WEBVTT 00:00:15.000 --> 00:00:19.000 HEAR YOU CLEARLY. I WANT TO GET GOING W 00:00:19.000 --> 00:00:22.000 ITH THE PRESENTATION, AND WELCOME 00:00:22.000 --> 00:00:25.000 FANISEE BIAS TO GET THE PROCESS GOING 00:00:25.000 --> 00:00:28.000 . WELCOME FANISEE. 00:00:28.000 --> 00:00:31.000 >> FANISEE BIAS: HELLO GOOD MORNING. 00:00:31.000 --> 00:00:35.000 I AM LIKE SO, HONORED AND LIKE 00:00:35.000 --> 00:00:38.000 THE STAR STRUCK, IT IS 00:00:38.000 --> 00:00:41.000 KIND OF COOL. BECAUSE I CAN'T SEE YOU, 00:00:41.000 --> 00:00:44.000 I DON'T FEEL TAME 00:00:44.000 --> 00:00:47.000 INTIMIDATED. YOU ARE THERE WITH ME IN SPIRIT, AND 00:00:47.000 --> 00:00:51.000 I AM SUPER EXCITED TO BE A PANEL 00:00:51.000 --> 00:00:54.000 IST. I AM FANISEE, I USE USHER AND 00:00:54.000 --> 00:00:57.000 SHE AND HER, PRO 00:00:57.000 --> 00:01:00.000 NOUNS, I AM FROM B / 00:01:00.000 --> 00:01:03.000 OISE. I SEE SOME FOLKS ARE 00:01:03.000 --> 00:01:07.000 IN BOISE. I GO TO THE UNIVERSITY OF 00:01:07.000 --> 00:01:10.000 SAN DIEGO. I AM MAJORING IN SOCIOLOGY WITH 00:01:10.000 --> 00:01:14.000 MINOR IN SOCIAL JUSTICE. INTERESTED AND 00:01:14.000 --> 00:01:17.000 PASSIONATE ABOUT RELATED WORK 00:01:17.000 --> 00:01:19.000 , REPRODUCTIVE, RACIAL 00:01:19.000 --> 00:01:23.000 JUSTICE, YOU NAME IT, IT INTERCONNECTED. IT IS 00:01:23.000 --> 00:01:26.000 IMPORTANT TO COLLABORATE WITH THE STORIES AND 00:01:26.000 --> 00:01:29.000 EXPERIENCES AND IDENTITY. SO I WILL BE 00:01:29.000 --> 00:01:32.000 SHARING A LITTLE BIT ABOUT MYSELF TODAY. AND THEN, JUST 00:01:32.000 --> 00:01:36.000 TALKING ABOUT, THE NEXT GENERATION OF 00:01:36.000 --> 00:01:39.000 IL, AND I WILL SAY, THOUGH I AM YOUNG, 00:01:39.000 --> 00:01:42.000 I DIDN'T REPRESENT THE WHOLE JUDGE 00:01:42.000 --> 00:01:46.000 COMMUNITY BUT I WILL SHARE FROM MY PERSONAL 00:01:46.000 --> 00:01:49.000 EXPERIENCE AND RESINATE WITH FOLKS OUT THERE. I WILL 00:01:49.000 --> 00:01:52.000 ALSO SAY, THE MORE QUESTIONS WE GET, THE 00:01:52.000 --> 00:01:55.000 MORE INTERACTION WE GET, THE MORE WE ARE ABLE TO 00:01:55.000 --> 00:01:59.000 BE HONEST, TRANSPARENT AND AUTHENTIC WITH YOU. 00:01:59.000 --> 00:02:03.000 THIS GROUP IS DYNAMIC, IT IS SUPER AWESOME TO HAVE 00:02:03.000 --> 00:02:06.000 SO MANY PERSPECTIVES. BUT YEAH, I WOULD LET YOU KNOW TO 00:02:06.000 --> 00:02:09.000 COME UP WITH THE QUESTIONS, WHETHER THAT IS BASED OFF WHAT W 00:02:09.000 --> 00:02:12.000 E SAY OR WHAT YOU ARE THINKING ABOUT. I THINK THERE 00:02:12.000 --> 00:02:15.000 IS NOT LIMITS HERE WHAT WE CAN TALK ABOUT 00:02:15.000 --> 00:02:18.000 EXACTLY, WE WANT TO FOCUS ON THE NEXT GENERATION 00:02:18.000 --> 00:02:22.000 AND THE PROGRESSION, BUT, YOU KNOW WE ARE 00:02:22.000 --> 00:02:25.000 OPEN TO INCORPORATING, THINGS 00:02:25.000 --> 00:02:28.000 , DISABILITY JUSTICE RELATED WITH. THAT BEING 00:02:28.000 --> 00:02:31.000 SAID, I AM RAM BULLETIN BOARD 00:02:31.000 --> 00:02:34.000 BLING, LAST YEAR WAS MY 00:02:34.000 --> 00:02:37.000 FIRST YEAR AT APRILED. 00:02:37.000 --> 00:02:41.000 . I WILL DISCLOSE MY 00:02:41.000 --> 00:02:44.000 IDENTITY AND HOW I GOTTEN INTO DIFFERENT ORGANIZATIONS 00:02:44.000 --> 00:02:47.000 OR MOVEMENTS, AND THEN, ESSENTIAL LY 00:02:47.000 --> 00:02:50.000 LY I CAME HERE, TO SPEAK WITH YOU AS A 00:02:50.000 --> 00:02:53.000 KEYNOTE SPEAKER. I WAS DIAGNOSED 00:02:53.000 --> 00:02:56.000 IN 2012 WITH TRANSVERSE 00:02:56.000 --> 00:02:59.000 MYELITIS. IT LEFT ME PAR 00:02:59.000 --> 00:03:02.000 ALYZED AND I WAS ABLE TO GAIN 00:03:02.000 --> 00:03:06.000 STRENGTH. AND MUSCLE AND BALANCE 00:03:06.000 --> 00:03:09.000 BACK. AND FEELING. BUT, I 00:03:09.000 --> 00:03:12.000 GUESS MY DIAGNOSIS DOESN'T CHANGE THE FACT THAT LIKE 00:03:12.000 --> 00:03:15.000 I AM PASSIONATE BY DISABILITY JUSTICE, WH 00:03:15.000 --> 00:03:18.000 ETHER I AM PROGRESSING IN AIR QUOTES OR 00:03:18.000 --> 00:03:22.000 FEELING BETTER ABOUT MYSELF OR IF I EVEN, 00:03:22.000 --> 00:03:25.000 SOME PEOPLE ASKED WHEN ARE YOU GOING TO WALK 00:03:25.000 --> 00:03:28.000 AGAIN. WOULD YOU WANT TO BECOME 00:03:28.000 --> 00:03:31.000 ABLE BODY. AND I PUT THESE IN QUOTES. I 00:03:31.000 --> 00:03:35.000 DON'T REALLY FOCUS ON THAT AS PROGRESS. WHAT I 00:03:35.000 --> 00:03:38.000 FOCUS ON PROGRESS IS, THE WAY 00:03:38.000 --> 00:03:42.000 I AM ABLE TO MAKE COMMUNITY AND FIGHT 00:03:42.000 --> 00:03:45.000 SOCIAL JUSTICE AND DISABILITY JUSTICE, THE WAY I AM 00:03:45.000 --> 00:03:48.000 ABLE TO LEARN AND KNOW ABOUT THE SYSTEMS THAT ARE 00:03:48.000 --> 00:03:51.000 AT PLAY IN THE UNITED STATES AND MARITALIZED 00:03:51.000 --> 00:03:54.000 MARGINALIZED AND PRIVILEGE 00:03:54.000 --> 00:03:58.000 FOLKS. I AM INTERESTED IN THAT, 00:03:58.000 --> 00:04:01.000 RATHER THAN WALKING. I NAME, THAT FOR MY EXPERIENCE, 00:04:01.000 --> 00:04:04.000 THAT IS BEEN THE NUMBER ONE QUESTION. WHAT 00:04:04.000 --> 00:04:07.000 AM I DOING WITH MY LIFE. BUT HOW DID IT 00:04:07.000 --> 00:04:10.000 CHANGE THE PERSPECTIVE ON CAREER, BUT LIKE, MY 00:04:10.000 --> 00:04:13.000 PHYSICAL APPEARANCE AND HOW THAT IS CHANGING. 00:04:13.000 --> 00:04:17.000 I DON'T WANT FOCUS ON, THAT MY 00:04:17.000 --> 00:04:20.000 DISABILITY HAS HELPED ME GET, I GET IN 00:04:20.000 --> 00:04:23.000 COLLABORATION WITH MANY PEOPLE AND ORGANIZATIONS AND I 00:04:23.000 --> 00:04:27.000 DEFINITELY HAD A DIFFERENT PERSPECTIVE OF THE WORLD AND OF 00:04:27.000 --> 00:04:30.000 SOCIAL JUSTICE AND JUSTICE RELATED TOPICS. BUT 00:04:30.000 --> 00:04:34.000 IT IS MORE ABOUT /KPHUPBT 00:04:34.000 --> 00:04:37.000 COMMUNITY AND THE MORE 00:04:37.000 --> 00:04:42.000 THAT I LEARN. I AM EXCITED LEARNING ABOUT 00:04:42.000 --> 00:04:44.000 JUSTICE. I GREW UP WITH AN OPEN AND W 00:04:44.000 --> 00:04:47.000 ELCOMING FAMILY. SINGLE MOTHER, 4 00:04:47.000 --> 00:04:50.000 FOUR KIDS IN IDAHO. IT IS A RURAL PLACE, THAT IS HOW 00:04:50.000 --> 00:04:53.000 I GOT INTRODUCED TO APRIL AS WELL. BECAUSE OF 00:04:53.000 --> 00:04:56.000 THE WITH BEING IN A RURAL AREA, 00:04:56.000 --> 00:05:00.000 COMES LESS RESOURCES OR LESS EXPOSURE TO 00:05:00.000 --> 00:05:03.000 OPPORTUNITIES AND TO ORGANIZATIONS THAT ARE HELPF 00:05:03.000 --> 00:05:06.000 UL. AND JUST 00:05:06.000 --> 00:05:09.000 HAVING A DISABILITY IS NEW FOR ME, AND MY 00:05:09.000 --> 00:05:12.000 FAMILY. BUT NOW IT IS MY NORMAL 00:05:12.000 --> 00:05:16.000 LIFE, IT IS MY NORMAL LIFE. I DON'T THINK I 00:05:16.000 --> 00:05:19.000 OF IT IS NOT NORMAL OR TRYING TO FIT 00:05:19.000 --> 00:05:22.000 IN TO BE NORMAL. I CAN 00:05:22.000 --> 00:05:25.000 SEE THAT HAPPENING AS I WAS YOUNGE 00:05:25.000 --> 00:05:28.000 R, NOW, IT MAY OR MAY 00:05:28.000 --> 00:05:32.000 NOT EXPERIENCE, SOMEONE LIKE MYSELF, SO, 00:05:32.000 --> 00:05:35.000 I GROUP IN BOISE, IDAHO AN 00:05:35.000 --> 00:05:38.000 D GO TO PHYSICAL THERAPY OU 00:05:38.000 --> 00:05:41.000 A LOT. I WAS IN OUT- 00:05:41.000 --> 00:05:44.000 PATIENT, I WAS INI 00:05:44.000 --> 00:05:47.000 PATIENT, BUT FORTUNATELY MY 00:05:47.000 --> 00:05:50.000 PHYSICAL THERAPIST IS THE ONE THAT TOLD ME ABOUT 00:05:50.000 --> 00:05:53.000 THE YOUTH LEAP 00:05:53.000 --> 00:05:56.000 LEADERSHIP, AND I DON'T KNOW IF UP 00:05:56.000 --> 00:06:00.000 YOU HAVE BEEN THERE. I 00:06:00.000 --> 00:06:03.000 MET JAMIE DAVIS, MEL, AND 00:06:03.000 --> 00:06:06.000 DIFFERENT PEOPLE THAT REALLY HELPED ME AND GUIDED 00:06:06.000 --> 00:06:09.000 ME IN THE MOVEMENT. AND IN BEING MYSELF AND 00:06:09.000 --> 00:06:12.000 SHARING MY STORY. THAT IS A GREAT EXPERIENCE, 00:06:12.000 --> 00:06:15.000 THAT IS TWO SUMMERS AGO. AND THAT SNOW 00:06:15.000 --> 00:06:18.000 BALL EFFECT HELPED ME GET INTO 00:06:18.000 --> 00:06:21.000 APRIL. SO I APPLIED TO BE IN APRIL 00:06:21.000 --> 00:06:25.000 . AND I WENT LAST YEAR, AND IT WAS THE FIRS 00:06:25.000 --> 00:06:28.000 T TIME, MAYBE ONE OF THE 00:06:28.000 --> 00:06:31.000 FIRST TIMES OUT OF TH 00:06:31.000 --> 00:06:37.000 REE LIFETIMES, 00:06:37.000 --> 00:06:44.000 (NO AUDIO). 00:06:44.000 --> 00:06:48.000 >> ARE YOU STILL THERE? 00:06:48.000 --> 00:06:54.000 SHE IS FROZEN UP A LITTLE BIT. 00:06:54.000 --> 00:06:57.000 WHAT WE WILL DO, BECAUSE THIS IS TECHNOLOGY, THIS IS WHAT 00:06:57.000 --> 00:07:00.000 WE CAN ALL EXPECT. DUSTIN, 00:07:00.000 --> 00:07:03.000 WOULD YOU WANT TO JUMP IN AT THIS POINT? 00:07:03.000 --> 00:07:13.000 AND WE WILL CIRCLE BACK AROUND. 