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I'd like to all call to order the city

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Caucus meeting for Monday May 13th

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2024 we have 21 items for original

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consideration if the clerk would please

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Deputy clerk would please read item

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number

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one item number one for original

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consideration a resolution supporting

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submission of an application by city of

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SCCY for the restore NY round 8 Grant

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discussed in committee with objection

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and on consent item number two item

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number two for original consideration a

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resolution authorizing the mayor or his

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designity to enter into a contract with

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the New York state division of Homeland

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Security and emergency services

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dhss to secure grant funding under the

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fy2021 cyber security grant

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program discussed in committee without

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objection on consent item number three under original

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consideration a resolution authorizing

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the city to enter into a contract with

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the New York state division of Homeland

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Security and emergency services dhss to

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secure grant funding under the FY 2021

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Tactical Team grant program discussed in

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committee with an objection on consent

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item number four item number four under

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original consideration a resolution

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authorizing the city to enter into a

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contract with the New York state

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division of Criminal Justice Services to

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secure grant funding under New York

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State fy2020 Edward burn Memorial

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Justice assistant grant program Jag

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discuss in committee without objection

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on consent item number five item number

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five under original consideration a

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resolution adopting the Albany and crane

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streets complete Street study discussed

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consent item number six item number six

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under original consideration a

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resolution authorizing an easement to

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Niagara Mohawk power Corporation DBA

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National Grid discussed in committee

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seven item number seven under original

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consideration a resolution authorizing

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an amendment correcting typographical

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errors and resolution number 2024 D 089

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consent item number eight item number

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eight under original consideration a

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resolution confirming the appointment of

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harling Andress as representative of the

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conc municipal Housing Authority discuss

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item number nine item number nine under

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original consideration a resolution

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authorizing an option agreement to

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transfer 929 101 and 1014 Pleasant

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Street and 723 Congress Street to the

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land reutilization Corporation of the

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capital region discussed in committee

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10 item number 10 under original

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consideration a resolution authorizing

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the sale of 1309 First Avenue for

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objection on consent item number 11 item

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number 11 under original consideration a

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resolution authorizing the sale of 853

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emage Street for $50,000 discussed in

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number 12 item number 12 under original

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consideration a resolution authorizing

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the sale of a vacant lot on paage street

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for

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$2,551 discuss in committee with an

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objection on consent item number 13 item

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resolution authorizing the sale of 701

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resolution authorizing the settlement of

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a claim by Lawrence Daly discussed in

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item number 15 16 and 17 will be pulled

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and brought back at a later date

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original consideration a resolution

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recognizing Lisa Fagan during Teacher

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Appreciation Week 2024 this item will be

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taken out of order and presented by

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councilman Williams item number 19 item

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resolution recognizing Lisa adamic for

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over 36 years of service to the city of

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skty this item will be taken out of

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order and presented by myself item

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consideration a resolution ution

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recognizing the SKC Heritage Foundation

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number 21 item number 21 under contract

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and Supply a resolution awarding the bid

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and PC as listed in a total amount of

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discussed in committee with objection

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and on consent if there's nothing more

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to come before the city council caucus I

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ask for a motion to adj

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motion by Miss Patrick second by Mr

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Williams all those in favor I we are

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adjourned I'd like to call the city

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council meeting to order for Monday May

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2024 and I'd like to call on co-pastor

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Amanda Thompson of the new day Christian

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Empowerment Center for the prayer

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invocation let us pray Heavenly Father

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we come before you tonight in humility

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and faith we thank you for all you have

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given us and the many blessings in our

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lives we ask for your guidance and your

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strength show us the way and fill us

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with your courage and wisdom help us to

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remember your love and guidance and be

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faithful in our service to you give us

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the patience and the understanding to

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face life's challenges with

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Grace Lord Jesus you are the king and

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the true king of peace

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in you alone is found

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Freedom please free our world from

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conflict bring Unity to troubled Nations

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let your gracious peace reign in every

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heart dispel all darkness and evil

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protect the Dignity of every human being

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replace hatred with love give wisdom to

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the leaders of this nation and All

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Nations free them from selfish

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Ambitions and eliminate all violence and

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War in the name of your father we pray

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amen and amen amen I'd like to ask

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council member D Tor to Le Us in the

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al United States of America to the for

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stands one nation God indivisible liy

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and justice for all thank you

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if the clerk would please complete the

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call Mr Toro pres Mr Farley pres Mr

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could present two resolutions

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may I have the floor you may thank you

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I'd like to call John kuchi to come up

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please I help this a resolution

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recognizes John kucho for his 35 years

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of service to the city of

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skincity whereas John kucho began

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working for the city of skincity as a

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signal superintendent on June 12th 1989

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and and in 2017 John assumed the duties

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of director of operations for a few

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months in addition to being the signal

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supervisor and whereas on August 11th

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1989 John received his certificate of

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achievement for a completion of the

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signal signal timing organization

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program Transit syt -7f training

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provided by the New York State energy

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Department office and whereas serving as

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the signal supervisor John's numerous

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installation maintenance and repair of

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electrical and electronic traffic

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signals and controllers and of course

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all signs in the city of

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skincity and whereas for many years John

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has worked on the smart city project the

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goal of which is to help build an

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environment of sustainability efficiency

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leveraging technology and Innovation for

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the betterment of residents and

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businesses and

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skincity and whereas some components of

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that project are the National Grid rev

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demonstration project smart lighting and

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the climate smart projects including

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solar and electric vehicles and whereas

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in 2013 the city of skincity Mayor

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McCarthy and John kucho were recognized

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for assisting the be Bethesda house with

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Pho Volk system installation project the

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project consisted of installing solar

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modules on the roof and installing a

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conduit from the roof which Carri the

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free electricity produced by the system

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to the building's utility system thanks

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to this project Bethesda house produced

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free electricity and saved money on

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their utility bills and whereas in 2018

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municity a cloud-based software program

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track of various properties and whereas

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these highlights are just a few of the

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project John has been involved in and

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his lengthy career with the city of

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skincity now therefore be resolved that

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the connected city council and Mayor

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Gary R McCarthy do hereby pause in their

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deliberations to recognize and

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congratulate John kucho for his 35 years

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of service to the city of skincity we

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thank him for his many contributions to

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the development of the city and wish him

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I'd like to move the

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resolution was passed at the last

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council meeting um so no motion is

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needed thank you congratulations

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john 35 years

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oh on I just want to thank everybody for

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the opportunity to work for the city for

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this long a period um I love the city I

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always have and I always will and um I'm

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sure it's going to continue to prosper

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you other way

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thanks thank you John so item number

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19a a resolution recognizing Lisa adamic for over

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36 Adam for over 36 years of service to

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the city of SKC this will also be

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presented by Council of President

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Porterfield Miss Porterfield you may

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have the floor thank you I'd like to

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have Miss adame come up please

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are you tonight a resolution recognizing

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Lisa adamic for her more than 36 years

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of service to the city of sken whereas

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Lisa Adam was born and raised in skena

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New York and attended Mount Pleasant

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High School her family owned a

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restaurant in the city called Mike

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called Mike's Pizza Adobe which was

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located on State Street and she where

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she worked from her childhood and

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developed her work ethic and whereas

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Lisa began working for the the city of

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skincity in 1987 first as a part-time

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clerk typist with the within the health

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Bureau during her employment with the

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city Lisa has worked in many different

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positions where she gained a vast amount

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of experience and knowledge and whereas

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in 1988 she transferred to the finance

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department holding the titles of data

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entry machine operator senior audit

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Clerk and principal billing audit and

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accounts payable clerk during that time

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she was in put in charge of the accounts

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payable and then the purchasing

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department and whereas in 2008 Lisa went

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to work for the Department of utilities

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and Facilities where she then became

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part of the information technology

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department implementing training and

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programming the city's Tyler munus

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Financial software and whereas Lisa

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along with co-workers worked with the

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city for Technologies and government to

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design and implement the Unicity

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software working along with other

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municipalities she was part of

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developing the New York State cold

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officials data exchange she also oversaw

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all the signs signals street lights and

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posting of work orders to ensure

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completeness and accuracy and filled in

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for the signal superintendent when he

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was

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unavailable now therefore it be resolved

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that the connected city council and

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Mayor Gary AR McCarthy do hereby pausing

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their deliberations to recognize Lisa

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adamic for her years of service to the

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city of skincity and to congratulate her

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and wish her well on her retirement I'd

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like to move

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moved by council president Porterfield

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iser

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second seconded by Mr Williams all those

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in favor I

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[Applause]

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I I just want to like say the same

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sentiments as John it's been a pleasure

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to work for the city for all these

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shares um we did some great things and I

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see some great things coming in your

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future and the last thing I want to say

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is I beat John by a year

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[Applause]

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thank you Miss Patrick our next out of

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order resolution is a recognizing Lisa

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Fagan for Teacher um excuse me for

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during Teacher Appreciation Week 2024

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councilman Williams

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may I have the floor you have the floor

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sir all right I'd like to invite Lisa

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Fagan and her family and friends if

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they'd like to come up front as

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well no

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whereas teachers work tirelessly

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dedicating their time energy and passion

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to shaping the minds of future

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Generations their work extends beyond

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the classroom because they impart

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knowledge instill values Inspire

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creativity and Foster a love for

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Learning and whereas Teacher

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Appreciation Week originated in 1953

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when first lady Elanor Roosevelt urged

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Congress to recognize the contributions

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of Educators and it became nationally

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recognized in 1980 and is celebrated the

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first full week of May and whereas

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Teacher Appreciation Week 2024 is

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celebrated was celebrated from May 6th

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to May 10th and acknowledges the

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personal sacrifice and tieless

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commitments undertaken in the pursuit of

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shaping and molding

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Minds it is a time for students parents

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administrators and communities to come

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together and express their appreciation

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for educators dedication and hard work

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and whereas this year's theme of

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teachers are shining stars appreciates

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the impactful work within this vital

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community that makes the world brighter

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one student at a time as they prepare

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school children for the future by their

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actions both in and out of the

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classrooms and whereas Lisa Fagan a

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lifelong teacher tutor and self-regard

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accessibility specialist has focused her

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professional career on aiding students

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with high support needs Miss Fagan

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embodies the true tenants of teaching by

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creating an interactive and reflective

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classroom environment prioritizing

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inclusivity and fostering deeper

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learning through collaboration and

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whereas teacher appreciation we week

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acknowledges communities to outwardly

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Express their gratitude to teachers

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while acknowledging the challenges

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within our education systems such as but

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not limited to adapting to and engaging

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diverse learning styles meeting

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curriculum standards and balancing

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workloads teacher appreciation week is a

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time to listen and stand with Educators

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to give them the respect they deserve

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and the resources they need to help

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students succeed now therefore be it

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resolved that the city that the concy

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city council and Mayor Gary AR McCarthy

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do hear by pausing their deliberations

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to

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recognize um to recognize Miss Fagan and

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her commitments to our education system

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with the city is connected you

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I'd like to move the resolution I need a

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second please you second second M Mr

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Farley all those in favor I

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congratulations any

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[Applause]

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words thank you so much to the city of

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SKC and all of you um Council miliams

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I'm sorry I know you said two or three

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minutes but they don't often let me

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speak in public so it might be a little

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bit more

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as was stated I've dedicated my entire

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career to making life easier in the

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world for students disability is the

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largest minority class in the world and

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as Emily ladu States in her book

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demystifying disabilities disability is

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the only identity that anyone can

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suddenly take on at any

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time think about that for one moment

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when you break your leg you need to use

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a wheelchair you're disabled whether

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it's temporary or permanently you are

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disable disabled at that moment as a

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nation we live longer and longer and

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every person in this room will probably

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be disabled or has been at some point in

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their

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life the problem is as that we

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hide the visibly disabled because we're

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afraid of that and we shouldn't and we

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need to stop we're masking ourselves and

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we can't as a society we will do

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anything but seek the help that we need

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and give people the help they need

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that's why it took so long for me to get

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my diagnosis as autistic and

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ADHD but I always felt the shame of that

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inner

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ableism and it starts really really

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early and it starts when you're

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tiny I was in the first grade when

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sister Elaine yelled at me for coloring

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outside of the lines in front of the

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entire

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class thank Betty I have a mother with

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the sense of social justice and Humanity

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that she taught me she brought me to the

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eye doctor I got glasses then she

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brought me back to school and she had my

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teacher apologize to me just knowing

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that I deserve that apology and that

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every teacher should get each child the

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grace to assume they are trying every

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single day their

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best has shaped my entire life and my

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career teachers are not infallible we

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make

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mistakes but

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sometimes sometimes they're big

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sometimes they're small but every single

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time we need to give kid KS Grace and we

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need to give them the apologies they

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deserve my little brother who's all

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grown up now makes way more money than I

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do would never have survived a classroom

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as they are

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today he needs to move to think he

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literally walks 10 miles a day now he's

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the kid that moves so much that it makes

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you nervous the kind of kid who breaks

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his arm roller skating on a Saturday and

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doesn't tell anybody until Wednesday and

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when they get to the the doctors want to

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call CPS thank God Dr scandin knew us he

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couldn't sit still at a desk all day he

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still can't he's literally physically

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not able to he didn't go to college but

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he's read more books and is more

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intelligent than any other person I've

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ever met in my entire

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life I see kids like him every single

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day being sent out of classrooms in this

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nation often times in handcuffs

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because the entire world changed the

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world was locked down we as Educators

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had to learn how to teach differently

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and kids had to learn how to learn

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differently we came back from school and

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it was like Wayne said game on and the

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education system went right back to the

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status quo of kids sitting in rows being

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quiet and taking bubble tests it's not

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party time and it is not excellent the

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rest of society is adapting to the ever

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changing world when will our schools do

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that when I work with kids I don't just

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see a kid choosing to be a apathetic

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aggressive or what I usually hear

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dumb I see a human being with endless

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potential to change our world who's

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trying to communicate something but they

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just don't know how to communicate it

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yet I absorb and I catalog all of that

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information the verbal and the

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non-verbal communication because all

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Behavior is

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communication then I use it all to make

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sure they can thrive in our

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society anyone who knows me knows that I

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probably tripped coming up here I almost

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fell over over

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there I've often been told I'm clumsy

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and I need to watch out what I'm

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doing now as a 47-year-old autistic and

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ADHD disabled

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woman I know I have a neurode Divergent

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brain and one of the traits of this

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brain is a disabling condition called a

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praia basically my brain says go over

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there and my body says you got this they

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don't got

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it I have spent years feeling badly

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about myself because I had no

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coordination no matter how much I

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practice some skills I may never be able

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to get them done that doesn't make me a

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bad person or mean that I don't

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contribute to

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society it just means that I had to

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learn how to adapt my EnV environment so

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that I could Thrive and help others

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Thrive my superpower allows me to change

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the world for those kids and it's a

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result of my magical neurode Divergent

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brain you see when I look up I see

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computer screens with a B bazillion open

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tabs and I'm not just saying that

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figuratively I can actually see

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information in front of me and then I

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can use my hands and my mind to sort the

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information and I open in close Habs and

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I make connections that no one else can

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often see for

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years I can sus out information to the

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point that sometimes people think I'm a

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psychic no I'm neurod Divergent

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empathetic as my mom likes to say every

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student I see in front of me and every

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coworker is a living breathing human

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being they have their own struggles and

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joys some just need more

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support some are smarter some are more

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talented

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than anyone sitting here today even my

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little brother if you even made it in

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Billy if you cannot truly feel that in

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your

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soul I really suggest you take a good

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look at yourself read the book

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demystifying disabilities and explore

563
00:31:43,440 --> 00:31:45,960
your own internalized

564
00:31:45,960 --> 00:31:47,919
ableism I'd like to dedicate this

565
00:31:47,919 --> 00:31:50,840
resolution in my work to two very

566
00:31:50,840 --> 00:31:54,880
important children that have touched my

567
00:31:54,880 --> 00:31:57,279
life one I never had the blessing to

568
00:31:57,279 --> 00:31:58,480
meet

569
00:31:58,480 --> 00:32:00,880
one saves me over and over again every

570
00:32:00,880 --> 00:32:03,279
day Samantha Humphrey should be sitting

571
00:32:03,279 --> 00:32:05,600
in a classroom at skincity high school

572
00:32:05,600 --> 00:32:07,559
tomorrow

573
00:32:07,559 --> 00:32:10,200
morning let's not forget that a child in

574
00:32:10,200 --> 00:32:11,639
our community was

575
00:32:11,639 --> 00:32:13,880
murdered and let's all strive to do

576
00:32:13,880 --> 00:32:16,639
better be better and be kind to every

577
00:32:16,639 --> 00:32:18,399
single person you

578
00:32:18,399 --> 00:32:20,480
meet the other child I want to speak

579
00:32:20,480 --> 00:32:22,399
about is estan

580
00:32:22,399 --> 00:32:24,840
noé I met her as a child in need who

581
00:32:24,840 --> 00:32:30,750
made a mistake

582
00:32:30,760 --> 00:32:32,720
she grew in front of my eyes into a

583
00:32:32,720 --> 00:32:35,480
bright and beautiful and loving mother

584
00:32:35,480 --> 00:32:37,240
and business owner some of you might

585
00:32:37,240 --> 00:32:39,399
have known her as this connected sweets

586
00:32:39,399 --> 00:32:41,559
woman who was then there for me when I

587
00:32:41,559 --> 00:32:43,039
needed her the

588
00:32:43,039 --> 00:32:45,399
most she was one of the best humans I've

589
00:32:45,399 --> 00:32:47,519
ever met in my life and had the pleasure

590
00:32:47,519 --> 00:32:49,360
of knowing and loving and I was beyond

591
00:32:49,360 --> 00:32:52,039
devastated to lose her last year she's

592
00:32:52,039 --> 00:32:54,080
my angel and she constantly watches over

593
00:32:54,080 --> 00:32:56,760
me I do what I do for the Samanthas and

594
00:32:56,760 --> 00:32:58,960
the estaphan and the the lucases and the

595
00:32:58,960 --> 00:33:01,559
joies and all of them all of the kids of

596
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the world and I'll continue to do it to

597
00:33:03,039 --> 00:33:04,679
the best of my ability with every single

598
00:33:04,679 --> 00:33:07,519
five of my being until I join each of

599
00:33:07,519 --> 00:33:09,960
them in conclusion until our world

600
00:33:09,960 --> 00:33:12,080
values the expertise and the Magical

601
00:33:12,080 --> 00:33:15,919
brains of all of our teachers

602
00:33:15,919 --> 00:33:17,440
paraprofessionals

603
00:33:17,440 --> 00:33:19,960
custodians and other Direct Care

604
00:33:19,960 --> 00:33:23,240
personnel with the same level of pay and

605
00:33:23,240 --> 00:33:26,600
respect that we give security monitors

606
00:33:26,600 --> 00:33:28,320
and administrators

607
00:33:28,320 --> 00:33:31,120
based on our education and experience we

608
00:33:31,120 --> 00:33:33,240
will continue to fail as a

609
00:33:33,240 --> 00:33:36,279
society treat anyone you meet whether

610
00:33:36,279 --> 00:33:40,120
they can speak or cannot speak walk see

611
00:33:40,120 --> 00:33:42,480
or think like you do with the same

612
00:33:42,480 --> 00:33:45,000
respect and Assumption of Competency as

613
00:33:45,000 --> 00:33:46,240
you would want for

614
00:33:46,240 --> 00:33:49,360
yourself if you're disabled please be

615
00:33:49,360 --> 00:33:52,200
loud and be proud about it make sure

616
00:33:52,200 --> 00:33:53,440
that people realize that disability

617
00:33:53,440 --> 00:33:55,960
isn't something to be ashamed of or

618
00:33:55,960 --> 00:33:58,799
something to be pied make it okay to

619
00:33:58,799 --> 00:34:01,279
Flap when you're happy make it okay to

620
00:34:01,279 --> 00:34:03,880
rock when you're sad take a break to

621
00:34:03,880 --> 00:34:05,960
regulate yourself bring your own hamic

622
00:34:05,960 --> 00:34:08,839
chair to meetings normalize being to

623
00:34:08,839 --> 00:34:12,240
thrive being able to thrive as a person

624
00:34:12,240 --> 00:34:15,280
because the pursuit of happiness is not

625
00:34:15,280 --> 00:34:16,119
just

626
00:34:16,119 --> 00:34:18,800
survival it's to thrive and that is a

627
00:34:18,800 --> 00:34:22,639
basic human right and fre all oppressed

628
00:34:22,639 --> 00:34:26,710
people ac across the world including

629
00:34:26,720 --> 00:34:29,240
Palestine

630
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w w

631
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[Applause]

