RALLY BEFORE THE MARCH
Da Homeless Hero’s March on Gracie Mansion, #JulyHomelessRights
86th Street and East End Avenue, Carl Schurz Park, Upper East Side, Manhattan, New York City, 2:17pm, Saturday, July 10, 2021.
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Chants then Shanequa Charles and her daughter Miracle are introduced.
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Shanequa Charles and her daughter Miracle
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Shanequa Charles and her daughter Miracle
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Shanequa Charles and her daughter Miracle
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Shanduke McPhatter is a community activist based in Brooklyn, New York City. He is the founder and executive director of Gangstas Making Astronomical Community Change (GMACC), a non-profit organization that focuses on helping at-risk youths avoid gangs and gun violence.
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Shanduke McPhatter continues speaking
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Person interrupts speaker, “Yeah, I’m the right mayor, I’m independent, it’s on my tie. This whole city’s corrupted. Nobody knows about homelessness than me. I got three bullets from when they gunned down a homeless shelter … Buster Bookey [sp?], I’m running for mayor.”
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Kristin Richardson Jordan, running for New York City Council to represent District 9 (Central Harlem).
Jordan announces, “By the last count of ranked choice voting, I won the District 9 seat by 100 votes.”
kristinforharlem.com
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Kristin Richardson Jordan continues speaking
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A member of Kristin Richardson Jordan’s team talks about being houseless (did not get name of speaker on recording)
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Alvin Bragg, presumptive Democratic candidate for Manhattan District Attorney
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Spoken word artist, Artist Up
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Spoken word artist, Artist Up, performs her poem, “They Run”
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Spoken word artist, Artist Up, finishes speaking
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“My name is Tiesha Williams. I’m 48 years old and I’m an out of work pharmacy technician who has been living in a homeless shelter since November of 2019. It’s a travesty.” Describes not being treated with respect and only being given inadequate food (example meal shown.)
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Speaker discusses food at homeless shelters and asks audience, what did they give us during times of slavery? and audience responds, “scraps”, then holds frozen dinner up and asks, “What’s this?” “Scraps”.
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“These places are congregate death traps. And it perpetuates, poverty, dependence, substance use disorder, mental illness and all these negative things you see.”
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Speaker discusses history of neglected neighborhoods
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Speaker: “We’re telling the mayor straight up …”
Audience member: “We need homes not shelters.”
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“We need to send the right message. We need to invest in our youth.”
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