 --> 02:31:58.075 WITH MY COLLEAGUES, BECAUSE I, 02:31:58.142 --> 02:31:59.577 I REALLY DO FEEL WE'RE IN A 02:31:59.643 --> 02:32:01.011 PROMISING MOMENT RIGHT NOW TO 02:32:01.078 --> 02:32:03.113 DO CHANGE, UNLIKE WHAT WE'VE 02:32:03.180 --> 02:32:07.852 SEEN IN RECENT YEARS. BEFORE I 02:32:07.918 --> 02:32:11.388 PASS IT TO SENATOR VALENCIA, I 02:32:11.455 --> 02:32:13.390 JUST WANT TO THANK HIM AND MY 02:32:13.457 --> 02:32:15.693 COLLEAGUES AGAIN FOR BEING HERE. 02:32:15.759 --> 02:32:17.161 FOR THOSE OF YOU WHO KNOW THE 02:32:17.228 --> 02:32:18.262 LEGISLATIVE PROCESS, YOU KNOW 02:32:18.329 --> 02:32:19.930 THAT WE ARE IN THE RECESS RIGHT 02:32:19.997 --> 02:32:21.832 NOW, AND SOMETIMES THAT'S THE 02:32:21.899 --> 02:32:23.267 ONLY TIME YOU CAN BE WITH YOUR 02:32:23.334 --> 02:32:26.904 FAMILY OR TO RESTORE YOUR OWN 02:32:26.971 --> 02:32:27.938 HEALTH AND WELLNESS BEFORE YOU 02:32:28.005 --> 02:32:30.975 GO BACK FOR, YOU KNOW, A TEN 02:32:31.041 --> 02:32:32.376 MONTH HUSTLE IN SACRAMENTO. AND, 02:32:32.443 --> 02:32:33.911 AND I PROMISE YOU, THERE'S A 02:32:33.978 --> 02:32:35.179 PROCESS YOU HAVE TO DO MENTALLY 02:32:35.246 --> 02:32:37.715 BEFORE YOU GO BACK. AND SO TO 02:32:37.781 --> 02:32:40.684 SPEND YOUR BIRTHDAY WITH US AND 02:32:40.751 --> 02:32:42.686 BE THE BEST DRESSED ON THE 02:32:42.753 --> 02:32:45.656 PANEL, CAN WE GIVE IT UP ONE 02:32:45.723 --> 02:32:53.564 MORE TIME FOR SENATOR VALENCIA? 02:32:53.631 --> 02:32:55.733 MR. CHAIR, THANK YOU FOR YOUR 02:32:55.799 --> 02:32:57.868 CONTINUED WORK ON THIS ISSUE. 02:32:57.935 --> 02:32:59.670 THE CHAIR MENTIONED THAT WE 02:32:59.737 --> 02:33:01.772 ESTABLISHED A SELECT COMMITTEE 02:33:01.839 --> 02:33:03.941 CALLED PATHWAYS TO PURPOSE FOR 02:33:04.008 --> 02:33:06.143 A YOUNG MEN BECAUSE OF THE MORE 02:33:06.210 --> 02:33:08.312 MACRO CRISIS THAT JUST MEN ARE 02:33:08.379 --> 02:33:08.913 EXPERIENCING, NOT ONLY HERE IN 02:33:08.979 --> 02:33:10.080 THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA, BUT 02:33:10.147 --> 02:33:12.316 ACROSS THE NATION. THE CHAIR 02:33:12.383 --> 02:33:13.884 SITS ON THAT COMMITTEE AND HAS 02:33:13.951 --> 02:33:16.220 BEEN SUCH A VITAL CONTRIBUTOR 02:33:16.287 --> 02:33:17.855 IN BRINGING THIS PERSPECTIVE TO 02:33:17.922 --> 02:33:19.823 THAT CONVERSATION TO ENSURE 02:33:19.890 --> 02:33:21.458 THAT ALTHOUGH THIS CONVERSATION, 02:33:21.525 --> 02:33:23.060 IN MY OPINION, HAS GOTTEN 02:33:23.127 --> 02:33:24.929 ELEVATED FOR REASONS THAT WE 02:33:24.995 --> 02:33:26.664 MAY OR MAY NOT AGREE WITH 02:33:26.730 --> 02:33:27.865 SPECIFICALLY IN THIS ROOM, THE 02:33:27.932 --> 02:33:29.633 FACT OF THE MATTER IS, AT LEAST 02:33:29.700 --> 02:33:30.634 IT'S GETTING ELEVATED AND WE 02:33:30.701 --> 02:33:32.403 CAN CONTINUE TO