INNER JOURNEY WITH GREG FRIEDMAN WELCOMES WE THE PEOPLE UNIFICATION

Inner Journey with Greg Friedman shares this episode in order to promote unification across party, dogmatic and cultual divisions to stand FOR, "WE THE PEOPLE!!!!"

Research suggests that it only requires 3.5% of the population to engage in non-violent resistance for these movements to be effective.  Thunberg’s actions and the actions of the 1968 Olympians show how it is possible, even for individuals, to make an enormous impact and inspire change.




The wave of aggressive anti-protest lawsWhile the impact and influence of protests and demonstrations continue to grow, this is being met with a wave of aggressive legislative restrictions, policies and responses designed to limit their effectiveness.For example, 93% of the protests against racial injustice in the United States in the wake of the murder of George Floyd by a Minneapolis police officer were peaceful; however, the narrative around the protests was that they were largely violent demonstrations and as such triggered an excessive police response.

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:04):
Hi, this is Greg Bradon, Jack Canfield, Mariam Williamson, James
Van Praud. Hi, everyone, this is Neil Donald Walsh, and
I'm happy to tell you that you're listening to Inner
Journey with Greg Friedman. Stick around. Your life will change
any minute.

Speaker 2 (00:22):
All right, you heard the man.

Speaker 3 (00:23):
Here we go.

Speaker 4 (00:25):
You are listening to Inner Journey with Greg Friedman on
k x F M one O four seven, broadcast from
Luguna Beach, California, for Luguna Beach, California and for the
entire world. All right, joall, you know the gig sex relationships,

(00:45):
dream interpretation, We talk about it all. We don't tell
you what to do and we don't tell you how
to do it because it's not our friggin' lives. It's
your life. Then means it's your choice, it's your power,
and it's your opportunity to do what you will with

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It is entirely up to you. You design this. Your life.
Every single day is a blank canvas, Every single moment
is a blank canvas, and your choice whether to participate
and how to participate colors that canvas chooses helps you

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choose what is and what is not appropriate for you
and when you listen to the show. We have one
intention and one intention alone. It's to help you understand
you are the magic, and we just get to help
you realize it. And we'll be back with more inner

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journey right after.

Speaker 2 (01:56):
Ah this.

Speaker 5 (02:47):
Stand up, get up, turn up the right, get up,
turn up right, get.

Speaker 6 (03:02):
Up, stand up.

Speaker 7 (03:04):
Don't get the light please a man. I'm telling me,
heaven is all the dear. I know you don't know
what light is really worth. It's a poe that gets up.
School have the story I've never been thought to know.

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You see it as a lad stand up for your eyes.

Speaker 5 (03:29):
From art, get understand up, stand up all you're right,
get up, stand up, stre you're right.

Speaker 6 (03:42):
Most nothing great God.

Speaker 8 (03:45):
Will come from the sky.

Speaker 9 (03:48):
We can make away everything and make everybody behind.

Speaker 8 (03:54):
But if you know what life has worked, you will
look for yourself. And now you see the night.

Speaker 6 (04:02):
Stand up.

Speaker 10 (04:03):
Tell you're right, Jack.

Speaker 5 (04:05):
To get understand up, not your right up, get up,
understanding the line.

Speaker 11 (04:17):
Get up.

Speaker 8 (04:18):
You can't give up there.

Speaker 9 (04:20):
Not your riding up, give my probing, Yes, stand up, get.

Speaker 5 (04:54):
Not your last stand up, Get up.

Speaker 12 (05:30):
Hi.

Speaker 13 (05:30):
This is James Redfield, author of the Celsie Prophecy, and
you're listening to Inner Journey with Greg Friedman.

Speaker 14 (05:41):
I love that man.

Speaker 4 (05:43):
Incredibly kind, incredibly brilliant. You are listening to Inner Journey
with Greg Friedman, and I'll tell you this, James Redfield
is one of the people that for years has been
telling me personally and professionally about the geopolitical system and
situation that we find ourselves in the midst of right now.

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And you guys have heard me speak about this over
and over and over, and I am doing my best
to ask for to perhaps plan a seed for to
inspire towards peace, peaceful protests.

Speaker 2 (06:28):
We don't have to fight.

Speaker 4 (06:30):
If enough of us understand that we have the power
together as we unite, we don't have to fight. And
I'm not making up some billboard or some slogan. I'm
saying that with all sincerity. You see this all over

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the world right now, and I'm not just talking in
our country. In every single country, millions and millions and
millions of peace people are coming out to stand up
to say this is not representing we the people, and

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we the people choose to have a voice. And this
goes back to so many things in our world. When
one of us, any one of us, stands up and
finds a voice, even if that voice trembles. That not
only is huge in and of itself, and it is,

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it's also huge in that it provides a candle, a
light so that somebody else may find the courage, and
then somebody else may find the courage. You know that
old saying, you cannot chase out the darkness, but you
can fill the room with light. Well, in the last month,

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I have seen more people stand up and light individual
candles off of one another, for one another and in
and of themselves, for we the people that I have
ever seen before. And to me, this is a beautiful thing.
This is not about being against Republicans. This is not
about being against Democrats. This is not about being against Trump.

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This is not about being against anything. This is about
being for I'm not going against you. I'm going for
what's appropriate. I am going to stand up in my power,
in my voice, even when it scares the poop out

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of me to do it. I'm going to stand up
and I'm going to make sure that I speak because
silence is no longer appropriate. I am going to speak
my truth because not doing so would be adding to

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the darkness. And I can't do that in good conscious
I can't be a conscientious, loving person and not stand
up for love, for peace, for harmony. And I say
this not only again, I can't say this part enough,

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not only for Democrats, not only for Republicans, not only
for Ukrainians, not only for Russians, not only for hippies
and peace nicks. But I'm also saying that for police
and ice officers and every other officer, we each have

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a choice to stand.

Speaker 3 (09:42):
Up for we the people.

Speaker 4 (09:43):
You've heard that slogan, what if they gave a war
and nobody attended, Well, guess what it starts with all
of us. When you receive an order as an officer,
it is your not only your prerogative, it is your
obligation not to follow any kind of orders against humanity.

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It is vital, I mean absolutely vital that you stand
up and you operate from your consciousness. If you don't
see what I'm seeing right now, if you can't understand
what I'm saying right now, there are officers of every
different rank, from the lowliest to the biggest. They were

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officers of the Nazi Party, the SS Party, the foot
soldiers that were tried at the Nurnberg Trials after World
War II and were found guilty of war crimes. It's
vital that you understand. Don't do the right thing because
you're afraid of the negative ramifications. Do what's appropriate for

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your heart, for your soul, for your being, because it's appropriate,
not because you fear the negative stuff. But I guarantee,
and I guarantee, there are going to be things that
occur when all the dust settles. And even if you're

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not brought before a trial, you not only then, but
now will have to look in the mirror and know
that you took somebody, and you separated a family, You
took somebody that had free speech and carted them off

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because they were exercising their rights. So I am appealing
to every one of us not to go against the
nice officer, not to go against a cop, not to
go against a soldier, but instead go for peace. And
I'm asking that as much as I am for the

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general public, the civilians, and these officers, because if you
don't act on these horrible, horrible offers orders that are
being mandated right now, then they cannot be enforced. Then
then you will know your power, you will know your strength,

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You will understand that we the people get to be represented.
And as far as I'm concerned, there are a lot
of fingers to point on every side of the aisle.
If there wasn't so much blatant corruption, if there wasn't
so much in epness, impotence on both sides of the aisle,

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empty hollow promises that were made completely with the understanding
that nobody had any kind of intention whatsoever to follow
up on them.

