 so you could be in the shade. We're going to start the program in a few minutes while we wait for everybody to show up and spread around. Please make sure you grab some at the snack tent. We also, that we're trying not to take home. Some gardening, whatever you need to do. So we'll play some music again. We're gonna have some kids come and entertain us while we wait for the performance. I'm gonna try to get that one too. Those ones say for our fathers, for our sons, for our brothers. So while we're going to have a spoken word in a couple of minutes, we, I want to introduce Nehemiah from the juice team and they are gonna share just a little bit about the work that they've been doing at different marches and I'm gonna give them a couple of minutes. So hello, I'm Nehemiah, but it's not just me. Latanya and Meg as well. We are the leaders of juice. So to give you a basic rundown of what juice does is, so simply, we fill in the cracks, okay? We understand that a lot of us are fresh when it comes to, or new to the social injustice fight period. So we just want to help everybody anywhere we can as long as you're fighting towards that movement. So that's exactly what we come do, whether it be security, coming to give some motivational words or give y'all some information. Whatever it is that is needed for each group, once we reach out or we reached out to, we hope to fill that gap up. So if there's anything you guys, anything else going on that you guys know about, please let us know. I'm gonna pass the mic and my queen's gonna give y'all more information as well on what we do as well as how to contact us. So y'all are the best, I'm sorry. Thank all of you guys for coming out here. You know, we really appreciate all of our allies and all of the members of our community that are willing to take their Sunday and donate to a cause like this. So how juice got together was really because we saw that there was a need for different groups to come together and unify. And that's really our main goal is to really help everybody get together so we can have the strongest voice. And we're gonna have the strongest voice if we really can all unify this way. So we look to partner with other organizations that are in the fight for social justice and we also wanna help direct people to where they can go to best really help for political change. So we wanna be out here marching, but we also wanna be out there voting. And we also wanna be out there voting not just with our ballots, but with our dollars. So really being aware of what businesses support our causes and what businesses are against it as well. Yeah, clap that one up. I gotta break stuff down because I gotta make sure y'all understand what the fight is out here for. We're marching and that is good, but that's only 1% of what we need to do. We have to be informed on how the system itself is messing us up. If we just know that it's a problem and don't know where the problem lies, we're not fixing the problem, we're just being mad at. So we're here to take the next step to be beyond just mad, be informed so we can know who we need to go here to have a sit down with or who we need to turn our backs on when it comes to spending our dollars with their companies if they're not understanding what is blatantly seen in our country. Sorry. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. We got a lot of passion in our group for sure. I am going to introduce Tia, who is just an amazing volunteer, past committee for a Black Student Union at Davis High. And she's now in college at Sac State. It's easy to do something, go ahead. I'm Tia Nane and I wrote this poem called Enough Together. I haven't really read it out loud yet so I'm a little bit nervous. Enough Together, struggling to find my own identity, fighting to love myself. Then people are trying to take myself from myself, but they don't want you, they want your lips, they want your hair, they want your skin, but never you. They don't want you. They want those tunes you created and they never gave credit. They want that move you made and they never gave credit. They want that cotton you just picked but they never gave credit. They shame you on all the bad, yet you made everything they ever had than that one thing that you thought was just yours they took and ran over it like it was just another word and a chorus. You started a movement and they say, but all lives matter. Of course, we are the ones close to you dying, slain by a system that's targeted them from the very beginning of time. Sometimes it's as though people don't wanna learn, but enough is enough. The government has been more than rough. People have been robbed of their lives, of their belongings. Everyone can sing, everyone must sing. In order to get over this pain that rings so deeply in our hearts, the one song that tears us all apart. Come with, come swing. I heard once that a wise man had a dream that all people would celebrate and sing and that when this happens, when we allow freedom to ring, when we let it ring from every village and every hamlet from every state and every city, we will be able to speed up that day when all of God's children, black men and white men and Jews and Gentiles, Protestants and Catholics, we will be able to join hands and sing in the words of the old Negro spiritual. Free at last, free at last. Thank God almighty, we are free at last. I live out in Sacramento. I'm gonna be out here from Sacramento. So hi, David, how you guys doing? So the first one I'm gonna talk about is gentrification. Before I kind of step into a piece about womanhood, but I wanted to talk about gentrification and how in a lot of areas we are being pushed out as black people, as communities of color. We are being pushed out and I wanted to speak to that. So, it's funny how the streets start looking different when you creep up on your old block. They put up all these new stores, they eff your mom in pop shops. My folks, they still reside and so I still rep what I come from, but the only thing familiar is the road is made of asphalt in the sky, it's still blue. And money still runs all the big talks and all my brothers still are passing and all the old spots. Just now that I got to pay a little fee so they be outside, couldn't afford it then and I was trippin' when it's too high. The old pole with the broke bow when we used to roast in freestyle. They went and put up new aesthetics then when they're feelin' the broke aesthetics. Oh you try, this ground is mine. I paid the price, the blood is dry. Cool down, you're gettin' too loud, some more, down now you want me more, findin' us some more. Don't go too