00:07:13.000 --> 00:07:17.000 >> FANISEE BIAS: I AM BACK. I SAW THE INTERPRETER, 00:07:17.000 --> 00:07:20.000 FROZE. NO. OKAY, TECHNOLOGY, 00:07:20.000 --> 00:07:24.000 YOU CAN HEAR ME, IS THIS GOOD? 00:07:24.000 --> 00:07:27.000 >> YEP, YOU ARE GOOD. >> FANISEE BIAS: SO. 00:07:27.000 --> 00:07:31.000 COOL, YEAH, HERE WE GO. BASICALLY, 00:07:31.000 --> 00:07:34.000 I WAS SAYING THAT, I DID 00:07:34.000 --> 00:07:37.000 YLF, I SEE IN THE COMMENTS. FO 00:07:37.000 --> 00:07:40.000 LKS WENT. I LOVED IT, AND APRIL 00:07:40.000 --> 00:07:43.000 IS THE FIRST TIME, I SAW FOLKS LOOK LIKE 00:07:43.000 --> 00:07:46.000 ME AND SIMILAR STORIES OR 00:07:46.000 --> 00:07:49.000 DIDN'T LOOK LIKE ME, I SAW FOLKS WIT 00:07:49.000 --> 00:07:52.000 H DIFFERENT EXPERIENCES IN THE WORLD. I 00:07:52.000 --> 00:07:56.000 HAVE BEEN TO CONFERENCES AND THEY WERE NOT 00:07:56.000 --> 00:07:59.000 LIKE AS DIVERSE OR I GUESS, OPEN TO 00:07:59.000 --> 00:08:02.000 DISABILITY JUSTICE AS APRIL WAS. SO 00:08:02.000 --> 00:08:05.000 I GOT SUPER EXCITED AND ENERGIZED 00:08:05.000 --> 00:08:08.000 THE WHOLE TIME I WAS THERE AND IT 00:08:08.000 --> 00:08:11.000 HELPED ME TO APPLY TO THE STEERING COMMITTE 00:08:11.000 --> 00:08:14.000 E. LAST YEAR, I WAS WORKING WITH 00:08:14.000 --> 00:08:19.000 THE COMMITTEE. THE ADVICE CHAIR, 00:08:19.000 --> 00:08:21.000 GET THE YOUNG THINGS GOING AND FORT 00:08:21.000 --> 00:08:25.000 UNATELY, TO SPEAK TO THE WHOLE COMMU 00:08:25.000 --> 00:08:28.000 NITY AND THE INTERGENERATIONAL THAT WE HAVE IN THE 00:08:28.000 --> 00:08:31.000 DISABLED COMMUNITY. SO, IT WAS 00:08:31.000 --> 00:08:34.000 AWESOME TO BE INVOLVED, THAT HELPED ME 00:08:34.000 --> 00:08:37.000 GET INTO DISABILITY JUSTICE MORE. I WAS 00:08:37.000 --> 00:08:41.000 BARELY EXPOSED THE 00:08:41.000 --> 00:08:44.000 PAST COUPLE YEARS. I SHARE THAT STORY, 2 00:08:44.000 --> 00:08:47.000 TWO OUT OF EIGHT YEARS I WAS DIAGNOSED AND THA 00:08:47.000 --> 00:08:50.000 T IS EVEN BEING AWARE OF DISABILIT 00:08:50.000 --> 00:08:53.000 Y, BEFORE THAT I WAS IGNORANT AND 00:08:53.000 --> 00:08:56.000 WAS NOT EXPOSED TO PEOPLE WITH DISABILITIES AND TH 00:08:56.000 --> 00:08:59.000 AT COULD BE JUST LIKE THE WAY I 00:08:59.000 --> 00:09:02.000 GREW UP. HAVING THE IDENTITY 00:09:02.000 --> 00:09:06.000 EXPOSED ME MORE. BUT GROWING UP, I 00:09:06.000 --> 00:09:09.000 DIDN'T RELY ON SILCS OR CI 00:09:09.000 --> 00:09:12.000 LS OR ANY TYPE OF RESOURCE, AND NOT 00:09:12.000 --> 00:09:15.000 RELIED. SOME FOLKS DON'T HAVE 00:09:15.000 --> 00:09:18.000 , THEY CHOOSE TO GET RESOURCES FROM THEM 00:09:18.000 --> 00:09:21.000 . I DIDN'T KNOW, I LITERALLY DID NOT KNOW 00:09:21.000 --> 00:09:25.000 THESE WERE AVAILABLE. I DIDN'T KNOW, HOW TO MOVE 00:09:25.000 --> 00:09:28.000 FORWARD. I KNEW IS THE SCHOOL AND THE 5 00:09:28.000 --> 00:09:31.000 04 PLAN AND MY MOM. THAT IS 00:09:31.000 --> 00:09:34.000 THE MAIN THINGS GETTING THROUGH LIFE. WHEN I 00:09:34.000 --> 00:09:37.000 GOT INTO THE OPPORTUNITIES LIKE APRIL, AND Y 00:09:37.000 --> 00:09:41.000 LF, IT ALLOWED ME TO BE IN CONNECTION WITH 00:09:41.000 --> 00:09:44.000 MENTORS AND ORGANIZATIONS THAT SPEAK UPON 00:09:44.000 --> 00:09:47.000 DISABILITY RIGHTS AND THEN ALSO ALLOW FOR 00:09:47.000 --> 00:09:50.000 OR AS WE ARE TALKING ABOUT THE IL MOVEMENT. 00:09:50.000 --> 00:09:53.000 AND IMPROVING ONE THING IS 00:09:53.000 --> 00:09:56.000 DEFINITELY TO REACH OUT TO MORE YOUNG FOLKS TO HAVE 00:09:56.000 --> 00:09:59.000 PROGRAMS FOR YOUNG FOLKS, 00:09:59.000 --> 00:10:02.000 INTERNING OR THE SUMMER SESSIONS OR 00:10:02.000 --> 00:10:06.000 WORKSHOPS, ANYTHING LIKE, THAT DEFINITELY HELPED. IF 00:10:06.000 --> 00:10:09.000 THAT IS LIKE, HERE'S HOW WE WORK OUT, 00:10:09.000 --> 00:10:12.000 OR WORK OUT LIKE SAVING. YOU CAN'T 00:10:12.000 --> 00:10:15.000 SAVE IF YOU ARE ON SSI. 00:10:15.000 --> 00:10:19.000 I HAVE TO LIKE, EXPERIENCE IT VERY 00:10:19.000 --> 00:10:22.000 HARSHLY, AND /TKPWORPBTSLY, 00:10:22.000 --> 00:10:25.000 IGNORANTLY, 00:10:25.000 --> 00:10:28.000 BEFORE I UNDERSTAND. TALKING TO SOCIAL 00:10:28.000 --> 00:10:31.000 SECURITY, ON THE PHONE WITH 25 00:10:31.000 --> 00:10:35.000 PEOPLE, BASICALLY, TAKING ME HOW TO LIVE MY 00:10:35.000 --> 00:10:38.000 LIFE. I AM GLAD THERE ARE ORGANIZATIONS 00:10:38.000 --> 00:10:41.000 LIKE CILS AND SILCS AND IL. THAT 00:10:41.000 --> 00:10:44.000 ARE ABLE TO TRANSITION AND HELP FOLKS, WE CAN 00:10:44.000 --> 00:10:47.000 IMPROVE, WE CAN ACKNOWLEDGE THE PROGRESS TO BE MADE W 00:10:47.000 --> 00:10:51.000 ITH THE 30TH YEAR ANNIVERSARY OF THE ADA 00:10:51.000 --> 00:10:54.000 AS WELL AS WHAT WE CAN DO MORE. WE HAVE BEEN A LOT OF 00:10:54.000 --> 00:10:58.000 FOCUS HAS BEEN ON RIGHTS AND LITERALLY, 00:10:58.000 --> 00:11:01.000 PEOPLE WITH DISABILITIES 00:11:01.000 --> 00:11:04.000 GOT RIGHTS COUPLE DAYS 00:11:04.000 --> 00:11:07.000 AGO. I CAN'T IMAGINE LIVING WITHOUT THE ADA. TH 00:11:07.000 --> 00:11:10.000 ERE ARE THINGS TODAY, THAT I AM BLESSED TO HAVE THE ADA 00:11:10.000 --> 00:11:13.000 TO CREATE THE FOUNDATION AND GIVE ME THE RIGHT TO 00:11:13.000 --> 00:11:16.000 GO TO SCHOOL AND HAVE GRANTS AND 00:11:16.000 --> 00:11:19.000 PADDLE ON DOORS. 00:11:19.000 --> 00:11:22.000 TO INTEGRATE COMMUNITIES AND ESPECIALLY, MARGINAL 00:11:22.000 --> 00:11:25.000 IZED COMMUNITIES. I AM A FIRST GEN 00:11:25.000 --> 00:11:28.000 ERATION COLLEGE STUDENT, WOMAN OF 00:11:28.000 --> 00:11:31.000 COLOR, LOW INCOME, AND JUST PHYSICAL 00:11:31.000 --> 00:11:34.000 DESCRIPTION, I AM A LIGHT SKIN OF COLOR, 00:11:34.000 --> 00:11:38.000 BLUE HAIR, AND BLACK HAIR WITH A 00:11:38.000 --> 00:11:42.000 SHIRT THAT SAYS BOISE AND 00:11:42.000 --> 00:11:46.000 COLORFUL. MARGINALIZED COMMUNITIES, AND 00:11:46.000 --> 00:11:49.000 EXCLUSIVE, AND THE WAY WE SEE JUSTIC 00:11:49.000 --> 00:11:52.000 E IN THE COMMUNITY. I JUST THINK ALSO 00:11:52.000 --> 00:11:55.000 THE DIFFERENT AGENCIES COM 00:11:55.000 --> 00:11:58.000 ING TOGETHER, BRIDGING THE GAP 00:11:58.000 --> 00:12:01.000 OF DISABILITY AWARENESS AND RESOURCES, I HAVE A DISABILIT 00:12:01.000 --> 00:12:04.000 Y SERVICES ON MY CAMPUS. BUT REALLY IT 00:12:04.000 --> 00:12:08.000 GOES, IT DOESN'T GO PASSED 00:12:08.000 --> 00:12:10.000 THEM WHEN I NEED 00:12:10.000 --> 00:12:20.000 (NO AUDIO). 00:12:20.000 --> 00:12:23.000 YOU KNOW, GETTING TO CLASS OR THE TEACHERS AND LET 00:12:23.000 --> 00:12:25.000 TING THEM THE ACCOMMODATIONS THAT I NEED. WHEN IT 00:12:25.000 --> 00:12:29.000 COMES TO THEM NOT HAVING ELEVATORS IN 00:12:29.000 --> 00:12:32.000 CERTAIN BUILDINGS OR MAYBE NOT HAVING AC 00:12:32.000 --> 00:12:35.000 COMMODATIONS PEOPLE WHO HAVE NON-PHYSICAL DISABILI 00:12:35.000 --> 00:12:38.000 TIES, IT IS LIKE, THEY ARE LIKE, WE DON'T HAVE THE MONEY TO DO 00:12:38.000 --> 00:12:41.000 ANY OF THAT. IT IS GOING TO TAKE TIME. 00:12:41.000 --> 00:12:44.000 GUESS YOU HAVE TO WAIT IT OUT AND GO TO A DIFFERENT CLASS 00:12:44.000 --> 00:12:47.000 OR WHATEVER IT IS. AND I KNOW YOU ARE THINKING LIKE, 00:12:47.000 --> 00:12:51.000 YOU ARE THINKING LAWSUITS HERE, WHICH OF COURSE, THAT IS 00:12:51.000 --> 00:12:53.000 AN OPTION. BUT I THINK THERE ARE WAYS 00:12:53.000 --> 00:12:57.000 WE DON'T HAVE TO DEAL WITH SUCH AN INTENSE, AND 00:12:57.000 --> 00:13:00.000 SOMEWHAT UNJUST 00:13:00.000 --> 00:13:03.000 LEGAL SYSTEM TO DEAL WITH THE PROBLEMS, 00:13:03.000 --> 00:13:06.000 WE HAVE ORGANIZATIONS AND COMMUNITY GRASSROOT 00:13:06.000 --> 00:13:09.000 S, ORGAN 00:13:09.000 --> 00:13:12.000 IZATIONS THAT -- (NO AUDIO 00:13:12.000 --> 00:13:18.000 ). >> FANISEE BIAS: 00:13:18.000 --> 00:13:21.000 >> WE WILL GIVE IT ANOTHER SECOND AND SEE IF 00:13:21.000 --> 00:13:30.000 SHE JUMPS ON. 00:13:30.000 --> 00:13:33.000 ALL RIGHT. SORRY, THIS IS PART OF 00:13:33.000 --> 00:13:37.000 BEING REAL GUYS. TECHNOLOGY LIKES TO FREEZE. 00:13:37.000 --> 00:13:41.000 DUSTIN, DO YOU 00:13:41.000 --> 00:13:44.000 WANT TO JUMP IN AT THIS POINT? 00:13:44.000 --> 00:13:47.000 >> DUSTIN GIBSON: YEAH. THIS IS DUSTIN, THAT IS FINE. 00:13:47.000 --> 00:13:51.000 IF FANISEE COMES BACK, 00:13:51.000 --> 00:13:54.000 SHE CAN COME ON AFTER ME. MY NAME IS D 00:13:54.000 --> 00:13:57.000 USTIN GIBSON, I AM WEARING 00:13:57.000 --> 00:14:01.000 RED BASEBALL CAP, SAINT LOUIS 00:14:01.000 --> 00:14:04.000 SYMBOL. LIGHT SKIN 00:14:04.000 --> 00:14:07.000 PERSON WITH A BEARD. I HAVE A SHIRT, 00:14:07.000 --> 00:14:11.000 ALL PRISONS FOR PROFIT. AND THERE IS MIRROR ON 00:14:11.000 --> 00:14:13.000 ARTWORK, AND BOOKCASE, AND THERE 00:14:13.000 --> 00:14:23.000 ARE BLACK PEOPLE IN THE FUTURE. PAR 00:14:23.000 --> 00:14:27.000 I SHOULD STATE, I COME TO THIS 00:14:27.000 --> 00:14:30.000 PANEL. I FEEL LIKE THE INDEPENDENT MOVEMENT. 