Speaker 2 (12:55):
Then just then.

Speaker 4 (13:00):
We're going to take away the curtain, and we're going
to see that man behind the curtain, and we're going
to see that it's not important, Buddha has to say.
If you're bitten by a snake and you spend all
of your time chasing down the snake to figure out

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why it bit you, you're going to be poisoned. Why
are you spending this time on this. Let us unite,
Let us bridge, Let us see that we have more
in common than we do in conflict. Let us recognize
that every single person here is our brother, is our sister,

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is our mother. You hear me say this so so
so much, and I'm just imploring you, please please care
for yourself, Please care for one another, Please fall in

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love with yourself, with the world around you to such
an extent that you are unwilling, incapable, and uninterested in
doing any harm to anybody ever. Wonder what that would
look like. Don't you wonder what that looks like? It

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just seems so so attainable. All we have to do
is understand. We don't have to attend every fight, every conflict,
every disagreement that we're invited to. But what we do
have to do, as is appropriate for each of us,

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is to find our voice, to find our words, because
those of us who have been in those situations where
words are difficult understand, perhaps more than anybody else, how vital.
That is how vital we are, each and every single

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one of us.

Speaker 2 (15:15):
So either that.

Speaker 4 (15:19):
Or it goes to the other end of the spectrum.
You choose what you want. But I'm going to tell
you this because it's very important.

Speaker 15 (15:41):
Abail not listen to me.

Speaker 8 (16:03):
This cons this josten.

Speaker 16 (16:10):
The mom and.

Speaker 17 (16:15):
When at the.

Speaker 18 (16:17):
Loose sand whom, good God, y'all absolutely gets here it again,
absolutely listen to me, who ain't nothing?

Speaker 12 (16:41):
Wow, friend to the.

Speaker 19 (16:44):
Undertaker, the constant.

Speaker 8 (16:56):
When you go to the rest and it just doss the.

Speaker 2 (17:04):
Good talking y'all, what.

Speaker 12 (17:09):
Absolute said?

Speaker 15 (17:16):
What absolute?

Speaker 20 (17:19):
Listen to man.

Speaker 12 (17:22):
Not pray goes.

Speaker 15 (17:28):
The undertake.

Speaker 16 (17:32):
Many sets in bassis and by the walking der.

Speaker 6 (17:46):
Ing, wow the nod, y'all, what.

Speaker 12 (17:53):
Absolutely say? Again absolutely listen to man.

Speaker 15 (18:08):
A breako undertake.

Speaker 8 (18:23):
We must.

Speaker 2 (18:25):
Keep well.

Speaker 4 (18:28):
War is an option, or and again you may say,
I'm a little goodie two shoes. The other option is
a little bit more like this.

Speaker 10 (19:12):
Let's me a song you can't talk about.

Speaker 3 (19:15):
It loses but a song scene.

Speaker 17 (19:35):
Peus we window, you can make the mountains rings ming
hangs to her head, loser, ladies on the way.

Speaker 8 (19:58):
And you man little Why come on?

Speaker 10 (20:06):
People now smile only brother, everybody against a girl child
one another.

Speaker 21 (20:14):
Now some make comment, some machael, he will show it
be when the one that left us yees returns for

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the satellites.

Speaker 10 (20:44):
We are body moments.

Speaker 1 (20:46):
Some lad.

Speaker 3 (20:48):
Fading in the grayhad.

Speaker 10 (20:54):
Come on, people, now smile only brother, everybody against tad
to one another? Right now, Come on, people, now smile
your brother.

Speaker 20 (21:12):
Everybody get together try to one another right now.

Speaker 6 (21:23):
H m h m hmmm mm hmmm, hm h m hmm.

Speaker 10 (21:56):
Come on, people know smile you brother, have abody, get together?

Speaker 2 (22:02):
Love or hate.

Speaker 4 (22:32):
War or peace. It's all a choice. You don't have
to hate, you don't have to love, You don't even
have to like, you don't have to agree. It's vital
that we understand that each of us, every single one
of us, is given an opportunity right here, right now,

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stand up, find your voice, find your way, choose the day,
and choose the divinity not just in you, but absolutely
in you, and also recognize it in those that you
don't necessarily resonate with so easily, that you don't necessarily

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agree with so easily. Now, I'm about to play a
clip by Bernie Sanders. Bernie is a rock star to me. However,
I don't want you to think that I am Pollyanna
about Blue or Democrats, because as far as I'm concerned,

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if Aliens came down and took the House, the Senate,
and the White House, this world would be much much
better off. Because it's my vision, my understanding, my recognition
that both sides of the Aisle are purchased by the
same corporations. That being said, you know, the red side

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of the Aisle are blatant about it. The blue side
of the Aisle have been providing empty promises for decades
to the point where it's going. No, baby, I promise
I won't cheat on you. I promise I'll bring you
that whatever it is here. And they just do the
same behavior over and over and over, and they ask
us to trust them once more.

Speaker 2 (24:24):
Why why would we so?

Speaker 4 (24:27):
Instead, I'm asking you. Don't trust Republicans, don't trust Democrats,
don't trust Congress, don't trust senators. Don't trust anybody to
lead us except for one another. Look to your brother,
look to your friend, Look to that person that you
had a conflict with, look to that person that you

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think differently with, and find the commonalities.

Speaker 6 (24:51):
And then.

Speaker 4 (24:53):
Remind those people that are so called leaders that they
are in charge and they work for us. We are
in charge, excuse me, and they work for us. It
is on us, every single one of us, to stand up,
to have a voice, and to remind those people that

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they are in place to do our bidding, and our
bidding is one that's in health and welfare and ease
and happiness.

Speaker 2 (25:28):
We are not batteries. We are not here.

Speaker 4 (25:32):
To be subjugated. We are not here to be under
a dictatorship. We are here not to be ruled, but
to have Congress and Senate and the White House execute
with great consideration our wishes as human beings, and do

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so in a humane manner.

Speaker 2 (26:00):
Here's a little barry.

Speaker 22 (26:03):
Senator Bernie Sanders issued a scathing statement after the Vice
president's loss in what he called a disastrous campaign, saying, quote,
it should come as no great surprise that a Democratic
Party which has abandoned working class people would find that
the working class has abandoned them and Independent Senator Bernie
Sanders of Vermont joins me. Now, Senator Sanders, welcome back

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to meet the press. Thank you for having me, Thank
you for being here on this Sunday after election day.
Let's start right there. Your criticism incredibly direct. You say
you think the Democratic Party has quote abandoned.

Speaker 23 (26:38):
The working class.

Speaker 22 (26:40):
How exactly do you think Democrats have abandoned the working class?

Speaker 2 (26:43):
Centator, Look, the.

Speaker 24 (26:46):
Working people of this country are extremely angry. They have
a right to be angry.

Speaker 14 (26:54):
In the richest country in the history of the world.

Speaker 24 (26:57):
Today, the people on top doing phenomenally well, while sixty
percent of Americans are living paycheck to paycheck, and millions
of families worry that their kids are actually going to
have a lower standard of living than they do. You
got the top one percent owning more wealth than the
bottom ninety percent. We're the only major country and not

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to guarantee healthcare to all of our people. Twenty five
percent of our seniors are trying to live on fifteen
thousand dollars a year or less. We have the highest
rate of childhood poverty of almost any major country on Earth,
and the gap between the people on top and everybody
else is getting wider and wider. And then Kristen, on
top of all of that, we got a corrupt campaign

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finance system which allows billionaires to buy elections. So if
you're an average work around there, you're saying, Hey, I'm
working longer and longer hours, go nowhere in a hurry,
worried about my kids, and yet the people on top,
I've never had it so good. Where is the Democratic Party?
Are they prepared to stand up to these powerful corporate interests,

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raise the minimum wage, fight for healthcare for all people,
make sure that all of our kids get the quality
education that they need, expand social security. Are they prepared
to do those things? That's the issue that we have
to address well.

