Clarissa's Battle

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CLARISSA’S BATTLE follows single mother and activist Clarissa Doutherd as she works tirelessly to build a powerful coalition. The coalition’s goal is to make local, state and national leaders understand a desperate need shared by families, parents and children across the country, from low-income to middle. What these families need is simple on the surface: child care and early education funds. Enough to allow parents to continue to work. Enough to keep families off the streets. Enough to give their children a chance at a productive, successful future. This film documents the movement for child care access, but also the tenacity of a woman who experienced the shock of financial insecurity after the birth of her son, and her determination to stop it from happening to anyone else. It’s about the struggle experienced by millions of families unseen and unspoken of by their communities. It is about what happens when a woman rises to grasp her power and says, “Enough.”

Maya Soetoro-Ng, Obama Foundation Asia Pacific Region | Co-Founder of Ceeds of Peace | Leadership, Peace Education and Movements Faculty, Matsunaga Institute for Peace and Conflict Resolution, University of Hawaii, Mānoa
"This is a moving film about a strong womanʻs battle for child care and support. Clarissaʻs battle is for all of us, and for the betterment and resilience of society. Her advocacy and activism help us to understand systemic inequalities and encourage participation that is both fierce and tender. This film asks us to challenge injustice with careful, deep listening to the frontline communities who have suffered without despair and are finding sustainable and just solutions. Clarissa shows us that true courage is about walking down a long road, sometimes alone, with little rest and nourishment, without assurances but with imagination and persistence. She is an inspiration and Tamara Perkinsʻ spotlight helps us all to find the courage we need to keep walking our own paths."

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Perkins, Tamara (film director)
Perkins, Tamara (film producer)
Maamouri, Sara (film producer)
Maamouri, Sara (editor of moving image work)

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Director of photography, CB Smith-Dahl; composer, Omar Fadel.

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Keywords

Childcare,Preschool,"Access to education","child care access","child care","Barriers to access","Working Parents","Mental Health","Families of Color","motherhood,"Single parents","single mothers","early education",; "Clarissa's Battle"; GOOD DOCS; "American Studies"; Economics; Work; Education; "U.S. Government and Politics"; Citizenship; "Social Movements"; Activism; Caregiving; Parenting; "Social Policy"; "Economic Sociology"; "Sociology of the Family"; "Sociology of Work";

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(soft music)

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- It is time for a change,
y'all I'm tired

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of being tired of being
tired of being tired.

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I am sick of being tired.

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Seven years ago, I lost
my child care subsidy

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and watched budget cuts
at the state level

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close down child care
centers and preschools,

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so that our children
didn't have that start.

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I watched people take
second mortgages

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so that they could help families

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when our state
didn't do its job.

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No matter where your zip code is

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no matter what school
you sign up to.

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Every single child deserves

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to have the same
quality education.

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- [Audience] Yes.

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(audience cheers)

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(soft music)

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(soft music)

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- Xavier, come on.

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It's time to get up.

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Xavier.

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Xavier, wake up.

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Come on.

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Come on.

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Come on, wake up.

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I know I know I know.

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Here come on come on,
we gotta go.

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We're running late, let's go.

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Let's go, let's go, let's go.

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(yawning)

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Alright.

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Oh.

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You got an award.

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- Mhh , two.

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- Two awards, congratulations.

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(smooching)

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- It's not like I don't
get 'em every year.

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- Okay.

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- You know what it's like a,

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I did, it's very pretty, but
it's just like San Francisco.

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- Oh.

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(car beeping)

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- Here you can look
at the pictures

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while we're going there.

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- Okay.

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- Oh my gosh I hope I don't run
outta gas taking you to school.

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(window whirring)

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- What are people doing
just sitting there.

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(engine revving)

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- Bye honey.

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- Bye.

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- Have a good day okay?

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- I will.

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- I'll see you in
a little while.

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- See you in a while.

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- Good morning.

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Good morning.

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(upbeat music)

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- So the supervisor
Nate Miley has never met

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with our group before.

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One of the big goals
of this meeting is

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to start to connect the dots

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between all of these
issues for him.

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I was gonna do a quick briefing

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on the child care crisis
in Alameda County.

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And I'm gonna be, I'm gonna
well, and again, I'm a talker

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so I'm gonna be as
brief as possible.

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It's your moment to shine,
this is really about you

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and about the real experiences
families are having.

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And then do we wanna
practice our stories,

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we wanna like, just go
through the agenda.

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- No.

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- You don't wanna practice
it, you wanna just.

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- Just tell it from the heart.

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- Tell it from the heart?

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- Yeah.
- Okay.

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- I think then you're
gonna set your timer

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and make sure you stay at five.

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- If they tell me Ms. Jackson,
we heard your story

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that's enough we can't
take no more.

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(laughing)

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- I'm not, nobody's
gonna say that

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to you though Miss Jackson
and that's thing.

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- I'm fine with that.
- Nobody's gonna say that

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to you, let's keep moving
through the agenda.

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So we're gonna ask his position
on child care housing.

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- I was already living in a home

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but I had to leave the home
because I got my baby.

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Because the home was
just for seniors.

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- [Audience] Mhhh.

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- I had to stop working.

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I wasn't ready to stop working,

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I wasn't ready to
give up my housing.

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- Right.

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- You know?

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- Right.

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- But it was things
that I had to do

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for the stability, you know
and security of the child.

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- Just having a baby
puts you into poverty.

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Personally, I was just fine

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and then I had a baby
and then I looked around

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and said wait, now
I don't have a home,

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I don't have a job.

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- Right.

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- I don't have a
way to get a job.

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- Right.

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- You know, just because I
brought a child into the world.

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- Right.
- Right?

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- Yeah.

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Okay, so we're gonna open
our mouths at this meeting.

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- Right.

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- And there's a hearing,

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you all know there's a hearing
next week too.

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- On the 12th.
- On the 12th.

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- That's right, alright.

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(soft music)

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(footsteps)

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- Hello.
- Hi.

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(soft music)

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Okay, hey.

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(soft music)

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- My work in Oakland really
began when I realized

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that there were 5,000 primarily
African American mothers

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on the waiting list.

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The number of families
on the waiting list

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in Oakland makes up half,
if not more

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of the total number of families
that are waiting.

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- We are grassroots
organization,

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that started off with
supporting families

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that were having crisis
with child care.

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Primarily finding
adequate child care,

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as well as being able
to afford child care.

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- And so our job is to elevate
their stories and really

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bring attention to what is
a crisis in the community.

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One of the things that we had
to do was build a relationship

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with elected officials
who didn't champion

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child care or young
children's issues.

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- Is very important
to have child care.

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In this moment today,
in the present.

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She has child care.

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Their lives have changed.

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Right now she's a student

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so she has a beautiful
plan for the kids

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and, she has a beautiful future
for her and for daughters.

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- Like I still carry trauma
from being in a place where

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I was unable, you know
where I felt unable

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and I was unable to do all
the things that he needed

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that my son needed so.

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To not be able to provide
your child with the most

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basic needs, that's devastating.

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We feel that the waiting list
is specifically an example

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of institutional racism
and it's really feeding into

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the problems in the
education system

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as well as economic justice
for low income families.

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- I've been working on
this stuff for decades.

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- I know, I know.

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- What you're telling me,
you're talking to the choir.

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- Yes.

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- So I'm I was on
the Oakland City Council.

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This is the first time
I've talked to you know

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let's say the child care
community about this.

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So what I'm gonna say to you is,

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if you're not at the table
you're on the menu.

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- There is a population
of working poor families

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who are making minimum wage,

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who are working in
fast food restaurants,

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who are working in Target,

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and who are homeless,
but also need child care.

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And for various reasons
don't qualify

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for social services agency.

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So funding for these
emergency child care vouchers

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and funding for these families
could be critically important

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while they're trying to get
their feet on the ground

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while they're trying
to stabilize.

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Is that something that
you would support?

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- Oh yeah for sure, yeah.

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- Fabulous. (chuckles)
That's great.

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- I mean conceptually
I have no problem with it.

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- Okay.

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- But yeah.

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- It's not baked yet.

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- I'll get into the details.

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- How much more you
are talking about.

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- It's not baked yet.

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(all talking)

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- We wanna know if you're down.

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Okay, we just wanna know if
you're down first, you know

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are you down with the cause.

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(laughing)

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- No double dipping.

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(laughing)

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- We asked for $5 million,

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we asked for these services,

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we wanted emergency
child care vouchers,

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we wanted family navigation.

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And so you're lobbying

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and pushing for the issue
that you know

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that you want to be seen
as a priority.

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- Thanks so much for
coming everybody.

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- [Crowd] Thank you.

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- Thank you it's very
good to meet you.

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Thank you. And my card
is in there as well.

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- Its a pleasure Mr. Miley.

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- Can we take a picture
with you?

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- Sure.
- Okay.

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- [Group] Healthy families.

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- Okay.
- All right.

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- Thank you.
- Thank you so much.

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(upbeat music)

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- Okay, all right thank you.

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- See you.

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(upbeat music)

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- Ah, I was recording in
the battery died on me,

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so, I'm just about to go to bed

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but (clears throat) I wanted
to finish what I was saying.

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Tomorrow, we, oh man,
man... I look tore up.

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We've been asked to come

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and talk about the $5 million
program for families

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experiencing homelessness
that we advocated for

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for two years,

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we're trying to build like
a national movement

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around child care that would
finally move the needle

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to make child care
an entitlement

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just something universal
that everybody gets.

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This campaign is the,
would be

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the biggest revenue
raising campaign

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in the country right now.

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For child care and you know,
no pressure.

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(soft music)

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- One of the most important
things about child care

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is that when we have
comprehensive child care

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that includes zero to three,

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it ensures that babies,
infants, toddlers.

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They have a nurturing
safe environment,

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which is the foundation
to education.

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That brain development is so
rapid in those early years

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that when families
are destabilized

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and don't have a situation
that is safe

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and nurturing for the child

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it can impact the brain
development of the child.

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(soft music)

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This is why having 5,000
African American mothers

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on a waiting list
for child care,

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when many of them are homeless,

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many of them are not
able to go to work.

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Many of them are experiencing
partner violence.

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This has tremendous implications

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on the future of
Oakland's children.

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This means that we have
all of these children

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all of these babies, not only
entering school behind,

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but they've been
impacted by trauma.

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It's inhumane,

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and the lack of visibility
on that has really

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motivated our sense of urgency
around getting local investment

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and not waiting on the state
and the federal government

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to come in and change
it all for us.

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We have to make sure
that families are not

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experiencing the crisis that
we're seeing all around us.

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And we have to do this now.

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(upbeat music)

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- We're gonna reconvene the
Board of Supervisors meeting.

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We have speakers on item 65,

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which is the legislative
agenda, Clarissa Doutherd.

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- My apologies, I was helping
a little one with a shirt.

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Good morning.

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My name is Clarissa Doutherd,

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I'm Executive Director with
Parent Voices Oakland.

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And we're just here

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to say how deeply grateful
we are for the opportunity

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to pilot our program the Alameda
County Families United proposal

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that we've been working on
for two years.

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We're working to pilot the
program with a small number

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of families in Northern Alameda
County, primarily based

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in the Building Futures Shelter
for Women and Families.

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There's no new funding
for our program.

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And I wanna encourage
the board to work

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with us on the ECE initiative

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which would fully
fund this program

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of bringing together child care

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and housing advocates
and programs and services

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so that we can have
a complete package

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that supports families
who need child care

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to go to work, to
maintain employment.

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And for whom housing
is a barrier.

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Thank you very much.

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- Okay. We had a motion
and a second, all in favor?

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(committee votes)

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I have a four ayes one excused,

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we'll go to the 11 o'clock
set matters.

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(crowd murmuring)

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(clapping)

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- Thank you so much for showing
up in your leadership today.

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We had an incredible turnout
today was an incredible event,

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this is not the end, this is
actually the beginning.

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- Yes.

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Now the, you know
the hard work starts

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and let's get more members

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and let's get this money, right?

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Let's get this money.

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Okay, alright. Y'all love you!

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(crowd cheering)

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- Thank you Clarissa.
- Thank you Clarissa.

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- For always leading us
in the right direction.

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- Yeah.

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- It's a direction. (laughing)

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It's a direction.

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I don't know if it's the
right one, it's a direction.

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(laughing)

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That was the big moment.

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That was the big
green light to go

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and get some money
for child care

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and have a county-wide
initiative.

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And that triggered a
policy making process

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which then triggered
a campaign process.

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(soft music)

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I always try to stay
with my I ear

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to the ground and like,
really engaged

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in what families are
going through right now.

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Because every day there are
agencies and consultants

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and policy makers that make
money off of our community.

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They make money off of it,

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they make money off
of people suffering

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and it's gross
and it's disgusting.

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And I believe in public
systems, I believe

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that that we have an
opportunity to do better

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but not until we empower
and place power

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in the hands of folks
that know what they need.

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And, you know have
the experiences (sighs)

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that folks have until we put,
you know power in the hands

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of community and the people,
then this will

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this will all still
continue to happen.

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(soft music)

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I had a studio apartment
in San Francisco.

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And I was doing bookkeeping
for different small businesses.

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I got pregnant around
26 years old.

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And I decided I would
become a mom,

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then I started
just saving money.

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I started saving as much
money as I could.

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Cause I, I knew it was gonna
be expensive to have a child,

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I didn't know what
having a baby

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what all that would entail.

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I stayed with Xavier's
dad for a while,

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but things ended up
not working out.

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Take your shoes off.

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I had to leave my job

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because there was no
one to watch my son

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and one moment I was okay
and the next moment I wasn't.

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And we were largely homeless

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we didn't have a stable
place to go.

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We were just on futons

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and couches until he was
about four months old.

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So at that moment I was thinking
around how do women do this?

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'Cause I have one child,
I have one job.

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I felt this sense of anxiety
every day coming home

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like it just, it was so
overwhelming I just felt.

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I mean at this point it
was like Xavier was two

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like two years of just,
you know, just struggle.

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Just such hard work to pull
myself out of poverty.

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(footsteps)

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- Hello.

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- When I first started
working with Parent Voices,

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I was being called on and valued

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based on this horrific thing
that had happened to me.

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So that in of itself right,

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was this interesting dynamic
where people were like,

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oh you're just so great at
articulating this tragedy.

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And that really helps us make
the case for what we wanna do.

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Yeah, I looked at it.

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- Are they good to go?

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- Fine.
- Okay.

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- My qualification is my trauma.

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Which psychologically kind
of does something to you.

