>> HI EVERYBODY, WELCOME BACK 12:54:47:16 FOR THE SECOND HALF OF THE 12:54:48:29 AFTERNOON. 12:54:51:24 SUCH A GREAT SCHEDULE AHEAD FOR 12:54:52:15 THE CONCLUSION OF THE EVENT. 12:54:55:04 A FINAL PANEL FOCUSED ON 12:54:56:20 UTILIZING STATE RESOURCES AND 12:54:58:18 WRAP UP WITH AWESOME WORDS FROM 12:55:00:06 TAMMY DUCKWORTH AND WE WILL ALSO 12:55:02:23 HEAR FROM PRESIDENT TRUMP'S 12:55:04:27 REELECTION CAMPAIGN. 12:55:08:13 FIRST LET US TURN OUR ATTENTION 12:55:09:29 TO OUR NEXT PANEL. 12:55:12:18 AND KINGS I WILL LET YOU 12:55:14:03 INTRODUCE IT. 12:55:15:07 WE WILL TURN ATTENTION TO PANEL 12:55:23:22 INVOLVING LEAGUE OF WOMEN 12:55:25:17 VOTERS, EVERY LIBRARY AND 12:55:30:06 ORGANIZES THAT PROVIDE KEY 12:55:31:22 INSIGHTS INTO BUILDING 12:55:33:26 PARTNERSHIPS WITH ELECTED 12:55:34:11 OFFICIALS AND PARTNERING WITH 12:55:36:12 POLICY MAKERS. 12:55:38:13 THIS PANEL WILL EXPLORE 12:55:40:11 INCREASING DISABILITY VOTE 12:55:42:12 IMPACTS OUR COMMUNITIES IN 12:55:43:27 VISIBLE WAYS WE STRIVE TO SEE 12:55:46:13 PARTNERSHIPS BETWEEN OUR 12:55:47:05 COMMUNITY AND THOSE IN OFFICE. 12:55:51:12 AS WELL AS REPRESENTATION IN 12:55:53:01 OFFICE. 12:55:53:25 CORRECTION BETWEEN INCREASING 12:55:54:29 DISABILITY VOTE AND POLICIES 12:55:56:06 THAT FOLLOW IS STRONG. 12:55:57:21 THE PANEL WILL BE MODERATED BY 12:56:00:07 REV UP TECH AS BOB KAFKA, BOB 12:56:03:02 TAKE IT AWAY. 12:56:04:00 >> THANK YOU KINGS. 12:56:06:19 BOB KAFKA, ORGANIZER WITH REV UP 12:56:09:02 TEXAS. 12:56:10:24 IN DEVELOPING AND BUILDING REV 12:56:12:24 UP TEXAS, I WAS AMAZED TO LEARN 12:56:18:09 THAT BESIDES THE USUAL 12:56:21:01 OUTREACHING TO THE DISABILITY 12:56:23:23 COMMUNITY AND TO OTHER CIVIL 12:56:27:06 RIGHTS GROUPS THAT DO VOTER 12:56:30:25 OUTREACH AND VOTER REGISTRATION, 12:56:33:02 GET OUT THE VOTE, THAT THERE WAS 12:56:37:19 AN AMAZING AMOUNT OF STATE 12:56:39:17 RESOURCES PUBLIC RESOURCES THAT 12:56:44:04 REALLY HAD QUITE A BIT OF 12:56:46:11 INFORMATION THAT WE CAN NOT HAVE 12:56:48:24 TO RECREATE THE WHEEL BY WORKING 12:56:53:14 WITH THAT GROUP, IT REALLY CAN 12:56:56:15 HELP TO BUILD THE DISABILITY 12:56:58:09 VOTE NOT ONLY OF COURSE CIVIL 12:57:00:25 RIGHTS AND DISABILITY COMMUNITY 12:57:02:26 BUT ALSO THROUGH OTHER NETWORKS 12:57:05:15 THAT WE MIGHT NOT HAVE A LOT OF, 12:57:09:20 YOU KNOW, INTERACTION WITH AND 12:57:12:18 TO BUILD OUR, YOU KNOW, 12:57:15:07 DISABILITY VOTE POWER. 12:57:18:09 OUR PANEL TODAY AS KINGS SAID 12:57:24:11 ARE PEOPLE WHO REPRESENT BOTH 12:57:26:11 THE GOVERNMENTAL BUT ALSO PUBLIC 12:57:29:25 SIDE OF THAT AND I THINK I'LL 12:57:32:11 START BY JUST HAVING THE 12:57:35:06 INDIVIDUALS INTRODUCE THEMSELVES 12:57:37:10 AND WHAT THEIR ORGANIZATION DOES 12:57:40:26 IN RELATIONSHIP TO VOTING IN 12:57:43:09 GENERAL AND THEN WE WILL HAVE -- 12:57:46:26 START SPECIFIC QUESTIONS ABOUT 12:57:47:23 HOW THEY INTERACT WITH THE 12:57:49:09 DISABILITY COMMUNITY. 12:57:51:00 SO WHY DON'T WE START WITH THE 12:57:54:08 LEAGUE OF WOMEN VOTERS JEANETTE 12:57:57:12 SENECAL. 12:57:59:10 JEANETTE ARE YOU WITH US? 12:58:09:16 >> YES. 12:58:15:12 >> (INAUDIBLE) GRACE FROM TEXAS 12:58:17:07 SENDS HER REGARDS. 12:58:18:01 >> GOOD. 12:58:18:29 GOOD MORNING OR GOOD AFTERNOON 12:58:20:11 EVERYONE DEPENDING ON WHERE YOU 12:58:21:27 ARE IN THE COUNTRY I'M JEANETTE 12:58:23:16 SENECAL SENIOR DIRECTOR OF 12:58:25:26 MISSION IMPACT AT LEAGUE OF 12:58:27:15 WOMEN VOTERS IN UNITED STATES. 12:58:29:03 WE ARE 100-YEAR-OLD ORGANIZATION 12:58:30:13 THAT IS ORGANIZED IN ALL 50 12:58:32:29 STATES AND 750 COMMUNITIES 12:58:34:18 ACROSS THE COUNTRY. 12:58:36:24 THAT IS REALLY THERE TO EMPOWER 12:58:38:13 VOTERS AND DEFEND DEMOCRACY. 12:58:41:03 EVERY YEAR WE ARE REGISTERING 12:58:42:06 VOTERS, MOBILIZING VOTERS, 12:58:44:04 DEFENDING VOTERS RIGHTS, FILING 12:58:46:08 LAWSUITS, WORKING WITH LOCAL 12:58:47:24 ELECTIONS OFFICIALS, WORKING 12:58:49:12 WITH POLICY MAKERS TO MAKE SURE 12:58:51:07 THAT THE LAWS AND THE 12:58:52:14 ADMINISTRATIVE PRACTICES THAT 12:58:53:26 GOVERN THE ELECTORAL PROCESS 12:58:55:18 REALLY HELP TO EMPOWER PEOPLE 12:58:57:13 AND HELP TO INCLUDE PEOPLE AND 12:58:58:16 MAKE SURE THAT WE ALL HAVE EQUAL 12:59:00:27 ACCESS TO THE BALLOT BOX. 12:59:04:07 WOULD JUST SAY THAT A COUPLE OF 12:59:05:10 THE INITIATIVES THAT WE RUN, 12:59:07:02 THAT ARE WOULD BE HELPFUL TO YOU 12:59:10:03 ALL IN YOUR COMMUNITIES, ONE OF 12:59:11:16 THEM IS -- 12:59:14:11 (INAUDIBLE) A WEBSITE WHICH 12:59:16:24 (INAUDIBLE) EVERYTHING THAT YOU 12:59:18:13 NEED TO KNOW TO NAVIGATE 12:59:20:02 ELECTION SYSTEM. 12:59:22:02 ALSO RUN A PROGRAM WHERE WE ARE 12:59:24:00 WORKING, PARTNERING WITH LOCAL 12:59:26:16 ELECTIONS OFFICIALS ACROSS THE 12:59:28:02 COUNTRY TO MEET WITH THEM ON A 12:59:29:12 REGULAR BASIS SO THAT WE CAN, 12:59:31:03 YOU KNOW, PARTNER ON PROBLEMS, 12:59:32:25 IDENTIFY SOLUTIONS AND WORK 12:59:35:08 TOGETHER. 12:59:36:06 YOU KNOW, WE DO A LOT OF VOTE 12:59:37:24 EVERY REGISTRATION. 12:59:39:07 OTHER ACTIVITIES BUT THIS IS 12:59:40:13 JUST AN INTRODUCTION. 12:59:42:11 I DON'T WANT TO GO ON TOO LONG 12:59:44:24 WHILE MY COLLEAGUES ARE WAITING. 12:59:46:16 A LOST INTERESTING THINGS THAT 12:59:49:29 WE HAVE TO DISCUSS. 12:59:51:21 START WITH THAT. 12:59:52:12 THANK YOU. 12:59:53:13 >> THANK YOU JEANETTE. 12:59:55:07 AND (INAUDIBLE) WITH ELECTION 01:00:07:24 COMMISSION. 01:00:08:03 >> THIS IS BEN HOVLAND. 01:00:10:26 >> WELL, HI BEN. 01:00:12:17 NICE TO SEE YOU. 01:00:13:15 >> GOOD TO BE HERE, THANKS FOR 01:00:15:03 HAVING ME. 01:00:16:10 CHAIRMAN OF THE U.S. ELECTION 01:00:19:05 ASSISTANCE COMMISSION. 01:00:21:03 A SMALL BUT INDEPENDENT AND 01:00:23:01 BIPARTISAN FEDERAL AGENCY 01:00:25:08 CREATED BY HELP AMERICA VOTE ACT 01:00:31:04 OF 2002 CONGRESS RESPONSE TO 01:00:33:27 FLORIDA 2000 ELECTION BUT WE 01:00:38:04 WERE DESIGNED WITH A NUMBER OF 01:00:39:20 PRIMARY MISSIONS ONE IS TO GIVE 01:00:41:15 OUT GRANT MONEY AROUND ELECTION 01:00:43:00 ADMINISTRATION. 01:00:44:10 DEVELOP GUIDELINES FOR VOTING 01:00:45:14 SYSTEMS, AND THEN TEST AND 01:00:48:03 CERTIFY VOTING EQUIPMENT THAT IS 01:00:49:18 IN POLLING PLACES. 01:00:51:04 WE HAVE SOMETHING CALLED THE 01:00:53:17 ELECTION ADMINISTRATION VOTING 01:00:55:09 SURVEY WHICH IS THE NATION'S 01:00:57:10 ONLY 50 STATE SURVEY ABOUT HOW 01:00:59:23 AMERICANS GET REGISTERED AND 01:01:01:21 VOTE ACROSS THE COUNTRY. 01:01:03:21 AND ULTIMATELY WE WERE DESIGNED 01:01:05:01 TO BE A FEDERAL CLEARING HOUSE 01:01:07:11 FOR ELECTION ADMINISTRATION AND 01:01:08:27 THAT IS REALLY SOMETHING THAT 01:01:11:00 ENABLES US TO SHARE BEST 01:01:13:01 PRACTICES ACROSS THE COUNTRY. 01:01:16:06 WITH SUCH A DECENTRALIZED -- 01:01:19:19 WITH DECENTRALIZED NATURE OF 01:01:21:02 ELECTIONS IN THE UNITED STATES. 01:01:23:12 WE WERE DESIGNED TO AND, YOU 01:01:26:01 KNOW, KEEP TRACK OF SOME OF 01:01:27:08 THOSE THINGS AND SHARE SOME OF 01:01:29:09 THOSE BEST PRACTICES SO ELECTION 01:01:32:19 OFFICIALS CAN LEARN FROM EACH 01:01:33:25 OTHER AND CAN HOPEFULLY UTILIZE 01:01:36:15 A LOT OF THOSE THINGS TO HELP 01:01:40:04 IMPROVE THE VOTING EXPERIENCE 01:01:41:13 ULTIMATELY. 01:01:42:20 SO WE HAVE GOT PLENTY TO DO LIKE 01:01:45:21 I SAID, WE ARE SMALL BUT 01:01:47:28 HOPEFULLY GROWING AND THIS YEAR 01:01:50:20 IN PARTICULAR THERE IS -- 01:01:54:06 THERE IS A LOT TO DO IN THIS 01:01:55:22 COVID CLIMATE TO ENSURE THAT 01:01:57:17 ELECTIONS ARE SAFE, FAIR AND 01:01:59:12 ACCESSIBLE. 01:02:00:15 THANK YOU. 01:02:01:03 >> GREAT. 01:02:02:16 AND THEN HAVE SOME QUESTIONS 01:02:05:02 RIGHT AFTER WE HEAR FROM EVERY 01:02:07:21 LIBRARY, JOHN CHRASTKA. 01:02:12:08 >> THANKS FOR THE OPPORTUNITY TO 01:02:13:11 BE A PART OF THIS TODAY. 01:02:15:00 EVERY LIBRARY IS A POLITICAL 01:02:16:10 ACTION COMMITTEE FOR LIBRARIES. 01:02:17:25 SET UP AS A 501-C-4 AND WORK ON 01:02:21:24 INITIATIVES AS PROSAIC AS BALLOT 01:02:23:13 INITIATIVES FOR LIBRARY, A BOND 01:02:25:20 TO BUILD A NEW BUILDING OR DO 01:02:27:27 REMODELING, OPERATING EXPENSES 01:02:30:28 AND WORK IN THE SCHOOL LIBRARY 01:02:33:02 SPACE OUR PARTNERSHIP WITH AAPD 01:02:35:00 ON NATIONAL DISABILITY VOTER 01:02:36:18 REGISTRATION WEEK GOES BACK 01:02:38:07 SEVERAL YEARS. 01:02:39:17 WE ARE IN A POSITION AS THE ONLY 01:02:41:21 POLITICAL ACTION COMMITTEE FOR 01:02:43:06 LIBRARIES TO HAVE A CONVERSATION 01:02:44:28 WITH VOTING AND BALLOT 01:02:47:14 ACCESSIBLE, ACCESSIBLE BALLOTS 01:02:50:13 AND ACCESSIBLE POLLING PLACES. 01:02:55:06 AN INTERESTING NEXUS BETWEEN 01:02:56:24 LIBRARY AS CLEARING HOUSE AND 01:02:59:04 COMMUNITIES NOTE OF CONNECTION 01:03:00:02 WHERE LIBRARIANS ARE ACTIVELY 01:03:02:09 INVOLVED WITH DIFFERENT GROUPS 01:03:03:09 AND WITH IDEA THAT LIBRARY 01:03:05:10 ITSELF IS SOMETIMES IN MANY 01:03:06:11 PLACES EITHER A VENUE FOR VOTER 01:03:10:25 REGISTRATION, LIBRARIANS 01:03:12:19 THEMSELVES ARE VOTER REGISTRARS 01:03:13:20 IN SOME CASES, BALLOT DROP-OFF 01:03:17:12 PLACE OR POLLING SITE. 01:03:20:08 TRYING TO APPROACH THIS FROM 01:03:21:20 HOLISTIC SIDE AND SEE WRING THE 01:03:23:09 LIBRARY AS UNIT OF GOVERNMENT OR 01:03:24:22 NON-PROFIT ORGANIZATION THAT IS 01:03:26:07 WORKING IN CONTRACT WITH THE 01:03:29:09 LOCAL GOVERNMENT CAN BE MORE 01:03:30:15 SUPPORTIVE OF NOT ONLY VOTER 01:03:32:25 REGISTRATION, NOT PARTISAN BUT 01:03:35:05 EXPOSING BIG ISSUES OF THE DAY 01:03:37:15 AND THE KEY ISSUE OF THE DAY IS 01:03:39:22 HOW DO WE HELP ANYONE WHO WANTS 01:03:41:23 TO VOTE TO VOTE. 01:03:43:09 >> GREAT. 01:03:44:12 GREAT. 01:03:44:25 I WOULD LIKE TO GET SPECIFIC NOW 01:03:50:06 AS NATIONAL DISABILITY VOTER 01:03:52:06 REGISTRATION WEEK, HOW ARE EACH 01:03:56:05 OF YOUR GROUPS ENGAGING THE 01:03:58:27 DISABILITY COMMUNITY IN TERMS OF 01:04:03:23 YOUR GENERAL WORK AND AS IT 01:04:06:00 RELATES TO REGISTRATION, 01:04:08:03 EDUCATION ON ISSUES AND THEN GET 01:04:11:26 OUT THE VOTE, JEANETTE, DID YOU 01:04:14:12 WANT TO START WITH AN ANSWER TO 01:04:15:25 THAT? 01:04:17:01 >> SURE. 01:04:18:02 THANK YOU BOB. 01:04:20:18 AS I WAS SAYING THE LEAGUE IS 01:04:22:00 ORGANIZED IN LOCAL COMMUNITY 01:04:23:28 GROUPS ACROSS THE COUNTRY. 01:04:25:26 OUR AFFILIATES REALLY WORK IN 01:04:28:24 PERCENTAGE POINT WITH ALL KINDS 01:04:29:25 OF DIFFERENT GROUPS INCLUDING 01:04:31:07 PEOPLE WITHIN THE DISABILITY 01:04:32:20 COMMUNITY. 01:04:34:12 ON THE GROUND, MEETING WITH 01:04:35:18 THEM, FINDING OUT WITH WHAT THE 01:04:38:07 NEEDS ARE, WHAT THE SPECIAL 01:04:39:11 NEEDS MIGHT BE TO MAKE SURE THAT 01:04:41:09 THEY ARE GETTING OUTREACH AND 01:04:42:15 THE SERVICES AND TOOLS THAT THEY 01:04:44:13 NEED, WHERE THEY ARE INSTEAD OF 01:04:46:02 TRYING TO MAKE PEOPLE COME US 01:04:47:08 TO, IT IS TRYING TO MEET PEOPLE 01:04:53:05 WHERE THEY ARE, WITH OUR WEBSITE 01:04:57:06 THAT WE REDESIGNED LAST YEAR WE 01:05:00:05 MADE SURE IT WAS COMPLIANT WITH 01:05:01:23 ALL OF THE ADA SPECIFICATIONS SO 01:05:05:25 THAT TOOL ITSELF WOULD BE A 01:05:07:23 BETTER TOOL. 01:05:09:12 MAKE SURE THAT ONE OF THE BIG 01:05:10:06 THINGS WE ARE WORKING ON HAS TO 01:05:12:01 DO WITH ENSURING THAT WE 01:05:14:02 CONTINUE TO MAINTAIN IN-PERSON 01:05:16:12 POLLING OPTIONS. 01:05:17:27 THAT BY MAIL IS NOT THE ONLY 01:05:19:19 OPTION AVAILABLE TO PEOPLE 01:05:20:23 MOVING FORWARD. 01:05:21:20 AND SO YOU KNOW, THAT IS REALLY 01:05:24:03 CRITICAL POINT TO MAKING SURE WE 01:05:26:29 HAVE ACCESSIBLE POLLING PLACES 01:05:28:21 FOR PEOPLE WITH DISABILITIES. 01:05:30:09 IT IS NOT ONLY THAT THERE ARE 01:05:31:28 POLLING PLACES BUT THAT THEY ARE 01:05:35:02 ACCESSIBLE TO PEOPLE WITH 01:05:36:09 DISABILITIES WE DO A LOT OF 01:05:38:16 WORK, WORKING WITH LOCAL 01:05:39:28 ELECTIONS OFFICIALS LOOKING AND 01:05:41:20 OBSERVING ELECTIONS LIKE THE 01:05:43:03 POLLING PLACES THEMSELVES TO SEE 01:05:44:12 IF THEY ARE DISABILITY FRIENDLY. 01:05:47:20 LOOKING AT THINGS LIKE CURBSIDE 01:05:49:21 VOTING AND OTHER ACCESSIBLE 01:05:51:24 VOTING OPTIONS, TO MAKE SURE 01:05:54:01 THAT PEOPLE CAN HAVE THE ABILITY 01:05:56:18 TO PARTICIPATE INDEPENDENTLY. 01:05:59:10 AND YOU KNOW, WE DO ENSURE THAT 01:06:01:23 AGAIN, AT THE LOCAL LEVEL, WE 01:06:03:17 ARE PARTNERING THEM. 01:06:06:19 WE ARE IN COALITION WITH, WE ARE 01:06:08:04 HAVING REGULAR CONVERSATIONS 01:06:09:02 WITH PEOPLE IN THE DISABILITIES 01:06:11:24 COMMUNITY AND MANY OF OUR OWN 01:06:13:09 MEMBERS ARE PEOPLE WITHIN THE 01:06:14:22 DISABILITY COMMUNITY ITSELF. 01:06:16:05 AND WHEN WE ARE LOOKING AT SOME 01:06:17:18 OF OUR LITIGATION PORTFOLIOS, WE 01:06:19:18 DO ALSO PARTNER WITH SOME OF THE 01:06:22:05 DISABILITY COMMUNITY ADVOCATES 01:06:24:00 TO MAKE SURE THAT THE NEEDS OF 01:06:25:09 THE DISABILITY COMMUNITY ARE 01:06:26:15 BEING REPRESENTED THROUGH THE 01:06:27:22 LITIGATION THAT WE ARE BRINGING 01:06:29:08 RIGHT NOW TO ENSURE THAT VOTERS 01:06:31:00 RIGHTS ARE BEING PROTECTED. 01:06:33:13 SO THERE IS A WIDE VARIETY OF 01:06:34:16 THINGS THAT WE DO AS FAR AS, YOU 01:06:36:11 KNOW, MAKING SURE THAT WE ARE 01:06:37:21 OFFERING REGISTRATION, VOTER 01:06:39:15 REGISTRATION EVENTS THAT THE 01:06:40:25 DISABILITY COMMUNITY MIGHT BE 01:06:42:11 HOSTING OR PARTICIPATING IN. 01:06:44:18 MAKING SURE THAT WE ARE IN 01:06:46:25 PARTNERSHIPS, SO SOMETIMES 01:06:49:08 DEPENDING ON THE LOCAL COMMUNITY 01:06:50:11 AND THE LOCAL LEAGUE, THEY MIGHT 01:06:51:27 BE DOING COMBINED TRAINING 01:06:54:19 OPPORTUNITIES SO THAT PEOPLE, 01:06:56:23 LEAGUE PEOPLE WHO MIGHT HAVE 01:06:58:05 SIGNIFICANT EXPERTISE IN THEIR 01:07:00:00 AREA ON THE RULES ARE GOING AND 01:07:02:10 PARTNERING WITH ADVOCATES IN THE 01:07:04:20 DISABILITY COMMUNITY TO SHARE 01:07:06:15 BEST PRACTICES, AND TO MAKE SURE 01:07:08:07 THAT THEY HAVE THE TRAINING AND 01:07:09:19 TOOLS THEY NEED TO GO OUT INTO 01:07:11:08 THEIR OWN COMMUNITY AS MAKING 01:07:13:00 SURE THAT, YOU KNOW, PEOPLE WHO 01:07:14:22 CAN REPRESENT THEMSELVES, RIGHT, 01:07:16:29 LIKE ONE OF OUR CORE PRIORITIES 01:07:18:24 IS BUILDING POWER AND BUILDING 01:07:21:12 COMMUNITY BASED POWER. 01:07:23:01 AND SO MAKING SURE THAT ALL 01:07:25:08 PEOPLE OF THE COMMUNITY ARE 01:07:26:24 REPRESENTED WHEN WE ARE TALKING 01:07:28:01 ABOUT WHO IS SITTING AT THE 01:07:29:29 TABLE AND WHO IS PART OF OUR 01:07:31:11 COALITION. 01:07:32:00 SO WE DO MAKE A CONCERTED EFFORT 01:07:34:06 TO MAKE SURE THAT 01:07:35:16 REPRESENTATIVES FROM DIFFERENT 01:07:36:29 GROUPS ARE SITTING AT THAT TABLE 01:07:39:03 WITH US. 01:07:40:03 >> AND JEANETTE YOU MIGHT HAVE 01:07:42:01 MENTIONED THIS, ARE THERE 01:07:43:10 LEAGUES IN EVERY STATE AND ARE 01:07:46:21 THERE ALSO LOCAL LEAGUES WITHIN 01:07:49:28 EVERY STATE? 01:07:50:28 >> SO WE ARE ORGANIZED IN ALL 50 01:07:53:11 STATES, YES, AND THERE ARE 750 01:07:56:06 OR SO LOCAL COMMUNITY LEAGUES 01:07:58:04 ACROSS ALL OF THOSE STATES. 01:08:00:02 SO SOME STATES LIKE CALIFORNIA 01:08:01:24 MIGHT HAVE 80 LOCAL LEAGUES AND 01:08:04:07 SOME STATES WE MIGHT HAVE THREE 01:08:05:29 OR FOUR LOCAL LEAGUES LIKE IN 01:08:09:00 ALABAMA, DEPENDING ON YOUR 01:08:10:28 COMMUNITY, COULD BE A LEAGUE IN 01:08:12:01 YOUR COMMUNITY. 01:08:12:29 I ENCOURAGE YOU TO REACH OUT TO 01:08:14:11 THAT LEAGUE TO SEE WHAT KIND OF 01:08:16:15 RELATIONSHIP YOU CAN BUILD ON 01:08:17:12 THE GROUND. 01:08:18:07 THAT IS WHERE IT MATTERS. 01:08:19:14 I'M SITTING IN WASHINGTON D.C., 01:08:21:24 PART OF OUR NATIONAL OFFICE. 01:08:24:03 BUT YOU ARE THE ONES WHO ARE ON 01:08:25:19 THE GROUND IN THE FIELD DOING 01:08:27:08 THE REAL WORK, THAT IS CRITICAL 01:08:29:00 TO MAKING SURE THAT EVERYBODY 01:08:30:06 CAN BE REPRESENTED. 01:08:34:26 >> GREAT, BEN, ELECTION 01:08:37:27 ASSISTANCE COMMISSION. 01:08:40:04 I MUST ADMIT UNTIL I GOT 01:08:41:17 INVOLVED IN THIS SUMMIT, I HAD 01:08:44:24 NOT -- 01:08:45:12 I HAD NEVER HEARD OF THE 01:08:46:25 ELECTION ASSISTANCE COMMISSION. 01:08:52:03 WHAT RELEVANCE TO THE LOCAL 01:08:54:10 COMMUNITIES OR DISABILITY 01:08:55:19 COMMUNITY IN GENERAL DOES THE 01:08:58:14 ELECTION ASSISTANCE COMMISSION 01:09:01:19 DO? 01:09:02:16 >> YES, THANK YOU BOB. 01:09:03:26 SO A COUPLE OF THINGS. 01:09:05:27 FIRST YOU KNOW, THE FACT THAT 01:09:07:27 YOU HAD NOT HEARD OF US, YOU 01:09:09:28 KNOW, THERE IS A COUPLE OF 01:09:11:05 THINGS THAT I WOULD LOVE TO 01:09:15:06 ADDRESS FIRST. 01:09:16:16 WE ARE AS I SAID SMALL FEDERAL 01:09:19:08 AGENCY, CREATED BY HELP AMERICA 01:09:21:12 VOTE ACT BUT ALSO HAD A LONG 01:09:23:04 HISTORY OF BEING TREATED 01:09:24:17 ESSENTIALLY AS POLITICAL 01:09:25:23 FOOTBALL AND KICKED AROUND AND 01:09:27:09 BEING THREATENED WITH 01:09:28:00 ELIMINATION BY CONGRESS AND ONE 01:09:31:20 OF THE THINGS THAT REALLY 01:09:34:00 RESONATES TO ME IN THIS TIME IS 01:09:36:13 WHAT WE WERE DESIGNED TO BE, 01:09:38:14 FEDERAL CLEARING HOUSE WHERE YOU 01:09:40:18 CAN HAVE, YOU KNOW, BEST 01:09:42:18 PRACTICES, YOU CAN HAVE 50-STATE 01:09:44:25 INFORMATION, ANYONE WHO WORKED 01:09:46:08 IN 50 STATE ELECTION ISSUES 01:09:49:03 KNOWS HOW DIFFICULT IT IS TO 01:09:50:10 KEEP TRACK OF THE WIDE ARRAY OF 01:09:56:15 VARIATION FROM STATE TO STATE 01:10:02:02 THAT SOUTH THERE. 01:10:03:18 HAVING IS ONE STOP TO GET THAT 01:10:05:18 INFORMATION AND HAVE IT ACCURATE 01:10:06:25 WOULD BE EXTREMELY VALUABLE TO 01:10:08:20 THE COMMUNITY, I FLAG THIS WHERE 01:10:10:12 I CAN, BUT IN 2011, OUR BUDGET 01:10:12:22 WAS ALMOST DOUBLE WHAT IT IS 01:10:14:07 NOW. 01:10:14:17 WHILE WE GOT SUBSTANTIAL 01:10:21:04 INCREASE FOR US FROM, 2019 WHICH 01:10:23:02 WAS AN ALL-TIME LOW FOR THE 01:10:25:12 AGENCY WE ARE UP TO YOU KNOW, 01:10:29:29 JUST FOR REFERENCE I KNOW 01:10:31:17 SOMETIMES THE NUMBERS ARE LOST. 01:10:33:18 BUT WE ARE NOW AN 11 MILLION 01:10:36:07 AGENCY WHICH IS GREAT. 01:10:37:29 WE WERE AT 8 MILLION BUT FOR 01:10:41:00 COMPARISON, YOU KNOW, THE 01:10:43:29 FEDERAL ELECTION COMMISSION THAT 01:10:46:24 DOES CAMPAIGN FINANCE, 01:10:47:27 70 MILLION, I MADE AN OFF-HANDED 01:10:50:25 REMARK ABOUT SOME DOJ BUDGETING 01:10:53:24 WITH SOME RECENT COMMENTARY AND 01:10:55:19 FOUND OUT THAT THEY GOT AN EXTRA 01:10:57:16 11.7 MILLION TO INVESTIGATE 01:11:00:03 BITCOIN. 