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to our democracy and world peace.
And we have some really great materials
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And me, as a non-foreign policy expert,
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to actually talk about these issues.
I'm Ezra Levin, I'm co-executive director of Indivisible
and I have with me.
- Hi, I'm Elizabeth Beavers,
I'm the foreign policy manager here at Indivisible.
- And I'm Raha Wala and I'm the National
Security Advocacy Director at Human Rights First
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Elizabeth do you want to kick us off?
- Sure!
So we have a lot to cover.
The Trump threat level remains high as always
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that is where we keep the running list of all the ways
Trump is hindering our national security week after week.
And what you can do about it.
So I wanna make sure to answer some of the questions we've
been getting and let you all know about an extremely
winnable fight that's coming up
very soon in the next few weeks.
So first I do want to address the Mueller investigation
and the threats to our democracy.
We get so much feedback about this.
You are doing an incredible job
communicating with your members of congress,
letting them know how you feel about this.
We just saw this week a story that Mueller considers Trump
to be the subject of a criminal investigation.
And is writing a report on his findings, so.
Obviously as he gets closer to the truth
he is more at risk his investigation is at risk.
And that's something that all of you know very well
and you're doing incredible work on.
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We take very seriously our commitment to you,
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and what's coming up in Congress and where you have leverage
to really derail the Trump agenda.
And that's a really important thing to keep in mind,
which is that so much of this is political.
Holding Trump accountable requires that his political power
that we poke holes in it and we take that away.
And so how we do that is we focus on derailing
the Trump agenda if and when there
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advocacy plan that is ready for that moment.
So um thanks to all of you
for the incredible work you are doing
and we look forward to answering more questions on that.
And talking about that, so.
So one way of derailing the Trump agenda
is something that's incredibly key is
taking away his cabinet of
his work cabinet that he's assembling.
It's no secret that Trump has
been engaging in some house cleaning
in the last few weeks to say the least.
And clearing out a number of his
advisors and cabinet officials.
We are so concerned about who he is
choosing to replace those officials with.
And most recently he has nominated
Mike Pompeo to serve as Secretary of State.
You might remember Mike Pompeo from last year,
because he has been serving as Trump's CIA director.
We opposed him then.
Um many of you were incredibly forceful
at town halls all across the country
um in showing your displeasure to
the senators who did confirm him.
Now they have another chance.
He has been nominated as Secretary of State.
And the senate does have to confirm him again.
Uh the other thing is as he
slides over from CIA to Secretary,
to the state department there is a vacancy.
And Trump has chosen to fill that
vacancy with someone named Gina Haspel.
And I'm really glad to have Raha here
to tell us more about Gina Haspel.
We have a number of concerns about both these nominees.
If the Gina Haspel is not familiar to you now,
it absolutely will by the end of this Facebook Live.
And I think you'll be as angry and concerned as we are.
And ready to take action.
Um just quickly to remind us of all the reasons
we oppose Mike Pompeo in the first place
and are going to do it again,
Mike Pompeo surrounds himself with total Islamophobes.
He uh exhibits anti muslim hate and behaviors
and language he denies climate change.
He has supported torture in the past.
He is very likely to take us closer
to war with North Korea and Iran.
Uh Trump described Mike Pompeo as sharing similar
thought process and having the same mind as he does.
That by itself should tell us why--
- It's terrifying - we need to
oppose Mike Pompeo but there are a number of other reasons,
number of other things that make him really dangerous.
And I do want to hone in on that one,
which is he has voiced support for torture before.
And that's something that he shares with
the woman who is set to replace him, Gina Haspel.
Um now Gina Haspel is someone who went above and beyond,
it's not just that she made statements
thinking torture is okay.
It's not even just that she was one of the many people
who played a role in essentially writing
legal permission slips for the CIA to engage in torture.
She didn't just write a memo
or get involved in law or policy.
She operationalized the torture program.
She personally led what they call a black site.
One of the CIA's secret prisons around the world
that kidnaps, secretly detained and tortured people.
That is obviously inhumane, cruel, illegal, immoral.
Everything you can think of it is totally disqualifying
for someone to get any promotion.
Nonetheless promoted to the top of the agency
that did it in the first place
and would do it again if it happened again.