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And I think it's
something that

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we as organizers we have
to think about

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and be a little bit
more sensitive to.

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And so when I was able
to make that shift

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and really stand in my power,
that was really hard.

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Because it wasn't just me being
ready to be more than that

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it was other people accepting
that I could be more than that.

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And that's where we
kind of find the racism

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the classism, the well,
how dare you.

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I have all of this research.

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I mean, I get that you've
had a hard story.

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And when lawyers
or policy makers

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they do wanna hear those human
stories and put, they say,

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put a human face to the issue.

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However, my personal
transformation has really

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been around well, that's great.

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And I can have all
those tools too.

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And that actually
only makes me stronger

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as an advocate,
as a leader, right?

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That makes me much more
of a powerhouse.

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It made me even angrier, right?

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Because I didn't want parent
leaders to be partitioned

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into this showcase of poverty.

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And I feel like that
still happens a lot.

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I think that the stories
are critical

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and important that my story's
been critical important

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but what really will change
conditions is building power.

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(soft music)

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- Finish the job
description...

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(soft music)

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I will do this until probably
six o'clock and not eat.

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That's why I try to get as
much protein and caffeine.

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I don't think that's what
you're supposed to do.

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(laughing)

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And then sometimes if I have
time, I might heat up a soup

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at like three or four o'clock
if I'm in the office

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and then will stay
another three hours.

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But I think I have to...

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I think maybe that's, you know,
not super sustainable.

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(traffic sounds)

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Like lately, like I have
been concerned about

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diabetes and blood pressure

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and one of the organizers
dropped dead last Thursday

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and she was a sister.

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She was African American
and you know, Black women die.

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I mean, everybody dies.
That's the truth.

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But like Kim was young,
like she wasn't,

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I don't even know she'd
made it to her fifties.

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Like I would be very,
I mean, she was young

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and really energetic and so
it just, it's like a wake up,

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you know I have so many friends
that are sick, you know,

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like this work takes
a toll on you.

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You know, I'd been having
problems last week

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with migraines and my body
was hurting

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and I didn't know what
was going on,

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and so I was on the phone with,
that was Xavier's dad.

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And he was like, you need
to go to the doctor.

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Like, none of this is normal
that you're saying

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you need to go and get,
you know, checked out.

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But, you know, went
and missed my doctor's

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appointment for a meeting.

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- Hi, my name is Xavier

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and I'm calling from
Parent Voices Oakland.

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How are you today?

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Oh, I'm good.

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Well, I'm calling to remind you
that we have a big action

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at the Board of Supervisors
tomorrow.

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They'll vote on whether

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or not the county
will put an initiative

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on the ballot for
$140 million dollars

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every year for child care.

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- Now, my kid has
had to sacrifice

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- Bye.
- We'll see you.

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- an incredible amount of his
childhood for this movement.

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Definitely over the last
five to six years

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as I've been involved
in child care advocacy,

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he has really, really
sacrificed a lot.

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He has to share me with
a whole bunch of people

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and now I take him
to work with me

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and he's kind of
my little co-pilot.

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We go everywhere together
and he goes to meetings

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and he shakes hands
and he gets to engage

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with all kinds of people

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and I think that's
a beautiful thing.

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- ♪ Go, the waiting list
has got to go. ♪

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♪ Hey, hey, ho, ho, the waiting
list has got to go. ♪

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♪ Hey, hey, ho, ho, the waiting
list has got to go. ♪

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- Good morning, everybody.

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I'm Supervisor Chan.

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I'm the President of
the Board of Supervisors.

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This is gonna be a historic day
for Alameda County by giving

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our workers who work so hard
with our kids decent wages,

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by coming close to
eliminating the waiting lists,

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by giving our young
people a chance

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to do well in school.

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And so I just wanna
thank you

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for all the work
that you've done

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and we're gonna have
a really great campaign.

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Thank you.

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(audience applauding)

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- Our Alameda Labor Council
has always endorsed you

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as early child care workers
and early education workers.

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Because the work you do
is so valuable.

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- Today we are asking
the Board of Supervisors

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to vote yes on this, on these
important measures.

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This measure will increase
funding for Alameda County's

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early education system.

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- I'm just here to help
people understand

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why this ballot initiative
is so needed.

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I have been homeless
with my children

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and I know the seriousness
of having child care.

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Child care is the piece
to the puzzle.

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If you don't have that piece,

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you're an not gonna
finish that puzzle.

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Thank you.

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(audience applauding)

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- All right, so we have
a lot of speakers.

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So I'll call you in the order
I got them in,

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you can come up and you can
have maximum of three minutes.

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So does Leanna wanna speak?

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- [Leanna] Today I'm speaking
about my most precious jewels

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those two little loud
children back there.

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(members applauding)

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One, you can kind of see
why I need child care.

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(audience laughing)

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Basically I'm here to address
the child care deserts

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in East and West Oakland.

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We really need child care.

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In order for people to go
to programs, go to work

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go to do anything productive
you need child care.

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Children aren't voiceless, as
you can hear, even in the room

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but we do have to
stand up for them.

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- We have a huge
waiting list for Oakland

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over 4,000 families that wait.

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- [Woman] I believe that
our child care system is broken.

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And even if they didn't get
great services from birth

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to three, the developmental
window does not slam shut.

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Children can learn but
the earlier we touch them,

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the better off they are.

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- [Woman] In Oakland,
82% of white students

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enter kindergarten ready,

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whereas 26% of
African American males

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and 29% of Latino students
enter kindergarten ready.

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This is not okay.

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All students, regardless
of race, zip code or income

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deserve high quality preschool

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and to enter kindergarten,
set up for success.

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- The hidden homeless
is a big deal.

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Being homeless could be
being in your car,

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could be cuddled up with other
family members temporarily,

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it could be living in a hotel.

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It's not always necessarily
being out on the street.

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- [Woman] I urge you
to consider solutions

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that address our problems
holistically.

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This means not
just thinking about

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how solutions impact
children and parents

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but also the child care
workforce.

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We must invest in the people
who do this work every day.

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- [Woman] It's shocking
that almost half

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of all child care workers
rely on public assistance

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and many struggle to afford
basic household necessities.

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- [Woman] Only
together parents

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and providers, policy experts

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and elected officials,
can we raise Alameda

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into a strong early care
and education system

00:27:23.600 --> 00:27:25.811
that lifts up families
and providers

00:27:25.811 --> 00:27:29.815
giving them exactly what
we need to thrive on.

00:27:29.815 --> 00:27:31.358
- [Woman] And who's
a parent in here,

00:27:31.358 --> 00:27:34.361
please, please raise your
hand, stand up and clap.

00:27:35.737 --> 00:27:39.074
Without these families, without
these families who showed up

00:27:39.074 --> 00:27:41.952
missing work, missing pay.

00:27:41.952 --> 00:27:44.496
Without these providers
who showed up

00:27:44.496 --> 00:27:48.834
we would not be securing the
future our children deserve.

00:27:48.834 --> 00:27:50.919
- That the two groups of
people I love the most

00:27:50.919 --> 00:27:54.464
in the world are child care
workers and home care workers.

00:27:54.464 --> 00:27:57.551
You guys work the hardest
for the lowest wages

00:27:57.551 --> 00:28:00.345
but are so important to
our kids, to our seniors.

00:28:00.345 --> 00:28:04.474
This is about equality,
about diversity

00:28:04.474 --> 00:28:07.853
about a decent wage that
people can stay here.

00:28:07.853 --> 00:28:10.856
Not just the child care workers,
but the moms and dads

00:28:10.856 --> 00:28:14.234
who need the child care
in order to, to stay here.

00:28:14.234 --> 00:28:17.029
So we're gonna take
a motion on both items,

00:28:17.029 --> 00:28:19.448
all in favor five ayes,
motion pass,

00:28:19.448 --> 00:28:21.700
both of them pass
for fifteen fifteen.

00:28:21.700 --> 00:28:30.918
(audience applause and cheers)

00:28:30.918 --> 00:28:32.544
- We get to celebrate
this sweet moment.

00:28:32.544 --> 00:28:37.549
And again, you know, this is
the culmination of two years

00:28:38.717 --> 00:28:40.427
five years of talking
about the waiting list,

00:28:40.427 --> 00:28:42.220
and two years actively
advocating in

00:28:42.220 --> 00:28:43.889
that room on fifth floor.

00:28:43.889 --> 00:28:46.725
We said we have to fight
for child care and housing.

00:28:46.725 --> 00:28:48.894
Through the last two years of,
like I said, going up there

00:28:48.894 --> 00:28:52.230
and not knowing what meeting,
y'all don't even know.

00:28:52.230 --> 00:28:54.066
Y'all do not even know.

00:28:54.066 --> 00:28:55.567
We had no, like we didn't.

00:28:55.567 --> 00:28:56.735
We were trying to
get on agendas

00:28:56.735 --> 00:28:58.278
trying to go to
the right committee

00:28:58.278 --> 00:28:59.821
trying to figure out
how this process works.

00:28:59.821 --> 00:29:01.323
It is not very
community friendly

00:29:01.323 --> 00:29:04.117
and we are blazing trails
and creating pathways

00:29:04.117 --> 00:29:05.827
so that, that changes.

00:29:05.827 --> 00:29:07.412
We are the pulse.

00:29:07.412 --> 00:29:09.414
We are the heartbeat
of the community

00:29:09.414 --> 00:29:11.416
because we are there
in the community.

00:29:11.416 --> 00:29:14.127
We know what's happening,
you know, let's celebrate

00:29:14.127 --> 00:29:15.712
but y'all, we have
so much work to do.

00:29:15.712 --> 00:29:19.132
Like, this is the very,
very beginning of us

00:29:20.509 --> 00:29:23.470
loving on each other in
conscious beautiful struggle.

00:29:24.888 --> 00:29:28.058
So we'll see y'all in
the campaign office

00:29:28.058 --> 00:29:29.268
which is getting set up. Okay.

00:29:29.268 --> 00:29:31.436
(audience applauding)

00:29:31.436 --> 00:29:33.438
(crowd chanting)

00:29:51.123 --> 00:29:56.044
(upbeat music)

00:29:56.044 --> 00:29:57.296
- Hey mom.

00:29:57.296 --> 00:30:01.633
- Hi, I can never seem to
pick up calls right away.

00:30:01.633 --> 00:30:03.677
- That's okay.

00:30:03.677 --> 00:30:07.639
So the Board unanimously
approved the ordinance

00:30:07.639 --> 00:30:11.018
the resolution and
the program plan.

00:30:11.018 --> 00:30:17.274
It is a half cent sales tax
and it's $140 million dollars

00:30:17.274 --> 00:30:21.153
a year in new funding
for child care programs.

00:30:21.153 --> 00:30:23.780
- Wow. Wow.
Are you serious?

00:30:23.780 --> 00:30:25.490
- Yeah. Yeah.

00:30:26.658 --> 00:30:28.368
- Oh my God that's
a huge victory.

00:30:28.368 --> 00:30:30.912
- Yeah, it's a really big deal.

00:30:30.912 --> 00:30:33.332
Do you know this is the largest
ECE ballot initiative

00:30:33.332 --> 00:30:35.083
in the country.

00:30:35.083 --> 00:30:36.293
This is like the blueprint

00:30:36.293 --> 00:30:39.004
for how to put together
a child care program.

00:30:39.004 --> 00:30:42.215
But now we have to, you know,
now we have to win.

00:30:42.215 --> 00:30:44.384
Like this is one huge step

00:30:44.384 --> 00:30:47.054
and now we have to do
the actual campaign

00:30:47.054 --> 00:30:48.805
to get people to vote for it.

00:30:48.805 --> 00:30:52.350
So that's like, you know.

00:30:54.144 --> 00:30:55.437
- Especially in Oakland.

00:30:55.437 --> 00:30:57.606
- I'll worry about
that tomorrow, so.

00:30:57.606 --> 00:30:59.357
- Yeah. One step at a time.

00:30:59.357 --> 00:31:01.026
Enjoy the victory today.

00:31:02.110 --> 00:31:03.361
- All right, mommy.
I love you.

00:31:03.361 --> 00:31:05.197
I'll talk to you.
I'll talk to you soon.

00:31:05.197 --> 00:31:06.490
- Okay. I love you too.

00:31:06.490 --> 00:31:07.449
- Okay, bye.

00:31:11.244 --> 00:31:18.585
(slow music)

00:31:18.585 --> 00:31:22.214
- Xavier, we overslept.

00:31:24.466 --> 00:31:26.426
You still wanna walk or you
want me to take you to school?

00:31:26.426 --> 00:31:27.636
- I'll walk.

00:31:27.636 --> 00:31:29.971
- You'll walk, okay,
then you gotta get up.

00:31:29.971 --> 00:31:40.148
(slow music)

00:31:40.148 --> 00:31:41.149
- I'll get it.

00:31:43.318 --> 00:31:45.112
So I'm gonna pick
you up at 1:10.

00:31:45.112 --> 00:31:48.073
You start basketball today.

00:31:48.073 --> 00:32:01.086
(slow music)

00:32:03.630 --> 00:32:08.677
This is the breakfast
of champions, (chuckles)

00:32:08.677 --> 00:32:11.388
probiotic cashew milk
and it's like a kefir,

00:32:11.388 --> 00:32:14.599
but it's cashew
and coconut coffee.

00:32:14.599 --> 00:32:17.894
Oh, that's wrong, coconut
coffee, vanilla milk

00:32:17.894 --> 00:32:19.104
vanilla almond milk

00:32:19.104 --> 00:32:23.608
and peanut butter with
flax and chia seed.

00:32:23.608 --> 00:32:28.071
So I get everything I need
for at least eight hours.

00:32:28.071 --> 00:32:32.409
I don't have to really
refuel for a while.

00:32:32.409 --> 00:32:35.328
(blender whirring)

00:32:38.790 --> 00:32:41.793
All right.
I made a frappuccino.

00:32:44.087 --> 00:32:58.101
(upbeat music)

00:32:58.101 --> 00:33:01.146
(background talking)

00:33:02.272 --> 00:33:03.315
- Good morning everyone?

00:33:03.315 --> 00:33:04.649
- [Audience] Good morning.

00:33:04.649 --> 00:33:06.526
- Great to be here
this morning to

00:33:06.526 --> 00:33:08.028
kick off the campaign on A.

00:33:08.028 --> 00:33:11.573
There's still a lot to be done
with a lot of organization

00:33:11.573 --> 00:33:15.410
but it's not over until
it's over and it's not over.