632
00:35:21,800 --> 00:35:24,040
we have one more out of out of order

633
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resolution resolution 20a recognizing SK

634
00:35:27,800 --> 00:35:29,960
the Heritage Foundation Heritage

635
00:35:29,960 --> 00:35:31,720
Foundation like to call on council

636
00:35:31,720 --> 00:35:34,200
member Doro to present this

637
00:35:34,200 --> 00:35:36,040
resolution thank you may I have the

638
00:35:36,040 --> 00:35:38,640
floor you have the floor yes I'd like to

639
00:35:38,640 --> 00:35:40,680
call up a group of individuals this

640
00:35:40,680 --> 00:35:45,880
evening who spend their uh many hours

641
00:35:45,880 --> 00:35:48,320
volunteering researching collecting

642
00:35:48,320 --> 00:35:51,079
analyzing and interpreting

643
00:35:51,079 --> 00:35:54,760
hisat historical data and we're so lucky

644
00:35:54,760 --> 00:35:57,319
and proud to have them here in our city

645
00:35:57,319 --> 00:36:04,990
and our our

646
00:36:05,000 --> 00:36:07,839
County whereas May is dedicated to

647
00:36:07,839 --> 00:36:10,480
National preservation month also known

648
00:36:10,480 --> 00:36:13,240
as historical preservation month the

649
00:36:13,240 --> 00:36:15,319
month celebrates the nation's Heritage

650
00:36:15,319 --> 00:36:18,240
through historic places organizations

651
00:36:18,240 --> 00:36:20,880
across the country promote a variety of

652
00:36:20,880 --> 00:36:23,079
activities on the local state and

653
00:36:23,079 --> 00:36:24,079
National

654
00:36:24,079 --> 00:36:26,359
levels whether you are interested in

655
00:36:26,359 --> 00:36:28,599
touring historical sites are helping to

656
00:36:28,599 --> 00:36:30,920
preserve the history in your backyard

657
00:36:30,920 --> 00:36:33,640
there is something for everyone whereas

658
00:36:33,640 --> 00:36:36,800
not only the places worth preserving but

659
00:36:36,800 --> 00:36:39,119
the stories behind them are too

660
00:36:39,119 --> 00:36:41,119
everywhere we go there is more to

661
00:36:41,119 --> 00:36:43,560
discover whether the story is found in

662
00:36:43,560 --> 00:36:47,000
archives or addicts you guys was

663
00:36:47,000 --> 00:36:49,359
there

664
00:36:49,359 --> 00:36:53,240
um it consists of board of direct uh it

665
00:36:53,240 --> 00:36:56,440
can addicts peeling back the layers of

666
00:36:56,440 --> 00:36:58,960
time helps us to understand the past

667
00:36:58,960 --> 00:37:01,200
recording stories helps us to provide a

668
00:37:01,200 --> 00:37:03,720
rich and Lively history of the people

669
00:37:03,720 --> 00:37:06,000
who lived and worked here we are a

670
00:37:06,000 --> 00:37:09,760
better image we can better imagine their

671
00:37:09,760 --> 00:37:11,960
hardships what they have overcome and

672
00:37:11,960 --> 00:37:14,560
the difficult decisions they made in the

673
00:37:14,560 --> 00:37:16,400
face of

674
00:37:16,400 --> 00:37:19,680
adversity whereas SKC Heritage

675
00:37:19,680 --> 00:37:22,960
Foundation the foundation is a volunteer

676
00:37:22,960 --> 00:37:25,599
nonprofit organization whose mission is

677
00:37:25,599 --> 00:37:28,800
to Foster historic preservation in SKC

678
00:37:28,800 --> 00:37:30,880
County it consists of a board of

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00:37:30,880 --> 00:37:33,480
directors whose members are dedicated to

680
00:37:33,480 --> 00:37:36,280
the principles of historic preservation

681
00:37:36,280 --> 00:37:38,560
have expertise in the field and are

682
00:37:38,560 --> 00:37:40,920
committed to advancing these principles

683
00:37:40,920 --> 00:37:42,680
it is registered with the state of New

684
00:37:42,680 --> 00:37:45,119
York the Bureau of

685
00:37:45,119 --> 00:37:48,160
Charities whereas it is a true Testament

686
00:37:48,160 --> 00:37:50,599
to the dedication and passion passion of

687
00:37:50,599 --> 00:37:52,760
the people involved preserving history

688
00:37:52,760 --> 00:37:54,400
isn't just about maintaining old

689
00:37:54,400 --> 00:37:56,640
buildings or artifacts it's about

690
00:37:56,640 --> 00:37:59,880
keeping the story of spirit in place

691
00:37:59,880 --> 00:38:02,319
alive for generations to come it is

692
00:38:02,319 --> 00:38:04,359
heartwarming to see our community come

693
00:38:04,359 --> 00:38:06,200
together to honor their Heritage in such

694
00:38:06,200 --> 00:38:10,079
a meaningful way and whereas having

695
00:38:10,079 --> 00:38:13,000
dedicated individuals and organizations

696
00:38:13,000 --> 00:38:16,160
like the connected City historian the

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00:38:16,160 --> 00:38:17,319
county

698
00:38:17,319 --> 00:38:20,640
historian the connected County

699
00:38:20,640 --> 00:38:23,440
Historical Society the SK connected

700
00:38:23,440 --> 00:38:25,920
Heritage Foundation and dedicated

701
00:38:25,920 --> 00:38:28,800
neighborhood groups shows a strong

702
00:38:28,800 --> 00:38:30,800
commitment to honoring the past and

703
00:38:30,800 --> 00:38:33,319
enduring the future Generations can

704
00:38:33,319 --> 00:38:35,480
appreciate and learn from it

705
00:38:35,480 --> 00:38:37,400
collaborative efforts like these are

706
00:38:37,400 --> 00:38:39,920
essential for maintaining the integrity

707
00:38:39,920 --> 00:38:41,960
and richness of historic neighborhoods

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and

709
00:38:42,720 --> 00:38:46,079
landmarks now therefore be it resolved

710
00:38:46,079 --> 00:38:49,200
that the city SKC city council and Mayor

711
00:38:49,200 --> 00:38:51,520
Gary arm McCarthy do hereby pause in

712
00:38:51,520 --> 00:38:57,670
their deliberations to recognize

713
00:38:57,680 --> 00:39:01,630
the historic

714
00:39:01,640 --> 00:39:03,800
committee for the work they do here in

715
00:39:03,800 --> 00:39:06,119
the city thank

716
00:39:06,119 --> 00:39:11,990
you I'd like to move

717
00:39:12,000 --> 00:39:14,920
it may I have a second please second by

718
00:39:14,920 --> 00:39:16,839
Miss Patrick all in favor I

719
00:39:16,839 --> 00:39:19,470
congratulations motion

720
00:39:19,470 --> 00:39:26,359
[Applause]

721
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passes e

722
00:39:54,640 --> 00:40:21,150
[Applause]

723
00:40:21,160 --> 00:40:22,040
thank you

724
00:40:22,040 --> 00:40:25,400
Gloria well thank you uh

725
00:40:25,400 --> 00:40:28,599
councilwoman Doro um I just want to

726
00:40:28,599 --> 00:40:32,319
thank uh the city and the mayor for

727
00:40:32,319 --> 00:40:35,800
supporting SKC Heritage foundation's

728
00:40:35,800 --> 00:40:38,680
initiatives to um preserve the history

729
00:40:38,680 --> 00:40:42,680
of of the city of skty uh along with my

730
00:40:42,680 --> 00:40:45,720
colleagues that were just up here uh we

731
00:40:45,720 --> 00:40:48,240
really appreciate working with the city

732
00:40:48,240 --> 00:40:51,200
on projects that are both big and small

733
00:40:51,200 --> 00:40:54,280
uh everything from changing the zoning

734
00:40:54,280 --> 00:40:59,160
of the the uh historic m Sonic Temple to

735
00:40:59,160 --> 00:41:01,760
smaller projects like supporting with a

736
00:41:01,760 --> 00:41:05,000
grant from the foundation the revision

737
00:41:05,000 --> 00:41:07,920
of the historic preservation uh

738
00:41:07,920 --> 00:41:10,560
guidelines for the historic commission

739
00:41:10,560 --> 00:41:13,880
uh who we love working with um and we

740
00:41:13,880 --> 00:41:16,079
look forward to working with the city in

741
00:41:16,079 --> 00:41:19,240
the future on all sorts of projects

742
00:41:19,240 --> 00:41:22,680
including smaller ones like uh houses

743
00:41:22,680 --> 00:41:25,800
that the city sells uh we're currently

744
00:41:25,800 --> 00:41:28,240
working with you on one 30 Front Street

745
00:41:28,240 --> 00:41:31,319
that we hope will soon go through um

746
00:41:31,319 --> 00:41:33,400
another house will be saved in The

747
00:41:33,400 --> 00:41:35,760
Stockade um but we appreciate all the

748
00:41:35,760 --> 00:41:37,720
efforts of all the people that work in

749
00:41:37,720 --> 00:41:38,720
historic

750
00:41:38,720 --> 00:41:41,400
preservation and um we hope to continue

751
00:41:41,400 --> 00:41:44,750
in the future so thank you so

752
00:41:44,750 --> 00:41:53,200
[Applause]

753
00:41:53,200 --> 00:41:55,280
much I'll ask for approval of the

754
00:41:55,280 --> 00:41:59,119
minutes for April 22nd 2024 for moved by

755
00:41:59,119 --> 00:42:01,960
Mr Williams second by Mr Mancini all in

756
00:42:01,960 --> 00:42:03,359
favor

757
00:42:03,359 --> 00:42:05,440
I like the clerk to read any

758
00:42:05,440 --> 00:42:10,550
Communications and

759
00:42:10,560 --> 00:42:12,800
petitions Communications presented to

760
00:42:12,800 --> 00:42:16,280
city council for Monday May 13th

761
00:42:16,280 --> 00:42:20,079
2024 under official from mayor McCarthy

762
00:42:20,079 --> 00:42:22,200
a letter recommending harleen Andrew to

763
00:42:22,200 --> 00:42:23,960
the civilian police review

764
00:42:23,960 --> 00:42:27,800
board under General from Paul

765
00:42:27,800 --> 00:42:29,960
an email requesting either a stop sign

766
00:42:29,960 --> 00:42:32,000
or speed bump for Becker Street to slow

767
00:42:32,000 --> 00:42:32,800
down

768
00:42:32,800 --> 00:42:36,000
traffic from Rabbi Matthew Cutler a

769
00:42:36,000 --> 00:42:37,880
letter recognizing Israel Independence

770
00:42:37,880 --> 00:42:40,119
Day and the importance of Israel to the

771
00:42:40,119 --> 00:42:42,319
Jewish community and requesting sincere

772
00:42:42,319 --> 00:42:44,119
efforts to ensure the safety of Jewish

773
00:42:44,119 --> 00:42:46,559
residents in our community under

774
00:42:46,559 --> 00:42:49,480
petitions none thank

775
00:42:49,480 --> 00:42:51,720
you call on council member for any

776
00:42:51,720 --> 00:42:55,440
committee reports any committee

777
00:42:55,440 --> 00:42:57,839
reports this time we'll have have uh

778
00:42:57,839 --> 00:42:59,480
privilege of the floor related to the

779
00:42:59,480 --> 00:43:02,160
legislative agenda and I have no one

780
00:43:02,160 --> 00:43:03,960
else sign no one signed up to speak so I

781
00:43:03,960 --> 00:43:05,240
declare public comment on the

782
00:43:05,240 --> 00:43:07,280
legislative agenda

783
00:43:07,280 --> 00:43:09,480
closed I'll ask for approval of the

784
00:43:09,480 --> 00:43:13,319
consent agenda move my Miss

785
00:43:13,319 --> 00:43:16,760
Patrick second by Mr Mancini all in

786
00:43:16,760 --> 00:43:20,069
favor

787
00:43:20,079 --> 00:43:22,559
I time we'll have privilege of the floor

788
00:43:22,559 --> 00:43:25,000
regarding General City business I have

789
00:43:25,000 --> 00:43:28,319
29 people who are signed up to speak

790
00:43:28,319 --> 00:43:30,200
I just want to um just go over the the

791
00:43:30,200 --> 00:43:31,960
rule guidelines because I know that many

792
00:43:31,960 --> 00:43:34,280
of you are not from our municipality and

793
00:43:34,280 --> 00:43:36,000
have not perhaps not been at this

794
00:43:36,000 --> 00:43:38,559
meeting before we do have a three minute

795
00:43:38,559 --> 00:43:41,440
time limit you will hear my phone go off

796
00:43:41,440 --> 00:43:43,200
when your time is up if you're in the

797
00:43:43,200 --> 00:43:45,480
middle of a sentence I will allow you to

798
00:43:45,480 --> 00:43:48,200
complete that however please don't go

799
00:43:48,200 --> 00:43:49,839
much over that because then I will ask

800
00:43:49,839 --> 00:43:52,040
you have to ask you to summarize we do

801
00:43:52,040 --> 00:43:54,400
have 29 people signed up to speak so

802
00:43:54,400 --> 00:43:56,119
that's a lot of speakers and everyone

803
00:43:56,119 --> 00:43:58,359
deserves their opportunity so please uh

804
00:43:58,359 --> 00:44:00,520
I would ask that you will respectfully

805
00:44:00,520 --> 00:44:05,190
um stay within your

806
00:44:05,200 --> 00:44:13,630
time this first speaker is zarif

807
00:44:13,640 --> 00:44:18,390
hanif is zarif hanif

808
00:44:18,400 --> 00:44:22,400
here okay uh the next speaker is uh Imam

809
00:44:22,400 --> 00:44:26,430
Jamal Sha

810
00:44:26,440 --> 00:44:32,109
[Applause]

811
00:44:32,119 --> 00:44:34,400
good evening Mr Mayor Madame President

812
00:44:34,400 --> 00:44:37,559
honorable council members as you can see

813
00:44:37,559 --> 00:44:40,119
not my people but the people have

814
00:44:40,119 --> 00:44:42,760
gathered here to remind you all once

815
00:44:42,760 --> 00:44:45,160
again we have a ceasefire resolution

816
00:44:45,160 --> 00:44:47,599
that was proposed to the city council

817
00:44:47,599 --> 00:44:49,520
we've heard public comments from the

818
00:44:49,520 --> 00:44:52,559
mayor from some of the council

819
00:44:52,559 --> 00:44:55,680
members basically minimizing the

820
00:44:55,680 --> 00:44:57,920
ceasefire resolution

821
00:44:57,920 --> 00:45:00,200
and we're here to remind you all of your

822
00:45:00,200 --> 00:45:02,800
Collective Humanity we're here to remind

823
00:45:02,800 --> 00:45:03,559
you

824
00:45:03,559 --> 00:45:06,280
all that you can move this resolution to

825
00:45:06,280 --> 00:45:08,760
the floor for a vote and make it public

826
00:45:08,760 --> 00:45:10,160
as to where you

827
00:45:10,160 --> 00:45:13,119
stand those who are in favor and those

828
00:45:13,119 --> 00:45:14,000
who are

829
00:45:14,000 --> 00:45:17,280
not no feelings will be hurt but it will

830
00:45:17,280 --> 00:45:20,440
help us as the people understand your

831
00:45:20,440 --> 00:45:30,800
position on a matter that is a red line for us

832
00:45:30,800 --> 00:45:34,880
this is important for us I say this on

833
00:45:34,880 --> 00:45:37,359
behalf of the residents of the city of

834
00:45:37,359 --> 00:45:40,920
skty there's no danger posed to anyone

835
00:45:40,920 --> 00:45:43,200
but I will remind you that when you

836
00:45:43,200 --> 00:45:45,280
don't listen as an elected official to

837
00:45:45,280 --> 00:45:47,119
the people who you're supposed to

838
00:45:47,119 --> 00:45:49,319
represent you probably won't hold that

839
00:45:49,319 --> 00:45:51,559
seat for too much longer that's just the

840
00:45:51,559 --> 00:45:57,000
reality of politics isn't it so I say

841
00:45:57,000 --> 00:45:59,400
with the utmost sincerity reaching out

842
00:45:59,400 --> 00:46:02,480
to you again where in this resolution do

843
00:46:02,480 --> 00:46:05,160
you find hate where in this resolution

844
00:46:05,160 --> 00:46:08,119
do you find racism

845
00:46:08,119 --> 00:46:10,200
anti-Semitism where in the resolution do

846
00:46:10,200 --> 00:46:12,480
you find it problematic to just simply

847
00:46:12,480 --> 00:46:17,079
say yes Rabbi Matthew Cutler who issued

848
00:46:17,079 --> 00:46:20,040
a statement that was read on record

849
00:46:20,040 --> 00:46:21,520
would appreciate the fact that the

850
00:46:21,520 --> 00:46:23,400
resolution calls for the release of

851
00:46:23,400 --> 00:46:27,000
Israeli hostages held in Gaza the

852
00:46:27,000 --> 00:46:29,400
Palestinian brothers and sisters that we

853
00:46:29,400 --> 00:46:31,839
have they would appreciate the

854
00:46:31,839 --> 00:46:33,839
resolution being passed to speak to the

855
00:46:33,839 --> 00:46:35,880
atrocities that their families have had

856
00:46:35,880 --> 00:46:39,530
to endure for the last 7 months and 75

857
00:46:39,530 --> 00:46:44,790
[Applause]

858
00:46:44,800 --> 00:46:47,800
years I've come to you speaking in

859
00:46:47,800 --> 00:46:49,720
different ways I've come to you to

860
00:46:49,720 --> 00:46:53,680
appeal with my hat in my hand but now

861
00:46:53,680 --> 00:46:56,240
I'm coming to you to appeal very

862
00:46:56,240 --> 00:46:57,720
directly

863
00:46:57,720 --> 00:47:01,680
we had the uh resolution to honor the

864
00:47:01,680 --> 00:47:04,480
teacher and you heard her last words

865
00:47:04,480 --> 00:47:05,520
free

866
00:47:05,520 --> 00:47:07,800
Palestine the last city council meeting

867
00:47:07,800 --> 00:47:11,400
we had just over 3 weeks ago since then

868
00:47:11,400 --> 00:47:13,599
what has changed in this country I want

869
00:47:13,599 --> 00:47:16,119
to ask you all to reflect upon that the

870
00:47:16,119 --> 00:47:17,920
young people the next generation of

871
00:47:17,920 --> 00:47:19,200
leaders the people who will be sitting

872
00:47:19,200 --> 00:47:21,599
in your seats in 20 years in 10 years in

873
00:47:21,599 --> 00:47:24,240
30 years in 40 years and 50

874
00:47:24,240 --> 00:47:30,839
years they are not sitting quietly by and

875
00:47:30,839 --> 00:47:33,720
saying this has nothing to do with us

876
00:47:33,720 --> 00:47:35,559
they are putting themselves their

877
00:47:35,559 --> 00:47:37,160
careers and their Futures on the line

878
00:47:37,160 --> 00:47:39,160
but guess what their future is a lot

879
00:47:39,160 --> 00:47:42,000
brighter than anyone else who who

880
00:47:42,000 --> 00:47:45,160
chooses to sit by and let things pass as

881
00:47:45,160 --> 00:47:46,960
if they have no role to

882
00:47:46,960 --> 00:47:50,040
play all we're asking you is to pass a

883
00:47:50,040 --> 00:47:52,280
ceasefire resolution we're not asking

884
00:47:52,280 --> 00:47:53,680
you to roll up your sleeves and go to

885
00:47:53,680 --> 00:47:55,800
Washington and appeal to the Senators we

886
00:47:55,800 --> 00:47:58,440
will do that but we need this resolution

887
00:47:58,440 --> 00:48:01,319
passed here to show that we can actually

888
00:48:01,319 --> 00:48:02,880
affect change within human beings who

889
00:48:02,880 --> 00:48:05,880
were previously uninvolved and un

890
00:48:05,880 --> 00:48:09,079
uninitiated and unaware of this whole

891
00:48:09,079 --> 00:48:12,400
conflict now you have a

892
00:48:12,400 --> 00:48:15,720
choice you can choose to ignore us you

893
00:48:15,720 --> 00:48:17,680
choose to ignore us that's as good as

894
00:48:17,680 --> 00:48:20,160
saying no I want to remind you of that

895
00:48:20,160 --> 00:48:22,640
there is no way out you have to say yes

896
00:48:22,640 --> 00:48:25,319
or no and we leave you with that thank

897
00:48:25,319 --> 00:48:28,540
you very much

898
00:48:28,540 --> 00:48:30,070
[Music]

