WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:04.300 I'm sorry, I'm not sure if I can help you. 2 00:00:04.340 --> 00:00:04.340 3 00:00:08.980 --> 00:00:09.780 I'm sorry, I'm not sure if I can help you. 4 00:00:15.240 --> 00:00:15.900 I'm sorry, I'm not sure if I can help you. 5 00:00:15.900 --> 00:00:16.380 I'm sorry, I'm not sure if I can help you. 6 00:00:16.380 --> 00:00:16.760 I'm sorry, I'm not sure if I can help you. 7 00:00:20.800 --> 00:00:23.420 I'm sorry, I'm not sure if I can help you. 8 00:00:23.420 --> 00:00:28.660 I'm sorry, I'm not sure if I can help you. 9 00:00:28.700 --> 00:00:29.000 I'm sorry, I'm not sure if I can help you. 10 00:00:32.320 --> 00:00:32.620 I'm sorry, I'm not sure if I can help you. 11 00:00:41.480 --> 00:00:41.640 I'm sorry, I'm not sure if I can help you. 12 00:00:43.360 --> 00:00:43.520 I'm sorry, I'm not sure if I can help you. 13 00:00:44.520 --> 00:00:44.680 I'm sorry, I'm not sure if I can help you. 14 00:00:53.420 --> 00:00:55.140 I'm sorry, I'm not sure if I can help you. 15 00:00:55.140 --> 00:00:59.320 I'm sorry, I'm not sure if I can help you. 16 00:00:59.320 --> 00:01:04.640 I'm sorry, I'm not sure if I can help you. 17 00:01:23.420 --> 00:01:28.980 We are coming to Chicago at the time of the Democratic National Convention. 18 00:01:29.700 --> 00:01:35.500 Not to disrupt the convention, not to confront the police, national guard troops, or men in the United States Army. 19 00:01:36.340 --> 00:01:44.380 But to challenge the policies of militarization that have been felt so strongly and brutally in Vietnam. 20 00:01:44.840 --> 00:01:51.160 And when the ruling party, a party administrating militarism and racism, 21 00:01:51.160 --> 00:01:56.600 when it invites a convention, or it is invited into the city for a convention, 22 00:01:56.720 --> 00:02:06.500 it is inevitable that people who believe in decent human values and in human life and liberty will come with the convention in order to protest. 23 00:02:07.300 --> 00:02:17.500 And if Professor Peck and I and Professor Kalish and the other chairman of the mobilization very foolishly ask people not to come to Chicago, they would be here anyway. 24 00:02:17.500 --> 00:02:27.400 Some 30,000 military personnel who will be stationed in the city of Chicago on total alert throughout the week of the convention, 25 00:02:28.020 --> 00:02:34.520 making available some 25 places across the city for them to have the bid-rax trainings, meetings, and the like. 26 00:02:35.080 --> 00:02:38.360 While the tens of thousands of American citizens coming to Chicago, 27 00:02:38.360 --> 00:02:50.740 the leadership of whom have again and again tried to secure meeting space, park space, permits for marches, assembly areas, the International Amphitheater, they go ignored. 28 00:02:50.980 --> 00:02:59.240 I think that one should understand that people have traveled thousands, not thousands of miles, because I don't know how many thousands of miles, but hundreds of miles to come to Chicago. 29 00:02:59.500 --> 00:03:05.160 When they get here, they are tired. They want a place to stay, they want a place to sleep. 30 00:03:05.160 --> 00:03:13.520 We naturally would assume, as we did in Washington, which I think is a good cause, and in New York, 31 00:03:13.760 --> 00:03:21.140 that the facilities of the city would be available to those coming in to demonstrate their concern on these issues of militarism and racism, 32 00:03:21.140 --> 00:03:24.860 and that the parks would be available for the people to sleep in and to use. 33 00:03:25.000 --> 00:03:28.620 You know the parks aren't available. We've been told that they're closed at 11 o'clock. 34 00:03:28.620 --> 00:03:33.780 Well, that's something that still seems to me there can be a change of decision about. 35 00:03:34.060 --> 00:03:40.560 If the authorities recognize that there are going to be thousands of people here, and recognize that the only alternative for people are to be in the streets, 36 00:03:40.860 --> 00:03:44.220 it seems to me the sensible thing to do is to change their minds. 37 00:03:44.620 --> 00:03:47.660 You're trying to say we should change the law to accommodate you. Is that what you're saying? 38 00:03:48.620 --> 00:03:52.160 I'm talking about you. You're saying we should change the law to accommodate your people. 39 00:03:52.280 --> 00:03:58.360 I'm saying that the law has been changed previously. We know that the military has been allowed to sleep in the park. 40 00:03:58.360 --> 00:04:00.240 And this was brought out in our... 41 00:04:00.240 --> 00:04:05.460 The military was brought into the park because of the large number of people that the mobilization groups... 