Now we know Trump has said he thinks torture works.
He said he wants to bring back worse than waterboarding.
He's made all kinds of terrible threats.
I think we would imagine if he really wanted
to carry those out this is exactly
who he would appoint to carry that out for him.
So Raha I want to turn to you.
You're a super expert on these things
and I want to make sure everyone
benefits from your perspective.
Can you tell us a little more about what do we actually know
about Gina Haspel and maybe even more importantly than that
what do we not know about Gina Haspel?
- Sure.
Well before we get to Gina Haspel
let me just say one word on Pompeo.
I've been following him for a very long time
since back in his days in the house
when he's been a real thorn in our side
opposing the closure of Guantanamo.
You mentioned his comments on torture.
It's hard to imagine a more Islamophobic
choice for Secretary of State.
So you know I couldn't be more concerned
about him as a Secretary of State nominee.
To your point about Gina Haspel,
this is a woman who reportedly ran a CIA black site.
That means she was on site in Thailand
at a clandestine secret prison
where detainees were being tortured.
It is reported that she had direct involvement
with the torture of at least one detainee.
A detainee named al-Nashiri.
Including with the waterboarding of this detainee.
Sometimes these terms are you know antiseptic
or you know there's euphemisms out there
where people talk about enhanced interrogation.
This is the worse form of torture.
Strapping someone to a board,
forcing water into their lungs to a point in which
you're replicating a drowning sensation.
Holding someone for hours on end
in suspended stress positions.
Keeping them awake with sleep
deprivation for 180 hours on end.
It's hard to imagine the level of cruelty
here and she was directly involved.
So this is point number one.
Point number two about Gina Haspel.
She was involved in the destruction
of the video tapes of the very torture she was involved in.
So you know, that's not only a conflict of interest,
but it's a direct violation of federal law.
It's illegal to destroy evidence plain and simple.
And so here we have a woman who reportedly again,
was lobbying for and drafted the cable
to destroy the video tapes of torture
in an industrial grade shredder.
It sounds like stuff out of a bad spy movie but it's true.
We don't know pretty much anything else about her.
She was undercover until last year.
And now that her nomination is pending,
we are only starting to learn the facts.
And I think a big point here will be not only
will senators take a stand against her
and you know announce a no vote based on the
record she does have that's public,
but will they also demand a full
de-classification of her record?
Because that's incredibly important
for our democratic process to ensure
that there is transparency and
accountability for the use of torture.
- Yeah, but it's incredibly concerning.
You know I don't know about you but I've been really
concerned by a lot of the reactions seem to be,
well she was following orders,
or she was just doing what she was told.
Um you know from what I understand and fill us in more
on this but it went so much beyond that.
That it seems like not only was
she not just following orders,
which first of all that doesn't matter that's not an excuse.
But she went above and beyond what she was told to do
and in fact defied orders to carry
out these things is that right?
- That's right.
And let's just stipulate for a minute
that she was following orders.
We have never accepted this defense.
Since World War II where we prosecuted
Japanese soldiers for waterboarding,
you know those were the arguments that were being made.
Well there was legal authorization.
And some lawyer within the bureaucracy
wrote a legal memo justifying these acts of torture.
You know just following orders of my superior.
No the military never accepts this.
We have not accepted this ever in our history.
There's no reason to accept it now.
But as you pointed out Elizabeth,
there's all kinds of evidence the torture program
went well beyond anything that was authorized
by the department or justice or even the CIA.
So the question then is what involvement did she have?
In all of these acts of brutality
that have gone so far beyond what was authorized.
One former CIA official the top lawyer
John Rizzo described her as having run
the entire interrogation program for some period of time.
Well what period of time was that?
What detainees were tortured under her watch?
I mean I think those are the important
questions that need to come out.
But I think it's important to say as of right now
even if you grant her that she was only following orders
even if you grant her that she was waterboarding
or involved in waterboarding with
the legal authorizations that happened at the time.
It's still sufficient to say it's unacceptable
for the message that it would send
to nominate this woman to head up the CIA.
- Yeah absolutely.
Now you do a lot of really good work with many
retired military leaders who weigh in on these things.
Um pretty frequently.