Speaker 22 (28:19):
As you know, your statement was met with some sharp
reaction as well, this is what Speaker Amrita Nancy Pelosi.

Speaker 2 (28:26):
Had to say.

Speaker 22 (28:27):
Take a look.

Speaker 2 (28:27):
I'll get your reaction.

Speaker 25 (28:28):
On the other side, Bernie Sanders has not won. Let
me with all due respect, and I have a great
deal of respect for him for what he stands for,
but I don't respect him saying that the Democratic Party
has abandoned the working class families.

Speaker 22 (28:44):
Senator, how do you respond to Nancy Pelosi?

Speaker 24 (28:48):
Well, Nancy's a friend of mine and we've worked together
on many issues. But here is reality I have to
say to Nancy.

Speaker 14 (28:55):
In the Senate.

Speaker 24 (28:56):
In the last two years, we have not even brought
forth like legislation to raise the minimum wage to a
living wage, despite the fact that some twenty million people
in this country are working for less than fifteen dollars
an hour. In America today, we have not brought in
the Senate. We have not brought to the flow the
pro Act to make it easier for workers to join unions.

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We're not talking about the find benefit pension plans so
that our elderly can retire with security. We're not talking
about lifting the cap on social Security so that we
can extend the solvency of social Security and raise benefits.
Bottom line, if you're an average working person out there,
do you really think that the Democratic Party is going

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to the mats, taking on powerful special interest and fighting
for you.

Speaker 14 (29:44):
I think the overwhelming answer is no, and that is
what has got to change.

Speaker 22 (29:48):
Senator, let me zoom out and just ask you about
these results. You've heard some of the reaction throughout the
Democratic Party. How much do you personally blame President Biden
for this law?

Speaker 6 (30:00):
Yes.

Speaker 24 (30:02):
President Biden, when he came into office, said that he
would be the most progressive president since FDR, and I
think on domestic issues, not foreign policy. On domestic issues,
he has kept his word, and the agenda that he
has pushed through has been an extraordinarily strong one. But
that agenda has got to be placed within the overall

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context of American society today, and that American society today
is one in which tens of millions of working families
and elderly people are struggling while the people on top
have never had it so good.

Speaker 22 (30:38):
But center should he have gotten out of the race
more quickly as some are arguing.

Speaker 23 (30:43):
I'm not going to.

Speaker 24 (30:43):
I supported him because I think his agenda was a
strong agenda. A working class agenda. I'm not going to
look backwards. Kamala ran a strong campaign. She did everything
that she could. She decisively won the debate. So to me,
it's not just about the campaign, it's about what does
the Democratic Party stand for? Do ordinary people say, yeah,

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that is a party that is fighting for my interest
and prepared to take on the big money interest who
control the economic and political life of the country.

Speaker 14 (31:11):
We're talks to me what the issue is.

Speaker 22 (31:13):
Yeah, we're talking a lot about the economics. You've talked
about how the Democratic Party is out of touch when
it comes to economic issues. Some Democrats are saying it's
not just economic issues, it's cultural issues as well. Here's
what Democratic strategist James Carvill had to say, Take a look.

Speaker 26 (31:29):
What killed the Democrats and what killed Biden was a
sense of disorder, and part of the sense of disorder
was the unfortunate events of what I would refer to
as the woke era.

Speaker 22 (31:45):
Has the Democratic Party's focus on identity politics gone too far?

Speaker 27 (31:50):
Senator?

Speaker 14 (31:53):
Let me answer it this way.

Speaker 24 (31:55):
I think you if the Democratic the Democratic Party must
con you to stand up against all forms of bigotry,
and Democrats should hold their head high and saying we
led the fight for women's rights and to protect the
women's constitutional right for abortion. We read the fight for
civil rights for gay rights. That is something we should

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be proud of. But it's not either or, Chris, and
this is the problem. You can do both. You could
say that I'm for raising the minimum wage to a
living wage, guarantee health care for all people, expanding social severity,
and by the way, I also support a woman's right
to control her own body, et cetera.

Speaker 14 (32:37):
It's not either or, it's going forward in both directions.

Speaker 22 (32:40):
You know, I've been speaking to some Democrats who are
concerned because now President elect Trump has beaten two women candidates,
and their concern is that it will to nominate a
woman candidate in the future. Do you share that concern,
Senator No, I don't.

Speaker 24 (32:58):
I think it's not a question. Look, I'm not going
to deny that there is sexism in this country. That
is racism, there's homophobia. It's there. But on the other hand,
I think what the American people want to support, whether
it's a woman, a man of black, or a white
or a Latina, whatever, is they want to support somebody
who is standing up Kristen and fighting for them. People

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are in pain, people are hurting. They can't afford to
go to a doctor, they can't afford to send their
kids to childcare or to college. They're worried about future
generations and what kind of standard of living they will have.

Speaker 14 (33:33):
Here is the bottom line, and it has to be
dealt with.

Speaker 24 (33:36):
You've got an economy today doing phenomenally well for the
people on top. It is not working for the working class,
all right, How do we address those issues and in
the richest country on the history of the world, creating
an economy that works for all.

Speaker 14 (33:50):
That is the issue. And by the way, what Trump
did in his election is to say, I know that
you're hurting.

Speaker 24 (33:58):
And the reason is they got millions of peace people
coming to post to the board illegal they're eating your dogs,
they're eating your cats. He gave an explanation. Happened to
be a pretty crazy explanation. Yes, we had a strengthen
the waters, but that is not going to raise wages
for working people, or provide healthcare or people. The Democrats
need an explanation, and that explanation is corporate greed and

(34:19):
the power of the billionaire class. I know that's uncomfortable
for people in the Democratic Party, some people, but that
is the issue we have to address.

Speaker 8 (34:55):
We are find.

Speaker 10 (34:58):
The cellar, Come what donaget.

Speaker 6 (35:08):
Past? Shame on.

Speaker 28 (35:21):
Them on the down looking na.

Speaker 6 (36:00):
I get.

Speaker 20 (36:02):
So a star shouldn't be holly than all the cow

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he soldiers and Vinson starting we're funny on.

Speaker 28 (36:46):
Allow this summer life, the talking water.

Speaker 10 (36:51):
The models, model.

Speaker 28 (36:55):
Father Come.

Speaker 4 (37:24):
All right, I cannot stress this part enough. This is
not about red, this is not about blue.

Speaker 10 (37:35):
I'm telling me this is to you. You were and
I think the time we stop.

Speaker 29 (37:42):
Children watch that signund everybody, look what's going down.

Speaker 10 (37:56):
Those battle lines?

Speaker 3 (37:57):
Being wrong?

Speaker 29 (38:00):
Nobody's right if everybody is wrong. Young people speak in
their minds, are getting so much resistance from.

Speaker 1 (38:13):
The hind time we stopped.

Speaker 29 (38:16):
What's that sound?

Speaker 12 (38:17):
Everybody?

Speaker 10 (38:18):
Look what's going.

Speaker 29 (38:30):
Water field day for the heat. A thousand people in
the street singing songs and to carry and signs mostly
say who ready for our side? It's time to stop.

Speaker 10 (38:50):
He what's that sound?

Speaker 8 (38:51):
Everybody?

Speaker 29 (38:52):
Look what's going on? There are your strikes? Jeep into
your life.