899
00:48:30,070 --> 00:48:32,580
[Applause]

900
00:48:32,580 --> 00:48:44,790
[Music]

901
00:48:44,800 --> 00:48:48,370
sah

902
00:48:48,380 --> 00:48:53,680
[Applause]

903
00:48:53,680 --> 00:48:57,240
Samir hello my name is feris ammer I am

904
00:48:57,240 --> 00:48:59,440
a native New Yorker a resident of the

905
00:48:59,440 --> 00:49:01,160
capital region and I'm a Palestinian

906
00:49:01,160 --> 00:49:02,880
American who's been blessed with the

907
00:49:02,880 --> 00:49:05,319
opportunity to live in the West Bank I

908
00:49:05,319 --> 00:49:07,799
want to just take a moment to introduce

909
00:49:07,799 --> 00:49:10,599
you to what was what my life was like

910
00:49:10,599 --> 00:49:13,520
living in the West Bank me start with

911
00:49:13,520 --> 00:49:15,000
the school bus to school what should

912
00:49:15,000 --> 00:49:17,319
have been a 7-minute ride became a

913
00:49:17,319 --> 00:49:19,680
50-minute ride because the intersection

914
00:49:19,680 --> 00:49:22,319
connecting my town to the city where my

915
00:49:22,319 --> 00:49:24,680
school was in Palestinians weren't

916
00:49:24,680 --> 00:49:26,960
allowed to use it it was a segregated

917
00:49:26,960 --> 00:49:29,400
Road only for Israelis and when we had

918
00:49:29,400 --> 00:49:32,280
to go on a detour 50 minutes we'd stop

919
00:49:32,280 --> 00:49:33,680
at a checkpoint some days and be

920
00:49:33,680 --> 00:49:35,680
randomly searched taken off the school

921
00:49:35,680 --> 00:49:38,400
bus have our bags and bus searched the

922
00:49:38,400 --> 00:49:40,119
occupation of water when we'd come home

923
00:49:40,119 --> 00:49:42,480
from school on random days and find that

924
00:49:42,480 --> 00:49:44,000
the Israeli authorities had said there's

925
00:49:44,000 --> 00:49:45,160
not enough water to go around for

926
00:49:45,160 --> 00:49:47,079
everybody today there's no water for

927
00:49:47,079 --> 00:49:50,359
your village meanwhile across the street

928
00:49:50,359 --> 00:49:52,839
the Israeli settlements 24/7 access to

929
00:49:52,839 --> 00:49:55,040
water to

930
00:49:55,040 --> 00:49:58,520
electricity despite this and many other

931
00:49:58,520 --> 00:50:01,920
small or big hardships that we

932
00:50:01,920 --> 00:50:04,559
faced I'm not I could not be more

933
00:50:04,559 --> 00:50:07,799
thankful to be Palestinian and I am so

934
00:50:07,799 --> 00:50:10,280
lucky to be from the West Bank because

935
00:50:10,280 --> 00:50:13,280
had I been from a town one hour West I

936
00:50:13,280 --> 00:50:15,720
might be trapped in Gazza right now I

937
00:50:15,720 --> 00:50:17,000
might be stuck under the rubber right

938
00:50:17,000 --> 00:50:19,760
now I might have had to bury loved ones

939
00:50:19,760 --> 00:50:22,240
lost limbs had my house bombed my

940
00:50:22,240 --> 00:50:24,359
University

941
00:50:24,359 --> 00:50:26,319
bombed maybe I would have been a victim

942
00:50:26,319 --> 00:50:27,599
of an

943
00:50:27,599 --> 00:50:30,160
strike so why does it matter that you

944
00:50:30,160 --> 00:50:31,680
hear our local Representatives call for

945
00:50:31,680 --> 00:50:34,040
a ceasefire I'd like to think that if I

946
00:50:34,040 --> 00:50:36,400
was born inza stuck under the rubble

947
00:50:36,400 --> 00:50:38,720
you'd still value my life the same way

948
00:50:38,720 --> 00:50:41,160
if I was there as you do that I'm here

949
00:50:41,160 --> 00:50:43,040
and it doesn't matter where I'm from

950
00:50:43,040 --> 00:50:45,480
what my skin color is what my faith is

951
00:50:45,480 --> 00:50:47,960
that you'd value my life regardless

952
00:50:47,960 --> 00:50:52,490
thank you cease fire now

953
00:50:52,500 --> 00:51:02,640
[Music]

954
00:51:02,640 --> 00:51:10,549
Ahmad Abu

955
00:51:10,559 --> 00:51:13,319
hamik thank you uh my name is Ahmed Abu

956
00:51:13,319 --> 00:51:17,119
hakma and I'm also here um proposing

957
00:51:17,119 --> 00:51:19,280
that you pass the ceasefire

958
00:51:19,280 --> 00:51:21,640
resolution um as Rabbi Cutler had

959
00:51:21,640 --> 00:51:23,160
mentioned something about recognizing

960
00:51:23,160 --> 00:51:24,799
the independence of the state of Israel

961
00:51:24,799 --> 00:51:26,359
it's important to note that the 15th of

962
00:51:26,359 --> 00:51:29,559
May 1948 holds a very tragic historic

963
00:51:29,559 --> 00:51:31,079
date for the Palestinians it is the

964
00:51:31,079 --> 00:51:32,799
catastrophe that befell

965
00:51:32,799 --> 00:51:36,240
them namely that the state of Israel was

966
00:51:36,240 --> 00:51:37,960
established on the death destruction

967
00:51:37,960 --> 00:51:39,720
dismembered bodies of Palestinians and

968
00:51:39,720 --> 00:51:41,280
the destruction of their homes including

969
00:51:41,280 --> 00:51:46,349
my wife whose family are

970
00:51:46,359 --> 00:51:47,880
refugees

971
00:51:47,880 --> 00:51:51,599
similarly it is true that Jews had fled

972
00:51:51,599 --> 00:51:54,040
Europe to flee religious persecution and

973
00:51:54,040 --> 00:51:55,680
at the same time they established their

974
00:51:55,680 --> 00:51:57,480
state by destroying a Palestinian

975
00:51:57,480 --> 00:52:00,400
Society just as it is true that the

976
00:52:00,400 --> 00:52:02,040
founding fathers of this country were

977
00:52:02,040 --> 00:52:05,010
fleeing religious persecution in Western

978
00:52:05,010 --> 00:52:06,960
[Applause]

979
00:52:06,960 --> 00:52:10,000
Europe and they established this country

980
00:52:10,000 --> 00:52:11,640
on the backs of slaves and on the

981
00:52:11,640 --> 00:52:17,150
genocide of Native

982
00:52:17,160 --> 00:52:19,400
Americans if you'll allow me I'd like to

983
00:52:19,400 --> 00:52:21,240
speak about my family who lives there I

984
00:52:21,240 --> 00:52:23,920
have relatives in Jerusalem who are from

985
00:52:23,920 --> 00:52:25,880
the quote unquote full citizens of

986
00:52:25,880 --> 00:52:28,480
Israel who enjoy complete rights my

987
00:52:28,480 --> 00:52:29,960
conversations with them are basically

988
00:52:29,960 --> 00:52:31,680
non-existent now because their phone

989
00:52:31,680 --> 00:52:33,240
lines are tapped and they will be thrown

990
00:52:33,240 --> 00:52:35,160
into jail if they say anything to

991
00:52:35,160 --> 00:52:36,720
criticize the

992
00:52:36,720 --> 00:52:40,200
state my relatives in the West Bank are

993
00:52:40,200 --> 00:52:41,799
basically living under house arrest with

994
00:52:41,799 --> 00:52:44,960
a completely stalled economy their cash

995
00:52:44,960 --> 00:52:46,880
crop the olive they were denied half of

996
00:52:46,880 --> 00:52:49,960
their Harvest this year when I went in

997
00:52:49,960 --> 00:52:52,240
2004 I could access Farmland that I

998
00:52:52,240 --> 00:52:54,520
couldn't access in 2009 Grandpa why

999
00:52:54,520 --> 00:52:57,079
can't we go there now because

1000
00:52:57,079 --> 00:52:59,559
that road is just for Israelis well what

1001
00:52:59,559 --> 00:53:01,599
happens if we cross that road nothing

1002
00:53:01,599 --> 00:53:04,240
will happen to you grandson but I will

1003
00:53:04,240 --> 00:53:06,880
get shot if I cross that

1004
00:53:06,880 --> 00:53:10,280
road and that's nothing compared to

1005
00:53:10,280 --> 00:53:12,880
Gaza but it has everything to do with

1006
00:53:12,880 --> 00:53:14,599
Gazza because the game plan is to

1007
00:53:14,599 --> 00:53:16,760
suffocate the Palestinians in the West

1008
00:53:16,760 --> 00:53:20,160
Bank so that it becomes another Gazza

1009
00:53:20,160 --> 00:53:22,559
and as we're talking about suffocation

1010
00:53:22,559 --> 00:53:24,599
we have to recognize that people aren't

1011
00:53:24,599 --> 00:53:30,390
eating about a month ago

1012
00:53:30,400 --> 00:53:33,440
a Girl by the name of Charlotte busky 5

1013
00:53:33,440 --> 00:53:35,920
years old and connected was found dead

1014
00:53:35,920 --> 00:53:38,200
in her home and police came to the

1015
00:53:38,200 --> 00:53:41,720
conclusion that she was starved by her

1016
00:53:41,720 --> 00:53:44,000
father in this

1017
00:53:44,000 --> 00:53:46,880
town and he faces up to 18 years in

1018
00:53:46,880 --> 00:53:49,559
prison which I think is very light

1019
00:53:49,559 --> 00:53:52,799
personally um so then what then should

1020
00:53:52,799 --> 00:53:54,720
be said about a country in Israel who

1021
00:53:54,720 --> 00:53:56,440
makes it their public policy to St

1022
00:53:56,440 --> 00:54:06,430
starve a captive population in

1023
00:54:06,440 --> 00:54:08,920
Gazza happy belated Mother's Day for the

1024
00:54:08,920 --> 00:54:10,520
mothers

1025
00:54:10,520 --> 00:54:13,200
here and yet it's very difficult to

1026
00:54:13,200 --> 00:54:15,920
celebrate Mother's Day when the Bedrock

1027
00:54:15,920 --> 00:54:16,680
of

1028
00:54:16,680 --> 00:54:20,119
society nice ringtone let's turn it

1029
00:54:20,119 --> 00:54:22,599
off oh that was a timer okay that is

1030
00:54:22,599 --> 00:54:26,599
your timer sir okay

1031
00:54:26,599 --> 00:54:29,200
all right I think it's very clear you're

1032
00:54:29,200 --> 00:54:31,640
either going to offend a people

1033
00:54:31,640 --> 00:54:34,599
committing a famine and a genocide or

1034
00:54:34,599 --> 00:54:36,480
the people who are suffering from it by

1035
00:54:36,480 --> 00:54:39,040
the decisions you make please make the

1036
00:54:39,040 --> 00:54:45,430
right choice it's very

1037
00:54:45,440 --> 00:54:50,119
[Music]

1038
00:54:50,119 --> 00:54:54,810
obvious Barbara Smith

1039
00:54:54,820 --> 00:55:01,599
[Applause]

1040
00:55:01,599 --> 00:55:03,520
good evening I appreciate the

1041
00:55:03,520 --> 00:55:06,000
opportunity to speak here at your

1042
00:55:06,000 --> 00:55:08,720
council meeting this evening thank you

1043
00:55:08,720 --> 00:55:11,160
council members thank you president

1044
00:55:11,160 --> 00:55:14,000
Porterfield thank you mayor McCarthy my

1045
00:55:14,000 --> 00:55:16,000
name is Barbara Smith I'm a resident of

1046
00:55:16,000 --> 00:55:20,000
leam New York but for 37 years I was a

1047
00:55:20,000 --> 00:55:24,200
resident of uh the city of Albany uh I

1048
00:55:24,200 --> 00:55:26,520
served on the Albany common Council for

1049
00:55:26,520 --> 00:55:30,200
two terms from 2006 until

1050
00:55:30,200 --> 00:55:35,039
2013 so following that I was invited by

1051
00:55:35,039 --> 00:55:37,480
and hired by the mayor to establish the

1052
00:55:37,480 --> 00:55:39,960
first Equity agenda for the city of

1053
00:55:39,960 --> 00:55:43,000
Albany so I have 12 years of government

1054
00:55:43,000 --> 00:55:47,400
service late in life um I'm here today

1055
00:55:47,400 --> 00:55:51,960
to of course support the that the conc

1056
00:55:51,960 --> 00:55:53,920
city council

1057
00:55:53,920 --> 00:55:56,799
passes uh introduces and passes

1058
00:55:56,799 --> 00:56:01,319
a ceasefire resolution as you well know

1059
00:56:01,319 --> 00:56:04,599
the common Council of Albany passed the

1060
00:56:04,599 --> 00:56:07,520
first ceasefire resolution in New York

1061
00:56:07,520 --> 00:56:11,319
state on January the 4th I was a part of

1062
00:56:11,319 --> 00:56:15,039
the small group that worked night and

1063
00:56:15,039 --> 00:56:18,480
day to help that to happen many many

1064
00:56:18,480 --> 00:56:20,119
more people than the eight of us and

1065
00:56:20,119 --> 00:56:21,880
there were only eight of us who worked

1066
00:56:21,880 --> 00:56:24,280
very very hard the fact that I had been

1067
00:56:24,280 --> 00:56:26,520
a member of the common Council was

1068
00:56:26,520 --> 00:56:28,359
helpful in that context because I knew

1069
00:56:28,359 --> 00:56:30,359
what the rules were I knew what was

1070
00:56:30,359 --> 00:56:32,559
possible and it was some of the most

1071
00:56:32,559 --> 00:56:35,200
important work I wrote that the night

1072
00:56:35,200 --> 00:56:37,480
that actually I think it was the uh

1073
00:56:37,480 --> 00:56:40,200
night in J uh in December when we went

1074
00:56:40,200 --> 00:56:41,799
to the common Council not the night that

1075
00:56:41,799 --> 00:56:44,240
it passed but I wrote to friends of mine

1076
00:56:44,240 --> 00:56:45,400
I said this is some of the most

1077
00:56:45,400 --> 00:56:47,359
meaningful political work that I have

1078
00:56:47,359 --> 00:56:52,150
ever been involved

1079
00:56:52,160 --> 00:56:55,119
in and I have been involved in working

1080
00:56:55,119 --> 00:56:57,520
for justice since I was a teenager in

1081
00:56:57,520 --> 00:57:00,359
Cleveland Ohio in the early

1082
00:57:00,359 --> 00:57:03,359
1960s I said I thought that this was

1083
00:57:03,359 --> 00:57:05,359
some of the most meaningful political

1084
00:57:05,359 --> 00:57:07,640
work that I had ever been involved in

1085
00:57:07,640 --> 00:57:08,920
and one of the reasons it was so

1086
00:57:08,920 --> 00:57:12,520
meaningful to me is because it's we did

1087
00:57:12,520 --> 00:57:15,480
something that means much to me that is

1088
00:57:15,480 --> 00:57:18,160
really kind of the Bedrock of why I do

1089
00:57:18,160 --> 00:57:20,559
many of the things I do that is we

1090
00:57:20,559 --> 00:57:23,039
worked in Coalition across

1091
00:57:23,039 --> 00:57:25,559
differences um we worked with members of

1092
00:57:25,559 --> 00:57:27,839
the Muslim community of the Arab

1093
00:57:27,839 --> 00:57:30,039
American community of the Palestinian

1094
00:57:30,039 --> 00:57:32,839
American uh community of the Central

1095
00:57:32,839 --> 00:57:36,160
Asian Community not just in Albany but

1096
00:57:36,160 --> 00:57:39,200
in the entire region to get that passed

1097
00:57:39,200 --> 00:57:41,799
just like tonight with this standing

1098
00:57:41,799 --> 00:57:45,440
room only crowd here in your city hall

1099
00:57:45,440 --> 00:57:48,000
hundreds of people hundreds of people

1100
00:57:48,000 --> 00:57:50,520
came to support the resolution that

1101
00:57:50,520 --> 00:57:52,960
eventually was passed and you know I

1102
00:57:52,960 --> 00:57:54,559
have been to a lot of Council meetings I

1103
00:57:54,559 --> 00:57:56,440
was on for eight years I was going to

1104
00:57:56,440 --> 00:57:58,440
Council meetings before I was on the

1105
00:57:58,440 --> 00:58:01,000
common Council so I have been to many

1106
00:58:01,000 --> 00:58:02,799
Council meetings I had never seen people

1107
00:58:02,799 --> 00:58:06,079
come out by the hundreds to support uh

1108
00:58:06,079 --> 00:58:07,839
what they needed to support that's the

1109
00:58:07,839 --> 00:58:09,760
end of my time I just want to tell you

1110
00:58:09,760 --> 00:58:11,680
about an article that I hope that I can

1111
00:58:11,680 --> 00:58:17,640
send to your uh Clerk and whoever passes out and tears things with

1112
00:58:17,640 --> 00:58:20,000
um with people on the console it's an

1113
00:58:20,000 --> 00:58:22,640
article that says it's from the nation

1114
00:58:22,640 --> 00:58:26,680
it's dated March 21st 2024 100 100

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00:58:26,680 --> 00:58:29,079
American communities have called for a

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00:58:29,079 --> 00:58:33,160
Gaza ceasefire resolution

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00:58:33,160 --> 00:58:36,480
100 so this is not this is not an

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00:58:36,480 --> 00:58:39,680
outlier this is not strange to do at

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00:58:39,680 --> 00:58:41,280
certain times people have to stand on

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00:58:41,280 --> 00:58:42,960
the right side of History I hope that

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00:58:42,960 --> 00:58:45,730
this connected city council does the

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00:58:45,730 --> 00:58:47,910
[Applause]

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00:58:47,910 --> 00:58:53,349
[Music]

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00:58:53,359 --> 00:58:59,020
same Jamaica miles Jamaica

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00:58:59,030 --> 00:59:07,549
[Applause]

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00:59:07,559 --> 00:59:10,400
miles this is not division this is Unity

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00:59:10,400 --> 00:59:11,920
I need you to remember that this is not

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00:59:11,920 --> 00:59:14,119
division this is Unity this is Unity

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00:59:14,119 --> 00:59:16,640
across all types of intersections so

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00:59:16,640 --> 00:59:19,520
don't let anybody fool you about who is

1131
00:59:19,520 --> 00:59:22,559
calling for this on Saturday I attended

1132
00:59:22,559 --> 00:59:24,200
the Hamilton Hill collaborative mural

1133
00:59:24,200 --> 00:59:26,359
unveiling through your mother's eyes it

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00:59:26,359 --> 00:59:28,079
is centered around mothers and sons

1135
00:59:28,079 --> 00:59:29,839
specifically those Sons whose lives were

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00:59:29,839 --> 00:59:32,400
cut short by acts of violence medical

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00:59:32,400 --> 00:59:34,440
violence in the case of Jerry Burell

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00:59:34,440 --> 00:59:36,160
vigilante and police violence in the

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00:59:36,160 --> 00:59:38,640
case of Martin Luther King Jr EMT till

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00:59:38,640 --> 00:59:41,440
Tamir rice and George Floyd today is the

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00:59:41,440 --> 00:59:43,920
39th anniversary of the move bombing in

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00:59:43,920 --> 00:59:46,599
Philadelphia in

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00:59:46,599 --> 00:59:50,319
1985 police raided and bombarded the

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00:59:50,319 --> 00:59:52,440
headquarters to move a black liberation