00:33:15.410 --> 00:33:17.287
We've got about 70 days to go.

00:33:17.287 --> 00:33:19.623
We've gotta get that 2/3.

00:33:19.623 --> 00:33:21.958
And I've said to folks,
let's not just get the 2/3,

00:33:21.958 --> 00:33:23.501
let's run up the score.

00:33:23.501 --> 00:33:27.005
(audience agreeing)

00:33:27.005 --> 00:33:27.839
And you know, you get a lead.

00:33:27.839 --> 00:33:28.840
Do you sit on a lead?

00:33:28.840 --> 00:33:29.758
- [Audience] No.

00:33:29.758 --> 00:33:31.009
- You don't sit on a lead.

00:33:31.009 --> 00:33:35.013
You just keep pounding away,
pounding away.

00:33:35.013 --> 00:33:36.389
Cause you don't
wanna sit on a lead.

00:33:36.389 --> 00:33:37.682
You want to take this across

00:33:37.682 --> 00:33:42.687
the finish line,
70% 75%, hey, 80%.

00:33:43.396 --> 00:33:45.982
(audience applauding)

00:33:47.484 --> 00:33:48.860
- So thank you so much.

00:33:48.860 --> 00:33:52.030
(audience applauding)

00:33:53.323 --> 00:33:58.203
(background talking)

00:33:58.203 --> 00:34:11.967
(upbeat music)

00:34:11.967 --> 00:34:14.886
- The U.S. has a legacy of
historically undervaluing

00:34:14.886 --> 00:34:18.723
the labor performed by women
in particular, Black women

00:34:18.723 --> 00:34:22.394
women in immigrant communities
and low wage earners

00:34:22.394 --> 00:34:25.105
in ways that are deeply
racist and systemic.

00:34:27.399 --> 00:34:30.193
This has created one of the
most underpaid workforces

00:34:30.193 --> 00:34:33.822
in the country, those who care
for and teach young children.

00:34:37.325 --> 00:34:40.245
These are often working
mothers who get into early care

00:34:40.245 --> 00:34:42.789
and education and become
child care workers

00:34:42.789 --> 00:34:45.375
so that they're able to care
for their own children

00:34:45.375 --> 00:34:47.711
while providing care
for other parents.

00:34:49.212 --> 00:34:51.381
This happens because
they cannot access

00:34:51.381 --> 00:34:54.259
and afford child care themselves
which perpetuates

00:34:54.259 --> 00:34:58.430
cycles of poverty within
communities of color.

00:34:58.430 --> 00:35:03.601
(soft music)

00:35:03.601 --> 00:35:06.605
- [Woman] So I have just
been jotting down things

00:35:06.605 --> 00:35:08.064
that I think we've
been talking about,

00:35:08.064 --> 00:35:11.943
talking a little bit about what
the campaign will look like

00:35:11.943 --> 00:35:13.445
and how that can help
our organizing.

00:35:13.445 --> 00:35:15.113
And I will say I don't
actually know what

00:35:15.113 --> 00:35:16.865
the campaign will look like, so.

00:35:16.865 --> 00:35:20.952
- I know more on the policy
side a little bit

00:35:20.952 --> 00:35:22.996
just because our
families just came

00:35:22.996 --> 00:35:24.456
out with some really
specific asks

00:35:24.456 --> 00:35:26.750
that they wanted to see
in the policy.

00:35:26.750 --> 00:35:30.462
And we, one of the things
that we'll ask is, you know

00:35:30.462 --> 00:35:34.049
if the campaign has funding
for a paid daily team.

00:35:34.049 --> 00:35:36.384
- Yeah, so how do we
address that, right?

00:35:36.384 --> 00:35:38.511
- Yes, if we're talking about
equity and those furthest

00:35:38.511 --> 00:35:40.472
from opportunities, you have
to start that conversation

00:35:40.472 --> 00:35:41.973
with informal care
providers, right?

00:35:41.973 --> 00:35:44.768
Because there, those gaps
that we have in our system

00:35:44.768 --> 00:35:47.645
those are being filled by
Black and Brown women

00:35:47.645 --> 00:35:49.147
and their labor's
being exploited.

00:35:49.147 --> 00:35:52.567
So like the whole system
is actually being held up

00:35:52.567 --> 00:35:54.986
on the backs of these women
of color who are doing

00:35:54.986 --> 00:35:57.280
this often unpaid labor.

00:35:57.280 --> 00:35:59.658
- This is a campaign
that I haven't

00:35:59.658 --> 00:36:01.993
in my 12 years in SEIU
seen this level

00:36:01.993 --> 00:36:04.204
of community engagement
with other partners

00:36:04.204 --> 00:36:06.081
and other stakeholders.

00:36:06.081 --> 00:36:08.917
Super comprehensive
and it needed this level

00:36:08.917 --> 00:36:12.670
of like a sort of coalition
to, to make it happen.

00:36:12.670 --> 00:36:16.674
- Like that Parent Voices
has a proven set of leaders

00:36:16.674 --> 00:36:19.344
who can be spokespeople
on child care issue.

00:36:19.344 --> 00:36:21.221
- We're, I'm real
sensitive about

00:36:21.221 --> 00:36:24.808
and weird about the
spokespeople thing.

00:36:24.808 --> 00:36:27.519
I get that we have to have
it like the faces, you know

00:36:27.519 --> 00:36:30.855
the faces of the campaign,
but there's just... umm,

00:36:35.944 --> 00:36:38.363
Yeah, I don't want our folks,
folks to be exploited and,

00:36:38.363 --> 00:36:39.572
- Oh totally.

00:36:39.572 --> 00:36:41.574
- I've had people call me
from other campaigns

00:36:41.574 --> 00:36:42.992
that we weren't even
involved with being like,

00:36:42.992 --> 00:36:44.703
"Could you have some kids?"

00:36:44.703 --> 00:36:46.955
and like that, no,
you know, that's

00:36:46.955 --> 00:36:48.873
(laughs)

00:36:48.873 --> 00:36:51.960
No, like that's not,
that's not gonna work.

00:36:51.960 --> 00:36:55.171
Or, you know having someone like
say something that they really

00:36:55.171 --> 00:36:57.632
really wouldn't say like,
or talk about their lives

00:36:57.632 --> 00:37:00.135
in a way that they really
wouldn't talk about it.

00:37:00.135 --> 00:37:01.511
I'm not one to hold back.

00:37:01.511 --> 00:37:04.055
I almost always speak the truth

00:37:04.055 --> 00:37:07.016
and say things just as
I'm thinking about them.

00:37:07.892 --> 00:37:09.394
I don't ever hold back.

00:37:09.394 --> 00:37:11.813
I don't care who's in the room
and I don't care,

00:37:11.813 --> 00:37:17.068
how uncomfortable my
perspective makes you.

00:37:17.068 --> 00:37:20.280
And I'm clear that it's my
perspective because of my life

00:37:20.280 --> 00:37:22.532
my lived experience
and also the things

00:37:22.532 --> 00:37:24.659
that I see with our
families every day.

00:37:24.659 --> 00:37:28.163
I really don't care how
uncomfortable that makes someone

00:37:28.163 --> 00:37:32.542
or how that might put me
at odds with a funder

00:37:32.542 --> 00:37:35.962
and someone might get offended
and pull money from us.

00:37:35.962 --> 00:37:39.632
And I think so much of
that is just the stress

00:37:39.632 --> 00:37:46.723
of having to navigate all of
this double speak, you know,

00:37:46.723 --> 00:37:49.559
navigate spaces where
people are saying things

00:37:49.559 --> 00:37:53.354
that they feel or that they
think are good, or, you know

00:37:53.354 --> 00:37:57.775
saying the things that,
that sound, not racist.

00:37:57.775 --> 00:38:05.074
(upbeat music)

00:38:05.074 --> 00:38:10.580
(background talking)

00:38:10.580 --> 00:38:12.290
- Hi everybody, thank you
so much for coming.

00:38:12.290 --> 00:38:14.626
I'll be very brief
cause we gotta walk.

00:38:14.626 --> 00:38:15.960
This is a really huge moment.

00:38:15.960 --> 00:38:18.129
We are 30 days out
from June 5th.

00:38:18.129 --> 00:38:19.422
We are 30 days from
wrapping this up

00:38:19.422 --> 00:38:20.632
(audience applauding)

00:38:20.632 --> 00:38:21.883
and winning child care
for everybody.

00:38:21.883 --> 00:38:24.093
And I just really
wanna appreciate all

00:38:24.093 --> 00:38:25.803
of us as a community
coming together

00:38:25.803 --> 00:38:28.890
and really proving that when
we build from the ground up

00:38:28.890 --> 00:38:31.267
from the grassroots up,
when we include seniors

00:38:31.267 --> 00:38:33.311
when we include monolingual
Spanish speakers,

00:38:33.311 --> 00:38:36.397
when we include everybody
from the community to come

00:38:36.397 --> 00:38:40.026
and campaign and fight for
justice for our children

00:38:40.026 --> 00:38:41.986
then that's how we win.

00:38:41.986 --> 00:38:45.156
This moment is so exciting
because right now

00:38:45.156 --> 00:38:48.868
we're gonna help some of those
33 children that are living

00:38:48.868 --> 00:38:50.578
in cars right now in Oakland.

00:38:50.578 --> 00:38:53.665
We are gonna help the
6,400 families that are

00:38:53.665 --> 00:38:54.999
on the waiting list.

00:38:54.999 --> 00:38:57.210
The time is now to
support those families

00:38:57.210 --> 00:38:59.045
and give them the much
needed relief

00:38:59.045 --> 00:39:00.088
and support that they deserve.

00:39:00.088 --> 00:39:01.172
So thank you so much.

00:39:01.172 --> 00:39:02.382
(audience applauding)

00:39:02.382 --> 00:39:04.175
I also want you
shout out to again.

00:39:04.175 --> 00:39:06.553
So my son, I don't
know where he went.

00:39:06.553 --> 00:39:09.556
He's he's been in
this fight with me.

00:39:09.556 --> 00:39:11.057
Come on, come on, come on.

00:39:11.057 --> 00:39:13.101
He's been, no? Okay, he's
been in this fight with me.

00:39:13.101 --> 00:39:15.937
Some of you know, since
he was three years old.

00:39:15.937 --> 00:39:18.565
Every single door is
a knock for justice.

00:39:18.565 --> 00:39:19.399
Thank you.

00:39:19.399 --> 00:39:22.110
(audience applauding)

00:39:22.110 --> 00:39:28.366
(background talking)

00:39:28.366 --> 00:39:30.034
- [Man] Where do I sign?

00:39:30.034 --> 00:39:31.786
- [Woman] Sign right there.

00:39:31.786 --> 00:39:32.996
- Right here?

00:39:32.996 --> 00:39:34.330
- [Woman] Are you a registered
voter in Alameda?

00:39:34.330 --> 00:39:35.248
- Yep.

00:39:35.248 --> 00:39:37.458
- Okay, you're good to go.

00:39:37.458 --> 00:39:42.714
(upbeat music)

00:39:42.714 --> 00:39:48.094
(indistinct chatter)

00:39:48.094 --> 00:39:54.392
(upbeat music)

00:39:54.392 --> 00:39:56.477
- Okay. What is up guys?

00:39:57.437 --> 00:39:59.188
It is me, ahh...

00:40:03.401 --> 00:40:04.235
- Are you recording?

00:40:04.235 --> 00:40:05.737
- [Xavier] Yes.

00:40:05.737 --> 00:40:07.864
- Do you wanna ask me,
ask me interview questions?

00:40:07.864 --> 00:40:09.157
- [Xavier] What was your
first job?

00:40:09.157 --> 00:40:10.992
- What was my first job?

00:40:10.992 --> 00:40:12.660
- [Xavier] Yeah.

00:40:13.745 --> 00:40:19.918
- I worked for a political
polling place where we did,

00:40:19.918 --> 00:40:21.419
it was kind of like
telemarketing

00:40:21.419 --> 00:40:27.592
but we did calls to poll
and ask what voters thought

00:40:27.592 --> 00:40:29.594
about, both Democrat and
Republican voters thought

00:40:29.594 --> 00:40:33.431
about certain candidates
and also certain issues.

00:40:33.431 --> 00:40:35.600
So you know how old I was
when I did that?

00:40:35.600 --> 00:40:36.976
- [Xavier] How old? Nineteen?

00:40:36.976 --> 00:40:39.020
- Close go down a little bit.

00:40:39.020 --> 00:40:40.104
- Seventeen?

00:40:40.104 --> 00:40:41.773
- Go down a little bit.

00:40:41.773 --> 00:40:42.982
- Fifteen?

00:40:42.982 --> 00:40:45.443
- I was 15 turning
16 when I did that.

00:40:45.443 --> 00:40:48.029
- [Xavier] Wow. That's
a young age for a job.

00:40:48.029 --> 00:40:49.739
- It was a very
young age for a job.

00:40:49.739 --> 00:40:52.075
- [Xavier] Is that how you
wanted to do Parent Voices?

00:40:52.075 --> 00:40:53.743
- I had no idea
that I was gonna do

00:40:53.743 --> 00:40:55.286
the work that I was doing.

00:40:55.286 --> 00:40:58.748
I just actually wanted,
what is this person doing?

00:40:58.748 --> 00:41:01.542
I just wanted to get a paycheck,
but I definitely got that

00:41:01.542 --> 00:41:02.835
the world was messed up.

00:41:02.835 --> 00:41:04.212
Okay, ask me something else.

00:41:05.672 --> 00:41:07.799
- [Xavier] Well, you're not
supposed to say that, but,

00:41:07.799 --> 00:41:09.050
- Okay.

00:41:09.050 --> 00:41:11.010
- [Xavier] I don't
know what to ask.

00:41:11.010 --> 00:41:12.512
- That's okay.

00:41:12.512 --> 00:41:14.472
- [Xavier] Well, could you
kind of just like talk?

00:41:14.472 --> 00:41:18.142
- No, you ask me whatever,
don't...

00:41:18.142 --> 00:41:22.021
just ask me whatever you
as my son would want to know.

00:41:22.021 --> 00:41:23.856
I tell you everything
anyway, but like you.

00:41:23.856 --> 00:41:26.359
- [Xavier] What's two plus one?

00:41:26.359 --> 00:41:27.652
- I told you it's five.

00:41:27.652 --> 00:41:34.993
Okay. I told you it is five.
Stop it. Stop it.

00:41:34.993 --> 00:41:37.829
Stop playing with me
around my arithmetic.

