 Welcome, welcome to you all, my name is H. Drew Galloway and I am the Executive Director of MOVE San Antonio. We are a grassroots nonpartisan nonprofit that focuses on building political power and underrepresented youth communities. We are here today because for the last week we have heard across college campuses that we have worked on that young people are worried, young people are anxious, young people are scared and today we want to pull everybody together from college campuses across San Antonio and show you show ourselves that we are powerful. We are America's most diverse generation. We are America's biggest generation and that we matter. To stand with student organizations, powerful student networks and individual students who reached out to us and professors and college administrators and other folks from across San Antonio that help make this happen. We are really proud to be in a coalition that joined together and brought all of you together and thank you so much for being here today. We have brought together students, we've brought together professors, we've brought together community activists and leaders to speak to you today to tell you why your vote matters, why your voice matters and encourage you to get out there and in May echo the values that we care about equality, inclusivity, equity. Make sure that that is echoed across City Hall right here. So I'd like to invite our first speaker up, UTSA student Rebecca Cangiejo. So I'd like to share some of those with you today. Just trying to process everything that this last few months has been. Let me say some of those, I'd like to share some of those with you. Full resist. We are a nation born from enough persecution, enough vilification, enough hate, enough fear. And some will tell you that there is no fear and some still do. I see vilification. When I see a man who doesn't deserve his title, I see hate, I see fear. And I've had enough. I've had enough of people telling me our voices don't matter. I've had enough of people telling me to give him a chance. I've had enough of people laugh at us as we document the resistance, as we share the resistance, as we live tweet the resistance, as we stream the resistance because they don't get it. We are the site of the resistance. We resist the apathy of others. We resist the alternative facts and won't let them infect our hearts. We resist the push to give up. Things won't change. We resist and listen to more than one idea, that we should respect one another, protect one another. We are a nation born from those that have resisted, resisted persecution, better tomorrow, but so we could have that better, glorious, wonderful tomorrow. A obligation to our family, to our friends, to our nation, to ourselves to do so. Thank you. Is that our voice is loud, a chance today. So in between the speakers, we're going to do chance. Okay, and today we have Arlene, and she's going to help us go through the chance. So we're going to practice it real quick, and then we want you to recite back with us, okay? And the most recent one, of course, are Muslims, brothers and sisters. But also with my immigrant community, with some fear and crisis, with my black community who's been under attack for way too long, and definitely our young people who have not been heard throughout this election process. I would like to recognize all of you who have showed up for the first time in solidarity with someone else. Can you raise your hand if this is your first time on a rally? Great. The attacks on the many different communities, especially our Muslim brothers and sisters, have been there for way too long, decades. It will show you how today gives me hope. I want to take this moment to encourage you to take action. If you see someone being attacked on the street or stand next to them and ask them if they're okay, if you see someone using racial slur, using hate speech, even though you're not part of that attack, I need you to stand up to them. We have to stop being silent when we see this injustice, because silence will no longer protect us. Never have. Keep standing up with us and keep us within your mind every day. I want to also make a call for you to stay involved and not just volunteer and become a member, but also definitely make donations to the local organizations that are protecting and fighting the fight since decades ago. So CARE, RAISES, the immigrant youth leadership, the San Antonio Peace Center are all organizations that are here today, and you can get involved right now. So my last thing is that although, as I'm staying here today, I always think of my mom who's undocumented, she needs to get out every day and face deportation. And also my thousands of friends that have the country to live with this year. So I want you to not just take action but commit and also just remember that the fact that we have been here so long is because our communities have stayed together and have never been divided. So don't let us get divided and if you see yourself drifting apart from community, come back to it, because that is what is going to keep people like me safe and in a space where I can have enough energy to wake up the next day and keep fighting. So can I get your commitment for that? Can we talk to each other? The Muslim greeting. We say Assalamu Alaikum, which means peace be upon you. This is how we greet each other and this is how I greet you today for being here. So I am the proud son of two green card carrying immigrants. I am a strong hijab wearing woman. The man who has no business being in the office that he is today, that is Donald Trump, has crossed the line. He crossed the line months ago when he made fun of a handicapped reporter. He crossed the line when he talked ill of black communities. He crossed the line when he even spoke about building a wall to separate us from our next neighbors from the south. None of that is okay. Many of us, we never believed that it could get as bad as it has already. In just one week, Donald Trump has done so much destruction to this country, hurt so many people in this country and so hurt so many people around the world that it is our duty not just to reject everything that he does, but to stand in direct opposition and prevent everything that he tries to do. And that's why we're here. It makes me happy knowing that so many of us are going to go forward with this. I have seen things, I've had to say things in the last couple of days that I never imagined. I recently got married in July and I had a conversation with my wife that I never thought that I would have to have. We