00:14:30.000 --> 00:14:34.000 IT IS A HOMEBASE TO ME, AND INTRODUCED TO 00:14:34.000 --> 00:14:37.000 , MOVEMENT WORK AS A 00:14:37.000 --> 00:14:40.000 N ADULT. I WORKED AT CENTERS IN PITTSBURGH, 00:14:40.000 --> 00:14:44.000 PENNSYLVANIA, THREE DIFFERENT CENTERS, SOME OF MY 00:14:44.000 --> 00:14:47.000 MENTORS, I AM THINKING RIGHT NOW, LIKE LEA 00:14:47.000 --> 00:14:50.000 GRADE, MILTON HEN 00:14:50.000 --> 00:14:53.000 DESON. AND FANISEE 00:14:53.000 --> 00:14:56.000 , CAME BACK ON. DID YOU WANT TO FINISH UP 00:14:56.000 --> 00:14:59.000 ? >> FANISEE BIAS: I 00:14:59.000 --> 00:15:02.000 FROZE UP AGAIN. THANK YOU. SO MUCH. I A 00:15:02.000 --> 00:15:05.000 M SO SORRY 00:15:05.000 --> 00:15:08.000 THANK YOU FOR BEARING WITH ME. I 00:15:08.000 --> 00:15:12.000 SEE THE INTERPRETER FREEZE, OH MY GOSH. I THINK 00:15:12.000 --> 00:15:15.000 INCORPORATING DIFFERENT AGENCIES LIKE UNIVERSITIES 00:15:15.000 --> 00:15:20.000 AND COMMUNITY ORGANIZATIONS AND 00:15:20.000 --> 00:15:23.000 USAGE INTERNSHIPS, GETTING YOUTH 00:15:23.000 --> 00:15:26.000 INVOLVED AND LETTING THEM KNOW, YOU ARE THERE, AND DISTRIBUTING THE 00:15:26.000 --> 00:15:29.000 RESOURCES IN EQUITABLE WAYS AND YOU WANT 00:15:29.000 --> 00:15:32.000 THINGS TO WORK, AND YOU WANT TO BE INVOLVED IN THE SOCIAL 00:15:32.000 --> 00:15:35.000 JUSTICE MOVEMENTS THAT AFFECT THE COMMUNITIES 00:15:35.000 --> 00:15:38.000 , WE KNOW DISABILITY RANGES ACROSS DIFFER 00:15:38.000 --> 00:15:41.000 ENT COMMUNITIES, GENDER, SEX, OR 00:15:41.000 --> 00:15:45.000 IENTATION, WHATEVER IT IS. I THINK LIKE THE 00:15:45.000 --> 00:15:48.000 EDUCATION IS IMPORTANT. NOT ONLY ON THE AWARENESS 00:15:48.000 --> 00:15:51.000 BUT RESOURCES, AND IT IS 00:15:51.000 --> 00:15:54.000 DISABILITY JUSTICE. SO, I JUST WANT TO SAY, 00:15:54.000 --> 00:15:57.000 I AM SUPER OPEN TO THE QUESTIONS 00:15:57.000 --> 00:16:01.000 THAT COMES IN AND ELABORATING MORE. IT IS MORE ABOUT 00:16:01.000 --> 00:16:04.000 ME. BUT THAT IS MY EXPERIENCE IN 00:16:04.000 --> 00:16:07.000 THE LACK OF EXPERIENCE OR THE LACK OF 00:16:07.000 --> 00:16:11.000 RESOURCES THAT I GREW UP, BUT NOW SINCE 00:16:11.000 --> 00:16:14.000 I AM IN COLLEGE AND ANOTHER STATE, I HAVE MORE 00:16:14.000 --> 00:16:17.000 OPPORTUNITY TO CONNECT ACROSS STATES AND 00:16:17.000 --> 00:16:20.000 AGENCIES AND ORGANIZATIONS TO HELP ME TO 00:16:20.000 --> 00:16:23.000 GET WHERE I NEED TO BE, AND MAKE THE CONNECTION. 00:16:23.000 --> 00:16:29.000 YOUTH IS POWERFUL AS YEARS OLD FOLK 00:16:29.000 --> 00:16:32.000 OTHER FOLKS. THANK YOU FOR HAVING ME HERE, I AM 00:16:32.000 --> 00:16:36.000 EXCITED FOR THE OTHER SPEAKERS AND WE ARE 00:16:36.000 --> 00:16:39.000 THERE IN Q AND A. I CAN SPEAK MORE 00:16:39.000 --> 00:16:48.000 THEN. THANK YOU. 00:16:48.000 --> 00:16:51.000 >> DUSTIN GIBSON: THIS IS DUSTIN. I AM GLAD, 00:16:51.000 --> 00:16:55.000 YOU GOT YOUR INTERNET BACK UP AND WORKING, 00:16:55.000 --> 00:16:58.000 FANISEE. I COME 00:16:58.000 --> 00:17:01.000 TO THE WORK, SOMEBODY THAT IS ROOTED IN THE 00:17:01.000 --> 00:17:04.000 DEINSTITUTIONALIZATION, THE CENTER I 00:17:04.000 --> 00:17:07.000 WAS AT, WE DID NURSING F 00:17:07.000 --> 00:17:10.000 ACILITY TRANSITIONING AND THAT IS HOW I WAS 00:17:10.000 --> 00:17:13.000 INTRODUCED. THAT THEN EXPANDED TO O 00:17:13.000 --> 00:17:16.000 THER AREAS. I AM THINKING ABOUT WHEN I WORKED AT 00:17:16.000 --> 00:17:19.000 , THE CIL IN PITS 00:17:19.000 --> 00:17:23.000 TSBURGH, ONE OF THE THINGS THAT HAPPENED, MICHAEL 00:17:23.000 --> 00:17:26.000 BROWN WAS MURDERED IN /TPERG 00:17:26.000 --> 00:17:29.000 FERGUSON, WHICH IS THE FIRST BLACK 00:17:29.000 --> 00:17:32.000 TOWN IN MISSOURI INCORPORATED WHERE MY 00:17:32.000 --> 00:17:35.000 FAMILY IS FROM. IT FELT LIKE SOMETHING THAT IS 00:17:35.000 --> 00:17:39.000 CLOSE TO HOME FOR ME. AND ALSO, UNDERSTANDING THAT 00:17:39.000 --> 00:17:42.000 KEN LOCK IS POPULATION OF 00:17:42.000 --> 00:17:45.000 300 PEOPLE, WHICH IS DWINDLED 00:17:45.000 --> 00:17:49.000 FROM 10 TO 15,000, THAT IS ONE OF THE 00:17:49.000 --> 00:17:52.000 EXPERIENCES THAT RADICALIZED ME TO UNDERSTAND HOW A 00:17:52.000 --> 00:17:55.000 BLACK COMMUNITY COULD BE REMOVED 00:17:55.000 --> 00:17:59.000 FROM THE PLACE THEY HAVE BEEN AT FOR GENERATIONS. 00:17:59.000 --> 00:18:02.000 DISPERSED THROUGHOUT A COUNTY. AND THEN 00:18:02.000 --> 00:18:05.000 , IM POSING 00:18:05.000 --> 00:18:09.000 POVERISHED THROUGH RED LINING AND PLEASED TO THE 00:18:09.000 --> 00:18:16.000 OLICE TO THE POINT, THE 00:18:16.000 --> 00:18:19.000 BUDGETS WAS TO PUT BLACK BODY INTO C 00:18:19.000 --> 00:18:22.000 AGES. PEOPLE WERE PROFITING ON THE 00:18:22.000 --> 00:18:25.000 AMOUNT OF PEOPLE THAT WERE IN NURSING FACILITIES THAT IS IN 00:18:25.000 --> 00:18:28.000 PSYCH WARD OR ASYLUMS 00:18:28.000 --> 00:18:31.000 AND STATE HOSPITALS THAT ARE IN PRISONS AND ALL SITES 00:18:31.000 --> 00:18:34.000 OF CONFINEMENT. AND THAT LED ME THROUGH 00:18:34.000 --> 00:18:38.000 A TRAJECTORY OF REEXAMINING THE 00:18:38.000 --> 00:18:41.000 WORK THAT I WAS DOING, AND SEEING IF IT IS DIS/PHAPB 00:18:41.000 --> 00:18:44.000 MANTLING THE SYSTEM THAT WE ARE UP 00:18:44.000 --> 00:18:47.000 AGAINST OR IT IS COME ADMIT 00:18:47.000 --> 00:18:50.000 COMPLIC 00:18:50.000 --> 00:18:54.000 IT. I WAS 00:18:54.000 --> 00:18:57.000 COMPLICIT SOME OF THE SYSTEMS, WHETHER IT IS DOING 00:18:57.000 --> 00:19:00.000 NURSING HOME, OPERATING OFF THE STATE C 00:19:00.000 --> 00:19:03.000 ONTRACTS AND BEING RELIANT ON THE STATE TO G 00:19:03.000 --> 00:19:07.000 IVE US A FREEDOM. AND THAT CAME 00:19:07.000 --> 00:19:10.000 ALONG WITH THE UNDERSTANDING THAT THE PEOPLE 00:19:10.000 --> 00:19:13.000 THAT ARE OPPRESSING IS NOT GOING TO LIBERATE 00:19:13.000 --> 00:19:16.000 US, I BEGAN AND TRY TO BUILD COMMUNITY 00:19:16.000 --> 00:19:19.000 OUTSIDE OF WHAT WAS REGULATED BY THE STATE 00:19:19.000 --> 00:19:22.000 . WHAT IS BEING GIVEN THROUGH GRANTS AND 00:19:22.000 --> 00:19:26.000 DOD FUNDING, AND 00:19:26.000 --> 00:19:29.000 DOJ FUNDING 00:19:29.000 --> 00:19:32.000 AND THAT LED TO MORE JUSTICE BASED 00:19:32.000 --> 00:19:36.000 MOVEMENT. I STARTED TO SAY, IL IS MY HOME. IT 00:19:36.000 --> 00:19:39.000 GIVES ME A LANGUAGE THAT GAVE 00:19:39.000 --> 00:19:42.000 ME FOUNDATION TO BE ABLE TO DO ANY TYPE OF WORK. 00:19:42.000 --> 00:19:45.000 BUT AT THIS POINT, IT FEELS GIVE 00:19:45.000 --> 00:19:48.000 DIFFICULT TO ME IL AS A MOVE 00:19:48.000 --> 00:19:51.000 MENT. DISABILITY RIGHTS AS A 00:19:51.000 --> 00:19:54.000 MOVEMENT WHEN I SEE 00:19:54.000 --> 00:19:58.000 PEOPLE DISINCLUDED. PAR 00:19:58.000 --> 00:20:01.000 I AM THINKING, AS I 00:20:01.000 --> 00:20:04.000 PREPARED FOR THE PANEL, I WAS THINKING LIKE A DECADE OF 00:20:04.000 --> 00:20:08.000 MY LIFE, I WORKED 8O HOURS A 00:20:08.000 --> 00:20:11.000 WEEK, AND SPENT TIME ORGANIZING IN 00:20:11.000 --> 00:20:14.000 COMMUNITIES, JAILS, PRISONS, 00:20:14.000 --> 00:20:17.000 SITES OF CONFINEMENT AND INSIDE OF NEIGHBORHOODS. 00:20:17.000 --> 00:20:20.000 I WITNESSED PEOPLE, 2 BLACK 00:20:20.000 --> 00:20:23.000 TWO BLACKS FROM THE CENTER OF THE INDEPENDENT 00:20:23.000 --> 00:20:26.000 LIVING, MURDERED BY POLICE. AND 00:20:26.000 --> 00:20:30.000 TO A NATIONAL SCALE, AND BEGGING PEOPLE TO 00:20:30.000 --> 00:20:33.000 CARE ABOUT BLACK DISABLED MURDER BY 00:20:33.000 --> 00:20:37.000 POLICE. AND ENGAGING IN DISCUSSIONS AS IF THE 00:20:37.000 --> 00:20:40.000 POLICE DON'T ROUTINELY MURDER PEOPLE. 00:20:40.000 --> 00:20:43.000 WHEN I TALK ABOUT EXCLUSION, NOT JUST EXCLUSION 00:20:43.000 --> 00:20:46.000 NOT WELCOMING PEOPLE TO THE SPACE BUT 00:20:46.000 --> 00:20:49.000 HOW WE ARE VIEWING WHAT IS WRONG IN THE WORLD 00:20:49.000 --> 00:20:52.000 . 00:20:52.000 --> 00:20:55.000 RIGHT NOW, WE HAVE AN ADMINISTRATION THAT WE ARE UP AGAINST 00:20:55.000 --> 00:20:59.000 THAT IT FEELS WE NEED TO BE 00:20:59.000 --> 00:21:02.000 REAL WITH OURSELVES, ABOUT WHAT WE ARE FACING. AND 00:21:02.000 --> 00:21:05.000 WHO WE ARE FACING. I VIEW THE 00:21:05.000 --> 00:21:08.000 ADMINISTRATION THAT WE CURRENTLY HAVE AS PART OF THE 00:21:08.000 --> 00:21:11.000 AGE THAT EXISTED FOREVER IN THE U.S. AND I DON'T BELIEVE 00:21:11.000 --> 00:21:14.000 THAT IS THE PARTING 00:21:14.000 --> 00:21:18.000 LINE, IT IS NOT A REPUBLICAN THING, IT IS A DEMOCRATIC 00:21:18.000 --> 00:21:21.000 THING AS WELL. THE U.S. GOVERNMENT HAS BEEN OKAY WITH 00:21:21.000 --> 00:21:25.000 DISAPPEARING 00:21:25.000 --> 00:21:28.000 DISABLE PEOPLE, WHETHER 00:21:28.000 --> 00:21:32.000 IT IS LOCKING PEOPLE UP OR PUTTING THEM IN 00:21:32.000 --> 00:21:35.000 NURSING FACILITY BECAUSE THEY DON'T PROVIDE COMMUNITY 00:21:35.000 --> 00:21:38.000 CARE OR THEY ARE KILLING PEOPLE ON THE STREE 00:21:38.000 --> 00:21:41.000 T. WE SEE BLACK PEOPLE MURDER 00:21:41.000 --> 00:21:44.000 ED, DISABLED PEOPLE MURDER. WE HAVE A MUSLIM 00:21:44.000 --> 00:21:47.000 BAN IN PLACE . WE HAVE 00:21:47.000 --> 00:21:50.000 WHITE SUPREMACY, THAT IS IN OUR FACE 00:21:50.000 --> 00:21:54.000 . HURRICANES AND FIRES, PEOPLE ARE 00:21:54.000 --> 00:21:57.000 DISPLACED, I AM THINKING OF KAT 00:21:57.000 --> 00:22:00.000 RINA. LEFT IN INSTITUTIONS. 