00:41:37.829 --> 00:41:39.497
- Okay. (Bemused)

00:41:43.084 --> 00:41:44.585
- What we're doing right now
is get out the vote

00:41:44.585 --> 00:41:48.256
which is the last few days of
an election where basically

00:41:48.256 --> 00:41:50.508
after we've identified
all the voters

00:41:50.508 --> 00:41:53.094
and people who've said that
they support the initiative.

00:41:53.094 --> 00:41:55.763
We wanna make sure that they
actually get out and vote.

00:41:55.763 --> 00:41:59.684
And because this is a midterm
election and people typically

00:41:59.684 --> 00:42:02.937
don't even know that there's
an election right now.

00:42:02.937 --> 00:42:06.357
I, you know, and I wonder if
like I, if I wasn't so involved

00:42:06.357 --> 00:42:08.860
in this, if I would,
even, it's not true.

00:42:08.860 --> 00:42:11.988
I vote in every, almost
every single I'm a...

00:42:11.988 --> 00:42:13.364
what they call a frequent voter.

00:42:13.364 --> 00:42:16.034
I tend to vote in every
election pretty much

00:42:16.034 --> 00:42:19.162
since I was 18 years old, my
grandfather took me to vote

00:42:19.162 --> 00:42:20.329
for the first time
and I've been voting.

00:42:20.329 --> 00:42:23.249
So, but a lot of people don't.

00:42:23.249 --> 00:42:25.752
And so our job is to go out

00:42:25.752 --> 00:42:27.754
and remind people to vote.

00:42:27.754 --> 00:42:30.715
In this campaign we are
hanging up door hangers.

00:42:30.715 --> 00:42:32.258
And the door hanger
just says, you know,

00:42:32.258 --> 00:42:36.971
hey someone was here, please
go out and vote for Measure A.

00:42:37.847 --> 00:42:38.723
- [Man] Five hours,

00:42:38.723 --> 00:42:39.557
- Huh?

00:42:39.557 --> 00:42:40.767
- [Man] Five hours.

00:42:40.767 --> 00:42:43.519
- No, we won't be back
until tonight.

00:42:45.062 --> 00:42:45.688
(keys jingling)

00:42:45.688 --> 00:42:47.523
- Set.

00:42:47.523 --> 00:42:49.108
Should have brought.

00:42:49.108 --> 00:42:51.194
Oops.

00:42:52.361 --> 00:42:54.363
(car doors closing)

00:42:56.824 --> 00:42:59.494
- Should I just change
right here?

00:43:02.121 --> 00:43:02.955
No.

00:43:05.374 --> 00:43:07.502
(background talking)

00:43:07.502 --> 00:43:08.753
How you doing?

00:43:08.753 --> 00:43:11.589
Long time no see.
(crowd clapping)

00:43:11.589 --> 00:43:12.757
How are you?

00:43:12.757 --> 00:43:14.425
- So I just have
to thank all of you

00:43:14.425 --> 00:43:17.678
because we have what 7,000 kids
in Alameda County

00:43:17.678 --> 00:43:22.225
who are on a waiting list?
Unacceptable, unacceptable.

00:43:22.225 --> 00:43:25.728
We need this measure,
so that our young people

00:43:25.728 --> 00:43:29.023
can have the quality early
childhood development

00:43:29.023 --> 00:43:31.692
and child care that they
deserve in our county.

00:43:31.692 --> 00:43:33.111
(crowd clapping)

00:43:33.111 --> 00:43:36.405
Because they're the future,
they're the future.

00:43:37.824 --> 00:43:40.284
- Let me just tell you this
has been a long journey.

00:43:40.284 --> 00:43:46.123
Started in 2016, 2017, Parent
Voices, SEIU, many, many others.

00:43:46.123 --> 00:43:48.751
(crowd cheering)

00:43:48.751 --> 00:43:50.628
And we're going
to pass this measure.

00:43:50.628 --> 00:43:51.963
And with this measure

00:43:51.963 --> 00:43:54.090
we're going to raise
over a billion dollars

00:43:54.090 --> 00:43:57.802
over the life of this measure
for affordable child care.

00:43:57.802 --> 00:43:59.554
Give yourself a round
of applause.

00:43:59.554 --> 00:44:01.305
(crowd applauding)

00:44:01.305 --> 00:44:02.223
- Hello, sir.

00:44:02.223 --> 00:44:03.015
- Hey Clarissa,
how are you doing?

00:44:03.015 --> 00:44:04.308
Good, good.

00:44:04.308 --> 00:44:05.518
- Hi. I just want
to give you a hug.

00:44:05.518 --> 00:44:06.978
- This is Toni, this
is my (inaudible)

00:44:06.978 --> 00:44:08.396
- Hi, Toni, nice to meet.
- Good to meet you.

00:44:08.396 --> 00:44:09.856
- They've been on this journey
for nearly two years...

00:44:09.856 --> 00:44:10.857
- Oh my goodness.

00:44:10.857 --> 00:44:11.649
- Yes, yeah.
- Yes, yeah.

00:44:11.649 --> 00:44:13.526
Yes, I would love to.

00:44:13.526 --> 00:44:14.485
We're going to have a dance
battle in a minute.

00:44:14.485 --> 00:44:15.820
That's what's going to happen.

00:44:15.820 --> 00:44:17.113
We're going to do this.

00:44:17.113 --> 00:44:18.990
I am so excited to
get to this point.

00:44:18.990 --> 00:44:21.492
When people were undecided
it was because

00:44:21.492 --> 00:44:23.035
they were like is this
going to be spent well?

00:44:23.035 --> 00:44:24.328
Is there oversight?

00:44:24.328 --> 00:44:25.955
I can't do taxes.

00:44:25.955 --> 00:44:28.332
And when we say this was
a collaborative effort

00:44:28.332 --> 00:44:31.335
with community and our
supervisors listened to us,

00:44:31.335 --> 00:44:32.837
they change it.

00:44:32.837 --> 00:44:35.715
So I just want to thank you
for being so receptive

00:44:35.715 --> 00:44:37.466
and collaborative with us, yeah.

00:44:37.466 --> 00:44:38.384
- Let's keep working.

00:44:38.384 --> 00:44:39.302
- Let's do it.

00:44:41.971 --> 00:44:43.347
- [Woman] Okay.
- All right, thank you.

00:44:43.347 --> 00:44:44.515
- [Woman] It's kind of
in the sun but it's fine.

00:44:44.515 --> 00:44:45.725
- Okay. Are you ready?

00:44:46.976 --> 00:44:47.810
Oh, she's ready.

00:44:48.644 --> 00:44:49.520
- Inside of here,

00:44:51.522 --> 00:44:53.024
the both of you will have
a folder to split.

00:44:53.024 --> 00:44:54.275
So if you want to take
the odd side,

00:44:54.275 --> 00:44:57.361
he can take the even,
you both have a map.

00:44:57.361 --> 00:44:58.905
- Okay. This is a full.

00:44:58.905 --> 00:45:01.365
- [Attendant] These
are the two incomplete.

00:45:01.365 --> 00:45:02.617
- Okay.

00:45:02.617 --> 00:45:04.452
- [Attendant] So I'll
just make myself a note

00:45:04.452 --> 00:45:06.454
that you have....

00:45:08.831 --> 00:45:12.335
- So I'm not supposed
to be eating this.

00:45:12.335 --> 00:45:15.379
These are actually my
favorite things in the world.

00:45:15.379 --> 00:45:18.049
Are these breakfast claws
and the cheese horns.

00:45:18.049 --> 00:45:19.508
You don't understand,

00:45:19.508 --> 00:45:21.552
how much I lived off these
when I was younger.

00:45:21.552 --> 00:45:23.554
Because I was raised
by grandparents.

00:45:23.554 --> 00:45:25.306
So these were always
in the house.

00:45:25.306 --> 00:45:26.766
- [Attendant] Right?

00:45:26.766 --> 00:45:28.601
- Like if you were raised
by black grandparents

00:45:28.601 --> 00:45:30.478
you had access to these.

00:45:32.438 --> 00:45:34.607
It's Southern, you
know, it's possible.

00:45:34.607 --> 00:45:37.985
You had access to Svenhard's
cheese horns.

00:45:37.985 --> 00:45:40.905
I would put them
in the microwave

00:45:40.905 --> 00:45:42.406
- [Attendant] Butter on them.

00:45:42.406 --> 00:45:46.244
- I'd put butter on them and
put them in the microwave, girl.

00:45:46.244 --> 00:45:48.245
- We'll do a better
job tomorrow.

00:45:48.245 --> 00:45:50.998
(Clarissa laughing)

00:45:52.875 --> 00:45:54.752
- Now, you know, it's about 82.

00:45:54.752 --> 00:45:55.920
You know, this is the bay area.

00:45:55.920 --> 00:45:59.131
I'm like I have to open
all the windows.

00:45:59.131 --> 00:46:01.050
It's about 82 degrees.

00:46:01.050 --> 00:46:02.176
- [Man] No humidity.

00:46:02.176 --> 00:46:03.344
- No humidity.

00:46:04.512 --> 00:46:06.013
The only issue is
that the sun is out.

00:46:06.013 --> 00:46:09.642
- [Man] Yeah, that's
nice good old dry heat.

00:46:09.642 --> 00:46:12.770
- Put all the door hangers
on the ones that are here.

00:46:12.770 --> 00:46:15.773
And then at the end, I mean,
we have to drop

00:46:15.773 --> 00:46:20.736
like a hundred thousand pieces
throughout the campaign.

00:46:20.736 --> 00:46:22.363
A hundred thousand.

00:46:22.363 --> 00:46:24.865
Is this 3154?

00:46:24.865 --> 00:46:28.452
I only have two on
this block, man.

00:46:30.288 --> 00:46:31.956
Okay.

00:46:32.790 --> 00:46:34.292
I think this is it.

00:46:37.586 --> 00:46:39.255
Really?

00:46:42.091 --> 00:46:43.634
3136.

00:46:43.634 --> 00:46:46.595
Oh, I think I did 3136,
I'm pretty sure.

00:46:47.805 --> 00:46:52.184
Okay. The combination
of heat, steps

00:46:53.352 --> 00:46:57.648
and an old burrito
are not, not helping.

00:46:57.648 --> 00:47:03.487
(upbeat music)

00:47:03.487 --> 00:47:06.490
How you get down
there all ready?

00:47:06.490 --> 00:47:08.993
(dog barking)

00:47:10.786 --> 00:47:12.663
Okay.

00:47:12.663 --> 00:47:16.876
(upbeat music)

00:47:16.876 --> 00:47:19.879
All right. Now I'm allowed
to have a drink of water

00:47:22.715 --> 00:47:25.342
- And a cracker
- And a cracker.

00:47:25.342 --> 00:47:28.054
Okay. Let's go across
the street.

00:47:28.054 --> 00:47:31.348
This is one street.
This is one street.

00:47:31.348 --> 00:47:34.351
This is way harder
than knocking on doors.

00:47:35.061 --> 00:47:38.397
This is not... I'm not
talking to anybody.

00:47:38.397 --> 00:47:40.483
- You know what, we can
do this driving.

00:47:40.483 --> 00:47:43.778
- Yes.
- This actually...

00:47:43.778 --> 00:47:50.368
(upbeat music)

00:47:50.368 --> 00:47:52.411
- When people say, oh, are
you taking care of yourself?

00:47:52.411 --> 00:47:55.539
It's a little more complicated
than that, you know.

00:47:55.539 --> 00:47:59.043
I can't just go to
a spa and forget

00:47:59.043 --> 00:48:01.712
that I have to live
between two worlds

00:48:01.712 --> 00:48:04.632
and that people are depending
on me for a paycheck.

00:48:04.632 --> 00:48:08.386
And that there's also a whole
movement that I'm a part of

00:48:08.386 --> 00:48:10.721
with other organizations
and people

00:48:10.721 --> 00:48:14.517
that aren't just depending
solely on me that I have.

00:48:14.517 --> 00:48:15.768
It's not just about me.

00:48:15.768 --> 00:48:16.727
It's not about me.

00:48:16.727 --> 00:48:18.312
It's about all of us

00:48:18.312 --> 00:48:19.814
and what we're trying
to build and create.

00:48:19.814 --> 00:48:23.150
And so it's not like I can
just go get a massage

00:48:23.150 --> 00:48:26.028
and forget about all that,
um, you know,

00:48:26.028 --> 00:48:30.324
it's not like I can just go
get some rest or even go.

00:48:30.324 --> 00:48:34.078
I mean, honestly I think
Mexico would help.

00:48:34.078 --> 00:48:35.538
I'm going to be honest.

00:48:35.538 --> 00:48:41.252
I think a trip to Tulum or
Puerto Vallarta that would help

00:48:41.252 --> 00:48:47.508
that may do it, that would help,
but um-hmm, yep,

00:48:47.508 --> 00:48:48.884
that would definitely help.

00:48:51.720 --> 00:48:54.014
- The history of child care
in the United States

00:48:54.014 --> 00:48:55.599
dates back to chattel slavery,

00:48:55.599 --> 00:48:57.309
when Black women were utilized

00:48:57.309 --> 00:49:02.523
as caregivers for many children,
including their own.

00:49:02.523 --> 00:49:05.025
President Roosevelt's
White House Conference

00:49:05.025 --> 00:49:08.028
on Dependent Children
launched a movement

00:49:08.028 --> 00:49:10.614
for mothers' pensions
to address the needs

00:49:10.614 --> 00:49:13.450
of single mothers
with young children.

00:49:13.450 --> 00:49:17.455
They argued that mothers
deserved a pension

00:49:17.455 --> 00:49:18.956
in exchange for their service

00:49:18.956 --> 00:49:21.292
to the state for child rearing.

00:49:21.292 --> 00:49:23.669
This is important
because it acknowledges

00:49:23.669 --> 00:49:26.964
that caregiving is a
critical part of an economy

00:49:26.964 --> 00:49:30.551
and that it should be
compensated and valued.

00:49:30.551 --> 00:49:32.887
Although these programs
were created

00:49:32.887 --> 00:49:35.598
to support the critical
role of caregiving

00:49:35.598 --> 00:49:37.808
there was a clear assumption

00:49:37.808 --> 00:49:40.728
that the beneficiaries
would be white women.

00:49:40.728 --> 00:49:45.065
Historically, Black women have
worked just as much as men did

00:49:45.065 --> 00:49:48.027
often as domestic and
agricultural workers.

00:49:48.027 --> 00:49:52.740
However, they made up
only 3% of the recipients.