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00:59:52,440 --> 00:59:55,240
group founded in the early 1970s the

1146
00:59:55,240 --> 00:59:57,559
group fought for an end to redlining and

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00:59:57,559 --> 01:00:00,640
housing discrimination the group was

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01:00:00,640 --> 01:00:03,039
accused of making terrorist threats in

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01:00:03,039 --> 01:00:05,359
1996 a Federal Court ruled that the city

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01:00:05,359 --> 01:00:07,200
used excessive force and violated

1151
01:00:07,200 --> 01:00:10,480
constitutional Protections in 2021

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01:00:10,480 --> 01:00:12,039
Princeton University forensic

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01:00:12,039 --> 01:00:14,160
anthropology course allegedly did a case

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01:00:14,160 --> 01:00:16,559
study using the remains of two children

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01:00:16,559 --> 01:00:18,960
killed in aerial bombing the University

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01:00:18,960 --> 01:00:20,760
of Pennsylvania Museum of archaeology

1157
01:00:20,760 --> 01:00:23,680
and anthropology held the remains before

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01:00:23,680 --> 01:00:25,640
transferring them to Princeton the

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01:00:25,640 --> 01:00:28,359
medical examiner's office found a box

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01:00:28,359 --> 01:00:33,680
labeled move containing uncrated remains

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01:00:33,680 --> 01:00:35,160
how is this relevant to the need for a

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01:00:35,160 --> 01:00:38,039
ceasefire resolution in SKC the things

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01:00:38,039 --> 01:00:40,000
that this very body should be shocked

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01:00:40,000 --> 01:00:42,359
and shaken by are happening to people in

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01:00:42,359 --> 01:00:47,270
Palestine right

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01:00:47,280 --> 01:00:50,720
now every every single part of what I

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01:00:50,720 --> 01:00:52,720
read is an everyday reality for

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01:00:52,720 --> 01:00:55,520
Palestinians for being Palestinians the

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01:00:55,520 --> 01:00:57,359
same way that what happened to all of

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01:00:57,359 --> 01:00:59,680
those people right here in this country

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01:00:59,680 --> 01:01:01,960
happened because they were black in the

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01:01:01,960 --> 01:01:04,599
moment those in power saw no issue with

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01:01:04,599 --> 01:01:06,559
the inhumane treatment of one particular

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01:01:06,559 --> 01:01:09,760
group excuses were made the same is true

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01:01:09,760 --> 01:01:12,880
today the value of human life is not

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01:01:12,880 --> 01:01:14,880
treated as equal if you believe

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01:01:14,880 --> 01:01:17,400
otherwise it will not be understood by

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01:01:17,400 --> 01:01:19,440
your silence it will be known by your

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01:01:19,440 --> 01:01:22,400
words and your actions right now it is

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01:01:22,400 --> 01:01:23,920
US dollars that are paying for the

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01:01:23,920 --> 01:01:26,319
murder of Palestinians the over whelming

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01:01:26,319 --> 01:01:28,440
majority of civilians especially women

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01:01:28,440 --> 01:01:30,839
and children if the people who represent

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01:01:30,839 --> 01:01:33,480
this city and are in charge of making

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01:01:33,480 --> 01:01:35,520
decisions in the best interest of its

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01:01:35,520 --> 01:01:37,839
residents are not able to condemn

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01:01:37,839 --> 01:01:40,799
egregious acts of violence why would

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01:01:40,799 --> 01:01:42,720
should we believe that you will be moved

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01:01:42,720 --> 01:01:49,069
to help those of us right

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01:01:49,079 --> 01:01:52,279
here the residents the residents in this

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01:01:52,279 --> 01:01:53,839
city need housing like those that were

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01:01:53,839 --> 01:01:56,160
bombed in Philadelphia in 1985 the

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01:01:56,160 --> 01:01:57,880
residents in this city need health care

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01:01:57,880 --> 01:01:59,880
just like Jerry Burell did the money

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01:01:59,880 --> 01:02:01,680
that is being sent to Israel to kill

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01:02:01,680 --> 01:02:04,000
would be better used in connecti to heal

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01:02:04,000 --> 01:02:06,520
are our residents not worthy of your

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advocacy as elected officials as elected

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officials we we cuz I am an elected

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official as elected officials we are to

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use our position for the betterment of

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01:02:17,240 --> 01:02:19,359
our community always a resolution from

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01:02:19,359 --> 01:02:20,799
the city council would send a clear

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01:02:20,799 --> 01:02:22,640
message that our residents deserve the

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01:02:22,640 --> 01:02:24,200
resources necessary for their basic

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01:02:24,200 --> 01:02:26,240
needs and more a ceasefire resolution

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01:02:26,240 --> 01:02:28,400
says that SKC city council condemns

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01:02:28,400 --> 01:02:31,200
violence and prioritizes all life this

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01:02:31,200 --> 01:02:33,000
is a message that all of us can support

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01:02:33,000 --> 01:02:35,079
and I will close with the same message

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01:02:35,079 --> 01:02:38,000
that I shared with the artist Bianca

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01:02:38,000 --> 01:02:40,720
dalala that even though the revolution

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01:02:40,720 --> 01:02:43,240
may not be televised it will always be

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01:02:43,240 --> 01:02:47,890
recorded

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01:02:47,900 --> 01:02:56,630
[Music]

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01:02:56,640 --> 01:03:03,430
Megan LaVine Megan

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[Applause]

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01:03:12,319 --> 01:03:15,400
LaVine mayor McCarthy president

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01:03:15,400 --> 01:03:17,400
Porterfield honorable members of the

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01:03:17,400 --> 01:03:20,440
city council you've heard my name is Meg

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01:03:20,440 --> 01:03:22,799
leavine I am Jewish and I seem to be

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01:03:22,799 --> 01:03:23,760
very much

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01:03:23,760 --> 01:03:26,000
alone I never thought I would need to

1224
01:03:26,000 --> 01:03:28,160
declare My Religion before a local

1225
01:03:28,160 --> 01:03:31,839
government body but that is the Le

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01:03:31,839 --> 01:03:35,230
likely the least

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01:03:35,240 --> 01:03:37,799
imaginable thing that has occurred since

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01:03:37,799 --> 01:03:38,799
October

1229
01:03:38,799 --> 01:03:41,760
7th I appear full of Sorrow yet

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01:03:41,760 --> 01:03:45,160
determined to persevere to feel Joy and

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01:03:45,160 --> 01:03:48,640
to hang on to hope for a better tomorrow

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01:03:48,640 --> 01:03:51,799
for all of us as is evident in our

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01:03:51,799 --> 01:03:54,720
Theology and culture centuries of Jewish

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01:03:54,720 --> 01:03:58,039
people have teetered between sour and

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01:03:58,039 --> 01:04:01,359
joy today though is particularly

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01:04:01,359 --> 01:04:04,599
significant as we do annually once again

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01:04:04,599 --> 01:04:06,960
within 24 hours transition from the

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01:04:06,960 --> 01:04:09,960
sorrow of Yom hazikaron which is our day

1239
01:04:09,960 --> 01:04:12,240
of remembrance of Fallen Soldiers and

1240
01:04:12,240 --> 01:04:15,119
victims of war and Terror we move

1241
01:04:15,119 --> 01:04:16,599
towards

1242
01:04:16,599 --> 01:04:20,799
yamut Israel's independence day 76 years

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01:04:20,799 --> 01:04:24,880
of struggle strength sorrow and joy but

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01:04:24,880 --> 01:04:26,520
little peace

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01:04:26,520 --> 01:04:29,319
and I totly understand without

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01:04:29,319 --> 01:04:32,720
responding to the comments behind me

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01:04:32,720 --> 01:04:36,119
that that is not the same view that

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01:04:36,119 --> 01:04:39,440
others have of that time and I'm not

1249
01:04:39,440 --> 01:04:42,680
here to do a history Point by point or

1250
01:04:42,680 --> 01:04:45,319
whether your facts or my facts are more

1251
01:04:45,319 --> 01:04:48,720
to the point to this issue or in fact

1252
01:04:48,720 --> 01:04:52,359
correct but I will say that today as I

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01:04:52,359 --> 01:04:54,319
mentioned sorrow and

1254
01:04:54,319 --> 01:04:58,319
joy at weddings of Jewish folks you even

1255
01:04:58,319 --> 01:04:59,799
might have seen it on the movies where

1256
01:04:59,799 --> 01:05:03,039
the groom steps on the glass that glass

1257
01:05:03,039 --> 01:05:07,079
is the broken synagogue in Jerusalem of

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01:05:07,079 --> 01:05:08,599
70

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01:05:08,599 --> 01:05:12,400
CE a presence of Jews in Israel from

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01:05:12,400 --> 01:05:15,309
thousands of years

1261
01:05:15,319 --> 01:05:19,119
ago my continued Jewish studies as an

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01:05:19,119 --> 01:05:22,440
adult is connected me to Israel our l l

1263
01:05:22,440 --> 01:05:24,359
liturgy and our prayers speak to Israel

1264
01:05:24,359 --> 01:05:27,400
in Jerusalem over and over again our

1265
01:05:27,400 --> 01:05:29,400
spiritual home as it is indeed the

1266
01:05:29,400 --> 01:05:32,160
spiritual home of Christianity and

1267
01:05:32,160 --> 01:05:34,839
Muslim I also have read article Islam

1268
01:05:34,839 --> 01:05:36,839
and I've also read articles that have

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01:05:36,839 --> 01:05:38,839
deepened my understanding of the pain of

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01:05:38,839 --> 01:05:41,559
those who now live in Gaza the West Bank

1271
01:05:41,559 --> 01:05:44,960
in Jordan those who previously lived in

1272
01:05:44,960 --> 01:05:49,480
Israel's 1948 borders that both people's

1273
01:05:49,480 --> 01:05:52,160
experience deep pain is

1274
01:05:52,160 --> 01:05:55,039
incontrovertible yet the actions of some

1275
01:05:55,039 --> 01:05:58,440
want to deny the pain of the other I do

1276
01:05:58,440 --> 01:06:01,240
not as I listened and heard in the first

1277
01:06:01,240 --> 01:06:04,279
of these City Council meetings the pain

1278
01:06:04,279 --> 01:06:07,119
runs deep among those who speak in favor

1279
01:06:07,119 --> 01:06:09,839
of the local body enter entertaining a

1280
01:06:09,839 --> 01:06:11,160
ceasefire

1281
01:06:11,160 --> 01:06:13,799
resolution intended to address

1282
01:06:13,799 --> 01:06:15,160
International

1283
01:06:15,160 --> 01:06:17,400
Affairs yet the city council's

1284
01:06:17,400 --> 01:06:19,559
jurisdiction is not

1285
01:06:19,559 --> 01:06:21,960
International it can't broker much hope

1286
01:06:21,960 --> 01:06:24,279
for peace can't address what happens the

1287
01:06:24,279 --> 01:06:26,760
day after or deal with the necessities

1288
01:06:26,760 --> 01:06:29,520
of the details of a seafire we have

1289
01:06:29,520 --> 01:06:32,279
heard these resolutions waved

1290
01:06:32,279 --> 01:06:35,240
around advocating one perspective very

1291
01:06:35,240 --> 01:06:37,559
much like placards and Banners can't

1292
01:06:37,559 --> 01:06:40,039
possibly contain the nuances of it all

1293
01:06:40,039 --> 01:06:43,039
instead it's like we won they lost that

1294
01:06:43,039 --> 01:06:44,760
is not the kind of resolution that will

1295
01:06:44,760 --> 01:06:46,839
bring our community together and I end

1296
01:06:46,839 --> 01:06:49,000
by saying I believe it's submitted for

1297
01:06:49,000 --> 01:06:52,079
the record a statement on on behalf of

1298
01:06:52,079 --> 01:06:54,520
Rabbi M Matt Cutler David Posner from

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01:06:54,520 --> 01:06:57,720
the jccc Robert kovat from Jewish

1300
01:06:57,720 --> 01:06:59,960
Federation and Rabbi Spitzer from

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01:06:59,960 --> 01:07:01,480
congregation

1302
01:07:01,480 --> 01:07:05,039
aim the focus is here on this community

1303
01:07:05,039 --> 01:07:06,720
it is with I'll wrap up and say it's

1304
01:07:06,720 --> 01:07:08,920
what this I feel kind of alone with all

1305
01:07:08,920 --> 01:07:10,760
the other comments this is it I think

1306
01:07:10,760 --> 01:07:13,839
for for this view that the that this

1307
01:07:13,839 --> 01:07:16,480
committee focus on joining this

1308
01:07:16,480 --> 01:07:18,240
community together bringing this

1309
01:07:18,240 --> 01:07:21,240
community to a sense of PE pieace

1310
01:07:21,240 --> 01:07:23,400
decreasing the stress in this community

1311
01:07:23,400 --> 01:07:25,760
we had a stronger Interfaith community

1312
01:07:25,760 --> 01:07:28,359
it's afraid we're all afraid thank you

1313
01:07:28,359 --> 01:07:39,430
very much for your attention thank

1314
01:07:39,440 --> 01:07:50,670
you SWA

1315
01:07:50,680 --> 01:07:53,920
Khan good evening my name is sakon I was

1316
01:07:53,920 --> 01:07:56,039
born and raised in skincity New York and

1317
01:07:56,039 --> 01:07:57,680
I'm currently I've just finished my

1318
01:07:57,680 --> 01:07:59,799
junior year at U Albany studying

1319
01:07:59,799 --> 01:08:01,200
political science with a concentration

1320
01:08:01,200 --> 01:08:04,760
in Global Studies this thank you this

1321
01:08:04,760 --> 01:08:07,039
semester I took International Security

1322
01:08:07,039 --> 01:08:08,799
in Conflict where we learned about the

1323
01:08:08,799 --> 01:08:11,200
attributes that make a conflict a war

1324
01:08:11,200 --> 01:08:13,319
there must be two or more sides and

1325
01:08:13,319 --> 01:08:15,359
there must be organized violence one

1326
01:08:15,359 --> 01:08:18,239
military versus another not a military

1327
01:08:18,239 --> 01:08:20,600
versus civilians like it is in Rafa as

1328
01:08:20,600 --> 01:08:24,440
we speak and it must be reciprocal

1329
01:08:24,440 --> 01:08:27,560
violence both both sides must be subject

1330
01:08:27,560 --> 01:08:30,759
to the the to and committing similar

1331
01:08:30,759 --> 01:08:34,000
levels of violence which all of us know

1332
01:08:34,000 --> 01:08:36,040
has not been the case in Palestine for

1333
01:08:36,040 --> 01:08:38,910
the last 76

1334
01:08:38,910 --> 01:08:43,510
[Music]

1335
01:08:43,520 --> 01:08:46,600
years none of the requirements have been

1336
01:08:46,600 --> 01:08:48,920
met to call the current conflict in

1337
01:08:48,920 --> 01:08:51,679
Palestine anything other than ethnic

1338
01:08:51,679 --> 01:08:54,279
cleansing what we are seeing is a

1339
01:08:54,279 --> 01:08:57,920
genocide and your children have been

1340
01:08:57,920 --> 01:09:00,159
learning through our public education

1341
01:09:00,159 --> 01:09:02,839
institutions about genocide for years

1342
01:09:02,839 --> 01:09:05,000
and we are saying enough the young

1343
01:09:05,000 --> 01:09:07,239
members of this community who you claim

1344
01:09:07,239 --> 01:09:09,679
only when it is beneficial are begging

1345
01:09:09,679 --> 01:09:12,440
you to do something consider and pass a

1346
01:09:12,440 --> 01:09:15,120
piece of legislation at the bare minimum

1347
01:09:15,120 --> 01:09:17,960
calling for a ceasefire my University

1348
01:09:17,960 --> 01:09:20,239
student

1349
01:09:20,239 --> 01:09:23,359
Senate was able to write and pass one

1350
01:09:23,359 --> 01:09:26,239
calling for a ceasefire and div m in

1351
01:09:26,239 --> 01:09:28,960
just a few weeks Albany city council did

1352
01:09:28,960 --> 01:09:31,120
it did one calling for a ceasefire in a

1353
01:09:31,120 --> 01:09:34,400
few months and you all won't budge we

1354
01:09:34,400 --> 01:09:36,359
know what resistance to genocide looks

1355
01:09:36,359 --> 01:09:39,120
like we are finally learning what true

1356
01:09:39,120 --> 01:09:41,120
diverse Coalition building and Community

1357
01:09:41,120 --> 01:09:43,279
looks like through this movement for

1358
01:09:43,279 --> 01:09:46,319
Liberation skc's pretty prettily painted

1359
01:09:46,319 --> 01:09:48,679
walls are still walls not Bridges

1360
01:09:48,679 --> 01:09:50,799
without working against Injustice for

1361
01:09:50,799 --> 01:09:54,719
all we know we know we need ceasefire

1362
01:09:54,719 --> 01:09:56,760
resolutions at all government levels and

1363
01:09:56,760 --> 01:09:58,880
divestment but our elected officials

1364
01:09:58,880 --> 01:10:01,120
like yourself our Representatives will

1365
01:10:01,120 --> 01:10:03,679
not listen we are being brutalized on

1366
01:10:03,679 --> 01:10:06,320
our campuses in the streets deny job

1367
01:10:06,320 --> 01:10:08,080
opportunities and face hatred because we

1368
01:10:08,080 --> 01:10:10,239
speak out but we persist because

1369
01:10:10,239 --> 01:10:12,080
Palestinians are being indiscriminately

1370
01:10:12,080 --> 01:10:14,840
bombed every day because Palestinian

1371
01:10:14,840 --> 01:10:16,840
mothers celebrated Mother's Day Without

1372
01:10:16,840 --> 01:10:19,360
adequate pre- and post-natal care with

1373
01:10:19,360 --> 01:10:22,000
Starving Children and with dead children

1374
01:10:22,000 --> 01:10:23,840
we still find the courage to stand up in

1375
01:10:23,840 --> 01:10:26,560
the face of indifference apathy Pro

1376
01:10:26,560 --> 01:10:28,960
genocidal bodies like this one

1377
01:10:28,960 --> 01:10:36,550
[Music]

1378
01:10:36,560 --> 01:10:39,000
because because Palestinians are losing

1379
01:10:39,000 --> 01:10:41,159
limbs without anesthesia because

1380
01:10:41,159 --> 01:10:43,960
Palestinians are in actual recorded

1381
01:10:43,960 --> 01:10:46,600
concentration camps with conditions so

1382
01:10:46,600 --> 01:10:48,800
horrible it made me physically ill to

1383
01:10:48,800 --> 01:10:51,640
read which begs the question do you not

1384
01:10:51,640 --> 01:10:54,800
see what we see we sit here and endure

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01:10:54,800 --> 01:10:56,360
apathy and abuse at City Council

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01:10:56,360 --> 01:10:57,719
meetings in our universities because

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01:10:57,719 --> 01:10:59,679
there are no more universities in Gaza

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01:10:59,679 --> 01:11:01,480
because six-year-old Hinn died alone

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01:11:01,480 --> 01:11:03,719
amongst her family's corpses because the

1390
01:11:03,719 --> 01:11:06,040
Israeli occupation forces that our

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01:11:06,040 --> 01:11:08,880
government funds killed the aid workers

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01:11:08,880 --> 01:11:12,199
who went to go save her I will stand

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01:11:12,199 --> 01:11:14,560
here and I will shame elected leader

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01:11:14,560 --> 01:11:16,920
leaders until there is a ceasefire

1395
01:11:16,920 --> 01:11:18,560
resolution passed through this body

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01:11:18,560 --> 01:11:20,800
until there's an end to an occupation of

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01:11:20,800 --> 01:11:23,239
Palestine until Gaza is no longer an

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01:11:23,239 --> 01:11:25,560
open air prison and Palestine goes back

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01:11:25,560 --> 01:11:27,199
to being the land of olive trees and

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01:11:27,199 --> 01:11:29,360
citrus fruit stewarded by the indigenous

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01:11:29,360 --> 01:11:31,320
people of the land instead of a land of

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01:11:31,320 --> 01:11:33,560
bombs and destruction a corruption that