Speaker 3 (39:10):
Bit We'll creep starts when you're always afraid.

Speaker 29 (39:17):
Step by the line, the man come and take you
awayway we better stop.

Speaker 15 (39:24):
What's that sound? Never a got look what's going?

Speaker 6 (39:27):
We better stop pill?

Speaker 3 (39:29):
What's that sound? Never a gotta report?

Speaker 6 (39:31):
Schooling?

Speaker 15 (39:32):
You there to stop?

Speaker 27 (39:33):
Now?

Speaker 15 (39:33):
What's that sound?

Speaker 6 (39:35):
Never about that? Look what's cooling? We better to stop children?

Speaker 15 (39:38):
What's that sound?

Speaker 27 (39:47):
Fie?

Speaker 1 (39:48):
I'm Linda Moulton. How and you've been listening to Inner Journey.

Speaker 8 (39:53):
With Greg free and you still are?

Speaker 4 (39:56):
You are listening to Inner Journey with Greg Friedman on
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Gregfriedman dot com. All Right, you guys, you know the

(40:19):
gig it's I. If you've been listening to this program,
please know I am not saying go Republicans. I'm not
saying go Democrats. I'm not saying go Russia. I'm not
saying go Ukraine. I'm not saying go Israel. I'm not
saying go Palestine. I'm saying go we the people. Because

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I guarantee you we the people are more common than
we are uncommon. We are more connected than we are
in conflict, and we have the ability to recognize it
if we choose, or we can fall all along with
the propaganda, with indoctrination that is telling me, inciting me

(41:05):
that I need to go across this arbitrary line in
order to kill this stranger because some old man wants
to make more money and doesn't mind spilling my or
your blood for it. So instead of going against, against
and against, why don't we go for ourselves and one another.

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Why don't we find a way to love. Why don't
we find a way to flourish. Why don't we find
a way to truly live.

Speaker 2 (41:36):
In peace and find that peace within ourselves.

Speaker 4 (41:41):
Doesn't mean that we don't disagree, doesn't mean that we
don't have conflict. It means that we have more when
we unite than when we divide.

Speaker 2 (41:52):
We have more.

Speaker 4 (41:55):
To embrace when we sit down and break breath rather
than aim our weapons against one another. Everybody, please, if
you take one away, one thing, whether you're an officer
or a border patrol, or an ice agent or some

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kind of other person with that has been asked to
do something that's inhumane, just take a moment and understand
that person deserves humanity in the same way that your
own mother, your own child your own self. Everybody does,

(42:41):
and then maybe choose a little differently. It's up to you,
it's up to each of us, and we can choose peace.
And speaking of peace, this is somebody that spoke for
peace in Vietnam. This is somebody that spoke peace in

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the Mlkjunr era. This is somebody who is consistently, consistently
spoken for peace and not giving up. This is joaned
by us in.

Speaker 27 (43:14):
These times where we're confronting so.

Speaker 30 (43:17):
Much evil, confronting so much evil?

Speaker 11 (43:23):
What evil?

Speaker 30 (43:23):
When you're talking.

Speaker 27 (43:24):
About what evil? The political atmosphere and set up and
the situation we find ourselves in being something that I
couldn't have dreamed up, you know. And we always say,
they say, oh, it's worse than it ever was, But

(43:48):
this is way worse than it ever was. And I've
been around a long time, and so of you, and
how you confront what we're up against is that constant question.

Speaker 30 (44:03):
And to hear you talk about being worried about the
present time, you were pretty worried in the sixties. That
he made clear uh yeah.

Speaker 27 (44:10):
And there was a clear goal that we saw every
morning that you get.

Speaker 31 (44:15):
Up and do.

Speaker 27 (44:16):
And we had the sense of togetherness, that we could
do something together and no. And in the end it
was international cooperation and a movement that ended the war
way late. And to my shock, I wrote a song,
and I haven't written the song except for that silly

(44:41):
nasty man song about Trump in twenty seven years.

Speaker 30 (44:46):
Well, we haven't talked about what you call that city
nasty mand song about Trump. Let's talk about that. It's
not your usual kind of music.

Speaker 15 (44:57):
Not at all.

Speaker 27 (44:58):
And it just I mean, if we have a few
things to thank that man for, they've brought out creative
juices and people who weren't even creative before.

Speaker 25 (45:10):
That.

Speaker 27 (45:11):
That song just can't you know, the problem with that
song is that there aren't enough there's enough time to
put all the verses in. I realized, after I'd written
five or six clever verses that anybody should go on
writing the song. I say to the audience, you know,
go home and write a versus your own because it's
endless the number of things you could write about. And

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you're gonna build a wall, the baddliest wall, the beautifulest
wall around.

Speaker 29 (45:46):
Would use what I think you'd ever talk to shrink because.

Speaker 10 (45:54):
You've got serious psychological dangers.

Speaker 15 (46:01):
Half a large blok this sort.

Speaker 30 (46:07):
It's my understanding that you grew up in a Quaker
environment I did. Was that the early forming of your
activism or did it come later?

Speaker 24 (46:17):
No.

Speaker 27 (46:17):
I believe that I had a social awareness by the
time I was ten and we were living in the
Middle East and my family, my parents would have gatherings
over there of my father's students who would come and
spend silent time and then talk about what was going

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on in the world. But I heard that discussions of
violence nonviolence by the time I was ten, and by
the time I was thirteen, I think I had pretty
much made my mind up that there was only one
way to be and that was really to reject violence

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on as many levels as possible. Although I know that
someone of my friends said it would be better or
healthier for all of us that there were more barroom brawls.
You know, you might get it out.

Speaker 30 (47:18):
Of your system, But actually was the time you were
about thirteen it formed in your mind.

Speaker 27 (47:26):
Non violence eight form, well, it formed don't hurt anybody,
And then the be active came pretty close upon the
heels of that, because when I was fifteen, I did
my first sit in all by myself in high school

(47:47):
as they were doing a kind of duck and cover,
and I asked my dad how long it would take
a missile to get from Moscow to palelto high school.

Speaker 2 (47:57):
And it was all fraud.

Speaker 20 (47:59):
You know.

Speaker 27 (47:59):
They were saying the siren will go off and you
all leave the school or have your parents pick you up.
That was even weirder. So I thought I'll just stay
in school as a protest and spoke to the principle.
He didn't know what on earth I was doing, but
it was sort of an education for all of us
to discuss the secretaries and the vice principal, and I

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was sure of myself.

Speaker 30 (48:28):
I want to ask you about the war that anybody
who's read anything about your nose you went to North
Korea had a I do. In the war, you were
in a bomb shelter doing B fifty two rage. Looking
back on that period, I know you're proud of it,
but do you have any regrets about anything you did

(48:48):
during that period?

Speaker 27 (48:51):
You know, for the most part, I don't have regrets
because I stuck to my foundation, which is nonviolence. I
never really did any social activism that wasn't grounded in
non violence. So I mean, I think if somebody's been

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a lefty all the live and decided they're going to switch,
you know, and vote for Trump, then you say, I'm
really embarrassed about all that stuff I did, But I'm
really not embarrassed about any major thing that I was
involved in.

Speaker 30 (49:28):
Have you ever met Senator John McCain? Have you talked
to him or corresponded with him?

Speaker 27 (49:33):
No, I have not. I did visit the POW's in
Illinois when I was there and took some letters, and
I always you know, with when you visit prisons, prison camps,
it's what I call pork and volleyball. They show you
how well everybody's treated, and we're all having good dinners

(49:53):
here and everybody's playing sports. And I had enough brains
to know that that wasn't what was going on, and
there wasn't much I could do there either.