00:22:00.000 --> 00:22:03.000 FACILITIES IN IDAHO AND C 00:22:03.000 --> 00:22:06.000 OLORADO. FIRES IN SOUTH OREGO 00:22:06.000 --> 00:22:09.000 N. JUST A MONTH AGO WHERE 00:22:09.000 --> 00:22:12.000 ONE TOWN OF 3,000 PEOPLE, 75 PERCENT OF 00:22:12.000 --> 00:22:15.000 THE HOUSES THAT WERE BURNED WERE MOBILE 00:22:15.000 --> 00:22:19.000 HOMES. WE ARE TALKING ABOUT NATURALLY PROGRESSING 00:22:19.000 --> 00:22:22.000 AFFORDABLE HOUSING FOR DISABLED 00:22:22.000 --> 00:22:25.000 AND POOR PEOPLE. FOLKS ON THE 00:22:25.000 --> 00:22:28.000 GROUND, RAISING MONEY FOR PEOPLE TOP S 00:22:28.000 --> 00:22:31.000 STAY IN MOTELS. TORTURE IN 00:22:31.000 --> 00:22:35.000 SOLITAIRE CONFINEMENT. THE 00:22:35.000 --> 00:22:38.000 AMOUNT OF YOUNG BLACK KIDSES THAT I HAVE 00:22:38.000 --> 00:22:41.000 SEEN IN CASKETS THAT I KNOW OF 00:22:41.000 --> 00:22:45.000 MYSELF IS TOO MUCH. SO I SAY 00:22:45.000 --> 00:22:48.000 THAT TO SAY, THE OTHER SIDE, THE PEOPLE THAT ARE 00:22:48.000 --> 00:22:52.000 NOT ON THE SIDE OF FREEDOM ARE COLD AND CALCULATED 00:22:52.000 --> 00:22:55.000 . THERE ARE PEOPLE THAT GROOM 00:22:55.000 --> 00:22:58.000 SUPREME COURT JUSTICES AND IDENTIFY THEM IN HIGH SCHOOL. 00:22:58.000 --> 00:23:01.000 THINK TANKS WITH 00:23:01.000 --> 00:23:04.000 MONEY. THEY ARE CLEAR WHAT THEY ONTO IN THE WORLD 00:23:04.000 --> 00:23:08.000 WANT IN THE WORLD. 00:23:08.000 --> 00:23:11.000 AS A MOVEMENT WE NEED TO BE CLEAR. AND WE 00:23:11.000 --> 00:23:14.000 REAL WHAT WE HAVE. THE GOVERNMENT IS NEVER GOING TO G 00:23:14.000 --> 00:23:17.000 RANT US ENOUGH MONEY TO DO THE JOB WE 00:23:17.000 --> 00:23:20.000 NEED TO DO TO BE FREE. WHAT WE HAVE IS PEOPLE, 00:23:20.000 --> 00:23:23.000 AND IF WE ARE NOT BUILDING 00:23:23.000 --> 00:23:26.000 INCLUSIVE MOVEMENTS THAT ARE SUSTAINED, 00:23:26.000 --> 00:23:29.000 WE WILL NEVER GET FREE. THI 00:23:29.000 --> 00:23:33.000 S WILL GET WORSE. REGARDLESS WHO 00:23:33.000 --> 00:23:36.000 GETS ELECTED. BOTH CANDIDATES ARE CLEAR, 00:23:36.000 --> 00:23:39.000 THEY ARE OKAY WITH THE OWE 00:23:39.000 --> 00:23:42.000 PPRESSION OF BLACK PEOPLE, AND PAL 00:23:42.000 --> 00:23:45.000 ASTINE. TRANS FOLKS. 00:23:45.000 --> 00:23:49.000 ANYBODY WHO IS NOT WHITE AND WEALTHY. WHAT IT 00:23:49.000 --> 00:23:52.000 LOOKS LIKE IN THE IL MOVEMENT TO 00:23:52.000 --> 00:23:55.000 HOLD THE TRUTH AT ONCE TO. ME IT COMES OUT 00:23:55.000 --> 00:23:59.000 IS HAVING A VISION, HAVING TO 00:23:59.000 --> 00:24:02.000 BUILD. I HAVE BEEN COMPLICATED TO THE 00:24:02.000 --> 00:24:05.000 DEDICATED TO 00:24:05.000 --> 00:24:09.000 THE WORK OF ABOLITION. 00:24:09.000 --> 00:24:12.000 RENDERING POLICE OBVIOUS DELETE BUT 00:24:12.000 --> 00:24:15.000 OBSOL 00:24:15.000 --> 00:24:18.000 OBSOLETE. ABOLITION IS 00:24:18.000 --> 00:24:21.000 ME IS NOT A PROJECT, BUT IT IS CREATEING WHAT WE 00:24:21.000 --> 00:24:24.000 NEED TO LIVE AND SURVIVE. 00:24:24.000 --> 00:24:27.000 AND ALONG WITH, THAT BECOMES A 00:24:27.000 --> 00:24:30.000 N IMAGINATION LIKE THE ABILITY TO SEE SOMETHING THAT DOES NOT 00:24:30.000 --> 00:24:33.000 EXIST. RIGHT? PEOPLE HAVE DONE THIS, I AM THINK 00:24:33.000 --> 00:24:37.000 ING ABOUT, PEOPLE SPECIFICALLY LIKE A 00:24:37.000 --> 00:24:40.000 BLACK DISABLED HERO, HAIR 00:24:40.000 --> 00:24:43.000 HEARING AI 00:24:43.000 --> 00:24:47.000 HARRIET TUB 00:24:47.000 --> 00:24:50.000 MAN. ONE THEY WOULDN'T SEE 00:24:50.000 --> 00:24:53.000 UNTIL THEY DIE. THAT IS THE IMAGINATION IT FE 00:24:53.000 --> 00:24:56.000 ELS LIKE IT IS NECESSARY TO BUILD. SO MAN 00:24:56.000 --> 00:24:59.000 Y OF THE MESSAGING THAT I GOT THE 00:24:59.000 --> 00:25:03.000 DISABILITY RIGHTS MOVEMENT IS ABOUT LIKE, WHERE WE 00:25:03.000 --> 00:25:06.000 CAME FROM. AND THE PAST THAT WE HAVE 00:25:06.000 --> 00:25:09.000 AND HOW WE SHOULD CELEBRATE IT. I 00:25:09.000 --> 00:25:13.000 DON'T THINK THAT IS A TRUTHFUL STORY THAT IS TOLD ME 00:25:13.000 --> 00:25:16.000 TO ME. INDEPENDENT LIVING IS A STORY THAT 00:25:16.000 --> 00:25:20.000 BEGINS WITH PEOPLE LIKE ED 00:25:20.000 --> 00:25:23.000 ROBERTS. THESE ARE 00:25:23.000 --> 00:25:26.000 NOT THE PEOPLE THAT LAID THE FRAMEWORK. 00:25:26.000 --> 00:25:29.000 I AM THINKING OF BLACK PEOPLE IN THE SOUTH, ORGANIZING FO 00:25:29.000 --> 00:25:32.000 R HUNDREDS OF YEARS, AND THEN, 00:25:32.000 --> 00:25:36.000 TRANSPORTING THE FRAMEWORKS AND IDEA 00:25:36.000 --> 00:25:39.000 OLOGIES AND PHILOSOPHIES. 00:25:39.000 --> 00:25:43.000 NAMELY THE INDEPENDENT MOVEMENT. WE KNOW THAT 00:25:43.000 --> 00:25:46.000 BLACK SELF-DETERMINATION THAT HAS BEEN CRIMINALIZE 00:25:46.000 --> 00:25:49.000 D AND HAS BEEN MARGINALIZED. BUT I 00:25:49.000 --> 00:25:52.000 T GIVES US A FOUNDATION ON SELF- 00:25:52.000 --> 00:25:55.000 DETERMINATION LOOKS FOR ALL GROUPS OF FOLKS 00:25:55.000 --> 00:25:58.000 , INCLUDING DISABLED PEOPLE. TELLING A M 00:25:58.000 --> 00:26:01.000 ORE ACCURATE UNDERSTANDING OF THE HISTORY WHAT W 00:26:01.000 --> 00:26:04.000 E CAME FROM IS IMPORTANT FOR US TO SEE 00:26:04.000 --> 00:26:07.000 OURSELVES. AND A CONTEXT. AND 00:26:07.000 --> 00:26:11.000 ALSO THINK ABOUT WHAT IT LOOKS LIKE GOING FORWARD. THE ADA 00:26:11.000 --> 00:26:14.000 ITSELF, ALTHOUGH IT IS SOMETHING THAT WE SHOULD 00:26:14.000 --> 00:26:17.000 CELEBRATE, IT IS SOMETHING THAT WE SHOULD CRITIQUE 00:26:17.000 --> 00:26:21.000 AND LOOK AT, AND INCORPORATE AN 00:26:21.000 --> 00:26:24.000 AMOUNT OF RIGOR INTO THE EDUCATION AS WE DO IN 00:26:24.000 --> 00:26:28.000 TO THE CELEBRATION OF IT. THE ADA ALONE IS NOT 00:26:28.000 --> 00:26:31.000 FREEING ANYBODY. MILTON HEN 00:26:31.000 --> 00:26:34.000 DERSON, MENTOR I 00:26:34.000 --> 00:26:38.000 N PITTSBURGH 00:26:38.000 --> 00:26:41.000 WAS DEAD IN MARCH. HE WAS IN 00:26:41.000 --> 00:26:44.000 A NEIGHBORHOOD THAT IS NOT ACCESSIBLE. THERE IS DISINVEST 00:26:44.000 --> 00:26:47.000 MENT. THERE IS RED LINING THAT T 00:26:47.000 --> 00:26:50.000 RANSPIRED IN THE 60 AND 7O 00:26:50.000 --> 00:26:53.000 'S. PEOPLE WERE REMOVED FROM THE COMMUNITY. THESE 00:26:53.000 --> 00:26:56.000 ARE THE ACTUAL REALITIES THAT I AM THINKING ABOUT, WHEN 00:26:56.000 --> 00:26:59.000 WE ARE TALKING ABOUT WHAT SHOULD MOVEMENTS ADDRESS. I 00:26:59.000 --> 00:27:03.000 MYSELF CLAIMED BODIESES OF PEOPLE THAT DON'T HAVE 00:27:03.000 --> 00:27:07.000 FAMILY MEMBERS. AND THATS 00:27:07.000 --> 00:27:10.000 WHILE WORKING AT THE CIL. AND 00:27:10.000 --> 00:27:13.000 PEOPLE IN THE THE CIL SHOULDN'T DO. 00:27:13.000 --> 00:27:16.000 THINKING ABOUT ALL THE SHIT, QUITE FRANKLY 00:27:16.000 --> 00:27:20.000 , WE ARE UP AGAINST, WE NEED TO HAVE A 00:27:20.000 --> 00:27:23.000 VISION TO COMBAT THAT. AND THAT VISI 00:27:23.000 --> 00:27:26.000 ON TO ME LOOKS LIKE THE BUILDING OF 00:27:26.000 --> 00:27:29.000 SOMETHING NEW. IT IS NOT TALKING ABOUT THE ADA THE THING 00:27:29.000 --> 00:27:32.000 THAT IS SOMEHOW LIBERAT 00:27:32.000 --> 00:27:36.000 ING PEOPLE. AND WHILE THAT MAYBE 00:27:36.000 --> 00:27:38.000 TRUE IN SITUATIONS, IT IS PROVIDING ACCESS, WE NODE, 00:27:38.000 --> 00:27:41.000 KNOW, IT DOES 00:27:41.000 --> 00:27:45.000 IRONIC THINGS, THE BUILDING IS ACCESSIBLE, AND THE 00:27:45.000 --> 00:27:48.000 BATHROOM IS ACCESSIBLE BUT THERE IS STAIRS. THE LEGAL 00:27:48.000 --> 00:27:51.000 BASE FRAMEWORK, UNDERSTANDING THE RIGHTS GIVEN BY 00:27:51.000 --> 00:27:55.000 THE GOVERNMENT, AND ALSO DEFINING WHAT 00:27:55.000 --> 00:27:58.000 DISABILITY IS IS NOT GOING TO GET US TO THE POINT WE 00:27:58.000 --> 00:28:02.000 NEED TO BE AT. COUPLE MORE 00:28:02.000 --> 00:28:07.000 POINTS, ONE OF THE WAYS TO DO THIS IS BEING IN 00:28:07.000 --> 00:28:11.000 SOLDIER 00:28:11.000 --> 00:28:14.000 00:28:14.000 --> 00:28:17.000 SOLITAIRE, THERE IS COMMUNITY HERE, BUT I 00:28:17.000 --> 00:28:20.000 LEFT OF 00:28:20.000 --> 00:28:24.000 IL BECAUSE IT IS NOT FOCUSED ON JUSTICE. ON THE THINGS 00:28:24.000 --> 00:28:27.000 WHAT IS HAPPENING RIGHT NOW. HOW DO WE BUILD 00:28:27.000 --> 00:28:30.000 ACROSS MOVEMENTS LIKE FANISEE MENTIONED RE 00:28:30.000 --> 00:28:33.000 PRODUCTIVE JUSTICE MOVEMENT. THERE ARE A LOT OF 00:28:33.000 --> 00:28:37.000 TENSIONS BECAUSE OF 00:28:37.000 --> 00:28:41.000 ABLISM. AND THE SYSTEM OF OPPRESSION. I AM 00:28:41.000 --> 00:28:43.000 THINKING OF REPRODUCTIVE JUSTICE MOVEMENT. NEED 00:28:43.000 --> 00:28:46.000 TO BE IN CONVERSATION WITH 00:28:46.000 --> 00:28:50.000 PEOPLE WITH ASSISTED SUICIDE. AND BED ON THE 00:28:50.000 --> 00:28:56.000 BUILD ON THE UNDERSTAND OF 00:28:56.000 --> 00:28:59.000 BODILY AUTONOMY. I HAD A CONVERSA 00:28:59.000 --> 00:29:02.000 TION WITH TOM THE OTHER DAY. AND WANTING TO 00:29:02.000 --> 00:29:05.000 GET RID OF CONGR 00:29:05.000 --> 00:29:08.000 EGATIONS, AND GETTING PEOPLE FREE AND UNDERSTANDI 00:29:08.000 --> 00:29:11.000 NG THAT TOM IS DOING AND PEO 00:29:11.000 --> 00:29:14.000 PLE ARE DOING FOR DECADES, GETTING FREE FROM THE SE 00:29:14.000 --> 00:29:18.000 TTINGS ARE THE SAME THING TO GET 00:29:18.000 --> 00:29:21.000 PEOPLE FREE FROM PRISONS. WHEN WE SEE LIKE, 00:29:21.000 --> 00:29:24.000 ALL OF THAT SHIT THAT IS HAPPENING AND THERE IS, IT IS NO 00:29:24.000 --> 00:29:27.000 T A WINDOW THAT WE ARE LOOKING. WE ARE LOOKING I 00:29:27.000 --> 00:29:30.000 NTO A MIRROR AND THE MIRROR REFLECTS BACK IS 00:29:30.000 --> 00:29:33.000 SOMETHING THAT IS MONSTER 00:29:33.000 --> 00:29:36.000 OUS. WE ARE A CIL 00:29:36.000 --> 00:29:39.000 AND NOT WORRIED ABOUT CONCENTRATI 00:29:39.000 --> 00:29:42.000 ON CAMPS AT THE BORDER, AND JUSTIFYI 00:29:42.000 --> 00:29:45.000 NG ON THE BASIS OF CRIMINALITY, WE ARE PLAYIN 00:29:45.000 --> 00:29:49.000 G IN THE SAME THINGS THAT ARE OPPRESSING 00:29:49.000 --> 00:29:53.000 DISABLED PEOPLE ALL OVER /-T 00:29:53.000 --> 00:29:56.000 THE WORLD. I AM THINKING OF MY 00:29:56.000 --> 00:29:59.000 A-MAR 00:29:59.000 --> 00:30:02.000 BRAZIL. DICTATORS 00:30:02.000 --> 00:30:05.000 RISING TO POWER LIKE THE U.S. 00:30:05.000 --> 00:30:08.000 BECAUSE WE HAVE BEEN SCARED TO TALKING ABOUT 00:30:08.000 --> 00:30:12.000 D TO TALK ABOUT THE RAMIFICATIONS. THE 00:30:12.000 --> 00:30:15.000 MESSAGING TO ME HAS BEEN, JUST 00:30:15.000 --> 00:30:18.000 VOTE. AND WE DON'T CARE WHO YOU 00:30:18.000 --> 00:30:21.000 VOTE. WE JUST WANT YOU TO PARTICIPATE. THE MESSA 00:30:21.000 --> 00:30:25.000 GING SAYS, YOU DON'T CARE WHO 00:30:25.000 --> 00:30:27.000 GETS IN THE OFFICE WILL CONTINUE THE OPPRESSION OF THE PEOPLE 00:30:27.000 --> 00:30:30.000 WE DON'T WANT PEOPLE TO VOTE IF THEY ARE GOING TO 00:30:30.000 --> 00:30:33.000 VOTE FOR TRUMP. WE DON'T WANT PEOPLE TO 00:30:33.000 --> 00:30:37.000 VOTE IN THE PROCESS. WE DESERVE MORE AND 00:30:37.000 --> 00:30:40.000 ASK MORE NOT OF OURSELVES BY THE MOVEMENTS. 00:30:40.000 --> 00:30:43.000 THE TYPE OF EDUCATION IS NOT TO BRING YOUNG PEOPLE IN 00:30:43.000 --> 00:30:46.000 TO TELL THEM ONE THE HISTORY THAT WE HAVE, AND HOW 00:30:46.000 --> 00:30:49.000 THANKFUL. WE 00:30:49.000 --> 00:30:52.000 SHOULD HONOR THAT, AND TWO, TO THEM 00:30:52.000 --> 00:30:55.000 TELL THEM, THIS IS WHAT YOU GET. YOU GET TO 00:30:55.000 --> 00:30:58.000 PARTICIPATE IN A SYSTEM THAT WILL CONTINUE TO OPP 00:30:58.000 --> 00:31:02.000 RESS YOU, SHOULD INVITE PEOPLE INTO MOVE 00:31:02.000 --> 00:31:05.000 MENTS SO SEE WHAT THEY WANT OUT OF THE WORLD AND 00:31:05.000 --> 00:31:08.000 SUPPORT AND BUILDING THAT, PEOPLE 00:31:08.000 --> 00:31:11.000 WANT, THEY DON'T WANT JOBS TO HAVE 00:31:11.000 --> 00:31:14.000 JOBS, PEOPLE WANT JOBS TO TH 00:31:14.000 --> 00:31:17.000 RIVE AND HAVE THINGS THEY NEED. IF 00:31:17.000 --> 00:31:20.000 IT IS NOT WORKING FOR THE JOTS OF US, AND 00:31:20.000 --> 00:31:23.000 THE MAJORITY OF US ARE 00:31:23.000 --> 00:31:26.000 POOR AND DISEN CHAN 00:31:26.000 --> 00:31:29.000 EN FRANCHISED, WE HA 00:31:29.000 --> 00:31:33.000 VE TO LOOK, AND HOW 00:31:33.000 --> 00:31:37.000 ELITE WHITE PEOPLE, I THINK 00:31:37.000 --> 00:31:40.000 I AM OVER ON TIME. HOPEFULLY, THERE IS QUESTIONS 00:31:40.000 --> 00:31:43.000 AND WE CAN CONTINUE TALKING, I WANT TO GI 00:31:43.000 --> 00:31:53.000 VE SARAH ENOUGH TIME. 00:31:53.000 --> 00:31:56.000 >> SARAH MARTINEZ: I AM SARAH MARTINEZ, I USE 00:31:56.000 --> 00:31:59.000 SHE, HER, HER AS PRO 00:31:59.000 --> 00:32:02.000 NOUNS AND I AM COME 00:32:02.000 --> 00:32:05.000 ING FROM MY OFFICE IN IOWA. I AM HONORED TO GO 00:32:05.000 --> 00:32:08.000 AFTER DUSTIN, AND GIVE HIM A 00:32:08.000 --> 00:32:12.000 GIANT FIST UP. TO UNDERSTAND 00:32:12.000 --> 00:32:15.000 KIND OF MOVING THIS CONVERSATION FORWARD, I WANT T 00:32:15.000 --> 00:32:20.000 O SHARE MY BACKGROUND AND HOW TO 00:32:20.000 --> 00:32:23.000 GIVE CONTEXT WHAT I WILL BE TALKING ABOUT TODAY 00:32:23.000 --> 00:32:26.000 . IN MARCH OF 2019 00:32:26.000 --> 00:32:29.000 , I WAS A VOLUNTEER 00:32:29.000 --> 00:32:32.000 CATIONAL REHAB COUNSELOR WITH THE STATE 00:32:32.000 --> 00:32:35.000 OF IOWA, WORKING IN TWO COUNTIES 00:32:35.000 --> 00:32:38.000 , TWO OF WHICH WERE 00:32:38.000 --> 00:32:42.000 RURAL. EIGHT HIGH SCHOOLS, CASE LOAD 00:32:42.000 --> 00:32:45.000 OF 200 PEOPLE. AND 00:32:45.000 --> 00:32:48.000 , I WAS FEELING LIKE THERE WERE, ALL OF 00:32:48.000 --> 00:32:52.000 THESE ISSUES STACKED UP AGAINST HELPING 00:32:52.000 --> 00:32:55.000 STUDENTS AND HELPING ADULTS FIND 00:32:55.000 --> 00:32:58.000 EMPLOYMENT. AND THE RURAL AREAS WE WERE SUP 00:32:58.000 --> 00:33:01.000 POSED TO FIND JOBS THAT DIDN'T EXIST. THERE WERE 00:33:01.000 --> 00:33:04.000 NOT ENOUGH, THERE IS NO TRANSPORTATION OPTIONS, THER 00:33:04.000 --> 00:33:07.000 E IS NOT ENOUGH CAPACITY 00:33:07.000 --> 00:33:10.000 FOR THE AGENCY TO GIVE THE SKILLS THEY NEED TO BE 00:33:10.000 --> 00:33:14.000 SUCCESSFUL AND THRIVE. AND I WAS FEELING LIKE 00:33:14.000 --> 00:33:18.000 THESE WERE ALL THE OTHER ISSUES THAT NEEDED 00:33:18.000 --> 00:33:21.000 TO BE ADDRESSED BEFORE WE CAN CONFINE SUCCESSFUL 00:33:21.000 --> 00:33:24.000 EMPLOYMENT 00:33:24.000 --> 00:33:27.000 . I FOUND THE DIRECTOR HERE 00:33:27.000 --> 00:33:30.000 OPEN, WHICH IS 00:33:30.000 --> 00:33:34.000 ACROSS THE PARKING LOT 00:33:34.000 --> 00:33:37.000 FROM MY OFFICE OF VOC 00:33:37.000 --> 00:33:41.000 REHAB. IT IS FUNNY TO SAY THE 00:33:41.000 --> 00:33:44.000 LEAST. I WAS HONORED TO BE CHOSEN AND START ED IN 00:33:44.000 --> 00:33:48.000 ED IN 2019 TO SERVE AS DIRECTOR AND TO 00:33:48.000 --> 00:33:51.000 BRING MY BACKGROUND TO INDEPE 00:33:51.000 --> 00:33:55.000 NDENT LIVING. I AM A RARE YOU KNOW 00:33:55.000 --> 00:33:58.000 CORN, COMING FROM VR OVER TO 00:33:58.000 --> 00:34:03.000 INDEPENDENT LIVING. BUT, 00:34:03.000 --> 00:34:06.000 THERE IS POWER IN COLLABORATION AND POWER IN 00:34:06.000 --> 00:34:09.000 PERSPECTIVES. SO THAT IS WHERE I AM 00:34:09.000 --> 00:34:12.000 COMING FROM IN THE CONVERSATION TODAY. AND I 00:34:12.000 --> 00:34:15.000 WANT TO START OFF BY YOU KNOW, 00:34:15.000 --> 00:34:18.000 SHARING MY THOUG 00:34:18.000 --> 00:34:21.000 HTS AND EMPATHY WITH LEADERS IN INDEPENDENT 00:34:21.000 --> 00:34:25.000 LIVING RIGHT NOW. THIS HAS BEEN 00:34:25.000 --> 00:34:27.000 THE HARDEST PROFESSIONAL YEAR OF MY LIFE 00:34:27.000 --> 00:34:31.000 . THE FIRST YEAR AND A HALF IN AS A DIRECTOR, 00:34:31.000 --> 00:34:34.000 I NEVER IMAGINED THAT WE WOULD HAVE A PANDEMIC 00:34:34.000 --> 00:34:37.000 , THAT OUR COMMUNITY IN IOWA WOULD BE 00:34:37.000 --> 00:34:40.000 HIT WITH A LAND HURRICANE 00:34:40.000 --> 00:34:43.000 KNOWN AS THE DORACHO I 00:34:43.000 --> 00:34:47.000 N AUGUST AUGUST. IT LEFT AMOUNTS OF DAMAGE TO 00:34:47.000 --> 00:34:50.000 OUR FARMLAND AND TO HOMES 00:34:50.000 --> 00:34:53.000 AND DISPLACED INDIVIDUALS, LEFT 00:34:53.000 --> 00:34:56.000 PEOPLE WITHOUT POWER FOR WEEKS, 00:34:56.000 --> 00:34:59.000 IF YOU HAVEN'T CHECKED IN WITH NEW LEADER 00:34:59.000 --> 00:35:02.000 S IN YOUR NETWORK, AND YOU HAVE THE ENERGY TO DO THAT, 00:35:02.000 --> 00:35:06.000 I URGE YOU TO CHECK IN WITH THEM. 00:35:06.000 --> 00:35:09.000 WE ARE NOT OKAY. 00:35:09.000 --> 00:35:12.000 I HAVE, I HAVE NEVER WORKED MORE AND 00:35:12.000 --> 00:35:15.000 SLEPT LESS BECAUSE THE NEED OUT THERE 00:35:15.000 --> 00:35:18.000 IS JUST SO INCREDIBLE. AND 00:35:18.000 --> 00:35:21.000 I SETTLE WITH NOT TRYING 00:35:21.000 --> 00:35:25.000 EVERY DAY TO MEET THAT NEED. AND ADDRESS 00:35:25.000 --> 00:35:28.000 THE ISSUES THAT ARE OUT THERE. AND 00:35:28.000 --> 00:35:31.000 I ALSO 00:35:31.000 --> 00:35:34.000 WANT TO SHARE AND COMMISERATE WITH 00:35:34.000 --> 00:35:37.000 PEOPLE. I HAD A LOT OF DOUBTS. ARE THE DECISIONS THAT 00:35:37.000 --> 00:35:40.000 I AM MAKING RIGHT? AM I KEEPING STAFF 00:35:40.000 --> 00:35:44.000 OR CONSUMERS SAFE? HOW DO WE 00:35:44.000 --> 00:35:47.000 CONTINUE TO DELIVER SERVICES AND 00:35:47.000 --> 00:35:52.000 MEET THE NEW NEEDS THAT ARE ARISING. SO, 00:35:52.000 --> 00:35:55.000 I WANT TO EXTEND MY THOUGHTS TO YOU ALL AND HOPE THAT 00:35:55.000 --> 00:35:59.000 , PART OF APRIL THIS YEAR IS 00:35:59.000 --> 00:36:02.000 COMING TOGETHER TO YOU KNOW, LIFT 00:36:02.000 --> 00:36:06.000 EACH OTHER UP AND ALSO, YOU KNOW, 00:36:06.000 --> 00:36:09.000 UNDERSTAND HOW WE CAN WORK AS A, A LARGER NETWOR 00:36:09.000 --> 00:36:12.000 