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Steve Cox

24 Jul, 9 tweets, 3 min read

@M4M4ALL

The truth as I understand it regarding my not being allowed to finish my speech today at the @M4M4ALL rally in Los Angeles:

I was confirmed as a speaker 6+ weeks ago, thanks to the advocacy of @bigclasstraitor. I was allotted 6-7 min, and I immediately wrote my speech.
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About 3 weeks ago, Savage Joy (we don’t get along *because* I criticize Bernie and the Squad—you can search our last interaction on Twitter as proof) had me removed from the docket. Then I had a lot of people fight for me to get me back on the docket, but organizers resisted.
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@bigclasstraitor

One reason they gave was that there was already too many white men speaking and they wanted more diverse speakers. When @bigclasstraitor told me that, I asked him to please, in the next meeting, tell them how sorry I am for the circumstances of my birth.
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Eventually, they put me back on the event, but then they told me I had to tell a “personal healthcare story” and gave me 3 min.

3 Minutes. Nobody else had less than 5.

All I did was my original speech that I’d already written.
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So they cut me off. I was literally giving a speech about how we need to be willing to fight everyone, including people who claim to be our allies in our fight for universal, single-payer healthcare. It takes more than words.

Then the organizers immediately proved my point.
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@M4M4ALL

So I set up on some stairs just a few doors down to finish my speech with a bullhorn I’d brought with me, and the @M4M4ALL organizers in their flatbed truck tried to drown me out with music after I captured the audience’s attention the second time.
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They didn’t want my actual message to get out. It’s that simple.

But you may have noticed that I don’t back down from *any* fights. And I believe we *need* people who don’t back down from fights representing us in congress.
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We’re fighting a behemoth on the people’s behalf. Not because we want to, but because we have to.

I know times are tough, but if you can help, we need all the help we can get.

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Thanks, everybody. I’m going to hang with my daughter now. She’s why I fight.
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