were wondering, we were curious, we were talking about whether we wanted to raise our children in the future in a country that rejects them. In a country that rejects Muslims, in a country that rejects Arabs, in a country that votes for a man that runs on a platform that rejects all of these things. But when I see all of you guys, when I see the protests at the airport, when I see people in Times Square, whether they're people in Chicago, people in New York, the people in Dallas, it makes me happy and it reminds me that this is a country that I can raise my kids in because there are so many wonderful people who will not allow this to happen again. Damage that's been done in one week hasn't said enough to you, then you should be standing in direct opposition to that. We shouldn't be waiting to vote for the next president. We should be doing everything we can to make sure that it doesn't last. A message of solidarity. There are so many people, religions, different nationalities and so on and so forth, and it is essential that when we leave here, we continue to support each other. It is important that the immigrant community supports the refugee community, that the refugee community supports the LGBT community, that the LGBT community supports the Muslim community, that the Muslim community supports the Black community. We need to unite this country to bring everyone together to make sure that refugees are welcome, to make sure that Donald Trump doesn't last four years. Thank you. Another chance, you guys know this one, I'm sure you do, but if we're doing, this is what democracy looks like, show me what democracy looks like, got it? Show me what democracy looks like. Book and leave your comments. You decided to come out and raise your fist and raise your voice and do whatever else that you do. Get the text message. We want you to take the email and we want you to show, do that now, that she will introduce. I teach at Trinity University and a member of the Muslim community. So I'm here today with Chef Omar Hussain and Madame Hakim and we just want to say a few words to you coming from our community. The basis here, I think there's more people here than at the inauguration. I'm not sure. It was the best of times, it was the worst of times. In one way, we are living in the worst of times. I never thought in my life that I would hear the kind of rhetoric or see the treatment of people in the United States of America that we see now. On the other hand, it is the best of times because while some people want to make this the divided states of America, we are proving it indeed is still the United States of America. In 1959, and he came as a student and he intentionally, he saw the civil rights movement everything firsthand. In fact, he intentionally with my uncle said, we are going to every hotspot. They went to Selma, Alabama, they went to Atlanta, Georgia, they went all over the place. In fact, when he was going to the restroom one time, they didn't really know where he was from and they told him to go to the whites only line. And he learned this and this is what he instilled in us and he taught us from the very beginning that there is no conflict to be an American and to be a Pakistani or an Egyptian or wherever your background is. And to my Latino brothers and sisters, I don't speak English or Spanish, but I say yes we can, yes we can. So when I see this, I think we should be motivated, we should be standing together. This is not a Muslim issue. I want to read you a tweet here really quickly regarding people of color. This is by D.L. Huebley. I have read this where he says, America needs people of color. Without Mexicans, who would feed you? Muslims, who would heal you? It is about people. We are not sitting here. We are not against all white people. Of course, there's many people here. We are standing together for all people. Thank you for coming out and we hope to keep this going. So she cannot join our just in light version of what has been happening to refrigerated boxes that they call, you can take action. We have a petition demanding that our sheriff with immigration officials and the petition that you can sign today. Signatures on this petition that we will deliver to immigration deportation machine. Text message to this number right now and you will get a copy, a link to the petition which you can sign and show our sheriff who we support in San Antonio. You send the text to five of his presidency. President Trump attempted to roll barge towards equality and dignity for all and protection to the world have been upended by policies based on fear. Meanwhile, President Trump has raced forward installing white supremacists in his cabinet, abandoning people seeking safety in our country and stoking fear in communities at home and abroad. He stands in his business dealings and his political campaign. Mr. Trump seeks to eliminate one bite of the nation. Lower together or do individual and every community under attack. Cation, we are a family. We reflect the rich diversity of our nation. We are lesbian. We are gay. We are trans, queer, intersex. We are many nations. We are of all genders. We are of all... The diversity of our lives makes us stronger. Wiser, more compassionate and more capable to meet whatever challenge may come. Are you ready? Join the movement. Find a flyer. We have events happening. We have 100 days of action. We have a community meeting this Thursday at the Esperanza Peace and Justice Center to discuss the actions that have happened and more to come from this president this week. Send your text message now to 210538 4262 and see... Get that. The voice that you raise is the voice that is heard all over the world. This is America. The freedom of religion and the diversity is what has made this country so special. How can we forget the civil rights movement, the struggles of the civil rights movement? How can we forget the Japanese internment camps? How can we forget the women's struggle during the... How can we forget that? We are still fighting. Especially, how can we forget the struggle of the indigenous people? We have been serving this country long before anybody else has come to this land. Today, there are 10,000 to 15,000 Muslims serving in the armed forces. Their bodies are coming in the bags. Does anybody know that? Has anybody attended that funeral? Why? Because nobody advertises about it. You want to go to those funerals? Call me. I will take you. Adding security for each and every American, not only for us, but even the family of Donald Trump and his family, his children, his