K TO REALLY ACCOMPLISH THESE BIGGER ISSUES 00:36:12.000 --> 00:36:15.000 . SO, MOVE 00:36:15.000 --> 00:36:18.000 ING THIS CONVERSATION FORWARD, HOW 00:36:18.000 --> 00:36:22.000 AS CENTERS FOR INDEPENDENT LIVING DO WE 00:36:22.000 --> 00:36:25.000 MOVE THIS MOVEMENT 00:36:25.000 --> 00:36:28.000 FORWARD? AND I HAVE, I THINK IT 00:36:28.000 --> 00:36:31.000 COMES DOWN TO BEING FORWARD 00:36:31.000 --> 00:36:35.000 THINKING VERSUS REACTIONA 00:36:35.000 --> 00:36:38.000 RY. HOW DO WE REALLY SET OURSELVES 00:36:38.000 --> 00:36:41.000 APART FROM OTHER SERVICE PROVIDERS, WHAT ARE THINGS 00:36:41.000 --> 00:36:44.000 THAT CENTERS CAN DO THAT KN 00:36:44.000 --> 00:36:47.000 NO OTHER PROVIDER OR, 00:36:47.000 --> 00:36:50.000 DISABILITY SERVICE CAN DO. 00:36:50.000 --> 00:36:53.000 AND I REALLY THINK IT COMES DOWN TO THE 00:36:53.000 --> 00:36:57.000 CONSUMER DRIVEN INDEPENDENT 00:36:57.000 --> 00:37:00.000 PHILOSOPHY AND OUR, THE WAY THAT WE 00:37:00.000 --> 00:37:03.000 ARE STRUCTURED OUR SERVICES. WE 00:37:03.000 --> 00:37:06.000 NEED TO REALLY REMIND OURSELVES OF THAT 00:37:06.000 --> 00:37:09.000 , AND MAKE SURE, INCO 00:37:09.000 --> 00:37:12.000 RPORATING THAT EVERY STEP IN THE WAY WHAT WE DO 00:37:12.000 --> 00:37:16.000 AND HOW WE DO THAT IS CULTIVA 00:37:16.000 --> 00:37:19.000 TING LEADERSES. WE HAVE TO BE, 00:37:19.000 --> 00:37:23.000 TRAINING AND PROVIDING ADVOCACY 00:37:23.000 --> 00:37:27.000 SELF-EMPOWERMENT. 00:37:27.000 --> 00:37:30.000 DECISION MAKING, ASSISTING THE CONSUMERS A 00:37:30.000 --> 00:37:33.000 ND BECOMING LEADERSES AT ALL LEVELS 00:37:33.000 --> 00:37:36.000 . MAKE SURE THEIR VOICES ARE 00:37:36.000 --> 00:37:39.000 HEARD ON COMMITTEES, BOARDS. THEY ARE AT 00:37:39.000 --> 00:37:42.000 THE STATE OR THE FEDERAL LEVEL. WE ARE 00:37:42.000 --> 00:37:46.000 PUTTING REPRESENTATION OF 00:37:46.000 --> 00:37:49.000 PERSONS WITH DISABILITIES IN EVERY ISSUE 00:37:49.000 --> 00:37:53.000 AND MAKE SURE THERE IS NO OTHER 00:37:53.000 --> 00:37:56.000 CHOICE BUT OUR VOICE BEING HEARD. 00:37:56.000 --> 00:37:59.000 AS 00:37:59.000 --> 00:38:02.000 CENTERS, WE CAN CREATE OPPORTUNITIESES AND PARTNER WITH 00:38:02.000 --> 00:38:05.000 OTHERS AS WELL. I LEARNED LOCALLY 00:38:05.000 --> 00:38:09.000 OUR UNIVERSITY CENTER /TPOR 00:38:09.000 --> 00:38:12.000 FOR EXCELLENCE IN DEVELOPMENTAL DISABILITIES, SOMEONE 00:38:12.000 --> 00:38:15.000 THERE WAS THINKING THE SAME THING, WE NEED 00:38:15.000 --> 00:38:18.000 THESE TRAINING OPPORTUNITIESES AND WE NEED TO BE MAKING SURE 00:38:18.000 --> 00:38:21.000 THAT PERSONS WITH DISABILITIES 00:38:21.000 --> 00:38:25.000 ARE AT 00:38:25.000 --> 00:38:28.000 EVERY LEVEL LOCALLY 00:38:28.000 --> 00:38:31.000 , AND IN THE STATE. WE ARE FORCING COMMUNITY 00:38:31.000 --> 00:38:34.000 INTEGRATION. WE CAN'T BE PASSIVE IN T 00:38:34.000 --> 00:38:38.000 HIS. WE HAVE TO MAKE SURE THAT 00:38:38.000 --> 00:38:41.000 OUR CONSUMERS, ARE 00:38:41.000 --> 00:38:44.000 SITTING IN THE SEATS OF POWER. AND 00:38:44.000 --> 00:38:47.000 I THINK, THAT IS REALLY HOW 00:38:47.000 --> 00:38:50.000 WE CONTINUE TO, SHARE 00:38:50.000 --> 00:38:53.000 THE INDEPENDENT LIVING PHILOSOPHY AND 00:38:53.000 --> 00:38:56.000 MOVEMENT, BILLY WAS SAYING IN ONE OF THE 00:38:56.000 --> 00:39:00.000 SESSIONS THAT STAFF ARE SPECIALITES, 00:39:00.000 --> 00:39:03.000 WHERE CAN YOU DO SOMEONE 00:39:03.000 --> 00:39:06.000 FOCUSES ON MEDICAID OR FOCUSES ON SOCI 00:39:06.000 --> 00:39:11.000 AL SECURITY. WE HAVE EXPERTS IN ALL OF THESE 00:39:11.000 --> 00:39:14.000 FACETS OF 00:39:14.000 --> 00:39:17.000 SERVICES. REALLY HOW DO WE 00:39:17.000 --> 00:39:20.000 HONE IN AND BECOME EXPERTS IN 00:39:20.000 --> 00:39:24.000 AND SHARE THAT WITH OTHERS OF ADVOCACY AND 00:39:24.000 --> 00:39:28.000 CONSUMER-DRIVEN SERVICES. 00:39:28.000 --> 00:39:31.000 I WANT TO THINK ABOUT THE INNER C 00:39:31.000 --> 00:39:34.000 ONNECTEDNESS OF THE INDEPENDENT 00:39:34.000 --> 00:39:38.000 INDEPENDENT LIVING MOVEMENT AND 00:39:38.000 --> 00:39:41.000 WE ARE NOT OPERATIN 00:39:41.000 --> 00:39:44.000 G IN SIL 00:39:44.000 --> 00:39:47.000 OS. I THINK OF MYSELF AS A NEW LEADER, 00:39:47.000 --> 00:39:51.000 CULTIVATE SUPPORT SYSTEMS, FINDING, 00:39:51.000 --> 00:39:55.000 LIKE MINDED PEERS AND FINDING OTHER DIRECTORS AND 00:39:55.000 --> 00:39:58.000 IN THE MOVEMENT TO 00:39:58.000 --> 00:40:01.000 SHARE IDEAS AND OBESITY 00:40:01.000 --> 00:40:05.000 BEST PRACTICES AND BRAINSTORMING 00:40:05.000 --> 00:40:08.000 ISSUES THAT I SEE IN THE COMMUNITY AND HOW TO 00:40:08.000 --> 00:40:12.000 ADDRESS THAT. AND THIS IS SO ESSENTIAL 00:40:12.000 --> 00:40:14.000 BECAUSE THERE IS SO MUCH KNOWLEDGE UP THERE. 00:40:14.000 --> 00:40:18.000 HOW, HOW DO 00:40:18.000 --> 00:40:22.000 WE RECREATE THE 00:40:22.000 --> 00:40:25.000 WHEEL WHILE THERE ARE OTHERS OUT T 00:40:25.000 --> 00:40:28.000 HERE CAN SLAYER 00:40:28.000 --> 00:40:32.000 SHARE IT. APRIL AND OTHERS, TO BRING 00:40:32.000 --> 00:40:35.000 STAFF TOGETHER. AND CREATE OPPORTUNITIES 00:40:35.000 --> 00:40:38.000 FOR US TO SHARE IDEAS AND THOSE BEST 00:40:38.000 --> 00:40:41.000 PRACTICES. WE HAVE TO MAKE SURE THAT OUR NE 00:40:41.000 --> 00:40:45.000 W LEADERS CAN SUCCEED AND 00:40:45.000 --> 00:40:48.000 PASS ON THE INFORMATION THEY NEED TO MAKE SURE THAT OUR 00:40:48.000 --> 00:40:51.000 CULTURE AND THE SERVICE KNOWLEDGE ISN'T 00:40:51.000 --> 00:40:54.000 LOST WHEN THE NEXT GENERATION OF LEADERS 00:40:54.000 --> 00:40:58.000 TAKES OVER. I SEE 00:40:58.000 --> 00:41:01.000 LOCALLY, FEDERALLY, EVEN 00:41:01.000 --> 00:41:04.000 WITHIN CENTERS, OUR LEADERS 00:41:04.000 --> 00:41:07.000 HIP IS AGING. AND I, IT IS 00:41:07.000 --> 00:41:10.000 SO IMPORTANT THAT WE 00:41:10.000 --> 00:41:14.000 , PREPARING THE NEXT 00:41:14.000 --> 00:41:17.000 SET OF LEADERS. THE NEXT YOUNGER GENERATI 00:41:17.000 --> 00:41:20.000 ON NEEDS TO COME IN. AND I REALLY WANT TO 00:41:20.000 --> 00:41:24.000 PLUG THE PEER TO PEER MENTORING 00:41:24.000 --> 00:41:27.000 PROGRAM THROUGH APRIL BECAUSE THAT IS SOMETHING I TOOK 00:41:27.000 --> 00:41:31.000 ADVANTAGE WHEN I CAME ONBOARD AND I HAVE TO 00:41:31.000 --> 00:41:35.000 THANK SCOTT BERG 00:41:35.000 --> 00:41:38.000 BURLINGAME. HE WAS HELPFU 00:41:38.000 --> 00:41:41.000 L AS AN OUTSIDERS OF THE MOVEMENT 00:41:41.000 --> 00:41:44.000 HAVE SOMEONE HELP ME UNDERSTAND HOW I CAN 00:41:44.000 --> 00:41:47.000 JUMP IN AND BE USEFUL. HOW TO REALLY 00:41:47.000 --> 00:41:51.000 MOVE MY AGENCY AND CENTER FORWARD. 00:41:51.000 --> 00:41:54.000 I USE AGENCY AND CENTER KIND O 00:41:54.000 --> 00:41:58.000 F INTERCHANGEABLY. 00:41:58.000 --> 00:42:02.000 HOW I CAN TAKE THE IDEAS THAT I HAVE, AND 00:42:02.000 --> 00:42:06.000 ISSUES THAT I SEE FROM AN OUTSIDE 00:42:06.000 --> 00:42:09.000 R PERSPECTIVE AND MAKE SURE, I AM M 00:42:09.000 --> 00:42:12.000 OVING IN INDEPENDENT LIVING. I AM MOVE 00:42:12.000 --> 00:42:15.000 ING THESE FORWARD, THE IDEAS FORWARD AND THE 00:42:15.000 --> 00:42:19.000 WAY IT SHOULD BE. SO, IF YOU ARE A 00:42:19.000 --> 00:42:23.000 LEADER RIGHT NOW, IN YOUR COMMUNITY, 00:42:23.000 --> 00:42:27.000 YOU ARE A DIRECTOR WHO HAS USEFUL INFORMATION TO 00:42:27.000 --> 00:42:30.000 SHARE, PLEASE CONSIDER SHARING THE KNOWLEDGE, G 00:42:30.000 --> 00:42:33.000 ETTING INTO OPPORTUNITIES LIKE THE PEER TO PEER 00:42:33.000 --> 00:42:36.000 MENTORING TO GIVE BACK, AND HELP 00:42:36.000 --> 00:42:39.000 NEW LEADERS LIKE ME, 00:42:39.000 --> 00:42:42.000 MOVE OUR CENTERS FORWARD AND BE SUCCESS 00:42:42.000 --> 00:42:45.000 FUL. SO WE ARE TALK 00:42:45.000 --> 00:42:48.000 ING ABOUT BREAKING DOWN SILOS O 00:42:48.000 --> 00:42:51.000 F KNOWLEDGE WITHIN THE MOVEMENT. 00:42:51.000 --> 00:42:54.000 BUT WITHIN THE COMMUNITIES. 00:42:54.000 --> 00:42:58.000 HOW DO WE BREAK DOWN THE SILOS IN 00:42:58.000 --> 00:43:01.000 DISABILITY P 00:43:01.000 --> 00:43:04.000 ROVIDERS AND STATE ORGANIZATIONS AND SPREAD OUR PHI 00:43:04.000 --> 00:43:07.000 LOSOPHY AND INFORMATION TO THEM. TO MAKE SURE THAT THEY AR 00:43:07.000 --> 00:43:10.000 THEIR CONSUMERS ARE DRIVING THEIR 00:43:10.000 --> 00:43:14.000 SERVICES AND HOW, YOU KNOW THEY 00:43:14.000 --> 00:43:18.000 CAN BEST HONOR THAT DECISION MAKING. 