00:49:55.451 --> 00:49:57.328
Over the next 50 years,

00:49:57.328 --> 00:50:00.497
there was a policy conversation
at the national level

00:50:00.497 --> 00:50:03.918
about how to support families
and specifically

00:50:03.918 --> 00:50:08.130
how to support single mothers
with dependent children.

00:50:08.130 --> 00:50:11.509
This included a successful
test of comprehensive child care

00:50:11.509 --> 00:50:14.762
that was implemented
during World War II,

00:50:14.762 --> 00:50:18.515
but then it was shuttered
quickly after the war.

00:50:18.515 --> 00:50:23.229
For the next 20 years,
advocates and allies in Congress

00:50:23.229 --> 00:50:26.649
continued to fight for federal
child care legislation.

00:50:27.858 --> 00:50:31.278
The Comprehensive
Child Care Act of 1972,

00:50:31.278 --> 00:50:33.989
was model legislation
for inclusive,

00:50:33.989 --> 00:50:36.617
comprehensive,
holistic child care

00:50:36.617 --> 00:50:38.786
that would provide
services to families

00:50:38.786 --> 00:50:43.749
regardless of income, regardless
of family circumstance.

00:50:43.749 --> 00:50:46.544
It passed almost unanimously

00:50:46.544 --> 00:50:49.296
with bipartisan support
in Congress

00:50:49.296 --> 00:50:51.966
but was vetoed by
President Nixon.

00:50:54.301 --> 00:50:58.764
The 70s and 80s brought the
rise of conservatism politically

00:50:58.764 --> 00:51:02.059
which devastated federal
social safety net programs

00:51:02.059 --> 00:51:04.103
by encouraging massive tax cuts

00:51:04.103 --> 00:51:06.063
for the wealthy
and corporations.

00:51:07.690 --> 00:51:11.443
Former President Bill Clinton
changed welfare as we knew it

00:51:11.443 --> 00:51:14.071
by passing the Personal
Responsibility

00:51:14.071 --> 00:51:18.575
and Work Opportunity
Reconciliation Act of 1996.

00:51:18.575 --> 00:51:22.580
It would dramatically change
the perception of welfare

00:51:22.580 --> 00:51:26.500
and receiving public benefits
and further promoted this idea

00:51:26.500 --> 00:51:28.711
that poverty was
a moral failure.

00:51:39.930 --> 00:51:41.307
- [Clarissa] Xavier,
come sit with me.

00:51:41.307 --> 00:51:42.558
- [Xavier] Why?

00:51:42.558 --> 00:51:45.227
- Because we're going
to do an interview.

00:51:47.771 --> 00:51:48.731
Come sit down.

00:51:48.731 --> 00:51:50.899
No, sit down, sit next.

00:51:50.899 --> 00:51:52.067
Get up, sit next to me.

00:51:52.067 --> 00:51:52.901
- I'm too tired.

00:51:52.901 --> 00:51:54.403
- No, you're fine.

00:51:54.403 --> 00:51:56.780
Come closer there, come closer.

00:51:56.780 --> 00:52:01.201
- No, no, no.

00:52:01.201 --> 00:52:04.288
Gaw, no, cut this part out!

00:52:04.288 --> 00:52:05.581
You got to edit it
this part out.

00:52:05.581 --> 00:52:06.498
- No we're not, she's
going to get it.

00:52:06.498 --> 00:52:07.458
No, unless you sit next to me.

00:52:07.458 --> 00:52:08.792
- Okay. I'll sit next to you.

00:52:08.792 --> 00:52:09.793
Are you going to sit next to me?

00:52:09.793 --> 00:52:11.253
- Yes, yes.

00:52:11.253 --> 00:52:13.922
- Like I said, on the one hand,
people keep talking about

00:52:13.922 --> 00:52:17.009
how when you don't
have early education,

00:52:17.009 --> 00:52:18.302
it makes you more at risk

00:52:18.302 --> 00:52:20.262
to enter the criminal
justice system

00:52:20.262 --> 00:52:21.972
or criminal injustice system.

00:52:23.432 --> 00:52:26.268
And there's a part of me that
really struggles with the fact

00:52:26.268 --> 00:52:30.105
that people want to put
that on preschoolers.

00:52:30.105 --> 00:52:31.815
Like, if you're not
ready for kindergarten

00:52:31.815 --> 00:52:36.487
you're at risk for
being in prison.

00:52:36.487 --> 00:52:39.323
And it's like there's
a lot of reasons

00:52:39.323 --> 00:52:42.826
why people become engaged
in those systems.

00:52:42.826 --> 00:52:47.623
And for us to try to look
for a silver bullet

00:52:47.623 --> 00:52:50.167
and it almost indirectly
blames the family

00:52:50.167 --> 00:52:52.169
that can't get those resources.

00:52:52.169 --> 00:52:54.505
And so it's like, oh, all these
Black and Brown children

00:52:54.505 --> 00:52:58.258
have worse outcomes
because their parents

00:52:58.258 --> 00:52:59.343
didn't put them in preschool.

00:52:59.343 --> 00:53:01.178
And it's like, well, you know

00:53:01.178 --> 00:53:04.306
our communities
are being policed.

00:53:04.306 --> 00:53:05.724
You know, families are
struggling to make ends meet.

00:53:05.724 --> 00:53:08.519
- Oh yeah, there was a police
car at our school today.

00:53:08.519 --> 00:53:10.687
- At my school?

00:53:10.687 --> 00:53:11.980
- Not your school, our school.

00:53:11.980 --> 00:53:13.524
- At your school school,
there was a police car.

00:53:13.524 --> 00:53:14.525
- Yes.

00:53:16.318 --> 00:53:18.737
- Definitely schools
are being policed.

00:53:18.737 --> 00:53:21.073
It's hard to say, okay,
that's the thing.

00:53:21.073 --> 00:53:23.367
Even though we know that
it's incredibly helpful

00:53:23.367 --> 00:53:25.536
and important to have that
foundation in education.

00:53:25.536 --> 00:53:28.122
But then I look at my own son
and I watch him struggle.

00:53:28.122 --> 00:53:29.707
I can't just say,
oh, because you know,

00:53:29.707 --> 00:53:32.042
I lost preschool
now he's struggling.

00:53:32.042 --> 00:53:36.004
And so like, I think that's
not a complete picture.

00:53:36.004 --> 00:53:37.881
People are so desperate
to find something

00:53:37.881 --> 00:53:41.218
that will solve a complex
set of issues.

00:53:41.218 --> 00:53:44.555
And I am incredibly concerned.

00:53:44.555 --> 00:53:52.229
(slow music)

00:53:52.229 --> 00:54:05.576
(background talking)

00:54:05.576 --> 00:54:13.917
(slow music)

00:54:13.917 --> 00:54:15.210
- Who's speaking?

00:54:15.210 --> 00:54:16.628
Who's speaking
for Parent Voices?

00:54:16.628 --> 00:54:19.673
- Oh, ooh girl you.
- Me, okay. All right.

00:54:19.673 --> 00:54:21.550
All right. Let's do this.

00:54:21.550 --> 00:54:23.719
Who wants to bust out
the computers and watch.

00:54:23.719 --> 00:54:25.554
Do the real watching.

00:54:25.554 --> 00:54:27.431
- [Woman] There's no
internet connection.

00:54:27.431 --> 00:54:29.016
- Wait, what do you mean there's
no internet connection.

00:54:29.016 --> 00:54:30.601
- [Woman] Okay. I think
it's back, oh, wait a minute.

00:54:30.601 --> 00:54:33.187
- What do you mean there's
no internet connection?

00:54:33.187 --> 00:54:35.814
Okay. I'm having
miniature heart attacks

00:54:35.814 --> 00:54:37.441
that are actually panic attacks.

00:54:37.441 --> 00:54:38.942
- [Woman] Yeah, yeah.

00:54:38.942 --> 00:54:41.945
- It started at about 6:45.

00:54:41.945 --> 00:54:42.946
I was like. (gasping )

00:54:42.946 --> 00:54:45.157
- [Woman] Depressing.

00:54:45.157 --> 00:54:47.451
Or maybe I'm just not
reading the numbers right?

00:54:47.451 --> 00:54:49.369
So we're at 61 still.
- We are.

00:54:49.369 --> 00:54:50.204
- Yeah
- Okay.

00:54:50.204 --> 00:54:52.456
(background talking)

00:54:52.456 --> 00:54:53.290
- No one's going to make it.

00:54:53.290 --> 00:54:54.458
- Hey Xavier.

00:54:54.458 --> 00:54:55.918
- Hey.
- Did you order the food?

00:54:55.918 --> 00:54:57.127
I want food.

00:54:57.127 --> 00:54:58.212
- Yeah. I'll order
use some food.

00:54:58.212 --> 00:54:59.880
- Okay.

00:55:01.298 --> 00:55:05.010
(crowd clapping)

00:55:05.010 --> 00:55:06.637
- All right.

00:55:06.637 --> 00:55:08.889
This is an unprepared,
beautiful, wonderful,

00:55:08.889 --> 00:55:11.767
rousing speech about how
amazing all of you are.

00:55:11.767 --> 00:55:14.603
And I just wanted to say

00:55:14.603 --> 00:55:15.854
thank you from the bottom
of my heart.

00:55:15.854 --> 00:55:17.689
This is incredibly personal.

00:55:17.689 --> 00:55:22.110
This is personal, we have
been fighting for seven years.

00:55:22.110 --> 00:55:24.196
We have been to
the state capital

00:55:24.196 --> 00:55:25.864
to talk about the waiting list.

00:55:25.864 --> 00:55:27.574
It's just my sincere wish

00:55:27.574 --> 00:55:29.993
that no family should
have to worry about

00:55:29.993 --> 00:55:33.413
whether or not they have to
choose between paying rent,

00:55:33.413 --> 00:55:36.333
and feeding their families
and paying for child care.

00:55:36.333 --> 00:55:38.919
And I want to thank all of you
for being a part of change

00:55:38.919 --> 00:55:41.713
and building a movement for
early education, thank you.

00:55:41.713 --> 00:55:43.006
(crowd cheering)

00:55:43.006 --> 00:55:46.802
- All right. Yay.

00:55:46.802 --> 00:55:49.471
All right.
(crowd cheering)

00:55:51.139 --> 00:55:53.267
- Pizza's on its way, buddy.

00:55:53.267 --> 00:55:54.685
They're not showing anything,
there's nothing.

00:55:54.685 --> 00:55:55.894
- [Woman] Yeah, that's
what it was doing to me.

00:55:55.894 --> 00:55:57.938
That makes me hope that
they are bringing...

00:55:57.938 --> 00:56:01.441
- There's just something,
it's down.

00:56:01.441 --> 00:56:03.986
Oh God, you guys.

00:56:03.986 --> 00:56:07.197
- Did the internet go down
that's why it's not updated.

00:56:07.197 --> 00:56:08.407
I think the internet went down.

00:56:08.407 --> 00:56:09.908
- No, no the internet
is still working.

00:56:10.868 --> 00:56:12.619
- It's a conspiracy.

00:56:12.619 --> 00:56:14.955
- [Woman] So it's still
no more precincts reported.

00:56:14.955 --> 00:56:17.791
So we're still a little behind,
but not too behind.

00:56:17.791 --> 00:56:19.001
- [Woman] So we're not
going to find out tonight.

00:56:19.001 --> 00:56:20.544
- [Clarissa] I don't,
no we're not.

00:56:20.544 --> 00:56:22.045
We're going to wake up in
the morning with the news.

00:56:22.045 --> 00:56:25.591
I'm going to get 50 million
texts either way.

00:56:25.591 --> 00:56:28.385
I'm probably not going
to sleep, again.

00:56:28.385 --> 00:56:30.053
- [Woman] Were you going to
go home? Oh yeah, you've got.

00:56:30.053 --> 00:56:31.179
- In a little bit.

00:56:31.179 --> 00:56:33.390
He's gotta go to school, but...

00:56:33.390 --> 00:56:36.727
No, no, no, uh- uh, I'm-
Actually speaking of...

00:56:36.727 --> 00:56:40.814
Xavier, hey, hey, hey, we
are not doing any of that.

00:56:40.814 --> 00:56:44.818
No, no, no wrestling
no full contact sports

00:56:44.818 --> 00:56:46.528
that gets out of hand
quickly, doesn't it?

00:56:46.528 --> 00:56:47.779
- Yeah. Okay.

00:56:50.616 --> 00:56:52.993
- I look over and he is like
taking this little boy down,

00:56:52.993 --> 00:56:57.831
like this, (chuckles)
and the other child was like

00:56:57.831 --> 00:56:59.708
and then they both
popped up like.

00:56:59.708 --> 00:57:01.710
- Yeah, get up.

00:57:04.004 --> 00:57:05.505
- Really?

00:57:05.505 --> 00:57:07.924
Hello?

00:57:07.924 --> 00:57:10.427
Thank you.

00:57:10.427 --> 00:57:15.682
(background talking)

00:57:15.682 --> 00:57:16.933
- [Woman] How you feeling?

00:57:16.933 --> 00:57:20.270
- Nervous, nervous,
like really nervous.

00:57:20.270 --> 00:57:22.105
- [Woman] That 66% is no joke.

00:57:22.105 --> 00:57:24.650
- It it is. Yeah.
I think it's 67 girl.

00:57:24.650 --> 00:57:25.525
It's like 66.

00:57:25.525 --> 00:57:26.360
- [Woman] 66.6667.

00:57:26.360 --> 00:57:31.031
- Yeah, yeah, yeah.
It's no joke.

00:57:32.616 --> 00:57:35.786
It's a big lift,
but we'll see.

00:57:35.786 --> 00:57:36.995
I don't know. It's just hard.

00:57:36.995 --> 00:57:40.624
It's been frozen
at 62 since 8:30.

00:57:40.624 --> 00:57:42.959
- [Woman] Right,
we saw that too.

00:57:42.959 --> 00:57:45.420
- [Clarissa] It's wait until at
least one or two in the morning

00:57:45.420 --> 00:57:47.798
to even get a sense of like
what things are going to be like

00:57:47.798 --> 00:57:51.051
but, umm, yeah...

00:57:51.051 --> 00:57:58.058
So I am choosing to be in a
jovial mood and you know, yeah.

00:58:00.310 --> 00:58:01.978
Just, yeah.

00:58:01.978 --> 00:58:06.483
I'm happy that this part
of it is over so.

00:58:06.483 --> 00:58:07.651
- [Woman] Yeah.