1403
01:11:33,560 --> 01:11:37,199
can only be caused by Colonial occupiers

1404
01:11:37,199 --> 01:11:39,440
this is not the time for apathy it is

1405
01:11:39,440 --> 01:11:42,000
the time for Education especially from a

1406
01:11:42,000 --> 01:11:44,280
body like this in a city as diverse as

1407
01:11:44,280 --> 01:11:46,080
ours the body has stood against

1408
01:11:46,080 --> 01:11:48,000
oppressive violence at home keep that

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01:11:48,000 --> 01:11:49,920
energy up for the same oppressive

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01:11:49,920 --> 01:11:52,440
violence abroad forever and for always

1411
01:11:52,440 --> 01:12:04,910
free Palestine thank you

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01:12:04,920 --> 01:12:11,630
valer Valerie Triano Valerie

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01:12:11,640 --> 01:12:13,720
[Applause]

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01:12:13,720 --> 01:12:15,600
[Music]

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01:12:15,600 --> 01:12:19,320
Triano good evening mayor McCarthy and

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01:12:19,320 --> 01:12:22,080
City Council Members I am here tonight

1417
01:12:22,080 --> 01:12:24,560
standing in solidarity with Palestinians

1418
01:12:24,560 --> 01:12:25,719
and in support

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01:12:25,719 --> 01:12:28,360
of a call for a permanent ceasefire and

1420
01:12:28,360 --> 01:12:31,669
an end to the Israeli

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01:12:31,679 --> 01:12:33,679
occupation of

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01:12:33,679 --> 01:12:37,199
his of historic Palestine I feel I feel

1423
01:12:37,199 --> 01:12:39,440
guilt ridden knowing I have Palestinians

1424
01:12:39,440 --> 01:12:42,239
blood on my hands from my federal New

1425
01:12:42,239 --> 01:12:44,960
York and skincity

1426
01:12:44,960 --> 01:12:47,239
taxes that I've been funding the ethnic

1427
01:12:47,239 --> 01:12:49,719
cleansing and genocide of Palestinians

1428
01:12:49,719 --> 01:12:52,950
an estimate of

1429
01:12:52,960 --> 01:12:58,719
9627 962 074 of concy taxes funds

1430
01:12:58,719 --> 01:13:01,800
Israel's weapons why are our local taxes

1431
01:13:01,800 --> 01:13:04,600
funding weapons for a foreign country

1432
01:13:04,600 --> 01:13:07,440
what I'd much rather see my scy taxes

1433
01:13:07,440 --> 01:13:10,320
fund fixing our infrastructures concy

1434
01:13:10,320 --> 01:13:12,639
County Libraries education and helping

1435
01:13:12,639 --> 01:13:14,050
the homeless on our

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01:13:14,050 --> 01:13:21,430
[Applause]

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01:13:21,440 --> 01:13:24,040
streets never again means never again

1438
01:13:24,040 --> 01:13:26,280
for all of humanity I have hope we'll

1439
01:13:26,280 --> 01:13:28,639
see a free Palestine as there's Global

1440
01:13:28,639 --> 01:13:30,800
solidarity with Palestine speaking out

1441
01:13:30,800 --> 01:13:31,960
against the ethnic cleansing and

1442
01:13:31,960 --> 01:13:34,280
genocide of Palestinians being a cause

1443
01:13:34,280 --> 01:13:35,639
of unity with folks of different

1444
01:13:35,639 --> 01:13:38,320
religion race class gender and ethnicity

1445
01:13:38,320 --> 01:13:40,600
coming together it's important to ask

1446
01:13:40,600 --> 01:13:41,880
yourself when your children

1447
01:13:41,880 --> 01:13:44,000
grandchildren and great grandchildren

1448
01:13:44,000 --> 01:13:45,440
ask what did you do during the

1449
01:13:45,440 --> 01:13:47,639
Palestinian genocide what you do now is

1450
01:13:47,639 --> 01:13:51,040
your answer to them these last 219 days

1451
01:13:51,040 --> 01:13:53,440
have been absolutely horrifying

1452
01:13:53,440 --> 01:13:55,400
witnessing the suffering and death

1453
01:13:55,400 --> 01:13:57,920
Palestinians this isn't a Judaism versus

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01:13:57,920 --> 01:14:00,960
Islam conflict either as the Israeli

1455
01:14:00,960 --> 01:14:02,120
military have also been killing

1456
01:14:02,120 --> 01:14:03,800
Christian and Jewish Palestinians as

1457
01:14:03,800 --> 01:14:07,159
well Rafa is being heavily bom bombarded

1458
01:14:07,159 --> 01:14:09,920
by Israel which is filled with refugee

1459
01:14:09,920 --> 01:14:13,000
camps of Goins from the Israeli military

1460
01:14:13,000 --> 01:14:15,760
forcing gazin out of Gaza and into Rafa

1461
01:14:15,760 --> 01:14:18,440
stating Rafa would be a safe Zone this

1462
01:14:18,440 --> 01:14:20,679
to me is a clear Act of e ethnic

1463
01:14:20,679 --> 01:14:22,760
cleansing and genocide as Israel knows

1464
01:14:22,760 --> 01:14:24,239
Rafa is filled with refugees and

1465
01:14:24,239 --> 01:14:26,679
civilians to conclude I'd like to remind

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01:14:26,679 --> 01:14:29,520
everyone we are all human beings who bed

1467
01:14:29,520 --> 01:14:31,040
who believe the

1468
01:14:31,040 --> 01:14:34,280
same and who deserve basic human rights

1469
01:14:34,280 --> 01:14:37,000
decency respect love and to feel safe

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01:14:37,000 --> 01:14:38,400
thank you for your time to listen to my

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01:14:38,400 --> 01:14:46,110
words thank

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01:14:46,120 --> 01:15:00,590
you Tracy Collins Tracy Collins

1473
01:15:00,600 --> 01:15:03,080
good evening mayor city council and name

1474
01:15:03,080 --> 01:15:04,920
is Tracy Collins I live on the corner of

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01:15:04,920 --> 01:15:07,480
queen filam and kings Road since the

1476
01:15:07,480 --> 01:15:09,440
last time here my property was destroyed

1477
01:15:09,440 --> 01:15:12,199
again for the eighth time we are now in

1478
01:15:12,199 --> 01:15:14,360
tens of thousands of

1479
01:15:14,360 --> 01:15:16,400
dollars sometimes people don't have

1480
01:15:16,400 --> 01:15:19,239
insurance money comes out of my pocket

1481
01:15:19,239 --> 01:15:22,120
I'm tired of this I'm here to beg you

1482
01:15:22,120 --> 01:15:23,480
I'm here to plead with you to do

1483
01:15:23,480 --> 01:15:25,560
something about King's Road

1484
01:15:25,560 --> 01:15:28,960
enough is enough slow to speeding down

1485
01:15:28,960 --> 01:15:30,600
city clerk just made a comment that

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01:15:30,600 --> 01:15:32,639
somebody put in that wants a speed speed

1487
01:15:32,639 --> 01:15:37,920
hump and a stop sign on Becker Street has several stop signs and

1488
01:15:37,920 --> 01:15:40,000
several traffic lights we only have one

1489
01:15:40,000 --> 01:15:42,600
traffic light when is enough going to be

1490
01:15:42,600 --> 01:15:45,440
enough please step up and do something

1491
01:15:45,440 --> 01:15:48,360
my family's life is in danger all I'm

1492
01:15:48,360 --> 01:15:50,080
asking you folks to do is do the damn

1493
01:15:50,080 --> 01:15:52,840
right thing we're not going to live like

1494
01:15:52,840 --> 01:15:56,000
this anymore please bring your kids to

1495
01:15:56,000 --> 01:15:58,880
our house play in our yard you won't you

1496
01:15:58,880 --> 01:16:02,120
won't do it I guarantee mayor Mr Toro I

1497
01:16:02,120 --> 01:16:03,560
thank you for coming to our home several

1498
01:16:03,560 --> 01:16:05,960
times we appreciate

1499
01:16:05,960 --> 01:16:08,719
it how how how do you feel about living

1500
01:16:08,719 --> 01:16:11,400
in your house we don't feel safe in our

1501
01:16:11,400 --> 01:16:14,000
house so I'm again I'm here to ask you

1502
01:16:14,000 --> 01:16:16,480
one last time do something about this

1503
01:16:16,480 --> 01:16:19,920
road mayor I ask you I asked your

1504
01:16:19,920 --> 01:16:21,719
ministration three weeks ago coming up

1505
01:16:21,719 --> 01:16:24,080
from uh Route Seven Up ofne Street on

1506
01:16:24,080 --> 01:16:26,239
the Kings Road there's no sign there to

1507
01:16:26,239 --> 01:16:27,880
tell people the bridge is closed until

1508
01:16:27,880 --> 01:16:29,920
you turn on to King's Road cars are

1509
01:16:29,920 --> 01:16:32,120
flying up King's Road going down to the

1510
01:16:32,120 --> 01:16:35,000
bridge whing the hell out of there

1511
01:16:35,000 --> 01:16:36,280
somebody's going to get seriously hurt

1512
01:16:36,280 --> 01:16:38,520
on this road so again I'm here to ask

1513
01:16:38,520 --> 01:16:40,560
you nicely please do something about

1514
01:16:40,560 --> 01:16:43,980
this road thank you and have a good

1515
01:16:43,980 --> 01:16:50,520
[Applause]

1516
01:16:50,520 --> 01:16:55,720
evening FAA Isa

1517
01:16:55,730 --> 01:17:05,350
[Applause]

1518
01:17:05,360 --> 01:17:07,679
good evening honorable mayor Madame

1519
01:17:07,679 --> 01:17:10,159
President and members of the council

1520
01:17:10,159 --> 01:17:11,880
thank you for listening to us as we

1521
01:17:11,880 --> 01:17:14,199
returned for the fourth time to City

1522
01:17:14,199 --> 01:17:16,639
Hall in support of a ceasefire

1523
01:17:16,639 --> 01:17:19,440
resolution today I will not speak at

1524
01:17:19,440 --> 01:17:21,920
length of the targeting of innocent

1525
01:17:21,920 --> 01:17:24,520
civilians in Gaza and how the Israeli

1526
01:17:24,520 --> 01:17:25,560
Army

1527
01:17:25,560 --> 01:17:29,760
uses Precision guided drones to kill

1528
01:17:29,760 --> 01:17:32,400
Palestinian children children who are

1529
01:17:32,400 --> 01:17:34,400
playing with their friends in the

1530
01:17:34,400 --> 01:17:38,360
streets on the beach or in a field

1531
01:17:38,360 --> 01:17:40,320
instead I would like to use my time to

1532
01:17:40,320 --> 01:17:42,760
thank all those people of conscience who

1533
01:17:42,760 --> 01:17:45,040
have spoken up in support of justice for

1534
01:17:45,040 --> 01:17:48,480
the Palestinian people in particular I

1535
01:17:48,480 --> 01:17:55,629
would like to thank those

1536
01:17:55,639 --> 01:17:59,790
Among Us who practice

1537
01:17:59,800 --> 01:18:02,600
Judaism a religion which is not in any

1538
01:18:02,600 --> 01:18:04,719
way condone

1539
01:18:04,719 --> 01:18:07,679
Zionism they deserve to be singled out

1540
01:18:07,679 --> 01:18:10,360
for thanks because they are people who

1541
01:18:10,360 --> 01:18:13,320
continue to fight for justice in spite

1542
01:18:13,320 --> 01:18:16,199
of the criticism and condemnation they

1543
01:18:16,199 --> 01:18:19,360
receive from their own communities

1544
01:18:19,360 --> 01:18:29,440
[Applause]

1545
01:18:29,440 --> 01:18:32,400
I am in a of them because for me they

1546
01:18:32,400 --> 01:18:34,800
are living examples of a verse from the

1547
01:18:34,800 --> 01:18:38,080
Quran which states oh you who have

1548
01:18:38,080 --> 01:18:41,800
believed be persistently standing firm

1549
01:18:41,800 --> 01:18:46,280
in Justice Witnesses for Allah even if

1550
01:18:46,280 --> 01:18:50,560
it be against yourselves or parents or

1551
01:18:50,560 --> 01:18:53,679
relatives whether one is Rich or poor

1552
01:18:53,679 --> 01:18:56,280
Allah is more worthy of of both so

1553
01:18:56,280 --> 01:18:58,440
follow not personal

1554
01:18:58,440 --> 01:19:02,440
inclination lest you not be just and if

1555
01:19:02,440 --> 01:19:04,880
you Dort your testimony or refuse to

1556
01:19:04,880 --> 01:19:09,120
give it then indeed Allah is ever with

1557
01:19:09,120 --> 01:19:12,240
what you do

1558
01:19:12,240 --> 01:19:18,800
[Applause]

1559
01:19:18,800 --> 01:19:21,159
acquainted in response to those who have

1560
01:19:21,159 --> 01:19:22,800
stated that pushing for a ceasefire

1561
01:19:22,800 --> 01:19:24,880
resolution is causing Division and hat

1562
01:19:24,880 --> 01:19:27,719
in our community I quote the American

1563
01:19:27,719 --> 01:19:31,639
historian Howard Zin who said they will

1564
01:19:31,639 --> 01:19:34,400
say we're disturbing the peace but there

1565
01:19:34,400 --> 01:19:37,760
is no peace what really bothers them is

1566
01:19:37,760 --> 01:19:47,990
that we are disturbing the

1567
01:19:48,000 --> 01:19:51,239
war in closing I relate advice from

1568
01:19:51,239 --> 01:19:52,560
Prophet Muhammad May the peace and

1569
01:19:52,560 --> 01:19:55,320
blessings of God be upon him

1570
01:19:55,320 --> 01:19:58,520
help your brother whether he is an

1571
01:19:58,520 --> 01:20:02,679
oppressor or he is an oppressed one the

1572
01:20:02,679 --> 01:20:06,239
people asked oh God's Apostle it is all

1573
01:20:06,239 --> 01:20:08,920
right to help him if he's oppressed but

1574
01:20:08,920 --> 01:20:11,159
how should we help him if he is an

1575
01:20:11,159 --> 01:20:14,840
oppressor the prophet said by preventing

1576
01:20:14,840 --> 01:20:17,910
him from oppressing others

1577
01:20:17,910 --> 01:20:26,510
[Applause]

1578
01:20:26,520 --> 01:20:29,639
may be may we be of those who call out

1579
01:20:29,639 --> 01:20:32,800
oppression when we see it and thereby

1580
01:20:32,800 --> 01:20:35,280
help the oppressor because the opposite

1581
01:20:35,280 --> 01:20:39,490
of war is not peace it is Justice thank

1582
01:20:39,490 --> 01:20:47,790
[Applause]

1583
01:20:47,800 --> 01:20:50,639
you well

1584
01:20:50,639 --> 01:20:56,770
haana will haana

1585
01:20:56,780 --> 01:21:09,070
[Applause]

1586
01:21:09,080 --> 01:21:11,880
I would say shalom also in

1587
01:21:11,880 --> 01:21:16,080
Jewish we are brothers with everyone in

1588
01:21:16,080 --> 01:21:20,639
the world unless this person treat us

1589
01:21:20,639 --> 01:21:23,280
unjustly then he is not our brother

1590
01:21:23,280 --> 01:21:27,120
anymore so so we

1591
01:21:27,120 --> 01:21:31,239
recognize all Muslims or Jews or

1592
01:21:31,239 --> 01:21:34,840
Christians all of them who are united

1593
01:21:34,840 --> 01:21:39,239
together for Humanity we don't come to

1594
01:21:39,239 --> 01:21:43,480
anybody who is Against Humanity I came

1595
01:21:43,480 --> 01:21:47,480
to to uh connected in

1596
01:21:47,480 --> 01:21:51,920
1975 I think before most of them before

1597
01:21:51,920 --> 01:21:53,520
most of you were

1598
01:21:53,520 --> 01:21:58,000
born 1975 I came and I I love the city

1599
01:21:58,000 --> 01:22:00,880
and I know a lot of people in the city

1600
01:22:00,880 --> 01:22:04,679
and the mayor he honored our school he

1601
01:22:04,679 --> 01:22:08,920
came and visited us once um I am very

1602
01:22:08,920 --> 01:22:11,320
pleased to be here but I'm not going to

1603
01:22:11,320 --> 01:22:14,440
repeat everything they said all what

1604
01:22:14,440 --> 01:22:18,960
they said is genuine and correct and I

1605
01:22:18,960 --> 01:22:24,080
think all of you know that it is correct

1606
01:22:24,080 --> 01:22:29,760
[Applause]

1607
01:22:29,760 --> 01:22:32,390
thank you very much thank you thank

1608
01:22:32,390 --> 01:22:39,870
[Applause]

1609
01:22:39,880 --> 01:22:43,810
you Elizabeth

1610
01:22:43,820 --> 01:22:47,920
[Applause]

1611
01:22:47,920 --> 01:22:50,280
zadon I would like to start with the

1612
01:22:50,280 --> 01:22:52,840
greetings as my husband said salamu

1613
01:22:52,840 --> 01:22:54,960
alaykum wish is peace

1614
01:22:54,960 --> 01:22:57,400
and I will say shalom as well because my

1615
01:22:57,400 --> 01:23:00,280
religion taught me to respect all

1616
01:23:00,280 --> 01:23:04,709
religions to respect

1617
01:23:04,719 --> 01:23:13,709
everybody where on Earth did it

1618
01:23:13,719 --> 01:23:17,199
go I wrote something and it meant to be

1619
01:23:17,199 --> 01:23:19,440
not to be read because I wanted to say

1620
01:23:19,440 --> 01:23:21,120
from my heart and I know what it comes

1621
01:23:21,120 --> 01:23:22,520
from the heart is going to go into the

1622
01:23:22,520 --> 01:23:24,920
heart of every single one of you here

1623
01:23:24,920 --> 01:23:28,800
because all of us here we are

1624
01:23:28,800 --> 01:23:31,480
humans what you have inside your body is

1625
01:23:31,480 --> 01:23:35,280
the same color as of mine as the ones

1626
01:23:35,280 --> 01:23:38,920
Ina I am originally a Palestinian but I

1627
01:23:38,920 --> 01:23:42,159
was deprived to visit Palestine except

1628
01:23:42,159 --> 01:23:45,400
once in my life and the reason that I

1629
01:23:45,400 --> 01:23:48,639
was privileged to get into my ancestors

1630
01:23:48,639 --> 01:23:53,159
land my parents land is because I got

1631
01:23:53,159 --> 01:23:56,590
the US passport in my hand

1632
01:23:56,600 --> 01:23:58,280
I was born in

1633
01:23:58,280 --> 01:24:01,639
Kuwait I immigrated to this land by my

1634
01:24:01,639 --> 01:24:05,560
parents as a choice I chose this land to

1635
01:24:05,560 --> 01:24:08,950
become a US

1636
01:24:08,960 --> 01:24:12,920
citizen and I wanted my kids to have an

1637
01:24:12,920 --> 01:24:16,920
equal life as everybody in the

1638
01:24:16,920 --> 01:24:20,719
world but I never thought my US

1639
01:24:20,719 --> 01:24:24,920
citizen by obeying the law and the order

1640
01:24:24,920 --> 01:24:29,920
by following the law by paying taxes is

1641
01:24:29,920 --> 01:24:34,480
going to kill my family back in

1642
01:24:34,480 --> 01:24:37,520
Palestine I just can't live with that

1643
01:24:37,520 --> 01:24:41,239
I'm a mother I'm an educator I just

1644
01:24:41,239 --> 01:24:45,199
cannot see children have a school year

1645
01:24:45,199 --> 01:24:48,239
without a school without a parent

1646
01:24:48,239 --> 01:24:50,760
without a school bag or a

1647
01:24:50,760 --> 01:24:55,040
lunchbox I cannot enjoy the new year

1648
01:24:55,040 --> 01:24:56,880
because there is nothing

1649
01:24:56,880 --> 01:24:59,400
promising there's nothing promising

1650
01:24:59,400 --> 01:25:01,600
knowing that my tax money is going to

1651
01:25:01,600 --> 01:25:04,960
continue funding genocides in

1652
01:25:04,960 --> 01:25:06,600
Palestine

1653
01:25:06,600 --> 01:25:09,440
please Palestine is a beautiful land

1654
01:25:09,440 --> 01:25:12,080
it's a blessed land it's known in all

1655
01:25:12,080 --> 01:25:15,639
the holy lands okay and all the

1656
01:25:15,639 --> 01:25:18,520
religions is the land of

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01:25:18,520 --> 01:25:22,600
everyone it does not give superity over