01:11:02:00 WHEN YOU THINK ABOUT WHAT THE 01:11:02:24 FEDERAL GOVERNMENT INVESTS IN 01:11:03:19 DEMOCRACY, WE THINK IT IS A BIG 01:11:05:23 PIECE TO CONSIDER OUR AGENCY AND 01:11:08:21 WHERE THAT COMES AROUND TO THE 01:11:10:07 DISABILITY COMMUNITY, REALLY 01:11:11:19 DISABILITY RIGHTS AND VOTING 01:11:14:02 RIGHTS WERE BUILT INTO THE DNA 01:11:16:27 OF ELECTION COMMISSION. 01:11:20:20 THE HELP AMERICA VOTE ACT WAS 01:11:23:06 FUNDAMENTALLY ACCESSIBILITY LAW 01:11:24:18 IN HELPING TO ENSURE THAT 01:11:26:10 AMERICANS CAN VOTE INDEPENDENTLY 01:11:28:11 AND PRIVATELY. 01:11:29:15 SO THAT IS A BIG PART OF IT AND 01:11:31:00 ADDITIONALLY, WE HAVE -- 01:11:33:10 WE HAVE AN ARRAY OR WE HAVE 01:11:34:20 THREE ADVISORY COMMITTEES, THESE 01:11:37:09 ARE STATUTORILY CREATED FEDERAL 01:11:41:04 ADVISORY COMMITTEES BUT ON THAT 01:11:42:23 SLOTS RESERVED FOR MEMBERS OF 01:11:44:21 THE U.S. ACCESS BOARD. 01:11:46:04 WE HAVE REPRESENTATIVES FROM 01:11:47:10 OTHER ORGANIZATIONS WITH FROM 01:11:52:06 NICOL ON THE BOARD OF ADVISORS 01:11:55:19 AND TECHNICAL GUIDELINES 01:11:57:20 DEVELOPMENT COMMITTEE YOU HAVE 01:11:58:21 SLOTS THAT ARE FOR THE U.S. 01:12:00:21 ACCESS BOARD AND THEN THERE ARE 01:12:03:11 OTHER REPRESENTATIVES FROM THE 01:12:04:08 DISABILITY COMMUNITY TO ENSURE 01:12:05:21 THAT MANY OF THE ACTIONS THAT WE 01:12:07:13 TAKE OR THE WORK THAT WE DO 01:12:09:10 AROUND VOTING MACHINES KEEPS IN 01:12:12:12 MIND OR FOCUSES ON THE NEED FOR 01:12:16:08 ACCESSIBLE VOTING MACHINES AND 01:12:18:11 THE NEED FOR AMERICANS TO BE 01:12:20:18 ABLE TO VOTE INDEPENDENTLY AND 01:12:22:10 PRIVATELY. 01:12:25:14 ADDITIONALLY A LOT OF THE 01:12:26:18 PROGRAMMING EARLIER THIS YEAR, 01:12:28:12 WE HELD, OR DID A SORT OF 2020 01:12:34:12 KICKOFF SUMMIT FOCUSING ON 01:12:36:19 BALANCE OF SECURITY AND 01:12:38:14 ACCESSIBILITY TALKED SO MUCH 01:12:40:00 ABOUT WITH VOTING MACHINES AND 01:12:41:18 LOOKING AT HOW WE CAN ENSURE 01:12:43:19 THAT BOTH OF THOSE ARE PART OF 01:12:46:14 THE POLLING PLACE AS JEANETTE 01:12:49:09 MENTIONED OBVIOUSLY WE ARE ALL 01:12:51:01 REACTING TO THIS COVID 01:12:55:15 ENVIRONMENT AND SO WE CREATED A 01:12:56:21 NUMBER OF RESOURCES AROUND HOW 01:12:58:22 JURISDICTIONS CAN RAMP UP VOTE 01:13:00:26 BY MAIL AND HOW THEY DO MAIL OR 01:13:03:18 ABSENTEE BALLOTS EFFECTIVELY 01:13:06:05 LESSONS LEARNED FROM COLLEAGUES 01:13:07:18 ACROSS THE COUNTRY BUT ALSO 01:13:09:15 FLAGGING THE NEED FOR THAT TO BE 01:13:10:28 ACCESSIBLE AND THERE BE 01:13:12:20 ACCESSIBLE OPTIONS AS WELL AS 01:13:14:21 POLLING PLACE OPTIONS THAT ARE 01:13:16:06 AS SAFE AS POSSIBLE FOR ELECTION 01:13:17:28 OFFICIALS AND POLL WORKERS. 01:13:19:20 SO, AGAIN, WE WORKED WITH 01:13:21:00 FEDERAL PARTNERS, LIKE CDC AND 01:13:26:08 STATE-BASED PARTNERS AND LOCAL 01:13:28:03 PARTNERS TO PUT TOGETHER A LOT 01:13:29:15 OF THIS INFORMATION, AGAIN, 01:13:32:04 TARGETED PRIMARILY AT ELECTION 01:13:33:26 OFFICIALS. 01:13:34:27 BUT WORKING WITH THEM TO TRY TO 01:13:36:18 MAKE, MAKE THE ELECTION AS 01:13:39:07 SMOOTH AS POSSIBLE. 01:13:40:14 AND WE WILL CONTINUE TO DO THAT. 01:13:44:06 I MENTIONED ONE OF THE AREAS, 01:13:45:25 AGAIN, ACCESSIBLE VOTING IS 01:13:48:14 BAKED INTO SORT OF THE ORIGINS 01:13:52:03 OF THE EAC AND ONE OF THE THINGS 01:13:55:02 WE TALK ABOUT REGULARLY IS, 01:13:57:06 WELL, FIRST IT IS AN AREA THAT 01:13:58:27 WE FIND PROBABLY THE MOST 01:14:00:13 BI-PARTISAN AGREEMENT WITHIN OUR 01:14:02:20 AGENCY WHICH IS GREAT AND ALSO 01:14:04:18 AN AREA THAT WE WANT TO BUILD 01:14:06:25 OUT PROGRAM AND PLANNING TO 01:14:08:02 BUILD THAT PROGRAM AROUND WITH 01:14:09:05 OUR -- 01:14:10:03 HOPEFULLY IF OUR FUNDING 01:14:11:15 INCREASES CONTINUE. 01:14:13:16 THANK YOU. 01:14:15:05 >> BEN, YOU KNOW, YOU HAVE QUITE 01:14:19:21 A JOB. 01:14:20:22 IT IS LIKE HERDING CATS WITH NOT 01:14:23:08 ONLY 50 STATES, I THINK ABOUT MY 01:14:25:24 OWN STATE TEXAS WHERE WE HAVE 01:14:28:04 254 COUNTIES AND EACH ONE OF 01:14:30:14 THOSE IS LIKE SEPARATE VOTING. 01:14:33:06 YOU HAVE QUITE A JOB. 01:14:34:25 JOHN, ON EVERY LIBRARY, I KNOW 01:14:38:21 YOU THAT STARTED TO TALK ABOUT 01:14:39:24 HOW YOU ENGAGE WITH AAPD AND THE 01:14:42:10 DISABILITY COMMUNITY BUT WHAT IS 01:14:46:09 THE PRIORITY THIS YEAR AND HOW 01:14:48:01 CAN EVERY LIBRARY HELP IN 01:14:50:20 NATIONAL DISABILITY VOTER 01:14:52:12 REGISTRATION WEEK? 01:14:53:27 >> WELL, THE PAST COUPLE OF 01:14:56:04 YEARS WE HELPED TO BRING SEVERAL 01:14:58:02 HUNDRED LIBRARIES AND SEVERAL 01:15:00:24 HUNDRED LIBRARIANS TO THE 01:15:03:22 CONVERSATION ABOUT HOW DO WE BE 01:15:05:11 BETTER LIAISONS AT THE LOCAL 01:15:07:18 LEVEL, SOMETIMES IN THE SMALL 01:15:09:13 AREA OF ONE ZIP CODE OR AT STATE 01:15:11:23 LEVEL AS WELL. 01:15:13:08 AT THE STATE LEVEL MANY STATE 01:15:14:21 LIBRARIES ARE PART OF THE 01:15:16:07 SECRETARY OF STATE'S OFFICE OR 01:15:17:19 DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION, THOUGH 01:15:18:26 IN THE GREAT STATE OF TEXAS IT 01:15:20:18 IS AN INDEPENDENT AGENCY. 01:15:23:10 THE CHANCE TO COORDINATE ACROSS 01:15:25:05 GOVERNMENT AND BRING THE FACT 01:15:28:18 SHEETS AND THE INFORMATION TO 01:15:30:16 THE LIBRARY COMMUNITY, THROUGH 01:15:33:14 THE STATE LIBRARIES, COLLEAGUES 01:15:35:00 IN SOUTH CAROLINA PARTICULARLY, 01:15:37:22 THE STATE LIBRARY PUT IN SOME 01:15:39:16 AMAZING WORK TO ENCOURAGE 01:15:41:11 SUPPORT AND ALSO REPORT ON HOW 01:15:43:00 LIBRARIES AROUND THE STATE HAVE 01:15:45:04 BEEN DOING WORK TO ENFRANCHISE 01:15:47:26 MORE VOTERS, THEN AT THE LOCAL 01:15:52:28 LEVEL OUR ROLE IS TO TRY AND -- 01:15:56:03 WELL, THERE IS A VERY STRONG 01:15:57:06 NEED FOR IMPARTIAL FACT-BASED 01:16:00:07 NON PARTISAN INFORMATION ABOUT 01:16:02:11 ELECTIONS. 01:16:03:21 AND YET THE DISABILITY COMMUNITY 01:16:06:25 MIGHT NOT NECESSARILY BE 01:16:11:21 PRESENT -- 01:16:14:22 ISSUES IN THE DISABILITY 01:16:15:22 COMMUNITY MAY NOT BE PRESENT IN 01:16:17:17 THAT INFORMATION. 01:16:19:15 MIGHT BE AN ABLEIST BIAS WHERE 01:16:23:01 IT IS MISSING. 01:16:24:29 PART OF THE ROLE IS TO HELP OUR 01:16:29:00 COMMUNITY PRODUCE FACT-BASED 01:16:31:16 INFORMATION THAT HAS A WINDOW, 01:16:34:24 HAS MORE UNDERSTANDING OF WHAT 01:16:36:09 THE IMPACTS ARE ON THE 01:16:38:13 DISABILITY COMMUNITY AND OTHER 01:16:39:26 POPULATIONS. 01:16:44:03 THE IDEA OF IT BEING MAJORITY 01:16:46:07 POPULATION CONVERSATION HAS TO 01:16:47:20 NOT EXTEND TO THE LIBRARY. 01:16:50:00 >> AND JOHN, I DON'T KNOW IF IT 01:16:53:20 IS ALL AROUND THE COUNTRY, HERE 01:16:55:18 MANY LIBRARIES ARE POLLING SITES 01:16:58:03 IN TERMS OF THAT. 01:16:59:19 DOES YOUR GROUP WORK WITH THE 01:17:04:12 LIBRARIES ABOUT ACCESSIBILITY IN 01:17:05:27 GENERAL BUT SPECIFICALLY AROUND 01:17:07:10 POLLING SITES? 01:17:08:13 >> IT IS A SENSITIVE TOPIC FOR 01:17:09:29 US AS AN ISSUE ORGANIZATION. 01:17:12:21 BUT THAT DOES NOT MEAN THAT WE 01:17:13:16 WILL NOT PUSH ON IT A BIT. 01:17:16:02 ONE OF THE KEY AREAS THAT WE 01:17:17:18 SUPPORT, WHENEVER WE WORK ON 01:17:19:15 LIBRARY CONSTRUCTION PROJECT 01:17:21:10 BONDS IS ON ACCESSIBILITY, ADA 01:17:24:00 COMPLIANCE. 01:17:25:00 A LOT OF LIBRARIES THAT ARE 01:17:26:06 GRANDFATHERED IN. 01:17:28:05 AND ANYTIME THAT YOU GO OUT FOR 01:17:30:06 A NEW PROJECT YOU SHOULD BE 01:17:32:18 UPDATING. 01:17:33:28 ON THE OTHER HAND, POLLING PLACE 01:17:36:11 A LOT LIVES WITH CLERK OF 01:17:37:27 ELECTIONS IN COUNTY OR SECRETARY 01:17:39:27 OF STATE'S OFFICE. 01:17:41:13 WHILE WE LIKE TO CONVENE 01:17:43:05 CONVERSATIONS ABOUT IT, WE DON'T 01:17:44:12 HAVE A LOT OF POWER OURSELVES TO 01:17:46:03 PUSH THE ISSUE, EXCEPT FOR 01:17:49:23 PERHAPS THE MORAL AUTHORITY. 01:17:51:15 IT NEEDS HAPPEN. 01:17:52:12 JEANETTE YOU AND I NEED TO 01:17:53:22 SCHEDULE LATER IS A CONVERSATION 01:17:55:10 IF WE DO CURBSIDE PICK-UP FOR 01:17:58:27 LIBRARY MATERIALS A TON GOING ON 01:18:00:16 AROUND THE COUNTRY NOW. 01:18:02:26 YOU SPARKED SOMETHING ABOUT ME 01:18:03:26 ABOUT IDEA OF CURBSIDE VOTING. 01:18:06:12 I HAD NOT THOUGHT ABOUT IT. 01:18:08:13 WE HAVE INFRASTRUCTURE THAT IS 01:18:09:17 PROVEN ON HOW TO DO IT RIGHT 01:18:11:12 WITH PICK-UP AND DROP-OFF AND 01:18:13:25 WITH A TRUSTED PARTNER IN LOCAL 01:18:15:20 GOVERNMENT. 01:18:16:05 IT COULD BE A REALLY BEAUTIFUL 01:18:17:21 OPPORTUNITY. 01:18:18:06 >> YES, JOHN, YOU ARE REALLY 01:18:19:27 HITTING ON THE AAPD REV UP TO 01:18:23:02 TRY TO, YOU KNOW, CONNECT FOLKS 01:18:26:03 BECAUSE IT IS MUCH BIGGER THAN 01:18:27:22 JUST THE TRADITIONAL THING. 01:18:30:20 JEANETTE, I WOULD LIKE TO GO 01:18:32:03 BACK. 01:18:32:21 I WAS SOMEWHAT AMAZED BECAUSE 01:18:35:25 THE LEAGUE IS MUCH MORE 01:18:37:26 ISSUE-BASED THAN I THOUGHT. 01:18:40:00 I KNOW THAT YOU ARE NON 01:18:41:12 PARTISAN, I KNOW THAT THE LEAGUE 01:18:45:02 TAKES STRONG POSITIONS ON, YOU 01:18:47:15 KNOW, ACCESSIBILITY BUT ALSO 01:18:49:22 JUST THE BALLOT IN GENERAL. 01:18:52:02 WHAT IS YOUR PRIORITY WITH 01:18:55:00 COVID-19 AND JUST OTHER ISSUES 01:18:58:10 THAT THIS IS TO SAY THE LEAST A 01:19:01:06 VERY HIGH INTENSITY ELECTION SO 01:19:05:19 I'M SURE THAT THE LEAGUE IS 01:19:08:21 REALLY FOCUSED ON IT. 01:19:10:24 SO WHAT IS YOUR PRIORITIES FOR 01:19:12:25 THIS ELECTION SEASON? 01:19:15:18 >> I WILL SAY THAT, YOU KNOW, 01:19:17:18 FROM AN ELECTION ADMINISTRATION 01:19:19:16 POINT OF VIEW, ONE OF THE 01:19:20:29 BIGGEST PRIORITIES IS PROTECTING 01:19:22:27 IN-PERSON VOTING. 01:19:24:21 MAKING SURE THAT THAT IS STILL 01:19:26:13 AN OPTION AND THAT EARLY VOTING 01:19:28:23 CONTINUES TO BE AN OPTION FOR 01:19:30:09 PEOPLE. 01:19:31:15 WE DON'T KNOW WHAT WILL HAPPEN 01:19:32:25 THIS NOVEMBER IN RELATION TO 01:19:34:23 COVID. 01:19:35:14 WE KNOW WHAT WE HAVE SEEN FOR 01:19:37:06 THE PRIMARIES. 01:19:38:21 WE KNOW HOW THE STATES HAVE 01:19:39:16 HANDLED THE SITUATION THUS FAR 01:19:42:26 BUT WE DO NOT KNOW WHAT WILL 01:19:44:18 HAPPEN COME NOVEMBER. 01:19:45:22 WE DO KNOW WHEN THERE IS ONLY 01:19:47:16 ONE POLLING PLACE PER 01:19:49:11 JURISDICTION THAT CREATES LONG 01:19:50:15 LINES AND CAN CREATE CONFUSION 01:19:52:15 FOR POLL WORKERS AND THERE NEEDS 01:19:53:22 TO BE A LOT OF EDUCATION ABOUT 01:19:55:11 WHERE TO GO AND HOW TO 01:19:57:15 EFFECTIVELY PARTICIPATE. 01:19:59:00 BUT WE ARE DOING A TWO-FOLD 01:20:00:22 PUSH. 01:20:01:08 ONE IS TO HELP PEOPLE UNDERSTAND 01:20:03:05 WHAT THEIR VOTING OPPORTUNITIES 01:20:04:18 ARE. 01:20:06:01 WHETHER THAT IS BY MAIL, IN 01:20:07:25 PERSON ON ELECTION DAY OR EARLY 01:20:09:20 VOTING. 01:20:11:03 AND THEN MAINTAINING SO THAT 01:20:13:25 PEOPLE CAN MAKE THE DECISION 01:20:14:28 THAT IS BEST FOR THEM. 01:20:16:20 PEOPLE HAVE PREFERENCES. 01:20:17:18 PEOPLE HAVE NEEDS. 01:20:18:12 YOU KNOW, IF YOU MIGHT NEED 01:20:19:28 LANGUAGE ASSISTANCE, YOU MIGHT 01:20:21:23 NEED TO GO INTO THE POLLING 01:20:23:05 PLACE, BECAUSE THE MATERIALS 01:20:24:12 THAT YOU RECEIVED FROM YOUR 01:20:25:24 LOCAL ELECTION OFFICIAL ARE NOT 01:20:27:01 IN THE LANGUAGE THAT YOU NEED 01:20:29:08 ASSISTANCE WITH. 01:20:30:24 YOU CAN VOTE YOUR BALLOT 01:20:33:12 INDEPENDENTLY. 01:20:34:07 SO HAVING IN-PERSON VOTING IS 01:20:36:20 CRITICAL. 01:20:37:14 HOWEVER, WE ARE NOT HERE TO SAY 01:20:38:27 THAT IS HOW YOU SHOULD VOTE. 01:20:42:16 NOT TELLING ANYBODY THAT IN 01:20:44:05 PERSON OR BY MAIL IS BETTER THAN 01:20:46:06 THE OTHER. 01:20:46:27 HERE TO MAKE SURE THAT PEOPLE 01:20:48:10 HAVE THE OPPORTUNITY AND THE 01:20:49:10 OPTIONS THAT WILL ENABLE THEM TO 01:20:51:17 EFFECTIVELY PARTICIPATE. 01:20:53:03 IT IS CLEAR THAT YOU KNOW, ONE 01:20:54:13 OF THE BIG THINGS WE ARE SEEING 01:20:55:28 IS THAT THERE IS NOT ENOUGH POLL 01:20:57:20 WORKERS. 01:20:58:18 HISTORICALLY, POLL WORKER 01:20:59:27 POPULATION IS ONE OF THE GROUPS 01:21:04:29 THAT MIGHT WELL BE HARDER HIT BY 01:21:07:21 COVID, IF YOU WERE TO CONTRACT 01:21:10:16 IT AND SO HAVING POLL WORKERS IS 01:21:13:00 A CRITICAL ISSUE IN EVERY 01:21:14:15 PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION CYCLE. 01:21:16:10 BUT IT IS EVEN MORE SO GOING TO 01:21:18:17 BE AN ISSUE THIS YEAR. 01:21:20:12 HOW CAN WE HELP TO RECRUIT POLL 01:21:22:09 WORKERS, GET PEOPLE OUT THERE, 01:21:23:28 WHO CAN FEEL SAFE AND 01:21:25:23 COMFORTABLE AND MAKE SURE THAT 01:21:27:06 THE POLL WORKERS HAVE THE TOOLS 01:21:28:24 AND THE TRAINING AND THE 01:21:29:28 RESOURCES THEY NEED TO BE SAFE 01:21:31:23 ON ELECTION DAY AS WELL. 01:21:33:24 SO I DON'T KNOW THAT I COULD SAY 01:21:36:16 WE HAVE ONE PRIORITY, WE WORK 01:21:38:17 ON -- 01:21:39:23 WE ARE MULTI ISSUE ORGANIZATION, 01:21:41:09 WE WORK ON CAMPAIGN FINANCE AND 01:21:44:01 DISTRICTING AND ETHICS AND ALL 01:21:45:23 KINDS OF ELECTION ADMINISTRATION 01:21:47:18 ISSUES. 01:21:49:00 BUT THIS ELECTION IT IS ABOUT 01:21:50:16 MAKING SURE THAT PEOPLE CAN GET 01:21:52:05 OUT TO VOTE, CAN GO AND EXERCISE 01:21:56:09 THEIR RIGHT TO VOTE IN THE 01:21:57:16 MANNER THAT THEY CHOOSE AND MAKE 01:21:59:17 SURE THAT THEIR VOTE IS COUNTED. 01:22:01:24 EVEN WHEN YOU LOOK AT ABSENTEE 01:22:03:18 VOTING THERE ARE SOME STATES 01:22:05:01 WHERE WE JUST FILED LITIGATION 01:22:06:26 AGAINST THEM, BECAUSE THEY HAD 01:22:09:03 NO PRACTICE FOR SOMEBODY WHOSE 01:22:12:22 SIGNATURE DID NOT MATCH. 01:22:16:02 NO WAY FOR VOTER TO FIX THAT 01:22:17:18 PROBLEM, THEIR BALLOT WOULD GO 01:22:20:01 UNCOUNTED. 01:22:21:02 BECAUSE OF LITIGATION WE 01:22:21:26 BROUGHT, PROTECTED VOTERS IN TWO 01:22:23:21 DIFFERENT STATES SO FAR SO THAT 01:22:25:18 NOW THERE IS A PROCESS, HAPPEN 01:22:27:07 FOR GENERAL ELECTION. 01:22:28:14 THAT VOTERS CAN GO AND CORRECT 01:22:30:09 THAT IF THEIR VOTE WAS GOING TO 01:22:32:09 BE OR BALLOT WOULD GO UNCOUNTED 01:22:37:18 COME ELECTION DAY. 01:22:39:00 EVEN WITHIN ANY -- 01:22:40:13 BECAUSE WE WORK IN ALL 50 01:22:42:17 STATES, LOOK AT EACH STATE, WHAT 01:22:45:00 IS PRIORITY FOR THAT STATE, THAT 01:22:46:25 WILL BE THE MOST IMPORTANT TO 01:22:48:07 MAKE SURE THAT VOTING IS 01:22:49:26 ACCESSIBLE THIS YEAR. 01:22:52:00 PRIMARILY AROUND WHAT DO WE NEED 01:22:53:22 TO DO TO HELP PEOPLE KNOW WHAT 01:22:55:04 THE OPTIONS ARE AND MAKE SURE 01:22:57:05 THAT THE IN-PERSON AND BY-MAIL 01:22:59:18 SYSTEMS WORK FOR VOTERS. 01:23:02:08 IT IS REALLY ABOUT THE PEOPLE 01:23:03:02 AND MAKING IT WORK FOR THEM. 01:23:05:00 >> I KNOW THAT YOU DO QUITE AN 01:23:08:16 EXTENSIVE ISSUE WITH CANDIDATES 01:23:10:11 AND YOU PUBLISH THAT 01:23:12:09 INFORMATION. 01:23:13:18 HOW DO YOU DECIDE WHAT ISSUES TO 01:23:15:10 ASK THE CANDIDATES ABOUT AND 01:23:18:02 HAVE THERE BEEN ANY EFFORTS TO 01:23:19:27 GET SOME OF THE DISABILITY 01:23:21:09 ISSUES IN SOME OF THE QUESTIONS 01:23:23:14 THAT YOU ASKED THE CANDIDATE? 01:23:28:09 >> PRIMARILY THE CANDIDATE 01:23:29:28 QUESTIONS, WHAT BOB IS REFERRING 01:23:32:26 TO, WE BOTH HAVE IN PERSON AND 01:23:35:27 ON-LINE CANDIDATE FORUM WHEREAS 01:23:37:28 CANDIDATES ARE DEBATING WITH ONE 01:23:39:14 ANOTHER AND PUT TOGETHER VOTER 01:23:41:03 GUIDES. 01:23:43:01 THEY ARE A PRINTED OR ON-LINE 01:23:45:01 VERSION OF HE DEBATE WHERE WE 01:23:48:12 ASK THE CANDIDATE SERIES OF 01:23:49:27 QUESTIONS TO VOTERS CAN COMPARE 01:23:51:22 CANDIDATES APPLES TO APPLES AND 01:23:54:08 MAKE DECISIONS ABOUT WHO WOULD 01:23:55:18 BEST REPRESENT THEM. 01:23:56:24 THE QUESTION IS HOW DO WE GO 01:23:57:28 ABOUT DETERMINING THE QUESTIONS. 01:23:59:23 IT KIND OF DEPENDS. 01:24:01:12 A LOT OF THE QUESTIONS ARE 01:24:02:15 GENERATED BASED ON WHAT IS THE 01:24:04:10 GREATEST INTEREST TO VOTERS. 01:24:07:02 WHAT ISSUES ARE THE POLLS AND 01:24:08:15 VOTERS TELLING US ARE THE MOST 01:24:10:22 IMPORTANT TO THEM. 01:24:11:25 A LOT OF THE QUESTIONS RELATE TO 01:24:13:02 THE ECONOMY, THEY RELATE TO 01:24:15:06 HEALTH CARE, THEY RELATE TO 01:24:17:00 PUBLIC SAFETY, THEY RELATE TO, 01:24:20:20 SOMETIMES THEY RELATE TO FOREIGN 01:24:21:27 AFFAIRS. 01:24:23:09 SO THESE ISSUES, A LOT OF THE 01:24:25:01 ISSUES KIND OF CROSS THE GROUPS. 01:24:29:18 PEOPLE WITH DISABILITIES CARE 01:24:30:27 ABOUT THE ECONOMY, PEOPLE WITH 01:24:31:28 DISABILITIES CARE ABOUT ACCESS 01:24:33:20 TO HEALTH CARE. 01:24:34:17 PEOPLE WITH DISABILITIES CARE 01:24:35:23 ABOUT ACCESS TO PRESCRIPTION 01:24:37:03 DRUG COVERAGE AND THINGS OF THAT 01:24:38:15 NATURE. 01:24:39:01 I WOULD SAY THAT THE QUESTIONS 01:24:40:29 ARE PREDOMINANTLY GENERATE BID 01:24:43:09 WHAT VOTERS ARE SAYING ARE THE 01:24:45:09 MOST IMPORTANT ISSUES, BUT, 01:24:47:01 AGAIN, BECAUSE WE WORK AT THE 01:24:48:23 LOCAL LEVEL AND SOME OF THESE 01:24:50:06 FORUMS AND VOTER GUIDES RELATE 01:24:52:03 TO SCHOOL BOARDS AND TOWN 01:24:53:28 COUNCILS AND SHERIFFS AND 01:24:56:15 JUDGES, I MEAN, YOU NAME THE 01:24:58:06 LEVEL OF OFFICE, WE ARE 01:25:01:11 INTERFACING WITH THOSE 01:25:02:20 CANDIDATES. 01:25:04:03 THOSE QUESTIONS ARE 01:25:04:15 COMMUNITY-DRIVEN. 01:25:06:04 IF THE LEAGUE, IS WORKING IN 01:25:08:08 PARTNERSHIP AND HAS COALITIONS 01:25:10:00 ON THE GROUND WITH THEIR LOCAL 01:25:11:24 COMMUNITY GROUPS THEN WE ARE 01:25:13:10 LISTENING TO OUR PARTNERS AND 01:25:15:02 ASKING QUESTIONS IN THE 01:25:15:29 DIFFERENT FORUMS THAT ARE 01:25:17:03 IMPORTANT TO OUR COMMUNITY. 01:25:18:24 >> YOU JUST REENFORCED ALL 01:25:20:28 POLITICS ARE LOCAL. 01:25:22:14 BEN, I DON'T KNOW IF THE EAC HAS 01:25:27:04 ONE PRIORITY, BUT DO I SEE THAT 01:25:29:08 YOU DO QUITE A BIT IN TERMS OF 01:25:32:15 VOTER REGISTRATION. 01:25:35:19 IS THERE OUTREACH WORKING WITH 01:25:39:18 THE DISABILITY COMMUNITY LIKE ON 01:25:42:01 NATIONAL DISABILITY VOTER 01:25:43:17 REGISTRATION WEEK? 01:25:46:09 >> YOU KNOW, WE ARE CERTAINLY 01:25:48:09 ALWAYS PUSHING FOR PEOPLE TO GET 01:25:51:02 REGISTERED AND OBVIOUSLY TO 01:25:54:03 PARTICIPATE. 01:25:55:15 IN FACT, THIS YEAR I THINK WE 01:25:57:10 NEED -- 01:25:59:11 WE NEED EFFORTS LIKE NATIONAL -- 01:26:03:12 WE NEED EFFORTS TO GET PEOPLE 01:26:05:29 REGISTERED EARLIER THAN EVER 01:26:09:03 BECAUSE WITH SO MANY OF THE 01:26:10:22 DMVs CLOSED FOR PERIODS OF 01:26:13:11 TIME, WITH COVID, WE CERTAINLY 01:26:18:13 HAVE SEEN SUBSTANTIAL DECREASES 01:26:20:08 IN VOTER REGISTRATION AND THERE 01:26:22:00 WILL BE RIPPLES OF THAT. 01:26:23:15 WHEN YOU THINK ABOUT THESE 01:26:24:19 ELECTION OFFICES THAT WE WERE 01:26:26:01 TALKING ABOUT EARLIER. 