42 00:04:05.460 --> 00:04:07.360 I'm sorry, but it was brought... 43 00:04:08.320 --> 00:04:11.360 The military is here because of you. We didn't have the military before you came. 44 00:04:11.900 --> 00:04:16.400 I'm talking about previous situations in which people have been allowed to sleep in the park. 45 00:04:16.660 --> 00:04:21.340 There will be 100,000 hotel rooms in space at the amphitheater when there's only room for 11,000 delegates. 46 00:04:22.160 --> 00:04:26.980 That's an interesting point because we are not asking for 11,000 hotel rooms. 47 00:04:26.980 --> 00:04:30.200 We asked initially for soldiers' fields, 48 00:04:30.520 --> 00:04:37.160 which we felt would be a place that our people could camp out, could sleep in their sleeping bags and this type of thing. 49 00:04:37.580 --> 00:04:40.280 In a typical police state maneuver, 50 00:04:41.040 --> 00:04:45.980 instead of granting soldiers' fields to the peaceful demonstrators, 51 00:04:46.780 --> 00:04:50.120 it has been granted to the National Guard and the troops. 52 00:04:50.300 --> 00:04:56.960 When the mayor has... 53 00:05:01.080 --> 00:05:04.940 When they've had to turn Chicago into a police state, 54 00:05:05.720 --> 00:05:13.900 this is the kind of thing which brings home to people how close to the surface the policy of violence and repression is. 55 00:05:14.060 --> 00:05:18.980 We know that from reports in newspapers and our own reports that 56 00:05:18.980 --> 00:05:26.020 dossiers have been filled out on hundreds of people around the country working for social change. 57 00:05:26.020 --> 00:05:37.520 Our lawyers have told us that the judges have been given pictures of key people that might be arrested in Chicago, 58 00:05:37.720 --> 00:05:39.620 and they should know who those people are. 59 00:05:39.820 --> 00:05:45.840 If the people stay away and withdraw, if they don't fight for their democratic rights, 60 00:05:46.120 --> 00:05:48.680 then there will be a police state by default. 61 00:05:49.820 --> 00:05:55.020 Now there is one hopeful aspect to this, as small as it is, 62 00:05:55.020 --> 00:05:58.160 but that we are communicating to our people throughout the country. 63 00:05:58.300 --> 00:06:07.440 And that is that we do have grant parks from one to four on Wednesday afternoon for a rally. 64 00:06:07.760 --> 00:06:12.260 Now this is totally inadequate from the point of view of what people are coming in for, 65 00:06:12.840 --> 00:06:14.940 in other words, to be at the amphitheater. 66 00:06:15.160 --> 00:06:21.880 If our people were simply interested in an old-fashioned parade for peace and a rally or teach-in, 67 00:06:22.040 --> 00:06:24.440 that could have happened in the city where they live. 68 00:06:24.440 --> 00:06:29.720 Won't you be creating an incident? You're going to put yourself right in the middle of the National Guard. 69 00:06:30.200 --> 00:06:37.960 We may be creating an incident like the Czechoslovakians created an incident when they refused to surrender their liberties 70 00:06:37.960 --> 00:06:41.380 because the Soviet troops were massed at their border. 71 00:06:41.860 --> 00:06:46.120 I think everybody knows who was the guilty party in that incident. 72 00:06:46.120 --> 00:06:55.220 And when we come here to assert our democratic rights and are threatened and intimidated by troops, 73 00:06:55.480 --> 00:07:02.720 mace, tanks, guns, all the rest of it, and if we decide that we cannot allow a police state to be created by default 74 00:07:02.720 --> 00:07:09.320 but proceed to the amphitheater, I think it will be extremely clear who has created the incident. 75 00:07:46.120 --> 00:07:48.820 I'm right. I'm right. 76 00:07:49.620 --> 00:07:50.700 Get over here. 77 00:07:55.540 --> 00:08:06.940 Move! Move! 78 00:08:12.280 --> 00:08:14.500 Move! Move out! 79 00:08:14.500 --> 00:08:15.080 Move away! 80 00:08:16.380 --> 00:08:17.580 Don't move! 81 00:08:44.500 --> 00:08:44.500 82 00:08:49.240 --> 00:08:49.240 83 00:08:49.240 --> 00:08:51.180 If you just walk by me, show yourself! 84 00:08:55.820 --> 00:09:00.540 The Conrad Hill Hotel, speak our voices. What we have left of it. 85 00:09:05.340 --> 00:09:06.880 I was there, drop! 86 00:09:06.900 --> 00:09:08.700 Speak it heard at the Conrad Hill Hotel. 87 00:09:08.700 --> 00:09:10.680 I was there, drop! 88 00:09:11.360 --> 00:09:12.720 Way down there! 89 00:09:12.980 --> 00:09:14.700 Two blocks down, that way!