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01:25:22,600 --> 01:25:26,679
one religion or a group M please let's

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01:25:26,679 --> 01:25:29,480
enjoy it to all of us I want all of you

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01:25:29,480 --> 01:25:31,800
guys to come and enjoy

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01:25:31,800 --> 01:25:34,639
Palestine but until then you're going to

1662
01:25:34,639 --> 01:25:36,199
have to go to

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01:25:36,199 --> 01:25:38,280
sleep and you're going to sleep with

1664
01:25:38,280 --> 01:25:39,480
your

1665
01:25:39,480 --> 01:25:41,440
conscience knowing that there are

1666
01:25:41,440 --> 01:25:44,400
children are dying and they are starving

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01:25:44,400 --> 01:25:46,199
knowing that they are mothers like me

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01:25:46,199 --> 01:25:49,199
and you I see that half of the staff

1669
01:25:49,199 --> 01:25:50,960
here is

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01:25:50,960 --> 01:25:54,440
women and the rest you have mothers and

1671
01:25:54,440 --> 01:25:57,920
you have wives so you know what it means

1672
01:25:57,920 --> 01:26:00,480
please remember you are going to be

1673
01:26:00,480 --> 01:26:03,080
changing the history with your decision

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01:26:03,080 --> 01:26:05,210
stop the

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01:26:05,210 --> 01:26:17,119
[Applause]

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01:26:17,119 --> 01:26:23,020
genocide mamad dahalia

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01:26:23,030 --> 01:26:28,040
[Applause]

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01:26:28,040 --> 01:26:30,880
my name is Muhammad D I'm a Palestinian

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01:26:30,880 --> 01:26:33,600
American I was born and raised in

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01:26:33,600 --> 01:26:36,679
America but I've always had my

1681
01:26:36,679 --> 01:26:40,400
connection to my homeland because I know

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01:26:40,400 --> 01:26:42,199
where my parents are from where my

1683
01:26:42,199 --> 01:26:43,520
grandparents are

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01:26:43,520 --> 01:26:46,520
from and the fact that I can't go back

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01:26:46,520 --> 01:26:49,440
to my homeland because of an

1686
01:26:49,440 --> 01:26:53,239
imperialistic colonis genocidal State

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01:26:53,239 --> 01:26:56,480
and the fact that I come over here to

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01:26:56,480 --> 01:26:59,320
the the land of the free the Land of the

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01:26:59,320 --> 01:27:02,239
brave but it's full of cowards and

1690
01:27:02,239 --> 01:27:03,600
people who

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01:27:03,600 --> 01:27:05,400
protect

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01:27:05,400 --> 01:27:10,320
genocide and who protect prisons prisons

1693
01:27:10,320 --> 01:27:12,119
all over our country prisons all over

1694
01:27:12,119 --> 01:27:14,639
other people's countries and the fact

1695
01:27:14,639 --> 01:27:16,719
that I'm in this city the city that I

1696
01:27:16,719 --> 01:27:19,600
spent majority of my life in and I come

1697
01:27:19,600 --> 01:27:21,920
to the city hall that I know of that it

1698
01:27:21,920 --> 01:27:23,639
was like 2 years ago 3 years ago when we

1699
01:27:23,639 --> 01:27:25,400
were talking about Ukraine and it was a

1700
01:27:25,400 --> 01:27:27,360
big Trend you guys would all have little

1701
01:27:27,360 --> 01:27:29,400
Ukrainian pins on your guys' shirts and

1702
01:27:29,400 --> 01:27:31,600
what's it call apples and stuff but

1703
01:27:31,600 --> 01:27:34,080
nobody here has a CFA or a Palestinian

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01:27:34,080 --> 01:27:36,199
pin or anything cuz there's no support

1705
01:27:36,199 --> 01:27:38,360
from you guys and it's so easy for you

1706
01:27:38,360 --> 01:27:40,239
guys to give us support to show a little

1707
01:27:40,239 --> 01:27:42,280
bit of support and the fact that we do

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01:27:42,280 --> 01:27:44,560
not see that already shows us where you

1709
01:27:44,560 --> 01:27:48,840
guys stand we want you guys to be voting

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01:27:48,840 --> 01:27:51,119
for a ceasefire for more than a

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01:27:51,119 --> 01:27:52,760
ceasefire cuz that's not where it should

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01:27:52,760 --> 01:27:55,239
be ending it should supposed to be

1713
01:27:55,239 --> 01:27:56,920
freedom for

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01:27:56,920 --> 01:28:00,239
Palestine Freedom for Gaza freedom for

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01:28:00,239 --> 01:28:03,880
the West Bank Freedom for all oppressed

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01:28:03,880 --> 01:28:06,880
countries in the world and it is an

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01:28:06,880 --> 01:28:09,960
American city and an American state and

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01:28:09,960 --> 01:28:11,760
an American country that has to be in

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01:28:11,760 --> 01:28:13,560
charge of that because we're the ones

1720
01:28:13,560 --> 01:28:15,719
that imprisoned them we're the ones that

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01:28:15,719 --> 01:28:18,000
helped imprison them even when they were

1722
01:28:18,000 --> 01:28:20,800
not going to be it is our

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01:28:20,800 --> 01:28:23,639
concern a 100 cities said they they put

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01:28:23,639 --> 01:28:25,840
out a SE Fire for free Palestine we need

1725
01:28:25,840 --> 01:28:29,000
to make it 101 we need to make SK proud

1726
01:28:29,000 --> 01:28:32,560
of itself do you know what the average

1727
01:28:32,560 --> 01:28:35,679
person outside this city hall call skty

1728
01:28:35,679 --> 01:28:38,800
they call it City shitti that's

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01:28:38,800 --> 01:28:40,840
what they call it because they're not

1730
01:28:40,840 --> 01:28:43,080
proud of the city they live in but you

1731
01:28:43,080 --> 01:28:45,440
guys can make skincity proud because

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01:28:45,440 --> 01:28:49,080
this average skan is is for a ceasefire

1733
01:28:49,080 --> 01:28:52,440
is for a pre free Palestine majority of

1734
01:28:52,440 --> 01:28:55,639
skty is for that cuz they have morality

1735
01:28:55,639 --> 01:28:58,480
they have hearts and they understand

1736
01:28:58,480 --> 01:29:00,719
that these people are being oppressed

1737
01:29:00,719 --> 01:29:02,360
the same way we have people oppressed

1738
01:29:02,360 --> 01:29:04,639
here in America and they can't stand for

1739
01:29:04,639 --> 01:29:06,840
that so why are we standing for that

1740
01:29:06,840 --> 01:29:10,560
anymore by paying tax dollars to people

1741
01:29:10,560 --> 01:29:13,440
who are not willing to change or willing

1742
01:29:13,440 --> 01:29:17,199
to show any type of Bravery for the

1743
01:29:17,199 --> 01:29:19,960
oppressed when we are able to go from

1744
01:29:19,960 --> 01:29:24,239
town to town to uh City to City to state okay some people fly to

1745
01:29:24,239 --> 01:29:26,800
countries just to protest just to show

1746
01:29:26,800 --> 01:29:29,719
help to show solidarity and here in our

1747
01:29:29,719 --> 01:29:33,719
own City we can't do that I just want to

1748
01:29:33,719 --> 01:29:36,880
end with the fact that you guys are here

1749
01:29:36,880 --> 01:29:40,520
now and soon if you if we do not see any

1750
01:29:40,520 --> 01:29:43,280
changes people will vote for people who

1751
01:29:43,280 --> 01:29:45,679
will want changes who will put in

1752
01:29:45,679 --> 01:29:50,920
changes okay you you guys know the walls

1753
01:29:50,920 --> 01:29:54,199
have been plastered things the the news

1754
01:29:54,199 --> 01:29:55,719
has been shown you guys know like there

1755
01:29:55,719 --> 01:29:57,080
you don't need to do anything because

1756
01:29:57,080 --> 01:29:58,960
you guys already know what's going on in

1757
01:29:58,960 --> 01:30:00,639
Palestine okay nothing we're going to

1758
01:30:00,639 --> 01:30:02,400
say is going to say anything new to you

1759
01:30:02,400 --> 01:30:04,280
the question is are you guys planning on

1760
01:30:04,280 --> 01:30:05,800
staying in those seats forever or are

1761
01:30:05,800 --> 01:30:07,639
you guys do you guys want to do you guys

1762
01:30:07,639 --> 01:30:09,280
want to leave as soon as possible

1763
01:30:09,280 --> 01:30:10,600
because that's what the votes are

1764
01:30:10,600 --> 01:30:12,800
happening you've got every city in in

1765
01:30:12,800 --> 01:30:14,639
the capital region coming here to tell

1766
01:30:14,639 --> 01:30:16,800
you guys that you guys need to change

1767
01:30:16,800 --> 01:30:18,000
and we're going to also tell you guys

1768
01:30:18,000 --> 01:30:19,400
that at the polls if we see anything

1769
01:30:19,400 --> 01:30:27,870
different

1770
01:30:27,880 --> 01:30:30,760
Miriam

1771
01:30:30,770 --> 01:30:36,679
[Applause]

1772
01:30:36,679 --> 01:30:40,760
hanana Alum uh you do not know me but I

1773
01:30:40,760 --> 01:30:43,239
am a senior in high school and I am

1774
01:30:43,239 --> 01:30:46,320
currently 14 years old I am very eager

1775
01:30:46,320 --> 01:30:49,560
to graduate but I'm also very grateful

1776
01:30:49,560 --> 01:30:52,000
that I am not eager to survive the next

1777
01:30:52,000 --> 01:30:55,119
bomb I am grateful that I am not living

1778
01:30:55,119 --> 01:30:57,480
in rubble

1779
01:30:57,480 --> 01:31:00,040
and surrounded by deceased family

1780
01:31:00,040 --> 01:31:02,440
members and Friends it is utterly

1781
01:31:02,440 --> 01:31:04,760
disgusting that me and my peers are able

1782
01:31:04,760 --> 01:31:07,239
to go to school every single day with

1783
01:31:07,239 --> 01:31:09,280
the main worry of homework and

1784
01:31:09,280 --> 01:31:12,480
graduating but my sisters and brothers

1785
01:31:12,480 --> 01:31:14,440
in Palestine are unable to go to

1786
01:31:14,440 --> 01:31:17,080
elementary school because of the

1787
01:31:17,080 --> 01:31:19,760
constant bombing raids shootings and the

1788
01:31:19,760 --> 01:31:22,560
fear that in the next hour their body

1789
01:31:22,560 --> 01:31:24,639
will be lost among the Rebel

1790
01:31:24,639 --> 01:31:27,520
unrecognizable to their only family and

1791
01:31:27,520 --> 01:31:32,709
friends it is shameful and

1792
01:31:32,719 --> 01:31:36,199
sickening it is shameful and sickening

1793
01:31:36,199 --> 01:31:39,119
that these past weeks has been been the

1794
01:31:39,119 --> 01:31:42,960
media circul circulating around a

1795
01:31:42,960 --> 01:31:45,440
goddamn fashion show with these

1796
01:31:45,440 --> 01:31:46,920
millionaires I'm going to ask people to

1797
01:31:46,920 --> 01:31:50,280
please let me excuse you can please uh

1798
01:31:50,280 --> 01:31:53,600
the profanity has got to stop please

1799
01:31:53,600 --> 01:31:54,960
that for everyone that's going to come

1800
01:31:54,960 --> 01:31:57,199
to this Podium we've been respectful

1801
01:31:57,199 --> 01:31:58,719
we've allowed you to come but you need

1802
01:31:58,719 --> 01:32:01,360
to respect our chamber as well thank you

1803
01:32:01,360 --> 01:32:04,510
okay go right

1804
01:32:04,520 --> 01:32:06,280
ahead

1805
01:32:06,280 --> 01:32:10,719
um it is shame it is sad that these past

1806
01:32:10,719 --> 01:32:12,800
weeks has been the media circulating

1807
01:32:12,800 --> 01:32:15,320
around a fashion show with these

1808
01:32:15,320 --> 01:32:18,040
Millionaires and billionaires that spend

1809
01:32:18,040 --> 01:32:20,080
more money on shoes than the amount of

1810
01:32:20,080 --> 01:32:22,239
standing buildings left in Palestine

1811
01:32:22,239 --> 01:32:25,119
currently the fact that I can go

1812
01:32:25,119 --> 01:32:27,920
anywhere on social media and find and

1813
01:32:27,920 --> 01:32:30,639
continue finding influencers with a high

1814
01:32:30,639 --> 01:32:35,320
amount of followers and just having a

1815
01:32:35,320 --> 01:32:38,639
high pedestal in the world of media and

1816
01:32:38,639 --> 01:32:42,679
they continue to stay in their selfish

1817
01:32:42,679 --> 01:32:46,199
Ways by supporting such um

1818
01:32:46,199 --> 01:32:49,080
corporations such as Starbucks and

1819
01:32:49,080 --> 01:32:51,440
McDonald's due to either being

1820
01:32:51,440 --> 01:32:54,520
uneducated or due to being ignorant

1821
01:32:54,520 --> 01:32:57,000
it is disrespectful to not only

1822
01:32:57,000 --> 01:32:59,960
Palestinians but also themselves it

1823
01:32:59,960 --> 01:33:02,520
shows when you put no effort in making

1824
01:33:02,520 --> 01:33:04,679
decisions it shows when you stick to

1825
01:33:04,679 --> 01:33:06,480
your own selfish wants instead of the

1826
01:33:06,480 --> 01:33:10,600
needs of the people in Gaza and Rafa it

1827
01:33:10,600 --> 01:33:12,400
is necessary to understand that the

1828
01:33:12,400 --> 01:33:14,600
majority in America show their

1829
01:33:14,600 --> 01:33:17,320
undeniable support and anguish towards

1830
01:33:17,320 --> 01:33:19,880
Palestinian pain and

1831
01:33:19,880 --> 01:33:21,960
suffering I hope that you can make the

1832
01:33:21,960 --> 01:33:23,920
right decision thank you

1833
01:33:23,920 --> 01:33:34,109
[Applause]

1834
01:33:34,119 --> 01:33:38,380
Amna

1835
01:33:38,390 --> 01:33:43,560
[Applause]

1836
01:33:43,560 --> 01:33:46,960
dahalia um I will Overlook introductions

1837
01:33:46,960 --> 01:33:48,679
since this day is not about me it's not

1838
01:33:48,679 --> 01:33:50,000
about you it's about

1839
01:33:50,000 --> 01:33:52,679
Palestinians um I wrote a little

1840
01:33:52,679 --> 01:33:55,600
something um just a little bit of poetry

1841
01:33:55,600 --> 01:33:57,840
a little bit of spoken word in 3 minutes

1842
01:33:57,840 --> 01:34:00,480
or less in 3 minutes or less please

1843
01:34:00,480 --> 01:34:03,159
explain why the city of skinc should

1844
01:34:03,159 --> 01:34:04,920
approve a ceasefire resolution in

1845
01:34:04,920 --> 01:34:07,199
Palestine in 3 minutes or less please

1846
01:34:07,199 --> 01:34:09,400
explain why the wholesale Slaughter of

1847
01:34:09,400 --> 01:34:12,080
Palestinians is wrong in 3 minutes or

1848
01:34:12,080 --> 01:34:14,760
less please describe how 75 plus years

1849
01:34:14,760 --> 01:34:17,560
of occupation and apartheid have now led

1850
01:34:17,560 --> 01:34:20,239
to nearly 40,000 deaths and over 6

1851
01:34:20,239 --> 01:34:22,880
months of war in 3 minutes or less

1852
01:34:22,880 --> 01:34:24,760
please describe what it is like to live

1853
01:34:24,760 --> 01:34:27,920
in between checkpoint to checkpoint in a

1854
01:34:27,920 --> 01:34:29,639
country that your great great

1855
01:34:29,639 --> 01:34:32,199
grandparents were born in in 3 minutes

1856
01:34:32,199 --> 01:34:34,840
or less please explain why any form of

1857
01:34:34,840 --> 01:34:37,760
resistance from peaceful to Armed to

1858
01:34:37,760 --> 01:34:40,920
Artistic is condemned and stamped out so

1859
01:34:40,920 --> 01:34:43,199
that any level of sympathy for your

1860
01:34:43,199 --> 01:34:45,880
condition is buried in 3 minutes or less

1861
01:34:45,880 --> 01:34:47,520
please explain what it is like to know

1862
01:34:47,520 --> 01:34:50,440
to call your home your home is a crime

1863
01:34:50,440 --> 01:34:53,000
in 3 minutes or less please explain why

1864
01:34:53,000 --> 01:34:54,760
your people have have to be forcibly

1865
01:34:54,760 --> 01:34:57,159
displaced to atone for the sins of

1866
01:34:57,159 --> 01:34:59,520
Europeans and their racist ideologies

1867
01:34:59,520 --> 01:35:01,920
that follow us into this day in 3

1868
01:35:01,920 --> 01:35:04,000
minutes or less please convince us of

1869
01:35:04,000 --> 01:35:06,639
your Humanity in 3 minutes or less

1870
01:35:06,639 --> 01:35:08,960
please pretend that any level of Human

1871
01:35:08,960 --> 01:35:11,840
Rights extends to Palestinians in 3

1872
01:35:11,840 --> 01:35:14,760
minutes or less please justify Western

1873
01:35:14,760 --> 01:35:17,360
imperialism without calling it Western

1874
01:35:17,360 --> 01:35:20,159
imperialism in 3 minutes or less please

1875
01:35:20,159 --> 01:35:22,560
give context for the military industrial

1876
01:35:22,560 --> 01:35:25,159
machine to wreak its havoc in Gazza the

1877
01:35:25,159 --> 01:35:27,159
same way it did in Afghanistan the same

1878
01:35:27,159 --> 01:35:28,840
way it did in Iraq and the same way it

1879
01:35:28,840 --> 01:35:31,800
did in Vietnam in 3 minutes or less

1880
01:35:31,800 --> 01:35:35,239
please explain rage grief resistance

1881
01:35:35,239 --> 01:35:38,520
anti-Semitism Revolution islamophobia

1882
01:35:38,520 --> 01:35:42,000
hope faith Freedom intersectionality

1883
01:35:42,000 --> 01:35:44,600
environmentalism acceptance tolerance

1884
01:35:44,600 --> 01:35:47,440
equality and exchange in 3 minutes or

1885
01:35:47,440 --> 01:35:49,679
less please remind us how absurd it is

1886
01:35:49,679 --> 01:35:51,320
that you are only given 3 minutes or

1887
01:35:51,320 --> 01:35:53,760
less your timing is important we we

1888
01:35:53,760 --> 01:35:56,280
cannot inconvenience the system that was

1889
01:35:56,280 --> 01:35:58,560
created to ensure our obedience and our

1890
01:35:58,560 --> 01:36:00,880
silence please keep your words to a

1891
01:36:00,880 --> 01:36:02,960
minimum because we don't actually want

1892
01:36:02,960 --> 01:36:05,880
to hear them remember we only have 3

1893
01:36:05,880 --> 01:36:07,880
minutes or less but please do forget the

1894
01:36:07,880 --> 01:36:10,239
images of a father carrying his

1895
01:36:10,239 --> 01:36:13,760
children's limbs in plastic bags of a

1896
01:36:13,760 --> 01:36:16,679
boy cleaning up his mother's remains of

1897
01:36:16,679 --> 01:36:19,639
universities and hospitals bombed into

1898
01:36:19,639 --> 01:36:22,480
Rubble of entire lifetimes buried

1899
01:36:22,480 --> 01:36:25,080
beneath the ground of whole families

1900
01:36:25,080 --> 01:36:27,800
wiped out of existence in 3 minutes or

1901
01:36:27,800 --> 01:36:30,159
less please maintain your decorum and

1902
01:36:30,159 --> 01:36:32,280
respectability in a time that is the

1903
01:36:32,280 --> 01:36:35,280
most undeserving of it in 3 minutes or

1904
01:36:35,280 --> 01:36:37,239
less please describe what it is like to

1905
01:36:37,239 --> 01:36:39,760
be Palestinian knowing that there are no

1906
01:36:39,760 --> 01:36:42,639
words too big to fit your pride and your

1907
01:36:42,639 --> 01:36:45,800
pain in 3 minutes or less please give us

1908
01:36:45,800 --> 01:36:48,000
what little remains of your strength so

1909
01:36:48,000 --> 01:36:49,560
that we can discard it as we have

1910
01:36:49,560 --> 01:36:51,679
already done and we have already done

1911
01:36:51,679 --> 01:36:54,080
with our Morality In 3 Minutes

1912
01:36:54,080 --> 01:36:56,600
Le I can end it by telling you to keep

1913
01:36:56,600 --> 01:36:58,679
your pity and your false sympathy that

1914
01:36:58,679 --> 01:37:00,679
regardless of whatever decision is made

1915
01:37:00,679 --> 01:37:03,239
by a corrupt government living on Stolen

1916
01:37:03,239 --> 01:37:05,679
land built off of stolen labor we will

1917
01:37:05,679 --> 01:37:08,320
live to see every nation free from The

1918
01:37:08,320 --> 01:37:11,910
River To The Sea Palestine will be

1919
01:37:11,910 --> 01:37:21,080
[Applause]