Speaker 30 (50:03):
Well, there's a lot of history between the lines of
what you were talking about. And you've been quoted as
saying when you're on stage you say, I don't make history.
I am history.

Speaker 27 (50:15):
Well it's kind of true. I know that when I
walk out on the stage, I represent this a lifetime
for a lot of people. They say it in different ways,
you know you were The background to my growing up
was the music. It also takes the pressure off me
of what am I going to do? And I walk

(50:37):
out on the stage I've done and I'm usually involved
in something, but I know that it triggers people. I mean,
they've said that they've forgotten about activism or something like that,
and this helped remind them. So yeah, I am history.

Speaker 1 (50:56):
So are you.

Speaker 2 (50:57):
I'm not sure about that, Oh I am, but we
were talking.

Speaker 1 (51:00):
Okay, Hi everyone, this is Neil Donald Walsh and I'm
happy to tell you that you're listening to in her
Journey with Greg Friedman stick around. Your life could change any.

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Bother any in a little tent.

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A sense.

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Long time coming.

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But I'll go.

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Change cor.

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Oh, yes to do.

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It's been hard leaving, but I'm afraid to die because
I don't know what's up day beyond the sky. Who's

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been a long a long time coming, But I knew
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It oo.

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When I do the woogle to mine, I'm a brother
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What do you want?

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Speaker 32 (53:21):
That's been times that I thought.

Speaker 10 (53:26):
I couldn't live.

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It's for long.

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Now I think I made a hole to carry home.
It's been a long one home, long time coming.

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But I knew who.

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Change?

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Who call? Who gets to get it's Oh, it's been

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a blow. It's been a long long time conning.

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Go by, No change your own color?

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Who yes? Anyway you get?

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Oh, it's been a blown.

Speaker 32 (54:40):
Blava, long time a coming.

Speaker 10 (54:50):
Change your own cog. Who its annoyed?

Speaker 2 (55:01):
Just peace? Look what's going on? It can happen.

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Peace, mo, Ma. There's too many by yea.

Speaker 19 (55:31):
Brother, brother, b.

Speaker 8 (55:35):
It'll spot too.

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Many of.

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You other God to buy. I haven't will you.

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To bring up today, father baba, we don't need any
need to lest you be.

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War is nothing answer.

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Go foll me.

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The friends, love and dear today.

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You can see me? What's going on? Hey, I'm what's
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Put m in.

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Don't got a mother?

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Mom?

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Everybody say that were mom?

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Oh my God, judge something or you'll have mom. You
know we got to buy away.

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Red.

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What's that sound?

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And everybody knows what's going in the house. Spatialize being wrong.
Nobody is right if everybody is wrong. Young people speak

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in their minds. It is so much insistence rum time.
When you stop me, what's that sound? And everybody knows
what's going down?

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What if feel there for him?

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With a thousand people in this stroom.

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Singing songs and carry.

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Inside mostly said ray for the outside time, when you
stop me, what's that sound? Everybody able going down? Their

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noise strikes deep into your life.

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It's a little creed.

Speaker 37 (01:03:11):
It starts with you're always little crazy. It's about the
line the man come and take you with me, says,
stop paying what's that sound?

Speaker 28 (01:03:24):
Everybody know what's screwing down?

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Stop now?

Speaker 8 (01:03:28):
What's that sounds?

Speaker 15 (01:03:29):
Everybody's going down? Stop now, what's that sound? Everybody's going down?

Speaker 29 (01:03:36):
Stop tilling?

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What's that sound? And everybody's going down?

Speaker 4 (01:04:13):
Interjourney with Greg Friedman on k XFM one oh four
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the website is Greg Friedman dot com. Tonight, we are
jumping in the deep end and I'm gonna piss off
people from every side of the aisle. You gotta go

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with your strengths man, red people, blue people, Israeli people,
Palestinian people, Russian people, Ukrainian people, Saudi people, Yemeny people,
Nigerian people, every people across the world. We don't want
to kill one another. We want to thrive, and in

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order to thrive, we need to do more than set
up a paradigm that is based on survival.

Speaker 2 (01:05:13):
Yes we can exist.

Speaker 4 (01:05:16):
However, yes we can choose to live, and in order
to live, that means it's necessary to change up the
construct that we've been indoctrinated into. We have been educated,
we have been taught, we have been brainwashed by incessant
propaganda to believe that it's appropriate to hate our mother,

(01:05:41):
our brother, our sister, no matter what color, what culture,
what dogma they come from. And the truth of the
matter is, we're not here to fight, We're not here
to hate. We are on this planet from and for

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and through source.

Speaker 2 (01:06:08):
We are from.

Speaker 4 (01:06:11):
And through and for love, and that means it's going
to take courage. The courage that says, I am a
military officer that's not willing to go against this kid
and punch him in the face because he's speaking. Free speech,

(01:06:33):
whether I agree or disagree, is of no consequence. What
is important, however, is are you supporting the health and
well being of your brother by stifling.

Speaker 2 (01:06:50):
Him or her?

Speaker 4 (01:06:52):
Or are you willing to put down your arms? Are
you willing.

Speaker 2 (01:07:02):
To stand.

Speaker 4 (01:07:04):
Even when it's not comfortable, even when those around you
are telling you you are insane for standing up for peace.
It takes one person to stand that will inspire another person,
which will inspire another. Whether you're an border patrol or

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ice or a cop or whatever you are, you do
not have to participate in something that is a moral
that is inhumane. Instead, you can stand up and go
for what is appropriate. We do not have to live
in fear. We can live in love. We can live

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in strength and power, and we could live with the
understanding that every life is important, and that means women
get to have equal rites. That means children are not
subjugated and not put into the workforce. That means we
could choose a life where people get to be educated, fed, housed,

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and their healthcare considered. However, it's going to take your voice,
and I've said this over and over tonight, it's going
to take your voice, even if it's scared, even if
it shakes, even if it fumbles and twists. Do you
have any idea how many times nightly I flub a

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word or trip over my own tongue or say something incorrectly,
But I have the courage to get help here and
do it again. And you may call me a twit
for doing it over and over and over again, but
I'm willing to.

Speaker 2 (01:08:55):
Now. Is this everything?

Speaker 25 (01:08:57):
No?

Speaker 2 (01:08:58):
But is a thing? Do you need to do everything?

Speaker 27 (01:09:01):
No?

Speaker 4 (01:09:02):
But do a thing if you are able, if you
are interested, if you are willing, if you see it
as appropriate. Now, there's been a lot of things going
on all over the world, protests all over the place,
people standing up for peace, people standing up for justice,
people standing up for what is appropriate. And all over

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LA there was a rally with thousands and thousands and
thousands of people and AOC and Bernie Sanders spoke, Neil
Young played, Joan Baiez played, and so many others. And
this is just a little snippet that came off the news,
and believe it or not, again, if we can stand up,

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this is from Fox, And if Fox can say this,
can't we.

Speaker 35 (01:09:54):
Look at this insanely large crowd in downtown Los Angeles
today all to hear a message delivered by Senator Bernie
Sanders and Congresswoman Alexandria Cassio Cortez.

Speaker 38 (01:10:05):
It is our top story tonight, Welcome to the FUS
out of weekends at five. Their supporters called it a revolution.
Thousands of them were there for hours in the heat
to be part of this national movement that's picking up
steam Box. Love is Matthew Seedorf live at Gloria Molina
Grand Park, right across from City Hall. Matthew, what can

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you need to tell us about this event?

Speaker 23 (01:10:29):
Well, it was massive and it was hot, as you mentioned.