00:58:07.651 --> 00:58:10.320
- Yeah, very happy this
part of it is over.

00:58:10.320 --> 00:58:15.701
I just need to get into like
a hot tub and get a pedicure.

00:58:15.701 --> 00:58:17.494
That's what I need.

00:58:17.494 --> 00:58:19.788
And like sleep for
like three days,

00:58:19.788 --> 00:58:21.289
all three of those things.

00:58:21.289 --> 00:58:24.042
I'm like, I don't know what
kind of condition I'll be in.

00:58:26.169 --> 00:58:28.380
Don't know. (chuckles)

00:58:28.380 --> 00:58:31.007
No matter what happens
like I have to keep going.

00:58:31.007 --> 00:58:33.260
So, and that's just
kind of my life.

00:58:33.260 --> 00:58:34.928
So it's fine.

00:58:36.179 --> 00:58:37.973
It's just kind of
what it is, right?

00:58:37.973 --> 00:58:40.642
That's the deal so.

00:58:52.696 --> 00:59:08.503
(upbeat music)

00:59:08.503 --> 00:59:12.257
- I think my staff,
I think they're badass.

00:59:12.257 --> 00:59:16.053
I think that once we kind
of get over this moment,

00:59:16.053 --> 00:59:19.222
once this moment passes
as moments do,

00:59:19.222 --> 00:59:20.682
we'll do some evaluation.

00:59:20.682 --> 00:59:22.559
We've got a retreat coming up.

00:59:22.559 --> 00:59:24.728
I think they're ready to
take on the world though.

00:59:24.728 --> 00:59:26.313
They don't need me.

00:59:26.313 --> 00:59:27.898
I've been telling them
they don't need me

00:59:27.898 --> 00:59:31.735
but they needed to see
that they don't need me, um,

00:59:31.735 --> 00:59:34.112
aside from being a cheerleader
and supporting them.

00:59:34.112 --> 00:59:37.324
Everyone showed up
and kind of I watched

00:59:37.324 --> 00:59:40.202
each one of my staff
member's development

00:59:40.202 --> 00:59:42.913
just accelerate in
this incredible way.

00:59:42.913 --> 00:59:45.373
We're hurting because we just
threw ourselves into this.

00:59:45.373 --> 00:59:48.376
And this campaign started
three years ago really?

00:59:48.376 --> 00:59:51.046
Because we were already doing
county budget campaigns.

00:59:51.046 --> 00:59:52.047
We've been, yeah.

00:59:52.047 --> 00:59:53.298
I mean, this we've been doing...

00:59:53.298 --> 00:59:55.425
we've been engaged in
this work for a while

00:59:55.425 --> 00:59:57.552
so we're all kind of tired,

00:59:57.552 --> 01:00:03.183
but I think that how we
bounce back, you know,

01:00:03.183 --> 01:00:08.146
how we bounce back,
I am confident it'll be...

01:00:12.442 --> 01:00:14.444
I'm confident that
it'll be in a way

01:00:14.444 --> 01:00:19.407
that will just strengthen us.

01:00:28.458 --> 01:00:30.127
- Thank you Board President Chan

01:00:30.127 --> 01:00:32.295
and Board of Supervisors
for this hearing.

01:00:32.295 --> 01:00:35.257
My name's Tanisha and I'm
with Parent Voices Oakland.

01:00:35.257 --> 01:00:36.716
The results of the June election

01:00:36.716 --> 01:00:38.844
and the follow up conversations
made it clear

01:00:38.844 --> 01:00:41.638
that we as a county,
and a strong coalition

01:00:41.638 --> 01:00:44.349
of grassroots community
groups and labor

01:00:44.349 --> 01:00:46.142
need to deepen our
organizing efforts

01:00:46.142 --> 01:00:48.186
to connect to a broader
group of families

01:00:48.186 --> 01:00:49.938
who do not understand
how this measure

01:00:49.938 --> 01:00:52.983
would address their immediate
and collective needs.

01:00:52.983 --> 01:00:56.319
- What Measure A did
is it gave us hope

01:00:57.904 --> 01:01:00.490
not only for the early
educators, but for

01:01:00.490 --> 01:01:04.828
the providers, our families
and our children in the future.

01:01:04.828 --> 01:01:09.541
- I'm gonna recommend that
we table item 28 and 28.1.

01:01:09.541 --> 01:01:11.501
This was a pretty hard decision

01:01:11.501 --> 01:01:14.546
because we had a great
campaign in June

01:01:14.546 --> 01:01:16.006
and we came very very close.

01:01:16.006 --> 01:01:17.257
We almost made it,

01:01:17.257 --> 01:01:19.342
but I think this fall is
not a good time mainly

01:01:19.342 --> 01:01:22.470
because there's so many
other taxes on the ballot.

01:01:22.470 --> 01:01:26.850
So in 2020 we have a big
primary coming up,

01:01:26.850 --> 01:01:28.518
presidential primary in March

01:01:28.518 --> 01:01:30.729
and I think there'll be
other opportunities.

01:01:30.729 --> 01:01:32.439
So I just wanted
to say that, yes.

01:01:32.439 --> 01:01:35.692
- Between now and then we
shouldn't be sitting back

01:01:35.692 --> 01:01:37.402
waiting, we should be
doing things,

01:01:37.402 --> 01:01:40.947
we should be educating the
electorate, educating populace,

01:01:40.947 --> 01:01:43.867
doing community organizing,
working on this.

01:01:43.867 --> 01:01:46.578
- That means that if we go
and get signatures on this

01:01:46.578 --> 01:01:48.830
or anything else we wanna do
in this county,

01:01:48.830 --> 01:01:52.751
then it would be
much easier to pass.

01:01:54.461 --> 01:01:55.921
For instance, Parent
Voices could go out

01:01:55.921 --> 01:01:57.380
and get those signatures for us.

01:01:57.380 --> 01:01:59.341
(all laughing)

01:01:59.341 --> 01:02:02.802
I'd like to make a motion
to table item 28.

01:02:04.763 --> 01:02:08.642
Five ayes, motion
to table item 28.1.

01:02:08.642 --> 01:02:11.144
Thank you all for coming out
and for all the work you did,

01:02:11.144 --> 01:02:12.395
it was a great campaign.

01:02:12.395 --> 01:02:17.150
(all clapping)

01:02:17.150 --> 01:02:21.196
(background talking)

01:02:21.196 --> 01:02:23.073
- The voters are supportive,

01:02:23.073 --> 01:02:25.241
but don't see the crisis
and great need.

01:02:25.241 --> 01:02:27.911
There is interest in a signature
gathering campaign.

01:02:27.911 --> 01:02:29.579
So that was interesting she
shouted us up 'cause I'm like,

01:02:29.579 --> 01:02:32.290
there's gonna be a lot
of people gonna have to,

01:02:32.290 --> 01:02:33.667
to collect those signatures.

01:02:33.667 --> 01:02:36.670
But we may be the, it's great
if we're in the lead on that.

01:02:36.670 --> 01:02:38.338
The goal today was to make sure

01:02:38.338 --> 01:02:41.675
that the supervisors
went on record saying

01:02:41.675 --> 01:02:43.176
that they would support it.

01:02:43.176 --> 01:02:45.929
To see agencies that don't
normally advocate get up

01:02:45.929 --> 01:02:47.639
and say we're gonna
fight for this,

01:02:47.639 --> 01:02:50.308
we should be proud of that.

01:02:50.308 --> 01:02:52.394
Yeah, we did that.

01:02:52.394 --> 01:02:53.603
That was us.
- Right.

01:02:53.603 --> 01:02:54.479
That was us.
- Right.

01:02:54.479 --> 01:02:56.272
That was us.
That was us.

01:02:56.272 --> 01:02:57.107
That was us.

01:02:57.107 --> 01:02:58.942
That was us.
That was us.

01:02:58.942 --> 01:03:00.235
So you know,

01:03:00.235 --> 01:03:03.738
it is with a heavy heart
as someone who was like,

01:03:03.738 --> 01:03:05.740
"This is my goal
and I can retire."

01:03:05.740 --> 01:03:06.700
(all laugh)

01:03:06.700 --> 01:03:08.243
To have...

01:03:08.243 --> 01:03:09.619
I just thought this would be it.

01:03:09.619 --> 01:03:11.705
The world would be fixed
if we get this one thing

01:03:11.705 --> 01:03:12.914
and clearly that's not true.

01:03:12.914 --> 01:03:15.875
But it's kept me
going for a long time

01:03:15.875 --> 01:03:18.628
and now I'm like having
an existential crisis,

01:03:18.628 --> 01:03:21.006
gonna have to step back and go,

01:03:21.006 --> 01:03:24.134
we came from like four parents

01:03:24.134 --> 01:03:27.262
and a couple of babies to like
the whole field coming out

01:03:27.262 --> 01:03:29.306
and like saying we need interim

01:03:29.306 --> 01:03:32.475
if we're not doing this now,
we need more money in the...

01:03:32.475 --> 01:03:35.645
I mean this is like such a
quantum leap for our field.

01:03:35.645 --> 01:03:37.772
- Sister, how are you doing?

01:03:37.772 --> 01:03:41.026
- I'm not, I mean I
need to talk to you.

01:03:41.026 --> 01:03:41.860
- Okay.

01:03:41.860 --> 01:03:42.819
- I just...

01:03:42.819 --> 01:03:44.696
So you might not want
to talk right now

01:03:44.696 --> 01:03:48.033
start crying, but, it's, yeah.

01:03:48.992 --> 01:03:54.664
I just do this with
my heart first, um...

01:04:00.837 --> 01:04:02.672
Yeah. So...

01:04:02.672 --> 01:04:06.593
I could just write it off
and say that I'm tired,

01:04:07.844 --> 01:04:11.931
but it is a mixture of like fear

01:04:11.931 --> 01:04:23.193
and um, like it's a mixture
of multiple things.

01:04:23.193 --> 01:04:27.864
Having watched families
suffer for the last five years

01:04:27.864 --> 01:04:31.451
and then to finally to be
on the edge of some justice

01:04:31.451 --> 01:04:33.036
for all of these moms.

01:04:33.036 --> 01:04:51.679
(gentle music)

01:04:51.679 --> 01:04:55.725
- Oh, it's gonna be a really,
really long day.

01:04:57.977 --> 01:05:00.105
For everybody.

01:05:01.064 --> 01:05:03.066
(Clarissa knocking)

01:05:04.651 --> 01:05:07.821
- [Clarissa] You know
what's gonna happen?

01:05:07.821 --> 01:05:10.031
Okay, good morning.

01:05:10.031 --> 01:05:11.658
- [Xavier] Morning.

01:05:11.658 --> 01:05:12.909
- [Clarissa] Okay, so um,

01:05:12.909 --> 01:05:15.411
We gotta get going,
all right?

01:05:15.411 --> 01:05:18.665
Can you seat over that's
Xavier's seat for breakfast.

01:05:18.665 --> 01:05:20.667
- Okay.

01:05:23.253 --> 01:05:24.087
- Good morning.

01:05:24.087 --> 01:05:26.548
- [Xavier] Good morning.

01:05:26.548 --> 01:05:28.758
- Do you wanna see what
your uncle did with your...

01:05:28.758 --> 01:05:30.051
Your stuff is all here.

01:05:30.051 --> 01:05:31.678
- oh.

01:05:31.678 --> 01:05:33.429
- You wanna take it with you?

01:05:33.429 --> 01:05:35.098
- Um-hmmm.

01:05:36.015 --> 01:05:38.017
You wanna see your cello?

01:05:40.687 --> 01:05:42.230
We have 11 minutes.

01:05:42.230 --> 01:05:43.064
- All right.

01:05:43.064 --> 01:05:44.440
(cello strings)

01:05:44.440 --> 01:05:46.067
- You just had to string it,
it was not, it was unstrung.

01:05:46.067 --> 01:05:47.527
This is a very good book.

01:05:47.527 --> 01:05:52.407
I think it will really help
you to really nail down

01:05:52.407 --> 01:05:53.950
the basic ideas.

01:05:53.950 --> 01:05:56.828
(cello music)

01:05:56.828 --> 01:05:59.038
- [Clarissa] This brings
back hecka memories.

01:05:59.038 --> 01:06:02.500
(cello music)

01:06:02.500 --> 01:06:03.334
(chuckles)

01:06:03.334 --> 01:06:06.796
(laughing)

01:06:06.796 --> 01:06:08.464
- You okay there, buddy?

01:06:08.464 --> 01:06:11.009
- I'm in a very uncomfortable
position right now.

01:06:11.009 --> 01:06:11.968
(Clarissa laughs)

01:06:11.968 --> 01:06:14.095
This bow is not even a bow.

01:06:14.095 --> 01:06:16.389
I haven't played it
like in 10 years.

01:06:16.389 --> 01:06:18.933
So, ummm.

01:06:18.933 --> 01:06:20.518
- [Clarissa] I wanna see
if I could play,

01:06:20.518 --> 01:06:22.979
what would happen if I
picked up the violin again.

01:06:22.979 --> 01:06:24.480
Everyone's all, "It's
like riding a bicycle."

01:06:24.480 --> 01:06:25.773
And its really not like
riding a bicycle.

01:06:25.773 --> 01:06:43.791
(cello music)

01:06:43.791 --> 01:06:46.211
- [Xavier] A friend of mine in
beginning strings can play that.

01:06:47.879 --> 01:06:49.505
- [Clarissa] Xavier's clowning.

01:06:49.505 --> 01:06:50.924
- Not like that though.

01:06:50.924 --> 01:06:51.799
(Xavier chuckles)

01:06:51.799 --> 01:06:53.218
- Yeah.

01:06:53.218 --> 01:06:54.260
- He can do like the first part,
he like, (Xavier hums).

01:06:54.260 --> 01:06:57.096
- All right, we gotta go um.

01:06:57.096 --> 01:06:59.974
But you know Xavier,

01:06:59.974 --> 01:07:02.852
your uncle didn't live
outside of his room.

01:07:02.852 --> 01:07:05.063
All he did was stay in
his room with his cello

01:07:05.063 --> 01:07:08.066
and pretend he wasn't
part of our family.

01:07:16.199 --> 01:07:17.158
- Hi mom.

01:07:17.158 --> 01:07:18.826
- Hi baby.

01:07:20.787 --> 01:07:22.455
How are you?

01:07:23.039 --> 01:07:24.249
- [Xavier] Good.

01:07:24.249 --> 01:07:27.126
- I just got to
the airport in DC.