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free so shakima

1921
01:37:29,280 --> 01:37:31,760
so today I'm choosing to raise my voice

1922
01:37:31,760 --> 01:37:33,600
on behalf of those who lost their voices

1923
01:37:33,600 --> 01:37:36,040
and those who lost their lives let it be

1924
01:37:36,040 --> 01:37:37,880
known that we are officially asking you

1925
01:37:37,880 --> 01:37:40,239
to bring this resolution to the floor

1926
01:37:40,239 --> 01:37:42,040
and show us where you stand but before

1927
01:37:42,040 --> 01:37:44,639
we do that I want to tell you this this

1928
01:37:44,639 --> 01:37:46,840
is Unity right here you're talking about

1929
01:37:46,840 --> 01:37:49,880
gender age whatever you talk about sex

1930
01:37:49,880 --> 01:37:52,040
religion I am telling you I am an

1931
01:37:52,040 --> 01:37:54,760
Interfaith leader and I'll tell you this

1932
01:37:54,760 --> 01:37:57,880
Isis hijacked Islam and Zionism is

1933
01:37:57,880 --> 01:37:59,239
hijacking

1934
01:37:59,239 --> 01:38:06,589
Judaism that

1935
01:38:06,599 --> 01:38:08,960
is and I'm going to tell you where

1936
01:38:08,960 --> 01:38:12,199
division stands there is always division

1937
01:38:12,199 --> 01:38:13,840
there is the right and the wrong there

1938
01:38:13,840 --> 01:38:15,520
is the oppressed and the

1939
01:38:15,520 --> 01:38:17,560
oppressor there are those who are on the

1940
01:38:17,560 --> 01:38:18,760
right side of history and there are

1941
01:38:18,760 --> 01:38:20,199
those who are on the wrong side of

1942
01:38:20,199 --> 01:38:22,960
history there are those who Stand United

1943
01:38:22,960 --> 01:38:24,719
in front of you and there are those who

1944
01:38:24,719 --> 01:38:26,760
are the cowards behind the screen typing

1945
01:38:26,760 --> 01:38:28,639
those emails and sending them to you

1946
01:38:28,639 --> 01:38:30,119
there are those who are standing behind

1947
01:38:30,119 --> 01:38:31,800
the screens and there are those who are

1948
01:38:31,800 --> 01:38:33,679
standing in front of the camera there's

1949
01:38:33,679 --> 01:38:36,040
a division between us today who are

1950
01:38:36,040 --> 01:38:38,599
standing and sitting here and you guys

1951
01:38:38,599 --> 01:38:40,280
and I'll tell you where the division is

1952
01:38:40,280 --> 01:38:42,239
we are speaking you're listening but

1953
01:38:42,239 --> 01:38:44,400
tomorrow we want it to be known are you

1954
01:38:44,400 --> 01:38:45,880
going to be standing with us on the

1955
01:38:45,880 --> 01:38:47,719
right side of history or you are you

1956
01:38:47,719 --> 01:38:49,800
going to maintain this Division and I'm

1957
01:38:49,800 --> 01:38:52,199
going to tell you this as we plan for

1958
01:38:52,199 --> 01:38:55,320
today as Muslims we say this I plan and

1959
01:38:55,320 --> 01:38:58,400
you plan and God has the best of plans

1960
01:38:58,400 --> 01:39:01,800
from the the prayer that actually was

1961
01:39:01,800 --> 01:39:05,800
shared with us God has put um what's her

1962
01:39:05,800 --> 01:39:09,639
name uh Amanda Thompson I believe and

1963
01:39:09,639 --> 01:39:11,840
she prayed for Gaza whether you liked it

1964
01:39:11,840 --> 01:39:15,599
or not a teacher stood here being

1965
01:39:15,599 --> 01:39:19,440
recognized and she prayed for Palestine

1966
01:39:19,440 --> 01:39:22,520
and you passing these resolutions this

1967
01:39:22,520 --> 01:39:24,000
hypocrisy

1968
01:39:24,000 --> 01:39:25,800
I'll tell you this I'm a father I can

1969
01:39:25,800 --> 01:39:28,400
preach to my kids day in and day out do

1970
01:39:28,400 --> 01:39:30,560
you know what they learn from from my

1971
01:39:30,560 --> 01:39:32,520
actions you know what's the worst thing

1972
01:39:32,520 --> 01:39:34,920
I can do for my kids is I tell them do

1973
01:39:34,920 --> 01:39:37,639
as I say and do not do as I do so I'm

1974
01:39:37,639 --> 01:39:40,199
asking you are you going to keep passing

1975
01:39:40,199 --> 01:39:42,440
those resolutions taking those nice

1976
01:39:42,440 --> 01:39:44,760
pictures or are you going to stand on

1977
01:39:44,760 --> 01:39:46,320
the right side of history as it was

1978
01:39:46,320 --> 01:39:49,119
mentioned before the history is being

1979
01:39:49,119 --> 01:39:52,560
recorded and I'm telling you this you

1980
01:39:52,560 --> 01:39:55,679
cannot recognize as a teacher while you

1981
01:39:55,679 --> 01:39:58,040
are indifferent to those teachers who

1982
01:39:58,040 --> 01:39:59,360
are being killed in

1983
01:39:59,360 --> 01:40:02,870
Palestine you

1984
01:40:02,880 --> 01:40:06,080
cannot you cannot bring somebody to the

1985
01:40:06,080 --> 01:40:09,119
City Hall to pray to God and you know

1986
01:40:09,119 --> 01:40:11,840
Jesus and God will ask you and say where

1987
01:40:11,840 --> 01:40:14,679
did you stand you cannot ask for bravery

1988
01:40:14,679 --> 01:40:16,960
and you're carding behind a desk and

1989
01:40:16,960 --> 01:40:19,440
sitting as you're rumbling and worried

1990
01:40:19,440 --> 01:40:21,840
that do I have to vote Yes you do have

1991
01:40:21,840 --> 01:40:23,719
to vote whether you're like it or not

1992
01:40:23,719 --> 01:40:25,639
and today all of us are standing here

1993
01:40:25,639 --> 01:40:28,280
today saying we're tired we did extend

1994
01:40:28,280 --> 01:40:30,679
that invitation to people who claim to

1995
01:40:30,679 --> 01:40:33,719
be for peace they refus to join us hand

1996
01:40:33,719 --> 01:40:36,360
in hand we extended that we spoke to

1997
01:40:36,360 --> 01:40:38,040
some of you guys and some of you refused

1998
01:40:38,040 --> 01:40:40,040
to speak to us but you went to the

1999
01:40:40,040 --> 01:40:42,639
newspaper because you want to sound like

2000
01:40:42,639 --> 01:40:44,920
you are making a statement but that is

2001
01:40:44,920 --> 01:40:47,280
the most coward thing that anyone can do

2002
01:40:47,280 --> 01:40:49,159
so I'm telling you we're whole

2003
01:40:49,159 --> 01:40:51,840
collectively standing here today asking

2004
01:40:51,840 --> 01:40:53,520
you to bring that resolution to to the

2005
01:40:53,520 --> 01:40:56,560
floor and we will vote just like you

2006
01:40:56,560 --> 01:40:59,040
will vote I promise that and for those

2007
01:40:59,040 --> 01:41:00,880
who told you I conclude with this who

2008
01:41:00,880 --> 01:41:02,520
told you don't worry about these people

2009
01:41:02,520 --> 01:41:05,320
that will be gone we're here we're

2010
01:41:05,320 --> 01:41:07,840
larger in number we're more diverse and

2011
01:41:07,840 --> 01:41:18,830
we're even

2012
01:41:18,840 --> 01:41:31,709
louder har Haron SAR Haron

2013
01:41:31,719 --> 01:41:33,159
respected council members my name is

2014
01:41:33,159 --> 01:41:34,880
Haron Sarver I represent Masjid ass

2015
01:41:34,880 --> 01:41:36,320
Salam religious non for-profit

2016
01:41:36,320 --> 01:41:39,080
organization in the down trodon area of

2017
01:41:39,080 --> 01:41:41,360
Albany uh some of my colleagues are

2018
01:41:41,360 --> 01:41:43,560
joined here where we asked for ceasefire

2019
01:41:43,560 --> 01:41:46,760
resolution in Albany which was passed uh

2020
01:41:46,760 --> 01:41:48,520
you can say with the majority of the

2021
01:41:48,520 --> 01:41:50,560
people today we're asking for something

2022
01:41:50,560 --> 01:41:53,040
similar asking for ceasefire I think is

2023
01:41:53,040 --> 01:41:54,280
probably the most humbling thing

2024
01:41:54,280 --> 01:41:56,880
somebody can ask for an end to violence

2025
01:41:56,880 --> 01:41:58,719
is not something which should be just

2026
01:41:58,719 --> 01:42:01,880
let gone why do we recognize the

2027
01:42:01,880 --> 01:42:03,920
violence that occurred in Ukraine but we

2028
01:42:03,920 --> 01:42:06,480
failed to recognize this I worked at the

2029
01:42:06,480 --> 01:42:08,199
Office of the State Controller until a

2030
01:42:08,199 --> 01:42:10,440
few months ago and as soon as the war in

2031
01:42:10,440 --> 01:42:12,800
Ukraine started there was a flag outside

2032
01:42:12,800 --> 01:42:16,639
the building for Ukraine and how come is

2033
01:42:16,639 --> 01:42:19,159
it that they blatantly fly the the

2034
01:42:19,159 --> 01:42:20,520
Israeli flag at the beginning of the

2035
01:42:20,520 --> 01:42:22,560
conflict and nobody asks for the voice

2036
01:42:22,560 --> 01:42:24,679
of the palestin Ians we have done

2037
01:42:24,679 --> 01:42:27,199
everything which is possible we have

2038
01:42:27,199 --> 01:42:29,960
protested in front of the Albany Capital

2039
01:42:29,960 --> 01:42:32,040
we have we have done anything and

2040
01:42:32,040 --> 01:42:34,159
everything our kids are suffering from

2041
01:42:34,159 --> 01:42:36,119
depression asking for something a

2042
01:42:36,119 --> 01:42:38,080
ceasefire although it's symbolic it

2043
01:42:38,080 --> 01:42:40,199
makes people feel it makes kids feel

2044
01:42:40,199 --> 01:42:42,760
that they did something right it's a

2045
01:42:42,760 --> 01:42:44,320
gesture it's not something which is

2046
01:42:44,320 --> 01:42:46,239
going to maybe have a profound effect

2047
01:42:46,239 --> 01:42:47,480
but at least for the people of the

2048
01:42:47,480 --> 01:42:49,360
residents of this connecti and the

2049
01:42:49,360 --> 01:42:51,639
Capital District it gives some sort of

2050
01:42:51,639 --> 01:42:52,920
comfort to their heart that they did

2051
01:42:52,920 --> 01:42:54,440
something something that they could

2052
01:42:54,440 --> 01:42:56,920
possibly do peacefully so once again

2053
01:42:56,920 --> 01:42:59,920
it's not something very difficult please

2054
01:42:59,920 --> 01:43:02,400
stand on the right side of the history

2055
01:43:02,400 --> 01:43:04,360
be recorded in the books as you did

2056
01:43:04,360 --> 01:43:06,599
something for peace we're not asking for

2057
01:43:06,599 --> 01:43:08,679
violence we're asking for a ceasefire

2058
01:43:08,679 --> 01:43:10,880
thank you so

2059
01:43:10,880 --> 01:43:16,950
[Applause]

2060
01:43:16,960 --> 01:43:25,290
much Frank Wix Frank wix

2061
01:43:25,300 --> 01:43:33,920
[Applause]

2062
01:43:33,920 --> 01:43:37,000
okay Frank Wix uh just comment on a

2063
01:43:37,000 --> 01:43:42,560
prior one says the uh Isis has hijacked

2064
01:43:42,560 --> 01:43:47,880
uh Islam Zionism has hijacked Judaism

2065
01:43:47,880 --> 01:43:49,639
and they'd say the political right wing

2066
01:43:49,639 --> 01:43:52,679
and others in this country the ISA know

2067
01:43:52,679 --> 01:43:57,580
the is Lobby is uh hijack the American

2068
01:43:57,580 --> 01:44:04,589
[Applause]

2069
01:44:04,599 --> 01:44:07,400
democracy it's a it's good that this

2070
01:44:07,400 --> 01:44:10,000
meeting of the city council starts by

2071
01:44:10,000 --> 01:44:12,239
recognizing the people and teachers and

2072
01:44:12,239 --> 01:44:14,840
volunteers it makes concy a better place

2073
01:44:14,840 --> 01:44:16,639
and everyone should be appreciated for

2074
01:44:16,639 --> 01:44:20,040
being here tonight we can Envy someone

2075
01:44:20,040 --> 01:44:22,000
with a good luck of winning a billion

2076
01:44:22,000 --> 01:44:26,270
dollars in power ball

2077
01:44:26,280 --> 01:44:28,119
but everyone in this room is even

2078
01:44:28,119 --> 01:44:30,440
luckier by living in this connected

2079
01:44:30,440 --> 01:44:34,950
rather than in

2080
01:44:34,960 --> 01:44:37,639
Gaza we can be silent or we can do what

2081
01:44:37,639 --> 01:44:39,480
we can to stop

2082
01:44:39,480 --> 01:44:43,440
it my decision to start doing what I can

2083
01:44:43,440 --> 01:44:46,679
happened in early March when I saw a

2084
01:44:46,679 --> 01:44:50,520
palestinia child missing two legs and an

2085
01:44:50,520 --> 01:44:53,560
arm uh with an American Warhead

2086
01:44:53,560 --> 01:44:54,840
delivered by

2087
01:44:54,840 --> 01:44:58,159
Israelis I don't believe the lie that uh

2088
01:44:58,159 --> 01:45:00,840
this is necessary for Israel to defend

2089
01:45:00,840 --> 01:45:05,440
itself as part of Israel's 76e plan to

2090
01:45:05,440 --> 01:45:06,920
either kill or

2091
01:45:06,920 --> 01:45:10,280
displace every every Palestinian and

2092
01:45:10,280 --> 01:45:11,920
they're now in the endgame final

2093
01:45:11,920 --> 01:45:14,159
solution and it's really up to good

2094
01:45:14,159 --> 01:45:18,040
people to stop it or not to stop it

2095
01:45:18,040 --> 01:45:20,920
uh at that point I I came to the first

2096
01:45:20,920 --> 01:45:24,280
meeting with my Jewish friend uh lar and

2097
01:45:24,280 --> 01:45:26,800
my musl own friend

2098
01:45:26,800 --> 01:45:30,320
Muhammad and uh we we suggested the

2099
01:45:30,320 --> 01:45:32,360
seats for fire resolution a pretty

2100
01:45:32,360 --> 01:45:35,199
minimal thing to do approve of the C

2101
01:45:35,199 --> 01:45:38,800
fire is the right thing to do you can

2102
01:45:38,800 --> 01:45:41,679
put Cony on the right side of History I

2103
01:45:41,679 --> 01:45:42,980
thank you

2104
01:45:42,980 --> 01:45:54,070
[Applause]

2105
01:45:54,080 --> 01:45:56,280
the first name is Ibrahim and the last

2106
01:45:56,280 --> 01:45:59,310
name starts with

2107
01:45:59,320 --> 01:46:04,639
[Applause]

2108
01:46:04,639 --> 01:46:07,320
s Salam alikum everyone uh peace and

2109
01:46:07,320 --> 01:46:09,480
blessings upon you all uh thank you very

2110
01:46:09,480 --> 01:46:11,560
much for having

2111
01:46:11,560 --> 01:46:14,599
me my name is Ibrahim Safir I'm a

2112
01:46:14,599 --> 01:46:17,199
capital region res uh resident and I'm

2113
01:46:17,199 --> 01:46:19,400
here to demand a call for

2114
01:46:19,400 --> 01:46:21,599
ceasefire and I wanted to start with a

2115
01:46:21,599 --> 01:46:26,800
question and it's a very simple question why not call for ceasefire when

2116
01:46:26,800 --> 01:46:29,840
after 35,000 Plus have been massacred

2117
01:46:29,840 --> 01:46:32,440
and many more are missing under Rubble

2118
01:46:32,440 --> 01:46:34,199
as we speak out there's ongoing

2119
01:46:34,199 --> 01:46:36,280
bombardment of Palestinians and who

2120
01:46:36,280 --> 01:46:38,599
knows how many children innocent men and

2121
01:46:38,599 --> 01:46:40,719
women have been killed since

2122
01:46:40,719 --> 01:46:43,599
now over this past weekend my friends

2123
01:46:43,599 --> 01:46:45,840
graduated um and I was able to talk to

2124
01:46:45,840 --> 01:46:48,280
my mom as it was Mother's Day uh Happy

2125
01:46:48,280 --> 01:46:51,239
Mother's Day to all the mothers here um

2126
01:46:51,239 --> 01:46:53,520
that that awesome feeling that had was

2127
01:46:53,520 --> 01:46:57,280
quickly soiled when I chck toos it to

2128
01:46:57,280 --> 01:46:59,639
Palestine to people in Gaza to people in

2129
01:46:59,639 --> 01:47:02,920
Raa there are zero universities left

2130
01:47:02,920 --> 01:47:05,560
there's no one graduating instead there

2131
01:47:05,560 --> 01:47:07,760
are entire populations being starved and

2132
01:47:07,760 --> 01:47:10,159
denied the most basic of Human Rights

2133
01:47:10,159 --> 01:47:13,679
there's lives being cut short and entire

2134
01:47:13,679 --> 01:47:15,560
lineages being eradicated off the face

2135
01:47:15,560 --> 01:47:18,880
of the Earth so I ask you is this what

2136
01:47:18,880 --> 01:47:21,040
we stand for in support As

2137
01:47:21,040 --> 01:47:23,480
Americans is this why we go to work and

2138
01:47:23,480 --> 01:47:25,800
pay taxes so that we can fund something

2139
01:47:25,800 --> 01:47:27,520
like

2140
01:47:27,520 --> 01:47:30,080
this the body's being piled up in pieces

2141
01:47:30,080 --> 01:47:33,520
under the rubble again my first question

2142
01:47:33,520 --> 01:47:35,159
why not call for

2143
01:47:35,159 --> 01:47:37,520
ceasefire what is so complicated about

2144
01:47:37,520 --> 01:47:39,599
calling for an end to massacres the

2145
01:47:39,599 --> 01:47:41,800
return of hostages an end of starving

2146
01:47:41,800 --> 01:47:43,119
and an end of

2147
01:47:43,119 --> 01:47:46,599
killing what is so hard about that

2148
01:47:46,599 --> 01:47:49,440
someone earlier said it is not a it's

2149
01:47:49,440 --> 01:47:51,320
someone said it's more of a you win you

2150
01:47:51,320 --> 01:47:53,360
lose but it's not

2151
01:47:53,360 --> 01:47:55,880
what is so you win you lose when

2152
01:47:55,880 --> 01:47:57,800
everyone can be safe when everyone has a

2153
01:47:57,800 --> 01:48:00,040
right to life liberty and the pursuit of

2154
01:48:00,040 --> 01:48:01,719
happiness this is what we were taught to

2155
01:48:01,719 --> 01:48:03,679
believe uh As Americans that's what I

2156
01:48:03,679 --> 01:48:05,360
was taught to believe as an American in

2157
01:48:05,360 --> 01:48:07,679
this country I'll tell you what is

2158
01:48:07,679 --> 01:48:11,800
divisive though occupation is

2159
01:48:11,800 --> 01:48:17,920
[Applause]