far, don't cross the line, don't make this eye. When more you want, cool down, you're gettin' too loud, come some more, down now you want me more, findin' us some more. It's only a matter of time. How long do you think you can get away with hiding your hand? Before the illusion reveals that it was just a curtain. A lot of propaganda with the little sugar mixed in. At first we aided up and now most things regurgitate in. We couldn't settle over what's feltin'. Rumblin' in the pit of my stomach. I'm no dummy, I just know that you were scammin' us. From NJ where I was born and all the places after that. ATL and Sacramento villages in Africa. You tellin' me that all around the world, there ain't no land for us. You just have to hold on to our stuff to keep it valuable. Maybe one day I can save in hopes of buying back from you and until then just be content with all the little scraps you give. Know when I hold everything, you ration 15 cents a day, the jig is up, the lever drop, so you can stop the masquerade. Say it with your chest, your big man, you want to dominate. Oh, you try, this ground is mine. I paid the price, the blood is dry. Cool down, you're gettin' too loud, girl, some more. Dad, now you want me more, findin' us some more. Don't go too far, don't cross the line. Don't make this eye when more you want. Cool down, you're gettin' too loud, girl, some more. Dad, now you want me more, findin' us some more. Man, specifically as black women, we are told not to be confident. We are told to soften our tone. We are told to not take up space. We are told to be quiet. We are told to be demure. I'm the type of black woman that says, F all of that, I'm confident as hell. Confident as hell. I might be a little arrogant, who knows? So this speech speaks to that. So like Maya Angelou said, phenomenal woman, that's me. They asked me if I had a chance if I would take it back. I told them not, the cross I had to bear was in no accident. I think of nights where all I had were hopes of coming out the hood. Used to feel like paradise on earth couldn't come fast enough. I'm on a different level and it's raising. The final cut is what they see, they think that I done made it. They don't know how I got here. I'm comin' from the basement and it's crazy. When I think of all the sacrifices that I had to make, I had to grab the do. Stay off the frisk so I could pour up. Celebratin' all the wins that I keep gettin' more of. Lookin' back at all the folks who didn't, didn't show up and show love. Doesn't matter, I still did the only thing I know of and that's me. It's anonymous with winning, it's the same damn thing. I'm on my championship. I'm takin' titles for a livin'. Soon as I step in the room, the referee declares to finish. Everywhere I go, you hear the victory bills get to ringing. Every time I take a step, I end up leading all these. They be mad that they be surprised. They ain't believe me when I said that I'm the one and ain't nobody ever reachin' on my level. Look around, you must be blind if you don't see that I'm a winner. I'm a woman, black woman, if I mean to be specific. Everybody come around, lend your ear, please, and listen. Like Maya Angelou said, for now I'm a woman, that's me. My name is Grio, it's nice to meet you guys. Woo! 5.5 minutes, 5.5 minutes kneeling down, find someone shaded in total silence. If somebody can help us if your kids are back there screaming and they may be mine, um, please help us keep this quiet in a moment of silence. This time we chose 5.5 because August 6th was the 55th anniversary for the Voters' Rights Act, which actually finally allowed black women to vote. 50 years after white women were allowed to vote. So, we're still fighting for voting rights today and we wanna make sure we all have those conversations with our kids about what it means that black women weren't even allowed to vote when women were allowed to vote. 50, we're talking about 50 years. We're talking about so many issues of police violence in Davis that are affecting families like mine. All kinds of families that you would take for granted if you haven't had those things happen to you. If you've never been stopped by the police and asked if you have drugs and anything else in your minivan, like I have, then you can really take that for granted. But those freedoms need to be extended to the whole community. So, thank you so much for coming. Thank you for being part of the solution. We're gonna start 5.5 minutes of silence in honor of all the black victims that were, victims of police brutality, the women. This is for our mothers, for our daughters, for our sisters. Another group that I wanna thank is the Solidarity Space and Solidarity Summer Camp. Jordan and her team organized all the arts that we saw in the overpass and we wanna make sure this art continues to be shown in downtown Davis, so please let us know if you have an empty store space and we want these conversations to keep happening. Like we said in the last march, this is not the time for us to educate your children about Black Lives Matter. It's the time for us to come together in solidarity and then go home and have conversations. What it means about black women being allowed to finally vote, how are black women being suppressed to vote in these elections, how we can bring up black women in our local elections. My daughter, who is eight years old, just told me that she wants to take over from our wonderful mayor, our first Latina mayor of color, Gloria Cortita. But she's like me. I sure hope somebody else comes before me because I can't imagine waiting 20 years until a black woman can be Mayor Davis. So absolutely. All right, so we will start 5.5 minutes of silence. If we missed anything else, please let me know during this time. And Jeannie, you have a time clock. She'll let us know. Okay, starting in. Someone lost their phone. Over, they left it at the volunteer table. Got some pineapples for the volunteer table. Okay, and we also, like I said, please do not leave until you scan any of your QR codes that are on these tents. We have snacks that need to go, t-shirts that need to go home with you. So any donation whatsoever to Wiles will be beneficial for us if you could take some t-shirts. Okay, starting now. Go and vote. Go and sign the Yolo Power petition. Go and take some t-shirts and be creative about how you distribute them. And thank you all for coming. Please, please keep us in the loop. Wild Events Davis, we're going to try and engage our community more and more in different ways. And thank you for practicing safety. Thank you for wearing masks and thank you all. Thank you, Jeannie. As I'm mad.