01:26:28:02 8800 OR SO ELECTION OFFICIALS 01:26:29:24 AROUND THE COUNTRY. 01:26:31:28 THESE FOLKS ARE DOING HUGE 01:26:34:02 AMOUNTS OF DATA ENTRY, 01:26:36:06 PARTICULARLY IF THEIR STATE DOES 01:26:38:00 NOT HAVE ON-LINE VOTER 01:26:39:28 REGISTRATION, BUT WHETHER IT IS 01:26:42:08 VOTER REGISTRATIONS OR ABSENTEE 01:26:44:21 BALLOT APPLICATIONS, YOU KNOW, 01:26:46:19 WE HAVE SEEN A NUMBER OF THESE 01:26:48:05 PRIMARIES, HAVE ISSUES, WITH THE 01:26:50:15 LOCAL OFFICE KEEPING UP WITH THE 01:26:52:04 NUMBER OF ABSENTEE BALLOT 01:26:54:08 REQUESTS THEY RECEIVE AND SO, 01:26:56:06 YOU KNOW, CERTAINLY VOTER 01:26:57:27 REGISTRATION IS IMPORTANT AND WE 01:26:59:25 WANT TO ENCOURAGE IT. 01:27:01:17 ALL THE TIME AND REALLY THE 01:27:03:00 IMPORTANCE OF KEEPING THAT 01:27:04:06 REGISTRATION UP TO DATE. 01:27:05:28 I USED TO WORK AT MISSOURI 01:27:07:20 SECRETARY OF STATE'S OFFICE 01:27:08:20 YEARS AGO AND MISSOURI IS ONE OF 01:27:10:27 THOSE STATES WHERE IF YOU ARE 01:27:12:28 REGISTERED AT THE WRONG ADDRESS, 01:27:16:06 MISSOURI REGISTRATION DEADLINE 01:27:18:18 IS 28 DAYS BEFORE THE ELECTION. 01:27:21:05 IF YOU WERE TO CAST A BALLOT IN 01:27:23:12 MISSOURI AND YOU ARE IN THE 01:27:24:24 WRONG POLLING PLACE, NOTHING 01:27:26:19 COUNTS THERE AND THAT IS ONE OF 01:27:27:23 THE MORE RESTRICTIVE STANDARDS 01:27:30:03 FOR PROVISIONAL BALLOTS. 01:27:32:13 BUT IT EMPHASIZES THE IMPORTANCE 01:27:34:05 OF KEEPING REGISTRATION CURRENT 01:27:35:23 AT YOUR CURRENT ADDRESS. 01:27:37:15 AN EXAMPLE I USED TO USE IN 01:27:38:25 MISSOURI, SOME PEOPLE MAY BE 01:27:40:26 FAMILIAR WITH WASHINGTON 01:27:42:11 UNIVERSITY IN St. LOUIS. 01:27:43:27 IT SITS ON THE BORDER OF St. 01:27:45:19 LOUIS CITY AND St. LOUIS 01:27:48:05 COUNTY BUT THOSE ARE DIFFERENT 01:27:49:15 ELECTION JURISDICTIONS. 01:27:51:15 AND SO, AGAIN, YOU MIGHT -- 01:27:54:26 SOMEBODY MIGHT HAVE LIVED IN A 01:27:55:23 DORM IN St. LOUIS COUNTY AS 01:27:57:24 FRESHMAN AND MOVED DOWN THE 01:27:59:13 STREET TO AN APARTMENT IN St. 01:28:01:04 LOUIS CITY AND THEORETICALLY 01:28:03:03 THEY NEEDED TO UPDATE VOTER 01:28:05:00 REGISTRATION. 01:28:06:01 AGAIN MAKING SURE THAT YOUR 01:28:07:10 INFORMATION IS CURRENT IS A BIG 01:28:08:26 DEAL AND ALL THE TIME AND THIS 01:28:11:15 YEAR TO THE DEGREE THAT PEOPLE 01:28:12:28 CAN DO IT EARLIER AND EDUCATE 01:28:15:08 THEMSELVES THAT THEY DO WANT TO 01:28:17:09 VOTE MAIL-IN BALLOT, HOW THEY 01:28:21:07 NEED TO PUT THAT REQUEST IN 01:28:22:17 EARLY, DOING THAT WORK AHEAD OF 01:28:25:12 TIME WILL GO A LONG WAY TOWARDS 01:28:30:02 HELPING ELECTION OFFICIALS KEEP 01:28:31:21 UP WITH THE SURGES AND TO SORT 01:28:33:07 OF GO OFF YOUR PRIORITY AND WE 01:28:34:25 HAVE GOT A LOT OF PRIORITIES 01:28:36:08 CERTAINLY HAPPENING, BUT ONE OF 01:28:38:06 THE BIGGEST IS WORKING WITH 01:28:40:25 ELECTION OFFICIALS THIS YEAR TO 01:28:46:00 THOU TRY TO MAKE THIS ELECTION 01:28:47:16 AS SMOOTH AS POSSIBLE. 01:28:48:22 JOB OF ELECTIONS IN THIS COUNTRY 01:28:50:11 ARE WOEFULLY UNDERFUNDED ALL OF 01:28:52:15 THE TIME AND THE JOB IS VERY 01:28:54:10 DIFFICULT. 01:28:56:11 WE HAVE A THING CALLED -- 01:29:00:21 IT IS A WHEEL OF ELECTION 01:29:02:01 COMPETENCIES AND TALKS ABOUT 01:29:03:19 DIFFERENT THINGS THAT ELECTION 01:29:04:26 OFFICIALS HAVE TO BE EXPERTS IN 01:29:06:09 AND THEN YOU KNOW, 2016 CAME AND 01:29:10:19 YOU HAD FOREIGN INTERFERENCE AND 01:29:12:05 THAT HAS NOT GONE AWAY AND WE 01:29:14:12 TALK ABOUT CYBER PIECES THAT 01:29:16:28 ELECTION OFFICIALS HAVE TO BE 01:29:19:17 EDUCATED AND WORKING ON AND 01:29:21:18 OBVIOUSLY WITH THE COVID 01:29:23:18 PANDEMIC, YOU HAVE PEOPLE WHO, 01:29:25:19 YOU KNOW, YOU LOOK AT FULL VOTE 01:29:28:03 BY MAIL STATES, OREGON, 01:29:30:18 WASHINGTON, THEY HAD YEARS AND 01:29:32:07 EVEN DECADES TO MAKE THAT 01:29:33:29 TRANSITION. 01:29:34:26 YOU KNOW, COLORADO DID THAT OVER 01:29:36:12 A LONG PERIOD OF TIME AND SO FOR 01:29:40:07 SO MANY ELECTION OFFICIALS THIS 01:29:43:00 YEAR, EVEN IF THEY ARE NOT EVEN 01:29:45:10 TRYING TO VOTE BY MAIL WHICH WE 01:29:48:02 DON'T THINK IS A GOOD IDEA IN 01:29:49:27 MOST PLACE HE AND CERTAINLY 01:29:51:15 WOULD REEMPHASIZE THE NEED TO 01:29:53:22 HAVE IN-PERSON OPTIONS AND AN 01:29:56:18 ADEQUATE NUMBER OF THEM, YOU 01:29:58:12 KNOW, THERE ARE STATES THAT HAVE 01:30:00:13 HAD 5% VOTE BY MAIL. 01:30:02:14 IF THAT BECOMES 50, HANDLING 01:30:03:27 THAT VOLUME IS REALLY A 01:30:05:09 CHALLENGE. 01:30:06:01 AND SO EVERYTHING WE CAN DO AT 01:30:10:27 THE AGENCY TO HELP TO REDUCE 01:30:12:28 THAT BURDEN AND I THINK FOR 01:30:14:10 ADVOCACY ORGANIZATION AND GROUPS 01:30:16:02 WORKING OUT THERE, RECOGNIZING 01:30:17:18 THAT THAT IS THE ENVIRONMENT 01:30:19:00 THAT ELECTION OFFICIALS ARE 01:30:20:07 WORKING IN, AND SO, AGAIN, 01:30:22:08 TRYING TO GET REGISTRATIONS IN 01:30:24:00 EARLY, TRYING TO GET ABSENTEE OR 01:30:26:22 MAIL BALLOT REQUESTS IN EARLY 01:30:30:08 ALL OF THOSE THINGS HELP THE 01:30:31:27 ELECTION OFFICIAL AND AS A VOTER 01:30:33:19 IT GIVES YOU A BIT MORE ROOM TO 01:30:36:20 FIX ANYTHING THAT MAY COME UP. 01:30:38:15 IF YOU DON'T GET YOUR ABSENTEE 01:30:41:13 BALLOT, GOT YOUR REQUEST IN 01:30:42:29 EARLY OR YOUR MAIL-IN BALLOT, 01:30:45:09 YOU HAVE DIFFERENT OPTIONS. 01:30:47:06 SO CERTAINLY I WOULD ENCOURAGE 01:30:49:04 PEOPLE TO ENGAGE EARLY. 01:30:53:00 >> CLARIFY ONE THING, YOU SAID, 01:30:55:10 DID YOU SAY 8800 OFFICIALS, IS 01:30:58:14 THAT THE NUMBER I HEARD? 01:31:00:00 >> YES. 01:31:01:15 SO THAT NUMBER, I MEAN, JUST 01:31:05:14 FOR -- 01:31:06:08 YES, YOU MENTIONED 254 COUNTIES 01:31:08:28 IN TEXAS, 8800 NUMBER, SO YOU 01:31:12:05 HAVE GOT A COUPLE OF STATES THAT 01:31:14:06 A LOT OF THE NORTHEAST RUNS 01:31:16:01 ELECTIONS AT THE TOWN LEVEL. 01:31:18:11 YOU HAVE GOT MICHIGAN AND 01:31:19:26 WISCONSIN THAT DO A COMBINATION 01:31:22:06 OF TOWN AND COUNTY, SO LIKE 01:31:24:19 WISCONSIN HAS 1854 LOCAL OR 1850 01:31:29:03 LOCALS, I'M SORRY AND IS 01:31:31:22 PROBABLY -- 01:31:32:20 THAT IS THE HIGHEST OF ANY STATE 01:31:34:27 BUT AGAIN AND THEN ALSO IN TEXAS 01:31:39:01 AND SOME OTHER STATES LIKE 01:31:40:17 ARIZONA, YOU HAVE SPLITS IN 01:31:43:21 RESPONSIBILITY, ARIZONA 01:31:45:01 RECORDERS ARE RESPONSIBLE FOR 01:31:47:05 VOTER REGISTRATION AND EARLY 01:31:49:18 VOTING BUT THEN THEY HAVE 01:31:50:24 ELECTION DIRECTOR THAT IS -- 01:31:54:20 I THINK ALL BUT MAYBE ONE CASE 01:31:57:06 AND INDEPENDENT OFFICIAL WHO IS 01:32:00:25 RESPONSIBLE FOR ELECTION DAY. 01:32:02:08 WHEN YOU TAKE ALL OF THAT 01:32:03:17 TOGETHER, YOU ARE AROUND 8800 01:32:05:21 GIVE OR TAKE. 01:32:07:28 >> THAT IS DAUNTING. 01:32:10:02 BUT JOHN, GETTING INTO NUMBERS, 01:32:14:22 HOW MANY LIBRARIES ARE INVOLVED 01:32:17:14 WITH EVERY LIBRARY AND WHAT DO 01:32:21:00 YOU SEE AS YOUR PRIORITY FOR 01:32:23:17 THIS YEAR? 01:32:25:21 >> SO, NATIONALLY THERE IS ABOUT 01:32:27:09 16,000 PUBLIC LIBRARIES AROUND 01:32:29:19 THE COUNTRY. 01:32:30:14 I DON'T MEAN TO DOUBLE-DOWN ON 01:32:32:12 YOU BEN, BUT THE NATURE OF THE 01:32:33:21 BEAST. 01:32:35:10 AND I LOVE THE STATS. 01:32:36:25 BECAUSE IT TELL AS STORY ABOUT 01:32:38:08 WHERE IS ACCESS AND WHERE ISN'T. 01:32:41:12 THE LIBRARY NETWORK 900 OF THEM 01:32:46:18 IN OUR CLOSE-IN NETWORK THAT WE 01:32:49:03 IN FACT REACH ACROSS THE 01:32:50:16 COUNTRY. 01:32:51:07 ONE OF THE KEY PRIORITIES THIS 01:32:52:02 YEAR IS THAT WE ARE 01:32:53:09 ORGANIZATIONALLY SUBSIDIZING THE 01:32:56:10 VOTE.ORG ON-LINE VOTER 01:32:59:14 REGISTRATION TOOL FOR ANY 01:33:02:03 LIBRARY IN THE COUNTRY THAT 01:33:04:19 WANTS IT. 01:33:05:17 WE ARE ALSO PRIORITIZING AGAIN 01:33:07:18 THE COMMUNICATIONS CHANNELS. 01:33:09:09 NOT JUST AROUND REGISTRATION, 01:33:10:19 COME BACK AROUND TO THAT IN A 01:33:12:11 MOMENT, BUT AROUND THE ISSUES 01:33:13:29 INSIDE OF THE BALLOT, CANDIDATES 01:33:17:13 OR OTHER ISSUES, AROUND 01:33:18:28 INDEPENDENT LIVING OR 01:33:23:03 INDEPENDENT POWER OR EQUAL 01:33:24:19 OPPORTUNITY. 01:33:25:16 WE WANT LIBRARY COMMUNITY TO BE 01:33:26:29 HELPING TO EMPHASIZE, MORE 01:33:29:00 IN-LINE WITH REV UP THAN EVEN 01:33:30:24 THE NATIONAL DISABILITY VOTER 01:33:32:16 REGISTRATION WEEK. 01:33:34:05 THAT SAID, ANY -- 01:33:38:03 OUR POSITION ORGANIZATIONALLY 01:33:41:17 AND OUR APPROACH THIS YEAR 01:33:44:03 WHEREVER IT IS AVAILABLE UNDER 01:33:45:09 LAW, LIBRARIANS AND LIBRARY 01:33:47:13 WORKERS SHOULD BE VOTER 01:33:49:08 REGISTRARS. 01:33:50:15 TO MAKE SURE AS BEN SAID CAPTURE 01:33:52:06 THAT EARLY CONVERSATION AND THEN 01:33:55:01 OUR ORGANIZATIONAL POSITION IS 01:33:56:11 TO MAKE SURE THAT OUR COLLEAGUES 01:33:59:06 AT ALL 16,000 LIBRARIES, 9582 01:34:02:29 LIBRARY HEADQUARTERS BUILDINGS. 01:34:05:12 IF WE TAKE OUT ALL OF THE 01:34:07:04 BRANCHES. 01:34:08:07 BUT 9500 OF THOSE LIBRARIES, 01:34:10:02 THAT THEY ARE IN A POSITION TO 01:34:13:12 ENCOURAGE CIVIC ENGAGEMENT WITH 01:34:17:11 INFORMATION AND WITH WHATEVER IS 01:34:18:27 APPROPRIATE UNDER THE LAW, THAT 01:34:21:25 IS OUR KEY DRIVER FOR 2020. 01:34:24:11 >> OKAY. 01:34:25:27 I THINK WE HAVE TIME FOR MAYBE 01:34:28:19 ONE QUESTION. 01:34:32:06 KINGS, EMILY, ANY QUESTION FROM 01:34:33:12 THE PUBLIC THAT YOU GOT? 01:34:37:08 YOU WERE INFORMATIVE. 01:34:39:06 I WENT A BIT LONG. 01:34:40:24 IS THERE ONE QUESTION THAT HAS 01:34:42:07 COME IN? 01:34:48:06 >> HI BOB. 01:34:49:12 RIGHT NOW WE ARE LOOKING AT OUR 01:34:54:02 QUESTIONS. 01:34:55:06 OKAY. 01:34:57:18 SO -- 01:35:00:13 A LOT OF WHAT WAS TALKED ABOUT 01:35:02:23 IS, YOU KNOW, REGARDING 01:35:05:27 CROSS-DISABILITY ISSUES. 01:35:08:14 I'M CURIOUS TO FIND OUT YOU 01:35:09:29 KNOW, HOW YOU'RE ADDRESSING 01:35:12:27 ACROSS DISABILITY PERSPECTIVE A 01:35:15:04 LITTLE BIT. 01:35:16:08 IF YOU CAN TALK A BIT ABOUT HOW 01:35:18:00 TO AVOID ABLEISM AND WHAT GROUPS 01:35:22:01 YOU ARE DOING TO INCLUDE 01:35:24:14 DISABILITY SPECIFIC. 01:35:25:21 >> I THROW THAT OUT TO ANYBODY 01:35:27:06 THAT WANTS TO ANSWER IT. 01:35:28:19 >> FROM THE LIBRARY PERSPECTIVE, 01:35:39:26 IT IS PARAMOUNT FOR US TO SHOW 01:35:43:06 UP AND TO LEARN WHILE TRYING TO 01:35:49:02 TRANSMIT INFORMATION. 01:35:51:03 IT IS -- 01:35:53:07 IT IS A CORE ELEMENT OF DOING 01:36:00:13 REGISTRATION AND PARTICIPATION. 01:36:01:29 INTERESTED ABOUT HOW THE LEAGUE 01:36:05:18 IS APPROACHING THIS, TOO. 01:36:08:25 >> WELL -- 01:36:11:02 >> (INAUDIBLE). 01:36:12:09 >> DO YOU HAVE A COMMENT? 01:36:14:00 >> SURE. 01:36:14:16 I WOULD SAY THAT IT IS REALLY 01:36:16:08 BASED ON THE COMMUNITY. 01:36:17:17 SO WITH 750 LOCAL AFFILIATES ON 01:36:20:25 THE GROUND BUILDING THEIR OWN 01:36:22:13 LOCAL COALITIONS, YOU KNOW, AT 01:36:24:05 THE TOP OF THE CONVERSATION BOB 01:36:28:25 SAID GRACE SAYS HELLO, GRACE IS 01:36:31:05 ONE OF THE LOCAL LEADERS IN HIS 01:36:32:21 STATE THAT HE CLEARLY KNOWS. 01:36:34:06 AND SO, YOU KNOW, IT REALLY DOES 01:36:36:16 DEPEND ON THE LOCAL COMMUNITIES, 01:36:38:20 THERE ARE A LOT OF VOTING RIGHTS 01:36:40:18 TABLES AND VOTING RIGHTS 01:36:42:04 COALITIONS THAT THE LEAGUE IS A 01:36:43:07 PART OF. 01:36:44:02 AND I WOULD HOPE THAT MANY OF 01:36:45:27 YOU ARE BEING INVITED TO BE PART 01:36:47:21 OF THOSE TABLES AND WE TRY TO 01:36:49:07 MAKE A POINT OF LOOKING AROUND 01:36:50:29 AND SAYING HMMM -- 01:36:52:21 WHO IS HERE WITH US, WHO DO WE 01:36:54:18 NEED TO BE BRINGING AND MAKING 01:36:56:22 SPACE AND MAKING ROOM FOR, 01:36:58:11 BECAUSE THEIR VOICE IS NOT BEING 01:36:59:24 HEARD AND IT IS A CRITICAL VOICE 01:37:01:24 THAT IS MISSING. 01:37:03:29 BECAUSE WITHOUT THE FULL 01:37:04:26 COMMUNITY BEING REPRESENTED WE 01:37:05:27 CAN NOT MAKE THE RIGHT DECISION. 01:37:07:21 LIKE, WE CAN NOT DECIDE WHAT 01:37:08:28 SHOULD BE THE PRIORITY, WHEN WE 01:37:11:14 DON'T KNOW WHAT ALL OF THE NEEDS 01:37:13:21 ARE AND YOU CAN NOT IDENTIFY ALL 01:37:17:29 OF THE PEOPLE PRESENT TO TALK 01:37:19:02 ABOUT WHAT THEIR NEEDS ARE AND 01:37:21:00 HAVE THEM REPRESENT THEMSELVES 01:37:22:25 AND BRING THEIR VOICE INTO THE 01:37:24:29 ROOMS. 01:37:25:26 ONE OF THE GROUPS IS NATIONAL 01:37:26:14 DISABILITY RIGHTS NETWORK. 01:37:29:06 TALK WITH THEM REGULARLY, TALK 01:37:31:22 WITH APD, GROUPS AT THE NATIONAL 01:37:33:29 LEVEL WE ARE CONNECTING WITH, IN 01:37:35:21 MY MIND IT IS ABOUT THE LOCAL 01:37:37:07 CONNECTIONS AND SO, YOU KNOW, 01:37:39:08 EVERY COMMUNITY HAS A DIFFERENT 01:37:41:03 SUBSET OF GROUPS AVAILABLE ON 01:37:42:27 THE GROUND. 01:37:44:04 I DO WANT TO GO BACK TO 01:37:45:10 SOMETHING, BEN WAS SAYING ABOUT 01:37:47:02 MAKING SURE THAT YOU ARE 01:37:48:15 REGISTERED TO VOTE EARLY AND 01:37:53:08 GETTING ABSENTEE REQUESTS IN 01:37:56:12 EARLY, EVERYTHING THAT YOU DO 01:37:58:00 EARLY THE BETTER, BUT ALSO, EVEN 01:38:01:26 IF YOU ARE REGISTERED TO VOTE, 01:38:03:27 WE RECOMMEND THAT EVERYBODY 01:38:05:10 UPDATE AND CHECK ON THE 01:38:06:19 REGISTRATION STATUS. 01:38:08:08 PEOPLE ARE INEXPLICABLY PURGED 01:38:12:04 FROM THE VOTER ROLES AND WE WANT 01:38:14:29 TO MAKE SURE THAT EVERYONE IS 01:38:16:12 REGISTERED TO VOTE. 01:38:17:09 EVEN IF YOU HAVE BEEN ON THE 01:38:18:25 ROLES IN THE PAST, WE ENCOURAGE 01:38:20:10 YOU TO CHECK ON THE REGISTRATION 01:38:22:23 STATUS. 01:38:24:06 MANY HAVE AN ON-LINE PORTAL THAT 01:38:26:01 YOU CAN SEE WHAT YOUR CURRENT 01:38:27:07 STATUS IS, WHAT YOUR (INAUDIBLE) 01:38:28:20 ADDRESS IS, SO I THINK THAT IS 01:38:30:18 REALLY A CRITICAL PIECE TO 01:38:31:27 ELEVATE AND BEN WAS TALKING 01:38:34:19 ABOUT JUST HOW MANY 01:38:37:03 JURISDICTIONS THERE ARE WITH 01:38:38:21 DIFFERENT ELECTION 01:38:39:09 ADMINISTRATORS. 01:38:40:16 THEY ARE OFTEN DOING, YOU KNOW, 01:38:43:14 YOMAN'S WORK WITH SMALL BUDGETS 01:38:47:01 AS WELL AND THEY NEED YOU TO 01:38:49:05 PARTNER WITH THEM. 01:38:50:27 ON AN ONGOING AND REGULAR BASIS. 01:38:53:16 THAT IS ONE OF THE THINGS WE 01:38:54:13 HAVE LEARNED AS AN ORGANIZATION 01:38:55:17 IS CRITICAL. 01:38:56:29 IS NOT JUST TALKING TO OUR LOCAL 01:38:58:21 ELECTIONS OFFICIALS WHEN THERE 01:39:00:00 IS A PROBLEM. 01:39:00:28 BUT TALKING TO THEM YEAR-ROUND 01:39:02:14 EVERY YEAR. 01:39:03:11 SO THAT WE CAN HELP INFORM WHAT 01:39:05:27 THE NEXT LEVEL OF IMPROVEMENT 01:39:08:04 IS. 01:39:09:14 WE CAN HELP TO IDENTIFY AND MAKE 01:39:11:00 SURE THAT OUR VOICES ARE HEARD 01:39:12:06 WHEN WE ARE SAYING THESE ARE THE 01:39:13:28 CHALLENGES OUR COMMUNITIES 01:39:15:01 FACED. 01:39:15:26 THESE ARE THE CHALLENGES THAT 01:39:16:20 WOULD OR THESE ARE THE CHANGES 01:39:17:27 THAT WOULD MAKE IT MORE 01:39:18:24 ACCESSIBLE FOR US AND AGAIN, 01:39:20:25 EARLY IS BETTER, RIGHT. 01:39:23:05 TALKING TO AN ELECTION OFFICIAL 01:39:24:12 IN SEPTEMBER, IT IS TOO LATE, 01:39:26:22 RIGHT? 01:39:27:19 YOU REALLY NEED TO BE TALKING TO 01:39:29:11 THEM YEAR-ROUND SO THAT THEY 01:39:31:06 HAVE THE TIME TO MAKE THE 01:39:32:12 CHANGES ESPECIALLY WHEN THEY, 01:39:34:16 TOO, ARE FACING TIME CRUNCHES 01:39:36:05 AND BUDGET RESOURCE ISSUES AND 01:39:38:06 THINGS LIKE THAT. 01:39:39:09 THEY WANT TO BE A PARTNER. 01:39:40:28 TO BE A GOOD PARTNER WITH THEM, 01:39:42:26 WE HAVE TO BY THIS WHAT THEIR 01:39:44:18 NEEDS ARE IN ADDITION TO WHAT 01:39:46:00 OUR OWN ARE. 01:39:46:28 I WOULD THROW THAT OUT THERE AS 01:39:48:20 A THOUGHT FOR ALL OF US TO 01:39:50:15 CONSIDER. 01:39:51:09 >> THANKS. 01:39:52:09 THAT WAS A GREAT WAY TO END. 01:39:54:10 YOU GAVE US MARCHING ORDERS. 01:39:58:21 THANKS TO THE PANEL. 01:40:00:03 IT HAS BEEN INFORMATIVE AND 01:40:01:28 GIVES US OUR CHALLENGE AS WE 01:40:04:02 MOVE TOWARDS THE ELECTION. 01:40:05:18 TURN IT OVER TOMORROW EMILY AND 01:40:07:18 KINGS. 01:40:08:07 >> AND WITH THAT WE HAVE TIME 01:40:11:17 FOR ONE MORE QUESTION IF THAT IS 01:40:13:09 OKAY. 01:40:14:24 I WILL THROW IT OVER TO KINGS. 01:40:17:04 >> OKAY. 01:40:17:26 I THOUGHT I HAD GOTTEN A 01:40:19:08 NOTICE -- 01:40:20:12 IF WE DO HAVE A BIT OF TIME, ONE 01:40:22:00 THING DO I WANT TO MENTION, WE 01:40:24:11 COULD NOT GET A PANELIST BUT I 01:40:26:14 ALSO WANT THE AUDIENCE, THE 01:40:30:13 SECRETARY OF STATE IN YOUR SKATE 01:40:35:06 IS REALLY AN IMPORTANT RESOURCE. 01:40:38:16 WHEN WE STARTED REV-UP TEXAS, I 01:40:40:23 WAS AMAZED AT HOW MUCH 01:40:42:15 INFORMATION WAS THERE. 01:40:44:16 BUT IT IS LIKE GOING THROUGH A 01:40:46:29 SWAMP TO BE ABLE TO PULL OUT THE 01:40:48:24 IMPORTANT INFORMATION. 01:40:50:18 BUT THAT IS WHAT WE HAVE TAKEN 01:40:53:13 SOME OF THE INFORMATION ALSO 01:40:56:27 THAT OUR PNA AND EVERYBODY HAS 01:41:00:13 HAD AND PUT INTO IT RESOURCE 01:41:02:14 GUIDE, PLEASE YOU WOULD BE 01:41:03:21 AMAZED HOW MUCH INFORMATION THAT 01:41:06:16 YOU CAN GET FROM YOUR SECRETARY 01:41:08:14 OF STATE'S WEBSITE, LIKE I SAID, 01:41:12:27 AS ADVOCATES IT IS UP TO US TO 01:41:18:14 SORT OF GET RID OF THE 01:41:21:03 BUREAUCRATIC JARGON, I'M SORRY 01:41:23:25 EMILY IS THERE A QUESTION? 01:41:26:09 >> THANKS BOB SO MUCH. 01:41:28:27 NO, THAT WAS THE PERFECT 01:41:31:01 ADDITION TO KIND OF WRAP UP THE 01:41:33:15 PANEL. 01:41:34:27 >> OKAY. 01:41:36:04 >> WE WANT TO THANK ALL OF THE 01:41:37:13 PANELISTS AGAIN FOR 01:41:38:17 PARTICIPATING. 01:41:40:12 YOU KNOW, IN PROVIDING SO MUCH 01:41:41:24 INSIGHT WITH THEIR TIME AND 01:41:44:07 THROAT BACK TO YOU TO DISCUSS 01:41:46:26 AND INTRODUCE THE NEXT SPEAKER 01:41:50:06 EMILY. 01:41:51:01 >> THANKS SO MUCH KINGS AND 01:41:51:28 THANKS TO EVERYONE WHO JOINED US 01:41:55:03 FOR THIS INFORMATIVE PANEL. 01:41:57:21 I SO APPRECIATE IT. 01:41:58:19 NOW I HAVE A GREAT HONOR AND 01:41:59:29 PLEASURE OF TURNING IT OVER TO 01:42:01:24 MY GOOD FRIEND AND DISABILITY 01:42:04:25 ACTIVIST D'ARCEE NEAL WHO WILL 01:42:10:15 SHARE MUCH NEEDED AND IMPORTANT 01:42:12:07 WORDS AROUND DISABILITY VOTE AND 01:42:14:02 THE IMPORTANCE OF RECOGNIZING 01:42:17:06 INTERSECTING MARGINALIZED 01:42:20:04 IDENTITIES. 01:42:21:08 OVER TO YOU D'ARCEE. 01:42:23:12 >> THANKS SO MUCH EMILY. 01:42:26:22 IT IS A GREAT PLEASURE TO BE 01:42:28:04 HERE WITH ALL OF YOU THIS 01:42:29:11 AFTERNOON AND GRATEFUL TO HAVE 01:42:31:06 THE OPPORTUNITY TO SPEAK ON THIS 01:42:32:21 A BIT. 01:42:33:19 BECAUSE IT IS A VERY IMPORTANT 01:42:35:01 TOPIC. 