 Hello, today is Wednesday, the 3rd of April. Next week, Congress goes back into session. And first of all, my name is Duncan Nichols. I'm with the Upper Valley, well, actually I'm with a lot of different groups today. But we are Protect Palestinian Children. And next week, the Congress goes back in session. They will be voting on a bill 815, HR 815, which bill includes various billions of dollars for countries Taiwan, Ukraine, Israel, and money for the border wall. It's keeping our representative, I would say, very flexible up and down, voting yes for some things and no for others. Apparently, when we talked to the director of the Becca Ballant's office here in Vermont Operations this morning, David Scher, he said that Becca Ballant has to study the bill. Well, what happens with politicians and with representatives in Congress, particularly young ones, is they don't necessarily have a position and they have to read every line item. But so many items, so much funding for military operations are in this bill for so many different issues in countries that in a way it's a kind of a magic trick that the corporations pull on us. It's a sleight of hand. So the politicians have to vote yes, or they have to abstain, or they have to leadle their way in and out of being politically, what's the word, necessary so they'll be re-elected. What we told the operations manager here, David Scher, that we were very firm on our demand that if Becca Ballant votes for this bill, which includes $14 billion for Israel, we will be working to get her not elected next season as the Muslim electorate did in many states in the U.S. for these recent elections, the undecided votes for Biden. So there's a lot of organizing here. There's a lot of people doing solidarity work with the people in Palestine. We are not Jewish and we're necessarily, we're not a Jewish group. We're not a Palestinian group. We are just taxpayers. And we don't like the way all these bills are being slipped in and out of Congress to take our money. This one's for $91 billion. And there's so many of these bills, I'm thinking of a metaphor, an umbrella really or a, it's really a phenomenon, a natural phenomenon of the corporations and the weapons manufacturers as they slip these bills in, they pay off, they do the revolving door and we have to go chasing our representatives to get them to vote properly so that taxpayers don't have to fund these horrible wars where in this case Israel is killing civilians by their army is killing civilians in an unprecedented way in the last 20 years. Even Iraq was as awful as it was, was not as overtly cruel as this one where they're bombing civilian infrastructure. Where are we today politically or, oh sorry, we're in front of Becca Ballant's office on 159 Bank Street off of Church Street in Burlington and we're going to be here for the next three days, tomorrow at four o'clock, rain or snow, we'll be setting up our tents and we will be showing them that we're here to really pressure them to resist this war spending and we're demanding a statement from Becca Ballant to swear off military aid to Israel finally. The question is to the TV camera, the question to me is how's the movement, I would say the solidarity movement doing in Burlington, well Burlington's been a tough place, what's happened in Burlington is that different sides of the issue Jews and Palestinians and Arabs have been involved in what seems like a religious and cultural issue but really I'm here about the taxes that we pay for these wars. Ever since Afghanistan we've started to get involved in three different wars and I think the movement here in Burlington, the ones that are really what I would call collective liberation people and justice people are seeing that when we pay these taxes it gets taken out of the most basic services and so that's basically all I have to say is that we're all coming together. Thank you.