Speaker 13 (01:10:32):
Right now they're cleaning up, but I gotta tell you
these crowds, they're stretched all the way to City Hall,
up on the stairs, and then they wrapped all the
way as far as the eye could see to the south.
It's hard to believe it's not a presidential election year.
A sea of people shoulder to shoulder outside LA's City Hall,
the largest crowds so far for New York Congresswoman Alexandria

(01:10:54):
Costio Cortez.

Speaker 12 (01:10:55):
There are a people and half a mile away.

Speaker 13 (01:10:58):
And Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders here on their nationwide tour
called Fight Oligarchy.

Speaker 24 (01:11:09):
We're fighting a President a along the mines how a
constitution every day?

Speaker 13 (01:11:13):
Both Sanders and AOC targeting President Donald Trump.

Speaker 34 (01:11:17):
A few days ago, I officials attempted to enter two
la USD schools.

Speaker 13 (01:11:23):
To target kids, highlighting the president's immigration policies.

Speaker 24 (01:11:27):
He is illegally abolishing agencies.

Speaker 13 (01:11:31):
The Congress created and worked by Elon Musk's Department of
Government Efficiency.

Speaker 23 (01:11:39):
Nothing at a time where the leader of the Democratic.

Speaker 13 (01:11:42):
Party is in question, there's about forty thousand people here
supporting AOC and Sanders.

Speaker 23 (01:11:47):
Where do you think that leader is right now?

Speaker 31 (01:11:50):
The only one it could be is Bernie Sanders.

Speaker 14 (01:11:52):
Moving in the direction of oligaky.

Speaker 13 (01:11:55):
Elon Musk tweeting this video ahead of the rally with
clips of Sanders discussing threats of oligarchy more than thirty
years ago.

Speaker 10 (01:12:03):
You're damn right, That's what I've been talking about.

Speaker 23 (01:12:07):
What is fight oligarchy means?

Speaker 13 (01:12:08):
It means like fight the system and fight the systems
that are oppressing us.

Speaker 34 (01:12:12):
Well, I don't think America should be bought and sold
by people who are running the country with greed.

Speaker 2 (01:12:19):
On the mine issuing.

Speaker 13 (01:12:24):
The New York congresswoman in Vermont senator leaving la with
this message.

Speaker 10 (01:12:31):
Away against.

Speaker 23 (01:12:38):
The heat causing some real problems out here today.

Speaker 13 (01:12:40):
You think about the massive crowd, people standing up in
the sun for.

Speaker 23 (01:12:44):
Hours, shoulder to shoulder.

Speaker 13 (01:12:45):
There were probably three, four, maybe even five times where
AOC and Senator Sanders both had to stop and call
medics to certain sections of the crowd. It was just
that crowded out here today. Party Lifetime, Matthew Sedor Fox Loven.

Speaker 38 (01:12:58):
News, and are some musical numbers as well.

Speaker 4 (01:13:02):
And it was such a throwback and still we stand,
and still we have a voice. When it's hard, when
it's difficult, we can make a choice, but to speak
a concert for not against.

Speaker 20 (01:13:22):
Today.

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tell me, what you tell me?

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What tell?

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What they talk to?

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Do what you tell?

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Then?

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Then what they talk to?

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Do?

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You see how jarring that is? Do you see how
hard that is?

Speaker 4 (01:18:50):
Do you feel how that feels in your being? It's
a choice, it's war, it's violence, it's going up against
You don't always have to agree with your neighbor. You
don't always have to like your neighbor. Your neighbor can
be a Republican, if you're a Democrat and a Democrat,

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if you're a Republican and agnostic, if you're a Christian
and Jewish, if you're a Muslim. It doesn't matter. What
matters is you have an opportunity unite or fight, live
together so you can thrive or exist so that you

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can eliminate. It is an option. It is an opportunity.
We are presented with a beautiful choice right now. And
I say it's beautiful because we are being urged now.
In my life, the universe will whisper at me, and

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then it will give me a little nudge. Then it'll
speak a little bit more loudly, then it'll speak in
full voice. Then it'll yell, and then it'll take out
a two by four and let me tell you something,
the two by four can hurt.

Speaker 2 (01:20:08):
Well.

Speaker 4 (01:20:09):
Everything is getting cranked up in the world right now,
and we have an opportunity to choose ourselves, choose love,
choose one another, or choose the alternative. I'm not saying
that the Blue side is right. They've been making empty
promises for decades and people are fed up. They're tired,

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they're over it, they're exhausted. We are exhausted.

Speaker 2 (01:20:38):
The Red side same thing.

Speaker 4 (01:20:41):
It's we're being sold a bill of goods. You know what,
Russians don't have anything against Ukrainians as people, as individuals,
and yet we're killing one another so rich people can
get richer. We're fighting one another. And I was recently

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corrected appropriately on this. I tell this story all the time,
and I accredited to Einstein, but it's actually Mark Twains.
We are the red ants and the black ants, and
we are being shaken so that we can fight one another.
It is the art of distraction. You me can choose peace,

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and you know what, I've been known as the angriest
dog ever, and I do my best to choose peace
every day because it feels better for me, it feels
better for those around me. It creates a better life
instead of a subjugation or repression and that explosion. What

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are you going to choose? How are you going to live?
Please know I'm not singing the praises of any particular side,
whether it's religious or political or ideological.

Speaker 29 (01:22:05):
I am.

Speaker 4 (01:22:08):
Doing my best to promote that all of us, each
of us, have the ability to be more expansive than
we've ever imagined before.

Speaker 2 (01:22:17):
When we recognize that we.

Speaker 4 (01:22:19):
Are here from and for love, we are source energy
expressing ourselves in this carnate form, we the people have
an opportunity.

Speaker 2 (01:22:34):
To unite.

Speaker 4 (01:22:37):
The people need to understand that in order to unite,
we don't have to be indoctrinated to all think and
walk and talk and look the same. Instead, uniting is
finding the bridges and choosing life over all kinds of

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different opportunities. It's up to us. It's up to every
single one of us. And you know what, it could
be tough. And I'm not going to tell you anything different.
I'm not going to sell you a bill of goods.
I'm just saying that every time this becomes an option,

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every time this becomes something that we can opt for
or we can opt.

Speaker 2 (01:23:33):
To allow ourselves.

Speaker 4 (01:23:36):
To fall into the same old pattern, And it happens
all the time, and there's nothing wrong with it. I
just am doing my best to inspire, to implore.

Speaker 11 (01:23:49):
To.

Speaker 2 (01:23:51):
Incite you.

Speaker 4 (01:23:53):
To be happy, to be at peace, to be in
love with yourself, with your brethren, and with your world.

Speaker 2 (01:24:02):
And we'll be back with more. Tell you what I'm
gonna do.

Speaker 4 (01:24:06):
I'm gonna play a whole long, big segment from that
rally that happened in La the other day, just yesterday
and with Bernie Sanders and AOC and so many others,
because not because I believe the blue is right, but
because when people stand up to inspire, let's be inspired

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if it's appropriate for you.

Speaker 42 (01:24:37):
My name is Alexandria and some of you may know
me as AOC.

Speaker 34 (01:24:45):
And from the bottom of my heart, thank you for
welcoming me to Los Angeles and also happy Passover to
all of our friends celebrating this weekend.

Speaker 42 (01:24:59):
Thank you.

Speaker 34 (01:25:02):
You know, we're all here together because we share in
the frustration and heartache that comes from watching those in
power actively tear down or refuse to fight for every
day working Americans like us. And we are here together

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because an extreme concentration of power, greed, and corruption is
taking over this country like never before, oligarchy in America, and.

Speaker 42 (01:25:45):
We must acknowledge the terrifying moment that.