01:42:35:17 I THINK IT IS REALLY HELPFUL AND 01:42:42:04 I HOPE THAT A LOT OF PEOPLE CAN 01:42:43:13 GET A KIND OF UNDERSTANDING 01:42:44:17 FROM. 01:42:44:29 GIVE ME ONE SECOND TO GET THIS 01:42:51:23 TOGETHER. 01:42:52:08 ONE SECOND -- 01:43:00:17 OKAY, QUOTE, I HAVE EHLERS 01:43:01:20 DANLOS SYNDROME. 01:43:05:24 SOMETIMES I CAN NOT EASILY LIFT 01:43:07:01 A GLASS OF WATER ONE HAND. 01:43:09:20 HOWEVER THIS DOES NOT MAKE ME A 01:43:11:06 BAD CANDIDATE FOR ELECTED OFFICE 01:43:18:09 AND I WISH PEOPLE IN BOTH 01:43:20:00 POLITICAL PARTIES INCLUDING SOME 01:43:22:14 PROGRESSIVES WOULD STOP ACTING 01:43:23:26 LIKE IT DOES. 01:43:24:24 END QUOTE. 01:43:25:27 A QUOTE FROM JESSICA BENHAM THAT 01:43:28:07 I SAW ON TWITTER YESTERDAY 01:43:29:23 MORNING I ADDED TO CURRENT 01:43:31:09 17,000 LIKES THAT SHE HAS ON IT 01:43:33:09 I PARTICULARLY ENJOYED THE WAY 01:43:35:13 THAT SHE ENCAPSULATED FEELING OF 01:43:39:24 REALNESS AND FRUSTRATION THAT 01:43:43:16 COME WITH DISABLED BODIES AND 01:43:45:02 EQUALLY HOW FRUSTRATING IT IS 01:43:47:03 WHEN OUR ELECTED GOVERNMENT 01:43:48:13 CONSIDERS THEM ONLY PARTIALLY 01:43:49:22 WORTHY OF CITIZENSHIP. 01:43:51:14 AS A BLACK DISABLED MAN I'M 01:43:53:15 CONSTANTLY REMINDED OF THE 01:43:55:28 LANGUAGE BEHIND INFAMOUS THREE 01:43:58:05 FIFTHS COMPROMISE WHEN THE 01:43:59:18 FOUNDING FATHERS AND SHAPERS OF 01:44:01:22 AMERICA'S POLITICAL DESTINY 01:44:03:23 DECREED THAT MY ANCESTORS WERE 01:44:07:18 ONLY SLIGHTLY WORTH MORE AN 01:44:10:01 GARDENING TOOL BUT LESS THAN 01:44:12:08 OTHER HUMAN BEINGS AND I REALIZE 01:44:14:00 EVEN NOW IN 2020, THAT MANY 01:44:16:16 THINGS HAVE NOT CHANGED. 01:44:18:08 WE KNOW THAT DISABLED SUPREME 01:44:22:00 CONSIDERABLE BURDEN OF 01:44:22:25 SUBSTANTIATING THEIR OWN VALUE 01:44:25:08 WITHIN THE AMERICAN POLITICAL 01:44:27:06 SYSTEM. 01:44:28:06 WE ALSO KNOW THAT ACROSS THE 01:44:30:25 BOARD, INACCESSIBLE VOTING 01:44:33:05 PRACTICES AND UNEDUCATED -- 01:44:35:27 UNEDUCATED POLITICAL PUNDITS 01:44:39:05 OFTEN RUN THIS SYSTEM THAT 01:44:40:08 CONTROLS MUCH OF WHAT WE DO. 01:44:42:00 I AM IN NO WAY SUGGESTING THAT 01:44:43:18 THE DIFFICULTY OF DIFFICULTY 01:44:47:11 MITIGATES SHEER VOLUME OF ISSUES 01:44:49:12 THAT WE FACE AS A COLLECTIVE 01:44:50:18 MINORITY. 01:44:52:25 I AM, HOWEVER, SUGGESTING THAT 01:44:54:17 BY BEING BLACK THAT ONLY MAKES 01:44:56:09 IT WORSE. 01:44:57:24 IT MAY BE HARD FOR SOME PEOPLE 01:45:00:23 TO ACCEPT BUT REALITY OF LIVING 01:45:04:00 IN THE UNITED STATES MAKES MY 01:45:05:06 IDEA FACT. 01:45:06:13 AND IT IS JUSTIFIED THROUGH THE 01:45:08:08 INTERACTIONS OF UNDERSTANDING OF 01:45:10:21 RACIAL JUSTICE AND INVISIBILITY 01:45:13:10 THAT WE FACE WHENEVER IT IS 01:45:15:02 TALKED ABOUT. 01:45:16:26 A WEEK AGO, I HAD FRIENDS ASKING 01:45:19:12 ME WHERE I STAND ON THE VIEWS OF 01:45:22:07 BLACK LIVES MATTER SINCE THE 01:45:24:05 IDEA OF DISABILITY SEEMED TO BE 01:45:26:15 COMPLETELY ABSENT FROM THEIR 01:45:28:28 PLATFORM. 01:45:31:08 TRUTHFULLY I DID NOT HAVE AN 01:45:32:09 ANSWER BECAUSE THAT IS A HARD 01:45:33:18 QUESTION TO ANSWER. 01:45:34:15 IF YOU HAD ASKED ME WHEN I WAS A 01:45:36:01 TEENAGER I WOULD HAVE TOLD YOU 01:45:37:11 THAT BLACKNESS WAS THE PRIMARY 01:45:40:03 VECTOR FOR HOW I UNDERSTOOD THE 01:45:42:07 WORLD BUT AS I HAVE GOTTEN OLDER 01:45:44:08 I'M MORE INCLINED TO DISAGREE 01:45:46:03 AND I LOOK INSTEAD AT DISABILITY 01:45:48:28 AS RELATIVE TO HOW OTHERS THINK 01:45:50:28 THAT THEY SEE MY WORLD VIEW. 01:45:54:09 REALISTICALLY, IF I SAID BLACK 01:45:55:27 LIVES MATTER TODAY, MOST WOULD 01:45:58:04 AGREE, I WOULD HOPE. 01:46:01:03 HOWEVER, IF I SAID BLACK 01:46:02:09 DISABLED LIVES MATTER, THERE 01:46:05:10 WOULD BE LESS CONSENSUS ON THIS, 01:46:07:21 BECAUSE AS A PEOPLE AND AS A 01:46:10:10 GLOBAL GROUP HUMANITY HAS NOT 01:46:12:14 EMBRACED THE BEAUTY OF THE 01:46:13:29 EMBODIED VARIATION. 01:46:18:04 AND THE WAY YOU UNDERSTAND 01:46:18:25 REALITY OF A BODY, ESPECIALLY 01:46:20:23 ONE THAT HAS BEEN CHANGED 01:46:22:00 OUTSIDE OF THE STATUS QUO MAKES 01:46:24:10 YOUR UNDERSTANDING AN ENTIRELY 01:46:26:14 INDEPENDENT AND SINGULAR IDEA. 01:46:31:00 CELEBRATING THE BODY IN ANY 01:46:32:13 STRANGE FORM MAKES PEOPLE 01:46:33:17 UNCOMFORTABLE. 01:46:34:26 AND BLACK FOLK ALONG WITH 01:46:36:21 EVERYONE ELSE JUST DON'T LIKE TO 01:46:38:25 SAY IT. 01:46:39:25 BUT IN THE REALM OF VOTING 01:46:41:11 APPROACHING THE BOOTH FROM AN 01:46:43:15 INTERSECTIONAL LENS CAN PROVIDE 01:46:45:00 AN EVEN GREATER PERSPECTIVE THAN 01:46:46:25 THE ONE THAT WE ALREADY HAVE. 01:46:49:05 EVERYONE ALREADY LOVES THE USE 01:46:50:18 THE WORD INTERSECTIONALITY WHICH 01:46:52:28 IS ACADEMIC BUZZWORD CREATED BY 01:46:55:11 LAWYER CIVIL RIGHTS ADVOCATE AND 01:46:57:00 CRITICAL RACE SCHOLAR KIMBERLY 01:46:59:25 CRENSHAW IN THE YEAR 1989. 01:47:02:23 IT PROVIDES A FABULOUS CONTEXT 01:47:04:09 FOR THE INTERLOCKING SECTION OF 01:47:06:28 MULTIPLE IDENTITIES EXISTING IN 01:47:08:20 THE WORLD, IN PARTICULAR, WITH 01:47:10:12 ITS REGARDS TO ITS APPLICATION 01:47:12:03 OF RACE, GENDER AND ALL KINDS OF 01:47:14:19 DISCRIMINATION. 01:47:16:11 BUT IN A CRITIQUE THAT THE 01:47:18:06 THEORY HAS FACED IN RECENT 01:47:19:12 YEARS, REGARDING DISABILITY 01:47:20:25 STUDIES, IT SUGGESTS THAT WHEN 01:47:22:26 THINKING ABOUT 01:47:23:20 INTERSECTIONALITY, THE ISSUE IS 01:47:26:03 NOT SO MUCH WHAT IS BEING SPLIT 01:47:27:25 INTO PIECES BUT RATHER HOW MUCH 01:47:30:08 WEIGHT EACH PIECE OCCUPIES IN 01:47:33:03 THAT PERSON'S LIFE. 01:47:35:01 WHEN SHE COINED IT CRENSHAW SAYS 01:47:36:26 THAT AS A BLACK WOMAN RACE AND 01:47:39:18 GENDER INTERSECT AS A PAIR OF 01:47:42:04 HIGHWAYS WHERE YOU CAN BE RUN 01:47:44:11 DOWN ON EITHER SIDE AND I WILL 01:47:46:03 GO FURTHER WITH HER ANALOGY, SAY 01:47:48:01 THAT WHEN YOU ADD DISABILITY TO 01:47:49:17 IT THE HIGHWAY ITSELF CAN BE 01:47:51:08 DIRT, PAVED, MUDDY, FROZEN, OR 01:47:55:13 SMOOTH CONCRETE, DEPENDING ON 01:47:57:11 HOW DISABILITY AFFECTS YOUR LIFE 01:47:59:00 AND YOUR REACTIONS TO IT. 01:48:00:24 WHEN IT COMES TO IDENTIFICATION 01:48:03:14 CATEGORIES AS A LENS OF 01:48:05:15 EXISTENCE THAT SUPERCEDES 01:48:06:03 ANOTHER PERSON'S UNDERSTANDING 01:48:09:19 OF YOU AND HOW YOU PERCEIVE 01:48:11:20 YOURSELF DISABILITY NOT ONLY 01:48:13:12 DESERVES TO BE IN CRENSHAW'S 01:48:15:01 ORIGINAL LIST OF QUALIFIERS BUT 01:48:16:13 IN FACT IT WEIGHS MORE THERE IS 01:48:20:03 AN ENTIRE DEBATE THAT CONSIDERS 01:48:22:28 HOW AND WHERE DISABLED PEOPLE 01:48:25:02 PLACE DISABILITY WITHIN THEIR 01:48:26:12 LIVES IN THE CONTEXT OF HOW THEY 01:48:28:00 MOVE IN THE WORLD BUT IT CANNOT 01:48:29:25 BE OVERSTATED THAT DISABILITY 01:48:31:26 EXISTS FOR MANY AS A CENTRAL 01:48:34:18 TENANT OF THEIR ENTIRE 01:48:36:04 EXISTENCE. 01:48:37:07 FACTORED TOGETHER, THEN, IN THE 01:48:38:14 POLITICAL REALM, I SUGGEST THAT 01:48:40:21 IT IS ENTIRELY POSSIBLE THAT 01:48:43:01 TOGETHER DISABILITY AND 01:48:44:13 BLACKNESS OPERATE FROM 01:48:46:11 UNDERSTANDING OF DIMINISHED 01:48:48:15 CAPACITY WHICH GENERATES 01:48:49:28 IDEOLOGY FOR BOTH CONSTITUENTS 01:48:52:11 AND POLICY MAKERS ALIKE THAT 01:48:55:00 DOMINATE ULTIMATELY HOW WE ARE 01:48:57:01 SEEN. 01:48:57:25 BUT THIS IS WHY IT IS TIME TO 01:48:59:17 CHANGE THE NARRATIVE. 01:49:01:09 A LOT OF MY WORK AS A DOCTORAL 01:49:03:07 STUDENT IN RHETORIC TALKS ABOUT 01:49:05:26 BLACK DISABILITIES AND BOTH IN 01:49:08:09 HOW IT IS PRESENTED AND HOW IT 01:49:09:15 IS UNDERSTOOD AS AN IDEA BY 01:49:12:08 OTHER PEOPLE. 01:49:13:11 FURTHER I TALK ABOUT IT AS A 01:49:14:15 LOGICAL CONCEPT THAT IS GOOD ON 01:49:17:25 THE BELIEF AND IDEAS PRESENTED 01:49:20:14 BY OTHERS AS TO WHAT WE AS A 01:49:22:06 PEOPLE SHOULD ASPIRE TO BECOME. 01:49:23:28 SO IN FOCUSING ON HOW WE CAN 01:49:26:02 TRANSFER THIS VIEW TO OUR 01:49:28:00 POLITICIANS IT IS BOTH CRITICAL 01:49:30:00 AND TIMELY. 01:49:32:07 POLITICALLY, BLACK PEOPLE ARE 01:49:34:18 SEEN AS EITHER A MONOLITHIC 01:49:36:18 CONSERVATIVE CHRISTIAN BLOCK WHO 01:49:38:22 ISSUE THERAPY AND PERPETUATE 01:49:41:12 RECYCLED THEORIES OF 01:49:42:24 GENERATIONAL WOUNDING AND 01:49:44:07 NARRATIVES OF SYSTEMIC SLAVERY 01:49:46:29 WHO EXIST ON THE GOODWILL BASED 01:49:49:27 ON THE BACKS OF CHARITY OR WE 01:49:51:19 ARE A VOLATILE COLLECTION OF 01:49:53:20 ANGRY HISTORIANS WHO THREATEN TO 01:49:56:00 OVERTURN WHITE SUPREMACY WHILE 01:49:58:16 DEMANDING THAT BLACK WOMEN ARE 01:50:01:14 CAST IN EVERY STAR WARS MOVIE 01:50:03:06 FROM NOW UNTIL TEND OF HISTORY 01:50:04:22 AND WHO WILL SCREAM YES QUEEN 01:50:08:29 WHILE NECK POPPING TO NANCY 01:50:12:01 PELOSI (INAUDIBLE) ON -- 01:50:14:14 (INAUDIBLE) AND REALITY IS WE 01:50:16:02 ARE BOTH AND WE ARE NONE. 01:50:17:18 EVERYONE HERE KNOWS THAT BLACK 01:50:19:07 IS NOT A SINGULAR IDEA AND AS 01:50:21:20 THE POET THERESA PUT IT BLACK IS 01:50:26:25 ADJECTIVE ADVERB COLOR AND NOUN. 01:50:30:27 THERE IS NO SINGLE WAY OF 01:50:32:15 UNDERSTANDING WHAT IT IS EVEN AS 01:50:34:04 IT SHARES THE COLLECTIVE 01:50:35:04 IDEOLOGIES AND THE POLITICAL 01:50:36:14 REALITY OF RACISM, COLORISM AND 01:50:39:21 INJUSTICE THAT ARE TIED DIRECTLY 01:50:42:11 TO HOW MUCH (INAUDIBLE) YOU HAVE 01:50:46:21 AND DISABILITY IS EQUALLY 01:50:49:10 (INAUDIBLE) AS BODY MIND STATE 01:50:50:17 OF BEING AND COLLECTIVE SCOPE OF 01:50:52:09 EMBODIMENT AND AS SUCH IT HAS 01:50:54:12 ITS OWN REALITIES OF ABLISM, 01:50:57:14 ENVIRONMENTAL ERASURE AND 01:50:59:27 PREJUDICE THAT PRESENT ITS OWN 01:51:01:25 CHALLENGES. 01:51:02:19 THE TWO MUST BE SEEN TOGETHER IN 01:51:06:21 ORDER TO UNDERSTAND COMPLEX 01:51:07:27 LIVES THAT WE LEAD AS ONE 01:51:09:04 SECTION OF THE VOTING PUBLIC. 01:51:11:05 DISABLED EMPLOYMENT POLICY DOES 01:51:13:21 LITTLE TO HELP IF EMPLOYERS ARE 01:51:16:22 ENGAGED IN MOSTLY WHITE AREAS OF 01:51:19:02 TECHNOLOGY, SCIENCE AND 01:51:20:15 ENGINEERING. 01:51:21:27 HEALTH CARE REFORM WILL NOT 01:51:23:10 REACH THE PEOPLE IT CAN, IF IT 01:51:25:05 REMAINS IGNORANT TO THE WAYS OF 01:51:27:21 COCONSTITUENCY OF DISABILITIES 01:51:30:01 AND HOW THEY AFFECT THE BLACK 01:51:31:08 BODY ENHANCED BY FOOD DESERTS 01:51:33:27 POOR ACCESS TO MEDICINE AND COST 01:51:36:07 PROHIBITIVE THERAPIES. 01:51:37:20 AND MUCH LIKE JUSTICE DOES NOT 01:51:40:03 BELONG TO WHITE PEOPLE, NEITHER 01:51:41:21 DOES IT BELONG TO ABLE-BODIED 01:51:43:16 AND THIS, TOO, MUST BE 01:51:44:26 ADDRESSED. 01:51:45:23 WE HAVE A RESPONSIBILITY NOT 01:51:46:27 ONLY TO HOLD THE ELECTORATE 01:51:49:10 RESPONSIBLE FOR OUR NARRATIVE 01:51:51:08 BUT TOLLS PUT OUR PRESENCE IN 01:51:52:17 THE WAY, WHETHER THAT IS 01:51:54:06 PHYSICALLY OR DIGITALLY, IN 01:51:57:01 PERSON OR MAIL-IN WHEN IT COMES 01:51:58:17 TO VOTING. 01:51:59:20 WE CAN NOT TALK ABOUT BLACK 01:52:02:00 BLACK DISABLED LIVES AND VOTING 01:52:03:07 IF WE ARE NOT WILLING TO 01:52:05:05 SHOWCASE WHY IT MATTERS. 01:52:07:12 FOR EXAMPLE SELECTING BLACK 01:52:08:15 VOTING SELECTIONS SHOULD NOT 01:52:10:19 JUST BE CHURCHES BECAUSE THEY 01:52:12:02 ARE CONSTRUCTED FOR RAMPS WITH 01:52:13:11 WHEELCHAIRS AND EVEN THEN I 01:52:14:27 WOULD ARGUE THAT THAT ONLY 01:52:16:09 SHOWS -- 01:52:17:28 THAT ONLY THINKS ABOUT THE 01:52:19:02 SPECTRUM OF PHYSICAL DISABILITY 01:52:21:06 IN ONE WAY WHICH IS BASICALLY 01:52:23:03 CONNECTED TO THE ELDERLY. 01:52:25:07 THAT IS WHY WHEN I SUGGEST THAT 01:52:26:20 WHEN WE SHOW UP, EXISTENCE 01:52:32:10 CANNOT BE DENIED. 01:52:33:17 SO MUCH OF DISABILITY MANIFESTS 01:52:35:14 THROUGH CONFESSIONS OF OTHER 01:52:36:27 BELIEFS AND THE ONLY WAY TO 01:52:37:27 DISSPELL THE MYTH OF SUCH IS TO 01:52:39:19 COMPLETELY DISPROVE IT. 01:52:41:23 THIS IS WHY WE MATTER. 01:52:44:12 DEMAND MORE OF YOUR ELECTED 01:52:46:22 OFFICIALS. 01:52:47:17 DEMAND MORE OF YOUR PRECINCT. 01:52:49:12 WE ARE NOT THREE FIFTHS OF A 01:52:50:12 PERSON AND SO OUR VOTE SHOULD 01:52:51:22 NOT COUNT AS SUCH EITHER. 01:52:53:26 THANK YOU. 01:52:54:08 >> D'ARCEE THANKS SO MUCH FOR 01:52:58:15 THAT. 01:52:59:10 I KNOW IT WAS SO POWERFUL AND WE 01:53:01:23 DEFINITELY GOT SOME COMMENTS IN 01:53:03:21 THE CHAT, YOU KNOW, ABOUT HOW 01:53:05:12 WHAT YOU ARE STATING ARE FACTS 01:53:07:04 AND THAT MORE PEOPLE NEED TO 01:53:08:26 HEAR THEM AND SO I REALLY, 01:53:10:24 REALLY APPRECIATE YOU TAKING THE 01:53:13:07 TIME OUT TO SPEAK WITH US TODAY. 01:53:16:05 DO YOU HAVE A FEW MINUTES? 01:53:18:27 BECAUSE WE HAVE A QUESTION OR 01:53:19:24 TWO COMING IN. 01:53:21:01 >> SURE. 01:53:21:19 >> GREAT. 01:53:23:20 SO THE FIRST QUESTION WE HAVE, 01:53:27:03 WHAT CAN NON BLACK OR NON 01:53:29:13 DISABLED ALLIES WHO ARE 01:53:31:24 LISTENING INTO THIS CONVERSATION 01:53:33:27 RIGHT NOW DO TO TAKE ACTION TO 01:53:37:29 SUPPORT THE BLACK LIVES MATTER 01:53:39:14 MOVEMENT AND SPECIFICALLY, TO 01:53:41:15 SUPPORT THE IDEA THAT SEEMS TO 01:53:44:04 BE MISSING FROM A LOST 01:53:45:02 CONVERSATIONS, THAT BLACK 01:53:46:21 DISABLED LIVES MATTER. 01:53:48:12 >> RIGHT. 01:53:51:04 YOU KNOW, IT IS FUNNY. 01:53:53:20 BECAUSE AS A COLLECTIVE, YOU 01:53:55:00 KNOW, BLACK PEOPLE AND YOU KNOW, 01:53:57:01 I DON'T SPEAK FOR EVERYONE. 01:54:00:17 I SPEAK IN RELATION TO MY 01:54:01:27 UNDERSTANDING OF IT. 01:54:03:12 I STILL THINK WHAT I SAID IS THE 01:54:05:01 CONSENSUS. 01:54:06:17 BLACK PEOPLE, WE TALK B YOU 01:54:07:21 KNOW, FEELING INVISIBLE AND YOU 01:54:19:16 WOULD THINK THAT GROUP OF PEOPLE 01:54:20:26 WHO ALREADY EXPERIENCE A 01:54:21:29 DISABILITY WOULD BE WELL-VERSED 01:54:23:12 IN THE FEELINGS OF 01:54:24:21 MARGINALIZATION WHEN IT COMES TO 01:54:26:07 OTHER TYPES OF MINORITIES. 01:54:30:15 I THINK ONE OF THE BEST WAYS 01:54:31:09 THAT ALLIES CAN ASSIST IS YOU 01:54:34:10 KNOW, BY HOLDING OTHER PEOPLE 01:54:35:17 ACCOUNTABLE ON THE SPOT. 01:54:37:03 YOU KNOW, LIKE IF YOU ARE AT A 01:54:38:15 MARCH, YOU KNOW, I FELT REALLY 01:54:40:16 TERRIBLE HERE IN COLUMBUS, YOU 01:54:43:23 KNOW, I WILL SAY I WAS ANNOYED 01:54:46:15 THAT THE CITY, THREE WEEKS PRIOR 01:54:50:05 DID NOT SEEM TO ISSUE CURFEWS 01:54:52:12 AND LOCKDOWNS WHEN WHITE PEOPLE 01:54:54:25 SHOWED UP WITH AK-47s STRAPPED 01:54:58:03 TO THEIR FACE, TWO WEEKS LATER 01:54:59:18 WHEN PEOPLE WERE PEACEFULLY 01:55:01:19 PROTESTING FOR GEORGE FLOYD MY 01:55:04:05 PHONE WAS BUZZ IN AND SHRIEKING 01:55:05:24 EVERY NIGHT AT 6:00 FOR A WEEK 01:55:07:15 AND A HALF. 01:55:09:16 YOU KNOW, THAT IS A QUESTION 01:55:11:17 THAT THE GOVERNOR NEEDS TO 01:55:12:18 ANSWER. 01:55:13:06 YOU KNOW IT IS LIKE WHY DO YOU 01:55:14:24 SEEM TO THINK IT IS ONLY ONE 01:55:16:25 TYPE OF SITUATION THAT IS 01:55:17:29 DANGEROUS AND NOT THE ONLY AND 01:55:20:06 FURTHERMORE AS DISABLED PERSON, 01:55:22:01 COLUMBUS DOES NOT HAVE A LOT OF 01:55:24:17 SIDEWALKS SO I WAS NOT 01:55:25:21 PHYSICALLY EVEN ABLE TO 01:55:26:27 PARTICIPATE AND I FELT BADLY. 01:55:30:05 THAT WOULD BE A QUESTION FOR THE 01:55:33:03 PROTESTORS. 01:55:34:10 DID YOU CONSIDER ROUTES WITH 01:55:35:22 SIDEWALKS? 01:55:37:02 DID YOU CONSIDER THE FACT THAT 01:55:37:29 WHEN YOU GOT A STREET IN 01:55:42:01 COLUMBUS IT IS NOT GREAT, 01:55:44:02 THINKING THAT EVERYBODY WILL BE 01:55:45:05 WALKING IT IS CONCEPTION THAT 01:55:46:18 NEVER COMES. 01:55:48:04 I WOULD HOPE THAT THEY HAD 01:55:48:22 INTERPRETERS. 01:55:49:16 I WOULD HOPE THAT THEY HAD REST 01:55:52:08 AREAS. 01:55:53:06 BUT I DID NOT KNOW. 01:55:54:12 THE WAY I UNDERSTAND IT, IT WAS 01:55:57:01 PEACEFUL PROTEST FOR PEOPLE THAT 01:56:01:09 MARCHED ALONG. 01:56:02:12 WE ARE CONTINUOUSLY TELLING 01:56:04:19 PEOPLE THAT IS ONLY ONE WAY TO 01:56:05:29 SHOW SUPPORT AND I THINK IT IS 01:56:07:12 REALLY FRUSTRATED TO HAVE 01:56:08:24 CONTINUOUSLY JUSTIFY YOU KNOW, 01:56:10:28 WHY I'M AN ACTIVIST AND WHAT 01:56:13:11 KIND OF ACTIVISM I DO IF YOU DO 01:56:15:12 NOT SEE IT BEING PRODUCED IN THE 01:56:16:19 WORLD. 01:56:17:07 THE QUESTION OF VALUE IS ALWAYS 01:56:18:29 ON THE TABLE FOR SOME REASON 01:56:21:18 WHEN IT COMES TO DISABLED PEOPLE 01:56:23:03 AND IT BECOMES FOCUSED AND REAL 01:56:27:26 WHEN YOU MIX BLACKNESS INTO IT. 01:56:30:28 I HAVE NO IDEA IF THAT ANSWERS 01:56:36:12 YOUR QUESTION. 01:56:36:24 >> IT ABSOLUTELY DID. 01:56:37:21 I HOPE THAT YOU DON'T MIND IF WE 01:56:40:22 THROW ONE OR TWO MORE QUESTIONS 01:56:42:14 YOUR WAY. 01:56:43:12 EVERYBODY IS SINGING YOUR 01:56:48:11 PRAISES IN THE CHAT. 01:56:54:29 >> HOW CAN DISABILITY RIGHTS 01:56:57:00 ACTIVIST MAKE CONNECTIONS 01:56:58:21 SPECIFICALLY WITH BLACK DISABLED 01:57:01:13 LIVES MATTER MOVEMENT AND 01:57:02:17 COMMUNITY? 01:57:02:29 >> I THINK THAT IS A GOOD 01:57:04:03 QUESTION. 01:57:06:06 YOU KNOW, HONESTLY I THINK IT IS 01:57:09:05 HONESTLY A QUESTION -- 01:57:11:06 I'M NOT A MEMBER OF THAT 01:57:13:00 COMMUNITY, I WISH I WAS. 01:57:15:07 QUITE FRANKLY I DON'T THINK THAT 01:57:16:23 COLUMBUS HAS ONE, IF THEY DO GET 01:57:19:06 AT ME. 01:57:20:09 BUT WITH THAT ASIDE, I THINK IT 01:57:21:28 IS REALLY JUST A QUESTION OF 01:57:23:05 MAKING YOURSELF AVAILABLE. 01:57:25:00 I CANNOT IMAGINE THAT THE LEADER 01:57:27:03 OF THE BLACK DISABLED LIVES 01:57:29:29 MOVEMENT WOULD SAY NO TO 01:57:31:09 EVERYTHING CONVERSATIONS WITH 01:57:33:06 ANY, YOU KNOW, DIRECTOR OR 01:57:37:02 EXECUTIVE OR PERSON OF STATURE 01:57:39:18 WHO REPRESENTS A GROUP. 01:57:42:01 I MEAN, THE WHOLE POINT IS 01:57:43:13 COLLABORATION. 01:57:44:11 THE WHOLE POINT IS 01:57:45:05 COLLABORATION. 01:57:46:03 AND I THINK THAT IS ONE OF 01:57:47:06 THE -- 01:57:47:24 THAT IS ONE OF THE REASONS THAT 01:57:48:22 I LOVE THE DEAF COMMUNITY. 01:57:51:08 THEY ARE ON-POINT. 01:57:52:27 LIKE, THEY ARE A COLLECTIVE 01:57:54:15 MOVEMENT THAT IS PROBABLY THE 01:57:56:19 STRONGEST IN TERMS OF DISABILITY 01:57:58:05 I HAVE EVER SEEN. 01:57:59:18 AND THAT IS -- 01:58:01:00 IT IS ALWAYS BEEN A POINT OF 01:58:02:04 CONTENTION WHEN IT COMES TO 01:58:03:22 OTHER DISABILITY GROUPS THAT 01:58:05:26 LIKE, WE JUST CAN'T SEEM TO GEL 01:58:09:25 TOGETHER, CAN'T SEEM TO GET IT 01:58:11:20 TOGETHER. 