01:07:27.126 --> 01:07:28.962
It's very hot and humid here.

01:07:30.338 --> 01:07:34.050
- [Xavier] It's hot
out here...

01:07:34.050 --> 01:07:37.095
- It's hot in Oakland?

01:07:37.095 --> 01:07:39.806
- [Xavier] Yeah
(indistinct) 78.

01:07:39.806 --> 01:07:43.142
- It's 78 degrees,
that's the low here.

01:07:43.142 --> 01:07:45.311
(Clarissa giggles)

01:07:45.311 --> 01:07:46.562
Hey you guys, I gotta go.

01:07:46.562 --> 01:07:48.064
I have to try to get
my ride, okay.

01:07:48.064 --> 01:07:50.066
I just I'll call you when I get
to the hotel later on.

01:07:50.066 --> 01:07:52.026
I just wanna let you
know I got in safe.

01:07:52.026 --> 01:07:53.361
Okay, love you.

01:07:54.195 --> 01:07:55.280
Love you bye.

01:07:55.280 --> 01:07:56.781
(background talking)

01:07:56.781 --> 01:07:58.825
Oh he's, oh goodness.

01:07:58.825 --> 01:08:03.830
Allan is here and leaving
in two minutes, okay.

01:08:04.747 --> 01:08:07.000
(Clarissa sighs)

01:08:07.000 --> 01:08:08.084
(car horn)

01:08:08.084 --> 01:08:09.419
- [Man] Well what is it
you're coming for, all right?

01:08:09.419 --> 01:08:15.091
- I'm, so I'm here for a...
It's a national assembly

01:08:15.091 --> 01:08:20.513
of different grassroots
organizations that are

01:08:20.513 --> 01:08:22.724
coming together to talk
about building a movement

01:08:22.724 --> 01:08:25.101
for child care, for
affordable child care

01:08:25.101 --> 01:08:26.936
for working families.

01:08:26.936 --> 01:08:35.153
So it's a bunch of different
organizations and then,

01:08:35.153 --> 01:08:37.280
child care providers
and unions.

01:08:37.280 --> 01:08:40.116
- I'd say you're in the right
town, in other words.

01:08:40.116 --> 01:08:41.117
(Clarissa giggles)

01:08:41.117 --> 01:08:42.076
- The seat of power.

01:08:42.076 --> 01:08:42.785
- [Clarissa] That's right.

01:08:42.785 --> 01:08:43.786
That's right.

01:08:43.786 --> 01:08:44.996
(Clarissa giggles)

01:08:44.996 --> 01:08:46.247
Well the seat of power
is the people,

01:08:46.247 --> 01:08:49.000
but which people?

01:08:49.000 --> 01:08:51.544
That's like, that's
the question. (chuckles)

01:08:51.544 --> 01:09:11.064
(upbeat music)

01:09:11.064 --> 01:09:12.982
- [Man] Thanks for joining us
this morning, Senator,

01:09:12.982 --> 01:09:15.068
especially on a crazy day.

01:09:15.068 --> 01:09:19.489
We have 250 amazing grassroots
activists, organizers,

01:09:19.489 --> 01:09:21.157
from 25 states around
the country

01:09:21.157 --> 01:09:23.659
who are here for a child
care assembly.

01:09:23.659 --> 01:09:28.164
(applause)

01:09:28.164 --> 01:09:29.957
We've been having a conversation

01:09:29.957 --> 01:09:33.586
with these five fierce women
about the problems

01:09:33.586 --> 01:09:39.175
in child care and early
learning, systems, policies.

01:09:39.175 --> 01:09:40.593
And we were just talking
about our vision

01:09:40.593 --> 01:09:43.096
for how to fix what's our vision

01:09:43.096 --> 01:09:45.431
for high quality child care
and early learning.

01:09:45.431 --> 01:09:47.016
And then how are
we gonna get there.

01:09:47.016 --> 01:09:50.478
So can you please talk to us
about what you identified

01:09:50.478 --> 01:09:53.189
as the problems and why
you've introduced legislation?

01:09:53.189 --> 01:09:54.649
- [Senator Murray] Well
my vision is easy

01:09:54.649 --> 01:09:57.860
it's that every parent gets up
and can go to work

01:09:57.860 --> 01:10:00.363
and know that their child's in
a safe place and is learning

01:10:00.363 --> 01:10:02.323
so they can be
a competent adult.

01:10:02.323 --> 01:10:03.741
- Clarissa?

01:10:03.741 --> 01:10:05.952
- [Clarissa] I have a little
bit of a two-parter:

01:10:05.952 --> 01:10:09.497
one, one question I have,
I'd read this morning

01:10:09.497 --> 01:10:15.211
that our president has
partnered with Walmart

01:10:15.211 --> 01:10:17.088
and has invested
$958 million dollars

01:10:17.088 --> 01:10:19.090
in child care detention centers.

01:10:19.090 --> 01:10:23.136
And so this notion around us
not having enough resources

01:10:23.136 --> 01:10:25.430
and enough money in our budget
to implement the vision

01:10:25.430 --> 01:10:29.308
that you're putting forth,
I feel is a false one.

01:10:29.308 --> 01:10:32.228
And so how do we, one,
counter that narrative,

01:10:32.228 --> 01:10:34.188
but also really say
we have the money.

01:10:34.188 --> 01:10:35.440
- [Senator Murray] How do we
say we've got the money?

01:10:35.440 --> 01:10:36.732
- [Clarissa] Yeah.

01:10:36.732 --> 01:10:37.942
- [Senator Murray] First
of all you should know,

01:10:37.942 --> 01:10:40.278
in the last budget deal
that we did this year,

01:10:40.278 --> 01:10:43.698
we insisted and we rallied
a bunch of senators

01:10:43.698 --> 01:10:45.283
and we were able to increase

01:10:45.283 --> 01:10:46.951
the child care development
block grant

01:10:46.951 --> 01:10:49.412
by the largest increase in the
history of the United States.

01:10:49.412 --> 01:10:53.499
(applause)

01:10:53.499 --> 01:10:54.375
Is it enough?

01:10:54.375 --> 01:10:56.836
No, but tens of thousands
of kids are gonna

01:10:56.836 --> 01:10:58.963
get access to child care
as a result of that.

01:10:58.963 --> 01:11:01.382
Now that didn't happen
because we hoped for it,

01:11:01.382 --> 01:11:04.385
that happened because
we set it as a goal

01:11:04.385 --> 01:11:07.013
and said we will not
agree with this bill

01:11:07.013 --> 01:11:09.265
unless that fund is increased.

01:11:09.265 --> 01:11:12.101
And they had to give it to us
'cause they needed our votes.

01:11:12.101 --> 01:11:15.438
We set priorities, the values
that we believe in

01:11:15.438 --> 01:11:18.107
as a country, those priorities
and that's what we fund.

01:11:18.107 --> 01:11:21.903
So the words we need to bring
here is this is a priority

01:11:21.903 --> 01:11:23.154
and we need it funded.

01:11:23.154 --> 01:11:24.781
(applause)

01:11:24.781 --> 01:11:28.951
(background talking)

01:11:28.951 --> 01:11:29.243
- [Man] Senator Patty Murray.

01:11:29.243 --> 01:11:31.037
Thank you so much.

01:11:31.037 --> 01:11:34.040
(applause continues)

01:11:34.040 --> 01:11:36.250
- Clarissa, tell us what are
some of the other costs

01:11:36.250 --> 01:11:38.503
of the system or the lack of

01:11:38.503 --> 01:11:41.464
a functional high
quality system,

01:11:41.464 --> 01:11:44.300
in your communities
from your vantage point.

01:11:44.300 --> 01:11:46.177
- [Clarissa] This is an
economic justice issue,

01:11:46.177 --> 01:11:49.263
just as much as it is
an educational issue.

01:11:49.263 --> 01:11:53.392
And what I'm trying to do is
connect how this movement.

01:11:53.392 --> 01:11:56.729
We have to start talking about
gender and racial justice

01:11:56.729 --> 01:11:58.814
and economic justice
and connecting these dots

01:11:58.814 --> 01:12:00.066
(members applaud)

01:12:00.066 --> 01:12:02.985
if we're gonna roll
these policies back.

01:12:02.985 --> 01:12:04.529
In order for you
to get child care,

01:12:04.529 --> 01:12:07.532
in order for you to get cash
aid, but you have a time limit

01:12:07.532 --> 01:12:10.326
and then you in order to
continue receiving services

01:12:10.326 --> 01:12:13.830
you have to what,
meet 20, 30, 40 hours

01:12:13.830 --> 01:12:15.331
of a work requirement.

01:12:15.331 --> 01:12:16.916
And what do you have to do
to meet that work requirement,

01:12:16.916 --> 01:12:22.672
go to a low paying job,
a dead end, low paying job.

01:12:22.672 --> 01:12:23.839
And that is all a setup.

01:12:23.839 --> 01:12:26.384
They have gotten us
on the education and yes,

01:12:26.384 --> 01:12:28.261
there's a criminalization
of Black and Brown boys

01:12:28.261 --> 01:12:30.513
in preschools where we know
that Black and Brown boys

01:12:30.513 --> 01:12:33.933
are being suspended
and expelled at high rates.

01:12:33.933 --> 01:12:36.894
There's a connection there,
but also the job opportunities

01:12:36.894 --> 01:12:40.856
that are available to us are
tied in to the educational

01:12:40.856 --> 01:12:43.693
and social safety net
opportunities that we have.

01:12:43.693 --> 01:12:45.403
All of these things
are connected

01:12:45.403 --> 01:12:47.822
and that is the problem.

01:12:47.822 --> 01:12:50.908
- [Man] Okay.
(members applaud)

01:12:50.908 --> 01:12:52.869
(background talking)

01:12:52.869 --> 01:12:54.495
- I should have known

01:12:54.495 --> 01:12:57.331
Clarissa was gonna go there
when she put her notes down.

01:12:57.331 --> 01:12:58.541
(everyone laughs)

01:12:58.541 --> 01:13:00.209
- She leaned back
a little bit

01:13:00.209 --> 01:13:03.045
and I was like okay, here we go.

01:13:03.045 --> 01:13:04.880
(background talking)

01:13:04.880 --> 01:13:49.842
(upbeat music)

01:13:49.842 --> 01:13:51.135
- Excuse me,

01:13:51.135 --> 01:13:52.511
are you a registered
Alameda County voter?

01:13:52.511 --> 01:13:53.471
- [Woman] Yes.

01:13:53.471 --> 01:13:55.014
- Would you sign up a petition

01:13:55.014 --> 01:13:57.975
for the health and child care
initiative for Alameda County?

01:13:57.975 --> 01:13:59.810
We're a group of parents
that is trying to put this

01:13:59.810 --> 01:14:02.271
on the ballot for the March
2020, election.

01:14:02.271 --> 01:14:05.107
It increases subsidies and
child care access for children

01:14:05.107 --> 01:14:07.943
and also funds the level
one trauma center

01:14:07.943 --> 01:14:09.570
at Children's Hospital.

01:14:09.570 --> 01:14:10.404
- Yeah sure.

01:14:10.404 --> 01:14:11.447
- Oh fantastic.

01:14:11.447 --> 01:14:12.698
And would you like a fact sheet?

01:14:12.698 --> 01:14:16.285
There's more information
here about it.

01:14:16.285 --> 01:14:18.287
- Sure.
- Okay so I'll give that to you.

01:14:18.412 --> 01:14:38.432
(upbeat music)

01:14:38.432 --> 01:14:39.016
- [Clarissa] Excuse me,

01:14:39.016 --> 01:14:40.726
are you registered to vote
in Alameda County?

01:14:40.726 --> 01:14:42.269
- [Woman] How are you?

01:14:42.269 --> 01:14:43.688
- [Clarissa] You already,
oh, you already got this?

01:14:43.688 --> 01:14:45.231
are you registered to vote
in Alameda County?

01:14:45.231 --> 01:14:46.649
- I am.

01:14:48.067 --> 01:14:49.610
- [Clarissa] Hello.

01:14:49.610 --> 01:14:50.444
Okay.

01:14:52.697 --> 01:14:53.864
- [Clarissa] All right so
you're not registered yet?

01:14:53.864 --> 01:14:55.366
- [Man] No, I'm sorry.

01:14:55.366 --> 01:14:56.867
- [Clarissa] You gotta get
on that, what you doing?

01:14:56.867 --> 01:14:58.828
- [Man] I know, I just
moved here a month ago.

01:14:58.828 --> 01:14:59.161
(laughing)

01:14:59.161 --> 01:15:00.454
- [Clarissa] That's the first
thing you do.

01:15:00.454 --> 01:15:01.831
Nah, just kidding.

01:15:01.831 --> 01:15:02.665
- [Woman] Where can I sign?

01:15:02.665 --> 01:15:04.750
- [Clarissa] Okay so this is
our countywide initiative

01:15:04.750 --> 01:15:06.669
the children's health
and child care initiative

01:15:06.669 --> 01:15:07.628
for Alameda county.

01:15:07.628 --> 01:15:08.838
- [Woman] Wow.

01:15:08.838 --> 01:15:10.005
- So Measure A, it's
basically coming back

01:15:10.005 --> 01:15:12.049
and we're partnering
with Children's Hospital

01:15:12.049 --> 01:15:14.009
and this'll fund their
level one trauma center.

01:15:14.009 --> 01:15:18.180
So all the same things,
access, increase access,

01:15:18.180 --> 01:15:18.472
increase wages.

01:15:18.472 --> 01:15:19.682
- [Woman] You don't have
to convince me.

01:15:19.682 --> 01:15:21.308
- I know, but I gotta
practice my rap.

01:15:21.308 --> 01:15:22.727
You know what I mean?

01:15:22.727 --> 01:15:23.811
How are you doing?

01:15:23.811 --> 01:15:25.354
You're supposed to come over
and have a glass of wine

01:15:25.354 --> 01:15:25.771
and hang out.

01:15:25.771 --> 01:15:26.522
- [Woman] You cancelled with me.

01:15:26.522 --> 01:15:27.440
- I did, I'm sorry.

01:15:27.440 --> 01:15:28.941
(Clarissa laughs)

01:15:28.941 --> 01:15:30.234
- [Woman] Okay, so don't
act like I did it.

01:15:30.234 --> 01:15:33.612
- Are you a registered voter
in Alameda County?

01:15:33.612 --> 01:15:34.530
I'm sorry, you're not,
are you?

01:15:34.530 --> 01:15:35.740
- I am.