Speaker 34 (01:25:48):
We are in right now, and that what we are
hearing and seeing with our own eyes is in fact happening.
We are watching our neighbors, star students, and friends being fired, targeted,
and disappeared.

Speaker 42 (01:26:06):
It is real.

Speaker 34 (01:26:08):
People we love are being targeted and harassed for being
trans or queer. Are co workers, US citizens and immigrants
alike are being disappeared off the street by men in.

Speaker 42 (01:26:24):
Vans with no uniform.

Speaker 34 (01:26:29):
Educators are being fired for teaching American history accurately, and
activists are being detained with no charge or evidence for
using their First Amendment rights, especially when they use them
for Palestinians. In fact, the Trump administration admits that it

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has jailed Mahmoud Khalio, a young husband and father from
New York, with out any evidence or charge of a crime.

Speaker 42 (01:27:03):
The Trump administration admits that they.

Speaker 34 (01:27:05):
Have thrown my Mood in a cell thousands of miles
away because he attended a protest and are detaining him
for the content of his speech and nothing more. In fact,
in fact, Donald Trump's detention of someone like Mahmud Caglio

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for his speech is anti American, and we demand his release,
along with the release of Rumesa Ozturk, who he is
also jailing for writing an op ed in her school paper.
And we demand their release because we Los Angeles, we

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do have power in this moment. All of us do,
and everyday people do. In fact, you all showed that
this week LA. A few days ago, ice officials attempted
to enter two LAUSD schools to target kids. They lied

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to school officials and claimed that they had parents' permission
to get to these children.

Speaker 42 (01:28:16):
When they didn't. But it wasn't just a lawyer or
a judge that said no. It started with everyday people.

Speaker 34 (01:28:27):
School staff and employees who spoke up when they felt
something was off. And it was the teachers and principles
that stood strong and said no to protect their kids
when it could have.

Speaker 42 (01:28:41):
Been easier to say yes out of fear.

Speaker 34 (01:28:46):
You defended them, LA because it will never be just
institutions and officials alone that uphold our democracy. It will
always be the people, the masses, who refuse to comply
with authoritarian regimes, who are the last and strongest defense

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of our country and our freedoms. Because we know Los
Angeles that a better world is possible and we are
willing to do something about it. But to get there,
we need to be honest about how we got to

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this place. Because this moment did not come out of nowhere.
It has been a long time coming. The destruction of
our rights and democracy is directly tied to the growing
and extreme wealth inequality that has been building for years
in America. It is not a coincidence that billionaires like

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Elon Musk dumped billions of dollars in this election to
elect Trump. And I'll tell you la, He's sure as
hell isn't doing that out of charity. For years, we
have known that our political system has slowly but surely
become dominated by big money and billionaires. And time after

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time we have seen and experienced how our government and
laws are more responsive to lobbyists than to the will
of everyday people. And we also know that the agenda
of dark money to keep wages low and to loot
our public goods to give to the rich is deeply

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unpopular with people of all backgrounds, all parties, and all places.
Just look at what Republicans have been quietly doing in Congress.
They have been voting just this week to advance cuts
on hundreds of billions of dollars from Medicaid and veterans'

(01:31:06):
benefits and Social Security so that they can take that
money and give it to the billionaires who elected them
in the form of tax cuts and sweetheart government contracts
to companies like SpaceX.

Speaker 42 (01:31:23):
And you know who voted for that from California, by
the way.

Speaker 34 (01:31:28):
David Valdeo of California's twenty second, Young Kim of California's fortieth,
and Ken Calvert of California's forty first. They know that
that's not what you want. They know that it is
deeply unpopular, they know that it hurts you. But they

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are not here to serve us. They are here to
serve themselves and the billionaires who have paid them oligarchy,
and they know that the only chance they have to
get away with such an unpopular agenda, to get away
with stealing in plain view, is to stoke deep divisions

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among us along lines of race, identity, and culture, to
keep us fighting and distracted. This has been the big
money playbook, not just now, but for decades, and that
is why Donald Trump is not in aberration. He is

(01:32:33):
the logical, inevitable conclusion of an American political system dominated
by corporate and dark money. And if we are here
to defeat him, we must defeat the system that created him.
Money in politics is the hands of oligarchy.

Speaker 42 (01:32:57):
Los Angeles, and we are at a crossroads.

Speaker 34 (01:33:02):
We can either have extreme wealth inequality with a toxic
division and corruption that it requires to survive, or we
can have a fair economy that guarantees healthcare to all
for working people, along with a democracy.

Speaker 42 (01:33:22):
And freedoms that uphold it.

Speaker 34 (01:33:28):
Oligarchy or democracy, but we cannot have both.

Speaker 42 (01:33:34):
Los Angeles. I've made my choice.

Speaker 34 (01:33:37):
We must fight the oligarchy that has created this nightmare.

Speaker 42 (01:33:41):
And that is why I have never taken money from.

Speaker 34 (01:33:45):
Lobbyists or corporations.

Speaker 42 (01:33:47):
And it's why I never will.

Speaker 34 (01:33:55):
You know, when I first got to Congress, I was
genuinely shocked by how this place worked, Even having run
against dark money on a campaign against it in the
first place, the everyday influence of corruption and dark money
was astonishing, how normalized it is. In fact, Congress and

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members of Congress have somehow conditioned itself to actually believe
that it is normal for elected representatives who swear an
oath to the American people to day trade individual stocks
that make millions with the sensitive information that we are

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entrusted with for the purpose of governing.

Speaker 42 (01:34:44):
How can anyone possibly make.

Speaker 34 (01:34:47):
An objective vote on healthcare, energy, or war when their
personal money is tied up in pharmaceutical, oil and gas, or.

Speaker 42 (01:34:56):
Defense company stocks.

Speaker 6 (01:34:59):
They can.

Speaker 8 (01:35:01):
You can't.

Speaker 34 (01:35:03):
And we saw this play out this week with Trump's
corrupt and disastrous tariff scheme. I hope that we all
see now that this that the White House House's tariffs
shuffle here didn't have anything to do with manufacturing like
they claimed, it was about manipulating the markets. It was

(01:35:26):
about hurting retirees and everyday people in the cellof so
Trump could quietly enrich his friends who he nudged to
buy the dip before reversing it all in the morning.
Donald Trump is a criminal, a criminal found guilty of

(01:35:49):
thirty four felony counts of fraud. Of course he is
lying and manipulating the stock market too. Is he is
at his best making himself, the billionaires who back him
and the members of Congress who trade with him rich,
not you, not me, not the people. And to be clear,

(01:36:11):
I don't care what party you are, Democrat or Republican,
I don't care what position one holds. Members of Congress
and elected officials holding and trading individual stock is wrong.

Speaker 42 (01:36:23):
It must end, and we must ban it. But I'll
give you.

Speaker 34 (01:36:31):
Another example of how shocking and casual this all was
when I was first elected. Just this year, I was elected,
or I was named and appointed to the powerful Energy
and Commerce Committee. This is one of the most powerful
committees in all of Congress, and.

Speaker 42 (01:36:50):
For years lobbyists worked to keep.

Speaker 34 (01:36:53):
Me off this committee. It oversees two thirds of the
American economy. Healthcare, energy, technology trade. As they say in Congress,
if it moves its energy, if it doesn't, it's commerce.
And that's the jurisdiction of this committee. And an interesting
thing that happened was at the day I was named

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to this committee, the same day my office's phones rang
off the hook and our inboxes were flooded by every
corporate lobbyist under the sun.

Speaker 42 (01:37:28):
They all wanted to be my best friend.