01:58:12:11 I THINK IT IS BECAUSE EVERYBODY 01:58:13:18 IS TOO BUSY TRYING TO BE LIKE MY 01:58:16:16 GROUP IS MORE IMPORTANT ON I 01:58:17:13 HAVE MORE ISSUES -- 01:58:19:08 BOTTOM LINE IS WE ARE ALL TRYING 01:58:21:18 TO SMASH WHITE SUPREMACY AND 01:58:24:10 TRYING TO END OCCUPATION OF 01:58:25:23 COLONIALISM IN AMERICA. 01:58:27:27 AND SO THAT IS A COLLECTIVE 01:58:31:10 ISSUE THAT NO SINGLE GROUP CAN 01:58:33:05 DO ON THEIR OWN, I WOULD THINK 01:58:34:21 THAT YOU SHOULD REACH OUT TO 01:58:36:03 THEM. 01:58:37:10 GO FIND THEM. 01:58:38:13 DON'T MAKE THEM DO THE WORK TO 01:58:39:26 FIND YOU. 01:58:40:11 YOU GO TO FIND THEM. 01:58:41:12 >> I THINK THAT IS SO TRUE. 01:58:44:01 THERE IS OFTEN THE BURDEN ON 01:58:48:21 DISABLED PEOPLE AND ESPECIALLY 01:58:50:15 MULTI MARGINALIZED DISABLED 01:58:53:05 PEOPLE TO BE THE ONES GOING OUT 01:58:54:17 TO DO THE OUTREACH AND SAYING 01:58:56:12 HEY, YOU KNOW, REMEMBER US. 01:58:58:25 AND THAT IS A REALLY IMPORTANT 01:59:00:08 POINT. 01:59:01:11 IF YOU HAD THE OPPORTUNITY TO 01:59:03:09 TALK TO DISABILITY VOTING RIGHTS 01:59:05:25 ACTIVISTS RIGHT NOW, WHAT WOULD 01:59:08:02 YOU TELL THEM ABOUT HOW THEY CAN 01:59:10:06 CREATE ACCESSIBLE WAYS FOR US TO 01:59:13:04 GET INVOLVED AND GET OUT THE 01:59:15:08 VOTE? 01:59:17:09 YOU ARE TALKING TO THEM RIGHT 01:59:19:16 NOW. 01:59:20:10 WE HAVE SO MANY ORGANIZERS IN 01:59:21:23 THE AUDIENCE. 01:59:23:00 WHAT WOULD YOU TELL THEM IN 01:59:24:15 TERMS OF MAKING VOTING 01:59:25:19 ACCESSIBLE AND REACHING OUT? 01:59:27:14 >> YOU KNOW, I THINK THAT PEOPLE 01:59:29:03 SEEM TO THINK THAT AS WITH 01:59:32:04 ANYTHING ELSE, YOU KNOW, I 01:59:33:13 HESITATE TO SAY THIS. 01:59:35:05 I HATE TO PERPETUATE IDEAS OF 01:59:39:00 FEAR, WHEN IT COMES TO 01:59:40:01 DISABILITY AND THE BODY. 01:59:42:08 BUT, YOU KNOW, LIKE SOMETHING I 01:59:43:24 HEAR IS YOU KNOW, IT COULD 01:59:45:00 HAPPEN YOU TO AND THAT IS LIKE A 01:59:47:04 COMMON REFRAIN ABOUT PEOPLE 01:59:49:08 BEING AFRAID OF WHAT WOULD 01:59:51:03 HAPPEN TO THEIR BODY IF THEY 01:59:52:15 AGE. 01:59:53:12 THAT SAID, IT IS A POWERFUL 01:59:56:14 METAPHOR THAT I THINK DOES A LOT 01:59:59:03 OF WORK. 01:59:59:27 IF YOU SEEM TO THINK THAT YOU 02:00:01:04 WILL STOP VOTING, WHEN YOU 02:00:02:29 DEVELOP A LISP OR LOSE ABILITY 02:00:06:21 TO HEAR WHAT A CANDIDATE IS 02:00:08:04 SAYING BECAUSE YOU HAVE A 02:00:09:04 HEARING IMPAIRMENT, YOU KNOW, 02:00:11:08 I'M JUST NOT GOING TO VOTE, THAT 02:00:13:09 DOESN'T WORK. 02:00:15:25 SO PEOPLE NEED TO REMEMBER THAT 02:00:17:08 VOTING IS THE MOST BASIC 02:00:19:00 FUNDAMENTAL RIGHT THAT WE AS 02:00:20:12 AMERICANS HAVE. 02:00:21:28 AND IN ORDER TO BE ABLE TO 02:00:23:26 EXERCISE IT APPROPRIATELY THEY 02:00:26:00 HAVE TO REMEMBER THAT LIKE 02:00:27:09 STANDARD ABLE-BODIED PERSON IS 02:00:29:25 NOT -- 02:00:30:16 THAT IS NOT EVEN -- 02:00:34:03 I MEAN, IT IS THE STATUS QUO, 02:00:36:19 BUT THEY ARE STILL MISSING, WHO 02:00:42:03 SAYS ONE IN FIVE PEOPLE ON 02:00:43:13 PLANET EARTH ARE DISABLED AND 02:00:45:01 THAT IS THE PEOPLE THAT -- 02:00:46:17 THOSE ARE RECORDS THAT THEY 02:00:47:12 HAVE, PERSONALLY, I THINK IT IS 02:00:48:27 CLOSER TO ONE IN THREE TO BE 02:00:50:22 HONEST. 02:00:51:19 I THINK IF WE START TO FACTOR 02:00:53:05 IN, YOU KNOW, LIKE MENTAL 02:00:54:27 ILLNESS AND COGNITIVE 02:00:56:12 DISABILITIES AND INTELLECTUAL 02:00:57:28 DISABILITIES, IT GETS MUCH 02:00:59:23 SMALLER AND YOU WILL FIND YOU 02:01:01:03 THAT KNOW, ONE THIRD OF THE 02:01:03:19 UNITED STATES IS IN SOME FORM OF 02:01:06:29 CAPACITY, HAVING SOME PARTICULAR 02:01:09:15 KIND OF ISSUE THAT CAN PRECLUDE 02:01:12:04 THEM FROM BEING ABLE TO EXERCISE 02:01:13:29 THEIR RIGHT. 02:01:14:27 THEY NEED TO REMEMBER THAT WHEN 02:01:15:27 THEY ARE CREATING PLATFORMS, 02:01:17:16 WHEN THEY ARE CREATING THESE 02:01:18:28 VENUES AND THEY ARE FILLING THEM 02:01:20:17 UP AND ALLOWING PEOPLE TO ASK 02:01:23:03 QUESTIONS AND STUFF, THAT YOU 02:01:24:19 KNOW, IT IS IMPORTANT AND 02:01:26:02 FURTHERMORE, NOT ALL OF THE 02:01:27:14 VOTING ISSUES, I THINK 02:01:29:06 POLITICALLY, PEOPLE SEEM TO 02:01:31:04 THINK THAT DISABILITY IS TIED 02:01:32:16 INHERENTLY TO MEDICARE. 02:01:35:18 THAT IS NOT -- 02:01:36:24 THAT IS NO. 02:01:37:18 THAT WOULD BE THE FIRST THING I 02:01:38:16 WOULD TELL PEOPLE TO UNDO. 02:01:40:29 TO UNTIE FROM THEIR MINDS. 02:01:42:09 IS TO STOP PUTTING DISABILITY IN 02:01:43:24 RELATION TO THE HEALTH CARE 02:01:45:22 SYSTEM EXCLUSIVELY, YES. 02:01:48:17 IT IS -- 02:01:49:15 THE TWO GO HAND-IN-HAND TOGETHER 02:01:51:06 BUT IT IS NOT THE PRIMARY THING 02:01:54:08 THAT RUNS IN MY LIFE. 02:01:56:09 ARGUE THAT BEING BLACK IS 02:01:57:15 DEFINITELY MORE A PRIMARY ISSUE 02:01:59:07 AND HOW ARE YOU GOING TO KEEP ME 02:02:01:02 FROM BEING KILLED BY COPS 02:02:02:11 TOMORROW RATHER THAN HOW I'M 02:02:04:06 GOING TO PAY MY BILLS. 02:02:05:19 THERE ARE LEVELS OF IMPORTANCE 02:02:06:25 AND ONE JUST ISN'T. 02:02:09:02 AND SO BASICALLY, I THINK FOLKS 02:02:11:00 NEED TO GET OFF OF THIS IDEA OF 02:02:13:19 DISABILITY, WHENEVER YOU SEE 02:02:15:26 PEOPLE ASK QUESTIONS OF 02:02:16:27 PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATES IN 02:02:18:15 RELATION TO DISABILITY IT IS 02:02:20:01 TIED TO MEDICARE AND TALK CARE, 02:02:22:05 I AIN'T TALKING ABOUT THAT. 02:02:24:03 HOW WILL YOU HELP ME TO BUILD A 02:02:25:09 HOUSE, HOW WILL YOU HELP ME TO 02:02:27:19 ENSURE I CAN GO ON VACATION. 02:02:29:20 WHAT CAN YOU TELL FLIGHT 02:02:30:18 COMPANIES. 02:02:31:15 I HAD TO CRAWL OFF A PLANE 02:02:32:25 SEVERAL YEARS AGO. 02:02:34:04 WHAT CAN YOU TELL FLIGHT 02:02:35:08 COMPANIES TO ENFORCE, DISABILITY 02:02:37:06 POLICY TO ENSURE THAT I SHOULD 02:02:38:18 NOT HAVE TO CRAWL OFF A PLANE. 02:02:40:22 THESE ARE THINGS THAT THE WHITE 02:02:41:11 HOUSE CAN DO. 02:02:43:03 THESE ARE THINGS THAT THE 02:02:44:00 GOVERNORS AND THE STATEHOODS CAN 02:02:46:01 DO. 02:02:46:28 THEY JUST -- 02:02:47:26 IT IS NOT ON THEIR RADAR. 02:02:49:27 YOU HAVE TO PUT IT THERE. 02:02:51:09 LIKE I SAID, PEOPLE NEED TO 02:02:52:25 REMEMBER THAT IF THEY HAPPEN TO 02:02:54:08 FALL INTO THAT CATEGORY, THEY 02:02:56:06 ARE GOING TO BE RECIPIENTS OF 02:02:58:18 WHATEVER ELSE WE DO. 02:03:00:22 IT IS NOT JUST FOR US. 02:03:02:14 MOST PEOPLE CAN BENEFIT FROM YOU 02:03:03:21 KNOW, THE THINGS THAT WE DO AND 02:03:05:03 THE WORK THAT WE PUT IN. 02:03:07:04 SO PEOPLE THINK WE NEED TO STOP 02:03:08:29 THINKING OF IT AS A MARGINALIZED 02:03:11:18 INDIVIDUAL IDEOLOGY AND THINK OF 02:03:13:04 IT MORE AS A COLLECTIVE SENSE OF 02:03:15:26 DEMAND THAT CAN BENEFIT EVERYONE 02:03:19:15 AT LARGE. 02:03:22:29 >> WOW! 02:03:24:11 THANK YOU D'ARCEE. 02:03:26:03 I'M PROCESSING ALL OF THAT. 02:03:29:01 THAT WAS AN AMAZING AND 02:03:30:11 COMPREHENSIVE ANSWER. 02:03:32:00 >> I FEEL LIKE I DON'T KNOW IF I 02:03:33:15 ADDRESSED IT. 02:03:34:22 >> I FEEL LIKE YOU DID. 02:03:39:03 AUDIENCE WILL TELL NEWS THE 02:03:40:21 CHAT. 02:03:41:19 THEY ARE SUPER INVOLVED WHICH WE 02:03:43:23 LOVE TO SEE. 02:03:44:26 I KNOW EMILY AND I AND MANY 02:03:46:27 OTHER PEOPLE ON THIS CALL CAN 02:03:49:04 RELATE TO THE TRAUMATIZING 02:03:55:15 EXPERIENCE I WOULD SAY OF BEING 02:03:56:18 ON AN AIRPLANE AND LIKE THE 02:03:59:07 LIMITED PRIORITIES THAT THAT 02:04:00:20 CREATES AND HOW MUCH MORE THAT 02:04:02:09 WOULD REVOLUTIONIZE SOMETHING SO 02:04:06:13 SIMPLE AND WE THINK OF HEALTH 02:04:08:11 CARE AS TIED TO LIKE THE MAIN 02:04:10:18 SOCIAL CAUSE OF DISABILITY 02:04:13:07 JUSTICE BUT IT IS SO MUCH MORE 02:04:15:17 COMPREHENSIVE THAN THAT. 02:04:19:00 FROM YOUR PERSPECTIVE, FOR 02:04:21:07 PEOPLE WHO CAN NOT BE INVOLVED 02:04:25:06 PHYSICALLY IN COMMUNITIES 02:04:26:09 ATTENDING RALLIES AND EVENTS, 02:04:28:04 WHAT IS THE BEST WAY THEY CAN 02:04:30:02 CONTRIBUTE TO SUPPORT 02:04:33:06 INTERSECTIONAL MINORITIES AND BE 02:04:35:25 INVOLVED AND BE AN ALLY? 02:04:39:03 >> I THINK THAT IS A GREAT 02:04:40:09 QUESTION. 02:04:41:16 YOU KNOW, ME BEING HERE, IS 02:04:44:17 PROBABLY ONE OF THEM, YOU KNOW, 02:04:46:03 INVITING FOLKS WHO HAVE THE 02:04:49:19 EXPERTISE AND THE KNOWLEDGE TO 02:04:51:17 COME AND YOU KNOW, GIVE 02:04:53:27 PLATFORMS TO FOLKS TO BE ABLE TO 02:04:55:15 GET THE MESSAGES OUT. 02:04:57:19 YOU KNOW, LIKE I SAID, A LOT OF 02:04:59:02 MY WORK FALLS AROUND LOOKING AT 02:05:01:24 THE CONCEPTIONS OF LIKE 02:05:04:19 BLACKNESS AND DISABILITY AND 02:05:06:11 WHAT OTHER PEOPLE THINK ABOUT 02:05:07:12 IT. 02:05:08:09 AND HALF OF THE TIME I'M NOT 02:05:09:12 INTERESTED IN WHAT YOU THINK 02:05:10:22 ABOUT IT. 02:05:11:10 I WOULD BE MORE INTERESTED IN 02:05:12:11 TELLING YOU WHAT MY EXPERIENCE 02:05:13:20 IS SO THAT WAY YOU CAN MAKE OF 02:05:16:09 CHANGES TO THE POLICIES AND THE 02:05:18:04 ISSUES THAT YOU'RE WORKING WITH 02:05:19:23 TO MAKE MY LIFE EASIER. 02:05:21:21 SO I THINK THAT ONE OF THE BEST 02:05:23:07 WAYS TO DO THAT IS, YOU KNOW, 02:05:25:17 LIKE, IF YOU ARE DISABLED, YOU 02:05:28:06 KNOW, MAKE A PLATFORM. 02:05:29:15 YOU KNOW, LIKE BECOME A PRESENCE 02:05:33:23 DIGITALLY. 02:05:35:18 I MEANT IT WHEN I SAID TAKE UP 02:05:37:10 SPACE. 02:05:37:28 I RECOGNIZE IT AS DISABLED 02:05:39:14 PEOPLE. 02:05:40:08 WE HAVE A HARD TIME DOING THAT 02:05:41:15 FOR A LOT OF REASONS. 02:05:43:03 AND PEOPLE, PEOPLE WILL MAKE YOU 02:05:45:20 FEEL LIKE YOU DO NOT DESERVE TO 02:05:47:11 HAVE ANYTHING TO SAY OR THAT 02:05:49:00 WHAT YOU SAY IS NOT IMPORTANT. 02:05:50:16 I CAN TELL YOU, I WOULD NOT BE A 02:05:52:17 DOCTORAL STUDENT AT NUMBER ONE 02:05:55:00 SCHOOL FOR ENGLISH IN THE UNITED 02:05:56:06 STATES IF I HAD CHOSEN NOT TO 02:05:58:04 TAKE UP SPACE. 02:05:59:11 LIKE, MY BEING HERE IS A DIRECT 02:06:01:27 RESPONSE TO THAT. 02:06:03:21 SO YOU KNOW, YEAH, YOU NEED TO 02:06:06:23 CREATE A SPACE, BECOME THAT 02:06:08:24 PERSON THAT YOUR FRIENDS KNOW 02:06:12:04 HAVE THAT INFORMATION AND THEN 02:06:14:05 FURTHERMORE, YOU KNOW, WHEN YOU 02:06:16:03 SEE PEOPLE, SEE YOUR FRIENDS 02:06:17:09 TALKING ABOUT BLACK LIVES MATTER 02:06:19:10 YOU WILL BE LIKE, YEAH, YOU 02:06:21:14 KNOW, ASK IF DISABILITY IS 02:06:23:00 INVOLVED, LIKE, YOU KNOW, ASK ME 02:06:24:25 HOW I FEEL ABOUT THIS, YOU KNOW, 02:06:28:29 MAKE ME AND OTHER PEOPLE LIKE ME 02:06:32:00 BE THE MEGA PHONES THAT CAN HELP 02:06:35:29 TO GET THIS ISSUE OUT. 02:06:37:27 BECAUSE WHAT I DON'T WANT IS FOR 02:06:39:07 PEOPLE TO COME THROUGH AND SPEAK 02:06:40:19 FOR US. 02:06:41:02 I DON'T NEED SOMEBODY COMING 02:06:42:26 THROUGH TELLING THEM, YOU KNOW, 02:06:46:25 THE (INAUDIBLE) THAT THEY STINK 02:06:48:08 THAT IS HOW WE GOT INTO THE 02:06:50:09 PROBLEM NOW. 02:06:51:21 BLACK DISABILITY IS SEEN AS 02:06:53:16 DOUBLE DEFICIT. 02:06:54:29 A LOT OF WORK I DO. 02:06:56:14 COMES FROM IDEA OF DOUBLE 02:06:58:00 DEFICIT. 02:06:59:06 MY LIFE IS WONDERFUL, IT IS 02:07:00:28 JOYOUS AND WONDERFUL. 02:07:02:17 THERE ARE MANY THINGS IN IT THAT 02:07:03:27 ARE MARVELOUS. 02:07:05:03 DOES THAT MEAN THAT IT IS DEVOID 02:07:06:22 OF RACISM AND -- 02:07:08:22 MOST CERTAINLY NOT. 02:07:09:26 BUT I THINK THAT, YEAH, THE 02:07:11:27 CHANGING OF THE NARRATIVE COMES 02:07:13:09 FROM PEOPLE REMEMBERING THAT YOU 02:07:15:07 KNOW, THEY DO HAVE EXPERTS AND 02:07:17:02 PEOPLE IN THE FIELDS WHO CAN 02:07:18:09 SPEAK TO IT MUCH BETTER THAN 02:07:19:21 THEY CAN AND REALITY IS YOUR 02:07:21:13 OPINION OF SOMEBODY ELSE'S 02:07:23:02 EXISTENCE IS NOT RELEVANT. 02:07:25:06 WHEN IT COMES TO ISSUE OF HUMAN 02:07:26:24 RIGHTS. 02:07:27:13 >> D'ARCEE I JUST WANT YOU TO 02:07:31:26 KNOW THAT NOW PEOPLE IN THE CHAT 02:07:33:09 ARE SAYING D'ARCEE 2024 AND THAT 02:07:36:01 YOU SHOULD RUN FOR OFFICE! 02:07:41:09 >> FUNNY YOU SHOULD BRING THAT 02:07:43:01 UP, TALKING ABOUT THAT IN THE 02:07:44:14 GREEN ROOM, PEOPLE ARE ASKED ME 02:07:46:18 BEFORE WILL YOU RUN FOR 02:07:47:21 SOMETHING? 02:07:48:09 I ALWAYS SAID NO, AFTER WATCHING 02:07:50:07 THIS SCANDAL I WAS No. LIKE NO 02:07:53:05 I'M GOOD. 02:07:54:03 BUT AT THE SAME TIME, EVEN IF I 02:07:55:15 WANTED TO, SYSTEM IS NOT EVEN 02:07:57:07 SET UP LIKE -- 02:07:58:23 YOU HAVE TO CANVASS. 02:08:00:12 YOU GOT TO GET SIGNATURES. 02:08:02:12 I'M A WHEELCHAIR USER I CAN NOT 02:08:04:16 GO UP THE STEPS TO KNOCK ON YOUR 02:08:06:23 DOORS, IT DOES NOT WORK AND IF 02:08:08:24 OTHER PEOPLE ARE KNOCKING FOR ME 02:08:11:04 YOU ARE MEETING THEM NOT ME. 02:08:12:20 AND SO, I DON'T KNOW. 02:08:14:12 I DON'T KNOW IF THERE IS ANYBODY 02:08:15:21 THAT HAS A BETTER WAY TO DO 02:08:17:01 THIS. 02:08:19:17 I WILL NOT LIE, I HAVE 02:08:20:20 ENTERTAINED THE IDEA I THINK IT 02:08:22:12 WOULD BE REALLY INTERESTING. 02:08:24:07 QUITE FRANKLY, AOC 02:08:26:11 REVOLUTIONIZED THE WAY WE THINK 02:08:28:24 ABOUT THIS, I KNOW BEFORE HER 02:08:30:06 CANDIDACY THAT WAS NOT A THING I 02:08:31:25 WAS THINKING ABOUT. 02:08:33:14 I WILL NOT LIE IT WOULD BE 02:08:34:17 INTERESTING, I THINK SYSTEM 02:08:37:00 NEEDS WORK, YOU KNOW. 02:08:38:25 I'M A DOCTORAL STUDENT THAT 02:08:41:02 MAKES HARDLY NO MONEY. 02:08:42:09 I MAKE MY MONEY OFF FREELANCE. 02:08:45:10 DOING FREELANCE JOBS, SPEAKING 02:08:46:13 GIGS AND BEING A TEACHER. 02:08:48:05 THAT IS WHAT I DO. 02:08:49:09 AND SO IF I HAVE TO GET A 02:08:52:12 MILLION DOLLAR LOAN FROM THE 02:08:53:25 BANK SOMEBODY WILL HAVE TO VOUCH 02:08:55:17 FOR ME. 02:08:56:08 SOMETHING THEY HAVE TO DO. 02:08:58:00 I CAN NOT DO THAT. 02:08:59:16 I DON'T KNOW. 02:09:00:10 I THINK THAT IS ANOTHER ISSUE. 02:09:02:08 IT REVEALS ANOTHER ISSUE IN THE 02:09:04:24 REASON WHY WE DON'T SEE MORE 02:09:06:12 PEOPLE WITH DISABILITIES RUNNING 02:09:07:28 FOR OFFICE. 02:09:08:23 I KNOW THAT I WANT IT. 02:09:10:17 I WANT IT DESPERATELY. 02:09:12:15 I KNOW I LOVE SENATOR TAMMY 02:09:13:28 DUCKWORTH WE NEED MORE. 02:09:16:17 I WANT MORE AND I WANT PEOPLE 02:09:18:18 NOT IN THEIR 50s AND 60s 02:09:20:25 SITTING UP IN CONGRESS. 02:09:22:14 YOU KNOW, IF WE ARE GOING TO SIT 02:09:24:09 HERE AND TALK ABOUT STUDENT 02:09:25:21 LOANS AND FEDERAL TUITION YOU 02:09:26:28 NEED TO HAVE GONE THROUGH IT. 02:09:29:02 SHOW ME THE RECEIPT. 02:09:30:18 SHOW ME THE BILLS. 02:09:31:21 SHOW ME WHAT YOUR COLLEGE BILL 02:09:32:18 IS LIKE. 02:09:33:13 BEFORE YOU TRY TO TELL ME, YOU 02:09:35:08 KNOW, WHAT YOU CAN DO FOR ME. 02:09:37:18 SO, YEAH, I MEAN, I WOULD LOVE 02:09:40:09 TO TALK ABOUT IT MORE, BUT I 02:09:41:22 DON'T HAVE THE RESOURCES. 02:09:44:26 >> WELL, I THINK THAT IS A 02:09:47:24 PERFECT WAY TO TRANSITION, JUST 02:09:50:17 IN TERMS OF YOU KNOW, 02:09:52:21 ACKNOWLEDGING HOW GRATEFUL WE 02:09:54:21 ARE FOR YOUR TIME AND 02:09:56:01 RECOGNIZING THE FACT THAT THE 02:09:57:17 SYSTEM NEEDS TO CHANGE. 02:09:59:12 SO PEOPLE LIKE YOU HAVE THE 02:10:02:10 RESOURCES AND THE SPACE TO RUN, 02:10:04:14 I MEAN, SOMEONE SAID ABSOLUTELY, 02:10:07:09 IF ANYONE CAN FIND A WAY TO RUN 02:10:09:04 FOR OFFICE YOU CAN. 02:10:10:17 I MEAN, YOU HAVE LIKE A WHOLE 02:10:12:09 FAN BASE NOW. 02:10:13:27 MYSELF INCLUDED! 02:10:17:10 AND THE (INAUDIBLE). 02:10:19:14 >> I APPRECIATE THAT. 02:10:20:09 >> BUT LISTEN, D'ARCEE. 02:10:22:19 THANKS SO MUCH FOR JOINING US 02:10:24:04 TODAY AND FOR GIVING SO 02:10:25:17 GENEROUSLY OF YOUR TIME. 02:10:28:03 BEFORE YOU JUMP OFF, WHERE CAN 02:10:30:01 PEOPLE FIND YOU ON-LINE? 02:10:31:26 >> YES, I'M ON TWITTER. 02:10:33:27 THAT IS THE MOST DIRECT WAY FOR 02:10:36:04 PEOPLE TO FIND ME. 02:10:37:10 IT IS MY -- 02:10:42:06 IT IS -- 02:10:43:15 >> IT (INAUDIBLE). 02:10:45:04 >> MY MIDDLE NAME IS 02:10:48:11 CHAIRINGTON. 02:10:50:06 >> I WAS TRYING TO BE CHEEKY, I 02:10:51:25 USE A WHEELCHAIR, IT IS A LONG 02:11:02:14 BRITISH TITLE THING. 02:11:03:20 I'M ON TWITTER. 02:11:05:00 I'M ALSO ON FACEBOOK AND LOVE TO 02:11:08:01 CONNECT WITH ANYBODY. 02:11:10:11 THANK YOU. 02:11:10:23 I APPRECIATE BEING HERE. 02:11:11:15 >> THANKS SO MUCH FOR JOINING 02:11:12:15 US. 02:11:14:10 TAKE CARE D'ARCEE. 02:11:16:26 >> YOU, TOO. 02:11:17:23 >> ALL RIGHT, EVERYONE. 02:11:21:03 WE ARE GOING TO TRANSITION NOW 02:11:23:28 KINGS CAN I TURN IT OVER TO YOU 02:11:25:29 FOR JUST A MOMENT? 02:11:27:27 >> ABSOLUTELY. 02:11:28:21 ALL RIGHT. 02:11:33:05 WELL I'M STILL PROCESSING 02:11:35:00 EVERYTHING THAT JUST HAPPENED. 02:11:37:19 I HAVE WORKED WITH D'ARCEE A 02:11:39:13 COUPLE OF TIMES, BUT HE 02:11:40:29 IMPRESSES ME EVERY TIME. 02:11:43:18 D'ARCEE IF YOU ARE STILL ON THE 02:11:44:28 LINE, LET ME KNOW IF YOU NEED 02:11:46:17 VOLUNTEER COORDINATOR I'M READY 02:11:49:06 AND WILLING TO STEP UP. 02:11:50:27 BECAUSE YOU SEEM LIKE A 02:11:52:13 CANDIDATE THAT WE COULD ALL VOTE 02:11:54:08 FOR AND GET BEHIND. 02:11:57:15 SO IN THAT REGARD I'M TOTALLY, 02:12:00:01 TOTALLY APPRECIATIVE FOR YOUR 02:12:05:09 TIME AND EFFORT TODAY. 02:12:07:13 IN JUST A FEW MOMENTS -- 02:12:10:05 EMILY LADAU INTRODUCE NEXT 02:12:13:27 SEGMENT. 02:12:14:12 >> FORGIVE ME I HAD TO DISAPPEAR 02:12:18:08 FOR A MOMENT BACK NOW. 02:12:20:03 THANKS TO D'ARCEE. 02:12:21:13 AS WE MOVE INTO THE NEXT COUPLE 02:12:23:29 SEGMENTS THAT WE HAVE FOR YOU, I 02:12:26:21 REALLY ENCOURAGE YOU TO HOLD 02:12:29:01 FAST TO ALL OF THE WISDOM THAT 02:12:31:02 D'ARCEE SHARED WITH US. 02:12:33:15 SO RIGHT NOW I'M GOING TO BE 02:12:35:06 TRANSITIONING TO A VIDEO FROM 02:12:41:03 TRUMP SURROGATE LAURA TRUMP A 02:12:44:25 SENIOR ADVISOR FOR TRUMP 2020 02:12:48:09 REELECTION CAMPAIGN AND MARIA 02:12:51:01 TOWN IS GOING TO I BELIEVE DO AN 02:12:53:02 INTERVIEW WITH KATY TALENTO, IF 02:12:57:21 EVERYTHING WORKS OUT. 02:12:59:01 SO WE WILL SWITCH OVER TO THAT 02:13:00:20 VIDEO NOW AND AGAIN I WANT TO 02:13:02:24 EXPRESS MY MOST HEARTFELT THANKS 02:13:04:19 TO D'ARCEE. 02:13:05:19 >> AND WE ARE BACK. 02:16:48:24 THERE ARE DEFINITELY SOME 02:16:52:28 INTERESTING COMPARISONS THERE 02:16:56:21 BETWEEN YESTERDAY'S VIDEO AND 02:16:58:03 TODAY. 02:17:00:01 WE WOULD LOVE TO HEAR YOUR 02:17:03:02 IMMEDIATE RESPONSES. 02:17:06:00 WHAT ARE YOU THINKING? 