01:15:35.740 --> 01:15:37.533
- Oh, would you mind
signing the health

01:15:37.533 --> 01:15:39.535
and child care initiative
for Alameda County?

01:15:39.535 --> 01:15:41.203
I know you got your hands full.

01:15:42.621 --> 01:15:44.415
This is, so this is...
(speaking fades out)

01:15:44.415 --> 01:15:50.129
It is the night before
we're gonna get the vote

01:15:50.129 --> 01:15:52.089
from the Board of Supervisors

01:15:52.089 --> 01:15:58.053
to officially put the initiative
back on the ballot.

01:15:58.053 --> 01:16:02.058
We've been in policy committee,

01:16:02.767 --> 01:16:05.561
um, campaign committees,
steering committees.

01:16:05.561 --> 01:16:10.524
Collecting 85,733,
some-odd signatures.

01:16:12.026 --> 01:16:19.075
I mean, there's just no,
there are no words.

01:16:19.075 --> 01:16:23.913
This has been, from
April to December,

01:16:23.913 --> 01:16:26.916
it's been really a journey.

01:16:26.916 --> 01:16:30.628
And so we have 80 days to run

01:16:30.628 --> 01:16:34.673
a really, really big campaign
and win a big campaign.

01:16:34.673 --> 01:16:38.219
And I do believe that we'll win.

01:16:40.763 --> 01:16:45.768
I believe that we'll win, but
it's gonna be a lot of work.

01:16:53.776 --> 01:16:55.027
(ding)

01:16:55.027 --> 01:16:55.945
- [Nurse] Clarissa?

01:16:55.945 --> 01:16:58.280
- Oh, fantastic.

01:16:58.280 --> 01:16:59.740
- [Nurse] Is all your
medications still the same?

01:16:59.740 --> 01:17:03.035
- Yes, all my medications
are the same, yeah.

01:17:03.035 --> 01:17:21.512
(background office sounds)

01:17:21.512 --> 01:17:22.847
- [Nurse] Go ahead and continue

01:17:22.847 --> 01:17:25.933
to take some deep
breaths and exhale.

01:17:27.977 --> 01:17:35.484
(machine buzzing)

01:17:35.484 --> 01:17:39.363
It is 128 over 75.

01:17:39.363 --> 01:17:41.657
- Oh wow.

01:17:41.657 --> 01:17:48.831
(background office sounds)

01:17:48.831 --> 01:17:51.000
- [Nurse] You said you take
your medication in the evening?

01:17:51.000 --> 01:17:52.001
- Mmhmm.

01:17:53.127 --> 01:17:54.670
- [Nurse] Have you
been experiencing

01:17:54.670 --> 01:17:57.006
any low blood pressure at all?

01:17:57.006 --> 01:18:00.467
Like frequent dizziness
when you're standing?

01:18:00.467 --> 01:18:01.302
- Uh-uh.

01:18:01.302 --> 01:18:05.890
- [Nurse] Okay.
- No.

01:18:05.890 --> 01:18:07.349
Do you wanna take it again?

01:18:07.349 --> 01:18:08.350
- [Nurse] No, you're fine.
- Oh, I'm fine.

01:18:08.350 --> 01:18:09.685
I don't have to take it again?

01:18:09.685 --> 01:18:10.519
- No

01:18:11.353 --> 01:18:12.438
(laughing)

01:18:12.438 --> 01:18:14.899
- I'm not used to that.
- Yeah.

01:18:14.899 --> 01:18:16.150
- They're like, let's
do it three times.

01:18:16.150 --> 01:18:17.359
Let's use the second machine.

01:18:17.359 --> 01:18:23.198
- Yeah, no, let's--
- Right, 128 over 75.

01:18:23.198 --> 01:18:27.411
I'm excited that, that bottom
number's come way down.

01:18:27.411 --> 01:18:30.706
Like, that's really exciting.

01:18:30.706 --> 01:18:33.125
She even asked me if
I experienced symptoms

01:18:33.125 --> 01:18:35.127
of low blood pressure.

01:18:39.006 --> 01:18:42.259
I mean, that's not good, but
still like that, you know?

01:18:42.259 --> 01:18:51.185
(slow music)

01:18:51.185 --> 01:19:02.571
(background talking)

01:19:02.571 --> 01:19:04.531
- Not bad.

01:19:04.531 --> 01:19:06.367
That's, oh my God.

01:19:06.367 --> 01:19:10.663
Only 166, wow!

01:19:10.663 --> 01:19:11.497
I mean, listen.

01:19:12.831 --> 01:19:13.666
No, no, no, no.

01:19:13.666 --> 01:19:14.500
We're nowhere near that.

01:19:14.500 --> 01:19:15.793
But here's the thing,

01:19:15.793 --> 01:19:18.003
it's so early...

01:19:18.003 --> 01:19:19.880
It's so early.

01:19:19.880 --> 01:19:22.341
- [Woman] Vote by mail they are
usually ultra conservative.

01:19:22.341 --> 01:19:23.592
- [Woman] This is like that.

01:19:23.592 --> 01:19:26.303
- Yeah, this is like--
- This is like Fremont.

01:19:26.303 --> 01:19:30.307
- Oh my God.
Yes, yes.

01:19:32.685 --> 01:19:36.689
- On election day, the returns
were very promising.

01:19:36.689 --> 01:19:39.942
It 100% was a win
for our leaders

01:19:39.942 --> 01:19:42.903
who had fought so hard
for this campaign, right.

01:19:42.903 --> 01:19:44.154
And worked so hard on.

01:19:44.154 --> 01:19:46.991
And so that was really hard.

01:19:46.991 --> 01:19:50.661
And then seven days later we had
to shut our offices down, right.

01:19:50.661 --> 01:19:53.872
So there was an overlap

01:19:53.872 --> 01:19:56.208
between us trying
to get the results

01:19:56.208 --> 01:19:58.127
and figure out
what was going on.

01:19:58.127 --> 01:20:00.295
All communications
kind of went haywire

01:20:00.295 --> 01:20:04.299
and then everything was flooded
with the news of the pandemic.

01:20:05.551 --> 01:20:30.451
(slow music)

01:20:30.451 --> 01:20:34.955
- Okay, I had meant to do
a little recording

01:20:34.955 --> 01:20:37.082
before I got ready for bed

01:20:37.082 --> 01:20:39.335
and like washed all
the makeup off my face

01:20:39.335 --> 01:20:42.755
and put my bonnet on
and everything.

01:20:42.755 --> 01:20:51.263
So yeah, been in
the house for probably

01:20:51.263 --> 01:20:53.265
about a month at this point.

01:20:54.349 --> 01:20:57.686
Because we are in the
middle of a pandemic

01:20:57.686 --> 01:20:59.480
that has people panicking

01:20:59.480 --> 01:21:01.690
and at the same time,
really struggling.

01:21:01.690 --> 01:21:04.276
Every single system
that we have in place

01:21:04.276 --> 01:21:07.821
to uphold capitalism is
being strained and stressed.

01:21:07.821 --> 01:21:10.032
And this massive stress test,

01:21:10.032 --> 01:21:12.576
our economy is being
stressed in this moment.

01:21:12.576 --> 01:21:15.037
And at the center of so much
of this conversation

01:21:15.037 --> 01:21:18.374
is child care.

01:21:18.374 --> 01:21:21.460
(rooster crows)

01:21:21.460 --> 01:21:27.466
(slow music)

01:21:27.466 --> 01:21:29.676
- [Xavier] What's the Zoom link?

01:21:29.676 --> 01:21:33.389
- I'm gonna pull
it up on my laptop.

01:21:33.389 --> 01:21:34.890
- [Xavier] No, I'm gonna
turn on my phone.

01:21:34.890 --> 01:21:35.808
- No.
- Yeah.

01:21:35.808 --> 01:21:37.226
- That's not.
- Yeah.

01:21:37.226 --> 01:21:38.477
- We're gonna do it on a laptop.

01:21:38.477 --> 01:21:42.773
- No, we're gonna
do it on my phone.

01:21:42.773 --> 01:21:43.690
- No.

01:21:43.690 --> 01:21:45.109
- Yeah.

01:21:45.109 --> 01:21:46.610
- That's gonna be, we're
gonna do, that's a hard pass.

01:21:46.610 --> 01:21:47.903
- No, it's not.

01:21:47.903 --> 01:21:49.947
(both speaking)

01:21:49.947 --> 01:21:50.781
- No, it's not.

01:21:50.781 --> 01:21:51.782
You can sign out out.

01:21:51.782 --> 01:21:53.033
You can sign out.

01:21:53.033 --> 01:21:54.701
- [Xavier] I don't know
my password.

01:21:54.701 --> 01:21:55.911
- What do you mean
you don't know?

01:21:55.911 --> 01:21:57.329
Then you need to get
started right now,

01:21:57.329 --> 01:21:59.873
so that you can recover
your password.

01:21:59.873 --> 01:22:01.416
Where's your school address?

01:22:01.416 --> 01:22:06.088
This is your personal,
but where's your school address?

01:22:10.759 --> 01:22:12.427
- Oh my God.

01:22:12.427 --> 01:22:13.971
- [Woman] Hi, perfect.

01:22:13.971 --> 01:22:15.931
Xavier, can check your sound?

01:22:15.931 --> 01:22:17.099
- Hello?

01:22:17.099 --> 01:22:18.308
- [Woman] Good morning.

01:22:18.308 --> 01:22:19.434
Amazing.

01:22:19.434 --> 01:22:20.602
I mean, we're asking you

01:22:20.602 --> 01:22:21.895
to do something
really hard this year,

01:22:21.895 --> 01:22:23.897
which is basically be grownups.

01:22:25.691 --> 01:22:27.985
- Morning.
- Good morning.

01:22:27.985 --> 01:22:31.613
- So what I'm gonna do is
share my screen right now.

01:22:31.613 --> 01:22:36.326
We still have 46 out
of 50 people with us.

01:22:36.326 --> 01:22:39.621
So that just shows the
commitment of this group.

01:22:39.621 --> 01:22:42.791
And you guys, we're
gonna be unstoppable

01:22:42.791 --> 01:22:44.710
as soon as we're able
to leave the house.

01:22:44.710 --> 01:22:46.670
Like absolutely unstoppable.

01:22:46.670 --> 01:22:48.797
Okay, people don't even
know what's coming.

01:22:48.797 --> 01:22:51.383
Like child care is just
gonna take over, right now.

01:22:51.383 --> 01:22:53.343
Okay, so let me stop talking

01:22:53.343 --> 01:22:56.346
'cause what's unstoppable
is also my mouth.

01:22:56.346 --> 01:22:59.600
And is everybody
able to see that?

01:22:59.600 --> 01:23:01.310
- Yes.
- Yes.

01:23:01.310 --> 01:23:04.104
- We have a motion and a second
on the mass motion.

01:23:04.104 --> 01:23:05.439
Roll call please.

01:23:05.439 --> 01:23:06.356
- Aye.

01:23:06.356 --> 01:23:07.816
- [Woman] Supervisor Chan.

01:23:08.942 --> 01:23:11.278
- Supervisor Miley.
- [Miley] Aye.

01:23:11.278 --> 01:23:13.322
- Supervisor Carson.
- [Carson] Aye.

01:23:13.322 --> 01:23:14.990
President Valle.

01:23:14.990 --> 01:23:17.242
- Aye, the item passes
unanimously.

01:23:17.242 --> 01:23:19.745
Congratulations
on the mass motion

01:23:19.745 --> 01:23:22.998
and specifically on 6.1
for all the great work

01:23:22.998 --> 01:23:27.002
in our community in supporting
our children and families.

01:23:27.002 --> 01:23:32.174
(people cheering)

01:23:32.174 --> 01:23:34.176
- [Audience] Yes, yes, yes

01:23:34.176 --> 01:23:40.349
- I feel so excited
and also so sad

01:23:40.349 --> 01:23:41.517
I cannot hug you all
in this moment.

01:23:41.517 --> 01:23:43.560
This means a lot and I'm
gonna start crying.

01:23:43.560 --> 01:23:44.853
So I'm gonna get off.

01:23:44.853 --> 01:23:47.481
'Cause I'm not gonna cry
in front of 50 people.

01:23:47.481 --> 01:23:52.319
That's not happening,
but this is like...

01:23:52.319 --> 01:23:53.820
- [Woman] Just cry.
- No.

01:23:53.820 --> 01:23:54.488
- I know, exactly...

01:23:54.488 --> 01:23:56.865
- I know. Not doing it,
not doing it.

01:23:56.865 --> 01:23:57.699
(laughs)

01:23:57.699 --> 01:23:59.159
I wanna thank you

01:23:59.159 --> 01:24:01.036
and I also just wanna say
that this is dedicated

01:24:01.036 --> 01:24:03.664
to three mothers
who lost their lives

01:24:03.664 --> 01:24:04.998
over the last few years.

01:24:04.998 --> 01:24:06.250
They were all on
the waiting list,

01:24:06.250 --> 01:24:08.126
they fought really
hard for this.

01:24:08.126 --> 01:24:10.879
And I know that they're
looking down on us as

01:24:10.879 --> 01:24:14.508
as we continue to grow
the organization and fight.

01:24:14.508 --> 01:24:15.968
And this is not
the last campaign,

01:24:15.968 --> 01:24:17.928
we're just gonna get bigger
and better and stronger.

01:24:17.928 --> 01:24:19.137
And so thank you.

01:24:19.137 --> 01:24:20.806
Thank you for all your work.

01:24:20.806 --> 01:24:45.163
(slow music)

01:24:45.163 --> 01:24:47.207
- Over the last 10 years,

01:24:47.207 --> 01:24:49.084
the most beautiful thing
about all of this

01:24:49.084 --> 01:24:55.757
is the number of bad-ass,
beautiful, fierce mothers

01:24:55.757 --> 01:24:57.217
that I've worked with.

01:24:57.217 --> 01:24:59.261
Who've taught me so much
about myself.

01:24:59.261 --> 01:25:02.597
So much about being, not just
a parent, but a human being.

01:25:02.597 --> 01:25:04.599
And so I'm sitting
in appreciation

01:25:04.599 --> 01:25:07.603
for every mother that's
crossed my path.

01:25:07.603 --> 01:25:10.522
And at some point I wanna
do something,

01:25:10.522 --> 01:25:13.066
to name all of their names.

01:25:13.066 --> 01:25:18.280
(slow music)

01:25:18.280 --> 01:25:25.370
What we've accomplished
together is so incredible.

01:25:25.370 --> 01:29:38.331
(slow music)

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