2160
01:48:17,920 --> 01:48:22,920
divisive apartheid is divisive

2161
01:48:22,920 --> 01:48:25,280
[Applause]

2162
01:48:25,280 --> 01:48:28,080
settler colonialism is

2163
01:48:28,080 --> 01:48:31,119
[Applause]

2164
01:48:31,119 --> 01:48:34,280
divisive and forcing Palestinians to be

2165
01:48:34,280 --> 01:48:36,199
eradicated and suffer in silence and

2166
01:48:36,199 --> 01:48:38,520
asking us the rest of us the people of

2167
01:48:38,520 --> 01:48:40,599
Consciousness the people of humanity to

2168
01:48:40,599 --> 01:48:43,250
look the other way that's

2169
01:48:43,250 --> 01:48:48,510
[Applause]

2170
01:48:48,520 --> 01:48:51,000
divisive I I asked you all before what

2171
01:48:51,000 --> 01:48:53,520
is so difficult but the truth is is this

2172
01:48:53,520 --> 01:48:55,320
not a difficult decision nor is it

2173
01:48:55,320 --> 01:48:57,280
complicated take a look at the people

2174
01:48:57,280 --> 01:49:00,239
behind me see all of our wonderful

2175
01:49:00,239 --> 01:49:02,520
diversity we're a coalition of folks

2176
01:49:02,520 --> 01:49:05,239
from all walks of life Shades and colors

2177
01:49:05,239 --> 01:49:08,080
and we're growing day by day as this

2178
01:49:08,080 --> 01:49:10,040
conflict is Raging on the dust is

2179
01:49:10,040 --> 01:49:11,719
starting to settle and sides are being

2180
01:49:11,719 --> 01:49:14,320
taken so I ask you all what side are you

2181
01:49:14,320 --> 01:49:16,760
on are you on the side of humanity or

2182
01:49:16,760 --> 01:49:18,960
Justice or are you on the opposite of

2183
01:49:18,960 --> 01:49:21,719
that and what Legacy would you like to

2184
01:49:21,719 --> 01:49:24,280
leave the lady before she said she

2185
01:49:24,280 --> 01:49:26,400
wanted to bring peace give wisdom to the

2186
01:49:26,400 --> 01:49:29,400
leaders and free them of their Ambitions

2187
01:49:29,400 --> 01:49:31,480
to replace the hatred and eliminate the

2188
01:49:31,480 --> 01:49:33,760
violence and War prayer is awesome

2189
01:49:33,760 --> 01:49:35,920
thought is awesome that is something

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01:49:35,920 --> 01:49:38,599
that we on this line can do but you all

2191
01:49:38,599 --> 01:49:41,360
have the ability and now you have the

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01:49:41,360 --> 01:49:43,560
responsibility and it is incumbent upon

2193
01:49:43,560 --> 01:49:45,840
all of you to use that responsibility to

2194
01:49:45,840 --> 01:49:47,560
use the power that you have been given

2195
01:49:47,560 --> 01:49:49,800
by these people you have been elected by

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01:49:49,800 --> 01:49:52,080
the the people you've been selected by

2197
01:49:52,080 --> 01:49:54,440
the people and if you do not exercise

2198
01:49:54,440 --> 01:49:56,520
that right in a just manner you will be

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01:49:56,520 --> 01:50:05,149
replaced by the people so I urge

2200
01:50:05,159 --> 01:50:07,920
you I urge you all to do the Humane

2201
01:50:07,920 --> 01:50:10,000
thing and to do the right thing to do

2202
01:50:10,000 --> 01:50:12,239
the just thing and to call for ceasefire

2203
01:50:12,239 --> 01:50:17,470
thank you all very much thank

2204
01:50:17,480 --> 01:50:23,350
you Peter Peter looker Peter looker

2205
01:50:23,350 --> 01:50:30,800
[Applause]

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[Music]

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01:50:32,800 --> 01:50:35,119
thank you um for your

2208
01:50:35,119 --> 01:50:38,719
time as a city taxpayer this won't cost

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01:50:38,719 --> 01:50:39,719
us

2210
01:50:39,719 --> 01:50:42,239
anything and for you to vote tonight for

2211
01:50:42,239 --> 01:50:45,199
peace but it will save billions

2212
01:50:45,199 --> 01:50:48,000
nationally we need to ceasefire

2213
01:50:48,000 --> 01:50:51,119
now Jesus of your prayer would want you

2214
01:50:51,119 --> 01:50:54,000
to act now

2215
01:50:54,000 --> 01:50:56,840
I pray you follow his

2216
01:50:56,840 --> 01:50:59,320
teachings yesterday was the

2217
01:50:59,320 --> 01:51:02,440
154th anniversary of Julia wardh house

2218
01:51:02,440 --> 01:51:05,360
proclamation of Mother's Day of Peace

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01:51:05,360 --> 01:51:08,760
which said arise women of the day arise

2220
01:51:08,760 --> 01:51:10,280
women who have a

2221
01:51:10,280 --> 01:51:13,119
heart we women of one country will be

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01:51:13,119 --> 01:51:16,000
tender to those of another country

2223
01:51:16,000 --> 01:51:20,040
disarm disarm the sword of murder is not

2224
01:51:20,040 --> 01:51:22,920
the balance of Justice that's sounds

2225
01:51:22,920 --> 01:51:25,480
like a call for ceasefire by this wise

2226
01:51:25,480 --> 01:51:28,360
moral mother of Mother's

2227
01:51:28,360 --> 01:51:30,280
Day last

2228
01:51:30,280 --> 01:51:33,679
week Egypt cutter negotiated to cease

2229
01:51:33,679 --> 01:51:35,800
fire hostage release but Netanyahu

2230
01:51:35,800 --> 01:51:38,639
refuses to cease fire and exchange

2231
01:51:38,639 --> 01:51:41,840
hostages despite cries from all those

2232
01:51:41,840 --> 01:51:43,800
hostage family

2233
01:51:43,800 --> 01:51:47,159
members if you care about the hostages

2234
01:51:47,159 --> 01:51:49,880
support a ceasefire now if you care

2235
01:51:49,880 --> 01:51:53,000
about innocent Gaza babies and children

2236
01:51:53,000 --> 01:51:56,800
vote and cease fire now netanyahu's Army

2237
01:51:56,800 --> 01:52:01,880
kills over 70 innocent Palestinian

2238
01:52:01,880 --> 01:52:06,599
babies and children in Gaza every

2239
01:52:06,599 --> 01:52:10,520
day yes 70 innocent babies and children

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every

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01:52:13,280 --> 01:52:16,679
day silence is complicity with

2242
01:52:16,679 --> 01:52:20,639
genocide please vote and cease fire now

2243
01:52:20,639 --> 01:52:21,970
tonight

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01:52:21,970 --> 01:52:30,910
[Applause]

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01:52:30,920 --> 01:52:39,589
John Romano John

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01:52:39,599 --> 01:52:42,079
Romano good evening everybody my name is

2247
01:52:42,079 --> 01:52:43,920
John romano and I want to connect the

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01:52:43,920 --> 01:52:45,880
dots for you on why it's so important

2249
01:52:45,880 --> 01:52:48,360
what happens overseas in Palestine can

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01:52:48,360 --> 01:52:50,159
help influence what happens here in New

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01:52:50,159 --> 01:52:51,159
York and

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01:52:51,159 --> 01:52:53,320
connecti um

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01:52:53,320 --> 01:52:56,440
so I actually share my story a lot with

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01:52:56,440 --> 01:52:57,960
law enforcements and people around the

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01:52:57,960 --> 01:53:00,079
country because people right here in our

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01:53:00,079 --> 01:53:02,719
hometown know who I am or what I've done

2257
01:53:02,719 --> 01:53:04,599
when I was 16 years old I went into

2258
01:53:04,599 --> 01:53:06,159
Columbia High School and e screen Bush

2259
01:53:06,159 --> 01:53:08,760
New York with a 12 gate shotgun I

2260
01:53:08,760 --> 01:53:11,040
committed a horrible Act of tragedy and

2261
01:53:11,040 --> 01:53:13,280
I tell you one of the influences that

2262
01:53:13,280 --> 01:53:15,920
had on me was the constant seeing of

2263
01:53:15,920 --> 01:53:18,599
Bloodshed around me now that doesn't

2264
01:53:18,599 --> 01:53:20,199
justify what I did what I did was

2265
01:53:20,199 --> 01:53:22,560
horrible but I thought that the world

2266
01:53:22,560 --> 01:53:24,840
had no real meaning or purpose because

2267
01:53:24,840 --> 01:53:28,360
all I saw was chaos and hatred and that

2268
01:53:28,360 --> 01:53:30,920
to me made me feel like there's no point

2269
01:53:30,920 --> 01:53:33,520
there's no reason for going on and I

2270
01:53:33,520 --> 01:53:35,679
hated what I became because I became the

2271
01:53:35,679 --> 01:53:37,679
monster that I was once afraid of and

2272
01:53:37,679 --> 01:53:39,119
I'm telling you that when people

2273
01:53:39,119 --> 01:53:41,239
especially these kids who are watching

2274
01:53:41,239 --> 01:53:43,880
on a day-to-day basis videos of bombings

2275
01:53:43,880 --> 01:53:46,199
and killings and genocide they are

2276
01:53:46,199 --> 01:53:48,920
influenced by that here in skincity here

2277
01:53:48,920 --> 01:53:51,560
in New York and if you think you're not

2278
01:53:51,560 --> 01:53:54,679
you're very misin formed so please you

2279
01:53:54,679 --> 01:53:57,800
asked us earlier with your voice to stop

2280
01:53:57,800 --> 01:54:01,280
the you stop swearing stop the cursing

2281
01:54:01,280 --> 01:54:02,639
we're asking you to use your voice and

2282
01:54:02,639 --> 01:54:04,680
say stop the bombing that's

2283
01:54:04,680 --> 01:54:14,239
[Applause]

2284
01:54:14,239 --> 01:54:19,109
all Ron Sano Ron

2285
01:54:19,119 --> 01:54:24,030
Sorano Lisa Sorano

2286
01:54:24,040 --> 01:54:26,860
Joseph

2287
01:54:26,870 --> 01:54:31,430
[Applause]

2288
01:54:31,440 --> 01:54:34,400
Layman hi my name is Joseph lhan and I'm

2289
01:54:34,400 --> 01:54:36,880
a resident of SKC County and I wanted to

2290
01:54:36,880 --> 01:54:39,040
advocate for a ceasefire for

2291
01:54:39,040 --> 01:54:41,760
Palestine I go out in the corner in my

2292
01:54:41,760 --> 01:54:43,639
neighborhood and I stand out with a

2293
01:54:43,639 --> 01:54:45,960
freedom for Palestine sign and I met

2294
01:54:45,960 --> 01:54:49,000
with disrespect middle fingers and just

2295
01:54:49,000 --> 01:54:56,310
blatant disrespect and it just

2296
01:54:56,320 --> 01:54:58,320
it upsets me that I have to go out there

2297
01:54:58,320 --> 01:54:59,840
and deal with this blatant disrespect

2298
01:54:59,840 --> 01:55:01,760
from people who are uninformed on this

2299
01:55:01,760 --> 01:55:04,440
conflict and to see politicians just

2300
01:55:04,440 --> 01:55:06,000
promote this ignorance among the

2301
01:55:06,000 --> 01:55:08,950
American people and Thrive off of

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01:55:08,950 --> 01:55:14,709
[Applause]

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01:55:14,719 --> 01:55:17,719
it and to see people with bigger voices

2304
01:55:17,719 --> 01:55:19,840
than me not do anything when I have to

2305
01:55:19,840 --> 01:55:21,719
use my minuscule voice to try and get a

2306
01:55:21,719 --> 01:55:23,880
message across cross and just see

2307
01:55:23,880 --> 01:55:26,040
blatant corruption in the government and

2308
01:55:26,040 --> 01:55:28,679
nobody doing anything about it I just

2309
01:55:28,679 --> 01:55:33,880
want to see Justice and peace and it's not rocket science 1,200 people

2310
01:55:33,880 --> 01:55:36,719
dead is wrong right but 10,000 people

2311
01:55:36,719 --> 01:55:39,800
dead isn't wrong 20,000 30,000 40,000

2312
01:55:39,800 --> 01:55:42,320
50,000 people dead isn't wrong it's not

2313
01:55:42,320 --> 01:55:49,629
rocket science it's

2314
01:55:49,639 --> 01:55:52,960
not all we're asking for is peace

2315
01:55:52,960 --> 01:55:54,440
we're not asking for anything

2316
01:55:54,440 --> 01:55:56,920
extravagant we're asking for a means of

2317
01:55:56,920 --> 01:55:59,400
speaking we're asking for a means of

2318
01:55:59,400 --> 01:56:01,480
representation for the Palestinians

2319
01:56:01,480 --> 01:56:04,920
we're asking for a negotiation a means

2320
01:56:04,920 --> 01:56:07,079
to exchange prisoners hostages

2321
01:56:07,079 --> 01:56:08,719
everything that Israel claims to want

2322
01:56:08,719 --> 01:56:10,560
but rejects every time they're offered

2323
01:56:10,560 --> 01:56:13,320
that that's all we want so we'd like to

2324
01:56:13,320 --> 01:56:16,800
ask that you use your voice for us on

2325
01:56:16,800 --> 01:56:19,480
account of us having to be brave for you

2326
01:56:19,480 --> 01:56:22,480
and join us in our bravery freedom from

2327
01:56:22,480 --> 01:56:24,599
Palestine please support a ceasefire

2328
01:56:24,599 --> 01:56:25,120
thank

2329
01:56:25,120 --> 01:56:33,760
[Applause]

2330
01:56:33,760 --> 01:56:37,040
you he Heather

2331
01:56:37,040 --> 01:56:39,920
Beno

2332
01:56:39,920 --> 01:56:46,069
Heather okay Rod

2333
01:56:46,079 --> 01:56:50,069
Hubert Mark

2334
01:56:50,079 --> 01:56:55,470
micheller no

2335
01:56:55,480 --> 01:56:57,440
all right is is there anyone who sent in

2336
01:56:57,440 --> 01:56:59,440
a request to speak whose name I didn't

2337
01:56:59,440 --> 01:57:01,040
read I believe we captured all the

2338
01:57:01,040 --> 01:57:03,360
online ones but I want to make sure

2339
01:57:03,360 --> 01:57:05,119
there was no one that sent an online

2340
01:57:05,119 --> 01:57:08,639
request and did not get their name

2341
01:57:08,639 --> 01:57:10,840
called in that case I have no one else

2342
01:57:10,840 --> 01:57:12,400
signed up to speak so I declare the

2343
01:57:12,400 --> 01:57:14,880
public comment of City business

2344
01:57:14,880 --> 01:57:17,440
closed at this time any miscellaneous

2345
01:57:17,440 --> 01:57:27,390
business of the council

2346
01:57:27,400 --> 01:57:30,079
mayor so I um want to thank everyone for

2347
01:57:30,079 --> 01:57:33,199
coming out tonight and um we heard you

2348
01:57:33,199 --> 01:57:36,760
we've been listening and hearing I can't

2349
01:57:36,760 --> 01:57:38,360
make any promises I could just I mean I

2350
01:57:38,360 --> 01:57:39,520
could repeat the same thing I've said

2351
01:57:39,520 --> 01:57:41,320
over and over but you've heard it before

2352
01:57:41,320 --> 01:57:43,480
so appreciate you coming and certainly

2353
01:57:43,480 --> 01:57:47,270
we've heard your voice

2354
01:57:47,280 --> 01:57:50,639
and well just you know those who will

2355
01:57:50,639 --> 01:57:52,760
just take into consideration I really

2356
01:57:52,760 --> 01:57:54,400
you know we've talked about us different

2357
01:57:54,400 --> 01:57:55,840
resolutions but we have not considered

2358
01:57:55,840 --> 01:57:57,599
the one that you've brought forward I

2359
01:57:57,599 --> 01:58:01,320
will I will say that so I'm sorry excuse

2360
01:58:01,320 --> 01:58:04,079
me excuse me excuse me it is my time to

2361
01:58:04,079 --> 01:58:06,760
speak I did not interrupt you this is

2362
01:58:06,760 --> 01:58:08,800
not a back and forth you were allowed to

2363
01:58:08,800 --> 01:58:10,880
speak you spoke and now I'm making my

2364
01:58:10,880 --> 01:58:13,040
comments and I appreciate that respect

2365
01:58:13,040 --> 01:58:15,790
from

2366
01:58:15,800 --> 01:58:18,280
you no sir there's no question answer

2367
01:58:18,280 --> 01:58:19,800
but I will speak with you after the

2368
01:58:19,800 --> 01:58:22,840
meeting if you like thank you

2369
01:58:22,840 --> 01:58:25,360
so uh that is that is all I have to say

2370
01:58:25,360 --> 01:58:27,239
this evening and with that I'll

2371
01:58:27,239 --> 01:58:29,159
entertain a motion to

2372
01:58:29,159 --> 01:58:32,760
adjourn motion to adjourn move by Miss

2373
01:58:32,760 --> 01:58:35,520
Patrick second by Mr Williams all those

2374
01:58:35,520 --> 01:58:38,199
in favor I we are adjourned have a good

2375
01:58:38,199 --> 01:58:41,180
night

2376
01:58:41,180 --> 01:58:41,530
[Music]

2377
01:58:41,530 --> 01:58:56,480
[Applause]

2378
01:58:56,480 --> 01:58:58,470
[Music]

2379
01:58:58,470 --> 01:59:01,550
[Applause]

2380
01:59:01,550 --> 01:59:02,610
[Music]

2381
01:59:02,610 --> 01:59:08,810
[Applause]

2382
01:59:08,810 --> 01:59:16,109
[Music]

2383
01:59:16,119 --> 01:59:18,400
on her phone you in the blue what's your

2384
01:59:18,400 --> 01:59:20,320
name she's a lawyer she she's a lawyer

2385
01:59:20,320 --> 01:59:22,719
she's not on the council she's la

2386
01:59:22,719 --> 01:59:47,280
she was

2387
01:59:47,290 --> 01:59:52,280
[Music]

2388
01:59:52,280 --> 01:59:54,660
a

2389
01:59:54,660 --> 02:01:56,510
[Music]

2390
02:01:56,510 --> 02:01:56,620
[Applause]

2391
02:01:56,620 --> 02:03:52,480
[Music]

2392
02:03:52,480 --> 02:03:54,930
a

2393
02:03:54,930 --> 02:05:11,330
[Music]

2394
02:05:11,330 --> 02:05:11,440
[Applause]

2395
02:05:11,440 --> 02:05:58,079
[Music]

2396
02:05:58,079 --> 02:05:59,780
he

2397
02:05:59,780 --> 02:06:21,840
[Music]

2398
02:06:21,840 --> 02:06:24,310
he

2399
02:06:24,310 --> 02:09:17,480
[Music]

2400
02:09:17,480 --> 02:09:20,800
he

2401
02:09:20,810 --> 02:10:13,559
[Music]

2402
02:10:13,559 --> 02:10:15,300
he

2403
02:10:15,300 --> 02:13:28,400
[Music]

2404
02:13:28,400 --> 02:13:30,120
he

2405
02:13:30,120 --> 02:19:11,290
[Music]

2406
02:19:11,290 --> 02:19:11,430
[Applause]

2407
02:19:11,430 --> 02:23:12,880
[Music]

2408
02:23:12,880 --> 02:23:14,590
he

2409
02:23:14,590 --> 02:26:20,439
[Music]

2410
02:26:20,439 --> 02:26:21,680
oh

2411
02:26:21,680 --> 02:29:42,520
[Music]

2412
02:29:42,520 --> 02:29:44,230
he

2413
02:29:44,230 --> 02:31:50,560
[Music]

2414
02:31:50,560 --> 02:31:53,800
he

2415
02:31:53,810 --> 02:31:56,070
[Music]