Can you tell us more what you're hearing
from them about what it does to our security?
What does it mean for us as a nation
and our national security to not only embrace torture
with impunity but to elevate someone
and make that the face of one of
our most powerful government agencies,
what do military leaders tell us about that?
- Yeah it's a really important point right?
Sometimes there's this confusion out there
well we have to pick either between
our national security or our foundational
American values or our human rights.
Well no it's actually a false choice, right?
If you talk to military leaders like I have
even today I was on the phone with a number
of retired generals and admirals who are
extremely concerned about this nomination.
What they will say is when we torture individuals,
when we treat them inhumanely in our custody,
that just leads to a propaganda boom
for terrorists and our enemies out there.
It degrades our own troops morale
and it makes more likely that our troops will be tortured
in the future if they are captured.
Not to mention the latest science
and any professional interrogator you talk to
will say that torture is actually ineffective.
What it will do is essentially get someone just to talk
and say whatever they think you want to hear
to make the pain and the suffering stop.
So this torture not only did it
not help our national security,
not only did it fail to produce actionable intelligence.
To stop terrorist attacks.
It harmed our national security.
And so what message would that send to have someone who cost
untold harm to our national security leading up the CIA.
I think that's a really important question
for senators to explore during the confirmation hearing
and I think we know the answer.
- Yeah, absolutely.
Well let's put a finer point on that.
If the senate were to confirm Gina Haspel,
it would be the first time that they have confirmed someone
who had an operational role in the torture program, right?
And so what does that say internationally?
I know what happened to our national
security before when this happened.
But just having her lead this agency,
especially under this president.
What are the reverberations for our security?
What message does that send?
And what really are senators voting
for when they face this choice?
- Well I think it's really important
to explore her record in depth.
And as you said, she is the only nominee in recent history
as far as I know ever,
who has had an operational role in torture.
At Human Rights First in our nearly 40 years I can count
on one hand the number of nominees we have opposed.
And that's how scary this is to have
a nominee under our Commander in Chief a President
who openly advocates for the use of torture
with an incoming Secretary of State
or at least a nominee who advocates torture.
A Attorney General who has advocated torture in the past.
And now a national security advisor,
pending national security advisor
who has advocated for incredibly aggressive
approaches in the national security context.
I think the risk of a return not only to torture
but to any number of untold violations of the rule of law
is at an apex right now.
So we have to be really really vigilant.
We do have a full backgrounder on Gina Haspel
and we'll post that in the comments for those
who are watching to get a full download on her record.
But what it would say you know,
the signal it would sent to our allies and our enemies alike
is that the United States is willing to not only accept
and tolerate torture but to promote it.
And what does that mean for a country that is historically
supposed to be a global leader on human rights?
- Right.
- I think we're taking many many steps back here.
And it's really important to stop it in it's tracks.
- Yeah absolutely and one point you mentioned
is something we're really concerned about
here at Indivisible you know,
Haspel by herself this is a super problematic nomination.
It's something we should all oppose and we all
should use our power to defeat.
But this is in the broader context not only do we have
the Pompeo nomination but we have the appointment
of John Bolton to serve as national security advisor.
And just in case folks don't remember this guy,
he is just still one of the biggest
cheerleaders for the Iraq war.
Someone who absolutely disdains our national law.
Has no use for human rights.
Would love to see us bomb North Korea or Iran.
This guy is dangerous he's incredibly dangerous
and I know it's frustrating
but we don't have leverage to stop him.
He is not senate confirmable.
So you know I think one thing that senators are gonna
have to keep in mind is that they really are
kind of voting on Trump's war cabinet that he's assembling.
It's not just bout Haspel,
it's on the broader context of the people
he's surrounding himself with that won't
probably won't do the right thing
and tell him no when they need to tell him no.
But instead will embrace his worse instincts.
So thanks so much for that Raha.
Thank you for sharing your work with us.
Ezra I turn it back over to you.
- Okay well so we got a ton of great information
and I'm sure now you have a ton of questions for us.
So again you can put your questions in the comments section
of Facebook for either Elizabeth or Raha
and we'll get to em!
And we're starting right now with
Dana in Massachusetts who asks,
"There are bills in the senate that would protect Meuller.