02:17:07:10 TELL US IN THE CHAT ROOM. 02:17:13:25 TELL NEWS THE SOCIAL MEDIA FEED. 02:17:15:10 WE HAVE TIME TO VOICE SOME OF 02:17:18:18 THE AUDIENCE REACTIONS AND WE 02:17:20:00 ARE INTERESTED IN FINDING OUT 02:17:21:16 MORE. 02:17:23:01 >> YES. 02:17:23:23 I WOULD SAY ALSO DEFINITELY 02:17:26:03 INTERESTING TO SEE THE DICHOTOMY 02:17:30:10 OF THINKING AND OF OPINIONS AND 02:17:33:09 SO I REALLY, REALLY APPRECIATE 02:17:36:07 EVERYONE SHARING THEIR THOUGHTS 02:17:39:11 AND THEIR INSIGHTS, REGARDING 02:17:42:00 ALL THAT WE HAVE SEEN AND ALL OF 02:17:43:13 THE DIFFERENT PERSPECTIVES THAT 02:17:44:26 WE HAVE TAKEN IN. 02:17:46:11 AND ALSO WHAT I REALLY WANT TO 02:17:48:06 TALK ABOUT IS THE FACT THAT AS 02:17:51:16 PEOPLE ARE EXPRESSING POLITICAL 02:17:53:20 OPINIONS THE MOST IMPORTANT 02:17:55:21 THING THAT WE CAN DO IS MAKE 02:17:58:01 SURE THAT OUR VOICES AND OUR 02:18:00:05 MESSAGES ARE HEARD IN GETTING 02:18:01:24 OUT THE DISABILITY VOTES. 02:18:03:25 SO THERE IS SO MUCH INCREDIBLE 02:18:05:16 ACTIVISM GOING ON RIGHT NOW. 02:18:08:27 AND MY QUESTION IS IN THIS TIME 02:18:12:07 OF INCREDIBLE ACTIVISM, I WANT 02:18:14:08 TO KNOW WHAT EVERYBODY IS DOING 02:18:16:18 TO MAKE THEIR VOICES HEARD? 02:18:19:13 WHAT ARE YOU DOING TO 02:18:20:29 INTENTIONALLY SUPPORT 02:18:23:00 INTERSECTIONAL MOVEMENT WORK AND 02:18:27:01 ENSURING THAT WE ARE LIFTING UP 02:18:29:17 POWERFUL AND IMPORTANT VOICES, 02:18:31:21 THAT EVERYTHING THAT D'ARCEE WAS 02:18:33:28 SHARING. 02:18:34:19 I WOULD LOVE TO HEAR ABOUT THAT 02:18:36:26 IN THE COMMENTS AND KINGS, I 02:18:38:06 WOULD LOVE IF WE COULD TALK FOR 02:18:40:16 A BIT ABOUT SOME OF THE WAYS 02:18:41:29 THAT WE CAN BE ACTIVISTS AND 02:18:44:12 LIFT UP OUR VOICES RIGHT NOW AND 02:18:46:22 SUPPORT PEOPLE WHO ARE DOING 02:18:48:07 IMPORTANT WORK. 02:18:49:17 >> ABSOLUTELY. 02:18:51:15 I THINK THE FIRST THING THAT 02:18:53:00 COMES TO MIND FOR ME IS MENTAL 02:18:55:13 HEALTH. 02:18:56:20 AND SOMETHING THAT I SEE A LOT 02:18:58:24 OF MY FRIENDS AND FAMILY 02:19:02:22 STRUGGLING BECAUSE OF OUR 02:19:05:11 CURRENT SITUATION AND EVERYTHING 02:19:06:27 THAT IS GOING ON. 02:19:09:01 IT SOUNDS KIND OF CHEESY 02:19:11:08 SOMETIMES BUT YOU KNOW, ASKING 02:19:13:12 WHAT CAN I DO TO SUPPORT YOU? 02:19:16:07 WHAT ARE YOU DOING FOR SELF 02:19:17:08 CARE? 02:19:18:05 REALLY BEING COGNIZANT OF THE 02:19:20:06 FACT THAT A LOT OF OUR COMMUNITY 02:19:21:25 MEMBERS HAVE BURNOUT. 02:19:24:14 AND HOW WE CAN TALK ABOUT THAT 02:19:26:05 CONSTRUCTIVELY. 02:19:28:00 >> SO RECOGNIZING THAT WE ARE 02:19:32:17 CHATTING ABOUT A DIVERSITY OF 02:19:34:09 OPINIONS RIGHT NOW, WE ARE GOING 02:19:36:19 TO MOVE OVER TO HEAR FROM 02:19:39:17 SENATOR DUCK WORTH AND I WILL 02:19:41:21 TURN IT OVER TO MARIA AND PLEASE 02:19:44:19 FEEL FREE TO CONTINUE SHARING 02:19:46:23 ALL OF YOUR INSIGHTS ABOUT WHAT 02:19:48:18 KINGS AND I WERE JUST CHATTING 02:19:50:00 ABOUT IN THE CHAT AND WE WILL BE 02:19:51:22 BACK AFTER THIS. 02:19:52:29 >> THANK YOU EMILY AND KINGS. 02:19:56:22 IT IS NOW MY PLEASURE TO 02:19:58:13 INTRODUCE TARYN WILLIAMS AND 02:20:07:20 SENATOR DUCK WORTH WHO WILL HAVE 02:20:09:15 A CONVERSATION ABOUT THE 02:20:10:18 DISABILITY RIGHTS MOVEMENT AND 02:20:12:28 THE DISABILITY VOTE. 02:20:14:17 >> GOOD AFTERNOON EVERYONE. 02:20:16:15 THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR HAVING US 02:20:20:16 HERE TODAY. 02:20:22:08 I WANT TO JUMP RIGHT IN. 02:20:24:06 I KNOW WE DON'T HAVE A LOT OF 02:20:25:18 TIME WITH THE SENATOR. 02:20:27:04 I KNOW FOLKS ARE QUITE FAMILIAR 02:20:28:23 WITH THE WORK THAT SENATOR DUCK 02:20:32:03 WORTH HAS DONE AS A LEADER OF 02:20:33:19 THE GREAT STATE OF ILLINOIS. 02:20:36:05 SO IN THE TIME THAT WE HAVE IN 02:20:38:00 THIS CHAT, I WOULD LOVE TO JUST 02:20:39:28 START BY ASKING YOU SENATOR, 02:20:42:02 WHAT IS YOUR EXPERIENCE? 02:20:44:12 DO YOU THINK WE SHOULD BE DOING 02:20:47:01 TO HELP TO INCREASE THE 02:20:48:13 DISABILITY VOTE? 02:20:56:04 >> MAKING SURE THAT YOU GUYS CAN 02:20:57:23 HEAR ME? 02:20:59:08 OKAY, GREAT! 02:21:00:06 I THINK THAT WE NEED TO BE 02:21:01:21 FIGHTING VERY, VERY HARD TO MAKE 02:21:03:19 SURE THAT PERSONS WHO ARE 02:21:05:26 DIFFERENTLY ABLED, CONCERNS WITH 02:21:07:18 DISABILITIES, FIGHT FOR ABILITY 02:21:10:10 TO ACTUALLY GET TO VOTE. 02:21:14:09 THERE ARE SO MANY OPPORTUNITIES 02:21:16:28 FOR FOLKS WHO TRY TO, YOU KNOW, 02:21:20:26 SUPPRESS THE VOTE, TO SAY THAT 02:21:22:27 YOU CANNOT GO VOTE. 02:21:24:22 BY EVERYTHING MAKING SURE THAT 02:21:26:26 YOU HAVE VOTER ID LAWS TO TRYING 02:21:30:00 TO RESTRICT MAIL-IN VOTING, MANY 02:21:34:26 PEOPLE WITH DISABILITIES HAVE A 02:21:36:00 HARD TIME GETTING TO THE POLLS. 02:21:38:13 LOOK AT WHAT HAPPENED IN GEORGIA 02:21:39:16 A COUPLE OF WEEKS AGO WITH 02:21:40:29 PRIMARY ELECTION PEOPLE WERE IN 02:21:42:12 LINE FOR 8 HOURS WAITING IN LINE 02:21:44:13 TO VOTE, SEE THE IMPORTANCE OF 02:21:45:25 THE ABILITY TO VOTE BY MAIL. 02:21:47:11 PRESIDENT TRUMP AND THE ENTIRE 02:21:48:12 TRUMP FAMILY FROM WHAT I'M 02:21:50:03 UNDERSTANDING VOTE BY MAIL. 02:21:52:04 IF IT IS GOOD ENOUGH FOR HIM IT 02:21:54:02 SHOULD BE GOOD ENOUGH FOR THOSE 02:21:55:15 OF US WHO HAVE A DIFFICULT TIME 02:21:57:03 MAKING IT TO THE POLLS OURSELVES 02:21:58:19 AND WE SHOULD BE ABLE TO VOTE BY 02:22:00:20 MAIL. 02:22:01:08 WE NEED TO REGISTER PEOPLE TO 02:22:03:12 VOTE AS WELL AND PARTICIPATE IN 02:22:04:25 THAT PROCESS, TO MAKE OUR VOICES 02:22:06:26 HEARD. 02:22:08:05 AND THEN SORT OF TANGENTIALLY TO 02:22:11:00 THE VOTING ASPECT AND GETTING 02:22:13:10 REGISTERED AND SHOWING UP TO 02:22:14:23 VOTE IS GETTING YOURSELF COUNTED 02:22:16:09 AS PART OF THE CENSUS. 02:22:18:04 THE CENSUS IS STILL ONGOING. 02:22:20:02 AND FOR EVERY PERSON THAT IS NOT 02:22:21:26 COUNTED IN THE CENSUS, YOUR 02:22:25:07 PARTICULAR STATE WILL LOSE 02:22:27:17 ANYWHERE FROM 900 TO 1800 PER 02:22:30:00 YEAR IN FEDERAL DOLLARS THAT 02:22:31:03 THEY WILL NOT GET TO SUPPORT 02:22:32:28 THAT PERSON. 02:22:34:20 AND SO GETTING YOURSELF COUNT 02:22:36:06 SAID REALLY CRITICAL FOR THINGS 02:22:38:03 LIKE MEDICAID AND MEDICARE AND 02:22:40:20 MAKING SURE THAT THE SOCIAL 02:22:42:02 SERVICE PROGRAMS THAT SO MANY OF 02:22:43:27 US WHO HAVE -- 02:22:45:00 WHO HAVE PHYSICAL CHALLENGES AND 02:22:47:01 DO RELY ON. 02:22:48:23 SO IT IS REALLY JUST 02:22:50:03 PARTICIPATING IN THE PROCESS AND 02:22:53:04 MAKING SURE THAT YOUR VOTE IS 02:22:54:20 COUNTED. 02:22:55:17 YOU AS A HUMAN BEING ARE COUNTED 02:22:57:24 AS WELL SO YOU DO NOT FALL 02:22:59:16 THROUGH THE CRACKS. 02:23:00:29 >> THANKS SO MUCH. 02:23:01:11 THANKS FOR MENTIONING THE CENSUS 02:23:02:27 AND JUST HOW IMPORTANT IT IS TO 02:23:06:16 VOTE BY MAIL. 02:23:07:13 I KNOW THAT IN YOUR ROLE YOU ARE 02:23:08:26 A CHAMPION FOR A WHOLE NUMBER OF 02:23:11:27 CAUSES FOR YOUR FELLOW VETERANS 02:23:14:04 OF THE ARMED FORCES, FOR THE 02:23:15:14 DISABILITY VOTE, AND I'M 02:23:17:12 WONDERING AS YOU REFLECT ON YOUR 02:23:19:06 CAREER, WHAT IS IT THAT YOU ARE 02:23:21:07 MOST PROUD OF? 02:23:23:24 >> WELL, I'M VERY PROUD OF MY 02:23:25:24 SERVICE IN THE MILITARY, BUT I'M 02:23:27:19 ALSO VERY, VERY PROUD OF THE 02:23:29:23 WORK THAT I'M NOW GETTING TO DO 02:23:32:09 FOR THE DISABILITY COMMUNITY AND 02:23:34:13 IT IS ONGOING. 02:23:36:08 WE ARE NOWHERE NEAR WHERE WE 02:23:37:21 NEED TO BE. 02:23:39:03 I TALK ALL THE TIME TO MY 02:23:40:28 COLLEAGUES AND IT IS TIME TO GO 02:23:43:05 ON THE OFFENSE WHEN IT COMES TO 02:23:44:18 DISABILITY ACCESS. 02:23:45:21 I MEAN, WE ARE COMING UP ON 30 02:23:49:10 YEARS SINCE ADA AND STILL IN 02:23:52:00 DEFENSIVE MODE. 02:23:53:21 STILL ASKING RETAIL STORES TO BE 02:23:55:16 MADE ACCESSIBLE. 02:23:56:25 WE ARE STILL FIGHTING FOR ACCESS 02:24:00:27 WHEN TIME AND AGAIN WE KNOW THIS 02:24:02:12 IS CIVIL RIGHT. 02:24:04:29 I FEEL LIKE WE SHOULD BE ON THE 02:24:05:29 OFFENSIVE. 02:24:07:12 GIVE YOU AN EXAMPLE. 02:24:08:09 GIVEN A TOUR OF CHICAGO TRANSIT 02:24:10:25 AUTHORITY, THE L, OUR SUBWAY 02:24:13:08 SYSTEM IN CHICAGO AND THE 02:24:15:09 LEADERSHIP WERE VERY PROUD TO 02:24:16:13 TAKE ME TO A NEWLY REFURBISHED 02:24:18:11 STATION AND SAID LOOK THIS IS 02:24:20:02 FULLY ADA ACCESSIBLE AND WE HAVE 02:24:22:18 A PLAN IN 20 YEARS, EVERY SINGLE 02:24:25:05 STATION WILL BE ADA ACCESSIBLE, 02:24:27:06 PUTTING AN EFFORT INTO THIS AND 02:24:29:03 I LOOKED AT THEM AND SAY WHAT 02:24:30:28 YOU ARE TELLING ME HALF CENTURY 02:24:32:23 AFTER PASSAGE OF ADA IS WHEN WE 02:24:35:09 WILL BE MADE ACCESSIBLE? 02:24:37:04 THAT IS NOT ACCEPTABLE. 02:24:38:17 WE NEED TO MAKE IT NOW. 02:24:39:23 I HAVE BEEN WORKING ON 02:24:40:18 LEGISLATION THAT WOULD PROVIDE 02:24:42:03 FUNDING FOR BUSINESSES, FOR 02:24:44:13 SMALL BUSINESSES, AND ALSO I 02:24:48:21 WOULD LIKE TO START A GRANT 02:24:50:19 PROGRAM UNDER DEPARTMENT OF 02:24:51:19 TRANSPORTATION SO THAT TRANSIT 02:24:53:05 AUTHORITIES AS WELL AS MALL 02:24:53:29 BUSINESSES CAN APPLY FOR MONEY 02:24:55:12 IN ORDER TO MAKE THEIR PREMISES 02:24:57:25 ACCESSIBLE. 02:24:58:23 I WANT US TO SWITCH TO AN OWE 02:25:01:09 PHONESSIVE MODE INSTEAD OF JUST 02:25:02:27 DEFENSIVE IN TRYING TO STOP 02:25:07:26 EROSION OF ADA. 02:25:10:09 >> I LOVE YOU THAT MENTION 02:25:11:13 OFFENSIVE MODE. 02:25:13:17 I'M FAMILIAR WITH THE L I WAS IN 02:25:15:14 CHICAGO A DECADE AGO AND I 02:25:17:00 REMEMBER SOME OF THE CHALLENGES 02:25:18:04 THERE. 02:25:18:22 AS WE MOVE IN TO JULY, AND THE 02:25:22:08 CELEBRATION OF THE 30th 02:25:24:12 ANNIVERSARY OF THE ADA, AS YOU 02:25:27:02 SAY, WE ARE FIGHTING MANY 02:25:28:23 DIFFERENT BATTLES ON DIFFERENT 02:25:30:18 FRONTS, BUT I'M WONDERING FOR 02:25:32:16 THE AUDIENCE, WHAT WOULD YOU SAY 02:25:34:11 IS THE BIGGEST AND MOST 02:25:35:17 IMPORTANT POLICY ISSUE THAT WE 02:25:38:03 AS A COMMUNITY SHOULD BE 02:25:42:14 COALESCING AROUND AS WE GO INTO 02:25:44:12 THE COMING MONTHS? 02:25:45:21 >> WELL, I THINK WE NEED TO 02:25:47:01 REALLY PUSH CIVIL RIGHTS. 02:25:50:21 CIVIL RIGHTS OF PERSONS WITH 02:25:50:24 DISABILITIES, BOTH AS DISABILITY 02:25:53:13 COMMUNITY BUT ALSO FOR THOSE OF 02:25:54:22 US WHO ARE PEOPLE ARE COLOR. 02:25:56:14 YOU KNOW, WE TALK ABOUT POLICE 02:25:58:15 INVOLVED DEATHS AND SHOOTINGS 02:26:00:16 AND THE INHERENT SYSTEMIC RACISM 02:26:03:08 THAT EXISTS IN OUR CRIMINAL 02:26:05:15 JUSTICE SYSTEM. 02:26:06:21 BUT WE HAVE TO TALK ABOUT THE 02:26:09:01 FACT THAT THERE IS, YOU KNOW, AN 02:26:13:00 INHERENT BIAS AGAINST PEOPLE 02:26:14:15 WITH DISABILITIES. 02:26:15:13 HOW MANY HEARING IMPAIRED 02:26:17:23 INDIVIDUALS HAVE ACTUALLY BEEN 02:26:20:18 TASED OR SHOT AND KILLED BY 02:26:23:25 POLICE OFFICERS WHO DON'T 02:26:30:01 UNDERSTAND THAT YOU CAN NOT HEAR 02:26:31:08 THEIR WRITTEN COMMAND -- 02:26:33:09 THEIR SPOKEN COMMAND. 02:26:34:00 THERE IS NOT SUFFICIENT TRAINING 02:26:34:15 IN THE POLICE FORCES. 02:26:37:07 SO I OBVIOUSLY WE HAVE TO WORK 02:26:39:29 FIRST AND FOREMOST AGAINST 02:26:42:06 INHERENT RACISM THAT EXISTS IN 02:26:44:19 OUR CRIMINAL JUSTICE SYSTEM AND 02:26:46:29 WE NEED SO HAVE OURSELVES 02:26:48:24 COUNTED AS PART OF THAT 02:26:49:27 COMMUNITY SO THAT PEOPLE WITH 02:26:50:24 DISABILITIES ARE ALSO ADDRESSED 02:26:52:26 IN TERMS OF HOW WE INTER ACT 02:26:55:18 WITH OUR CRIMINAL JUSTICE 02:26:57:09 SYSTEM. 02:27:02:12 I MEAN, EVERYTHING FROM THE FACT 02:27:03:15 THAT WHEN ICE TAKEN PEOPLE INTO 02:27:08:05 DETENTION TAKEN AWAY THEIR 02:27:10:15 PROSTHETIC LIMBS THEY ARE LIKE 02:27:12:28 YOU COULD USE YOUR PROSTHETIC 02:27:14:23 LIMB AS A WEAPON. 02:27:16:08 YOU HAVE TAKEN AWAY A PERSON'S 02:27:17:21 LIMB WHILE THEY ARE IN 02:27:19:04 DETENTION. 02:27:20:01 THAT IS INHUMANE AND THAT 02:27:21:17 VIOLATES A PERSON'S CIVIL 02:27:23:18 RIGHTS. 02:27:24:21 PEOPLE WITH DISABILITIES HAVE 02:27:25:09 INHERENT CIVIL RIGHTS TO ACCESS 02:27:27:04 ANYTHING THAT YOU KNOW, THE 02:27:28:23 REGULAR POPULATION CAN BE ABLE 02:27:31:03 TO ACCESS. 02:27:32:00 THINGS LIKE AFFORDABLE HEALTH 02:27:33:07 CARE, INSURANCE MAKING SURE THAT 02:27:38:24 WE HAVE PREVENTATIVE HEALTH 02:27:41:07 CARE, WE DON'T PAY CO-PAYS FOR, 02:27:46:15 ACCESS TO REPRODUCTIVE RIGHTS, 02:27:48:16 ACCESS TO LIVE THE LIVES WE WANT 02:27:49:26 IN THE COMMUNITIES WE WANT TO 02:27:51:02 LIVE IN. 02:27:52:06 ALL OF THESE THINGS ARE PART OF 02:27:53:15 OUR CIVIL RIGHTS AND NOW THAT WE 02:27:54:28 ARE HAVING THIS GREATER 02:27:56:05 DISCUSSION ABOUT CIVIL RIGHTS, 02:27:57:11 IN THE NATION, WE NEED TO MAKE 02:27:59:27 SURE THAT WE INCORPORATE 02:28:03:23 DISABLED PERSONS AND DISABLED 02:28:05:24 PERSONS OF COLOR, CIVIL RIGHTS 02:28:07:12 INTO THE NATIONAL DIALOGUE. 02:28:09:07 >> THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR SAYING 02:28:12:12 THAT. 02:28:13:27 AND I KNOW WE HAVE ABOUT A 02:28:15:01 MINUTE LEFT. 02:28:16:10 IS THERE ANY ADDITIONAL THOUGHT 02:28:18:26 THAT WITH YOU LIKE TO LEAVE WITH 02:28:20:03 THE AUDIENCE? 02:28:22:16 I KNOW WE HAVE FOLKS 02:28:22:16 REPRESENTING PEOPLE WITH 02:28:23:10 DISABILITIES ALL ACROSS THE 02:28:25:05 COUNTRY WHO ARE COMMITTED TO THE 02:28:27:15 FIGHT AND THE RIGHTS THAT WE 02:28:31:10 KNOW WE NEED. 02:28:34:02 ANY FINAL WORDS WOULD YOU SHARE? 02:28:35:18 >> WELL THAT THE FIGHT IS NOT 02:28:37:28 OVER. 02:28:39:13 I HOPE THAT WE TAKE 30th 02:28:41:02 ANNIVERSARY OF ADA AS AN 02:28:43:03 OPPORTUNITY NOT JUST TO REST ON 02:28:46:04 OUR LAURELS AND NOT TO LOOK BACK 02:28:48:05 BUT TO FIGHT AND MOVE FORWARD IN 02:28:49:15 THE FIGHT THAT WE STILL HAVE IN 02:28:51:07 FRONT OF US. 02:28:52:19 YOU KNOW, WE DO HAVE ATTEMPTS BY 02:28:54:14 TRUMP ADMINISTRATION TO GUT 02:28:58:13 AFFORDABLE CARE ACT FOR EXAMPLE 02:29:00:05 WE NEED TO FIGHT THAT EFFORT AND 02:29:02:09 MAKE SURE THAT PEOPLE WITH 02:29:03:15 PREEXISTING CONDITIONS THAT OUR 02:29:05:04 HEALTH CARE IS COVERED THAT WE 02:29:06:20 MOVE FORWARD ABOUT W THAT. 02:29:08:09 WE NEED TO COME TOGETHER AS A 02:29:09:15 COMMUNITY AND MAKE SURE THAT WE 02:29:14:05 MOVE OUR AGENDA TO FOREFRONT OF 02:29:15:27 THE NATIONAL DIALOGUE AND THAT 02:29:17:03 IS GOING TO TAKE THE NEXT 02:29:18:09 GENERATION, LIKE WE HAVE HAD THE 02:29:20:10 HANDOFF FROM THE PREVIOUS 02:29:21:14 GENERATION TO OUR GENERATION, 02:29:23:06 AND NOW IT IS ON US TO TAKE THIS 02:29:25:16 NEXT FIGHT. 02:29:26:13 YOU KNOW, I WAS NOT THERE TO 02:29:28:11 CRAWL UP STEPS OF THE CAPITAL TO 02:29:30:18 FIGHT FOR PASSAGE OF THE ADA. 02:29:32:22 I GET TO ROLL ACROSS THE FLOOR 02:29:35:11 OF THE CAPITAL BECAUSE THE FOLKS 02:29:38:21 CRAWLED UP THE STEPS. 02:29:40:10 NOW IT IS MY RESPONSIBILITY TO 02:29:41:10 TAKE THAT FIGHT TO NEXT STEP AND 02:29:42:26 I'M SO GLAD TO JOIN WITH YOU ALL 02:29:44:18 ON THIS CALL TO MAKE SURE WE 02:29:46:10 FIGHT FOR THOSE RIGHTS. 02:29:48:11 WE ARE NOWHERE NEAR DONE AND 02:29:50:00 ATTEMPTS TO ERODE CIVIL RIGHTS 02:29:52:15 CONTINUE ON A DAILY BASIS AND WE 02:29:57:02 CANNOT REST. 02:29:59:06 WE MUST PUSH ONWARD. 02:30:00:28 >> THANKS SO MUCH WE WILL END 02:30:02:11 THERE. 02:30:02:29 WE CANNOT REST AT ALL. 02:30:04:12 THANKS FOR YOUR LEADERSHIP 02:30:05:27 SENATOR DUCKWORTH AND THANKS FOR 02:30:09:13 JOINING US TODAY. 02:30:12:03 >> THANKS FOR HAVING ME ON. 02:30:13:15 >> THANKS BYE-BYE. 02:30:14:13 >> BYE-BYE. 02:30:15:07 >> THANKS TO TARYN WILLIAMS AND 02:30:32:07 SENATOR DUCKWORTH FOR AN 02:30:34:11 ENGAGING CONVERSATION WE REALLY 02:30:36:21 APPRECIATE IT. 02:30:37:12 >> THAT WAS AMAZING. 02:30:39:07 THANKS FOR SPEAKING ON THE 02:30:40:23 IMPORTANCE OF REPRESENTATION AND 02:30:42:12 OFFICE AND ELECTED OFFICIALS. 02:30:44:27 I'M ALWAYS A HUGE PERSONAL FAN. 02:30:50:15 >> WONDERFUL. 02:30:51:24 >> SO, WE ARE JUST DOUBLE 02:30:54:07 CHECKING ON OUR NEXT SPEAKER 02:31:00:00 WHICH I BELIEVE WILL BE MARIA IN 02:31:04:14 CONVERSATION WITH KATY TALENTO. 02:31:07:24 TAKE IT AWAY MARIA AND KATY. 02:31:12:14 >> THANK YOU EMILY AND KINGS. 02:31:15:06 MAKE SURE THAT KATY HAS HER 02:31:18:08 VIDEO ON. 02:31:19:08 >> HI. 02:31:26:22 >> GREAT TO SEE YOU KATY THANKS 02:31:29:08 FOR BEING HERE. 02:31:30:09 SO EVERYONE CAN KNOW A BIT ABOUT 02:31:31:27 YOU, KATY IS THE HEAD OF KFT 02:31:39:24 FORMER WHITE HOUSE HELP YOUR 02:31:42:19 POLICY LEAD IN POLICY COUNCIL 02:31:44:29 PRIOR TO WORKING IN THE WHITE 02:31:45:21 HOUSE TRAINED AS AN 02:31:49:13 EPIDEMIOLOGIST AND WORKED IN A 02:31:51:11 VARIETY OF CAPACITIES ON CAPITOL 02:31:52:17 HILL. 02:31:53:21 HERE TODAY AS A SURROGATE FOR 02:31:55:12 THE TRUMP CAMPAIGN, SO THANK YOU 02:31:57:19 KATY FOR BEING HERE. 02:31:58:29 >> THANK YOU. 02:32:02:09 >> WE JUST HEARD IN A VIDEO FROM 02:32:05:11 LAURA TRUMP SOME OF THE 02:32:06:11 ACCOMPLISHMENTS OF THE TRUMP 02:32:08:00 CAMPAIGN AS IT RELATES TO 02:32:09:00 DISABILITY COMMUNITY AND 02:32:10:13 DISABILITY RIGHTS. 02:32:12:14 WE ARE REALLY INTERESTED IN 02:32:15:09 HEARING MORE ABOUT WHAT 02:32:18:07 PRESIDENT TRUMP WILL DO IN HIS 02:32:20:02 SECOND TERM IF HE IS REELECTED 02:32:22:21 AND SPECIFICALLY, HOW HE WILL 02:32:26:01 ENSURE HEALTH CARE PROTECTIONS 02:32:28:24 AND HOUSING PROTECTIONS FOR 02:32:31:22 PEOPLE WITH DISABILITIES. 02:32:32:25 >> THANKS SO MUCH FOR HAVING ME 02:32:33:29 HERE AND THANK YOU ALL FOR PO 02:32:37:09 PARTICIPATING IN THIS FORUM AND 02:32:39:10 TAKING TIME OUT OF YOUR DAY. 02:32:41:14 I KNOW IT IS NOT EASY TO BUILD 02:32:44:03 TIME FOR EFFICACY INTO BUSY 02:32:47:07 SCHEDULES. 02:32:48:11 I APPRECIATE WHAT YOU ARE ALL 02:32:49:24 DOING TO FACILITATE THERE THANKS 02:32:51:15 IT IS AN HONOR TO BE AMONG YOU. 02:32:53:25 I WANT TO TALK A BIT ABOUT SOME 02:32:55:11 OF THE SPECIFICS OF THE 02:32:56:06 PRESIDENT'S RECORD, BECAUSE 02:32:58:18 SECOND TERM AGENDA BUILDS ON 02:33:00:29 THAT UNFINISHED BUSINESS AND SO 02:33:03:03 I THINK WHERE I WOULD LOVE TO 02:33:05:09 START IS IN SOME OF THE ECONOMIC 02:33:06:16 OPPORTUNITIES. 02:33:08:05 I KNOW THAT LAURA IN HER VIDEO 02:33:11:09 ALLUDED TO SOME OF THIS. 02:33:13:04 BUT ONE OF THE REALLY IMPORTANT 02:33:14:01 ISSUES THAT I THINK DOES NOT GET 02:33:16:23 ENOUGH ATTENTION IS THIS IDEA 02:33:18:27 THAT YOU KNOW, IF YOU HAVE A 02:33:24:08 DISABILITY THAT YOU CAN BE PAID 02:33:25:27 LESS THAN MINIMUM WAGE. 02:33:27:24 AND SO ONE OF THE KEY IMPORTANT 02:33:30:20 ACHIEVEMENTS I THINK THAT THE 02:33:32:18 TRUMP ADMINISTRATION HAS WORKED 02:33:34:15 ON AND I THINK WILL CONTINUE TO 02:33:36:01 WORK ON IN THE SECOND TERM IS 02:33:38:11 THIS IDEA THAT IT IS JUST 02:33:40:06 UNCONSCIENCABLE. 