Speaker 34 (01:37:31):
But you know what, Los Angeles, because of your support,
because of you all showing up, because I don't have
to take a dime in corporate.

Speaker 42 (01:37:41):
Money, you allow me to say no. But not everyone
is so lucky.

Speaker 34 (01:37:50):
I have seen firsthand how these groups bully and pressure
members of Congress, threatening to either take money away or
spend it against them if they don't do what they want.
And what they want is for our lives to be
as expensive as possible on the lowest possible wage. It

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all trickles down to how life feels for working people today.

Speaker 42 (01:38:17):
These facts of life, the.

Speaker 34 (01:38:19):
Feeling of the water rising up to our throats, the
impossibility to afford anything easily, the fear of speaking up,
the deeply bitter and toxic division driven more by algorithms
on social media than individual thought, the crumbling of our
rights and protections.

Speaker 42 (01:38:38):
Understand that all of this is what it means and
what it feels like to be governed by billionaires.

Speaker 34 (01:38:49):
This is what oligarchy feels like, and it only will
get worse until we act. It is this system that
relies on division to let which to slate greed, that
has brought us the most corrupt administration in American history,
and the Republican majorities to support it.

Speaker 42 (01:39:09):
Big money is how we got Donald Trump.

Speaker 34 (01:39:15):
And his whole presidency began with launching tools for bribery,
mean coins to fleece working people and move around money
in the dark, extortion settlements from media companies and law
firms who gladly pay them, the removal of duly elected

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On inauguration Day, Donald Trump removed duly elected officials from
the Chamber.

Speaker 42 (01:39:42):
In order to make space for who's really in charge.

Speaker 34 (01:39:46):
Behind the really in charge, who were the billionaires who
sat behind him. They have one central economic mission to
make billionaires richer at the expense of the United States
of America. Uh and it does not surprise us that
their first economic mission has been to target medicaid Medicare

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and Social Security, to fire our federal workers and fleets
and abandon our veterans so that they can hand that
money off to the billionaires who are backing them. But
this isn't just about the Republican attacks on working people, LA.
We need a Democratic party that fights harder for us too,

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and that.

Speaker 42 (01:40:35):
Means our communities, all.

Speaker 34 (01:40:38):
Of us coming together, choosing and voting for Democrats and
elected officials who know how to stand for the working class.

Speaker 2 (01:40:50):
In LA.

Speaker 34 (01:40:51):
I want to thank you for working very hard and
doing your best to try to make that happen.

Speaker 42 (01:40:56):
In fact, last month, when other Democrats.

Speaker 34 (01:40:59):
Cave, your Senators Alex Padilla and Adam Schiff stood strong
against the DC pressure and voted against the Republicans' spending
bill to cut billions for working people. In fact, all
of your Democratic members of Congress, and all of your
members here today voted against that bill too. Defend them, LA,

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and don't stop there. I want you to look at
every level of office around and support Democrats who actually fight,
because those are the ones who can actually defeat Republicans.

Speaker 42 (01:41:40):
So, folks, you know what that means.

Speaker 34 (01:41:43):
We have to start working now to give David Valdeo, Young, Kim,
and Ken calvert the boot and replace them with a
brawling Democrat who will stand for the working people of California.
But beyond elections, LA, our task is to build community

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block associations, volunteer groups, church organizations, ptas activist organizations. Because
community is the most powerful building block. We have to
defeat authoritarianism and root out corruption. This is the path
to guaranteeing healthcare to every American, to establish a living

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minimum wage, to take on skyrocketing rents and mortgages, to
tackle the climate crisis, and establish a country where the
American dream is actually possible for all of us. I
come from a working class family. My mom cleaned houses,

(01:42:57):
my dad worked to start a small business, and they
work so hard just to make life possible a little
bit better from my brother and I. And when I
was a teenager, my dad was diagnosed with cancer. He
passed away before I was even twenty years old, and
the rug was pulled out from us all in the

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middle of the two thousand and eight recession. So many
of us live like this. One accident, one bad day,
one piece of bad news away from our lives falling apart.

Speaker 42 (01:43:32):
We don't have to live like this anymore, Los Angeles.

Speaker 34 (01:43:38):
We can stand with one another and stand for ourselves.

Speaker 42 (01:43:43):
And we might come from.

Speaker 34 (01:43:45):
Different places, but we share the same experiences.

Speaker 42 (01:43:50):
So to all who came here.

Speaker 34 (01:43:51):
Today unsure of whether this is where you belong, I
want to say.

Speaker 12 (01:43:56):
That you do.

Speaker 34 (01:43:58):
No matter if you have all the right words to say,
no matter your race, religion, gender, identity, or status.

Speaker 42 (01:44:08):
No matter if you disagree with me on some things.

Speaker 34 (01:44:11):
But if you are willing to fight for someone that
you don't know, you are welcome here. If you are
willing to fight for working people, regardless of who they are,
how they identify, you are welcome here. Because here everyone
is valued. But we have to stand together. We cannot

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be tempted to turn in our neighbors or be fooled
into thinking that we are really that much different from
a trans kid who wants to get accepted by their friends.
That were that different from a dreamer who worked to
go to college and try to provide for their family

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that were that day, from anyone who's not like us.
Hate is a trap that sinks us all, and it
is standing together without exception to reject division.

Speaker 42 (01:45:15):
That is the only way we can win. It's the
only way we can win.

Speaker 34 (01:45:22):
So I hope you see that this movement is not
about partisan labels or purity tests, but it's.

Speaker 42 (01:45:31):
About class solidarity. It is about the thousands of.

Speaker 34 (01:45:38):
You who came out here today to stand together and
say our lives deserve dignity and our work deserves respect.
No matter who we are, we are here to make
a sacred promise to each other, and our goal today

(01:45:58):
is to commit to building the kind of country we
all deserve, and we will make that promise to take
care of each other on our worst days and to
share in the successes of our best. Thank you so much,
Los Angeles, and it is my honor here today to

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introduce someone who has dedicated his life to bringing us together.

Speaker 6 (01:47:00):
We get all you.

Speaker 11 (01:47:06):
Please take it. Bout me, bounce bound.

Speaker 28 (01:47:34):
We want to about you down, bounce.

Speaker 6 (01:47:44):
Bound me.

Speaker 11 (01:47:48):
Bound bound.

Speaker 6 (01:47:55):
I can't he.

Speaker 5 (01:48:00):
Had she can't be herself to.

Speaker 11 (01:48:09):
Say bou bounce, bounce bad people, bounce bound, bounce bud neighborn.

Speaker 30 (01:49:23):
Hi, it's Greg Braydon and you're looking to inner journey
with Greg Freeman.

Speaker 2 (01:49:29):
Yeah, baby, now there's a perfect example.

Speaker 4 (01:49:32):
I don't agree with everything AOC says, and yet she
and I have essentially parallel messages. We can find enough crossover,
enough bridges, enough considerations that we could walk side by side,
for one another, for ourselves, for this world.

Speaker 2 (01:49:50):
It is our choice. Do you choose to live.

Speaker 4 (01:49:57):
As a free human with humane consideration for yourself and others?
Or do you choose to abdicate and subjugate. It's up
to each of us. We the people, can do this,
and I believe that with my entire being. I know
that will we Well, that's that's up to us, all right,

(01:50:23):
you guys, It's that time, so many people to think.
Lots and lots of work goes in this show. Thank
you everybody that supports that. Thank you, and most of all,
thank you to the listening audience. This show does not
exist without your participation. For that and so so much more.
I we are hugely grateful you've been listening to in

(01:50:48):
her Journey with Greg Friedman.

Speaker 2 (01:50:50):
Good Night,