wives, all the past wives he had. The legislative orders are not only un-American, unconstitutional. They are also Islamophobic. Never before in the history of our country a ban on immigrants solely based on the religion took place. Never before. If we are doing it today, think about who does he have for tomorrow. He's going to date his Muslims. After the Muslims, he's going to go after the LGBTQ community. I know that because we know those are the extremists that we have in the White House now. After that, who else is he going to go to? All the naturalized citizens? Then in the end, who's left? Just the white supremists? Are we going to allow that? No! The pilgrims that came to the United States, who were they? Why did they come to the United States? They were running from their religious persecution, from their countries. This is why America was made a secular country. And now Donald Trump, as somebody else has said, is taking America back ten decades. Muslim countries. I have cases right here in San Antonio where people from Egypt and Pakistan and India were returned from the airports. And this is not after signing the executive orders. This was long before executive orders were signed. It was taking place already on our land and we did not know that. At the same time, he is very openly saying that he is only going to allow Christians from the Muslim land. What is that called? Discrimination. Discrimination. I can throw a few more figures here for your information. He calls Muslims terrorists. He's saving our country from terrorism. First of all, those seven countries have not done any wrong to us. Nobody from those seven countries has done any wrong to us. If you really look at it, we are the ones who went in the lands and killed millions of people. Should they be banning us from coming there? Terrorism in the United States, they are isolated places. You compare that number with 30,000, more than 30,000 that are killed every year in the United States. Has he ever thought of saving those innocent lives? No. Instead, he is giving more guns out to people to go and kill Americans while he keeps all of us busy with the title of terrorism. Living in San Antonio. Out of those 30,000, how many do we have here? Can you raise your hands please? Are they not here? The answer for that, in the next 24 hours, I get the threats myself. And that keeps them away. Please, if you have a Muslim neighbor, reach out to them. If you have a Muslim teacher, reach out to them. If you have a Muslim business person related to season order, gas station, or anything. Or not us. That's not who we are. The children that we care to. Ken Lloyd-Doggett wanted me to be here today to say, keep up the good work. He has been out there at every rally that he can, standing in opposition to every new un-American executive order that Donald Trump was out there. So for all of you, whether today is your first protest or it's your hundred, I think yesterday we met a gentleman, the congressman hosted a rally in support of health care, an art fighting and having access to the Affordable Health Care Act. And this gentleman stood up and said, a week ago, I became an activist. Well, whether it was last week or 10 years ago, whether you're three or whether you've been doing this your whole life, congressman Doggett welcomes you to join us because we really are stronger together. Contact your congressman, your state representative, but congressman Lloyd-Doggett is here with you and stands with you today. He's 100% behind all of us. So we also have to reach out to those who aren't to try to bring them in, to bring them onto our side. So in addition to calling congressman Doggett's office, which is actually just down the street, right there on West Travis, it's accessible by the sidewalk so people can come in and we invite you to come in. But let's call our senators. Call the people that need to be called and need to get a call from you. Looking around here today, you can see we have so much support. I see Lulac, I see the Bear County Democratic Party. The peace initiative is here. There's so many folks that want your help, want you to join their cause. The Interfaith Welcome Coalition, I see them represented by several people including Pastor John Garland. These are the groups that need your help and need your voice. So please, I'm just here to say he hears you. He hears your voice and he will take that to Washington with his vote and just keep on joining us. So thank you so much and thank you for everyone that you're joining us. State Representative Diego Bernal. Said to myself, this is not the country that I recognize. But right now, this is absolutely the city that I know and recognize and love. For some reason, people think I know what to do. That I know what the right answer is. That I know what the silver bullet is, what the golden arrow is, and I do not. The only thing I know that works for sure is everything. Everything you can do. Everything you can think of. Every idea you have is the one that you should use. If you're a protestor, protest. If you're an artist, make art. If you're a parent, teach them right. Every idea to take back our common humanity and dignity is a good idea and you should do it. But do it every single day until we get our country back. I have to remind them what I'm going to remind you of. And I hate to say it, but we're in Texas. None of these ideas are new to us. None of these, none of these initiatives are new to us. We have made up art out of pushing back, out of resisting. We have made defense beautiful and necessary. Right? We know what it's like to put ourselves in a corner and hold the line until we make some progress. And that is what we need to do. If you're expecting an easy answer, if you're expecting an immediate payoff, everything is not going to happen. But if you want to collectively make a difference, if you know that collectively you can make up an inch, every little bit, every day, at a certain point, in a specific point, we'll get where we need to go. You do your job here. You have my promise. I will do my very best in Austin and together, little by little, without getting tired, without getting fatigued, we will get what we want to go. I am honored to be here with you. Thank you very much. The young people that I see on college campuses every single day, I'm proud of you. You came out today. We always hear, when you'll sleep on that house, they don't show up. We showed up today. Thank you for this movement. Thank you for joining us. And thank you for your voice. Your voice matters. Thank you so much.