02:33:42:22 THAT ANY AMERICAN WOULD BE PAID 02:33:43:25 LESS THAN MINIMUM WAGE, SURELY 02:33:45:27 ON THE BASIS OF DISABILITY OR ON 02:33:47:24 ANY BASIS HONESTLY. 02:33:51:11 WE USED TO THINK THAT MINIMUM 02:33:52:27 AND MINIMUM -- 02:33:55:06 IN SOME PEOPLE'S MINDS I WORRY 02:33:57:01 THAT EVEN SOME PEOPLE IN STATE 02:33:58:26 GOVERNMENTS AND LOCAL 02:34:00:09 GOVERNMENTS THINK THAT SUB 02:34:01:12 MINIMUM WAGE MEANS SUB-HUMAN 02:34:04:28 WAGE AND IT IS INEXCUSABLE. 02:34:07:18 AS LONG AS PEOPLE WITH 02:34:08:21 DISABILITIES ARE UNDERVALUED IN 02:34:10:10 THE WORKPLACE, OUR ECONOMIC 02:34:11:26 RECORD AND TRUMP ADMINISTRATION 02:34:13:11 IS INCOMPLETE AND WE HAVE MORE 02:34:15:18 TO DO BUT THERE HAS BEEN SOME 02:34:17:19 MOVEMENT ON THIS, SOME PROGRESS 02:34:18:26 THAT WE HAVE MADE. 02:34:20:21 DURING THE ADMINISTRATION I 02:34:21:21 WANTED TO TALK ABOUT THE ABILITY 02:34:24:01 ONE PROGRAM WHICH, YOU KNOW, AS 02:34:26:02 YOU KNOW, CONTROLS THE FLOW OF 02:34:27:24 CONTRACTS FROM THE FEDERAL 02:34:28:21 GOVERNMENT TO ORGANIZATIONS THAT 02:34:30:10 SERVE PEOPLE WITH DISABILITIES. 02:34:31:22 WE FINALLY GOT SOURCE AMERICA, 02:34:34:05 ONE OF THE KEY PARTNERS TO AGREE 02:34:36:15 TO ELIMINATE SUB MINIMUM WAGE 02:34:39:14 UNDER 14-C PROVISION IN THEIR 02:34:42:09 PROGRAM WITHIN THREE YEARS. 02:34:44:01 GREAT NEWS BUT I THINK YOU WILL 02:34:45:23 SEE IN TERM TWO THAT THE 02:34:47:27 ADMINISTRATION WILL BE 02:34:48:24 CONTINUING TO HOLD THEIR FEET TO 02:34:50:16 THE FIRE ON THAT AND ANY OTHER 02:34:52:17 PROGRESS THAT RELY ON THOSE 02:34:54:12 TYPES OF APPROACHES. 02:34:56:27 I THINK THAT YOU KNOW, IN THE 02:34:59:07 30th ANNIVERSARY OF THE ADA, 02:35:01:09 THERE IS SO MUCH TO CELEBRATE, 02:35:03:27 BUT A LOT OF UNFINISHED 02:35:05:28 BUSINESS, TOO AND ONE OF THE 02:35:07:23 AREAS THAT I THINK THERE IS MORE 02:35:09:15 TO DO ON, IT IS SORT OF THAT 02:35:11:01 UGLY DISCRIMINATION AGAINST 02:35:13:14 PEOPLE WITH DISABILITIES AND 02:35:16:00 THESE ISSUES THAT UNDERMINE 02:35:17:25 HUMAN DIGNITY AND SOME OF THE 02:35:19:16 KEY PRIORITIES THAT WE HAVE PUT 02:35:21:20 FORWARD WHEN I WAS IN THE WHITE 02:35:23:15 HOUSE AND SINCE I HAVE LEFT THAT 02:35:26:04 ADMINISTRATION IS WORKING ON HOW 02:35:28:08 TO DEAL WITH THESE JUSTICE AND 02:35:30:27 SOCIAL JUSTICE ISSUES OF EQUITY 02:35:33:07 AND ENFORCEMENT. 02:35:34:20 WHAT I'M TALKING ABOUT, WHEN I 02:35:37:03 ALLUDE TO THESE HAVE TO DO WITH 02:35:40:01 THINGS LIKE WHAT THE NATIONAL 02:35:41:05 COUNCIL ON DISABILITIES 02:35:42:12 UNCOVERED IN THEIR BIOETHICS 02:35:44:21 SERIES. 02:35:45:07 SO WITH RESPECT TO GENETIC 02:35:47:29 TISSING AND ORGAN 02:35:49:24 TRANSPLANTATION AND WHEN YOUR IN 02:35:52:01 THE WHITE HOUSE AGENCY PEOPLE 02:35:53:07 COME TO YOU AND THEY WANT TO 02:35:54:23 BRAG ABOUT THE AWESOME THINGSER 02:35:56:12 THIS DOING AND GET ATTENTION 02:35:57:15 ACCOLADES AND I WILL NEVER 02:36:01:23 FORGIVE DEPARTMENT OF HUMAN 02:36:03:05 SERVICES CIVIL RIGHTS OFFICIALS 02:36:05:03 COMING TO ME AND SAYING KATY YOU 02:36:07:07 WILL NOT BELIEVE THIS OUTRAGEOUS 02:36:09:17 PROBLEM WITH A PATIENT WITH 02:36:11:06 AUTISM WAS DENIED BEING ON THE 02:36:13:07 TRANSPLANT BECAUSE OF HIS 02:36:15:26 DISABILITY. 02:36:16:17 AND THEY WERE SO EXCITED TO PUT 02:36:22:07 SMACKDOWN ON THAT ACTION AND 02:36:23:26 NEGOTIATE A RESOLUTION WITH THE 02:36:28:13 ORGANIZATION AND INTERVENE AND 02:36:29:16 THE HOSPITAL REVERSED COURSE. 02:36:31:08 THAT IS ONE OF THE KEY 02:36:32:09 ACCOMPLISHMENTS BUT THERE ARE 02:36:34:03 OTHERS THAT ARE SIMILAR TO THAT, 02:36:35:28 FOR INSTANCE, THEY INTERVENED IN 02:36:40:12 OREGON WITH TWO PARENTS WITH 02:36:43:01 INTELLECTUAL DISABILITIES WHO 02:36:44:26 HAD CHILDREN REMOVED. 02:36:48:06 FOUND STEREOTYPE AND ASSUMPTION 02:36:48:24 THAT THEY ARE SOMEHOW UNFIT TO 02:36:51:22 PARENT AND INTERVENED IN OREGON 02:36:53:23 AND RESTORED THE CHILDREN TO 02:36:55:15 THEIR PARENTS I THINK THAT THE 02:36:58:01 CORONAVIRUS HAS SORT OF 02:36:59:19 UNLEASHED A NUMBER OF PROBLEMS 02:37:01:08 IN THIS SAME -- 02:37:03:21 ALONG THE SAME VEINS. 02:37:06:10 AND WE HAVE SEEN, I THINK KIND 02:37:07:23 OF SCARY TRIAGE TACTICS OUT 02:37:11:06 THERE THAT THE ADMINISTRATION 02:37:13:28 HAS REALLY CLAMPED DOWN ON AND I 02:37:16:11 HAVE BEEN PROUD TO WATCH THEM DO 02:37:18:03 IT. 02:37:19:19 IN APRIL THEY TOOK ACTION 02:37:21:01 AGAINST PENNSYLVANIA TRIAGE PLAN 02:37:23:18 THAT WOULD HAVE DENIED LIFE 02:37:25:06 SAVING HERE TO PEOPLE WITH 02:37:27:10 DISABILITIES AND SIMILARLY IN 02:37:28:26 ALABAMA PLANNING ON VENTILATOR 02:37:30:17 RATIONING FOR PEOPLE WITH 02:37:32:24 DISABILITIES AND YOU KNOW, 02:37:37:11 INTERVENTION BY THE DEPARTMENT 02:37:38:27 TURNED THESE PROBLEMS AROUND. 02:37:41:03 THERE IS STILL A LOT OF WORK TO 02:37:42:13 DO IN THIS AREA AND OF COURSE 02:37:44:11 NOT TO LET (INAUDIBLE) GET 02:37:46:24 ACCOLADES BUT THE DEPARTMENT OF 02:37:48:10 EDUCATION DURING THE CORONAVIRUS 02:37:50:02 HAS PUT OUT BULLETINS THAT THE 02:37:52:09 CORONAVIRUS IS NO EXCUSE TO DENY 02:37:54:12 STUDENTS THEIR RIGHTS UNDER 02:37:57:14 SECTION 504 OF THE 02:37:59:02 REHABILITATION ACT. 02:38:00:18 THESE EQUITY AND JUSTICE ISSUES 02:38:02:19 ARE IMPORTANT BUT MORE TO BUILD 02:38:04:11 ON IN A SECOND TERM. 02:38:06:00 SO I THINK ONE OF THE KEY 02:38:07:18 ELEMENTS THAT WE MIGHT SEE IS 02:38:09:13 AROUND THESE SO-CALLED RIGHT TO 02:38:13:18 DIE LAWS IN STATES THAT YOU 02:38:16:00 KNOW, WE ARE WORRIED, I'M REALLY 02:38:18:23 WORRIED THAT SOME OF THESE RIGHT 02:38:20:02 TO DIE IDEAS ARE GOING TO MORPH 02:38:23:28 INTO A DUTY TO DIE OF PEOPLE 02:38:25:08 WITH DISABILITIES THAT ARE 02:38:26:14 TREATED DIFFERENTLY WHEN THEY 02:38:27:24 HAVE SUICIDE IDEATIONS, SUED 02:38:31:13 SIDEALITY, WHEN PEOPLE WITHOUT 02:38:36:18 DISABILITY EXPRESS SUICIDE IDEAS 02:38:41:02 RESPONSE IS TO BRING EVERY 02:38:42:12 SUPPORT YOU CAN, HOT LINES AND 02:38:43:18 MENTAL HEALTH ASSISTANCE AND ALL 02:38:45:28 OF THE RESOURCES ARE SUPPOSED TO 02:38:47:23 BE BROUGHT TO BEAR, SOMEHOW IF 02:38:50:06 YOU ARE LIVING WITH A 02:38:51:03 DISABILITY, PAGE DR. KEVORKIAN. 02:38:54:17 I WOULD SAY THAT A SECOND TERM 02:38:56:03 PRIORITY, I THINK WE MIGHT SEE 02:38:57:18 ENFORCEMENT AROUND THE POTENTIAL 02:39:00:04 DISCRIMINATORY APPROACH TO SOME 02:39:03:24 OF THESE LAWS, I THINK YOU WILL 02:39:05:22 SEE ENFORCEMENT AROUND THE 02:39:07:04 ASSISTED SUICIDE FUNDING 02:39:08:26 RESTRICTION ACT, WHICH, YOU 02:39:10:18 KNOW, KEEPS TAXPAYER DOLLARS 02:39:12:13 AWAY FROM ASSISTED SUICIDE AS 02:39:20:25 THEY SHOULD BE AND THAT IS 02:39:22:02 IMPORTANT. 02:39:22:21 THAT LAW PASSED WITH 02:39:23:09 OVERWHELMING BIPARTISAN SUPPORT 02:39:26:01 IN THE NINETIES I BELIEVE AND 02:39:28:05 THERE MAY BE SOME ROOM FOR 02:39:29:24 ENFORCEMENT ON THAT POINT. 02:39:31:09 I THINK YOU WILL SEE SOME OF 02:39:33:04 THAT. 02:39:34:02 ANOTHER AREA THAT I'M EXCITED 02:39:35:21 ABOUT, LOOKING FORWARD TO SECOND 02:39:38:06 TERM BOLSTERED AGENDA ON IS 02:39:40:26 ACCESSIBLE MEDICINE. 02:39:43:24 IN THIS POINT, YOU KNOW, IF YOU 02:39:45:19 ARE A WOMAN WHO USES A 02:39:46:22 WHEELCHAIR IT IS HARD TO GET A 02:39:49:15 MAMMOGRAM. 02:39:50:09 A MAN WHO USES A WHEELCHAIR, 02:39:53:07 VERY FEW OF YOU GET DIGITAL 02:39:55:02 PROSTATE EXAMS CRITICAL TO BE 02:39:57:18 SCREENING INTERVENTIONS ARE NOT 02:39:59:04 AS ACCESSIBLE. 02:40:00:16 AND OF COURSE WE TALK FOR YEARS 02:40:02:11 AND YEARS PEOPLE WITH DOWN'S 02:40:04:03 SYNDROME WHO HAD HEART ATTACKS 02:40:06:04 BECAUSE THEY WERE GETTING 02:40:07:01 INFECTIONS FROM LACK OF DENTAL 02:40:10:03 CARE. 02:40:10:21 ONE OF THE KEY THINGS WE HAVE 02:40:12:22 SEEN HAPPEN IN RECENT YEARS 02:40:14:07 NATIONAL COUNCIL ON DISABILITIES 02:40:15:14 AND TRUMP ADMINISTRATION WORKING 02:40:16:18 WITH DENTAL ASSOCIATIONS TO 02:40:18:03 AGREE THAT THEY MUST TREAT 02:40:20:01 PEOPLE WITH DISABILITIES. 02:40:21:10 I THINK THAT YOU KNOW, THERE MAY 02:40:23:08 BE A NEED IN THIS AREA FOR MORE 02:40:25:15 ENFORCEMENT. 02:40:26:22 WORKING WITH MEDICAL 02:40:27:25 ASSOCIATIONS, WE ARE READY, 02:40:30:05 OFFER CREDITS AND FINANCIAL 02:40:32:12 INCENTIVES TO RETROFIT AND BUY 02:40:34:22 EQUIPMENT AND MAY BE IN THE 02:40:35:26 SECOND TERM WE WILL SEE MORE 02:40:37:18 ENFORCEMENT IN THOSE AREAS. 02:40:40:10 SO I THINK THOSE ARE SOME OF THE 02:40:42:05 KEY PRIORITIES THAT YOU MIGHT 02:40:44:18 SEE IN THE SECOND TERM. 02:40:46:12 I THINK THERE IS A LOT THAT IS 02:40:47:25 STILL POSSIBLE, ONE OF THE BIG 02:40:53:27 INFLUENCES ON NEWS THE WHITE 02:40:54:22 HOUSE AND THE DEPARTMENT OF 02:40:56:01 HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES IS 02:40:58:02 NATIONAL COUNCIL OF 02:40:59:27 DISABILITIES. 02:41:01:03 I KNOW YOU ARE FAMILIAR WITH 02:41:03:13 RAMANOW THE WHO PRESIDENT 02:41:05:20 ELEVATED TO CHAIRMANSHIP OF THE 02:41:07:24 COUNCIL AND WE WORKED CLOSELY 02:41:09:16 WITH THE COUNCIL IN TRYING TO 02:41:10:25 IDENTIFY KEY PRIORITIES THAT 02:41:11:23 THEY HAVE FOR ENFORCEMENT, BUT 02:41:13:24 IN EACH OF THESE ENFORCEMENT 02:41:15:15 CASES, THEY HAVE ALL BEEN 02:41:17:19 BROUGHT TO OUR ATTENTION OR 02:41:18:29 COMPLAINTS HAVE BEEN FILED BY 02:41:20:27 THE DISABILITY ADVOCACY 02:41:22:28 COMMUNITY AND THAT IS JUST SUCH 02:41:24:20 AN IMPORTANT ROLE THAT YOU HAVE 02:41:27:12 IN ALERTING US TO WHAT IS GOING 02:41:29:15 ON OUT THERE, AND I JUST WANT TO 02:41:32:17 COMMIT TO YOU THAT THAT OPEN 02:41:35:09 DOOR IS STILL GOING TO BE THERE 02:41:37:07 AND THAT OPEN EAR WILL STILL BE 02:41:39:17 THERE AND WE RELY ON YOU. 02:41:42:03 WE RELY ON REPORTS FROM THE 02:41:43:09 FIELD ABOUT CHALLENGES TO HUMAN 02:41:46:23 DIGNITY. 02:41:47:20 I KNOW THAT THE DEPARTMENT OF 02:41:49:12 JUSTICE RECENTLY OPENED A NEW 02:41:52:07 SITE FOR ALL CIVIL RIGHTS 02:41:53:17 VIOLATIONS TO BE ENTERED AS A 02:41:57:00 ONE-STOP SHOP. 02:41:58:19 WEBSITE IS 02:41:59:13 CIVILRIGHTS.JUSTICE.GOV. 02:42:03:18 MAKES IT EASIER FOR PEOPLE TO 02:42:05:25 FILE A COMPLAINT, MAY NOT KNOW 02:42:07:17 WHICH OFFICE OR DEPARTMENT, THAT 02:42:09:03 IS ONE-STOP SHOP. 02:42:11:00 ENCOURAGE FOLKS TO FILE 02:42:11:27 COMPLAINTS WHEN THEY HEAR ABOUT 02:42:13:04 THEM. 02:42:13:28 LET US KNOW. 02:42:14:20 THANKS. 02:42:14:26 >> GREAT. 02:42:15:23 THANK YOU. 02:42:16:21 I HAVE ONE MORE QUESTION FOR YOU 02:42:18:00 AND THEN SOMETIME FOR CLOSING 02:42:22:05 REMARKS. 02:42:23:11 MY SECOND QUESTION YESTERDAY WAS 02:42:24:21 THE ANNIVERSARY OF THE OLMSTEAD 02:42:28:10 DECISION, A SUPREME COURT 02:42:30:08 DECISION THAT PROHIBITS FORCED 02:42:31:15 INSTITUTIONALIZATION OF PEOPLE 02:42:33:12 WITH DISABILITIES. 02:42:34:07 ONE OF THE PLAINTIFFS IN THAT 02:42:35:28 CASE WAS AN INTELLECTUALLY 02:42:39:12 DISABLED BLACK WOMAN AND HER 02:42:42:04 ADVOCACY IS MORE MEANINGFUL THAN 02:42:44:17 EVER AS WE WHITENS OF THOUSANDS 02:42:46:09 OF DISABLED PEOPLE, DISABLED 02:42:50:08 PEOPLE OF COLOR DYING IN NURSING 02:42:51:26 HOMES. 02:42:52:12 HOW WILL PRESIDENT TRUMP IN THE 02:42:54:06 SECOND TERM ENSURE THAT PEOPLE 02:42:55:25 WITH DISABILITIES WITH LIVE AND 02:42:57:26 THRIVE IN OUR COMMUNITIES AND, 02:42:59:12 FURTHER, HOW WILL HE ENSURE THAT 02:43:01:09 DISABLED PEOPLE ARE INCLUDED IN 02:43:03:04 DISASTER PLANNING AND RECOVERY? 02:43:07:12 >> GREAT QUESTION IS. 02:43:11:02 I THINK THAT NATIONAL EMERGENCY 02:43:12:02 WE HAVE BEEN IN HAS REALLY 02:43:14:00 EXPOSED A DARK UNDER BELLY OF 02:43:18:13 VULNERABILITY FOR OUR MOST 02:43:20:02 PRECIOUS RESOURCES, RIGHT OUR 02:43:22:15 VULNERABLE POPULATIONS, IN 02:43:28:05 FACILITIES AROUND THE COUNTRY. 02:43:30:15 THE IRONY HERE IS THAT CONGRESS 02:43:32:07 WAS TRYING TO HELP PEOPLE BY 02:43:34:17 RAISING THE RATES, REIMBURSEMENT 02:43:37:15 RATES ON NURSING HOMES FOR 02:43:39:13 RECEIVING CORONAVIRUS PATIENTS. 02:43:43:09 AND SORT OF THE TWISTED 02:43:44:09 INCENTIVES HERE. 02:43:45:15 I THINK UNINTENTIONALLY GAVE 02:43:48:17 SOME SKILLED NURSING FACILITIES, 02:43:50:24 IF THEY CAN BE CALLED THAT, THE 02:43:53:25 LICENSE TO PUSH OUT LESS 02:43:56:20 LUCRATIVE PATIENTS. 02:43:59:27 AS WE SAW IN THIS NEW YORK TIMES 02:44:01:16 EXPOSE, PATIENTS THAT WERE BEING 02:44:04:17 DUMPED ON THE STREET WERE 02:44:06:09 FOISTED ON HOMELESS SHELTERS OR 02:44:08:06 INTO HOTELS, BECAUSE THEY MAYBE 02:44:10:14 WERE MEDICARE -- 02:44:13:09 (INAUDIBLE) ON NOT AS LUCRATIVE 02:44:14:27 TO THE HOME AS A CORONAVIRUS 02:44:18:02 PATIENT MIGHT BE. 02:44:21:21 SO THAT CAN ONLY BE POSSIBLE IN 02:44:23:16 A WORLD WHERE YOU DON'T HAVE THE 02:44:26:14 COMMUNITY HOLDING THESE 02:44:28:12 FACILITIES ACCOUNTABLE. 02:44:30:00 AND SO THE LINK TO OLMSTEAD THAT 02:44:32:20 COMES TO MY MIND REALLY IS WHILE 02:44:35:00 WE PROTECT AND FIGHT FOR THE 02:44:38:01 RIGHTS OF PEOPLE WITH 02:44:38:19 DISABILITIES TO RECEIVE CARE IN 02:44:41:12 THE COMMUNITIES AND THEIR HOMES 02:44:43:03 WITH THEIR FAMILIES, AND THE 02:44:44:22 PLACES WITH THE PEOPLE THAT THEY 02:44:46:23 LOVE, WE ALSO EQUALLY NEED TO 02:44:49:18 FIGHT TO BRING THE COMMUNITY TO 02:44:51:04 NURSING HOMES, RIGHT? 02:44:52:23 BECAUSE I THINK THAT A LOT OF 02:44:53:23 THE SHENANIGANS WE HAVE SEEN AND 02:44:57:12 THE EXPLOITATION THAT WE HAVE 02:45:00:11 SEEN IN THESE ENVIRONMENTS IS 02:45:01:17 ONLY ABLE TO HAPPEN BECAUSE THE 02:45:03:18 FAMILIES AND THE FRIENDS OF THE 02:45:05:04 PATIENTS HAVE BEEN KEPT OUT 02:45:07:17 BECAUSE OF CORONAVIRUS. 02:45:09:15 RIGHT? 02:45:09:27 AND YOU DON'T HAVE 02:45:10:21 ACCOUNTABLE -- 02:45:14:04 THESE PARTIES THAT BRING 02:45:14:29 ACCOUNTABILITY AND CAN ADVOCATE 02:45:18:00 FOR VULNERABLE PATIENT AND IS IN 02:45:19:28 THESE CONTACTS THAT WE HAVE SEEN 02:45:21:23 THE WORST ABUSES. 02:45:24:09 I DO KNOW THAT CMS, AGENCY THAT 02:45:26:13 OVERSEES MEDICARE AND MEDICAID 02:45:29:29 PUT OUT A SERIES OF GUIDANCE 02:45:32:00 AFTER GUIDANCE AFTER GUIDANCE 02:45:33:25 FOR NURSING HOMES. 02:45:36:02 I HAVE TO BE HONEST. 02:45:37:18 WE CAN NOT FIX ALL OF THE 02:45:38:24 PROBLEMS YOU KNOW, IN REACTION 02:45:41:22 TO CORONAVIRUS THAT EXISTS IN 02:45:43:14 NURSING HOMES. 02:45:44:12 IN THE CONTEXT OF THE 02:45:45:12 CORONAVIRUS. 02:45:46:19 WE CAN NOT DO IT ALL. 02:45:48:01 BUT THE USEFUL ASPECT OF THE 02:45:50:11 CORONAVIRUS EPIDEMIC IN THIS 02:45:52:06 CASE IS THAT IT DOES ALLOW SOME 02:45:54:13 EMERGENCY AUTHORITIES SO THAT WE 02:45:55:07 CAN WAIVE REGULATIONS, REFORM 02:46:00:06 REGULATION, IMPOSE REGULATIONS 02:46:03:11 THAT WE COULD NOT DO OR WOULD 02:46:04:26 TAKE LONGER TO DO AND SEEN A LOT 02:46:06:21 OF THAT AUTHORITY USED BY THE 02:46:08:01 DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN 02:46:10:05 SERVICES IN PUTTING OUT GUIDANCE 02:46:11:24 FOR NURSING HOMES. 02:46:13:21 ULTIMATELY, WHAT WE ARE SEEING 02:46:15:04 IS A CLASH OF FINANCIAL 02:46:17:17 INCENTIVES AND IT IS EXPOSED THE 02:46:21:22 NEED FOR REFORM OF OUR PAYMENT 02:46:24:05 AND REIMBURSEMENT MODELS IN OUR 02:46:26:15 BROKEN HEALTH CARE SYSTEM. 02:46:28:06 SO I KNOW THAT SENATOR DUCKWORTH 02:46:30:17 WAS TALKING ABOUT SOME OF THESE 02:46:32:03 BROKEN ELEMENTS AND THE 02:46:34:09 PRESIDENT HAS TALKED A LOT ABOUT 02:46:36:10 SORT OF THE PRICING DISTORTIONS 02:46:38:02 AND THE LACK OF PATIENT 02:46:40:15 INFORMATION AVAILABLE TO PEOPLE 02:46:43:13 AND THE LACK OF UNDERSTANDING 02:46:45:02 ABOUT HOW -- 02:46:46:27 WHERE THE MONEY FLOWS AND WHAT 02:46:48:09 THE INCENTIVES ARE THAT ARE 02:46:55:03 CREATED AND THAT IS NO MORE 02:46:56:19 DEVASTATING IN THE NURSING HOME 02:46:59:05 CONTEXT. 02:47:00:06 ASKING ABOUT SECOND-TERM AGENDA 02:47:01:21 ON THIS FRONT I THEY DEPARTMENT 02:47:03:22 USED A LOST EXISTING AUTHORITY 02:47:04:29 BUT WON AN IMPORTANT CASE IN 02:47:06:24 COURT TODAY, CAME OUT RIGHT 02:47:08:03 BEFORE I STARTED SPEAKING TO YOU 02:47:10:01 ALL, THAT HOSPITALS HAD SORT OF 02:47:12:02 REFUSED TO POST THEIR PRICES, 02:47:15:18 AND HAD WANTED TO HIDE THEIR 02:47:16:28 SECRET PRICES FROM THE PUBLIC 02:47:18:17 AND FROM PATIENTS. 02:47:19:17 THIS IS SO IMPORTANT BECAUSE A 02:47:21:27 LOT OF PEOPLE WHO ARE MOST 02:47:25:16 VULNERABLE ARE UNINSURED OR 02:47:28:06 UNDERINSURED PATIENTS ARE 02:47:29:15 SEEKING DISCOUNTS AND SEEKING 02:47:30:25 CASH PRICES AND SEEKING TO WORK 02:47:32:10 WITH HOSPITAL AND NURSING HOME 02:47:34:08 FINANCIAL ASSISTANCE POLICIES 02:47:35:15 AND FINANCIAL ASSISTANCE 02:47:37:03 PROGRAMS AND IT IS SO IMPORTANT 02:47:38:25 FOR THEM TO UNDERSTAND WHAT 02:47:40:08 THOSE CASH PRICES ARE, WHAT THE 02:47:42:03 DISCOUNTS ARE AND THE HOSPITALS 02:47:42:24 HAVE BEEN HIDING THAT THEY HAVE 02:47:44:03 NOT WANTED TO AND IN FACT THEY 02:47:45:25 SUED THE TRUMP ADMINISTRATION TO 02:47:47:11 KEEP ON HIDING THE SECRET 02:47:49:12 PRICES. 02:47:50:03 THAT IS WHAT I'M TALKING ABOUT 02:47:52:07 WITH PRESIDENT TRUMP'S 02:47:53:11 COMMITMENT TO PAYMENT AND 02:47:54:05 REIMBURSEMENT REFORM, THESE 02:47:56:06 PROBLEMS THAT HAVE COME TO LIGHT 02:47:57:12 IN CORONAVIRUS EPIDEMIC HAVE 02:47:59:10 REALLY BEEN HERE ALL ALONG AND 02:48:01:05 SO THERE IS SO MUCH UNFINISHED 02:48:04:03 BUSINESS ON THIS FRONT. 02:48:05:22 I DO BELIEVE YOU WILL SEE MORE 02:48:07:20 AND MORE OF REFORMS IN THE 02:48:09:24 CONSUMER ADVOCACY REALM. 02:48:13:07 I CERTAINLY THINK THAT AS 02:48:14:08 CORONAVIRUS GIVES US THE 02:48:16:12 OPPORTUNITY TO PROVIDE MORE 02:48:17:15 GUIDANCE IN NURSING HOMES, YOU 02:48:19:16 WILL SEE MORE -- 02:48:21:26 NOT 100% SURE, BUT I WOULD NOT 02:48:23:21 BE SURPRISED IF YOU DO NOT SEE 02:48:26:10 MORE ADVOCACY AROUND 02:48:28:29 DISCRIMINATORY POLICIES TOWARDS 02:48:31:12 PEOPLE WITH DISABILITIES. 02:48:33:16 NOT BEING ABLE TO HAVE ACCESS TO 02:48:36:18 ADVOCATES AND ACCESS TO MONITOR 02:48:38:21 FACILITIES. 02:48:40:01 SOME FACILITIES KICKED OFF 02:48:40:28 WATCHDOG, COURT ORDER MONITORS 02:48:42:29 OR INSPECTORS REQUIRED THROUGH 02:48:44:21 LAW AND THROUGH REGULATION, I 02:48:47:25 THINK YOU WILL SEE A LOT OF 02:48:49:08 THAT. 02:48:50:00 IT IS JUST WE ARE PUTTING AN END 02:48:52:00 TO IT SO THAT THERE CAN BE MORE 02:48:54:01 ADVOCACY FOR THESE VULNERABLE 02:48:57:03 PATIENTS. 