"Why isn't Indivisible focusing all of it's energy on that?"
What a great question, Dana.
- What a great question!
Yes, it's true there are two bills in the senate
they are both in the judiciary committee.
Both of them have a slightly separate approach
to kind of add a layer of judicial review
to an attempt of Trump to fire Mueller
and destroy the investigation.
Really great pieces of legislation.
They're both bi-partisan and that's great.
So unfortunately though we don't have leverage
to move these bills forward at this time as you all know.
Because you've all read the Indivisible guide
that constituent pressure works and it works best
when there's a pending vote and there's something
that members of congress have to make a choice on.
Or when there's a piece of leverage,
something we can hold up.
Something we can do in exchange for moving this forward.
That's not something that what we have.
Even if this were to make it out of committee it is still by
Mitch McConnel's good graces whether it comes to the floor.
And I think we all know how those things turn out.
So you know again we take our commitment to you very
seriously to advise you where you can have the most impact.
It is unfortunately not in moving those bills right now.
But like I said we are monitoring
all these situations very closely.
We will be the first ones to tell you when there is
an opportunity to further protect Mueller.
And please to sign up for the crisis response plan.
There will be quite a lot to do if Trump
does cross one of those red lines.
So yeah good work that everyone's doing
and we'll be sure to keep monitoring the situation.
- And can I, I just want to underline that.
I think you made it beautifully that
core to the Indivisible theory of change
is that you know we're not a health care organization
or immigrant rights organization or a tax organization.
We are an organization dedicated to
constituent power like you said.
Which is trying to advise you as to
when you can have the most impact.
Which means when your issue is up.
When an issue is up, that's when we've got to fight.
As a former congressional staffer I can tell ya,
the attention span of a typical
member of congress is roughly three minutes.
(laughter)
If you go in the office talking about something
that's happening you know a few weeks from now
or next month or god help you next year,
it's going to be in one ear and out the other.
Your power comes from saying
"Hey I know there's a bill next week.
"I know there's a hearing tomorrow.
"I want you to behave this way and I'm going to be watching.
"I'm going to be holding you accountable."
And the reason why we're spending so much right now talking
about Pompeo and Haspel is you got that leverage right now.
So that's where you can actually
fight the Trump administration.
By all means when Mueller,
when there's a bill moving we want you to fight on that
and we're going to be first out there.
But right now what we're saying is that the best way
you can combat Trump's administrations agenda
is on these two votes, on Pompeo and Haspel.
- Great.
- So uh, or anything to add?
Okay.
Martin in West Virginia, welcome Martin.
Says I contacted my senators office about this and they said
they want to get more information about Gina Haspel.
And give her a fair hearing before making a decision on her.
- Yeah you know I think we've heard
this from quite a few senators right?
That well they're not going to come out
in opposition before a hearing,
they want to give her a fair hearing.
That's the position of a number of senators.
From our perspective there's nothing that can come out
of this confirmation hearing that would absolve her
or that would justify any senator voting for her.
That's great to ask the hard questions,
get the good information get what we deserve to have public.
To really vet and access her.
But that shouldn't change anything factually.
We know that she actively participated in torture
and that she destroyed the evidence.
That's criminal activity and
that is automatically disqualifying so.
- It's pretty clear cut.
- So it's really important for
constituents to pressure their senators.
I mean like you've said for yesterday
is the time when they need to come out publicly.
And that is the ask for senators right now.
Publicly come out in opposition to both Haspel and Pompeo.
Do it now, do it before the hearing.
Start that momentum now and let Trump know these nominees
they're in trouble and they might not have the votes.
Um do you want to say anything more on that?
- Well I'll just to put a point on it.
I think you might be reading in the newspapers there were
retractions about this aspect about Gina Haspel's record,
or that aspect of her record.
The truth of the matter is we have never faced a nominee
whose entire history and record is classified.
And so what the CIA is doing is they're sort of
sniping from the sidelines and saying
"well you got that little tidbit wrong or whatever".
But the central facts of her involvement in torture
and her involvement in the cover up of torture really
the destruction of evidence are not disputed, right?
And whatever might you know change in terms of
the little details on the side is not
going to change that central narrative.