CREATE NEXUSES 02:33:32.469 --> 02:33:33.837 AND ADDRESS THE ISSUES. AT ITS 02:33:33.904 --> 02:33:36.340 CORE, I REALLY DO BELIEVE THAT 02:33:36.407 --> 02:33:38.509 MENTORSHIP AND ENSURING THAT 02:33:38.576 --> 02:33:40.344 FOLKS FIND A WAY TO CONTRIBUTE 02:33:40.411 --> 02:33:42.146 BACK TO SOCIETY, DESPITE WHAT 02:33:42.212 --> 02:33:45.049 THE HISTORICAL CONTEXT IS, IS A 02:33:45.115 --> 02:33:46.050 PATHWAY TO PURPOSE, AND IT 02:33:46.116 --> 02:33:47.551 HELPS PEOPLE GROW AND IT WILL 02:33:47.618 --> 02:33:48.986 MAKE SOCIETY BETTER. SO I'M 02:33:49.053 --> 02:33:50.754 FULLY COMMITTED TO THOSE 02:33:50.821 --> 02:33:51.855 PATHWAYS. I'M FULLY COMMITTED 02:33:51.922 --> 02:33:54.024 TO FIGURING OUT HOW WE GET MORE 02:33:54.091 --> 02:33:55.793 RESOURCES TO THOSE THAT HAVE 02:33:55.859 --> 02:33:57.294 LESSER THAN IN THE PAST, TO 02:33:57.361 --> 02:33:58.395 ENSURE THAT TOMORROW WE HAVE A 02:33:58.462 --> 02:33:59.496 BETTER FUTURE. SO WITH THAT, 02:33:59.563 --> 02:34:01.231 THANK YOU FOR PARTICIPATION, 02:34:01.298 --> 02:34:03.634 AND I LOOK FORWARD TO THE WORK 02:34:03.701 --> 02:34:08.806 AHEAD. THANK YOU. IN CLOSING, I 02:34:08.872 --> 02:34:10.608 JUST WANT TO THANK ALL OF OUR 02:34:10.674 --> 02:34:11.742 PANELISTS FOR MAKING THE TIME 02:34:11.809 --> 02:34:14.244 TO SHARE YOUR EXPERTISE WITH 02:34:14.311 --> 02:34:15.613 THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA, AND I 02:34:15.679 --> 02:34:17.314 WANT TO THANK ALL OF THE 02:34:17.381 --> 02:34:18.382 COMMUNITY WHO SHOWED UP. WE 02:34:18.449 --> 02:34:20.351 NEVER FAIL TO PACK A ROOM FOR 02:34:20.417 --> 02:34:21.719 THESE HEARINGS, WHETHER IT'S IN 02:34:21.785 --> 02:34:23.520 LA, IN OAKLAND AND SACRAMENTO. 02:34:23.587 --> 02:34:26.056 AND IT IS BECAUSE YOU ALL CARE 02:34:26.123 --> 02:34:28.926 AND ARE ORGANIZED AND ARE READY 02:34:28.993 --> 02:34:30.394 TO MAKE CHANGES AND TO MAKE A 02:34:30.461 --> 02:34:31.528 DIFFERENCE. I'M VERY PROUD OF 02:34:31.595 --> 02:34:33.764 THE WORK THIS COMMITTEE CARRIED 02:34:33.831 --> 02:34:35.032 ON THIS YEAR AND THE 02:34:35.099 --> 02:34:35.833 LEGISLATION. WE WERE ABLE TO 02:34:35.899 --> 02:34:37.701 GET PASSED INTO LAW AND THE 02:34:37.768 --> 02:34:39.637 WORK THAT WE WERE ABLE TO BUILD 02:34:39.703 --> 02:34:40.704 UPON. BUT THE WORK IS IS 02:34:40.771 --> 02:34:42.606 ONGOING AND CHANGE ISN'T A ONE 02:34:42.673 --> 02:34:45.109 TIME EVENT. SO LOOK FOR MORE 02:34:45.175 --> 02:34:47.311 WORK IN THE NEW YEAR TO COME. 02:34:47.378 --> 02:34:48.846 STAY ACTIVE AND STAY ENGAGED. 02:34:48.912 --> 02:34:50.214 BUT THANK YOU ALL FOR 02:34:50.280 --> 02:34:51.248 PARTICIPATING TODAY. THIS 02:34:51.315 --> 02:34:52.282 CONCLUDES THE HEARING ON THE 02:34:52.349 --> 02:35:07.364 STATUS OF BOYS AND MEN OF COLOR.