02:48:57:24 IT IS JUST NOT OKAY THAT THEY 02:48:59:06 HAVE NOT HAVE THEIR FRIENDS AND 02:49:00:28 FAMILY ADVOCATING FOR THEM AND 02:49:03:11 THEIR GOVERNMENTAL WATCHDOG 02:49:05:18 ADVOCATING FOR PATIENTS. 02:49:07:28 I THINK YOU WILL SEE ACTION ON 02:49:09:17 THAT. 02:49:10:05 >> THANK YOU. 02:49:10:27 THIS HAS BEEN VERY INFORMATIVE. 02:49:13:16 WE HAVE LITERAL YAY MINUTE AND A 02:49:15:07 HALF MAYBE FOR CLOSING REMARKS. 02:49:17:14 IF THERE IS ANYTHING ELSE YOU 02:49:18:18 WOULD LIKE TO ADD ABOUT 02:49:20:00 PRESIDENT TRUMP'S DISABILITY 02:49:22:04 PRIORITIES FOR A SECOND TERM? 02:49:23:29 >> I JUST WANTED TO RECOGNIZE 02:49:26:18 EVERYTHING THAT YOU ALL ARE 02:49:27:18 DOING. 02:49:29:04 YOU KNOW, EVERYTHING THAT WE DO 02:49:30:14 IS BECAUSE WE HEAR FROM YOU. 02:49:33:06 AND I WANT TO ENCOURAGE YOU AND 02:49:34:28 JUST THANK YOU FOR EVERYTHING 02:49:36:16 THAT THE DISABILITY COMMUNITY 02:49:38:26 DOES EVERY DAY. 02:49:40:03 IT IS SO HARD TO KEEP GOING WHEN 02:49:42:22 YOU SEE SO MUCH INJUSTICE AND I 02:49:46:05 KNOW THAT PRESIDENT TRUMP HEARS 02:49:49:25 THE CRIES OF THE MARGINALIZED. 02:49:54:21 SOMETIMES PEOPLE DON'T GIVE HIM 02:49:56:06 CREDIT FOR THAT. 02:49:57:19 HE KIND OF HAS A BIG TENDER 02:49:58:22 HEART THAT MAYBE HE KEEPS UNDER 02:50:01:02 WRAPS A BIT. 02:50:01:24 I SAW IT A LOT AND HE WANTS TO 02:50:04:07 DO RIGHT BY PEOPLE AND WANTS TO 02:50:06:01 KNOW WHAT THE PEOPLE HE IS 02:50:08:02 TRYING TO HELP THINK. 02:50:09:15 AND DO LET US KNOW. 02:50:11:13 WHEN I WOULD ENCOURAGE YOU, BE 02:50:12:29 LOUD, DEMAND MEETINGS, AND TAKE 02:50:16:15 THOSE OPPORTUNITIES TO COMMENT 02:50:18:16 AND TELL US WHAT HAS HAPPENED. 02:50:21:29 I REALLY APPRECIATE THE OPEN 02:50:23:18 DIALOGUE THAT WE HAVE HAD WITH 02:50:25:07 SO MANY DISABILITY ADVOCATES AND 02:50:27:20 ASK YOU TO BE PATIENT WITH US. 02:50:29:27 BUT ALSO TO BE DEMANDING WITH 02:50:31:09 US. 02:50:32:19 AND LET YOUR VOICES BE HEARD AND 02:50:34:05 DON'T THINK THAT, YOU KNOW, JUST 02:50:35:20 BECAUSE WE MAY NOT SHARE 02:50:37:00 EVERYONE MAY NOT THEIR SAME 02:50:38:25 POLITICAL VIEWS, THAT WE ARE NOT 02:50:41:02 ALL SEEKING TO REALLY SWIM IN 02:50:46:10 THE SAME DIRECTION AND ACHIEVE 02:50:47:26 THE SAME GOALS. 02:50:50:06 I APPRECIATE THE GOALS YOU ARE 02:50:51:03 ADVOCATING FOR AND I TRULY THINK 02:50:55:02 OUR NATION WILL BE JUDGED BY HOW 02:50:56:17 WE HANDLE OUR TREATMENT OF HUMAN 02:51:00:25 DIGNITY IN POPULATIONS WHERE 02:51:02:20 THERE IS A HISTORICAL INJUSTICE. 02:51:05:15 I'M GRATEFUL FOR WHAT YOU DO AND 02:51:07:13 I ENCOURAGE YOU TO KEEP IT UP 02:51:09:17 EVERY DAY AND DON'T GIVE UP. 02:51:13:00 SO THANK YOU SO MUCH. 02:51:13:27 >> THANK YOU KATY. 02:51:16:29 THANKS FOR YOUR TIME TODAY AND 02:51:17:23 TURN IT BACK OVER TO OUR EMCEES 02:51:20:00 EMILY AND KINGS. 02:51:21:22 THANK YOU. 02:51:21:25 >> THANKS MARIA. 02:51:26:03 NEXT WE ARE GOING TO BE 02:51:27:18 TRANSITIONING INTO HEARING FROM 02:51:29:28 OUR VERY OWN KERI GRAY. 02:51:33:12 >> THANKS EMILY AND KINGS. 02:51:39:11 WELL, THIS CONCLUDES DAY TWO OF 02:51:41:15 THE DISABILITY VOTE SUMMIT MY 02:51:46:02 NAME IS KERI GRAY. 02:51:48:03 I HAVE THE ABSOLUTE PLEASURE OF 02:52:00:25 SAYING THANK YOU TO ALL OF OUR 02:52:02:07 SPONSORS AND ALL OF OUR PARTNERS 02:52:04:18 AND I DEFINITELY WANT TO THANK 02:52:06:18 OUR REV UP STRATEGIC PLANNING 02:52:08:13 COMMITTEE FOR MAKING THIS 02:52:09:11 POSSIBLE. 02:52:11:11 EVERYONE FROM THE CURRENT 02:52:12:09 PRESIDENT AND CEO MARIA TOWN, 02:52:16:07 OUR PAST PRESIDENT AND CEO, BOB 02:52:18:23 KAFKA, KRISTIN DULANEY, RACHEL, 02:52:24:14 LILLIAN, RACHITA, HOPE THAT I'M 02:52:27:15 NOT MISSING ANYBODY. 02:52:29:09 I WANT TO THANK OUR TEAM FOR 02:52:31:01 MAKING THIS SUMMIT POSSIBLE. 02:52:32:26 I WANT TO GIVE A HUGE SHOUTOUT 02:52:34:09 TO OUR EMCEES, FOR THE LAST TWO 02:52:36:28 DAYS, KINGS AND EMILY FOR 02:52:39:08 HOLDING US DOWN THROUGHOUT THE 02:52:41:03 SUMMIT AND MAKING SURE THAT WE 02:52:42:21 STAY IN THE LOOP ABOUT THE 02:52:43:28 PROGRAM, AND THE AGENDA. 02:52:46:05 ANY OF THE LAST-MINUTE CHANGES 02:52:48:09 THAT OCCURRED AND I WANT TO 02:52:50:04 ENCOURAGE PEOPLE TO THINK 02:52:52:05 ABOUT -- 02:52:55:09 WE SPENT THE LAST COUPLE OF DAYS 02:52:56:24 TALKING ABOUT THE POWER OF THE 02:52:58:01 DISABILITY VOTES, WE TALKED 02:52:59:08 ABOUT WAYS TO MOBILIZE YOUR 02:53:00:27 COMMUNITY, WE HEARD FROM 02:53:03:12 CONGRESSIONAL MEMBERS. 02:53:05:01 WE HEARD FROM OUR SORRY OUR 02:53:07:29 PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATES, THERE 02:53:10:00 HAS BEEN A LOT OF INFORMATION, A 02:53:12:01 LOST CONVERSATION ABOUT, YOU 02:53:13:17 KNOW, WHAT IT MEANS TO ENGAGE 02:53:15:20 ACROSS OUR COUNTRY. 02:53:17:18 NOW IT IS UP TO US. 02:53:18:22 IT IS UP TO US TO ENSURE THAT WE 02:53:20:04 ARE VOTING. 02:53:21:29 IT IS UP TO US TO ENSURE THAT 02:53:23:24 THERE IS ELIGIBLE, 35 MILLION 02:53:26:25 PEOPLE WITH DISABILITIES NOT 02:53:28:02 JUST A NUMBER BUT ACTIVE PROCESS 02:53:30:15 OF PEOPLE GETTING REGISTERED AND 02:53:32:13 PEOPLE VOTING. 02:53:33:19 SO WE NEED YOUR VOICE. 02:53:36:03 WE NEED YOUR PERSPECTIVE AND WE 02:53:37:27 NEED YOUR MOBILIZATION FOR OUR 02:53:39:16 COMMUNITY. 02:53:40:20 SO THANK YOU AGAIN FOR JOINING 02:53:41:26 US. 02:53:42:15 I ALSO WANT TO GIVE A HUGE THANK 02:53:44:18 YOU TO OUR PROGRAM CHAIR KRISTIN 02:53:48:05 DULANEY, DOING INCREDIBLE WORK 02:53:52:06 WITH US DURING THIS PROCESS AND 02:53:54:04 PASS IT OVER TO HER. 02:53:55:14 >> THANK YOU SO MUCH KERI. 02:54:00:28 HI EVERYONE AND THANKS SO MUCH 02:54:01:28 FOR BEING HERE AGAIN AS KERI 02:54:03:17 SAID, MY NAME IS KRISTIN DULANEY 02:54:07:15 CHAIR OF THE PROGRAM COMMITTEE 02:54:09:01 AND PARALEGAL FOR INDIANA 02:54:11:05 DISABILITY RIGHTS THRILLED TO BE 02:54:12:21 BACK TO SPEAK YOU TO AGAIN AT 02:54:14:09 THE CLOSE OF DAY TWO FOR POWERS 02:54:16:10 FOR DISABILITY VOTE. 02:54:18:08 YESTERDAY I SPOKE ABOUT THE 02:54:19:27 FIRST TIME I WAS INVOLVED IN A 02:54:21:06 CAUSE THAT I CARE ABOUT AND 02:54:22:16 TODAY I WOULD LIKE TO RECOGNIZE 02:54:23:23 THE EFFORTS OF THOSE WHO HAVE 02:54:24:26 BEEN INVOLVED IN THIS EVENT. 02:54:28:03 IT REALLY IS BECAUSE OF YOUR 02:54:29:28 TIME, YOUR IDEAS AND YOUR COMMIT 02:54:33:12 AND YOUR EFFORTS THAT THIS EVENT 02:54:34:21 COME TOGETHER TO ADVANCE THE 02:54:36:04 POWER OF THE DISABILITY 02:54:37:16 COMMUNITY AND ADVANCE THE POWER 02:54:39:08 OF THE DISABILITY VOTE. 02:54:40:21 THANKS TO MARIA TOWN AND KERI 02:54:42:25 GRAY OF THE AAPD FOR HOSTING 02:54:45:11 THIS EVENT. 02:54:46:12 THANKS TO STRATEGIC PLANNING 02:54:47:15 COMMITTEE FOR ALL OF YOUR 02:54:48:12 GUIDANCE AND BRINGING POWER AND 02:54:49:25 LIFE TO THIS EVENT AND HUGE 02:54:51:26 THANK YOU TO THE PROGRAM 02:54:53:03 COMMITTEE WHO NOT ONLY ASSISTED 02:54:54:15 IN PLANNING THIS EVENT BUT HAVE 02:54:56:10 ALSO SERVED AS STAFF YESTERDAY 02:54:58:08 AND TODAY TO MAKE SURE THAT THIS 02:55:01:00 EVENT RAN SMOOTHLY. 02:55:03:13 I WOULD LIKE TO SAY THANKS TO 02:55:06:14 MARC, REV UP TEXAS THANKS TO 02:55:09:28 DEBBIE DIETZ AND THANKS TOMORROW 02:55:11:22 EMILY LADAU AND THANKS TO 02:55:16:18 RACHITA SINGH AND CATHERINE BEST 02:55:20:29 OF INDIANA DISABILITY RIGHTS. 02:55:23:00 THANK THE EMCEES EMILY AND KINGS 02:55:25:16 YOU HAVE DONE A FANTASTIC JOB OF 02:55:27:11 HELPING TO MAKE SURE THAT THE 02:55:28:27 PROGRAM WE ENVISIONED HAS COME 02:55:30:15 TO LIFE AND RUN SMOOTHLY. 02:55:33:20 THANKS FOR YOUR EFFORTS OF 02:55:34:14 MAKING SURE THAT THIS ALL RUNS 02:55:36:09 WELL. 02:55:36:27 AND THANKS SO MUCH TO ALL OF 02:55:38:10 YOU. 02:55:39:01 IT IS BECAUSE YOU HAVE JOINED 02:55:40:14 AND ENGAGED AND BEEN PART OF 02:55:43:00 THIS EVENT THAT IT WENT SO WELL 02:55:44:28 AND WE HOPE THAT YOU HAVE GOTTEN 02:55:46:16 THE KNOWLEDGE AND RESOURCES AND 02:55:48:17 THE LESSONS TO CONTINUE TO MOVE 02:55:50:09 FORWARD AND USING YOUR POWER AS 02:55:52:13 A PERSON WITH A DISABILITY AND 02:55:53:29 AS DISABILITY VOTING RIGHTS 02:55:55:21 ADVOCATES TO CONTINUE ADVANCING 02:55:58:10 FOR -- 02:55:59:01 ADVANCING AND ADVOCATING FOR 02:56:01:05 DISABILITY VOTE AND FINALLY, SAY 02:56:03:06 THANKS TO ONE WORE MEMBER OF THE 02:56:04:24 PROGRAM COMMITTEE, MATTHEW YANEZ 02:56:08:17 FROM THE ARC OUR FINAL SPEAKER 02:56:10:27 OF THE EVENT AND HERE TO DISCUSS 02:56:13:04 IMPORTANCE OF YOUTH ENGAGEMENT 02:56:14:23 IN THE DISABILITY VOTE. 02:56:16:06 THANKS MATTHEW. 02:56:17:21 AND TAKE IT AWAY. 02:56:18:19 >> THANK YOU TO THE AAPD FOR 02:56:22:15 GIVING ME A CHANCE TO SPEAK AND 02:56:24:15 THANKS TO THE AUDIENCE FOR 02:56:26:07 JOINING US ON WAY BELIEVE IS A 02:56:27:23 MONUMENTAL STEP INTO BUILDING A 02:56:29:12 BETTER TOMORROW. 02:56:30:12 MY NAME IS MATTHEW YANEZ AND 02:56:33:19 CURRENTLY DISABILITY PUBLIC 02:56:35:02 POLICY FELLOW AT THE ARC OF THE 02:56:37:03 UNITED STATES. 02:56:37:21 I HAVE ALSO BEEN INVOLVED WITH A 02:56:40:10 CENTER FOR DISABILITY POLICY, 02:56:42:14 THE NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF THE 02:56:43:18 DEAF, AND BEGINNING THIS FALL, I 02:56:45:16 WILL BE PURSUING A LAW DEGREE AT 02:56:50:03 SYRACUSE UNIVERSITY. 02:56:52:21 TRULY HONORED THAT I WAS ASKED 02:56:53:22 TO SHARE THOUGHTS ON IMPORTANCE 02:56:55:11 OF VOTING AND IMPACT THAT YOUNG 02:56:56:20 VOTERS HAVE ON ELECTIONS. 02:56:58:15 WHAT I WOULD LIKE TO DO FIRST IS 02:57:00:01 TO TAKE A STEP BACK AND ASK YOU 02:57:01:14 A QUESTION THAT STUCK WITH ME AS 02:57:02:20 WE WITNESS FIRST-HAND SOME DARK 02:57:04:18 MOMENTS IN OUR COUNTRY'S 02:57:05:18 HISTORY. 02:57:06:25 HOW CAN WE MAKE 2020 A YEAR THAT 02:57:09:17 BECOMES DEFINING MOMENT FOR THIS 02:57:11:12 GENERATION? 02:57:12:06 THERE IS NO DOUBT THAT THIS YEAR 02:57:14:11 HAS GIVEN US A LOT TO REFLECT 02:57:16:02 ON. 02:57:16:27 FROM COAST-TO-COAST, AMERICANS 02:57:18:06 ARE FIGHTING BACK AGAINST MASS 02:57:19:28 UNEMPLOYMENT, THE LOSS OF LOVED 02:57:22:11 ONES, SYSTEMIC RACISM AND BROKEN 02:57:24:27 GOVERNMENT THAT HAS YET TO 02:57:26:13 ANSWER OUR CRIES FOR HELP. 02:57:27:29 MY FRIENDS, I'M HERE TODAY TO 02:57:30:00 DOLLAR WE HAVE BEEN GIVEN AN 02:57:31:15 AMAZING OPPORTUNITY. 02:57:33:07 FOR THE FIRST TIME IN A LONG 02:57:35:08 TIME, WE HAVE SEEN WORLD EVENTS 02:57:37:00 SO POWER NATURAL THEY CUT DEEP 02:57:40:22 INTO THE CORE OF AMERICAN LIFE. 02:57:42:14 I BELIEVE THAT THERE IS NO 02:57:43:15 POLITICAL RHETORIC OUT THERE, 02:57:44:27 THAT CAN REMOVE THIS STAIN FROM 02:57:47:07 OUR HISTORY BOOKS AND NOW, MORE 02:57:48:26 THAN EVER, WE MUST BE CLEAR 02:57:50:21 ABOUT THE CHALLENGES THAT WE ARE 02:57:52:15 FACING. 02:57:53:13 OUR SOCIETAL PROBLEMS HAVE EACH 02:57:54:26 BEGUN TO RUPTURE UNDER PRESSURE. 02:57:56:21 AND THE ONLY WAY FORWARD IS 02:58:00:01 THROUGH COMMUNITY ACTIVISM AND 02:58:01:16 INVOLVEMENT IN OUR GOVERNANCE 02:58:02:20 SYSTEM. 02:58:03:18 IT IS NO LONGER ENOUGH TO JUST 02:58:05:12 VOTE. 02:58:06:13 EVERYONE NEEDS TO FIND THEIR OWN 02:58:07:28 WAY TO BE INVOLVED IN THE 02:58:09:20 POLITICAL PROCESS WHETHER IT IS 02:58:11:06 THROUGH DONATING, MAKING PHONE 02:58:13:01 CALLS OR SIMPLY BRINGING FRIENDS 02:58:14:20 WITH US TO THE BALLOT BOX, WE 02:58:18:06 FIND WAYS TO GET INVOLVED. 02:58:20:07 WE NOT ONLY NEED TO VOTE FOR A 02:58:21:23 CANDIDATE THAT REFLECTS OUR 02:58:23:21 VALUES IN THE FACE OF ADVERSITY 02:58:25:12 IF NO POLITICIAN IS THERE TO 02:58:26:28 ANSWER OUR CALLS WE NEED TO BE 02:58:28:11 THAT CANDIDATE. 02:58:29:14 I RECENTLY BECAME INSPIRED BY A 02:58:31:27 24-YEAR-OLD DISABILITY ADVOCATE 02:58:34:14 WITH AUTISM SO FED UP WITH HIS 02:58:35:29 LOCAL LEADERS HE DECIDED HE WAS 02:58:38:03 GOING TO RUN TO REPLACE THEM. 02:58:39:28 ALTHOUGH WE MAY NOT ALL BE IN A 02:58:41:20 COMFORTABLE ENOUGH POSITION TO 02:58:42:26 TAKE SUCH BOLD ACTION IN OUR 02:58:44:15 COMMUNITY, I URGE EACH AND EVERY 02:58:46:28 ONE OF YOU TO FIND YOUR WAY TO 02:58:49:14 WORK TOWARDS A MORE FREE AND 02:58:50:27 EQUITABLE SOCIETY. 02:58:53:00 FOR ANYONE ASKING YOURSELF, WHY 02:58:54:16 AM I SO FRUSTRATED, WHO BELIEVES 02:58:57:24 I SHOULD NOT BE SO CRITICAL AND 02:58:59:06 THAT I SHOULD BE GRATEFUL FOR 02:59:00:19 THE BLESS THINGS THE MODERN 02:59:01:19 WORLD HAS GIVEN ME, PLEASE, ASK 02:59:04:08 YOURSELF WHAT WAS YOUR BIGGEST 02:59:06:03 WORRY AT MY AGE. 02:59:07:10 I'M 23 YEARS OLD AND I GREW UP 02:59:09:07 DURING THE WORST OF THE GREAT 02:59:10:14 RECESSION, LONG-TIME NEIGHBOR 02:59:12:27 AND CLASSMATES LOST THEIR HOMES, 02:59:15:07 THEIR LIVELIHOODS. 02:59:16:20 I GREW UP IN CALIFORNIA, WHERE 02:59:18:12 ANNUAL WILDFIRES ARE A CONSTANT 02:59:21:22 REMINDER OF THE DANGERS FROM 02:59:23:14 CLIMATE CHANGE AND NOW AS I 02:59:25:03 ENTER THE WORKFORCE MY PEERS AND 02:59:27:04 I HAVE BEEN HANDED DOWN AN 02:59:28:26 ECONOMY THAT NO LONGER WORKS FOR 02:59:31:00 US. 02:59:31:15 RECENT SURVEY FOUND THAT 50% OF 02:59:34:28 PEOPLE 18 TO 23 ARE UNEMPLOYED 02:59:37:26 OR MAIN PROVIDER OF THEIR 02:59:39:12 HOUSEHOLD IS. 02:59:40:18 50%. 02:59:41:07 SO I CANNOT HELP BUT LOOKING 02:59:43:29 FORWARD AT THE MESS OF A WORLD 02:59:46:09 WE HAVE BEEN ASKED TO FIX. 02:59:47:21 I RETURN TO THIS QUESTION THAT I 02:59:49:07 NEED EVERYONE'S HELP IN 02:59:50:14 ANSWERING. 02:59:51:08 WHAT CAN BE DONE TO MAKE 2020 A 02:59:53:09 YEAR THAT IS A DEFINING MOMENT 02:59:55:01 FOR THIS GENERATION. 02:59:57:11 FOR ME, I BELIEVE THAT THE 02:59:58:05 ANSWER LIES RIGHT HERE IN THE 02:59:59:18 DISABILITY COMMUNITY. 03:00:01:03 I BELIEVE THAT OUR COMMUNITY 03:00:02:01 RESIDES AT THE INTERSECTION OF 03:00:03:22 SO MANY OTHER GROUPS. 03:00:05:23 PEOPLE WITH DISABILITIES COME 03:00:07:06 FROM EVERY RACE, EVERY 03:00:08:12 BACKGROUND AND EVERY POLITICAL 03:00:10:13 IDEOLOGY. 03:00:12:11 OUR DIVERSITY GIVES US POWER TO 03:00:13:24 BE ALLIES OR LEADERS IN SO MANY 03:00:16:13 OTHER MOVEMENTS. 03:00:18:08 AND OUR COMMUNITY UNDERSTANDS 03:00:17:26 THE IMPORTANCE OF INCLUSION AND 03:00:19:27 ACCOMMODATING FOR EVERYONE'S 03:00:22:07 INDIVIDUAL NEEDS. 03:00:23:19 SO USE THAT TO HELP TO FIGHT 03:00:24:23 BACK AGAINST ALL INJUSTICES. 03:00:27:27 NOT SAYING THAT THIS WILL BE 03:00:29:04 EASY. 03:00:29:25 WHEN IT COMES TO VOTING THE LACK 03:00:30:28 OF ACCESSIBILITY IS TRULY 03:00:33:11 FRIGHTEN IN AND LET'S BE CLEAR, 03:00:35:03 THAT IS NOT BY ACCIDENT. 03:00:37:01 OUR DEMOCRACY IS UNDER ATTACK. 03:00:38:26 IT IS SICKENING TO ME THAT SINCE 03:00:40:27 THE CIVIL WAR, SOLDIERS HAVE HAD 03:00:42:28 RIGHT TO CAST THEIR VOTE BY MAIL 03:00:44:14 AND YET 150 YEARS LATER IN A 03:00:46:21 WORLD WHERE OUR HEROS ARE THE 03:00:49:10 ESSENTIAL WORKERS ON THE FRONT 03:00:50:22 LINES OF GROCERY STORES 03:00:52:05 HOSPITALS AND SCHOOLS WE STILL 03:00:55:12 HAVE A VOTING PRACTICE THAT IS 03:00:57:01 ALMOST AS OLD AS THE COUNTRY 03:00:58:26 ITSELF. 03:00:59:14 THE TRUTH IS IT IS TIME OUR 03:01:00:21 GOVERNMENT STEPS UP AND 03:01:01:27 IMPLEMENTS ACCESSIBLE VOTING 03:01:03:22 SOLUTIONS. 03:01:04:20 BUT HOW DO WE TRANSFORM THE 03:01:06:17 CURRENT PROBLEMS OUR COUNTRY 03:01:08:15 FACES INTO THE ENERGY THAT WOULD 03:01:10:19 DRIVE US FORWARD? 03:01:11:19 I HOPE I HAVE PROVEN THAT WE 03:01:12:23 HAVE THAT POWER. 03:01:14:06 WE HAVE THAT POWER SO LONG AS WE 03:01:15:15 DO IT TOGETHER. 03:01:17:07 WE WILL FIX OUR CURRENT PROBLEM 03:01:18:23 BY HOLDING OUR CURRENT LEADERS 03:01:22:15 ACCOUNTABLE SO THEY SHAPE UP OR 03:01:25:07 MAKE ROOM FOR SOMEONE WHO WILL 03:01:26:20 VOTER SUPPRESSION HAPPENING IN 03:01:27:27 KENTUCKY OR GEORGIA IT IS OUR 03:01:29:24 RESPONSIBILITY TO STAND UP AND 03:01:30:25 LET IT BE KNOWN THIS IS NOT 03:01:32:14 OKAY. 03:01:34:09 BECAUSE THE MORE WE STAY SILENT 03:01:34:18 THE MORE THEY THINK THEY CAN GET 03:01:36:28 AWAY WITH IT. 03:01:38:07 I WOULD LIKE TO LEAVE YOU WITH 03:01:39:05 THE WISDOM FROM A GREAT LEADER, 03:01:41:27 ABOLITIONIST AND SOCIAL REFORMER 03:01:44:16 FRED RICK DOUGLAS WHEN TALKING 03:01:46:02 ABOUT MAJOR ACCOMPLISHMENT HE IS 03:01:48:15 QUOTED IN SAYING ALL HE HAD 03:01:50:07 ACHIEVED CAN BE ACCREDITED TO 03:01:53:02 HIS VOICE, HIS PEN AND HIS VOTE. 03:01:55:15 SO I WOULD ASK YOU ALL TO JOIN 03:01:57:19 ME AND USE YOUR VOICE YOUR PEN 03:02:00:14 AND YOUR VOTE TO SPEAK UP 03:02:03:06 AGAINST INJUSTICE EVERYWHERE TO 03:02:05:10 REACH OUT AND STAND IN 03:02:06:26 SOLIDARITY WITH ALLIES AND VOTE 03:02:10:00 LIKE OUR DEMOCRACY DEPENDS ON IT 03:02:12:13 BELIEVE ME WHEN I SAY YOUR VOTE 03:02:14:14 IS NEEDED NOW MORE THAN EVER AND 03:02:16:09 THANK YOU AND TURN IT BACK OVER 03:02:17:21 TO OUR AMAZING EMCEES. 03:02:19:22 >> WOW! 03:02:21:26 MATTHEW, THANK YOU SO MUCH! 03:02:23:24 THAT WAS AN INCREDIBLE WAY TO 03:02:26:28 WRAP UP OUR TWO-DAY EVENT. 03:02:33:10 I WANT TO SAY THANK YOU TO 03:02:34:17 EVERYONE FOR PARTICIPATING. 03:02:38:03 AND WE ALSO WANT TO KNOW WHAT 03:02:39:19 WAS YOUR BIG TAKE AWAY AS YOU 03:02:42:11 HAVE SAID BEFORE TWEET US, LET 03:02:44:18 US KNOW IN SOCIAL MEDIA, IN THE 03:02:46:22 CHAT, WE WOULD LOVE YOUR 03:02:48:17 OPINIONS. 03:02:50:08 AS KATY SAID, BE DEMANDING OF 03:02:52:12 US. 03:02:55:04 >> I COULD NOT AGREE MORE. 03:02:56:23 LET'S MAKE THOSE DEMANDS HEARD 03:02:58:15 LOUD AND CLEAR. 03:02:59:18 BECAUSE THE DISABILITY VOTE 03:03:00:25 REALLY DOES COUNT. 03:03:02:11 WE ENCOURAGE YOU TO VOTE. 03:03:04:09 WE ENCOURAGE YOU TO SEEK OFFICE. 03:03:08:14 WE ENCOURAGE YOU TO GET OUT 03:03:09:17 THERE. 03:03:10:12 KNOW THAT WE ARE GOING TO BE 03:03:11:21 DISTRIBUTING A RECORDING OF BOTH 03:03:13:25 DAYS OF THE SUMMIT SO YOU HAVE 03:03:17:23 THAT INFORMATION TO YOU BECAUSE 03:03:20:06 I KNOW A LOT OF PEOPLE WERE 03:03:21:16 ASKING FOR IT AND MOST 03:03:23:23 IMPORTANTLY OUR FINAL CALLS TO 03:03:25:18 ACTION FOR YOU ARE TO REGISTER, 03:03:28:04 EDUCATE VOTE, USE YOUR POWER, 03:03:29:29 REV UP, CONTINUE TO SPEAK OUT 03:03:33:03 ANY WAY THAT YOU CAN. 03:03:35:22 >> AWESOME! 03:03:38:08 THANK YOU EVERYONE FOR JOINING 03:03:39:27 US. 03:03:40:15 WE HAVE APPRECIATED THIS SO 03:03:41:13 MUCH. 03:03:42:04 WE LOOK FORWARD TO SEEING YOU IN 03:03:44:05 THE PRIMARIES. 03:03:46:12 GO VOTE! 03:03:47:03 >> BYE EVERYONE. 03:03:51:02 THANK YOU. 03:03:51:14