And that is sufficient to demand
really a vote no on Gina Haspel.
- And can we talk a little bit about so often these things
are really partisan it's Democrats are all on one side
and Republicans are all on the other.
What is the current state of affairs
when it comes to Haspel's nomination
and where are people publicly on this nomination.
- Well you know the issue of torture this is really the
amazing thing has been so bipartisan for so long, you know.
George Washington one of the
founding fathers opposed torture.
Abraham Lincoln signed the Lieber code
that was opposed to torture.
Ronald Regan championed United Nations
convention against torture.
We have multiple votes in the senate.
Overwhelming bipartisan you know votes against torture
dating back to just a couple of years ago with you know
senators McCain and Feinstein being an example.
So this is not a partisan issue we've already seen at least
one republican senator Rand Paul come out against Haspel.
Senator McCain has raised a number of very serious concerns
about her record a number of democrats as well.
So again this is not a partisan issue.
This is an issue of American ideals, the rule of law.
And what it really means to be
promoting our national security.
And I think that's what you're going to see
if we really educate members on this vote.
- So folks out there with a democratic senator
who has not yet made a public statement on this,
a reasonable question they can ask is
why are you more pro Trump and more pro torture
than somebody like Rand Paul?
(laughter)
- You said it yourself.
- Okay well you have a question to ask!
- Is your senator more conservative
than Rand Paul on torture?
- If your democratic senator has not yet
come out in opposition to Haspel the answer is yes.
And that should be unacceptable.
- Yep.
- Um okay moving on next question?
Elise in New Hamshire asks,
"My senator already voted to confirm Mike Pompeo last year,
"I don't think they'll be open to changing their vote,
"what should I do?"
- Yeah great question.
Unfortunately we saw 14 democrats and one independent
Mr. Angus King vote for Mike Pompeo last year.
And you know immediately they faced incredible backlash
from their constituents including many of you.
Showing up at town hall,
showing up at their offices
telling them it wasn't acceptable.
They got on notice and they noticed. (laughing)
They relayed something that impacted them
and what I keep hearing from various offices
is that many of them are
taking these decisions very seriously.
And many of them if you'll notice
actually have not come out with their strong support
saying well I've already voted for him once
I will vote for him again, that sort of thing.
I think part of that is not only because they've experienced
what their constituents think when they get this wrong,
but also because this is a completely different position
that they are accessing him for.
This is Secretary of State,
this is supposed to be the lead US diplomat.
This is supposed to be the face
of US foreign policy all over the world.
Um what would it look like to confirm someone
who will export Trump-ism all over the world?
Who will take us closer to a new war?
Who will be such a threat to human rights.
There are different things at stake here
that are completely different questions.
And that alone should be enough of an off ramp
for senators to change their mind.
So we definitely encourage you
to be pushing them on these points.
- I, one of my earliest memories of the Indivisible
earlier last year was right after the Pompeo vote
Diane Feinstein had voted for Pompeo and there were
all these protests of Indivisible groups and others chanting
"Why Pompeo, why Pompeo" outside her office.
And I think she's one of the ones whose been more tentative
about supporting him for the new position.
- Exactly.
- It's a new world so just because your member voted
against it last time does not
mean it's a forgone conclusion.
- Absolutely.
- Raha anything to add?
- Nope.
- Okay.
Francis we don't know where you're from
but you have a great question for us, and that is:
"I'm exhausted with the daily circus in the White House.
"Any tips with staying on task"?
We all are.
- Yeah!
(laughter)
- We all are.
- Francis no, I think we all just
felt that exhaustion along with you.
Ezra may have more to say about this.
You know I think we really do try to take our commitment
to you very seriously to show you where you can have
the most impact at any given time because it does feel
like there's so many fires to put out at any given time.
And we try to access where can we really have the impact
and where can we make a difference.
So at the risk of sounding very self-servingly,
follow us on twitter!
Sign up for our e-mail alerts.
We are sure to tell you where you can actually do something.
Because I think it's more exhausting when you
feel like maybe there's nothing we can do.
And actually a really great tool we just developed is
you can text Indivisible to actually Ezra should say it.
- No, no, no, you're good.
Text Indivisible to 97779?
Yes not everybody's saying yes that's it.