00:43:18.000 --> 00:43:21.000 I THINK BACK TO MY TIME WI 00:43:21.000 --> 00:43:24.000 TH 00:43:24.000 --> 00:43:27.000 VR, AND I WANT TO BE VULNERABLE WITH YOU. WHEN I 00:43:27.000 --> 00:43:30.000 WAS A COUNSELOR, 00:43:30.000 --> 00:43:33.000 I LEARNED 00:43:33.000 --> 00:43:36.000 FROM OTHER COURT AND JURIES AND BEING 00:43:36.000 --> 00:43:43.000 COUNSELORS, WHEN WE TALK ABOUT 00:43:43.000 --> 00:43:46.000 YOUTH TRANS 00:43:46.000 --> 00:43:49.000 ITION, IT IS WHAT SUPPORTS THEY NEEDED IN PLACE. WHAT 00:43:49.000 --> 00:43:52.000 SUPPORTS WE NEED TO TALK ABOUT. WHICH INCLUDED 00:43:52.000 --> 00:43:56.000 GUARDIANSHIP. AND WE DIDN'T HAVE A FULL CONVERSATION WHAT 00:43:56.000 --> 00:43:59.000 OPTIONS THERE WERE. WE TALKED TO THE FAMILIES AND TO STUDE 00:43:59.000 --> 00:44:02.000 NTS ABOUT YOU KNOW, HOW TO OBTAIN GU 00:44:02.000 --> 00:44:05.000 GUARDIANSHIP. AND I AM THAN 00:44:05.000 --> 00:44:09.000 KFUL THAT I HAVE 00:44:09.000 --> 00:44:12.000 A DIFFERENT PERSPECTIVE ON GUARDIANSHIP AND 00:44:12.000 --> 00:44:15.000 I CAN SHARE WITH OTHERS AND INFORM FAMILIES THERE ARE 00:44:15.000 --> 00:44:19.000 SO MANY SERVICES AND SUPPORTS FOR 00:44:19.000 --> 00:44:23.000 STUDENTS TO BE INDEPENDENT. IF WE DON'T 00:44:23.000 --> 00:44:27.000 , YOU KNOW HELP OTHERS AND 00:44:27.000 --> 00:44:30.000 UNDERSTAND WHERE PEOPLE ARE COMIN 00:44:30.000 --> 00:44:33.000 G FROM, AND SHOW KINDNESS TO CHANGING THE PERSPECTIVES 00:44:33.000 --> 00:44:36.000 , I AM THANK FUL 00:44:36.000 --> 00:44:39.000 FUL PEOPLE WERE KIND TO ME, AND HELPING ME TO UNDERSTAND WHAT 00:44:39.000 --> 00:44:42.000 I NEEDED TO KNOW. 00:44:42.000 --> 00:44:45.000 HOW DO WE CHANGE THE CONVERSATION. SO 00:44:45.000 --> 00:44:48.000 , IT DOES 00:44:48.000 --> 00:44:51.000 TAKE, BRINGING ORGANIZATIONS 00:44:51.000 --> 00:44:54.000 TOGETHER. BRINGING, OUR PHILOSOPHY TO OTHERS 00:44:54.000 --> 00:44:59.000 . TO REALLY, MAKE SURE THAT 00:44:59.000 --> 00:45:02.000 AS A COMMUNITY, WE ARE ADDRESSING THE BIGGER ISSUES 00:45:02.000 --> 00:45:05.000 AT HAND. AND IT IS MUCH 00:45:05.000 --> 00:45:09.000 MORE THAN, YOU KNOW, SERVICES TO THE CONSUMERS. 00:45:09.000 --> 00:45:12.000 IT IS SERVICES TO EVERYONE, TO MAKE OUR 00:45:12.000 --> 00:45:15.000 COMMUNITIES MORE INTEGRATED AND LIVE 00:45:15.000 --> 00:45:19.000 ABLE PLACES. LET'S 00:45:19.000 --> 00:45:22.000 , I THANK YOU FOR MAKING ME 00:45:22.000 --> 00:45:25.000 VULNERABLE WITH YOU TODAY. AND I AM THANKFUL WHERE I AM 00:45:25.000 --> 00:45:28.000 TODAY AND REALIZE, I HAVE SO MUCH MORE TO 00:45:28.000 --> 00:45:31.000 GROW. AND I, IF THAT 00:45:31.000 --> 00:45:34.000 IS ANYTHING, THE HUMBLENESS OF IT 00:45:34.000 --> 00:45:37.000 ALL, THE NEXT 30 YEARS OF THE AD 00:45:37.000 --> 00:45:41.000 A, I KIND OF THINK ABOUT THOSE 00:45:41.000 --> 00:45:44.000 THINGS IS WHERE WHENEVER, 00:45:44.000 --> 00:45:47.000 WE HAVE SUCCEEDED AND WHERE WE HAVE TO 00:45:47.000 --> 00:45:52.000 GROW. 00:45:52.000 --> 00:45:55.000 THE ISSUES THAT YOU ARE SEEING IN THE COMMUNI 00:45:55.000 --> 00:45:58.000 TIES, YOU THINK ABOUT HOW TO BE 00:45:58.000 --> 00:46:01.000 FORWARD THINKING WITH THEM. AND SO I RAMB 00:46:01.000 --> 00:46:04.000 LED THE LAST COUPLE OF MINUTES AND I AM GOING TO TUR 00:46:04.000 --> 00:46:07.000 N IT OVER TO OUR PANEL 00:46:07.000 --> 00:46:10.000 IST AND THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR ALLOWING 00:46:10.000 --> 00:46:13.000 ME TO BE HERE TODAY. >> 00:46:13.000 --> 00:46:16.000 WONDERFUL, THANK YOU ALL THREE. SO MUCH GOOD 00:46:16.000 --> 00:46:19.000 INFORMATION THERE. SO, WE DID HAVE QUESTIONS COME IN. 00:46:19.000 --> 00:46:22.000 WE ARE GOING TO START OFF, AND HAND THIS TO 00:46:22.000 --> 00:46:25.000 YOU FANISEE. WHAT SPECIFIC ACTIVI 00:46:25.000 --> 00:46:29.000 TIES, PROGRAMS OR EVENTS CAN CILS 00:46:29.000 --> 00:46:32.000 OFFER TO PARTICIPATE TO STRENGTH 00:46:32.000 --> 00:46:35.000 EN AND SUPPORT THE NETWORK AND BUILD 00:46:35.000 --> 00:46:39.000 SYSTEMATIC ADVOCACY SKILLS. 00:46:39.000 --> 00:46:42.000 >> FANISEE BIAS: I SAW THE QUESTION AND YOU 00:46:42.000 --> 00:46:45.000 TH, AND HERE I GO. NAME SOMETHING. BUT 00:46:45.000 --> 00:46:48.000 THANK YOU FOR THIS QUESTION. I KNOW THAT WE DON'T HAVE 00:46:48.000 --> 00:46:51.000 A LOT OF TIME, I JUST LOOKED AT THE SCHEDULE 00:46:51.000 --> 00:46:54.000 AND THERE IS CONFERENCES THAT ARE 00:46:54.000 --> 00:46:57.000 COMING, NOT TONIGHT. IT IS 00:46:57.000 --> 00:47:02.000 LIKE, AT 1:30 PACIFIC 00:47:02.000 --> 00:47:05.000 , AND 4:30 EASTERN, IT 00:47:05.000 --> 00:47:08.000 IS THE YOUTH CONFERENCE, IT IS 00:47:08.000 --> 00:47:11.000 INTERSECTIONALITY. WE WILL TALK ABOUT 00:47:11.000 --> 00:47:14.000 SPEAKING ABOUT OUR EXPERIENCES, ADVOCACY AND HOW TO INCO 00:47:14.000 --> 00:47:18.000 RPORATE THE SYSTEMS, THE MOVEMENTS, HOW TO LIKE I 00:47:18.000 --> 00:47:21.000 WAS SAYING BEFORE, INCORPORATE MARGINALIZED 00:47:21.000 --> 00:47:24.000 AND TARGETED 00:47:24.000 --> 00:47:27.000 IDENTITY, AND BLACK 00:47:27.000 --> 00:47:31.000 LIVES MATTER, AND BLACK DISABLED FOLKS, 00:47:31.000 --> 00:47:34.000 ABOUT THE REPRODUCTIVE MOVEMENT AND HEALTHCARE, AND /SHROETI 00:47:34.000 --> 00:47:37.000 VOTING. I THINK 00:47:37.000 --> 00:47:40.000 HAVING CONVERSATIONS OR CONFERENCES OR WORKSHOPS FROM THES 00:47:40.000 --> 00:47:44.000 E CENTERS OR ORGANIZATIONS, 00:47:44.000 --> 00:47:47.000 WILL DEFINITELY HELP YOUTH GET INVOLV 00:47:47.000 --> 00:47:50.000 ED AND HELP CONVERSATIONS CONTINUE BECAUSE THE MORE THAT 00:47:50.000 --> 00:47:53.000 THEY ARE SUPPRESS OR SHUT DOWN OR 00:47:53.000 --> 00:47:57.000 DEEM TOO POLITICAL, THE LESS WE ARE ABLE TO 00:47:57.000 --> 00:48:00.000 ACKNOWLEDGE UNIQU 00:48:00.000 --> 00:48:03.000 E EXPERIENCES AND THE HIDDEN PROBLEMS T 00:48:03.000 --> 00:48:06.000 HAT I GUESS ACCUMULATE IN THE SYSTEMS IF WE DON'T 00:48:06.000 --> 00:48:09.000 ADDRESS THEM. YOUTH ARE ABLE TO SEE 00:48:09.000 --> 00:48:12.000 THE EVOLVING CHANGINGS 00:48:12.000 --> 00:48:15.000 IN THE TRADITIONAL AGENCIES 00:48:15.000 --> 00:48:19.000 SUCH AS INDEPENDENT LIVING AND 00:48:19.000 --> 00:48:22.000 DIFFERENT ORGANIZATIONS THAT WERE A WHILE. AND DU 00:48:22.000 --> 00:48:25.000 STIN SAYING, ACKNOWLEDGING AND CELEBRAT 00:48:25.000 --> 00:48:29.000 ING THE ADA BUT THINKING BEYOND HOW IT MAY OR MAY NOT 00:48:29.000 --> 00:48:32.000 SERVE COMMUNITIES, AND WHO IS SCHEMA 00:48:32.000 --> 00:48:35.000 EXEMPT 00:48:35.000 --> 00:48:38.000 FROM THE ADA. DIFFERENT OB 00:48:38.000 --> 00:48:41.000 ACTIONS THAT IS EXEMPT AND GO THROU 00:48:41.000 --> 00:48:44.000 GH LOOPHOLES NOT CATER 00:48:44.000 --> 00:48:47.000 ING TO THE RIGHTS. 00:48:47.000 --> 00:48:50.000 WE ADDRESS 00:48:50.000 --> 00:48:54.000 ADDRESS THE ADA AND CELEBRATE, IT THE MORE WE CAN 00:48:54.000 --> 00:48:57.000 ACKNOWLEDGE HOW TO MOVE FORWARD AND INCORPO 00:48:57.000 --> 00:49:00.000 RATE PEOPLE OF DIFFERENT IDENTITIES. NOT JUST Y 00:49:00.000 --> 00:49:04.000 OUTH BUT THE RURAL YOUTH, NOT 00:49:04.000 --> 00:49:07.000 BINARY YOUTH, WHATEVER IT IS, ACROSS IDE 00:49:07.000 --> 00:49:10.000 NTITIES BUT WITH THE INTERSECTION OF HAVING A DISA 00:49:10.000 --> 00:49:13.000 BILITY. I WANTED TO PLUG THE YOUTH 00:49:13.000 --> 00:49:16.000 CONFERENCES, AND ALSO 00:49:16.000 --> 00:49:19.000 TOMORROW, THERE IS A YOUTH CONFERENCE, LET 00:49:19.000 --> 00:49:22.000 'S TALK IL, INDEPENDE 00:49:22.000 --> 00:49:27.000 NT LIVING. THIS IS FACILITATED BY 00:49:27.000 --> 00:49:30.000 MEL. JUST GREAT PERSON. IN P 00:49:30.000 --> 00:49:33.000 ERSON AROUND DISABILITY AND INTERSECTIONALIT 00:49:33.000 --> 00:49:36.000 Y, AND HOW TO MOVE FORWARD. ACKNOWLEDGING THE PRIVILEGES AN 00:49:36.000 --> 00:49:39.000 D CHALLENGES THAT FOLKS EXPERIENCE 00:49:39.000 --> 00:49:42.000 AND MOVING FORWARD TO MORE GRASSROOTS COMMUNI 00:49:42.000 --> 00:49:45.000 TY LEVEL CONNECTION. SO DON'T WANT TO TAKE TOO MUCH 00:49:45.000 --> 00:49:48.000 TIME RAMBLING BUT THE CONFERENCES ARE AMA 00:49:48.000 --> 00:49:51.000 ZING . UP YOU WILL HEAR 00:49:51.000 --> 00:49:55.000 FROM MYSELF, AND THE YOUTH. I DON'T SPEAK FOR ALL 00:49:55.000 --> 00:49:58.000 YOUTH BUT IT INVOLVES US, THE MORE WE DIS/PHA 00:49:58.000 --> 00:50:01.000 MANTLE THE STRUCTURES AND IDEAS 00:50:01.000 --> 00:50:04.000 IN THOUGHT, WE GET IN TUNED WITH THE 00:50:04.000 --> 00:50:07.000 AUTHENTIC EXPERIENCES THAT FOLKS ARE HAVING TO LIVE TH 00:50:07.000 --> 00:50:10.000 ROUGH TODAY IN A 00:50:10.000 --> 00:50:13.000 VIOLENT AND SCARY TIME 00:50:13.000 --> 00:50:18.000 . LOVE AND COMPASSION AND COMMUNITY TO HAVE BETTER 00:50:18.000 --> 00:50:21.000 COMMUNITIES. THANK YOU FOR THAT. >> THA 00:50:21.000 --> 00:50:24.000 NKS FANISEE. I THINK IT IS IMPORTANT WHAT YOU SAID. 00:50:24.000 --> 00:50:27.000 AS YOU WATCH THESE, LISTEN, SEE 00:50:27.000 --> 00:50:31.000 WHAT OTHER PEOPLE ARE DOING AND TAKE IT BACK TO THE 00:50:31.000 --> 00:50:34.000 INDIVIDUAL COMMUNITIES. NEXT WE WILL GO TO DO 00:50:34.000 --> 00:50:37.000 USTIN. AND THE QUESTION ARE WE SUP 00:50:37.000 --> 00:50:40.000 POSED TO LIVE IN A COUNTRY WITHOUT 00:50:40.000 --> 00:50:43.000 LAW. PRISONS ARE A PLACE 00:50:43.000 --> 00:50:46.000 , FROM LAWL 00:50:46.000 --> 00:50:49.000 ESS AND ANARCHY. I NEED CLARIFICAT 00:50:49.000 --> 00:50:52.000 ION, IT IS UP TO YOU. >> DUSTIN GIBSON: THIS IS D 00:50:52.000 --> 00:50:55.000 USTIN. I PROBABLY WOULD 00:50:55.000 --> 00:50:58.000 CHALLENGE THAT NOTION, PRISONS AND JAILS KEEP US 00:50:58.000 --> 00:51:02.000 SAFE. IT FEELS LIKE IT DOES ON A 00:51:02.000 --> 00:51:05.000 FACE VALUE IS ERASED THE PEOPLE THAT A 00:51:05.000 --> 00:51:09.000 RE IN PRISONS AND JAILS WHO ARE NOT SAFE. AS 00:51:09.000 --> 00:51:12.000 ANGELA DAVIS SAY, 00:51:12.000 --> 00:51:15.000 SOCIAL PROBLEMS, THEY DISAPPEAR PEOPLE. WHAT WE WILL 00:51:15.000 --> 00:51:18.000 FIND, WAREHOUSING PEOPLE IN PRISONS AND 00:51:18.000 --> 00:51:22.000 JAIL, MAINLY DISABLED PEOPLE WHO 00:51:22.000 --> 00:51:25.000 REPRESENT THE POPULATION. AND WE DON'T ADDRESS THE THINGS THAT 00:51:25.000 --> 00:51:28.000 ACTUALLY CREATE ANY TYPE OF HARM AND 00:51:28.000 --> 00:51:31.000 COMMUNITY PRISONS AND JAILS DON'T DO ANY 00:51:31.000 --> 00:51:35.000 THING TO INSERT ACCO 00:51:35.000 --> 00:51:38.000 UNTABILITY IN THE COMMUNITIES OUGHT ALL 00:51:38.000 --> 00:51:41.000 AT ALL. PR 00:51:41.000 --> 00:51:44.000 ISONS IS SENSORY DEPRIVATION, 00:51:44.000 --> 00:51:47.000 OF LANGUAGE, DEPRIVATION OF CONNECTION OF 00:51:47.000 --> 00:51:50.000 HUMAN TOUCH. OF DESIRE. OF 00:51:50.000 --> 00:51:53.000 A LOT OF DIFFERENT THINGS. 00:51:53.000 --> 00:51:57.000 WHEN I THINK ABOUT WHAT EXACERBATE 00:51:57.000 --> 00:52:00.000 S THE DISABILITY, NOTE A 00:52:00.000 --> 00:52:04.000 THESE CREATE BARRIERS FOR 00:52:04.000 --> 00:52:07.000 DISABLED PEOPLE. PRISONS DO THAT. GOOD 00:52:07.000 --> 00:52:10.000 AS A SOCIETY, WE DESERVE MORE THAN 00:52:10.000 --> 00:52:13.000 DEALING WITH THE PROBLEMS BY OUTSOURCING THEM 00:52:13.000 --> 00:52:16.000 . SO THAT IS ALL I WILL 00:52:16.000 --> 00:52:20.000 SAY ON THAT. 00:52:20.000 --> 00:52:23.000 >> I AM BACK. I THINK WE WILL, 00:52:23.000 --> 00:52:26.000 WE HAVE TO GO RAPID FIRE, WE HAVE A FEW 00:52:26.000 --> 00:52:30.000 QUESTIONS. START WITH FANISEE. WE T 00:52:30.000 --> 00:52:33.000 ALK ABOUT IL LEADERSHIP IS BREA 00:52:33.000 --> 00:52:36.000 KING DOWN THE SIGH WHOS, 00:52:36.000 --> 00:52:39.000 LOS. 00:52:39.000 --> 00:52:42.000 ARE WE SHOWN THE MOVEMENT FOR THE FIRST TIME HOW 00:52:42.000 --> 00:52:45.000 WE BURY ANY NEGATIVE FEELINGS. ASSOCIATED 00:52:45.000 --> 00:52:48.000 WITH SYSTEMATIC OPPRESSION AND RACISM 00:52:48.000 --> 00:52:51.000 ? >> FANISEE BIAS: I WILL TRY TO 00:52:51.000 --> 00:52:54.000 QUICKLY GO THROUGH THIS, AND HOPEFULLY THE OTH 00:52:54.000 --> 00:52:58.000 ER WORKSHOPS WILL TALK ABOUT THIS, I LOVE THE 00:52:58.000 --> 00:53:01.000 INTERGENERATIONAL PIECE. LIKE I M 00:53:01.000 --> 00:53:04.000 ENTIONED BEFORE, AS YOUTH, WE ARE LEARNING FROM 00:53:04.000 --> 00:53:07.000 O 00:53:07.000 --> 00:53:10.000 LDER FOLKS, WE ARE NOT CONTRIBUTING OR KA 00:53:10.000 --> 00:53:13.000 CATERING TO IT, AND NOT STICKING 00:53:13.000 --> 00:53:16.000 TO THE SYSTEMATIC SOCIAL PATHWAYS. 00:53:16.000 --> 00:53:19.000 BUT IT IS IMPORTANT FOR OTHERS WHO 00:53:19.000 --> 00:53:22.000 HAVE BEEN GOING THROUGH THE MOVEMENT, BUT STILL W 00:53:22.000 --> 00:53:26.000 ANT TO SEE THINGS HAPPEN TO INCORPORATE AND LISTEN TO 00:53:26.000 --> 00:53:30.000 YOUTH ACROSS ALL AGE S TO 00:53:30.000 --> 00:53:33.000 S TO FIGURE OUT HOW TO ACKNOWLEDGE WHAT HAPPENED IN THE 00:53:33.000 --> 00:53:36.000 PAST AND ABLE TO MOVE FORWARD. THE ENDING IS, I 00:53:36.000 --> 00:53:39.000 AM TRYING TO GRASP IT. 00:53:39.000 --> 00:53:42.000 THAT QUESTION. BUT I HOPE NO ONE IS WAN 00:53:42.000 --> 00:53:46.000 TING TO OR THINKING THAT IT IS, 00:53:46.000 --> 00:53:49.000 I GUESS THE BEST OPTION TO BURY THE NEG 00:53:49.000 --> 00:53:53.000 ATIVE FEELINGS ASSOCIATED WITH SYSTEMIC 00:53:53.000 --> 00:53:56.000 SUPPRESSION AND RACISM. IT DOESN'T MAKE US 00:53:56.000 --> 00:54:00.000 FEEL GOOD, SYSTEMIC OWE 00:54:00.000 --> 00:54:03.000 OPPRESSION, ABLISM. HAVING TO GO THROUGH IT DAY 00:54:03.000 --> 00:54:06.000 -TO-DAY IS NOT WHAT WE WANT TO FEEL. B 00:54:06.000 --> 00:54:09.000 UT WE MUST UPLIFT THE VOI 00:54:09.000 --> 00:54:12.000 CES AND GIVE THEM PLATFOR 00:54:12.000 --> 00:54:15.000 PLATFORMS, I CAN TALK ABOUT THE 00:54:15.000 --> 00:54:18.000 DAYS THE ABLISM I ENCOUNTER A 00:54:18.000 --> 00:54:21.000 POOR WOMAN OF COLOR WITH A DISABILITY AND THA 00:54:21.000 --> 00:54:24.000 T MAYBE DIFFERENT FOR OTHER 00:54:24.000 --> 00:54:27.000 S AND HAVE PRIVILEGES OF HAVING MONEY OR 00:54:27.000 --> 00:54:31.000 HAVING BOTH PARENTS IN THE HOUSE OR 00:54:31.000 --> 00:54:34.000 WHATEVER IT IS. IT IS OKAY WE ACKNOWLEDGE THA 00:54:34.000 --> 00:54:37.000 T, PEOPLE DON'T WANT TO TALK ABOUT INTERSECTIONALITY OR 00:54:37.000 --> 00:54:40.000 RACISM OR POLICE BRUTA 00:54:40.000 --> 00:54:43.000 LITY. THEY THINK IT DOESN'T INVOLVE ME OR 00:54:43.000 --> 00:54:46.000 IT IS NOT DISABILITY RELATED. IT IS, SIMILAR TO WH 00:54:46.000 --> 00:54:49.000 AT DUSTIN WAS SAYING, THE SOLUTIONS ARE 00:54:49.000 --> 00:54:52.000 DEFINITELY INTERCONNECTED WHETHER IT IS PRISON ABOLIT 00:54:52.000 --> 00:54:55.000 ION OR DISABILITY JUSTICE AND ACCESSIBI 00:54:55.000 --> 00:54:58.000 LITY. I THINK IT IS OKAY TO TALK ABOUT THE FEELIN 00:54:58.000 --> 00:55:01.000 GS AND ACKNOWLEDGE AND ADDRESS THEM, AND THE ADDRESS THE 00:55:01.000 --> 00:55:04.000 PROBLEMATIC HISTORIES THAT CENTERED THEY 00:55:04.000 --> 00:55:07.000 MAY HAVE HAD THE AND THE POLICIES CAM 00:55:07.000 --> 00:55:10.000 E UP. IT IS A MATTER OF MOVING FO 00:55:10.000 --> 00:55:13.000 RWARD, TAKING RESPONSIBILITIES IS THE FIRST 00:55:13.000 --> 00:55:16.000 STEP AND MOVE FORWARD WITH THE PRIVILEGE AND P 00:55:16.000 --> 00:55:19.000 LATFORMS. >> WE HAVE ONE LAST QUESTION FO 00:55:19.000 --> 00:55:22.000 R SARAH AND THEN WE WILL SEE WHERE 00:55:22.000 --> 00:55:25.000 WE ARE AT. WE 00:55:25.000 --> 00:55:29.000 HAD THE DISABILITY POWER IN COVID, 00:55:29.000 --> 00:55:32.000 TRANSITIONING INTO THE COMMUNITIES WAS /STAOEU MID, W 00:55:32.000 --> 00:55:35.000 STIM 00:55:35.000 --> 00:55:38.000 ID. HOW 00:55:38.000 --> 00:55:41.000 GROUPS COME TOGETHER TO FIGHT THE ORG 00:55:41.000 --> 00:55:44.000 ANIZING ABANDONMENT? >> 00:55:44.000 --> 00:55:47.000 SARAH MARTINEZ: THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR THE QUESTION, IT IS A APPROPRI 00:55:47.000 --> 00:55:50.000 N APPROPRIATE QUESTION RIGHT NOW. AND I CAN'T HELP 00:55:50.000 --> 00:55:53.000 TO THINK, WHEN WE ARE THINKING ABOUT SIGH 00:55:53.000 --> 00:55:56.000 LOS, THE DISABILITY COMMUNITY IS NOT THE 00:55:56.000 --> 00:56:00.000 ONE AFFECTED IN THIS. COVID HAS AF 00:56:00.000 --> 00:56:03.000 FECTED THE AGING POPULATION. 00:56:03.000 --> 00:56:08.000 PERSONS IN CON GRATE 00:56:08.000 --> 00:56:10.000 SETTINGS, INS 00:56:10.000 --> 00:56:14.000 TITUTIONS, THERE ARE SO MANY STOC 00:56:14.000 --> 00:56:17.000 STAKEHOLDERS IN THE FIGHT. WE HAVE TO COME TOGETH 00:56:17.000 --> 00:56:21.000 ER, WE ARE NOT DISPOSAL. WE CAN'T 00:56:21.000 --> 00:56:24.000 BE CAST ASIDE. 00:56:24.000 --> 00:56:27.000 WE HAVE TO COME TOGETHER AND RAISE OUR COLLEC 00:56:27.000 --> 00:56:30.000 TIVE VOICES. TO LET TH 00:56:30.000 --> 00:56:33.000 E STATE, THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT KNOW THAT 00:56:33.000 --> 00:56:36.000 WE NEED HELP, WE NEED TO GET PEO 00:56:36.000 --> 00:56:39.000 PLE OUT OF THE SETTINGS AND WE NEED SUPPORT AND 00:56:39.000 --> 00:56:42.000 EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT PLANNING FOR THESE KINDS 00:56:42.000 --> 00:56:46.000 OF SITUATIONS IN THE FUTURE. I CAN ONLY 00:56:46.000 --> 00:56:49.000 IMAGINE, THIS IS NOT GOING TO BE THE ONLY 00:56:49.000 --> 00:56:53.000 PANDEMIC WE FACE. THIS IS NOT THE ONLY 00:56:53.000 --> 00:56:56.000 SITUATION THAT THIS OCCURS, WE HAVE TO MAKE SURE THAT P 00:56:56.000 --> 00:56:59.000 LANNING IS PUT IN PLACE TO ADDRESS THESE 00:56:59.000 --> 00:57:02.000 THINGS NOW AND IN THE FUTURE. 00:57:02.000 --> 00:57:05.000 >> THANK YOU, WE ARE AT THE END OF OUR TIME. I 00:57:05.000 --> 00:57:09.000 LIKE TO THANK EACH OF THE PANELISTS 00:57:09.000 --> 00:57:12.000 SO MUCH THAT WAS SAID. I WILL RE 00:57:12.000 --> 00:57:15.000 WATCH AGAIN, THERE IS SO MANY INFORM 00:57:15.000 --> 00:57:18.000 ATION AND SO MANY TRUTH BOMBS T 00:57:18.000 --> 00:57:21.000 HAT WERE IN THE LAST HOUR. THANK YOU 00:57:21.000 --> 00:57:24.000 SO MUCH, AND WE ARE CONTINUING ON WITH THE SES 00:57:24.000 --> 00:57:28.000 SION, DON'T FORGET TO FILL THE EVALUATION 00:57:28.000 --> 00:57:31.000 AS WELL. WE LOOK FORWARD TO SEE WHAT EVERYBODY HAS TO 00:57:31.000 --> 00:57:35.000 SAY. THANK YOU ALL SO MUCH.