It's 97779, you text indivisible to that.
We've got actually really great content that's coming out
specifically on what we're talking about today.
We're going to be pushing out that so you don't have to
worry about the news alerts every single hour.
We're gonna send you something to say
hey this is a chance to make your voice heard.
One of the really challenging things about pushing back
against the administration is exactly what you said.
It's a circus every single day.
How can you figure out what exactly
you should be doing at any given time.
And you know what you said Elizabeth I think is right on.
We take our responsibility here about
providing strategic advice really quite seriously.
We try to focus not just on every single thing day to day,
but where you have leverage.
That's why right now we're talking about Haspel and Pompeo.
We believe this is where you can have impact.
Beyond that you can also have impact
by getting involved electorally.
So many Indivisible groups are, they're registering voters.
They're going out to that candidate
forums or holding them themselves.
They're doing endorsements that we
just launched our first round of endorsements.
So there is a chance to retake congress and actually
change what is possible politically nationally.
So the circus is going to continue in the
short-term at least but we could end it soon.
And by just sticking with us at least through the end of
this year we're really going to be able to change things.
So just keep with us and we're gonna keep with you too.
Anything to add Raha?
- I would just be remiss if I didn't plug
you know my comms team's probably watching.
Www.humanrightsfirst.org
We have a ton of excellent analysis,
research and next steps that you can follow on
all the leading human rights issues we care about.
So check it out www.humanrigtsfirst.org .
- Awesome so we're totally running out of time tonight
so I'm going to combine the last two questions.
We have Dave and we have Elizabeth from Illinois.
Dave ask "Why doesn't John Bolton have to be confirmed".
Great question.
And then Elizabeth from Illinois asks
"Are there any coordinated dates
for action on these nominations."
So John Bolton why is there no vote,
and what about coordinated dates for action.
- Yeah I mean the national security advisor
position's not senate confirmable.
That's kind of all there is to it I don't know.
You probably, I don't know if you have more background.
- It's just a White House appointed position.
It has historically been at the discretion of the President.
So unfortunately there's only a subset of executive branch
positions that are senate confirmable.
The national security advisors position is not one of them.
This is Trump's pick, unfortunately.
- So this is again coming back to why are we
talking about Haspel and Pompeo so much?
It's because that's where you have leverage.
John Bolton's awful.
Don't get us wrong.
We'd love to prevent John Bolton from being the
national security advisor but if Trump wants to appoint him,
we're really limited in what we can do as advocates.
But we're not limited when it comes to Pompeo and Haspel.
We can beat them on that front.
So that's why we're focusing so much in on that.
And then that other point.
It's for the actions.
- Yeah so definitely text Indivisible to 97779 because that
is where you will get the most up to date information.
At this time so we don't have specific dates of action
that are scheduled but we will tell you that
Pompeo's confirmation hearing is set to likely be next week.
Meaning that a floor vote could come a couple of weeks later
teeing up the Haspel proceedings to begin.
So within the next few weeks
we really don't have a very long window of time.
So we look forward to hearing from your groups
where you're able to surge that capacity.
Push those phone calls in.
Especially do in district office visits
telling your senators to come out publicly in opposition
to both of these nominees as soon as possible.
- So then this summarize there's a few things
you can do right now last action items is use advocates,
exercise your constitute power.
One share the video this is super easy.
Just click the share button
then everyone will hear about this
and we'll have more people sharing the video.
We'll have billions of people
and these nominations are going down.
So that's one that's very easy.
Two we're in the middle of this
congressional recess right now.
Members of congress they are back home,
you can be calling their offices and you can be going
to their district offices to talk about Pompeo and Haspel.
That's right now that's this week and going forth
the next couple of weeks, now's the time to act.
Three you can text Indivisible to 97779
That's three sevens, 97779.
And we'll start sending you when there are big things
happening on this front we'll send you information.
Four you can go to either Indivisible.org
or Humanrightsfirst.org and get all the information you need
to take action and get the rest of your family members
your friends your group members
informed on how to take action.
So those are the four things get to work!
We're gonna beat these nominations.
We're gonna do it together by
standing up and making our voices heard.
So thanks for being with us.
Bye ya'll.
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